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// Chapter 3: The Nine Stories Begin 
// Story: The World Of Equestria 
// by ANDIE 
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	Joe and the Grongi charged at each other, the Grongi tries to punch and kicked him like before, but it doesn’t had any effect on him due to the armor protecting him. Joe responded and deflects the Grongi punches and deliver a powerful punch of his own, enough to bring it down, as the Grongi got mad and charged at him, he opens the rider booker and took out another card to placed it in the Decadriver.

=ATTACK RIDE: SLASH=

As he did, his rider booker changed into a sword and uses it to slash at the Grongi, causing sparks to appear as it made contract to the Grongi, giving it more damage. As the Grongi falls down, Joe placed one more card in the driver.

=FINAL ATTACK RIDE: D-D-DECADE=


After that, ten card like holograms appear out of thin air in front of Joe and he jumped up high in the air and stretch out his legs to deliver a powerful kick, then the cards shifted to allow Joe to pass through the cards as he does a drop kick, after he past the final card a barcode formed under his feet, he lets out a loud roar and slammed it at the Grongi at the chest. The Grongi cries in pain and flies several feet before it explodes. Joe then stand up to where he’s landed and turned his head to see that the group had their jaws dropped at what they have witness.

“Are you guy’s alright?” Joe asked. They all nodded slowly.

“T-That w-was, AWESOME! Ouch!” Rainbow cheered in awe which causes her to fly which reveals her injury.

“It seems that some of us got hurt during the fight, ouch!” Twilight said as she feels pain in her hoof.

“We need to take you guys to the hospital quick, luckily for me I’ve got just the thing for quick.” Joe said as he takes out a card from his case which has a picture of another Kamen Rider and insert it in the driver.

=KAMEN RIDE: KABUTO=

A flash of octagon like light surrounds him and he changed into a new form, his armor is mostly black and some silver from his legs and his arms and shoulders. The chest armor is crimson and the mouth piece is silver. As the transformation complete, a long horn like object under his chin is now connected to the face, forming blue compound eyes and forming a large horn. He turns into Kamen Rider Kabuto. Everypony was shocked to see Joe’s new form.

“Everypony, I’ll explain everything later but I’ll take Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Applejack to the hospital. I’ll meet all of you there” said Joe as he produced another card and was about to insert it in the driver, but he noe noticed something.

"Oh and can you guys help carry my luggages back to the hospital?" Joe said and the three nodded and he inserts the card.

=ATTACK RIDE: CLOCK UP= 


As said he is gone in a link of an eye, Pinkie, Fluttershy and Spike was shocked and snapped back to reality. “Yeah you heard him, let’s go to the hospital to meet with them” Spike said as they both ran to the hospital with Spike carrying his luggage.

"Luckily it's not as heavy as Rarities!" Spike said as he manages to keep up with the two ponies while carrying two luggages.

Joe tries to use his Clock Up abilities without making Rainbow, Applejack, Twilight and Rarity are feel dizzy while he carries them in his arms. ‘Where’s the hospital?’ he struggles to use Clock Up a little bit due to his point of view of time slows down in order for him to move at a speed of light.

“There!!” as he found the hospital he placed the four ponies down and he changed to his civilian form. “Whoa, who would have thought that Clock Up is that confusing!?” said Joe as he got a small headache. Though the four is confused to what he said but yet grateful.
“Thank you Joe for everything you did” said Twilight.

“No problem, now let’s get you into the hospital” Joe said as he picked the four of them and went into the hospital. By the time Spike, Fluttershy and Pinkie arrived to the hospital, they found the room where Joe and the rest of the four were in. 

“Are you all alright?” said Fluttershy with concerned.

“Everything is alright, Rainbow Dash was in pain the most, her wing was dented a little, but all of us are fine” said Joe with happiness.

“Oh thank goodness!” Said Fluttershy.

“Sorry Pinkie but the party have to moved to the next day, a party isn’t fun when a friend got hurt” said Joe to convince Pinkie to moved the party.

“It’s alright besides you’re right, friends are more important” Said Pinkie.

“Uh, Joe how did you do all of that!?” said Spike in awe.

“Yeah, what was that armor you’re wearing, it looks exquisite, but a little tacky though” said Rarity with a hint of excitement.

“And how can you change armor like that anyways?” Applejack asked and wondered.

“And how can you move so fast back there?” Rainbow Dash said with an enthusiastic mood.

