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// Space is Heeeeere!  -Kamen Rider Fourze- 
// Story: My little Riders: Kamen Riders for My little pony crossover 
// by Heart 97 
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Space, the infinite resource of Cosmic Energy.

 
Equestria has developed technology far beyond the least necessary for life and ponies achieved the evolutionary step of going to the satellite that princess Luna raised every night, the Moon.
The Over Space Technology Organization (OSTO for short), established a laboratory on the moon. The experiments were proceeding well, and ponies found a high-tech artifact that, reverse engineered, made them step further in evolution, and develop even better technology thanks to the infinite earth resources brought to the OSTO by the ZECT Company, the one who produces every technology from the space shuttles to the hoof clocks. The project was led by the princess herself, yet an accident destroyed the laboratory, along with the artifact... Maybe.
 
Sweetie Belle was slowly walking to Sweet Apple Acres, to meet with her friends Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. The sun was high, as it should be in the early afternoon. Warm light hit her white coat. Even if they were grown mares, Scootaloo didn’t have her cutie mark; something, though, was telling the white unicorn this meeting had something special reserved for this. She left soft breeze pass through her mane and smiled, happy to meet again a friend.
 
She rolled her eyes and stared at their clubhouse... That assemble of wood seemed so old. Nostalgic feelings filled her mind, from times they laughed, to when they experimented and spectacularly failed to get their cutie marks... together. The unicorn shed a tear and called the names of her best friends.
 
“Scoots! AB!”
 
Both mares, within the clubhouse, jumped out from the main entrance. They eagerly shouted her companion’s name and landed near her. Scootaloo, being a Pegasus, landed gracefully, while Apple Bloom landed with a heavy thump on the grassy ground.
 
“How much time passed from our last meeting?” said Scootaloo.
 
“Two years!” replied happily Sweetie Belle.
 
“Ah’m so happy for ya!” yelled the yellow farm pony.
 
“Of course I am too” nodded Sweetie Belle, before hugging her friends.
 
“Scootie, dear, did you get your cutie mark yet?” asked politely the unicorn.
 
“Not yet... but this time I’m really sure I’ll get it. Come in the clubhouse, I’ll show you what I mean.” replied the Pegasus.
 
Scootaloo and Apple Bloom entered the old place but Sweetie didn’t see them from the window. She nodded and slowly trotted to reach the entrance. More memories emerged as she put a hoof in front of another and when she opened the door she found... nothing. Nothing but a bright light with some bleached colors here and there. It seemed like a tunnel made of pure light.
 
“This is friggin’ awesome!” gasped the unicorn.
 
She blinked, and narrowed her eyes to see what seemed to stand at the end of the white horizon... Scootaloo.
 
“Scoot, what does this mean?”
 
“Come on and reach me!” replied the Pegasus with an enormous smile.
 
Sweetie Belle trotted quickly to reach Scootaloo and reached her. They trespassed a hi-tech hermetic door that closed after they both entered the complex.
 
“What is this place?” blabbered the unicorn, looking at the walls and all the technology that surrounded the place. Computers everywhere, mechanic tools, raw wires and chips were scattered everywhere.
 
“Do you remember the incident that happened on the OSTO station on the Moon?”
 
“The Explosion that happened on the laboratory Princess Luna set here during her study of the cosmos. Nearly all the complex was destroyed, but the scientists escaped... Wait a sec...” gasped the unicorn, widening her eyes in shock,” Are we in that very same station?” shouted the unicorn, realizing what her winged friend was saying.
 
“Yes, in part. The complex was nearly completely destroyed, but this zone survived, somehow. Look from the window if you don’t believe me!”
 
Sweetie Belle took some seconds to understand what and where she was, but looking from the window dissipated her doubts completely.
 
Outer space... she could see the whole planet where they lived, as all the oceans, tiny and big, the scattered pieces of green, but what caught more the unicorn’s attention were the stars... From this out of atmosphere perspective they seemed so near...
 
“It’s gorgeous... but how?!” sighed Sweetie Belle, still looking enchanted at the sight of the outer space.
 
