'I must make it, I have to make it and I can't afford to fail here now!' A certain purple haired girl thought as she was skating her way around the field destroying any targets she saw. She hoped that her partner was all right and would not be in as much trouble as she was in. As she saw four giant watermelons transform into robots with big axes pointed at her, ready to destroy her now.

She grunted as she activated her gauntlets and just pounded her way through the first one and made a hole in its chest, while she then slid to the second one on her right and slammed her leg into its leg causing to tumble down and then she jumped up and slammed its head into pieces. While the two remaining ones analyzed her and shifted into flying mode to gun her down then.

She saw this and desperately tried to get both of them but could only get the closer one with her Revolver Fist on its thrusters, this disabling it. She then had to dodge and move around as the last unit tried to gun her down, only to be shot by a beam far away as it exploded. The girl then got up to see a twin tailed girl nodding at her till she left to accomplish the goal.

She continued moving on as she blasted every machine and drone that got in her way. From the regular drone blaster units to the watermelon bots she faced to siege units and even animal bots that tried to surprise and pounce on her to knock her out. Nothing will stop her here and Teana from beating this examination as she wanted to meet up with her idols as she raced to the end.

"So what do you think of those two mages Yu?" A brunette, side ponytailed woman asked a tall young man in black and blue. "Those two seem quite promising so far and they could achieve more than most could have ever done so far." She continued on a bit as 'Yu' just paid attention to their actions on the screen as they kept passing every obstacle in their way still.

Then he spoke, "I must admit those two are quite promising and at the rate they are going at they can accomplish a lot Nanoha." As Nanoha quickly started to smile it also went away when he pointed out their flaws as well. "But the problem is with those two is their lack of coordination, that is heavily dangerous out on the field. Another problem would be their individual characteristics as well." Looking a bit confused Yu decided to try and explain it to her directly.

"Subaru has a lack of battlefield coordination and does not pay attention to everything around her and has on more than one occasion here so far just move rather recklessly. Teana's problem on the other hand is her rather distant attitude on the mission, she barely gets along with Subaru as it is and does not try to plan or talk with her on the adapting battlefield." Now looking at Nanoha in the eyes. "Lack of communication leads to mistakes and mistakes lead to deaths out there." He said rather gravely and all Nanoha could do was nod in reluctant agreement for now.

"Still, if they can overcome their own flaws or work together to cover each flaws all then I see no doubt in their future as potentially great mages still Nanoha." He said as a reprieve and accepting their potential as well causing Nanoha to smile again. "For now though, we should see how those two girls do on their exam, should be interesting to see, don't you agree Nanoha?" As Nanoha nodded too and soon sat down and the two TSAB officers started to eat popcorn while watching.

This was going to be a short test as the two proved to be rather competent despite all the new drones and machines that had been added to the test course to increase the difficulty for it. After the TSAB discovered Earth was filled to the brim with neat secrets and gizmos. Lots of them tried to know a lot more about it. Some companies got their interests quite well and easily in fact.

The companies that got their interest now make vehicles, defense suits, robots, and other miscellaneous items for them. Now the Courses to become a higher rank Mage got more difficult over the years as the Robots from Earth proved to be rather adaptable and forces the Mages to adapt even further than they would have done on the test. Also makes great sparring units too.

But back to the test and soon about four minutes later they finished watching the two mages finished it in time but also rather recklessly. They were both silent for a moment before deciding to talk about their performances later to let those two mages rest as they exited out of their ship and floated down to where Reinforce was berating the two for acting so recklessly in the end.

Even so, Reinforce also took the time to praise them for their work as well before Yu let Nanoha go up forward to deal with her students. He just sat back and let her talk to them, they weren't his students; the only reason why he was here. mainly because Hayate wanted to talk to him about a unit that she was trying to put together and she was looking to talk to him about its conception.

Mainly in that she wanted him to join up with her unit while also using his ability to work outside the law without the restrictions from all the red tape. He smirked at that as he remembered just how exhausted Hayate was in from nearly overworking herself on all the paperwork she had to fill out to just even get the unit proposed in the first place to begin with.

He never had a lot of issues with paperwork because working directly as one of the Grand Marshal's subordinates means that he did not have to fill out every form he written in triplicates. Sometimes it just pays to be under command of high ranking official and having friends in high place. He mostly gets sent out on search and destroy missions of any dangerous monsters around.

