//------------------------------// // Chapter 7: Life Behind Mirrors // Story: The World Of Equestria // by ANDIE //------------------------------// In the past weeks, Marco decided to stay in Twilight’s Castle to call home until he can find an area to stay in Equestria. “Hey Joe! How are you?” Marco said as he came to the castle’s dining room for breakfast. “Yeah, I’m doing great!” Joe said as he finishes his breakfast. “Oh that’s good to hear.” Marco said as he has scramble eggs. As they finished their breakfast, they leaved the castle and saw the Main Six hanging out near Sugar Cube Corner, but they also noticed that somepony is missing. “Hey yeah Twi, where’s Applejack?” Joe said with Marco beside him as they pursued to the ponies. “Oh, she and the Cutie Mark Crusaders are at Appleloosa to prepare for a rodeo.” Twilight said. “I simply can’t believe that Sweetie Belle is willing to go there without my supervising!” Rarity said with slight hint of disgusts. “Look on the bright side though, they might get more experience outside and who knows, they might finally even get their cutie marks!” Joe said in enthusiasm. Marco raised an eyebrow at his comment “What’s a cutie mark?” Marco asks. “You don’t know what’s a Cutie Mark!?” Twilight said, shock at his words. “He’s not a fan of you girls at first. It’s natural that he doesn’t know.” Joe said and get’s his attention to Marco “Well a cutie mark is a representation of a pony’s talent and who they are. For an example, Twilight’s cutie mark is a big star with little stars surrounds it, it represents that Twilight is good at using magic and the Element of Magic.” Joe explains. “Oh” Marco said as he then confused with the world ‘Element’. “Wait, what do you mean Element?” Marco said. “There are ancient artifacts that were used to protect the Land of Equestria before we came along; these artifacts are called the Elements of Harmony. But that’s all I can tell you for any spoiler reasons, since yesterday you said that you will try to watch the show when we came back home.” Joe said, but Marco wasn’t offended. “Ok, I could just wait until I came back home.” Marco said as them and the main five are discussing on what to do, while that Joe hears a strange sound, to his surprise he recognized the strange sounds. “Hey do all hear that?” Joe said. The main five and Marco however are confused. “Hear what?” Twilight said as they don’t hear anything a slightest bit. “Yeah, what is it” Marco said, leaving them anxious. “What did you hear? Tells us already!” Rainbow said and began to be impatient. Joe hears the sound move in a different direction and follows it, which cause the Marco and the five to follow him. “Hey! Wait for us!” Pinkie said. As they run across the streets, Joe then stopped at a particular building which has a yard sale, Marco and the five stops to take a breath. “Just what is it that you hear Joe darling?” Rarity said in fatigue. “I hear a familiar sound and it’s coming from somewhere here” Joe said. “Is it a good thing or a bad thing?” Fluttershy ask in concerned. “Only one way to find out.” Joe said as he faces in front of an antique mirror and place is Decadriver on his waist. “Henshin!” Joe said as he inserts his card in the driver. = KAMEN RIDE: DECADE! = He once again turns into Decade, leaving Marco and the five confused. “Don’t worry everypony, I’ll explain everything when I come back from Mirror World.” Joe said which makes the five to be even more confused, except for Marco whose eye widened at Joe’s meaning. “Mirror World?” Twilight said. But before anyone could say anything, Joe jumps into the mirror and ‘goes into it’. Leaving the five and Marco jaws drop and gathered around the mirror, but saw nothing. In Mirror World Joe then comes out of the mirror and goes into another world; similar to Equestria, but everything is face differently, like a reflection of a mirror. As he got his feet, he saws a figure running away from him. Joe chases the figure and he jumps up one of the houses and runs and hops from roof to roof until he finally caught the figure in plain sight. “Gotcha!” Joe said as he recognized the figure, the figure turns out to be another Rider “Ryuki?” Joe said the Rider’s name. “Uh, what’s Ryuki?” The Rider said in confusion. Joe then surprised at this as a though came into his head ‘Is he the first Rider who knows nothing about Kamen Riders?’. Joe then stood up straight and asks some questions. “Um… are you new here?” Joe asks. The Rider then looks around his surroundings “Kind of, actually I was stuck here for three days.”The rider said. Which cause Joe in shock? “Three days!? Why didn’t you get out of this world in the first place!?” Joe said. The rider scratches his head. “Well, I’m shy and besides I can’t believe that I actually saw the main six at a reflective glass or mirror in this world.” The Rider said, giving Joe a conclusion. “Oh, so you’re a brony like me, but you knew nothing about the Kamen Rider Universe.” Joe said in realization. “Umm, what’s a Kamen Rider?” the Rider said. Joe gives an awkward face, but was hidden by his helmet. “I’ll explain it to you when we get out of here.” Joe said as he approach the Rider and pats his back before leading him back to the same mirror that Joe got in to Mirror World. “Ok, all we need is to go into this mirror and we will be back to the real world.” Joe said, the Rider is confused by the term ‘real world’, but decided to ask later. “Um, are you sure this is a good idea, we don’t want to break this mirror.” The Rider said. ‘Wow, this guy really don’t know anything about Kamen Riders’ Joe though before said “It won’t break, trust me”. Joe said and drag the Rider in front of the mirror for him to jump, however the Rider shows sign of hesitation of how unsure about going into the mirror. Joe then gives a sigh “Just get in there!” Joe said in frustration as he push the Rider’s back, causing him to fall towards the mirror and goes through it, Joe then follow along when he jumps into the mirror. Back at the real world The five ponies and Marco are still gathered around the mirror, anxiously waiting “How is that even scientifically possible?” Twilight said in baffle. “Hey, we already saw strange stuffs before. Besides these Riders have very strange, but yet really awesome