At the scrap-yard, Kyoshiro was in a shed that served as his room, he was lying in a makeshift hammock thinking. Unfortunately for him, Yukina entered his room and started to examine Kyoshiro's arms, she was admiring the mechanical complexity that the man's robotic prosthesis had.
"What do you want?" Kyoshiro asked which surprised Yukina.
"Oh! Uh... I came to ask you some questions." Yukina giggled nervously.
"Ask your questions now." Kyoshiro ordered.
"Okay! How did you get those prostheses? How did you become a Kamen Rider? And why are you in town?" Yukina asked.
"Because of Phoenix for the first two questions and the last one is personal." Kyoshiro replied.
"Can you elaborate a little?" Yukina asked childishly.
"...No." Said Kyoshiro.
"Not even a little?" Asked Yukina childishly.
Kyoshiro got up from his hammock and lifted Yukina by the throat. The girl was frightened by Kyoshiro's expression that was filled with hatred. "All you need to know is that Phoenix stole everything from me and I will make them pay!" Said Kyoshiro annoyed.
Kyoshiro let go of Yukina violently before walking out but something fell out of his pocket. Yukina massaged her throat while coughing. "I have no idea what his arms are made of but damn this is hard stuff." Yukina stood up and noticed the object that had fallen. She picked it up and saw that it was a picture. Yukina only recognized Kyoshiro in the picture, but the other people in the picture looked strangely familiar. "Maybe the old man knows something about this picture."
Yukina ran as fast as she could towards the large scrap-yard garage to see Yujiro underneath one of the Phoenix armored cars disassembling it.
"Yo grandpa!" Yukina called.
Yujiro slid out from under the car. "Need anything?" Asked the old man.
"Yeah I found this picture, do you know who the people in it are?" Yukina passed the picture to Yujiro who gained a sad expression when he saw the photograph.
"You found this where?" Yujiro asked.
"I found it in Kyoshiro's room." Yukina replied.
"Put that back where you found it!" Yujiro ordered coldly.
"But-"
"No buts! Put that back where you found it!" Yujiro ordered in a firmer tone.
"Okay..." Said Yukina confused.
Yukina came out of the garage confused by her grandfather's reaction, she couldn't understand why he would react in such a way. Yukina took the picture in her hand and continued to look at it, trying to find names for the familiar faces, but couldn't.
"I really have no idea who they are!" Said Yukina frustrated as she walked to her scooter. "I'll go see Kourin, maybe she knows something." Yukina started her scooter at full speed and left the scrap-yard.
After driving for several minutes, Yukina parked in front of Kurin's restaurant. She entered the restaurant with the photo in her hands, and when she looked up from the photo, she saw that no one was there. Yukina approached the counter, but saw that Kourin was not there.
"Hey! Is anyone there?" Yukina asked.
"Yeah..." Said a sad female voice.
Yukina looked behind the counter to see that Kurin was crouched down sadly. "Are you okay?" Yukina asked.
"No..." Kourin said with tears in her eyes. "No one has come here for three days."
"Ouch... so can you help me with something?" Yukina asked.
"Yeah, sure." Yukina passed the photo to Kurin who, at the sight of the photograph, excessively and comically cried out in torrents of tears. "Oh hey, are you okay?!" Yukina asked.
"Mom! " Said Kourin in a fetal position in her tears.
"OK... so I'm going to take this back and I'll leave you doing... what you need to do to calm down." Yukina quietly left and got back on her scooter.
Meanwhile, Kyoshiro was walking through the city streets, thinking. As each pedestrian passed by, their fearful eyes focused on the cyborg's mechanical arms and they moved to another sidewalk at the mere sight of Kyoshiro's metal prostheses. The cyborg looked at his arms with hatred.
"I'm going to give you each of you a special hell..." While Kyoshiro was in his thoughts, a group of young soldiers arrived in front of him accompanied by a large bald man in a black suit.
"There he is, gentlemen!" The bald man pointed at Kyoshiro, "Here is the one you are looking for!"
The soldiers pointed their weapons at the cyborg. "Thank you very much, you will receive your reward after his capture.". The soldier's words gave the fat man a big smile.
