Who is the real monster?

Star City

26 August

In the evening.

On the western side of the Star City, a school bus was under a hostage situation by a mirror monster.

The green mantis looking mirror monster was standing in front of the bus and waiting for the Kamen Rider to arrive.

He was Makirika, a commander level rinshi.

Makirika and the other commanders had been waiting for the Kamen Rider to gang bang him for the past few months but they were no sightings of the said rider.

As for why they wanted to kill the Kamen Rider. Well they knew their fate and they also knew of the common trope of the world.

They knew of the one by one elimination method that was usually their life. One of them goes to fight the Kamen Rider, he loses and dies.

Then another one will go and die as well. They knew this and hence they decided to form an alliance among the other commanders and planned to attack the rider at once.

Then the problem came, the natives of this world were too strong.

They feeded on the negative energy from the humans and Kamen Rider should have been the only trouble in their path.

The problem was that the Kamen Rider was missing and nothing else was following the plot. The bystanders were strong, the government took rapid actions in eliminating or capturing them and they were now contemplating whether or not they are the ones in the wrong.

"Duck them, if not for the the fact that I am weak, I would not have obeyed those tuckers."

Makirika swore, or at least tried to.

He had taken a bus full of kids as his hostages and was waiting for the Rider to show up for the past three minutes yet the rider wasn't in sight.

"When is he coming?" Makirika said impatiently while looking at the screaming children.

As much as he liked to have humans, he absolutely hated kids.

"Should I kill one of them? Maybe that will force the rider. I don't have that much time left in the actual world as well."

"Well let's start with this one... Oh he came."

Makirika muttered as he sensed the Rider near him.

....

Takahashi Mito used the mirror dimension travel ability to reach the place of the hostages and looked at the mirror monster who was posing(?) when he came.

"A green mosquito or cockroach looking alien monster. Let's be done with it."

Takahashi Mito said while casually firing at the mirror monster.

"I am a mantis-fist style Rinshi. A Mantis!"

"And why are you firing at me now, can't you see the school bus behind me, what if someone died?"

Makirika shouted while deflecting the energy bullets fired from Ryuguno.

"Ahh, that extinct species, I completely forgot about them. Why are you protecting them? Aren't you going to eat them?"

Mito asked calmy yet his hands didn't stop and he was still shooting at Makirika, completely not missing a chance to injure the monster.

"Why are you still attacking?"

Makirika deflected the shots and instantaneously disappeared from his position. In a split second, he reached Mito, grabbed his head and dragged him into the mirror world.

"Huh?" Mito couldn't even complete his sentence and was thrown into the mirror world.

"Now, I don't have to worry about the erosion of the other world. He he he."

"And did you not know? We feed on the negative emotions of the living things, not their flesh."

Makirika deflected the shot that Ryuguno fired at him from the ground and realised something that he should have since the beginning of their fight.

"You, you are weak, far weaker than we thought. Now I feel stupid that we were fearing you, the only thing we should have been wary of should have been the other worlders. They are crazy powerful. Specially those flying ones, they were able to kill a lot of us in just a few seconds."

Makirika stood a few metres away from Ryuguno and started to talk.

He come to a speculation that it wasn't that the Rider was hiding because he didn't want to do rider work or he had retired.

The rider was weak and that should be why he was hiding, cowering in fear as he looked at the strength of the commanders.

Ryuguno slowly sat up from the ground and looked at Makirika.

"So what now? You are going to kill me or something?" Mito asked in his Ryuguno form.

"Courageous yet futile resistance!"

"You aren't showing enough negative emotions. So I am going to just let you disintegrate in the mirror world. You must have at least this much knowledge, right?"

Makirika said as he looked at Ryuguno.

"If you don't, let me tell you, inside the mirror world, anything that doesn't belong here get disintegrates and turn into nourishment for the mirror world."

"But that's not all, once a living thing disintegrates, they obviously release a variety of emotions, mainly negative emotions which is our nourishment."

Makirika continued.

"But that's not all. We also get... What are you doing?"

As Makirika was talking, Ryuguno got up and came near Makirika.

