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Author's Note
Sorry this chapter took so long. A couple things happened that delayed in writing the chapter. Hope you enjoy it
Chapter 3- Awaken! Tiga-oh!!
Deep in the Everfree Forest
Dawn breaks shining light into the land. Tirek is walking through the woods of the Everfree. The shriveled old centaur walks by many trees for a while up until he comes to an opening where many of the trees had been cut down with the center having been dug up. In the dug-up ditch, a group of 30 people were there continuing to mindlessly dig the hole deeper and wider.
His eyes scanned around the area in search for something. Someone appears behind Tirek as the centaur lets out a frustrated growl.
"Already losing your patience, are we? " Tirek turns to face a green kaiju with a green cape that seems to be a foot taller than the Riders.
Aside from a black sphere on its chest and a single horn, the kaiju's face seemed to resemble a nose with its eye in where the nostrils would be and what looks like huge ears on its back with earrings on them.
"Ura. If I recall, you said this wouldn't take long." "Yes. I said it wouldn't take long. But I never said when it'd get done by. Even you must know how long things like this take. " Ura defended himself walking back and forth behind the centaur. "You should just be grateful you were able to find the map thanks to our help. "
"Yes, that may be true but by the time we find the temple, the Princesses will have found out that I have escaped."
Ura tsks waving a finger. "Better not let Branken hear that. You know how he hates weakness. And I'd rather not deal with his temper today. Hm? " An orb appeared in between them. "Seems we have an intruder. "
The two look into the orb to see the Everfree Forest with a white blur moving through it. The blur stops for a moment revealing AbareKiller looking around before running in a different direction.
"AbareKiller? Never thought he'd leave his homeland to come after us. " "Will he be trouble?" Tirek questioned the kaiju. "Possibly. Which is why we'll have to cause a distraction. And I know the perfect one for the job. "
Ponyville
The town was full of life as ponies got to work getting their morning started and preparations done before other ponies filled the streets. Sugarcube Corner filled with the scent of baked goods, construction ponies were working on getting a building done, along with other ponies doing their own specific thing.
Everypony was active by this time. We'll all except for one pony, or dragon in this case.
Within the home of Twilight Sparkle, Spike was sleeping peacefully in his basket while tucked comfortably in his blanket. He seemed to be having a good dream from how he's mumbling, "I'll protect you, Rarity." with a smile.
Though a shadowy figure walked into the room and creeps up to the little dragon, lowering its head slowly with its mouth open full of sharp teeth.
The next thing everypony close by knew, a loud, ground shaking bark come from the library without warning. Causing the ponies to get startled and look to straight at the place wondering what creature could've made such a loud bark.
"Ow." Spike groaned with his eyes spinning in a daze. He was brought out of it by Guardie, the german shepherd, licking his face. "Guardie, did you really have to wake me up? It was just getting to the good part."
"Yes, he did." Twilight answered walking into the room. "Otherwise, it's difficult to wake you up. And I'm not going to let you be late for your first day of school." She looks to their canine with a smile and scratches the back of his ear. "Thank you for the help, Guardie."
Spike grumpily glared at the happy dog saying "Traitor." under his breath as he watches him love the scratches as he leans into them. "Do I really need to go to school? I'm pretty sure I'm over the grade level you put me in. Plus, I'm a Knight of Harmony."
"And what exactly is a Knight of Harmony supposed to do?" Twilight questioned him making the small dragon scratch his head in thought. "Well...I um..." "Exactly. Until we can decide or figure out what we or you need to do, you should focus on learning more and maybe train with uncle Dusk a little. You did have trouble against the last few kaiju you've faced."
Spike looks down to the ground knowing what she means. He remembers back to his with Cobolda who he barely managed to defeat. Then despite the second being a cheap shot, there was Junior who knocked him out of his Rider form with one blast.
He even thought about his fellow Riders. Not having stronger or useful forms like them, he wasn't sure if he'd be able to face more than one enemy like how they did.
"I guess so. Maybe I could get the CMC to help me come up with new moves or something." He said while walking to the door. But he stops for a moment to look back at Twilight with a teasing smirk. "Though I'm sure it's also so you can practice what you can say to Drago while trying to find him, like you did the last couple days." With a small blush she glares at her little assistant. "I-I'll go get started on breakfast."
Twilight watched as he ran out the room with Guardie following behind him. Staring towards the door, her face saddens.
Flashback
Twilight is walking down the hall of Ponyville's hospital. She had gone there after having been at the Summer Set Celebration's party for a while and decided to head back to the hospital to check on Emerald.
Reaching the room, Twilight uses her magic to slowly open the door to peek inside, but the door gets fully opened from the other side.
"Sorry. I was just- What- Emerald?" She had thought it was the doctor or a nurse checking in on them. But instead finds Emerald. "What are you doing? You should still be in bed resting."
"I'm sorry. I wasn't planning to leave. I just wanted to stretch outside for a bit before going back to sleep." She demonstrates by not being able to fully open her wings inside the room. "If you don't mind, would you like to join me outside? I would like to hear a bit about your family and Spike."
Twilight leaned to the side to check on Spike and CMC. She sees them still bunched up sound asleep on the couch that Emerald had moved next her bedside. Emerald had covered them with the bed's blanket to replace her wing for the mean time. "Of course."
Twilight backs up to allow Emerald to pass by her and begins following the dragon out the hospital. Once outside, Emerald walked to an open grass field before returning to her original size. She spread her wings out wide and cracks her neck a bit.
"So, what would you like to know?" Twilight asked while sitting on the grass next to her while she stretched. "Not really sure what I could say. We're just a normal family like anypony else."
"I'm sorry, Twilight. That was a lie." Emerald apologized with a sorry face. "I'd actually wanted to talk about something else. I would like to know about your family. But that can wait for another time."
Twilight felt a bit nervous at this. "What'd you really want to talk about then?" She asked as Emerald sat down beside her. "Is there something bothering you?"
"What are Spike's other connections to this land?" Twilight looked at the dragon confused. "What do you mean by connections?" "What other friends does he have other than with your friends here in Ponyville and your family? Does he have a rival? What teacher is the most important to him? These are the connections I'm talking about."
"Oh...Well," She paused trying to think back for the answers. "Aside from our family and friends here, he does know a pony back in Canterlot named Pony Joe and then there's the princesses. He doesn't have a rivalry with anypony as far as I can recall. And...he doesn't have any teachers because...he's never gone to school before."
The more she thought about the last one, the more Twilight felt bad and guilty. She had been so focused on her own lessons with Princess Celestia and relying on him as her number one assistant that it never came to mind on how Spike never tried making friends of his own and never thought of seeing to it that he got educated properly.
She wasn't sure on how to face Emerald anymore after having admitted to not being a good sister or guardian to Spike. Twilight just kept her sight set to the ground with saddened eyes. But then she felt something warm wrap around her. She looks up, she sees its Emerald's wing draped around her shoulder. She looks back to the dragon, seeing her with a warm understanding smile to her.
"It's alright, Twilight. It wasn't just your responsibility. Everyone involved in Spike's life is responsible for how things turned out. Especially for both me and Celestia. Me for having only watched Spike from the sidelines. And Celestia for having used the egg as part of her test for you."
"Then why ask about his relationships with others? Why are important for you to know about them?" Emerald just looks away from her seeming to be unsure of something. "Please, Emerald. I need to know what this is about if it involves my little brother. I promise to never tell anypony else about this. Cross my heart and hope to fly. Stick a cupcake in my eye."
With a giggle from seeing how Twilight made the promise, Emerald shrinks back down again to face her. "Within Spike is a magical power that you could say relates to the magic of friendship. But it's one that keeps growing the stronger the bonds he forms. It was one of many gifts granted to save certain species from going extinct."
"Extinct? What could make dragons come close to becoming extinct?"
"Dragons weren't always so powerful. Just like how ponies didn't have alicorns."
Twilight immediately surprised hearing the last part. "Wait! Is becoming an alicorn one of those gifts you just mentioned?"
Emerald nods before she begins to draw the shapes of a dragon and of an alicorn. "No creature remembers what was causing the extinction of creatures back millions of years ago. But as part of species that lives for long periods of time, we were able to remember about there being treasures and what they represent but not what they were. Alicorns is the only one we're sure of. Just like the dragon's gift, alicorns isn't a state that's easy for a pony to become."
"Then this gift that's in Spike will change him?"
"It is a possibility. The only one who will know before it's shown will be Spike himself. Unlike the alicorn gift, this gift will begin to awaken little by little as Spike grows with his bonds. Once its awoken enough, a test will be presented to Spike that'll test both him and the ones he shares a bond with. If they succeed, the gift will take the collections of all his bonds and will form itself along with them into something that'll suit him best. Whether it'd be changing him or becoming a tool for him to use. That is why it's important for Spike to become close to others and forge new bonds."
Twilight was a bit afraid to ask. "If it's a test, then what'll happen if he fails the test?" The dragon stayed silent for a moment. "Rebirth." "What?! It'll kill him!?"
"No. But it would be a bit the same as that. If he fails, the gift will move itself to someone new, taking everything along with it. Spike will be left empty. He'll just wake up not knowing who we are or who he was. He'll just act the same as an infant until he learns as he continues growing."
Twilight gasped jumping to her hooves. "H-How is that a gift? Why would such...such a curse be made?" "Twilight." The unicorn paces back in forth in panic. "We have to get rid of it." "Twilight." "Maybe Celestia will know of something that could help." "Twilight." Emerald voice raised a bit. "Oh, I know. Maybe like with me, Reiji or Connor could take it out by using one of his-"
"Twilight!!" Returning to her original size, Emerald lifted and slammed a claw onto the ground making it shake a bit to stop Twilight's pacing and turn back to her. "I can understand that you're worried but believe me, unlike an alicorn, this gift cannot be removed unless it wishes to."
"I...I just don't want to lose him. He's my little brother." Emerald lifts Twilight's chin with her tail. "You won't." "How do you know? How can you be so sure?"
She smiles to the unicorn. "What better way is there in making and strengthening bonds than getting help from those who gain magic through friendship. I know you all will help him through this and lead him to creating something incredible." She shrinks down once again before turning back towards the hospital. "We should head back now. I'm sure Spike will get worried and mad at me for making him think I left if he wakes up."
Taking only a few steps, Emerald stops to look back to Twilight. "Can you promise me that you won't tell Spike about any of this just yet? There are a few others I want around along with your family before we tell him about any of this. Can you do that for me?"
Thinking for a moment, she smiles to Emerald. "I did already promise to not tell anypony about any of this. And nopony can break a pinkie promise." The dragon smiles back to her saying "Thank you." and then looks back forward to walk back into the hospital with Twilight following behind.
End of Flashback
"A gift. If I could pass my test, I know for sure you'll pass yours, Spike." Twilight quietly said to herself with a smile before walking out the room.
Ponyville's Schoolhouse
20 minutes later all the fillies and colts of the class were taking their seats at their desks as the bell rung. Miss. Cheerilee comes walking into the room and stands in front of her class.
"Good morning, Miss Cheerilee." The whole class greeted her out loud.
"Good morning, everypony. Now before we start class, there are two things that need to be done first. First we'll be introducing three new students to the class but also somepony who has been living here for a while now." She looks to the door. "Spike, please come in now.
Opening the door, Spike walks into the classroom feeling a bit nervous with all eyes being focused in on him. Though his mood does brighten when he sees his friends the CMC who wave at him. He had told them about him being put into school which excited them. He takes a deep breath to calm his nerves as he stopped next to Miss Cheerilee. Following behind him are the two fillies from Canterlot, Misty and Rose.
"I'm sure you all know our local...young dragon, Spike." Cheerilee hesitated for a moment not knowing how to say Spike age as a dragon since she didn't see him as a baby dragon from how he wasn't a baby in her eyes. "And this here is Misty Strum and Rosey Melody. They've transferred here from Canterlot. They'll be joining our class starting today. As for the second thing, due to our new addition, we'll be changing the seating arrangement" The class becomes a bit excited as they stood up to move to the front of the class to wait. "Now hold on while I decide the new seating arrangement."
"Spike!" His three friends run up to him while some of the other went to talk to Misty and Rose. "It's so cool to have you here." Sweetie Belle excitedly said.
Scratching the back of his head, Spike chuckles. "I don't really get what's so cool of having me here." Scootaloo playfully punches his shoulder. "Are you kidding? You're a Knight of Harmony that's help save the day three times already. Plus having you around will mean more opportunities to go on adventures of our own and maybe get our cutie marks along the way."
"But it's mostly just great havin' another friend around." "Should he consider that a good thing or a bad thing?" They all look to their left to see Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon stop next to them which makes the CMC let out an annoyed sigh. "What do yah want, Diamond Tiara? We're tryin' ta welcome Spike to school."
"Of course, you would. It makes sense for losers to stick together." She laughs with her friend Silver Spoon doing the same.
Upset, Scootaloo moves in front of Spike to look Diamond Tiara face to face. "There's nothing about Spike or us that's a loser. Especially Spike. He's helped save the town and other places lately. He's even one of the Knights of Harmony."
"Wait. Is he the one that everypony aren't sure actually exists?" Silver Spoon questioned after tapping her chin in thought for a second.
The four looked at her confused. "What do you mean everypony isn't sure I exist?" "Yeah! Rainbow Dash and the others all say he did. We've also seen Spike during all those fights." Scootaloo stated to defend her friend.
Diamond smirks. "Exactly. Only you have seen him. As far as anypony knows, only ponies have the magic to become one of the knights." "Why would they think that?" Sweetie asked. "Because only ponies have been seen turning into those knights. Or at least for the red knight and the two mixed colored ones. If you're really a knight, then I would avoid these three losers unless you want your image to go down along with them."
"Why you--" "Okay, everypony I'll be assigning your seats now." Scootaloo was cut off from Miss Cheerilee announcing out loud. Scootaloo wanted to continue but her 3 friends stopped her and pull her along as they moved away from the 2 fillies.
Cheerilee waited until all of her students were listening before continuing. "Starting from my right for the first row, will be Diamond Tiara, Rumble, Pip, and Kettle Corn." Said colts and filles began moving to their seats as she continues. "The second row will have Apple Bloom, Spike, Rose, and Misty. Third row will be Silver Spoon, Button Mash, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. Twist, Ditsy, Featherweight, and Aura are in the fourth. And lastly will be Peachy Pie, Sunny Daze, Snips, and Snails."
Once she finished, Cheerilee smiled watching her students finish taking their seats and looked forward to her ready.
"Okay Everypony. Now that that's finished, we can get started on today's lesson. Today we'll be learning about photosynthesis. Can anypony tell me what photosynthesis is?" The first to raise their claw and hoof are Spike and Apple Bloom. "Apple Bloom."
"Photosynthesis is when plants turn sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into oxygen for us to breath and energy to feed themselves with."
"Yes, Apple Bloom." Cheerilee looks to the whole class. "Just about every creature, including us ponies, need the oxygen that plants create to be able to survive. But plants aren't the only one that use photosynthesis. Spike, can you tell me what else uses photosynthesis?"
"Yes. If I remember correctly, the others that use photosynthesis are algae and a few bacteria."
Cheerilee nods with a smile. "Very good, Spike. Now pay close attention everypony. While explain how this process is done." As she continued explaining, Apple Bloom and Spike faced each other for a second to give rach other a low high hoof and claw.
Meanwhile at the Library
Guardie climbed down the stairs of the basement with the dragon Fullbottle in his mouth. Reaching the bottom with all the tools Connor had brought still there, Guardie walked up to the large machine that had been used to create the dragon gem Fullbottles and slots it into the machine.
He turns running up to the table with the tools and stops at the left corner where a couple empty Fullbottles were. Guardie takes a bottle, runs back to the machine to insert the empty bottle to the bottom slot and then closes his eyes. It took a moment before his body lit up in light that flowed into the gem container.
The machine is then activated by the dog to begin mixing the dragon essence with the light. "Guardie!" Hearing Twilight call him, he leaves the machine to do its work and runs back upstairs. He runs into the living room where he finds Twilight seated on the couch with Rarity and Fluttershy next to her, while Applejack is seated on the couch chair.
"Hello, Guardie." Fluttershy with a smile, being at the corner next to him, begins petting him. "How do you like your new home? Are you happy living in Ponyville?" She gets two happy barks from him. "That's good to hear."
Applejack giggled a bit. "After what he probably had ta put up with while under Junior and Akumaro's control, I'm sure havin' any normal home would make him run from here to Manehattan and back with joy."
Rarity looked to Twilight. Which reminds me, how is our little hero today? Was he excited for his first day of school?"
"Not one bit." She said along with Applejack and Rarity causing the three to laugh a bit. "Hopefully his day will go well and he makes some friends."
"Oh please darling, it's school. I'm sure he'll manage to make a friend or two." Rarity said reassuring her friend. "Thanks, Rar-" "Afterall he is the more sociable one between you two."
Twilight frowns at the remark. "That isn't true. We're both equally sociable with others." Pinkie suddenly pops up, in between her and Rarity while saying "Don't lie, Twilight. You're setting a bad example." and placing down a box of different colored frosted cupcakes. "Ah! Pinkie, when'd you get here? And what do-"
"Just now. And I can't tell you who it's a bad example for. The writer might get mad at me for pointing him out again." She had said normally but then whispered the last part. "I'm going to make some tea. Wanna help, Fluttershy?"
"Of course. Come on, Guardie. I'd love to hear more about your old world." With a bark, Guardie goes along with the two to the kitchen.
Her friends stared at her with their eyebrows raised. All their attentions are then drawn to Rainbow flying into the room. "Did I miss anything?"
"No, Rainbow." Applejack answered. "We've been waitin' on yah this whole time ta get here. What took yah so long in gettin' here?"
"Well, I was being lectured by a friend for almost running into them while practicing one of my stunts." "Yah mean Construct, right?" Applejack confidently guessed. "Yup. Never misses a moment to lecture me every time I almost or do crash into him. For such a smart guy, you'd think he'd learn to move out of the way."
Twilight expression becomes confused the moment she heard the name. "Construct? Do you mean Construct Match?" Her rainbow haired friend looks to her. "Yup. That's the one." "How do you know him? Is he staying anywhere in Ponyville?"
This time it was all her friends that look at her a bit confused. "Of course, we know him. And he lives here In Ponyville. Don't you remember?" The unicorn tried remembering as Rainbow continued. "I told you about how he was the first unicorn friend I made. That we both moved into Ponyville on the same day which was the reason I hung out with him and became friends."
While trying to recall the event, Twilight remembers something she was told before.
Flashback
During the time of the Fall Formal when she and the guys first met each other, they we in the library explaining what they each knew about what was happening.
"Though what about us?" Connor asks. "We're not from here. So, I'm pretty sure we don't have doubles in this world."
"You mean, this world didn't use to have a double for you." Drago states making the others focus on him. "The second you were sent here; you became permanently bound to this world. Meaning the world had to add you guys in, in some way. So, you can say you guys were snuck into history."
"Does that mean when Twilight goes back, she might run into a version of us in there and will either not know them or just think they've always been around?"
"Yeah. Pretty much."
End of Flashback
"Hello, Twilight?" Hearing Rainbow brings her out of her thoughts. "Did you remember now?"
"No. I think Construct is Connor's Equestrian self." "What the hay are you talking about? I mean I guess they do look similar, but aren't they supposed to completely look the same?" Rainbow questioned confused. "Normally, maybe. But their Drago did say that the guys would've been snuck into our history or time which seems to be another option. So, maybe it couldn't completely merge them into our world unless it made some changes to them. Which would explain why the first part of their names, along with their mane and coat colors are different."
"If they were added into our lives, then why can't you remember them like we do?" Rarity asked.
Twilight thought for a moment. "I think it's because Spike and me were in their world when the guys awakened as Riders. That could be the reason me and probably also Spike didn't remember Construct when he showed himself alongside my uncle in the cave."
"WHAT?! He was there that day?" Rainbow flew up in front of Twilight, shaking her until she says "Maybe if his name is Construct Match." "That jerk! How could he hide such an awesome secret from me, one of his best friends."
Rarity giggled at that. "Dear, I'm sure that would be Turner who's his best friend. Considering how well the two get along when compared to your friendship with him."
With a frown, Rainbow turns away while in the air with her hooves crossed. "I never hear him deny it." She mumbled to herself.
"So, what's the news, Twilight?" Applejack asked looking to her with Fluttershy and Pinkie pie coming back with tea and cups that they set down before taking their seats. "Did yah figure out what Connor had left you? Cause the messages yah had made Spike sent us late at night seemed really important."
Twilight helped pour tea into everyone's cups while they each picked a cupcake.
"Sort of." Twilight holds up her hoof with the Coreseeker. "From what I was able to understand, the kaiju seem to be charging areas with negative energy. I'm just not sure why."
Pinkie gasps loudly. "Maybe they need it as a way to regain all their powers and to become giant like the two Spike and Guardie rumbled with in Canterlot. That way they can send more meaner scary kaiju to make lots more negative energy by scaring ponies." Every one of her friends stare at her with blank expressions. "What?"
"I think you're right, Pinkie." "Yup. I'm great at guessing." The pink pony confidently said before letting Twilight continue. "That could explain their reason for causing terror and destruction. Their old world and ours must have some differences when compared to each other." She takes a sip from her tea.
"Though that's only a piece of the puzzle." Startled by the familiar voice, Twilight chokes on her tea for a second before looking towards the hallway and finds her uncle who is eyeing the room. "Not a bad place. A lot homier than the one you had in Canterlot."
"Uncle Dusk?" Twilight stands up to run over to give her uncle a hug. "What are you doing here?"
Breaking the hug, Dusk uses his magic to make a scroll appear. "Celestia has left me in charge of finding recruits for the Knights of Harmony. So, I've decided to make the base of operations here in Ponyville once we've found enough warriors to join."
"Are there any other heroes like yourself and AbareKiller?" Rarity asked while she and the others stood around Twilight.
"Yes. During my journey, I met a couple other heroes like myself. Some protect certain areas while a few others journey around to help or protect anyone in need."
Twilight took ahold of the scroll with her magic as Rainbow flew in front of Dusk. "What do these other heroes look like?"
The stallion motions towards his niece. "Twilight will be able to somewhat answer that question." They all look to their friend as she begins reading.
"Dear Twilight, I hope you and your friends are all doing well. Canterlot has almost made a full recovery from what the battle had done to it. Which brings me to the reason for writing this letter. While my sister, Luna and I were helping our guards give aid to the citizens, a couple told us of three different heroes who had saved them. One group had told us of a black horned warrior that fought the kaiju with a sword that seemed to be something different when sheathed and shot out what they thought was magic. A second group only saw a green blur that moved from building to building before coming down to strike down the kaiju. The last group said the warrior that saved them was white with black stripes and fought the kaiju with only their bare hooves, or hands in this case. We had the guards try looking around for them, but they seemed to have left the moment the battle ended. Twilight, I'd like to ask you and your friends to help Dusk in locating these warriors when he finds a lead on them and ask them to help in protecting our land from the kaiju. I'll understand if you'd want to refuse. You did say you were going to try and help Spike look for his siblings. Along with helping him be prepared for the next time he faces off against a kaiju. You have my full support in whatever you choose my dear student. From your friend Princess Celestia"
The news completely caught the girls by surprise with the expression clearly shown on their faces, except for Pinkie Pie who just seems excited by it. They were mostly just surprised others had shown up to help fight the kaiju without having been noticed by any of them or the Riders.
"Uncle Dusk, do you know who these three are?"
"Only the green one if it is her." He answered his niece. "Her name is Shurikenger, a ninja Ranger. I met her a week after I had inherited my powers."
"Why don't we take a seat? I'm sure you must be tired, Dusk." Rarity suggested. Agreeing they all sat back down at the couches, except for Dusk who uses his magic to bring over a chair from the kitchen.
Rainbow hovers over the others as she asks, "If you two know each other, then why didn't she stick around?"
"I told Twilight before that we mostly see ourselves as allies instead of friends. Which is why we mostly decide to move on once our job is done." Dusk looked over the selection of cupcakes. "She and the others probably sensed what was happening and decided to come help out."
"Yah've only said their hero names. Do yah not know their actual names?" Applejack asked before taking a bite of her cupcake.
Dusk shook his head. "Nope. The only reason they know me is because of my magic having been taken."
Twilight spit takes the second after she had taken a sip from her tea. "WHAT?! Your magic was taken!? How? By who?"
"By a kaiju that goes by the name of Branken." He picks up a red frosted cupcake. "But I'd rather talk about that right now. What I need to focus on now is finding someone to replace me as Timefire. I actually already have someone- Wait." Dusk stands to do a quick scan of the room. "Where's Spike?"
Ponyville Schoolhouse
Hours later, the class had been released to have lunch and recess. Most of the kids had finished their lunches and were now spread around playing different games and activities.
Spike and the CMC were sitting at a lunch table with Spike and Scootaloo on one side while Apple Bloom sat next to Sweetie Belle on the other side. The Primal Cell lied between them projecting an image of four different Cross-Z forms. From left to right are a silver Cross-Z with dragon jelly pack shoulder armor and transparent blue parts on the face and chest, a magma orange colored Cross-Z with black molten rock dragon heads around the body, a darker blue colored Cross-Z with red, and a light blue Cross-Z with black and white armor pieces all around the body.
"I think the orange one is the coolest looking one." Scootaloo said while looking at the description of the form. "Cross-Z magma huh. Hey Spike, this one uses a weapon like your Gaburyu Breaker."
"I like Great Cross-Z's colors." Sweetie points from the darker colored one to the black and white suit. "Rarity would probably like it too and Cross-Z Evol for their colors."
Apple Bloom and Spike are watching video clips of Cross-Z's first ever battle. "This Banjou fella sure is really strong and great at fightin' as Cross-Z. Don't yah agree, Spike? Spike?" She and her friends look to him when he doesn't respond and sees his attention having been to an image of the silver Cross-Z. "Cross-Z Charge, huh? Is their somethin' the matter with it?"
"No. I'm just thinking that this form reminds me of that one day." He looks to his claw. "The day I became a huge dragon because of how greedy I got getting gifts. I wonder if that part of me will be affected by the form."
With a smile, Scootaloo hits Spike's shoulder with a playful punch. "What are you worrying about? Connor even said the form will have to be changed. And with him working on it, I'm sure he'll keep anything bad from happening."
Sweetie nods. "Yeah. Connor is really smart after all. Hm... Speaking of Connor, do you think he'll actually finish making more of those small dragons for us?"
"I'm sure he will. He did say they were almost done." "Until what's done? That dumb club of yours?" Apple Bloom and the girl's groan as Diamond Tiarra and Silver Spoon come walking to them from the playground. "What do yah want, Diamond?"
"Nothing from you, blank flanks." She looks to Spike with a smirk. "We want to talk to him." "Me?" "Yes you. Why don't you play with us instead of being around these blank flanks."
Spike shakes his head. "No thanks. Me and the CMC are busy talking about my powers."
His answer seems upsets Diamond. "What? You can't be serious?" Silver Spoon nods agreeing with her friend. "Yeah. You better rethink that choice, Spike." "Exactly. Even if you're a Knight of Harmony, you can still wind-up a loser like them-"
Diamond and Silver Spoon are suddenly lifted and moved to the side with Rose and Misty sliding to a stop where the two had been moved from. Spike and the CMC were surprised by this as the two girls looked at him with huge smiles.
"Are you really a Knight of Harmony!?" "What's your hero team?" "Do you know Build?" "Were you at Vanhoover when it was attacked?" "When'd you become a Knight of Harmony?" "How'd you become one?" "Do you know Timefire and AbareKiller?" "Can you turn into a Knight right now?"
"Um...yes, I am. If I remember right, your names were-"
"I'm Rosey Melody." Rose quickly answered pointing to herself and then to her friend. "And she's Misty Strum, my best friend." "Hi." "What are your names?"
Standing up, the little dragon stood in front of the two fillies. "I'm Spike. And the three behind me are my friends Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle."
"Hi!" The three greeted. "Me and my friends are also part of a club we made called the CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!!" Apple Bloom added with her and her friends shouting at the end. "I'm guessin' yer a fan of the Knights. So are we."
The two fillies nodded. "Yup. We really like Build from how he protected and saved when those scary things appeared."
"Hey! Who do you-" "You both came from Canterlot, right? What made you move to Ponyville?" Sweetie asked interrupting Diamond.
"Besides wanting to see where the Knights of Harmony first appeared," Rose paused to point towards town. "My parents moved us here to open a shop here."
Misty looks to Rose. "I moved here to stay close to Rose because she was my only friend in Canterlot."
The group were stunned by Misty's reason for having moved. Not once had they ever heard of somepony moving just to stay by their friend's side.
"So, you didn't have any other friends? Why?" Scootaloo asked.
Spike taps his chin. "I guess I could see that." "What do you mean, Spike?" He turns to Sweetie Belle. "It's a bit hard for colts and fillies to make friends in Canterlot. Mostly because they act snobbish like their parents or their parents will only let them make certain friends."
"Really? That sounds like having to deal with many Diamond Tiaras." Scootaloo said becoming irritated by just the mere thought. "Now that'd be a nightmare. Glad I live in Ponyville with only one of her."
"Excuse me! How dare-" "Can you change into a knight, right now?" Misty asked, cutting off Diamond.
"Sorry, I can't. I promised my sister that I'd only transform when there are kaiju attacking or in emergencies." He walks back to the table to grab his phone. "But I could show you something else. Transport Lock Engine Cast and Sapphire Dragon Fullbottle."
Holding out his left claw, the two items materialized while he set his phone back down on the table. "Wow!/Amazing!/Cool!" The two friends and Silver Spoon loudly said with excitement. He presses the bottle against the bottom of the lock and jumps up opening into dragon mode after charging.
Ryuga roars before beginning to fly all around the school, making every filly and colt stop what they're doing to look up in amazement at the mechanical dragon. Pipsqueak and the others followed Ryuga as he flew back to the group and circled around them before landing on top Spike's head.
"That's really cool, Spike. Where did you get that?" Pipsqueak asked.
Spike points up at his little friend. "His name is Ryuga. Ryuga, say hi to everypony." The small mechanical dragon roars to all of them. "A friend of ours made him to help me out when I need help."
"What does he do to help?" Ditsy curiously asked Spike.
"A lot of things. So far, he's gone to get help and helped me out when I first fought against a kaiju as a knight. You could say he's a sidekick or assistant. Right, bud?" Ryuga roars, breathing out fire.
"We're going to be getting ones of our own soon." Scootaloo spoke out from her seat.
In excitement, all the fillies and colts circle around Spike as they bombard him with questions. Each asking if his friend could also make ones for them and if they could be different animals or creatures.
"Way da go, Scootaloo." Apple Bloom said as she and Sweetie with deadpan looks turn to Scootaloo, who chuckles nervously and says, "I forgot I wasn't supposed to let anypony know that."
The Library
Guardie runs back down into the basement with Pinkie and Fluttershy following behind him.
"What's down here, Guardie?" Fluttershy questioned as she watched him walk up to the machine.
He stops in front of it as the machine finishes creating the new Fullbottle. "OOOO! A new bottle. What's on it?" Pinkie said excitedly taking the new bottle off the machine.
Fluttershy leans in to also take a look at the bottle. The new bottle is a mix of red and purple with the bottom and top being silver. The image of what looks like Guardie's Color Timer molded into the front with an extra shape on both sides of the Timer that curve upwards.
"Is this a Guardie Fullbottle?"
With a few barks as a response, Fluttershy shakes her head. "No. He said it's the Tiga Fullbottle." She pauses for a moment as Guardie continues. "What? A voice told you to make it? Do you know the voice?" He shakes his head. "That's really strange."
"Yeah. Maybe he was hearing a ghost." Pinkie suggested energetically. "Or an echo. O-Or maybe something from the future. Or probably-" Guardie suddenly starts growls startling her and Fluttershy. "What's the matter boy? Is the voice saying something?"
Fluttershy recognizes his stance. "Is something coming?" Guardie jumps up changing into a ball of light that flies up out of the basement. "Guardie, wait!"
Outside the basement, Twilight was still talking to her uncle and friends in the living room. Rainbow was just hovering above her friends while Applejack was now seated with Twilight and Rarity. Dusk had sat himself in Applejack's first seat.
"Hm?" Rainbow is too late in noticing the ball of light and gets spun in place as it raced past her. "GAAAHHHH!! What was that?"
"That was Guardie." Fluttershy answered as she ran by with Pinkie following after the light. Twilight and the others stared at each other for a second before shooting to their hooves and chased after them.
The light flies up high above an open field outside of Ponyville before brightening up. In town, everypony's attention is drawn to the light or blinded by it.
The brightness of the light even manages to reach the school. Spike, along with the colts and fillies, covered their eyes for a moment before looking towards it. Fading out, Guardie back in his original giant form is revealed from where the light had been.
"Guardie?" "Wow. I almost forgot how big he was." Both Sweetie and Scootaloo said while Apple Bloom ran to Spike's side to ask, "What is Guardie doing?"
Spike's group, along with Twilight's group in front of the library, watched along with Ponyville's citizens as Guardie begins walking away from the town. On his fifth step, multiple purple energy blasts came shooting out of the ground at him with most of the shots hitting their mark. "GUARDIE!!" Both groups shouted in worry. The lion dog kaiju recovers from the shots in time to see eight giant worms looking kaiju burst out of the ground in front of him.
Having stumbled back a few steps, Guardie charges towards the worms swinging his claw at them but misses them all by the worms retracting themselves back into the ground. Guardie growls as he searches the ground for any signs of his opponent.
Four of them sprang out and wrapped themselves around Guardie's neck, tail, and arms. The lion dog roars, struggling trying to break free, only for the last four to shoot out of the ground to begin bashing him by using themselves.
"What the hay is that?" Hearing Rainbow, Twilight uses the Coreseeker to look up the kaiju once it captured a picture of it. "It's known as Hades Beast Worm. Wizard heroes known as Magiranger faced these kaiju." "So, this overgrown fish bait can be beaten using magic?"
"Not with any of the spells we know. But it also says that this creature follows the commands of a commander grunt called a High Zobils. If that kaiju is defeated, the Hades Beast should lose their coordination and run- Ah!"
Twilight and the others watched as Worm threw Guardie across the ground away from Ponyville. He quickly gets back onto his feet and breathes out three energy blasts at the Hades Beast. Worm avoids the attack by retracting back underground. Before the kind kaiju could search around, all eight pop back out all around him and begin firing blasts from all sides causing Guardie roar in pain.
"Guardie!" Fluttershy shouted in worry.
"He can't seem to keep up with those horrid things." "Maybe if the big fellah could change like he did last time, he'd have a better chance." Applejack brought up after Rarity.
Pinkie hops in place. "YEAH! Time for Kyoryu King!"
"He can't." Dusk spoke up saying. "From how Spike explained it before, he needs to activate it first using that new item of his."
Rainbow groans in frustration. "Then why hasn't he done it yet? I'm sure a huge rumble like that can easily be seen from the school."
"Maybe they know." They turn to Pinkie who's pointing behind them. Turning around, they find a purple spell circle with new grunts they haven't seen before appear rising from it. Humanoid shaped like the others, these brown and silver foot soldiers seemed to be wearing masks with each holding either a large butcher-like blades, axes, and spears.
"Ugh!" Rarity scrunches with disgust. "What are those horrible things?"
Twilight looks them up. "Those are Zobil." "Which one is that leader of theirs?" Twilight shakes her head at Rainbow. "None. It must be somewhere else."
The group suddenly start hearing screaming. They turn to find more spell circles appearing all around town with Zobil appearing from them all. Golem Soldiers and Imps appeared randomly around town while Orgettes formed and Nanashi came out of small gaps and begin attacking.
"Gosh darn. Don't these varmints ever learn their lesson?" Applejack cracks her neck. "Seein' as Connor and Reiji are gone, were gonna have ta handle this on our own."
"You're right." Twilight looks up to the sky for a second. "The spell circle isn't active this time. We need to distract or fight off any kaiju we see while also helping anypony that needs it." "On it!/Yah can count on us./Gladly./Okay./Okie dokie lokie!" "Uncle Dusk, you should help Rarity and-"
"Nope. I may not be able to transform or use magic, but I can still handle myself in a fight." Dusk charges on ahead.
"But Uncle Dusk- Oh boy. Let go girls." Twilight, Applejack and Rainbow run after Dusk to help in the fight while the rest ran in different directions to help other ponies. "I hope you're alright Spike."
Meanwhile
Spike and his classmates watched as Worm continues shooting blasts at Guardie. Mostly all the colts and fillies had a look of fear, along with Cheerilee, who had come out to see what was causing the loud commotion.
