#01: aruto hiden

[hidengifs]

Happy New Year from Hiden Intelligence!

bonus!

I used @thetokusatsunetwork's YouTube Video and @bobcatmoran's Pun Spreadsheet to translate the joke!

[t-u-i-t-c]

the wolf & the grasshopper

[iristial]

Takahashi protagonists be putting on some hair extensions and my love for them skyrockets through the roof

[flaim-ita]

Ace is fighting for a World where All Is Happy to prove his mother’s powers were not a force of despair but a force of love. He spent 2000 years just trying to find her and learn why he was born. All Mitsume wanted was for him to forget her and be happy.

Aruto is fighting for a world where humanity and Humagear can live happily side by side. He does this because he still loves and mourns his beloved father, who was a Humagear. Soreo died so Aruto could be alive and so Aruto could be Zero-One without the weight of carrying on his legacy.

Is that anything?

[leaf-storm-40]

so. Zero One.

below is spoilers but gives more context

ARE YOU OK???

[jettiebettie]

Fuwa and Yaiba getting their own rider machines is really cool! I like this! Sucks that it's completely overshadowed by Brandon Easton continuing to write Izu as out of character as he possibly can. Could have been the singular slam dunk of this comic run, but he just could not help himself...

[animinarts]

Haha :D

[paladintomo]

A jump to the sky turns to a Rider Kick!

[pulaasul]

Our Idiots

Tadashi and Ikazuchi team up to retrieve their idiots (Read: Aruto and Horobi) from the make-shift arena.

A/N: Thanks to @thehistorynut19 @tokuteasings for helping me map some things out in the story XD I also got some ideas on from @flaim-ita on their various blog posts XD

FFN I Ao3

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Tadashi has been watching the altercation between Horobi and Aruto in the latter's apartment. He had been to Aruto's apartment before, back when he first woke up.

While the late CEO of Hiden Intelligence was signed as his guardian back when he was first found unconscious in the building, likely to cover up anything unpleasant, it was Aruto and Izu who took care of him.

Tadashi's muscles atrophied from disuse as he was unconscious for a long time, it was Aruto and Izu who helped him through rehabilitation up until he was able to walk on his own.

Tadashi then offered his services to Hiden Intelligence as a robotics engineering consultant to repay the goodwill Aruto has extended to him.

Nowadays, Tadashi lived in the apartment next door. He was in Aruto's home in the hopes that his surrogate little brother, despite him being younger than the young CEO, would at least return home after he slipped from his fingers the last time they met.

And sure enough the Aruto he was seeing on TV was anything but healthy.

Over the course of the year, Tadashi did not waver in supporting Aruto he even packed his bags from Hiden Intelligence and transferred to Hiden Manufacturing when that bastard Amatsu Gai booted him out.

Oh, how he had wanted to punch the bastard's teeth in.

Tadashi has also been privy to Aruto's actual relationship with his grandfather, who at first glance Aruto seemed to revere.

It was the exact opposite; it was sour, to say the least.

"Why do you use his motto, then?"

"He's still family, no matter how you put it, he still took me in."

Tadashi really disagreed with that point, but then again, he grew up in the Americas and not in Japan.

That was another mysterious thing: Tadashi didn't know how he got from San Fransokyo to Japan, he didn't even know how long he was unconscious because he was apparently in the year when he was supposed to be seven years old.

Not to mention this world did not have a San Fransokyo, rather, a San Francisco was in its place.

Tadashi shook his head and stopped thinking about his mysterious circumstances.

As soon as Tadashi saw Aruto's Ark armor dissolve in particles of light, he knew it was time.

Tadashi turned off the electronics in Aruto's apartment before he dressed himself and went outside.

His destination: Hiden Intelligence.

Tadashi took Aruto's bicycle and made his way to Hiden Intelligence, where he knows Ikazuchi was at. As he made his way to the company, Tadashi continued monitoring the fight via the large screens that have been streaming the entire thing.

As he was about to enter the building, he saw both Aruto and Horobi don their respective suits, but this time Aruto was wearing his Zero-One suit.

Tadashi entered the building, expertly maneuvering around people who were in the lobby as he made his way to the space flight department of the company.

And there was Uchuyarou Raiden, Metsubojinrai's Ikazuchi, standing beside the humagear he declared to be his little brother, Subaru, watching the fight between Aruto and Horobi alongside the other humagears, and the company's human staff members.

