Ride 4:Shine on You crazy Daimond

Take this lizard lips!” Achilles yelled as he slammed the pole of his spear into the monster. After chasing the monster all across the city on motorcycle, the rider finally had him cornered in a parking lot. The monster in question was a reptile looking creature with a long serpent neck attaching his head to his body. On his shoulder he has more serpents sticking out and two more on his chest. He also had the serpent heads adorning his knee armor. In his hand he held a halberd with a saw toothed blade.

“Jeez, real original insult there,” the monster said as he swung his weapon that the rider dodged.

“Your the last one that should be talking about originality. I mean you a hydra and your name is Hydrax. How lazy can you get,” Achilles said as he switched his weapon to blaster form.

Hydrax didn’t take kindly to the rider’s words and spat at him. Achilles jumped out of the way but when the spit landed, it started to dissolve the pavement in a green haze. “There is no way you will beat me,” The monster said. Hydrax than charged at the rider with his halberd. Achilles acted quickly and blocked it with the but of his blaster. He pushed back to aim his blaster at the monster to shoot. The shots pushed the monster back as he spun his weapon to try and defend. When the shots stop Hydrax spat again at the rider who had to jump out of the way.

As Achilles was dodging the monster’s acidic spit, his phone started to go off. He fired a few shots before pulling out. “Hello?” He asked as he put the phone up to his ear.

“Flash , where are you? We have chemistry club today,” a girls voice asked on the other end.

“Oh man Ditzy that totally slipped my mind,” Achilles said.

“It’s rude to take a call during battle,” Hydrax said as he switched over to swinging his weapon.

“I’ll be there soon,” Achilles said before ending the call. “Ok now i need to try and end this fight faster,” The rider said. When the monster swung his weapon, Achilles ducked to avoid it. He then jumped up to deliver a kick right to Hydrax’s head. With the monster was recovering from that, Achilles then started to shoot the monster in the chest.

“Haha try as hard as you want, with my powers i am absolutely invincible!” Hydrax gloated.

“I’m happy see to someone like you so confident but i really have somewhere to be,” the rider said. He then pulled out his Rider card and placed into into his blaster.

“CHARGING! CHARGING!”

“RIDER FEEDBACK!”

He aims his blaster at Hydrax as a large magical circle appeared. The blaster began to charge up with energy before Achilles fired a large shot that hit the magical circle first. The blast was separated into smaller shot that all homed in onto the monster. “It’s too early for me to be defeated. There’s still so much I want to do!” Hydrax yelled before the shots hit and he was destroyed.

With the monster destroyed, Achilles transformed back to normal. “Luckily i could get that done so quickly. Now whoever the host is no longer needs to be afraid of fading away,” Flash said as he made his way to his bike. “Now all that’s left is to get back to school,” He said. He strapped on his helmet, started his engine and rode out of the parking lot.

Unbeknownst to Flash, the whole battle was being observed. Cypher in his monster form was purchased on a roof watching the whole thing. “Hmm this is an interesting development indeed,” The monster said as he flew down. He landed right next to a manhole cover which he proceeded to stomp on several times. “You can come out now the rider is gone!”

As Cypher moved out of the way, the manhole opened to reveal that Hydrax, completely unscaved. “Awesome, I almost thought my plan didn’t work,” Hydrax said as he climbed out.

“Your powers are quite impressive Hydrax,” Cypher said as he noticed that Hydrax wasn't as untouched as he first appeared. One of the serpent heads on his chest was now missing. “I hope fooling the rider was worth it.”

“Oh this?” Hydrax said as he looked down at the empty spot on his chest. “Now that the rider thinks I'm gone, I can drain my host and this will be healed up in no time.”

“Well since you will be in hiding, I guess the task of defeating the rider falls on me,” Cypher said as he pulled out his sword. "I'll also need to keep an eye on your host, to make sure no one notices her fading away before it's to late."

“Go get’em Cypher,” Hydrax said as he crawled back down into the manhole.

When Flash got to the school he made his way to the science lab. When he opened the door the only one there is Twilight. The girl in the lab coat was so focused on writing stuff in her note book that she didn't notice Flash. “Oh hey Twilight,” Flash said as he grabbed a lab coat from the hook on the wall.

