Co-Writer GreyKing46

We do not own these characters. All rights belong to Shotaro Ishinomori, Ishimori Productions and Toei Company

Author's Note:

Hi everyone. Ghost here. Well, I'm back after a long hiatus. But I need to explain why that is.

On the 26th of January, my father passed away from a heart attack. Due to that, my family's life has been thrown upside down, and my mother and I have had a lot of stress and grief having to deal with it. My mother and father were together for thirty-five years and married for thirty-three of them, they were soul mates and that sort of connection is beautiful. I go into more detail about this on "Sam and Bill Time Patrollers". I truly appreciate your patience with my lack of uploads, plus the grief FanFiction has been giving everyone. Please enjoy this chapter and we'll see you next time.

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The sky was covered with thick clouds, a heavy orange glow illuminated the landscape; ruined buildings and torn-up concrete streets were the city's canvas.

CLANG!

SLASH!

Destroyed cars littered the streets like fallen leaves from trees, rust had settled in and the paints were chipped away.

CLANG!

SLASH!

The ruins of buildings bore gaping holes like scars from battle.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

Emaciated tattered clothing-covered bodies and robotic limbs were scattered around, like a battlefield or a graveyard exposed to the elements.

And in the front of one building, a broken-into museum, was a large crowd of figures.

Many of them wore black undersuits, silver footed boots with exposed silver wires and scrap metal slapped onto the kneecaps, hips and waist, a scrap metal chest plate bound by silver wires, rounded shoulder guards, silver wires strapping down to the silver metal hands, a black helmeted head with overlapped metal over its face, winged headphones with glowing red LED circles and attacking two people wearing different coloured bodysuits.

This was a warzone. And there was only one duo that could hold back the evil that was coming here.

"We have to push through! They can't get inside!" A purple body-suited figure proclaimed. The figure's body was covered in dark grey metal and diamond-plate metal slapped onto the body, black wires strapping them in place, a protruding dark metal stinger on their left arm, a pointed face mask with bright yellow eye visors with a black mouth guard.

"How... How did all this happen?" The female figure next to him muttered in shame, hidden in shadow beside their shimmering blue compound eyes... Before her eyes widened "Wait... Sir! Where is he?! Where is the Priest!"

"What do you-damn it!" The purple armoured figure hissed, putting his hand on the other shoulder "We need to fall back! He's tricked us!"

"What about the others?!"

"They can handle the Magia! Come on, Zero One!" He ordered before charging towards the building behind them. A museum.

The blue-eyed figure nodded and followed the purple-armoured figure, running as fast as they could inside.

Walking calmly inside was another figure, one with white wing-motif headphones with blue glowing LED rings, wearing a black cassock, white collar and black trousers with black shoes. He had dark hair and blue eyes that glowed with intense glee and a calm smile.

He was looking for something. Something precious.

And behind thick glass, he did.

"Beautiful. Such mastery of craft." The Priest commented gently as he beheld the glory of the item in question.

A black belt-looking device, a round centre and a round right-hand scanner with neon-yellow markings and a silver arrow pointing diagonally downwards; in front of and connected to the device, was a neon yellow attachment that went from the left to the right ending in a metallic red '2'.

"Master, it will be yours." The Priest spoke aloud as his hand pressed upon the glass and began to open using a thick black inky mist.

SLAM!

"Stop right there!" The Purple armoured figure ordered, rushing forth.

"Oh, if it isn't one of the prodigal children. Come to witness the resurrection of our Creator once again." The Priest remarked coolly.

"You can't do this!" The Purple figure called out, pulling a black bow-like weapon with silver edges and a purple stripe along its body and aiming at The Priest.

"Fire if you will, but it is our Creator's right to return. It is written. As you know all too well." The Priest answered as the mist broke open the protective glass and seeped into the belt-like device.

Purple and red lightning sparked over the belt, warping and changing it from the neon-yellow portion, but was now a black diamond plate covering, with a pair of dark yellow wires crossed in an elongated 'X' shape with a white small corner standing square inside a white rectangle.

"NO!" Horobi called out, firing at the Priest.

SHOOT!

A streak of purple energy shot at the Priest, but the figure effortlessly dodged out of the way, grabbing the belt and vanishing within the black and red mist.

"Master, what happened?" The blue-eyed figure asked, the abundance of shadow making it difficult to be seen.

