Chapter 11: My little black date

The Monday after the Spider Dreamon invasion, Nolan and Tim walk through the streets of Staten Island, leaving the bus terminal and continuing onto the hill leading to the school.

"So, how was the speed C.L.A.W?" Tim asks Nolan.

"I felt like Speedy Gonzalez." He replies, acting like the Looney Tunes mouse.

"You fail." Tim flat out says, with Kiba and Tigerton agreeing.

As they get to the front of the school, Yuliya bursts through the doors and dragging them into the lobby.

"What are you doing!" Tim yells at her.

"Look at the school paper!"

She gives them two papers and their face expressions change rapidly as they are shocked to see themselves as Kamen Riders.

"What, how, when!" Nolan asks her.

"It's from Saturday; during the Spider Dreamon battle."

"The massive monster attack in downtown Manhattan Saturday morning was handled by the armored vigilantes', Known to the general public as the Kamen Riders. Sources say that NYC's heroes are actually high school students attending McKee High in Staten Island." Tim reads.

"Ah crap. So what is going to happen?" Nolan asks.

"We just have to ignore it. Chances are we can play this off." Yuliya suggests.

The bell rings, letting the teens know that 1st period started.

"Mr. Ringer isn't here today right?" Nolan asks

"No, I doubt it." Tim replies.

"Then I'll see you guys in Cisco 6th period." Nolan replies racing up the stairs to Gym. The other two teens, with the term starting weeks before, split to their respective classes.


Second period comes around and as Nolan enters the chemistry room, the young photographer from the fight talks to Ms. Naanos, the Chem. Teacher. Nolan takes a seat on the left side of the room and the young girl takes a seat on the right.

"Okay, so Friday we were talking about equilibriums and how Le Chatelier's principle helps restore it. Now, today we're gonna learn about Forward and Reverse reactions." Ms. Naanos explains.

As Nolan copies his notes, he looks up and sees the girl smiling at him. He blushes a little as he looks back at his notebook and continues copying the notes. "This is gonna be a long period." He sighs.

"After the period ends, Nolan heads towards the stairs. He is stopped by the girl, who smiles again. "Hi there, my name is Jessica Stewart; but you can call me Jessie. You're Nolan right?"

Nolan chokes a little before he answers. "Yeah, my name is Nolan. It's nice to meet you."

"That's cute."

"What's that, I can't talk to a girl without choking?" He jokes.

"It's not that." She replies tying her hair into a ponytail.

"So what is?"

"That for the last 3 months, you have been NYC's hero: Kamen Rider C.L.A.W."

"What, you think I'm a Kamen Rider?"

"Actually, these pictures prove it."

She shows the pictures of him transforming and using the Speed Claw.

"Oh, that Kamen Rider: C.L.A.W." The tone of his voice, changing.

"Yeah, fortunately for you, I didn't mention your names; but I can."

"So what do you want, seeing that you're blackmailing us?" He asks, keeping under pressure.

"Nothing really; I just want one thing." She replies

"Which is…?"

"For you to go out with me."

"You expect me to go on a date with just because you're blackmailing me?"

"Yeah; pretty much."

"Well, then forget it."

"Okay, then I'll reprint the article and reveal to the entire school that you guys are our heroes; your choice."


Later at 6th period, Yuliya and Tim take turns smacking Nolan upside the head for agreeing to go on the date.

"You dumb idiot." Yuliya calls him

"How do you fall for a scheme like that?" Tim adds

"Well, what was I suppose to do? Let her expose us?"

"Well, no; but still you couldn't negotiate anything with her?" Tim asks.

"Besides, who would want to go out with you?" Yuliya asks.

"Well, she does so that's one." He replies. I'm going to get to the bottom of this anyway. I'll see why she's doing this. He replies.

"That's probably the only one too." Tim jokes.

"I hate you guys."

"Love you too." Yuliya speaks for the both of them. "Enjoy the date."


