Narumi and Mason followed the robotic dinosaur through the barracks. The two were quick to notice that the dinosaur was going for a discreet route, away from the army. They made no comment as they continued. Eventually the dinosaur stopped at a laboratory. Several machines were humming, almost in unison. There was also a table with several of the ribcage memories. The dinosaur hops onto the table as a man in a lab coat comes to it. Narumi and Mason enter the lab, with the door closing behind them. The door was weak and wooden.

"Well done, Fang. Deactivate." The lab coat man said. The dinosaur nodded and lied down. The man then looked at the duo. "Sokichi Narumi and Alex Mason, I presume?" The man said.

"Yeah, but how do you know our names?" Mason asked.

"I looked you guys up the moment my wife asked for your help." The man said.

"So you're the lady's husband." Narumi said.

"Exactly. My name is Pravo. Well, that's the nickname my captors call me. I have long forgotten my old name. Ironically, I remember the day I was taken in here like it was yesterday." Pravo said.

"Tell us about it. It might give us insight on what is going on." Narumi said.

"Very well… Take a seat, this may take a while." Pravo said. Narumi does so while Mason slouches on a wall.

"I remember that I was exploring a cave that was recently discovered. Someone had reported that a gray wave passed by him and a waterfall, and the next thing he knows, he finds a cave behind the waterfall that until a year ago never existed. No one knew how it happened so they sent me in to check the area out." Pravo said as he remembered himself exploring the cave. "I remember a green light and I somehow knew that the light had to do with what had happened. So I went." Pravo said as he recalled him seeing a green light just around the corner. Pravo followed the light. "I soon found a crater full of that green light. It was unlike anything that I have ever seen." Pravo said as he remembered going to a large part of the cave where a pit was. There was tons of green light flowing from the pit. Pravo looked into the pit. "Suddenly, the earth shook!" Pravo said as the he remembered the ground beneath his feet shaking, making him loose his balance. He soon fell into the pit as the glow intensifies. "I nearly died… but according to what I read on myself, I did." Pravo said. After a while, the pit began to spit out random letters and numbers as they formed into a single blob. That blob soon exploded, leaving behind Pravo, who looked around, wondering what had happened. "I had no idea how I was alive, but I was. I left the cave that very moment. When I returned home, I had this odd surge. In my mind were tons of unread books. They tempted me to read… to learn… to study. I began with one book, then leaped to another, and another. I must have switched books every minute. Outside of my mind I was spouting random information and scribbling on walls with a pencil as a way to take notes on what I learned. By the time I was done, the army came and took me away. They told me that the green light was really a powerful surge of energy and with my understanding of the light; I could harness the power of the surge and make something that will save Russia. I wasn't aware that I could just read their minds by looking them up in that library in my head, and when I did, I was too late."

"I was already building about a hundred of these with the threat of death should I leave by the time I could look up what their intentions were. That was about six months ago." Pravo said.

"Just one question. When did that gray wall appear?" Narumi asked.

"Uh… December 12, 1974." Pravo said.

"… I knew it…" Narumi said.

"Knew what?" Mason asked.

"December 12 was the day we returned from that game of gods." Narumi said.

"… Yeah… I remember now… You bit the bullet pretty hard in Nam. But what did that have to do with the gray wall?" Mason said.

"Your friend, Hudson, said that a large spike 'Neo Wave' was recorded a year ago. Pravo said that he gained weird powers a year ago. We arrived here a year ago. You and I both had the Neo-Wave radiation, my Skull memory having more of it." Narumi said.

"Get to the point!" Mason said.

"I caused this." Narumi said. There was silence between the two as Pravo went into a trance with his arms parted on both sides.

"What do you mean?" Mason asked.

"When I went into your world, I probably brought part of my world with me. Your world was a world without Kamen Riders or Gaia Memories. I changed that." Narumi said.

"Just because you arrived to my world doesn't mean that you caused it." Mason said.

"Is there perhaps another reason why there are now Gaia Memories?" Narumi asked.

"It's possibly the closest theory. I looked up this so-called Neo Wave, and the earliest recording was December 12, 1974. It's no doubt that it's Narumi's fault." Pravo said, breaking out of his trance.

