"KEY BELT ACTIVATED. KEY SYSTEM ONLINE," said a mechanical voice.
"Um, what?" said Spike.
"Don't look at me, I didn't say it!" said Dragon in Spike's mind. Suddenly, a golden colored belt appeared around the waist of Spike's armor.The belt buckle was in the shape of a classic key lock and in the middle was a key hole. On the right side of the buckle was two keys with a red pentagon on the end where one holds it. Spike looked down at the now mysterious but surprisingly cool looking belt.
"Woah, what is this supposed to be?" asked Spike.
"Well, considering we're wearing armor, it's not to hold up any pants. However, I do think I have an idea," said Dragon.
"What do you mean?" suddenly Spike felt a familiar tugging on his arms. Dragon used Spike's right claw to take one of the keys and put it into the keyhole on the belt buckle.
"Well,go on, twist it!" shouted Dragon. Spike wondered where all of this was going, but when he saw the monster starting to get back on it's feet, he instantly scrambled to turn the key. As soon as he did, he heard...
"WEAPON KEY: SWORD" said the mechanical voice that at this point he could only assume was coming from the belt buckle or the belt itself. When Spike proceeded to take out the key, it flashed in his right claw. When the sudden burst of light faded, what was left in Spike's hand was a single edged blade that judging by it's mere size was the same length of his transformed arm. The hilt was black with red ribbon wrapped around it.
"Hm, was hoping for something more explosive but it will do I guess," said Dragon in Spike's mind. The monster started to get back on it's feet and made a mad dash for Spike. But Spike had a new trick up his gauntlets.
KAMEN RIDER DRAKE: EPISODE 2
"Let me say this to start. I'm pretty strong"
The monster took a huge slash at Spike from the right, cutting through one of the trees in doing so. Spike had easily blocked the incoming attack with his apparent new sword...that was transformed from a key...via suddenly appearing golden belt. Thinking lightly about it so far, Spike sighed in his mind and said,
"Yep, this is definitely gonna be a long day," Spike said in his mind.
"Focus!" shouted Dragon also in Spike's mind. The monster continued to wildly slash away several more times, in which Spike blocked each shot with his sword, when Spike saw an opening. Spike took the opportunity to slash at the torso of the beast, making a direct hit. Shouting in pain, the monster stumbled backward, and then began to retreat.
"We can't let it get away this time! Run after it!" Dragon shouted. Spike agreed and made chase to the monster now rapidly dashing through the forest, leaving behind three mouth agape fillies in shock from what they just witnessed...whatever the hay that was.
Meanwhile a few hours later...
To say that Twilight Sparkle was worried was a complete mountain of an understatement. Spike hadn't come back. No one in Ponyville that she asked has seen him all day. On top of it, it was starting to get late, it was going to be night time soon. Twilight started to suspect and fear the worst, beginning to let paranoia sink in. She had enlisted the help of Rainbow Dash to fly around and see if she could spot Spike anywhere. The others were also worried for Spike and what could have possibly caused him to run off in the early morning without so much as a word. Did something happen? Was Spike upset with something? Was he okay? Is he in some sort of danger? The questions wildly danced around in Twilight's head, raging like a powerful storm. Rarity, AppleJack, and PinkiePie were also searching frantically for Spike wherever they could. Fluttershy would have helped, but the mysterious hole in her door made an unsettling feeling for her and she had to fix it.
"Oh Spike, where are you?" Twilight said nearing the point of tears.
Meanwhile, nighttime in the Everfree Forest...
Spike had since transformed back into his original body, feeling kind of weird bouncing between two totally different bodies along with it's armor and unique abilities. Dragon said he would get used to it.
"Dragon, we've been searching for a while, wanna call it a night?" asked Spike starting to get tired.
"Usually I would, but considering there are more idiots in this place who just so happen to prance right into this Tatarus of a forest, we should probably find it and stop it before something else happens," said Dragon matter-of-factly. Spike sighed, unfortunately Dragon had a pretty strong point, they had to stop that thing before it did any more damage. That's when, the monster lying in wait to have it's revenge, dawning a new scare on it's torso, leaped out from it's hiding place making Spike and Dragon jump back. Dragon quickly came up with a plan and started to fly in the opposite direction.
"Spike follow me!" Dragon shouted.
"Don't have to tell me twice!" Spike shouted now running alongside Dragon as fast as his legs could go. The monster was now running after Spike and Dragon swinging down every tree in its way. It was about three o'clock at night or four or midnight even. You tend to lose track of time when you're running for your life through a forest in the middle of nowhere, being chased by a monster that looks like it should belong in Tartarus, and beside you flying is a dragon that has the body of grown up dragon but is about the size of your hand and made of red, black, and silver metal. Yep, I guarantee that you could very likely lose track of time.