“Oh Flash, I was afraid you weren't going to show,” Twilight said.

“Yeah I kinda got held up by something,” Flash said as put on the safety goggles. “So where’s Rarity and Ditzy?”
“They had to get some stuff in the supply closet,” Twilight answered.

“And they left you to work on your notes,” Flash said as he walked over to the. He peeked over her shoulder to see her notebook. Surprisingly they were drawings of the Kamen rider with various details written out. What was even more surprising is that there was a drawing of Flash’s new Storm Form.

“Yeah, The rider has really peaked my interest. Especially when Rainbow told me about what happened with his new form,” Twilight explained as she gave Flash a better look at the notebook. “Note that the rider was able to gain new abilities from the power Rainbow’s geode. But the interesting thing is that Rainbow has suffered no negative side effects. also the rider’s mental state didn't seem to change. From all of the encounter we have seen an overload in magic can cause massive personality shifts but not this time.”

“Wow you were able to get all that from what Rainbow told you,” Flash said as he scratched the back of his head. It was unreal that Twilight was able to gain so much information about his Rider alter ego from a secondary source then he dose being the rider.

“I would love to get more data on him. Maybe if I used my magic scanner on him I can get a better idea on how his powers work. Whoever this guy is he’s opening a new door in my magic studies,” Twilight said as she continued to flip threw her notes.

“Your incredible Twilight. If anyone can figure this stuff out its you,” Flash said. After he said that his excitement died down instantly and was replaced with awkwardness. As much as he wanted to be happy for Twilight, Something in his head was telling him to pull back. Flash didn’t trust his feeling and was afraid that Twilight would take it the wrong way. It was a fact that Twilight would never return the feeling he had for her and may even feel hurt if she thought the feeling were disingenuous considering where she would think there coming from.

Flash has tried with all his might to move on but he could never let go. Etched into his heart feelings beyond the friendship he has formed with her. And those feelings were for her alone, not as a replacement for another girl but for a girl he has had the pleasure of getting to know and spend time with. “So did you find anything else?” Flash asked as he get a grip on himself.

“Well I do have a theory. If the rider was able to gain new powers from Rainbow, it’s possible he can do the same with the rest of the geodes.” Twilight said as she shows off a graph drawn in colored pencil. “I’ve decided to call this event Element Change.”

“Element Change, sounds cool,” Flash said. I wonder if I can use that with out anyone catching on to who I am

As the two continued to make small talk the door opened with Rarity and Ditzy entering. “Sorry for the hold up darling. One of my friends called saying she was attacked by one of those dreadful magi-beasts,” Rarity said before noticing Flash had finally arrived. “Oh Flash you finally made it, we were getting worried.”

“Oh it’s fine. That magi-beast is part of the reason why I was late,” Flash said.

“Well it looks like everything worked out in the end,” Rarity said as she sat down next to Twilight. “So where were we last time?”

“Oh I have it all right here,“ twilight said as she pulled out another notebook from her bag.

“Trixie has waited a long time for this. Your secrets, your riches, they will all be Trixie’s. A chance like this only comes once and now Trixie has you in my hands. You the Cakes famous peanut butter and chocolate cake,” Trixie said holding a plate with a slice of cake on it.

“Um Trixie do you mind moving out of the way. We have other customers waiting,” Mr.Cake said.
Trixie looked behind her to see the line forming behind her. “Fine, ruin my monologue will ya” Trixie said under her breath as she moved out of the way. As she made her way to an open table she didn’t notice another girl walk in front of her.

Before either of them could notice the two bumped into each other. Trixie keep her balance to protect her cake from falling. Unfortunately the other girl couldn't do the same and landed on her behind.

When Trixie saw the girl she saw she was a cream skinned girl with powder blue hair. She also looked to be wearing school maroon uniform. “I’m s-sorry I should have been watching where I was going,” The Girl said as she picked up the contents of her bag that spilled out.

“Oh it’s no problem, I should have been doing the same,” Trixie said as she looked down at her cake. After a quick moment she put the plate on the table and helped the girl up. “Hey your a Crystal Prep student, aren't your?”

“Yeah, I'm Coco Pommel,” Coco said as Trixie helped her up. “Honestly it all my fault, I’ve been really distracted today.”

