Aruto, Fuwa, Yaiba, and Izu walked into a lab that very few in HIDEN Intelligence even knew was there. Both Fuwa and Yaiba were trying to figure out what was going on. How could BOTH of them have chips in their heads? They heard the sounds of anime music blaring. "YOU HAVE A LOT OF NERVE SHACHO-BOY!" they heard the voice of Tsuji Ichiko-sensei and Aruto smiled.

"What did I do this time Ichiko-sensei?" Aruto asked still smiling. As the four of them walked around a messy lab with a beautiful scientist hovering over a desk. Yaiba was taken aback seeing the woman. She didn't know what it was but she noticed how beautiful she was. She didn't understand why she felt this way. She was as straight as they came. She never looked at a woman like this before. But she couldn't take her eyes off of Tsuji Ichiko-sensei as she looked at her long-time friend in Aruto.

"You went and made me lose a bet to the old man. I told him it would take you a full year before Gai fell for it. He told me, just a week before he died mind you, that he thought that you could make him crack in under six months...and it hasn't been six months since you started. So later I have to buy a round of drinks at his favorite bar in his honor...and it's a bet I'll pay out happily. But this," she said waving her arms around the room at all the stuff from the merger. That was being sent to the head of R&D. "I am getting swamped with all this lame science that I had figured out years ago." she raged and grabbed a tablet showing them specs.

"Like this, using robotics to replace limbs for those that have lost them in accidents. I tried to work this out years ago. And until we develop nerve surgery on a level beyond anything we currently have, working on that at the moment, by the way, it isn't viable. The body rejects the fake limb and causes problems that are worse than having a missing limb in the first place." she said to him.

"Don't look at me Ichiko-sensei," Aruto said with his goofy smile and turned to Yaiba who looked like a dear in the headlights.

"You are the one to blame for this mess?" Ichiko-sensei asked looking at her.

"I-I...I, uh, I," Yaiba stumbled out. Izu stared at Yaiba blinking again. Fuwa smiled at her. For the first time since he had met her, she was near speechless. He had liked her on some levels. And part of him was looking forward to getting to know her now that she didn't have a secret chip in her head making her do things...which made him get a little antsy remembering why they were here in the first place.

"You're cute when you're flustered," Ichiko-sensei said with a smile. Yaiba turned bright red as she looked anywhere but at Ichiko-sensei who just smirked. "I get why you thought that we would need this but you could have run some of it by Shacho-Boy," she said with a smile.

"Eh?" Yaiba asked looking at him.

"I have a Ph.D. in robotics...Ojiisan had me train under Ichiko-sensei since Daybreak. I was able to get my Ph.D. without physically attending classes so there is no record of me ever studying the subject so Gai wouldn't be able to get a hint that I was anything more than a comedian trying to make people laugh." Aruto said with a smile. "I am really looking forward to showing up Fukuzoe-Shacho," Aruto said with a sigh.

"Don't let him get to you, Shacho-Boy," Ichiko-sensei said patting his arm.

"He doesn't. What does is his attitude. He does this job trying to have power. And that is not what a successful company needs. It needs someone that cares about business and making it better. And he barely understands what we do..." Aruto trailed off thinking about how he should handle the situation.

"COULD WE PLEASE GET TO WHAT YOU SAID BEFORE!" Fuwa yelled finally hitting his breaking point when he found out another lie that Aruto had told them across the course of their short time knowing each other.

"Fuwa, I sent you an anger management pamphlet...I see you just lost it." Aruto said with a smile. Fuwa's eyes bugged out and he looked like he was about to laugh. But then he shook himself and turned to Aruto with a look in his eyes of anger. "Okay, no jokes right now. Ichiko-sensei," he said turning to her.

"Well with the back hacking that was done we discovered that Yaiba had a punishment chip put in her head. This was done solely for them to control their weapon. The Shotriser users would have them placed in their heads to control them and make them do whatever the one with the punishment chip controls wanted. In this case, Gai could control Yaiba to make her make his script play out just as he wanted it to go.

