EG: Kamen Rider Virtualx

Chapters

Chapter 1: The Victory Circuit is established
Chapter 2: The Truth Behind My Past
Chapter 3: A Rider is Born / Go! Kamen Rider Virtualx!
Chapter 4: New School / New Problems

Chapter 1: The Victory Circuit is established

The city of Canterlot is an ordinary city, with wonderful people living in it, a very quiet community, where there is not much crime. Basically, an adequate place to live, except for the Equestrian magic that is usually present in the surroundings, but thanks to the Rainbooms, 7 human girls with magic, those problems are usually solved without any major incident.
But that was about to end, an unknown force was moving through the shadows of our world, or rather, it was moving through our technology.

The cybernetic network is something that is working in recent years, is a special network built entirely of digital data, but that was an understatement, during the years that this network has been investigated, it was found that an infinite universe full of data that has no beginning and no end, and it is a place where through the most advanced computers in the world was shown that using the infinite data found there you can build models, plans and 3D holograms of high definition that exceeds the dimensions shown.

But its star scientist and main collaborator, Hope Light, has been developing a specific system that can connect with the cybernetic network and the real world to make more than just holograms, they can shape the data and turn it into organic materials.

From them you can get anything, you can form a fruit, a stuffed animal, a ball and different objects that look and have the properties of the real ones.

A system like that could change the world, it could end poverty, end world hunger, and it could even work as a renewable source because the cybernetic network has infinite data.
But a wise person said earlier: “It's too good to be true.” And that's what humans were about to discover.

We were in an open space as light blue as the sky, there was one or another green digital cube floating around the place and also what looked like floating islands with constructions of entire buildings or entire cities built very large. But there were also other islands with half-finished constructions that were surrounded by the digital cubes showing that the digital constructions seen before are made of data.

We were inside the cybernetic network. And from a great distance we could see how a shooting star was traveling through the virtual space at a great speed, if we saw it closer we could notice how a humanoid figure made of complete digital data was heading to a specific direction, its body was made of data, but we could notice that in its hands it had a sphere made of data as well, but through it we could see several strange devices that could be held with one hand.

The digital being was protecting the sphere with great care, and although he had no physical features on his face, it was noticeable that he was exhausted and hurt in some way.

At some point, in front of the being opened a portal composed of green digital cubes, i.e. data, and immediately entered it and closed. Already on the other side of the portal was seen as he was in the same digital blue space, but in front of him was a huge digital sphere the size of a planet.

The subject finally opened his mouth and spoke: “Finally, after so long, I'm here,” he said between exhausted gasps, it was obvious that he had traveled a long journey here and finally had a moment to breathe easy.

But unfortunately that moment would not last long, because suddenly a portal similar to the old one appeared, but this one was red and gave off a sinister aura, from it appeared a mysterious hooded figure, and with it a humanoid creature, it had 4 pointed silver blades on each side as if they were swords on its back, On its body it was grayish blue with several red lines in the form of scars, on its shoulders those red scars turned into pointed manas on the opposite sides, and its face had a metallic mask without a mouth and a pair of grayish red eyes.

The hooded being smiled mischievously at the sight of the digital being, “Finally I find you, traitor, and did you really think you would escape so easily from me,” said the hooded being with the creature at his side snarling like a mindless beast, “You always act so self-centered, why do you think I should care about you?

The digital humanoid recoiled nervously at the sight of them, “Escape from you? You're always acting so self-centered! Why do you think I should care about you, you fucking psychopath,” he shouted angrily.

"This is how you treat me after I was the one who rescued you from your ruined world and turned you into the most advanced form of life!!

"You're wrong!" "Thanks to someone special to me I now know the truth from long ago, you destroyed my home! You enslaved my people and friends! And you turned me into a monster like you and the rest of Cybrix!” his angry shout echoed like an echo in the digital void they were in, ”And the worst part is that I almost helped destroy the home of someone I love because of you!"

The hooded man touched his chest as if it hurt him -Wow, that would hurt my poor heart a lot...- he said in an evidently false sadness, only to then smile maliciously -If I had an insignificant heart like you and the rest of the weak organic beings- -I won't allow you to go on with these things.

"I will not allow you to continue with this, I will stop you now,” he said to take out one of the devices in the sphere he possessed and raised it in front of the hooded man and the creature, surprising them."

"Go Swordart, eliminate it,” the hooded man ordered firmly and then the creature went at high speed to the virtual being."

"Henshi-!" -he could not complete the sentence, because the creature had made a clean cut to the device he had in his hands and another cut in his body -AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH! -and a second later it caused an explosion that made the digital being scream in agony and it was seen how the sphere fell from his hands and fell to the planets causing the devices inside to come out of the sphere and separate "No... I will not allow it... I will not allow it... I will not allow it... I will not allow it... I will not allow it... I will not allow it... I will not allow it... I will not allow it... I will not allow it... I will not allow it!" "... I will... allow it"- with his last energy he used what he had left to open a portal where the devices fell and disappeared and with his last thoughts: “I'm sorry... I did everything I could to keep your home safe... I just hope someone with a good heart finds the cyber-drive... and defeats the cybrix” he said to explode in data and disappear.

The hooded man could only watch this scene in disappointment-ha! That was it, they defeated him in one blow, I really won't understand the organic beings, they are so inferior- but then he put his hand on his chin -Although I wonder why he had the cyber-hacks, I'm almost sure it wouldn't do him any good to use it since he is already an avatar- but then he moved his hand as if without giving it much importance -It doesn't matter, whatever he was planning won't help him anymore dead, besides, the cyber-hacks that fell to the planet could be of help in our next invasion. In the end, he didn't help us carry out our invasion again.

The hooded man opened a portal and addressed the creature, “Make sure you go to the planet and cause as much destruction as you can, the humans have nothing that can face us, not even those girls with that strange energy and unusual abilities will be able to do it,” he said to enter the portal, but he shook his head looking at the creature. And one more thing, if you find one of the cyber-hacks, bring me one of them to check it, in case that idiot Comet has made some modifications,” and without further ado the hooded man entered the portal and it closed, the creature called Swordart created in his hand a long and thin sword and with it he cut the space and opened a crack in which he entered and closed it.

A new threat has arrived on earth, and it is possible that not even the magical girls can cope with it.

But the question is this

If they can't, then who?

Who will be the hero who will rise up to fight this threat?

And what does fate have in store?

-I haven't done anything,” exclaimed a young man of about 18 years old, he had light blue spiky hair changing with silver lines, emerald green eyes and pale light blue skin. He wore the male uniform of a high school known as “Crystal High School”. And from the looks of it, he was annoyed by the situation he found himself in.

-You always say that, why don't you take responsibility for your actions for once and tell the truth,” said a man in a police officer's uniform, with blue hair, white skin and light blue eyes.

-I would, if I were responsible for anything that happened to those idiots,” I replied with annoyance as the officer rolled his eyes at my attitude, ”Those idiots are just playing the victim to get me arrested because they are jealous of me! And you are even more naive for not noticing them!

-You pushed them down the stairs that could have caused a bad bump on their head! If only they didn't get a sprained foot and a few bruises! I'd convince Candece to kick you out of Crystal High School!

-Uyyy! But how scary! Getting kicked out of high school for something I didn't do! How could I go on living after this?!” I said with complete sarcasm in my voice.

-Please! Shining! Stardust! Both of you need to calm down!” exclaimed a woman with grayish violet eyes, long dark violet hair, moderate pink and pale gold, and pink skin. She was Headmistress Candece, ever since Headmistress Cinch had to be fired for a nervous breakdown for supposed “magic” from the previous Friendship Games, which to my good fortune I was able to avoid participating in by pretending to be sick that day. And I have to admit that she has been doing a great job, now Crystal High is a much friendlier place with less hostility in the atmosphere, but that of course excludes me.

-I said gritting my teeth and leaning back in my seat, “I should say it more to him than to me.
In case it was not clear, we were at this moment in Director Cadece's office, she, I and the officer Shining Armor.

Shining was about to answer but a withering look from Candece was enough to shut him up, she returned her gaze to me. “Well, Stardust, from what the students told me, you pushed some students down the stairs after you stole some of their science projects, am I right?” she asked looking at me sympathetically.

-No! They were the ones who stole my school work and fell down by themselves,” I exclaimed in annoyance.

-Just like the other times you stole something or set a trap for someone who annoyed you, you have never done any of those things,” said Shining Armor judging me with his eyes with his arms crossed.

Director Candece put a hand on Shining's shoulder which made him look at her -Shining, please stop and let me take care of this- the officer was about to say something else, but in the end he just sighed resignedly and stepped aside -Now, Stardust, I know you didn't mean to hurt anyone and you didn't want to cause any trouble, but I'm afraid we can no longer tolerate your behavior- -But Director Candece, I can't tolerate your behavior- -But I'm afraid I can't tolerate your behavior- -But Director Candece, I can't tolerate your behavior, I can't tolerate your behavior.

-But Principal Candece, I mean it, I didn't do anything. It's those punks who blame me for the “reputation” I have- -And where did that punk come from?

-And where did that reputation come from,” whispered Shining to himself, but I could hear him because I have a better sense of hearing than most people.

-But it's not the case Stardust, the problem is that for a long time you have been receiving attention calls and you have been suspended from school several times, you were even taken by the police multiple times before entering Crystal High School, it's a miracle that the ex-Director Cinch hasn't expelled you before, but I have no other alternative,” he said with a pitiful look directed to me and with a sad expression.

I opened my eyes and straightened up from my seat as I understood what was going on -What? Don't tell me she's really going to expel me!

-I have warned you multiple times about this Stardust, it is the first time in Crystal School that a student is expelled, but I simply can no longer ignore your actions with a simple punishment and suspension,” she said with a voice that reflected a great sadness, I could tell that this hurt her, ‘It's time for you to face the consequences of your actions’.
I stood up suddenly and slammed my palms against the desk making it shake and sounding a loud crash -But I have done nothing wrong! You, just like other people, never believe me and prefer to believe in popular opinion!

Shining grabbed my shoulders and tried to push me back to the seat I was in -You better sit down before I have to take you to the police station in custody!- I took her hands off my shoulders and sat down.

-I'm sorry Stardust, but this is for your own good, I've really tried to help you,” but I interrupted her.

-At least I won't have to deal with all the stupid students here anymore, at last I can be alone without having to interact with these people anymore” I said with a shaded look and very angry, but I controlled it. thank you principal Candece... Can I go now?

-I'll be the one to take you home to make sure you don't commit another crime as long as I don't see you,” said Shining seriously.

-Whatever, just let me get my stuff and I'll leave here never to come back,” I said to leave the room.

-Do you think I made the right decision Shining? I can't help but think that I would have done more for him to help him,” she asked her fiancé.

-You don't have to prepare yourself for him, you did everything you could, but there are always people like him who can't change for nothing,” said Shining, who being a cop has seen several bad people making bad decisions like stealing and hostage taking, and he never learned no matter when they were arrested. The only thing he hoped was that Stardust would not go down the same dark path as the people he taught, “We can only hope that he will become an adult and take responsibility for his actions”.

While Stardust was walking down the hallways after leaving the principal's office, as he walked I noticed how some students looked at me with fear in their eyes and stepped aside to avoid bumping into me. Who could blame them, after all, they all spent a few years with me and they all learned to know why they shouldn't mess with me. Not that I did it by choice.
Since I got into this stupid high school I had to put up with various things, since I wasn't popular and already had some reputation as a problem child that I even got arrested when I was little, many tried to pick on me and pick on me, but that backfired on them and I'm sure many find it hard to think that a little kid could get arrested.

Well, my mom always told me that I was a special kid and she wasn't talking metaphorically, she meant it, I was very different from many kids my age since I was little I always felt like there was something or someone always watching me when I was alone or was in an unfriendly place and the fact that sometimes I am able to see things that other people don't, like sometimes I see some little digital cubes near some electrical appliances or computers nearby. There is also the fact that people see me as a freak or a monster, the reason? I have always shown to have very advanced physical abilities for a 5 year old kid, I remember once I bent a spoon with my two hands with all my strength when I wanted to show my mom my strength. And as time went by my strength was increasing and sometimes when I got really angry I couldn't control my strength and.... I ended up hitting some kids older than me, I tried to use this strength like a cartoon superhero, but when I got angry with those kids older than me and other kids my age, I hit them so hard in their face that I ended up knocking out several teeth and I ended up with my hands stained with blood.

And I also remember that as a child I had an imaginary pet, and yes, I said imaginary pet, because just as I was the only one who saw those mini digital cubes, I could see a small reddish bird that seemed to be made of fire with digital cubes falling as if they were ashes. My mom not being able to see it and as I was a child I think it was some sort of imaginary friend or pet as she described it as a bird. I used to play with him when there was no one to play with seeing me as a monster, so I spent a lot more time playing with the one I considered my best and only friend, Phoenix. I named him after some research on the internet and he was a bird that seemed to be made of fire, and I wasn't very good with names.

But I guess I'm getting off topic, thinking so much in the past I hadn't realized I had taken my stuff out of my personal lab at Crystal Prep, and now I was closing my locker with all my belongings in my backpack.

-So it's true, you're finally going to be expelled,” I heard the male voice very recognizable to me, as I looked to my left, I could see a boy my age, a few inches bigger than me, black hair with blond locks on the ends, light blue eyes, cream colored skin, he was wearing the Crystal Prep male uniform just like me, ‘I say it's about time,’ he said seriously with his arms crossed while leaning on a locker.

This boy was Shade Night, someone who could be considered a rival of mine and one of the very few students around here who has the courage to talk to me.

"You're just saying that because I'm not here anymore and Sparkle has gone to Canterlot School, you're officially the smartest student around here,” I said sarcastically.

"I don't need any title to prove that I'm smarter than the others, I'm much smarter than you and Sparkle and I don't need to prove it to you" he said with his characteristic unfriendly look and serious voice

"Whatever makes you feel better Shade, but what are you doing here? Did you come to say goodbye to me?" I asked with a raised eyebrow

Shade snorted at this "I'm just here to confirm the rumors, the truth is, I'm surprised that the old lady from Cinch didn't expel you before when she was still director here"

"She never found enough evidence to kick me out of here, and since the friendship games were approaching, she didn't want to lose any of her best pawns" I said, getting a little irritated remembering how annoying that damn Cinch was. She always blamed me for all the bad things that happened here, and it's the other snobs around here who started by harassing me, but my bad luck always came back to bite them

"I never thought that Principal Candece would have the courage to kick you out, but after how that trio of idiots ended up, I'm not surprised that she doesn't have patience for you anymore"

"AAAAAAARRRRG! I've already said this a million times! It wasn't me! I was meters away when those 3 tripped! How is it possible that I pushed them from that distance?" I exclaimed annoyed, drawing even more attention from the other students, but it was clear from their eyes that they didn't believe me at all and that they were just waiting for me to leave here forever

"The evidence is that every time you're around, strange and inexplicable events occur that end with someone hurt near you" he said remembering all the strange events that when someone has messed with Stardust, something inexplicably happened like a broken pipe, or objects being thrown without anyone touching them, or even something hitting them without anyone being near, but all those events occurred in the places he was passing by or in the same room "But whether you're responsible for that or not, no one will believe you for a simple reason"

"And would that be...?"

"That everyone in the city hates you, or well, at least 99%, and people when something happens that we don't understand or is out of our control, always They're looking for someone to blame, and that hatred is directed at you"

I hate to admit it, but Shade is right, and it's always been the same with me, popular and powerful people always trample on those less fortunate or those who don't have a good status. I'm the second case, people always turn against me just for seeing me suffer...

"It doesn't matter, I'm used to that" I said to close my locker for the last time —But if you think about it, this expulsion is the excuse I needed to no longer have to be with this group of idiots—

"And your reputation will get worse and when the time comes for you to enter a University, they will reject you for all your history of arrests and expulsions"

"Maybe, but I'll manage" I said walking away from Shade, but then I remembered one thing "Hey Shade" I called his attention "I know you and I don't get along all that well, but you've been the only one around here that I think I'll miss... I just wanted to tell you to have good luck dealing with your old man and your brother"

"..." there was a second of silence "You don't need to tell me, I have everything under control, besides, what happens with my "family" is my business" when he said the word family, it was noticeable that he was hiding a great hatred inside him

"Goodbye Shade" I said to head to the exit of Crystal Prep "Goodbye Crystal Prep"

Somewhere else in the city, a boy of Stardust's age could be seen, he had orange skin, chocolate eyes and brown hair.

He was in a somewhat dark room that was only lit by the light of his laptop and a flashlight that illuminated a kind of conspiracy wall with various images, newspaper and red wool lines placed on the blackboard.

The boy could be seen concentrating hard on his laptop as the sound of his fingers typing on the keyboard could be heard.

"Every day the incidents of electronic device failures become very frequent" he said to himself as he watched various news images appear on his laptop where he saw ATMs, vending machines, televisions, microwaves, etc. All of these devices looked like they were destroyed by an explosion from within, some people were lucky not to get hurt too much.

"I have a feeling that all of this has to do with the objects that fell all over the city of Canterlot" he said to see his conspiracy wall and concentrate on a photo that showed at night with several shooting stars falling all over the city "But... I still don't understand. What is this? And where did it come from?" he said to himself, only to pick up an object that seemed to be a rectangular device with a buckle to place something inside it, but it looked very damaged and burned, it's as if someone had cut it with a sword.

"Whatever this is, it's definitely not equestrian magic, I know for sure that Sunset would have detected it when I hid it in my backpack, but... if it's not of magical origin, then is it alien?" he said as he drew his own conclusions in his mind, but since he wanted to get answers, he would have to investigate for himself. For that, he took out of a drawer in his desk a device similar to a geiger counter. "I know I promised Micro that I wouldn't do anything dangerous with this thing, but I still want to know the truth about these incidents, and if it gets dangerous, at least I know there are 7 people in the city who can handle any threat"

"So, did they blame you again for something you didn't do?" an adult woman asked through my cell phone while we were on a video call, the woman was my mother Hope Light

"They were just some idiots who wanted to mess with me, I didn't even bother to remember their names" I said simply lying down on the couch in my house

I had already arrived home after an uncomfortable and annoying trip with Shining Armor in his patrol car and while I had to listen to their repetitive conversation that if it weren't for my mother's influence I would have been taken to a Reformatory a long time ago, and that I have to accept responsibility for my actions.

It has become so repetitive that it is already very boring, I would even say that it irritates me.

"But that's not what worries me son, you just got expelled from Crysta Prep! And you've been expelled from different schools three times, and it doesn't help that you have several problems with the police!" my mother exclaimed with concern in her voice

"But mom, you know it's not my fault! I have never touched them!" I tried to refute

She sighed tiredly "I know son... I know, but people won't see it the same way, I know you would be incapable of harming another person on purpose... or at least someone who doesn't deserve it" in her camera you could see how she frowned and gave him a sad and worried look "It's just that I'm worried about your future Stardust... I want you to have a normal adolescence like the others, I want to see you with friends you can have fun with, I even hope to see you with an adorable girlfriend next to you"

At this I couldn't help but roll my eyes despite talking about a serious subject, my mom has always been the kind of mother who expects her son to have a girlfriend or a girl close to him to teach him several embarrassing things

"... But with your bad luck continuing to get worse, things could become dangerous for you, if you get into another problem, it's possible that this time I can't save you and you'll have to go to a reformatory and really I don't want that"

"... I know my mom worries a lot about me and I really want to stop making her worry, but that's impossible, every time I interact with a person, it ends in disaster, that's why I would rather study at home in online classes than be in a school surrounded by other looks of hate towards me" I thought to myself, all the people in the city know me and they are afraid of me for what I am capable of doing, they even see me as a complete criminal, that has made my mother have a lot of stress, I really am a terrible son

"Son, I know it can be a lot of problems for you, I know that life has not treated you in the best way and the people you have met have not been very nice... but could you try to lower your emotion and try to be a calm child, please, do it for me" I could see how her eyes lit up waiting for my answer, I really hate seeing her with those worried eyes, I really can't stand it, I don't want to worry my mother, and we can't move since here she is fulfilling her dream as a scientist and here It's where I was educated

"...I promise... I'll behave, but I'll only do it for you and only for you" I told him firmly and completely sure

She smiled at me like that. “I’m so glad to see you say that! I’m sure your father would be proud if he were here,” she said with nostalgia and sadness in her voice.

I never met my father and the truth is I know very little about him, my mother has very few pictures of him and she keeps them for herself, I never knew where he was from and why he left me and my mother. She always said that my father left for a reason and she still has hope that he will come back, for my part, I don’t care if he comes back or not, that man abandoned us, but I still don’t know what his reasons are, so until I’ve heard them I can’t say if I hate him or not. However, if he somehow comes back and hurts my mother, I'll bring hell down on him

I shook my head to get those thoughts away "Whatever mom, I'll go for a ride on my new motorcycle to clear my head, talk to you later" I said to hang up, but my mother called me one last time

"Stardust, you're a good boy and you have very good intentions, I know things don't look good for you right now, but I can assure you of one thing, at the end of the day, good people are rewarded when they don't look for it" she said to look me straight in the eyes "I know I said not to get into any more trouble, but I still want you to be the same old Stardust"

"... Ok, see you later mom" I said to hang up the video call "Good people are rewarded when they don't look for it, huh?" I repeated to myself as I headed to the garage "Too bad that has never happened to me and will never happen"

When I got to the garage and turned on the light, I saw a sheet in the center that I was covering something I've been working on. When I grabbed it and uncovered it I found my new bike

"I'm not in the best mood today, but trying this beauty will brighten my day" I said to myself as I put on the helmet and turned it on

*RRRRRRRRNNGG! RRRRRRRRNNGG!*

"It seems that the engine I found in the dumpster works, I wonder how fast it is"

With that said, I left, opened the garage and went out for a ride

I never imagined that this ride on that specific day...

It would change my life forever

The brown-haired boy was walking through the streets of the city, but it seemed that he had his cell phone and used it as a recorder

"Recording No. 8, I am in one of the places of the recent incidents in the failure of electrical appliances" he said while looking at a specific area that was surrounded by several police tapes, a computer store was half destroyed and where the cars surrounded it so as not to get close "From what I can see, the damage is much more serious than you imagined, it was very fortunate that few people in that store came out without any serious damage and..." I said to lift the device similar to a geiger counter and see that the numbers were moving non-stop "It seems that whatever caused this, it still emits a strong electromagnetic energy that remains even in the affected area, with everything seen I am almost sure that it is not magic, magic can be chaotic and occasionally destructive, but if it were, I am sure that Sunset and the others would have started to investigate before me"

The boy He noticed how his pocket began to glow and shake a little, when he took it out, he noticed that it was the broken device that fell from the sky "And from the looks of it, the broken device seems to react with this electromagnetic energy, this definitely has to do with these incidents... which may not be incidents at all, but sabotage" he said, looking seriously at the place, only to walk away from the place.

But if he had looked closer, he would have noticed a kind of humanoid beings inside the image of the screens that were in the area, it seemed to stare at him, specifically at the broken device he had, then he saw how those images began to come out of the screens and seemed to be following them

"Aaack" I exclaimed in pain, suddenly I felt a strong headache, but I could still handle my motorcycle well "What was that?" I asked without understanding while driving and turning a corner

Again I feel those sounds in my head, and for a moment, I saw as if my entire surroundings changed, the clear sky changed to a larger blue sky with several streams or rivers floating in the sky, and the buildings were surrounded by some mini green cubes in them, but a second later it returned to normal

"RRrr... What the hell is happening to me?!" I exclaimed irritated by this strange sensation and the irritating sound in my head

Virtronics....

—What?—

Virtronics.... near your location

—Where does that voice come from?—

Stop, in that alley...

By instinct I listened to what that voice told me and I stopped near an alley, turned off my motorcycle and went out to investigate what It happened, call me crazy for listening to a voice that appeared out of nowhere, but what I saw in that alley made me doubt my sanity

I saw how there were what seemed to be 2 robots standing behind a boy my age and a group of 4 more robots standing at the other end of the alley waiting for the boy. But the boy didn't even seem to notice their presence even if they were looking at him from the front! How blind must a person be to not notice a group of robots surrounding you?!

But then I saw how the robots went into action and those behind the boy grabbed him by the arms and immobilized him, this scared the boy who seemed not to see the robots

"Aaaaaaahh! But what is this?! Why can't I move?!" he screamed in panic from his point of view, not being able to see anything

When I heard him scream, I reacted and immediately went against the robots "Hey, rusty cans!" I shouted to the robots that had the boy tied up, drawing their attention, as well as their prisoner. The blows to both of their heads quickly knocked them to the ground, the boy also fell to the ground and looked at me in astonishment "Hey, are you okay?!"

"Y-yes! I'm fine! But WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?!"

"You look at me like I know! I don't even know where these robots came from and I appeared here by pure coincidence!" I exclaimed as I saw how the robots saw me as their next target to eliminate

"Robots?! What robots?!"

"Don't you have eyes! I'm talking about the ones that have us surrounded!" I said to get into a fighting stance

"But I don't see anything! I swear I only see the two of you in this alley!" I exclaimed still in panic

"Just stay behind me! I'll take care of it!" I said to dodge a couple of punches from the first robot and I gave him a strong right hook in the face that sent him flying "And since they're robots! I can fight without fighting back!" I said with a wild smile

The robots launched themselves at me and I ran towards them doing a sweep making one fall, I put my hands on the ground and did a break dance to kick the robots around me making them fall, one tried to step on my face, but I jumped up and kicked him in the back of the neck.

More of those robots approached me, I grabbed a trash can lid and used it as a shield to avoid their blows, I dodged several blows from two robots and jumped dodging a kick to my legs and in the air I gave a spinning kick to one of them. And I threw the trash can lid hitting the heads of two robots in the process.

The boy I saved was hiding behind a trash container looking at the scene somewhat strange and incredulous. From his point of view he was seeing the Stardust doing some pirouettes, throwing punches and kicks in the air as if he was fighting someone for real, and the worst thing is that he swore that there was some dust rising from the ground a second after I hit the air, as if someone had been thrown to the ground. Not knowing how to react or what was happening, in addition to experiencing equally strange things as a Canterlot High student, he decided to step aside to see what was happening.

But what he didn't feel was that there was another one of those broken ones that he couldn't see behind him, and before he could react the robot invisible to him was covered by the mouth so he wouldn't scream and was dragged out of the alley.

While I had been hit and thrown to the ground, I was spinning on the ground dodging the blows and stomps. I stood up and continued dodging the robots' blows and blocking them to return the blows, but this time faster and stronger, deflecting the last ones that remained.

I breathed heavily still with my guard up, seeing if any of the robots would get up again, luckily for me it wasn't the case, although I have to admit that they were somewhat tough to beat and it would be even tougher if I were a normal person, which I'm not and my superhuman strength is proof of that.

"Ouch!" I said rubbing my knuckles "They were definitely robots, hitting them did affect me in the end, even if only a little... As for you-!" I turned around to see the boy I saved, but I noticed that a robot was taking him out of the alley "Hey! You won't get away from me that easily, you tin can!"

I chased after the robot that was still covering the boy's mouth preventing him from screaming for help, when I got out I could confirm that only I could see these robots when I saw how no one did anything to help him and they simply continued on their way. The truth is I didn't have to chase him that far since he stopped in front of a sleek and modern van with its own screen inside. I could see how the robot and the boy began to shine and were turning into some kind of digital cubes that were entering inside the van, specifically inside the screen.
I saw how the boy's face changed and I panicked as I saw his body disappear little by little, starting with his feet and going all the way to the middle of his body. I didn't know what to do and seeing how it seemed like he was going to disappear, I acted on instinct and grabbed the boy's free hand

And the next thing that happened left me even more confused, I saw how the strange device he had in his other hand began to glow and my hand suddenly began to catch fire, and I mean it literally, my hand lit up and caught fire, but within that fire you could see mini digital cubes inside it and that fire spread throughout the boy's body, but it didn't do anything to him, but it did manage to hurt the robot that was holding him, which seemed to explode from the fire and sent us flying in a mini explosion that caused the shockwave to throw us both to the ground, but unharmed. Although I can't speak the same about the van that looked like it had just fried since there was a trace of fire and some smoke coming out of it

And luckily for us there was no one around to see what happened and I didn't see any cameras, it seems I dodged a bullet there.

"But what the hell was that?!" shouted the boy I saved, getting up and looking at his body to see if he was in good condition "Yes! I'm in one piece! For a moment I really thought I was going to die!"

"Yes... don't even tell me, and please, lower your voice, we don't want to draw more unnecessary attention" I said through clenched teeth while watching as some people noticed that the van near us was smoking "Let's talk in the alley" I didn't give him time to answer, and I just grabbed him by the arm and dragged him to the alley we were in before and to my surprise, the robots from before were no longer there, they simply disappeared "Now I want answers, who are you? What were those robots that were chasing you? And what is that device you have in your hand? I asked him seriously while pointing at the broken device he had in his hand.

"Guou guou! Calm down man, I'm just as confused as you. I don't even know what attacked me, I couldn't see them!" he answered me raising his hands in front of me trying to calm me down

"But that doesn't change the fact that those robots were looking for something from you, something that could be specifically in your right hand" I said referring to the broken device

"Well... I'm not sure- he said to pick up the broken device and show it to me" I only know that this thing fell 3 days ago in a very damaged alley, it almost electrocuted me alive, but I was lucky to have insulating gloves at the time" he said remembering how he walked on a quiet night, then seeing how a small light landed inside a dark alley, where it was revealed that that light was a strange device almost destroyed

I stare at him trying to find a hint of a lie, but I couldn't find anything, he was telling the truth- It seems that you're not lying, but you still haven't answered me. Who are you?-

"My name is Film Action, nice to meet you, and you? Are you?"

