A huge bang littered the surrounding area. The crash blew the yard around her. But the girl felt nothing out of the ordinary. Pain was her constant companion in life. All due to her degenerative disease and failing cybernetics. So. Forcing herself up, proved no different than usual. She brushed herself off.
A minor trip from the sun to the moon then to earth hurts. Gravity's quite a pain. Seriously. But hey. Her kingstone devoured to the suit to fix her injuries. Her eighth cousin's previous work handcrafted into cybernetics. Thus created a more appropriate rider form for the Century King, Shadow Moon. Now. She can enjoy the ability to fight evil like the rest of her family.
The formerly frail 6 year old smiled. She felt herself rocketing up into the air as joy filled her body. Her brown hair swaying in the air as she met the sky. Sure her distant cousin, Sumiko, might have a heart attack... but hey. Her cybernetics appeared fixed... well more stable than last time. She could move her arms all the way without feeling any pain now. In fact, the strange parts utilized in fixing her molded well into her body alongside her new cybernetics created by the cannibalized suit, her natural cybernetics and mutation. The mutation inherited from her great grandfather. And she has the new rider form to enjoy. Whatever the man did, fixed her enough to grant her an actual rider form. "Yes!! I'm fixed!! I'm fixed! I'm fixed! I finally have a true blue rider form! YES!!"
In gratitude she turns to the very confused strange brown haired man. His face scrunched up to analyze her. Everything he knew felt challenged by the pale, brown eyed, wavy long brown haired child. There's strange metal in her body along with other non human parts based off grasshoppers, grasshopper like insects and locust. Parts of her look decrepit at best. She never had an Agito seed, yet she had some grongi genetic information along with some lords and other creatures. Her bloodline had definitely had his touch from the time of Amneris. That he definitely could tell. She had access to an imperfect rider form. One she used a stolen suit cobbled together to compensate for. The newcomer bowed in gratitude, while her words reach sonic speed. "Thankyou! Thankyou!! Thankyou!"
He did not respond. But the girl read his thoughts. "I never did properly introduced myself."
"What bad manners you have, Nina." The girl, Nina, berated herself in a strange imitation of a gruff, older man. Possibly one of her relatives, judging by the tone. She bowed. "Good evening. My name is Nina Martin. Please take good care of me."
"... hm..." He almost laughed, but held it in. Out of all of these people, she made a note to introduce herself because she considered it bad manners. Something to berate herself for. Interesting. "I see."
"I... I want to thank you for fixing my body. I honestly thought my degenerative disease would kill my chance to live up to my family." She informed him. He smiled, "You chose to fight despite dying?"
"YES!" She responded bluntly without a second thought. A human willing to sacrifice it all. It painfully reminded him of Kamen Rider Gill. "There's more to you than meets the eye."
"Great granddaughter of Diane Martin. We even share the same middle name!" The young girl gushed on one of her famous relatives. She almost heard Sumiko facepalm. The genius always refrained from mentioning her eighth cousin once removed. Sumiko's third cousin literally helped make the weapons to fight the Unidentified Lifeforms. ... while crushing on Kaoru Ichijo, but hey. Nina didn't complain. The man's success speaks for itself. A model cop if the brunette American ever met one. Sumiko prefers success through her own merits not those of her family. Hence her preference in refraining from mentioning them to others.
The leader of the Lords didn't understand the significance. Another human hero, he assumed. The other cops look at her in shock. They knew who she was. Battle Fever mentioned by one. Another points out a Sokichi Banba, someone their direct commander, Sumiko, really disliked as remarked by the other. He can hear some mild cursing from the ear piece. Nina might been told not to reveal that fact about herself. Humans are fascinating creatures.
The girl twisted herself to the right with her arms, crunching her fists. She places her left arm right with her hand open like she's ready for a karate chop. Then her right arm to the left the same way. She slowly moves her hand clockwise. When it reaches to her shoulders, she swished both hands to her right, her right arm fully extended while her left is forms a capital l in front of her body. She proudly stated the word she wished to say for all her life. "Henshin!"
