Hey this is my second fanfic and I'm quite happy with the way it turned out. Sorry it's short though, I promise that future chapters will be longer but I was just happy where I left this one off. I have no idea what my update schedule will be so don't ask please. Anyway this story uses my OC Kamen Rider, though no Actual OCs show up.
Disclaimer: I own nothing within this story except for the design of Kamen Rider Chance his weapons and powers.
And with that out of the way on with the show!
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Episode 1: Chance
Tears.
Sadness. Loneliness. Pain.
These were all he knew, abandoned and unwanted he stood, alone. No one around to care so he cried. He cried hard, his vision blurred, his eyes sore and swollen the tears stopped. He realized then that at some point he had curled into a ball. Crouched on the ground in the growing darkness red eyes began to water again.
Suddenly he felt something on his head. He felt his body tense, ready to flee in case of danger. As he slowly looked up through still blurred eyes he saw a shadowed figure, that of a man.
He should have felt fear, at least apprehension but instead he felt warm and safe.
Someone cared.
Practicality leaping into the man's arms he was embraced. As he clutched the man's chest he once again began to cry, as he did so he began to babble. His voice shaky he spilled his soul to the man.
Once he was done he waited, dreading that the man would also reject him. So focused was he on that thought that he almost missed the man speak. His eyes widened at the man's words and he felt himself being picked up and carried. For the final time that day he cried.
Someone cared.
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Misato Katsuragi cursed as she sped down the street in her car going faster than any speed limit would allow, her car a blue blur as it swerved between the other cars on the road. The purple haired woman had not been having a good day. First she woke up late so she didn't have her morning beer. Then she was late to work and because of that her boss gave her that creepy stare of his. After that she realized that she forgot to bring her lunch to work and no one would share with her. Finally at the last possible minute her boss tells her that not only does he have a son, which she could barely believe, but that she had to bring him to NERV!
Glancing at the clock she cursed again and pushed the accelerator harder, and now she was late and that was just. Perfect.
Taking a sharp right turn she slowed down and pulled into a parking spot. Stepping out of the car and inwardly smirking at some of the idle eyes who gazed at her admittedly attractive body she looked around for the boy she was supposed to fetch. She looked down at a photo in her hand with the name 'Shinji' written across the bottom. Looking back up she managed to spot him leaning against a wall flipping a rather large coin in the air repeatedly.
Shinji was dressed in a red long sleeve button up shirt with a black lightweight zip up hoodie over it. He also wore black jeans with rather plain white sneakers.
Trying not to let the stress of the day show Misato put a smile on her face and walked up to Shinji.
"Hi" she said, getting Shinji's attention "Are you Shinji?"
Smiling back Shinji said "Yeah, I assume Gendo sent you?"
Quirking an eyebrow at the fact he called his father by his name Misato replied "Yeah your father sent me to get you."
Having not stopped flipping the coin the entire conversation he finally stopped and picked up a large brown luggage bag and said flippantly "I figured as much though I don't really consider him my father anymore." With that statement he headed towards Misato's car "Might as well see what the old man wants."
Blinking at the boy's attitude Misato quickly followed and after loading up they were off.
As Misato once again drove down the street at terrifying speeds she noticed that Shinji, while not flipping, was still playing with that coin. Now that she got good look at it, it was rather strange looking. First off it was large, a little larger than an American silver dollar she had seen once. One side was red and the other was black, both sides having a strange face that she couldn't make out on them etched in the opposite sides color; etched in red on the black side and black on the red side.
Speaking up she asked "Hey Shinji, what's with that coin you're messing with? It doesn't look like any currency that I've seen."
Shinji looked at her then the coin before smiling softly and saying "This was a gift from my father figure, Lucky, and from lady luck. It's not really money but more of a one of a kind coin."
Changing the subject before Misato could respond he asked "Hey what exactly do you and Gendo do anyway?"
Blinking in surprise she questioned "You don't know?"
Shinji shook his head "Me and Lucky moved around a lot never stayed anywhere to long. In other words I have no clue."
