DISCLAIMER: I do not own Kamen Rider, Kingdom Hearts, Dexter's Labratory, or Inspector Gadget. They are owned by Toei, Disney, Square Enix, Cartoon Network, and DiC. Trust me, it's better this way...
A war was breaking out in a desolate wasteland where various armies were charging towards a man in gold armor in front of a large stone statues placed in the ruins of a city with a large statue that had a cloaked man posing with a plaque on the bottom of the statue.
COMMENERATING THE BIRTH OF THE CALAMITY
Circling past the man were statues of past Kamen Riders as a man in golden armor smiled before starring right at the armies with a smile on his face. "Attack!" an aged warrior with grey hair shouted as thousands of magical beams, gunshots, blaster fire, and arrows began flying through the air before hitting a barrier several feet from the armored man while several giants and mecha began to trudge towards him along with several young girls in high-tech armor.
He shook his head as he lifted his hand, somehow catching the ogre's club before flinging the monster right at a mecha before waving his arm, causing the projectiles to be redirected at the attackers, killing them. With his right hand, he stopped all of time itself.
"Ha! Do you possibly think you can defeat me?" he questioned before laughing for a bit, "You can do no such thing! You know why?" He then brought his hand to his chest to cause a burst of energy to disintegrate nearly everything in his path, leaving behind a young man with dark green hair, grey eyes, and a soldier's outfit
"Because no matter what you can do, your fate has already been written in the annals of history!"
With this journal…I'm going to remember everything that's happened to me. Now I may not be like you, or not. Either way, our situations would be somewhat the same.
Now, answer me this? If you had the power to travel through time, what would you do with it? Would you use it to visit an unknown point in time? Would you go back and visit a famous person and see what they were like? Or would you try and fix the mistakes of those before you? Well, that last question's gonna need some context.
You see, I live in a world where mythical mermaids, swashbuckling pirates, Greek myths, the Arabian Nights, and even walking, talking animals all exist in one, very complicated history. However the most well-known of heroes, well to me at least, are the masked warriors known as Kamen Riders. These heroes have defended this world for almost 20 years now…however it all changed one day, when I encountered a strange time machine that changed my life, and the lives of many others, forever...
My name…just call me Rex Wells…and this is my story: the story about an unlikely encounter, and an adventure throughout time and space. This is my journey…across the Edge of Time.
TIMELINE 1: RIDER TIME! AWAKENING OF THE KING OF TIME!
"Finally…it's over…" I groaned as I began to bike home from school. "Oh, hello there Rex!" I heard a cartoony anthropomorphic bobcat in a guard uniform. "Oh, hey Bonkers!" I shouted back. "Stay safe when heading home okay?" he told me as I began to peddle back to my house. The year was 2018 and I had just finished my first day in Radiant Academy. It is a quaint high school located in Twilight Town; a town that's always in the sunset, with various types of students studying there like the Elemental Trio of Terra, Aqua, and Ventus, as well as teachers like Professor Eraqus and Professor Xehenort.
I soon began to yawn as I saw a familiar spiky-haired teenager walk towards me. "Hey there Rex!" he greeted me. "Hey Sora…" I said weakly as we began to walk home. Sora's a year higher than me, along with his best friends Riku and Kairi, and he's scarily good as Struggle, earning himself the title of Struggle Master. However his friendly demeanor allows him to get along with most people in his class and even make friends, including me.
"You know…I heard about what you put down on your career form" he told me, "Did you really say that you were gonna be king?" I soon nodded as I answered, "I know that it sounds ridiculous but I just have a feeling that I will become one, okay?" Sora soon shrugged his head, "As your upperclassman, it's my duty to see guys like you set on the correct path!" he declared. "Yeah, and need I remind you about that time when Professor Eraqus caught you sleeping in class?" I retorted as we shared a laugh.
However I stumbled a bit as a black pocketwatch-like object fell out of my pocket and began to fall into the sewer. "Crap! My lucky charm!" I cried out as I quickly grabbed it before it could reach the gutter on the sidewalk. "Did you catch it?" Sora asked me worriedly as I showed him that it's still with me. "You know, you should really have a better eye on that thing…" he said bluntly as I scratched my head in embarrassment.
Let me explain; you see, I've always had this pocketwatch ever since I was a kid after I found it on my bike and, after being saved from almost dying, I realized that it might grant me good luck and so, I kept it, and it hasn't lead me wrong ever since…
After we reached a small shop that had a sign that said "GADGETWORKS REPAIR SHOP" as well as the slogan "YOU BREAK IT, WE FIX IT!" on the door and a paper that said 'Room for Rent' taped onto the window, we soon said our goodbyes. "Welp, see ya tomorrow Sora!" I said. "Yeah, see ya…" he said as he began to walk away, before remembering something and turning towards me. "Oh, and I know that it's tomorrow but…happy birthday, buddy!" he greeted as I nodded before we parted ways and I entered my house.
"I think just swapping this out will fix it" I heard a goofy voice as I saw a guy with a long face, a black hair, and apron over a grey detective-like trenchcoat, and welder goggles tell a woman. He's my uncle John Brown, aka Inspector Gadget. In his youth, he was a pretty cool cyborg detective with tons of gadgets for any situation. But after his nemesis Doctor Claw was put on ice…literally...he decided to retire from the force to become a repairman instead.
