Air Gear: The Broken Wings
Chapter 1: Resistance
At the Hirotaki Secondary School in Japan, Classroom A, the students were tense, waiting for the bell signaling the end of the school day to ring. Each and every one of them knew what today signified in the world of Air Treck: The return of the Parts Wars; each year after the battle for the Tower of Trophaeum the Parts Wars take a break to allow losers to like their wounds and allow winners to have a grace period. As the bell rung they rushed out in a stampede crushing anything in their path. Only one student didn't rush out with the rest. The student had shoulder-length white hair, and deep blue eyes, with his striped white and black shirt and his torn up jeans, he looked desolate and depressed, he marched out slowly and methodically. He was waiting for a certain signal before he took off to the sale. As he walked someone in the pack of students rushing out turned back and yelled
"Hey Raiden, hurry or you'll miss the big A-T Sale, you know it happens every year, let's all celebrate the return of the parts war!"
Hearing the signal of all-clear, a smile broke across the dismal face as he yelled "I'm coming, I'm coming wait up Getsuko!" and in an instant he pulled his A-Ts out of his backpack and before the nearest teacher could stop him he had them on and was riding the wall to get ahead of the entire mob.
From down below there were cries of "No fair he brought his A-Ts to school!" and "Someone stop him!" But their screams barely registered, because he all he knew was the remarkable, unmatchable, liberating feeling of riding, the feeling of being as free as the sky....
That was 2 years ago. Now, the Parts War is almost dead, and anyone involved has to worry that their families will be the next ones targeted and destroyed, or that they will be placed under maximum security arrest and have the sky stolen from them forever. Many people who have seen this horror have given up AT forever. In the Hirotaki Secondary School in Japan, Raiden sat, alone, isolated from the world as he was everyday, thinking about the day when A-T came crashing down like a bird with a broken wing. The police known as Wind G-Men had used their influence to create a team that served under them and slowly using dirty tactics they gathered all of the Regaila and used them to stop teams from forming using threats and destruction and slowly began to bring the Parts Wars to an end. So now, even on the day of the big sale, the enjoyment just wasn't there. So the bell run and students slowly filed out, still heading for the sale, but they didn't see the point in going if they would get arrested just for using the A-Ts they bought. The only thought of most studenrs was to find away to hide A-Ts from the Wind G-Force, but they couldn't do that without shutting down the parts wars so no one had ever thought of a solution and the Wind G-Force took over.
At the sale, there seemed to be a fight surrounded by a crowd of people had gathered around the store known as Downtown Sports. But as Raiden came closer he knew something was wrong, the crowd surrounding the"fight" were all members of the Wind G-Men and had their guns out. Then in a flash, the man spun on the spot jumped and kicked down towards the men below him. All they knew was a moment of confusion for nothing seemed to happen the the street exploded as if a bomb had gone off.
Trick: Demonic Stroke
As the Raiden turned, hoping not to be spotted he heard the noise and mistook it for gunfire, "Uh-oh, looks like an idiot picked a fight with the G-Men.", he thought to himself. Then he began to hear a faint buzzing and the sound of A-Ts revving down and he turned to see all of the Wind G-Men lying on the ground bleeding from their heads, obviously dead.
"Your age of dominance is over, you government dogs, whimper in the face of your new masters." The mysterious youth declared. His voice, so demeaning, so cruel, so harsh hat it could make the hairs on the back of your neck stand, was nothing compared to the fury with which he looked at the men lying beneath him. Then Raiden noticed that one had survived, and although he was not in any better shape than the others he insisted on resisting, and crawled toward an S.O.S button. Just as he pushed it the youth noticed him and turned, he appeared to become a blur as he moved towards the man and as he moved his leg flashed and the man exploded into a shower of blood. Raiden stood in shock as he watched the man's lifeless body fall.
"Who the hell do you think you are, you son of a bitch!!" Raiden yelled when he found his voice.
Kaitoo turned towards Raiden and saw his A-Ts in a bag, and instantly relaxed "Me? Why i am Kaitoo! Rejoice brother of the skies, for we of the Divine Storms will liberate the A-T world from the government, so this victory is your victory no, the worlds victory, for eventually even the government will recognize this as a holy sacrifice, their last chance at redemption before the ultimate dawn."
