Chapter 4: Rise of the Black Sun

"So, this is the Newspaper Club, huh?" Moka wondered as she looked around the room.

"Nekonome-sensei did say this was the room," Shinichi pointed out.

Kurumu, Moka and Shinichi were in the Newspaper Club room after school. The room seemed to be a little dusty and there were old newspaper clippings pinned up on the notice board. There was also a printer and computers as well as equipment needed to make a newspaper.

"Looks like we're the only ones here," Kurumu shrugged. Not that she minded it. It meant spending more time with Shinichi after all.

"Didn't Nekonome-sensei say all the members except the president graduated?" the cyborg reminded her.

"That's right!"

"AHH!" Kurumu, Moka and Shinichi jumped in fright. Turning around, they found Nekonome-sensei behind them with a happy smile.

"Holy crap! Where did you come from!-?" Shinichi panted as he tried to get his heart rate down.

The catwoman giggled embarrassingly, "Sorry. Anyway, everyone, I'd like to introduce you to your Club President, 2nd year student Ginei Morioka."

Stepping into the room was a handsome dark-haired boy wearing a red headband and a slightly disheveled school uniform. Actually, the uniform was rather neat, but he wore the jacket open and had a few of the shirt's buttons undone, allowing his chest to be seen. Then there was the fact he was carrying two flower bouquets.

"Sorry I'm late," he said with a charming smile. "I'm an upperclassman; I'm supposed to set an example. My name's Ginei Morioka but please, call me Gin." He smiled when he saw Moka and Kurumu. "And it's such a pleasure to meet lovely ladies like you," he said as he passed out the bouquets to them. The pair couldn't help but blush.

Shinichi frowned as Gin was seemingly ignoring Shinichi on purpose. He cleared his throat to get Gin's attention. "Oi, I'm here too," he spoke up.

Gin took notice of the other freshman and smiled. "Ah, so you're here too. Sanban-kun, right? The bug doppelganger."

'Is that what they're calling me?' Shinchi thought to himself. Well, his Rider forms were based on bugs so it was close enough. "Yeah, that's right. Let's go with that," he answered.

"Well, you're quite a guy," he continued. "Beating up a thug like Saizo and cutting down the Swim Club tends to make someone a tad infamous."

"Uh... thanks," Shinichi nodded. Gin didn't seem too bad. He looked like a nice guy really.

So, why did Shinichi have this buzz in the back of his head to be wary of this guy?

"I'm gonna leave you all to get to know each other," Nekonome-sensei said as she headed out the door. "Be kind to your sempai!" And she was out, leaving Gin alone with Moka, Shinichi, and Kurumu.

"Listen here," Gin said seriously. "We are the Newspaper Club. It is our job to seek out news and report it to the student body, regardless of the danger to our lives. We must be willing to risk all for the sake of our craft, because this isn't gonna be a walk in the park. Anybody who can't handle that should get lost now."

Shinichi blinked. "You remind me of someone."

"Really?" Gin asked with a grin. "Was he as handsome as me?"

"Can't answer that I'm afraid," Shinichi replied with a shake of his head.

"Sorry, Gin-sempai," Moka said. "But Shinichi-kun has amnesia."

Gin cocked an eyebrow, "Amnesia, you say? Sounds mysterious."

Shinichi admitted, "Yeah, woke up on my first day here with nothing but the clothes on my back and my name. Don't have any memories save for the ones I have since the first day here."

Gin smiled, "Well, I hope you get some more memories with the Newspaper Club! OK, let's clean up the place. A clean workplace is motivating and we're going to be very busy this year so we need to work hard."

Kurumu and Moka chirped, "Hai!"

Shinichi still felt a bit suspicious of Gin but he just shrugged. No reason to dislike Gin...yet. He was still going to keep his eye on the upperclassman.


Their first order of business turned out to be putting up advertisements for the Newspaper Club. Moka and Kurumu were standing on chairs that had been appropriated to help them put the advertisements higher. Gin was supervising them, while leaving Shinichi to post advertisements on his own.

"Higher..." he heard Gin prompt the girls, "Higher..."

"Is this high enough?" Kurumu asked, sounding like it was putting her under considerable strain to stretch herself that much.

"Just a little more..." Gin prompted.

