Kamen Rider NG

by KRNG

The Dopants are on the rise again and this time with the use of manufactured Core Medals. Kamen Riders W and OOO stand no hope up to this new threat. But a new hero emerges to defeat the new Dopants and to crush Foundation X.

1. Chapter 1

Kamen Rider NG

Episode 1: Birth of Energy

Shotarou Hidari sits at his desk, typing on his typewriter. The light winds of Fuuto blow in through his window, giving a light but welcome breeze. Shotarou's wearing his black hat and suit, like normal. He looks to his right to see Phillip, his partner, sleeping softly on his bed. They had stopped another Dopant that day, and it was a doozy. It was a replica of the Gene Memory, and it had somehow transmuted Phillip's arm into a baby carrot. But, they managed to turn it back and things were like normal again. Suddenly, as if it were meant to break the silence, Akiko and Terui burst in through the front door.

"SHOTAROU!" Akiko bellows, dragging Terui by the ear.

"Chief, you can let go of my ear now!" Terui hollars at her.

"I'll let go when I feel like it! Anyway, Shotarou, we found more Dopants downtown!"

"Oh, yeah?" Shotarou questions. "And how come Terui didn't fight them off?" Shotarou gets up from his chair and points at Terui while looking at Akiko. "Last I checked, he still has a perfectly good Driver to use."

"IS THAT HOW A KAMEN RIDER IS SUPPOSED TO TALK?" Akiko bellows at Shotarou, knocking him back over his desk and knocking the chair over. This uproar wakes Phillip up.

"Shotarou," Phillip asks hazily with that post-nap drawl, "what is that devilish screa-," he looks at Akiko holding Terui by the ear still, "angelic voice? Why, hello, Miss Akiko."

"Hello, Phillip," Akiko says in her dreamy and happy voice, then turns to Shotarou, serious again. "Now, you two can take care of the Dopants since Terui is a retired Kamen Rider."

"Yeah, yeah," Shotarou says as he walks to the door, Phillip behind him.

Shotarou and Phillip arrive in downtown Fuuto where a bird-like creature is picking people up and dropping them from devastating heights.

"So, shall we go, partner?" Phillip asks as he takes the Cyclone Gaia Memory from his pocket.

"Yeah…," Shotarou says while taking the Joker Gaia Memory from his vest pocket. Shotarou brings out the W Driver and places it on his waist. A silver band wraps around the Driver, forming a belt. A white light appears on Phillip's waist, and then takes the form of an identical W Driver. It, like Shotarou's, forms a belt and attaches itself to him at the waist. Phillip and Shotarou press the buttons on their Memories, causing a voice to ring out from each of them.

"Cyclone!"

"Joker!"

They swing their Gaia Memories from one side to the other in front of them.

"Henshin!"

Phillip puts the Cyclone Memory into the right-most (it'd be left-most if you were looking at it) slot, and it vanishes. It reappears halfway in on Shotarou's belt, and he pushes it down to secure it. Then, Shotarou places the Joker Memory into the left-most (it'd be right-most if you were looking at it) slot. He then pushes the two slots away from each other, making the belt form a W. The belt cries out, "Cyclone! Joker!" Phillip's eyes roll into the back of his head and he closes them, then collapses. Wind circles around Shotarou, forming the Kamen Rider CycloneJoker suit as the Driver plays the CycloneJoker tune. The Windy Stabilizer appears on CycloneJoker's back. Kamen Rider W stands there for a minute until Phillip's voice rings out from the Cyclone side of the suit.

"Umm…Shotarou? It'll be a little hard hitting the Bird Dopant with CycloneJoker."

"Oh, sorry," Shotarou apologizes. "Just a little out of it."

They remove the Cyclone and Joker Memories from the W driver and replace them with Luna and Trigger Memories (respectively). They push the two slots away from each other again.

"Luna! Trigger!"

The green Cyclone side of W becomes yellow and the black Joker side of W becomes blue. A blue gun appears in W's left hand. He points the gun at the Bird Dopant, and fires off a few shots. The Luna power of W causes the bullets to bend and smash into the Bird Dopant, sending it to the ground. It gets up and looks at W.