"Alright, just leave this here with us and in two days it'll be good as new!" he declared as began to get to work on an old radio she must have brought in as I walked by. "Oh, hello there Alexander!" he shouted as he greeted me with my real first name. What? You thought my first name would actually be Rex? "Hey Uncle Brown!" I said as I waved back to him as I hung up my jacket.
"Hey Rex!" I saw a familiar blonde girl with pigtails, and wore a red and white striped shirt and green pants. That's my cousin Penny Brown; she's extremely smart and a skilled detective in her own right, even skipping a few grades and getting into San Fransokyo Tech Institute. She was normally the one who bailed out Uncle Brown, or Uncle Gadget as she calls him, and foiled Claw's schemes alongside her pet dog Brain.
"Sup Penny! How's college!" I asked her. "Nothing I can't handle, cuz!" she joked as she smiled, "How's Radiant High?" "It was definitely something I didn't expect…" I told her before realizing what I said didn't come out right. "Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great school, but I feel like it's a bit of a slog to go through…"
As I put my bag down, she gave me a list of college exam schedules. "What's this?" I asked her. "It's for your future. I just want to know that there's more to life than becoming a king..." she pointed out, "Especially in this day and age where there's not that much of a chance of becoming royalty outside of being part of a royal bloodline or marrying a member of the royal family."
I soon sighed as I tossed the list over my shoulder, "Penny, you know that I'm not gonna change my mind about this right?" I told her. "I know, but I'm still confused as to why you keep on chasing such a strange ambition…" she grumbled as I went up to my room. My cousin soon sighed as she shook her head in disapproval. As I got out of my uniform and into my pajamas, I began to brush my teeth and check myself in the mirror. I saw that I was the same as always; I was of an average build, I had red eyes and jet black hair that had grey frosted tips.
The next day, I woke up nice and early as changed into a black and grey hoodie, navy blue jeans, and black boots before I went to deliver a Blu-ray player that my uncle had. However, as I went to grab the package, I checked the date encircled on the calendar, September 2, and I remembered that I was now 18 years old; making me a young adult, as well as reminding me that it's been five years since I moved to Twilight Town.
Once I secured the package on my bike, I began to trek through my neighborhood when I came across a man in a steam punk jacket and his head down while his face was covered a large ten-gallon hat. I tried to ignore him as I walked up the hill when the man from before stopped me. "So, you must be the one…" he said as he looked towards me, revealing dark green eyes. "Who are you?" I asked him. He then looked at me and simply chuckled to himself. "My name is Isaiah, you could say that I am just a passing through traveller…" he said as he took out from his pocket…my pocketwatch? "Wait what?!" I said as I frantically checked my pockets only to find out that it was gone.
"Don't be alarmed…I am not your enemy…" Isaiah told me as he gave me back my watch. "How did you do that?" I asked; confused with what was going on. "I'm a bit experienced in pick-pocketing" he noted, "Although that's not why I've come to you…" However before he prepared to tell me something, a large red and gold robot appeared from right out of nowhere and swipe it's massive arm down inbetween me and Isaiah. "Sir, looks like you found the Calamity" the robot said, "Preparing to engage!" "Wait Grant! Don't!" he shouted before looking at me. "You need to run, my assistant will tell you everything but for now just run!" "You don't have to tell me twice!" I said as I quickly got on my bike and began to peddle for the hills.'Just what the hell was going on?!' I thought as the red robot changed into some kind of futuristic vehicle.
I peddled through every part of Radiant City until I reached Market Street where I peddled into the sewer system. "Ha! Can't catch me now!" I taunted as it flew into the air. "Thought you got away?" the robot said as it changed back and began to punch through one of the manholes. I then began to peddle once more as the robot tried it's best to somehow kill me before launching me out of my bike and out the other end of the sewers, which led to a dense forest.
As I got up and ran through the trees, I saw the red robot standing right in my path. 'Well great, this is how my birthday's gonna go…dying to some homicidal mecha…' I thought until I heard something in the distance.
TIME MAZINE
Suddenly, a grey and pink version of the robot arrived and crashed into my pursuer, knocking it out of the way. "What the hell?!" I shouted as the pink robot shouted for me to get in. "What?" I shouted; As if to answer my question, I saw the chest part of the robot lower down into some kind of door to reveal a girl whit short white hair wearing a cloak and dress that matched her hair color reaching out towards me. "Do you want to die? Get in the damn robot Wells!" she shouted as she dragged me into the robot.
"Wha? Who are you?!" I said as the door closed up and she went towards some kind of control pad. "Escape first, ask questions later…" she noted as a HUD appeared in front of her with the current year of 2018 on display. "Hang on!" she shouted as she swiped down, causing the numbers to go down. "Temporal displacement system, activate!" she shouted as a hexagonal portal appeared that we went straight into. As we traveled through the portal, I saw that it was a strange series of technological circuits. It was a pretty bumpy ride as we arrived in what looked to be prehistoric times as we landed in a typical jungle setting.
"We're safe…" she said as she sighed in relief before turning towards me. "Uh, excuse me? But who the hell are you?" I asked the girl as she got up. As I prepared to ask her who she was, she brought up another display in front of both of us, "You might want to see this first before asking us anything…" the girl noted as she played a video showcasing a warzone against what seemed to be an evil Kamen Rider. After the video finished, she rewind it to the point where the evil Rider was about to use his power.
