Following what happened last time, the zebra and three fillies all felt like an earthquake was occurring around them when in truth, the herd of cattle had managed to reach the inside of the Everfree Forest and were still stampeding without a second of stopping. They all realized this when Zecora opened the door to see what was happening outside. The cows were not the only ones in the forest, though because they also spotted the human and the two previously mentioned Elements Of Harmony who were still attempting to stop these cattle before they encounter anything dangerous in these spooky woodlands. In the end, they did manage to stop the cattle before they could plummet to the bottom of Ghastly Gorge which Ash could not understand how they got this far.

As for the Doctor and Roseluck, that will have to wait for another time.............

As a cloud from high above drifted slowly to the right, Ponyville was having another run of the mill day.

But, we all know that we are not here for such average things, for now, its is time to see what our fellow protagonist is up to today. As we head into the inside of the one and only Carousel Boutique, we spot Ash Griffin once again, this time helping the fashionista of Ponyville test out her new, fresh-from-the-box clothing line. He was currently sitting on the circular platform, surrounded by three oval-shaped mirrors that showed his reflection from three different angles. Rarity was busy in her bedroom, preparing her creation for Ash to test out later while Sweetie Belle was accompanying the boy in case he needed somepony to talk to. She was kind of free for today because the other crusaders were pretty busy themselves back at their homes with "family issues". They have been chatting for a while about gossip and stuff, especially about that time when Sweetie and the girls accidentally crashed Scootaloo's scooter into a tree and ended up in weird and........awkward positions near each other. This went on for only a few minutes when the sound of clopping could be heard from the purple stairway just beside the platform.

"What do you think a girl wants from you if she leaves a fake mustache at your house?" Ash asked Sweetie Belle, who did not have enough time to reply because their ears could pick up a pony's hooves from the stairway, signifying that Rarity was done doing whatever she was doing on the second floor. Their heads turned to the mare herself, along with a pony-based mannequin wearing a sort of hoodie. The said hoodie happened to have two colors on each side, one green and one black, including a few lines and stripes of yellow and purple. It had long sleeves that followed the same pattern and color as the rest of the design and in the neck area, it also featured a white scarf attachment which Rarity thought could add more dazzle to it. The clothing was enough to catch the filly and human's eyes on the first look of its design and style. The white unicorn already noticed that the two were starting to enjoy staring at the hooded-accessory that almost made her giggle in pleasure.

"Sorry to keep you two waiting," She apologized, still pushing the mannequin to its rightful spot in front of them. "The scarf was a bit loose in the neck area, so I had to improvise a little bit. So, what do you think, Ash?"

Ash blinked for a moment. "I think......that is the most amazing hoodie I have ever seen....in my entire life," He complimented on the accessory which put a grateful smile on Rarity's face. Then, she soon realized about Sweetie Belle being in the room as well.

"And what about you, Sweetie Belle?" She asked her only younger sibling. "Would you say that this hoodie would 'take the cake' if you may?" Her only reply was a surprised face that was short lived when Ash leaned closer to her and snapped his fingers in her face. Finally, she was canceled from her trance and repeatedly blinked later on.

"Wow, Rarity!" She said with a surprised tone. "You've really outdone yourself this time! But for the record, whoever says 'take the cake' anymore?" She reminded Rarity the use of old pony words that were used during a long time ago when ponies were less advanced with technology and transportation. The mare put a hoof to her chin and thought before confirming her sister's statement.

"Hm, I suppose it is kind of an old phrase." Ash would decidedly agree with her. People have been using old phrases willy-nilly since these days like 'jiffy' and such. "But, moving on, I believe it's time for Mr. Ash here to try out my latest creation." Ash's cheeks were luckily able to hold in a blush from Rarity calling him a mister, though his smile sort of gave it away. After rubbing his hands together enthusiastically, the boy stood up from the podium and walked towards the mannequin, examining more of its design and fashion to his eyes.

"So, what do you exactly call this thing, Rarity?" Ash pointed out the unexplained name in the form of a question.
"Oh, that's right! I completely forgot about that part!" She exclaimed. But, in all truth, she was just fooling around with them which was why her giggle clearly divulged it. "Oh, I'm just hoodwinking with you two. I would NEVER forget to name ANY of my beautiful and glamorous outfits and clothing. EVER." Ash secretly called her a troll for what she did just now, though that move was pretty weak if you admit it. Sweetie Belle's bemused look was no exception either. "But, in all honesty, I was kind of thinking that I should let you pick the name for it, Ash." The boy's eyes slightly widened up from shock when she stated that.
"Wait, are you serious, Rarity?" He asked not from confusion, but enthusiasm.
"Of course, I'm serious!" She happily replied. "After what all you've done for us and the rest of Ponyville, I figured I would at least give you this type of opportunity. Besides, the others would have probably given you something like this, wouldn't they?"

She did make a good point. For months, Ash Griffin has been protecting ponies here and there from the evil and sinful clutches of Tokusatsu villains ever since his arrival. This topic also brought him the fact about his two Eyecons back at the castle. ( Three if you count the Multi Eyecon ) Lately, he has been saving the town more than trying to collect Eyecons for an unexplained reason which did not bother Ash at all, but he could never shake off the feeling that collecting these Eyecons from Equestria's ancient and past heroes has a secret purpose, much like to the ones on Earth. Of course, he did not know what this said purpose was because he has only seen ONE episode of Ghost only. What he was able to do to gain the Eyecons from before was all thanks to Celestia's and ( surprisingly ) Discord's instructions.

"Well, I guess." He admitted once he was done thinking.
"Gee, Ash!" Sweetie Belle grabbed their attention. "If you keep this superhero rider stuff up for longer, I bet you'll get loads of cool stuff in no time flat!" That got him to giggle proudly thanks to Sweetie Belle.
"Well,....I mean....I'm not that famous. Just a....normal guy, fighting villains, y'know?" His dodging in conversations was not as perfect as he does it physically. Rarity managed to keep in a giggle for herself but quickly got back to the primary matter at hoof/hand.
"Well, unless any of us has anything else to say, I suggest you put it on for a try as you think of a name for later, Ash." The mare reminded them.

"Right." Once they were all finished chatting, Ash's hands reached out at the hoodie and released it from its former lifeless owner and held it up to his eye level. "Hm..." His feet carried him back to the podium and stood still once he was one. After that, he threw it over his shoulder with his hands still holding on and placed it onto his back and shoulders. His hands then reached into the sleeves of the hoodie and poked themselves free out of the holes. After shaking his fingers a bit, he pulled the right opening chest part to stick with his body more and for more style before adjusting the silver-like scarf piece. He looked into the three oval mirrors to check himself out which made him honestly feel like a badass right now. If his friends at school were here right now, there would be no doubt that they would be freaking jealous at this moment. His small but revealing smile got Rarity to get confident that her latest project could or would be a smash hit. After a few check-'em-ups, Ash finally turned around for the other two to see for themselves. The eyes of Sweetie Belle sparkled like stars in the nighttime. The fashionista pony could not wait any longer and had to ask him.

"So, do you like!?" She asked, eagerly waiting for a definite answer from the beige biped.

Just as he said that, his ears could detect a shattering sound, obviously coming from inside the pony's body or the window in her room. The sisters' mouths gaped open wide enough for ants to enter inside. Ash was a little creept out when Rarity's right eye started twitching rapidly. This was absolutely not expected by Rarity or Sweetie Belle who both that he would have, at least, give a thumbs up ( he taught them about that ) to the hoodie, but instead, all it got was a raspberry blow. The mare's inside started to break up into shattered pieces of glass, especially her kidneys which should not seem mentally possible.

However, Ash did not intend to keep this insult lasting any longer than this, so......

His sudden second and official opinion was more than enough for Rarity to calm her mood and thankfully stopped her eye from ominously twitching too fast. After shaking both their heads into relief, their faces now replaced gaping mouths with big smiles of excitement. The fashionista was glad that he was only horsing around, otherwise, she would have killed him for his false insult. ( Figuratively with a hint of literal sense )

"Y-you really do LOVE it!?" She asked again with an excited tone.
"You bet I do!" He answered with clear positivity. "And that, my friends, is how you troll somepony!" Neither Rarity nor her sister knew what he meant, but did not actually care right now. Suddenly, a thought just came back to Sweetie Belle who quickly mentioned to the others.
"Hey, now that you've admitted that you like it, you can now choose a name for it now, right?" This made both of them "Aaah-ed" in realization. Ash's hand stroked his chin briefly before he came up with something.

