//------------------------------// // Encore 2: Let's Do The Time Warp Again // Story: MLP-Destiny's Play // by The Bricklayer //------------------------------// “You know, one day I’ll be the best flyer there ever was, see?” Zephyr Breeze said, pointing at the Cloudsdale Stadium as he laid back on the front lawn of the Shy family home, wearing a loose-fitting denim jacket and some jeans. “I’ll be up there, doing stunts and tricks like there’s never been seen before!” “It’s a nice dream I suppose,” Fluttershy murmured, the young sixteen-year-old pegasus planting flowers in the house’s gardens, wearing a cyan sundress and a big floppy hat. “I mean, there’s nothing holding you back from chasing after your dreams is there?” “See little sis, you always ‘get’ me, you know what I mean?” Zephyr replied shaking his head. “Nobody else ever does, always calling me a dreamer and pushing me into things I know I’m not suited for, like say working in the weather factory. I don’t know if I’d be able to stand it, the banality of it all. Sure, old enough to get a job now, but working a 9 to 5 job in some place like that? It’s just not… you know, me. It’s so boring!” he complained, suddenly getting an image of himself working in some hayburger joint somewhere wearing an apron and a baseball cap before shuddering. That was so not a flattering image. “Sometimes boring works,” Fluttershy replied, and Zephyr looked at his older sis in shock the fifteen-year-old’s eyes wide open. “What… what do you mean?” Zephyr stammered out. “Surely you’re not serious, me working in something as humdrum as the weather factory!” “We need a bit of stability in our life at times,” Fluttershy replied as she continued tending to the garden. “Don’t say you need to work in the weather factory, but you need a job that doesn’t jump around so much, and working as a stunt flyer, you’d never get a moment’s rest right? I mean, look at the Wonderbolts, they’re constantly moving and from what Auntie Surprise tells me you could be called back to work at any moment. So you’d never get a good amount of peace and quiet, so maybe something doldrum is what you need,” she continued. “Forgive me if I sounded harsh, but that’s my opinion anyways…” she whispered, pressing her fingers together nervously. Zephyr rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, and chuckled softly to himself. “Meh, I suppose you’re right. It’s just I’m a free spirit you know. Doldrum just doesn’t work for me, but maybe for the time being…” “Maybe for the time being what?” Fluttershy asked raising an eyebrow. “Maybe for the time being that’s just what I need,” Zephyr sighed. “Ever since… well ever since dad died, haven’t been able to figure out what my place in life is. I’m not even sure if I’m the man of the house. Mom’s much more assertive than I am, or at least able to hold it together longer than I am to actually do something useful. Me… I don’t know, I just don’t know what to do anymore.” He then turned to Fluttershy, a questioning look cast all across his muzzle. “How… I mean, how do you do it sis?” he asked, and Fluttershy found herself at a loss for words. Truth be told, she wasn’t quite sure herself. Sure, Jiro and the others helped along the way, but there were times Fluttershy just wanted to break down and cry and yet somehow in some strange way she always found the ability within herself to keep finding strength and pick herself up off the ground as many times as possible. It was an odd thing, something she couldn’t quite really explain. Not even to herself. She knew they were grooming her for becoming the future Queen of Fangires, and she hoped and wanted to take up her father’s place and bring peace between the two races once more but at times she just didn’t ever know if she ever could. Not that she could tell her younger brother any of this of course. In hindsight, she supposed in later years maybe she should have as it might have made the burden a lot easier but Kivat always said it would make him a target. And she supposed he was right. Zephyr would never be able to defend himself against the Fangires. Hell, she wasn’t quite sure he’d be able to understand what they were or even believe her if she even told him for that matter! She loved her brother, she really did, but he still was young and Fluttershy didn’t want to get any more of her friends and family any more than she had to. Her father had given up her life trying to fight the Fangires and bring peace between the two races and she didn’t want any more blood of her family on her hands. In hindsight, Fluttershy and Kivat would both agree she needed more support than she was actually allowed or at least given, and maybe just maybe in those earlier years Zephyr was the thing she might have needed. A brother’s guiding hand and some familiar support. “Hey sis?” Zephyr asked, waving a hand in front of her face snapping her back to