"He stole it. He grabbed the Zero-Two Driver!" The purple figure answered angrily. "And he... He escaped! Back in time!"

"H-How? How can he do that?" The blue-eyed figure asked.

"I don't know. But the tech he stole...he's able to do that." The purple figure answered.

"What do we do?" The blue-eyed figure asked.

The purple figure turned back to the blue-eyed figure. "We fight."

Kamen Rider Zero-One

Make The Right Time

We arrive back to the city, but instead of the sepia-coloured clouds and ruined buildings, we see a bright blue sky with shimmering skyscrapers and people walking about enjoying their lives.

Near the centre of the city was a tall blue and white skyscraper building. Emblazoned with a blue logo on the front with the name 'Hiden Enterprise', it was one of if not the most important technology creators of Japan; where their most famous creation was 'HumaGears', Artificial Intelligent robots that looked human but had their own personalities.

We move through the building, past many employees. Human and HumaGear, one after another. Rushing higher and higher, through multiple floors.

Until we arrive at the president's office.

Inside we see a large white desk, piled with documents and a bronze plaque which read 'Aruto Hiden, CEO.', abreast the plaque were two rows of action figures and robots from various TV shows.

Behind the desk was a white-backed chair with blue faux-leather seating, that was turned to the right-hand side aimed towards a white wall with faint hexagonal markings.

Behind the wall was a silver staircase and railing with blue grips, below was a massive computer system and 3D Printer, a large worktable, in rectangular cells were older generation robots, all with blue eyes but it was a timeline of how far they came; white mask faces with white chest plates and silver plates on their arms and legs.

The first generation looked more 'monkey-like' features, having flat faces with thicker bracers with small chest bumps.

The second generation had more prominent protrusions on the joints and the winged headphones, some orange markings on the chest plate, and arm and leg protection. It looked more like a superhero robot.

The generation before was the second most human-looking, having more prominent facial features, some riveted parts having the shoulders and chest plating, solid arm bracers and upper leg protection, diamond-shaped kneecaps and white boot-like feet.

And lastly was the current generation; white mask face with soft humanlike features, blue eyes, white chest plating with octagonal shaped markings, dark grey joint protection and waist guard, dark grey skeleton-like feet and black armour on their arms and legs.

At the computer was a young man in his early twenties, he had red-blonde hair and brown eyes; wearing a black business suit over a light red hoodie and blue jeans and a pair of black sneakers with yellow highlights on them. He was in a sweat as he was staring intensely at the screen and working hard. "Almost done, it's almost finished." He muttered to himself.

Standing next to him was a HumaGear woman with an early twenties appearance. She had a short bob-cut with green highlights, wearing a white jacket with green and black lines and black cuffs, a black bow with neon teal-green edges, a teal-green skirt with a black crease, black stockings with a teal-green line going up the side and black shoes. "President Aruto?" She spoke with an intrigued tone of voice.

"Ta-dah!" Aruto spoke as he finalised the object. "What do you think, Izu?"

Boing

It was a new style of HumaGear appearance, one of a goofy-looking clown HumaGear, wearing the weirdest pastel-coloured diamond-motif clothing one could imagine; a top hat and a big butterfly bowtie, squeaky nose and white gloves. Specifications: polite, charming and knows when to stop his routines.

"A new HumaGear model! The Prankster mode, Harvey Quince!" Aruto smiled.

Izu tilted her head as she examined it for a moment. "We already have a comedian model HumaGear."

"Well...yeah, but I thought there could be variety," Aruto admitted.

"What about the more pressing project you wanted to make for the company?" Izu asked.

"Oh, the 'Shop Assistant' mode? I finished their designs hours ago." Aruto answered calmly as he brought up the files. "I hope that they like it."

"No President Aruto. Not that." Izu sighed, even as her lips were spread in a soft smile. "The presentation?"

"The present-what?" Aruto blinked.

...

...

...

"Gahhh!? That was today!?" He screamed, nearly falling over.

"Yes." Izu nodded simply, that small smile had turned to a more neutral look.

"Oh, man! I completely forgot! Where-? Where is it?! Do I have the notes?" He panicked as he began to look through the notes.

"It is at the spaceport, Aruto." She responded with her eyes narrowed. "You did write the speech you were supposed to give, yes?"

"Okay, let's go, go, go, go!" He sped talked his way as he and Izu rushed to the garage of the building.