He watched for a second longer before patting himself down in search of the second phone but remembers it's still in his backpack. Apple Bloom takes notice of him the second he runs towards the school.
"Spike, where are yah goin'?" She questioned, making him stop in his tracks.
"I can't just standby and watch. I need to help." He turns to face back towards the school to continue. Though he only gets one step in before all three groups of grunts appear in between him and the school. "Wha- You guys again? Wait, aren't you guys new?" He questioned pointing to the Zobils.
"Rah! " Three Zobils shoot out balls of slime from their mouths at Spike.
He quickly jumps flat onto the ground avoiding the slimes that hit, ripping into the ground behind him. Standing up, Spike looks at the damage done to the ground behind before facing back towards the grunts feeling a bit worried.
"I really need to get to my belt." Spike said to himself with his sights set to the school behind the grunts.
"Spike!" Hearing Cheerilee, Spike looks back towards the bench to see she has gathered the students behind it and a tree next to it while she stood in front of it out of cover. "Get back here. It's dangerous."
He tries to quickly go over his options seeing as how the grunts were standing in his way of getting to his belt. Though before Spike could think for too long, his Primal Cell is dropped on top of his head.
"What?" He looks up to find Ryuga hovering over him. "What was- Oh, that's right! Thanks, Ryuga. Now go stay and protect everypony." The small dragon roars understanding and then flies back to the class. Spike faces back towards the grunts after picking up the cell and then charges towards them.
Seeing this, the grunts run at Spike with their weapons ready. Spike waits for a second as they got closer to each other before holding up his phone. "Transport Gaburyu Breaker." Materializing in his right claw, he inserts the Sapphire bottle into it.
(Sapphire Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Sonic! ) The weapon announced the last part after charging. Holding out the knuckle weapon, Spike rams his way through the grunts down the middle of the crowd at high speed. "Transport dragon Fullbottle!" He shouted as he keeps jumped, smashing through the window. "RAH!!" All the grunts that can shoot all fired into the school, which wreck and destroys everything they hit on the inside.
"SPIKE!!" The CMC shouted out worried. They were about to run towards the school to help but Cheerilee holds them back.
All the grunts stop shooting, staring into the smoke inside the school wondering if they killed their target. (Wake Up! Cross-Z Dragon! Are you ready? ) "Henshin!" (Wake Up Burning! Get Cross-Z Dragon! Yeah!) The smoke gets blown away from the constructs closing and Cross-Z jumping out of the building with his transformation completed.
"Cross-Z!!" "You guys just had to go and ruin my first day of school." (Beat Closer! ) Being summoned from the belt, Cross-Z takes ahold of the sword and makes a dash at the grunts with the wizard Fullbottle. "Time to see what you can do." (Special Tune! Hippare! Hippare! )
The grunts readied themselves as Cross-Z got closer. (Million Slash! ) To everyone's surprise, including the grunts, Cross-Z's slash attack creates a hole that he disappears into. The Rider reappears behind the grunts while they're distracted.
"Whoa! That was cool." Amazed for a second, Cross-Z pulls the hilt again. (Hippare! Smash Slash! ) Thinking it would launch another slash, he swung the sword with the blade hitting the ground. Though instead of a slash, a huge red spell circle appears around the grunts and shrunk pulling the whole bunch together into a pile. "Alright! Now for the finish." The Gaburyu Breaker is summoned out. (Gaburyu Breaker! )
(Tourmaline Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Burst!) Thrusting the knuckle weapon forward, orange stream of magma flames from it and hits, destroying the grunts in one go.
He heard his classmates cheering the behind him as he looked back to Guardie who is still being beaten around by Worm. "Hold on, Guardie. I'm coming to help now." Cross-Z said to himself while bringing out the new phone with the cards. (Guardie! Fusion Standby! ) Fireballs and energy eyeball blasts came hitting Cross-Z from his left and the ground around him before he could use the cards. "AH!!" He's sent flying away from the school.
"CROSS-Z!!" Apple bloom and Sweetie worryingly shouted. "Come on. Let's go help him." Scootaloo jumped out of the group with a determined look but finds herself not having moved an inch.
She looks behind herself to see Cheerilee with her hoof on her tail. "Scootaloo, no. It's too dangerous."
While the two and the rest of the class were distracted, Rumble notices Rose and Misty sneak away. "No way, I'm missing out on this." He quietly spoke to himself before doing the same to follow after them.
"Ugh!" Having dropped his weapons, Cross-Z grunted landed rolling across the grassy field of the park. "Ow. What did that?" The Rider said to himself, rubbing the back of his head.
*Ghastly Laugh* "Wha- Ugh!" Turning around, he barely catches the glimpse of what looked like a skeleton jump past slashing him across the chest before he could do anything and then with a spear being jabbed against his waist, gets sent tossed against a tree a few feet away.
Getting back to his feet slowly, Cross-Z finds three kaiju standing across the field from him. One is a skeleton wearing a black cape, witch-looking hat, and sword in its right hand. The second is what looks like a Zobil, but is purple with the silver on the chest looking like a rib cage and holding a spear. The last has a red upper body resembling the shape of a samurai's armor, having shoulder pads with an eye shape, and a huge blue face coving around the legs and holds two short swords with a sorrow looking face on one's blade and the other having a rage face.
Looking down in front of, he finds the Beat Closer and quickly picks it up to hold it at the ready. "I really wished Build and OOO was still here."
Having his focus on the kaiju, he doesn't take notice of Rose and Misty peeking out from a bush across the field behind the kaiju. Rumble peeks out from a different bush a few feet away from the two.
Within the Everfree Forest
Abarekiller runs through the forest as a white blur that stops at an edge of a cliff, that's at the tops of a large mountain.
From there, he can see the battle going on between Guardie and Worm. While smoke coming from different parts of Ponyville.
"Spike." He runs back down the mountain as a white blur, but upon reaching the bottom, he stops to duck and roll to the left out of the way of a yellow energy crescent slash. The Abaranger looks back to see the damage the attack had done, seeing the attack had dug up the ground, along with some trees having been split down the middle. "Rouki." He said looking back forward.
Walking out from the darkness of the woods is a black humanoid kaiju having the shape of a wolf with a horn coming out of the forehead, holding a large double-sided crescent blade in its right hand.
"We meet again, AbareKiller. No... " Rouki points his blade's tip towards the Ranger. Like AbareKiller, Rouki dashes towards him as a purple blur. By an inch, the Ranger barely manages to duck under Rouki's blade and then quickly pulls out his Wing Pentact in blade mode to block the blade after Rouki stopped behind him to take another swing. "Zero! You'll pay for what you did to me 400 years ago. "
"What?" The two pushed each other back and both used their free hands to punch each other's chest, causing them to stumble back a few steps. "How'd you-"
"You're scent was easy to follow the moment I found the area you were in. Now before killing you, I wonder if you've lost your edge. " Rouki said crouching into a ready stance. "If you believe that, then you'll regret it."
AbareKiller and Rouki both instantly dash towards each other as blurs the second the Ranger finished speaking. Clashing as they passed each other, the white and purple blurs moved through the forest while continuing to clash back and forth.
While the two moved battling in the forest, Ura appears at the top of the mountain AbareKiller had just stood on a few minutes ago. He chuckles seeing the sparks that are created from the two battling.
"Perfect. Now we can continue working in peace. " Ura happily said to himself before disappearing.
Ponyville
The roads of the town were filled with ponies being chased in different directions by Golem Soldiers and Imp. The Nanashi, Orgettes, and Zobils were mostly focused on breaking or tearing into some buildings.
Within one such group of ponies being chased, Filthy Rich and his wife, Spoiled Rich were running within the small group. Spoiled, with fear in her eyes, looks back while running to see the Golems and Imps chasing after them. Trying to quicken her pace, Spoiled trips over a rock as she looked back forward and falls flat on the ground.
"Dear!" Filthy immediately stopped and ran back to help his wife up. "Are you alright?" "I'm fine." "Come on. We need to hurry and run. Ah! Look out!" Filthy uses himself to cover his wife as the grunts jumped at them to strike with their weapons. But before the attack could reach them, a magenta wall formed between them, causing the grunt to slam into it and fall on top the other grunts behind them. The two were confused until they looked to their right where Twilight was standing having used her magic. "Thanks for saving us, Twilight."
"You're welcome. Now hurry and get to Town Hall." Twilight instructed as she started shooting magenta beams of magic at Golems and Imps charging towards them. The two just nodded before running off to catch up with the others. Twilight waited until the Riches were out of danger before running off to continue the fight and see if anyone else needs help.
Meanwhile, more grunts were destroying the buildings around Sugarcube Corner. Orgettes used their clubs as a flamethrower to shoot fire at the buildings or Nanashi and Zobils going inside to wreck everything inside. Turning their attention towards Sugarcube Corner, the Orgettes take aim at the building.
Applejack came up running from their left with a lasso at the ready. She hurls the lasso to the Orgette's club from the end of the row and tugs it a second before they fired causing the one to burn its allies. "That oughta teach them ta burn others towns." "Rah! " Nanashi come rushing out of the non-burnt buildings across the road from her.
"INCOMING!!" Not getting time to react, Rainbow comes ramming through the group of Nanashi from their right. "And that's a strike! Try beating that, AJ!" She shouted down to her friend with a huge smirk.
Applejack frowns annoyed before looking around to find Zobils coming out from the buildings down the way from her left. She then looks to the burning Orgettes with her sight focused on the clubs on the ground. Smirking back up to her friend, she undoes the lasso end of her rope to tie it through and around the handles of the clubs. "Rah! " The Zobils shouted as they charged up to her. Finishing tying the rope, she twirls it making the clubs spread into a 'Y' shape and then hurls it towards the grunts, knocking them all to the ground from hitting them across the face.
"Top that." "Easy. Bet I'll beat more than you." "Yur on." The two then race in separate directions in search for more grunts.
Not far, Imps walk around a corner with Nanashi and Zobils both coming out of buildings in front of them, each searching around for their own target to attack or destroy. Down the road they spot Rarity and Fluttershy leading Lyra, Bon Bon, Time Turner, and Derpy to safety. "Rah! " They all dash charging towards the group.
Pinkie jumps right out of a bush dressed as a cross walker in their path. She blows her whistle while holding up a stop sign, bringing the grunts to a stop. They stared back and forth between her and each other seeming to be confused. "Say hello to my little friend." Pinkie said loudly pointing over to their right. Curious, they all look to the right to find...Pinkie?! "LET THEM HAVE IT, GUMMY!!" Having been more confused than ever, they looked back forward only to be face to face with the ends of three large party cannons with their three pull-strings all being held in the mouth of Pinkie's small toothless pet alligator.
Not far ahead, Rarity and Fluttershy were hurrying along with their group while also doing their best to avoid the grunts. "Oh. Will Pinkie really be alright?" Fluttershy asked her friend while feeling worried for Pinkie Pie.
Her question is then answered when they hear the sound of the party cannons firing. The two look back for a second seeing the grunts flying away from them with confetti and party streamers. "I believe she has it handled."
Ponyville's Park
"grah! " Two Nanashi screamed as they flew dropping into the park's lake.
From the shore they came flying from, a small group of all five types of grunts are fighting Dusk, who they had surrounded. He slides under an Imp before rearing up his back legs and bucks sending it crashing into four grunts. Dusk then reacts quick enough to step back to avoid a Zobil swing its axe, that embeds itself into the ground in front of him, and then jumps forward, rolling over the grunt to avoid two Golem arm blades. A Nanashi gets it head hit with a downward kick as Dusk rolled down from the other side of the Zobil that he then headbutts.
Dusk bites onto the Nanashi he kicked and swung it into a couple of grunts that tried running up to him from his right. He stops for a moment when he hears the sounds of a battle coming from a different part of the park that's in the direction of the school.
"Spike..." He then focuses back on the grunts, picks up a Nanashi's sword by his mouth, and then charges towards more grunts. "Hold on until I get there, kiddo." He spoke in his head.
Close to the School
Cross-Z is being pushed around as he used the Beat Closer to fend off the skeleton's sword. Ugh! Ah! The Zobil looking kaiju had slashed him from behind with its spear, with the skeleton taking the opportunity to slash him across the chest with sparks flying off from both hits. It then grabs ahold of Cross-Z to deliver a headbutt and follows with hitting him to the left with the hilt of its sword across his face. "Ow. Two against one really isn't- Gah!" The second Cross-Z turned back to them, turning to face them, he gets hit square in the chest by the Zobil's spear and sent flying back a few feet.
"Damn thing, I'll turn you to scrap metal!! " The kaiju with the huge face yelled out while trying to hit Ryuga, who is flying circles around and shooting fire at him, with his two swords. "Ugh! Why you little- Duh! " Ryuga had spun while letting out flames that covered him and then rammed himself into the kaiju, knocking him to the floor. Ryuga then flies over to Cross-Z, who is getting beat around by the two kaiju and assists him by creating energy chains that wrap around them. "Why you little... Huh? "
"Thanks Ryuga." (Hippare! Smash Hit! ) Cross-Z swings, hitting the two kaiju with a powerful slash covered in blue flames. "Better finish these two before they break free." He brings out the Ruby Dragon Fullbottle while saying this. (Special Tune! ) "You should rethink that. " "What?" Turning around, Cross-Z finds the third kaiju across the field holding both Rose and Misty in his hands. "Let them go."
"I don't think so. If you want them to survive this, then toss your weapon away and put away your pet. " Ryuga growled at the last demand. "Shut it, tin can. So, " Energy begins building up in his shoulders as he held up the two fillies in front of them. "What will it be? "
Cross-Z tries thinking of what options he could use to get out of this mess. But the more he thought, the more the grip on his weapon tightened from how he couldn't think of any way out of the situation.
Elsewhere
In four different areas, objects were beginning to light up. The first being the Tree of Harmony. The second is in town where Pinkie notices a glowing, blinking light coming from inside her mane.
"Hm. I wonder what is." She shoves a hoof into her mane and began searching for the light while naming the objects she drags out. "Balloons, flags, jump rode, paintball gun, birthday cake flavored ice cream, t-rex bone, Chronojet Dragon card, Geed Claw"
In the last two locations, a faint glowing light was coming from the inside of a small box that sits at the top of a shelf in Zecora's home and the other in a room, underground with Diamond Dogs, full of piles of gems with one pile having light faintly seep through.
Back at the Battle
Not wanting to risk their lives, Cross-Z tosses his sword to the side. Ryuga seemed ready to attack but gets stopped by his Rider grabbing ahold of him. "Sorry Ryuga. We just can't risk it. Please change back into standby mode." The small dragon seemed to be against the decision but complies with Cross-Z's command and folds back into a lock. "There. I did as you wanted. Now, let them go." He demanded as he set the Engine Lock to the side of his belt.
"Fool! " He lowers the girls a bit to fire two lasers from his shoulders. "AH!" Cross-Z is sent flying into the Zobil, who catches the Rider and holds him up in a hold. "Let him have it! " *Ghastly laugh* The skeleton laughed as it continuously assaults Cross-Z with its sword. "AH! GAH! AH!" The dragon Rider cried out in pain while being held in place by the Zobil.
"NO!!/STOP IT!!" Rose and Misty could only shout as the other two kaiju continued beating on Cross-Z.
"Spike!" Rumble quietly shouted. "There has to be something I can do." He looks at his surroundings, trying to see if he could spot of a way to help out. "Hm?" Rumble catches the glimmer of something hidden up on a tree a few feet away. Squinting, he spots the front of the Gaburyu Breaker sticking out from the tree's leaves. "That'll work."
Back in Town
Sitting next to a huge pile of different items, Pinkie is still pulling out different objects from her mane and tosses them into the pile to continue the search for the light.
"Poke'ball, Ryusoul Key, Dual Disk... Hm?" She stops when the light begins blinking faster. "Oh! Maybe it means I'm getting closer." She quickens her pace.
Zecora's House
The zebra was in the middle of her house stirring a potion she was cooking in her caldron. About to take a sip of it, she takes notice of a faint glow coming from behind her.
"Oh my." Zecora became shocked the moment her eyes landed on the box. "Seems the time has come, for the hands of time to proceed on their path."
Underground
Two Diamond Dogs, having the appearance of Rottweilers, were guarding the outside of a five circular keyhole locked door that's at the end of torched lit hallway with armor and shields made of diamond. They stayed keeping their eyes focused down the hall.
"Hm?! What!?" One of the guards shouted backing away from the door.
The second guard does the same after he takes notice of the same thing. Facing the door, they watched as a faint glow came shining out from under the door.
"What's happening?" The second guard questioned.
"Go get the boss. Let him know the treasure is reacting to something." The first guard ordered the second, who complies and rushes down the hall. "What could be drawing the treasure's attention."
Back at the Battle
Still holding the fillies, he big, faced kaiju laughs hysterically watching the two other kaiju continuing their attack on Cross-Z.
"Stop it already! This isn't a fair fight." "Yeah! You jerks are real scaredy cats for using us as shields." The two filles shouted as they struggled to get out of his hold.
"What do we care? If anyone has a problem with our methods, then they can come up and say it to my face. " He told the two, having brought them up to eye level.
"THEN HEADS UP!!" "Wha- Ugh! " Before the kaiju could react, Rumble comes flying into him from behind with the Gaburyu Breaker being held in his front hooves. Causing him to release the fillies while Rumble crashed, rolling along the grass. "Ouch. Thought that'd go more better."
Rose and Misty run up to their classmate. "Rumble, are you okay?" Rose asked as they helped the colt back onto his hooves.
He stumbles from side to side. "Ask me again when I'm not seeing doubles." Right then, energy laser blast came hitting the space around them. They looked behind themselves see the skeleton kaiju coming towards them. "Run!" They run to their right but are stopped by fireballs passing by them from their right, hitting the ground a few feet ahead of them in a row that creates a wall of fire.
"You brats aren't going anywhere. " The huge, faced kaiju said while sharpening his two swords against each other. "At least not until I hack off a piece from each of your bodies. "
The three turn around to face the two kaiju who are advancing towards them in different directions. They slowly take steps back as they get closer but stop the moment they feel heat. Looking behind to see that they're getting closer to the fire, they face back forward with fear not having anywhere to run to.
"No." Cross-Z, still being held in a lock by the Zobil-like kaiju, tries prying himself free but has no success. The damage he had taken from the attacks earlier had left his body feeling weak. "Grah! " He had continued to struggle until the kaiju suddenly gets shot in the face. "Wha- Never mind. No time to think." Now freed, Cross-Z quickly runs to and picks up his sword. (Hippare! Hippare! Million Slash! ) The Beat Closer announced as ruby flames covered its blade and Cross-Z then thrusts it forward, launching the flame as a wave towards the two other kaiju.
"DAH! " Both kaiju are hit by the attack, knocking them to the floor in front of Rumble and the girls. The three take the chance to dash over to Cross-Z, while the Rider does the same while attaching his sword to his back to pick up the Gaburyu Breaker. "I'm going to enjoy hearing you scream. " The big, faced kaiju said out loud as the two stood and prepared to fire their attacks. (Ruby Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Breath!) The dragon Rider gets behind the three as the kaijus fire their attacks and then uses his own to intercept theirs. The fillies and colt watched helplessly from behind Cross-Z as the Dragonic Breath struggles along with the two's laser attacks trying to push each other back. "Enough with this joke!! " The big faced shoots fireballs along with his laser attack.
The added attack begins pushing back Cross-Z's all the way back to him, causing an explosion upon reaching them. "AH!/Cyah!/Ah!" Cross-Z, the fillies and Rumble screamed from being blown to the ground. "GRAH!! " Cross-Z looks to their left seeing the Zobil kaiju that's back on its feet roaring. [What should I do? I can't beat these three on my own. But] Cross-Z was doubting himself in his mind. But he then began thinking back to Build and OOO's battle in Canterlot. How even when they were outnumbered and even hurt, they still pushed themselves to continue fighting in order to protect everyone. With the feeling of not wanting to disappoint his fellow Riders, Cross-Z manages to stand on one knee while holding up the Gaburyu Breaker at the ready. "But I'm not going to let everyone down."
"This will end it!! " The two kaiju open fire at Cross-Z, who braces himself to try stopping the attacks.
Right then, back in town, the blinking light in Pinkie's mane stops blinking and shines brightly the moment she thinks she finds it. "Ohohoh! What could it be!?" The area around her becomes covered in a blinding light the moment she pulled out the object. Now miraculously wearing sunglasses, what she finds in her hoof is the Tiga Fullbottle. The light retracks back into the bottle before floating off Pinkie's hoof and flying off. "Guess it needed to go somewhere."
The bottle made its way all the way to Cross-Z's battle in a flash. It stopped in front of him with a barrier made of its light shielding them from the laser attacks. "What is that light?! " The kaijus covered their eyes from the blinding light.
The Tree of Harmony's light went into the Elements of honesty and laughter with beams of magic matching their colors shooting out the next second. The beams fly out of the cave, moving all the way through the Everfree Forest and into the park. The light kept the group from seeing the beams hit the Tiga Fullbottle, causing the light to die down as the bottle absorbed the magic.
Cross-Z and the kids unshielded their eyes in time to see two beams of light be shot out from the bottle with one heading back into the Everfree Forest while the second one went diagonally into the ground.
Zecora's Home
Zecora's attention is so fixated on the box's glow that she didn't notice the light from the beam until it came shooting into her home and into the box.
The zebra gasps as the glow from the box intensify along with it lifting off the self. Cracks appeared one after another on the box until it bursts apart to reveal an object that resembles an eye. "Makena." Zecora spoke out softly. She kept staring at the eye until needing to cover her eyes when the eye gets swallowed by light.
The second the light died down, Zercora looked around not finding the eye anywhere before setting her eyes on the remains of the box. "She's returned."
Underground
"OPEN THE DOOR!!"
The guard, that had remained in front of the door, turned to look down the hall to see the other guard rushing with a Saint Brenard Diamond Dog, wearing a black suit with gems around the ring of the collar and red tie, and more guards following behind them.
"Yes, boss." The guard turns back to the door with the others stopping behind him. He holds his paw up to the lock while his diamond armor extended to cover it and forms five key fingers. He inserts them into the lock and unlocks the door with a twist of the five fingers.
The all rushed into the room filled with many piles of gems. They all gain shocked expressions when they spot the beam of light hitting a pile in the middle of the room. The pile then gets burst away with bits of the remains of a metal box. They only see the shape of a lock before it got swallowed put into light. Next thing they knew, the loud sound of digging through stone was heard. They find a hole in a wall of the left side of the room.
"Boss, was that.." "Seems so. Lockjaw has revived." The Saint Brenard answered his guard while his eyes stayed glued to the hole.
Back at the Battle
The light from the Tiga bottle faded before dropping into Cross-Z's hands. "What happened?" "I'm not sure." Cross-Z said answering Rose's question.
"That won't matter soon for you all. " Cross-Z was too late to react when the two kaiju fired their laser attacks towards him and his classmates again. Not having time to use an attack, he turns to cover his three classmates in order to shield them.
(Soiya! Kurumi Squash! ) Right then, someone with huge knuckles bursts out of the ground in front of them and stops the attacks with their two huge knuckles covered in energy before brushing the lasers to the side.
"What?! " Hearing the kaiju's surprised voice, Cross-Z turns back along with his three classmates peeking out. The four became shocked to find what seems to be a samurai-looking Rider.
Their suit is mostly blue with a bit of gold on their arms, legs, and Gaim's symbol as part of the helmet's head. The helmet has a silver samurai mouth guard and a visor shaped like a sliced orange, having the same color as the armors. A light brownish orange armor that covers the upper body and shoulders, along with the back of the Rider's helmet resembled a walnut. Around their waist is a belt with a bright neon yellow strap and black buckle lined with silver. On the buckle is a knife piece on its right, an open Lockseed with the inside image of a walnut in the middle and of the huge knuckle weapon on the bottom piece, while he left had the front left side image of the Rider's helmet. A katana looking sword, known as the Musou Saber, with a gun like barrel above the handle and space in the middle for a Lockseed to be placed hung on the left side of his belt.
The Yobil kaiju seemed it was about dash towards the Riders but stops upon hearing the sound of a motorcycle coming from behind it. The kaiju, along with everyone else, turns towards the sound. It doesn't get the chance to see much as someone on a motorcycle rams past it. Causing the kaiju to tumble to the ground.
The group become even more shocked and surprised when the motorcycle stops next to them. The bike seems to be a dual sports type with a dark silver frame having the shape of what looks like a horse head with a will-o-wisp like horn in the front and an orange seat. But what surprises them more is the Rider that's driving it.
This Rider's armor is translucent black with orange lines making bone shapes and white lines making Ghost's symbol, a rune eye in the middle of the chest. The face of the helmet has an orange color with two black big round spots acting as eyes, two small silver bits sticking in from the sides and the same horn as the bike's on their forehead but a bit bigger. The Rider wears a black short-sleeved hooded jacket with orange outlining the edges. The orange strapped belt around the Rider has a single eyed looking buckle having the image of the Rider's face in the eye, a trans clear cover showing a smiling face under it, and an orange handle on the right.
"Seems like helped arrived just in time." The black Rider spoke in an excited female tone as she got off her bike and took off her hood. She holds out her hand to Cross-Z, helping him back onto his feet. "Never thought Secondary Riders would be here in Equestria. Oh wow! This is a cool weapon." Ghost said while reaching over to grab onto Cross-Z's right arm to look at the Gaburyu Breaker.
"Who are you two?" "My Rider name is Ghost. Kamen Rider Ghost." Ghost answered before pointing to the other Rider. "And that's Gaim."
"You did well facing these three on your own, kid." Gaim spoke to them, with an older sounding voice, while still facing towards the two kaiju. "Now it's our turn to help out. Leave Kagekamuro and Dora Skeleton to us, Cross-Z. If you can defeat that High Zobil, Worm loses its tamer and will give that big guy a chance to fight back from it going berserk."
Cross-Z looks over to the High Zobil. "If it helps Guardie, then there's no way I'm quitting now." Feeling fired again, he holds up his fists ready to fight.
Ghost claps her hands together before summoning out a sword from the belt. The sword is black and silver with a double-edged blade, having the same eye symbol above the handle. "Then let's show them what we're made of Riders." All three Riders charge towards each kaiju.
"Don't treat us so lightly. We won't be taken down so easily. " Kagekamuro and Dora Skeleton begin firing lasers at the Riders. Gaim and Ghost just use their weapons to shield and push their way through the attacks. "What?! "
Gaim has the knife on his belt chop down twice. (Soiya! Kurumi Au Lait! ) Energy walnuts formed around the knuckles so the moment he reached the kaiju, he ducks under the swing of their weapons and upper cuts them with the knuckles launching and dragging them into the air. (Daikaigan! Gan Gan Mina! ) Ghost's sword announced and repeatedly says the end part after holding its eye symbol in front of the belt's eye as she came to a stop behind Gaim. (Omega Break! ) She jumps up as the two came down and hits them with a powerful slash that sends them flying into two different parts of town.
"After them." "On it!" Ghost agreed running back to her bike.
Gaim brings out a lock with a cherry blossom on the front and 'LV-01' on it. Pushing the lock's side to unlock it, Gaim tosses the lock to his right. The lock unfolds and enlarges into a motorcycle that seems to be the same type as Ghost's but is mostly white with a bit of pink and black. The front has a white cherry blossom molded on it. He gets on the bike and drives towards town with Ghost following behind him.
The moment Cross-Z charged towards it, the High Zobil did the same dashing towards him. Cross-Z ducks rolling under the Zobil's spear. Before he could stand back up, the High Zobil had already turned around to jab its weapon at him. "Whoa!" The Rider rolls to his right in time to avoid being impaled but gets the Beat Closer knocked off his back. Staying on his tail, the High Zobil hits the Gaguryu Breaker out of Cross-Z's hand the moment he got on his feet and then follows up getting three hits on him with a fourth sending the Rider rolling back. "Ugh. Me and my big mouth. What am I supposed to do?" Cross-Z questioned as he stood back up.
As if to respond to him, the Tiga bottle glowed with the dragon Fullbottle shooting out the slot and then takes its place in the belt. "What? This bottle is really weird. Oh well, let's see what it'll do." (Wake Up!) Cross-Z turns his belts crank before rolling under the kaiju's spear again. (Ready? Go! Dragonic Finish! Yeah!)
The High Zobil turned doing a wide swing thinking Cross-Z would roll to the side again but to its surprise, the Rider quickly turned and used his left arm to stop it. "Grah?! " It get surprised again when it sees a Color Timer like Guardie's appear in the middle of his chest, along with the flame design on his protectors disappear and turns completely yellow.
"Ha!" Cross-Z wrapped his arm around the spear before delivering a powerful punch to its chest but he keeps the High Zobil from falling back by keeping ahold of the spear and follows by ducking under the spear and past the Zobil. "Dah!" With blue flames covering his left arm, Cross-Z switched hands on holding the spear to use the flame covered one to chop it in half and then chops the back of the High Zobil's neck. When it turns to face him, Cross-Z shouted "Hyah!" landing a back kick on its chest, sending it flying back a few feet.
"Yeah!/Get him, Cross-Z!/Send that creep packing!" His classmates shouted out to him. Cross-Z catches the Tiga bottle when it shots out of the slot. "That was awesome. Now to finish this like the original Cross-Z." (Wake Up!) The belt called out when he reinserts the dragon bottle. After turning the crank, Cross-Z crouches a bit while holding his arms out wide apart with a chinese dragon made of blue flames flying down behind him. (Ready? Go! Dragonic Finish! Yeah!) Having waited for the High Zobil to get back on its feet, Cross-Z jumps with the dragon breathing out fire that launches him towards the kaiju, swipes a kick across its chest leaving a burning blue streak across its chest and then explodes the next second after Cross-Z lands a few feet behind it. "With that done, then that means" He looks towards the Hell Beast.
Worm stops its attack on Guardie before going berserk and each head shooting blasts randomly around different directions. The area was beginning to become wrecked by the attacks. Luckly, most of its blasts only land near or over Ponyville.
"Let's try this again, Guardie." Cross-Z yelled out bringing out his new phone with the Guardie card still inside it and the two cards appear in his hand. (Bakuryuu Tyrannosaurus! Kishiryu Tyramigo! ) "Bring forth the guardian with chivalrous dino guts!" He pushes enter while holding it up. (Cross-Z Fuse! Guardie! Kyoryu King! ) Both rexes appear around Guardie as he stood and began swirling around him before going into the Color Timer. The kind Kaiju glows transforming into his mecha form.
"Hey, wait a minute." Cross-Z spoke to himself. He looks himself over a moment before looking back to Guardie. "Doesn't he need me to be inside him when transformed? What am I supposed to do then? Huh?" He had questioned while watching as Guardie began firing his cannons at Worm. His phone then rings showing the numbers '1-0-7' and '1-2-0-5' light up. "Two spells? Okay then. Let's try them out." Cross-Z dials the first set and then holds it up pressing enter. (Maagi Magi Magika! ) "Wha?1 What's happening?"
The Rider gets surprised when a huge blue spell circle, with his symbol in the middle, lifts him off the ground to pull him up to it. Passing through the circle, Cross-Z grows giant while his body transforms into a four-leg winged dragon. He seemed to be a mecha like Guardie with his body having the same color as his Rider form. The body mostly being blue, the joints being black, white claws and spikes along the neck, blue wings and tail with golden flames design on them, and a gold head with blue gem on top of the head and eyes matching his visor's color. Gold covered the upper sides of the front legs. This is Cross-Z's Majin form known as Majin Dragonic.
Cross-Z flies around enjoying his new Majin form. "WAHOOOO!! THIS IS AWESOME!!" While diving down, he sees some of worm's blasts headed towards town. "Oh no you don't." He breathes out blue fire at all the blasts before they could hit the town and then turns to breath fire at Worm.
Meanwhile
Having ended up back around Sugarcube Corner, Applejack and Rainbow were side by side facing opposite directions as many grunts surrounded them. There were even some grunts on top of the building around them.
"Things don't seem ta be lookin' so good fer us." Applejack said eyeing the grunts as they got closer. "Got any ideas, Rainbow?"
The pegasus looks up at the grunts on the roof. "Simple. Move fast, hit them hard, and save the day in time to take my late afternoon nap."
"In that case, there's only one option, I reckon." "Right behind you. I'll take the half in front of me, you take on the other half." The grunts all held up their weapons when they see the two ponies ready themselves. "And how yah reckon we do that?" "AAAAHHHHHH! "
Applejack and Rainbow get startled along with the grunts when Gaim comes driving up from Applejack's side with Kagekamuro being dragged along from the front of the bike. "This is your stop." With the huge fist reappearing on his left hand, Gaim punches Kagekamuro off his bike, sending the Ayakashi crashing right through the grunts and skipping across the ground on the other side.
Standing back up after having jumped out of the way, Applejack and Rainbow run past the grunts, who stumbled falling into each other, and over to the Rider. "Another Rider?! Where the hay did you come from?"
"Kamen Rider Gaim." The Rider walks in between the two while answering Rainbow's question. "Anything else can wait until later. For now, it's time for a little extermination."
"Now that's an idea I can get behind." Rainbow enthusiastically said with a smirk. She and Applejack face towards the grunts ready to fight again. "Care ta do the honors then, Gaim."
Making the second huge fist appear and then slamming them into each other, Gaim holds up both fists as Kagekamuro and the grunts stood back up. "This is our stage now." Gaim and Applejack charge towards them while Rainbow takes off to attack the ones on the roof.
"DESTROY THEM!!! " The grunts followed the Ayakashi's order and charge to meet the two while the ones on the roof began shooting at Rainbow.
Gaim punches his way through grunts while Applejack bucked an Imp that ran up to her and sent it tumbling onto other grunts following behind. Nanashi and Golems come in from Gaim's sides, but he blocks their weapons with his fists and sends them flying after countering them. Taking notice of Zobils on a roof shoot towards, the Rider punches each of the shots into grunts running towards him. They were about to fire again but are hit off the roof by Rainbow flying by.
"The ones on the roof want to join in? Fine by me." (Pine!) A Lockseed with a Pineapple on it that Gaim brought out announced after pushing the side to make it unlock. (Lock Off!Lock On!) The belt announced after switching the locks and begins playing a Japanese horagai stand by music. With the walnut armor dissolving into liquid and visor's color becoming blank, a zipper appears above him and unzips to bring out a pineapple armor. he uses the knife to chop down on the lock, opening the front of it to show a slices pineapple and an image of a flail pineapple weapon. (Soiya! Pine Arms! Funsai destroy!) The armor dropped down onto his head and unfolds into a Japanese samurai style armor with the back of Gaim's helmet now resembling a pineapple and the visor now having a pineapple slice look. The weapon from the image, known as the Pine Iron, appears in his hands. Holding the handle in his left hand, he begins spinning the pineapple end with the other hand. "Who's first?"
Grunts charged at Gaim while Zobil and Nanashi fired slimeballs and arrows at him. Spinning the flail side to side, Gaim fends off each of the shots and arrows before looking to his left to slam his weapon into a group running up to him, sending them flying in different directions. He pulls on it to have it swing by him and ram into other grunts coming in from behind.
"No way I'm going to let you all shoot again." Spinning himself clockwise, he has the flail swing upward to hit all the Zobil and Nanashi about to fire at him all at once. He stops to look up at Rainbow. "Pegasus, help round them up so we can finish them."
"Hey! The names Rainbow Dash! But I'm on it!" She shouted back to him as she speeds up, ramming into grunt not on the road and knocking back in with the others in order to pile them all in one space.
(Soiya! Pine Squash! ) The belt announces after Gaim presses down the knife once. While swinging the handle to wrap around the grunts and keep them together, he lets the pineapple end of his weapon to drop in front of Applejack before it enlarges. "Think you can get a strike?"
Applejack grins understanding what he means. "Easier than bakin' an apple pie." She turns facing away from the fruit, reels up her hind legs, and then with great strength bucks the huge pineapple, sending it rolling forward. All the grunts tried struggling to free themselves but by the time they did, the pineapple hits destroying most of them in an explosion while the rest were sent flying all around.
"Nice strike, AJ!!" Rainbow shouted while hoof bumping with Applejack.
"It's all in the-" Applejack had said with a smirk until they heard multiple slashes in front of them. Fireballs that we cut in half past by both their sides and exploded behind them. Facing forward, they find Gaim standing in front of them with the Musou Saber in hand. "Thanks fer the save there, Gaim."
Keeping his eyes set forward towards Kagekamuro, Gaim rests his sword on his right shoulder while holding a thumbs up for the girls. "He's mine." Is all he says before walking towards the Ayakashi.