"He never counted on Korenosuke-Shacho betting everything on Shacho-Boy," Ichiko-sensei said. "And yes I refuse to call Aruto 'Aruto-Shacho'. I love the kid. But I saw him growing up before my eyes. So there is no way I can call him that without laughing," Ichiko-sensei said with a smile looking at him and his goofy smile.

"Huh?" Fuwa asked confused.

"Tsuji Ichiko-sensei is 45-years-old. And was an assistant to Korenosuke-Shacho for two decades before Daybreak. Recruited by Korenosuke-Shacho himself when she was only 15." Izu said reciting her facts like she was reading them from her file.

"45?!" Yaiba asked shocked.

"I look good for my age huh? So does Gai. We are the same age after all. I watched that creep while he was working on Satellite ARK. I will never forgive myself for not being able to see or weed out the stuff he feed into it." Ichiko-sensei said with a smile. "But that is another story. Sorry hothead for sidetracking the conversation with my bio," she said to Yuwa who just stared at her.

"So why do you think I have this chip in my head? Because they wanted to control me in the end?" Yuwa asked her.

"Kinda. But not in the way you think." Ichiko-sensei said handing him his ZAIA Enterprises Japan file. He took it. And his eyes widened with the first few lines.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" he yelled.

"What?" Yaiba asked.

"He isn't a survivor of Daybreak. The memories in his head are planted by Gai as a way to make him hate HumaGear and HIDEN Intelligence. As a way to put me in a place where I would have to fight A.I.M.S. and MetsubouJinrai." Aruto said looking at her.

"You knew?" Fuwa asked slamming the file on a table. Then he rushed up and grabbed Aruto by the collar. "YOU KNEW?!" he demanded.

Yaiba went to pull out her Shotriser but was stopped by Izu. "Not until today," Aruto said to him without fear.

"How can I tell if you're not lying?" Yuwa demanded.

"Because you know me, Yuwa. I may have a double life and there is more to me than you could have ever thought. But I showed you I was Kamen Rider 01 because I trusted you. I would have told you everything then. But I couldn't be sure that you weren't being tapped, bugged, or trust Yaiba with it. I had to take down Gai at all cost or everything was for nothing." Aruto said and Yuwa let him go.

"When I found out what he had done to Yaiba, I was sick to my stomach," Aruto said to him. "...But I did know there was something different about you," Aruto said to him.

"What do you mean?" Yuwa growled.

"You weren't authorized to use the Progrisekeys. But you made them work...and only a HumaGear could do that." Aruto said looking at him.

"Huh?" Yuwa asked surprised by that.

"Originally Progrisekeys were designed to be used by HumaGear for rescue purposes. That is why many of the Progrisekeys effects have secondary effects. Like heating a near-frozen person or cooling a man in great heat. These were designed to save people but were repurposed to fight. And like when I locked Gai out of the Progrisekey he was trying to use in his office, you should never be able to activate a Progrisekey...unless you were a HumaGear." Aruto said to him.

"BUT I'M NOT!" Yuwa yelled.

"You're half right," Ichiko-sensei said with a smile.

"Eh?" Aruto, Yuwa, and Yaiba said as one with Izu blinking and tilting her head.

"The chip shows that it actually has an A.I. intelligence inside. I went over the readings from when you walked into the building today. Satellite Zea can scan every A.I. in HIDEN Intelligence's main building. Never once did we think to check you. But after seeing these specs I knew I should today. The A.I. is called Naki," she said.

"I DIDN'T KNOW. I HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING. I just knew there was something different about you and had Ichiko-sensei look into it. When she told me about the chip and its effects on your mind and I just thought it was overriding the unauthorized status." Aruto said with his hands in the air looking at Yuwa.

"It wasn't and he didn't. I realized how bad it was when I realized that the two chips not only operated differently but were different on a production level. That is when I figured it out. The A.I. in the chip was rewriting your memories and planted the memory of the HumaGear uprising to make you hate and mistrust Shacho-Boy and HumaGear in general. But like he always does since he was a boy he made you trust him. Made you like him. That was when his plan started to fall apart if you asked me. And Gai should have realized who he was really dealing with." Ichiko-sensei was smiling at Aruto.

