Chapter 1: I'm the president, a student and a kamen rider
thoughts/flashback
driver/progrise keys/sacred gears
kaijin
Our story takes place in kuoh where technology had advance to new level achieving the most modern in technology the humagear and android like human design for many purposes to help humankind although 10 years ago there was a huge incident regarding humagear in which the went rampage and berserk towards humanity thus destroying the town in the process leading to the so well-known incident of daybreak town. today humagears are still working but due to the well-known incident the government had created a specialized group of soldiers to fight rampaging humagears known as a.i.m.s.
And so it begins our story.
Kuoh Academy
"I want to touch some boobs." Said a brown haired teenager of average height laying on the ground named Issei who was wearing kuoh academy boy's uniform which consisted in a black blazer with white accents over a white, long-sleeved, button down shirt with vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, matching black pants, and brown dress shoes, along with to other students wearing the same uniform one bald and the other one wearing glasses these were Matsuda and Motohama Issei's friends together they were the infamous pervert trio of kuoh academy who were well known of their perverted activities such as peeping on female student or sneaking pornography into the school, but today they were just relaxing when Issei decided to break the silence
"Hey, why did we enroll in this school in the first place?" He said while looking at the sky.
"This is kuoh academy a prestigious all women academy that recently turned mixed and thus there is much higher female ratio than men." Motohama explained. "Which means there is no way you can fail into getting a girlfriend." Matsuda said, continuing "Yes, for we are here to get a harem of cute girls. Making sure our spring this year will be awesome!" He explained standed up with his arm raised up into the air.
Suddenly they saw a male figure passing by. It was a blond guy with good looks of height similar to Issei and also wearing the same male uniform. This was Yuuto Kiba, a popular guy with girls at the school, at the moment he was walking through the grounds when three girls approached him.
"Hey Kiba-kun, what are you going to do next after school?" Asked anxiously one girl.
"Will you go to karaoke with us?" Said another, anxious as with some eagerness in her request.
"Sorry I have club activities." Responded the blond with a smile while diminishing their requests of hanging out.
"That's so bad." Said a third girl, disappointed.
"Thanks for inviting me, though. I'm really sorry." He said with an apologetical smile.
"Kiba yuuto, class 2-C an idol of all the girls of the school. And an enemy of all men." Explained Motohama as Matsuda continued after him.
"Damn it! I hate how he gets all the girls just because he is handsome, smart and good natured." Issei whined in jealousy.
"But you know I've been thinking and and realised that this is one of the few schools in japan that doesn't use humagears." Motohama said out of the blue.
The other two also noted that the current place seemed to lack any robotic figures or such, despite living in a relatively advanced era.
"Yeah you're right, I wonder why." Issei replied in thought.
"Maybe it's because they want to keep it more close to a traditional look?" Inquired Matsuda
"Or maybe it's because they didn't have enough money?" Followed Motohama trying to figure out answers.
"C'mon you guys the answer is easy, it's because of the humagear rampage attack 10 years ago remember." Issei said remembering the cataclysmic event as if it was yesterday.
The government was trying for a humagear use at urban leven and they used a city in the outskirts of kuoh as a test drive, things were going smoothly for some days until the fateful moment arrived. Nobody knows how, nobody knows when but something inside the humagears system snapped. Hell broke loose, all humagear lost their human looking skin and started going on a violent riot against humanity.
Some of them called it a flaw in the system, but others called it a prophecy that one day machines will turn on against man and destroy them.
"Oh yeah, you're right." Said Motohama assessing Issei's statement.
"Still, it would be nice to have some female humagear teachers for us to observe, after all they are to serve you." Replied Issei along with his mind wandering in perverse thoughts
"No way dude, remember article 69: A humagear cannot be used for sexual purposes, including being used for illicit sexual activities nor being touched improperly in certain areas."
"Oh, right." Issei replied in a deflated manner.
"Oh man it's late!" Matsuda exclaimed.
The trio were just enjoying themselves peeping through a hole on the wall of the women changers where the kendo club was changing until they noticed their presence.
"Ah, someone is peeping." A girl named Murayama said.
"No way." Another girl named Katase said.
Motohama and Matsuda noticed and fled leaving Issei behind, then suddenly the kendo club came out of the room holding their swords in a fighting stance Issei looking completely afraid
"You again." Said murayama in a threatening tone.
"W-wait!" Exclaimed Issei trying to explain the situation, but powerless in the situation his survival instincts kicked in and decided that there was only one way out... Running away.
"AAAAHHHHHHH!" Issei shouted in fear as he runned away as fast as his feet could take him, heading down towards the school gates.
"You are not getting away!" said the girls chasing him down, they knew they might get in trouble with the class president but they couldn't let the opportunity to beat down that pervert get away.
Both groups continued to run as they were getting near the school gates, when suddenly they heard someone coming towards them.
"OUT OF THE WAYYY!"
