After a lot of explaining of what happened during last night, Doctor Horse entered and said that Ash's state should be stable enough for him to wander about. As long as he does not use up too much of his energy for about 1 hour or so, he will be able to function properly. They were all relieved and happy to hear that information. So, after they have paid the bill, they helped Ash get up until he could fully stand. When they have left the hospital, they immediately went to Twilight's castle to study Ash's sudden and powerful energy last night. Since he was still weak from the battle, he used Pinkie's gift as a temporary walking cane. He thanked Pinkie for the gift and promised to take good care of it, as long as he does not break it apart during another battle.
When they arrived at the castle, Twilight asked Spike to send a letter to Princess Celestia about the brawl during Nightmare Night. After Spike sent the letter through breathing green fire onto it, not much to Ash's amazement, Twilight suggested that they head to the laboratory room to conduct some tests on Ash. The boy thought that it was too much because he did not feel like doing it anymore. Everypony else agreed, but Twilight said that if they do not solve this mystery quick, then who knows how Ash will handle a second battle against another monster. But, her friends reasoned with her and the final result was that they were gonna have to wait until Princess Celestia and Luna arrive.
A few minutes later..........
So, The Mane 6 and Ash were all waiting in the throne room, some of them being bored to death and some of them taking their time to deal with.....stuff. For example. Ash was testing his new staff-like weapon by twirling it and doing offensive and defensive moves and explained to Pinkie what it actually was and what it was capable of performing. Pinkie only knew some info about this staff, but with Ash already knowing how it works, the surprise has been turned all the way down. Rarity was commenting on the staff and asked Pinkie Pie how she acquired such a fighting instrument. And Pinkie answered for her that she got it from her father, Igneous Rock Pie who received it as a gift from HIS father, Fel Spar Granite Pie who got it from HIS father, IG Lava Pie who retrieved it from an ancient temple named "The Temple Of A Hundred Gurongi", which was literally guarded by a hundred Gurongi. Ash believed her, but it was difficult for Rarity to swallow.
Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash was reading the new Daring Do book; "Daring Do and The Secret Force of Yggdrasill". Ash explained to her that Yggdrasill actually exists in the Kamen Rider universe and it was not a 'secret force' but rather an evil corporation. Rainbow Dash thanked him poorly, still reading the book. Ash accepted the thanks anyway and continued trying out the staff. Applejack, however, was dealing with Twilight on how the testing is going to affect Ash and his status. Twilight explained and they will just do the small and somewhat easy tests. Applejack was glad and agreed with her idea. Fluttershy was playing with a little mouse that came in last night.
On the spur of the moment, the brace of double doors opened to reveal the princesses with saddlebags full with books and such. "Hey, Tia!" Ash called out. Celestia blushed because Ash called her by her nickname that Luna came up with.
"Hello, Ash. Twilight," Celestia called to Twilight, who immediately came forward. "I believe I have something that you will take an interest of." She levitated two books out of the bag and showed the covers. The first one was the same book that the group used to summon Ash in the first place. The second one had the same cover, but it presented some kind of logotype.
"Hey," Twilight spoke. "that's the same book that we used to bring Ash here. Hard to believe that I forgot about it."
"Yeah," Rainbow Dash interrupted. "'forgot'." Twilight ignored her and continued.
"But, what's that one?" She pointed to the second book.
"Well, funny you should ask." Princess Luna said. "Tia and I actually found this book when one of our royal guards was on library guard duty. When he reported back to us, we found this strange book that almost looks like the one you found." Luna knew Celestia was expecting someone else, but she let her hopes up too high. "So, we got curious and when we got your letter, we decided to bring both of them."
"Okay, I see where you're going with this," Ash said. If it means getting him back home sooner, he would better tag along for the ride. "But, where exactly did the first book wander off to after I was summoned?"
"Well," Princess Celestia started. "We ironically found it back at the castle on the roof. That must have been one hay of a storm." She saw that Ash had a proud expression on his face. "Why are you making that face, Ash?"
"Wow, that was one of the most normal things you've ever said. I'm actually proud of you." He has only heard Celestia say non-royal stuff in some episodes.
