Warning: The following contains spoilers of the tokusatsu show, Kamen Rider Gaim. If you want to understand the fullness of this story, I recommend you watch the show anywhere on the internet, especially youtube, episodes 1-22. Later chapters may require to follow through the series even further to the end to "get into" some aspects of this fanfic.

5 years since the start of everything…

Everyone was evacuating. Houses were abandoned the moment those…things came to our world. Nothing was, was the same as it was before. Everything was peaceful and nice, or so we thought it was at first… We then realize how much we've been missing out, how things much bigger than us were under our notice, under something as insufficient as us mere humans. Those, Inves.

"Bae, let's go!" a girl had cried to me, while I just stood here in total shock at the sight of a burning building that was once my house waste in away to ashes. I had snapped out of my trance state and shifted my gaze at the source of the voice. Grabbing my arm is my older arm, Hye, who I ran along with toward Eun Ae and escaped with them along with the rampant crowd of people forced out their homes by the various monsters coming from rips out of nowhere.

Everyone has turned to the docks where they'll escape through the boats. They all rushed to get a spot. Eventually, some of our friends and family managed to leave with us and the boat traveled ashore. We all became depressed at the sight of our home of South Korea turned to ablaze and reduced to ruins. Thoughts ran through my head as how it all happened, before finally turning to the scene of where my father had been scratched and jumped on by the monsters. Half of my sadness had turned into anger at the thought of the scene. My mother had wrapped her arms around me, Hye, and Eun to comfort us. But I still squeezed my fist in anger.

After what seems to be weeks, and dreaming up nightmares, we finally made it to a remote island located somewhere around Japan. As we leave the ship, we saw thousands of people already waiting for the rest of the world to evacuate. We all stayed together to ensure we don't get lost among the crowd. I gripped onto my mother's arm, afraid of separating from her after knowing what could've happened to dad. The whole world feels like it's constricting against me, trying to take away everything I hold dear.

"Here you go" a lady comes to us, handing us each what appears to be a black belt buckle with a tiny blade attached to the front, in addition to what appears to be a brown lock with a written text "LS-01". After getting the belt, I examined it, confused over it's design, and I placed it over my waist. At that point, suddenly a flash of light appears as a silver belt wraps around my entire pelvis area, attaching the belt buckle. I look around to see everybody handed this belt put it on just like me and also have silver belts wrapped around them.

I suppose this is what becoming an adult is like, all the happiness and easiness that starts off your life all of sudden disappears. Guess it's time for us to grow up and only expect the worse of everything. We thought the world would give us everything, but it ended like this. Yes… that's the reason I lost everything, because-

"Attention everyone!" I was interrupted from my inner monologue by a loud speaker, having a voice of what appears to be a gruff, maleish tone. We turned to see a black haired man in a business suit walking forward to a stand, holding a microphone in his hand.

"You are here now as the first human beings to be given a chance to evolve for the next world, to be given a second chance at life and to restart anew. Our old world may be gone for the time being, but with this invention;" he holds up what appears to be a black belt buckle with a tiny blade attached to it, and a orange lock "we can ensure the survival of the human race! We can fight these monsters attacking our worlds and take back what is ours! What is this thing you'll use you ask? It's our only hope for survival: the Sengoku Driver."

So that's what this machine is called, a Sengoku Driver. "With this, you can survive in the new environment that is about to occur with the mysterious threat spreading all over the world, by altering our source of subsistence." After he's finished with his speech, he pulls out another lock, this time one that is entirely white and black and having the "LS-00" text printed on it. He puts on his Sengoku Driver and places the lock on the slotted hole. Amazingly, it fits perfectly, and the man continues his speech, "These lockseeds are what are going to make it all possible, by filtering out its contaminants and convert into the same type of energy of the fruits we've been eating. Thank you for listening, and I praise you all fair life." He escapes the stand, but not before placing the orange Lockseed he had in his hand to his face, and I think see him move his lips for some reason, obviously implying he was talking.

Now, back to what I was about say, the reason I lost everything was because I was weak, unable to fight the beings that attacked us. I was just a feeble little boy with a light view of life, not realizing how many secrets are kept in the dark by the public, all in favor of a cheap attempt of creating a false utopia where we can all be happy.

"I forgot to mention, any physical danger or challenge you may encounter on the way, you can also use these Lockseeds to transform, by using the cutting blade attached just above the Lock, granting you weapons and superhuman abilities."

"Bae" I looked at my mother, "don't worry, we're going to be fine."

"Of course we are" I said. The man's speech, especially the last part, sparked an idea in my head, I'll use and collect whatever of these "Lockseed" things however I can and become stronger than anybody, so that I'll never let the same tragedy that happened in my life happen again. So that no one will ever get away with hurting me again. So that I'll be the man everyone will awe over. So that create my own life.

I apologize for the shortness and underwhelming of this chapter, but I assure you, I'll make up for it next time in the next chapter.