Last time, on Kamen Rider Amazons…
19-year old Mai Thy Dinh Vu was your average intern working for one of Ho Chi Minh City's biggest newspapers. Alongside her mentor Nguyen Le "June" Linh Khanh, Thy investigates the mysterious bombing of a skyscraper at Vo Van Kiet Highway, one of the city's busiest roads.
Her investigation brought Thy to the Ho Chi Minh City branch office of Nozama Pharmacy, an up-and-coming Japanese pharmaceutical company that had just set up shop in the city. What Thy found there was horrifying – evidences of illegal experimentations on animals and humans alike, specimens of said experiments and the equipment to perform them, and records of a mysterious project called "Project Amazon," which involves artificial cells called "Amazon Cells" that enhances one's capabilities beyond belief. Thy also came across a mysterious belt buckle, which knocked her out once she tried it on out of curiosity. Coming to, Thy found herself face-to-face with the bombers of the Vo Van Kiet skyscraper, a young woman named Ideh Lonae and her Japanese partner Shinji, both of them having the ability to transform into monstrous beings called "Amazons." Suddenly Thy found herself possessed by an unknown force, which compels her to transform into a monstrous being called "Cultivation Type Omega" with the help of her newly acquired belt buckle. The transformed Thy easily mauled the Spider Amazon to death. The Bat Amazon met an equally gruesome end after he was disemboweled quickly by another monstrous being which he calls "Wild Type Alpha" before his demise.
Now face-to-face with Alpha, the transformed Thy was forced to fight against him, with Alpha demanding an answer from her regarding her transformed state, and the force that is in control of her body compelling her to fight…
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The transformed Thy lets out a growl as it lunges forward, her claws all brandished and ready to sink themselves into her opponent's flesh. Alpha easily tip-toed away from the incoming attack, before jumping away from a slash from Thy's claws. The red being is surprisingly calm and nimble despite his feral appearance, as he once again avoided another swipe from Thy's claws with an acrobatic jump.
Landing on the ground on both feet, Alpha quickly regains his composure, a mocking grin can be seen on his monstrous visage. Extending his right hand towards the constantly growling Thy, Alpha made a slight taunting gesture, challenging Thy to attack him once again.
"Come at me, bakemono," Alpha taunted.
Thy lets out a loud growl, before she made another charge towards Alpha.
"No! No! No!" Thy's mind ran wild as she struggled to control herself, only to fail miserably as the force controlling her body has already set it's sight in attacking Alpha, "What are you doing, Thy?! You should be on your way home! Minh will be worried sick because of you! But no, you just had to engage this guy in a fight! Come on Thy, snap out of this!"
But the next thing that Thy saw, is Alpha's right boot coming towards her face.
"Oh fucking shit."
Alpha's right boot slammed itself straight onto Thy's lower jaw, sending her flying several meters away before landing on the cold hard pavement with a slight thud. Before Thy could get up and regain her composure, Alpha had leapt towards her and slammed his left knee against her torso, pinning her on the ground.
"Now answer me, are you Omega?" Alpha asked as he increases his weight on his left knee, pinning the struggling Thy even further, "Or just some Amazon scum who got its dirty hands on Omega's Amazons Driver? Because if I could recall, you don't look like Omega."
Thy could only reply with a series of growls and grunts as she continues to struggle underneath Alpha's weight.
"Not good enough," Alpha shook his head, before he slowly raises his right fist into the air, "Now to finish you off and take your Driver so that someone with more worth can use it…"
"Alpha, stop it."
A startled Alpha looked up to see the German man walking towards him and the pinned Thy, a cold and stern look is visible on the German's face. As Alpha's green eyes made contact with the German's sapphire blue's, a slight chuckle escaped from Alpha's beak-like mouth.
"Oh, it's you," Alpha said, his tone rather mocking, "What are you doing here, Schmiddy boy? And where are your Peston men? S-045 and B-033 has been taken out already, so your presence here is not needed."
As he said that, Alpha gestured towards Ideh and Shinji's badly mangled corpses, which are now dissolving slowly into puddles of black ooze.
"Actually, my presence here is needed," the German said, not giving any attention towards the puddles of ooze lying nearby them as he pointed at the pinned Thy underneath Alpha's left knee, "I'm here to take care of that thing."
"You wanted to take care of this Amazon?" Alpha's eyes widened, before he lets out a mocking chuckle, "I'm afraid that you're too late, Schmidt. I've already dealt with this piece of scum, and I'm going to send it to Hell where it belongs."
Suddenly the German man leaped towards Alpha and gave him a powerful hook on his lower jaw, sending the red being stumbling away from the pinned Thy, who lets out several gasps after she had been freed.
"Ow!" Alpha groaned as he stumbled back, before he quickly regained his composure, "What the fuck did you do that for?!"
"You idiot," the German said, "Did Dr. Steffi ever told you what Omega looks like?"
"I think she did," Alpha said, rubbing his sore jaw, "Why did you ask me that?"
The German sighed, "You and Dr. Steffi should've waited for me and the others when we escaped that compound 5 months ago."
"What are you talking about?" Alpha blinked.
"When you left with Dr. Steffi, she only brought with her a complete schematics of your Alpha form and a few schematics of Omega's true form," the German explained, "Whereas I, I managed to download the complete schematics of Omega…" he then proceeds to point at the still downed Thy, "…which includes that…Omega's incomplete form."
Alpha went silent, as if trying to process everything that the German had just told him. Realizing that Alpha would not buy his words easily, the German decided to persuade the red being even further.
"Alpha, I want you to trust me for this," the German said as Alpha continued to think, "Even though you and my Peston men are at constant odds with each other, I want you to trust me with Omega. I promise that once it's completed, we'll do our best to set aside our differences for the greater good. Now, would you kindly leave this place?"
Alpha thought for a few moments, the air around the area becoming much tense in each second. Thy kept on panting, her breathing still heavy after being pinned down like that for a while, while sweat began to drip from the German's forehead and hands. Finally Alpha shrugged his shoulders lightly, breaking away the tension as he does so.
"The Ho Chi Minh City cops will be here in a few minutes. Damn Nozama must have reported an attempted trespassing in this area to them," Alpha said as he slowly walked away, "Make sure you took that thing away with you quickly. We don't want the Pestons' existence to be compromised, do we?"
"Thank you," the German said, bowing politely as he spoke.
"But!" Alpha suddenly stopped, his right index finger pointing to the sky, "Make sure that you and your Peston men don't come into my way again until you've properly utilized Omega. I don't want mere humans to just stroll around and steal my kill. When you've mastered Omega, then you'll have my permission to cooperate with me."
"Will do," the German nodded, "And by the way…say hi to your girlfriend for me."
Alpha scoffed, "Steffi's not my girlfriend." And with that, Alpha made a mighty jump into the darkness, disappearing into the night.
With Alpha now out of sight, the German quickly made his way towards Thy, bending down on one knee as he inspects the young woman's mutated body. After giving Thy a thorough inspection, the German slowly placed his hand on her belt buckle.
"You okay there?" the German asked, which Thy replied with a weak nod, "Good. I hope this won't cause too much pain for you."
The German proceeds to wrap his fingers on Thy's belt buckle, before slowly and gently pulling the device off her waist. As the belt buckle detaches from her body, a greenish glow began to overwhelm Thy, before it faded away to reveal her naked human form, looking clearly fatigued, bruised, and beaten.
Immediately the German was thrown aback by Thy's appearance.
'Holy shit!' the German cursed inside his mind, 'A young woman…how on Earth did she came across Omega's Amazons Driver?'
"Uhhh…" suddenly Thy lets out a weak groan from her mouth, her eyes slowly opening, "Where am I? What happened?" She then took a glance at the German sitting next to her, "Who…who are you?"
The German was about to introduce himself, when suddenly he heard sirens echoing from a distance.
The police are coming.
