Morndas 8:00pm, 4th of Hearthfire, 5E 2017. Winterhold's BioDome Zoo was closing for the day and the last employee to leave; an immigrant Tsaesci named Shidak-Charn, exited from and locked a back door before slithering away in the cold snow. He had stayed in Winterhold for a few months and is used to the cold and the snow under his clothing-wrapped tail. As he approached his host's home he saw a well-dressed elderly Akaviri man being menaced by three hooded figures in front of a gas station. He hides behind a dumpster and coiled his tail around his upper torso.

"[Never thought I'd have to use it for this occasion.]" he said as he conjured a black device onto his right hand. The device was black and had hexagonal mechanism resembling a yellow snake and a crank on the right. He conjures a small glass vial containing a yellow liquid. He places the object on his waist and a green strap resembling a snake emerges from the belt, coils around the waist and bites the other side of the belt. "Fang Fuge!" a loud, dramatic masculine voice emanated from the belt.

He opens the lower jaw of the face and inserts the vial "Cobra!" before yelling "Henshin!" and turning the crank. The mechanism spins rapidly and the liquid flows out, somehow increasing in volume as it engulfs him. His tail metamorphose into legs and greaves instantly, then the flowing liquid transmutes around him into black form-fitting armour with a reptile scale pattern, a brown chestplate with a right pauldron resembling a corked bottle mouth and the left a cobra head, and a helmet resembling a snake's head; a mouth-like black faceplate with large triangular teeth as visors and an extended forehead with nostrils. He walks to the front to confront the muggers. "Who're you?" one mugger asked, brandishing his knife.

"Two choices: you either run, or bite me!" he cried before charging at them. The front mugger brandishes a knife and attempts to stab him in the shoulder but Shidak-Charn grabs his wrist and flings him over the building and on top of the dumpster lid with a bang. He tussles hand to hand with another mugger and kicks him to the ground. The third mugger pulls out a pistol and shoots Shidak-Charn, but he slaps the bullet in mid-air, shooting the wall on his left. He swipes the gun from his hands and snaps it in half.

He stares down at the mugger before punching him out of submission. The second mugger stands up and tries to stab him from behind Shidak-Charn, but he turns around and sidekicks the knife aside before punching his face. "[Are you alright?]" Shidak-Charn asked in Akaviri as he turned to the man. "Syffim R-rider?" the man muttered nervously. "[Guess so. Call me Fang.]" Shida-Charn answered in Akaviri.

He turns around and jumps high onto a building across the street. There, he is suddenly tackled by a fiery figure and disappears into this air.


On the other side of Tamriel in the city of Almalexia, Toshiro was locking a door to a school classroom labelled "Computer Science" and walks into an elevator elsewhere in the corridor. He descends the elevator and is stopped on the 4th floor. The door opens to reveal a silver samurai with a large drill in place of its left forearm. The robot lunges at Toshiro and he dodges out of the way, making the figure stumble into the elevator as it closed. As soon as Toshiro stood up the drill emerges from between the sliding door and spreads it open.

As it was charging at Toshiro another figure, wearing what appear to be a red metallic skin-tight suit reminiscent of ninja robes with spiked pauldrons and a helmet resembling that of a dragon with its mouth as a black visor and a pair of red eyes on its temples, tackles the samurai from the side and crashes through the window next to the elevator. Toshiro looks out of the window and finds the samurai lying on the ground with exposed wires in a cavity in its chest. "Where–" Toshiro wondered before "Gao!" the red figure shouted in a masculine robotic voice while raising his arms over Toshiro, scaring him. "[It's about time you got here! I knew keeping you was a good idea.]" Toshiro said in Akaviri to the figure as he panted. The figure's entire body retreats into its own mask and drops on the ground before shrinking into a keychain.

"[Do you know what that was?]" the tiny mask asked. "[You saw it yourself, it was a robot. But where was it from?]" Toshiro wondered. "The Blades." a voice answered from the darkness. "[Who are you?]" Toshiro asked as he put the keychain in his right pant pocket. Colonel Frank Owlin emerges from the darkness, clad in ninja robes while clutching a ninja mask in his right hand.

"The Dragonguard's told us about you guys. I heard of you before, but I thought you were just a myth; Shugosha Sentai Zyutrooper." Owlin said. "That was the old me. I came to Tamriel seeking a new life. I loved defending my home, but when I got the chance to rest I took it." Toshiro explained. "So why did you bring that suit?" Owlin asked. "Since the Dragonguard disbanded the team they let us keep our suits, and as you saw; that was a good idea after all." Toshiro answered. "We're training our own team and we need a trainer." Owlin explained.

"I told you, I'm not interested!" Toshiro rejected. "You've got…" "…a year and a day to consider, I was Dragonguard once. I know." Toshiro interrupted. He re-enters the elevator ignoring its condition and descends once more. Owlin conjured a walkie-talkie and puts it to his ear. "I need clean up here immediately with a replacement glass pane; you'll know the specs, and evidence removal." Owlin instructed.

He dons his ninja mask and disappears into the shadows.

To be continued…