reality. “Yo, Equus to Fluttershy!” “So...So sorry, I was just… thinking, that’s all.” Fluttershy whispered shuffling her hooves sheepishly. “Yeah, you’ve been doing that a lot lately really,” Zephyr replied. “I mean, if you forgive the poor joke here, but you seem to have your head in the clouds a lot of the time lately!” “Right, sorry!” Fluttershy apologized. “Just a lot on my mind, I guess… That’s all I suppose. Not a lot to do up at here at times, least during the summer. Idle hands are Tirek’s favorites, really, and that’s what restlessness breeds. Idle hooves. And to be honest, there’s not a lot to do up here to keep myself busy. Sometimes I feel I’m just going through the motions and all of that, just trying to get by day to day.” “Yeah, with ya there sis,” Zephyr sighed. “I just need something to do, even a year on from dad’s death. It’s just… hard, really. I need something to focus my mind, and like you said before maybe a stable monotonous job at a place like the weather factory would suit me well. Give me something to focus on, creating and shaping our nation’s very weather patterns, thinking on what to give the ponies below each and every day.” “Yeah, but you’re right,” Fluttershy agreed making her brother’s eyebrows raise. “That doesn’t sound like you at all. You are a free spirit, and tying you down to a job like that just wouldn’t suit you. You need something creative, or at least relaxing. Something to ease the mind, really. A 9 to 5 job would probably just zap it free of any emotions. Or at the very least stress you out beyond reason.” “What’s with the sudden change of heart?” Zephyr questioned. “I mean, a minute ago you were saying I should get a job at the weather factory! Hell, I was going along with that line of thinking!” he exclaimed, throwing his arms up in the air in confusion. “And I got to thinking some more. I notice how much you value your appearance, and others appearances for that matter. Don’t think I’ve noticed you looking through magazines and providing your own commentary on ponies and their appearances, how you believe they can change so and so to look better. Maybe you should get a job as a hairstylist, or a fashion designer, just saying.” “That would suit me, no?” Zephyr agreed. “I don’t know what’s got into you lately big sis, usually you never give advice. Something’s changed about you, I just don’t know what really.” “Maybe I’ve got to take up dad’s slack in the family, dispense advice and all that. After all, if there’s a hand reaching out for help and I don’t take it and give that help I’d always regret it for the rest of my life.” Zephyr chuckled. “Wow, you really took dad’s saying to heart didn’t you? Well, can’t fault you for that I suppose. It’s a good saying at the very least. Always suited you as well, you and your seemingly endless fountain of kindness,” he remarked. “Oh, look at me. I’m supposed to be the man of the house and here I am being bossed about by my older sister!” “Well, I am your older sister, isn’t that part of my job description?” Fluttershy asked with a teasing grin. “Yeah… Yeah, I suppose it is really,” Zephyr remarked. “Say, isn’t Rainbow coming over later? She’s a nice gal, maybe I should ask her out on a date. Might be able to help give me some direction in my life…” Fluttershy chuckled. “I don’t know dear brother of mine, she’s my best friend and all but I’m not really sure she’s your type,” she remarked smiling softly to herself remembering that time she caught Rainbow kissing Gilda behind some bushes. Gilda had threatened to beat Fluttershy up if she told. Not that she ever would of course. Neither would. One, Rainbow would kill her and two Fluttershy knew it was their relationship and who was she to out them if they weren’t ready? “Of course she’s my type, what mare isn’t?” Zephyr exclaimed, and Fluttershy just giggled much to her brother’s annoyance. That was then, of course, and this was now. And now consisted of Fluttershy chasing after a rogue Fangire, themed after an earwig of all things. Nasty looking fellow, really, about as ugly as the bug on which the thing was themed after. Fluttershy rarely had negative things to say about animals, but certain insects like that bug she’d make an exception for. “Fluttershy, quit spacing out!” Kivat shouted as he flew alongside her, with Fluttershy having the Zanbat Sword strapped to her back. “We need to take this guy out already!” “Sorry, just… remembering.” Fluttershy muttered as she shook her head. “You’re quite right. Ready?” “Yes, as always milady!” Kivat shouted before he bit down on her arm. As that strange violin sound echoed through the air chains wrapped themselves around Fluttershy before she transformed into Kiva eyes cutting through the darkened alleyway. “It’s about your brother again, isn’t it?” Kivat asked from his roost on his Lady’s belt. Fluttershy’s eyes widened under her helmet even as she