(New redesign pictures included in this chapter)

*The next day*

After the events yesterday, Lincoln decided to have a day off from training and was watching some videos he recorded on his phone of the fun times back in Great Lakes City in his dorm while waiting for a message from Riku telling him to pick up the communicators to hand out to Kenshi and Ako.

*Ring Ring*

"Hello?"

"Ohayo Lincoln-kun" Isuzu voice was heard.

"Isuzu? How did you get my number, I don't recall giving it to you."

"I borrowed it from Riku-chan while she wasn't looking but anyways I need a favor."

"Yeah yeah, what's up?"

"When college start next week, can you look after Riku and hang out with her when you have time in between classes."

"Uh why?"

"It's because I worry for her, ever since she was young she never made much friends and more rivals than others and after what happened with Kyoya she's been pushing herself with work and isolated herself from others until she met you and she looks more happy like her work now matters because you're fighting in Kyoya's place."

"..."

"You're still there?"

"Yeah sorry, I'm still here and don't worry I'll look after her."

"Thanks Lincoln, Riku should be done with those communicators by now why don't you swing by and pick them up."

"Alright, I'll see you."

*Click*

*Meanwhile at Riku's house*

"Hey mom, who we you talking to?"

"Just Lincoln, I told him to swing by pick up those communicators you were building."

"I feel like you're hiding something from me."

"How rude, I am your mother and I simply want what's best for you."

"Hmm alright but I'll find out eventually."

"I've done nothing wrong, by the way do you ever see you and Lincoln together in the future?"

"We are not dating!"

(Isuzu's new design)



*Later*

Lincoln had just arrived at Riku's house and made his way towards the base after unlocking the access door from the living room and sees Riku in the laboratory.

"Hey hey hey." Lincoln said.

"Hey Lincoln, the communicators are right over there on the counter."

"Great, so are you working on something?"

"I'm trying to design a mass producible line of equipment the police and maybe the government can use that's effective against any invading Cybots and Synthoid."

"How's that working out?"

"Well I have some ideas, they won't be as powerful as your weaponry but it will do, I'm really concerned about what happens if the weapons we give them fall into the wrong hands or if they try to replicate it for the military; I'm still skeptical on this alliance with those government officials that you made the other day."

"Trust me on this Riku, I'm confident to say that I'm willing to bet that they were working on another experiment involving other dimensions before that accident but will now tell us everything about it thinking that it might help everyone involved and benefit mankind."

"I highly doubt that."

"Only one way to find out, care to join?"

"You know what, sure I'll bite plus I needed a break anyways."

*Later*

Lincoln and Riku was in front of the Japanese Central Government building once again on Lincoln's motorcycle in disguised mode and proceeded inside to the reception desk.

"Excuse me, we need to see Major Kenshi Saburo and Ms. Ako Hansuki" Lincoln asked.

"Can I get your name?" the receptionist said.

"Uh Lincoln Loud."

"One moment."

The receptionist was about to call someone on the phone until Lincoln and Riku heard a familar voice from behind them.

"Ah there you are."

The two of them turned around and see Kenshi standing behind them.

"I knew you would show up but not when, it's alright Ms. Sakura they're with me and can pass through."

"Of course, my apologies Major Saburo" the receptionist said.

"So, your timing couldn't be any better" Kenshi said.

"Why's that?" Riku asked.

"Uh sorry who are you?"

"This is Riku, my partner when I'm in my alter ego."

"Oh I see, on behalf of everyone involved I apologize for our actions towards your brother's work."

"It's alright I suppose."

"But anyways did you need something from me?" Lincoln said.

"Yes, it's better if I show you, follow me."

The trio then proceeded through security and followed Kenshi towards the same elevator that leads to the same underground lab that started it all and later descended down and sees Ako greeting them.

"Perfect timing, we've got something to show you. Who's this?"

"Riku, Riku Kasami"

"She's my friend and partner supporting from afar, she makes all the sweet toys I use when fighting and gives me advice over the comms."

"Wait, you mean to tell me she made the bike, weapons, and that suit of yours when you're fighting Synthoids" Kenshi said.

"Most of it, others and the suit included were just an improved altered form that originated from my ancestor who was the first one fight the Synthoids and was simply passed down to whoever inherited the power but not everyone gets it but for a couple of reasons Lincoln has the ability to transform with the same power despite us not being related by blood" Riku explained.

"Oh yeah, you mentioned how you couldn't transform but your could and he became the Kamen Rider before me."

"Yeah, it's a bit of a lottery so we never know who gets the ancestral gift."

"Anyways, I'm sure the two of you are curious on why we're here and let me just say that the reason for it is to proof that the government will work along side with you as partners" Ako said.

