*sighs* The final day of summer vacation is upon me. I go back to school on Monday… so I figured I would try to get one more chapter of something up before I have to go back.

I'll admit, last chapter was kinda obvious, but I didn't know how to hide who the character is… but this time, I assure you, you'll have to guess.

I don't own Kamen Rider, it belongs to Bandai, Toei and such.

After my final conversation with him… me and the Armored Riders had made a choice. We would head out to other parts of the world to try and clean up the Inves Invasion.

We didn't know one little thing about this mission at the time… but regardless, the flamboyant one would head to France, the boy with glasses would head to Africa, knuckle boy would head over to China, and I would head over to North America.

At 0400 Hours, I had arrived at what remained of North America after the government sent missiles that the Overlord King redirected. The missiles had struck at various points, primarily in southern and eastern states like Texas, Florida, Maine, New York… I was only thankful that Japan wasn't hit is all.

I began to fight off Inves left and right, managing to start to clear up parts of the country, being able to get around with the Dandeliner Lockvehicle. I helped wherever I could, to try to just… be a hero. After about a few hours of clearing up Inves, I landed to try and catch my breath. During my break, I tried to contact Zawame City, but it didn't work. However, at 0435 Hours, I received a help contact from the flamboyant Rider, however, it ended not long after that.

I headed to a city in Illinois, Crystia, a city named for a crystal ore that was found in it during the Gold Rush. A Yggdrasil section worked here, and as a result of that, the Overlord King had sent a high amount of Inves here. Whatever reason, he sent bigger numbers of Inves to cities with Yggdrasil Bases in them…

Not sure why it is Yggdrasil set up here in Crystia, I mean, I've heard rumors about there being a team of Magical Girls here at some point… but it's only rumors. I tried to relax a little bit out of exhaustion from all of the fighting, simply hoping that I could defend this city.

Soon, I noticed some Kurokage Troopers running through the city, likely heading to an area to fight the Inves. I quietly followed them to see they arrived at some high school, they suddenly began to burn the building! I quickly readied my Lockseed and turned into Rider form to try and get people out before the Kurokage Troopers could do any more harm.

However, when various Troopers entered the rooms, they began to kill people left and right, with the fire starting the spread upwards and all around. I had watched as the Troopers stabbed people to death, tossing their bodies into the spreading fire. They also damaged the fire alarms and sprinkles so there would be no way to stop the fire. I had to hurry and find get people out before everyone was killed. I managed to get in, before finding a room that had five girls practicing music. There was one girl with a blue guitar, a girl with a bass, a girl with pink hair on the drums, a girl playing a piano, a girl playing a tambourine of all things.

I explained most of what was going on, when suddenly the fire got in, and Troopers got in through the windows. I henshined and tried to hold them off, but their numbers overwhelmed me and knocked me down. One of the girls managed to toss me a paper, saying one of their friends was still around nearby, she had red and yellow hair, so I knew what she would look like. The Troopers then brutally killed the five girls, tossing them and their instruments into the fire to burn.

I dashed out of the room and began to fight the Troopers, when I saw the girl trying to pull on a fire alarm, when she saw another one of her friends die right in front of her, with the Troopers about to kill her with the Squash attacks, I charged in, successfully managing to block all of them with my weapon.

I got all of the Troopers out of our way, got the girl and quickly ran out for the exit, she was starting to cough due to a lack of oxygen due to the fire. Suddenly, we were surrounded by the Kurokage Troopers, in response, I used my Driver's Sparking maneuver and flung the Armor Part forward, smacking down all of the Troopers, and blowing down the exit.

It was around 1645 Hours when we got out, when I got a contact from the knuckle boy. He said that both the flamboyant Rider and the nut Rider were both killed by the Overseer's younger brother using some mysterious Lockseed. He said he was on his way to my location, when my communicator was damaged by a Kurokage Trooper's Kagematsu.

Me and the girl were surrounded by at best twenty of those Troopers, when suddenly, an "Au Lait" sound from a Sengoku Driver went off, I glanced up to see knuckle boy dropping down and striking the Troopers like nothing. The girl pulled me aside for a moment and pointed to some sort of a statue with a glass mirror of sorts, telling me to smash it so the Inves and the Kurokage Troopers wouldn't get to it. I could only trust this girl's judgement, as I then destroyed the glass where she said to.

Suddenly… things went south… really fast. A charged up Sonic Arrow shot came from out of nowhere and it hit the knuckle boy, sending his Driver and Lockseed flying off of him. He then crashed against a tree, and the poor kid bleed to death. One of the Troopers walked over to burn him to death, when the Trooper was smacked down by another Rider.

I glanced on over, seeing it was one of the Smart Brain Kamen Riders, he quickly henshined and began to fight off the Kurokage Troopers. He told me to get the girl out of here and somewhere safe, he would join up with us if he could, back in Zawame City. I gave a reluctant nod, before trying to use the Dandeliner Lockvehicle to get out of here, when suddenly, it was shot down! I gasped and looked over to who did it, and saw it was the second armor of Overseer Kureshima and his brother… but it oddly looked different. How so? Well… the chest and Armor Part stuck out a little bit more, there was a skirt of sorts on the suit, and the Rider now had heels… who was it? I have no idea…

Regardless of who it was, she charged forward and began to attack me. It became clear that… whoever this was, along with the Overseer's younger brother took, whatever remained of Yggdrasil and were trying to kill the six billion people to try and make Project Arc successful. I know two of whom those one billion people who would be left in the future if they managed to get away with it.

The new user of the Overseer's armor pulled back on her Sonic Arrow, and I countered with the same attack, but I was drained from the fight with the Troopers and it was clear that this person saw that. She pulled on her Genesis Driver's lever, before doing a Rider Kick to me… the attack hitting with tremendous force, shattering through my armor.

Blood began to ooze out of where the kick hit me… when suddenly, the new user of the Overseer's armor began to falter a little bit… one of her visor eyes glowing red for a moment. She backed away and left, when that girl approached me, trying to tell me to stay alive… but I knew that this was it. I glanced over to the setting sun… and a thought wandered into my mind… I couldn't help but wonder… what would that hero do… once everyone's safe? But… it was a question I would ask him in heaven.

Reaching for my Driver, I took it off, handing it to that girl, I asked her for her name… I honestly don't remember what she said… Shimmer something?

We watched the setting sun… I thought about how hope was like a sunset, it could rise as easily, but fall just as easily… I simply saw some… shimmering hope. Finally, the Smart Brain Rider got the girl and they got set to head for Zawame City… good luck… Next Generation Rider… the II.

I came kinda close to flat out saying who it is at the very end. Good thing I didn't. So, take some guesses as to who this is? And who is the Smart Brain Rider she was talking about? And who is that girl that was rescued from the arson and murder attack by the Kurokage Troopers?

All those questions shall (maybe) be answered next time. And I finished this in a day... haven't done that in a long time.

Just Live More!