Kamen Rider Champion
Episode 1: My Scarf Started Talking To Me!
The living paradise that is Utsukushi! The city of beauty! Here, justice is served by the police force, backed by the "Kamen Riders", superhumans who use their enhanced strength and supernatural powers to defend the city from monsters. However, not all is well for this grand city, as dark forces beyond anyone's imaginations are brewing. They plot to destroy the very city that our hero calls home. Our hero, whose name is Kamen Rider Champion.
A bright light fills the room as a loud buzzing noise begins to echo throughout the area. A young man of 20 rolls around in his bed as he struggles to move his still sleeping arm onto his alarm clock. The time is 6:30. As the young man struggles to process that he is late, he is pulled out of bed by his roommate.
"C'mon Yuudai! You can't be late for our ceremony! We've just become part of the Kamen Riders and you think its alright to just laze around in bed?" shouted a young man by the name of Masahiro Hamasaki. Our Hero struggles up onto his feet, straightening his T-shirt portraying the founder of the Kamen Riders, Takeshi Hongo, the first Kamen Rider. His name is Yuudai Oshiro, bottom of his class. Yuudai ran his fingers through his short black hair, grunting as he looked at his friend.
"By this point Masa, i don't even know if this is what i want to do anymore." Yuudai responded lazily. Masahiro jumped at this response, his face warped in confusion. "WHAT!? How can you even say that? You've wanted to be a Kamen Rider ever since you and i were little kids!" Masahiro said as he pulled out Yuudai's formal clothes from his closet. Yuudai slumped into his clothes, he looked very dapper, as he always does in nice clothes. Yuudai had everything he needed to start the day, scarf, phone, wallet, watch...just one thing left. As one would imagine, all members of the Kamen Riders are given transformation devices, depending on what you were most compatible with fighter wise. Type "V3" students are given a wrist device, this is where Masahiro ranked best. Type "Nigo" students are given a belt, while type Type "Ichigo" students are given both, this is where Yuudai was placed. All students transform during the ceremony to honor Kamen Rider 1. Yuudai crouched down by his bed and grabbed a suitcase that was hiding underneath. In it were his tools, tools he would use to protect this city. Even if he was still unsure of the whole thing. Yuudai had wanted it for so long, he had forgotten the reason he wanted it in the first place.
Yuudai and Masahiro had left their apartment and began walking towards the academy, which was only a short distance from where they lived. Yuudai tied his scarf around his neck, letting it flow in the brisk autumn wind. He had had this scarf since he was very little, but he still can't remember how he actually obtained it. Despite this he cherishes it, because he knows however he obtained it, its important to him.
Meanwhile, across the city of Utsukushi, several reports are coming in of strange colored lights floating around, flying into things. One of which, a red light, found its way into the scarf of Yuudai.
The duo of Yuudai and Masahiro, making their way onto the field where all the other students, start to reminisce about old times in the academy before hearing a bugle sound off. It was time to begin the ceremony. Lining up according to classification, Yuudai and Masahiro were separated. Everyone looked up at their commander, whose name Yuudai would probably never remember. As the man began to drone on about determination and hard work and that kind of junk. Yuudai began to notice his scarf was twitching. He tried to touch it but when he came too close he heard a voice in his head say "don't touch me", which sent Yuudai reeling back in confusion. The commander soon finished his speech, and ordered everyone to transform. This was the part Yuudai was waiting for. To prevent anyone from transforming pre-ceremony, the drivers are remotely locked, however today was the day that lock was turned off, and yuudai would finally be able to transform just like his hero, Takeshi Hongo. Yuudai strapped on his wrist device and attached his belt to his waist. Entering the post he had thought of over the course of his whole live, wrist held high, other arm out as his side. The entire class initiated one big, collective transformation.
"HENSHIN" could be heard across the city, as hundreds of students transformed into Kamen Riders. All except for Yuudai, who's gear did nothing but glow red when he tried to use it. Yuudai began to feel distressed, and soon he realized that everyone was looking at him. Including his Commander, who was at this point irate.
