On the Road
"Where are you?" Kit thought to himself, still searching for Shinji while riding on the red motor scooter.
Careful Maya
Maya lay on the hard concrete floor adorned in the Siren suit. She choked for air just having been rammed by a green Wildboarder. She saw a blue armored Wildboarder charge for her and knew she couldn't afford the luxury of finding her breath.
Siren scrambled to her feet with soar ribs holding her foil sword at the ready.
"I got you!" coughed an unfamiliar voice.
She glanced over her shoulder at Kamen Rider Thrust as he rammed into the red Wildboarder that was charging for her.
His help couldn't have come at a better time. She drew a card and immediately slotted it into the hilt of her foil sword, "Guard Vent!" She caught the white birdlike shield. The blue Wildboarder rammed into Siren and she burst into a storm of feathers letting it continue on its path.
Siren materialized in front of Kamen Rider Thrust, "Are you okay?" She winced as the blue Wildboarder crashed into the mirrored version of Grace's Bookstore.
"Don't get any stupid ideas to finish me off." He staggered to his feet.
"Kamen Rider Gai?" Siren questioned at meeting another Rider from Kitaoka's world. He sounded nothing like Mike.
Gai drew a card and threw it at the slot in his shoulder, "Advento!" There was no effect. "Damn it!" he cursed punching the cement floor.
Siren hesitated a moment wondering why nothing happened. If the deck was broken she knew she had to protect this guy and turned her back to him. "Get out of here! I'll hold them off for as long as I can." She ordered drawing another card and slotted it into the hilt of her foil sword. "Sword Vent!" She reached up catching her javelin.
"Why?" He pushed to be in front of her, "I'm not indebting myself to another Rider. It's a free for all!"
The Green Wildboarder ran in at full speed.
Siren wasn't having this macho attitude. She pushed passed Gai and charged right for the Green Wildboarder determined to protect him.
She had intended to stop and use the javelin to scrape at the monsters leg but then the Red one rushed in as well. She had to go with plan 'B': she swiped one end of the javelin at the green ones legs and successfully tripped it. But the red one was coming in too fast for her to attack.
Fortunately she was saved by a red blur that sent the red Wildboarder flying with limbs flailing. It crashed into a tree knocking the entire plant over. The stunt knocked the red Kamen Rider forward off his motorcycle and fell on his back.
"Kit!" Siren cried happy to see him. Hopefully the Dragon Deck was working properly.
He got to his feet dazed but put most of his weight on one his right leg. He was choking and holding his chest but managed to croak, "Kit's safe at my home." Said a voice unlike the Rider she knew. "I'm Kido Shinji, Kamen Rider Ryuki?"
"Oh!" Siren introduced herself grabbing Ryuki's hand to shake. "Maya Young, temping as Kamen Rider Siren,"
"Nice to meet you." He said back as they shook hands.
Kitaoka warned that this Kido guy would be clumsy, either way she was happy to have his help.
Siren saw the Green Wildboarder she had tripped get to its feet and immediately start sprinting their way.
She hated to be rude but pulled on Ryuki's hand using him as leverage to stomp on the lighter of the monsters. It stopped like it was stunned but she and Ryuki were thrown back.
She let go of Ryuki to rub her soar shin.
Ryuki got up so he could draw a card. It was amazing on how he looked exactly like Kit did with the suit on. He slotted the card, "Advento!"
Nothing happened.
"Ha! Yours' is broken too!" Gai had taunted.
"I just drew the wrong card!" Ryuki yelled back to Gai. It sounded like he was making excuses, "If yours' is broken then get the hell out of here!"
"THIS ISN'T THE TIME TO BE ARGUING!" Siren scolded getting back up. She was beginning to second guess having their help.
Ryuki jumped a little like he was surprised and just shoved Siren.
"Hey!" She cried at the rude gesture, falling on her rear end. That was until she saw that Ryuki had taken the full on the attack of the blue armored Wildboarder. He flew back knocking over a patio set.
Siren looked on shocked, in her minds eye it was Kit that received that brutal attack.
The green one was coming around about to attack when Gai dove putting his arms around it. He miraculously held it back as it tried to swat around for its freedom.
