Music Cue: STORY by Camino
The Lightning Tarot flew into a hand, which was quickly revealed to Hikaru's hand as Duke appeared behind him. The suit of Kamen Rider Anomaly rapidly flashed on and off him as he reached back and pulled out the Anomaly Saber, before slashing the screen, revealing the title.
Hikaru is then seen cleaning off the Machine Demoner in front of Wonder Ramen. Duke hovered behind him, staring at the Lightning Tarot in his claw. It then cuts to Retsu preparing a bowl of noodles for a patron, who is revealed to be Rei. Watching Hikaru from above a nearby building is Tsubasa, grinning as he then jumps off the building.
We cut to the demon realm as The King is sitting on his throne with a ball of black flames in hand before he extinguishes it. Eclipse is then seen walking down a hall of the castle as he is suddenly enveloped by a yellow ace symbol, transforming into his Demon Knight form. He then opens a portal, before then stepping through it.
Hikaru's motorcycle is driven by himself, hastily down a street. He then was surrounded by three transparent figures, one of them became visible, revealed to be Kamen Rider Anomaly in his Lightning Knight form. The other two vaguely resemble Anomaly as well but it was too difficult to tell.
Hikaru was then in a completely different location as he and Duke high fived before Duke flew inside of Hikaru. Quickly, Hikaru pulled out his Driver and card, going through his transformation pose. Hikaru then transformed into Kamen Rider Anomaly. It then cut to Anomaly doing battle with Eclipse.
The two exchanged a few sword slashes, Hikaru then flipped over Eclipse and charged his sword with electricity and brought it down. Eclipse blocked it with his own sword, the clash created a few strong winds.
There was a sudden barrage of scenes of Hilary battling multiple demons.
And then the camera moved over to the Demon King with his arms crossed. A woman was standing at his side.
Anomaly and Eclipse then clashed swords one more time before the screen flashed white and cut to a shot in front of Wonder Ramen. Hikaru walked towards the shop, all of his friends were inside. He then turned to look at the camera and flashed the Lightning Tarot as the title then appeared again.
Episode Three
The Rising Storm
Date, November 7th 2018
Kamen Rider Anomaly stood in front of a setting sun, his hand gripping tightly around the handle of his Anomaly Saber. He was currently staring down the Demonic Knight Eclipse. The Demon Knight chuckled. "Shall I start the countdown to your elimination?" Hikaru growled, swiftly drawing his blade and dashed. "Try counting when I knock your teeth in!" The two clashed blades, locked in combat. "In such a short amount of time, I can tell you've improved! You're an interesting opponent Raiden!" Eclipse quickly pushed forwards, breaking the clash and swiftly slashing Hikaru, causing him to stumble backward and sparks fly off him.
Electricity then raced up from Anomaly's body and into the blade of his sword. "Try on one of these then!" He slashed downwards, sending a wave of energy towards Eclipse. Eclipse responded by swiftly blocking the wave with his sword, skidding backwards before the wave overtook him. Causing a small explosion to occur. "You'll regret that Raiden!" Eclipse reached to his card holder, pulling out a new card.
The Tarot still featured stylized E that was on the Roulette Calibur on the back, which was facing Anomaly, along with what appeared to be a Roulette wheel surrounding the E. Eclipse then turned the card, revealing an Clover symbol, colored a in light green, which was also surrounded by the wheel.
Eclipse pushed the button on the hilt of his sword, causing the image to raise upwards as the Ace Tarot vanished from the slot.
[ACE, SPADE, CLOVER, HEART, DIAMOND, JACK!]
Above Eclipse's head, the holographic roulette wheel appeared. The standby jingle continued to repeat as Eclipse inserted the Tarot and slid the cover back down.
"Requip!"
[ACE, SPADE- CLOVER KNIGHT SELECTED!]
The wheel stopped, landing on the Clover. Suddenly, like the A, the Clover shot downwards on to Eclipse. As it did this, a new suit of armor formed around Eclipse.
The Clover Knight armor had it's card symbol on the chest, the yellow lines now recolored to a light green. The suit was much similar then Ace Knight. It more resembled a jumpsuit than armor. The material resembled a chain mesh, and all of it's limbs are highlighted with the light green color.
Eclipse did a swift fluriosh with his sword before laughing. "Catch me if you can!" Suddenly, he ran forwards and vanished. Hikaru turned back and forth. "Oh don't tell m-" He was suddenly hit out of no way, stumbling backwards. [Yeah, Clover gives him a major speed boost.] Hikaru was then hit again. "Can I Time Accelerate to keep up?" He asked, looking down at the Driver. [Yeah but not for long, the fight with Fuujin took a lot out of me.] Hikaru was hit again. "Fine! Time Acceleration!" He swiftly snapped his fingers, his time speeding up. Anomaly turned around rapidly. "Haha!" He shouted, seeing Eclipse running towards him. "Damn you!" Hikaru swiftly rushed forwards, the two clashing blades.
To a non demonic powered individual, it would look like that the two were rapidly teleporting all over the place.
Hikaru panted. "How much longer?" [Not a lot.] Hikaru quickly then raised his sword upwards to block a downward slash from Eclipse. "Fine, I'll finish this in one shot." He then pushed upwards on Eclipse's sword, before swiftly slashing him across the chest. "Can you stop time for the finisher?" [Even less time than usual.] "Then just don't." Hikaru swiftly pressed the middle button on his driver, causing the slot to pop open.
[TIME TO GO!]
