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Kamen Rider Zero One! X Kamen Rider Zi-O!
Reiwa First Generation Movie!
RealxEyez The Quartzer!
Part 5
Co-Writer GreyKing46
We do not own these characters. All rights belong to Shotaro Ishinomori, Ishimori Productions and Toei Company
We return to Daybreak in the present, where the three Riders were currently in the middle of a scuffle because of the wait for their other team members.
"Will you two stop fighting!" Geiz snapped, having to get between both Horobi and Fuwa for their arguing.
"He started it!" Fuwa glared as he brushed himself off.
"Sensitive as any human." Horobi brushed it off.
"You are an asshole, Horobi!" Fuwa glared, pulling his coat over his neck, feeling exposed about it.
"And you have a hair-trigger! As someone who's grown out of one, trust me!" Geiz responded. "Look, Woz and Jin are going to be back. Along with Alpina and Sougo."
"You have trust in that 'King' of yours. But he's as flawed as any other human." Horobi answered. "He doesn't know the devastation they cause."
"Oh, really?" Geiz asked with a small smile. "Like over here? How an *entire* city was sunk?"
"Your point?" Horobi asked.
"Let me tell you something. This...romantics. About your 'HumaGear Liberation', been there. Done that. Lived through *hell*." Geiz answered darkly...and honestly scaring Horobi a little. He held Horobi by the shirt, pulling him away "You BOTH need to cool off."
"O-Okay." Fuwa blinked as he saw his 'Rider Seniors' authority and scary side from him.
Horobi was walked to the forest where Geiz was manhandling him and away from the Time Mazine. "Let go of me!"
"Listen to me, 'Destroy'. You're a small soldier, in a world where this whole problem is led by a crazy person thinking himself superior to anyone else." Geiz pointed at him. "This guy, I've known people like this before. He's not 'special' in that regard. But right now he's got a near-limitless robot army trying to take you and your boss out."
Horobi glared, his fists clenching.
"If you want to survive and not be controlled by an egotist: swallow your pride, apologise to Fuwa for those neck comments, or we are going to have a problem." Geiz warned him, holding his own Ziku Driver. "Okay?"
FWOOSH!
The tense moment hung, as the wind blew past them
...
The three rough men all smirked at each other and stayed silent. A sign of respect, as Geiz released Horobi.
The three nodded and returned to the Time Mazine, seeing that there were now two Time Mazines in Daybreak.
"They're back!" Fuwa commented and smiled.
"Oh, thank goodness. You're still here." Yua spoke as they opened the doors and saw them approach.
"Did you get anything to assist us?" Horobi asked.
"We...managed to do things. Yeah." Aruto nodded.
"W-? Where's Woz and the kid?" Sougo asked, looking around for them.
"They went on a mission," Horobi explained before a voice came from above them.
"HEY!" Jin waved from on high with Woz holding onto his legs. "I am NOT a kid!"
"Don't take it personally," Woz responded before landing. "We've retrieved the Quartz from the office."
"Any trouble?" Alpina asked.
"Well...aside from the large number of HumaGear still under mind control, no. Not really." Jin answered. "We ninjaed our way through!"
...
"Shinobi, right. Got it." Sougo nodded as Alpina took the Quartz.
"Yellow? This is new." Alpina whispered. "We have to work on this. I'm going to need space and time for work on this."
"There's a workshop through the tunnels. Heads straight to our hideout." Jin pointed, though Horobi gave a death glare at Jin for revealing their secret. "I mean... Not our hideout! Some lab thing! Yeah, totally! Not our lab at all!"
"Look, we'll worry about that later," Woz informed. "On the way here, we saw Another Zero-One approach. He's coming to attack and he has his army."
...
"That is NOT good." Fuwa frowned.
"Actually. It's perfect." Aruto smiled. "We can free Izu and get Zero One online again!"
"Okay, but how do we do that without dying?" Fuwa asked.
"Break Sefy's grasp on them. Izu can get Zea online and authorise me again." Aruto answered before he was pushed back by Fuwa.
"Sorry, Prez. You're staying out of this one." Fuwa warned him.
"He's right. Without your Driver, you're just a liability." Horobi answered, pulling out his own ForceRiser.
FORCERISER!
"I-" Aruto looked at them.
"Unless you have another means, Aruto. Please stay safe." Sougo answered as he, Woz and Geiz got into position.
"But I-" Aruto frowned before he realised what Horobi said...and he was right. *His* Driver was unable to be used...but he could do something. And he ran off behind them.
"Here they come." Geiz glared, pulling out a red RideWatch and a RideWatch that looked like a blue-backed grey-framed hourglass.
GEIZ!
REVIVE! GORETSU!
Coming up the road was a large number of HumaGears, all stomping in unison as they stared blankly forwards.
"Don't give them an inch." Fuwa informed as he and Horobi pulled out their own Progrise Keys.
REVOLVER!
POISON!
"My King, we won't let them pass!" Woz added, pulling out his Shinobi Ridewatch and replacing it with a silver-framed, larger pocket watch sized Ridewatch with a black portion with brass circular detailing gears and a picture of Woz's helmet with a small blue headpiece between yellow-edged black antennae.