"This is our threat fifty years in the future…The Calamity…" she told me. The Calamaty…wait, I remember the red Time Mazine calling me the same thing. "So that Rider…could be me?" I asked, as she looked away. "I'm not sure, no one knows who or what the Calamity even is due to the law forbidding anyone to learn his identity…" she explained to me, "However one thing was certain, on a day known as the Edge of Time, that tyrant rose to power and began quickly conquering the whole world, ravaging the land and slaying the many heroes who dared try and oppose his rule. In the end, he created a world without hope, leaving those who survived the onslaught to suffer" …oh no…
"Well what about the Kamen Riders? Surely they would have stopped him…" I said in a vain attempt to try and make sense of this madness; however she soon shook her head once again, "The Kamen Riders were the first heroes to fall to the Calamity…even ones as mighty as Kuuga and Gaim were not enough to stop him…"
"How about the other heroes?" I frantically asked, "Surely someone chose to rise up and stop him…" She soon looked down as she silently confirmed that they too were killed… This made me begin to fear the future, about what will happen after the Calamity would rise to power.
"I…I need some air…" I commented as I walked out of the Time Mazine and began to look at the primal landscape in front of me. I decided to breathe in the ancient air and began to contemplate on what the girl had just told me. My train of thought was soon interrupted as I felt something wet drip onto my head, as I looked up, I saw a large T-Rex staring at me like he…wanted…to…eat me…
"Ohhhh shit…"
I soon began to book it as the large dinosaur gave chase, "WHY ME!?" I cried out as I ran for my life for the second time on this day. As I tripped and saw the T-Rex prepared to eat me, I saw Weiss' Time Mazine grabbed the beast in its robot mode. "Why the hell are you wandering in the freaking Cretaceous period?! Are you begging to be eaten by dinosaurs?!" The girl screamed at me as she wrestled the T-Rex before we get blasted to another era, this time Feudal Era Japan.
"Seriously?" I asked her as we went into a shop and began to have a light snack. "Again I ask…just who are you?" I said once again. "My name is Weiss, I am a time traveller from the year 2068" she said to me, "You probably met my mentor, Isaiah, and my cohort, Grant..." This made a lightbulb turn on in my head, 'She must be the assistant that he mentioned before this Grant person attacked me…'
"He and I are a part of a resistance group that's been fighting that man for almost fifteen years" she told me as she sipped some tea. "So why come to me?" I asked her, "I remember Isaiah telling me that I was 'the one', as he puts it…" "That's because there are certain individuals who are unaffected by the flow of time. People known as Singualrities…" "Oh, just like the Singularity Points that the Den-liner Crew is a part of!" I realized. "Indeed, they are similar…however, while Singularity Points exist independently from the timestream…" she continued before emphasizing…
"Singularities have no timeline to call their own, they…they don't exist in time itself…"
…what?...First I nearly get killed by some psychotic guy in a red mecha, next I nearly end up getting stuck in a T-Rex's insides, and now this girl is telling me that I, somehow, have no record at all in time?! I couldn't take it anymore and so…
THUD*
"REX!"
I fainted…
When I woke up, I began to process what she just said. "Are you okay?" she asked me as I regained consciousness. "Yeah, it's probably the stress of the situation finally getting to me…" I told her as I got up, "However, what the hell do you exactly mean by 'they don't exist in time itself'?"
She then fixed herself up and began to recount her knowledge, "Well, in order for those to affect the timeline, one must be disconnected from the time stream in some way" she explained, "As mentioned previously, Singularities are individuals who, while having memories by those around them, technically have no record of themselves in the annals of time." I soon remembered one certain person who could be like that, the passing through Kamen Rider known as Kamen Rider Decade; a Rider who had the ability to travel to other Rider Worlds but had no story despite having a world to call his own.
"We believe that whoever the Calamity was, we were certain that they must be some kind of Singularity due to his Zikyu-Driver, the device he needs to transform into the Calamity, only working on those disconnected to time" she continued on, "So, we all decided to travel through time in order to ensure that the unknown Singularity would never rise to the Calamity's power…" I then began to nod in agreement, "That explains why Grant was so hellbent on trying to kill me, for all you guys know; I could be the very person to become the Calamity. Not to mention that, considering that my dream is to become king…I've unintentionally painted a big bullseye on my head…"
I soon turned towards her, "But still, how are we supposed to fight him if there are no more Kamen Riders in your era?" I asked. "Well, there's a legend…" I soon roll my eyes, "Of course…" This caused Weiss to puff her cheeks as she stomped on my foot. "Would you take this seriously for once, you dolt?!" she yelled at me before she regained her composure.
"Anyway, there's an old legend about a legendary Kamen Rider known as the King of Time. This Rider, much like Decade, uses the power of other Kamen Riders. However, Decade's Rider powers are copies; The King of Time could instead call on those powers in the form of Rider Armors and use their abilities much like their own. In essence, they are the Ultimate Kamen Rider" "It's very certain that, rather than the calamity, you could in fact, be the one to become the King of Time" she noted as I mulled the legend over my head.
