Last Time on Kamen Rider Chrono: The Three Legendary Zodiacs grouped together for the first time in years to discuss the rising Kamen Rider problem, meanwhile Kamen Rider Paradox had managed to take down the Dog Zodiac. With four of the Zodiacs defeated, the three Riders met at HOME and it was revealed that Gears and Paradox came from two seperate futures. One where Chrono disappeared, and one where Chrono was killed.
Kibou: "Henshin!"
Kibou quickly swiped his left hand across his waist to open up the Chrono Driver, jumping up and dive kicking a mook away from a crowd of people.
AI: "It's Time to Go! Kamen Rider Chrono! The Lucky Rabbit Jumps the Moon."
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Ducking under an attack from the Goat Zodiac's minion, Chrono swung wide with his right arm and kicked him back.
Chrono: "Get out of here!"
The group nodded and ran away, leaving him to deal with the large group of minions. One of which ran up to him and slammed its head into his stomach. Fighting off the pain, he grabbed it by the shoulders and tossed it into two others.
Summoning his twinblade, he quickly thrusted forward to knock another away, then spun around to slash away the others that tried to tackle him like the first one.
AI: "Let's go ahead and use that new trick."
Chrono: "Right!"
The Kamen Rider tossed his weapon skyward, causing it to shatter into dust before holding out his right hand to summon a roman numeral clock. The mooks stumbled back, wondering just what he was about to do.
Chrono punched through it, causing dust to fly all over the area, collect in his hand, and taking the form of a gun. He chambered a round and advanced, sliding on the floor and firing into the first couple of them. Upon impact, the bullets exploded to create a dust effect that stuck onto the enemy and disintegrated them.
When the slide was finished he rolled back to a knee, shooting into another chest while pushing himself backwards. Narrowly dodging every attack while creating more room for him to dodge to, but it all ended when a bigger and burly one had caught him by the scarf and started dragging him across the floor.
AI: "WE REALLY NEED TO RETHINK THAT SCARF!"
Chrono: "We can talk about it later."
Keeping his calm, Chrono summoned his twinblade in his left hand and stabbed it down, stopping the brute before it could slam him into a wall, then aimed backwards and fired the a couple shots into the back of his foe.
Flipping onto his feet, the Rabbit coin shot out of the Driver and was swapped out for the Pig coin.
AI: "Zodiac Change! The Impenetrable Pig Guards the Earth."
All the changes the Rabbit coin made flew off as another sandstorm engulfed him. When it cleared most of the protective metal was now a bronze color, his chestplate grew far bulkier than he imagined, the shoulder pads were the size of melons, his gauntlets were multiple layers thicker, now had armor covering a majority of his lower body making it look like baggy pants, finally his helmet grew pig ears, a swirling tail appeared behind him, and his scarf turned pink.
The brute mook mocked Chrono, who just stood there with a smug look under his mask. The Brute took a swing, bouncing off the armor and recoiling backwards into his allies. Chrono said that it felt good to be able to reflect the damage this time instead of trying to fight it as he raised his gun.
The Chrono Driver began to pulse as AI commanded time to stop. The world turned black and white as another roman numeral clock appeared in front of Chrono.
Chrono: "Three."
AI: "Grand Time Shooting!"
Chrono: "Two."
Squeezing the trigger, a bullet shot out of the gun and hit the clock in the middle, shattering the clock that then created a storm of bullets.
Chrono: "One."
The bullets soared through the air and slammed into the ground near the Zodiac's mooks. An explosion had begun, but stopped due to the nature of stopped time.
Chrono: "Your clock has struck, Zero."
Time resumed and with it the explosion. Nothing was left of the mooks, and upon closer inspection the Zodiac Beast that spawned them wasn't here either.
Chrono: "Haaah... Can you make a report back to HOME base please?"
AI: "Yeah, just give me a sec... And don't forget the pizza today."
Kibou: "If you don't mind me asking, what's with you and pizza?"
The belt shut closed and AI flew off his waist and back into his chest as Kibou made his way back to the new bike that HOME had dusted off. It belonged to Chrono Prime. It was a low rider with a gold and black color scheme, with a roman numeral clock on its front glass.
AI: "It was something that Colt and I used to do all the time."