"Oy…W…don't interfere!" the Bird Dopant cries at the Rider.

"Sorry, Birdie," Sho's side of W replies. "We can't just ignore someone who makes the city we love cry."

"Now…," both sides of W say, "count up your sins!"

"Cyclone! Joker!"

W lunges at the Bird Dopant, punching it in the face a few times. The Bird stumbles back, and then lands a solid kick into W's stomach. W reels back, badly hurt.

"What is this power?" Sho asks.

"I don't know. Switch to CycloneJokerXtreme so we can look it up," Phillip replies. The Xtreme Memory cries out and transfers Phillip's unconscious body into it. Then, it flies over W's head, where W grabs it and slams it onto the W driver. They open the bird and a voice rings out, "Xtreme!" A white light appears on the divider of W, and they tear it open to form CycloneJokerXtreme.

"Prism Bicker!" they cry out and a shield with a sword stored inside appears in their left hand. They take the Prism Gaia Memory out and press the button.

"Prism!" They place the Gaia Memory into the hilt of the sword and draw it. The Bird Dopant storms them again, but W gets a few slashes in and kicks the Dopant in the back.

"So…partner…what do the archives say about this Dopant?" Sho asks.

"Well…nothing."

"Nothing?"

"The archives just say that this is a standard Bird Gaia Memory. There's nothing special about it."

"Well there has to be something special because getting hit by that guy is like getting hit by a truck-"

Sho is interrupted by the Bird Dopant doing a flying kick into W's chest. W flies back and hits a gasoline truck, causing it to explode. The Bird Dopant slowly walks towards the de-transformed Shotarou and Phillip.

"Finally," the Bird states, "Kamen Rider W is no more!" The Bird opens its wings and a fiery torrent surrounds the three of them. The Bird opens its mouth, a fireball slowly building up in it.

"Fire?" Phillip says. "But…fire isn't a property of the Bird Gaia Memory."

"What?" Shotarou asks Phillip with wide eyes.

"Goodbye…Kamen Rider W…," the Bird laughs hysterically and shoots the fireball.

"Hen-…SHIN!"

"Henshin!"

"Henshin!"

Sho and Phillip disappear before the fireball can hit them and the Bird cancels the torrent. It looks over and gives a gasp of surprise. Phillip and Shotarou stand next to Kamen Rider Accel, OOO (TaToBa form), and Birth.

"Sorry," OOO states. "W isn't going anywhere."

"Eiji," Birth states. "We really shouldn't be getting involved."

"It was the right thing to do!" OOO retorts. "Right, Accel?"

"Don't question me," Accel replies.

"Everyone, let's get this thing with speed!" OOO yells. OOO replaces the Hawk and Batta coins on his belt with with Lion and Cheetah (respectively). Kamen Rider Accel removes the Accel Gaia Memory from his Driver, takes out the Trial memory, and places it into the Driver.

"Trial!" the Accel Driver cries out. OOO drags the OOO Scanner across his Driver and Accel revvs his Driver.

"Trial!"

"Lion! Tora! Cheetah! (cat growl) RaToraTah RaToraTah!"

OOO turns into the RaToraTah form and Accel turns into his Trial form. Both of them move at super speed to attack the Dopant while Birth supplies cover fire from his gun. The Bird Dopant flaps its wings once, causing a tornado of fire to pick up, damage, and then throw Trial and OOO to the ground. The damage causes Eiji and Terui to de-transform.

"What-…is this power?" Terui musters the strength to ask.

"Dunno," Sho replies. "But it's intense. Phillip. Fight fire with fire. HeatMetal."

"Yeah," Phillip replies as they get into their stance.

"Heat!"

"Metal!"

"Henshin!"

They place their Gaia Memories into their Drivers.

"Heat! Metal!"

The song plays on their Driver and Kamen Rider HeatMetal is formed.

"Let's fight fire with fire!" Sho shouts as HeatMetal charges the Bird Dopant. They take the Metal Pole and smack the Bird Dopant with it a few times then jab it in the stomach to push it back.

"Memory Break?" Phillip asks.

"Yeah. Before it causes any more trouble," Sho replies. W takes the Metal memory out of the W driver and places it into the Metal Pole.