“I don’t know it for sure, but somepony sent me a little switch. I activated it without knowing what it was and I threw it in the club out of anger because I didn’t know what the heck it could do... and it linked Equestria to the Over Space Technology Organization base remains on the moon. I found much information about the projects, they tried to reverse engineer a thing called the Core Switch and they succeeded in creating that purple thing,” said the Pegasus, pointing her hoof to a little thing on a desk. It had four little switches on its top, an LCD screen and a lever. It was made of purple clear plastic.
 
 “You see it? That is the Fourze Driver. The Astroswitches, as well as the driver itself are made from technology infused with cosmic energy, and...”
 
“Scootaloo? How do you know all of this crap about space?” asked Sweetie Belle, surprised.
 
“I... wanted to join those guys on the moon, I love space!” happily said the Pegasus. “I’ve studied everything I needed but then this mysterious explosion happened and...” Scootaloo shed some tears of rage that fell on her cheeks, “And some cruel joke of destiny destroyed my dreams!”
 
Apple Bloom knew of the Pegasus’s passion for space, and then she posed a hoof on her purple mane and reassured her with a kind tone, “Don’t give in to despair... or ya’ll become a Phantom.”
 
Scootaloo moved her hoof on her face to wipe away tears and replied
“The monsters born from despair and extreme magic potential? They are just legends...”
 
“No, Scoot... They’re real... and real are those who protected us from creatures that became wild and evil... the Kamen Ponies! And here, stored in a PC of the lab Ah found some things about ‘em. Profiles of them, behavior and even times when they can be found in day... and this gorgeous clip... “Said Apple Bloom, before taking a seat. She invited her friends to sit too, and took some popcorn, sweets and homemade apple cider and sat with them. She pressed a button on a remote and a big white screen descended from the ceiling.
 
“That’s so awesome!” said Sweetie Belle.
 
“And the big part hasn’t even started yet... ya’ll drool in no time!” hissed the farm pony with a mischievous grin.
 
The movie started... it was blurred, like it was done shaking and with a cheap camera but it was enough clear.
 
Night, a pony was walking in a lone, dark street of Ponyville.
Nopony else was there until a pony with stained glass-like tattoos showed from nowhere. Suddenly he started blabbering something,
 
“Food... vital energy...” he hissed with a withered tone
 
“Fangires are forbidden to attack other beings for stealing vital energy, right?” Asked Scootaloo.
 
“Indeed, they are, but, look at the fangire in the clip... He seems so enraged and starving for killing a pony...” said Sweetie Belle, drawing herself closer to a bored Pegasus to relieve some fear.
 
“Then the fun begins is right here!” exclaimed Apple Bloom.
 
Indeed, the fangire materialized his Active fangs, glass like items that pierced the prey and sucked all of his energy, leaving a fragile transparent being on the cobbles.
 
“What in the name of Celestia took in you, beast? You killed my dear Raining cloud!” yelled the pony with the camera.
 
She was shaking more at every second’s passing. “So sweeeet... I feel that nopony will care about you...” said then the fangire, before transforming into his true form, a big blue monstrous pony made out of stained glass. He was going to kill the camera lady, until somepony’s hoofsteps were heard in the silent night. The mare that was filming directed his objective to the source of the voice: a unicorn was standing not too far from her.
 
“You’ll not kill anypony more... Kivat!” she shouted, without losing her composure.
The unicorn was cloaked, and in the dark her face was hidden. Suddenly, a little, bat like creature arrived flying and shouted with excitement,
 
“Kivatte go!”
 
Instantly, he bit the neck of the pony who called his name. Stained glass like tattoos emerged on the mare’s face and neck, lit for a second by a full moon’s ray that penetrated the cloudy sky. Around her formed an elegant grey and red armor that had a vague impression of a bat-like creature escaped from a nightmare. The only detail that was enough clear in that dark figure were the enormous glowing yellow eyes, shaped like bat wings. Suddenly, the screen went black.
 
“The Fangire Royal Family’s blazoned armor...”
 
In that exact same moment, the movie stopped and the room went lit again.
 
“That’s all?” Asked Scootaloo, widening her eyes with surprise.
 
“Yeah! I wanted to see if that pony was saved!” added Sweetie belle.
 
“The mare probably fell on the ground, shutting off the camera by breakin’ it, but... Ah found that the route in the clip was the same that a few years ago was found with an enormous bat insignia during a morning.” calmly explained the yellow earth pony.
 
