BEN 10 X ANIME: KAMEN RIDER OMNI-X
CHAPTER 2: A SNOW PRINCESS, A HALF-BOILED DETECTIVE, AND A VAMPIRE
Mutation… where did it start?
Who's the culprit? Eon… I think it was accidental. Ultimatrix is supposed to be Ultimate Omnitrix yet it wasn't durable enough. Eon's time rays destroyed the Ultimatrix and the DNA data from Primus were all combined with my DNA, even putting me into a coma. When I was awakened, my entire left hand had already mutated.
As I woke up from my long sleep of a good night, I grabbed the bandages on the table next to my bed and wrapped them around my arm so that people wouldn't be frightened by the appearance of my hand.
It had been months since I had to start wearing a new Omnitrix.
My left arm looked ugly… Or was it pretty? Its outer skin layer is a combination of the skins of at least 90 different species. Well, my fingertips are made of Celestialsapien skin. If you think Celestialsapein hybrid fingers are useful, how the heck am I supposed to use them? Thanks to them, I don't need to take care of my nails anymore, though.
Oh, I got a useful alien mutation on my palm, yes. It's a water hazard's hose hole. Now I can easily water the plants in my family's garden. And drink water anytime I want.
My archenemy Eon had been taken down by Ben Prime… it was unbelievable that Ben Prime was 48 years old when I encountered him. Talk about space-time irrelevance.
Azmuth had to place another Omnitrix he had finished on my right wrist to control the mutation. My DNA is unstable but… it's lucky my parents didn't sign to cut my left arm off. Even if they cut it off, the new arm would be regenerated by the Methanosapien and Polymorph DNA in my body and nothing would change. My DNA itself is corrupted so the new arm will also be the same as my original mutated arm.
But it's nice, I don't feel uncomfortable with different sensitivities of the different portions of the skin. Azmuth was still searching for a way to cure me.
No… It was my fault – I refused to take off the Ultimatrix when Azmuth offered me his new creation.
AHHH! Let's just forget everything and start a new good morning!
Shaking my head to get it out of my head, I walked to the door and turned the knob.
As the door opened, I was greeted by the sight of two individuals who had the same face as me… No, it was… alternate Ben Tennysons.
First of all, he didn't have a f**king mutated arm.
The first Ben had black hair and mint green eyes.
His outfit was a black jacket with green linings, a scarf around his neck, a black shirt, and dark green pants. He bore an evil smirk on his face, with his hands stuffed in the pockets of his pants.
The other Ben had brown hair and green eyes… the exact same as my hair and eyes.
He wore a green jacket (the one I used to wear when I was in my prime) and blue pants. He bore an enthusiastic expression.
"Greetings… Ben 2041…" Black-haired Ben began.
I widened my eyes in surprise.
"Hmm… how did you–"
"Uh? This guy here is…" Black-haired said, pointing behind at the other Ben. "... Ben 2040."
"To elaborate further," Ben 2040 said. "I am from Universe 2040 and your universe is 2041."
"I know that much!" I yelled at them.
The black-haired Ben leaned forward, examining my bandaged left arm. "Hmm, I am Bad Ben, nice to meet you."
Bad… B-b-bad Ben… uh, crap… why is he here?
"B-bad Ben?" I retreated from my spot out of shock, staring at "Bad Ben" in disbelief.
"Yeah, or they called me so," he nonchalantly said, removing the bandages from my arm. "Don't worry. I am evil."
"You can call him Polygamous Ben," Ben 2040 joking said. That earned him a punch from Bad Ben.
"Polygamous…" I muttered… As I realized the meaning, I looked up at Bad Ben, disgusted.
I mean, come on, I don't know how many spouses this guy's got but…
Then Bad Ben furiously explained.
"I AM NOT POLYGAMOUS! I am not even married. Come on, yes, many girls claim that they like me. And what? It goes the same for you, too, two thousand and forty Ben!"
"S-sorry but… you've got… like eight. And I've got only four."
Hmm, doesn't it just mean they've got harems? How moronic can these guys be?
Bad Ben didn't argue with Ben 2040 anymore at that point. He turned towards me.
"Let's get down to business," he said with a serious face. "Please let us in."
"Oh, ok," I sweatdropped as they acted strangely gentlemanly when they entered my room.
"Ben 2041!" Bad Ben said, gripping my shoulders. "The multiverse needs you."
Silence took over the room.
"Excuse me?"
"The universe needs you."
"Wait, "multiverse" and "universe" are two different things, dude," I said.
But Bad Ben was unfazed. His delinquent appearance was so intimidating I couldn't rebel against his grip anymore.
Ben 2040 smiled awkwardly as his friend continued with a straight face.
"Ahem," he finally released my shoulders. "Ben Prime, I mean, Ben Zero recreated several universes which were outside of our multiverse."
"And?"
"He screwed up. He fused two different multiverses together and now… The resulting multiverse is in danger."
"Yes," Ben 2040 stepped in. "They need you, Ben 2041. You need to save the worlds from evil!"
I raised my eyebrows at the duo. "But, look, it's impossible. I've got this," I said pointing at my left arm. "I couldn't even fight Eon… Well, without Ben Prime coming to save my ass, I would've been a goner."
Bad Ben laughed dryly at my confession.
"No, don't worry, kid. When we were around your age, we also went on adventurers…" (Bad Ben)
"... got summoned to random universes…" (Ben 2040)
"... Yeah, it was so fun…"
"... I can't disagree."
Promoting skill Lvl 100+.
I narrowed my eyes, uninterested in the crap they had mentioned.
"Can you leave now?"
The two Bens looked at each other.
"Wait, isn't Ben Tennyson supposed to be a hero of heroes!?" (Bad Ben)
"Yeah, and? I am not the hero of every universe in existence."
"Sure you are not," Ben 2040 commented nonchalantly.
I rolled my eyes. "Not my point, but I won't be saving the random universe. You can go tell Ben Prime about it."
I don't wanna take a risk while my body is in an unstable condition.
Ban 2040 facepalmed in Bad Ben's back.
"We two have also saved two universes." (Ben 2040)
"I kinda have done it, but you haven't, two thousand forty." (Bad Ben)
Ben 2040 furiously growled at his partner.
"Um, did you guys save "universes" and not "multiverse" ?"
"Yeah, what's with it?"
I stared at them with a deadpan face.
"You are asking so much of me..."
"We've got no choice, two zero four one boy," Bad Ben held my shoulders in a brotherly manner.
"Yeah... the deed shall be done as soon as we can!" Ben 2040 said, holding up a fist as if he were protesting.
I shook my head gently, not wanting to accept that these two idiots were my alternate versions.
"Alright, if you two agree to help me, I will do it."
I finally had to accept the quest.
"That's the spirit, boy," Bad Ben encouraged me.
"But we have something to give you before you go..." Ben 2040 elbowed Bad Ben as an alarm.
"Ouch, what is that for!?"
"Give it to him. Hurry."
Bad Ben opened his jacket and handed a belt to me.
It was... the same belt I am wearing today as a Kamen Rider.
Omni-belt.
"What is this?" I would ask.
"My most advanced creation. Omni-X Driver!" Bad Ben answered.
"What a nerd..." Ben 2040 rolled his eyes, refusing to make eye contact with Bad Ben for some reason.
"Shut up. Anyway, this belt can allow you to access Kamen Rider powers!"
"Kamen Rider... powers...?" I looked up at Bad Ben.
"Yeah," Ben 2040 explained. "In other universes, the conditions between aliens and humans aren't as good as they are in our multiverse. Therefore,..."
"I intend to entrust this to you. Make good use of the enormous power and save the multiverse!" (Bad Ben)
When you put it like that... I was motivated by his inspirational speech.
"OK!"
"I will show you how to use this thing. Put it on your waist–"
And so the duo taught me how to utilize the Omni-X driver or Omni-belt.
I came to learn from Bad Ben that when he was summoned to another world as a hero, he would get a "transmutation" ability. He used his aliens and skills to make this piece of the magnificent creation.
"Wow..."
On the other hand, Ben 2040 was a shield hero. He gave me an upgrade in my Omnitrix called –
"Inter-dimensional transportation. A function that can transport you to a different reality," he explained as he inserted a crystal into the Omnitrix, which consumed the entire crystal.
"It comes into handy when you have to travel to different worlds. 2040 will also give you access to a data bank that keeps the information about the points in spacetime where you can find the Kamen rider universes. Oh, I also added dimensional inventory to the Omni-X driver. It's useful, try it later."
