Shortly before the Elemental Beast
Kei walked along with a few of his friends, checking out the sights and sounds of Tokyo. His hands stuffed in his pockets and openly leering and looking around, Kei thought about how the world had gone so totally crazy, but at the end of the day at least he had this. He had friends from before the event, and what he enjoyed. He checked out a few of the passing women more quietly even as his two friends made more vocal asses of themselves.
Kei had on hand an old style ipod with one earphone in his ear just so he'd be able to hear what other people were saying while also getting his music fix as well. When you peel back my eyes - I see the pain and feel alive
It was a simple life he led. One he didn't really question any more. Even after what happened, he was intent on living as he pleased. If he had to change and fight, he'd do that when he had to. He was no hero. He might be a menace. I mean, Kei figured, Japanese society already figures me for a menace. I'm a delinquent.
Kei looked at one particular woman and grinned lasciviously. Yeah she had a nice big bust, and it looked like she knew where the party was at. Maybe he could get lucky tonight. Give it to me - don't take it from me
And then it seemed the worst time it could've happened, one of those freaky monsters made their entrance. His two friends of course quickly ran off, splitting before things could get much worse. Kei pulled his earbud out and looked around. The monster was obviously tearing shit up...
Idea. Fight and kill the monster. Get laid tonight on the back of the story of seeing it happen.
Kei immediately ran off into the nearest alleyway and, checking to make sure he was alone and nobody was looking his way, he gripped his belt. "Hen...shin!" For him transforming into Kamen Rider Genos was not always a fun experience. It resulted in a sensation like falling at first, while the material clamped on to him and covered his body.
But he was getting used to it. Before long, Kei was ready to go as Kamen Rider Genos. He rushed out of the alleyway and into the action, brandishing the sword that came with the gear.
Edited by NickTheSwing on Jan 2nd 2021 at 9:42:00 AM
AKA Nixer
Campbell Mechanics
It was perhaps a surreal experience to be tightening a bolt on a colossal wrench using another wrench, but for Max it was practically ritual by this point. As was her usual practice, the TV was on in the background, tuned to the local news channel—and it was thankfully only a small delay before she pegged onto the sound of explosions and chaos from the thing's speakers.
“...Son of a–” she hissed, tossing her smaller wrench aside as she began ransacking the small space for her Driver. “This crap again?! Zero, we got a monster! Some kinda Elemental!”
Finally finding her belt, she clipped it around her waist and grabbed her unitool; tossing a glance towards wherever Zero was before letting out a breath and making to activate her Driver. With a clipped yell of “Henshin!” she transformed—the metal plating that formed her suit quickly expanding and snapping into place around her.
“Alright. Zero, we heading out?”
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Zero
Zero was sitting in a chair in the back of room, watching the TV intently as she fidgeted with her belt. Ever since she'd been living with Maxine, she'd made a habit of watching the TV at every opportunity. Mostly because there was so much she didn't understand. By watching the news and other such programs, it granted her a better understanding of the world around her, and gradually enhanced her appreciation of it.
Though she couldn't understand why they kept pointing to crudely drawn symbols of suns and clouds as though they were the real thing. She had seen rain before, and it certainly wasn't a few pointed circles coloured blues. If they wanted to show rain or sunshine, wouldn't it be better to get the real thing?
...unless it was the real thing?
She made a note to commit to further research on this subject at a later date.
With Max's shouting, she sat up, standing perfectly still as she stiffly turned her neck and stared straight ahead. Under normal circumstances, she wouldn't have gotten involved. Not that she didn't feel discomfort at standing by and doing nothing. If she was present when the attack started, she'd probably be deep in the thick of it. But since she was safe and sound in Max's workshop, staying put was the logical approach.
But she couldn't allow her mechanic to come to harm. Not only was she the only person who could repair her if she suffered further damage, but she had come to value her company. If she became injured or beyond fixing, there would be a noticeable void she would not be able to repair. So she was determined not to let that happen.
