Level 0 - Insert Coin!

Readers, before you guys start reading I would like to remind you of my inexperience of writing stories, especially this type of fanfic, so please don't be too harsh on me. I would like to know what you guys think of it and what other fic I should make, but be polite when messaging me. I'm also here to say that I'll be using this website as a second outlet so it won't be my main priority all the time, but I'll update it once-in-awhile and tell if you like it I might put my other worl on here too.

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In America, there was a young man with short black hair and dark brown eyes. He looked extremely similar to Parado from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, he even dressed like him; though his name was Magnum Guritchi and he had a blue velvet streak through his hair. He was currently playing games, relaxing after finally getting the [Bugvisor ll].

He was a major fan of the Kamen Rider series, but was also a coder and engineer so when it came to building stuff he was the guy you called. The only thing he liked more than playing video games was making Youtube videos, his gamer tag was [Cr4sh_Byt3].

Right now though he was scrolling through his emails checking to see if anything came up, he kept scrolling for 2 minutes until a new email popped up titled: [Let's Clear The Game With No Continues!]; mildly interested he pressed it. Suddenly a bright light blinded him and started sucking him inside his phone along with his new driver.

When he could see again he was in a dark alley with barely any lights and it was nighttime, in front of him was a duffle bag. 

"Where in God's name am I?" he said aloud; noticing the duffle-bag he opened to find his [Game Breaker], a suitcase, clothes, money and note located on top.

'Dear Magnum, you have been selected to destroy the [Bugsters] which will appear in the near future. In order to fight them you've been modified to become an [Anti-Bugster] which will allow you to use the driver. In the suitcase I put a [Gashat] for you to use; I've also taken the liberty to put the instructions to make other drivers in the suitcase if you ever need backup, and the users' don't have to be [Anti-Bugsters]; everything has been taken care of, so enjoy your new chance at life" - from R.O.B.

"That explains that." Magnum said walking to the address he noticed on the back. He stopped at a two floor house. "Well, here's hoping for happy days."

Time Skip

Magnum's Pov: 

Hi, as you probably know by now I'm Mangum Guritchi, but my friends call me 'Mag' if I had friends or at least real friends. I'm the type of guy who enjoys his quiet time to himself and is very antisocial around people they don't yet know well. When it comes to society I've always been an outcast to most groups, probably why I play games.

The house I now live in has two floors. The top floor has my room, a bathroom and a spare room where I found some stuff I could start my online streaming again. The bottom floor has a good sized kitchen with all the bells and whistles, a dining room, and a living room; there's even a secret basement, but the entrance only appears if you have the [Game Pass] which looks like a fitbit and operates like one too. My secret headquarters, which I took to call the [Hub], has a whole map of the town and will send me an alert when a [Bugster] shows up, a workbench where I can make my [Gashats] and other drivers, and finally a teleporter if you can believe it. It said to make equipment and [Gashats] I needed to collect something called [Expedium], but I'll call it [Exp] for short. 

And while on the topic of [Gashats], the one I got was weird to say the least, it was blank and wouldn't activate no matter what I did to it.

Let's move on, it's been about a week since I first arrived here and started testing what kind of powers I got being an [Anti-Bugster], so far I got the power to make my eyes glow a menacing purple, technokinesis, higher athletic prowess, extremely good fighting instincts and have the power to 'reset' people's memory. I found that out the hard way when someone saw me use technokinesis so I freaked out trying to explain and accidentally shot a purple light at them from my hand, their eyes glowed purple for a second until it stopped and they looked confused where they were before leaving. I practiced on a few more 'willing' participants, but gladly there's no side-effects, well, besides having deja-vu. I named it [Reload].

I decided to start my streaming today because I had nothing else to do and also it turns out I'm a student again, yep. GC seemed to think I should get out there and socialize more I guess, not that I couldn't do it, but I didn't want to do homework again. 

Back to my streaming. The most popular streaming was H-Tube which was basically this world's equivalent of YouTube. I first set my account name to the same as my past worlds, added a brief description of myself, set a profile pic and finally promised to the terms of using their website.

"Now that all the boring stuff is out of the way, I need a catch phrase to start off my streams." I would've had to remake my opening animation, but it was already there for me, thank god for that. "What if I take Emu Hojo's catch phrase. I mean, no one would know its copyright, since Kamen Riders don't exist here fortunately… Nah, I respect him too much."

Yeah, turns out there was no such thing as Kamen Riders here which I'm happy about since I don't have to worry about lawsuits or embarrassing myself for copying a popular franchise. And it makes it easier to recruit others, assuming they have compatibility with the drivers because I discovered the gamer needs to have a rate of at least 75% compatibility to even consider giving it a spin.