The power she felt intensified as her kingstone bearing belt bears visible. With a flash her true mutated form appears before her body completely covered by her more bulky armor than the 80s Shadow Moon. Silver in body with blue vest like middle instead of the silver and black of the original. The Gorgom symbol for Shadow Moon plastered on the left side. The black replaced with all Silver instead with blue shorts with blue stretching down to her thighs instead of the black bottom. The rest is silver. Her blue boots remind the cops of the boots worn by bōsōzoku gang members. Her red bug like eyes replace the green eyes. Her helmet also bore bigger eyes while her head matched the original if only the bottom was blue and sharper mouth. The two horns also few centimeters longer. Her grasshopper features matched the original if only more buffed thanks to the extra armor. The sleak, thin silver appendages wrap onto each part of her body. Her hands held blue motocycle gloves like covering over them than her predecessor's more gauntlet like version. Her weapon appeared to be a black, thick metal spear with a large green tip
The third cop's pants filled with water marks. Babbling he's to cute to die as the other two roll their eyes. G3's hand impacted the unit's face when the third cop imitated a headless chicken, cursing, start ranting about killer moons. The gruffer one mumbling harshly under his breath, "I need a pay raise from dealing with these idiots. Kami-sama. I cannot believe I left the army for this."
The man promptly faints in a sea of urine. The Overlord watch the scene before him in pure bafflement. What the hell was that? He turns to the new rider who introduced herself.
"I'm the child of the moon, Kamen Rider Silver!" The new rider exclaimed. The Overlord turned to the other cops confused. The lead cop in Rider Armor notes. "It's like Kamen Rider Black RX only the moon."
"Oh." There's other riders not bound by the Agito seed. He thought as the G3 operator paused. He turned to her. "The moon?"
The girl annoyed, responds sharply. "Yes."
"Why would that be important?" The Overlord asks. He missed alot over the years it seems. Gruffier, muscled one responds equally coldly implying history with figure. "Gorgom's Shadow Moon. Real bastard of a creature. Piece of shit wouldn't go down."
"Uh. Hello. I'm stopping the villains here!! Honestly!" The girl fumed, stopping the ground in anger. The poor leader of the Lords stared as the child finally acts her age. "..."
"Shadow Moon?" The girl looked at the guy calling himself the Overlord. She informed him, "He's dead. Kamen Rider Black too. Lots of history. But both now have proper successors, born on a solar eclipse as expected of them."
Something her distant cousin failed to understand. The Kingstones tend to be peculiar in temperament. There's something charming about it. It really makes each transformation special. The girl thought. Though Sumiko eschews the idea of mysticism especially when it comes to some of her relatives powers alongside cybernetics. Poor Sumiko needs to accept the reality of our family's legacy. Like or not. Cybernetics is part of it.
Nina couldn't understand why the poor cop cannot accept cybernetics. It's part of the family. Besides, she made some that's currently inside her six year old cousin. For my babysitter, Sumiko-san sure knows how to keep a girl happy. Still she needs to accept chan as a suffix. I'm family. She then bowed. "I'm rather new. But prepare yourself."
He flicks his wrist. This send her back. She brushes herself off. She watches as the soldiers fire at him. This allows her to sneak behind him. A quick Rider Punch meeting his fist. He knocks her down despite missing her face by three kilometer. This caused her to demorph as she fell on her butt. He smiled. "Cute."
"Not bad for such a beginner. I can see you have quite a good future my little advocate." He mysteriously told her. She turned her head. "What?"
"You know what I mean. It's in your heart, body, mind, and soul." He left in a flash. The cops surround her. The G3 operator, Mikoto Hikawa, frowned. He felt his heart beat once more. "Do you have any idea what you did?"
"I took pieces of the unfinished G4 unit, the broken G2 unit, the prototype version of G3 before Sumiko-san fixed it to create your version and some of the scapped ideas. Molded it into one armor. Casually went into battle with said untested armor. Got shoved into the sun which bloody hurt by the way. Missed the Earth on my escape and crashed into the moon. That also hurt. Thank everything for cybernetics, huh?"
