Chapter 2: Meet the imagin
"Well then let's go meet them." Said ryuko. "I agree we should meet them." Said a new voice. Tai and ryuko jumped as they heard the voice only to reveal it was their sister satsuki. "Damn it satsuki you nearly gave us a goddamn heart attack." Tai exclaimed. "Sorry that was not my intent." Satsuki apologized. "Yeah well just be a little more careful next time." Ryuko said in an annoyed tone. Satsuki walked over and gave her sister a quick hug. "Does that make up for it?" satsuki asked in a sly tone. "Funny satsuki, really funny." Ryuko replied as she and the others walked over to the train and followed momotaros and ryotaro inside. When they got to the dining car they saw four other weird lookin' creatures. One that looked slightly dragonish looked up at Tai and instantly recognized him. "Tai-Kun!" the creature cried as it ran up to him but wound up tripping and falling on his face. "Hey there ryutaros." Tai replied. A blue turtle looking one looked up. "Hello tai, how are you?" he asked. "Hey urataros, I'm good." Tai answered. A yellow one with a big horn on his head woke up and saw Tai. "Tai, welcome back to den-liner!" he bellowed. "Thanks kintaros." Tai replied. Finally a whit bird looking one walked up to Tai and said. "Kneel when your prince is here." Tai then responded with a quick deck to the white one's face causing him to topple over. "Still convinced you're a prince huh sieg?" Tai asked. The one called sieg the rushed to his feet and quickly bowed. "Apologizes tai, just some old habits of mine." Sieg apologized. "Just don't do it again, and don't try that with my sisters either." Tai warned. "Of course o merciful king." Sieg replied. "King?" asked ryuko. "It's this thing in siegs' head, he thinks he's a prince and I'm his king just ignore it." Tai advised.
The three then took a seat with ryotaro and waited for the train to start moving, soon enough it did and the train entered a weird looking portal and soon enough it was back in the world between time. The door at the end of the car slid open and the train's owner walked out. He then looked at Tai. "Tai-kun, do you have your pass?" he asked. Tai the pulled out a slim black box that matched ryotaro's. "What about you two, do you have a pass or ticket?" he asked. Ryuko and satsuki then lost some of the color in their faces. They didn't have a ticket or pass to ride this thing. "It's fine they're with me." Tai explained. "So you're sharing your pass with these two?" asked the owner. "Yeah, they're my sisters." Tai answered. "Very well then." Replied the owner who moved to a seat in the back corner of the car. "Naomi, rice please." The owner called. "Right away." Naomi called back. "What it this thing?" asked satsuki. "This is den-liner, the train of time." Tai answered. "It travels between the past, present, and future and let's passengers on and off to do as they please so long as they don't alter time." Tai explained. "So who's the kid then?" ryuko asked pointing at ryotaro. "Hey, I'm not a kid." Ryotaro snapped clearly offended. "Sorry dude it's just, you look a little too young to be an adult." Ryuko apologized. "His name is ryotaro nogami, and he is kamen rider den-o." Tai answered. "Hey Naomi could you bring us some coffee?" Tai asked. "Sure anything special in it?" Naomi asked. "Not in mine." Ryotaro answered. "Cream and two sugars in mine please." Satsuki replied. "I'll take mine black." Ryuko replied. "Milk and four sugars in mine please." Tai requested. "Hai, right away." Naomi replied getting to work on their coffee. "You put milk in your coffee?" asked ryuko. "Of course, why do you think we keep running out." Tai replied. Soon Naomi came by with four cups one white with a black strip, another white one with a blue strip, a black one with a green strip, and a black one with a red strip. "Arigato naomi." Said Tai.
"So what does den-o do?" asked satsuki taking a sip of her coffee. "Den-o is tasked with protecting the flow of time from evil imagin." Tai replied having already finished his coffee. Ryuko looked at the cup and had a horrified look on her face. "How did you drink your coffee that fast?" ryuko asked. "I just down it in one go." Tai answered. "What about those chuckle heads?" satsuki asked thumbing to the five imagin behind them who were getting into one of their infamous skirmishes. "They help ryotaro to protect the flow of time, each one corresponding with one of den-o's forms." Tai explained. "Now that you mention it." Ryuko cut in. a scene of ryotaro turning into his sword form flashing by. "The red guy did jump into ryotaro when he transformed." Ryuko said finishing her thought. "He did, they all can." Tai continued. "They have to, ryotaro isn't experienced in the weapons they use so when he transforms the imagin linked to the form he's using takes over for him." Tai explained. "Okay here's a question, satsuki how'd you even get to our location you were supposed to be at the office?" ryuko asked. "I was done for the day and heading home when I saw the altercation." Satsuki answered. "Now Tai what happens if an imagin gets out of control?" satsuki asked finishing off her coffee. "The imagin grows to a giant size and den-liner goes into combat mode to defeat them, housing enough weapons to do the job right." Tai answered. "Do they get outta control often?" ryuko asked. "No, just every once in a while." Tai replied. Just then Naomi called out from the intercom. "Attention passengers we have reached our destination please watch your step if you are disembarking." Naomi said. "When are we anyway?" asked ryuko looking out the window to see her dad's house NOT burned to the ground. "We have gone back to the day our father died, and we're going the save him." Tai answered getting up from his seat and walking towards the door.