"This game looks good." I said looking at the reviews. I was using the Hanabi Console after modifying it so I guess you could call it Hanabi Console 2.0, I mean the thing had so many errors it wasn't even funny, and coming from someone who can hear technology it was equivalent to a person having a mental breakdown or a gamer just waiting to commit a genocide run. Now all I hear are words of appreciation from it, but going back to the game, "[Castlestein], huh? 'This game gets in your head, but in a good way!', 'Don't recommend it for new gamers or people who like straight forward fighting games.', and 'It's [Castlestein], what else is there to know?', pretty good reviews overall. Now I just download this to my console and, done, let's start!"

Time Skip:

(It'll be their next chapter)

After Finishing my stream I went for a walk around the town. The time was a Saturday so I'm hoping to find some people to hang out with and where better to find someone to hang out with than the arcade! When I was younger I loved going to the arcade and beating my old highscores, which were always at the top by the way. And now I come to do it all over again!

Before I left, I packed my [Bugvisor ll] and pocketed my [Blank Gashat].

"Now, what game do I conquer first, on my road to highscore awesomeness?" asking myself. The games I was looking for were your scoring type of games; games that save your name for other players to remember and can only hope to beat. My quest seemed to be for not until I saw it. The game that would carve my name in history, the game that makes others seek to be above me, the game that- oh who am I kidding its [Just Dance XXXX], but game-cred nonetheless and the scores looked extremely good! It makes it all the more sweeter when I beat it and claim my right to video game royalty!

"I guess it's time to shut up and dance!" I paused for a brief moment thinking about something serious "Hmm, maybe puns should be my thing? I would make Sans proud, eh, something to consider."

[So What by Three Day Grace]

(A/N: Not that good at describing dancing since I have no rhythm. )

So what if I'm crazier than crazy?

So what if I'm sicker than sick?

So what if I'm out of control?

Maybe that's what I like about it

(I started to get the feel of the music before …)

You could say that I'm going insane

And I'm not quite right

And I'm that to blame

You could say that I'm sick on the inside

Bet you don't know why I like it that way

You could say whatever you like

If it's so wrong I don't wanna be right

(I DANCE!)

So what if I'm crazier than crazy?

So what if I'm sicker than sick?

So what if I'm out of control?

Maybe that's what I like about it

So what?

So what?

(This song always got me going! I even played it while playing games!)

You could say that I'm going insane

And I'm not quite right

And that I'm to blame

I don't care you could say what you want to

I am who I am and I'll never be like you

You could say whatever you like

If it's so wrong I don't wanna be right

So what if I'm crazier than crazy?

So what if I'm sicker than sick?

So what if I'm out of control?

Maybe that's what I like about it

So what?

So what?

(Here it comes!)

And when I'm up

It's better than never

And when I'm down

I'm desperate

And when I'm up

It's better than never

And when I'm down

I'm desperate

I'm desperate

I'm desperate

(NOW!)

So what if I'm crazier than crazy?

So what if I'm sicker than sick?

So what if I'm out of control?

Maybe that's what I like about it

So what?

So what?

(And finish with a backflip!)

"Woah, what a rush! I haven't done that since I was a kid!" I sat up to stretch and checked my score.

{Congratulations! New Highest-Score! Insert Name!}

"Ha, like I need to decide!" I typed my gamertag inspired by my favorite [Yu-Gi-Oh Card] Number 34: Terror-Byte and Crash Bug! "[Cr4sh_Byt3], remember it!"

After patting myself on the back I headed home to get some R&R, but life has this crazy way of making a day that went from great to horrible in an instant; like right now for instance.

The game [Chomp Kitty] screen was full of static and had green energy coursing through it. The energy built looked like it was building up until releasing a… FRAGGING [Chomp Kitty]!

"Oh, my bugster!" I jumped behind another arcade game before it noticed me. 

Third Pov:

"I said no back up!" they aggressively mumbled. Mag took a peek at who yelled; they were wearing strange armor, had dark skin with stubble just above his upper lip and on his chin, their hair was white and slicked back so that it made his hair stand up, but the most prominent thing about him was the gauntlet on his right arm.

*Crash!*

Mag snapped his head to the three individuals that fell into the arcade. The biggest was a robot with a small screen as a face and looked very bulky. The second was a young man with dark blue hair that stood up to the front. He looked latino and was wearing similar armor to the first guy, he was tall and skinny compared to the last one. The last one was a young woman with purple hair with splashes of pink, she wore the same armor as the others; though I did have to say I liked her more than the others.

'She could crash through my ceiling anytime.' realizing what he was doing he shook his head 'Wait I need to focus! What are they doing here and why do I have the feeling this was the 'backup' the first one was raging about; though they weren't the kind of 'backup' I was expecting.'

"You have reached your destination." the giant robot said. Mag's senses were giving him warning signs, but not life threatening, more of a be on guard feeling.