He had been in a lot of those missions since somehow Shocker got around the security the TSAB had set up and started wreaking havoc in space and on various planets now. All he got from Intel was that a new leader had been promoted and that they have no idea who the leader is and what is the leader planning to do. He gripped his Device on his wrist tightly as he remembered many of their crimes and atrocities in the last four years alone, as they killed tons of innocent lives.

No wonder that his parents and Nanoha's parents want to talk about Shocker's wave of terror in their time at all. They were already becoming a public menace and many Riders have started exploring in space and on various civilian worlds to deal with them. Heck even the TSAB has started up a plan to begin their own idea for each planet to have its own militia to deal with Shocker. The idea was to use the mass produced Riot-Trooper Ver. 4 belts to arm them up. And have various support vehicles to assist them to deal with Shocker's terror activities very soon.

Soon dragged out of his thoughts as Fate stood in front of him looking quite concerned. The years have been kind to Fate since the day they met, Fate has grown into an absolutely gorgeous woman with lovely features that can easily be on par if not outrank Nanoha's beauty as well. "Yu, Nanoha is doing with the new recruits and you've been standing there for a while. Are you okay Yu?" Fate asked in her sweet melodious voice that made him feel comfortable right now.

He just smiled at her as he spoke up. "I'm fine Fate, just thinking about some missions in the past and also thinking about what should those two mages should be doing you know?" To which Fate nodded in reply. "But enough about that, I believe that you and Nanoha want to grab some lunch now then?" He asked to which she smiled and just nodded her head in affirmation.

I chuckled a bit. "All right then, let's go back to our place then. I have been trying out this new Persian recipe that I found on the internet and it looked fascinating." I started to go off on a tangent and Fate just smiled softly as Nanoha also caught up to us and just giggled in amusement with my obsession to try and make new kinds of recipes all the time, they were quite fun to try.

Speaking of new recipes and what not, he wondered what kind of dish did Uncle Nitoh butchered this time with his obsession with mayo on his vacation with Auntie Lindy. Ah well, the dishes should be wreaked horribly with his obsession with mayo and Lindy's perchance to putting weird things in her drinks. He did smile fondly when he heard of their engagement and the way Nitoh did his proposal to Lindy, it was sweet and shocking and overall a very fond story to tell.

(Flashback Start)

It had been more than four years since they started dating and here they were on an unidentified world filled to the brim with wilderness. In other words, it was the perfect place to go camping for many outdoorsy kinds of people. But right now that was not important. What is important is that two very important people were camping out here as part of their vacation and dating.

Both Nitoh and Lindy were just sitting around the campfire as they listened to soft country music from earth. Well they were snuggling with each other as they roasted marshmallows over the fire. It was a very quiet time for them and it was just comfortable that they did not bother to say anything.

It was only when Nitoh started to get up and looked seriously at Lindy did she noticed that something important was about to happen. Then Nitoh spoke as seriously and as kindly as he never had done before till now, which surprised Lindy.

"Lindy, in the five years we have known each other, there was no one else that could understand me as well as you have. You stayed by my side at my lowest point, you gave me the courage to face the morning sun, so that I could shine. You and I have been through so much events together, that I believe that there is no one else I want to stand by my side as I want to stand by your side."

He said as seriously as he did as he then brought a beautifully diamond made ring by Nitoh's own efforts, which she recognized imminently due to its shape being that of a lion, causing her to tear up in joy at what's about to happen. Oh how long did she waited for this moment to come.

"So Lindy Harlaown, will you do me the greatest privilege of becoming my wife?" Nitoh asked with determination only to get tackled hugged by Lindy as she squealed saying "I do!" Over and over again as Nitoh started crying tears of joy as they hugged each other under the full moon, as the fire slowly goes out. As the two newly engaged couple hugged and kissed each other in joy.

(Flashback End)

He remembered when they finished telling the story of how they got engaged, all the girls could not stop crying after being so touched by Nitoh's proposal. While us guys congratulated him on finally tying the knot with her. He also remembered Chrono's look of fear when he realized that we will soon be cousins and how much he did not like me at times and this time he can't say anything bad because it would prove to be very detrimental to his career and his respect as well.

Oh how he loved screwing with him at times, seriously the guy was just way too uptight for his own good. And every time he got himself in danger with his teammates and whatever silly idea that Hayate comes up to dress me up in for her cosplay fetish and he just happens to walk in all the time. He easily starts to lose his sense of self control and started yelling at us about decency.

Oh how he would just ignore him to pay attention to the girls and whenever he tried to grab my attention he failed epically at getting the attention he needed. "Sorry Chrono but I would rather pay attention to the opposite sex and I am sorry but I am afraid I do now swing that way, so find someone else." Some of the replies he would give back to him in a trolling deadpan tone to him.

