The Boy in the Iceberg and the Kamen Rider of another World.
GammaTron: I've always loved watching the series 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' and am really loving the sequel involving our new Avatar, Korra. I own only Saito/Kamen Rider Soul and Netto/SentaiSoul.
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four Nations lived in harmony. That all ended when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them. But when the world needed him the most, he vanished. 100 years later, my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an Airbender named Aang. And although he's just a kid, he has a lot of potential. But I believe that Aang can save the world.
Book 1: Water
Water Chapter 4: The City of Omashu and the Extreme Dinosaur Rider
Findings from the series…
1) Avatar Aang, a twelve-year-old Air Nomad, was discovered in a glacier by Katara and Sokka, brother and sister from the Southern Water Tribe and a Waterbender and somewhat soldier respectively. With Aang, they discover Saito, a teen that seems to be from another world where the lives of those three were a television series but has yet to reveal it to them.
2) The boy, named Saito, has the power of all the Kamen Riders on his side and can access them through the power of Kamen Rider Soul. However, to Saito's surprise, many things in this new world he is in go by multiple differences; the most surprising of them involving Kamen Rider Soul being the Avatar's Herald.
3) Chasing after them are Zuko, a banished Fire Nation Prince with a scar on the left side of his face, Iroh, Zuko's uncle and Firebending teacher, and Netto, Iroh's non-Bender son and Zuko's cousin who holds a mysterious key.
4) Recently, the G-Aang, as Saito dubs them in his thoughts, had been on the shores of Kiysohi Island, created by Avatar Kiyoshi and the Soul of that time, using Kamen Rider CORE's form and Kiyoshi accessing the Avatar State over 400 years ago. The difference between the Kiyoshi Island Saito knew and the one he experienced was that it was more akin to Modern Day Japan. Zuko's men invaded, causing various fires while searching for Aang and Saito. However, during the skirmish, Sokka awakened an inner power he never knew of: the Seed of Agito. With it, Sokka is now Kamen Rider Agito and has to endure Rider Boot Camp under the teachings of Saito.
5) However, with each passing day, Saito grows more and more concerned with just what his role is in the world and just why there is a Kamen Rider Soul with each Avatar.
Book 1: Water
Chapter 4: The City of Omashu and the Extreme Dinosaur Rider
"Ow…" Sokka moaned as he trailed behind the others up a hill.
"You can't be tired already, Sokka," Katara noted.
"Blame Mr. Henshin over there," Sokka pointed at Saito, who was wearing a black oriental Japanese outfit (think Tendou Souji's clothing from the first episode of Kamen Rider Kabuto).
"What? Not my fault you can't handle basics," Saito snorted.
"You turned into this guy who could shoot his armor off and go so fast I couldn't see you until you were nailing me with a Rider Kick," Sokka growled.
"Well, you need to know how to fight all kinds of opponents as a Kamen Rider," Saito pointed out as he began to point a finger into the air, "Tendou's Obaa-chan said this: 'My evolution is faster than the speed of light. No one can keep up with it.'"
"That doesn't make any sense!" Sokka shouted.
It was then they managed to get up the hill. Saito looked out and nodded at the sight, remembering it being the same as it was in the first episode it was shown in. The entire place was built upon a large mound of earth, a canyon acting as a moat of sorts. The entire place was seemingly carved from that bit of earth rising from the bottom of the canyon. He remembered the story of how this kingdom was created. It was formed thanks to the first female Earthbender, Oma. Her lover, Shu, was the first male Earthbender and died during a conflict between their warring villages. In grief, she forced the two villages to end the fighting and made them live within the city of Omashu, named after the two lovers.
"I used to always come here to visit my friend Bumi," Aang informed.
"Wow. We don't have buildings like this in the South Pole!" Katara awed.
"They have buildings here that don't melt! Just like on Kiyoshi Island!" Sokka exclaimed.
"Well let's go, slow pokes. The real fun's inside the city!" Aang grinned.
"Wait, Aang! It could be dangerous if people find out you're the Avatar," Katara advised, making Aang stop in his tracks.
"You need a disguise," Sokka added.
"So what am I supposed to do? Grow a mustache?"
"Hmm…" Saito looked over at Appa, who was shedding at the moment.
Aang wiggled his nose, a patch of Appa's fur serving as a mustache on it. Aang was also wearing a tall wig made of the same material. Aang scratched underneath the wig.
"Ugh. This is so itchy," he turned to Appa, "How do you live in this stuff?"
Appa slowly turned his head toward Aang and snorted at him. Saito just fell over on a nearby rock, laughing. Sokka sat on another rock with Katara standing beside him, their arms crossed.
"Great! Now you look just like my grandfather," Sokka pointed out, earning a glance from Katara.
"Technically, Aang is 112 years old," Katara noted.
Aang nimbly kicked up his staff and spun it rapidly around before placing it upright on the ground to be used as a walking stick. He hunched his back and leaned heavily on his staff.
