//------------------------------// // Welcome to the Abyss: Part 1 // Story: My Little Imperer: Friendship isn't Bought // by KamenRider //------------------------------// Chapter 3: Welcome to the Abyss: Part 1 The stunning number of Abyss that had swarmed the Mirror World was quite amazing in all honesty. Imperer saw all of them heading out toward the closest source of food, Ponyville. Despite all that had happened, this opportunity to start over is just what Mitsuru needed plus the fact that he needed to feed more of his Gigazelles. The Abyss types of Mirror Monsters were quite dangerous, and came as two different versions: the Abysshammer and the Abysslasher. The impressive amount of monster rivaled his own contracts to Gigazelle and its brothers. Not wanting to waste his Advent card immediately he decided to wait and head closer to the village. Using a back road, he slowly made his way toward mirror Ponyville. There was no way he could single handedly defeat that many monsters on his own. Those ponies had to be tough enough, especially if Fluttershy lived right on the edge of the forest of the damned. He sighed and continued the trek to the abandoned village. Upon his arrival, he had finally come to realize the mass amounts of Abyss. There had been even more in the small town. “Let’s do this.” Imperer said to himself as he leapt out into the open, from his hiding spot. Several of the Abysses immediately reacted to the Kamen Rider. Roaring out, a group of Abysslashers came running at him. Hopping into the air, he came down on one of the creatures with his knee out. Smashing down on the face he quickly recovered from his fall and kneed another of the Abysslashers in the abdomen. Its brothers did not take kindly to the gazelle Rider, so they began to take the offensive with their own saw-like swords. He attempted to block, but the three slashers proceeded to strike quickly at the Rider. Imperer was forced back by the five sharks coming at him. He drew a card from his deck and quickly inserted it into his knee. “Strike Vent” A large drill like device, similar to the top of a Gigazelle’s spear, suddenly equipped to Imperer’s leg. The drill began to spin and he began to kick at the oncoming sharks. He managed to strike at several of them, causing them to fall back from the attack. However, more began to surface from other areas of the town. Quickly, he leapt forward and struck the closest creature in the head with his drill. It began to spin and the monster began to roar out in pain, and also fell back from the immediate line. Suddenly a large burst of bullets hailed down on Imperer. He looked above to see several Abysshammers launching a full scale assault on him. Using his ability to jump higher than most Riders, he quickly leapt up and struck them with spin hook kick, with the Strike Vent making it much worse for the monstrous sharks. Unfortunately, he was hit by an approaching Abysslasher and forced off the top of the building, throwing him back into the swarm. “Damn it, there’s too many of them. I can’t beat them like this. I need to rethink my strategy and regroup.” Mitsuru panicked and quickly jumped high, over the heads of many of the sharks. He had already taken enough damage from the Abyss. Finding the closest reflective surface, a window to a large gingerbread looking building, he dove into it and slid to the real world. … Imperer slid out the other side, directly into the real world. Falling to the ground, Mitsuru could already tell he was weak from the wound on his abdomen, but also from the most recent beating he had received. He drew yet another card and inserted it into his knee Visor. “Strange Vent” He reinserted the card into his Visor. “Clear Vent” He had initially hoped his Strange Vent would turn out to be something a little better than Clear Vent, but it would allow him to not be spotted immediately. He looked into the window he had just jumped through, only to see the congregation of the Abyss. They were readying for an invasion, to completely eat every living creature for their life essence. “These things are tough. I’m going to need a lot of help.” Under his invisible guise he began to navigate the busy streets without bumping into anyone. His own stop to think was broken by a loud scream. He looked to where he had heard only to see the invasion already beginning. “No not right now.” The sharks began to pour out from the windows of the gingerbread house, in chase of Imperer. His own Clear Vent broke off and the Abyss spotted him. Sucking up the pain, he ran forward into battle with the trio of Abyss that broken in. The three were all slashers and their six combined swords were more than enough to strike at Imperer freely, with no blocks. When he turned and attempted to attack one of them, the two others struck from behind. “Spin Vent” he quickly equipped his most used weapon against the Abyss and started to fight against the monsters in retaliation. “Come on Twilight, this way!” Rainbow Dash called out, approaching to battle zone of the four combatants. “I’m running as fast as I can, Rainbow.” Twilight said in reply, galloping toward her friend. “We’re too late.” Rainbow said. “Too late for what? What did you even need me for….” Twilight said as she approached. What she saw was unexpected. There were three tall shark monsters fighting a single tall gazelle monster. One of the sharks quickly stabbed at the gazelle with its sword causing it to fly back at Dash and Twilight. It struggled to get back up, as Rainbow quickly flew by it. “Mitsuru, get up! What are those things?” “Those are the Abyss, shark type monsters from Mirror World.” Imperer quickly explained, finally getting to his own two feet. “Why are