"Well, I can think about possibly a hundred names, but I think I would choose........"

Suddenly, his explanation was cut short when a giant, unforeseen boulder came crashing into the boutique, thus destroying the left portion of the building which had a few cloth stands and barber stands. Shocked to infinity by this, Rarity rushed over to the left side and scanned the destruction the boulder caused. It caused some of the second ceiling to break into pieces and the entire portion of the building was totally wrecked.

"NOOOO!!!!" She cried into the sky as she picked up one of her dresses that looked torn and ripped apart by the giant rock. "MY DRESSES!!!" Tears of countless numbers started to fly from her eyes as she cried our loud for ponies to hear. The other two just stood there, completely baffled about the unexpected event until some other noises came from outside the building. The two quickly ran to the outside while the mare stylist still wept on her way to see so much destruction has happened while they were not looking. The trees were ripped from the ground and thrown into random places, possiblly towards the civilians who, by the way, were running and screaming like in those kaiju films. While Sweetie was the one who was mostly shocked about this, Ash, still wearing his hoodie, was confused and a little bit angered at the scene and wanted to immediately figure out who had done this.

"Who-w-who could've...done all of this?" The little filly asked in a stuttering tone. However, her answer was actually in front of their southeast when it tossed another tree at some civilians who luckily avoided it in time. It quickly noticed the two before it started to slowly walk towards them which got Ash and Sweetie's attention. Ash could notice that Sweetie Belle's legs were starting to tremble of fear from the monster and felt like he needed to kick that said monster's hiney ASAP for some reason.
"Sweetie Belle, get back inside," He ordered her calmly. Not needing to be reminded twice, the filly immediately did what he said and got back inside the boutique to accompany Rarity as she cried over the loss of her dresses.

Once that was done, Ash stood still as the creature was getting nearer to him. To mention the details, its color scheme was ironically based on Fourze's SN Magnets State and its left arm had a silver ball instead of a humanoid hand which looked like it could punch through rock. Its body was all rip, its chest also had a silver ball, only smaller, there were pieces of what looked like metal sticking out its two shoulders and the left side of its head, its right arm and leg were red while his other left appendages were blue, and finally, it had two metal rod-like things protruding out of its back. Ash was not going to move a muscle until the creature did, so he made up a conversation with it.

"Say, I'll give you a chance, Mr. Violence Dopant," He explained to the finally recognized Dopant calmly. "Either we do this the easy way.....or the hard way." He punched his left palm while some wind blew his back scarf piece. The monster did not seem intrigued with his peace conversation ( nor would it ever ), so like any other villain the human has fought in the past, it charged furiously towards the boy and brought its left hand forward. Unfortunately, its tactic failed when Ash swiftly jumped into the air and performed an easy twirling-front flip, thus landing onto the ground on his feet with the hoodie still intact. It became instantly angry at Ash's dodging and turned around to grunt in fury. Ash's face was still able to stay relaxed and invulnerable. He has not been taking things too seriously since now which confused him a bit but did not mind it after a while. "I guess we're doing this the hard way, then. But, before we start fighting, let me just say this." Then, he cleared his throat a tad bit before turning to his side and pointed his finger in a gun-like gesture.

"NOW, COUNT UP FOR YOUR SINS!"

Not amused by his catchphrase, the Dopant performed what sounded like a mix between a false roar and a loud grunt before charging full steam ahead again, followed by Ash who ran into action as well. After they have gained a close distance between each other, the Dopant swung its left arm again at Ash but was canceled by his own left hand grabbing its appendage before it nearly struck his face. The boy did a swift punch using his other hand as a fist to punch the monster's own face before giving a sweet kick to its chest. It stumbled back a bit before receiving a quick round of two flying punches and spinning kicks by Ash which were enhanced thanks to his Cyclone abilities. Next, Ash was thinking he could use his Joker abilities this time ( somehow ) and got it to work when he hastily grabbed the Dopant by the shoulders and gave it three good black-flaming knee kicks before going back to his Cyclone ability to punch the beast to the right. Mr. Violence rolled to the right, thus landing on his front while completely damaged and in pain. Ash's non-stop series of attacks were as fast as the wind ( quite literally speaking ) that it could not even counter attack with its strong ball-like hand. Suddenly, it saw Ash coming towards it which honestly scared it a little, yet all it did was trying to get up from the grass.

"Had enough?" Ash asked to the monster. He actually felt bad for these villains, not managing to defeat/kill him because of his incredible powers and for not putting up a good fight against him. This was starting to feel like the One Punch Man storyline all over again. ( Yes, I've watched the show ) But, the Violence Dopant was not willing to give up anytime soon, not much to Ash's surprise because that is how most villains behave. It furiously pounded the ground with its ball-hand and quickly got up onto its feet before grunting more loudly into the sky and charged once again, straight on. "I guess not." The human waited for after it tried to punch him with its right hand this time before dodging to the left and kicked it in the chest and immediately after that, it swung its left hand that was easily eluded by the boy that later gave another two punches and a roundhouse kick to its chest. And just for safe measures, he also placed his left hand on the ground before slightly jumping and kicking the monster with both of his feet sideways. It staggered back once more from his attack but suddenly dropped to the ground on its hands and knees, struggling from its weakening body. This gave Ash confidence that he would finish Mr. Violence off in one final go as it was "sort-of" nice meeting with him. After looking at his non-existent watch on his wrist, "I think my schedule's pretty done with this fight," he pulled the hood from behind his hoodie onto his head as he prepared to initiate his final action. "so let's make this quick, okay?"

The Violence Dopant was shortly confused at his statement before observing Ash's finisher that first off, created powerful winds of green that formed into a cyclone-like shape which also pulled in various stones and rocks from the ground and secondly, lifted him high up into the air with him doing W's pose once he was in the air. After a few more rocks got engulfed into his tornado, the Dopant had a chance to stand up one more time which would do nothing against the human's cyclone. "I usually hate goodbyes, but I don't think I'll miss this one. So, goodbye!" Ash used up most of his last remaining energy to backflip in midair before aiming both of his feet straight towards Mr. Violence in a standing position. Then, he was immediately shot out of the cyclone to initiate the last step for his finisher before the two right and left halves of his body split, revealing a yellow aura inside his two halves.

Eventually, Ash's right foot had connected to the Dopant's chest first, followed by his left foot which made Mr. Violence explode and let Ash's connected halves pass through it. The boy exited his landing pose right before he turned around to watch as the fire slowly disappeared, "Looks like I'm done here - huh?" but was not expecting to find an actual Dopant Gaia Memory inside of the fire in the process. "Is that a....?" Ash could not believe his eyes. He knew that Dopants are created by inserting a Memory into a human's body utilizing that machine called the L.C.O.G. ( Living Connector Operation Gun ), but seeing a Gaia Memory without a host was very suspicious to the boy. He wanted to investigate the Memory even further, but the fire was still active, so after pushing his hood back down, he raised his right leg a bit and pictured another Fourze tool where it was shaped like a giant cyan blue faucet.

After enough staring at his leg, the cyan faucet was now officially constructed when Ash's leg dropped back onto his sole. He walked towards the fire when he raised his leg one more time above the flames and water started to instantly pour down from the spout and onto the fire which was extinguished fairly easily. Now that the flames were dead, he could finally see the Dopant Memory more clearly. Being from a Dopant like any other and despite it smoking a little while being damaged, its design looked like some sort of vital organ, it still had the shape of a flash drive like in the show, the coloring was red, and the symbol was an arm in the shape of a V. "There you are." There was no need for the water tool any longer, so after it dissipated, Ash bent down lower until he was crouching and picked up the Memory, remembering to be careful if it was hot which luckily it was not. He rotated it to every side just to examine it further for satisfaction because he has always wanted to touch a REAL Gaia Memory before. He also wanted to touch the other Rider's transformation utilities, but obviously, he could only use their powers using either body motion or mind power ( excluding his Ghost Driver ). After about 10 seconds worth checking it out, he stood back up with the flash drive-like device in his hand and looked back to the Boutique which did not surprisingly crumble from failed left-side support.