Electricity crackled around him. "Hey Eclipse! I'm finishing you!" He shouted, slamming the slot back in. Eclipse swiftly reacted by holding the button on his hilt down again, causing the image to slide up before he then slammed it back down into its proper position.
[CLOVER! KNIGHT'S EDGE!]
The green lines on Eclipse's suit lit up as his sword's Blade was surrounded with a green outline. "You're not worthy of that power human!" Eclipse shouted, rushing towards Hikaru, who slammed the slot of his driver back into place before jumping into the air.
[LIGHTNING BURST!]
Electricity surged into Hikaru's foot as he went into his kicking pose. "Who gave you the right to judge my worthiness! Now taste my Electrifying Lightning Burst Rider Kick, Time Accelerated Version!" Anomaly shouted as he flew towards Eclipse, who swiftly slashed his sword.
Hikaru's kick and Eclipse's slash collided resulting in a large explosion. The two were both sent flying in opposite directions as their armor shimmered off of their bodies. Hikaru rolled across the ground, conveniently right next to his motorcycle. Hikaru groaned. "Dukeeeeeeee, everything hurts again." [Oh shut up, listen, Eclipse doesn't sound like he's complaining.] Duke replied, flying out of the Driver and hovering over Hikaru. "Well, I can't hear him at all." A pop was then heard as the smoke from the explosion cleared, revealing that Eclipse was nowhere to be seen. [Oh well that explains it.] Duke said, Hikaru groaning again. "I want to sleep.." He did his best to stand up, leaning on his motorcycle as he fished out his cellphone, swiftly heading to Retsu's contact and dialing it. He held it up to his ear. "Hey, yeah. No I beat him! Anyways, can you get that first aid kit ready again? Something really hurts. Yeah? Yeah I'll be safe." Hikaru hung up as he climbed onto his motorcycle.
A portal opened in a hallway of the Demon King's castle, Eclipse stumbling out of it and on to the ground as the portal closed behind him with a 'pop' sound. "Dammit.." He muttered as he attempted to get up before hearing footsteps approach him.
"Eclipse!" A voice shouted, that voice clearly belonging to a woman. Eclipse looked up to see a woman. She was wearing a large black cloak that hid most of what she was wearing. The cloak had some purple and gold outline to it, along with a hood at the back. The woman also had white hair done up in a bun.
Eclipse groaned as he rolled himself over, looking up at the woman. "Hi Reflect.." He muttered as she quickly kneeled down. "You're.. You're hurt badly, come on I'll take you to the infirmary." The woman known as Reflect said, helping Eclipse to his feet. "I'm fine!" He shouted, pulling himself away from her grasp. He began walking awhile as Reflect then scoffed. "Clearly you're not! And you can't let his majesty see you like this, so." She shouted, causing Eclipse to stop and look at his hand.
Blood.
That human had made him bleed.
Eclipse turned. "Fine, make it quick." He began walking towards the infirmary, Reflect following after him.
Date, November 8th 2018
An alarm blared from Hikaru's phone, as he was once again, passed out on Retsu's couch. The door to Retsu's bedroom was opened. Retsu yawned while exiting the room, still in pajamas which were simply a t-shirt and pajama pants. He made his way over to Hikaru's phone, turning off the alarm and glancing at the passed out Hikaru. "I'll let him sleep. Just this once." He set the phone down, but not before noticing a text from Rei had appeared on the screen, the text reading "Hey I'm gonna assume you're probably asleep, just hope you're okay, call me when you can." Retsu sighed, walking over to his kitchen. Duke then flew out of Hikaru's body. [Oh, you're up.] The Demon said, floating over to Retsu, who was now making a pot of coffee. "Morning to you too.." He mumbled, watching the pot begin to boil. [Do you have an issue with me?] Duke asked, causing Retsu to roll his eyes. "No nothing major. Aside from the fact you almost got my best friend killed."
Retsu's hand then pulled out the coffee pot from the machine and poured some of its contents into a nearby mug. [What? Oh come on. He was fine! Hikaru's a lot stronger then you think. Why do you think I chose him anyways?] Retsu sipped his drink. "Yeah wait, why did you choose him anyways? Like, you could've picked practically anyone else." Duke nervously chuckled. [Well, uhh, haha, you see uh, you know, there's one thing I should, excuse me for one second.] Duke then flew back into Hikaru's body. A few moments passed before he suddenly reappeared. [Yeah well as I was say-] Suddenly a scream came from Hikaru as he rolled out of the couch and onto the floor. "Ow..." He mumbled, as Retsu set his mug down and quickly walked over to him.
He helped Hikaru back up on the couch before glancing at Duke and then back to Hikaru. "Good morning Hikaru." Retsu said as he walked back over to his mug. He finished the coffee and placed the mug in the sink. "Hey I need to go get groceries for the shop, you can handle yourself right?" Hikaru nodded. "No problemo best bud." Retsu rolled his eyes as he headed into his room in order to get dressed.
Rei was seen walking along a sidewalk, carrying a small paper coffee cup. "Can't believe I forgot to get coffee this week.." She muttered as she then turned the corner and headed into a side street of Akuma. She then reached into her pocket, pulling out her keys, she began fiddling with them before suddenly looking up and seeing the hooded figure. Now she was actually getting a good look at the hooded figure, she could see that, whoever this person was, they were kinda short, and definitely had the build of a man. Rei chuckled. "You again? You're not the only person with a crush on me buddy."
