A/N: Hello fellow readers, writers, reviewers of all sex, age, and sizes. I'm maxpower02, and you may know me from doing side stories for NecroGodYami's Kamen Rider War story on this site. But this time, I'm taking a break from writing it (no, it doesn't mean that the side stories for War are going to be cancelled, I'm just trying to write them on parallel with this one, so don't expect this to be updated often) to bring you my newest project.
As you have known, a few days ago Toei in collaboration with Amazon Prime has released a trailer for their newest entry for their Super Hero Year project – Kamen Rider Amazons. A darker and edgier reboot of the classic Kamen Rider Amazon, it's a 13-episode mini-series that will be streamed online on the Japanese version of Amazon Prime, that follow the stories of two young men who uses their respective Amazons Driver to transform into the red Kamen Rider Amazon Alpha and the green Kamen Rider Amazon Omega respectively to fight the forces of evil.
And how does this new miniseries has anything to do with this story? Let's just say that this is my take on Kamen Rider Amazons. I'm also updating this sporadically because I also wanted to know how the real Kamen Rider Amazons is going to unfold – can't have my story too similar with the original, can't we? To be honest I have no idea whatsoever about Kamen Rider Amazon – the oldest KR series that I've watched is BLACK, which is like a classic cult series on my home country, and I doubt my home country would want to show Amazon with all of its bloody and gory glory. So bear with me – I'm trying to write my take on Amazons as faithfully as possible to stay within its techno-organic roots while at the same time trying to implement my original story into it. And since there are going to be a huge amount of blood and gore in this story, I'm placing this in the M rating section. Hope this won't put off readers from reading it.
So, without further ado, here we go!
Disclaimer: I don't own Kamen Rider. I wish I do, but unfortunately I don't.
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Location: classified
Time: classified
"Are you ready for the experiment, Mr. Sadhana?"
A series of muffled grunts are heard in response to that question, inviting a dark chuckle from the person who had said it.
"No? Looks like I would have to convince you even more," the voice said again, "Guards, open Mr. Sadhana's mouth-guard. I wanted to hear every opinion that he has regarding the experiment."
Two heavily armed men stepped out from the shadows, their black military boots hitting the thick concrete floor below them rhythmically. The men marched their way towards a barely lit room, where a young man, aged around 20, is seen strapped to an operating table, wearing only his red trousers with a metallic mouth-guard covering his mouth.
The man has a tall and skinny physique, not that athletic, not that muscular, but also at the same time not that fat. His skin is colored in a dark tan brown, with short, rather spiked black hair on his head that is styled in an almost militaristic way. Metallic straps are wrapped on his forearms, shins, and waist, preventing the man from escaping the table.
As the men approached him, the man struggled even more, his black eyes widening in shock and terror. Much to his surprise, the heavily armed men gently removed his metallic mouth-guard, enabling him to let out a loud, enraged shout.
"You asshole!" the man swore loudly as he struggled even more in his restraints, "Let me out of here!"
"Not until you've undergone the experiment," the voice replied calmly from an intercom above the man, "Then we would return you back to that precious life of yours."
"No way," the man said again, sweat began to drench his body from all of his struggles, "There's no way that I'm letting you experiment on my body!"
"Mr. Sadhana, I believe you have misunderstood the purpose of your presence here," the voice spoke again, "You are here because you have been personally selected for this experiment."
"Personally selected my ass! More like you took me away from my friends and family and throw me into this…despicable dungeon in the middle of nowhere!" the man yelled again.
"Calm down, Mr. Sadhana. I can assure you, this experiment will bring you no harm. Project Amazon is meant to create a being that transcends humanity, someone who will lead the human race into the light, a God amongst men. Don't you want power, Mr. Sadhana? Don't you want to be revered by your fellow humans?"
"At what cost?! My humanity?!" the man asked, thrashing himself even more violently on the table, prompting the guards to restrain him even further, "If that's so, my answer's still a no!"
The voice lets out a short yet disappointed sigh, "Looks like persuasion has no use for you, Mr. Sadhana. Commence the experiment. Sedate Mr. Sadhana immediately."
The first guard immediately grabbed the man's right hand, before taking out a syringe from his breast pocket. The sight of the device and the clear liquid contained in it horrifies the man even further.
"Wait! Wait!" the man yelled as the guard slowly lowers the syringe towards his elbow, "What are you doing?! Please! Stop! Don't inject that thing into me!"
"Just shut up, will you!" the guard with the syringe barked, before he immediately plunges the syringe into the man's elbow, straight into his veins.
A loud cry of pain echoed throughout the room, before an eerie silence ensues seconds afterwards.
"Good, the subject's been sedated. We can now commence Project Amazon…"
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KAMEN RIDER AMAZONS
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Episode 1: Rise of the Amazons
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5 months later…
Location: Vo Van Kiet Highway, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Time: 11am
It was just your average weekday afternoon in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Life in the largest city in Vietnam is as bustling as ever, with a variety of vehicles traveling on Vo Van Kiet Highway, one of the city's main roads that connects the eastern and western parts of the city. Office workers are seen enjoying their lunch, young children are seen playing underneath the hot Vietnamese sun, while students are seen alighting buses that will take them to their respective schools and campuses for their afternoon classes. Yes, it is indeed an average day in Ho Chi Minh City…
…until this happens.
BOOM!
An explosion rocked a skyscraper standing proudly near Vo Van Kiet Highway, splitting the structure within seconds. Terrified screams echoed throughout the area as the building's top half crashes down on the road, killing those who are unfortunate enough to be trapped inside it or underneath it. At the same time the lower half of the skyscraper collapses to the ground within seconds, killing everyone inside.
Vo Van Kiet Highway soon dissolve into chaos, with people fleeing on either foot or their vehicles from the doomed skyscraper, all of them still in shock on what had just happened. Police sirens echoed throughout the area as law enforcers and rescue workers rushed into what has left of the skyscraper, only for a ball of purple energy to crash against the parked emergency response vehicles once both policemen and rescue workers had flocked the skyscraper's ruins.
BOOM!
Chunks of flesh and metal were thrown everywhere from the explosion, as a maniacal laughter was heard in the air.
"Die, pathetic humans, die! For today your reign in this city is over!"