Even Ash was a little surprised by this, regardless of him knowing how cartoons work. Then, he turned her attention to Rarity who was still sobbing over her destroyed fabric-made artwork with Sweetie Belle trying to sooth her with a few pats on the back. Ash felt sorry for Rarity, in fact, anypony would be sorry for anypony else if they have suffered a huge loss that matters deeply to them. Thanks to that Dopant's wrecking behavior, part of her house was laid waste. His eyes looked again at the Memory he lifted to eye level, 'This was all your fault, y'know?' and brought it inside his palm to squeeze tightly of 50% pure anger and 50% dramatic desire that produced a squeezing sound. Then, he remembered about the hoodie which actually made it out of the fight just fine, even the scarf piece was still unscathed. His attention was then taken by the fashionista again whose crying volume decreased and ran over to the inside through the opening hole. The unicorn filly spotted him in the corner of her eye with human, coming to her side and watching Rarity release her few last tears before the pools in her eyes and standing up. She still had one of her dresses in her hoof which began to depress Ash too. All of that hard work for this......

"Rarity......" He spoke to the mare. "....I'm sorry." She wiped another tear from her eyeball before sniffing roughly.
"It's....*sniff*...it's alright," She said in a very sad tone. "I wasn't your fault anyway, dear. That monster....*sniff*....that...monster was the cause..." She wanted to cry more but remembered she was a grown mare and held in her sadness for much longer. "I just wonder why there would be a monster attack today out of all days." The human looked below him before explaining about the said monster.
"That 'monster', Rarity, was called a Dopant." He would have continued on with his clarification, but was soon interrupted.
"You mean those two-legged creatures that were originally humans before they used those flash drive-thingies to become those things?" Sweetie Belle asked as fast as a New York minute.
"Yeah, exactly.....wait a minute. How'd you know that?" He asked while pointing his finger at the filly.
"Oh, you see, a couple of weeks ago, me and the girls were wondering if we could learn more about those villains that you fought, so we asked Spike, since he and you might be the closest together, if you ever told him about any of those monsters that you fought and luckily, he did."
"Huh, so that explains it." Even if he had told the adolescent drake about some of the villains of the Kamen Rider universe, he was still not sure if he and Spike were technically close friends, but still, they were friends.

But then, Ash recalled something he said before he arrived at the boutique. "Hey, guys," He called to them. "I love to stay and chat more, but I think I gotta go back to the castle for another one of Twilight's experiments."
"Oh. Well, in that case," Rarity stood up and trotted to the behind of the only undamaged curtain area. Sweetie Belle and Ash looked at the curtain area, then to each other and then, to the giant curtain again. Confusion was the only thing in their heads right now for a brief moment before Rarity came back, levitating an oddly familiar brown stitched cloak using her magic. Once she stopped, "Ash, would you be a kind dear and look after this cloak back at the castle?" she requested him.
"Uh, sure?" He answered with a hint of perplexity. "Why do you have that thing anyway?"
"Well, it all started when Pinkie asked me if I could watch over this stitched cloak for her. And to be honest, this cloak has been kind of distracting my focus from my work, though I was glad I was able to finish your hoodie in time without getting its image stuck in my head." Ash had to confess that she had a good point. Just one look of this with a fashion designer's eyes would get stuck in your memory in more or less than 20 seconds.
"I see. Alright, I'll do it."
"Wonderful!" The mare exclaimed cheerfully and disabled her magic, letting the cloak fall into the human's fingered hands. First, a hoodie and then, a cloak. What's next? A robe with little white kittens on it? "I'm certain you won't let anything dastardly happens to it. Pinkie really needs that cloak back when she gets back from her trip up Mount Everhoof."
"Yeah. Well, I guess it is a big of a - I'm sorry. Did you say Mount EVERHOOF?!"

Meanwhile.......

Sorry folks, but due to the author being too lazy because he has other stuff to deal with, he does not have time to write an entire scene of Pinkie Pie, doing whatever she did after she reached the top of the snowy mountain parody of Mount Everest. So, all I can give to you folks is what she said during her victory to the top of the very tall mountain:

I'M THE QUEEN OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, back to the main topic of this chapter, after receiving both the familiar-looking hoodie and the brown stitched cloak, Ash Griffin said his goodbyes to the two female equines while he walked about on his way back to Princess Twilight's castle. Much to his curiosity, Twilight never explained to him what this said experiment was nor did she tell him the reason, but hey, everyone loves surprises ( except for certain people ). During his long walk back, Pinkie's shouting was so loud that it managed to reach the ears of Ponyville citizens but sounded only like a quiet whisper. Some have even mistaken the shout for saying, "I'm the BEAN of the PEARL". He had no trouble recognizing the owner of that shout by knowing that nopony was beside him along the journey. A few ponies waved and greeted him, but nothing over the top. His stay in Equestria has been really pleasant lately, especially the fact that he gets to fight villains from previous and current ages, although he just wished they could not have appeared at the worst possible moments. After a few more footsteps forward, he finally arrived at the castle but stopped to adjust his hoodie to hug him tighter and played with the hood before walking up the small flight of stairs and opened the double doors.

Once he had entered, his brain then attempted to memorize the way to the room the alicorn said to meet her which was never explained by her either. The most common room would be the "throne" room, so he confirmed his direction and walked forward. Meanwhile, in the throne room, we see Twilight and Spike, both eagerly waiting for Ash's return while sitting on their respective crystal thrones. It had been 12 minutes since they have been waiting after they had finished up Twilight's experiment which was a potion inside of a test tube, safely protected by a cork in her right hoof. Spike, however, managed to fall asleep in these 12 minutes, slightly irritating Princess Twilight, but she should not be surprised because she had heard that once, a pegasus pony used to sleep during conversations, even if they lasted for only 5 minutes. Suddenly, her equine ears could hear footsteps belonging to a certain human and looked at the snoring drake, rattling his body to awaken him which worked without a doubt. His mouth then retrieved its spit and his hand-like claws rubbed his eyes before he heard the footsteps too. It only took a while for them to finally see Ash, pushing the two doors and revealing his presence, surprising the two with his newly-worn hoodie.

"Hey, guys!" He greeted them before closing the doors. "Are we gonna test out that experiment now?" He clapped his hands together and rubbed them enthusiastically. Twilight's small smile was enough for a positive reply to him.
"As a matter of fact, Ash, we are," She replied.
"And nice hoodie, by the way!" Spike commented him. Ash smiled with pride to the dragon.
"Thanks, dude!" Luckily, the hooded jacket was not enough for them to forget about the primary subject. "So, Twilight." He approached towards them. "What is this 'enticing experiment' that you said SO giddily earlier today?"
"I'm glad you asked, Ash." Her horn used its magic to "pick up" the potion and showed its purple fluid in the glass tube.
"Woah, what's this?"
"Well, let me explain. Ever since you've defeated that Bat Gurongi creature, plus a few other monsters that terrified ponies to peeing their pants ( metaphorically ), I've been developing a special potion to somehow increase your capabilities and powers to the point that they could become even stronger than before!" Her hysterical description of the potion surprised Ash there for a second but confused Spike the most.
"Um, Twilight?" He asked. "I don't mean to interrupt, but doesn't Ash already have like, tons of super powers already?"
"Well, technically, there actually are a few more others I haven't been able to learn yet, so I don't specifically have TONS of power and abilities, Spike." The human interrupted this time to clarify.
"Oh, okay." He realized. "But, I still have one question, though. Two, to be precise."

"Okay, what are they?" Twilight asked.
"One: Why would you want to INCREASE Ash's powers, capabilities and all that? Isn't he already powerful enough?" That question surprisingly got Ash to nearly blush but blushed nonetheless. And he did make a good point which got Twilight guessing that the potion should have been made in the later future. "And TWO: Why is there a yellow, red-eyed bat hanging upside down on the chandelier above us?"

This made Ash and Twilight confused until Spike's claw pointed upwards that helped greatly in them, seeing an oval-shaped bat, hanging from the chandelier made up entirely of the library's old roots and some crystals. While Twilight and Spike were amazed by its shape and unknown origin, Ash was mostly amazed by its presence in the castle. But, ever since he has met Momotaros during the big "Human and Ponies VS Rider Villains and Changelings" battle, as Ash likes to call it, he learned to not mind much about certain favored characters showing up all willy-nilly.

Sadly, they had no more time to relax and chat when suddenly, the entire ground shook very violently, causing even the castle to rumble in a quake. What came next was ponies screaming from outside, though the three were not able to hear them and the sounds of destructive behavior from a diabolical villain, obviously. The shaking even made the three fall onto their stomachs onto the hard and cold marble floor which did not sooth them in any way. Ash cringed his stomach when he turned around to his back in pain and was really pissed off to the villain/master who disturbed their peaceful moment. After struggling to get up from abdomen pain, they all managed to sustain little to no injuries and dusted themselves off. He knew many ponies have said this before, but Spike really felt like he needed to say it even if the situation was not fully known.