"Well" began Misato "You've heard about all the monster attacks going on recently right?" After getting another head shake Misato sighed "Well a bunch of strange creatures have started to appear and attack people before mysteriously disappearing. First they showed up in Tokyo-1 then Tokyo-2 now here in Tokyo-3. At NERV it's our job to fight and destroy or capture any Hostile Entity or H.E. for short before it can hurt anyone, and your fath-…Gendo is in charge of the whole organization."
"What about you?"
"Me? I'm just captain of operations." Misato preened.
"I see" Shinji said.
After that they rode the rest of the way in comfortable silence.
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After riding down the car elevator they were now wandering around NERV HQ while Misato tried to figure out the map. Shinji just followed her blindly while once again flipping his coin. After walking for a while they came to an elevator before they could go any further the elevator door opened and revealed a blonde woman in a blue shirt and lab coat with an exasperated look on her face.
"Misato" the woman began with a frown "were you lost again?"
Misato chuckled nervously " Sorry Ritsuko you know how complicated this place can be."
Ritsuko just sighed obviously used to this by now. "It's fine. Is this the boy?"
"Yep" Misato nodded "Shinji meet Ritsuko. Ritsuko, Shinji."
Shinji just offered a polite hello and bowed which Ritsuko returned. She then led them to a large room with a single desk in it.
Sitting at the desk was a man dressed in a suit wearing gloves and wearing orange tinted glasses. His cold eyes zeroed in on Shinji as soon as he walked in.
There was a tense awkward silence between Shinji and the man before Shinji broke the silence with a single word "Gendo."
"Shinji"
There was another silence before Shinji asked "So what did you want me here for neck beard?"
Ritsuko's eyes nearly popped out of her head at Shinji's disrespect while Misato was trying and failing to hide her laughter. Gendo's eyes narrowed slightly before he gestured to a box on his desk.
"Within this box there is something I want…however to open it, it requires both your and my retinal scan. That is all I called you here for and that is all I require."
Pausing for a moment Shinji asked "Wait why does it need my scan?"
Gendo simply replied "Because your mother made it."
Eyes wide Shinji considered this before going over to the box and leaning over a scanner and letting it scan his eye. After it was done the latches on the box opened with a click. Before Shinji could even open the box Gendo had moved it away from him.
Slightly glaring Gendo said " That's enough, you may leave."
Glaring Shinji turned around and stormed out of the office with a worried looking Misato and a curious looking Ritsuko behind him.
After they left Gendo opened the box and stared at its content. Upon seeing it he gave off an uncharacteristically wide grin.
And then Gendo plotted.
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Following the clearly upset Shinji Misato quickly said her goodbyes to Ritsuko before running after him. She quickly caught up to him, finding him leaning up against a wall rolling his coin in his hand and taking deep calming breaths.
"You okay?" she asked softly.
Shinji stopped playing with his coin and closed his eyes, taking one final breath he let the tension drop from his body and replied "Yeah…yeah I'm good."
Pushing off from the wall Shinji asked "Say…do you know if there are any hotels nearby? I kind of need some place to stay for the night."
Misato gave him a confused look "I thought you were staying with that Lucky guy?"
Shinji winced "Well I was until he sort of…died."
Misato froze "And how long has he been dead?" she said with a small frown.
"Umm…about a month…or two…or three…" Shinji chuckled nervously at Misato's rather intense stare.
"And just how have you been supporting yourself?" she questioned, crossing her arms and quirking a brow.
"Lucky left me a rather large sum of money."
"Well" she stated dryly "at least you're not stealing." Sighing Misato closed her eyes for a few seconds and seem to make some sort of decision before nodding to herself. She then walked over to Shinji and grabbed him by the back of the hoodie before dragging him along with her.
"H-hey! What are you doing?!" Shinji protested.
"I'm not going to let a kid wander the city by himself with no kind of place to stay."
"But I can stay in a hotel!"
"So" continued Misato, ignoring Shinji "until further notice you'll be staying with me."
"What!" cried Shinji "Don't I get a say in this?"