Shinichi snarled quietly and slapped his last advertisement onto the wall, then stormed over to Gin. "What do you think you're doing, Sempai? That's high enough!"

"Maybe for you," Gin replied flippantly, and it was at that moment that Shinichi noticed that Gin was crouched behind the girls... and not quite looking up at the advertisements.

"Gin-sempai," Shinichi threatened warningly, his voice low enough to be out of Moka and Kurumu's earshot, "This is not the time and/or place to peep."

"Peep?" Gin asked innocently, "What are you saying? I'm just helping to get the advertisements up."

"In that case, you should stand up and help instead of crouching down like a stump. It's much easier that way, not to mention that you're straining the girls," Shinichi retorted.

For the rest of the day, Shinichi kept his eye on Gin. The guy seemed to be lazy, delegating all the work to him and the girls. Gin tried to make Shinichi work elsewhere but the Kaizo Ningen wasn't about to leave the two girls alone with Gin. Shinichi was a man and had to protect his ladies. It was also unmanly of Gin to peep on the girls without permission. Shinichi might be a bit of a pervert himself but he made sure he had consent before doing anything.


Shinichi's suspicions about Gin were right on the mark, not that he knew yet. Gin wanted a girl. But not just any girl, it was Moka herself that he wanted. The next day, Gin was asking around for information on Moka and Shinichi, specifically on their relationship. He needed to know just what was going on between them if he was going to make Moka his woman, after all. Upon happening on a couple of girls, he asked them the same question he'd asked everyone else.

"What's going on between Moka Akashiya and Shinichi Sanban?"

"I dunno, they seem to be really close," one girl replied.

"I mean, really, I've seen her kiss him on the neck..." the other girl added, blushing a little, "And he really seems to like it."

'Kissing him on the neck?' Gin thought, going into a small meltdown. 'What the hell!-?'

"He really doesn't look like much, though," the first girl remarked. "But he is kinda cute."

"And Moka's gorgeous!" the second girl added. "She has the kind of beauty that charms even other women can only hope to have. I don't know why she's with him, but that tattoo on his forehead looks kind of cool."

"A tattoo?" Gin repeated.

"Yeah, if you look at it close enough, it looks like the Roman numeral for 13; 'XIII'," she told him.

"Huh. Weird," Gin blinked. 'What kind of guy would want to put a tattoo on their forehead?'


"Guys, we have and emergency," Gin said seriously "There's news of a serial Peeping Tom stalking the school!"

"Serial Peeping Tom?" Kurumu, Moka and Shinichi all exclaimed in unison.

Gin nodded, "That's right. He goes around, peeping through locker room windows to catch a peek at the girls in states of undress. The girls don't feel safe. It is up to us to find him and expose him."

"Now that I can agree with," Shinichi nodded, "When do we start?"

The upperclassman grinned at him, "Shinichi, I want you to come with me. We're going to follow a lead!"


"So, this is it, huh?" asked Shinichi. They were standing in front of a small building. Gin explained that a lead told him that the Peeping Tom hid out here whenever he was about to get caught.

"Yeah. Hey, Shinichi, do you mind looking into that window up there?" Gin asked.

Shinichi looked at the building and narrowed his eyes. His enhanced hearing picked up female chatter and soon recognized what this building was.

"You're trying to set me up," Shinichi frowned.

"Huh?" Gin blinked.

Shinichi turned to Gin and pointed at the building, "That's a locker room, for girls, and there are girls in there." He then pointed at the camera in Gin's hand. "You also have a camera. What's your angle?"

"Ah, well..." Gin stuttered. This wasn't supposed to happen! Just how sharp was this kid?

Shinichi began to grin, "Doesn't matter though. You tried to set me up so it's only fair I do the same." He took a deep breath and cried out in a girlish voice, "Oh MY GOD! HENTAI! THERE'S A PEEPING TOM!"

Gin gulped and dashed off, seemingly vanishing. Shinichi then heard the girls coming and they didn't sound happy.

"A Peeping Tom?"

"Where is he?"

"I'll tear him to shreds!"

"Let me at him!"

"No! Let ME at him!"

"Time to make tracks," Shinichi said and he jumped into the air.

The girls came out holding various weapons and saw nothing. Hovering high in the air was Showa-Skyrider.

