Everfree Mansion (Noon)
Uva was in a state of peace as he continued to snore on the couch that not even the light of the sun stirred him from his slumber. It looks like he was going to sleep in for the day.
BREEEEEEEE!!
Uva screamed from the sudden noise as he shot off his perch and fell to the floor. He then lifted his head up to glare at the culprit as Sozui tossed an air horn idly in his hand.
"Uva, you should know better than to sleep in late," The 19-year-old stated disappointingly.
"What do you want?!" Uva grumbled as he got off from the floor.
"Oh, nothing much, I just want a few questions answered!" Sozui stated as he walked around Uva.
"Why?" Uva asked while crossing his arms.
"You are a Greeed, correct?" Sozui asked for conformation as the bug Greeed nodded, "As I recall, you feed on Cell Medals. So did you or did you not make any Yummies before you were chased by Pinkie!?"
Uva shuddered from the mention of the name of the mare that chased him.
"Err... Well... I..." Uva muttered in discomfort.
Sozui stared at the Greeed in confusion until he sighed and started to leave the room before he stopped at the door, "Never mind. Now if you excuse me, Sunset is waiting for us in the dining room so you better get there."
Uva watched as Sozui left the room before he stared at his hand as he clenched it in irritation.
"Sozui...! Just... Who are you?! More importantly, how did you know my name when we first met!? You still didn't explain that to me!" Uva growled before he slammed his fist onto the floor, "What are you hiding boy?"
"Okay Ankh, I promised you ten ice pops when you sat through Zecora's lecture. So tell me, which one is your favorite flavor?" Sozui asked as he held a notepad and pencil in his hands while a plate of ten different colored icepops sat on the table before Ankh.
"Oi Sozui, I don't know if I should do this. What did you do to them? I think I saw one glowing!" Ankh spoke as he sat uncomfortably in his chair.
"Come on Ankh, I made these with normal ingredients from with some of Sunset's magic applied to them. Relax, just think of them as normal icepops with different flavors," Sozui convinced as Sunset came up beside him.
Ankh stared at Sozui for a moment before he slowly took one, examined it for a moment, and looked at Sozui who motioned him to go ahead. He sighed as he took a small bite from it. He then took a moment to examine its flavor even though his senses are dulled.
After a moment, he took the plate and started to walk away from the dining room.
"I still can't taste the flavor of these, but at least you reminded me of the cold sensation of them," Ankh remarked bitterly before he quickly gobbled them up and threw the plate at Uva, who just came in, as he caught the plate. Then suddenly, Ankh immediately grasped his abdomen as groaning noises came from it and rushed to the nearest bathroom.
"What's with him?" Uva asked as he tossed the plate back to Sozui.
"Okay... Sunset, take a note for me to remind you not to add medical magic to the ice pops," Sozui muttered uneasily as he wrote down on his notepad, "Something tells me that different magic can affect the Greeed in various ways."
"Right!" Sunset stated.
Uva, completely confused by the conversation, questioningly raised an insect eye ridge, "What are you guys talking about?
Sugarcube Corner (Noon)
Pinkie hummed cheerfully as she stirred up some prisimatic frosting in a mixing bowl. The timer on the oven dinged as she zipped to it and put some oven mitts on her hooves. She opened the oven, and with lightning speed, threw three cakes perfectly onto a cooling rack in a neat tower!
"Voila! A three-layered red strawberry, yellow vanilla, and green lime cake all ready for frosting!" Pinkie cheerfully announced as she took out an pastry bag and tossed the frosting into it, "I'm not sure what came over me, but I got the strangest urge to make this cake! Oh well, maybe Sunset will know! It's too bad I didn't get to visit her ever since I lost those strange guys in her mansion yesterday. I wonder if she chased them out... Oh well, maybe I'll know once I deliver this cake! Now..."
She then cocked the pastry bag like a gun and took aim at the cake!
"Let's do this!" Pinkie said with a determined grin.
"Pinkie?" A voice spoke out.
The stream of frosting stopped in mid-air as did Pinkie as she turned to see a lavender unicorn mare standing beside the door with a confused look on her face, "What are you doing?"