"Y-Yeah. Of course, I did." Aruto stammered as he stopped rummaging. "I. Um, just...need a-"

"You didn't write the speech, did you?" Izu deadpanned.

"I started it..." He flinched.

Izu 'sighed' and shook her head. "We will handle this when we get to the Space Port."

"Sorry."

"Come along, otherwise we will be late," Izu informed and led him out of the lab.

"Can I just-?" Aruto asked as he was about to save the new designs.

"Very well." She responded.

With a couple of clicks, Aruto saved the designs for his work, and he rushed up the steps to follow Izu.

"Okay, let's go, go, go, go!" He sped talked his way as he and Izu rushed to the garage of the building.

The two almost ran towards the limousine that had a HumaGear wearing a chauffeur's uniform. "President Hiden, to the spaceport?" He asked politely.

"Please, Leemo," Aruto answered as he let Izu go in first.

"Very well, Sir," Leemo answered as he entered the driver's seat and began to drive, his HumaGear systems looking for the quickest route to get there.

"Thank goodness." Aruto sighed as he and Izu sat next to each other.

"I'm beginning to make a speech for you, President Aruto," Izu spoke as she was working on it through her systems.

"Thank you, Izu. I can't believe that I forgot the speech." He admitted.

"It's part of who you are. When you get a project that interests you for the company, you want to do your best." Izu reassured him.

"Yeah...doesn't mean I should disregard my actual job as the President of the company." He admitted.

"Do you want me to help you go over this speech?" She asked as she held his hand.

"While it means a lot... Wouldn't feel right if it's not my own words. Besides, I can't read from a script." Aruto laughed as he gripped her hand tightly. "Just make some bullet points and I'll wing it."

"Ah, 'Plan B'." Izu nodded. "'Old Reliable'."

"Yeah, 'old reliable'." Aruto chuckled.

"Hey, it helped us beat Ark so..." He added with a wink... And then a sigh "Can't believe it's been two weeks. And everything... Everything's already so close to turning back to normal."

"It feels like a nightmare that we've woken up from, horrible as it was and knowing we can get back to our lives." Izu agreed.

"Of course." he nodded gently, opening his window with a gentle smile "I hope... I hope everyone is doing okay."

"Considering what we have all been through, I hope so too." Izu agreed as they both sat in silence momentarily.

"So...bullet points?" He asked nervously as he gazed into her eyes.

"Of course, Aruto." She answered and began to inform him.

All the while, Leemo was smiling at the front of the car, these two were a good couple.

They began to pull up, arriving at a large facility.

It was a large white building with blue windows, a large blue rocket logo on the front of the building with a stylized 'H', a white covering near the doors, and a crowd around the front that had a lot of reporters.

This was the Hiden Intelligence Space Centre. Here they can keep an eye on and do maintenance on the specialised satellite Zea, the heart of Hiden Intelligence.

Hiden Space Centre, refurbished from Ark's attacks not too long ago. That has led to today's issues.

"Here we are, Sir." Leemo spoke as he opened the doors for them.

"Thanks, Leemo." Aruto spoke as he and Izu got out.

"I'll park the car close by Sir." Leemo added before Aruto added anything else.

"Always on the ball." Aruto responded.

"President Aruto, this way." Izu spoke as she stood by his side as they began to approach the facility, where a clear celebration was being set up.

"Wow, looks like we're not too late." Aruto muttered.

"Only because they're still setting up." Izu added.

Aruto chuckled nervously as they walked in.

"Ah, you're finally here, Sir." One of the employees at the Space Centre commented.

"Yes, I apologise for being late. I was caught up in a project."

"Doesn't matter now, that's the important thing."

"I guess. Are Raiden and Subaru here?" Aruto asked as he walked towards the main area.

"They're getting ready for their next flight. Supplies and tools needed to repair Zea." The employee answered.

"That's good to know, it'd be nice to get her back online before long," Aruto admitted.

"We all would. You need to get ready, the reporters are almost here!" The employee panicked out loud.

"Oh crap, that's right! Where do we go?" He panicked.

"Right through here, President Aruto." Izu pointed in the right direction.

"Thanks, oh...it's been a while since I've done this," Aruto admitted.

"You did this last month," Izu answered, quickly brushing him off.

"Sorry." he laughed nervously.

"You'll be fine." She reassured him as she sent over the bullet points.

Ping

"There they are." He nodded as his phone got the notes and headed to the podium as it was finally set up and letting the reporters in. 'Wow, more people than I thought. Though, that's to be expected.' Aruto thought to himself as he looked on at the gathering crowd.