"Now let's get to skippin', young whipper-snappers. The big city awaits!" Aang declared in an old man's voice before shuffling away while Sokka and Katara questioningly looked at each other and then at Saito, who was almost passing out from his laughter.
"You guys are going to love Omashu," Aang pointed out as they approached the gate, where two men in green armor stood before a frail man in green and a cart of cabbages, "The people here are the friendliest in the world."
"Rotten cabbages?-!" one of the men exclaimed in anger, "What kind of slum do you think this is?"
The talking guard squished the cabbage he was holding and knocked another cabbage out of the hands of the merchant. He proceeded to use Earthbending on a rock under the cart, catapulting it high into the air, making it tumble down the chasm with all the cabbages.
"No! My cabbages!"
Saito began to snicker. Oh, the cabbage merchant. Such a poor, poor guy. No matter where he went, the poor guy ended up losing his cabbage cart. Shame his descendant that runs Cabbage Corp in Republic City will have the same fate and scream 'No! My Cabbage Corp!' Katara, Sokka, and Aang looked over the rim, their mouths open in shock, as a loud crash was heard.
"Just keep smiling!" Aang beamed as he began to walk towards the gate.
Katara and Sokka gave each other an uneasy look as Saito began to follow Aang, his hands in his pockets and keeping a calm, confident appearance. Katara flashed her teeth in an awkward way and chuckled uncomfortably, while Sokka merely raised a doubtful eyebrow. The Earthbender stepped to the front and raised a boulder out of the ground before Aang and levitated it above his and Saito's heads.
"State your business!" he ordered.
Aang quickly ran from underneath the boulder and towards the guard; he halted right in front of the surprised man, complaining as he began to poke the guy's chest, making him drop the rock off to the side in surprise, "My business is my business, young man, and none of yours!" The guard was taken aback by the threateningly pointing finger just centimeters from his face, "I've got half a mind to…" Sokka, eyes and mouth wide open, looked at the Airbender in shock at Aang's audacity to talk to the sentry like that, and Katara, shaking her head with eyes wide open, "…bend you over my knee and paddle your backside!"
"Settle down, old timer! Just tell me who you are," the guard calmly tried to calm down Aang.
"This is our grandfather, Tendou Kusakabe," Saito informed.
"And you three?" the guard asked, watching as Saito raised his right pointing finger into the air.
"Grandmother said this: 'Walking the path of Heaven, the man who will rule over it all. Tendou…Souji,'" Saito replied as he pointed at the guard.
"Hi. June Tendou. Nice to meet you," Katara bowed.
"Hmm…You seem like a responsible young lady. See that your grandfather stays out of trouble. As for you, Souji, you seem like a strong young man like your brother here. Help your sister out, got it?"
"But of course," Saito replied, keeping up his 'Tendou Mode.'
"Enjoy Omashu!" the guard ordered before he stepped aside and motioned at the city's entrance.
"We will!" Katara smiled.
Katara, Saito, Aang, and Sokka started walking toward the gate. Sokka passed the guard with an uneasy look on his face, never losing the guard out of sight. The gate guard eyes Sokka as he passed.
"Wait a minute!" Sokka halted, eyes widening in fear as the guard grasped his shoulder, "You're a strong young boy! Show some respect for the elderly and carry your grandfather's bag!"
Sokka's eyes changed from fright to disbelief and annoyance while Aang removed his shoulder bag.
"Good idea!" Aang agreed in his old man voice as he threw the bag at Sokka; the bag bounced off his head to drop into his arms.
Sokka glared, annoyed, over his shoulder at Aang. The four resumed walking to the gate once more. The giant Earthen wall before them split open in the middle of the Earth Kingdom emblem, opening up to let any passengers through. The guard opened up the gate walls. As the first wall slid open, a second and a third were bended aside as well. Katara ad Sokka watched in awe at the spectacle while Aang was smiling behind them with Saito. They walked through as the walls already started to move again to close right after them.
Inside the city, the group pulled up at the parapet at the rim of a nearby chasm. Sokka and Katara excitedly took in the city spread out before them as Aang and Saito pulled up next to them, Momo's head now entirely popped out of Aang's wig with Shirokuro. He leaned on the rim as well and joined the siblings in mouth open gazing at Omashu's scenery while Saito plucked Shirokuro out and petted her head. Aqueduct-like structures were built over and beside the houses with typical green roofs.
"This is the Omashu delivery system. Miles and miles of tubes and chutes," Aang explained.
Four Earthbenders stood beside a platform where one Earthen cart slid out and another one filled with vegetables came. As the cart passed one Earthbender, he used his bending to change the cart's direction and pushed it to the front, where another Earthbender bent it up a tube to two other Earthbenders standing at the ready to receive it. One Earthbender quickly bent stone lintels underneath the cart so it wouldn't fall down again, while the other one thrust it off the platform, where it slid down a chute at high speed.
"Earthbending brings the packages up, and gravity brings them down," Aang pointed out.
"Great, so they get their mail on time," Sokka rolled his eyes, unimpressed.
"They do get their mail on time, but my friend Bumi found a better use for these chutes," Aang smiled mischievously.
