Chapter 21: My Own Enemy
The clear skies of this April evening was accompanied by the crisp cool wind, the bright lights, and the never-ending flock of tourist going back and forth between the boroughs of NYC.
Amy races down the basketball court taking into effect her opposition; thirty seconds left, only need one basket to win, and half of the opposing team charging her from both sides. Did this worry her?
Amy smirked, passing the ball to one of her other teammates, confident that it was gonna go through. She took the shot, with ten seconds left. It looked good, until it tipped the rim. Amy came under it, tapping it back to keep from falling off. The shot went in, and in three seconds, the buzzer went off; McKee won exhibition match with the rival school, Curtis High.
Amy was carried by her teammates into the locker room as she got praise from everyone.
After she changed her clothes, Amy left the school, taking the bus back to Jessie's house. Jessie's been sick since the CLAWs returned from Miami; however, they're just passing it off as a flu bug.
Amy yawned and looked at her watch. "8:30 already. I won't stay long."
"You think she feels any better?" Tira asked. Terri also appeared from Amy's bag.
"Flu's take time to recover from; she'll be fine as long as she gets her needed rest." Terri replied.
"I just hope I don't get it by going over there." Amy replied, yawning again. "That game kind of wiped me out. Oh well, spring break starts tomorrow, so I don't have anything to worry ab-"
Amy suddenly ducked as a huge gust of wind suddenly stirred up, pushing her back. She fell to the ground, rubbing her head as she sat up.
"What was that?" She asked herself as she looked up.
Descending from the sky was a mysterious bird-like Dreamon. Amy couldn't make out what type of bird it was from the darkness, but she could tell that it was trouble.
"You should choose your words more carefully." Terri said.
"Yeah, Yeah." Amy slid the arrow into her brace and held it up for Tira to bite onto it. "KAKUSEI HENSHIN!"
"SONIC FORM!" The computer announced, as Archer Mode's armor formed, followed by Terri sliding onto the belt, activating Sonic Form.
The Dreamon flew up into the air, and Amy followed. Using the night vision sight on her visor, she was able to find it. The two went back and forth in the sky, Amy firing arrows at the Dreamon, with it dodging them like child's play. It rammed Amy and punched her in the back, so that she flew down to the ground. Amy was able to regain her balance but the Dreamon caught up to her, forcing her foot into Amy's chest, putting her back down.
"What the…? My god she's powerful!" Amy is able to get her off as she sweep kicks it. She jumped into the air and used her Turbo Shot to get away.
The Dreamon stood up and watched Amy soar. It suddenly clutched its head and dropped to its knees. It forced itself up and dragged itself into hiding.
"Just who was that?" Amy asked.
"Beats me;" Tira replied. "Weird how a random Dreamon would just attack you out of nowhere like that."
"I'll make sure to tell Commander Dominick about it in the morning. I'll call Jessie, and tell her that I can't make it tonight."
"After a beating like that, I think she'll understand."
Amy nods and banks to her left towards her house.
"Yeah, I've been hearing reports on the news about a mysterious flying Birdman. And you say it's a Dreamon?" Dominick asked Amy.
Amy nodded. "Could've been a D-Brid… It did a number on me in a short time; really powerful."
"OK, thanks for reporting that; like the others, you guys are on call."
"Yes sir." Amy saluted.
"Wonder what it could've been." Shade mentioned.
"I don't know. But I might have an idea." Dominick replied. "Do you think it's that time?"
"If that's the case, then this situation explains a lot. What're you going to do?"
"I'm gonna call Misael, get him to alter this for me." Dominick reaches into the drawer and pulls out a blue serum in a tiny tube.
"What's the point of using it?"
"You'll see." Doninick replied.
"So, still not feeling better?" Nolan asked Jessie, who lies in her bed. Along with him was the rest of the group minus Misael who was called on an assignment for Dominick.
Jessie coughed, rising out of her bed with each forceful cough. Once that was over, she shot back into her bed. "What do you think?" She snarled.
"My bad;" Nolan apologized. He muttered something under his breath, causing Yuliya to smack him upside the head, since she heard it.
"Guys, I feel like crap." Jessie said, trying to move the least bit possible. She suddenly jerked up. "Move please…"
The group then saw Jessie race out of her bedroom and in a few seconds she dragged her sickly body back into her room.
"Can't be the flu without the occasional vomiting;" Jessie said as she crashed into her bed.
"Do you need anything?" Nolan asked, finding the opportunity to get on her good side again.