"Good Luck, 2041," Ben 2040 said, hugging me. "We will also come to help you if you summon us."
"It's a cool feat, 2040!" Bad Ben said.
"Mmm, thanks, guys." (Me)
"No need," Bad Ben said, smirking wryly as he snapped his fingers to summon a portal. "You are taking on the quest on our behalf anymore."
"What?"
And so they disappeared into the portal which also vanished later, leaving the confused me behind.
I sighed as I looked down at the Omni-X driver in my hands.
"Now, what am I supposed to do?"
I looked into the mirror.
"Oh, yeah, I save people."
I picked up the bandages and wrapped them around my hand again.
"I am a hero after all.".
-(TRANSITION)-
Present time — Lunch.
The afternoon of the day I have been employed as a teacher at Sobu High.
I go on a sneaky tour around the school buildings to know the position of the buildings and classrooms.
As I walk toward the tennis grounds, I coincidentally find Hikigaya sitting on the outside.
"Hikigaya-kun, do you eat your lunch here?"
Hachiman is enjoying his lunchtime with a loaf of bread, a box of juice, and sea breeze from Tokyo Bay.
For reference, Sobu High is not far from Tokyo Bay.
He looks up at me with a rather disinterested look.
"Oh, it's you," he nonchalantly says. "I didn't know you were a teacher here."
From the looks of it, I suppose he remembers that I am his neighbor.
"Nah, I just started today. Let's get along, Hikigaya-kun."
He silently nods at me since he can't respond verbally because of the mouthful of bread he is chewing.
Taking a sip on the juice, his attention is grabbed by a tennis match and beams... somewhat creepily as if he is enjoying his own inner monologues.
The players look dedicated in their match. I can't distinguish who the leader is but the members sure look eager about winning.
"Watching a match like this... it's exciting, right?"
Hachiman never responds. But his grin lets me know that he is thinking something deeply.
Even though he looks like a delinquent student, he actually pays attention in class. Or that's at least what I think. I can see that in him... maybe sometimes... we are two sides of the same coin.
"Oh hey, Hikki!"
My thoughts are interrupted by a cheerful girly voice that calls out to Hikigaya's nickname.
Wait... a girl... who calls him by a nickname?
"Um?"
He scowls in annoyance for a moment, perhaps because of the nickname. But he quickly hides it as he tilts his head to see the owner of the voice.
"What are you doing out here?" She asks... curiously.
It is an orange-haired girl from Class 2-F, the same as Hachiman's.
Heck. This girl is the polar opposite example of Hikigaya Hachiman.
But... wait, what? I thought Hachiman was a loner! He's got a girlfriend who calls him by a cute nickname.
No, impossible. I've been stalking– I mean, investigating him for a while and never heard that he's got a girlfriend.
If anything, he may be a sis-con.
"I always eat lunch here," he nonchalantly answers.
"Why? Why not eat in the classroom?"
Pick up a hint or two, girly.
As far as I have investigated Hikki, well, that question would sound insensitive.
But he doesn't answer the question. Instead…
"What're you doing out here?" he asks the girl the same question.
Suddenly... the girl has finally recognized me who has been "eavesdropping" on their chat.
"Oh, Hello, Tennyson-sensei," she greets me, respectfully bowing her head.
"Hello, Yuigahama Yui-san."
[A/N - the Japanese equivalent of Hello is likely Konnichiwa. Kun and San are Japanese honorifics. I don't know Japanese but I based how Ben addressed his students on Izuku Midoriya.]
Yuigahama's eyes slightly widened in genuine astonishment.
"You actually remembered me!? Oh sorry, don't mind me. You may be new but you must have memorized the names."
I didn't memorize the names though. It was just a pure coincidence that I saw her eyeing Hachiman in class and then I picked up the book she dropped and captured her name. Pure coincidence!
Well, I am suspecting that she's got hots for Hachiman even if these two aren't an item.
But I can't just bring up how I came to know her name.
"Uh, yeah. Ignore me, I'm here just to watch the tennis match," I lied to her.
The hikki boy will probably suspect something but I ignore his dead-fish eyes gazing at me. I turn around and watch the tennis match. Surprisingly, she actually ignores my presence and starts a conversation with Hikki boy.
But guess what? Hikigaya seems to be open and friendly with the girl.
No, "friendlier" is more accurate. Say, I don't know him enough to judge his habits, but I have figured out that he acts "friendlier" to Yuigahama than anyone else.
But... yeah, Yuigahama probably considers this pathetic loner as her love interest. If she does, I can't imagine how painful she feels while dealing with the boy. He is on a totally different level.
Man, I bet he can't pick up a hint that this girl is in love with him, lol.
Damn, it's not my place to say. I just remembered how dense I had been when I was 15-17. I didn't even find out that those girls were in love with me. Heck, I was under the assumption that they were only playing around with me.
It's depressing so I'm gonna forget it for now.
"Well, you know," she totally looks eager to explain things to Hachiman. "I totally lost a bet against Yukinon, so it's like, loser pays up."
"So you have to talk to me?"
Hachiman shows his annoyance in words and action: he moves away from the girl.
"N-no, no!" the girl stammers with her hands waving in shock, desperately refusing. "Loser buys drinks! That's all!"
Hmm, I've heard that most smart boys in the anime universes are dense and dumb when it comes to romance things. And it's amusing to witness a moment of the "dense" boy.
Spying on them seems fun and interesting to me. Alright, Benjamin, keep tabs on Yuigahama, too.
Hikigaya averts his eyes from Yuigahama, probably feeling embarrassed. But... he shoots a short glare at me.
"At first, Yukinon was all like, "I can acquire my own nourishment by myself. I fail to see how satisfying a faint lust for conquest can bring any true satisfaction," and didn't want to do it at first."
"Yeah, sounds like her," Hachiman replies with an uninterested tone.
"But after I said, "Don't think you can win?" she agreed to it."
She is so eager that she ignores the fact that Hachiman is annoyed.
"Sounds like her."
Yuigahama is acting cheerful and happy about the game she has played with her friend.
"I've done this kind of thing a lot with my friends but this is the first time I've thought it was fun."
"Friends?" Hachiman exposes his fangs. "Hmph, freaking in-games."
"Hey, come on," Yuigahama tries to stop her friend from falling into the abyss. "Don't tell me you don't like them."
But Hachiman likes to stay in the shadows. he just doesn't climb up from the abyss.
"Obviously. I hate in-games and in-jokes," he answers before smiling and continuing. "But, I do like in-fighting. Because I'm not "in.""
This time, Yuigahama looks disappointed.
"Wait, aren't you always making in-jokes with Yukinon? Sometimes I can't just break in."
"Yukinoshita is an anomaly," Hachiman explains. "She is inevitable. I can't break out."
Yukinoshita, huh? Hmm, who's that? Is she by chance related to Kamen Rider Drive? Kamen Rider Yukinoshita?
I don't think I've ever heard of Kamen Rider Yukinoshita, but... I am kinda interested.
I mean, my loner "student" has got two friends. I'm gonna include her name in the list to investigate. I should find out about her background.
"What does that mean?"
"It means unable to be avoided," he bluntly responds. "Sorry, I used some big words there."
"Not like that!" Yuigama claims. "I know what that word meant! Don't treat me like an idiot. I passed the entrance exam for Soubu High, you know!"
She throws some soft punches into Hachiman who doesn't flinch but then she strikes his nape causing him to groan in pain.
"Hey, Hikki, while we are on topic…" ignoring the fact that Hachiman is still struggling to catch his breath, she continues. "Do you remember the entrance ceremony?"
I slightly tilt my head to see Hikigaya's reaction, accidentally making eye contact with him in the process. But his eyes ignore me.
"Ow… No, I was in a car accident that day."
Ouch, it would have been hurt.
"A-accident? Was that…"
Hmm... oh, now I remember it, Hikigaya once runs into a car to save a dog.
This can lead to an interesting development in the story of Hachiman but I don't suppose he would care. But I am getting the feeling that Yuigahama knows something about that accident.
"Huh?" this is his reaction.
Unfortunately, the conversation is interrupted by a third voice. I click my tongue quietly out of impatience as I turn to see who the antagonist of Hachiman's love story is.
A silver-haired young girl of a mid-height, in a tracksuit, approaches the duo. Though it isn't gym class time but lunchtime, she has a tennis racket with her and she seems all sweaty. I am guessing she has just played tennis.