GINGA!
ACTION!
"You...damn Riders. Get out of my way! I am the President of Hiden Intelligence!" Sefy glared, while in his Another Rider form.
"And We. Are. Kamen Riders." Sougo answered, pulling out a large golden RideWatch that had golden clocks and gear details that surrounded it.
GRAND ZI-O!
Sougo effortlessly pulled the large RideWatch apart which showed two 'wings' showing helmets depicting various other Rider helmets.
AUTHORISE!
KAMEN! RIDER!
KAMEN! RIDER!
"GET THEM!" Another Zero-One demanded, pointing at them.
"HENSHIN!" The five proclaimed as each activated their respective Drivers.
SHOTRISE!
GATLING HEDGEHOG!
Shooting from Fuwa's ShotRiser were a small group of six green bullets that fired and shot around the area and then at Fuwa who arm-punched them.
The bullets broke apart and shot onto Fuwa's body, his white armour was being peppered with green needles, and his grey undersuit remained the same. His thighs now had green needles and armour plate, his arms were protected by two different green plates with green spikes protruding from them, rounded shoulder guards with green spikes pointing outwards, and a green chest plate with spikes. His mask had a white face with blue eyes, but the outside of his face had spikes that had the impression of a hedgehog's quills and face.
Infinite Spines Shoot Towards The Enemy!
Woz closed his Driver's door and lowered his hand slowly as he smiled, his Shinobi armour disappearing as the door closed, leaving his base silver body armour.
TOUEI!
FINALLY TIME!
GIN-GIN GIRA-GIRA GALAXY!
Woz was surrounded by a small galaxy while small holographic planets surrounded him before turning into a plus sign aligned over his body and slammed into his shoulders, torso watchstrap and helmet.
UCHU NO KANATA NO FANTASY!
WOZ GINGA FINALLY! FINALLY!
Appearing on his back was a metallic blue-purple cape that was attached to black shoulders and chest-piece with brass detailing, UFO styled shoulder attachments, framed pictures of the planets on his watchstrap and shoulders, in the centre was the sun, on his forehead was the Earth with yellow Katakana lettering that read 'Ginga'.
FORCERISE!
Horobi looked forwards as a large metallic scorpion erupted from the ForceRiser and stabbed him right in the chest, curling over his body as a purple bodysuit formed underneath before it erupted, black strapping wires attaching to his body, dark metal and diamond-plate armour attaching to his feet, shins, kneecaps and thighs; segmented metal parts over his chest, a neck-guard made from brought metal and diamond-plate metal. His right arm was protected normally while his left arm was weaponised with a stinger-styled bracer. He had a purple helmet with yellow visor eyes, a black mouthguard, with silver pointed metal for eyes and jaw protection.
STING SCORPION!
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Geiz spun his Driver quickly and produced a specialised orange and blue glowing energy, see-through grey wire and piped clock behind him with steam venting at the sides. Black straps encircled Geiz in a sphere as he glowed orange and formed a new armour.
RIDER TIME!
KAMEN RIDER GEIZ!
Geiz's bodysuit and armour was predominantly black, white toed boots, shin guards with white hourglass markings going down, grey kneecaps, white plated black gloves, his chest plate was segmented with orange metal, a red elongated hourglass going down the centre of his chest, his shoulders were orange with black latches and hinges that looked heavy. His helmet was latched black with a red forehead that looked like an hourglass connected to his mouthguard, two large yellow Hiragana lettering that said 'Rider'.
RE-VI-I-VE GORETSU~! GORETSU!
As Sougo inserted his Grand Zi-O Ridewatch his Driver, the whole world fell slow as a golden clock appeared behind him as it proclaimed several strange voices from the belt itself.
A chime of an electronic bell.
The sound which approximated to a race car engine speeding off.
ADVENT!
COMPLETE!
TURN UP!
A sound of a tuning fork being rung.
CHANGE BEETLE!
SWORD FORM!
WAKE UP!
Appearing from behind of Sougo, his left-hand side showed ten new figures that were covered in purple-ish rust while ten other figures standing behind his right-hand side.
CYCLONE! JOKER!
TAKA! TORA! BATTA!
3! 2! 1!
SHABADOOBIE TOUCH TO HENSHIN!
SOIYA!
DRIVE!
KAIGAN!
LEVEL UP!
BEST MATCH!
RIDER TIME!
As the proclamation of each figure was said, the rust fell away, revealing the pure unblemished Kamen Riders underneath.
A red armoured black body suited Kamen Rider with a silver belt with a golden stag-beetle horn on the forehead.
A light brown and silver armoured, black body suited Kamen Rider with a red belt around its waist and two curved horns on the forehead.
A red body suited, grey and silver armoured Rider with a dragon-headed bracer on the left arm with a black belt.
A black body suited Rider with red lines going over his limbs, a silver chest plate and shoulders with a grey belt.
A blue body suited Rider with silver boots and chest piece with the symbol of a playing card spade on the torso and a silver single-horned blue helmet with a red and silver belt.
A purple suited, muscular Rider with red hands, silver torso bands over his shoulders, a silver-framed face on a purple helmet with red tips and a silver belt with a circle buckle.