"Metal! Maximum Drive!" the voice from their Driver rings out. From both ends of the pole, a blazing inferno appears.

"Metal Branding!" W cries out. They lunge towards the Bird Dopant, but their effort is for naught. The Bird gives out a powerful cry like a shockwave that sends W back to hit Birth with the Maximum Drive. The Birth Driver short circuits and the shockwave forces Sho and Phillip to de-transform yet again.

"Hidari! Phillip!" Terui cries out, but screaming causes immense pain to his chest.

"W! Accel! Gotou!" Eiji yells.

"This is the end for…Kamen Riders…," Gotou says and then closes his eyes, bracing for the final impact.

"We went through hell and back, partner," Shotarou looks at Phillip. "Let's finish this how it started: together."

"Shotarou…," Phillip says, and then tears start forming in his eyes. "Goodbye…"

"This is my final attack and the end of the Kamen Riders! What a wonderful day! Who knew that combining these two powers would cause such a power boost!" the Bird Dopant cries out.

"Power boost?" Phillip asks.

"No use explaining it to you guys!" the Bird Dopant cries back. "Now, die!"

It opens its mouth again but this time a large fireball appears in the air, roughly about the size of a hot air balloon. The Bird flies up into the air, places its talons on top of the fireball. Before the Bird can force the fireball on them, several shots are fired at the Bird's chest, causing it to fall to the ground and the fireball to dissipate. All 5 Kamen Riders look over to see a young adult in all black and wielding an automatic rifle, standing on the curb next to the street they were fighting in. He looks at the Dopant on the ground, and then reaches towards the gun. He pulls out a Gaia Memory out of the grip's bottom, revealing the "Automatic" Gaia Memory. He pulls another one out of his pocket and locks it into the gun's grip.

"Explosion!"

"Explosion?" Phillip and Shotarou repeat simultaneously.

"Get down," the young adult in black states. All 5 Kamen Riders duck and cover their heads. The young adult pulls the trigger and a large blast comes out of the gun's barrel, hitting the knocked down Dopant. With this moment to spare, the young man runs over to the 5 Kamen Riders.

"We don't have much time," he informs. "The combination Bird Gaia Memory and Hawk Core Medal have a 50% synchronization rate. This gun alone won't be able to defeat him."

"Wait, he has a Gaia Memory and a Core Medal inside of him?" Terui asks.

"No time to explain. Unfortunately, just Gaia Memories or just Core Medals won't be able to defeat someone who's using both. Not even CycloneJokerXtreme stands a chance."

"Then what do we do?" Shotarou asks.

The young man pauses for a second, then pulls a device out of his pocket. It has 3 Gaia Memory-shaped slots, but the slots are a little longer than standard Gaia Memories.

"This Driver. It accepts NG Drives, which are devices similar in appearance to Gaia Memories, however, the Drives house both Gaia Memories and Core Medals. I can use it to transform and to defeat him."

"What do you need?" Eiji asks.

"Based on what we have here, there are only materials for 1 form right now. Thermal NG."

"Thermal NG?" they all ask.

"Combination of fire-based Gaia Memories and Core Medals."

"So…Hawk Core Medal?" Eiji asks.

"And…Heat Gaia Memory?" Phillip asks.

"Yes," the man replies.

"How do we know we can trust you?" Gotou replies.

"Well, you can either give it to me or you can die. Your choice," the young man replies. Eiji takes the coin out of the Driver and tosses it to the man. The man turns to Phillip and Shotarou.

"W, I'll need the Heat Gaia Memory."

"Heat…," Phillip says, bringing his hand to his mouth. "But that's my Gaia Memory!"

"Phillip," Shotarou says, grabbing his arm. "He says he can help us. Let's just go along with it for now." Phillip squeezes the Heat Gaia Memory in his hands, looks towards the man and chucks the Heat Memory at him. The man catches it and walks towards the Bird Dopant, who has just gotten back onto his feet at this point. He takes a black casing out of his pocket and places the Gaia Memory into one end and the Core Medal into the other. He pulls a latch over on the case, concealing the Core Medal. Now, it looks like a slightly wider and elongated Gaia Memory. A marking on the case appears, saying "NG DRIVE THERMAL ENERGY LV.1".

