Story: Chapter 2: A Shadow in the Mirror

Story: Chapter 2: A Shadow in the Mirror or Splitting Images

After a year of fighting crime and making a name for himself as a resident hero Nathanial was beginning to feel less and less like a social outcast and more like an integral part of society. After a routine sweep of the city Midas heard about a disturbance nearby his current position over his com channel from the police radios. Deciding to go investigate the disturbance Nathanial arrived at the scene of the disturbance only to learn that the police had cornered a person who called himself Midas. Shocked and very confused about that cause he was the only Midas that had residence in the city, considering that it was a possible screw up Midas jumps down from the rooftop and walks up to the closest cop and asks if he can be of any help. Caught of his guard the cop yells to his friends saying that the thief had managed to escape and had come up from behind them. At the same moment as the police started turning around the perpetrator calling himself Midas steps out from the electronics store. Now faced with two splitting images of one man the police slightly confused were determined to figure out what was going on. They knew of Midas as being a city protector and helped out the police on numerous occasions take in crooks and other scum wanted by the law. Wanting to find out who the copycat Midas really was Nathanial Jumped over the police officer, proceeding to run across the police cars Nathanial dived at the copycat knocking him to the ground. Removing the mask of the copycat Midas, Nathanial learns that it was a petty thief wearing a knock off of his Midas armor. Before turning the copycat over to the authorities the thief yelled at Midas saying he will get revenge for this wrongdoing.
After having such an eventful day Midas heads back home to retire for the night, but just as he reaches his home turn something in the shadows of a close by alley catches his eye. Standing on the ledge of a building across the street looking out onto the alley Midas starts to question what it might possibly be. Just as Midas was about to pass it off as his tired mind playing tricks on his weary eyes a crazy maniacal laugh came from the alley. Turning back around in a hurry to see who was there he came face to face with a mirror image of himself. Spooked by this sudden shock to the system Midas shook his head playing it off like it's just a bad dream, blinking twice to make sure he wasn't dreaming but actually seeing this. The shadow version of Midas let out another bone chilling maniacal laugh. Unsure as to what to do Midas was now more sure then he started that he wasn't dreaming and that this was some form of nightmare you have while your awake. Midas didn't know how to combat this nightmare but if it was a living being then he could wound and possibly kill it, releasing his arm blades from the holders Midas prepares for a fight but at the same moment the dark double does the exact same thing. It has now become apart to Midas that whoever or whatever this thing was it was shadowing his every movement. Thinking to himself Midas has no other option he could spend the rest of the night in a stare down with this shadow of himself or actually engage it in combat.

Midas lunges at this new foe in an all-out sprint while the shadow of him yet again shadows his movements. As he is lunging at this new foe Midas asks himself how to combat a foe he shadows your every movement. Midas things quickly and turns around and runs at a nearby brick chimney and runs up it and back flipping off it landing behind his shadow self, jabbing his blades into the shadows back then pulling his now bloody blades out of the shadow copies back while using his foot to kick him into the chimney causing it to break apart. The Shadow Midas gets up and rips his mask off reviling his face, Midas just had another shock to the system this guy was not just a top not impersonator but he really was a bloody shadow of the real Midas only difference was this guy had pure white eyes and one hell of a creepy laugh. The shadow retracted his blades back into the housings on the armor and before this new shadow double fled of into the night he left the real Midas with one creepy, and disturbing comment "This was fun, we will have to play again another night dear older brother" and with that the new foe vanished into the night.