The Last Hero

**The Last Hero** is the first episode of *Kamen Rider Gear*.

## Plot

In the year 2075, the world is in ruins. Under 25% of the human population is still around after the Great Disaster caused by The Overlord who brought the disease, the Droid Virus, which turns a human completely into a robot slave, onto the world. The only human city left is the city of Moonstar. The ones who protect the city are known as The Resistance.

A firing squad is surrounding a group of citizens. Their leader, Commander Austin Ingram tells them to call down, they’re not going to hurt anyone, unless they don’t pass their scan test. He proceeds to scan each citizen, and everyone passes except for a young boy who is with his family. Commander Ingram takes the child as his mother begs him not to. The proceeds to attack the firing squad as Austin tries to shoot him down. The child jumps on Austin and injures his arm. With no other option, Austin puts an explosive on the child and pushes him back, and the child explodes, revealing that he was a fully turned android and a victim of the Droid Virus. Austin tells the citizens to get into a van to get further scanning to make sure they weren’t infected. His right hand woman, Charlotte, tells him to go with to get his arm checked. Austin goes to the city’s hospital where he is treated by his sister, Sasha. Sasha tells Austin that he has to be more careful. Austin tells Sasha that she doesn’t need to worry about him. Austin then gets called to the Moonstar Labs and Austin asks Sasha if she wants to come with if she isn’t busy. Sasha accepts his invitation. Elsewhere in an abandoned town, a young man is running from a group of androids. He hides behind a car. He then begins noticing something wrong with his vision and he then faints. Meanwhile, Austin and Sasha are in Moonstar Labs where the top scientist, Danny Keller, is showing their newest project that will help them battle against the androids. He shows off Project Gear. He says that the suit has been specially built to take on, scout out, and defeat androids. Keller says that he wants Austin to be the user. He has Austin test the Gear driver and he does so. However, when he tries to transform, he can’t handle the driver power, and this results in him getting hurt in the process. Sasha tends to her brother. Keller says that he doesn’t know how the driver is unstable when he worked on it and tested it daily. Austin is taken to the emergency room and is told that the driver paralyzed him, and he’ll be out of action until further notice. Due to this, Keller is suspended from further working on the Gear Project. Later, Keller visits Sasha and apologizes to her for what happened to her brother. She forgives him and says that Austin is still upset about it. Keller says that he doesn’t know how the driver didn’t work and then gets the idea the driver may have been sabotaged. Keller tells Sasha to help him sneak into his lab to retrieve the Gear Driver. They do so and when they get into the lab, they see one of the scientist observing the Gear Driver. The scientist turns out to be an android spy and runs away with the Gear Driver. Keller and Sasha chase after him as the android runs out of the barrier around the city, taking out the security guards. Sasha and Keller follow it. The end up following it into an abandoned town and manage to take it out after Sasha crashes their car into the android, killing it. They retrieve the Gear Driver; however, their car was destroyed, and they are stuck in the down. They hear a group of androids coming their way and they rush to hide. The come across an unconscious young man who wakes up with no memory of who he is. The androids find the three and attack them. One android retrieves the Gear Driver and realizes that it’s a transformation device by scanning it with it’s eyes. The android prepares to transform, but the man knocks the driver out of the android and uses the driver himself and turns into Kamen Rider Gear. Gear fights the androids and defeats them. Sasha and Keller stand in shock as they ask the man how he knew how to use the driver. The man says that he doesn’t know, and his right eye then glows red. Keller realizes that the young man is an android.

## Cast

* Evan Frazier: Carlos Gordon
* Sasha Ingram: Wendi Habib
* Austin Ingram: Diego Castro
* Charlotte McBride: Robin Crawford

## See Also

* It's Kikai! 2121 - Counterpart in *Kamen Rider Zi-O*