Having taken a wrong turn on the new college campus, Ogata Rin finds herself lost and tries to ask directions from a boy in a nearby workshop. Overwhelmed by the boy’s misplaced enthusiasm at having such a pretty new member interested in joining the ‘RideBack’ fanclub, Rin quickly finds herself pushed into the pilot seat of a two-wheeled robot-motorcycle and driving out the door of the clubhouse.
While touring the campus and learning how to operate the RideBack, Rin is surprised and confronted by a grouchy and antagonistic police beat-cop who accuses her of breaking the law and demands that she dismount immediately. But before Rin can decide what to do, a pack of students gather and charge the cop, screaming against police abuses and ‘political oppression by the global governmental system’. What started as a flash protest between a single cop and a band of militant students quickly erupts into a full scale riot with arrival of an armoured van filled with riot police. And then the police begin to open fire….
In attempting to avoid the riot control paintbombs being used by the police, Rin unconsciously uses some of the jazz dance steps that she knows so well and the RideBack responds! Leaping over the heads of the melee of protesters, Rin and her RideBack create a disturbance which distracts the police long enough to allow the students to safely retreat.
It is only later back on the college campus where the police have no authority enter, does Rin really have a chance to think about what had just happened. And she can only stare in bewilderment when one of the militant students mentions that the police have probably managed to record the entire encounter and they probably have all been ‘marked by the Public Security’ agency as being anti-government rebels.
Rideback Motorbike Concept Art
