"Identify yourselves!" Orchid said.

The King got up and bravely introduced themselves to the Shadow Reapers.

"I am King Nalos and these are my generals: Graves, Bardo, and Willows. We apologize for our intrusion but we have no intention of doing harm or theft to you, we came here to seek your aid in defeating the Kamen Rider who calls himself Cyrus."

"He speaks the truth but is this really worth our time?" Lavina said.

"I assure you, I shall pay any compensation for your efforts."

"This isn't the first time we had to fight the Kamen Rider but we didn't always win." Orchid said.

"Back then, we underestimated the power of a single human but that brought the demise of many of our kind. Since then, we've become stronger in solitude but so did the Kamen Rider." Khan said.

"Not to mention, we have the amulet as our greatest weapon." Scodoll said.

"The amulet can also be our doom, it's only meant as an absolute last resort." Faldars

"The question still remains, should we help?" Lavina said.

"Faldars is the one in charge, it's your call." Orchid said.

"I say... yes. In exchange for compensation, the Shadow Reapers shall help you destroy Kamen Rider Cyrus."

*Later at Hiden Intelligence*

"President-sama, I have received notification that Mr. Loud is awake and alive and well." Izu said.

"That's great news, have we been able to locate the Synthoids yet?"

"I have not gained any data regarding that."

"Well they have to be hiding somewhere. According to Riku-chan, there hasn't been any portal activity so they still have to be around here."

Izu's headpiece began to flash and beep before she returned to normal.

"President-sama, the Synthoids have revealed themselves once again nearby."

"How far?"

"3 Miles from here."

"Contact Riku and tell her to get Lincoln to meet me there, I'm going to get a head start."

*Meanwhile with Lincoln*

Lincoln was currently transformed inside the same laboratory project M. E. C. H. was currently being developed and waiting on Dr. Hunter along with Kenshi and Ako.

"So what's the deal with this Dr. Marcus Hunter?"

"He's the leading scientist he got for the project and wanted to meet you to get your input on everything." Ako said.

"I don't mind but I'm no expert so my opinion won't matter all that much."

"It should matter, oh and by the way, the rookie that caught your attention during the last training session is lacking a bit compared to others but still hold a lot of heart."

"Is that right? I trust that you can figure out how to get him into shape. I really have hope for him."

"Yeah I might have a few ideas."

The doors opened and Dr. Hunter entered the lab with a briefcase and placed it on a table.

"I am so glad to finally meet the rumored hero, Dr. Marcus Hunter at your service."

"Kamen Rider Cyrus, nice to meet you. So you wanted my input on M. E. C. H. and whatnot?"

"Indeed, it's still a working process but it should work well after a few finishing touches and someone eligible to use it."

Dr. Hunter opened the briefcase to reveal a silver and grey belt in the shape of a football with a neon blue center and a slot on the top with a neon blue wheel on top of it, next to the belt was a black and neon blue disk similar to Lincoln's but there was a silver pattern in the center.





"Interesting, is the transformation process similar to my own?"

"Why yes indeed, you simply insert the disk into the slot on the top to put it on standby and when you're ready to transform just spin the wheel to your left. The deformation on the other hand, you just press the two ends together to eject the disk and spin it again to your left."

"What about finishers?"

"Spin the wheel to the right and focus on where to divert your power to like your foot or a fist or a weapon which is on the other table."

Lincoln inspected the new weapons on the table and sees a sword, a shield, a blaster, and a riffle.



"Not a bad piece of work."

"We plan to make a more variety of weapons but this is the basic armory available at the moment."

"Cyrus, you said you had a plan for the training process of the project but haven't told us anything about it." Kenshi said.

"I had planned to show you at a later date but there's no harm in telling you now. I manage to develop a new type of mass producible armor for your soldiers that should withstand the attacks of Cybots and Synthoids but it's not as durable as mine."

"Likes those weapons you gave us?" Dr. Hunter said.