The figure then scoffed. "Please, I would never even have the thought of a romantic connection with one of your kind." Rei growled. "Whatever! Just tell me what you are, why are you following me and my friends?" The man laughed. "All in good time, in the meanwhile. You might wanna tell your demon friend that the Hell Force has had the forging block removed." The hooded man then turned around, and began walking away. "Hey!" Rei shouted, the man stopping. "Have a safe flight." She said, turning and walking away from the man, and to the entrance of her apartment building. The man then scoffed before suddenly jumping into the air.
The Demon King was sitting on his throne, staring at the feather in his hand. "Why would they now just decide to get involved..." He muttered, before taking a deep breath. A black aura appeared around him for a moment before it suddenly vanished and he panted. "Of course that wouldn't work, why did I even bother." A knock then came from the other side of his doors. "Enter." He said, the doors then slowly opened, revealing a now bandaged up Eclipse and Reflect.
"Wow, you're back. Do you realize how worried I was as a young man?" The King said, Eclipse swiftly kneeling down. "My liege, I apologize for the worry and the failure of my mission. Anomaly appears to have grown stronger since our last encounter and along with that, it seems that Duke sealed Fuujin into a Tarot." The King sighed. "Yeah, well. You hate to see that happened. Oh hey, Reflection." Reflect then waved. "Hello to you too my King. Now it also seems that the forging block placed on the Hell Force has been removed by someone, I'm unsure of who, however.." The King glanced at the feather. "I could take a couple guesses." The King then looked at Eclipse. "In any case, Eclipse, I'm not sending you another demon just so they can get sealed again. You need to figure this out on your own. Dismissed, the both of you." The King said, waving the two of them off, the doors swinging open as Eclipse and Reflect exited the throne room.
Eclipse slammed his fist into the wall, growling. "Dammit. That stupid Rider has thrown me out of favor with The King!" Reflect chuckled as she crossed her arms. "Somebody's mad they got beaten by a human." Eclipse turned and looked at her. "Shut up! I need to figure out a plan." Eclipse began scratching his chin as Reflect then walked in front of him. "I might have a couple good ideas, if you're willing to let me help you." Eclipse thought for a moment. "Fine, what do you got?" He asked. "You said this human had two friends with him right?" Eclipse nodded. "Yes, a female and a male. I know where the male might be but I have zero clue on the girl." Reflect rubbed her hands together. "Alright, perfect. Now listen up."
Retsu was walking down the sidewalk, plastic bags of groceries in both of his hands. "I should've probably forced Hikaru to come if anything.." He soon arrived at the front door of Wonder Ramen. Setting the bags on to the ground, Retsu then reached into his pocket, fishing for his keys. "Ah there we are." He pulled out the keys, he then inserted the key into the keyhole, and turned it. "Excuse me, Retsu is it?" A voice said from behind him. Retsu turned around to be face to face with Eclipse?!
Retsu blinked. "Uh, hello?" Eclipse smirked. "I'm a friend of Raiden's." He then tightened his fist and slammed right into Retsu's gut, knocking the wind out of him and causing him to fall to the ground. A portal then opened behind Eclipse. "See Eclipse, that wasn't so hard." Reflect said. Eclipse rolled his eyes as he grabbed the back of Retsu's shirt. "Yeah right, come on, let's get this guy out of here." Reflect then went back through the portal, Eclipse following after her while dragging Retsu behind him. The portal then would close.
Hikaru yawned as he walked down the stairs and entered Wonder Ramen, now properly dressed for the day. "Retsu still isn't back yet? I mean we aren't open today anyways but still.." Duke then appeared behind him. [I'm sure it's nothing to worry about.] Hikaru then held his hand out, the wind suddenly picked up in the shop. The gusts then flowed into Hikaru's hand, forming into the Gale Tarot. "Whoa. So like, what do I get out of this exactly Duke?" Duke then looked at the Tarot. [If I'm right, a new power that'll equal the playing field with Eclipse. Unless he pulls out some other new power of his own, in which case. I have no clue.] Duke said, Hikaru rolling his eyes. "Truly, you inspire a great confidence in me."
A knock then came from outside. Hikaru quickly headed over to the door. "Just a second!" He fiddled with the lock for a moment, before unlocking the door and opening it, revealing Rei, holding grocery bags. "Oh hey Rei." Hikaru said, glancing around outside before moving out of the way and letting her enter with the bags of food. She swiftly set them down on a nearby table. "Actually before I ask my first question. Duke, that cloaked guy from yesterday told me to tell you that the forging block on the Hell Force was removed?" Duke's eyes widened before he rubbed his hands, claws? Together with glee. [What? There's no way. YES! HIKARU I'LL BE BACK IN A BIT!] Duke then flew into Hikaru's body. Hikaru blinked. "Right, so what was your first question?" Rei pointed at the grocery bags. "Why were those just sitting outside, did they get a delivery or something?" Hikaru scratched his head, walking over to the bags. "No.. Retsu would've told me. I'm worried now that you said these were outside." Hikaru walked over to the coat rack, grabbing his jacket. "You mind coming with me to look for him? Just down to the grocery store to see if anyone saw him there?" Rei nodded. "Of course Hikaru." Hikaru then tossed her a motorcycle helmet as the two left Wonder Ramen.