"If you are heading out, then I will follow. I do not think this is the logical course of action, but I cannot allow you to come to harm." She stiffly held up her arm, touching the centre of her belt with the other and reciting her oath in as dull a monotone as possible. "Hen-shin a-go-go ba-by."
In moments she was suited up. Her face remained the same, but her hair changed to a bright neon pink. If her normal form was more like a robotic skeleton, then this better resembled a proper exterior. "I would also advise you not to take unnecessary risks, but I have learned that telling you such things is futile. Shall we go?"
An Ordinary Oddball
Kamen Rider Seamstress, Near Glitch
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a blue blur shot out from a nearby alleyway, stirring up dust and debris with its sheer speed and interposed itself between the Glitch and the older gentleman. "Please! Try to get up and run!" Kamen Rider Seamstress told the elderly man with some awkwardness, using using a form of keigo that was perhaps a bit too polite than what was called for at the moment. Still, she hoped he got the message. "Help other people get clear from this thing if you can! Children, women, whoever you can!"
Across the city, Seamstress could hear the mental screams for help dying down as other Kamen Riders arrived at the scene. Either that, or everyone present was dying. She shivered. However much she wished it, she couldn't be everywhere at once, but she was here now, and she would help to the best of her ability.
The thing fired another beam at her now, which was expertly parried upwards to do no harm to anyone or anything. Both Glitch and Rider began to circle one another now, looking for any opening with which to strike. The Rider looked fearful as she realized that this thing had no thoughts for her to read, and yet—
—the Glitch's sensors lost sight of the Rider!
Nancy boosted herself forcefully, cracking the pavement slightly with how much she was overdoing it, but she made herself keep going faster until she ran up the side of a building, jumping off the solid surface and doing a backflip as she reached the end of the line—
—and disappeared again, reappearing over the Glitch with her sword raised over her head!
She had used the momentum she had built up from her running start and the glimpse she was able to catch of it from her backflip to teleport over it, and was now bringing her sword to bear on what constituted the Glitch's "head." Seamstress' cape flared out in an imitation of a bird of prey swooping in for the kill, and her sword sang fiercely in her hands in anticipation of the incoming fatality it was about to deliver.
This, after all, was what a Rider was made for.
Edited by JumpingFruit on Jan 4th 2021 at 10:26:11 AM
I wear the skin of the Elder Things, having come unto my own.
Surrounded by weirdoes
INUYAMA DETECTIVE AGENCY
"Sorry, but chasing cryptids is something better done as a hobby, unless you want to look for a new career" A young voice said to the press.
—-
"You really are making the news, Fu-chan" A voice said, an older man with sunglasses and a rather simple red tuxedo. Leaning back, the older man saw a young man, barely out of high school wearing a shirt and blue pants reading some reports while drinking a cup of tea.
The boy just placed his cup down and leaned back, just leaving a shrug. The man nearly fell off the chair, with an exaggerated expression.
"SO COLD!" He yelled, waving his arms. "You should really be more open, Fu-chan, the press is on our tails again!"
"Next time you handle them" Fubuki said, taking a bite out of his lunch "If you didn't realize it would end badly, you might be getting on years, Inuyama-Kun" He noted how a robbery took place, but which are the most likely markets and transports...
That caused another scream, but the scene was interrupted by a third voice called out.
"Fubuki-kun, ossan!" A white-haired girl came out, handling a laptop. "Trouble"
The office felt smaller as the three stared at the image of a red bull monster out. The image seemed to come from the air.
"The Rav Cam seems to work really well" Fubuki said, slipping on his jacket and his glasses. "The Elemental Beast was in... got it" He ran outside. "Inuyama-Kun, Rei, hold the fort!"
"We might have more press!"
"Then they better get ready for a chase" Putting on a helmet, he jumped into a rather old and somewhat beaten bike, even if the roar of the engine revealed it still had many rounds left on it.