"Hey, who do you think you are?!" we heard from the distance as we saw two people in a street brawl near the bridge. "Don't you dare disrespect an Edo craftsmen, you bastard!" one of the combatants shouted as his bald opponent tried to get up. "Yeesh, and I thought the fights back in my time were brutal…" I commented as I was prepared to walk away, but Weiss stopped me in my tracks. "I apologize, but I need to try something…" she said. "Eh?" I asked in confusion before she closed her nose and shouted, "Hey, why don't you try and pick a fight with someone your own size!" This caused everyone to turn their attention to the only American in the place…that means me…
She soon pushed me right into the fight as the two craftsmen stared at me. "Who the hell are you?!" the bald craftsman shouted. "Uh, I'm here to stop this fight…" I hastily said in a fake bravado. This caused the two to laugh at me before they lifted me over my head and tried to toss me into the river. However I soon held on to the rails for dear life. "Heh, a wise guy eh?" the other craftsman laughed as I got back onto solid ground.
"Hey! What the hell was that for?! I just wanted you guys to stop!" I growled in annoyance. "Hehe, look at the tough-ass gaijin, thinking he can stop this…" he laughed as his opponent laughed at me. I soon growled as I grabbed one of them and did what they were about to do to me, toss 'em into the river. I soon turned to the other craftsman with murder in my eyes as I delivered a kick to the groin before tossing him into the drink as well. "Teme! You'll pay for that!" the bandana-wearing craftsman shouted at me. "Yeah, well at least this gaijin as some bite to go with my bark!" I taunted as I spat in their general direction, before glaring at the crowd… "Any other takers?" I asked as most of them backed off and walked away like they didn't see anything.
"Well then, at least I know the saying of, 'Don't judge a book by its cover' holds true…" she said as she walked towards me before I glared at her. "And what was the point of that little experiment?" I growled. "I was just checking to see if you were either the King of Time or the Calamity…" she bemused, "Suffice to say, maybe if I had told you that from the beginning, then it would have resulted in you looking like the latter rather than the former…" I soon dusted myself off, "Well excuse me, O wise Woman in White…" I said in utter sarcasm, "I should have not questioned your inflatable logic…" This caused a glaring match to erupt from both of us before we heard several people screaming in fear.
When we turned to see where the screaming was coming from as we spotted a man in red body suit, with pointy shoulders and a rounder chest plate that resembled a G-Shock clock along with his helmet having a clock on his forehead and his 'eyes' looking like a butterfly with the hiragana for Rider attached to it. "Uhh, friend of yours?" I asked Weiss. "That's Grant's Rider form, Kamen Rider Geiz…" she explained to me, "He said he's going to kill the Calamity before he obtains his power!" "So since I'm the only one who is a known Singularity means-" I said as Weiss turned to me and shouted, "That means we need to get out of here!"
We soon rushed to the Time Mazine in order to escape Grant, only for us to ambushed by the man himself as he rammed his own Time Mazine into ours. "You're not getting away, you bastard!" he shouted whilst Weiss tried her best to outmaneuver the red time machine. However this ended up causing us to be blasted into a different time, as we crashed into a nearby wall and throwing the both of us out of the mecha.
'Gahhh, that's gonna leave a mark…' I thought as I got up and began to look around, however I soon looked towards the vary obvious stone wall that was glowing red. 'The Skywall?' I thought in my mind, 'What is it doing here at this time?' However I soon spotted a large black bulky monster running straight for me.
I began to make my way to the wrecked Time Mazine and saw Weiss lying there unconscious. Thinking fast, I quickly picked her up like a sack of potatoes and began to book it as fast as I could with someone on my shoulder. "Huh, what's going on?" the girl in white asked me as I continued to run, "No time! We gotta get out of here!" I retorted as we reached a nearby pipe. I soon placed her inside as I got in myself in an attempt to hide from the monster.
"Are you okay?" I asked her as she massaged her head. "Yeah, I'm fine…" she groaned, "That was a pretty bad crash…" she retorted as she checked her device…only for it to be damaged due to the crash, only showing the year 2017. "Well that answers when we are, but I have no idea where we are…" she noted.
As I looked out the pipe to see if the coast was clear, I signaled Weiss and we made our way to the wreckage. Weiss soon opened the door and began to walk inside, "Wait here, I'll check to see if we can return you back to your time; you keep watch and make sure we don't get attacked" she said before handing me a beefy pistol that had the Japanese katakana for the word Gun on it and a strange port for something. "Use that to defend yourself" she told me as she closed up the mecha and began assessing the damage while I kept watch.
I didn't have to wait long before the monster came back. "Oh come on, what do you want with us?!" I shouted as I prepared to fire at it. However I didn't get the chance as I heard someone shout "Get down!" in an Russian accent in the distance before I heard a pair of noises that I knew all too well…
VOLTECH FINISH!
DRACONIC FINISH!
Almost immediately, two armored figures leaped into the air and kicked the monster, destroying it and causing an explosion that flung me a bit of a distance away. "Rex! What the hell…did…you do…" she shouted before stopping to look at the people who saved us.
The first figure was in a black bodysuit with most of his left being bright red with a spring-like coil around his left foot, while his right consisted of several blues with a more mechanical-looking right foot that had some tank treads on it. His helmet also shared this design with a light red compound eye in the design of a rabbit on the right and a tank-shaped light blue compound eye on the opposite side.
The second had a similar bodysuit but with mostly navy blue armor bits, a large collar that had flame decals, white spike protruding from the arms and shoulders, his right gauntlet looking like the top part of a dragon's head, and his compound eyes being in the shape of a dragon.