"Stardust Stellar" I answered with my eyes rolled back, knowing what was going to happen when I revealed my name

"Nice to meet you, Stardus-" he remained silent for a moment, processing the name I told him "Stardust Stellar?! Like the Stardust Stellar who is the son of Doctor Hope Light?! The boy who defeated a gang of criminals when he was 12 years old! The same one who beat up a professional martial artist when he was 10 years old! And that he's been taken to the police station several times for strange activities and that they always happened when I was around!" he exclaimed incredulously and with some fear in his eyes

I rolled my eyes in annoyance "You've just basically summarized most of my life, and yes, I am that Stardust Stellar, do you want to take me to the police because you think I conspired to kidnap you along with those robots?" I said with annoyance in my voice evident

"... I can't believe it - he said to look up at me with a sparkle in his eyes - I've always wanted to talk to you face to face!"

"What...?" I said incredulously at what I heard

"As I said, I'm Film Action, a future journalist who wants to discover all the juiciest and most interesting news in the world, I always wanted to meet the famous Stardust Stellar to be able to interview him, and that's you!" he said with an excited smile in his voice

"... Ok, if it weren't for the robot gang that seems like only I can see, this would be the strangest thing that happened to me today" I said looking at him incredulously, many people usually see me with fear because of my previous records, but this boy looks at me as if he wants to get to know me, of course it's only for some kind of journalistic project, but even so, the news usually show me as a rebellious child to tarnish my image more than it already is...

"You are a mystery wrapped in another mystery!" he said while taking out a blog note from his backpack and a pen "There are many things I want to know about you. Do you have some kind of curse that causes all those accidents around you? Is it true that I broke a brick wall when you were 14? Is it true that you can heal faster than a normal person?" ... and he kept asking me things related to my "problems with the law" and my strange behavior around me

And already fed up with this, I decided to put an end to it, I covered his mouth silencing him at last "Very well boy, do you really think this is a good time for interviews?" I said so that he would react and remember that he was almost kidnapped

"I'm sorry, I tend to get carried away by emotion" he said smiling nervously "But now I'm the one who wants the answers. How could you see those... invisible robots? And how did you know I was in danger?"

"That...! It's a good question..." I stayed silent thinking about how I could have arrived at the exact moment they were kidnapping Film

"You don't know?"

"No... the only thing I remember is..."

Flashback

Virtronics....

"What?"

Virtronics.... near your location

"Where is that voice coming from?"

Stop, in that alley...

End of Flashback

"The voice..." my eyes opened wide understanding something

"What?" he said without understanding

"The voice I heard before! It told me there were Virtronics in this alley! The robots that were here were those Virtronics! But, there's something that doesn't fit in all this" I frowned remembering how a virtronics had escaped from me and almost kidnapped Film

"Okay, you better specify because I think I'm already losing myself" Film answered without understanding what I mean

"I mean that these virtronics didn't seem to be very intelligent, they knew how to fight and everything, but in my opinion they only seem to be simple pawns that only listen to orders..."

"... And if they are just pawns, then there is someone much more evil who is pulling the strings, and they want this" Film said looking at the broken device

"It's possible, but the question is: Who? And why go to so much trouble to do it in silence just for something that is burned and broken?" I asked into nothingness putting my arms crossed and leaning on the wall of the alley

And as if the Universe had heard it, I felt a sound in my head, a very loud sound that I had to cover my ears hoping it would stop, but it didn't stop, it kept increasing which made me scream in pain

"Hey, Stardust! Are you okay?!" he began to worry about me when he saw how I started to scream out of nowhere

"Do you think I'm okay!" I answered screaming in pain

Escape!

"Not again!"

They're in danger! Take the Drive and get out of there!

"Who's coming?! What the hell are you talking about?!"

Cybrix!

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*

A nearby explosion caught the attention of many people, including mine and Film's. When we went to see what was happening outside the alley, the first thing we saw was the truck from earlier split in half and a person's scream saying "My truck!" in the background, but we ignored it when we saw who was near it.

A horrible creature and I mean it, it's the most horrible thing I've ever seen in my life, a humanoid monster that had about 4 sharp silver blades on each side like swords on its back, its body was grayish blue with several red lines in the form of scars, on its shoulders those red scars turned into sharp shoulder pads on the opposite sides, and its face was noticeable as having a metal mask without a mouth and a pair of grayish red eyes

I saw how the monster transformed its hands into blades and began to stretch them as if they were tentacles and in a few quick movements it cut several nearby electric poles and made deep cuts in the nearby buildings, even in the cement of the floor it received a deep cut.

The people, who were previously in shock by the unexpected destruction of the van, ran in fear when they saw how the area began to be destroyed out of nowhere without any logical explanation. Screams filled the entire street and the monster seemed to be satisfied by the screams of terror it provoked and proudly contemplated its destruction.

I couldn't help but tremble at the sight of what this monster had done, it was obvious that this thing, whatever it was, was much stronger than those virtronic robots from before. And Film looked scared, but he tried to stay calm

"Wh-what is that thing?" he said, faltering in his speech

"Are you able to see it?" I asked surprised, but without taking my eyes off the monster

"Not completely, it's a bit blurry, but I can clearly see that that monster caused all this destruction in seconds" he answered the same without taking his eyes off it "But at least we already know who the Virtronics receive their orders from, and it would be best to leave before that thing notices us" but since it seems that the world hates them, the monster looked in the direction of the alley and noticed our presence, specifically at the drive that Film still had in his hand

"Too late" it was seen how the monster approached to attack "Run!" I grabbed him by the arm and we managed to dodge a punch from the monster and went through the wall of the alley

We ran out of the alley and headed straight to my motorcycle. “Get on and put this on!” I said, throwing him an extra helmet I had and putting mine on while starting the engine of my motorcycle.

Film didn’t argue and immediately climbed onto the back seat. Just then we saw the monster come out of the alley and when it saw us it tried to attack us with its blade-tentacles, but I started my bike and I shot out avoiding the blades, destroying the surface we were on.

Film got excited seeing how we were escaping a horrible death and turned to the monster and said. “EEEEEEEEEEEE! What did you think of that, idiot!” And now how are you going to catch up with us!" he shouted with a big smile at the monster

The Cybrix, seeing this, only let out a few grunts as if he was insulting them and once done, it was seen how he entered, turned into data and entered a nearby car, where he turned on and began to drive himself towards us

We were both surprised by this and I gave Film a withering look - You had to open your big mouth! - I shouted at him while I looked ahead to avoid a couple of cars that crossed my path

"How was I supposed to know you could do that!" he tried to defend himself, panicking when he saw the monster approaching at high speed "It's going to catch up with us!"

"Then get ready! And be ready to break all the driving rules that exist!!" I said to turn the handle and go faster, the speed made Film almost fall out of the seat and he had to hug me to keep from falling

"Please tell me that you have your driver's license!" Film shouted in panic

"Yes!" I answered calming him down a little "Yesterday they just gave me back my driver's license!" when I finished saying that Film felt a shiver run through his entire body

"Wait!! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH?!!!" I couldn't finish because I turned my bike to the right, jumping the red light, I heard some angry screams from the drivers, but I ignored them because my life and Film's was at risk

The car that was the cybrix followed me, jumping the red light, but I could notice that a group of familiar data came out of the car and above I could see how the cybrix formed with its blades throwing them at us, I accelerated and I was able to maneuver to avoid them

The cybrix doesn't give up and uses its blades on the walls and on the ground to try to keep up with us. I kept trying to lose it, but it didn't seem like it would give up so easily, and having to dodge the multiple cars on the tracks and keep attacking me with its blades becomes very annoying.

I had to go through two more red lights and pass between two cars very close together, but the cybrix simply uses its blades to cut them in half, but luckily for me, it only cuts the cars and not the people or the engine, but it does leave a lot of destruction wherever it goes.

"This thing doesn't give up!" Film shouted frustrated when he saw that he was still chasing them "Can't you go faster?!"

"Do you think it's something I haven't tried?! The cybrix won't give up until it gets that thing in your hand!" I answered while dodging a couple of cars that the monster started to throw at me "Damn! It's already a miracle that no one has been hurt by this chase! There must be a way to lose it! I screamed in frustration, making my brain work at full speed to find a way to lose the cybrix

"Down!" Film shouted, ducking my head next to his, a second later a blade passed over our heads cutting off a small lock of hair

"That was close!" he said panting from the fear of almost being decapitated

"And it's not over yet!" I screamed as I saw how the cybrix stood in front of us and tried to hit us with an electric pole that it knocked down before, I had to lean very far to the right, almost touching my head to the sidewalk on the ground to be able to dodge the electric pole

"I know I shouldn't say this! But I'm starting to believe that we won't make it!" he said between gasps, so much screaming from the fear was leaving him without air

"Of course we'll make it! I have no intention of dying today!" I shouted determined to get out of this alive, then I saw a small and narrow alley and an idea occurred to me "If we can't lose him on the trail, we have to take this chase to a narrower place!" I didn't give Film time to respond as I headed towards the narrow alley.

The cybrix followed him, propelling himself with his blades towards the roof of the buildings, and began to chase us from above.

I have to maneuver carefully through these alleys, since there isn't much space; I won't be able to escape so easily from a cybrix attack. And it seems that he decided to change his strategy by summoning boomerang-shaped blades and throwing them at me. I managed to narrowly avoid them, and tried to lose him by turning several corners of the alley, and when he came out of one I went into another to confuse him, but the cybrix kept chasing me from the roofs of the buildings and kept throwing his boomerang blades at me

"I don't know how much longer I can keep going like this. I have to find a way to lose him!" I thought, sweating a little. I feel like any mistake could cost us our lives. It's only thanks to my biker skills that they're the reason we haven't died.

Turn left

"You again" I thought when I heard that voice in my head

Turn left, and after leaving the alley go straight and don't stop

"How do I know I can trust you?! You're the reason I'm in this mess!" I shouted in my mind

Because I know that no matter what others say and want them to think... you're always willing to help others, even if you get nothing in return

I only ask that you trust me to save your life and that of your new friend

"... Okay, you win" I answered surrendering to the voice, I just hope I don't regret this

I followed his directions and turned left, and as I turned I noticed a gate in front of us blocking the way

"Damn! That voice lied to me!" I shouted angrily

"Wait! Use the wooden board!" With his hand he pointed to a wooden board that was diagonally on top of a garbage container

"How convenient, but I'm not complaining! "Hold on!" I said to increase speed and use the wooden board as a trap door to jump over the fence, just at that moment the cybrix jumped towards us with the intention of crushing us with its claws, for Film who was watching it, it was as if time slowed down, he clearly saw how the monster was meters away to attack us, but unexpectedly, from Stardust's back came out some red and orange data in the form of flames, these flames shot out against the cybrix who was hit and crashed into the ground, and time returned to normal successfully jumping over the fence

Film was with his mouth open in surprise, he never imagined that something on earth could harm that monster, but that fire thing came out of Stardust's back, and if he was able to see them and defeat a group of robots or "virtronics" as he called them, then he must have some kind of special power... or magic that allows him to fight these things.

"Ha!" Looks like we finally lost it!" I exclaimed with a triumphant smile "Take that, idiot!"

"Didn't you see what happened?!" Film said to him near the hatred I had to cover myself

"First, stop yelling in my ear! Second! See what?" and before I could answer, the same digital flames that appeared on Stardsut's back were seen flying in front of us

Film pointed at the thing in digital flames "That!" And the flames suddenly entered the motorcycle and it began to act frantically, the motorcycle is literally heating up and catching fire, but somehow it was painless for both of us

"They're burning us alive and we're still alive!" Film shouted impressed, it seems that he has lost his fear in all this, then he noticed that we were going at full speed to a store with several computers in the display case "Hey! TURN THE OTHER WAY, AT THIS RATE WE'RE GOING TO CRASH!"

"I'M TRYING, BUT THEY'RE NOT RESPONDING TO THE HANDLE!" I screamed, panicking because I couldn't control my motorcycle and every second we got closer, I got more nervous and scared

And we both could only do one thing in the face of this, scream and close our eyes at this "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

But without realizing it, the device, even though it was broken, began to emit a slight glow that grew larger and larger and when we were about to crash into the display case, our bodies and the motorcycle began to turn into data and in a second later we disappeared without leaving any trace

Back in the alley, the cybrix was seen getting up in pain but alive, you could see in his gaze that he was really angry with us for having escaped, but he also seemed confused by what managed to damage him and knock him down, even though he had taken it by surprise, there shouldn't be anything on this planet that could cause him harm.

But he ignored that for now and focused on trying to find them, his current mission is to cause destruction as much as possible, but if he found one of the cybert-hack, he had to get it no matter who got in his way.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" they kept screaming without knowing where what was happening to them.

When they opened their eyes they realized that they were no longer in the city, instead, they were in a strange place with a dark blue sky with some light blue lines that were decorating the sky as if they were moving constellations that appeared and disappeared at certain times, and also in the surroundings there were several dark red buildings with silver windows, anyone would say that it seemed to be in Canterlot City with a different color in the buildings and the sky, if it weren't for the fact that some buildings were covered in certain parts with green digital cubes as if they were half-built.

I had to admit that not even in my wildest dreams did I expect to find myself in a place like this, and from Film's expression, I would say that he is just as surprised and impressed as I am.

"What is this place?" Film asked, coming out of shock

"No idea, but I have a feeling that your little toy was responsible" I said, almost sure that I saw that thing glow for a moment before closing my eyes

"... Or it could be the burning thing that took control of your motorcycle" Film said thoughtfully, but then he noticed something "Wait, who is driving your motorcycle?" he asked again when he realized that I didn't have my hands on the handlebars

"I don't know, but I think it has something to do with the voice I heard before, and that warned me about the virtronics, and who just saved our lives from that monster" he said while grabbing his head with his hand "When did my life become so bizarre? It wasn't supposed to end this way!" I shouted trying to get out all my pent-up frustration

"Whou! Calm down a bit, buddy! I know this whole situation is strange! Believe me, I go to Canterlot High with magical girls who fight evil magic once a week, I'm already used to the strangeness" he said trying to cheer me up, but failing

"And you think I care about that! Today I had a shitty day, I got expelled from Crystal Prep, that stupid officer Armor is very, very close to sending me to a reformatory if I get into trouble again! And if that wasn't enough, my mom is already too worried about me to get me into trouble with a stupid monster invisible to others, but for some reason I'm the only one who can see them!" I shouted with all the anger I was holding back

There was an awkward silence, I was breathing heavily after having shouted and Film seemed not to know what to say, he had the impression that Stardust was the typical bad boy who liked to get into trouble, get into street fights and participate in certain illegal activities. In a way, he believed that I was like Sunset Shimmer before she was reformed. It seemed like I was wrong, in a way he seemed like just a boy who only had bad luck in life.

"... I'm sorry if I bothered you, I didn't think you could react that way" Film said regretfully

There was a moment of silence until I spoke again "No, I'm the one who should apologize" he said shaking his head "I shouldn't vent to someone who has nothing to do with my personal problems, I just didn't have a good day, sometimes I wish I hadn't been born so I could stop worrying my mother" I said sadly lowering my head with my eyes closed

"From my point of view, I think you could use someone to talk to about your problems" he said trying to cheer me up

—And you offer yourself for that? No thanks, I'm fine on my own"

"You know that keeping everything to yourself is not healthy, and I know that we don't know each other very well, but you saved my life and you don't seem like the monster or criminal that the rumors said" then he put his hand on my shoulder while smiling at me "I think you could use a friend"

Before I could answer him, I noticed how my motorcycle had taken us to a somewhat familiar street and I could see the construction of a digital house almost similar to my own house, there I noticed how my motorcycle automatically began to shine just like the device in Film's hand

"Ow! Not again!" I screamed when I saw how we were turning into data

"I think I'm starting to get used to this!" Film said so that both of us, along with the motorcycle, transformed into data and transported ourselves inside the house.

Inside a garage where a portable laptop was located nearby on a small desk next to several construction tools, it began to glow and expelled several digital data that slowly began to form around Film and Stardust riding the motorcycle, which seemed to return to its normal state

"It seems we are safe" I said when I recognized where we are

"Where are we?" he said when he didn't recognize the place he was in

"This is my house, specifically in my garage" I said getting off the motorcycle and taking off my helmet "But we better not waste time" he said changing his calm face to serious as he took out a bunch of tools and parts of technology from under a drawer that was well hidden, then he took the broken device out of Film's hands before he could react

"Hey! You can tell what you're planning!" he said frowning as I took it from him in such a rough manner

"I need to fix this now before that monster comes back" he said as I got to work

"Wait, you know how to fix things?" he said surprised

"Yes, do you think that just because I know how to fight and being super strong necessarily makes me a muscle-bound brainless guy?" I said in a sarcastic tone

"No, it's just that I never saw you as someone who knew about mechanics or robotics" he said trying not to offend me

"I consider myself more of a science nerd than a brainless fighter, I don't like to use my superhuman strength unless they make me angry or attack me" I answered as I uncovered the front plate and looked at some cables that were already very fried "Damn, this is much more complex than I thought"

Film looked over my shoulder and noticed several parts of the device that he hadn't seen in any machine or computer "Wow... whoever created this definitely I knew what I was doing" he said impressed

"These machinery parts are not something that is found so easily, I would even say that they are not from this world, whatever that monster wants from this, he definitely cannot get it. This thing is so complicated that I don't know what its function is" I said while grabbing some pieces and trying to replace them with the destroyed parts

"Something more than attracting the attention of monsters and from what it seems to fit inside electrical devices"

"Possibly, but if you look closely at the components, they look as if they were made for something more specific, the other two that you mentioned are not the true functions of this... Drive" I saved a second remembering what the voice called this device

For a moment I felt like an electric current ran through my body and entered my mind, my eyes shone a deep yellowish red and in my head I saw the image of the Drive, but it looked fixed, as if it were new. I could see every little component that this Drive had, every cable, every tube, every... circuit that was concentrated to give it a final function

And while I was concentrating on my thoughts, my hands moved on their own, as if they knew how to fix it the right way, I removed the destroyed or burned components and fixed them with some pieces that I had and that could fulfill the same function as the one I removed

Film saw all this, but seeing how he appreciated being so focused on fixing it he decided not to interrupt, but that was when he felt an irritating sound in his head, that he had to grab his head with both hands, and suddenly he saw for a few moments the same digital world that he was in before.

When he looked outside the garage, he could see the familiar figure of the monster that was chasing them before, and he saw how he was staring at them and he wasn't exactly happy to see them, he was very furious

While Stardust seemed to have come out of the previous trance and noticed how in his hands he had the Drive completely repaired, it looked almost new, "I did it!" I said happily jumping out of my seat "I was able to repair the Drive, no, I was able to build the Virtual-Drive" -It had previously looked like a cut and burnt piece of metal, but now it had the appearance of a device that looks like a small shiny core or crystal surrounded by a metal frame, with a device in the middle that looks like a small shiny core or crystal surrounded by a metal frame.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Film's scream woke me up and when I turned to the direction of the scream I saw the familiar silhouette of the monster that attacked us before "Let me go now! Monster!"

The monster, as if he had understood it, got angry and turned his hand into a blade ready to pierce him. I could only run towards him hoping to stop him, but I knew I wouldn't be able to stop him. I felt helpless and angry inside me for not being able to do anything. I had a strong desire to stop him.

That's where a miracle happened. Something inside me shot out of my chest and collided with the monster, sending it flying like before. The monster turned into data from the impact and entered near a nearby electricity pole. The thing that came out of me stood in front of me and revealed the form of a digital being made of fire data in the form of a bird.

It had the form... of a phoenix.

"You... are Phoenix. I thought you were just a product of my imagination," the fire bird responded with a loud growl. Then I saw how the phoenix began to shrink and place itself in my hand. Like before, the fire didn't burn or sting.

And when the fire faded away, it was seen that in my hand appeared a thin card-shaped device combined with a chip, on the front image of the chip, there was the unmistakable image of a phoenix and its shape matched the slot of the Virtual Drive.

Film who had seen everything that happened ran to approach me and saw what I was holding "A chip? That Phoenix just turned into some kind of computer chip?!" he said shocked by this

"No... this is more than a chip or card" I said understanding in some psychic way what he wanted me to do "This... is a cyber-core"

"Cyber-core? How do you know that stuff?"

"I don't know, but I do know this. Film, stay safe, I'll take care of the monster"

—But the monster just left— answered confused Film looking everywhere to make sure there was no one, except the two of them

"It hasn't left, I can still feel its presence here, I think it was waiting for me in that other world from before"

"What are you going to do?" he said worried about my life

—I'm going to finish off this damn virus— I said, grabbing the cyber-core tightly with my right hand, placing the Virtual-Drive on my waist so that a belt appeared and tied around my hip. Then I placed the cyber-core in the Virtual-Drive slot and slid it, causing a robotic voice to come out saying: ""Virtualize! Phoenix Protocol Engaged!""

"Henshin!" I said causing an explosion of digital cubes that enveloped my entire body, the cubes were assembling a holographic armor that solidified when all the digital cubes in my body connected, with digital flames stylizing in the representation of a phoenix that appeared behind my back.

The helmet has an angular and aggressive design, with large red eyes that simulate a digital visor, giving an insect-like appearance with technological touches. It had two elongated and sharp antennas, which emulate flames or wings, protruding upwards, reinforcing the phoenix theme. On the forehead and upper sections are glowing lines that look like digital circuits.

The front features a design of stylized flames in metallic red that extend towards the shoulders and neck, symbolizing that of a Phoenix. There are small reliefs that mimic digital structures or circuits, adding to the cyberspace theme. A black base beneath the flames reinforces the design, with patterns that represent data or energy flowing through. Large and sharp, with red and blue edges, they are designed to look like wings or feathers. The shoulder pads have a streamlined look that reinforces the character's agility. The arm sections are black with white detailing, and the forearms have flame-shaped plates that project energy or digital fire when powers are activated.

The belt is the center of the design, with a device in the middle that looks like a small glowing core or crystal surrounded by a metallic frame. The belt is the center of the design, with a device in the middle that looks like a small glowing core or crystal surrounded by a metallic frame. The central slot seems designed to insert Cyber-Codes, giving it a functional look.

The legs have a similar pattern to the torso, with black, white, and red colors evenly distributed. Armor plates cover the knees, with details resembling feathers or flames. The boots are designed for combat, with metallic hues and reinforced soles that could be useful for high-speed movements or forceful attacks.

"ETERNAL FLAME! WINGS OF FREEDOM THAT PIERCE THE DARKNESS!"

When the transformation ended, Film could not utter any coherent word, it seemed like his mind had just exploded.

"Wait here Film, I won't be long" I said to direct my laptop and turn into data entering it

"Wait!" he tries to reach him, but it didn't work, but from the laptop, he could see the reflection of that other world he was in before, there he could see Stardust with the armor, who was facing the monster that was chasing him "Good luck, Stardust"

Inside cyberspace, Stardust with his armor and the monster were facing each other staring at each other

"You've been bothering us all afternoon to get this Drive! If you want it, then try to take it from me!" I said defiantly

But the monster seemed to understand it, as it began to growl again, but this time it was noticeable that its voice was changing, to a more understandable voice

"Stupid organic being, you think that because I have that armor, you think you can stop me" he said with a deep and terrifying voice for anyone

But I didn't let myself be intimidated, instead I answered him with a smile, even if it wasn't noticeable through the helmet "I don't think I can stop you! I know I will! Because I have managed to create the victory circuit!"

The monster, fed up with me, threw his boomerang blades at me, but zigzagging towards him I dodged them and managed to give him a strong blow that made him retreat.

I was surprised by the strength I now possess, this armor has given me incredible power, I feel that there are no longer limits to my strength, to my power

The cybrix took advantage of my carelessness to throw his whip-blades at me, but I managed to dodge them with a backflip, and I advanced once more to continue attacking with a combination of blows and ties that made him take the defensive. He tried to give me a tie in my chest, but I dodged them, causing him to turn around and showing me his back full of sharp blades, with them he tried to impale me, but I gave him a strong kick in avoiding the blades.

The cybrix growled in pain, and stood up even more upset than before. He began to turn his hands into whip-blades trying to cut me in half, I dodged them very quickly and used my hands to deflect the blades, the more I deflected the blades with my hands, the more they began to shine and it seemed that my hands were turning into fire. The flames intensified and when they hit the blades they broke, causing the monster to grunt in pain

And I didn't stop there, with a strong jump I propelled myself towards the cybrix and with a series of 3 blows with my fists of fire, I managed to cause a lot of damage, and with a fourth blow I sent him crashing into the wall of a house

With Film seeing all this in the real world, he was very focused on the battle giving all his support to Stardust, and seeing how he was beating the monster, he celebrated for that, but he knew that he shouldn't be confident until he saw Stardust return safe and sound

But in his mind this whole situation seemed familiar as if he had seen it before —It can't be!— he said remembering where he had seen this situation "The monster! The Virtual-Drive! The cartridge! And the armor! All this fits with the myth!" he shouted with his eyes shining seeing all this

"Stardust Stellar.... JUST BECAME A KAMEN RIDER!" he said jumping with excitement with a huge smile "Kamen Riders really exist! This is the best day of my life!"

Back in cyberspace, the fight between the new Kamen Rider and the Cybrix was reaching its climax

The Cybrix had taken out one of his blades from his back and used them as swords to try to stab me, but I dodged them easily, it seemed that the Kamen Rider had experience fighting with subjects with bladed weapons, even if it was a monster he was fighting. He returned one or another blow when he saw an opening in the monster's attacks, he continued dodging and blocking the sword attacks by trapping his arms and repeatedly kicking him in the chest and face

The Cybrix in a desperate attempt, throws the swords he had, which I dodged by jumping, and then throws several boomerangs of blades at me. Some of them grazed me, but I managed to hit most of them and kick them to get rid of them. When I landed on the ground, I was greeted by whip-blades directly to my chest, I felt some pain but not enough to fall

He attacked me again, but this time I had memorized his attack sequence, I grabbed both blades with my hands, even if it hurt on the sharp part, I grabbed them tightly and threw them towards me to greet the cybrix with a strong kick to the face making him scream in pain and fall to the ground

"Yes! Now is your chance Stardust! Finish him!" Film shouted looking at my laptop screen

"Let's put an end to this" I said to grab my Virtual-Drive and grab the cyber-core of the phoenix again and slide it again, the robotic voice of the Drive coming out again.

"Cyber Flare Breaker!"

A light illuminated my right foot which I used to jump up and behind me appeared the image of a giant Phoenix with a great growl coming from it, the Phoenix began to dive directly to the monster with me following it with my foot in front preparing to give it a strong kick.

When the Phoenix's beak and my foot synchronized, it increased speed and in less than a second, it pierced the cybrix, causing an explosion behind the kamen rider. And from it multiple data began to spread all over the place, but without anyone noticing, some data began to enter the Virtual-Drive

Author's Note

Well, that's how my first chapter of this fanfic ends.
For those who have read it, I hope you liked it, and I'll do my best to get the next chapter out:

Chapter 2: The Truth Behind My Past

"I still can't believe what just happened," I said to myself leaning back on my living room couch tiredly.

It had already been exactly one hour since I had that unimaginable and dangerous combat with the cybrix of the blades, I found myself still thinking about everything that had happened. What started with a quiet ride on my new motorcycle to relax my mind from being expelled, again, from a private school, ended with saving the life of a guy I don't know who gave me what I now call the "Virtual-Drive" that allowed me to transform myself into a kind of armored hero with the powers of a Phoenix.

It's official, my life has turned into a crappy Japanese series.... No offense to the Japanese

"But it really happened! You fixed the Drive! You transformed into a Kamen Rider! And you defeated it in an epic way!!!" said an excited Film chattering in my house walking from one place to another "The monster, or rather cybrix, attacked you with its blades! But I used your moves to dodge them and smash them to smithereens!" exclaimed as I did boxing moves in the air, trying to mimic the same moves I did in the fight with the cybrix "Especially that last attack, that Phoenix gives me goosebumps, that was the ultimate!!!"

And it didn't help that the guy named Film Action was in my house, in the living room prattling on about how great I was at taking on the cybrix of blades, especially how I destroyed him with that final attack.

Tired of listening to his voice, I approached him in one agile movement and put my hand on his mouth, silencing him "Listen Action, I saved your life just by coincidence, and since the threat is over, you can go home and we will not have to talk again" I said in a rude way, but I don't care about that, I just want this guy to get out of my house once and for all.

"But everything that's happened the last few hours is something you can't forget!" what Film said has a point to it, but I still wanted him to get the hell out - "Especially that you just proved the legends of the Kamen Riders were true!"-

Again with the same thing "You keep saying that about Kamen Rider, what's that?"

Film gasped dramatically as if he had broken a taboo or something "How can you not know it's a Kamen Rider?! That's what you just transformed into!" he exclaimed exaggeratedly.

"I don't even know how I did it, I just let my body act on its own, the information of what I became is already gone, my mind is blank" I answered him remembering how in my moment as -kamen rider- I only remember that I fought as I always do, only that I felt a great power run through my whole body, and that the fire skills I showed I did them as if my body was in automatic mode "But we are getting off topic, what is a Kamen Rider?"

"Kamen riders are heroes in armor with superpowers of Japanese origin!" he said as he pulled out his smartphone and displayed images of figures in armor of different color and shape, fighting deformed monsters of different shapes and sizes "Every time humans are confronted with supernatural beings or monsters! The Kamen Riders would appear having powers almost familiar to the monsters they faced, only they would use you for good and fight!"

"You know a lot about them for a simple fan, and didn't you say they were a myth, those kamen riders?" I asked analyzing the information Action was giving me.

"Well, they are supposedly a myth for the simple fact that no one has seen them in a long time, and there is also the fact that most of the kamen rider story is said to take place in other universes, which makes many people believe they are not real" snort Film annoyed.

