[Super Hero Time]
Amy: Hi all, welcome to Chapter 6 of Kamen Rider FANG. We took a two-week vacation because the Author got attacked by a Cold Bug that's been getting everyone in NYC recently, and due to it, he had writers block for the second week. Meanwhile, we we're just spending our vacation trying to plan something special, yet again, but due to the author being pushed two weeks, it won't be put out when he wanted it to sadly. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this and we at Shuriken16 Productions wish you a happy reading. Rawr!
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."
As they watched Amy ride off, Yuliya looked down at her ID card, feeling tears roll up from the empathy of the situation...
Chapter 6: Rules of the Hero: Revisited
Rodriguez sits in his office, as he listens to his team's report of the recent events that unfolded an hour before.
"So do you know where she could've went?" Jessie asked them.
"I think she went home. Honestly I don't know where else she would go."
"Well, until then, she's no longer a SADE Member. I can't think of anything else to do at this point." Rodriguez sighed but then thought of something. "You forgot to get Tira didn't you?"
Josh looked at Yuliya, Yuliya looked at Will, Will looked at Josh.
"Crap, I knew we forgot something." Josh said.
"You know what, just talk to her, see why she quit. Can you manage that?"
"That shouldn't be hard right you two?" Yuliya asked them. "Besides, you have all of her classes right?"
"Yeah, it shouldn't be a pain at all." Josh said.
Two weeks pass after that, and Josh learned to regret his words. Every attempt they had turned into a failure on their part as Amy somehow manage to dodge them when the opportunity arose. She even cut some of her classes just to avoid talking to her, something that she was known to never to do.
As Josh and Will walk out of the locker rooms after Gym class, they contemplate what they can do to talk to Amy.
"Okay, so what can we do, we tried, calling, texting, pestering, starting a fight. I give up." Will admits.
Josh thinks hard about this, when he sees Amy walking out of the Girl's locker room.
"Well, did we try talking with her one-on-one?"
"No, why?"
"Be right back." Josh runs up to her. Amy looks up and turns away to keep walking.
"Amy, wait a sec, please, I really need to talk to you, it's about our history project in Mr. Cohen's class due tomorrow!"
"What history project!" She leapt.
"Oh none, just that Rodriguez wanted to see how you're your doing."
"So there is no history project then?"
"No, there's not."
"Bye Josh." She then walked to the other side of the Gym.
"Wait Amy!" Josh tried to run up to her but Will ran past him to try to talk to her.
"Amy, what's the matter, you've been like this since-"
"Since Taylor died?" she finished. "Yeah I know. It's called guilt, guilt that I have for killing my best friend because I couldn't save her. So, because of that, I've decided to put SADE and everyone related to it behind me, except for Tira. She stays with me."
"Well, that scratches off trying to get her from you huh?"
"Just leave me alone, you can't convince me to join again, especially if it means, taking innocent lives."
The bell rung causing Amy to disappear into the crowd. Will looked at Josh and shook his head.
"I wonder how Amy's doing." Kyuki said as she crawled onto Yuliya's shoulder as they traveled the school halls. Due to the fact that everyone knows about the Riders, the secrecy was toned down a bit so that the CLAW Beast can roam freely with their partners without too much hassle.
Yuliya sighed, thinking back to that night two weeks past, thinking about the off chance that they did meet up and Yuliya actually got Amy to speak up. "Well, If I do see her, hopefully, she'll be in her normal happy mood as always.
Yuliya walked into the bathroom, to find Amy crying in front of the sink, with Tira trying to comfort her.
"What happened to that happy mood you were talking about?" Kyuki asked.
"Now's not the time for that." Tira replied to the two walking in. Amy looked up at Yuliya and turned away, feeling embarrassed at her state.
"Hey there, haven't seen you in a while." Yuliya said walking towards her.
Amy didn't reply, but instead sobbed a bit.
"Come on, We miss you; Plus, things haven't been the same without your cheery attitude. Can you at least think about coming back to SADE?"
"You know, she was allergic to them right?" Amy spoke up.
Yuliya cut herself off. "She was allergic? You mean Taylor and the wasps?"
Amy nodded. "We were Seven years old when it happened. We were playing in my backyard when I lived in New Jersey. We were playing basketball and when She took a shot, I blocked it and hit a Wasp's nest that was on the side of the house. We noticed it and raced into the house before we got stung. Taylor though was stung as he were getting into the house. She had an allergic reaction out of nowhere and she was rushed into the emergency room. To this day she's been terrified of Wasps due to her fear of getting sick again."
"So that's how the nightmares started."
"I guess so."
