A New Time, A New Place

FengàriKattalakis - FPoV

My head turned to see Phillip, a.k.a Kamen Rider Cyclone or one half of Kamen Rider W. My head was pounding mercilessly. "Bloody hell… my head feels like a blacksmith mistook it for a metal billet and beat the everloving shit outta it, ugh," I mutter.

Phillip winces at my rather blunt comment, but chuckles. "I don't believe I know that reference, unfortunately," he said quietly.

"Ben Grimm… the wild Thing of the Fantastic Four… big rocky dude with a heart of gold and a mind like an adamantium trap… even if he won't admit it," I sigh. "Knowing my luck, we may end up running across someone from Marvel or DC at some point. Knowing my luck, it'd be Victor Von Doom or Elektra Natchios," I deadpan, referring to two sometimes villains, sometimes anti-heroes depending on their mood.

I blink as I see the butter yellow mare stepping through the archway from the kitchen with a tea set in her hands. "Holy shit…. I'm not sure whether to call you cute or beautiful, chèr," I drawl before wincing.

"I thought you could use some tea to soothe your throat and nerves. From what your retainer said, he was rather surprised that you weren't overwhelmed before now. I'm Abigail Fluttershy, by the way. Most just call me Fluttershy," she said softly.

"Woz isn't the only one. Though considering I made a living as everything from a chef to a musician as well as gator hunting… whew… I suppose I get used to the unusual," I sigh before seeing Fluttershy's crystalline cyan irises staring at the leather thong around my throat. "The teeth catch your eye, aye? The bigger two inch one came from a nasty thirteen two footer… we'd dubbed him 'King Ghidorah' 'cause he had an area a good third of a square mile to himself… the other two at an inch an' a third… came from an eleven eight footer… that bastard's head was so hard, Jacob had to unload two .308 rounds into 'im… found out the hard way when we dragged his ass halfway into the boat… the first bullet knocked him out temporarily… when he came to… first thing he latched on was right here," I deadpan, sitting up despite the surge of vertigo that thankfully passed quickly. I tugged up my right pants leg, exposing the series of puncture scars, clearly from sharp fangs, running from where my ankle met my foot to just beneath my knee.

I'm not that surprised to see Phillip cringe. Fluttershy, however, to my surprise, despite wearing naught more than a pair of dusky orange panties, after putting the tea set down, sweeps over and hugs me tight. I had already noticed her EE if not F cup breasts… though at the moment, I was getting, no pun intended, a very close look at them.

I could feel her fingers dragging through my hair before she hummed. "No offense, but you smell… just a little bit. Want me to give you a nice hot bath after tea?" she murmured, my ears twitching.

"On that, I'm out," Phillip deadpanned. I heard the tea being poured before I heard the door close firmly.

"You know you don't," I comment dryly as I pulled back from pretty much motorboating her breasts before her fingertips on my lips caused me to pause.

"I don't have to, obviously… but I want to," she murmurs softly, blushing. "Well… that and...I kinda need a bath myself," she mumbled in embarrassment.

A small smirk crosses my face. "You know, Abby… I don't mind scrubbing every inch of your body. No doubt Pinkamena likely has a party set up by now, and I doubt they'd want a smelly ol' gator hunter showing up smelling like Cragadile," I sighed.

She giggles at that before passing me a cup of tea. "And Jackie told me and the girls about saving her nephew… punching a Cragadile? Really?" she commented teasingly.

I shrug. "Had I not been using Kuuga Ultimate it would have hurt like hell… I suppose I could have gone with Wizard Land Dragon but I wasn't aiming to decapitate it. Either way, it felt like punching a good inch and a half of solid granite even with a charged Rider Punch, although I'm not quite sure how charged I had it compared to other Riders," I comment nonchalantly.

I see her shrug a bit as she sips her tea. I sip my tea, a bit surprised by the fragrant flavor. A soft sigh of relaxation escapes before I hear her giggle.

"You like it? It's a Chineighse blend," she commented.

"The equivalent of China, hmm…. actually, yes," I hum.

Near the entrance to the Everfree closeby Fluttershy's a purple disc of energy opened. "Which world did this thing open to this time?" A androgynous voice said as a white suited figure stepped out of the portal.

Looking around the figure tensed briefly before relaxing. "My gods, I'm home!" Suddenly the figure tensed up once more. "Something's wrong, my tech is picking up minute traces of void energy. Seems that something came here while I was away." The figure dissolved into white light which began flowing towards Fluttershy's cottage.

FengàriKattalakis - FPoV

I paused as my ears twitched before my head tilted. 'Woz must not have done much research on this world. If what I just got a flash of was correct. Hmmm… always did like Todoroki's powers, myself, mainly because I'm naturally learning towards guitars,' I consider as I feel Fluttershy's fingers lightly gripping my wrist before I notice Todoroki's bracelet on my wrist. 'Hmmm… intriguing,' I note.

The unknown being coalesced into a female form briefly before their suit reappeared in front of Fluttershy's door. "Hope they remember me." They said as they knocked on the door.

Fengàri saw Fluttershy's head turn at the knock. "Expecting someone?" he commented. She shrugged.

"The only ones other than my friends and Discord that drop by would be…" the butter yellow mare commented before she tugged open the door before hugging the suited figure tightly. "Tara," she murmured, sounding relieved. "It's been almost two months, you know," she said with a hint of sternness.

"You deal with an inter-dimensional Empire trying to destroy all life," The figure powered down, immediately revealing a dark purple alicorn with a midnight purple, white, and gray striped mane and tail wearing police riot gear that was obviously stretched to fit her G cup bosom. "I gave you all morphers!"