powers!” Rainbow said. “Yeah, but still that breaks all laws of physics!” Twilight said as she points at the mirror. “Twilight darling, there are just something’s can’t be explained by science or magic.” Rarity said to comfort her. Just as anyone was about to say something, they saw something flew out of the mirror and forms into the same Rider back at Mirror World. Marco and the five are shock to witness a new Kamen Rider. “A-Another Rider?” Fluttershy said softly as the Rider tries to stand up and turns back to normal, the Rider is a man with short blond hair, wearing blue jeans and an orange sweater. Marco immediately recognized the new Rider. “Kamen Rider Ryuki!” Marco said and few moments later, Joe came out of the same mirror moments later and turns back to normal. “Well, we have a lot to explain to him.” Joe said. They both arrived to the Castle of Friendship, where they are in the throne room “My name is Winston Goodwill” the Rider said his true name. “Well Winston, to answer your question, a Kamen Rider is a Japanese superhero series, they are masked hero’s who often drive on motorcycles and fight evil monsters called Kaijin” Joe explained “What!? So are you saying that I’m now this superhero?” Winston said, Joe and Marco nodded. “The Kamen Rider Franchise started in 1971 and still drives through this day. You have the powers of Kamen Rider Ryuki.” Marco said. “Ryuki has the ability to go into a parallel world that is opposite to the real world, known as Mirror World, it’s the world of mirrors that is like a reflection of a mirror, there are monsters inhabit in Mirror World called Mirror Monsters. You also have the ability to use dragreder’s powers; dragreder is a red Asian dragon Mirror Monster who is Ryuki’s partner in crime. But on one condition, Ryuki has to feed dragreder the energy of other Mirror Monsters, otherwise Dragreder will resolve to eat you!” Marco explains. Causing a gear to turn on his head. “Now that you mentioned it, I do remember how I got here in the first place.” Winston said in a flashback. Winston flashback: “Mom, why does Gunter have to stay here for a while?” Winston asks. “Because he overdue his payment for his apartment.” Winston mom reminds him. “Huh, alright!” Winston said as he arrange his cousin Gunter bed for him, when he folds the blanket, a black card deck flies out and landed on the ground, Winston saw the deck and pick it up. “What is this thing?” Winston said as a bright glow of light emitted by the deck, when the light slowly turns of, Winston disappears, few seconds later his mother came into the room and saw a card that came from the deck is on the floor, the card has a black hole like picture on the front and has the world ‘SEAL’. “Huh, why does Winston always have to mess up with Günter toys?” She said as he picks up the card and put it on the nightstand. Then Winston was in the same void as the others and saw an Asian man with long brunette hair, wearing jeans and a thick blue jacket. “There is a world you are familiar with, but now it’s in a verge of peril, you have what it takes to save that world.” The man said. “Who are you?” Winston ask the man. “You will find out later, now I’ll grant you my powers in order to save that world.” The man said as a red Asian dragon appears in thin air. Winston was paralyzed in fear as he falls on his back and the dragon flies around him and merged him. The card deck he was holding now has a dragon head symbol on it. In a flash of light, he was awake but in his Rider form. He stood up and shocked at his new appearance “What in the world just happened, what happened to me!?” said Winston as he touch his helmet and armor, but was more than thrilled as he looks and recognized his surroundings “Wait, is this Equestria!?” Winston said. “Awesome!” Winston said as he head towards Ponyville, but when he arrives, no pony was home, he also noticed that the words and writing are on opposite sides. “That’s peculiar, why are the words like that?” He said as a motorcycle drives towards him, stopping at his side with no one in the seat. This motorcycle is silver with a large dome like roof to it as the roof opens by itself. “What in the world?” Winston said, he then sits on the motorcycle, the belt buckles then attach itself to Winston’s belt and he drives the motorcycle, he then decided to go to the Crystal Empire. When he arrives, he also saws no one, but when he looks at a reflection on one of the crystal houses, he saw the main six and Joe walks away. “NO WAY, ARE THOSE THE MAIN SIX!?” Winston said in fan girl, but he’s also notice Joe and Tim and how they are only reflections. “What in the world is going on? Why are there two people there and why do they only have reflections, but not their physical body?” Winston said as he saw a pair of monsters in front of him, one was a green shark like creature with two saws, the other was an aboriginal like humanoid with a tomahawk and the two monsters chase him. Winston manages to escape and hide, but he has no clue how much longer is he going to stay there as he finds his motorcycle and drove back to Ponyville. Back in the present. “You were watching us when we first met Tim!?” Joe said in surprise. “Sorry, I don’t want to be a stalker, but I have nowhere else to go.” Winston said. “It’s alright, but what I’m really confused is to how you were able to stay in Mirror World that long? I though Ryuki can only stay in mirror in a short period of time?” Marco asks. “Well that applies to the original series, but in Kamen Rider Decade, a parallel world counterpart of Shinji was able to stay in mirror for as long as he wants and also able to exit Mirror World by passing through a different reflective object.” Joe explains to Marco. “The person who you met back at that void was the original Kamen Rider Ryuki, Shinji Kido.” Joe said. “We’ve all come here also because the original Kamen Riders have sent us to protect this world from the Kaijins, Marco here is Kamen Rider Blade, he’s able to capture monsters called Undead by using special cards and inherit their powers. While I’m Kamen Rider Decade, I can able to turn into nine other Kamen Riders that came before me, that includes Ryuki, but somehow most of my cards that contain my powers were sealed.” Joe finish explaining. “But why does this