"Yeah, I know how you feel; losing someone. Last year, we lost our Commanding Leader, Rodriguez's son, Commander Dominick Gracia. He was our Older Brother to all of us, Each brought into SADE by him. But at the end of it, he revealed to be our enemy and as such, was brought down. He taught us so much, and betrayed us so easily. It was when he died... That he told us his reasons for doing what he did...
[FLASHBACK]
Let's Ride." Nolan calmly replied.
"Right behind you." Tim added, also getting a thumbs up from Jessie and Yuliya.
"Okay, let's do it Kaiger." Nolan said as he slid Kaiger onto the red Brace. As the Climatic words echoed for all of NYC to hear:
"FINAL SLASH ATTACK!"
The news helicopters all of the sudden appeared as all News Stations changed to this scene.
JOKER didn't hesitate to kill them as he charged the building, as they stood waiting for the monster to hit.
"Time to Die!" JOKER Roared as he charged a blast that would engulf the building in darkness.
As he charged the Blast, he looked at his targets to realize his shock. There stood no Trinity Mode Rider, but Speed Kaiser, Power Kaiser, and Flight Kaiser.
"This is for Tim!" Power Kaiser leaped into the air and flung his Chained shuriken at D-Kaiser, holding it in place and for the ball of energy to cut off.
"For Jessie!" As it struggled to break free, Speed Kaiser hopped from one building to another, slashing furiously at the weakened spot while using the super turbo shot.
"For Yuliya!" Flight Kaiser, unleashed a massive tornado that not only chipped a few buildings, but also carried D-Kaiser with it, with the wind blades viciously damaging it.
"For Dominick!" When the cyclone died, Power Kaiser and Flight Kaiser joined Speed Kaiser in the air and set himself for a flying sidekick.
"TRINITY IMPACT!" Nolan called out as the Rider created an afterimage of an actual Liger that slashed D-Kaiser in half. D-Kaiser screamed in pain as Nolan kicked through it's weakened body as it exploded in midair. The Red and Black sand rained from the air as Nolan landed on a balcony pole turning . He gave his friends a thumbs up to his friends, before his transformation canceled. He suddenly fell off as he passed out from the strain, about to crash into the concrete.
As his friends watched in horror as he was about to crash, someone unexpected caught him. That unexpected person... was JOKER.
Tim and the others couldn't believe their eyes as they ran down and made it to the street where all of the other people gathered.
JOKER reverted to his human form as he smiled. "Hey kiddo, Wake up."
Nolan slowly opened his eyes as Tim and the others gathered around. Dominick backed up and waved at Nolan.
"Dom... Is that really you?"
"Yeah, it is." The colonel reassured as Yuliya dove in to give him a hug.
"Hey, thank you guys for saving me." Dominick replied.
Yuliya felt sand on her face as she pulled back and saw Dominick's body start to disintegrate.
"Don't tell me..." Yuliya pleaded.
Dominick didn't say anything.
"You're not dying right? Please say that."
Dominick kept quiet.
"Come on, answer me!"
"Yuliya!" Tim called out.
Yuliya backed off and ran back to Tim, who comforted her.
"Come on Dom, what did you mean about saving you?" Nolan asked.
"I meant; that with JOKER gone, I can peacefully die, without regretting anything. I don't have to worry about my father's safety anymore, Or anything that caused you guys any harm. I'm sorry I pulled you into this war, I'm sorry I betrayed you. I'm sorry for everything."
"Can you at least tell us why you did it? Why you became JOKER?"
"To save my father. JOKER promised my father's freedom if I became his host. Even if it was a trap, I couldn't watch my father die before me. So, I gave into my fears, and became JOKER. But when you think about it, it all worked out in the end; you guys became closer, became heroes of NYC and freed me from JOKER's corruption. So for one final time, I want to say thank you." Dominick smiled as he looked at his dad.
"Watch over them dad? They have a lot to learn. This is my last request."
His father nodded. "You have my word as a samurai."
"Thanks. Farewell, my friends. It's been an honor serving as your commander and I hope... for a bright future ahead..." Dominick uttered, as his body disappeared with the wind.
[END FLASHBACK]
"I'll never forget that day, that day made us heroes; but to us, that day made us lose someone we loved."
"Wow; And you still are part of SADE after all that?" Tira asked, intrigued.
"Yeah. Consider it a promise to him; To protect everyone close to me, and to keep their fears from getting the best of them. Even so..."
"What?"
"That shouldn't have happened. Dreamon take exactly eight hours to develop into D-Brids, there is no way that it can evolve fifteen minutes before that."
"So are you saying that someone did that to her?"