"W-Who are you?" the Bird Dopant asks.

"You are abusing a power that should be used for peace, not destruction or death," the man states. "And for this, you will pay."

"I will pay? Look at the one who has infinite power and who's just a lowly human!" the Dopant shrieks back.

"He's already too far along to save," the man mutters to himself then looks to the Dopant. "Don't say I didn't warn you."

He takes the black and silver device and presses it to his abdomen. The Driver forms a belt and clings to him. He places the Thermal Energy LV.1 Drive into the top-most Drive slot on the Driver.

"Thermal Energy Level 1!" his Driver calls out. The silver parts of his Driver turn red. He presses a button on the non-Drive-slotted side of the Driver. The Driver glows red and a black and red sword forms in the man's right hand.

"Henshin…," he states. He presses a silver button on the sword's black handle.

"Power of Fire! Kamen Rider… THERMAL NG!" the Driver calls out as the man is enveloped in black and red light. There is a burst of fire and the man is revealed in the Kamen Rider Thermal NG Lv. 1 outfit.

"Kamen Rider… Thermal NG?" Terui, Eiji, Phillip, and Shotarou state (by this time, Gotou used this distraction to his advantage and has already ran off).

He rushes towards the Dopant, slashing it a few times with the sword. The Dopant shrieks in pain, and retreats back after the barrage.

"This power…," the Dopant states. "It's not like W's or OOO's. Who are you?"

"Do you need me to clean out your ears, you bureaucratic bastard?" NG replies. "I am Kamen Rider Thermal NG."

"So…powerful…," Sho states.

"This is the power of combining Gaia Memories and Core Medals…," Phillip states intrigued.

"'Bureaucratic bastard'?" Terui asks. "Does he already know who the Dopant is?"

"So, Birdie," NG states as he flies toward the Dopant, "let me show you what real power is!"

He presses a button on the sword opposite the button he used to transform and a compartment opens on the sword (just beyond the crossguard, on the non-business end of the blade). It has 3 sockets for NG Drives. He takes the Thermal LV.1 Drive from his Driver and places into the socket farthest from the crossguard.

"Thermal NG…ASSAULT MODE…," his Driver rings out.

"Let's finish this," NG states. He rushes at the Dopant, blocking a few punches and kicks here and there. He then grabs the Dopant by the neck while his sword charges up with fire energy. He gives a battle cry and shoves the sword up under the Dopant's beak, causing it to fly up into the air.

NG then presses the button he used to transform.

"Thermal NG…ENERGY RUSH…," his Driver rings again.

"This is…my finishing blow…," NG states. Fire springs out from the NG suit, causing one bird-wing made of fire to extend from his right shoulder-blade. The wing flaps and he soars into the air. He flies past the Bird Dopant, then turns around and brings the sword over his head. The sword is then enveloped with a raging inferno.

"INFERNO SLASH!" he cries out. He descends down and runs his sword down the Bird's body from head to toe. The Bird explodes and NG lands onto the ground.

"Amazing…," all 4 Kamen Riders mutter. NG looks up and sees 2 objects falling from where the Bird Dopant was defeated. He catches both of them and looks down. It's a Bird Gaia Memory and a Hawk Core Medal.

"Bird Gaia Memory and Hawk Core Medal…not bad for a newbie…," he states. He looks over and sees the Dopant user fall to the ground, burn marks all over his body. It's a young teenager dressed in rather fancy (but burnt and blackened) clothing.

"The mayor's…son?" Phillip states.

"It's the new craze nowadays," NG states while indicating the Gaia Memory and the Core Medal he was holding. "But I can tell you all about that later. Let's see. Ah!" NG tosses the newly acquired Hawk Core Medal to Eiji.

"See? I'm a man of my word."

"What about the Heat Memory?" Phillip shouts.

"I'll need to borrow Heat for a little longer," NG replies. "You see, there's a compatibility index between Gaia Memories and Core Medals. Sort of like how they get along. The Heat Memory and Hawk Core Medal are great pals and have 100% compatibility. The Bird Memory and Hawk Core Medal have 50% compatibility. Your Xtreme form could barely hold off someone who wasn't nearly as powerful as he could be. And I would be at half strength if I used the Bird Gaia Memory, or worse considering that I'm using a Driver and not injecting the stuff into my skin. So, I give you a choice. Threaten the well-being of the city you love so much, or let me use one Gaia Memory of yours until I can find a replacement."