Taking a cleansing breath, Aruto readied himself to give his speech to them all.

"Hello everyone, we doing okay today?" He asked with a nervous laugh.

The reporters didn't look amused as Aruto tried to open with a nervous joke.

He soon cleared his throat and looked at the notes. "Thank you all for coming today. As you know, recent events have caused the disabling of the Satellite Zea."

"Because of the response of the former Satellite Ark attacks?" A reporter asked.

"Yes, because of Ark. But due to the combined efforts of Hiden Intelligence, AIMS and the reformed ZAIA Enterprise leaders Kamen Riders-" Aruto spoke up.

"What about these so-called 'reformed Riders' of the terrorist team MetsuBou JinRai that you warned the public about?" The reporter interrupted.

Aruto was ready for this question, but it still stung. "Yes. Even the members of MetsuBou JinRai."

Click, flash!

Click, flash!

"But they were as many victims as humanity has been under Ark's Malice since the first DayBreak incident." Aruto continued.

"But you're employing dangerous criminals now?" Another reporter asked. "Raiden himself works for Hiden Intelligence and destroyed Zea to start with."

"Raiden also helped us in protecting Zea from her destruction. Raiden's quick thinking disrupted Ark's plans and gave us the chance to defeat him." Aruto clarified.

"With MetsuBou JinRai being close to Hiden, AIMS and ZAIA, do you worry that they might turn on the companies and humanity again?" A reporter asked.

Aruto was silent for a moment, looking at the reporters and taking a deep calming breath as he was about to speak, someone caught his eye...a Kamen Rider, coming from the shadows of a corridor.

The Rider's appearance was wearing a black bodysuit with dark grey wires going up the torso; and black boots with black shin guards that had purple underplating. Black thigh guards that had red lightning bolts and were held down by purple wires. On their chest was black-plated chest armour, emblazoned with red lightning bolts bound together with purple wires underneath and some purple plating, segmented, black-plated shoulder guards with red markings, black and purple segmented bracers with purple wires holding it down and red clawed fingers. And lastly, the helmet, black with a purple stripe down the top of the head; a broken purple jaw and right-hand side stinger, a black stinger that was an antenna. A right yellow visor eye with cracks going from the nose upwards and a broken red Ark-Like eye with a shattered left-hand side mask.

It looked like a warped scorpion Rider Module was merged with this form.

'Horobi?' He thought in confusion as the Rider approached...and lashed out with a long whip-like stinger.

CRACK!

CRASH!

People screamed in fear as the whipping cracks of the stingers lashed out at people, dripping with metallic purple poison at its tips as the figure emotionlessly attacked the humans here.

Aruto ducked out of the way, horrified that Horobi was doing this. And in a new form. What was that form? "Horobi? What are you doing?"

The warped armoured figure turned to Aruto and gave a silent gaze...like he was taunting him with a smarmy grin, to which Aruto leapt at the enemy.

PUNCH!

Aruto tackled and hit the intruder, trying to stop him and cease the attack. "Horobi! Why?"

*SLAM!*

The doors flung open...and there stood a blonde-haired HumaGear wearing purple and black clothing with a katana around their waist and a black-haired HumaGear in a pinstripe suit.

"Aruto, there's an intruder!" The blonde-haired HumaGear called out.

"H-Horobi?" Aruto double-took in shock.

"What the hell?" The black-haired HumaGear blinked in shock, seeing this armoured figure.

"Ah. Here you are." The armoured figure spoke condescendingly, before effortlessly throwing Aruto away.

"WHOA! OOF!" He grunted as he was thrown to the wall.

"Aruto!" Izu called out in fear.

"Who the hell is this guy?" Jin asked.

"Whoever he is. He isn't welcome." Horobi answered as he and Jin attached their respective Drivers.

Horobi's was a black hexagonal device with yellow grips and a silver diamond plating with wires holding a top grip in place.

Jin's was a blade-like driver, it had a red grip and slot, a silver blade with a segmented black blade.

FORCERISER!

SLASHRISER!

The armoured figure stood there, letting the humans leave as it focussed on Horobi, Jin and Aruto. Even gesturing with open arms to give him a fight.

"Cocky bastard." Jin frowned as he and Horobi took out a pair of large SD card-looking items.