“Then the incident where shards of a killed fangire and that bat carving on the ground was...”
 
“That pony’s fault, perhaps.” said Apple Bloom, very calmly.
 
“But shouldn’t we advertise the royal guards? I am sure that they will do something about the fangires that lose themselves and this... this murderer!” exclaimed Sweetie Belle.
 
“Well... with the help of Pinkie Pie, Ah found that she saved many ponies, during the night, but’ even during’ the day! She is a street hero!”
 
“Shouldn’t we find her? Maybe she can help me to finally get a cutie mark!” Exclaimed Scootaloo, excited.
 
“Probably we should avoid her... She is suspected of murder, we should try to get your cutie mark without messing with ponies like her.” said the white unicorn, killing instantly the enthusiasm of the Pegasus.
 
“Maybe you are right... Come on, should we stay here or we get a cutie mark for me?!” exclaimed Scootaloo, trying to get her friends to help her.
 
“But from where do we start?” pointed apple Bloom.
 
“Obvious point... We will start from the Moon!” said the orange Pegasus, eager to get her cutie mark.
 
“Yeah! The cutie mark crusaders are together again!!” they exclaimed in unison.
 

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An alicorn dressed in an elegant tuxedo was walking around Ponyville. His mane, once brown as the ground, was now dull brown, coursed by a silver trail. His coat was a light tan and his cutie mark was the Sagittarius constellation.
He was slowly walking on the cobble floor, showing a grin that only he could understand.
A Pegasus was just walking from within a little alley, and stopped in front of him.
 
She had a white coat, green eyes and blonde mane, and had a scorpion-constellation-like cutie mark.
 
“Sagittarius sir... I have executed the orders.” she said, nearly falling in reverence.
 
“Another pony will soon experiment evolution!” said the Alicorn, with his eyes turning from blue to red, both sclera and irises, and expressing a maniac grin.
 
“Who was he?”
 
“Oh but he is here...” she replied, blinking her eyes slowly.
 
A pony hybrid with a swan slowly moved himself near to the ponies that were talking. He was white feathered, had some armor here and there and had blue glowing eyes. He was a unicorn and, lighting his horn, he lifted a switch and pressed the button atop of it.
His wings disappeared and he showed his green coat and his yellow eyes.
 
“Miss Scorpion...”
 
“Yes, Cygnus?” replied the white Pegasus
 
“I feel extremely powerful when I use the Switch but I go berserk... I don’t like it! Ah, and the switch just said ‘Last One’ when I deactivated it this time. It’s safe?”
 
“Yes, it is. You evolved way past a pony when you achieved the Cygnus power, so it’s completely safe.” replied the alicorn with superiority.
 
“And my berserk?” said the unicorn, showing a worried expression and stomping on the cobble floor.
 
“That is something that you should work on. The Cosmic Energy only enchants your feelings, so you should know what gives you rage.” pointed the tan alicorn, not losing his completely calm and rational expression.
 

***

 
Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom, dressed in spacesuits and opened the door to outer space. They crossed slowly, savoring the moment of passing from the safety of an emetic laboratory to the infinite cosmos’s embrace. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo had done this few more times before, so they were calm and more enjoying than Sweetie Belle that was shaking in her spacesuit.
 
“Come on, or you’ll lose the falling stars!” exclaimed Scootaloo.
 
“Falling stars?”
 
“Yeah, today was the day!” said the yellow pony.
 
“Okay... a hoof next to the other and...” whispered to herself the unicorn, before taking courage and jumping.
 
“Uooohoho I feel so light!” said Sweetie Belle.
 
“You are in a place that hasn’t even a quarter of the gravity of the Earth, so it’s obvious that you feel light. Reach us now!” Said Scootaloo through the transceiver.
Sweetie belle used her leaps to reach her friends, and when she reached them, she saw that they were sitting on the lunar ground and they were looking at the stars.
She sat along with them and looked at the same point as them, scanning the sky to find the first falling star.
 
“Oh, look!” said the Pegasus, pointing the sky with a hoof, “I saw one!” she exclaimed.
 
“Where?!” said apple bloom, looking around. “Oh here it is!” she exclaimed, looking at the falling stars.
 
They slowly became more numerous as the seconds passed, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders stood in awe at the cosmos’s show.
 