Hovering above the chaos is a monstrosity like no other. Colored pitch black, as dark as night, it is literally a mix between a man and a bat, humanoid in shape, but covered in fur with a pair of black bat wings that sprouted from its back. His head is also bat-like in shape, complete with the sharp, pointed ears, piercing red eyes, and a demonic maw that has two pairs of large fangs in them. A noticeable, mechanical bat-shaped buckle is present on the creature's waist, with a pair of glowing red eyes on the buckle's "face."
The bat creature laughed again as he saw the police officers scrambling underneath him, aiming their pistols at him. Purple energy began to cackle in his right fingers as another purple energy ball was formed on his right hand.
"Fire!" a police officer commanded, "Shoot that thing off the sky!"
The officers fired their pistols, sending bullets after bullets at the bat creature. But much to his sick amusement, the bullets did nothing but tickle the bat creature.
"Is that what you've got? Pathetic," the bat creature scoffed, "Eat this!"
The bat creature threw his energy ball at the policemen, obliterating them upon impact much to the horror of the other policemen surrounding the area.
"Just what the fuck is that thing?!" the commanding police officer cursed, before he turned his attention towards his men, "Retreat! We need some backup to take on this guy!"
The bat creature, seeing that the policemen underneath it are retreating, lets out another maniacal chuckle, charging more purple energy into his demonic fingers before unleashing a volley of energy balls from his hands. The retreating policemen on the ground are helpless as they were reduced into piles of smoldering chunks of flesh and bone from the energy balls and their resulting explosion.
Satisfied with its massacre, the bat creature slowly lands on the ground, reveling on the destruction around him as he laughed even louder.
"Ara, ara~ A little bit overkill, don't you think?"
The bat creature turned around to see a feminine-looking humanoid walking towards him. Like the bat creature, this new humanoid is also a hybrid between a human and an animal, only this time, she's themed after a spider. Colored black with a red, hourglass-shaped mark on its prominent bust, the spider creature has four, slender leg-like spikes growing out of her back, two extending above her shoulders and two extending near her waist. Her head has a pair of large fangs in place of a mouth, with four pairs of red eyes lining up above it, four small spikes growing out from the sides of her head to complete her arachnid-themed look. Around her waist is the same mechanical belt as the bat creature's, only with a mechanical spider with red eyes on the buckle.
"Hmph," the bat creature scoffed as the spider creature stood next to it, "Those scums deserved to die this way. They're nothing compared to us Amazons."
"The Leader wants us to spread a message of fear to the people of Ho Chi Minh City," the spider creature said, "Not an all-out massacre like this!"
"Whatever," the bat creature rolled his eyes, "At least everyone gets the message. I mean look at those pathetic human scum running away from this place like ants about to be stomped. Makes me feel proud of being an Amazon!"
"Yada-yada," the spider creature sighed, "Time to convey our Leader's message to the general public, then."
The spider creature slowly crouched down to the ground, her right hand placed against the pavement below her. Sensing the fiber optic cables below the sidewalk, the spider creature's shoulder spikes immediately penetrated through the ground before tapping into the underground fiber optic cable system within seconds, enabling the spider creature access to Ho Chi Minh City's communication grid.
Unknown to the spider creature, as she bent down, a small object fell out from her back. An ID card to be exact.
"I'm in," the spider creature smirked, "Let's do this…"
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People all over Ho Chi Minh City were shocked to find out that their television sets, their phones, their iPads, and other communication devices were displaying static, before seconds afterwards, the spider creature's visage shows up on the devices' screens, shocking the public even further.
"People of Ho Chi Minh City!" the spider creature announced, "A few minutes ago, we Amazons had bombed one of your skyscrapers at Vo Van Kiet Highway and annihilated your law enforcement forces there. This serves as a warning to all of you. Surrender immediately to us Amazons, or suffer more death and destruction. We are your new rulers and you will bow down to us."
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Location: Tuoi Tre Newspaper Office, Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Time: 11.45am
19-year old Mai Thy Dinh Vu slowly made her way into the newspaper office's brief room, two cups of lukewarm coffee in her hands. An intern who had been working there for six months, Thy strives herself to become a successful journalist following the footsteps of her father, learning underneath the wing of one of the newspaper's most successful journalists, Nguyen Le "June" Khanh Linh. At the same time, Thy also juggles her time between her internship with her classes at one of Ho Chi Minh City's most prestigious management colleges. It's a hassle, but at the same time also an interesting challenge for young Thy.
Thy is just your average teenage girl, with a medium, rather athletic, and healthy build, not too fat but at the same time not too skinny. Her skin is an exotic light tan with shoulder-length black, curly hair. Today she's wearing a pink T-shirt, underneath a denim jacket, a pair of blue jeans, and a pair of black sneakers, not to mention her trusted thick-framed glasses on her face, hanging over her black eyes.
Having being asked by June to bring her and her Editor-In-Chief some coffee, Thy went straight to the coffee machine and grabbed herself two cups, before she went back to the brief room where June had asked Thy to meet her. But much to Thy's surprise, the brief room is now packed with the newspaper's journalists, all of them looking in both interest and intrigue at the lone LCD TV screen at the corner of the room.
"Excuse me, excuse me," Thy whispered as she navigated her way through the bodies of the journalists, trying to be careful not to spill her coffee on any of them.
"Thy, over here."
Thy's ears immediately caught on with that recognizable soft female voice, and she immediately and carefully went towards its source – a 23-year old young woman with a rather chubby and medium build, light brown skin, hazel eyes and shoulder length curly dark brown hair. She is now wearing a pale white sundress with red roses etched on it, and a pair of glasses on her face. The woman sees Thy amongst the crowd of journalists in front of her, and immediately she signals the intern to come closer.
"There you are, June," Thy said after she had managed to get herself out of the crowd, passing her cups of coffee to June immediately once she got to her, "I've been looking everywhere for you. What's with the huge crowd, anyway?"
"Someone has just bombed a skyscraper at District 5," June replied, "Everyone's trying to get a scoop out of it. Rumor has it, the perpetrators are not even human."
"Not even human?" Thy's eyes widened after hearing that.
June nodded, "A few minutes ago some spider creature had just announced to the entire city that a group called 'Amazons' are responsible for the bombing."