It was a teenage boy of brown hair with quite handsome features wearing a matching blue sweatshirt and sweatpants with a red undershirt this was aruto hiden of 16 years old riding in his bike with a bag along him going at full speed towards them until he crashed into Issei distracting the group
CRASH!
"Ow, what the hell man!" Issei said crossly while trying to get back on his feet.
"Sorry man, but I'm in a hurry!" Aruto said while trying to get on his bike. "man I'm late, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!" his exclaimed panting while riding on his bike.
"Man who was that guy." Issei offhandedly in the moment of the events he tried to escape while the whole group was confused only for him to get noticed and run away from his life then after get caught and receive a brutal pounder.
Amusement park
"I made it, thank goodness I made it" Aruto said tired, Aruto was a normal teenager who live in kuoh the last few years, prior that he lived in daybreak with his humagear father who used to make him laugh, after the incident soreo protected aruto from the attack risking his own in the process but not before telling aruto to follow his dream, and that dream was to be a comedian, but there was a problem to it wich was that he was bad at making people laugh
"Now let's welcome our next comedian! aruto!" The announcer of the park said as he welcomed the teenager into the stage.
"Thank youuu! it 's me Aruto! alright rise phone what's the weather for crying out cloud?!" Aruto exclaimed in a funny accent while being dressed in a blue sparkly suit with a big red bowtie
"It's going to rain on your zone, with a probability of cold temperature winds." Said the phone in a monotone voice.
"Now that's cold! HAI ARUTO JA NAI TO!" Aruto exclaimed while finishing his joke when suddenly he realized that everyone was gone and the only ones who stayed where an old couple who wasn't even paying attention, at this Aruto face faulted and headed of the stage where his manager was waiting with a disappointed look, while Aruto responded with a frown as he once again failed to make someone laugh.
Kuoh academy
"Thanks for leaving me back there you jerks!" Issei exclaimed, annoyed.
"Sorry you gotta be faster man." Motohama said as he tried to reassure his friend.
"I couldn't even see anything back there!" He responded while whining
"You are just jealous." Matsuda commented.
"On top of that a crazy guy on a bike crashed against me!" Issei complained as he remembered the unfortunate collision.
"That was just your own bad luck dude" Motohama commented.
Issei was about to retaliate when suddenly they saw a girl from a window, she had a long red hair with clear blue eyes, she had a really well defined figure that leaves nothing to the imagination, she was wearing the female version of the uniform which consisted in a white long-sleeved, button-down shirt with vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, a black shoulder cape and a matching down button corset along with a magenta skirt with white accents.
So, there are actually people in the old schoolhouse, huh?" Matsuda commented
"That red hair is so nice." Issei said, praising the girl's crimson hair.
"Rias Gremory, she's 99-58-90 and has been the president of the occult research club for 3 years in a row, rumors say her family is from northern Europe." Motohama explained with confidence.
"She's beautiful." Issei said in full admiration of her beauty, but inside he felt that he wasn't worthy enough and that a relationship with her could never happen.
Inside the old school building
In the old building said redhead was playing chess and had a thoughtful look on her face as she was examining the brunette and sensed something from him while watching him from afar.
A girl was standing by her like Rias she had a voluptuous figure, but unlike Rias she had black hair that reached to her legs tied in a long ponytail by an orange ribbon and two strands of hair sticking out of the top of her head, like with the other female students she wore the school uniform, her face was showing a serene smile along with two purple eyes, this was Rias' friend Akeno himejima.
Although they look like normal teenagers they were actually devils from the underworld.
"That boy..." Rias said with a thoughtful look on her face.
"What is it?" Akeno asked her
"The boy in the middle." She said while moving some pieces on the chess board.
"If I remember well his name is Issei hyoudou, a second year student." she said, trying to answer Rias' question, "Is there something special about him?" Also being curious about the matter.
"No, maybe I'm wrong about him." Rias responded while moving a pawn on the board. "Checkmate."
"Ara." Akeno watch as she lost the game
After announcing her victory she got up off the couch. "It was an easy match." Rias stated and started undressing.
"I thought i made it hard enough." Akeno responded meanwhile Rias completely naked opened a curtain which had a shower inside and started bathing while still thinking about hyoudou.
Amusement park
"You're fired." The manager said calmly.
"WHAT?!" Aruto yelled in surprise.
"This era is more situated for humagears." The manager tried to be careful around the subject.
"Now let's welcome our next comedian in the line." The announcer said introducing the next comedian on the line pointing at the door, from the door a muscular shaped humagear appeared in a pair of black shorts with black suspenders.
"Hellooo, I'm fukkinhoukai taro!" said the humagear loudly with a big smile.
"Yeah right, as if a A.I. could get our sense of humor." Aruto said as he scoffed at the idea with a confident face
The humagear then yell at top volume "FUKKIN-POWERRRR!" while crunching his abs which exploded at the moment making everyone laugh and aruto who face-faulted at the sight of losing to a machine.
"Look at that, everyone's joy from laughter. making this lively amusement park is my dream." The manager said proudly.