"Yeah…" Narumi said.

"Hey! Don't feel down." Mason said.

"I am not… I'm just counting my sins. But there's too many to count. I caused this. I caused this suffering." Narumi said.

"But now you can end it. We can end it. I have a plan. See that dinosaur?" Pravo said, pointing to Fang.

"Yeah. What about it?" Mason asked.

"Well…" Pravo said, picking up the sleeping dinosaur and began to bend its pieces around. He then pulled out something from the Dinosaur was attached to it. He then showed it to Narumi. The dinosaur was moulded into a cyan stick with the top half having the top half of a dinosaur's skull. On the bottom half was something that was familiar to both Narumi and Mason. A USB Flash Drive. The label had a cyan F on it. Unlike the other memories they found, the F wasn't manipulated into a shape resembling what the letter stands for. "This is the Fang Memory, the first Gaia Memory to act on its own. I've built this with the intention of escaping my captors using its power. It's based off the Earth's memories of Dinosaurs." Pravo said.

"Why dinosaurs? Why not a gun so you can shoot people on your escape?" Mason said.

"Well, I could have made a Memory based on guns, and I have," Pravo said, walking to another table which held a briefcase. He opened the briefcase, took out a Gaia Memory, and showed it to them. It wasn't a ribcage memory, but was similar to Narumi's. It was blue with a gold tip, and on the label was a T in the shape of a gun. "but even with armor and a gun, I couldn't beat an army." Pravo said, setting the Memory down back into the briefcase. "I built the Fang Memory for two reasons, one was because of its strength, and the other was to create a robot form for it to emulate with a frame of reference. That way, if someone was spying on me, they'd just see a robot dinosaur as opposed to a Gaia Memory." Pravo said.

"So how come you haven't escaped yet? You have the Memory." Narumi asked.

"Well, I need to use a driver. The Memory is too refined to just place directly into the body. However, that's still not enough. The Gaia Memory's power will be too strong and will corrupt me. I need another Memory to counteract that power. So I built this." Pravo said. He then took out a weird contraption. It looked like Narumi's Lost Driver, but with an extra arm on the other end, making it look like a W. "The Fang Memory goes onto one side of the Driver, and another memory goes into the other side, dulling the corruption of the Fang Memory. I've built six other memories built just for the Driver. However, a human being could only use one Memory at its full power without risking their lives, so I built another Driver. However it's hard to find extra help, especially when you're imprisoned, but with you, Narumi, I might have a chance to escape!" Pravo said. Suddenly the door broke open, breaking in two as Aleksandrovic entered.

"I'm afraid not!" Aleksandrovic said. Narumi and Mason get into a fighting stance. "I've looked for that Futo you talked about and I never found it. You made it all up., didn't you?" Aleksandrovic said.

"No. It's real. In my world." Narumi said.

"Your world? What are you talking about, you insane man?" Aleksandrovic said.

"I am not of your world. I came from my world. Or rather someone else's. It doesn't matter now. Leave Pravo alone and I won't have to resort to deadly force." Narumi said.

"Pah! Never! I won't risk losing our golden goose!" Aleksandrovic said, placing the X Driver on his waist as the belt was made. He then took out his Stag Memory and presses it.

"STAG!" The memory announced as Aleksandrovic puts the memory into the center of the driver, sucking the memory in. Armor materializes from out of nowhere and places themselves on Aleksandrovic's body. His head wrapped itself in a pseudo-cocoon and burst open, creating the Stag Dopant's head. Narumi took a notice on the Stag Dopant's face. It was the same as the Beetle Dopant's face, but there were two large red compound eyes. Narumi places the Lost Driver on his waist and took out his Skull Memory.

"SKULL!" The memory announced. Narumi takes off his hat.

"Henshin." Narumi said as he placed the memory into the Driver and activated the Driver.

"SKULL!" The memory announced again as it showed the Skull Symbol. The symbol then explodes into a purple circle as lightning arises from the circle as armor builds up from bottom to top, when the helmet formed, a current of wind blew inside the lab.

