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// Ch3 Metamorphosis 
// Story: Kamen Rider a New Breed 
// by raven618 
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Twilight knew that her teleportation spell was faster than walking, but there were times when the spell was too dangerous, teleporting to an unknown location in building filled with what could quite possibly be a murderous monster definitely qualified. So Twilight and Spike found themselves running to the front entrance of the castle, the latter wearing a pot and holding a rolling pin which he somehow grabbed as they passed the kitchen.

In only a few moments they had reached the source of the crash, one of the windows in their library was all over the floor. "Ok don't panic, we have an intruder. That dosen't mean that it's a monster from another dimension."

Spike was holding the rolling pin out in front of him like a sword. "Uh yeah, just an intruder in our home in the middle of the night. N-Nothing to be scared of." One could almost feel his teeth chattering.

Then something started crawling on the walls, or that's what it sounded like.

"Tw-Twilight, what is that?"

Twilight had no idea and was too scared to comfort the young dragon. They didn't have to wait long to find out, as a large figure dropped too the ground in front of them.

It bore the resemblance to a spider, but had the shape of a pony. Actually it looked exactly like the creature she saw in her dream on the train. Having seen it before didn't make it any less terrifying.

Twilight positioned herself between the creature and Spike. She addressed the creature, "What are you?" She had a bad feeling that she already knew, but wanted to here it from the pony's mouth.

The creature made a sound which could have been laughing and said, "I am a Kaijin, the future rulers of your world, but I suppose you just need to be concerned with the fact that I will be the last thing you ever see."

Twilight took a step backwards, "Oh, well in that case," Twilight then lowered her head to the Kaijin and cast a stunning spell, "RUN!"

Levitating her assistant onto her back the Princess proceeded to make like Tartarus out of the library. She also received an adrenalin rush from the unholy scream that came from behind her.

Twilight made her way to the kitchen where she and Spike hid in an empty cupboard in the island in the middle of the room. Silently thanking Celestia that she never got around to stocking her kitchen, she put her hoof over Spike's mouth so to make sure that they didn't make a sound.

"Oh princess," came a voice from the hallway, "please don't run. It will only make things worse for you and your subjects."

Twilight decided to play for time and cast a spell that would let her continue to speak with the Kaijin while still remaining hidden.

"You seem to know who I am, but how come I don't remember ever hearing of you before?" the princess's voice seemed to come from everywhere, and yet it was far away as well. The spider decided to play her little game and began to search the room.

"Mostly because we have just arrived on your little world. Oh, but that still leaves questions unanswered, doesn't it?"

"Yes, it does. So I ask again, how did you know I was a princess?" Twilight, seeing that the spider was moving to the far end of the kitchen, was slowly moving herself and her assistant out of the room.

"Oh we have our methods," he replied sinisterly.

"Alright keep your secrets, so how about answering the question of a dead mare, why me? Celestia is more important, Cadence is more isolated, and Luna wouldn't cause that much of a disturbance." Twilight was almost to the door now.

"Young alicorn you are a fool. In the first place; you live alone in this huge castle, so technically you are the most isolated. And in the second place; that is not how we operate, we aren't terrorists or assassins. We're just evil, plain and simple."

The spider then reached his clawed hoof into the cupboard where the two had been hiding yet found it empty.

"Then I know what I have to do." Twilight said from the doorway as she dropped her spell. She then proceeded to run out of the kitchen, where she had been standing was a pile of webbing launched from the mouth of the spider.

Spike was clinging on to Twilight as she ran to, the throne room? "Uh, Twilight I hope you have a plan. Hopefully one that doesn't involve us getting eaten."

"Yes Spike, I just hope I don't regret it."

Entering the room, Twilight immediately began searching the thrones for the device. "There it is," she said once she reached Rarity's. She grabbed the device and another larger device that she hadn't seen before.

"What is that?" Spike asked.

"Our ticket out." Twilight said. She placed the device to her midsection like Decade had done, a strap wound its way around her waist like a belt, and nothing else.

"Um, now what?" Spike asked nervously. "Well," Twilight started, but she stopped once she realized- "You don't know how to use it, do you?"

Twilight and Spike's faces turned pale as they heard the slithery voice behind them. Turning to the door the found themselves in the three eyed gaze of the spider pony. "I don't know how you got the buckle and Deca-deck, but at this point it doesn't matter. I think i'll kill the reptile first, they say nothing hurts a mother more."

