Chapter 1 Part 1- Attack on Equestria

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Under a full moon, Spike finds himself in the middle of an open field with a dense jungle surrounding him. He looked around scared from the complete silence thinking of what could possibly jump out at him at any moment.

"Where am I? How'd I get here?" He questioned looking around himself. "Twilight? Aunt Emerald? Anyone? Where are you?" Spike shouted out. "Maybe this is a dre-" He had spoke to himself till he was cut off by what sounds like a battle going on. "Who could be way out here?"

Hearing the sound come from the jungle, the small dragon ran in looking for the source of the sound. Coming up to another clearing ahead, Spike sped up but then quickly came to a stop coming out into the open as his eyes set sight on four shadowy figures fighting in front of huge mountain.

He watched as three of the shadows that were shaped weirdly were attacking a human shaped figure, but the outline of their body seemed strange from how the head seemed mostly smoothed except for the front that seems to have what looks like a horn curving towards the back.

Spike quickly hides behind a bush. "Is that...a Rider?" He quietly continued to watch the battle.

The human figure had the upper hand from how they made sparks fly off the shadows after blocking their attacks and slashing them with a curved feather-looking blade. After recovering, the three shadows try to rush the person all at once but miss from the person moving away at amazing speed.

The person then follows it up by speeding past the shadows as streaks multiple times while leaving glowing 'X' shaped mark on each shadow that exploded as the person stopped in front of them, causing them to be knocked to the floor with the person facing towards the mountain.

"Wow." Spike was amazed by what this person could do. But as the person turned to face the shadows, they fall to their knees while clenching their chest seeming like they're in pain as sparks of energy surge around them. "What's going on? What's wrong with them?"

The three shadows stand back up and all fire blasts at the person, that sends them crashing into the mountain. The person gets buried as the wall of the mountain broke apart on top them. Spike gasps as a giant rectangular red gem is revealed from the broke part of the mountain.

Before Spike could think of doing anything, he sees one of the shadows shoot what looks like a dark glowing purple energy at the stone making it shake and glow as the gemstone's color changes to black.

"Help me." A faint pleading voice came from out of nowhere making Spike jump up startled. "Who's there?!" He looks around trying to find the source of the voice.

"Please, help me. I can't stop myself." Spike felt sorry wanting to help the voice from it sounding distressed. "Who are you? What can I do to help?" Spike tried asking, only to hear silence in response. "Hello? Are you alri-"

The small dragon goes silent seeing the gemstone reshape itself into a huge creature as two glowing dark purple eyes open looking towards him. The huge creature makes a loud roar, shaking the very ground and then charges towards him. Spike stood still petrified with fear as the creature got closer.

"HELP ME!!" The voice shouted with the huge creature opening its mouth full of sharp teeth as it leaned down to gobble him.

"AAAAAHHHH!!" He screamed shooting off the couch in living room. Spike frantically looked around the room after the scare he just got. He turns towards the direction the kitchen hearing chairs screech followed by running steps coming from both the basement and kitchen.

The basement door swings open from Twilight's magic as she and Connor coming through it quickly. "Spike, are you okay?" She asked as they ran to his side with Emerald and Reiji coming from the kitchen doing the same.

"Y-Yeah. I'm fine." Spike answered after calming down. "It was just a nightmare. But...it was strange and...it felt so real." He ends scratching his head.

"Hm... Okay then." Connor said turning to walk back into the basement after tapping his chin a bit.

Everyone look confused at him. "Okay then? Don't you think you should show a bit more care?" Twilight questioned making him stop at the door.

"Sorry but I really need to continue working. Aside from working on the dragon gem bottles, I still need to modify the other items Spike got from Cross-Z during that battle." Connor answered before cracking his neck. "Sorry but if you'll excuse me, I have experiments to get back to."

Twilight raises a brow. "What do you mean? Don't you remember what we talked about yesterday? You need to get ready. Princesses Celestia should be getting here soon."

Connor paused from heading down the steps to think back on what Twilight said.

Flashback

Yesterday, Connor was having his phone was processing the data and energy levels of the Cross-Z items while he was working on the circuits of a device with Twilight standing behind him talking about something.

"So, Princess Celestia thought that maybe it'd be better if she and Princess Luna came here tomorrow for one or both of you to explain what you know about the kaiju that attacked and what to expect if there are more out in Equestria." Twilight smiled explaining.

Though Connor was so focus on what he was working on that he hadn't been paying attention to anything she had been saying. He didn't even notice when she had gotten there.

"I already tried asking Reiji, but he can't since he already promised to help Mayor Mare out tomorrow. Which means only you can explain about the kaiju. I know you don't like attention much and are busy with the bottles, but could you please put that on hold for a while to help us?" She asked looking hopeful.

"Yeah, sure. That sounds fine." He answered nodding without being aware of what he was agreeing to. Hearing this made Twilight smile gratefully to him and begins jumping with joy.

Flashback Ends

Connor facepalms himself with his hoof. He then turns back to her with a smile. "You're right. I did say that. I guess I'll put some tools away and leave things on standby." He turns back walking down the steps mumbling something under his breath.

Twilight and the group chuckle as he went into the basement. "He should really pay attention to the things happening around him."

"Sounds like someone else I know." Spike grinned mocking.

Twilight turns glaring at him, knowing what he means, which makes him chuckle nervously looking away while Reiji and Emerald laugh.

"So, are you ready to go pick up the girls, Spike?" He turns seeing his aunt walk towards the front door. "I'm sure Apple Bloom and the others are probably already waiting for us at their clubhouse."

He nods. "Yeah. I'm ready, Aunt Emerald. Just let me get my bag."

Running to the right side of the couch, he picks up a green bag that's leaning against it. Spike checks inside the bag to see if his Driver, fullbottles and Ryuga lock are inside. He nods seeing them all in the bag before running to follow his aunt.

"Hey, Spike. Heads up." Spike looks back to the basement door in time for Connor to come walking out holding a sword in a blue sheath with his magic. He moves it over to be placed in his hands but before it was, the sword glowed from the magic causing it to shrink to a size that he was able to hold it. "This is Cross-Z's personal weapon, the Beat Closer."

Spike unsheathes the Beat Closer to get a full look at it. The sword has a silver double edge blade with the center being transparent, a black handle, the guard has two silver pointed ends with the center having a hole through along with a gold ring going around it and a dark blue color in between silver ends, and the hilt having a gold gear in the middle with silver at the tip end and blue next to both sides of the gear that lead to two silver curved ends.

"Wow! This is so cool!" Excited he swung the sword around a bit till Twilight took it with her magic. "Hey!"

"Spike, this isn't a toy." She scolded sheathing the sword. She then turns to Connor. "And you, why would you think he'd need a sword for?"

Connor sits holding his hooves up defensively. "Hey, I'm just trying to give him options. If there are any other kaiju here in Equestria, Spike is going to need more than just the Gaburyu Breaker to face them."

Reiji nods agreeing. "He's right. Unlike us, Cross-Z doesn't have optional forms to change into and the power ups still need to be modified before they can be used with his belt."

"I planning to show him how to use it but since I'm going to be helping with Celestia, I thought I'd just give it to him in case of an emergency." Connor explained. "Which is why I also added a spell to act as a safety setting."

Twilight looks over the sword before looking to Connor. "What kind of safety setting?"

Connor takes the sword from her. "The sword is harmless in that state till he transforms. I'm not dumb enough to trust the responsibility of it with a kid." He demonstrated by showing the sword not being able to cut anything. Though Spike frowned at him after hearing the last part, which he returns with a deadpan. "Hey, there's a reason why there aren't many kid Riders." Connor then hands the sword back to Twilight.

Twilight wants to argue with him but sighs in defeat before giving Spike back the sword. "Okay but remember, it's for emergencies only." She sternly instructed him. "Can you promise me that you won't use the sword until it's needed?"

"Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Spike said crossing his heart and then holding a hand over his eye.

Twilight smiles knowing he can't break a Pinkie promise. "You all be careful in the Everfree. You never know what you'll run into in there."

Spike returns the smile. "I should be the one saying that to you every time you leave. Trouble seems to follow you and the girls when you all leave somewhere together." She looks at him annoyed. "Okay then. Bye, Twilight. See you when we get back." He quickly said hugging one of her front legs and then running out the front door that Emerald was holding open before she could say anything.

The group chuckle at Spike's quick thinking. Twilight looks to Emerald. "Please stay safe, Au- I mean Miss Emerald." She corrected herself blushing a bit.

Emerald smiles at this before she enlarges her tail to reach over to grab, lifting Twilight over to her as her tail shrunk back. Upon reaching her, Emerald brings an arm around Twilight, bringing her into a caring embrace.

"It's alright, Twilight. You can also call me your aunt." She assured her. "Being Spike's sister, makes you apart of the whole family. That's how our family has always been." Twilight smiles returning the embrace for a moment before the two separate. "And don't worry. We'll all keep each other safe." Emerald then walks out the front door and takes off flying to catch up to Spike.

"Well, guess I should be going too. The mayor will be expecting me to get there soon." Reiji said walking to the front door, going past his two friends. "See you guys later." He left out closing the door behind himself as he headed towards Town Hall.

After the door closed, Connor watched Twilight trot back into the living room to get things ready for everyone when they arrive. He smiles shaking his head as he walked back to the basement. "Hopefully she never changes."

With Emerald flying over him, Spike runs racing through town as he makes his way to the CMC's clubhouse. So focused on where they're going, the two don't take notice passing by a unicorn stallion that looks like Connor, but his coat is navy blue with a messy crimson mane and wearing glasses.

The stallion stops to look back at the two with a curious look. "Hm.....Interesting. Guess the rumor of Spike finding a member of his family was true." The stallion said to himself while in thought till he shakes his head. "Focus, Construct. One project at a time." The stallion now known as Construct said to himself before looking forward, continuing on his way through town.

Under the Sea

Many different ocean creatures were swimming around, going in different directions. They all seemed calm till they all swam off quickly seeming to have gotten spooked by something.

Seconds later bigger ocean creatures, such as sharks, whales, squids and more, also swam away for their lives as a huge figure with dark purple eyes moved by with three smaller shadows following behind it.

"I sense a low amount of negative energy. Those three fools must've failed." The first shadow spoke. "Seems we'll just have to pick up where they failed."

"Didn't think they'd lose to these weak creatures. I knew we should have gone with my plan first." The second shadow argued.

"Enough!" The third shadow argued. "We're almost there. We'll make up for the lack of negative energy once our weapon makes it to shore."

Still at a far distance but closing the gap slowly, the land of Equestria can be seen up ahead.

Castle of the Two Sisters

Emerald, Spike and the CMC were sitting on an open patch of grass in front of the castle. After having gotten the girls at their clubhouse and from Scootaloo asking, Emerald ended up flying them, in her original size, over to the castle ruins.

They had lost some time from Spike showing them his new sword and them taking turns swinging it. Connor's safety mode for it turned out to be a success from how the sword was strong to break though things but its sharpness was dull from how it couldn't cut through anything.

"That was awesome!" Scootaloo shouted. "It took us forever just getting here last time. And yet, it only took a couple seconds to get here by flying. I wonder if that's what Zero meant by using magic to make you faster."

Emerald raises a brow hearing the name. "Wait. You've all met Zero? Zero the Fenrir? When?"

"After saving us, he told us about how Spike's parents never came back from fighting a dragon." Sweetie Belle answered.

"Also, about how yah spent the last 500 years searchin' for them." Apple Bloom added.

Emerald sighs. "Of course." She looks to Spike. "What else did he tell you?"

"Nothing else." Spike shook his head saying. "He didn't say it exactly, but I think he was leaving the serious and important questions for you to answer." Saying this seems to help his aunt relax a bit.

"Just what you'd expect from a Fenrir." Emerald smiles. "They're horrible at keeping secrets but at least they know when to leave the important talks alone."

Scootaloo holds up a hoof. "What's a Fenrir? I don't think Fluttershy has told us of wolf like that."

Emerald sighs taking a moment of what to say. "I'm not really sure of the reason, but all I can say is Fenrirs are a spieces of wolf that are sentiant like us. They used to live here in Equestria a long time ago. But something forced them to abandon the land."

"Really? So, Zero's kind was the first to live here?" Spike asked, him and CMC wanting to learn more about Zero.

"Yes but if you want to learn more about their history, Zero himself or maybe even Twilight would be better to ask." She crosses her arms looking at them. "Now then, just like my family, I'm a dragon of my word. I'll answer any questions I can, little ones." She then looks to only her nephew. "Spike, I'll only answer a few questions about our family for now."

The CMC and Spike look to each other. The girls smile nodding to him, signaling him to go first in asking questions. Grateful to them, he smiles to them before turning back to his aunt with a nervous look and takes a deep breath.

"What are my parents like?" He asked after taking a moment to think.

"Mana and Leonidas, your mother and father, are both great dragons that are known by just about every dragon in the lands as the powerfullest dragons to exist." Emerald said surprising them. The four were about to start asking other questions but Emerald snaps her finger making a string tie their mouths closed. "Hold your questions while I'm in the middle of answering one."

She waited till they calmed down to undo the spell and continue. "Your mother and I look alike but she's actually really beautiful with sapphire, blue scales. Especially with her long golden mane." She chuckles seeing them with a mix of amazement and surprise from what they heard.

"Dragon's can grow manes like us?" Scootaloo questioned confused by what she was just told. "That'd I'd have to see to believe."

Emerald chuckled from this. "Well just so you know, it's true. Mana took a bit more after our grandfather who's part of a dragon spieces that can grow hair, fur or manes. Another thing about Mana is, unlike the rest of the family, she loved magic the most."

"My mom loved magic?" He asked interested in learning more about her.

Emerald nods. "Amongst dragons, she's the best at magic. Probably equal to the princesses. Though she'd deny it saying that one can never know unless tested, she'd never use her magic as a way to test strength and would show kindness to those that needed it."

Apple Bloom smiled. "She sounds really nice."

"She is. While her husband was another thing entirely." Emerald chuckled saying. "He stood out from how he's a bit smaller than me and Mana, but he makes up for the size with his strength. Leonidas could overpower an ursa major, even at this size we're in right now." The kids go wide eyed hearing that.

"No way!" Scootaloo shouted. "We've seen how big an ursa minor is. Just imagining the size of an ursa major would make it impossible for somepony our size to beat, even for a dragon."

Emerald laughed a bit. "Me and my sister thought the same thing when he tried impressing her. But he proved us wrong when he actually wrestled one in front of us and became friends with it after beating it."

"Are all dragons that strong?" Sweetie Belle was curious from how amazing Spike's father sounded.

"Nope. There are very few with amazing strength but Leonidas..." Emerald paused remembering back. "he became that strong over years of training and pushing himself pass his limits. But he didn't have just strength. He was part of a lineage of dragons that could control different elements."

Scootaloo raises a brow. "Elements? You mean like the Elements of Harmony?" Spike face palms himself at this while her friends sigh shaking their heads, whiched annoyed her. "What?!"

She holds in a laugh from watching the kids while shaking her head. "No. I mean the elements of nature. Such as fire, water, earth, wind, lightning and others." The kids quiet down enjoying what they're learning about Spike's parents and a bit about dragons. "Most of these dragons could only use one element. There were a few that could use two, three or even four elements. But Leonidas, he could actually use every element."

"All elements? How? Did he do something to be able to use them all? Can I use elements like him too?" Spike asked happy to be learning about his dad.

"I'd rather not give everything away about your father, but yes. He eventually was able to use all the elements from the limits he pushed himself through." Smiling from seeing them wanting to ask about it, she raises a claw to stop them. "We'll save that for another time."

"What?!" the four shouted upset. "But you said you'd answer my questions." Spike frowned standing up.

She nods. "Yes. But I said I'd only answer a few questions."

"But that ain't fair!" Apple Bloom exclaimed as she and her friends got up and stood next to Spike. "Spike has waited so long ta learn about his family."

"Yeah! You can't just expect him to hold off until the next time for him to ask again." Scootaloo added.

Emerald sighs crossing her arms. "Well, I was hoping you'd ask more about the family so then I could tell you about the promise I made that's keeping me from answering all your questions." The four now get completely surprised hearing that.

Spike looked up at his aunt with curious look. "Someone in our family made you promise not to tell me everything?"

"Who'd do that?" Sweetie Belle added equally curious. "His grandparents? Another aunt? Or maybe an unc-"

"His siblings." Emerald blurted out making the four go speechless.

While the girls were imagining what Spike's siblings looked like, Spike looked to the floor as his mind was working over what he was just told. He has siblings. Up until now, Spike only ever thought about who his parents were that the thought of him having brothers and/or sisters never came to mind. This both excited and made him happy to hear for a moment but then he saddened when the thought of the promise came back to him.

Spike looks back up to his aunt. "Who are my siblings? And why did they have you make a promise like that?"

Emerald began to doodle on the ground with her claw as she spoke. "You have two older siblings. You have an older brother named Caesar. He's the second oldest. And a sister named Fiamma, or Fia for short, the oldest of you three."

She pauses for a moment to show them a doodle of two big dragons, two small ones and an egg.

"They may have gone along with my decision to leave your egg with Princess Celestia, but they still didn't like the idea of leaving you. Which is why they had me make a promise to not tell you the whole story till all four of us are together." She smiles remembering when the promise was made. "I was hoping not to tell you until your parents were found. But Caesar and Fia figured you'd find out sooner and thought that it'd be the best time to reunite when you did."

Apple Bloom smiles. "So, that just means we need them ta come here."

"But how are we supposed to find or tell them?" Scootaloo questioned. "They could be anywhere."

"That's actually simple." Saying this, Emerald begins looking at the ground with her eyes glowing. she scanned around before coming to a stop looking at the ground in front of the kids, stabs her tail into the ground and pulls out a light blue gem. "We use this to find them."

The kids look questionably at the jem and then back at her. "How can a gem find them?" Sweetie Belle asked.

After smoothing out the gem, she holds it out to her nephew. "You remember how I transferred aura to you, right Spike?" He nods answering her. "If we mix our aura and magic with the natural aura in this gem, I can enchant it so that it'll begin to glow brighter and brighter the closer it gets to them."

"But that could take forever thou!" Apple Bloom exclaimed with the others agreeing.

"Yeah! You'd have to go traveling all around Equestria!" Scootaloo added.

"Not to mention if they even are in Equestria." Sweetie pointed out. "They could be in other lands as far as we know."

Hearing all these facts make Spike worry if he'd actually be able to find his siblings. He began trying to think of other ways he could find them. He could see if His aunt has another method to find them. Or maybe Twilight could have a spell to help track them down faster. He was even desperate enough to ask Discord for help.

But something in him was keeping him from asking. Before he could ponder on the feeling, his mind was brought to a stop by Emerald holding the gem in front of him.

"Don't worry, Spike. I'll be the one looking for them." She gave him a reassuring smile. "I can easily cover all of Equestria in a couple days on my own. Afterall, it was my choice that brought us to this point. It's only right that I reunite the three of you."

The girls smile at this. "That could work!" Sweetie shout happily.

"Yeah! With your speed, Spike will be reunited with his brother and sister in no time." Scootaloo agreed jumping excited.

"Isn't that great ta hear, Spike?" Apple Bloom lost her smile seeing Spike looking down at the ground with an unsure look. "Spike, are you okay?"

He looks up to her, hearing her question and sees her with a concerned look. Spike looks around to see everyone giving him the same concerned look. He looks back down as he fiddles with his fingers trying to think of what to say.

A While Before

"So. how long do we have to wait for Celestia?" Connor said in a bored tone while sitting on a chair with the main six seated on the couches in front and next to him. "No offense to your princess but I have more important things to do."

The rest of the main six had gotten to Twilight's library a bit after the others had left. While the girls were passing the time talking while eating snacks and drinking tea, Connor was working on an oval silver shaped device that was strapped to his right front leg with tools that he was holding with his magic.

"Sugarcube, I've never seen anypony aside from my family work on something as long and hard as your doing right now." Applejack said holding a cupcake. "Take it from me, yah really need to give yourself a break every now and then."

He looked at her confused. "This is me taking a break. What made you think I wasn't?" The girls look at him in disbelief.

Rainbow Dash flew up next to him. "What are you talking about?! You're still working!!" She shouted trying to make a point. "Ever since you've gotten here, you've just been working on these Rider stuff. Even now."

Connor sighs setting his tools down. "True. I guess I am still working. But this isn't anything for just Riders." He said holding up his leg with the device.

"Then what is it for?" Rarity asked as Rainbow took a closer look at it.

Be for he could answer, Pinkie pops in him and Rainbow. "It's a kaiju identifier called the CoreSeeker. It takes a picture of a kaiju, searchers through a huge amount of information that's contained in Zea and then shows you a file with info on that kaiju." she pauses having spoken it all quickly in one breath and takes another before continuing. "You can also use it to take samples or scan things to help figure out what kaiju it is." Pinkie finished saying with a smile, then hops back over and on to her seat.

"Yeah. That's pretty much spot on." Connor nods unphased by Pinkie.

"But how'd you know what it does, Pinkie?" Twilight questioned before looking to Connor. "And how aren't you surprised about how she knows?"

He shrugs. "I've already seen plenty of weird stuff from the Pinkie Pie I know. It just doesn't surprise you once you except that she knows and will find things out on her own. Isn't that what everyone else here has done."

Twilight stutters for a moment trying to think of a comeback but sighs giving up as she leans back in her seat to take a sip of her tea.

"But if you really want me to take a break from working on inventions, then maybe you all could help me figure out why and how the Tree of Harmony changed these bottles." Connor's horn glowed, popping in two fullbottles.

Flashback

"Hm. so, this is the Tree of Harmony." Discord said walking up to the tree with the main 6, Princess Celestia and Luna, Connor, Emerald, Reiji, Spike and the CMC. "Looks a little crooked to be a harmony tree, if you ask me."