Shinji guy choose me instead of my cousin Gunter, he must have that deck long before I even know about it?” Winston said, but Joe doesn’t look all to surprise. “I think it’s most likely because the original Riders prefer to choose someone who have a similar personality or aspect to them, because they think it would be the best way for some people to become Kamen Riders to protect this world.” Joe said. That raises a question for Winston “But, why don’t the original Riders came to Equestria instead of asking us to and why are the Kaijins begins to attack this world?” Winston asks. “That’s a question that we’ve all been wondering, we don’t know why the original Riders send us here and why are the kaijin’s are invading, but whatever reason the Kaijins have, it causes them to really desire to reach havoc Equestria.” Marco said. “Uh, can you guys care to tell us what’s going on?” Twilight ask. Just as everything seems settling, Winston and Joe heard the same strange sound, this time it’s louder and more disturbing. “Oh no, that could only mean one thing!” Joe said as he runs out of the castle and the rest follows him. They ran to the town hall. At first everything seems peaceful. “Joe, what’s wrong!?” Twilight asks as she and her friends take their breath. Suddenly out of the river, a monster jumps out and grabbed a nearby pony. “Hey, it’s that same monster that chases me when I arrived to the Crystal Empire!” Winston said. “That’s an Abysslasher! A type of mirror monster!” Joe said as he jumps up and kicks the monster, it drops the pony and jumps back in the water. “Winston, you need to go to mirror world and stop that Abysslasher!” Joe said which cause Winston to have a huge hesitation face. “What!? Are you nuts? I can’t fight!!” Winston said in agitation. “But you have to, if not that monster is just going to hunt down that pony again, once a Mirror Monster picks up its prey scents, it will never let it go until it eats it!. Besides, you’re Ryuki, you can enter Mirror World and this will be a part of your Kamen Rider training!” Joe said. “Don’t worry Winston; I’ll be by your side!” Joe said to comfort him. “But, how can I go back in there?” Winston said. “Simple, all you need is to held up your deck with your left hand and face it in front of a reflective object, a mirror or a reflective glass is a good starter!” Joe said as he brings Winston to Town Hall where there the windows have reflections. Winston hears him and faces his deck on the reflective part of the glass, this cause the same silver belt that Winston wears in his Rider Form to appear out of the glass reflection and place on his waist. “Then you your deck back and cross your right arm up like this!” Joe said as he does Ryuki’s transformation pose “And say the word ‘Henshin’ and inserts the deck inside the belt” Joe said as he pretends to insert an imaginary deck in an imaginary belt. Winston saw this and copies Joe’s moves. “Henshin” Winston said as he held his deck back and cross his right hand up and insert the deck on the belt, this cause the deck to glow and the belt to emit a strange sound and Ryuki’s armor appears on him by the mirror’s reflection. When Winston transform, he looks at himself, realizing that he transform once more. The ponies around him are astonish at the transformation. “Good, now I’ll join you in a sec.” Joe said as he places his Decadriver on his waist and does his usual transformation pose. “Henshin!” Joe said as he inserts his card in the belt. = KAMEN RIDE: DECADE! = The belt announces as he turns into Decade, “Now we enter Mirror World the same way we exit it a while ago.” Joe said as he goes into the glass reflection and Winston follows him. In Mirror World. Joe and Winston jumps out of the glass and they entered into Mirror World and faces the Abysslasher. “Alright Winston, you need to fight that thing!” Joe said, but Winston is unamused. “Easy for you to say, I don’t even know the first thing about fighting!” Winston said. “Just take a deep breath and calm down, I can assure you that in your Rider Form, you are a natural fighter, many Kamen Riders are start of as a rookie, even I and some Riders right now in Equestria.” Joe said, hopping to motivate Winston to fight. Joe gives a sigh “Alright, but if things gone out of hand, then you should give me a hand!” Winston said, Joe nodded to give approval. Winston nods back and charged at the monster. Winston tries to punch and kick it, but the monster easily dodges his moves and uses its duel sword to protect itself and slash Winston back, causing sparks to fly out of Winston’s armor, he fell down to the floor hard as the Abysslasher attempts to attack again. “Push the head of your Drag visor, it’s the gauntlet dragon head like device on your left forearm and take out a card from your deck and insert it in your Drag visor and close it!” Joe said. Winston manages to get the gist of it as he opens the Drag visor and takes out a card from his deck, the card has a sword picture on it, and he inserts the card inside the device and closes it. Sword Vent! The device announces as a sword flies out of nowhere and flew towards the Abysslasher, causing damage to it and Winston immediately grabs the sword and slashes the monster when it’s still being stunned. The monster tries to attack, but Winston uses his sword to block the Abysslasher’s duel sword and kicks its stomach, causing it to fall back and charges. “Try inserting another card!” Joe said, Winston respond by open the Drag Visor and took out another card, this card has a dragon chest like shield, and he inserts it into the device. Guard Vent! The device announce again, this time two shields appear out of thin air and flies towards to Winston’s shoulders, the shield resembles a dragon’s chest. “Wow, this is so cool!” Winston said in amazement. The Abysslasher uses its duel sword again, but Winston blocks it with the shield on his shoulders and slash his sword even harder than before, enough for the monster to falls down. “I think I’m getting a hang of it!” Winston said as he inserts one more card in the Drag visor, this card has a dragon head on it. Strike Vent! As said, a larger dragon head like gauntlet appears from the sky and inserts itself in Winston’s right hand. Unlike the device on his left hand, this one