Mirai stood between a hurt Sunset and a surprised crowd. He looked down with an angry expression at Lightning Dust.
Lightning Dust got up holding on to her cheek. She then said "What the hell?! Whose side are you on! Didn't you hear what I ju-"
"I heard you! You damn idiot!!"
Lightning Dust went silent at the interruption. Mirai says "Look, I barely have been at this school to know how you feel, but whatever she did is no excuse to hurt her, especially when she has no way to defend herself!"
Mirai then looked at the rest of the crowd watching. "That goes for you too! A defenseless girl is getting hurt, and you do nothing to help her! You disgust me!" A few people looked down in shame.
Lightning Dust was ticked off someone would talk to her like that. She raised her arm for a punch. "Why, you-!" She froze.
Mirai was glaring at her. In fact, he was the only one glaring. But to Lightning Dust, it felt different. She felt as if there were many other people around Mirai glaring intensely at her.
The feeling was getting intense. She fell onto the floor, sitting down. Tears were streaming down her face. She looked down on the floor.
Mirai turned around and crouched to Sunset. "Sunset, are you okay? Sunset?" He looked at her to see that she was falling into unconsciousness. "Sunset!"
She picked her up by her back and legs and yelled "Where is the Nurse!"
"I know where it is......" A quiet voice said.
Mirai looked to see it was Fluttershy who said it. "Show me the way, please" Mirai said worryingly.
Fluttershy ran to the direction which Mirai followed her.
While running, Mirai looked at Sunset in his arms.
'Don't worry Sunset, I will make sure that you're okay.'
Episode 3: I will help her
When they finally got to their way in, they told the nurse what happened. She took Sunset in to her office to tend to her.
While the Nurse was helping Sunset, Mirai and Fluttershy were outside in the waiting room. Mirai was looking down at the floor.
Fluttershy put her hand on Mirai's shoulder. This caused Mirai to put his head up and look at her.
"Um, are you okay?" Fluttershy asking in her usual quiet voice.
"Ye- Yeah, I'm good." Mirai said, even though he was still slightly nervous about Sunset.
"Um, I noticed something earlier, Sunset looked less hurt then she did earlier when I met up with you." Fluttershy said.
Mirai looked at her for a second and then said "Oh.. Oh! Yeah, I used up my powers to its extent to heal some of her wounds."
"It's extent?"
"Yeah. There's a limit to how much I can use my healing abilities. I don't know exactly how much so I have to be careful. If I use too much I will collapse."
"How long have you had these powers of yours?"
"Since I was 4 or 5, Grandpa bumped his arm really hard once, My arms were hovering over his arm because I was looking at it. Then, his arm got better."
Fluttershy looked up at the clock and saw the time. She looked at Mirai. "Um, there's a few minutes till classes start. Do you want me to call the others so we could stay here with you and Sunset."
Mirai shook his head slightly smiling. "No, I don't wanna inconvenience you all. I'll just stay here and wait for her."
Fluttershy smiled and nodded. She leaves the waiting room.
'You really care about her, even if you barely know her.'
Around 12:00 P.M.
Mirai was sleeping while sitting down. He felt a tap on his shoulder. He opened his eyes and the first thing he saw was a pink smiling face close to him.
"Gah!" Mirai was so surprised he literally fell off his chair. Mirai got up a bit while rubbing his head. He looked up and saw Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. He stood up and said "What are you guys doing here?"
"Fluttershy told all of us what happened to dear Sunset. We all wanted to come to be with her but we wanted to respect your wishes." Rarity said.
"Man! If I was there, I would've beat Lightning Dust so hard she would forget how to count!" Rainbow said with determination.
"No offense, but I'm quite suprised you managed to be able to land a hit on her. Only Rainbow and a very few others were able to do that." Applejack said.
Mirai laughed and said "None taken. I did have one of the strongest riders as a grandpa."
Unexpectedly, Rainbow faced Mirai with an angry face. "If you're are that strong, how come you only punched her on the face once?! You should've punched or kicked her entire body. Or at least punched her more times in the face for what she did to Sunset!"
Applejack looked at Rainbow and said "Rainbow, you shou-"
"It's fine, Applejack." Mirai interrupted, having the Main 5 look at him.
"There was a part of me that did. A part of me really wanted to injure her in a way that would cripple her for several lifetimes. But I couldn't focus on that at the moment. All I wanted to focus on was making sure Sunset was okay." Mirai said with determination.
This statement made Rainbow look away. The room fell silent for a little while. Until....
"Awwww, don't have such a serious face Miri! It doesn't work on you!" Pinkie said who just somehow just appeared right in front of Mirai, because one second ago she was in the far right of the group.
'Miri? And how did she spontaneously appear? Is she a Worm or something?' Mirai thought clearly in confusion.
"You need to have a smiling face for Sunset. For all the people you will help. Plus if you keep being all serious, the readers might think this crossover fanfic is really dramatic and not want to read it." Pinkie said with a cheerfully huge smile. The others look at her weirdly.
"Pinkie, what the hell are you talking about?!" Rainbow asked. Pinkie was about to answer when suddenly the Nurse appeared from her doorway.