“Guys, I know all of you have many questions and I love to answer them. But can we at least leaved that aside until we came back to Twilight’s castle, I rather keep my abilities all a secret.” Said Joe with his hands raised up to calm everyone down.

“Ok, but you will have a lot of questions to answer though.” Twilight said.

“I get it” said Joe. On cue the doctor came to the room with news “Good news, both of your injuries aren’t too serious, in fact you could all leave the hospital although Rainbow Dash no flying for at least a day or two” the Doctor said.

“Aw man!” said Rainbow in frustration. 

“Don’t worry Rainbow Dash, everything’s gonna be fine” said Twilight. They all have a sign of relief, Joe then drags his two suitcases as everyone leaves the hospital and head to Twilight’s castle. As they head on, Joe noticed that everypony started to feel a little bit more suspicious when they saw him, but most of them focus on rebuilding the damage that the Grongi had left such as sweeping broken glass, covering up holes… Joe decided to take a picture of the town and the ponies (like Tsukasa).

“What’s with the camera?” Applejack questioned.

“Let’s just say is sort of a hobby of mine” Joe answered.

“Ohhh” everypony/dragon said as they all arrived to Twilight’s castle. 

“It’s even larger than I imagine” said Joe with a sign of excitement.

“You like it? Because it’s even larger inside” said Twilight. As they entered, Twilight closed the doors with her magic and they arrived to the throne room. 

“This is incredible, I’ve never though I’ll see it with my own eyes” said Joe. The ponies and Spike seated on their throne while Joe finds a nearby stool to sit on.

“Ok is everypony ready?” said Joe to make sure everyone is listening.

“Yeah!!” everypony and Spike said.

“Well, to start what you all just saw was that I transformed into Kamen Rider Decade” Joe explained.

“Uh, what is a Kamen Rider anyways” said Twilight.

“In my world, Kamen Rider’s are a type of superheroes and there many other Kamen Riders besides Decade” said Joe.

“Wait, so you’re a superhero that’s so cool, what kind of powers do you have, do you have a catchphrase?” said Spike in hysterical mood.

“Well, Decade have some sort of phrase that he always said and you all ready saw my powers.” Joe replied.

“But how can you change your form like that and why is your ‘Kamen Rider’ called Decade?” Applejack asked.

“Kamen is a native language in a specific region, it means masked while ‘Rider’ means that they have a transportation called a motorcycle, it’s similar to a carriage, but it’s smaller and have much more machinery to it.” Said Joe.

“Oh, but that still doesn’t answer my other question though Joe” Applejack ask.

“You see, I’m called Decade because I’m able to turn into nine other Kamen Riders that came before Decade.” Joe said, and then he shows them the Rider Booker and the Decadriver.

“This belt is called the Decadriver, it allows me to turned into Decade back there and this is the Rider Booker, it’s a case that’s carries all of my cards and the cards are Decade’s source of power” Joe said as he pulls out Kabuto’s card from his booker and show it to everyone. 

“This is Kamen Rider Kabuto, one of the fastest Kamen Riders ever been known and he’s the predecessor of Decade.” Joe showed the card.

“One of the fastest huh? Well I’ll be looking forward to a race with you” said Rainbow with a smug on her face.

“I know you’re fast Rainbow, but you should know that Kabuto said that he could move a speed almost as fast as light, meaning a speed so fast that normal people or ponies in this case can’t see.” Said Joe but only to make Rainbow more anxious for a race.

“Well, we don’t know unless we tried” said Rainbow with confidence. 

“Can we all see your belt and case?” Twilight asked.

“Of course here you go, but be careful with it, It would be bad if another Grongi came while it’s broken.” Said Joe.

“Grongi? Is it that monster that attacks us back there?” Applejack asked.

“Yes, Grongi’s are an ancient tribe of monsters that have a ferocious behavior and history, it participates in a game called the Gegeru the goal of the game is to hurt and hunt others for fun.” Said Joe in a negative tone.

Everypony and Spike all looked horrified about the Grongi’s nature. “That’s horrible” said Rarity.

“But how do you know about that monster though? If it’s not too much trouble for you to answer.” Fluttershy asked.

“Truth be told like the Power Ponies, Kamen Riders and monsters like the Grongi are only made up fictional characters in a series of stories.” Joe answered, seconds later his card with Kabuto’s image vanished, leaving a blurry grey color of Kabuto behind.

“What the? That’s odd” Joe said as the ponies/spike witnesses it too. As Joe open the case and looked at the other Kamen Rider cards, there all dissipates and leaving a blurry grey color.

