The Web of Stories
His real name is Benjamin Tanner, but he chose his new name when he signed on to the Mafia Ninja Pirates. Don’t EVER call him Benny Southstreet…EVER! Benjamin always ran a tight job for Captain Don Shinobi and impressed the guy so much, he became his first mate and best friend. He joined Shocker Umbra with Captain Don SHinobi and joined the ruling council, becoming Kamen Rider Tombstone. He’s got a few…hesitations about the Author, but will do as his Captain says.
No one thought such a union of criminal organizations was possible, and yet here stands proof. A blend of ninjas, pirates, and mafia mobsters, Captain Don Shinobi is the leader of the Mafia Ninja Pirates. Born in Japan and raised by the Mafia after being abandoned in America, Don Shinobi found a pirate ship that could fly through even the vacuum of space and its crew would still survive. He took control of the ship and grabbed various ninjas, pirates, and mafia men for his crew. His first mate joined willingly and he made that man his trusted advisor. He uses his ninjutsu for the assassination it was designed for. He and his crew then joined Shocker Umbra and he became Kamen Rider Threat. Even the Author thought such a union between pirates, ninjas, and mafia men was impossible. He’s ready to prove the Author wrong and please him while doing so.
Katie was always obsessed with high fashion. She hated that she could never afford it and she was jealous that her cousins, Emily and Richard, knew someone rich enough to make elaborate costumes for free. She then met with Auriella, a woman from another universe. They had a bit of an infatuation with her and, eventually, Auriella turned Katie into an Adrexian like herself. Soon, they threw in their lot with Shocker Umbra and both became members of Metaltron’s council. Katie was given a Dazzle Driver and became Kamen Rider Glam. The Author’s promised endless wealth and power and she plans to use that to her full advantage.
Queen Auriella Seflowa is an Adrexian, a species considered to be cousins to the Chizarans. It’s an all-woman species with the same godhood as the Chizarans. They’ve found other ways to stave off the boredom of immortality by going through different social classes at whim. Auriella didn’t like that, but she held her tongue long enough for Metaltron to tempt her with Shocker Umbra’s power. She then engineered a disaster and ordered a “temporary” suspension of social mobility. With her people trapped in a ring around her home solar system, she forged two Dazzle Drivers. She then started dating a woman from Megumi’s old universe and recruited her onto the council, giving her the other Dazzle Driver. Auriella became Kamen Rider Jewel, a vain woman that’s obsessed with power. The Author promised riches beyond her wildest dreams, she couldn’t say no to that.
Phury is an Appoplexian from a universe where Gwen Tennyson recieved the Omnitrix instead of her cousin, Ben. In that universe, Appoplexian women, while still as angry as any Appoplexian man, were a lot more focused in their rage. Gwen and Phury’s sister, Rayj, dethroned Phury and banished her from Appoplexia. During that time, she had a few loyalists that assisted her in competing in the 3V2R. However, it would be the 590,492nd 3V2R where things went disastrously wrong for her. Desperate for a win, she snorted catnip before her bout with Megumi. One of her former soldiers then revealed the whole thing and an investigation confirmed the accusation. She and Optimus then fought for 3rd place prize and she lost. After trying to threaten Nemengra (a bad idea to threaten ANY Chizaran), she was banned from participating in the 3V2R forever. She was left to rot and contemplated suicide before Cyber-Priestess Gi offered her a position in Shocker Umbra’s ruling council. She accepted and, during the formation of Shocker Umbra, ripped a Red Lantern’s ring off their finger, killing the Red Lantern in the process. She studied it and found a way to access its powers without it replacing her heart. She made the Spectrum Driver and became Kamen Rider Spectrum, a warrior of rage. Now the Author offered her a chance for more power. How can she pass that up?
Cyber-Priestess Gi was made when the Cybermen (under Shocker Rift’s Command) kidnapped and upgraded Neo Queen Serenity. She became the Cyber-Leader of the forces occupying Crystal Tokyo. A squadron of Vortex Riders accompanied by Batman and Lacey upended the Cybermen’s plans and Neo Queen Serenity was put into a new body while Cyber-Leader Gi was made into her own woman. After the mess with the Sources, Cyber-Leader Gi took several of her Cybermen and attacked Beyond City. With Megumi helped by new fighters and Kamen Rider Build with a new Best Match form of TimelordTardis, she was severed and her emotion inhibitors malfunctioned, making her very angry. Build’s new powers aged her, but the Cyberman technology supported her to no end. She then formed an alliance with Metaltron and then got to work forming Shocker Umbra. With the Author’s Lords, she feels as if she can’t lose.
