Unicorn and Decade squared off with their individual opponents, both having achieved their powered-up forms. Decade in his Complete Form, and Unicorn, with the aid of Decade, merged her power with another Kamen Rider, becoming Last Sun. Unicorn stared down Shadow Moon, and Decade Ambassador Hell, all the while, they watched as the day rapidly turned to night as Tirek used his newfound magical power to move the sun and moon.
Sunset was disgusted with seeing the spectacle, there was no majesty, no art in the way he played with the sun and moon. When Celestia moved the sun, it was with a graceful, commanding, and yet comforting will that she moved the celestial body. Tirek, he only bent it to his will. Carbuncle and Medusa were getting into position as they started the spell, making Apple Bloom’s column glow even brighter. Unicorn couldn’t take it anymore and pushed down on the left hip port.
\ REVOLCANE! /
A bright glow was emitted from the Memory, and from it a sword hilt with a revolving fan blade at the center of the guard materialized. Unicorn gripped the hilt with her right hoof and drew forward until the weapon was loosed, a saber with a glowing blue and white blade. Unicorn dashed for Carbuncle, ignoring Shadow Moon in an effort to stop the ritual.
However, Shadow Moon was just as quick, summoning his Satan Saber and clashing blades with Unicorn. Sparks flew from their weapons as Shadow Moon and Unicorn traded blows, sword for sword. “Argh! Get out of my way!”
“I will not allow you to stop this. That form does irritate me immensely though,” said Shadow Moon.
“Good!”
Sunset’s horn shined brightly, creating a blinding light that caught Shadow Moon off guard. Unicorn moved in and slashed Shadow Moon once across the chest, spun, and struck again with a horizontal slash to his midsection. Sparks flew from Shadow Moon’s armor as the Earth pony stallion skidded to a halt, and regarded the mare before him. The retched power of Black RX, he remembered that power well, and the Rider who wielded it, but the power of a ghost from his past would not fell him this day.
Meanwhile, Tsukasa was busy with Ambassador Hell, who had taken a shine to his new draconic power. The leader of Nega-Shocker inhaled and bellowed out a stream of black flames that scorched the ground and engulfed the trees. Decade dodged the flames by jumping into the air, he quickly took up his Ride Booker, and switched it to blaster mode. Using his magic, Decade took out a card and placed into the original buckle.
[Attack Ride: Blast!]
Five light constructs of the blaster appeared around the original, and each of the constructs fired as they revolved around the main blaster like a Gatling gun. Ambassador Hell covered his face from the rain of energy with his left hook claw, growling angrily as he tried to look at Decade to attack. As Decade neared his target, he quickly placed a new card into his belt and switched the Ride Booker to sword mode.
[Attack Ride: Slash!]
Five construct blades formed behind the original as Decade came down, slashing against Ambassador Hell’s chest, each strike of the construct blades caused a succession of sparks to fly from his body, doubling the damage. Once Decade landed, the unicorn stallion jumped up and slashed again, this time across Ambassador Hell’s right chest, forming a perfect X pattern. But Decade was not ready to stop yet, the unicorn detached the K-Touch and had it float before him, he then processed a symbol of a circle with a line through it.
[Faiz! Kamen Ride: Blaster!]
All nine cards on Decade’s chest changed to the image of Kamen Rider Faiz. Red lines formed next to Decade, taking on the form of a pony, the lines filled and shined, forming another Kamen Rider. This Rider had silver and orange-red armor, with a silver helmet and two wide yellow eyes. The final form of Kamen Rider Faiz, Blaster. In the construct Rider’s forelegs he carried a large cannon weapon, and mimicked Decade’s movements as he summoned another card from the Ride Booker and inserted it.
[Final Attack Ride: F-F-Faiz!]
Decade held the Ride Booker like a blaster weapon while still in sword mode. The tip of the sword, and the barrel of Faiz’s cannon glowed with great intensity. In a matter of seconds, both Decade and Faiz Blaster fired twin beams of red and yellow straight at Ambassador Hell, both struck the dragon beast right in the chest, making Ambassador Hell dig his talons into the earth to stop himself from flying off from the power of the twin beams.
“I WILL NOT BE FELLED BY YOU! MY GREATEST MISTAKE, I SHALL CORRECT THIS DAY!” Ambassador Hell declared.
A gold and black aura rose from the draconic leader, his eyes shined red as he bellowed forth a powerful roar, expanding his aura and pushing back against Decade’s attack. With a great roar, the beams were broken, dispelled by Ambassador Hell’s power. Faiz Blaster faded away, and Decade hissed in dejection of how his foe was able to counter that attack.
On the other end, Unicorn and Shadow Moon continued to trade blows with their sabers, and thanks to Sunset’s Last Sun form, she was able to bridge the gap of power between herself and Shadow Moon. During a sword clash, Shadow Moon reached back with his left hoof and punched Unicorn, but the empowered Rider blocked the blow with her left hoof. Shadow Moon tried to trip her up, sweeping his hind legs in an effort to trip up his opponent, however, Unicorn was able to side step him every time. Shadow Moon was growing irritated with Unicorn, a wet nosed Kamen Rider was standing on par with him, but only because of that device.
Both Kamen Riders fell back, panting from their battles with their foes, but all the while, the two Phantoms were still at work. Unicorn growled in frustration. “We have to stop them before that ritual is completed!”
“Unfortunately, easier said than done, Ambassador Hell’s gotten stronger. Guess your world’s transformation magic gave him a perfect body to fight with, kinda unfair,” said Decade.
“Hey, if I knew how that worked, I would still be a pony back on Earth,” said Unicorn.
“I don’t know, somehow I can’t see a pony you walking around a high school. Possibly an anthropomorphic version of you, y’know, humanoid, bipedal, but with your pony traits and unicorn horn.”