"Spider creature? Are you serious?" Thy asked in disbelief.
"As a person of journalistic integrity, I also doubt whether that was real or not," June replied, "But apparently news reports had confirmed that it was true. The bombing, the spider creature, and also the bat creature who is also in cahoots with that spider."
"Wait, did you say…a bat creature?" Thy asked again.
"Yeah," June nodded as she sipped into her coffee, "Testimonies from eyewitnesses said that they saw a flying bat-man hybrid coming towards the skyscraper and then bombed it with its own hands."
"Yikes," Thy gulped, "Did the police manage to take them down?"
"On the contrary…they got massacred," June replied sadly, "Those creatures are reportedly resistant to police bullets and are capable of firing off energies that could kill a human instantly in one hit. Our city is definitely in full-blown crisis mode as long as these creatures are still running around."
"Thy, June, there you are!"
A jovial-looking middle-aged man with a rather chubby build and greying hair slowly made his way towards June and Thy, taking a seat near the two women as he accepted a cup of coffee from June. Making sure that the coffee won't spill on his white and blue striped shirt, the man sipped his coffee slowly.
"Mr. Hung," June said, greeting the man, "You've got an assignment for us?"
"I was about to say that," Mr. Hung, the newspaper's Editor-In-Chief, lets out a hearty laugh, "Anyway, down to the serious business. You and Thy need to go to that bombed skyscraper at Vo Van Kiet. The rescue workers had finished evacuating what has left of that skyscraper and now the victims are ready to be interviewed. But make sure to be cautious in your interview, okay? These people had just saw something that has traumatized them for life."
"Sure thing," June nodded, quickly finishing up her coffee before turning her attention towards her intern, "Thy, let's go. Duty calls."
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Place: Vo Van Kiet Highway, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Time: 12.20pm
June was busy interviewing the eyewitnesses of the skyscraper bombing, with Thy dutifully writing down each answers on her trusted notepad. She also occasionally takes photographs of the surrounding rubble as well as the rescue workers who are still assessing the formerly proud structure for any other victims. Other than being an intern for June, Thy's also quite good in photography, and her mentor often counts on her to take some pictures for the sake of her articles.
As Thy was busy taking pictures, a pair of ambulance workers scurried past her towards the skyscraper's rubble, frantically digging through the ruins before pulling out a bloodied body from the rubble. A tear escaped Thy's left eye as the workers placed the body into the body bag that they've prepared, before they lifted the bag onto the stretcher that they had brought with him. The ambulance workers than ran past Thy once again as they headed back to their vehicle with the body.
"Such cruelty to these innocent people…" Thy muttered as she wiped away the tears from her eyes, "Today we saw the loss of a lot of lives here…and time would tell when the perpetrators would strike again…"
Suddenly Thy noticed something amongst the rubble around her feet, her journalistic curiosity immediately kicking into action. Thy slowly bent down, using her hands to clear away the rocks from the item that had caught her attention, before she picked the said item up and giving it a thorough examination with her eyes.
It was a silver ID card, the same ID card that the spider creature had dropped earlier. It was somewhat plain-looking, with a triangular insignia and a woman's photograph the only notable items on the card. Slowly Thy reads the letters inscribed underneath the insignia.
'Nozama Pharmacy…wait, isn't that the controversial Japanese pharmacy that set up shop in Vietnam about five months ago? Rumor has it that Nozama Pharmacy is actually a front for an international organization of bio-weapon developers who used a pharmacy company as their ruse…better ask June about this.'
Immediately Thy went towards June, who had conveniently finished her interview with the bombing's eyewitnesses.
"June!" Thy called out as she approached her senior, "I think I've found something interesting."
"What is it?" June asked, prompting Thy to hand the ID over to her mentor.
Receiving the ID, June gave it a thorough examination, "Name, Ideh Lonae. Place of birth, Hanoi. Date of birth, December 18th 1988. Position, employee at Nozama Pharmacy Ho Chi Minh City Branch Department of Research…where did you find this, Thy?"
"Near the remnants of the skyscraper," Thy replied, "If I recall, the office for Nozama Pharmacy in this city is at District 6, so there's no way that ID card would've come from any of the victims inside the skyscraper."
"But perhaps this Ideh is someone who had visited the skyscraper during the bombing," June said.
"Not exactly," Thy shook her head, "This ID is way too good in shape to be an ID that would have been thrown out of the skyscraper during the explosion. I could conclude that this ID was dropped near the skyscraper after the explosion occurred, probably by someone who pass by the location during the bombing. Plus considering Nozama Pharmacy's controversial track record of creating bio-weapons…do you still remember when Nozama were forced out of Laos when the government there found out that they're producing Anthrax bombs two weeks ago?"
"Yeah, I've heard of that," June nodded, "Why do you ask?"
"I'm suspecting that Nozama has something to do with this explosion," Thy said, "I did some research on that skyscraper on our way here and one of the companies who has an office on that skyscraper is a Hoang Nguyen Pharmacies, a competitor of Nozama's in this city. I'm not going to jump into any conclusions yet, since I need to do some more research."
June lets out a smile and gave Thy a pat on her head, much to the intern's surprise, "Great job, Thy. If we could get enough evidence, we could get a scoop that would force one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in Vietnam out of the country! Continue your research, Thy!"
"Thanks June," Thy blushed slightly, "But in the end, chung thuong thoi. I'm just a normal girl doing her job, that's all."
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Place: Thy and Minh's Apartment, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Time: 5pm
After a long day, Thy is finally back home.
Alighting from the bus that took her from her Phu Nhuan District office to her simple Binh Thanh District apartment, Thy took a little skip from her bus stop to her apartment, which is only a couple minute worth of walking away. As she approaches her apartment building, Thy paused for a moment, taking out something from her jacket pocket.
The ID card that she'd recovered earlier from the bombing site. June had told her to hold onto it for a moment for the sake of her research and with no evening classes today, tonight will be the perfect opportunity for Thy to do some investigating.
But first, for some rest and maybe a shower.
Humming happily, Thy climbed the stairs of her apartment building to the 3rd floor, where her small apartment room is located. Opening the door with the number "307" etched onto it, Thy was immediately greeted with the sight of a neat and tidy apartment room, with three rooms, a shared bathroom, and a kitchen.