"You're going to pay for that!" Siren shrieked holding her javelin ready to face off against the blue armored one.
Ryuki climbed to his feet and drew a card, "Swordo Vento!" A sword successfully shot down from the sky and landed in his hand. He had charged in with a limp and tried to spear the returning red one but only succeeded in holding onto it… and getting dragged.
Evil Twin
JTC emerged from a window of Grace's Bookstore, "Don't tell me you plan to waste your time here watching the gullible little reporter play Kamen Rider."
"She's honored the name Kamen Rider," Price backed up, "unlike you amateurs."
"Really?" JTC taunted Price showing him the purple deck. "If I'm such an amateur then how come I'm the one who has the deck?"
"Not for long." Price dashed over to JTC.
The hacker hopped before he made a run for it leading the foot chase.
Nothing to Say
Kit finally found the source of the ringing at Grace's Bookstore. He dismounted the motor scooter and ran up to the windows. He could see Siren and to his relief found Ryuki. They were fighting but wasn't sure if it was Kamen Rider Thrust or Gai helping them.
Kit saw they needed help and immediately transformed becoming Dragon Knight. He jumped into the pool-like window and emerged on Ventara.
Ryuki redirected the speeding red Wildboarder with just his sword. He wasn't putting a lot of weight on his left leg and fell from the maneuver.
"SHINJI!" Dragon Knight cried.
He glanced at his counterpart then at his motorcycle. It wasn't far and he needed to get it to him.
"Kit-san?" Ryuki scooted back holding his leg.
Gai was losing his grip on the green one as they ran around in circles and it freed itself throwing Gai.
"Kit! Watch out!" Maya's voice warned from the Siren suit. She turned back to the blue armored Wildboarder. She spun around and hit in the back with her Javelin.
Dragon Knight saw the green one coming for him and drew a card and slotted it, "Guard Vent!" Dragon knight was about to catch his shield.
"Confine Vento!"
"What!" Dragon Knight said as the shield vanished. He glanced over to Gai who thrust his chin up, probably arrogantly smirking under his helmet. Dragon Knight dove out of the way letting the green one rush by.
Dragon Knight rolled to his feet and ran to help Ryuki.
"You can't fight with your leg the way it is!" he scolded helping Ryuki to his feet.
"That's why I took your motorcycle." Ryuki told Dragon Knight while being helped over to the vehicle. "But I got knocked off! I'm still not used to the torque on that thing! It's too bad I can't fight using a Rider Shooter." Ryuki mounted up, handing Dragon Knight the sword. "All right here goes." He sped off screaming.
"Um…?" Dragon Knight watched Ryuki try to right himself on his motorcycle. "Guess he wasn't kidding about the torque." He said a little embarrassed.
Ryuki narrowly ran over Siren had she not back flipped out of the way. But he did ram the Blue Wildboarder monster she was fighting with.
"Hey, you!" Gai nudged Dragon Knight, "Are you sure that was a good idea?" he asked.
"He'll get the hang of it." Dragon Knight said casually to Gai then whispered unsure, "…I hope."
"Well, I'm getting out of here before Kido runs me over." Gai ran to the bus stop and jumped into the sign vanishing.
"Gee… thanks for the help." Dragon Knight said sarcastically.
He tried to side step the green monster at last second but wasn't fast enough. He spun around before hitting the ground and dropped his sword. He cradled his right arm, now stinging like hell.
Dragon Knight rolled over and pushed off the ground with his left arm. There was still a fight going and he sprinted for his sword. He summersault across the cement and snatched it up.
He turned to the Green monster as it wiped its right foot and charged for him. Dragon Knight wasn't sure how to attack this thing but sprinted for it anyway. He jumped up twisting in the air and stuck the sword into the Green monster where the head should have been. He landed in a crouch and looked back to see if it had any affect and it did… in just getting it angrier. It ran for him and Dragon Knight tried to out run it. He found himself about to run into a wall and used it to fun up and flip over it missing the attack. He jumped at it and held on.
Siren glanced over her shoulder at Dragon Knight and thought she had a déjà vu.