For a brief moment, Sunset imagined such a form, while she liked the idea of keeping her hands and fingers – those things were really useful – she wasn’t sure how everybody would react to a version of Sunset with fur, and a unicorn horn. Sunset shook her head and returned to the task at hoof. “In any case, we have to smash those pillars. They’re connected to the ritual somehow, and once we have, we get the girls out of here!”
“And I think I have a plan,” said Decade.
The Destroyer of Worlds used his magic to pull another card from the Ride Booker and inserted it into the DecaDriver.
[Attack Ride: Illusion!]
From Decade, three copies of himself separated and appeared before him. All the copies and Unicorn jumped back as the latter slashed the ground with her Revolcane, kicking up a dust cloud that made the Nega-Shocker leader and his right hand warrior enter into defensive positions.
[Hibiki! Kamen Ride: Armed!]
[Blade! Kamen Ride: King!]
[Kiva! Kamen Ride: Emperor!]
From the smoke, two Decades emerged, one was aiming for Ambassador Hell. At his side was another Kamen Rider, his armor was gold and black, with red eyes, brandishing a golden saber. This was Kamen Rider Blade King form. The other that charged for Shadow Moon had a different Rider, it was a bat pony, and he was covered in golden armor. The eyes of his helmet were bat wing shaped, with a red flowing cape, and wielding a saber weapon, this was Kamen Rider Kiva Emperor form. Both Decades wasted little time, taking out a card and inserting it.
[Final Attack Ride: K-K-Kiva!]
[Final Attack Ride: B-B-Blade!]
The blade of all four Riders glowed at the same time, and all at once, the four slashed forward. Blade and Decade slashed the ground and created dual roaring, energy crescents that tore up the ground as they sailed towards their target. Kiva and Decade slashed horizontally, creating dual crescents that sailed parallel to each other. Shadow Moon brought up his Satan Saber and slashed at the incoming attack, the blade of his sword grinded against the intense energy attack of the two Kamen Riders. At the same time, Ambassador Hell reignited his aura and used it as a shield to brace against the attack.
[Final Attack Ride: H-H-Hibiki!]
From the dust cloud arose two giant, fiery blades that almost rivaled Tirek’s height. The Rider next to Decade was an Earth pony, his body was covered in red, almost demonic-like armor, and in his hooves he held a silver curved sword. This was the demon song warrior, Kamen Rider Hibiki Armed form. The two Kamen Riders slashed at the same time, bringing down two giant blades of fiery power on top of Shadow Moon and Ambassador Hell.
Ambassador Hell enlarged his aura to block the overhead attack, but was finding the combined attack a little more difficult to defend against. Shadow Moon saw the blade come down, combining with the double energy blade attack of the first duo, and forcing Shadow Moon back as they protected the columns and the Phantoms.
“These attacks are futile!” Ambassador Hell stated.
>} BLACK RX! MAXIMUM DRIVE! {<
[Final Attack Ride: D-D-Decade!]
What the others were too busy to realize was that Sunset and Tsukasa fell back into the woods and ran parallel to each while the Decade clones distracted Hell and Moon with their attacks. Unicorn and Decade jumped out of the trees, Unicorn’s right and left hind legs were blazing with turquoise, orange, and red flames, while ten hard-light cards appeared before Decade.
“Solar Flare Finisher!”
Unicorn aimed herself at the column holding up Scootaloo, and Decade, after passing through all ten hard-light cards and wrapping his right hoof in energy, aimed for the column holding up Sweetie Belle. But before the two could make contact, Tirek twisted around and fired a large beam of orange and black energy that struck Decade and forced him into the ground, the beam continued for several feet before it exploded in the thicket of the trees, leaving behind a long scorch mark upon the earth.
Sunset was worried for Tsukasa, but she need to finish this. However, her attack was thwarted when Medusa jumped up and intercepted the attack, with her own body. The act surprised Sunset as her hind hooves struck Medusa right in the gut, sending a blast of fiery, magical energy straight through her, causing Medusa’s body to light up with dozens of sparks before finally exploding and throwing Sunset back until she landed a few feet from the tree line. Unicorn readied to attack again, but at the last second saw Tirek firing another column sized beam of magic straight at her.
The mare Kamen Rider cartwheeled away from the attack and jumped into the air, and back flipped until she was unfortunately at the same place she started. Growling in frustration, Unicorn decided to take out at least one of the other threats, Shadow Moon. The dark Rider was still trying to fend off the attacks from the Decades, and one more good strike would finish it.
\ REVOLCANE! /
Sunset drew her saber and teleported until she was behind the dark Rider. However, before she could execute her attack, something happened. Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle released screams that drew Unicorn’s attention to them, the columns they were placed upon began to glow as the runes shined brighter to match that of Apple Bloom’s. Within a couple of seconds, both fillies fell unconscious to the floor of their cages, and at the same time, three bright lights shined into the sky from far away.
“SWEETIE BELLE, SCOOTALOO!!!” Unicorn returned her attention back to Shadow Moon and prepared to take down the evil Kamen Rider.
But, Shadow Moon’s eyes glowed bright, black and green energy funneled into his Satan Saber, and rose from his body. The Earth stallion gave a mighty roar as he pushed back the attacks of the Decades, the backlash made the clones shatter into nothingness. In that same split second, Shadow Moon turned around and began unleashing a flurry of sword slashes at Unicorn. Both the mare and stallion traded blows, but somehow Shadow Moon was faster, and stronger than before, his attacks actually landing and causing sparks to fly from Unicorn’s armor.
Both warriors moved about the battlefield, until Shadow Moon parried the Revolcane and slapped it out of Unicorn’s hooves. On the riposte, Shadow Moon came down with a slash from his right, his aim was low, right at her hip. Sunset could only watch as the Satan Saber’s blade struck against her Mimetic Drive port, resulting in an explosion that sent Unicorn flying and spinning into the trees, she smashed against a few trunks and snapped many branches before stopping not but a few feet from where Decade landed.
