Kamen Rider a New Breed

by raven618

Ch1 The Mantrap

Cantorlot to Ponyville Train, 6:35 pm

Twilight was feeling pretty good about herself at the moment. She had helped amend somepony's problems, befriended said pony, and rekindled her friendship with her old classmates. Well, most of them.

"Hey Spike," she asked her assistant/brother/son.

"Yeah Twilight?" he responded.

"Remind me to see how Lyra Heartstrings is doing when we get back to Ponyville."

"Yes ma'am." he replied in his usual cheery attitude.

"And don't you worry about him forgetting, cause if he forgets then I'll remind him, to remind you." said the third member of their party, the original party pony herself, Pinkie Pie.

The two mares and drake were coming home from a week in Canterlot working on their latest 'episode in friendship' as Spike had been calling them. Twilight had realized that she had neglected to talk to her old friends from CsfGU since well... ever. So she went to Cantorlot to have a sort of, class reunion. There were some complications, but in the end things turned out all right.

Now after a big party last night and hours of surveillance the days prior (don't ask), Twilight was ready for a good nights sleep. After seeing how Lyra was of course, her being the only one of her friends who had moved out of Canterlot since she had left.

"How about we eat out for dinner tonight Twi," Spike suggested "you look a little tired, and quite frankly (yawn) so am I."

Twilight looked at the young reptile, he did look exhausted and she was feeling a little groggy. "That sounds great. Want to join us, Pinkie?"

The pink mare smiled, "Sure, but you're buying."

Twilight gave a little chuckle, "Deal." She suddenly heard a light snoring, looking down she realized Spike had fallen asleep against her. Careful so not to wake him, she wrapped her wing around the dragon.

As she did she couldn't help but feel like catching a few winks herself. She laid her head against the window and let the rhythm of the engine lull her to sleep.

Suddenly she noticed that was all she could hear, no Spike snoring, no chatter from the other passengers. As she looked around the car she didn't see any other passengers, even Spike and Pinkie were gone.

The princess got up to look around and realized there was someone else in the car. Or more accurately, something else. The figure had the shape of a pony, but its coat was covered with red markings. It had three large red eyes on its face. And where it's ears should have been there where, only large antenna. Needless to say she reacted like any sane mare would when they saw a giant spider pony.

"Ahhhh!!!"

Don't tell me you wouldn't do the same if it happened to you.

"Twilight! Wake up!"

Twilight opened her eyes and realized she had been dreaming. Everypony was still on the train, or getting off the train.

Spike looked at her worriedly, "Are you okay? You seemed restless."

"I'm OK, just a bad dream." Although she had never had a dream like that before.

"Well we'd better move sleepy heads, cause the train stopped and I'm staaaarvin'." Pinkie said as she bounced past Spike and Twilight.

As the young princess exited the train, she tried to remember her dream. It had already faded, so she couldn't remember what had scared her. She was so engrossed in trying to remember that she didn't notice that in the train window there was a reflection without a body watching her and the rest of the ponies on the platform with a hungry look in its eyes.

The Soup Bowl, Later

All thoughts of Twilight's dream had vanished as the group sat down at a restaurant they found. Actually we ran into Lyra and her friend Bon Bon who showed us the restaurant. Ahh! Pinkie, don't do that. Sorry.

The ponies and Spike sat down, the two horned members discussing their work.

"So Bon Bon took me in and before you knew it we were best friends." said the mint colored unicorn.

The cream earth pony chuckled at that, "It didn't happen over night, in fact it was the nights that kept me from opening up to her."

"What do she snore?"

"Pinkie! Uh, no that wasn't it."

"And I did not snore."

"Actually I didn't get a chance to find out, she was always working late on her studies and projects. More than once I found her passed out at her desk."

"Oh I can relate to that." Spike spoke up. "Twilight once went about three days without sleep."

"Hey, I was trying to avert a disaster of colossal proportion."

"Which never came."

Twilight stopped talking at that point, knowing that there was no point in continuing. Instead she decided that they should start eating. She called for a waiter and a young earth pony filly came over. She had a grey coat and a silver grey mane ending in a braid, and she wore a pair of glasses and a white apron around her midsection.

"Ready to order?" she asked.

"Yeah, I'll have a lettuce and daisy sandwich."

"Alfredo pasta bowl for me."

"Ooh ooh, make that two. And include a side of barley with mine."

"I think I'll have my usual, Bon Bon?"

"I'll take the pasta as well, but with tomato sauce instead."

The filly finished writing down the orders. "Okay, your meals should be here in a bit." she said turning to the kitchen.

She didn't make it that far though, another pony was crossing the same way and tripped the filly. The waitress fell flat on her face.

"Ow! Watch where your going." she exclaimed.

The pony turned and bowed his head to her, "Oh, sorry."