However what was similar to them was the odd mechanical device around their waist that had two bottles, one red and one blue, on the first figure, while the other had a small robotic dragon on the other. I soon recognized who these two were and more importantly, where Weiss and I ended up in.
"You two okay?" the first figure asked us as Weiss nodded while the second figure helped me to my feet. "Yeah, we're fine…" I said, before I realized who they were and was taken aback, "Wait, you two are?!"
"He's Kamen Rider Build…" the second figure pointed towards his cohart, who removed the two bottles in his device, causing the armor to dissipate leaving behind a kind-of short teenager with a short, ginger mullet that spiked at the crown, a white labcoat, purple gloves, blue pants and black boots. "I'm Dexter, and dragon-boy over there is my assistant" he greeted before pointing at the other figure who shouted, "I'm not your damn assistant!"
"I'm Kamen Rider Cross-Z, Talon Claw" he said as he removed the robot from his device and his armor disappeared as well, leaving behind a young man a bit older than Dexter with large spiky purple hair, a dark purple hoodie, padded gloves, and some dark purple pants and boots.
I soon began to shake their hands excitedly, "I'm Rex Wells, big fan of your guy's work!" I greeted with glee before Weiss pulled me back. "Alright fanboy, calm down…" she noted before turning towards the two, "Pardon my friend, he gets a bit excited when he meets another Kamen Rider." "The name is Weiss by the way…" she greeted before remembering something, "May I ask what's the date?" "Umm, November 20, 2017 if I remember correctly" Talon pondered.
"Oh…okay…" she noted before pulling me away, "We're just gonna have to do a bit of small talk…" As she walked towards a nearby pillar and looked at my angrily, "Now you've really gone and done it, you dolt!" she growled. "What did I do?!" I said in confusion, "It's not like we came to this time period willingly!" She was about to retort, only to realize that I was right, but she still scowls at me "Yeah, but don't you know the absolute basics on time travel? You should never interact with people from the past, lest you wind up messing up the timeline!"
I soon sigh, "I know, I know…" before regaining my composure, "But how else are we supposed to get home?" I asked, "I mean, with Dexter and Talon's help, we might be able to get back to my home and you can return to the future…" I told her, pointing out our only hope to return to our own time periods. After some time thinking, we decided that it would be best to team up with the Build Riders for now…
"That's a pretty strange craft you two have…" Dexter noted as he looked over the wreckage of the Time Mazine after we walked back to the two, "It looks almost futuristic in design…" "Yeah, the main Time Circuits are fine, but the hover systems are all busted after we crash-landed here…" she noted as Dexter took out a retro-looking blaster that was labeled 'Shrink Ray' and blasted the Time Mazine, causing it to shrink into a pocket-size object that he put in his pocket. "Come with us, we'll get the necessary parts to fix your machine, after all…" Dexter noted as he smiled to himself, "You're in the presence of Dexter: Boy Genius and Kamen Rider Build!" before laughing proudly. "Yeah, he's got a bit of an ego to himself…" Talon told us as Weiss said, "So I noticed…"
As we walked towards a small café, I soon spotted the sign that said caffé najcita on it, along with the words 'Najcita de nani shita?' I soon smiled as we entered into the café, while a young blond girl that was a lot taller than Dexter but a bit of the same height as Talon wearing a pink ballerina tutu and ballet shoes, along with a special golden bracelet, leaped towards us with joy.
"Dexter, Talon, you're home!" she shouted with glee. "Yes, yes Dee Dee…" Dexter dismissively greeted while I was in amazement at where I was before rushing towards the fridge and prepared to open the secret compartment that led to Dexter's Lab…only for several laser guns and other assorted weapons pointed right at me.
"Rex, don't touch other people's property without permission!" Weiss scolded me. "I'm sorry, but I'm just so excited that I'm in the home base of Build! You can't blame me for being a bit too eager…" I apologized as Weiss simply groaned.
"Alright, stand back you two…" he said as he pressed several buttons that caused the weapons to all recede and for a door would open before us, "I swear, you have a curiosity that's almost as bad as Dee Dee's..." he grumbled as he then motioned the three of us to enter as we walked through the door and saw an entire room made up of various shades of blue along with several pieces of tech. My eyes widened as I realized that I was in the very lab where Dexter and Talon, along with Talon's cousin and leader of the Gadgetinis William, aka Kamen Rider Grease, and Dexter's nemesis-turned-ally Mandark, aka Kamen Rider Rogue, all met up and discussed their plans about how to defeat Faust, and later the mad Martian Evolt.
We soon arrived at a landing dock where Dexter placed the shrunken down Time Mazine and turned a dial on his Shrink Ray to grow it back to it's proper size. "Well then, it's the first time that I've worked with technology this advanced, but I can manage…", he noted as he entered the wrecked machine and began repairing it, he soon peeked outside and looked towards his fellow Build Rider, "Talon, you keep our two guests entertained while I fix their time machine…"
We soon took our seat as Dee Dee began making some snaks, "So…you two are time travellers?" he asked. Weiss begrudgingly answers "Technically I am, he just got dragged along for the ride…" as I nodded in agreement. "I'm from 2018 by the way…" I noted as I told him when we came from.