"WHAT. WAS. THAT!?!?" He exclaimed
"Well, why don't we just ask our new visitor who happens to be just outside?" Ash sarcastically suggested again, only this time with a bit of a pissed-off tone. Lately, he has been more sarcastic and joke-cracking than before on Earth which is starting to confuse the residents with his slight sudden change of behavior. Even Twilight was starting to worry about him, but she has not been bothering too much about reasoning with him about it. After all, sarcasm does crack jokes easily for the audience, at least, that is what he stated.

Meanwhile, somewhere at the town square, we could spot not one, not five, but a HUGE number of red humanoids causing terror across the town of Ponyville and just when things were about to finally calm down. Their color scheme was red while they had white goggle-like eyes on their face, two separate headphone pieces on the side of their heads with antennas, they were all wearing black gloves and boots, and also they had belts own their own waists that were silver. They were not causing all of this trouble by their hands, but by equipping weapons known as wooden nunchucks. Also, because they had some backup just in case if they were ever attacked by any foolish civilian who would desire their heart to do that. These second minions were black instead of red, although they were wearing red gloves, boots, a red cape, and a belt with an abnormally shaped silver buckle. They too had white goggles-like eyes and wielded not only some sharp spears but also some pistols and three of them were even wielding machine guns. When they fired their pistols and guns, holes were rapidly being created in the surrounding environment that also lost some pieces and crumbles, but fortunately, not many were eager to stay outside their houses to get either stabbed or shot to death by these monsters. Before any of you complain about that last sentence, Super-1 and X ( mostly X ) did contain graphic violence, so do not blame me for saying it.

They were all very focused on their objective and no distractions were met until Ash, Twilight and Spike all arrived, running at the scene of the devastation. Ash thought that his hoodie and the cloak would slow him down this time rather than last time, so he remembered to put it into his drawer before leaving. Once they have stopped, they took a clear look at the situation which was good enough for them to recognize it. Twilight was now interested in both groups' body design the most, but still mainly focused on the task at hoof.

"Oh, great," Ash, once again, stated with slight banter. "Just what this day needed. More bad guys and not the most interesting kind." It was quick of him to notice Twilight and Spike's bemused faces looking at his. "What?"
"Well," After ignoring Ash's previous statement, she used her magic to bring up a pink glowing screen in front of them that had two-digit numbers, counting up to '50'. "even if there are only approximately 50 of those......bipedal monster-things, they're still armed and dangerous, so watch out, boys." The screen vanished from existence as she finished her explanation.
"I think we already got that, Twilight," Spike said next. Twilight was really hoping that the rest of her friends do not get polluted by Ash's new sarcastic behavior.
"Yeah, well, I was only trying to point it out. And you're welcome, by the way."

Ash's eyes rolled of bemusement before rushing over towards the gang of 50 Dogma Fighters and G.O.D Warfare Agents who instantly noticed the boy and changed their objective to take care of him. The fighters and agents did not need a second brain to remember what their alternative goal was before they even arrived here, so once their eyes were locked onto their sole target, the ones with melee weapons held their grip tightly onto the handles while the enemies with long-range armaments began to aim their gun's muzzles to Ash and were ready to fire. Twilight and Spike both watched as Ash stopped about a few feet away from the bad guys.

"Well, these guys don't look that dangerous anyway, so I'll just make this quick," Ash talked to himself. What he did next confused both his friends and the enemies; he pulled out what looked like a once non-existent purple and golden sword from his back which the alicorn princess sword was never there before they arrived. This "special" technique he utilized was from Pinkie Pie who somehow managed to master this said art just by clenching her hoof ( at least, what appeared to be ) behind her back and then, pulling out the first weapon that came into her head. Now that she has taught Ash how to use it, this came a lot handier in combat than ever. After 2 seconds, Ash performed a pose where he split his legs a bit and pointed his sword forward using both of his hands. It was really difficult to tell if he was now being serious or only trying to be humorous. Either way, his objective still remained in the situation: sending these guys into the next morning. "Normally, I'd choose one Rider's catchphrase to say during an epic brawl, but since I did that a few minutes ago, I'm just gonna use one of the most common mottoes during the medieval ages." Then, he closed his legs back and impressively spun his sword on its handle before pointing its front to the evil henchman with his right hand. "HAVE AT THEE!!"

This was enough to finally aggravate the fighters and agents to charge forward, followed by Ash who also charged with his hands on the handle and straightly aimed its sharp-tipped front forwards. After a few good seconds of running, the two sides eventually clashed which just means that Ash's sword had connected with one of the Agents' spears and made tiny sparks fly out. After the two weapons were separated, Ash immediately brought his sword upwards and brought it back down onto the agent's chest, making it tumble to the ground. There were still a lot more, but Ash was still pumped up for some action. Next, two of the red fighters rushed in and attempted to attack him using their ninja-like weapons, but instead, received failure as Ash was able to block both of them using the blade and sliced them both quickly. Ash already saw four more blacks coming in hot and was about to do the same when he spotted three gun wielders pointing their weapons at him and pulling the triggers, thus shooting out standard-level bullets. The human's brain then improvised a strategy of avoiding said bullets from hitting him, then blocked the nearest spear from above and slashed his sword across its chest, followed by the other three who circled him but luckily, provided him some space to block two to five shots and stabbed the black agent behind him. After swinging his sword entirely clockwise to destroy the remaining two, 6 shots were shot again and ended up being dodge-rolled by Ash who then blocked four more and got a chance to charge.

Unfortunately, the gunners' aim became excessively worse because their lone target was coming nearer and nearer. It happens to pretty much anyone who is shooting and their target is moving towards them and fear was the other thing they had to worry about. After coming as close as possible, the boy sliced all three of the agents' armaments and also performed a spinning slash to finish them off. But now, I feel like I want to see how Twilight was doing with Spike on keeping the rest of the enemies from coming to her and her foster brother. Apparently, the agents and fighters also spotted her just minding her own business and their objective WAS ridding the surrounding area of any living life forms but themselves. She was currently near the pony-shaped fountain when she fired a blast of magic towards two more reds ahead of her, therefore making them tumble onto the green pasture. Spike was beside Twilight this time and breathed his green magical fire to ward off any minions nearby, but mostly because he always wanted to set a villain's foot on fire which was what he exactly did to one black agent. At this rate, they would be able to decrease the number of enemies still standing in about a few minutes.

Meanwhile........

Only because of the title of this chapter, we will exit the fight scene to shift our camera-like view to the inside of Ash's bedroom back at Twilight's crystalline castle. Inside of said bedroom, there were the two Equestrian Eyecons that were freed by Ash on his , the Star Swirl and Headless Horse Eyecons to be more specific. Because Eyecons contain heroes from the old ages, the navy blue and dark gray Eyecons had the ability to, of course, float, wiggle a bit, and talk. Unfortunately, only Star Swirl could talk because, well, I am pretty sure that you all know the reason for that. Suddenly, the Eyecon of the powerful wizard started to float which almost never failed to amaze the Headless Horse Eyecon. Then, he actually began to speak to the second dark gray spirit, but not before sighing.

"Do you know what, Mr. 'Headless Horse', was it?" He turned around and asked the horse spirit. He does know that it cannot talk, right? "For once, I REALLY despise myself for saying this, but I think I am really starting to get.......bored. I mean, the insides of these new bodies do contain the places of what we desire the most, only more cramped, but still, I can't get this feeling of apathy out of my system. Wouldn't you say so?" He first thought his only new companion was trying to be rude by not replying, but soon recalled that it did not have vocal chords when it was still alive. "Oh, right. You did not even acquire a mouth or head when you still walked the surface of this planet. My bad." If it had REAL eyeballs to begin with, the horse would definitely have rolled them to the elderly wizard right about now. Without knowing why the gray eye watched more when the unicorn eye floated down onto Ash's bed which was where the human placed the brown cloak before heading out. He landed and a sigh was heard from the blue one as he chatted with himself this time. "Oh, my dear pupil........if only you and I had known that our time had come for our souls to be freed from their solid prisons, so we could walk the plains of this land for one last time........" He must have been very heartbroken because he began to play back images of him and his most faithful student ( I am not going to say who, though ) which made him remain on the bed for longer than he anticipated.