"Oh hey Twilight!" Pinkie greeted as she quickly frosted the cake in lightning speed, "I was putting the finishing touches on a brand new cake I baked! Hey! That rhymes!"
"Right..." Twilight drawled out before she took out a notepad, "Pinkie, I just came by to see if you can deliver a cake to Sunset. It's her birthday today and I doubt she'll be able to remembe-"
"SUNSET'S BIRTHDAY IS TODAY!? WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME HER BIRTHDAY IS TODAY!?" Pinkie screamed in horror as she quickly packed up the cake in a white box and tied it with a cyan ribbon, "I NEED TO GET TO HER MANSION ON THE DOUBLE AND SUPER DUPER FAST!!"
In a pink blur, the party pony was out the door before somepony could say 'Good Morning!' leaving behind a wide eyed Twilight.
Everfree Mansion (Noon)
"Feeling better?" Sozui asked as he and Uva watched as Ankh painfully walked out of the bathroom.
"Ogh! Your icepops are a menace!" Ankh groaned.
"I'm sorry! I had no idea how Sunset's magic would affect your Core Medals like that!" Sozui placated.
"The next time you treat me to icepops, get them from a store!" Ankh shouted.
"You better do what he says," Uva whispered as he towards Sozui's ear, "The last time Ankh was this mad was when someone made the mistake of insulting him by comparing him to a chicken! The poor idiot barely made it out with his hair intact!"
"Gulp! Okay..." Sozui weakly promised.
DING-DONG!
"Sunset! Can you get that?" Sozui called out.
"In a moment, I'm cleaning out the basement!" Sunset replied.
DING-DONG! DING-DONG! DING-DONG!
"Great! Whoever is at the door must really want to see us! This is going to be difficult unless..." Sozui muttered until an idea lit up in his head, "Hey Ankh, can you shapeshift into Sunset?"
"Nani?! Uh-uh! No way! Forget it!" Ankh denied strongly and turned away from Sozui.
"Come on Ankh, if we don't answer the door someone will get suspicious!" Sozui pleaded, "If someone finds out you're a walking pile of Cell Medals, they will take you, me, and Uva somewhere and experiment on us!"
"Oh? Like how you did on me?" Ankh retorted as he pointed a claw at Sozui.
"Touché..." Sozui admitted.
"Hey Sunset!!" A cheery voice familiar to Ankh, Uva, and Sozui rung out from downstairs, "It's me Pinkie! I brought something for you!"
"PINKIE!?!/PINKIE!?!/PINKIE!?!" The trio cried out in horror.
Not her! Why does it have to be her and not some other quadrupedal creature?! Uva demanded as he clasped his hands over his head.
"Oh man! This is bad! If she finds us, we are toast!!" Sozui spoke fearfully as he tugged at his hair.
"What do we do!?" Ankh asked frantically as he grabbed Sozui's shirt in fear.
"Sunset! I'm coming inside!" Pinkie announced as a creakily door was heard opening. That was the last straw for the horrified group as Sozui spoke the thought that rang through their minds:
"HIDE!!" Sozui screamed and everyone ran in three separate directions!
"Sunset~! Where are you~?" Pinkie called out as she carried the tower of mouth-watering goodness on her back.
"Right here Pinkie," Sunset spoke up as she came out of the basement wearing a handkerchief over her mane, "What brings you here all of a sudden?"
Meanwhile, Ankh is quietly hiding in the rafters above Pinkie as he gazed at her with caution while Sozui and Uva were peeking from a nearby closet.
"I want to be the first pony in Ponyville to wish you a..." Pinkie started before he quickly took out a blue cannon out of her poofy mane and fired it! In a burst of confetti, the foyer was immediately decorated with birthday decorations and games! "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
Ankh nearly fell off from his position in shock, but he quickly regained his balance in the nick of time! Sozui gulped in tension from this event while Uva growled as his hand clenched around the door frame.
"Oh great! As if dealing with that Kougami was bad enough, now I have to deal with a pony version of him!" Ankh harshly whispered.
"Did you hear something?" Pinkie asked while Sunset looked up to see Ankh in the rafters as he signaled Sunset to be quiet, "Oh well, maybe it was just a teensy mouse! Say Sunset! Do you want to have any friends today for your birthday party!? Do ya?!Do ya?!Do ya?!Do ya?!Do ya?!"