"Oooohhhhh, that's really far…" Dee Dee said in amazement, "Do you know what happens to us in the future?" she asked. "Sorry, but you know how it is about the flow of time…we say something about your future and it might cause the flow of time to change…" she pointed out. This made Dee Dee pout a bit before perking right back up, saying "Okay!" before serving us our food. After eating, I decided to take a walk for a little bit as I remember something that my Uncle Brown told me…
It was the week that I arrived at Radiant City, I was preparing for another day of school and Uncle Brown asked me about what my plans were for the future. Naturally I decided to say that I want to become a king in the future.
"Well then, that's a pretty big ambition…" he said as he was cooking something in the kitchen. "And you're sure this is what you want to be?" he asked me as he placed the breakfast on the table for him, Penny, and me. "Regardless, I support you all the way!" I soon look away, "Yeah, but what if I can't become a good king and fail? What should I do?" I asked.
"Well, cross that bridge when you get there sonny boy..." he said as he placed his hand on my shoulder and gave me a reassuring smile, "When I was your age, I wanted to become a police officer and help others. Then something happened and I soon became the man you see today. At first, I was prepared to fight for the future, but I soon began to ponder on what my life would be had the accident not happened." I was confused, "And how did you cope?" He soon turned towards me with a smile, "I realized that regardless of what would have happened, that my actions today are what make me who I am."
He soon got one of the clocks he was repairing, and began to manipulate the clock hands, "Now while the hands of a clock can be stopped, moved forward, and even turned back, life is very different and you must not let those opportunities pass you by…"
I soon began to look at my lucky charm, pondering on why it appeared before me and no one else…Why did it choose me? What would have happened if it appeared to someone else? However, my thoughts were soon interrupted when I spotted a group of karate experts being attacked by a monstrous Smash, however this one looked…different.
This one was red and blue, with one side looking like a mutated rabbit, while the other seemed to be a mechanical robot, and a twisted version of the Build Driver attached to its waist. What really surprised me, was the word Build plastered right onto its chest.
"Gah! What the hell is that thing?" one of the karate experts as I spotted the Build look-a-like grabbed him by his neck. "Heh, wouldn't you like to know..." the Build monster joked. Seeing as someone was in trouble, I soon grabbed the blaster that Weiss gave me and fired two shots at the back of the Smash's head, catching it's attention as it turned towards me. "What do you want?" it questioned.
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size!" I shouted as flipped out the blade, changing the katakana on the device to say "Sword" instead. "Well then, consider your challenge accepted!" the Build monster shouted as he dropped the karate expert and charged towards me.
Preparing for a fight, I began slashing the monster while the creature tries to claw at me. I then changed my sword back into it's gun form and began firing several shots at the fake Build. This caused the creature to growl at me as it began to throw several Basketball projections right at me. I try to dodge, but it soon hits me in the chest and throws me off my feet, causing me to drop my weapon. I soon pick it back up and tried my best to try and fight the monster once again, only to get thrown back for my troubles.
"Get lost punk, try and pretend to be a hero somewhere else…" he taunted. "No…" I said as I used my sword to keep my balance, "I'm not gonna let you hurt those innocent people…" "Why is that? You don't even have the power to fight someone like me…" he growled. "Yeah, but a group of people have shown me that even if I'm as weak as I am, I can still fight to protect those who cannot protect themselves…" I declared as I struggled to get on my feet, "That's why, as long as I'm still kicking…"
"No person will ever be harmed by bullies like you!"
As the Build monster stared intently at me, I felt something pulsate in my pocket. 'Huh?' I thought, as I looked at the charm. No sooner as I picked it up, I spotted a small mechanical dragon fly above me and began firing it's flames at the Build monster along with some nearby shots. "Heh, this one's looking pretty ugly…" Talon shouted out as he and Weiss, wielding what seemed to be a stop-watch like blaster in her hand, rushed to the scene.
"Talon? Weiss? What the heck are you doing here?!" I shouted as the veteran Kamen Rider turned towards me, "Dee Dee's wristband detected a Smash near your area and, given that you were here, your time-travelling friend and I tried our best to get here before you got yourself killed. Don't worry, my friend is already on his way, he's just dealing with some bugs in your machine's hover system"
Talon soon turned towards Weiss as he placed his Build Driver at his waist, forming a yellow belt. "You take care of your friend while I'll keep the Smash busy..." he noted as the dragon flew towards him and landed in his hand. He soon takes out a navy blue Fullbottle with a dragon design and shook it before turning the cap and placing it into the device.
WAKE UP! CROSS-Z DRAGON!
He soon began to turn the crank on the driver, causing a series of tubes and assembly tools to appear and create two halves of his Cross-Z armor. With his transformation ready to go, he punched his palm and entered a battle stance as he shouted…
"Henshin!"
WAKE UP BURNING! GET CROSS-Z DRAGON! YEAH!
…as the two pieces slammed shut around him before the hood and part of his helmet attached itself to the armor, completing the look as Talon stood before the fake Build as Kamen Rider Cross-Z, the navy dragon Rider and partner to the Devil's Scientist turned Boy Genius. "Now that I've got this feeling, I can't lose!" he declared as he began to engage the monster. "Heh, so my 'best match' has finally arrived!" the Build Smash shouted as he fought against the monster.