Unicorn’s Last Sun form faded away, returning her to default form. Sunset groaned in pain as she looked at herself and then felt the absence of the power of Black RX. She quickly looked to her left side and saw that the Mimetic Drive port had been completely destroyed, along with the Gaia Memory that Tsukasa had granted her. From their new position, the duo was able to watch as Ambassador Hell gave a mighty roar and bellowed out jet black flames that pushed back against the attacks and shattered the remaining Decade clones.
“I…I don’t understand…? How did they…How did they get so much stronger?” Sunset asked.
“Not a genius like you or Princess Twilight, but it may be due to the fact that the sky is turning a dark violet color.”
Indeed, the sky over the Everfree Forest had changed colors, no longer the dark navy blue of a normal night sky, but now an ominous dark violet. Black lightning arced in the sky from nowhere, striking down at the ground below.
“The last towers have been activated, the ritual begins, and your friends fall,” said Ambassador Hell.
***_________<U> X [D] _________***
Wizard looked up and saw the change in the skies, as well as feeling the increase in negative energy around him. “So, just like you said, the towers created a Negative Zone. ”
Kamen Rider Sorcerer twirled his Dis Halberd around and chuckled. “That is correct. The towers serve two purposes. The first is to create a Negative Zone, a place where beings of Nega-Shocker can draw forth the purest power of our hate and rage for you Kamen Riders, and increase our powers beyond what you can wield!”
Wizard brought AxCalibur up and at the ready. “And the second?”
“You’ll see soon enough.”
Wizard took his left claw and slapped it against the hand symbol at the center of the weapon.
[**] High Touch! Shining Strike! [**]
Kamen Rider Wizard twirled AxCalibur around, the whole time he did so, the weapon sparkled brilliantly, and increased in size with each passing second. Wizard jumped into the air and behind him formed a silver magic circle. WizarDragon appeared again, winding around Haruto before becoming one with the ax blade and empowering it further. Sorcerer took a ring from the loop on his belt, a purple ring with a large shield with a prism on it.
[**] Lupachi Magic Touch To Go! Lupachi Magic Touch To Go! [**]
[**] Reflect, Now! [**]
A diamond shield appeared around Sorcerer, just as Wizard’s Shining Strike fell. The sparkling ax blade clashed against the prism barrier, Haruto could feel the effects of the Reflect spell trying to throw his power back at him, but the mage of hope wouldn’t be deterred, he needed to defeat Sorcerer, he needed to help Tsukasa and the newbie Rider, Sunset, before it was too late.
[**] Yes! Final Strike! Understand? [**]
Haruto quickly released the AxCalibur, and in the process, the gigantic weapon took the full brunt of the reflective force and shattered his special weapon. Wizard growled at the loss of his weapon, but hurriedly took up a new ring from his belt loop, and placed it on his right claw.
[**] Lupachi Magic Touch To Go! Lupachi Magic Touch To Go! [**]
[**] Very Nice! Kick Strike! Fabulous! [**]
A silver magic circle appeared before Wizard as he extended his right leg forward, diving through the portal and lacing his entire foot and leg with its energy. At the same time, AxCalibur exploded, Sorcerer jumped straight out of his barrier, his own right leg blazing with a golden magical circle laced upon it. The energy and glow from his attack was greater than that of Wizard’s, but this did not deter Wizard from continuing his attack. Both Kamen Riders sailed on and met at the middle, their feet connected, creating a massive explosion of silver and gold light that swirled around in a tornadic display of raw magical power.
At the center of the tornado was a sphere of light where the two Riders clashed. The sphere grew bigger, and bigger, until the tornado and sphere both exploded, covering the area in blinding light. When the light faded, only one Kamen Rider stood, and his armor was golden. Sorcerer’s body was on fire with magical power, his eyes roved over the area, seeing a giant crater had formed from their clash. Eventually, he spotted the silver glint of his foe’s armor and chuckled.
“See, Kamen Rider Wizard, see as your hope is crushed – how this entire world’s hope will be crushed!”
***_________<U> X [D] _________***
Fourze and Gaim was getting pushed back, Baron and Sagittarius had gotten much stronger since the sky changed colors. Both the Overlord and Horoscope glowed with dark energy, practically overflowing, and growing stronger by the second.
“Gentaro, something bad is coming, we need to finish this,” said Kouta.
“Yeah, I feel it too, and it’s coming from where Sunset-chan and Tsukasa-senpai are. Then we’re all in!”
Gentaro flew into the sky, and Sagittarius jumped up after him. Fourze pushed the lever of the sword up, making the rocket halves form back onto the blade, he then took out the Cosmic Switch and placed it into the butt of the sword’s hilt.
}F{ Limit Break! }F{
Suddenly, a portal opened a few feet behind Sagittarius, and Fourze ignited his rocket pack. The space warrior charged straight for Sagittarius, ignoring the constant barrage of light arrows that were fired by the Zodiart. Once he was in range, Fourze thrust his rocket sword forward, hitting Sagittarius right in his gut, sending sparks flying from the blow. From there, Fourze sped up, flying faster and faster to reach the warp portal on the other side.
However, both Fourze and Sagittarius halted in midair, just mere inches from the warp portal. Gentaro looked back at the Zodiart, and watched as his body began to glow. More power was gathered to his body, until, a bright red explosion pushed Fourze away, and closed the portal. Fourze was sent into a tailspin from the shockwave of power, but eventually Gentaro was able to right himself and find out what had happened.
Sagittarius had changed into his Nova Form, now an angry orange-red color, with black armored boots, and white chest armor.
Gentaro had faced this form once before, and knew the power it wielded, but he was not afraid, for his friends, and this world, he would beat the enemy before him. Fourze pulled on the lever and once again revealed the sword blade, afterwards he took out the Cosmic Switch and then placed it back into the sword hilt.