crossed swords with the Fangire. “How did you…?” she trailed off. “Know? I know you Milady, I have for years remember?” Kivat asked as Fluttershy kicked the fangire in the stomach. She sighed, Zephyr ever since that day had been unable to hold a stable job. At first, she chalked it up to his father’s death rattling him like it did the whole family, but then all of his previous employers always stated he vanished at the oddest, random of times always coming up with some weird excuse till they had enough of him and gave him the boot. “Fair point…” Fluttershy admitted as she caught a punch from the Earwig Fangire and changed to Basshaa Magnum form before firing a few shots of highly compressed water at the creature. She was about to hit the creature with an Aqua Tornado to shatter it before a loud howl cut through the air and this gray and blood-red furred creature resembling a wolf with a curved blade almost like a Baladi warrior’s khopesh leaped out of the shadows and off a rooftop to the ground below joining in on the battle. “Well, it is a hunter’s moon…” Kivat muttered to himself. “Never heard anything about a Wolf Fangire though. This is a new one. Though in theory, I suppose they could take forms based on anything.” Curiously though, Kivat noticed the Wolf Fangire if that’s even what he was lacked the signature features of a Fangire, namely the stained-glass skin. Or fur as the case may have been here. In any case, Fluttershy tossed the Basshaa Magnum aside and summoned Riki in Dogga Hammer form. She swung, and the massive warhammer hit the ground sending a shockwave nearly toppling both Fangires. Howling out in rage, the Wolf Fangire’s blade glowed a bright yellow before he swung it sending out waves of crescent-shaped arcs. Slow and heavy as the Dogga Form was, it was unable to dodge these shots and so Fluttershy had no choice simply but to tank them as they came. Of course, this left her open for a blade strike from the Earwig Fangire. The Wolf was about to strike again, seemingly unable to control himself for very long or having no idea of patience before another blade blocked it. Blood-red, and exceedingly sharp with a blade resembling flames with a demonic-like face on the hilt, it was wielded by this dark blue and silver warrior with bright red eyes like a bullet train’s front windows. “Ore… Sanjou!” the blade seemed to shout as the warrior struck both Fangires again and again driving them backwards. As he did so, Fluttershy studied him, the warrior’s chestplate seeming to resemble a turntable to continue the train theming with ‘rails’ jutting out seeming to function as shoulderpads. He bore a silver belt with an arrow as the buckle around his waist. “Calm yourself Momotaros, our fellow Rider needs help,” the new Kamen Rider said. His voice sounded familiar but muffled because of the helmet over his head. “Let me say this for starters you two,” he continued. “No more playing about and causing trouble for you! Time to put you in the doghouse!” “Aw mou, I’ve been itching for a fight, and you tell me to calm myself?” the blade snapped back, Fluttershy quizzically raising an eyebrow. Who named their sword after a Neighponiese fable character? “Besides, the Queen of Fangires should be able to handle two simple low-level idiots like these!” “Yeah, ‘cept the thing is,” the new Rider replied. “One of these two isn’t exactly a Fangire now is it?” “It’s not?” Fluttershy asked in surprise, and finally, she recognized the voice under that helmet. “Wait a moment? Zeph?” “Zeph? As in Zephyr Breeze, your younger brother? Since when the Hell is he a Rider?” Kivat asked, blinking slightly in shock. “Man, seems like everyone’s getting in on the act since Luna started the whole bloody trend!” “That’s what I’d like to know…” Fluttershy trailed off, ignoring Kivat’s mutterings about Luna. “Seriously, what the Hell’s going on?” “I’ll explain later, right now we need to deal with these two!” Zephyr shouted, before kicking the wolf creature in the face making him let out a howl of pain before using ‘Momotaros’ to slash the Earwig Fangire across the chest. “Uh, yeah… about that!” Momotaros shouted, as the Wolf creature leaped into the Earwig Fangire’s chest and vanished from sight. Zephyr swore profusely as he canceled his transformation, and a type of train ticket appeared in his hands a date across it. “January 29, 950 BNM. Lovely…” he muttered before a train horn shouted and a massive silver train resembling the helmet Zephyr bore in Rider form flew out of the sky and towards them on a set of golden rails of light. “You trust me?” he asked Fluttershy. “Always, but what’s…?” “Just hold on!” he shouted before with a flash of light the train rocketed into them. “Ooh, not going to want to do that again…” Zephyr muttered as he then hit flooring, train tracks ratting beneath him. “I always hate the uber-fast pickups. Okay, maybe, in this case, it