"Exactly, by the way Doc. Have you put something for the standby theme?"

"No why?"

"Please... put Electro's theme for it."

"I can do that."

*Ring* *Ring*

"Hello"

"Lincoln, those two Synthoids are back!" Riku said.

"On my way!"

*Meanwhile at the scene of battle*

The two sergeants were once again causing chaos without restraint along with more Cybots than last time and the cops on scene were a little overwhelmed with the disadvantage in firepower and numbers.

"This should be very easy this time, considering how Cyrus turned out at the end." Scorn said.

"Knowing Cyrus, he probably found a way to live." Pan said.

"Not a chance, my poison is very effective. We just have to worry about the other Kamen Rider."

"Speaking of which..."

It was at that moment, Aruto showed up to the battle and pulled out his belt.

"ZERO ONE DRIVER"

He then pulled out a different progrise key that was red and had an image of a tiger on it and pressed the button on top."



"FIRE"

"I'm gonna take a page out of Lincoln's book."

*Places key on belt*

"AUTHORIZED"

*Plays standby theme*

This time a large silver and red tiger lands in front of Aruto while igniting the ground on fire. The tiger then started to jump around Aruto while he does his transformation pose and opens his progrise key.

"Henshin!"

*Inserts key into slot*

"PROGRISE... GIGANT FLARE... FLAMING TIGER"

The tiger jumped above Aruto and splited itself and turned into red armor piece around his legs, chest, and face.



"EXPLOSIVE POWER OF 100 BOMBS"

"Officers, get out here."

"G-Got it."

Aruto charged forward and used his fire attacks on Scorn and a couple of Cybots which seemed to work but then Pan came in and knocked him back with a single punch. The two Synthoids were about to attack again but were suddenly blasted by lasers, Aruto turned around and sees that it was Lincoln on his motorcycle and that he had just used the miniguns on it.

"Aruto!"

"Lincoln-kun!"

"Cyrus! How are you still alive?!" Scorn said.

"What can I say, I'm can be a tough man to kill."

*Presses button*

"Sword!"

"TELEPORT... SWORD"

"Aruto, I might have beef with Scorpion here from last time the big guy's mine."

"Fine with me."

"Time to make history!"

*Meanwhile in the distance*

Seras was currently observing the battle with some binoculars and had her communicator ready.

"I kinda glad Cyrus lives, all of this effort back home would've been for nothing."

Her communicator began beeping and Seras placed the communicator on the ground and a holographic projection of Sentria appeared.

"Seras, report!"

"Sergeant Pan and Scorn have engaged in battle once again while I stand by and support when needed."

"Don't bother, I've received word that King Nalos and the other generals have successfully found the Shadow Reapers and are bring them back to the castle as we speak. I need you to come back here immediately as soon as the portal is ready."

"Understood."

Seras was about to turn off the communicator from her side but then she heard Ragnok entering Sentria's chambers from her side.

"Hey I heard my little spider's voice and wanted to have a small chat."

"Lady Ragnok, we're working here."

"This will only take a moment, now scooch over."

"Hang on-"

The holographic projection showed that Sentria was pushed out of view for Ragnok to appear before Seras's eyes.

"Hello darling, how are you doing?"

"Uh, I'm doing well Lady Ragnok."

"Have you thought about your answer for my question if you would want to be loved in a way even your mother won't be able to match."

"I-I-I have not, I've been busy with my regular tasks."

"You know, I won't stop pushing until you say yes. Unless you enjoyed our previous interaction and want more, am I right Seras?"

"Uh, oh look it's Cyrus, gotta go before I get involved in a fight I can't win."

*Turns off communicator*

"...*sigh*... I really need help with this situation."

*Back with Lincoln*

Lincoln swung his to the left and the right while doing a spin to land another right then swung again to the left before jumping back while landing an upward slash.

"You're gonna have to try a lot harder than that!"

*Throws sword to the side and pulls out Alexander*

"Oh I plan to!"