"Now…" Narumi said, placing the hat on the skull helmet. "Count your sins…" Narumi said, pointing at the Dopant. The two stared at each other for a while, then began running at each other, both delivering a punch. They were pushed back by the punch. Narumi gets out his Skull Magnum and begins shooting at the Stag Dopant's belt. Mason and Pravo ran and hid for cover as Pravo held the two W drivers. After a couple of shots, the Stag Dopant began to deflect the blasts. The bullets hit other parts of the lab, putting holes in the walls. The Stag Dopant charged at Narumi, who dodged him. He then turned to the Dopant and fired a few bullets. However, the Dopant dodged the shots as they hit the briefcase instead. Pravo saw as the briefcase hit the floor. The Six Memories fell out of the briefcase in pieces. Pravo tried to reach for them, but Mason held him back. The Stag Dopant then opened it's clear insect wings and flew towards Narumi, horns first. Narumi shot a few bullets, but the Dopant dodged them. Just before there was impact, Narumi placed his gun and one hand near the waist. He was pushed by the horns into a wall, where a painful crunch was heard. The horns were impaled into Narumi's chest, the armor pierced by those same horns as blood began gushing out of the cracks in the armor. The Stag Dopant tried to pull the horns out, but Narumi held the Dopant with one arm and took out the Skull Memory with the other. He then put it in the Skull Driver.

"SKULL! MAXIMUM DRIVE!" The memory announced. He then put the gun right at the Stag Dopant's chest.

"Sayonara, Aleksandrovic…" Narumi said as he pulled the trigger. The bullet at point blank range exploded the moment it left the barrel. Narumi and Aleksandrovic were sent flying back, going back into their civilian clothes as the Stag Memory falls, breaking apart as it lands. Aleksandrovic laid there dead as Narumi struggled to get up. His tuxedo was now stained in his blood. Mason rushed to him.

"NARUMI!" Mason said. Narumi turned his head and looked at Mason.

"Mason… finishes the mission. Destroy the Gaia Memories and the factory. Escape with Pravo…" Narumi said.

"There's a problem. The six memories I made are broken." Pravo said, running to the briefcase and picking up the broken pieces.

"That's okay… Take mine…" Narumi said, taking the Skull Memory out of the Skull Magnum and handing it to Mason.

"Narumi! Don't die on me! Don't die on me!" Mason said.

"Heh. Sorry, but ever since I was taken by the Nomads, I was living on borrowed time. I knew the time would come when I would die. Promise me… to finish the mission…" Narumi said. He then closed his eyes as his body gave up its strength.

"Narumi? Narumi? NARUMI!" Mason said, shaking Narumi. He then clutched the Skull Memory. He then took in a breath of air. "NAAARUUUMIIIIIIIIIII!" Mason screamed. Pravo came behind Mason and patted him on the back.

"There, there. We have time to grieve later, right now, we need to blow up this lab and get out of here. Fang, Activate. We're going." Pravo said as Fang transformed into its dinosaur mode.

"Wait! We need to get Narumi out of here." Mason said, lifting his body.

"He's dead, who cares? We need to get out, now!" Pravo said as he reached into his lab coat to get something.

"I care! I want people who care about him to have closure! He shouldn't be forgotten!" Mason said, hoisting the body over his shoulder.

"Okay, but hurry. This place will blow up as soon as I put this in." Pravo said, taking out a rectangular device and a Gaia Memory. The Gaia Memory was red and on it was a large bomb with the thread making the top portion of the B. He put the device on the wall and placed the Gaia Memory into a slot.

"BOMB! MAXIMUM DRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" The Memory said as it begins to stutter and spark. Pravo and Mason run out of the lab as fast as they could. The device blew up as the fire engulfs the lab and part of the hallway the two were running out of. The two make it unscathed, with Narumi's body and Fang also making it out okay.

They soon ran outside the exploding barracks where they saw thousands of Beetle Dopants awaiting them. They stopped as they were soon approached by a blue Dopant in Kamen Rider-esqe armor with two orange scarves. The Dopant was wearing the same belt as the Snail and Stag Dopants.

"Stop right there." The blue Dopant said as he pointed a sword at them.