"Um, are you 6 Sunset's friends?" the Nurse asked. The Main 5 nodded while Mirai was somewhat questioning himself if he was truly considered a friend.
The nurse then said "Ok. Well, Sunset is awake now. She had some minor wounds so I was able to tend to them. I was confused about how she was unconscious, but judging by that young boy's expression, I assumed that she must have passed out for psychological reasons." The nurse said, while Mirai was somewhat sweating because he didn't want the nurse to know that he basically healed Sunset's major wounds with rider time magic whatever powers.
"You can all come in to see her." The nurse said before walking away to give them space.
Mirai and the others walked in and saw that Sunset was getting up from her bed barely. She had a few bandages and some minor bruises that were healing. She looked at the other "What are you guys doing here?" Sunset asked in confusion.
"Well, since it was lunch time and classes won't be open for another 20 or so minutes, we decided to visit you. It was a gosh darn good thing Mirai took you here and healed you up." Applejack said.
"Um, thank you." Sunset said while looking away. Before Mirai would say something back to her, Sunset got up and was approaching the door. Rarity then says "Are you going to eat lunch sweetie? Do you want us to come with you?"
"No, it's fine, don't worry." Sunset then left. Rainbow then walked out and said "Well, since she's not waiting for us, I won't either. I've been hungry since 3rd period." Mirai was thinking to himself to about what Sunset just said. He was wondering if she was really fine.
Mirai was leaving his 7th period writing class, which he really liked. He's been thinking of putting in a rider story in one of his assignments. He was questioning whether or not to do it because he was thinking it might be plagiarism, even though the stories were not publicly known (or at least in this universe).
While walking, he was thinking of Sunset. She was in the same 5th and 6th period as him. Whenever he tried to talk to her at the end of each class, she quickly walked away from him. This somewhat frustrated him.
While he was walking, he heard a sound coming from his left. He looked to his left. He saw a male student a few inches taller than him who just punched Sunset in the face.
"Hah! Man, Lightning was such a wimp, like you for not actually fighting back! Are you scared or something? Well, I'll just continue what she started!" The guy was about to kick Sunset hard on the stomach. But suddenly, his face was met with a fist. He held onto his cheek wound and looked to the source and saw that Mirai was in front of him.
"You little bastard!" The guy was aiming a punch back at Mirai. Mirai evades it at the last minute and knees the guy in the stomach. The guy was clenching his stomach in pain.
"You better go and stay away from Sunset if you still wanna have kids one day!" Mirai yelled. Being scared, the guy went running in a way he can with a hurt stomach. Mirai turned around to check on Sunset. He saw that she was walking away. He went to catch up to her.
"Hey, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, I just need to walk home."
"I'll walk with you."
"I'm fine"
"At least let me heal those wounds"
"I'll live..." Sunset started to sound irritated.
"But you're hurt." Mirai started to sound worried.
"I said I'm fine!!" She faced Mirai with a sharp glare with tears in her eyes. This made Mirai step back. She then ran off while rubbing her eyes. Mirai wanted to follow her but for some reason he was just standing. His phone then rang. He picked up and brought the phone to talk to the caller.
"What's up Woz?"
"Hello, my prince."
"Why did you call just now?"
"Well, I had to tell you something. First, you seem to have quite the predicament with Sunset Shimmer."
"Wait, how did yo- Did you follow me to school?!"
"Affirmative, my prince. As of now, I'm camouflaging in a tree right now."
"I would say that makes you look like a crazy person, but as someone who has known you for years, that seems like the norm for you. Now what was it that you wanted to tell me?"
"Well, when I had to follow her to send her the message through a flaming arrow, I found out something about Sunset and....."
What Woz said next made Mirai run.
Sunset was in the middle of town walking. She was rubbing her eyes thinking about Mirai.
'Stupid idiot. Why would he even want to heal me? He barely even knows me. I deserve all what they do to me' Sunset thought looking at her bruises. She sighs. 'Maybe I should apologize for yelling at him. No, It would be a waste of time. He probably wants nothing to do with me.' She looks down sadly.
Suddenly, a loud scream was heard. Sunset looked up and saw a bunch of civilians running in panic. She was confused about this so she ran to the opposite direction the people were running. Her eyes widened at what she saw.
She saw a brown humanoid monster, who had orange flame looking thing on his shoulders, and blue outlines on his body. It's head had horns that made it represent a deer of some sort. The deer then saw Sunset standing in front of him. He chuckled creepily.
"Finally! A human that doesn't run from me, Shika Inves! And a nice looking one. You will interesting to kill." Shika Inves said. He was walking slowly towards her. Sunset was just standing.
'I need to run! Why am I just standing here?! Why won't my legs move! Am I gonna die here?!' Tears were running down her face. She close her eyes accepting her fate.
"UUUUURRRRRRRAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!"
Sunset opened her eyes and saw Mirai in his rider form holding his Zikan Girade in its Ken mode. The Shika Inves was holding on to a part of his chest. He puts his hand down ad shows a cut on his chest.
"Mirai? What are you doing here?" Sunset asked.