A lone boy looked about the chutes. He had one eye bigger than the other and messy brown hair. When Aang walked up, he excitedly jumped around.
"Look around you! What do you see?"
"The mail system?" the boy pointed his finger in the air and waved it around while Aang walked up to him.
"Instead of seeing what they want you to see," the boy leaned towards Aang, "…you got to open your brain to the possibilities."
"A package-sending system?"
"The world's greatest superslide!"
"Bumi, you're a mad genius!" Aang exclaimed excitedly.
Bumi chuckled with an odd snort. Minutes later, Aang and Bumi rode down the "superslide," happily laughing. Bumi threw his hands in the air as they hurtled down the slides.
Aang, hiding Momo in his 'hair,' Katara, and Sokka were sitting in a mail cart. Aang looked excited, while the siblings looked around them, unsure and slightly frightened. Sokka and Katara were feeling a mix of anger and annoyance at Saito since he had the excuse of taking Shirokuro out on a walk. Aang raised one finger to emphasize his words; the cart rocking back and forth, creaking.
"One ride. Then we're off to the North Pole. Airbender's honor."
"It sounded like fun at first, but now that I'm here, I'm starting to have second…" Aang leaned forward, tipping the balance of the box, sending it down the slope at a tremendous speed, making Katara scream out her last word, "…th-o-o-oughts!"
Momo held onto Aang's wig, squinting his eyes due to the wind. Katara screamed in fear while Sokka grit his teeth in terror, turning into Agito by pure reflex.
The chute they were riding pulled up next to a parallel one, where a cart with a rack of six spears was racing down. The trio pulled up next to the cart with the spears and they all stared at it, no one making a sound. Some scratched Agito's mask, making the Rider gulp. They raced past it and both tracks joined together. Katara screamed as the two chutes merged into one chute with the spear-cart behind them, but quickly gaining. Agito heard it coming and turn around. He gasped and grabbed the spears just in time to avoid being skewered. Katara turned around, and screamed in fear as she saw the weapons so close. Aang, smiling excited, turned as well to see what the commotion was all about.
"I'm on it!" Aang declared.
Aang began to rock it. Hitting each side once, the cart flew out of the chute and onto a roof, where is continues its descent.
"Men, you'll be going off to combat soon. It's important that you be prepared for anything," a soldier informed as he paced before five other men.
Aang, Katara and Sokka came in-between the soldier and the warriors. Aang was grinning like a maniac, Katara had a look of pure fear, and Agito was clenching the sides so hard, his hands were crushing the Earth they were made of, also unaware that a red jewel had appeared on the right side of his belt, turning his right arm red with his torso turning bright red with a long gold piece of armor on the shoulder. His form changed back to Agito Ground Form after a split second. The warriors gasped in surprise as the cart ricocheted on. The cart of the trio broke through a railing, closing off the other chute and crossed the track, knocking over one of the supply carts, spilling a load of pumpkins all over the ground. The knocked over cart laid on the track, where another incoming cart crashed into it.
"Aang, do something! Use your Airbending!" Katara pleaded.
"Yeah! Great idea! That'll make us go even faster!"
"Son of a bitch!" Agito screamed, "Katara, you are not allowed to tell him to use Airbending for the rest of the year!"
"Five cabbages, please," Saito spoke.
"Really?" the Cabbage Man pondered.
"Of course. I've been trying to help my friend understand the importance of eating greens, but he just argues that meat is the way to go," Saito shrugged as he paid for the five cabbages.
"Thank you for the patronage," the man nodded.
"And thank you for being a good provider of cabbages," Saito nodded before looking to the upper-right, "…Take two steps ahead."
"Hm?"
The Cabbage Man yelped as Saito pulled him behind the teen. He was about to bark when he gasped as the kids' cart dropped on it, smashing the replacement cart to pieces and scattering what intact cabbages were left all over. Aang, Katara, and Sokka-having lost his Henshin upon impact-were in a tangled heap by the remains, while Momo elegantly floated down.
"My cabbages! You're gonna pay for this!" the Cabbage Man growled.
Guards walked up, surrounding the still dazed trio, as Saito began to help the three up. Aang's disguise was pretty well gone, revealing his youthful face and Airbending arrow.
"Two cabbages please," Aang chuckled sheepishly, earning a sigh from Saito and a shake of his head.
Saito looked up at the green and yellow ceiling before looking upon a throne. There, sitting upon it, was a tan-skinned elderly man with one eye bigger than the other. He wore a green set of robes and the strangest feathered hat he had ever seen. …Were those moles on his face? Two guards, in the back of an enormous room, flanked his sides. The first watch guard slightly moved aside to let the quartet pass, Shirokuro on Saito's head. Sokka looked very uneasy as Katara slanted her eyes up in an attempt to look sympathetic, and glanced to the side. As she gazed at the king, who looked questioningly, arching an eyebrow and grunting in wonder. Saito knelt down willingly while the others were forced down.
"Your majesty, these juveniles were arrested for vandalism, traveling under false pretenses, and malicious destruction of cabbages."