Applejack and Rainbow did as he said and just watched as the two dashed towards each other and began clashing blades. Gaim mostly just parries each strike, even by taking steps back. Backing away from a strike, the Rider ducks under the next to deliver a slash across the side of the Ayakashi's waist. "Damn samurai. I'll- " Kagekamuro stops upon hearing a click. He turns to find Gaim pressing his sword's gun barrel against his chest with four glowing dots in the blade. Pulling the trigger, Gaim shoots four shots into the Ayakashi.
Elsewhere
"I'm sorry but the boutique is closed." Rarity yelled as she, Pinkie and Fluttershy had barricaded themselves inside Rarity's home. The three struggled shoving against the couch in order to keep the grunts out as they tried breaking in through the door. Along with them, Rarity's furniture was being used by other ponies who were doing the same to keep the grunts from entering through the back door and windows. "Where's Discord when you really need him?"
"I don't know. He usually appears when I call." Fluttershy squeaks out of fear when they're pushed back and inch, but they manage to push it back in place.
Not hearing anything from Pinkie, Rarity looks over Fluttershy to see her on her hind legs and her back against the couch while reading what looks like a script.
"Pinkie, what exactly are you doing?" "I'm trying to see what'll happen next. Because this is when the hero usually comes to save the day." Pinkie answered while turning to show her friend the script. "Pinkie, we aren't in a movie."
Outside, the grunts were trying their best to break their way in. Though their attempts are brought to a halt when Skeleton comes crashing against Rarity's house above them and falls into pieces on to them, from having broken apart.
"Do you fellas have room for one more?" They all turned to find Ghost standing across the road. With her sword in hand, she tilts the hilt and slides the top off the blade off to rotate it and slide it back in to reveal a barrel which completes the Gan Gun Saber's gun mode. "Since it's been a long time since I've been in one of these gathering, I want to make the most of it."
"Grah!! " The grunts all made a battle cry before charging towards the Rider.
Ghost let's out a sigh of relief. "I'll connect the hearts of others with my beliefs." She immediately shoots down a few grunts before charging towards them.
Ghost shoots a couple more of them before jumping over them to avoid the axe and knife of a Zobil and Imp. But she didn't come back touching the ground. Instead, she glowed hovering upside down above them while shooting them in the back as she went by them. Ghost flips back upright when she lands in the middle of the grunts. "Now you see me." She said in a taunting voice with a glowing make the same as the one on her chest appears on the back of her right hand. "Now you don't." The moment they all try swarming her at once, Ghost becomes intangible and phases into the ground causing them all to slam into each other. The Rider then comes spinning out of the ground with whirling orange energy that knocks the grunts in just about every direction.
Back at the boutique, Pinkie's head could be seen peeking out from the door. Having heard the commotion outside, she and her friends moved the couch a bit to be able to open the door enough to peek outside.
"See! I told you the hero appears around now!!" Pinkie shouted with excitement.
Rarity and Fluttershy peek their heads out in time to see Ghost use her gun to blocks three Imps swords while holding on to the arms of three Golem Soldiers in the other. She uses their own strength to flip them onto the ground.
"A Rider?!" Rarity spoke sounding shocked from the sudden appearance of a new Rider. "Are they a friend of Connor and Eiji?"
"Twilight did mention how the other Riders looked during one our tea parties. But she never mentioned a Rider like that one."
Back in the battle, Ghost has an Orgette hold onto her as they spun, shooting a couple of grunts while going around and then uses the momentum to flip the grunt down along with her. "Rah!! " She sees a couple grunts run up to attack, rolls out of the way to avoid them and then flies on top of a roof.
"Whoa! I don't like the tone of your voices. And I know the best way to fix that." Ghost brings out a silver eye and presses its side making '06' appear in the eye. Tossing her gun up into the air, she opens the front of the belt to remove a black eye which causes her jacket and visor's face to disappear. She then inserts the new eye and closes the belt. (Eye! Bacchiri Minaa! ) The belt continued the last part along with a jingle. A white, black and gray colored coat piano keys in the front, shoulders and strips that seem to act as the arms comes flying out from the eye and flew around the Rider like a ghost. The jingle ends when Ghost pulls the belt's handle outward and back in, making the eye blink to now show the image of a grey musical score. (Kaigan! Bee~tho~ven! Kyokumei! Unmei! Ja-ja-ja-ja~n!) The belt announced along with an orchestrated tune choir as the coat flew placing itself onto Ghost with the stripes moving to the back of the shoulders and the same musical score sliding up, becoming the visor's new face along with the horn.
Catching the gun, Ghost begins pressing the piano keys on the coat to create energy constructs of musical notes. She waves her hand and gun around like a conductor of an orchestra to control the movements of the musical notes, sends them at the grunts to knock them around and continues this until they're all out in the open. Ghost quickly pulls and pushes the handle, making the eye blink to now show the inside of the eye being sonic rings with three musical notes. (Daikaigan! Bee~tho~ven Omega Drive! ) Lines of musical notes appeared, flying down to the grunts to move around them and lifts them into the air before converging on them, destroying them all.
Ghost bows down a couple times while saying, "Thank you! Thank you! You've all were a wonderful audience. Now where'd that skeleton go? Ugh!" She looked around for a few seconds before something knocks her off the roof. "Ouch. That wasn't nice."
Looking back up, she sees Dora Skeleton before it jumps down to impale her with its sword. Ghost quickly rolls out of the way and back onto one knee while creating more musical notes to launch at the Dora Monster. Skeleton becomes invisible with none of the notes hitting their mark. Ghost tries to spot for any sign of the kaiju. After a moment, she gets slashed across the chest twice before getting what feels like a drop kick, knocking her onto her back.
"If that's the way you want to play, then fine." Standing back up, Ghost brings out a yellow eye and pushes the side for the inside of the eye to show '02' in it. She then proceeds to switch the eyes again. (Eye! Bacchiri Minaa! ) With the Beethoven coat and face disappearing, An antennaed silver hooded coat, with light bulb arms and yellow lining the edges, flies out of the belt. (Kaigan! Edison! Elec! Hirameki! Hatsumei~oh~!) After blinking to show a yellow light bulb in the eye, the coat places itself onto Ghost with the arms turning onto the shoulders and the light bulb image becoming the new face.
"Now, what to do about this guy." Ghost spoke to herself as she stood lost in thought. Skeleton reappears slashing her twice from behind and then another across the chest when she turned to face him, sending her fly back a few feet. The Dora Monster then goes back to being invisible. "Ugh...hm!" A small cloud formed over her head as she stood up and shots lightning down onto the antenna. Ghost snaps her finger shouting "Eureka!"
Holding up her left hand in a prayer-like position, the glowing symbol reappears on her hand as the clouds around Ponyville began darkening and building up together with rain pouring out from them.
Rarity and the others looked bewildered at what they just saw. "They're able to control the weather!?" Still invisible, Skeleton looked around confused by the sudden change in weather.
With her hand holding her weapon, she pulls the handle outward while still holding the prayer stance that make a huge rune eye with Edison's light bulb image in the center of the eye. "My life is burning brightly!" Ghost activates the finisher, changing the image in the belt's eye to a lit-up bulb with bolts of electricity around it. Energy transfers from the rune eye to her left hand as she raises her a finger towards the sky as the belt announces, (Daikaigan! Edison Omega Drive! ). Lightning shoots from the finger into the clouds before coming back at her with others following suit causing Skeleton to be electrocuted from the area having been soaked by the rain.
Looking to her right spotting her target, who's invisibility keeps going on and off because of the lightning shocks, Ghost aligns the eyes of her weapon and belt to activate its finisher. (Daikaigan! Gan Gan Mina! Gan Gan Mina! ) Electricity began building up into the gun's muzzle as Ghost took aim and pulled the trigger. (Omega Shoot! ) Ghost fires a powerful electrical shot that hits its mark and destroys the kaiju.
Back at Sugarcube Corner
From opposite ends, Gaim and Kagekamuro ran down the road while shooting at each other. The Ayakashi shoot fireballs that the Rider uses his sword cut through them before pulling on the sword's tab to fire four shots.
"Gah! " Kagekamuro gets hit with the next reload of shots. "Damn, bastard! Try this! " The Ayakashi charges energy into its shoulders.
Seeing this, Gaim takes the chance to bring out a different Lockseed and pushes the side to unlock it. (Orange!) The space above the Rider unzip in a circular motion with an orange shaped armor coming out from it. (Lock off!Lock on!) Switching locks, the pineapple armor disappears into liquid.
Gaim does a hand stand the moment Kagekamuro fires his lasers, allowing him to avoid the attack and kick the orange armor into the Ayakashi. "Dah! " With the kaiju being knock to the ground and the orange armor flying back to him, he chops open the front of the lock to show the image of a sliced orange while the bottom has a sword with orange slice-looking blade known as the Daidaimaru. (Soiya! Orange Arms! Hanamichi on stage!) Placing itself onto his head, the armor opens and folds in to become samurai themed armor onto Gaim's shoulders, back and chest. The visor now had an orange slice look and an orange samurai looking helmet back piece. With the Daidaimaru appearing in his left hand,
Gaim gets into a crouching position with both swords held out to the sides. "Dual!" Gaim charges forward which prompts Kagekamuro to shoot fireballs. At first the Rider only uses the Musou Saber to cut his way through the attacks while resting the Daidaimaru on his shoulder but then uses both as he got closer to the Ayakashi.
Kagekamuro brings out his two swords. "Why you- Gah! " Sparks flew off the Ayakashi as Gaim ducked sliding past him while having slashed the waist with saber and then quickly turned to land another slash across Kagekamuro's back with the other sword. Kagekamuro turns to bring down both his swords on the Rider but Gaim blocks them with both of his. He shoves the Ayakashi back before landing six strikes on him. "I'm growing tired of this game! " Kagekamuro shouts angrily before firing the lasers from his shoulders.
Seeing this, Gaim connects the hilts of both his weapons to make them into their Naganita Mode with both blades facing in opposite directions. (Soiya! Orange Squash!) Activating his belt's finisher, Gaim spins his weapon while orange energy covers the blades. He dashes forward despite the Ayakashi firing lasers. The Rider's weapon acts as a shield from how the orange energy blocking the laser. He then quickly knocks both swords out of the Ayakashi's hands and slashes upward, sending Kagekamuro flipping through the air and landing face flat onto the ground.
Gaim was about to walk up to the Ayakashi, but steps and jumps back when the last of the grunts first tired attacking him from up close while the Nanashi and Zobils shot at him after his first few steps back. The Rider stops to look back at the kaijus when he stopped to see that he's now at the other end of the road.
"Alright, time to bring this act to a close." (Lock off!) Unlocking and removing the Lockseed from the belt, Gaim attaches and locks it onto the Musou Saber. (Lock on! 1, 10, 100, 10,000: ) Seeing what the Rider is doing, grunts fire at him again but are knocked to the sides by him spinning his weapon again. Gaim stops the spinning for energy to fill the saber's blade and swings only using the Musou Saber end to launch multiple orange energy slashes. Kagekamuro and the grunts all get hit by the slashes and trapped in an orange energy sphere. Turning to use the Daidaimaru end, Gaim dashes forward as the inner part of the blade lit up, slashing each sphered grunt in half. (Orange Charge!) Reaching Kagekamuro, the Rider stops to slice and dice the sphere to bit along with the Ayakashi and ends with him cutting the kaiju in half from the waist while he ran past him.
Gaim stops in his tracks in front of Sugarcube Corner with his weapon held out to his right side. Behind him, both the upper halves of the spheres and grunts float off the bottom before exploding, while Kagekamuro's sphere along with him fell into pieces before exploding. He turns back to face towards the Ayakashi. "First life down. Now for the second li- Oh shoot." Gaim takes a step back looking up at the skies.
Twilight comes running up to help her friends but stops with a shocked look when the unexpected hero came into her sights. "A Rider? Where'd they- huh?" She takes notice of Gaim's sight set to the sky. "What are they..." She takes notice of the area darkening and gasps when she looks up at the sky.
Outside Ponyville
The battle continued as four of Worm 's heads fired blasts of energy at Guardie while the rest were trying to shoot down Cross-Z as he does a fly by and claws off one of the heads, making it shriek out in pain. Guardie uses the cannons on his back to blast of two more heads.
"Hm." Cross-Z notices Worm about to retract its heads. "Guardie, we need to stop it from escaping."
"As you command." Guardie roars marching forward with his drill tail beginning to spin. "Deracium Drill!" Reaching where the heads retracted into, Guardie drills his tail into the ground with a shriek coming from the hole the moment the tail hit something. The kind kaiju uses great strength with his tal to yank out the core body of Worm from the ground and tosses it into the sky. "Finish it, master."
While Guardie charges its beam attack, Cross-Z inhales deeply with blue flames building up in his mouth. "Overburn!" "Zeperion Pulsar!" Guardie fires his beam while Cross-Z breathes out a more powerful version the blue fire breath that his finisher used. Both attacks hit Worm, causing it to explode a moment after.
"Alright! Now that was an awesome way to save the day." Cross-Z shouted full of excitement as pieces of the Hell Beast fell down on an area away from Ponyville. "Hm? Master, look." "Wha?"
They looked up to see the sky above them filled with a dark aura. Before Cross-Z could question what was happening, bolts of black lightning shot down onto the three areas where the kaijus had been destroyed. The bits and pieces of them flew up into the dark aura.
Gaim and Ghost, who is back in his base form, ran meeting up at the edge of town where they could see Cross-Z and Guardie. "Things are going to get bad if we don't do something." The samurai Rider spoke with concern.
"Then let's change the field." Ghost brings out a MagiPhone similar to Cross-Z's but resembles more of her suit's color scheme and opens it to show her symbol in it. She dials in '7-1-9' and then presses enter while holding it up. (Majika Maaji Majuna! ) With the tip lighting up, the symbols of the three Riders each appeared in front of them before racing and converging into each other that engulfs the whole area in a bright flash of light.
Not far behind the two Riders, Twilight and her friends came running up to them. "Wait! Hold on!" Was all see got to say before the bright light blinded them.
The group rubbed their eyes, regaining their sight but gasp at the sight now surrounding them. Ponyville and land they knew was gone and replaced with an area that seemed to be a mix of a savanna and volcanic landscape with gems sticking out randomly all around.
"Sweet Celestia./Oh my." "Where the hay are we?" Rainbow had shouted over Rarity and Fluttershy.
"It's the Quantum Field" The group looked in front of them to find Ghost had turned to face them.
"Quantum Field?" Twilight questioned making Gaim turn to them. "Yes. A dimensional arena you could say that's created by using a portion our magic. It's a way to-" "To prevent damage and destruction done for battles involving giant kaiju, am I right?" Twight spoke up interrupting.
Ghost nods. "Yup! Bingo! Though there's more of a bigger reason." "What kinda reason?" Before answering Applejack's question, the two Riders looked back ahead towards the sky. "That hurricane of a reason." The Mane 6 move beside the Riders to focus back on the battle field.
"What is this place? Huh?" Cross-Z and Gaurdie were standing in the middle of the area confused before setting their sights back on the dark aura in the sky as it begins to disperse. But with its dispersal, it leaves behind a dark sphere that floats down not that far from the two giants. "This does not seem good."
Right then the sphere shatters to reveal a kaiju that seemed to be a combination of all three. The body mostly resembles Dora Skeleton but is red with its upper body having similar features as Kagekamuro, such as skeletal version of the huge face as the chest and the blades from his sword attached to both wrists. The eight heads of Worm replaced the cape as the heads moved around like tentacles. Standing before them now is Tartarus Fiend- Skeleton.
"Guardie!" Understanding Cross-Z, the two prepare their attacks. "Overburn!" "Zeperion Pulsar!" The two unleash their attacks at Skeleton. Though to their surprise, the kaiju disappears with attacks not hitting anything. "What? Where'd he- Ugh!"
Skeleton reappears in front of them with a ghastly laugh before using its bladed arms to slash at the two. Making Guardie stumble back to its left while Cross-Z crashed onto the ground on the right. Guardie charges forward, trying to swipe at Skeleton but being faster, the Tartarus Fiend uses one arm to block the hit while using the other to slash Guardie across the chest with sparks flying off.
"Ugh..." Cross-Z shakes off the hit he had taken. He looks back to the battle seeing Guardie try to fight back as Skeleton keeps landing hits on the kind kaiju. "Guardie, hold on. Over- Gah!" Cross-Z was preparing his attack but gets blasted by the worm heads turning to face him and shoot purple lasers similar to Kagekamuro's.
"Kyoryu-" Guardie gets cut off by Skeleton wrapping one arm around his jaw and the other to hold him in a head lock. The Tartarus Fiend then uses its strength to lift and toss Guardie over itself and having the kind kaiju land on top of Cross-Z.
With a ghastly chuckle, energy built up in the mouth of the huge head. Before the two could recover, it fires a powerful blast at them, that drags them across the ground and into a huge gem shard. "Cross-Z!!" Twilight and the others shouted worried.
While the two were trying to recover and stand, the worms disattach themselves from Skeleton, seven of the heads moved through the air like snakes as they made their way towards the two giants. They wrapped themselves around the two keeping their arms and legs tied to each other, shut their mouths, and the seventh tying Cross-Z's wings together. The eighth worm straightened itself into a pole with gems floating off the ground and towards the pole to morph itself into a two-handed great sword.
The Mane 6 gasp at the scene. Their two friends are tied down while Skeleton advances towards them slowly with the blade of its sword dragging along the ground.
Seeing this, Ghost brings out her phone again. "That's it! I'm going in." Before she could take a step forward, Gaim holds out his arm to stop her. "Gaim, why? He needs our help."
"No. He needs to handle this on his own." "What!? Are you joking? That whole thing is practically screaming trouble!" Rainbow shouted after flying in front of Gaim to be face to face. "Don't count out him out just yet. If he's gained that form, then there's still one last thing he can do."
Twilight and rest of her friend look to the Rider. "What do you mean?" Gaim says nothing but keeps his focus on the battle.
Back at the battle, Cross-Z and Guardie continued to struggle against their binds as Skeleton was only few steps away. "This is bad. This is bad. We have to do something. But what? There must be something else I while in this form. Uh!" Cross-Z recalls that he had gotten an addition spell aside to the one that transformed him. "That's right. The second spell. But how do I use it while in this form?"
"Speak the incantation." "What?" Cross-Z questioned as Skeleton stopped in front of them. "Speak the incantation to use the spell."
"Then what were the incantations for those numbers?" Cross-Z asked himself trying to quickly remember as Skeleton brought up its sword to finish them. "Ma...Maagi...Maagi Jiruma ah..." Right as it brought down the sword on them, it came to him and he shouts, "Maagi Jiruma Magi Jinga!"
Right at last second, the spell circle that had transformed Cross-Z into his Majin form burst out from him, forcing the worms to release both him and Guardie as well as stopping Skeleton's sword and sending the Tartarus Fiend flying back.
(Maagi Jiruma Magi Jinga! Dragonic Gattai! ) The phone's voice announced out loud with blue flames circling around them. Cross-Z flew up towards the circle hover over them while also circling around Guardie. He flies through the circle which causes his front claws, wings and tail to disconnect from him while the arms and head fold forward to form a chest similar to that of Tiga's, with the legs folding upward from the sides. Guardie roars before straightening himself out with his tail, cannons and the front of his chest disconnecting from the body. His legs rotate around with the claws to fold up and have feet unfolding out. His head then folded back to allow the inner part of the body folded out and combine with the arms after the claws flipped to bring out humanoid hands.
Cross-Z's tail splits into four pieces while Guardie's cannons split into twos. The tip ends of the tail connect to the bottom of the feet with the back heel extending out to match the feet's height and the back ends of the cannons fold open to connect to the sides of the legs, giving them the appearance of exhaust ports. Cross-Z's claws connect with the last two pieces of the tail with the front end of the cannons attaching behind the piece before they combined to the back of the arms. The dragon wings combine to the front side of the shoulders. Guardie's lower jaw opens fully to reveal a set of green eyes with the six mane-like horns sliding together to make an upper head that resembles Tiga's. Before Guardie's head put itself back into place, the back part of Cross-Z's lifted forward with middle of it to split open to reveal a mouth guard piece resembling Cross-Z's having the white fin spikes on both sides of the face. The two connected with each other completing the face.
"Wha?!" Cross-Z finds himself in a room of light with a prism colored alter forming in front of him. Looking at the alter, he sees an empty space on it shaped like his phone. He decides to place the phone on it, causing it to light up with his mark appearing behind him. His visor lights up as information raced in his head and then holds his hand over the alter. "Awaken! Tiga-Oh Dragonic!" From the outside, Tiga-Oh slams his fists together with the transformation completed.
Back with the others, Twilight and her friends, except for Pinkie who is bouncing up and down with excitement, were all stunned by what they just seen the two become.
"What is that?" "That is called evening the plain field." Ghost answered Twilight with grin under her helmet.
Growling angrily, Skeleton has the seven worms reattach to itself and begins raining down shots of lasers at Tiga-Oh. Though unlike for when they were separate, Tiga-Oh easily marches through the lasers. Seeing this, the Tartarus Fiend launches the worms towards the mecha.
"Uh-oh. What do we do?" "Crush them."
From flames being shot out the cannon barrels, Tiga-Oh strikes throwing a lightning-fast punches at three worms that tried coming straight at him, which destroys them upon impact.
"Wow-wee! Did you see that, Rainbow? They took down that worm snake thingie so easily." "Yeah! That was so AWESOME! Uh... but they'll need to be 20% cooler if they want to match me." Rainbow answered Pinkie trying to only sound half impressed.
The other four worms try coming at him from different angles. Two from the sides, one from behind and the last from above. "Ryu Streak!" Fire shoots out from the exhaust ports on the right leg, which Tiga-Oh then does a round house kick that leaves a burning streak that knocks the three coming at him from the sides and back away and turns doing an upper cut destroying the one coming from above.
Before the worms recovered, Tiga-Oh creates energy copies of the shoulder wings that put themselves next to each other to make a shuriken. "Cross Wing!" Tiga-Oh launches the shuriken at the last three worms which splits them down the middle as it went in a circular motion.
"Now for the bonehead." The mecha turns, charging towards Skeleton.
The Tartarus Fiend lets out a ghastly laugh as it became invisible. Tiga-Oh stops from having lost the enemy and begins looking around to see any sign of Skeleton. After a moment, he gets struck from the side. He tries taking a swing in that direction but only manages to hit air. He continues trying to swing in directions he gets hit and slashed at from but can't land any of them.
"Oh no." Fluttershy quietly spoke worried. Applejack, Rainbow and Rarity began shouting "Come on, Cross-Z! Don't lose ta that darn snake!/Kick that bone freaks butt./You can do it, Cross-Z!"
"Ugh! Guardie, what can we do?" "Leave it to me, master. Burner Formation!"
All four cannon parts disconnect from Tiga-Oh. Guardie's chest piece that connects to the left hand to act as a shield. The front cannon pieces place themselves on the side of the legs with the pieces that had been on the legs attached themselves to the shoulders.
Then from both the cannons and exhaust ports, fire shoots out spreading through the area all around. Skeleton appears on the far right from the flames burning the Tartarus Fiend. Tiga-Oh turns to face it with the shield aim towards it. "Roaring Inferno!" The shield builds up the flames in front of it before shooting it forward like a flamethrower, which forces Skeleton to try stopping it with its sword and ends up getting knocked over.
"Alright! Now, Breaker Formation!" Cross-Z shouted with both the Beat Closer and Gaburyu Breaker being summoned to both hands.
All the parts disattach to reform with the chest piece connecting onto the left arm with the two tail pieces with the claws attached placing themselves together on the underside of it. The two open cannon pieces refold themselves to connect to each other while placing itself on the right arm. The cannons attached to the sides of the back one while the drill tail connect to the front one.
"Let's go!" Cross-Z has Tiga-Oh charge forward.
Skeleton does the same with sword at the ready. Following Cross-Z's movements, Tiga-Oh uses the drill as a lance to cross blades with Skeleton's great sword, shoves the Tartarus Fiend back and follows with a slash across its chest. Cross-Z pushes forward with the attacks by having Taig-Oh stay on Skeleton's tail as he slashed and thrusted the drill into it. "How about this!" Cross-Z charges the knuckle's attack. Seeing Tiga-Oh ready the claw arm, Skeleton brings its sword in front of itself to have it act as a shield. (Cross Knuckle! ) Fire covers the claw shield as the mecha swung it hitting right through the sword and into Skeleton's chest. (Hippare! ) The drill begins spinning after Cross-Z pulls on the Beat Closer's hilt. (Smash Hit! ) He has Tiga-Oh swing the drill as Skeleton stumbled back, hitting and destroying the blades on its wrists, and then swings back the drill in an upper cut slash that has sparks fly off the Tartarus Fiend as it fell rolling back along the ground.
Skeleton makes an angry ghastly laugh as it stood up and began building up a huge amount of energy into its chest.
"Finish it now, master!" "Got it!" Shaking the Tiga bottle a bit, Cross-Z inserts it into his sword. (Special Tune! Hippare! Hippare! Hippare! ) The drill began getting faster and faster as the sword called out. The mecha keeps himself in place as the cannons acted as thruster with flames made of light spiraling along the drill. (Mega Slash! ) He pulls the trigger as Skeleton fires its blast. "Tiga-Oh! Zeperion Breaker!" Tiga-Oh releases his hold on the ground to allow the cannons to launch him forward as he drills right through the blast.
Before Skeleton knew, its attack had completely been dug through. It stood standing still for a moment before looking down a finding a huge hole through it. Tiga-Oh stood a few feet behind the Tartarus Fiend with his back facing to it. Skeleton falls to its knees before slamming flatly onto the ground, exploding the next second.
Twilight and her friends shouted happily in cheer for their dragon friend's win with Ghost and Pinkie giving each other a high five/hoof. Gaim just crossed his arms and nodded. Aside from the Riders, Twilight and the other get surprised as the world around them became bright again that they have to cover their eyes. When the light died down, they're welcomed back to Ponyville by the sounds of the surprised startled citizens who had been standing where the Mane 6 disappeared.
"Twilight." The girls turn around to face a shocked looking Mayor Mare. "Do you mind explaining the giant?" She asked pointing over them to Tiga-Oh.
"Well, you see" Twilight pauses as the ground shook from the giant mecha walking up to them. "That's a bit of a long story."
Hours Later
It was now sunset as the disaster all around Ponyville had been cleaned up. The Mane 6 and Riders were standing at the center of town. The two Riders had helped the group in restoring as much of the town as they could. Gaim and Ghost looked around admiring how the ponies had just resumed enjoying the last of the day they had left.
Ghost waved to ponies as they gave their thanks while walking by. "To think how much has changed since we've been gone. I wonder what else has changed."
"Wait," The two looked down to their left at Twilight. "If I heard right, do you mean to say you two have always been in Equestria."
"That's right." Gaim confirmed. "We along with five other Riders had helped protect this world during the time we were awake." "Awake? What do you-" Gaim holds up a hand stopping Twilight. "I think that can wait. We all could use a rest before having to tell a long story."
"Yeah, you're telling me." They all look to Cross-Z. "That was really tiring and also painful. Ouch." He had stretched a bit but stopped when he felt a small sting. "Do all Riders have to deal with these sores and bruises?" Cross-Z asked in a joking manure, making the other chuckle and laugh.
"CROSS-z!!" Hearing the CMC, the group look ahead to see the girls come running towards them with Rumble, Rose and Misty following along. "Cross-Z, did yah see that other giant?" Apple Bloom asked with Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle also asking, " Yeah! It was so cool. They were flying all over the place." "And who are they? Are they new Riders?"
Cross-Z lets out an exhausted sigh. "Yeah they are. But I agree with Gaim. Can we talk about this later? We did so much today that I'm starving." He ends with his stomach rumbling.
Ghost and Gaim see he's about to deactivate his transformation. "Wait, Cross-Z! What are you-" Undoing his transformation, they see Spike in his human form before being surprised to see the ponies act normal to his original dragon form. "Wait, do all of you already know he was a dragon?"
Twilight and the others all looked at the Riders with confusion. "I don't understand. Is there something wrong with Spike being a dragon?"
"Nononono! That's not it." Ghost quickly answered with her hands raised defensively. "It's just surprising. During the time we had protected Equestria a long time ago, the Ponies and other races never really interacted or care for one another. If one was in trouble, the others would just ignore."
Gaim nodes. "Yes. It was a time when many battles happened. That was part of the reason we've never showed our identities to many others, aside from those that gained our trust. But if times have changed, then I see no reason to stay transformed any longer."
Looking to Ghost, he gives her a nod before proceeding to undo his transformation along with her. Gaim closes the front of the orange Lockseed before unlocking and removing it with the belt saying (Lock Off! ), while Ghost opens her belt to remove the eye and just closes it with the belt saying (Oyasumi! ) Both Riders transformation come undone to reveal their human forms.
Ghost is a teenaged girl with white skin and black medium hair that was all combed over to the right side. She wore tan colored short sleeved, unbuttoned shirt and shorts, a green tang top, three gold bracelets on her left wrist and zebra striped shoes. While Gaim was a grown man with light yellow-ish skin and spiky short brown hair. He seemed to be a gym teacher from how he was dressed in a light blue tracksuit and green running shoes.
They were only in a human state for a second before they began to glow. "My name is Makena." Ghost said as she changed into a zebra with Ghost's symbol on her rear and three gold bracelets on front left leg.
"And I'm known as Lockjaw." Gaim changed into a yellow-ish furled husky Diamond Dog wearing the same blue tracksuit jacket and a green collar with the Gaim symbol on it.
Twilight seemed like she was about to ask a question but doesn't get the chance to. Right before she could ask, they hear the sound of a faint boom before becoming confused by the sunset's light getting overshadowed by a white light.
"Twilight, what's that?" They all look to Spike before looking towards the direction he's pointing towards.
Out of the town and towards the Ghastly Gorge, they see a huge tower of light shooting up into the sky and piercing through the cloud. What follows after is the town getting hit by a shock wave that knocks down everyone outside while having shaken up any pony inside their homes or the stores/shops.
This time Makena let's out an exhausted sigh. "I'm guessing that means dinner is postponed."
To Be Continued
Chapter 4- New History Revealed
Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter. Chapter 5- Beating Revival
Sweet Apple Acres
It was a beautiful morning on the apple farm. Big Mac was about to start his delivery pulling along a kart full of pies to another town. While walking towards the gate, he takes in the smell of morning air, letting out a pleased sigh. He stops when he hears "Ow! Sweetie Belle!/Ow! Scootaloo!" and looks out into the orchard where he sees a large magenta dome. Though he payed it no mind before continuing on his way since his sister had told him and Granny Smith ahead of time what she and her friends would be up to today.
Within this magical dome, Twilight and her friends were in human form. Spike and the CMC had also been allowed to join in. Though since he already knows how to walk, Spike was mostly focused on practicing the enhancement spell Wizard had showed him. Twilight had taken Connor's advice and had been working a spell that would work similarly to the spell circle the kaiju have been using. She had also created a second spell to work alongside the dome spell. Which she is in the middle of testing at this moment.
"Are you girls okay?" Despite having difficulty, Fluttershy had walked over and helped Scootaloo and Sweetie to their two feet. Both girls rubbing their heads after they had accidently tripped each other and bumped heads.
"Yeah, I think we're good." Scootaloo answered with Sweetie then following with, "I don't know about that. My head is still hurting."
Rarity managed to balance herself. "How could any creature stand like this? Though I do admire this outfit.
"Hey, it's not my fault, Rarity! Pinkie is just hopping all around."
The effects of the second spell could already be seen. Unlike in the kaiju's dome, Twilight's spell not only had them in human form, but the second spell left their cutie marks intact, skills untouched, and let their horns and wings remain. Though these just became additional obstacles in addition to their human forms being difficult. Such as Rainbow Dash having easily gotten knocked off balance by Pinkie hopping around everywhere on all fours, causing her to step on Rarity's foot. Though this was also due to her wings adding to the imbalance.
"Pinkie, you know the whole point of this is to get used to these weird bodies." "Of course I know, Dash." She answered in a cheerful tone. Rainbow got a bit ticked from Pinkie bumping into her again and even more a second time that almost knocks her over. "Okay, that's it!"
Seeing her friend readying to pounce the party pony, Twilight got between the two. "Calm down, Rainbow. Pinkie is probably just having more trouble than us. I'm sure she didn't mean to."
"Look what I can do!"
Pinkie began doing a whole assortment of different dances; tap dancing, ballet, swing, samba, ect. And ends with break dancing with the finisher being a handstand. The group is left speechless with Rainbow's jaw hanging open. Spike and Sweetie Belle are the only ones from the group unaffected. Spike had been more occupied with trying to use the spell from outside the dome. Sweetie just clapped in amazement at the pink party pony's skills.
The young dragon stood across from a bolder trying to build up his aura. As to not use too much aura, Spike was using the second spell, Hunter's Gaze, to keep track of the buildup. "Okay, here goes nothing." He dashed up to the bolder. "Haaaa- Ugh!" His claw hit its mark, but it fails to even dig into the rock with only a chip of it falling off. "OWOWOWOWOW!!" The CMC had watched Spike's attempt that led him to hopping in place while shaking off the pain.
Scootaloo held a snicker. "I was thinking of asking him how using the spell was going, but he pretty much answered without me needing to ask." Her friends frowned disapprovingly at her. "What?"
"I think we should leave him alone for now." Sweetie spoke up as they looked back to see him repeating his attempt. "It looks like he doesn't want to be distracted."
"Yeah. You are probably right." The pegasus turned along with Sweetie to walk back to the others in a wobblily manner. But they stopped when they took noticed Apple Bloom had not moved. "Aren't you coming, Apple Bloom?"
"In a bit." She answered without looking away from watching Spike try again. "I just want tah watch fer a bit longer."
Scootaloo turned to Sweetie who was equally confused by this before answering back. "Okay. If you say so." The two continue their struggle walk back to the group. "Did that seem a bit weird to you?"
"Maybe." The young unicorn thought on it for a bit. "By the way, do you know why Applejack isn't here?"
Apple Family House
The guestroom was still being occupied by Zero. The Fenrir was sound asleep, still had yet to awaken since the group had brought him to the farm. Applejack quietly came into the room with an apple pie laying on top her hat. She made her way over to the bed, placing the pie down onto the nightstand beside the bed.
"Alright, now let's see how yer doin' today."
She gently removed his bandages with care as to not cause their guest any pain. Though she is surprised to find most of Zero's injuries had already healed up with mostly just small cuts and scratches left.
"Guess bein' called the greatest hunters weren't just all talk. Though I do wonder what yer story is fer bein' here." She giggled softly to herself. "Tah be fair, I ain't the only one curious on that. Apple Bloom and her friends have been askin' if yah woken up just bout every chance they get. Those four sure are worried about yah."
She threw away the bandages into a trashcan next to the nightstand, not having noticed Zero's tail moved a bit before stopping. She didn't even notice the tail's new position when she turned back. She had planned on replacing the bandages but seeing as his injuries were just about healed, she saw no point in it now and decided it was time to head out to meet her friends. Applejack stopped at the door to look back at the Fenrir.
"While you should rest up, do try tah wake up soon."
Leaving the room, Applejack made her way through the house to leave out the back door. Once in the kitchen, she felt a sudden breeze behind her. She turned around but found nothing. She feels it behind her again and once again found nothing when she turned to face it. She stood confused for a few seconds before deciding to just chalk it up to being the wind. Continuing on her way out, she failed to see the pan from the pie she had left in the room was now empty and in the sink.
Meanwhile
Within the western lands where Appleloosa resides and the native Buffalo live, things seemed normal. But that was only by normal standards in Equestria. Something strange and unusual was happening. An invisible pulse spread throughout the area. The pulse was almost spiritual in some way by how kept appearing like a faint heartbeat. This phenomenon was affecting two different areas.
The first being in the Everfree Forest. The animals and creatures living in the forest could feel something happening towards a location they all know within their home. Within the cave near the Castle of the Two Sisters, the Tree of Harmony was glowing faintly in response to the pulses.
The second was on a large island in the middle of the ocean. Someone paced back and forth within the wild greenery of the island. The pacing came to an end when the pulse reached the island. "Hm? " The being turned a certain direction and began walking. After a while, the being turned out to be Akumaro. The Ayakashi reached the edge of the island as he came walking out of the island's jungle to stand on the shoreline.