Dragon told Spike that they were going trap the monster by leading it into a clearing. When asked how, Dragon said they were going to defeat it in the clearing and then let his power do the rest. Spike would have sarcastically said it wasn't a very clear description, but he was too busy running for his life at the moment.
"We're almost at the clearing Spike! It's just up ahead!"
"What are we gonna do?! Because if you hadn't noticed, THERE IS A GIANT EVIL MONSTER CURRENTLY TRYING TO CHOP US INTO BITS RIGHT NOW!"
"Just remember what I said!"
"I still don't believe you on that you know!"
"Do you really have a choice at the moment?!"
"Grr! Fine let's do it!"
"There jump through into the clearing! I'll do the rest!"
"Alright!" Spike jumped through to into the small field located next to a raging waterfall.
"Please let this work! HENSHIN-RYU-FORM!" Spike had transformed yet again into the Kamen Rider while jumping followed by barrel rolling, into the small clearing. The monster had also followed suit and rampaged into the small clearing. Now was the time to bring this thing down.
"Spike! The sword key!" said Dragon in Spike's mind. Spike proceeded to take one of the two keys on the right side of his belt and proceeding to insert it into the keyhole on the belt buckle, turning it, and pulling it out.
"WEAPON KEY: SWORD," said the mechanical voice. The key then once again transformed into the single edged blade.
"Now Spike! The second one!" shouted Dragon. Spike then realized he didn't know what the second key on his belt realized and came to the conclusion that whatever it was must be the way Dragon said to trap the monster... right? Spike then quickly proceeded to activate the second key while at the same time blocking the monster's first attack with his sword.
"ITEM KEY: PYRO STONE," said the mechanical voice. The key then turned into a pentagon shaped stone with a strange symbol on it.
"A ROCK?!" shouted Spike blocking another blow from the monster.
"The sword Spike! Drag it across the sword!" shouted Dragon. Spike blew of the monster's arm blade and did what Dragon said to do. After doing so, the sword ignited on fire. Two words going through Spike and Dragon's minds,
FINISH HIM!
"RYU-GIRI!" they both shouted. Spike slashed in the air and the fire flew of the blade into a crescent shaped lash of energy. Direct hit! FATALITY! A bright light then engulfed the monster. When it disappeared, Spike's mouth was agape inside his helmet. There was a little bunny on the ground and floating in the air were a ball of orange energy and a ball of black energy. The black ball of energy exploded in a white flash while making a sound that sounded similar to glass shattering. The orange ball of energy then flew directly at Spike, stopping right in front of him, shrinking then landing in his right claw.
"ENERGY ACQUIRED-CONSTRUCTING KEY-CONSTRUCTING COMPLETE-NEW KEY ACQUIRED," said the mechanical voice. Now in Spike's right claw was a brand new key. He proceeded to put the new key on the right side of his belt followed by transforming back to himself and Dragon once again flying out of his chest.
"Well... that escalated quickly," said Dragon.
"At least that one was more explosive," said Spike. They both shared a chuckle. Looking in the direction of where the bunny was, it came up to Spike and started nuzzling him on the leg. It or rather surprisingly a she, was thanking him.
"Let's keep her," said Spike.
"But it just tried to-" Dragon was then cut off by Spike.
"It wasn't her fault, whatever happened to her, we're keeping her."
"Fine, but the little fluff ball better not rampage on us again," said Dragon. Spike picked up the little bunny.
"How about just Fluff," said Spike proudly naming the new addition to their team.
"Fine, the more the merrier I guess on our little adventure, but why not Watage?" said Dragon.
"What?"
"It means fluff."
"In.What.Language?"
"Does.Not.Matter,"said Dragon repeating Spike's tone.
"I think that Fluff is fine. Now let's call it a night," said Spike. Dragon flew into Spike's body and Spike walked home with a now sleeping bunny in his arms. Spike had returned home right around midnight. Twilight was still wide awake, eyes bloodshot at this point from stress and slight crying. When Spike walked through the door she gasped.
"Spike! You're okay!" she galloped up to him.
"Shh!" Spike said, "She's sleeping," looking down with a warm smile at the sleeping bunny in his arms. "I, um, rescued this bunny from the forest, I'm keeping her and naming her Fluff and I will be taking full responsibility for her." Twilight was slightly taken aback by Spike words for multiple reasons. One, was he out trying to rescue a bunny all day? Two, the level of high responsibility and seriousness in his words. Twilight put a her hoof around and with a single tear dripping from her right eye she calmly a quietly said,
"I'm just...glad that you're okay. I'll get a blanket for her to rest on." After the little bunny on a nice,soft blanket, and making Owlicious promise to be nice to their new guest, Twilight and Spike proceeded to go to bed. Once he was certain Twilight was sleeping soundly, Spike snuck downstairs and got a brand new blank journal from the stock and began to write.
And that's where I am now, just hoping that this, whatever this is, will turn out well. But I have a feeling in my gut that this will on hay of a "little adventure".