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Kio was fighting hard. He got knocked back into a tree. He groaned and stood shakily. He was bruised and sore all over. The rino kept charging, and kio barely managed to dodge now. The grongi laughed and used its powerfull horn to toss kio into the air, and he landed hard on the ground. "Gah! damn it...cant move...this thing is too strong. Oh what i wouldn't give for a core medal power boost..."

Kio groaned and tried to get to his feet. "Oh yeah..fine..if you call feeling like your whole body is made up of ground beef okay. Ooo..damn this thing is tough, my hits had no effect on its hide."

The grongi got up and growled. He was furious that his fight was interrupted.

((Yes i am controlling him. i wanted to see how well i can controll a monster.))

The grongi bellowed and stomped the ground. It then lowered its head and charged in horn down. Kio stood and moved out of the way, needing to recover a little. "Carefull dude...its strong. And watch out for the horn..realy hurts."

((Since night went quickly, we can save such a battle for later. That or you can say one of the characters noticed the ending part or something. This post takes place at nighttime before the grongi attack.))

*In a large field, a foggy mist obscured vision heavily. The faint silhouettes and colors could be seen and every now and then a quick burst of laser light would show more pieces of the action going on. A teal rider who's outline looked a lot like Era's but quite different in it's own respect was locked in combat with a crimson rider who looked equally similar to Era. The two locked blades, slashing now and again before the swords flung away from a large swing made by them both. Immediately, they two began punching, kicking and blocking each other.

During their melee, the teal rider pulled out a gun and fired it into the chest, point blank, of the red rider. The shotgun fired a spray of shots which knocked the rider back, sparking the mist a bit but not greatly. The red rider recovered nearly instantly and responded with a short burst of speed, rushing in past a missed shotgun blast and doing a charged Rider Punch move which sent the teal silhouette crashing backwards. The two stood off for a moment, as if glaring each other down before their belts both shouted something. The shouting was illegible and, despite no actions from the two, suddenly a mass of other shadows and colors filled the area. The teal rider had an array of what appeared to be riders, a large army of more armored and human looking forms. However, the red rider had a much larger militia and given their shapes and coloring, it seemed like a force of various monsters.

The two looked on as the large armies converged on each other. The misty field lit up more, but barely hinting what was actually at work. Various noises of war came from the fog, including laser blasts, the sounds of metal smashing metal in an attempt to slay the other and screams of agony as those who were defeated got cast from the battle. The battle lasted several hours it felt like and as the roar of fighting settled down, the two riders rushed in to fight each other again. Slashing through the enemies in their way, the two once again met swords in the middle of the conflict, slashing and parrying each others movements until the red one gained the upper hand and slashed the teal rider several times over.

During the fireworks display of sparks that burst from his armor, the teal rider pulled out his shotgun again and fired it into the head of the red rider launching him back from the assault. The red rider's helmet broke away, revealing glowing red and sinister looking eyes. This was the most visible thing in the dream so far, until the helmet pulled forth blocks of black, red and crimson. The blocks meshed into the helmet and became pixelated digitally, reforming the helmet and obscuring vision once more.

A second wave of forces were beginning to appear as darkened forms in the fog, this time with no shouting from the belt. Once again, the red one had a larger array of monsters behind him, but this time a large force of monsters were helping the teal rider. The two converged in battle and once again the noise of combat and defeat were heard. The teal rider tried standing back up but it felt like each slash of the sword added two tons of weight to the armor. A second, different looking teal rider came rushing in from behind him, going through all the monsters like a ghost and rushing to fight the red rider. The two locked in battle as the form of the first teal rider broke away, beginning to look exactly like the shape of Era's outfit.

As he struggled to get up, a hand reached out to help the first teal rider up. The rider grasped the hand trying to save him, hoping to get assistance as much as he could. As he was pulled up, the fighting quieted down and the monsters all turned towards the teal rider. Behind the wave of fighting monster armies the second teal and crimson rider were locked in combat still, exchanging blows better than the first teal rider had done and in fact looking to begin winning this skirmish. Still struggling to get to his feet, he turned to look to who was helping him. Before he could see the figure, the other hand of his would-be helper came smashing through the helmet.

In that instant, Hiraku shot up out of bed and began panting heavily. After a moment, he regained his normal breathing and looked around while being very on edge. Though he felt no presence of anything around and knew that no threat would attack him in this moment, he was very on guard. He had been having horrible nightmares that affected his sleep for some time, but since being pulled to this world he had the same two re-occurring nightmares.

