Kamen Rider ZZZ from the American comic book world

“This world is dangerous. My only son, Harry, isn’t very talented, so I’ve prepared this equipment for him.” Norman glanced around and then pleaded in a sincere and humble tone:

“ZZZ, if something happens to me one day, please help him.”

When in his transformed state, Li Ai can even hear the heart rate of strangers, and he can use this ability to determine whether someone is lying.

Judging from his heart rate, Norman is unlikely to be lying; it's simply a father's love for his only child.

“Then let’s not let anything bad happen,” Li Ai said seriously.

Hearing this, Norman smiled, turned around and looked at the dazzling array of equipment, saying, "You're right, then I'll take this time to properly upgrade Harry's equipment."

As soon as he finished speaking, Norman wanted to ask Li Ai for her opinion, but as soon as he turned around, Li Ai's figure disappeared.

"Who did he learn this from?" Norman remarked, not even bothering to check the surveillance footage, before immersing himself in the work of enhancing the equipment.

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Shortly after, in the operations room, Li Ai stood in front of the gashapon machine and gently turned it three times.

Three capsules fell; the first two were item capsules for the Dream Eater's Claw, and the last one was a purplish-red capsule.

Panic: A capsule containing the power of fear

This is a capsule that primarily attacks the opponent's mental defenses. A sufficiently powerful user can instill fear in the opponent, directly rewriting their mind.

“It’s not a capsule that can directly enhance my combat power.” Li Ai clutched the panic capsule in her hand, then walked into the workshop and focused her gaze on a prop with a general structure similar to the ZZZ Driver.

The prop is silver-gray in color, with a groove in the middle for filling capsules and six tube-shaped structures on both sides. Its name is 'Prototype Lord Summoning Device'.

This is a replica made by Li Ai based on the transformation tools of the special warriors in the Kamen Rider ZZZ series. Its functions are currently largely complete, but it has been marked as a prototype because it has not been tested yet.

The only limitation of the prototype Lord Summoner is that it must be used by someone who also possesses the 'Dream Ability'.

“It’s a good time to go see her.” Li Ai smiled slightly, and a blonde figure who liked to wear white dresses naturally appeared in her mind.

Chapter 90 Prototype Lord Summoning Weapon

Soon after, in Springwood Town, the place where Li Ai began her adventure.

At Thompson's house, Nancy, who was also in eleventh grade, had just finished taking a shower. As she was reading a book by the bedside, she heard a knocking sound outside the window.

Nancy put down her book, turned to look at the window, and saw a figure carrying a suitcase through the curtains. A hint of wariness appeared in her eyes.

"Don't be alarmed, it's me," the person outside the window said. At the same time, the window was opened, and a cool breeze stirred the curtains.

By the moonlight, Nancy saw Li Ai standing on the edge of the window. Her wariness vanished instantly, replaced by boundless joy.

"Don't shout too loudly, Sheriff Thompson will fight me to the death with his hunting revolver." Li Ai made a shushing gesture.

Nancy understood immediately. She gently tossed her long, silky golden hair and tied it into a ponytail, then smiled and said:

"Let's continue talking at school then, no one will disturb us there, but you have to let me change out of these pajamas first."

"Okay, I'll wait for you." Li Ai smiled slightly, then jumped onto the lawn downstairs from Nancy's building, waiting for Nancy to change her clothes.

Shortly after, Nancy, dressed in casual clothes, jumped from the second floor. Li Ai caught her, and the two then headed to Springwood Town High School.

They knocked on the gymnasium's lock, and by the light of a sliver of moonlight, Li Ai briefly recounted the recent events to Nancy.

“Alien invasion…” A look of seriousness appeared on Nancy’s face.

“That’s why I’ve come to ask you to join the ‘Savior Squad’.” Li Ai unbuttoned the briefcase, revealing the prototype Lord Summoner and the Panic Capsule to Nancy.

Looking at these two items, Nancy unconsciously recalled the scene when Li Ai first transformed. She gently touched the surface of the Lord's Summoning Artifact, feeling its cold touch.

“They look just like the stuff you used to beat Freddy,” Nancy remarked.

“That’s right,” Li Ai explained. “It’s equipment that I created for other people with dream abilities, based on my own capabilities.”

A person with the ability to dream… Upon hearing this, Nancy smiled sweetly and immediately picked up the prototype Lord Summoner and the Panic Capsule.

"In other words, these two pieces of equipment were made for me."

Nancy mimicked Li Ai's state when she first awakened her power, fastening the prototype Lord Summoning Device to her chest, a silver strap securing it firmly to her body.

"Put the capsule into the groove, press the lever once to activate the Lord's Summoner, and then rotate the capsule while shouting 'Prepare'. That's how to use it."

