Chapter 21: Sky Fight part 2

"Congratulations Kamen Riders. You have defeated my soldiers, but you'll be next."

Richard walks up to them, having a sinister smile on his face.

"No way… Richard is…" Nolan tries to say feeling betrayed and devastated that the one person he viewed as an older brother was the same monster that nearly killed them the other day."

"You can't win." Richard says transforming into ACE. ACE straightens his jacket as he quickly takes out both Nolan and Tim with ease.

"You're next." ACE points out.

"Really, because I was hoping for a sky battle!" Dominick replies pulling out the white claw from earlier. Dominick slides the claw onto the brace and Kyuge's eyes glow white.

"FLIGHT C.L.A.W ACTIVATED!" Kyuge announces.

Dominick's armor is replaced with white and gold armor as the remaining black armor forms wings on the back. The wings glow gold, as they fold back. Dominick gains another sword and he takes the two swords and combines them to become a double edged blade. He spins it and slams it into the ground.

"Well, seems we'll get that sky fight!" Ace replies, transforming into the Eagle D-brid. "Let's fly."

The two winged warriors shoot into the air to begin their aerial clash, all the while, the three teens look in awe of the new form of the samurai warrior.

"Wow, that's amazing." Yuliya says.

"Oh man that's sick; I'd give anything to have that!" Tim adds, wishing he was Dominick

Nolan on the other hand sulks while trying to comprehend the events that happened in the mere 2 minutes that basically destroyed the friendship. Yuliya and Tim turn to him and pull him from the ground.

"Pull yourself together!" Yuliya orders.

"How can I!? It's like I just lost a brother!"

Yuliya stops herself from saying anything else. She relaxes and he lets him have his way.

Meanwhile, Dominick and ACE duke it out in the skies, matching blow for blow, each being not giving up.

"You're good, but you should know, that foxes should stay on the ground!" ACE comments, taking a breath before charging at him again.

"Well, I'm just stubborn like that." Dominick replies charging at the D-brid.

As the two beings fly through the air and over the ocean leading into Manhattan, Dominick attempts to kick ACE into the water under them.

ACE easily dodges the kick, but at the same time, grabs the rider's leg and throws him towards it. Regaining his balance, Dominick speeds towards ACE and slashes the eagle, knocking him into the water.

"Man, this is harder than I thought it'd be." Dominick says, trying to look for ACE's bio readings.

"I don't sense him at all." Kyuge tells him.

"Well, ACE of the royal flush five is known for being the wisest of the five D-Brid Rulers."

"So what does that mean?" Kyuge asks.

"That he's hiding in the water, or he's sped off so far that we can't sense him on the bio tracker."

"Commander, Witnesses say that ACE is attacking Battery Park!" Yuliya tells him through the intercom in his helmet.

"Wait, weren't there ferry boats going into Manhattan to avoid Ace's rampage!?" Nolan asks shocked.

"He's cutting the citizens off at Battery Park!" Dominick realizes. "I'm on it."

Dominick's wings glow gold as the samurai shoots towards the south ferry at mach speed.

Meanwhile, outside the south Manhattan ferry lays Battery Park. A quiet and lively park, which is even livelier now that there's a D-brid running amok.

As ACE throws a card at a scared citizen, that very person transforms into the sparrow Dreamon, assisting ACE in scaring the citizens even more.

"Hahaha. This is working better that I'd imagine. My Plans are going perfectly."

"Want to Bet!?" Dominick calls out slicing through ACE in a surprise attack.

The bird Dreamon sinks towards the ground de-transforming into his human form.

"Damn you jerk!" Ace curses under his breath. "Sparrow, attack!"

The sparrow Dreamon obeys as he tackles Dominick and begins to pummel him into the ground.

Dominick kicks the Dreamon off of him and slashes him a few times before destroying it.

ACE hisses in disgust as he transforms again to try to escape. Dominick slides Kyuge onto his brace and allows the gold energy to surround the blade.

"FINAL SLASH ATTACK!" Kyuge announces as Dominick chucks the blade. The blade impales ACE as the sky turns dark.

"It's over you stupid Bird!" Dominick shouts as lightning begins to develop in the sky. He flies in the air and uses the magnetic force to carry the lightning and redirects it into the blade, electrocuting the beast.

"It's Not Possible!!" ACE screams as the lightning breaks pieces of sand off his body. As both blades detach from each other, they disappear as Ace, once again returns to his normal form.

"Now, I'll end you, so that they'll be one less of the royal flush five to deal with."

"You think so?!" ACE asks kicking Dominick in the stomach and striking him, so that the rider form is canceled out.

"Now if you excuse me, I'll take my leave." ACE says bleeding sand from his chest. He disappears as Dominick sits there punching the ground realizing he lost his chance at killing him.

"Don't worry; we'll get him next time." Kyuge reassures

"I don't think we'll have a next time. Who knows what he planning now."

Later Dominick returns to Staten Island via ferry, meeting up with his team.

"So what happened!?" The three burst out asking not giving the young commander anytime to breathe.

"He got away. He's more powerful than I thought."

"So, what can we do?" Yuliya asks.

"We get on our own two feet and figure out what ACE has in store for us."

"Okay." The three agree in unison, especially Nolan who recovered from his depression.

Meanwhile, in the nightmare realm, the weakened ACE walks across the Castle of the Royal Flush Five, walking through the lab room where he puts a mysterious sack on the table. He also carries with him a deck of cards tossing into it two JACK of Diamonds cards. He programs into the computer the codes and designs of the tarantula and he puts the bag into the capsule where the computer is connected to.

"Now, I will resurrect my fallen comrade and we will rule the city of New York and then the world." He laughs manically.

The machine powers up and quickly turns off. When the capsule opens, red and black smoke pours out until a human foot steps out from it.

"Well, good work ACE, When can we have fun?" a familiar voice asks

ACE, waves his hand over the cut instilled by Dominick and it heals instantly. "Whenever you're ready, JACK."

Meanwhile at the hospital, the unconscious Jesse hand twitches a little and utters JACK's name slightly.

Back with Nolan and the gang, Tim gets a cold shiver down his spine as he senses something that's supposed to be long and dead.

"Hey Tim, are you okay?" Nolan asks

"Yeah, just great. I just had a bad feeling is all."

"Okay, if you say so."

"I sense you JACK. I'm waiting…" Tim tells himself as he races to catch up with the other three.

END

A/N: Hey people, sorry this sky fight didn't go as I planned. The entire fight was supposed to take place in the air but I had a hard time trying to describe it so I just settled with what I got. I'm planning the next few chapters out and be assured, there are going to be more shocks in store in addition to my favorite spider coming back.