Getting out of bed after the failed attempt at getting decent rest, he decided to do the only thing which helped him somewhat relax while here and take a walk in public. As he walked, he thought of previous experiences and began to drift off into thinking about what the dreams were trying to tell him. Before he drifted off too much, he shook himself out of it and decided to find somewhere populated where he could sit and sort things out a bit. Finding a nice spot that usually had people, was outside and was not the meeting place with Eiji, he sat down and ordered his regular order of a large thing of coffee and a glass of wine or some form of alcohol. Relaxing back in the seat, he watched traffic go by and began to let himself drift off into the various thoughts filling his mind.*



*Hours seemed to pass as Hiraku sat in the cafe, drifting off and sipping on the coffee he ordered, his mind went to his last three years. When he first received the Era Driver, the battles and the turns that lead him to beating several great evils and now being stuck here with more problems than ever rang through his mind. It bothered him that there were still many things he had to do in other worlds as well as being trapped, much less that his belt was malfunctioned again. After winding down a bit, he took a deep sigh before looking to the glass of untouched wine. As he reached out to grab it, he hesitated and stopped. He noticed something off about it, vibrations shown through the liquid that weren't normal for traffic passing by.*

... Not n-
*Before he could finish saying what he wanted to say, he rolled back out of his chair as a large web smashed through the ground below him and swiped up the entire table and seating area he was just in, pulling it into the ground and causing tables and people nearby to flip over. People ran off screaming, many panicking and dropping what they were doing to flee the area. Those who were still standing around to see what was going on or to take pictures suddenly turned tail and ran themselves as several spider-like monsters began emerging from the ground. They looked like the molted worm from before, only much less detailed and more like a pupil form.

Hiraku quickly put the driver around his waist and took out a card. One of the spiders rushed him, but he managed to knee it in the chest then side kick it over into a spilled over table, breaking it and smashing some plates in the process.* Henshin! *Slotting the card into his belt and a series of special effects later, the teal rider known as Era emerged. The instant he did, another one of the spider pupils charged at him. Taking out a sword weapon, Era slashed the oncoming worm and sent them back into the others, immediately doing a roll to the left afterwards. A large web came smashing through the ground again where he just was, breaking apart the rode and causing a large mess of debris. Era took out a gun with his other hand and shot forward, blasting several of the spider creatures while they were still stunned. The rifle shots connected and knocked a few back down the hole, those that didn't fall over began to charge again.*

This location isn't proving too good...
*He put away the sword and snapped his fingers. Instantly after doing so, a bike came screaming out of no where, smashing into one of the oncoming worms and knocking them down the second hole. Era quickly jumped on his bike and took off as a third hole was made from another underground attack, speeding off down the road to avoid anymore attacks. The spiders made worm-like noises before managing to barely groan words like "revenge" and "hunt". As this happened, they began to grow pieces onto their bodies and grew out spider-legs on their backs. Some were too deformed however, and were immediately eaten by the others. The three that survived this processes, turned their attention to the direction Era had just gone in. Using their new legs, the remaining spider monsters took off after Era.

Era turned back to see them following him, then sped off more on his bike wanting to shake them if he could. Swerving through the minor traffic around, he waited till a good long road came ahead of him. Looking back again, he saw people crashing and freaking out over spider monsters charging through the road at high speeds. Aiming his gun behind him and facing forward again, Era nonchalantly fired behind himself, shooting into one of the spiders. The spider withstood the shots, only slowing a bit, before a stray shot blasted one of the spider legs off and caused the spider to tumble into a building, causing minor damaged but knocking it out of the race battle. As it got up to try chasing again, something pulled it underground.

Era arrived at a deserted location outside of town. Though he liked hiding in a populated area, he didn't want to draw normal people into this anymore than he had to. Getting off his bike, he waited for the spiders to catch up. The two came rushing towards him, not stopping in speed. Era's rifle shifted it's barrel around quickly, being brought up at the same time to meet one of the spiders point blank and fire, exploding it instantly. The close range explosion knocked Era and the remaining spider monster backwards, but Era took less of the blast and was able to get up right away. As the spider monster began getting up, webbing came up through the ground and pulled it down to be eaten by the "mother" monster which spawned the others. It had devoured the others and was now ready to emerge from the ground.

