Act 1: Ore, Sanjou!
Opening Theme: Samurai Sentai Shinkenger
Kotoha Hanaori, was the kind of person who usually had a lot of trouble getting up in the morning in the best of conditions. Being a samurai did not make it easy to get a good eight hours. Whenever she got to kitchen at the Shiba Mansion in the morning, eyes half closed and wearing her comforter like a robe, Chiaki Tani tended to say "Look who's returned to the land of the living!" . Such a thing was rather embarrassing, but not unjustified. Chiaki had a habit of saying things as he saw it. Even so, Kotoha decided that she was going to get up earlier in the morning to prove that she did not always oversleep, so before she went to bed the previous evening, she got an alarm clock and set it to go off an hour earlier than she usually got up. The problem was, the sound she was hearing did not sound like a alarm clock… nor did it feel like she were laying on a soft futon… more like the ground…
"Hey… Are you okay?… Hey kid… WAKE UP!"
Kotoha's eyes snapped open, and what she saw was not normal. Sure, she handled Gedoshu on what seemed like a weekly basis, but this was quite unexpected.
A red oni was standing over her. He blinked and then said "Heh.. Good, you're awake. So are you-"
He never go to finish his sentence. Kotoha, unaccustomed to being awoken by anything that was not human, did the only thing that seemed natural when a person is awoken under these circumstances. She screamed and punched him in the face. The force of the punch was so great, Kotoha later would recall that it felt like his face caved in around her fist. The oni, in turn, behaved exactly as one who was just unexpectedly punched in the face would, screaming in pain, rolling away from the offending fist, and screaming "OH GOD I THINK YOU BROKE MY NOSE! YOU HIT HARDER THAN THE NOISY FLOWER WOMAN!"
Kotoha was not expecting that kind of reaction, but regardless, she still reached for her Shodophone, and breathed a sigh of relief when she felt that it was still there. She looked over at the oni and saw he was still rolling in the dirt, cursing more than she was comfortable with. When he finally stopped, he looked up at her, and Kotoha could not help but take notice that a bunch of sand was pouring out of his nose. well, that and a few tears were in his eyes. And for a few moments silence prevailed. Kotoha took it as an opportunity to look around, and realized that they were standing in what looked like a gigantic quarry, the sky filled with purple clouds streaked with lightning.
The oni decided to speak first by screaming "Why the hell did you do that?! Here I was looking for firewood, and I see a stranger unconscious on the ground! So I decide to do the noble thing and go to see if you were all right. And how do you thank me? BY PUNCHING ME IN THE FACE!"
His tone was really beginning to get on Kotoha's nerves, plus the residual shock from fear, resulting in her yelling back at him "How was I supposed to know you were trying to help!? For all I know, you might be a Gedoshu!"
The oni stopped moving and said "Wait a minute, are you one of those samurai-jerks we found a few hours ago? They kept calling me one of those Gedo-whatsits and said they were looking for a girl your age and-"
"What did you do to Tono-sama-tachi!" Kotoha shouted with an integrating tone, lifting her Shodophone in preparation to transform. "If you hurt them-"
"I doubt that, seeing as how they are back at my camp waiting for me to come back with the firewood you interrupted me from getting!" The oni snapped in response.
More silence. All Kotoha could do was shape her mouth into an "O", with the oni saying "Exactly."
Kotoha then asked "So Tono-sama and the others are waiting at your camp?"
"Yes, and they insisted on going to look for you as soon as I got back." the oni answered, irritated.
After a few more seconds, Kotoha said "I think we may have gotten off on the wrong foot. My name is Kotoha. What's yours?"
The oni hesitated for a few moments before standing up, picking up the firewood he dropped when he found Kotoha and answered "Momotaros."
Kotoha was confused and asked "You mean like the peach boy?"
"YES LIKE THE STUPID PEACH BOY!" Momotaros shouted, clearly upset.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" Kotoha quickly apologized, bowing. "I didn't know that an oni would be offended by that!"
"Hey, hey it's okay. I didn't choose, that name. And for the record, I'm and Imagin, got it? I-Ma-Gin
"Imagin… Got it." Kotoha replied. Curious, she then asked "Why did you get upset, though?"
"Every idiot I've met today has asked me that same question," Momotaros answered, seemingly over his recent fury. "Right Ryotaro?" Momotaros turned left, as if expecting someone to be standing there. After a few awkward seconds, something seemed to go off in Momotaros's brain telling him the person he was attempting to speak to was not there.
"OH CRAP! I FORGOT RYOTARO UNDER THAT LOG AT THE TOP OF THE HILL!" and off Momo ran, with Kotoha running behind him, not wanting to be left alone, shouting for her new acquaintance to wait for her.