Aruto then looked up with an anxious smile. "I feel you, my dream is to get the crowd laughing." Said Aruto as he looked up to the sky.
The manager grabbed his shoulder in a sympathetic manner. "I've got someone already, so go and get yourself another dream." his words piercing Aruto's heart like a needle.
"You're kidding me" The failed comedian said as he dropped to the ground in defeat.
Outside of kuoh academy
Issei was walking down a bridge heading home to rest after all punishment he had received
"Man, how unfortunate can I get?" Issei sighed as he rested himself on the bridge railing.
"Excuse me." A female voice said gaining Issei's attention and that it came from a girl with black hair and wearing some kind of school uniform "You're Issei hyodou, aren't you?" She asked the brunette.
"Yes." The brunette answered while taking a good look to analyse the girl concluding that not only she was cute but also that she was wearing a different type of school uniform and concluded she must go to another school, although he never saw that type of uniform before.
The girl, while looking quite nervous, asked him one thing that would make Issei's world spin.
"Hyoudou-kun, would you please go out with me?" After that one phrase hyoudou's hopes of having a cute girlfriend shined like a million stars.
Hiden intelligence HQ
At the highest floor on a corporation building, there was a big machine in an empty room that suddenly turned on and said in a robotic voice:
"Receiving orders from satellite Zea, construction will begin."
after that it began building something in a chamber inside of it, in that same room there was a female humagear with short black hair with green parts along with humagear ear modules dressed in a white dress with green and black parts, a black ribbon with green outlines along with black leggings sitting on a chair before standing up.
"Receiving orders from satellite Zea, fulfilling task." The humagear said in a monotone voice ,she then got out of chair and went out.
Amusement park
"Man why are my gut breaking jokes not working today." Aruto said to himself in a depressed manner as he walked away from his recently fired job with his head down until he saw a female humagear coming out of the car, then suddenly started analysing him. Aruto stopped for a moment trying to comprehend the situation with a confused face.
"Object recognized confirmed. Aruto Hidden 16 years old, he currently identifies as a 'hilarious stand-up comedian' who is currently unrecognized by the world of comedy." The girl said in a robot-like voice then bowed slightly.
"How harsh..." Groaned as he dropped to the floor hurted by the humagear's harsh choice of words.
"Hello my name is Izu im a secretary type humagear nice to meet you." she while bowing slightly in respect Aruto doing the same "Now would you please meet me at the Hiden intelligence headquarters tomorrow at 3:00 pm." she asked Aruto in a polite way.
"Tomorrow, for what?" Aruto asked, quite confused as the company never wanted something important with him.
"To discuss about the heritage." Izu said before going back in the car leaving aruto with a bewildered expression. "Now I will be taking my leave." she said while bowing again."
"Heritage?" Aruto asked himself, concluding that it was his most bizarre day up to now, but he didn't know that his life would get weirder.
The Next Day
Kuoh Academy
"Wh-what?" Matsuda muttered, seeing the unbelievable.
"No way..." Motohama gapped feeling the same way
"Yes way." Issei said with a confident grin. "You guys i would like you to meet Yuuma amano, Yuuma-chan this are my friends Matsuda & Motohama." Issei said, introducing the other two members of the pervert trio to his newly acquired girlfriend. On the other hand his friends reactions was priceless, they couldn't make a hole sentence with their faces showing utter shock at the events.
"Nice to meet you." Yuuma said kindly.
"By the way, as you know..."Issei whispered to them with a smug smile. "She. Is. My Girlfriend." The two of them crumbled in despair as Issei finished boasting about Yuuma. "Well this has been a great time with you guys, but you should also get girlfriends as well. See you guys later, let's go yuuma-chan." Issei saying goodbye to his friends with Yuuma following behind.
"Yes." Yuuma said before bowing to them and following Issei.
"THAT TRAITOR!" Was the only thing the guys could say as they were internally cursing about the events.
Daybreak town
somewhere in daybreak town a city buried under water that looked like a catastrophe happened there, in one of the remaining places that have been left a man was sitting as well as another one came in both dressed in black robes while one of theme was wearing a hoodie the other has a black leather piece around the forehead like a bandana then the guy in the bandana spoke to the one with the hoodie
"So it seems hiden's president passed away not too long ago, we'll have to execute the magia plan." Explained the man with the bandana in a monotone voice.
The hooded man approached him with a childish smile, "How would you do that?" asked in a cheerful tone.
"Using the humagears singularity." He responded
"Singularity?" The hooded man asked
"The ego of an evolved AI will surpass humanity, and so the time of humanity's extinction will begin." the man with the bandana explained as he handed the man with the hood a grey rectangular object with red cables and another object that looked like a green cassette tape.
These were the zetsumeriser and the berotha zetsumerisekey.
"Just like this city long ago." He finished before the camera zoomed out showing the whole panorama in which they showed a satellite in the deep.
Hidden intelligence HQ
In the same empty room from yesterday the machine had finished its work showing inside the chamber some kind of futuristic belt.