"Something to kill stomach pain and this fever; Tea would be great too." She smiled.
Yuliya raced downstairs to make tea while Amy went into the bathroom to find any medicine that'll help with stomach pain, leaving the guys with nothing to do.
"Well if you need anything, just call us OK?"
"I know. Don't worry; my parents won't be gone long."
Yuliya came back with tea and Amy came back empty handed.
"Sorry, my parents went to buy Tylenol. I could last until then."
"That's no problem. Speaking of which, I should take some too."
"Why's that you're not sick." Will mentioned.
"I got attacked by a Bird Dreamon last night, did a number on me." Amy replied, rubbing her back.
"Looks like we have another one to take care of;" Josh and Will take Amy and push her out the room. The CLAWs say their good byes and they leave as well.
Later that night, The FANGs walk out of the movie theatre after watching Sucker Punch."
"Greatest…Movie…Ever!" Josh and Will said simultaneously. Amy shook her head. "What was so great about it?"
"You're really asking a guy that question?" Josh asked. "Will, explain."
"The top five things: 5. Dragons. 4. Robots. 3. Explosions. 2. Weapons;"
"And the Number one thing: Hot Girls!" Josh and Will said simultaneously.
Amy nodded as she listened to the explanation. "OK, let's see. Dragons; we fight against Reptilian Dreamon before. Robots; we fought against D-Shifters Before. Explosions; happens on a daily basis. Weapons; Snipers, Crossbows, Swords, a Giant Hammer, the RIDER SYSTEMS THEMSELVES. And hot girls. One, Two, Three. Three hot girls, who can kick butt with all of the other stuff going on; so tell me now, which is better, the movie, or real life?"
Josh and Will looked at each other. "We never had this conversation." Will concluded.
"What conversation?" Josh asked.
"What, you guys don't think I'm hot?"
"We have no idea what you're talking about Amy." Josh said as he and Will turned their backs and walked away.
"Hey wait a sec, get back here!" Amy suddenly felt the gust of wind.
"Get Down!"
Will and Josh turned back, but they were pushed back and they both hit the ground.
The same bird Dreamon floated down. It scanned the trio and readied its wings.
"So this is the bird you fought huh?" Will said, recovering from the gust. "Looks like a D-Brid to me. What do you think Misael?"
The Bird D-Brid ducked a roundhouse kick from Misael who snuck up behind it as he recovered by dropping and sweep kicking it. He stood and pulled his pistol from his pocket.
"It's a bird alright. Never seen a D-Brid that looks like it though; actually it looks beautiful." Misael admitted.
The D-Brid shrugged him off as it flew into the air. It flapped it's wings as red dust tornados started up. The FANGs jumped out of the way, the beasts ready to go.
"Let's see what's better. Sucker Punch, or Real Life." Amy said.
The D-Brid got ready to fight, but its sudden pain shot straight back to its head, causing it to drop.
"It's in pain." Will said.
"What's going on with it?" Amy wondered, watching it try to stand up. The D-Brid turned to them and reached out to Amy. However, it blacked out and reverted to its human form.
The Trio was shocked to see who it was.
"Jessie!" Amy was the first to bolt to Jessie. Amy picked her up. Josh and the others ran over to see what was wrong, while Misael contacted SADE Medics.
A while later Jessie woke up in the infirmary, her friends around her. She watched the doctors leave the room before Dominick finally made his appearance.
"How ya feeling Kiddo?" Dominick asked.
"Like crap." She replied, not thrilled about the situation. "Why am I here in the infirmary? Last I check I was sleeping in my room."
"So you don't remember what happened?" Amy asked her.
"Why what happened?" Jessie answered with another question.
"Yesterday and Tonight, you were on a rampage in your D-Brid form. You nearly took me down, and you didn't last too long earlier tonight." Amy replied.
"I might have an answer to that…" Nolan and his twin, Noah walked into the room.
"Explain yourself, Jezebel." Noah ordered, causing the D-Brid to materialize into the room.
"So you know huh?" Jezebel chuckled, also in pain. "Damn, I didn't think it'd be this painful." Jezebel dropped to the floor, breathing in heavily and grunting to hold back her screams.
"What's happening to them?" Josh asked.
"Jezebel's evolving." Noah answered. "Soon she'll become an organic D-Shifter like me."
"Noah… when you gained this power, you didn't go through this kind of pain; why not?"
"It's because Jessie's body is rejecting it." Dominick replied.
"She's rejecting the power?" Nolan asked.
