“Where… oh… must be another vision dream…” Dash commented to herself, seeing Gaim was battling a Rider who somehow looked like he had he had Gaim’s Orange Armor on top of his black and silver skeletal-themed suit, his face mostly black and silver with Gaim’s face between the silver, along with white hair and antennae designed like gold Kanji spelling out 15.
“Fifteen? ...Kota battled him in the past? Why didn’t he tell me?” Dash wondered, as Gaim held out his Musou Saber Naginata, as he was about to load in the Orange Lockseed, a different Lockseed was in his hands. The lock’s main body was a sort of turquoise/pale teal color with the arm being black, but the front was different as it had the helmet of a Rider with red eyes, the helmet the same color as the lock, silver mouth, and a grasshopper motif with fourteen other Riders’ images surrounding it.
“Is this… the Showa Rider Lockseed?” Gaim gawked, as he unlocked it.
=ICHIGOU!=
With that, Gaim inserted the Lockseed into position on his Driver, causing his Orange Arms to vanish while an Armor Part that looked like the Rider helmet in the center of the Lock appeared above him. He then sliced it open, and the Armor Part dropped down onto him.
=ICHIGOU ARMS! WAZA NO ICHIGOU! LET’S GO!=
As Fifteen tried to charge Gaim, the Rider made a leap up before somehow, using the Arms, chomped on Fifteen’s head a couple times, before he kicked Fifteen away, and then a holographic version of Gaim’s symbol appeared alongside that of a red symbol that had a pentagon with a motorcycle in it. They merged before the armor unfolded over Gaim, and the armor looked different from some of the other Armor Part that Dash has seen, as the Rider’s face was still visible on Gaim’s chest and even through Gaim’s eyes, the Arms giving him a sleeker look, and he didn’t have any special weapons. The fight between the two Riders then became incredibly blurred to the point Dash couldn’t make out most of what was going on or being said.
Then, Gaim sliced his Lockseed once.
=ICHIGOU SQUASH!=
“TOH!” Gaim shouted, doing a front flip leap into the air as Fifteen sliced his Lockseed thrice.
=GAIM SPARKING!=
“RIDER KICK~!” Gaim announced, when suddenly, holographic versions of him and another Rider appeared, having the helmet of the Arms Gaim was in, a black suit, silver boots and gloves with two lines on his arms, a green chest, and a red scarf, charged forward, before their energy combined into Gaim’s Rider Kick, hitting Fifteen and knocking him out of his henshin, while destroying his Sengoku Driver.
“Oh… my head…” Dash moaned, blinking her eyes open, seeing she was back in the crystal caverns, “Oh… back here again? Then was that adventure… a dream?”
She then rummaged around for the sign of the adventure that she was gifted… but couldn’t find it anywhere.
“Gomen nasai, Dash-chan.” Kota’s voice spoke. “I only gave you that Lockseed because the situation was dire and you needed the power boost. You’ll have to earn it to keep it.”
“Aw, come on!”
“Rainbow Dash? Rainbow Dash?” she heard Twilight’s voice call out.
“Rainbow Dash?” Sunset’s voice added in.
“Twi? Sunset?” Dash gawked, turning in their direction, and she saw her two friends, before rushing over to pull them into a hug. “I missed you so much!”
“Wait! Which Rainbow Dash are you?” Twilight demanded to know.
“The native Dash,” she answered, holding up her Sengoku Driver and Orange Lockseed with her wings, in response, Twilight smiled and pulled her into a hug, “Ack… okay… you’re squeezing the air outta me…”
Sunset giggled at this, and then pried Twilight off of Rainbow Dash. “Come on you two, the others are worrying,”
“So all that happened while I was in the other Equestria?” Dash asked, having been informed of what happened.
“Yep! I even got my own Driver!” Pinkie giggled, showing off the Sengoku Driver with the faceplate looking like a sort of Greek gladiator helmet.
“So did I,” Applejack added, showing off her own Sengoku Driver, showing her faceplate had a sort of a helmet design similar to a bandit from the Old West.
“Wow… so, what was the other me like anyhow?” Dash asked. “I mean, I did meet her when we had that final battle with Fifteen and the other guy, but still, what was the other me like?”
“Pretty much like you, except she seemed a bit fangirl-ish,” Rarity informed.
“And she flirted with me a few times…” Twilight informed, a faint blush appearing on her muzzle.
“And you liked it,” Sunset teased.
“Sunset…” Twi groaned with a slight blush, making Dash giggle.
“And the other versions of you were all pretty cool,” Dash informed.
Meanwhile, in Helheim, Micchy was seen knocked out on the ground, his Genesis Driver still around his waist, while nearby there was something that looked heavily damaged, which looked like a trashed red, black, and silver cellphone with a large black and silver belt. Micchy began to stir a little bit, before he glanced over to see it.
“Stupid Rainbow Dash… I thought one of her was annoying… but I just HAD to get my butt kicked by TWO of her!” Micchy growled angrily.