*Slides Alexander onto belt*

"UPGRADE... ARMOR"

*Plays standby theme until Lincoln presses the button*

"LETS GO... ARMOR... INVINCIBLE ARTILLERY"

Similar to before, the armor pieces on Lincoln's suit detached itself from his suit and were sent flying off until it changed its shape and reattach itself onto Lincoln's suit but this time his armor changed into green and grey armor with altered shoulders and chest piece armor with a minigun on his left arm, a cannon on his right arm, missiles on his shoulders with bigger ones on his legs, and dual cannons on his upper back. His helmet also altered as well with a different mouth, eyes and designs on the head, and the blue crystal, eyes, and energy bars on the arms and legs changed to red and once the armor reattached itself to his suit, Lincoln's body released a large burst of energy around him.



"Kamen Rider Cyrus... Armor Mode."

"So that's how it is, very well, let's see who's armor is better."

Sergeant Pan rolled into a ball and attempted to strike Lincoln from above with this attack but Lincoln charged up his cannon and fire a shot which disrupted Pan attack making him stop in place and cracked his armor in the process.

"Now that's more like it."

*With Aruto*

Aruto was currently fighting Sergeant Scorn with his flaming attacking but Scorn learnt to avoid them and eventually wrapped his tail around Aruto while he was in midair so while struggling to break free, Aruto pulled out a blue progrise key with a shark on it.



"Let's see if this works!"

*Presses the button*

"FANG"

*Places key on belt*

"AUTHORIZED"

*Plays standby theme*

A large silver and blue shark lands in front of Aruto while hitting Scorn freeing Aruto, the shark then began swimming around as if the ground was water and jumped high above Aruto.

*Inserts key into slot*

"PROGRISE... CHOMP CHOMP CHOMPING SHARK... BITING SHARK"

*Transformation*



"FANGS THAT CAN CHOMP THROUGH CONCRETE"

*Zero-one intro plays*

"Cybots! To me!" Scorn yelled.

Aruto charged forward and used the fins on his arms and feet as blades and unleashed a fury of slashes towards the Cybots before doing a cross slash on Scorn.

*Inserts progrise key into belt*

"BITING IMPACT"

Blue digital lightning effects appeared around Aruto while he unleashed another fury of attacks before launching Sergeant Scorn high into the air where the bladed fins on his arms duplicated themselves into multiple transparent fins in the air and jumped to and crossed his arms so that the fins act like fangs in a shark bite heavily injuring Scorn as Aruto lands on the ground.

"BITING IMPACT"

Aruto turns around and sees Sergeant Scorn getting up with his tail ready to shoot out more poison.

"Just don't want to give up huh?"

*Back with Lincoln*

Sergeant Pan summoned tons of Cybots in front of him in attempt of hold Lincoln off but he then used his minigun which of significantly more powerful than ones on his motorcycle and then fired a couple of the missiles on his shoulders, afterwards he sees than the missiles automatically refill themselves after a few seconds.

"Awesome!"

Lincoln then launched all oh his current missiles at once towards Sergeant Pan and fire both his minigun and cannons at him which did major impact but in the smokescreen from the attack, Pan dashed forward and landed a powerful punch on Lincoln. To their surprise, the punch barely had an effect on Lincoln and he held his ground as he charged up his cannon and shot him point-blank range and continued to shoot Sergeant Pan until he was on his knees.

"Armor, remember?"

Pan struggled to get up and lifted a nearby car and threw it towards Lincoln and he was about to shoot it but then realized that if he did, the car would explode and he wouldn't absorb it like before with Calcifer and didn't know how well Alexander armor can hold.

"Lincoln, look out!" Alexander said.

Before Lincoln realized, the car was right above him so by instinct he held out his arms and brace for impact but saw that the car only push him back a few inches and that he was currently holding car above his head with ease.

"I have super strength?!"