Now in the warehouse district of Akuma. Reflect held up a clear ball of energy, showing a vision of Rei and Hikaru riding through the streets of Akuma on the Machine Demoner. "See! He took the bait." Eclipse nodded. "Well, I just need to send him the message." A scoff was then heard from behind them. "Oh come on! We all know Hikaru would've gone looking for me anyways!" The two Demons turned to see Retsu, tied to one of the metal support beams of the warehouse. "Well yeah he is dumb enough..." Eclipse muttered. "Keep our guest occupied, I'll issue the challenge." Reflect nodded as a portal opened up in front of Eclipse, who then stepped through it. Reflect then turned to Retsu. "So, you're the one he's befriended?" Retsu cocked an eyebrow. "We've been friends? It's not a recent development lady." She then sighed. "Right. Anyways, what makes you special?"
Retsu blinked. "That's a weird question to ask a captive?" The woman shrugged. "Honestly it's just a waiting game until your friend shows up, just figured I'd kill some time." She responded, Retsu nodded. "Yeah I guess that there's no real reason to kill me unless Hikaru's here. Uhhh, what makes me special? I don't know lady, I guess I can cook well?" Reflect's eyes widen. "Oooo! What kinda stuff? I'm trying to improve my skills." She asked, Retsu thought for a moment. "All kinds of stuff I guess, mostly noodles for my ramen bowls and stuff." Reflect nodded. "Do you have any tips for a beginner?" Retsu then thought again. "Don't try to rush through whatever you're making, it's a process." Reflect nodded once more before turning her back. "Of course.."
Hikaru and Rei exited the grocery store, the door swiftly sliding shut behind them. "Come on! Someone has to have seen him!" Hikaru shouted, walking over to his bike and slamming his hand down on the seat. Rei quickly walked over to him. "Alright I wasn't that worried before but now I really am." Hikaru nodded rapidly. "Duke!" [BUSY!] Hikaru then growled before punching himself in the stomach, Duke then suddenly flew out of Hikaru's body. [OW! REALLY?] Hikaru weakly laughed before shaking his head. "Duke, I don't care what you're doing, there has to be something you can do to figure out where Retsu is." Duke groaned as he began tapping his head. [I could try to track his Hell Force connection but it's so small that I don't know if it would lead us to him or some random satanist.]
"Or I could just tell you!" A voice suddenly shouted, our trio then turned to see Eclipse walking towards them. "I should've figured you were involved in this!" Hikaru shouted, quickly taking out his Anomaly Driver. Eclipse held his hands up. "Oh come on Raiden, you really think I would fight you here? I'm just here to issue you a challenge. Meet me in the warehouse district if you want your chef back." Eclipse then turned, and began to walk again. "And what makes you think he'll agree to that?" Rei asked, causing Eclipse to stop in his tracks. "He's a 'Kamen Rider' it's his duty to save everyone." He said, putting air quotes around Kamen Rider. Hikaru growled. "Fine, I'll be there. You better not have hurt him, Eclipse!" Hikaru shouted, as Eclipse turned once more. But then, Eclipse stopped. "However, I will leave you with some friends of mine."
He then snapped his figures, suddenly a portal opened, bright red wisps flew out from it and then on to the ground. They suddenly then shaped into figures, the figures were mostly all red with golden zigzagging lines going across their bodies. Their faces resembled that of a highly jagged Knight's visor, and the sides of their heads had small horns. In their black gloved hands, were small dagger weapons. As they fully formed, the group of six snapped to attention, before they then all got in a combat stance.
Duke then groaned. [Imps? Really Eclipse?] Duke asked, not realizing Eclipse had seemingly vanished. "Oh come on Duke, these guys look like nothing. Actually.." Hikaru said, as he stored away his Anomaly Driver and then held out his hand. Suddenly, electricity surged around it, and then in a flash of light, it soon revealed that the Anomaly Saber was now in Hikaru's hand. [Wow. I didn't think you could do that, I'm actually proud of you.] Duke said, Hikaru chuckling. "Thanks man. Now Rei, stand back and watch a champion swordsman at work!" He shouted with glee, before Rei then sighed and walked in front of him. "Retsu beat you remember? And besides, I don't need a sword buddy." She then stretched her arms and walked over to an Imp. She then tightened her fist, and slammed it directly into the face of the Imp. The creature then fell on to the ground, and disintegrated into red particles. Hikaru's jaw went slack. "I-l." Duke then laughed. [Maybe I should've picked her instead.] Hikaru then looked at Duke. "Oh shut up and go back to working on your project!" Duke hovered back a bit. [Alright fine sheesh. Someone's compensating.] Duke then flew back into Hikaru's body. Hikaru growled as he did a swift flourish of his sword and ran towards the Imps, another one already getting punched by Rei, and suddenly disintegrating.
Hikaru swung his sword, slashing through another Imp before quickly shoving his elbow into the face of another. Surprisingly, that was the last one.
Hikaru panted as he dropped to the ground. "Well, that was more annoying than challenging.." Rei then dropped to the ground beside him. "Yeah, been awhile since I could do something like that." Hikaru cocked an eyebrow at the comment. "What do you mean by that? You've fought before?" Rei's face turned red before she began to nervously chuckle. "Haha well remember, I was in boxing club? It's been awhile since then, I guess you wouldn't remember." Hikaru then blinked. "Right. Duke, question."
Duke then flew out of Hikaru's body looking very annoyed. [What? I'm kinda busy right now.] Hikaru rolled his eyes. "Are you busy enough to not help me with a plan?" Duke then sighed. [Fine, what are you thinking?]
Eclipse then reappeared back in the warehouse. Reflect was still in a deep one sided conversation between her and Retsu. "How goes the torturing Reflect?" He asked, Reflect turned around to face him. "Oh you know, we talked about cooking and stuff." Eclipse slowly nodded. "Right. In any case, I sent our friend the challenge along with some Imps to boot."
