Prologue: The Rider War
“Advent.” a electronic voice said aloud as a large tiger monster appeared. The tiger readied its claws and proceeded to grab on to a brown armored man, Kamen Rider Imperer. Imperer had previously been offensively attacking Kamen Rider Ryuki. The creature began to drag Imperer, head-first, into the concrete curbs. After dragging him several times, the monster let go and jumped away. He began staggering to get up from the sudden attack.
“Hey.” said another Rider, dressed in blue and white armor. Imperer looked down to see the other Rider had stabbed him in the abdomen with large tiger claws, equipped to his hands.
“You!” Imperer said shakily, pain flooding into his system from the combined attacks of the monster and its master.
“Sorry. Since you are important to me. If I defeat you… I might become even stronger.” the blue Rider, Tiger, said to Imperer.
“No way…” Imperer said in reply, shaking from the claws still resting in his body. He was weak and unable to remove the claws from his body.
“Hey stop it!” a third voice chimed in. The red Rider, Ryuki, jumped in and grabbed onto Tiger. He began to pull him away from Imperer. “Run! Run!” he yelled out. Imperer nodded and began to stagger away from the two Riders.
He eventually made it toward a small hill. Finally out of breath, he collapsed and fell down the hill. Face down, he got to his knees and weakly stood back up. “What’s with that guy?! What’s he thinking?!” He collapsed to the ground, once again.
From the opposite side of him, another Rider appeared and slowly walked toward him. Imperer did not notice, however, because he was still looking to make sure Tiger was not after him. He got back up once again and sprinted forward, but once again collapsed. The purple Rider in front of him drew a card from his Card Deck.
The purple Rider, Ouja, laughed evilly. Imperer continued forward, crawling on the ground, whimpering in pain. He finally got up, only to look in front of him to see a giant purple cobra shooting Ouja at him. He turned around to run away only for Ouja to ram into his back with a devastating bicycle kick. Imperer flew into the wall of a building and his Card Deck fell to the ground and shattered. His armor disappeared.
Rain began to appear in the Mirror World and Imperer’s true form, Sano Mitsuru, began to stagger about. Crawling to a mirror, he looked through it to see his date from earlier in the day. “Yuri-san! Yuri-san! Help me! Help me! Yuri-san! Yuri-san!” he yelled out, but she did not hear the pleads of the man. He leapt to his feet and smashed the mirror with his foot.
He grabbed a single shard of the mirror and began to crawl up the hill, toward the bridge. He attempted to locate his date in the other world, but found it hard as he writhed in pain. “Help me! Yuri-san! Help me!” he continuously called out. “I’ve got to return to my world!”
He looked at the glass only to see his hand disintegrating into the Mirror World. Death was inevitable since he no longer had his Rider Armor. “No! Help me! Help!” he called out once again. Now his entire body was beginning to lose itself to the world of mirrors. “Why is this happening? I… I… just wanted to be happy…” his final words faded as his body disappeared. The piece of mirror fell to the ground and shattered. Sano Mitsuru was dead. It was a silent end to the man, with his date and bird alone.
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Two eyes shot open in the darkness of the Everfree Forest. A hand grabbed onto the closest tree to the owner. Sano Mitsuru was still in immense pain from the onslaught that had occurred earlier and now found himself long gone from the bridge where he had died.
“Where am I? Is this real?” he spoke aloud. His legs gave out, once again feeling a sharp pain in his abdomen. “Damn it, I took care of him and he does this. My happiness… gone.” he slammed his fist into the ground and screamed out. His hand slid to his coat pocket. It felt different. Through the sound of silence he could hear the sound of running water. He groaned and began to crawl toward it.
The moon was full and the water was clear. Easy enough to see the damage of what Tojo had done to him. Weirdly enough, he was no longer wearing the clothing he had when he fought earlier. The clothes he donned were the ones he wore before he came rich, via his father’s will. He wore a brown shirt, with a red plaid button up shirt over it. His legs covered by his old blue jeans. He felt something in his pocket, too. Assuming it to be his wallet, he pulled it out.