"Hey fat ass!" Kyoshiro called which gained the man's attention. "Why did you bring those men to their deaths?" He asked in a cold and calm tone.
"I don't have to answer you, you monster!" Said the man.
One of the soldiers approached Kyoshiro with handcuffs in his hand, but suddenly a long blade coming out quickly from one of Kyoshiro's arms and pierced his heart. The other soldiers were surprised and terrified by the sudden death of their comrade.
Kyoshiro lifted the corpse of the soldier with only the blade of his arm. With a sharp blow, the cyborg cut the corpse in two, the soldiers were surprised by Kyoshiro's violence. All the pedestrians ran frightened by the violence shown by Kyoshiro, leaving only the fat bald man who had fallen to the ground frightened.
"What are you waiting for?" Kyoshiro asked calmly. "Have none of you killed before this day?" Kyoshiro could see the barrels of the soldiers' guns shaking. "Young people these days are never serious about fighting, especially in a death match." The cyborg walked up to one of the soldiers, took the barrel of his weapon and pointed it at his heart. The soldier was surprised by this, but he was even more surprised when Kyoshiro put away his blade. "Kid... shoot and you can get a big promotion from your leader, don't shoot and you die... choose well."
The soldier's weapon shook with fear, his finger trembled with anxiety on the trigger which angered Kyoshiro. "Weak..." With a single side kick, the top half of the soldier was separated. The remaining soldier was surprised to see that Kyoshiro's pants were torn revealing also that his legs were complex mechanical prostheses with long curved blade coming out of his heels. Kyoshiro turned around and said, "I don't have time to waste, leave or else you'll die like your friend." The moment he said this, one of the young soldiers shot at Kyoshiro, but the cyborg blocked the bullet with his metal foot. As soon as the young man fired, a blade came out of the other foot of the cyborg, he used his two blades to slice through each of the guns present and took the opportunity to slice the jugular of the one who had shot him.
The young soldiers still alive were filled with fear as they saw their friend choking on his own blood. "I don't like to repeat myself, leave now." At this command, the remaining soldiers left in fear, Kyoshiro advanced towards the bald man and grabbed him by the collar, "You will answer my questions now!" Kyoshiro threatened the man with the blades on his prosthetics.
Yukina parked her scooter in front of a large, old library. She went inside and was surprised by the amount of dust and cobwebs present.
"Doesn't anyone really come here anymore?" Yukina asked, coughing.
"Shh! You are disturbing the other people present!" Said an old librarian surprising Yukina.
"What other people here?! We are literally the only two people here!" Said Yukina as her words echoed through the empty library.
"Please lower your voice or I will force you out." Said the librarian.
"Okay..." Yukina went to the librarian and showed her the picture. "Don't you have any information about this picture?"
The old librarian put on a thick pair of glasses and observed the photograph. "Of course I know about them, you can find information about them in the history section of our books, specifically the ones about Phoenix."
"Thank you very much!" Said Yukina.
Yukina began to walk around the library to the section that the old lady had indicated, she was surprised had never seen so many books in one place.
"I thought that books were dead nowadays." Yukina stopped in front of an aisle of history books. "Let's see, Phoenix... Phoenix... Phoenix... AH! Here they are!" She pulled out a huge encyclopedia. "... am I really that curious to read a book that big? Yeah I am." Yukina dropped the book on one of the tables which made a loud noise. This noise filled Yukina with laziness, but her curiosity got the better of her and she started to read the encyclopedia.
Kyoshiro arrived in front of a huge building with the Phoenix logo dragging the fat man by the collar. He stopped at the entrance of the building, lifted the man and threatened him with his blades.
"So this is where they gather every time?" Asked Kyoshiro coldly which frightened the man.
"Yes, it's here! My company are the caterers for their events!" Said the frightened man.
"Good..." Kyoshiro sliced the man's jugular and threw him violently. He was about to go inside the building when suddenly he was tackled by a female figure. "What the hell?!" He asked before he saw that it was Yukina who had tackled him.
"Don't do that!" Said Yukina.
"Get out! It's been too long! I let them live for long enough!" Said Kyoshiro annoyed.
"You seriously can't do that! They have too much security! You'd get shot in an instant and they're not even here!" Said Yukina.