"What is this presence? I have no recollection of it. Yet it feels so familiar. " His grip tightens on his kemari. "Familiar enough to be a thorn in my side like Dusk. Kagekamuro! " With a snap of Akumaro's fingers, a red and blue Ayakashi with a giant face on the lower half of its body appeared behind him. "What can I do for you, Akumaro? " "Search for the source of this presence and report back what you find. Something tells me it has to do with those so called 'Knights of Harmony'. "
"It will be done. " Kagekamuro turns jumping into a dark gap between a boulder and the sandy floor.
"I suppose you know something about this, Junior. " Akumaro turns to face the yokai sitting on top the boulder in his human form; a bleached blond leather punk in a death rock attire with a guitar hanging on his back.
Junior stands, jumping off the boulder and lands beside Akumaro. "Not at all. I just know two similar presences came up not long ago. From what the Dorodoros were able to tell me, the sources originated close to a town called Ponyville."
"Then I presume you've sent one of your own to look into it as well. " The Ayakashi questioned while looking back out to the ocean.
"Nope. After hearing that Dusk is there, I figured I'd go." Junior changed into his actual form while holding up a tightening fist. "And destroy him myself. " He lowered his fist to look out towards the ocean with his sword resting on his shoulder. "Plus... I also have another reason to head there. "
Ponyville Hours Later
The school's bell rings making the end of school. Fillies and colts come out the school full of excitement. A few in a rush and the rest walking out. The CMC and Spike were part of the ones just walking out. The three fillies were just as excited as the rest of their class. Except for their dragon friend who looked to be feeling down.
"So, what do you guys say we get started on coming up with a perfect routine to win this?" Scootaloo had stopped walking to ask her friends.
"Oh, we can come up with a routine while we're at Sweet Apple Acres to check on Zero." Sweetie answered while hopping in place with excitement.
Apple Bloom smiled. "Normally, I'd say 'that's rootin' tootin' terrific.'" But then whispers. "But ain't yah forgetting somethin'?"
They all look to Spike who was too down to notice his friends had stopped as he caught up and walked past them. "Oh yeah, I forgot about that."
Flashback
Every filly and colt in the classroom cheer from excitement after hearing about the opportunity for them to be chosen as Ponyville's flag carrier for the Equestria Games. The head of the Games, an earth pony, Ms. Harshwhinny had come to make the announcement. Rainbow Dash was also there because she was going to be in charge of coaching the teams. While they we all excited and talking across the classroom to one another, Ms. Harshwhinny took notice of the one dragon in the classroom.
"You are Spike, Princess Twilight Sparkle's assistant, correct?" The class quieted down upon hearing the question being asked and all eyes looking to said dragon.
"Um..." Having all eyes on him made him a bit nervous. "Yes. That would be me."
Ms. Harshwhinny clears her throat. "Yes, well, I am sorry to say but you won't be allowed to participate." The whole class goes into an uproar having heard this.
"What?!" Rainbow lands, bringing her face close too uncomfortably close to Ms. Harshwhinny's, for her taste. "What do you mean? I didn't hear anything about this. Why can't Spike join in?" She questioned the strict pony. Scootaloo even joined in by saying, "Spike should be allowed to join." With her friends and most of her classmates speaking out in agreement with her.
She pushes the rainbow maned pony away to give herself space. "Your status as the Crystal Empire's hero will make judges side with whichever team you'd be on. To avoid upsetting the crystal pony citizens it was decided Spike would be excused from this event." "Wait! Really?" Rainbow asked surprised by this news. Spike shrugs when the CMC look to him for answers while the rest of their classmates began whispering to one another. "Yes. If not for that, he'd be welcome to join along with the other students. Now about the routines"
End of Flashback
Ms. Harshwhinny's voice fell on deaths door for Spike after that. The event sounded like a lot of fun to him that it filled him with excitement. But now he just felt down. Being the hero of the Crystal Empire sounded great, though he never thought that such a title would keep him from joining an event.
A pat on the back from Apple Bloom brings back to reality where they were now walking past the park. "Cheer up, Spike. Yah might not be able ta join us, but yah can at least look fer your siblings, right? Didn't yah say the stone glowed a few days ago?"
"I wish. Everypony helped out in searching but there was nothing. No trace of anypony anywhere." Remembering back had made him feel even more down. "I wish we could have at least found some clue on where they went."
"Sorry ta hear that." Now she felt bad for having brought it up.
Sweetie quickly changed topics. "Uh...Maybe you could practice the magic Wizard had taught you? Those could be useful at some point."
Spike rubbed his chin in thought. "That is true. It could be a chance for me to think up of other finishing moves. I could use more than one finisher besides just my Rider Kick."
"One?" Scootaloo questioned. "I thought you had two. What about that one you used on that on blue bat guy in Vanhoover?" She remembers back on their fight against Cobolta and the slash finisher Cross-Z had used to defeat him. "Those three dragons were so awesome. How could that not count as a finisher?"
"Easy. I can't remember how I did it."
The trio shouted "WHAT!?" in shocked surprise before Scootaloo took ahold of his shoulders to say, "How in Equestria did you forget something so awesome and cool when you were the one who did it?" while shaking him wildly.
Apple Bloom pushed the two apart. "What I think Scootaloo is tryn' ta say is" She turns to their now dizzy dragon friend. "You used that flashy move so well that it's a bit hard tah believe yah could just forget it so easily. What exactly happened?"
Having shook off the dizziness, he thought back to fight with Cobolta. "I don't know. When it came to using it, it was like someone just told and showed me how to use it. But then after, it was like my head was cleaned out of it." "Anything else you can remember?" Sweetie's question made him think a bit. "Well, there is something else. During that whole mess, I thought I heard some voi-."
"There you are!!" The four turn to find Misty run to them with Rose alongside her. "We have been looking everywhere for you four."
"Looking for us?" Scootaloo asked being as curious as her friends. "What for? And didn't we all just get out of the school? How come you needed to catch up to us?"
"That would be because-" "Damn it, Rainbow Dash!" The sound of a familiar voice cut off Misty. The next second Construct comes jumping out from a bush to the four's left and runs past them. He shouts, "I don't have time for this. I have many experiments to run today." and then gets tackled by said rainbow haired mare the next second. Pointing a hoof at the two, Misty continued unfazed from where she was interrupted. "They are the reason."
Rainbow pins the struggling Construct down before saying, "Not until you tell me all the secrets you're hiding."
He tired pushing himself up, only to get pressed back down. "One, is this any way to ask an acquaintance, or as you would say "friend", to talk about their life? Two, I have no obligation to tell you anything. And three, you suck at restraining unicorns." Construct teleports out of her hold and run towards town the second he appeared a few feet ahead. "Stick to flying, Rainbow Crash."
"Hey, what did I tell you about calling me that!" The group watched as the angered mare took off after him.
With a nudge from her friend to get back on track, Rose takes a step forward with her cheeks lightly blushing. "Sorry if this is a bit weird. And you can say no if you want." She looks down while crossing one front hoof over the other. "I hope you all don't mind, but my parents would like to invite you and all your families to eat and celebrate at our shop. If it helps, they said all the food will be free."
"Celebratin' what exactly?" Apple Bloom curiously questioned.
Spike grinned. "For having gotten more friends. Am I right? Getting more real friends is a rare achievement over in Canterlot." This earned him a frown from the embarrassed filly, who's blushing cheeks puffed up.
Sweetie giggled/laughed with the others before saying, "We will go for sure. But can it wait until later?"
"That's okay. My mom and dad still need to get everything ready." Rose tapped her chin in thought. "Though with all they need to make, it probably won't be ready until the sun has just about completely set."
"That's great. I almost thought we were going to need to skip out on seeing Ze-" Sweetie faked a cough to say "Zecora." over Scootaloo. A sheepish smile from their orange coated friend showed she remembered about keeping Zero secret. "To see Zecora. We haven't gone to see her in a while and thought we would go straight there."
"Oh, okay. Then we'll see you later." Misty points a hoof at them. "Try not to be late."
As the two were running off, Rose stops and turns to look back. "Also, the shop is at the train station. Don't forget." She continued running to catch up to Misty.
The group let out a sigh a relief before they all turn to Scootaloo. "What? It was an honest mistake."
"What do we do now?" Sweetie asked. "Do we go home to let our families know about the celebration?"
Spike smirked at the question. "I think you're forgetting about something." He blew out emerald fire to prove his point. The young dragon took off his backpack to bring out a notebook, ink, and quill. The trio became impressed by how fast he wrote down a quick message four times over. Once done, he burnt and sent the ashes away with his emerald fire's magic. "There, now we can go check on Zero."
With a "Yeah!" from the CMC, the group continued their way back to the farm.
Within the Cave
The glow from the Tree of Harmony began to brighten from how the pulses seemed to grow stronger. Two roots that sprouted from the tree shot straight into the ground. One root made its way towards Ponyville while the other went into the hidden chamber.
Ponyville
Up above the clouds, Rumble sighed from boredom on top the cloud he rested on. He had left in search of his older brother, Thunderlane, the moment school ended. It wasn't hard to find him. He was on duty today to clear out the clouds. Rumble wanted Thunderlane to teach him some of his moves he learned from being a Wonderbolt. The young colt watched his brother fly through clouds, breaking them apart.
"Come on, Thunderlane. I want to show you how my diving has gotten." The young colt flew off and circled around the cloud he had just been on. "Like how I used it to help save my classmates. You should have seen it. One of the most coolest things I have ever done."
Thunderlane hovered in place after he kicked a cloud to bits to turn to his brother. "Isn't Princess Twilight's brother in your class now? He's one of those Knights of Harmony if I remember right. You become friends with him yet?"
"No." Is all he said before stopping in front of his brother. "Are you done yet?"
With a smile, Thunderlane ruffled up Rumble's mane. "Cool it, little brother. That was the last cloud I had to do for my shift. So, what'd you want to show me- Hm?" Not far, he spots a fellow wonderbolt he knew too well fly towards them. "Soarin, what are you doing here? Weren't you and the others practicing for a show?" He asked not noticing his little brother's annoyed expression.
"That's why I'm here. There was an accident before we could start practicing."
While Soarin spoke, the still annoyed Rumble looked down at random things. To his surprise, he manages to spot Spike and the CMC. He watched them walking, getting close to Sweet Apple Acres. He looks back to his brother for a moment before deciding to fly down to see what they were up to, seeing as he had nothing better to do at the moment.
Scootaloo catches Spike squinting his eyes from the corner of her eye. "Something get in your eye, Spike? I know a way to get rid of it."
"No. I'm just practicing with Hunter's Gaze." He rubbed his eyes. "It's easy enough to use but keeping it up is the hard part. Using aura and controlling can be difficult."
"It's okay. Yah just need more practice. Hardly anypony can get things down perfectly in one go." Apple Bloom thought back to Wizard having used the spells. "I mean, even Wizard seemed ta have a hard time using both those spells. Maybe there's somethin' yer both missin' ta get it working."
Reaching the gate, Sweetie stops to look towards the forest. "Hey guys, what is that?" Her friends stop, move next to her to see what she's staring at.
The roots from the Tree of Harmony had reached and left past the edge of the Everfree Forest to make its way towards the group. Spike and the CMC were a bit scared from only seeing something moving under the ground head their way. They were about to run into the orchard but were too late when whatever was underground spread around in a large circle around them when it had reached them. Beneath, the root had split and spread around to make a spell circle underneath the group. The Tree of Harmony instantly transfers the magic from the hidden cavern to the circle. A bit of the magic goes into the Element of loyalty. The four could see a tiny bit of light spew out of from the ground.
"Hey, what are you guys up to?" The group turns around to find Rumble land behind them. Before they could warn him, the fives' bodies light up.
Thunderlane and Soarin missed the quick flash of light beneath them. "Sorry, little brother. We're gonna have to... Rumble?" The stallion searched around from where he stood but saw no trace of his brother. He looked to the ground but still found no one. Even the circle was gone with the ground looking intact. "Where'd he run off to?"
Western Lands
"AAAHHH!!" Spike, Rumble and the CMC screamed when they teleported above a slope. They dropped and went rolling down till they reached the bottom with the CMC rolling on top Spike and Rumble. Scootaloo receives a surprise from the Element of Loyalty landing on her head. "Ow." The young colt groaned shaking off the dizziness before looking around to see the desert area they now found themselves surrounded by.
"What the hay happened?" "I think we got teleported." He looked up annoyed at Scootaloo. "Mind getting off us?"
The CMC give both Rumble and Spike apologetic looks while moving off the two. Spike looked around to see if there was anything distinctly around to try and find out where exactly they were. But all he could see was a lot of dirt and sand, a few cactuses, hills close by, mountains a bit far off, and a passing by tumbleweed.
Scootaloo removed the Element from the top of her head. "What is this doing here?"
"More importantly," Rumble flew up to get a better look at his surroundings. "where are we? Because Ponyville is nowhere in sight."
Spike tapped his chin with his eyes focused to a mountain in the distance. "I think we're somewhere close to where the buffalos are settled at. I kinda remember that mountain from when they had accidently kidnapped me along with Applejack's apple tree."
"Oh, you mean Buffalo, right? Ah remember Applejack tellin' us about that whole mess." Apple Bloom couldn't help but giggle from what her older sister had told her about the whole events of that day. "Wish ah coulda been there that day."
Rumble lands beside the group. "How does that help us exactly?"
"Maybe they can help." Spike points to the Element of Loyalty. "If the Tree of Harmony is the one that sent us here, it must've been for a good reason. They can tell us if they have heard or seen anything strange lately. That's usually the case for Twilight and the others."
"Maybe another stone is in trouble. Like how Guardie was before." Sweetie spoke up.
Scootaloo's brightened with a smile. "This could be our chance to be heroes like our sisters." "Isn't one of us here already a hero?" She waves off Rumble who had pointed a hoof out to Spike. "I know. But think of how cool it will be to save everypony for once instead of being saved ourselves. Maybe even get our cutie marks."
Sweetie smiled imagining the praise they would receive. "That actually sounds like a good idea. Though how do we know we would really be treated like heroes? Rarity and the others could just get mad at us."
"Only one way ta find out. Let's get goin'!" "Yeah!!" The two fillies shouted in agreement with Apple Bloom and follow up with all three shouting, "THE HEROIC CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!!"
The Crusaders dash off together in a random direction. Both boys watched them for a moment before Spike yells "The Buffalo's village is actually this way." while pointing in the opposite direction. They watched as the girls walked back and past them with embarrassed grins. Spike and Rumble looked to each other a bit concerned for what they could be in for.
Sweet Apple Acres
Two of the Apples were at work within their home. Checking in on the oven, Applejack opens to bring out a fresh batch of apple fritters. She sets both the tray and the oven mitt she used to hold it down next to a couple other of their apple treats such as their famous apple pie. Granny Smith was helping by putting the fritters, pies and others into containers. Applejack nodded to herself at their work.
"Yah think we have enough fer the party?" Applejack questioned looking over all the deserts. "We may be part of the invited guests, but it don't mean we can't bring things tah welcome them tah town ourselves."
Granny blew a raspberry at the question. "We've made plenty. If not, then so be it. Now quit yer worryin'." She rolls her eyes seeing her granddaughter moving to look to the front door for what she believed to be the fortieth time. "And quit yer worryin'. I'm sure Apple Bloom and her friends just got sidetracked with somethin'."
Applejack let out a sigh, turning back to her grandmother. "I know. It's just that the last time they went missin' for this long, they were bein' chased around somewhere in the Everfree. And with all these kaiju and other dangers poppin' up all around, it's hard not tah worry." The room filled with her chuckle. "Heck, we even have our own danger restin' soundly in... bed." Her smile began to fad when she spotted the pie tin in the sink. "Granny, how many pie tins do we have again?"
"What are yah on about now?" The elder Apple just stacked the pies, not even bothering to face towards her. "If yah mean 'how many we have in the house', bout ten last ah counted." Applejack counted up the pies with the clean tins. "Why? We missin' any?"
"No. I think I'll go check up on our guest." Watching her second oldest grandchild quickly run off, Granny just shrugged it off and continued getting the deserts ready.
Applejack knew there was nothing to be afraid of, but the stories she used to hear about what they've done to ponies didn't help much. Having reached the door, she took a deep breath to calm her nerves before placing her hoof on the knob. The fear made her gently turn the knob and slowly opened the door to peek in. She let out a soft sigh of relief upon finding the Fenrir still asleep in the same position from when she had last saw him.
Applejack turned to close the door when she heard someone say, "The pie wasn't that bad." She looked back to find Zero gone. "You Apples' are a peculiar family." Suddenly hearing him behind her caused startled her into leaping forward into the room and turning to find him where she just stood. "You get better with each generation. Or at least that pie was better than the last pie I ever ate from an Apple."
"W-Wha... When'd yah- How'd yah-" He wouldn't admit it out loud, but watching Applejack stammer amused him.
"Back in the day, we Fenrirs were known as the greatest hunters." Zero stretched out while he let out a yawn. "Moving around without being heard is a simple task for us. As for when," He walked up to the apple farmer. "it was when you left the pie." He sat on the bed as he let out a long sigh. "I'm guessing now you'll be turning me into your princesses."
She was taken aback for a moment. Even in his condition, he could had left with ease at any moment before the princesses even could had gotten a message from them if they were to send one. Which they wouldn't even if he had left. Yet here he just stood looking as if he would surrender with no resistance whatsoever. No fight whatsoever.
"No. Not at all. We brought yah here tah patch you up and keep your secret. Yah see, we of the Apple family believe in repayin' out dets. And we owe yah a large one for havin' saved our Apple Bloom and her friends."
"Oh, you mean the filly with the red mane and pink bow, right? Should've figured she was part of the Apple family based on her scent alone." Applejack raised a brow at that last part. "'Her scent'?" "Sorry. I don't mean scent in a weird way. A Femrir's sense of smell is completely different from a dog's. We can literally catch the scent of just about any creature and tell all they've been around, touched, and even felt at the time. Kind of a speciest for trying to compare the two." A grin formed at the last sentence, not seriously meaning it all.
"Hm? Oh!" The apple farmer barely registers what had been said. "Nononono!! I didn't mean like that- I mean- But you..." She sighed in defeat. "Look, I'm sorry if I offended yah in any way. We just want tah thank yah properly. Maybe even let yah stay here if yah got nowhere else tah go." This sentiment seemed to surprise Zero. He hopped off the bed to face her at equal level, do to him being a bit taller. "And we promise nothin' about yah been here will get back to the princesses. Well, at least fer me, my family and friends. Can't really speak for the rest of the town. But trust me you have our word."
He looked towards the door, walking over to it but then stops in his tracks. The Fenrir thought for a moment before suddenly facing back to Applejack.
"I may have healed physically but truthfully, I've yet to be well enough to move around for long. I was thinking of just going to rest somewhere in the Everfree. But...if you're really offering, then I suppose I'll take you up on it."
After a nod for confirmation, Zero moved past her to jump back onto the bed and lay down with his back facing towards her and the door. Applejack smiled a bit thinking there may be some doubts to the stories of the Fenrirs. Otherwise, why is he so different from the ones within the stories she's heard. Turning her back to him to leave, she stopped when she heard Zero ask a question.
"What's your name?" She looked back to him. "Just thought I should ask seeing as how I'll be a guest during my stay here."
"It's Applejack." He peeked over his shoulder to see her with a kind smile. "Nice tah make your acquaintance, Zero." Silence stood between them before hearing Granny shout from the kitchen. "Applejack, what in tarnation is takin' yah so long to check on somepony sleepin'?" "Sorry, Granny. Just making sure of somethin'." Seeing her leave, he decides to go back to resting.
Buffalo Village
Not too far from the village, Little Strongheart carried over water pouches, along with a few grown buffalo, over to a nearby river to refill them. She sets the three she carried down before taking one, opening the lid and held it down in the running water. The young buffalo hummed a tune to herself while refilling each of the pouch. She was about to start on the last pouch when she and the others heard multiple sounds someone dying of exhaustion.
"Look!" One of the buffalo called out. They pointed over to the other side of the small river. From the distance, the small silhouette of five others could be seen. Little Strongheart could not tell four of the five, but the fifth was one that everyone in her tribe knew.
"Spike." Leaping over the river, she rushed over to them with the other buffalo following behind. "What are you doing here, Spike? And are these friends of yours?"
Lifting a claw, Spike just says with a dry throat, "We would gladly tell you. But first," Scootaloo continued, sounding just as dry, "Can we get some water please."
Minutes Later
A good number of buffalo had gathered around where the village's campfire is lit. Mostly because of the amusing sight of the youngsters gulping down an impressive amount of water. Especially once they all sighed in unison once they were refreshed. Spike and his friends then explained to Chief Thunder Hooves their situation and what had led them to wind-up in the middle of the desert.
Thunder Hooves strokes his chin. "Hm... For such a thing to happen on this day... It could mean the time might have finally arrived." While the group were unsure of what he could mean, but they could tell it was something important based on all the shocked buffalo who began whispering amongst themselves.
"Ah take it we're missin' something here."
Rumble had waited to speak up after Apple Bloom. "Yeah, it would be helpful to at least know what you think this is all about."
"My apologies." Reaching into his fur, the Chief reveals a wooden amulet he worn around his neck. "Long ago, an amazing warrior protected our tribe. Stories tell of this warrior wielding magic that was said to resemble a rainbow. As well as having been able to change their shape to face off against horrible spirits that sought to destroy all good that exist in our world." The faint symbol of Kamen Rider Hibiki appeared on the amulet, though Spike and his friends had no idea of it. "Legend has it that this warrior would return to the living once a great darkness threatened our world, and his strength would be needed alongside others like him. It is said that the warrior will be awakened from where we had buried him."
Spike and Apple Bloom looked to each other. "That sounds a little like what happened with Lockjaw and Makena. This could be another Rider." "Could be. Maybe we were sent here tah wake them up." The two look back to the Chief and Little Strongheart so she could ask, "Can of you show us where the warrior was buried?"
The chief hung his head low. "Normally, I would be against any young souls going. But as a dragon, I'm sure your friends will be safe with you, Spike." He stood and had the group follow him to the edge of the village to stare towards a certain mountain that's far out in the distance. "But I feel I should still warn you. During the squabble with Appleloosa, a few of our own thought that then should had been the time to awaken the warrior. One by one, they journeyed across the land to the mountain. Days went by but none ever returned."
"Do you know what happened to them?" Sweetie asked.
The chief slowly shook his head with a sad expression. A morbid feeling had sunk into the group. This unknown cause was beginning to make Spike and the CMC second guess if they should really try going through with this on their own. The looming feeling the buffalo were giving off was not helping on encouraging them. They could always call Lockjaw and Makena but felt they should try this on their own. The tree had only sent them. There must've been a reason for this.
"What are we worried about?" Rumble drew their and the buffalos attentions. "We have already delt with many problems. Even a few really scary situations with the kaiju. We can deal with whatever is out there. Especially since we will be together."
Scootaloo gained a determined look. "That's right. That thing or somepony has only had to face a single opponent. But with us, that thing will have to deal with all five of us." She and Rumble helped bring their three friends spirits up. The buffalo also seemed to feel as spirited as them.
Sweetie added "We should hurry. It would be bad if we got back home late."
"But it sure is far out there." The orange pegasus took note when taking in the distance of the mountain once again. "We probably won't be home until tomorrow night at this point." An idea struck her that she turned to Spike. "Why don't we just ride on top of you, Spike?"
Spike was about to question her until he realized what she meant. "I actually forgot about that." He ends with bring out the Magispark.
Ponyville
Hours had passed with the sun now beginning to set over the land. Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy and Rainbow walked through town with, making their way towards the shop. They had all run into each other along the way. Some already having been with each other. Rarity had been having a spa day with Fluttershy when she got her invite and asked if she wanted to join. Though Rarity herself had something to do first at her boutique. So, she had Fluttershy ahead of her. An upset Rainbow had gotten an invite at a bad time in her opinion. The invite had distracted her long enough for Construct to escape from her. She would've resumed the chase but then Pink had done her usual appearing out of nowhere routine and got dragged along to the shop.
"So, he's awake now?" Twilight's curiosity had lit up at the news of the Fenrir.
"Yup. Though he did go back tah sleep after our little chat. Said somethin' bout bein' healed fully on the outside but not on the inside or somethin' like that."
"That's great!" The purple unicorn teleported in paper and a feather with ink being carried next to her in her magical aura. "There's so much I want to ask him about his kind: If they have any celebrations or traditions. What their history of the land that had become Equestria was like back then. Maybe even what their diet is like."
"Woah there, Twilight. Maybe let him warm up tah us first before yah pile so many questions on the poor fella."
A blushing spread on the unicorn's face. "You're right. It would be rude to pile so many questions on him when he hardly knows us." She banished her supplies at the end.
The shy pegasus takes notice of their rainbow maned friend's current mood. "Are you alright, Rainbow Dash?"
"It's... nothing. I'm fi-"
"Ohohohoh!! I know what's wrong!" Pinkie once again popped up out of nowhere. This time being on top of Rainbow Dash. "She's still mad about how Construct kept the secret of being or knowing about the Knights of Harmony from her. Probably because she wanted to be part of the adventure." The three listened while watching Rainbow trying and failing to catch their hopping pink friend once the party pony had hopped off her. "Or maybe the real reason is- Oh, we're here!" Pinkie stops to point ahead as Rainbow tried tackling her, causing her friend to zoom by over her and crash into a bush.
The five found themselves at what used to be just the front of the train station, but it had been remodeled into some diner style shop. The front seemed to be having some final touches done to it. Its color still matched that of the station's. Four round tables had bet setup on a patio-like deck outside in front of two large/wide windows, each having four chairs and napkin holders. A deck was covered by a roof with the steps of the deck being to the left where the shop's two front doors. Above the doors was a sigh saying, 'Continental Grove' in big blue letters with a globe as the dot of the 'i'.
The great aroma of food could be smelt from the place even from where they stood. It was nothing like they've ever smelled before. Twilight and the others walk into the shop where multiple tables set up against the walls of the shop with a few others in the center of the room. The kitchen could be seen at the back counter, where two ponies in white uniforms could be seen at work cooking. Rose and Misty, wearing the same uniform, were there helping by setting up a few of the tables together in the center.
Both fillies ran over to Twilight and her friends and greeted them with a loud "Welcome!!" before bowing.
"You two must be Spike's classmates, right?"
They respond with nod. "Misty Strum." "And I'm Rosey Melody." Rose held a hoof out towards her parents. "And those are my parents. My mom, Terra Jewel and my dad, Jack Spice."
Rose's mother, Terra Jewel, is a tan coated Earth pony mare with her black mane tied back in a bun and her flank having a different colored gems as her cutie mark. She worked along her husband in prepping the ingredients for the dishes they planned to make, with one of them being a bag full of an assortment of different type of gems. Jack Spice, a cyan unicorn with a light orange mane, was setting out utensils they'd need. He set water to boil with his magic without even turning to look. His cutie mark is of cooking utensils (a spoon, pasta server, ladle and turner) crossing each other.
"It's nice to meet you two. My name is Twilight Sparkle, Spike's older sister. These are my friends." She does the same holding a hoof to her friends. "Fluttershy, Pinkie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and...Oh, I forgot Rarity was going to run a bit late."
She and her friends watched as Terra placed down a large bowl on the counter. The group became amazed when she began to use a grater on a yellow gem, as if it were cheese, letting the shreds of yellow drop into the bowl. Terra continued until the bowl was filled. Next the mare began to peel light blue and green gems like a potato.
The amazement did not end there. Jack was good at multitasking by how he worked on three gems at once. Rolling up red gems until they molded into a wide cylinder that he then started to chop them into thin slices with a knife. Using a roller pin, the stallion flattened a large pink gem, while also removing orange gems from a deep frier.
Twilight and her friends looked to the fillies for answers, but they just smiled to each other before shouting to them "It's a secret."
Carousel Boutique
"Oh, I know!" Makena held up a random cloth. "Maybe something like what my little Zecora wears. I always thought of wanting to match with my grandchild in some way back in my original world if I had ever reached the age. Maybe styled after my Ghost form in some way."
"I'm sorry if it sounds rude but it's still a bit hard to wrap my head around Zecora being your granddaughter." Rarity spoke while sorting through different fabrics. "Not that I don't see the resemblance between you two. And I'm sure Zecora was just surprised to see- Hm... this could work." Placing down a black fabric before she looked to the sketch unsatisfied. "It could use a certain touch."
The diamond dog face palmed himself. "Is this really necessary? What purpose does this serve? And didn't say you had somewhere to be right now, Rarity?"
"It's quite alright. I just wanted to see what you'd both like. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes and then I'd still have plenty of time to get ready and be on my way." She holds up a midnight black fabric. "Also, it'd be a shame if you got left out of having a significate outfit of your own when the other Riders do. Do you have any request on what it should be, Lockjaw?"
"Look Rarity, I just don't see the point in-" The diamond dog froze in place with expressions became serious a moment after. He looks to his fellow Rider who meets his gaze, seeming to have sense the same thing.
"We have to go, Rarity."
"Go? What do you-" Turning to respond to Makena, she found the two gone.
Else Where
A few trees are cut down in an instant with a single stroke of Junior's sword. "This is where Dusk is? "
The yokai and Akumaro walk out from the shadows of the Everfree forest. Small woodland creatures nearby ran in all directions from the dangerous vibe they could feel off these beings within their forest. Though they were still a few feet within the forest, Junior could see a bit of Ponyville from in between the cracks of the trees.
"Just as sickening sweet as the rest of this blasted land. " Junior spoke as the two made their way towards town. "Not much of a defense here compared to the last area. He's practically asking to be killed. " The yokai scuffed. "Not that their defenses were any good. "
"He could be seeking safe heaven with the Element bearers." A wicked snicker pasted Akumaro's lips. "Not that it would do them much good if they can't reach their Elements. " He spun around to fire purple-ish lightning from his fingertips at the trees, setting them on fire. Junior just stood beside Akumaro to watch. Though wildfire only lasts for a second before a light blue beam hit the flames, extinguishing the fire. "What? "
The two turned back around to face the source of the beam along. Instead, they held up an arm in defense as multiple shots hitting around and at them. "Seems like such a poor reason to burn down a forest, don't you think?" Akumaro has heard many male voices in this would, but for some reason this one filled him with anger. Both kaiju find Gaim and Ghost standing a few feet in front of them. "Putting that aside, you both have outlived your welcome here. The harm you caused in your attack on Canterlot was already enough. We won't allow you anywhere into Ponyville. Either leave now or be prepared to die today Yokai and Ayakashi."
Junior laughed off the threat. "I've already defeated one of you with ease. Two makes no difference. "
"So much for that." Ghost leans a bit to Gaim to whisper, "They may not have all their power but we shouldn't take them lightly."
"Then let's not hold bad." Gaim proceeds to remove the front left side of his belt that had the image of a side angle of his helmet's face on it and replaces it with a second lock section, the Genesis Core.
While Gaim brings out a transparent blue lock with a lemon in the front, Ghost opened her Driver to take out the Ghost Eyecon which makes her jacket and faceplate disappear. (Lemon Energy!) Activating the lock causes the Orange Lockseed to close and unlock. Ghost presses the side of the Eyecon, lighting it up while it made a flame sound. As she inserts the new Eyecon, Gaim places the lemon lock on the Genesis Core, alongside the Orange Lockseed, before locking both in. (Lock on!/ Ippatsu Toucon! Eye! Bacchiri Minaa! Bacchiri Minaa! ) Orange Arms closes up to fly up to a lemon shaped armor that comes out the zipper gate. The two armors merge together to become a completely different armor. A jacket similar to Ore's, but with crimson flame shape on the edges, flies out the Driver. (Soiya!/ Toucon! Kaigan! Boost!) Unlike with the Orange Lockseed, when the knife is brought down to open the front of the locks, the lemon lock only showed the inner slice of the fruit but didn't have an image of a weapon. Gaim's armor came down onto him. Ghost became covered in flames for a moment with it being dispelled a second after to reveal the suit's color had become red with black flame patterns and the symbol on the chest now being silver. (Mix! Orange Arms! Hanamichi on stage!Jimber Lemon! Ha-Ha!/ Ore ga boost! (Go!) Furuitatsu Ghost! (Fight!) Go! (Fight!) Go! (Fight!) Go! Go! (Fight!))
Gaim's arms unfolded into a cumbersome armor that resembles a jinbaori. The sides of the chest had the image of lemon slices with his symbol on the top left side. The inside of his visor was still the same. Though the back of the helmet was of Orange Arms, the color was now gray. The gold color on the helmet had changed to silver with the inner of Gaim's mouthguard being gray. The Sonic Arrow, a red bladed bow-like weapon with transparent blue on the front side, had appeared in his right hand. With the jacket placing itself on her, the new faceplate slid into place to reveal a face resembling Ore's, but the color was now red with the sides of the eyes having a flame shape.
"This is our stage now!" Both sides began dashing towards each other.
Twilight's Library
What looked like a human is actually a Yokai appearing within the living room of Twilight's home. He resembled what would pass as a mad scientist with pointed ears, big messy hair, and glasses with one regular and one black lens. This is Professor Yugami. He barely takes one step forward, the sound of a threatening growl came from above. He looked up to the second floor to find Guardie baring his fangs at the yokai.
"I almost forgot about the pet. " A small group of Dorodoros appeared around the professor. "Keep the beast distracted. "
Not being able to show a face of disbelief, they watched the professor leave to another random part of the house. Guardie could feel the Dorodoros fear as they turned to look back up to him while quaking where they stood. With one last growl, he pounced at the grunts. The Dorodoros scream in fear before comically bumping into each other and running in different directions with the canine hot on their tails.
Meanwhile
A mighty roar shook the sky. Spike soared through air as Majin Dragonic. The huge dragon flew normally until he began twirling while doing loops. Inside Spike's body, Scootaloo held her hoof over the alter that controls his body, even though he could do it on his own, with the rest of their friends and Little Strongheart held onto what they could along the walls for dear life.
The young buffalo stops her screaming to point out to a mountain that was coming into their sight. "That's the mountain." was all she could say before she resumed screaming for her life.
"Scootaloo, I can fly on my own. But if you keep this up, we're going to end up crashing." Spike loudly shouted over his screaming friends.
"Come on. You know how I can't fly. This is a rare chance to see what it's like to fly. Plus, what is the harm in letting me fly you?"
"You mean other than how you're making me fly like some maniac. How about the fact you aren't even paying attention to the distance between me and the grou-"
Scootaloo's next loop had ended with Cross-Z's head having slammed into the ground. His friends all screamed for a moment before they all fell onto the ceiling from the room having become upside down. A second after struggling to pull his head out, Cross-Z let out a sigh of relief as he reverted all the way back to his civilian form. The small dragon fell flat on his back while his friends layed up in a pile next to him.
"My bad." Scootaloo said as the group stood up trying to recover from the dizziness. Spike also stood up before falling back down from his head felling lightheaded all of a sudden.
"Spike!" Apple Bloom and the others quickly rushed to his side. "Are yah feelin' okay?"
He gives the young apple farmer a nod as she helped him sit up. "Yeah. Sorry about that. Just a side effect from changing into that form."
"Sounds a bit like when Rarity over uses her magic." Sweetie said while thinking back on the memory. "Maybe you will feel better if you rest a bit." "But we need to-"
Spike tries to stand. As he's falling back Little Strongheart had gotten behind to catch him. "I can carry you if you need me to, Spike." The small dragon shook.
"I'm fine." He responded with an appreciative smile.
"At least you got us here." She ends looking behind the group.
They followed her line of sight. There stood the large, tall mountain with a stone carved entrance. Though damaged, it looked to still be strong and well, one could see how time has passed for this sight. Even small spider webs could be seen around it.
"Well, seeing as we're already here, might as well continue." Spike stood up a bit wobbly for a second before he righted himself up.
He and the group journeyed through the entrance. They entered with Rumble and Scootaloo in front, Apple Bloom and Spike in the middle, and Sweetie Belle and Little Strongheart following from behind.
The young apple farmer didn't like the idea of Spike forcing himself to go but there was the small possibility of someone like Junior showing up. When he looked her way, he could tell something was bothering her. He made the guess that maybe it had to do with the state of the tunnel and the possibility that it could be dangerous. She does care a lot for her family and friends alike. When she looked his way, Spike did his best to give her a reassuring smile along with a thumbs up as a sign to say, 'everything will be okay'. She returned the smile before looking back ahead and realizing how darkened the tunnel now that they were getting further and further away from the entrance.
"By the way, Spike," Scootaloo spoke out. "we watched you practicing earlier before. You really aren't getting anywhere with that spell, are you." Spike frowned at her mention of this morning's practice. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle gave her looks that she could tell meant in a way 'Nice going.' in a sarcastic way.