has the same exact design as Dragreder’s head. “Put your right leg back and make a pose as if you’re trying to punch the monster, and don’t forget to make the dragon’s mouth open.” Joe gives advice to use the Drag Claw (Dragreder head device). Winston did as Joe said and as he do the pose, the head starts to ignite fire inside its mouth and when Winston did his strike pose, the Drag Claw fires a powerful blast of fire. Powerful enough to destroy the monster as its life energy appears and floats in mid air, Winston stares at it in awe. “Don’t worry about that thing, Dragreder will handle it.” Joe said, as said a red Asian dragon appears out of nowhere, Winston remembers the dragon back then as it consumes the energy orb from the Abysslasher and flies of. “Alright, you did pretty well on the first day, now let’s go back, the others could be worried.” Joe said as Winston nodded in agreement and they head back by using the same glass they entered. Back in the real Equestria Marco explains how Kamen Rider Ryuki’s powers works to the Main five and the original Kamen Riders who were the one that brought them here in Equestria as they wait for Joe and Winston return. “Don’t worry, Joe knows almost every Kamen Rider powers even better than the back of his head, I can tell.” Marco said to comfort the ponies, but not much progress. “I still can’t believe that you Kamen Riders could even break the laws of science!” Twilight said, still in concern. “The real bummer here is that we can’t watch this Ryuki guys powers, I bet it will be just as awesome as the others!” Rainbow said in frustration. Few seconds later, Joe and Winston jumps out of the glass and changed back to normal. “What a battle back there!” Winston said. “Well either way, we all need some rest.” Joe said as everyone sighs in agreement and head back to Twilight’s Castle. In the castle, Joe took out all of the cards in the deck to show how they work, with everyone else watches the cards. “Winton, as you know these three cards allows you to summon special weapons.” Joe said as he held out the three cards that Winston used in the fight. Then he held two more cards, one of which had a picture of Dragerder “This card allows you to summon Dragerder when you feel like you need it, but don’t let it fall into the wrong hands or otherwise you can’t transform into Ryuki and it’s also a contract card for Dragerder, meaning if this card is damaged in anyway. You no longer will be able to control it and it will hunt you down. So be very cautious!” Joe said as a big reminder for Winston. Winston gulps his throat in fear and nods. This warning also makes the Main 5 feel uneasy. Joe then shows the other card which had the same symbol on his deck, but with a red background. “And this card is your final attack card, meaning this card will initiate Ryuki’s final attack.” Joe simply said. Winton also noticed one more card in the deck; he then grabs the deck and took out the card. This card has a left golden wing with a fiery background and the card title said ‘Survive’. “Joe, what about this card?” Winton ask, Joe looks amazed when he saw the card. “That’s a very special card you have, because this card allows you to ascend into Ryuki’s Final Form, Survive form!” Joe explain, Winston then looks at his card in awe. “Hate to interrupt but Joe, how did you get into Mirror World like that, I though only Kamen Riders from Ryuki series could do that?” Marco asks, which cause everyone to stare at Joe. But Joe wasn’t all that surprise “Simple, the Decadriver is able to copy a Kamen Rider’s aspects when each time I encounter another Rider, like in the show everytime Tsukasa meets another Rider, his Decadriver gives him aspects that matches the Rider such as playing a violin like Kiva, making dramatic entrances like Kabuto, and even going into Mirror World like Ryuki.” Joe answered. Marco stared at Joe in amazement. “Hey I just noticed something. Every time you guys change, you all said this word called ‘henshin’, what does that word mean, is it a catchphrase or some sort?” Spike said in curiosity. “Well, Spike the word ‘henshin’ is a native language in a specific region from my world, it means change or transform. Many Kamen Riders said it as their common phrase before turning into their Rider Forms. However not all Kamen Riders said that word” Joe explains to Spike. “Darling, I also noticed something else, each time we meet a new good Rider, you all can turn into what you all called you’re final form. Some which is a little tacky, but others look very outstanding! But my real question is why do you have those forms?” Rarity said her question. “Yeah, some of those Final Forms do look more awesome than others!” Rainbow said in agreement. “You see, many primary Kamen Riders are able to achieve final forms due to either physically like Kuuga’s Ultimate Form or using an object to unlock it like Kiva’s Tatsulot, Blade’s Evolution Card and his Rouzer Absorber.” Joe takes a short breath before continuing. “They often use these forms because it’s their most efficient form to fight when it comes to facing very powerful enemies like Saga, the Grongi leader and the Joker Undead.” Joe finishes Rarities’ question. “Um, not mind Joe, but what's your Final Form?” Fluttershy ask softly. “Well, Decade does have a final form, but I haven’t achieved it yet, because I need a specific item to unlock it. And I don’t know where that item is” Joe said in frustration of remembering Decade’s Final Form back home. “Well, I for one think that’s enough questions to ask for now. After all you two do have a rough day.” Twilight said. They both nod in agree. “Yeah, let’s go and have dinner.” Joe said as he and everyone else gets something to eat. As the day ends, a man who is in Mirror World, watching the Castle, the man has a blond shaggy hair and is wearing a trench coat, the man then held up a deck which looks similar to Winston’s, but the deck is brown and has a gold phoenix symbol on it. In the next morning Joe and everyone else came back from Applejack’s barn after asking the Apples if Applejack have come back. “I hope Applejack and the CMC doing well back at Appleloosa, I wondered if she won this rodeo?” Joe said as they walked back to Ponyville. “We can figure that out when they came back, after all