"That robots' a [Bugster]." Mag had gotten a clear view while still staying out of sight.

"I've had it with you griefers! I am trying to clean the mess you made, and you keep making it worse!" he yelled, obviously not having a great day, but with the way he's talking could you really blame him?

Chomp!

'Dang.' Mag honestly felt bad for the guy, he was just eaten whole by [Chomp Kitty] and it seemed the others felt bad too judging from their expressions. He snapped out of his thoughts and decided to find an exit before he was spotted by them, and really didn't want to get eaten. 

Unfortunately, he was spotted by [Chomp Kitty] and due its program considered him a power pellet. It tried to pounce on him in hopes of beating the other humans that were stopping it. The key word being tried.

Mag saw the giant cat coming towards him and rolled out of the way, into a full sprint. He could tell it was hot on his tail because of the sound of the footsteps and turning around to check didn't sound smart either.

"Assisting bystander," Mag was snatched from the ground by the robot from before, while it dodged the glitch chasing them. "Do not worry bystander, our Glitch Tech recruits will exterminate the glitch momentarily!"

"Thank you?" he didn't know what a 'Glitch Tech' was, but if the robot helped him from being eaten whole they could help all he wanted.

"Take this!" the girl from before yelled shooting a … pizza in its mouth?

The glitch stammered a little, before growing twice its original size and seemed to have gotten stronger than too, green lighting hit the arcade games releasing more glitches. The two recruits both panicked and started to run alongside us.

"BITT, do these gauntlets have multi-target?" the girl asked in between breaths.

Multi-Target Activated

She grinned as they both started defeating the glitches, it was like watching a montage in real life. They were now in hot pursuit of [Chomp Kitty], until it broke through the wall and started eating the kids and balls in the ballpit.

"Huh, why is he eating the ball pit?" the boy asked.

"Glitches are video game intelligences, but can only go off their programing." the robot known as 'BITT'.

"Oh, so he thinks they're power pellets?" the girl said/asked, she turned to Mag who was being carried like a sack of potatoes. "Who's that you're carrying?"

"This was an unlucky bystander who was about to be devoured by the glitch." BITT put Mag down. Mag got his bearings again and then faced the others.

"Hey, names Magnum Guritchi, but I prefer Mag." he reached out his hand which the boy gladly accepted.

"Names High Five and here's Miko." turning to her, he saw she was just staring at him. "Miko, you ok?"

"Y-y-yeah, just uh, happy to meet someone new is all!" the girl known as 'Miko' said, waving her hands around with a light blush.

*Rawr!*

The cat surprised them, but they managed to dodge in time. Miko and High Five both started blasting the glitch, but it just kept regenerating. It let out a loud roar sending all of the glitch techs flying to the wall. Miko and High Five's gauntlets were damaged, BITT went into his powered down form, Mag was tossed, and the [Chomp Kitty] was closing in on them.

"Hey, if one of you guys make it out of here, delete my browsing history!" Miko yelled, preparing for the game over.

Mag was still standing, but frozen with fear. His feet felt like they were in quicksand that was slowly pulling him down.

'Damn it! We're gonna die and can't do anything besides sit here and watch!' Mag received brief flashes of the past. Most where his friends were bullied and him not being too afraid to help. 'Nothing has changed, I'm still the same!'

[Chomp Kitty] was about to go for the kill, Mag felt his pocket burn before his [Gashat] floated out.

New Game! Cr4sh_Byt3 Overflow!

The [Gashat] became purple and white with the title on the grip in a glitch theme, he snatche it out of the air gettin a good look at it. Mag, knowing what to do, pulled out the [Bugvisor ll] from his bag and put it to his waist, when the belt attached the driver to his waist like in the show. 

"Hey!" He got the glitches' attention as well as Miko, High Five and BITT's who recovered enough to turn on his screen and watch. "Let's go ya green, fleabag! I've got a bone to pick with you, so let's settle this; [Anti-Bugster] versus [Glitch]!"

'[Anti-Bugster]?' The Glitch Techs all thought.

"Henshin!" Mag yelled slamming the [Gashat] in.

Gashatto! Buggle Up! Cr4sh_Byt3 Overflow! Digital Hazard! Destroying Viruses 'til the End Game!

(A/N: I'm feeling generous today so imagine the Henshin)

The Glitch Techs were all shocked by what happened, especially BITT who didn't know what technology the driver was based on.

"I'm Kamen Rider Ex-Blackout!" he yelled, posing. He looked similar to Paradox but the blue was purple and the red was black, the leg and arm guards were purple versions of Build Hazard RabbitRabbit's, and finally the helmet resembled a black version of Blood Stalk's with the originally colored blue and white wires being gold. "It's time to speed run this boss level!"