"Indeed, while you are in my form, you have the power of enhanced strength, defense, endurance, and an arsenal of weapons as long as you don't overheat the weapons and wait a couple seconds to recover and your mobility is slowed a bit."

"How come you guys never tell me your abilities before I have to use you in battle?!"

"I thought Riku already told you."

*Sees Aruto fighting and throws car at Sergeant Scorn*

"We're gonna need to have a talk about this later."

*Presses button*

"Rifle!"

"TELEPORT... RIFLE"

*Removes disk and places in on rifle*

"CHARGED"

"Let's see if what you do when I do this."

"As if I'd let you!!"

Pan charged forward as Lincoln's rifle was gathering energy but it was taking longer compared to Calcifer and there wasn't enough time for him to wait. He then put down his rifle as it was charging up energy from its barrel and used both his minigun and cannons on Pan to stop him in his tracks but after a quick minute of continuous shooting, his weapons overheated and stopped working so he then fired all of his missiles twice and Lincoln can see that Sergeant Pan his wounded and stunned and that his rifle finished gathering energy.

*Picks up rifle*

"Now you're ready!"

"Lincoln! Hang on a sec!" Aruto said.

Aruto then picked up Scorn and threw him at Pan while Lincoln took aim and pulled the trigger to shoot out a energy beam that so strong and intense that it was equivalent to a kamehameha from Dragon Ball. However as he shot out the beam, he was being pushed back by the recoil and was struggling to stay on his feet but then the energy gathered from the charged rifle ran out. He takes a look at the damage done by him and sees a destroyed path in front of him and Sergeant Pan heavily wounded and knocked back a few yards while Sergeant Scorn was destroyed and he could tell from his scorched remains and shattered crystal next to the wounded Sergeant Pan.

*Zero One theme ends*

"Oooooh I was not suppose to use that in middle of the city was I?"

"Best not if you want to avoid collateral damage." Alexander said.

"The others are gonna be pissed."

*Runs up to Lincoln*

"Hey don't worry about it, this kind of stuff happens to some Riders."

"How about we finish this together, again."

"Sounds great, what's the plan?"

"Considering how powerful my attack was just now, try to get him high in the air like last time."

"Got it!"

*Pulls out pink progrise key with a falcon on it*



*Presses button*

"WING"

"You might want to step back a little."

*Places key on belt*

"AUTHORIZED"

*Plays standby theme*

A large silver and pink falcon appears in front of Aruto and Lincoln, the falcon then flew around freely and fast high above Aruto.

*Inserts key into slot*

"PROGRISE... FLY TO THE SKY... FLYING FALCON"

*Transformation*



"SPREAD YOUR WINGS AND PREPARE FOR A FORCE"

Aruto flew into the air and grabbed Pan to throw him high and attacked him multiple times while keeping him airborne.

*Presses switch*

"FINAL STRIKE... ARMOR"

All of Lincoln's weapons detached themselves and grew larger before combining together created a front handle and a rear trigger for it and began to charge up energy once again.

"This is gonna take a minute*

"Don't worry Lincoln, I'll handle him in the meantime."

*Inserts progrise key in belt*

"FLYING IMPACT"

Aruto flew higher in the sky then flipped around to dive straight towards Pan and grabbed him with his legs, spun him around really fast and threw him above and used his wings to boost his speed and kicked Pan in the chest which sent him higher in the air. At that moment, Lincoln finished charging up and lifted his combined weapon and pulled the trigger.

"RIDER BLAST!!!"

The weapon then fired a lot of lasers from the minigun, precised shots from the shoulder cannons a wave of missiles from all the launchers, and a large ball of energy from the main cannon all at once and upon impact, Sergeant Pan was engulfed in a enormous ball of energy which exploded in the air shattering his crystal and destroying his body.

"FLYING IMPACT"

*Lands in front of Lincoln*

"Maybe a bit excessive for one battle with the two of us, but glorious."