it’s only been two days since they were out.” Twilight said. “Yeah, we can make a welcome back from Appleloosa’s Rodeo party for them and introduce them to our new friend here; it’s going to be like two different parties combine into one!!” Pinkie said in delight as she jumps up and down. “Typical Pinkie Pie.” Winston said with a small giggle as they heard screams back at town. “Oh no, now what?” Twilight said in concern as they all ran back to Ponyville. When they arrived, everypony is running and hiding from multiple golden feathers that appear from thin air and explodes each time it makes contract with an object. “What is this?” Twilight said in horror with Rarity looks at the event in the same way. “Ooh, those feathers looks beautiful, but how such a beautiful thing can cause so much trouble!?” Rarity said in undeniable. But as they got closer, they saw a figure standing near town hall. The figure wears a black suit with brown grieves wearing an armor torso that has a red ‘M’ shape on it with shoulder pads that resemble gold wings, the figure also wears a mask that has a gold beak like design with a silver mouthpiece, there are two small eyes and four trimmings which looks similar to the eyes are on the fore head, with a horn on the head similar to a beak and it handles a gold staff a gold silhouette bird as the head of the staff and the belt he’s wearing looks a lot like Ryuki’s belt, but with a gold color and the deck is brown and has a phoenix on the middle. They both realized what they looking at is another Kamen Rider. “Kamen Rider Odin?” Marco said in shock. “Odin?” Twilight ask. “He’s one of the most powerful Kamen Riders in the series!” Joe said with the same horror face as Marco’s. “Hum, why are you guys looking like your scared?” Winston said. “Because Odin’s powers are god like!” Joe said with seriousness, leaving Winston stared at him in confusion. “You have my deck, return it to me and we’ll make this progress move along quickly.” The rider said with an echoing effect as he held his hand up. “There’s aint no way he’s going to give you that deck. You harm everypony in town to get it so forget it! Right Winston!” Rainbow said in confidence, having Winston nodded in agreement. “Well, in that case I have to force my gloves.” The rider said as he disappears in gold feathers and appears again in front of Winston and punches him in the face, making Winston fall on the ground. “Winston!” everyone said in unison and stand by his side. As they watch Odin’s move, Odin then held his right hand up and flicks his hand, causing a giant dome like portal to appear behind him, leaving everyone in shock, especially Joe since he recognized the portal. The portal then come closer to Odin and disappears, revealing two more Riders. One Rider wears a black suit, with silver and blue grieves, the torso armor is silver with blue stripes that form the torso with shoulder pads similar to a big cat’s claw, wearing silver and blue vambrace. The rider’s mask has a vent design, but more simpler and has a mouth piece similar to fangs and have a cat like whisker on his chin, the belt is the same as Ryuki’s, but the card deck is blue and has a tiger face symbol on it and on the Rider’s right hand is a blue axe with a silver blade. The other rider is also wearing a black suit, but the grieves and vambrace is entirely purple, the chest armor is purple and has a pointed shoulder pad with a silver trimming and two hexagons on each side and a silver piece on the center, the mask has two smaller hexagons on the head, with a vent like face, but the face looks more sticker like, the head design is similar to a cobra and have a mouthpiece similar to a cobra’s fang. The belt is also the same, but the deck is purple and has a cobra’s head and his left hand is handling a scepter that has a cobra head on it, while the right hand handles a sword like cutlass. Everyone is stunned at this new turn. “Kamen Rider Tiger and Ouja!?” Joe said as the two riders charged at Joe and Marco. “You guys, you need to go now, and we’ll handle this!” Marco said as he, Joe and Winston backs of and prepares to transform. “Henshin!” The three said as they do their poses and transform =KAMEN RIDE: DECADE! = ♠Turn Up!♠ And Winston insert his deck into his belt and they all turn into their Rider Forms, they both each charge at their opponents, Joe handles Tiger, Marco fights Ouja and Winston fights Odin. Joe tries to dodge Tiger’s axe swinging and uses his sword to slash Tiger, but Tiger manages to hold on and insert a card into his axe, Strike Vent! The axe announces as two huge paws with long claws appear out of the mirror’s reflection and slash Joe back, creating an immense amount of sparks to fly out of Joe’s armor and walks backwards. “Alright then, if a sword not enough then a hammer should!” Joe said as he inserts a card in his belt. =FORM RIDE: KIVA DOGGA= His armor changes into Kiva’s Dogga Form and uses his hammer to defend himself from Tigers claws and manages hits him back as the Tiger Rider stumbles and rolls down on the ground, Joe turns back into Kiva’s regular form and then inserts one more card. =FINAL ATTACK RIDE: K-K-KIVA!= The belt announces as the day turns night and he lift up his right leg, the grieve and the chains shattered to reveal his red foreleg with bat wings, he does a back flip as he jumps high into the air and makes a full flip before descending on Tiger with his flying kick. As soon as Joe makes contact with Tigers body, the force cause the Rider’s body to slam down and creates Kiva’s symbol on the ground, the Rider explodes and when the dust was settled, Joe stood up and walk out, leaving nothing behind from the Rider. Marco is still handling Oujia, with their swords collide each other and fights with equal strength and skills, Oujia then backs of and open the head of his scepter and took out one card and inserts it into the scepter. Joe then turns back into Decade’s base form and came to Marco’s aid. Final Vent The scepter announces as a giant purple armored cobra with three pairs of gold horns on its neck hood, scaring everypony and hide in their houses. Ouja then runs and the snake follows him and Ouja jumps high to the height of the snakes head and does a back flip and the snake spits venom on him as he does a