He struggled to his feet before he glanced over to the side to see a Sengoku Driver, and while it looked faded, the Rider Indicator look all too familiar which also had the gladiator motif, but the lime green helmet and silver faceplate with spikes and scars. He chuckled as he managed to walk over and pick it up.
“Well… it doesn’t matter how many of her I need to fight… I’ll now have an unstopable ally on my side!” Micchy chuckled, before he began to laugh evilly.
“Hey Kota… mind me asking what that memory you showed me was all about?” Dash asked.
“That one’s a bit of a long story, that I don’t remember everything about. But I’ll try my best to tell you. I first recall this mess happening when I met the Tokkyugers, whose suits you may’ve recognized in the other world. They helped my fight some baddies called the Underground Badan Empire, but when they battled a kaihin of theirs, Fifteen appeared before them, but they were helped by the first three Kamen Riders, Ichigou, Nigou and V3.”
“V3? Why not Sangou?”
“...nobody really knows why. Anyways, after that, everything seemed to go okay, the kaijin were defeated, and then the Tokkyugers left for their own adventures. Then, suddenly, the Badan Empire re-emerged, and thanks to Fifteen, they caused Ichigou and his buddies, the Showa Kamen Riders, to fight me and my allies, the Heisei Kamen Riders,” Kota continued.
“Showa… Heisei? What does that mean?”
“Again… nobody really knows. I even asked about it, but never got an answer. After that, Ichigou, along with Nigou, V3, Riderman, X, Amazon and Black came to attack me and some of the remaining Heisei Riders, Wizard, OOO, Joker, Decade, Kiva and Faiz, battled. After a while, I was the only one left, and Badan attacked again. But luckily, I was backed up by ZX and we freed all of the other Kamen Riders for a final showdown with Badan. But… after that, Ichigou insisted we fight once more, and it ended in a tie.”
“Wow… so anyway, what happened to that Lockseed, the Showa Lockseed?”
“It faded after I used it, but then it somehow came back because Fifteen used it in that mess earlier.”
“Yea…” Dash nodded. She simply began to think when she suddenly noticed she was getting odd looks from other ponies around her. “What? Don’t you ever talk to a voice in your head?”
In response to this, some ponies began to move their tables away from Rainbow Dash. This caused Dash to raise an eyebrow before groaning annoyed. “Can’t a pony go and get a smoothie in peace? Speaking of which, WHERE’S MY SMOOTHIE?!”
“Here you go ma’am, one orange and peach smoothie,” a waitress said.
“Thanks,” Dash thanked before recognizing the waitress, being a pegasus mare with a sort of green-blue colored fur, an orange mane, and a Cutie Mark with a white lightning bolt and three stars. “Lightning Dust?!”
“Sup?” the pegasus, Lighting, responded.
“...What’re you doing here? I thought you were signed up with the Wonderbolts,” Dash noted.
“I got kicked out, thanks to you, remember? Anyway, after that, I’ve been working at this smoothie place,” Lightning informed. “Enjoy,”
Dash gave a glare at the pegasus and began to slurp her smoothie down.
“Who was that?”
“Don’t ask,” Dash whispered to Kota, continuing to enjoy her smoothie, as Lightning gave her a small glare from back inside, and from nearby, Micchy (who was back in unicorn form) watched this occur and couldn’t help but let out a small chuckle.
That night, Lightning was walking through the streets of Ponyville by herself, when suddenly, she was surrounded by white magic aura, and dragged into an alley.
“Good day,” a voice chuckled, making Lightning look around frantically.
“Who’s there?! SHOW YOURSELF!” she snapped, as the source of the voice, Micchy in unicorn form, appeared before her.
“You are Lightning Dust, a rival to Rainbow Dash, correct?” he asked.
“And who wants to know?”
“How would you like to get revenge on her for you getting kicked out of the Wonderbolt Training Academy?” Micchy offered, causing Lightning to begin to think.
“I would love that,” Lightning smirked as Micchy lowered her to the ground, releasing her from his magic, before bringing the buckle he found earlier in Helheim before her in the same magic.
The following morning, Dash let out an annoyed sigh, looking at the letter for a challenge.
“Man… why does she want to race?” Dash wondered.
“Why does this seem kinda familiar…” Kota wondered.
“I’ll ask you that later, Kota. Right now, I gotta take care of this,” Dash sighed, flying off to the location given to her in the letter, which was by the main entrance of Ponyville.
“Hello Rainbow Dash,” Lightning smirked, trotting over.
“Lightning Dust… I thought we put this rivalry behind us,” Dash groaned.
“We have. But… a little revenge is in order,” Lightning admitted, as she took out the Sengoku Driver.
“Revenge? ...Really?” Dash sighed annoyed, but then her eyes looked to the Driver and she gawked for a moment. After a few seconds, she rubbed her eyes. “Nope… I’m not seeing things.”