"Off with their heads! One for each head of cabbage!" Saito rolled his eyes at the Cabbage Merchant, "Except for the one who bought my cabbages!"
"Silence! Only the king can pass down judgment. What is your judgment, sire?" the guard asked.
The king squinted his eyes and grunted pensively. Sokka whimpered as Katara smiled, her hands folded in front of her and her eyes twinkling hopefully. Aang was the only one who kept staring at the side, one eyebrow arched and pouting. Saito kept his 'Tendou Souji' personality up. From all the episodes he watched, including the movie God Speed Love, Tendou was confident, practically oozing it. When he put his mind to something, he could do it.
"Throw them..." Saito knew what was coming next from the king's mouth, "...a feast!"
Saito smirked as the guard gawked while the merchant grasped his head with both hands in dismay upon hearing the king's verdict. Sokka was smiling, while Katara darted a questioningly look toward Aang, who arched his eyebrows in wonder.
Saito looked at the richly-filled dining table before them. Momo ate a lot of the food, chittering contently. The four sat at the table, the king standing behind their chairs.
"The people in my city have gotten fat from too many feasts," the King noted before leaning in over Aang, grabbing the chicken leg that was on his plate, and held it in front of him, "So I hope you like your chicken with no skin."
"Thanks, but I don't eat meat."
"How about you? I bet you like meat," the King noted before stuffing the chicken into Sokka's mouth, who ate it appreciatively, and then walked over to his own seat.
"Sir, allow me to say that you are a mad genius. The decorum has the feeling of a home and the meals, while extravagant in appearance, are made from basic foods you'd find at a store," Saito noted.
"Thanks for that!" the King laughed, snorts appearing every now and then, "I never do care much for expensive things. That money's for the people, ya know."
"Is it just me, or is this guy's crown a little crooked?" Katara whispered.
"So tell me, young bald one, where are you from?" the King asked.
"I'm from ... Kangaroo Island!"
"Oh, Kangaroo Island, eh? I hear that place is really hopping!" the King cracked, earning chuckles from Saito and laughs from Sokka, earning them looks from Aang and Katara.
"What? It was pretty funny," Sokka pouted.
"So very true," Saito agreed.
"Well, all these good jokes are making me tired. Guess it's time to hit the hay," the King stretched.
He eyed the four with a weird expression as he leaned to the left on his chair. Then suddenly, he hurled a chicken leg at them. Aang nearly tumbled off his chair in reflex of catching the chicken leg in a small Airball. Saito kept expressionless, but the slight eye twitch was evident on his expression. The guards gasped for air in surprise.
"There's an Airbender in our presence, and not just any Airbender," the King stood up, "The Avatar!"
"Our apologies on that," Saito bowed, "We have been trying to keep incognito due to the Fire Nation pursuing us."
"I see…" the King noted, "So you must be the Kamen Rider."
"…" Saito dropped his act, "Man…You're a mad, mad genius."
"Thank you," the King grinned, "I can tell you already know who I am, Kamen Rider."
"Indeed."
"Now, what do you two have to say for yourselves, Mr. Souji and Tendou Souji?"
"That we have enjoyed the meal, but it is time for us to go," Sokka replied before the guards kept all but Saito and the King sitting.
"You can't keep us here! Let us leave!"
The King he questioningly picked up a lettuce leaf from his plate and waved it in the Air, "Lettuce leaf?"
"Oh, no thank you," Saito turned it down, making the trio sweatdrop.
"Oh well, more for me," the King grinned as he took it and chewed the leaf slowly.
"We're in serious trouble. This guy is nuts and he infected Saito," Sokka whispered.
"Tomorrow, the Avatar and Saito here will face three deadly challenges. But for now, the guards will show you to your chamber."
"My liege, do you mean the good chamber or the bad chamber?" the Chamberlain asked.
"The newly refurbished chamber."
"Wait, which one are we talking about?"
"The one that used to be the bad chamber, until the recent refurbishing, that is," Saito began to snicker at the comedy unfolding before him.
'Ah, this guy…' Saito thought.
"Of course, we've been calling it the new chamber, but we really should number them," he continued before turning to the guards, "Uh, take them to the refurbished chamber that was once bad! Except Saito. Put him in the good chamber with some fresh kibble for his Partner Beast."
He stared after then and started chewing on a new lettuce leaf. Later, Saito and Shirokuro were sitting on a bed. It was quite nice in Saito's opinion. Shirokuro pawed the pillow she was on before stretching into a silent yawn.
"Adorable," Saito whispered.
"Indeed," Saito jumped a little as he looked to see the King walk it, "I must say that was impressive work out there."
"Uh…Thank you?"
"So tell me, Saito, how is our world in your opinion? Surprised at all the Kamen Rider involvement and the changes?" Saito's eyes widened, "Oh, yes. I know you're from another world, but there is more to that. You have knowledge, but it is also altered by the changes you've seen."