“Really what has you so worried?” Trixie asked as she took her cake and began to eat it.

“Oh well you know those monsters have been showing up. Well one of the attacked me and then another monster...I don't know, came out of me,” Coco explained.

Trixie wasn't surprised by this, especially since Flash texted her about defeating another magi-beast not too long ago. “Well you have nothing to worry about now. One of my friends saw the rider beat that thing with his own eyes,” She said as she took another bite.

“Are you sure, I mean I know the rider has beat the monsters before but I can still feel something is wrong. Like the monster is still out there somewhere,” Coco said with a nervous look.

“Now your just talking crazy. There is no way the rider would have let a monster get away,” Trixie said with her cake almost finished.

“I just can’t help but seem like something is off. Like I can feel like I’m being drained,” Coco said.

“Err," she groaned, "would you get over it. The monster is gone and I know how we are going to prove it,” Trixie put her empty plate down and took Coco’s hand. “I’m taking you to Twilight. She has been studying this magic stuff ever since she got to CHS. Odds are she has already found a way to tell if someone is a host to a Magi-Beast or not.”

“Are you sure she would help us?” Coco asked.

“Of course,” Trixie answered.

“But why are you helping me? We only just met,” Coco followed.

“Because I know just what your going threw,” Trixie said with sincerity. “Also Mr. Cake ruined my monologuing mood so this will occupy my afternoon,” She continued. The two then left the cafe with Coco having mixed feelings of her situation.

Without either of the two girls noticing, Cypher in his human form was in the doorway as they left. “So," he said as he turned around, "there is someone else studying this magic."

The chemistry club continued their experiment with Twilight being in charge of it. Flash was partnered with Rarity, who was in the middle of using the microscope. Flash couldn’t help but think about what Twilight has been doing during this whole fiasco. Could he help her with her research if he told her his secret? How would she react if he did spill the beans? How would thin impact their friendship?

These questions buzzed in his head till Rarity decided to speak up “Flash?” She said, snapping the young man out of his thoughts.

“Oh sorry, zoned out there for a moment,” Flash said as he turned to Rarity.

Rarity only gave Flash a smile before speaking. “So what were you and Twilight talking about while you were alone together?”

The question took Flash off guard. “Why would you want to know that?”

“Oh it’s just a little gossip,” Rarity answered.

“Well it’s nothing too interesting," Flash explained. "We just talked about her research into magic and what she thought about the rider."

This comment made Rarity laugh a little. “She would focus on that kind stuff. Another magic user comes out and she wants to know everything about them. You should have seen what she was like when we told her about the rider. Babbling on with theories like Pinkie talking about cake.”

“So does she think Achilles will be corrupted like all the others like Sunset?” Flash asked.

“I don’t think so,or at less she hopes he doesn’t get corrupted. I’m sure she was upset we had to destroy all those enchanted items before she had a chance to study them.” Rarity said.

“Funny, it seem to find a man hidden behind a mask more interesting than me,” Flash said with a laugh of his own.
This statement caught the girl's attention, making her turn to give him a suspicious look before she caught on. “Flash, are you still heartbroken?”

“Of course not," Flash said with a brave face. "I got over that a long time ago."

Rarity placed her hand on his. “You don’t need act brave in front of me. If your still hurting then I want to…”
“I’m fine Rarity,” Flash cut her off in a more serious tone in a more serious tone. “And even if something was wrong, what could you do to help me?"

“Flash,” Rarity said before once again being interrupted. This time, by the classroom door flying open before Trixie marched in.

“Trixie," Twilight reprimanded, "why would you barge in like that. What if we were working with sodium laureth?” She wasn't too happy with people coming in unannounced during chemistry club since they might have been working with unstable materials.

“Then the mixture would have formed up and caused a mess. Anyway I think I have something you might like Twilight,” Trixie said as she presented Coco.

“Oh Coco, darling.” Rarity said as she got up to greet her friend. “Are you alright? Did the Magi-beast hurt you.”

”No," Coco replied, "I’m not hurt. I just have a bad feeling, like I’m growing weaker or something.”

“Yeah," Trixie agreed, "when I bumped into her she told me all about it. I want her to stop worrying. I told her that Achilles destroyed the monster."