"Gin...what are you after?" he pondered with his arms crossed. He then flew off to meet with the girls and tell them about this.


"What?" Moka asked with wide eyes. "Gin-sempai was trying to frame you?"

"That's right and he had a camera to take pictures as evidence too," Shinichi nodded as they sat alone in the club room. "Moka-chan, I want you to be careful. This guy obviously has something against me and may try something dirty."

"He's trying something and you're an obstacle." Kurumu said as she walked into the room. Oddly, she was dressed as Sherlock Holmes. She was even holding a pipe.

"Eh, what do you mean Kurumu-chan?" Shinichi blinked. "And why are you dressed like that?"

"Well it's simple. While I was asking around about the Peeping Tom I heard something interesting. Apparently, Gin's also been snooping around about your relationship with Moka, and after hearing your story, my suspicions are confirmed. He wants to discredit you so he can get Moka for himself," Kurumu said, completely ignoring the second question.

Both Moka and Shinichi both looked dumbfounded. "But... but why?" Moka stammered. She was feeling very vulnerable now.

"I have no idea," Kurumu answered with shrug. "But now that I've told you this, what are you going to do about it?"

Shinichi frowned. He couldn't believe that his own sempai would do this just to get on with his friend. Was there even a serial Peeping Tom, or was that just one of his tricks? If that was the type of game he wanted to play then bring it on! "I have an idea. Moka-chan, Kurumu-chan, listen closely."


Later that evening, Gin whistled, glad he was able to escape intact and went to his shoe locker to retrieve his sneakers so he could head back to his dorm and hatch another scheme to get Shinichi out of the way so he could get Moka, with Kurumu as a bonus! As he opened his locker, he spotted an envelope nestled between his sneakers.

"Could this be...?"

He reached inside and pulled out the envelope and his eyes brightened. It was pink and had a kiss mark on it.

"It is! A love letter!" he cried.

He tore the envelope open and read its contents as his wolfish grin grew wide.

I really love you so very, very, very much! Meet me tonight on the school roof, sempai.

From: Moka Akashiya.

"YAHOO!" Gin howled as he jumped into the air and clicked his heels. "I knew my charm would work on Moka! I'm coming for you, baby!"

He then ran off so he could go rendezvous with the lovely Moka Akashiya. He would need flowers and something special for the girl. Girls loved to be romanced before giving themselves to their man.


"I'm here, lovely Moka!" declared Gin as he arrived on the school roof.

"Ah, Gin-sempai," a voice called out. He turned around and found Moka smiling sweetly at him with her hands behind her back. "I'm so happy you could come."

"Anything for a pretty girl like you," Gin said with that charming smile of his. "So, how about we kick things off with the basics: dinner and a movie?"

"Actually," she began, "There's just a few questions that we need to ask you."

"'We'?" Gin wondered.

"Sup, Gin-sempai?"

Gin nearly jumped when he heard the voice behind him. Turning around, he saw that it was Shinichi, looking like a detective from the 1930's of America, wearing a black, long-sleeved shirt with a red tie, a white vest and pants along with leather shoes. He even wore a black fedora atop his head. Kurumu was with him and was dressed as Sherlock Holmes.

"What?" Gin blinked. "What are you two doing here? And what's with the cosplay?"

"Don't ask," Shinichi said. "As for why we here, well, let's just say that the jig is up."

"What?" Gin's eyes narrowed.

Shinichi and Kurumu held up a pair of photo albums and then opened them up for him to see. All of them depicted girls in obvious forms of undress and completely unaware that anyone was watching them.

"Quite a collection, sempai," Shinichi said, "Turns out that Moka-chan is very clever when it comes to picking locks. Before placing that letter in your shoe locker, she found all of this."

"But those aren't mine!" Gin denied. "I was just holding them for one of my friends!"

"Property of Ginei Morioka," Kurumu read off one of the albums.

Gin cursed his habit of writing his name on all of his stuff!

Shinichi began, "You claim to know about the serial Peeping Tom because..."

Everyone listened expectantly.

"Sorry, pausing for dramatic effect," Shinichi said, "Now, as I as saying..." he pointed at Gin accusingly, "GIN MORIOKA...YOU ARE THE SERIAL PEEPING TOM!"

"This is slander!" Gin shouted.

