[Super Hero time]

Josh: Hello readers, enjoy chapter 5 of Kamen Rider FANG, as we'll go into how the trio begin to become more adapt into their current adventure, and how they'll learn life lessons or some crap that has to do with being in this war. But In the next six chapters, we'll go into detail of the three rookies, and surprises that will be visited afterward. Let's start with Amy...

Chapter 5: BFFs

Tyson watched the whole battle smirking at the outcome. "Well well well; it seems the three JOKER Candidates have done better than expected. I'll let them play a bit before I round them up."

Well, now. It seems that we can take you three out of here, and you can become our FANG Beast as planned." James said as he walked over to Shak.

Shak growled and bit James' hand when he reached for him.

"Why you...huh?" James looked up to see Motorcycle Riders pull up. The riders revealed themselves to be Rodriguez and the others, as they answered the distress signal of the three D-Brids, and came to make sure that the Rookies were safe.

"What happened?" Tim asked the three.

James spoke up, proud of himself. "I did exactly what I said I'd do. I got rid of the scum. And now, sarge... you're next on my list."

Nolan smirked, Kaiger leaping on his shoulder. "Well, now let's get started then."

"Stand down." Rodriguez ordered. "I have something, that might interest you Six."

Will and the others struggled to stand, which shocked James. "Impossible!"

"We're not going... to die, by your hands." Amy said.

"So ready for round two?" Josh asked.

"Because we are." Will said. Will charged James again, until Rodriguez ordered him to stand down as well.

"Listen I found something interesting while restarting the FANG system project dropped after Shadow Day three months ago. Didn't think it'd come up now. You see, Each Rider system, has a fail-safe in that the event that the system is used by someone who doesn't have the DNA of the owner, can't use it. This is to keep enemies from using it. But, Something I implemented in to them for types 03 and on, is that I created a Second fail-safe. In The event that a D-Brid uses it... it will reject it automatically, even if the DNA is a match. My theory at first was that the three of them could use it, because of their past transformations, in that the three each took a form of a Dreamon, which is based around their Rider Armor currently. I assumed that since I didn't completely start from scratch, but rather Tokyo Branch's design, I figured that as it worked, for REAPER MODE's rider, the Bat D-Brid, it would work for them. But that's when I came to the conclusion: The second fail-safe wasn't in those systems, even though I sent them the blueprints of the CLAW Systems so that they could create the FANG systems in the first place. Thus, it wasn't going to reject D-Brid DNA.

"What does that mean?" Amy asked.

"That we're looking at the scum in front of us..." Josh replied.

James looked surprised, but laughed. "Do you really believe that? That we're D-Brids? Well you know what? You're wrong. We're not D-Brids."

"Then what are you then?" Yuliya demanded.

Tyson then suddenly came out of nowhere and held his hand out. He let out a small ball of black fire and shot it at them. They all shielded themselves but when the smoke cleared, the four of them were gone. Nolan looked down and saw a card stuck in the cracked concrete. He examined the back, seeing the Black and Red Italicized S on it. He flipped the card over, and to his horror, studied the card: the KING of Hearts.

"So, they've bee assembled already. This changes everything." Rodriguez said.

One month later after the disappearance of James and his team, Will and the others begin to work hard to become stronger, training day after day to defeat James and his group whenever they come back. At the same time, they were even trusted to be sent out on a few missions by themselves to get the feel on being separated and on a team.

One Saturday afternoon, Will and the others walk through central park, enjoying the afternoon before returning to Staten Island. They look around the park as they walked, examining the different recreational activities present, and the endless array of BBQS that were all over the place as is. Little did they know, they were being followed...

The rustling of a tree drew Will's attention from his friends, before just saying to himself that it might have been the wind. He continued walking as a Shadow Figure jumped from tree to tree discretely, trying not to signal them.

The figure stopped in one tree and talked into his microphone. "Do you see them?"

Elsewhere, a sniper camping on a bridge in the park, had found them and locked it's sights on the trio. "Got them now, just say the word."

"Understood. Get ready..."

Will stopped for a moment and picked up a rock. He turned and tossed it into a tree, but didn't hear it hit against it in the branches.

"Will. Stop trying to kill the birds! I'll sic Tira on you!" Amy scolded.

"My bad." He apologized. "I just thought a cat was stuck in a tree; I was trying to get it out."

"Man, the rookies got better. Okay, they know we're here Tim. Take the shot."