"Well..." Sunset muttered as she rubbed one foreleg nervously.
"Oh come on Sunset! I know you want to have a super-duper awesome birthday party! Hey! Maybe I should go find those three strangers I saw yesterday!" Pinkie declared.
"The what?" Sunset asked.
"Yesterday when I was baking something, I came across this creature that was rifling through my garbage! I kind of got a little mad from that... but hey! I was just recovering from that meanie Discord's mind mixing! After that encounter, I chased him into the Everfree Forest and I saw two more strangers helping him! Long story short, I chased them to your mansion. Did you see them by any chance?" Pinkie asked.
"Discord?" Sozui whispered in confusion as he and Uva leaned in to hear better, unaware that the door frame is creaking and cracking at the same time as Ankh's perch on the rafters.
"These strangers? How would you describe them?" Sunset asked nervously for a different reason.
"Well, one of them looks like a beetle..." Pinkie recalled as she counted on her hoof while the rafters started to creak some more.
"...the other resembles a red bird..." The door frame to the closet groaned as the boards started to slide out of the wall.
"...and the last one is some sort of hairless monkey!" Pinkie finished, but then her tail started to twitch and she quickly moved Sunset and the cake out of the way. As she did that, the rafters came falling down with a surprised and dazed Ankh laying on the pile of rubble! The closet then crashed out with Uva and Sozui as they groaned with pain on the floor!
"Like those guys!" Pinkie pointed out not realizing it was the same trio from yesterday until her mind finally clicked, and her mood changed from happy to excited, "Hey! I was just talking to Sunset about you! I'm really super-duper crazy absolutely sorry on how I chased you yesterday! Can you guys forgive me whoever you are?"
"Um... Sure..." Sozui muttered as he got up followed by Uva who immediately retreated behind Sunset.
"Okay..." Ankh said awkwardly.
"I guess..." Uva spoke.
KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Nani?" Sozui asked.
"Oh! That must be Zecora! I told her about Sunset's birthday and she said she'll be coming!" Pinkie declared cheerfully as she bounced towards the door and opened it to see a growling humanoid monster with mantis aspects, "Hey... You're not Zecora and I don't remember you inviting to this party!"
"Give me... the Tome...!" The monster growled as it reached for Pinkie, but a well-timed kick from Sozui made it stagger back as the door immediately slammed shut by Ankh. It was immediately, to the surprise of Sozui, followed by Uva nailing boards to the door and blocking it with a bureau.
"Uva? Is something wrong?" Sozui asked as he watched Uva quivered with his back against the impromptu barricade.
"Sozui? Remember when you asked me if I made any Yummies before I was chased by Pinkie?" Uva reminded as Sozui nodded, "Well, the truth is... I made one Yummy..."
"You what?" Sozui asked in surprise.
"I wasn't like this..." Uva confessed as he gestured towards his incomplete form, "I still had all of my Core Medals when I was revived until I created that Kamakiri Yummy!"
"What do you mean?" Ankh asked as his hands lit up in flames for a second.
"When I revived, I was confused from the sudden change of scenery, but I knew my objective to create Yummies and consume the world!" Uva explained before the door banged a bit from the charging Yummy outside, "Since I was really eager to create one and I was unfamiliar with this world, I took a page out of Gamel's book by flinging a cell medal at myself, but then something went wrong! Instead of emerging as a White Yummy, it came out as a green sphere of energy before it was suddenly encased by a strange blue and red miasma and then it took three Core Medals out of me as it pierced through me! After that, it flew off in another direction!"
"Blue and red miasma?" Ankh repeated, but then another bang sounded off as the barricade broke more.
"Uh guys... I hate to break up this important discussion, but big, green, and gruesome is coming at us!" Sozui screamed as he watched through a window as the Kamakiri Yummy went back a far distance, took a starting position, and charged with its shoulder.
TWEET!
Everyone in the room stopped what they were doing and turned to the pink party pony as she blew a whistle.
