Death of Humanity

**Death of Humanity** is the first episode of *Kamen Rider Dial*.

## Plot

50 Years ago, an explorer and his crew search for the ancient tomb of a being called the Barren Overlord (The leader and ruler of a species called the Barrens). When they find it, one of the explorers accidentally opens the tomb releasing the Barren Overlord who then kills everyone except the explorer. He possess the explorer who then revives the people he killed, turning them into Barrens. He then says, “The next stage of human evolution will rise again!”

50 years later, an organization called Marx Enterprises is being run a man named Julius Marx. A young man, Travis Rhodes, is preparing for an interview for the organization. His fiancé, Hilary, gives him pep talk and kisses him luck. Rhodes goes to the interview and is unable to get the job. Walking to the parking lot, he is confronted by a woman who asks him if he wants an opportunity to make his dreams come true. A desperate Travis accepts her offer and she tells him to meet her at a location later in the night. Travis returns home and lies to Hilary about getting the job. Hilary hugs him and tells him that they’ll finally get out of the debt with his new job. Later that night, Travis meets with the woman.

A group of masked people come behind Travis and knock him out. They take him to a temple and strip him down. They lay in on a bed where inject him with a strange liquid. This liquid ends up killing Travis. Travis wakes up in a fancy bedroom and is confronted by the woman from earlier. The woman tells him that she promised his life would change for the better and she kept her promise. Travis asks her what’s going on and she says that he has successfully gone through the peak of human evolution. Travis tells the woman that he doesn’t know what she’s talking about. The woman tells him that he’ll see soon and tells him to go out and live his new life. Travis is led out by the woman and he decides to go back home. He gets there and his fiancé answers the door. She’s shocked to see him and says that she thought that he had died or left her. Travis asks her what she means, he’s only been gone a day. She then tells him that he’s been gone for a year. Travis stands there in shock as he hears a man’s voice in his house. Travis asks her if she’s cheating on him and she says that she’s engaged to someone else, someone who got her out of debt and actually took care of her. She closes the door on Travis’s face as he stands in disbelief. Travis then notices that he can hear through the walls of Hilary’s home, hearing her and her boyfriend laughing about Travis. Travis gets angry and knocks on the door. Hilary’s fiancé answers and Travis punches him, and he punches Travis back. Travis transforms into a Barren and kill both the fiancé and Hilary inside the house. He exits the house and sheds a tear.

Meanwhile, a young man, Cedric Welch, is asleep in his college night class at Richwood University. He is awakened by his teacher. His teacher tells him that he slept through the entire class and is the last one there. Cedric apologizes. The teacher then asks him what he wants to do with his life and Cedric says that he doesn’t know. The teacher tells him that he has one more year to figure what he is going to do since he’ll graduate in a year. Cedric leaves and gets on his motorcycle. As he rides home, he nearly rides into a young woman. Both fall off of their motorcycles. The woman quickly gets back on hers and rides off. Cedric notices that the woman dropped her bag. Cedric decides to follows the woman. The woman is stopped by a man. The man turns into a Barren and attacks the woman. Cedric is able to catch up to the woman. She sees Cedric with the bag and shouts, “Throw me the bag, please!” He throws her the bag, and she pulls out a Marx Enterprises briefcase. Inside the briefcase is a belt and a phone like object. She puts the belt on and tries to use it, but the belt has an error. The Barren attacks her, but Cedric attempts to fend it off, but it’s too strong.

The woman then puts the belt on Cedric by force. She then gives him the phone and tells him to dial 555 on the phone and do what she did. He does so, the belt says, “standing by” and he yells “transform” and transforms into Kamen Rider Dial. Cedric fights the Barren, and his helmet automatically puts information in his head on how to fight and use the Dial Driver’s abilities. He kills the Barren and then throws the belt to the woman and runs away.

## Cast

* Cedric Welch: Joshua Marsh
* Emmanuel Welch: Noah Carter
* Eva Osada: Natalie Kimura
* Travis Rhodes: Milton Day

## See Also

* My Dream - Counterpart in *Kamen Rider 555*