'Crap,' the German's mind cursed again. If he and Thy didn't leave the area immediately, they might have to deal with law enforcement officers…and that's the last thing that the German wanted.
"I'll explain later," the German said as he slowly hoisted Thy onto his back, "But for now, just trust me, okay?"
Still worn out from her earlier experience, Thy could only gave a weak nod as she held onto the German's back.
As the first few police cars entered the area, the German quickly slipped away into the darkness, carrying Thy with him.
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KAMEN RIDER AMAZONS
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OP: Dream Theater – Prophets of War
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Episode 2: Omega Awakened
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After cycling frantically for a couple of hours, Minh has finally arrived at the Nozama Pharmacy office and much to her surprise, she saw a number of police cars parked in front of the building, complete with a few policemen placing police lines on the building's gates and a few other questioning bystanders and the building's guards.
"What going on here?" Minh wondered aloud as she saw the commotion in front of her, before she realizes something, "If the police are here…that means there's trouble...shit, Thy!"
Jumping off her bicycle, Minh immediately went towards the nearest policeman who is now applying the last of the police lines, a look of panic clearly etched on her now sweating face, "Excuse me, Sir!"
The policeman immediately turned around to see a terrified Minh in front of him, "Yes, what can I help you with, Miss?"
"I wanted to know what happened here," Minh replied, sheer worry in her voice, "My friend went here and she hasn't come home yet, I was worried if something happened to her."
"We're responding to an alleged trespassing in the vicinity," the policeman replied, "Try to calm yourself down, Miss, and tell me what your friend looks like."
Taking a couple of deep breaths, Minh slowly took out her cellphone and scrolled it's gallery, stopping at a photograph of her and Thy from a recent party a few weeks ago. She then showed the photograph to the policeman, who examined it carefully for a few seconds, before he shook his head disappointedly.
"I'm sorry, I haven't seen that young woman at all since we've arrived here," the policeman said, "But I'll tell the other officers to search for that person around the vicinity as we're now searching this office complex for anything suspicious. I'll inform you via text if we found your friend."
"Sure thing," Minh said as she pockets her cellphone, "Can I have a pen and paper?"
The policeman handed Minh his notebook and pen, which she quickly used to write down her phone number, before she hands it back to the policeman.
"Just…make sure that she's safe, okay?" Minh said.
The policeman nodded, "It's our priority to ensure the safety of everyone in this city, Miss. Now just go home and relax, we'll inform you if we found anything regarding your friend."
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'Those damn policemen told me that they'll find Krishna soon, but they still couldn't find him after all these months,' Minh muttered angrily as she slowly cycled away from the Nozama Pharmacy office building, shooting out a look of anger and grief at the policemen in front of the building for a few seconds before she resumed her journey, 'Let's hope they would find Thy as soon as possible…if not…God knows what I'm gonna do…"
As Minh turns her bicycle around a small roundabout near the office building, suddenly she noticed something unusual in front of her, causing Minh to slowly approach it on her bicycle out of curiosity.
Walking slowly on the nearby sidewalk is a well-built Caucasian man, but that's not what caught Minh's attention. What caught her attention is what the man's carrying on his back – a naked, young woman with shoulder length, curly-black hair. The man slowly approaches a parked black Humvee, placing the young woman underneath a nearby tree as he fiddles with his pockets for his car key.
Even though they're a few meters apart, Minh could easily recognize who that young woman is thanks to the familiar thick-framed glasses that she's wearing right now.
There's no doubt about it, it's Thy.
"Thy!" Minh called out, quickly cycling her way towards the parked Humvee.
Unfortunately for Minh, the man had managed to get his key and unlocked his car, placing Thy inside the car's passenger side before hopping onto the driver's seat. As Minh reached the Humvee's location, the man has already turned on the vehicle's engine before driving away seconds later, much to Minh's frustration.
"Damn it!" Minh cursed as the Humvee drove away from her, but she won't give up that easily.
Wiping away the sweat from her forehead, Minh quickly pedaled her bicycle after the Humvee, determined that she will find out what has happened to her best friend no matter what.
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Location: Warehouse, Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Time: Midnight
A young man frantically made his way inside an abandoned warehouse in Ho Chi Minh City's Go Vap District, his breathing and movement erratic, as if he was being pursued by something...or someone. A group of people to be exact.
"He's inside!" boomed a male voice from the warehouse's entrance, "After him!"
The young man immediately went running once again, his footsteps echoing inside the warehouse as he stepped on a few puddles of stagnated water. Seconds afterwards the warehouse's doors were kicked open, allowing the man's pursuers access into the warehouse. Their echoing footsteps terrified the man even further, forcing him even deeper into the warehouse.
Garbed in black Kevlar and wearing gunmetal helmets, the group of 6 chasing the man wasted no time in hunting down their quarry, even with one of their members deciding to split off from the group and went towards the warehouse's second floor. The group consists of three men and three women, with one male member with a hi-tech-looking sniper rifle deciding to operate from the warehouse's second floor. Another male member and a female member were armed with batons, while the third male member is armed with a Glock. Surprisingly, two of the group's female members were unarmed, even though one of them is now wearing a set of modified shin guards on her legs.
The young man kept on running and running, until suddenly he finds himself face-to-face with a huge brick wall.
"Fucking shit!" the man cursed, realizing that he's hit a dead end. To add more to the man's problems, the group has managed to catch up with him, with the male member armed with the Glock instructing the other members to surround the vicinity.
"Hands where I can see 'em!" the man yelled, pointing his Glock at the young man, "Either we're going to do this the easy way, or we're going to do this the hard way."
Hissing in both fear and anger, the young man brandishes a silver, mechanical-looking device that resembles a curled-up centipede with red eyes.
"You fuckers are never going to take me alive," the man said as he places the device on his waist, both the device and the man's eyes glowing red, "Amazon!"
Immediately the man was engulfed by a thick black and red smoke emitted by the device, prompting the group surrounding him to prepare their respective weapons. A loud clicking noise was heard from the smoke as a metallic-humanoid bursts out from it. The humanoid's body was mostly black, with a few red patches on the torso region. Small spikes lined up the humanoid's shins and elbows, while the humanoid's head resembled that of a centipede's, complete with a pair of fangs hanging on the mouth region and a pair of fearsome-looking red eyes. But the humanoid's most distinct feature is a giant centipede that coiled itself on his body, the centipede's rear region resting on the humanoid's right hip and its head sticking out from the humanoid's left shoulder.
The Centipede Amazon lets out a cackle as it stood defiantly in front of his pursuers, who are still pointing their weapons at him.
"So we're going to do it the hard way, huh?" the man with the Glock smirked, before glancing at the baton-wielding members of his group, "Thao, Gray, set up the perimeter."
The two bespectacled members immediately obliged, taking out several of glue stick-like objects and planting them at the nearby pillars, creating a field of electricity that practically surrounds the group and the Centipede Amazon.
"Thao, what are we dealing with here?" the man with the Glock asked.
Thao, the female bespectacled member immediately took out her iPad after she had finished planting the perimeter sticks, giving the device a quick check, "C-135, a centipede-type Amazon. It's a rank B."
"A B rank, great," the man with the Glock chuckled, "Looks like we can deal with this thing without Schmidt. Gray, Thao, be prepared to back us up if things go sour. Wind, let's go!"
"Sure thing, Thanh!" replied the female member with the shin guards, Wind.
Wind immediately charged into battle, kicking the Centipede Amazon repeatedly with her shin guards giving off shocks as they made contact with the Amazon's skin. The Centipede Amazon groaned several times as pain from both the kicks and the shocks racked through his body, but soon decides that enough is enough. Avoiding several of Wind's incoming kicks, the Centipede Amazon soon grappled with her for a few seconds before tossing her to the ground.
Thanh, the man with the Glock, immediately took action, firing several specialized bullets from his Glock. The bullets zipped through the air before making contact with the Centipede Amazon's skin, sending out more shocks throughout the creature's body.