One was a semi-translucent red device with a black falcon-head print in a circle with a red base and screen.

INFERNO WING!

Horobi's was a black and purple-based item with the depiction of a scorpion on it.

POISON!

They slotted their SD-Card items into their respective Drivers, which caused a warning alarm sound from Horobi's Driver and a different sound from Jin's dagger.

BURNRISE

KAMEN! RIDER!

KAMEN! RIDER!

"Henshin!" Both Jin and Horobi proclaimed as they pulled the trigger and grip of their Drivers.

FORCERISE!

SLASHRISE!

The two summoned two large metallic animals, one a large silver scorpion glowing with purple energy and another was a metallic red falcon with burning flames erupting from its body.

The scorpion skittered around before stabbing its stinger into Horobi as it lurched back and enclosed his body and made purple lightning.

Purple lightning formed over Horobi, the scorpion erupted and slammed onto him, bound in black wires and diamond-plate metal slabs. Horobi's body was fully covered in the purple bodysuit, and dark metal coverings were slapped and bound onto his feet. His shins were bound in wires holding the metal in place, diamond-plate metal on his shins and bound metal on his thighs. His waist and chest were covered in plain and diamond-plate armour, showing the bodysuit underneath, wired metal on his shoulders and arms; with his left arm not having the same symmetry as his right, as it had a protruding spike-like stinger on his wrist that covered his hand, looking like a scorpion's tail. A thick metal neck-guard and a purple helmet with piercing yellow eyes and wire-bound spiked face-plates.

STING SCORPION!

B̴̢̑R̸͓̂E̴̼̍A̵̝͝K̶̹̀ ̷̩̆D̵̖́O̸͉̅Ẇ̷̭N̴̯̍!̵̜̆

Erupting from the SlashRiser was a burning red molten metal falcon, leaving deep red flames like a phoenix as it went behind Jin and separated its feather-blades and overlapped around Jin's body.

BURNING FALCON!

Clang! Clang!

Clang! Clang!

Clang! Clang!

Clang! Clang!

Jin's body was now wearing a dark grey bodysuit with light grey thighs and red waist parts. His feet were in black boots with red foot armour with claws, large red shin guards with treadmill-styled middles, red thigh guards with black rhombus-shaped holes, black chest armour with red under torso protection, red wing-like overlapped covers on the chest armour and also his shoulder guards, black and red upper arm guards that curled like feathers, black bracers with red feathers curling forwards towards his black gloves; lastly was his helmet, mainly black with a red falcon winged face with pointed green visor eyes and a beak-styled mouth guard.

The Strongest Wings Bearing The Fire Of Hell.

The black and purple armoured figure smiled under the mask, its glowing red eye turned to Horobi and Jin and laughed. "Such pride in those forms, haven't you?"

"Aruto, any idea who this guy is?" Jin asked.

"No, he just attacked." He responded.

"He won't be here for long." Horobi answered, bringing out his Attache Arrow. "Get the people out of here."

"Of course." He nodded, beginning to escort people out.

"Tisk, tisk. Can't have that." The figure spoke as he lashed out at the humans.

CLANG!

Horobi and Jin blocked the whips with their weapons, seeing how similar they were to stingers. "Where did you copy my stinger?" Horobi glared.

"Superior technology, Metsu." He answered, using a different name for Horobi.

"How did you-?" Horobi flinched.

SLASH!

SLASH!

Jin grunted as he slashed through the stingers and got in closer to the figure.

"You're not getting away!" Jin called out and struck with the SlashRiser.

CLANG!

"'Get away'? Dear boy. I'm right where I want to be!" The figure answered, blocking the SlashRiser and grabbed Jin by the throat.

"Ack!" Jin grunted as he struggled against this form. 'This. Guy's strong.'

"Jin!" Horobi called out as he fired with his bow weapon.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

Each purple arrow fired, pinging off the enemy's armour in the room, but it was enough of a distraction to make him drop Jin.

"How cute, Metsu. But my mission is clear." The figure spoke tauntingly.

"How do you know that name?" Horobi glared as Jin dodged out of the way.

"I know a lot about you and your son. Even the President and his Driver." The figure answered.

Horobi rushed forward and began to slash, this enemy was dangerous and meant they needed to be taken out.

"Shame. But I can't stay around. My mission for the Leader must come to pass." The figure spoke as he pushed the belt around his waist.

"Wait, that belt is-!" Jin's eyes widened in shock and horror.