Later that day, Jessie meets up Nolan and they head through the bus stop, planning to spend the afternoon at the mall.

"So, Are we all set?" she asks, wrapping her arm around him.

"One question though." He replies detaching her off him. "Why go out with me? Do you realize all of the attention you'll get if this gets out?"

She latches back on and smiles. "Well, to be perfectly honest, I'm the new girl and I don't have many friends in McKee. Seeing that you're a Kamen Rider, I thought, it'd be nice to have a friend like you, plus hearing your reputation as being a really nice and honest kid, I wanted to see that for myself. Truth is, I always liked guys like that."

"Really, so what's with the blackmail?"

"Well, about that… you see, that's not the only reason I wanted to go out with you. I wanted to hire you to be my bodyguard."

"You're kidding right? Bodyguard from what, Former ex boyfriends, gang members…?"

"Actually, it's more complicated than that."

"Well what?" He asks again. Nolan begins to hear screams in the air as a girl faints and falls over into the fountain. Nolan and Jessie race over to see what happened, when Tigerton pops out of the book bag.

"Dreamon 12:00!" He tells Nolan.

The girl rises out of the fountain, with crimson red eyes as she transforms into a Mermaid-like Dreamon, who begins to instill fear into all of the witnesses. As the customers run, Nolan breaks away from Jessie who tries to break through the crowd.

"Please protect me!" she pleads.

Nolan pushes her away avoiding a blast from the Mermaid Dreamon. "Run Now!"

"But what's going to happen about you! Who's going to protect me!"

"Just shut up and run!" he shouts.

That sudden snap makes her run away in tears, like a bad rejection.

"Well, that takes care of her for the moment. Ready Tigerton?"

"Let's go!"

"HENSHIN!" Nolan called out as Tigerton transformed and slid onto his Brace.

"SHINOBI MODE!" The brace announced as the Green and Silver armor covered him.

"Speed C.L.A.W. Activate!" Nolan shouts, sliding the claw onto his wrist.

Transforming into speed mode, he starts the turbo shot and damages the Dreamon heavily.

"Final Slash Attack!" Nolan shouts as the blade slices through the monster, destroying it without much trouble. The girl returns to normal and Nolan gets out of the water. Turns out, she hates the water… a lot!"


After the fight, Nolan runs out of the mall to see a really pissed Jessica, holding her camera in her hand.

"You jerk! You broke our agreement. Now I'm going to reveal your secret to the whole school!" She shouts, tears rolling down on her face.

"You know what, screw it. I'm done. If you want to blow our secret, then by all means, go right ahead. Not everything revolves around you. Being a Kamen Rider means I'm responsible for everyone's life. Not just yours, Tim's, Yuliya's or even mine… Everyone's. And until you learn that, I don't want to be friends with you let alone date you!" He replies, being fed up with her. He walks away leaving her to think about those words.

The next day, Tim and Yuliya, yet again smack him in the head, for giving her permission to rat them out.

"Sometimes I wonder what to do with you." Yuliya tells him, with Tim agreeing.

Someone knocks at the door and Tim answers it.

"Nolan, Jessie's here." He calls out.

"So, you rat us out?" he asks in a heartless tone.

"No; the complete opposite." She replies giving them the SD card with the pictures on it."

"This is…"

"All of the pictures from Saturday. I'm really sorry for yesterday. I understand if you don't want to be friends with me after what I did. I just wanted to show you how I felt. See you around."

She heads for the door, but Nolan stops her from going.

"Wait a sec." Nolan called out, causing her to stop. "Thank you, I really appreciate it. How Can I make it up to you?"

"You already have." She replies giving him a kiss on the cheek. "You saved my life and knock sense into me. A friend I really want."

"That's so cute." Tim jokes.

"Jealous much." Nolan coughs covering the comment.

Tim hears it and chases Nolan Through the room.

"Welcome to the group." Yuliya comments, patting Jessica on her shoulder.

Jessie smiles at Yuliya and looks back at the other two. "Thank You for accepting me."

END