She then showed them hand scanner that opened up the secret room within the lab and revealed the large container with the layer of bullet-proof glass still opened showing them the small red and black jet.

"Wait, does this mean-" Riku said before she was cut off.

"There were some other experiments involving other dimensions before we had accidentally released the Synthoids and we are more than happy provided all the information in hopes of you helping us getting answers so that we might be able to help mankind" Kenshi said.

"...... VINDICATIOOOOON!!!" Lincoln yelled while bringing his fist up.

"What's up with you?" Kenshi asked.

"I'll explain later, let's just say Riku was skeptical about you guys but for now let's find out exactly what this is."

"No need, this is Calcifer the fire booster" Riku said.

"What's a booster?" Ako asked

"From what Riku has told me, my suit is just the base form of the power I possess and I apparently have other forms which comes from the booster's power but all of them were lost when my predecessor sacrificed himself" Lincoln said.

"That's the gist of it but it appears the he's in a state of deep sleep, normally he's a bit of a talker."

"Wait, it's alive?" Kenshi said in shock.

"Yep, I might have the equipment I need to wake him up and ready for action back at our base but it might take some time that is if you allow us to take it from you."

"It's all yours" Ako said.

"Ok then, quick question, how do we get it out of here and through security?" Lincoln asked.

"Same way everybody does if it's considered important enough to risk their lives for it" Kenshi said.

He then pulled out a black briefcase and opened the container grabbed the fire booster and put it inside the case and locked it.

"By handcuffing this to your wrist."

"You do know that the two of us came here on my bike and I'm not conformable reavealing the location of our base to you guys yet."

"I'm sure we can manage without the handcuffs" Riku said.

*Meanwhile in another dimension*

The king was sitting on his throne with a mysterious crystal orb in his hands and was observing the image inside the orb until Sentria entered the throne room with her underling right behind her.

(The king's new design)



"My lord, I have brought her" Sentria said.

"Hello Seras it's nice to see you again" the king said.

Seras was a blue spider-like Synthoid with 4 red eyes, fangs, grey hair, a dark blue body suit with a grey web design, fishnet leggings, grey sleeves, and a small red crystal core on her chest.



"It is an honor my lord" she said.

"I hereby declare you as a spy for my empire and are tasked to go to the earth dimension only to observe for any weaknesses and to study the kamen rider known as Cyrus."

"I honorably accept, thank you my lord."

"Good, you will have minimum engage in combat and will have regular reports through holographic communication made by Sentria and assist any Synthoid from the shadows and/or outside of battle, now go to the earth dimension and remain hidden until I send in my chosen warrior for the next battle."

"Of course my lord, at once."

"Seras, before you go, we need to talk in private outside I'll be out in a moment." Sentria said.

Seras nodded and quickly exited the throne room leaving the king and Sentria alone.

"Is there anything more you like to say Sentria?"

"Exactly which candidate do you intend to sent to the earth dimension?"

"I've yet to decide but make no mistake, Cyrus won't be able to win so easily next time for now send in as many Cybots as possible."

"Of course my lord... by the way, I couldn't help but notice you were observing the crystal orb again."

"It's simply so satisfying observing what nightmare lies within it."

"I see, I shall be taking my leave then."

Sentria left the throne room and headed out to meet up with Seras before she leaves.

"Seras, you must take caution on your mission, I cannot bare it if you are eliminated." Sentria said as she embraced Seras in a comforting hug.

"I understand, I will not fail the empire, the king, and I will not fail you... mother."

*Meanwhile at the police station*

Tanaka had just finished filling out paperwork and submitted a report about Lincoln to the chief all while making sure to reveal nothing about his identity. As he was sitting at his desk he remembered what Lincoln said about his past and decided to use his new free time to do a little research on him off the books so he turned on his laptop and switched to a private browser on Google.

"Ok let's see here, "The Loud Family, Royal Woods, Michigan", who exactly are you?"

The page finally load up and Tanaka read everything about Lincoln's family and can see that Lincoln was the only son and middle child of 11 children and how talented his sisters were along with information about a few previous incidents from the sister fight protocol to the supermarket incident and even the princess pony book but he then sees the information about their greatest downfall. Tanaka had stumbled upon an old article about the bad luck incident where Lincoln was casted out of his family because he was deemed bad luck and every event that occurred before, during, and after it happened.

"Dear god, just how much have you suffered Lincoln?"

He continues to read the article and sees the outcome of the court case against Lincoln's former family and how he was adopted by the Santiago's and the Cassagrandes but what surprised him was there was a suicide attempt by Lincoln before he decided to go to court however the article had no details about that.