"That's what I'm saying. Rodriguez has been looking into it since then but hasn't told us anything as of yet."
The late bell rings, alerting the two. Yuliya walks over to pull the door open, when Amy grabs her arm. "Wait a sec, there was another thing I wanted to ask."
"What is it?"
"I've been having nightmares since then. Each night, it's a nightmare of the fight, and at the end of it, there is always a figure standing there, that keeps getting clearer and clearer each night. Do you have any idea what that is?"
"None. But If you come to SADE later, that is... If you want to, you can ask the colonel. See you around."
Yuliya and Kyuki leave with Amy thinking about what she'll do. She leaves the bathroom and walks to her English Class.
She walked in and took a seat. She looked up and saw Marissa showing her teacher, Mr. Nestlebaum her program change. The teacher directs her to an empty seat next to Amy, to which she moves her bag for her.
"Hey, My name's Marissa, what's yours?" She asked.
Amy kept silent and answered.
"You look familiar;" Marissa said. She got a closer look at Amy and remembered her from the Clothing store two weeks back.
"Now I remember, you were in that store that was attacked by the Dreamon two weeks ago right?"
"Yeah, I was. How'd you know?"
"Well, I was shopping there and I got caught up in the crowd as they bolted out. Turned out there was only one casualty."
"Yeah, there was alright; My best friend."
Marissa bit her tongue and apologized for bringing it up. "Sorry, I'm bad at first impressions."
Amy giggled. "That's funny, Taylor was just like that. She was a shy kid growing up."
"Was that your...?"
"Don't worry about it. I'm Amy by the way, it's nice to meet you ."
Marissa smiled and pulled opened her notebook that was covered in Butterflies.
"Your notebook is so cute; Mine has dinosaurs on it!" Amy shrieked as she pulled out her notebook. Marissa let out a similar cry and they both giggled.
"We should be friends." Marissa suggested.
Amy agreed without hesitation as she hugged her new friend. Josh and will looked up, feeling relieved and jealous at the same time that Amy finally opened up in two weeks. Jealous in that she wouldn't talk to them, her bro-friends, but she'd talk to the new girl.
"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...?"
As Yuliya and the others stand back, trying to figure out what just happened, a Shadow Figure slowly walked up to Amy and chuckled. "Soon, you'll give into your fears, and you won't know how to stop it..." The figure said in a dark, feminine voice. The figure raised it's arm and let it shoot to the floor towards Amy.
Amy then shot up in her bed. Tira crawling up through the covers examining Amy.
"Are you okay? You were talking in your sleep again." Tira asked.
Amy rawred and rubbed her head. She looked at her brace sitting at her night table and read 5:30am on the clock.
"I have to wake up for school in an hour... Tira."
"What is it?"
"I'm going for a walk. Come with me just in case?"
"But it's 5:30am, go back to sleep."
"Please?" Amy asked in a sincere tone of voice.
Tira looked at her and hopped onto her head. "Rawr. Only if you go to sleep as soon as you get home, to make up for the hour I'm losing."
"Okay, I promise."
Amy got out of her bed and quietly got ready for school and left her house in about 30 minutes. She rode her bike for a while in the direction of the Ferry, thinking about Taylor and her dream. When she got there, she parked her bike and headed upstairs to the bus terminal to stare out in the direction of the city.
"So, I thought you were going for a walk. I didn't know Motorcycles could walk." Tira said.
"Don't worry about it. I just needed to clear my head."
"You miss Taylor."
"I do."
"When you think about it, you saved Taylor, you didn't kill her."
"What do you mean, I took the shot that killed her."
"Not necessarily. You did take the shot, but there was something wrong. The D-Brid stage doesn't come until the eighth hour. Taylor was seven hours and forty-five minutes in. Meaning that not only did she have fifteen minutes left, but someone tampered with her body, causing it to evolve faster and at a shorter time.
"So you're saying that someone manipulated the transformation? But who?"
all of the sudden, a hissing noise of a reptile was heard from behind them. They turned to see a Dinosaur Dreamon before them: The Pterodactyl Dreamon.
"A Dreamon?" Amy asked herself.
"Guess you did need me after all, let's wrap this up, it's almost 6:30, you have school in a bit." Tira replied, getting into a stance.
The Pterodactyl Dreamon roared and flew towards Amy. Tira leapt into the air and bit it's wing, allowing Amy to avoid the attack. The Dreamon flung Tira into the air, making Amy instinctively jump for her. She slid the arrow and when Tira heard the chime go off, she turned her body and bit down.
"HENSHIN!" Amy called out.