"Um, thank you. Anyway, Twilight," Twilight turned to her. "I think testing out Ash's strange abilities is swell, but I think doing the tests in the laboratory is a little too 'much'."
"What do you mean?" Twi asked.
"What Celestia means Twilight," Luna said. "is that we have a more classic and simple solution to calculate how Ash's powers work."
They all looked at each other before looking at the princesses. "How exactly?" Ash asked.
After the princesses explained their idea, everypony/human/dragon seemed confused, but since they were talking to the princesses, they did not need to argue so much. So, they went along with them. The princesses said they were going to need to go to Sweet Apple Acres for it. AJ asked them why they were heading to that location. Princess Luna said that they will have to wait until they have reached there. During their travel, Rarity insisted on keeping an eye out for the staff, for safe keeping. Once they have arrived at their destination, they already noticed that Applebloom and Big Macintosh were setting up some sort of training course in the open field on the right side of the farm. Although Big Macintosh was doing most of the work, Applebloom was trying to help by pushing haystacks with red target circles on them. Big Mac giggled at his sister's efforts. Then, the two saw Applejack and her friends and waved to them.
"Hey, Applejack!" Applebloom called out.
"Hey there, sis!" Applejack walked up to her little sibling and hugged quickly. "So, what're y'all doin' here?"
"Oh, right! Well, Derpy sent us a mail from Princess Celestia that said we needed to build a practice course in our yard! Right, Big Mac?"
"Eeyup." Was all that Macintosh said to reply.
"Wow," Twilight said. "you guys really did a good job setting that up."
The training course only had items with targets on them, probably for offensive training. The items included were just scarecrows, stacks of hay and for some odd reason,..........a giant bowling pin?
"Uh, where'd you get the giant bowling pin from?" RD asked them.
"NoOoOopony knows." An elderly pony said, popping in front of Rainbow Dash out of nowhere.
This elderly pony had a light lime green coat, a light gray mane, and tail, wore a scarf-like whatever that is, (I don't know what it is called.) and an apple pie for her Cutie Mark. Her name was Granny Smith.
Granny Smith giggled. "Hoo, boy! You should've seen the look on yer' face there, little missy!" Then, she noticed Ash Griffin. "Well, who's this tall fellar?"
"Oh, that's Ash Griffin." Applejack said.
"Well, nice to meet ya', Mr. Griffin."
"Yeah, it's nice to meet you too." They shook hands/hooves before Granny Smith asked him something.
"Say, why's your last name 'Griffin'? Is one of yer' parents one of those fancy researchers or somethin?"
"*Sigh*. Dèjá vu." The human boy thought.
"That's what ah' said!" Applejack said, thus making her and Granny Smith laugh. They heard Princess Celestia cough and stopped.
"Well, now that we are here," Celestia said. "we can commence your test on the training grounds. Then, all of them went to the field to get started.
When they have reached the course, Ash saw that the course was just for offensive training and such. Ash was really scared. He was not certain if he could do the same thing he did last night and he was afraid that he would accidentally hurt somepony. Or even worse than that.
"Well, here we are!" Granny Smith shouted out loud.
"So, what do I do first?" Ash asked.
"Well, first we need to pick ya' a good target," Applejack suggested. Then, she spotted a nearby scarecrow and chose it. "How 'bout this one?"
"Well, it's good enough. Ash, please stand over there." Luna ordered. She levitated the scarecrow 6 meters from Ash's spot and placed the pole into the soil. "There."
"Okay, what now?" Ash asked once more.
"Alright, Ash." Princess Celestia. "All you have to do is perform what you managed last night. Although I know you don't know how to exactly do it like last time, a certain 'teacher' of mine once taught me how."
"Okay, I'll try. But, if this doesn't work, then I don't know what does." The ponies sat on a short row of stadium seats that Pinkie brought, eating their own snacks and beverages.