"Nope."
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As Shinji stared at the unfamiliar ceiling of Misato's apartment from her spare room he realized he learned two things today. The first one was; one does not deify Misato. When she sets her mind on something then that's pretty much it.
The second was Misato never threw anything away, which consequently explains why her apartment was so dirty; the woman never cleaned.
Sighing Shinji resolved to do something about the mess as a thank you to Misato for letting him stay here, whether he had wanted to or not was irrelevant by this point.
Sighing once more Shinji was about to get up and begin the herculean task of cleaning Misato's apartment when suddenly the door to the room slammed open causing him to squawk and fall out of the bed. He looked up from where he was crumpled on the floor and saw Misato standing there fully dressed.
"Shinji" Misato said in a serious tone cutting off his protest "There's been a H.E. sighting so I need to go. Listen, I need you to promise me that you'll stay inside ok?"
Shinji nodded his head and like a flash Misato was out the door, down the steps, and speeding off in her car.
As Shinji watched her speed away he turned back to the door to see Misato's pet penguin Pen-Pen staring at him. They locked eyes for a few seconds before Shinji smirked and held up two crossed fingers.
Pen-Pen just squawked.
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Power
That's was the beast craved, which made it all the sweeter that it was getting it. The Beast followed its prey, a human, some part of it remembered, through the sky soaring on large membrane like wings. It swooped down slamming its talon like feet into its prey. The human's spine snapped like a twig paralyzing it from the waist down. It began to babble, pleading, praying for mercy, for help but the beast could no longer understand nor did it care to try. It only had two thoughts in what was left of its mind.
Power and more.
Letting out an ear piercing roar the beast dug its large talon like fingers into the human's skull. The human squealed in pain as its skin began to shrivel and grey. Blackish-purple energy flowed from the human's skull up the beast arm. The beast practically shuddered with pleasure as it felt its self grow stronger, faster, and smarter.
It felt itself become better.
Suddenly it heard a voice behind it, probably more humans it's now slightly sharper mind decided. The beast decided to ignore them in favor of its prey. Suddenly it felt multiple impacts on its back, like someone was throwing small rocks at it or poking it repeatedly.
Irritated the beast quickly finished its meal leaving nothing but a dried husk of a human behind before turning around already hungry for more power. So with zero hesitation the beast roared and charged towards more prey.
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Misato cursed as she and her team of five ran towards the H.E. submachine guns in hand. As they stopped about twenty feet away they all took aim and awaited Misato's order. As they did this she was able to get a good look at the H.E.
It looked similar to a large bat, which would explain why it attacked at night she mused. The strange thing about it was that it had a large x like marking across its chest and back that was tipped a purple-ish black at the ends.
'Just like the others.' Misato thought. Picturing images of other H.E.s she had seen.
Snapping back to the present she called out " Hostile Entity! Cease and desist immediately and put your hands in the air or we will be force to terminate you! This is your first and only warning!"
When the H.E. failed to respond Misato called out "Open fire!" and she and her team began to attack. Much to her dismay however the bullets seemed to do nothing to the creature except get its attention.
Once it was done with the man it was attacking it turn to face them letting Misato get a good look at its face.
It had rather tiny eyes which contrasted with its rather large flat nose and large mouth that was all fangs.
The H.E. let out a horrendous roar before charging them with a surprising amount of speed. Misato's team continued to fire and before they could move out of the way the beast was upon them.
Misato managed to roll out of the way of its claws only to be hit by its back swing. The blow carried her across the street where she slammed into a wall. Her breath left her upon impact and she felt a few ribs crack as she crumpled to the ground.
She looked on through blurry eyes as her team was ripped apart. One of them was impaled through the chest while viscous talons cut another's throat. The third had his neck snapped while the last's head was crushed in a giant fanged maw.
Its opponents dead the H.E. let out a triumphant roar before turning to Misato. It slowly walked forward raising a blood stained hand towards her and she knew she was going to die.
'It's funny.' She thought 'I always thought that I'd go out saying something witty.'