was necessary but…” he muttered to himself. “Where… where are we?” “Welcome to the Den-Liner, Fluttershy!” a voice cried out, and Fluttershy looked up and her eyes widened before she let out a loud screech and quickly backpedaled up into a seat upon seeing this red demon creature with black veins and pitch black seemingly soulless eyes. “W-Who are you…?” Fluttershy squeaked out. “Oi, back off!” Kivat shouted as he got up in the demon’s face baring his fangs. “Want me to bite you? Because I will! And it’s Madam Fluttershy to you, Imagin!” Evidently, the two had a history. “Imagin?” Fluttershy asked slowly repeating the word in her mouth. “Yeah. Imagin. You know, like a combination of the words Imagine and Djinn. Say it with me now!” Zephyr stated Fluttershy blinking out rapidly in a moment of stunned silence. “I know how to say it Zeph,” she said. “But what exactly is an Imagin? And how do you know him Kivat?” “I’m not a him, I’m Momotaros!” Momotaros huffed in indignation crossing his arms. “Imagin are-” Zephyr stated to explain. “Momotaros is a dick,” Kivat snarled, as he and the Imagin stared each other down. “I beg your pardon?” Momotaros snapped, and was soundly ignored as Kivat continued. “Showed up a few years ago with this other Kamen Rider Den-O who always carried around a rod, always bolstering about his abilities and his combat prowess. Annoyed me and Jiro so much we soundly threw him out of the Castle. You weren’t there that day Madam, and we’ve never had any reason to bring him up.” “Den-O... “ Fluttershy whispered, chuckling at Kivat’s description of Momotaros, he actually sounded a lot like Rainbow Dash the way he put it. Ego and all. Slowly but surely, she began to lose her fear of him, and if her younger brother trusted him then she probably should as well. “So that’s your title, eh Zeph?” “And an Imagin, well at least a normal one is from what I can gather and from what Momotaros told me are beings from some distant future who lost their physical form due to some event in the distant past erasing their own timeline, causing them to lose their memories in the process,” Zephyr explained. “That’s… That’s so sad,” Fluttershy whispered, pulling a one very shocked Momotaros into a hug. “I’m sorry.” “Hey, hey, I don’t do hugs here!” he protested, though not very well it must be said. “Anyways, we Imagin, well most of us anyways except for the odd case here and there, have to possess ponies, griffons, Fangires, etc -Take your pick really- upon forging a contract, fashioning a physical form through their host`s imaginations. We offer them a single wish, and in exchange, we get to go to the past.” “Ugh, I hate time travel…” Kivat muttered. “Always a real pain in the ass.” “So that’s what happened with that Wolf Imagin back there,” Zephyr stated. “That Fangire wished for something, and forged a contract with wolfie. Now, you’re probably wondering how me and Momotaros met right Flutters?” he asked, and Fluttershy gave out a soft little nod. “That I admit, I’m curious to as well…” Kivat murmured. “Okay, I admit I arrived a few years back trying to forge a contract with your brother if only to gain a new body,” Momotaros admitted. “Ended up possessing him really, if only so to protect him from a trio of mole themed Imagin sent to kill him. See, believe it or not your brother’s important.” “Of course he’s important, he’s my brother!” Fluttershy shouted, and Zephyr’s eyes widened. “You… You really think that much of me Flutters?” he whispered, thinking back to their last conversation. “Even after how much of a screw-up I’ve been?” “I don’t believe you!” Fluttershy screeched out at Zephyr, who flinched under his older sister’s gaze, with her hands on her hips. “I… I finally thought you’d found yourself a stable job! Instead, here you are again, fired and living on instant ramen like a college co-ed!” Fluttershy huffed, looking at her brother’s apartment which was an absolute mess. Clothes were strewn out everywhere and empty cups of noodles lay on the dining room table. “Look, I’m sorry Flutters, I really am!” Zephyr pleaded out. How was he supposed to tell his sister that being Kamen Rider Den-O sometimes required him to drop everything to deal with some rogue Imagin? Actually, how was he supposed to tell her that he was a Rider in general, just like he knew she was? Oh, he wasn’t stupid. It didn’t take any sort of genius to connect the dots between Kiva and Fluttershy. All you had to do was look very carefully. Plus, occasionally seeing a strange red bat resembling the one that always seemed to be on Kiva’s belt flying around Fluttershy’s cottage on the rare occasions he was allowed to visit her helped. Nevertheless, being Den-O had a massive effect on one’s ability to hold a stable job really. “I’m trying, I really am!” Zephyr continued to plead. Fluttershy’s voice became softer in tone and she placed a hand on his