Ok, a little apology, I had a lot of problems while writing this chapter, that added to my work, didn't made things easier, I hope the next one comes out Faster.

Also In the spirit of current Kamen Rider series, I decided adding a preview for the next Chapter.

Fluttershy examined the necklace in front of her, it was a simple design, a gold necklace with a clear jewel on the center and three plates with a little socket on each side of it, she then looked at the back of it where a curious writing called her attention, It was pretty worn out but it could still be read:

Fluttershy dropped the necklace, and turned around, the cuckoo clock marked midnight as a little gray wooden pegasus popped in and out of the clock.

Fluttershy turned the alarm off without noticing a little stream of sand pouring from beneath the clock.

"Today was pretty strange" said to herself, she had been immersed on he thoughts the entire day. Why was she the only one in ponyville who hadn't heard about Clockwork, and more Importantly, what was the meaning of that weird dream and what did it had to do with that mysterious necklace "I think I'll show the necklace to Twilight, she might be able to find it on one of her books, or maybe she has another book on dre-"

The bunny was nervous turning his head frantically as if he was looking for something in Fluttershy's room.

The bunny tapped his foot again calling for Fluttershy's attention, however, the yellow pegasus didn't saw anything in that direction.

"Um, What is it? something scared you?" but Angel just kept looking around. "You lost something?" asked Fluttershy again until the bunny quickly pointed her head up "Do you-". The pony stood speechless as she saw a cumulus of sand growing in her ceiling.

"Wha- What " The cumulus of sand dropped on Fluttershy separating her from her little companion. The blob of sand moved as if it was alive and it was immobilizing the little pegasus inside itself.

"ANGEL!!" she yelled after seeing her getting farther away from her "What is this, this isn't nor-AUGH" she felt the sand covering mouth shutting her up. She fought desperate trying to climb out of the sand when she felt a little pair of paws digging her out of the the sand.

Angel? she thought after seeing the bunny trying to save her putting his life at risk. Angel please stop, you, you will get- ANGEL!! The cumulus of sand sprouted a hand that threw the bunny against a wall.

However Fluttershy was able to feel further digging on the sand around her. NO, PLEASE STOP- she thought as she saw that every single animal inside her cottage trying to free her NO, MISTER MOUSIE, HUMMINWAY, PLEASE STOP, I.. I DON'T WANT YOU HURT!!.

The sand creature started moving throwing away or trying to drown every animal that tried to help Fluttershy. She felt enraged, she wanted to help her little animal friends, Leave them alone, Leave them alone LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!

A soothing tune started filling the air, and Fluttershy saw how a little necklace emitting a golden glow floating just a couple of inches in from her eyes. the sand creature started acting weird, it molded itself in strange forms trying to get away releasing Fluttershy's upper body in that attempt, as if it was afraid of that object.

The yellow pegasus reached her hoof into the necklace Releasing an enormous flash of golden light...

The sun appeared in the horizon, leaving an extremely confused Fluttershy trying to piece what happened last Night. She had been tending the wounds of the brave critters that tried to save her from the sand monster the previous night.

"Angel... please, get better" she said tucking the little bunny in her bed after having cured his wounds. She felt guilty, if she was as fast as Rainbow Dash she could have just flown away from her cottage and lead the monster away from her friends, if she had been as strong as Applejack she would have just dug herself out and bucked the sand away. I'm just a weak and helpless little pegasus that needs to be saved all the time

She finished helping her animal friends and exited the cottage, with the early morning light she was able to see a little glitter coming from her neck, she was wearing the necklace that saved her life the night before. "I need to find Twilight right away, she might know something about that monster, or at least this necklace" She said galloping off to Ponyville.

"Fluttershy!!, what a surprise." said a couple of earth ponies walking towards the town stopping her on her tracks. She recognized them as Lilly and Roseluck

"Oh, in that case take this to them on our behalf" Added Lily pulling a bouquet out of her saddlebag.

"um... thank.. you?" said Fluttershy tucking the flowers beneath her wings as she continued her way to the Library.

"She's the only one who goes almost everyda- WOAHH!!" Roseluck jumped over Lily cowering.

"Honestly Rose" said Lily putting her friend down "Don't be so paranoid, I mean, we haven't had another stampede or anything like that in months, and I don't think a monster is gonna appear out of nowhere."

Both ponies continued their way to the market, failing to notice a little trail of sand following them...

Fluttershy ran to the library in order to see her friend, getting some strange looks and whispers from everypony who looked at her. When She finally arrived, she found the library was closed.

"um.. Twilight.." she knocked on the door quietly."this.. this is important... I.. I"

"I'm going, I'm going!" said an annoyed little voice on the other side of the door, it sounded like if it had just woken up. "Fluttershy?" Said a little dragon rubbing his eyes in front of her friend.