Ah how he would splutter with rage and turned bright red at the thoughts and how many of the Enforcers would start snickering at him while whispering he walked into my traps. Although that did cause someone *Cough, Hayate Cough* to start their own story about me and Chrono in love. Still totally worth it, and for the record many believed that I will be the one on top.

Now that he thought about him he wondered how his uptight, by the books, no fun, rather dull, and currently married cousin was doing right now. Probably stuck doing a lot of paperwork still.

(Somewhere else)

A black haired young adult sneezed quite strongly as he accidentally knocked all of his papers to the ground and started cursing out about a certain "Warlock."

His wife looked really concerned when he started muttering out death threats and using TSAB Resources to help him accomplish his goals.

(Back now)

Ah well doesn't matter now have to make my best friends lunch now, though he wondered how were the rest of his friends doing. Ah well they should be doing fine if not, having lots of fun with their mission right about now. Oh! He should probably give Signum her letter from Kenzaki soon enough. Apparently he wanted to spar with her only using their blade skills in the duel.

A bunch of Shocker grunts were trying to desperately flee in fear as they then got trapped in a barrier and desperately tried to break out but despite all of their efforts, they could not make a single scratch on it. "Shocker Grunts." A cold harsh female voice called out to them causing them to freeze in their attempts and saw to their horror. A Pink Haired Sword lady walking towards them with nothing but anger and contempt marked on her face right now.

"Attacking and killing civilians, terrorism, selling dangerous drugs and weapons, burning down buildings, and resisting arrest. I, Signum of the TSAB have been authorized to execute you all." She said as coldly as she did before her sword shifted into her whip and tied up the grunts, who all desperately tried to escape their punishment, only to be burned for their crimes leaving ashes.

After they all burned down she reached to her right ear to contact someone. "Shamal, all enemies have been eliminated you can now put down the barrier now." As soon as she said that, the barrier around her collapsed as a blonde woman came out with the TSAB uniform on followed by a giant blue wolf as though it was guarding her from any possible dangers that might occur.

"Is that the last of the Shocker Grunts in this city for now Shamal?" Signum asked in her monotone voice that contained a trace of cold unbending steel in her words.

She shook her head in response. "No Signum, we have successfully eliminated all of Shocker terrorists around in this city. I believe that we should get back to Command now and pick up the kids that Fate was supposed to be training for Mistress Hayate's Unit."

"Copy that." Signum responded as they soon dropped off by the local Police Department, who thanked them for their work and soon left the city behind them. Then Shamal spoke up noticing something in interest about the Shocker Terrorist group.

"To think that these were the foes that the defenders of Earth would fight all the time since their constant revival…No wonder the Riders that we had fought with and sparred were so skilled in the art of combat." Shamal noted in understanding as everyone else nodded at the answer as well.

They were pretty sore that they lost so easily to the Riders they had fought for the first time and decided to have a rematch against them to see just how skilled they were in combat with the Cloud Knights at full power. The results did not change other than taking longer to defeat and it surprised that the Knights were losing to younger and more limited warriors in a sense.

But now fighting Shocker for months on end they saw that their skills serve them well but even they were pushed to their limits when they brought out some of the really nasty ones. Like the machines that can alter perception of time, the aliens that can move at hyper speed, and even the monsters sealed within the Mirror World when they somehow managed to break out of their seal.

It was no wonder and no longer a mystery to them anymore that the Riders could fight so skillfully and powerfully in the battlefield. Most of the rouge mages they fight no longer proves to be even a quarter as challenging anymore for them. They had the years of experience but the Riders had the quality of enemies to face over their life. They were forged by powerful monsters.

Signum nodded her head in agreement. "Indeed it is no wonder these Riders were skilled in the art of combat. It would certainly explain just how skilled Blade is every time we duel each other." She said the last part under her breathe quietly, but unfortunately, not quietly enough that the other Cloud Knights heard her and all looked at each other and decided to tease her for a bit.

"So you're saying that you are quite eager to see a certain Spade themed Kamen Rider again Signum?" Shamal teased, causing said woman to freeze up as she started to look a bit more nervously at her companions right now.

"I-I-I am not saying that I am eager to see him, all I am saying is that he's a worthy warrior to spar with is all." She said a bit too quickly causing her companions to smirk a bit at her denial and her obvious liking for the powerful Kamen Rider.