ARCHER MODE! Amy drew her crossbow and took shots at the beast, each making a hit. She then began to easily take it on, without trouble as the monster took hit after hit.
FINAL SLASH ATTACK! Tira said as she was docked onto the crossbow. Amy used her attack and the Dreamon fell back and died, returning into the teen girl it was. Amy walked towards her and flipped her over. She put her fingers on her neck and felt a pulse. She canceled her transformation and sighed in relief, as this one, didn't end up like Taylor.
Marissa, as the Butterfly D-Brid, stood on top of the roof of the entrance. She nodded as she held her hand into the air and guided the sand slowly onto Amy until it was gone.
"Well, My work is done. Time for school." She snapped her fingers as a Red Diamond-like Cocoon encased her and broke apart like glass, revealing her human form as she walked away.
The MTA Bus pulled up as the commuters on their way to Manhattan made their way inside. Nolan got off the bus to see Amy talking to the girl while they waited for authorities to come for her.
"What happened?" Nolan asked as he walked up.
"Good morning. Just a little Dreamon bit, nothing serious." she smiled
"So, I guess you're back to your cheery self?"
"Yep, she is!" Tira said happily as she shot up to Amy head.
"Great. Well now, seeing that you have, report to SADE after school please."
"Understood."
"OK then, see you later." Nolan walked into the terminal to catch the boat and make it to school on time. He then came back out.
"Wait, I forgot, Yuliya wanted me to give this to you." He reaches into his pocket and hands her The ID that she gave Yuliya. "Welcome back."
"Thanks. It's great to be back." She saluted. Nolan smiled and raced back inside after hearing the announcement of the ferry boarding.
Authorities soon came after and picked the girl and drove Amy to school after seeing her SADE ID. Throughout the day, She met with Will and Josh, and she apologized for her attitude, not only that, but she introduced them to Marissa.
As Marissa walked into the lunch room that afternoon after her English class, she was greeted by two guys: The Junior Basketball player, Ken; and the Senior Pretty Boy, Tyson. Marissa smiled as she joined the two in getting lunch.
So, You want to Join SADE, after: interferring with a Dreamon attack resigning on a mission and stealing Police property. After all of that, you expect me to allow you to join my organization?" Rodriguez questioned, frightening Amy a bit. Amy was about to say no, but she swallowed her fear and spoke: "No, I don't expect you take me back, but I'm apologizing for my behavior these last two weeks, and I also want to apologize to Yuliya, Josh and Will for trying to help me. So, if that's it, I'll leave Tira here and I'll be on my way."
"Well, I'll tell you this, you can't join again."
"I understand."
"You never left the system in the first place."
"What?"
"I knew you'd come back, so I never took you out of our records; as far as I'm concerned, you were just sick for two weeks. So, Welcome back. You have homework to make up."
"I do? No fair!" She wined.
Yuliya walked into the office and smiled, seeing Amy standing there. "I knew you'd come back."
Amy smiled. "Glad to be back."
"Glad to have you back, now then, you have homework, In Jessie's class."
"What's it about?"
"Well from what she told me, it's a term project; Come up with Ten Rules that Define a Hero. You need two partners and it's due in a few months."
"Well, Does Josh and Will have partners?"
"Not that I know of."
"Great well that takes care of one. Now the next problem, what can I start out with?"
"How about this one: Save someone in anyway possible, and to try not to think of the consequences; that will just make you unsure of what you're doing."
"You told me that; can I use it please?"
"Of course, just don't use the first Ten; Those are the CLAWs Rules. The FANGs need to come up with their own."
"Great, Rule #11: Save someone in anyway possible, and to try not to think of the consequences." She recited copying it into her book.
"Rule #11? aren't you supposed to start at one?"
"Yeah, I decided to start at 11 and go to 20; you know, to continue our legacy."
Yuliya smiled. "Sure thing, go ahead."
Rodriguez couldn't help but smile. "It's those kids all over again. Boy, this'll be a fun year."
[END]
[Super Hero Time]
Amy: There you go, I returned, We start up the Rules of the Hero, and my two week vacation is over. Now then, I'm heading off to go meet Marissa for sushi.
Josh: Can we come?
Will: Please?
Amy: No, you two just want to come because you think Marissa's hot.
Will: Hey, that's not true!
Josh: Well, maybe she's a bit pretty.
Will: Shut up!
Amy: I'll see you guys later. *leaves*
Will: Great, now what're we going to do?
(Another Cute Girl walks past the both of them)
Josh: I Know what I'm doing, see you later dude. *follows after her*
Will: Josh! Crap, oh well, Maybe the Football Game's on now, I'll go watch that. See you guys next update. *leaves*