Disclaimer: I do not own Kamen Rider Ryuki, nor Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. This story was purely written for fan based amusement. Read and Review. About reviews, if there is criticism of any kind please be constructive about them. Thank you.

Catastrophe

Reiko Momoi patiently waited at the luxurious restaurant Kitaoka Shuichi kept suggesting. After being asked out for forty-two times by the same man she finally agreed (with the persuasion of co-workers Nanako Shimada and Megumi Asano.)

The view was great, sitting by the window, staying amused by watching the cars and passersby on the street below. "It's a wonderful world," was soothingly playing over the speakers. Buildings across the street were gradually vanishing behind a thick veil of fog.

A sigh escaped from Reiko's lips wondering how long she had been waiting.

Rieko checked her golden wrist watch and sighed disappointed. There were important stories out there to be investigated and uncovered, but instead she had waiting over an hour for a no show.

If Kitaoka showed up then he'd have to dine alone.

Reiko grabbed her purse tired of waiting and headed out. She was almost to the elevator when this peculiar metallic ringing started. She and everyone else on the floor were standing around looking for the source of the peculiar sound.

Deafening screams filled the room as monsters emerged from the outside of the windows. Reiko turned to the painting on the nearby pillar and saw it ripple. She dashed over to a door shutting herself in a closet and turned out the lights.

Minutes seemed like hours and very well could have been being cooped up that tiny dark room. She covered her own mouth stifling the urge to scream herself as she heard the horrifying screams, car crashes, and eerie buzzing from the monsters flying all over the city. It was difficult for her not to quake with fear.

When all seemed to go silent, Reiko chanced opening the door with a shaky hand.

Her body went numb as not a life was spared. She ventured as far as the windows were there was nothing but dead lying in the streets of abandoned cars.

An Earth shattering cry shook the entire building and before Reiko could cover her ears she was thrown back off her feet.

Worlds Collide

Kanzaki Shiro fell to his knees after his howl erased everything in existence. He must have been like that for hours, maybe even days.

He heard footsteps behind him when there should be nothing left. Three of his monsters were left the Red Newt, which should have fully evolved already, the white Sheerghost and the blue Raydragoon.

"Begone." He ordered in a low growl.

They didn't heed his words and stalked closer.

"I said begone!"

They raced over and snatch his arms.

Kanzaki wrestled with them to get them to release him to no avail. The Red Newt being the least lethal punched him in the stomach stunning him for a moment. They grabbed him again and dissolved taking Kanzaki with them.

He awoke in a dark, industrial looking room with pipes going along the walls and ceilings. There was no door in sight, three high-tech rings that could be portals and lone tube sitting upon a platform and ramps. Only one mirror was mounted on the tube.

He could sense that this room he now occupied was no more real than himself—his prison. The only source keeping the 'cell' intact was just the mirror.

At the moment the company the company of others would be extremely intrusive. He sat on the ramp where he continued to mourn Yui.

"Ah, Mr. Kanzaki Shiro," A man in a suit now occupied the other side of the only mirror. He fixed his tie as he continued, "It is an honor to meet the man who can bend reality to his every whim. I am General Xaviax. I hope my invitation wasn't too… forward?"

Kanzaki Shiro shook still fresh with rage and shrieked over his shoulder, "You call this kidnapping a meeting, you bastard!"

"Ah! Language," General Xaviax half-heartedly warned. His demeanor seemed to be very taunting wearing an amused smirk across his face.

Kanzaki set his chin on his forearms hugging his knees. "You trap me in piece of glass while Yui…" he shuddered into a sob, "Yui…" he trembled.

"Yes… You created the Rider the War, tricking all of them into fighting one another. The last person standing would have his or her," Xaviax paused rolling his left hand correcting himself, "wish granted. Only that was just a ruse, wasn't it?" Xaviax leaned with his back against the mirror frame. "The last person standing would stand no more seeing you would take that life away to extend your dear little sisters'.

Kanzaki was silent.

"Oh!" Xaviax covered his mouth in mock surprise, "But that's right! She didn't want that little birthday gift now did she?

Kanzaki right had tightened into a fist at being mocked.

"You see Mr. Kanzaki." Xaviax was now frighteningly serious, "I did do my research before bringing you here. While you hold some false tournament in your universe, I nearly succeeded in the restoration of my war torn home planet, Karsh. Kidnapping Earth's inhabitants I figured since the people of this world were headed toward the same fate what did it matter if I stole the entire populous. I already had taken another world, Ventara. It would've been brought back to its former and proud glory. Sadly," he sighed, "My ambitions seem to have caught a snag. The Kamen Riders have taken everything away from me!"