"Rex, are you okay?" she said as I nodded. She sighs before puffing her cheeks and began shaking me, "What were you doing?! You could have gotten yourself killed!" she shouted as she spots something in my pocket beginning to pulsate.
"Wait a minute…since when did you have a blank RIdewatch?!" she shouted as she took the glowing object from my pocket. "Huh? What do you mean?" I asked her, as she quickly explained, "Ridewatches are the devices that Grant uses to transform into Kamen Rider Geiz, they're supposed to contain the powers of various Kamen Riders but the only time this happened was when Grant first gained his Rider armro…"
"Indeed…and now it seems to now resonate with Rex's wish to defend others…" a voice pointed out as we saw Isaiah appear before us. "Isaiah!" Weiss said in shock as we spotted the man stand before us. "We meet again, Rex…" he said as he turned towards his assistant, "I see that you've gotten acquainted with my apprentice." "What are you doing here, sir?" the girl in white asked him, only for him to smile and say "It was a little hard pin-pointing your exact location in the time stream, given that I had to work with an old time machine, but I decided to rendezvous with the boy after I gave Grant the slip…"
I soon began to look at the glowing blank Ridewatch and, as if my body moved on its own, moved my lucky charm towards my heart as a mysterious energy began to envelop the watch and for it to transform into a black Ridewatch with a white cover that had part of a Rider helmet, as well as the year 2018 and the same time symbol on both my sword-gun, Weiss's Time Mazine, and even Isaiah's hat.
"Heh, my suspicions were correct…you are the one…" Isaiah noted before taking out from his jacket a similar device that Grant had around his waist and giving it to me. "Wait, this is a Zikyu-Driver, right?" I asked the two as they nodded, "I think you're ready to join the ranks and become one of us..." We soon spotted Talon having some difficulty with fighting the Build Smash.
"Looks like Cross-Z needs some help…" the man noted as he took out a large black spear with neon green at the tip and a strange touchpad that connected the spear head with the base, "Let's give him some extra help against this Another Rider…" Weiss soon nodded and the two charged into battle, leaving me to figure out how to make this thing work. I soon realized that, since Grant can become a Kamen Rider with this belt and the fact that I'm a Singularity just like him; that meant that the device must also work for me as well.
"Here goes nothing…" I noted as I placed the device at my waist, causing a silver belt to form around my waist and secure it into place. With a sigh, I stretched my hand to the side and turned the watch face with my thumb, causing the face to show a Rider helmet that was adorned with pink katakana letters that spelled out Rider. I soon pressed the button, causing a small holographic display to form from the watch face before dissipating.
ZI-O!
I soon slotted it into the right side of the belt, causing a clock to tick and echo while a large holographic clock that had several gears decorating the sides formed behind me. I soon pressed the button in the middle of the driver to unlock the driver and began to perform the transformation pose that the Calamity performed on the statue, I began to raise my arms to the left and moved them over my head, putting my left hand to my upper side with my palm stretched outward, and my right hand at my hip.
"Henshin!"
I then closed my right hand and twisted the other around before turning the belt a full 360 and returned it back into its initial position, before brining my hands in front of me in an X position and brought them down to my side while a bell rang out from the driver.
RIDER TIME! KAMEN RIDER~! ZI-O!
The hands on the clock behind me soon stopped at the twelfth hour as the katakana characters formed and launched out. Meanwhile, three watch strap-like bands and began circled around me to create an armor around me before the katakana characters returned and attached itself onto my helmet. On top of my new helmet, I was now in a black bodysuit that had a watchstrap going down the middle, a chest piece which looked like the centerpiece of a Rolex watch, pink ascents on my gloves and other areas, and my Watch Holders transferring from my arms to the gauntlets of the suit.
"Woah…" Talon noted as he, Isaiah, Weiss, and even the Build Smash stared at my new armor. I soon looked at myself and I tried my best not to squeal with joy at the fact that I had become a Kamen Rider. "How about you let one more join the fray?" I quipped as I charged forth and began wailing on the Build Smash alongside Weiss, Isaiah, and Kamen Rider Cross-Z.
With two non-Riders and two other Kamen Riders, the Build Smash was pretty overwhelmed. However, that didn't mean that the monster was pretty strong on it's own. As the four of us continued to fight against the Another Rider, the creature soon began to fling basketballs at all of us, I then reached towards the center of the Zikyu-Driver, causing the sword I used to fight initially to disappear from the ground and reappear from my belt.
ZIKAN GILADE!
KEN!
With my sword back in my hand, I soon charged forth and began to slash at the Another Rider. "Heh, you're pretty good for a newbie Kamen Rider…" Talon noted as he takes out a silver blade with a nave blue hilt and a spot to insert a Fullbottle into them.
BEAT CLOSER!
With our swords in hand, Talon and I began to tag-team the Build Smash while Isaiah and Weiss provide some extra support. I soon charged forth as Talon placed the Lock Fullbottle into his Beat Closer.
SPECIAL TUNE!
"Ready to take him down?" Talon asked me as he pumped his Beat Closer twice to power up his sword attack.
HIT PARADE! – HIT PARADE!
"You bet!" I answered as I removed the Zi-O Ridewatch and placed it into the Zikan Gilade.
FINISH TIME!
As the Build Smash projected a basketball and tried to hit a powerful slam dunk, Talon performed an upward slash that binds the Another Rider with energy chains.
MILLION SLASH!