The momentary pause allowed Wind to take out a combat knife from her right shin guard, holding it in a reverse grip manner as she once again attacked the Centipede Amazon. The Centipede Amazon was stabbed several times by Wind and her knife, but even with black blood now dripping from his wounds, the Centipede Amazon still wouldn't stand down. A simple swipe from the Amazon's right clawed hand was enough to disarm Wind of her knife, before an uppercut sends Wind flying to the floor, much to the shock of both Gray and Thao.
"Wind!" Gray, the male bespectacled member, called out as his comrade skids to a stop near him.
"I'm good," Wind groaned as she slowly stood up, wiping away the blood trickling from her mouth, "You guys go ahead."
Both Gray and Thao nodded, the two bespectacled members gripping their batons tightly. Yelling out in determination, the two entered the fray, striking the Centipede Amazon with their batons as Thanh fired his Glock several times to support them. Like Wind's shin guards and Thanh's bullets, Gray and Thao's batons were specifically set to shock their opponent when making contact with said opponent's flesh, allowing them to stun their opponent quickly. But unfortunately, even with all the combined shocks from Thanh's bullets and Gray and Thao's batons, the Centipede Amazon is still going strong, pushing Gray and Thao aside with his hands before pulling out a spike from his right shoulder, the spike enlarging and curving as it leaves the Centipede Amazon's flesh. The Centipede Amazon quickly tossed the spike at Thanh, striking him on his right wrist and disarming the man.
"Is that what you pathetic humans got?" the Centipede Amazon asked mockingly as he catches his boomerang spike and plants it back on his right shoulder.
As replying to the Amazon's mocking, a bullet suddenly flew out from the warehouse's second floor and struck the Centipede Amazon on his neck, stunning him to his knees for a few seconds. Thanh and the others looked up to see the rifle-wielding Japanese man standing from the second floor, a smile adorning the man's face.
"Great job, Kosuke!" Thanh complimented, which Kosuke replied with a thumbs up.
Yelling in anger, the Centipede Amazon slowly stood up, glaring at Kosuke in anger as he pulled out his shoulder spike once again.
"Kosuke, watch out!" Thanh warned.
The Centipede Amazon threw his spike at Kosuke, prompting the Japanese man to duck almost immediately. Missing its target, the spike instead struck the wall behind Kosuke, leaving behind a sizeable hole.
"Fucking Hell," Thanh muttered, realizing that he has no other option left but to use the group's trump card, "Quynh, you're up!"
"Roger that," replied Quynh, the group's unarmed female member, licking her lips in delight.
Wind immediately threw a small hamburger at Quynh, which the young woman devoured whole almost immediately. Tossing the hamburger's wrapping aside, Quynh took out a silver, mechanical belt buckle, almost identical to design with the Centipede Amazon's, only this time it was themed after a mole's head, complete with a pair of red eyes. Quynh quickly places the buckle on her waist as her teammates backed away from both her and the Centipede Amazon, knowing that once Quynh is in the battlefield, a bloodbath is inevitable.
"Amazon!" Quynh yelled, letting out a feral roar afterwards as her body exploded into white smoke, prompting her teammates to shield themselves from the sudden wave of heat that radiated from Quynh's body.
As the smoke from Quynh's transformation clears away, her transformed form was revealed for the world to see. Standing in Quynh's place is a silver-colored mole humanoid, bulky and muscular in build with a set of large claws on each hand and a drill-shaped nose. Unlike the other Amazons, her eyes were blue, while the eyes on her belt buckle remained red. An ornate-looking armlet is seen wrapped around her upper right arm, a pair of blue lights glowing on it.
The newly transformed Mole Amazon lets out a bestial roar as she faces off with the Centipede Amazon, before she wasted no time in tackling her centipede counterpart to the ground.
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Location: Schmidt's house, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Thy slowly opened her eyes, her vision still blurry and fuzzy while her head is still slightly hurting after all that she's gone through. Slowly blinking her eyes, she saw that her surroundings have changed completely. No more night skies above her, no cold pavement underneath her. Thy is now lying on a rather aged sofa, a small coffee table lying next to her, while an ornate-looking chandelier hangs silently above her.
The next thing that she realized is what's on her body. The last time she remembered, she was lying naked on the ground when that German man found her before she blacked out after hanging onto the man's back. Now she's wearing a brown wool blanket that hugs her body nicely, giving her the warmth that she needs.
Suddenly a slight pain jabbed through Thy's right arm, prompting the young woman to slowly lift up the blanket covering said area. Much to her shock, she finds out that an ornate-looking metallic armlet is now resting on her upper right arm, a pair of blue lights glowing steadily on it.
"Ah, you're awake."
The German man enters the room, a warm smile on his face while a bowl of soup and a glass of hot milk are in his hands. He then places the two items on the coffee table in front of Thy, right next to her belt buckle, which is sitting idly with it's now dim lights staring right at Thy's soul.
"Got you some soup and milk," the German man said as he pulled up a chair from the adjacent room and places it in front of the coffee table, allowing him to sit face-to-face with Thy, "I hope these will restore your energy."
"Thanks," Thy said quietly, sitting up as she slowly sipped into the soup, "Hm, chicken soup. Delicious."
"Sorry that I took you here all of a sudden," the German man said as Thy enjoyed her meal, "I can't risk anything happening to us if the law enforcement finds out what happened at the Nozama office. And I guess I owe you an explanation, huh?"
"I think you do," Thy said as she continued eating.
"Right. My name is Daniel Schmidt. Just call me Schmidt," the German introduced himself, "Munich, born and bred. Moved to Vietnam a few years ago, and a capable man in the field of Biology. What about you? What's your name?"
"Mai Thy Dinh Vu," Thy replied, drinking her milk before continuing, "If my name's too difficult for you, call me Thy. And I'm an intern journalist, by the way."
"Which takes us to my second question," Schmidt said, "What is a journalist like you doing at Nozama at such an hour?"
"I should have ask you that question first," Thy said, chewing her chicken for a few seconds before swallowing it, "What are you doing at Nozama? Are you a part of them?"
Schmidt's warm look was suddenly wiped away from his face, being replaced by a rather somber one. The German lets out a slightly regretful sigh, before turning his attention back to Thy, his sapphire eyes emanating sadness.
Concerned that she might have offended him, Thy stammered uneasily, "I…I'm sorry…did I…"
"It's okay," Schmidt interrupted, "You're investigating Nozama, right? A journalist like you would not have sneaked her way into their office without such an intent."
Thy nodded.
"Then let me tell you the truth of what is happening with Nozama Pharmacy."
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Location: Warehouse, Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Sparks flew as the Mole Amazon slashed the Centipede Amazon several times across the torso with those huge claw of hers, before she stabs her right claw into the Centipede Amazon's abdomen. The Centipede Amazon groaned in pain as the Mole Amazon hoisted him into the air, before slamming him back first onto the cold hard ground. Releasing her grip on the Centipede Amazon, the Mole Amazon proceeds to stab the Centipede Amazon through both eyes with her right claw, causing red fluid to splash against her face as the Centipede Amazon cried in agony, his eyes permanently blinded as the Mole Amazon pulled out her claw from them, red fluid oozing out of his damaged eye sockets.
"Man, Quynh's being brutal today," Thao commented as she and her teammates watched on from the sidelines.
"We haven't got any good Amazons lately," Thanh said, taking off his helmet to reveal a set of short yet rather spiky black hair on his head, "Can't blame her for being too excited in doing her job."
The Mole Amazon proceeds to pound the Centipede Amazon's chest repeatedly with her claws, leaving a series of stab wounds on her opponent's body.
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Location: Schmidt's house, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
"Are you aware of Project Amazon?" Schmidt asked.
Thy nodded, "Yeah, I copied a lot of their data into my USB during my investigation. They're quite…horrific."