"You're ambitions were that of greed." Kanzaki spat at Xaviax.

"It's not like yours' were any better." Xaviax stated matter-of-factly.

Kanzaki charged the mirror like a mad bull, "Have you brought me here to torture me!" He punched the glass, and Xaviax watched from the other side amused. "Taunt me!" Kanzaki punched again, "Whatever it may be get it over and done with!" He stomped on the glass and cracked it.

Kanzaki fell to his knees as he bled on his torso in the same pattern as the cracks on the glass.

"My apologies." Xaviax waved his hand across it simultaneously fixing the crack and Kanzaki's wound. "You are an honored guest. You should relax, sit back and enjoy the ride. Your presence is more than enough to get my plan into motion. You are after all connected to the Riders of your universe. Where you go, they simply must follow."

Xaviax turned away from the mirror and made his way to the high tech ring. "If I can't restore, my world, why should any others remain? I may as well destroy all forms or Earth… Ventara… as they say… worlds collide."

Kanzaki rose to feet, breathing heavily. "You, Xaviax are crazier than I am!"

Xaviax smirked, "I knew you of all people would appreciate the magnitude of my plan."

Xaviax waved his hand before the high tech ring and it shimmered to life showing the image of the winner of the Rider War: a very confused Akiyama Ren waking in an ally.

Red Dragons

It was unbearably cold, dark, everything felt like stone, there was no air to breathe and it was lonely…

"Yui-chan, Ren." Kido Shinji's voice softly echoed in the darkness.

"…Then live! And make your wish!" Ren cried, tightly holding Shinji's hand as he listened to his last words while fighting back tears that threatened to fall.

"Shinji-kun…" Yui's voice whispered as she began to cry over Shinji's hardship of trying to save her life.

Birds could be heard chirping nearby. The cold was melting away and it was becoming easy to draw breath. Shinji's eyes flutter opened as he awoke against a tree. He looked up at sparrows chirping away in the branches hopping around in their playground. A serene smile played across his face at the sense of peace.

The sparrows flew off and his eyes followed them when he saw the city at the foot of the mountain.

He sat up surprised as his last moments of life came flooding back along with a headache.

Shinji looked around then at himself. He peeled off his own jacket and checked it inside and out. No tears or blood stains. He reached under the back of his red sweater and felt nothing but his undamaged skin. It was if the stabbing never happened.

"What is going on?" He scratched his head as he tried remembered the last person he saw. "Ren!" and frantically looked around his surroundings for him.

Ren was nowhere to be seen.

But by some odd coincidence his motor scooter was nearby with his backpack, helmet and goggles.

This didn't make any sense then again there were a lot of things that didn't at the moment.

He jogged over and threw the backpack on, the helmet and goggles and drove his motor Scooter down the mountain road. Hopefully it was the right one to take him back to the city.

Everything looked… different. From the buildings to the sidewalks but he couldn't put his finger on how. People were everywhere… was everything just a dream?

The metallic ringing interrupted his sightseeing as it let him to a park called Gramercy Heights. Everything erected from the ground was tacked with missing persons' posters.

A squid-like monster jumped out of the window. It sprinted after a person that had just passed by the office building windows.

"Help!" The guy struggled. He saw his out of the ordinary attacker and completely freaked out. "W-what is that! Help me!"

Shinji shut off the engine and dashed to the scene. He jumped and with a flying kick got the monster to let go of the guy, "Run!" He ordered.

"Thanks!" The guy ran off not completely sure of what happened.

Shinji saw the monster coming at him now. Shinji was close to the windows and it dove at him. Shinji dove out of the monsters way and the monster escaped into the pool-like window.

Shinji fished his deck out from his jacket pocket and thrust it at the window. His belt flipped out of the reflection and onto his waist. He thrust his left hand in the air at his right side and called, "Henshin!" and slotted the deck into his belt buckle. His armor flipped onto him from his left and right. He was now adorned in his Ryuki armor and jumped into the window and bored the Rider Shooter.

Ryuki disembarked and had to duck the tentacles racing toward him. He ran for the squid and punched like it was a punching bag disorienting it. He kicked the midsection getting only a little bit of distance as it spun around. Ryuki kicked the squid in the rear end but a few tentacles whacked him and sent him flying into wall next to the windows he emerged from. He sprinted for it again and it charged for him.

The monster side stepped and tripped Ryuki in its many tentacles. He pushed off the ground and but the monster had a hold of his ankle and stepped back having Ryuki fall on his stomach.

Ryuki turned over and sat there untangling the tentacle from his ankle.