The Headless Horse was confused but also curious at him not moving one non-existent muscle after his base has touched the soft surface of the human's bed. It wondered if Star Swirl was just experiencing some minor pain for whatever cause or something, but he called back at what the wizard said seconds ago. But suddenly as he did, he started to feel something different than just cold and empty heart-ness, but rather something else, as if he was feeling.......sorry. Not the sarcastic jerk kind of sorry, but the vigorous kind. Now that he had acquired this feeling of being sorry, it moved its body a tiny bit down for a clearer view, but in all honesty, "the feeling" forced it to. But then, memories of its own flashed back into its non-existent brain from when it trotted the surface of the planet during the old times.

Sadly, however, we will not get to watch those playbacks because of the sudden presence of a particular Eyecon. Just as Star Swirl was continuing to struggle with his loss, another one of those portals opened up inside of the room, thankfully not damaging any of Ash's bedroom furniture. Then, out came the said particular Eyecon from the swirling vortex, floating down to greet both of Ash's fighting companions. Once the portal dissipated from existence, the two soul-contained Eyecons looked up to Multi who first of all, flew down and landed beside the navy blue soul. Both eyes were confused as to why Multi would want to show up here, but since everything in this universe is pretty much whacked up, they felt no question should be necessarily asked upon.

"What a surprise," Star Swirl sarcastically expressed once they faced each other. "I was expecting you to visit us someday, just.......not today." It only ignored his statement and dragged his attention to the cloak behind Star Swirl who was still keeping an eye on it, in case it tends to do anything "harmful and destructive". After obtaining a good glimpse of the stitched clothing, Multi knew that the unicorn had already known that this piece of stitched cloth belonged to his prized student and was in a state of deep depression. Luckily enough, Multi had learned a new secret "trick" about freeing heroic souls from their most common and/or only clothing and he just needed to show the wizard and also the headless being of why Pinkie Pie wanted Rarity to keep the cloak safe and give it to Ash later. Star Swirl was curious as to why the previously mentioned Eyecon looked at him like it was trying to tell him something. "What? What is it?" Multi had no time to waste for he needed to go and help out Ash in his fight against another strong enemy that which it somehow knew was going to come into this world. So, to help Star Swirl understand it better, it floated up into mid-air again, but this time, activated some sort of power that let it scan the brown cloth, therefore analyzing every known fact and hidden secret there is to it, including the most useful and mind-boggling fact that may put Star Swirl The Bearded in a thundering shock.

After what seemed like 10 seconds of scanning, Multi then turned 180 degrees to its left and displayed a blue glowing screen out of its pupil which made the two Eyecons glad it was not a REAL organic eye. But, what came up on the screen was a pony. Not just anypony, but perhaps somepony you all might remember who was once portrayed by Twilight during a certain play on a very special holiday. This information was successful at making the two eyes look stunned and also managed to get one simple word out of the wizard's non-seeable mouth.

Back To The Main Story...........

While the Eyecons deal with their own situations, let us go back to the brawl between the three heroes versus the........oh. I guess they upped the stakes when we were gone. And by "upped the stakes", I mean they have brought two new enemies into the fight since the fighters and agents were considerably easy to beat. However, something tells the pony, dragon, and human that these new foes were much more powerful than the test dummies. We adjust our view to the area of where they fought and were currently going to fight now to spot the two new opponents who both appeared without warning. Even Twilight was not able to sense them in the field of battle before and her magic is OP. At least, it seemed OP. The first one on the left coincidentally acquired an equine body, except it was bipedal instead, which was white, armor pieces of walnut brown, its feet were shaped similar to giant hooves, and also had two furry structures on its back which could probably be identified as its "wings". The second one on the right was a WHOLE lot different. For one, it had a crab-like exoskeleton covered in skin-piercing spikes, a pair of big crab legs on its hips and its back too, and while its right hand seemed normal, its other one was rather an over-sized crab pincer. Basically, they both looked like animals, just a bit more........."horribly-experimented" looking.

Ash was also admittedly surprised, not because of their appearance, but by the fact that two enemies from the SAME being were standing more than 5 yards away from the three protagonists. With a standoff already happening currently, the three heroes stood their ground with battle-ready faces while the pegasus and crab were not expecting much of a fight from them since BOTH of them have cracked jokes in the past. Just as a gust of wind blew over their heads, the pegasus began to speak in a mocking tone.

"What do you say, brother? Shall we end these low life forms into death?"
"If you stop calling me brother, I'll consider it."
"I can't make any promises."
"Good enough for me."

After their short talk and a few more seconds of standing around dramatically, they both eventually charged forward head on, followed by the princess, assistant, and human. Ash apparently targeted the crab while Twilight and Spike chose the horse, thinking it was a bit weaker. The human and crab tackled and dragged each other further to the right and the others only got themselves into a fight cloud. Back to Ash and the right opponent, they released one another and the crab swung its pincer at Ash who quickly dodged out of the way, followed by a fast thrust from the claw which was dodged again. Unfortunately, thrusting it forward let the human grab it, threw it away and deliver three speedy punches to its chest with a final side kick. It only stumbled back a little and attempted to punch Ash with its right hand, but ended up being blocked by his forearm and being grabbed by Ash's other hand which helped him in spinning to the crab's back and being kicked in the said part of the opponent in the process. He put more force into that attack that made the creature stumble more forward. After regaining balance and turning around, the crab decided to speak as well.

"Hm, hm, it looks like you're as strong as they say you are." It admitted. "You might make a fine victim to fulfill my past objective."
"Really?" Ash asked. "'Cause I'd consider myself to NOT be a victim to any of you." Another sigh could be heard.
"This is a waste of time."

Clearly not wasting any more time, the crab lunged towards Ash and tried to swing its pincer again, however, doing this for the 2nd time can make your opponent easily predict your move which the boy did and trapped the claw in his arms. Now, let us see how the princess and young drake are handling. After coming out of the fight cloud, the pegasus immediately performed some kickboxing styles that befuddled the two a bit before all of the sudden, horseshoe-shaped blasts started coming towards them, but luckily, Twilight was fast enough to react and formed a bubble shield around her and Spike. Once the few last projectiles hit the bubble and ended, the monster biped grew frustrated and chose the option to charge instead, using its legs to put more force into it. Twilight then flapped her wings and dashed forward, connecting her hooves to the pegasus's chest and put its head into the ground, creating a long skid-mark-based line in the dirt. It kicked up a lot of dust between them and Twilight was not even done yet. When they went a few feet further, Twilight's horn glowed and activated her teleportation ability to teleport to a few feet further from the monster that was still getting its head dragged forward. Putting on a serious face while clenching her teeth, Twilight charged her magic and waited for the right moment before releasing a blast of pure magical energy to the pegasus. The aftermath of this was it getting blown into the opposite direction which was where Twilight teleported next and fired another shot, sending it to the other way.

It was not over yet, though because then, the princess alicorn teleported once again and bucked the horse in the face sky high. Meanwhile, Spike watched this entire scene without actually fighting and was surprised by Twilight's attack tactics. Maybe she picked up a thing or two from Ash, fighting all those monsters and villains. His head turned up to see the horse, flailing its arms in the air ( literally ) and to spot Twilight who, again, appeared in a pink flash of light above the biped and released yet another magical projectile, "NANI?!", which pushed the horse even faster to the ground below with the help from gravity, making it scream at the top of its lungs before finally hitting the ground with a massive explosion. Twilight could not understand this feeling of rage and adrenaline inside of her, but now she did not care. The boy and crab saw what had happened right when their fists connected.

"Woah! Now, THAT is what I call awesome!" Ash commented before continuing their fight. They separated each other's fists and the crab, without warning, lunged its claw again, but before it hit, Ash though this was taking forever to defeat it, so he thought of another weapon he could use as fast as ever, reached into his back, and pulled out the Musou Saber which fortunately blocked the monster's attack with the blade's side in time. The Zodiart ( I am tired of calling them alternatives ) was shocked to witness Ash's newly seen ability, "N-Nani!?", but it did not get too much of its attention when Ash pushed the giant appendage away and slashed its chest to the left, making sparks fly out from its body, followed by another slash to the right which got the same result. Clutching its chest in agony, the crab was trying to recover, but was not allowed to and received another sword stab by Ash that made it stumble more backward. Before it could even react, Ash pulled the little yellow slide called the Pallete Slide to load in ammunition for the sword's gun mode. After that, the boy pulled the trigger several times, shooting energy bullets to the Zodiart's limbs, head, and pretty much everywhere. Once he heard an empty click, his hand then returned the sword to his back which will mysteriously disappear to Celestia knows where. "You! Little! BASTARD!!"