When they reached the top of the hill Kotoha was shocked to see, as Momotaros had said, a man stuck under a fallen tree. Unfortunately he was not alone, as he was surrounded by a Nanashi Company, and a group of gold colored enemies she could not identify.
"Leo Soldiers! Ryotaro, I'm coming!" Momotaros shouted, still slightly panicked about the situation. The Imagin then did something Kotoha did not expect, turning transparent, flying through the air, and entering the man she assumed was Ryotaro's body. Then Ryotaro did something else that did not seem possible, kicking the fallen tree off of himself, allowing him to stand up and having the tree land on a group of enemies, crushing them. Ryotaro turned to Kotoha and smirked.
"Hey, are you just going to stand there, or are you going to let me take all of these guys down by myself?" Ryotaro asked, in Momotaros's voice.
Kotoha tilted her head in confusion and asked "Momotaros? How did… What did you…"
"I possessed him." M-Ryotaro answered, "Don't worry, he's fine. So are you ready?" he then asked, pulling out a strange belt and what looked like a wallet.
"Yes." Kotoha answered, running up to stand alongside M-Ryotaro as he slapped the Terminal Buckle around his waist, and she readied her Shodophone. M-Ryotaro then pressed a red button on the belt, as Kotoha wrote the Kanji for Earth in the air in front of her.
"Henshin!"
"Ippitsu Sojo!"
M-Ryotaro Scanned the Terminal Buckle with the Rider Pass, as Kotoha flipped the Earth kanji so that it was backwards to her, as it flew toward her face.
Sword Form
Particles of air slammed around M-Ryotaro, covering him in a black bodysuit which soon was covered by red armor and and peach shaped DenKamen. Meanwhile, a yellow and black suit covered Kotoha, with the Kanji for Earth as it's face.
"Ore, Sanjou!" Kamen Rider Den-O boisterously, and cockily, roared. As he did so, he took four black pieces of equipment, called DenGashers, off of the belt and assembled them into a red-bladed sword.
"Shinken Yellow, Hanaori Kotoha! Going Forth!" Shinken Yellow spoke, drawing her Shinkenmaru and resting it against her opposite arm. She did not speak loudly like Den-O, but not as softly as her demeanor tended to show. It was more like quiet readiness to fight. Without further adieu, the two heroes charged, as did their enemies.
Insert Theme: Double Action
"Ikeze, Ikeze Ikeze!" Den-O shouted, cutting down any Nanashi and Leo Soldier Imagin that got in his way, as did Kotoha, but they each did so differently. Den-O fought like a crazed berzerker, with wild swings resulting in a fighting style that almost seemed to provoke the enemy to attacking his defenseless sides and back, only to receive quick and sharp retaliation. Shinken Yellow, on the other hand, fought with practiced grace and deadly strikes that were the result of a lifetime of training in preparation to serve her lord. If she had gotten hit once within that brief exchange, no one would ever have noticed.
After a short time of this, the enemy ranks were low enough to finish them off. On one side, Den-O once again scanned the Terminal Buckle with the Rider Pass,
Full Charge
and red energy began to surround the blade of the DenGasher Sword. Meanwhile, Shinken Yellow spun the Common Secret Disk on the hilt of her Shinkenmaru, covering it with energy of the element of earth.
"Hissatsu, or not Hissatsu Waza!" Den-O shouted as he waved the DenGasher in the air, the blade detaching and flying about as he swung it, still connected by a red energy tether. "Part Two!"
"Rasen no Tachi!" Shinken Yellow shouted, bringing her Shinkenmaru down in a powerful downward strike, even as Den-O did the same with his attack. The result of their combined attacks was multiple explosions as the remaining Nanashi and Leo Soldiers were annihilated. Shinken Yellow sheathed her Shinkenmaru as the blade of the DenGasher returned to Den-O. Once it did so, he rested his weapon on his shoulder.
"All done. Take over, Ryotaro." and with that, Den-O removed the belt and Ryotaro stood, normal once again as Momotaros had left his body and was now standing next to him. Shinken Yellow also ended her transformation, leaving Kotoha to run over to them.
"Are you okay, Ryotaro-san?" Kotoha asked, concerned. "All of those hits you took, and the tree, can't be good for you."
Ryotaro chuckled and scratched the back of his head, saying "I'm okay, it's just my bad luck acting up. I usually end up in the hospital at least three times a year anyway."
Momotaros also chuckled and said "Impossibly bad luck and completely lacking sense. How did you end up being my contract holder again?"
A brief pause followed, and Momotaros went to pick up the wood, again saying "We should probably get back to camp before Little-Miss-Badass's friends decide to go out on their own, huh?"
"Probably." Ryotaro agreed, as the three of them began walking. And the whole way back, all Kotoha could think of, other than the fact that she would be reunited with her teammates soon, was about why Momotaros had called her "Little-Miss-Badass".
Ending Theme: 24/7 Shinkenger