“Magnificent... This is sooo beautiful when it’s seen from the space, holy Luna!!” sighed Sweetie belle in bliss.
 
“We said it too the other time.” replied Scootaloo, not moving her stare for the space’s star fall
 
“Yeah... how couldn’t one say this when...” said Apple bloom, looking at some stars. Her expression changed to blissed in shocked, when she saw the Cygnus constellation’s stars shining a dark red light.
 
“That is not a good sign!” exclaimed the orange mare, shaking her hypnotized friends and bringing them back on the earth... pardon, the Moon. That can mean only one thing, Apple...
 
“Yeah, we must test the Furze Driver...”
 
“This seems so alien! Talk in my language!” exclaimed the white unicorn, angrily.
 
“We will explain everything on the way, let’s return to Ponyville now!”
 

***

 
“Thunder, what happened? Thunder!” exclaimed a mare, hugging the green pony. He was covered in white streams of matter like a spider web, he was unconscious. Instead, he was looking at his body through Cygnus’s body. An alicorn and a Cygnus hybrid with black eyes and feathers everywhere. On his body were placed the stars that formed the constellation in night sky, shaped in blue glass hemispheres and the brightest star, Deneb, bigger and colored magenta, placed on his left black wing.
 
Big brother, why you activated that switch? You knew that it would make you go berserk!" yelled a blue unicorn. She was crying but she managed to yell at the monster in front of her. Her brother, the one that should have protected her was just standing in front of her and was lying on the floor, with his other body left unconscious.
 
"Stop right there, Cygnus Zodiart!"
 
Cherry instinctively moved her eyes to the unicorn mare that had the courage to stop the monster.
 
She was a unicorn with a violet mane, her voice was beautiful. Next to her were a yellow earth pony and an orange Pegasus.
 
"The Cutie Mark Crusaders will stop you!" yelled Apple Bloom.
 
She ran next to Zodiart and tried to buck him, but he elegantly jumped in the air and spread his wings. He hovered for a second and then he quickly and heavily landed on Sweetie Belle, that felt painful and some strange noises on her back. She screamed of pain as he jumped on her, while using magic to bind her on the ground.
 
"Bloom, how does this thing work already?!” asked Scootaloo.
 
“Put it on the waist, flip the red switches and flip the lever!” exclaimed the yellow mare.
 
Scootaloo made what she said. She was in mid-air, facing Cygnus, as she put the Fourze driver on her waist. The Pegasus moved her right forehoof to flip the red little switches from right to left, triggering a countdown from the Fourze Driver.
 
*Three*
 
*Two*
 
*One*
 
She moved her right forehoof on the lever on the right and the left pointing to the air. Scootaloo moved the lever and said “Henshin!” that meant “Transformation”, what triggered the activation of the driver. A bright light made of Cosmic Energy create a white spacesuit around the Pegasus with a hoover on the back, orange stripes and silver cover on the chest. On her hind hooves she had a triangle and an X shaped protection, and on her forehooves a circle and a square ones.
On her head was a helmet-like shaped space shuttle with orange eyes, and as she looked what happened, she yelled out of excitement:
 
“I don’t know what this is, but Space is awesoooome! I am masked pony Fourze: Let’s do this stallion on stallion!”
 
“Stallion on stallion?” asked Apple Bloom, ignored by all the ponies around her.
 
Scootaloo pressed the button on the orange switch that was on the circle base atop the Driver and an orange rocket formed on the right forehoof of the mare, announced but the Driver that said in a techno voice *Rocket on*.
 
The Pegasus flashed through the air, propelled by the missile, and hit Zodiart with a heavy punch. He flew back for some meters but with his wings stopped in midair, giving Scootaloo enough time to bring the injured Sweetie belle to Apple Bloom. The Pegasus activated two switches this time, the square radar and the x launcher. She stood on her hind hooves, pointing the black radar to Cygnus and when she saw the writing ‘lock-on’ she pressed the activation lever, that made the driver announce “Launcher-Radar Limit Break”. Missiles parted from Scootaloo’s right hind legs launcher and reached their objective (and some infrastructures); exploding spectacularly and heavily damaging the Zodiart, making him explode.
 