"Good thing we aren't." Rainbow said making the kids laugh.

It had been the day after the battle with the kaiju and the group decided to go check on the Tree of Harmony after the princesses came with royal guards to see how the tree is doing.

"It looks absolutely wonderful." Rarity admired the sight of the tree.

Pinkie nods agreeing. "Yup! It looks a lot more better without the spiky vines around it, the dark scary circle in the sky and evil kaiju trying to destroy it." Everyone stared at Pinkie for a moment in silence as she smiled at the tree.

Connor shakes himself out of his stupor before walking up to the tree as he looks it over. "It seems to be alright. Doesn't seem to be dying. I say Discord was right. It just needed the Elements returned to it."

Saying this, everyone walked up closer to the tree. At that moment the main 6 began to faintly glow as the ground shook with the tree glowing brightly.

"It's an earthquake!" Applejack shouted.

The group moved closer together. "Discord, can you stop this-" Celestia was going to ask discord but stops seeing two lights build up in front the tree.

Luna lights up her horn, bracing for anything that could happen. "What's happening?"

The two lights shot out rainbow beams towards them, letting out a bright light making them cover their eyes. One hits the ground in front of the main 6 and the other curves hitting a saddlebag Connor had on.

"Can things never appear without a bright flash of light?" Connor complained as they let their eyes recover from the light. After recovering, he notices a light coming from his bag. "Hm? What's this?"

Reaching into his bag and pulls out the blank fullbottles with his magic. They have a rainbow energy glow pulsing through them for a moment before the bottles change into a dark transparent orange and the other into a transparent silver with both getting a different mold on the cover. The silver had the image of a capsule machine, while the orange had the image of a lion with bull horns, dragon wings next to it and a scorpion tail going along the bottom of it.

"Manticore and...gashapon?" He stared at the bottles. "Why would the tree do this? Do you guys have any idea what's going on?" He asked over his shoulder but no response. "Guys? What wrong with you- Oh."

He had turned looking questionably at them but then stares blankly, along with everyone else, at a large flower in front of them with a smooth crystal chest with 6 keyholes.

Flashback Ends

"I still don't see why Princess Celestia would think we can solve finding the keys on our own?" Rainbow complained crossing her front legs. "Is it too much to ask for a hint?"

She and the girls begin to think about it. Connor looked up at Rainbow confused and then at the rest of the girls with the same look seeing them think. He sighs shaking his head before looking back at the bottles.

"That's an easy thing to answer." He spoke in an annoyed tone making the girls look at him surprised. "How about trying to help me figure out why the tree made these fullbottles for me."

"What makes you think the chest is easy to answer?" Twilight asked curious what his thoughts on the chest are.

Rainbow flew up to him. "Yeah! What makes you say ours is simple and yours is the problem?" She demanded poking his muzzle with her hoof. "If you ask me, yours is the simplest. You got new bottles that make you into something awesome and win fights 20% cooler. That's about it. Ow." She ended rubbing her head after having a lock of her hair plucked off.

"How about leaving the "egghead stuff", as you'd put it, to the professionals here." Connor proceeds to lighting his horn and casts a spell that changes the whole room into an exact copy of the Tree of Harmony in the cave with the chest a few feet in front of it.

While the girls were amazed by how the room now looks completely the same as the cave, Pinkie had a huge smile, clapping her hooves together.

She hops over to Connor. "Can you make a copy of my family's home next? I'd really like to see how everyone is doing!" She asked excitedly but is ignored as he walked up to the chest.

"You need to create the keys." He bluntly states pointing a hoof at it. "Why else would it have six keyholes matching the same number as you six and the Elements. It's obvious the Tree of Harmony is testing you in some way."

"But that still doesn't tells us squat about those keys." Applejack argued.

Rarity agrees nodding. "And what could be inside the chest." She added after having taken a sip from her tea.

Connor shrugs. "If I had to guess, the keys are most likely connected to the Elements you represent. So, that'll all depend on you six. As for what's inside the chest, I'd say it's something that'll be a bigger responsibility than the Elements themselves. Or else, I wouldn't see the reason for the chest to be locked."

Twilight was about to question him what he meant by that, but their attentions get drawn hearing somepony knocking at the front door. "Coming!" She shouted as she left trotting over to the door.

Connor went back to his seat to look at his bottles again. "How'd the tree create these and for what reas-"

"YOU!" A loud female voice shouted. Connor looks up towards the girls confused, only to see them blinking towards the direction Twilight left to. The moment he turns to the direction, he gets tackled by a crimson red coated royal guard mare.

This causes the image spell to vanish. "You're under arrest for theft, criminal!" The mare shouted as the two rolled around fighting.

The girls are stunned by what is happening, along with Celestia and Twilight who are standing next to the hallway, as Connor tussles with the royal guard pony.

"Oh my." Fluttershy quietly said with fear as Connor and the mare punch each other.

"I bet six bits Connor will get his tail hoofed to him!" Rainbow receives a disapproving stare from Applejack. "What? You always have to go with the winner."

Pinkie hops in-between the two. "I'll take that bet!" She shouted full of confidence.

Applejack sighed shaking her head as her two friends cheered the fight on. Celestia and Twilight walked over next to the others while keeping their eyes on the fight.

Rarity and Fluttershy turn to their friend. "Twilight, do you have any idea what this is about?" Rarity asked confused by the situation.

"She seems to know Connor." Fluttershy added.

"I have no idea. Connor hasn't even gone to Canterlot before. Let alone met a royal guard." She looks to her teacher. "Princess, do you know anything about-"

"She's the captain of Canterlot's royal guard." The princess and the girls jump to their left having gotten startled by Connor who they found standing to their right watching the fight. "She's mad because I took her helmet."

They all look back and forth between the Connor in the fight and the one next to them for a moment. Twilight was about to ask him how he's in two places at once, but he holds up a hoof to stop her.

The captain stops as the Connor she's fighting glows the moment the real Connor lights up his horn. After a flash of light, she found herself trapped in a cage with the fake gone.

"What the buck?!" The captain was confused by what just happened until she glared seeing Connor next to everyone. "Thief, I'll have you thrown in the dungeons for this!"

"I have a feeling we missed something." Hearing another voice, everypony look back to the entrance of the hallway to see Princess Luna with her captain of the night guard who is a black coated pat pony stallion with red eyes.

Twilight lets out a tired breath. "Do you mind explaining this whole thing to us?" She asked looking back to Connor, along with everypony else.

"Nah. I'd rather finish the last touches on this thing for now." He answered with a bored expression holding up his leg again. "I'll just let Discord explain."

Everypony raised a brow at this. "But Discord isn't-" Twilight is cut off by flash of light.

"Gather around children. It's story time." Everyone found themselves seated in two rows, except for Connor who is on the couch continuing his work, in front of Discord who's seated on recliner. "Now our story begins in chapter 6 of Kamen Rider Jurassic. That goes for you readers as well." The last part was said quietly by a second face appearing behind his head.

Vanhoover

A train slowed down coming to a stop, arriving at the town's train station. A moment after all the doors open letting ponies off, Reiji came walking out with another pony walking beside him.

The other pony next to him is Amethyst Star, a light magenta unicorn mare with a light purple mane, who used to be Ponyville's organizer before Twilight. The two had saddlebags on them as they walked into the small city.

"This place is amazing." Reiji said more to himself as he took in the sights of this new city he's never seen before.

To him it seemed similar to a city named Vancouver that he had visited once back in his original world. But this one seemed a bit smaller compared to the one he knew and was a mix of modern-day cities with natural wild greenery.

Amethyst laughed a bit. "You're like a little colt, Reiji. I'm guessing you don't travel much."

"Yeah. I barely started traveling. So, I've never been to places like this yet." He spoke only telling part of the truth. "Seeing new places is exciting. Especially when you learn about its history and the lives of the pe- I mean ponies living there."

"Maybe if we get the orders that the mayor wanted us to do done quickly, we can go exploring around for a while." Amethyst suggested.

Reiji smiled at the suggestion. "Now that'd be great!" He began to quicken his pace a bit. "Let's get a move on already then."

She giggled before picking up her pace. "Definitely a colt at heart." It only took her a moment to catch up. But before she noticed, Reiji wasn't next to her. She looked around quickly and found him a bit behind her standing still while holding his bag a bit open in front of him with his wings. "Reiji? Is something wrong?"

Inside the bag, he sees the OOO Driver glowing faintly in a blinking motion. "What's up with- Wha?!"

He along with everypony get surprised and startled as the ground begins to shake. Some things in the city get knocked over before the shaking stops only having lasted a moment.

The second they think it's over; a black glowing object shoots out of the ocean and high into the sky, which it then creates the same huge purple spell circle that appeared back in Ponyville. Chaos begins to take over the city as ponies scream panicking from the spell turning them into humans.

Especially Amethyst who is now a teenage girl version of herself with the same skin and hair color as her coat and mane, wearing a purple summer dress with her cutie mark on the side of it and pink slip-on shoes. Fear takes ahold of her knowing what came after the circle appeared last time.

"Reiji, we should-" She stops not seeing him anywhere around. "Reiji? Reiji, where are you!?"

"Sorry Amethyst, but I can't have you tagging along on this." He was peeking out at her from an alleyway now in his human form. He puts on his driver and then runs the scanner over it after having inserted the medals. "Henshin!"

(Taka! Tora! Batta! Ta-To-Ba! Tatoba! Tatoba! ) Reiji had transformed into OOO, then uses batta's power to jump up to a building's roof and runs towards the ocean jumping from roof to roof. He brings out his Primal Cell to type a message. "Hope everyone is able to get here in time." He sends the message before jumping a far distance on the last building to the shoreline.

"Okay. What are we dealing with today?" OOO looked around towards the water. Before he could react, a gold figure comes straight at him from the sky, grabbing him by the throat and flying back into the sky.

The figure flew OOO up to a nearby mountain where it drops him from a few feet up in the air. OOO manages to recover quickly by using batta's legs to bounce off from against a tree and lands on his feet.

"That was close. Now who-" The figure lands a few feet in front of him, which is a manticore looking kaiju in golden knight armor holding a sword. "Grifforzer?!"

"A Sentai? No. You're something else." Grifforzer points his sword at OOO. "But I can tell you're just as much of a pest as them. I'll enjoy destroying you." Grifforzer charges at OOO.

OOO ducks rolling under his sword. As Grifforzer turned around, OOO used his phone to summon out his sword, the Medajaribur Ver. Scanner. The two ran up to each other and began exchanging blows from their sword colliding.

The two's swords clashed, making them try pushing each other back. "What are you planning, Grifforzer? Why are you terrorizing the ponies?" OOO demanded.

"It'd be pointless to tell you. You'll be dead before you can help them."

Grifforzer then fires an energy blast from his eyes hitting OOO point blank in the chest causing him to stumble back with sparks flying. Before he could regain his balance, Grifforzer gets two slashes on OOO while passing him, along with another slash when the two had turned facing each other, making the Rider fly landing on his back.

"All you have to know is that this area, along with the ponies will be destroyed by our armies." Grifforzer points his sword towards the city where an explosion sound is heard only a second after.

OOO know what that means quickly gets up and runs to the mountain's edge to look down towards the city, where destruction and smaller explosions can be heard. Using Taka's eyes, he sees two humanoid kaiju standing in the middle of the city with three different small armies of grunts spread around attacking some of the ponies/people and destroying things around the city.

He sees the Imp grunts form the last battle, along with two different ones. One of the other grunts are light blue with have warped ghost-like faces. The third grunts were gray colored with dried rock looking hands and faces.

"Go! Cause chaos and destruction!" One of the kaiju shouted to the grunts. This kaiju is masculine with blue skin and silver armor holding a two ended pitchfork staff. Having four clear spheres on its legs, chest and forehead, big curved shoulders, bat like wings and big white horns on both sides of its head.

"If anyone wants cucumbers, then Kappa here is happy to provide." The 2nd kaiju laughed implying himself. This kaiju looked like an ahphibian being yellow and green with a bif red dot on his cheat, goggles and red speedos. Kappa holds up two cucumbers in his hands. "Cucumber Bomb!" Kappa throws the cucumbers to the nearest building and explode it upon impact.

"NO!!" OOO quickly stands and is about to run to help but gets knocked back down from a energy beam hitting him from behind.

Looking behind him, Grifforzer walks up slowly pointing his sword at him. "The only way you're helping them, is by getting through me first, Senati."

"The name is Kamen Rider OOO!" He shouted charging at Grifforzer after standing up.

Twilight's Library

After Discord had finished his story telling, everyone had taken a seat around the table in the living room, except for the guards who stood next to the princesses.

Aside from Connor continuing his work back on the recliner, Discord had popped in a wide selection of snacks for everyone and made special seats for Pinkie and Rainbow since they didn't have enough for everyone. Rainbow was completely relaxing on a cloud that's the most comfortable she had ever rested on.

As for Pinkie, she was happily taking bites out of a big cotton candy pillow she was laying on, which kept growing back. She felt like she was in heaven from how each bite she took filled with chocolate milk and whip cream.

"I have to say Discord, I never would've expected this much of a change in you." Celestia admitted smile.

Luna nods agreeing "Yes. We were thinking you'd be showing this change more-" Luna pauses noticing different colored star shaped spots on her and her sister. "Never mind. You're still enjoying yourself with chaos."

"Of course. Being reformed doesn't get rid of my mischievous ways." Discord said taking a sip of tea while dressed in a tuxedo. The second he rests his arms down, a bunch of different prank items came spilling out of his sleeves. "That is a part of myself I refuse to ever change."

He then poofs his outfit way. "Though, you can thank my friends for my change." He looked to the main 6 and then over to Connor. "They let me freely be myself. But with some understandable limitations"

Celestia and Luna raise a brow curious at this. "What exactly are these limitations you've all made." Celestia asked.

"We can talk about that some other time." Everyone turned to Connor. "For now, can we move on to the kaiju discussion like we had planned?" The princesses blushed a bit having forgotten what they originally came to talk about.

"And what would a thief know about those monsters?" The mare guard questioned him while glaring daggers at his back. Luna's guard tried shoving against her signaling her to stop but is ignored as she continues. "Unlike the rest of us, you don't seem like the reliable type."

Before anypony could say anything, Connor's small vehicles, the Engines, came bursting out of the basement surprising everyone carrying his Rider phone over to him.

Connor takes a hold of it with his magic and sees he has a message from Reiji saying 'Kaiju at Vanhoover'. Everyone could tell something was wrong from how he went from curious to serious in an instant. Connor takes off his new device and tosses it to Twilight.

"Discord, please teleport Spike and the other back here now. We've got no time to waste." He immediately said. Discord just salutes before snapping his fingers and vanishing in a flash.

Castle of the Two Sisters

Spike and the others were still seated in front of the castle ruins with Emerald's and the CMC's eyes on him. He kept looking down at the ground trying to figure out what he's feeling.

The CMC were so focused on Spike, that they didn't notice Emerald seemed to be in thought. 'Could it be "that"?' She thought to herself looking down at Spike. 'If that's the case, then I'm sure he'll figure out the answer soon.'

"Maybe your stomach is just upset." Scootaloo suggested. "You do like to eat a lot of gems." She notices her friends frowning at her. "What?"

Apple Bloom looks back to him. "Spike, don't yah want to meet your siblings?" She was concerned about what her friend was feeling.

"No. It's not that." He answered without looking up. "To tell you the truth, I'm not really sure what I'm feeling."

Sweetie got up to walk over and sits next to his left side. "Maybe you're just getting nervous at the thought of meeting them."

Spike shakes his head. "No. It's not that either. It's just..." He pauses to look up at the sky. "it almost feels like-" He gets cut off as he and the others get startled by Discord appearing above them in a flash of light.

"Sorry to cut this trip short folks. But Spike is needed back at the library." Before they could ask him anything, Discord snapped his fingers and teleported them all back into the library in an instant.

Emerald and the kids shook off the daze they were in before looking around to see Twilight and the others in the room with them.

"Connor, what's going on?" Emerald asked afraid of the answer.

"Reiji sent us a message saying kaiju are attacking Vanhoover." He answered making Spike and ponies' gasp. "Knowing him, he's most likely already trying to help by fighting on his own. We need to get there soon. So, here's the plan. Princesses, you and-"

Celestia's captain lands in front of Connor. "What gives you the nerve or authority to order the princesses around?" This upset his friends a bit. "A thief shouldn't be in charge of such a serious matter. And how do we know your friend isn't just making this all up?" She ended poking Connor's chest with her hoof.

The princesses we about to scold for her misbehavior but are stopped by Discord who makes a stop sign appear in front of them. As they were about to question him, Connor takes out the Build Driver and puts it on changing him into his human state, which shocks the two captains.

"First of all, I'm not a thief, Captain. I technically did return your helmet." He said in his normal tone. "But I can understand not trusting me and my friend have to say. And true, I shouldn't be ordering the princesses around, but this is an emergency. We can't be wasting time. Spike, Rider time." He said looking to Spike.

Spike runs to his side taking out the same belt and puts it on changing into a human state as well, which once again shocked the captains. "Cross-Z!" He called out holding up his right hand. Cross-Z Dragon flew out of Spike's bag and lands in his hand after folding its tail and head in.

While Connor shook his two fullbottles, Spike did the same with his dragon bottle before putting it into Cross-Z. (Wake Up!) The two then inserted their items into the belts. (Rabbit! Tank! Best Match!/Cross-Z Dragon!) Jingles play for a monent till they then turned the belt's crank which creates constructs around them. (Are you ready!) "Henshin!" They shouted taking a stance before straightening themselves out as the constructs closed on them.

(Hagane no moonsault! RabbitTank! Yeah!/Wake up burning! Get Cross-Z Dragon! Yeah!) The shock continued seeing that Connor had transformed Build while Spike transformed into Cross-Z, the heroes that were described to had saved Ponyville.

"Twilight, Emerald and Discord, if that spell is around again, you two are going to need to lead everypony to safety while me and Cross-Z deal with the problem." Build said to the three before looking to the rest. "The rest of you will need to wait out of that spell's field in case anypony is able to leave the area."

Everybody nodded in agreement. "We'll see what we can do about that spell." Celestia says adding to the plan.

"Yes. I'm sure between me and my sister, we'd be able to shatter that spell." Luna said moving next to her sister.

Build shakes his head. "No. There's no telling how magic from another world could react to being tampered with by magic from this world. There's also the chance the kaiju could up their intentions if something is done to their spell."

"He's right, Princess Celestia." Twilight said speaking up. "I've seen what the kaiju can do. It's better if we follow Build's plan until we know more about them and their magic."

The two sisters look to each other before looking back. "Very well." Celestia agreed.

"Plus, this will give me a chance to look into a theory." Build said to himself before nodding to Discord who gives him a thumbs up and snaps his fingers teleporting them out of the library and to the outside the veil of the spell circle.

The ponies, Emerald and Cross-Z gasp at the scene of destruction happening inside. Rainbow is the first of the group to react without thinking, running forward but Build reacts in time and grabs her by the tail.

"Hey, what's the big idea!? We need to help them!" She shouted.

"Sorry Rainbow, but you need to wait here." He lets go of her tail. "I know it's not easy to just sit and watch, but without knowing how to walk in a human state, you'll just be in the way in there." Reluctant at first, Rainbow settles down letting out a frustrated breath before nodding. He turns back to the group. "Let's go!"

Build and Cross-Z run into the field first with Twilight, Emerald and Discord going in a minute after. Discord stops after entering the veil to quickly check to see if it's safe to go back out. He smiles seeing it is and then runs back through to catch up.

The two Riders see a couple ponies/people being attacked by Imps, Build summons out the Vortex Saber while Cross-Z unsheathes the Beat Closer, which looks like a dagger for a second before returning to its original size, and the Riders begin slashing their way through the Imps.

Destroying the Imps and continuing to advance forward, Twilight stops to calm the frighten citizens and then directs them towards safety, which they gladly follow crawling as fast as they could. She looks ahead to see the Riders fighting the other set of grunts, having caught their attention.

Seeing the opportunity, she holds up her wrist with the CoreSeeker, aiming the camera at the grunts. The top of the device folds open to show a screen and buttons. On the screen, it shows to be scanning the grunts and brings up the data on them, showing their name, abilities and which Sentai world they're from.

"It works!" She shouted excited. "Now let's see. Those gray ones are Golem Soldiers from Zyuranger and the other are Dorodoros from Kakuranger." She looks through the data on them. "So. they're just the henchmen. Then who's commanding them?" She looked around trying to find any other kaiju.

Build switches his weapon to gun mode and began shooting the grunts that came running up to him. As more come running up to him, he jumps up to the roof using rabbit's ability and brings out two fullbottles. (Vacuum! Phoenix! Cross Combo!) His weapon announces as he fires a spinning orb of fire in the middle of huge group of grunts, which it pulls them into it and destroying them from a phoenix bursting out of the orb.

"Shoot!" Cross-Z barely managed to avoid two Dorodoro swing swords at him and slashes them as he went running past them. He looks to Build to see him mowing down the grunts with his gun. "Wonder if Build would be willing to trade weapons."

"Seems like there are rodents no matter where you go." Cross-Z turns around to see the demon kaiju. "If you're smart, you'll turn around and run if you want to keep your life."

"I'm a dragon. Not a rodent. And the name is Kamen Rider Cross-Z." He then points to it. "I don't know who you are, but this is your only warning. Stop all this now."

The kaiju chuckled. "I'll give you this, you have guts for challenging me. Now, here's the answer to my surrender." Using his staff to hit launching pieces of rubble at Cross-Z.

Barely managing to react in time, Cross-Z jumps forward onto the ground avoiding the grunts as they smashed through a building. The kaiju ran up to him as he got up and began his assault swinging his staff at Cross-Z, who was having a hard time avoiding the swings and withstanding the hits when blocked with his sword.