"You know something, there some things you obviously don't get, like the fact that random killings won't solve anything, much less free people!" Raiden yelled, enraged by the Kaitoos happines
"Wrong young one, these are not random killings, we purge the world of those who believe that they have the right to take away the freedoms of the sky." The youth responded in a mocking tone.
Something about the tone he used, and the way he shifted worried Raiden, he was right to be worried. The man seemed to move so fast he disappeared. By the time Raiden's brain could send a signal to his legs to jump backwards his left leg exploded into a sea of pain, cuts, and blood. Fighting through the pain, he dived into the nearby alleyway and put on his A-Ts.
"There's no use hiding or running, eventually the smell of your blood will reach my nose and I'll kill you." said the man in the same harsh, mocking tone.
"We'll see about that!" Raiden yelled as he jumped out with one leg already kicking then as his kick reached top speed he stopped for an instant, and then instantaneously accelerated firing a blast of sharpened air at his enemy.
Trick: Midair Fang
Kaitoo's eyes opened in shock as the air collided with him, creating a gash in his torso. "That's the last straw you little fuck, now, you've just pissed me off." He yelled in anger losing all composure, he could feel the animal inside of him getting control. "Try this on for size!!" he yelled as he stalled his A-Ts then shot his leg out. Before Raiden could think, he felt a blow with the strength of a train collide with his stomach, knocking the wind out of him, sending him flying through the night.
Trick: Death Storm
When Raiden hit the ground he looked down and saw a circular hole in his shirt and blood oozing out of the new cut. That's when he realized he would need to use the special wheels he had made for himself a couple weeks ago. So he quickly switched wheels, and as he finished, Kaitoo walked over to him. So Raiden turned just in time to see the man bring down a dropkick and twist it an instant before impact.
Trick: Spiral Doom
He felt the blow before he saw it, the pain ringing in his skull, and feeling of something warm, trickling down his face "Oh wait," he thought, "that must be the blood." As he began to fade, one thought occurred to him: the person this Kaitoo had killed, and then he realized that the kid, not much older than him, had killed the man without remorse, without reason, just because he was there. The fact that someone like him claimed to be a Storm Rider, but was just like all the others, a greedy beast who claws at the sky, claiming he could fly enraged Raiden. The righteous anger flowed clearing his mind, and suddenly he knew what to do, Raiden brought his feet together, and kicked with all his strength, soaring high into the night then he did a back flip, and did a midair fang with both legs ending away from each other, attempting to avoid the strike, Kaitoo went to the middle where neither fang was. Surprised, Kaitoo felt the power of the kick although he had avoided the fangs.
Trick: Moonride
Both of them toppled, falling to Earth covered in blood. Kaitoo flew backwards, smashing into a building then falling into a dumpster. After working off the pain Raiden crawled away, towards his house but after 2 blocks collapsed onto his back and looked up into the sky and could only see a pure blood red, then he knew, it was dawn, and he wondered "I wonder when I first noticed… that at the dawn, even the most war-torn world is made silent and solemn…… because the endless sky has become stained with blood." And as he fell into the darkness, he failed to notice the shadow looming over him.
The man, called Wizard simply looked down and said sadly "Poor little bird, looks like you broke your wings…"
Tricks
Demonic Stroke-Kaitoo spins, constantly building up air, then jumps and as the air flows into a hole in his A-Ts which must expand to allow all of the air, then he kicks and the air flows out along with extra thermal energy from the compression of the hole creating a heated bomb of air
Midair Fang-Raiden reverses the fangs 0-100-0 motion (100-0-100) so that way he doesn't need to be on the ground to unleash the fang
Death Storm-By putting his A-Ts in Neutral while they are rolling he collects air on the side of his A-Ts then turns his feet forward quickly and the air flows into the hole in his A-Ts then he kicks releasing the air which explodes into an air bomb of sorts
Spiral Doom- a midair death storm in the form of a dropkick
Moonride- Raiden kicks off with a lot of power, then in midair, backflips and fires two midair fangs that travel in outward perpendicular directions then and the center becomes a area of thick high pressure air that can deliver solid force