scissor kick. Joe and Marco then combine their final attacks in hope to defeat Ouja. ♠ Kick-Thunder-Mach ♠ ♠ Lightning Sonic ♠ Marco’s sword announces as the three holographic cards are now absorbed into his armor and his legs begin to charge with electricity. Joe inserts a card in the driver. = FINAL ATTACK RIDE: D-D-DECADE! = The belt said as the holographic cards appears in front of Joe and shift itself to target Ouja. Both Joe and Marco initiates their final attack with both of them fly into the air with their kicks straight towards Ouja, they collided which cause Ouja to explode and passes through the snake, destroying the snake along with Ouja. Winston has a hard time of fighting Odin, due to Odin using mystical powers instead of physical fighting as he teleports and punches Winston each time he tries to slash Odin. Odin then opens up his staff and inserts a card inside. Sword vent! Then two golden fiery duel swords appears in his hands and uses it to slash Winston multiple times as Winston barely manages to make contract with Odin’s armor. As Joe and Marco came to Winston’s aid, Odin inserts another card in his staff. Time Vent! Then time is turning back and everything seems to turns back to just right after Joe and Marco defeated Ouja and the snake, Odin then appears behind the two and slashes his sword behind their backs. “Wait, what just happened?” Twilight said, noticing the strange phenomenon. “Odin just turns back time!” Joe answered Twilight’s question. “How’s that even possible!? That requires a lot of power!” Twilight said in shock. “That’s why he’s one of the most powerful Riders we known!” Marco said as he and Joe tried to stand up and fights Odin. But Odin keeps teleporting and hitting each of them without knowing. When the two falls down, Odin summons more golden feathers on them, causing huge amount of sparks to explode and damaged their armor as they both scream in pain. “This is awful!” Fluttershy said as she covered her eyes with her hoof. “How could there be someone this cruel!?” Rarity said in agreement as the five and Spike are helpless to help the three Riders. “STOP!” Winston screams as he gain his footing and inserts a card in his Drag Visor Final Vent! Then Dragerder flies out of the glass and flies around Winston as he prepare for a final attack. The five are amazed by the dragon’s appearance while Fluttershy stood behind Pinkie for protection. Winston then jumps up high and the dragon flies up and circles him as Winston performs a kick and the dragon was behind him and fires a powerful blast of fire on him, causing to fly down towards Odin with a powerful kick, unfortunately Odin manages to teleport in time before Winston kicks at him, but this action stops Odin from summoning more golden feathers on Joe and Marco. Odin appears behind Winston and slashes his sword at Winston, making him fall down and teleports further away from him. “Now you see the consequences, you have no hope of defeating me.” Odin said. But Winston growls in anger as he takes out a card from his deck and flip it revealing a card with the cards background begins to come alive, making it appear like real fire. Soon after the area where the riders are now started to cover in heat waves and fire begins to appear around them. Joe and Marco are amazed of what Winston is about to do “Is he really going to?” Marco said and Joe slowly nodded. As the flames intense, the main five (minus Applejack) are astonish of how there was fire in the area. Then Winston instincts tells him to take a punch on his left arm, as he did it, a fiery aura surrounds the Drag Visor as it disappears as a fiery aura and reappears as a new device on Winston’s hands. This device is similar to the Drag Visor, but it had a more texture design for a head and it’s not attached to his forearm anymore, this new device is now known as the Drag Visor Zwei. The mouth of the new device is open and Winston inserts his survive card in the mouth of the device and close it. SURVIVE! The device announces as Winston stood up in a fierce pose as he held the device upwards, moments later the fire in the area now surrounds his armor, creating a fiery aura as the reflection from the surroundings crash into him and revealing Ryuki’s final form. This forms suit is now black, but the grieves and the vambrace are now gold and the deck is now red instead of black. The torso has a more dragon like design with the shoulder pads points back, similar to horns and a smaller shoulder pad is underneath. The mask is still the same, but the ends of the mask are more pointed with a gold trim on top of the head and two whiskers like antennas on his forehead. The five ponies and Spike are astounded of his new form. Winston then held the device; a blade came out of the device’s snout portion and extends a blade as he charges Odin. Despite Winston’s new powers, he is still overpowered by Odin’s mystic powers, Winston keeps on missing as Odin kept teleporting and hits him without warning. Winston then takes out a card, this card has a picture of multiple cards aliened in a strange pattern with a strange light in the middle and title said ‘Strange Vent’. “What is this card?” Winston said. “If you insert that card into the device, it will randomly change into a different card!” Joe said. Winston understood as he inserts the card into the Visor on the side of the head. STRANGE VENT! The card then glows, making the visor opens up and turn into another card, this card has Ryuki multiple clones. Winston then inserts the card in again. TRICK VENT! As said, three more clones of Ryuki appears and all charged at Odin at the same time, but despite it, Odin manages to teleport away from each of the clones and slashes them along the way. Marco then stood up as he takes out his Rouze Absorber, just as soon as he does it; Odin inserts another card in this staff. Steal Vent The staff announces as the Rouze Absorber vanishes in fin air and appears on Odin’s hand and he throws it far away. “Not again!” Marco growls in frustration. The Ryuki clones can’t even make contact with Odin as they all disappear by Odin’s powerful slash, revealing the real Ryuki and Odin summons more gold feather on Winston, stunning him and makes him fall on the ground. As he was paralyzed by pain, Odin opens his