"Got it." The sniper replied. He took the shot as it skimmed through the park upon firing. The three heard it faintly, and dodged the red paintball as it crashed into the concrete.

"Looks like we have stalkers." Josh said. "Can we beat them?"

"Please Amy, it's not like they're Birds or anything." Will joked.

Amy sighed and slid the crossbow into her brace, as it played the chime. "Okay then, let have some fun before we go home." Josh said, sliding the Hammer into his brace. "I call the Cat!"

Josh Transformed as he climbed up the tree to get the Rider hiding in it. When he realized he wasn't there, he heard a whistle from under him. Nolan was standing there, in Kaiser Mode Form, wielding his Shuriken. The Gator Rider responded by drawing his Hammer Weapon as he jumped from the tree and slammed it into the ground. Nolan jumped back and threw the shuriken at him.

"Think of a better plan, teach." Josh used his Hammer like a bat to slam the buzz-saw of a shuriken back at Nolan. Nolan grabbed it's handle, surprised that Josh was able to deflect it.

"Not bad, not at all. However, if you want to be a great soldier..." Nolan charged at Josh and Josh swung at him again to hit him. Nolan however, flipped over him and held the shuriken against his back, calling a checkmate.

"You need to be a bit faster. Too much power, not enough speed."

Amy ran across the park, trying to find Tim, who hid himself somewhere. She looked around until she started to see the dirt on the ground lift up into the air. She looked up as she saw a small tornado form in front of her. The Tornado spun until the image of a Icy colored Angel emerged, revealing to be Yuliya in Flight Form, of her Samurai Mode.

"Found you." Yuliya pointed as she drew one of her blades.

Amy pulled out her crossbow. "Well, you may not be Tim, but you're just as valuable to beat." she loaded the bow and took a shot, that Yuliya sliced through.

"Nice aim." Yuliya commented. The two charged as Amy and Yuliya went back and forth punching and kicking each other, and blocking just as much. Yuliya, backed up, giving Amy the opportunity to shoot. Amy took a few shots with the bow ans Yuliya dodged each of them barely.

"Really nice aim!"

Amy smiled under her helmet as she took a few more shots, driving Yuliya into the air. Amy took at least three more shots, before running out. Yuliya, this time, dodged every arrow without trying.

"Well, you can shoot at you're target when they're on the ground, but not in the air. That's interesting."

Will and Tim elsewhere, meet and begin to fight, With Will slashing away at Tim, and Tim trying to shoot him, all of the shots missing, upsetting the Master Marksman.

"Come on, why can't I hit you?"

"Because, I'm fast." Will said as he dove in for one final strike. When he got close enough, Tim shook his head and brought his fist onto his back, slamming him into the concrete.

"Found it; You're Speed is great, but you're attacks are weaker than the rest." Tim commented. Will sighed as he canceled the transformation.

"You like counseling me on that one point a lot."

Tim canceled his also, helping him up.

"That's your biggest fault. You have the speed, but the power is what's going to bring the big guys down." Kiba said, as the cybernetic wolf rested on Tim's head.

The other four regroup to get a final rating for the day.

"Well you three, despite your faults: Josh's speed, Will's power, and the fact that Amy can't hit anything in the sky, you were able to sense that something was wrong, and acted on it. Kudos to you three." Nolan explained to the three.

"So are we dismissed? I have to meet someone in twenty minutes." Amy asked, checking her watch.

"Where are you going in a rush?" Will asked.

"None of your business."

Will stuck his tongue at her, causing Tira to growl at him. As such, Shak defended him, but then Amy growled. The two backed off.

"Yeah, go on, you guys are free for the day."

"Thanks, see you guys later." Amy said, leaving the group.

"What do you think she's planning on?" Josh asked.

"I don't know, maybe we should follow her." Will suggested, starting to walk in the direction she went.

"We can't do that."

"You know you want to go."

"Yeah you're right; but still it's wrong."

"But dude come on, she's our sis-friend. It's only natural that her bro-friends go and invade her privacy. It's in the sibling laws."

"What sibling laws?"

"Doesn't matter, let's go." Will took off, causing the reluctant Josh to follow.

Elsewhere, a young Caucasian girl, about sixteen years old, wearing a dark blue shirt, black skinny jeans, black sneakers, wearing a blue scrunchie to tie her silky brown hair together, stands waiting for someone in front of one of the clothing stores in the area. She checks her phone, which she pulled from her handbag to check the time. She threw it back in and started to walk away, realizing whoever she was waiting on, wasn't going to show up.