"A man that was clever enough to see through to a man's heart and soul. And smart enough to make a calculated risk in telling someone something that he was supposed to keep quiet. If only I had that in my love life. Some of the guys and girls I dated in the past were total losers. But did I listen to Shacho-Boy when he told me they were after my body over my mind? Nope and felt the sting of that defeat too many damn times." she said with a sigh.

Yaiba felt a shot of joy in her stomach hearing that she was at least bisexual. And then felt weird that she was overjoyed at this fact. "My life is a lie," Yuwa said with a look of disbelief and beaten down.

"IT IS NOT!" Aruto said and pulled him face to face. "You're an A.I.M.S. police officer. You have spent your life building this life. The only lie here is the one told to you in your head. By a man that was insane in more ways than you might think." Aruto said to him.

"What do you mean?" Yuwa asked looking at him.

"Don't say I never do my research," Aruto said as Izu handed him a folder.

"I sent a copy of this to your bosses at A.I.M.S. in case they wanted to know why Amatsu Gai did what he did," Aruto said looking at him.

Yuwa snatched the file out of his hands. He started reading and then started to laugh uncontrollably. "Huh?" Yaiba asked looking at the man as Aruto smirked and Ichiko-sensei giggled a little. Yaiba picked up the file and read.

"OH COME ON!" she yelled.

It turned out the Gai had been an average boy born at the time. He was born to a strict father and a loving mother. The mother had given him an early HIDEN Intelligence product called Dog-Gear. A robotic dog for kids. And after he had gotten a 99% on a test his father had him send it back. And this was part of the reason why he wanted to work with Korenosuke-Shacho. But when he found the man nothing like his father or anything that he had expected he wanted to overtake Satellite ARK. All under the name of Project Thouser. A Kamen Rider he was trying to get the final data for...and it just so happened to be the name of the Dog-Gear he was forced to return all because he had gotten a 99%.

"See what I mean. The man created MetsubouJinrai, planted chips in the brains of both you and Yaiba, and was planning to take over HIDEN Intelligence...because he lost his dog because of a bad grade. The man is clearly crazier than a comedian making a career on dad jokes...though mine are superb. Izu, what kind of dog does Dracula have?" Aruto asked the HumaGear.

Her eyes flashed blue as she did a quick search. "A Bloodhound," she said innocently turning to him.

"Izu! I am supposed to give the punch line. You were supposed to ask what kind of dog," Aruto said. Yuwa having recovered from the joke of a reason for why Gai had done this all and laughed even harder. For the first time letting himself laugh at the joke told by Aruto.

"Don't do that or else he will continue to do those dumb jokes," Ichiko-sensei chastized Yuwa.

"Uhm, sorry. So you wanted to do something to remove the chips," Yuwa asked regaining the composure he had spent most of his time having.

"Sorry I can't. The chips are in a tough part of the brain I feel might be tricky to remove. The best we can do is deactivate them and make them inoperable. So that no one can use them against either of you," Ichiko-sensei said.

"Then you wanted to make us aware of them?" Yaiba asked.

"No, I need the final call from Shacho-Boy," she said looking at Aruto.

They looked at him confused. "I see what she is getting at. Yaiba can be permanently deactivated at any time without any harm or cause for alarm. Yuwa's is a different story," Aruto said looking at the floor.

"Huh?" Yuwa asked him.

"To deactivate yours, it would kill Naki. The A.I. in that chip. It did nothing wrong. It was made for Gai to control the script. And deactivating the chip in your head with Naki still inside of that chip might make the rewrite of your memories permanent. Can you download the A.I. to a blank HumaGear?" he asked Ichiko-sensei.

"It'll be tricky. But doable. But it would require the consent of Yuwa…" she said looking at him.

"Yuwa? I know you hate HumaGear. And you have every right to hate that A.I. but...after everything we have seen so far we have to see A.I. as a form of intelligent life. We can't let this A.I. die for someone else's mistakes," Aruto said to him.

Yuwa looked at him. He then turned and looked at the lab. "You said the HumaGear were able to use Progrisekeys?" he said looking at some specs.

"Yes?" Ichiko-sensei said to him.

"Then make this Naki one...so I can punch it in the face without holding back," Yuwa said to the room at large. And turned to face Aruto.

"Done," Aruto said with a sad smile.