The filly just sighed and stood herself up. "Its alright, but please stop bowing."

The pony did, yet didn't take his eyes off the filly as she went into the back room. He then took a seat in a secluded spot. To the average passerby it would have been normal, but Pinkie was not the average pony by any means, and she could have sworn that she saw some kind of pattern spread over the pony, if just for a moment.

Castle Harmony (Twilight residence), even later

"Thanks for all the help Pinkie." Twilight said as they approached the large doors that were the entrance to her new home. " I really don't know what I would have done without you."

"Aw, you would have come up with something. Oh wait, you did come up with something, me." Pinkie giggled at her comment a little. "Seriously though I'm glad you got back together with your Canterlot friends. Which reminds me, are you still keeping in touch with your CHS friends?"

"I've been getting weekly letters from Sunset and that worlds versions of you and the rest of the girls. I've been thinking it might be nice to bring Sunset back over here and let her and Celestia make amends."

"I'd really like to meet her, if you do invite her better not let the rest of them through, or at least not all of them. Can you imagine what it would be like with twelve elements of harmony in one place?"

"I'd be more worried about what would happen to Spike if there were two Raritys in one place." the dragon in question was curled up on Twilight's back dozing soundly. "Speaking of which, I'd better get this little one to bed. Goodnight Pinkie."

"Goodnight Twilight."

Once the two mare had finished saying goodnight twilight turned to the magical castle she was apparently calling home now. The purple alicorn pushed open the doors to her unbearably large castle, and made her way to the bedrooms. Spike had a room across from her so if anything happened she would be able to help. Wrapping the drake in her magic she gently lifted him off her back and placed him in his bed. Twilight remembered the basket Spike had as a bed before and new that the little dragon would miss it, it was all she could afford as a young filly and Spike had never really shown any discomfort with it, even after moving to Ponyville.

"Sweet dreams, my little dragon."

Twilight then saw to her own preparations for sleep. She was to tired to brush her teeth or anything so preparation turned out to be a metaphor for: fall on the bed like a dying swan. Yet as she did this, she was once again pulled into the realm of dreams, or something akin to that.

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Twilight found herself in what seemed to be a void, yet it was unlike any void she had seen before. The space between Equestria and the human world was bright and excited; the plain that Celestia took her to to make her an alicorn was also bright but in a calming way. This was more like a ripple on a pond, with murky water. She couldn't help but feel a little nervous, especially since the void seemed to be moving or something was moving inside it.

"H-Hello. Hello!" she called into the nothingness. "Is somepony there?"

"That depends on your definition of somepony." said a voice in the darkness.

Twilight got officially nervous at that point, "What do you mean?"

"Does someone have to be a pony to be a somepony? Or can they be something else?"

"Look, just" she paused to consider her words, "who are you."

It was then that a figure stepped out of the ripples. It was an earth pony stallion, he had a tan coat with a semi-wild black mane with thin pink and silver streaks running through it, two of which were longer and stuck out. Twilight also noticed that the stallion's eyes looked off, like there was something barring them.

What was most unusual about the pony was his attire, she never saw clothes like them before. He had on a sort of armor, covering his chest, and legs. The chest-plate had a white double line running from the left side of the neck down, and another from the left shoulder running across to the other side and down. The legs were covered in a pink armor that was painted black on the inside for the front legs and white for the back. The pony's cutie mark seemed to show what to Twilight looked like a bar code with eyes.

Twilight was quite taken aback by the figure. "Who are you?" she repeated.

"I am the one who will connect all worlds." said the stallion. "Though to most, I'm just a passing through, Kamen Rider."

Twilight just stood there, "Is that supposed to mean something?"

The waking world, outskirts of Ponyville

The pink pony, Cherry Berry, was not usually one to go out at night. Tonight though, she heard something coming from behind her house. She held up a lantern which seemed to barely pierce the gloom, trying to see what was about.

Upon finding nothing she decided it was probably just a stray pet, but she did lock her back door after closing it.

Once she did a figure crawled out of the darkness. Its three large, compound eyes fixated on the castle in the distance.

Author's Note:

first chapter, be kind.

don't know when next chapter will be out.

Comments

[badninja]

CsfGU

This part above in the story need to be all in upper case letters because it is the name of the institution. The other thing is you have a short bit in the middle of the chapter where Pinkie is talking and you have her lines in pink and it is nowhere else in your story so far. Otherwise this is a great job for your first attempt and I would encourage you to keep at it and I will be following this story!

[Isumo1489]

Not bad for a start, but I'd recommend getting a beta reader to help with the spelling and format errors. Like the idea, and so far, characters are coming across well. Just got to work a bit on the finer points and I'll be all over this fic! Looking forward to more, and best of luck!

[raven618]

6248286 The pink part of the story is actually a fourth wall joke but thanks for pointing that out.