Dominick nodded. "When Noah became a D-Shifter, he didn't have to worry because he wasn't synced with a human. Normally they come and go without any problem. However, supporting two life forms is difficult when the evolution happens. One side will welcome it with open arms; however the other side will reject it, like a virus. The reason why Jessie is sick, is because her body is trying hard to force it away and unfortunately, it's only gonna get worse.
"How worse?" Nolan asked, afraid of the reply.
Dominick took a minute to reply. "It'll become so that both Jessie and Jezebel will die in a matter of days."
There was a long silence in the room as everyone turned to them. Jessie's face was full of pain and terror, and Jezebel slid against the wall, feeling guilty that she's putting Jessie through this.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you about this…" She whispered. She disappeared from the room as Jessie lays back in her bed.
"I have Misael working on the Yume No Jundo Antidote from the recent mission with the WING Riders. He's found a way to extract the accelerator chemical out of it. That should kill the pain, allowing the body to relax and accept the power. We can't stop the evolution, but we can at least let it go as smoothly and painless as possible." Dominick reassured, giving a tiny spark of hope in the room.
At Shadow HQ, Tyson walks down the hallway of the building, running into his 'favorite person.'
"Hey, Phoenix." James waved.
"What do you want, other than get under my skin?" Tyson snarled.
"I want to call a truce, you know between us and you guys. I mean, we're all on the same side, we should act like it."
"What's with the sudden change of heart?" Tyson asked.
James pointed down the hallway. Tyson looked behind him, seeing Mitsuki, in a Shadow Uniform walk down in their direction.
"Who's she?" Tyson asked.
"She my new friend, is the new ACE of Diamonds; Mitsuki Miyamoto: The Saber-tooth D-Shifter, and Kamen Rider FANG: Saber Mode. Pretty isn't she?"
"You're just trying to win brownie points aren't you?" Tyson implied.
"Nice observation. I figured that to win her over, I had to lighten up, try to deal with the hand that destiny has dealt me."
"And that includes be nice to scum like us right?"
"Yeah, be nice to my commanding officers." James corrected. "I'll see you later. I'm gonna give Agent Miyamoto a tour of the building."
"You do that Romeo." Tyson smirked.
James took Mitsuki as the two walked off. Tyson snickered and walked off. "My god that hurt so much, being nice to that guy."
"Yo Tyson;" Ken said as he walked up with Marissa.
"What's up, you two?"
"We need to talk to you; it's important." Marissa replied.
"OK let's go somewhere private then…" He replied.
Back at the infirmary, Misael injects the antidote into her arm as Jessie sleeps soundly.
"Vitals good, heart rate fine, and her fever dropped." Misael examined.
"Great." Dominick said. "Guess we'll just leave it here for tonight."
"Alright then;" Misael stood up and turned for the door. "I'll have them check on her overnight, make sure her vitals are stable."
"Thanks." Dominick said. The two flip the lights and close the door behind them.
"She's a real trooper isn't she?" Misael said.
"Yeah she is. Her and the others have yelled at Death more than once, and fought against the craziest things imaginable."
"Then you have faith that she'll pull out of this without any problems right?"
"Absolute."
Later that night, around 1am, Jessie's heart rate slowly speeds up, and her breathing becomes heavier. She wakes up, her vision fuzzy. And out of nowhere, a sudden burst of sharp pain started from her stomach and shot to everywhere else in her body, like she was impaled by a sword. She screamed, holding her head tight. Her vitals skyrocketed, as she made her way out of the bed and onto the floor, the pain only getting worse. Then, a red and black aura materialized around her as she was losing consciousness. She reached for the nightstand, as the aura formed red and black see-through wings. She screamed louder, tears in her eyes. Then the pain stopped, she calmed down, and she fell onto the floor. Feathers from the see-through wings floated to the ground.
The security and on-call doctors raced into the room to find Jessie standing up and not in pain.
"Agent Stewart is everything OK in here?" one of the Doctors asked.
Jessie chuckled and turned her head, so they could see her ruby-red eyes. A Red and Black swan flapped it's matching wings beside her.
"HENSHIN!" She uttered darkly…
[END]
[Super Hero Time]
Will: Holy Crap Jessie's evil
Amy: Why are you worrying? Just get the Sucker Punch Girls to help out.
Will: This is real life! They can't do anything that'll help here!
Amy: Oh but this is a Fan fiction, we can't do anything either.
Will: Stop doing that!
Josh: Hey guys, how do you suppose we get out of this one?
Will: How about we just worry about that in the next chapter?
Amy: Sounds good