[MaxPower]

Old thread link: http://www.tokunation.com/showthread.php?t=73307

A few months ago I pitched an idea of a new Kamen Rider fan fiction, called Kamen Rider Exige. So I was working on the story for the past few months, but before I could even complete the first chapter, a major writer's block hit me. That, plus my busy schedule lately, made me unable to continue the story. For a few months, Kamen Rider Exige went down the drain...

...until two days ago. After researching some Kamen Rider and anime tropes at TV Tropes, a new fan fiction idea came through my head. Deciding to use it to revamp Exige, I thought about it for a while before deciding to try a shot at pitching it again here. Hopefully this new idea will stay in my head a bit longer this time and will not end up like the first one lol

Story:

December 2014. A popular MMORPG called CyberScape has been taking the city of Beppu by storm, and 18 year old Le Thao Minh is no exception. She has been playing the game between classes for a few months, until an incident one night changes everything. Playing a round after her last class of the day, a mantis monster suddenly jumped out from her computer and attacked her. Luckily for Minh, a mysterious white and green armored warrior suddenly came out of nowhere, and destroys the mantis monster in front of her eyes, saving her life.

Fast forward to June 2015. It has been 6 months since the mantis monster's attack. Minh hasn't been as active in CyberScape as before due to her past trauma, and is trying to lead a normal life as a college student living in a 3-person apartment room with her friends. One night, however, her life was turned upside down once again. Deciding to give CyberScape another chance, Minh logged in from a computer in campus - only for a spider monster to jump at her from the computer screen. Running away for her life, Minh was saved by the timely intervention of a mysterious wheel-chair bound man, who fended off the spider monster. Somewhat knowing the mysterious warrior that saved Minh before, the man gave Minh the mysterious RG Driver and an RG Disk, telling her to transform with those. Transforming into the very warrior that saved her 6 months ago, Minh was thrown into the world of CyberScape, donning the identity of Kamen Rider Exige to fight off mysterious monsters that emerged from the game and into the real world, as well as inadvertently participating in a huge battle royale between the game's Kamen Riders, all to determine who is going to be the new ruler of the CyberScape universe. And as time goes by, the CyberScape universe is slowly making its way into our own...

So yeah, that's pretty much the summary of the new Kamen Rider Exige. You may refer to the old thread to see which one's better I've combined the VR elements of Sword Art Online and Accel World to the battle royale concept of Kamen Riders Ryuki and Gaim, as well as a few Gundam references thrown into the mix (the Riders' design resemble mecha, and there's a mysterious masked ace character who acts as an anti-hero/anti-villain in the first half of the story before helping the heroes afterwards).

The RG Driver and RG Disks:

Anyway the characters of the story all use the same equipment in battle - the RG Driver and the RG Disk., with RG being the acronym of Rider Genesis. The RG Driver is a metallic object, silver in color, and rectangle in shape with a transparent orb in the middle. Two buttons are present on the object's surface, on the right hand side of the transparent orb. The larger one functions as the HISSATSU function, which powers a Rider's finishing attack, while the smaller one underneath it functions as the TRANS-AM function, which increases the Rider's combat capabilities by threefold for a limited amount of time. On the left hand side of the orb, there's a small button, which when pressed will cause a small compartment to pop up from above the transparent orb. This is where the Driver's user inserts his/her RG Disks. When placed against the waist, the Driver will extend a pair of black straps that secures itself against the user's waist.

The RG Disks are mysterious, disk-shaped objects that are given to the Riders with their Drivers by Deus, the master AI behind the CyberScape game and the one who oversees the battle royale. These disks resembled your average CDs, with multiple colors corresponding to the properties of the disks. These disks contain RG Particles, mysterious particles that power the Riders' armor and arsenal, and when inserted into the RG Driver, the disks' color will appear on the Driver's transparent orb, along with a faint watermark of the Rider's symbol.

The CyberScape World:

The main setting of the story alongside the city of Beppu in Japan's Oita Prefecture. The CyberScape World is a huge, expansive realm that resembles Beppu perfectly, with the only difference being that the people of the city are replaced with avatars of the game's players, which resembles the players in real life perfectly. The main danger of this world are Cybeasts, a portmanteau of cyber and beast, which can be seen as the world's local wildlife. Ruling the realm is Deus, a mysterious AI that controls everything in the realm. Seeking to find a replacement of himself, Deus gathers 48 players of the game and gave them RG Drivers and RG Disks, telling them to battle it out against each other in a huge battle royale, with the winner being chosen to replace him as the ruler of the CyberScape World. Little did anyone know, the CyberScape World is slowly reaching out into the real world, threatening to assimilate it (similar to Gaim's Helheim Forest). This is evident by the number of Cybeasts that leaped out into the real world and attacking people there. Normal humans can survive in the CyberScape World for around 10 minutes before being dissolved into data, and while losing a battle in the CyberScape World will reduce you into your avatar form, a powerful enough attack would simultaneously destroy both your Rider form and your avatar form, leaving you with the risk of being dissolved into data (similar to the Mirror World of Ryuki). Getting your Driver destroyed will also destroy your avatar form. Riders can only enter the CyberScape World in their Rider forms, going into the realm using their respective Rider Machines. Battles in the real world are permitted, but Deus would only count a clear victory if one of the battling Riders got himself/herself killed or his/her RG Driver destroyed, otherwise it's a tie.

Defeating Cybeasts will give Riders EXP, which will increase their level. There are 7 levels in the game, with Level 1 Riders being the weakest, and Level 7 Riders the strongest. These levels determine the strength of a Rider in the battlefield. Defeating Riders will also give EXP - 1 EXP for a non-fatal defeat, 2 EXP for fatally destroying Riders (Driver destruction included). 3 EXP will be given if a Rider kills another Rider in the real world, while 2 is given for destroyed Drivers in the real world, with 0.5 EXP given for ties in both the real world and in the CyberScape World. Each Cybeast defeat will give Riders 1 EXP.

Now that I'm done explaining the basic stuff of the story, I would like to have some people helping me in making this fic, since I could not make this thing alone by myself xP I'm looking for an illustrator who could make pictures of my characters if they had the time, as well as a co-writer who would write this story with me. Hopefully with your help, Kamen Rider Exige would become a story that everyone in this site would like very much. Send me a message if you're interested. I'm looking forward to work together with you in creating this epic tale And I would like to thank you in advance for your willingness to help in this story, and I would like your opinion based on the story and the description of the characters. Any constructive criticism will be accepted.

And since guncannon109 is interested to help in the old story thread, I'm hoping that he'll be interested in the revamp as well. Sorry for leaving the old thread dead mate and I hope that the revamp won't end up like the old one.

PS: I'll explain the characters in due time. Right now I've already got my main 3 Riders, with more coming soon~