"Well I'm sorry to say, your Imps got the boot Eclipse!"
A very familiar voice shouted from behind the two demons, who turned to see, who else but Hikaru Raiden.
Eclipse laughed. "Glad you could show up, Raiden! Where's your girlfriend?" Hikaru growled. "She's not my girlfriend, you poor excuse for a poker table. Now where's Retsu!" He shouted, Eclipse and Reflect both moving to show Retsu tied up to a pole. "Oh, wow thanks for just showing me instead of making a big deal out of it." Eclipse nodded in response as he then drew his sword. "Pleasantries aside Raiden. I believe it's time we start this duel and end this pitiful excuse of a rebellion, Duke." Duke then flew out of Hikaru's body. [Oh what do you know Eclipse! You've been the king's lapdog for so long you've forgotten what it's like to think for yourself!] Duke shouted, Hikaru then looked at him. "Get back to work on that thing, I'll handle this Duke." Duke nodded before then flying back into Hikaru's body as Hikaru then took out the Anomaly Driver. "He's right, Eclipse. Just because Duke's efforts are small, doesn't mean they won't have a big impact!" He quickly then slapped the driver against his waist, causing the belt straps to deploy.
[ANOMALY DRIVER!]
Eclipse laughed. "Yeah right Raiden." Eclipse pushed the button on the hilt of his sword, causing the image to raise upwards, beginning the standby jingle. He swiftly fished out the Clover Tarot from his card holder and inserted it into the card slot. "Chakusou." Eclipse said, as he slid the cover back down.
[CLOVER KNIGHT SELECTED!]
The Clover symbol came crashing down onto Eclipse's body, transforming him into his Demon Knight form. "Just transform already so I can end this already and get back to serving my king."
Hikaru chuckled. "You have no idea what kind of beat down I'm about to serve on you." Hikaru then held out his hand, electricity crackled around it, sparking all across the building. A stray bolt almost knocked Reflect off of her feet. "Well Eclipse you got this bye!" She shouted, suddenly opening a portal and hopping through it. The Demon Knight scoffed before turning his attention back to Hikaru. The electricity focused on Hikaru's open hand, forming the Lightning Tarot. Eclipse laughed. "Enough with the theatrics, hurry it up!" Hikaru glanced at the Tarot and then at Eclipse. "Fine!" He then swiftly pushed the rightmost button.
[DEMON LINK!]
The standby jingle began to play as the card slot popped out. Hikaru swiftly 'slashed' the Lightning Tarot throughout the air before inserting it into the slot, his hand hovering over the slot. "Henshin!" Hikaru then slammed the slot back into place.
[LINK COMPLETE! LIGHTNING KNIGHT! GO-GO-GO FORTH AND STRIKE!]
Electricity surged from the belt's screen, creating the outline of a suit, before a lightning bolt then struck Hikaru, causing a bright flash of light. The light faded away, revealing Kamen Rider Anomaly in his Lightning Knight form. "I'm about to put your life into ruins!" Hikaru shouted. With a burst of speed, Anomaly dashed towards Eclipse who did a similar motion. The two's swords' clashed before they began to dash around the warehouse, repeating their battle from early.
Retsu watched, well, attempted to watch the battle unfold, his latent connection to the Hell Force allowed him to catch small flashes of both Hikaru and that Eclipse dude. "Boo." Retsu then jumped, turning around to see Rei. "Dude! What the hell!" Rei chuckled. "Sorry! Sorry! Here let me untie you." Rei quickly undid Retsu's binds. "Thanks." He said, rubbing his wrists as he continued to watch what little of the fight he could see. "So this is your guys' plan?" Rei nodded. "Yeah pretty much, the next part is that we leave the building so he can go all out." Retsu looked at Rei. "He has an all out?" Rei shrugged and grabbed Retsu's wrist. "Yeah apparently, I don't feel like getting kidnapped also so let's not stick around to see it." Retsu nodded, and followed her out of the building.
In slowed down time, Anomaly and Eclipse zipped around the building's walls, trading slashes back and forth. "When are you going to give in!" Eclipse shouted as he moved out of the way of a bolt of electricity from Hikaru. Which he retaliated with a green colored X shaped slash of energy. Anomaly skidded to a stop across the ground, glancing up at the attack heading towards him. "Eh, never is my current timeframe!" Swiftly, Anomaly pushed the leftmost button on his driver.
[WEAPON LINK!]
As soon as the slot of the driver opened up, Hikaru quickly removed the Lightning Tarot and brought it into the slot of the Anomaly Saber. Causing it to relay its' finisher announcement.
[TIME TO GO! LIGHTNING CRASH!]
Electricity surged around Hikaru and he crackled with energy. "Raiden-style, First Storm, 1,000 Volt BREAKER!" Hikaru shouted, blasting towards the X attack and slashing clean through it. Eclipse was then hit but a large amount of the aftershock of Hikaru's attack sent him crashing into the ground and knocking him out of the slowed down time state. "That… felt familiar.." He muttered, before getting to his feet. Hikaru dashed around him once more, before Eclipse chuckled to himself. "Right I'll deal with that feeling later, I need to deal with this annoyance I'm feeling right now." He quickly fished a Tarot from his holder.
He pushed the button on the hilt of his sword, causing the image to be raised upwards revealing the card slot as the Clover card vanished. The Roulette wheel began to spin overhead as the standby jingle played as well.
"Requip!"