Phillip looks down angrily at the ground, and then looks back up at the Kamen Rider.

"Alright. But the moment you don't need the Heat Memory, you will return it to us. And if you don't, then we will defeat you."

"Deal," NG replies. "Now, you all had questions for me?"

It is a little later in the day. Shotarou, Phillip, Terui, Eiji, the burnt-up teen and the newcomer man have all gone back to the detective agency to a very concerned Akiko.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY TERUI?" Akiko bellowed and then turned towards the man. "AND WHO THE HECK IS THIS?"

"We haven't found that out yet," Sho replies, Akiko turning towards him. "We all got roughed up out there. Actually, the man you see standing before you is who kept us alive."

"Kept you…alive?" Akiko replies while returning her gaze to the man. "But…it was just a Dopant. How could it be that much of a problem?"

"You see," Eiji chimes in, "according to our new friend here, people are combining Gaia Memories with Core Medals to go beyond the level of the god-like strength that Gaia Memories and Core Medals individually give the user. So, neither Memory-only nor Medal-only Kamen Riders can defeat even one who isn't at 100% strength."

"What Eiji says is the truth," Phillip chimes in, going down to sit on his bed. "Even CycloneJokerXtreme couldn't hold its own against the new combination."

"So, how did this new guy defeat him?" Akiko asks.

"By combining the Hawk Core Medal with the Heat Gaia Memory into a single entity," the man chimes in, sitting down on Shotarou's chair. He reaches into his pocket, pulls out the Driver, and places it on the desk. "This is the NG Driver. It accepts items called NG Drives and they allow me to transform into Kamen Rider NG. NG gets its power from the different energy sources around the world. Thermal energy…wind energy…water energy…hell, it's even speculated the NG can draw energy from things moving. I create NG Drives by taking a Gaia Memory and Core Medal and placing it into a blank NG Drive," he takes a black casing out of his pocket, exactly like the one he used to create the Thermal Lv. 1 NG Drive from before, "The interesting thing about my Driver, though, is that it won't accept any Gaia Memories or Core Medals that aren't 100% compatible with each other."

"Compatible?"

"Yes. While it is possible to combine any Gaia Memory with any Core Medal, there are some combinations that are the absolute best when paired together. The Hawk Core Medal and the Heat Gaia Memory is one of those combinations. There are only 3 100% synchronization combos per energy type. I'll give that kid some credit," he turns, indicating the unconscious burnt-up teen, "for thinking that the Bird Memory and the Hawk Medal were a good combination. However, they don't completely aim towards the Thermal energy type. Each Medal set is an energy type, and its energy type is similar to those that OOO has. Thermal energy equates to TaJaDor, a fire-type OOO. Wind energy equates to GataKiriBa, because it's uh…," he pauses, "okay, I don't know why GataKiriBa is wind but it is."

"Where did you get the Driver?" Terui asks. "Shroud is dead, so no more Drivers that accept Memories can be created."

"Foundation X," the man states. Sho, Phillip, Akiko, and Terui give a gasp of surprise, while Eiji remains oblivious.

"Foundation…X…?" Eiji asks.

"Foundation X is the people responsible for the manufacturing of Gaia Memories," Sho answers.

"And they're the ones responsible for almost killing my sister and turning the entire world into a world of Dopants," Phillip adds.

"So…this guy is bad?" Eiji asks, turning towards the man.

"Well, I saved your life," the man replies, "I don't think I'm too bad of a guy."

"Yeah, but you work for Foundation X!" Phillip yells angrily, grabbing the man by the collar of his shirt.