Ever since she graduated from high school, the constraints of going around between her internship office, her management college, and her family home at the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City has been too much for Thy, which is why she decided to rent an apartment room somewhere downtown where it is convenient for her to go anywhere. Thankfully her best friend since junior high school, Le Thao Minh, is more than willing to let her stay at her apartment for free, since her family is that apartment's landlords.
Throwing her chocolate brown bag onto her bed, Thy took a quick drink of water from a water bottle that she'd stored inside the kitchen fridge in order to refresh herself. As she enjoyed the cool water trickling down her throat, Thy notices her roommate placing some incenses on a small table near her bed inside her room. After placing her bottle back into the fridge, Thy decided to see what her best friend's up to out of curiosity.
"Whatcha doin', Minh?"
The 19-year old girl was surprised by Thy's sudden presence in her room, almost dropping her incenses in the process, but she quickly regained her composure.
"Damn it Thy, you scared me," Minh giggled as Thy sat next to her, the latter taking a pair of incenses and lighting them up with a nearby Zippo lighter.
Minh is quite an attractive girl for someone her age – graced with an athletic build, she has light brown skin and black, shoulder length hair with a bang over her forehead. That, coupled with a very friendly and energetic personality, earned her a lot of admirers from her friends both in her high school and in her current university, but unfortunately she's not too keen to be in a relationship with someone, for now. Right now Minh's wearing her favorite aqua blue T-shirt with white trousers, her usual outfit at home. She's also often seen wearing glasses, but for now, her glasses are now resting on a nightstand just next to her bed.
As Minh sets up the incenses on the small table in front of her, Thy proceeds to do the same as well, her eyes noticing a number of small photo frames lined up nicely on the table. Some of the photos depicted Minh with a tall and skinny young man with tan brown skin, while the others depicted the man by himself doing a variety of activities. A small card that says "Please come back, Krishna Sadhana" is seen in front of the photos, being sandwiched nicely by the incenses that the girls had set up.
"It's been five months, huh?" Thy said, her tone rather somber.
Minh nodded sadly, "Yeah. The police still has no leads on his whereabouts until this day. It's like he literally vanished into thin air…"
"It's always hard to see a good friend of yours go missing for such a long time," Thy said again, trying restrain herself from crying, "I…I'll do my best to support you through these tough times."
"Thanks Thy," Minh smiled sadly, wiping away the tears welling up in her eyes, "You and Krishna have always been my closest friends…and I really appreciate you supporting me during these times. Let's pray that Krishna would return to us as soon as possible, okay?"
After drying away their tears, both Minh and Thy prayed solemnly in front of the small shrine that Minh had set up, the two of them hoping that their missing friend would be found soon, safe and sound.
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Time: 6.25pm
Thy puts on her black leather jacket, before she ran through the contents of her bag once again. Her phone, her wallet, her Canon SLR camera, her yearly Saigon Bus Pass, and some cookies to fill her stomach along the way. Last but not least, the ID card that she had taken from the bomb site earlier today. Packing all of the items into her bag, she quickly zipped the bag shut and headed out of her room.
"Minh, I'm going out for a while," Thy said as she saw Minh chopping up some carrots in the kitchen.
"Where to?" Minh asked.
"The Nozama Pharmacy office in District 6," Thy replied as she stuffed her water bottle into her bag, "It's work-related."
"At this hour?" Minh asked again.
Thy nodded, "Yeah, I already had an appointment with the company's head of research on 7.30. Don't worry, I'll be back here by 9."
Minh went silent for a moment, before letting out a slightly hesitant sigh.
"Take care, okay?" Minh said, "It's kinda dangerous to go out alone at this hour, you know?"
"I'll be fine," Thy smiled as she went out of the apartment, "Besides, I can take care of myself."
As Thy closes the door shut, Minh lets out another sigh, chopping her carrots once again but in a slightly more frantic and worried fashion.
'Thy…be careful out there. I've already lost a dear friend in my life…and I don't want to lose you too…'
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Location: Nozama Pharmacy Ho Chi Minh City Branch Office, District 6, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Time: 7pm
Thy found herself standing in front of the proud and somewhat sinister-looking Nozama Pharmacy office, the 13-storey futuristic-looking building standing proudly in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City's District 6. Inspecting the building's surroundings, Thy saw several armed guards standing vigilantly at the gates, with one manning a small gate where the office's employees go in and out. All of the guards are armed with M-16s, something that Thy thinks is a little over-the-top for a simple pharmacy company.
'These guys are too heavily armed for a company like this,' Thy thought as she watches the guards from a distance, 'There's definitely something fishy going on with this company, I knew it! I just need to find out how I could get myself in…'
As if on cue, Thy suddenly saw a Hyundai garbage truck queueing up at office's rear entrance, its driver negotiating an entry pass with the guard stationed at the entrance.
Thy gave out a disgusted look, but she knew she had to do it.
'Well…If I had to go down and dirty…I'll do it.'
Unknown to Thy, a pair of sapphire blue eyes has been watching her carefully ever since Thy had set foot in front of the Nozama Pharmacy office from the safety of some nearby bushes. As Thy sets off towards the office building, the owner of the eyes slowly emerged out from its hiding place, revealing itself as a well-built man of German descent, with short and slick blonde hair and wearing all black from head to toe. The man looked at the office building stoically, his fists clenching as if he's determined to do something.
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Gaining entrance into the Nozama Pharmacy office was way easier than Thy expected.
Moments before the driver had received his clearance to enter the complex, Thy made the daring dive into his garbage truck's contents, hiding herself perfectly out of sight from the guard's keen eyes. The truck's driver practically did all the hard work for Thy, driving her into the complex and stopping right at the office building's least guarded entrance. Before the driver could dump any more garbage into his truck, Thy made a sneaky jump out of the truck and immediately sneaked her way into the entrance.
Now inside the building and reeking of rotting garbage, Thy quietly made her way into the office's Department of Research with the ID that she'd recovered in hand. The office building was eerily quiet, as everyone had gone home about an hour ago. Thy is literally the only living and breathing being inside the building apart from the guards.
