The Rider Experiment

**The Rider Experiment** is the first episode of *Kamen Rider Fusion*. It reveals how Corey Noah became Fusion, having earlier appeared in *Kamen Rider Arcade's season finale*.

## Plot

Ten years ago, America became the first country to successfully send a manned probe to Mars. In what appeared to be the ruins of an extinct Martian civilization, an astronaut discovered a mysterious cube, which would come to be known as The Black Box. At the return ceremony for the expedition, a security guard suddenly rushed forward for The Black Box. As he touched the artifact, a flash of light erupted, and all the countries merge into one. Walls grow from the ground and it splits the countries into three territories; Galid, Deki, and Savi. This event was known as the Continental Disaster and these territories were all involved in the newly formed One World Order. In present day, all life on Earth has adapted to the changed environment on Earth. Citizens have been getting attack monsters called Hypers. A young woman is walking to her car in a parking lot. A sickily looking man in white clothes confronts the woman and asks her for help. He then transforms into a Hyper and attacks the woman. The woman is then saved by a Kamen Rider who defeats the Hyper and takes its essence using a Fuse-Bottle. The Hyper turns back into a human and the Kamen Rider tells the woman to call the ambulance so they can tend to the man. The voice of a young woman tells the rider through a mic in his helmet to quit fooling around and return to base. The woman asks the rider who he is, and he introduces himself as Kamen Rider Fusion. The woman thanks him as he leaves. The next day, a young man wakes up at a desk in the SOURCE Headquarters. As he wakes up, he sees a man looking at him disappointingly. The man, Kouta Trahan, asks the young man, Corey Noah, if he has gotten any sleep. Corey says that he’s been having a hard time going to sleep. Kouta tells him to find new methods of going to sleep because it is distracting him from doing his job. Corey apologizes and Kouta tells him to have the analytics done before the day’s over with. Kouta then tells Corey that he’s free to work from home, just for today. Meanwhile, a young man, Zane Howard, breaks out of an asylum. Later, Corey makes it home and goes through a secret room where his bed and lab are. He then finds a young woman sleeping in his bed. Corey pushes the girl, Aya, out of the bed. Corey asks her if she has purified the new bottle yet. Aya gets up angrily and punches him in the stomach. Aya says that she was going to do it later, but since he wanted to disturb her sleep, she won’t. Corey apologizes and begs her to do it. She then the power from her bracelet to purify the bottle. Corey thanks her but sees that she went back to sleep. Later in the night, a young man in white is being chased down by a group of soldiers. The young man is able to hide from them long enough to get them to stop searching. He then hitches a ride on the back of a delivery truck. Later, the soldiers go to a dark room where they tell their boss that the test subject got away. The boss tells them that he has a plan to track the subject down. Scientists in gas masks are experimenting on a man and turning him into a Hyper. The next day, Corey goes to SOURCE Headquarters and finds out that there has been reports of a young man who could be a Hyper. Kouta tells Corey that the young man is wearing the same clothes as others who turned into Hypers. Corey calls Aya and tells her to search for wear the young man was last seen. Meanwhile, the young man is found asleep on a delivery truck and the workers that find him are scared off in fear that he’ll turn into a Hyper. The young man goes to find somewhere to hide, but he is soon found by some of the Deki Soldiers. He defeats them and steals one of their motorcycles. At the SOURCE HQ, Kouta’s assistant, Nico Ishimaru, tells him that Zane has taken down the soldiers. Kouta says that they’ll have to go search for Zane on their own. Meanwhile, Aya talks to Fusion through a headset and tells him that Zane was last seen near the abandoned warehouse district. Fusion goes there and finds the young man. Corey successfully intercepts him by exploding the path in front of him. Corey tries to prevent the young man, Zane Howard, from turning into a Hyper. Zane tells Corey that he refuses to be used as a lab rat again, thinking Corey is working for the people who’ve been experimenting on him. Corey asks Zane what he means a Hyper appears and attacks the two. Fusion turns into Spike-Tank and defeats the Hyper. Fusion notices Deki Soldiers coming and tells Zane to come with him. Kouta, Nico, and the soldiers make it to where they were, but only find the, now human, Hyper. Later, the bat-like rider makes a plan to capture Zane, but another voice tells him not to worry about him. They’ll handle him soon enough.

## Cast

* Corey Noah: Simon Gibson
* Zane Howard: Chad Edwards
* Kouta Trahan: Kyoko Ming
* Aya Jones: Ada Cross

## Fuse Bottles

* **Bottle Used:**
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* **Form Used:**
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## Notes

* As part of INTV Action, this episode aired alongside *Power Rangers Chrono Rush* episode 1, Time and Dimensions.

## See Also

* That One with the Best Match - Counterpart in *Kamen Rider Build*