"Slander? Slander!-?" Shinichi repeated. "This! Is! Youkai Academy!"

"...Did you really just say that?" Kurumu deadpanned.

Gin frowned angrily. He was completely busted now. "Enough of this! Since I can't use trickery, I'll just make Moka my woman by force!"

Gin leaped up into the air with blinding speed before he landed at the other end behind Shinichi and the girls. Growling, Gin's body began to swell with raw and wild power. His face sprouted gray fur before turning into a canine snout while his ears relocated to the top of his head.

"A werewolf!" Moka gasped.

"They're supposed to be on par with vampires in power!" Kurumu cried.

"A rival of vampires, huh?" Shinichi frowned. "This may get messy." His belt formed as he took his stance. "Let's Ride: Showa!"

Gin grinned at Showa's transformation, "So, you are some kind of armored bug monster. Well, it doesn't matter what you turn into, nobody can match my speed!"

And to demonstrate, Gin dashed and moved around like a blur. Showa was struggling to catch Gin's movements but the werewolf was too fast. Sparks flew from Showa's armor as he was being struck from all sides by the speedy werewolf and the continuous and relentless assault forced him to his knees.

"Shinichi-kun!" Moka gasped.

"Shinichi!" Kurumu cried.

"He's...fast!" Showa grunted.

"This is the true power of us werewolves! Our speed and power depends on the light of the moon! You're going down, then Moka will become my woman!" gloated Gin. Showa's eyes narrowed under his helmet and then...


...He found himself in the endless white space again. This time, who he was facing wasn't a Kamen Rider, at least not in form, but a young man that looked a bit older than him who had neat and short black hair and a strong jaw line. He had on a white and black jacket with equally white pants and sneakers. He was also wearing a black and white striped shirt underneath the jacket and white fingerless gloves.

"Looks like you got yourself in another mess," the man said. "My timing couldn't have been better."

"Who are you?" Shinichi asked.

"You can call me Kotaro Minami," the man answered, "Also known as Kamen Rider BLACK, RX, Biorider and Roborider."

"What's with the many names?" Shinichi asked with an arched eyebrow.

Kotaro grinned. "Because I have many powers and those powers are now yours. Now, fight, Shinichi, and use the power of the Century King and Prince of the Sun to teach that werewolf a lesson that he won't soon forget!" Shinichi saw see-through images of Kamen Rider BLACK, Kamen Rider BLACK RX, Biorider and Roborider standing behind Kotaro.

And with that, Kotaro pressed his finger against Shinichi's forehead and a light engulfed them both.


INSERT SONG: KAMEN RIDER BLACK RX

Showa huffed slightly as he slowly and wobbly got back to his feet. Gin thought this was pretty amusing.

"I'm surprised, Sanban-kun," said Gin with a smirk. "Not many can say they've survived this long against a werewolf. Just let me have Moka and we can stop this."

"No way," Showa objected. "You tried to make me look like a shameless pervert just so that you could take Moka-chan for yourself. I thought we were friends. I do know you're a good person under all that fur but for now… I'm going to kick your ass!"

"And how will you do that?" Gin questioned, licking his teeth.

"Since you fight with the power of the moon, I'm going to fight with the power of the SUN! Let's Ride: BLACK!" In a flash he transformed and was clad in the form of Century King Black Sun, or Kamen Rider BLACK as he was best known as. The armor was mostly black and had yellow-red-yellow bands around his neck, wrists and ankles.

"Woah!" Kurumu gawked.

"Sugoi! A new power!" Moka cheered.

"Don't get cocky!" Gin snarled "I'm still faster!"

Gin aimed to make his point by once again trying to dash forward and cutting Showa-BLACK down to size. He zoomed around like a blur to confuse Showa-BLACK and make it harder for his movements to be tracked. However, what he didn't know was that as BLACK, Showa now had access to the Rider Sensors which were the antennae mounted on his head. The Rider Sensors began to twitch, tracking Gin's movement and calculating his next attack.

When he finally got a lock on Gin, he quickly changed to BLACK's evolved form, calling out, "Let's Ride: RX!" In a flash his armor changed again. It was green and black and like his other forms resembled a bug because of the large red eyes and antennae. He also sported a miniature solar panel on his stomach. He had become Kamen Rider BLACK RX, the Prince of the Sun.