Slipping unnoticed into an elevator, Thy made her way into the office's 6th floor, where the Department of Research is located. Upon exiting the elevator, Thy was immediately greeted with an eerie-looking hallway, barely lit and completely silent. Cold sweat began to drip down Thy's fingers, fear slowly creeping into the youth's heart.
"Okay…" Thy gulped silently as she took out her pocket flashlight, turning it on to illuminate her pathway, "Here I go…"
Thy slowly tip-toed her way through the hallway, occasionally taking a peek on the ID on her hand to make sure that she's on the right path. As Thy went deeper into the hallway, she looked around her for anything that's worth investigating. The hallway that she's in is practically a gallery filled with laboratories that are part of the Department of Research's work, with each laboratory showcasing a menagerie of high-tech equipment used in performing a variety of experimental work by the department…and also a macabre collection of the subjects used to perform those experiments.
Jars of deformed fetuses, still-beating human hearts, severed heads of several species of animals, intestines, and even human brains are all lined up in front of Thy's now horrified eyes, the youth too shocked to say anything.
'What the fuck?!' Thy's mind cursed as she continued her walk down the hallway, her eyes still fixated on the macabre collection of organs and body parts around her, 'Is this what Nozama's been doing all this time?! Experimenting on humans, fetuses, and animals?! That's just…sick!'
Thy immediately took out her SLR camera and began taking pictures of the gruesome items around her, taking caution not to make too much noises that might alert security. She also took pictures of the electron microscopes, the CT-Scan machines, and other equipment inside the laboratories.
"Oh boy," Thy muttered softly as she continued taking pictures, "Nozama Pharmacy are performing illegal experimentations on organic tissues. This'll become one of the biggest scandals that Vietnam has ever seen!"
As she took some final shots of the laboratories, a lit computer screen inside one of the laboratories caught Thy's attention. Placing her SLR back inside her backpack, Thy quietly made her way towards the computer and moved its mouse, causing the screen to display a series of diagrams.
"Project Amazon…" Thy whispered the title of the diagrams, before she scrolled through them, "Amazon Cells…creating artificial life forms…enhancing a human being's capabilities beyond belief…holy crap…"
The screen displays a constant stream of data that changes every time Thy scrolls the computer's mouse, ranging from pictures depicting this "Project Amazon," to images of animals being injected with a substance that kills and deforms them instantly. Several more diagrams are shown, before one last diagram shows up on the screen. It depicted a sketch of two humanoids, each of them based on monitor lizards. The first humanoid looked completely feral, with a lizard-shaped head, sharp claws, and spikes growing out from its forearms. The second humanoid looked like a much more refined version of the first one, with a much more smoother and "human" looking face and a much more techno-organic looking body. The forearm spikes are still there, but less prominent than the first humanoid's. On the humanoids' waists are a rounded belt buckle, with a handlebar-shaped lever on the front and a pair of feral-looking "eyes" above the lever. The word "ALPHA" is written next to the first humanoid, while the word "OMEGA" is written next to the second.
"Amazon Alpha and Amazon Omega…" Thy whispered as she read the writings and schematics on the diagram, "Oh my God…so this is what they've been doing?"
Quickly, Thy took out her USB flash-drive and plugs it into the computer, before she copied every single data, diagram, and picture from the computer into it. A slight victorious smirk appears on Thy's face as the data are being copied into her USB – those data combined with the pictures that she's taken would be more than enough for June to make an article that would put Nozama Pharmacy in hot water.
Five minutes later the copy process has been done, prompting Thy to quickly unplug her USB and pockets it back. She then quickly closes everything on the computer, making sure that she doesn't leave any trace of her presence on it. After she has made certain that the computer's back the way it was when she found it, Thy made a quick and quiet retreat away from it, tip-toeing her way towards the exit.
Until something caught her eyes.
It was a small, metallic object, rounded in shape. Resting idly on a table near the laboratory's exit, it lies unguarded, waiting for a pair of curious hands to fondle it.
Curious on what the object is, Thy slowly approaches it and touched it with her hands. It has a smooth, metal-like surface, with a silver and red handlebar-shaped lever on its front, and a pair of dark spots above it. When Thy's fingers squeezed themselves on the right hand side of the lever, she felt a rubbery sensation running through her fingers and into her brain – the same sensation that she gets whenever she's holding a motorcycle's or a bike's handlebar.
'This must be the same object that I saw on those sketches' waists,' Thy's thoughts wondered as she examines the object even further with her eyes and fingers, 'Wonder how it looks like on me…'
Out of curiosity, Thy slowly holds the object by the both sides of its handlebar lever, before she gently places it against her waist. Suddenly, much to her shock, a pair of black straps shot out from the device's sides, wrapping the device nicely on her waist. Green electricity surges from the device into her body, causing Thy to writhe in pain as she was sent to her knees by the sudden shock. The dark spots on the device began to flicker red as it continues to send surges upon surges of electricity into Thy's convulsing body, the 19-year old struggling to resist against the severe surge of electricity running through her body.
Suddenly an image of a young Japanese man with messy black hair flashed in front of Thy's eyes. The man wore nothing but tattered shorts, with a white and red version of the device on her waist resting on his waist. The man crosses his arms in front him.
"A…" the man growled, throwing his arms apart, "…MA…" the man continued, crossing his arms again, "…ZON!" the man finished, throwing his arms apart again.
Suddenly the man's eyes glowed red as a series of echoed "AMAZON!" yells are heard in the background. And with a flash of white light, the man is no more – he is replaced with a much more organic version of the humanoids that Thy saw on the diagram, colored green with a yellow torso, while his head became that of a monstrous monitor lizard's, colored dark green with red stripes, with a pair of bulging red eyes that completed the look. Wrapped around the man's neck is a white scarf that flows along the wind.
Immediately the transformed man jumped into the air, before landing on the ground and crossing his arms repeatedly in front of him.
"Gii! Gii! Gii!" the transformed man yelled.
'What on Earth was that…' Thy questioned in her mind as the image fades out, and seconds later another image appears in front of her eyes.
The image depicts the transformed man fighting against an opponent, its features obscured by the shadows. The transformed man slashes his opponent several times with his sharp claws, yelling the same "Gii! Gii! Gii!" call as he does so, before with a final slash his opponent was thrown backwards.