A black body suited Rider with red simple shoulders and a red kabuto horn on his helmet with a silver belt with a red kabuto beetle around its waist.
Another black body suited rider with silver gloves, boots and kneecaps, red thigh guards, red torso armour with train tracks over it, a black helmet with a yellow stripe over the top and two large red eyes and a silver mouthguard.
The third Rider with a black bodysuit in a row, a bat-winged right shin guard, bat-winged shoulder guards that were bound in chains on a red torso, a black helmet with yellow visor eyes on a red bat-like motif. Around his waist was an upside-down yellow bat on a red belt.
Next was a magenta-coloured Rider with green eyes, with a white and black long cross over his chest and shoulder.
Following the opposite end was a Rider with solid half colours, one-half black with purple markings on the left-hand side and green with yellow markings on the right with a red 'W'-like belt on their waist.
Another black-suited Rider with green legs, yellow-marked arms with claws as their bracers with a black helmet bearing a red hawk on the face. On the chest was a golden ring depicting a red hawk, yellow tiger and green grasshopper with a blue belt that was tilted.
A white-suited Rider with a blue belt with a black handle, with four large white bracers and ankle guards. Each one had a different symbol: a blue 'X' a yellow triangle, a black square and a red 'O'. Its helmet also looked like a rocket ship.
A black body suited and cloaked Rider with a red chest guard, red bracers and ankle guards, a silver helmet with a red gem-like face with a silver belt holding a black hand.
A blue body suited Rider with orange samurai armour on his chest and shoulders, yellow shin guards and bracers, a blue helmet bearing a golden crest with an orange-slice-like visor with a black belt depicting a cutting knife.
A black body suited Rider with red boots and bracers, a red chest piece with protruding shoulder guards, a black tire around his chest, a red helmet with a silver mouth guard. Around his waist were a silver belt with a circular LED screen and a silver slot on his left hand.
A black body suited Rider with an orange helmet that had two large empty eyes with a silver bent horn coming from the forehead, see-through armour and wearing a black and orange parka. Around his waist was a murky white Belt that looked like a single eye and an orange grip on the right-hand side.
A neon pink Rider with black legs and arms, wearing a pink shirt with black markings, neon-green shoes and bindings, anime-styled eyes for his visor whose helmet looked like it had four spikes of anime hair. The belt around his waist was green with a pink open door.
Second from last was a black under-suit Rider with a blue right leg and blue left arm, a red right arm and a blue left leg. The helmet was segmented with a rabbit and a tank styled visor eyes, with a black belt around its waist that had two small bottles inside.
And lastly was Sougo's base form. Kamen Rider Zi-O. Standing next to the legacy that he was a part of.
"GRAND HENSHIN!" Sougo proclaimed proudly as the Driver was spun with grace and determination.
GRAND TIME!
The Driver spun around and time began to move once again, blasting back the controlled HumaGear, enclosing the Legacy Riders that surrounded Sougo in golden gates as he was covered in his base armour once again and the jingle of the King began. Each Rider that was enclosed went in order of the song. Proclaiming their name to all as they were turned into plates and symbols on the King's armour.
KUUGA! AGITO! RYUKI! FAIZ! BLA~DE!
HIBIKI! KABUTO! DEN-O! KIVA! DECA~DE!
DOUBLE! OOO! FOUR~ZE~!
WIZAR~D! GAIM! DRI~VE!
GHOST! EX-AID! BUI~LD~!
IWAE
KAMEN RIDER~! GRA~ND~! ZI~O~!
Standing there beside his fellow Riders, clad in golden armour, Kamen Rider Grand Zi-O. His boots were gold and silver, his legs covered in plates depicting four of the twenty Riders. His left leg had Hibiki, Faiz and Blade; his right leg had Kiva, Gaim and Wizard. His thighs bore Kabuto and Ghost. His left arm bore OOO and Fourze, his right bore Agito and Ryuki. His shoulders bore Kuuga and Double, his chest depicted five Riders: Kiva and Den-O were on the right, Build and Ex-Aid were on the left and Decade in the centre. While resting on the crown of his helmet was Zi-O himself.
"Been a while since I've worn this armour." Sougo commented as he stood there.
"Wh-what are you?" Another Zero-One double-took in shock and fear.
"The King of Kamen Riders. And you've something that belongs to my junior." Sougo pointed.
"DIE!" Another Zero-One proclaimed angrily, sending his army out as the Riders rushed forwards to attack.
OOO!
Sougo pressed the symbol for the Rider with animal parts for his armour and brought him to the fight, where it was now all green marked and multiplying into a wall to get between them and Daybreak!
"Amazing!" Fuwa gasped in shock, before firing on the rogue HumaGears.
"Got any more, King?" Geiz commented, bringing out a new weapon, it looked like a grey handled orange saw-blade.
"We're just getting started!" Zi-O answered as he pulled out his Jinkan Girade.
GAIM!
Aruto looked on at this in shock and awe. He didn't want to be left on the sidelines. He had to get in the fight...and he might know where to get such an item.