Still on the roof, Build was having an easier time as he ducked and jumped over the grunts swings. He came slashing down at one and quickly turned around slashing three at once. Build then dashes to the edge of the roof while turning the crank on his belt and jumps off heading towards another small group off grunts.

(Ready Go! Vortex Finish! Yeah!) Build thrusts forward in a kick covered in a red and blue essence energy, going through the small group and destroying them all in one go. "That takes care of them. How many more are around? Huh?" He had said to himself looking around till he heard Cross-Z's fight and looks towards it seeing the kaiju.

"Cobolda?! Even high ranking kaiju are here? I can't leave Cross-Z to face him on his own." Build ran a few feet towards them but then jumps back avoiding cucumbers that explode where he would've been. He looks towards the direction they came from and sees the amphibian kaiju on top of a roof above him. "Great. It's Kappa."

"This is as far as you'll advance, little rabbit." Kappa jumps down to Build and swings a punch at him. Build avoids the punch but it's what Kappa planned as he grabbed a hold of him from behind. "Phantom Portal!"

The two teleported to Vanhoover's amusement park, Playland, appearing on top of a ferris wheel. Kappa throws Build off from the top, having him crash and smashing into a carnival stand.

Build hisses a bit coming out of the stand. "Was that really necessary? Uh-oh." He had shouted up to Kappa and then began running as he threw the explosive cucumbers down at him.

Kappa kept teleporting to high spots to continue throwing cucumbers, causing explosions. The spinning teacups got blown to bit as Build jumped over the fence, ran through the ride and jumped back over.

"Stand still, boy! I promise it'll only hurt for a moment!" Kappa shouted laughing in joy.

(Harinezumi!) Build's weapon called out from him inserting the hedgehog bottle and then switches it to gun mode. "Fine by me." Rolling away from the cucumbers, he aims towards Kappa and fires multiple quill needles that cause the cucumbers to explode midair.

A couple of the needles got past the cucumbers. "Gah!" The kaiju shouted getting hit with sparks flying off him and falls off the building to the floor.

"Dragon and lock should do the job ending this." Build brings out said fullbottles but gets surprised as an octopus with a face of a woman wear sunglasses comes out of nowhere and grabs onto him from behind. "What the- Rokurokibi!"

"Sorry to interrupt. But no one hurts my darling, boy." She says keeping her hold on him as she forces him to turn around where he sees her black and white headless body run up with a naginata.

Build gets hit by the bladed staff twice before Rokurokibi lets go and sends him flying back after switching positions. Using the roll from flying back, Build gets back on one knee to see Kappa and Rokurokibi standing side by side.

"What?" Build said noticing dragon and lock gone from his hands. He looks back to the two kaiju as the octopus head attaches onto the headless body.

"Looking for these, boy?" With her hands against her hip, Rokurokibi is holding dragon, lock, hedgehog, robot, bike, eraser, ghost and wolf fullbottles in her tentacles.

Kappa holds out a yellow ball with green circles. "Seems our fun will continue." He then drops and kicks the ball towards Build.

Unable to react in time, he gets hit by the ball. "Ah!!" Build shouted as he's sent through a wall, landing in a gift shop with stuff animals falling on him.

Outside the City

Celestia and the others were helping treat ponies that were able to make it out the city that make it out of the city thanks to Twilight, Emerald and Discord helping and directing them towards the direction to safety. The ponies returned to normal after leaving the spell's field as they changed from human to pony.

The only pony not helping was a frustrated Rainbow Dash, wanting to go in and help her friends. She was flying a bit high up to look into the city where she could see the explosions from Build's and Cross-Z battle, along with barely seeing some trees at a nearby mountain fall our, which could be where Reiji is probably fighting.

She sees one more explosion go off in the city. "That does it! I'm going in there!" Rainbow shouted but as she was about to enter a lasso caught one of her back legs and held her in place. She looks back to see Applejack holding on to the other end. "What's the big idea, AJ?!" She shouted flying back and landing in front of her friend.

"Look I know how yah feel, Dash but yah can't just go rushin' in there. We don't even know how ta move around in there like Twilight and Discord. Even if we could, we'd probably just be in the way of Connor and the other if we tried fightin' too." Applejack said trying to reason with her.

Rarity walks up next to Applejack. "She's right, Rainbow. I'm sure Twilight and the others are fine. They know what they're doing."

"I know but" Rainbow paused letting out a frustrated breath. "sitting around like this doesn't feel right. You know what I mean, right squirt?" She said expecting her number one fan to agree but no one responds. "Squirt? Where is Scootaloo?" Asking after not seeing her surrogate little sister anywhere.

Her two friends become worried hearing as they began searching around. Knowing from experience that at moments like this if one CMC is missing, the other two are sure to also be gone as well.

Not seeing them anywhere, the two run towards the veil where Pinkie and the guards are waiting to help any ponies too hurt over to the Princesses and Fluttershy, with Rainbow flying over them.

"Pinkie!" Rarity shouts getting their pink friend's and the guards' attentions. "Have any of you seen Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom?"

While the guards shake their heads, Pinkie nods smiling. "Yup siree! I helped them sneak by a while ago. They pinkie promised to get me a souvenir while they went in the city to use the bathroom." They go wide eyed at her while she taps her chin looking into the city. "Wonder what they're going to pick."

"PINKIE!!" The three older sisters shouted at the pink mare.

"What? I'm sure they'll be safe if they're with Spike and the others."

Middle of the City

"Aaahhh!!" Cross-Z screamed as he flew through the air and went crashing through a glass window of a china shop. Shaking the dizziness from his head, he notices the items around him shaking. "Nonononono!" He repeatedly said till everything stopped, staying in place. Coss-Z lets out a sigh of relief. "Wonder how nothing broke from me crashing in here?"

Right then, Cobolda comes smashing through the wall next to him causing all the pots, dishes, teacups, and other similar items to fall and break. Cross-Z drops his sword as he gets grabbed by his throat as Cobolda dragged him along smashing through walls.

After going through three buildings, Cobolda pins Cross-Z against a wall and chuckles watching the Rider try to remove his hand from his throat.

"Looks like you were just all talk." The kaiju said in a disappointed tone. "Nothing but a weakling trying to be a hero. Get out of my sight." Cobolda shoots out blasts of fireballs from his mouth.

"AAAHH!!" Cross-Z gets blasted at point blank range through a wall, rolls across the ground and is sent sliding on his back across the road. He grunts trying to stand but falls onto his hands and knees.

Cobolda walks out of the building through the hole. "Is that all you have to offer, rodent? Even my enemies, GoGoFive had more backbone than this. Guess I'll just have to put you out of your misery." The kaiju said walking next to Cross-Z and holds his weapon over the Rider's head before raising it up.

Cross-Z braces for the hit as it strikes downward towards him. (Ready Go! Vortex Break!) "Ah!!"Cobolda shouted in pain from orange fireballs hitting him from the right making him stumble back a bit. "Who did that!?" The kaiju shouted turning towards the direction of the attack with Cross-Z doing the same.

Standing to their left is the CMC with Scootaloo holding Build's original primary weapon, the Drill Crusher and the other two helping her, along with themselves, stay standing up.

"Leave our friend alone!" Scootaloo shouted to the kaiju.

Cross-Z being shock is a bit happy to see his friends but is mostly filled with worry as they got Cobolda's attention. "Damn insects! You dare to challenge me, Beast Baron Cobolda!?" The kaiju shoot out blasts of fireballs again towards the girls.

Without even thinking, Cross-Z finds the strength to stand, getting in the way of the attack, takes the hit and lands next to the girls. "Cross-Z!" The CMC moved as quickly as they could to their friend's side.

Cobolda scoffed. "Still acting like a hero? Pathetic." (Gaburyu Breaker!) Cross-Z summons his weapon. (Sapphire Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Sonic!) He leaves at high speed with the CMC before the kaiju could do anything. "You can run, but you won't escape me." Cobolda spun him around and dug into the ground.

Cross-Z ran till they came across a museum that made him decide for them to hide inside. Once inside, jumped over a counter and sent them down with the reception counter keeping them hidden a bit.

"What are you three doing here? And where'd you get that?" He asked looking at the weapon.

"We forgot ta give you this." Apple Bloom holds out, handing a Primal Cell to Cross-Z. Its designed like Build's but has his color scheme and symbol on the back. "Connor gave it ta us yesterday to test for him before giving it to you."

Flashback

The scene kept switching between Connor who's down in the basement working on a staff looking device while holding his phone next to himself with his magic and the CMC sitting in their clubhouse circled around the Primal Cell that's on the floor.

"Okay, girls. Let's try the voice command now." He said while fixing a circuit.

"Aya aya, sir." Scootaloo responded as the three saluted.

Sweetie Belle holds the phone in place with one hoof while pushing the trigger button on the top right corner with the other. "Transport-Drill Crusher." She read off a piece of paper next to her after it made a confirmation noise.

The weapon's name appeared on the screen while said weapon was digitizing as it transported from behind Connor and rematerializes next to the girls. "IT WORKED!!" The CMC shouted jumping with joy.

Once they stopped, a thought came to Apple Bloom. "Say Connor, why are yah makin' this for Spike? Can't he already make his stuff appear on their own?" This question got her friends wondering the same thing as they waited for his response to the question.

Connor smiled from his side as he worked. "It isn't just for him. It's for all of you." This surprised the girls. "I'm not the type of guy to leave others hanging like this. Plus with Spike being the only hero here to fight kaiju, he's going to need help from time to time."

Finishing the circuits, he puts on his belt to change into human form, making the tools he was holding with his magic fall to the ground. The quickly caught his phone before it fell, then looked to the staff and picked it up as he twirled it around a bit.

"Since me and the other Riders won't be here much, it'll be up to you girls and the others to have his back when he needs it." He ends resting the staff on his shoulder.

The CMC smile, happy being given this responsibility. "You can count on us, Connor. THE CMC ARE ON THE JOB!!" Apple Bloom had said till all three shouted the final part.

"I'm sure he's in good hooves." Connor said before looking to some other devices on the table. "Since you girls are meeting him tomorrow, I'll leave the Primal Cell with you three to give to him. I have another project to work on before it's time for me and the others to head back to Canterlot High." He hung up without giving the girls the chance to ask about the school.

Flashback Ends

"We felt really bad for forgetting to give it to you and decided to sneak in to find you, so we could give it to you." Scootaloo admitted feeling down like her friends.

"We're sorry, Cross-Z." Sweetie Belle apologized looking down along with her friends, feeling like they failed him and Connor.

Cross-Z stayed silent for a moment before holding out his knuckle out to them, which confused them. "You may have gotten it to me late, but it's good to know I can count on you three to have my back," The CMC smile hearing this and bumps fists with his.

Cross-Z smiled from underneath his helmet moment. Though their peaceful time ends as he fells the ground shake a bit but it intensifies as seconds passing. Knowing what's most likely coming, he pushes the Primel Cell's trigger button.

"Transport- Beat Closer." A second before Cobolda comes bursting out of the ground, the sword materializes with Cross-Z taking ahold of it in time to block the kaiju's pitchfork thrusted through the counter and colliding into his sword.

"Did you really think you could run?" Cobolda took a quickly looked around as he pushed back Cross-Z bit by bit. "Seems like a reasonable place for a rodent and insects to die."

His arms begin to tire from trying to use all his strength to push Cobolda. Looking from the corner of his eye, Cross-Z sees the CMC backing up along with him with scared looks.

"Fool!" Cobolda momentarily stops putting strength into pressing his weapon to slam the other end of his weapon into Cross-Z's side, making sparks fly as he fell to one knee and quickly puts strength into holding the Beast Baron back. "Never take your eye off the battle. You'll be learning this leason with your life."

"CROSS-Z!!" The CMC were worried for their friend seeing the ground crack under Cross-Z from Cobolda putting more strength into crushing the Rider.

Cross-Z's vision begins to blur as his body feels as if it's about to break. 'Is this how you plan to let it end?' A male voice suddenly can be heard in his head. 'If you fall here, then what will happen to your friends?' A female voice questioned that made his eyes shoot open from under his helmet from the thought of what would happen to the CMC sending a chill down his spine.

"What!?" Cobolda is surprised as Cross-Z begins pushing him back while raising back up to his feet. Cobolda could feel as power surges from Cross-Z and makes him take a step back. "How are you doing this? Where's this power coming from?" Cobolda questioned Cross-Z while being force back step by step.

The flames on Cross-Z's armor glowed before actual flames ignited from them. "You can hurt me, beat me around, and even think little of me." The Beast Baron was being pushed back faster and faster as the Rider spoke. "But I'll never, ever hurt any of my friends and loved ones!"

The two smash through the front door bringing them into the middle of the street, Cross-Z resummons his knuckle weapon, uses the sword's hilt to press charging it. (Cross Knuckle!) Shoving the kaiju off, he jabbed Cobolda square in the chest making the kaiju skid back.

"And I'm not just a hero. I'm a Kamen Rider." He takes a battle stance. "Kamen Rider Cross-Z!"

While at the Mountain

Sparks flew off OOO as he fell against a tree. He quickly uses the tree to push himself away in time to avoid Grifforzer's sword as the kaiju slashed through, cutting down the tree. OOO lands a few feet away and rolls onto one knee.

"You can't keep this up forever, OOO." Grifforzer said turning to face OOO. "I suggest you surrender now. Even my enemy, the Zyurangers hardly stood a chance against me alone. What make you any different from them?"

"That may be true but" OOO untilts his belt while standing up. He then takes out his three medals and brings out rhino, turtle and condor medals. "I have a lot more tricks up my sleeves." He tosses his sword at Grifforzer and makes a mad dash towards him.

Hitting the sword to the side, Grifforzer covers his sword's blade in flame-like energy before launching it as a blast towards OOO, who ducks and rolls under it while inserting the medals and tilting his belt. (Sai! Kame! Condor!)

Grifforzer ran up to the Rider to swing his sword down at him, but it gets blocked by a turtle shell. "How'd you- Gah!" Grifforzer was surprised by how OOO's form having changed. The Rider then shoves the sword to the side and delivers a headbutt with the rhino horn straight to the kaiju's chest making him stumble back.

OOO's head had changed to rhino and legs to Condor. The middle image had changed to part of a turtle while his shoulder pads now having a shell design along with the arms each having half a shell.

"Like I said, I have a lot more tricks up my sleeves." OOO ran up to the kaiju, who tries to strike again but OOO blocked the sword again with one of the shell arms and then hits Grifforzer with multiple kicks to his waist before twirling once to round house kick the side of his head. "Next set." OOO said taking out the medals again.

(Kuwagata! Kangaroo! Wani!) The scanner called out changing OOO arms to kangaroo while his head helmet color changed to dark green with shape now being a stag beetle with orange eyes and legs being a dark orange with the outer part of the legs having a crocodile head shape.

While Grifforzer was still recovering, OOO hits him with jabs from kangaroo's boxing gloves. He then swings three kicks at the kaiju with an orange energy crocodile head biting down on him along with each kick. Grifforzar catches the last kick and is about to shoot lasers from his eyes again but OOO fires green electricity from his helmet's pincers, shocking and pushing the kaiju back.

(Komori! Kamakiri! Cheetah!) Grifforzer head looking back but sees OOO is gone. Looking around for a moment, he begins to hit by OOO multiple times as he ran by using cheetah's speed and using kamakiri's swords to slash Grifforzer as he ran by. "How do you have so many changes?" The kaiju shouted asking and then gets surprised by OOO stopping in front of him.

Before Grifforzer could do anything the Rider lets out a powerful sonic screech that hits sending the kaiju smashing through a couple trees with sparks flying off him. "Can't really tell you. That's just how OOO works." (Tatoba!) "And now for the finish."

Grifforzer stands up. "What makes you so sure you can?" He launches the flame energy blast towards the Rider. OOO quickly jumps back avoiding the attack and uses a tree to thrust himself forward using batta's legs, along with hitting Grifforzer with the tora claws as he went by him.

OOO lands rolling next to, picking up his sword and inserts three cell medals into it as he stood up. "This sword actually." OOO slides the scanner, connecting it to the back of his sword making a confirmation noise and then while holding the sword's trigger, making a similar scanning noise, he runs it over his belt. (Sync! Tatoba Charge!)

Grifforzer got up as the sword mimics the Tatoba like melody with OOO got into a stance with three colored rings appearing aligned in front of him. "Seiya!" Thrusting the sword into the green ring making it launch itself along with the other two rings that make three yellow claws acting as wings and a red beak aimed at Grifforzer. He tries to use his sword to stop the attack, but it pushes him forward against a tree for a moment before breaking through it and off a cliff of the mountain exploding.

OOO pants a bit as he walks towards the cliff's edge. "At least now I kn ow multiple changes are le ss tiring than combos. Ah?!" Reaching the edge, he gets surprised by Grifforzer flying back up, a few feet away from him.

"I'll admit, that was impressive, OOO. But how long will that strength last?" Grifforzer flies higher into the sky.

OOO takes out three medals. "Damn this guy. He just won't stay down." He switches the medals and jumps off the cliff after running the scanner over his belt. (Taka! Pegasus! Batta!) Using pegasus's wings, OOO flies up after Grifforzer.

Amusement Park

The two kaiju walked up to the giftshop that Build had been hit into. They look inside to see no movement anywhere inside.

"I think you might've killed the boy, darling." Rokurokubi said looking to Kappa.

"Well if the little rabbit is smart, then he'll stay dead." The amphibian kaiju then locks arms with his partner. "Now that the pest is taken care of," He paused as they turned their backs to the shop and begin to walk away. "what do you say we go have the time of our lives hurting the ponies. I'm sure that'd be-"

(Manticore! Gashapon! Best Match!) Kappa is cut off, making them turn to see Build stand up from the pile of stuff animals turning the belt's crank and creating the constructs. (Are you ready?) "Build up." The construct closes changing builds armor to the new set that formed. (The capsuled filled mystic beast! Mantipon! Yeah!)

Rabbit had been replaced with an orange armor color with the right hand having a red lion paw design on the palm, a red scorpion tail design wrapping around the left leg, black dragon wings on his back, and the orange visor being shaped as a lion face with horns on both sides of the helmet.

Tank's side was now red with a bit of blue on leg and yellow on the thigh, different colored capsule images running along the red chest armor, left arm has a tube with a chute door and a gashapon machine as the shoulder pad, and a red visor in the shape of a capsule bursting open.

While the two kaiju stumbled with their words as Build's belt summons out the same staff from the memory. (Manti-staff!) It now has a red and orange frame along with its silver, a bottle slot like the Beat Closer's above the handle grip, a trigger around the handle, a capsule design at the bottom tip and a manticore at the top with a 5 colored dial setting a few inches under it. "I'll be the one to find the formula to this equation."

Kappa made a katana appear in his hand. "You're going to regret not stay down, boy." The two then charge at the Rider, who does the same. He ducks under Rokurokubi's naginata, while blocking the katana with his staff.

"Hold still, boy- Gah!!" She screamed out from Build had twisted around to thrust his right leg into a kick, hitting her in the gut and sending her smashing into a wall from the scorpion tail design having extended out.

"Honey! You'll pay for that, brat!" Kappa swung ferociously. Build blocked each strike with his staff or avoided it for a while before flapping his wings jump back a good distance. "Die!" The kaiju shouted holding out the ball again and kicking it at Build.

"Batter up." Holding the staff like a baseball bat, Build hits the ball right back with more force and speed. Kappa didn't have a chance to move, gets hit by the ball, drags and smashes him through some benches in a food court area. "Now would that be a homerun or a goal?"

Before the naginata could hit him, Build sees a shadow and moves out of the way of Rokurokubi bringing her weapon down on him. "No one gets away with hurting my darling!" The two exchange blows as their weapons clashed until she holds them in place. "Now I have you!" Her head detaches itself and flies around to attack Build from behind.

"I'd rather not go through that again." He takes the manticore bottle out of the belt and slides it into the weapon's slot. (Bottle Charge!) He then changes the staff's dial to green and pulls the trigger sending energy to the wings of the manticore tip. (Manti-Scythe!) The wings on the manticore energizes, extending out into orange see through scythe wings.

He quickly shoves the body back to strike it twice with slashes and then turns to slash the head. "Aaahhh!!" "I'll be taking back my bottles." Build said after she shouted in pain and cuts off all the tentacles holding his fullbottles. "GAAAHHH!!"

"Honey! My dear wife, what'd he do to you. Ah!" Kappa jumped catching his wife's head but then gets stung by Build's scorpion tail. "We're leaving. Phantom Portal." The two kaiju then disappear leaving a puff of smoke.

"Oh, no you don't." Build brings out the magnet bottle and slides it into the staff's slot. (Capsule Charge! Manti-Surprise!) The weapon announced in Pinkie Pie before and after Build pulls the trigger, making the capsule end's lid pop open to create an energized magnet around itself. He then turns the staff to hold up the magnet up pointing to the sky.

As ponies/people were trying to leave the city, Kappa holding his wife's head and body in his arms appeared in front of them, making them freeze in fear. "You know darling, after what just happened, I could go for torturing some ponies."

Kappa laughed. "I couldn't agree more, honey. Now the question is who to- What?1" They had gotten closer to the citizens slowly till they started to be pulled back by a force and then screamed as they were dragged through the sky, land back in the amusement park, in front of Build, and they get hit back a few feet by the staff. "How'd you-" Kappa asked getting up.

"When I stung you." He answered pointing his staff at them. "I used my stinger to inject a bit of manticore's essence into you two, just in case you tried teleporting away, that I'd be able to drag you back easily." Build has magnet shoot out the slot. "Now to continue the fun." He holds up shark, hedgehog, phoenix, fire truck and robot fullbottles.

"Cucumber Bomb!" Build shoots out capsule balls from his left wrist as Kappa threw cucumbers at him. The two projectiles collide causing the cucumbers to explode. (Capsule Charge!) "Phantom Portal" He inserted the shark bottle while changing the staff's dial to blue as the kaiju teleported in front of him about to strike with the katana. (Manti-Mix!) A blue energy shark head with bull horns formed as Build thrusted the staff into the sword, having the head bite off the sword's blade and hits Kappa's chest.