“And how do you know that?” Ditzy asked.

“Flash texted that he saw it,” Trixie said.

“Yeah," Flash added, "I think it looked like a hydra." He was obviously lying, trying to act as cool as he could manage.

“He’s right. It did look like a hydra,” Coco said. “It’s like we’re linked.”

“Well I would be lying if this didn't present me with a unique opportunity," Twilight said. "Since Magi-beasts drain the host’s life force, then there must be a magical link. If the Magi-beast is still out there then it should be easy to track it with my scanners."

While all the girls were talking, Flash noticed something by the door. Whatever it was it quickly ran off when Flash looked right at it. “Hey," he got up and took off his lab coat, "I'm going to check something out."

“Well come back soon," Twilight told him. "This is going to get interesting." She pulled out what looks like a kitchen cullender with a bunch of wires comin out of it, which she put onto Coco's head like a helmet.

“Is this going to hurt?” Coco asked.

Looking to his left he saw the person turn the corner. Flash immediately gave chase to the figure, which soon lead him to the main entrance of the school. “Stop!" He yelled out, "who are you!?”

The figure stopped and began to turn around. “Of course you wouldn't recognize me." It was a familiar man with white skin and black hair. “I was hoping to get the research notes from this Twilight girl. I didn’t expected to run into you, Rider.”

This took Flash by surprise. “How do you know that?”

“That’s easy. I was there when you destroyed Kirinos,” The man said.

This caused Flash to think back to his first battle as Achilles. “You were there!"

"Yes," the man continued, "but not just then. I also observing your fights with Constellar, Grifter, and your recent bout with Hydrax."

“Who are you!?” Flash demanded.

“I almost feel insulted that you don’t recognize me,” The man said as he pulled out a mechanical looking belt buckle and placed it on his waist. Straps came out of the sides to form a belt and the man then pulled out a card. The card had the image of a white Pegasus in flight. Without a word the man slid the card into the slot on the belt.

"PEGASUS!"

Several balls lights came out of belt before taking positions on the man’s body. They grew blindingly bright before dying down to reveal Cypher in his monster form. Flash was awestruck as he who this man really was. “Now I can destroy the rider and get the research notes,” he said as he pulled out his sword.

“Your not getting anywhere near Twilight!” Flash yelled as he placed his driver around his waist and pulled out the rider card. Cypher acted quickly and charged at the human before he could transform, but he was too late. “Henshin!” Flash yelled as the magical circle appeared and knocked Cypher back.

When the transformation finished, Achilles expended his spear and lunged at Cypher. The monster blocked with his sword but Achilles continued to push till they both burst through the doors. When they landed on the pavement, the two broke away from each other. Achilles spun his spear around before performing a slash towards the monster. Cypher blocked it before smacking the rider away and then taking to the skies. “Remember Rider, you would have been dead by my blade if your silver haired friend hadn't stepped in. Fortunately, there's no one here to get in my way.” He swooped down to strike the rider.

Achilles block the attacks with the handle of his spear. The attacks may not have connected but the rider could still feel the power behind it, Cypher wasn't holding back at all. “Well fortunately for me, I've learned some new tricks.” Achilles pushed Cypher back before pulling out his blue card, then placed it into the driver. “Element change!”

“KNIGHT OF THE WIND! A SWIFT VICTORY IS AT HAND!”

“S-S-S-STORM!!”

The magical circle appeared to transform the rider into his storm form. As he jumped up, a small tornado formed around his feet and carried him higher. “The skies aren't just yours anymore!” Achilles yelled, the sudden speed boost taking Cypher by surprise as the rider thrusted his spear.

“Oh, you can fly now?” Cypher asked as he recovered. “That's just going to make it hurt more when you fall.” He sped towards the rider, quickly slashing his sword at him. Achilles countered equally quickly with his spear, the two beginning to deal high speed attacks at one another.

The rider managed to find an opening to stab Cypher with his spear, making him cry out as he pulled back. With more room, Achilles begun to spin his spear around in all directions. As it spun, the wind began to form a vortex around the weapon. By the time Cypher noticed what was going, it was too late and the rider threw the spear like a javelin.