"Hm? Nani datte? Kotae wa kiitenai!" Ash reenacted the catchphrase of a familiar Imagin. Zodiart did not intentionally hear him nor did he want to, but began to clench his fist after he was done struggling to recover out of rage.
"You.....you will not stop me......" Then somehow, the Zodiart managed to make a few weak steps forward while pointing its finger at him. "......from achieving my goal!"
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I am." Ash was already getting tired from fighting the Zodiart, so he reached into his back once more to pull out the Dogga Hammer in its massive glory. He held the giant weapon with surprisingly no restraints and was still able to keep a calm and straight face. Though sometimes, it does get a bit heavy when lifting it OFF the ground. "Time to finish this." However, just as he said that the boy and the crab heard a flapping sound, belonging to a certain bat back at the castle. They turned their heads to spot the one and only Kivat The 3rd, heading towards the boy who was a bit taken by surprise by the bat's presence.

"Nē, kodomo!" He said. "Need some help?"
"Glad you came," Ash expressed. "And yes, by the way." While the crab was busy being surprised and all, Ash put on a small smile to show his confidence. After looking at Kivat one more time, "Yukō, Kivatto.", he then raised the handle a little more for the top to point to the west.
"Yoshi! Kivat ikuze!" Then, he opened his four-fanged mouth and bit the handle. The Zodiart thought they were playing tricks to threaten it, but soon got its answer when Kivat all of the sudden exclaimed,

Suddenly, everything turned dark and red clouds started to appear, indicating that he was about to perform a finishing move. Even the sky had changed which jolted both Twilight and Spike because the Sun was there a second ago, but now, the moon has come instead and was strangely going through a moon phase from a full moon to a new one. Twilight's brain was trying to calculate what the hell was happening, even her stressed face could reveal it, but she managed to contain her curiosity unless she wanted her brain to melt from confusion and the enormous number of questions she had. Anyway, back to the main plot, once Kivat had helped activate the finisher, Ash held the handle with both hands and placed the handle's end onto the grass, thus creating a semi-powerful earthquake-like shockwave. The crab felt like it had no other choice but to face the opponent with no fear, but in a scene like this? No way, José. After that, the three were shocked again to behold a more ginormous variant of the hammer appeared just above the original and the human's head. Fortunately, Kivat was smart enough to get some cover, so that he does not get smashed in the face with a giant sledgehammer. As 3 seconds have already passed, Ash lifted up the hammer, got into his pose, and swung the hammer around his body two times with the bigger variant, hitting the Zodiart precisively until he stopped on the third swing when his arms were above him and alternatively, brought down the hammer to crush the enemy from above.

The result of his finisher was that the Zodiart got blown up, obviously. And once the others saw that the new moon had been formed, everything went back to normal, even the Sun had reappeared at last. After all of that was done, Ash walked to his friends to see if they had gotten themselves injured, but not before putting away his hammer as well. Twilight and her assistant were just about to do the same thing until he did. Kivat, who was with Twilight and Spike the whole time, approached Ash on his own.

"I gotta say, kid. Those were some impressive moves you did just now." The bat complimented. "Wish I could've seen them, though. I kind of missed everything except for the finale." Ash seemed confused with his statement but accepted his comment nonetheless.
"Thanks......I think?" He awkwardly thanked him.
"Well, it was nice meeting you all, but for now, I must bid you farewell. Until we meet again, Ash Griffin." After clearing his statement, Kivat flew off into the sky without giving them any knowledge of where he was going.
"Who was that guy?" Spike asked with his brain constructing multiple questions about the bat.
"Kivat-bat The 3rd. The third generation in the Kivat-bat family. Wataru Kurenai's partner and transformation device. Also the son of Kivat-bat The 2nd and father of Kivat-bat The 4th." Both of Twilight and Spike's looked to each other and looked at Ash again.
"Sure......I'll try to remember that."
"So, whaddya wanna do now?"

Meanwhile........

Just when Twilight was about to make them a suggestion, all of their ears could pick a sound. It was kind of similar to that of a few coins, being stacked by dropping on one another. That was when they realized that something or someONE had appeared behind them and this was correct right when they turned their backs to see a pile of large green coins appear from the sky. But, that was not all for when the coin stack disappeared, a figure came out. However, Ash did not even recognize it, considering it did not look like any villain from the Kamen Rider series. But actually, it did bear a striking resemblance to one of the Gokaigers' enemies, Development Technical Officer Insarn to be precise, only with a bit more black. Soon after she appeared, her legs carried her forward to her objective who the three heroes mistaken was them. But in honesty, she was merely walking towards the direction of where the crab Zodiart was which the three saw later and did not realize its body still remained. One thought that came into Ash's mind was;

"Who the crap is that? And why didn't that Cancer Zodiart's body get destroyed?!"

The team had to be cautious, just in case she had planned on attacking. But, yet again, she acquired no intentions to harm them on her own and that was when she pulled out a gold coin with an orange gem-like marking. Good thing that Spike was not in the eating mood right now.

"This is infused with energy from Master Genis' cells." Giving it one smooch from her lips, probably just for show, she approached nearer until she found a hole-like design thingie on the monster's claw. She immediately placed the coin object into the thing and it was a perfect fit, much to her surprise. "I'm not sure if this will work, but.......... And right after her incomplete sentence, everything in the area blew into flames, warning the previous three into backing away. After a few steps backward, Ash really needed to see what happened, so he attempted to withstand the heat and opened his eyes to see that the Zodiart had not only turned huge but also had morphed into its evolved form; Cancer Nova. He also saw that Naria woman had vanished to only God knows where, but he was not stuck with that idea the most. Since the author's too lazy to explain the features of this version of the Cancer Zodiart and since you all probably know what it looks like already, I guess the features do not need to be explained. Now, all six eyes were locked onto the giant who made movements you would find in kaiju films.

"..........Well, shoot." Ash cursed out loud.
"Ah, man!" Spike shouted. "Now, he's HUGE! How are we supposed to beat him NOW?!" Defeating enemies of the average size were easy to beat, but trying to overthrow a giant sized enemy would be like trying to eat a Trinidad Moruga Scorpion chili and a ghost pepper at the same time. Trust me, you do NOT want to see what happens. But then, he had just remembered that the smartest pony in Ponyville, to him and many ponies at least, was standing there beside them. "Twilight! We need to do something!" But, all he got was silence which was briefly interrupted by the Zodiart striking down its oversized claw down onto the little beings.
"Watch out!" That warning got them to scatter from the attack that instead, destroyed the fountain. The claw, much to the crab's annoyance, was covered in dirt when it raised it from the soil after. Meanwhile, the human, alicorn, and dragon luckily reacted fast enough to evade to the right, though Ash still sensed something about Twilight was not right, other than the complete lack of her voice coming up with a plan. "What's up with Twilight?" Ash thought while looking at her in the corner of his eye while exiting his evasion pose. "I can't worry about that now. I need to take this guy down before he destroys the rest of town square. And there's something dramatic I thought I'd never say." Pushing aside his joke, his eyes turned to Spike who was still trying to get Twilight out of her trance, probably from the Zodiart's transformation.

Coming out of his previous worry, Ash looked back at the giant and needed to strategize. He focused his energy onto his backside and envisioned a pair of Blade Jack Form wings which took form from a gold light and thankfully, did not rip his shirt's back. After spreading his newly obtained wings, he pressed his legs against the ground before leaping into the air with force and started to soar upwards to the Zodiart's eye level. Unlike its original height in the KR Fourze show, this villain was about 1.5 times the normal size of its form. Good thing Ash had been taking several lessons from Rainbow Dash and a few of the Wonderbolts during his free time. His fear of going above clouds did not fit with him before. Once he has reached said level, he spotted that the beast still had the top of its previous body structure above the presumed face.

"Y'know that I'm gonna defeat you still, right?" Ash asked without mockery, surprisingly.
"Do I have to force you to STOP TALKING?!?!" Cancer Zodiarts yelled out of rage and irritant before striking its left claw towards the winged human who immediately noticed and flew higher, making the claw scoop up a bunch of clouds instead. It let go of the non-solid puffs and searched for the human until it felt an excruciating pain from behind and turned to its back to see Ash, holding the Barizun Sword in an after-slashing way. "WHY YOU LITTLE!!!" The voice of the monster echoed throughout the area and could even be heard from below. Another attempted swing from its right pincer claw failed when Ash dodged it again and flew to its top, equipped the Dengasher in gun form, and shot bullets all around its back before he spotted one of its claws trying to grab him and flew away in the nick of time. This was starting to turn into one of those situations where you are trying to squash a fly. After avoiding a sharp-spiked death, Ash then realized he needed to end this as soon as possible and created a new plan to take this titan down.