Crying out, "Revolcane!" Showa-RX pulled out a sword with a glowing blade from his belt and got ready. Gin finally came within reach and swung his claws down, only for Showa-RX to block with his sword. The two men started to trade blows at one another. Gin still attempted to one up Showa-RX with his speed, but the super cyborg still blocked him blow for blow. Sparks flew as the two fighters continued to clash.

Gin clenched his fangs as sweat started to drip down his face. What was going one? There was no monster in the world that could read a werewolf's speed like Shinichi was doing now. Even vampires were unable to track werewolves whenever they moved at full speed. Just what was he? And more importantly, what was with that sword?

"You're wide open!" Showa-RX tried to catch Gin at a blind spot, but the werewolf recovered just enough to spin around. He quickened his slashing and swiping to get Showa-RX to back off.

"Shinichi-kun!" Moka gasped.

"I'm still too fast for you!" Gin panted.

"Prove it to me then," Showa-RX replied, "Let's Ride: Biorider!" In a flash of light his suit changed into a sleeker suit of blue armor with red eyes and some silver on his shoulders and legs. This was Biorider, the Nature Prince and Prince of Anger.

Gin charged and attacked again, but this time Showa-Biorider suddenly liquefied into water, causing Gin to pass through harmlessly, stunning him, Moka, & Kurumu. Showa-Biorider reformed himself and crossed his arms. "Well!"

"Don't screw with me!" Gin shouted as rushed up again and slashed his claws at the Rider. However, he had once again liquefied causing the clash to create splashes rather than sparks.

"WHY! CAN'T! I! TOUCH YOU!-?" Gin yelled in aggravation with each swipe.

"Trade secret," Showa-Biorider said. "Let's Ride: Roborider!"

There was no flash this time and the change happened so quickly that Gin didn't notice until his claws connected against the suddenly unbreakable armor, shattering his claws.

"ARGH!" Gin howled in pain, clutching his throbbing hand and slowly backing up.

Roborider, also known as the Prince of Sadness and Prince of Flames, was bulky with black and orange armor with narrowed red eyes and some silver around the knees and elbows. Grabbing Gin by his jacket, Showa-Roborider smashed his super hard fist against the werewolf's jaw, sending him flying into the wall of the roof entrance and making a new imprint that looked like the outline of his body. Gin slowly removed himself and growled. He lunged once more, but Showa-Roborider wouldn't have any of that.

"Voltech Shooter!" he shouted as a silver gun appeared in his hand. He took aim and fired a stream of solar energy, which grazed Gin on the leg. This caused him to go sprawling, rolling over before stopping on his back.

"I think Moka-chan deserves to play," Showa-Roborider said. He turned around and walked back to the girls, although a bit tad slowly. His movements were almost robotic. He reached Moka and took hold of her rosario. "Ready?"

Moka nodded. With a rather strong pull, the rosario came off. The area was soon filled with a chilling aura as Moka started her own transformation into her more attractive and intimidating true self.

Once she was fully awake, Moka-sama looked up and smirked. "Well now, this is new," she said. Her blood red eyes trailed down and up at his new form.

"It sure is," Showa-Roborider nodded with a smile in his voice. "Want to join in?"

"By all means," she answered. "I do need the exercise."

Gin looked to the unsealed Moka-sama and had hearts in his eyes. He howled, "I thought you were hot before but now you're just smoking!"

Showa-Roborider just looked to Moka-sama, "OK, for that corny line you get to go first."

"What a gentleman," smiled Moka-sama as she advanced on Gin. Despite his injuries he was still fast but as he moved he discovered his movements weren't as quick as before and Moka-sama was running towards him. "Wondering about your lack of speed? Look up." Gin did and to his horror he discovered the clouds were concealing the moon. "No moon, no speed. Now...KNOW YOUR PLACE!" Her leg rose up in a kick that nailed the werewolf right in the chin and sent him flying skywards.

Showa-Roborider saw this as his opportunity and called out, "Let's Ride, RX!" Changing back into BLACK RX, Showa jumped high into the air.

"This is Game Over for you!" announced Showa-RX as he executed the finisher, "RX…Kick!" His attack was charged with energy before his double-footed kick connected with Gin and sent him flying right off the roof and straight towards the forest surrounding the academy. Landing on his feet, Kamen Rider Showa in the form of BLACK RX commented, "A wolf belongs in the forest."