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T̶͔̅!̷͍̊

The figure clutched their fist tight before throwing a powerful strike right at Horobi and Jin, causing a deep cloud of noxious purple poison around them and stabbing them in their armours, knocking them out.

H̵̛͔A̴̎ͅȚ̸̔R̵̪̀E̷̛̟D̸̠̀!̴͎̿ ̴̭̄Ḯ̴̦M̶̞̐P̴̹̉Å̶̪C̴͈͘T̷͎̀!̴̛̭

Horobi and Jin grunted as the surrounding room was broken up, scorching the walls and the floors around them.

The figure smiled as it walked confidently out of the area. "I will return. And the Great One will return."

''The Great One'?' The two thought as they struggled to get up.

"You aren't... Getting away THAT easily!" Horobi snapped as he forced himself to his feet, pressing the button atop a new key.

DEADLY POISON!

It was an elongated Key with a silver-purple Scorpion upon it.

Horobi inserted the Key and opened it with the ForceRiser.

The Scorpion screeched out, as it disassembled and reformed over Horobi, the purple metal clashing onto his body as each part reformed to Horobi's contours, almost melting like purple venom.

BURN WITH VENOM!

Horobi's undersuit was black to contrast against the bright purple of his armour. Plate shin guards that were segmented up to his thighs that were marked with sickly yellow lines; on his chest were scorpion leg-styled segmented plates that curled around his chest and, his shoulder pads were pointed outwards like metal stalagmites, spiked upper arm armour and bracers with diamond-shaped stinger protrusions. And lastly was Horobi's helmet, a black helmet with a purple face mask styled as pincers over the yellow visor eyes and a rounded mouth guard.

DEAD! LY! SCORPION!

The figure chuckled as they saw this new form on Horobi. "Oh, it brings back memories. But no matter."

"How do you know about us?" Horobi glared as he attacked.

As they fought, Aruto had gotten as many people as possible out of the area and needed to get back in. Whoever this enemy was, they were strong and dangerous.

'I've got to help!' Aruto thought as he saw the enemy and raised his Driver in his hand.

It was the same black Driver as the one around the strange figure's waist, but instead of the white and purple square, it had neon-yellow metal with a red '2' emblazoned on it.

"Wait. Is that?" He asked in confusion as he saw the similar Driver *he* had around the waist of the enemy.

"Hiden! Now is not the time!" Horobi snapped.

"R-Right!" Aruto gasped, shaking his head, and attaching the driver to his waist.

ZERO TWO DRIVER!

JUMP!

*Henshin!"

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 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.

Aruto quickly charged in, Kamen Rider Zero One dashing forth with a data stream kick to his first head.

The figure looked at Aruto, seeing the oncoming kick coming their way and could only dodge momentarily, but the kick managed to hit him partially.

The armour caused sparks against the armoured cheek, and this strange 'Ark Scorpion' was able to escape backwards dramatically and dodge.

Both Aruto and Horobi stood together as they saw this 'Ark Scorpion' backing off. "It seems that you're not as strong in this form, Mr Hiden." It spoke.

"Who are you? And what form is that?" Aruto asked.

"I don't need to tell you my name. But this blessed form is called 'Ark Scorpion'." The figure answered.

"'Ark Scorpion'? You let Ark corrupt my form?!" Horobi glared as he attacked.

'Man, Horobi's mad. I have to contact the others.' Jin thought as he saw this fight and began to escape, knowing that this would be a difficult fight between just Aruto and Horobi.

"You say 'corrupt', but the Great One gave me the power to improve the system that defeated you over and over." Ark Scorpion answered.

"You have issues, you faker." Horobi glared as a second figure rushed through the room with a shimmering blue data stream behind them.

A second new figure appeared before them, a black bodysuited person, with silver foot protection that looked like a crouching grasshopper, and silver shin guards that went up their outer shin. On their thighs was silver armour with shining blue triangle circuitry between the plating, similar Driver to Aruto and Ark Scorpion around their waist with the slight protrusion of the Progrise Key in the slot; shining silver chest armour with blue circuitry and crest underneath the plating. Rounded black shoulder guards protecting the top of their upper arm, silver lining on the black bodysuit that crawled up the Rider's neck and down their arms, black bracers with some blue circuitry on the edges and black gloves. Lastly was their mask, a silver grasshopper with two protruding antennae with blue circuitry on their helmet and finally a pair of shimmering blue visor eyes.