As I continue pretending as if I don't care about the duo and silver-haired girl but the tennis match, my attention, nonetheless, is still directed at the trio.
Hmm... Asian girls are cute in their own way. Even compared to Yuigahama, the tennis girl is still cuter. Wait, TF, dude. I am a teacher now. Snap out of it! I don't want to look at my students that way.
What I am interested in is if she is from Hachiman's class. I think I saw her during Hiratsuka sensei's lecture.
"Oh, Sai-chan!?" Yuigahama greets him. "Yo!"
Sai-chan, huh? Hmm, noted.
"Yo," Sai-chan responds. "What are you two doing here?"
Hikigaya looks up at "Sai-chan" with the usual disinterested eyes.
"Nothing, really," Yuigahama immediately answers. "You practicing, Sai-chan?"
"Yeah."
"You practice at the club and during lunch, and you picked tennis for the gym too, right? Must be hard on you."
"No, I play tennis because I like it."
I hope there are such diligent students during my class, too.
"While we're on the topic, Hikigaya-Kun)" Hachiman has somehow gained her attention. "You're pretty good at tennis, right?"
Before he can respond, Yuigahama interrupts them.
"Is he good?"
"Yeah!" Sai-chan answers. "His form is spectacular!"
Hachiman rubs the back of his head, flushed.
"Wow, you are making me blush," he laughs dryly. Then … "Who're you again?"
"What!" it surprised Yuigahama. "We're in the same class. I can't believe you!"
Sai-chan quietly giggles at her loner classmate.
Sorry, but your teacher here doesn't know her name, too.
Then she averts her eyes from Hachiman and Yuigahama, blushing even redder than Hachiman was.
"I'm Totsuka Saika from your class," she introduces herself.
But I can't believe that Hachiman takes the occasions with girls well enough.
"Er, sorry, I don't really talk much with girls."
Not just girls. I have been a teacher here only for a day. But neither boys nor girls have yet to speak to Hachiman.
"I'm a boy."
She… er, well, he clarifies his gender.
Oh... this is... unexpected. Though not looking at the trio, I cringed, struggling to maintain my composure.
Hikigaya's reaction is priceless. His normally half-opened eyes are now almost popping out, with his jaw dropped.
And I feel like I was gonna run on the tennis field.
Somehow... she has become aware of my presence.
"Um, are you… the new assistant teacher of Hiratsuka-sensei?"
Saika asks with genuine innocence in his eyes.
"Yea, it's me."
"You also like tennis, sensei?" He asks in an enthusiastic tone.
"Oh, yea, a bit," damn I can't lie at a tennis hobbyist's face. "I prefer soccer though."
[A/N- I think it's football in Japan and soccer in America. But no worries, the Omnitrix would perfectly translate soccer into an understandable Japanese version.]
The soccer thing isn't a lie. I played soccer until the mutation incident.
"I see, oh and Hikigaya-kun, um… will you join me for practice?"
I look back at Hachiman who blinks at a surprise invitation.
But... their conversation is interrupted by a ring.
And it is not a phone.
Hachiman takes out a mini car – apparently, one of the mini-cars that are used as levers in Kamen Rider Drive's bracelet – that is ringing like a telephone. The mini-car is green and has a design of a truck.
"Hachiman!"
I immediately recognize Mr. Belt's voice that calls out to Hachiman.
"Sorry! Got a call!"
He enters the building and starts running.
Bot Totsuka and Yuigahama are left confused, staring blankly at the door.
Where did he go...
If Mr. Belt calls him, it must be an emergency case.
I silently walk into the building and examine my surroundings. No one is around. And no CCTV is deployed.
"BIG CHILL..."
Now… where is he?
"There is an abandoned factory near an old car yard on the outskirts of Tokyo," Mr. Belt seems to be explaining the situation to Hikigaya.
I finally found him in a secret room in the back of the faculty office.
He opens a door that leads to a staircase.
"Say, Mr. Belt. What's the matter?"
He talks to the mini-car, holding it near his face as he runs down the stairs.
It is an underground car pit with a familiar red racing car.
Hmm, seems like they built this under the school.
It is a facility full of mini-cars and Kamen Rider equipment. There is a sword with a small steering wheel as its handguard, and a red gun that looks like a car door.
And the mini-cars are of different shapes and colors, most of them have 2 pairs of wheels while a green truck-like car, that was supposedly used in the battle against me, has 3 pairs of wheels. Oh, there is a firefighter truck, too. And a dump truck, an off-roader, and a monster truck.
And there is a movable stand that accommodates Mr. Belt.
"A new roidmude was detected during a patrol in the town. His ability is electricity and technology."
The emote icon on Mr. Belt's display looks disturbed.
"Go on."
"I think he is planning a massive blackout by absorbing or cutting off all the power in the town and unleashing a bomb in return."
Hachiman Hikigaya opens his eyes wide and grabs the car door handle. He looks surprisingly determined.
Well, Kamen Riders aren't your average people, as I have seen. They are quirky individuals that stand out among the crowd with weird traits. Many of them can be assumed as heroes. But still, some look for profits for themselves relying on their powers.
"Let's not waste time."
He opens the door and gets in the driver's seat. Then he starts the engine.
-(SKIP)-
Invisible as Big Chill, I follow the Drive's car without his consent.
Hachiman enters the premises of an old wreckage car park and parks his car just after the entrance.
"Be careful, Hachiman," the Belt warns as he is taken by Hachiman who later wears the belt on his waist.
Hachiman says nothing back but nods in response.
Wait... that is...
A child… wait, it's the same child who asked the scientist-like man to fix his robot toy.
The child is bound by countless wires that have wrapped around his body, keeping him unmovable on a small stage. His face is exposed but his body is overwhelmed by the wires of different colors and sizes that conceal his body.
There is a grey metal plate above his head that bears a disc with a circuit-like surface. There also are bolts on the structure that holds the wires and the disc together.
I de-transform and appear behind Hachiman, patting his shoulder. He almost jumps out of shock but he immediately recognizes me. First, he narrows his eyes glaring at me suspiciously. Then he rolls his eyes in disappointment.
"Why are you here?"
I smile as I look past him at the kid.
"Don't get me wrong, I am not a villain or anything."
"Figures," he mutters. Hachiman's calculating eyes suggest that he is so well able to read people. Wearing a facade before this guy is useless.
"Rescue first, talk later," my order is taken well, Hachiman nods in response and approaches the boy.
But the electricity sparks and sends Hachiman flying towards me, causing both of us to fall to the ground.
"Crap," he curses as he gets up from the ground.
"Onii-san!"
A weak voice of the boy calls out to Hikigaya. He looks at the boy and grits his teeth in misery.
"Don't touch it, Hachiman!" Krim Steinbelt warns. "There's a lot of electricity built up in there."
Hachiman raises an eyebrow and responds with a deadpan tone.
"So this is the atmospheric discharge machine that caused a fire last night?"
"Wait, this thing caused the incident last night?" I ask in surprise.
I did investigate the fire area but couldn't figure out the cause.
"Who are you?" The Belt questions with a scowl on his emote display.
"He is our new teacher," Hachiman says, with his eyes not averting from the kid. "I don't know how he followed us though."
"Hmm. It sounds like he knows who we are."
"Sorry about that, Mr. Krim Steinbelt." (me)
Krim looks surprised. Before we can continue our talk, I hear a sound. The sound of something flying at high speed.
"Look out!" I yell, dragging my student some steps backward.
A bat-like roidmude enters the facility flying through the air and grabs the disc on the machine where the kid is contained. And he returns the disc to a familiar grey-haired scientist-like man in a white lab coat. Overall his impression is more like a mad scientist.
The grey-haired man greets us with a creepy smile.
"An interesting development," Hachiman remarks. "You are that electric guy."
"Yes!" the man proudly answers. "I am Volt. That is the name I obtained when I evolved."
He also adds a creepy laugh at the end of his speech and then is engulfed in blue energy for a second. The glowing light dies down to reveal a monstrous form of him.
Yes, he evolved. His shape isn't anything like an average roidmude – a bat, a spider, or a viper. He doesn't even have a number plate on his torso, instead, it is an orange core. His body is composed of wires, coils, and bolts. The shell that covers each of his hands is also a huge acute bolt.
"I'd like to say I'm impressed you found this place… I was just a bit faster than you."