"Construction complete." Said the machine announcing that its work was done.
At the same time in a large conference room were many men and women and with one of them holding korenosuke's will this was the company's vice-president Jun Fukuzoe, alongside of him was Aruto with Izu staying beside him.
"As you may know Korenosuke Hiden has passed away recently and has left us his will to read, for that reason I had to bring his grandson along." The vice-president said assessing the matters in hand.
"Why me." Aruto whined, stressed by the current situation.
"It was the president's wish to have you here." Izu said, showing him the will. "For the purpose of the will, there will be no problems of legality because of you." Izu finished explaining before getting out of the room.
Aruto lowered his head looking at the will with worry.
"Hurry it up!" Exclaimed the vice-president in annoyance. "I don't have all day, I have responsibilities as the soon new president." followed in a slightly arrogant tone.
"Okay..." Aruto replied and started reading it before noticing some concerning things written in the will. "Eh... You're kidding me" Aruto exclaimed softly, looking more worried by the minute making the other members worry as well.
"What is it?" The vice-president asked in concern. "gimme that." The vice president said while taking the will out of his hands.
"In the near future, our company will face a serious crisis." The vice-president said reading out loud the will.
"A crisis! What does he mean?" one of the men asked in worry.
"The humagears our company is making wil be misused and will attack humanity." The vice-president said with more anguish filling up the room, it was in that moment that Izu returned with a suitcase in hand
"There is only one counter measure: The zero one driver and the progrisekeys." Cue to Izu opening the suitcase to reveal the belt from before and a rectangular yellow object that looked like a cassette tape with the words 'RISING HOPPER' & 'ABILITY: JUMP' embodied into it.
"Built into it is a new era's security system, in order for humans to take control over the incoming crisis. Only the president has the authorization of using it." the vice-president said with a little glee in the last part. "And my successor whom..."
As he kept reading his eyes widened at the next part of the will.
"I entrust my grandson, Aruto Hiden?!" Finished the vice president full of shock.
"ME?!" Aruto exclaimed in surprise.
"I want him to become part of the company regarding the upcoming future. That's all." The vice president said finishing reading the will looking quite perplexed.
"How ridiculous! He's treating the company as some sort of family business!" The vice president said in a fit of rage with the others following him.
"Besides he's also a teenager, how is he supposed to run the company!" Exclaimed another one at the indignation of someone younger being his boss.
"Calm down everyone." Aruto said getting everyone's attention in the room. "I won't become the president, my dream is to make people laugh and smile so I kindly refuse." aruto finished saying before getting his stuff and making his way out of the conference room.
As he was making his way down through the elevator he remembered his childhood along with his humagear father.
Flashback
"Let's do a staring contest! Booooo!" A young Aruto said making a funny face in front a male adult looking humagear, this was aruto's father Soreo Hiden.
"Hehehe... That was a nice one." Soreo said as he crouched to arutos height.
"Now way, you're not laughing with all your whole strength," Aruto said, complaining.
"The result will be the same." Soreo responded in a calm manner.
"I will totally make you laugh." Aruto replied, trying once more.
Then all over sudden a huge explosion was heard and fire surrounded the area. When Aruto opened his eyes he found out that while he had minor injuries Soreo was badly hurt and with visible damage
"Aruto... head towards your dream... jump to them... Soreo said with his last remaining energy.
End of flashback
"My dream..." Aruto said softly while looking at his grandpa's portrait. "Sorry gramps."
Outside of kuoh academy
Issei and Yuuma had met again on the same bridge before.
"Issei, will you please take me on a date this afternoon?" Yuuma said shyly.
"Of course." Responded Issei, happy with the suggestion.
"How about the amusement park?" Yuuma suggested.
"Excellent." Issei responded quickly.
"Very well, see ya." yuuma responded with a smile
What both didn't know was that a white haired girl of small stature wearing the kuoh academy uniform was watching them.
This was Koneko Toujo and another devil and acquaintance of Rias.
The old school building
"A date?" Rias said with intrigue.
"Yes president, your suspicion was correct. She is planning to take him to the amusement park." Responded Koneko in a plain tone.
"President, what should we do?" Inquired Akeno curiously.
"I'll use him as my underling." Rias said while moving the pieces on her chessboard. "But that depends on him."
Amusement park
At the amusement park Fukkinhoukai-taro was prepairing himself backstage remembering his last performance.
"Found you." said a voice behind him making taro turn around to see someone in a hoodie approach him. Then the hooded man took the zetsumeriser that the other guy had given him and placed it on his waist making some sort of belt straps with several thorns in them appear as they clutched on the humagear's waist making him cry in pain as he was getting hacked. "You are my friend now, go and cause havoc."
"NO! My job is to make people laugh" Taro said, trying to endure the pain.
"Not anymore, your new job is to destroy humanity." the hooded man said in taro's vision before a diamond looking symbol appeared as the color of his modules changed from blue to red meaning that the hacking process has finished. "Linked to ."
"Here you go." said the hooded man as he gave him the zetsumerisekey to him.