First, he focused his spare energy into his right foot which glowed a bright crimson light and got the attention of the crab monster. "What the?"Then, the Zodiart turned its body around again to see the human still hovering in the air and also his foot glowing. Wow, that sounded a lot better in my head.

Pushing the crab's confusion out of the way, Ash's foot began to glow brighter, indicating he was charging more of his power into his oncoming attack. Even the crab did not need a second brain to figure out that he was going to initiate a finisher. Then, after a few seconds, Ash closed his eyes into concentrating to properly manage his finisher and opened them back up before he aimed his foot towards the top humanoid-like part and dove down in a Rider kick position. However, reacting quickly, the Zodiart was somehow fast enough to use its left pincer to block his kick, thus making the human strike its claw alternatively. The result was ( you guessed it ) Ash performing his Crimson Smash to only separate the beast's claw right from its body which was still painful, but to the Zodiart, it was totally worth it. Ending his kicking attack, Ash quickly flew back, surprised at the monster's sacrificial action.

"W-what? Why would he.........unless......." Proving his theory to be correct, it was too late for Ash to see the monster's right claw was at his right side and approached with great speed and force. Just as his eyes caught it in their sight, all Ash could say was.......

Interrupting his speech, the claw finally bashed the human to the southeast downwards. The force of the attack was enough to make Ash plummet back down, but instead of crashing to the ground instantly, his body flew straight through the town hall building, eventually reaching land after. This event caused a giant hole to take shape between the hall's front and back, alerting Twilight and Spike of his situation. "ASH!" Their cries reached to the boy who was still unconscious from the crash landing and rushed towards him. His appearance was not good. This time, he had a major scar on his left arm, his clothes lost some ripped pieces, and you know the rest. When they finally reached him, they spotted his bruises and injuries with worry as Twilight leaned her right ear towards Ash's chest and thankfully, heard several slow beeps that pointed out that his soul was still alive.

"I-Is he alright!?" Spike asked with great distress.
"Yes, he's still alive, but recovering slowly," Twilight reported. Usually, one blow from his finishers would have made the enemies toast, but this time, it was going to take more than that to defeat this behemoth. The two looked at each other's eyes with worry over their bipedal friend. Who was going to take down the titan now? The alicorn and dragon knew they were not strong enough to even make a dent in all of that spiked-armor, so what other option did they have? Before they knew it, the crab had already spotted them, "YOU!", warning the two heroes of its notice. "I've had enough of heroes for one day! Time to end this!" The Zodiart was formerly planning to squash them with its new size, but since it was infuriated enough, it felt easier if it would just rip the town hall in two and throw one of them to the little pony and drake. So, confirming it would work, its claw opened up and reached for the top half of the building, then closed back up with a huge chunk of the construct in its grip.
"NO! Not the town hall!" Twilight shouted from below.
"Oh, you want your building so badly? THEN, HERE YOU GO!!" It reeled its claw back and hurled the building towards the two.
"Oh, no!" Spike exclaimed as the giant projectile closed in on them. Now would be a good time to put up a magical barrier big enough to withstand the force of the impact, but because she had too many worries and also because of pure pressure, we all know that was not going to happen. All they did was hug each other, closed their eyes and screamed at the top of their lungs as the building was approaching nearer.

However, just as it seemed their lives were going to end by being crushed, a giant dark blue butterfly net appeared in front of them and easily snatched the building from crashing. All three figures were befuddled by this until they turned their attention to the source; the Star Swirl Eyecon creating the net, followed by a blue portal opening up in the sky and the two others with a special new guest arriving. This said guest was too an Eyecon and its color scheme was fern green. "EH!?" The crab was absolutely not expecting this to happen, but hey, the world would not be what it is if there are no surprises, including some strange and unusual ones.

"Greetings, Princes Twilight Sparkle." The Eyecon greeted her in a gentlemanly manner. "Need some help?"
"You bet we do!" Twilight replied. "And you're just in time, too! Ash is extremely injured here!" As she explained that last part, the new Eyecon helper floated down and approached Ash. The princess had never seen this one before, but as long as it could do something to help, she would be grateful for it. "Could you do something to help him?" Her worried tone was luckily not getting to the Eyecon that took a close look at Ash injuries before its iris produced a bright green luminescence. Before they knew it, the light did a scanning-like effect to Ash's body and his scars and cuts were immediately healed and left no injury not-recovered. This left the drake and alicorn in complete shock and almost made their jaws drop. They waited for about 3 seconds before they noticed the human's eyelids started to flicker open until fully open. Two gasps could be heard as Ash used his hands to raise his top half from the dirt, totally unaware of what just happened. His eyes then turned to Twilight.
"Guys, why did it just feel like I was surrounded by walls made out of green fur?" Ash asked comically.
"We'll give your answers later. Right now, we'll need to focus on the giant crustacean." Star Swirl referred to the Zodiart close to them.
"But, how? It was even strong enough to withstand one of my Rider kicks, though I wouldn't say that about his pincer." He pointed his thumb to the claw laying on the ground.

"Well, maybe I can assist you with your little problem," The new Eyecon spoke to the group in a feminine voice. Ash could not help but feel like there was something familiar with this new eye-shaped helper. But, that was not even the biggest of concerns right at this moment.
"And who are you, exactly?" Ash asked.
"Trust me, Ash." The wizard said next. "You'll find out sooner or later."
"Alright," The human opened his palm for the green Eyecon to rest upon. "I'm trusting you on this one, little lady." The female "Hm-ed" and nodded her body with agreement. His smile showed his trust in her before his eyes looked to the behemoth Zodiart who was standing there, wondering if they were still aware of it. His head turned back and saw everyone's approving nods, followed by Multi summoning his Ghost Driver straight out of its pupil, caught by the human himself and later strapped around his waist.

After that, he pushed the black button that opened up the front and produced the first standby sound. He held the Eyecon higher this time before inserting it into the slot and closing it back up.

EYE! BATCHIRIMINĀ!!

Then, the Parka Ghost revealed itself through the eye and showed its features. Its design featured a very stitched-based look, it still kept its green color, a tied rope on its neck, probably for tightening and loosening purposes, its eyes also had the fern green color scheme, and the horn underneath the "face" remained. The pose for this one was it, turning its head around with its right hoof barely lifted. Not the most astounding, but could you really blame it? Twilight, Spike, and the rest all watched as she floated around Ash until he finally pulled the lever and pushed it back in, thus initiating his transformation.

KAIGAN! CLOVER! YŪJŌ NO HI!! SHŪSHI GAKUSEI!!

After all of that, the transient armor formed around Ash before he raised his arms to let the hoodie-based ghost be worn by him. His transformation was almost complete and the thing to finish it was that his faceplate/persona turned from plain gray to an image of, obviously, a green fiery heart under his Wisp Horn. His two comrades "Woah-ed" at the sight of his epic transformation and so did the Zodiart who witnessed everything unfold.

"You've acquired another new form!?" It asked furiously. "It doesn't matter! Once I've destroyed you all, then I'll think about how I'm going to take over this pathetic little world and the other world as well!" It did not seem like it, but the crab felt like it had a 50-50 chance of getting out of this new issue scott-free. One wrong move and his whole body goes "BOOM!!".
"......Don't ever.....call this world.......PATHETIC!!" Their battle cry reached the monster's ear and took action by using Ash's magic through his horn to teleport in a green flash from the ground to the front of the Zodiart's sight. Jolted by this, the crab quickly swung its remaining claw at Ash who, however, dodged it easily by teleporting again out of sight, making the giant weapon miss its floating target. Then, it started looking around again without uncertainty this time, "WHERE DID YOU GO, YOU-!!" but, unfortunately, was too late to watch out for an incoming attack from behind as the human used his magic again and created humongous variants of his hands the size of the crab and brought his right fist and his left fist to the monster's back. The force of his action almost caused the Zodiart to tumble but managed to regain balance and became more ticked off by him. Now, it was starting to think that sacrificing one of its pincers was not such a well thought out strategy.