He declares proudly. Meanwhile, the electricity runs through the wire in the machine making the kid suffer.
Hachiman's disinterested look has now changed into a serious expression as he glares at the monster and his disciple. I am no less. Hurting a civilian… and a kid at that. My fists get itchy, I am gonna punch the hell out of him.
"The kid is gonna be burnt to a crisp, hahaha."
I grab the Hikki boy's shoulder to prevent him from charging blindly at the monster.
"Our priority is the kid," I whisper to him.
As a veteran hero, I understand so well that when lives are at stake, we need to keep cool and make sure everyone is safe.
Hikigaya froze for a minute before nodding in agreement.
Then he glares at the villain silently before taking out a mini-car from his pocket.
It is a green truck minicar.
"No one is gonna die," he declares as he slides the car into his bracelet. "As long as I'm here."
I give him a nod.
"Hahaha, what makes sure of that, the situation is in our favor," the monster says with a teasing tone.
Smirking wryly at the roidmude duo, I summon my Omni-X Driver around my waist.
But Hachiman couldn't care less about my belt and emblem on it because he is too worked up to rescue the kid.
"Mr. Belt, let's do it." (Hachiman)
"Alright, start your engine." (Krim Steinbelt)
"Henshin!"
(Henshin = Transform)
Hachiman lifts up the lever and pushes it down, followed by a kamen rider drive's henshin pose and transformation sequences.
"DRIVE: TYPE TECHNIC!"
Hachiman's armor is green and based on a truck, I guess. His helmet is different from several kamen rider forms.
"Nice outfit," I praise with a sarcastic tone as I put my right hand on my Omni-belt emblem.
Krim Steinbelt is now shocked to witness the green/ black hourglass symbol.
"That… that symbol is…"
"[FRANKENSTRIKE]"
Greenlight surrounds me and then vanishes to reveal the Frankenstrike rider armor.
Frankenstrike armor certainly looks bulkier compared to average rider armors. It has two bolts emerging from the back, which are supported by a backpack-like dark-green structure. Dark-green and black armor parts conceal the limbs and forearms on the silver bodysuit with a black circuit-like texture. The arm guards sport multiple small silver bolts on them.
The shoulder guards resemble the biceps of the Frankenstrike alien form (but possibly look more metallic) as they hang from my shoulder covering my biceps as well.
A black visor with two green oval shapes that resemble the eyes of Frankenstrike resides on my new helmet.
"You… are…" (Kirk Steinbelt)
"… OMNI-X." (Hachiman)
"Two Kamen riders? Whatever." (Volt)
I gesture to the Drive.
"You rescue, I will distract him. And, wanna change tires?"
"Huh?" (Hachiman)
I take out a mini-car that is painted black with green circuits on it and hand it to Hachiman.
"Use this. It will help you nullify the machine fast."
Hachiman has hesitated for a moment but later he grabs the car, turns it into a lever and inserts it into his bracelet.
Then he restarts the engine and lifts it up and down.
"TIRE CHANGE: UPGRADE!"
A blue portal appears mid-air and an all-black tire with green circuits escapes, floating and rolling its way in the air. It flies towards Bolt and his disciple, hitting them in the process and then directs its way towards Hachiman. The Technic tire is now replaced with the Mechamorph tire.
"How is it, Hachiman?" the Belt demands.
"Hey, I don't know how to use this," he shouts at me.
I have already charged towards the roidmude duo.
I punch the roidmudes in the face, who have been startled by the flying tire, each hit triggering an electrical overload in their body and exploding them into the wall.
"I don't know," I honestly answer.
"What!"
Yeah, it has yet to be tested because I don't have a Shift Brace.
"Nah, you go close to the boy and put your hands on the disc or wires or something. It will work. It has a mind of its own, I suppose."
I explain what I know as I throw another fist into Bolt.
"OK… Oh, it has tentacles. They are… overwhelming the machine. No, … It is possessing the machine!" (Hachiman)
"Good, the job will be done in seconds."
"Impossible!" the Volt monster exclaims as he counters my punches with his spikes.
He is too slow for the task… well, the battle becomes intense when he unleashes the slowdown.
My body begins to feel like it's in mud, extremely heavy and slow.
He strikes me with the spiked bolts that send me flying into the rubble.
"Hahahaha!"
Tsk. I de-transform and subsequently take the form of XLR8.
Kinecelerans aren't electro-based. I need a trick.
I charge at the monsters and rush a couple of kicks.
And then I assault them with my claws but their bio-metallic bodies are pretty hard to hurt.
Damn…
"Move!" (Hachiman)
I side-step and flying past me is a fire-braver mechanical hand that is colored red and white. It grabs Volt and lifts him in the air, then throws him towards his disciple.
Volt quickly recovers and hits his bolts together to emit electricity at us.
I get in the way, rush my transformation and absorb the electricity.
"FEEEEDDBAAACCK… daaammn it…. Is… hea… vy. AMPFIBIAN!"
The one defying the gravity itself is the better.
I float towards Volt and discharge the energy that I recently sucked in, thus overloading him.
Ampfibian is a blue jellyfish-like alien with white swipes on his body resembling lightning streaks, the main body with three-segmented skirt-like parts for his head, chest, and abdomen, and six long tentacles that function as two pairs of arms and a pair of legs.
Meanwhile, his disciple has escaped Hachiman and left the ground with lethal injuries, but I am too occupied with Volt to care about him.
His fists phase through my body as I turn intangible and then I return tangible again to strike him with electrified tentacle strikes.
But electricity meets electro-monster, nothing really happens. I hope it will overload his energy but I don't know his limits.
"Gravity!" Hachiman yells as he grabs a yellow mini-car that's incoming to him.
Man, this kid just orders me around, huh? I chuckle silently as I tap the Omnitrix emblem.
"GRAVATTACK!"
I create the gravitational field for myself to float mid-air and negate the effects of Slowdown.
Being a silicon-based lifeform, Gravattack is literally a living planet. He is a large, bulky, reddish-brown alien with rocky skin, a giant mouth with teeth that are also made of rocks, and a molten lava planet core at the center of his body. His feet are tan with three toes, and he has three fingers and one thumb on each hand. He wears black shorts with green stripes, a green belt with white stripes, and the Omnitrix symbol on his forehead.
"You are huge!" Hachiman exclaims, sliding the mini-car in the bracelet.
Roughly 12 feet, Four Arms can go cry in a corner.
I bear a creepy smile as I form a force field around the monster, restraining him.
"TIRE CHANGE: ROLLING GRAVITY!"
A metallic-looking tire with a black tread and a yellow sidewall strikes the Volt monster and replaces the fire-braver tire.
Suddenly, a weight of 10 tons appears in his right hand, making him almost fall to the ground.
But after that, he is not fazed lifting a 10-ton weight.
"Now!"
Hachiman signals as he throws the weight before the roidmude that I captured.
I quickly switch and drop the roidmude and put more gravity on 10-ton weight by pressing it to the earth.
An intense gravitational field appears and destroys the Roidmude in the process.
"AHHHHH~"
Alright, we're gonna stop the scene here.
"NICE DRIVE!" (followed by horns)
We both cancel our transformation – in my case, it is an alien form.
"Now, care to explain what exactly you are?"
Krim Steinbelt questions me with an impatient tone.
"Let's get back to your hideout, first."
Without a driver on it, the red racing car of Hachiman runs on the path and gets closer to pick us up.
"Your car is awesome!"
"Actually this is Hiratsuka-sensei's car," Hachiman clarifies. His eyes have reverted to a pair of dead fish eyes.
"This is called the Tridoron!" Steinbelt says proudly. "Well, I had a thing for vehicles, especially car collecting, when I was– younger. I designed this car by myself."
I don't question if he were… once a human. But I am getting the feeling he was. It is positive that he sounds way too human to be an AI.
When we get in the car, Hachiman takes off the belt and places it in the middle of the dashboard which is specifically made for Mr. Belt.
"How original…"
Hachiman shrugs as he push-starts the car. I don't question if he's got a license because Tridoron without a driver moves just fine.
A couple of minutes later.
In the Tridoron hideout assemble Hachiman Hikigaya aka Kamen Rider Drive, Shizuka Hiratsuka the owner of Tridoron, Mr. Krim Steinbelt on his stand and me.
Hiratsuka-sensei being my senior (senpai) at work, I know she is nice on juniors, but from the looks of it, she is pretty harsh on Hachiman. Or probably this is only the hallow sight on the first day so I choose not to comment on it.