“That was easy! AND SO FREAGGIN’ FUNNY!” yelled the orange mare, hovering in mid-air flapping her covered wings. She then flipped the red little switches on the Driver upwards, shutting off the Fourze system. When she reached her friends they were staring at her flank, with their eyes wide open.
 
“Am I hurt?” asked Scootaloo, without knowing what had happened.
 
“You have a cutie mark!!” exclaimed Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom, smiling happily.
 
“I have it? Lemme see...” said the Pegasus. Indeed, she had one, a rocket missile, with eyes, shaped like the Fourze helmet.
 
“My talent...Is being Fourze? Space really is awesome...”
 
A little filly and a unicorn moved themselves near to the cutie mark crusaders, and the he said
“H-hey?”
 
“Who are you?” replied Sweetie.
 
“I... was the Zodiart...”
 
“WHAT?!” yelled the Crusaders, shocked”
 
A Pegasus gave me a black thing and eerily said me ‘Make a wish upon a star...’
I pressed it and I found my body becoming that monster that you defeated. Thank you, miss...”
 
“Scootaloo, sir. And that filly is your sister?”
 
“Yes. I destroyed the school where she was in rampage because bullied made my sister cry every day. I wanted to make my sister happy, but deeply, I wanted to destroy what gave my sister pain. And I have done it... I understand if you are angry to me-
 
“We aren’t.” said Scootaloo gently. “We had the same problem and you probably were doing it for the good, but were just the wrong way. We have forgiven you, right, girls?”
 
“Uhhm yeah.” whispered Sweetie Belle.
 
“Sure! Ya were doing’ it for your sister!” said Apple Bloom.
 
Scootaloo raised a hoof and pointed to Thunder that nodded without knowing what that gesture meant.
 
"I ain't biting, hoof bump!”
 
The green unicorn moved his hoof to Scootaloo’s one, and touched it. Quickly, the mare moved her up and touched Thunder’s by swinging it down, and she did it from under to up.
 
“It is a sign of friendship that me and my friends created when we were school fillies. It means that you are my friend too!” said Scootaloo.
 
“Can my sister...?” whispered Thunder with an extremely soft tone.
 
“Yeah!” exclaimed Scootaloo, moving near to the filly.
 
“What is your name?”
 
“Cherry, Miss Scootaloo”
 
The mare and the filly made their sign of friendship and then departed. While on the way to Sweet Apple Acres, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle had some impelling questions to do.
 
From when Scoot is space-addicted? From how much time she and Bloom were going to the space station?
 
When they reached the clubhouse and went again to the space base, Sweetie belle took courage and made the questions.
 
“I was here the first time not more than two months.” Said Scootaloo, while activating again the Fourze system to use it as space suit. The white unicorn was nervous about it, and still sore by the hits of Cygnus, but after following her into space along with Apple Bloom, Scootaloo answered the question about her space interests. When they sat together, the Pegasus started to explain why she got interest in the space.
 
“When I found out that Dash didn’t want a student to teach how to fly hypersonic, and she didn’t have any interest in me being her fan, I tried to find something new, refreshing and interesting to do. In Twilight’s Library I found a book about space and I fervently have read it many times.
‘Blessing of the Stars, by Mitsuaki Gamou’ was the title. The story was that of a Pegasus that promised to be an astronaut to a friend that died of cancer. The promise itself was that he would go into space and befriend extra Equestrian life forms, and in the end he accomplished to go in the space, and on the moon he saw the ghost of his friend, smiling. After that, I became interested in space phenomenons and stuff, and the dream of becoming an astronaut formed in me. The stars Shine upon us and forever will with their Light...”
 
“It’s so beautiful!” exclaimed Sweetie Belle, shedding some tears”
 
“Don’t cry, or you’ll flood your space suit!” said sarcastically Scootaloo, before bursting in laughter, as w well as Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. They didn’t see that some stars were again burning in red light...

 


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In a red painted room, where curtains revealed a seat, an alicorn stood on a red soft seat. He was looking at the ceiling, that someway enchanted was projecting a real-time starry sky.
His eyes were glowing crimson as he saw the Cancer constellation glowing in red, shining through a magenta nebula.
 
“Another Horoscope will soon be born...” he said, before grinning. “Stars shine forever upon us, and they warm us with their shining embrace...”
 
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Princess Kiva