"OSHIRO YUUDAI" he blurted, which could also be heard across the city. "WHY HAVENT YOU TRANSFORMED?" he continued his yelling, which was still extremely loud.
"C'mon, COME ON, why wont my gear work!?" Yuudai thought to himself as his equipment did nothing but continue glowing red. "That would be cheating". It was that same voice. The one that he heard when he tried to touch his scarf.
"Cheating? What does that even mean?" Yuudai said, not realizing he was speaking out loud, with his Commander being directly in front of him. Masahiro was covering his helmet with his hands in shame across the field.
Yuudai's commander grabbed him by the collar, anger sweeping across his already flustered face.
"You better have a good reason for breaking this sacred tradition." the Commander said through puffs and wheezes of rage. Yuudai was speechless, he had no idea why his belt wouldn't work.
As the Commander was about to let out another word, a monster came onto the scene. This wasn't planned either. However, the hundreds of students still attacked the beast, only to be one by one, unable to do literally anything. They couldn't even get close to him. The monster then placed his sights on Yuudai. Beginning to slowly walk towards the young man. Yuudai was petrified, without his Kamen Rider armor, any kind of an attack from this monster would surely kill him. The monster had long, pointed, horn-like ears, and a gruesome mug. His arms were draped with what appeared to be wings. Overall, his appearance was very bat like. He was shooting out blasts of energy from his palms, wrecking the area. The Monster had a strange emblem on its chest, kind of like a marker, or seal of ownership. It was a sun with a set of swords sticking through it. Yuudai began to back up, before falling onto the ground, his rear end crashing onto the grassy field.
"It's done." The voice popped into Yuudai's head again. This time however, it was very clear. Along with that, Yuudai's belt and wristband began to glow an immense scarlet.
The light seemed to affect the monster, and sent it back a bit, covering its face. Yuudai's equipment had undergone a massive change. His belt had a screen on it now, and appeared to have some kind of place to slide a card. On his wrist there was another screen, this time there was a prompt on it. *Champion* was flashing in big white letters. "Its all set up, just do it whenever you're ready". The voice echoed again. Deciding to throw caution to the wind, Yuudai tapped the screen on his wrist, and a thin, card like object ejected from the right side of the wrist device. Yuudai picked it out and looked at it. Upon closer inspection the card read *4-Sword/4-Armor* The heck does that mean? "Take that card, slide it into the belt". Yuudai looked at the belt, it did have a slot to place the card into on the top...is that where this goes? Yuudai stuck the card into the belt. The belt began to transform him into a Kamen Rider...no an Omen Rider. The belt yelled out the phrase "Champion Phase". A bright flash of white came over the area, all the other Kamen Riders looked on in awe at the mysterious figure. The next thing Yuudai knew, he was adorned with white armor, and had two large bug eyes, red in color. His head was rounded off, but there appeared to be two horn like protrusions coming out of the sides of the helmet. "Draw your weapon, Champion." Yuudai looked around, and saw a broadsword strapped to his waist. Also white, but light as a feather in his new gear. "Fight" The voice kept echoing. Yuudai couldn't take it anymore.
"FINE, ALRIGHT, GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" Yuudai yelled inside of his armor. Yuudai brought forth his sword. "If fighting this monster will get you to shut up...then i'll fight with all that i've got!" Yuudai said as he began charging towards the monster. The beast responded accordingly, roaring as it also began to charge at Omen Rider Champion. Yuudai shouted a mighty warcry, before speaking these few final words. "As long as im happy, i've already won!"
Next time on Kamen Rider Champion
Yuudai combats the mysterious Bat Kaijin, will he win? Meanwhile, a new Omen Rider confronts Masahiro about Yuudai's strange new power.
Kamen Rider Champion Episode 2: The New Omen Rider, Yuudai's New Power Explained.