Hiratsuka crosses her arms and judges me with her glares on my body while Hachiman reacts to his teacher's behavior with sweat drops.
"Omni-X, give me one good reason why you saved that monster?"
I so well know whom she meant.
"No, I didn't spare him, Drive did finish him."
I dodge the question, putting on a dumbfounded face as I stare into her eyes. Yet, I felt my left eye twitching.
Taking a look at the documents, she sighs.
"Tennyson Shinnosuke, full name – Shinnosuke Benjamin Kirby "Ben" Tennyson. Coming from America, other than that, nothing special is mentioned. Age 23. And you teach Modern Japanese even though you are an American."
"My Grandpa is Japanese."
"Where does he live?"
"Er… New York."
Sorry, Grandpa Max, you are Japanese now.
She eyes me suspiciously for a moment then drops her tough front and nods.
"Anyway, do you by chance know a Kamen Rider called Mach? He is also in America."
I roll my eyes and then pretend to think for a while.
"Unfortunately, no, I don't."
"Oh, OK."
So, he must be the secondary rider of Kamen Rider Drive.
"Do you have anything else to tell us?"
No, I am not gonna tell them that I am actually the one who screwed up this universe. It would probably earn me a rider kick.
"Are you sure you're not here for evil purposes?" she questions me straight out.
"I can assure you I am not… a bad guy, at least. But I am here to correct my mistakes."
I mutter the last part.
"Hmm? Alright, we will keep an eye on you, anyway. But, kouhai (junior),..."
Her hands grip my shoulders.
"Y-yeah…"
"I will forgive you this time. Next time if you're gonna skip work, at least… tell me, OK?"
My eyes can't really defend myself from her glare.
"Oh… O-Okay."
Mr. Belt moves his stand closer to us.
"Shizuka-san, how about… we assign him to the Volunteer Club's assistant advisor?"
Assistant Advisor? Does such a role exist? No, I must have screwed up this part, too.
Hiratsuka-senpai only grips tighter on my shoulders as she smirks.
Then, she nudges my back.
"It's decided! You have to assist me in the club works, too!"
"Wha–"
Evening, after-school club time.
The signboard of the clubroom has nothing but a sticker on one side, while the other side is blank.
Hachiman led me to the club in which Hachiman is a member and Hiratsuka-senpai tagged along with us.
Sitting on a chair in the room, alone, is a beautiful teenage girl of average height and slim build. She has fair skin, long black hair that spills over her shoulders and down to her waist, and a single tuff of hair that lays flat atop her head. Adorning her hair are two red ribbons just above each shoulder. Her most striking feature is a pair of large, piercing blue eyes.
"Yukinoshita, I am coming in," Hiratsuka-sensei says, walking into the clubroom.
Wait, is that Yukinoshita?
I lean close to Hachiman and whisper.
"Is she a Kamen Rider? Or related to a rider, somehow?"
Hachiman raises an eyebrow at the question and laughs dryly, lacking humor.
"Neither is true," he mutters and follows his teacher into the room.
Well, maybe she has a brother who lives in America and returns to Japan… and…
Boom, I am the Kamen Rider Mach.
"Who's he, sensei?"
"This gentleman will help you guys with the club. His name is Tennyson Shinnosuke, he came from America."
What is this feeling… why do I feel like I have entered a lion cave?
"Nice to meet you, I am Shinnosuke. Just "Sensei" is fine, too."
-(TRANSITION)-
Standing atop a building, I look up at the rooftop of a taller building in the distance.
Now I have established the relationship with Kamen Rider Drive and his team. So… it's the time…
To find new allies.
Who said there is only one Kamen Rider in this world?
On the roof floor of one of the tallest buildings in the town, a boy leans on the railing, his eyes scanning the entire town to make sure nothing endangers the humanity for today. If you judge him from his eyes, you will think
He looks like he's in his early 20s and possesses emerald green eyes. He wears a black hat, black vest, a white dress shirt, and black pants. He is about 180 cm tall.
The door behind him slams open and a boy walks out.
"Hey, Houtarou, let's go back already. Chitanda-san is waiting"
The owner of a voice is a boy who stands 170 cm. He has short spiky hair and dark brown eyes. His outfit is a light-blue hoodie with a green hood folded on the back and blue pants.
"Fukube…"
"Hmm, what's that?"
Houtarou narrows his eyes as he concentrates his gaze at a particular building.
"I think I just saw a fishy person… forget it. He's gone."
"Mmm, okay. Let's go."
Houtarou finally lets go of the railing. "Alright."
He looks at the setting sun for the last time today.
It's his duty to look over the whole city.
I chuckle, looking at his back, and revert my Chamalian form to my human self.
"These two will be interesting… Houtarou Oreki, and Satoshi Fukube…"
"Ben Tennyson…"
I am startled by a musculine voice that calls my name from behind.
It is… a man who is assumably in his late 40s, and wears a long coat with a dress shirt underneath it and a hat.
"Hmm, Narutaki? What do you want?"
He looks angry. "It's his fault!"
"Whose?"
"Decade–"
"Oh, come on!"
-(TRANSITION)-
"Fangires have allied themselves with Roidmudes to revive the fangire queen…"
The information he has gained today is taking a toll on him. Therefore, he looks up at his comrade, feeling disappointed by his own failure to take care of the fangire queen.
"I didn't know they still had means to resurrect the queen… sorry."
"It's okay, Masamune-kun," she tries to relax his mind. "It will be okay. When the time comes, we will defeat her again."
Masamune is a tall and handsome boy who is 19 years old. He has black hair, blue eyes, and an athelic build.
"Thanks, Jin-san," he replies and grabs the glass of orange juice on the table.
Jin-san is also a handsome tall womanizer with glasses. He wears a dark blue jacket over a black shirt and dark blue pants.
"No need, three days later they will abduct the girl. So we must eliminate her."
"Of course," Masamune drinks the whole mug of juice, pausing his sentence midway. "Otherwise, the humanity will be doomed.
Narutaki and I are watching them from the outside of the coffee shop.
"That Jin boy had at least 25 girlfriends when he was 17," Narutaki said, adding a click of his tongue at the end of the sentence.
"Don't give me unnecessary information," I reply with a deadpan voice, adjusting my binoculars to have a better look at the duo.
"Either way, I am sure Decade will disturb you guys on the day the girl is kidnapped," he warns me. "Be careful."
Narutaki is a mysterious individual and the only known person (other than me) who is outside of the Kamen Rider X Anime multiverse. I don't know his origins, but I am weirdly acquainted with him.
I throw the binoculars into the inventory portal. "I will be careful, Narutaki. You don't need to warn me."
-(TRANSITION)-
Grr, I am used up. I throw myself onto the sofa as soon as I arrive home.
"Zero-chan?" Yes, we decided on the name "Zero." Because she has been reborn, she possesses nothing, and she is restarting her life.
Zero — a blonde girl I am living with. She is a girl with great enthusiasm and eager to learn many things that humans do. Sorry, but I can't really teach her everything.
For now, she is probably in the kitchen. She may be trying to cook the recipes she has found on the internet.
"Hai?! Are you back already? Welcome home!"
She runs out of the kitchen to the living room where I am taking a rest.
Hmm… AHHH! She is wearing nothing but an apron. At first, I was terrified. Then as soon as I recover the ability to think rationally, I want to ask where she read about this style.
"H-ha… Zero-chan…"
"Would you like dinner? Or a bath? Or… would you like me?"
Sure, she possesses a gorgeous body… which now the apron leaves little to the imagination. The pink apron with reddish-pink linings tightly hugs her body, thus her curves are easily exposed.
AHHH! Zero-chan is acting strange. Where is my Zero-chan!?
Wait, maybe I am so tired that I am hallucinating… haha, yeah, it's a rational answer. Zero-chan would never–
"Tennyson-kun!" She suddenly pouts at me for some reason. "I said would you like–"
Suddenly, I remember how to drive her away from me.
"Hey, Zero-chan, weren't you cooking in the kitchen?"
Her eyes widen in horror and begin running to the kitchen.
A sigh of relief escapes my mouth as I stare at her back, forgetting she is naked at the time.
Am I gonna be okay with this? How am I supposed to teach this little airhead!?
… … … …
"You saved me. You are my hero.
So allow me to repay you
with my body,Tennyson-kun."