Metaltron was once a Dalek, supposedly the last of the Daleks after the Last Great Time War between the Daleks and the Time Lords. When she was a Dalek, she was captured by Henry Van Statten and put into his vault. She was tortured to try and talk, but the arrival of the Doctor sparked her old instincts. She then tricked the Doctor’s companion at the time to let her absorb her DNA. Over time, the companion’s DNA affected it, gave it emotions other than hate. It tried to commit suicide, but it was flung into the dimensional rift that makes up the space between universes. She was then rescued by Vorton, looking like the Doctor’s companion and with amnesia. The amnesia then wore off and she tried to kill another Dalek turned human, one that preferred her bipedal shape. She then joined with a Human/Dalek hybrid, the Last of the Cult of Skaro, Caan, and temporarily used Van Statten’s old place as a base of operations. She then abandoned him and altered her genes even further during the Convergence and made an alliance with a former Cyberman. Now, she is Kamen Rider Ex, the deadliest warrior in creation. She is one of seven rulers of the new Shocker Umbra and is at the top of a very successful empire. With the Author in her life, she can’t refuse a chance at power.
Hana never knew a life outside of Hell. She was killed when Igura was pregnant with her and ran afoul of angry, freed Skaro Daleks. She was born in Hell and spent her childhood in an existence of a dull cul-de-sac with no privacy and forced into routine, wanting to see beyond what she knew. The Author gave her that chance when he got her and her parents out of Hell. Thanks to her mother creating the Shocker Drivers, she has become a Kamen Rider like her parents, Kamen Rider Blitz. She’s eager to meet her half-sister, Megumi, and prove to her who’s the better daughter of Hiro, not that Hiro hadn’t already decided it was Hana.
Once, she came from the same Shocker Hiro worked for. When the Kamen Riders became more powerful, Shocker soon split into the original Shocker and Shocker Nova. Igura joined the Nova branch. The first Kamen Rider beat Shocker and Shocker Nova, initially destroying them. Vortech resurrected Igura, seeing her as more useful, and she reconnected with Hiro. She gained her own rider form as Kamen Rider Talon and, after Vortech’s first defeat, married Hiro. During the Convergence, however, was when she and their unborn daughter met their end. As Sauron fell like he does in many a universe, the Skaro Daleks under Shocker Rift’s control broke free and exterminated the pregnant Igura. She woke up in Hell and waited for Hiro. Once they reunited, she gave birth to their daughter. After a time, the Author rescued them all from Hell and she’s up for a little revenge against the Daleks.
Megumi Hishikawa’s hated nemesis and biological father, this man has been the cause of pain for the Vortex Riders from the very beginning. Originally from a different universe, Hiro joined the villainous Sacred Hegemony of Cycle Kindred Evolutionary Realm, Shocker. His discovery of a belt that made a person into an armored warrior was what made Takeshi Hongo into the heroic Kamen Rider. After various experiments with universal travel, Hiro escaped into another universe, married a woman, and produced a daughter, Megumi. He then killed the woman and tried to make Megumi survive on the streets. Haruna took her in and succeeded in the legal battle that made Megumi Haruna’s daughter and put Hiro behind bars. Years later, Vortech broke him out and used him to gather others to his cause. He reconnected with his old girlfriend, Igura, now a general of a new branch of Shocker, and fought against Megumi throughout the Vortech Wars. After Vortech’s defeat, Hiro decided to take his version of Shocker, Shocker Rift, on a quest to find the Sources of the Apocalypse and use them to gain control of Foundation Prime instead of the Foundation Elements. When that failed, he contact Megatron and Dr. Borg, suggesting an alliance, but the downfall of Sauron led to him losing his wife and unborn daughter to freed Skaro Daleks. He went insane and lost control of his alliance, prompting Megatron to step up as leader. After a second fight with Vortech, a portal above Chizara threatened to consume the multiverse and he flew a ship into it on a suicide run, having him meet his wife in Hell and being there when she gave birth to their daughter. The Author brought him and others back, prompting him to regain control of Shocker Rift and work with the newly formed Shocker Umbra under Metaltron’s command. He’s back with a vengeance and he won’t rest until Megumi is a broken mess!