staff and takes out one more card, this card has his symbol on it, it’s no doubt that Odin’s going to use his final attack on Winston as he inserts it into his staff. Final Vent! A golden fiery phoenix flies around him as it picks Odin of the ground, emitting a golden aura, the ponies and Spike realized what that card meant as they all cover their eyes with their hooves to avoid seeing a horrific end. Just as everything is over for everyone, Oden suddenly felt pain as electricity surges around him, causing the phoenix to drop Odin of the ground and the phoenix explodes, everyone was shocked and confused to what happened. “What’s happening to me!?” Odin said in confusion, Winston saw this opportunity to fight back as he opens his device and inserts one more card. FINAL VENT! The device announces as Dragreder appears and shattered to reveal a new form, Dragreder is now larger and longer from head to tail and a more robotic in appearance. The dragon’s front chest is larger with two large shoulder pads and the hind legs are bigger with two long shoulder pads, the foot and claws are longer and sharper with the tail is much longer and the head has a much more fearsome appearance, it is now Dragranzer. Winston jumps up and hops on Dragranzers back and as they are about to land, Dragranzer is changing, it’s forehead shifted down to his eyes and muzzle, forming a mask like visor, suddenly, a tire immerges out of the dragon’s chest, as it serpent like spines shifted diagonally, making the dragon’s look similar to a motorcycle and another tire appears on the end, when they landed, Dragranzer’s upper legs attach itself to the tire and the hind legs lift of the ground to avoid friction on the floor. Dragranzer now becomes a living motorcycle. Making the main five and Spike jaws dropped. As Odin is still paralyzed, Winston lifts up Dragranzer as it tail makes contact to the ground and it fires multiple fire balls at Odin and rams into him, destroying him in an explosion, Winston then stops driving Dragranzer and looks back at the explosion, Odin was still standing, but not before his deck shattered into pieces and collapse. Joe and Marco approach to Winston as they witness another shocking fact. When Odin turns blank, his armor shattered to reveal his identity, was the same man from yesterday. “Cousin Gunter!?” Winston said in shock, and even went wide eye along. “Why didn’t my powers work back there!?” Gunter said in anger, with Joe and Marco stood by side with Winston. “It’s most likely because your body can’t handle the huge amount of power that Odin has. The original Odin was a puppet, that’s why he can’t feel pain.” Joe said his theory. “Winston, that deck belongs to me, give it back now!” Gunter said, but Winston completely denies it. “No, you almost destroy Ponyville and everyone with it just because of this thing. If you think I’m gonna give a very powerful tool to a mad guy like you, then you are dead wrong!” Winston yelled. “He’s right, a ‘true’ Kamen Rider never acts for their selfish desires!” Joe said as he and Marco stand beside Winston. “Well in that case.” Gunter said as he takes out another deck, this deck is blue and has a shark like mouth symbol. “He has another deck?” Marco said as the silver belt appears on Gunter’s waist. “Henshin” Gunter said as he inserts the deck into the belt, making the reflection of his armor appears around him and he’s now in a different Rider Form. This form is mostly blue in color, with blue pattern stripes on his suit; the torso armor has a shark jaw like appearance, the mask has a silver face with a shark snout and gill like structures and a mouthpiece similar to a sharks teeth and the left hand as a huge shark like device. “What kind of kamen rider is that?” Marco said in confusion. “Kamen Rider Abyss!” Joe answered. With that Gunter inserts a card in the shark/devices mouth. Advent! Then two sharks like monsters appear out of the water, one was an Abysslasher, the other was light green with a huge tank like chest, this one is known as Abysshammer, the two monsters attack Joe and Marco, leaving Winston to handle Gunter once more. “Gunter, just what is your goal, what are trying to accomplish!?” Winston said. “Silence, it’s none of your concern!” Gunter said as his blast a powerful splash of water out of the devices mouth, causing Winston to fly back and turns back into his base Rider Form. The two Riders saw this and came to Winston’s need. “You have been a fan to this girly show ever since I moved with you. This might look like a friendly show, but in actuality, it’s similar to our world, since these ponies behaviors are similar to us, then they only fight for themselves” Gunter said, this allows Joe to said his line. “Got a hand it to you, sometimes we do fight for ourselves, there are some ponies are willing to get what they desire most, but with our hands… or this case hooves, we can grab on to others. And when that happens, we may be helpless or even lost hope, but we will never be alone!” Joe said. Making the ponies smile at him once more. The two Abyss monsters charged at the Riders again. “Cursed you! Who are you!?” Gunter said in annoyance. “Just a passing through Kamen Rider! Remember that!” Joe said as his automatically opens and three cards fly out of the booker, revealing Ryuki related cards. “Let’s end this annoyance!” Gunter said as he inserts one more card. Final Vent! The device announces as the two Abysses jump into the water, merging themselves into one huge robotic blue shark with a saw like snout, it is now an Abyssodon, the monster fires multiple missiles from gun like weapons from its side. The three Riders manage to avoid the blast, the Abyssodon then flies behind Gunter. Joe then inserts one of the cards into his belt. =FINAL FORM RIDE: R-R-RYUKI!