As the kaiju fell on his back, Rokurokubi charged at Build from both sides, which Build responds by using hedgehog and phoenix. (Capsule Charge! Capsule Charge! Manti-Surprise!) The Rider slams the capsule tip into the ground making burning red feathers and white needles shoot out of the ground hitting both the head and body of the kaiju.

(Capsule Charge! Capsule Charge!) Rokurokubi hears Build use the last two bottles and sees the capsule tip create a grey robotic claw with a red ladder acting as an arm. (Manti-Surprise!) "Wait, wait wait! Aaaaaahhhhh!!!" The claw launched, extending to grab her head, which Build then swung her towards her body.

Her body tries to catch her but gets dragged along with her and wind-up crashing into her husband, Kappa, making the two fall over.

"Now for the finish." Build turns the belt's crank. "The law of victory have been set." (Ready Go!) The gashapon machine's chute door glows shooting out huge capsules hovering all around them. (Vortex Finish!) Build hits a capsule with the staff making them all bounce all-around hitting Kappa and Rokurokubi multiple times till they all collided on the two, except for four last ones the pop open to reveal pieces that combine into a manticore. (Yeah!)

"Honey!/Darling!" The two kaiju screamed out as manticore slammed into and causes them to explode, destroying the two.

Build lets out a breath of relief. "Two annoying yokai taken careof. Now to get back to- Hm?" He stops taking notice of two capsules where the yokai were destroyed. He walks over and picks them up, feeling them shake a bit. "Wait. A re they-"

He quickly turns spinning his staff to deflect a barrage of bullets. The moment the bullets stop, five human looking females with ninja-like suits appear in front of Build Their suits have the same design with black boots and gloves, a black and white middle piece that have a gold triangle logo, and katanas on their backs but they each have a different color.

Their helmets have different flower molded on the forehead, matching their suits color. There's a blue iris, a pink cherry blossom, a green water lotus, an orange lilly and a purple orchid. But Build knows them as Ayame, Sakura, Suiren, Yuri and Ran, also known as

"The Flowery Kunoichi Team?"

"Impressive you were able to defeat two of our allies on your own. But now" Ayame pauses as they unsheathe their swords and point them at Build. "your life shall end here." The five then charge at him all at once.

Middle of the City

Buildings were getting blasted as Cross-Z's battle continued with Cobolda firing blasts of fireballs that the dragon Rider ran charging through the attack. The flames on his armor acted as a shielding for him.

"What?!" (Cross Knuckle!) The Beast Baron gets hit square in the chest, making him fly back and land on his back.

"Cross-Z!" He looks behind him to see the CMC. "Use this!" Apple Bloom shout and tosses him a bottle.

Cross-Z stabs his sword into the ground to catch the bottle. He looks at it to see it's a new dragon gem bottle that's orange. He looks back to them to nod before turning back and inserts the new bottle into the knuckle.

(Tourmaline Dragon! Devour!) Cross-Z readied himself as Cobolda gets up and then thrusts the knuckle forward pressing the trigger. "Give it your best shot!" (Dragonic Burst!) An erupting stream of bright orange magma flames that hits Cobolda, builds up on him and then explodes doing a good amount of damage making him fall to one knee.

"Cross-Z! And- the CMC?!" The girls and dragon Rider look to their right to see Twilight, Emerald and Discord run up and stand next to the girls. "What are you three doing here? Your sisters are probably worried sick." Twilight scolded them but then gets startled from Cross-Z tossing her the emerald dragon bottle.

"We can talk about that later, Twilight. First, help me out with this guy. Aunt Emerald, here!" He had said to them and then tossed the Gaburyu Breaker and ruby dragon to his aunt, while Scootaloo hands the Drill Crusher to Twilight. "Transport-Vortex Saber. Discord, you use these." After Build's weapon materialized, Cross-Z tosses it and the sapphire dragon bottle to him.

The three nod before spreading around and surrounding the Beast Baron, who becomes enraged seeing this. "I REFUSE TO BE DEFEATED BY INSECTS!!" Cobolda gathers energy into his weapon creating an energy orb with sparks surging around it and launches it towards Cross-Z.

He was thinking of jumping out of the way till his eyes glow. He sees a vision of himself or another Cross-Z using the Beat Closer and takes notice of him taking a hold of the grip at the hilt to pull it. "So, that's how it works."

Cross-Z quickly does the same as the vision pulling it twice. (Hippare! Hippare!) The sword announced with the middle of the sword's blade lighting up and begins to play a steady techno music till Cross-Z swung the sword and pulled the trigger. (Million Hit!) The sword launches a music equalizer bar slash that collides, pushing against the orb for a moment till it breaks through the orb to hit Cobolda, making him fall to his back.

Discord taps his chin in thought while Cobolda got up. "Let's try this." With a toothy grin, he snaps his fingers to make a small light appear that changes into a dark gray fullbottle with the shape of a draconequus. (Sapphire Dragon! Draconequus!)

(Cross Combo!) With both colors spiraling along with the drill, Discord stabs the saber into the ground making objects come out of the ground around the kaiju, making it look like a pinball arena around him and then launches a slash that changes into a spinning top moving at sonic speed as it begins to hit the Beast Baron multiple times by bouncing off the objects.

"My turn." Emerald said standing where the top is heading towards. (Ruby Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Roar!) She hits the top sending straight towards the kaiju with it being covered in a red and blue energy essence.

Cobolda tries catching the attack but slams into him, pushing him back a bit before exploding making him stumble back. "How can you all be this strong?"

While still in gun mode, Twilight inserts the emerald bottle. (Ready Go!) "Because we're together." Twilight answered him while pulling the trigger making the gauge meter's needle swing rapidly. (Vortex Break!) She fires twin spiraling emerald, green fires, that hits Cobolda and drags him back a good distance before exploding, bringing him to one knee.

Cross-Z eyes glow again to see a different vision before looking down to his belt. "Ready to end this, Cross?" Cross-Z Dragon roars in response before shooting out the dragon bottle for Cross-Z catch. (Special Tune! Hippare! Hippare! Hippare!) The sword announced after he inserted the bottle into it and pulls the hilt three times, making it play a melodic electro music.

Cobolda stood up in time to see Cross-Z stand straight with the flat part of the blade facing forward. The Rider's chest armor opens up, as the sword's blade is engulfed in blue flames, for green and red flames to transfer from the wings to the sword and then straightens the sword to have the blade edge pointing forward.

Cross-Z takes a stance while Cobolda summons Imps in between them. "RyuOh Roaring Giri!" (Mega Slash!) Cross-Z shouted and the sword announced while the sword played a repeating synths with a roaring dragon and guitar riff. Emerald's eyes go wide hearing the attack name and seeing Cross-Z launch a red, green and blue colored Chinese dragon.

The dragons go straight for Cobolda as they flew through the Imps in a zigzag pattern, destroying the grunts as they went by. Reaching the Beast Baron, the three dragons change into three slashes with the same equalizing bar following them. Cobolda tries to withstand the attack using his pitchfork, but it shatters, with the attacks hitting the Beast Baron. "GAAAHHHH!!" He yelled out with an explosion following after.

While Cross-Z relaxes, the group run up behind him. "Is it over now?" Sweetie asked till the rubble begins moving.

"RAAAHHHH!!" Cobolda roared out as he bursted out of some rubble. While Twilight got in front of the girls, Emerald and Discord get in front of her, along with the Cross-Z getting into a battle-ready stance in front of them all. "I promise you Cross-Z, I'll destroy you next time. Well, that is if you all survive."

Twilight gets worried hearing that. "What do you mean by that?"

Cobolda chuckles darkly. "You'll see soon enough." With that said, he disappears fading away.

Unlike last time, they don't see the spell circle shatter but fades away instead. Except for Cross-Z, everyone changes back to their original forms.

Cross-Z turns looking to Twilight. "What do you think he meant by- GAAAHHH!!" Out of nowhere, Cross-Z gets hit from behind by multiple blasts of energy. "CROSS-Z!!!" Twilight and the others screamed. Cross-Z falls to the ground with his transformation coming undone and gets helped back up after by the others after he changes back to a dragon.

"Pathetic. And here I thought he could entertain me." They all turned to the voice's direction to see two new kaiju.

One has six slitted eyes, a rictus grin and a prehistoric-like appearance. The second is a skeleton kaiju wielding a skeletal sword with skulls around parts of its body, wearing a military helmet, and the left side of the body having camouflage colors.

Twilight uses the CoreSeeker to look them up and finds out who they are. "You're Junior and...Akumaro Sujigarano." She named with fear filling her voice as she read.

"You know of us I see. But that doesn't matter now. The game is over." Akumaro looks up as an explosion could be heard above them. "Seems like your friend has arrived." Everyone looks up to see OOO and Grifforzer clashing in the sky.

As the two are about to collide again, Junior shoots red lightning at OOO from his hand and act as a way to grab ahold of the Rider. "What is- Junior!?" Junior then uses it to slam OOO staight into the ground. "Ah!!"

"OOO." Twilight shouts as she sets Spike on her back and runs over to OOO along with the others. They then get startled from Build landing on the floor next to them. "Build! Are you okay?" Twilight asked worried as Emerald and Discord help the Riders to their feet.

"I'm fine. I just forgot how the Kunoichi don't play fair." Build answered as said ninja appeared next to Junior.

Junior chuckled sinisterly. "Now that all you fools are together, it's about time we wrap this up." He ends with snapping his fingers.

Before they could question him, the city begins to shake with parts of the ground and buildings cracking. Everyone were trying their best to stay standing as something huge bursts out of the ground. The group are shocked by the size of the creature, while the Riders gasp in surprise.

Standing couples of feet away from them is a huge black wingless looking dragon with silver skeletal look all around its body and has dark purple eyes that Spike takes notice of. The head of the creature has three purple crystal spikes going along both sides of its head, along with larger ones coming out its back and wrists.

"Guardie?!" OOO spoke out knowing the creature.

Junior points his sword towards them. "Skeletal Tyrant, destroy these fools!"

Everyone gasps as the creature begins charging an attack from its mouth. "Everyone run!!" OOO shouted to the other.

Skeletal unleashes a powerful dark energy blast that hits the whole group. In an instant, a large amount of the area where they were standing on was now just a huge crater with black smoke coming out of it.

"Such a shame they never got a chance to see our plan." Akumaro said before he and Junior jump on to Skeletal's head. "Now for Canterlot." The two look out into the distance as the creature walks away from the crater.

The End

Chapter 2 Part 2- The Hidden Heroes of Equestria

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Middle of Vanhoover

Junior and Akumaro were on top of Skeletal Tyrant, who walks away from the crater it had left when it fired a blast at the Riders and the group. It was facing towards the direction of Canterlot as it moved through the city.

"Now it's time to bring Canterlot to its knees." Akumaro spoke out loud.

"But first, some fun. Skeletal, halt!" Skeletal obeyed Junior as it came to a stop. "Level the city! Leave nothing standing!"

Skeletal roared as it stomped a building next to it breaking it to bits and then swung its tail through two buildings. The creature then begins blasting through and destroying many buildings, home, businesses and others to burning bits.

Else Where

Inside a dark empty cave with only the center being lit up by a glowing gem at the top of the ceiling, a portal opens an inch under the gem with the Riders, Twilight and the others dropping out of it. Twilight, Emerald and the kids land on top of Build, OOO and Discord.

"Ow," Sweetie Belle and the others groan as they stood up. "That didn't feel anything like how Discord usually teleports us."

"That's because it wasn't me." Discord admitted while rubbing his back.

Twilight and the others looked at him confused. "If it wasn't you, then who-" "That would be me." Startled, everyone jumps turning around to see the silhouette of a unicorn and a human shape. Emerald moves in front of Spike and the CMC in a protective manure as Twilight took a step forward. "Who's there?"

"That depends on which of us you're asking, Twilight." The voice sounded like it came from the human, who sounds like a man.

Twilight backs up a bit next to Build. "How do you know who I am?"

Instead of answering, the human silhouette walks forward into the light and almost make the Riders go speechless by who they see. A human completely covered in a red and black suit with a triangle on the chest, but the downward tip has three points instead of one, and a device with the same color on the left wrist.

A gun looking weapon is being held by a holster on his right side of a belt with a triangle buckle. His face is covered by a helmet that is mostly red with the mouth cover being silver, having lips molded onto it, and the front being a black visor with a red jagged triangle in the middle of it.

"TimeFire." Build barely manages to say from still being in shock by who is in front of them.

"Yes. That is a name I've come to be known by. But you and Spike know me by another name." He said while glowing red for his transformation to come undone and is now a dark purple coated unicorn stallion with a black messy mane wearing a trench coat walked out of the shadows. Having the device still on his left arm, that's now his left forehoof.

Build and OOO were about to get in front of everyone, but Twilight and Spike run past them smiling. "Uncle Dusk!" The two screamed in joy hugging him, which he happily returned. "We've missed you so much." Seeing this, both Riders relax while changing back to their pony forms.

"Yeah. You would not believe how sad we were when you just up and disappeared." Spike said after they broke the hug. "What did happen to you exactly." Spike asked with Connor taking notice of something about Dusk.

"We all want to know that." Twilight added curious to the answer as well. "You just never showed up to your royal guard duties 5 years ago. Mom was especially worried about you."

Dusk sighed rubbing the back of his head. "That will take a while to explain. All I can tell you for now is that it has to do with Junior and Akumaro." The two are shocked and surprised by this, while Connor and the others are curious on how he knows about them. "I'll explain everything at Canterlot Castle-"

"Wait? Why Canterlot Castle?" Twilight spoke up, interrupting Dusk. "If you need to warn the Princess about something, she should still be at Vanhoover."

Dusk shook his head. "No. The moment they saw the huge creature, they used their magic to take the citizens and your friends to safety. They're back at the castle probably about to-" He paused for a moment as Spike belches out fire that changes into a letter from Celestia. "Yup, like always. But Spike, we're going to need you and Discord to stay here."

Spike raised a brow confused. "What exactly do you need me and Discord to do, Uncle Dusk?"

"Short version, we need you to help the creature that Junior and Akumaro have named Skeletal Tyrant." The unicorn silhouette said walking out of the shadows, revealing to be Construct with an annoyed look. "You were the last one to connect with the big guy."

"Me?!/Spike was what?!" Spike and Twilight shouted both shocked and confused while the others were noticing how Construct resembles Connor. "What do you mean I was connect to that huge thing?!"

Construct sighs annoyed. "I don't have time for this. Dusk. Can I just send you and the rest to Canterlot, while leaving him and Discord here to meet up with Killer? He should almost be here with the shards." The name Killer brought a bit of fear to Spike.

Twilight was about to telling how rude he's being but that's when her and Spike barely notice the resemblance he shares with Connor as they look back and forth between the two. "Uncle Dusk, who is this? And who is Killer?"

"When you say Killer, do you mean AbareKiller?" Connor asked seeming to have some thought in mind.

Dusk nods confused. "Actually yes." He answered which seemed to put Connor in deep thought. "And this is Construct. Construct Match. You could say he and Killer are allies but... with some complications you could say." Dusk introduced trying to make a short explanation. "I'll explain it all later. But we're running low on time right now. So alright, Construct. Do it."

"Wait! But you can't just-" Before Twilight could finish her question, Construct had already lit up his horn with a purple aura and teleports her, Dusk, Connor and Reiji away. Construct then fires his magic at the ceiling gem, the magic travels from it towards a wall ahead of him, and it opens up to a stone staircase leading up to an opening of light.

The group decided to follow the unicorn as he walked up the steps. They become surprised when they get to the top and find themselves in the Tree of Harmony's cavern.

Discord strokes his goatee. "So, that was part of the tree's cave. But," He pauses to teleport in front of Construct. "how do you know about the Tree of Harmony? Also, why aren't you terrified or show any distaste for me? You're the first pony aside from Fluttershy and her friends to not be afraid or hate me."

"You and I both know that the harmony magic the tree gives off is easy to find if you know the right spell to track it." Construct answered with a bored expression.

"True enough." Discord said literally nodding his head off agreeing.

"As for the other question, I actually had no problem with your chaos. I actually found it interesting to study. So, I'm actually happy that you're free and continue coming to Ponyville. It means I get to study your magic more often." He spoke to the head while using his magic to hand to back to the body.

Discord's body places the head back and spins, screwing it back on with a grin. "You're definitely an interesting one. So, what exactly do you need the ex-Lord of Chaos help with?"

"I'll leave the explanation to Killer. I've got other projects back at home I need to get back to."

With that said, Construct leaves without another word, leaving some of the others confused and the others wondering who they'll be meeting next.

Canterlot Castle

"What's taking so long?" Rainbow questioned no one in particular while pacing back and forth. "Shouldn't they have gotten here already?"

"Would yah calm down, Dash? It's barely been a minute since the letter was sent." Applejack said with the rest of the girls sitting alongside her.

They were in the throne room. while the girls were in the middle of the room, Celestia and Luna were sitting on their thrones. Waiting for Twilight to send a letter back or for them to appear before them using Discord's magic.

They were filled with worry. Even from where they were, they were able to clearly see the horrifying huge creature that came bursting out of the ground.

Applejack, Rainbow and Rarity wanted to rush into the city the moment they saw that creature to look for their sisters, but Luna stopped them with her magic as Celestia used her magic to teleport themselves and the citizens back into Canterlot Castle before the creature made a move.

Rainbow stopped to look at Applejack. "Calm down? How the buck can you expect me to calm down?" She questioned back upset. "Scootaloo and the girls could still be back there with that...thing! For all we know that thing could've..." Rainbow stopped not even wanting to finish the thought. "Aren't you two worried at all about Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom?"

"Of course, we are, Rainbow." Rarity honestly answered. "But I'm certain Twilight and the others made it out of their safely with the girls. You know she and...at least Reiji wouldn't leave without making sure everypony made it out safely."

Right at that moment, Twilight, the guys and Dusk appear in the room between the girls and the princesses. "Twilight!!" Was the first thing Twilight heard before she was dragged by Rarity's magic up to them. "Where's Apple Bloom?/Where's Sweetie Belle?/Where's Scootaloo?" Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow shouted worried asking her.

"Calm down, girls. Your sisters are safe with the other back at...um..." Twilight looks to her uncle. "Uncle Dusk, where exactly were we back at the cave?"

"We were in a part of the Tree of Harmony's cave." "WHAT?!" Dusk jumped at the sudden shouts from everyone around. "What? Did I say something- Oh that's right! You all barely found out about the tree. It slips my mind at times that the Tree of Harmony isn't known by many."

"Dusk Light?" He looks up to Celestia who's looking at him with a look of disbelief. "Is that really you?"

Dusk smiles turning around to fully face her, straightens himself and salutes. "Former captain of the royal guard, Dusk Light, at your service once again, Princess Celestia."

Celestia smiled at his act while Luna looked over his appearance, trying to judge his character. "So, this is Dusk Light that you spoke of sister. I presume he didn't always look like this." She said making her sister chuckle.

"No. He's always looked like this when not on duty." Celestia honestly admitted with a smile before walking down from her throne to give him a hug. "It's really great to see you again, Dusk."

"I do have to admit, it's good to be back home." Dusk said while returning the hug.

As they broke the hug, Celestia takes notice of the device on his left forehoof before the coat's sleeve covers it up. "Dusk what is that?"

He was confused by the question until he followed her curious eyes. "Oh. You mean this?" Dusk asked while holding up his left hoof to show the device as the sleeve fell back. "This is called the-"

"The V-Commander." Everyone looked to Connor spoke up, finishing Dusk's sentence. "It's what the user uses to transform into TimeFire, the sixth ranger of the Timerangers."

Dusk was surprised by this. "I'm not sure what a Timeranger is, but the rest is right. How do you know so much about it?"

"Well...you see uncle Dusk, that's a bit of a long story...and um..." Twilight said trying to think of how to explain but Connor breaks her out of her thoughts by using his magic to create holographic projections of the villains they had just faced.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can go down memory lane some other time. For now, we need to quickly fill in on what we know and what we discovered." Connor instructed making everyone gather at the bottom of the throne's steps while Celestia flew back up to her throne.

Reiji scratches the back of his head. "And to be honest, things aren't really looking good for us."

"Gee, you don't say." Rainbow said full of sarcasm. "Of course, things aren't good! Did you see the size of that thing!"

Twilight looks to Reiji. "You called it by a name before, right? If I'm remembering right, you called it Guardie. Is it another kaiju from the Rider world?"

"No. He's from a different world. One where giants of light known as Ultraman would fight huge kaiju that attacked the innocent or caused destruction constantly. Guardie was part of Ultraman Tiga's world. He was actually a good kaiju there, but he died trying to stop his master."

While Reiji explained, Connor uses his magic to bring out an image from his memory showing how Guardie originally looked as he arrived in a city. His body didn't look like a skeleton, he had three fingered claws and his skin was white and gray with no large crystal spikes anywhere. His eyes looked normal and had a blue light on his chest.

The image changed after showing Guardie for a while trying to stop a humanoid silver giant, with him now on the ground with a second giant of purple and red covering most of his body arrive. As Guardie tried to stand with the light on his chest blinking red, the silver giant took notice of him and fired a blast of energy from their hand at him.

Guardie fell back to the ground after the attack hit, along with his life ending a second after the blinking red light went out. The girls and princesses all gasped at the merciless scene with the giant showing no remorse for what he did. Tears ran down Fluttershy and Rarity's eyes seeing Guardie how die.

"H-How could someone he saw as his master do that to him?" Fluttershy asked Reiji feeling a bit of anger at the cruelty but mostly sadness seeing how hard he tried stopping his master.