The man rolled his eyes. No one I know is such an odd duck than Sumiko-san's cousin. Though I feel she's not telling us everything. She happily stood by to take notes on their operations. The sole reason why her family sent her here in the first place to understand police work. But resented not going into the thick of things. The fact she had gun training scared him. Constantly running into things or fiddled with things she thought could help. She even performed communications unprompted to help. Ultimately creating her makeshift, untested armor... which she wore in her rush to fight the Leader of the Lords. How she found him is anyone's guess. Fought valiantly despite everything, but ended up in the sun. This completely vaporized said armor without killing her. Hell. She survived the trip to space without any damage. If she said is true. The impact of her on the moon should have killed her. Yet, it didn't. Invoking the cybernetics as the reason of her survival. Cybernetics, her go to excuse on why she's alive despite everything. He seen her medical records. The girl won't make it past 16 if things continue the way they are. She can't even act her age half the time. The make shift armor showed up in that new form of hers. One invoking the image of that terrorist from the 80s. Hell. She even refers to herself as a child of the moon and mentions that Black and Shadow Moon have heirs. "Born appropriately" on a solar eclipse no less. Yet. Despite her apparent status as Shadow Moon's heir, she's obsessed with doing the right thing and wants to fight Gorgom much like Kamen Rider Black. To the point she's willing to die for it despite her illness. It was nice how she took things seriously despite her preference in writing, history, archeology and egyptology. But her cowboy cop attitude definitely needed curbing. She's lucky she's not dead yet. ... Sumiko-san'll kill us if she died. ... I almost got killed. He pressed his hand to his heart imitating a heart attack a his gruffer partner originally from the army laughed. "You're killing me!"
"I got so much moonlight, it's not even funny. I now have a rider form! I totally can help now!!" She went on. Her Kingstone loved the moonlight. That's probably helped unlock her true rider form. The cobbled up armor helped too. Tony Stark, eat your hurt out. The two blink. The gruffer one looked at her. Slightly bashed her head with a playful tap. "Kid. Nice of you to help. But leave the back up for someone who can at least touch the pedals of a car."
The American born girl stuck her tongue out. She cried out, "Honestly. I want to help!"
"I know, Nina-san. But let's not do it by rushing in. Our boss would kill us if you die out here. Let alone the commander in chief. " Mikoto informed her, rubbing his forehead. He liked her, but man did she prove the adage about Americans at times. Shiro Mizuki laughed. "Your cousin got a mean right hook."
"Well. Duh. Fighting the enemies of justice is a family creed! She learned how to fight like the rest of us." She exclaims pumping a fist in the air. She helps the two place towels all over the yellow lake. The two call in reserves to ... help pick up the unconscious cop.
The brown haired female cop rushes out of the car. Her brown eyes gazing into Nina's brown eyes harshly. Pinching the younger girl's cheeks, she screams, "You dumb brat!! Do you have any idea what nearly happened to you?"
"A moonbath?" Her six year old cousin cheekily. She receives much more force this time. She mumbled an apology. "I. I just wanted to help!"
"Help?! You could have died!!" The other roared. She looked at the poor girl's face. She kneels to get even to her size. "Nina, your six years old! Leave this to the professionals, okay."
"Then what good am I?" The small girl inquires bitterly, tears falling from her face. Sumiko sighed. "Nina. You're not a disgrace."
She rubs the girl's head. Smoothly, she informed her, "You did good trying to distract the guy from the targets. We managed to save some lives. The various Unknown managed to fight off the other Unknown while you distracted their leader. This allowed us to save multiple people."
The cop hugged her cousin. "You're not a failure."
An army officer walks up. She glances at the girl, thinking. Sumiko continues to walk her cousin to the car unaware of the woman's thoughts on future plans.
I still think the fact Nina, Amber, and KT are all confirmed in the show as keeping diaries is so insane. Like I get that journaling is a healthy outlet, but were these girls fr putting down all of the mystery stuff in WRITING?
developed a maddening obsession with a great mystery from beyond
sacrificed possessions as a method of bonding to be more "official" about joining sibuna
had with matching tattoos (for a time) (this is a stretch, idc it fits my narrative and i'm biased because this is fun)
put together a cup of eternal life
had a strangely intense interest in past religious figures
i bet i'm missing some things. sibuna was a cult in the "alls fair in love and dying from your house father trying to sacrifice you for eternal life" way.
New Generation Stars: Z and Geed finish explaining the battle against Etelgar, and show how the Ultra Warrior's Growth enabled them to overcome foes they struggled with in the past, and express their hope to meet other Ultras.