"Gii! Gii! Gii!" the transformed man yelled, crossing his arms repeatedly, before he jumped into the air.
Energy began to accumulate on his right hand as the transformed man descended rapidly upon his opponent, his claws ready to tear the opponent apart.
"Super Dai Setsudan!" the transformed man yelled as he slashed through the opponent with his claws, literally splitting it into half in a brutal display of blood, sparks, and fire.
'Holy fuck!' Thy cursed in her thoughts as the image fades away.
Suddenly Thy doubled over in pain, the surge of electricity running through her body becoming more and more intense, causing her to yell out in pain. And seconds later it all stopped. The device stopped surging energy into Thy's body, and the young girl became silent as she lies down on the floor, unconscious from her ordeal.
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Outside the Nozama Pharmacy office building, the German man is still staring at the sinister-looking office complex stoically, when a beeping noise caught his attention. Immediately he takes out his beeping PDA from his trousers pocket and gave it a quick look, before a look of shock overcome his face.
"It has been awakened…" the man gasped, "The Cultivation Type…it has chosen its user."
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Place: Thy and Minh's Apartment, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Time: 10pm
Minh sat alone in front of her TV, munching on her homemade salad that she made herself earlier as she watches her favorite soap opera. Normally she would watch this heartwarmingly romantic story with Thy every weeknights, but not today.
For today, Thy has not returned yet.
It has been an hour since Thy is supposed to return to their apartment from her trip to the Nozama Pharmacy office, but until now there's still no signs of the 19-year old. At first Minh thought that her best friend is probably stuck in traffic on her way home…until she saw the hourly traffic report news before her soap opera, which reports that there are no reported traffic jams whatsoever on the roads of Ho Chi Minh City. And that's when Minh started to worry.
Chewing on a watery and scrumptious piece of lettuce, Minh tries her best to ward off her worries.
'It's okay,' she thought, 'Maybe her work held her up.'
But with each passing minute, Minh became even more increasingly worried, to the point of eating her salad erratically and unable to concentrate fully on her favorite soap opera episode. The fear that Thy might ended up going missing like her friend Krishna became more and more intense as time passes on, until…
"Fuck this!" Minh yelled, tossing her bowl of salad aside before she quickly grabs her black and white striped jacket from her closet, "I'm going after her."
Turning off her TV, Minh quickly stormed out of her apartment, quickly locking her apartment door before running down the stairs towards the apartment's parking lot. There she pulled out her trusted bicycle, quickly hopping onto the vehicle before she quickly pedaled her way out of the parking lot.
"Please be alright, please be alright…" Minh muttered as she rode her bike towards District 6.
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Location: Nozama Pharmacy Ho Chi Minh City Branch Office Parking Lot, District 6, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
"Wake up."
Thy slowly opened her eyes, still dazed, confused, and groggy from the ordeal that the device has given to her. The first thing that she did as she regained consciousness is to inspect her waist, to see that much to her shock that the device is still there, resting nicely on her mid-section. Looking up, she was surprised to see a young woman in black standing in front of her, a silver object in her right hand, while a tall young man garbed in black is seen standing next to the woman. As Thy blinked her eyes to clear her still fuzzy vision, she saw that the young woman is actually holding the ID that she had recovered earlier today, and that the woman's shoulder-length black hair, the slight bob on her forehead, and her medium built suggested something that is all too familiar to Thy.
The woman in front of her is the very woman on the ID that she had taken earlier.
"Thank you very much for returning this to me," the young woman said as she flashed the ID in front of Thy's eyes, "This is very valuable for me."
"Who…who are you?" Thy asked, her tone still groggy as she struggled to get up, only to find out that her hands and feet has been tied.
"You don't know me?" the woman chuckled, "I'm Ideh Lonae, the woman on the ID that you took. And tonight, I'll be your executioner."
"You heard the lady," the chisel-faced Japanese man next to Ideh replied, stroking his messy black hair with his hands in a rather deranged fashion, "Anyone who has uncovered the secrets of this company must die."
"Thankfully Shinji here alerted me when someone's trying to illegally access our Project Amazon database," Ideh said again, pocketing her ID as she forced Thy to her feet, "Normally we would ask the guards to take care of this for us, but since we're in such a good mood, we decided to dispose you by ourselves."
Before Thy could say anything, Ideh quickly punched her on her left eye, causing her to tumble down on the cold concrete floor of the office complex's parking lot. Thy's glasses has been damaged by that punch, and her left eye is clearly bruised.
Snickering evilly, Ideh took out her mechanical spider-themed buckle and placed it against her waist.
"Amazon," Ideh uttered, prompting the buckle to secure itself onto Ideh's waist as its eyes lit up in unison.
Black smoke was emitted by the buckle which envelops Ideh within seconds, before it hardens into a black, silky cocoon. A loud crack was heard and the cocoon was torn apart, revealing the spider creature, the Spider Amazon to be exact, in Ideh's place.
"Let me join in too!" Shinji cackled maniacally as he places his mechanical bat-themed buckle on his waist, "Amazon!"
As the eyes on his buckle lit up, Shinji was quickly enveloped by black smoke emitted by the buckle, his eyes glowing red in the process. Within seconds the smoke engulfed Shinji, transforming him into the bat creature that bombed Vo Van Kiet Highway earlier today, the Bat Amazon.
The Spider Amazon grabbed Thy by the throat and tossed her towards the ground once again, before the Bat Amazon swooped in, grabbing Thy by her shoulders before he flew up several meters into the air, dropping Thy to the ground once reaching his intended altitude.
"Don't worry!" the Bat Amazon laughed as Thy landed on the ground with a loud thud, "The fall won't kill you…we prefer to torture our prey instead of killing them outright!"
Thy groaned weakly as the two Amazons slowly circled around her, her body bruised and battered from the fall.
'Is this it?' Thy's thoughts ran wild as the two Amazons prepared themselves for another attack, 'Is this where I will die?'
"Fight."
Suddenly Thy's eyes widened after hearing that male voice inside her head, a sudden injection of adrenaline rushing towards her hands.
"Fight."
The Spider Amazon cracked her neck and lets out a hiss, her claws ready to tear the restrained Thy apart.
"Fight."