"Hey wait!" Amy's voice echoed.

The girl turned around, to see Amy racing up, shooting through the crowd. The girl smiled, seeing her as Amy's speed started to slack up, the closer she got.

"Hey there, did you wait long?" Amy asked her.

"Just a bit. I started to wonder if you were going to even show."

"Sorry, school took a bit longer than usual, and I'm trying to get used to the trains directions around here; besides I only been living here a month." Amy apologized.

"It's okay. So, are you ready to have our day get started, Dino Buddy?"

the Girl asked.

Amy smiled and put her arm around her. "Sure thing Taylor. Let's have fun." The two giggled as they went into the store to act like Teen Girls and shop.

Josh and Will, looked from down the street to see what was going on, but saw that Amy was meeting with a friend.

"That's it?" Josh said. "We chased Amy through half of Manhattan just for her to meet with a friend?"

"I guess so." Sobek replied, sighing.

"Next time, I make the plans Will."

Will rolled his eyes and went back into the train station to refill his Metrocard.

When Will got to the machine, he followed the instructions on the touchscreen of the machine and put $20 on his Metrocard. Shak swam around Will, examining the screen, being fascinated at the technology. Just then, he turned his nose into the air.

"Everything okay?" Will asked.

Shak kept sniffing the air. "I smell sand."

"Sand, what do you mean."

"There's a Dreamon nearby."

"How close?"

"Pretty close, like down the street from here."

Will retrieved his card from the machine, and dove back up the stairs.

"What happened? I thought we were going home." Josh said.

"No time for that, there's a Dreamon nearby!"

Josh then started to follow the flying shark along with Will. Shak dodged through the crowd and stopped in front of the clothing store.

"It's in here." Shak said.

"This is the store Amy went in isn't it?" Josh asked.

"Now did you mention it, I wonder if Tira picked it up." Sobek added.

Meanwhile in the store, Amy and Taylor go through clothes and try them on, picking out ones that work, and ones that don't. Marissa is there also, looking for more red and black clothing. But then senses a great amount of fear. She responds, by taking out a QUEEN of Diamonds card, as she discretely flung the card at the strong sense of fear: Taylor.

"How about this?" Amy asked coming out in a White and orange hoodie with blue skinny jeans and a shirt with a bunch of anime Dino's on it.

"You are such a Dino freak you know that?" Taylor asked.

"Heh Heh, Rawr, I know. She replied. She looked at Taylor who looked to be in intense pain. "Hey are you okay?" Amy asked.

"Those nightmares... of the Wasps!" Taylor began to freak out for a second, still in pain, until she fainted. The customers started to call 911, that is until she woke up.

"Hey are you alright?" Amy asked again.

"Amy Back away from her!" Tira suddenly shouted as Taylor reached for Amy's arm.

Amy jumped back, and watched in horror, as her friend transformed into the Wasp Dreamon.

"Is that the one?" Josh asked.

"No time to ask that, let's get in there!" Will replied, swinging the door open.

The crowd started to scramble out, with Marissa disappearing within it.

Josh and Will moved through the crowd to get to where Amy was, dodging the Wasp's strikes against her.

"Hey there." Will said.

"How'd you know I was here?"

"Shak's nose told us that you were in trouble."

"Well, I kinda am. My friend get transformed into one of them."

"Okay then, Let's kill it then." Will said, arming himself by sliding the sword into his brace. "Henshi-"

"No! We can't!" Amy said. "I don't want to hurt her!"

"Are you kidding me?"Josh said. He then backed from one swipe from the bug as he tried as hard as possible to back up.

"Amy, she's not going to get hurt. Not if we take it out now."

"I don't want to risk it!" she said. She and Will joined Josh in dodging the attacks, until police arrived. The wasp got startled and flew off. Rodriguez and the CLAW Trio pulled up with police as they came to a damaged storefront, and three rookies.

Yuliya shook her head. "This doesn't surprise me."

"Well now, the FANG Trio having some trouble?" Tim asked walking towards them.

"Amy kept us from taking down the Dreamon, allowing it to escape." Josh said.

"Man you're such a rat!" Amy snapped.

"Agent Reed, care to explain?" Rodriguez asked.

"Well you see, um..."

