Chapter 28: EPISODE 28: “Wild Mirror”
✨ "If instinct is your guide, what happens when instinct turns on you?"
🌃 [Scene 1 – Hidden Alley Shrine, Midnight]
Break Academy receives a cryptic glyph — scratched into the walls of a Tokyo alley.
It's in cat script — only Rika can read it.
STARWAVE:
"Is that… a challenge?"
NEKOBURST (tense):
"It's my name… written backward. And the scent on it? It's mine."
ONMYO FLARE:
"Mystique's summoned your double."
SCARLET ONNA:
"She's trying to isolate you. Don't go alone."
NEKOBURST (already walking):
"I wasn't asking."
🪞 [Scene 2 – The Mirror Maze, Abandoned Station]
Rika enters an abandoned subway platform warped by mirror dimensions. Her ears twitch — every reflection shows her moving out of sync, twisting in expressions she's never made.
The real Rika stops. One reflection doesn't.
It smirks.
Then it steps out of the mirror.
🐾 [Scene 3 – The Doppelgänger: Feralki]
FERALKI — a corrupted version of Nekoburst with cracked claws, blood-red pupils, jagged teleport trails, and even sharper heels.
She speaks like Rika — but colder, primal.
FERALKI:
"You left me. The rage. The instinct. You tossed it aside to play hero."
NEKOBURST:
"I channel it. You let it consume you."
FERALKI:
"I am what you'd be without friends."
The two burst into battle.
💥 [Scene 4 – Rika vs. Herself]
An intense melee begins across the shattered mirror dimension.
Claw vs. Claw: Their strikes match frame for frame — teleport bursts colliding mid-air.
Heel Combos: Both use sharp combat kicks, creating sonic ricochets that destroy entire mirror walls.
Reflex Duel: Feralki feints, flashes red, then teleports in chaos patterns — unlike Rika's clean bursts.
NEKOBURST (gritting teeth):
"She's not just fast. She's wrong."
🎭 [Scene 5 – Rika Falls Behind]
Feralki pins her down, claws to throat.
FERALKI (low):
"You hide your pain behind sarcasm. You follow them because you're scared to be alone."
NEKOBURST (breathing heavy):
"Wrong again. I choose them."
She uses a burst-heel feint, slashing Feralki's leg and teleporting behind with a surprise tail-spin kick, launching the copy into a mirror.
🔥 [Scene 6 – Emotional Uplift: The Team Arrives]
Just as Feralki rises again, the rest of the team breaks through the mirror wall:
Scarlet Onna's threads hold the dimension in place.
Starwave emits a true-tone echo, disrupting mimic auras.
Onmyo Flare drops a glyph on Rika's chest: 真 (truth).
STARWAVE:
"We fight fakes together."
Rika smiles — eyes fierce.
NEKOBURST:
"Round two, faker."
💥 [Final Clash – "Burst Bloom Slash"]
Rika uses her friends' energy field to triple-boost her teleport bursts. She darts across three mirror panels, ricochets behind Feralki, then lands a crushing dual-heel downward kick.
Her heels ignite — pure velocity.
NEKOBURST (shouting):
"BURST BLOOM SLASH!"
BOOM. Feralki is shattered into violet shards of wild instinct — dissolving into mist.
🩹 [Scene 7 – Rooftop Healing, Later That Night]
The team wraps her hand in thread bandages.
ONMYO FLARE:
"What did she represent?"
NEKOBURST:
"The part of me that thinks love makes you slow."
SCARLET ONNA:
"And what do you think now?"
NEKOBURST:
"That I'm faster… because I've got people worth running back to."
🎴 [END CARD – TOKYO AVENGERS]
EPISODE 28: "Wild Mirror" — END
🐾 Next: Episode 29 — "Split Reflections"
Mystique's twisted final phase begins. Every Avenger now has a fractured version loose in Tokyo… and some are starting to believe the lies.