"I never said I work for them," the man replies, pulling Phillip's arms away from his collar. "I merely got the Driver from them. Shortly after you and Sho prevented the Gaia Impact, Foundation X gave a large contribution to the Kogami Corporation to dig up the sealed Core Medals. Eiji, this is where your adventure began. With the fall of the Greeeds, Foundation X needed another project to contribute to in order to keep revenue coming in. They developed new Memories and Core Medals and devices that allowed users to inject them simultaneously. However, even using these devices, it's almost a certainty that the user will lose their mind to the power. My father worked for Foundation X on this project, however didn't like the approach that they were taking. He felt that heroes should be created with this power, not villains. He created a device that would limit the effect of the injection devices on the mind while simultaneously boosting their power. The device he made," he looks down at the NG Driver, "was the NG Driver. Foundation X didn't like his idea very much and ordered that all Drivers be destroyed. So what you see before you…is the last NG Driver in existence."

"So…you're really the only one that can defeat these guys, huh?" Phillip states.

"Yeah. No pressure or anything," the man jokes. "My eventual goal is to shut down Foundation X forever. They caused hell with both Gaia Memories and Core Medals. And now they're going to bring the world to its knees by combining the two."

"Well, we won't get in your way then," Terui states. "If any of my Memories would help you defeat them, by all means take them."

"Terui…," Sho mutters.

"I won't take any Memories or Medals that I don't need," the man replies to Terui. "While your forms don't stand much of a chance against our new threat, you're more protected in them. I'll let you know if I need any more of your Memories."

"Will he be okay?" Eiji asks while tending to the burnt-up teenager.

"Yeah. The Energy Rush attack boosts the output of the Memories and Medals involved. It's essentially combining a Memory Break with a Scanning Charge, and then some. He's going to be out for a while," the man replies.

"What is your name?" Akiko asks.

"My name?" the man questions. "Uh…it's not really that important."

"Not important?" Sho asks.

"You can just call me Energy," the man says. "No need to get tangled up in formalities."

"Hey! You can't just-" Sho starts, moving towards Energy but stops when his phone rings. He pulls it out of his pocket, opens it, and presses it to his ear. "Hello? Jinno? More Dopants attacking the city? Yeah, we'll be right there."

Shotarou, Phillip, Eiji, and Energy arrive in downtown Fuuto, where a Dopant is attacking civilians. It is a Cockroach Dopant with a slightly green glow to it.

"Cockroach Dopant, eh?" Shotarou states as he pulls out his Joker Memory from his shirt pocket.

"Be careful," Energy states. "It's not a regular Dopant. It's been powered up by a Medal."

"Which Medal?" Phillip asks.

"I don't know."

"B-But you knew what the mayor's son was using!" Sho butts in.

"Yeah, that's because I saw him transform with it," Energy replies. "However, this is Thermal's specialty."

He takes out his NG Driver, and presses it to his waist. A belt forms around the Driver and he places the Thermal NG Lv. 1 Drive out of his shirt pocket and places it into the Driver.

"Thermal Energy Level 1!" his Driver cries out.

"Henshin," Energy says as he presses a button on his Driver.

"Power of fire! Kamen Rider…THERMAL NG!"

"Oi," Sho states. "I thought you needed a sword to transform."

NG presses the button on his Driver that made his sword appear before, and his sword appears in his right hand.

"Yeah. Either or," he states as he averts his gaze to the Dopant. His vision becomes red and he can see inside the Dopant. Floating amongst a sea of white light is a Cockroach Gaia Memory and a Grasshopper Core Medal.

"Damn," he states. "He's not using a stable combination. They'll be destroyed if I can land a solid Energy Rush on him."

"Why didn't the Medal and Memory that the mayor's son was using shatter when you did an Energy Rush?" Eiji asks.

"The bond between the two was too strong, Memory and Medal, that is," NG replies. "Anything below 50% synchronization will be destroyed. I wish I could keep them all but…don't make the rules, y'know?"

NG rushes towards the Cockroach Dopant and lands a couple of swings against the Cockroach Dopant's chest. The Dopant flies back into a jewelry store. Several civilians scream as the Dopant steals some jewelry, but NG walks in after it.

"Oi! Aren't you in enough trouble already?" NG asks as he grabs the Dopant by the throat and throws it back onto the street.

"Hey, idiot!" the Cockroach Dopant screams at NG. "Mind your own business! This doesn't concern you!"