"Her friend became a victim of a Dreamon, and she transformed into the Wasp Dreamon. Amy, having a fear of hurting her, refused to attack, holding us back along with her. So then, she flew off." Will explained.

"You too, you're a rat!"

"Well, we can't do anything until we find it. How muc time do we have left?"

Nolan checked his brace and looked at the time the call went through. "It appeared at 1:00pm sir."

"Okay, we have until 9:00 tonight to take it down, is that understood, I want every inch of this area searched."

"What happens, if we go over 9:30?"Amy asked.

"She becomes a D-Brid... and we might lose her." Rodriguez said bluntly. "Alright, let's move!"

The group responds and split up. Before Amy left, Yuliya stopped her for a sec. "Hey, do you want to talk?"

"No, I'm good." Amy replied.

Yuliya could hear the sadness in her voice, in realizing that because the let the Dreamon go, there could be a chance that her friend could die."

"Come on, I know a perfect place that We all go to at some point when we're down. We'll let the Men do the searching."

Later, Yuliya and Amy reach the top of the SADE Roof where Yuliya sits near the ledge. She prompts Amy to take a seat with her.

"Why are we up here?"

"I don't know. It just brings back memories of last year when Nolan became an agent; we started the Rules of the Hero here."

[Flash Back]

"Well, I think he wanted you to learn what being a Hero was about."

"A hero; like how?"

"Well part of being a hero is protecting someone who you're close to." Example, like the other day, you protected Yuliya without being afraid of the Dreamon or even death. That's what I call a hero."

"Yeah I guess you're right." Nolan replies. " You sure, this'll be the right decision?"

"Either this or you convince Commander Gracia to give you a second chance."

"Okay, I''m ready when you are."

"Let's get down stairs."

"There you are!" Yuliya's voice calls out from the staircase across from where they were. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm good. Sorry for making you worry."

"Well someone needs to keep you in check." She smiles.

ROOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!

"What was that!" Nolan asks.

"I sense a Dreamon!" Tigerton replies.

"Well I know what the second rule for being a hero." Yuliya said

"What's that?" Nolan asks

"To protect the world; defeating anything that stands against it." She replies. "For example, that Dreamon down there, I want you waste it."

"Well, I know the third rule." Nolan adds as he attaches Tigerton to his wrist and inserting the shuriken afterward.

"And what's that?" Yuliya asks.

"To get the job done and done right!" he replies as he pulls Tigerton off his wrist. "HENSHIN!" he shouts.

"SHINOBI MODE!" Tigerton announces as the rider armor covers his body.

"Example, making sure I demonstrate how much of a hero I can be for New York City. Race you to the bottom." He tells her.

He pulls out his katana and jumps off the building to the ground.

Yuliya can't help but smile. "It's gonna be fun having him around for a while; He's a piece of work..." Yuliya expression suddenly shifted as to the situation. "Wait, did he just jump!"

She runs over and sees Nolan running down on the side of the wall ready to confront the Dreamon.

Yuliya sighs in relief. "Yeah he's a piece of work all right."

[End Flash Back]

"Those three rules started something that kept us in check for the last year and a half, and it hasn't failed us yet. I always come here to remind myself that to be a hero, is to save someone, in anyway possible, and to try not to think of the consequences because that will just make you unsure of what you're doing. Come on, I want you to shoot me."

Amy perked up from those words. "You want me to do what?"

"Shoot me out of the sky. You're great with targets on the ground, but if your enemy can fly, then you need some aerial marksmanship. I would get Tim to teach you but he's not here, so try your best."

Amy and Yuliya then spent the next few hours training, until Amy started to get the hang of it. She determined that the aerial attacks are influenced by the wind patterns and that each shot has to be carefully calculated to that it can be effective. Soon after, they take a break to eat and then they continued.

Meanwhile, Josh and Will search downtown, as the sun slowly started to go down, which wasn't good because of the time that they had left.

"Man, where is that thing?" will asked.

"I don't know but it's almost 8:00pm. We got to find it soon."

"Yeah no kidding, I hate to see Amy when she's pissed."

Josh laughed, agreeing. "Hey do you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"A buzzing noise above us." he replied.

"Josh if I look up and if it is what I think it is, then you're an idiot for not noticing."

Will looked up and saw nothing above them.

"Well, I guess it was nothing."

Will suddenly got pulled back by the Wasp Dreamon, who decided to make an appearance."

"Dude, look what I found." Will said as Shak swiped through the Dreamon.