The spear flew with incredible speed but Cypher was able to catch it with ease. But before he could comment on it, the wind that was following the weapon hit him. The gale was so strong that it managed to blow the monster back with great force, sending him crashing into roof of the school. “Rock you like a Hurricane,” Achilles said as he got in closer to Cypher.

“I bet you think that was clever,” Cypher said as he stood up and threw the spear to the side. “I think you deserve to see some more of my power." Cypher’s sword began to give off waves of colored energy.

“I can take anything you got,” Achilles said as lighting charged around his hand.

“Decode Refraction!” Cypher yelled as he launched a huge blast wave of multicoloured energy towards the rider, Achilles retaliating with a blast of lighting. The two attacks passed one another and hit their marks, the rider sent crashing to the ground. At the same time Cypher was hit with lighting, causing him to stumble. “This is what I get for taking a risk," Cypher said as sparks came off his body. "That attack leaves me vulnerable during the strike." He picked himself back up and spread his wings, “a retreat may be the better option. Hydrax will be whole soon and with his abilities, the rider will have no chance of winning.” With that, the monster took to the skies before flying off.

Meanwhile, on the ground, Flash had been knocked out of his transformation. Cypher’s attack was stronger than anything Flash faced before, but the armor had managed to withstand the bulk of it. “I-I need to warn the others,” Flash said as he tried to get up. He stumbled for a moment but soon moved as fast as he could to the school. jeez, has that guy been holding back this whole time? It almost makes me afraid to fight his again.

In the lab,Twilight was hard at work typing on her computer. Rarity and Trixie couldn't help but look over her shoulder at her work, even if they didn't understand it. Coco was sitting on a stool with the cullender on her head. She was more nervous than usual being hooked up to a computer. “And...got it,” Twilight said as she finished typing.

“Got what?” Trixie asked.

“The magical output signature. I figured there must be some link between the Magi-Beast and it’s host. Getting a better look at this Magi-beast’s unique signature got me a ton of data,” Twilight answered.
“So that monster is still out there?” Coco asked in shock.

“Calm down Coco," Rarity told her. "The more you stress, the worst things become." Coco responded by taking a few breaths.

“According to this, your remaining life force seems to be fifty-two percent,” Twilight said as she showed a meter on her computer. “I can assume you won’t start to fade away until over eighty percent has been drained so you have been handling yourself pretty well.”

“Barely,” Coco replied as she took off the helmet.

“I can't believe the rider would miss a monster,” Trixie said. “Can we find it?”

“Yeah," Twilight replied, "I think I can use that output signal to tune my scanner to detect its signature.” Twilight returned to typing before pulling out a device from her bag, which had a screen and antenna on it. When she turned it on, the screen shined a bright light. “Wow! Its close.”

“I’ll go find Flash and tell him,” Trixie said as she walked towards the door.

“No," Rarity said as she stood up, "I can do that Trixie. We were in the middle of something important before you barged in." The look on her face showed how serious she was.

“Okay, go find Flash.” Trixie said. She watched Rarity leave the room, then turned to the others. “What's her problem?”
“Maybe it’s a sign you should knock before entering a room,” Twilight answered while not looking up from her device.

Flash had to slow down to recover properly from his encounter with the enemy. He slowly made his way back to the science lab before turning the corner and running into Rarity, who was just as surprised to ran into him. “Rarity, thank goodness. I need to warn you…” Flash started.

“There’s a Magi-Beast, yes we figured that out. Twilight and the others are tracking it,” Rarity said.
This was another metal blow to Flash. Not only did he lose to Cypher but he also failed to defeat the first magi-beast he encountered today. “Well we need to go help th-” Flash started but all Rarity did was take both his hands in hers.

“We will Flash, but there's something you need to hear first." The seriousness of her tone surprised Flash.

“Um, Rarity, are you sure this is the best time?” Flash asked.

“No, but it needs to be said. I can see that your hurting,” Rarity said looking into his eyes. “You can say your fine all you want, but I know the feeling of heartbreak first hand so I know what it looks like. And I can see, ever so slightly, that you are still hurt.”

There was no getting around it for Flash. Rarity had him cornered and there was no way of getting out of it. “Alright, you got me It does still hurt, but there nothing I can do about it?”