He got to his feet, drew a card from the deck on his belt buckle and slotted it into the dragon visor on his left arm, "Sword-o Vento!" Ryuki reached up for his summoned sword.

The squid wasn't about to let him have it and whacked it away.

Ryuki watched his sword fly off leaving himself unguarded long enough for a tentacle to wrap around his neck. Before he knew it Ryuki was on his back and the wind knocked out of him. He struggled to breathe and climb to his feet. The monster kept tugging him this way and that keeping him disoriented.

Ryuki saw a window ripple and a Rider Shooter emerge. He was directly in its path when the squid monster pulled him out of the way to keep him disoriented—not to save his life. It was getting annoying that he couldn't catch his breath and being pulled this way and that.

Ryuki heard the fast paced footsteps and a cry as the monster was drop kicked. It released him and Ryuki and fell on his knees wheezing.

"Hey man! Are you all right?" the newcomer helped Ryuki to his feet.

Ryuki obligingly patted his rescuer on the shoulder, "Yeah, thank you." He turned to see who it was, "You really-" and yelped.

He was rescued by… himself?

"You're-you're me!" Ryuki said in shock pointing a shaking finger.

"No," his twin shook his head, "I'm me," The twin placed a hand on his own chest, "You're you." He pointed at Ryuki.

Ryuki was so confused by this encounter he wasn't exactly paying attention to the gestures. "No, I'm not you! I'm me!" Ryuki's own finger pointing was getting confused feeling overwhelmed.

"Listen I'm me, you're you, you, me, me, you, me, you, me, me, you, you, me, you, you, me, you, me… you?" His twins finger pointing didn't match up what he was saying half way through.

"Gah!" Ryuki slapped his own masked forehead feeling another headache coming along, "You're confusing!" He cried.

"Well you don't have to yell!" The Twin yelled back offended.

He felt a slight squeeze around his neck and looked down a little too late. He and Ryuki's counterpart were thrown back. Ryuki spun around and tumbled to the floor. His Twin tried to wrestle the tentacle off as it tied itself around his waist.

"Hey!" Ryuki called to the Twin, "How about we get rid of this and sort this –Ah!" he screamed as did his twin getting electrocuted.

Ryuki saw the Twin draw the card from the deck on his own respective belt and slot it in the identical dragon visor. "Sword Vent!" The automated voice announced with an accent. The sword descended from the sky and the Twin reached up like he did but wound up with a sense of Deja-vu. His Twins sword was swatted away too and heard him curse, "You've got to be kidding me!"

Ryuki trailed the extra sword as it flew through the air. It was coming his way, but the tentacles had him tethered just out of reach. He stretched as far as he could and caught the broad sword by the tip of the blade, pinched between his index finger and thumb. Ryuki flicked is wrist and caught the hilt in a firm grip slicing off the tentacle.

He would return the favor to his rescuer and raced over to his twin. He jumped, ducked and somersaulted across the floor avoiding the tentacles threatening to ensnare him again. He jumped and with another somersault through the air sliced down cutting his twin free.

"Thanks," the Twin said appreciatively.

"You're welcome," Ryuki was happy to help and turned to the squid.

An, "Ew, yuck!" came from behind and a moment later Ryuki felt something squirming on his shoulder.

"Hey! Don't toss it at me!" Ryuki bat the wiggling tentacle off with the sword.

"Look out!" Ryuki's twin pulled him behind him, "Guard Vent!" The dragon shields took the brunt of the explosive spit from the monster.

Ryuki was impressed and complemented, "Nice save!'

"I don't suppose you have anything with a little punch to it?" The Twin grunted holding back another salvo.

"Ah!" Ryuki understood, "I got you!" He returned the sword putting it in the Twins' free hand before he drew a card. "Strike Vento!" He raised his left hand receiving his upgraded arm attachment a red dragons head. Dregadder slithered from the sky and circled Ryuki as he spread his feet apart and wound up is left arm.

The twin glanced back at him, "Hey wait!" he said and rolled out of the way.

Ryuki had held his arm back allowing the twin time to move and took a giant step and thrust his left hand forward sending a great fire ball and a full dragon at the monster.

The Bakraken vaporized turning to ash and dust drifting to the ground. It seemed like it was over until the ash and dust ominously remained stationary in the air. The blackened pieces reformed into a dark Bakraken before returning to its shade of blue.

"WHAT!" They shrieked in disbelief.

"Try something with a little more kick!" Ryuki suggest. His Twin turned to him and tossed over the sword. Ryuki knew what he had to do. Distract the monster long enough for his Twin to deliver the final blow.