"It might've been his master but the human that forced the merge with him was the one that caused his behaviour. So, the human had no trouble with ending Guardie's life." Reiji sadly answered.

"And now he's being used the same way his master was." Connor added before looking to Dusk. "And I have a feeling you know how that happened."

Twilight frowned at Connor for what she thought he was implying and was about to say something, but her uncle stopped her, holding his hoof in front of her and shaking his head at her.

Dusk looks back to the others. "I didn't know the creature's name, but I do know how he came back to life in our world. You see, hidden in our world are stones with tremendous amount of pure natural magic. Magic that is neither good nor evil. They become this way by absorbing magic from every living thing around them over the centuries. My group calls them the Origin Souls."

"Your group?" Luna questioned raising an eyebrow. "What's this group you're talking about? And do these Origin Souls, as you call them, do exactly?"

Dusk sighs. "That'd take too long to explain. Short wise, we work to protect the stones and every creature in the land without any of them knowing. We don't actually have a name for ourselves." He then looks to Connor and Reiji. "But since me and your friends here are somewhat the same, I guess you could say we're Knights of Equestria as well."

"True enough." Reiji admits with Connor nodding.

Dusk looks back to the others as he continued. "As for the stones, they can create miracles to those that they choose worthy of them. Which can be by either taking a physical form or granting a wish."

"Meaning the stones are alive in some sense." Connor cut in. "Which would explain how Guardie came back to life in this world." "What do you mean?" Twilight asked as he sends a message on his Primal Cell. "The world itself drew shards of his essence here and were absorbed into one of these stones which brought him back to life. But if that's the case, then this world itself is the reason they're attacking."

"What do you by that our world is the reason?" Celestia questioned. "What could our world do to them that they would resort to attacking our lands using Guardie?"

Connor undoes his spell making the images disappear. "That can be answered later. We're already running low on time, right now."

"Low on time? What are we low on time for?" Luna had an unsettling feeling from how they were in a rush.

"That's because Junior and Akumaro are coming here with Skeletal Tyrant to destroy all of Canterlot." Connor answered normally.

"WHAT!!?" The guards heard the Main 6's voices through the castle. Back in the throne room, the girls are shocked by the piece of news they were told, along with the princesses.

Twilight used her magic to drag Connor next to her. "WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THIS SOONER!?" She shouted into his left ear.

Connor hisses in pain rubbing his ear. "Do you have to do that?" He complained looking to her. "The reason I didn't say anything is because-"

"Oh!Oh!Oh! I know! I know!" Pinkie interrupted jumping in between them and takes a deep breath. "The reason you didn't say anything is because you know once you tell us, the princesses ready all the guards while we rush to move everypony somewhere safe. Which is what Junior and Akumaro are waiting for before beginning their attack to cause chaos and fear while they make their way here with Guardie. And when that happens, we won't be able to make a plan on how we're going to beat the bad guys."

Connor just sighs rubbing his forehead with his hoof. "Yes. That's exactly why. We needed to get things sorted out before we made a plan and took action."

"But how can you be sure they're on their way here?" Luna questioned.

Connor responds by holding up his Prime Cell with his magic to everyone as an image comes up on it. Taking a look, they all see it's a live video feed from high up in the sky of Skeletal Tyrant making its way across the land. The others weren't really sure what it meant, except for Reiji who goes wide eyed and looks to his friend.

"Connor, did you" He smirks nodding. "Yup. Before Junior had Skeletal attack us, I called in Jet and Rocket a few buildings away from us so they could tail them from up high." Connor explained while thinking back to the event.

Flashback

"Now that all you fools are together, it's about time we wrap this up." A moment after Junior says this, with Skeletal Tyrant bursting out of the ground, Build held his cell behind his back, put it in silent mode and typed in the codes for Rocket and Jet.

The two Engines appeared seven buildings behind them, flew high up into the sky and stayed hovering high above Skeletal as the creature fired its blast at Build and the others.

The memory switches to while Build and the others were in the cave. "You're wasting our time playing with this pathetic town." "Quiet! I've waited long enough having to deal with this world's light." Build heard Akumaro arguing with Junior from the Engines transmitting the feed directly to his helmet while still paying attention to what was happening in front of him.

Flashback Ends

While the others were shocked by all he did, Celestia was amazed Connor had been able to think that far ahead even with all the unexpected surprises that kept appearing. "You're really remarkable, Connor. You might be as wise as our teacher, Star Swirl was." Connor makes an annoyed look, waving off the compliment which made Celestia and the others chuckle and giggle. She then looks to Dusk. "And what has brought you back home, Dusk?"

"My reason is just about the same as theirs." Dusk said motioning to the Riders. "I wanted to let you all know what we'll be facing." "I take it you have a plan." Luna asked which Dusk nods to. "Yes. Though whether it goes well or not is anyone's guess."

"Will you save Guardie?" Fluttershy spoke up asking. "It's just...I feel bad for him. If he's still the same as he was back in his world, then they're forcing him to hurt and terrorize others."

Dusk smiles holding up his V-Commander. "It is my duty as a Knight of Harmony to protect the innocent and the Origin Souls." Fluttershy smiles, glad that he intends to help the kind kaiju.

But Rarity makes a concerned look. "Not to sound negative, but how do you plan to free him? We can't do anything to help him now that we don't have the Elements of Harmony."

"That's why he's betting it all on Spike." Connor spoke up saying which shocked the girls to hear. "That was the reason you had him stay behind. His connection to Guardie and the shards your friend mentioned having something to do with the plan on freeing."

Dusk chuckles. "You got it right on the dot. You're really sharp on figuring things out."

"Not that sharp when it comes to girls though." Reiji mumbled to Pinkie causing her to chuckle. "So then, what exactly are your guy's plans? Because I'm sure you both have different plans."

Connor and Dusk both look to each other with the two giving each other a knowing look. "Actually, I think we have the same plan." Connor said before looking up to the princesses. "Though before that, can you both call in your captains?"

Tree of Harmony's Cave

Spike and the others had been waiting at the entrance of the cave for Killer, or AbareKiller as Connor called him, to arrive. Even after a while of waiting and Scootaloo complaining, there still had been no signs of anyone showing up.

Spike's Primal Cell receives a message once 15 minutes passed. Taking the phone out of his bag that's strapped across his chest and looking at the message while sitting at the cave's entrance, he and the CMC see it's from Connor letting them know on who Skeletal Tyrant actually is and who he used to be. They felt really bad for Guardie after reading his story and how he died.

"Poor Guardie. I'm sure he doesn't want ta be used to hurt others when he likes helping." Apple Bloom felt sorry for the kind kaiju.

"We should free him." Scootaloo said with determination.

"But what are we supposed do?" Sweetie Belle questioned sadly. "We aren't like our sisters. We don't have any special magic to fight bad guys with."

Apple Bloom looks to Spike. "What do you think we should do, Spike? Spike?" She called his name again when he didn't say anything while keeping his eyes on the picture of Guardie. "Spike, is something wrong?"

"No. It's just..." He pauses to look to them. "I think I saw Guardie in my dream this morning."

"You mean like one of those future seeing type of dreams?" Scootaloo asked with a brow raised.

Spike taps his chin. "It was more like..." 'You were the last one to connect to the big guy.' He paused again thinking back to on what Construct said. "It was more like a connection. I think Guardie calling someone for help."

"But how did he connect to you? I mean, he did come from far away." Sweetie Belle pointed out.

"That'd be something easy for Nexus to connect with." "DISCORD!!" inside the cave Emerald yelled at Discord from a couple of feet behind them. "What!? He bound to find out about it at some point. Why not just tell him now?"

Spike and the CMC looked at each other confused before looking back to the two. "What's Nexus?" They all asked having hopeful looks that were making it hard for Emerald to think.

"U-Um...Well...you see..." She sighs not being able to think of a way around the question. "You see Spike, Nexus is-"

Before she could finish her sentence, Spike and the CMC get startled a white blur raced by, taking him and Emerald along with it. A second after the Primal Cell hits the floor, a bag full of black gem shards drops in front of the CMC.

"What the hay was that!?" Scootaloo shouted at her friends while Discord's eagle arm stretching over them to pick up the bag.

"I don't know. But it took Spike and Emerald." Sweetie Belle said in a worried tone.

Apple Bloom turns to Discord. "Discord, can you- Discord, where are you goin'?! We need to find Spike and Emerald." She questioned him as he walked further into the cave.

"They'll be fine. Spike just needs a small push. As for me," He stopped to wave the bag to them. "I'm going to need your help with this. So, follow me." He said before continuing walking into the cave.

The CMC looked at each other worried about their friends but decided to trust and follow Discord, running to catch up to him after Sweetie Belle picks up Spike's phone with her magic.

"What would you need our help with?" Scootaloo asked as they walk next to him. "You're the Lord of Chaos who can make anything he wants appear. So, why ask for help with those gems?"

"Origin Souls come to life from natural magic filling it. Natural magic is neither good nor evil." Discord said explaining. "So, in order to restore these to take a new form, I'm going to have the Tree of Harmony pour magic into these along with me. Doing this will the magic natural from the two mixing together."

The CMC nod showing they at least partly get what he means. "Then what will we have to do?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"I'm going to be busy concentrating on pouring magic into the gems. So, somepony will have to think of a shape and form for the gems to take." Hearing Discord say that they'll get to help create something excited them. "I still need to set up the spell circle for the transfer. While I'm doing that, why not look through the phone to see if it'll give you any ideas on the form the shards should take. Think you three can handle that?" He ends with a smirk which the girls return.

"THE CUTIE MARK CURSADERS ARE ON THE JOB!!"

Meanwhile

Still within the Everfree Forest, the white blur goes all the way up to the top of a mountain. Spike is dropped to the floor while Emerald is dropped across from him. Chains with glowing marks shoot out of the ground and wraps around her neck, wrists and legs.

Spike shook his from being dazed a bit before noticing his aunt. "Aunt Emerald! Uh!" He was about to run to her, but the white blur stops in front of him.

Standing in front of him was another humanoid being in a suit like his uncle, but this suit was white with black jagged edges. He also has a white chest armor, with three black streaks on both sides and gold tracing the edge. The helmet only has a red visor that looks like it has an X-shape but has more of a V-shape with black tracing the edges. The top of the helmet has a black fin with two small red marks on both sides of the fin, making the top look like the face of some creature.

Around the waist is a gold belt with a symbol on the buckle and the same feather-looking weapon he had seen in his dream holstered to his left side. This weapon is know as the Wing Pentact. The weapon matches the suit's main colors and has a head of a creature at the hilt. On his left wrist is a device with the same face as the weapon.

"Who are you? And why did you chain up my aunt?" Spike asked feeling a bit mad.

"I am AbareKiller. Now transform." That was all Killer said while crossing his arms. "How did-" Before Spike could finish his question, Killer unholsters his weapon and fires a laser from the head to the ground in front of him. "I will not repeat myself a third time. Transform now."

Feeling enraged, Emerald tries breaking free but the chains shocks to the hands and knees. "S-Spike, don't listen to him- Ugh!" Killer aimed and fired the laser at the ground in front of her.

"Aunt Emerald!" Spike looks to Killer with an angry expression while pulling his belt out of his bag with Cross-Z Dragon flying out as well. "I'm not sure why you're doing this, but no one gets away with hurting my family." (Wake Up! Cross-Z Dragon!) The belt announced after Spike had changed into human form putting on the belt and inserted Cross-Z Dragon once he put the dragon Fullbottle into it. Turning the crank, the construct formed as the standby jingle play. (Are you ready!) Henshin! (Wake up burning! Get Cross-Z Dragon! Yeah!) The construct closes on him, transforming him into Cross-Z.

"Ugh!" The moment his transformation finished, Killer punched Cross-Z and sent him flying back, landing on his back a few feet from him.

"Spike!" Emerald yelled out concerned while Killer twists the head of his weapon making the tip of the feather extend out and now holds the weapon like a sword.

As Cross-Z got up, Killer held his blade against Cross-Z's neck. "How long will you entertain me, I wonder." He kicks Cross-Z back a step, slashed him across the chest with sparks flying, grabs onto his armor and tosses him towards Emerald while turning around.

"Ouch. That really hurt." Cross-Z said rubbing the back of his head while standing back up. "Spike, be careful." "That's easier said than done." (Beat Closer!) The weapon announced itself after the belt summons it out.

Killer chuckles as Cross-Z readies to charge at him. "Let the game begin." He announces before dashing towards Cross-Z, with the Rider doing the same.

Canterlot Castle

"ABSOLUTELY NOT!!" Half of the castle staff got startled hearing Celestia's captain loudly shout out from the throne room.

After the two captains had arrived, Connor had begun explaining his plan to the group who were circled around each other in front of the steps leading up to the princesses and their thrones. The ring consisted of Celestia's captain being on the left side of the steps, having Twilight and her friends next to her. While Luna's captain was the right side with the guys and Dusk next to him.

"Let me get this straight," The mare captain said while rubbing her forehead and pauses to look back up to Connor. "You want every guard her, including with the princesses and the Element bearers, to remain here in the castle with all the citizens while you three are out in the city fighting the enemy alone."

He sighs and just responds with a nod. "That has got to be-" Celestia clears her throat as a signal to stop, which the captain caught clearly. "I'm sorry, my princess." She said bowing to Celestia before looking back to Connor with glaring eyes.

"I'm sorry, Connor but I must agree with Captain Gale that this plan has some risks to it." Celestia had said while walking down the steps to them with Luna doing the same. "What is your reason for having us all remain in the castle?"

"Because there's no telling if or when they'll put up the spell circle again." Gale becomes annoyed knowing he's right. "Though I have a theory that they're not going to bother with it this time."

Luna's captain looks at him in disbelief. "Why wouldn't they. It's what gives them the advantage over us. And if that theory is true, then you should at least allow us to fight alongside you."

Connor shakes his head. "No. You shouldn't make a decision based on a theory alone. Though whether you go or not, doesn't really matter to me." With that said, he turns to leave the room.

"Hey Connor, wait! Where are you-" Rainbow had called out landing in front of him, only to get shoved to the side by Gale who's looking at him with glaring eyes.

"You have some nerve speaking that way to the princesses. Who exactly do you think you are looking down on us guard like that? Do you think your opinions are so important?" Gale questioned angrily while poking Connor's chest with Rainbow behind her wanting to get back at her but is being held back by Applejack.

Being unfazed, Connor simply brushes off his chest. "Look, we Riders have no right to interfere with the decisions you all make since this isn't our world. Reiji can follow your plan if he wants. That's his choice. But not me. I'll do all I can in my own way to help protect your home. Even if it means me dying to prove my theory. But if you're really planning on going out there," He turns to look back to the princesses and then the main 6. "Then do your best to protect each other."

Connor turns back, walks around Gale and continues to leave out the room. The girls tried calling out to him but were ignored as he left out the room.

"He can't really mean to fight on his own?" "He does and he will." Reiji answered Rarity's question while still looking towards the door with a grin.

Twilight turns to him. "Aren't you going to stop him?" "Nope." He said shaking his head. "Why not?"

Reiji walks a bit forward before looking back at the group. "Because he is actually right, Twilight. Remember, we're just here to give you girls support. Though technically we're actually supporting Spike this time." He and the others get startled by surprise from hearing the faint shrieking roar of Skeletal Tyrant. "Guess they're almost here. We'll try to buy enough time for as long as we can."

"Reiji, wait!" Twilight called but he had dashed out of the room as a blur after the stripes in his hair all changed to yellow.

Connor had made it outside of the castle and was heading towards the city when the blur came out of the castle. It kept going till came up next to Connor and slowed down so Reiji could run alongside him.

"So, what do you think our chances are based on the conditions we're in?" Reiji asked looking over to his friend while they ran.

"Doesn't matter. We just need to buy Spike and the others enough time to finish whatever it is they're trying to do." Connor grins to him while pulling out his Driver. "Besides, chances have never changed your mind before."

Reiji returns the grin also bringing out his Driver. "You know me so well." He said as they looked forward and changed into humans, putting on their belts.

(Phoenix! Robot! Best Match!) Connor's belt announced having inserted the two Fullbottles and turned the crank, playing the standby jingle, while Reiji inserted three Core Medals into his and ran the scanner over them. (Are you ready?) "Henshin!" The two shouted with the constructs that formed closing on Connor and rows of medals appearing and stopping on the three medals in front of Reiji and merged into one before flying into him.

(Fujimi no heiki! PhoenixRobo! Yeah!) (Taka! Pegasus! Batta!) Having transformed into Build and OOO, the two Riders took to the sky with Build using the Phoenix wings and OOO with the pegasus wings. From the sky, the two could see Skeletal Tyrant from a far distance, moving at a slow pace while shooting crimson flames at the area around it.

"I'll head towards the areas near Celestia's school. You should go and help around the housing and train station." Build instructed.

"Leave it to me, bud." OOO flew off ahead while Build flies off from his left.

Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns

"What did Mr. Beat say we'd learning tomorrow?" A light blue unicorn filly with a puffy white mane asked her friend happily to the other as they were leaving out the entrance of the school passing a couple other unicorns.

Her friend that's also a unicorn, with a magenta coat and a rose-pink mane tied back as a ponytail, thought for a moment. "Hm...If I remember right, I think it was-"

The filly stopped walking when her friend suddenly stopped. "Rose? Rose, what's wrong?" She asked her friend who seems to be terrified looking ahead with her eyes open wide.

Confused, she looks in the same direction as her friend. She sees nothing ahead out of the ordinary. The only thing she could see was the road, some buildings and a hand sticking out from the gap of a closed window. It takes her second to think back on the last thought and looks back with her eyes opening wide with fear as a whole creature spawn out of the gap.

The creature is humanoid shaped but has a head that's fully red with only a big open mouth for a face with white sharp teeth. Wearing a yellow and gray armor, holding a sword. More of the same creature began coming out of gaps all around with some holding swords and others holding bows and arrows.

"Rah!" All the creatures roared out as they started destroying anything around them. Ponies all around began to scream and run the moment they saw or took notice of the creatures. The filly runs for a moment but stops when she notices her friend isn't next to her and looks back to see she's still standing in place with her legs trembling with fear.

"Rose!" The filly shouted running back next to her. "Come on. We have to- AAAAHHHH!!" She and her friend both screamed as a group of the creatures charged towards them. (Ready Go! Vortex Finish!)

The creatures stopped to look up and got mowed down by a flame covered Build flying through them. They all drop to the floor, exploding behind him as he landed.

His belt summons the Vortex Saber in gun mode. "Run to the castle. You'll be safe there." The fillies just nodded their heads and ran while Build looked back to shoot a few of creatures with swords as they ran up to him. "Nanashi, you really have to pain in the ass wherever you go, don't you." He switches his weapon to sword mode as he avoided and ducked under the swords of the ones that managed to reach him.

"Enough with that." Build annoyed, grabs the arm of a Nanashi with his robotic left arm claw after avoiding its sword, swings it around to slam into the other Nanashi around him and then tosses it into a group that were charging towards him. "Time for a switch up." He said while using the claw arm to block and hit aside two of the grunt's swords and spun around to slash the two.

Build proceeds to remove the two bottles and brings out hedgehog and tank. (Harinezumi! Tank! Are you ready?) "Build up." Having changed, Build uses the hedgehog arm block four Nanashi swords which they then get pierced through by the needles on the arms extending out.

The two fillies were watching in amazement from around the corner of the school as the Nanashi exploded after the needles retracted and they dropped to the floor. They had stopped running curious and wanting to watch Build battle the kaiju. So, they decided to sneak back around and watch from a good distance as this mysterious warrior fought against the terrifying creatures.

"Misty, do you think that's-" "Yeah. I think it is." Misty answered nodding as they watched Build slashed down two Nanashi and then blocked the sword of another before backhanding it. "A Knight of Harmony." The two friends said watching the Rider blocking another attack with the saber and then punching the Nanashi across the face.

Meanwhile

Around the housing area, ponies were both confused and worried by the commotions that can be heard coming from within the city.

One in particular was the unicorn stallion known as Fancy Pants, who was standing out in his yard with his marefriend, Fleur de Liz, and other upper-class ponies. They had been conversing with one another until they heard the commotion and could see smoke in the distance over the buildings.

"What in Celestia's name is happening?" Fancy questioned.

"Could it be the changelings again?" Fleur de Liz suggested making the other ponies panic a bit.

He shakes his head. "That is a possabilty. But it I feel" Fancy paused as a tray with a cup of tea is held out to him. "Thank you. But I feel like the cause is something else. Wouldn't you agree, my good fellow?" He had thanked and then asked looking back to the server.

Though his and the others eyes go wide finding a Dorodoro standing next to him dressed as a butler. With some of the ponies screaming, other Dorodoros appeared out of nowhere and surrounded them.

(Scatter Cell!) Multiple energy shots came down from above and takes out every Dorodoro, except for the one dressed as a butler. It takes a second for the Dorodoro to notice his allies are all down. After looking around, he gives Fancy a quick bow before hitting himself with the tray and keeling down to the floor.

Fancy and others stare at the Dorodoro, confused by its actions before looking up to see OOO come down and land in front of them with the Medabuster in hand.

"Is everypony okay?" "Yes. Thank you for coming to our aid. I presume you are one of the Knights of Harmony that Princess Celestia spoke of, correct?" Fancy asked which OOO responds with a nod while resting his gun on his shoulder. "Yeah. Though others usually call me OOO. Look I have to go and help the other ponies. Go to the castle. You'll be safe there. On your way, can you help direct other ponies to the castle?"

"Yes. Of course." Fancy then motions for his marefriend and the others to follow. "Good luck to you, OOO." He said to the Rider as they ran past him.

OOO watched them for a moment before turning around and was about to take off but hisses from a stinging feeling from his back and stumbles a bit.