"Let's ride" As if a bullet was shot, the bike could barely be followed, riding it like the devil was chasing him. Dodging traffic and accelerating like nothing, he looked more like a beast hunting
These beasts... He thought, slipping a treasure chest-looking artifact on his waist, creating a shining belt that wrapped around him.
TREASURE DRIVER
His hand went to his face, miming pushing his glasses before pulling the lever on its side.
"Henshin!"
GARULU The sound of a drum filled the air.
The wind started picking up as a big sapphire wolf started chasing the bike before breaking up in a focused blizzard. the pieces formed armor that surrrounded the young detective, ending with a wolf like helmet. All of it caused a melody to fill the air alongside
SHINE ON! COOL STRIKE! IN THE FIERCEST BLIZZARD, THE BLUE BEAST HUNTS DOWN EVIL WITH A CHILLING HOWL! RISE, WILD WARRIOR
The warrior of ice took the place of the young man. Even the ride seemed to change, looking blue, lupine, shining on the sunlight. There were a few mysteries he couldn't figure out, yet, but the powers of the belt just kept surprising him. Finding a reasonable explanation to all this would be more of a challenge for a scientist more than a detective.
BEASTAL
"Now, time to hunt"
Wake me up at your own risk.
AKA Nixer
Campbell Mechanics
“Risks, schmisks. We'll be fine. There's a lot of civvies at risk, so what's two more Riders that can actually help, huh?” Maxine responded with a slight tilt of her head, before grinning beneath her mask and moving to throw open the front door. “Alright, let's go! Try and keep up, hmm?”
Kamen Rider Ratchet, Near the Elemental Beast
It was possibly hard to imagine anyone wielding a ridiculously oversized spanner to be good at parkour, but thanks to the greater manoeuvrability the suit granted her, Max more than excelled. Quickly becoming aware of the other Rider present, she aimed to flank the beast from the other side in order to attack it from a different angle—simply testing its hardiness with just her base unitool for now.
In other words, clocking it in the head with a giant wrench. No flashy moves, no special Rider shouts. Just a good ol' fashioned clocking, with a smidge of gleeful brutality in it for good measure.
Max sometimes wondered if she was a bad influence for Zero. But then she just stopped wondering.
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Bona-Fide Mastah
Rooftops. Near Glitch
A figure stands out against the city skyline, the wind causing their cloak to whip around them.
A phone pressed to their ear carries a voice, young and brimming with an equal amount of concern and skepticism.
Are you sure announcing our group’s name so openly like that, taichou?
The figure responds, their voice low, almost grainy, run through distortion. “It was simply in passing. ‘This will be handled by Geist, and Geist alone.’ And nothing else.”
The caller sighs, one could almost hear him facepalm.
You never were big on subtlety...they’re saying we sound like some terror cell online, you know?
They stifle a laugh, “You serious? Fufu-pfffehehehehe-!” Before breaking into snorting chuckles.
After they calm down, they sigh, pulling down the collar of the cloak, revealing the rough, yet distinctly feminine curve of her jawline. “Hah...kids these days...they’ll make anything a rumor these days...mill keeps turnin’”
Ansdale-taichou...I swear you get too into that servant of justice persona...what’d you call it? Baitman? Boatman
“Snrk-...close enough, Akiyama...close enough.”
Anyway...I called to tell you about those Monsters that just showed up...a Beast and a Gli-
“Yeah, I know.”
You...know? Taichou...where are you right now?
“Oh you know...”
Tara Ansdale pulls her collar back up.
“Just working.”
Dammit, tai-
-click!-
Stepping to the edge of the building, far above where the Glitch, and soon enough Seamstress, would be, Tara takes out the Gear Driver and straps it on.
“Now then...time to rev things up.”
Slamming a dark purple Vial into the slot as she turns the key on the side. A low, digitized voice growls out of the Driver.
As though taking it as an invitation, Tara leans forward, falling from the edge in a front flip. As the wind whips past her, the smoky violet armor encloses her form.