"Stop? Stop? We have gone so far and sacrificed so much! It's too late for us to stop!" Mason said.

"Heh. Then you shall die. And we will make sure you won't escape for a very long time." The Dopant said, referring to 'you' as Pravo.

"… I don't think so. I think it's time I went home. Come! Fang!" Pravo said as the Dinosaur leaped into his hand. With the other, he strapped on one of the W Drivers and gave the other to Mason. He to straps it on his waist. Belts were created for both. Pravo transformed Fang into the Gaia Memory as Mason sets down Narumi. He then takes out the Skull Memory and looks at it.

"Narumi…" Mason thought. However, Pravo interrupted him.

"Mason! We don't have time!" Pravo said, pointing to the Dopant, now approaching him.

"Oh. Right." Mason said. The two looked at each other. Mason posed with the Gaia Memory, his left arm across the body as he held the memory in the hand. Pravo did the same thing with the right arm.

"HENSHIN!" The two said simultaneously. Mason inserted the Skull Memory into the left side of the W Driver, while Pravo inserted the Fang Memory in the right side of the W Driver. The Fang Memory swung to make it appear like a dinosaur's skull, complete with a lower jaw. The F and S appear out of the Gaia Memories as they announced who they were.

"FANG! SKULL!" A large sphere of cyan and purple illumined the night sky as the two bodies fused. The roaring of the dinosaur mixed with a riff of the guitar were heard as the rider came out of the mixed sphere. On the left side was Skull's normal form, but on the other side, it was all white with bits of black. It was more simplistic than Skull's, but some kinks were there. For one, the sides of the Fang side were jagged. On the helmet was a simple large red compound eye with a line going down from it. The Rider looked at the Dopant.

"Wha… What did you become?" The Dopant said, hesitating for a moment.

"I am…" The Rider said in Mason's voice, the rider's left eye flashing.

"No…" The Rider said in Pravo's voice, with the Rider's right eye flashing.

"We are Kamen Rider… FANG SKULL!" Fang Skull announced in both their voices, with both eyes flashing. Fang Skull then pointed to the Dopant. "Now! Let us count up your crimes!" Fang Skull said. The Dopant ran the blade with his fingertips and then charged towards Fang Skull. Fang Skull then got out the Skull Magnum and fires a few shots at the Dopant. The Dopant disappeared in a blue blur. Fang Skull turned around to see the Dopant with large orange wings with red lines in midair. He struck Fang Skull with his sword as he landed on the ground. Fang Skull staggered a bit before standing straight.

"Those lines!" Fang Skull said in Pravo's voice as he looked at the wings. "If I am correct, he's using the Nazca Memory!" Pravo said. The Nazca Dopant lands another strike at Fang Skull, knocking him back a few feet onto the ground. Fang Skull got up and looked at the Nazca Dopant. "Let's fight fire with fire…" Pravo said as he pressed on a silver lever on the Fang part of the Double Driver that was once its tail.

"ARM FANG!" The memory announced as a blade sprung out of Fang Skull's right wrist. The Nazca Dopant flew towards him, delivering another strike with his sword, but was blocked by Fang Skull's blade. Fang Skull then fired at the Nazca Dopant's wings, knocking him to the ground as the wings broke. The Nazca Dopant then sped away as the army of Beetle Dopants flew towards Fang Skull. Fang Skull tried to slash at them, but a few of them were just scratched. Fang Skull was pushed off by the Dopants and he was caught in a swarm mid-air.

"Great! Now what?" Fang Skull spoke in Mason's voice.

"Now this!" Fang Skull spoke in Pravo's voice as he pressed the lever on the Fang Memory twice.

"SHOULDER FANG!" The memory announced as the blade vanishes from Fang Skull's wrist and onto his right shoulder. Fang Skull pulled out the blade and used it as a sword against the Beetle Dopants. Eventually, a few exploded from the slashes. Fang Skull landed on the ground as he threw the blade at a few other Beetle Dopants. The blade went and attacked each one as if it was homing on them then it returned to Fang Skull's hand. Those who were hit by the blade also exploded, but they were a handful compared to the swarm surrounding Fang Skull. Fang Skull tried to find an exit, but the swarm encircled him, as if he was in the eye of the storm. The Nazca Dopant seemingly came out of nowhere as he entered the eye. The two began to slash at each other, their blades colliding with each other. Eventually, Nazca knocks the Shoulder Fang in the air and slashes at the disarmed Fang Skull, knocking him to the ground.