- Zero-chan after reading a light novel -
-(TRANSITION)-
"A wise man once said, "When you work, you lose."
To labor is to take on risk and obtain a return.
Thus, my decision not to work and instead enter the household is not only valid but also absolutely and positively legitimate.
And so, for the upcoming workplace visit, I wish to visit my own home, where a full-time stay-at-home husband does his work."
That was Hiratsuka-senpai reading Hachiman's essay out loud.
A corner of the faculty office is set up as a reception area. In front of me are a glass-topped table and a black leather sofa. And an enraged teacher and a dead-fish-eyed student.
Hachiman was assigned to write a workplace visit survey,... But… well, in short, he has screwed it up, not nailed it.
I can't contain my urge to laugh anymore…
"Hahaha… ah haha, help me, senpai… I can't stop laugh– Ouch!"
Senpai suddenly stands up from her seat and punches me in the guts. Crap, failsafes are not activating…
This… must be the infamous "Cyber Punch."
Hikigaya cringes at the sight as I fall to the floor, groaning in pain.
She then turns towards her poor student with dead-fish eyes.
"You do know what I'm going to say," she begins.
"No…" Hachiman averts his gaze from his student.
"Huh?" She begins clenching each of the digits of her right hand, the sound of "cracks" coming out of her joints. "You didn't tell me that you have no idea, now, did you?"
"No… no way I wouldn't understand! Is what I am going to say!" He quickly corrects himself. "I wasn't going to say no! I understand! I'll write it over! Don't punch me!"
Hachiman seems to have learned from my example.
No way you are getting away without earning a punch, Hachiman.
I regain my strength and stand up behind the sofa that Hiratsuka-senpai is sitting on.
"You got that right," senpai finally retracts her legs from the table. "I thought you'd changed. Hasn't the time you spent in the service club changed you at all?"
Hachiman acts cheeky again as soon as his teacher's temper has decreased.
"Of course, my motto is — Always stick your guns, so… tee~hee~"
A vein pops out on her face.
"You must fix him with a whack, senpai," I whisper to her from behind. "Like fixing a TV."
"Hey, you evil! What are you whispering to my innocent sensei?" he says. "And by the way, TV these days are so thin, so you can't whack them like the old ones. Maybe when you are at about sensei's age–"
"Shocking First Bullet!"
A fist is thrown right into his guts. He lets out an "Ouch!" and leans on the sofa, his consciousness fading away.
"If you don't wanna taste the Annihilating Second Bullet," she warns him. "You should stop talking."
He gasps. "I-I apologize… Please spare me the Exterminating Last Bullet."
"S-CRY-ed is a good show. I'm glad you caught on, Hikigaya. And you, Tennyson, stop lying about your age. You are only a year or two older than Hikigaya, right?"
"Ha, but my age is still half your– Ouch!" And so the one who earns the second bullet is me.
Struggling to stand on my feet, I look back at the punching lady. "You are so mean, senpai."
She finally sits down on her sofa, looking satisfied.
"Prepare yourself to find three classmates, Hikigaya," she says. "I forgot to tell you. The workplace visit is going to be in groups of three. So start thinking of a few people."
"I certainly wouldn't want any of my classmates to defile my sweet home."
Oh, poor Hikigaya. Do you even have friends…
"Are you still going on about homemaking?"
-(BREAK)-
"Sometimes, kindness can be cruel."
- Yukino Yukinoshita to Hachiman Hikigaya -
Yukino Yukinoshita — Class 2-J. Sobu High.
Yukinoshita is one of the few people Hachiman can recognize despite his lack of interest in other people. Yeah, she is quite popular.
Black hair. Blue eyes. Her black hair is long enough to reach her waist. She is beautiful possessing average height and slim build.
She is also the president of the volunteer club of which Hiratsuka senpai and I are advisors.
Despite her prideful behaviour, this girl has a tendency to be blunt when talking to others. For that behaviour, I occasionally witness she and Hachiman argue against each other.
Nickname – Ice Queen. This girl is haughty and lacks friends. She is no less the same as Hachiman — both are loners. But I can see that her reason is different from Hachiman's. She's finally got a friend... or so I suppose. Her sole friend is Yui Yuigahama.
When I asked Hachiman if he and Yukinoshita were friends, he would answer "No." I didn't go for the details. Intelligence-wise, these two are on another level than others. Well, I am not sure I can keep up with them.
Thanks to Hiratsuka senpai's intervention, what few members of the service club are competing against each other. Therefore, Hachiman and Yukinoshita are not necessarily on the same boat despite their similar personality traits and experiences.
…
I am currently on my way to the service club.
"How did you meet Hikigaya-kun, Mr. Belt?"
On my shoulder is a red mini-car which I assume is the TYPE SPEED shift car.
Mr. Belt can communicate through Type shift cars.
"Hmm, Hiratsuka Shikuza is the owner of the Tridoron. She bought the car, and later she found out about me. So I asked her to find candidates for the Kamen Rider. She said she had a detective friend and would ask him for help. But before we could talk to him, an incident occurred."
"Aw..." I see Yukinoshita and Hachiman standing in the corridors.
"We got no choice. So we had to force Hachiman to become a Kamen Rider. He was reluctant at first but now..."
"Sh... please be quiet."
Mr. Belt immediately picks up hints and watches the two kids in front of the clubroom.
"U-um, Er..." Yukinoshita is trying to say something. "C-could you go out with me?"
Wait... is that A LOVE CONFESSION?
"Huh?!" We both exclaims in unison.
Hachiman Hikigaya... my honorable student. He has conquered the heart of the Ice Queen! I can't be more proud of you, Hikigaya-kun.
The duo finally notices us. Ice Queen is blushing but she is trying to stay composed. Hachiman is unfazed.
"Hmm... eavesdropping on us, are you!? As expected of our sneaky teacher," she bluntly comments.
Mr. Belt's red car has hidden itself inside my pocket.
"Hahaha... nah, I'm coming to the clubroom. It was coincidence, haha, coincidence," then I walk to the sliding door next to her. "Please go on with your... confess–"
"I am not confessing, sneaky sensei."
Gulp... I laugh it off and hastily enter the room.
"Mr. Belt, seems like Hikigaya-kun finally has his popular phase!"
I whisper to the shift car.
"Yeah," he replies. "I'm proud of my Rider! Way to go, Hachiman!"
-(SKIP)-
Yukinoshita has confessed her love to Hachiman–
Or not. They were just discussing Yuigahama's birthday present. Yukinoshita wanted to go to the mall with Hachiman.
Mr. Belt and I are disappointed.
But we don't give up. We decided to see how their "date" would go.
"Basically, I will permit you to act as though you were my boyfriend for today and today alone."
Hmm... Hachiman, his sister and Yukinoshita met up in front of the mall about an hour ago.
Now his sister has disappeared mysteriously and Hachiman is stuck with Yukinoshita alone.
Basically... a "date."
A set of three eyes of different colors – blue, green, and red – and a mini-car are watching the couple.
Chamalien of merlinisapiens!
I am invisible at the time, hiding the mini-car in my hands.
Chamalien has a slim body that resembles a large purple salamander with darker purple camo-esque spots all over his body and a short tail. He wears a black helmet with three triangular colored lenses, the left one being blue, the right red and the middle green, which hide his three eyes. The helmet also has a spike-shaped fin on the back of his head. He has four-fingered hands and three toes on his frog-like feet. He also has a wide mouth with sharp teeth.
"This is getting interesting, Mr. Belt," I whisper to him.
"Mhmm."
Suddenly, a man in a white suit walks out of a nearby shop.
"Hey… Mr. Belt, that is…"
He wears a white suit with a grey dress shirt underneath it, and a white hat with a black line. His face is oddly familiar.
"Volt…" Mr. Belt mutters. "He's alive. It can't be…"
Before we can do anything, Volt charges toward the couple and tackles Hachiman to the floor.
"Wh-what–" before Yukinoshita can process what's happening, she is grabbed by Volt who then carries her on his shoulder and begins to run away.
"Ah… Shit. What's happening!?"
Hachiman finally realizes that his one-day girlfriend has just been kidnapped.
"... Crap…" he curses and gets up from the ground.
The surrounding people have no idea what's happening but some of them are shouting at the guards to stop the man.
During the chaos, I reverted to my human form and ran up to Hachiman.
"Let's chase after him, Hikigaya-kun."
He grits his teeth and silently nods as he follows us to chase after Volt.