"Horrific's too nice of a word to describe Project Amazon," Schmidt said, taking a deep breath before continuing, "The project was the company's biggest mistake. It was initially meant as a simple, innocent mission to eradicate what is wrong in man. Diseases, cancers, genetic defects. Nozama plans to cure all of those imperfection by developing artificial cells that would improve one's capabilities in life, the Amazon Cells. And in order to create a template for those cells…we decided to create something that no one has thought to create before. We literally played God. We….we created…life."
"We?" a confused Thy asked, before realization hits her hard, "Don't tell me…"
"…I was one of the project's lead scientists," Schmidt finished, his tone sad, somber, and full of regret, "I know. I'm not proud of what I've done."
"So what happened next?" Thy asked.
Schmidt continues his story, "Like I said before, in order to have a template for our Amazon Cells, we decided to create an artificial being made purely of those Cells so that we could use its Cells as a template to further and improve our finished product. The being's creation was a success…but it's something that has gone horribly right."
"Gone horribly right?" Thy asked, sipping her milk after doing so.
Schmidt nodded, "The being initially cooperated with us. Its Cells gave us positive results during tests, enabling us to create more and more of such beings for further testing. We also did experiments with other living organisms, and results indicated that the Cells worked perfectly. But then…something happened."
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Location: Warehouse, Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Mole Amazon lets out a feral roar, her drill-like nose opening up to form a star-like formation. The battered Centipede Amazon slowly stood up, his centipede-like ornament on his left shoulder has been sliced completely, while holes oozing black liquid are scattered across his torso. His eyes are now permanently blind, while his fangs have been crushed beyond repair.
Blue energy surges through the Mole Amazon's claw as she charged at the Centipede Amazon for one last time, impaling her right claw partially into the Centipede Amazon's chest, causing him to cough up black and red liquids that splashed the Mole Amazon's already messy visage.
"Go to Hell," the Mole Amazon muttered as she shoved her other claw into the Centipede Amazon's abdomen.
With a frightening roar, the Mole Amazon rip her claws apart, tearing the Centipede Amazon's body in half. Black liquid splattered all over the area, with a large amount of it drenching the Mole Amazon's body. Thanh and his team winced at the gory display in front of them, but at the same time relieved that they had finally emerged victorious.
Tossing aside the two halves of the Centipede Amazon's body, the Mole Amazon slowly approaches the slain kaijin's belt buckle, which is now lying idly on the ground. Reverting back into a naked Quynh in a cloud of white smoke, the young woman slowly picks the device up and crushes it with her bare hands, causing the two halves of the Centipede Amazon's corpse to dissolve into puddles of black liquid.
"Here you go," Quynh said, handing over the crushed device to Thanh, "Now, can I have another burger?"
Thanh chuckled as he accepted the device, giving Quynh a nice pat on the head, "Of course. With the payment that we're getting, we'll buy you the best burger in town! And maybe some more new clothes for you."
Quynh grinned from ear to ear upon hearing that.
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Location: Schmidt's house, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
"The Amazons Cells require a huge amount of protein to sustain itself," Schmidt told Thy, "And by the time we find out, it was too late. We have made so much progress with the Cells – we have created a huge amount of artificial beings to supply us with the Cells, and we've even done…gosh, how I can say this…human experimentation with said Cells…"
"Holy shit," Thy gasped.
Schmidt nodded weakly, "I know. Eventually our first Amazon…that's the name we give to the artificial beings…it decided to rebel against us. Its hunger for protein drives it to deem us as its food sources instead of its creators. In its hunger-induced rampage, it releases all of the Amazons that we have created into the world and killed almost everyone in the company. But here's where it gets more disturbing – the first Amazon injects it's Cells into the bodies of the people that it killed…that thing turned my friends into its puppets." He then sank his face into his hands and sobbed a bit, "I don't know what else I could say…"
"I…I'm sorry for your loss…" Thy said, her mind still trying to process what Schmidt has told her, "Does that mean…"
"…yes," Schmidt replied immediately, "The bombers at Vo Van Kiet…the Amazons that you've just killed…they're formerly my friends."
Schmidt stood up, made his way towards a nearby bookshelf, and took out a medium-sized photo album from it. He then sat down back on his seat, opening the album's first page and shows its contents to Thy. The page has only one photograph, but it's quite large in size, positioned vertically so that it took up most of the page's space. The photo depicts a group shot of Nozama Pharmacy's scientists, the words "Project Amazon 2015" written underneath it.
"This is our group photo before we started working on Project Amazon," Schmidt said as Thy gave the photo a look, "Seen anyone familiar?"
"Let me check…" Thy said as her eyes scanned the photograph, before she lets out a gasp, pointing at the center of the photograph, "Oh my God…that's you!"
"And that's not all," Schmidt said, placing his finger near Thy's, "If you go three persons to the left, you'll see a woman that I think is very familiar to you."
Thy's eyes followed the direction where Schmidt's finger has pointed, before another gasp came out from her mouth, "Holy shit…that's Ideh."
Schmidt's finger has guided Thy to an image of Ideh, wearing her scientist garb and with a smile on her face, a stark contrast to the sadistic young woman that Thy had encountered earlier.
"I've seen you've met Ideh Lonae," Schmidt said, "Or…what's used to be her. She and her boyfriend Shinji Kurashiki were a part of our microbiology research team and worked underneath my direct supervision. But when the first Amazon rampaged…they were a part of the casualties inflicted by that thing. I saw it with my own eyes how the first Amazon injected its Cells into their corpses…reviving them into its servants. Ideh and Shinji died that day…they were known as S-045 and B-033 from that day forth."
Suddenly Schmidt heard the sound of an object being dropped, followed by a series of sobs. Turning his attention towards Thy, he saw that the young woman had dropped the photo album to the floor, her glasses on the coffee table as her face is now buried inside her hands.
"I…I…I've killed your friend…" Thy continued to sob, tears streaming down from her face, the vivid memory of her biting down the Spider Amazon's neck flashing in her mind.
"Thy…Ideh's long dead. What you've killed is a monster that is using her body," Schmidt said, placing his hand onto Thy's shoulder to console her.
"I know that!" Thy yelled all of a sudden, shrugging away Schmidt's hand from her, her eyes bloodshot and watery from her crying, "But still…she's once your friend…someone that is close to you. And I can remember…I took a huge bite of her neck. I saw her bleeding on the ground. That alone….that alone…gosh…I….I've never hurt someone in my life before, okay? But what I did….it's too inhumane for me to comprehend…"
"Trust me Thy…what you've gone through is nothing compared to my pain," Schmidt said, "The fact that you've created a whole race of monsters….seeing your friends being slaughtered in front of your eyes…seeing them being turned into the same monsters that you've created…your guilt right now is nothing compared to mine, and I had to carry them for five months. At least you've done something right to this world by killing one of them…"
"So what?!" Thy suddenly stood up, "It doesn't change the fact that I've taken one's life. I've murdered someone in cold blood, Schmidt. I don't care if it's a monster or not that I've killed…the fact that I've taken one's life with my own two hands…the guilt from doing that is not going to go away that easily. I have to bear the fact that I've murdered someone for the rest of my lives!"
"At least you don't have to bear the burden of creating a race of man-eating monsters for five fucking months and knowing that you're going to live with that fact for the rest of your entire fucking life!" Schmidt raised his voice, slamming his fist against the coffee table, before realizing what he had said seconds afterwards, "Sorry about that. It's just…"
"I know," Thy nodded slowly as she sat down again, "The two of us are on the same boat of guilt, huh?"
"Looks like it," Schmidt smiled bitterly.
xxx
Location: District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
"Ah mou!" Minh cried out in frustration as she pedaled her bicycle through District 5, "I've lost that car!"