"Oi, Ikazuchi!" Tadashi called out, garnering everyone's attention. "Let's go get our idiots."

"Thought you'd never ask." Ikazuchi smirked.

"Would you require the Rise Hopper?" Subaru questioned.

"You know what, that thing hasn't been in use and has yet to be sent back in space, sure why not."

"Wouldn't we need a sidecar or something?"

The reply Tadashi got was a smirk not just from Ikazuchi, or even just from Subaru, the smirk came from everyone within the department.

A few minutes later, the Rise Hopper, the green motorcycle was fitted with a rickshaw that does not complement the Rider Mashin's design or its color scheme.

"I did not know what I expected, but it was certainly not this." Tadashi commented.

"It's retractable too."

Ikazuchi pressed something on his Risephone and the Rick Shaw that was just installed retracted and formed a sort of thick rail just above the motorcycle's tail light.

"Shall we go?"

"We shall."

Both Ikazuchi mounted the Rise Hopper, with Ikazuchi driving while Tadashi sat behind the driver, holding onto the retractable rickshaw they installed a few moments ago.

As Ikazuchi and Tadashi traversed the city's roads on top of Rise Hopper, Tadashi confirmed Aruto's location via his Zero-One driver.

Tadashi once asked Izu a way to locate Aruto and she found a way for me to track where the Zero-One, and eventually the Zero-Two driver, was last used.

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Tadashi and Ikazuchi found both Aruto and Horobi unconscious leaning on each other as they sat upright.

They were in the same place where they fought judging from the damage in the surrounding area and the fact that it looked identical to the place they were fighting when they watched them beat each other to a pulp.

"You take Horobi, I'll take Aruto," Tadashi instructed. "You can do check-ups on Horobi and I'll do the same for Aruto.

Tadashi carefully cut Aruto's clothes in half, revealing the number of untreated injuries and bruises the young CEO had on his body. He could also see signs of starvation and infection on the boy, likely due to the fact that he hasn't eaten since he first went missing after Izu's death.

"Uchuyarou! Hamada!" Tadashi saw the members of AIMS rushing towards them. "How are they?"

"Aruto's not looking good."

"I need equipment to make full diagnostics on Horobi."

"We have AIMS vans parked nearby." Yaiba immediately rushed to wear Fuwa was. "We can rush Hiden to the hospital and Horobi to Hiden Intelligence."

"No," Fuwa shook his head. "There are people who still hold a grudge against Horobi."

"Day Break Town." Ikazuchi nodded. "It's safer there."

"T-take the Zero-One Driver," Aruto managed to groan out as he shakily handed the Zero-One Driver to Tadashi. "It'll protect him from whatever remained of ARK's there."

"Shachou?"

Aruto's eyes closed again as soon as the instruction was delivered with Tadashi holding the aforementioned Driver.

"Don't worry, he's just unconscious," Tadashi assured everyone. "He used all of his energy to give us that instruction."

"To the end…" Fuwa shook his head but a smile adorned his face. "Take off toward your dream, indeed."

"Doesn't mean he's not in danger, he's anything but healthy," Tadashi shook his head. "Wherever he was when he was missing, he wasn't eating and has only been drinking water to survive."

"The question is, was the water he was drinking safe for consumption?" Yaiba stated the obvious.

"Let's move out people!" Fuwa yelled as he gestured for the gurneys he had ordered earlier to come his way.

Tadashi gave Ikazuchi the Zero-One Driver before they each loaded Aruto and Horobi on separate gurneys and rushed them to their respective destinations.

[insomnia-arts]

Random Kamen Rider doodle page

I know that last one of Kuroto is garbage, but it’s funny garbage

[lowder-the-koopa]

Daily Questions #4

[hidengifs]

@Giftober 2023 Day 30: Goodbye ↳ Is & Aruto | Kamen Rider Zero-One

I can feel the malice welling up inside your heart.

[t-u-i-t-c]

malice - the intention or desire to do evil; ill will

[iristial]

Happy birthday, darling 🦗💛

[flaim-ita]

Oh.

Izu and Jin both died because of how much they believed in Aruto. In the end, despite it all, they were right

[tokugoodness]

Accurate AF... minus the highlights, but its more common in these ai generating art than not.