//------------------------------// // Where is Equestria? // Story: Drive with a Rider // by ANDIE //------------------------------// "AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!! I'M A FREAKING BELT!!!" Tyler screamed in total shocked on the Driver's face as he wiggles, trying to move but with little effort. "TYLER! Calm Down!" Jeff yell out. "HOW THE HECK CAN I CALM DOWN!? I'M A BELT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!" Tyler said with an angry face on the screen. "But panicking and whining won't make anything better! Tyler, what's the last thing do you remember after the accident?" Jeff ask. "Well, I remembered that I woke up about a few minutes before you regain your consciousness, then I tried to wake you up, but you're way out cold back then and I saw the Drive Driver toy package right next to me. So I picked it up and got out of the car, when I did the package glow brightly and everything was white, the next thing I know is that I woke up right here in this exact spot." Tyler said and gives a sigh. "Now that I think about it, that would've explain why the whole surrounding looks like a high digital computer view." Tyler said, making Jeff's eye rolled back in sarcasm. "Anyways, what should we do, first my car is broken and now I'm a belt!". "Tyler, I'm going to try to call for help." Jeff said as he takes out his I phone 6 from his pocket and tries to make a call, but with no luck as he sighs in frustration. "Just great! No signal." Jeff said as he puts his phone back in and face to Tyler. "Well buddy, looks like were gonna have to walk our way out of here!" He said as he stood up and he saw a bracelet like object next to Tyler "Oh yeah, let's not forget the Shift Brace." He said as he picks it up and wears it on his left wrist. "Wait! Can we at least take the packages with us?" Tyler said, Jeff looks back at the car where the merchandise are and sighs before look back at Tyler who's now in his hands. "Fine!" Jeff said as he then about to wear the belt, but Tyler then protest. "Whoa! Whoa! What are you doing?" Tyler said. "I'm wearing you duh." Jeff said as he's about to put the strap of the belt on. "NO MAN! That's so awkward!" Tyler said in total disgust, but Jeff's face is frowned in annoyance. "Dude! If I don't wear you, then I might not have enough hands to carry all of the packages!" Jeff said "Fine!" Tyler said, despite not liking the idea, he emits that Jeff's got a point. Jeff then put the belt strap on and insert the end like a seat belt and walks back to the car with Jeff as the Drive Driver on his waist, upon opening the car door then he noticed something odd that he didn't noticed before on the front seat. "Tyler, why is the steering sword pierce out of the package like that?" he said, seeing the blade of the sword out of the package while Tyler sighs in confusion. Jeff sighs as well as he then takes the package out of the car and he suddenly felt that the package is much heavier than before. "Dude, I don't remember it being this heavy!" Jeff said and a though come to his head as he place the package down and begins to raveled the package. "Jeff, what are you doing?" Tyler said confused as Jeff opens the package, revealing the blade of the toy is now much longer than it's supposed to. "Tyler, is it just me or the blade of the sword looks too long to be a kid's toy?" Jeff said sarcastically. Tyler responded by saying a "Yeah" as Jeff kneel down and grabs the sword by the handle and lift it out of the box, Jeff stares at the sword marvelously and trace his finger on the blade, that's when he realize something. "Dude! This is a real sword!" Jeff said with a smile. "What!?" Tyler said surprised and Jeff looks back at the other packages as he puts the sword on the ground and takes out another package and opens it, he pulls out a Door Gun, which also felt heavier than before. "I wonder." Jeff said as he then aims the gun at a nearby tree and pulls the trigger of the gun, which blast a powerful bullet like energy and directly aimed it at the tree, the tree left a small smoke of burn wood that results from the gun. "What the!?" Tyler said, who's even more shocked and Jeff looks at the Door Gun again. "Tyler, is like as if that all the stuffs we bought are now turned into the real thing!" Jeff said with a huge smile on his face. "How's this all possible!? First we were dropped into the river and we ended up in the woods, then I turned into a belt and now all of the toys we bought now turned into real weapons!?" Tyler said dumbfound. Jeff smiles happily before it faded and his face now turned to a more serious one. "Yeah. Why is this happening?" Jeff said, seconds later Jeff smell a strange odor in the air. "Dude! What's that smell?" Jeff said as he waves his hand to fan the smell away. "Jeff, I don't have a nose anymore. Remember?" Tyler reminds Jeff "Oh yeah." Jeff said as he nearly forgot about Tyler's current form. In Tyler's field of vision, he picks up three strange signatures nearby in the area. "Jeff! Something's in front of us! But I can't fully make out of it." Tyler said and Jeff immediately looks straight ahead, moments later three beings pounced out off the bushes and landed in front of Jeff, the three creatures looked similar to wolves, but they appear entirely out of wood and they have glowing yellow eyes. "What the heck are those things!?" Tyler frantically said. Jeff gasp in shocked "Timber wolves!" he