"…It is true that many things are different. I mean, Kyoshi island is more like a modern day Japan than anything else," Saito noted, "And those statues of Soul behind the Avatars…"
"Soul has been alive as long as the Avatar has. In fact…you could say that Soul is even older than that, rivaling the age of the Lion-Turtle in fact…perhaps even the Undead and their Battle Game," the King noted.
"Really now?" Saito blinked.
"Oh, yes. However, Soul is weaker than the Avatar in many ways, many even saying that he only has half the power that the Avatar wields," the King continued, "Which is why you have a special addition tomorrow. You are not allowed the use Ichigo through Meteor in tomorrow's challenges."
"What?" Saito gasped.
"You're familiar with them because they are the Kamen Riders you've watched and read on," the King explained, "You need to think outside the box and use the unexpected with yourself."
"Oh crud…" Saito whispered as the King walked out, "Shirokuro-chan, it's gonna be a long day tomorrow."
Aang laid on his bed, snoring loudly and drooling on his pillow. The room was only dimly lit, casting a somewhat green glow. The wall behind Aang opened, revealing a guard. The crunching sound of the Earth being moved awoke Aang, who quickly raised his head and glanced around.
"Sokka? Katara?" Aang turned towards the guard, "Where are my friends?"
"The king will free them if you complete your challenges."
"And if I fail?"
"He didn't say. Your staff, please?"
Aang lifted his staff with his foot, grabbed it, and spun it around, placing it upright next to him, before tossing it to the guard. Soon, Aang and Soul, flanked by two guards, entered the large throne room.
"First, Avatar…Soul…" the King turned to them with spread arms, showing off his purple outfit, which was just a recolor of what he wore yesterday, "…what do you think of my new outfit? I want your honest opinion."
"Hmm…I say you look younger," Soul pointed out.
"I... guess it's fine," Aang tilted his head.
"Excellent! You passed the first test."
"Really?-!" Aang asked.
"Well, not one of the deadly tests. The real challenges are much more, uh, challenging," The King noted with an upbeat in his tone, watching as Soul kept a hand over Aang's mouth while holding him back.
"May I ask where Katara and Sokka are?" Saito asked before a wall opened, revealing Katara and Sokka struggling in the grasp of a guard.
"They're right there, and I was a bit saddened if you wanted to leave, so I gave your friends some special souvenirs," the King explained as Katara and Sokka had either a crystal green or pale grayish lavender ring over their index fingers, "Those delightful rings are made of pure Jennamite, also known as creeping crystal. It's a crystal that grows remarkably fast. By nightfall your friends will be completely covered in it. Terrible thing, really."
Saito rolled his eyes before pausing in mid-roll. If Kyoshi Island was different along with areas he was never at being there…then what if Jennamite wasn't the rock candy it was in the series? He began to sweat a bit in fear as he looked over to see Sokka had turned into Agito and began to try and pull it off.
"I can stop it, but only if you cooperate."
"Ah! It's already creeping!" Agito screamed as he began to try and break it against a wall, only for the wall to get fist-shaped holes in it.
"I'll do what you want," Aang sighed, giving in.
"Subarashi!" the King declared, startling Saito since the old man suddenly sounded exactly like Kougami just then, "Avatar, you will go first, then Soul, and then you both together!"
Saito looked around the cave filled with stalagmites and stalactites they were in. Aang stood on a flat rock with a Waterfall in front of him. In the Waterfall, there was a ladder, and above the ladder hung a rope. Sokka, Saito, Katara, and the King were on a balcony cut out in the wall to the left of the Waterfall, the laughing as he looked over the rim. The jennamite ring had already expanded to engulf their part of their right forearm. the King glanced back to the siblings with a grin on his face. The jennamite glowed and crept a bit further up on the arms of Agito and Katara.
"It seems I've lost my lunch box key and I'm hungry. Ooh, there it is!" The King pointed to inside the Waterfall, "Would you mind fetching it for me?"
The key hung from a chain and a vertical iron ladder were dimly visible behind the Waterfall. Aang Airbent to the base of the fall then plunged into the Waterfall. He managed to climb up the rock face to the base of the ladder and grasped it with one hand. Before he could get any further, the torrent of Water pushed him away and out.
"Ooh, climbing the ladder. No one's ever done that before," the King noted with sarcasm.
Saito rolled his eyes, knowing Aang could do it. He had been helping the Airbender with his abilities using his air-themed Kamen Riders ever since they had left Kiyoshi. Panting, Aang rested for a moment between two stalagmites, bound from them to the stalactites above, then closer to the Waterfall still high by the roof of the cavern. He dived into the fall above the key and tried to grab the key as he fell with the Water; the rush of the Water carried him past and in a moment he shot out again, keyless.
"That's right. Keep diving head in. I'm sure it'll work eventually," the King chuckled.
Aang cut a stalagmite with Airbending and threw it like a spear at the key, accelerating it with another Air blast. The stone spear snagged the chain suspending the key, carried it out of the Waterfall, then pierced the stone wall above the king's head. Saito applauded at that.
"There! Enjoy your lunch! I want my friends back now!"