Rarity smiled at him. “Well, you don't need to go through it alone. And you don't need to feel like your useless. For as long as I have known you, you have been nothing less than a true gentleman. You are proof chivalry isn’t dead and you try to make the lives of everyone you meet better. Any girl would be lucky to have you as their boyfriend and I have faith you will find her. You just need to follow the red string of fate,” she put focus on Flash’s little finger.

“Rarity,” Flash said before looking up at his friend. “I appreciate what you said but why now?” He asked.

“The heart is like glass, when it shatters it will hurt to pick up all the pieces. I just want you to know that the pain you feel may be unbearable but it will lead to what you're looking for. Like I said I have known heartbreak before,” Rarity said. “Now do you feeling better?”

“Actually,” Flash thought for a moment, "yeah. A little."

Rarity smiled hearing this. “Good, now let’s go catch up to the other.” Rarity lead the way the way, Flash hot on her heels.

As they ran, Rarity’s words kept ringing in Flash’s head. And as he thought about it, the weight he had been holding felt a bit lighter. Rarity’s pep talk had helped him recovered from his fight with Cypher, meaning he was ready to finish off Hydrax once and for all.

Flash and Rarity soon found Twilight, Trixie, and Coco at the sports field. Unfortunately Twilight was already engaged in combat with a fully recovered Hydrax with all seven heads. “How on earth did you find me?" Hydrax asked as he avoided the objects Twilight was throwing at him telepathically. "I was so careful to hide.”

“It was almost too easy,” Twilight said as she threw several rocks at the monster. Hydrax hit them away before spitting a spray of acid at the girl, Twilight trying to evade but not being fast enough. Fortunately, a wall of crystals formed to block the acid. Twilight turned to see Rarity running in. “Rarity, I know you like to be fashionable late but could you have cut it any closer.”

“Sorry darling but there was an urgent matter,” Rarity said as she formed several shard to launch at the monster.
As the two girls were fighting, Trixie and Coco were observing the fight from behind the bleachers. “Are you sure they will be alright?” Coco asked.

“Absolutely,” Trixie answered. “I’ve seen them take on much bigger monsters.”

Hydrax used his halberd to smash all the crystal projectiles. “You two are going to pay for interrupting my plan,” The monster declared.

“Well you deserve it for your doing to poor Coco,” Rarity shot him an angry scowl. Hydrax responded by spitting acid, Twilight spotting this and using her power to pull Rarity out of the way. “Thank you darling” she said as Twilight helped her up.

Hydrax was ready to charge with his weapon but was interrupted by a punch delivered by Achilles. “Hey, where did you come from!?”

“I should be asking the same thing,” The rider said as he cracked his knuckles.

“Are you sore because you couldn't beat me?” Hydrax mocked.

“I’m going to make triple sure that when this battle is over you will be going to Tartarus,” Achilles said as he took a fighting stance.

“And we’ll help you out,” Rarity said as she came up next to the rider. “Right Twilight?” She asked, only to get no reply. She looked around, "Twilight?" There she saw Twilight on the side with her magic scanner out.

“Yes," Twilight said to herself with a smile, "I finally have a chance to get first hand magic reading from the rider."

“Twilight!” Rarity yelled.

“Don’t worry about it," Achilles told her. "This guy was a pushover the first time I fought him Not to mention, I plan on beating him in one move!” With that last statement, he pressed the button on his driver.

“RIDER FEEDBACK!!!”

Several magical circles appeared around the rider before he jumped onto them. After the last one Achilles jumped off to perform a kick towards Hydrax. When the kick landed something strange began to happen. All the energy from the kick was focused onto Hydrax’s leg. It looked like the serpent head on the armor was coming alive as it came off his body and formed into its own independent body. Once the two were separated the body blew up, Achilles landing after a back-flip before glaring at the Magi-Beast. “So that's how you survived my attack the first time.”

“Indeed," Hydrax replied, "my power comes in handy in situations like this. But that not it's only use,” Hydrax let out a laugh as the other serpent heads began to show signs of life as well. They suddenly began to separate from his body, forming into reptile like creatures themselves. Each one of the creatures were all holding dagger and were ready to fight. “Lets see how strong you think you are when your out numbered.”

Achilles saw the army and gulped before turning to Rarity. “I think I need your help after all."

“Thought so” Rarity said as she elevated her arms and crystal hexagons.