“Yep. This won’t be a simple race between us, Dash. But a battle between Kamen Riders!” Ligtning Dust announced, putting the Sengoku Driver on as the faceplate transformed to have a pony profile of its original form.
“Uh oh… I got a bad feeling about this,” Kota gulped as Lightning pulled out a durian themed Lockseed with the code “LS-12” on it.
“Henshin.”
=DUR~IAN!=
Dash gasped when a metal durian came out from a crack while Lightning set the Lockseed into position on her driver.
=LOCK ON!=
Then, a guitar solo began to play from Lightning's Driver, and after a moment, she sliced the Lockseed open.
=*Guitar Riff*!=
=DURIAN ARMS!=
The durian then plopped down over Lightning Dust, forming a lime green suit with lavender metal accents, all of them spiked, before the durian opened up, revealing her helmet, which had a red mohawk like a stereotypical gladiator.
=MISTER~ DANGEROUS!=
“Wouldn’t it be like… Madame Dangerous?” Dash asked.
“There’s no time for that! Henshin already!”
“Right,” Dash nodded, rushing to get her driver on as Lightning held up two broadswords with a durian theme, “HENSHIN!”
=ORANGE!=
=LOCK ON!=
=SEIYA!=
=ORANGE ARMS!=
=HANAMICHI ON STAGE!=
Thus Gaim stared down the new Rider, before charging forward, trying to attack her with her two swords. However, the durian Rider countered her easily with her blades, the Durinoko, even forcing her close to the ground at one point.
“Has anypony seen Rainbow Dash?” Twilight asked.
“No,” came a unanimous response.
“Uh… I saw her… said something about a challenge…” Amethyst informed.
“Any idea who challenged her?” Twi asked.
The young filly began to think, trying to remember. “Not sure… but I saw a pony holding a Sengoku Driver earlier. Likely that’s who.”
It wasn’t long before the ponies rushed towards the entrance of Ponyville, all with their drivers across their waists, ready to henshin, with Twilight, Rarity, Sunset and Amethyst holding their normal Lockseeds while Applejack held a Lock that was of an apple that had the code “LS-18” and Pinkie held a Lock that was of a passionfruit with the code “LS-19”.
They soon stopped, seeing Gaim taking on a durian-themed Rider, and getting overwhelmed by her.
“Everypony, let’s do this thing. Henshin!” Twilight announced.
=BANANA!=
“Henshin!”
=PEACH ENERGY!/STRAWBERRY!/KURU~MI!/BUDOU!=
“Henshin!”
=APPLE/PASSIONFRUIT!=
With that, the mares hooked up the Lockseeds onto their respective drivers.
=LOCK ON!=
=COME ON!/SODA!/HERE WE GO!/*Guitar Riff*!/HAI~!/YEE-HAW!/*Harp Chord*=
With that, the fruits dropped onto the ponies, with a violet passionfruit falling onto Pinkie, and a golden/red apple falling onto AJ, both forming a violet bodysuit giving off a greek vibe with a kimono look and a suit with an appearance similar to a cowboy/cowgirl in orange respectively. Underneath the fruits, AJ’s helmet formed, revealing a lone ranger-like mask, and when the slice of the apple came down, it formed an apple slice visor along with an apple-themed stetson, her armor unfolding to reveal the armor looked more like a cowboy's suit, and she wielded an apple-themed axe that looked too big for her to lift, with a single hand.
With Pinkie meanwhile, her body armor being violet, and the armor on top resembling a passionfruit, giving off a greek kind of vibe to it, sorta mixed with a kimono, with the helmet resembling sorta similar to Gridon’s with a flower necklace near the top of it and the visor being a sort of dark yellow color to resemble the inside of a passionfruit, not to mention that the weapons she had included a Musou Saber along with a passionfruit-themed war fan.
“Twilight, minna,” Gaim smiled.
“Who’s this?” Knuckle wondered.
“I’m Lightning Dust, Rainbow Dash’s eternal rival, and now, Kamen Rider Bravo!” The durian Rider proudly declared, attempting to knock Gaim down.
"That doesn't look good," Marika noted.
Meanwhile, back in Helheim, Duke and Zangetsu were doing some Lockseed collecting for the new Gaim Riders, with Duke currently having a blueberry Lockseed with the code “LS-16”, a blackberry Lockseed with the code “LS-15”.
"Let's hope these will help the Riders against Zangetsu-Shin," Duke muttered.
“Yea, I think so,” Zangetsu added, plucking out a Lockseed with a kiwi on it and the code "LS-13" and a mango lock with the code "LS-11".
Not long after, Duke plucked a Lockseed and it turned into a watermelon-themed lock with the code "LS-10".
“Yosh… I think this is enough,” Duke informed. “Come on, let’s get them to Gaim and her friends,”
“Alright,” Zangetsu nodded.
(As the scene ended, Gaim’s current Lockseeds, Orange, Pine, Ichigo and Donguri, came across the screen and closed, with the Gaim Symbol behind the zipper.)