I just raised an eyebrow at this "The existence of other worlds, besides earth, is still under debate as no authentic evidence has yet been found for that theory".

"I'd like you to say the same thing when you meet Sunset" he whispered to himself, but after that there was the sound of a notification on his cell phone and upon seeing it, he found his eyes widened like saucers upon seeing it and with his mouth hanging open "Oh no!"

"What is it now?"

"Quick, put the news on the Canterlot News channel!" said Film hurriedly, you could tell by the tone of his voice that he was serious.

I didn't understand him well, but I listened to him and turned on the TV at home to see what he was so anxious about, when I saw what the news was showing, my eyes opened just like Film's. The news lady was showing several images of the streets and blocks where our chase with the cybrix had taken place. The news lady was showing several images of the streets and blocks where our chase with the cybrix had taken place, the streets were destroyed, the tracks with large and deep cuts by the cybernetic monster's blades, there were several light poles and one or another column destroyed and with large debris on the ground.

Because of the whole cybrix, Virtual-Drive and Kamen Rider thing; we had completely forgotten about the collateral damage that had happened during our chase. And I also remembered the screams of terror from the people while riding my bike, which I completely ignored as I was concentrating on running away from the monster.

"In the last few hours, one of the strangest and most dangerous events has occurred in the quiet town of Canterlot. An event that from one minute to the next, our city was mysteriously attacked, whose responsible has not yet been identified. According to witnesses, at the time of the attack was related by a mysterious motorcyclist that around him, began to hear loud explosions and sounds of blades cutting the ground surfaces" the television showed images of several people with some bruises and scratches, with very dirty and torn clothes, many of them said what happened from their points of view.

-I was just passing by with my daughter shopping! And the next thing I know, the sound of a motorcycle engine with several explosions!

-I just know that some idiot went over the speed limit and the next thing I know, I saw my car being ripped in half! It can't be a coincidence!" said a man with great anger and fury in his voice and face.

-It was horrible! We were just having a good time with my friends only to see a motorcyclist run a red light and almost hit us! Then we were greeted by the explosion of a nearby car that exploded out of nowhere! Or rather... it looked like it was broken in half and then exploded. Am I right?" said a 15 year old boy, looking at some of his friends behind him.

And from there appeared other people complaining about what happened, all of them with wounds and with their clothes totally dirty. Many of them seemed to blame me for what happened, but I think that was obvious, I mean, none of them could see a cybrixt like Action and me.

But even though I knew this was caused by the cybrix, I couldn't help but feel guilty about it. As I ran away, I turned a pleasant and quiet afternoon in the streets of the city into complete chaos and destruction wherever I went.

But what other action did he have?

If it wasn't for my incredible skills as a motorcyclist, I might have died along with Action. That was definitely not an option, I know I did the right thing with what I had at the time.

"As you can see viewers, what happened today was not an accident, it was caused by a mysterious motorcyclist who managed to destroy the entire northern block of Canterlot City. We still don't know how a single person managed to do all this destruction, and unfortunately, all security cameras that were filming at that moment mysteriously stopped working and it seemed that it was hacked by someone, it is as if they stopped working completely as if there was a short circuit" showed other images of several security cameras disabled or with broken lens.

I sighed at that "For a moment I thought I would be blamed for this" I said touching the part of my body where my heart was beating before for fear that I would be blamed for something that was out of my control, again.

"I never thought that our pursuit would bring so much destruction, now I feel very guilty," Film said, lowering his head in repentance.

"You're not the only one" I thought, but I didn't say it out loud so as not to show weakness to him "We did what we had to do to survive and now that cybrix is gone, we won't have to worry about being chased again" I said to get up from the couch and grab Film by the shoulders to guide him to the front door of my house "And since there's no threat anymore, you can get the hell out of my house and never come back.... ever!" I said as I opened the door to my house and pushed Film out, but he put his foot in to prevent me from closing it

"Wait! There are still many unanswered questions! Like where did those cybrix come from! What was that virtual place we were before we got to your house! And what's the origin of your powers!" he shouted desperately to prevent me from closing the door on him, putting his hand, foot and head "And you forgot I still have your drive!" he said showing the Virtual-Drive from my home.

"I don't want it!!! That thing will only bring me more trouble than I already have! If they find out I'm the biker and I tell them what happened! They won't believe me and they'll send me to reform school! Or even worse! TO PRISON!!!" I yelled pushing even harder on the door, but I only managed to hit Film's head and half of his body, which made him grunt from the pain, but he didn't give in.

"But you're the only one who can fight those things! And we're the only ones who know what really happened! A threat that's just around the corner and we're the only ones who know!!!" he continued to shout despite the pain he was in as he was hit pro the door multiple times

"I DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO OTHER PEOPLE!!! I'll be damned if they all die and it will be the cops' fault for not being prepared for this!!!" I shouted, fed up with the situation I was in.

"But you saved my life!!!" spat Film forcefully "You could have let me die for the virtronics, but you decided to save me!"

"And look where that got me! To be considered a terrorist on the news and almost get myself killed by a monster with his blades! I'm done meddling in other people's business! Never again!!!" I scream with a huge fury contained in me, I opened the port wide and kicked Film's chest pushing him out of my house and slamming it shut with force.

Film lay on the floor lying down from the hard kick I gave him, it seemed to hurt like hell and had taken all the air out of his lungs for a moment. After catching his breath, he stood up and looked at the house where I had literally kicked him out of.

Throughout the history of mankind, humans have gradually progressed with technology to the present day, where the brilliant scientist, Hope Light, discovered cyberspace, a digital universe made entirely of data, and from it developed a system capable of turning holograms created from cyberspace into organic materials such as fruits and building materials.

But what no one knew is that the discovery of Cyberspace would open an entrance for virtual beings originating from the digital Universe to come to our world with the intention of destroying every organic being in the world.

But with the coming of a new darkness, comes a light, or in this case, a flame of hope that came to confront this new threat.

The legend of a new Kamen Rider begins...!

In a dark place within the vast cyberspace, a special space was displayed where the background was a dark crimson ginger with a red haze, along with several black digital cubes with red lines at the ends of different sizes, some were the same size as a person, others were the size of a 50-foot tall building.

All those cubes were floating in the reddish void, combined with the mist you can see, it gave it a creepy touch, it looked lifeless and without any light on the horizon.

But one could see even further ahead, one could notice among one of the large cubes a circular platform with several fully holographic computers, with various diagrams and virtual windows showing several cities in ruins, being completely destroyed and leaving only the rubble, with the dark reddish sky giving a gloomy view and showing. And in front of these sights was the same hooded man who had ordered the cybrix to go to earth to retrieve the cybert-driver.

The hooded man just looked at the sight of destroyed cities as if it was no big deal, rather, he seemed to be bored just looking at them.

"It looks like the cybrix Swordart I sent to Earth was destroyed, which is weird, no weapon that humans have or powers like those magical girls from Canterlot High have enough power to destroy a cybrix" said the hooded man analyzing his options "The only thing I can think of is that someone defeated them... using the cyber-hack that Comet had" he said to himself he said showing one of the holographic windows an image of the cyber-hack that fell to earth.

Sigh as he saw them again "How I wish I could have caught one of them when I had the chance, I don't know what kind of modifications he made to them, but I'm 100% sure the person responsible has one of those cyber-hacks" he said as a sinister smile formed on his face still covered by his hooded cowl now known as Korrup.

"You're still here playing with your gadgets Korrup" said a female voice behind the hooded man now known as Korrup. From the portal formed of red cubes, a monster appeared with the humanoid figure that would be described as an insect woman, her skin was mostly black in color, long hair that is behind her back opaque blue, she had a pair of cockroach wings behind her back, and she had blue-green metal shoulder and knee pads, with a pair of opaque green eyes.

"What can I say, I am fascinated by the way the humans of this world eliminated one of my cybrix, but there is something about all this that bothers me" said Korrup while sliding his hand on the screens to change them, he saw several graphs with very high statistics "Exactly 8 hours ago, a very high energy trace was detected, one that only certain individuals from cyberspace are capable of using, specifically, beings that should be extinct" he said with a cold and evil smile.

"What creatures are you talking about?" said the insect cybrix intrigued by what the hooded man said.

Her smile disappeared and she returned to her carefree, childlike attitude "I don't think we need to worry about it for now, so don't worry about it."

"How do you want me to calm down if you say there might be a threat to our plans out there!" the female cybrix exclaimed angrily.

"Everything is going according to plan, tomorrow the humans of the Cyber companies will open the door so that we can pass into their world without our little limitations" he said in a confident voice as he walked close to his cybrix companion and put his arm behind his neck "So relax Envyx, everything will go according to plan."

Envyx removed Korrup's arm abruptly "Stop playing stupid games, you are lucky that your information and knowledge of cyberspace are useful to me otherwise you would have died by my own hands" he approached Korrup threateningly with his hands, or rather claws, on Korrup's neck.

But he took it as a joke and without any concern he spoke "Oh, you are very intimidating Envyx, but don't worry, I personally took care of choosing the right cybrix to lead the first invasion to earth" he said playfully, but then he looked around to see if there was anyone else listening to them "By the way, where is the muscle boy? Wasn't he with you when you arrived?"

"That horned idiot was busy with his 'personal experiment', I really don't care, as long as he doesn't mess with my plans" she said to her to move away from Korrup and open a red portal "You better hope our plans go according to plan, if not, I'll take care of separating all your digits piece by piece myself" she said threateningly with her claws raised as if she wanted to crush someone's skull, and then entering the portal and disappearing.

When she left, it was seen how Korrup snorted in a mocking way "Stupid, she really thinks she is the queen bee just because of her economic position in that world and that she has acquired the power of a Cybrix" it was noticed that her expression changed to a wicked smile like before "But it is always good to turn into cybrix the inhabitants with those kinds of ambitions like hers and Vorax, those two will be very useful for me.... if this universe has what I'm looking for" he said to show a holographic screen that showed the image of 6 small creatures, that average around 100 cm, and multicolored. The most remarkable thing about these creatures was that these small creatures had the appearance of different types of birds or bird-like appearances, they also had some lines of circuits in some parts of their body and while they floated some small digital particles in the form of cubes of their respective colors could be seen falling.

At this image she gave him a sinister smile on her hooded face that only showed the lower part of her face "You won't be able to hide from me forever, cyphris.... It's only a matter of time."

Somewhere in cyberspace, specifically in the virtual version of Canterlot City, a small creature was prowling through the virtual streets of the place, while passing through the place, they found themselves watching several holographic screens that showed the real world, showing them from the point of view of a television, a cell phone, a smart car and other screens that electronic devices.

The little creature moved with a spectacular speed and grace that showed the experience he had. When it reached a part of the city with a large house, it was obvious that it recognized it. The little creature entered inside the house and through the electrical appliances of the house, hid inside one of them and watched the events unfold inside the house.

An adult woman in her 40's, with light blue hair, green eyes and pale blue skin, looked like she was cooking something in the kitchen section of her house, after a few seconds, she put all the food already prepared on the table.

"Stardust! Breakfast is ready!" the woman shouted loud enough to be heard upstairs, there they heard footsteps coming down some stairs and saw Stardust appear and sit down at the table sleepily.

"Good morning..." murmured the blue-haired boy simply, it was clear that he was still very sleepy.

"Come on son, today is a new day, you can't sleep all day long!" said the older woman cheerfully, it seemed she was trying to cheer up the blue-haired boy.

"It's hard to be upbeat after the bad day I had yesterday" the Stardust replied being more awake than before "And you won't believe all the craziness I had to go through yesterday because of that Film Action" he thought to himself with irritation.

The woman sighed at her son's attitude "I know getting kicked out of Crystal Prep has been hard, but look on the bright side!" she said to hug him with her right arm around his neck and tousling my hair with her other hand "You won't have to put up with those proud, spoiled snobs at Crystal Prep anymore! I don't even know what I was thinking when I enrolled you there! It must have put you in a much friendlier place!"

"I don't think it made much of a difference anyway," I said disinterestedly as I ate the pancakes.

The mother, seeing the disinterested voice of her son, decided to change the subject "If you say so, but don't think you've been spared from going to class, I still have an ace up my sleeve knowing that you could be expelled, but I expected you to be expelled by that old witch Cinch" she said with venom in her voice when she said the last thing. Needless to say, my mother and Cinch had some sort of enmity and hatred for each other. "But anyway, I have a lot of things to do today, I still have to make preparations for the Prep Crystal and Cantarlot High tour" he said all that as he grabbed some papers and stuffed them into his briefcase.

I raised an eyebrow at this "Are you going to continue with the tours despite what happened yesterday" I asked puzzled, I was almost sure that the news of the destruction of an entire city block would make people concentrate on fixing the disaster than on other things.

"Yesterday really was a tragedy, but even so, the tour must still continue, you know how I like to encourage the kids these days and see how they obey me as if I were superior" she gave me her characteristic mocking smile "Although of course, the destroyed block will be rebuilt thanks to the fact that I convinced Director Shadow to support me with his money, anyway, he has a lot to spend..." she pauses for a moment thoughtfully ".... Still, I wonder what kind of monster would do something like that? A lot of people could get hurt because of that."

I ducked my head a little and clenched my fists in frustration under the table so my mom wouldn't notice, even if I know I wasn't the one who caused that, I still have part of the guilt for having gone through those streets being chased by a cybernetic monster. "Good question, what would all that senseless destruction do?" I whispered staring into nothingness.

That's a question that has been bothering me tomorrow night, who is the one who organized all that chaos yesterday? That cybrix couldn't be the great mastermind behind that attack, he looked more like a soldier or a sidekick obeying orders from someone higher up, and it was obvious that his only goal was to get the virtual drive. I would like to think that yesterday was a one time thing, but I would be lying, whoever is responsible for sending that cybrix here will try it again, I just hope he doesn't find out that it was me who destroyed it ".... Because I don't plan to do it again" I think determined - "The only reason I used the virtual was to save me and my house... ah yes also that Action guy"- I said almost forgetting about that guy. I shook my head trying to forget about him - "There's no point in thinking about that, I'm not going to play the hero, what happens to others is not my problem... I've already gotten into a lot of trouble for getting into things that didn't suit me, a clear example is what happened yesterday. I am almost sure that the government or the military forces will be able to fight them better than me, as long as Film delivers the virtual drive to the officers..."- I kept an insecure look in the last part.

"Stardust"

I know it was wrong for me to kick him last night, but I wanted nothing to do with it, it's really too much to ask to have just one day where I don't get in trouble and can have the life of an ordinary guy.

"Stardust"

Action had better not tell anyone about what happened yesterday, I don't want to be sent to a government lab to be experimented on, or in the worst case scenario, forced to be their obedient soldier against the cybrix that might show up again.

"Don't you mean 'better' cases than 'worse' cases?"

"I don't like people forcing me to be things I don't like, because you think I tend to get into various problems with the police."

"Yeah, you're right, especially that stupid, uptight Armor, he really does hate us."

"Yeah- Wait, who am I talking to? Or what do you mean by we-?"

*PAAMM!

"Stardust Kirby Stellar! Answer your elders when they talk to you!" my mother exclaimed in annoyance as I clutched my head after the tremendous blow she gave me.

From the creature's perspective, they moved as he watched the whole scene of the mother hitting the son, it was noticeable that he was laughing a lot as he stopped looking at the humans and looked at the blue sky of cyberspace as he fell down still laughing.

"Ouch!" I said rubbing myself for the hard hit, my mother has a heavy hand "You didn't have to hit me so hard!" I complained, still in pain.

"It's your fault for having your head in the stars, I was asking you if you didn't want to go with me to the Cyberse Industries labs, I'm about to achieve a breakthrough with the materialization system with cyberspace."

"Also to spend time with some of the parents of my ex-schoolmates, so that they look at me with hatred and talk behind my back insulting me" I replied at a great speed frowning "No thanks, I prefer to be alone... as always" the last part he said with a certain sadness, one that his mother noticed.

She approached her son and gave him a warm hug "Son, you know that there are people in this world who get carried away by rumors, but if you don't do things to defend your true self, then they can never know who you really are inside" her voice and words were warm, Words that can only be expressed by the love of a mother to her son "No one in this world can live on their own and much less can they live alone when life can be cruel, that's why people need to make friends" then she looked me straight in the eyes "With friends it helps life to be less cruel and much more colorful so that it is not monotonous and lonely".

My mother can be bad tempered and impulsive at times, but she always knows what to say when I'm sad and need some motivation, but I don't like it when she emphasizes the making friends part.

"You know I don't want to make friends and I don't need them, at the end of the day, friends only cause problems and every time I interact with a person other than you, I get myself into trouble that I had nothing to do with and that I could have avoided if I hadn't interacted with anyone" he said with my spiteful voice clenching my fists as I remembered.

"Maybe, but you have to do your part to show them who you really are, remember my shooting star..." said Hope to put her finger on her forehead and push it so that my eyes meet hers "When you feel that your efforts are useless and that no one recognizes your efforts for your good intentions, never give up and you will see that perseverance will always triumph over the pain and cruelty of this world" I finished giving her a smile full of confidence.

I remained thoughtful about this, even if my mother says so, I am still not sure if she is right, many times I tried to persevere in the face of the hatred of other people, but every day I feel that my efforts are useless, and... that maybe I can't keep the promise I made to this man.

My mother stood up and went to the front door of the house "But enough with the sentimentality, I have work to do, take care of yourself and don't let me leave the house, I love you!" she said to close the door and then the sound of a car starting up and driving away could be heard.

"... I love you too" I said to finish my pancakes.

The being that was watching him looked directly at Stardust and could not help but sympathize with him. He would like to help him with his problems, but now he had a mission to accomplish and they didn't have much time, so he had to act fast.

But then a voice unfamiliar to both the creature and Stardust was heard "She's finally gone, I thought she'd never leave that woman" said a voice that was clearly heard the aforementioned.

Stardust, who had already finished his breakfast, got up from the table and got into a fighting stance in case he needs to defend himself "I'm already fed up! Who are you and where are you?"

"Calm down, it's just me" said the mysterious voice, only for after a second Stardsut's chest to start glowing red and out of it came a familiar firebird "I'm your supposed imaginary friend Phoenix, although I have to say you suck at making up names."

In front of me stood a creature that is considered mythical, a phoenix. But to be more specific, its body is composed of glowing energy patterns that fluctuate between a fiery red and a glowing orange, simulating an eternal fire. Golden digital lines run along its body. Its wings, formed by feathers of pulsating energy.

Phoenix's beak is designed with a dark metallic finish, and its eyes shine with an intense yellow glow, conveying wisdom and ferocity. On its chest, there is a hexagonal crystal-shaped core, which acts as its power source. Its tail is long, elegant and composed of constantly moving digital feathers, which seem to sparkle like a firewall in action.

"You're Phoenix!" exclaim grimly at the revelation.

"Yeah basically, it's nice to finally get to meet you face to face so we can talk face to face" he said in a playful tone "But first, stop calling me Phoenix and give me a better name!"

"Guou guou, easy I never thought you'd be so bothered by that name."

"You gave me that name when I wasn't able to think on my own while you were growing up, I want a new name!" I exclaim with an annoyed look sneaking close to my face "NOW!"

"Quiet already!" I pushed it away from my face so I could think "Seriously, this is the first time we've talked knowing you're not part of my imagination and this is the first thing you've said to me."

"It's your fault for giving me such a stupid name in the first place, I want a refund" said Phoenix as he crossed his wings with his paws on the that of the dining room and looked at me with narrowed eyes.

"Okey let me think.... How about... Nix?" I suggested the first thing that came to my mind.

"Stupid."

"Blaze"

"Pathetic."

"But how original," he said sarcastically.

"Burn?"

"If you're even trying!" he exclaimed in annoyance, spreading his wings.

"I'm not a creative person! I don't even know why I'm doing this in the first place! And why do the weirdest things keep happening to me when all I want to do is keep myself out of trouble?" I put my hand to my face in frustration.

"You of all people know that you will never have a normal life like other people, after what happened yesterday our life will never be the same" said Fenix who was sitting on the sofa in the living room and turned on the TV, with his powers, where he was watching a kind of cartoon.

"How did you do that?" I asked in surprise.

"I'm not entirely sure, I just know I can do this from a few days ago" I commented thoughtfully "As far as I know, I remember I used to spend time with you as a kid, but I had no self-awareness, it's like you could control me. And all of a sudden, one day it seems like I was in a deep sleep that lasted for years."

"You've been sleeping for years..." I started to connect some threads "Until yesterday where you told me about the virtronics and the cybrix, what do you know about them?" I stared at him beginning to get suspicious.

"I know what that look means and the answer is 'no'" he said settling into the couch tossing one of his feathers at the TV changing the channel "When I felt the presence of the virtronics and the cybrix, it was like a shock running through my entire digital body and I managed to half wake up, but enough to help you beat them, I'm just starting to fully wake up" he said as he stretched his wings and legs still lying back on the couch.

"This can't be happening to me..." I whispered to myself as I saw that I was getting no response that would please me "Okay, can you at least tell me what you are? Because I'm pretty sure phoenixes don't have powers to control technology and the fact that I'm not burning my couch since phoenixes are literally made of fire, they should burn everything they touch."

"I could turn into fire if I wanted to, but I'm sure you don't want us to burn down our house like our mother wanted" he demonstrated by raising his wing into the air and turning it into fire "And the truth is I'm not sure what I am, I have the vast majority of your memories in my mind as if I have lived them too".

"Do you have all my memories?" I asked in surprise "And what do you mean by our mother?!"

"I don't know why, something inside me makes me say that Hope Light is my mother as much as yours, I think the fact that I've been living inside you makes us almost the same person."

"So... Are you some kind of cybernetic spirit animal?" I asked having nothing else to refer to.

"Yes, you could say that you and I are the same being in one soul" he said changing the channel again not liking it "There seems to be nothing good in the news."

I made it!

I am feeling the energy signature of two beings!

Wait, two? One is Phoenix or whatever you want to call it, the other comes from....

I opened my eyes that began to glow green and red, and in front of me I see a small being with the appearance of a light bird like a swift, with a slender and streamlined body. Its main color is a light green, with swirling patterns that shimmer like gusts of wind. Long and slender, as if made of solidified air currents. Their design includes a small crest on the head reminiscent of a feather waving in the wind. And they dropped cubes that are pale green and dissipate quickly, like a digital breeze.

"Yes you can see me! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it was you!" it was seen to glow and appeared in real life as an organic being, it came even closer to my face invading my personal space "Prince!"

My face changed to one of surprise and shock, just as Fenix was when he heard my name he jumped off the couch and began to float in the air without flapping his wings looking at the new being.

"PRINCE!" they both shouted in shock.

"Yup! Prince, that's you! I can't believe you've been hiding here all this time! King Virtur told us he had a son and none of us could believe it!" he said as he moved or rather flew around the house in excitement "There is still hope for this world and cyberspace" he was now on the table doing a strange and somewhat embarrassing dance, but he didn't seem to realize it or didn't care.

This is crazy!

First I turn into some kind of superhero with armor, the next day a being appears who says he is my spirit animal or something like that and that he was living all this time inside me. And now another phoenix appears, but a green one who says I am a prince! A PRINCE!

What the fuck is going on with my life?!

"We?" repeated Fenix.

"Were they still alive?" I repeated "You could say something that makes a lot more sense, it's starting to give me a headache in my head."

"Of course! That's why I'm here in the first place, I came to find you prince! When you activated your Drive, it alerted us that you had already awakened your full power!" he said with a cheerful attitude.

"First of all, stop calling me prince, my name is Stardust Stellar and nothing else" I said already irritated by this thing calling me prince.

But he didn't seem to get the hint "All right Prince Stardust, let's pick up your Drive and go so I can explain our situation" he said as he headed for the exit.

"If you're talking about the Virtual Driver, let me tell you that the fool here gave it to a guy whose life we saved yesterday," replied Fenix, causing Aerion to stop in his tracks and turn to look at us slowly.

"WHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT!!!" I thought it couldn't be more radiant than before, but it seems I was wrong. I couldn't help but cover my ears before that scream and a few seconds later he was close to my face again "The Driver is one of the most important objects we will need to defeat the cybrix! And the worst thing is that you are the only one of the people in this world who can handle its power without consequences!"What if the Cybrix find your driver, they could discover your secret and we wouldn't have a chance to defeat them! That would be the end of everything we know! How do I know!!!" a small flare managed to knock him down and he fell to the ground, that flare was caused by an irritated Fenix.

"If you keep yelling, I swear I'll rip off your beak and throw it in the darkest place so you'll never find it" he said giving Aerion a grim look, who was intimidated and just nodded. Then he turned his gaze to me "You shouldn't have given the Virtual Driver to Action yesterday, that was idiotic".

"If you were with me there, then you know I didn't want to get into any more trouble than I might be in if I went along with that cybrix and kamen rider nonsense. No one besides Action and I know what really happened and-"

"If you don't do it again then they won't have evidence to hold you accountable and you can go free, that's true and getting rid of the evidence was smart, except.... If the evidence wasn't an alien object that could give you great power! It was stupid!" he exclaimed and then hit me with his left wing.

"Hey!"

"And now how are we going to get our driver back?! We have no idea where that stupid Action could be and without you even thinking about it, you gave him a key piece of evidence that could give us away!" exclaimed Fenix angrily.

"I wasn't thinking straight yesterday! Okay! I just want to be alone and not have to interact with other people!" I angrily replied trying to punch him, but Fenix nimbly dodges it.

"That doesn't solve our problems! We can't wait for that idiot to show up again after the way you kicked him out of the house!"

Then we heard loud knocking against the wood and when we looked where it was coming from, we heard someone knocking on the front door repeatedly in alarm.

"STARDUUSSTT!!!" came the cry of a familiar voice "It's me Film Action! This is an emergency!"

"You speak of the devil and he will appear in your harbor" I repeated an old motto I once heard. I glanced at the cyphris "Hide while I take care of him."

"No"

"What?" I turned to look at Fenix.

"I said no, he is the only one besides us who knows what happened yesterday, he is already involved in this and if you ask him to give you the driver, he will get suspicious and it will only be a matter of time before he finds out about us and could threaten us with telling the police" he crossed his wings "Something none of us want."

"And there's also the fact that we don't have much time before the others find out I'm gone" we both gave a confused look to Aerion who looked embarrassed "Let's just say I wasn't supposed to come looking for them, the Driver that is yours is supposed to send the location of our hideout, there you'll know the details about the cybrix and cyberspace."

"Stardust!!! this is serious! Something weird is going on with your Virtual Driver! I promise I didn't do anything weird to him!" exclaimed Film worriedly.

I sighed resignedly as I listened to Aerion and Film "Okay, the faster this goes, the faster I can rest from all this cybernetic monster business" I rubbed my forehead to calm my stress.

I approached the door that Film kept knocking and shouting. I opened the door and Film quickly walked in with the Virtual Driver in his hands that seemed to glow and vibrate as if it were a cell phone with a call.

"Glad you opened Stardust! I know you didn't want anything to do with the kamen riders, but the Virtual Driver is acting weird and I don't know what-!" he paused when he noticed two birds in red and green respectively in my living room staring at him ".... I didn't know you had pets!"

"We're not pets!" exclaimed phoenix, which surprised Film "And there's no time for that, give me that!" phoenix took the driver from him and gave it to me.

"That bird just spoke" he said in shock, but then took a good look at it and remembered "You're not the Phoenix that saved us yesterday!"

"Don't worry my friend! All your answers will be answered in no time!" said Aerion placing himself on his shoulder.

Film marveled at the sight of Aerion "Wow what are you?" he said as he touched Aerion's feathers, which tickled.

"Well, I'm a-"

"Aha! So that's how it works!" they both stopped talking my looked at where Phoenix and I were. You could see how the Virtual Drive was showing a hologram of the city of Canterlot and how a red dot was glowing on the outskirts of town

"On my bike I could get there in 2 hours at the most" I said calculating the distance between my house and the red dot.

"Well, let's not waste any more time, let's go for broke!" said Fenix to fly off to my garage where my motorcycle is.

"Well, since, at least it's better than staying bored at my house," I shrugged as I followed Fenix.

"Hey wait for me! I'm supposed to be your guide!" exclaimed Aerion to follow us.

"And I what! I barely know what's going on!" said Film from the living room, after we didn't respond and he heard the engine of my bike, he took off running towards the garage "Wait for me!!! I still have a lot of questions!"

And unbeknownst to us, that was the moment when we embarked on an adventure full of dangers and challenges.

And where they would discover more than they bargained for...

"So... you're telling me that you and the Phoenix that saved us yesterday is a kind of spirit animal of your soul. That it is also a cyphris, a creature native to cyberspace, a universe made entirely of digital data, and that's also where the monster that attacked us yesterday came from, which is called a cybrix. And now the other cyphris called Aerion is taking us to his lair where he can explain everything that is happening and for some reason he keeps calling you prince" Film summed up everything I have been telling him during the ride on my motorcycle while I kept walking through a forest outside the city of Canterlot.

"Yeah, basically. I still have some questions that the bird in green still hasn't answered" said Fenix flying with us.

"Hey! I'm no bird! I'm the cyphris guardian of the wind!" exclaimed Aerion offended.

"I'll still call you a bird, at least until you get back to us."

"You already told them, it's better to talk to them about all this when we get there" Aerion refuted.

"But we haven't seen any buildings in this whole forest, I'm beginning to suspect you're leading us into a trap" said Fenix looking at Aerion steadily.

"I think I found what you were referring to" I finally said with my driver in my hands projecting the map, which turns out we were exactly in front of the entrance to Aerion's "lair".

It turned out to be an old computer with several rocks around it, and coincidentally it was painted gray like the other rocks around and on top of it. It almost seemed to camouflage itself with the surroundings, if it wasn't for the Driver I would have mistaken it for another rock.

