Hello everyone, Kiosuke here is giving a new fanfic from my year long hiatus. I noticed that a lot of people liked my old Air Gear fanfic: The battle of darkness. So since it's been a year long since I wrote it and let alone had experience in the Cosplay world and learned A LOT of new things about Air Gear so I decided to remake the fanfic but with a completely different set of characters & a sorta new style. So I hope you like it & here's the first chapter.

Chapter 1: Meeting the Doppelganger X:

It's has been a few years since Ikki first started the Kogarasumaru. They've taken down some challenging opponents like Team Behemoth, Team Trident, & Team Potemkin. Now all the members of the Kogarasumaru are in their 3rd year of high school & are very well known throughout the school. But what has gave concern for Ikki was the fact that he noticed that they have been these creepy looking emblems around the Kogarasumaru emblems around the school. This resulted for him calling a team meeting on top of the school building.

"Have any of you guys noticed the insanely creepy emblems that's been crowding around our emblems?" Ikki asks as he's chowing down on a steak sandwich he bought from the cafeteria.

"How can I not notice them? Everytime I peep into the girls' bathroom, I always see that emblem." Onigiri said as he started drooling as he thinks back to his peeping attempt.

Emily sighs as he smacks Onigiri in the back of his head and yells "STOP BEING A PERVERT!"

"Don't bother trying to change him Emily; he's been a pervert since the beginning" Kazu said with a sigh as he looks up to the sky.

Emily then jumps to his side cuddling at him as she nods and says "Whatever you say Kazu-sama!"

Ikki was getting fed up as everyone was ignoring the topic of discussion as he smacks down the table to get everyone immediate attention.

"ANYWAYS……Does any of you guys have any information to knowing what team is doing this?! Because I think they wanna have a fight with us!"

"That maybe true crow…but we don't have any info…we've only been in this school a few months." Buucha said as he was slurping down his beef curry ramen.

Ikki sighed as he walks to the emblem and he smacks it hard as he yells….

"REGARDLESS FAT ASS, THIS IS OUR SCHOOL! WE MUST DEFEND IT!"

Kazu then stood up and walked next to Ikki and said…

"He got a point you guys, we've been known as one of the best, and hell were on par with Sleeping Forest & Genesis. We got to keep winning…"

"Otherwise all of us will be disbanded and I know for all of you, including Akito, you all wouldn't wanna disband now don't you?" Agito said

Every member nodded as they knew that what it would mean if they would lose.

"So it's settled….tonight were gonna stake out and figure out who's trying to start a war with us." Ikki stated as the team started to get ready to go home for the moment.

Unknowing to them, in the shadows a young African American teenager who was had long black hair with blood red streaks, hazel eyes, chocolate brown skin, & an "X" scar through his right eye & always wearing goggles on his forehead & a black visual kei mask with paperclips on the left side was watching the Kogarasumaru end their meeting. Under his mask he smirked as he said

"I guess it will be time for me to learn their moves once and for all."

It was 5 hours later as Ikki & his team comes back wearing their Kogarasumaru outfit and started to skate around the school trying to find anything unnatural. But unfortunately nothing seemed out of the normal as they regrouped back at their lunch spot.

"Did you guys find anything?" Ikki asks as he looked at his teammates. They all shook their heads with a sigh.

"OH COME ON! THEY HAD TO BE SOMETHING!" Ikki yelled as he wasn't taking no for an answer.

The team sighed as Agito's eye narrowed as he said "Crow….there's someone here."

Ikki stopped yelling as he looked at Agito and asks

"Who's here?"

"The thing that we've been trying to look for all night!" Agito yelled as he jumps up and releases a leviathan attack towards the shadows as a black blur jumped up quickly as it landed nearby the door.

"Oooo that was close…if I stood around too long, you would've gotten me….Fang King." The shadowed person said as he looked straight at Agito and then the rest of their team.

Ikki walked out the crowd of his team as he looked up to the shadowed person and asked

"Who in the hell do you think you are trying to start against me & my team?"

"Who am I? Well I won't give too much info but I'll tell you this: The name is "X" & you could say I'm a doppelganger who learns other AT rider's attacks."

Ikki didn't like how this "X" person was spying on them as he grinned and asked

"So what team are you from?"

X grinned as he answered with a smile under his mask as he says "Team Asylum…"

Agito almost went into shock as he heard the name. Buucha eyes narrowed as he looked prepared to battle. Onigiri, Kazu, & Emily looked confused as if they never heard of em.

"Crow….we gotta go now!" Agito said as he was trying to get Ikki to back away from X.

"Why should I run from this opponent? I haven't started before…AND I'M NOT GONNA START NOW!" Ikki said as he tried doing a quick punch to X as he disappeared and reappeared high in the air as the full moon behind him showed in the background as he smirks and says

"YO KOGARASUMARU PUNKS!! THINK FAST!"

He starts sending his own version of the leviathan attack right to all the members of the team. They all dodged it by pure luck. Onigiri got smacked up against the gate being damaged by the shockwave of the attack. Kazu dodged it easily as he was behind X using the flame road as he was preparing to put him in a flame like tornado. X stood still as he watched Kazu circling him with his flame.

"What's the matter X? Can't take the heat?" Kazu said with his trademark grin

X chuckled in remark as he said "You know you screwed up badly now…because now I've seen your attack….I can counter it way worse."

"What?!"

Within a few seconds X starts going through the huge flames as he starts to show up high in the air without any forms of burns as Kazu's flame tornado disappeared with the immense force of X's wind as he comes back down he then releases another leviathan attack but this time it was different as it had a black flame aura around it. It was direct hit to Kazu as he got knocked to the door as he was out cold.

"KAZU-SAMA!!" Emily cried as she tried rushing to Kazu. But as she was on the way to him X knocked her out with a smack to the back of the neck.

"I swear….girls like her are annoying …"

Out of anger Buucha goes and attacks X head on as he attempts to punch X straight in his face. X of course saw this coming as blocks the attack as he barely move an inch. Buucha is in pure shock as he looks down at the smaller AT rider.

"Buucha of the Yaou huh….it's a pleasure to meet you…too bad it has to end like this…"

After his comment, he does a jumping like uppercut to Buucha which was like similar to how Ryu & Ken does the attack in Street Fighter. Ikki & Agito were the only two up left from the Kogarasumaru as X sighed as he heard footsteps coming from the nearby door as he says

"Til another time Kogarasumaru….maybe next time you guys could meet the other members of Asylum…..We'll be waiting for you all."

After that comment, the black like flames he used earlier emitted from his AT's as he disappeared from the spot. Ikki and Agito started to try to get their teammates up before the door opened. But instead of a teacher or school security, the person who showed up out of the door was Ringo of the Sleeping Forest. She noticed the injured members on the floor as she looked up to Ikki and asks

"Ikki what happened here?"

All Ikki could say while looking down was "Team Asylum…"

To be continued….