For the past 45 minutes, Minh has been pursuing the black Humvee that carried Thy, but unfortunately due to the intersections and traffic lights that they had to go through and the Humvee being just too fast for Minh to catch up with her bicycle, as soon as they enter District 5, Minh has lost sight of the vehicle, causing her to ride around District 5 aimlessly.
"Now I'll never find Thy," Minh groaned, pulling over her bicycle near a sidewalk before sitting on the curbside, sighing and throwing her hands up in frustration, "Should I go back? Should I just hand this over to the police?"
Suddenly Minh notices a black Ford Falcon slowly approaching her, before pulling over to a stop. From the car's driver's seat, a middle-aged Caucasian man emerged, wearing a full cowboy outfit, complete with the leather vest and the iconic hat. A dark brown goatee is seen on the man's face, while his build is quite tall, imposing, and muscular.
The man made his way towards Minh, a friendly smile on his face, "Hey kid, are you following a black Humvee into this area?"
Minh nodded, "Yeah, how did you know?"
The man chuckled, "I'm following the same vehicle too, and I think I know where it went. Just follow me, and I can guarantee that I'm going to take you to your destination."
xxx
Location: Schmidt's house, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Thy glanced at the deactivated belt buckle in front of her, "Everything's gone downhill for me ever since I wore that damn thing."
"I was at Nozama to pick that up," Schmidt said, his eyes looking at the belt buckle as well, "The Amazons Driver, built by the remnants of Nozama Pharmacy who went into hiding after the company's hostile takeover. Three quarters of our team was slaughtered and converted into Amazons during that fateful day. Not to mention the people in the Pharmacy – the first Amazon has undoubtedly killed and replaced them all with Amazons. But thankfully a few of the higher ups managed to evade being killed and converted, faking their allegiance to them while at the same time giving us intel to track down and eliminate those damned things. By the time our first Amazon went berserk, we've already created one of that thing. I believe you've encountered Alpha, right?"
"I think I do," Thy nodded, "Heck, I think I fucking fought that thing!"
Schmidt chuckled, "Alpha's always been the reckless one. Beat the shit out of the guy first then ask questions later. But that's not my point. What I'm trying to say is…your belt buckle is the more updated version of the Driver. We called it Omega…the final product of two months of secrecy and trying to sneak intel, data, and materials underneath the Amazons' noses. My contact inside the Pharmacy told me that the Driver's completed and is ready to be retrieved. To be honest…I'm the one who's supposed to wear that thing."
"Really?" Thy's eyes went wide.
"Really," Schmidt replied, "But unfortunately before I could find a way to enter the facility…you've already beaten me to the punch. Even though it's not yet perfected…you still wear it anyway."
"What do you mean?" Thy asked.
"See that item on your upper right arm?" Schmidt pointed to the armlet on Thy's arm, "It's the Amazons Register. We've managed to round up a few of our escaped Amazon and gave them that. It administers a drug to their system that kept their Cells in check, enabling them to live normally without having the murderous urges to eat everyone around them. Unfortunately only a few of those things were produced…the first Amazon destroyed all data regarding the Register during its rampage. Heck, it even destroyed all the drug supply that we had for it! What you're wearing right now is the last known Amazons Register ever produced."
"And what does that have something to do with my…what do you call that again?" Thy asked again.
"Amazons Driver," Schmidt replied, "The Driver injected Amazon Cells into your body in order to enhance it when you first wore it…"
"…so technically…I'm an Amazon?!" Thy gasped.
"Sadly, yes," Schmidt nodded, "Putting on the Driver means that you've been converted into an Amazon…without the dying horribly part."
"Holy fuck…" Thy said, her voice quiet but at the same time shocked, "That explains everything…"
"Pretty much," Schmidt said, "Your rampage at Nozama? That's your Amazon instincts driving you to fight…it amplifies your need to survive, if I have to say it in a simplified way. Your Amazon instincts basically drives you to fight your opponent and eat your opponent in order to survive. But if left unchecked, your instincts will drive you into a blind rampage just like you did earlier…which is why the Amazons Driver should not be used without the Amazons Register, since the drugs from the Register suppresses the Cells' bestial instincts from taking you over, basically allowing you to have control of your body."
Thy went silent, her eyes staring at the deactivated Amazons Driver in front of her fearfully. God knows what will happen if she wears it again. Schmidt told her that she won't fly into a rampage again, but is he really saying the truth? Everything that Schmidt has told her seems to add up to the data that she had taken from Nozama Pharmacy earlier, but something inside Thy tells her that there's a possibility that she might go into a rampage again if she uses her Driver again, regardless of the presence of the Register now hugging her upper right arm tightly.
"I think I'm going to go," Thy stood up, taking off her blanket in the process, "Just give me some clothes and I'll be on my way."
"Are you sure?" Schmidt asked, "I still have a lot of explaining to do to you."
"I think you've explained enough," Thy replied, before letting out a brief sigh, "Look, I'm a journalist, not a fighter. I'm not ready to plunge into your battle with the Amazons. I'll just do my best in exposing what's happening with Nozama in order to weaken them so you and your friends could take them down easily."
"Again, are you sure about this?" Schmidt asked again, "Remember, once you put on the Driver…you're a part of this battle."
"Then consider me quitting it," Thy replied, "I…I just don't whatever's inside me to take control of me again. It's fortunate that I didn't hurt anyone close to me…but God knows when I will do that. I just can't afford to bear the same guilt as you do, Schmidt. I just…I just want to live on with my life like I did before I got the Driver. I'll just leave all the fighting to you…after all, you're the one with more experience about this, aren't you?"
Schmidt sighed reluctantly. He knows if he tries to persuade Thy even further, it'll lead him nowhere. So instead of asking even further, Schmidt reached for the back of the sofa, taking out an olive green cardigan, light yellow T-shirt, torn-up blue jeans, and a pair of blue sneakers, the former three piled together neatly. He then gave the clothing items to Thy.
"These are for you," Schmidt said as he gave the items to Thy, "Can't afford you to walk around town naked in the middle of the night, can we?"
xxx
After getting dressed in the clothes that Schmidt has given to her, Thy slowly went out of the German man's house, glancing at the colonial French-styled building behind her for a moment. She has left her Amazons Driver behind with Schmidt, and she felt it was for the best.
'Good luck fighting those Amazons, Schmidt,' Thy thought to herself as she slowly walked away from Schmidt's house, 'It's one battle that I ain't gonna take part.'
"There you are!"
Thy turned around to see Minh cycling towards her, a relieved look on the latter's face.
"Minh!" Thy smiled as she saw her friend coming towards her, "What brings you here?"
Minh immediately stopped her bike, before making her way towards Thy and giving her a good slap.
"Ow!" Thy winced in pain after Minh had slapped her, rubbing her right cheek in pain, "What did you do that for?"
"For making me worried sick!" Minh replied sternly, "I've waited for you back home but you didn't came back, so I went to the Nozama Pharmacy office to see a lot of policemen there! Then I saw you being taken on a Humvee by a man…while you're naked! Did that man harm you Thy? Did he rape you? Did he touch a single hair on your body?!"
"Minh, Minh, Minh!" Thy said, trying to calm her best friend down while at the same time trying to came up with the perfect excuse for her, since she couldn't tell her about her whole Amazon experience, "Calm down, I'm okay, I'm not harmed and I'm not raped. I got robbed after I came back from the Nozama Pharmacy office and that man saved me from the robber. He even gave me new clothes to replace the ones that the robber took."
"And how can I know that you're telling me the truth?" Minh asked, her tone still stern and scolding.
"I'm alive, am I?" Thy smiled, patting Minh on the shoulders to calm her down, "The most important thing that I'm still alive and safe. Let's just go home, shall we?"
xxx
Back at Schmidt's house, the German man leaned himself against his sofa, his eyes looking at the deactivated Amazons Driver on the coffee table sadly.