However before the monster could get any closer, or she could further think about her death both her and the H.E. turned their heads to see a red and black blur slam into the creature. The H.E. was thrown several yards with a shriek bouncing slightly as it skidded on the pavement. As it shakily got to its feet Misato took this chance to look at her savior only for her eyes to widen.
He, for it was clearly a he, was wearing some strange kind of armor that was red on the top with black on the undersides of the arms and black on the bottom with red on the insides of the legs and two red kneecap guards. The helmet was completely smooth save for the white pointed v-shape crest on the forehead and the two black insect like eyes. He also had a white belt around his waist with several small switches on his right side.
The figure charged the H.E. which the beast responded in kind as they neared each other the man slid under the monsters legs while grabbing one as he passed. This cause the H.E. to trip and fall on its face.
The creature quickly got up and snarled before charging again. This time the figure just stood and waited for the beast to get close before batting its hand away and delivering a devastating punch to its face, breaking several teeth.
The H.E. howled and clutched at its face. As it did so the figure proceeded to wail on its body with punches and kicks before sending it flying with a swift roundhouse kick. The fiend screamed as it rocketed across the street and slammed into a wall making a crater.
As the figure approached the dazed H.E. Misato watched with awe. H.E.s were notoriously hard to hurt, but here this man was beating it at hand to hand!
As the dazed beast regained its bearings it glared and hissed at the figure before opening its mouth and firing a blast of sound at the figure. However its aim was off and the blast soared past the figure and hit the building that Misato was in front of cause part of it to collapse.
The figure saw this and dashed towards Misato faster than humanly possible and pulled her out of the way of the collapsing debris.
As the figure did this the H.E. took this chance to escape, spreading its wings and flying off into the night sky.
As the H.E. retreated the figure gently put Misato down before starting to walk away towards a half red half black motorcycle that Misato hadn't noticed before.
"Wait!" She called out asking the first thing that came to mind "W-who…who are you?"
The figure paused before slightly turning and saying "Kamen Rider Chance." And with that the newly dubbed Chance got on his motorcycle and sped off in the direction that the H.E. took off in.
"Kamen Rider Chance…" Misato muttered before her eyes rolled up in her head and she passed out.
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First all Misato knew was blackness, then sound filtered in. She could hear the beeping of equipment and other mechanical noises. After listening for a few moments she began to slowly open her eyes only to wince at the bright lights above her.
"Someone turn off the damn lights." she groaned.
"Ah good your awake."
Blinking slightly at the voice Misato turned to see Ritsuko sitting across from her in a chair sipping a cup of coffee. As Misato sat up Ritsuko handed her another cup of coffee, which she gratefully accepted, before Ritsuko dialed a number on a nearby phone.
The phone rang for about half a second before someone picked up. Ritsuko only said "She's awake" before whoever was on the other end hung up.
Misato just quirked an eyebrow at her causing Ritsuko to simply say "Gendo."
Misato blanched then winced as she felt a dull pain in her chest, which she just now noted was covered in bandages.
After a few moments the door to the room opened and Gendo stepped in with blank look on his face followed by an older man, his second in command Kozo Fuyutsuki.
"Katsuragi" Gendo began as he stood at the foot of the bed with Fuyutsuki by his side "report."
Misato took on a serious expression as she began to speak. " Sir, my team and I located and engaged the H.E." here she paused, her eyes narrowing and her hands tightly gripping the sheets. "To be completely honest sir we failed to even hurt it let alone kill it. It…it killed everyone on my team and…It was going to kill me until…"
"Until what captain?" questioned Gendo still staring impassively at Misato with Fuyutsuki and Ritsuko looking on curiously.
"Until he showed up."
"And who is he?" asked Fuyutsuki.
"H-he called himself…Kamen Rider Chance." Said Misato with a slight stutter, eyes widening as she remembered the events that happened earlier that night "He was beating the H.E….using nothing but his hands…"
"What!" blurted out Ritsuko "That's impossible! H.E.s can take automatic weapons fire and their physical strength is far beyond that of any humans! You must have been mistaken." Ritsuko seemed to conclude.