said as one of the wolf creature jumps at them. Jeff manages to dodge and roll out of the way and grabs the Steering Sword while the creature landed on top of Tyler's car. The creature stares at Jeff a few seconds before it dives at him with it's mouth open, Jeff then place the sword in front of him as the wolf like creature's snout makes contact with the edge of the blade, slicing the creature in half and exploded into pieces of wood and the two other wolves step back in fear. "Wow! That was a close one!" Tyler said. Jeff then focus his attention to the two other creatures as both two of them launch themselves in the air and about to pounced Jeff, luckily for Jeff that he still has the Door Gun on his other hand and fires several energy bullets at the two creatures, the wolves are injured as the bullets make contact at them and Jeff was able to jump out of their way, as the two wolf makes a crash landing, the two were too injured from the attacks and decided to falter as they retreat into the woods as the vegetation conceals them. "Wow, since when did you know how to cut wood with a sword!?" Tyler said out loud. "Come in natural, I guess." Jeff said as he sighs after the attack and observes his surrounding. 'Why are there Timber Wolves here?' Jeff though before a gear turn on his head with his eyes wide open "Masaka (Japanese: It can't be)" he thought. "Um Jeff-" Tyler said which snaps Jeff out of his thoughts "You're okay back there?" Tyler ask. "Yeah...I'm alright!" Jeff answered" Anyways, we need to find help and quick, I rather left my money behind than staying here in your car at night with them out there." Jeff said. "You're right. But let's keep the Sword and the gun, I think they would come in handy for us." Tyler said and Jeff nods in agreement, but before Jeff does his next move, Tyler interrupts. "Jeff, you call those things Timber Wolves. How did you know what those things are?" Tyler ask as they left the area. " It just came to my head." Jeff answered with a sarcastic laugh. Tyler gives a hum in suspicion before he sigh as to mean 'oh well' as Jeff leaving the car behind. Jeff kept walking while wearing Tyler (Drive Driver) on his waist with the Door Gun on his left hand and the Steering Sword on his right. After a few minutes of walking, they come to view a large rock like structure caught his eye. "Dude, do you see that!" Jeff said as he points his sword at the direction of the object. Tyler also saw the structure through the belt's field of vision. "Yeah, it looks like a building or something. If we go there, there might be signs of civilization." Tyler said as Jeff then ran to the direction of the object until he's close enough to see what the object was. It reveals to be an old castle which almost reduce to rubble, as it is now an abandoned ruin. "It's an old castle!" Tyler said as the two stared at the ruin, Jeff was the most marveled as he recognized the castle. "The castle of the two sisters." Jeff whispers. But Tyler's able to hear the faint voice. "Nani? (Japanese Translate: What ?)" Tyler said. "Nothing!" Jeff said as he dotted his eyes from left to right. "Dude, you've been acting a little weird. You're feeling okay?" Tyler asked. "Yeah! I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?" Jeff said as he laughs sarcastically as he spots something nearby the castle. "Tyler, there's a pathway over there." Jeff said and turn his waist so Tyler could also see the pathway. "Yeah you're right. There's a possible chance that it would lead us out of the woods." Tyler said and Jeff's nodded. "Well, it's worth a try." Jeff said as he walk to the pathway through the woods, minutes gone by and they haven't seen any sign of civilization. "Huff... I'm starting to think this pathway is leading us to a dead end." Jeff said. Tyler makes a sad face on the belt screen. "Count me in. I wondered if we ever gonna get out of here alive." Tyler said with a sad face on the belt. "Have faith Tyler. If there's a will, there's always a way!" Jeff said as he holds Tyler (Drive Drivers) buckle to ensure him. "I guess you got a point." Tyler said as his face now normal on the belts screen and Jeff's smile. Seconds later, a red wave of energy pass through them, as soon as Jeff felt the sensation his body and reaction moves slowly as he recognized the phenomenon. " A Heavy Acceleration!" Jeff said in slow motion, seconds later three small objects, each on a miniature highway like tracks which spawn in the air fly towards Jeff and one of the object flew itself in Jeff's palm and he could move normally again. Jeff then opens his palm which reveals to be one of his Shift Car and the Shift Holder for the Driver. "Max Flare!? How is this possible?" Jeff said as the Shift Car honks in response, Jeff realize the Shift Cars are trying to tell him something, but he decide not to go into the topic. He then take the Shift Holder and place it on the right side of the belt strap and Max Flare along with two other Shift Cars attach themselves to the holder. "I don't know how you're all come to life, but boy are we glad that you guys are real." Jeff said happily. "Jeff! according to the belts scenes, the Heavy Acceleration is nearby from here!" Tyler alert Jeff as he turn his attention to the belt. "Where is the source?" Jeff asked Tyler (Drive Driver). "Right a head of us!" Tyler said and Jeff immediately look in front of him as he ran on the pathway of the forest.