“Joe what happened to your cards?” Twilight asked in shocked.

“I don’t know they just…” Joe said as he remembered something .“Wait, this is the same thing happened when the original Kamen Rider Decade first used his powers” said Joe in realization.

“What do you mean Joe?” Spike asked. 

“It means that there is a sealed that causes my cards to go grey and blurry and the only way to restored them to normal is to meet and get along with the other Kamen Riders.” Said Joe. That’s when the gear on his head turning as he looked back to what Tsukasa said about the ‘others’ that will come to help him.

“Everypony, I think that I’m not the only Kamen Rider in Equestria!” said Joe in a baffle face.

“So then there are other superhero’s like you are here now in Equestria, yupee it means that were going to make a lot more new friends too !” said Pinkie Pie in her usual exciting action.

“Wait, why would there be more of you came to our world?” Twilight asked.

“Well, the thing is everypony, before I came to Equestria, I was in my hotel room and then my belt and case suddenly glows bright, the next thing I knew is that I’m in a voyage, similar to the one that Twilight came to become an Alicorn princess. That’s where I meet the original Kamen Rider Decade named Tsukasa, he said that Equestria is about to be threatened by a new enemy that you guy nor even the Princesses are no match, I think the Grongi is one of those new threats and he also said that there will be others that will come to help me in time.” Said Joe in theory.

“What!? So you’re telling us that there would be more of those Grongi things will came to Equestria!?” Twilight said in a mix of surprise and horror.

“I also noticed something else, if Grongi existed and came to Equestria, which means that there could be other monsters that could come here!” Joe said in concerned. Everypony/dragon and Joe looked at each other with a negative atmospheric horror tone that shivers everyone.

“Hey looked on the bright side, Joe here could just beat them all up, besides if what he said is true, which means that there are other superheroes like him will come to help him.” Said Spike in enthusiasm.

Which also cause Pinkie Pie in a brighten up joy as well “YEAH, you will be like boom, punch, pow, bang, pew, pew” as she bounces around.

“Well, I’ll do whatever I can then. It’s not like I’m gonna do it all alone though.” Said Joe with a small but yet a joyful smile.

“I think that’s enough questions to answer, after all we’ve been through a lot, Joe I’ll show you where you will be staying.” Twilight said.

“Thanks Twilight, but can you all make a Pinkie promise something for me?” Joe asked

“Yes?” All of them said in unison

“Can you keep my Kamen Rider abilities a secret, I rather not go public about it.” Said Joe

“If that’s what you need Joe darling than I will” said Rarity.

“Shoot, that ain’t the best thing I do, but I don’t see the problem of keeping that secret.” Said Applejack.

“Well, if that means being loyal to my friends than I’m more than happy to keep it a secret” said Rainbow.

“Umm, I’ll do my best to keep it a secret” said Fluttershy in her usual shy voice. And Pinkie does the same signs she did when she kept Twilights secret back at season 1. Joe recognized it and gives a thumb up.

“Don’t worry Joe, I’m great at keeping secrets you know, but Twilight on the other hoof, not so much.” Spike said. Twilight didn’t respond but gives a dagger like glare at him.

“It’s alright Joe, I’ll keep it a secret. But on one condition!” said Twilight. Joe raised an eyebrow and ask “What is it”.
“If Princess Celestia directly asked me about it, then I must tell her.” Twilight answered, Joe understands her condition and nodded for approval. 

“All right, you could tell her as long as she and the other princesses would keep my secret.” Joe answered her.

“Good, then I’ll report everything to Princess Celestia by tomorrow, for now let get some rest, we got a big day tomorrow, besides you might say you’re protect you back there, but I’m still concerned for you though.” Said Twilight as she points her hoof at Joe.

“Ok I get it” Joe responds and everypony said goodbye and head back to their homes. During that Twilight took Joe with him carrying his suitcase to one of the Rooms in the castle which had a comforting bed and crystal walls everywhere.

“Well this is one of the most comfortable room in the castle, might as well enjoy it.” Twilight said with an enthusiastic voice.

“Thank you Twilight, this is more than perfect.” Joe said

“Good night Joe, you’ll need a lot of rest.” Twilight reminded him.

“You too.” said Joe.

As both Twilight and Spike leaves the room, Joe got changed with his pajamas in his suitcase. He then headed to bed, putting all of his smaller belongings like his watch and phone on the nightstand. But he puts the Decadriver and Booker on his bed with him. While he wonders himself ‘Will I ever go back to my world?’