Meanwhile Issei and Yuuma were having a great time in the amusement park and enjoying the rides while at the same time the girl Koneko was watching them closely. At one moment they decided to rest and watch the comedy show the park was offering.
'Man this is the best! I hope it never stops.' Issei thought while smiling at Yuuma.
Aruto also decided to go there to see if he manages to get a second chance but he stopped at the moment he saw all the people having a great time and thought he didn't have an opportunity.
"Now presenting our next performer fukkinhoukai taro." The announcer said while Aruto grimaced at the memory of his rival. 'speak of the devil.'
He was about to turn around until he heard some people gasp at the scenery and .
"Please release me in this moment." the announcer said pleading for help, as he saw the muscular humagear from before grabbing the announcer from the neck in a threatening manner then throwing him into the ground.
"My job is to make people laugh and to destroy them." Taro said, speaking in a low tone with his eyes glowing red, at that moment he took the berotha zetsumerisekey and pressed the button it had on top of it.
BEROTHA!
The zetsumerisekey said before sliding it in the empty slot of the zetsumeriser, then he pushed the button on the other side making a lot of red cables appear and plunge into the green cassette.
ZETSUMERISE!
The belt announced making the humagear's skin peel off as many green cables started to come out his mouth surrounding him then compressing him, finishing the transformation. His appearance was reminiscent of a mantis with a huge head, vibrant yellow eye and a pair of sickles in his forearms, along his body there was a lot of green cables and metallic plating in the chest and shoulders.
This was the Berotha Magia.
Everyone was terrified at this sight along with Issei and Yuuma, who the latter was more intrigued than terrified.
Aruto was completely dumbfounded by the current display.
'Is this what he was talking about.' Aruto thought remembering what the will said about the imminent crisis.
As some of the staff tried to stop him the Berotha Magia but at the same time the mantis monster spouted some cable from his body making those humagear's skin peel off and gain extra armor that covered the face and chest.
This was the footsoldiers of the magias the trilobite magia.
"Slaughter all humans." The Magia said before gesturing to the other hacked humagears to the humans making everyone at the park run away in fear. Aruto tried to stop him but with no avil on succeeding his was thrown off to the side.
In that moment a white van with the initials A.I.M.S. written on it arrived at the scene, as soon as it stopped many armed men & women got out of it. This was the A.I.M.S. Military squad designed to fight corrupted humagears.
One of the many officials was a man in his twenties with shaggy brown hair, this was A.I.M.S. soldier Isamu Fuwa. There was a woman next to him with long brown hair in a straight manner also looking in her twenties, this was the A.I.M.S. technical advisor Yua Yaiba.
"We're collecting the data of rogue humagear so-" Yua said, giving the troops orders before she was interrupted by the sound of a gun firing.
"Destroy every single one of them." Fuwa said, interrupting yua as he started to shoot down all rogue humagears.
"Shoot after I finish!" Yelled Yua but unfortunately it fell on deaf ears.
In another part of the park Issei was trying to stand up feeling a little stunned after the attack of the mantis monster.
"What's going on?" Issei said, startled by the commotion, then he realized that his special girl wasn't beside him and feared the worst. "YUUMA CHAN!"
Near the roller coaster Yuuma was surrounded by the lifeless corpses of trilobite magia with a tired expression on her face when she heard a familiar voice.
"Yuuma chan!" She turned around and saw Issei running towards her. "Yuuma chan there you are, are you ok?" Asked Issei worried.
"Yes I'm fine." answered to her date
Issei gave her a reassuring look before noticing all the fallen androids severly broken.
"Yuuma chan what happened here?" Issei asked curiously of how his cute date could've overpower the berserker machines.
Yuuma realising that her cover could be blown thought of an acceptable excuse.
"It was one of the military guys that arrived before." Yuuma responded, trying to sound convincing.
"Ah, ok" Responded Issei remembering the A.I.M.S. military squad. "Anyway we should get out of here, how about we continue our date next week?"
"Very well." Replied Yuuma, trying to not raise more suspicion about her plans...
Aruto was trying to walk his way through the disaster scene getting a full view of the calamity.
"This is horrible..." He said while walking through the disaster, then in a moment he managed to spot the manager of the amusement park. "MANAGER!"
However the manager didn't answer as he was completely in despair at the sight of his dream being destroyed before his eyes.
"My amusement park..." He said hopelessly, completely destroyed.
Aruto also felt sad at the man's dream being obliterated, however all that ended as he saw the Berotha magia behind him with his sickle near his neck
"Slaughter." The magia said going for the attack.
In an act of bravery Aruto ran up to the mantis monster and tried to tackle him only for him to get knocked away, as soon as he hit the floor Izu arrived at the scene.
"ARUTO SAMA!" The secretary humagear exclaimed in worry after watching the past president's grandson injured.
"My Dream..." The manager could on mutter as the magia grabbed him by the collar and lifted him meeting his 'eyes'.
"A future where humans can have dreams will never come." The Berotha magia said, mocking him while laughing at his state.