Listening to Li Ai's explanation, Nancy filled the panic capsule into the groove and pressed the control lever, hearing a mechanical sound.

【Panic!】

【On Your Mark】 (Get in position)

"Transformation in progress." Nancy recited the transformation command while turning the capsule, officially initiating the transformation process.

【Invoke Lord System·Panic!】(Invoke Lord System·Panic!)

A mechanical ring appeared centered on the Lord's Summoner, and after landing at Nancy's feet, it formed a transparent container that enveloped her. The purplish-red liquid quickly filled the container, followed by several disc-shaped drones that created an enhanced suit for Nancy.

Once the process was over, the drone disappeared, the container shattered, and Nancy, dressed in a brand-new enhanced suit, appeared before Li Ai.

The enhanced suit is predominantly bright white, with alternating blue, black, and yellow lines outlining clear body lines and highlighting the warrior's power. The helmet has a sharp outline, and the narrow purple compound eyes under the visor further enhance its sharpness. Only one shoulder armor is actually a technological device to alleviate fatigue.

This is what makes the Lord series different from ZZZ. When Li Ai transforms into ZZZ, her physical body is reorganized and strengthened, ultimately presenting a composite bio-armor where technological equipment and enhanced physical body are superimposed.

The Lord series, on the other hand, provides the user with a layer of enhanced clothing.

"Huff, huff... It feels just as tiring as running ten kilometers." Nancy could feel the strain on her body and said with a self-deprecating laugh:

"It seems I need to work out more in the future, otherwise even maintaining this posture will be a problem."

"You'll get used to it," Li Ai comforted her. He planned to prepare a dose for Nancy after he finished the Super Soldier Serum.

Thinking of this, Li Ai handed Nancy a capsule containing the Dream Eater's Claw and said:

"This is your weapon, just turn it."

The matching weapon for the Lord's Summoning Weapon series is the Dream Eater Crusher, but because of time constraints and the fact that the Dream Eater Crusher only has three combat modes, Li Ai simply had Nancy use the Dream Eater Claw first.

"Understood." Nancy took the item capsule, gave it a gentle twist, and the Dream Eater Claw in its blade mode was in her hand. She sighed with admiration.

"It's a weapon you didn't use when you defeated Freddy."

"The Dream Eater Claw can switch between four modes: sword, spear, axe, and scythe, depending on the battle situation," Li Ai explained.

Nancy played with it for a bit out of curiosity, then looked at Li Ai and asked, "So what do you call this pose I'm in right now?"

“Lord Six,” Li Ai said.

The user of the Lord's Summoning Device is not a Kamen Rider, but a different special warrior, so the prefix "Kamen Rider" cannot be used.

"Number six? Then who's in front of me?" Nancy asked, puzzled.

“I’m right in front of you,” Li Ai said with a smile. “To put it another way, someone gave me the nickname number seven.”

"So you're recruiting people by reversing the phone numbers?" Nancy burst out laughing.

"Pretty much." Li Ai waved his hand, and the ZZZ Driver and Impact Capsule appeared. Then he asked with a smile:

"Want to test how well you can do it?"

“No problem.” Nancy watched as Li Ai began to transform.

“HenShin!” Li Ai called out softly.

【Good Morning! Rider! Z·Z·Z! Impact! 】

Li Ai quickly transformed into a physical impact form.

"I'm going in," Nancy warned, then swung the Dream Eater Claw at Li Ai.

Facing the blade of the Dream Eater's Claw, Li Ai handled it with ease, dodging nimbly within the gymnasium and occasionally pointing out Nancy's mistakes in her movements.

After nearly an hour of this fierce battle, Nancy, exhausted, finally removed her enhanced suit and collapsed helplessly to the ground.

Sweat soaked Nancy's blonde hair, her chest heaving as she weakly said:

"No, I really have no strength left, Li Ai. Right now, you are simply too strong for me to defeat."

"Your combat strength is already quite good." Li Ai, who had also deactivated her transformation, extended her hand and invited:

"Would you like to come with me to New York to save the world, Miss Nancy Thompson?"

“Of course.” Nancy reached out her hand, stood up with Li Ai’s help, then looked into the black-haired boy’s eyes and said earnestly:

"The price is that we have to add another dance."

“No problem,” Li Ai readily agreed. “However, I need to adjust your equipment first. I just noticed that there’s a problem with its energy transmission. As for your parents, I’ll handle it in another way.”

Chapter 91 War Preparations

Nancy's parents were dealt with by physical clones created from projection capsules. After that, Li Ai's team gradually took shape, with Banner, Tony, and Dr. Pym being the main personnel to crack the secrets of Skrull genetics.