Kyoshiro stood up, grabbed Yukina by the collar and threatened her with his blades. "What do you mean?" He asked in a cold tone as Yukina turned white with fear.
"They are all at their base around the world... they only come once a month for a global meeting... everyone knows that, I thought you knew that..." Said Yukina confused.
"Damn it!" Kyoshiro let go of Yukina and started to destroy everything around him while yelling in rage "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
After several minutes, when Kyoshiro finally calmed down, everything around him and Yukina were in ruins. Every window, wall, door, and even the guards that had come near them were in pieces. Yukina shivered with fear and terror at the sight of the scene around them, she was completely surprised by the level of violence and rage that Kyoshiro was filled with, but what surprised her even more was that Kyoshiro's mechanical arms were in a very bad shape..
"Kyoshiro?" At these words, Kyoshiro turned back to Yukina with a cold look on his face.
"What?" Asked the cyborg as he regained his composure.
"We should go..." Yukina pointed inside the building to show that a huge group of soldiers were coming armed to the teeth. "And fast!" Yukina started to run, but stopped in the middle of her run to see that Kyoshiro hadn't moved. "Run, you idiot!"
Kyoshiro didn't answer, instead he used his one remaining functional arm to pulled the other off. Yukina was surprised by this, but what happened next made her blood run cold, Kyoshiro threw his arm at the foot of the soldiers which confused the armed men. It was at this moment that Kyoshiro started to run as fast as he could. As soon as he was close to Yukina, he squeezed the palm of his hand with great force and almost instantly, the arm he ripped off exploded and killed most of the soldiers and seriously injured the rest. Yukina was directly propelled backwards by the shock of the explosion but Kyoshiro caught her under his arm and ran away with her.
Back at the scrap-yard, Yukina was still shocked by what she had seen Kyoshiro do. While she was still in her thoughts, Kyoshiro violently opened the door of the shed with his foot, but the shock of the blow destroyed his remaining arm and made Yukina fall down which took her out of her thoughts.
"What's wrong?!" She asked before seeing that Kyoshiro didn't have his arms anymore. "Your arms..."
"Help me!" Kyoshiro ordered as he dragged a bundle with his feet. He pulled the string out of the bundle with his teeth and what was inside surprised Yukina.
"What's that?" Yukina asked.
"A new type of prosthesis that I created especially to fight against those bastards." Said Kyoshiro.
Yukina took the prosthetic from the bundle to reveal that it was a pair of arms, the right arm had a sort of cannon on the forearm while the left arm had a small shield on its forearm.
"You just have to put them in the joints, it's like fitting building bricks together." Kyoshiro explained.
Yukina approached Kyoshiro is surprised by the appearance of the "joints" that was in place of his shoulders, they were technologically advanced. When she approached the prosthesis to one of his "joints", wires came out of it, connected to the prosthesis and with a sharp blow, tore the prosthesis from Yukina's hands and connected it to Kyoshiro. Yukina approached the second prosthesis and once again, wires came out and connected the prosthesis to the cyborg.
"Finally..." Kyoshiro began to move his new prosthetics slowly, trying to get used to them. "They're even better than I imagined." He said with a big distorted smile.
"Get out now!" Ordered a voice from outside.
"And some toys just arrived..." Said Kyoshiro as he stood up.
As he walked out Kyoshiro put on a long coat whose edges were completely destroyed and burned. Yukina still confused followed Kyoshiro by pure curiosity.
In front of the scrap-yard was a group of soldiers armed to the teeth, they were all ready to fight, but when they saw Kyoshiro coming, their bodies began to tremble with fear. A man walked among the soldiers with a megaphone in hand. The man was wearing camouflage cargo pants, a pair of black rangers and a green tank top. He had long black hair and sky blue eyes.
"Yo! I bet you're the guy who stole our cars!" Asked the man.
"What's your name?" Kyoshiro asked.
"That doesn't answer my question, old man!" Said the man.
"Your name, what is it?" Asked Kyoshiro again in a cold tone.
"I have a feeling you won't answer me if I don't tell you my name. My name is Yosuke Kurogawa!" Said the man proudly. "Now answer my question."