END SONG

Glomp!

"That was so cool!" declared Kurumu. She then stepped back to admire his armor, "Black certainly looks good on you, Shinichi."

"Thanks, Kurumu-chan," said Showa-RX as his armor reverted back to normal and then shattered into fading jigsaw pieces. He looked to Moka-sama who looked back at him expectantly. "Oh, here." He tossed her rosario back to her and she caught it.

"I look forward to seeing what others abilities you will unlock, Rider," said Moka-sama as she hooked the rosario back to her choker.


Gin pretty much ended up in the hospital for a week after the punishment he received. Miraculously, he hadn't gotten any broken bones from the two kicks he'd received. Hopefully, he'd learnt his lessons and wouldn't be up to his old tricks again. That was, however, assuming that he learnt anything at all.

There were no hard feelings, though. Gin now knew not to cross Shinichi and Moka, especially Moka. As sexy as she was unsealed she was just too dangerous for him. As for Shinichi, he learnt that the guy was smarter than he looked since he was able to see past his scheme and retaliate with his own scheme that exposed him as a pervert. Shinichi also hid Gin's albums to be used as blackmail material in case Gin went back to being the serial Peeping Tom and promised not to expose his secret.

Gin, with bandages on his body, greeted his fellow club members, "Well, I'm glad to see you all again."

"It's good to see you too, Ero-sempai," Shinichi greeted. Gin glared at him for the nickname but Shinichi just grinned back.


Meanwhile, in the Headmaster's office…

"An orc, mermaids, a werewolf, and even defeating a cyborg bat creature. My, my, what an interesting individual you left in my school, Topper," a creepy old man said to his guest. He was wearing the clothing of an exorcist priest. Under his hood, yellow eyes glowed ominously.

"I'm glad you think he's interesting, my old friend, but I have to confess that not even I could have predicted that he would befriend the daughter of Akasha so quickly," answered the guest as he sipped his tea. He was a man in a blue overcoat worn over an orange shirt with pinstriped pants and a yellow bowtie. Perched on top of his head was a tall top hat.

"Yes, but whether it was fate or dumb luck, I couldn't have ask for a better friend for the amnesiac boy than the daughter of my old comrade," the exorcist said.

"Indeed. However, only time will tell if the boy would be ready for what coming. After all, GIN-SHOCKER is not known to spare those that escape their grasp so easily," Topper grinned.


LEGENDARY RIDERS UNLOCKED SO FAR

1. Ichigo

2. ?

3. ?

4. ?

5. X-Rider

6. ?

7. ?

8. Skyrider

9. ?

10. ?

11. BLACK RX (Includes BLACK, Roborider and Biorider)

12. ?

13. ?

LINE BREAK

KAMEN RIDER DATABASE

"Ah, back here already, are you?" Moka-sama smirked. "Well, today we will be looking at a Rider with many faces: Kotaro Minami."

The screen behind her showed the image of Kamen Rider BLACK. "Kotaro was born on the day of a solar eclipse alongside his stepbrother Nobuhiko and they were revered by the Gorgom as the heirs to their leader's throne: the Century Kings 'Black Sun' and 'Shadow Moon'," Moka-sama began. "Once the two were of the ideal age, the Gorgom captured them and infused them each with a Kingstone. However, Soichiro Akizuki, Nobuhiko's father and Kotaro's legal guardian, interrupted the final mind-altering stage of the surgery and Kotaro barely escaped with his life while Nobuhiko was in a state of hibernation. Before Soichiro was killed for his actions at the hands of five Spider Mutants, revealing to Kotaro that his parents were murdered by Gorgom while he was a baby, Kotaro took on the name of "Kamen Rider BLACK" to fight Gorgom and later Shadow Moon, Nobuhiko's perfected Century King form and a pure, cold-blooded Gorgom leader. When he was initially killed by Shadow Moon, his remaining family members (Kyoko and Kasumi) were forced to evacuate from Gorgom's hegemony over Japan. He was eventually resurrected and fought his way through the remaining monsters before presumably killing Shadow Moon (and in the process, Nobuhiko) and destroying the Creation King."