With the monster held in place, I leaped into the air and as my own sword began to coat itself in a magenta-colored energy, I slashed the Another Rider and projected two silver energy clocks into the impact.
ZI-O! GIRI GIRI SLASH!
I soon landed as Cross-Z changed back to his normal form as I removed my Ridewatch and reverted back to normal. "That…was…awesome!" I shouted as Isaiah and Weiss walk towards me with a smile on their faces. "So, you guys found the Calamity eh?" a guy with dark green hair wearing a red and black soldier's outfit noted as he walked towards me.
'Wait what?' I thought, but I realized that the voice was familiar. "Wait, aren't you the guy in the red Time Mazine?!" I shouted. "Answer me this, why did you choose to fight as a Rider?" he demanded from me, ignoring my initial shock before I recovered. "Because that's the path I chose" I answered, "No…I got a feeling that this was destined from the start!"
"If that's the case, then it's time for me to change destiny for once, and save the future!" he shouted as he took out his red Ridewatch and activated it.
GEIZ!
He then placed it into his own Zikyu-Driver, causing a holographic digital clock behind him while we hear something count down; he then jutted his hands forward before crossing them together as he grasped the sides of the Driver.
"Henshin!"
RIDER TIME! KAMEN RI~DER GEIZ!
As several black watch straps formed around him, the Rider armor that I saw him in back in the Sengoku period appeared before me. He soon reveals that his hand also has a new Ridewatch, this one being black and orange, having the year 2015, the symbol of the Ganma, and Ghost's helmet. He activated the Ridewatch and places it into his Zikyu-Driver.
ARMOR TIME! KAIGAN! GHO~ST!
From a projection of a blank Eyecon, the Ghost armor appeared beside him as the eyes burst out of the helmet and are switched out with the hiragana for Ghost along with the armor. The Ride Armor made his helmet orange with a lone horn, his chest plate now resembled Ghost's very own, and his shoulder pads also became large Eyecons.
"Oh crap!" I noted as I tried to step back, but he soon summons several Parka Ghosts to try and kill me. "Here I come, you ruthless tyrant!" he shouted as he charged towards me. Well this is gonna suck…
CURRENT YEAR: BUILD 2017. RESCUED TIMELINES: N/A
SONG: Oath Sign – English Cover by Rikatwoo
/PRELUDE/
A simple calendar that shows the year 2000 and Kuuga's symbol begins to change years as the music swells up. When the music is at its climax, the calendar now displays the year 2018 and the main title on it before fading away to show just the title.
/Countless times I try
I stop and start to find a path through the dark/
It soon jumps to Rex standing in the courtyard looking at a Blank Ridewatch as various afterimages of the various primary Heisei Riders appear as he places it onto his Watch Holder.
/Stumbling through my tears
My doubts and fears/
It soon jumps to Grant looking at a mysterious picture before noticing the afterimage of Geiz standing behind him. He turns around as the afterimage disappears.
/My way back inside your heart/
Immediately, it jumps to Isaiah reading a book before closing it and staring at the audience as the camera focuses on his face.
/Though the odds are low, I'm breaking through
You know I do it for you /
After a quick shot of a blank Ridewatch, the next scene shows Weiss operating the Time Mazine before jumping to Sora, RIku, and Kairi hanging out with Rex at Radiant High
/When you're by my side, I'm justified
There's nothing that I can't do/
Next, a shot of Gadgetworks is shown as Gadget begins to fix a random object before it explodes, leaving soot on his face while Penny chuckles before petting Brain as they look at the door.
/I'll stand and fight through the sorrow
Pick up my dreams, face tomorrow/
The next scene has Rex standing in the middle of a Dive into the Heart like area as he equips the Zikyu-Driver and activates the Zi-O Ridewatch.
/Make this curse unwind like a rope/
A jump cut shows four unknown figures standing around a throne where the Calamity sits confidently.
/And turn our fate into chance
To hope/
As Rex prepares to transform into Zi-O, projections of the various Heisei Riders in their civilian attire appear around him as they prepare to transform.
/HENSHIN!/
He spins the Zikyu-Driver as the projections fuse with him, transforming the boy into Kamen Rider Zi-O
/Our ties make us braver, for nothing is greater
Holding you is all I wish
I promise/
It soon showcases a battle scene between Zi-O against the various Another Riders, with Zi-O using some of the RideArmors (BuildArmor, Ex-AidArmor, FourzeArmor) during the fight.
/I'll be there through each lonely night
Someday I will make this right/
It soon jumps to Geiz fighting several more Another Riders with some RideArmors of his own (DriveArmor, FaizArmor, WizardArmor)
/For love and for honor, I carry the future/
It has a quick shot of Zi-O and Geiz teaming up as they stand back to back while the Another Riders begin to surround the duo.
/Faith leading me through the dawn
I'll go on/
It soon jumps to Weiss and Kairi walking parallel to each other as two mysterious maidens appear in the reflections of the windows.
/If I fall I'll get up again 'til the end
Out of this nightmare/
It then shows a mysterious hooded figure watching the battle from afar as Zi-O and Geiz perform a Double Rider Kick that destroys all of the monsters around them, causing the screen to flash white.
/Evermore onward, this is the oath I swear/
The opening ends with a close-up shot of Rex as he poses like Zi-O before the camera pans out to show the other characters behind him.