Aerion exclaimed happily "We're here! Now let's go in!"

The three of us were confused as to what Aerion was referring to. Film stepped forward "Amm.... And what exactly is an old computer doing around here?"

"This is the entrance to our lair, and it was also the hideout your father created many years ago Prince Dust" that's a stupid nickname Aerion gave me on the way here.

"So, what you mean is that we should use the Virtual Drive to become data and enter cyberspace through that obsolete version of a computer?"

"Yep" he said cheerfully as he headed for the computer "See you inside, I'll let the others know so they won't be so surprised" he said to turn into data and enter inside the computer.

"This whole thing sounds like something out of a hero and fantasy anime. how cool!" said Film excited about everything that's going on.

I sighed from exhaustion at how Action is treating this whole crazy situation "How can you take it that way when we are literally standing in front of what could be the hideout of a group of aliens?"

He just shrugged "Well, when you're in a school where it has a portal to another dimension, there were once magical mermaids, brainwashing twice, magical steamroller plants and magical girls; it's pretty hard for something like aliens existing to surprise you. And that I would be considered a background character when all that happened."

"... Are you from Canterlot High?" asked Fenix who asked for both of them.

"Yeah, and I guess you know about magic from being part of Crystal Prep don't you?"

"I used to be part, and yes, but of magic is not something I care much about, now I have to concentrate of what is in front of me" I said looking seriously at the computer.

I don't want to admit it, but Fenix is right, in there lies the answers to several questions I've had for a long time, What am I? Where did all my superhuman abilities come from? Who is my father? Why did he leave my mother? But most of all, did I really love my mother?

All those questions could be inside that simple box of old technology. You can't tell, but I'm nervous about what I might find out, I don't really care about kamen rider or Virtual Driver, I just want to know the truth.

"Let's just go inside, I didn't come all the way here for nothing."

"I agree, it's really killing my curiosity," Film replied with an excited smile.

"I almost forgot you were there" I said letting out a sigh "You're only here because you wouldn't stop nagging and so you wouldn't tell anyone about what happened yesterday."

"Look, I know you don't trust me because it was only yesterday that we met, but I can promise you on my honor as a reporter, not to say anything about what's going on" he said raising his hand in the form of a palm "And besides I'm involved in this since I picked up the Virtual Driver last week, I also have the right to know what almost killed us yesterday".

I shook my head resigned "I hate to admit it, but you're right that you've been too involved in this to leave you out, even if that doesn't mean I trust you" Film just nodded at this, then increase the strength of my grip with the hand holding my driver and lift him forward "Let's do it!" said I with determination.

Film put his hand on my shoulder and Fenix put his hand on my shoulder, the Driver started to glow and suddenly, we started to turn into data and were sucked into the computer.

I am still not used to the sensation of converting my body into data, but it was not as surprising as the previous times. When I managed to open my eyes, I noticed that next to me were Fenix and Film Action, the latter was still dizzy from the data conversion, but it seemed that he was already recovering, while Fenix felt the same, it is obvious that this is natural for him.

I looked around me, and when I saw what was around me, I was surprised by what I was seeing. I was surprised by what I was seeing, I was in a very spacious room, more spacious than my whole house. In the back there were like small capsules hanging on the parents, there were 6 in total.

There was also a huge computer very advanced, almost did not seem to be of this world, and next to it there was an automatic door that seemed to lead to an empty and spacious room, it was noticed thanks to a rectangular window that let you see the room in white. And finally there was a kind of transparent spherical device of light blue color, which was on top of a desk with several plans of what appear to be weapons on the walls and a blackboard where he had written several computer code and computer circuits, but what stood out most of all that, were some plans that indicated the Cyber Driver, and also some memory card, but I recognized immediately, those were cybercores.

"This place looks like something out of a science fiction movie" commented Film impressed.

"Needless to say, this is definitely one of the coolest places I've ever been to" agreed Fenix "The energy that flows in this place is something pure, I feel like this place is something...liberating for lack of a way to say it."

"I feel it too, it's... as if during all my life I was living underwater, but now it's like I'm out of the water and I can move with great freedom" I said feeling like my body was very light "It's like the first time I became a kamen rider".

"I'm glad you like it Prince Dust!" exclaimed Aerion excitedly appearing out of nowhere.

"It is an honor to finally meet you, Prince Stardust Stellar" said a female voice.

"Umm... doesn't seem to be that strong at first glance, but looks are always deceiving, if I manage to defeat a cybrix with their power unleashed for the first time in their life, I think they have potential worthy of the King's heir" said a male voice, he sounded cold and calculating as he tried to describe me

"If he's here! It means we can finally get out of this prison!" said a voice full of energy.

"Calm down Voltaris, if the cybrix came to this world, then we will have to be more alert than ever" said a voice that conveyed serenity and tranquility.

"You're always this boring you always Terran, that's why I prefer to spend my time with Aerion" replied the former voice

Fenix, Film and I saw 4 new creatures similar to Aerion and Fenix, they had shapes similar to birds or beings that had wings, but what we could say is that they all had some circuits in some parts of their bodies and had trails of their respective colors.

The first is a cyphris that has the appearance of a hummingbird-like creature, slender and slender. Its body is a crystalline blue with liquid sparkles that seem to flow like living water. Transparent and light, with a pearly sheen that reflects small ripples, as if made of water. It has large, friendly eyes with a slight sky-blue glow, and an elongated tail that looks like a stream of water. It dropped a trail of light blue digital cubes that shimmer like moving water droplets.

The second is a cyphris that looks similar to a miniature arctic owl. Its body is white with translucent crystal details that simulate ice chunks. Compact and sharp, as if made of frozen crystals. Its beak and legs are small, with an icy metallic sheen, and its eyes have an icy blue hue. It leaves a trail of bluish-white digital cubes that look like frost in the air.

The third is a cyphris that possessed a terrestrial bird-like appearance like a plover, but with a golden brown body and green lines that simulate roots or branches in their design. Short and stout, with a texture similar to leaves or polished rock. It has small, firm legs, with a short tail that looks like a growing bud. It generates dark brown and green digital cubes that fall like dust or dirt.

And the fourth is a cyphris that looked like a hawk-like electric bird, with a bright yellow body and black accents simulating zigzagging rays. Thin and pointed, with flashes of electricity running along its edges. Its eyes glow with a white glow, and its overall design exudes energy, giving a sense of constant motion. It leaves a trail of yellow digital cubes that sizzle like electric lightning.

"You're just like me! You're Cyphris!" he exclaimed in surprise at the appearance of the new cyhris.

"Exactly, just as I said!" said Aerion "Let me introduce them."

Aerion pointed to the crystal blue cyprhis "This here is our dear friend Aquafin, but she prefers aqua for short."

"Nice to meet you Prince Stardust" said the now named Aqua bowing a little to me, which made me feel uncomfortable, I'm not used to people being polite to me.

Then I point to another cyphris, the white one with an icy presence "This here is Cryon, the expressionless and calculating of our group, although he has that face of few friends, he is very loyal".

"Greetings Prince Stardust Stellar, from what I see, you inherited your mother's appearance, and from your father you inherited his great power, it is good to meet you at last" said Cryon with a cold and calm voice.

Then I point to the other one in golden brown "This one here is Terran, she is the most responsible of all of us here" then she approaches us to whisper: "And if I am completely honest with you, she is like our big sister, always keeping us from killing each other."

"I'm glad to meet you Prince Stardsut, I hope dealing with Aerion has not been any inconvenience, if it bothers you in any way, I apologize on behalf of him" he said bowing to me, which made me even more uncomfortable than before.

"Hey!" complained Aerion, but decided to ignore and introduce the last of it "Well, this is."

The yellow cyphris rushed like lightning to Aerion's side "Nice to meet you Stardust Stellar, my name is Voltaris! But I prefer Volt! If possible! Can I live with you? Please!" pleaded Voltiris repeating "please" several times.

But the cyphris called Terran grabbed him by the beak and pushed him back "I am sorry for your behavior prince, you have a hard time containing your impulsiveness".

"I'm actually fine with that, especially that I don't call myself a prince like the others" I said disinterested, but then turned my gaze back to the 6 capsules I saw earlier "Tell me something how many of you have lived here?"

"There are 6 of us in total prince, but I'm afraid our sixth friend is somewhat indisposed at the moment, he's taking a nap in his capsule" he said pointing to one of the capsules, the one with bright gold and deep black colors "You'd better meet him later, he seriously needs to take his naps without being woken up."

"And why is that?" asked Fenix.

"Because by taking his naps from time to time, it helps control his powers and keep him from getting out of control" Cryon replied and stared at Phoenix "And getting back to you, how is it possible that you are still alive? There were only supposed to be the last of the six of us left."

"I haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about, I may be a cyphris, but I am not like you, as I am part of the human here you call a prince" he pointed his wing at me.

"But that should be impossible..." Aqua became thoughtful for a moment and spoke "Unless, of course, being half cyphris she may have developed a conscious being to represent that part."

"So the fire cyphris is part of Prince Stardust" complement Cryon interested in the two "This is definitely interesting."

*Flash* *Flash* *Flash* *Flash*

The sound of a camera rang in the room and as we turned to the source of the sound, we saw how Film was taking pictures with his iPhone of the whole place and the equipment there, including the cyphris. Then he noticed that we were all watching him, so he put away his iPhone, smiling embarrassed, and pulled himself together.

"Hi, I haven't been introduced yet, I'm Film Action" he said waving his hand "And since I already have your attention, there's something that still doesn't add up in this whole situation, why do they keep calling Stardust, prince? And what relation does cyberspace and his father have in all this?"

"For the first time I agree with him! And enough with all that with 'prince'! My name is Stardust Stellar!!! I'm not royalty or anything else that comes to mind!" I exclaimed no longer able to hold back the anger at all the calling me prince

"But you are our prince! You are the heir to cyberspace! And the person who will save this world!" exclaimed Aerion!

"No" I frowned at this "If they are going to keep calling me prince, then I'm out of here, I just wanted to come here to seek the truth of everything that has been going on since yesterday" I turned and headed for the exit, but I just wanted them to think that.

"Wait! Okay, you win, but please don't go! We need your help!" cried Aerion worriedly.

I turned with my arms crossed looking at him "So, you will stop calling me prince and tell me what is really going on here" Aerion nodded desperately.

"If you want to know the truth, then put your Driver in front of the computer," said Terran pointing to the large computer in the background.

Film and I approached the computer, Film was just waiting to see what would happen next, being on the lookout for whatever was going to happen, while I was mentally preparing myself to see what would happen next.

Fenix stood on my shoulder and gave me his vote of confidence, which made me finally decide to do it. I extended the Virtual Driver in my hand and as I extended it, a scanner appeared at the top of the screen and started scanning me and the Driver.

Once finished, the Driver began to glow again and then another hologram appeared, but this one showed the image of a grown man, pointed silver hair, emerald green eyes and a large trench coat covering his entire body from the neck down.

On the other side, in a closed room where there was no visible window, there was a teenager who seemed to be working on a computer and next to him was a laptop that he was also using.

"It's almost all set, are you sure this thing really works?" asked the boy to nowhere, but then the computer flickered and out of it came a female voice.

"I'm sure, if you were able to synchronize with that, then it is possible that there is still hope for this world" said the female computer voice.

"I hope I won't regret this," said the young man, then showing that in his hand he was holding an object that would be instantly recognizable.

It was a Driver

"Cyber Driver has the ability to grant a great will be able to, but only those who have the necessary odds, like you."

"Don't call this thing 'Cyber Driver' anymore, now that I modified it to fit my needs it's something completely new.... This, is the Hacker Driver" he said to finish typing and put the Hacker Driver on his desk.

He pressed one last key on his laptop and as he did so, his Driver began to glow and out of it came the holographic image of a grown man, spiky silver hair, emerald green eyes and a large trench coat that covered his entire body from the neck down.

"Greetings, if you are watching this recording, chances are I am dead and by coincidence or fate, you met one of my Cyber Drivers, which makes you eligible to become a Kamen Rider."

"First of all I introduce myself, My name is Virtur, King of Cyberspace and the beings that inhabit it called Cyphris. But during my time here on earth I was known as Comet Cosmic."

"Comet Cosmic!" I shouted in shock as I recognized the name.

"Th-that's our father's name! The one Mama Hope told us!" cried Phoenix, equally shocked.

"Then my suspicions were true! You're half alien Stardust!" exclaimed Film.

"Please remain calm and continue to listen," Aqua said reassuring us and turning to listen intently to the hologram of my.... "Father"

"A long time ago, about a century ago. I was the King of Cyberspace, who ruled the Cyphris, beings native to cyberspace and who had the responsibility of maintaining the balance of their world, with respect and appreciation, I even considered them part of my family and they reciprocated that same affection towards me, despite being different from them."

"All was peace and harmony in my time as King, along with the 7 guardian cyphris, the most powerful cyphris in cyberspace and the wisest, who helped me deal with any problems that came our way."

"Seven guardian Cyphris, eh? Interesting."

"Or well, it was until that day happened, where they showed up..... the Cybrix."

Film and Fenix noticed how the mention of those monsters made the atmosphere become tense and dark, there were faces of pain and anger on the faces of the 5 cyphris.

"Something tells me the next thing we hear won't be pretty," commented Film.

To which Phoenix nodded "Tell me about it, I'm a Cyphris and I didn't know about them until yesterday."

"You've heard of the phrase: Power corrupts people. Well, that is what the cybrix are, monstrous beings born from the corruption of cyberspace. It is not yet known by completely what is the true origin of these monsters, if they were the product of an error of cyberspace or a race from another world created them, I only know that they only seek one thing. The total annihilation of all organic beings in all worlds".

"The cybrix are able to travel to other worlds or universes through cyberspace, as long as those worlds have sufficiently advanced technology to be able to connect with cyberspace. But as the cybrix do not have enough patience to wait, they usually trick the most intelligent people of those worlds to discover cyberspace and when they manage to make connections to those worlds, the cybrix can enter and corrupt those worlds, eliminating all organic beings, whether they are plants, animals, humans, etc. As long as they are organic beings, they will eliminate them."

"That even for me is horrible, to go to other worlds to destroy them..." his hand became a fist and he started to clench it so tightly, that you could see how his nails went into his skin

"That's the sad reality, the cybrix are just beings corrupted by power, who wish to spread that corruption to other worlds, and I fear yours is their next target" said the female voice sadly.

"I knew those cybrix were dangerous because of the damage they caused yesterday, but I never thought they would be on this scale," said Film in horror.

"Yes, and I'm afraid that's not the only horrible thing you'll hear," Cryon said in a sad tone, but still trying to be strong in front of his friends.

"But... if they said before that they were the only ones alive, that means that-" I couldn't think of the last part as I didn't even want to imagine it.

"When we learned of the existence of the cybrix, we tried to stop them, but unfortunately there were too many of them, although I was able to destroy the strongest cybrix at my best, I could not prevent the cyphris I swore to protect from dying in battle, or those who were pacifists from being ruthlessly eliminated. It turns out that the cybrix wanted to be the only beings to have complete control of cyberspace, that's why they decided to hunt to extinction every last cyphris. I was one of the few who survived that massacre".

"Then I was right" I glanced at the cyphris "You are the only cyphris left alive."

Aquafin and Aerion had their heads bowed and looked like they were about to cry, Cryon looked away, Voltaris just stood still without making any noise and Terran approached the others to comfort them.

"I...I'm so sorry for your loss," Film said looking at them sorrowfully.

"Those damned cybrix, the next one I see, I'll burn him alive" said Fenix furiously making his whole body catch fire at high intensity.

I didn't say anything, not because I don't want to, just because I don't know how to comfort people without sounding like I'm insulting them.

"However, I was not the last survivor, when the guardian cyphris died, their powers are transferred to younger cyphris to become the next generation of guardians, whereupon I was able to locate 6 and shelter them in a part of this planet."

"I know I'm probably asking a lot and I'm asking you to engage in a battle in which you could lose your life, but I'm begging you. Use the power this Driver offers you to defeat the cybrix and protect this world. And if you manage to find the cyphris that are in your world, I ask you to protect them, not only from the cybrix, but from greedy humans who might intend to use their powers for your benefit if they discover their existence. The cyphris are a peaceful race that only wish to live a peaceful and happy life, but they contain enormous power that if they fall into the wrong hands, could cause a huge disaster."

"And one more thing, there is something I have to warn you first of all. I am not the creator of the rider system, a long time ago a person from another world created it to use it against the cybrix, but I am afraid it did not survive and the cybrix took its technology, for my luck, I was able to steal part of its information and replicate it, but it did not seem to work well, the cybrix must have done something to corrupt the rider system and that is why there is a percentage of danger that if you are not made for the driver, you could be corrupted and become a cybrix. That's why I added a security system, that if the person who could be compatible to the Driver, the Driver can change shape and adapt to the abilities of its Carrier, making the owner have a vision of how he could better the Driver on his own and avoid the probability of corruption completely."

"That... that's the same thing that happened to me when I was repairing the Virtual Driver" I said surprised and understanding what happened yesterday.

"That means there is no likelihood of us being corrupted by power," said Fenix.

"I guess this is all making sense now, your father sure was smart Stardust" said Film.

"Yes..."

"That's why I have to tell you to be careful if you once find a person with a Cyber Driver in its base form, if the Driver has not changed, that means that person is in danger of becoming corrupted. I have created some Drivers, but not all of them were complete and if one of them fall into the wrong hands, I think it would be best to destroy them before they cause a major disaster."

"I wish the best of luck to the one who has found the Cyber Driver and has been compatible with it. Goodbye and I hope your world can survive"

The recording ended and the Hacker Driver stopped glowing.

"And now what do you plan to do?" asked the female voice.

"Now... I have only one choice left if I want to survive what's coming" he said to stand up clutching his Driver ".... I will become the most powerful Kamen Rider of them all" he said with determination in his voice.

"I wish the best of luck to the one who has found the Cyber Driver and has been compatible with it. Goodbye and I hope your world can survive"

…

"Or... at least that's all I'd say if you weren't my son."

"What?" Film, Phoenix and I asked confused

"Hello Stardust, I'm glad to know that at least one of the Drivers has fallen into the right hands. Heh, most likely you've been thinking all this time that I had abandoned you when I found out that your mother was pregnant with you"

"You're right about that, but I have a feeling that there's more to all this" Phoenix said, attentive to what our father was going to say

"But it's quite the opposite, since I came to Earth and tried to go unnoticed to find a way to defeat the cybrix, the best thing that happened to me was meeting your mother, and when I found out that I was pregnant with you, it was the happiest day of my life, I always dreamed of having a child and thanks to your mother it became a reality. But as you know, I had to leave not by my own choice, but to protect them.

I felt as if my heart was beating very fast, suddenly, it's as if the whole place had become dark, and the only ones who We were in that dark space, it was my... father and I. Our eyes were crossed and it was as if you were speaking for the first time in person.

"I knew that if the cybrix found out that I was living on Earth, they would try to corrupt it to get the cyphris and eliminate me forever. That's why I didn't want to take the risk, the most painful thing for me was leaving them and there is not a single day that I regret that decision, I can only tell you that I'm sorry and that you understand, but I guess that won't fix the fact that you grew up without a father and most likely you had difficulties due to the powers that you had because you were my son."

There several memories of my childhood appeared to me, the time when I went to a daycare and I had accidentally hit a child very hard that broke several of his milk teeth. Another time when I saw how the children walked away from me while I was sitting alone on the swings. There was another time when I was 10 years old, I saw a thief trying to rob a girl and abuse her, at this I got angry and attacked the thief with all my strength, I used so much force that the thief was seriously injured, and a lot of blood came out of his mouth, the girl seeing this, called me a monster and ran away in fear. There was another time when I was 16 I was alone in the classroom while my other classmates talked to me away from me.

And again and again, the memories came out of my mind and somehow, those memories materialized in the black space that I was with my father and they revolved around us.

"You had a difficult and somewhat lonely life, and it was all my fault, it was my fault for giving you a power that you never wanted and have had since you were born. But, if a noble heart was born within you, if you never used your power for your own benefit and if you try to be a better person then, I have no doubt that you are worthy of possessing the power of a Kamen Rider."

"Kamen Riders have been legendary heroes who have protected humanity and their worlds from threats that they themselves could not handle. And despite using almost the same powers as the monsters that threatened their worlds, they used it to fight for justice and peace. I know that you will do the same, because I have no doubt that despite everything that has happened and not seeing you in years... I know that you are a good person, one who will not let yourself be corrupted by power and will save this world from corruption."

I felt tears coming out of my eyes, which surprised me, it has been a long time since I last cried. I don't even remember when I last did it, but I don't care.

I never hated my father in my entire life, being rejected a lot for most of my life and blamed for things I didn't do, has taught me not to judge someone until I get to know them better. That's why I never hated my father, and hearing it now, hearing that he truly loved me and my mother.

I don't even know how to feel, all these revelations of my past, the fact that I'm not completely human have taken a toll on me, but hearing my father's words made me ignore all of that for a moment, and now I don't know how to feel.

Should I feel sad that I didn't spend the time I wanted with my father and that I might not be able to meet him anymore since he's possibly dead? Or should I be angry that he died and I couldn't meet him in person, and that I left my mother waiting for so long, for him to never come back?

"Remember this Stardust, the power you possess was created to protect what you love, not to burn the things you hate. If anyone says things about you like a freak or a monster, show them that they are completely wrong. Show them... That you can become the hero your mother and I know you can become."

"You are the only one who can decide your own destiny"

Meanwhile, in another part of the city, inside a room was Stardust Stellar's mother, Hope Light, who seemed to be working hard on her computer. At the moment, she was in her private laboratory at the Cyberse Company, where a machine resembling a 3D printer could be seen, where she had several cables connected to the advanced computer that Hope was working on with fervor

"Very well! It's time to see if the weeks of work will pay off!" she said excitedly, to press a few final keys "Cyber System! Ready for your first test!" she pressed one last key

From there, a blue charge came out that passed through the cable until it reached the 3D printer, where in the center of it, some lines began to form in the air that shaped circuits and then blue cubes appeared that little by little began to gather around the circuit and then take the shape of a figure. And that figure turned out to be...

A teddy bear

"Yes! Finally, it was a success!" Hope shouted victoriously "Take that Shadow!! I want to see your face when she shows you this!" she continued to scream at the top of her lungs, but fortunately for her, her private laboratory has soundproof walls, so no one could hear her

Without saying anything else, she rushed to the door of her laboratory and left, but not before locking it with a digital key and putting her fingerprint.

Once he was gone, his lab was silent for a few seconds, until a reddish light illuminated the room and from there came the image of a hooded man known as Korrup

"Oh... Hope Light, a woman as intelligent as she is strong, it seems that there is only one woman in each world like you, but you are definitely much smarter than those I have met so far" said Korrup approaching Hope's 3D printer "I have to say that your talent is impressive, it took you weeks for what a group of scientists would take months, but unfortunately for you, your talent only made the end of your world go much faster"

Then, from under his hood he took out a cybercore with a reddish and black aura with some cubes of the same color surrounding it, "Let the end of this world begin" he said to place the cybercore inside the cyber system and from it began to emit red rays that spread to all the machines in the room "And... my new experiment begins" he said that last with an absolute smile Evil and madness

Author's Note

In the next chapter of Kamen Rider Virtualx.
Chapter 3: A Rider is Born / Go! Kamen Rider Virtualx!

Chapter 3: A Rider is Born / Go! Kamen Rider Virtualx!

Phoenix Pov

It had already been exactly half an hour since we heard the holographic message from our "Father". Despite knowing that I am part of Stardust and his parents are also considered mine, I did not feel the same emotional impact that my human brother felt. Of course that message affected me a little, but Stardust was lying on a bed, which the Cyphris somehow created with their powers, staring at the ceiling of the guard without saying anything or expressing an emotion on his face.

I wouldn't admit it out loud, but I'm worried about my human self, when the holographic message from our father ended, it was clear that he was crying, and I don't remember the last time he cried in his life, and that we share memories. For now, it would be best to leave him alone until he sorts out his thoughts properly, I know I said it before, but seriously, the revelations of this day really affected him.

"Why the long face, prince?" said Aerion approaching me

"Prince?" I asked confused

"Of course! Since you are the cyphris part of our prince, you would also be considered part of King Virtur's legacy and therefore, you are part of royalty"

"Well, if that sounds logical...and I think I like it" I said smiling with superiority "For now call me prince, until I can find a cool name to complete it"

"What do you mean by that? Don't you have a name?" Terran asks approaching

"The only thing I have is the ridiculous name that Stardust gave me when I was little" I frowned a little remembering it "Phoenix"

"And what's so bad about that name?"

"That it's ridiculous and very simple! For someone as cool as he must have a unique and powerful name!" I rose higher than them and looked down at them "One that scares my enemies when I appear on the scene"

"Then all people will tremble upon hearing the name of! PHOENIX!!" Aerion exclaimed innocently

"What!! NO!!" I yelled irritatedly causing Aerion to flinch "Do you have any idea what it feels like to be trapped inside someone's body and when you can finally think for yourself! You realize that you will be remembered for having the name that literally a little kid could have thought of!"

Terran seeing my reaction, stood in front of me and looked at me sternly "Calm down! Just because you don't like your name doesn't mean you can vent to others!"

I took a deep breath and exhaled to calm myself down "I'm sorry, I guess I'm just not feeling well at all"

"It has something to do with the pri-" he shook his head remembering that he didn't like being called that "I mean, with Stardust like that" we turned our gaze to the human teenager lying on the bed staring up at nothing "Tell me, are you guys able to read each other's thoughts being almost the same person?"

I shook my head from side to side. "No, we can't read each other's thoughts. We have separate minds from each other, but we have a certain connection that allows us to know how the other feels."

"What do you mean?" Aerion asked

"Right now, I feel that Stardust's emotions are: Confusion, Fear, Annoyance, Irritation... and Relief" I paused for a moment to avoid revealing something very personal about him "Knowing the truth about his father has been a big shock for him, and if we add the fact that before he was just a rebellious boy who has many problems with the police, and now he has the supposed duty of saving the world. It's a lot for him to take in, many people would immediately agree to become heroes, but Stardust is not like other people..."

Silence flooded the atmosphere between us again, it was noticeable from their faces that they understood that talking about Stardust's private life is a delicate thing, and believe me when I tell you I know how that feels, I literally have all of Stardust's memories from almost his entire life and I'm really worried about his emotional state

But what worries me the most is if I can-

"I can't believe it!!" A loud scream was heard from where the computer was located

Everyone, except Stardsut who was still staring into space, turned around and saw who caused the scream was Film Action, who was next to Aqua and Cryon, looking at several images on the computer that seemed very familiar

Wait... those images are, Kamen Riders?

I quickly approached to see them better and I could confirm that they were people in armor of different colors and designs, they are definitely Kamen Riders, since all of them had very distinguished belts. Almost the same as the Virtual Driver we have, but I can't be sure since I don't have much knowledge about the culture of the Kamen Riders

"Are those Kamen Riders?" I asked, addressing Film

"Of course they're Kamen Riders! Just look at them!" he said as he split the screen into two between images of the Riders on opposite sides, on the left there was a title that said "Showa Era" and on the right there was a title that said "Heisei Era"

"Here are all the Riders from the Showa Era to the Hensei Era!" Film said with great excitement. "How did this information get here?"

"King Virtur gathered information from all existing worlds to find a way to defeat the Cybrix, in the process he learned of the existence of the Kamen Riders and investigated them until he gathered all the information here and used it to create a Rider system that works and is in tune with our Cyphris powers" Cryon explained in detail.

"That's right, he used everything he learned from the Riders to be able to take advantage of the Cybrix's powers and turn them against him, this whole place is made to help the Kamen Riders in the fight against the Cybrix, that's why he has this information about the Showa Riders and Heisei Riders" added Aqua.

"I'm not all that familiar with Rider culture, so I'll ask: What's this about Shoka and Hensie Riders?"

"It's a bit difficult to explain, so I'll summarize it" Film said as the screen changed to show images of several Riders with somewhat outdated outfits and the title above was -Showa Era- "First I will mention the first generation of Riders, called the Showa Radiers: Ichigo, Nigo, V3, Riderman, X, Amazon, Stronger, Skyrider, Super-1, ZX, Black, Black RX, Shin, ZO and J. All of these Riders fought against evil organizations whose plan was to conquer the world, and after several battles, the Riders achieved peace... momentarily"

"What are you talking about?"

"It turns out that in the early 21st century, new organizations with evil purposes began to appear, but instead of being led by humans, they were led by monsters or supernatural creatures beyond our understanding" Film continued before changing images to new images of riders with much more style and variety of designs on their armor "But fortunately for us, a new generation of Riders called the Heisei Rider appeared. Known as the Kamen Riders Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, Faiz, Blade, Hibiki, Kabuto, Den-O, Kiva, Decade, W, OOO, Fourze, Wizard, Gaim, Drive, Ghost, Ex-Aid, Build and Zi-O."

"I'm assuming they were much stronger than those in the Showa Era, right?"

"You are right prince, since it turns out that the Heisei Riders had more supernatural abilities than those of the first generation, which made them more powerful" replied Film.

"Is it possible that Stardust and I could have those same abilities? I would like to go back in time and teach someone a lesson from me" I said showing a malicious smile

"First, messing with time is dangerous and only leads to more problems than solutions; and second, the only one so far who can copy the power of the other Riders is Kamen Rider Zi-o, we still have to find out what kind of powers you two can have when you transform into Kamen Riders" Film clarified, then looked at the computer in surprise. "Although it is strange, some parts of the information on the Kamen Riders here are not consistent with the information I have collected."

