-THE RISE OF KAMEN RIDER-

"SHINICHI!-!-!" Rena screamed as the Yamainu soldiers gunned the blue. The bullets pierced his body, sending blood flying everywhere as he stood with arms spread out to shield his friends. Bullet holes riddled his body before Takano gave them the order to stop. Shinichi then collapsed onto the forest floor, dead.

"YOU MONSTER!" Rena shouted at Takano. "YOU BITCH! YOU KILLED HIM!"

Takano only laughed as she said, "Oh, but you all will be joining him soon."

Takano had the Hinamizawa Gaming Club cornered. The group had come to protect Rika from whatever Takano had planned. Rika now knew the face of the enemy, and that Takano sought to kill her. Why, she didn't know, but in most of the timelines it had been Takano who'd killed her via evisceration, leaving her behind the coin box of the Furude Shrine.

It was also Takano who had caused the Hinamizawa Disaster, killing everyone in Hinamizawa.

Even if Rika gave herself up now, her friends would be killed for knowing too much. Mion, Shion, Keiichi, Rena, and Satoko would just be sacrifices for Takano's twisted plan.

This timeline was slightly different from the others since it included a new character. Shinichi Sanban had appeared from out of nowhere. Rika had learnt that the young man had been found by Rena, injured and starving and so she and her father had taken him in. He had no memories or identification and had only given them his name. At first Rika had watched him closely but learnt to trust him as she did her friends since he had become close to Rena.

And now Shinichi was the first casualty of the night which would mark the end of Hinamizawa.

Mion's fists clenched as she tried to fight the tears. "Shin-chan…" she murmured. She tried to look away from the corpse which had once been their friend. In the short time they had known him he'd been cheerful, so full of life, always making jokes, and even becoming good friends with Keiichi as the brunette had no male friends his age in the village.

Rena's grip on her cleaver also tightened as her eyes narrowed, tears streaming from them. Shinichi had been important to her too and tonight he'd proven that he cared for them all. She always thought that those twin strands of hair on his head that bobbed up and down like antennae had been cute but now they were dead. He was gone. "Shin-kun…" she murmured.

For Satoko, Shinichi had been like another older brother, just like Keiichi. Of course unlike Keiichi Shinichi always knew when she had set up traps and Keiichi always end up caught in them. He would always stick up for Satoko and cared for her. Sometimes she would tease him about being a lolicon for how he cared for her and Rika.

Shion hadn't known Shinichi all that well. Sometimes she just got annoyed with him whenever he came to Angel Mort to take pictures of her. He had simply told her that the only reason he did that was because he admired how well the uniform looked on her.

Keiichi's grip on his baseball bat was so tight that his knuckles had turned white. His teeth were gritted, with rage blazing in his eyes. Shinichi had been his best friend in Hinamizawa. The only other guy his age in this entire place. They would joke around, hang out at Angel Mort, and even share plans with each other whenever they decided to force the girls to pay a penalty during club activities.

And now he was gone.

"Kill the others," Takano ordered, "But bring me Rika-chan alive."

The Yamainu had their guns trained on the group, ready to execute them, when all of a sudden the clearing was bathed in light. Everyone looked towards Shinichi's body, which was glowing, the sight both mesmerizing and shocking.

"Shin-kun's…glowing…" Rena admired.

"What…what is this…?" Takano questioned, now starting to show fear as she was startled by this development.

Back in the Furude Shrine's Saiguden, the heart of Oyashiro-sama's statue glowed before three beams of light burst out. The beams were colored, green, red and blue, respectively and they had shot up into the sky before streaking through the air.

"What are you waiting for, you idiots!-?" Takano shouted to the soldiers. "Shoot them! Shoot them!" She didn't care what the unknown light coming from Shinichi was, but she wasn't about to let something seemingly supernatural stop her plans.

Then she got really freaked out as Shinichi's glowing body started to float in midair. At the same time the three beams of light shot down from the sky and struck his body, embedding themselves into his chest at the same time. The light became mixed with green, red and blue.

The Yamainu fired but an invisible force caused the bullets to just drop without hitting their target. Takano started to tremble in both rage and fear. Just what was going on?

And suddenly the light exploded, as a familiar voice shouted, "CHOU HENSHIN!"

Everyone cried out as the light momentarily blinded them and slowly the light started to fade.

And now a new figure joined them.

He wore a black bodysuit with armor. The armor of his torso was black with a red chestplate that had black tiger stripes. The spaulders were colored the same as were the gauntlets. Blue boots with matching kneepads were adorned on his legs. Finally, he wore a black helmet with a green faceplate and blue eyes, as well as a pair of gold horns set on his brow shaped like the letter 'U'. It looked similar to a samurai's helmet.

"Na-na-nani!-?" shouted out Takano. "Shoot it! Shoot it!"

The Yamainu fired again but the armored figure waves his hands and a wall of flames sprung up to shield them from the bullets. The bullets melted from the intense heat. The Yamainu continued to fire but the bullets weren't doing anything before they were forced to stop shooting in order to reload.

The armored figured dropped the wall of flames and glanced at the Hinamizawa Gaming Club. "Run," he said, "I'll hold these guys off. Get Rika-chan to safety."