This made Aruto look at the magia in sheer anger while at the same time remembering the final moments with his humagear father.
"Don't you dare laugh..." Aruto said quietly while getting up on the ground getting the magia's attention.
Hmm... Said the magia focusing on him.
"Don't you dare laugh at someone's dream... When you know nothing about it!" Aruto said angrily at the magia.
The magia throwed of the manager to the side as he began to analized what the teen said.
"Dream: it means a future goal or desire-"
"PEOPLE'S DREAMS!" Shouted Aruto, interrupting the magia's explanation "they are more than just something you can look up on the web or a dictionary." he said looking at the magia with great determination.
"Hey! With that driver thing, I can stop this guy right?" aruto asked, looking at the briefcase that the secretary was holding.
"Correct, but only the president has access to it." Izu responded while also addressing the terms that come with it.
"WHATEVER JUST GIVE IT TO ME!" Aruto shouted making clear he wanted to accept all the terms and conditions that come with it.
"Very well, Aruto sama." Izu responded by walking up to him to give him the belt and the progrise key.
"Please equip the zero one driver to your waist." Said Izu giving him the instructions of use, while the magia was preparing for the next attack.
Aruto looked at them for a moment before placing it in his waist, activating the driver and making a belt strap appear around it.
ZERO ONE DRIVER!
The belt announced as soon as it secured itself in his body.
As soon as he did he felt like his consciousness was leaving his body and entering a new plane.
Unknown place
When he opened his eyes he found himself in a white space almost empty with some 0 & 1 in there in the shape of columns or cascades.
"Where am I?" asked the brunette, confused by the environment.
"This is the satellite Zea's interface, Aruto sama's brain is remotely connected to the satellite." Izu said, explaining the current situation.
"Wow... This is freaky." Aruto said, astonished before realizing something. "Wait! So that means I...?"
"You have the same thought processing as an A.I." Said Izu, temporarily showing him that actually everything was moving slower than them.
"Oh man..." Aruto said, flabbergasted at the sight of everything moving in slow motion.
"For now you will have to learn to use the user manual." Izu said before various holographic images of different types of manuals while emphasizing on one that said 'USER MANUAL'.
"So basically a quick tutorial on how to use this thing." Aruto said as he walked up to the hologram pressing it starting the tutorial.
"Accessing tutorial mode." A robotic female voice said within Zea's interface.
Amusement park entrance
In the entrance of the amusement park several A.I.M.S. soldiers were still fighting off various of the rogue humagear in there.
"There's no end to them." Isamu said realizing that the metallic body of the androids was repelling all of the bullets making it a waste of time and effort, deciding to go for heavier artillery he headed off to the van with yua realizing what he was trying to do.
Inside the van there a black container covered by a layer of glass within the box was a strange looking futuristic gun with black and blue colours, without wasting more time isamu used his rifle to break through the glass before taking out the futuristic gun.
This was the shotriser.
"So the time for me to use this has come." Isamu said while contemplating his new armament with Yua behind him standing outside of the van.
"Wait Fuwa! You don't have my permission to-." Yua tried to reason with him only to shoot at her with the recoil sending him backwards. Although the bullet missed her by some inches it did hit a rampant humagear that was about to attack her leaving her stunned and the humagear destroyed.
"Step aside." Said Fuwa pushing her out of his way before making it to the war zone with Yua only watching him from behind.
Back at the incoming fight Aruto looked the magia dead in the eyes filled with determination.
"Learning complete." Aruto said as Izu stepped aside from him.
AAAGGGHHH!" The Berotha magia yelled, launching a new attack at him.
He took the progrisekey and pressed the button on top of it.
JUMP!
Then he positioned in front of the left part of the belt, scanning it.
Authorise!
As soon as he did some kind of futuristic standby by music was heard while in space the satellite Zea sended off a beam of yellow light into his direction, back with him on earth as soon as the green sickles were gonna hit him a big yellow mechanical grasshopper appeared from the beam Zea sended him fending of the attack and surprising the magia.
While the grasshopper started jumping around Aruto moved his hands up in some kind of strange pose as he was doing it in a single motion he opened the key in a single motion revealing the exoskeleton of a grasshopper, at the same time the driver made a holographic model of a suit in front of him.
"Henshin!" He yelled as he inserted the progrisekey into the slot on the left side of the belt making the silver panel in the middle move to the right side showing the image of a grasshopper within a white circle.
PROGRISE!
The belt announced before the holographic screen moved towards him initiating the transformation.
TO-BI AGA RISE! RISING HOPPER!
It said as the screen passed by Aruto putting him into a black suit with red & silver lines before the grasshopper splitted apart merging with the suit
A jump to the sky turns to a rider kick.
When the transformation was finished Aruto was in a black suit with silver & red lines going around his body but also yellow armour on the chest, legs, arms and face giving him the appearance of a grasshopper, in his hand was a black suitcase with a diagonal yellow line.
This was kamen rider Zero-One.