As her flip completes, the Machinal Buster slides down the rail on her left arm as Kamen Rider Murk takes aim between their legs and unloads three shots, grouped tightly, into the Glitch monster’s back.
Edited by Skyzerk on Jan 2nd 2021 at 6:45:12 AM
Zero
Before she could say another word, she was out the door. If she didn't know better, she'd almost say she was infuriated. But she quickly pushed such thoughts aside. If her mechanic was going to go and almost certainly get herself killed, then it was her duty to make sure she came back in one piece.
But that was easier said than done. As soon as they got there, Maxine went in and clocked them upside the head like a... like a what exactly?
She was trying to find some frame of reference for why such a move was idiotic, but she was coming up blank. The closest she got was from old cartoons and films she had saved on her hard drive, but there were just as many examples of that being the correct course of action. By that logic, either one was valid.
In perhaps the latest sign of her mechanic's influence, she decided to wing it.
"DUAL SWITCHBLADE MODE ON! JETSET MODE ON!" With those words, her hands sharpened and shimmered, turning into long and incredibly sharp blades that could slice through butter. A moment later, jetblasts shot out of her feet, shooting her towards the monster like a rocket. Blades at the ready, she swiped at the creature like cutting a blade of grass, not caring about whether she'd have a dead carcass lying at her fleet. This was Maxine's enemy, so it was her enemy. And that was all she needed to know.
Even so, she couldn't help but feel the slightest bit of glee as she near tore it to shreds. She briefly observed how she had never felt this way before staying at Maxine's, but shoved it aside as she prepared to turn it into mincemeat.
Perhaps there was some merit to taking risks after all.
Surrounded by weirdoes
In a blur, Beastal and his bike entered, with Beastal doing a spin on the air to hit the creature with the rear wheel.
"I am late to the party, I see" He commented looking at the other two Riders. He took note about the appearances of the tech based people, the suits themselves. A shiny one and one that brings to mind the legendary words about a certain smuggler's spaceship. Weapons, the way they moved... that could come handy later.
Pulling out a jeweled sabre with an eye on the hilt. He decided to make a simple move, if nothing else, it'll help him find some info.
Sutonbreaken...
He placed it near his Driver, with the lens shining, the blade started glowing with a cool blue aura.
ONE SIDE: ICE WAVE
He took a swing, letting out a frozen blue wave to hit and hopefully immobilize the target.
"There is a lot to find out about you" He said.
Wake me up at your own risk.
Up on Melancholy hill.
Elemental Beast - Flare Bull
The only thing that could be described to the Bull was a series of events that, in another setting, would have been seen as Comedic genius.
The first event that happened was in the middle of the beasts swing towards Kei's head, he found himself unable to move, unable to continue his arc. Looking down and finding the lower half of his body, along with his right arm completely frozen, he looked on in surprise and tried to pry his way free.
And when that didn't work, the massive wrench that came down onto his head with a comical, almost cartoonish CLANG. The force of the blow shattered the ice keeping him in place and struck him so hard, he hit the ground and then rebounded up into the air, where he was a sitting duck...
For the blades that belonged to Android and how it cut into him like there was no resistance at all. The only thing bellowing out of the beast was the wholly undignified bellow of pain as the combination of assaults sent it flying backwards, where it bounced off the ground once then struck a card with enough force to crush in its side.
Looking up a moment later, he looked at the situation it was currently stuck in. Four riders with murderous intent and to stop his wave of destruction. His chances of survival were growing slimmer and slimmer, and the beast knew the only thing it could do. A desperate move only for the desperate.
And boy oh boy was he desperate!
Eyes flashing bright orange, the creature slowly rose to its full height again, stumbling only a little to catch himself and as it rested a...hoof...on the car, the portion turned to slag immediately. And then the car itself turned to a puddle. And then, the ground underneath it began to crack and spiderweb outwards, spreading apart and revealing the glowing spots of magma underneath.
With another billow of rage, the creature threw its arms back and it began to heat up MORE. The air began to become wavey and harder to breath. The cars around it began to melt..