*Later at the police station*

After the battle, Kenshi and Ako immediately went to work on the clean up after lecturing Lincoln about collateral damage and try to restraint his own power as well keeping the press of his back. Aruto went back to his company and even help contribute to the clean up and help with the reconstruction of what was destroyed by sending in a couple of Humagears for help with Labor. Lincoln on the other hand, decided to head to the police station to talk with Tanaka and the chief about what had occurred during the battle.

"So yeah that sums up what happened earlier"

"I see, now we know the full range of your abilities with Alexander." Tanaka said.

"Yeah, probably best to avoid using him unless I really need it otherwise I'll be doing more damage than the Synthoids did."

"Speak of Synthoids, you said there were three of them that enter but only defeated two."

"Most likely the last one, Seras, acts as a spy and observes from afar and only enter combat when necessary and just to rescue another Synthoid before destruction. Riku told me that there was portal activity during the end of battle but it appears that nothing came out but someone went in. It looks like Seras went back home to the dark dimension and given the energy signatures, a Synthoid entering a portal to their world is a lot easier than entering ours but it still takes a while for the portal to open again. The wait time for the next portal has increased due to the sudden appearance of an unknown energy to force a portal to temporary stabilize enough to send at the most 3 Synthoids but like I said, it's temporary and afterwards it makes the portal too unstable for a while."

"I don't like the idea that there's a Synthoid who spies on you and try to find some kind of weakness."

"Me neither but for now, there's nothing we can do about that. I should head out now, I gotta make a call anyways."

"Ok I'll see you, once again we thank you for your help."

"It's not a problem."

Lincoln left the station and headed to a nearby empty ally where he parked his bike in disguised mode and was able to undo the transformation without anyone finding out his identity.

"CANCEL"

*Deformation*

*Ring* *Ring* *Click*

"Hey sis, how's it's going back home."

"Oh just the same old usual, more importantly, how are you doing?" Ronnie Anne said.

"Well things became a bit more chaotic but I can handle it."

"I saw the news, you destroyed everything in your path during your most recent battle."

"Man, word travels fast."

"I didn't know you had that kind of power."

"Neither did I, Alexander never told me before the battle."

"Who's Alexander?"

"He's another booster like Calcifer, that's why my power was more destructive this time."

"Oh ok, anything happened outside of your Kamen Rider duties?"

"Well, I asked Riku out... on a date... in a few days this weekend."

"WHAT?!"

"Is it really that surprising that I'm trying to heal and start dating again?"

"Considering what happened last time, I kinda did."

"Heh I don't blame you, anyways I better-"

"Ah ha, I knew it was you!"

Lincoln turns around and sees Usagi and Asami but Asami had an unhappy expression while Usagi looked scared due to her mother's expression.

'Oh hey you two, fancy seeing you here."

"What a coincidence indeed, so how come after our first meeting you fail to call or write to me once to spend a little time together as friends and get to know each other better." Asami said.

"Mom, please calm down."

"Trust me sweetie, I am calm."

"Lincoln, what's going on?" Ronnie Anne said.

"I'm gonna have to call you back sis, I ran into... a few friends."

*Hangs up*

"I apologize for not finding time to hang out, I've been busy with college, work, and... other activities but I happen to be free now."

"Great, we can head back to our place then if don't have anymore plans today."

"What did I drag myself into this time?" Lincoln thought.

*Later at the Tendo residence*

"So that's why you haven't messaged me since then, so sorry for the misunderstanding." Asami said.

"It's fine, I had no idea you wanted us to hang out together."

"Can you blame me? I rare to have your life saved by a stranger and have them help out with a family crisis through the kindness of their heart."

"It's really not all that impressive."

"It really is considering you taught her that scary death glare trick." Usagi said.

"It's nothing compared to mine but I only use it when it gets really personal and ticks me off."

"How personal?"

"Let's just say you don't want to know what happened to my old childhood bully Chandler."

"Hey I'm back!" A male voice said.

Lincoln looked towards the direction of where the voice came from and saw a man in a suit with spiky blonde hair coming into the living room.