[SPADE KNIGHT SELECTED!]
The Spade came crashing downwards onto Eclipse's body, transforming it once again and causing a new armor to appear. The suit's bulk significantly increased. The bright green of Clover was swiftly replaced with a crimson red coloring.
Hikaru reappeared in front of Eclipse. "Roiding up won't make any difference against me, Eclipse!" Swiftly, Hikaru pushed the middle button on his driver, causing the slot to pop back out. He removed the Lightning Tarot from his saber and inserted it back into his driver, slamming the slot shut.
[LIGHTNING BURST!]
Hikaru flipped into the air as he vanished once more. Bolts of lightning shot all around the warehouse as Eclipse followed them with his head. He chuckled for a moment, before he stopped moving and just stood there. Anomaly suddenly reappeared in air behind Eclipse "Electrifying Burst Rider Kick!" Hikaru shouted, lightning surging all around his body as he flew directly towards Eclipse at a blinding speed. "I didn't even need your stupid thing Du-" Hikaru snarky remark was cut off by Eclipse suddenly spinning around and slashing him.
[SPADE! KNIGHT'S EDGE!]
The huge wave of crimson energy engulfed Hikaru and sent him flying out one of the upper windows of the warehouse and out to the street. In fact, from the sheer force of the impact almost all the windows in the warehouse were shattered.
Eclipse chuckled. "I should do that more often." He then made his way out of the building.
Retsu and Rei were standing outside of the warehouse, Retsu leaning up against the outside of one of the many other buildings surrounding them, while Rei was staring at something on her phone.
Rei glanced at Retsu who was staring up at the sky. "Look, he'll be fine alright." She said, causing Retsu to look at her. "Oh yeah sure, I'm totally comfortable with my best friend, fighting with his life and ours on the line just because some random ghost in a stupid belt buckle decided he should!" Rei then fully looked at him. "Retsu, I.." Retsu stopped leaning against the wall and fully stood, walking over to Rei. "No! Hikaru shouldn't be doing this, he should, I don't know, be safe! Not getting himself killed over what, some stupid Demon King who wants to eat the world! You might be okay with this Re-"
His speech was cut off by the sound of the shattering windows from the warehouse as Hikaru came flying out of the building, Anomaly rolled across the ground, his suit vanishing as he did before he came to a stop. Both friends ran over to him. "Hikaru! Hikaru!" Retsu shouted, turning his friend over. A groan came from Hikaru. "What what, I'm good.." He was in fact, not that good. The sound of a throat clearing was heard as Rei looked up to see Eclipse standing in front of them, a few straggling Imps behind him. "Well I believe that's it for Raiden, so turn him over to us and I will allow you to continue living the rest of your pitiful lives." Rei's fist tightened. "Eclipse…" She muttered. "You-" "Stow it Rei.." Hikaru said. Rei and Retsu both looked at him. "Hikaru you need to-" Retsu was cut off by Hikaru getting to his feet. "I know what I need to do.."
"Sorry Duke, but I'm doing it." [Sounds like your funeral.] "Our funeral actually.."
The wind suddenly began to pick up as Hikaru held out his hand, focused currents of winds then focused into Hikaru's hand, forming the Gale Tarot. Eclipse pointed his sword towards Hikaru. "You think you can beat me with Fuujin's power?! He wasn't even a fully fledged knight yet!" The winds began to circle around Hikaru, a mini tornado surrounding him. "You think I care what amount of power he had?! I'm the one with this power now, and it's all matter of how I use it, not how the guy who had it before me used it as well!"
Pushing the leftmost button, the standby began to play as Hikaru 'slashed' downwards through the tornado and inserted the Tarot into the slot. "Henshin!" He then attempted to slam the slot back into place but suddenly, green electricity began to spark off his body as he groaned in pain. The slot refused to go back into place. "I said..." He muttered. For a split moment Hikaru's eyes suddenly shifted into different colors. His irises becoming black in color and the outer portion shifting to a blue color, before shifting back to normal "HENSHIN!" Hikaru shouted, the tornado suddenly enveloping his entire body.
[LINK COOOOMPLETE! GALE KNIGHT! RISE-RISE-RISE UP! AND RAGE OOOON! LIKE THE ONCOMING STORM!]
The tornado began tearing out materials from the ground, forming it into Hikaru's suit.
The first thing that the new suit did to differentiate from Anomaly's base form was it's relative size. It looked to be a bit bigger than the rider's previous form, and as a result was a tiny bit more intimidating.
The armor was mainly done in a dark grey, almost black color scheme which was accented by green. The green colors served to show rough detailing in the armor that resembled strong winds, like those you'd see during a storm. The Rider's helmet also stayed the same for the most part, save for the new color scheme. Now featured on the belt's screen was a green sword surrounded by swirling winds.
Music cue: Be My Light
A green burst of energy exploded off of the now transformed Anomaly, causing Eclipse to stumble back a bit. "That's, that's not possible!" He shouted. Hikaru took a look at himself before chuckling. "Nope it definitely is! Hey Duke, how's that thing coming?" Hikaru asked, looking down at his Driver. [Not done yet! Just punch him really hard!] Duke shouted, Hikaru nodding as he looked back up at Eclipse. "Take all the time you need!" Anomaly said, cracking his knuckles. "Alright, Eclipse! You're about to see how big of an impact Duke is making!" Eclipse scoffed, running his hand along the blade of his sword before he then dashed forwards.