"We didn't mean tah be nosey, Spike. Just wanted tah know if you were makin' any progress." The young apple farmer tried assuring him as they walked.
"It's... it's okay. I am just a bit frustrated about it." A sigh leaves his breath. "I just don't know what I am doing wrong. Unlike Hunter's Gaze, I can't get it to work the same way. Or even the way Wizard did no matter how much aura I put into it. What am I doing wrong?" While the other thought it over, Rumble decided to speak up his opinion.
"Could you maybe try it some other way? I mean, I have tried many times to copy my brother's moves, he even taught me personally, but I just couldn't do it the same way he did it." He looks back to Spike. "Then when I tried it my own way, it felt pretty easy. Almost like it was just something I already knew."
Little Strongheart nodded as the colt looked back forward. "Sometimes we must look things from a new angle in order for us to learn."
Apple Bloom added. "Yeah, Rumble may have a point. Maybe yer doing nothin' wrong. He did say something was blockin' his magic. Maybe whatever is blockin' his magic could had messed with the way he uses his aura too. If it ain't that, then maybe...maybe you have tah do it differently."
"Huh? Why would you think that?" He listened to Apple Bloom carefully, curious to what she had in mind.
"Well, I've only heard this from Sweetie Belle, so sorry if I remember this wrong. But yah know how some ponies are taught magic the same way. And then there are the few that have tah be taught a bit differently, right?" She paused to see Spike nod (which he does), making sure he was following along. "Well maybe you have tah learn or use it differently. I mean you both are Spikes but yah seem to be a bit different from each other too."
"True. Didn't you tell us that Princess Celestia was a teacher in the human world instead of a princess like here?" Sweetie spoke up from behind the two.
"Wait, what?" A puzzled Rumble asked. He looks to Scootaloo next to him who just shrugs.
Spike pondered on this thought. They all make good points. Though they are the same, Wizard seemed to have a different air about him when he compared the mage Rider to himself. Not just from having more experience, but probably because the two probably did things differently. If so, then what would mean he would need to do to make Enhancement work for himself.
"What was that?"
Hearing Scootaloo, the four look to the front where the orange pegasus filly to be freaking out, looking left to right with Rumble giving her a mixture look of concern and confusion.
"What is up with you?"
Turning to Rumble, Scootaloo held out a hoof towards where they're walking.
"How can't you see it? Tell me you can at least feel the wind from it moving."
The group just could not see what their friend sees. Just what could she be seeing. Seeing? A thought came to Spike. Shutting his eyes, he focused on the spell before opening them with Hunter's Gaze active. The small dragon hoped this would allow him to see something. To his luck it worked. An orb of light, the same as what Guardie changes into when he's being called, was flying side to side in front of his friend. It comes to a sudden stop in between Scootaloo and Rumble. Almost as if it took notice that he could now see it.
"Spike, what are yah doin'?" Apple Bloom questioned him. They watched what they could from the dark tunnel as he reached out to nothing from their point of view.
"OW!" The light used itself to swat his claw away. Inspecting his claw, Spike finds it had been scratched at by a claw. "What are you?"
"CYAAHHHH!!" Spike, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Rumble spun around at the sound of their friends screams.
They find their two friends had been entrapped in what looks to be spider web by two humanoid kaiju. One could easily see they are of different genders based on their appearance and shape. While only the female has long black hair, both their arms and head looked like a spider with features of a tiger, and white scarfs.
"Sweetie Belle!" "Strongheart!" Spike added.
Spike put himself in front of the others while bringing out his sword and dragon Fullbottle from his backpack. (Special Tune! Hippare! Hippare! ) The kaijuu turned at the sound of the sword. (Million Slash!! ) A blue flame slash is launched at the kaiju and his webbed-up friends. The kaiju shoot a string of web from their mouths to a hole in the ceiling and lift themselves through it avoid the slash. But the two kaiju were never his attended targets. The slash grazed by his two friends, who get released by the flames, burning up the webs.
"Hurry and get over here!" Rumble's advice, Sweetie Belle and Little Strongheart ran over and behind their small dragon friend.
"What do we do now?" Scootaloo questioned.
The orb had flown into Spike's view. It signaled for him to keep going down the tunnel. He wasn't sure if they should trust it but saw no other options aside from fighting them. His only problem with that option was he because of the tunnel not having much room to fight and there was the possibility of their squabble causing the tunnel to collapse. "This way." is all Spike to say for his friends to follow him down the tunnel. Not having missed a beat, they all follow close behind him and each other. Both kaiju emerge from the walls and chased after them. The group ran as fast as their legs could take them while avoiding web being shot at them from behind. It didn't take long for them to reach what looked to be the end of the tunnel from the light they could see not that far ahead.
Spike looked back at the kaiju from the corner of his eye. He could see they were beginning to catch up to them. Nearing the end of opening, he thought over his options real quick and just goes with the best option that came up. He turns, sliding to a stop to face towards the kaiju with the Trigger Fullbottle in hand. (Special Tune! Hippare! Hippare! Million Slash!! ) He stabbed his sword into the stone tile floor, sending a red shock wave down the tunnel. The attack causes the tunnel to begin breaking apart before collapsing on itself. The kaiju came to a halt upon seeing this and rush to retreat. This made Spike both glad for it working so well and terrified because now he runs to catch up to his friends while doing his best to not get crushed. Reaching the end of the tunnel, Spike and his friends jumped the rest of the way through while the tunnel completely caved in behind them.
"What...in the...wide world of Equestria...made you...think that was a good idea?" Rumble questioned in between breaths.
"At first, I felt it was." He paused to take a breather. "But that now that I have had time to think about it, probably not as good when I first thought of it. Hm?" He thought their landing would've been a bit rough but instead felt familiar. He looked down to find they had fell on top of a large patch of grass. "How did this grow in here?" Only the ground they stood on was visible. The rest of the floor was covered in a layer of fog.
"Maybe from the hole at the top." The group followed Scootaloo's line of sight. The entire inner of the mountain which is hollowed out with sunlight shing in from the large hole at the top. "What do you think happened heeeeeRRRREEEEEE?!"
The orange pegasus had taken a single step forward that unexpectedly didn't have a floor. She dropped passing through the fog that had covered the front of what she now could tell was a ledge. Sweetie acted fast in catching her pegasus friend by the tail with Apple Bloom and Spike holding her sides, having kept her from falling along with Scootaloo. The fog cleared, giving them full view of the only grass filled platform being the only safe spot from the huge hole. The orange filly let out a sigh of relief before saying "Thanks." while being pulled back up. She gave the three an apologetic smile when the three glared at her. "I guess I should look where I'm go- Whoa! Look down there." Confused, the three looked down before all saying "Wow!" in unison.
Rumble and Little Strongheart went over to the four curious what they could be looking at. They became just as amazed by the sight. A large slope ran down at the bottom of the drop which has dozens of long abandoned stone buildings going down the different levels until it stops at what looks to be a large park sized field of large trees. It looked to be abandoned by how the buildings had cobwebs covering them, having random cracks or broken chunks, doors either barely still hanging or completely gone, and the trees looking of having been unkept.
Rumble's whistle echoed off the walls. "That is a lot of homes. But how are trees living down there? Hm?" A thought came to mind. He flew up to look at the inner walls of the mountain. "There are mirrors up here."
"There probably others going from the top to the bottom." Spike looked down at the lower walls and spots a few. "Maybe the sun's light bounces off from them. Maybe they are even enchanted. I would see no other way those things can still reflect anything after how long it's been since anyone was last here."
"Do you think the Rider is sleeping in one of those homes?" Sweetie had asked while still being in aww.
Rumble flew down past them while shouting. "One way to find out."
"Hey! That's not fair!" Scootaloo searched around. "How can we get down there?"
"Over here." Strongheart had found stone steps by the collapsed tunnel that led to the bottom of the drop.
Scootaloo wasted no time in dashing down the steps ahead of the others. The group looked to each other before shrugging. "Guessin' we'll be searchin' together?" Sweetie Belle agreed Apple Bloom with a nod before saying,
"Yeah. I don't know why but this place feels a bit creepy."
"I used to be told stories of large beasts that hid in places like this." Little Strongheart looked around as they descended down the steps. "With all that we been hearing about the attacks on Equestria, I hope these beasts are just myth."
Spike looked at the color of the sky. "We should hurry a bit. The sun will be completely setting soon."
The four followed down until they reached the bottom. Both groups began their search by entering into a stone building to carefully look around. They were unaware of two red eyes watching them from within the shadows of the trees at the bottom. It watched Spike's group go into the building before looking to see Rumble and Scootaloo run out of one building and into the next. Both groups moved from building to building in search of any signs of the Rider. Spike, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Little Strongheart looked at two buildings at once that stood beside each other. While Scootaloo and Rumble kept going alone into buildings.
Coming out one, Rumble flinched when Scootaloo stomped the ground with her hoof out of frustration.
"Come on! That was like the twentieth one I have gone into." She turned to Rumble, when he didn't respond, to see him looking questionably at each of the buildings. "What's up with you? Found something that can lead us to the Rider?"
"No. I was just thinking maybe we're looking for the wrong thing." "What do you mean?" He points a hoof towards the other buildings within their sight. "This Rider was like a hero to the buffalo, right? Wouldn't they make their hero's burial special or something? But none of these look like they standout or seem dedication to a hero."
Taking that into mind, she could see what Rumble meant, and it was true. None of the buildings stood out over the other. They all just looked part of the rest.
"Then what should we be looking for?"
Rumble tried spotting anything that could help. He felt his brain was working overtime till his eyes landed on the only thing that could stand out. "Maybe there." He pointed a hoof down towards the trees at the bottom of the slope.
"Let's go find out." He followed Scootaloo down. "Hey, look at that."
A large shed came into their view when they could see the lower half of the trees. Though this shed stood out over the others for different reason other than being made of wood instead of stone. It wasn't worn down like the others along with having no other openings aside from three holes that are on both sides and the two bottom holes on the corners of the two front doors.
Reaching the door, Scootaloo tried to open the door, but it would not budge. "Weird." "Must be locked." She and Rumble took a few steps back. "Well, there goes that being the one. What are we missing here?" Both turned away to look back up at the buildings.
"The burial." Rumble answered her in a snarky tone. Both doors of the shed slowly open without making a noise with the two red eyes appearing from the shadow within. Scanning around leads Rumble to spotting what he finds as a weird formation on the edges of wall. "What could had done that?"
Halfway down the slope, Spike and Little Strongheart came out of building at the same time Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle came out from another. "Did you find anything on your end?"
"Not a lick. Unless we were searchin' fer large piles of sand."
Sweetie shook a lot of dirt off of herself before saying. "A whole lot of sand. What about you? Anything of use?"
"Not of the Rider. But I did look up to see if those two kaiju earlier could be found in the Magispark. Take a look at this." Strongheart stood on one side while Apple Bloom and Sweetie stood on the other to see the profile data. "They are known as Douji and Hime with many different versions of them. They guard and feed some sort of large creatures, called Makamou, until they are old enough to hunt on their own."
"I'm sure that's the name of the monsters my family has told for many generations." The group could see the fear filling Little Strongheart. "It was said many tried fighting these monsters. But no matter what they did these creatures could not be hurt by any means."
"Makes sense." He scrolled back up on the profile. "It says they're immune to physical attacks."
Sweetie seemed confused. "But if they supposed to protect some really big creature, why would they be attacking others like us in a tunnel? I don't see any big monster anywhere."
Right then it dawned on them. "Unless it's-" "SPIKE!!/HELP!!" The four were speaking in unison before they heard the screams of Scootaloo and Rumble. They rushed around the corn of the building behind them. Down the road they found their two friends at the bottom or the slope hanging on to a tree for dear life while being tugged on by large strings of web coming from within the trees, not being able to see the shed a few feet behind them. Spike's friends follow behind him as he rushes down to them. Knowing they might not make it, he reaches behind into his bag for Ryuga in his lock form, changes him and then tosses him ahead. "Ryuga, help Scootaloo and Rumble." The lock transformed into dragon mode flew ahead having heard his command.
"Cyaaahhhh!!" Scootaloo had let go of the tree not being able to hold on any long. Rumble tried taking a hold of her hoof but having done this made his grip slip and gets dragged along. The two could only struggle in vain as they're drawn in. Luckily for them, before they could be pulled in, Ryuga flew in between the web and frees them by burning through the web with his breath. Both pegasus retreat back to the road after a roar came out from within the shed. Meeting up with Spike's group, they turned to face the creature along with the others. The shed broke apart into bits to reveal the spider Makamou, Tsuchigumo. A huge spider coming close to 27 feet with features of a tiger.
"All of you run for it." "And how are you planning on dealing with something that size?" Rumble questioned Spike without either of the two looking away from the Makamou. "I... haven't thought that far yet."
With a roar, the Makamou charges at them. "No need to tell us twice." is the last thing Scootaloo said before turning and running back up road with the others. Spike handed Strongheart his backpack before she ran. Ryuga stops Tsuchigumo in its tracks by blinding the large creature from flames being shot at its eyes. Spike uses the chance to put on his Driver, changing into human state.
(Wake up! Cross-Z Dragon! Are you ready? ) "Henshin!" (Wake Up Burning! Get Cross-Z Dragon! Yeah!) (Beat Closer! ) "Alright ugly, how about picking on someone who can fight back." With sword in hand, Cross-Z runs up to the still blind Makamou. But he's brought to a stop when a string of web comes out from above his right and came close to hitting him. "Woah!"
He turns to where the shot came from and finds the Douji standing up on top a branch. "Oh, great. Why not just add a third." Though sarcastic, the request is answered by a swipe on the back. Cross-Z turns in time to stop the second swipe from a spider leg as the Hime's right arm. A roundhouse kicked is delivered to his left arm by the Douji, sending the Rider rolling away from where the shed once stood. "Ugh...Maybe I should put some training into fighting a bit more."
"A child. " The Douji spoke sounding like a female while his left arm also became a spider leg. In a male voice, Hime says "Children. The best nourishment for our child. "
"Bleee!! No way am I becoming someone's food." Both kaiju rush at him. "Maybe Trigger can help me. First need to by some time." (Hippare! Smash Hit! ) Cross-Z sends his slash straight into the ground in front of him, causing a dirt cloud that stops the Douji and Hime in their tracks. (Wake Up!) He had used the chance to switch the dragon Fullbottle out with Ultraman Trigger's. (Ready? Go! Dragonic Finish! Yeah!) A Color Timer appeared on his chest but in a diamond shape along with the flame design on his protecters change completely yellow but with a curved silver line going up through the middle.
"Ha!" Cross-Z took a battle stance. Both the Douji and Hime growled before continuing the charge. Cross-Z does the same, dashing towards them. He ducks under the Douji's swing while landing a slash on left side of the kaiju. With her partner stumbling to the floor, Hime lunges a swipe at the Rider only for Cross-Z to bring her swing to a stop using his sword and then follows it up by shoving her past him. (Hippare! Hippare! Million Hit! ) Hime turns before being sent flying back by Cross-Z's burning strike. Seeing Douji begin to stand, he brings out the Tiga bottle. (Special Tune! Hippare! Smash Slash! ) "Hyah!" Cross-Z swings the Beat Closer creating multiple purple arrowheads in front of himself and thrusts it forward launch them all towards Douji. The kaiju is too slow in avoiding the speeding attack. (Hippare! Hippare! Hippare! Mega Slash! ) First letting light and lightning building up into the weapon's blade, the Rider launched the attack in a downward slash that passed through the kaiju right down the middle. Instead of an explosion, the Douji bursts into tiny bits.
The Color Timer disappears Cross-Z's. "Doing that is really weird." Hime pounces at Cross-Z. He turns back in time to hold his sword up in defense. "Now it's just- Wha?!" A large web sting had got him from behind, wrapping up his whole upper body from below his neck. Hime had withdrawn in time to avoid being collateral. He looks back to see the sting leading to Tsuchigumo. "Hey! Let me go!" He struggles to break free from the webs that binned him. While Cross-Z struggled against Tsuchigumo tugging at him, Hime used this opportunity to begin swiping at the defenseless Rider. "Ugh!"
Apple Bloom and the others were halfway back up the slope road when they come to a sliding halt. Red light came out from cracks on the ground and walls of the buildings in front of them. Kagekamuro, along with a small army of Nanashi, came out from the cracks.
"Here I was thinking this was going to only be normal search with no effort at all. Reporting back right away to Akumaro would just be boring. Though he did only say to report back on the source's location. " The five take a step back when Kagekamuro and the Nanashi took a single step forward. "He didn't say anything about not enjoying ourselves. And what better way to do that than to torture some children. "
Cross-Z could see his friends in danger. Despite fighting against Tsuchigumo trying to pull him in and being struck by the Hime, Cross-Z fought to break free from the web that bound him. "Come on. Break already." The web starts to tare bit by bit. The Hime takes notice of this. She adds another layer of web on to him. The extra web now made it just about impossible for him to either move or struggle against it. "Nonono. What am I suppose to do now?" He was beginning to run out of time. Both for saving his friends and himself as he was just about to be in range of Makamou's legs. Not to mention the pain he was feeling from the Hime's relentless attacks as each hit made sparks fly off him.
'Yeah, Rumble may have a point. Maybe yer doing nothin' wrong. He did say something was blockin' his magic. Maybe whatever is blockin' his magic could had messed with the way he uses his aura too. If it ain't that, then maybe...maybe you have tah do it bit different.' Apple Bloom's words from earlier echoed through his mind. "She was right. It was not just by training or having experience. Me and Wizard are both Spike, but he's also different from me." He spoke quietly to himself. Cross-Z thought back to his training with Wizard. Then to the little amount of time he and his friends spent with him. Lastly was their team up against the Imperializer Magia. "Wait." His thoughts focused in on their usage of their swords and finishers. While Wizard's attacks were more planned and precise, he himself tried swinging his sword with as much strength as he could. Even their finishers are done the same way. As Cross-Z, he just used his strength and power to kick through the Magia. While as Wizard added another spell to his kick to pierce straight through Imperializer.
"If Apple Bloom was right, then maybe...Ugh!" Hime's strike caused him to drop his sword. "I guess it is worth a shot. I just hope this idea of mine works." (Gaburyu Breaker! ) After taking the knuckle weapon into his right hand, he reached for his cell with his other and looks up a list of Fullbottles that Build has. "Here goes nothing. Transfer;"
The Hime misses the rest of what the Rider says because of Tsuchigumo roaring over him. With a blue Fullbottle appearing in hand, Cross-Z turns his back to the Hime to face Tsuchigumo. He spots Ryuga wrapped up in web behind the Makamou. Having hoped that luck would be on his side, the Rider successfully kicks the Beat Closer straight under the huge spider where it grazed by the small mechanical dragon cutting a small part of the web. (Fullbottle! Devour! ) Cross-Z held the charge for a moment which causes the ground to become wavey like the surface of water. The Hime takes a leap back having felt the need to take caution. (Essence Build! ) A navy blue whale sprung, shooting out of the ground turned water from right under Cross-Z, taking him up with it. Tsuchigumo lets go of the web when it almost got pulled along. Ryuga breaks free from his binds and flew up after his owner. The small mechanical dragon burnt the web off its Rider. Now freed, Cross-Z ran down the whale's back while turning his belt's crank. Reaching the blowhole, water shoots out launching him right towards his friends. He began to channel his aura toward his right arm while the finisher's dragon flew close, following behind him.
"What? " (Dragonic Finish!) Kagekamuro barely took notice of Cross-Z as he is shot down the rest of the way down by the dragon's fire breath. He lands between the Ayakashi and his friends. Cross-Z slammed his fist into the ground the moment he touched down, sending a powerful wave of blue flames forward due to the strength that had been put into it. "Gyah! " Kagekamuro and most of the Nanashi are sent flying into and through a couple stone buildings.
"Thanks for saving us, Cross-Z." "And what you just did was so awesome!" Scootaloo added after Sweetie.
Little Strongheart nodded in agreement. "Yes, that was amazing, Spike."
"I...I did it. I did it!" His friends could just about feel the excitement in Cross-Z's voice. He turned to to face them. "I was able to use Enhancement!"
"See, I told yah you could do it." Apple Bloomed smiled being able to imagine the huge grin that her friend must have under his helmet.
"That was cool and all but..." Rumble looked questionably at the ground where Cross-Z slammed his fist. There was no damage that could be seen from the powerful impact besides a crack. "Why is the place unscratched by that."
The group barely realized this. Cross-Z knows he struck the ground with all his strength. There should at least had been a small creator left behind by the Gaburyu Break having struck the ground with his strength. Something just wasn't normal about the area.
"Huh?" Scootaloo had notice a brightness coming from something glowing from inside Spike's backpack. She knew it could most like be only one thing that could be the source. "Hey, look at the Element of Loyalty."
They all look to the glowing lightning bolt shaped Element that came floating out the backpack. Though they couldn't stare for long as the ground beneath them began to shake. The steps leading back up broke apart leaving them no way to get back up. Sweetie wanted to question what was going on but before she could ask, they all began to hear a noise of what sounds like a beating heart. Orange embers began to spill out of the single crack. The crack spread as the beating sound grew. This was already alarm enough for Cross-Z to tell his friends "Get back!" before running back down the slope. Rumble flew overhead everyone. He looked back in time to see a large tower of orange fire shot out and out the hole at the top of the mountain.
"What the hay is going on?" Rumble halted when the shaking grew too much for his friends to stay balanced.
"If I had to guess," The Rider paused to grab the Element. "something really unbelievable."
To everyone's surprise, the whole area began to rise up. Rumble decided to trust his instincts on landing next to everyone due to the ground raising at a fast pace and unsure of what else could happen. They could hear loud cracks with the sounds along with the sounds of boulders hitting the ground above them. They look up in shock to see the mountain in the process of splitting into four halves from gaps forming and getting bigger as the ground lifted up. Though the outside would have shock them even more. The mountain looked like a volcano from the tower of orange flames shooting out the top while the halves were still close together. Each piece of the mountain moved farther away from each other as they made their way to four other mountains that weren't too far. Two of the mountains were regular pointed tops while the other two are a flat mountain and one that splits into two. The halves perfectly connected to the mountains as if they had meant to be there all along.
The slope and trees reached the surface at the same moment as the mountain halves reaching their points. The tower of fire had continued for a moment before lowering to become an orb that bursts into three differently timed wave of orange flames. First wave did nothing to Cross-Z, his friends, kaiju, or the trees but completely rid the land of the buildings and rocky surface until reaching the four mountain points. Second wave changed the shape of the land creating; slopes, different sized hills, and groves in the ground. The last wave widened the hole where the fire tower had been before water sprung out. The hole had become a large lake with streams going out in different directions thanks to the groves in the ground that been made. Trees rapidly sprouted out growing large, with smaller sized ones beside a few. The area had gone from a desert landscape to a large forest valley similar to the Everfree Forest but a lot more welcome looking.
"Sweet Celestia." was all the CMC could mutter out. None could believe how the area could have changed so much. They were now standing next to a large lake with grass and flowers around it. Cross-Z and the others wondered if it had ended only for the Element of Loyalty to shoot a light matching its color into the Ultraman Trigger bottle that then fires a beam of light into the middle of the lake. Within the human world, the symbol belonging to Hibiki lit up within the secret room of the temple in the Quarter Desert.
A cellphone sized item came floating out of the water. It stood there for a few seconds before a piece on the back unfolds out making it now resembling a tuning fork with an oni's face. This is Hibiki's transformation item, the Henshin Onsa. Ihe item is tapped against an invisible object, producing a special sound wave. The item hovers a bit higher before an oni face appears behind it. As if being held by a phantom, the shape of a human body is shown to be engulfed by a fiery purple aura. The other watched as the body's shape changed before it being dispelled with a wave of the body's arm, along with a "Ha!", to reveal the Rider known as Hibiki. His appearance looked exactly the same as when Decade transformed into him with the exception of the belts being different and having a buckle with his symbol. Hibiki's belt held his transformation item on the right, three silver disks on the left, and his Ongekibou on the back.
Hibiki magically stood on top of the water, stretching his arms while also cracking his neck. "NnnnnAAAAHHHHH!! IT FEELS GOOD TO BE BACK!!" The purple oni Rider shouted at the top of his lungs.
"I see. " Kagekamuro and the Nanashi peeked out from behind the tree line. "So, he was the source of that presence. We must report this to Akumaro. "
The Ayakashi disappeared jumping into the small gaps in the trees. "GRAAHHHH!! " Cross-Z and his friends had watched the oni Rider continue his stretches when the roar of multiple Tsuchigumo could be heard from within the trees across the lake. "GRAAAHHHHH!! " Theirs and Hibiki's attentions get drawn to the trees behind the group. Cross-Z could already tell it is the Tsuchigumo he had been fighting.
"I take it you've had a run in with that one already." The group look back to Hibiki. "Seeing as you're still a rookie, I'll take care of the other Makamou. And leave you to finish what you started with that Tsuchigumo."
"Huh? Wait a-" "GRRAAAAHHHH!! " The Makamou could be seen charging through the trees.
Tsuchigumo takes the bait and chases after Cross-Z through the valley's forest. "We should go too." Sweetie Belle's friends agreed with her and ran after the Rider and huge spider. Hibiki had watched until they were out of sight. He chuckled to himself before turning back to the other side of the lake. Little Strongheart stop in her tracks. She didn't want to miss what was about to happen. So, she ran back to watch his battle from behind the bushes. Unholstered his weapons, Hibiki spun his Ongekibou once while slowly making his way to shore. He could hear the sounds of the Tsuchigumos' legs getting closer.
The Ongekibou are tapped against each other. "Hopefully I'm not too rusty after that long nap." Five Tsuchigumo emerge from the trees. The Rider swung his arms wide apart, sending a wide indigo ring around. Hibiki makes a mad dash towards the five Makamou.
"GRRRAAAAHHHH!! " The Makamou shot web after web towards Hibiki. Using the flames from his Ongekibou, he burnt away the webs he swatted away. Though it became more difficult as he got closer until it became too much. The Rider was eventually hit and buried in webbing. The Tsuchigumo slowly approached the webbed-up oni. They halted when something flew over the middle Makamou. Having turned their eyes to the sky, they searched but saw no sight of anything. That is until the middle Tsuchigumo is forced flat on the ground with an impact crater. They all find Hibiki standing on top the spider with green electricity flames on the top of the Ongekibou. From the looks of it, Hibiki had brought down his weapon on top its back and the force of the hit crated the impact.
He spun the Ongekibou in his left hand before resting the weapon on his shoulder. "May the hunt begin."
Everfree Forest
The Riders battle with Junior and Akumaro led them farther into the forest. They had split to face off against the two separate. Which anyone in the air could see. From the sky, one could see trees tumbling over from having been cut down while in the opposite direction small trail of explosions were being made from shots being exchanged.
The small explosions were caused by the battle between Gaim and Akumaro. The Ayakashi used his weapon to deflect energy arrows and dice up vines and branches that went at him. He created ball after ball that he kicked at the trees. The energy balls bounced from tree-to-tree as they made their way to the Rider. Gaim either avoided the attacks as he ran or used the Sonic Arrow to slash through them before drawing the bow and firing an energy arrow.
"Missed me!"
The joyful Ghost was the cause of the trees being cut down. When Junior would swing his sword at her, she would disappear, phasing into a tree and reappearing next to a random tree. "Damn, childish phantom. Fight me already! " The yokai fired red lightning from his left hand to the tress surrounding him. Dust clouds blocked his line of sight as he scanned around for the Rider. "Grrr- Ugh! " Junior had been struck from behind, sparks flew off his back.
He turned to find Ghost with a new weapon. A red blade, one sided sword with a flame shape at the tip. Aside from the weapon in her right-hand having silver on the back of the blade and having a light orange handle, what stood out the most of the weapon's design is the sunglasses above the handle. This is her forms main weapon, the (Sunglasseslasher! )
"Fighting right away wouldn't be that fun." She responded to the Yokai as she rested her sword on her shoulder.
"If you want enjoyment, then I shall- " A few shots hit Junior's left shoulder. "Ah! What?! "
Junior was a bit surprised by what he finds. He turned a bit to find another Ghost to be standing to his left. The second Ghost's Sunglasseslasher had its blade rotated the front with the shortened blade's edge facing upward and having a silver barrel on the side. "But if you really want to fight," Feeling a third presence, he turned to what would had been his right side only to be met with a fist covered in a red flame-like energy. The force of the hit pushed him back a few feet. Looking back, he finds a third Ghost as the three stood next to each other. "then we'll gladly comply." The third ends cracking her knuckles.
Junior shot lightning at the Rider. Being quick to react, the middle Ghost without a weapon creates a green rectangular energy shield to stop the attack. The other two took this chance to flip their weapons' glasses up to reveal two slots for Eyecons. After pressing the side of the Eyecons, the Ghost with her weapon in gun mode inserts the Edison Eyecon along with a green Eyecon having '03' in the center. The other Ghost inserts Beethoven alongside a red Eyecon having '01'. Both weapons start playing a jingle continuously saying (Mabushi! ) until they brought the glasses back down to make it say (Daikaigan! ) and play a different jingle.
"What? " Both Ghost with the Sunglasseslasher rolled out from both sides of the shield. (Omega Flash! ) Ghost with the Sunglasseslasher in gun mode fires a burning arrow covered in electricity. Junior tried countering it with his lightning but the electricity on the arrow helped it in piercing through the attack that hit its mark in being shot into the ayakashi's left shoulder. The shocks from the arrow paralyzed Junior long enough for the second Ghost to run up to him. (Omega Shine! ) Junior, using his sword as a shield, is hit with a slash of red and silver that drags the yokai back while making melody sounds of Beethoven's music. He still felt the force of the attack that it brought him down to one knee. Looking back, he finds the third Ghost missing.
"This is for attacking Cross-Z from behind."
He searched around for the third only to feel something against his chest. Junior look to down to find the upper half of the third Ghost phasing out through the ground with her green glowing right hand against his chest. A green beam with fire circling it blasts the yokai upward through two trunks of trees.
Not far, Gaim and Akumaro jumped out from some bushes and came to a sliding stop facing towards each other. They were standing a few feet apart in the middle of a small opening within the trees. Without taking their eyes off each other, the Rider and ayakashi began slowly circling around each other. Gaim aimed and drew his bow, holding it in place to allow the shot to charge.
"This is your last warning, Akumaro. Leave now or face your end here and now." The ayakashi laughed at the threat.
"I will admit that power of yours does about make us equal but there is one flaw to it. " Akumaro's hands became the large claws as he made a mad dash towards Gaim who fires multiple shots from his weapon in response. "All you've done is get stronger. " Akumaro swiftly knocked the arrows away without losing pace. Having reached the Rider, the ayakashi began to hit him with a barrage of speedy jabs. Gaim held up his arms in defense while Akumaro said "Your power means nothing if you aren't given a moment to use it. And you can only defend for so long. The one who will be meeting their end will be you. It's only a matter of time. "
Gaim used his magic to send vines at Akumaro from behind. "Ha. Child's play. " Keeping one claw to jab at the Rider, Akumaro turned a bit to slice the vines to bits with the other claw. "Not sure how you did that, " He faced back to Gaim to resume jabbing with both claws. "but it's a futile effort. Nothing you do can help you now. "
"Maybe not my Rider powers and magic. But I still have my Diamond Dog magic." The ground beneath them seemed to be being drawn to Gaim. Akumaro is surprised by this as the Rider became coated in stone. Unlike regular stone, the stone armor was only being chipped away bit by bit. "Not sure if you don't know this, but we Diamond Dogs are able to control and shape anything related to the land."
"Makes no difference. " Gaim was quick to catch and hold onto Akumaro. "What?! What are you doing? "
Gaim says "Another thing we can do is increase or decrease the density of the land." while the stone coating was transferred onto Akumaro's arms.
"Ugh! " At that moment, the new weight of the stone now covering the ayakashi's claws brought them crashing down on to the floor. The force of the stone's weight was heavy enough to sink into the ground.
Not missing the chance, Gaim removes the lemon lock from the belt to place it on the Sonic Arrow. (Lock On!) He then activates the Driver's finisher by pushing the knife down once. (Soiya! Orange Squash! ) Gaim drew back his weapon's bowstring's handle to begin charging the attack. He took aim towards the sky. An energy slice of orange and lemon appeared one after the other along where the Sonic Arrow was aimed towards. Gaim slid his right foot back which causes a piece of stone to come sticking out, hitting the ayakashi in the gut. The hit sent Akumaro into the air where he aligned with the shot. (Lemon Energy!) "Argh! " The shot shatters the stone from the force of the attack. Akumaro get sent flying across the air with sparks flying off him.
Gaim watched the ayakashi fall flat on his back a few feet away and stand back up after a minute. Akumaro says "You will pay for that with your life. " to Gaim who retorts with "Not possible. This is my stage after all." The two resume their battle.
Meanwhile
Cross-Z ran through the now forest with Tsuchigumo not far behind. He could not believe how much the area changed. Before what just stood here was a desert land with tumble weeds and mountains. Now what stood before him was a valley filled with huge trees with large roots larger or matching his size, running rivers and streams, and flowers and other greenery. And apparently a ledge he's coming up to.
"Woah!" The Makamou's legs stabbed into the ledge, missing Cross-Z by a second as he had jumped down. He landed next to a wide river with the roots of the many huge trees spilling over. He ran downstream along the river's pebblely edge.
"How about this!" Cross-Z ran up and around a bolder. With a thrust of the Gaburyu Breaker, he smashed and sent chunks of the bolder crashing right into the Makamou's face. (GRAAHHHH!! ) This just angered Tsuchigumo more. (Um....I'm sorry.) (GRRRAAAHHH!! ) The chase resumed with the dragon Rider using the huge roots his advantage in slowing down the Makamou. He slid under a root to avoid Tsuchigumo's web. While the huge spider began to take multiple swipes at him, Cross-Z leaps on to a root and ran up the tree's trunk. He jumped down on to another tree's root that he used to slide down. "Why does this thing have to be so persistent."
A tree that was coming up caught his eye. Its roots were exposed from how big they were and lifted the tree up a bit. An idea popped into his head. "Transport; Octopus Fullbottle." Having ran up to the tree, Cross-Z clawed under the huge tree with Tsuchigumo reaching in for him. The roots helped in keeping the legs from reaching him while he quickly came out the other side. (Fullbottle! Devour! Essence Construct! ) Slamming his weapon onto the ground, eight magenta octopus tentacles came out the ground. They reached under and around the tree, wrapping around the Makamou's front legs and neck. "GRAAHHH!! " (Sapphire Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Sonic!) Cross-Z appeared in sapphire flames under the struggling spider. He hits its jaw with multiple jabs before ending with an upper cut. The tentacles disappear the moment the upper cut hit, the force of the hit lifting the upper part of its body. Seeing the opportunity, he leaps at Tsuchigumo with aura built into his right leg and delivers a powerful kick that knocks the Makamou onto its back in the river.
"How did that line of Cross-Z goes again? Oh well, I'll just improvise." Giving up on his thought, Cross-Z ran up to the squirming spider. "You better believe" He grabs onto a leg after having built up aura into his arms and legs. "I don't feel like losing." The dragon Rider lifts up Tsuchigumo and begins slamming the spider onto the ground a few times. He ends with spinning the Makamou around and tossing it through a line of trees on the other side of the river. Getting out the river, Cross-Z sees the huge trees around the huge spider that's still recovering which lead to an idea. "Next bottle." (Tourmaline Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Burst!) Cross-Z trusts his knuckle weapon into the ground sending an orange light through the ground and towards Tsuchigumo. Before the Makamou could fully stand, orange magma flames burst out the ground doing some damage to the huge spider and causes the ground to collapse under it. The sinking ground causes the huge trees around Tsuchigumo to come falling down on top it,
"That went better than I thought." A string of web gets Cross-Z from behind. "What?! Ah!" With a tug, he fell flat on his back and was pulled into the river. Coming out the other end, the Rider finds the Hime pulling him from on top one of the trees. The kaiju began jumping tree from tree, away from the river, dragging Cross-Z along the ground. The Hime dragged him up a slope where the Rider runs into many roots, trees, bushes, and rocks. "Owowowowow!!"
Back at the Lake
"GRAAHHHH!! "
Hibiki ran past one of the Tsuchigumo's that thrust its front left leg at him. His Ongekibou ignited with green electrical flames as he came up under it. He struck two of the right front legs, causing the Makamou to lose balance and tumble over. The oni Rider spun out of the way so he'd be standing beside where it landed. With a swing of his Ongekibou, Hibiki sent the Tsuchigumo flying into one of other Tsuchigumo. Both Makamou fell into the lake. The depth showing from how the two couldn't be seen in the water.