"Who's this? Are you a friend of Usagi?"

"Hi there, I'm Lincoln Loud."

"Oh Lincoln, the boy my daughter and wife talked about before. I'm Nagi Tendo, it's nice to finally put a face to the name."

"How was work honey?" Asami said.

"Well I'm gonna have to find a replacement for one of my managers that was found guilty of fraud but other than that, it was alright. If you need me, I'll be upstairs in the office sorting through applications."

"I should head back to the dorms before it gets dark but do me a favor and don't tell Riku about this."

"Ok, I'll see you during classes."

*Meanwhile at the police station*

"Lieutenant, the chief wants to see you in his office." officer Hiroto Aoki said.

"Alright, thanks officer." Tanaka said.

Tanaka got up from his desk and entered the chief's office to see him and another person in there. It was a man with dark brown hair, wearing a black shirt with a red flame symbol, red leather pants, jacket, belt, black boots, and a silver heart necklace.



"Lieutenant Tanaka Kyano, this is detective Ryu Terui from Futo. He's the specialist I told you about but he decided to come by early, I need to head into a meeting so I'll leave you to talk." Chief said.

*Leaves the office*

"I don't mean to question your position but what makes you a specialist in monsters and whatnot?" Tanaka said.

"I have experience in facing monsters before but back then they were humans that turned into monsters to gain superhuman abilities and commit all sorts of crime. I'll get right to it with my questions, I heard that you're friends with Kamen Rider Cyrus." Ryu said.

"I suppose I am, why, you wanna know who he is cause I'm not telling."

"No need, I've done some investigating beforehand. I already know that Cyrus has a secret identity of Lincoln Loud, a local foreign college student."

*Shocked*

"Relax, I can keep a secret and I have no intention of using it against him and I made sure no one else can find out if they tried. It's shocking to believe a child can go through so much trauma in the past and become the man he is today, in fact, I plan to help him when needed and lend him some of my experience."

"Oh I see, but I don't know if he's willing to trust you so quickly and especially since you already know his real identity."

"I'm confident it will be the opposite, you see we're kind of the same. Back in Futo, not only did I work with the police and another Kamen Rider, I was also one... I am Kamen Rider Accel."

*Meanwhile in the dark dimension*

Seras had exited the palace to meet up with Sentria at the entrance to greet King Nalos, the Generals, and the Shadow Reapers just like they did with the Dark Knights before.

"Seras! There you are."

"Sorry I'm late, I was-"

"Trying to avoid Lady Ragnok. It's alright, we're early anyways but eventually you're gonna have to deal with her to leave you alone."

"Unlikely!"

They looked behind them and see Ragnok and the rest of the Dark Knights approaching.

"What are all of you doing here?"

"Well we wanted to see the Shadow Reapers too." Pyra said.

"It's not like it will kill us to try to get to know each other." Aries said.

Just then a giant vortex of shadows appeared in front of them and by instinct, all of them prepared for potential combat only to see King Nalos and the others once the shadows disappeared.

"My lord, we apologize. We did not know it was you." Sentria said.

"It's alright, it was our fault too. I had no idea Khan's shadow abilities can get us to the castle in an instant."

"These are the Dark Knights huh? It's nice knowing that we shall be working together." Faldars said.

"Shall we head inside so that we can-" Graves said.

"SENTRIA?!!" Orchid said.

"...O-ORCHID?!"

"You guys know each other?" Satvar said.

"Orchid was my best friend and a sister to me a very very long time ago, I thought she was dead."

"I was but the other Shadow Reapers managed to revive me mere seconds before my spirit faded. Wait, if you're here does that mean..."

"Yes, Seras come here."

Seras steps forward from behind Ragnok and looks at Sentria and Orchid.

"Seras, I want you to meet Orchid. She's my best friend and your mother who entrusted you to me."

"... WHAT?!" Everyone else said other than Sentria and Orchid.

-To Be Continued-