"You didn't take them back so I kept them." Kyoshiro sneered coldly.
"We're coming to get them! So open that gate!" Yosuke ordered.
Surprising Yosuke, Kyoshiro just grinned wildly before he jumped over the gate as if nothing it was nothing.
"You probably know me kid, so you know what I want and why I want it." Kyoshiro replied.
"Sorry but the old men are busy with other things that are more important than you." Said Yosuke, but suddenly Kyoshiro raised his right arm towards the soldiers and pulled a kind of stinger at their feet. "It will take more than that to scare my men."
Surprising Yosuke and his men, the stinger exploded and killed all the soldiers present except Yosuke who was simply covered with dust and the blood of his men. Yosuke was filled with anger at the sight of his men killed so quickly
"You are really a bastard..." Said Yosuke.
Kyoshiro's belt appeared on him. "Henshin..." Kyoshiro turned the needle to the south of the compass and hit it violently! The shockwave of the transformation sent the corpses backwards except for Yosuke.
Kyoshiro was wearing a red bodysuit with a green electric pattern, he had a pair of black boots and gloves, on top of the jumpsuit he was wearing a heavy grey armor with a red and green electric pattern. His helmet was red like the suit. He had two large green eyes, on the sides of the helmet were tips that looked like a small pair of wings and the mouthpiece looked like a row of sharp teeth.
"Kamen Rider Reverse... it's time to see the gravity of your actions!" Said Kyoshiro.
"Bring it on, old man..." Yosuke took a fighting stance surprising Reverse. "I'm going to kick your ass!"
"You're not going to transform?... intriguing." Said Reverse.
"I don't need it to beat you!" Yosuka ran at full speed.
As soon as he was in front of Reverse gave a powerful jab to the face which made the Kamen Rider back off a little.
"Not a bad move..." Reverse rubbed his cheek before his hand was covered in green electricity. "Let me show you what a real punch is!"
Reverse also gave a powerful jab to the face, Yosuke did a front somersault to dodge the attack but strangely his body was attracted by Reverse's fist and he took the blow in the stomach and sent him waltzing backwards.
"What the hell was that?!" Yosuke asked as he stood up.
"What? Your bosses don't have any info on me or you're just too cocky that you didn't dare read them!" Reverse sneered as his body was covered in green electricity. "I control my gravity or the gravity of the things I touch! GRAVITY: 0G!" In an instant Reverse had landed a powerful diving kick. "GRAVITY: 50G!" Suddenly Reverse's blow became very heavy to the point of making Yosuke back away violently. "Gravity: 10G." Said Reverse as he landed without any problem. "Show me what you can do, kid!"
"I'll show you what I can do right now!" Said Yosuke annoyed by Reverse's attitude. The skin on Yosuke's forearms and legs began to move before tearing open to reveal huge lion like claws, ears and a robotic tail appeared on Yosuke along with the claws. "The hunt has begun... get ready to be eaten!"
Yosuke galloped at full speed with his new limbs and tried to slice from Reverse but the Kamen Rider raised his left arm and a large shield came out blocking the lion's claws. "Did you really think I couldn't use my prosthetics when I'm transformed?" Reverse pointed his right arm at Yosuke's face. "It's stupid to think that!" A stinger came out of the barrel but Yosuke caught it with his mechanical fangs and threw it away.
"It worked on my unit, but it won't work on me." Said Yosuke.
Reverse pushed Yosuke back with his shield before turning the needle of his compass to the east. "Gravity..." Reverse's fists were covered in green electricity before he ran towards Yosuke.
"Lion... " Yosuke jumped into the air and spun in the air like a jigsaw towards Reverse leaving his long claws forward.
"SMASH !" The two cyborgs shouted.
Both of them stopped dead in their tracks, Reverse's punch pushed Yosuke back with its gravitational force, but the inertia of Yosuke's attack allowed him to stay and continue his attack. The clash of the two attacks created sparks and shockwaves that receded all around them.
"Incredible..." Said Yukina. She was hiding behind a pile of scrap metal watching the fight. "He is really fighting against General Kurogawa, no one has survived this long against him!"