"Wow." Little Strongheart watched in amazement. The stories she was told of the Rider was nothing compared to what she was now seeing. Once she had thought this warrior was just myth or had to be some sort of creature. But from what she now witnessing proves the stories of Hibiki to be true.
The other three shot webs at Hibiki from different angles behind him. The green electric flames changed to a blazing orange color. He counters the webs by striking at the ground, sending a thin flame wave that instantly burnt the webs to ash. Cunks of the land stuck out from the force of the attack. The Tsuchigumo used their legs to shield themselves from the flame when it came close. The two in the lake came shooting out from the water. While the left Ongekibou's flame changed to a normal flame color, the other reverted back to the green electric flame. Hibiki held the left Ongekibou to the side while he swung the right into the chunks of land, sending shards of the ground at the two Tsuchigumo. Unlike with Cross-Z, the bits of rock were actually doing damage. Some even left cuts on the huge spiders. This was probably do to the bits being coated in the green flames.
"Haaaaaa." The flame on the left Ongekibou began to take the shape of a blade. He ran up to the two. "Ha!" Both Tsuchigumo are cut down diagonally in two. The Makamou explode into tiny bits the same way the Douji did. Hibiki turned to the three Tsuchigumo a second before they recovered. He could see they're readying to fire web again. "Enough of that."
With his mouthguard opening up. Hibiki takes a deep breath before shooting out a stream of red wind-like flames mixed with purple flames matching the aura that had surrounded him before. They burn away the webs they shot as well as hitting and covering the three Tsuchigumo. "GRAAAHHHHH!! " The Makamou cried out in pain as they did what they could to put out the flames on them. They even went into the lake and put out the purple flames but did nothing to the red flames. Hibiki took another deep breath to breath fire at them again, but this time a rippling water-like blue flame came out. He aimed at the water under them. Unlike the other flames, instead of spreading around the flame built up, spreading into a bubble around the Tsuchigumo. Though the red flames were extinguished, the Makamou's movement slowed to a crawl from the fire slowing everything inside the bubble.
Hibiki holstered the Ongekibou back onto the back of the belt. "Now to bring this to an end." Yellow shining flames covered his body.
Moving even faster than before, the oni Rider ran up to a huge tree and jumped onto a branch in one leap. He worked quick in collecting as much vines as he could that he then tied together. The blue flames began to slowly die down as seconds past. He coated the vines in the green electric flames. From the tree, he leapt into the bubble. His yellow flames protected him from the effects of the blue flames. The flames were beginning to pass their legs. He moved as fast as he could to wrap the spiders' side by side, with two of them leaning against both sides of the third standing in the middle. He jumped onto the center Tsuchigumo's back as the three were freed from the blue flames. The Makamou began struggling to break free from their restraints. The green flames seemed to make this difficult for them. While trying to keep himself from being thrown off the Tsuchigumo's back, Hibiki takes the front of his buckle off while covering it in purple flames with cloudy edges. The item went from being one to multiplying into three. He placed one each onto the Makamous' backs where the item enlarged to appear to be like three large drums.
"Here we go." Unholstering the Ongekibou, he holds both up overhead. "Ongekida: Sun Style!" Hibiki struck the center drum with both Ongekibou once before following it up with striking the other two on the side when he quickly spread his arms. A sound wave spread throughout the three Makamou causing them to halt their struggling. Hibiki held up his weapons again while the yellow flames engulfed them. "Kaenrenda no Kata!" Not missing a single beat, Hibiki began striking each drum with both his Ongekibou. He kept switching between the three without slowing down. The sound waves created by each strike destroyed the Tsuchigumo from the inside, their inner joint of their exoskeleton had yellow flame spewing out of them. Hibiki kept going until the number of strikes for each drum added to 30. On the last hit, the three Makamou blew to tiny pits. The oni Rider lands onto the ground unharmed. He caught the three buckle items as they fell down to him. While the two copies reverted back to purple flames before extinguishing.
"With that done," Reattaching the item to his buckle, Hibiki looked towards where the first Tsuchigumo had hidden itself. "now to see what happened here."
Back Within the Woods
"OWOWOWOW!" Cross-Z had been dragged to the top of the slope.
The Hime jumps up to the first tree there. She pulls on the web before tossing the Rider ahead of her. "WAAHHH-OOF!" His back slams into a tree. Cross-Z manages to break free from the web thanks to it having been damaged while having been dragged. He even managed to keep ahold of the Gaburyu Breaker.
"Ouch." He rubs the back of his helmet. "How many times does my head have to get banged around. Also, where'd that- Ah!" The Hime dropped down beside him to hit him with the back of her spider leg claw. She quickly leapt back up into the tree as quick as she came down. "I'm starting to think getting hit on the head isn't as bad as hurting everywhere else."
"Dragon will not leave here alive. " Cross-Z shot back onto his feet on full alert. He stood surrounded by trees all around. "Dragon and other children will be food for our child. " The Rider tries to spot where the kaiju is, but the tree branches and leaves made this difficult.
The Hime came swinging by the dragon Rider, landing a kick on his shoulder. "Ugh! Ah!" While he had lost balance, the kaiju had bounced off the tree to go back towards the Rider and slashed him across his back. The kaiju continued randomly swinging and dropping down around Cross-Z. The Rider tried fighting back but he'd miss his hits by the Hime being too quick or landing a hit on him before he could swing.
Cross-Z throws a punch with the Gaburyu Breaker, but the Hime ran over it while mid swing and delivers a kick to his back. Once he recovered, the Rider kept his guard up while searching the tree for the kaiju. The Hime came dropping down her spider leg claw across Cross-Z's chest. He winced taking a step back as sparks flew off his chest. Before he could try returning the hit, the kaiju returned up to the trees. This process continued with the Rider getting kicked and smacked while swinging by and struck him a few with the spider leg. The last strike sends Cross-Z fall against one of the trees.
"Ugh... How can I get her to stand still long enough? Hm?" He looked off to the trees to his right. After a few seconds a grin spread across his face. "Alright."
Hidden behind the leaves, the Hime watched as the Rider stood up. His grip on his weapon tightened but the Rider seemed injured before running off to his right. "You will not escape, dragon. " She jumped from tree to tree following after Cross-Z. Seeing him turn left around a huge tree, she decides to head him off. The Hime shoots a string of web at one of the huge tree's branches and swung around from the other side. As the fleeing Rider came into view, she dropped down on top of him. Cross-Z managed to turn to face her before getting pinned onto the ground. He grunts catching her spider leg arm from her trying to finish him. Because he was managing to hold back the leg, she tries to put her left hand on his neck to strangle the Rider but he grabbed and held her arm in place. "My child will enjoy feasting on you, dragon. "She spoke as the Rider seemed to be struggling on holding her.
"You really think so?" The Hime stared down at him confused. "You haven't even noticed my weapon is gone." It was true. She barely took notice his hands had nothing. And the weapon wasn't laying around anywhere.
"Special delivery!!" (Cross Knuckle! ) Rumble came swooping down, ramming the Gaburyu Breaker straight into the Hime's face as she looked up. Rumble's speed was strong enough to knock the kaiju off Cross-Z. As she stumbled back, the CMC come running out from behind the trees with Ryuga's chains in their mouths. They circled, tying up the Hime in chains that Ryuga then nails down the other ends of the chains to keep her in place. As she struggled to break free, Apple Bloom shouts "Nows yer chance, Cross-Z."
"Transport; Beat Closer!" Cross-Z called out into the MagiSpark while he stood up. The sword was stuck upside down next to the hole where the Tsuchigumo's shed used to be. With the Tiga bottle still inserted, the weapon dematerializes from there and rematerializes next to the Rider. Cross-Z pulled the hilt twice after taking ahold of the weapon. (Hippare! Hippare! Million Slash! ) Holding out both his arms to his sides, he brought them back together in a circular motion crossing them in front of himself. A red energy orb formed around the sword as he had brought his arms together and then launched it with a slash when he spread out his arms once again. The attack hit its mark and explodes the Hime into bits the same way as the others had. "YES!!/YES!!" Cross-Z and his friends shouted after gathering beside him.
Their celebration is delayed when they hear "GRAHHH!! " a bit muffled in the distance. Already knowing what it could be, they rushed back to the slope. Back down the slope, across the river, they see the Tsuchigumo burst out from the hole it had be buried in. "You have to be kidding! That big old spider is still going?" Scootaloo stared down in disbelief along with the others. The Makamou was enraged by what the Rider did. "Guess burying the thing won't be enough." Rumble added just as Tsuchigumo spotted said Rider up the slope. "GRAAAHHHH!! "
"What should we do now, Cross-Z?" Apple Bloom questioned.
The Rider was wondering that exact same thing. He could try ending this battle using his Rider kick, but his body already felt drained enough that he wasn't sure if he would be able to use it in full force. Even Enhancement didn't seem like an option. Trying while the state he is in could just backfire on him. If he missed or failed to land the attack, he would be too exhausted to move. His body could also fail on him if he applied too much aura. He tried thinking of any other options. Cross-Z is brought out of his thoughts when Sweetie took notice of a glow.
"Cross-Z, look at your sword."
"Huh?" He held up his sword in front of himself. The Tiga Fullbottle was radiating a light from itself. The Gaburyu Breaker's dragon eyes lit up with energy surging through the linings as the weapon's circuitry made a noise of being reprogrammed. His visor lit up from the new data being put into his weapon. "Rumble!" Cross-Z removed the bottle from the Beat Closer before setting the sword on his back.
Understanding Cross-Z, Rumble tosses the knuckle weapon back over to him. "GRAAAHHHHH!! " Tsuchigumo charged through the river. (Ultra Set! Devour! ) The weapon called out upon inserting the Fullbottle. An energy sound had been added to the crunching charge sound. Once the finished charge, it announced (Ready! ) and Tsuchigumo reached the slope, Cross-Z reeled in his arms before thrusting them forward side by side in a 'V' shape. He then spread them out to the side, leaving a line that charged up energy and lightning. Apple Bloom and the others retreated behind the Rider as the Makamou came up the slope. Cross-Z reeled in his right arm with the Gaburyu Breaker with the line of light transferring into the weapon. He held his position while hovering his left hand in front of it until the last possible moment as Tsuchigumo closed in on them. (Tiga Dragonic Zeperion!) Having been thrust forward, the weapon launched an attack that was shaped like Tiga's Color Time and yellow band protectors. "GRAH!! " A shriek came out of the kaiju upon the attack's impact on its underbelly and took the Makamou along with it back down the slope. Reaching the bottom, the attack smashed the huge spider against the ground hard enough to give in as Tsuchigumo was pressed into the ground. Energy and lightning built up into the crater before exploding, destroying the Makamou that let out one last cry.
"Wahoo!/Alright!/Yes!/You did it!/Yeah!" Cross-Z and his friends shouted celebrating their win as they high fived/hoofed each other.
Someone hidden behind the trees not far behind the group spoke to themselves saying "Such a disappointing end. " Highness Duke Org, Ura walked out from the shadows. "And here I thought my trip to find the source of that presence would have been worth it by getting to witness the death of some children. I suppose I'll have to give the creature one last chance to succeed in catching its prey. "
Ura sent his own dark energy into the sky to cause a reaction in the negative energy around the area. This brought Cross-Z and his friends' celebration to an end when took notice of the familiar clouds building up. They watch as the black lightning shoots down where the Douji, Hime, and Tsuchigumos had been destroyed. The tiny and flakey remains had gathered into the dark aura, but a different outcome came up. Unlike before, the dark aura's dispersal had left behind two spheres. The spheres came down and shatter to reveal a fusion of the Douji and Hime with the lower half of their bodies being the whole Tsuchigumo. They had four extra spider legs sticking out of their backs and their hands being the heads of the Tsuchigumo.
"It may not be a Tartarus Fiend, but a simple creature like that should be enough to finish the young hero. " Ura turns away and vanishes.
"Yah might want tah call Guardie now." "Way ahead of you on that." Cross-Z responded to Apple Bloom already having set Guardie's card into the MagiSpark. (Guardie! Fusion Standby! ) He then slides the two cards. (Bakuryuu Tyrannosaurus! Kishiryu Tyramigo! Cross Fusion! Guardie! Kyoryu King! )
Back at the library, Guardie growls down at the pile of Dorodoros he stood on. He hears the sounds of things being thrown and hitting the ground from within the basement. He was about to go investigate when he felt he was being called. Guardie didn't want to leave the intruder alone but knew his friends must be in danger if they're calling for him. He changes into ball of light that flies over to Cross-Z and the others. He lands behind the group in his mecha-like form.
"I'm definitely not sitting this out." Cross-Z dials in '1-0-7' before holding up the MagiSpark. (Maagi Magi Magika! ) Leaping through the spell circle that formed, he becomes giant while transforming into Majin Dragonic. "Guardie, let's combine. Maagi Jiruma Magi Jinga." (Maagi Jiruma Magi Jinga! Dragonic Gattai! ) Dragonic disassembled and Guardie set up for the parts to connect before combining together. Cross-Z appears within the room of light with the prism alter that he sets the MagiSpark on to. "Awaken! Tiga-Oh Dragonic! Breaker Formation!" The last declaration has part fly off Tiga-Oh and connect to each other to form the drill arm and claw.
"It would be bad if Apple Bloom and the others got caught up in this." The Rider dials in '7-1-9' on the MagiSpark. "Then we will take this fight to the Quantum Field." (Majika Maaji Majuna! ) Tiga-Oh and the two kaiju went from being in a valley to being in an area being the mix of being volcanic and having desert mountains around. Hibiki also appeared within the field. He watched from the top of a mountain that was at a far distance.
Tiga-Oh charges forward the same moment the Douji and Hime did. The mecha takes a swing at the spider with the drill but the kaiju are quick in avoiding the attack. The two had moved to both sides of Tiga-Oh where they began to assault the mecha with the spider legs on their backs. The damage wasn't much but Cross-Z did not want to take too much damage. He has Tiga-Oh swipe at the Hime who's on their right with the drill. She's quick to avoid the weapon and continue her attack. He follows up with thrusting the claw at the Douji. He leaps over the claw to land on top of the mecha and resumes hitting him from above.
"Hey, get off." Cross-Z thought of having Tiga-Oh knock the spider off using the drill. Though before he could try, the Hime snags the mecha's arm with web shot from her own mouth as well as from the mouths of the Tsuchigumo heads. "Shoot!" The Douji does the same when the Rider goes to use the claw. "Let's try Burner Formation." Before they could execute the command, the two kaiju leapt on to the side of two mountains on opposite sides of each other and spun web all around Tiga-Oh, who was in the middle of the two, until the mecha looked be in a cocoon with the exception of his head sticking out. "Master, I can't move."
The Douji and Hime bite onto the mecha by using their Tsuchigumo heads. The Douji's heads bit onto Tiga-Oh's shoulders while the Hime's bit onto the right leg. The Tsuchigumo heads began to syphon off the energy from Tiga-Oh. From within, the light of the room Cross-Z was starting to dim as the energy left the mecha. "Guardie, you have to break free." "I'm trying, master."
"Seems we can't afford to sit this one out. Ready for a good workout, Leo!" He looked to his left at the end where the orb Spike had seen. Becoming brighter, the orb flew into the Rider's hand before becoming a card similar to Guardie's. The image on the card of a lion-like monster from the Ultraman universe, Gukulushisa. Hibiki then brings out a MagiSpark that mimicked his colors and is shown to have his symbol on the inside when he flips it open. (Leo! Fusion Standby! ) The cell called out having inserted the card and brings out two different lion mecha cards slide. (Groundion! Tategami Li-Oh! Cross Fusion! Leo! Gosei Buster! ) Hibiki leapt into a spell circle that appeared.
A spell circle appeared way ahead from when Tiga-Oh was facing. "Huh?"
The circle began to rise, leaving behind a giant mecha looking lion. It still resembled the image of the card just a bit bulky from the armor and had more of a lion shape now. Only the blue gem on the forehead remained the same. The colors of its body had become completely black with a few other changes. A darken blue color filled parts of the legs, tail tip, back, and horns. Silver covered the paws, parts of the shoulder, face, and length of the tail. The square-ish shoulders had gold curved edge facing towards the back legs. Gold also covered the square-ish mane and inner part of tires that were on the legs. The joint that acted as the elbows of the two front legs were thick tires while the two back legs each had two tires that stuck out from the leg above the paw. On the back was a black part resembling the front passenger half of a dump truck with silver lining and blue windshields. A piece looking exactly like the chest piece of Gosei Ground is what connected the tail and body.
Inside, the oni Rider sets his MagiSpark onto Leo's crystal alter. "Let's go." With a mighty roar, the lion set its completely yellow eyes on Tiga-Oh.
"Hibiki!"
Leo lets out another roar before leaping into action. The Douji and Hime rapidly spat globs of web towards their new enemy. Leo avoided the webs with ease thanks to his lightning-fast movement. The lion ran up a mountain. Leo began to jump off volcanos and mountains avoiding the web shots as he closed the distance.
"He's fast."
"Try this!" Hibiki held his hand over the alter as Leo leapt towards them. He fires a blue laser from his mouth at the kaiju. The two retreated away from their captured captive as the laser barely grazes by the mecha. Leo cut apart the web that bound the mecha. Hibiki had the lion cut part of the webs with a swipe of his claw. Tiga-Oh was able to break free thanks to his bonds having been loosened.
"Thanks, Hibiki. Me and Guardie owe you and your friend big time." "Don't mention, rookie. What do you say to a team up?" "Yeah, I'm up for that."
Both mechas turn to face the two kaiju. "Oni!/Oni must die! " Both groups charge towards each other. Leo tackled himself into the Hime, rolling off to the side along with her. Tiga-Oh marched to face off against the Douji. The humanoid mecha's parts came off to place themselves back in their original formation.
The male kaiju leapt at them. "Not this time." Cross-Z has Tiga-Oh's legs shoot out flames to speed past web that were shot at them. As they pasted the kaiju, Tiga-Oh grabs onto one of his legs and slams the spider kaiju on to the ground with extra force thanks to the momentum of the boost. While the Douji recovers from the impart, Cross-Z has Guardie rear his arm back with flames shooting out the cannons on both arms. "How's this!" The moment the spider kaiju stood, Tiga-Oh began hitting him with a barrage of punches with the last being an upper cut to its jaw that sends the Douji flying and crashing back onto the ground a few feet ahead.
Leo and the Hime rolled side to side while the female kaiju held the lion's jaw away from her. "Oni will die here. " Coming out of the roll, she held on to the back of Leo was preparing to shoot web.
"Not in this lifetime. Leo, vehicle mode." Leo roars before his head with the mane, back piece, and part connecting the tail shot off knocking the Hime to the ground. The all four paws rotated around before the legs folded and tucked in for the wheels to be supporting the body. The front paws fold onto the shoulders to reveal gun barrels. The tail removes its itself from the Gosei part. The dump truck piece places itself on to the front along with the part that had the tail connected to it acting as the bumper. Leo's tail folds into a square-ish 'U' before placing itself on the underbelly of the vehicle with the tail's pointed tips pointing outward towards the front. The change is finished when the lion face folds downward before connected to the back to complete his six-wheel dump truck look.
Leo let out another roar, driving up and ramming into the female kaiju's legs. The Hime falls on top the truck's dump bed that then slings her into the air. The Hime slammed into the side of one of the mountains. The spider kaiju caught herself before she could slide down the mountain wall. From the wall she shoots globs of web at the truck. Hibiki has Leo drive away while avoiding the webs. Once far enough, he does a U-turn. "Two can play that game. But ours have more of a kick." Leo's bumper shot a beam along with the tail's tips shooting out as missiles and the paws gun barrels firing a barrage of bullets. The Hime leaps avoiding most of the attacks. Unexpected to her, the missiles curve and hit her dead on.
"Breaker Formation./Breaker Formation." Tiga-Oh's parts rearrange back to the drill and claw. A strike from the claw breaks off the two legs on the Douji's back. He then follows with thrusting the drill into the male kaiju's chest, sending the spider sliding back a few feet. The Douji crashes into his fellow kaiju. Leo came driving up to Tiga-Oh's right. "Beast mode." He changes back into a lion as he came to a sliding stop, facing towards the kaiju.
"Ready to wrap things up, rookie?" "Yes sir!" Cross-Z unholsters the Beat Closer from his back and inserts the Tiga Fullbottle. (Special Tune! Hippare! Hippare! Hippare! ) Tiga-Oh's drill spun faster as the sword called out. Hibiki built flames around himself that is then channeled into the growling Leo's mouth. He lets out a mighty roar that leaves multiple rings of fire in front of him. (Mega Slash! ) Tiga-Oh launches forward with his drill covered in flames of light. Leo changed his legs into vehicle mode before the six-wheeled lion drove through the rings, flames building around him.
The Douji and Hime scrambled to stand but kept knocking each other over. "Tiga-Oh! Zeperion Breaker!" "Savage Dynamite!" Tiga-Oh pierces through the Douji while Leo did a cross slash with his claws on the Hime's chest. The lion had left behind the fire that covered his body which then is drawn into the slash. Both mecha stood with their backs turned to the kaiju that fall over and explode. The little light left from the setting sun shined of their metal bodies as they returned back from the quantum field having came down.
"CROSS-Z!!" Both mecha looked down to the CMC, Rumble and Little Strongheart. Little Strongheart must had joined the group while they were gone. Tiga-Oh and Leo knelt down to allow both Riders to come jumping out them. Once back on the ground, Cross-Z turns to Hibiki before he deactivates his transformation and removed his belt to revert back to his small dragon self. Unlike Gaim and Ghost, the oni Rider didn't seem surprised that Spike revealed his identity.
"Thanks for the help, Hibiki. I don't know what I would have done without your help." Hibiki stood unresponsive to Spike for a moment before being engulfed in the purple flame-like aura.
The whole group could see his body shape change inside the aura and figured this his way of changing back. They watched as he took a human shape at first before it changed into the shape of a minotaur, but something seemed off on the shape. The aura disappeared but the group gasped in surprise to what stood before their eyes. Hibiki was indeed a minotaur, but he also had aspects of a buffalo. His horns looked to be of an adult buffalo's, having light brown fur for his upper body and a darkened brown for the lower, he wore an orange sleeveless vest with a pocket on the left side, and his tail was puffy at the tip almost like a lion's.
"Anything to help a fellow Rider in need. Even rookies like you." He crossed his arms. "My name was originally Hibiki back in my original world. But since coming here, I've gone by Torch Drummer. A name given to me by one of the former chiefs."
"My name is Spike." Like him, his friends had tired expressions. "These are my friends Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Rumble, and Little Strongheart."
"Not that none of this is interesting to hear but," Rumble paused as he, Spike, and the CMC fell flat on the floor with them all saying, "I'm exhausted.", in sync with him.
A giggle escaped from the smiling Torch while Little Strongheart did her best to suppress a laugh. He turned to Leo. "Mind handing the things over, pal." Light first shined from the giant lion's forehead before a bag came out and floated down to the minotaur.
"Mind handing these over to the other Riders, rookie?" Torch asked once he turned back to the others and placed the bag down in front of Spike. "I've been holding on to these since I first arrived here."
Curious, Spike and his friends took a look inside the bag. Their eyes go wide when they find a bunch of MagiSparks. One could easily see they are each meant for a different Rider. They could see had Build's, Den-O's, and Wizard's colors on them.
"Seeing as how you're searching for the other Riders, it'd make more sense for you deliver these to them for me." Sweetie Belle and her friends smiling faces became looks of disbelief to what they just heard.
"Wait. Does that mean you aren't coming back with us?"
"In time I will. But for now, I need to look into the Makamou. I used to hunt them down to keep them in check. But who knows how many have resurfaced during the time I was gone. I need to make sure their numbers stay low. So, after Leo leaves your friend here," He points a thumb to Strongheart. "I'll start my hunting journey."
"Will you really be alright on your own?" Apple Bloom nodded along with Spike's question before saying "True. What if yah got in tah any trouble you can't beat on your own?"
Torch held up his MagiSpark. "I can always get in contact with you at any time or any place. The same can be said for you. If you or any of the Riders need my help, just give me and Leo a call."
Spike and his friends smile, happy to have another ally. The possible large number of kaiju in their world was already worrying. The addition of the Makamou just made the threat much more bigger in their eyes. But now with another Rider and a second giant ally like Guardie around, they felt the plain field had been evened out. Even if just by a bit.
Twilight's Library
The basement was a wreck. It looked to be as if a tornado had passed through. But it had all been the work of Professor Yugami. He had tossed and turned everything around in search of something. The only thing he had yet to search was the machine Connor had built. He took only a single step towards the machine before he stopped to think. The Professor turned his sights on to a worktable against the wall. He goes over to the table to shove it aside and inspect the wall.
"Maybe."
Professor Yugami knocked along the wall till one spot sounded hollow. He leaves the wall a moment and comes back with a hammer. The Professor smashed a hole into the wall. He then reached in until he felt something. Taking ahold of what he felt, Yugami pulls out the capsules that had been left when Build defeated two yokai in Vanhoover. He smiles saying "Found you." before disappearing along with the items.
Everfree Forest
Two Ghosts ran up and kneed Junior and Akumaro in the chest so the two would stumble back-to-back into each other. "Urgh!/Ugh! " Both kaiju turned at the same moment to face Gaim who ran up to them. Going at them with a roundhouse kick, having a stone blade wrapped around it. "Gah!/Ah! " Sparks flew off their chest as the blade struck them. Ghost ran up beside Gaim, the two using their Sunglasseslasher and Sonic Arrow to deliver a slash to Junior and Akumaro, sending both kaiju sliding backwards across from them.
"Time to bring this to an end." Gaim declared.
Before they could use a finisher, the Riders came to a halt when a spell circle appeared in front of the two kaiju. A new enemy raised up from the circle. A two horned mechanical looking humanoid kaiju holding a large, curved sword. Most of the body was mechanical, such as one of the horns that curves upward. While small parts were a dark blue skin along with the second horn that curved downward. The kaiju just stood there with the sword resting on the right shoulder and a small red cape flaying in the wind.
"Branken?!" Ghost was surprised by the sudden arrival.
Said new enemy cracks his neck. "Normally I would leave weakling to parish, but I have some use for these two. " Branken held up his sword as it charged with dark magic that covered it. Alerted, both Rider rush to activate their finishers to counter what's about to come. Gaim presses down his Driver's knife three times. (Orange Sparkling! Jimber Lemon Sparkling!) His weapons blade edges filled with yellow energy. Ghost lifted her weapons glasses while in sword mode to insert the Ore and Toucon Eyecons. (Mega Mabushi! Mega Mabu- Toucon Dai Kaigan! ) "Hell Slash! "
Branken launches a powerful slash of dark magic towards the two Riders. (Mega Omega Shine! ) Both Riders launch yellow and crimson red slashes to intercept the attack. The attacks collide, the two struggling to overpower the single slash. The end result is the attacks create an explosion. Gaim and Ghost's sights were clouded by the smoke and dust that covered the area. When it cleared, the Riders could see no sign of where the kaiju had disappeared to.
"Gaim, do you think..." Ghost attention is drawn to a bright flash of light that they could tell came from the borderline of the Everfree with Ponyville.
"Spike and his friends must have returned." Gaim deactivates his transformation along with his zebra ally. "As for what you are thinking that truth will have to wait. Zi-O made us swear to it after all."
A Bit Later
The celebration at Continental Grove began not long after Guardie was called. Everyone was enjoying the small 'thank you/welcome' party. Twilight talked with her five friends at their table. Dusk was over at the counter conversing with the owners. Thunderlane had seated himself with Big Mac and Granny Smith at their table.
Misty and Rose were also seated at their own table with five empty chairs. They hadn't begun to eat, wanting to wait for Spike and his friends to arrive. The two wondered what could be taking them so long. Maybe they had to fight another monster. Another guess could be they decided to skip out on the party for something they preferred more. This thought came more from their experience of Canterlot. Their worry came to an end when the shops doors opened with five voices shouting in unison.
"WE'RE HERE!!"
All eyes moved to sweaty panting group of five.
"What in tarnashin' were you five up to that left yah so out of breath?" Applejack questioned her sister.
"Ran all...the way...from the Everfree...Forest." Rumble answered between breaths.
Thunderlane zoomed over to his little brother. "What in wide world of Equestria would you all be doing there?" The worried sibling questioned.
The five made their way to and sat at the table of Rose and Misty. They all set their bags next to themselves.
From Apple Bloom to Sweetie Belle, the CMC responded saying, "Can we explain later?" "It was awesome." "But we just want to eat something right now."
"Well, it certainly sounds like you all had been through a lot." Rarity did want to press for an answer but decided against the thought. "Though I'm sure you'll feel good as new once tried this amazing dishes."
Having mentioned about the food, the five turn to look around. They could see a few enjoying the same meal while others had something different. Rarity and Fluttershy had a bowl of salad with a part of the luteus being peels of green gems. A yellow-ish-white dressing on top has bits of yellow gems mix into it. The five had to make sure they were seeing what was clear to them in plain view. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, Big Mac, and Thunderlane were eating bowls of what looked to be noodle (though others know it as ramen) with slices of the pink gem in a spiral shape and chopped up pieces of the orange gem. Bubbly blue drinks sat alongside plates of sandwiches that Twilight, Dusk, and Pinkie Pie had in front of them. The bubbles sparkled like gems as they rose to the top.
Each of the dishes were amazing to see but just added questions to the five. Though before they could ask, the group spot Jack emerge from the kitchen and walks over to them with a pizza hovering above him in his magic's aura. People would see it as a pepperoni pizza, but this pizza had slices of red gems instead of pepperoni. He cuts up the large pizza into slices once he placed it down.
"Enjoy!" The stallion retreats back into the kitchen.
Their mouths watered at the amazing smell of the pizza. After the trip they had, anything would be good about now. Though that didn't mean it wasn't good. The gem made them a bit unsure of the meal but with Rose and Misty's encouragement, decided to try it. Each took a slice and bite into it expecting to either hurt their teeth on the gems or feel a crunch. To their surprise the taste was so amazing the group of five scarfs down the slice in no time and quickly reached for another. Spike took notice of something once he finished his second slice. He had felt exhausted after that whole mess to the point he was thinking he'd need to sleep for a whole day. But now, it felt a bit had been restored along with some energy.
"This is really good!"
"You can say that again." Rumble agreed with Sweetie. Scootaloo held a hoof.
"Can we get another pizza?"
Apple Bloom looked to their two friends. "How did your parents do this?"
"And why does it feel like it's doing something?" Spiked also ask while still chewing. Twilight caught his attention when she cleared her throat with a face he could tell was saying 'Table manners, Spike.' He swallowed before mouthing 'Sorry' to her with a sheepish grin.
"It's something my dad came up with by watching these turtles that are in a different land. Um...What were they called again, Misty?" Rose turned to her friend who taps her chin in thought.
"I think it was Geode Tortoises."
"Yeah! That's what they were called!" She looks back to her other friends. "I can't really say how my parents do it. Dad wants to make sure his secret method isn't copied. They also don't usually make this many different ones in one day. Each of these are usually saved for certain days."
Misty continues. "That's because each do something helpful. Like the Rubyronni Pizza usually helps those who are tired out. The Polish Salad can make coats and manes shine almost like jewels." "That explains why Rarity is eating it." Sweetie inputted before Misty resumed. "Those Dr Sapphire drinks, Rose came up with the name, help with headaches or those who want to calm their heads. It's usually popular with teacher, student, or any other mind driving jobs." Spike thought to himself on how he'd have to use that on Twilight next time. "The Crown Ramen works better on ponies that move around a or work a lot."
The young dragon could already guess on what it does based on seeing who's eating the noodles. Most likely easing sores and pains from physical work. Definitely going to be his second favorite with the pizza being the first. His reason for being from the adding work of being a Rider going alongside his schoolwork and chores.
Spike began thinking back on their adventure today when the CMC and Rumble started explaining it to Misty and Rose. Which reminded him of something he was given before they were brought back. Reaching into his backpack, Spike holds Leo's card in front of himself.
Lockjaw and Makena came in not long after. Spike watched them from the corner of his eye as they went over to Dusk. The Riders seem to begin a quiet conversation with his uncle. He found it a bit strange that they talked so low as to make sure no one heard what they were saying. The moment their conversation ended, the three walked out the shop. Twilight had also been watching the whole interaction between the three. The two siblings looked to each other unsure of what to make of it. Without words, they agreed to press for answers later and just enjoy the rest of the party.
Back at the Desert
Torch was once again transformed into Hibiki. He leapt from tree through tree of the new small forest before jumping back to the ground. The Rider stood upright, looking down into the hole that Tsuchigumo burst out from.
"It's a good thing they left." He spoke to himself.
Within the hole were the skeletal remains of buffalo, griffins, and different types of ponies. "It might be pointless in the long run or even inevitable. But I feel like it's best to keep sights like these from them for the moment." With a deep breath he burns the remains with the purple fire he breath out.
"May you lost souls find peace."
Hibiki did a small bow in respect to the lives that were lost. The light of the flame could be seen even from the outside of the forest. Not just from the one, but the light of flames could be seen at the other holes the Tsuchigumo had come from.
To Be Continued
Chapter 1 Part 1- Attack on Equestria
Author's Note
(Small explanation of what happened in chapter 6 of Kamen Rider Jurassic)
Two days ago, Ponyville had been attacked by three kaiju that were trying to cause chaos by draining all the magic out of the Tree of Harmony, a tree that the Elements of Harmony came from, which would've caused the Everfree Forest to grow uncontrollably, spreading across Equestria.
But this was avoided by three heroes, who the Princesses have named the Knights of Harmony, standing to face and destroying the kaiju. And thanks to the help of Discord, Princess Twilight and her friends were able to restore the magic of the tree by returning the Elements to it.
Chapter 1 Part 1- Attack on Equestria
Under a full moon, Spike finds himself in the middle of an open field with a dense jungle surrounding him. He looked around scared from the complete silence thinking of what could possibly jump out at him at any moment.
"Where am I? How'd I get here?" He questioned looking around himself. "Twilight? Aunt Emerald? Anyone? Where are you?" Spike shouted out. "Maybe this is a dre-" He had spoke to himself till he was cut off by what sounds like a battle going on. "Who could be way out here?"
Hearing the sound come from the jungle, the small dragon ran in looking for the source of the sound. Coming up to another clearing ahead, Spike sped up but then quickly came to a stop coming out into the open as his eyes set sight on four shadowy figures fighting in front of huge mountain.
He watched as three of the shadows that were shaped weirdly were attacking a human shaped figure, but the outline of their body seemed strange from how the head seemed mostly smoothed except for the front that seems to have what looks like a horn curving towards the back.
Spike quickly hides behind a bush. "Is that...a Rider?" He quietly continued to watch the battle.
The human figure had the upper hand from how they made sparks fly off the shadows after blocking their attacks and slashing them with a curved feather-looking blade. After recovering, the three shadows try to rush the person all at once but miss from the person moving away at amazing speed.
The person then follows it up by speeding past the shadows as streaks multiple times while leaving glowing 'X' shaped mark on each shadow that exploded as the person stopped in front of them, causing them to be knocked to the floor with the person facing towards the mountain.
"Wow." Spike was amazed by what this person could do. But as the person turned to face the shadows, they fall to their knees while clenching their chest seeming like they're in pain as sparks of energy surge around them. "What's going on? What's wrong with them?"
The three shadows stand back up and all fire blasts at the person, that sends them crashing into the mountain. The person gets buried as the wall of the mountain broke apart on top them. Spike gasps as a giant rectangular red gem is revealed from the broke part of the mountain.
Before Spike could think of doing anything, he sees one of the shadows shoot what looks like a dark glowing purple energy at the stone making it shake and glow as the gemstone's color changes to black.
"Help me." A faint pleading voice came from out of nowhere making Spike jump up startled. "Who's there?!" He looks around trying to find the source of the voice.
"Please, help me. I can't stop myself." Spike felt sorry wanting to help the voice from it sounding distressed. "Who are you? What can I do to help?" Spike tried asking, only to hear silence in response. "Hello? Are you alri-"
The small dragon goes silent seeing the gemstone reshape itself into a huge creature as two glowing dark purple eyes open looking towards him. The huge creature makes a loud roar, shaking the very ground and then charges towards him. Spike stood still petrified with fear as the creature got closer.
"HELP ME!!" The voice shouted with the huge creature opening its mouth full of sharp teeth as it leaned down to gobble him.