"There's too many of them…" Fang Skull spoke in Mason's voice as the Nazca Dopant pointed his sword at the fallen rider.

"We… We have to do the Twin Maximum Drive!" Fang Skull spoke in Pravo's voice as he struggled to get up.

"A Twin Maximum Drive?" Mason asked.

"Yeah. The ultimate powers of two memories combining into one. I haven't tested it, so it's a risk." Pravo said.

"Well, it will be the only chance we have it seems." Mason said as he pulled out the Skull Memory.

"Alright! Here we go!" Pravo said. Fang Skull pressed the lever on the Fang Memory three times.

"FANG! MAXIMUM DRIVE!" The Fang Memory said. Fang Skull inserted the Skull Memory into the Maximum Slot.

"SKULL! MAXIMUM DRIVE! MAXIMUM DRIVE! MAXIMUM DRIVE!" The Skull Memory announced as the two Memories started to say it at the same time, but in an increased volume. "MAXIMUM DRIVE! MAXIMUM DRIVE! MAXIMUM DRIVE!" Fang Skull glowed both cyan and violet light as the image of a dinosaur's skull appeared in front of him. The Nazca Dopant froze and saw the skull.

"What the…" Nazca said. A blade grew on Fang Skull's right ankle.

"FANGSKULL EXTINCTION!" Fang Skull said with both voices as he jumped and did a tornado kick to the skull. The skull was then pushed towards the Nazca Dopant and a chunk of the flying Beetle Dopants as it opened and closed its mouth as if it was biting. Fang Skull also kicked the Dopants behind him as a cyan-colored image of a slash went over the Dopants. As Fang Skull landed, there was a large explosion that was cumulated from dozens of small explosions from the Dopants. As the explosions cleared, only Fang Skull stood. However, he stumbled to the ground as the transformation cancelled as Mason and Pravo both split from each other. Both lying on the snow as it began snowing broken Gaia Memories.

"Narumi would be proud…" Mason said.

"Yeah…" Pravo said.

"I'll call the army and tell them our mission is complete. But first…" Mason said as he got up. He then looked at Narumi's body.

A few hours later, Mason and Pravo stand before a recently dug ground. Mason, holding Narumi's hat, places it on the ground.

"Goodbye… Narumi…" Mason said as he heard the copters come for them.

It had been a week since the raid on the Russian Labs. Pravo entered Mason's house with his wife to celebrate this. They noticed that the house was decorated with wreaths and tinsel. They then see Mason in a tuxedo, much like Narumi.

"Mason! How have you been?" Pravo said, giving Mason a friendly hug and pat on the back.

"I've been good. I regained the trust of the CIA thanks to our mission. They're currently in Russia cracking down on surviving Gaia Memory factories. How are you with your wife?" Mason asked.

"My wife and I have been good. We've begun reforming our life together. We're actually going to have a date on Christmas day!" Pravo said.

"That's good for you." Mason said. He then remembered something. "Excuse me. I have to do something." Mason said as he walked to his desk where he picked up a mug of hot coffee. He then held it to the glazing sun.

"Merry Christmas, Narumi… Merry Christmas…" Mason said as he drank from the mug. All was well in America.

Back in Russia, a man clad in a black uniform with a black cape was stalking the Russian Grounds where the fight with Fang Skull took place. He was clad except for two places. The first was his mouth, and the other was his right arm. Both of which showed signs of decay. He then spotted something: A white hat that was nicked a bit with some snow on it. The black-clothed figure brushed off the snow and saw the recently buried ground. He dug his right arm into the ground, picked up Narumi's decaying body, and held him by the throat. He then slipped a black ring on one of Narumi's ring and then spoke the following words.

"Sokichi Narumi of Futo…"

"RISE!"

THE END

{Author's Disclaimer: I do not own Black Hand or the Black Lanterns, they belong to DC Comics}