"Damn that stings." OOO then looks up ahead himself after hearing glass break to see Dorodoros and Golem Soldiers wreaking houses and chasing after ponies. "No time to rest. I have to help for as long as I can still stand." He proceeds to switch out the medals and runs the scanner over them. (Komori! Kame! Cheetah!)

With his form having changed and using his Primal Cell to summon his sword, OOO dashes forward, moving at high speed to strike down the grunts as he went by while also shooting through the ones in the houses. Seeing groups of grunts blocking the roads, OOO runs up to them while holding up both of his arms in front of him, bringing both shell halves together that create an energy shield. He uses the shield to ram through them, sending some flying to the side or high up into the sky.

"Run now while you have the chance." He shouted to the ponies he just helped. Which they waste no time following and ran as fast as they could. After they we gone, OOO looks back to more grunts appearing, with some Nanashi coming out of gaps as well. "Spike, you better hurry with whatever it is you're doing. hurry with whatever it is you're doing."

A far distance from Canterlot

Slowly making its way across the land, Skeletal Tyrant was shooting flames out onto the trees and plants around or near it as it continued its marches towards Canterlot. Akumaro and Junior were still riding on top its head with Junior laughing maniacally.

"Enough of this, Junior." Akumaro shouted in an irritated voice. "If not for your damn pleasure, we'd already have destroyed Canterlot and shattered the ponies hopes by killing their princesses."

"Does it really matter? The end result will still be the same." Junior responded in a bored tone before looking face to face with Akumaro. "But if you think you can order me around, then I'd like to see you try."

The stare down between the two lasts for a moment till Grifforzer landed in between them. He holds up his right hand, holding a crimson gem. "That might not be completely true."

The gem glowed and projected two images in front of them. The first image shows Build now fighting a couple other grunts around a library. He thrusts his needle knuckle into a Dorodoro with the needles extending to pierce through a couple others grunts, then quickly turns around to use his saber to hit a couple arrows to the side before changing it to gun mode to shoot the Nanashi with arrows.

While the second image shows OOO slash down a couple of the grunts around a train station and then jumps over a group, using his gun to shoot them all.

Junior laughs uncontrollably. "So they survived. I have to give them credit for pulling a fast one on us. I was sure the draconequus wasn't going to be able to save them."

"They must've had some outside help. Meaning" Akumaro waves his hand over the gem, making it blink for a moment before projecting an image of Canterlot's castle with a faint light coming from it. "Thought so. Seems like our friend Dusk is the cause for their survival."

"Then let's go thank him for making this more interesting for us." Junior said in a maniacal tone before he and his two allies disappeared leaving Skeletal continued to burn everything around itself while making its way to Canterlot.

Tree of Harmony's Cave

Inside the cave, the CMC were sitting against the caves wall while they were using Spike's Primal Cell to look through a list of many different items that Riders and Sentais have used while Discord was finishing up drawing a spell circle around the tree.

"And that should do it." Discord said out loud while admiring his work.The girls got up to walk over to him and see that besides the spell circle around the tree, there was another circle in front of it a few feet away with a smaller one in between the two. "Are you girls ready?" He asked looking down at them.

"Almost. We were just finishing reading about the world Guardie came from." Sweetie Belle responded while using her magic to hold up the phone for Discord to see.

"Yeah. It sounds both scary and awesome from how many giant kaiju appeared and how they had a giant hero who protected them. His name was...um...Ultra something." "Ultraman Tiga." Apple Bloom spoke up interrupting Scootaloo. "Yeah. That was the name."

Discord tapped his chin with a grin forming as he read. "An ancient warrior of light, huh. We could use one of those."

"Say Discord, why did you draw all this by hoof? Why not just use your magic?" Apple Bloom asked with a confused look.

"It's because if I did, the tree's magic would undo it right as the magic transfers. Which meant I'd have to do this the tiring way to make sure the transfer wouldn't be interrupted." He then made the bag of shards appear on his lion paw. "Everything is all set up. All that's needed now is the form for the shards to take."

The CMC look to each other before looking back at Discord with grins. "READY!"

"Good. Then let's get this started." Discord excitedly said dropping the shards onto the small circle and does a quick stretch by his mismatch body parts separating and literally stretch themselves out before slamming back together. "One miracle coming up."

Both spell circles began to light as Discord raised his arms and began to build up chaos magic into his paw and claw, with the Tree of Harmony doing the same by the other five Element sending their power into the Element of Magic. After a moment, Discord unleashed a crimson blast of magic with black lightning circling it and the tree firing a rainbow blast with white lightning circling it.

The moment the blasts were going to collide, the smaller circle creates a dome around itself which drew the two magics to swirls around each other over it until they met at the tip of the dome. The two magics had become a golden light of magic from within the dome that hits the shards.

The girls waited to see if anything would happen as the golden magic split into the shards but weren't showing any signs of change yet.

"Is it working?" Sweetie Belle worryingly asked.

"Discord, are you sure you didn't make a mistake?" Scootaloo questioned Discord.

"Look!" Apple Bloom shouted pointing a hoof at one the shards with the tip regaining its original red color. "It's workin'."

Discord's magic flickered for a moment. "Discord, are you okay?" Sweetie Belle asked with the three of them giving him worried looks. "I'm fine. It's just been a while since I've used so much magic at once." He assured them with a grin. "Just sit back and let the master do his part." Discord continues to pour his magic to the shards.

While on the Mountain

"Ah!" Cross-Z is sent flying off the side of the mountain and falling into a lake that was at the bottom. Standing back up, the Beat Closer lands stabbing into the lake's floor in front of him with AbareKiller standing across from him out of the water.

"Pick it up. The isn't over." Killer ordered in an amused voice. "Unless you don't care about what happens to your aunt if you lose this game."

"What do you mean?" "It's simple. Those chains have the same spell that was used to turn the Lord of Chaos to stone." Killer answered while resting his weapon over his shoulder. "What?!" "Don't get your tail in a bunch. All you have to do is defeat me if you really want the chains to disappear."

Cross-Z's fists tighten. "Why are you doing this? What is your reason for wanting to go this far? Aren't you my uncle's ally?" He angrily demanded which makes Killer laugh.

"That's a good one kid. I may be an ally, but I do whatever I want whenever I want. And what I want right now is to have some amusement before I go destroy Skeletal Tyrant."

"You can't!" Cross-Z shouted at Killer. "He's being force to hurt others. It isn't his fault."

Killer switches the Wing Pentact to tact mode. "Does that really matter? The creature is now just a tool to be used for destruction by the kaiju. It's better to just show it mercy and destroy it before any lives are taken. That's the simplest thing to do." He had said with no emotion at all which made Cross-Z even angrier.

(Hippare! Hippare!) He had taken his sword out of the water and pulled the hilt. "What gives you the right to decide that?" (Million Hit!) Cross-Z shouted as he launched the equalizer bar slash. seeing the attack Killer uses the tact to draw a square that acts as a wall that blocks the slash. "Wh- Ugh!"

While Cross-Z was surprised, Killer ran through the water and drew an 'X' on his chest as he ran past him. The 'X' caused a small explosion the moment he stopped a few feet behind Cross-Z, making the Rider fall to one knee.

"Your opinion means nothing to me." Killer spoke to him while both of their backs were facing each other. "If you want your words to have meaning, then show me your strength and defeat me."

"Fine. If that's the only way to save my aunt and Guardie, then I'll do it." Cross-Z brought out Ryuga's lock as he stood up and turned to face towards Killer while charging the lock with the Sapphire Fullbottle. Ryuga comes to life unfolding and roars as he flew arounds while covered in sapphire flames. "Let's go, Ryuga!"

With a roar and flying around at high speed, Ryuga charges along with Cross-Z at Killer as he turned to face them.

Within Canterlot

(RabbitTank! Yeah!) Build battle with the grunts had led him to a shopping area part of the city with rows of different shops.

Wrapping his arms around the necks of two Dorodoros, he uses them to lift himself up to kick and sent a Golem flying into a wall. Build shoves the two Dorodoros in front of him to shield him from Nanashi arrows, then shoots the grunts, making them explode as they fell to the ground.

Panting a bit, he looks around himself as grunts begin to surround him. "Okay. Lets end this." Build told the grunts while tossing his weapon into the air making them all look up at it. Bringing out the dragon bottle while they're distracted, he also enters a code into his phone. (Drill Crusher!) The grunts look back to see the original primary weapon is summoned in gun mode and Build inserting the bottle into it. (Ready, go!)

They all try to attack him at once with their weapons but Build jumps up high in time to avoid them and then throws up the second weapon to bring out two bottles while grabbing the first. (Soujiki! Gashapon! Cross Combo!) The Vortex Saber announced having inserted the bottles and firing down the attack which begins sucking the grunts into it after hitting the ground and trapping them all in a large capsule.

Landing onto his feet, Build catches the Drill Crusher and pulls the trigger while having it aimed at the capsule. (Vortex Break!) A blue fireball is fired out that destroys the grunts in the capsule. Build then falls to one knee panting for a moment. "I hope Spike and Discord are almost done. I'm not sure how much longer me and OOO will be able to keep this up."

"Seems like you're ready to beg for mercy, Build."

Build gets surprised when the Kunoichi appear surrounding him.

He lets out an annoyed sigh. "You girls just have to always go with the cheap tricks, don't you?" Build said looking to Ayame as he stood up. "Because I really hate hate cheap tricks."

"Don't worry. This will be the last time. Considering you'll be dead by the end, Build." Ayame announced while they drew their swords.

Build switches the Drill Crusher to sword mode before getting himself into a ready position. "You can't really be certain of that until the end."

Another Part of Canterlot

Using echo location to quickly find grunts and patients, OOO moved throughout a hospital at high-speed taking down enemies with his sword on his back and helping evacuate patients. Slamming grunt into walls, OOO ran through the halls carrying an earthpony mare with a newborn foal out of the hospital and sets them down at the center of the city.

"Thank you so much for saving us." The mare thanked the Rider with a grateful smile.

"Anytime." OOO said to her before running back. Though as he arrived back, Grifforzer landed in front of him at last second and gets OOO in the chest with an energy blast from his eyes. "Ugh! D-Damn... Now that really hurt." OOO groaned as he stood up. "Grifforzer!? What do you want? I don't have time for your games, right now."

Grifforzer points his sword at OOO. "If you want to help the ponies, you'll have to defeat us first."

"Us? Whoa!" OOO barely manages to duck under a huge blade from his left but then gets hit by a fireball from his right. "Ugh! What was- Uh...You're" Two new kaiju had appeared a couple feet from both his sides.

The kaiju to the right has an oyster-like appearance with a black human face, holding a large shell-shaped shield that resembles an eye. While the kaiju on the left is red and silver, a lion-looking face with a red wind whirls covering the left half, a centipede body with a weasel head as its hair wrapped around its body and holding large sword with a scythe tip and a jagged back edge.

OOO looks to the left kaiju. "You're Ootsumuji." He then looks to the right. "And you're Hitomidama."

"Nice to hear my name is known." Hitomidama joyfully said. "Be thankful you'll be destroyed by the strongest Ayakashi around."

Ootsumuji rests his sword on his shoulders. "Hopefully you won't prove to be a disappointment and entertain us for a while, hero."

OOO pulls out his medals to switch them out as the three kaiju circled around him. (Yunikon! Kame! Condor!) Having changed forms OOO pulls his sword off his back and readies himself. "I have friends counting on me. And I'm not about to let them down by losing to you three clowns."

Canterlot Castle

Twilight, her friends and the princesses were on the balcony as royal guards helped citizens into the castle. Twilight and the girls watched out into the city with worried expressions as explosions kept popping up in two areas.

Dusk and the two captains were standing behind them, waiting to see what Twilight and her friends will decide to do. Dusk smiles when he sees Rainbow's expression change to frustration and stomps her hoof making the other look to her.

"That's it! I don't care if it's risky to go out there. I'm going to help the guys." Rainbow declared with Applejack nodding.

"She's right. How can we leave Connor and Reiji put their lives on the line for us, while we just stand around here doin' nothing." She then looks to her four other friends. "Aren't we the bearers of the Elements?"

Pinkie hops in between everypony. "Yeah! Let's go beat the badies even with the risk of getting really hurt, help save Guardie even though he might squish us, and then throw a party to welcome him to Equestria and to celebrate his rebirth!" She said all in one go before taking a breath and turning to Twilight. "He can stay in Ponyville, right? Please! Please! Please!"

"I-I think we should go too." Everypony get surprised from Fluttershy actually speaking up and saying she agrees with going out as well. "I really want to help Guardie." She pauses as they hear the faint screeching roar of the giant creature. "He's crying. He's sad and hurting from what he's being forced to do."

Rarity nods smiling. "I'm usually not one for these sorts of adventures. But I for one can't let these horrible brutes do something so cruel to such a poor creature."

Twilight smiles to all her friends before looking to her mentor. "We're going to go help our friends. You two should remain here, Princess Celestia. Everypony will feel safer with you, Luna and the royal guards here to protect them."

"Doesn't seem like they'll get a choice in that matter." Dusk spoke up before Celestia could respond making them all look to him.

"What do you mean, Du-" Celestia is interrupted as the castle shook.

"What the hay did that?" "Dusk, show yourself!" Everypony except for Dusk get startled by the loud shout.

Twilight immediately recognizes the voice and looks down from the balcony along with the others to the front of the castle after the screams of citizens could be heard. Standing in front of the castle is Junior and Akumaro with the royal guard standing at the ready to attack them.

"We have a score to settle with you, dear friend." Akumaro shouted up to Dusk while having energy form into a kemari ball. "I'm sure you wouldn't refuse our request."

At that moment Junior fires blasts of energy towards the guards on his side. Three unicorn guards tried to shield them all by creating barriers, but the energy blasts shattered them upon impact that cause an explosion that send them flying back.

While Akumaro just began to bounce the kemari around with his feet. The guards tried to rush him all at once, but they get hit, flying back by the kaiju kicking the kemari at them glowing as it slammed and bounced off them. All the guards were taken down in seconds.

Akumaro looks up to Dusk while walking over to the guards with his hands becoming large and his fingers turning into sharp claws. "What will it be, Dusk? Either you come down." He holds his claw over a guard's neck. "Or their deaths."

"Twilight, listen to me closely." Twilight looked to her uncle who is glaring down at the two kaiju. "Truthfully, most of my power is gone. Meaning my chances of defeating them are slim. So, if anything happens to me, take the V-Commander and find a new wielder for it."

"Then we should-" "No. You and the others need to help your friends." Dusk said cutting Twilight off. "You friends are still hurt and exhausted from their previous battle. They're probably barely holding out at this point. I promise you I'm not planning to die. I'll be doing the same as your friends and hold out until Spike and my ally arrive."

Twilight seemed unsure of what to do and want to think of a way to help her friends and uncle. But the answer answered itself as Celestia and Luna walked and stood next to Dusk.

"Dusk Shine won't be facing this enemy on his own, Twilight." Celestia assured her student. "I don't plan on letting a friend lose their life."

"And we can't just standby and do nothing as they attack our castle and harm our guards." Luna looks to their captains. "Captain Gale and Captain Midnight, you two are to go with Twilight and the other Element bearers to assist the Riders." This made the two captains look at her with shock.

"But your majesties-" Gale spoke with worry but stopped as Celestia walked up to them. "We'll be fine with Dusk, Captain Gale. But we can't afford to lose our two allies. Especially when they were willing to defend our citizens despite their conditions."

Seeing that they can't change their minds, the two straighten themselves before saluting to them and saying, "We will not fail you, your majesties."

"Fly over us as soon as we begin battling them." Dusk instructed Twilight and her friends.

Seeing them nod in understanding, Dusk looks back out the balcony with the V-Commander glowing, changing him into a human form which is Chief Dusk.

Hold his left arm against his chest and shouts, "Timefire!", into the V-Commander before jumping off the balcony. As he fell, he became covered in light and fire, and lands on one knee in front of the castle having transformed into Timefire.

"My first time back home and you two decide to threaten it." Timefire spoke in an angered voice to the two kaiju as he stood up and pulled out his gun shaped like a rex head, known as the DV Defender, from its holster. "I'm telling you this now, you two aren't leaving here in one piece."

"Then let's not waste any more time." Junior declared before firing blasts of energy at him.

Timefire rolls out of the way of the blasts and sees Junior running up to him with his sword. "DV change. Defender sword." He called out to his gun after pushing a red button that makes a blade fold out and extend from it. The Ranger runs up to meet his foe and they begin clashing with Timefire ducking under the next swing to try and get a hit from behind but Junior turns in time to block with his sword.

Akumaro about to join in, quickly jumps back to avoid a yellow and purple magical beams. He looks up to see Celestia and Luna flying down to join the fight.

"So, the princesses want to play too." Akumaro spoke in an insulting tone. He stops the princesses next beams with his claws and builds them up into an orb, that changes into a blue flamed orb. "Fine by me. Let's play!" He shouted launch the orb at them, which they quickly fly to the side to avoid it.

While the princesses continued firing beams at Akumaro, Twilight along with Rarity, Pinkie and Applejack are carried over the battle by their two friends and the captains as they made their way towards the city.

Back Around the Mountain

(Special Tune! Hippare!) The Beat Closer announced with the Ruby bottle slotted in while Cross-Z used it to block energy arrows that Killer drew and launched at him.

"Uh?" Killer was about to dash at the Rider but Ryuga circled around him, shooting chains that wrapped around him. (Smash Slash!) Seeing the chance, Cross-Z launched a burst-like slash made of ruby flames. "You'll have to do better than this." With sheer strength, Killer breaks the chains off him and fires a laser from his weapon to counter the slash. "Let's see if your little friend wants to change teams."

Killer switches his weapon to blade mode and begins waving it around like a conductor's baton with a wave of aura coming of it that moves into Ryuga. The small dragon stops mid in the air over Cross-Z.

"Ryuga? What's wrong?" Ryuga seemed to be struggling with something for a moment but then surprises Cross-Z by circling and chaining him. "Ryuga, what are you doing?!"

"Seems to me he's just joined the winning team." Killer swings and launches an energy slash towards Cross-Z with Ryuga boosting it by breathing blue fire. "Ugh!" The attack hits the Rider and sends him flying back. Though before he fell to the ground, Killer runs up to him, placing the hilt of the Pentact against him. "Up you go."

He fires the Pentact's laser at point plank range, dragging Cross-Z back up the mountain and landing back on the spot from where the fight started with his sword stabbing into the ground next to him.

"Spike!!" Emerald shouted worried seeing her nephew hurt clenching is chest. She tries struggling again to break free, only for them to shock her again.

In a blur, AbareKiller once again stopped in between the two, dropping Ryuga as a lock again next to Cross-Z. "Is that it, kid? All that talk earlier, and this is all your strength amounts to. Pathetic." He lets out a sigh of disappointment before turning to Emerald. "Seems this game has come to its end."

Killer holds out his hand which glows sending out electrical energy to the chains, making them glow and began to slowly turn Emerald into stone. Seeing this, Emerald struggles more trying to use all her strength while also doing her best to withstand the shock but still having no luck even cracking it.

Cross-Z tries to stand but collapses back onto the ground. "You proved to be interesting. But not enough to allow a pass." Killer turn to face the Rider. "To think your friends are expecting you to come with the key to saving everyone. And yet, this is all their last hope is capable of." Hearing this makes Cross-Z tighten his fist. Not from anger but from frustration thinking that AbareKiller is right.

"Spike, don't listen to this-" "No! This is something you have to realize, kid. Out in the real world, there are many battles happening for warriors like us. And in those battles, your limits will be pushed," Hearing this made him remember when his aunt used herself to shield him. "you'll come face to face with stronger enemies" He thinks back to Cobolda, Junior and Akumaro. "and at times you'll have to face these threats on your own." Now he thinks back on how Connor and Reiji were able to face enemies on their own but for his two battles, he needed his friends help.

"But you wouldn't survive with how you are now. You're nothing but a burden for your friends." The green flame on Cross-Z's armor begins to fade. "At least that won't be a problem soon. I'm sure by the end of this battle, they will be dead." The green flame completely disappears as the Rider presses his head against the ground.

Everything around Cross-Z goes silent as he just shuts everything out. Even his aunt who seems to be shouting at him while her body becomes stone. The only thoughts that raced through his head was 'Is this really all I can do?' and 'Can I really not protect anything?'

"I'm so pa-" 'Don't you dare finish that!' He was quietly saying to himself until he was cut off by the same female voice he had heard during his battle with Cobolda. 'This game isn't over yet.' The male voice also spoke to him. 'Do you really going to give up on your friends when they still believe in you./They haven't given up on you. Can't you feel them? It may be faint but the bond you share with them is there./Close your eyes and focus on them.'

Cross-Z does as the voices say closing his eyes inside his helmet and tries focusing on his fellow Riders. 'Come on girls. Is that the best you can do?/Grifforzer, you know I won't go down so easily.' "Connor? Reiji?" Hearing the voices he tries focusing on them.

Canterlot Shopping District

"Kyaaahhhh!" Ponies screamed in terror from building getting hit by rockets. Three were about hit some citizens but are all shot down before they got too close.

Sighing in relief, Build quickly turns back in time to block Ayame's sword with the Drill Crusher and the Vortex Saber in gun mode. "Damn it, Ayame! That didn't mean for you damn furballs to attack the ponies."

"It doesn't matter to us who gets caught up in our battle. In the end they will all share the same fate as you. Death!"

Getting shoved back by her, Build barely manages to duck under the Purple Orchid, Ran's sword but then gets struck in his right arm by Sakura, the Pink Cherry Blossom, making him drop the Drill Crusher. Build jumps up high to avoid the two trying to swing at him again but is surprised by Suiren and Yuri, the Green Water Lotus and Orange Lily, who were on roofs of two building and shoot at him with a machine gun and rocket launcher.

Sparks flew off him as he fell back to the ground. Struggling a bit to stand, Build is met with two slashes to the chest by Ayame before she side kicking him into light pole. The rest of the Kunoichi all meet back up a couple feet from Build while he was trying his best to stand back up.