shoulder. “I know you are Zeph,” she said after taking a deep sigh. “It’s just that sometimes… Well, you make it hard for me to believe you’re really intent on backing up your claims.” “Yeah, I know…” Zephyr muttered out in a bitter tone of voice. “I’ve always had faith in you Zeph, that’s what an older sister should do right?” Fluttershy asked having heard him loud and clear with her now enhanced senses. “Thank… thank you…” Zephyr whispered as Fluttershy wiped away his tears with a handkerchief. “He’s more important than being somebody else’s little brother. See, little Zephyr here is a Singularity Point,” Momotaros continued. “What that means is, he’s basically a being able to exist outside of time and know when the timeline’s been changed, unaffected by the changes in his own past. He’d remember what the timeline was like before. Am I clear enough about this?” he asked, and Fluttershy nodded though she still had many more questions. “Now, what’s going on here? Where are we exactly, what is the Den-Liner?” she asked. “Basically, it’s a time-traveling train, long and short of it without getting too complex,” Momotaros continued to explain and sure enough when Fluttershy looked out a window she saw the years passing by. She saw things such as the rise and fall of the reign of Tirek, Twilight leaping in after Sunset Shimmer into the Mirror Portal, Twilight’s coronation and the return of Nightmare Moon. Years began to go further back, and various other events Fluttershy could barely recognize such as the banishment of the Dazzlings, the fall of the Baladi empire after Queen Somnambula and King Flash Magnus’ disappearances fighting the Pony of Shadows alongside their fellow Pillars and Discord’s first appearance in recorded history. “Remember what I said about the Imagin granting a wish to travel back in time and create chaos?” “Yes…” Fluttershy murmured, still somewhat lost here. “Well, given the date on this ticket,” Zephyr stated. “I’d say that Imagin’s gone back to change the past via the Fangire’s desires to see his ‘King’ live to the present day.” “And how does he expect to change that outcome?” Kivat asked. “I mean, Luna’s…” His eyes widened about then in realization. “I… I can’t believe it, he’s going to try and kill Lady Luna!” Kivat stammered out in fear. “Exactly, and that’s why we’re going to the past and stopping him,” Zephyr stated as the destination point grew nearer. “Imagine if you will, a whole future changed. With King alive and well, and nobody able to stop him the Fangires would rule the planet. Ponies and every other race would be prosecuted, hunted down to extinction! We cannot let that happen!” “You’ve really grown haven’t you Zeph?” Fluttershy thought with tears in her eyes before she swiftly corrected herself. “No, you’ve always been growing. I’ve just been too foolish to see it.” “Damn well right we won’t let that happen!” Momotaros shouted, changing into his sword form and landing in Zephyr’s outstretched hand. “What about the Fangire?” Fluttershy asked nervously as the train continued to rocket through time. “You’re not the only Kamen Rider in your time are you?” her brother asked, raising an eyebrow. “Vinyl or Tempest or hell Princess Luna even, they’ll deal with him. Providing of course, this Imagin doesn’t change the timeline…” he remarked before a loud dinging sound cut through the air and lights on the train began to flash red. “Hold fast!” Zephyr shouted over the loud screeching and protesting of brakes. “The Den-Liner, it’s about to come to a full stop! We’ve reached our destination!” Then, the train stopped and the side doors opened and Fluttershy and her brother shared a look even as Zephyr went for his belt. “Let’s do this.” Fluttershy stated as she gripped Zanbat, in full Queen of the Fangires mode. “Now remember,” Zephyr explained his belt over his shoulder and Momotaros strapped to his back. “First and most crucial rule of time travel, don’t change a thing, and don’t let anyone know you were here. That includes Princess Luna.” “Wait, isn’t there that old theory if I step on a butterfly, I might kill my grandfather?” Fluttershy asked nervously, even as the lights of the Castle of the Two Sisters flickered in the distance through the darkened woods. The darkened and strangely silent woods for that matter. The Everfree was never this quiet. “Something’s wrong already, I just know it…” Zephyr thought even with hanging oil lamps from tree branches just barely illuminating the dirt footpath in front of them. “This is the Everfree, we should have been attacked by now! If not by highwaymen, but by wild animals! And I highly doubt the appearance of the Den-Liner just scared everyone else off.” “What have you got against butterflies?” Kivat remarked in confusion raising an eyebrow. “I mean, you’ve got three tattooed on your shoulder Milady!” “Just… Just don’t step on any butterflies okay?” Zephyr said