Then, Celestia began to teach him every step of what she knew. "Now, let us begin. First, you must enter a combat stance." Ash did exactly that. "Then, you must picture what the enemy seems like. It doesn't matter what enemy it is, just do it." Then, Ash closed his eyes and envisioned his enemy. But, instead of what he was going for, he instead pictured an enemy he knew also. It had three hexagonal eyes attached to each other on the face, insect-like mandibles, sharp claws for hands, two giant red antennae, some blue smudges on its black arms, a cape with the texture of a spider web, red line-like textures on his body and black legs. "Now, you will feel some anger and hatred flowing into your body, but also justice and good." And she was right, he did feel all of these matters. "Okay, now that we have completed all of those steps, now try to release all of that energy through pwerful physical contact. For instance, try to think of the first attack move you know." Then, the first attack he thought of was.......
"I see," Ash said quietly.
"Brilliant, " Celestia said. "Now, fill that attack with all of your energy as much as you can and finally, unleash the attack onto your target!" Ash breathed repeatedly, opened up his eyes and suddenly ran towards the dummy and screamed not with fear, but with justice. The ponies "Oooh-ed" at this and waited for his attack. Then, Ash jumped up high and when he fell back down, he opened his right palm, raised it,
"RIDER CHOP!!"
, and brought it back down to the dummy and did a "downward chopping" motion that sliced through the entire thing in two with just his bare hands! And in slow motion, after he landed, he stood up, turned around and walked forward to the group. He could recognize the proud smile on Celestia's face, which made him smile a bit also. "Well done, Ash. You have completed your first lesson."
"Thank you, Celestia. You have instructed me well." Ash and Celestia laughed a little before the group walked to Ash.
"Wow, Ash!" Twilight cheered. "That was amazing! I mean, it wasn't the same thing you did last night, but nevertheless, that was cool!"
"Yeah!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "Although the dummy didn't explode or anything, that was still wicked! But, then again, explosions are always cool." And because of her big mouth, the dummy exploded all of the sudden into little pieces!! "What the......?"
"It kinda takes a while for the enemy to explode after you use a semi-finisher on it," Ash explained.
Meanwhile.........
Momotaros had to deal with three pesky fillies last night on Nightmare Night and got shooed away by a Gurongi who he called Diaper-Bat. He should not have done that. After recovering from his injuries (again), he climbed up a nearby and dark house roof to remain concealed and observe the fight with a perfect view. And today, he was observing the boy doing some training and what not. He completely saw it all from the tree branch that belonged to a specifically planted tree behind the row of seats. He just witnessed the boy's attack and explosion. "Okay, now THAT is what I call 'awesome'!" Suddenly, a giant blue, swirling portal appeared above them and spat out The Master Of Chaos himself, who fell, but landed and did a triple backflip in mid-air before landing on the surface once more. "Ta-da!"
"Dude, you totally stole my stunt!" Pinkie yelled.
"U mad, girl?" Discord mocked. They both stared into each other's eyes furiously before laughing out loud. "So, what's going on here?"
"Discord," Celestia called him.
"Oh, if it isn't my old friend, Tia!" Discord gave her a cat hug, which made her blush a little and she broke the hug.
"Well, Discord," Luna said. "Celestia was just teaching Ash on how to attack a target." She pointed to the burnt pieces of what used to be the dummy.
"But, doesn't he know how to do that already? Y'know," He popped up on Celestia's mane as a tiny version of himself. "considering he fought that nasty bat monster last night."
"And how did you exactly know?" Rarity asked. Discord was about to answer her, but Ash interrupted him.
"Lemme' guess, you've read the past chapter, didn't you?"
"Well, yes, actually. And how did YOU know? Hm?" He said, appearing as his normal self and poking Ash's nose with his claw. Ash swiped his claw away.
"Seriously, am I the only on this planet that gets you?" All of them confusedly nodded their heads. "Yeah, I thought so. In any case, why are you even here?"
"Oh, that's right!" He pulled out the Ghost Driver and the pair of spectacles. "I've found these items in my house and to be honest, I have no idea what these are. Well, I mean I don't know what this belt thing is." Ash quickly recognized the spectacles.
"Hey, those are my glasses!" Discord looked at the specs.
"Yours?" Discord, Tia, and Luna asked.
"Yeah, I've completely forgotten about them." He grabbed his glasses out of Discord's hold and put them onto his face. But, when he did, all he could see were multiple blurs. "What the? Why can't I see anything?" He tested something and when he removed the glasses, he could see clearly. He never even noted that before. "It's like I can see better WITHOUT my glasses. How strange."