“Why? What is this joke? Why is this happening!” he yelled out to the darkness, as he dropped the Imperer Card Deck to the ground. It was supposed to be gone, but there it was, right in front of him. He picked it up and examined it closer. It looked just as it did earlier, with no cracks. “How is this happening? I need to get out of this place and head toward civilization.” He said aloud. He once again clutched his stomach and lifted up his shirt to reveal a large non-bleeding cut. “I need help-” his thought was cut off.
He looked to wear he had heard the sound. Several pairs of large yellow eyes were there. Using his brain he concluded that the creatures staring at him in the darkness were wolves. He was in no condition to fight, however he had to escape these things. He looked over to the pool of water and pulled out his Card Deck. He crossed his hands and showed them to the water. Suddenly, a silver belt appeared from within the water and attached to his waist. His free hand was changed to the sign of horns and he yelled out.
“HENSHIN!” he placed the Card Deck into his belt and three mirror versions of Imperer’s armor converged onto his body. The armor consisted of brown metal plates located on his body, a knee plate visor, and a helmet that had two large horns protruding out of it. He yelled out and ran forward toward the approaching wolves.
From the trees, four wolves leapt out from the darkness. Imperer leapt forward to punch the closest one, only for him to feel something other than flesh. It was solid like wood.
“The hell is this thing made of. It feels like I just punched wood.” he said aloud as he hopped higher into the air. He bounced on the heads of the ‘Wood Wolves’ as he named them. They seemed more annoyed than hurt. “Okay, so head bouncing is out of the question. What else can I do… Oh yeah!”
Using one of the wolves as a jumping board he bounced to the branch of the closest tree. He proceeded to draw a single card from his deck and slid it into his knee Visor. “Advent.”
Suddenly the water began to ripple. Using the water as a reflective surface, several monsters jumped out of the river. The monsters were collectively known as the Gigazelles, and they quickly began to swarm the Wood Wolves. After the attack of the five monsters, only one Wood Wolf remained. Sano assumed it to be the alpha male.
“You get a special treatment; after all, you did try to attack me.” Imperer said with a disappointed tone and drew a last card from his deck. He pulled his knee up to his torso and inserted the card into it. “FINAL VENT”
The Wood Wolf jumped at Imperer only to be stopped by a Gigazelle. There were a lot of them, more so than the original five that had come. It was a complete stampede as the collective gazelle monsters swarmed the alpha male, with Imperer coming in close. Mitsuru jumped onto one of the heads of his gazelles and leapt forward at an amazing speed.
Putting his hands out he grabbed onto the male’s head and rammed his knee into it, causing it to completely break.
“That was worth more trouble than it was.” Imperer said to himself as the gazelles flooded back into the river. He began to walk, his armor shattering off his body, and eventually found what could be considered a path. He noticed a single sign on the path and he bent down and attempted to read it. “Ponyville: 1 mile that way.” He looked down the path to see more darkness. “Despite that name, I don’t think I want to stay here any longer than I have to.” Sucking in his fear of the unknown he trekked on to the mysterious town of Ponyville.
ok I would have never expected a fan fiction crossover of mlp and ryuki, but this sounds like a awesome idea I hope you continue with it. i wonder how the ponys will react
2788539 I do enjoy crossing things over with Ryuki. I finally decided to write one between these two series, as I highly enjoy them.
2788554 I hope you continue it, a lot of kamen rider/mlp fics tend to die out,
oh and is it just goin got be imperer or will tezuka, scissors and gai also be in this
also you might want to change the descpription you gave the story, (the description that appears on equestrian dailys home page) because most people don't even know who imperer is or even heard of kamen rider to begin with, the story description on the storys page is much better, because it tells abit about who he is, which I think would get more people to read it
2788634 Mitsuru is the main character, but I plan I trying to put all the Riders in since they all died.
Looking really good so far. Felt a little fast paced but it works perfectly as a prologue and, on that note, let me tell that you did a great job capturing Mitsuru's last moments. To me that's easily one of the saddest scenes in any Rider series. Hopefully he'll get some happiness back in Equestria. Can't wait to see what happens.