Another rush of adrenaline surges through Thy's body, this time heading straight towards her legs, while at the same time a greenish glow began to emanate from her hands.
"Fight."
The Spider Amazon lunges forward, her right claw ready to land another attack on Thy's body.
"Fight and be the hunter…or die as the hunted."
Suddenly Thy lets out an inhuman roar from her throat, tearing apart her restraints with relative ease before she quickly counters the incoming Spider Amazon with a powerful punch from her right fist, sending the arachnid monstrosity flying. Panting heavily, Thy slowly stood up, lifting up her hands towards her eyes before a horrified look was etched on her face.
Gone were her normal hands, as they are now replaced with two, larger ones with razor-sharp claws on her fingers, a techno-organic green armor covering them both like gloves. A quick glance to her feet horrifies Thy even further – her shoes and the lower part of her jeans have been torn apart, and they have been replaced by a pair of techno-organic looking green boots with red striped accents on the shins.
"You bitch!" the Bat Amazon yelled as he saw his partner struggling to recover from Thy's powerful punch, "You'll pay for hurting my partner!"
The Bat Amazon immediately flew towards Thy, his claws ready to tear the girl apart. With a quick swipe of his claws, the Bat Amazon tore a huge gash on Thy's chest…or so he think.
Thy's clothes were torn apart by the Bat Amazon's attack, but instead of exposing flesh, it instead exposes a suit of techno-organic nature, green in color with molded muscles on the chest and abdomen, with red striped accents on the arms and legs.
The Bat Amazon tossed away the pieces of fabric that he had ripped earlier, landing next to the recovered Spider Amazon as they saw in sheer disbelief what is unfolding in front of them.
"It's time to unleash the Amazon within."
Thy's eyes glowed red as her right hand grabbed the right hand side of her buckle's lever, a determined look has replaced her horrified look within seconds.
"AMAZON!" Thy yelled with a deep, masculine, and guttural voice that is obviously not hers, before she quickly twists her buckle's lever, causing its dark spots to glow red.
Green energy surged throughout Thy's body within seconds, enveloping her within a bright green glow that stuns both the Bat and Spider Amazons, before her body literally exploded into green energy.
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The German man, still observing the Nozama Pharmacy office, was visibly shocked by the sudden explosion of green energy from the office's parking lot.
"The Cultivation Type has been awakened!" the German said to no one in particular, "Now's my chance to get in!"
Immediately the German man charged his way towards the office, prompting the guards standing by there to take action. Seeing the guards coming towards him, the German wastes no time in landing a few punches towards them, taking them out quickly as the man makes his way towards the office building.
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Location: unknown
A mysterious man is seen hanging out at a bar somewhere in Ho Chi Minh City, drinking his rice wine until he sensed something.
"Omega has awakened," the man muttered, before he took out several bills of Vietnamese Dongs and slammed them onto the counter, "Here's for my drink and my tab."
Before the bar's staff could say anything else, the man has left the establishment.
Outside the bar, the man immediately made his way towards his motorcycle, before he quickly mounts the vehicle, revving up its engine as he rides away from the bar.
Secured on the man's waist is a buckle device similar to Thy's, only with green spots instead of red.
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Location: Nozama Pharmacy Ho Chi Minh City Branch Office Parking Lot, District 6, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
(Cue BGM: Dream Theater – Prophets of War)
As the green energy emitted by Thy's body died out, the Spider and Bat Amazons got a full glimpse of what they're up against.
A being of techno-organic nature now stood in Thy's place, colored green with red striped accents on the shins, the shoulders, and on the sides and the back of her head. More of the red stripes are seen on the torso, forming a ribcage-like design, while small, green spikes are seen sticking out from the being's backbone. The being's head is feral looking, resembling that of a monitor lizard's, with a gaping, beak-like jaw, bulging red eyes, and a yellowish stalk that ends in a small, red light sticking out from the forehead. Spikes are also seen sticking out from the being's forearms and ankles, while razor-sharp claws made themselves known on the being's fingers.
"It's too late," the Spider Amazon gasped as she saw the being in front of her, "Cultivation Type has been awakened."
"Not exactly," the Bat Amazon added, trying to reassure his partner, "Omega's still in its imperfect stage. We still have a chance to defeat it!"
Before the Spider Amazon could say anything else, suddenly the being lunges forward, slashing the Spider Amazon across the chest before giving out a powerful roundhouse kick onto the Bat Amazon's head. Turning her attention towards the fallen Spider Amazon, the being immediately jumped onto the Spider Amazon's body, punching the Amazon's face repeatedly with her fists.
"What's going on?" Thy gasped as she kept on punching the Spider Amazon, "I…I have no control of my body whatsoever!"
Once she had finished punching the Spider Amazon's face, the being forced the arachnid to her feet, landing another punch onto the Amazon's already bloody and battered face, before tossing the Spider Amazon over her shoulder.
"How did I do that?!" Thy wondered as she saw the downed Spider Amazon in front of her, "I never did any martial arts in my life…how on Earth did I do that move?!"
"You bitch!" the Bat Amazon cursed as he flew towards the being, "You'll pay for that!"
The being quickly turned her attention towards the incoming Bat Amazon, who is now firing a series of purple energy balls from his hands. The balls went straight towards the being, who nimbly rolled out of the way, causing the balls to hit the concrete floor instead. The Bat Amazon kept on firing his energy balls while the being kept on dodging, numerous smoldering craters has been created from where the energy balls had made impact.
"Die, bitch!" the Bat Amazon yelled, firing a huge energy ball from his hands towards the being.
"Oh crap!" Thy gasped as she saw the incoming attack, but the being that's now in control of her body wouldn't have any of it.
The being easily caught the incoming energy ball with her hands, struggling with the staggering amount of energy for a moment, before she easily crushes the energy ball with her bare hands, shocking the Bat Amazon. Suddenly the being jumped into the air, shocking the Bat Amazon even more, and within seconds the being has landed onto his back.
"Get off me!" the Bat Amazon yelled as the being grabbed onto his back firmly, "Get off me you bitch!"
The being replied to the Bat Amazon's request by grabbing onto his left wing, crushing it tightly to the point of blood pouring out from the joint that connected the wing and the Bat Amazon's back, before with a loud tug the wing was torn apart in a bloody display, causing the Bat Amazon to cry out in sheer agony as he descended down from the sky.