"Hey I know what I saw!" snapped Misato.
"Perhaps" spoke Fuyutsuki "This Chance is a H.E."
Misato bowed her head in thought "Maybe…but then why would he save me? Twice! Once from the H.E. and again from some falling debris."
As everyone in the room pondered this the door suddenly burst open revealing a rather plain looking man.
"Commander!" the man yelled "I think you need to see this!"
The man then pulled out a laptop and everyone crowded around it as the man brought up a video feed while explaining " One of are tracking agents found the H.E. at a nearby play ground from where captain Katsuragi's team encountered it. Before he could report in though this happened.
As he talked footage started to play. It showed the H.E. approaching a terrified couple in the park, however before it could attack a motorcycle rammed into it from off-screen and sent it skidding back. The couple then took this chance to run.
"That's him!" Misato gasped "That's Kamen Rider Chance!"
While everyone watched the screen with wide eyes Chance engaged the monster, smoothly bobbing and weaving between the wild swings of the H.E. Suddenly the H.E. tried to grapple Chance, but he ducked under it and delivered a powerful uppercut that sent the beast into the air before he grabbed it and slammed it into his knee several times before throwing it.
As the H.E. shakily got up Chance ran towards it and preformed a dropkick to its chest causing it to skid all the way into a tree which fell over.
Enraged the beast roared at Chance and charged, trying to impale him on its claws. However Chance just spun around the blow and, using his elbow, broke the H.E.'s arm at the joint.
The creature shrieked with pain clutching at the protruding bone of its broken arm. This gave Chance an opening and he delivered a flurry of punches to its face.
After the barrage had ended the H.E. stumbled around drunkenly Chance took this opportunity to flip a small switch on his right side and something dropped into his hand from a slot below it. Chance took the item and inserted it into the right side of his belt.
Suddenly a female voice from nowhere called out in English "Now's your chance! Slice and dice!"
Chance suddenly held out a hand and a sword seemed to materialize in front of him. It was a single edged Dao sword. The blade had a red blade and a black handle with what looked to be a small slot machine with a lever between the blade and hilt.
Chance quickly pulled the lever causing the slots to spin briefly before stopping on triple sevens.
Suddenly they heard the female voice again "Lucky break! Slash!"
Chance then dashed towards the still dazed H.E. before he ran past it swinging his strange blade causing a massive gash on its stomach.
The beast froze for a second before letting out a groan and falling forward before exploding into a large ball of fire.
Chance just turned to look at the fire for a moment before he somehow dismissed his sword and walked to his bike before driving away.
The video ended there causing everybody to lean back and stare at the screen.
Everyone had their own reactions to the video; Fuyutsuki and Ritsuko where wide eyed and slack jawed with Ritsuko muttering to herself "That shouldn't be possible." Over and over.
Gendo outwardly showed no expression save for the slight widening of his eyes and the slight clenching of his hands.
Misato however just continued to stare at the screen two feeling running through her; vindication and wonderment.
Snapping out of his thoughts Gendo spoke up "Have you shown this to anyone else?" The plain man shook his head. "Keep it that way, you are to show this to absolutely no one without my say so understood?" the man hastily nodded and left.
Gendo turned to the other occupants of the room and said "that goes for you all as well." After getting nods from everyone in the room he turned to Misato " captain, due to your injuries you have a two week's leave. Fuyutsuki follow me. We have much to discuss." And without a further word he and Fuyutsuki left the room.
After a moments silence Misato asked "So when can I go home?"
This seem to snap Ritsuko out of her shock and she sighed "tomorrow if you're lucky now it's been a long night why don't you get some sleep?" and without a further word she walked to the door turned the lights out and left.
Misato sat in the dark for a few minutes before lying down and trying to fall asleep. As she did so she had one less thought.
Who or what is Kamen Rider Chance?
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Well there it is. Hoped you liked it. Like I said future chapters will be longer most likely no shorter than 7000 words. Well not much to say except…
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