Fluttershy rolled her eyes. "Doesn't make them active morphers, you know. For some reason, they're dormant," she sighed sassily.

"Your outfit reminds me of Kamen Rider G3, somewhat," Fengàri's deadpan comment cut in with an observation. "He, too, was a police officer, working to save lives," he commented.

"Shut it, human." Tara said aggressively. "You're lucky I don't boot you home."

Fengàri's eyes narrowed slightly, glowing molten silver with slight embers of crimson. "You wouldn't be able to, unless you wanted to damn me to a slow, agonizing death either of suffocation or of the Void burning my life force away before doing the same to my body, one cell at a time… remaining conscious the entire time despite being pretty much dead in every way that matters. Call it a gut feeling, but I rather doubt that you're willing to do that to what essentially amounts to an interdimensional orphan. My home dimension suffered a Catastrophic Cascade Collapse, so there's no 'home' to go back to. Not to mention that it killed pretty much everything and everyone I knew… family and friends alike. And that includes those who died," he deadpanned coolly. Considering there were seven billion known mortals and probably another ten or eleven billion major and minor immortals and deceased souls that had perished, that showed a lot.

Fluttershy shot Tara a look, cocking her head. She didn't know how much of that was true, but it sounded like a magical blade through the head or spear through the heart would sound like a mercy in comparison.

"Though it probably doesn't help that there were what I suspect to be two incursions of hostiles… one at an apple farm, the other in a local marketplace as I was shopping for a guitar," he commented. He saw Fluttershy's head snap to look at him upon mentioning the apple farm. "Fortunately, beyond a minor mess in the marketplace, there were no injuries that I saw in either case, save for the hostiles," he finished. He didn't miss how she relaxed upon the mention of no bodily harm at the farm.

Tara stared wide eyed at Fengàri before falling to the floor. "I saved one." She exclaimed in relief. "I was able to save one!" Her eyes hardened as her goggles beeped at her. "No from the void signature you either saved yourself or something else did."

Fengàri Kattalakis cocked an eyebrow before his ears twitched at screeching cries. His head turned as he paused. "Woz was the one that brought me here. Apparently… Sugou Towika was a real person and something occurred that forced him to find a successor…. me," he sighed before his eyes narrowed as he shifted his weight as he stepped around Tara as he saw creatures he recognized immediately. "Friends of yours? Exes?" he quipped, tilting his head at the septet of Tengu.

His hand snapped up, a trio of hardened feathers caught between his fingers inches from his chest. As his hand dropped, he shifted, revealing what was in his other hand.

"Ugh" she responded as she drew her blaster shooting the Tengu in the head causing it to blow up into feathers. "Ivan Ooze's foot shoulders."

"So Ivan could well be nearby if possible… though I suppose we should be glad they don't seem to have backup," Fengàri deadpanned as he opened fire, bolts of ruby light pelting the Tengu, more intended to distract.

The sound of caws rang out as Fluttershy gasped. "You had to jinx it, Fen!" Tara said as she turned to see a single Tengu holding Fluttershy with a sharp feather to her neck.

Fengàri's head turned as his irises flared a bright amber with swirls of golden amber within them. "Let her go… or you're gonna lose an eye… then your head, your choice," he spoke. His tone held a growling edge to it, showing he was more than merely human.

His head tilted slightly as his hand rose as his empty hand shifted to the wrist with the Kigen Onjou upon his arm.

"Awaken ranger!"

A familiar voice said as the Tengu exploded and Fluttershy became wreathed in a golden light momentarily before the light dissipated revealing her new suit.

"Well, we know they work." Tara deadpanned. "Gosei must not like how I copied his master's work to make them. Petty Tiki head," she grumbled.

"I suppose he never heard the expression 'imitation is the sincerest form of flattery', but then…" Fengàri deadpanned before he charged out the door, tackling three of the Tengu still standing and tossing them into the remaining two as they'd taken four out thus far. "What do I know? Henshin! Let's party!!" he barked as he flicked the strings of the Kigen Onjou

before arcs of emerald lightning surged over his body as he assumed the form of KamenRiderTodoroki complete with the Ongekigen Retsurai purification guitar-spear.

"I'm certain he has, considering the Legendary Ranger Keys. I just think he's butthurt that I stole the copyrighted design." Tara said before pulling out a wrist mounted device. "Harmonize! Titanus Ranger!"

In a flash of white light Tara transformed into her suited form from before.

"I'll never get used to using Zordon's ranger form." She said her voice androgynous like before.

"So you can imagine how it feels for me, actually using the powers of characters that, as far as I know, are fantasy… but then, if Woz is to be believed, they most certainly did exist and, much like the Power Rangers or Super Sentai… stood for justice and protection of those who cannot protect themselves," Fengàri deadpanned with a cock of his head.

"Iwae! The future lord of time and fate uses one of his inheritances! The power of the brash yet pure young Todoroki is yours, my liege," Woz's voice bellowed out from where he leaned against Fluttershy's roof.

Fengàri smirked, noticing that the Tengu were thoroughly distracted and confused. "See what I meant now, Woz?"he commented, amused as he started employing the Kitōjutsu: Raigekiken and Raigekikyu Oni martial arts techniques to lay into the Tengu.

"Shy, you need to help us!" Tara said as she bashed a Tengu with her shield. "The Tengu are never alone," she muttered cautiously.

Fengàri's eyes shifted around warily. He could sense a dark, corrupt presence darker than any Makamou he knew instinctively that any Oni save for Hibiki himself had fought.

He turned before he spotted a pair of Fangires. His eyes narrowed slightly as he felt energy course over his body as his armor became s pearlescent mercurial silver before shattering.

However… it was whom stood between the Fangires that caught his eye.