The Hydrax lackeys all charged up on the two. One of then tried slashing at Achilles, which the rider responded to with a side step before countering with a punch. Another lackey attempted to stab the rider from the side but missed, leaving him open for Achilles to grab his arm and throw him to the ground.

Three of the lackeys ganged up on Rarity but she made quick work of them when the hexagon crystals began to rotate around her, knocking them all back. “You were a disgusting reptile before and now your just six times as revolting,” Rarity said.

“You want repulsive? I’ll give you repulsive,” Hydrax said as she he ran towards Rarity to swing his halber. Rarity responded to this by creating a wall that blocked thee attack successfully. This opened the monster up for a punch from Achilles.

Meanwhile, Twilight was eagerly observing the fight just in front of Trixie and Coco’s hiding spot. “Um," Trixie spoke up, "shouldn't you be helping?”

Twilight didn't look up from her scanner. “If your worried that Achilles and Rarity are outnumbered there no need. I scanned those other reptiles and their only one seventh of the original’s power. It's nothing the two of them can't handle.” A giddy smile appeared on the girl's face. “Not to mention, this data on the raider is incredible.”

She focused on the riders fighting as he performed a kick right to the monster's head. “The Rider’s armor does have an enhancement quality to it that busts all of his attributes. It’s not to the extent of Applejack or Rainbow, but it is what I would consider super human.”

As the rider fought on, the remaining goon started focusing all their attention on him. Suddenly Achilles found himself overwhelmed with the six monster all attacking him at once. “Dang it guys!" He pushed one away, only to almost get stabbed by another. "It’s really not sporting of you to all attack me at once. What happened to everyone gets their turn?” The next thing he knew, the lackeys all tried to slash him at once. He just managed to block using his spear, but felt himself be pushed down onto one knee.

“Oh no!” Coco yelled.

“I guess even riders can’t overcome getting dog piled,” Trixie said.

As the Rider was trying to get a defence up, Twilight noticed something happening. His driver was beginning to give off a golden glow. She then looked at rarity to see that her geode was giving off a similar light in purple. “Rarity," she called out, "see if you can lone Achilles some of your power."

Hearing this, Rarity saw the light as well. “Are you sure that’s going to help?”

“It worked with Rainbow Dash,” Twilight replied.

Putting her trust in Twilight, Rarity put her hand to the geode and a purple orb of light appeared. She threw the orb toward the rider, where it was soon absorbed by his driver. A large flash of light then exploded out of it, giving Achilles the chance to throw the goons back and gain some breathing room. He then looked at his hand to see a purple and white card appear, the word “Glamor” on the corner.

The rider turned back to Rarity and used the card to salute. “Thanks a ton,” he passed the button on his driver.

“LETS GO!!!”

“OK!”

Achilles then presented the card before slotting it into the driver. “Element change!” He yelled out before a white magical circle appeared. Once it passed over him, the armor’s colors changed to white with deep purple accents. The rider now had a pair of bulky shoulder pads, each with five purple diamonds embedded into them. His head crest was now a single horn and his eye plates were the deep purple. His red scarf was now tied into a more stylish way.

“FABULOUS! THE SHINING CRUSADER ON DAZZLING DISPLAY !”

“G-G-GLAMOR!”

“Oh yeah, Looking Good,” Achilles said as he inspected his new armor.

Rarity gave him a knowing smirk. “I wouldn't expect anything less from something created from my powers."

Hydrax growled “So? All you did was change colors. That still doesn't fix you numbers disadvantage,” He and his goons all laughed, only to be taken completely by surprise when one was hit by a beam of light that knocked him back. Looking at the rider the monster noticed that one of the diamonds on his shoulder armor was smoking. Seconds later, the diamonds detached before growing to the size of baseballs. They floated around Achilles, the rider suddenly knowing exactly what he could do with them.

“I don’t think so!" Hydrax raised his halberd, "we’re not scared of your little toys!”

“Suit yourself,” Achilles said as he directed to drones to attack. The diamond drones started to fly around the group of monsters. The goons tried to swat at the drones with their daggers, but they were too fast for them. One of the drones got behind one of the goons and shot a laser at it. The rest followed in shooting at the group of monsters. The goons tried to attack the drones but they were too small and to fast to hit.