*In the Daybreak labs*
"It's not the worst place I've worked on these in...but it'll have to do." Alpina commented as she brought out a strange multi-tool from her dress.
"Where were you hiding that? And what is that?" Yua asked.
"A Quartz tool. This is how we make RideWatches." Alpina quickly explained. "Give me a hand, this tech might be able to speed things up."
"Do you know anything about 3D printing or this level of technology?" Yua asked as it looked like Alpina was blanking on the level of tech here.
"No, this is all foreign to me." Alpina admitted as she put the tools and Quartz on the table.
"You can fly a time machine, but this is too advanced for you?" Yua deadpanned.
"You have your strengths, I have mine." She answered.
"I guess." Yua nodded. "How long does this take?"
"Anything from fifteen minutes to an hour. And I've never seen this type of Quartz before." She answered.
"An hour?!" Yua snapped. "We don't have that kind of time!"
"That's by hand, if we use this-"
Bwooom!
"Power's on and ready to help." Yua spoke, having accessed the computer and its utilities.
SLAM!
"Yaiba!" Aruto called as he rushed into the lab.
"Gah! Aruto? What do you want?" Yua panicked as she jumped a little.
"I need to borrow your ShotRiser!" Aruto answered.
"What? Wh-? Are you serious?" She double-took and saw Aruto's serious face. "...Alright. But if you break it-"
"I won't." He answered. "Thank you." As he was given the Riser and he ran back out.
She looked on at him, seeing him run with a burning passion to get into the fight. This was his fight too.
"...Are you sure you're not his girlfriend?" Alpina joked a little.
"Sh-shut up!" Yua blushed as she heard that.
*Back in the battle*
The HumaGears were being pushed back by the numerous green marked OOO Rider while the Kamen Riders were forcing Another Zero-One to fight in this army.
Not that they could get to him, the army of HumaGear fighting back against them.
Between the OOO Riders and the HumaGears, it seemed to be a battle of attrition, the unending force and the immoveable numbers.
"HRARGH!" Another Zero-One tried to strike and attack Geiz.
CLASH!
"Really?" Geiz proclaimed, grunting as he held back his oncoming arms. "You're not a fighter; are you?"
"Sh-shut up!" He snapped, kicking Geiz in the chest.
FAIZ!
BUILD!
DRIVE!
'The one thing I don't miss about this armour.' Sougo thought as he pressed three different plates to summon three more Riders.
Coming through the time gates were Kamen Rider Drive, wearing a purple-shuriken-styled wheel on his chest, Kamen rider Build now wearing a yellow and purple combination of suit that had a drawing fountain pen and shuriken for his visor eyes and lastly was Kamen Rider Faiz running wearing an opened chest black bodysuit with large silver shoulder pads.
WHOOSH!
Even more duplicates and clones of these Riders appeared, each of them forcing the attacking HumaGears back.
"Don't you have any other tricks than just clones?" Horobi snapped.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Did you want to face hundreds of your kin?" Woz responded sarcastically as he was fighting a group of HumaGear.
"I told you to give up." The woman from earlier said, appearing atop a building.
"Huh? It's you!" Another Zero-One and Sougo spoke in shock, realising the figure there.
"I didn't want to do this...but you leave me no choice." The woman answered, waving her hand and summoned an army of monochrome Another Riders. Each one, a twisted and warped version of their respective Rider.
"My King!" Woz proclaimed as he saw this oncoming legion of Another Riders.
"Why did you do that?! I was winning!" Another Zero-One snapped.
"You were at a stalemate." She stated simply.
"Oh, what the hell? Another Riders?!" Geiz asked in shock.
"They aren't as powerful as normal ones, they can be destroyed by other forms!" Sougo called out.
"Kill them!" Another Zero-One ordered. "Kill Aruto Hid-!"
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
"Argh! Huh?" Walking up, holding the ShotRiser ready and smoking...was Aruto. He had grabbed the attention of his adversary and glaring right at him.
"You want me, Sefy. Well, here I am!" Aruto called, the ShotRiser's belt already wrapped around his waist.
"You...hit me!" Sefy glared as he saw Aruto proclaiming to him.
"Aruto! Get back!" Sougo called out in fear, having to fight against a stitched-up orange skull faced Another Rider.
"You are a thief, Hiden! You can't even transform!" Sefy glared, bearing his claws.
"Not with the Zero-One Driver...But this?" He slotted the ShotRiser into the belt. "Maybe." And he pulled out his Progrise key. "Dad. Grandpa. Please watch..."
JUMP!
Aruto pressed the Key in his right hand and slotted it into the Driver.
AUTHORISE!
His left hand glided over the Driver's top and moved the screen of the Progrise Key inside. "My..."
KAMEN! RIDER!
KAMEN! RIDER!
Aruto grabbed the grip of the ShotRiser and removed it from his belt with his right hand. Raising it high before lowering it to the level of his chest, his left hand down to his waist. "HENSHIN!"
BANG!
SHOTRISE!
Through the barrel of the gun, a glowing yellow bullet scored through the air, crashing into Another Zero-One and chipping away at his armour before returning towards Aruto.