"Spike.. I need to see Twilight urgently, um... if its not a problem." The baby dragon looked at the bouquet that the yellow pegasus was carrying.

"Well, we went to see them last week, but, OK, I'll take you" he answered and took the bouquet of roses from the pegasus wing.

Fluttershy didn't understood why Twilight wouldn't be in her library, or what he meant by 'them', However she felt the need to ask the little dragon about something that had been in her mind. "Um... Spike, have, um, have you heard of somepony named clockwork?"

"her visit yesterday has been the only important thing happening in ponyville in a long time..."

Fluttershy just looked around, they were walking towards Ponyville's market near the center of the city, however there was nopony in sight, which struck her as odd, since it was getting a little late to open.

"What is this?" asked the Yellow pegasus, in front of her there was a huge monument that occupied the center of the town. there were 5 pedestals each one marked with a cutiemark from one of her friends, and at the top of each one there was the statue of a pony resembling one of her friends. "Spike, where, um..." She didn't know what to say, Spike didn't say a word and just left the bouquet in front of Twilight's pedestal. As the little dragon returned to Fluttershy's side she was able to see a little plate with an inscription on that read:

In honor of the brave ponies who stood up against the spirit of Chaos Discord and gave their lives to defeat him, your bodies may be gone, but not even time will make your spirits disappear...

"This isn't real" whispered the little pegasus backing away from that structure.

"NO!" she yelled, "I never visited this monument, I talked to my friends the yesterday..." Spike could see the anger on Fluttershy's eyes, "I got to know princess Luna on Nightmare Night! I introduced Rainbow dash to her new Pet, I even Dressed as a Mysterious Mare"

Spike tried to approach to her friend, who kept backing away "Fluttershy, what are you talking about?"

"we.. we defeated Discord, it didn't happened this way... It didn't... this.." she was panting heavily, Spike tried to get closer but the canary pegasus mare backed away from the little dragon even further. "This isn't, this isn't my world..."

"Fluttershy w-w-wait" said Spike trying to get her attention "lets talk about this, I-I mean, I know this is hard but is no reason to close yourself to-OUCH " he tripped and fell on the ground trying to reach the shocked pegasus. "Who put this boulder her-!" the little Dragon froze in horror when he saw what had tripped him.

Fluttershy snapped out of her shock after hearing Spike scream in terror, Just in front of them there was a enormous pair of red colored eyeballs staring at them.

"RUN SPIKE!" shouted the pony pushing the little dragon away as a gigantic claw scratched the earth they had been standing.

"WHA- WHAT IS THAT!!" yelled spike as he saw the creature trying pulling itself up, as if it was climbing from below the ground. With each pull parts of the terrifying being started emerging.

A long set of jagged rocks started sprouting from the ground, at the same time a second claw emerged and stomped the floor heavily, a soft groan starts filling the air as a misshaped reptilian head rises from the ground...

It was a humongous dragon made entirely of rocks and sand, it stood menacingly in front of the yellow pony, it wasn't moving, as if it was mocking the little pegasus to try and escape.

I have to escape, i have to, i have... was the only thing on Fluttershy's mind, however it was easier said than done. Her wings were stiff and and her legs refused to move, she was completely defenseless against against it.

"Fluttershy!!" Spike yelled In order to get the pegasus attention, however she just stood there as the creature lifted its claw over her "HELP!! HELP!!" screamed the desperate dragon as he approached to her friend, however the beast simply lowered its claw on Fluttershy with a crash it made the earth shake.

The wagon was deep into the Everfree forest, just outside the ruins of the old castle. The Magic that had given life to the unnatural forest and all of its inhabitants still filled the area around the ruins. Thick storm clouds blocked the sun around the ruins engulfing them in what appeared to be the eternal night promised a thousand years ago.

The shattered windows however, shined a dull purple light to the outside. Concentrated, the gray colored Unicorn levitated the six flasks around her. The little sand containers danced in the air while glowing in different colored lights, drawing arcane symbols in the air.

"The Life force of the elements of harmony will open the door, for the one who will reshape this world"

The six recipients levitated themselves around the black hourglass and started spinning, each time faster than before, the ritual was almost complete, when the life force of the last element of harmony filled the remaining flask, the spell would have enough power to...