Kibou: "Oh... I'm sorry, I didn't know it was a sentimental thing. I won't pry."
AI: "It's fine... After a long day of work he would usually go to this pizza place on the corner of his block, and take it back to his apartment. With us being bonded, I got to taste everything he did, and I also felt that moment of relief with him."
Kibou: "Must've been rough."
AI: "No kidding. He didn't have school like you. Being a Kamen Rider was a full-time gig for him, which is probably why the Zodiacs weren't heard of till now."
Kibou: "I can't even begin to imagine... Although, if it was full-time, then why didn't he seal a single one of them?"
AI: "That's the thing, he almost sealed them all. The only ones missing were the Horse, Tiger, and Dragon."
Kibou: "What? Then how did...? I'm so confused now."
AI: "So am I! I don't even remember what happened. Everything's a blur."
Kibou sighed and leaned against the his handles, pulling out his phone and waiting for the report to get accepted. A couple minutes passed before the green checkmark appeared with a note from Connor, a random link to a MeTube video.
AI: "Cat video?"
Kibou: "Most likely... I'll watch it later."
He kicked the stand up and started to ride off, turning the corner and nearly hitting a female student. Luckily he managed to swerve in time and quickly dismount. Kibou apologized and looked over his shoulder to see the girl leaning against the wall, frightened and gripping her camera.
Ann: "I'm fine, just need a moment... Wait, aren't you Kibou Kitai?"
Kibou: "Yeah, are you one of the reporters for the Seven Siblings Paper?"
Ann: "I am... I heard reports of monsters attacking people nearby and came over to get a glimpse at one of the Kamen Riders. Did you see any just now?"
Kibou: "Uh, yeah... Chrono just went over that direction."
The girl ran off without saying another word, leaving the actual Kamen Rider by himself.
AI: "Someone's getting popular."
Kibou: "Looks that way. I'll want to be more careful from now on."
AI:"Why not just reveal your identity?"
Kibou: "Because I don't want to endanger any people I don't have to."
AI: "All secrets come revealed eventually."
Kibou: "You make that up just now?"
AI: "Yeah, but you should probably shut up and get driving. The perfect student is about to become late after all."
Kibou looked down at his watch and gasped, quickly propping up the bike and speeding off to Seven Brothers and cursing his luck as every single light decided to turn red. That's when AI reminded him he could just stop time and they could take a more casual ride to school.
A second had passed in real time, but for Kibou it was just about half an hour. Dashing up the stairs, he slammed the doors open and fell to the ground, panting and apologizing to the teacher for almost being.
Yuya: "Hm?"
Kibou: "Eh?"
There was an awkward pause in the room as Kibou tried processing what he was seeing. He was witnessing his Kamen Rider Senpai dressed in the school uniform standing next to the teacher with his name written on the white board behind him.
Kibou: "What are you doing here!?"
Yuya: "Trust me, I didn't want to be here..."
Ichigo: "Mister Kitai, do you know Mister Ishinomori?"
Kibou: "Yeah, he's my Senpai at work."
Ichigo: "Perfect! Then you can show him around."
Yuya: "That won't be necessary."
Ichigo: "Nonsense! You're new to this school, and what better guide than our Golden Goose, Mister Kitai."
Yuya: "They really put a lot of pressure on you."
Kibou: "It's not as bad as you think, Ishinomori-Senpai."
Yuya: "Drop the honorific."
Kibou: "Er, right... Sorry, Ishinomori."
Ichigo: "Alright you two, you may take your seats."
Both nodded and walked to opposing sides of the room, all the while rumors already started spreading through the classroom.
Sakura: "Hey Kibou."
Kibou: "Sakura-San! Sorry I've been blowing you off recently, things have been hectic at work."
Sakura: "I could figure... You have any free time this weekend?"
Kibou: "I could request a day off, why?"
AI: "If they don't I'd be rioting."
Sakura: "That new movie is coming to theaters this weekend. I was wondering if we could spend some time together, like we used to a few weeks back."
Kibou: "That would be an amazing change in pace. I'll see if I could get this week's work early so I could make time."
Sakura: "Perfect, but just in case we'll buy the tickets at the concession stand."
Kibou: "Looking forward to it, Sakura-San."
Yuya sighed from halfway across the room and began texting away, already reporting in that Kibou was going to request the day off.