"It's because it's not the same," Cryon said, drawing the attention of both of us. "From what I understand, in this world, Kamen Riders are considered fictional stories from Japan, things that people created to sell Kamen Rider items, but some have erroneous or incomplete information. Instead, here you have the information of the real Kamen Riders, all their battles, stories, families, and their fates after defeating their enemies."

"You mean this is the true story of the Kamen Riders?"

"Exactly," Cryon nodded. "I usually wouldn't let just anyone read this information since it's so valuable and irreplaceable. But since you're a friend of Stardust, I guess I can let it slide."

We were going to clarify that they had just met, but it wasn't possible because, suddenly, I felt a slight tickling in my head, along with loud sounds that sounded like alarms, I also noticed how Stardust got up from the bed and touched his head as if it hurt, it seems that we feel the same thing.

And then an alarm sounded throughout the place alerting us all, then the computer made the images of the Kamen Rider disappear and showed us some live videos of the city, but what was shown was not pretty to see. You could see the main building of the Cyberse companies, with large red electric rays running through the entire building.

"What's going on?!" Stardust asked, finally reacting.

"Looks like those damn cybrix have finally decided to act!" Terran declared with a serious and angry expression when mentioning the cybrix.

Throughout the history of humanity, humans have been progressing little by little with technology until reaching the present times, where the brilliant scientist, Hope Light, discovered cyberspace, a Digital Universe made entirely of data and of her own. I developed a system capable of making holograms created in cyberspace become organic materials such as fruits and construction materials.

But with the arrival of a new darkness, comes a light, or in this case, a flame of hope that came to face this new threat.

Stardust Stellar, a boy who recently discovered the origin of his supernatural abilities, and now with a new responsibility falling on his shoulders, will have to decide whether to use his power to protect the world and those people who marginalized him and saw him as a monster, or to finally take revenge on the people he always hated.

There is only one thing that is certain

The legend of a new Kamen Rider begins...!

Within a few minutes everything had turned into chaos. At Cyberse Industries, everything was going like a normal day where every employee, scientists, engineers, managers, etc. Everyone was working on a typical normal day. Until the cybrix decided to intervene.

The cybrix known as Lord Korrup placed a corrupted cybercore into the cyber system he created, and a second later, a large reddish electrical discharge was seen running through Hope Light's personal laboratory and spreading throughout the facilities of the entire building, all the people in the building were scared by this situation and suddenly, several alarms began to sound in all parts of the building.

The building's intercom began to speak: "Please evacuate all personnel. Please evacuate all personnel."

Needless to say, people were desperate to get out of Cyberse Industries, it was complete chaos, but amidst all the confusion there was only one woman who seemed to keep calm amidst all the commotion. Hope Light was about to go to her boss's office a few minutes ago to introduce herself, but when the alarms started to sound, she had a bad feeling and decided to go straight to her laboratory, she ran through the people who were going in the opposite direction to quickly get out of the building.

Panic was evident throughout the place, but Hope was more worried about the origin of all this, it couldn't be a coincidence that when she finally manages to perfect the cyber system, minutes later this happens.

When he finally arrived at his laboratory, he noticed that a hooded person was coming out of the door, a cloak covering his entire body. He only noticed the lower part of his face where an amused smile could be seen.

And with it a bloodcurdling whistle as he walked calmly amidst the screams of terror from the people on the lower floors.

*Whistle*

I felt a chill run through my body, seeing this, I decided to hide, feeling a great danger. The hooded person was walking down the corridor still whistling towards where I was, when it seemed that he was going to turn the corner where I was hiding, a portal opened in front of him and he stopped whistling. He said something that made my skin crawl.

"Good luck surviving what's coming, beautiful and intelligent Hope Light" his voice was cold and sinister, he passed through the portal completely and it closed.

I stood still for a while, scared. I don't know why, but that guy made me feel weak and helpless for a moment, but I recovered by slapping myself. I had to concentrate.

I headed to my lab and upon entering, I discovered that everything was worse than I imagined. The walls, ceiling and floor were covered in what looked like glitches in the shape of red and black cubes that were slowly spreading. I didn't dare enter because I didn't know what would happen to me if I touched those glitches. But I looked closely and it seemed that those glichts were coming from my cyber system, which was in a deplorable state.

Whatever they did to my system is causing the whole place to glitch or corrupt (for lack of words to describe it) like a computer, but it's affecting the real world.

"I have to stop this! At this rate, it could cover the entire building and maybe the city!" I thought, alarmed.

I saw that on the ground there were some parts that weren't glitched yet, so with all the courage I had, I jumped on the unglitched parts of the ground, then I made an agile jump on my desk near my machine and began to check the computer, just like my lab, it was full of glitches and errors with binary numbers all over moving erratically.

I was scared by this, whatever that hooded man did, the damage seemed irreparable and suddenly I had to take my hands off the keyboard when I saw that glitches were also coming out of its interior, finished just like the floors and walls. Seeing this, I had no other option, I jumped on top of it to another desk and opened a drawer, where I took out a small rectangular device that seemed to be an old cell phone, but without a screen and only a microphone and several buttons.

Before I could do anything or what I was planning to do, I heard a horrible screeching sound from what seemed to be a bird of enormous size. I was stunned for a few seconds and then noticed that the sound seemed to be coming from everywhere. I felt confused and alert because of this. There I could notice that the cyber system was emitting large reddish discharges.

The brain squeaked for a moment, only for several red cubes to form and give shape to one of the ugliest creatures I have ever seen in my entire life. The... creature in front of me was a humanoid monster with the appearance of a bird, the part of its face was covered with the face of a bird with silver feathers and dark blue eyes, from the neck to the hip it was split in half diagonally, the right side was covered in silver feathers with sharp claws where a hand should be. The left side was covered with very sharp black feathers that were made of steel with a sharp claw at the end of the arm. On its legs it was covered with their respective feathers, black steel feathers on the left side and silver feathers on the right side.

The humanoid bird made another chirping noise and then turned around looking for someone, I was able to hide behind the desk before it saw me, the creature's footsteps could be heard searching the room.

The situation she was in was not very favorable for her, she was surrounded by glitches that could kill her if she touched them or something worse, a monster was looking for her and the only way out of the place was blocked by the creature. This couldn't get any worse...

The loud sound of a wall breaking was heard, when he looked up, he saw that the wall was destroyed, and it wasn't just one, all the walls on the floor were destroyed until he reached the window which was also destroyed. He also noticed that his cyber system had disappeared, leaving only the computer, now completely corrupted.

Just by seeing this, it was obvious that the creature had destroyed the walls and fled out of the building with its machine.

"This is getting worse! I have to stop it!" she exclaimed worried and a little scared. She wanted to go after the monster, but she noticed that there was no longer any surface on which she could stand to avoid the glitches.

She was trapped and she had the only thing that could stop her cyber system from causing more damage. Her gaze shifted to the device in her hand, the one she had pulled out of the drawer before the monster appeared.

A few minutes ago

In another part of the city, before the cyber system corruption occurred, ordinary people could be seen on the streets going about their business as normal, although there were some who were worried and cautious in case an incident like yesterday could occur. The extensive destruction of a block and other nearby streets worried many people, the damage caused would take months to repair and the people who had suffered some physical damage were still recovering in the nearest hospitals or at home in the case of those who were lucky enough to suffer only a few scratches.

However, the people of Canterlot City would not let fear overcome them, the police were already looking for the mysterious motorcyclist who caused the explosions. But they were not the only ones investigating the case.

On one of the streets, two girls were seen walking and talking to each other, one of the girls had a kind of radar in her hands that was buzzing rapidly. To better describe, the girl with the radar was wearing thick-framed glasses that hid her purple eyes. Her hair, which reached down to her back, was tied in a ponytail and was a dark indigo blue with a purple and pink stripe running through it. She wore a simple blue and white short-sleeved blouse with a pink ribbon at the neck and a purple skirt with pink six-pointed stars that seemed to shine. Her name is Twilight Sparkle, one of the smartest girls in the city.

The other girl following her had yellow skin, wavy red and yellow hair, and aqua green eyes. She wore a leather jacket with a red and yellow sun on the back over a light blue blouse, a pair of jeans, and a pair of long black boots, each with a purple flame pattern. Her name is Sunset Shimmer, Twilight's ex-unicorn and best friend.

"Twilight, we've spent the whole afternoon tracking this strange energy, but we haven't found anything." Sunset gave her friend a tired look. "Are you sure your radar still works?"

"I can assure you that my device is still operating at full capacity, but for some strange reason it doesn't seem to detect anything," Twilight replied frustratedly. "I don't understand. It used to be working at full capacity yesterday and this morning, but now it seems to be unable to track traces of the new type of energy. It's as if there's something interfering with it."

Sunset sighed tiredly. "I think it would be best to take a break. Ever since yesterday's incident, you've been working tirelessly."

"How could I rest when a new type of energy was detected yesterday! Ever since I discovered magic, I couldn't find a new unknown source of energy to research!" Twilight exclaimed excitedly. "With it, I'll be able to write a new thesis that could help me enter Elberton."

Sunset is amused to see her friend like that. "If I were you, I would be careful, Twilight. We don't want another Friendship Games incident."

"Don't worry, I already made a mistake that time and I don't plan on letting it happen again."

"Also, we have to make sure that whatever happened yesterday isn't a magical problem. I know you said it was a different kind of energy than our magic, but I can't help but feel like something really bad is about to happen."

It was just yesterday when she was spending a quiet and happy time with her friends at the mall, but all that didn't last long when for some strange reason, her geodes began to glow strangely, as if she was reacting to a threat and extreme danger. And a few hours later, they learned of the incident that Stardust and the cybrix were in before he became a Kamen Rider. This put them on alert, since that kind of disaster usually happened when the Equestrian friend was involved, but with Twilight's radar, they found out that it was a different kind of energy, it acted the same when she had discovered Equestrian magic before the Friendship Games.

They were going to investigate today, but unfortunately they couldn't because they already had their responsibilities to do. Rainbow Dash had training with the soccer club, Applejack had work at Sweet Apple Acress since Applebuck season is approaching, Rarity has her job at Carousel Boutique, Pinkie Pie was helping the Cakes at Sugarcube Corner and Fluttershy was at the Animal Rescue Center.

Each of her friends was busy and Sunset had free time from her job at the Sushi restaurant, she didn't want Twilight to go off on her own to investigate a strange, mysterious energy that was possibly just as dangerous as evil magic.

"Don't you think you're exaggerating?" Twilight replied. "I mean, the chances of something much more random and volatile than magic appearing are less than 5%, don't worry."

They were going to continue talking, but they couldn't because of a loud bang that caught the attention, not only of the girls, but also of the other people who were in the streets. They saw how the Cyberse Industries building was falling pieces of walls of the building and broken glass. And then it was seen in the sky like a bird the size of an adult person was flying through the city, but if they looked closer at the creature, they would see that it was not a bird, it is a humanoid creature shaped like a bird, holding a strange device that despised several red and black glitches.

That was when the creature had landed in the middle of a crossroads, just as a car was driving by, seeing the monster, it got scared and swerved, crashing into a light pole. The other people on the street, including Sunset and Twilight, the latter had her radar emitting various noises and moving from one side to the other where she was directing the monster that fell from the sky.

The monster placed the glitched machine on the ground and when it came into contact with the pavement, a reddish electric current spread across the ground and reached the electricity poles. The reddish electricity ran through the cables and spread at great speed through all the electric poles in the city. The people frightened by the monster and by the electricity that ran through it, ran scared trying to get as far away from the humanoid bird as possible.

The only ones who didn't run were Sunset and Twilight, who despite being confused by what was happening, were determined to stop whatever the monster in front of them was. They both grabbed their geodes that were around their necks and began to grow pony ears on their heads, with Twilight adding a pair of wings on their backs.

"Sunset, do you know what that thing is?" Twilight asked, somewhat afraid of the monster's appearance.

"I don't know! That thing is definitely not something created by magic! I don't feel the same energy signature as us!" she said, turning on her cell phone and dialing the number of her friends' group chat. "I'll call the others!"

As the other people ran away in fear, reddish electricity spread throughout the city, this did not cause any visible damage to the people or the houses or buildings in the city. But the electricity began to gather in certain areas of the city. When the electricity gathered, a small vortex of red and black glitches was seen, and in a few seconds later, several red and black cubes began to emerge that were coming together and forming robots with a human appearance, they had black and gray helmets that did not show their faces, several metallic parts throughout their body, decorated with red lines and the parts where they were not covered in metal, were glitched in a red and black color.

The Virtronics had appeared, whose sole purpose was to destroy all organic life they encountered.

POV Stardust

Everything had become chaos, it could be seen through the cameras that were all over the city (which were hacked a long time ago by the cyphris, according to them, because they were bored and wanted to see what the lives of humans are like). They saw several of the virtronics that chased us yesterday, they were going for the people they found, several tried to escape from them, but others tried in vain to resist. Several of them were police officers who were in those areas, they used their weapons to try to destroy them, but the metal of whatever they were made of seemed to be immune to the bullets, as they just bounced off them. The policemen were only able to buy time for the civilians to escape in time, but more kept appearing and further.

"This looks like an invasion!" Film exclaimed seriously as he looked at other security cameras in the city.

"Is this what our father meant by opening a connection between the real world and cyberspace?!" Phoenix asked, alarmed by this.

"Regularly, sometimes they tend to be more ruthless" Aqua replied

"The cybrix usually send their combat robots, the virtronics, first to measure the strength of the inhabitants of the world they conquer. It is strange that they have not yet ended any life" said Cryon staring at the virtronics attacking the humans who were

Several SWAT patrols were seen arriving at the areas where there were more virtronics. With better weapons it seemed that they could push back the hordes of them, but they would not last forever,

"How can we stop this?! There must be some kind of leader to lead you, like what happened yesterday with the blade cybrix!" he said alarmed.

"I found it!" Film exclaimed triumphantly, but then he became entangled, "But it doesn't seem like things are going well for the people there."

A bird-like cybrix was seen on camera attacking the people who were there, many tried to flee. But a light pole was seen being thrown at the cybrix, it dodged it and a girl with pony ears and wings on her back was seen lifting another light pole and throwing it at the cybrix who dodged it. Another girl with pony ears and a ponytail in her hair was seen helping people flee the place.

"It's Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle!" I exclaimed happily. Film

"Who?" I asked confused.

"The magical girls of CHS. For a moment I had forgotten about them, they could defeat the virtronics"

"However, I doubt she stands a chance against that cybrix, especially since there are only two of them and from what I heard from them, they have to be all 7 together for them to do their most powerful magic or whatever they do" I said looking seriously at their situation.

I haven't seen Sparkle in a long time, but I know that the psychic magic she has and her friend's won't be enough to defeat him, I myself felt the strength of some first hand

"Then let's go help them! Let's transform into Kamen Rider and crush that cybrix!" Phoenix exclaimed confidently and determinedly. He stood in front of me with his eyes totally determined "LET'S GO STARDUST! Duty calls!"

"..."

"Hey? Are you okay?" Film asked, noticing my indecisive face.

"... Passed"

"WHAT?!!" everyone exclaimed, except Stardust, at my response.

"What's wrong?! This is a life or death situation! If we don't do something, people will die!"

"The police will take care of it, maybe they'll find a way to confront the cybrix and I won't have to intervene," I said expressionlessly.

"By the time they've done that, they'll have destroyed the city!" Phoenix exclaimed angrily.

"Dusty is right! You are the only one who can defeat them!" Aerion agreed with Phoenix.

"That world is lost if you do nothing, prin-Stardust" Cryon refuted.

"They need you, please Stardust" Aqua asked in a pleading tone.

"We all know you can kick the butts out of those virus pieces," Voltaris said.

"You have a responsibility to this world prince, you must fight the cybrix to save this world" said Terran looking at him seriously

"Then why don't you just give my powers to someone else! I don't want anything to do with this!" I shouted angrily, scaring everyone else except Phoenix.

"Stardust, you said earlier that you didn't want to get involved in other people's problems, but this is bigger than you or me." Film grabbed him by the shoulder. "People will die if we don't do something."

"Stop talking in plural, I'm the one who's going to fight against the cybrix, I'm the one who has the power to destroy them..." I was silent for a moment "... But I don't want to get involved in other people's business, I'm sick of all this"

"But you can't see the whole problem! This involves us all, this includes you and our mother! We have the power to do this!"

"Just because we have the power to do it, doesn't mean we have to!!" I exclaimed equally angrily. "You have my memories yourself!! You should know that every time I get into something, I'm always the one who suffers the consequences!! Whenever I try to help someone, I'm always the one on the receiving end of the combined anger and disgust as if I'm the one who caused the problem, even the people I help are completely ungrateful!! I'm always the one who gets blamed for all the bad things that happen to others!!!"

"I'M SICK OF IT!!!! I don't care if I sound selfish!! I'm tired of receiving insults, abuse and hateful looks!! Let the people of the city fend for themselves!!"

Phoenix, tired of this, charged at me and threw me to the ground. This took everyone by surprise.

"HEY!" I exclaimed angrily.

"That's what you deserve for being selfish!" Phoenix exclaimed, equally angry. "What happened to you, what happened to us! It doesn't matter anymore! The only thing that matters now is stopping the cybrix!"

"Stop talking in plural!! All the bad things only happened to me!! You were just asleep in me while I was living a fucking hell!"

"If you're going to be like that, then I think it would be better for me to go on my own!" Phoenix exclaimed angrily.

"Ha! Without me you wouldn't last against them!"

"Of course I can! Unlike you! I'm not a coward!!"

"I'm not a coward!"

"Of course you are!! Every time we face a problem, we face it head on!! Why are you suddenly so selfish now?!!"

"You're telling me to use the damn power that's caused me so much trouble all my life!!! And to use it to protect the same people who made me live through hell! I'm tired of all this crap!"

"..." Phoenix remained silent as if he was thinking about what to say next. He let out a tired sigh. "Everyone has a breaking point, and it seems that you have almost reached yours." He looked up at me. "I understand that you don't want to do this because of everything that has happened to us, but remember what Mom told us." He recited the following words: "Perseverance will always triumph over the pain and cruelty of this world."

"..."

"I know more than anyone that you are tired of repeating the same cycle of hate and sadness, and your only intention is to help others, but right now we have the opportunity to finally use our power to help others, but this time, now that we know what it is, we will be able to control it and use it wisely."

"People will find a way to make me look like the bad guy."

A memory came to my mind, I saw myself as a 10-year-old boy, feeling avoided by others, several children moved away from me, or their mothers were the ones who pushed them away so they wouldn't get close to me.

A memory of my childhood self helping a girl who was being chased by bullies a year older than her. But that girl would run away from me in fear as she watched me leave the older boys on the ground with several scratches, and me unharmed.

I remember another one when I was starting high school at Crystal Prep, how I tried to make friends, but they only stayed away from me because of the rumors of my superhuman abilities when I was a child, and those who approached me only did so to get closer to my mother.

"Maybe... but I think it's worth trying, at least once, you know our mother always compared us to the heroes of the stories or animes we watched"

"And what does that have to do with this?"

"That heroes have always gone through different difficulties, but they have always taught us to resist one more second" Phoenix pointed at me with his wing "Just try, try one more time to help someone from the bottom of your heart, I can assure you that this time it will not be like the other times, the fact that you have endured so much contempt that you did not deserve just for helping others without receiving anything shows that you have the heart of a hero"

"The time has come for you to become a true hero, to become the Kamen Rider that this world needs."

The other Cyphris and Film were quiet throughout the discussion between us. They were just getting to know me and knew nothing about me and what we were talking about, but from the little we said, they could understand that the life I had was not easy, and yet I tried to do the right thing, in my own way, and only received that the negative rumors about me increased.

I turned away so I wouldn't have to look at his or the others' faces, closed my eyes tightly and tried to think.

Since I was a child, my mother always told me that I am special, that I have great abilities that others did not have and for that reason it is my responsibility to use them to help others. I remember that I really liked watching cartoons and comics of heroes saving others, having powers that they used for the common good. I tried to do the same with my own power, but it did not turn out as I expected.

The only thing I managed to do was make other people afraid of me, and that's when the rumors started that I was a monster or a freak. When I realized this, I tried to avoid using my superhuman strength, speed and agility again, but I couldn't. The teachings and ideals that my mother gave me were always in my mind, even when I distanced myself from others and wanted to always be alone, every time I see someone in trouble, I can't help but try to help them, of course, sometimes I make mistakes or they just run away from me instead of thanking me, but that doesn't matter to me.

Haha. Now I realize I'm an idiot, I used to say that someone who helps another person without receiving anything in return would make them a complete idiot.

But I don't mind being an idiot at all.

Yesterday, when I was expelled from CPA, I was going to give up on those stupid ideals of helping others, if it weren't for the fact that Film needed help, then I would have been definitive in completely giving up on every trace of kindness and sympathy that was within me.

If I hadn't resisted for even a second longer, then I would have completely ignored Phoenix's voice and walked away.

Who knows where that would have taken me.

"..." I turned back to the others, who were staring at me waiting for my answer. "I've made my decision." I let out a tired sigh and opened my eyes with a determined look. "Of all the things you said, there's one thing I agree with you on."

"Just one? Really?" I asked somewhat disappointed.

"It would be very easy for me to stay here without worrying about the well-being of others. And of course, it would be difficult to go there and fight with the cybrix and the others that will keep coming" I clenched my fists tighter "But... IT WOULD BE EVEN MORE DIFFICULT! To stay here doing nothing while other people suffer knowing that I can do something to stop it!"

The others smiled when they heard me say that, especially Phoenix. "That's just what I wanted to hear."

"Just to be clear, I'm still not entirely comfortable with the idea of being a hero, I'm only doing it so I can shut up all the people who called me a criminal or a monster and show them how wrong they were."

"Yeah sure, keep telling yourself that until you believe it" Film said laughing a little, the laughter was followed by the other Cyphris, except Cryon and Terran, who smiled approvingly.

"If this is what our future prince is like, then there is still hope for this world" thought Terran, happy to see that Stardust has a noble heart.

"But seriously, you should go, we've already wasted a lot of time and the virtronics seem to rule the streets" Film pointed out, looking at the cameras as the virtronics continued to destroy some parts of the city.

"You're right, come on..." I turned my gaze to Phoenix "... Virtuix"

"Virtuix?" he asked, confused by the way I called him.

"You said you wanted a new name because the name Phoenix is very simple. So I decided to combine the words Virtual and Phoenix. Virtuix, do you like it?"

"What do I like?" He paused for a moment, then smiled. "I like that name! An original and unique name for me! From now on I will be known as Virtuix!"

"Well, congratulations on your new name, Virtuix!" Aerion exclaimed happily.

"That's enough talk! Let's make it Stardust!" he said as he wrapped himself in fire and headed towards my hand, where he turned into a memory card the size of my hand, with the image of a Phoenix on it. It's the Cybercore Phoenix.

"Let's make it Virtuix!" I said as I placed the Virtual-Driver on my waist

"This is definitely my favorite part!" Film said excitedly watching the transformation sequence.

I placed my Cybercore into the driver slot and slid it in, only to hear a robotic voice come out and say, "Virtualize! Phoenix Protocol Engaged!"

Finally, I inserted the Phoenix cybercore into the slot on the left side of the driver so that it entered into it "Henshin!" I said to make an explosion of digital cubes come out that enveloped my entire body like yesterday, the cubes were assembling into a holographic armor that solidified when all the digital cubes connected together with a circuit that began to appear throughout my body, with digital flames establishing themselves in representation of a phoenix that appeared behind me

"ETERNAL FLAME! WINGS OF FREEDOM THAT PIERCE THE DARKNESS!"

I transformed back into a Kamen Rider in front of all the Cyphris, who seemed to be impressed, including Film, who despite having seen this yesterday, as a Kamen Rider fan, couldn't get enough of watching the transformation sequence.

"Now I have to figure out how to get to Canterlot City before they destroy it" I said to myself trying to think of a plan

"Don't worry about it, your father left you many gifts to make up for not being present in your entire life" said Aqua as Cryon was seen bringing an object that at first glance looked like a common Smartwatch.

"A Smartwatch, no offense, but I don't understand what use it will serve" said Film without understanding

"This isn't a regular watch, this is the ChronoLink, one of your father's inventions, and it has an extra accessory with it" Cryon explained and then pressed a few buttons and created a small circuit where the holographic image of a sharecropping motorcycle was seen on the round screen of the watch.

Then several blue digital cubes emerged from the ChronoLink and gathered together to form a blue holographic motorcycle, eventually solidifying. The motorcycle had a sleek, streamlined design, with curved lines and polished metallic surfaces. It was clearly designed for both speed and combat. It was mostly silver and red, with some yellow and orange lines for style.

Under the mask, he was with his mouth wide open. I consider myself a motorcycle fan. The bike I see in front of me is a marvel, as if it were taken from a futuristic science fiction movie.

She's a beauty, isn't she?

Yes, and from what I hear, I can hear you in my head when I'm as Kamen Rider.

This ability is amazing, although it reminds me that we need to think of a good name to call ourselves when we are transformed.

We'll think about that later, I want to try giving this beauty a try, this is a hundred times better gift anyone could have given me.

"What do you think?" Aerion asked.

"That's definitely one of the coolest things I've ever seen!" Film exclaimed in fascination.

"Sorry Film!" I quickly climbed onto my new motorcycle "But this is mine and I'll be the first to try it!"

"Don't forget this!" Cryon said, throwing the ChronoLink, and I took it and put it on my right wrist.

Several sounds of metal parts moving were heard, and a secret door was seen opening, giving way to a kind of rectangular portal that was light blue in color.

"By going through that you will be able to enter cyberspace and quickly reach the city!" said Voltier pointing at the portal.

"Ok! I'm ready!" I said to start the engine and make it roar "Amazing, a masterpiece like yours should have a good name... I know" I grabbed the handle firmly, turned it

"Let the circuit flow, Cyberstream, accelerate!" with the already baptized, Cyberstream, drive until reaching the portal and entering the portal disappearing.

"And there goes the hero," Film commented vaguely, glancing back at the layers of the city being torn apart by the virtronics. "I hope they make it in time."

"Don't worry, just by looking at the look on Prince Stardust and Virtuix's face, I know they are fully committed to defeating the cybrix," Terran replied in a motherly manner, the others nodded at this.

But then, someone noticed that someone was missing. "Hey," Voltaris called, causing the others to turn their gaze to him. "Have you seen Aerion before the prince and Virtuix left?"

The others looked around the lair, but noticed that it was true, Aerion was nowhere to be found.

"Not again!" Terran said frustrated as she realized where Aerion was.

Back where the cybrix and the 2 magical girls were, their situation was going from bad to worse. The cybrix had already caused a lot of destruction, the good thing is that the people who were there and some workers of Cyberse Industries had managed to escape from the monster in time thanks to Sunset and Twilight, but the same cannot be said of them.

The two girls were seen hiding behind a destroyed car, very injured and tired. After several minutes of fighting the cybrix, they realized that they couldn't do anything against the monster. If the other girls were there, they could use their rainbow laser to defeat the monster, but she had already talked to them on her cell phone before and they said that they were also busy.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash are together going to help them, but they encountered some groups of virtronics that were attacking several people, so they had to detour to help. Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie were on the south side of the city, when they also ran into other groups of virtronics that upon seeing them, attacked them mercilessly.

Her friends were fighting the mysterious robots that coincidentally appeared at the same time the monster appeared, so they won't be able to come in time, and the police were just as busy dealing with the virtronics. They are alone now.

"Are you okay, Twilight?" Sunset asked worried about her friend's injuries, Twilight had to fight while she evacuated the other people.

"I-I'm fine, just a little sore," Twilight replied, grabbing her right shoulder where she suffered her most recent injury. "But we still have problems. How are we going to deal with that monster?" She turned her gaze to the cybrix that was still hovering around the corrupted cyber system that continued to release several Gitches that continued to spread across the ground.

Sunset opened her eyes as she saw how the glitches on the ground had spread at great speed. "It can't be, how did we get into this situation?"

"I don't know, from this distance, I can't say much about that machine, but it seems to be a power generator that manages to spread those glitches on the ground and will continue to spread until it consumes the entire city."

"How long do we have to destroy that thing?"

"I estimate that it will take about 5 hours for it to spread throughout the city. If that monster is so intent on protecting it, it must be very important," Twilight deduced, seeing how protective the monster is of the machine.

"If I'm able to distract it, then you might be able to get close enough to destroy it," I ask Twilight.

"I'm not sure, but we can't let that glitch keep growing, but be careful"

Sunset nodded in response. Although it was a very risky plan, with just the two of them they had to do it anyway or simply run away, but that last option was out of the question due to the serious situation they were in.

But before they could do anything, loud gunshots were heard that were directed at the corrupted machine, but the bird monster got in the way, receiving the shots, which seemed to have managed to hurt it, since it was knocked to the ground with some smoke coming out of its body.

The two girls were surprised by this when they turned to see an adult woman with green eyes, blue hair wearing a wrinkled and somewhat torn lab coat, it is also worth noting that in her hands she had a kind of futuristic gun showing that she was the one who fired the shot.

"That was for stealing my first cyber system! You underdeveloped bird!" the woman exclaimed with courage and determination.

The woman did not wait any longer and began to shoot again towards her Cyber system, but the cybrix recovered and launched several metal feathers from its left side, preventing them from damaging the machine and then ran towards the woman to attack her.

She didn't let him and shot again, but this time the cybrix bird resisted them and slowly approached her. The woman tried to retreat, but it was too late, the monster attacked her, causing her to drop her gun and fall to the ground.

The girls saw that and were quick to react. Twilight lifted the car with her magic and threw it at the bird monster, but it noticed her presence and used its claws to easily destroy it.