The image then switched to BLACK RX. "After defeating Gorgom, Kotaro Minami found himself homeless until the Sahara family took him into their family," Moka-sama continued. "With their connections, he found employment as a helicopter pilot for their family business, and began to build a new life for himself. But five years later, Kotaro was abducted into the interstellar mother ship of the Crisis Empire. Knowledgeable of his identity as Kamen Rider BLACK, the organization attempted to offer hima chance to join them. Kotaro refused so they had him jettisoned into space after leaving him incapacitated and his Kingstone damaged, floating aimlessly through space. However, the sun's radiation altered his Kingstone into the Sunriser as he miraculously survived entry into Earth's atmosphere. Upon his rebirth, Kotaro learned he had evolved into Kamen Rider BLACK RX. With his new powers and vehicles, he battled the Crisis Empire and thwarted their plans to take over Earth.

The image blinked to the forms of Roborider and Biorider standing side by side. "When Hitomi, his foster sister, was kidnapped by Maribaron to assume the identity of the Crisis Empire's only living heir, Kotaro used Deathgaron to enter the Desert of Death to go after them. By the time he found Hitomi, Kotaro fell into a trap set up by Maribaron to do away with him and Deathgaron. When it looked as if Deathgaron had actually killed Hitomi, RX was in a state of sorrow and sadness over the death of Hitomi. The energy from Deathgaron's punch merged with that sorrow and created a new power, Roborider. Using his power, Roborider fatally wounded Deathgaron before learning that the Hitomi that had been killed was an illusion and the real one was being taken to the Miraculous Valley. On his way, he met Joe the Haze who was under the control of Nexticker, freeing him before they and Shigeru were captured by Maribaron and the Princess Karuoriya. It was after they broke free that Kotaro realized the princess is Hitomi, who was abducted to replace the real princess who died and was forced grown by the nearby waterfall. When he attempted to restore Hitomi's memory, Kotaro was forced to surrender when Triplon captured Shigeru and Joe. Kotaro was then placed into a room that had spikes on the walls and was designed to counter his abilities as both RX and Roborider for a slow and painful death. His rage to save those he loved invoked another new form, Biorider. After killing Triplon, with Shigeru's help, Kotaro was successful in restoring Hitomi's memory before she and the others are return to their original ages by the people who originally resided in the valley. With only Joe and Shigeru knowing his identity, Kotaro returned to Earth."

"Later, Shadow Moon mysteriously returned to seek revenge against him. Shadow Moon was defeated once more when RX thrust the Revolcane through Shadow Moon's Kingstone, effectively turning him back to his old self shortly before he died and finally reverting to Nobuhiko. In the finale, he was helped by the 10 veteran Kamen Riders to destroy the Crisis Empire," Moka-sama finished.

"BLACK and BLACK RX are both photosynthetic warriors that could use the power of the sun to their advantage, which is why they were known as Century King Black Sun and Prince of the Sun," Moka-sama said. "They could sense enemies and read their movements, as well as see through walls and detect hidden objects. However, what sets them both apart is RX's power to change forms, making RX the first Kamen Rider with this power. His first alternate form is Roborider, also known as the Prince of Sadness and Prince of Flames, due to the fact that it gains power through sorrow and heat. It has heavy armor which is unbreakable, and it grants RX great strength and defense, but its weakness is that it is slow and robot-like. The main weapon, the Voltech Shooter, can fire rounds of solar energy and his Robo Punch can destroy anything. His second alternate form is Biorider. It is also known as the Nature Prince and Prince of Anger, where as it gains power from RX's rage. RX's defense is weaker in this form, but it makes up for hightened speed and reflexes. It also allows RX to transform into a liquid-like state to escape traps or attack enemies while not risking damage. The main weapon, the Bio Sword, is unbreakable, and allows him to perform the Bio Attack."

"He impresses me greatly because he is able to adapt to any situation and reign victorious over his foes. If Shinichi is anything like Kotaro Minami then I might be impressed," said Moka-sama


KAMEN RIDER CHROME: And in this chapter Shinichi unlocks four new forms! They're all the same guy so I count them as one Rider even if BLACK is officially the 11th and BLACK RX is officially the 12th. So, please continue to show your support and for more Riders and more power stay tune for the next chapter!