"It's over, hero." "You might as well make it easy on yourself." "You can either let this be a quick death." The other Kunoichi then brought out and aimed rocket launchers at him. "Or our favorite way, as painful as possible."

Build grunts struggling to stand. "No matter what, I have to keep holding out until Spike gets here." He quietly said to himself as he barely manages to stand.

"Goodbye, hero." Build braces himself as they're about to pull the triggers. "Uh?! Kyah!" Ayame and the other Kunoichi screamed as they're hit by two armored flying ponies ramming into them. One from below knocking them over and the second hitting them from above, making them flip before hitting the floor.

Build was confused by this until the two ponies land in front of him. "C-Captains? What are you doing- Ugh!" Unable to keep his balance, the Rider collapse onto one knee thanks to Midnight quickly moving to his side to help him stay up.

"Easy there, Build. Try not to push yourself. The princesses sent us to assist you. And it seems we came just in time."

"But- Ah!" Build hissed in pain from Gale having socked his hurt arm. "That'll teach your sorry flank to run off on your own." "But-" He gets cut off when she turns and stomps her hooves in front of him. "Look here, this is our home, and we have every right to help defend it. You can either be on board with that or stay out of our way. Come on, Midnight." She ended looking to her fellow captain.

With a nod, Midnight sets Build down before taking off with Gale, flying up high and then diving down towards the Kunoichi.

"Damn equines." Sakura angrily shouted as she and the other Kunoichi stood back up. "Shoot them down!" Yuri, Ayame and Sakura brought out machine guns while Suiren and Ran stuck with rocket launchers.

Build watches as the Kunoichi began firing at Gale and Midnight with the two maneuvering around to avoid the bullets and rockets. "I can't just sit around and do nothing." Managing to force himself to stand while picking up his weapon, Build switches the saber to sword mode and inserts two bottles. (Obake! Magnet! Vortex Match!)

The drill spun being covered in a white energy and makes a phantom waling noise as it's launched as a spiraling slash. The Kunoichi take notice of it too late as it split into five and each hit their weapons, making their guns fly into the air before being crushed by a magnetic force.

"Damn You!!" Ayame shouted with anger charging at the Rider. "Bring it, you damn fucking cat." Build does the same charging at her and start clashing as they reached each other with the other Kunoichi pulling out their katanas to continue attacking the captains.

In Front of Canterlot Hospital

Inside the hospital, ponies were stuck watching the battle between OOO and three kaiju from the windows. They were trapped by the grunts but to their surprise, the Dorodoros had made the other grunts halt their attack on them so they could watch the fight.

OOO fires magic at the ground and makes the ground under Ootsumuji liquified, sinking the Ayakashi halfway into the ground. Hitomidama launches fireballs from behind the Rider, which he quickly turns around to use the condor leg's talon-like attachment to slash through them and then uses his magic to launch chunks of rubble at him.

"Ugh!" OOO at last second manages to turn to his left, creating the energy shell shield to block Grifforzer's energy beams. "I have to admit this is becoming di-" He gets hit from behind by a gust of wind in the shape centipede body which was formed by Ootsumoji spinning his hair around. The Ayakashi uses it to break himself out of the ground before getting another hit on OOO, making sparks fly off his back.

The Rider groaned in pain as he stood up only to be kicked back down by Hitomidama, making him roll across the ground. The moment OOO stopped, Grifforzer brought him back onto his feet to slash him across the chest and then fired energy beams into the Rider's chest as he stumbled back, sending him flying back and landing onto his back.

Hitomidama laughs as he took a few steps towards OOO. "This has been amusing but it's time for the lead role to take the stage. I'm sure I could put you to better use by attacking the ponies." The Ayakashi's face glowed before firing a blast of dark energy towards OOO.

'Shit!' OOO shouted in his mind as it flew quickly towards him. Trying to move despite the pain, Hitomidama thought his attack would hit and earn himself a puppet to use. But all that shattered when Twilight teleports next to OOO and teleports them both away in time.

"What?! Where'd he-" "SPECIAL DELIVERY!!" Pinkie shouted appeared jumping in front of Hitomidama and slamming what looks like a pizza-looking pie into his face. "How dare you- What!? What'd you do to me!?" The Ayakashi angrily shouted in a muffled voice trying to pull the pie pan off while the pinkie pony ducked under the reader's sight.

"It's a gumball pizza pie. Be careful with it though. It's really sticky." Pinkie says jumping back into sight next to her friends in front of the hospital doors with Applejack and Twilight helping support OOO up. "Why'd you-" "Me and Discord have been baking many different pies and cake to add in Sugarcube Corner." She cut off, answering Rainbow's question.

"What are you guys doing here?" "We'll talk later. Rest up for now. Leave Grifforzer to us for now." Twilight instructed him. This makes him smile under his helmet. "Like hell I will." Despite his condition, OOO manages to stand as Hitomidama finally rips the pan off his face. "But you're welcome to help."

The girls smile to that before getting into ready positions and charge a second after with the ponies and the Dorodoros cheering for them.

Back to the Mountain

Cross-Z opens his eyes having heard what his fellow Riders said and even felt how they're pushing themselves to keep buying time. 'You see. Your friends haven't called it quits yet./Now the onkly question is, are you willing to do the same.'

He looks up seeing AbareKiller with his back turned to him, watching the spell as it was now up to Emerald's neck. "Not yet." Cross-Z softly said as he began trying pick himself up, catching Killer's attention.

"Oh. Do you still have some fight left?" The ranger spoke in a mocking tone while turning to face the Rider. "Sadly though, the game is over. You've failed to entertain me enough and your aunt is about to become stone."

"I don't care about your dumb game." Cross-Z was saying as he managed to get himself onto his hands and knees. "I'm doing this to protect everypony I love and protect anypony who asks for help. That includes Guardie. He asked for my help" Shaking a bit, he pauses to look directly at Killer. "and that's what I'm going to do. Because I'm not just a Kamen Rider. I'm a Knight of Harmony!/A Knight of Harmony!" The two shouted with the green fire reappearing on his armor.

The Cave

Discord and the tree had been pouring their magic for a while now with just about all the shards having regained their color except for one that was half ways done.

The CMC had been watching the whole time, waiting to play their part. But they began to get worried from how Discord seemed to be flickering between transparent and being solid.

"Discord, are-" "I'm fine." Discord answered Apple Bloom before she could finish. "Just start focusing on the form the shards should take. Once you do, hold your hooves over the shards after they're completed and focus that image into them." He had instructed them with a reassuring smile.

The girls look to each other before turning back still with worried looks but nod in understanding, knowing he's doing this because of how much he cares for his friends and their home. They all look back in time to see the last of the shards fully regain its color and begins shining floating up close to the ceiling, with the others doing the same.

"Now!" Discord shouted while he and the tree kept their hold on the shards. The CMC follow what he had instructed them to do and ran up to the shards. They each place a hoof over one another as they held them up towards the shards and closed their eyes to focus.

After a few seconds, the girls open their eyes and watched in amazement as the shards shined brighter merging together and then flying out the cave in an orb of light. Discord then collapses onto the floor once him and the tree released their hold.

"DISCORD!!" The CMC shouted worried running to his side. "Are you okay?" Sweetie Belle asked in a worried tone.

"I'm fine. That was nothing." He answered with a weak smirk while shakingly standing back up. " But I did used up a lot of my magic. I need to get back to my realm to rest for a while. Can I trust you girls to wait here next to the tree until Emerald comes back?" The girls are concerned about letting their friend leave on his own in his condition but decide to nod. "Good. Then be safe you three."

Discord vanishes in a flash of light, leaving the girls alone with the Tree of Harmony. "Will he really be okay?" Scootaloo asked looking to her friends. They stared at each other in concern for a moment before looking towards the entrance of the cave. "I hope we were able ta make something that'll help Guardie." Apple Bloom said hoping along with her friends.

Back at the Mountain

"Why'd you-" Cross-Z was about ask being confused by what Killer had said along with him but is cut off as the orb of light had made its way to him and flies into the right side of his belt. "Is this my Primal Cell?"

Reaching for it, the shards had become a flip phone similar to the MagiPhone used by the Magirangers but it had a similar blue color as Cross-Z's armor replacing the gold color with the black color having been replaced with gold. The Magiranger symbol at the center was replaced with a red gem with a card reader on the left side of the phone. He opens the phone to see his symbol above the number dials.

"Seems you've passed, Spike." Cross-Z looked back up to Killer confused by what he said but then sees him snaps his fingers making the spell on Emerald crumble undone a moment as it was about to be completed and the chains shatter.

"Aunt Emerald!" Cross-Z ran over to his aunt side seeing her fall to her knees and helps her stand. "Thank you, Spike. I'm fine now." The two look back to the Ranger. "What do you mean I passed? I thought you said your game was over."

Killer crosses his arms. "It was all a lie. The real goal was to get you to awake your Nexus enough to connect to Skeletal Tyrant. Though regardless of the reason, I apologize for what I've done." He bowed to them for a moment. "Nexus?" "It's a great power that chose you the moment you came into this world as an egg. It can bring many together to form bonds and create miracles for when the time is right."

"How do you know about the Nexus?" Emerald questioned him with glaring eyes. "That would be because you were the one who told me about it." She glare became a confused look for a moment before she went wide eyed with shock. "Wait! You're-" "No time for that now. Cross-Z, you need to unit with Skeletal now. He would've reach Canterlot by now."

"But how could I-" Right then, the phone begins to ring making Cross-Z open it and gets surprised when the upper part opens to have a hidden piece extend out with the number dials 5-6-0-1 light up. "Does it want me to push these?" He pushes them in the order it showed and then pushed the 'ENTER' button. (Jinga Majiro Maji Maaji!)

Before he could question or say anything, Cross-Z became a body of light that shoots up into the sky and flies off towards Canterlot.

"What just- No wait! Tell me, are you-" Emerald turned back to find Killer was gone.

Canterlot Castle

"Ah!" Timefire is sent flying back with sparks flying off his chest. Rolling back to his feet, he changes his weapon back to gun mode and pushes the button. "DV Change! Vulcan Mode!" He then fires multiple red laser shots at Junior who's walking up to him.

The Yokai takes the shots easily, seeming to take no damage as he continues walking towards the Timeranger. Timefire looks confused by this till he falls onto one knee with the color from his suit fading.

Junior chuckles at the sight. "Seems like you still haven't found a way to restore your magic. And yet you still decided to face us." He swings his sword upward upon reach Timefire and lands a diagonal slash across his chest.

"Dusk!" Celesta shouted concerned seeing her friend get beat around. She flew to his aid, but Akumaro intercepted jumping up in front of her. "Leaving so soon, princess?" The Ayakashi spoke in a mocking tone.

Akumaro swings claw at her but gets tackled from behind by Luna. "Hope I wasn't forgotten." He flips landing onto his feet. "Of course not. As a creature that embraces darkness, you are a princess Ayakashi like me could never forget." "Sad to think I'd hear that first from a horrible creature."

Luna fires a beam of magic towards Akumaro. He was about to counter it, but to his surprise the beam hit the ground in front of him. "Seems someone needs practice." "No. I hit my mark." The Ayakashi is confused by this until shadows stretched towards and shot off the ground to wrap around him. "Impressive. I'd like to see more of your magic." Akumaro said breaking out of his binds.

Back with Junior he fires his energy blasts at Timefire after he tried using the vulcan laser again but with still the same result. "I'd say it's time for us to part ways for good, Timefire." Junior said while the Timeranger fell to the floor and began building up energy into his hand.

As the Yokai launches a powerful blast, Celestia lands in front of Timefire and fires a powerful yellow beam of magic. The two attacks begin pushing each other back and forth for a few seconds before canceling each other out.

"Dusk, are you alright?' "I'll be fine." Timefire answered the princess, grunting as he stood up. The two, along with Luna, get startled by the loud shrieking roar. "Sounds like the executioner is here." Junior said as they all turned to see Skeletal Tyrant arrive at the entrance into Canterlot.

The giant creature begins its rampage by firing a black flamed blast at the train stations and completely destroys it and a large chunk of space around it.

"Skeletal, rampage and destroy everything!" Junior yelled out to the giant creature that roars in understanding as it begins following the order shooting blasts at different parts of the city in front of it.

He laughs in enjoyment listening to the ponies inside the castle scream in terror as Skeletal demolishes their city. He then looks to the sky to see dark clouds form over Canterlot.

"Now to add to the fuel by killing you pathetic fools." Junior shouted shooting a blast at Celestia and Timefire, who reacts in time by creating a barrier to defend herself and him. The Timeranger then charges at the Yokai. "DV Change! Defender Sword!"

Junior and Timefire resumed clashing swords with Celestia trying to act as support while Luna created a night sky field around herself and Akumaro to try attacking him from different angles in the shadows with purple magic beams. While their battle continued, no one takes notice an orb of light goes straight into the red center piece of Skeletal's chest.

Inside Skeletal

Cross-Z lands and looks around finding himself in a dark void with nothing around for miles.

"Where am I?" "You're inside me." He jumps startled for a second but then recognizes the voice. "Guardie? Is that you?"

There was no response. After a moment, the view of the city being destroyed appeared in front of him that was coming from Skeletal's point of view.

"I had wished to see this world. But not like this. What I've done is unforgivable." Guardie's voice could be heard in a sad tone all around. "It's not your fault. They're controling and forcing you to do all this." "That may be true. But as one that used to be a guardian of light, I cannot forgive myself for being manipulated by darkness so easily."

"If you really feel that way, then why not help me save my friends and everypony? That could be your way of showing you're actually peaceful." "I wish I could but this control they have on me is too strong to break." "Maybe not alone. But together we might be able to. Just tell me how I can help."

Guardie stayed silent making Cross-Z think he didn't have the will to try. He's proven wrong though when a round object matching the center piece he entered in appears in front of him incased in a dark aura.

"Pour your energy the Color Timer. If we can restore it, I should be able to regain control of myself. Do you think you can manage?" "Won't know until we try." Cross-Z holds his hands out to it and begins pouring his energy into it with Guardie doing the same from energy of light going into it.

Canterlot's Shopping Area

"Watch your six, Gale." "Watch your own flank, Midnight. I've seen them nearly get you a couple times already." She shouted at him while landing next to and bucking Sakura into a wall.

Ran appeared next to her swinging a katana. Gale manages to take a step back in time for the sword to graze past her armor and quickly flies back into the sky. Midnight dived down towards Suiren and Yuri. The two timed the moment to strike and swung the moment he got too close to avoid but Midnight tucked in his wings and flew through the middle of the swords. Having avoided them, the two turned only to get sent flying back from Midnight bucking them.

As for Build, from the damage he's already taken and exhaustion, Ayane was able to move around better than him. The Rider jumps from building to building while firing at Ayane only for her to get past and slash him across his back, making him fall to the floor.

Build groaned standing back up but is met with Ayane slashing at his back again. Turning to face her, Ayane hits Build's weapon to the side when he tries guarding and slashes him across the chest with the second sending him rolling to the ground with sparks flying.

"Build!" The captains shouted seeing the Rider barely manage to get onto a knee. They wanted to go help him but the other Kunoichi kept preventing them from going.

"Ah!" The Kunoichi had put the blade of her sword against his neck. "So, that's your name. Well then, farewell Build." Ayane was about to deliver the finishing blow but gets hit by two blinding lights that were shot towards and exploded in front of her face. "Kyah!" She screamed in pain from the lights having hurt her eyes.

"Wha- Uh!" Build looked to the left to find the two unicorn filles he had saved before in front of a building a couple feet away from them. "Why are you-" "Damn brats. Ninpo, Falling Cherry Blossoms!" Having crossed her hands against her chest, she holds them out with her palms pointing outward that launches an attack made of energy petals and sparkles at the fillies.

The fillies gasp. "Look out!" Build sprints up and uses his rabbit leg to jump ahead of the attack and uses himself to cover the girls as the attack land. "Gyah!" The Rider screamed out from the attack exploding on him and the building, causing chunks of it to fall on top of them.

Canterlot Hospital

The ponies and Dorodoros were still cheering as Hitomidama kept firing fireballs at Fluttershy, Rarity and different objects that Pinkie kept popping out from behind or inside of, such as mailboxes and bushes, saying "Missed me!" each time.

"Damn it! Stand still you annoying pony!" The Ayakashi shouted stomping his foot in frustration. "But that's not how the game works silly." Pinkie said having appeared next to him. Hitomidama quickly tries grabbing her after having gotten startled by her but only manages to grab stick his hand in another one of Pinkie's sticky pies. "How'd you!?"

"Ready!" "What?" Hitomidama turned around to find Pinkie, Fluttershy and Rarity holding pie with a huge stack behind them. "Where'd you-" "FIRE!!" They start launching pies one after the other at the Ayakashi as he runs back and forth trying to avoid the pies but mostly failing.

Meanwhile, Rainbow was flying circles around Ootsumuji who's swings his sword trying to land a hit on her. "You're fast. Just what you'd expect from a cowardly species." "Who are you calling a coward?" Rainbow had stopped to shout down at him with glaring eyes. "Do you see any other one of you up there?"

Rainbow hardens her glare before racing down towards the Ayakashi. He chuckles seeing his plan worked and readied himself to cut down the pegasus. But before he could, Ootsumuji is hit from behinds by a chunk of rubble. Rainbow pulls back up into the sky as the Ayakashi stumbles.

"Who did-" Ootsumuji angrily turned only to get hit with another piece of rubble. "Hope I'm not cuttin' in on anything important." Applejack yelled out to the Ayakashi from a far distance, then proceeds to buck another chunk at him. "You'll regret that." Ootsumuji said slashing through the rubble.

He charges towards Applejack who responds by continuing to launch chunks at him. Ootsumuji cuts through them as he got closer to the apple farmer but only gets half ways before Rainbow rams into him from behind, knocking the Ayakashi over.

"I didn't need your help, AJ." "If you had kept goin' then you wouldn't be here sayin' that." The two had began arguing but it gets cut short when they quickly duck down from Ootsumuji's wind attack and then jump to opposite ends as he tried slamming it down on them. "I'm going to enjoy ripping you apart."

"Ah!" OOO landed on his back after getting hit by Grifforzer's lasers. The chimera turns around to shoot blasts of flame at Twilight. She does her best to avoid the blasts and use her magic to fire beams at him.

"How much can you and your allies continue this resistance, OOO?" Grifforzer turned back to the Rider while using his left arm to hit the beams to the side. "Why not just surrender while you have the chance?"

OOO slowly stood back up. "You and I both know I'd never do that. One way or another, we're going to send you all packing back to where ever you crawled out of." The Rider then charges at Grifforzer. Grifforzer fires his lasers at him but OOO just takes the hit and runs through it before bringing his sword down on him. The chimera took the hit being unfazed by the slash.

"Was that supposed to hurt?" Grifforzer hits OOO's sword out of his hands and slashes him across his chest as the sword landed stabbing into the ground. He then dropkicks the Rider to the ground.

"OOO!" Twilight rushes to help her friend but the chimera takes notice and fires his lasers at her. She stops to put up a shield to protect herself but is knocked back when the lasers hit and exploded shattering her shield.

Seeing her down, Grifforzer turns back to OOO, who tries standing back up, and begin approaching him slowly. "This is the end, OOO."

Within Skeletal Tyrant

Cross-Z and Guardie were still pouring their energies into the Color Timer with the dark aura still being uneffected by their efforts.

"Ugh." Cross-Z collapses onto his hands and knees panting. "All of that and yet that stuff hasn't even slightly faded." "I don't think there's anything else we can do. Even your friends don't seem they'll last much longer." "No. We can't give up." He said getting back onto his feet. "Everyone has done too much to get us to this point. You know how I feel, right? Even with how hopeless it seemed, you never gave up on wanting to stop your master even until the very end."

Guardie remembers back on how he tried to stop his master. Even when he kept attacking him, Guardie never once tried fighting back against him.

"Unite." "Unite? What do you mean?" "If we unite into one, we might be able to turn this control they have over me into our own power that we can send to restore your friends. Though there's no guarantee that it'll work." "Well, I'm willing to give it a shot. How do we unite?"

Instead of answering, particles of light built up in front of Cross-Z, forming into a red card with Guardie's original image molded onto it. He was confused by this at first until his new phone rang again and showed a new set of numbers to press after opening it, with a slot under it having opened up.

"Alright! Let's do this!" Cross-Z shout in a determined tone and inserts the card into the phone. (Rebirth Set!) He then dials in 9-1-0-7 and presses enter after he holds it up. (Majuna Maaji Maji Majika!) Cross-Z changes into blue light the shoots into the Color Timer along with a red light. The Color Timer lights up brightly dispelling the dark aura and turning it into a golden aura.

Outside

Skeletal Tyrant was continuing its destruction now having gotten to the center of the city. It looks towards the castle and begins charging an attack. But before it could finish, the huge creature lets a shreek causing everyone to turn to see it turn to stone.

"What?!" Junior was confused by what just happened along with Akumaro. "What's happened to our pet?" Right then the red center shattered to reveal the Color Time as it unleashes a bright blinding light. "What is this damn cursed light?" Akumaro shouted covering his eyes along with everyone else.

Having their eyes covered, the Kunoichi and captains didn't see the golden aura that comes out of the Color Time and splits into two before one shoots past them to enter the pile of rubble that buried Build. The second shoots to and into OOO causing his body to glow making Grifforzer back away from him.

The light for Skeletal dies down enough for Grifforzer and the Ayakashi to see OOO stand and cross his arms as the glow got brighter. "GYAAAAAAAAAH! HA!" He shouted out swinging his arms apart after the glowing stopped.

"How are you able to stand again?" The chimera questioned pointing his sword at the Rider.

"I'm not really sure myself but I've heard my friend's wish and I plan on granting it now." OOO declared before proceeding to switch out the medals again. (Mukade! Hachi! Ari! Mukachiri Chiri! Mukachiri Chiri!)