"Yeah, Looks like we win. And our prize?"

"To kick the crap out of it."

"Awesome."

The two slid their keys into their braces as the charged the monster.

"HENSHIN!" They called out as they leaped into the air to do kicks.

SWORDSMAN MODE! TITAN MODE! The braces announced as they made contact with it. The three begin to fight, as Josh reports what they found.

Back with Amy and Yuliya, Amy is able to tag Yuliya with one of the arrows, making it the 10 successful time.

"You Guys, We found it. The Dreamon is Near the Brooklyn Bridge area, would love it if we got back up, it's more of a pain than it was this afternoon."

"Is that possible?" Amy asked, getting on her bike and driving behind Yuliya.

"During the 8 hour period, the Dreamon are evolving into their D-Brid forms, so for every hour, they get stronger. This one's at seven hours, so it has less than an hour before it become full power, meaning we need to kill it if we're going to save her."

Amy picked up speed, not wasting anytime on getting to her.

Back over there, Josh and Will hold their own on the ever-growing wasp, as Amy and Yuliya pulled up a few minutes.

"Hey there, sorry we didn't get your permission, but..." Will started.

"That's okay. Just back up, you guys have been through enough. It's my turn to save her. HENSHIN!"

ARCHER MODE! Her brace announced as Tira clamped on. The Two fight with each other, with Marissa watching her creation fight.

"This is interesting; these FANG Riders. I'm going to keep an eye on them. But first, this Dreamon needs to disappear." Marissa waved her hand into the air, creating a stream of red diamond-like glitter. That formed into a ball into her hand. She shot it into the Dreamon so that it went into it without anyone noticing. For some reason, the cells in the Dreamon started to move faster and multiply at a much higher rate, without anyone knowing except for Marissa.

"There we go; My custom-made toxin should decrease the transformation rate, and give me a D-Brid sooner; and they say, that butterflies aren't poisonous..."

Amy continued to fight with the wasp Dreamon, with due to the cell acceleration, began to get more powerful.

"Tira, We need to finish this now!" Amy said as Tira detached herself. Amy grabbed her and attached herself onto the grip of the crossbow.

"FINAL SLASH ATTACK!" it announced as Amy aimed down the sight. The Wasp flew into the air, but Amy hesitated. The fact that Her Friend was somewhere in there, held her back.

"Amy, Take the shot!" Yuliya Shouted.

"We don't have anymore time left, just take the shot!"

"What do I do? What if I'm too late?" Questions began to flood her mind as she was about to fall to her knees. It was then she remembered Yuliya's words...

[Flash Back]

I always come here to remind myself that to be a hero, is to save someone, in anyway possible, and to try not to think of the consequences because that will just make you unsure of what you're doing.

[End Flash Back]

"Please come back to me Taylor..." Amy then took the shot.

"Raptonic Barrage!" The cross bow launched arrows like a sub-machine gun, hitting it's target on contact. After the hundredth arrow, the attack ended, and Amy relaxed, canceling her transformation as the Dreamon came crashing down. Taylor returned to herself as Amy raced over to see if she was still alive.

"Taylor, are you okay?"

Taylor slowly opened her eyes and hugged Amy. "Thanks for saving me... Dino Buddy..."

Amy smiled. "Don't-"

Taylor suddenly turned to sand as her body disintegrated into a pile of red and black sand, much to everyone's horror.

"What the hell...?"

"Josh, what time is it?" Will asked.

Josh looked at the clock and was surprised at the time. "It's 8:45pm."

"That can't be! It hasn't been eight hours yet!"

"I don't know what happened either." Josh defended.

Yuliya was shocked, but then turned to see a devastated Amy. She walked over to her, in which the teen was speechless.

"Hey, Amy I-"

"I Quit." She replied.

"You what?"

"I'm Quitting SADE." She said again, handing her her ID card. Amy turned, grabbed her bag and got onto the bike. Will stopped the teen.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"None of your damn business. Now get the hell off my bike." She growled.

Will wanted to say something, but Josh stopped him before he could utter the word. "Leave her be."

Amy rode out of the area, learning one of the things that's not fun about being a hero; losing someone close to you...

[END]

[Super Hero time]

Nolan: Hey readers, so ends chapter five. We see here what happens when in times of distress, that casualties are not to far behind... we also see Amy's tough decision and the results of her actions. But the real question is if she'll come back? Well, check out chapter six and find out.