"Who are you?!" the magia asked, intrigued by the teen's transformation.
"Zero-One!" He yelled, as he handed the suitcase to Izu before spinning around and making a pose
"That's my name!" He exclaimed, before using his legs to jump towards the magia kicking him in the chest sending him back.
He continuThe ed pushing him back with each kick until the magia decided to fight back and tried to slash him through the chest but before that could happen Zero-One jumped really high landing in the tallest part of the rollercoaster.
"Wow, these legs are amazing." He said admiring the power of the grasshopper legs.
The Berotha magia angry decided to fire a lime green beam from his eyes, but before the attack could strike Zero-One jumped off the tree while charging energy into his fist deflecting the attack before he landed on the ground and punched the magia sending him back.
Just as Zero-One was backing up for a second barrage of attacks he spotted the manager getting ganged up by a group of trilobite magias, acting quickly he decided to step into the battle preventing them from harming the man any further.
"Get out of here!" Zero-One said as he was fighting them off
Izu ran in and looked at the suitcase before looking over at Zero-One. "Aruto sama, use this" she yelled, throwing the case towards him, but it hit him on the head.
"OW! That hurts!"
"Aruto sama, I am deeply sorry" She said, bowing but Zero-One just waved it off.
"It's fine, don't worry about it." He said, before picking up the case and taking a look at it, noticing it wasn't a normal suitcase."What is this?"
"It's a product of our company, the Attache Calibur." Izu said
As the trilobite magia started to attack him Zero-One blocked their attacks with the suitcase before opening it up to become a sword.
BLADERISE!
The now sword announced before Zero-One used it to slash the trilobite magias. Just then the berotha magia arrived at full force against Zero-One having recovered from the previous punch.
while they were battling the hooded man from before was jumping up and down in excitement as he watched the battle.
Unbeknownst to him one of the rogue humagear sprinted toward him swinging a dagger in his hands going for the kill.
As soon as he tried to attack him the hooded person grabbed him and put him on a lock while he took a gun from his pocket.
"A-a-a lost child has been reported." The rogue humagear said as the other one shot him on the head dismantling it all while the hooded man laughed maniacally.
Going back with Zero-One the masked hero was pummeling effortlessly the berotha magia.
The berotha magia decided to counter-attack launching various copies of his sickles but not before Zero-One dodged in time using his now fast processing mind.
Zero-One then jumped high upon the air dodging more incoming attacks, as he saw a bus coming in his direction he covered himself to breakthrough the glass before pushing the door opening button with his feet to get out of the bus, with all the accumulated momentum Zero-One delivered an energy charged punch to the magia knocking him of balance.
"There is only one person who can stop you. Me!" Zero-One exclaimed before pushing the progrisekey one again in the belt.
RISING IMPACT!
The belt announced as Zero-One got ready in a stance in which he bent down his knees a little with the projection of grasshopper legs projecting from his feet before rushing towards the magia and kicking it into the air, one it was into the air Zero-One jumped one more time kicking the magia downwards the finally finishing it with a flying kick in the magia's chest breaking through it finishing his opponent.
ラ.イ.ジ.ン.グ.イ.ン.パ.ク.ト.
RISING IMPACT!
The belt announced once again as it shows zero one breaking through the magia making it explode subsequently ejecting the zetsumerisekey before falling to the ground.
As he was sliding through the ground in order to land he missed a step and tripped rolling until he stopped.
"Ow!" He exclaimed, trying to get back up. "And here is where I stop."
Meanwhile at the park's entrance the A.I.M.S. was finishing off some of the remaining trilobite magia.
"Looks like we'll be busy." Said Yua assessing the previous events.
At the same time Fuwa was shooting the last remaining magia with the shotriser.
"It looks like history is repeating itself." Fuwa said sourly.
Unknown place
"Zero-One?" Said the man in the bandana intrigued by the new hero who defeated his monster while looking at the remaining zetsumerisekey which was now cracked in the cover.
"Yes!" responded the hooded man in a happy tone.
"It looks like the previous president anticipated everything." The man said before plugging the zetsumerisekey in a strange device. "Either way the day humanity goes extinct is near." The man continued as he looked at the strange emblem in the wall of their hideout.
Amusement park
"Man that was so cool, I was like bang! Whoosh!" Aruto said as he was exiting the park along with Izu.
"I will now take you home president Aruto." Izu said in a calm tone.
"Ehh! I'm not the president of the company." Aruto said rebuffing the statement made by the secretary.
"As soon as you accepted to be Zero-One you also accepted to become hiden Intelligence's president along with it." Izu explained her point.
"Oh man! I totally forgot!" Aruto said as he remembered the conditions that came with using the belt. "Wait a sec, that was unintentional, it was a spur of the moment..." Aruto said as he tried to excuse himself until he heard one of the kids speaking to the park manager.
"Are you closing down the place?" The kid asks, disillusioned.