"Hm," Discord thought while stroking his chin with his paw. "Well, it seems that you coming here has somehow cured your blindness."
"And?"
".......That's all I got." Ash sighed. "Oh, and I also found this little fellow." He grabbed the Eyecon out of his makeshift back pocket.
"Hey, that's the same Eyecon that sent me here!" Ash finally found the little punk, but he still does not cognize how to return home.
"Oh, you mean little Multi here?" All of them looked befuddled.
"You named that little eyeball thing 'Multi'?" Twilight asked.
"Well, it fits with his ability to change into different versions of himself. However," He poofed up as a tiny him onto the staff that was being carried by Rarity on her back, "he alleged he has more abilities than any other Eyecon and not just because he can change into different variants of them."
"I know this is a bit ahead of other questions, but how come?" Rarity said, still irritated by Discord cleaning his feet on the top of the staff.
"Well, for example, he stated that he can actually trap not only spirits from Ash's home planet but also ancient souls in Equestria as well." He went back to normal and stood on the ground once more. The ponies were confused about the "ancient souls" part, but Ash was the most shocked about the subject that Discord brought up. He felt like his bones and muscles instantly froze up from it and he was speechless. But, he had one thing on his mind.
"Wait," Ash said and thought at the same time. "if that little Eyecon can trap different types of Parka Ghosts in Equestria, then that must mean............" Ash's eyes went completely wide when he realized that he can actually contain the souls of ancient Equestrian heroes. But, Princess Luna decided to ask a question about this topic.
"Um, pardon me, Discord," Luna said. "but how do you exactly know this and how in Equestria does it actually work? I mean, I have seen several strange anomalies before, but this is by far the strangest." Luna had never heard such a wacky story like this except for that one time during Hearts And Hooves Day when they were only 8 and 6 years old. Tia told her a fictitious tale about a foal who will hug any female filly he lays his eyes on.
"Well,.........................."
Due to the author being too indolent to write the rest of this scene because he's too busy with other stuff, we'll just skip to the next scene where Discord takes them back to the castle to teach Ash how to REALLY fight when in a brawl while discussing about everything they needed to know about the KR universe. When they arrived, Discord turned one of Twilight's empty castle rooms into a dense forest where Ash will be fighting one of the most memorable and first enemies to ever appear in Kamen Rider Ghost, the Yari Ganma from episode 1. Ash questioned Discord about how he was going to see the Ganma, considering he was not dead or at least a ghost. Luckily, Discord made Ash able to see any Kamen Rider enemy by merely a snap of a claw, to Ash's relief. The forest was able to let a large quantity of sunlight into its milieu, but not overly much. The ponies all had front row seats and watched as Ash was battling the Ganma with such difficulty because this was only his second battle against an enemy who can attack and defend itself.
As we skip more to the final scene of the fight, we can witness Ash was covered with scars during battle with this Ganma. Like any other villain, he used negativity against Ash, but Ash already knew what his plan was. And now we witness as Ash is about to attempt Ghost's finisher without the belt, considering he has already done it. The others thought this was a dangerous and irresponsible plan, but Discord could not have cared less and did it anyhow.
"Now, fillies, gentlecolts and gentlemares!" Discord shouted out while wearing a referee costume. "We will witness the one and only, Ash Griffin, perform the amazing and stunning, OMEGA DRIVE FINISHEEEEEEEEEER!!!!!!!" All ponies covered their ears because of the window shattering cry performed by Discord. "Oops, guess I just don't know my own voice's strength. Now, let's continue!!!" Discord disappeared into thin air, leaving a good view for the ponies to watch the ending.
Ash raised his right index and middle fingers in the air, brought them back down slowly, "I might just be a human boy.....", then he did a triangular shape with his hands, therefore creating a triangle of bright orange surrounding the shape. Suddenly, a giant eye logo appeared behind him, illuminating very bright orange light with the KRG logo being the pupil. The eye had many different strange language markings on it. Yari did not want this, so he charged forward with his naginata pointed towards the boy, hoping that he can stop Ash from performing his final move. "......, but my life is gonna burn bright!!"