Aruto crouched down, raising his left hand to his hand into a fist as he saw the bullet coming right at him. He leapt into the air and spun, KICKING the bullet mid-flight as he was now being covered in armour.
RISING HOPPER!
Aruto was covered in a grey bodysuit, his feet and shins were white armour with yellow plates of a grasshopper's feet, his thighs were white and grey armoured with triangle pointed bent hopper legs with red markings. Aruto's waist was covered by a white crotch guard with the belt and ShotRiser around it. A grey and white chest piece with a grasshopper's head predominantly and proudly in the middle with red eyes, two wing-like protrusions coming from the head that covered Aruto's shoulders; on his arms were a pair of red spiked yellow bracers with white plated grey gloves. And finally, was Aruto's helmet, mainly grey but with a white face, red eyes and markings on a yellow grasshopper frame and two antennae protruding from the forehead.
A Jump To The Sky Turns Into A Rider Kick!
Looking down from her vantage point, the woman's eyes widened in shock, though her face remained unchanged. This wasn't meant to happen.
Sefy looked at Aruto and took a step back. "Wh-What are you?"
Aruto landed confidently as this new form appeared...Not Zero-One. Not an AIMS Rider. But someone new. "My name is...Kamen Rider Zero-One-Zero!"
He placed the weapon into his belt, posing calmly as he glared at Another Zero One
"He transformed?" Fuwa gasped in shock, seeing this new form. He didn't think that would be possible without the proper authorisation into the system!
Step.
Step.
Step.
Aruto stepped towards Another Zero-One, who seemed to take a step back as he saw Aruto approach.
Shuffle.
Another Zero-One's position moved back before he took that step forwards. Whatever this was...he was not going to lose his company.
Step.
Step.
Step.
Step, step, step!
Aruto quickened his pace, running at Sefy, with his fists clenched and soon leapt into the air and crashed in front of his enemy and threw the first punch, connecting with his chest.
"GAH-HA!" Sefy convulsed forward before being uppercut.
Another Zero-One grunted and slammed his arm into Aruto's back, slap-hitting him away to which Aruto just rolled with it, getting to his feet and leapt forwards, right into Sefy with powerful leg strength.
CLANG!
Aruto's fists connected to his body, forcing Sefy to flip around in the air.
'What is this? How? How is he able to fight like this?' Sefy thought in fear as he was getting hit by Aruto's determined fighting style. He lifted his leg up and attempted to block Aruto's armour and punched him away.
Aruto's feet dug into the ground, this new form feeling stronger than he had done before, his visor eyes flashed momentarily as he pulled the ShotRiser off his waist and began to fire.
Sefy grunted in pain, being peppered by these bullets from annoyance as he leapt into the air and get away from Aruto.
All around them, the crowd formed a circle. Almost like a cage, trapping them into combat.
Aruto saw the cage forming around him, he was getting trapped. He couldn't fight the HumaGears here, they were just under Sefy's control.
And then the chanting started.
"Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden!"
Aruto looked at the cage, surrounded by the condemning voices of all who wanted him dead. He panted heavily as he felt these voices damning him, wanting their 'glorious leader' to end his life.
"HRARGH!" Sefy roared, slashing at Aruto with his black claws and sent Aruto to the floor.
"Gah!" Aruto yelled as he fell to the floor... at the feet of a pair of familiar-coloured boots.
They...were black with turquoise green highlights, he knew whose feet these were. "I-Izu." He whispered, looking up at her, seeing her face once again.
She was silent amongst the cacophony of death-chanters. Staring down at him with her empty eyes.
"Izu!" He called, getting to his feet.
He looked into her eyes, trying to see her in them. Trying to wake her up from this horrible connection of a madman. "Please. It's me, Izu. It's me!"
She simply turned to the side and saw an oncoming Sefy, who grabbed Aruto's shoulder, jamming his clawed hand into his back and then throwing him into the floor.
"Hahaha!" Sefy laughed as he emerged from the crowd. "You are such a fool, Hiden!"
"Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden!"
Aruto coughed heavily as he felt his body jerking. Sefy was...too strong.
"I told you. I am President. You wouldn't even have the system if it wasn't for me!" Sefy proclaimed. "Face it. You weren't fit to be a President!"
"Izu..." Aruto spoke, ignoring him as he stood up "You are NOT his slave! You are not some drone without a say! You are Izu! You are your own person! Fight him, I know you can!"
"DO NOT IGNORE ME!" Sefy snapped, throwing a punch into Aruto's face.
The Rider stumbled back, his knee slamming into Sefy's back, "Come on Izu! I know you can do it! You are STRONGER than him! You are the strongest person I know!"
Izu looked on at the fight, while inside her systems...she was doing her best by fighting. Trying to break the programming and force herself free. "President...Aruto...!" She grunted, trying to break free, attempting to get her mouth to speak her true words.
The corruption wiring that kept her allegiance in place was straining, the more Aruto called out to her the more it weakened.
Sefy roared and threw a punch down at Aruto, only for the Rider to punch his waist and into the false Zero-One Driver around his waist. "GAH! OW!"
"IZU!" Aruto called as he tried to rush off, trying to run towards her only to be dragged back by Sefy.
"It's over!" he snarled, kicking Aruto in the gut.
"Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden!"
"Not... done yet!" Aruto snarled, Pulling the Trigger on the ShotRiser.
FEVER!
Yellow energy surrounded Aruto as he jumped high, kicking Sefy as he passed.
SLAM!
"AH!" Another Zero One yelled in pain as he was knocked back.
"IZU!" Aruto yelled, reaching out for her... only for a swarm of black locusts made out of some sort of metal to surround him and drag him back.
All the while, she continued to look on blankly.
*with the other Riders*
"HA!" Geiz called as he flicked his Revive RideWatch, making it rotate 180.
SPEED TIME!
The blue sand that was within the hourglass Ridewatch poured down into the bottom half once again, his orange armour opened and blue energy began to pour out. His chest exposed a blue design, blue shoulder guards, blue chest piece with a dial and a speedometer; the opened armour revealed a blue underside that turned into 'wings', while the red and orange of his hourglass designs turned blue.
REVI-REVI-REVI! REVI-REVI-REVI! REVI-I-VE SHI-PPU! SHIPPU!
WHOOSH!
"I've had it!" Geiz glared, slashing at the controlled HumaGears with intense speed. "With these puppet minions!"
CLASH!
SLASH!
CLASH!
"And these god-damned Another Riders!" Geiz snarled, having turned his saw-blade weapons into a blue twin-clawed hand-gripped weapon, slashing the enemies in his wake.
"Someone's in a bad mood." Horobi commented as he opened and closed his belt.
STING! DYSTOPIA!
The stinger of Horobi's wrist emerged and began to blast out, rushing around the battlefield and ripping apart the Another Rider's all around them.
"Why are you doing this?!" Sougo roared at the woman, tapping a statue on his body.
DECADE!
Coming from a golden gate, Kamen Rider Decade, the Magenta Rider emerged and brandished his sword.
He gave a mighty slash at a Magia, not badly hurting them before he stood tall next to Grand Zi-O.
"Huh, both Decade and Zi-O. A sight I'd thought I'd never see again." Woz commented, opening and closing his Driver's door to activate a finishing attack.
CHOU GINGA EXPLOSION!
He threw his arms out, fireballs coming falling from the sky and slamming against the Another Rider's causing explosions all over the place.
"Amazing!" Fuwa gasped as he activated his Key.
REVOLVER!
"HA!" He proclaimed and fired upon the HumaGears around him.
G! A! T! L! I! N! G!B!L!A!S!T!
"You ask 'why'? I told you. I'm doing it for you!" The woman proclaimed as she glared down at the battlefield.
"HA!" Fuwa roared as he pulled the trigger, causing a massive explosion of glowing green needles to come rushing out.
GATLING BLAST!
"'Doing it *for* us'?" Sougo wondered.
"Wait; where's Jin?" Horobi panicked, looking around for the last member of Metsubo Jinrai.
*With Alpina and Yua*
"How's it looking over there?" Yua asked as she worked on the computers to keep them running.
"As well as can be. You?" Alpina responded.
"It's not breaking down yet!" Yua answered before the door opened and the sight of a line of HumaGear were stepping forwards towards them.
"No! We're not done!" Alpina panicked, realising that this would slow things down.
Yua reached down to her waist and tried to grab her ShotRiser, only to remember that Aruto took it.
"For President-!" The HumaGears hypnotically spoke before a flash of pink struck from the darkness.
"Get away from our home!" Jin proclaimed, using his knowledge of the terrain to block the entrance.
"Jin?" Yua double-took.
"Keep making that thing! I've got them!" Jin answered.
"I'm a shinobi!" He grinned.
"...What happened while we were away?" Yua blinked in confusion.
Alpina chuckled to herself. "Woz." And continued to work on the RideWatch, which was now looking more and more complete. But it still had a little more to go.
*With Aruto*
"ARGH!" Aruto screamed as he was punched back by Another Zero-One, causing him to fall into the mud.
"The finisher!" He hissed, tapping his belt.
AnOtHeR rIsInG iMpAcT!
Another Zero-One leapt into the air, a sickly neon-green-yellow energy cone appeared before his feet as Aruto looked up and saw the oncoming attack. 'Izu. Dad. Grandpa...I.' "Won't. Give. Up!" And pressed his Key.
JUMP!
Yellow energy surrounded Aruto as he did his best, trying to keep standing as he pulled the trigger
R! I! S! I! N! G! B! L! A! S! T! F! E! V! E! R!
"Ha!" Aruto called as he jumped into the air, flipping a bit and extending his leg in a full powerful kick while an energy grasshopper foot surrounded his own.
"Ha!" Another Zero One called as he performed his own kick.
RISING BLAST FEVER!
The two of them clashed together, the two energies sparking around as their feet pushed against each other. Sefy's power was being pushed back, but Aruto's body was still unused to the ShotRiser, so he needed to push forward.
BOOM!
Both landed on the opposite sides of the 'cage', Aruto landing in front of Izu once again while Sefy panted further away.
Zzz! Zzzap!
"H-Hnn!" Aruto grunted as his armour was about to disappear.
The ShotRiser bounced away, sliding into the crowed of HumaGear as the Rising Hopper key clattered to the floor next to Aruto's head.
"Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden!"
"Hahahaha! Weak! Weak! So weak, Hiden!" Sefy laughed darkly, his arms spread wide. "You and your family of thieves, it is finally over!"
"Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden!"
Another Zero One approached him slowly, a dark tint in his eyes as he let his Another Rider form fade away "You should have just died! You're nothing, nothing but a bug! A failed comedian who stole the company and the fame! Just like the rest of your family!"
"Izu... Izu..." Aruto panted as he slowly pulled himself to his feet... And stumbled as he felt the HumaGear behind him trying to grab him, horror filling his body at the rage and darkness in their eyes. For just a moment... But seeing this.
...
It was his nightmare.
"Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden!"
"Do you see, little boy?" The evil president smirked "These toys are my people! They prefer to be under my heel, controlled and obeying me, rather than have you in charge! I am the President!"
"Izu... It'll be okay." Aruto said calmly as he steeled himself, looking over Sefy's shoulder. Looking at Izu. Deep into her eyes "It'll be okay. You can get out of this. You can do it. And when you do... Run. I'll distract him."
"Grrr ..." Sefy snarled before he reached out and grabbed Aruto by the shirt "STOP! IGNORING! ME!" he roared in a blind rage "WHY ARE YOU SO OBSESSED WITH THAT DAMN SECRETARY?! YOU'VE LOST YOUR COMPANY! YOUR MONEY! YOUR REASON TO LIVE! AND I AM GOING TO KILL YOU! WHY WON'T YOU TAKE ME SERIOUSLY?!"
"Because as a comedian I can easily say... You are one big joke." Aruto spoke, finally looking into his eyes.
Sefy flinched as he heard that. 'One. Big. Joke.'
How? How dare he? How DARE he say that HE, Sefy Asai, was 'one big joke'!
Izu, from deep inside the corruptive programming began to move. She began to break free. "...To." She whispered.
"Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden!"
"You think I wanted to be a President?" Aruto asked with a smirk "You think that being a President is easy? That you can just take and force your way to the top and everyone will love you? That acting like a giant egotist with a head as big as DayBreak's lake is deep will make you seem cool? Yeah, you're a joke. You think being a President will make everything fall at your feet. I don't NEED to be a President. I don't NEED all that money. I am a minimalist. I chase my dream of being a comedian. I work hard for my goals and do my best."
"Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden!"
"But you have to brainwash people to make them see your way. You kick down a door, crying and screaming for attention and then making demands when you get even a bit. Seeing the world as unfair because everything isn't just HANDED to you." Aruto said, deconstructing Sefy bit by bit "If you WERE involved with Zero One, and had any claim, you would have went to the Courts. But no. You rushed in and started screaming. You ARE pathetic, one big joke. Much better than any I ever told."
"Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden!"
"BE QUIET!" Sefy roared, throwing Aruto to the floor.
"Oof!" Aruto grunted "And... As for Izu? Because I don't deserve her. I owe her so much."
"You... Don't deserve... ANYTHING!" he snarled.
"Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden!"
"She was always there to support me. To hold me up." Aruto frowned, rubbing blood from his chin. His clothes ripped up. Honestly it reminded him of his first time, at the theme park. "There is so much I didn't know about being a President. And so much stress, stuff I wasn't expecting or ready for. But she helped. So... Even if I die, I want her to be free. Especially seeing what you FORCED her to wear! Who KNOWS what you'd do with her!"
"She is a robot! A THING! You STUPID child!" Sefy frowned, the black locusts flowing out of his body "But you know what, BOY? After I kill you... I'll kill her. So you two can 'be together'. Sound good?"
"Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden!"
"I'd say... Try it." He smirked.
"ARUTO!" a familiar voice yelled with pure panic in her voice...
...
As a black and yellow suitcase came flying through the air.
"Wha-" Sefy blinked before the case slammed into his face.
CRUNCH!
"GAH!" he yelled in pain, feeling his nose break under the impact as the case bounced off his face...
...
And into Aruto's hand as he held his arm high into the air. Perfectly holding his arm so that when the case bounced off Sefy's head, it'd land directly into his palm.
"Thank you..." Aruto smiled as he stood tall, looking behind him. With a grin that held the warmth of the sun as he looked behind him "Izu."
And sure enough, there she stood. Her arm extended, clearly having thrown something. Her eyes blue once more, a slight smile on her face "President Aruto..." She whispered before rushing towards him. Into his arms.
"Izu!" He smiled and almost cried as he heard her once again.
"I-Impossible! How? She was under my control!" Sefy grabbed his nose in pain, looking at the two.
"Because...I was never yours." Izu answered as she felt Aruto's arms around her, hugging her tightly. Protectively. And a warmth filled her.
"Then...You'll both die together!" He answered, ready to strike them both down.
BLADERISE!
Aruto quickly unfolded the suitcase, the AttacheCalibur, with both he and Izu holding the weapon they blocked his attack, watching as he changed.
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"Hen. Shin." Sefy hissed as his form changed into that of Another Zero.