Sunset saw the gun that had hurt the monster, with that in mind, she ran to it and dove to the ground to pick it up and started shooting at the monster once more. She couldn't aim well because of the recoil, but still some laser shots managed to damage it.

"Twilight! Go get the lady in the robe, I'll hold him off!" Sunset said as she backed away, continuing to shoot at the cybrix, who backed away, taking him by surprise again.

"But-!"

"Don't worry, I'll be fine! Go!" Sunset insisted.

Twilight, at the insistence of her best friend, ran towards the blue-haired woman, surrounding the monster that wanted to approach Sunset to kill her.

Twilight arrived where the lady who was recovering was. "Ma'am, are you okay?" she asked, helping her up.

"Yes, thanks for the help, but what happened to the monster?" she asked alarmed.

"She's being entertained by my friend, who should come back to help her!"

Before she could leave, the woman grabbed her arm. "Wait! Did you find a small device that looks like a remote control?! I had it in my pocket!"

Twilight "I'm sorry, but I haven't seen it-" but I don't finish the sentence when I notice a small device between the small rubble of a building "You don't mean that one!" I point out.

The woman turned around and was glad to see him. "Yes!" she said, quickly grabbing him and starting to press several buttons as she headed to the edge of the glitch where the cyber system was. "With this, I can put an end to all of this."

"What are you doing? Going near there is dangerous."

"Setting the countdown for the self-destruction of my cyber system" the woman replied, continuing to press some buttons.

"Self-destruct?! He plans to crash that machine!"

"I've always been careful with all the things I invent, and I always like to have a little safety mechanism, in chaos like this" once she put the correct password, she was about to press the last button she needed, but...

A laser passed through the sight of the two women and destroyed the device that Hope Light had.

"No!!" she exclaimed frightened when she saw her last chance to fix this whole mess had been destroyed in front of her eyes.

"Where did that come from?!" Twilight asked, looking around to find a person who could have fired that laser.

What none of the women had noticed was that there was someone sitting on the edge of a building watching all the chaos the cybrix had caused, and the one responsible for destroying the cyber system's self-destruct device.

"I'm sorry Hope Light, but I couldn't let you ruin my fun, anyway the result is going to be the same, once cyber corruption enters a world, there's nothing they can do to stop it, although I expected those magical girls to put up more of a fight, but what a disappointment" said Korrup disappointed in how weak they were.

A scream of pain was heard that caught the attention of those present, they saw how the cybrix bird had Sunset's neck in its right hand, who was drowning from not being able to breathe properly.

"Sunset!!" Twilight screamed worriedly trying to run to stop the monster from killing her.

Hope, seeing the scene, tried to run to avoid it, although she knew they wouldn't arrive in time.

And Korrup was watching all this with a childish smile as if a child was watching his favorite show.

Sunset watched her friend run, but she knew she wouldn't make it in time. With that, memories of her friends came to mind, as if her whole life was flashing before her eyes. "Is this the end...?" she asked herself mentally. "I'm sorry, girls... I'm sorry, Princess Twilight... and I'm also sorry for not being able to apologize to you... Princess Celestia."

Just as the cybrix was about to sink its claws into its skull, the loud noise of a motorcycle approaching was heard, and before they could turn to look, a futuristic motorcycle drove at full speed and then rammed the cybrix and at the same time, grabbed the fire-haired girl with one arm, saving her life, sending the cybrix flying.

Everyone was shocked at this, Hope Light and Twilight Sparkle had faces of shock and confusion upon seeing the new guy with armor and a motorcycle that seemed to be taken from the future. Sunset, half conscious, was relieved and shocked that when she thought she was going to die, a guy in armor would save her from death.

But the one who seemed to be most shocked was Korrup, although he couldn't be seen because of his hood, his eyes were as wide as plates and his mouth was half open, and the only thing he could say when he saw the Kamen Rider was: -Impossible...-

"Hey girl, are you okay?" I asked, trying to hide my concern as much as possible.

Sunset, still in shock, pulled herself together and separated from me while still hugging her. "Y-yes, thanks for saving me."

"Well, I'm glad I made it in time," I said as I exited the cyberstream and walked over to the cybrix who was standing up. "You better get away from this, things are going to get ugly." Once I finished saying that, I left. walked to cybrix ave

"SUNSET!!" Twilight screamed as she approached her friend and hugged her tightly. Small sobs were heard. "I'm so glad you're okay! For a moment I thought I would lose you!"

"Relax, thanks to him I'm fine" he said looking at me while he was in front of the cybrix

"Who is he?"

"I don't know, but thanks to him I'm alive, so I guess he's on our side," Sunset answers her friend's question.

Hope Light didn't say anything, just staring at the armored guy, as if she had seen him before and her motherly instinct made her worry about him. While Korrup didn't say anything and didn't show his evil smile from before, he was expressionless and just stared at Stardust.

"Hey Cybrix, why don't you do us all a favor and mess with someone on your level," I said defiantly.

The 3 girls were surprised to hear how I called the monster, proving that I do know the cybrix. "Cybrix?" Hope asked herself.

After that, the Cybrix started speaking in a language that the women present there didn't understand, but that I could understand "Damn bag of bones, an inferior being like you won't humiliate me like this!"

"Well guess what, this bag of bones will be the one to shred all the corrupted data you have!" I got into a fighting stance "Let the simulation of your defeat begin"

That was the only thing I said before the cybrix came towards me, I blocked it with my forearm guard and with my other arm I inserted a strong blow with fire surrounding it which did much more damage and sent it flying.

"I derived it in one fell swoop" Twilight exclaimed in surprise, someone who Sunset and Hope

"He has greater strength, endurance and agility than a human. Is it because of the armor he's wearing?" Hope asked herself, then turned her gaze to the peculiar belt he had. "Or is it because of the belt?"

The cybrix got up in pain, but his anger made him ignore it and he threw several metallic feathers, which I had to dodge, but some of them grazed me. I turned my body and kicked him horizontally with my leg on fire, destroying some of the feathers. The cybrix took advantage to attack me, which made me put my arms forward, he gave me a couple of blows to my chest and face, but I deflected my face by crouching and knocked him to the ground with a kick to the legs.

I jumped up and approached the cybrix lying on the ground to give a strong blow to its face, but its wings spread quickly and it managed to dodge my blow at great speed, causing it to break part of the ground. The bird flew away from my reach and launched several of its metallic feathers at me again, but I couldn't evade when it flew in a dive, scratching my chest, and it did it two more times, knocking me to the ground and growling in pain.

"No!" Sunset and Twilight shouted as they watched me fall to the ground in pain.

"He won't be able to fight fairly if he keeps flying," Hope growled, seeing that the armored man was at a disadvantage.

Sunset heard that and remembered the laser gun she had before, she saw that it was still lying on the ground, so she acted quickly picking it up "Hey! Rider in armor!" that caught my attention "Use this!" she threw the laser gun and I instinctively got up and jumped catching it

I acted quickly when he came back down towards me and shot him with the gun which launched 3 laser beams at his body which made him swerve and fall to the ground. He gave a grunt of pain as he got up, I didn't give him time to recover and I started hitting him. The cybrix defended himself and hit me back trying to scratch me with his claws, I defended myself with my arms and launched a game to get him away from me, but he blocked it with the metal part of his body. There it occurred to me to try to light my foot on fire and I did, melting part of his feathers and he moved away from me screaming in pain. And I took advantage of the moment to shoot him again with the laser beam.

"Damn it! How can a human like you have that kind of power!" he exclaimed, looking at me with hatred. "And even more so! Having a weapon capable of harming us!"

"I told you! Your first mistake was underestimating me!" I said to continue shooting at him making him retreat "Your second mistake was underestimating human intelligence" I ran to give him a few strong blows that he blocked, and he rose into the air again to keep our distance

Damn coward.
Wait Stardust, I think you're missing one important little detail.
I don't have time for guessing, say it quickly Virtuix.
I am a phoenix, and when we combine our powers you basically have all the powers a phoenix has, including flying.
What?! I can really fly?!
Try to imagine it! Visualize in your mind circuit-shaped lines wrapped in intense fire! You are a Phoenix! Become one with the flames!
Become one with the flames...?

I closed my eyes and tried to visualize it in my mind. I felt like several lines were joining together and forming several paths, then I visualized an intense fire that ran through my entire body, but I didn't feel any kind of heat, rather I felt it as something natural and I also felt like that energy passed through my entire body towards my back where the fire formed wings.

I opened my eyes and noticed that I had indeed created a pair of thin, fine wings of fire on my back. I noticed the surprised looks of the girls who were looking at me and my mother's mouth was open in shock.

The cybrix noticed this and freaked out. "What?!" I didn't give him time to say anything else, I flew towards him and hit him hard on his ugly face, but he quickly recovered and hit me back. Now an exchange of blows began between us flying through the sky colliding with each other to connect blows.

"He can fly too!" Sunset shouted, watching as I kicked him in the last clash in the air to separate us and fly in different directions again.

"But how can it be scientifically possible to fly with wings made of fire?! And how can fire be kept in the form of wings?!"

Hope Light didn't say anything, she just continued to watch everything that happened.

In the air, I blocked his claws with my right arm and used my other arm to fire the laser gun, but unconsciously, a part of my fire entered the gun and launched a strong laser charged in flames that caused a small explosion that sent the cybrix bird crashing to the ground, growling in pain, coincidentally, it crashed near the corrupted cyber system full of glitches around it.

I noticed that the weapon began to heat up as I saw some electric sparks coming out of it, I guess it couldn't withstand the intensity of my flames. As I looked at the cybrix in pain getting up from the ground, but seeing that he could barely stand, I saw an opportunity.

"The conditions for victory have been set, it's time to purge the corruption" I said as I pulled the cybercore out of the driver and slid it back in, reinserting it afterwards.

-"Cyber Flare Breaker"-

A light illuminated my right foot which I used to jump up and behind me the image of a giant phoenix reappeared and let out a loud screech. The phoenix and my kick synchronized to go directly to the cybrix bird that gave a last cry before exploding along with the cyber system.

The girls when they saw that the monster had been destroyed felt very relieved, but then they noticed that even though the monster was destroyed along with the cyber system, there was a glitch that continued to spread throughout the area, they noticed that the guy in the armor did not seem to be affected by the glitch despite standing on top of it.

"What's going on?! This glitch is supposed to disappear if the cyber system was destroyed!"

What's going on with this glitch? Why won't it go away?
It seems that cyber corruption, once introduced into a world, cannot be reversed, even if we destroy the machine that opened the connection between this world and cyberspace.
So everything we did was in vain?!
Maybe not, I mean, if we could destroy the cybrix, don't you think we can get rid of cyber corruption?
What do you propose?
We do the same as before, working together as one being.
What a cliché... but I can't think of anything, so we have nothing to lose by trying.

"Don't worry!" he replies to my mother. "I won't allow cyber corruption to continue to advance in this world," I said, getting closer to the glitch or cyber corruption.

"What are you going to do now?" Twilight asked curiously, despite knowing that this glitch, or cyber corruption as she called it, is dangerous, but you already saw how Stardust managed to defeat the monster that magic couldn't have much effect on.

"Here we go" I whispered to myself as I knelt at the edge of the cyber corruption and placed both of my hands on it.

When I put them on, immediately the cyber corruption entered my body and armor wanting to infect my entire body, I worried for a moment, but I ignored it and focused on the cyber energy that was in me. My father knew that I had the power to defeat the cybrix and save this world, the way he told me makes me think that he knew about cyber corruption and that somehow he knew that I could avoid it.

If I really have the power to stop millions of people from dying, then please give me the power to burn down all cyber corruption!

My armor began to glow in red lines and the cyber corruption, which was wrapping around all of my arms up to my shoulders, began to disappear as it was absorbed into my body and replaced with a digital fire made up of three different colors: white, gold, and red.

This fire seemed to be completely burning Cybercorruption causing it to spread throughout all the infected areas and zones, the fire grew until it reached the Cyberse Industries building, specifically Hope Light's laboratory, burning it completely, but the strangest thing is that these flames began to disappear and it was seen how the whole place was as it was before Cybercorruption, no burns or debris were seen there, even the walls destroyed by the cybrix had been repaired.

The two magical girls and Hope were even more surprised than before, they saw how the floors, walls and buildings that were being covered by cyber corruption were as good as new.

And it's all because of the mysterious man in armor who had destroyed the monster and was kneeling breathing heavily.

As for me, he was very tired which was strange. He may have done some damage to me when fighting the bird cybrix, but he didn't feel as tired as he did now, he felt like he was going to faint at any moment.

Hey, are you okay? I felt that several of your joints were heavy, even your eyelids were heavy!
I'm fine... just a little tired
You're going to faint at the rate you're going, let's go before you detransform in front of your mother and those two magical girls from CHS.
Yes, you're right, let's go.

I got up from the ground and used my ChronoLink to call my Cyberstream bike, which activated automatic mode and came to my side, I was able to sit down with difficulty, but before I could leave...

"WAIT!" Twilight Sparkle screamed, making me stop dead in my tracks. I watched as she and her fire-haired friend approached me and began to ask me, "Who are you? And what was that thing? You called it Cybrix before, didn't you?"

I wasn't in the mood to answer questions, I needed to get out of there before I passed out, but before I could speak the voice of a certain familiar Cyphris was heard.

"I can answer your questions!" Aerion said, appearing out of nowhere, surprising us all. "Those monsters were cybrix, unknown life forms from cyberspace whose goal is to destroy all organic life, basically they want to eliminate all humanity and those who were related to it, corrupting their entire world and moving on to the next world." He explained hastily, seeing me on the verge of fainting, but I stayed strong, avoiding fainting.

He spoke again before the girls could ask anything about Aerion. "But don't worry! Why?! Because he's here!" he pointed at me dramatically. "He's the heir to all the powers of the Cyphris of Cyberspace! The hero that the world needs to face this new threat! The prince to the throne of Cyberspace who came to eliminate all the cyber corruption from this and other worlds! He's the one who inherited the title of the Kamen Riders and who will defend what his ancestors fought to protect!! You are the lucky ones to be present here to witness the birth and the beginning of the legend of this legendary Kamen Rider-!!"

Before he could digest a silly name with which he would name me, I covered his beak even though I was exhausted, the girls were, between confused and surprised by the aptitude of the talking bird that appeared out of nowhere that seemed to know the so-called Kamen Rider.

Umm... you realize my name is related to the word Virtual and what we become is called Virtual Driver. I think you know what I'm getting at.
If you can read my thoughts, then let's use that name.
That seems fine to me.

"If you want to know who I am, I'm just a Kamen Rider who happened to be passing by. Codename: Kamen Rider Virtualx"

"Kamen Rider Virtualx?" Sunset repeated, confused by the name. "What's so special about the name Kamen Rider?"

I didn't answer him, I just started my bike and left the place as quickly as possible, ignoring the questions of Sparkle and her other friend.

"No way! Now the only person who might know what's really going on here is gone," Twilight replied, disappointed that she hadn't been able to gather more information.

"And it left us with many more questions, like, What was that strange talking green bird?"

"Do you think we'll see him again?" Twilight asked her friend.

"I have a feeling it will be like that, but it may not be under pleasant circumstances," he said, looking at the desolate and empty street they were on.

Hope Light was silent all this time, only watching the one called Kamen Rider Virtualx, something about that Rider made her familiar in some way and she could notice that Virtualx before leaving was very tired, almost on the verge of fainting. She did not dare to approach him as she was still somewhat thoughtful about how this whole matter ended. She felt in a certain way that this was her fault for having created the cyber system, which caused that monster to appear and almost killed her and those girls.

"Virtualx... thank you" the least he could have done was thank her, it's a shame he couldn't have stayed to be able to thank her properly

Korrup was silently watching the battle the whole time, when it ended he believed that the Kamen Rider was going to die upon coming into contact with the cyber corruption, but proving once again that he was wrong, not only did he manage to survive, but he was able to somehow burn the cyber corruption.

And the worst thing is that somehow, those flames also affected the virtronics that came out of the small connections of this world with cyberspace, although it did not destroy them, it managed to send them back to cyberspace completely stopping the conquest of this world.

Korrup was dejected at this situation, no sound was heard from him and he did not move, it seemed as if he had died standing up, but suddenly, he began to move a little and a small malicious laugh was heard, which after a few seconds, turned into maniacal laughter.

"I can't believe it!! After all this time, I can't remember the last time I was wrong about something!!" he said, still laughing maniacally. "It's so frustrating to see how wrong I was to believe that this world was unprotected!"

He calmed down a bit to look at the blue sky of the city "So Kamen Rider Virtualx huh?" He began to smile evilly "I never thought I'd see someone with those abilities of yours again, especially he has a cybercore of a PHOENIX... things have definitely become very interesting, I can't wait to meet you again Rider"

Behind him appeared a portal of red and black as always "With you here, I'm sure you'll bring me much more fun than before when conquering other worlds. I can't wait to meet you again" was the last thing he said before entering the portal and disappearing.

Of course he could have gone and taken advantage of his tired state to defeat him very easily, but...

Where would be the fun?

"This confirms that there is someone else who obtained a cyber driver and managed to unlock his true form," said the female voice on the computer.

"Yeah... so Kamen Rider Virtualx, I don't fight too badly, for an amateur" said the mysterious man with the Hacker Driver

"You always see the bad side of the world," came a sigh from the computer. "In the end, you didn't have to intervene in the first assault of the cybrix on this world, but things are going to get even more complicated."

"Maybe, but I'll leave the fight against the cybrix to Virtualx, at least for a while" he said as he got up from his chair and walked towards the exit of the room "Our plan hasn't changed yet, while Virtualx takes care of facing the monsters of cyberspace, we'll take care of the monsters with human skin" he said with a voice full of hate.

"I still don't like your plan at all, it seems like something the cybrix would do" her voice sounded very sad and depressed

"To survive what's coming, we need power, and in your current state you won't be able to use all of your powers at 100%. This way we can gain even more power with the Hacker Driver and you'll be able to regain your physical form."

"I still don't like it, but I'll support you," he said, his mood a little better. "That's what friends are for-"

"I saved your life, but that doesn't make us friends, just partners against the same enemy," he said with annoyance upon hearing the word friend. "That's all we are."

Then a loud bang was heard as the door was slammed shut.

The computer was the only thing lighting up the room. "The Driver can only be activated by someone who has a good heart. You act cold, but it's obvious that deep down you care about others, that's why you need someone to care about you." There was a pause before hearing a small laugh. "It would be an honor to be that person and call you a friend." Then the computer turned off.

"Are you OK?"

"Does something hurt?"

"Did you rest well? You better lie down again."

"I'm glad you're alive!"

"It was obvious that someone of your level could survive a fight with that cybrix."

"Let's celebrate our first victory!!"

Definitely the first thing I didn't want to hear and see was several of the cyphris being in my face and talking almost all at the same time.

"Everyone! Shut up!!" I yelled at everyone even though my body was tired from the release of that fire of mine that eliminated cyber corruption.

The others understood that I still seemed to be tired from the fight with the cybrix, so they gave me space.

"Thanks," I sighed in relief. "Now, how long was I gone?"

"Like two hours, you looked pretty exhausted when you got here, and it was thanks to the autopilot that you didn't crash while you were here" Aqua answered

"I see" I then look at them better and notice that two others are missing from their group "Where are Terran and Aerion?" I asked curiously.

"Well, they're over there, with Terran scolding Aerion," I notice Terran's angry voice telling him several things that I can't hear well, despite my good hearing. "When you arrived, Terran scolded him very badly for having escaped secretly... again," said Cryon.

"Are they always like this?"

"Believe it or not, Terran usually scolds Aerion a lot for all his escapades in the city, the one who usually follows him is Voltaris, but fortunately, this time he behaved"

"I didn't want Terran to scold me again, she's scary" Voltaris shivered as he remembered how bad a protector Terran can be.

"And they've been scolding him for over two hours now," Film said as he approached them with a bottle of water. "I'm glad to see you awake Stardust, for a moment I feared the worst. Here," he handed him the bottle of water, which I took and drank. I was very thirsty.

"...Thank you," I thanked him. "Is there something I need to know while I was asleep?"

"Well, first of all, the city was invaded by virtronics, but when you defeated the cybrix and burned that strange glitch, they disappeared according to the news"

"Don't you think they've returned to cyberspace?" Virtuix asked.

"Indeed, that's how it was, the Virtronics are just artificial soldiers without conscience, once the cybrix was destroyed, there was no one to give them the order to attack and after you eliminated the cyber corruption, they were forcibly sent into cyberspace" Cryon answered.

"So, it was a victory for us, it's a relief, although there was some destruction of buildings, luckily no one died," he said, relieved.

"But it's not the end, it's just the beginning" my expression became serious, drawing the attention of the others "The cybrix didn't care about human lives, they only wanted destruction, just like they told me"

Terran approached with Aerion at his side "You are right prince, the cybrix will stop at nothing to completely corrupt your world, and most likely they already know we are here from seeing you and Aerion" Terran replied

"Well, I'll be ready to fight them, no matter what, I'm determined to defeat them," I said with great determination that you could almost see fire in my eyes, and I don't mean that metaphorically, there's literally a small flame in my eyes, I guess I have better control over my powers now.

The others smiled at this and gave me their vote of confidence that they would help me, even Film

"It's strange Stardust, you don't seem anything like all the bad things I've heard about you" Film said smiling at me

"And that's bad," I frowned, somewhat annoyed.

"No, of course not," he said, raising his hands. "I guess I'm just glad I can see this side of you that no one else has seen. I mean, you were so hesitant to be a hero before, and now look at you, you're determined to face them."

"Stardust is a very complicated person, believe me, I've been with him for almost my entire life and I can say that his attitude often complicates many things for him and worsens his reputation" Virtuix responded, to which I gave him an annoyed look, but he ignored me.

"Things are different now, when I was there, I realized that a person almost died and if I hadn't gone, both those girls and my mother would have died, and all because of my indecision" I clenched my fists remembering that "They can consider me a criminal and a rebel for the amount of times they arrested me and possibly they are right, but even I know that killing someone is an atrocious and unforgivable act"

"If I do nothing to stop it, then I would be a monster for not stopping it when I have the chance to stop it" I said to stand up and look at nothing with my fist on my chest "Now I understand more than anything that this world needs me, that means that Kamen Rider Virtualx is here to stay, whether people like it or not, or even thank me or not, I will continue forward"

The other cyphris gave a cry of joy when they saw me like that, my words somehow made something inside them light up and they were willing to fight by my side.

Film was silent for a moment and then said something I didn't expect: "Thank you."

"Huh?" I exclaimed, confused by the sudden gratitude.

"I said thank you"

"Because?"

"I just realized that since yesterday, I never thanked you for saving my life" he turned to look at me smiling "When we met you saw me in danger and even though we didn't know each other, you still saved my life, you didn't even know you had these incredible powers, and yet you ran to save me"

"That's a thing of the past, it's not that important," I replied, not giving it much importance and looking away a little.

"Don't be modest! Many people would have ignored me and run away to avoid getting hurt! The fact that you helped me and didn't want anything in return shows that you are truly worthy of being a Kamen Rider!"

"Tch!" I frowned in annoyance.

"Your father is right, you do have the heart of a hero, but it is clear that you will need help to improve your character, you will need a friend."

"Hey hey hey!" I said walking away from the others "Just because you know my secret, doesn't mean we're friends. I'm a loner, I don't have any friends."

"Well, I think you need them urgently. Your mother always says that it's not healthy for a person to be lonely forever," Virtuix replied.

"And I think the reason you're so reserved is because you've never had a real friend with you, so whether you like it or not, we're friends."

"I don't want friends!" I reply, even more annoyed.

"I want to be your friend too, Stardust!" said Voltaris, approaching me. "There are so many things we could do together! So many pranks you could get up to!"

"Hey! Then we could be friends too Dusty!" Aerion said happily approaching me.

"I DON'T WANT FRIENDS!" The other Cyphris and Film laughed a little when they saw this comical scene

"How about a group hug!" suggested Aerion.

"For my sake!!"

"Don't you dare!" I warned them, backing away.

"A group hug can't be that bad prince!" Terran said smiling.

"No problem for me" Cryon

"It would be fun" Aqua

"So all together!" Film exclaimed smiling, while all the Cyphris came up to hug me, and he took out his iPhone to take several photos.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

Author's Note

And so the third chapter ends, I hope you liked it.
For the next chapter:

Chapter 4: New School / New Problems

On a new day in Canterlot City, we focused on a specific building, where several students were seen entering the building that looked like it was the Canterlot school.

Inside the school, we found ourselves watching a very well-known fire-haired girl, it was Sunset Shimmer, who was heading towards Principal Celestia's office. It turns out that when she arrived at school, she was immediately called to the office by the loudspeakers, she had to separate from her friends and go to the office.

When she arrived at the office, she opened the door and could see Principal Celestia sitting at her desk and next to the window was Vice Principal Luna looking out the window at no specific point. What the fire-haired girl noticed by the expressions on their faces and their restless looks was that they both seemed restless and nervous about something, you could even say they were scared, since she had never seen both adult women have that expression, not even when she was the bully queen in her dark times.

Celestia finally noticed Sunset at the entrance, and looked up from the documents in her hand. "Miss Shimmer, I'm glad you came as quickly as possible," Headmistress Celestia said, showing a somewhat fake smile to hide her nervousness.

"Director Celestia, how can I help you?" Sunset asked, suspecting something was wrong.

"You see Sunset, I'll get straight to the point," Celestia said, pausing before finally saying, "... Today we'll have a new student joining CHS, who also happens to be the son of an old friend of mine and Luna."

"Oh, so you want me to show you around the school," Sunset guessed, understanding where this conversation was going.

"Yes, but this is more complicated than you think," Vice Principal Luna finally spoke, turning to speak to her. "Our friend's son is someone very, very special, who has had many problems at his previous school, which happens to be Crystal Prep Academy."

"And well... besides that, he has the bad habit of getting into a lot of trouble, not that he has had... certain problems with the law"

"Have you been arrested?!" Sunset exclaimed, starting to get alarmed.

"No, it turns out that the vast majority of what he is accused of are just rumors and false accusations, he has never done anything wrong due to lack of evidence, but we are getting off topic" said Luna to stand next to her sister and pick up some documents that have the information of the transferred student "As he has previously been a student at Crystal Prep, he has not been in the best environment to control his bad behavior as they were before Principal Candece took over"

Sunset understood what she meant, Twilight had told her before how things were at Crystal Prep when the former principal Cinch was in charge, it was always a competition to see who was the best whether it was in sports, academics, among other things. As every day at that time was a competition between them, there was no room for friendship, Cinch had made that very clear by only caring about her reputation.

"And knowing your past, we thought you could help him open up more to people and keep him from getting into more trouble," Luna said seriously, to which Celestia agreed.

"We've known him for a long time and I can say that he's a good person, he's just misunderstood and sometimes likes to pretend to be a criminal" Celestia said, to which the last thing confused Sunset not knowing what she was referring to "But I'm sure that if someone extended a helping hand to him, I'm sure he could change, and I think that you could understand the concept of someone helping you change for the better"

When Sunset said that, she remembered the times when she was evil and when she became a She-demon, but then she remembered the times when her friends showed her how wonderful friendship is and all the effort she made to show that she had changed for the better.

"It would be a great help if you could be friends with the new student. I'm sure you'd like him if you could see what he's really like inside," Celestia said, very sure of her statement. "In fact, I think you two have a lot in common."

Sunset seemed unsure at first, but then thought that maybe the new student wasn't so bad, and if things went well, she could have a new friend. "I'll do my best," she replied with a confident smile.

"We appreciate it very much, Miss Shimmer," Celestia thanked, with Luna nodding.

*Tock* *Tock*

Someone was heard knocking on the door, quietly.

"Looks like I'm just in time. Come in!" Headmistress Celestia said, knowing who it was. The door opened, revealing a certain boy with silver-blue hair and emerald green eyes. "I'm glad to see you, Stardust."

Stardust appeared in front of both adult women and Sunset Shimmer with a stoic and calm face "Good morning Director Celestia and Vice Director Luna, it's been a while."

"Well, you might be wondering: How did our protagonist Stardust Stellar, the new Kamen rider Virtualx, get into this situation?"

"Well, it all started yesterday morning"

It had been exactly 4 days since my debut as Kamen Rider Virtualx. Although there were only 3 people there to watch me in my fight against the bird cybrix, and things calmed down thanks to me interfering and managing to prevent the invasion of the cybrix. Many people were confused by what happened and fear the fact that it will happen again, many people went directly to talk to the high-level businessmen of the Cyberse industries, since many suspect that it has something to do with the incident because they saw the cybercorruption was infecting the entire building and then they saw how strange golden, white and red flames spread where the cybercorruption was only to disappear a second later and show that the building was as good as new.

And then there's the fact that the robots disappeared at the same time the flames burned the building and when they went out, they left it as good as new. The journalists didn't wait and attacked the company with everything they had, but the only one who could give a clear answer was my mother, Hope Light.

I remember what his words were

"I'm not entirely sure what exactly happened that day either, I just know that we were invaded by an unknown force that wanted to destroy our entire life and we couldn't fight back, but when everything seemed lost and when an innocent life was about to die, a brave person appeared who faced this threat. I don't know who he was or where his powers came from, but I could see that he risked his life to prevent our city and our lives from being destroyed. He was beaten and wounded, but he still managed to defeat the monster and somehow fix what this unknown force destroyed."

I remembered that many journalists, even her coworkers, seemed confused by her words and believed that what happened that day made her hallucinate. They thought it would be better to take the microphone away from her and rest, but she didn't let them and continued.

