Ok guys, here's a little break down of the plot...Remember when Richter disappears unexpectedly 4 yrs after Rondo?Well, Shaft is back to no good and is able to create a false castle to lure Richter into a trap. Once its sprung, Richter gets cast into an enchanted mirror. Once trapped, Dracula shatters the mirror, thus leaving him no threat and capable of ruling the world. On the flip side, the mirror is actually a portal and Richter is sent 1,000 yrs into the future. Now, in this time, since the last Belmont of the line was taken out of the picture, Dracula has left the world in ruins. That's where the guns and such come in, and how the Contra gets involved. One by one you will be jumping between the past and present, gathering the shattered pieces of the mirror to make it a whole again and return to your time. The worst of the worst of Drac's and Red Falcon's minions hold the shards, and once a new shard is collected, you will be sent to another era in time. Im gonna leave the rest of the story till the game comes out, but in a nutshell thats the plot