= The main five and Spike recognized the belt’s announcement as Rainbow Dash and Spike are both excited to see what will happen next. Moments later, his two Drag Shields appears and attach to his shoulders and his sword on his left hand, Winston noticed it and ask “Hey! I didn’t summon these!?” “This going to tickle a bit.” Joe said and the Abyssodon then blast more missiles at them, Joe manages to push Winston out of the way as he and Marco jumps out of the way, while in slow motion. Miston’s body turns upside down as his two shields become more leg like and the body became more armor like with Dragreder’s head appears. "What is this!?" Winston said mentally as he completed his transformation. He turns into a larger version of Dragreder. The ponies are amazed at the transformation once more, even Gunter has an unnervingly shock gasp can be heard as the Ryuki Dragreder charged at the Abyssodon. Joe and Marco is fighting Gunter on land while, Winston as Ryuki Dragreder is fighting the Abyssodon. While flying, Winston manages to constrict the Abyssodon with his body, but the Abyssodon uses it’s chainsaw snout to deliver a cut on Ryuki Dragreder, letting the Abyssodon go. The giant shark then fires missiles again, but Ryuki Dragreder destroys it all by breathing a huge amount of fire at it and at the Abyssodon. When the giant shark is stunned, Ryuki Dragreder uses his sword, now a part of his tail to slice the Abyssodon in half, destroying it as Ryuki Dragreder heads back to Joe and Marco’s aid and turns back to regular Ryuki. With three Riders by side, they are able to overpower Gunter as Joe inserts one more card. = FINAL ATTACK RIDE: R-R-RYUKI! = Winston then responds by turning into Ryuki Dragreder again and flying circles around Joe, Joe then mimic’s Ryuki’s final attack as he jumps in the air and does a flying kick pose , while the Ryuki Dragreder blast fire at Joe and causing him to deliver a fiery kick on Gunter. The kick touches Gunter, causing his armor to explode. When Joe landed safely and Winston turns back into his regular Rider Form and Joe and Marco gathered by side to witness Gunter’s defeat. “I can’t believe that I’ve been beaten by a full time Brony!!” Gunter said as he turns back to his civilian form. “Don’t worry though, I will give the deck back to you, once this land is free from Kaijins and you and I return to a normal life.” Winston said with a smile that his hidden by the mask. “You better be, because next time, I’ll be Ryuki.” Gunter said as he explodes and a dimensional barrier appears and engulfs Gunter. Winston witness it with a gasp, but Joe and Marco both padded on Winston’s back. “Don’t worry, I can tell that he’s fine.” Joe said as they all look at each other and turns back to their civilian form and everypony saw this came out and cheer for them once more. “That was the CCOOLLEESSTT thing I’ve ever seen!” Rainbow said as she flies in a loop and as on cue, Applejack with a trophy and the CMC came back from Apploosa’s rodeo and heads to Ponyville. “Howdy everypony, how are you f-f-f-e-e-e-l-ling!? What in tarnation happened here!?” Applejack said in astonishment and the CMC’s have their jaws dropped, witnessing the destruction on Ponyville. “Well it’s a long story” Joe said as the Riders scratch their head in embarrassment and were about to explain Applejack and the CMC on what happened. During their explanation, a blue butterfly fly pass them which caught Fluttershy’s attention. “Oh hello there.” Fluttershy said as she hears the butterfly 'tells' her to follow it and flies away. “Wait!” Fluttershy said in a small gentle yell that does not caught everyone’s attention as she follow the blue butterfly. She follows the butterfly near to her cottage as the butterfly flies behind her cottage. “Wait, what is it that you want to show me?” Fluttershy said as she heads to where the butterfly is hiding, when she got there, she’s amazed of what’s in front of her. … Back at town square Joe, Marco and the rest of the six finish their explanation. “And that’s about it Applejack, hey wait! Where’s Fluttershy?” Joe said as he noticed that she’s no longer next to them as they turn their heads around. “What, but she was there moments ago!?” Applejack said. “Oh no, we were so caught up of explaining everything to Applejack and the Cutie Mark Crusaders that we don’t pay attention to each other!” Twilight said in panic as she and everyone spread out to find Fluttershy. Back at her cottage, she witness a new Kamen Rider, this Rider’s suit is black with thick read lines on over his body and arms and legs, wearing silver shoes, brace ankles and knee pads, the Rider have silver finger tips, wearing a thin and yet a highly thick silver belt with a phone like device as the buckle. The Rider shoulder pads are black with a tint of silver and red lines; with his left wrist was a stopwatch like device. The most interesting feature is his torso armor is silver with a simple line edge design and his mask has two huge yellow bug eyes, two sharp teeth like mouthpiece on the upper jaw and one sharp tooth on the lower jaw and two small red antennas. In the near darkness, the red lines on it's suit and armor and the yellow eyes glows and several blue butterflies flying around him. “Who are you?” Fluttershy ask, but the Rider then walked away leaving only a trace of blue butterflies flies away. Twilight walks nearby and found Fluttershy“Fluttershy! There you are! Are you alright?” Twilight said in concerned. “I’m fine Twilight.” Fluttershy said delicately. “Fluttershy, what happened?” Twilight ask. “Oh nothing, at first I thought I saw an injured animal, but it’s just a friendly group of butterflies.” Fluttershy said half of the truth. “Well, I’m glad that you’re ok, everypony is worried about you” Twilight said as she picks Fluttershy up and brought her to the others. “Um, Twilight, there’s something else I saw back there before you came.” Fluttershy said. Cause Twilight to be unnerved. “What did you saw Fluttershy?” Twilight said. “Well, I think it’s another Kamen Rider.” Fluttershy said, Twilight’s then wide eye. “What!? Did it hurt you or scared you?” Twilight said with concern, but Fluttershy appear to be unafraid. “No, he was just standing there with butterflies flying around him and leaves the moment you came here.” Fluttershy said. “What does this Rider look like?” Twilight said. “It’s kind of hard to describe, he has glowing red lines on his body, a silver chest and two huge yellow glowing bug eyes.” Fluttershy tries to describe the Rider. “Either way, I hope that Kamen Rider is on our side” Twilight said as she and Fluttershy heads back to the others. With that, the Rider is hiding behind a nearby tree, trying to conceal his glowing lines and his eyes and head deeper into the forest.