It then turned its back and spotted the human right there in the air, but then received an uppercut by Ash's right fist which made its entire bod flip upside down, exposing the Zodiart's underbelly. "GAH!!" But, the underpart was not his target, instead, he used both his giant grabbers to take hold of all of its pointy limbs in one grab. He was glad he could feel no pain from holding the limbs' spikes. Now, all he needed to do was to start Phase 3 which was when he raised the entire crab's figure using his enhanced strength and shoved it back into the ground, making a bunch of dirt kick up onto the surface. The others, while watching from below, tried to avoid getting involved in the destruction and receiving as many injuries as the human previously did. After that, he raised the body again and pushed it back into the ground one more time. He basically did this for 3 more times since he had a big advantage and started to form a humongous crater in the surface. Letting his big hands go of the Zodiart's legs, its body dropped yet again as Ash made his variant-hands dissipate and let his normal hands be. "AGH, THAT HURTS!"

"Ya' ready for the finale, Clover?" Ash asked his green wearable comrade.
"Ready as I will ever be!" Clover The Clever replied enthusiastically. Ash was honestly impressed that she was having fun, fighting a giant rampaging crab behemoth the size of......whatever it was the same size as. "Let us do it!"

With an approving nod from the human, he pulled the driver's lever just as the monster could be seen getting back up onto its feet and raised his two right fingers up, then brought them back down and quickly made his triangle sign. But rather than his respective seal, it instead created a green version of the original Fire of Friendship behind him and engulfed his foot in a green, powerful flame. Twilight was especially amazed by this as she never saw the REAL Fire of Friendship before. After a brief moment, Ash pushed the lever back in, therefore commencing his finisher.

OUR LIVES ARE GONNA BURN BRIGHT!!

CLOVER! OMEGA DRIVE!!

"Nanda!?" That was all that the giant could say before Ash did a backflip while in the air and targeted his foot towards the Zodiart which resulted in his Rider kick successfully striking the Zodiart's top-bipedal part above its face and going through its whole body and out from the crab's backside. Once he had done his landing pose, the crab's body started to spark and crackle with electricity, "NO! I CAN'T BE DEFEATED! THIS IS NOT THE END!" before dropping down and exploding in a massive fire. When getting out of his pose, Ash could see Twilight and Spike, being amazed at his awesomeness as always and looked behind him to watch as the flame died down slowly from the crab's inevitable defeat. He could not have been more proud of himself, including Clover too. He opened his driver and pulled her out of it before closing it back, making his Rider form disappear.

"Ash!" Twilight called out to him as she and the dragon ran for him and stopped.
"I'm okay. Thanks for asking," He thanked her. Ash also noticed later that the Eyecon floated free from his hand and reunited herself with the others.
"I think you were right, Star Swirl," Clover admitted to her teacher. "That was a thrill!"
"Was there ever any doubt?" The wizard master said before they "snuggled" with each other. However, he promptly realized that he wanted to tell the three heroes something important. "Oh, wait! I almost forgot something!"
"What is it?" Spike asked when he turned to the Eyecon.
"Well, this is only a small clue, but before me and the rest arrived here, Multi explained to us about a familiar pony coming to town." That really was a small clue. Ash, Twilight, and Spike did not have any idea that somepony was coming to visit, so who could it be?
"So, are you gonna tell us or are you gonna just stay quiet while we figure it out for ourselves?" Ash asked with much curiosity.
"Hm, seeing as we all have been through so much already for today, I suppose I could give you three the next hints." The unicorn cleared his throat before speaking. "This individual will arrive on 1600 sharp by train, so you should get to the station while you still have time."
"Alright. Thanks, Star Swirl."
"Anytime." Multi then opened up another portal out of nowhere and signaled them to go through. "Now, if you'll excuse us, we happen to have somewhere else to be for now.

"Okay, see ya!" After bidding their farewells, all the Eyecons went through the portal which closed back up once they did. Now, it was just The Three Musketeers all by their on. "So, you wanna check who this unknown pony is at the train station?"
"Like you even needed to ask that," Twilight said to him.
"Hey, I'm just asking, alright?" Clearing out all of the noise in the area, the gang headed to the train station to meet up with this yet-to-be-revealed somepony.

At The Train Station.............

Just like Star Swirl said, the three have already arrived at the Ponyville train station where is was currently 3:57 which meant that the train might arrive within two or three minutes. While they waited for the untold passenger, Ash was leaning against the station's left pole and crossed his arms for rest while Twilight and Spike casually stood in the middle of the platform. They actually arrived 20 minutes earlier which could explain Ash's restless left leg hopping lightly on the wooden ground. If this was going to be another waste of time, then he would have no other choice but to lay his head on the bed for 3 hours, trying to sleep away the boredom and annoyance. As soon as Ash 's gave up on staying open, all six ears could hear a train whistle from the right where all of them could observe the Ponyville train, finally arriving at its destination.

"Oh, thank God!" Ash yelled out of relief while the train came to a stop. "I thought I was gonna have a restless leg syndrome!"

Twilight and Spike only rolled their eyes. They were kind of starting to get sick of this new sarcastic and joke-cracking Ash Griffin, but that is merely how the universe works. If it changes, you have got to change with it. Clearing that off their minds, the smoke stack stopped releasing steam from its insides and let anypony on board exit safely. The alicorn princess could not wait any longer for the revealing of the anonymous pony, so she took 3 steps back as she wanted to give the visitor some space to walk out. Spike followed her once he noticed and twiddled with his fingers patiently. Then, they saw the train coach's doors open to let out the said visitor, but this is where it gets unbelievable. The trio's eyes all widened as the figure revealed more of itself while Ash's surprised smirk was followed by him walking up to Twilight's side and still kept his arms crossed. The individual also smiled at their reaction and Twilight's open mouth that the pony closed with a pink hoof.

"Well, well, look who we have here," The human stated proudly. "The pink and powerful magic user has returned."
"In the flesh, Ash."

Her female voice bringing a big spark into Twilight's heart, making her gasp and pounce on her friend for a big bear hug. This filled both of their hearts with joy and happiness and this was beginning to become a cute sight for the two males who only stood there and feel happy for the two mares. The impact was a tad rough, but the pink pony did not intentionally care and hugged the princess back, producing an adorable squeaking sound.

Meanwhile, totally unnoticed by either of them, Ryutaros was watching the whole scene unfold before his orange eyes and "Daww-ed" so deeply as he caught the entire thing on video as well. Speaking of which, when did you get a new phone?

"Oh, I'm glad you asked, Mr. Narrator! A week ago, Discord invented what he called his 'greatest creation ever made' which was, as you can clearly see, this cellphone which has features that no other phone on Earth has in history!"
Wowzers! That's pretty impressive! Can you tell me what these features would be?
"Certainly! I-!" However, before he could answer my answer, his phone pinged meaning that he got a text. "Oh, hold that thought! Momo sent me a new text! Hm, let's see....."
What did he text you?
"Well, it's just him texting about how he's enjoying his vacation at Bare-bados. Nothing important."
What is that, like the Equestria version of BAR-bados?
"Exactly!"
Huh, figures.

Meanwhile...........

The red Imagin stated that as he sat on his respective beach chair in the middle of the beach in Bare-bados. His stay in here has been going very swell and relaxing too. He needed a break from spying on the ponies all day and decided to go out to a few places for a few months. Beside him was a table holding a smoothie filled in a coconut shell and behind him was a beach umbrella that blocked the Sun's heat rays from reaching part of his body. Just as he was going to put his hands behind his head, he heard a ping coming from his back pocket. ( Oh, did I forget to mention that he was wearing beach shorts as well? ) "Hm?" His right hand reached into his pocket and pulled, you guessed it, a phone with a phone cover designed by Discord too. It followed his own body design which meant it had a really devilish look to it, including two horns on the above part. Momotaros checked his texting app and found out that Ryu was the one that texted him.

He sighed before saying, "Alright, Ryu. If this is about your weird collection again, then I am SO gonna-" He would have completed his sentence if the text was not this:

Wassup, bro! You'll never guess who arrived at P station just now! I'll give you a hint:

IT'S SGSGSGSGSGSGSG!!

If his eyes were expandable right now, they would have certainly expanded right now to the size of eggs. And just for humor, he placed his phone into his left hand instead while he used his other hand to grab the fruity drink, slurped some of it from the coconut, placed it back and turned his head slightly to the right to-

HEN........SHIN!!

by Kendall04082

Morph #13: The Clover And The Crab