"Doesn't concern me?" NG asks. "You're terrorizing civilians, stealing jewelry, and called me an idiot. How is this not my business?" NG rushes at him, landing a flying right kick straight into the center of the Dopant's chest. The Dopant flies toward a wall, however, kicks off and soars high up into the sky.

"Why do I always get the flyers?" NG asks rhetorically and presses the henshin button on his Driver again to detransform. He puts the Thermal NG Lv 1 Drive back into his shirt pocket, removes the Driver from his abdomen (which causes the belt to disappear), and puts the Driver away.

"Can't you go after it?" Shotarou asks.

"No. Unfortunately, Thermal NG can only fly during the finishing move, which only lasts a couple of seconds. So I'd just fall to my death while chasing after him," Energy replies. "It's a deadly combination he's using, though. While it's still below 50% synchronization, the Cockroach Memory gives him the ability to fly and the Grasshopper Medal gives him the ability to jump high very quickly. So he can get away quickly."

"What do you think his motive is?" Phillip asks. "Could the Gaia Library be of some assistance?"

"No," Energy replies. "Let's see what the mayor's son has to say about all this."
Shotarou, Phillip, Eiji, and Energy arrive back at the detective agency with Terui and Akiko sitting next to the burnt-up mayor's son.

"Ah, you're awake," Shotarou states.

"Did you get a good sleep?" Eiji asks. Everyone rolls their eyes.

"Why did you attack the civilians of Fuuto?" Energy asks.

"Why should I explain anything to you douchebags?" the mayor's son replies.

"Because," Energy replies as he takes out the Thermal NG Drive, "Terui, Eiji, Phillip, and Shotarou may have a rule about not attacking civilians while transformed but I don't," he grabs the mayor's son by the throat, "now talk!"

"My…father….will kill you…for this…," the mayor's son mutters while choking.

"He'll see you in Hell when I'm done with him," Energy replies, "now TALK!"

"ALRIGHT!" the son cries. "We got our Medals and Memories from Foundation X…"

"'We'?" Terui asks.

"Dad and I," he says. "Dad was sick of the Kamen Riders being the center of attention in Fuuto. He wanted them out so he could be the hero for once. So, we got these in order to defeat OOO, W, Accel, and Birth. We figured that since we had both powers, we couldn't be stopped. But then you showed up," the son looks at Energy, "and ruined all of our plans. And now Dad is going to lose his job. I've shamed him by losing to the likes of you!"

"What a fucking moron," Energy replies, everyone gasping at his words besides the son.

"Energy…," Akiko states.

"You and your dad wanted to get rid of the Kamen Riders for a goddamn poll boost?" Energy yells. "Do you know what would've happened if I hadn't showed up to stop you? Foundation X isn't just selling Medals and Memories to people of high power and influence. They're selling them to gangs…thugs…murderers…people who may not have, as what you think, a 'noble' cause. They will murder innocents and steal what's not theirs just to get a bit ahead!"

"They wouldn't be able to!" the son replies. "With my Medal and Memory, I could stop all of them!"

"IDIOT!" Energy bellows as he punches the kid across the face. "Your Memory and Medal only had a 50% synchronization rate! You think everyone's going to stay below 50%? Hell no! There'll be ones with 60…70…80, 90, 100% synchronization rates! And even multiple Medals and Memories! How would you defeat them with a measly 50%?"

The son at this point is speechless, along with Terui, Akiko, Phillip, Eiji, and Shotarou.

"Is your father using the Cockroach Memory and the Grasshopper Core Medal?" Energy asks.

"No," the son replies.

"So, the Dopant we fought today wasn't the mayor, huh?" Phillip states while putting on his intrigued face.

"What ones did your father have?" Eiji asks.

"I know he had the same Medal as me…," the son states, trying to recall.

"Hawk Core Medal," Eiji states.

"And…some Memory that started with an H," the son finishes.

"Heat?" Energy asks, somewhat terrified.

"Yeah! That was it!" the son exclaims.

"So, we've got a Dopant with a 100% synchronization rate…," Terui states, sitting back into the chair.

"And with the same power as NG," Phillip adds.

"It seems that their current objective is wiping W, Accel, OOO, and Birth out of the picture," Energy states. "We need to get you all to someplace safe."