they beating you? I thought you were really tough.” “It’s a matter of numbers now. There’s a lot more in Mirror World right now, and they’re itching to feed.” Imperer explained, seeing Twilight. “Is that your friend?” “Yeah that’s Twilight. Fluttershy’s getting our other friends.” “Wait, Rainbow you know this thing?” Twilight asked, completely confused to what was going on. “No time to explain. I need to finish these three first.” Imperer said quickly. He drew a card from the deck on his belt and quickly threw it into his knee visor. “Final Vent” Much to the surprise of Twilight, many gazelle creatures flooded out of the windows of the abandoned town. There was one in the lead of the pack as they stampeded Sugar Cube Corner and the three Abyss. Rainbow picked Twilight up as Imperer stood in the middle of the stampede. The three Abyss were overpowered by the sheer amount of Gigazelles. Leaping forward in the air, Imperer delivered three consecutive knee strikes to the three sharks, destroying them. “Now all of you lead the Abyss further away from this town! Do this and feed!” Imperer yelled out to his gazelles, they roared in agreement and returned to the Mirror World. Looking into the window, Imperer saw the Gigazelles leading the Abyss away from the town. This would only be temporary until the creatures came back looking for food. Many of the ponies who had hidden in their homes had watched the stampede that Imperer led. He turned around to Twilight and Rainbow. Imperer saw that Fluttershy and the others had also arrived to see him perform his finale. “That was so AWESOME!” Rainbow said to Imperer, who was still standing there. “What was that?” “Now wait Rainbow, how do you know this thing?” Twilight asked. “I can explain later.” Imperer said, quickly. His armor shattered off his body to reveal a brutally beaten body. His vision began to fade. “I can tell you lot everything, just…” his vision blackened completely and he collapsed to the ground. “Girls, come on we have to help him!” was the last thing Mitsuru heard before he completely lost consciousness. … “Final Vent” Ouja came running at Imperer. Back flipping into Venosnaker’s mouth, which then launched Ouja at Imperer. Ouja proceeded to bicycle kick Imperer into a wall, where his deck fell to the ground and shattered. In his deep sleep this is what continuously played. He kept seeing that damned Rider killing him. No matter how much he tried to change it in his mind, it always turned out with him dying. The cruel fates had done this to Mitsuru, and he couldn’t forgive. The darkness faded and Mitsuru opened his eyes. … He woke up in what appeared to be a hospital. He once again wondered where he was. Nobody seemed to be in the room with him. His wounds from the battle with the Abyss seemed to have been treated. Looking around, he saw a reflection in the window. It was different from a monster and seemed to be a Rider. The Rider was dressed in light blue and seemed to be egging him on. It was something like he wanted him to enter Mirror World and join him, Mitsuru ignored this however, because he was not in the mood to do anything. Suddenly, the door opened to the room and a doctor walked into the room. “I see you’re doing well. I was wondering when you would wake up.” the doctor said, magically floating a pen and clipboard closer to him. Mitsuru didn’t question it. “Yeah I guess I am. How long was I out?” “A couple of days. When Twilight and her friends brought you in here, you were pretty beaten. I’ve never seen anything like you however, so we had to make you a custom made hospital gown.” “Thanks, I guess. So where is the lot that brought me here?” Mitsuru asked, hoping to see his two new acquaintances. “Only Twilight is here and that’s because she’s been hardwired into meeting you ever since you came. Would you like me to fetch her?” “Sure, I could use some company.” Mitsuru said in reply to the doctor. He nodded and walked out of the room. Mitsuru returned to looking at the window. The black Rider was gone, but there was seemingly something on the floor. Getting up from his bed, he looked down to see it was an Advent Card. He quickly picked it up and observed it. “What is this?” The card had a picture of a pink Kamen Rider on it, and he was seemingly imprisoned. The care was titled as Seal. Someone had sealed a Kamen Rider in this card. At the same time he was looking at the card, someone had entered the room. Mitsuru saw that it was the purple pony from when he fought the Abyss. “You’re Twilight Sparkle, right?” Mitsuru asked. “Oh my gosh! You remembered my name.” Twilight said excitedly. “Yes I am, and I have so many questions to ask you!” “Fantastic.” Mitsuru deadpanned. “What do you want to ask?” “Well first I want to know what you are. I’ve never seen anything like you in any of my books.” she said approaching Mitsuru and studying him. “I’m a human. That’s what I technically am.” “A human. Okay, got it.” she said quickly, scribbling down notes on a notepad. “Second question, what’s that card in your hand?” Mitsuru froze up. “I don’t really know. All I know is that it has something to do with him.” “Who’s him? Is it related to those sharks and gazelles from a couple days ago?” “I’m not quite sure myself. Who was that, and why did he leave this?” Mitsuru questioned himself. “You want a look?” Mitsuru asked to Twilight, who quickly shook her head up and down. He threw the card to her and she caught it with her magic. She studied the card for a short while before piping up. “He kind of looks like you did when you had that weird armor on. What exactly did happen back there?” “Gather your friends and I’ll explain then. I don’t really feel like repeating this a second time.”