"Ah, not yet. I need help with another matter. It seems I've lost my pet, Flopsie."
Soul stood in a large sunken enclosure in a new room, with Aang, the King, Katara, and Sokka up above. Soul knew what the challenge was. He looked around unti he found a lop-eared bunny.
"Okay! Found him!" 'Not yet, though...'
"Bring him to me. Daddy wants a kiss from Flopsie!"
Soul sighed before walked up to the rabbit. He patted it on the head before whistling at a nearby boulder. A gorilla covered in white fur and goat horns on its head landed behind the Rider. Soul turned and looked up, gulping. It was bigger in real life, about Appa-big in his opinion.
"Flopsie?" Soul gulped, earning a bear hug from the Gorilla Goat before getting a lick to the helmet, "Ugh! Flopsie! Go on, go to the King."
Flopsie nodded. Flopsie ran over to the arena wall that the others were on. It climbed up it, Soul on its back, and went up to the king. It rolled onto its back, offering its belly and revealing to them it was a female. Soul covered Aang's eyes as Momo landed on Agito's face, blocking his view as well.
"Oh, that's a good girl. Yeah, who has a soft belly?"
"Guys, are you okay?" Soul asked, seeing the crystals had grown up to their shoulders.
"Other than the crystals encasing my entire body, doing great!" Katara replied.
At that moment, a crystal grows on one side of Agito's body, making him become unbalanced and fall. Agito growled as he struggled to get back up. Aang walked over to Bumi with Soul.
"Come on! We're ready for the next challenge," Aang ordered until the king gave a dark laugh.
Aang and the king are on a balcony overlooking the arena, Sokka and Katara along with a guard are on an adjacent balcony. The crystals are past their heads, leaving their faces exposed. Bumi Your final test is a duel. And as a special treat, you may choose your opponent. Two tough-looking men come out. Aang So...you're saying whoever I point to, that's the person I fight?"
"Choose wisely!"
"I choose..." Aang pointed at the King, "...you."
"Aang!" Soul barked, startling the twelve-year-old.
"Wrong choice!" Bumi smirked.
He straightened up and removed his outer robe, proving himself to be a powerfully fit old man. He Earthbent Aang and Saito off of the balcony, making them fly into the arena below. The king jumped down right in front of Aang, and laughed.
"You thought I was a frail old man, but I'm the most powerful Earthbender you'll ever see."
"Can I fight the guy with the axe instead?" Soul asked.
"There are no take-backsies in my kingdom. You might need this," He pointed to the guard standing near Katara and Agito, who tossed Aang his staff.
Soul pulled out his blade and charged. The king bent several rocks at Aang and Soul, the former just avoiding and evading the attacks. Soul slashed through them before his weapon's bllade flipped ahead ninety degrees, turning it into a blaster mode. He began to fire black laser shots from it, but the King began to Earthbend barriers from the ground.
"Typical Airbender tactic: Avoid and evade," the King noted before flicking his left arm, sending a pillar of Earth at Soul and slammed him into Aang, "Too slow, Kamne Rider. I hoped the Avatar and Kamen Rider would be less predictable."
The king attacked Aang and Soul some more. Aang just kept avoiding and evading. Soul shot the attacks and destroyed them.
"Don't you have any surprises for me? Sooner or later you'll have to strike back!" the King noted.
Aang used his staff to helicopter into the Air, Soul keeping his hands on Aang's legs. The king bent a large boulder into the ceiling, raining rocks onto Aang and Soul, knocking them from the Air. They charged the king on foot, but a series of bending attacks left them flat atop a large rock pile.
"You'll have to be a little more creative than that!"
Aang bent an Air Scooter and charged on that, throwing a huge Air blast at the king as he came at him while Soul open fired. The king threw up a stone barrier and the blasts deflected to both sides of it.
"Did someone leave the windows open? It feels a little drafty in here. Are you hoping I'll catch a cold?" The king bent more attacks at Aang and Soul, leaving them across half of the arena, "How are you going to get me from way over there?"
"We're gonna have to become stronger than him," Soul whispered.
"But what can we do? He keeps one-upping us and you can't use the 109 Riders you know best."
"One-hu…You're a mad genius, Aang! A mad, mad genius!-!" Soul declared with a wild cackle.
"I am?"
"Yep! I forgot I have not just 109 Kamed Rider, but 999 Kamen Riders!" Soul declared before he turned to face the King, "You wanna fight with the Earth, then you've gotta respect it's ancient past!"
"How so?" the King asked, "I made sure to toss salt on the floor before we started."
With that, Soul flipped out his SoulDriver and pressed '9-0-0' and the Mask. His waist glowed before a strange Henshin belt appeared. It resembled the FourzeDriver in size and shape, but the slots were replaced with memory card slots with the center image replaced by another slot. Soul took out four memory cards, the tops all connected to tiny skulls resembling Dinosaur Skulls. He quickly inserted all five and pressed a red button just below the middle skull.
=PREPARING= (A/N: Think of the voice that came out of the phone Faiz uses from Kamen Rider Faiz)
"Henshin!" Soul roared as he grabbed the lever with his left hand and pulled it all the way to the other side.