"Everyone! Let me at him! This guy thinks he's gonna come in here and wreck this party, but OH NO! Not this time! He just awoke the full fury of the party!!!" Pinkie spoke seriously as she cracked her hoofs before pulling out her Party Cannon out of her mane and positioned it in front of the door, "So back away and cover your ears!!!"
Everyone stepped back and covered their ears as the Kamakiri Yummy finally broke through the door and could only stand in shock as Pinkie shouted out:
"FIRE IN THE HOLE!!"
A combination of cake batter and confetti exploded out of the cannon and shoved the Kamakiri Yummy back outside before it exploded in a burst of flames. Everyone stood in shock at this event.
"Whoa..." Sozui spoke in awe, "Pinkie, what did you put in that cannon!?"
"Oh, three cups of baking soda, one bag of flour, some cake batter, two buckets of confetti, a dash of gun powder, one tablespoon of disulfide, and one of those Cell Medal thingies Uva dropped when I was chasing him!" Pinkie cheerfully explained.
"Disulfide?" Sozui gulped.
"Relax! I was kidding on that part! It was just vinegar!" Pinkie snorted. "But the other parts are true!"
"Hmm..." Sozui hummed in thought as he stroked his chin while his head begin to fill with ideas involving with Cell Medals.
"TOME!!!" An angry voice bellowed as the Kamakiri Yummy trudged out of the flames and threw blades of energy at the mansion. Sunset quickly conjured a barrier and the attack rebounded away, but that didn't stop the monster as it continued to throw more energy blades to achieve its objective.
"Aw come on!! What does it take to kill him!? He's like a souped up mega tank!" Sozui exclaimed.
"I guess our only chance to defeat that monster is to use the OOO Belt!" Ankh stated as he covered his head from the slight ceiling debris.
"And how exactly are we going to find that!? It's not like it's going to fly in here while striking that monster's head in the back knocking him into a daze!" Sozui ranted as he glared at Ankh.
Three glowing objects soared out of the Everfree Forest at speeds that rival Kazari's, and they beaned the Kamakiri Yummy into said state. They then phased through the barrier like a pebble dropped into a pond and floated in front of Sozui. He was at a loss of words as he held out his hands to receive the O Medal Holder, Medajalibur, and OOO Driver.
"I stand corrected..." Sozui muttered dumbly before he shook it off, "Okay, let's see what we got here..."
Sozui opened the O Medal Holder to find: one Tora Medal and three Cell Medals.
"That's it??" Sozui gulped in dread and shock, "Just one of Kazari's Core Medals and three Cell Medals!? I can't make a Combo with these!!!"
"Maybe not..." Ankh muttered as he stepped behind Uva, "This may hurt a bit..."
"Nani? Ggh!" Uva grunted in pain as Ankh reached inside him took out the Batta Medal and tossed it to Sozui with his Taka Medal who managed to catch them by reflex.
Sozui stared at the Core Medals in his hand before he rolled his eyes in annoyance at himself, "Of course, I just had to forget that Combo..."
As he started to walk outside, he placed the OOO Driver on his waist as a belt magically wrapped around it much to Sunset's surprise. The Kamakiri Yummy growled as it stopped its attack and turned its attention to Sozui.
"Alright you walking pile of Cell Medals! You want the Tome of Desire!? You'll have to go through me!" Sozui stated as he slotted in the Core Medals in their respective positions before he took the O-Lung as it hum with energy before sliding it over them as it dinged in rhythm.
"Henshin," Sozui spoke.
TAKA!
TORA!
BATTA!
TA-TO-BA! TATOBA! TA-TO-BA!
Three holographic rings of five medals circled around him briefly before they slammed into Sozui. It resulted in forming a suit of armor that is mostly black but with a red hawk on the head spreading its wings with its beak acting as the gem. The chest sports a a roaring yellow tiger face with its claws strapped around the forearms. Lastly, the lower fraction of the emblem has a grasshopper with its legs wrapped around Sozui's like armor.
This is Kamen Rider OOO's TaToBa Combo, the Multi Combo!
OOO flexed his hands as he growled from the power coursing through him before he slammed his fists together, "All right, Bugsy! Let's see what you got!"
The tiger section on his chest roared as the claws on his hands folded out before he charged at the Kamakiri Yummy with a roar while it did the same as it raised his scythes against him!