“Pull out and insert!”
}F{ Limit Break! }F{
The sword blade glowed with cosmic might, and in a loud cry, Fourze shouted, “RIDER SUPER GALAXY FINISH!”
Fourze’s sword blade charged up with cosmic energy until it was blazing, the Kamen Rider spun in air and slashed directly at Sagittarius, creating a crescent of raging cosmic power and might to fly in the Zodiart’s direction. Sagittarius didn’t flinch from the incoming attack, instead he released even more power and flew to meet the attack head on. The Horoscope Zodiart channeled its Nova power into its right fist, and punched the Super Galaxy attack. An explosion took place upon the contact, pushing Fourze back as he flapped his wings to regain balance.
From the fires of the explosion, Sagittarius shot out, and struck Fourze in the barrel before he could defend. A burst wave of energy shot out from behind Fourze as sparks flew off from his armor, and sent the pegasus stallion into free fall.
Gaim saw this occur and wanted to go and help, but Baron was not allowing it. Kouta had summoned his signature weapon, the DJ Gun, and combined it with the Musou Saber, to use it in Taiken Mode. The two rivals clashed blade to blade in a high speed battle for most of the fight, but it was becoming clear that Baron was stronger thanks to the Negative Zone. Kouta knew that he had to end this fight and help Gentaro, so no more holding back.
Kamen Rider Gaim, charged some of his energy into the DJ Gun, and slashed at the Earth, kicking up a dust cloud. Baron wasn’t deterred as he charged forward and slashed at the dust cloud, the air pressure generated from the swing cleared the cloud in a matter of seconds, but to Baron’s surprise Gaim was gone.
\| Lock On! |/
\| Kachidoki Charge! |/
Overlord Baron heard the sounds and looked up, but it was too late as large ball of condensed energy flew down straight for him. Baron quickly raised his sword, pointing the flat of the blade at the ball to act as a shield. The ball of power was relentless as it continued to push against Baron’s sword, below his feet the ground was cratering with each passing second. Up above though, Gaim was descending rapidly as he took out the Kachidoki Lockseed and placed it back on the DJ Gun.
\| Lock On |/
\| 1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000,000, 1,000,000,000,000, Immeasurable! |/
The blade of the DJ Gun flared up, blazing with a great intensity with each passing moment that Gaim drew closer and closer to Baron, and came down with a super empowered slash. The blade of the DJ Gun met with the energy ball, mixing the two energies together and doubling the destructive power of the attack. A field of aggressive energy erupted around Gaim and Baron as the earth beneath the former’s feet began to fissure, but Baron was not done. With a great and powerful war cry, the Overlord doubled his power, sending it into the blade of his sword and forced Gaim back. Baron took all the energy that was around them from Gaim’s attack, combined it with his own, and threw it all back at Gaim in one massive blow of power.
Kouta couldn’t defend against it as he was struck with the attack, creating a thunderous explosion that sent the shogun Kamen Rider flying until he smashed against the side of the canyon wall, leaving a body sized crater with him in it. Not too long after, Fourze fell back to terra firma, also creating a crater from the impact.
***_________<U> X [D] _________***
OOOs PuToTyra surveyed the battle field, seeing nothing but smoldering craters and fires that had broken out around his section of the Gorge. Eiji gave a low growl as he calmed himself, in the distance behind him he heard the sounds of battle raging, and from his position he could see a large being standing above the trees, no doubt his fellow Riders followed his example, taking on the other Kaijin and allowing Sunset and Tsukasa to break through towards the epicenter.
“Don’t worry, I’m on my way,” said Eiji.
“You’re not done yet, Eiji-san.”
OOOs turned around and gave an angry growl as phantoms of his past came back to fight him. The first Greeed was an insect creature, green in color, with large compound eyes, antenna, and a sickle blade on his right forearm. His body was a combination of a stag beetle, praying mantis, and grasshopper, this was Uva.
The second Greed was feline, with a golden mane, black armor with silver metal studs. This Kaijin was formed of the lion, tiger, and cheetah, and his name was Kazari.
The third was large, hulking beast, a bit slowwitted, but what he lacked in smarts he made up for in raw power. He was covered head to toe in heavy armor of varying hues of gray. His body was made up of the rhino, gorilla, and elephant. His name was Gamel.
The fourth was a female Greeed, hanging around her shoulders was a blue cape with tendrils coming out of the ends of it, her body was gray and black, and her head had a mantle of a killer whale with dorsal fins shooting out like wings. She was made of a killer whale, electric eel, and octopus, and her name was Mezool.
The last Greeed was one that Eiji didn’t think he’d see again, he was a scientist who helped in the study of the Greeed, his name as Kiyoto Maki. But that was when he was human, having given into the power and evolution of the Greeed, and becoming one with the purple core medals, he had transformed himself into a Greeed. His body was a blue-gray, with purple claw tipped fingers, and a purple visor for eyes. This was Maki’s Kyoryu form.
OOOs growled and lowered into attack position, it was five on one, and he had no time to waste on them. Suddenly, the sky began to roar with thunder. “What in the world is happening?!” Eiji asked.
“The end!” Maki announced.
Uva dashed towards OOOs and in the span of a few seconds the insect Greed multiplied exponentially, creating an army of Uva that surrounded OOOs from all sides. The stag beetle horns on Uva’s head began to spark as green lightning shot out from their horns. OOOs took flight, dodging the numerous bolts of emerald lightning as they tried to shoot him down. He was glad Ankh was on his side, else he’d had to deal with an aerial assault.
OOOs summoned the Medagabryu, and switched it to Bazooka Mode. The cannon charged up and fired a ball of destructive power straight at the army of Uva’s. The ball struck the ground, sending many of the copies into the air and burned into nothingness. However, this did not deter them from still firing their green lightning at OOOs, the self-less warrior switched the Medagabryu to Ax Mode and came in swinging at the Uva’s, each strike landed and erased the copy into nothingness.