=EXCAVATING: FOSSIL=
The sounds of drums being struck in a tribal theme combined with the roars of five different Dinosaurs erupted from the belt as earth-colored energy engulfed Soul, the images of five dinosaurs within it. The energy dispersed, revealing a new Kamen Rider standing in Soul's place. His bodysuit resembled Fourze's in appearance, but in the color of fossilized bones. His torso was a soft cream instead of black, grey, and orange. His shoulders had the skulls of a Triceratops and an Ankylosaurus, colored blue and orange respectively. His left knee had a Tyrannosaurus Rex skull, colored green, on it while the right had an red skull resembling a Stegosaurus. His helmet, violet in color, was shaped like a Pteranodon, the 'jaws' holding a fossil-color-tinted visor, hiding his eyes from sight. His arms had bronze gauntlets that went up to his elbows while his feet had bronze boots.
CUE: EXTREME DINOSAURS OPENING THEME
"Mashou... Hakkutsu (Let's...Excavate)!-!-!" Soul's new Rider Form roared, spreading his arms out, bent a bit with the fist closed, "Digging up the past to create new joys in the future. Kamen Rider Fossil has appeared!"
"Fossil?" Katara repeated.
"Whoa! That's so cool!" Agito cheered, "Kick that old fart's ass!"
"I'm not old! …Okay, I'm old," the King shrugged.
Soul-Fossil roared as he charged at the King. The King grinned wildly as he stomped the ground, creating a wall of Earth and shot it at Soul-Fossil. Soul-Fossil pressed a button on the top of the Ankylosaurus' Skull Card.
=ANKYLOSAURUS: EXCAVATED=
The Ankylosaurus skull let out a powerful roar before the gauntlet transformed into an orange and gold drill, based off the tail of an Akylosaurus. The drill flared up with orange leaves and vines and demolished the approaching wall. Soul-Fossil tapped the nose of the Ankylosaurus Skull, causing the button to pop up and his weapon to change back into a gauntlet. He pressed the T-Rex Skull's button.
=TYRANNOSAURUS REX: EXCAVATED=
His left boot glowed as the T-Rex skull on his knee roared. The earth under it engulfed the boot. It transformed into an armored boot resembling a T-Rex's foot.
"Saurian Stomp!-!-!" Soul-Fossil roared as he slammed his foot down on the ground, causing a large tremor and sent a crack in the ground between the King's legs. Soul-Fossil pointed down and the King looked down…only to be hit in the face with a fossilized T-Rex foot, knocking him on his rear and start laughing.
"Simply amazing! That foot of yours is off to the best start there is; a rocky start!"
'Baka…' Soul-Fossil thought as he chuckled before facing Aang, "Aang, gattai our powers?"
"Gattai?"
"It means 'combine!'" Agito called out, recalling the (albeit forced) language course Saito made him do with his fellow teen.
"Right!" Aang nodded.
The king began to stomp the ground and jab his arms in random directions, cracking the floors and walls of the arena, tearing a huge chunk of the wall and balcony they had been standing on previously. Seeing what was coming, Aang screamed and ran in tight circles, conjuring a tornado. When the king flung the huge piece at Aang, it was caught in the tornado and instantly whipped around right back at the king. The king bent it to sand before it could smash him. Soul-Fossil pressed the red button once more.
=EXTINCTION IMPACT=
"Go genso no kyōryū (Five Elemental Dinosaur)…"
Soul-Fossil jumped high into the air, reaching the ceiling 60 meters above them. The elements of Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, and Wood engulfed his limbs and head before traveling into the Akylosaurus Drill, transforming it into a drill made of the five elements and shaped to resemble the five Dinosaurs Fossil was based upon.
"Shinseina doriru shōgeki (Sacred Drill Impact)!" Soul-Fossil finished as he shot like a rocket at the King.
The King was about to bend the Earth once more when Aang knocked him off his feet with an air swipe from his staff. Soul-Fossil crashed and caused a large explosion. The smoke and flames began to quickly disperse to reveal the drill was just barely near the King's head.
"Well done, Avatar, Soul. You fight with much fire in your hearts," the King got up once Soul-Fossil moved away from him, "You passed all my tests. Now, you must answer one question."
"That's not fair! You said you would release my friends if I finished your tests."
"Aang, let the mad genius finish," Soul-Fossil scolded.
"Smart boy there. After all, what's the point of tests if you don't learn anything?" the King pondered with a mad grin.
"Oh, come on!" Sokka whined.
"Answer this one question and I will set your friends free. What...is my name? From the looked of your friends I'd say you only have a few minutes."
"How am I supposed to know his name?" Aang pondered as the king walked off.
"Think about the challenges. Maybe it's some kind of riddle," Katara noted.
"I got it!"
"Yeah?"
"He's an Earthbender, right? Rocky. You know, because of all the rocks," Agito guessed.
"...We're going to keep trying, but that is a good back-up," Katara noted with a sweatdrop.
