Kamen Rider, a fighter for justice, who takes on any challenges, wears the belt with pride and honor. The belt it comes with has many forms. It varies on the Rider’s style of fighting and how the system works. Once a person transforms for the very first time, their life will never be the same again. They take on the responsibilities to keep evil in check, to balance out other Riders, and for some to become the greatest Rider of them all. There are many weapons that a hero can use. But the most famous one throughout time, is the Rider Kick. No matter how they start off, the ending is always the same, finishing with a kick that is powerful enough to take down evil.
Zeroliner, a mysterious time-traveling train has appeared and disappeared over time, but the owner of this train has never return after Sakurai Yuuto has used his finally card and is now wandering through time. The belt however has disappeared, along with Sakurai’s Imajin, Deneb. No one, except for Deneb, has any memory of Sakurai.
The belt system has reappeared and modified to make sure that mistake will not happen again, however, it is still an Up Set system. This allows Zeneros Cards to be slide through and become his two forms. This time around though, only one card is need and the ticket will never disappear after each use. Deneb had thought that belt would never be used again though, until…
Episode 1…. Zeronos Revisited
Zeroliner speeds through the time-train tracks as new tracks appear in front of it, following some strange yellow lights that are escaping. Zeroliner’s temporary owner, Kohana, a little girl who has lost her time period, tries to track the down the Imajin in a chance to get revenge when she was with Ryoutarou Nogami, former Kamen Rider Den-o. This time her mission is to take on the Imajin. The yellow lights were on the screen.
“Get back here Imajin,” She screamed, “Den-o had already taken care of you. Why have you returned?”
Expecting an answer the yellow light had disappear through a time portal, When Zeroliner was about to go through the time portal, the train pulled away as the portal has closed on her. She knew she needed to find another person to help with the mission.
A bright sunny day in San Francisco, everyone was just getting off work. Cars were honking everywhere, school kids were just let off of school, and the dogs were barking at other dogs. Cheese Wong, an 18 year old teenage girl, has just finished window shopping in downtown.
“Oh my God,” She screamed with joy, “I want this so bad.”
She had then tried to see if she had enough money to go buy the skirt. When she finally looked she took a deep breath and sigh. She then said, “I wish I didn’t have to work at my brother’s dang computer and coffee shop. But I did dropout of school to help support him after realizing that he couldn’t get married to his ex-fiancé.”
After window shopping for about a couple of minutes, she then walked back to her brother’s store.
Bright yellow lights had appeared in the sky, but no one could see them. One yellow light has hit Cheese behind the back as she was walking. She finally made it, and opened the door. When she entered, she screamed, “Alex! I’m back.” There at the store, girls from high and low were goggling at Alex because he recently became single again. The girls were hoping that they would be that girl that can take care of him.
“Cheese,” he said, “your home, how was window shopping?”
“Oh you know same old, same old. Hoping that one day I can actually buy the stuff,” She said with a sad face.
Two regulars, Jasmine and Monica, notice that Cheese had a bunch of sand coming out of her clothes. Jasmine said, “Cheese, you should probably change, you have sand coming out of your clothes.”
She looks and runs to her room without making a huge fuss about it. As she closed her door, Kohana, had entered the room from the bathroom door. Cheese noticed her and screamed, “AHHH! Child what are you doing here in my room. Also, how did you get into my room?”
Kohana answered, “There is no time for that. I know this may sound crazy, but I need your help. I need you to help fight these monsters called Imajin.”
“Imajin,” Cheese asked, “What in the world are they?”
Just as she asked that, the sand has moved up slowly and became a full Imajin.
Kohana pointed and said, “That.”
Cheese turns around and said, “What the heck? How did you… Where did you…”
“Go-men,” The Imajin said, “My name is Deneb. Here have a piece of candy.”
He offers a piece of Deneb Candy to Cheese. “Here”
“Uh, no thanks” she said, “what about him?”
“Deneb,” Kohana said, “Long time no see, I thought you disappeared?”
“I thought that too,” the yellow faced Imajin said, “but I guess since you are the owner of Zeroliner, my body never disappear.”
“Ohh, well this is an Imajin.”
“Are they usually this friendly,” Cheese asked, “and I never got your name.”
“Oh my name is Kohana, and Imajin are not usually friendly.”
“What about Deneb over here?”
“Let’s just say he is your partner.”
“He’s my what?”
“Your partner, Deneb is a great Imajin. He’ll make sure that no one hurts you.”
“Don’t worry Cheese; I will take care of you.” Deneb said with a joyous voice.
“How did you know my name?”
“I overheard that girl downstairs saying it.”
“Oh,” she said, “so tell me more about these Imajin and what did you want me to do?”