A little fissure appeared on the remaining flask. "What the..." Clockwork's concentration broke when she heard that sound, She looked firmly at the empty container as a series of cracks had formed on its surface. Was the pressure from the ritual to much for the remaining container? Was it resisting the absorption? No she thought I'm probably over analyzing things She turned around once more to continue the ritual. However,even before she could resume, a loud crack resonated the ancient room

"NOO!" yelled the magician as she saw how a golden ray of light exploded from the empty container,and started piercing through the other 5 flasks, poking holes on them and spilling part of their contents on the floor. She quickly stopped the spell in order to prevent the advance of that mysterious light. "What the Hell is Going on!!"

"W-wha.." stammered Spike, the little dragon was still shocked since just a couple of minutes ago the beast had crushed his last friend, or so he thought...

The beast clenched it's teeth, it was putting even more effort on keeping that claw on the ground.

"I-it- its almost as if" the dragon couldn't finish his sentence as he saw the claw rising in front of him. The beast wasn't lifting its claw, it was being lifted from below!

"Get, your, FILTHY, CLAW, OFF, MEE!!" the pony engulfed on the blue light pushed so hard that the beast lost its balance.

"F-Fluttershy?!" Spike asked looking at the mare that emerged below the claw, she had her long mane and tail, her body structure, even her voice, but the similarities ended there. The mare was also clad in a sapphire colored armor, a purple translucent visor covered her eyes. She still had wings, however instead of the usually small pegasus wings, this pair was even bigger, and completely armored. However what stood out the most was her attitude, unlike the meek and scared Fluttershy, this Pegasus beamed with confidence.

The Stone Dragon stood up and tried to crush the pegasus under its right claw again, however this time, the little pegasus vanished before the claw hit the ground quickly appearing on top of it.

"wow, I, I-I've never gone so fast" said the pony just as surprised as the beast. "hehehe, I think I need to try this even more."

The beast tried to slash Fluttershy with its powerful left, however the armored pegasus vanished again with a minimal effort.

"You know" said Fluttershy sporting a cocky grin while standing on the Dragon's left shoulder, "I've seen a tortoise move faster than you do. Although, to be honest I don't know too many tortoises"

GROAARR!!! the beast tried to hit the pegasus pegasus, however she flew away the last second causing the beast to hit itself.

Spike saw how the little pegasus dodging each punch, slice and stab the beast threw at her, She was so different, she was actually enjoying that. However in her extreme state of confidence, she failed to notice the chest of the beast rising between each attack, Spike knew about dragons, and if that thing was anything like one, that only could mean One thing.

"His breath? wait why did you call...?!!" the armored pegasus was engulfed by a powerful flame, leaving nothing but some ashes floating in the air.

The beast turned its head around just to see how the Sapphire wings of the pegasus started changing color, with each feather shining with a different color of the rainbow, The stone monster puffed its chest in an attempt to release its flame against the opponent, however this time she charged forward with all of her might, leaving a shining rainbow trail behind her.

"that... that looks like a sonic..." Spike watched in awe as his friend pierced the chest of the beast in one clean swoop.

The stone dragon stood immobile, as if it wasn't more than a terrifying statue in the center of Ponyville. Cracks started appearing from the hole on the statue, the beast starts dissolving into an ginormous mound of sand, breaking apart piece by piece and leaving nothing more than fine dust in the air and ground.

The baby dragon approached to the mare that landed in front of him, her majestic armor wasn't damaged one bit, looking at her a little closer, he saw her spiky and a little messy mane, which was colored blue instead of pink, however she still gave that impression of bravery an confidence she had during the whole fight. "F-Fluttershy, i-i-is that y-you?" stammered the little Dragon.

The mare looked at Spike with attention, it was hard to tell what he expression was since the visor covered most of her face. She approached firmly and said

"Did you see that spike?! I, I just beat a monster!! and it was SOO AWESOME!!, I never had flown like that before, I mean, I could be a wonderbolt right now, no scratch that, I could be their new leader in 10 seconds flat!!" said the extremely happy pegasus, to an even more surprised Spike.

"oowww" a faint moan sounded from the enormous pile of sand were the dragon used to be. Roseluck, Lily and dozens of ponies emerged from that pile of sand, they looked confused and scared, trying to explain what were they doing in there, or at least how they got there.

"Ah.. ah I think we should talk this out somewhere else, Flu-Fluttershy" said Spike as he saw the ponies trying to make out what happened and approaching to the mysterious Armored pegasus.

"OK" said the pony jumping into the air with the little dragon "By the way Spike, why do you keep calling me Fluttershy? do I look like her o something?"

Fluttershy: "I, I'm Fluttershy"?!! - Says the horrified mare as she looks herself in the mirror.

Clockwork: If I can't use the elements lifeforce to release you, I'll use the rest of the town for it.

Clockwork: And the ponies from this cursed town are gonna help me,,,
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Masked Mare

by Neobahamut

Rise of the Sapphire Lightning