"Suuure you don't Signum that is why you always seem to grow excited every time he stops by our place for a spar or wish to just spend some time with us." Shamal now grinning like the cat ate the canary right about now. "And also why you always look forward to the love letters he sent you."

That caused Signum to blush a violent shade of red as she tried to regain her ground. "They, they are not love letter Shamal!" She all but roared out to the medic. "We just happen to have similar hobbies and we like to keep in contact with each other to see how we are doing!"

Now the Medic's grin turned predatory. "Oh since when have you two been in the business of keeping into close contact with each other like two love-struck teenagers?" This was the final blow for the fearsome Knight as she finally decided to just huff and walk ahead faster than anyone else. All the meanwhile the other Cloud knights were secretly snickering at just how fast Signum fall apart when being interrogated about her rather uneventful love life of sorts.

The last time Signum was ever this embarrassed was when during a Hot Spring trip with Hayate and their friends. Hayate started groping Signum's breasts and fondle it to the best of her abilities alongside Reinforce and Lindy's to compare who had the best kind of breasts of the three women there. Needless to say while both Reinforce and Lindy were surprisingly nonchalant about it.

Signum was reduced to an embarrassed wreck when later on she would be joined in by Shamal and the two were rather embarrassed and none of the guys could look at them in the face due to being on the other side of the Hot Spring. Everyone save for Nitoh and Yu, the former just paid attention to his girlfriend's health and the latter not being there due to washing himself and arriving late due to the former's need to refuel his motorcycle along the way to the Hot Springs.

Thus Yu was left very mystified over what happened when he finally got to the Hot Springs and both Nanoha and Fate quickly shut Hayate's mouth before she could have gone into details. Not to mention those two girls weren't safe at all from Hayate's deviously perverted mind as well. By the time Hayate was through with them, they were left a blubbering mess of red skin.

As Yu was looking over the records for the two candidates to become a B class Mage for Hayate's special unit. He could not help but frown and be concerned over the history of one Teana as he looked at her family history. Her brother was one of the most accomplished mages to appear in the Bureau, but was among the first to die at the hands of Shocker's terrorism at the time. That made him worried, she had the drive, but she may not be mentally stable to go with it.

Just as he was about to read more into Teana's family history and then read into Subaru's family history. He felt two hands cover his eyes and prevented him from seeing. Now even he cannot help but smile a bit at one of the two women that does this back in the place he shares with Nanoha and Fate. "Guess who it Yu." An excited tone spoke out behind his back as he grinned.

"Oh my." He started off rather playfully. "It appears that my eyesight has been blinded by the hands of a rather beautiful woman." Causing said beautiful woman to giggle a bit in joy. "Knowing only one person who can speak like that, considering that there is only two women in the household, I will be hazardously guessing it to be my long time best friend Nanoha then?"

Said woman began to giggle again as she smiled widely at the correct guess of her best friend and crush. "Why Yu you are absolutely correct!" Then she began to whisper into his right ear. "Want to know the prize you win for guessing correctly then? It would be worth your while and it is something that you can't resist that well, as it is one of your few weaknesses." She said.

That caused him to be a bit excited as there are very few things that can honestly be said to be his ultimate weaknesses. "Oh? And pray tell me what is the prize then Nanoha, what is this prize that is my greatest weakness as well." As he slowly snaked his way out of Nanoha's grasp and grabbed her by the side causing said woman to squeal a bit in joy as they started massaging each other. Nanoha got started on my left shoulder while I worked on her back, she's very tense there.

"Good Yu." Nanoha started speaking while blushing and rubbing herself a bit. "The prize just so happens to be the sprinkled doughnuts made by my parents sent to us in a pack mail!" She said rather cheerfully and I quickly started to rub her down much more intensely causing her to moan joyfully as I finished and quickly walked down to the kitchen where the prize was it before me.

As soon as I saw it I quickly reached for my prize and moaned in delight as I took the bite of wonderful sprinkled doughnuts once again! Then Nanoha walked up to me and looked at me in concern, I was not really that surprised considering how good she is at reading emotions. "Is there something that is troubling you at the moment Yu? You seem to be drifting off a bit."

He just sighed as he smiled a bit more strained than normal at her. "Well you know what's going on. I am mostly concerned about that recruit Teana that we have going for the Mage promotion examinations." Wonder what this was going on about he explained it to her. "She has a rough past and lost one of her loved ones in a terrorist attack by Shocker and I fear she may not be stable. She has been recorded to have shown antisocial behavior with only Subaru tolerating it."