Kohana explains that Imajin are a creature that go into people and appear as sand forms to ask the holder for a wish. Once the contract is completed, they open a portal to person’s most memorable time period and try to destroy the past. Just as she had finish the last sentence of the story. Deneb screamed, “Imajin! I can feel that an Imajin is nearby.”
Kohana had no time to lose, she handed Cheese the Zeronos belt and told her how to use it.
“So you’re telling me that I just wear this belt and slide the green side over to fight.” Cheese said.
“That’s correct.”
“What about Deneb? I thought that he was my partner.”
“He is, if you need help, you just pull the card out and switch it over to the yellow side, but make sure Deneb is nearby.”
“Why?”
“Well, he becomes a part of the armor.”
“Oh I see.”
“Are you willing to accept your destiny?” she said, “your destiny to become Kamen Rider Zeronos?”
“Zeronos? Couldn’t it be something like Kamen Rider Deka?”
“Uhh… no,” Kohana said with a weird look on her face, “Zeronos is your Rider name so accept it.”
“I don’t know, I mean this is happening so fast. I don’t think I can take the pressure.”
“Just try it out first and if you decide not to; I’ll just leave with Deneb and find someone else to help us.”
“Alright I’ll give it a go.”
All three enter the bathroom door which lead her to Zeroliner and Cheese was amazed at the train’s interior. Zeroliner has speed through time to find where the Imajin has landed. She jumps out and sees a Wolf-type monster loose on the park.
The Wolf-Imajin said, “Who are you?”
“I’m your worst nightmare.” Cheese said. She puts on the belt takes out the card. “Well I hope I don’t mess up.” She slides in the card into the Up Set belt and says, “HENSHIN!”
The card slides through and says, “ALTAIR FORM.” Her whole body wrapped in armor, her chest and head look like train tracks, as two small cows appear on the front and change into the mask. Flashing green lights appear and Zeronos has been reborn.
“Let me say this to start, I’m pretty tough so don’t count me out.” She said this with a pose.
“Zeronos,” The Wolf Imajin said, “I thought you had disappeared.”
“Does it look like I am not here to you, wolf boy?” She pulls out her weapon, which was for Zenonos, ZeroGasher Sabre Mode. The handle attaches to a blade and which increases in size. She took a couple of swings at the Imajin, only to be attack by the Wolf Imajin.
“You are not as strong as you use to be Zeronos.”
Oh… that’s me…“I’m just getting warmed up.” She took one finally swing and called for Deneb.
The monster flew back as Deneb had appeared behind her. She pulls out the card, and flips over to the yellow side and slides it in. “VEGA FORM.” At this time, Deneb’s arms have been crossed and put on the shoulders for blasters and the cows have disappeared from the mask. It has been replaced by a drill which breaks open into a star shape, which is now Zeronos’ mask. The chest appears with Deneb’s face on it and now Zeronos has a cape behind her.
“Let me start by saying this, it’s good to be back in action.” Deneb said.
“Huh?” The Wolf Imajin questioned, “What are you babbling about?”
“Uh,” Cheese wondered, “Deneb what are talking about?”
“Cheese, I don’t like to lie to others.” He said, “But enough of that.”
He stares at the Imajin and swings ZeroGasher around him as the ground trembles and shakes.
“You’re going down.” He says that as he switches the ZeroGasher into Bowgun mode. Zeronos flips the handle around and attaches it to the blade perpendicularly. He then pulls back on the blade to open up the 'bow' component of the weapon. The Bowgun then increases in size.
Zeronos hits the button on the belt, as it says “FULL CHARGE”; he takes the card out and puts the card into the slot of the bowgun. The Wolf Imajin takes charge, and tries to attack Zeronos. Deneb uses his shoulder blasters to fire and hit the Imajin first, as electricity moves around the bowgun to charge it up. He then takes aim at the Imajin and fires leaving a yellow “V” mark on the Imajin and destroying it.
Cheese then takes the belt off and the armor disappears. Deneb retreats in a spirit form in her body waiting for her at Zeroliner. Cheese falls down and says, “Wow, what a rush.” Kohana follows up and said, “That was Zeronos, one of the Riders that defeated Imajin in Japan.”
“Wow, I guess that was easy.”
“Don’t get too excited just yet. That Imajin may have the contract holder here still. You have to be careful. For now let’s get on Zeroliner and take you back to your room.”
“Alright, at least I get to rest for now.”
As they both board Zeroliner, Deneb is waiting for them on the inside. The train leaves through a time portal and disappears.
As that happens, the Imajin returns to its contract holder and waits another day to complete the contract. The Imajin thinks, Zeneros, you haven’t seen the last of me just yet… as he finished that thought the person just keeps going, looking for a place to just relax for now.
End Episode 1