"Too bad your owner refused to fight with you," Schmidt mused as he slowly picked up the Driver, "Now I have to recalibrate this thing to accommodate my physiology…but then again we don't have any Amazons Register and its stabilizing drug left, which means…I have to find the way to prevent myself from going berserk if I'm using this…"
"There's no need to do that, Schmidt."
Schmidt was surprised to see the cowboy-garbed man in front of him, a menacing look on his goateed face. Once Schmidt has made eye-contact with the man's hazel brown eyes, his surprised look was wiped away from his face, being replaced by a smug smile.
"Rango McMillian," Schmidt chuckled, "Or should I say…C-014?"
"How dare you refer me by my code name, Schmidt," Rango gritted his teeth in anger, "I'm still Rango, one of your company's most trusted bodyguards."
"No you're not," Schmidt smiled, "Last time I recall, you were converted into one of them."
"The Leader's way is the most righteous way of all…it is a pity that you and the others wouldn't listen to what he's going to say," Rango said coldly as he slowly approaches Schmidt, before he suddenly grabbed the German by the throat, "And for ignoring the Leader's beautiful ideology…Daniel Schmidt…it's high noon."
xxx
Minh slowly cycled her way through District 5, going through the district's now deserted streets as she navigated her way back home. On her bicycle's passenger seat was Thy, who is sleeping peacefully after all the ordeal that she's been through.
"Wake up, Thy."
Thy slowly opened her eyes, being awoken by voices speaking inside her head.
"Wake up, Thy. Your friend is in danger."
Suddenly Thy's eyes shot open, a vision of Schmidt being attacked at his house by a cowboy-garbed man flashing in front of her eyes.
'No,' Thy cursed inside her mind, 'It can't be…even without that Driver…I can still sense the dangers around me?!'
As Minh stopped her bicycle at a red light, she looked behind to see Thy spacing out, a rather agitated look on her face, "Thy, is everything okay?"
"Minh, I need to go back," Thy replied, slowly stepping off Minh's bicycle, "I need to go back to that man's house."
"Why?" Minh asked, her eyebrows raised.
"I…" Thy thought up for another excuse quickly, because obviously she couldn't tell Minh that her Amazon instincts are acting up, "…I left something behind there. I think it's my wallet. I need to go pick it up."
"Should I wait here for you?" Minh asked.
Thy shook her head, "No need, it's late at night and you need to take a rest. Tomorrow you have class, right?"
"But how are you supposed to go back?" Minh asked again, her face looking very concerned.
"I'll take a xe om (Vietnamese motorcycle taxi) back home," Thy replied, "Just lend me VND50,000 and I'll be fine."
Sighing reluctantly, Minh took out her wallet and gave her a VND50,000 bill to Thy, "Just return it once you get your wallet back, okay?"
Thy accepted the bill and pockets it, a smile on her face, "Thanks Minh. Don't worry, I'll be back as soon as possible this time, I promise you. Just go home and take some rest, okay?"
Nodding reluctantly, Minh slowly cycled away from the red light, leaving Thy by herself once again. Once Minh has disappeared from her line of sight, Thy immediately made a dash towards Schmidt's house, her instincts telling her that he's in danger.
xxx
Schmidt threw his bookcase against Rango, who is now armed with a pair of Colt pistols holstered on his waist. As the German made a run towards his house's front door, Rango shoved the bookcase away from him and opened fire, the bullets from the pistol hitting several of Schmidt's fine china, but thankfully none of them hitting their intended target. The destruction of his fine china did made Schmidt livid, though.
"You fucking bastard," Schmidt cursed as he saw the shattered remains of his valuables on the floor, "You'll pay for that."
"I will," Rango said calmly, pointing his pistol at Schmidt, "Once I present the Leader with your head!"
Rango opened fire, prompting Schmidt to duck immediately, before he proceeds to roll away from the cowboy-garbed man. The German then notices the Amazons Driver still lying idly on the floor, having being dropped during the entire struggle with Rango.
'If my hunch is correct, Thy's instincts is guiding her to come back here!' Schmidt thought, quickly swiping the Driver before Rango could notice it. He then made a straight run towards the exit, pocketing the Driver while taking out his phone at the same time.
"Come back here you rat!" Rango's voice boomed from a distance, with more shots being fired from his pistols, the cowboy-garbed man now firing blindly at the direction where Schmidt is running to.
Dodging the incoming bullets as he frantically raced for the exit, Schmidt scrolled through his phone's contacts, before coming to a stop at a contact that says "Nguyen Ho Trung Thanh."
'Thank God!' Schmidt's thoughts was slightly relieved after he had found his intended contact, 'Now to call some backup…'
xxx
Location: McDonald's Go Vap Branch, Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Thanh and his team are enjoying a hamburger party after their success over the Centipede Amazon, with Quynh now enjoying several boxes of Big Macs, while the others had opted for normal cheeseburgers and Fillet O' Fishes. As he dips his fries into his ketchup, Thanh's phone began to ring, prompting the man to take out his phone from his pocket. Seeing that it's Schmidt calling him, Thanh decided to pick up the phone immediately.
"Thanh speaking," Thanh said.
"Have you taken care of the Amazon at Go Vap District?" Schmidt's frantic voice was heard from the other side of the line.
"We've dealt with it," Thanh replied, "What's wrong, Schmidt? You sound like you're being chased by ghosts or something."
"I am being chased," Schmidt replied, "By a fucking Amazon out of all things."
Thanh's eyes went wide after hearing that, "What the fuck?!"
"That's right," came the reply from Schmidt, "I'm now luring him outside my house so that I could engage him properly. Just wrap up whatever you're doing and back me up here, okay? It has fucking guns as weapons, I repeat, guns. I'm not sure for how long I could hold him back."
"Sure thing, Schmidt. We'll be on our way," Thanh said, hanging up his phone and pocketing it before turning his attention towards his teammates, "Guys, our leader is in trouble. We need to go back to his house, ASAP!"
"Got it!" replied the others in unison.
Within minutes, the team has vacated their McD table and got themselves on board Thanh's old Mitsubishi Fuso truck, modified to accommodate Thanh's team. After everyone had gotten themselves on board, Thanh floors his truck without hesitation, accelerating away from the McD parking lot.
xxx
Location: Outside Schmidt's house, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
While the phone conversation has been going on, Schmidt has managed to get himself out of his house, hoping that he could lure Rango into the open where he could engage the cowboy without any risk of ruining anything valuable inside his house. And to prove the effectiveness of his strategy, once Schmidt has finished his phone conversation, Rango emerged from his house, his pistols ready in his hands.
"There's no use of running away now, scum," Rango said, pointing his pistols at Schmidt, "It's time to take out the trash."
"Well this scum ain't going down without a fight!" Schmidt gritted his teeth, getting into a fighting stance in the process.
Rango fired his pistols once again, but Schmidt quickly rolls out of the way, before executing a side kick onto Rango's stomach. Rango doubled over in pain, allowing Schmidt to grab him by the shoulders and performed several knee-jerks on the cowboy's abdomen, before a hook to the right cheek sends Rango stumbling back. Enraged, Rango holsters his pistols, assuming a fighting stance of his own.
"I also know hand-to-hand combat, Schmidt! Don't expect that you're going to have it all easy!" Rango growled.
The cowboy quickly makes his move, ducking away from another hook from Schmidt and landing a jab of his own on the right side of Schmidt's stomach. As the German grunted in pain, Rango launched an uppercut on his opponent's chin, before performing a roundhouse kick onto Schmidt's chest, sending the German flying to the ground. But Rango won't stop there – forcing Schmidt to his feet, the cowboy threw Schmidt over his shoulder, slamming the German back-first onto the cold asphalt below.
"Time to up the ante," Rango said, taking out a silver belt buckle with a chameleon etched to it before placing the buckle on his waist, "Amazon."