A deformed, mole-spider monster came up from the ground, losing part of it's body into sand clumps which pulled back into it's body. It roared out a bit, shedding pieces and sand before it stumbled out. Much less a monster and more humanoid, the monster shambled towards Era.*
I see what you are now.... and before you can help anything like you I'm going to ensure your put down.
*Taking out the two cards from his previous fight, Era tossed them in the air and stood smugly towards the monster which began building speed and running towards him. He fired the shotgun again, causing the monster to stop it's advancement and block with a shield of webbing to allow his belt to catch and pull in the cards to do it's stuff. This time, both cards were pulled in at the same time. "CROSS KAMEN RIDE" the belt shouted as it summoned a single rider from the two cards.

The spider-mole ran at Era again, but was met with a hammer which hit with such impact it flung the monster into the air. The monster was pulled from the air into a glave weapon, slashing it and driving it into the ground. Swung like a golf club, the hammer smashed the monster again, launching it in the air and sending it into some garbage that had been left out in the area. An orange and red mix-armor rider stood in between Era and the spider-mole, the result of Atlas and Magnos being a single rider. The extra Atlas armor and hammer casted off into being the sleeker, axe based rider form. The spider-mole monster howled out, glowing red and clocking up, rushing towards Era to try and eliminate him. This effort was met once again by the combined rider who clocked up and parried his advances with slashes from the glave and axe weapon. The added power of Atlas to Magnos' Para Form caused the glave's attacks to be much stronger.

After taking a few hits, the spider-mole saw an opening and spun a web around itself, rotating quickly into a drill and flying towards Era past his bodyguard. "FULL CHARGE - RIDER CHOPPING" sounded from the mix-rider, as the glave lit up red, halting the movement of the spider-mole enough to keep him from escaping a powerful axe chop which sent it flying out of the air and out of it's webbing as well as clock up. It struggled to it's feet, pieces of itself warping a bit and bursting off as the color settled from from being pure red. The combined rider disappeared as Era walked towards the crippled monster.*

I'll finish you myself. Be thankful, despite what you are. *He slot in a card to his belt. "FINAL ATTACK RIDE" the belt chimed as a series of large, digital cards appeared in front of him. He leapt up, into the cards, and began sliding through them like Decade's rider kick. However, these ones curved around the monster as he flew through them and elevated him at the same time. The spider-mole panicked and immediately looked behind it. Seeing nothing, it looked up quickly, followed by looking around even quicker. Realizing where he was, it slowly looked down to see the image of the same digital card. Emerging from below the monster, Era rider kicked upwards and smashed through it and webbing it had attempted to use a split second before it was impacted. Landing on the ground a bit away, the explosion and final defeat of the monster occurred behind him.*
Thanks for the idea, but don't trash the only place I can stand in town.

*Standing for a moment, he attempted to fight the rush from fighting. His instincts said to go fight some more, but he knew nothing else was around for now. The last of those that had been following him had been eliminated finally, but he still couldn't shake the urge to fight. Letting out a scream and kicking an abandoned trash can over, he stood for a moment more. He knew that he couldn't sweep up in this feeling, or it could be a bad thing for himself and those around him. He stood around some more before going to his bike and riding off, back towards town.*

*Era continued to drive towards town, his mind not focused well. The fang boomerang smashed into him and knocked him off his bike, causing him to roll on the ground a bit before getting to a knee and looking around. The bike stopped in place once he was knocked off. Era mumbled to himself as he took out his rifle*
There are more of those pests? ...
*Part of him was annoyed, though part of him was excited to have something else to fight.*

*As the fang came towards his gun hand, he quickly swiped with the rifle. As he swung it, the handle tilted back a bit and became more like a handle for a sword-type weapon. As he followed through, he hit the fang with the gun and a loud clang came from the attacks meeting. The rifle looked similar to a bat once he swung it, the metal top and bottom acting as a metal bat side to deflect such attacks.*
Nice ambush, though is it fitting for a Kamen Rider?
*Era had stood up fully after having knocked the second attack away and with the attack, knew the direction of the attacker. He would have asked if those monsters were his minions, but noticed the type of rider he was.*
Is your memory going or something? *Eras stance turned nonchalant for a moment as he said this, an attempt to throw off the attacker.*

We all have day jobs, don't we? I know yours, but do you have any idea who I am?
*Era tried to bait the person more, throw them off their game by telling them he knew who they actually were. A second after it sunk in and they might be responding, he quickly jolted the rifle's handle back into a gun position and fired several shots from the rifle towards the other rider as he jumped onto his bike again.*