It was slowly reaching Meltdown, and would only get worse from here until something was done about it.
The Glitch
"Exterminate exterminate exterminate exterminate." The chanting digital voice continued on as it sprayed stream after stream of breakdown energy at the rather slippery creature that chose to defy its purpose. Entire sections of buildings were digitized, cars lost entire chunks of their beings and more than a few close calls with the civilians but thankfully, no casualties this time.
Catching sight of it, the Glitch fired one final beam at the annoying insect, digitizing the corner of the building she flung herself off of-
And for a moment, lost track of her, freezing for a moment. Then, likely much to Seamstress' surprise, the head turned around in a brutal 360, spinning to face the Kamen Rider as she tried to stab him in, and the beam of light began to fire from its ocular region-
BANG BANG BANG!
The rounds from Murk struck it with such force it didn't have an opportunity to right itself! The beam fired and missed Seamstress by only a fraction of a hair, shooting into the sky and thankfully hitting nothing! The sword continued its downward plunge and struck the eye dead and true, and the Glitch quickly recoiled back, breaking down into a series of 0's and 1's before appearing a few feet away, to catch it's "breath" as it were.
With the gaping hole in its head and the three massive bullet wounds in its chest, the Glitch looked far worse for wear. It tried to fire a beam but it had no such luck, sputtering emerald energy inside of its "head" before sputtering out into smoke but the creature remained "alive" all the while.
"Extermin-Extermina-Exterminate-ate-ate-ate-ate." He repeat, its sensors frying...
Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun?
An Ordinary Oddball
Kamen Rider Seamstress, Near Glitch
Twisting to avoid the beam that very nearly blew a hole through her body, missing only by a hair, Seamstress' sword cleaved halfway through the Glitch and withdrew, the magical girl Rider choosing to try and finish off the thing with a couple more swings of her blade.
"Ah, it's you, Murk! Thank you for the save, but what are you doing here?" she asked the other Rider that had chosen to join her over the din of battle. "I thought you liked to work alone...or am I interrupting something?"
Edited by JumpingFruit on Jan 11th 2021 at 1:42:41 AM
I wear the skin of the Elder Things, having come unto my own.
Surrounded by weirdoes
"Shit" Beastal muttered, with the green eyes shining for a second. His own body moved, jumping in front of it, the heat was getting unbearable.
"This is bad, back off!" He called out, his voice coming deeper than usual. This bull was a freaking bomb ready to explode. Moving like a man possessed, he pulled the lever again, held it there for a beat and let it go back into position. His body started to shine with a blue light, starting to concentrate on his right hand. The sound of an ethereal howl was heard. His knees bent as he prepared.
"This can't be allowed" His whole being rocketed forward, leaving a trail of ice behind him. When he was close enough, he let out a jumping uppercut, his arm being surrounded by a spectral wolf.
Should it connect, there would be a frozen monster, in a tower of ice.
Case closed
Edited by Blueace on Jan 6th 2021 at 7:06:12 AM
Wake me up at your own risk.
Zero
Zero was sure that would have done it. By all accounts, the monster should have been sliced to ribbons. That it wasn't was something she would have to ponder at a later date. For now, she needed to swiftly reduce this monster to atoms.
"BIGSHOT MODE ON." Soaring into the air, several large panels extended outward from her chest, revealing a larger power core underneath. "BIGSHOT LASTER A-GO-GO." With a flash of her blue her from cold lifeless eyes, an enormous blue laster shot forth from his chest, engulfing the monster in a tremendous blast of energy.
She told herself this was logical. That to protect her mechanic and the nearby civilians, she had to atomize this foul creature as quickly as she could. And besides. With this new arrival aiming to encase this creature in ice, he was undoubtedly a sitting duck.
That a small grin popped onto her face and a fire grew in her eyes whenever she blew stuff up had ''nothing to do with it.
Maxine would be proud.