A̸͍̍N̴̯̕Ȍ̴̮T̶͚͒H̶̑͜E̵̘͗R̴͎̈́ ̶̲͝Z̵̧͌E̷̮̔R̴̳̋Õ̵̪-̵̹̀Ö̸̪́Ņ̶́E̴̦̓!̵̭̄
Á̷͉ ̶̳̊J̶̳̽u̶̼͑ṁ̶̟ṕ̴̳ ̸͇̑Ť̵͍o̶͈̐ ̶̗̅T̶̠̍h̵̬͑é̵ͅ ̸̬̐S̶̛̪k̴̮͠y̵͕͊ ̷̟͝Ť̸̬a̴̰̒k̸̳̑ě̷̳s̷̺̅ ̵̡͑Ó̶̯f̶̱͗f̸̻̊ ̷̝̆T̸͙͝o̶͎̊w̵̪͂ả̷̦ṙ̷̩d̶͙͊s̴̝̈́ ̵͖͗E̸͕͛x̷͉̆t̵̘́ǐ̶̻n̸͓͘c̶̝͊t̷͓͗ḭ̶̉o̶̜͠n̷͓̈!̵̘́
Izu and Aruto pushed, throwing Sefy back.
"Sorry. But neither of us are done." Aruto commented as he gave Izu the Calibur "Izu?" He asked, holding up the ZeroOne Driver "May I?"
"Of course, President Aruto." She smiled and nodded. "You are Authorised."
Aruto smiled as he once again attached the Zero-One Driver around his waist.
ZERO-ONE DRIVER!
JUMP!
"It won't work! I am still Zero-One!" Sefy snarled.
Aruto's right hand held the Rising Hopper Key and he scanned it over the Driver, fully trusting Izu.
AUTHORISE!
High up in space, Zea was silent...until deep within its programming, the corrupted core was liberated. "This Unit acknowledges President Aruto Hiden."
And a beam of yellow digital energy shot down, projecting a large yellow energy metallic grasshopper which chirruped triumphantly.
"No... No... Nononono..." Another Zero One mumbled in fear.
Aruto extended his hands out, still holding the ProgriseKey, before making a circle with his arms to overlap in front of him.
While he did this, the Hopper did its namesake and hopped around as holographic blue screens appeared with the outline of the Zea satellite and shifted screens.
Aruto, using his right hand that held the Key, flipped out the screen of his device which revealed a blue mechanical skeleton of the Hopper inside. His hand reached up to his right ear before he proudly proclaimed a single word.
Bringing his arm up, his thumb twisted the lid of the key open as he held it beside his face.
"Henshin." He said calmly and proudly, smiling, before slotting it into his belt with a powerful and confident slam. A slam that opened the belt open as the key slotted into place. The silver arrowed front of the Driver slid to the left, covering the red arrow and moved the circle of the scanner to the centre, giving the impression of an eye, with the image of a grasshopper in the centre of a white circle with a yellow edge.
PROGRISE!
The blue holographic screens in front of Aruto showed the outline of a schematic for something that fit Aruto. The schematic pulled over Aruto and formed a black bodysuit with a silver 'mask', red markings over his chest and partially on his thighs, silver lines over his shoulders to his arms
TO-BIA GA RISE! RISING HOPPER!
The yellow grasshopper leapt at Aruto, before its body and limbs separated and digitized, forming neon-yellow armour over the young man's black bodysuit. Aruto's body was now lined with the hopper's data turned solid, his boots now hand neon-yellow protection on the top, connecting to the yellow shin guards, his thighs were protected by the same yellow guards that reached up to his waist. Aruto's chest had a slightly segmented chest-piece that covered the exposed red markings while his arms were the same black with silver lines. And lastly was Aruto's mask, which now was a plain neon-yellow grasshopper mask with two red eyes and a pair of antennae on a black helmet with thin red lines.
A Jump To The Sky Turns Into A Rider Kick
The red eyes of the mask glowed brightly, heroically, as Aruto smirked under his helmet.
Kamen Rider Zero One was reborn.
"Zero One!" He called proudly, doing a small spin as his left arm folded across his chest as did his right. Almost crossing his arms he came to a stop, one finger extended from his right hand "Kamen Rider Zero One, that is who I am!" He called proudly
"Hiden... Aruto..." Another Zero One hissed in blind rage.
"Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden! Death! To! Hiden!" The mind controlled HumaGear crowd continued to cheer
Aruto held out his hand, smiling under his helmet.
Izu nodded, sharing the smile. Walking towards him, she removed the mask that Sefy had forced her to wear. With a flick of her wrist, it flew into the winds, blowing far away, as she held out the AttacheCalibur for her President.
"Sefy Asai..." Aruto said as he gripped the blade tightly, resting it against his shoulder. Looking at the wannabe President he raised his arm slowly, his pointer finger extended.
A motion that Izu copied behind him "There is only one person who can stop you." She continued.
"And that's me!" Aruto called proudly, flexing his hand for a moment before his thumb was extended and pointed at himself.
Once again, Izu copied. The act perfectly in time with him, perfectly mirrored. The two standing almost side by side.
The mask Izu wore fluttering away in the wind, as Kamen Rider Zero One stood ready for battle once more.
To be continued
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