Ark (Villain)

*Not to be confused with Ark (ship)*

The **Ark**, is a sentient satellite that was submerged underwater at Daybreak Town, and acted as the former leader of MetsubouJinrai.net. It learned about the human malice and gained Singularity data from the reassembled members of MetsubouJinrai.net, enabling it to fully revive as **Kamen Rider Ark-Zero**.

## History

The Ark is a massive experimental satellite that would assist in the network of Daybreak Town, as well as the predecessor of Zea. It was created by the scientists from 11 of the leading tech companies in Japan, which included Hiden Intelligence and ZAIA Enterprise Japan. Gai Amatsu, the CEO of ZAIA Japan, fed the Ark with the information regarding the criminal psychology and human history, including all of its wars. This was resulted in Ark's A.I concluding that humanity must be eliminated and extinguished, because its continued malicious existence would lead to the end of all other lifeforms.

To do that, the Ark corrupted all the Humagears, sharing its own plans to exterminate the humanity with them. 4 of those Humagears would later to become a known as the terrorist group of MetsubouJinrai.net. The group infiltrates the labs inside the Daybreak Town, and planning to execute the final phase of their plan by sending Ark into space, therefore creating a global connection to Humagears worldwide. To prevent this, Soreo Hiden, who managed to resist the Ark's influence, uploaded a program to prevent Ark from launching, cause to explode and submerge underwater. During that point, Satoshi Sakurai had destroyed all the Humagears before they escape, though he also perished in the explosion, leaving his deeds unnoticed.

## Becoming Ark-Zero

After the Singularity from Horobi, Naki, Jin, and Ikazuchi (Uchuyaro Raiden) were collected using a Progrisekey, the Ark was revived and created an massive explosion that caused Naki to suffer from damage. Then, Ark (in its Mobile form) possessed Horobi, as to which Jin and Yua Yaiba tried to take advantage off to destroy Ark. However, the Ark saw through Jin's plan to betray it ever since Jin aligned himself with Horobi, so it created the Ark Driver and transformed into Kamen Rider Ark-Zero. Ark then engaged in battle against Kamen Rider Valkyrie and the traitorous Kamen Rider Jin (Burning Falcon), beating them easily. While it intended to slowly torture Yua mentally via her A.I chip, it was distracted by Jin as he escaped with the worn-out Yua.

Later, Ark met both Aruto Hiden and Isamu Fuwa in person for the first time and battled both Zero-One Metal Cluster Hopper and Rampage Vulcan. After Ark was defeated, it was revealed that the satellite managed to possess Jin off-screen, as the Ark suddenly attempts to possess Fuwa after forcing him out of his transformation, but failed and chose to possess Horobi again. Transforming into Kamen Rider Ark-Zero, the Ark easily overpowered Zero-One Metal Cluster Hopper, causing Aruto and his allies to flee. This caused Aruto's faith in A.I technology to be immensely shaken, making him lose the will to fight.

## Death

Using the power of Satellite Zea, Ark begins to hack the infrastructure of the city and cause chaos. MetsubouJinrai.net becomes confused as to what to do, as the Ark hasn't given them any more orders. During the argument between Horobi and Jin, the Ark suddenly possesses the latter after Horobi revolts against it, so it declares that the Humagears are no longer necessary for its calculations, now planning to destroy them all. Ark and Horobi transform and battle each other, and Aruto shows up to assist Horobi.

Ark-Zero is defeated for a final time through the combined finishers of both Zero-Two and Horobi, but Ark retreats to Satellite Zea's physical body and attempts to restore every Humagear to their initial settings so that they can't defy it. But however, its connection was suddenly severed by Uchuyaro Subaru. Ikazuchi (Uchuyaro Raiden) then disconnects the Breaking Mammoth from Zea's husk and completely destroys the corrupted satellite, taking the Ark with it.

## Legacy

Despite Ark was dead, the Ark's will live on in the world as long as malice exists within humans and Humagears. This point was proven by both Horobi and Azu, who claims that as long have humans foster the essence of evil in their hearts, the Ark will be revived. Aruto Hiden, who witnessed Izu's murder caused by Horobi, fell into despair, grief, sadness and anger, which was all of the negative emotions that the Ark needed to resurrected (to live again).

Using these emotions, Aruto transformed into Kamen Rider Ark-One. Thouser, Vulcan and Valkyrie all thought that Ark was actually possessing Zero-One, but the truth that Aruto willingly became Ark rather than being possessed by it (unlike Horobi, Jin, and Ikazuchi).

When Aruto was about to kill and exterminate Horobi, Jin (Burning Falcon) sacrifices himself and took Ark-One's Perfect Conclusion: Learning End finisher instead of Horobi. Due to Jin's death, Horobi was very influenced by Azu, and by extension, the Ark's malice, due to being in the same broken mental state as Zero-One. Azu offered him a blank Ark Progrisekey alongside the stolen Zero-One Driver, to which Horobi accepted and turned the Progrisekey and the driver into the Ark Scorpion Progrisekey and the Zetsumetsu Driver respectively.

After the war between humans and Humagears was successfully averted, Azu was seen approaching a mysterious man referred as S (Rihito Isshiki), as she told him about the Ark and also asking him about his desire while giving a copy of the Zero-One Driver and a new Progrisekey, S accept the offer and activate the key to turn the driver into the Eden Driver as he use it with a new Progrisekey to transform into Kamen Rider Eden while Azu change her appearance.