The guards try to stop Volt, but he wipes them away with a single wave of his hand.
"Hachiman!"
Mini-airborne highways appear in the surroundings, with the shift cars running on them. They carry Mr. Belt towards Hachiman. Shift Speed also leaves my pocket and runs on the floor towards him.
Hachiman catches the belt and the shift speed and then he wears the former on his waist and rotates the latter into a lever.
"Sensei!"
"Yeah, I know."
With a snap of my thumb and the middle digit of my right hand, the Omni-belt materializes around my waist.
He has inserted the shift speed lever into the shift brace.
Without a pause in running, I cross my hands in an X-shape and bring both down to the waist, to overlap the three Omnitrices.
"Henshin!" "Transform!"
"DRIVE: TYPE SPEED!"
"[FASTTRACK]"
While running, the green light surrounds my body to put my FastTrack rider armor on.
I become a black blur as I run up to Volt… but the unexpected happened.
Two supposedly ordinary civilians thrust USB drives into their flesh and morph into monsters.
"What!"
One has a bird-like head and a big mouth with white teeth and fangs showing. Its skin is green and it possesses spikes and extensions on its skin.
The other looks just like a terrorist wearing a mask. There are cartridges of bullets wrapped around its body.
"AHHH!"
"Monsters!"
People begin to run away from them, screaming in horror.
"SP-SP-SPEED!"
"Sensei! Take care of them!" Hachiman runs past the monsters at a super high speed, to chase after Volt.
"OK!" I shout back at him. "Now… let's have a good fight… Dopants."
"[FOUR ARMS]"
My entirety is again engulfed in the green light, followed by a series of transformation sequences.
Relevant to its name, Four Arms armor includes four arms — two arms and two extensions that emerge from a backpack-like structure on its back. The armor is mostly red and bulkier than most rider armors. All the arms including extensions possess immense strength.
The helmet has a visor over the four glowing yellow eyes and a black stripe goes down on the head just above the eyes.
"How does this work… oh, I can just mentally command it."
I grab each monster with a single extension and clap them together again and again.
"Celebration…" *clap* *clap* *clap*
After I have made sure the monsters become unconscious, I drop them to the ground and bind them with super-strong metal pipes I've found nearby.
"OK, this should do the trick… now then…"
Seems like Hachiman and Volt are fighting outside the mall…
I decided to run down the escalator, but a sound from outside changed my decision.
"BREAK UP!"
Wait… that is…
Without thinking twice, I hurl myself into the nearest glass pane and jump to the outside… then I perform a superhero landing in front of the purple rider-like armored guy.
I knew it…
It is… Mashin Chaser…
His single eye glows in surprise as he witnesses me with four arms.
"Surprised, are we?" I stand up from the ground, tilting my head to take a glance at Hachiman fighting the evolved Volt roidmude. "I'm not gonna let you intervene in their fight."
Chase brings up his gun. "I will eliminate everything that stands in my way."
"Try if you can," I respond with a mocking tone.
As he fires energy bullets at me, I roll to the side to dodge them. No sooner do I recover the balance, I charge toward him pulling back my fists in the process and then throwing all four of them towards him.
Chase dodges my blows with ease and hastily inserts a silver car into his weapon.
"TUNE: CHASER SPIDER!"
Oh shit… I have no data about this.
His eyes glow as the core on his back suddenly morphs into silvery-white wing-like extensions which then combine with his weapon to form a spider-symbol-shaped shield weapon.
Then he charges at me, pulling back his weapon to strike me with it.
"YAHH!"
I let out a battle cry as I try to grab him with my extra hands but fail to do so, resulting in me being thrown away.
Thankfully, the armor is so durable that I don't feel a thing.
"Spider… huh? Thanks for the tip," I say with a sarcastic tone.
"Huh?"
The green light blinds him and later dies down to reveal my SpiderMonkey form.
Spidermonkey's agility will be useless in rider armor, therefore I have canceled the rider transformation.
"A blue monkey?"
"Nah… it's SPIDERMONKEY, dude."
Spidermonkey is a small monkey-like alien with four arms, two legs, three fingers on each hand, three toes on each foot, blue fur over a dark blue center, and a tail with two stripes near the tip.
He possesses four green eyes.
"Whatever you are, I will still eliminate you if you get in my way."
He swings his weapon at me but I jump in the eyes, rolling and shooting spider web from my tail in the process, and then deliver a kick right at his face.
"It's "try to eliminate you," dude. You can "try" to eliminate me if you think you can."
"Yahh! Why doesn't this come off!?" He can't retract his weapon that is now sticking to the ground.
"By the way," I leap into the air again. "My webs are stronger than steel," I declare and kick the back of his head, causing him to lose footing and fall to the ground.
"TUNE: CHASER COBRA!"
A long silvery-white whip crawls out of the web and cuts it off to free the Mashin Chaser.
Chase catches me off-guard and strikes me with his metal whip, sending me flying toward a water fountain in the park.
"Ouch… it hurts…"
"Now… die!"
"EXECUTION COBRA!"
Holy crap…
The cobra whip detaches itself from the weapon and flies toward me to attack.
At the time, a green light blinds him again… and a huge blue fist catches the metal whip… and throws it away.
"What!"
A big Gorilla-like creature with two pairs of spider legs emerging from his waist appears in front of Chase…
"ULTIMATE SPIDERMONKEY!"
"Oh sh–"
A fist is thrown into him, sending him into the wall of the mall. Then I split my lower jaw into two halves and shoot spider webs at him, binding him to the wall, unconscious.
"Hmph…" I chuckle and look back at Hachiman…
Oh shit, he is down! And it's Hiratsuka in the Tridoron who is fighting… huh? It's not even Volt. It is a silver car with spider legs.
"Shit… today must be a spider day…" I run toward them to join the battle.
Ultimate Spidermonkey has a large gorilla-like body with purple skin, black fur, and three pairs of eyes. He lacks Spidermonkey's tail and extra pair of arms, but they are replaced with two pairs of retractable spider legs that can fold into his waist. Ultimate Spidermonkey wears the evolved Ultimatrix symbol on his chest.
"UPGRADE!"
I have transformed into a blob-like liquid/ solid hybrid and then jump onto the Tridoron to fuse with it.
"What! What is happening?!" Hiratsuka sensei exclaims in surprise.
A blob head suddenly pops out of the dashboard. "It's me, Ben," my electro-techno voice says.
Upgrade has a black exterior with green stripes that resemble circuitry all over him. The green circle on his head is his eye, which glows whenever he talks. His body is made up of billions of small cell-like creatures called nanites.
"Now… I will drive the car. What about Hikigaya-kun?"
I can see a white mini-car shocking Hachiman with electric sparks.
"I have assigned Mad Doctor to do the job," the voice comes from a black mini off-roader car on the dashboard.
"Oh, I see."
I have attached the nearby lamp posts to the car and turned them into spider-leg extensions.
"Where is Yukinoshita!?"
"On the rooftop," Hiratsuka replies.
When the silver spider car crashes into Tridoron, I grab him with my own spider legs and lift him off the ground then throw him away.
"Is that Volt?"
"Yeah…"
Crap…
I can see Yukinoshita bound to a pole on the rooftop, unconscious. And beside her is… a monster with two white horns on the sides of his head… no, it is not horns. It is… two swam heads.
His body is bulky with think armor composed of different-colored pieces… like a pane of multi-colored mirrored glass.
"Bishop…" I mutter, firing missiles at the spider car.
"Bishop?" Mr. Belt asks.
"Who is it?"
"He's a fangire. Fangires are trying to… revive their queen. And… Yukinoshita is–"
"Impossible," Hiratsuka defends.
I shake my blob head gently. "Let's first see where it goes, senpai," I assure her.
"Please save her, okay?"
I nod at her, before leaving the tridoron and transform into another alien form.
"JETRAY!"
Hiratsuka senpai will comment.
"This kid never fails to amuse me."
I have become a red stingray alien that can fly at super high speed.
I become a red blur as I fly through the air at supersonic speeds to reach Yukinoshita but…
"LUNA! TRIGGER!"
Before I reach there… I suddenly hear a couple of gunshots and… the Bishop fangire is thrown away.
A long yellow hand appears out of nowhere and grabs the fangire…
Finally, a half-yellow half-blue Kamen rider with red eyes climbs onto the rooftop.
"Kamen Rider… Double…" I mutter to myself.
The two in one detective, Double, notice my presence.