Zeztz: Baku informs Minami, Fujimi and Nasuka about the Code: Somnia Capsem being taken, and while they're all back to normal, they're still experiencing the shared dream. Zero phones from HQ to confirm CODE isn't responsible for the missing Capsem and asking Baku to track it down. An old petty thief (how long has it been since we last saw this guy, it's definitely been a while right) is released from jail, his brother wants to return to their crime spree but he plans to go straight, they're not cut out for the life, and they're thefts were the pettiest of petty. The younger, Ginji, still wants it, and a Black Case gives him a machine gun arm he immediately plans to show they can do it. PSB Director Todo Tsukasa requests Nasuka immediately respond to the Black Case in question, reinstating Paranormal Affairs, but is not pleased with Fujimi bursting into his office in celebration, paying him back for the octopus hold before declaring them even. They arrive at the scene, and while it sounds like a normal case at first, the bullets forensics find are the proof. The brother is furious with Ginji not for stealing the car but for shooting the Driver, and escalation beyond their petty theft code, Ginji asking if he never wanted to go be bigger, then manifests another monstrous arm and leaves his brother swearing to do it himself. Nem watches the red moon spin in the sky, Sieg appearing to say it's time to enjoy a real bad dream and that he can appear without being though of, because Punish has woken up. Baku is called to the scene, Ginji has killed another man to steal his car, Paranormal Affairs and the regular police in a stand with him, Baku arrives as he is transformed further into the form of the Gun Nightmare, he scars Fujimi firing on them, before being declared guilty by a glyph in the sky and vanishing completely. As everyone wonders what's happening, Nem phones Baku with the news, and Sieg takes over to declare he's punishing all the bad guys abusing Nightmares to commit crimes, confirming when asked that he stole Code: Somnia, then vanishing. In the Nightmare Garden, more spread, The Lady seeing Nem's consciousness being affected. NOX vows to destroy Code: Somnia, as The Lady wonders what dreams Nem will have going forward. Baku rushes to bed and finds Nem, speculating Sieg is also trying to torture her. Nem can't quite believe Sieg is responsible, given he hated Code: Somnia's existence and helped ZEZTZ be revived, even if she has to acknowledge he isn't a great person, she can't help wonder if merging with Punish is what truly twisted him. She can't forgive what he's done, but she wants to believe anyone can change and become a better person. The older brother, Shiranami Kinnosuke, eats forlornly and thinking on Ginji's words when Fujimi and Nasuka approach him, he initially dismisses them, but is shaken learning he disappeared. He doesn't want to talk though, refusing to give up that much pride. Sieg is amused by the dream of the brothers, NOX approaches him demanding the Capsem. They battle, NOX eventually using Midnight Shadow to trap DAWN in an illusion, NOX walking away when Sieg saying he "went along with" the bad dream makes him realise he had the wrong person, Baku also has his suspicion confirmed, and believes he can get Sieg in side, becoming Exdream ZEZTZ and confronting DAWN, intending to make him able to atone or repent his sins, but ha can't do what while fused with a Nightmare, switching instantly to Orderm, overpowering DAWN and dragging Punishment Gore Nightmare out of him, leaving Sieg in despair as it no longer has interest in him. Henat least admits he never had the Capsem, nor knows who does. The Lady continues to struggle with Phantom's taunts, who says the barrier between dream and reality between them will soon shatter, The Lady raises her gauntlet, declaring that perfect to her.
Series of Sister's Substory: Minami is approached by Tsutomu, who hopes she's returning from her break, she says she needs time and asks if he has had weird dreams lately, which he admits, she attributes noticing to being aware of how he is. This does reassure him a little, as she commits herself to fighting the Nightmare. In the ZEZTZ Room she dons the guise of CODE Number 17. Nem asks if she's sure about fighting alone, but she assures her she's prepared, and leaves, Nem following. After they depart, Zero enters, and looks the way they've left before taking a case up to his desk, placing it beneath the desk, and wishes Seventeen Good Luck.