Mirai turns around to look at her. "I was trying to look for you. Then I saw people were running from something. So I transformed, in case there was a Kaijin. Looks like I was right."
"Zi-O........." The Shika Inves said, gaining Sunset and Mirai's attention. "How in the living hell, did you come here!?" He then removes his antlers from his head to use for weapons. He charged towards Mirai.
"None of your damn business." Mirai charged back.
Mirai and the Shika Inves into a sword fight. They slashed at each other with their swords. Mirai tried to look for a weak point, but to no avail. They kept slashing at each other. When their swords went together at one point, the Shika Inves used his advantage. He used one of his swords to slash at Mirai's arm. This made him drop his Zikan Girade.
The Shika Inves slashed at Mirai, which made him fall to the floor.
"Now that's out of the way, Time to kill you." The Inves faces Sunset and gets into a slashing position. He then felt a hand grab his shoulder. He turned around and saw Mirai stopping him.
"You will not touch her........" Mirai said.
"You don't know when to give up huh? You're a fun guy. Guess I'll kill you first!" The Shika Inves chuckled then started slashing at Mirai. Mirai tried to charge at him, but to no avail since he was at a disadvantage. But nevertheless, Mirai kept trying to keep him away from Sunset.
Sunset was watching all of this and getting scared. Not for her, but for Mirai. 'He's gonna get killed! '
Sunset yelled "Get out of here! He's too strong! Don't worry about me, save yourself!"
Mirai looked at her to say something but he got hit by Shika Inves. Mirai kept charging at him.
"Why are you protecting me?! I don't mean anything to you!" Sunset yelled, hoping the statement would make him run away.
Mirai finally got a hard punch in. The Shika Inves was holding on to his face. Mirai looked at Sunset. "Don't you remember what I said to you. A hero protects people. They make sure they don't have to get hurt." The Shika Inves recovered and was running towards Mirai.
"And since you are my friend, I have to make sure of that more!" Sunset's eyes widened.
'Friend?'
Shika Inves slashed at Mirai more and more. Mirai collapsed. He could barely get up.
"Time to die, Rider scum!!!" Shika Inves prepared his antler blades for a final attack. Mirai closed his eyes, utterly accepting his fate. He was silently crying under his helmet.
'I'm sorry Grandpa, I couldn't find them. Woz, take care of Sunset and find the riders.'
Sure Sure Uchi!!!
A bunch of magenta Katakana was fired onto the Shika Inves. He stumbled a bit. Mirai opened his eyes. He saw Sunset who was holding Mirai's Zikan Girade in a gun mode.
Zyu!!!
"L..... Leave him alone!!!!!" Sunset yelled with a scared face.
'Sunset.....' Mirai looked at her.
Shika Inves looked at her and said "Just hold on there girl! Once I'm done with him, I'll kill you next. Huh?" He felt a strange feeling coming from Mirai.
"I won't let you hurt her!" Mirai got up and punched the Shika inves so hard, he dropped his swords.
"How! How are you-!" The Shika Inves was surprised.
"I won't let you do anything to Sunset!!!!!!" Mirai had this fierce aura around him. He then pressed the 2 buttons on his belt and spinned his belt..
Finish Time!!!!
His hands started glowing magenta. He ran towards the Inves quickly. He then sent a flurry of punches at the Kaijin. 20 from one hand and 20 from the other.
"20 Rider Overdrive!!!!"
When he punched his final punch, the Inves exploded.
"I did it." Mirai fell on the floor. He started to lose consciousness. Right before he did, he saw Sunset and Woz.
Mirai woke up. He was in a bed in another room. 'I'm in the healing room.' The healing room was one of the rooms in the chamber of riders which is used for when a rider gets injured. This works considering Woz was smarter than most doctors. He looked around and saw Sunset sitting in a chair next to him.
He sat up and Sunset walked up to him. He was shirtless and wrapped around in bandages.
"Are you okay, Sunset?" Mirai asked.
"Me? I should be asking you that." Sunset asked.
"I'm fine. Not the worst I've. Um, ok maybe the worst I've had, but nothing I can't handle." Mirai chuckled.
Sunset looked sad and said "I'm sorry....."
This got Mirai's attention. "What? What do you mean?"
"This was my fault! I was rude to you because you wanted help me! Then I lured that monster to me, which got you hurt! Even after all that you still consider me a friend?! Why?!" Sunset yelled while crying.
Mirai looked at her. "I consider you my friend because I want to help you." This made Sunset look at him.
"This is not out of pity or anything. I want to help you. You are clearly suffering and the people at our school is not helping at all, so if no one will, I will be the one to. That is what a friend does."
Sunset started crying. But the tears were becoming ones of joy.
"And I'm still not done helping, because Woz told me about your home life." This got Sunset's attention.
"He told me that you don't have a home. You sleep in a abandoned warehouse, with just a blanket and pillow and a few sets of clothes. It's not a safe environment for someone to live in and that's why....... I want you to live with me and Woz."
After those words, Sunset quickly hugged Mirai while crying. Her head was deep into his chest. He hugged her back.
"Thank you....."