Bona-Fide Mastah
Kamen Rider Murk, battling Glitch
Murk sticks a solid landing, unfolding from a deep crouch, responding to Seamstress in the same modulated voice, now with added helmet echo.
“One cannot live on solitude alone, not even me.”
Raising their rifle, they fire another trio of shots at the monster, strafing to the side as they do so.
“And I thought I told you that the battlefield is no place for a child!”
Your Lord And Savior
But did it even matter?
That was the question that resonated in the white haired boy’s mind as he watched the carnage. From his vantage point in a building, he saw everything. He watched.
He watched until he wished it to end.
“Henshin.”
As he willed it, the spear found itself into his hand, the comet found itself blazing into the beast’s backside, and his feet found themselves lifting from the cement.
Then came the swarm.
Like locusts, the spear burst into hundreds of needles. They descended upon the beast below, sinking into it’s body.
I am become dubstep, destroyer of taste
Up on Melancholy hill.
Elemental Beast - Flare Bull
Like a bomb about to erupt, the bull's "hull" began to crack, split, revealing the orange and red leylines of blazing fire inside of it and as its form began to swell up and threatened to burst, and take the entire block with it...
And then it was upcut by one of the masked vigilante's and its entire body was encased in a massive pillar of ice, stopping it mid explosion. And then, for added insult into the injury, a massive, encompassing burst of light from the other one of the crew enshrouded it for a moment and then, after a moment, not even ashes of the beast remained.
And so te block was safe, save for the massive melted crater in the center of the street. But...saved regardless.
The Glitch
The Glitch was ultimately running on the most base level of fuels, and it barely even got to attack the other two in retaliation. It was peppered with more holes and slashes from the rapier, its head flickering with light as it desperately attempted to fire off one final shot at these two and end them with one fell swoop...
When a spear suddenly struck it from behind and imbedded it through its back into the ground in front of it, pinning it to the ground. It turned to look at the assailant...
When it burst into a shower of needles, and the glitch knew no more.
"EX...TERM...IN..." And with a fizzle of energy and life, the figure went slack, and it dissolved into bright green zeroes and ones, leaving nothing behind of the creature.
Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun?
An Ordinary Oddball
Kamen Rider Seamstress, Near Glitch
"But if I weren't out here, we'd be short one Rider," Seamstress said in a measured tone as she flicked the blood off of her blade. Even though it wasn't a katana, she liked to treat it with the same respect as one, as pretentious as that might have seemed to some people. "And I can cover the city more easily than anyone else, in addition to being able to hear the thoughts of people in danger. We're all short-handed enough already. I have to help."
"There's a confrontation going on with an Elemental Beast across the city, but it seems like it's ended now," she added casually, with crossed arms. "People have mostly calmed down now that it's defeated. Shall we go check out the scene together? We might be able to meet up with the other Riders. There have been an unusual amount of monsters appearing lately. Two or three at a time whereas previously they were rarer. I think it's to split us up, but it's too early to say..."
Edited by JumpingFruit on Feb 7th 2021 at 1:32:39 AM
I wear the skin of the Elder Things, having come unto my own.
Surrounded by weirdoes
Beastal landed on his feet and fell down a knee. That rush of power that came with a Shine attack was always something he needed a second to recover from.
"At the end, I always catch my target"
Pulling the lever one more time, he tried to at least cool off the crater and anything that could be burning.
F-F-F-FREEZE A cold, freezing blast came from his fist, for a moment.
"That'll be one hell of a clean up job" He noted. Maybe if he could toss them into the air before the big boom...
Pulling aside, he tried to keep his distance. Damn, that'll be a call for trouble He could hope the people of the agency had something to study. Looking up, he saw something shining. A purple, shining crystal bird looking down. Its eyes looked more like cameras.
It was the Rav Cam. Just something to keep an eye on things.
"This really ended more chaotic than I expected" He noted "Good work, though, I guess, steel people"
Edited by Blueace on Jan 14th 2021 at 8:14:32 AM
Wake me up at your own risk.