"Final Vent!" Is what Ryuki heard while waving his sword around deflecting the tentacles. He glanced at his Twin as he and the same Dregadder were airborne. He kicked the monster squid away and jumped to get some distance between him and the explosion that was too follow.

Ryuki saw his twin standing in the ring of fire where the monster had been. But it still wasn't enough. The ashes reassembled in front of the Twin like before and punched his twin across the helmet getting it out of his spot.

"Together!" Ryuki ordered.

"All right!" The twin agreed.

They both drew their cards and slotted them, "Advento!" "Attack Vent!"

Ryuki thought it was peculiar that only one Dregadder showed up instead of two. It was glowing dangerously red. It wound itself, circling around both Ryuki and the twin before it furiously launched itself at the squid.

Just like before there was an explosion, however there were two loud pops that followed.

"Is it over?" Ryuki asked.

Out from the ashes appeared two mini suns dancing their way up into the sky. Dregadder didn't hesitate to gobble them both up before returning to the sky.

The sight was enough for Ryuki to celebrate by taking his victory pose flexing an arm in front of him. Then he saw his twin doing it and it did look rather silly. They cleared their throats and Ryuki and held out his hand in congratulations. "Uh… Great job!"

"Yeah!" His twin took his hand to shake, "You too. You're not Adam are you, the original Kamen Rider Dragon Knight?"

"No." Ryuki said a little taken aback at the guess and looked at himself, "I'm Kamen Rider Ryuki."

"Ryuki?" the Twin asked and looked around at their surroundings. It left Ryuki to wonder if this guy was brought here the same way that he was. "Huh… So this isn't Ventara. Then what is this place?"

Ryuki figured this Ventara must be this guys' place of origin. He felt his twin did deserve a few answers.

He was curious too about this guy and a little suspicious given his previous encounters with all the other Riders.

They began to walk in small circles examining each other as Ryuki began to explain. "The mirror world, it's where the monsters are from. I'm from Earth."

The Twin shook his head, "No, no, no, no that can't be." He placed both hands on his chest for emphasis, "I'm also from Earth."

"Really?" Ryuki folded his arms over his chest feeling dubious, "How do I know you're not some mirror world monster trying to look like me in an effort to catch me off guard to eat me?"

The Twin gave a light hearted laugh, "What, that's ridiculous!"

Now that Ryuki thought about it, it did sound stupid but he was still dubious.

"Then how do I know there really is a human under that handsome looking armor?"

"Well, I can't argue about the armor." The twin stopped the circling, "Wait! I'll just show you!" The twin stepped back and spread his legs a little and his arms at waist high. A red ring erupted from the deck on his belt going height wise and split. It was an American kid possibly in his late teens with somewhat long brown hair and blue eyes. "You see."

Ryuki jumped back and couldn't believe what this kid just did. Shedding his armor in the poisonous mirror world, it had never been done to his knowledge.

"What the hell are you doing?" Ryuki pointed at him scolding him, "You can't do that! Hurry! Put your armor back on! You can't be in the mirror world without it!"

"Calm down," the kid gestured, "I've been coming to Ventara like this hundreds… of… times." The kid teetered a little in place growing pale.

Ryuki looked down and his eyes widened underneath his helmet, "Your hand!"

The kid brought his hands up and Ryuki would regret possibly sending him into shock as his eyes widened watching his hands dissolve. He was starting to panic as his breathing was now faster.

"No! I can't be!" the kid examined the rest of himself and the rest of his body was beginning to dissolve.

Ryuki quickly glanced around wondering if this kids' reflective door was nearby. He didn't have a whole lot of time and took firm grasp of the kids wrist pulling him along. He cried out, but the extra pursuer was necessary so he wouldn't lose him. Ryuki glanced at every window panel he passed and took nearly a half hour. He finally saw an out of place blue and white motorcycle.

He put his arms around the kid making sure he had a good grip so he wouldn't slip. Ryuki hesitated only a moment, he never really had to pull people back into the real world. He jumped and once through his armor shed and they landed in heap on the cement.

This kid was shivering like crazy, choking and gasping for air. He seemed disoriented by the way his eyes kept looking around. The dissolving effect wasn't going away.

Shinji worried he might've taken a little too long getting him to safety and wondered if this kid would fully recover.

"I told you to put your armor back on but would you listen?" Shinji hastily removed his blue jacket and wrapped around the teen, holding it in place. Fortunately the dissolving affects was beginning to wear off.

"Who are you?" the kid asked in one breath before his teeth began to chatter.

"You forget real easily." Shinji said and was relieved once the dissolving effect stopped, "It's me, Ryuki." He help his junior sit up right.

"I-I-I th-thought you w-would look more like me."

"Why would you think something like that?" Shinji smirked at the innocence of kids. "By the way, you told me what your armor is called, but what is your name?"

"Oh right," He held out a trembling hand for the introduction. "Kit Taylor."

"My name is Kido Shinji." Shinji took Kit's hand to politely shake and winced at how unbelievably ice cold it was. He put both of his hands on his trying to warm it up. He didn't think anything of it but somehow felt… a little protective.

"Uh…" Kit seemed at a loss for words. "So what were you doing last?" He asked trying to start up a conversation.

"That's really hard to say. I don't even believe it myself." Shinji released Kit's hand to sit more comfortable and try to tell his story. Maybe it might sort out a few things that weren't making any sense. "It's possible it could've been a dream…" he said thinking aloud.

"That unbelievable huh?" Kit cupped his hands in front of his mouth trying to blow into them to warm himself up.

Shinji would lone him his jacket for just a little while longer seeing that his junior was shivering.

"I don't even know where to start. I remember I was dying in the street." Shinji broke eye contact, "Everywhere monsters were attacking. I hadn't even transformed yet. I found a little girl by herself in all the mayhem. I tried to help when I was stabbing in the back by another mirror monster."

"Sounds like one heck of a nightmare." Kit said rather grimly through his chattering teeth.

"Yeah, I was in excruciating pain," Shinji said, he was grateful to have someone to listen to his troubles and continued with his story. "But I still fought alongside Ren and handled the monsters quickly. Yes." He looked up remembering, "Ren was also there, holding my hand and listened to my last words before everything went dark.

"When I woke up I was in the outskirts of the city," He pointed to the distant mountains to his left, "and woke up next to a tree. I drove down and found a person in danger. I saved them, I jumped into the mirror and fought the monster, that's when you showed up.

"Oh! Again thank you for your help!" Shinji bowed his head slightly in appreciation.

"Hey, no problem," Kit half smiled, "I'm just happy to help out."

Shinji smiled with more appreciation, "It's really nice to meet a fellow Kamen Rider who isn't trying to kill me."

Kit smiled at that comment, "Yeah, tell me about it. Even the ones who eventually became friends gave me a hard time at first."

Shinji was somewhat surprised that Kit could relate given his age.

Their stomachs rumbled.

The ends of Kit's eyes brows sank embarrassed, "Well that give us something else to do."

Shinji's received his jacket back as Kit still looked a little pale.

"Are you sure you don't need it?" Shinji asked Kit still holding out the jacket as his Kamen Rider counterpart climbed to his own feet. He still didn't looking well enough yet.

"I'm sure." Kit half-limped half-walked to his motorcycle.

Shinji worried for a bit but saw Kit would be all right after seeing his reaction to the sun light. He smiled happy to save the life of another Rider and be appreciated.

Shinji headed over to his motor scooter throwing his jacket back on.

An engine turned on when he heard the screeching of tires behind him. He turned around and saw the blue and white motorcycle coming at him. Shinji jumped back believing he would be run over. It stopped and he cried out as he got himself tangled in his scooter.

"Don't scare me like that!" He scolded Kit.

"Sorry, are you ready to go?" Kit asked stifling a laugh.

Shinji didn't believe the apology but could tell Kit was only joking.

"Yeah." Shinji nodded.

He narrowed his eyes now wondering how Kit could have such a flashy motorcycle at his age.

Reawakening

Sunlight flooded the heavenly painted room. An empty desk sat before a wall of windows, and greenery beyond. The only sofa was dark and carried a man in a seemingly peaceful slumber. His hands were as cold as ice and rested below his still chest. He was frozen in time. A white rose lay over his stomach.

Death had already taken him and in another's design for destruction he drew breath once more.

His brown eyes slowly opened upon his second breath and searched through the fog on the threshold of slumber and waking. The ceiling and the pictures and shutters along the walls were as they should be when his eyes came into focus, but something was amiss.

He noticed the deathly silence, and sat up fully rested but very confused.

"Goro-chan?" Kitaoka Shuichi called, "Megumi? Shimada-san?"

But Kitaoka received no reply.

He set the rose upon the fluffy pillow and ventured through his own home for signs of life. All he found was a burner left unattended to in the kitchen. It was unlike his usually attentive butler, Goro, to be so careless. He reached over to turn the dial off and noticed the other thing amiss—his bandaged right hand was no longer in pain, in fact he had full control of both.

He unwrap the bandage from his wrist and flexed his hand. He was in awe at the mysterious absence of the pain.

AN: Hope you liked it. I love both shows and thought something like this would be interesting. The dialogue within certain encounters will remain the same and thanks for following Ryuki characters! Please be nice!