Nanoha could only bit on the lower end of her lip as she understood where I'm coming from. Mages that have pretty traumatic pasts are usually not stable and would unintentionally cause harm to another. Fate was an exception as she had support from not only me and Nanoha but also my family as well. Oh, and speaking of Fate she just got back and was also listening to my worries about the Teana. "So in the end I am worried about just how bad this will affect her ability on the field. For all I know the lessons may not even stick and we have to intervene."

There a bit of a silence for a moment till Fate spoke up. "Nevertheless Yu we simply have to believe in the potential that both Teana and Subaru showed and have faith that they can overcome any obstacle in their way, that is after all part of the requirements to become stronger in life is it not Yu?" Both Nanoha and I could only smile at her for her motherly hopeful attitude.

Oh! Which also reminded me of something as well. "Thanks Fate, though I just remember wasn't there two little tykes that we agreed to help take care that were recommended to be part of Hayate's new Unit arriving to this world?" Both she and Nanoha's eyes lit up at the mention and soon Fate started talking about the two kids. Erio Mondial and Caro Ru Lushe were their names if I remember correctly. Two kids that were picked up by Fate during one of her last missions.

I could not hold back a chuckle as Fate started to fawn over them a bit when she started talking about those kids, she is really caring like that after all. But we needed to have dinner so I excused myself so I could fix up dinner for the three of us. Assuming that Hayate does decide to stop by here alongside the Cloud Knights as well, which is very possible considering the situation here.

As I finished making dinner Hayate only stopped by to inform us of the current status of her new unit and politely declined to have dinner with us as she and her Knights already ate and soon left. We soon had dinner and all of us talked about the small things in life and how much we all changed over the years since we all met each other and one of us was introduced to magic then.

After dinner I decided to go to the bathroom as both Nanoha and Fate insisted that they will do the dishes citing that since I was the one to make dinner they should also do some of the chores. I knew better than to argue with those two ladies, so as I made my way to the bath I took a small look at all the pictures that were framed on the wall along the way upstairs to the second floor.

It was there that I stopped to focus on one particular picture as I smiled fondly at the picture. It was the one from the first Christmas party that all of us since the Jewel Seed incident spent together. There was Chrono being hugged by Amy as he looked a bit bashful, Yuuno holding his books like the scholar he is, Hayate and her Knights all holding their fingers up in a victory pose as they all smiled brightly, mom and dad as they hugged and kissed each other, Mr. and Mrs. Takamachi as they both hugged each other and held up a lot of pastries, Alf devouring some kebobs, Nitoh and Lindy with their arms around each other, and me, Nanoha, Alicia, and Fate all in a massive group hug as we all smiled pretty happily at being reunited with each other again.

There were the bad times and there were the good times back then during the Book of Darkness incident, bad times like Phoenix rising, me almost dying, Hayate's illness, and what not. But there were also the good times like Fate's first time heading to school, Valkyrie's proper introduction, my new Blood Warrior forms, saving Hayate and Reinforce, and the girls finally meeting other Kamen Riders. But my personal favorite was defeating the corrupted program.

Shaking my head out of those memories I turned on the bath and while it was running I took the time to grab my pajamas as I also took off my clothes and soon the bath was done and the room was steamy, just the way I liked it. Dropping down into the bath, I released a moan of relief as I let the hot water do all of its work in easing up my tense muscles and I just sat down enjoying it.

Then that moment was interrupted as I heard the door opened up again and I raised my head to see both Fate and Nanoha smiling at me. Knowing exactly what they wanted, I made room for them in the bath as they too sat down and soon enough we all started washing each other up. We got into some interesting talks about the future, Hayate's new unit and the latest news back home and what not. It went on like that for a couple of minutes till we all decided to just relax now.

I just wondered how my life would have gone if I had never met the two most important girls on my life. As the two girls in question shifted around to start relaxing on my shoulders as both grabbed an arm and held it close to their bosom. My life probably would not have been as interesting and epic for a prepubescent kid and I probably would have been a bookworm my whole life now that I think about it. Just another Kamen Rider protecting people on one world.

It was time like this that I truly enjoyed reflecting on my life and just how different it could have been from the current present as of right now. I then raised my eyebrows as I realized that Fate and Nanoha were sleepy so I quickly got of the bath and picked those two up and dried them both up. As I put on my pajamas and put on theirs as well.

I also made sure to dry their hair and comb it in the style they loved it to be in and tucked them both away to sleep before I gave them my own good night kiss and left their rooms. I silently went down to the kitchen grabbed myself a cup of milk before moon gazing a bit and soon went to bed myself soon enough myself.