When Tony tried to recruit Dr. Pym, he got a severe scolding. After all, Howard had acted unethically back then, which is why Dr. Pym resigned in anger.

Fortunately, Tony's apology was fairly sincere, and he then revealed the Skrulls' secret invasion of Earth.

Faced with an alien threat, Dr. Pym was also persuaded. He had become an advisor to S.H.I.E.L.D. during the Cold War to protect the world, and even lost his wife and daughter during a mission.

Over the years, Dr. Pym has tried to enter the quantum realm to find his wife, but with little success. Even Pym Technologies, the company he founded, was ousted by one of his students, so that although the company still uses the registered name Pym Technologies, it actually claims to be Cross Technologies and can only receive some dividends each year.

But if Earth were to be occupied by aliens, Dr. Pym believed he would have even less chance of reuniting with his family, so he decisively chose to join them and showed an even more enthusiastic research attitude than Banner and Tony.

But people definitely need to rest, and not sleeping for a long time will also reduce work efficiency. So Li Ai used her abilities to build a shared dream for the three of them and temporarily lent them the ability to remember their dream experiences.

This ensures both physical sleep and 24-hour work efficiency.

If they didn't only have three mangled Skrull corpses on hand, preventing them from obtaining live data and slowing down their research progress, they probably would have already developed a device to force the Skrulls out of their disguises.

But the result still sent chills down my spine.

Besides their bizarre camouflage abilities, the Skrulls also have very special cells.

When human cells are placed together with Skrull cells, the Skrull cells exhibit assimilation, gradually transforming the human cells into structures similar to their own cells.

From this point on, they divided their research into two categories: one was to continue researching the machines that could break the Skrulls' disguises, and the other was to research serums that could combat Skrull cells.

In terms of combat power, Dr. Pym only wanted to do logistical work, and Li Ai did not force him. After all, he was already over sixty years old this year, and Banner, who no longer lived a life of being a wanted man, could use the Hulk's power more freely.

Tony upgraded his armor to MK8, which greatly improved his armor, firepower, and endurance. He and Banner also enchanted the armor, making it even stronger.

Li Ai trained Nancy, Jessica, and Peter simultaneously and updated their equipment.

To enhance the energy transmission efficiency of the prototype Lord Summoner, Li Ai scraped a small portion from the vibranium and added a vibranium coating to the core of the prototype Lord Summoner to improve stability and extend combat time.

Jessica's abilities were more straightforward, making her easier to deal with. Li Ai made the battle suit and mask according to her ideas, and she herself found a purple wig and decided on the code name 'Female Knight'.

Peter made his own red and blue spider suit, improved Osborn's web spray, and handed over the design drawings for the web launcher to Li Ai.

Li Ai used Goodnight Steel to make Peter a pair of web launchers, a tactical belt that could store spare webs, and made some improvements to the Spider Suit's mask, enabling it to access communication channels and display basic environmental information. The rest was left to the tech-savvy Peter to modify as needed.

But no one knows exactly how many Skrulls there are on Earth, so Li Ai took the opportunity of a weekend family gathering to tell Leon and Ada, who were certain they hadn't been replaced, about it.

At the dinner table, after listening to Li Ai's words, Ada asked, "So you took leave recently to deal with a group of aliens?"

Lyon put down his knife and fork and said with satisfaction, "All I can say is that you are very brave, Li Ai."

“Let him say a few more words,” Ada said, resting her chin on her hand as she looked at Li Ai and asked in a playful tone.

"Do you prefer me to call you Li Ai, or ZZZ?"

Leon and Ada have always believed that their eldest son is Kamen Rider ZZZ, but they feel that as parents, they should give their child some private space and not pry too much at times.

“I have a question too. What exactly does the phrase before ZZZ mean?” Leon interjected.

New Yorkers only call each other ZZZ because they don't understand what the first word means.

“Well, the meaning of ‘KamenRider’ is…” Li Ai explained the question.

“I understand. Kamen means mask or fake, and Rider means knight. So, when you put them together, it's Kamen Rider ZZZ.” Leon nodded and added:

"You need to talk to the media and use their full names to show respect."

“Enough, Leon, I want to hear what he has to say.” Ada restrained Leon, then spoke to Li Ai in a stern tone:

“When you first took action in New York, I started to suspect that you had a secret, but no matter what, we will always be your parents. Don’t try to bear things alone; you can communicate with us.”

“I understand.” Li Ai nodded, feeling a warmth in his heart. “I will continue to try to upgrade your equipment.”

"Let's continue with your plan," Leon said, trying to lighten the mood as he sensed the heavy atmosphere.

"I think we were just talking about some kind of exhibition that Tony Stark is going to put on."

"It's the Stark International trade fair, and it's invited many executives from tech companies to participate with their products," Li Ai explained.