"Okay. So back to the challenges. I got a key from the Waterfall, Saito saved his pet, and we had a duel."
"And what did you learn?" Saito asked.
"Well, everything was different than I expected."
"And?" Katara pressed on.
"Well, it wasn't straight forward. To solve the tests, I had to think differently than I usually would..." Aang's eyes brightened up, "I know his name."
"I solved the question the same way I solved the challenges. As you said a long time ago, I had to open my brain to the possibilities," Aang noted before the king laughed with the same odd snort Bumi did a hundred years ago, "Bumi, you're a mad genius."
Aang and Bumi hugged like old friends. Saito chuckled as he looked at the sight. This was something that was good for Aang. He still had a friend from the past.
"Oh Aang, it's good to see you. You haven't changed a bit. Literally."
"Uh, over here!" Katara called.
"Little help?"Agito asked.
"Jennamite is made of rock candy," Saito noted as the two stopped.
"...Rock Candy? You mean this is food?" Agito drooled before dropping the armor and began to feast on it, actually overpowering the growth rate, as Bumi used Earthbending to shatter the rock candy on Katara.
"So this crazy king is your old friend Bumi?" Katara pondered.
"Who are you calling old? ...Okay, I'm old," Bumi admitted, causing Saito to laugh.
"Why did you do all of this instead of just telling Aang who you were?"
"First of all, it's pretty fun messing with people," Bumi joked.
"But he does have a reason," Saito noted.
"Aang, you have a difficult task ahead. The world's changed in the hundred years that you've been gone. It's the duty of the Avatar to restore balance to the world by defeating Fire Lord Ozai. You have much to learn. You must master the four elements and confront the Fire Lord. And when you do..." Bumi grinned deviously at his friend, "...I hope you think like a mad genius. And it looked like you're in good hands. You'll need your friends to help defeat the Fire Nation." Momo climbed up on Aang as Shirokuro was picked up by Saito, "And you'll need Momo and Shirokuro, too."
"Thank you for your wisdom, but before we leave, I have a challenge for you and Saito," Aang smirked.
"...Fuck," Saito frowned, realizing what was coming next.
"Yahoo!-!-!" Bumi and Aang cheered.
"You two are fuckin' crazy!-!-!-!" Soul screamed in the back with Agito.
The four were riding down the mail system. A cloud of dust raised as a crash was made.
"My cabbages!"
The Last Airbender and the First Kamen Rider!
Sokka: Form Changes? You mean I've got more than just this armor?
Iroh: A broken teacup shows grave warnings to us.
Saito: Beautiful...
?-?-?: Y'all done keep away from mah Sister!
?-?-?: Please don't tell anyone I did that! Please!
Zuko: Capture them!
Soul: Ore...Sanjou!
Toki o koete ore, sanjō! (Traveling through time, I arrive!)
Book 1: Water
Chapter 4: Time-Trippin Ride and the Two Sisters.
Rider Fashion Check: Kamen Rider Fossil
Saito: *walks in with Katara and the projector starts up, showing Soul becoming Fossil* This is Kamen Rider Fossil, an OC Kamen Rider. His form was inspired by two series; Extreme Dinosaurs and Kung Fu Dino Posse.
Katara: *the slide changes to show the belt* What is this?
Saito: That is the FossilDriver, his Henshin Belt. He uses Skulls, Memory Cards with skull-shaped items on the tops, in it. There are 50 normal Skulls with ten extra Skulls that create the Combosaurus Fossil or the Raptor Fossil, the Dark Rider for Fossil.
Katara: Dark Rider?
Saito: The Dark Riders are evil Kamen Riders, many based upon another Rider. *shows comparison pictures of Kabuto and Dark Kabuto along with Ryuki and Ryuuga* They're truly powerful, stronger than the original in various ways. Now back to Fossil. *shows a diagram of Fossil* The four skulls on his body are the symbols of the Skulls on his Driver. When a Skull is activated, the armor on his arms, boots, or helmet will transform, giving him the power boost involving that Skull. *shows the T-Rex Skull and the Ankylosaurus Skull in use* When five of the same Skull is used, it creates the Saurian Revival, giving Fossil additional abilities involving those Skulls. Sorta like OOO's Full Combos.
Katara: What Kaijin does he fight?
Saito: *the screen shows a human, holding an amber shard with a Velociraptor design in it. The amber suddenly engulfs the human, who was wearing track-themed clothing. It shattered, revealing a Velociraptor Kaijin with track and speed-themes to it* They're called 'ExAntict' and the name is considered Plural. It's based off the words 'Antique' and 'Extinct.' They're created through negative emotions and transform a human into them. Upon defeat, the human is freed and unharmed.
Katara: That's good to hear.
Saito: Yep. That amber shard you saw is produced by a group known as Ex-Tinct, a conglomerate that is ran by Xavier Veloci, a Velociraptor that was evolved by the meteor's impact on the last day Dinosaurs were alive. With him are four others, two females and two males. Their information is unknown at the time. We may end up having to fight these guys at some point in time.
Katara: *frowns*