"No. A mysterious yellow warrior protected it." The manager said, referring to Aruto's actions as Zero-One. "So we'll keep on giving smiles to our guests!" Finished the manager before giving a wink at Aruto which made him smile in return.
"I have detected a lot of smiles produced by Aruto sama's actions." Izu said, explaining the current scene.
"So there are more ways to make people smile, huh...?" Aruto said, reflecting on his previous actions while looking at his driver before getting inside the company's car as Izu followed him.
"Now we should address the topic about your education." Izu suddenly said.
"Eh, what are you talking about?" Aruto asked, confused about what his new assistant just said.
"Your grandpa wished you to have the best education so you'll be transferred to kuoh academy." Izu responded
"Wait! Kuoh? Isn't that a place mostly for rich folks? Also, isn't that place girls only? And also, didn't they reject the offer the company made to use our humagears?" Aruto asked, feeling unsure about that decision of school.
"First since you inherited the company you are technically a 'rick folk', second the academy turned co-ed recently so the gender system won't be a problem and finally even if they didn't accept the humagear offer they did accept the use of other devices in order to improve learning. Besides your grandpa was a very good friend of the administrator at the academy." Izu finished solving all the inquiries Aruto had.
"Okay." Aruto responded having assessed all the information
"President, I present you with your personal risephone." Izu said as she presented him with a black version of the risephone. "Please look through all the data."
Aruto compiled as he tapped the screen showing a holograph of his identification as the president.
"Hiden intelligence representative director and president." Aruto said reading the contents of his credential.
"Very well let's do this! I'll make sure that everyone at work gives me the business! HAI ARUTO JA NAI TO!" Aruto said, making a joke about his current position at work.
"That was a word play, where you referred the hostility at the company earlier as 'the business.'" Izu explained the joke in a monotone voice.
"WAIT! DON'T EXPLAIN MY JOOOOKE!" Yelled Aruto at his assistant explaining the pun.
The old school building
Meanwhile at the school,Rias and her queen Akeno were doing some paperwork when they heard the door open.
The two saw Koneko along with her was Yuuto, who was also another devil and acquaintance of Rias, both of them walked into the room with an intrigued look on their faces.
"President." Yuuto called out. "You should see what's on the news."
Koneko walked to the TV and turned it on, revealing the news.
"We are at the amusement park where various citizens were victims of the attack at the hands of a mantis-like monster attack.
They watched the footage and saw the so-called monster and it didn't look like anything they've seen before.
"However, the situation was stopped when an unknown grasshopper warrior who called himself Zero-One came unto the scene to battle the monster." They showed footage of Zero-One fighting the magia and finally finishing him with his rider kick. "As we can see he has managed to defeat the monster and save the people in the park. We're now gonna interview the manager of the amusement park to get more detail about the incident."
Earlier after the fight Aruto decided to handle a short interview on the park as Zero-One to avoid too much commotion with Izu making sure that the footage of him transforming wasn't shown to avoid risking his identity.
"My park may have some collateral damage but at least the monster's rampage was ove and managed to save everyone at my park, you could say he protected their smiles." The manager explained also making sure not to reveal anything about Aruto's identity as a kamen rider.
"We are grateful for his heroic act against the monster, but just who is this Zero-One? Stay tuned to find out. This was kuoh news reporting to you have a nice day." The newscaster said, ending the segment.
The four students were left quiet by what they just watched on the news.
"What do you think of this president?" Yuuto asked.
Rias rewind the footage and paused it showing Zero-One. A smirk grew into the crimson-haired girl's lips after seeing what he did. Maybe he was still near her territory which means an opportunity to confront him about what happened. However, there were two things that bothered her:
First, there was the situation about Issei and Yuuma, something that was urgent for her.
Second, it was the fact that no one perceived the presence of the mantis monster even if it was near kuoh, it was a known fact that all living things produced a certain type of life force signal within them. But this one didn't display anything, it was like it wasn't alive. This was concerning since because of this they couldn't be able to predict their attacks.
"For now on let's concentrate on hyoudou and try to understand a bit more about that monster." Rias said.
"And what about the grasshopper warrior?" Akeno asked.
"We'll get there but for now we have more important things on the matter." She said calmly as she moved the pieces on the chessboard.
Little did they know that was only the beginning.
And there it is my first fanfiction and while it is similar to the first episode of zero one its going to diverge more different in the future with OC's and fan made forms
And I think I know what you're thinking. Why choose Zero-One? why not another series more inclined to magic or dragons like wizard, or ryuki, or saber, ect...
Well here is my answer: It's because Zero-One is one of those series that is prolonged and while you may think that's not a good argument, well here's my defense.
Highschool DxD is an INCREDIBLY long series with over 24 volumes or more and most kamen rider series aren't that long because at some point they defeat the villain and all is over, but in Zero-One the villain isn't completely defeated as it can 'possess' other people and thus any one at some point can become the new villian. so it may go as a long series.
And on a personal note Zero-One is one of my favorite riders
Finally I'm one of those guys who likes reviews so please review and tell me what you think. Trust me I have things planned for this guy.