"Shin-kun, is that you?" Rena questioned, relieved that he was alive but stunned by the change.

"Yeah, it's me," he confirmed, nodding. "Now go, I'll hold them off."

"What about you?" Rena asked once recovering from her shock.

"Like they can actually do anything to me now," said Shinichi, smirking confidently.

The soldiers had reloaded and were taking aim as Shinichi suddenly vanished. "Where did he go!-?" Takano shouted but then her men cried out as they were being struck down by green, red and blue blur. She then yelled as she was pinned against a tree by his forearm pressing against throat. Her eyes widened at the blue eyes of Shinichi's helmet. She looked scared, but then the fear melted away and was replaced by fury.

"Damn you!" She drew her gun and fired but the bullet couldn't penetrate his armor.

"That won't work," he said. "Face it, Takano-san, you've lost."

"What are you?" she demanded. This just didn't make sense. What was she looking at? He had died but not only had he revived but now he was clad in a suit of armor she had never seen before.

"I can't remember," he said honestly. "Remember?" He had amnesia, so he couldn't really explain what was happening to him. What he did understand was that he needed to protect his friends. He removed his forearm from his throat. "I don't know what you had planned for Rika-chan or the village but you tried to have my friends killed. Let me give you one, single warning and it will only be your last warning. Never, ever come back to this village. If you come back I will know and when I do I won't be as merciful." He turned and began stepping away. "Oh, and tell your bosses that Hinamizawa has a new guardian now." He vanished into the forest, leaving a shellshocked Takano.

The woman needed a new plan now. The operation was now obviously a failure. Still, she had to do this! TOKYO was backing her up for this and if she failed to produce results then all she had done would mean nothing. However, what could she do against Shinichi Sanban and his new power? He claimed that he would not show her any mercy but he'd left the Yamainu alive along with her. Maybe he was just all talk.

Still, even if his eyes had been concealed, she could sense their intensity. He was dead serious about his threat.

She took out her walkie-talkie and called, "Okonogi, we've got a problem."

When Shinichi caught up to Miyo Takano, something was wrong. As she stood, she trembled, but a dark aura was coming off her body in waves. Even her eyes had changed color and when she spoke a demonic voice came out, "You insolent fool. How dare you get in the way of my plan?"

"What are you?" Shinichi asked as he clenched his armored fists. This wasn't Miyo Takano. It was something else.

"What am I? Can't you guess?"

Shinichi remembered the village's myths which his friends had told him and answered, "You're a demon. You're a demon that has possessed Miyo Takano."

"That's right!" the demon confirmed.

"Why possess her?" Shinichi asked, though he knew the answer already.

"Why not? You see this woman has a lot of darkness in her heart and she was obsessed with proving her grandfather's theory on the Hinamizawa Syndrome and didn't care what she had to do," the demon explained. "I found her interesting and so I infected her and have been influencing her actions since she first arrived in this village."

So, Miyo Takano wasn't completely at fault. But still if she had a stronger will then maybe a demon wouldn't have taken over her body.

"The plan was simple: kill Rika Furude, the Queen Carrier, then have all the villagers killed so that the Hinamizawa Syndrome would not spread," the demon added, "It would've gone smoothly if you hadn't interfered."

"You were planning to kill my friends. I had to," Shinichi retorted.

"Well, before I kill them! I'll kill you!" the demon roared. Miyo Takano tossed her head back as black energy burst from her eyes and mouth and into the night sky. When all the darkness left her, Miyo Takano collapsed, unconscious. Shinichi looked up and watched as the darkness swirled around before taking shape. It formed into a giant demonic creature which was connected to the ground from the waist up. Its arms were long with sharp claws and it had bat wings. It also had long and sharp horns to complete the demonic look with red eyes.

Shinichi rode on 13 wings made of green light which fanned out from his shoulder blades. His friends gazed up at him in awe as he stared the demon down intensely.

"Is that…Shin-chan?" Mion asked.

"He looks like an angel," said Satoko.

"Shinichi…" uttered Rena

"I was so close," the demon growled. "So close…"

"I'll destroy you right here and now," swore Shinichi as he raised his hand into the air. "Power of the Three Clans, to me!"

A beam of light shot from the Saiguden while two more beams shot from the Sonozaki Estate and the Kimiyoshi Estate before entering Shinichi's belt as his body glowed with light. The demon had to shield its eyes from the painful light. It was so bright and burning. It could not stand it.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!-?" the demon demanded.

"Erasing your existence," said Shinichi.

"But all that power…you won't get off either!" the demon shot back.

"I know that, but there's no other way," said Shinichi resolutely. "Even if this kills me…"

Rena, hearing this shouted, "Shinichi!"

Shinichi looked down at Rena and apologized, "I'm sorry, Rena."

Her eyes widened in horrified realization.

"Demon," said Shinichi, "You've caused so much suffering already. I'm going to erase you from this world."

"LIKE I'LL LET YOU!" the demon roared as he lunged forward.

"LUCIFER CANNON!" Shinichi roared as he threw his fist and fired an intense blast of energy that blasted a hole right through the demon's torso, flying out through the exit wound as an explosion of light completely enveloped the village.

The Gaming Club couldn't find Shinichi after that. It was like he just disappeared.

A/N: Another alternate scenario I wanted to explore.