At that moment, Kazari leapt into the battle, coming in swiping with his claws at breakneck speeds. OOOs growled as he switched to defense, countering Kazari’s blows with quick slashes of his ax. Purple and gold light sparked from each contact of their strikes, ringing out through the Gorge. Kazari thrust forward with his right claw, but a quick flap of PuToTyra’s wings allowed OOOs to swiftly evade the attack, leaving Kazari open. The power of the PuToTyra combo granted Eiji great destructive power, in this case, the power to destroy the core medals of the Greeed, for without them, they would be reduced to nothing.
The Medagabryu’s blade shined as OOOs channeled that destructive power and quickly slashed at him. But, at the last second, Maki flew in between OOOs and Kazari, catching the blade before it could connect with Kazari. Unfortunately, Maki’s Kyoryu form derived its power from the same source Eiji’s PuToTyra combo, and so was able to nullify his own attacks.
“You shan’t stop this from happening, Nega-Shocker will rise, and give birth to a new and glorious evolution! An evolution we will take with us back to our worlds!” Maki stated.
“Corrupting something good and turning it into something vile and dark! Sacrificing millions in this world to conquer others! I won’t allow ANY of it! ”Eiji proclaimed.
Maki swiped with his right claw, striking OOOs in the chest and making sparks fly from his armor. The Kamen Rider flew back until he ran into Gamel, catching him and making the heavy Greeed skid back as his heels dug into the earth. Gamel began tightening his hold on OOOs, tighter and tighter, making OOOs release a roar of pain as he felt his body being crushed by the raw power of Gamel.
OOOs had had enough, his eyes shined green and in the next moment a burst wave of icy energy roared around them for a good two meters. Gamel shivered as his body was frozen almost to the core, but just enough to weaken the tank of a Greeed as OOOs wrenched himself free of Gamel’s iron grip. For good measure, OOOs created the Tyranno Tail Divider and swatted Gamel with it, sending the lumbering Greeed into the wall of the Gorge.
Mezool came in next, to her hands she created electric whips which twirled around herself, each lash cutting grooves into the rocky earth under their hooves and feet. OOOs stood on his hind legs and brandished the Medagabryu. Mezool struck first, sending her lightning whip forward, OOOs flared his wings and jumped to the right, at the same time the second whip was released. OOOs countered the second whip with the blade of the ax, electrical sparks flew from the contact of the two weapons, but OOOs felt a surge run up his arm that tingled a little.
Can’t let those hit me too many times or I might end up numb, Eiji thought.
OOOs switched the Medagabryu into Bazooka Mode and fired a power blast at the ground before Mezool. The resulting explosion kicked up a dust cloud that made the sea Greeed back up. At that moment, OOOs released a freezing wave that spread over the ground, and the moment Mezool’s foot made contact, her entire body up to her neck was encased in ice. OOOs burst through the dust cloud and prepared to bring down the blade of his weapon to shatter her core medals and reduce the number of foes.
However, Maki once again intercepted the attack, catching the blade between both of his claws. The two destructive energies clashed in that moment as OOOs poured his power into the blade and tried to follow through with the attack to cut down Kyoryu while he was standing there. The shockwaves of power shattered the ice and sent Mezool flying, at least until Gamel appeared and caught her princess style.
“I get it, you want to be first then!”
“Dear boy, you don’t seem to understand how utterly futile your efforts are,” said Maki.
OOOs roared and broke away from Kyoryu flying up and landing a few feet away from the five. The self-less Kamen Rider reached behind his back and pulled out three Cell Medals, Eiji quickly inserted them into the Medagabryu, and flipped it into a Bazooka Mode.
-) Gulp! Gulp! Gulp! PuToTryanno Hissatsu! (-
“GRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!”
The barrel of the Medagabryu energized with destructive power, calling upon the nihilistic power of the purple core medals to erase the Greeed before OOOs. The Kamen Rider pulled the trigger, firing his Strain Doom attack straight at the five, a beam of purple energy tore the earth beneath it from the sheer force and power of the attack, practically reducing anything in its wake into nothingness.
Kyoryu stepped to the head of the group, his body glowing with the same intense destructive energy. Maki thrusted his hands forward and produced his own Strain Doom blast. The two attacks roared towards each other until they slammed at the center, a beam struggle took place as Eiji and Maki tried to overpower the other. OOOs’ beam would gain ground one second, but then Maki’s would take it back and then some a second later. It was one step forward and two steps back as the beams fought, but then something unexpected happened.
Gamel, Kazari, Uva, and Mezool stood beside Maki and placed their hands on him. Gray, green, blue, and yellow energy poured from the Greeed and into Kyoryu, and from him into the beam. The beam was now an aura of blue, yellow, green, gray, and purple lights, coupled with the dark energy already pouring through them, the beam more than tripled in size as it quickly swallowed OOOs’ Strain Doom, and eventually so was OOOs.
The Greeed beam engulfed OOOs, causing the Kamen Rider to yell out in pain as the power of destruction tried to tear him apart. With a mighty cry, Eiji unleashed all the power of the PuToTyra combo, generating a field of destructive power to counter the effects of the energy trying to destroy him. The field grew bigger and bigger within the beam, but as it did, cracks began to form on the three medals in the Driver. With one great roar, the beam was cancelled out, leaving behind particles of the five lights it was made from, but at the same time, the Ptera, Tricera, and Tyranno Core Medals shattered into pieces. Eiji landed on all four hooves just as the transformation ended.
The Earth stallion panted from the effort, blood dripped from the corner of his mouth, and his body was in a great deal of pain from the combo. However, his fight was not over yet, the Greeed were closing in, and were looking to kill. Eiji stood back on his hind hooves, wobbly, but he stood. He quickly took out the three red, yellow, and green medals and placed them into the belt. Taking up the scan device, Eiji quickly passed it over the three medals.
“Hen…shin…!”
-) Taka, Tora, Batta: Ta-To-Ba! Tatoba, Ta-To-Ba! (-
The three symbols of the Hawk, Tiger, and Grasshopper appeared before Eiji and donned him tin the TaToBa combo armor. This brought a chuckle to the Greeed as they watched Kamen Rider OOOs take a defensive stance.
“You lost your most powerful form, and yet you still wish to fight?” Maki asked in disbelief.
“I won’t stop, not when there are children still in danger!”
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Decade and Unicorn managed to pick themselves up, their bodies still reeling from the vicious counterattack of Tirek and Ambassador Hell. Carbuncle was finishing his incantation as the arcane circle began to ignite, changing from purple to golden.
“Something’s coming,” said Sunset.
“Yeah, I feel it too,” said Tsukasa.
From the center of the circle, a column of golden light shot into the sky, but was halted when it hit the sky barrier of the Negative Zone. From the center of the pillar of light rose a sphere of light, it was white as snow, with ancient runic markings floating around it like the electrons of an atom. Even from this distance, Sunset could sense the immense magical power from that sphere, it was no bigger than a basketball, but that belied the true size of the power, this was the fabled hidden magic, the Miracle Magic.
“Now, Nega-Shocker’s dominion will begin!” Carbuncle exclaimed.
“Wrong.” The titanic centaur reached out with his hand and took hold of the Miracle Magic, stunning Carbuncle, Decade, and Unicorn. “Now begins my dominion.”
“Tirek, you dare go against our leader, against Nega-Shocker –!”
“Silence, Carbuncle,” said Ambassador Hell as he turned to look up at the dark centaur. “So, you show your true colors.”
“Of course, consuming the alicorn magic has made me near unto a god, but with this Miracle Magic. A power older than that blasted power of Harmony, I’ll stand above all things, and remake this realm into my own image, and spread out from there. Carbuncle, I suggest you and Shadow Moon consider to whom you are truly loyal to, a god?” Tirek turned his glowing yellow eyes to Ambassador Hell. “Or an old man who’s gone past his prime?”
Decade and Unicorn were in trouble, if Tirek absorbed the power of the Miracle Magic, then he really would be like a god and nothing would be able to stop him. At this point, Nega-Shocker was second priority, and they were sure that Ambassador Hell felt the same way. That was until they heard the black dragon chuckle.
“Tirek, I applaud you, but…I smelled the stench of betrayal upon you the moment I saw you in Tartarus,” said Ambassador Hell.
“WHAT?!” Tirek shouted.
Suddenly, a new magic circle appeared under the centaur, and from it chains of dark magic wrapped around his wrists, hooves, and barrel, bringing the mighty centaur to his knees and making him drop the Miracle Magic back into its resting spot inside the first circle.
“Did you think I did not see this coming? We are much alike, Tirek, and I have learned from past mistakes.” Ambassador Hell pointed his hook claw at Decade. “That one taught me that even an instrument of your own forging can one day turn against you, and not for the reasons you would have hoped. So I had Carbuncle whip up a little surprise, I figured you’d make your move when the Miracle Magic was unearthed, and now we can move into the final phase of the plan.”
Tirek’s eyes widened. “‘Final phase’?!”
Carbuncle began to work his magic, the circle that trapped Tirek turned blood red, and the giant centaur cried out in pain. Light began to rise up from his body condensing into a sphere above his head. As the seconds ticked by, Tirek’s body began to shrink in size as the syphoning continued.
“I needed you, because I realized this body can become more. So I needed the power of this land’s inhabitants, its strongest, and you’ve done the good work I knew you would,” Ambassador Hell explained as he approached the shrinking Tirek.
The ball of magic now swirled about in an aurora of colors, but soon a dark and orange energy was syphoned with it, the remnants of Tirek’s own dark power. The now scrawny, emaciated centaur looked up at the dragon, his eyes still defiant. “I will not…let you…do this to me!”
“It has already been done.”
Suddenly, Hell thrust his hook claw straight into Tirek’s heart, making the centaur’s eyes widened with as he gasped. Tirek was stunned, mouth hanging open as he looked down at the wound and back up to Hell, still in disbelief that this was happening. Soon, the glow of his eyes faded, and Tirek slumped to the ground, dead. The syphoning had not stopped as even the last of his life force and body was taken away, broken down, and combined with the ball of mana above.
Unicorn felt sick, she had never seen anyone killed in front of her like that. Yes she knew it was Tirek, but even so, he was weak, too weak to even do any real harm any more, and to see that happen with such cold intent, it was all Sunset could do to not throw up in her helmet right now. Decade seemed less effected, no doubt used to Ambassador Hell’s cutthroat, turncoat ways, having seen the leader of Nega-Shocker on multiple occasions display such acts of cruelty.
Once the last bits of Tirek were absorbed, Carbuncle changed the color the of circle and moved it under Ambassador Hell. The dark dragon roared as the ball of magic descended and merged with his body. The leader of Nega-Shocker began to grow and mutate as his body merged with the power of Tirek, becoming half dragon, and half centaur. A column of light shot into the sky, wrapping Ambassador Hell inside of it, and when it faded, a new creature towered over them. His upper half was humanoid, with a muscular, scaly chest. Hell’s arms were also ripped, but his left hand had four, long, hook claws that flexed like fingers, and each claw was purple in color and glowing.
Hell’s lower half was equine-like, covered still in the black scales. His hooves were golden, and his tail was reptilian, with a sharp arrow head point at the end. Golden exoskeletal armor covered his chest, engraved with the emblem of Nega-Shocker, the armor covered his shoulders, forearms, barrel, and the lower halves of his forelegs and hind legs. The top half of Hell’s face was covered in the exoskeleton armor, with four sets of horns. The first two curved behind his head into a “C” shape, while the ones on the sides of his head came up in a “U” shape. Hell’s eyes were pools of darkness, until two red dots appeared, shining as bright as stars.
“I am…Kaizer Hell!”
Kaizer Hell reached out for the Miracle Magic, and clenched it in his right claw. Black lightning shot down from the Negative Zone and right into his hand, the Miracle Magic was resisting, but the columns which held the Cutie Mark Crusaders shined and fired three beams at the sphere, a corrupted stream of magical energy was wrapped around the Miracle Magic, converting its power from positive into negative.
“Soon, this world will perish, and Nega-Shocker will begin its reign in our worlds. Kamen Riders, Super Sentai, all heroes will fall, and be regarded as fond memory of a forgotten era!”
Unicorn couldn’t take this anymore and looked to Tsukasa. “I know I said I would never do that again, but now is the exception! Use it!”
Decade knew what she spoke of, but even now, he wasn’t sure if they had enough power to fight back. “Still, we won’t know unless we try!”
[Final Kamen Ride: U-U-Unicorn!]
Sunset stood upright as Tsukasa placed his hooves against her back and pulled away. In less than a second Unicorn’s body morphed until she was once again Mecha Unicorn, braying wildly as her horn and eyes shined with power. Decade jumped up and landed on Unicorn’s back, taking out his Ride Booker again, and switching it gun mode.
“Let’s go!”
***_________<U> X [D] _________***
All was quiet in the Castle of Friendship, the main hall had statues of Windy Whistles and Bow Hothoof, the latter trying to protect the former, only to show that the effort was in vain. Same was seen from Lofty as she attempted to protect her wife, but both were frozen, only mere inches apart from reaching the other, close but always out of reach. Further inside, heading towards the throne room, many Royal Guards were either turned into statues mid-attack or mid-scream.
It was further down in the hallway and up one flight of stairs, something stirred. The door to a spare bedroom slowly opened, a green, slit eye glanced about the surroundings, checking for safety before closing up. Inside that room, Spike had hidden, with baby Flurry Heart hiding under the bed under a blanket. The brave little foal hadn’t made a sound during the commotion, or else they’d have surely been spotted and turned to stone. Spike remembered it all, remembered the sound of the main entrance hall doors getting rammed violently, and watching from the Cutie Map as Tirek tried to enter the castle.
Twilight had ordered the young drake to take Flurry Heart and hide, Tirek was coming for her and Princess Celestia’s magic, getting that magic and adding it to Cadance and Luna’s was bad enough, but adding the power of a newborn alicorn, that would be beyond bad. So, with a lot of yelling and shoving, Spike finally took Flurry and ran into the back of the castle in one of the upstairs rooms. Mostly everypony was downstairs and so Tirek would have no need to go to the second level. A plan that paid off in end it seemed.
Spike hadn’t heard a thing for several minutes now, and was getting anxious. The sky outside was not its usual color, and not to mention the accelerated transition from day to night in under a minute. Then there was the black lightning and the really bad feeling he was getting, as if every bad thing that could happen had been ushered into the world and was just waiting to come out and make themselves known. Spike sighed, he knew they couldn’t hide in here forever, not with the Kamen Riders still fighting.
Spike walked over to the bed and lifted the lip of the bed sheet up so that he could see Flurry. “Hey little Flurry, I don’t think the bad guys are here anymore, let’s go see if Twilight and your mom and dad are alright.”
Flurry peeked from under her improvised security blanket, she looked reluctant. She had seen the nasty big horse thing and was afraid of him, but after adjusting her ears she could also tell that there were no other sounds other than the thunder outside. Flurry shuffled out from under the bed, and immediately jumped into Spike’s arms. Spike gently patted Flurry’s back, reassuring her that she was safe with him.
The duo exited the room, slowly but surely making their way downstairs. Once they entered the hallway, Spike gulped upon seeing the numerous stone statues of the Royal Guards. Spike wanted to hurry to the throne room, but didn’t want to scare her any more than what she already was. Flurry shut her eyes and jumped when she saw a new pony statue, but once they entered the throne room, Spike froze.
Princess Celestia was frozen in stone, standing proudly, no doubt she was preparing to either cast a spell or act as a shield for them. The next to freeze was Cadance, right next to her aunt as if coming to aid her. Near Twilight was Shining Armor, his brotherly instincts showing as he tried to protect his little sister from Tirek and Medusa, but that too was futile. Rarity was frozen mid-scream, Applejack was posed as if she was about to leap at their attackers, Fluttershy was cowering with Pinkie Pie comforting her, frozen in that position. Lastly, Rainbow Dash was frozen lopsided on the floor, possibly frozen midflight and fell to the floor afterwards. Starlight looked like she was about to attack, but Medusa got to her before she could release a spell. Sunburst was frozen in place he ran towards Starlight, and same could be said for Trixie.
Flurry flew out of Spike’s arms and to her mother, she tapped her hooves against Cadance’s stone body, whimpering as she tried to get a response from her mother. She moved over to her father, and tried the same method, but again there was no response. Spike walked up to Twilight’s statue, placing a claw against the cold stone surface of the pony who was both like a mother and big sister to him. He was a dragon, a race of formidable beasts that were feared, he should’ve been here. He should’ve helped in the fight.
At least that’s what the angry side of him said, but in reality, Spike knew he was no match for Shocker’s troops. The dark Rider dispatched him like he was nothing at all, compared to that, he’d probably have been…killed…if he tried to fight back.
“Uh, Uh!” Flurry sounded.
Spike turned around and looked at the Cutie Map and gasped. The darkness of the sky was spreading throughout Equestria, for a moment it was just inside the triangle, but now it was creeping outwards, spreading out to all corners of the land. Portals sprang up around the areas where the Riders were fighting. Canterlot was under siege again, but Kamen Riders Beast and Meteor in their Storm and Hyper forms were still valiantly fighting back, although it was apparent that for every inch of ground they got, Nega-Shocker took a foot. Las Pegasus wasn’t any better, the Armored Riders, while having the numbers, were at the mercy of the Overlords, just barely able to hang on much less take out that tower. Lastly, Baltimare, Proto-Birth, Birth, and Aqua were surrounded by Yummies, and trying to protect some of the citizens who hadn’t managed to escape in time. All and all, it was a dismal situation all around.
Right around where Sunset’s cutie mark was, more portals opened and showed Spike even worse scenes. The other Kamen Riders that the Decade guy had brought with him were also in a tight spot, each of them were beaten or on the verge of being destroyed. However, the worst scene was watching Decade and Sunset fighting a giant, dragon-centaur monster, Spike had no words for what he was looking it, the word “monster” didn’t taste right, it was like a demon from the deepest pits of Tartarus.
“This…This really can’t be how it all ends right…?” Spike whispered. The young drake glanced over to Flurry, who was hovering in the air as she watched the goings on in the portals. The worst thing of all of this was that Flurry was barely even a year old and she was about to bare witness to the end of the world. “I’m sorry Flurry Heart.”
Flurry sniffled as she as approached the map, but as soon as her foreleg touched the map, the young alicorn’s eyes shined along with her horn. The map released a pillar of light that made the entire castle glow.
“What the heck his happening?!” Spike shouted. His first instinct was to grab Flurry Heart and yank her away from the map. He knew the castle was made from the power of the Elements of Harmony, but still, Flurry was just a foal, an alicorn foal yes. However, this couldn’t be something her mind and body could handle at such a young age, right? Flurry Heart turned to Spike and smiled at him, she made some baby noises that – at least to her – were words. Spike wasn’t sure what to make of it really. “Flurry, are you trying to say that you can help them?”
Flurry made a couple of noises and then nodded her head.
“Okay…be careful though…”
Just then, Flurry extended her hoof to Spike, as if saying, “Can you please hold my hoof, Spike? I want to know you’re there.”
Spike walked up to the foal and gently gripped her left hoof with his right claw, he smiled at her, assuring Flurry that he’d be here with her through it all. With that reassurance Flurry focused her magic into the map, and the castle once again shined.
Within the young foal’s mind, she traveled through a long crystal tunnel of light, she could feel that this tunnel was connected to different parts of Equestria and was very old. After a few seconds she arrived at a tree made of crystal, it had branches that went in different directions, and in some of the branches were gemstones that looked oddly similar to the ones of the ponies who were there for her Crystalling, but the one that stood out amongst them was the one at the center of the tree’s trunk, a six-pointed star that looked exactly like her Aunt Twilight’s mark. From there she touched the mark and was again whisked away to another spot, this time it was a dark space, but inside this dark space were three lights, one purple, one red, and one orange.
Flurry flew to these lights and nudged them each in turn. The little filly’s horn glowed, she could not speak with her voice, but with her mind, she could. “Wake up! Wake up!”
The fillies began to stir, hearing a voice after hearing nothing in the void. Apple Bloom was the first to open her eyes, seeing Flurry floating before her in an orb of yellow light. “Huh…Flurry Heart…What in Appaloosa are ya doin’ – hold up – where are we?!” Apple Bloom looked around and remembered all that had occurred. “SCOOTALOO, SWEETIE BELLE, WAKE UP!”
The white unicorn filly awoke next, rubbing her eyes as she looked about and gasped. Scootaloo woke up next, but with a start as she remembered exactly what had occurred before she knocked out.
“What happened, where are we?!” Scootaloo asked.
“Are we…Are we…you know?” Sweetie Belle asked with dread.
“You’re asleep…bad stuff’s happening…mommy and daddy…aunty Twilight, need help!”
“Flurry’s talkin’, Ah mean Ah hear her, but her lips aren’t movin’,” said Apple Bloom.
“Wait, what bad stuff?!” Sweetie Belle asked.
A sphere of light appeared before them, and like a crystal ball it showed Decade and Unicorn in the heat of battle against Kaizer Hell. Scootaloo recognized mechanized Saddle Arabian as Kamen Rider Unicorn when Decade used a card to change her, but they didn’t look so good. “What’s happened to everypony?”
The ball shifted back to the castle, showing the stone statues of the fillies’ parents and sisters. Sweetie Belle gasped upon seeing Rarity’s statue, Apple Bloom’s mouth hung open, and Scootaloo just scrunched her eyes as she tried to cry.
“They do need help, but from who? Discord has no power, the Princesses too, and those Kamen Riders are about to get beat! Who else can help?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Miracle, and the Tree. The tree can help bring out the Miracle from you,” said Flurry as she reached out with her little hooves. “Wish hard."
The Crusaders had a skeptical look on their faces, but right now, a miracle was the only that was going to save everypony. So, locked hooves into a circle. Each on concentrating on the pony who said that she would save them, and protect them.
Sunset Shimmer, please save us, but more importantly, save our families, thought Apple Bloom.
Please Ms. Shimmer, I know you can do it, you’re a superhero, and bad guys never win against heroes, my sister and her friends show me that every day, Sweetie Belle thought.
Rainbow Dash is the coolest and bravest mare I’ve ever known, and always will be. But Sunset Shimmer, you’re just as brave and strong, so I know you won’t lose, Scootaloo’s thoughts echoed.
At the center of their circle a white light appeared, surrounded by rune markings, it wasn’t as big as the actual Miracle Magic, perhaps a sliver, but soon, six other lights appeared around it, ones of rose, orange, red, blue, pink, and purple. These lights shot towards the Miracle Magic fragment and in a matter of seconds shot straight into the void and disappeared as a twinkling star.