DAI KAIGAN!
ORE! OMEGA DRIVE!!
But, that hope will not pay off as Ash's right leg and foot began illuminating orange, spiritual luminosity, even though he did not possess the belt on his waist, which was still being kept guard (sort of) by Discord. And just as the Ganma was about to stab his weapon into Ash's chest, the boy quickly jumped up and slammed his right leg directly into Yari's chest. The creature's Parka Ghost immediately ejected while the creature himself exploded out black ink-like liquids out until he blew up himself. All ponies were awestruck by the execution, even Discord. And after the explosion, a yari spear dropped onto the bare grass along with its Ganma Eyecon, which shattered into nothing. Ash landed on the ground also but on his feet gracefully.
Ash could not be more skill trained and happier. He had just performed one of the most amazing and awe-striking moments ever done in Equestrian history. Even his smile could reveal his happiness and delight. And even though he gained a lot of injuries and not much experience with combat, it was totally worth it. He could also notice that the ponies/dragon/draconequus were all astonished. Then, Ash walked towards the group, who were heading towards him also. They besieged him with questions and compliments until Princess Celestia ordered them to back away.
"Wow, Ash," Celestia said. "You handled that 'Ganma' more professionally and more skillfully than I predicted." Princess Celestia had her doubts before, but with how Ash defeated the enemy, she could not be more surprised and proud. "How did you know how to defeat the Yari Ganma?"
"Well, as I always say," Ash began to explain. "'you won't know how to overcome your enemy without witnessing its first defeat'." Everypony looked confused, so Ash tried a more "simple" way of explaining. "It means that since I've already watched how it was first defeated, I thought I could reenact the whole scene. It just takes some patience and a lot of thinking to succeed." They all "Oh-ed" and understood now.
But, no one noticed that the spear had a sort of poorly knitted short cape wrapped around the handle until Spike, with his hilariously short size, saw it in the corner of his eye. He turned around and walked towards it. When he picked it up, he examined and saw that it was just some regular sheet. But, why would a short cape be wrapped around a weapon when it was not before? He had this question on his mind, so he showed it to Ash.
"Hey, Ash," Spike called to Ash, who turned to Spike. "Did you notice this cape was wrapped around the Ganma's weapon?" Ash walked forwards and bent down.
"No," Ash replied. "but why is it........?" Before he could finish his sentence, his brain began to feel tingly, almost like it is trying to tell Ash something about this cape. He processed it, but his eyes went wide before realizing something. "Wait, could this be........?" It looked exactly like the sheet of the................
"What is it, partner?" Applejack asked. Ash stood up before turning around with a smile across his face. The ponies looked befuddled to Ash's expression. Why is he behaving this way? Did he find something about the cloth that is mind-blowing?
"Guys, do you know who this short cape belongs to?!?!" Ash exclaimed excitedly. They all looked at each other before shaking their heads in disagreement. "Well, I think we're gonna find out! Spike, raise the cape a little bit higher." Spike did what he told him. "Discord," He turned to The Chaos Master. "prepare the Ghost Driver."
"Oooh!" Discord squealed. "Are we gonna.....?!?!"
"Yes, we are." But, Rarity came up front.
"Um, Ash." She began. "What are you planning to manage here exactly?" She did not know Ash could get this excited.
"You'll see, Rarity. Now, let us begin!"
He made the triangular shape again with his hands in front of the cape, but this time he drew an oval shape with his right hand and two previous fingers. When he managed it, the Ghost logo appeared in front of the sheet, to which the ponies backed away in fright but also in confusement. Suddenly, the cape turned into black swirling mist that headed upwards until it formed into a sort of body attire, to the ponies of course. But, what was floating in the air before them was actually a Parka Ghost which had black color, long black thin appendages protruding out of the sleeves, and had a similar design with the Ore Parka Ghost. But, the odd feature was that it had no eyes or.........a hood head? Which would explain why it is doing a position like the everypony-knows-who.
Ash and the others could not be more surprised by its appearance. But, AJ had enough strength in her to say this,
"What?"