## Possessions

* Horobi
* Jin
* Ikazuchi (Uchuyaro Raiden)
* Azu

## Incarnations/Successors

* Aruto Hiden (Ark-One)
* Horobi (Ark-Scorpion)
* Black Alex (Ark-Black; currently)
* Rihito Isshiki (Eden)
* Leon Arkland (Zaia)

## **Black Alex**

Many days later, Ark was revived from the explosion of Satellite Zea as a notable character; **Black Alex** (the one who transforms into "**Kamen Rider Ark-Black"**). Black Alex is an evil clone villain of Alex Parr and a retool version of Wilson. In Reinald Majesty the Movie, the Ark was fully revived from the dead of the explosion of Zea's satellite in space and reformatted as Black Alex; the black and evil clone of the Initon counselor; Alex Parr. As Reinald Majesty is trying to fight off Black Alex; he suddenly summons the mighty Decepticon Republic leader; PM Red to annihilate and exterminate Reinald Majesty. After when Reinald Majesty threw PM Red into a sun, he faces and engages combat to Kamen Rider Ark-Black to save the humanity and peace. Ark (in its Black Alex form) was killed for a final time when Reinald Majesty uses the ultimate mega finisher All Solvador: Ultimate Time Break by using the powers of all majec and all Heisei Riders to extinguish and exterminate him.

Black Alex can transform into Kamen Rider Ark-Black by using the Ark-One Progrisekey in the Ark Driver-Zero, converting it into the Ark Driver-One. Though Ark-Black is primarily the third form of Ark-Zero.

Ark-Black is still significantly stronger than Ark-Zero and Ark-One in terms of stats, making it the strongest Kamen Rider. However, Ark-Black mitigates the powers by using malice it has gathered. His reflexes are fast enough able to block attacks, as well as dodging multiple finishers concurrently, and he is most powerful enough to decimate and ends Reinald.

Much like Ark-One but more and extremely stronger, Ark-Black could also create more puddles of malice, dark fog, dark mist smoke, and severe thunderstorms holding negative kanji with each step he takes, slowly melting anything it comes in contact with. He could also reprogram any A.I-based technology and can destroy Drivers and Weapons simply by crushing them.

Ark Black finishers:

* **Perfect Conclusion** (パーフェクト・コンクルージョン):
	+ **Perfect Conclusion: Learning 5** (パーフェクト・コンクルージョン: ラーニング5): After being charged with malice, red and black smoke, fire, and red lightning, Ark-Black absorbs energy from his surroundings and emits a huge massive explosion and thunderstorms around the large area, instantly defeating anyone it hits.
	+ **Perfect Conclusion: Learning End** (パーフェクト・コンクルージョン: ラーニング　エンド): After charging his leg with negative emotions, Ark-Black delivers a huge mighty malicious kick that was surrounded in black shadows, red fog, dark red smoke, lightning, dark red and black energy to the enemy. This finisher is strong enough to completely obliterate a person, character or a Humagear.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Malice**: Ark's primary and greatest strength. Apart from the powers listed below, the presence of malice in the world makes the Ark an 'inevitable god', as said by Azu. Azu also claims that as long as malice exists in either living beings or Humagears, the Ark continues to thrive.
* **Technology Corruption:** After being awakened, the Ark is capable of directly hacking any technological device, such as a Humagear who developed resentment toward the human race and transform them into an Ark Magia. According to Horobi, the corruption is only malicious data, so the rest is only up to the Humagear to follow this will, to which Ark would try to make the result closest to possible on making that happen.
	+ **Prisonment Chain**: A malware stored within the Metal Cluster Hopper Progrisekey. Aruto Hiden would be the first human to be corrupted by Ark through Zero-One system, causing a loss of control by the satellite's malice. However, the creation of the Progrise Hopper Blade severes the form's connection with Ark, which erases the malware, losing it forever for the Ark.
	+ Naki was able to use the Ark to mind control the users of ZAIA Spec through a forced command, making the human race who wore the ZAIA Spec to go berserk and malfunction.
	+ Through the A.I chips implanted within the brains of Shotriser's users, the Ark could trigger their functions to subdue them.
* **Progrisekey Creation**: After the reactivation, the Ark could create Progrisekeys in a similar method to the Hiden Intelligence Three Dimensional Printing System.
* **Possession**: Because the Ark has no body, it must possess a member. A sign of the liquid metal from its Mobile form constantly emerging from the body. Through its possession of a Humagear, it could transform into Ark-Zero.
* **3D Printer**: The Ark possesses its own 3D printer within MetsubouJinrai.net's base, allowing it to create Progrisekeys and Zetsumerisekeys. Later, as Ark-Zero, the Ark is able to create weapons, transformation devices, and Progrisekeys at any location using a miniature printer inside the Ark Driver. As Black Alex, he is also capable to summon evil characters (example: PM Red)
* **Energy Control**: During battle, the Ark could control dark energy to assist its techniques in combat. It could also concentrate the energy into fatal finger-beams.
* **Humagear Initialization**: The Ark could initialize any Humagear back to its original state, as shown when all of the MetsubouJinrai.net's members (excluding Jin) had their Singularity data stolen thanks to Azu using the Ark-One Progrisekey. It could even expand this ability to affect every Humagear that was connected to Zea once it took control of Zea, but it was stopped by the combined effort of Ikazuchi (Uchuyaro Raiden) and Uchuyaro Subaru before it could do so to kill the Ark.

## Gallery

Kamen Rider Ark-ZeroKamen Rider Ark-One (Aruto Hiden)Kamen Rider Ark-Black
## Stats

Nationality: MetsubouJinrai.net

Birth Place: Earth (World of Zero-One)

Hobbies: Malicious, exterminates humanity.

Friends: Azu, Horobi, Naki, Jin, Ikazuchi (Uchuyaro Raiden), PM Red, PC Red, and Dark Reinald

Enemies: Aruto Hiden, Isamu Fuwa, Yua Yaiba, Gai Amatsu, and the entire UGSF

## Notes

* Both Ark/Ark Driver and Black Alex were voiced by Show Hayami.