The First Frontier

**The First Frontier** is the first episode of *Kamen Rider Cosmos*. It reveals how Katrina Wheeler became Cosmos, having earlier appeared in *Kamen Rider DX's season finale* .

## Plot

At night, a young man is chasing after another young man. The young man falls as the other young man, Joey, tells him to hand over something. The young man pulls out a switch and transforms into a monster known as an Astro. Joey starts to run away as he calls for someone name Stephanie to come fight the Astro. Joey is about to be attacked by the Astro until a giant robot comes and saves him. This causes the Astro to retreat. Joey asks the person operating the robot what took them so long. The person comes out and it’s a young girl, Stephanie. She says that she wanted to see whether or not the Astro would actually try to hurt him. Joey doesn’t believe her as she says that he last longer without needing saving than last time. Joey asks her why they can’t just use Project Cosmos. Stephanie says that she doesn’t think he’s a good candidate for the driver, and she herself can’t use it because of her “illness”. Joey asks her when they’ll start looking for a worthy candidate. Stephanie says that they will eventually, in the meantime, they’ll continue the strategy of using the robot to fight and using him as bait. Joey groans. The next day, it’s the start of a new school year at Westwood High School. A young girl is being dropped off at school by her mother. Her mother tells her to try and get used to her new school. The young girl says that she isn’t nervous at all about going to a new school and says that she is very optimistic about the new school year. She gives her mother her special handshake as she rushes out the car. Meanwhile, Stephanie and Joey are getting off the bus as Joey can barely stay awake. Stephanie says he should be used to searching for Astros late at night. Joey says that it’s not getting any easier and wonders how she’s not tired. They go inside the school as a student, Martin Taylor, is talking about the news of the new school year on the TVs. Stephanie is annoyed by how Martin is presenting the news while Joey laughs at Martin’s presentation. He then mentions how him, and Martin used to be friends. Stephanie says that she knows and continues to see how. Suddenly, the school’s football players run through the hallways shouting in excitement. A teacher tells them to quiet down. One of the players accidentally knocks Stephanie’s books out of her hand. The quarterback, Trip Higgins, helps her pick them up, but is quickly pulled away by his cheerleader friend, Tiffany Cho. The bell rings and Stephanie and Joey go to their class. As Stephanie sits in class, the teacher welcomes in the young girl, Katrina, as the new student. Stephanie recognizes her from her childhood and tries to hide her face. Katrina sees Stephanie and excitedly greets her. She asks Stephanie if she remembers her from elementary school years ago. Stephanie says annoyingly yes. Katrina says that she at least knows one person in the school. During the class, Katrina shows her intelligence and personality by answering every question right and making the class laugh to the annoyance of Stephanie. After class, Stephanie vents to Joey about Katrina. Joey says that she doesn’t sound so bad. Stephanie and Joey see the young man from the night before being pushed around by some football players. Katrina confronts the football players and tells them to leave him alone. One of the players says that she can’t do nothing about it, but she then flips the football player on his back. Joey says that Katrina’s cool. Stephanie then sees the young man sneaking into the janitor’s closet and figures that he’s going to turn into an Astro. The Astro appears and begins attacking the football players. Katrina tries to fight it. Stephanie pulls Joey into a locker that leads to their secret base to retrieve the Powered fighting suit. Stephanie tries to activate it, but it won’t turn on. Joey says that they need to go stop the Astro. Stephanie tells him to wait till the suit starts up. The impatient Joey instead takes a briefcase containing Project Cosmos and goes to confront the Astro. Katrina is pushes aside Katrina as Joey appears and opens the briefcase and pulls out the Cosmos Driver. Seeing Katrina fighting the Astro, Joey gives her the Cosmos Driver and tells her how to use it. She transforms into Kamen Rider Cosmos and fights the Astro. They take the fight outside as, with Joey’s instructions, Cosmos defeats the Astro using a Rocket Drill Kick. The Astro turns back into the student who has no memory of what happened and run away. Cosmos wonders why he’s running as the giant Powered Suit walks up behind her.

## Cast

* Katrina Wheeler: Ramona Walsh
* Stephanie Banks: Cecelia Farmer
* Joey Wilson: Erick Daniels
* Trip Higgins: Clint Hunt
* Tiffany Cho: Kiera Cho
* Martin Taylor: Joseph Cole
* Elgin Nelson: Kent Irving

## Cosmoswitches

* **Swiches Used:**
	+ Circle - Rocket
	+ Cross - Launcher, Chainsaw
	+ Triangle - Drill
	+ Square - Radar
* **States Used:**
	+ Basestates

## See Also

* Youthful Transformation - Counterpart in *Kamen Rider Fourze*