"AAAAAHHHH!!" He screamed shooting off the couch in living room. Spike frantically looked around the room after the scare he just got. He turns towards the direction the kitchen hearing chairs screech followed by running steps coming from both the basement and kitchen.
The basement door swings open from Twilight's magic as she and Connor coming through it quickly. "Spike, are you okay?" She asked as they ran to his side with Emerald and Reiji coming from the kitchen doing the same.
"Y-Yeah. I'm fine." Spike answered after calming down. "It was just a nightmare. But...it was strange and...it felt so real." He ends scratching his head.
"Hm... Okay then." Connor said turning to walk back into the basement after tapping his chin a bit.
Everyone look confused at him. "Okay then? Don't you think you should show a bit more care?" Twilight questioned making him stop at the door.
"Sorry but I really need to continue working. Aside from working on the dragon gem bottles, I still need to modify the other items Spike got from Cross-Z during that battle." Connor answered before cracking his neck. "Sorry but if you'll excuse me, I have experiments to get back to."
Twilight raises a brow. "What do you mean? Don't you remember what we talked about yesterday? You need to get ready. Princesses Celestia should be getting here soon."
Connor paused from heading down the steps to think back on what Twilight said.
Flashback
Yesterday, Connor was having his phone was processing the data and energy levels of the Cross-Z items while he was working on the circuits of a device with Twilight standing behind him talking about something.
"So, Princess Celestia thought that maybe it'd be better if she and Princess Luna came here tomorrow for one or both of you to explain what you know about the kaiju that attacked and what to expect if there are more out in Equestria." Twilight smiled explaining.
Though Connor was so focus on what he was working on that he hadn't been paying attention to anything she had been saying. He didn't even notice when she had gotten there.
"I already tried asking Reiji, but he can't since he already promised to help Mayor Mare out tomorrow. Which means only you can explain about the kaiju. I know you don't like attention much and are busy with the bottles, but could you please put that on hold for a while to help us?" She asked looking hopeful.
"Yeah, sure. That sounds fine." He answered nodding without being aware of what he was agreeing to. Hearing this made Twilight smile gratefully to him and begins jumping with joy.
Flashback Ends
Connor facepalms himself with his hoof. He then turns back to her with a smile. "You're right. I did say that. I guess I'll put some tools away and leave things on standby." He turns back walking down the steps mumbling something under his breath.
Twilight and the group chuckle as he went into the basement. "He should really pay attention to the things happening around him."
"Sounds like someone else I know." Spike grinned mocking.
Twilight turns glaring at him, knowing what he means, which makes him chuckle nervously looking away while Reiji and Emerald laugh.
"So, are you ready to go pick up the girls, Spike?" He turns seeing his aunt walk towards the front door. "I'm sure Apple Bloom and the others are probably already waiting for us at their clubhouse."
He nods. "Yeah. I'm ready, Aunt Emerald. Just let me get my bag."
Running to the right side of the couch, he picks up a green bag that's leaning against it. Spike checks inside the bag to see if his Driver, fullbottles and Ryuga lock are inside. He nods seeing them all in the bag before running to follow his aunt.
"Hey, Spike. Heads up." Spike looks back to the basement door in time for Connor to come walking out holding a sword in a blue sheath with his magic. He moves it over to be placed in his hands but before it was, the sword glowed from the magic causing it to shrink to a size that he was able to hold it. "This is Cross-Z's personal weapon, the Beat Closer."
Spike unsheathes the Beat Closer to get a full look at it. The sword has a silver double edge blade with the center being transparent, a black handle, the guard has two silver pointed ends with the center having a hole through along with a gold ring going around it and a dark blue color in between silver ends, and the hilt having a gold gear in the middle with silver at the tip end and blue next to both sides of the gear that lead to two silver curved ends.
"Wow! This is so cool!" Excited he swung the sword around a bit till Twilight took it with her magic. "Hey!"
"Spike, this isn't a toy." She scolded sheathing the sword. She then turns to Connor. "And you, why would you think he'd need a sword for?"
Connor sits holding his hooves up defensively. "Hey, I'm just trying to give him options. If there are any other kaiju here in Equestria, Spike is going to need more than just the Gaburyu Breaker to face them."
Reiji nods agreeing. "He's right. Unlike us, Cross-Z doesn't have optional forms to change into and the power ups still need to be modified before they can be used with his belt."
"I planning to show him how to use it but since I'm going to be helping with Celestia, I thought I'd just give it to him in case of an emergency." Connor explained. "Which is why I also added a spell to act as a safety setting."
Twilight looks over the sword before looking to Connor. "What kind of safety setting?"
Connor takes the sword from her. "The sword is harmless in that state till he transforms. I'm not dumb enough to trust the responsibility of it with a kid." He demonstrated by showing the sword not being able to cut anything. Though Spike frowned at him after hearing the last part, which he returns with a deadpan. "Hey, there's a reason why there aren't many kid Riders." Connor then hands the sword back to Twilight.
Twilight wants to argue with him but sighs in defeat before giving Spike back the sword. "Okay but remember, it's for emergencies only." She sternly instructed him. "Can you promise me that you won't use the sword until it's needed?"
"Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Spike said crossing his heart and then holding a hand over his eye.
Twilight smiles knowing he can't break a Pinkie promise. "You all be careful in the Everfree. You never know what you'll run into in there."
Spike returns the smile. "I should be the one saying that to you every time you leave. Trouble seems to follow you and the girls when you all leave somewhere together." She looks at him annoyed. "Okay then. Bye, Twilight. See you when we get back." He quickly said hugging one of her front legs and then running out the front door that Emerald was holding open before she could say anything.
The group chuckle at Spike's quick thinking. Twilight looks to Emerald. "Please stay safe, Au- I mean Miss Emerald." She corrected herself blushing a bit.
Emerald smiles at this before she enlarges her tail to reach over to grab, lifting Twilight over to her as her tail shrunk back. Upon reaching her, Emerald brings an arm around Twilight, bringing her into a caring embrace.
"It's alright, Twilight. You can also call me your aunt." She assured her. "Being Spike's sister, makes you apart of the whole family. That's how our family has always been." Twilight smiles returning the embrace for a moment before the two separate. "And don't worry. We'll all keep each other safe." Emerald then walks out the front door and takes off flying to catch up to Spike.
"Well, guess I should be going too. The mayor will be expecting me to get there soon." Reiji said walking to the front door, going past his two friends. "See you guys later." He left out closing the door behind himself as he headed towards Town Hall.
After the door closed, Connor watched Twilight trot back into the living room to get things ready for everyone when they arrive. He smiles shaking his head as he walked back to the basement. "Hopefully she never changes."
With Emerald flying over him, Spike runs racing through town as he makes his way to the CMC's clubhouse. So focused on where they're going, the two don't take notice passing by a unicorn stallion that looks like Connor, but his coat is navy blue with a messy crimson mane and wearing glasses.
The stallion stops to look back at the two with a curious look. "Hm.....Interesting. Guess the rumor of Spike finding a member of his family was true." The stallion said to himself while in thought till he shakes his head. "Focus, Construct. One project at a time." The stallion now known as Construct said to himself before looking forward, continuing on his way through town.
Under the Sea
Many different ocean creatures were swimming around, going in different directions. They all seemed calm till they all swam off quickly seeming to have gotten spooked by something.
Seconds later bigger ocean creatures, such as sharks, whales, squids and more, also swam away for their lives as a huge figure with dark purple eyes moved by with three smaller shadows following behind it.
"I sense a low amount of negative energy. Those three fools must've failed. " The first shadow spoke. "Seems we'll just have to pick up where they failed. "
"Didn't think they'd lose to these weak creatures. I knew we should have gone with my plan first. " The second shadow argued.
"Enough! " The third shadow argued. "We're almost there. We'll make up for the lack of negative energy once our weapon makes it to shore. "
Still at a far distance but closing the gap slowly, the land of Equestria can be seen up ahead.
Castle of the Two Sisters
Emerald, Spike and the CMC were sitting on an open patch of grass in front of the castle. After having gotten the girls at their clubhouse and from Scootaloo asking, Emerald ended up flying them, in her original size, over to the castle ruins.
They had lost some time from Spike showing them his new sword and them taking turns swinging it. Connor's safety mode for it turned out to be a success from how the sword was strong to break though things but its sharpness was dull from how it couldn't cut through anything.
"That was awesome!" Scootaloo shouted. "It took us forever just getting here last time. And yet, it only took a couple seconds to get here by flying. I wonder if that's what Zero meant by using magic to make you faster."
Emerald raises a brow hearing the name. "Wait. You've all met Zero? Zero the Fenrir? When?"
"After saving us, he told us about how Spike's parents never came back from fighting a dragon." Sweetie Belle answered.
"Also, about how yah spent the last 500 years searchin' for them." Apple Bloom added.
Emerald sighs. "Of course." She looks to Spike. "What else did he tell you?"
"Nothing else." Spike shook his head saying. "He didn't say it exactly, but I think he was leaving the serious and important questions for you to answer." Saying this seems to help his aunt relax a bit.
"Just what you'd expect from a Fenrir." Emerald smiles. "They're horrible at keeping secrets but at least they know when to leave the important talks alone."
Scootaloo holds up a hoof. "What's a Fenrir? I don't think Fluttershy has told us of wolf like that."
Emerald sighs taking a moment of what to say. "I'm not really sure of the reason, but all I can say is Fenrirs are a spieces of wolf that are sentiant like us. They used to live here in Equestria a long time ago. But something forced them to abandon the land."
"Really? So, Zero's kind was the first to live here?" Spike asked, him and CMC wanting to learn more about Zero.
"Yes but if you want to learn more about their history, Zero himself or maybe even Twilight would be better to ask." She crosses her arms looking at them. "Now then, just like my family, I'm a dragon of my word. I'll answer any questions I can, little ones." She then looks to only her nephew. "Spike, I'll only answer a few questions about our family for now."
The CMC and Spike look to each other. The girls smile nodding to him, signaling him to go first in asking questions. Grateful to them, he smiles to them before turning back to his aunt with a nervous look and takes a deep breath.
"What are my parents like?" He asked after taking a moment to think.
"Mana and Leonidas, your mother and father, are both great dragons that are known by just about every dragon in the lands as the powerfullest dragons to exist." Emerald said surprising them. The four were about to start asking other questions but Emerald snaps her finger making a string tie their mouths closed. "Hold your questions while I'm in the middle of answering one."
She waited till they calmed down to undo the spell and continue. "Your mother and I look alike but she's actually really beautiful with sapphire, blue scales. Especially with her long golden mane." She chuckles seeing them with a mix of amazement and surprise from what they heard.
"Dragon's can grow manes like us?" Scootaloo questioned confused by what she was just told. "That'd I'd have to see to believe."
Emerald chuckled from this. "Well just so you know, it's true. Mana took a bit more after our grandfather who's part of a dragon spieces that can grow hair, fur or manes. Another thing about Mana is, unlike the rest of the family, she loved magic the most."
"My mom loved magic?" He asked interested in learning more about her.
Emerald nods. "Amongst dragons, she's the best at magic. Probably equal to the princesses. Though she'd deny it saying that one can never know unless tested, she'd never use her magic as a way to test strength and would show kindness to those that needed it."
Apple Bloom smiled. "She sounds really nice."
"She is. While her husband was another thing entirely." Emerald chuckled saying. "He stood out from how he's a bit smaller than me and Mana, but he makes up for the size with his strength. Leonidas could overpower an ursa major, even at this size we're in right now." The kids go wide eyed hearing that.
"No way!" Scootaloo shouted. "We've seen how big an ursa minor is. Just imagining the size of an ursa major would make it impossible for somepony our size to beat, even for a dragon."
Emerald laughed a bit. "Me and my sister thought the same thing when he tried impressing her. But he proved us wrong when he actually wrestled one in front of us and became friends with it after beating it."
"Are all dragons that strong?" Sweetie Belle was curious from how amazing Spike's father sounded.
"Nope. There are very few with amazing strength but Leonidas..." Emerald paused remembering back. "he became that strong over years of training and pushing himself pass his limits. But he didn't have just strength. He was part of a lineage of dragons that could control different elements."
Scootaloo raises a brow. "Elements? You mean like the Elements of Harmony?" Spike face palms himself at this while her friends sigh shaking their heads, whiched annoyed her. "What?!"
She holds in a laugh from watching the kids while shaking her head. "No. I mean the elements of nature. Such as fire, water, earth, wind, lightning and others." The kids quiet down enjoying what they're learning about Spike's parents and a bit about dragons. "Most of these dragons could only use one element. There were a few that could use two, three or even four elements. But Leonidas, he could actually use every element."
"All elements? How? Did he do something to be able to use them all? Can I use elements like him too?" Spike asked happy to be learning about his dad.
"I'd rather not give everything away about your father, but yes. He eventually was able to use all the elements from the limits he pushed himself through." Smiling from seeing them wanting to ask about it, she raises a claw to stop them. "We'll save that for another time."
"What?!" the four shouted upset. "But you said you'd answer my questions." Spike frowned standing up.
She nods. "Yes. But I said I'd only answer a few questions."
"But that ain't fair!" Apple Bloom exclaimed as she and her friends got up and stood next to Spike. "Spike has waited so long ta learn about his family."
"Yeah! You can't just expect him to hold off until the next time for him to ask again." Scootaloo added.
Emerald sighs crossing her arms. "Well, I was hoping you'd ask more about the family so then I could tell you about the promise I made that's keeping me from answering all your questions." The four now get completely surprised hearing that.
Spike looked up at his aunt with curious look. "Someone in our family made you promise not to tell me everything?"
"Who'd do that?" Sweetie Belle added equally curious. "His grandparents? Another aunt? Or maybe an unc-"
"His siblings." Emerald blurted out making the four go speechless.
While the girls were imagining what Spike's siblings looked like, Spike looked to the floor as his mind was working over what he was just told. He has siblings. Up until now, Spike only ever thought about who his parents were that the thought of him having brothers and/or sisters never came to mind. This both excited and made him happy to hear for a moment but then he saddened when the thought of the promise came back to him.
Spike looks back up to his aunt. "Who are my siblings? And why did they have you make a promise like that?"
Emerald began to doodle on the ground with her claw as she spoke. "You have two older siblings. You have an older brother named Caesar. He's the second oldest. And a sister named Fiamma, or Fia for short, the oldest of you three."
She pauses for a moment to show them a doodle of two big dragons, two small ones and an egg.
"They may have gone along with my decision to leave your egg with Princess Celestia, but they still didn't like the idea of leaving you. Which is why they had me make a promise to not tell you the whole story till all four of us are together." She smiles remembering when the promise was made. "I was hoping not to tell you until your parents were found. But Caesar and Fia figured you'd find out sooner and thought that it'd be the best time to reunite when you did."
Apple Bloom smiles. "So, that just means we need them ta come here."
"But how are we supposed to find or tell them?" Scootaloo questioned. "They could be anywhere."
"That's actually simple." Saying this, Emerald begins looking at the ground with her eyes glowing. she scanned around before coming to a stop looking at the ground in front of the kids, stabs her tail into the ground and pulls out a light blue gem. "We use this to find them."
The kids look questionably at the jem and then back at her. "How can a gem find them?" Sweetie Belle asked.
After smoothing out the gem, she holds it out to her nephew. "You remember how I transferred aura to you, right Spike?" He nods answering her. "If we mix our aura and magic with the natural aura in this gem, I can enchant it so that it'll begin to glow brighter and brighter the closer it gets to them."
"But that could take forever thou!" Apple Bloom exclaimed with the others agreeing.
"Yeah! You'd have to go traveling all around Equestria!" Scootaloo added.
"Not to mention if they even are in Equestria." Sweetie pointed out. "They could be in other lands as far as we know."
Hearing all these facts make Spike worry if he'd actually be able to find his siblings. He began trying to think of other ways he could find them. He could see if His aunt has another method to find them. Or maybe Twilight could have a spell to help track them down faster. He was even desperate enough to ask Discord for help.
But something in him was keeping him from asking. Before he could ponder on the feeling, his mind was brought to a stop by Emerald holding the gem in front of him.
"Don't worry, Spike. I'll be the one looking for them." She gave him a reassuring smile. "I can easily cover all of Equestria in a couple days on my own. Afterall, it was my choice that brought us to this point. It's only right that I reunite the three of you."
The girls smile at this. "That could work!" Sweetie shout happily.
"Yeah! With your speed, Spike will be reunited with his brother and sister in no time." Scootaloo agreed jumping excited.
"Isn't that great ta hear, Spike?" Apple Bloom lost her smile seeing Spike looking down at the ground with an unsure look. "Spike, are you okay?"
He looks up to her, hearing her question and sees her with a concerned look. Spike looks around to see everyone giving him the same concerned look. He looks back down as he fiddles with his fingers trying to think of what to say.
A While Before
"So. how long do we have to wait for Celestia?" Connor said in a bored tone while sitting on a chair with the main six seated on the couches in front and next to him. "No offense to your princess but I have more important things to do."
The rest of the main six had gotten to Twilight's library a bit after the others had left. While the girls were passing the time talking while eating snacks and drinking tea, Connor was working on an oval silver shaped device that was strapped to his right front leg with tools that he was holding with his magic.
"Sugarcube, I've never seen anypony aside from my family work on something as long and hard as your doing right now." Applejack said holding a cupcake. "Take it from me, yah really need to give yourself a break every now and then."
He looked at her confused. "This is me taking a break. What made you think I wasn't?" The girls look at him in disbelief.
Rainbow Dash flew up next to him. "What are you talking about?! You're still working!!" She shouted trying to make a point. "Ever since you've gotten here, you've just been working on these Rider stuff. Even now."
Connor sighs setting his tools down. "True. I guess I am still working. But this isn't anything for just Riders." He said holding up his leg with the device.
"Then what is it for?" Rarity asked as Rainbow took a closer look at it.
Be for he could answer, Pinkie pops in him and Rainbow. "It's a kaiju identifier called the CoreSeeker. It takes a picture of a kaiju, searchers through a huge amount of information that's contained in Zea and then shows you a file with info on that kaiju." she pauses having spoken it all quickly in one breath and takes another before continuing. "You can also use it to take samples or scan things to help figure out what kaiju it is." Pinkie finished saying with a smile, then hops back over and on to her seat.
"Yeah. That's pretty much spot on." Connor nods unphased by Pinkie.
"But how'd you know what it does, Pinkie?" Twilight questioned before looking to Connor. "And how aren't you surprised about how she knows?"
He shrugs. "I've already seen plenty of weird stuff from the Pinkie Pie I know. It just doesn't surprise you once you except that she knows and will find things out on her own. Isn't that what everyone else here has done."
Twilight stutters for a moment trying to think of a comeback but sighs giving up as she leans back in her seat to take a sip of her tea.
"But if you really want me to take a break from working on inventions, then maybe you all could help me figure out why and how the Tree of Harmony changed these bottles." Connor's horn glowed, popping in two fullbottles.
Flashback
"Hm. so, this is the Tree of Harmony." Discord said walking up to the tree with the main 6, Princess Celestia and Luna, Connor, Emerald, Reiji, Spike and the CMC. "Looks a little crooked to be a harmony tree, if you ask me."
"Good thing we aren't." Rainbow said making the kids laugh.
It had been the day after the battle with the kaiju and the group decided to go check on the Tree of Harmony after the princesses came with royal guards to see how the tree is doing.
"It looks absolutely wonderful." Rarity admired the sight of the tree.
Pinkie nods agreeing. "Yup! It looks a lot more better without the spiky vines around it, the dark scary circle in the sky and evil kaiju trying to destroy it." Everyone stared at Pinkie for a moment in silence as she smiled at the tree.
Connor shakes himself out of his stupor before walking up to the tree as he looks it over. "It seems to be alright. Doesn't seem to be dying. I say Discord was right. It just needed the Elements returned to it."
Saying this, everyone walked up closer to the tree. At that moment the main 6 began to faintly glow as the ground shook with the tree glowing brightly.
"It's an earthquake!" Applejack shouted.
The group moved closer together. "Discord, can you stop this-" Celestia was going to ask discord but stops seeing two lights build up in front the tree.
Luna lights up her horn, bracing for anything that could happen. "What's happening?"
The two lights shot out rainbow beams towards them, letting out a bright light making them cover their eyes. One hits the ground in front of the main 6 and the other curves hitting a saddlebag Connor had on.
"Can things never appear without a bright flash of light?" Connor complained as they let their eyes recover from the light. After recovering, he notices a light coming from his bag. "Hm? What's this?"
Reaching into his bag and pulls out the blank fullbottles with his magic. They have a rainbow energy glow pulsing through them for a moment before the bottles change into a dark transparent orange and the other into a transparent silver with both getting a different mold on the cover. The silver had the image of a capsule machine, while the orange had the image of a lion with bull horns, dragon wings next to it and a scorpion tail going along the bottom of it.
"Manticore and...gashapon?" He stared at the bottles. "Why would the tree do this? Do you guys have any idea what's going on?" He asked over his shoulder but no response. "Guys? What wrong with you- Oh."
He had turned looking questionably at them but then stares blankly, along with everyone else, at a large flower in front of them with a smooth crystal chest with 6 keyholes.
Flashback Ends
"I still don't see why Princess Celestia would think we can solve finding the keys on our own?" Rainbow complained crossing her front legs. "Is it too much to ask for a hint?"
She and the girls begin to think about it. Connor looked up at Rainbow confused and then at the rest of the girls with the same look seeing them think. He sighs shaking his head before looking back at the bottles.
"That's an easy thing to answer." He spoke in an annoyed tone making the girls look at him surprised. "How about trying to help me figure out why the tree made these fullbottles for me."
"What makes you think the chest is easy to answer?" Twilight asked curious what his thoughts on the chest are.
Rainbow flew up to him. "Yeah! What makes you say ours is simple and yours is the problem?" She demanded poking his muzzle with her hoof. "If you ask me, yours is the simplest. You got new bottles that make you into something awesome and win fights 20% cooler. That's about it. Ow." She ended rubbing her head after having a lock of her hair plucked off.
"How about leaving the "egghead stuff", as you'd put it, to the professionals here." Connor proceeds to lighting his horn and casts a spell that changes the whole room into an exact copy of the Tree of Harmony in the cave with the chest a few feet in front of it.
While the girls were amazed by how the room now looks completely the same as the cave, Pinkie had a huge smile, clapping her hooves together.
She hops over to Connor. "Can you make a copy of my family's home next? I'd really like to see how everyone is doing!" She asked excitedly but is ignored as he walked up to the chest.
"You need to create the keys." He bluntly states pointing a hoof at it. "Why else would it have six keyholes matching the same number as you six and the Elements. It's obvious the Tree of Harmony is testing you in some way."
"But that still doesn't tells us squat about those keys." Applejack argued.
Rarity agrees nodding. "And what could be inside the chest." She added after having taken a sip from her tea.
Connor shrugs. "If I had to guess, the keys are most likely connected to the Elements you represent. So, that'll all depend on you six. As for what's inside the chest, I'd say it's something that'll be a bigger responsibility than the Elements themselves. Or else, I wouldn't see the reason for the chest to be locked."
Twilight was about to question him what he meant by that, but their attentions get drawn hearing somepony knocking at the front door. "Coming!" She shouted as she left trotting over to the door.
Connor went back to his seat to look at his bottles again. "How'd the tree create these and for what reas-"
"YOU!" A loud female voice shouted. Connor looks up towards the girls confused, only to see them blinking towards the direction Twilight left to. The moment he turns to the direction, he gets tackled by a crimson red coated royal guard mare.
This causes the image spell to vanish. "You're under arrest for theft, criminal!" The mare shouted as the two rolled around fighting.
The girls are stunned by what is happening, along with Celestia and Twilight who are standing next to the hallway, as Connor tussles with the royal guard pony.
"Oh my." Fluttershy quietly said with fear as Connor and the mare punch each other.
"I bet six bits Connor will get his tail hoofed to him!" Rainbow receives a disapproving stare from Applejack. "What? You always have to go with the winner."
Pinkie hops in-between the two. "I'll take that bet!" She shouted full of confidence.
Applejack sighed shaking her head as her two friends cheered the fight on. Celestia and Twilight walked over next to the others while keeping their eyes on the fight.
Rarity and Fluttershy turn to their friend. "Twilight, do you have any idea what this is about?" Rarity asked confused by the situation.
"She seems to know Connor." Fluttershy added.
"I have no idea. Connor hasn't even gone to Canterlot before. Let alone met a royal guard." She looks to her teacher. "Princess, do you know anything about-"
"She's the captain of Canterlot's royal guard." The princess and the girls jump to their left having gotten startled by Connor who they found standing to their right watching the fight. "She's mad because I took her helmet."
They all look back and forth between the Connor in the fight and the one next to them for a moment. Twilight was about to ask him how he's in two places at once, but he holds up a hoof to stop her.
The captain stops as the Connor she's fighting glows the moment the real Connor lights up his horn. After a flash of light, she found herself trapped in a cage with the fake gone.
"What the buck?!" The captain was confused by what just happened until she glared seeing Connor next to everyone. "Thief, I'll have you thrown in the dungeons for this!"
"I have a feeling we missed something." Hearing another voice, everypony look back to the entrance of the hallway to see Princess Luna with her captain of the night guard who is a black coated pat pony stallion with red eyes.
Twilight lets out a tired breath. "Do you mind explaining this whole thing to us?" She asked looking back to Connor, along with everypony else.
"Nah. I'd rather finish the last touches on this thing for now." He answered with a bored expression holding up his leg again. "I'll just let Discord explain."
Everypony raised a brow at this. "But Discord isn't-" Twilight is cut off by flash of light.
"Gather around children. It's story time." Everyone found themselves seated in two rows, except for Connor who is on the couch continuing his work, in front of Discord who's seated on recliner. "Now our story begins in chapter 6 of Kamen Rider Jurassic. That goes for you readers as well. " The last part was said quietly by a second face appearing behind his head.
Vanhoover
A train slowed down coming to a stop, arriving at the town's train station. A moment after all the doors open letting ponies off, Reiji came walking out with another pony walking beside him.
The other pony next to him is Amethyst Star, a light magenta unicorn mare with a light purple mane, who used to be Ponyville's organizer before Twilight. The two had saddlebags on them as they walked into the small city.
"This place is amazing." Reiji said more to himself as he took in the sights of this new city he's never seen before.
To him it seemed similar to a city named Vancouver that he had visited once back in his original world. But this one seemed a bit smaller compared to the one he knew and was a mix of modern-day cities with natural wild greenery.
Amethyst laughed a bit. "You're like a little colt, Reiji. I'm guessing you don't travel much."
"Yeah. I barely started traveling. So, I've never been to places like this yet." He spoke only telling part of the truth. "Seeing new places is exciting. Especially when you learn about its history and the lives of the pe- I mean ponies living there."
"Maybe if we get the orders that the mayor wanted us to do done quickly, we can go exploring around for a while." Amethyst suggested.
Reiji smiled at the suggestion. "Now that'd be great!" He began to quicken his pace a bit. "Let's get a move on already then."
She giggled before picking up her pace. "Definitely a colt at heart." It only took her a moment to catch up. But before she noticed, Reiji wasn't next to her. She looked around quickly and found him a bit behind her standing still while holding his bag a bit open in front of him with his wings. "Reiji? Is something wrong?"
Inside the bag, he sees the OOO Driver glowing faintly in a blinking motion. "What's up with- Wha?!"
He along with everypony get surprised and startled as the ground begins to shake. Some things in the city get knocked over before the shaking stops only having lasted a moment.
The second they think it's over; a black glowing object shoots out of the ocean and high into the sky, which it then creates the same huge purple spell circle that appeared back in Ponyville. Chaos begins to take over the city as ponies scream panicking from the spell turning them into humans.
Especially Amethyst who is now a teenage girl version of herself with the same skin and hair color as her coat and mane, wearing a purple summer dress with her cutie mark on the side of it and pink slip-on shoes. Fear takes ahold of her knowing what came after the circle appeared last time.
"Reiji, we should-" She stops not seeing him anywhere around. "Reiji? Reiji, where are you!?"
"Sorry Amethyst, but I can't have you tagging along on this." He was peeking out at her from an alleyway now in his human form. He puts on his driver and then runs the scanner over it after having inserted the medals. "Henshin!"
(Taka!Tora!Batta!Ta-To-Ba!Tatoba!Tatoba! ) Reiji had transformed into OOO, then uses batta's power to jump up to a building's roof and runs towards the ocean jumping from roof to roof. He brings out his Primal Cell to type a message. "Hope everyone is able to get here in time." He sends the message before jumping a far distance on the last building to the shoreline.
"Okay. What are we dealing with today?" OOO looked around towards the water. Before he could react, a gold figure comes straight at him from the sky, grabbing him by the throat and flying back into the sky.
The figure flew OOO up to a nearby mountain where it drops him from a few feet up in the air. OOO manages to recover quickly by using batta's legs to bounce off from against a tree and lands on his feet.
"That was close. Now who-" The figure lands a few feet in front of him, which is a manticore looking kaiju in golden knight armor holding a sword. "Grifforzer?!"
"A Sentai? No. You're something else. " Grifforzer points his sword at OOO. "But I can tell you're just as much of a pest as them. I'll enjoy destroying you. " Grifforzer charges at OOO.
OOO ducks rolling under his sword. As Grifforzer turned around, OOO used his phone to summon out his sword, the Medajaribur Ver. Scanner. The two ran up to each other and began exchanging blows from their sword colliding.
The two's swords clashed, making them try pushing each other back. "What are you planning, Grifforzer? Why are you terrorizing the ponies?" OOO demanded.
"It'd be pointless to tell you. You'll be dead before you can help them. "
Grifforzer then fires an energy blast from his eyes hitting OOO point blank in the chest causing him to stumble back with sparks flying. Before he could regain his balance, Grifforzer gets two slashes on OOO while passing him, along with another slash when the two had turned facing each other, making the Rider fly landing on his back.
"All you have to know is that this area, along with the ponies will be destroyed by our armies. " Grifforzer points his sword towards the city where an explosion sound is heard only a second after.
OOO know what that means quickly gets up and runs to the mountain's edge to look down towards the city, where destruction and smaller explosions can be heard. Using Taka's eyes, he sees two humanoid kaiju standing in the middle of the city with three different small armies of grunts spread around attacking some of the ponies/people and destroying things around the city.
He sees the Imp grunts form the last battle, along with two different ones. One of the other grunts are light blue with have warped ghost-like faces. The third grunts were gray colored with dried rock looking hands and faces.
"Go! Cause chaos and destruction! " One of the kaiju shouted to the grunts. This kaiju is masculine with blue skin and silver armor holding a two ended pitchfork staff. Having four clear spheres on its legs, chest and forehead, big curved shoulders, bat like wings and big white horns on both sides of its head.
"If anyone wants cucumbers, then Kappa here is happy to provide. " The 2nd kaiju laughed implying himself. This kaiju looked like an ahphibian being yellow and green with a bif red dot on his cheat, goggles and red speedos. Kappa holds up two cucumbers in his hands. "Cucumber Bomb! " Kappa throws the cucumbers to the nearest building and explode it upon impact.
"NO!!" OOO quickly stands and is about to run to help but gets knocked back down from a energy beam hitting him from behind.
Looking behind him, Grifforzer walks up slowly pointing his sword at him. "The only way you're helping them, is by getting through me first, Senati. "
"The name is Kamen Rider OOO!" He shouted charging at Grifforzer after standing up.
Twilight's Library
After Discord had finished his story telling, everyone had taken a seat around the table in the living room, except for the guards who stood next to the princesses.
Aside from Connor continuing his work back on the recliner, Discord had popped in a wide selection of snacks for everyone and made special seats for Pinkie and Rainbow since they didn't have enough for everyone. Rainbow was completely relaxing on a cloud that's the most comfortable she had ever rested on.
As for Pinkie, she was happily taking bites out of a big cotton candy pillow she was laying on, which kept growing back. She felt like she was in heaven from how each bite she took filled with chocolate milk and whip cream.
"I have to say Discord, I never would've expected this much of a change in you." Celestia admitted smile.
Luna nods agreeing "Yes. We were thinking you'd be showing this change more-" Luna pauses noticing different colored star shaped spots on her and her sister. "Never mind. You're still enjoying yourself with chaos."
"Of course. Being reformed doesn't get rid of my mischievous ways." Discord said taking a sip of tea while dressed in a tuxedo. The second he rests his arms down, a bunch of different prank items came spilling out of his sleeves. "That is a part of myself I refuse to ever change."
He then poofs his outfit way. "Though, you can thank my friends for my change." He looked to the main 6 and then over to Connor. "They let me freely be myself. But with some understandable limitations"
Celestia and Luna raise a brow curious at this. "What exactly are these limitations you've all made." Celestia asked.
"We can talk about that some other time." Everyone turned to Connor. "For now, can we move on to the kaiju discussion like we had planned?" The princesses blushed a bit having forgotten what they originally came to talk about.
"And what would a thief know about those monsters?" The mare guard questioned him while glaring daggers at his back. Luna's guard tried shoving against her signaling her to stop but is ignored as she continues. "Unlike the rest of us, you don't seem like the reliable type."
Before anypony could say anything, Connor's small vehicles, the Engines, came bursting out of the basement surprising everyone carrying his Rider phone over to him.
Connor takes a hold of it with his magic and sees he has a message from Reiji saying 'Kaiju at Vanhoover'. Everyone could tell something was wrong from how he went from curious to serious in an instant. Connor takes off his new device and tosses it to Twilight.
"Discord, please teleport Spike and the other back here now. We've got no time to waste." He immediately said. Discord just salutes before snapping his fingers and vanishing in a flash.
Castle of the Two Sisters
Spike and the others were still seated in front of the castle ruins with Emerald's and the CMC's eyes on him. He kept looking down at the ground trying to figure out what he's feeling.
The CMC were so focused on Spike, that they didn't notice Emerald seemed to be in thought. 'Could it be "that"?' She thought to herself looking down at Spike. 'If that's the case, then I'm sure he'll figure out the answer soon.'
"Maybe your stomach is just upset." Scootaloo suggested. "You do like to eat a lot of gems." She notices her friends frowning at her. "What?"
Apple Bloom looks back to him. "Spike, don't yah want to meet your siblings?" She was concerned about what her friend was feeling.
"No. It's not that." He answered without looking up. "To tell you the truth, I'm not really sure what I'm feeling."
Sweetie got up to walk over and sits next to his left side. "Maybe you're just getting nervous at the thought of meeting them."
Spike shakes his head. "No. It's not that either. It's just..." He pauses to look up at the sky. "it almost feels like-" He gets cut off as he and the others get startled by Discord appearing above them in a flash of light.
"Sorry to cut this trip short folks. But Spike is needed back at the library." Before they could ask him anything, Discord snapped his fingers and teleported them all back into the library in an instant.
Emerald and the kids shook off the daze they were in before looking around to see Twilight and the others in the room with them.
"Connor, what's going on?" Emerald asked afraid of the answer.
"Reiji sent us a message saying kaiju are attacking Vanhoover." He answered making Spike and ponies' gasp. "Knowing him, he's most likely already trying to help by fighting on his own. We need to get there soon. So, here's the plan. Princesses, you and-"
Celestia's captain lands in front of Connor. "What gives you the nerve or authority to order the princesses around?" This upset his friends a bit. "A thief shouldn't be in charge of such a serious matter. And how do we know your friend isn't just making this all up?" She ended poking Connor's chest with her hoof.
The princesses we about to scold for her misbehavior but are stopped by Discord who makes a stop sign appear in front of them. As they were about to question him, Connor takes out the Build Driver and puts it on changing him into his human state, which shocks the two captains.
"First of all, I'm not a thief, Captain. I technically did return your helmet." He said in his normal tone. "But I can understand not trusting me and my friend have to say. And true, I shouldn't be ordering the princesses around, but this is an emergency. We can't be wasting time. Spike, Rider time." He said looking to Spike.
Spike runs to his side taking out the same belt and puts it on changing into a human state as well, which once again shocked the captains. "Cross-Z!" He called out holding up his right hand. Cross-Z Dragon flew out of Spike's bag and lands in his hand after folding its tail and head in.
While Connor shook his two fullbottles, Spike did the same with his dragon bottle before putting it into Cross-Z. (Wake Up!) The two then inserted their items into the belts. (Rabbit!Tank! Best Match! /Cross-Z Dragon!) Jingles play for a monent till they then turned the belt's crank which creates constructs around them. (Are you ready! ) "Henshin!" They shouted taking a stance before straightening themselves out as the constructs closed on them.