Gavan Infinity: In Lambda, and off duty Setsuna prefers to do his laundry by hand, and recalls the day he woke up after the battle in the care of a certain woman. The woman's doppelganger, Amou, approaches noting he always gets the clothes pure white, he recites the ancient words of the one he learnt from. In Alpha, Wanibuchi and Patrun talk about the special training they've recently engaged in, Carel, sat near by, surprised them by declaring a Gavibe of their positive thinking. The two probe about Reiji being in Records, but he naturally doesn't answer. Records have returned to Lambda, tracing a Negative Emorgy trace to a costume party at the heart of a particular marriage scam that Amou and Setsuna are dealing with, recruiting their help. Marian Toine "Queen" is believed to be at the heart of the scheme, Reiji, Setsuna and Amou infiltrating in regency style outfits, Amou looking particularly prince like. Setsuna unfortunately immediately destroys a Miko's Contact Lenses. Reiji meanwhile manages to cause a pair to hook up immediately over their shared complexes about their heights. Amou has just taken note of a curious Nun, while Daisuke and AGI cannot isolate the signals as it seems all the attendees are serious about the event, Queen enters with a man on her arm, the Nun staring fixedly at them. Queen makes her speech welcoming them, at which point the Nun pulls a gun and demands Queen return the heart of her companion to her, while Queen simply says he must have fallen for her charms. The nun has the Nega-Emorgear, in desperation summoning an Emons. The police rush in to arrest the nun, Queen start fleeing before turning to make Reiji and Setsuna, as all men shall, serve her, Amou returns to the room as the men all fall under her power, using her own Nega-Emorgear. Reiji and Setsuna both resist, Setsuna due to his android nature and Reiji is resistant to the effect thanks to Makuucholia. Amou chases Queen, Reiji sending Setsuna as well while he handles the men and Emons. Amou fires a warning shot, Queen loses her mask, and starts talking about losing her love, which resonates with Setsuna, and when Amou points out that what she's doing isn't actually making them fall in love with her her desperation summons another Emons, Gavan Bushido fighting to protect his liege. Failing to fell bis foes with the Gavarion Dornado, Infinity uses Gavarion Trigger EX to finish it. Queen moans that Setsuna defended Amou without her even doing anything, Bushido saying having endured the loss of one he cared for is why he now fights to protect those he cares for, and slays the Emons. Amou confiscates the Emorgear and Queen mourns that her first love stole her heart then threw her away, so she chose to revenge herself on all men, Amou knows well that dwelling on in this pain is what has prevented her from finding happiness. As Queen is lead away, Setsuna remembers a woman much like Amou offering him similar guidance. Reiji returns to the ship to find AGI has dragged Daisuke into joining the dress up. Amou asks Setsuna about what he lost, as whenever actually mentioned it before. Setsuna thinks back on the woman who gave him his name, taught him to live, and explains simply that, Amou thanks him, and hands over a gift, walking away without a word. Setsuna opens it, an apron identical to the one he already has, but with the name Bushido embroidered, and feels the presence of his dearly departed with him.
Supplemental Investigation: Setsuna has become kind of enamored with cosplay after the case, Amou admits to also quite enjoying it. The robot watches confused before bursting in, and using Hatenazoda to join the costume party. After some frolicking, the robot overheats and sheds the costume, Setsuna feels obliged to do the same, Amou has to call out going overboard.
"Kamen Rider G6" will appear in the new "Kamen Rider Agito" movie "Psychic War." It's the latest special reinforced armor suit, not the G4 or G5. It's worn by a G-Unit member played by Yuchami. It's also revealed that Makoto Hikawa, who played Kamen Rider G3 in the TV series, is incarcerated in the movie.
Always remember that the EU did a study in 2013 about the effects of piracy on media publishers and found that there is no correlation between piracy and sales! (And then they tried to hide that study bc that's not the result they wanted)
So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.
Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)
In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU
russians hit Kyiv Pechersk Lavra complex, which is basically a christian heart of Kyiv and also a UNESCO World Heritage site, right in the building with the altar. They hit Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex right across the street from Lavra. They hit an art museum in Kharkiv. They hit The Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio, destroying the biggest costume collection in Ukraine. They hit the House of Organ and Chamber Music in Dnipro.
All of this in one day (the biggest attack occured at night).
russians hitting important cultural buildings is nothing new, they destroyed countless of churches and museums, but this night feels like they were targeting specifically everything significant to ukrainian culture and identity. And after that they and their supporters dare to say "where's your culture? you have none".
Art and culture is NEVER out of politics. THIS is why we're so mad when westerners keep praising anything related to russian culture itself. While people are praising their culture, russians are actively stealing and destroying ours.
So the best thing you can do is shift the focus towards Ukrainian culture along with the cultures of nations that also suffered from russia and support our artists.
in new zealand, our evil government are trying to legislate definitions of women and men, in ways that are legally incoherent but clearly trying to pave the way for more horrifically transphobic legislation. we have an election in a few months but our main opposition party, and all our mainstream news media, are so spineless and cooked that there's a good chance the ghouls will win reelection.
it took 2 whole months for local terf group 'speak up for women' to get 2,000 signatures on the petition that led to this new bill in our parliament.
it's taken five days for this pro-trans 'they don't speak for us' petition to get 17,000 signatures.
this is a show of support that is really heartening for a lot of trans people in our corner of the world.
cis/ish women, if you're from here but haven't signed yet, please do. and if you're not from here and you know any new zealanders, could you send them this petition? a full fifth of our population lives overseas, and there's a good chance they don't follow the news.