"Thanks for the information."

And disappeared after saying that.

"Huh, stupid Rider! Does he forgot that I could also exit the mirror world and that I AM FASTER THAN HIM?"

Makirika immediately found a reflective surface and entered the actual world.

He saw Ryuguno standing not far away and laughed in a manic glee.

"Ha ha ha ab high urghaus"

Makirika was split in half by a man in blue and red tights with a cape.

"So who are you? Superman asked the person before him but found nothing.

...

15 seconds ago.

Takahashi Mito aka Ryuguno was lying quietly on the ground and thinking of an escape route while listening to Makirika.

He knew that he wasn't a match for green mantis.

He started to look around the area for something and his sight went onto the mirror showing a red blur in the actual world.

He knew what that was. It was Superman.

'Supergirl, or Bizzaro or Shazam, or red tornado... Why the heck to all of them wear red?'

'Forget it, a chance is still a chance. I should be able to enter and exit the mirror world through any reflective surfaces right. Thankfully Makirika's chest has a lot of shiny spaces.'

Ryuguno calmly got up from the ground in the midst of an explanation of Makirika, making Makirika confused.

Ryuguno went near Makirika and disappeared using the reflective surface of Makirika's chest.

For a second there, Makirika was silent before entering the actual world.

When Ryuguno suddenly appeared in front of the bus full of children, it got the attention of the red blur.

"He can talk so don't kill him." Ryuguno calmly said and looked at the Makirika that was coming at him.

He knew that Superman, as the grandfather of Ultima, does have super senses.

A second later, Makirika was split into two pieces with the perpetrator Superman flying above him.

Ryuguno looked at the split up corpse of Makirika and the towards Superman and then towards the bus that was empty.

'Yup, he is the one that I should fear.'

Ryuguno calmy looked at Superman and then went near the body of Makirika.

Since Superman tore him nicely, Makirika was alive, barely but alive.

"Can you see him?" A metallic voice came out of Ryuguno as he pointed Superman towards a mirror that a mirror monster was staring at them 9 kilometres away.

Superman looked at the mirror and also the monster in it.

While Superman was focusing on the thing that was spying on them from the mirror, Ryuguno entered the mirror world along with the upper body of Makirika.

"Life is weird for both of us."

*Bang.*

Ryuguno shot Makirika in the head and moved on while looking at the panel that appeared in front of his eyes.

{ Low level commander killed. 150 Rider points added.}

"How is this fair? He was far tougher than 150 grunts. Heck, I just needed five minutes to kill 67 of them with my fists only! I am not a professional close combat fighter at that."

"Che, I need to get stronger huh."

Ryuguno continued towards his shop and exited the mirror world.

"I also need to plan my fights and my Henshin better. Lot's of things to do and I want to do none of it. What a great start."

And that's how the first arc ended.

....

Info time :-

Makirika:

HEIGHT -215 cm

Confrontation Beast Mantis-Fist Makirika is a Beast-Man of Rinjuken Akugata.

His masteryof the Confrontation Beast Mantis-Fist style, which allows him to cut through any material with his forearms. Due to his fighting style, Makirika tends to calls an enemy's death a "prayer".

Favorite places: Grassy areas, forests, etc.

Favorite foods: Cicadas, butterflies, etc.

Favorite phrase: "Courageous yet futile resistance!" (Tōrō no ono, a metaphor that literally translates to "The mantis's hatchets")

Too bad it wasn't able to perform to its utmost potential.

Doesn't matter, I will revive him later.

.....

And that's how the first arc ends.

To many of you, I am saying this first. The fighting scenes were bland and there wasn't much action to see because I wrote it like that.

Firstly because the MC is too weak at this point, anyone of the higher levels can one shot him, even Makirika could; and secondly, the worldview still hasn't been set.

Don't worry, the second arc will focus most of its story on battles, worldview and what is the purpose of all this happening, to both THE MC and THE MIRROR MONSTERS.

Thanks for reading.

Try my other books as well.

Mainly Blue Silver Grass series and Riolu's trainer.