Charcoal grey and red smoke enveloped Rango as the buckle's chameleon eyes glowed red. Schmidt slowly stood up to see Rango shifting into his Amazon form, which curiously retains his cowboy apparel. As the smoke clears away, a chameleon humanoid stood in Rango's place, the man's white skin is now replaced by a scaly, charcoal grey one, with a white torso covered by the same brown leather vest that Rango wore earlier. Rango's head is now shaped after a chameleon's, with bulging red eyes and a small horn on the snout, Rango's old cowboy hat completing the look.
The Chameleon Amazon lets out a hiss, his clawed right hand reaching for his back while his clawed left hand adjusting his vest to cover his pistol holster. Schmidt watched on as the Chameleon Amazon took out a leather whip from his back, cracking it on the ground several times to intimidate the German.
"Your move, scum," the Chameleon Amazon taunted.
Schmidt lets out a determined yell and charged forward, ready to land a kick on his opponent. Seeing that Schmidt has made his move, the Chameleon Amazon quickly swung his whip at the incoming German, striking him right on the chest. Letting out a brief cry of pain, Schmidt was knocked down to the ground, his shirt slightly torn from where the Chameleon Amazon had struck him with his whip, the skin underneath it drawing a small amount of blood. Slowly the Chameleon Amazon walked towards the downed Schmidt, drawing his pistol from his left pistol holster.
"Say your prayers," the Chameleon Amazon said, aiming the pistol at Schmidt's head.
"STOP IT!"
Both Schmidt and the Chameleon Amazon turned their attention towards the source of the voice, and saw Thy running towards them, anger flaring up from her eyes.
"Thy! You came back!" Schmidt exclaimed, a look of relief washing over his face, but seconds afterwards he winched due to the irritating wound on his chest.
"I'm not going to participate in this war of yours, but I can't let anyone take away your life," Thy said as she stopped near both Schmidt and the Chameleon Amazon, glaring daggers at the latter, "Especially this hideous looking lizard guy. Where did you buy that get-up, O.K. Corral?"
"Shut up!" growled the Chameleon Amazon, aiming his pistol at Thy this time, "You'll pay for interfering with my mission."
As the Chameleon Amazon slowly advances towards Thy, Schmidt slowly took out the Amazons Driver from his pocket and threw said device at Thy, "Thy, use this! It'll help you a lot against this guy!"
Thy saw the incoming Driver and caught it nimbly with her hands, before giving the deactivated device a brief look. A feeling of doubt once again came into her mind. Will she go on an uncontrollable rampage again this time? Or will Schmidt's words prove themselves true and she will have full control of her transformed self?
"Trust me! Just put on the Driver and transform! You'll be fine!" Schmidt yelled as he slowly stood up, clutching his chest wound in pain, "I know you can do it! I believe in you! Just believe in yourself and everything's going to be fine!"
As the Chameleon Amazon came even closer and closer towards her, Thy glances at her incoming opponent, before glancing at her Driver once again. It's a do-or-die situation – transform and she'll live, but with a risk of her losing control and becoming a bloodthirsty beast once again. But if she doesn't transform, she will retain control over herself…at the price of her life.
Immediately Thy knows what's the best thing that she could do right now.
Taking a deep breath, Thy places the Amazons Driver on her waist, the device securing itself on her body. Grabbing onto the Driver's right handle, Thy gave the incoming Chameleon Amazon a deep, taunting look, letting her opponent know what's coming for him.
"Amazon," Thy uttered, slowly twisting the Driver's handle.
OMEGA
The Driver's eyes began to light up as Thy's body burst into green flames, shocking the Chameleon Amazon but inviting a smile from Schmidt's face.
'You can do this, Thy. I know you can control it.'
xxx
Suddenly Thy found herself standing inside a dark and damp dungeon, with stagnant water pooling underneath her feet and more water dripping from the dungeon's ceiling to the floor. A large cage rests itself in front of Thy, a pair of red glowing eyes staring at her from behind the cage's bars straight into her soul.
Slowly Thy walked towards the cage, allowing her to see in full detail what is detained inside it. Much to her horror, a feeling of familiarity washed over her as she saw the being imprisoned in the cage.
It was her mutated self, growling loudly as it banged her clawed fists against the cage's bars, trying to break herself out of it.
Upon seeing her feral, mutated self struggling to break out from the cage, Thy slowly backed away in fear, realizing that if she makes the wrong step, she might fall underneath the control of her bestial Amazon instincts once again.
"You can do this, Thy."
A voice echoed inside the dungeon, prompting Thy to look up to find who's speaking to her. But much to her surprise, she couldn't find anyone.
"You can do this, Thy. Control your inner beast. Embrace it."
"But what if I lose control again?" Thy asked, "What if I hurt someone that I cherish because of my inner beast?"
"Don't worry, Thy. Just embrace it. Be confident of your own abilities."
Slowly Thy approaches the cage that holds her mutated self, who is still struggling to break out of it. The cage's bar slowly became more and more loose, in any minute the cage will fall apart and free Thy's mutated self, allowing her to wreak havoc. But this time, Thy's not letting it happening.
"You can do this, Thy. Control your inner beast. Embrace it. Be confident of your own abilities."
"Hey," Thy called, attracting the attention of her mutated self, "I don't know who you really are, but one thing's for sure, you are me and I'm you. I want you to help me out here."
The mutated Thy stopped her struggling, slowly approaching the cage's bars in curiosity, with Thy doing the same thing as well. Now the two sides of the same person are face-to-face, looking at each other eye-to-eye.
"Lend me your power so that we could survive this fight," Thy said again, slowly offering her hand towards her mutated self, "Let's combine our strengths and fight together as one."
The mutated Thy slowly looked at Thy's hand, before she took a glance at her normal self's now smiling face. Slowly the mutated Thy places her hand on Thy's, prompting a green light to emanate from where the hands touched each other…
xxx
(Cue BGM: Armour Zone – Taro Kobayashi)
The green energy that enveloped Thy slowly dies out, revealing an armored being in her place. Schmidt watched on in awe as Thy's new transformed self stood in front of him, a pleased look appearing on his face.
"She did it," Schmidt said in awe, "She's in control of her Amazon self!"
Thy's new form looked like her old mutated form, only this time her body is much more sleeker and refined than before. The green armor is still there and so are the red lines, but this time the red lines are restricted to just the sides of her head, her shoulders, shoulder pads, upper arms, and thighs. Thy's eyes are now much more sinister yet refined-looking, glowing red in the darkness of the night, while her forehead stalk is also much more refined, colored yellow with a red glowing light on the end. Her feral, beak-looking mouth is now gone, being replaced with a silver, plain-looking mouth-guard, while her spiked forearms and ankles are now covered in black armor, so are her feet which are now covered in black boots, and clawed fingers, which are now covered in black, armored gloves. Her torso is now covered in a shell of yellow armor, molded muscles included, while her kneecaps are protected in black armor. A black sail-fin is seen sticking out from her backbone, while resting on her upper right arm is her Amazons Register, the blue lights on it glowing steadily.
The Chameleon Amazon was clearly taken aback by this, "Who the fuck are you supposed to be?!"
"I am…" the transformed Thy began to spoke, her voice deep and hoarse, "Amazon…Omega!"
"I don't care who the fuck you are right now," the Chameleon Amazon growled, pointing his pistol at the newly transformed Amazon Omega, "But you're going to die, right here, right now!"
The Chameleon Amazon opened fire with his pistol, but instead of harming Amazon Omega, the pistol's bullets merely bounced off harmlessly against her chest armor.
"Really? Is that the best you can do?" Amazon Omega asked mockingly.
"Shut up!" the Chameleon Amazon yelled, swinging his whip towards Amazon Omega.
Amazon Omega merely extended her right arm towards the incoming whip, allowing it to wrap itself around her right wrist.
"Gotcha!" the Chameleon Amazon exclaimed, pleased that his whip has snagged his target.
Or so he thought.