Bona-Fide Mastah
Murk, post-battle
Murk rolls their neck as they think. "Very well, if only to make sure you don't get yourself into trouble, kid."
They shrug, bouncing slightly on their heels as they begin to walk. "Wonder if that Bocchan showed up with the rest of 'em."
Murk cranes their head to follow the path of the spear that finished off the Glitch, "And that one, brutally elegant as ever..."
4 MONTHS SINCE THE EVENT.
"...Wide spread what could only be described as monster attacks..."
"...Entire building set ablaze with..."
"...Disappearances at an all time high..."
"...Sign of the apocalypse...?"
The wall of TV's cast a dim light on the office of the figure sitting and reclining in his seat, a wine glass sitting idly between his fingers as he mused between each screen, bright green eyes shining brighter than anything else in the room.
The chaos brought a bit of...content to those eyes...content that vanished into hardened hatred when he glanced at another set of screens on the side.
"...Vigilantes coming out of the wood work, calling themselves..."
"'...Kamen Rider, who took down the beast without much..."
A screen showed grainy, phone footage of a heavily armored figure wielding a massive wrench as big as they were and SLAMMING it into the face of the creature with far too many eyes.
"...When asked, Detective Fubuki had this to say-..."
"...Announcing their name only as "Geist"..."
"Whoa, look at that, look at that, he's-" The video was interrupted as the figure, whom looked vaguely like a wolf, struck at the frozen beast with his foot from above, skidding to a halt and leaving a shower of ice fragments behind-"
The wine glass shattered in his hands and sent the fragments flying across the room, imbedding it into the walls and cracking the screens on a few of the TV's themselves. The figure stood moments later, arms behind his back as he approached the wall of TV's, as one by one, they began to shut off from the outside, leaving only a few of the TV's on the wall facing him, each one with the same line.
"WHO AND WHAT ARE THE KAMEN RIDERS?"
"Fine. They want to play hard ball?"
"They're aliens!"
"Monsters!"
"A danger to the regular people of this city-"
"A MENACE TO SOCIETY!"
"Well I think they're...heroes."
The screen shattered, casting the room in darkness yet again.
"I'll play hardball."
...
And so on this day, the new norm had set in some time ago. What used to be common place was getting up in the morning. Taking a shower. Going to work. Visiting friends.
Now it was coming across monsters the likes of which no one had ever seen. And people were starting to become okay with that.
The creature this time seemed to resemble SOME kind of bull, standing on two legs with flame decals across its body. It's horns seemed to be made of flowing magma and its eyes were red and almost mechanical. It's right hand was lit aflame and with a snorting howl, it slammed it down on the pavement, where a line of broken earth short forth underneath a car. The occupant barely managed to get out before the ground underneath it erupted and sent the car flying upwards.
The creature snorted and threw its hands back, as an aura of flames erupted around it, causing the air around it to turn hotter and hotter.
An Elemental Beast was fairly common place around here, a sad truth manly lived with.
...
"EXTERMINATE."
On the other side of town, the same...and yet, an entirely different set of circumstances was just around the corner.
"EXTERMINATE."
The creature appeared to be made entirely out of 0's and 1's, a single glowing green eye staring out from the center of the lump that could be called a head. Floating about 5 feet off the ground and the eye flittering back and forth at the slightest sign of movement.
"EXTERMINATE." A beam of pure green energy fired from its eye and struck a nearby light post, where moments later it turned to 0's and 1's of green coloration before it too quickly faded, leaving the upper half of the light post to come crashing down, shattering its bulb on contact with the ground.
"EXTERMINATE. EXTERMINATE. EXTERMINATE." The eye cast onto an older gentlemen who had tripped on his attempt to run, and the creature, lovingly dubbed a "glitch" by the people of this city, began to advance on it.
"EX. TERM. IN. ATE."
Edited by MichaelDj54 on Jan 2nd 2021 at 11:09:36 AM
Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun?