Thunder and lightning crashed in the skies above, the waters raged as giant waves roared across the ocean, and the wind howled like an eldritch monster of old. Far off into the ocean, was a little island off the coast of the mainland that was besieged by constant storms and other strange phenomenon. But just as soon as it started, the storms and surge stopped, becoming a beautiful sunny day.
On the island was a young girl, her hair was a two toned, light blue and navy blue, her eyes were a dark magenta, while her complexion was sky-blue. She hugged her legs to her chest, sitting in the sand in her burgundy hoodie. Her eyes never left the ocean, but when she heard the faint sound of sand crunching, she turned her head to the right and watched as her sisters walked towards her.
One was wearing a purple hoodie, and had poofy, curly golden locks, skin a light shade of yellow, and also bared the same magenta colored eyes. The other was wearing an army green hoodie, her hair was done into twin tails, two toned of bright violet and ocean green. They were once denizens of Equestria, creatures known as Sirens that fed off of the negative energy of the ponies by manipulating them with their song. That was before they were banished to this world by Star Swirl and his five other companions.
Now, in the human world, they were forced to wander the world for hundreds of years, using the jewels that were once a part of their bodies, now turned necklaces, to cause strife and feed off of the negative energy. Where once before it was just to empower them further, but now it was a form of survival due to the very low amount of magical energy that existed on Earth.
A few months ago, they had discovered a way to regain their lost power but were soundly beaten by a group of girls called the Rainbooms. The incident stripped them of not only their longevity, but also their ability to use their voices to control people. They found out later that they could still sing beautifully, their attempt to do so after their jewels were destroyed was a result of them trying to focus their voice and energy through their shattered jewels to try and control people.
For the youngest Siren, Sonata Dusk, even though this was the worst, she was glad to still keep that much of her Siren heritage. A Siren’s voice was her pride, and to have it taken away…you were better off not living. Her eldest sister, Adagio Dazzle, and second eldest, Aria Blaze, couldn’t let that defeat go. Neither could Sonata, but she tried to at least look on the positive side of things, even though they bickered and insulted each other from time to time, they were all they had left, so having their family and voices was better than nothing, even if all they had right now was nothing.
Princess Twilight Sparkle had left CHS, and now Sunset Shimmer remained at the school, leaving her as the sole protector of all things magical. And from the tabs that they had been able to keep on CHS, many things had been happening. The Friendship Games incident that almost tore apart reality between here and Equestria, the Emerald Pillar, and then the appearance of Kamen Rider Unicorn and the monsters she was defeating. Then two more pop up in the form of Nasca and Equal, and the fourth, Trigger.
It was on the day that Emerald Pillar shot up into the sky, did Adagio and Aria receive two mighty gifts, Gaia Memories. They could feel the power oozing from them, powerful items that were not Equestrian or magic based, but something else altogether. From there, they watched as several others used similar devices to transform themselves into monsters to fight for either petty reasons or for something they believed was right.
The Siren Sisters were smarter than the rest, they decided to test out their Gaia Memories off at an island they had once inhabited a few decades ago. Thankfully it had still remained uninhabited, allowing them to practice with their powers in secret. Sonata was the only one of the three who didn’t receive a Gaia Memory, at first, she thought that that was unfair, but after watching Adagio and Aria use theirs, she was starting to think differently.
Adagio had this amused smile on her face as she flipped her large poofy curls. “I think we’re ready my dear sisters.”
“Finally!” Aria cried. “I’ve been waiting to get some revenge on those Raindorks!”
“And Sunset Shimmer,” Adagio’s jaw clenched at uttering her name. “If it weren’t for her, we would have beaten Princess Twilight and her teenybopper friends. It’s time for a comeback tour, girls.”
“Um, Dagi, do we really need to do this?” Sonata asked.
That question earned her a sharp look from the alpha Siren. “Pardon?”
“It’s just…we’re not immortal anymore, I mean, we technically weren’t to begin with, we were just able to live longer because of our magic and stave off any disease, but we’re mortal now. We have to be more careful…”
“And whose fault do you think that is?!” Aria asked. “Those stupid girls and Sunset Shimmer! That’s who!”
Adagio knelt before the youngest Siren and placed a hand on her shoulder. “Don’t worry, Sona dear, I know you don’t have a Gaia Memory like we do, but you won’t have to battle them directly. I’m sure once we conquer the city, we’ll be able to find you a Memory that’s perfect.”
Sonata put on a weary smile. “Right…”
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After all these weeks, all the Dopant battles, and world ending calamities. The Rainbooms were finally able to get to the crux of what Summer Vacation is all about…THE BEACH!
The seven girls had all arrived at the Arion Beach, which was at least an hour and a half drive outside the city. They had taken Fluttershy and Rarity’s car, with Applejack’s pickup carrying their various beach equipment, coolers, parasols, blankets, balls, and an assortment of other things. The girls had decided on this trip awhile back but weren’t sure if they were going to do it with all the Dopant activity. But with the last incident really being the Dummy Dopant, nothing else has really popped up, and plus, Shining Armor as Kamen Rider Trigger was still in the city to keep it safe in their absence.
Once they arrived, Rainbow Dash was the first one to jump out of Fluttershy’s car and shout out into the air, “OH YEAH! We’re finally hitting the beach!”
Rainbow was wearing a neon magenta baseball cap, and matching swim trunks with a black line running up the sides. She wore a black swim top that covered everything from above her navel, which sported three lightning bolt stripes of green, yellow, and red. Following behind her was Fluttershy, the normally shy and timid girl was wearing a wetsuit, black in color, with ocean blue waves on the sides that ran up the arms and the image of a pink fish printed on the chest. Rainbow had tried to talk her friend out of wearing the wetsuit, in favor of the two-piece bikini she was wearing underneath the suit, but Fluttershy was still to body conscious to have other people see her in such a swimsuit.
Don’t know why she’s so shy about that, she’s freakin’ hot, thought Rainbow Dash. “OW!”
Rainbow Dash received a quick slap upside the head, she turned around and saw that it was Rarity who dealt the blow. She was wearing a two-piece swimsuit, with a violet top that had a faux diamond at the center, and had crystal blue sarong, with crystals dangling off the hem. Her broad sunhat, gave Rarity an intimidating shadow effect over her face as she gave Rainbow Dash a scrutinizing look.
“What was that for?!” Rainbow Dash asked.
“I somehow felt that you were thinking some rather dirty thoughts about Fluttershy just now, and felt I had to curb that,” said Rarity.
“I think I made it pretty clear I bat for both teams, and what’s wrong with admiring the view?!” Rainbow took a moment to look Rarity up and down. “Actually, yours isn’t half bad either.”
Rarity blushed and flipped her hair. “Sorry, Rainbow, I am in a happy relationship with Sunny Flare, you missed your chance.”
Rainbow was taken by surprise by that comment and was left stunned as Rarity walked away towards the beach. Applejack walked up behind Rainbow, wearing a two-piece suit as well. It was blue colored, with a green stripe on both arms and a red apple at the center. The top covered her arms, and everything above her midriff, and had a matching bikini bottom. “Sugarcube, wanna pick yer jaw off the ground before ya swallow a crab?”
Rainbow shook her head as she huffed and blushed. “S-Shut up.”
Pinkie in the back of Applejack’s pick up, wearing a frilly one-piece that was pink and white, with a gold colored bow on the chest, getting some of their supplies out. Helping her was Sunset Shimmer, wearing a black two-piece bikini, with gold metal studs that circled the waist band of her bottoms, and the hem of her top, which was hooked and tied behind her neck. At the center was a gold sun, that was cut off as if it were mimicking a sunset.
Right behind her was Twilight, wearing a skirted one-piece. It was navy blue from about below Twilight’s bust, the rest up was striped blue and white, with a rosy-violet star at the center, and similarly colored buttons on the front. Spike jumped around excitedly, he had been told that they were going to spend some time at the beach, but with all the superhero stuff going on, she feared it would be cancelled, thankfully that wasn’t the case.
Applejack and Rainbow helped Pinkie and Sunset unload the truck. The group went down to the beach where Rarity and Fluttershy had found the perfect spot to set down all their things. The chairs were unfolded, the parasols set and opened, blankets laid out for sunbathing and otherwise just lounging around.
“I feel kind of bad that Starlight couldn’t come with us,” said Rarity.
“Yeah, but Princess Twilight needed help with magic thesis, and Starlight was the only other unicorn who’s as smart and powerful as she is. Well, you know, besides me,” said Sunset with chuckle.
Twilight raised an eyebrow at that and smirked at her girlfriend.
“Shut up.”
“I didn’t say anything,” said Twilight.
Once everything was set up the girls went into their various activities, Applejack and Rainbow Dash headed out into the ocean on their surfboards, catching waves and performing some impressive surfer moves, even from Applejack. Fluttershy went out and mingled with the wildlife, heading down into the depths as she ran across all the different sea life, from turtles, to crabs, fish, and couple of friendly manta rays that let her hang onto them as they glided through the water.
Rarity was busy sunbathing, opening up her reflective panels and lying back as the bright sun bared down on her. Pinkie Pie and Spike were off playing fetch with his favorite ball, and after they were done with that they went and explored the rocky side of the beach to see if there was a cave with pirate treasure.
Twilight was busy fiddling with a drone, a Selfie-Drone to be exact. Once she was done, she let her new creation float around, and now began snapping photos of their friends in their different activities around the beach. Sunset shook her head at her girlfriend, only Twilight would think to bring work on a vacation. As punishment, Sunset reached into the cooler and pulled out a squirt gun.
Sunset took aim and shot, hitting her girlfriend right in the rear, causing Twilight let out an embarrassing “EEP!” sound as she leaped into the air and turned around. Sunset couldn’t help but laugh at Twilight’s expense, making the egghead puff out her cheeks in annoyance.
“That wasn’t funny!” Twilight stated.
“Oh yes, yes, it was! And I’m going to do it again!”
Twilight ran as Sunset began taking pot shots at her, dodging the shots with a surprising amount of flexibility and sharp movements. But not all that shots were missed, as Twilight was hit a few times that made her elicit another round of those – admittedly – cute sounds.
Sunset stopped for a moment and saw that Rarity was lounging around a little too much. She took aim with the squirt gun, aimed for exposed thigh, and fired. The reaction was immediate as Rarity screeched, throwing up her tanning panels and falling off the chair. She looked around and saw that Sunset was the culprit, laughing wholeheartedly.
Rarity narrowed her eyes and went into the cooler, grabbing another chilled squirt gun. “Oh, IT! IS! ON!”
“Uh-oh…”
Rarity began firing in rapid succession, making Sunset dodge and evade as if she were fighting a Dopant. Rarity advanced, continuing her attack, and forcing Sunset to retreat. Twilight ran to the cooler and found another chilled squirt gun. She joined Rarity’s side, both girls glance to each other with devious smirks.
“Oh crap…” Sunset moaned as she realized she may have taken it too far.
Rarity and Twilight bombarded the fiery haired girl with multiple icy shots. Sunset was so cold stricken that she dropped her own squirt gun and curled into a ball as the girls continued firing. After a minute, both girls stood over Sunset, smirking in victory.
“Do you wish to take the last shot, Twilight? I think it’s only fair since she is your girlfriend.” Rarity asked.
“You’re too kind, thank you, Rarity.” Sunset rolled onto her back and looked up at Twilight with the squirt gun aimed at her head. “Any last words, Sunny?”
“Yeah…backup.”
Twilight and Rarity released loud “EEPS!” as their backs suddenly got hit with icy cold water. Both girls turned around and saw Applejack and Rainbow Dash sporting their own water guns. Before anyone knew it, a Cold Water War had raged upon the beach. Afterwards, the girls decided to play beach volleyball, with Rainbow Dash and Rarity one side, and Pinkie and Fluttershy on the other.
Applejack had decided to sit this game out and enjoy lying back on the beach towel, Spike had decided to rest in Twilight’s lap as she watched the somewhat intense, and comical, game between her friends play out. As she watched, she spotted Sunset in the distance.
Sunset stood at the foot of the ocean, breathing in the salty air, feeling her body relax at the sensation. Months of fighting Dopants, saving Equestria from an organization of supervillains, and stopping a magical-digital virus, and fighting alongside veteran Kamen Riders, it was daunting and exhausting. But now, Sunset felt like she could truly just relax.
Twilight walked up beside Sunset and nudged her girlfriend with her shoulder. “Feeling okay, Sunset?”
“Better, I’m feeling relaxed, guess I really needed this.” Sunset took a moment to look over her girlfriend and smirked. “Gotta say, I wish you went with that one swimsuit I picked out a couple of months back, but this works too.”
Twilight’s face flushed at the thought of wearing that two-piece bikini. “I-I don’t think I have the right…proportions to fill it out…”
Sunset smiled and wrapped her arm around Twilight’s shoulders, bringing her in for a half hug. “Don’t do that, you have a great figure.”
“Compared to Rarity and Fluttershy…” Twilight stole a glance to the girls in question. Rarity was not shy about her body at all and was happy to let her swimsuit show off her curves. Fluttershy, while just wearing a wetsuit, it was hard not to see that she had a quite the hourglass figure, a natural beauty. “I’m just, plain…”
Sunset leaned down kissed Twilight’s forehead. “I definitely don’t think you’re ‘just plain’, you’re cute, and hot.”
“Sunset!” Twilight whined as she blushed hard.
“Just telling the truth.”
Both girls stood there for a moment, just watching the ocean ebb and flow, the girls saw this and were smiling, happy to see their two best friends happy together and content with just letting them be. However, it seemed that life had other plans.
“Oh, look at the happy couple.” Sunset’s body tensed, and Twilight could feel it in the way she was gripping her shoulder. The former Equestrian turned to her right and quickly put Twilight behind her as she watched the Sirens walk towards them. “I have to say, Sunset Shimmer, quite devious. You couldn’t bed the real deal, so you settle for making her Earthly double your little plaything, I approve.”
“Shut it, Adagio!” Sunset barked.
The girls heard the name and quickly turned to see what was going on, and all five of them gasped at seeing Adagio, Aria, and Sonata standing not but ten feet away. All of them rushed to Sunset’s side, and each with a look of seriousness and determination.
“Sunset…who are these girls?” Twilight asked.
“Remember that whole Battle of the Bands story I told you about when you came to CHS?” Sunset asked.
“Yes,” said Twilight.
“Those are the girls who turned it into a fiasco,” said Rainbow Dash.
Adagio gave a lilting chuckle. “Oh, I wouldn’t say it was a total fiasco, we were having loads of fun.”
“Up until Shimmer here turned it into a crap fest,” said Aria with venom.
Sunset stamped her foot in the sand and said, “What do you three want? We were enjoying our day at the beach, did you just come to ruin it!”
At this, Aria and Adagio’s faces broke into devious grins, while Sonata took a few steps back. The two girls reached into their pockets and produced two Gaia Memories. The one in Aria’s hand was blue in color, and had an image of two tidal waves chasing each other in a circle, or rather an O. The one in Adagio’s hand was silver colored, with sunrays, rain, a lightning bolt, and a tornado image, shaped to form a W. The Rainbooms took a step back, recognizing these Gaia Memories as T2 models.
“Of course, you recognize them, you two use the exact same ones. Kamen Rider Unicorn, Kamen Rider Nasca,” said Aria.
Sunset and Rainbow glanced to each and stood up straight. The rest of the girls backed further away, knowing exactly what was coming next. Thankfully for Rainbow and Sunset, they were far enough from the other beach goers that nobody would see them transform, however, that still meant that there were plenty of people on the boardwalk, on the beach, and in the water that would get caught in the crossfire.
“You two really want to do this?” Rainbow asked.
“What do you think, Pride Parade?” Aria shot back.
Sunset and Rainbow held out their hands, immediately, the Nasca and Unicorn Memories materialized into their hands. Both girls reached behind their backs and summoned their Drivers and placed them on their waists.
< UNICORN! >
< NASCA! >
“Henshin!”
“Henshin!”
> UNICORN! <
> NASCA! <
Blue and turquoise electric fields formed around Sunset Shimmer and Rainbow Dash, transforming them into Kamen Riders Unicorn and Nasca. Adagio and Aria smirked as they pressed the buttons on their Gaia Memories.
< WEATHER! >
< OCEAN! >
Adagio and Aria placed the devices against their necks, allowing them to fuse with their bodies. Both girls glowed as the wind began to swirl around Adagio, and the ocean water spiraled around Aria. Within seconds, the tornado and waterspout dispersed, revealing the transformed state of the two Sirens.
Aria’s body had become as blue as the ocean itself, upon her back with wing like fins similar to that of the Flying Fish. Behind her was a tail, like that of a sea serpent, with navy blue spines running length of the five-foot tail. Her shoulder pauldrons were also fin shaped, sparkling with scales in the light of the sun, and colored a silvery-blue to match the fin wings. Around her chest was an armor-like bodice that had engravings of raging seas and coiling sea serpents. Around her waist was a belt that had the Ocean Memory symbol at the buckle and connected to it was a shimmering cloth that flowed down along the length of Aria’s legs, stopping just below her knee, allowing the front to be open as well as the back for her tail.
Her forearms had bracers that were also scale armored, and had red jewels at the center, matching the greaves on her shins. Her feet were three toed, purple talons, matching the five clawed fingers of her hands. Aria’s eyes were a deep violet, glowing with power, when she smiled, it showed razor sharp teeth that could easily rend flesh. Aria was able to keep her hair, but it was like tensile wires, that ran to the middle of her back.
Adagio’s transformation was different though. Her armor was closer to that of Roaman armor. Her chest covered in alabaster white armor, ne it was a gold picture of her monstrous Siren form’s head, along with fin wings appearing on either side of the head. The shoulders were protected by large pauldrons that bared her personal mark of a G clef with a diamond at its center. Her bracers and greaves were colored the same pristine alabaster white, with gold trim, and on each bracer, depicted in gold, was a different kind of weather phenomenon. On the right bracer was the image of a sunny day, on the left the image of a heavy rainstorm. On the right greave was a lightning storm, and on the left a tornado.
The places that the armor didn’t protect were covered in a black, scale-mail. Her head was protected by a Roaman-like helmet, with a plume crest that was the color of her hair. The helmet created a face plate around Adagio’s mouth, but her violet eyes shined in the shade of the visor. Upon her back was a red cape that flapped in the wind generated by her power. Adagio smirked from behind her helmet, relishing in the power she felt coursing through her, but more than that, was the fact that she was about to take her revenge on the girl who thwarted her plan.
“I’ve been waiting for this day for months,” said Adagio.
“And you’re going to wait many months more,” said Unicorn.
The Weather Dopant took off, dashing across the sand towards Unicorn. The magical Kamen Rider ran out to meet her, colliding with the lead Siren and then teleporting them in that same instant. Nasca summoned her sword, and the Ocean Dopant created a blade made of water. The two warrior women sprang into action, meeting each other in the middle as both their blades clashed, creating a shockwave of power that kicked up the sand around them.
“Guys, I don’t want to sound like we might lose, but you might want to head for the cars! Like, NOW!” Nasca ordered.
There was a look of hesitation in their eyes, they didn’t want to leave their friends alone, but they knew that if they stayed it would just work towards the Sirens’ advantage. Reluctantly, the girls began running towards their vehicles, but as they did, Pinkie Pie paused, her eyes focusing on Sonata Dusk. Something was wrong, and her Pinkie Sense could feel it, Sonata didn’t look like a villain happy to see a fight, she actually looked sad and worried.
“PINKIE PIE! HURRY UP!” Applejack ordered.
Pinkie sighed and ran on, her mind still pondering the sad look of Sonata.
Unicorn appeared in the skies above the beach, with the Weather Dopant in tow. Adagio channeled the elemental forces of the wind, creating an air sphere around her body and using it to force Unicorn off of her. The buffeting g-forces of the air sphere proved to be too much as Unicorn was tossed away. Now in freefall, Unicorn quickly took out another Gaia Memory.
< CYCLONE! >
{< CYCLONE! MIMETIC DRIVE! >}
Unicorn changed forms, becoming Mystic Cyclone. With the power of the wind, Unicorn was able to stop her descent and fly back up to meet Adagio in the skies.
“Oh yes, you have a Memory for just about every situation. But let me give you some advice, Sunny. I’d use your strongest Gaia Memory now, because none of the others you possess will come close to the power we have,” Adagio warned.
“Wow, your ego is really big, isn’t it? You seriously want to lose that quickly?” Unicorn quipped.
“Now whose ego is big? But fine, don’t believe me. You always struck me as a girl who learned by doing, so let me educate you!”
The wind around the Weather Dopant began to roar, Weather thrusted its right hand forward, commanding the wind to stream right to Unicorn. Unicorn released her own power, commanding the emerald winds around her to bluster and blow as she fired a stream of air right for Weather’s attack. The two streams smashed against each other, creating a thunderous “BOOM!” as the two air currents battled against each other.
Down below, Nasca was putting her speed to the test. Ocean was using the literal ocean as a weapon against her, making the water rise and strike her with dozens of water tentacles. One slammed down on Nasca’s position, but she managed to dodge to the left, however, another tentacle readied to sideswipe her. Nasca kicked the ground beneath her, granting her enough breathing room to fly over the tentacle, but just as she did, another came down from overhead and hit her, driving Nasca into the sand with a muted thud.
Ocean jumped into the air, flipped once, and then dove down, water blade first, on Nasca. The speedster Rider managed to regain her senses, just in time to miss Ocean’s impaling blow. Nasca tucked her feet in and hit the Siren with a donkey kick to the chest, causing a minor number of sparks to be released from the attack. Ocean merely brushed the spot where she was struck and chuckled mockingly.
“I know that’s not really all you got! Get serious!” Ocean demanded.
“Please, you couldn’t handle me if I did! You need a handicap,” said Nasca.
“Fine, but I don’t wanna hear you whining later when you’re on the other end of my blade crying about how you would’ve beaten me if you were in your strongest form!”
Ocean summoned the waters of the deep, making the rise up in the form of columns. With a flick of her wrist, the columns angled themselves and fired at Nasca. She narrowly escaped the first water blast, looking back to see that the water had practically dug a hole in the ground. Okay, maybe getting a little serious wouldn’t hurt. With that thought, Nasca took out her Accel Memory and activated it.
< ACCEL! >
{< ACCEL! MIMETIC DRIVE! >}
The A symbol of the Accel Memory appeared behind Nasca, it then broke down and surrounded her in sphere of blazing fire. When the flames died out, Nasca had entered her super form, Nasca Full Throttle. The empowered Rider held out her right hand, for a few seconds nothing happened, but then the distinct sound of a motorcycle approaching could be heard. In the next moment, Nasca’s motorcycle jumped over several cars and into the air, and as it did, the bike began to fold in on itself, reshaping until it landed in Nasca’s hand as the Engine Blade. Nasca took the sword into both hands and revved the throttle portion of the hilt.
<<<<< SPEED OF HEAT! >>>>>
The Engine Blade blades needle went into the red zone as the wheels began spin rapidly. In no time, the sword was engulfed in superhot flames. Ocean smirked, it wasn’t the form she as hoping that Nasca would take, but it at least meant that the fight would last a little longer. Ocean dispelled the water sword in her hand, and then channeled the water to wrap around her forearms. The water grew out and took the form of two, four-foot water blades, but the water itself was glowing with a blue light.
Nasca dashed across the sand, kicking up a trail of sand in her wake. Ocean sprinted to meet Nasca, and the two clashed blades once again. Despite the flames of Nasca’s sword, the water blades didn’t evaporate, in fact, the energy laced within the water allowed it to retain its form while battling against the heat of Nasca’s sword. Both women released battle cries as they slashed at each other, creating a ringing sound each time their blades made contact.
Up above, Unicorn was being chased by Weather as she hurled lightning bolts at the sky warrior. One bolt managed to intercept her, hitting Unicorn and causing her to seize up for a moment. But that moment was all Weather needed as she closed the distance and grabbed Unicorn by the throat. The Dopant forced the both of them into freefall keeping Unicorn at arm’s length as she drove them both down into the cliffside, creating an explosion of rock and dust to be thrown into the air.
After a few seconds, a heat ray shot out, hitting Unicorn and forcing her all the way through the rockface and on the other side where the beach was. The moment she hit, the sand around Unicorn instantly turned into glass. Unicorn groaned in pain as lifted herself from the glass crater and glared at the incoming Dopant.
They aren’t fighting like someone who just got their Gaia Memory, they’ve been training for this day, they know all the ins and outs of their powers, and we’re fighting blind…
< METAL! >
{< METAL! MIMETIC DRIVE! >}
Unicorn quickly changed forms again, becoming Unicorn: Iron Heart.
\ ARMOR UP! /
Unicorn’s body glowed silver as she reinforced her body, just in time for Weather strike with an air pressure punch. The metalized Rider moved a few inches, but still stood her ground. Weather didn’t let up as she jumped back and began punching in Unicorn’s direction, causing air pressure blasts to bombard her opponent with each thrown punch.
“Very smart, Sunny! You switched to defense to buy you some time to figure out our powers, but here’s the thing…” Weather raised her right hand and pointed her index finger to the sky. Clouds began to form overhead as thunder roared and lightning crackled. “I won’t be giving any time to analyze the situation!”
Weather brought down her hand to point at Unicorn. From the clouds, several lightning bolts rained down on Unicorn’s position, all of which were drawn right to her metal form. Sparks flew off her body as the damage was multiplied by her conduction of the electricity. Weather then focused water into her right hand and wind into her left, bringing both hands together, she thrusted them in Unicorn’s direction, creating a blizzard blast that buffeted Unicorn. As the blizzard continued, ice began to form around her legs, arms, and body.
“Still think you can beat me without your strongest form?!”
The ice continued to creep around Unicorn, threatening to freeze her solid. However, blazing red flames roared towards her, washing over Unicorn and melting the ice completely. Nasca appeared next to Unicorn, looking in just as bad a shape as she was.
“Okay, I think we’re trouble here,” said Nasca.
“Agreed, and I hate to say it, but we need to retreat,” said Unicorn.
Nasca nodded and revved up her engine blade.
<<<<< SPEED OF SOUND! >>>>>
The speedster Rider ran around Unicorn, creating a sand tornado around them. Ocean growled in frustration and fired a high-pressured water blast at where Unicorn and Nasca were, but when the water blast hit, it passed right through. Weather commanded the winds and stopped the tornado, when the sand fell away, both Dopants saw that their opponents had left.
“UGH! What the hell! Those cowards!” Aria growled. “Let’s go after them, they can’t have gotten far!”
“No.”
Aria looked at her eldest sister with confusion. “‘No’?! Why?!”
Adagio sighed at the cluelessness of her little sister. “Because, now they’re going to regroup and try and figure out a way to fight us, and when they do, I guarantee you, Sunset will use that Shining Memory of hers. That’s when we’ll strike.” Adagio looked around, her heart racing when didn’t see someone. “Sonata…? Sonata?!”
Aria glanced about, worry starting to creep into her heart as she couldn’t spot the youngest Siren. “I don’t see her! We didn’t…did we?!”
Both Sirens quickly began searching through the debris of their battle, Aria even dove into the water to try and locate her, but after several minutes of searching, they could not find her.
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The girls had finally made it back to Canterlot City, rendezvousing at Rainbow Dash’s house. Rainbow had left her spare house key in Fluttershy’s car, and the girls decided to meet up here since Rainbow’s parents would be away for a bit.
“Do you think they’ll be alright?” Spike asked as he exited Rarity’s car.
“I hope so, but…Those girls looked really confident.” Twilight looked to Rarity who was exiting the car. “And you said they’re from the same world as Sunset?”
Rarity nodded. “Yes, apparently they were monsters that preyed on the negative emotions of the ponies who lived there. But that was when they had their gemstones, we shattered them during the Battle of the Bands.”
“But that might not mean all their magic is gone,” said Applejack.
Twilight began to contemplate that, if they were Equestrian, then they’re magic may’ve done the same thing that Sunset’s did, some of it inverting into their bodies to grant them greater bone density and regenerative capabilities, along with heightened agility and reflexes. But Sunset also said that he allocation and distribution of the magic could also correlate to the tribe, Sunset is a unicorn, and those girls were monsters. Twilight couldn’t fathom what their magic would do to enhance them.
“Let’s just get inside, hopefully, Dashie and Sunny have stopped them by now,” said Fluttershy.
As Applejack reached to insert the key into the door, the handle jiggled and was opened. The girls were then greeted by the smiling face of Rainbow’s mom, Windy Whistles.
“Oh, hi girls! I didn’t expect you all back until later in the day.” Windy took a moment to look over the girls’ expressions. “Are you okay, you look a bit spooked.”
“Uh…well,” Applejack began.
Suddenly a flash of turquoise went off in the backyard of the house. The girls and Windy rushed towards the gate, flinging it open to see Nasca and Unicorn on the ground. After second, their bodies began to glow, and their armor disappeared, revealing both Sunset and Rainbow.
“Rainbow?!” Windy exclaimed.
“Sunset!” Twilight added.
Rainbow Dash was the first to come to, sitting up as body ached all over. Her body showed some bruising and she was bleeding from a few cuts, but otherwise it seemed as if she was alright. “Oh man, I don’t think I’ll ever get used to that teleportation thing – MOM?!”
Windy looked to her daughter, and then to Sunset Shimmer who was, not a moment ago, wearing the armor of Kamen Rider Unicorn. Rainbow Dash followed her gaze and realized that Sunset had changed back, and her mother had just saw everything.
“Um…I can explain,” said Rainbow.
Windy shook her head. “Later, Applejack, help get Sunset inside. Rarity, Fluttershy, tell Mr. Hothoof to clear the couch and help him get some blankets.”
The girls set to work on Windy’s orders. Applejack and Windy carefully picked up Sunset, carrying her into the house, Pinkie Pie gave Rainbow Dash a hand as well, despite the sport’s girls repeated insistence that she was alright. Once inside, they laid Sunset on the couch, and draped a blanket over her to keep her warm, considering she was still wearing her swimsuit.
“So, explanation time, now,” said Bow.
***____________<U>____________***
It took almost an hour, but eventually, the entire tale had been told. Windy and Bow sat there in stunned silence, they knew that their daughter had helped Unicorn in battling the monsters, and in the back of their heads they kind of suspected that Unicorn was Sunset Shimmer, the girl just oozed this dark hero vibe, but it was still a shocker to have it confirmed. On top of all that, they were also told of Sunset’s otherworldly origins, which helped in their explanation as to why they didn’t need to take her to a hospital.
“I know you’ve been keeping Rainbow Dash’s secret, but please, can you keep Sunset’s as well?” Twilight asked, unable to hide the begging tone in her voice.
Bow and Windy glanced to each other for a moment, having a silent conversation between them.
“For now, we’ll keep the secret, but if this starts to get out of hand…” Wind warned.
“I understand,” said Twilight.
Sunset finally came around, groaning from the exhaustion and pain of the battle. She was startled a bit by Rainbow Dash’s parents, but after a quick explanation, Sunset settled down, although still not very confident by their answer.
“So, what happened?” Applejack asked.
Rainbow Dash clicked her tongue in agitation. “We got our butts handed to us, that’s what happened.”
“As much as I hate to admit it, she’s right, Adagio and Aria were ready for us. They’ve been watching our battles, and training for the day when they could take their revenge. But I don’t get how they’re so much stronger now,” said Sunset.
“It’s because of our magic.” Everyone shot their gazes towards the door and saw Sonata Dusk standing in the doorway. “Sorry, the door was open.”
Rainbow Dash immediately shot to her feet, taking out the Nasca Memory and preparing to transform. Sonata quickly raised her hands into the air and shook her head.
“I don’t have a Gaia Memory! I didn’t come here to fight!”
“Yeah right, how the hell did you find us?!” Rainbow asked.
Sonata rubbed the back of her head nervously. “While the fight was going on, and you all were scrambling for your cars, I kind of jumped into the back of that truck outside and hitched a ride…I promise I’m not here to fight, I just want to talk.”
The girls still looked suspicious, and Rainbow wasn’t in too much of a trusting mood.
< NASCA! >
“WAIT!” Pinkie Pie shouted as she rushed to Sonata’s defense, placing herself between the blue Siren and Rainbow. “Let’s at least hear what she has to say guys!”
“Pinkie, she’s a Siren! You know, one of the three girls who almost tore apart the school and nearly took over the world?!” Rainbow stated.
Pinkie Pie shook her head and said, “I know, I know that! But, trust me, I can tell, she’s not here to fight us! Please!”
Sunset eyed Sonata critically, compared to the other two Sirens, Sonata seemed the least likely to be planning something, if she was following Adagio’s orders, it would’ve made better sense for Sonata to stay hidden and attack them when they’re guard was down instead of making herself known. And the fact that she didn’t possess a Gaia Memory was also something noteworthy. “Stand down, Rainbow.”
“What?!”
“Let’s just hear what she has to say. But if she makes a move…”
Sunset let that hang in the air, letting Sonata know that one wrong move would mean getting taken down by Rainbow Dash or the rest of the girls and the two adults in the room. Pinkie Pie led Sonata to the chair she had been sitting in, letting the youngest Siren sigh heavily as she sat down.
“The magic we used, the negative energy we fed on, hasn’t completely left us. At least, not Ari and Dagi. When you all destroyed our gemstones, we got scared. We weren’t immortal anymore, which meant we could die, although we can still heal fast, it wasn’t on the level that we once had. Dagi did everything she could to make sure that we wouldn’t live on the streets, we couldn’t hypnotize anyone to just give us a house or room, we had to pay for it. Which meant getting jobs, of course, that was hard considering we’ve been alive for hundreds of years and none of us have any records that we actually exist.”
The girls started to feel bad, they remembered how relieved everyone was when the Sirens were defeated, but none of them stopped to look in on them when the dust settled.
“Thankfully, Dagi thought ahead. She doesn’t like to lose, but that doesn’t mean she likes to be unprepared. Being immortal gives you a lot of time to learn some things, and Dagi learned how to use computers and forged some papers that made it look like we’ve been here awhile. So, we each got a different job, I got one at a restaurant cooking, I mean, we fed on negative energy, but I really liked cooking!” Sonata shook her head, realizing she was about to go off on another tangent. “Sorry, anyway, as the months went by, we slowly started to feel…better.”
Sunset raised an eyebrow at that. “Wait, what do you mean by ‘better’?”
Sonata’s hand reached for her neck, right around where her gemstone used to rest. “I think…the gems were what made us the way we were, we’ve been feeding on negative emotion energy for so long, I think it just started to affect us. Because, in those first few months without them, I was starting to remember things from before we had them, when we were just sisters living in the sea. And I could definitely see a change in Dagi and Ari. Dagi was starting to be less…maniacal, and more like a motherly big sister. Ari still had her temper, but she was a lot more patient than she used to be, and actually listens.”
Applejack raised her hand. “Whoa now, hold up, so what yer sayin’ is, us destroyin’ yer gemstones was actually a…a good thing?”
Sonata nodded. “Yes, it was. Whatever you did to us kind of burned most of it away, otherwise I don’t think we’d have changed as fast…but, that all stopped when that green pillar of light shot into the air, and Dagi and Ari got their Weather and Ocean Memories. It was like, the moment they touched them, it reignited all the bad stuff that was leaving us, Dagi became like she was before, and the same for Ari.”
“Wait, they can do that? I thought you used them for good?” Bow asked.
Twilight decided to answer this question. “The Gaia Memories seem to be drawn to specific emotion, some are drawn to positive ones, like Rainbow Dash and Sunset Shimmer’s, others are attracted to negative emotions, even ones that are deeply buried in one’s heart. The problem is, once used through direct skin contact, those emotions become amplified, to the point that they are warped versions of what the user wants, but still believes are there’s. The Drivers that Sunset, Rainbow, and my brother use filter out that side effect, allowing only the power of the Gaia Memory to connect to the user to original emotions it was drawn to.”
Sunset winced as she remembered her desperate act to save Twilight by merging with the Unicorn Memory the first time she used it. To this day she still feared what she would’ve done if Twilight hadn’t gotten through to her. Just then, Sonata stood up and then got on her knees, she then did her best version of an Equestrian bow, which made Sunset gasp.
“I know I don’t have any right to ask this from you, not after what we did at the Battle of the Bands… but I’m begging you, please save my sisters, otherwise…otherwise I’ll be alone in this world…and I don’t want my sisters to become monsters again!” Sonata began to cry as thought of seeing Adagio and Aria becoming even worse destructive creatures than they were before.
Pinkie knelt down beside Sonata and rubbed her back soothingly, the party planner looked to her friends, her eyes also pleading for them to help her. Rainbow Dash clenched her jaw, she hated what the Sirens did to the school, and almost taking over the world, but then again, Sunset Shimer was the same way, coming close to ruling the world and nearly destroying them. But as it turns out, not everyone is born evil, some just make bad decisions and are trapped in them until a lifeline is thrown, and the Sirens were on their way to becoming good, until the Gaia Memories got ahold of them. But Rainbow knew, the ultimate decision rested with Sunset.
The former Equestrian removed the blanket and stood before Sonata Dusk. Sunset knelt on one knee, and Sonata lowered her gaze, feeling afraid of Sunset’s gaze. Maybe this was a stupid idea, she thought, why would they want to help me? Especially Sunset Shimmer, after we mocked her, and almost turned her friends against her! Even I wouldn’t help me!
Sonata flinched when she felt Sunset place her hand on her head. The blue Siren dared to look up and found not a dejected or furious look, but one of compassion and determination. “Sonata, we’ll save them. I know what it’s like to be in a dark place, and what it feels like to be tempted to go back to what you once were, when it feels hard trying to do the right thing.” Sunset looked around, meeting the eyes of her friends, and her girlfriend. “If what you’re saying is true, then there’s good in there, and we can’t ignore that.”
Rainbow Dash sighed and gave a light chuckle. “Guess we’re saving the Sirens, not the weirdest thing we’ve done so far, so I’m down with that – uh – that is if it’s alright you, Mom, Dad.”
Throughout the conversation, the two adults had remained mostly silent. Trying to absorb all this information and how these young girls could process all this and handle it so well despite their young age.
“As much as we’d like to tell you that it’s dangerous and that you should let professionals handle it,” Bow began.
“It’s pretty obvious that you all have a better grasp of what’s going on than anyone in this city,” Windy finished.
Bow stood up and patted his daughter on the shoulder. “Plus, we know our Dashie and her friends are too awesome to be beaten.”
Rainbow Dash blushed and tried to pull a Fluttershy by hiding behind her bangs, but her hair wasn’t quite that long to do so. “Daaaaaaaad…”
The girls chuckled at their friend’s embarrassed expression but took the sentiment to heart.
“Sunset, we need to go to my house,” said Twilight.
“Why?” Sunset asked.
“Because I think it’s time to take your power to the next level.”
***____________<U>____________***
Applejack drove the two girls and Spike to Twilight’s house. Twilight’s parents were out working and so was Shining Armor, so the house was completely empty, which was good, because neither girl was in the mood to explain why they came back early from their beach trip, and why they were still in their swimsuits. After opening the door, Twilight and Spike led the way up the stairs and into Twilight’s room.
The resident genius of their group dug through her closet, until she stopped and pulled out a small box. Twilight carefully placed the box on her bed and looked to Sunset as she spoke, “When I touched the Rocket Memory, a whole new flood of knowledge entered my mind. It was that knowledge that allowed me to create the Boost Upgrader for Rainbow’s final form. But it wasn’t the only one that I saw I could make.”
Twilight opened the box and reached inside, carefully, she brought out what was inside. It was red and gold and shaped like a bird. The beak had a hooked curve to it, and the legs beneath it looked as if they were meant to attach to something. The back had a slot for a Gaia Memory to be inserted, but compared to Rainbow’s Booster Upgrader, it didn’t seem like it would fit on the Mimetic Drive slot.
“Twilight, this looks a bit different than how you designed Rainbow’s,” said Sunset.
“That’s because this one is meant to combine with your Driver. This Phoenix Ascender will allow you to tap into the full power of the Shining Memory. When you told me about how you were able to use the power of the Shining Memory in Equestria, it didn’t make sense why – if that was your strongest form – it was beholden to a time limit on this side. The explanation of their being limited amounts of magic on this side did explain it, to a degree. But when I obtained the new knowledge, I saw that maybe that wasn’t it. Maybe the Shining Memory couldn’t release its full potential, because the Driver couldn’t handle it the way it was now.”
Sunset tried to take in this new information. “So, wait, you’re saying that that form I take is some kind of…pseudo-final form?”
Twilight’s eyes lit up. “Exactly! And with this Phoenix Ascender, you can unleash its full power! The Sirens won’t be able to stand a chance against you! I only wish I was able to complete it sooner for your fight with Tirek…”
The fiery haired girl, closed the distance between them and kissed Twilight on the cheek, earning a blush from the nerdy girl. “It all worked out, no harm no foul. Plus, I think it speaks volumes to my being able to defeat Tirek in a half-baked final form.”
“Uh, guys, did it get darker or am I just going back to being color blind?” Spike asked.
Sunset and Twilight took a moment to check, and indeed, the room did seem darker, which didn’t make much sense since the window was open, and it was bright and sunny outside. Just then, they heard rapid footsteps from below, and Applejack burst through the front door.
“They’re here!”
***____________<U>____________***
Downtown Canterlot was surrounded by the SCU, all sporting their anti-monster equipment. Shining Armor stood at the front lines as the Weather and Ocean Dopants floated above city hall. One of the officers handed Shining Armor a megaphone, to which he delivered his ultimatum.
“This is Officer Shining Armor of the CCPD, Special Crimes Unit! This will be your first and last warning: surrender, now!”
Ocean and Weather gave each other a glance.
“Let me respond to that in the following way,” said Ocean.
The blue Dopant raised her right hand, water particles began to gather around it, becoming denser with each second. Ocean then brought her hand down in a slice, creating a high-speed water pressure blade that cut a line into the asphalt and through several police cars, just barely missing the police officers in the process.
“Of course, they choose the hard way,” said Shining Armor as he took out the Trigger Memory.
< TRIGGER! >
“Henshin!”
> TRIGGER! <
An azure electric field formed around Shining Armor, transforming him into Kamen Rider Trigger.
“I’m not like Unicorn and Nasca, so I don’t believe in taking it easy on the first fight!”
< SUPER! >
< WEAPONS! >
< ACTION! >
< TACTICS! >
|<^>| SUPER! WEAPONS! ACTION! TACTICS! S.W.A.T. ENGAGED! |<^>|
Trigger was surrounded in a field of blue energy, the siren sound continued to blare as the new system went to work. The chest armor was fitted with an armor plate the covered the front and back, with both sides of the chest having slots six in total, three on the left and three on the right. Trigger’s shoulder pauldrons were now square shaped, had reinforced glass as blue light shined from them. The forearms were wrapped in thicker armor, with the top also sporting the same blue, reinforced glass. The leg armor had armor plates wrapped around them, with the blue glass shown at the front of the shins. Trigger’s helmet had an armored helmet placed around it, with a microphone like device coming down and hooking to the front around where the mouth would be. On both sides of the helmet were antenna, and across the eyes was a blue visor. The armor plates were colored dark gray, navy blue, and silver. This was Trigger’s final form, Trigger SWAT.
The Chrome Magnum had changed as well, no longer was it a normal small blaster, it was now a blaster rifle. In the field of energy an attachment materialized, fitting over the Chrome Magnum and turning it into a rifle. On the side was a dial pad that went from one to six, on the side of those numbers was an “Enter” button, and below that was a button that read “Engage”. The rifle was about three feet length, with a tri-barrel, now called the Chrome Ultimatum.
Trigger opened fire with the rifle, all three barrels blasting away in a rotating fashion. Ocean created a barrier of dense water, while Weather called down lightning bolts from the sky. Trigger’s early warning systems blared, allowing the law enforcer Rider to dodge the bolts from above.
Weather sighed in annoyance. “He’s not even worth the time. Aria, you can play with him until our real opponents arrive.”
Ocean smirked at the offer and flew across the battlefield towards Trigger. The SWAT enhanced Rider pressed the 5 digit on the rifle.
/#\ KNIFE! /#\
A blue energy blade formed at the bottom of the Chrome Ultimatum’s barrel. Trigger began trading blows with Ocean, sparks flying as Ocean’s energized water blades struck against Trigger’s blade. The two struck again, both locking as their blades let out sparks from one pushing against the other.
“You’re so clueless is almost sad,” said Ocean.
“What are you talking about?” Trigger grunted.
“Telling everyone you’re a Kamen Rider, without really thinking through what people like me can do with that knowledge? I mean, we could’ve just skipped this and went straight to your house and blow it up! Or hunt down your family, these days, it isn’t hard to track someone down!”
“Is that what this is about?! Attack my family?!” Trigger pushed Ocean off and came in with a horizontal slash.
Ocean’s body suddenly transformed into water, allowing the blade to pass through her without any damage. The Dopant rushed towards Trigger, wrapping her body like a snake around him until he was unable to move, constricting him. “Please, you’re an afterthought, we could’ve killed that nerd girl and her girlfriend at the beach, but we had other business to get to first!”
That got Trigger’s attention. “The beach?! What did you do to Twily?!”
“They’re here,” said Weather.
The sound of motorcycles in the distance caught Trigger and Ocean’s attention. At that moment, two motorcycles jumped over the line of SCU police officers, landing on the other side as they skid to a stop. Ocean released Trigger, returning to a solid form at her sister’s side. Unicorn and Nasca stood beside Trigger as he stretched out his limbs from being tied up.
“Took you two long enough…Now, where’s our sister?” Weather demanded.
“We know you two took her! Tell us where she is and maybe we’ll consider just leaving the two you with broken arms and legs!” Ocean added.
“What the hell did you guys do?” Trigger asked.
“Nothing, and this is more complicated than you realize, best to just roll with it for now,” said Nasca.
Unicorn stepped forward and said, “We know the truth, Weather. She told us that you two weren’t always like this, that you were once regular girls. It’s not too late.”
Weather’s violet eyes blazed with anger. “Oh, so you think you know us, do you?! Allow me to show you how wrong you are!” Weather’s hands blazed with lightning as she fired a bolt straight at the Riders.
Unicorn formed her barrier but layering it over ten other barriers. The first one shattered, the second shattered after a few seconds, the third took a bit longer. Gradually, the layered barrier was diminishing the power of the lightning bolt, until it reached the final layer and was little more than a fleeting spark.
“Guess they’re choosing the hard way,” said Nasca.
“Could’ve told you that,” said Trigger.
“Alright, then…”
< QUEEN! >
< ROCKET! >
/^\ BOOST! /^\
{< QUEEN! MIMETIC DRIVE! >}
{/^\} ROCKET BOOST! ULTIMATE DRIVE! {/^\}
The Q symbol of the Queen Memory appeared behind Unicorn, the energy of that symbol wrapped around her body, transforming Unicorn into her super form, Unicorn: Empress. At the same time, a pillar of blue-green light rose up from around Nasca, and in the next moment shattered into feathers of light of the same color. Nasca had entered her final form, Nasca: Star Chaser.
“Ocean, the jock and the cop are yours. The bad girl is mine,” said Weather.
“Oh c’mon! Why do I get the runts?! I want a piece of her too!” Ocean argued.
Weather reached out and grabbed Ocean by the neck, bringing close enough to look her in the eyes. “I know that little witch as Sona, there’s no way she’d willing go with them! If you fight her, you’ll just pummel her into the ground before she can answer one question! So, I will fight her, and you will keep those two from interfering! Are we clear?!”
“Crystal,” Ocean croaked.
Weather released Ocean, the latter shot a glare at the former, but for now focused on Trigger SWAT and Nasca Star Chaser. With a flash of turquoise and blue lightning, Unicorn and Weather disappeared, and no sooner had they disappeared did thunder roar in the skies above. Ocean took this as her cue as she transformed her body into water and rushed towards her opponents. Nasca summoned her Condor Sword and readied for Ocean. The water-based Dopant struck Nasca first, but Nasca opened her wings and dodged the attack, leaving a faint afterimage where she once stood. Undeterred, Ocean changed directions and moved towards Trigger.
Trigger unleashed a volley of laser bolts from his rifle, each one passing through Ocean’s body. Ocean cocked back her left hand and lashed it forward like a whip. Just before the appendage could reach Trigger, Nasca swooped in and moved Trigger out of the way, just in time for the elongated water arm to strike the side of a building, putting a five-foot-wide hole through it.
Nasca stopped, allowing Trigger to get his bearings. “Ugh, I don’t get how you can manage going that fast.”
“What can I say, I’m built for speed,” said Nasca with a cocky tone.
Ocean solidified herself and fired a high-pressure water blast at both of them. Nasca came down with her sword, parting the stream in half, but the strength behind it was more than she expected as she tightened her grip on the hilt and dug her heels into the asphalt.
“You might want to tell your guys to get out of here, this is going to be a messy fight,” Nasca warned.
“Unfortunately, you’re right.” Trigger placed his left hand over the comes device built into his helmet. “This is Officer Armor; all units fall back to a safe distance!”
The various SCU cop cars and armored vehicles all began retreating, putting as much distance between them and the battle. The sound of tires squealing as they backed up and drove away echoed around them, as the battlefield was clear save the Kamen Riders and Dopants.
Meanwhile, Unicorn and Weather were battling it out in the skies above Canterlot City. Unicorn had summoned all her pieces, the Rooks, Knights, Bishops, and Pawns. The Bishops hurled their own lightning and fire spells at Weather, but the elemental Dopant was ready to counter, creating dense air walls that would make the lightning from the Bishops angle away from her. As for the fireballs, Weather doused them with torrents of water.
The Knights, using the attack as a distraction, maneuvered around until they were behind Weather. The construct Knights raised their swords high in preparation to strike Weather down, but that didn’t happen as the sky let loose a lightning bolt that chained right through the two Knights and shattered them like fragile glass. All the Pawns raised their swords and attacked from multiple angles, but Weather was ready with a wind blast that was thinned out into a blade, cutting the constructs in the middle, and soon they too shattered.
Weather brought her hands together and fired a beam of pure heat energy. The two Rooks used their mighty shields to block the attack, but cracks were forming on their bodies with each passing second. Weather released a second burst, breaking apart the Rooks; the elemental Dopant conjured heat and lightning into her hands and fire them in a combined beam of electrifying, fiery fury. Unicorn and the Bishops combined their power and fired a triple beam attack, intercepting Weather’s blast.