"The name of that hero is Kamen Rider Virtualx... if you're listening to this I'd like to be able to tell you something I couldn't tell you because of the shock of that day. Thank you!!" he shouted, bowing slightly which surprised everyone. "Thanks to you, many lives were saved and you managed to fix many things that were destroyed, although you couldn't completely fix the destruction of the city and many people were injured. At least those things can be repaired and healed! But what can never be fixed is a person's life...! I don't know what kind of mysteries he hides behind that mask, but someone who risks their own well-being for someone else is worthy of being called a hero. For now, I'll do what I can to find out who caused that day and why they did it, that's all I can say due to the lack of information. If I find out anything else, then I'll notify the authorities. Excuse me!"

Jeez, it was pretty bold of her to just leave before the interview was over. Typical of my mom.

The press was going crazy demanding more explanation about my mother, making false accusations that she was hiding information and that Cyberse Industries was supporting them, but since she was working for one of the most powerful companies in the city, the media had no choice but to wait until they gave more information or they would have to suffer huge lawsuits for harassment of my mother. It's a good thing they were warned in time, since I saw a few TV channel patrols outside our house.

I've noticed that many people have changed, some continued with their normal lives, but deep down they were afraid that those robots would return, and that this would happen when the next day the mysterious explosions occurred in a few blocks and streets around them worried them even more. Others began to take out various theories from the internet, such as that this is the work of a clandestine underground organization that wants to dominate the world and began with some experiments in Canterlot City. Others said that the mysterious hero that my mother spoke of on the news is part of a government conspiracy.

And among other even crazier things. Seriously, people like them have a lot of free time.

I also noticed that the two girls I saved were definitely Twilight Sparkle, sister of my greatest enemy, and her friend named Sunset Shimmer, the girl who saved her life. I told Film that since he went to the same school as those two, he should keep an eye on them just in case. I usually wouldn't ask anyone to do that, but those girls aren't ordinary people, those two are a danger to my identity for having magic and being intelligent. I say this for the simple reason that I know Sparkle from being at Crustal Prep before and I know that she's smart enough to be able to deduce that I'm Kamen Rider Virtualx, but the good side is that she used to ignore me a lot when we were classmates, even when she acted like a total ingrate when I helped her with certain bullying problems, and since she doesn't usually spend much time with me, then she'll never find out who I am.

The one that really worries me is that girl, Sunset Shimmer, she's the one I should be more careful with. When I asked Film what kind of magic those girls and their other friends have, I was a little interested in some of their magic, but the one that caught my attention the most was the one that can read people's minds. Of the 7 magics that those CHS girls have, Shimmer's is the most dangerous.

And I know you're wondering, how can reading people's minds be more dangerous than telekinesis, super speed or super strength?

Well, if you focus well on my words, Sparkle's telekinesis would be the most powerful magic as it is the most versatile, but the most dangerous (speaking of the psychological side) would be the one to read minds, since the power to read people's minds could be used in several ways such as extorting someone, discovering your biggest secrets or fears, or in my case, revealing your secret identity and telling everyone.

But that situation is almost impossible, for the simple fact that I doubt he will find them again as a Kamen Rider and that they spend time in the same places as him.

Back to the point, Film had told me that those girls told their friends about what happened to their other magical friends or as they are known at school, The Rainbooms. It seems that they have been picking up cyber energy signals from one of Sparkle's devices, the good side is that they don't know what kind of energy it is since they believed before that it was magical energy. With that I can make sure that those girls and my mother don't have any suspicions about me.

And now, back to my current situation, I found myself in the cyberspace lair reviewing one of my father's inventions. I had not wasted any time and I began to study everything about cyberspace, cyber energy, cyber corruption, cybrix and cybercores.

The good thing is that my mother had forced me to learn the basics of her job related to cyberspace, according to her she couldn't have a child who didn't know what his mother does for a living. Luckily for me, that paid off when I was able to delve deeper into the subject of cyberspace.

And in the middle of my studies, I came across one of the inventions that my father built for me, at this moment, I had in my hands a kind of sword hilt, but without a sword, the hilt was connected to a prismatic object where a slit could be seen where the cybercores could be slid and inserted.

"So, you're telling me that this *VirtualxMorpher* is a weapon that if I put one of these two cybercores in it, it can transform into a blaster or a sword" I asked Cryon who was showing me how to use it.

"Yes, the VirtualxMorpher will be a very important weapon in your fight against the future cybrix, but it is possible that if we get more cyber energy from the cybrix, we could create more cybercores that adapt to the weapon" Cryon explained in detail.

"Well, let's try it" I said to place the cybercore with the drawing of a holographic sword

"Virtualizer! Sword!" The weapon was turned by several digital cubes on the front of the hilt to take the shape of a medieval sword, but with the blunt end a red color and the sides a pale yellow color.

"Not bad" I said to get into a swordsman's position and start throwing several cuts in the air avoiding hitting Cryon, while the latter looked on calculating how to fight

"It's definitely a good sword," I said, smiling, sliding my fingers along the blunt end. "It'll serve me well next time I fight."

I noticed that in the last fight I didn't have much of an advantage because I was fighting barehanded, while that bird cybrix was fighting by flying and throwing its metallic feathers. I got a little confident in being able to control my power for the second time, which is what matters most to me in a life or death fight.

Your opponents will never play fair

I was able to regain the advantage thanks to being able to figure out how to fly and the laser gun that my mother had apparently built, those two things were what helped me win.

That's why I can't always rely on fighting barehanded, I have to learn to use new weapons and gain more powers if I want to defeat the possible cybrix that are coming.

"Let's try the other mode" I said to bring out a cybercore with the image of a blaster.

"Virtualizer! Change! Blaster!" The blade of the sword changed and the shape of the hilt changed as it bent and became part of a trigger, and the digital cubes changed into the shape of a firearm.

I whistled at the intimidating appearance of the VirtualxMorpher "Not bad, I wish there was something I could shoot at" I said with an excited smile and eager to try out this new weapon

"Well don't wait any longer!!" said a familiar voice, turning to see Voltaris, Aerion, Aqua and Terran with a small metal table with 5 soda cans on top and perfectly lined up so I could shoot them "It's all yours Dusty!! Try it!"

"Just what I needed!" I said smiling as I aimed at the soda cans, causing the cyphris to move from the spot in fear of being shot by accident in case I missed the shots.

I calmed my mind so I could firmly grip the VirtualxMorpher and focusing my aim, I fired 5 times, but because I miscalculated the thrust force, I managed to knock down the first and second canisters, but missed the last three. I frowned at this, tried again, and managed to knock down the remaining canisters after 6 more shots.

"The thrust force will be a little bit of a problem, but I guess when I become Virtualx, it won't be a problem anymore" analyze the blaster analyzing its build and design

"I'm afraid to ask, but have you used a fire weapon before?" Aqua asked, approaching the other Cyphris.

"No, but I've played a lot of first-person shooters, who knew that video games would be useful?" I said to myself with a wry smile. Then I turn to the other cyphris "And one more thing, is there anything else my father had left me to fight against the cybrix?"

The one who answered was Aerion "In fact, it's something we wanted to talk to you about, there is a way for you to get more powers and abilities, but it would be better to wait for Film so he can hear it too"

"I highly doubt he'll come," I shrugged as I sat down in my chair, deactivating the VirtualxMorpher. "He should still be leaving his school, and since it'll take him about two hours to get from the city to here-"

"Unless! You have a great Cyphris of fire who helped you use cyberspace to make the trip even shorter!" Virtuix was heard saying, who came with Film at his side with a backpack on his back.

"Sorry for being late, I was late because some friends needed help moving some items, luckily, Virtuix arrived and brought me here" said Film as he approached us with Virtuix

I gave my phoenix self a silent, annoyed look, telling him with my gaze: "Did you have to bring him?", to which Virtuix ignored it, annoying me.

I sighed to calm down, then after calming down I turned to Aerion "Now could you tell me what you meant by getting more powers and abilities?"

"I'd better explain it to you, but first I need your driver" Terran replied pointing at my driver that was on the table, I was confused by this, but I accepted anyway.

Terran grabbed my driver and placed it near the spherical device in the lair. A figure resembling the Driver could be seen there, and as he placed it the sphere began to glow blue and projected several holographic screens that appeared at my sides and in front of me. This surprised me, Film, and Virtuix.

It was also seen how the cyphris turned into digital cubes and entered the sphere, beginning to shine in various colors like a rainbow.

"What's going on?" Film asked looking at Virtuix, who is the only one who did not enter the sphere, to which he replied that he did not know.

"This sphere you are looking at is known as the Cybernetic Purification System... or simply CPS" answered the Terran voice from inside the sphere, or CPS "This machine has the ability to store the cybercores we have collected and analyze the cyber energy they possess, in order to then decide whether to use it or destroy it and reuse the cyber energy it contains"

"Ehhh...? Can you be more specific?" Film said confused.

"Listen carefully, especially you Prince" he said so that the screen in front of me showed the image of two cybercores, the one on the left had the image of a bird with half of its body made of metal, while the right had the image of three blades crossed between them -What you are seeing are the cybercores that you collected by destroying the cybrix that possessed them-

"Hey, that's right! The one on the right is the first cybrix you destroyed and the other one must be the bird cybrix!" he said.

"These are the Cybercores *Hedgehog* and *Owl* whose common element is the "Metal" element, which previously belonged to the cybrix, but thanks to one of the Virtual-Driver's mechanisms, by destroying the cybrix, you also destroyed the cybercorruption that was in them and your Driver was able to absorb purified cyber energy from them and we were able to store it to use later."

"Ok... I think I'm getting this, but what exactly is this cyber energy?" I asked.

"Cyber energy is the natural energy that exists in cyberspace, basically cyberspace is full of that energy and it is also the energy that we, the cyphris, can control naturally and we use it to give life to constructions and cyber-ecosystems in order to maintain the balance that exists in cyberspace, or just to be able to live in them as we please."

"You guys could create different things in cyberspace? That's amazing!" Virtuix exclaimed in amazement, then thought, "I wonder if I can do the same?"

"If you can do it, you just never tried it. But back to the topic, usually a single cyphris can create small objects like an apple or a bottle, but when they work in a group, the possibilities are endless, we could create a 50-story building or an entire beach for ourselves, we could even make an entire city full of buildings and streets with cars of different types. But of course, that would require several of us or the guardian cyphris to do it."

"That ability must have been the main reason why the cybrix decided to hunt them to extinction" I said without thinking causing the cyphris to fall silent for a sad moment, even without being present.

Film nudged me for my insensitivity and Virtuix supported him with a blow of his wing behind my neck. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to remind you of bad memories." I apologized when I noticed my mistake.

"Don't worry, especially since you're right, the cybrix feared the potential of our powers, that's why they attacked us to prevent us from helping the inhabitants of other worlds against them."

"And that is exactly what we are going to do in your world Prince, and this will be the beginning of your new power" he said and then on the holographic screen on the right he began to open as if it were a gate and from the screen began to appear the image of a memory card with black edges and the space where the image should go is completely blank.

"A cybercore? Why does this one look blank?" I asked, not understanding anything.

"You see prince, as I told you before, we Cyphris have the ability to create things with the help of cyber energy, that includes the creation of cybercores, but as cybercores are the representation of energy and memory of an individual, object or creature, everything is stored in what you would consider at first glance a memory card. But this card is special, since this cybercore is specifically made to store the powers of one of us."

The eyes of the three of them widened as they understood what we were trying to get at.

"You mean Stardust could acquire the power of one of you!!" Film said surprised.

"Exactly, if we combine our powers as Guardian Cyphris with yours, you will be able to reach new heights and evolve as a Kamen Rider, or well, that's what King Virtur told us and the history of the other Riders who had different forms confirm it."

"So, I would basically be changing my fire power for another element. That would not affect me in any way since my cybercore is incompatible with their elements like water or ice."

"We're not sure about that, but I guess it's better to test it in a safe place like the base than on the battlefield."

"Well I can't deny that, I guess I'll play it safe and try this cybercore with Aerion"

"Oh yeah!" Aerion shouted as he emerged from the Cybernetic Purification System (CPS) and floated with joy. "We have to do it!"

At that time I decided to choose Aerion for the simple reason that fire and air are somewhat compatible elements since air can strengthen fire with the necessary force. So we decided to test it in the training area. And yes, it turns out that the base has a training area which is the blank room that could be seen through the window when we first entered here. That room had the ability to create and simulate any possible place, in this case what we are projecting is a blank rocky terrain with some hills in the background.

And you might wonder, did we manage to make it work?

Well let me tell you that...

...

"AAAAAAAAAHHH!" I screamed as I was dragged by a mini green tornado until I was thrown directly into the window and crashed.

I could see the Cyphris, Film and Virtuix looking at me with grimaces of pain as I crashed.

"Damn... it..." I managed to say before sliding down to the floor.

Throughout the history of humanity, humans have been progressing little by little with technology until reaching the present times, where the brilliant scientist, Hope Light, discovered cyberspace, a Digital Universe made entirely of data and from her she developed a system capable of making the holograms created in cyberspace become organic materials such as fruits and construction materials.

But with the arrival of a new darkness, comes a light, or in this case, a flame of hope that came to face this new threat.

He's already faced two cybrix and managed to defeat them both, but it seems that an evil plan by the cybrix known as Korrup is happening in the shadows. And Stardust is still trying to uncover the mysteries of his powers and learn them in order to save the world.

What plans does Korrup have in store? Will Stardust be able to control his new powers?

There is only one thing that is certain

The legend of a new Kamen Rider begins...!

"Can someone tell me how the transformation went wrong?" I asked annoyed with some scratches on my face.

"I don't know, we did the same steps you do with Virtuix and we still failed" Aerion exclaimed dejectedly.

"Maybe you two aren't as in sync as you are with Virtuix," Cryon deduced.

"I guess that means you can't transform with Aerion for now," Fil said, then looked at the other Cyphris. "Who's up for the challenge?"

"Hey! You do realize that if you fail again, I'll be the one taking the damage!" I look at him annoyed by this, to which he takes a step back intimidated.

"Yes.. but don't you think it's better to take into account who you can transform into or not?" he said trying to calm me down "That way you can prevent another accident on the battlefield"

"Besides, your wounds have already healed thanks to our healing factor," Virtuix added to show how my facial wounds had already healed, surprising Film.

I sighed, resigned to this happening. "This better be worth it..."

And was it worth it?

Let me answer you with a resounding no.

First, it was with Terran

"Henshin!"

From outside the training room, there was a sound like there was a collapse and several rocks began to fall to the ground.

Those outside could only grimace in pain as they watched Stardust lying on the ground with large rocks.

"Maybe...? Third time's the charm?"

Then it was with Aqua

"Henshin!"

The sound of a huge wave crashing against the wall and some muffled screams in the water were heard. A minute later, wet footsteps were heard coming out of the training room, and Stardust was seen completely wet and going to the others with a sour face, along with Aqua with a sad face.

"The fourth one The fourth one will definitely be the good one!"

Then I tried it with Voltaris

"Henshin!"

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" I screamed as several billion volt discharges passed through my body, good thing I wasn't completely human, because if I was, I would have died right then.

Afterwards I left the room with some shocks still running through my body and with my hair standing on end due to static electricity.

"Ok! This will definitely be the last one! Ice can't be that dangerous! It will only make me feel very cold all over my body!" Film exclaimed, trying to see the positive side.

And finally, Cryon, which also went wrong.

"Ok I have no excuses for this anymore, we definitely failed" said Film resignedly as he saw how Stardsut had become a giant block of ice, with Virtuix setting fire all over his body to melt the ice and release Stardust.

"We'd better leave this for another day, I highly doubt Prince Stardust can continue like this without getting angry at someone."

Those moments were the worst moments of my life, in the end we found out that it's not possible for the cyphris to transform with me, so for now I'm stuck with Virtuix.

According to a theory of Cryon, it is possible that none of the transformations before worked due to the simple fact that Virtuix was attached to my soul and being the cybercore that is spiritually connected to me, it is not possible to transform with others since it is the same Virtuix that unconsciously rejects them.

However, that doesn't mean we've forgotten about the transformations with the Cyphris. Cryon and Terran will do their best to find a solution to our problem.

"I guess we'll see each other tomorrow," Aqua said, saying goodbye to us along with the other Cyphris. "Be careful."

"We'll have it, when my classes are over, I'll come here to help in any way I can."

"You better not bother, because I won't be coming all day tomorrow" I said to get everyone's attention surprised, except Virtuix, who already knew the reason.

"What do you mean? Since the first day we entered the base you haven't stopped coming even a single day to study all the information that is here, now you say you're not going to come?" Film exclaimed.

"Those are my business, you don't have to get involved in them" I said without giving it more importance and going to the exit.

Until Virtuix decided to open his beak "He's going to be busy all day looking for a job since he doesn't have school and is unemployed right now" I gave him an angry look to which he ignored me again

"Damn it Virtuix! You can't keep your beak shut!"

"Ummm... nope" he said smiling cheekily, to which I growled angrily

"Get a job? I never saw you as someone interested in working for anyone."

"Since I was kicked out of CPA, I highly doubt there'll be another school that'll take me, and since my plans to leave town have been delayed because of the whole cybrix thing, I have no choice but to get a job so my mom won't think I've been procrastinating all these days, and the fact that I have to have a good excuse to be gone most of the day, I'm surprised my mom didn't ask me where I was going before."

Since the battle with the cybrix bird, my mother has been acting differently. She used to come home very tired and late at night. I would leave food for her so she could eat dinner, but sometimes I would see that she didn't even touch the food, and her relaxed and tomboyish attitude had changed to that of someone serious and focused.

I was worried about her condition, but I couldn't ask her because I was also busy with my own affairs, but I know that sooner or later she will calm down and be her usual self again.

But returning with us, the others understood my reasons for not coming tomorrow, so they accepted and we went through cyberspace thanks to my new motorcycle "the cyberstream".

When I got home, I hadn't seen my mother, which didn't surprise me given the above. What did surprise me was the note I found on the dining room table, which had my mother's handwriting on it.

I took it and read it:

"Stardust, if you're reading this, it means you're coming over late at night and I could punish you for that but I won't since I'm busy with a new experiment. Look, I've been talking to some old friends you know, Celestia and Luna, and I asked them to transfer you to Canterlot High School. Luckily for me, they agreed, so you'll be able to dress in more comfortable clothes than before and hopefully you'll be able to make some friends there without getting into any more trouble."

Sincerely, Your mother Hope Light"

"WHAT!!" I exclaimed angrily "I don't want to go to another damn school!! Why are you telling me this in a damn note and not face to face?!!" I asked without expecting an answer, but then I noticed another note that was under the first one

I picked it up and read it:

"I'm a very busy woman with a lot of work to do, you know that with what's been going on lately I haven't had time to spend time with you, which I apologize for, but I'm still your mother and it's my duty to make sure that you end up with a good education so you'll go to CHS whether you want to or not."

"Damn it" I muttered to myself as I crumpled up the papers and threw them into the trash can "If it wasn't enough that I have to deal with the cybrix, I have to go back to school to hang out with other people unnecessarily" Then I look at a third note on the table that I didn't see.

"Stardust Kirby Stellar, you are a very good person and I know that if you would put aside that delinquent and lone wolf exterior for a moment, people might love you for showing who you really are. I know that this is a lot to ask for, but I would like that before you finish high school, I see you with some friends having fun and enjoying yourself like any boy your age, and if possible, with a special girl since I know that you are heterosexual, despite your incomprehensible disgust towards romance and without understanding anything of what it implies. But getting back to the subject, I know that you will probably ignore me for not wanting to have friends, but the only thing I ask of you is that you try not to get into trouble."

"..." I sighed resignedly "I wish you didn't know me so well" I said to throw the paper on the floor and go up the stairs to my room, but then I noticed another note stuck on the railing

"And you better pick up that last piece of paper off the floor when I get back!! Just because I'm not home doesn't mean you can make it as dirty as you want!"

"... Sometimes I wish he didn't know me so well"

The next day, I had to get up early reluctantly, because my mother was the one who woke me up with a kick, knocking me to the floor. She told me that she had left my breakfast on the table and said goodbye with a kiss on the cheek. My mother does have a strong character.

Anyway, since I'm not going to Crystal Prep anymore, I'll take this moment to put on my favorite clothes. I'm not exactly a fashionista, since fashion would require the approval and opinion of others, and I don't care about the opinions or approval of others. However, if I'm going to this new school, I better go in style.

I opened my garage door and saw myself coming out dragging my motorcycle out onto the street in my favorite outfit.

I was wearing a blue jacket with a flame design in colors ranging from yellow to orange, highlighting my favorite element which is fire, which I have had since I was little and knowing about Virtuix now makes more sense. Underneath the jacket is a white shirt with a simple design, complemented by a checkered shirt in neutral tones that is left open at the bottom. I had on black tight pants with chain details on the side, which give me my characteristic rebellious air. I also had black boots, with a sturdy design, probably with buckles or metallic details. And finally, I wear an orange scarf with a black flame pattern that perfectly matches the jacket, covering my neck in a stylized way, and it was my favorite scarf.

Once I was on the street, I put on my helmet and rode my motorcycle straight to Canterlot High School. The ride wasn't that big of a deal and there weren't any difficulties, but I've always liked the breeze of air touching my body when I ride my motorcycle, it makes me feel free and helps me forget about my problems, that's why I like riding my motorcycle so much.

Once I arrived at Canterlot High, I could see several students entering through the main door, it looked like they were in several happy groups and laughing at something that someone in their group commented, this place has a somewhat friendlier atmosphere than Crystal Prep.

I went to the back of the parking section, and luckily for me, there was a space to put my motorcycle, good thing I brought my chain from home to tie my bike and prevent someone from stealing it.

In order not to attract too much attention, I decided to enter through the back door and avoid the students here as much as possible. To be honest, I wish I knew where Film was now. Since I already knew him, it would be easier to talk to him and I wouldn't have to call anyone else.

Now I'm regretting not asking for her number to keep in touch.

"Stardust?! What are you doing here?" I turned to see who it was, and it turned out to be the person I was thinking of.

"Speak of the devil, and he will appear to you" I thought as I watched Film approach me. Luckily for me, we seemed to be the only ones in those hallways for now... "Just in time Film, I need you to tell me where the principal's office is."

"Director Celestia's? Well, it's a few hallways ahead, then turn left and go straight ahead, then turn left and you'll see a door with a sign indicating her office," she explained in detail, showing me where to go.

"Ok, I've got it memorized," I said as I continued on my way without looking at Film.

"Hey! You still haven't told me why you're here? Did you just get transferred?" Film asked, walking with me at the same speed.

"I think that's pretty obvious, if it weren't for that, I wouldn't come to this school with several people who could bother me" I said, still in a bad mood for having found out about this yesterday.

"Great, then that would mean we could spend more time together and get to know each other better" he replied smiling, which made me frown even more, which didn't go unnoticed by Film "You really are someone very difficult to talk to, especially with that unfriendly face"

"I don't even try that hard," I said sarcastically, as I continued walking. "You shouldn't be in class or something."

"Well, I should actually be going. Are you sure you don't want me to show you where Principal Celestia's office is?"

"No, I already memorized the address you told me, if I get lost, I guess it will be because you didn't give me the right address" I didn't wait for an answer and increased the speed, leaving Film sighing frustratedly.

And here we are, standing in front of my mother's friends, Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna, two of the kindest women I've ever met and one of the few adults I have respect for and haven't insulted. And in the office I notice a girl about my age. She has yellow skin, wavy red and yellow hair, and aqua green eyes. She's wearing a leather jacket with a red and yellow sun on the back over a light blue blouse, a pair of jeans, and a pair of long black boots, each with a purple flame pattern.

"And who is she?" I asked abruptly when I saw the unknown girl in the room.

"This is Susnet Shimmer, she will be the one to show you around the school facilities and help you find your scheduled classes. I hope you can behave and blend in with the other students."

"I'll do what I can, but I think we know that sooner or later something will happen and I'll be involved," I said with a shrug, which made Celestia and Luna sigh, and also made the fire-haired girl look at me confused as she didn't know what I was talking about.

"For now, just try not to cause trouble" Luna replied staring at me.

"I don't cause problems, the problems are the ones that come for me" was the last thing I said before leaving the office.

"Hey! Cum, I'm supposed to be your guide!" the girl said as she followed me out of the room, closing the door behind her and leaving the school's headmistress sisters alone.

"Do you really think he'll be able to get through the day without getting into any trouble?" Luna asked her sister.

She leaned back in her seat thoughtfully, "I'd like to believe so. Do you think Stardust can change behavior?"

"I've bet my entire week's paycheck that something is going to happen before the end of the day and it's going to have to do with Stardust. We both know that's going to happen."

"I think you're being a bit pessimistic, sister. It's not like Stardust had magic to cause trouble wherever he goes. I'm sure this will just be a normal day."

If only he knew about his powers as a Rider

Already outside Principal Celestia's office, the fire-haired girl started talking to me. "First of all, welcome to Canterlot High," Sunset greeted. "I'm Sunset Shimmer."

"... Stardust Stellar" I replied dryly "It was nice meeting you, but I have to get on my way now" I said to get away from her, again

"Wait! You can't just leave like that!" she complained while holding onto my jacket arm. "We have a system here and I have to follow it. Besides, if the teachers see that I'm not helping you, they'll tell Celestia and I'll get in trouble for not doing what I'm supposed to do."

I sighed at this "Listen Sunset Shimmer, right?" I asked, to which she felt "Look, I don't want to get you in trouble, but I also don't want to be with someone I don't know even if it's less than 5 minutes. Besides the fact that being with me affects you because of my reputation"

I tilt my head in confusion. “Your reputation? What do you mean?”

"You really don't know who I am?" She shook her head. "SERIOUSLY, are you from another world or something?" he asked rhetorically.

She let out a small, nervous laugh, which struck me as suspicious, but I ignored it. "All I know is what Celestia and Luna told me, that you were from Crystal Prep and that you've had... problems with the law for false accusations."

"Yeah, like I said before, trouble follows me wherever I go, so you better go your way and I'll go mine," I turned around to continue on my way, but Shimmer grabbed my arm again and pulled me towards her.

"Look! I don't care what you say about those rumors, you're part of Canterlot High now, a WonderColt, and the people here are very friendly, you don't have to isolate yourself-" I interrupted her before she could say anything else.

"I don't isolate myself because of what others say, their opinions are worthless to me" I said monotonously and with a serious expression on my face "I'm a lone wolf, as long as someone doesn't do anything to me or provoke me, I won't cause trouble. That's just how things are when you deal with me, so I ask you with all the kindness I can offer, leave me alone" I turned to look at her intently, making my emerald eyes interact with her emerald green eyes came into contact with her aqua green eyes

She answered me frowning without being intimidated "I'm afraid you won't be able to get rid of me that easily, look, I don't want to be hard on you, but if you want to be that way, two can play that game" she moved her head closer with fire in her eyes "So you won't get rid of me until you allow me to show you the school, whether you want to or not"

We stared at each other for a few moments in silence, neither of us backing away or blinking in that interval of minutes, until I broke that tense silence by giving a sigh of resignation.

"I guess I can't get rid of you until we go on this stupid ride," I took a deep breath to calm myself. "Ok, you win, lead the way."

Sunset gave me a deep look when she saw my reaction, I guess she was offended by the way I spoke to her, but the truth is I don't care. She pulled herself together and just nodded at what I said.

"Okay, follow me, I'll show you the school library first."

I just nodded and we started walking, the only thing I want now is to end all this as quickly as possible.

You're taking this very calmly Stardust.

I don't want to get into trouble right now, if a Cybrix attack were to occur while I'm in detention, I'd have to escape, which would only make things worse.

Yes, you're right, but why don't you take advantage of this to make new friends?

Once again the mule to the wheat, you should already know the answer. No, in no way, never, never and never.

You really are stubborn, but sooner or later you will see your mistake.

What mistake? I'm not making any mistakes, I don't need friends and I never will.

"And here's the school library," Sunset said as she and Stardust walked through the entrance. "You can check out about five books at a time, but only for one school week, so you have to turn them in by Friday if you check any out. There's also a computer lab and a printer if you need to work on something online, but it costs about ten cents for each paper you print out after the first ten of any given week."

"Ajum" I said with total disinterest, but still listening to her so as not to be rude.

Sunset found Stardust's behavior a bit strange and irritating. His avoidance of her gaze and his disinterested voice made it feel like he was ignoring her, but at the same time it seemed like he was paying attention to her from time to time.

However, what bothered her the most was that she couldn't help but have that same strange feeling she felt when the Dazzlings came to Canterlot High and almost took over the school. The boy next to her didn't seem to be a creature banished from Equestria or a person driven mad by Equestrian magic. But still, she couldn't help but feel that there was something suspicious about his way of being, how he acted, and his strange bad boy expression. He almost reminded her of how they were in her time as the School's Evil Queen, only he had that unfriendly face to keep a distance from the others.

"Is there somewhere you want to go?" I asked, trying to be polite.

"I don't care where you want to go, can we hurry up?" I asked with some impatience.

Sunset frowned at this "Look, I don't know what your problem is, I'm trying to be nice to you, couldn't you behave better?"

Stardust gave a small smile "Trust me girl, I'm being as nice as possible right now, let's just get this over with and we'll never have to exchange words again" he said as if it was the most normal thing in the world "And I won't have to interact with anyone else"

"What makes you say that? The students at Canterlot High are very friendly, I'm sure you can find someone to make friends with, I could even introduce you to my friends."

I stopped dead at this, she noticed me stop walking and turned to look at me with a serious and dark look.

"Listen carefully, fire-haired girl, all that stuff about making friends and friendship is not my thing, I'm a lone wolf, if I interact with someone it would only be for school activities, but that's all" I said putting on my typical unfriendly face.

Sunset was surprised by the way Stardust expressed himself, but then it changed to some irritation. Even when she introduced the school to the mermaids, she didn't feel that way, mostly because they tried to be friendly so as not to raise suspicions, despite their personalities. However, Stardust was already making it clear that she didn't want to have friends or integrate into the school.