Eclipse slashed at Anomaly, who quickly raised up his forearm, blocking the attack, which caused Eclipse to jerk backwards. "What! Fuujin wasn't this strong, how were you able to block th-" Hikaru then punched Eclipse in the stomach, sending him skidding backwards. "Maybe it's because of how strong I really am, Eclipse! You're just too scared to admit it!" Eclipse growled. "Imps!" He shouted, snapping his fingers. A portal once again opened, the red wisps flying out and forming Imps. [Oh he's definitely scared.] Duke said Hikaru then ran towards the Imps. "That's fine with me!" Two Imps fired red blasts of energy at Hikaru who batted them away with a swipe of his hand, causing the blasts to explode on the wall of the one of the warehouses. The two Imps then ran towards him, Hikaru quickly slammed each of his fists into each of them. They suddenly were flung away, the demons flying into some wooden crates.
Eclipse swiftly changed forms into Clover Knight and began vanishing in and out around the area while more Imps suddenly appeared, swarming around Hikaru. "Hey Duke! Now would be a nice time for whatever it is you're making!" The Rider shouted, clothes lining a group of Imps down to the ground. [Yeah yeah! It's done, here!]
A bright flash of light then occurred, and a pure white object flew out the driver went around Anomaly, knocking away the Imps and knocked Eclipse out of his speed state and on to the ground. "What is that!"
The white glow faded away from the object as it took shape. It appeared to be a large hammer.
The handle was long grey, and went all the way down to the ground. Down the handle ran a set of four lines, the outer lines being colored dark blue while the inner lines being the same green of Gale Knight itself. The head of the hammer was your standard hammer head, just largely oversized. The head was colored a dark blue with spiraling green lines surrounding it. What the head was attached to was a box-like shape with a clear window piece along with a handle attached to the back of it. The clear window featured the Anomaly styled A engraved into it.
[Grab it moron!] Duke shouted from inside the belt. Hikaru nodded. "Right!" Hikaru then grabbed the handle.
[ANOMALY CRUSHER!]
Hikaru grasped the handle before immediately succumbing to the weight of the weapon and dropping to the ground. "You couldn't make this any lighter?" Duke flew out of the Driver and hovered next to Hikaru. [I figured all those sit ups and pull ups that you do every day would help improve your physical strength. Guess not!] Duke quickly flew back into the belt as Hikaru growled, the suit's visor beginning to glow a green. His grip around the handle tightened as he swung it in a sideward motion in front of him, instantly destroying the approaching Imps. "See, they did help!"
Eclipse dashed towards Hikaru. "That oversized mallet won't be enough to stop me Raiden!" He dashed around the walls of the nearby warehouses, darting from corner to corner. Hikaru turned as fast as his stronger form would allow, tracking Eclipse's movements, until he stopped. Hikaru quickly used both of his hands and grunted, lifting up the hammer over his head, before swinging downwards. There was a loud CLANK! Suddenly stopped dead in his tracks was Eclipse, blocking the attack as much as he could with the blade of his sword. "D-Damn you Raiden!" Eclipse pushed upwards, knocking the hammer back up and allowing him to escape the deadlock. "You want strength? I'll give you strength Raiden!" Eclipse shouted. He reached to his side, removing a card from his holder.
Music Cue end
Eclipse pulled out the Spade Tarot and inserted it into his sword, shifting back into his strength based form. He gripped his sword with both of his hands and swung, attempting to end the duel in one blow.
Music Cue: Be The Winners
Hikaru swiftly blocked the blade with the handle of the Crusher.
"You're gonna have to try harder than that Eclipse!" He shouted, pushing the blade back and then swinging directly into Eclipse's side, sending him flying sideways.
Rei and Retsu watched on in shock, they were now positioned a few feet away from the battle so as to not get caught in the crossfire. "I didn't think he would be this strong so soon..." Rei muttered to herself. Retsu cocked an eyebrow at the comment he probably wasn't supposed to hear. "What did you say?" He replied, Rei suddenly became flustered. "Uh! I am just so surprised at how strong Hikaru has become!" Retsu blinked. "Well it's not that weird of a comment.." He thought to himself before shook his head. "Nevermind." Rei nodded before looking back to the fight. "He might be on to me.." She thought.
The fight continued, Hikaru and Eclipse trading blows back and forth. Hikaru delivered a swift punch to Eclipse's gut, knocking him backwards once more. Eclipse sent a slash of energy towards Hikaru, who quickly countered with summoning a mini hurricane and sending it flying towards the wave of energy with a flick of his wrist. The two attacks clashed before dispersing. [You should probably end this soon.] Hikaru glanced down at his Driver. "That's the plan!" He swiftly pushed the middle button on his driver.
[TIME TO GO!]
The slot of the driver then popped out as the wind began to pick up once more and green electricity crackled around Anomaly's body. "Eclipse!" Hikaru shouted. Eclipse groaned as he got to his feet. "What!" He shouted back. "This is what you get for messing with me and my friends!" The Demon Knight cocked his head. "WHAT!" Eclipse shouted again. From Eclipse's perspective, whatever Raiden was shouting at him was completely inaudible due to the raging storm going on around the Kamen Rider.
"HOW IS THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND! IT IS A SIMPLE-"
"I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
"WHAT!"
"I SAID I CAN'T HEAR YOU HUMAN!"
"OH WHATEVER!"
Hikaru slammed the slot back in, causing the visor of his suit to light up.
[GALE BURST!]
Time then halted immediately. "Huh, I didn't think it would work in this." Hikaru said, glancing around at the frozen surroundings. [I'm not sure how long it's going to last in this form so hurry up!] Duke shouted from inside the belt. Hkaru nodded. With his left hand gripping the Anomaly Crusher, he began to lift it up above his head, and as he lifted it, the hammer began to spin rapidly due to Hikaru using the winds to, well, cause it to spin. His right hand tighten into a fist as it glowed with a green energy and was surrounded by a mini hurricane. "Gale Spinning.." Hikaru muttered, bringing the crusher back down in front of him, still rapidly spinning. "CRUSHER RIDER PUNCH!" He shouted, slamming his fist into the hammer at exactly the right moment, sending it flying towards Eclipse. Hikaru swiftly span around, his back towards Eclipse. "I guess you could saw we really blew him away." Duke then audibly groaned. Time quickly resumed as the Crusher made contact with Eclipse, causing a massive explosion.
The Anomaly Crusher somehow magically returned to Hikaru, flying back into his hand. The Rider caught his breath, regaining his composure, as his armor vanished. Hikaru stumbled for a second, but quickly used the Crusher as a support to stand himself up. Retsu and Rei swiftly made their way over to him, Retsu taking one of Hikaru's arms and slinging it over his shoulders. Hikaru coughed. "Did I get him?" Rei glanced past Hikaru, the entire area where Eclipse was hit was clouded with black smoke, some small fires crackled on the ground as well. "I-I think so?" Rei said, her tone almost coming across as sad? Retsu didn't pay much mind to that as he chuckled. "Yeah I think you-"
"No!" A voice suddenly shouted from behind the trio. All three cocked their heads to see the smoke suddenly cleared away by a swing slash of a sword, Eclipse's sword. The Demon Knight stood there as his demonic form was gashed, scarred and bruised but clearly he had withstood the entire force of the attack. "Are you kidding me!" Hikaru shouted. "No, I am not Raiden! Now pony up, I'm ending this-" Eclipse was cut off by him suddenly falling to the ground, his demonic form vanishing. The Trio and Duke who was suddenly floating there all collectively stared for a minute.
"Sorry about him!" Another voice rang out. Suddenly skipping up to the unconscious Demon Knight, was Reflect. "Aw he tuckered himself out, how cute!" A portal suddenly appeared behind her. "If it's all the same with you, I'm gonna take him with me!" Before any of the four had time to rebuttal, she, albeit slowly, managed to drag Eclipse through the portal by his feet.
As the portal closed, the sound of sirens began to encroach on them. "Uhh, plan?" Rei asked. Hikaru had fallen unconscious like Eclipse before him, Retsu glanced at Rei and then himself.
"Okay uh, you take his bike-"
"Machine Demoner…"
"Okay how did you wake up for that, wait nevermind."
Retsu reached into Hikaru's pocket and fished out the keys, tossing them to Rei. "Meet us at the hospital, I'll tell them we were just attacked by the monsters."
"No hospitals…" Hikaru mumbled, the other two humans rolling their eyes. "Right, right meet you there." Rei quickly dashed off towards Hikaru's motorcycle. Retsu quickly brought Hikaru over to a nearby bench, sitting him down on it before sitting down next to him. Retsu glanced at his in and out of consciousness friend, cracking a small smile. "Good work pal…"
Meanwhile, Reflect made her way into the King's throne room after leaving Eclipse in the hands of the infirmary room. She kneeled down in front of the massive throne, the King was currently conjuring a ball of energy in the air with his hand. "My King, Eclipse has been-" "Defeated? Yeah I noticed." The King crushed the ball with his hands, its energy suddenly dispersing through his armored hand. Reflect stood up, The King's tone was clear. "I promise you, I will do everything I can to help Eclipse deal with this human and Duke." Reflect said, The Demon King sighed. "Yeah yeah, I've heard this all before. Eclipse clearly can't handle this on his own without backup. As I've told him, I'm not sending any more knights to their deaths. Find more of those demons who worked with Arukeni, I do not care." Reflect was in shock. "My king, that, that Spider was a criminal, you're saying you want us to employ their services?" The King once more sighed, tightening his fist. "You think the general populous knows or cares about this Anomaly problem? No they don't, so it doesn't matter who we use to kill him!" The King's voice boomed around the room, causing Reflect to stumble backwards. He then took a breath, before glancing at his hand and the fear in Reflect's eyes. "Sorry.. Leave me, now." Reflect nodded cautiously before quickly exiting the throne room.
The King took another deep breath as he watched the door close shut. "Dammit…" He mumbled to himself. He then glanced at his tightened fist. "I guess I really don't know my own strength.."
Next Time on Kamen Rider Anomaly!
Anomaly is seen battling a large group of Imps, as a mysterious demon is approaching a cowering young woman, holding a Tarot.
"Who are you and what are you doing!"
"This is my true power as the Reflection Demon!"
An orange colored monster is seen throwing fireballs around the streets of Akuma while Rei ducks behind a flipped over table.
Duke and Hikaru are seen arguing about something.
"I am not killing a Human being!"
[You didn't have any remorse about killing two of my kind!]
"Neither did you!"
Kamen Rider Anomaly is then seen in his Gale Knight form wielding the Anomaly Saber.
"I'm gonna save your life from being in ruins!"
Episode Four
The Flame of Life
Author's Note
Extremely sorry for how long this took to come out, I just got super swamped with everything in my life and I lost my want to write stuff for awhile not, but slowly it is coming back, hopefully you guys will stick around for the rest of this story.
Thanks for reading as always!