Dragon Knight was thrown and landed on his bad arm. He got back up.
The Green Monster before him was now even angrier. Dragon Knight didn't have any time to evade it and got rammed. It carried him as it crashed through a wall of Grace's Bookstore and another wall.
Dragon Knight managed to pick his sword out of the green Wildboarder's 'head'. He slashed at it and managed to get it to drop him.
Siren was still working on the blue one.
"Move out of the way!" Ryuki warned.
Siren swung her Javelin striking up at the monsters torso and ran away while it was confused. Ryuki ran over it with enough force to send the blue one flying.
Dragon Knight ran out of the stores new 'door' and saw the Blue armored Wildboader come flying at him. The Green one was trying to come back after him. He didn't have enough time to get out of the way and fell back as flat as he could. The robust Blue monster collided with the Green one and both exploded.
"Nice shot!" commented Siren.
"You think?" Ryuki asked modestly scratching the back of his head and recovered, "I mean, of course it was! I was trying to get them to do that the whole time."
Dragon Knight trotted over to them.
"Kit!" Siren called.
"You missed one!" He called and drew a card fighting with his stinging hand. He fought with himself to keep from dropping it and slotted it. "Final Vent!"
Dregradder presented himself as Dragon Knight jumped, twirled in the air and he vented the last Wildboarder. He stood in a small ring of fire out of breath and held his searing right arm.
"Kit!" Siren called his attention running up to him, "I'm so glad I found you! We need to talk."
Dragon Knight was silent he didn't want to face Siren/Maya. He didn't want to run into his Riders for this reason. He didn't want to talk about Len, the Advent Void or anything.
"Kit?" Siren said again uncertain if she got his attention. "It's about Len."
"No, Maya forget it." He said.
"What? But Len, he's-" She began when she jumped back shocked.
"I SAID I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!" Dragon Knight snapped running off and into the reflective map board.
"Kit!" Siren called after him a little hurt.
"I'll try and talk to him." Ryuki started the Motorcycle again.
"Not with that leg you're not." Kase walked up to them from the street grabbing their attention. "I was watching the fight."
"Who are you?" Ryuki inquired.
"My name is Kase." She introduced herself, "I'm the original Kamen Rider Siren."
Siren turned to the map board that Dragon Knight had vanished through. She looked at the ground sadly, Kit's taking this a lot harder than I thought.
Siren took a step back and held her arms at waist high shedding her armor. Maya sighed disappointed that Kit got away. She turned to Kase to deal with the matter at hand.
"The two of you share the same Kamen Rider deck?" Ryuki questioned and jumped like he was surprised, "How are able to get around the mirror world?"
"This is Ventara, the world behind the mirrors." Kase tried to explain.
"It's Kido, right?" Maya asked to be certain of his name.
"Yes."
"We'll explain everything while Kase heals your leg."
Ryuki looked back and forth at the two women and agreed.
Ryuki had shed his armor and both Maya and Kase were surprised he didn't look anything like Kit.
"Come on, let's get you over to a bench." Kase said.
She and Maya helped Shinji off the motorcycle.
Ambushed
Dragon Knight sat under a rusty railroad bridge to think.
He tried to move his right hand and get it used to the stinging so it wouldn't bother him so much.
The Void… What's really going to happen when it's closed off? I don't want to have to say good-bye to any of them. Dragon Knight thought and found himself suddenly thinking about his mother. She was also someplace where he could not follow, falling ill and suddenly she was gone. Then his father disappeared because of Xaviax, the darkest time in his life.
"I know what it's like to lose someone…" Len told him.
Dragon Knight banged the back of his head against the wall looking at the tracks above. He knew he was evading his problems. It was silly to think that by avoiding the other Riders would prolong their stay.
Dragon Knight got up and picked up his sword with his left hand then headed home. Then he heard quickened footsteps suddenly headed his way and someone kicked him on the back.
"Hey!" Dragon Knight turned and was punched across the helmet and hit across the chest with a weapon. He staggered back holding his chest and saw his attacker, "Strike!"