Two beams dueled it out, one gaining and then other losing, the struggle going back and forth for several seconds with no clear winner. But that quickly changed, Weather’s eyes shined bright with violet light, and soon the beam doubled in size, overwhelming Unicorn’s attack and striking her and the Bishops, resulting in a loud explosion that threw Unicorn down towards the ground.
Before the heroine could hit, she teleported, shortening the distance between the fall and the ground. Upon reappearing she made a three-point landing, skidding to a halt as the asphalt was torn apart from the force of her stop. Unicorn looked up as Weather began to descend back to the ground, even though her mouth wasn’t visible, it wasn’t a stretch to know that the Dopant had a smirk of superiority.
Unicorn cancelled her Empress form, Adagio was too powerful, time and training had granted both her and Aria the ability to know the ins and outs of their Dopant powers, and, if Unicorn wasn’t mistaken, there were traces of dark magic rising within them. There’s only one way to go from here.
Unicorn took out her Shining Memory, and Weather chuckled conspiratorially, but then her chuckle ceased when Unicorn brought out another object, one that she hadn’t seen before. Unicorn folded the wings of the Phoenix Ascender, unlocking the insert port. With her right hand, Unicorn inserted the Shining Memory.
< SHINING! >
Adagio got on guard, not sure as to what would happen next. Unicorn connected the Ascender to the Driver, and soon the Driver and Ascender began to glow. Unicorn’s body was bathed in golden light, a rush of power flowing into her with each nanosecond. However, the aura faded, and the Shining Memory ejected itself from the device. Unicorn quickly caught it and looked at the Ascender with confusion.
“What the heck??? Why did it…?”
“What’s wrong, faulty equipment?” Weather teased.
Unicorn didn’t have time to figure this out, so resorted to the tried and true.
{< SHINING! MIMETIC DRIVE! >}
Unicorn’s body was once again bathed in golden light, transforming her into her pseudo-final form, Unicorn: Shining Day.
Weather cracked her knuckles and said, “Now we can get down to brass tacks.”
Unicorn teleported out of sight, and then reappeared in front of Weather. With her increased speed, Unicorn struck Weather in the chest, sending her flying as sparks flew from her body. Weather released an air burst to stabilize herself but was not given much time to recover as Unicorn had flown after her.
\\\\\ LOYALTY! /////
Unicorn created a saber of red energy as she got closer to Weather. The Dopant fired off several lightning bolts, but Unicorn batted them way with the blade of her weapon. Weather focused and created two swords, one of pure fiery heat and the other from lightning. When Unicorn slashed down, Weather’s blades intercepted, creating a shockwave that blew out many windows within the area.
Weather and Unicorn dueled, the sound of thunder sounding through the skies with each blade strike. Unicorn parried one attack, and knocked the heat sword out of Weather’s hand, and while she was stunned from that, Unicorn knocked the lightning sword away too. Now open, Unicorn readied for an overhead strike, but suddenly felt something wrap around her right leg.
Unicorn was pulled down at a rapid pace, her horn let up and flashed, teleporting her out of the grip before she could be thrown back down to the Earth. When she reappeared, Unicorn saw that it was Ocean, rather, Aria Blaze, who had dragged her away at the last second. “Where are Trigger and Nasca?!”
Ocean pointed with her thumb down below, where a giant bubble of water was sitting in the middle of the street. Inside the bubble was Nasca and Trigger, both desperately trying to get out of the bubble, but somehow were unable to do so. Unicorn flew past Ocean and prepared to free her allies, but two lightning bolts barred her at the last second. When Unicorn turned around, she saw Weather as she fired a heat ray.
Unicorn teleported away and struck the Mimetic Drive port.
\ HONESTY! /
When the heat ray arrived, Unicorn punched straight through it, flying up the beam to take down Weather. But Weather cut off her beam attack and allowed Ocean to hit her with energized water blast. The attack struck Unicorn in the side, throwing her off course and into a tail spin.
The fight when on like this for a bit, Ocean would attack, but when Unicorn was close to attacking her, Weather would intercept and allow Ocean, and vice versa when it came to Weather. After the fifth time, Unicorn stopped in midair, realizing what it was the two sisters were doing.
“You’re trying to stall me out!”
Weather and Ocean floated side by side and chuckled evilly.
“Wow, she just now figured it out?” Ocean mocked.
“Be nice, Aria. Yes, we are. We knew that that golden armor is your strongest form, but it also comes with one big major drawback, a time limit. The longer we fight you, the more our old magic returns thanks to the power of these Gaia Memories, unfortunately it’s not on par with your current power alone,” said Weather.
“But the two of us fighting in tandem, and making you switch targets, yeah, we’re more than a match for you. Plus, keeping those two on lock down helped, no way they were a match for our magic!”
“And neither, Sunny, are you!”
At that moment, both Weather and Ocean’s violet eyes blazed with greater power. The two of them gathered their energy, Weather generated lightning, while Ocean created energized water.
Dammit, I have to end this now, thought Unicorn as she placed the Shining Memory into the Max Drive port.
>} SHINING! MAXIMUM DRIVE! {<
Unicorn flipped around and shot straight towards the two sisters, her right foot extended into a flying Rider Kick.
“DAWN BREAKER!”
The Siren Dopants fired their combined beam of electrical and oceanic might. The two attacks clashed in the sky, creating single point of light as the two attacks struggled against each other. Unicorn continued the attack, focusing all her energy on her attack to pierce through and end this fight. However, in her rush to defeat them, Sunset neglected the time limit.
{< DAY IS DONE! >}
In a flash, Unicorn’s golden form had vanished completely, returning her to her default form. The Siren Sisters saw this and acted, pushing more of their power into the attack, quadrupling the size of the beam attack. The beam washed over Unicorn like a tsunami, carrying her all the way back to the ground where she and the beam impacted in a large explosion.
The force of the blast managed to destabilize the bubble that contained Trigger and Nasca, allowing them to slash through it and escape. Both Riders rushed to the impact zone and paused when the saw Unicorn standing amongst the broken-up concrete and asphalt. For a moment, everything was fine, until Unicorn’s body released several sparks, before falling over onto her back, motionless.
“Hey…get up…” Nasca whispered. “C’mon, Unicorn, stop messin’ around and get up already…!”
There was still no movement.
“No way…she can’t…I mean, it’d take a lot more than that to take her down, right? Right?” Trigger asked.
There was stillness from Unicorn, nothing at all. Helicopters that managed to get close filmed the entire battle, everyone watching with eyes wide open in shock and horror at their TV, phone, and tablet screens. In the news copter, Namby Pampy, was stunned and speechless, she had seen Unicorn take down several monsters, and most recently, a giant centaur monster with the aid of another Kamen Rider, but these two monsters, they did what even that giant monster couldn’t do, and yet she was pained to admit what was before her eyes.
The camera man nudged Namby, bringing her out of her stunned state as she looked back at them, they too had the same expression, but it was clear that as difficult as it was, she needed to report it, she needed to say it.
“Ladies and gentlemen of Canterlot City, what you see is not an illusion…as much I pray to gods that it was…it is as you see…Kamen Rider Unicorn…the hero of Canterlot…the protector of the people…our young guardian……….has fallen…”