The others all watched, wonder filly their eyes. “This is incredible data,” Twilight said as her eyes skipped from the fight to her scanner.

The group of monsters were so overwhelmed by the drones that they were all surrounded. “Shine on you crazy diamond,” Achilles said as she snapped his fingers. The drones then started to spin around the monsters at high speeds as they bombarded the group with laser blasts.
When the lasers stopped firing, only the original Hydrax was left. “Wh-what does that...even mean?” He asked as he stumbled forward.

"It means Goodbye,” Achilles said as he pressed the button in his driver

“OK!”

“GLAMOR FEEDBACK!!!”

The ten drones all took a position on either side of the rider. A white magical circle appeared in front of each Diamond as they charged with energy. “You are out of scapegoats," Rarity said as she pointed at the monster. "So this will be your end!"

“Fire!” Achilles followed as he thrusted his arm forward. On his command the drones all fired large blasts of energy all aiming for Hydrax.

“No!" Hydrax yelled as he was struck, "my plan was perfect. I was supposed to win this one!” Those were his last words before he exploded. The ten diamond drones all returned to their position on Achilles’ shoulder armor, he and Rarity turning for a victory pose.

A spectre like entity flew out of the explosion, returning to Coco and flying into her.
Soon after the battle was over, Achilles used his new drones to make sure that there was no sign of Hydrax left. Once the rider was absolutely sure the monster wasn't coming back, he went to see if Coco was alright. Twilight was using her scanner on Coco and confirmed that she was back to normal. “Everything look like its in order now. You have nothing to fear Coco."

“Oh that's wonderful,” Rarity said as she brought Coco in for a hug.

“Everything looks back to normal,” Achilles said as he joined the girls.

“Yeah," Twilight said as she turned to the rider, "thanks for everything."

“Oh yeah," Achilles noticed her device. "You were using that scanner thing the whole time."

“Yeah," Twilight said with a smile, "I did get a lot of data. But you saved someone’s life again. That's kinda incredible.” She bowed, “thank you.”

Achilles was at a lost of words. He was turning red under his mask which helped him keep his cool exterior. “It was nothing. Someone was in trouble and I helped out,” he said trying to to keep his composer.

Twilight gave the rider a nod before she realized something. “Wait, you said 'Element change' when you changed forms. That’s the same thing I called it."

“Oh...well,” Achilles slowly backed away. “Great minds think alike,” he said before he ran off. Before Twilight could stop him, the drones on the rider’s shoulders flew out and formed a stairway to the roof of the building.

“Jeez what was that about?” Twilight asked.

“People who were masks tend to be on the weird ones,” Trixie said as she walked pass Twilight. “Now that this whole ordeal is done, I need to get back to Sugarcube Corner before they run out of Peanut Butter Chocolate cake.”

Once Rarity saw Coco off the two girls made there way back to the science lab. As they entered the room they saw Flash packing up his things. “Oh hey, glad to see everyone is alright,” Flash said as he put on his backpack. “I figured we should end the day early because of what happened. “

“I think that was a good call Flash,” Rarity said as she walked over to the work station.

“Yeah," Twilight said as she did the same, "I need to get home to upload all the data I got."

“Are you sure you have to go home so early?" Flash asked, still trying to keep cool. "I was thinking we could all go to the diner and see if Pinkie can’t score us some free onion rings."

“Oh," Rarity said as she slung her bag over her shoulder, "that sounds delightful. I do feel a bit peckish."

They turned to Twilight, who thought for a moment before shrugging. “Well if you two are going, then I guess finding more about the rider can wait." She put away her magic scanner.With a plan in mind the three left the school.

“So Twilight," Flash asked as he and Twilight took the lead. "What info did you get on the rider?”

“Well I got a good look at his stats. Strength, speed, jump height,” Twilight said as they walked.

As she walked behind them, Rarity couldn't help but smile. Those two do look cute together. Really makes me think what it would have been like if things were different. Well it can’t be helped. Whoever Flash dose find in life, they are going to be very lucky. Rarity though to herself

Author's Note

hope you guys liked the chapter. Visual inspiration for the Glamor form came from Kamen rider Saga

editing for the chapter is provided by Banshee531

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