"No child should ever have to go through so much torture, pain and suffering especially from his own family."

"Tanaka?"

Tanaka quickly closed the browser and looked up to see the chief calling out to him.

"Yes sir?"

"Look I know it's probably best for us not to dig into the real identity of Cyrus to avoid any problems in the future but I can't help but wonder if you know anything, he seems to trust you the most when it comes to the police and just know I won't say a word of this conversation so whether you lie or not is entire up to you, no consequences applied."

"... He did reveal his identity but you are right about me being the most trustworthy person within force for him so I won't say anything but I will say this... he's been through a lot and experience something literally no person on this world should ever go through."

"Ok then, I won't push any further carry on with whatever you were doing I need to pick up my daughter from school."

"Alright, have a nice day sir."

The chief then left the room leaving Tanaka alone with his thoughts about the new information he acquired about Lincoln's traumatic past.

*Meanwhile at the base*

Lincoln and Riku had placed Calcifer on a large scanner with the data showing on the monitor of the computer.

"Alright Riku, any idea on how do we wake Calicifer up?"

"Not exactly but in theory, if I can find a way to to use a certain amount of inter dimensional energy to jump start his body it might be enough but I might need to do a couple of calculations to determine how much without doing any harm to him."

"When you say inter dimensional energy, is it the same energy I use?"

"Uh yeah actually, you see whenever you destroy a Synthoid you actually absorb and purify the dark energy and store in your body until you need it in combat."

"... that would have been nice to know beforehand."

"Don't worry it won't hurt you, every member in family that had the power to become a kamen rider before had no issues with it."

"Well if that's the case then can I use it outside of combat like using it wake up a certain red booster."

"Maybe but we don't really know-"

Lincoln then suddenly decided to touch Calcifer and static electricity zapped both his hand and Calcifer and a burst of fire suddenly ignited on the scanner and Calcifer began to fly around at a high speed around the base.

"What happened? Where am I?" Calcifer said in a male voice. (imagine the voice of Good Striker from Lupinranger vs. Patranger).

"I guess that worked, why didn't I do that sooner."

Calcifer then calmed down to take a look at his surroundings at sees that he's back in the base and sees a familiar face.

"Riku? Is that you?"

"Yeah it's me I kinda grew up a lot, it's nice to see you again."

"Riku-chan!"

Calcifer flew down fast and landed on Riku's chest as if he was trying to hug her.

"Aww so heartwarming."

"Huh, who are you?"

"This is Lincoln Loud, the new kamen rider that's been fighting Synthoids over the past few weeks."

"Hi there."

"I see, let me properly introduce myself, I am Calcifer the fire booster."

"Nice to meet you, I'm looking forward to fighting alongside with you in the near future."

*Ring* *Ring*

Just then, Lincoln's phone was getting a call and he see that Maria was calling him.

"Sorry I kinda need to take this *steps to the side and answers the call* hi mom."

"Hey sweetie, you haven't called us for a while."

"Right, sorry I've been a little preoccupied with stuff."

"I heard from Carol that she and the others were attacked by monsters."

"Yeah I know, it was a very good thing that new hero saved them."

"Kamen Rider Cyrus, right?"

"Yeah that's the one."

"Lincoln, I know you want to achieve your dream and go to college there and that classes start next week but I was hoping if you would consider going at a later time, just until this monster situation is over."

"...Uh that won't be necessary, I get that you're worried about me but I promise everything's gonna be alright and I'm sure Cyrus will help us whenever the monsters attack."

"Are you hiding something from me?"

"No, of course not, I'm just in the middle of... work right now?"

"Hmmm ok but you better not be hiding anything from your mother."

"Ok I won't, bye now say hi to the family for me."

*Call ends*

Lincoln turns around and sees Riku and Calcifer looking at him with a blank expression.

"Seriously, you lied to own mother like that?"

"What else could I do? I'm trying to keep my identity as a kamen rider a secret from them."

"Lincoln, you got to tell them at some point, I remember back when I was with Kyoya he struggled to achieve a normal life with friends because he didn't want to put them at risk by exposing his identity. Imagine if the worse case scenario happens and you die in battle, what would your family from overseas would think when they find out the truth."

"I get that but I'm not ready to tell them yet, one of these days I swear."

"Alright then."

The base entrance then opened up and Isuzu descended down the stairs.

"Riku-chan, Lincoln-kun did something happened? I thought I heard an explosion."

At that moment, Isuzu saw Calcifer and was immediately shocked with a certain amount of joy as well however if Calcifer had a face it would had an expression of absolute fear.

"Isuzu? Please protect me Lincoln!"

"What's up with you, it's just Isuzu."