2788649 Mitsuru doesn't get enough love, and I really don't see why he wasn't one of the Riders to end up in the epilogue as he isn't really a villain in the end.
2788664 Yeah, that's really something that needs to be answered. Scissors and Gai weren't there either so maybe it's because they died in the Mirror World, though Raia still came back if I recall so that's unlkely. Anyway, I'm very interested to see how Mitsuru deals with feeding his herd of monsters before they turn on him.
2788637 well I wouldn't have it any other way actually,
2788705 yeah I wonder how all the riders will handle feeding their mirror monsters actually, mabey going to the ever free and cleaning up some predators
when you intropduced tiger you should have also told that his name was tojo, remember most people on this site don't know about kamen rider. also I feel some of the descriptions were kinda off, for example when tiger impaled imperer with his claws you didn't mention him lifting imperer up with the claws: so it makes it odd when you put that imperer was looking down at tiger
also I think it would be good to explain a bit more about how the mirror world and the powers work in the story, because unless the information is known before hand it would make the story confusing to average readers. so I think you should edit the chapter and describe a bit more of the events going on and how things work.
2789355 I'm sure he will later on when he meets the ponies. Honestly I think that bit of mystery works for a prologue. true, if I haven't seen Ryuki I'd be wondering why an axe was talking but it'd still be fun to see when he explains it.
2789626 Very first line of the story. It's Tiger's weapon announcing the name of the card he used.
2789643 well in the show the way the riders access their special attacks are things called "visors" that range from weapons to just a part of their armor, once they slip a card into the visor it will announce the effect of the card, for example the "advent card" summons the riders contract monster to aid in battle , while the "final vent" initiates their finishing moves. I just think that the story could use a bit more description, even if it does work somewhat there still has to be enough information to make it accessible to the ordinary reader who knows nothing of kamen rider.
I still think that overall this is a good start, I just don't want the story to be affected by lack of information. although I understand that it would be difficult to put in information when bringing a character from a whole other world into a different one, especially when that time is near the end of ryukis story. but nothetheless I cant wait to see how the author will take this story. (sorry if I sounds a bit rough, I just want this to be a good story)
2789682 As the prologue I purposely left some of that information. The oncoming Chapter 1 will have Mitsuru meeting first pony, saving said pony, and explaining a little more about what he had just done. I can always re-write the prologue with more information, if you wish.
2789781 i wasn't sure if it was youre intention, but i feel that it would be better to put more for the sake of anyone who doesn't know much about kamen rider. leaving information out is fine(the actuall kamen rider series usually leave out information in the first episode too), its just you still want to give some idea of whats going on to people who either don't know much or nothing at all. i don't mean to be pushy, but i just think it would make the story more accessable. either way i cant wait for the next chapter, do youre best
2789833 Okay thank, I'll keep that in mind. Nice to see people who actually get excited about my stories for once!
2789857 no problem! you have a interesting idea here and I just want to see the story be good/great , but its kinda hasty to judge it by just the prologue. also kamen rider stories are really rare, its almost just as rare that people use the actual characters from the series instead of self-inserts/OCs, or pony riders.
2789890 I personally hate using self-inserts. I have a couple of on going OC ones, though. I prefer crossovers to be actual crossovers with the series itself.
2790052 I'm with you there. Self-inserts can be okay if they're written well enough, I have a friend writing one that's pretty good, but having the actual characters meeting and interacting is the best kind of crossover in my opinion.
Also, if you don't mind me throwing in my two cents, if you do decide to re-write the begining consider going into detail about Imperer's relationship with Tiger, putting what he said into context. The first part reads almost like a transcript of the episode so that might add a little emotion to the moments leading up to his death.
2790052 i agree, a lot of kamen rider crossovers i see have self inserts instead of the characters
2790096 i think that is a good idea,