Dash Roberts

Dash Roberts is Kamen Rider Drive, the eponymous protagonist of the Neo-Rider Series, Kamen Rider: Drive.

Pre-series
When he was young, he would often visit BioLab with his father. One day, a lab accident put Dash into a coma. When he was released, he found himself moving at very fast speeds, causing him to realize that he has gained the ability of super-speed. His father told him to keep his power a secret as it would be disastrous for Dash if anyone found out. However, Dash had told his friends, and only his friends, that he had this ability, but rather than make fun of him, his friends became very amazed at this. When he was asked how he got his ability, however, he told them that it was a big secret that couldn't be shared. When Dash got to BioLab that day, he couldn't wait to try out his powers. Then, one of the scientists reminded him of Spider-Man's famous words, "With great power comes great responsibility." These words help Dash on the long road ahead.

During his middle school years, Dash's father mysteriously goes missing.

Present Day
Now in his early twenties, Dash investigates a Time Shift case involving Cobra-Bot 029. Dash transforms into Kamen Rider Drive for the first time. By utilizing his Tire Changes, he defeats Cobra-Bot 029.

Apparently Cobra-Bot 029 was somehow brought back by General Heartdrone as the Iron Attack-Bot. Dash continues to investigate. The evidence has led him to an amusement park, where he is ambushed by the Iron-Bot, upon discovering the victims. Kamen Rider uses the Justice Cars and transforms into his new tire form, Speed Form: Hunter. He uses it to defeat the Iron-Bot for good.

Personality
Dash is a loner and a quiet and cold teen who doesn't take too kindly to his team at first, but as the show progresses, he becomes more open to his teammates and has improved as a leader in various ways.

Powers and Abilities

 * Super Speed: Due to a lab accident at a very young age at BioLab, Dash has the power to move and react at superhuman speeds. This includes his physical speed, reaction time, and reflexes. His maximum speed is unknown, but somewhere along the regions of the speed of sound. When using his powers, everything in normal motion appears to slow down to his perspective, while he accelerates to his opponent's.
 * Time Shift Immunity: Because of Dash's powers of super speed, this makes him one of the few humans to be immune to the Time Shifts that take place as part of the attack's from Zenjox's attack bots.

Forms
Kamen Rider Drive's forms are simply called Forms. Some Shift Cars alter the suit based on a certain attribute, whereas other Shift Cars arm Kamen Rider Drive with a certain element or weapon, by changing the Tire Module on Kamen Rider Drive's suit for a Tire Change. These two types of Shift Cars can be used in conjunction with each other, but some Tire Modules can only work with certain Forms.

After turning the Advanced Ignition on the Drive Driver, Kamen Rider Drive can perform one of two actions with each form: Lifting the Shift Cars placed within the Shift Brace between one and three times initiates either a special ability or an attack, while pressing the Igniter on the Shift Brace and lifting the Shift Cars once unleashes the Form's finishing move.

Zerodrive
Ability Perimeters: Type Speed is Zerodrive's concept sports car-based form, which is accessed through the present-time Speed Prototype Shift Car. It is used by Dash Roberts.
 * Height: 199 cm.
 * Weight: 99 kg.
 * Punching power: 3.9 t.
 * Kicking power: 5.8 t.
 * Maximum jump height: 27.5 m.
 * Maximum running speed: 100 m. per 6.2 sec.

It is aesthetically similar to the completed Type Speed, but with its colors inverted and bears the Archetype Gear.

Zerodrive is the first functioning model of the Drive System and as such, its statistics and functionality is severely limited due to the fact that Krim Steinbelt has yet to even create a functioning Shift Car to work with the system. Despite these setbacks, Dash is able to use Zerodrive due to his experience and long term usage of the Drive Driver.

This Type's Full Throttle finisher is the ZeroDrop, which is presumably a weaker version of the present Type Speed's SpeeDrop.

Speed
All versions of this form bear a Tire Module across Kamen Rider Drive's torso.

Tire-less
This version of Speed Form is briefly seen during both Auto Rider's transformation and Tire Change, the latter specifically after the previous tire is ejected and before the new tire gets attached in its place. When the Imitation Drive robbed the Max Flare Tire Module in the Hyper Battle DVD, the real Kamen Rider Drive was left stuck in this state until Mach Rider mistakenly struck him with his Mach Strike attack.

In the case of an incompatible user attempting to access the Drive System, a transformation into the tire-less Kamen Rider Drive is briefly achieved. However, once the Speed Tire Module attempts to combine with the Speed Form body, the transformation is immediately rejected. This prompted Dean and Michael to shut the Auto Rider System away for good until it was retrieved by Dash.

Speed
Ability Perimeters: Speed Form is Drive's default red sports car-based form. Accessed through the Speed Charger, this form bears the Speed Tire Module.
 * Height: 199 cm.
 * Weight: 102 kg.
 * Punching power: 6.0 t.
 * Kicking power: 10.4 t.
 * Maximum jump height: 32 m.
 * Maximum running speed: 100 m. per 5.7 sec. (1.8 sec. at full speed)

Out of Drive's forms, this form has the most balance in terms of strength and agility, which also makes it his most frequently used form.

Drive's special ability in this form is, as the name implies, speed. When he lifts the Speed Shift Car three times, Drive is able to move incredibly fast and perform high velocity attacks. He can also perform the Turbo Smash attack, where Drive makes the Speed Tire Module rotate rapidly as he skids towards the enemy and trips them up into the air. Afterwards, he unleashes a barrage of rapid punches onto the falling target, making an image of a speedometer appear from the resulting series of punches. Alternatively, Drive can skip the tripping portion of his attack and go immediately to its punching portion.

This form's finisher is the Speed Strike, where Drive focuses power into his right leg, making it glow red as he slams into the enemy with a flying kick.
 * A variation of this finisher has four spinning tires manifest to surround the enemy while Drive turns his back to the target as the Tridoron races around him, focusing his power. The tires then fully close in on the target, making the target shoot forwards towards Drive, who instead jumps at the Tridoron and kicks at it, making him bounce off of it and kick the target. Drive then keeps bouncing off the Tridoron and kicking the target in a pinball-like manner until he comes in with the final kick, skidding to a stop.