Twilight once more positioned herself between the spider and Spike, ready to sacrifice herself for- wait, what did he call the second device?

She grabbed the device which had somehow attached itself to the belt and found it opened like a book only instead of pages inside she found a deck of cards. The one on top of the deck bore a striking resemblance to that stallion, Decade. Then she felt the top of the buckle and found a slot about the size of the cards. Being the star pupil of Celestia, it only took her a millisecond to put two and two together.

"Well I've only got one chance to find out. Henshin!" Twilight didn't know what made her say that of what it meant, but it seemed to make sense, and made the monster stop in it's tracks. She put the card she held in her magic into the slot in the buckle and remembering how Decade had seemed to pull on the buckle she pushed on the side and felt the middle part slide sideways.

"Kamen Ride D-D-D-Decade!"

The kaijin finally broke out of the trance and decided to attack before the transformation was complete, but was hit in the head as nine card like apparatuses hit it in the face.

Spike looked on as his older sister turned into some kind of superhero knight. She wore the same armor that Decade had been wearing, only she also wore a mask that resembled the one she had as Matter-horn in Spike's comic book, except it had green goggles and nine pinkish-red bars across the facepiece.

Twilight hadn't felt like this since the battle with Tirek, She felt like could fight a pack of timberwolves single-hoofed. The spider looked on at one who he had thought long dead. "You won't kill me, it would be against your ethics to kill another sentient species."

Twilight looked at the spider kaijin with a solid unblinking stare, "True, but you attacked me and my little brother, so killing you would be in self defense. And as to the subject of you being of a sentient species, the ability to speak dose not make you intelligent, so I feel no remorse in destroying you!"* With that she lunged at the kaijin.

Twilight had never gotten any lessons in hoof-to-hoof combat; she'd only seen Rainbow do it a few times and mostly used her magic during the Changling Invasion. Yet now it came so easily: punch, kick cross, punch, like she had been trained to do it her whole life. Right up until she got hit square in the jaw.

"Ahh! ow!"

Twilight backed off and moved her jaw back and forth a bit. "Well at least it still works. Now, let's see what else this suit can do."

She reached back into the deck and pulled out another card; this one depicting a golden mask. She opened the buckle and placed the second card into the slot.

"Kamen Ride A-A-Agito!"

Twilight felt a warm glow come from the belt, and realized that her armor had changed to a suit similar to the one on the card. She wore a gold cheastplate with gold armor pieces over her fore and hindlegs, and silver shoulder plates. Her mask had red goggles and a gold crown like ornament resembling a beetles' jaws.

She struck out again, this time she felt she was more agile but the armor was actually quite heavier. She also found she was hitting with more force then before. "Well, I suppose that's an improvement."

She continued her attack, driving the spider to an open window in the hallway, facing the Everfree forest. She got caught in the ribs by a left hook from the Kaijin, but she was still able to knock the creature off it's feet and was able to pin it against the window sill.

"I am going to give you one last chance," Twilight said to her opponent, "back off and leave us alone, or fall." She pressed down on the Kaijin's neck as she said this.

The spider simply laughed, "You fool, you still don't get it. I'm not trying to kill you because I have too, I'm doing it because I want to. I'm just plain evil!"

With that the spider spat silk at the Agito doppelganger, blinding her for a moment. Twilight's hold on the Kaijin loosened, which resulted in her getting kicked to the floor.

Spike had been keeping a distance since the battle began, trying to understand anything that was going on. Once Twilight was on the ground he realized she needed help so he did the one thing he was good at, he breathed emerald fire at the creature. He didn't hit it hard, but it still caught fire.

Twilight used her magic to clean the silk off her mask and attacked the now flaming Kaijin. With One buck that would have made Applejack proud, she sent the the screaming, giant spider into a slow, sideways fall towards the Everfree.

Twilight felt her body go slack as fatigue washed over her. Spike came up to steady her, once he did the armor seemed to dissolve from her body. The two of them walked in silence to Twilight's room.

Both of them too tired to make sense of anything that just happened they decided to call it a night. They both just fell onto the bed, Twilight holding Spike close to her like she had done when he was a hatchling. There they almost immediately fell into a, thankfully, dreamless sleep.