"What are you? A dopant?" one voice of Double demands, the eye on the blue half blinking.
"No, I am…" I land on the floor, detransforming. "I am Kamen Rider Omni-X."
I walk to the unconscious Yukinoshita and untie the binds to free her.
"Hmm, a Kamen Rider, huh? Have never seen this kind before," another voice says, the eye on the other side blinking red. "Maybe he is the newest one, Houtarou."
Maybe he has arrested the Bishop. I should leave the task to him.
I shake Yukinoshita to awaken her. "Yukinoshita? Hello? Earth to Yukino-chan?"
Suddenly, an explosion occurs on the roof floor, blowing us away.
"Shit…"
Before falling to the ground, I transform into Big Chill in time and fly toward the Tridoron to leave her to Hiratsuka and Mr. Belt.
"Where am I? Ah, a monster? A moth man? You are so blue."
She wakes up in my arms.
Her eyes are… unnatural. And she isn't fazed by my monstrous appearance. I suppose Yukinoshita will always be calm…
But no… she isn't the Yukino girl.
"Sorry… I am just protecting you."
"It's okay. I don't know how many years I have slept…"
Did she just say a joke?
"What do you mean?"
She lets out a giggle. "You will know."
I am suddenly blasted in the back and lose balance… immediately descending to the ground.
"Shit…"
"Watch your language," Yukinoshita says, covering my mouth, though it wasn't moving to speak.
She is acting weird…
And who is the culprit behind the gunshots?!
Thankfully, my skin is durable enough to resist three times the heat of the surface of the sun. No mere bullet or blast will ever hurt me enough.
It is… also a rider. But slightly different. He has a more monstrous appearance than other riders. His entire right arm and torso are colored green. His left shoulder guard is metallic silver and the other shoulder guard is similar to a green fin-like structure.
His visor is also green. He has a green fancy gun in his right hand.
"Hey, blue monster. I will defeat you!" he declares.
"Kamen Rider… Kiva…" I mutter.
Damn, how many times do I have to hear "I will defeat/ eliminate you" today?
"Put me down, moth man," Yukinoshita says with a confident smile.
I reluctantly put down on the ground, and unfold my wings to protect her… but she simply pushes them away.
"No need, moth man," she is acting weirdly confident, and turns her back at me, walking toward Kiva.
"Fangire queen…. I will defeat you, too! And I will protect humanity!"
It is too late when I try to defend her from his gunshot.
But… she simply blocks the attack with a single wave of her left hand, summoning a white snowflake-like shield before her.
"Wh-what is that?" I gasp… oh sorry, Big Chill doesn't need to breathe. Damn… what in the world is she?!
"How bold of you… to challenge me. Um, Kamen Rider Kiva, is it?"
"Yes! I am Kiva!"
"Hmm… and I'm not the Fangire Queen. I'm… Snow Princess."
Suddenly, a white cube appears in front of her and shoots towards KIva.
He rolls to the side and destroys the "Snow" cube with a single blast.
"Hey, Yukinoshita! What is happening!?" I demand.
"Icy moth man, I am not Yukinoshita," she tilts her head to look at me, smiling, while she is blocking all the attacks of Kiva. "I am Yuki-no-hime."
Yuki… No…hime …
"Hey, what do you mean?"
A colossal fist made of snow materializes in the air and punches Kiva, sending him flying.
"Nah… I am the reincarnation of the snow princess. Ha, Icy moth man, you can use ice abilities, right? Let's combine our forces and conquer the world!"
I deadpanned at her sick joke.
"You…" Kiva weakly says. "You are not fangire queen, is that true?"
"Yeah… I don't even know what a fangire is," she says nonchalantly.
"Th-then…" he gets up from the ground, backing away from us. "I will take my leave. Sorry for mistaking you for my foe."
"It's…" Yukinoshita looks at the back of Kiva who is running away. "... Okay."
WTF, dude! She is saying she will conquer the world and now you are running away! You are not protecting humanity?!
AHHHHHH!
Hiratsuka senpai drives the Tridoron toward us.
"Hey, kouhai, good work."
"Nice drive." (Mr. Belt)
Hachiman looks up at me, sitting on the seat next to Hiratsuka.
"So… What happened to her?" Hiratsuka asks.
Yukinoshita takes a step forward and laughs at Hachiman.
"Hahaha, you human… How weak of you!"
I revert to my human form. "She has a screw loose."
"What! You mean, I am foolish, you icy– where is my icy moth knight!?"
Stop giving me weird names, Yuki-no-hime sama.
Suddenly, I hear the roar of an engine.
A motorcycle of half-green, half-purple-black coloration enters the park we are in.
Riding the machine is a Kamen Rider Double in his half-red half-silver form.
"I have finished the "Bishop" guy. I thought he was a dopant," the silver side says.
"He is a fangire," I corrected him.
He gets off the motorcycle and walks to me, leaning forward to have a closer look at my face.
"Hmm… You are Kamen Rider Omni-X, huh?" (Silver side)
"I will look up about him later," the red side says.
"Thanks, that will be a great help, Satoshi" the silver side walks away from me.
"Sorry, but who are you?" Hiratsuka asks.
In the background, Hachiman is restraining Yukinoshita to prevent her from doing stupid things.
"Kamen Rider W," both voices declare in unison.
Suddenly, a taxi car arrives in the park and a young girl, seemingly about 20 years old, comes out, dragging a young man onto the ground.
"What are you doing?" Hiratsuka asks the girl suspiciously.
The taxi has left.
"Oh, sorry," the girl stands up from the ground. "I am Chitanda."
"No, I don't mean to ask your name…"
I look down at the unconscious young man lying next to Chitanda.
I recognized him immediately.
Double remove both red and silver USB drives from the double driver, and detransform.
Replacing the Kamen Rider Double is —
"Hello, I am Oreki Houtarou, Kamen Rider Joker."
Immediately after Double's detransformation, the young man awakes and gets up from the ground, standing fine, next to Oreki.
"And I am Fukube Satoshi, Kamen Rider Cyclone. We both together make Kamen Rider Double!"
"Oh… That explains your Kamen Rider name, huh…"
The only one who doesn't look surprised by the sudden arrival of the two-in-one Kamen Rider is me… Because I have been investigating them for a while.
HOUTAROU Oreki — 20+ years old. The left side of Kamen Rider Double. He possesses a body of average build, taller than Fukube. He is usually the host while Double is transformed. Being a genius, he used to take up on a mystery or two to solve as a detective.
SATOSHI Fukube — 20+ years old. The right side of Kamen Rider Double. He is slightly shorter than Oreki. He mostly falls unconscious when transformed into Double and becomes two in one with Oreki. He has a special memory. Has access to Gaia Library.
These two make the two-in-one Kamen Rider Double.
And finally.
"My name is Chitanda Eru."
ERU Chitanda — Also 20+ years old. She has been friends with the duo since high school. She was a curious girl and now… She is working in the background as a helper of Kamen Rider Double. She is the one who pushes Oreki around to solve the mysteries as a detective.
She isn't Kamen Rider Chitanda, though.
Yuki-no-hime — an old hag. Possesses snow manipulation. Unknown age. Probably older than Hiratsuka sensei.
"I just felt chills. Someone must be talking about my age," Hiratsuka mutters.
"I am actually interested in the boy," Fukube approaches me with curious eyes.
"Yeah," Houtarou nods in agreement. "I mean, we knew about Kiva and Drive… Yet we have no idea that Omni-X exists."
"Wait, you guys know about us?" Krim Steinbelt asks.
"We are not a detective for no reason, Mr. Stein belt," Houtarou says.
"We have to oversee if a Kamen Rider is benefiting the people, or not," Fukube explains. "Therefore, we have investigated every rider in this world."
Oh, crap… This way they will come to know I am from another world.
Wait, why am I being wary of them? They are Kamen Riders, too, the same as Hachiman.
"Nice to meet you, Oreki-san, Fukube-san and Chitanda-san," I greeted them. "Again, let me introduce myself. I am the Alien Rider — Kamen Rider Omni-X. Let's get along…"
THE END OF CHAPTER (2).
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- Revealed Riders -
OMNI-X = Ben Tennyson (U-2041)
DRIVE = Hachiman Hikigaya
DiEND = Kazuma Satou
DOUBLE/ JOKER = Houtarou Oreki
DOUBLE/ CYCLONE = Satoshi Fukube
KIVA = Masamune (?)