"Over..." The needle on Reverse's belt began to spin at full speed as his body created even more electricity "BURST !" Reverse's blow gained so much power that Yosuke was sent flying backwards into a pile of scraps. As soon as he stood up, Reverse was on top of him. He stopped the needle in its tracks and turned it to the north. "Asteroid..." Reverse raised his fist in the air. "RUSH !" Reverse began to throw a flurry of punches at Yosuke, all of them heavier than the last one.
As soon as Reverse stopped, Yosuke was covered with bruises and blood, his mechanical limbs were in very bad shape, they could barely hold the weight of their owner. Reverse got down from the pile of scrap and de-transformed.
"What are you doing?! I'm not dead!" Said Yosuke annoyed.
"One of you has to stay alive to report to Dan what happened ... and I already killed your friends." Said Kyoshiro.
Vexed and full of shame, Yosuke left the scrap-yard with his tail between his legs. Yukina came out of her hiding place filled with admiration but also fear for Kyoshiro and his fight.
"That was an incredible fight!" Said Yukina.
"This is no place for children like you. Go back inside!" Ordered Kyoshiro.
"Why do you treat me like a child?! We're probably the same age!" Yukina asked.
"I'm much older than you, kid." Kyoshiro replied.
"Really?" Yukina took out the picture and examined it. "Yet you look the same as in your picture."
With a quick movement, Kyoshiro grabbed Yukina's wrist and took the picture from her hand. "Where did you find this?" He asked in a cold tone as he let go of the girl's wrist.
"You dropped it from your pocket! Yukina said in fear.
"Don't touch my stuff ..." Said Kyoshiro.
"But is it true what I read about you?" Asked Yukina.
"About what?" Asked Kyoshiro.
"That you are a traitor who tried to destroy Phoenix from the inside." Said Yukina which made Kyoshiro laugh. "What's so funny?!" Asked Yukina embarrassed.
"It's really those who are victorious who write history." Said Kyoshiro, "I will tell you the truth about Phoenix and their leaders, and with this new information, I hope you will see their true face." Kyoshiro entered his shed.
"Wait for me!" Said Yukina as she followed him.
In the evening, Dan was in his office enjoying a glass of whiskey in peace. He was looking at his hunting trophies, all the Kamen Rider helmets he had killed. From Kamen Rider Ichigou to Kamen Rider Saber, he had killed them all with his bare hands to be the best. Taking him out of his tranquility, Yosuke came in covered with bandages and bandages.
"So what happened?" Dan asked.
"I found out who was the one who stole our equipment." Yosuke replied.
"Was it a member of the resistance?" Asked Dan.
"No..." Said Yosuke with his voice shaking with fear.
"Who was it then?" Dan asked.
"It was Reverse, sir." At these words, the window that surrounded them and the office was destroyed under Dan's powerful aura.
"Are you sure of yourself?" Dan asked.
"Yes... I fought against him, it's even because of him that I am in this state." Said Yosuke.
"Well... that's fine..." Dan stood up and picked up the phone among the remains of the desk. "Danielle?" Asked Dan to his interlocutor.
"Yes, Mr. Kumogawa?" Asked the caller.
"Move up the date of the meeting, I need to give a news of the highest importance to my dear colleagues and prepare me a plane to Kyoto, I need to prepare the place before they arrive." Said Dan.
"Of course. It will be done right now." Said Danielle before Dan hung up the phone.
"You're not angry about my defeat, sir?" Asked Yosuke.
"No, because you allowed me to find Reverse and that's all that matters to me." Said Dan with a big smile. "And that's why you're going to get a promotion and also an upgrade to your cybernetic augmentations."
"Really?" Yosuke asked surprised.
"Of course." Said Dan.
"Thank you, sir, you won't regret it at all." Said Yosuke before leaving.
Dan used the phone again. "Danielle?"
"Yes, sir?" Danielle asked.
"Tell Doctor X that the Lion of Nemea project can begin with the subject Yosuke Kurogawa." Said Dan before going in front of the pedestal for Reverse. "And don't forget the photo for the trip, I have a feeling the others will like to see it."
"Of course sir." Said Danielle.
Dan dropped the phone and put his hand on the glass of the pedestal while having a big distorted smile.