"You're the second one to call me that…" said a voice unlike Price. This guy sounded snakelike, sadistic but not as smooth of talker as JTC. He had to be from Shinji's word.
'Strike' rolled his head with very audible cracks in his neck. "It vexes me." He wound his arm up and brought a spiral world down on Dragon Knight.
Dragon Knight blocked with his own sword and stomped 'Strike' in the stomach. As he staggered back, Dragon Knight managed to get two slashes across the purple Riders' chest and stomach.
'Strike' spun around and side kicked Dragon Knight on his all ready damaged right hand. Dragon Knight grunted at the pain as he spun with the attack tripping over his own two feet. 'Strike' didn't hesitate to go on the attack again and kicked him repeatedly on the side.
It hurt Dragon Knight like hell and 'Strike's' sickening laughter rang through his ears.
Dragon Knight managed to roll back onto his own feet. 'Strike' had back slashed and down slashed trying to get the red Rider. Dragon Knight kept jumping back until he knocked himself into a metal pillar. To make matters worse he pinned himself to be kneed in the gut.
His vision was suddenly blinded by 'Strike's' large hand grabbing his helmet and ramming the back of his head into the pillar twice. Then he threw Dragon Knight to the floor behind him.
Dragon Knight dropped his sword, "Just who are you?" he asked holding the back his head as he rolled to his feet disoriented and crashed into a dumpster. "Ah!"
"A nightmare." 'Strikes' voice hissed behind him.
Dragon Knight needed to do something fast or he'd be in trouble and turned around leaning against the dumpster then drew a card. "Attack Vent!" That would buy Dragon Knight some time.
'Strike' was in mid swing when he paused, he saw the dragon coming and drew a card slotting it into the scepters snakehead. "Advento!"
Dregradder was in striking range when Evildiver slams the dragon off course.
"What!" Dragon Knight cried shocked that Evildiver was with the wrong Rider.
Dragon Knight held himself up hooking his bad arm over to the inside of the dumpster.
'Strike' upper-cut Dragon Knight with his free hand, slashed at his prey three times across the chest with his sword and stomped on the arm holding him up with more force than before.
'Strike' gave another gleeful laugh at Dragon Knights cried out.
Dragon Knight pulled his injured arm off the dumpster and tried to make a run for it when he heard, "Advento!" The once missing Metalgelas charged at him and sent him flying sideways into a steel support beam. He wrapped around it before landing fetal position on the floor holding his aching side and arm.
"Ah! Ever hear of a handicap?" Dragon Knight's voice strained. "There is no reason to be fighting!"
'Strike" stopped in his tracks, silently bringing his sword to his side.
Dragon Knight sat up thinking he might've gotten through to this 'Strike'.
"Your voice is different..." 'Strike' pointed out as he drew a card, "Two messed up worlds…" He flipped the card between his fingers, "more of the same riders … Mirror lords… it confuses me!" He hissed, "But you're still an idiot." He slotted the card, "Unite Vento!"
"Oh you got to be kidding me!" Dragon Knight tired to hoof it despite his body screaming at him. He wouldn't find a reflective surface in time!
EvilDiver, Metalgelas, and Venosnaker mutated into one chimerical being. It drew one deep breath and fired away. Dragon Knight tried to out run the rain of the fire but was caught in it and enveloped in the intense heat. He was thrown high enough to have come mere inches away from the tracks over head. His arms flailed in a momentary weightlessness before slamming onto his back into the pavement.
Dragon Knight tried to get up, weak, exhausted, banged up, and could barely get his vision to focus. He involuntarily gave up, slipping in and out of consciousness. All the while he could see 'Strike's' feet as he stalked over to him. Dragon Knight saw 'Strike' standing over his motionless body before turning to contract beast like he had a sacrifice to deliver. He drew a card and slotted it.
"Final Vento!"
Dragon Knight's head rolled to the side to see Genocider whipped its own head at its chest, sunk its snakelike teeth into its own flesh and ripped out a chunk opening a vortex.
Ohja rolled his head before giving Dragon Knight one powerful kick getting him airborne.
Dragon Knight saw where he was headed and tried to regain control of his hands. He attempted in vain to grab hold of something, anything…