As the Bat Amazon crash landed onto the ground, the being leapt off the kaijin's back at the last second, before making a dash towards the recovered Spider Amazon. The spider kaijin fired off several blasts of webbing from her mouth, but the being easily avoided them all much to the Spider Amazon's disbelief.
And within seconds, the Spider Amazon found herself being held by the throat by the being.
"No! No! Please! Have mercy!" the Spider Amazon begged.
The being complied, slowly loosening up her grip on the Spider Amazon's neck…only to use her left fist to punch straight through the Spider Amazon's body, causing the kaijin to let out a screech of agony. The being then tossed the Spider Amazon aside, before she jumped on top of the arachnid once again.
Opening up her beak-like mouth, the being took a huge bite onto the Spider Amazon's neck, severing her carotid artery and causing black blood to leak out from the kaijin's neck.
"Fuck, oh fuck!," Thy cursed as she bit off a huge chunk of the Spider Amazon's neck, "What the fuck did I just do?!"
The being jumped off from the mortally wounded Spider Amazon's body, before she forcefully grabbed onto the Amazon's belt buckle and tore it off, crushing the device with her bare hands. A ghastly black smoke was emitted by the fallen Spider Amazon's body, revealing a bloody and dying Ideh in her place, a huge portion of her neck missing and a sizeable pool of blood underneath her.
(BGM ends)
Thy was instantly horrified on what she had just done.
"Did I do that?!" Thy gasped as she saw the dying Ideh lying near her, "Did I…tore off a piece of that woman's neck?! Dear God…what have I become?"
Ideh coughed up a few globs of blood, and she is no more. The neck wound that the being had inflicted on her has proven to be too much for her. Seeing that the woman near her has breathed her last breath, the being tossed the now damaged belt buckle near her corpse, landing perfectly on the deceased Ideh's abdomen.
"Ideh!" the Bat Amazon called out, he had recovered his bearings a few moments ago just to see his partner die in front of his eyes. Immediately rage began to pool up within the Bat Amazon, the creature glaring hatefully at the being that has killed Ideh, "You'll pay for this, bitch!"
As the Bat Amazon limped his way towards the being, suddenly a red streak appeared out of nowhere and tackled the Bat Amazon to the ground.
"You'll be dealing with me now, batty boy."
Standing on top of the Bat Amazon is a being identical to Thy's, only red in color with green, feral-looking striped accents on the arms, legs, and head and a silver torso with the same molded muscles as Thy's. The spikes on the being's back and forearms are more prominent than Thy's and are black in color, the same color as the being's gauntlets, claws, shin-guards, kneepads, and boots. The being's head is also much more feral-looking, with bulging green eyes and a green light on its forehead stalk. On the being's waist is a belt identical to Thy's, only with green lights instead of red.
"You…you're the Wild Type! Alpha!" the Bat Amazon gasped as he saw who had attacked him.
"You bet your fucking ass I am," the red being replied in a male voice, "Now…it's hunting time."
The Bat Amazon swung a punch towards the red being, only for him to parry it easily with his right hand, before his left hand lunges in for the offensive.
*STAB*
The Bat Amazon's eyes widen as he saw the red being's left hand has literally plunged itself into his abdomen, before with a mighty tug, the red being pulled out the Bat Amazon's intestines in a bloody and gory display. The red being then kicked the now dead Bat Amazon to the ground, before he crushes the bat kaijin's belt buckle, forcing him to revert back into Shinji in a wisp of black smoke.
"Another one done and dusted," the red being said, tossing away Shinji's intestines near the man's corpse.
Thy watched the unfolding events in front of her eyes in sheer horror. What has she gotten herself into this time? Just this morning she's a normal intern who works for the city's number one newspaper. This afternoon she was out on the field with her mentor, interviewing people and taking pictures, as well as getting a lead on a potentially huge story. But now…after she had come across that strange device…she has transformed into a bloodthirsty monster who had just brutally killed someone, and she had just saw a being similar to her committing an equally brutal murder in front of her eyes. To be fair, the victims in questions are the same people who had tried to kill her earlier who has the capability to transform into monstrous beings, but in the end, they're also human beings like her.
Slowly regaining control of herself but still stuck in her techno-organic form, Thy slowly walked away from the scene, her mind trying to get a gist on what is going on right now, while at the same time trying to forget the brutality that she has just did. And then suddenly, a male voice called out for her from behind.
"Yo."
Thy slowly turned around to see the red being standing in front of her, blood still dripping down from the hand that he used to disembowel Shinji earlier.
"You're Omega, right?" the being asked.
Thy remained silent. She has no idea what the being in front of her is talking about and honestly, she doesn't want to know. She just wanted to go home, back to the safety of her apartment with her beloved roommate Minh.
"I'm asking you again, are you Omega?" the being asked again.
Still refusing to answer the being's question, Thy slowly turned around and walked away from the scene, her head hung low and her mind still processing what she's just gone through. But apparently Thy's reluctance and silence has enraged the red being, causing him to clench his fists in anger.
"If I can't get an answer from you the proper way," the red being said as he jumped into the air, "Then I'll force one out in a fight!"
Roaring aloud, the red being lunges towards Thy, his claws ready to inflict some damage. But just as the red being is about to land a blow, suddenly Thy turned around and parries the incoming slash with her right arm, deflecting the red being away from her.
The two transformed beings are now face-to-face once again, with the red being ready for a battle, and the transformed Thy, despite her reluctance, the same mysterious force that overtook her earlier has taken control of her suit once again and she's now ready to defend herself. A battle of epic proportions is in the air…
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TO BE CONTINUED…
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A/N: And that's a wrap! The first chapter of my take on Kamen Rider Amazons has been completed. I sincerely apologize if this story's not good enough for you, but I do hope to get some great reviews! And as I said, I'll be following the real Kamen Rider Amazons quite closely, so don't expect this story to be updated as regularly as the other stories in this site since I'm figuring out a way to implement my original story into this. And yes, the theme to this story is indeed Dream Theater's Prophets of War. I highly recommend you to listen to that song, it's really awesome.
Feel free to leave your reviews and tell me where can I improve this story! This is maxpower02, signing off~