cautiously his eyes darting from left to right as he scanned the area for threats. “You hear that sis?” “Hear what?” Fluttershy asked, her eyes narrowed as she realized. “...The Everfree, it’s silent.” “Exactly,” Zephyr answered, and then both of them found out why as they stumbled across a manticore, a huge slash resembling that of a crescent-shaped blade strike through its side. The monster had bled out just a few hours before. “...Looks like that Imagin couldn’t keep his bloodthirst down,” Kivat murmured sadly as Fluttershy closed the manticore’s eyes. “Never thought a beast like this could be felled.” “Apparently that doesn’t matter to Imagins,” Fluttershy muttered before realizing who she was in the presence of. “...No offense intended Momo.” “None taken,” the Imagin replied. “But what I’m curious about is how the Hell this Imagin plans to even kill Luna. I mean, surely he’s not stupid enough to think of besting her in combat! Even I’m not that dumb! I mean, she’s going to stumble across Kuuga’s belt soon, if she hasn’t already!” “Who said anything about combat?” Kivat theorized. “I mean, immortal they may be at least when it comes to matters of aging, but like anyone else they can still get sick and such. My best guess, poison in her wine. That’s what I’d do.” “Suddenly you just became very creepy, you know that Kivat?” Zephyr asked, taking a few steps away from the bat. “Hey, not saying I would do it!” he exclaimed. “She’s the Princess of the Night, the highest authority when it comes to what lurks in the dark, Kivats included!” “Kivat’s right, it seems the most intelligent solution and the one that would draw the least attention. Just a quick in and out, that’s all that it would take.” Fluttershy agreed. “Then we’d best pick up the pace!” Zephyr shouted, breaking into a sprint with his sister quick to follow. Eventually, they arrived at the Castle, and avoiding Royal Guards with Kivat creating various distractions to keep them from being detected -One particular highlight was him hiding inside a suit of armor and making moaning and groaning noises making two guards scream off in fear of ghosts- they found their way to the kitchens where sure enough the Wolf Imagin was standing over Luna’s food with a vial of poison in his claws. “YOU!” he barked out in rage. “Yes, me. We have arrived,” Zephyr stated flinging his belt around his waist before he and his sister transformed with shouts of: “Henshin!” Kicking the Imagin out a window towards the forest below, both Zephyr and Fluttershy followed after him leaping out the windows blades drawn and flew down to the forest floor before slicing the monster across the chest with Momotaros and the Zanbat. Socking the monster across the jaw as the battle progressed deeper into the forest, Fluttershy asked: “Did you really think your attempts to change time would go unnoticed?” “Well, I was hoping…” the Wolf Imagin trailed off. “Well, too bad!” Zephyr stated slashing the Wolf Imagin across the chest with Momotaros. “You rogue Imagin, you’re always the same. You desire nothing but to change the past and create chaos in the present! While we’re always thinking of the future, what comes next, what-ifs and possibilities on how to live our lives! You’re just repeating the same cycles, over and over!” Fluttershy leaped forwards doing a spin in mid-air her left leg armor opening up and blood red chains striking the Imagin before she placed the Zanbat’s whistle in Kivat’s mouth. “Wake Up!” Kivat shouted, before Fluttershy moved the crossguard of the sword upwards with a growling sound and made the blade glow red before moving the crossguard down. Next, she slashed through the Imagin’s chest with three quick slices. “Now… My Special Attack: Counter Slash!” Momotaros shouted before Zephyr slashed the Wolf Imagin through the chest before Fluttershy then delivered a Darkness Moon Break finishing off the monster making him fall forwards and then explode. “Your time’s up!” both Fluttershy and Zephyr shouted. Later, aboard the Den-Liner Zephyr gave a smile as he watched the timeline restore itself to normal. Luna defeated King as planned, and then Zephyr's eyes widened as he saw a new Rider come into existance. Celestia, AKA Kamen Rider Agito. No, the future hadn't just been restored, it had been changed for the better. “So, everything’s back to the way it should be, and all is well. Thanks, sis,” he said as he placed a hand on her shoulder. “Never could have done this without you.” “No,” Fluttershy corrected him booping him on the nose. “I never could have done this without you!” “No, I couldn’t have done this without you!” “Hey, you both couldn’t have done this without us, and we probably could have handled that Imagin easily!” both Kivat and Momotaros shouted, much to both Zephyr and Fluttershy’s great amusement. “What? What’s so funny?” Kivat and his new friend asked as the two continued to laugh.