"If that's what you think, then why did you come to Canterlot High?" he couldn't help but ask,

"That's my business" he crossed his arms while looking away, Sunset's eyebrow twitched from the annoyance that Stardust caused her, for some reason, the way he talks bothered her, when she was going to say something else, he continued "I'll just tell you that I was forced to come from here and I don't want to get into any trouble that would make me. So... just keep your distance from me and I from the others, that way no one will get into trouble" I began to walk without a fixed direction

She opened her eyes wide and followed me. “Wait! You’re basically telling me that you will avoid all interaction with other people so as not to cause any problems.”

"I don't cause problems, they're the ones who are after me," I replied, frustrated because he was saying the same thing as everyone else. "We can just drop this and continue with the tour. I'm not in the mood to talk anymore."

Sunset looked at him for a few seconds, before sighing in resignation. "Okay, let's continue with the tour."

Then, she continued showing me the other places in Canterlot High, she showed me the science rooms, the chemistry lab, the music room, etc. I memorized all the important places in this school, one of which are the places where I can spend my time in peace and solitude. Throughout the tour, it was noticeable that the fire-haired girl was uncomfortable, however, she still tried to start a casual conversation with me, but I told her that we will continue with the tour or simply ignored her. For some strange reason, I couldn't help but feel bad about how I behaved with her and it's strange, usually I don't mind acting distant with others, since the vast majority didn't want anything to do with me or wanted to use me, but the fire-haired girl was only nice to me since we met, and the fact that she didn't know anything about my background only increased my guilt, but when she knows all the things I did and that they framed me for, she'll look at me like the others.

The last place to end our tour was the cafeteria, which we are heading to

"Well, this is finally the cafeteria, and that would cover everything. Any questions?"

—No, I already memorized all the rooms and facilities at CHS, I guess I'll have to say thank you for the tour— I said, giving him a small bow.

—It was nothing, but we better go inside and I'll go with my friends— Sunset said as she headed to the entrance of the cafeteria, but she noticed how I walked away and went in the opposite direction. —Wait! Where are you going? Aren't you going to have lunch?—

"I already have my lunch in my backpack, I prefer to eat in a quiet place without anyone around me" I replied, turning to look at her.

"You really don't like being with other people, do you?" Sunset said, looking at me with pity.

I snorted mockingly. “And you just noticed it,” I said sarcastically. “You’re already done with your duty of showing me CHS, so there’s no reason why you and I should be together anymore.”

"That's not true," Sunset denied. "The fact that Principal Celestia asked me to show you CHS doesn't mean I'm forced to be with you. I did it because I wanted to get to know you and be friends." When she said that last word, I felt like an electric current ran through my entire body.

"Yeah right, no one is with me for fun and I don't need friends" I thought to myself "Whatever, just let me be alone and I can promise you that I won't cause any trouble. Or at least I hope so " he whispered the last thing before walking away from Sunset. Leaving Sunset with the word

"It was necessary to behave that way with her, she was being nice to us and you were just rude to them"

"I'm sure that when she finds out the truth about my background, she'll see me like the others, and it's possible that when the people here find out about my arrival, they'll stay away from me for their own good," I said as I lay down behind a bookshelf and sat on the floor.

I was currently in the library which happens to be almost empty at lunch time as everyone else is in the cafeteria, and one of my new hiding spots to avoid engaging in conversation with other people. Plus, since it's a quiet place where a person can easily hide, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if someone could stay here all night and no one would notice. Although it's possible that someone already has because I found a set of books stacked in the shape of a bed.

But I'm getting off topic, at least I'm in a place where I can be alone without anyone bothering me.

"Stardust?" said a familiar voice. "What are you doing here?"

"Ha! It seems like the universe is against you!"

"Shut up Virtuix!" I mentally yelled "What are you doing here Action?"

He approached me and I noticed he had a laptop in his hands. "Well, I was... investigating?" He answered nervously. It was obvious he was hiding something and I'm almost sure it has to do with the laptop he has in his hands, but it's none of my business, so I won't ask.

-Anyway, I think you better go if you want to meet up with your friends- I said with some venom in the word 'friends'. While I was saying all that, I was taking out a rectangular bento from my backpack and when I opened it I found my lunch, and I used my chopsticks to grab some rice and eat it.

"Usually yes, but I've been researching some things and I needed a quiet, secluded place where I can concentrate," said Film. "And what better place than the library?"

"I see, and by any chance, aren't you investigating something related to what happened 4 days ago?" I asked with a hunch that it was true.

"Partly yes, but also because I want to know about this" Film took out his cell phone and showed me a strange chat with a person with an unknown number

"Unknown number?"

"Yeah, I'm not sure where it came from, but..." I seemed unsure of what he was about to say, until he spoke again, "I think this message was meant for you."

"For me?" That caught my attention and I read what was written in the chat of the unknown number.

Like a virus that infects a person's body, the corruption upon first coming into contact with this world began to fester and spread, resting on nothing until everything was corrupted.

If this is to be avoided, the Rebel Phoenix will have to ally itself with the Renegade Dragon.

But he will also have to learn about trusting others, his first test will be to obtain the new power of the "Winds of Freedom".

The Phoenix of the "Eternal Flame" will have to merge with the "Winds of Freedom" to create a new power. A new Phoenix will rise from the ashes whose fire will cut like a thousand gusts of wind against corruption.

My first reaction after finishing reading was shock, my mind still couldn't process everything that was written there, after a moment of meditation, I was able to formulate the most appropriate words for this moment "WTF! What is this?!"

"Yes, I don't blame you for reacting that way," he said, ignoring my words. "I can't find out who sent this to me, but what I'm sure of is that he knows that you are Virtualx and that I am related to you."

"But how could that kind of information be leaked? I'm almost certain that I kept the secret well-" I paused for a moment, then turned an accusatory look to Film "Have you told anyone about my secret?"

He stepped back in intimidation and shaking his head said, "No! Of course not! The first rule of a superhero is to always keep your secret identity a secret. I would never reveal that to anyone, even if it's not mine."

I raised my eyebrow still looking at him, "Do you have a secret identity?"

"No, but I always keep my friends' secrets" she said with a proud smile.

"We're not friends," I said, fed up with him calling himself my friend. "We're just two people who met because of an accident and now one of them won't leave the other one alone, who clearly wants to be alone," I said, looking at him accusingly again.

"So do you want me to tell someone?" Film watched my expression change for a few moments, then shook his head in frustration. "Well, we'll be friends whether you like it or not, so we can keep your secret."

" Great! Now I have to deal with this guy who is blackmailing me into being friends, just great " I thought frustrated as I clenched my right fist tightly and continued eating with my left one.

"Hey Stardust," Film called my attention as he noticed that his expression and voice became serious. "Do you think you can defeat all the cybrix you encounter?"

I was taken by surprise by that question, but I answered calmly, "I've already defeated two of those things, and although I know there are still many secrets in my powers that I still don't know how to use, I have the confidence that I can handle anything."

"But so far you've only faced simple cybrix, one would believe that at this point, those who pull the strings in the darkness would appear and try to kill you" Film said thinking "And even if he is strong, a single person cannot against an entire army of monsters willing to destroy humanity."

"Do you think you should become a Kamen Rider to fight me?" I tried to guess what he meant.

"What? No, I know I'm not a fighter like you," Film denied. "But I'd like to think there's someone else who, like me, found a cyber drive and could become a Kamen Rider to fight you."

"..." I stood there thinking about his words, I'd be lying if I said I haven't thought about that before. I know I'm strong, stronger than a normal human and knowing that I could fight barehanded with several policemen with firearms and knives at the same time (don't ask how I know for sure) , but I'm fighting with destructive monsters from other worlds that are clearly stronger than normal humans, I'm not even sure if they would be able to be defeated by a nuclear and hydrogen bomb.

But... I'm the only one in this world who can stand up to them, and if I don't, who will? I know that the police and the army don't have enough weapons to defeat them, and giving them the weapons I have in the hideout isn't an option. There's a chance that if they find out about my powers and their origins, they'll use me as their guinea pig, and not just me, they could also do the same to the Cyphris.

I know how humans like those in government act, and if alien movies have taught me anything, it's that the government doesn't care about non-human lives and that anything they see as a potential threat is either destroyed or experimented on to create super powerful weapons that could destroy the world if they fell into the wrong hands.

Call me paranoid if you want, but I know perfectly well that if they discovered the existence of the cyphris, they would not hesitate to use them for their experiments that could risk their freedom, and above all their lives, without caring that they are thinking beings with feelings. They already suffered a lot by being the last of their species alive and being locked in their lair for as long as God knows.

I'll be damned if they think I'm going to let those selfish bastards take away the freedom of living beings!

I shook my head to come back to reality "... You know there's also the risk that if another Rider with my same powers were to appear, it might not be someone with my same goals, like if a thief found a Driver and used it to steal or whoever disturbing things"

"But that's impossible, your father said that he installed a security system on the drivers to prevent evil people from becoming Riders."

"You're wrong," I shook my head. "That security system prevents people with the Enhanced Driver from being corrupted, and you'd need a cybecore to activate it anyway, without that the driver won't be much use," I said confidently.

"Yeah... you're right..." Film's mind started to move and after a few moments, the realization hit him "... How could they give a cybercore to someone other than you?"

"Hey?"

"I mean, you got the Virtual Driver and you had a cybercore thanks to being half Cyphris," Film replied. "However, if you hadn't been the one to get the Driver, how would anyone get a cybercore? What would have happened if someone other than you used the Drive? Would they have gotten a cybercore or would they have been corrupted like your father said?" Film asked with his head down trying to find an answer.

Meanwhile, I opened my eyes as I realized what he meant. With all the crazy things and twists and turns they've had these past few days, I hadn't thought about something as simple as that. If his father was still alive, how exactly would he have given the cybercores to those chosen to become Kamen Riders? In his recording he never explained the process of creating the cybercores, and as far as he knew, it takes cyber energy and cyphris to create a cybercore, but one that's blank and requires a cyphris to give it its power for it to be useful.

Just when I think I've gotten some answers, more questions pop up and make my life even more difficult.

When did my life become so complicated?

"... We better not talk about this here and continue this somewhere more safe" I said when I had finished all the food in my bento and was wiping my mouth with my hand. I stood up and gave Film one last glare "And if you're going to keep bothering me, you better not tell anyone about my SECRET"

"Relax, as a journalist, I can keep several secrets" he said proudly.

"Aren't you supposed to be a journalist looking for things that will get the public's attention?"

"We are not gossips or nosy" replied Film

"Says the one who keeps meddling in my lair and touching the things that are mine by inheritance," I muttered to myself somewhat grumpily.

And just then the bell for the next class rang. I just have to survive a few more hours and I can get on with my more important tasks, like figuring out how to use the blank cybercore and which cyphris could work for it.

Well, the hours have passed and things have turned out better than I expected. Unlike the classes at CPA, the classes at CHS are not that difficult and are much calmer and easier to solve. I guess it's because CPA is a private school where they put the children of politicians, businessmen or people of famous reputation, and that's the reason why that bitch Cinch accepted me in her school, because of my mother's reputation, regardless of my criminal record.

Back to me, when I introduced myself to class, I could see that there was Film, the fire-haired girl Shimmer and Sparkle. I also put on my typical unfriendly face and told them a brief introduction about myself, and when I said my name many of them started to murmur, I assumed it was due to the fact of the rumors that circulate about me. The truth is I don't care much, since I'm already used to that kind of welcome, so I simply ignored it and went to sit down to continue the classes.

During class time, I just pretended to listen to the teachers while thinking about ways I could use the white cybercore and sometimes I talked to Virtuix while reminiscing about things from the past. It should also be mentioned that the people around me kept talking about me thinking I couldn't hear them, not knowing that I have better auditory senses than others, although of course, none of them tried to get close to me, but they weren't afraid of me, they just seemed cautious. Especially Sparkle and her group of friends, in fact, I know some of them.

For example, Skittles (the rainbow haired girl), I've met her before in the past and she really hates me, the typical brainless girl that only focuses on keeping her "cool" look. The other one that I recognize is the drama queen (the purple haired girl), she's been present in some troubles I've had at the mall and she was one of the first people to notice how I was banned from the mall as a pro-lifer, and she looks like a very gossipy girl, I wouldn't be surprised if she knew about most of the exaggerated rumors about me. And lastly, Sparkle, the younger sister of my arch enemy, she and I never got along as I already mentioned and it seems that she's the one that's most displeased about studying in the same school as me... again.

I had a slight problem with Skittles when we met eyes, but it was quickly solved due to classes, although it's obvious that she kept looking at me with distrust and hatred, but I don't pay attention to her anyway. However, the worst of all is that I had to deal with a very annoying pink threat and that I should stop eating sugar forever, I don't remember her name well "Pinkat Pi" or something like that (But I'll call her the pink girl), she kept bothering me saying that she wanted to be my friend or something, I tried to be patient and I answered her kindly that I prefer to be alone, but she didn't seem to understand and kept trying to be my friend, she even gave me a cupcake of my favorite flavor "chocolate", which alarmed me as I don't know how the pink girl knew my favorite flavor. Somehow I'll have to be careful that she somehow finds out my identity.

But well, in the end everything went smoothly, I didn't talk more than necessary with anyone other than Film and I avoided fighting with anyone, luckily for me. So I consider it a victory, usually my day would end with someone going to the infirmary and me being called to detention.

"Stardust Stellar! Please go to my office!"

It seems that I spoke too soon

"What did you do?" asked Film who was next to me.

"Today, nothing," I said, not understanding why they called me Celestia . "But whatever the reason, I better finish it quickly."

"Do you want me to wait for you at the exit?" Film asked kindly.

"I don't think it's necessary, anyway, I doubt it will take me long" I said disinterestedly as I headed to Celestia's office without waiting for Film's response.

"Okay! We'll meet up later!" he said dejectedly as he watched her act distant.

And well, it wouldn't be the first time that they called me out and asked me to go to the principal's office, but compared to dealing with a witch like Cinch, dealing with Celestia will be a piece of cake, especially since I already know her.

I know what I have to say when I get there.

"WHATEVER YOU BLAME ME FOR! IT WASN'T ME!" I exclaimed, sitting in front of Celestia and Luna staring at me.

"Stardust... What do you think they're blaming you for?" Celestia asked patiently.

"I don't know, usually I get blamed for things I had nothing to do with and then I have to do a bunch of things to avoid being expelled or arrested," I replied, shrugging my shoulders.

"You're not in trouble, we just wanted you to come for a little chat" Luna said

"Mainly because we are worried about your attitude" Celestia added, staring at me.

I raised an eyebrow. “What do you mean?”

"Well, I talked to Sunset Shimmer and asked her how your journey went." Celestia leaned forward. "She told me that she tried to get to know you better, but you stayed quiet and distant with her."

"I heard her and I was not rude to her," I replied coldly. "That's not enough."

"It's not just about that, Stardust," Luna intervened. "I know you had trouble relating to other people because of that, but since you're now in CHS, it could be your chance to make friends."

"No thanks, I'd rather be alone," I said, frowning in annoyance.

"Just because you want to be alone doesn't mean you can isolate yourself from others, that's a bad habit your mother warned us about," Celestia said, looking at me seriously. "That's why we thought maybe you'd like to join one of our clubs at our school."

"Uh... I'm not the type of person who joins clubs, I prefer to work alone" I said disinterestedly "And before you say anything else, I know my mother and you guys worry about me and everything, but I'm already 18, I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself"

Vice Principal Luna cleared her throat to get my attention. "We know you can take care of yourself, Stardust, but the fact is that it's not healthy for you to continue this way. Tell me, how exactly do you see yourself in 10 years?"

That question took me by surprise, I've never been asked what I plan to do after high school, but I guess I can't exactly tell him that I don't have any plans for my future, going to a university doesn't appeal to me and I highly doubt he'll accept the fact that I don't have any plans for the future, so I'll just tell a half lie.

"... In 10 years I see myself traveling through different cities around the world, with a travel backpack and a wooden stick with a pair of lucky underwear hanging from it" I answered as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

I could see that the sisters put on a perplexed face at my future, but after a small awkward silence, Celestia spoke: "Ignoring the fact of... the last thing you said, I don't think you're bringing out your full potential in that future you see" from her desk she took out some grade papers "Each and every one of your grades were given to me and I see that you remain average, but we know you very well Starust, I was much smarter than this"

"I got caught red-handed," I said jokingly. "I only did that to annoy Witch Cinch, but these days I just do it to keep my life simple."

"What do you mean?" Luna asked.

"High grades and above average grades attract a lot of attention... attention that I don't want, all I want is to live my life with all the freedom I can, without having to get involved with other people and living with my own happiness" I explained with complete calm "Besides-"

I couldn't finish that sentence because I suddenly felt a familiar, annoying headache. For a moment, I felt as if everything around me had slowed down and I could feel a corrupt presence roaming freely through the cyberspace network, and it was moving fast.

However, the worst thing is that if I calculated the direction and speed at which I was going, I could calculate where I was going.

He's coming here

I abruptly stood up from the chair and grabbed my backpack. "I'm sorry, but I have to go now!" I said as I ran to the door, but I didn't get there in time. I felt Luna grab my arm to stop me from leaving.

"And where do you think you're going?! We haven't finished talking to you yet!" Luna exclaimed firmly.

"I remembered I had something important to do! I need to go now!" I said trying to get out of his grip, but it only made his strength increase.

Stardust! The cybrix is approaching!

"Tell me something I don't know!"

"And why do you suddenly want to leave so suddenly? There's something you're not telling us!" she said suspiciously.

"Luna, let him go! We'll never get anywhere this way!" Celestia intervened to reassure her sister and prevent a scene from happening.

"I have to go! NOW!"

Out of nowhere, it was seen how the lights in the office began to flicker out of nowhere and some electrical appliances in the room began to draw electricity.

Too late!! I'm here...! BE CAREFUL!

I felt like my instincts alerted me and told me to move, but since I was still held by Luna, I couldn't react in time and I felt like someone or something hit me in the face and sent me flying towards the door, which broke from the impact and made me fall to the ground.

I could hear the worried cries of the principal and vice principal calling my name and approaching me. I stood up and saw another fist coming towards me, but I rolled, dodging it and making a fist-sized hole in the floor. This shocked and scared the sisters.

From his point of view, I jumped at the door with such force that I deflected it and now, out of nowhere, there was a fist-sized hole in the floor in the middle of the hallway.

"But what just happened?!" Luna exclaimed confused.

"Stardust! Are you okay?!" Celestia asked worriedly.

"I have to go!!" That was all I could say before running away, ignoring the sisters' screams, but I didn't get very far.

"This is bad! How did the cybrix find out my secret identity? I was very careful so that no one would suspect!!"

There will be time for that later! Jump!!

Intuitively, I listened to him and jumped, avoiding an attack from a Glitch figure. When I landed, I turned to see the monster and concentrated so I could see it. It was like that time when I saved Film and some people couldn't see the cybrix that was chasing us.

As I focused better, I could see it. It was a cybrix with the appearance of a wolf, it was a few meters bigger than me, it had dark brown fur that covered most of its head, its arms and legs, on its face it had a pair of blood red eyes, a large snout with large and sharp fangs. In its hands, you could see claws that looked like a group of sharp swords, and with a pair of metal chains on its chest that crossed giving the shape of an "X". And it seemed to have a pair of blue pants torn and very damaged giving it an intimidating and dangerous appearance.

"Finally... after so long, I can get revenge on you! Stardust Stellar!" the wolf cybrix exclaimed like a beast.

"Did that cybrix just speak English?" I couldn't help but ask, usually the other cybrix I fought spoke in another language that thanks to my powers as a Rider, I could understand, but this one speaks so fluently that it was impossible for me to believe he was like the others. "Who are you?! And how do you know my name?!"

Celestia and Luna watched as Stardust seemed to be yelling at nothing, which confused them, but then they noticed something strange where Stardust was looking, somehow the floor began to emit a strange energy in the form of a wolf footprint, that energy turns out to be the cyber corruption of the cybrix.

"I'm actually surprised, normal humans shouldn't be able to see me, but I guess a freak like you can't be a normal human!" He exclaimed before hitting a locker, destroying it and causing the lights in the hallway to explode due to the expulsion of his cyber corruption, causing the sisters and Stardust to be covered in the pieces of destroyed glass.

The expulsion of cybercorruption made it possible for the wolf cybrix to fully materialize in reality making it possible for both Celestia and Luna to be able to see them.

"What is that thing?!" Luna shouted visibly scared, Celestia was about to say something, but I spoke first

"It doesn't matter what it is! You have to evacuate the school now!" I yelled at both of them as I stood in front of them, getting into a combat stance. "I'll take care of him."

"You've gone crazy! This isn't just any thug! We have to escape!"

"Ha, if I were you, I would stay away from the Stellar phenomenon, I only came for him, I don't care what happens to you or the rest of the pathetic students of this School"

"I'll be fine! Just evacuate the other students!" I yelled before running towards the cybrix and punching it, but it held my fist as if it were nothing.

"Maybe you beat me before, but now I have a power you couldn't even imagine."

She gave me a simple slap that sent me crashing into a locker, this worried the brothers, but they had to react to the danger their students were in, Celestia saw a fire switch and quickly activated it, causing the alarm to sound, alerting the other students or teachers who were still in the school to evacuate the school.

Meanwhile, I kept trying to defeat the cybrix with my fists. If it weren't for Celestia and Luna still being here, I would transform to make it explode, but I also needed to get answers. How did it know my name? Do they really know that I'm the Kamen Rider Virtualx or is it just a coincidence?

The cybrix seemed to just be playing with me, because it didn't fight back or bother to dodge them. How I wish I could wipe that smile off its face with my true power!

"That's it! I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE MORE FUN, BUT IT SEEMS THAT THIS POWER IS TOO MUCH FOR A SIMPLE AND INSIGNIFICANT PIECE OF TRASH LIKE YOU!" he exclaimed with such arrogance that it makes me sick.

"Shut up!" I yelled as I jumped up and punched him in the face, but it still didn't do anything.

"You know what? Why don't we go somewhere more private so I can continue humiliating you!"

That was all she said before she grabbed me by my arms immobilizing them, only for the cybrix to start turning into data along with my body, I wasn't afraid knowing where she was taking me. In fact, I gave a small smile at the very stupid thing doing me a favor, but I could hear Celestia screaming my name before disappearing.

I felt my body come back together, only to be thrown to the ground roughly by the wolf cybrix.

"Finally, it's just you and me. I can finally get revenge on you!" he exclaimed, looking at me menacingly, but I didn't let myself be intimidated.

I stopped to look at him better. "What do you mean by revenge? I don't even know who you are!"

"You're right, in this form you can't recognize me, so I'll do you one last favor, just so you can be the one who's your killer" after that the cyber corruption flooded his entire body and began to group in two locations on his body, on his right hand and on his hip.

A strange waist formed on his hip, resembling my Virtual Driver, only this one was dark and red, and it only had one slot for a single cybercore. And in his hand a cybercore formed with the image of a wolf on the cover, and a glitchy aura of cybercorruption came out of it.

"Long time no see Stardust!" said a young blond boy with red eyes with an evil smile

"You..."

...

"Who are you?" I asked confused.

"WHAT-?! Don't you even recognize me?!" the boy exclaimed angrily. "After how you ruined my life! Because of you, I rotted in jail until my family managed to pay my bail! After I got expelled from Crystal Prep and became the loser of my family! YOU DON'T REMEMBER ME!!"

I shrugged my shoulders with a disinterested look "You're not the first person to say all those things to me, I've ruined a lot of people's lives, I've kicked a lot of idiots' asses and I'm even responsible for sending a lot of people to jail, the amount is in the double digits" I crossed my arms looking at him "So don't feel too special, because there are a lot of assholes who hate me with all their being, believe me, if they gave me a dollar for every time an idiot tried to get revenge on me, I would be a millionaire and I could live the rest of my life on a private island with all the luxuries I wanted"

"I'm Elias Shock!" he told me angrily.

"... It doesn't ring a bell" I shook my head.

"Seriously! I was part of the Shock Gang, remember?"

"I have made enemies of many gangs"

"Son of a-! Look, don't you remember that time you hid in an abandoned warehouse and we attacked you!"

"This isn't the first time they've done that to me, and look, I'm still alive" I said pointing all over my body, but then I grabbed my chin thinking "Wait, aren't you that idiot who hates me because I supposedly ruined his chance to date the girl he likes?"

"That's Trenderhoof, you moron! Plus, that cheesy jerk falls for any girl he sees as a real working girl or whatever you call it!"

"So, you're the one who was abusing Coco Pommel a lot and I had her disqualified for stealing a fabric design in a fashion contest."

"That's Suri Polomare! And she's a girl!" His fist and teeth began to clench so tightly that they seemed about to break.

"Oh! I know!" I hit his fist with the palm of my other hand. "You're that guy I always beat at the King Boxing Club and humiliated at a football match."

"You're talking about Indigo Zapp! And again, you're referring to a girl!!" she shouted angrily, holding her cybercore tighter. "How can you be so forgetful?!"

"I'm not going to waste my time remembering the names of all the people who hate me, I have better things to do" I said without giving it much importance, after all, I am the most hated person in this damn city.

"Well done, asshole!! Now you're-!!"

The sound of a call ringing made me ignore what he was saying and I focused on the ChronoLink, the smart watch that my father created, and I saw that someone was calling me, which is strange since there is no one who has the number of my watch.

"Wait a minute! Time out!" I said raising my palm stopping his revenge speech.

"Are you kidding me?! Do you think I'm a girl or what-!"

"Who's speaking?" I asked, accepting the call.

"Stardust! What happened?!" Film's voice said on my Smart Watch . "The principals evacuated the entire school and the police just called saying you were kidnapped by a monster!"

"Long story, but to sum it up, it seems that cybrix are able to reproduce by turning other species into cybrix, and just now, someone who hates me came to get revenge believing that he can defeat me by abandoning his humanity" I told him while looking at the wolf cybrix whose name I already forgot.

"Seriously?! How do you not seem surprised by this?!"

"Film, there are many things you don't know about me, one of them is that I get into trouble every day, whether I look for it or it looks for me"

"Does this happen to you every day?!" he said but quickly changed the subject, sounding even more worried than before "Well, nevermind! The city is under attack!"

"That?!"

"The same glicht or cyber corruption as before is back, although this time it hasn't spread everywhere, it has already covered almost the entire school and there are some streets in the city with it. You have to go back-!"

A loud static was heard "Hello! Film! Film, answer!"

My concern made me lower my guard, the wolf cybrix transformed again placing his cybercore on his belt, and ran towards me to attack me with his claws, but that was where Virtuix came out of my body and repelled the attack pushing the cybrix back.

"Stardust, focus! We have to destroy this Cybrix first!" Virtuix exclaimed, ready for battle.

"You're right!" I said as I placed the Virtual Driver on my hip. "Let's get this over with!"

Virtuix became your phoenix cybercore and I held it, then put it into the slot and then slid it in. "Virtualize! Phoenix Protocol Engaged!" I inserted the cybercore into the slot on the left side of the Driver "HENSHIN!"

The image of a phoenix appeared behind me, as I became enveloped in digital cubes that transformed into my Kamen Rider Virtualx armor, but as I continued to transform, a memory from a few days ago came to mind.

"A phrase? What did you want a phrase for?" I asked as I sat on a tree branch leaning against it, we were in Canterlot Park.

"Well, all Kamen Riders usually have a catchy phrase that shows how heroic we are" said Film standing next to the tree

"Heroism is not something I'm interested in being, I only become a Kamen Rider to destroy monsters and prevent the total destruction of the world, not to play the hero" I said with my eyes closed while still leaning on the tree branch.

"But the job of a Kamen Rider is not just to fight monsters, but to inspire people and make them feel protected, to believe that even when everything seems bad, there is still HOPE in the world. Kamen Riders are the very representation of heroism and with one phrase is the beginning of it."

"Yes, but I still don't like this"

"Come on! So far the only phrases you've said were! I've created the victory circuit! And let's start the simulation of your defeat! Although it's not bad, I think it would be better if you thought of some cooler phrases."

"And what do you suggest?" I asked.

"Now you're interested?"

"If you're going to keep asking about a catchy phrase, then we might as well get this over with," I said as I climbed down from the branch and landed standing next to Film. "What do you suggest?"

"Well, I've been thinking and I've come up with a good one"

"..."

"...Not bad, but I think I know which one I should use..."

"...I think it's fine, I think it suits your personality"

"So it's decided"

The wolf cybrix was surprised by Stardust's appearance, what caught his attention the most was the belt similar to his own, but it gave off a much calmer and more positive energy.

"You can transform too! What are you supposed to be?!" the wolf cybrix exclaimed seriously.

I looked at him as I summoned the VirtualxMorpher "I am Kamen Rider Virtualx... And I will purge this corrupt system!" I said as I placed the cybercore sword and changed it into its sword form and pointed it, ready to fight.

To be continued...

Author's Note

In the next chapter of Kamen Rider Virtualx

Elias: I always knew you were a phenomenon! But the fact that you had powers before explains how you were always able to beat my entire gang!

Korrup: Nice to finally meet you Kamen Rider Virtualx!

Stardust: Another Cybrix! Who are you?!

Korrup: I am the Cybrix that represents the sin of Wrath. Call me Lord Korrup

*Dragon Roar*

Sunset: You look like Kamen Rider Virtualx!

Twilight: Do you know what's going on?

¿?: Hackross. I am Kamen Rider Hackross

Aerion: Come on Prince Virtualx! Let's fuse our powers!

Chapter 5: Another Kamen Rider?! / Elemental Fusion! Virtualx forms Phoenix Tempest!