Mirage Smash

**Mirage Smash**(ミラージュスマッシュ *Mirājusumasshu*) is a ninja-based Smash from Episode 3 of Kamen Rider Build.

## Personality

Mirage Smash appears to be the fighting type who only wants to fight by himself along with his duplicates and would kill anyone else in battle, even if they’re fighting the same opponent.

## Appearance

The Mirage Smash has a slim, metal-plated, lower body half with a gray/black color-scheme. He has a slim upper body half with a navy/purple color-scheme with some areas colored silver. He has a large, tall head with a silver head crest and a red pentagon on the forehead. He also has shoulder pads that mostly resemble his head but appear shorter.

## Biography

After Nabeshima has been located, Banjo calls his number where Nabeshima reveals that he framed him because his wife and daughter are held hostage by Faust, the organization that’s responsible for the Smash experiments. Banjo tells him that he’ll save his family in exchange for proving his innocence so Nabeshima reveals that they’re being held in Seito. However, after hanging up, it’s revealed that Nabeshima was following orders as an agent for Night Rouge to send Banjo to the location. Despite Nabeshima following orders to save his family, Night Rouge has him go through a Smash experiment to transform him into another Smash against his will, calling it a demonstration of gratitude for his excellent work as an agent. Late at night at a pier, as Sawa and Banjo prepare to board a boat to Seito, a group of Guardians arrive and attack them until Sento arrives and shoots most of them down. As they hide in the nearby warehouse from the Guardians, the mechanical soldiers are suddenly attacked by a Smash, called the Mirage Smash. With a Smash now in their area, Sento shoots at the remaining Guardians and at the Mirage Smash while Sawa and Banjo make their way to the boat. Sento transforms into Kamen Rider Build RabbitTank Form and finishes off the Guardians with Drill Crusher. After the Mirage Smash destroys one of the Guardians, Build tries to strike him with his Drill Crusher but the Smash ends dodges it by duplicating itself into five duplicates. The five Mirage Smash duplicates start outnumbering Build until they remerge back into one Smash. Seeing that the Smash can duplicate itself, Build pulls out his Gatling Fullbottle and his Taka Fullbottle, created from the purified essence of the Flying Smash, and switches them with current Fullbottles to change into his HawkGatling Form. Once Build summons his Hawk Gatlinger, the Mirage Smash duplicates himself again just as more Guardians arrive and shoot at Build. Build uses his Hawk Gatlinger to shoot at all the Guardians and the Mirage Smash duplicates. However, even after destroying all the Guardians, the Mirage Smash continues duplicating himself and jumps up high through the roof. Realizing that he needs to take down the real Mirage Smash to end the fight, Build starts spinning the barrel on Hawk Gatlinger to increase the number of projectile bullets as he flies up into the sky in the middle of the levitating Smash duplicates. Once reaching 100 projectiles, Build performs Full Bullet and starts rapidly shooting at all the Mirage Smash duplicates until they all blow up into green flames. Once landing back to the ground, the real Mirage Smash lies on the floor, now weakened. Build then pulls out an empty Fullbottle and extracts the Smash essence, revealing to him that Nabeshima was the Smash.

## Powers/Abilities

**Duplication**: Mirage Smash is able to duplicate itself into separate clones to outnumber his enemies.

**Body Cannons**: Mirage Smash is able to shoot ammunition from the top of his head and shoulders and from his arms.

**Twin Dual Swords**: Mirage Smash’s main weapon is a pair of identical swords that it can use to slash at it’s opponent and to shoot ammunition out of when crossing the tips.

**Super Speed**: Mirage Smash is able to move at an incredible speed during combat.

**High Jumping**: Mirage Smash is able to jump up high at an incredible length.

**Levitation**: Mirage Smash is able to levitate high above in the air.

## Trivia

* While Mirage Smash bares very little resemblance to his motif, ninja, his design was made to hide the motif without directly inserting it in. This was done in order to bring out the unexpectedness of the Ninja Fullbottle that was created from his purified essence.
* The Mirage Smash’s lower body half is reused from the Flying Smash’s lower body half(Which was actually reused and repainted from the Needle Smash).