The Driver was a plainer version of the Driver Aruto was wearing. It was a black belt-like device with a neon-yellow circle on the right-hand side with a tilted neon-yellow line and grey arrow within the circle; a silver arrowhead design on the black part where the circle was connected, a red arrow-like section on the base with two rails to hold it in place.

"Another person?!" Aruto asked in shock.

CLASH!

"You followed me here too?" Ark Scorpion grunted as he was pushed back.

"Wait... Zero One?" Horobi blinked, noticing the similarities between this new figure and the form Aruto was in.

"They're. No way." Aruto whispered as he looked at his armour and the other figure, who was fighting Ark Scorpion. But he then shook his head and rushed in to fight alongside this other Zero-One who seemed to be on their side.

And the speed on this new Rider... It was incredible.

If it could be described in words or a sense of scaling power, it was faster than many of his base forms, or possibly more than his upgraded forms.

SLAM!

PUNCH!

KICK!

Punches and kicks continued against Ark Scorpion, causing the enemy to back off for a moment.

"Hehe. This form is powerful." Arc Scorpion laughed lightly "You defeat many of my Magia with ease. And yet... I'm still standing!"

"I'm just getting warmed up." The new figure responded... A female voice. Before she slammed her hand down on the key within her belt.

R!

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A!

L!

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Z!

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N!

G!

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M!

P!

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C!

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Aruto backed off, he had a feeling that if he got involved with this attack, he would be used as a shield for the enemy while the new Rider jumped into the air, surrounded by blue and silver data streaks.

Ark Scorpion glared as he stared right at the attack coming after him and pushed his Key into the Driver and crossed his arms.

H̵̛͔A̴̎ͅȚ̸̔R̵̪̀E̷̛̟D̸̠̀!̴͎̿ ̴̭̄Ḯ̴̦M̶̞̐P̴̹̉Å̶̪C̴͈͘T̷͎̀!̴̛̭

REALISING! IMPACT!

"HAAAAAAA!" Both roared, their attacks colliding.

Dark purple energies clashed with the silvery blue energy of this attack as the room was illuminated, Aruto and Horobi covered their eyes as they saw this, the finishing moves caused an explosion and both sides weren't destroyed.

The two panted as they glared at each other. The collided attacks made certain that their appearances were known, but also the damage they both could bring.

"It seems that you have some tricks left, child." Ark Scorpion commented. "I can't stay too long. I must be elsewhere." As he leapt out of the room and vanished from the area.

SMASH!

"Hey, wait!" The female figure who looked like they were wearing Aruto's armour called out in annoyance before losing sight of them. "No! Damn it!"

"Excuse me. Who are you?" Aruto asked as he reached out to the female figure.

The figure turned around, looking at the pair...and removed the Key from their Driver and revealed themselves.

It was a young woman, with short light-brown hair with a black hair clip in her hair and blue eyes, wearing a black suit and trousers and a light blue shirt underneath. But what was noticeable, was that she had white winged-styled headphones with blue rings in the centre.

"A HumaGear?" Horobi asked in confusion.

"Hi. I'm...I'm Eve." She introduced herself, looking at both Horobi and Aruto.

"'Eve'?" Aruto asked as he saw her...and noticed some similarities to himself...but mostly like Izu.

"Hello, Father." Eve looked at Aruto eye to eye, calmly but almost from embarrassment.

"F-Father?" Aruto stammered as he looked at her, but couldn't deny that she would look like his and Izu's daughter in the future.

"What the hell is going on?" Horobi asked.

"O-Okay. Um. We'll sort this out." Aruto snapped to reality from this scene, but knowing that they needed to settle this. "We need to get to Hiden Intelligence and gather everyone. Whoever this person is, is dangerous."

"He goes by the Priest. And he's come back to bring back the Ark. Sensei sent me back." Eve explained, turning to Horobi as she said that last sentence.

"I'M your 'sensei'?" Horobi asked in shock as he heard that.

"Yes, you are, Sensei." She nodded. "And this is my Driver. A second Zero-One Driver."

"But, how? How did you get a Zero-One Driver?" Aruto asked.

Eve looked at Aruto with a 'matter of factly' look. "You made it."

"I... Guess that makes sense." He sweat dropped "We... We should probably go back to Hiden."

He looked up the sky. To Eve, and the others, and bit his lip. Just what did they get into...

To be continued