"Calcifer can be a bit of a troublemaker and mom would lecture him but she's very scary when she's angry, you know that trick you do with the death glare with murderous aura."

"Yeah."

"It's like that, you're just haven't seen that side of her yet."

"Now how can you talk about your mother as if I was a monster."

*One Week Later*

Over the past week, Riku's family and Calcifer have been catching up about all the events that happened since Kyoya's sacrifice and Riku had been working hard on a new project but has yet to tell Lincoln what it is but eventually the first day of classes came by sooner rather than later.

"Alright Riku, you ready for first day of college?" Lincoln said, he was dressed in his signature outfit of an orange Ace Savvy, black jeans, brown belt, blue sneakers and a red sleeveless jacket and his initials on the collar.

(Lincoln's new signature outfit design)



"Yeah, but I already want to get the day over with already so that I can get back to work" Riku said, she saw wearing a purple strap crop top with a pink heart, purple arm sleeves, brown shorts, white shoes, and black leggings.

(Riku's new signature outfit design)



"It's really that important?"

"Yes, I always wanted to build something like this so I can't reveal it to you until I know it's flawless."

"I've seen the stuff you make, I'm sure it's gonna be perfect."

"That means a lot to me."

"Hey it looks like we got the same first class, we should get to it."

"Yeah, your right."

The two of them headed towards their first class together but Lincoln couldn't help but feel uneasy, over the past week their had been two attacks but there were only a large amount of Cybots and no Synthoids both times. He also felt as if he was being watched from afar, he was thinking that many these attacks were a method of getting intel or a way of delaying him for a bigger battle. Lincoln has yet to use Calcifer in battle but his instincts tells him that the time will come soon and he hasn't forgotten his promise to Isuzu and to Ryouma.

*Flashback*

On the night Calcifer came back to life as Lincoln was about to head back to the dorms, Ryouma stopped him for a quick chat.

"Hey Lincoln, hold up a second."

"Yeah, need something."

"Kinda, I'm assuming my wife asked you to look after Riku in college right."

"Yeah."

"Well do you mind doing it subtly, Riku always had this thought that she has to handle it herself but even though we're here, she won't let herself ask for help."

"Sure, I can do that. Trust me, I've been though the same thing with my family in the beginning because I didn't want to feel like a burden to them when they had already done a lot to help."

"Thanks, you know it's possible she's still grieving over Kyoya in her own way."

"Perhaps but whatever happens, she has people who supports her even me."

*Flashback ends*

Time pasted by throughout the day and before they knew it, most of their classes for the day have ended though a few of them made the two of them separate from each other and the two of them were having a nice break eating some lunch in the cafeteria.

"Well, I'm already exhausted" Riku said.

"It's the first day, plus it's almost over."

"I'm pretty convinced that I'm the smartest person in the room."

"I admit you are smart but maybe getting along with your classmate might not be the worst idea."

"You sound like my mom, what she'd asked you to look out for me or something?"

"Uh..."

"She did, didn't she?"

"...She wasn't wrong when she explained why."

"Betrayed by my own mother and friend."

"According to her, I'm like your only friend and more enemies/rivals than others."

"He's not exactly wrong you know" a familiar voice said.

The two of them looked up and sees that it was none other than Usagi Tendo but instead of luxurious clothing from their last encounter she was wearing regular plain clothes an average person would wear.

"Usagi? What happened to you?"

"Your boy- I mean friend here had a chance encounter with my mom and somehow taught her that murderous aura trick and how to put her foot down but the look on her face was terrifying, now I have to behave myself and my dad has to stop spoiling me."

"I know my advice worked but not that well."

"Look, for what it's worth I'm sorry for my behavior towards you Riku and for my action towards you Lincoln during our last encounter."

"Water under the bridge, wanna join us?"

"I would like that."

At that moment, Lincoln received a message on his phone and can see that it was a distress signal from the communicator he gave to Tanaka.

"I got to go, something came up but I'll try to be back soon."

"Wait, what happened."

"Uh... a friend from work is in trouble and I'm the only person that can help him out."

Lincoln leaned in closer towards Riku to whisper in her ear so that Usagi won't eavesdrop.

"Cybots are attacking Shibuya and Tanaka's already on the scene, inform the headmaster or the teacher that I'll be a little late."

Riku nodded and gave an "ok" sign and Lincoln began to run to his disguised bike parked outside the campus and drove towards the fights and as he was driving at high speed and when the road was clear he placed the belt on his waist and began the transformation.

"CONFIRMED... CYRUS"

"Henshin!"

"LET'S GO... CYRUS"

*Transforms while driving at high speed and turns off bike's disguised*

"Hang on Tanaka, I'm coming."

-To Be Continued-