(Hagane nomoonsault!RabbitTank!Yeah!/Wake up burning! Get Cross-Z Dragon! Yeah!) The shock continued seeing that Connor had transformed Build while Spike transformed into Cross-Z, the heroes that were described to had saved Ponyville.
"Twilight, Emerald and Discord, if that spell is around again, you two are going to need to lead everypony to safety while me and Cross-Z deal with the problem." Build said to the three before looking to the rest. "The rest of you will need to wait out of that spell's field in case anypony is able to leave the area."
Everybody nodded in agreement. "We'll see what we can do about that spell." Celestia says adding to the plan.
"Yes. I'm sure between me and my sister, we'd be able to shatter that spell." Luna said moving next to her sister.
Build shakes his head. "No. There's no telling how magic from another world could react to being tampered with by magic from this world. There's also the chance the kaiju could up their intentions if something is done to their spell."
"He's right, Princess Celestia." Twilight said speaking up. "I've seen what the kaiju can do. It's better if we follow Build's plan until we know more about them and their magic."
The two sisters look to each other before looking back. "Very well." Celestia agreed.
"Plus, this will give me a chance to look into a theory." Build said to himself before nodding to Discord who gives him a thumbs up and snaps his fingers teleporting them out of the library and to the outside the veil of the spell circle.
The ponies, Emerald and Cross-Z gasp at the scene of destruction happening inside. Rainbow is the first of the group to react without thinking, running forward but Build reacts in time and grabs her by the tail.
"Hey, what's the big idea!? We need to help them!" She shouted.
"Sorry Rainbow, but you need to wait here." He lets go of her tail. "I know it's not easy to just sit and watch, but without knowing how to walk in a human state, you'll just be in the way in there." Reluctant at first, Rainbow settles down letting out a frustrated breath before nodding. He turns back to the group. "Let's go!"
Build and Cross-Z run into the field first with Twilight, Emerald and Discord going in a minute after. Discord stops after entering the veil to quickly check to see if it's safe to go back out. He smiles seeing it is and then runs back through to catch up.
The two Riders see a couple ponies/people being attacked by Imps, Build summons out the Vortex Saber while Cross-Z unsheathes the Beat Closer, which looks like a dagger for a second before returning to its original size, and the Riders begin slashing their way through the Imps.
Destroying the Imps and continuing to advance forward, Twilight stops to calm the frighten citizens and then directs them towards safety, which they gladly follow crawling as fast as they could. She looks ahead to see the Riders fighting the other set of grunts, having caught their attention.
Seeing the opportunity, she holds up her wrist with the CoreSeeker, aiming the camera at the grunts. The top of the device folds open to show a screen and buttons. On the screen, it shows to be scanning the grunts and brings up the data on them, showing their name, abilities and which Sentai world they're from.
"It works!" She shouted excited. "Now let's see. Those gray ones are Golem Soldiers from Zyuranger and the other are Dorodoros from Kakuranger." She looks through the data on them. "So. they're just the henchmen. Then who's commanding them?" She looked around trying to find any other kaiju.
Build switches his weapon to gun mode and began shooting the grunts that came running up to him. As more come running up to him, he jumps up to the roof using rabbit's ability and brings out two fullbottles. (Vacuum!Phoenix! Cross Combo! ) His weapon announces as he fires a spinning orb of fire in the middle of huge group of grunts, which it pulls them into it and destroying them from a phoenix bursting out of the orb.
"Shoot!" Cross-Z barely managed to avoid two Dorodoro swing swords at him and slashes them as he went running past them. He looks to Build to see him mowing down the grunts with his gun. "Wonder if Build would be willing to trade weapons."
"Seems like there are rodents no matter where you go. " Cross-Z turns around to see the demon kaiju. "If you're smart, you'll turn around and run if you want to keep your life. "
"I'm a dragon. Not a rodent. And the name is Kamen Rider Cross-Z." He then points to it. "I don't know who you are, but this is your only warning. Stop all this now."
The kaiju chuckled. "I'll give you this, you have guts for challenging me. Now, here's the answer to my surrender. " Using his staff to hit launching pieces of rubble at Cross-Z.
Barely managing to react in time, Cross-Z jumps forward onto the ground avoiding the grunts as they smashed through a building. The kaiju ran up to him as he got up and began his assault swinging his staff at Cross-Z, who was having a hard time avoiding the swings and withstanding the hits when blocked with his sword.
Still on the roof, Build was having an easier time as he ducked and jumped over the grunts swings. He came slashing down at one and quickly turned around slashing three at once. Build then dashes to the edge of the roof while turning the crank on his belt and jumps off heading towards another small group off grunts.
(Ready Go! VortexFinish!Yeah!) Build thrusts forward in a kick covered in a red and blue essence energy, going through the small group and destroying them all in one go. "That takes care of them. How many more are around? Huh?" He had said to himself looking around till he heard Cross-Z's fight and looks towards it seeing the kaiju.
"Cobolda?! Even high ranking kaiju are here? I can't leave Cross-Z to face him on his own." Build ran a few feet towards them but then jumps back avoiding cucumbers that explode where he would've been. He looks towards the direction they came from and sees the amphibian kaiju on top of a roof above him. "Great. It's Kappa."
"This is as far as you'll advance, little rabbit. " Kappa jumps down to Build and swings a punch at him. Build avoids the punch but it's what Kappa planned as he grabbed a hold of him from behind. "Phantom Portal! "
The two teleported to Vanhoover's amusement park, Playland, appearing on top of a ferris wheel. Kappa throws Build off from the top, having him crash and smashing into a carnival stand.
Build hisses a bit coming out of the stand. "Was that really necessary? Uh-oh." He had shouted up to Kappa and then began running as he threw the explosive cucumbers down at him.
Kappa kept teleporting to high spots to continue throwing cucumbers, causing explosions. The spinning teacups got blown to bit as Build jumped over the fence, ran through the ride and jumped back over.
"Stand still, boy! I promise it'll only hurt for a moment! " Kappa shouted laughing in joy.
(Harinezumi!) Build's weapon called out from him inserting the hedgehog bottle and then switches it to gun mode. "Fine by me." Rolling away from the cucumbers, he aims towards Kappa and fires multiple quill needles that cause the cucumbers to explode midair.
A couple of the needles got past the cucumbers. "Gah! " The kaiju shouted getting hit with sparks flying off him and falls off the building to the floor.
"Dragon and lock should do the job ending this." Build brings out said fullbottles but gets surprised as an octopus with a face of a woman wear sunglasses comes out of nowhere and grabs onto him from behind. "What the- Rokurokibi!"
"Sorry to interrupt. But no one hurts my darling, boy. " She says keeping her hold on him as she forces him to turn around where he sees her black and white headless body run up with a naginata.
Build gets hit by the bladed staff twice before Rokurokibi lets go and sends him flying back after switching positions. Using the roll from flying back, Build gets back on one knee to see Kappa and Rokurokibi standing side by side.
"What?" Build said noticing dragon and lock gone from his hands. He looks back to the two kaiju as the octopus head attaches onto the headless body.
"Looking for these, boy? " With her hands against her hip, Rokurokibi is holding dragon, lock, hedgehog, robot, bike, eraser, ghost and wolf fullbottles in her tentacles.
Kappa holds out a yellow ball with green circles. "Seems our fun will continue. " He then drops and kicks the ball towards Build.
Unable to react in time, he gets hit by the ball. "Ah!!" Build shouted as he's sent through a wall, landing in a gift shop with stuff animals falling on him.
Outside the City
Celestia and the others were helping treat ponies that were able to make it out the city that make it out of the city thanks to Twilight, Emerald and Discord helping and directing them towards the direction to safety. The ponies returned to normal after leaving the spell's field as they changed from human to pony.
The only pony not helping was a frustrated Rainbow Dash, wanting to go in and help her friends. She was flying a bit high up to look into the city where she could see the explosions from Build's and Cross-Z battle, along with barely seeing some trees at a nearby mountain fall our, which could be where Reiji is probably fighting.
She sees one more explosion go off in the city. "That does it! I'm going in there!" Rainbow shouted but as she was about to enter a lasso caught one of her back legs and held her in place. She looks back to see Applejack holding on to the other end. "What's the big idea, AJ?!" She shouted flying back and landing in front of her friend.
"Look I know how yah feel, Dash but yah can't just go rushin' in there. We don't even know how ta move around in there like Twilight and Discord. Even if we could, we'd probably just be in the way of Connor and the other if we tried fightin' too." Applejack said trying to reason with her.
Rarity walks up next to Applejack. "She's right, Rainbow. I'm sure Twilight and the others are fine. They know what they're doing."
"I know but" Rainbow paused letting out a frustrated breath. "sitting around like this doesn't feel right. You know what I mean, right squirt?" She said expecting her number one fan to agree but no one responds. "Squirt? Where is Scootaloo?" Asking after not seeing her surrogate little sister anywhere.
Her two friends become worried hearing as they began searching around. Knowing from experience that at moments like this if one CMC is missing, the other two are sure to also be gone as well.
Not seeing them anywhere, the two run towards the veil where Pinkie and the guards are waiting to help any ponies too hurt over to the Princesses and Fluttershy, with Rainbow flying over them.
"Pinkie!" Rarity shouts getting their pink friend's and the guards' attentions. "Have any of you seen Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom?"
While the guards shake their heads, Pinkie nods smiling. "Yup siree! I helped them sneak by a while ago. They pinkie promised to get me a souvenir while they went in the city to use the bathroom." They go wide eyed at her while she taps her chin looking into the city. "Wonder what they're going to pick."
"PINKIE!!" The three older sisters shouted at the pink mare.
"What? I'm sure they'll be safe if they're with Spike and the others."
Middle of the City
"Aaahhh!!" Cross-Z screamed as he flew through the air and went crashing through a glass window of a china shop. Shaking the dizziness from his head, he notices the items around him shaking. "Nonononono!" He repeatedly said till everything stopped, staying in place. Coss-Z lets out a sigh of relief. "Wonder how nothing broke from me crashing in here?"
Right then, Cobolda comes smashing through the wall next to him causing all the pots, dishes, teacups, and other similar items to fall and break. Cross-Z drops his sword as he gets grabbed by his throat as Cobolda dragged him along smashing through walls.
After going through three buildings, Cobolda pins Cross-Z against a wall and chuckles watching the Rider try to remove his hand from his throat.
"Looks like you were just all talk. " The kaiju said in a disappointed tone. "Nothing but a weakling trying to be a hero. Get out of my sight. " Cobolda shoots out blasts of fireballs from his mouth.
"AAAHH!!" Cross-Z gets blasted at point blank range through a wall, rolls across the ground and is sent sliding on his back across the road. He grunts trying to stand but falls onto his hands and knees.
Cobolda walks out of the building through the hole. "Is that all you have to offer, rodent? Even my enemies, GoGoFive had more backbone than this. Guess I'll just have to put you out of your misery. " The kaiju said walking next to Cross-Z and holds his weapon over the Rider's head before raising it up.
Cross-Z braces for the hit as it strikes downward towards him. (Ready Go! Vortex Break! ) "Ah!! "Cobolda shouted in pain from orange fireballs hitting him from the right making him stumble back a bit. "Who did that!? " The kaiju shouted turning towards the direction of the attack with Cross-Z doing the same.
Standing to their left is the CMC with Scootaloo holding Build's original primary weapon, the Drill Crusher and the other two helping her, along with themselves, stay standing up.
"Leave our friend alone!" Scootaloo shouted to the kaiju.
Cross-Z being shock is a bit happy to see his friends but is mostly filled with worry as they got Cobolda's attention. "Damn insects! You dare to challenge me, Beast Baron Cobolda!? " The kaiju shoot out blasts of fireballs again towards the girls.
Without even thinking, Cross-Z finds the strength to stand, getting in the way of the attack, takes the hit and lands next to the girls. "Cross-Z!" The CMC moved as quickly as they could to their friend's side.
Cobolda scoffed. "Still acting like a hero? Pathetic. " (Gaburyu Breaker! ) Cross-Z summons his weapon. (Sapphire Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Sonic!) He leaves at high speed with the CMC before the kaiju could do anything. "You can run, but you won't escape me. " Cobolda spun him around and dug into the ground.
Cross-Z ran till they came across a museum that made him decide for them to hide inside. Once inside, jumped over a counter and sent them down with the reception counter keeping them hidden a bit.
"What are you three doing here? And where'd you get that?" He asked looking at the weapon.
"We forgot ta give you this." Apple Bloom holds out, handing a Primal Cell to Cross-Z. Its designed like Build's but has his color scheme and symbol on the back. "Connor gave it ta us yesterday to test for him before giving it to you."
Flashback
The scene kept switching between Connor who's down in the basement working on a staff looking device while holding his phone next to himself with his magic and the CMC sitting in their clubhouse circled around the Primal Cell that's on the floor.
"Okay, girls. Let's try the voice command now." He said while fixing a circuit.
"Aya aya, sir." Scootaloo responded as the three saluted.
Sweetie Belle holds the phone in place with one hoof while pushing the trigger button on the top right corner with the other. "Transport-Drill Crusher." She read off a piece of paper next to her after it made a confirmation noise.
The weapon's name appeared on the screen while said weapon was digitizing as it transported from behind Connor and rematerializes next to the girls. "IT WORKED!!" The CMC shouted jumping with joy.
Once they stopped, a thought came to Apple Bloom. "Say Connor, why are yah makin' this for Spike? Can't he already make his stuff appear on their own?" This question got her friends wondering the same thing as they waited for his response to the question.
Connor smiled from his side as he worked. "It isn't just for him. It's for all of you." This surprised the girls. "I'm not the type of guy to leave others hanging like this. Plus with Spike being the only hero here to fight kaiju, he's going to need help from time to time."
Finishing the circuits, he puts on his belt to change into human form, making the tools he was holding with his magic fall to the ground. The quickly caught his phone before it fell, then looked to the staff and picked it up as he twirled it around a bit.
"Since me and the other Riders won't be here much, it'll be up to you girls and the others to have his back when he needs it." He ends resting the staff on his shoulder.
The CMC smile, happy being given this responsibility. "You can count on us, Connor. THE CMC ARE ON THE JOB!!" Apple Bloom had said till all three shouted the final part.
"I'm sure he's in good hooves." Connor said before looking to some other devices on the table. "Since you girls are meeting him tomorrow, I'll leave the Primal Cell with you three to give to him. I have another project to work on before it's time for me and the others to head back to Canterlot High." He hung up without giving the girls the chance to ask about the school.
Flashback Ends
"We felt really bad for forgetting to give it to you and decided to sneak in to find you, so we could give it to you." Scootaloo admitted feeling down like her friends.
"We're sorry, Cross-Z." Sweetie Belle apologized looking down along with her friends, feeling like they failed him and Connor.
Cross-Z stayed silent for a moment before holding out his knuckle out to them, which confused them. "You may have gotten it to me late, but it's good to know I can count on you three to have my back," The CMC smile hearing this and bumps fists with his.
Cross-Z smiled from underneath his helmet moment. Though their peaceful time ends as he fells the ground shake a bit but it intensifies as seconds passing. Knowing what's most likely coming, he pushes the Primel Cell's trigger button.
"Transport- Beat Closer." A second before Cobolda comes bursting out of the ground, the sword materializes with Cross-Z taking ahold of it in time to block the kaiju's pitchfork thrusted through the counter and colliding into his sword.
"Did you really think you could run? " Cobolda took a quickly looked around as he pushed back Cross-Z bit by bit. "Seems like a reasonable place for a rodent and insects to die. "
His arms begin to tire from trying to use all his strength to push Cobolda. Looking from the corner of his eye, Cross-Z sees the CMC backing up along with him with scared looks.
"Fool! " Cobolda momentarily stops putting strength into pressing his weapon to slam the other end of his weapon into Cross-Z's side, making sparks fly as he fell to one knee and quickly puts strength into holding the Beast Baron back. "Never take your eye off the battle. You'll be learning this leason with your life. "
"CROSS-Z!!" The CMC were worried for their friend seeing the ground crack under Cross-Z from Cobolda putting more strength into crushing the Rider.
Cross-Z's vision begins to blur as his body feels as if it's about to break. 'Is this how you plan to let it end?' A male voice suddenly can be heard in his head. 'If you fall here, then what will happen to your friends?' A female voice questioned that made his eyes shoot open from under his helmet from the thought of what would happen to the CMC sending a chill down his spine.
"What!? " Cobolda is surprised as Cross-Z begins pushing him back while raising back up to his feet. Cobolda could feel as power surges from Cross-Z and makes him take a step back. "How are you doing this? Where's this power coming from? " Cobolda questioned Cross-Z while being force back step by step.
The flames on Cross-Z's armor glowed before actual flames ignited from them. "You can hurt me, beat me around, and even think little of me." The Beast Baron was being pushed back faster and faster as the Rider spoke. "But I'll never, ever hurt any of my friends and loved ones!"
The two smash through the front door bringing them into the middle of the street, Cross-Z resummons his knuckle weapon, uses the sword's hilt to press charging it. (Cross Knuckle! ) Shoving the kaiju off, he jabbed Cobolda square in the chest making the kaiju skid back.
"And I'm not just a hero. I'm a Kamen Rider." He takes a battle stance. "Kamen Rider Cross-Z!"
While at the Mountain
Sparks flew off OOO as he fell against a tree. He quickly uses the tree to push himself away in time to avoid Grifforzer's sword as the kaiju slashed through, cutting down the tree. OOO lands a few feet away and rolls onto one knee.
"You can't keep this up forever, OOO. " Grifforzer said turning to face OOO. "I suggest you surrender now. Even my enemy, the Zyurangers hardly stood a chance against me alone. What make you any different from them? "
"That may be true but" OOO untilts his belt while standing up. He then takes out his three medals and brings out rhino, turtle and condor medals. "I have a lot more tricks up my sleeves." He tosses his sword at Grifforzer and makes a mad dash towards him.
Hitting the sword to the side, Grifforzer covers his sword's blade in flame-like energy before launching it as a blast towards OOO, who ducks and rolls under it while inserting the medals and tilting his belt. (Sai!Kame!Condor!)
Grifforzer ran up to the Rider to swing his sword down at him, but it gets blocked by a turtle shell. "How'd you- Gah! " Grifforzer was surprised by how OOO's form having changed. The Rider then shoves the sword to the side and delivers a headbutt with the rhino horn straight to the kaiju's chest making him stumble back.
OOO's head had changed to rhino and legs to Condor. The middle image had changed to part of a turtle while his shoulder pads now having a shell design along with the arms each having half a shell.
"Like I said, I have a lot more tricks up my sleeves." OOO ran up to the kaiju, who tries to strike again but OOO blocked the sword again with one of the shell arms and then hits Grifforzer with multiple kicks to his waist before twirling once to round house kick the side of his head. "Next set." OOO said taking out the medals again.
(Kuwagata!Kangaroo!Wani!) The scanner called out changing OOO arms to kangaroo while his head helmet color changed to dark green with shape now being a stag beetle with orange eyes and legs being a dark orange with the outer part of the legs having a crocodile head shape.
While Grifforzer was still recovering, OOO hits him with jabs from kangaroo's boxing gloves. He then swings three kicks at the kaiju with an orange energy crocodile head biting down on him along with each kick. Grifforzar catches the last kick and is about to shoot lasers from his eyes again but OOO fires green electricity from his helmet's pincers, shocking and pushing the kaiju back.
(Komori!Kamakiri!Cheetah!) Grifforzer head looking back but sees OOO is gone. Looking around for a moment, he begins to hit by OOO multiple times as he ran by using cheetah's speed and using kamakiri's swords to slash Grifforzer as he ran by. "How do you have so many changes? " The kaiju shouted asking and then gets surprised by OOO stopping in front of him.
Before Grifforzer could do anything the Rider lets out a powerful sonic screech that hits sending the kaiju smashing through a couple trees with sparks flying off him. "Can't really tell you. That's just how OOO works." (Tatoba!) "And now for the finish."
Grifforzer stands up. "What makes you so sure you can? " He launches the flame energy blast towards the Rider. OOO quickly jumps back avoiding the attack and uses a tree to thrust himself forward using batta's legs, along with hitting Grifforzer with the tora claws as he went by him.
OOO lands rolling next to, picking up his sword and inserts three cell medals into it as he stood up. "This sword actually." OOO slides the scanner, connecting it to the back of his sword making a confirmation noise and then while holding the sword's trigger, making a similar scanning noise, he runs it over his belt. (Sync! Tatoba Charge! )
Grifforzer got up as the sword mimics the Tatoba like melody with OOO got into a stance with three colored rings appearing aligned in front of him. "Seiya!" Thrusting the sword into the green ring making it launch itself along with the other two rings that make three yellow claws acting as wings and a red beak aimed at Grifforzer. He tries to use his sword to stop the attack, but it pushes him forward against a tree for a moment before breaking through it and off a cliff of the mountain exploding.
OOO pants a bit as he walks towards the cliff's edge. "At least now I kn ow multiple changes are le ss tiring than combos. Ah?!" Reaching the edge, he gets surprised by Grifforzer flying back up, a few feet away from him.
"I'll admit, that was impressive, OOO. But how long will that strength last? " Grifforzer flies higher into the sky.
OOO takes out three medals. "Damn this guy. He just won't stay down." He switches the medals and jumps off the cliff after running the scanner over his belt. (Taka!Pegasus!Batta!) Using pegasus's wings, OOO flies up after Grifforzer.
Amusement Park
The two kaiju walked up to the giftshop that Build had been hit into. They look inside to see no movement anywhere inside.
"I think you might've killed the boy, darling. " Rokurokubi said looking to Kappa.
"Well if the little rabbit is smart, then he'll stay dead. " The amphibian kaiju then locks arms with his partner. "Now that the pest is taken care of, " He paused as they turned their backs to the shop and begin to walk away. "what do you say we go have the time of our lives hurting the ponies. I'm sure that'd be- "
(Manticore!Gashapon! Best Match! ) Kappa is cut off, making them turn to see Build stand up from the pile of stuff animals turning the belt's crank and creating the constructs. (Are you ready? ) "Build up." The construct closes changing builds armor to the new set that formed. (The capsuled filled mystic beast!Mantipon!Yeah!)
Rabbit had been replaced with an orange armor color with the right hand having a red lion paw design on the palm, a red scorpion tail design wrapping around the left leg, black dragon wings on his back, and the orange visor being shaped as a lion face with horns on both sides of the helmet.
Tank's side was now red with a bit of blue on leg and yellow on the thigh, different colored capsule images running along the red chest armor, left arm has a tube with a chute door and a gashapon machine as the shoulder pad, and a red visor in the shape of a capsule bursting open.
While the two kaiju stumbled with their words as Build's belt summons out the same staff from the memory. (Manti-staff! ) It now has a red and orange frame along with its silver, a bottle slot like the Beat Closer's above the handle grip, a trigger around the handle, a capsule design at the bottom tip and a manticore at the top with a 5 colored dial setting a few inches under it. "I'll be the one to find the formula to this equation."
Kappa made a katana appear in his hand. "You're going to regret not stay down, boy. " The two then charge at the Rider, who does the same. He ducks under Rokurokubi's naginata, while blocking the katana with his staff.
"Hold still, boy- Gah!! " She screamed out from Build had twisted around to thrust his right leg into a kick, hitting her in the gut and sending her smashing into a wall from the scorpion tail design having extended out.
"Honey! You'll pay for that, brat! " Kappa swung ferociously. Build blocked each strike with his staff or avoided it for a while before flapping his wings jump back a good distance. "Die! " The kaiju shouted holding out the ball again and kicking it at Build.
"Batter up." Holding the staff like a baseball bat, Build hits the ball right back with more force and speed. Kappa didn't have a chance to move, gets hit by the ball, drags and smashes him through some benches in a food court area. "Now would that be a homerun or a goal?"
Before the naginata could hit him, Build sees a shadow and moves out of the way of Rokurokubi bringing her weapon down on him. "No one gets away with hurting my darling! " The two exchange blows as their weapons clashed until she holds them in place. "Now I have you! " Her head detaches itself and flies around to attack Build from behind.
"I'd rather not go through that again." He takes the manticore bottle out of the belt and slides it into the weapon's slot. (Bottle Charge! ) He then changes the staff's dial to green and pulls the trigger sending energy to the wings of the manticore tip. (Manti-Scythe! ) The wings on the manticore energizes, extending out into orange see through scythe wings.
He quickly shoves the body back to strike it twice with slashes and then turns to slash the head. "Aaahhh!! " "I'll be taking back my bottles." Build said after she shouted in pain and cuts off all the tentacles holding his fullbottles. "GAAAHHH!! "
"Honey! My dear wife, what'd he do to you. Ah! " Kappa jumped catching his wife's head but then gets stung by Build's scorpion tail. "We're leaving. Phantom Portal. " The two kaiju then disappear leaving a puff of smoke.
"Oh, no you don't." Build brings out the magnet bottle and slides it into the staff's slot. (Capsule Charge! Manti-Surprise! ) The weapon announced in Pinkie Pie before and after Build pulls the trigger, making the capsule end's lid pop open to create an energized magnet around itself. He then turns the staff to hold up the magnet up pointing to the sky.
As ponies/people were trying to leave the city, Kappa holding his wife's head and body in his arms appeared in front of them, making them freeze in fear. "You know darling, after what just happened, I could go for torturing some ponies. "
Kappa laughed. "I couldn't agree more, honey. Now the question is who to- What?1 " They had gotten closer to the citizens slowly till they started to be pulled back by a force and then screamed as they were dragged through the sky, land back in the amusement park, in front of Build, and they get hit back a few feet by the staff. "How'd you- " Kappa asked getting up.
"When I stung you." He answered pointing his staff at them. "I used my stinger to inject a bit of manticore's essence into you two, just in case you tried teleporting away, that I'd be able to drag you back easily." Build has magnet shoot out the slot. "Now to continue the fun." He holds up shark, hedgehog, phoenix, fire truck and robot fullbottles.
"Cucumber Bomb! " Build shoots out capsule balls from his left wrist as Kappa threw cucumbers at him. The two projectiles collide causing the cucumbers to explode. (Capsule Charge! ) "Phantom Portal " He inserted the shark bottle while changing the staff's dial to blue as the kaiju teleported in front of him about to strike with the katana. (Manti-Mix! ) A blue energy shark head with bull horns formed as Build thrusted the staff into the sword, having the head bite off the sword's blade and hits Kappa's chest.
As the kaiju fell on his back, Rokurokubi charged at Build from both sides, which Build responds by using hedgehog and phoenix. (Capsule Charge! Capsule Charge! Manti-Surprise! ) The Rider slams the capsule tip into the ground making burning red feathers and white needles shoot out of the ground hitting both the head and body of the kaiju.
(Capsule Charge! Capsule Charge! ) Rokurokubi hears Build use the last two bottles and sees the capsule tip create a grey robotic claw with a red ladder acting as an arm. (Manti-Surprise! ) "Wait, wait wait! Aaaaaahhhhh!!! " The claw launched, extending to grab her head, which Build then swung her towards her body.
Her body tries to catch her but gets dragged along with her and wind-up crashing into her husband, Kappa, making the two fall over.
"Now for the finish." Build turns the belt's crank. "The law of victory have been set." (Ready Go! ) The gashapon machine's chute door glows shooting out huge capsules hovering all around them. (VortexFinish!) Build hits a capsule with the staff making them all bounce all-around hitting Kappa and Rokurokubi multiple times till they all collided on the two, except for four last ones the pop open to reveal pieces that combine into a manticore. (Yeah!)
"Honey!/Darling! " The two kaiju screamed out as manticore slammed into and causes them to explode, destroying the two.
Build lets out a breath of relief. "Two annoying yokai taken careof. Now to get back to- Hm?" He stops taking notice of two capsules where the yokai were destroyed. He walks over and picks them up, feeling them shake a bit. "Wait. A re they-"
He quickly turns spinning his staff to deflect a barrage of bullets. The moment the bullets stop, five human looking females with ninja-like suits appear in front of Build Their suits have the same design with black boots and gloves, a black and white middle piece that have a gold triangle logo, and katanas on their backs but they each have a different color.
Their helmets have different flower molded on the forehead, matching their suits color. There's a blue iris, a pink cherry blossom, a green water lotus, an orange lilly and a purple orchid. But Build knows them as Ayame, Sakura, Suiren, Yuri and Ran, also known as
"The Flowery Kunoichi Team?"
"Impressive you were able to defeat two of our allies on your own. But now" Ayame pauses as they unsheathe their swords and point them at Build. "your life shall end here." The five then charge at him all at once.
Middle of the City
Buildings were getting blasted as Cross-Z's battle continued with Cobolda firing blasts of fireballs that the dragon Rider ran charging through the attack. The flames on his armor acted as a shielding for him.
"What?! " (Cross Knuckle! ) The Beast Baron gets hit square in the chest, making him fly back and land on his back.
"Cross-Z!" He looks behind him to see the CMC. "Use this!" Apple Bloom shout and tosses him a bottle.
Cross-Z stabs his sword into the ground to catch the bottle. He looks at it to see it's a new dragon gem bottle that's orange. He looks back to them to nod before turning back and inserts the new bottle into the knuckle.
(Tourmaline Dragon! Devour! ) Cross-Z readied himself as Cobolda gets up and then thrusts the knuckle forward pressing the trigger. "Give it your best shot! " (Dragonic Burst!) An erupting stream of bright orange magma flames that hits Cobolda, builds up on him and then explodes doing a good amount of damage making him fall to one knee.
"Cross-Z! And- the CMC?!" The girls and dragon Rider look to their right to see Twilight, Emerald and Discord run up and stand next to the girls. "What are you three doing here? Your sisters are probably worried sick." Twilight scolded them but then gets startled from Cross-Z tossing her the emerald dragon bottle.
"We can talk about that later, Twilight. First, help me out with this guy. Aunt Emerald, here!" He had said to them and then tossed the Gaburyu Breaker and ruby dragon to his aunt, while Scootaloo hands the Drill Crusher to Twilight. "Transport-Vortex Saber. Discord, you use these." After Build's weapon materialized, Cross-Z tosses it and the sapphire dragon bottle to him.
The three nod before spreading around and surrounding the Beast Baron, who becomes enraged seeing this. "I REFUSE TO BE DEFEATED BY INSECTS!! " Cobolda gathers energy into his weapon creating an energy orb with sparks surging around it and launches it towards Cross-Z.
He was thinking of jumping out of the way till his eyes glow. He sees a vision of himself or another Cross-Z using the Beat Closer and takes notice of him taking a hold of the grip at the hilt to pull it. "So, that's how it works."
Cross-Z quickly does the same as the vision pulling it twice. (Hippare! Hippare! ) The sword announced with the middle of the sword's blade lighting up and begins to play a steady techno music till Cross-Z swung the sword and pulled the trigger. (Million Hit! ) The sword launches a music equalizer bar slash that collides, pushing against the orb for a moment till it breaks through the orb to hit Cobolda, making him fall to his back.
Discord taps his chin in thought while Cobolda got up. "Let's try this." With a toothy grin, he snaps his fingers to make a small light appear that changes into a dark gray fullbottle with the shape of a draconequus. (Sapphire Dragon!Draconequus!)
(Cross Combo! ) With both colors spiraling along with the drill, Discord stabs the saber into the ground making objects come out of the ground around the kaiju, making it look like a pinball arena around him and then launches a slash that changes into a spinning top moving at sonic speed as it begins to hit the Beast Baron multiple times by bouncing off the objects.
"My turn." Emerald said standing where the top is heading towards. (Ruby Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Roar!) She hits the top sending straight towards the kaiju with it being covered in a red and blue energy essence.
Cobolda tries catching the attack but slams into him, pushing him back a bit before exploding making him stumble back. "How can you all be this strong? "
While still in gun mode, Twilight inserts the emerald bottle. (Ready Go! ) "Because we're together." Twilight answered him while pulling the trigger making the gauge meter's needle swing rapidly. (Vortex Break! ) She fires twin spiraling emerald, green fires, that hits Cobolda and drags him back a good distance before exploding, bringing him to one knee.
Cross-Z eyes glow again to see a different vision before looking down to his belt. "Ready to end this, Cross?" Cross-Z Dragon roars in response before shooting out the dragon bottle for Cross-Z catch. (Special Tune! Hippare! Hippare! Hippare! ) The sword announced after he inserted the bottle into it and pulls the hilt three times, making it play a melodic electro music.
Cobolda stood up in time to see Cross-Z stand straight with the flat part of the blade facing forward. The Rider's chest armor opens up, as the sword's blade is engulfed in blue flames, for green and red flames to transfer from the wings to the sword and then straightens the sword to have the blade edge pointing forward.
Cross-Z takes a stance while Cobolda summons Imps in between them. "RyuOh Roaring Giri!" (Mega Slash! ) Cross-Z shouted and the sword announced while the sword played a repeating synths with a roaring dragon and guitar riff. Emerald's eyes go wide hearing the attack name and seeing Cross-Z launch a red, green and blue colored Chinese dragon.
The dragons go straight for Cobolda as they flew through the Imps in a zigzag pattern, destroying the grunts as they went by. Reaching the Beast Baron, the three dragons change into three slashes with the same equalizing bar following them. Cobolda tries to withstand the attack using his pitchfork, but it shatters, with the attacks hitting the Beast Baron. "GAAAHHHH!! " He yelled out with an explosion following after.
While Cross-Z relaxes, the group run up behind him. "Is it over now?" Sweetie asked till the rubble begins moving.
"RAAAHHHH!! " Cobolda roared out as he bursted out of some rubble. While Twilight got in front of the girls, Emerald and Discord get in front of her, along with the Cross-Z getting into a battle-ready stance in front of them all. "I promise you Cross-Z, I'll destroy you next time. Well, that is if you all survive. "
Twilight gets worried hearing that. "What do you mean by that?"
Cobolda chuckles darkly. "You'll see soon enough. " With that said, he disappears fading away.
Unlike last time, they don't see the spell circle shatter but fades away instead. Except for Cross-Z, everyone changes back to their original forms.
Cross-Z turns looking to Twilight. "What do you think he meant by- GAAAHHH!!" Out of nowhere, Cross-Z gets hit from behind by multiple blasts of energy. "CROSS-Z!!!" Twilight and the others screamed. Cross-Z falls to the ground with his transformation coming undone and gets helped back up after by the others after he changes back to a dragon.
"Pathetic. And here I thought he could entertain me. " They all turned to the voice's direction to see two new kaiju.
One has six slitted eyes, a rictus grin and a prehistoric-like appearance. The second is a skeleton kaiju wielding a skeletal sword with skulls around parts of its body, wearing a military helmet, and the left side of the body having camouflage colors.
Twilight uses the CoreSeeker to look them up and finds out who they are. "You're Junior and...Akumaro Sujigarano." She named with fear filling her voice as she read.
"You know of us I see. But that doesn't matter now. The game is over. " Akumaro looks up as an explosion could be heard above them. "Seems like your friend has arrived. " Everyone looks up to see OOO and Grifforzer clashing in the sky.
As the two are about to collide again, Junior shoots red lightning at OOO from his hand and act as a way to grab ahold of the Rider. "What is- Junior!?" Junior then uses it to slam OOO staight into the ground. "Ah!!"
"OOO." Twilight shouts as she sets Spike on her back and runs over to OOO along with the others. They then get startled from Build landing on the floor next to them. "Build! Are you okay?" Twilight asked worried as Emerald and Discord help the Riders to their feet.
"I'm fine. I just forgot how the Kunoichi don't play fair." Build answered as said ninja appeared next to Junior.
Junior chuckled sinisterly. "Now that all you fools are together, it's about time we wrap this up. " He ends with snapping his fingers.
Before they could question him, the city begins to shake with parts of the ground and buildings cracking. Everyone were trying their best to stay standing as something huge bursts out of the ground. The group are shocked by the size of the creature, while the Riders gasp in surprise.
Standing couples of feet away from them is a huge black wingless looking dragon with silver skeletal look all around its body and has dark purple eyes that Spike takes notice of. The head of the creature has three purple crystal spikes going along both sides of its head, along with larger ones coming out its back and wrists.
"Guardie?!" OOO spoke out knowing the creature.
Junior points his sword towards them. "Skeletal Tyrant, destroy these fools! "
Everyone gasps as the creature begins charging an attack from its mouth. "Everyone run!!" OOO shouted to the other.
Skeletal unleashes a powerful dark energy blast that hits the whole group. In an instant, a large amount of the area where they were standing on was now just a huge crater with black smoke coming out of it.
"Such a shame they never got a chance to see our plan. " Akumaro said before he and Junior jump on to Skeletal's head. "Now for Canterlot. " The two look out into the distance as the creature walks away from the crater.
The End