"You just stole my line, you fucking asshole," Amazon Omega said, brandishing the spikes on her left forearm, before she uses them to slice off the Chameleon Amazon's whip, much to the kaijin's horror.
"What the fuck?!" the Chameleon Amazon cursed as he saw his whip being sliced off in half, growling in anger as he tossed away his broken whip, "How about this?! Can you break free from my tongue?!"
The Chameleon Amazon lashes out his long, sticky, and prehensile tongue, which raced straight towards Amazon Omega. The green and yellow warrior easily extends her left arm, allowing the tongue to wrap around her left wrist, before she uses her spikes on her right forearm to slice the Chameleon Amazon's tongue clean in half, resulting in a loud groan of agony from the kaijin.
"FUUUUCCCCKKKKK!" the Chameleon Amazon cursed, retracting his severely bleeding tongue back into his mouth, "That's it! You're definitely going to pay for this!"
As Amazon Omega casually tosses aside the Chameleon Amazon's severed tongue, the chameleon kaijin in front of her whips out his pistols, before firing a volley of bullets at Amazon Omega. Much to the Chameleon Amazon's horror, the bullets did nothing but annoy Amazon Omega.
"Seriously, cowboy? Do you expect your outdated pistols to work against me?" Amazon Omega sighed, "You know what? My turn. You have wasted your attack turns on me, bucko."
Casually walking her way through the hailstorm of bullets, Amazon Omega approaches the now desperate Chameleon Amazon, before she calmly grabs the kaijin's still firing pistols from his hands and tossed them aside, effectively disarming him. Before the Chameleon Amazon could react even further, Amazon Omega punched him on the face twice, before proceeding to kick him several times on the chest.
Stumbling back, the Chameleon Amazon retaliates by swinging a punch of his own, but Amazon Omega easily counters it and lands a sucker punch on the kaijin's face, stunning him as she grabs the Chameleon Amazon by his vest.
"Any last words?" Amazon Omega asked.
"Fuck…" the Chameleon Amazon coughed up red blood from his severed tongue, the blood splashing against Amazon Omega's face, "…you!"
"As expected," Amazon Omega said, letting out a brief yet psychotic chuckle, "LET HER RIP!"
Laughing psychotically, Amazon Omega grabbed hold of both the Chameleon Amazon's vest and some of the flesh on his torso, before she tears them apart with a loud roar. Blood splattered everywhere as the Chameleon Amazon stumbled back, groaning in pain as he wheezed for air, his now exposed lungs and heart quivering weakly in their places.
"Whoops, I might have gone overkill there," Amazon Omega chuckled, tossing aside bits of the Chameleon Amazon's vest, torso flesh, and ribcage from her hands, "It's time to finish this!"
Amazon Omega twisted her Driver's right handle once, prompting energy to surge up from the Driver and into her right arm.
VIOLENT PUNISH
The black armor on her forearm spikes retracted away, revealing a set of razor-sharp metallic blades. With a demented roar, Amazon Omega crouched down, impaling her blades into the Chameleon Amazon's crotch, before performing an uppercut motion, allowing the blades to rip through the Chameleon Amazon's belt buckle and flesh. The Chameleon Amazon roared in agony as the blades ruptured his heart and sliced his flesh clean, a huge amount of black blood drenching Amazon Omega's armor in the process. Letting out one final roar, Amazon Omega sliced through the Chameleon Amazon's neck, head, face, and finally his hat, splitting the kaijin in half.
The two halves of the Chameleon Amazon flailed weakly in the air for a brief few seconds before disintegrating into a pile of black liquid, the kaijin's sliced belt buckle falling down near Amazon Omega's boots.
(BGM ends)
Amazon Omega slowly picked up the pieces of the Chameleon Amazon's belt buckle, placing them on her left hand as she slowly pulls off her Amazons Driver, reverting back into Thy in a flash of green light. Tired and fatigued from her fight, Thy slowly walked towards Schmidt, handing over both the Amazons Driver and the Chameleon Amazon's buckle pieces to him.
"I'm still not going to fight in your war," Thy said as she slowly turned around, walking a few steps away from Schmidt before stopping, "But I know where I should go and who should I come to if me and my friends are in danger."
"Well, looks like I have to do a lot of convincing to get you on board," Schmidt chuckled, "But have it your way. If you feel like you're ready, you are more than welcome to join our cause."
Thy smiled, "Someday, maybe. But not for now. My passion right now is to write stories, not fight monsters. But if I change my mind, I'll tell you."
Schmidt was about to reply to Thy when suddenly he was interrupted by the sound of clapping coming from behind him. Turning around, he saw a young man walking towards both him and Thy.
The young man was around 19 years of age, with a tall and rather skinny build, tan brown skin, black eyes, a small mole on his upper left lip, and short, spiky black hair. He is now wearing a black and white Newcastle United jersey, blue shorts, and black sneakers. In his right hand is an egg, while slung over his left shoulder…is a belt identical to Thy's, an Amazons Driver.
"Guess I missed the fucking party," the man said as he stopped in front of Schmidt and Thy, the latter's eyes going wide upon seeing the young man. The young man then notices the Amazons Driver on Schmidt's possession, "Looks like you've gotten Omega's Amazons Driver off that thing, Schmiddy boy."
"What do you want, Alpha?" Schmidt asked, as Thy looked on at the young man in front of her in shock.
'That man! It can't be!' Thy's thoughts went wild as her eyes examined every feature of the man in front of her, 'Oh my God! It is him! After all this time…he's still alive?!'
"Just strollin' around, looking for Amazons to kill," the man replied simply, before he notices Thy, "And who's that girl?"
'What the fuck?! He doesn't remember me at all?!' Thy's thoughts cursed after hearing what the man had just said.
Before Schmidt could answer the man's question, Thy quickly snatched the Amazons Driver from Schmidt's hands and puts it on her waist.
"I'm the user of Omega's Amazons Driver," Thy said, "And I've seen you before. What do you want with us….Krishna?!"
The man gasped, a surprised look on his face. But soon afterwards he started to chuckle smugly, "Oh my God, this girl knows my name! Wow, have we met before?"
'Oh my God…he must have lost his memories when he went missing from us,' Thy's thoughts managed to put one plus one together, 'Well then, it's up to me to jog his brain cells back to life. Can't believe he forgot about me and Minh…'
"Never mind," Krishna shook his head, cracking his egg against his Amazons Driver before gulping down the entire contents, tossing away the shattered eggshell before placing his own Amazons Driver on his waist, "Looks like I've gotten myself a chance to prove Omega's worth in this battle."
Krishna places his hand against his Driver's right handle.
"Amazon," Krishna uttered, a smug smile appearing on his face as he twists his Driver's handle, causing its eyes to light up.
ALPHA
Krishna's body exploded into red flames, which clears away to reveal Amazon Alpha, the being that Thy fought earlier that night.
Thy responded by twisting her own Driver's handle, "Amazon!"
OMEGA
Transforming back into Amazon Omega, she immediately assumes her fighting stance, while Amazon Alpha assumes his own, taunting Amazon Omega in the process. Letting out a roar, Amazon Omega charged forward, her claws and forearms spikes ready as she swung a jab at Amazon Alpha, which the red being easily parries…
Watching on from the sidelines, Schmidt knew that the battle in front of him is going to be huge.
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TO BE CONTINUED…
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A/N: And that's a wrap! Took me a long while to produce this chapter since I'm busy with college and stuff, but with me having a short 5-day break from all campus activities, I finally got the time to finish chapter 2 of Kamen Rider Amazons! I would like to thank Clare Prime of Ultra and Herio9071 for their positive reviews for the story, and especially the latter for his Masked Rider AmazonZ story that practically inspired me to finish this second chapter of mine! I was planning to continue with my War Side Stories, but reading AmazonZ gave me the drive to finish this chapter and probably continue with WSS for a little while before my short break ends and I have to get back to my campus activities *sigh*
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