OOO whole appearance changed with the helmet now having a purple centipede body going through the middle of his face with now eye visor eyes. His arms has yellow running through it to show the shoulder pads to now have a bee wing shape and honeycomb image running down the arms that now have a bee with a long stinger on the right arm and a honeycomb shaped shield on the left. His legs now had silver with black ant shapes going upward from the tip of his boots to his knees.

Grifforzer takes a step back and readies himself with Twilight and her friends having ran to OOO's side. "Twilight, you and the others head back to the castle." "But-" "I'll be fine now." He pauses to look to her. "But I can't fight seriously if you all stay here."

Twilight is reluctant at first but nods before turning to her friends. "Let's go girls." Her friends were unsure as her but nod as they run off with her, but Rainbow stops to punch his shoulder and says, "Beat them good for us." as she flew off.

OOO looks back to see the Akaykashi to his left and right side, both readied as well. "Now, I shall judge your greed." OOO said while getting into a stance.

While the girls made their way back to the castle, Applejack looked back for a second. "Was it really a good idea ta leave him on his own to face them?" She asked looking to Twilight who's holding up the Coreseeker with her magic searching for something before going wide eyed. "What's the matter, Twilight?"

"What he changed into is a poison form." She answered making them all go wide eyed. "Hopefully it's not spreadable poison."

Back at the fight, OOO kicks Grifforzer's sword to the side and follows with a sidekick to the chimera's chest, send him flying into a wall that's a bit far. He then blocks Ootsumuji's sword with his shield and the two try pushing each other back while Hitomidama got into position a couple feet behind the Rider.

"You're mine now!" The Ayakashi shouted about to launch his black energy attack from his face. OOO uses the centipede on his head by having it grow longer and moved it around like a wipe to hit him multiple times. "Why is everything spinning?" Hitomidama said wobbling around from the poison centipede put on him.

"What'd you do?" "Simple. This!" OOO shoves Ootsumuji back and knees down to stab the stinger into the ground causing poisonous gas burst out around them. While the Ayakashi choked on the poison, the Rider jabs him a couple times with the stinger and follows up with an upper cut with his left fist.

Grifforzer stands back up growling. "You'll regret that, OOO." The chimera shoots energy beams at OOO, who rolls out of the way towards the direction of his sword to quickly grab it and connects the scanner to it.

"I think you need a reminder of what this sword can do." Loading Cell Medals into the sword, OOO scans it over the belt. (Sync! Mukachiri Charge!) A purple centipede body with stinger legs forms around it that extends when OOO swings it at Grifforzer.

The chimera jumps flying up into the air to avoid it. "You'll have to- Gah!" Grifforzer was about to fire energy beams again but gets hit by the swords attack form it having gone up after him, grazing against his chest with the stinger legs getting him multiple times, and then gets slammed into the ground.

Though the attack doesn't stop as OOO swings his sword upward to drag Grifforzer across the ground. "Damn that- Ah!" Ootsumuji is cut off by getting hit and dragged along with the chimera until they get slammed into a building.

Turning around, the Rider runs up to the still poisoned Hitomidama and kicks his side multiple times before side kicking the Ayakashi back. "What? What's happening?" (Scanning Charge!) "Huh?" Hitomidama looks up to see OOO had jumped up and thrusts down towards him with the centipede body circling around the Rider with the tip positioning itself next to the sidekick.

"Waitwaitwaitwait- Gah!" Hitomidama tries stopping it with his shield, but the finisher breaks through it and hits the Ayakashi across the ground. Seeing him down, OOO turns in time to see the other two burst out of the building.

"Next set." He says to himself switching medals again. (Kuwagata! Kamakiri! Batta! Ga-ta Gata-gata-kiriba! Gatakiriba!) OOO had completely turned green having the stag beetle head, mantis arms, and grasshopper legs. The two kaiju charge at the Rider, with him doing the same.

Using his sword and one of the Kamakiriswords, OOO clashed swords with the two for a moment before blocking and getting pushed back a bit by them. "You don't seem so tough now." Ootsumuji mocked as they were about to pin OOO against a wall.

"Yeah. This form might not be that strong. But what it lacks in strength," At last moment he creates four copies of himself to help stop them by pushing him from behind. "What?!" "it makes up for in numbers." Two of his copies helped in shoving the two kaiju back while the other two ran by to slash at them, with another two copies to spawn off them to kick Grifforzer and Ootsumuji back into the three to slash.

Hitomidama groaned standing back up. "You're gonna pay for belittling the star here." Right when the Ayakashi shoots his black energy attack from his face, four newer copies of OOO appeared in between them and fired green lightning from their horns to counter his attack and electrocuted him. Recovering from the shock, Hitomidama sees the OOOs multiply into a ring around him. "How many of those can you make?"

The OOOs inserted Cell Medals into the swords and connected the scanners. (Sync! Gatakiriba Charge!) The sword called out playing the combo's melody as the OOOs readied and stabbed the swords into the ground to create an electrical field around the Ayakashi. They then launch mantis blades that bounce off the field while hitting Hitomidama multiple times before colliding and exploding on him, bringing him to his knees.

Grifforzer and Ootsumuji get hit back before every one of the OOOs ran the scanners over their belts. (Scanning Charge!) The two get hit with multiple kicks by all the OOOs, sending them flying all around until it ends with Ootsumuji landing onto Hitomidama, and the chimera landing on his own.

"How's he this strong?" (Tatoba!) Grifforzer looks up to get hit by both of OOO's tora claws going across his chest and then gets knocked to his back by one of the claws upper cutting him.

"No matter how many of you villains are around, others like me will never let you have this world to toy with. Remember that." OOO said pointing at Grifforzer before he disappears with a growl. He turns to the Ayakashi while pulling his sword off his back and connecting the scanner to it. "Now to end this with a bang." He declared while holding up the extra hawk, tiger and hopper medals.

(Taka! Tora! Batta! Full Set!) The Ayakashi stand up hearing the announcement and see OOO run the sword over the belt. (Tatoba! Dual Scanning Charge!) The sword began play Tatoba's melody with a charging sound until he launches a three colored slash with three rings following that hit and holds the two in place.

"Now I'll show you the true strength of desire." Changing into hopper legs, OOO jumps high up into the air with the slash's rings aligning with him and the same colored rings as appearing in front of the Rider. "Seiya!" OOO shouts thrusting down both his hopper legs into a kick that hits and pushes the slash through the two Ayakashi.

"GYAAAHHH!!" The two kaiju screamed as the Tatoba rings overlap each other into an 'X' shape and the explode. The ponies and Dorodoros shouted cheering in glee with the other grunts disappearing behind them.

"And that's how it's done. Though why do I feel like I'm forgetting something." OOO said to himself as he tried thinking but then hears a noise behind him with two shadows growing bigger behind him. "Oh shit."

Canterlot Shopping Area

During that time, the captains and the Kunoichi were too blinded by the light to see a faint glow come from the rubble.

"Build!" Gale and Midnight raced to the rubble the moment the light died down. They only got halfway before a net came up in front of them. They didn't have time to stop or avoid it causing them to run into and get caught in it. "Hey! Let us go!" She had yelled as they struggled to get out but are halted by Suiren and Ran pressing their swords against the two's necks.

"Quiet and watch as your last hope dies." Suiren declared as her other three teammates brought out the rocket launchers they had put away before and fired them at the pile of rubble.

The captain watched in horror as the rubble pile explodes into pits. "Go retrieve the body. I'm sure our Young Noble Junior would want to see the remains of the human." Sakura and Yuri do as they're told and run over to search for the body. Ayame turns to the captains. "We have no need for you though. Kill them."

The captains resumed struggling as Suiren and Ran readied to end them. "He's gone!!" Sakura shouted making her teammate look to her. "What do you mean?" "There's nothing here but a hole."

(Cross Combo!) Ayame and the others heard under them before a phantom looking wolf heads came phasing out of the ground and biting onto the three Kunoichi. "Gah! How'd he-" Build bursts out of the ground behind them in his SameBike form and slashed them across their chests with his saber making them fly into Sakura and Yuri.

"You're okay?!" "Yeah. Not sure how, but I feel it has something to do with Spike." He answered Gale's question before hand setting down the two fillies. "Leave the rest to me and take these two to a safe distance."

"But it's-" Midnight was about to argue but Gale holds her hoof in front of him. "Then you better end this. I'll hate it if I have to save your damn flank again." "Just get your butts into the sky." "Let's go, Midnight." He just nods, picking up Rose while Gale picked up the other and then the two flew up into the sky with the fillies shouting, "Thank you for saving us!".

Build looks back to the Kunoichi getting back onto their feet. "You'll regret not having escaped while you had the chance." "Maybe before but not now." (Samethrottler!) He summoned his sawblade weapon before getting into a stance. "I'll be the one to find the formula to this equation."

The captains and fillies watch from above as Build and the Kunoichi ran at each other and began clashing.

"Who is that?" Misty asked Gale while on her back. "That's Build. One of the Knights of Harmony." The captain answered as they watched Build blocked Suiren with the Samethrottler and reached behind himself to shield himself from Ran and Sakura with the tire and saber.

He shoves them back to twist around, slashing all three but he sees they replaced themselves with straw dummies. Sensing the other two about to attack him from behind, He ducks, rolling backwards to avoid their katanas and quick strikes them from behind. Though once again they're straw dummies.

Build looked around for a second before relying on his echolocation. "This annoying trick isn't going to work on SameBike. Besides" He unfolds and reves the throttle handle twice. "I hate cheap tricks." (Jawsome Requiem!) Build quickly turns launching an energy sawblade tire towards the roof of a shop three building down. It slices through three rockets mid-air as it made its way towards Ayame, Sakura and Yuri and cuts through their rocket launchers, causing them to explode along with the rockets.

"Build!/Build!" Suiren and Ran shouted charging at the Rider from behind as their teammates fell off the roof and jump at him to strike him down with their swords. (Jawsome Crush!) The two get slashed across their chests from Build having turned and using his weapon to slice through their swords. "Ah!/Ah!"

"Now to round them up." With a glow from his bike shoulder, Machine Builders made of energy appear around the Kunoichi and began attacking them. Build watched as the bikes pushed the Kunoichi close to each other before revving the throttle three time. (Jawsome Frenzy!) Crossing his feet, the Rider begins spinning like a twister with water around it as he moved towards the girls.

The Kunoichi were busy either blocking or avoiding the bikes that they didn't take notice of Build till he started moving all around them, hitting them with multiple slashes. He stops a few feet in front of them with his back facing them.

"How was- Ah!" Build turned to see Ayame jumping at him. Not having much time to think, Build just swings his weapon upward as she brought her sword down on him causing the two to slash each other and fall to the ground stumbling back. "Should've seen that coming."

"Use these!" A voice shout to Build behind him from within a comic bookstore called House of Enchanted Comics with two objects being thrown out a broken window. "Huh? These are" Setting his weapons down, he picks up a purple Fullbottle with a shuriken image molded on it and a yellow one that seems to be "Comic and ninja. But where'd they come from?" The Rider looked into the store in time to only see a trapdoor in the floor close. He wanted to follow but notices the Kunoichi beginning to recover. "Next time."

Build switches bottles. (Ninja! Comic! Best Match! Are you ready?) "Build up." Following the process, the construct closes replacing the armor. (Shinobi no entertainer! NinninComic! Yeah!) Shark had been replaced with a ninja looking armor with a purple scarf attached to the right side of his back and a purple visor shaped like a shuriken. While bike was now a yellow armor with a comic strip on the chest, a comic book shaped shoulder pad, a pen design on the left arm, and a yellow visor shaped like a comic book with a pen drawing it.

"What?!" Yuri along with the others were surprised by Build's new appearance as a new is formed in front of him from the belt and he takes ahold of it. (4Koma Ninpoutou!) It's a katana looking weapon with a four-panel comic strip as the blade, having four different ninjutsu, and a fountain pen tip. "Do you think you can defeat us by copying us?"

"It's not a matter of who's better. But of who's smarter. Which you mangie furballs certainly are not." Build spoke in a mocking tone to them. "Prepare to die, Build!" Ayame yelled enraged along with the other Kunoichi as they charge at him.

Build does the same dashing towards them while holding the sword upside down. As they were about to reach each other, Build's scarf stretches and wraps around the Rider, making him vanish. The Kunoichi stopped in their tracks to look around themselves for any signs of him.

"Build, show your- Cyah" Build appeared of a second and kicks Suiren across the face as he flew by. "Where'd he-Ugh!" Sakura gets tripped and axe kicked in the gut by the Rider who disappears again. Build goes back and forth, appearing and disappearing as he attacks the girls with slashes, punches, and jump kicks.

"Enough!!" Ayame yells out as she swung her sword to her left and gets blocked by the Rider who reappears with the scarf returning to normal. "You have good senses." Build said surprised while trying his best to avoid and dodge the girls. He jumps over Yuri to avoid Ayame's sword and thrusts his legs into a kick on Suiren, who he also uses as a springboard to launch himself to his left to slash down on Ran.

Though after trying to counter Sakura's kicks with his own, he ends up getting kick back a few feet by her and Suiren. As he got up, they surrounded him. "Ninja vanish." He said to himself as they were about to pounce him all at once and presses the sword's trigger 4 times with it making slash sounds. (Kakuremi no Justsu! Doron!) The last part was announced pressing the trigger again with the sword creating a huge smoke screen.

The Kunoichi jump up to light poles trying to search for Build in the smoke. "Where is he?" "There!" Ran shouted after a moment with all of them looking to the left where she is pointing to see movement in the smoke moving towards them. "here he comes!" They all jump to strike him down.

(Bunshin no Jutsu!) They heard at last second, along with the comic word 'BOOM' being seen in 5 different spots ahead of them. They get surprised by five Builds jumping up at them and kicking them in mid-air with a sixth Build coming up behind them holding the Vortex Saber as well and slashes them as he ran by. "Looking for someone?" The sixth mocked standing next to the other hims looking back at the girls on the floor.

"Ninpo! Falling Cherry Blossoms!" All five Kunoichi shouted firing the petal attack at the Rider.

"Let's one up them." Three Builds press the trigger 3 times and the other three press it twice. (Fuuton no Jutsu! Tatsumaki Giri!/Katon no Jutsu! Kaen Giri!) The first three launch a tornado slashes that catch push the Kunoichi's attack back at them. The last three send burning slashes that go along with the attack lighting the energy petals a blaze. "Kyaahhh!" The girls land into the middle of the shopping area after getting hit by the attack.

Build appears up on the roof of a two-story building with the Kunoichi looking up to him as they stood. "You five have caused enough destruction and sadness to this city. By the law of this city and the will of the ponies living here, I'm ending this." He declared throwing the saber past them to stab into the ground a few feet away and then turns ths belt's crank. Comic-looking purple drawn ninjas appear randomly all around on the roofs of buildings and on the ground. "The law of victory have been set."

(Ready? Go!) The Kunoichi watched as Build and the ninjas each hold up one arm with yellow spinning shurikens appearing over them. (Vortex Finish! Yeah!) They all throw the shurikens that the girls try to hit away but mostly get hit multiple times before they realize Build jump down and zoom past them with not only a slash hitting them but the comic word 'ZOOM' being in-between them.

"Let's make this a big one." Build comes to a stop next to the saber and pulls it out of the ground, along with bringing out two bottles. (Dragon! Lock! Vortex Match!) The weapon declared as he stabbed it into the ground to have chains shoot out around the Kunoichi and chains them together.

With blue flames seepiing out from under the saber, Build swings causing a Chinese dragon made of blue flame to course through the ground towards the girls and begins circling them with the flames building up within the circle until it's a fire dome and explodes. "KYAAAAAHHHH!!" The Kunoichi screamed in pain.

Build waits a moment for the smoke to clear before hearing grunts. Within the small crater are what looks like five female cat women wearing ninja outfit that are a bit burnt with their faces covered. "We won't forget this, Build." One that sounds like Ayame said before they disappeared.

"Yeah. I bet." Build said relaxing a bit as the captains land next to him with the fillies.

"Nice job, Build. But you let them get away." Gale pointed out but smied. "Though after all you've done, I can let that pass."

"What happened to you though?" Midnight asked after setting Rose down. "You could hardly move before."

Build looked himself over. "I was wondering the same thing. But I have a feeling this was Spike's doing." He said looking to the stoned Skeletal Tyrant.

"Is it over now?" Rose asked but Misty suddenly pointed her hoof over the buildings. "WHAT'S THAT!?"

They watched as they saw flames in the distance retract with Ootsumuji and Hitomidama replacing them as they grew into giants.

"What in tartarus are those things?" Gale shouted looking up in horror along with Midnight and the fillies.

"Hitomidama and Ootsumuji. They a type of kaiju called Ayakashi that have two lives. When their first life is taken, the second life turns them into giants. And seeing as they were destroyed, that could only mean"

Build pauses seeing Ootsumuji swing his sword acroos the ground, with them hearing a "Whoa- Ugh!" as OOO hit the ground on his back, sliding to a stop next to them. "Ow. Man there has to be better ways on- OW!" He rubs his head from Build having smacked it.

"You just had to make this more difficult." "I'm sorry I forgot." OOO said in his defence as he stood up while Build looked to Skeletal Tyrant. "Our only hope to deal with them, is to get Guardie to defeat them."

Within Skeletal Tyrant

Cross-Z along with Guardie had watched the whole events that transpired and now see the giant kaiju.

"It was great we were able to help my friends, but how are we going to deal with those two if were just stuck like this? Ah!" The two Ayakashi begin destroying parts of city around them. "We need to do something, Guardie!"

"We will. You just need to finish our unity." "It's not finished? Then how do we finish it?" Right then, his phone rings again. But instead of a new set of numbers to dial when he opens it, The upper half of it opens up again to shoot two lights in front of him.

The lights took the form of cards having the same color as the Tree of Harmony with the Elements of Harmony on the back. One was of a red and silver mecha t-rex with the name Bakuryuu Tyrannosaurus at the bottom. The second of another rex but is different having drills and cannons on it with the name Kishiryu Tyramigo.

"Your three small friends made these to go along with your phone." Cross-Z took ahold of the cards which makes the card in the phone glow before shooting out to become like the other two but stays the same on being an insert card. "Now is the time to unite!" "Alright!"

(Guardie! Fusion Standby!) The phone had announced inserting the card back in with a standby charge sound playing. (Bakuryuu Tyrannosaurus!) Cross-Z swiped the first card on the reader with Tyrannosaurus appearing to his left. (Kishiryu Tyramigo!) Tyramigo appears to his right.

"Bring forth the guardian with chivalrious dino-guts." He holds up the phone and pushes enter. (Cross-Z Fuse!) The image of Guardie appears around Cross-Z with the rexs swirling around them until they enter the Color Timer and cause Guardie to glow brightly. (Guardie! Kyoryu King!)

Outside

The two Ayakashi were continuing their destruction. "Hm?" Hitomidama stops from seeing Twilight and her friends in the distance heading towards the castle. "The damn pink menance! You're going to learn what happens when you mess with a star!"

While he readied himself to launch fireballs, Ootsumuji takes notice of the Riders. "You got to have your fun, OOO. Now let us return the favor." He said pointing his sword towards them.

"DIE PI- Gah!" Hitomidama stopped yelling as the stone Skeletal began crack and letting out a bright light that makes him and Ootsumuji cover their eyes. "What's happening!?"

Everyone looks to the statue to see it burst into pieces. With the light dying down, a new huge creature is revealed resembling Guardie's original form but is a mecha now. His body was mostly silver, red replacing the gray and gold outling the edges, and eyes that are completely green. On both sides of his back are bigger versions of Tyramigo's Knight Cannons and a drill tail similar to Tyrannosaurus's.

Inside Guardie, Cross-Z was now in void of light were he felt united to the creature from how he could see everything Guardie can. "Wow! This is amazing. My body feels full of magic and power." "Focus my friend. The enemies are ahead." "Right. Then let's go!"

Letting out a rex sounding roar, Guardie charged at the Ayakashi and began battling with the two. Fluttershy smiled from where her and her friends were watching in amazement seeing Guardie ram into Hitomidama's shield making the Ayakashi stumble back and turns in time to catch Ootsumuji's sword and push it to the side to headbutt him.

"He's free!" Fluttershy shouted happily hearing the creature roar.

"How can you tell?" "INCOMING!!" Rainbow shouted the moment Rarity asked her question as a fireball heads towards them. The girls scream not having time to avoid it but a huge tail moved in front of them and shields them from the attack.

They see it's Guardie's tail that protected them. "Thats how." Fluttershy answered smiling at the creature.

"Guardie, can we move this fight away from everypony?" He roars answering Cross-Z as he leened forward to fire the cannons at the Ayakashi. The two held their weapons up to shield themselves. "Hey! Hey! Who do you-" Hitomidama doesn't get to finish from seeing Gruardie's drill tail hit the two the moment they lowered their weapons.

"Aaaahhhhh!" They shouted as they flew off the edge of the city and down the mountain. Guardie roared as he charged towards and jump of the edge to go after them.

"Go get them big guy!" Rainbow shout out to him. "Let's hurry back to the castle." They all nod to Twilight as they continued towards the castle.

Canterlot Castle

"You princesses really know how to make things exiting." Junior said full of joy. He was hitting Celestia's and Luna's beams of magic to the side. "How about I show you what a Yokai can do." Stabbing his sword into the ground, Junior fires red lightning from both his hands at the princesses.

Both princesses create barriers around themselves thinking it's an attack. The lightning wraps around the barriers and begins swinging them around following Junior's hands. Junior laughs as he slams them into the castle wall, ground and trees that were around before finishing by slamming the two into each other. The barriers come undone as both princesses fell to the ground.

"Princesses! Ah- Ugh!" Timefire was about to run to them but was stopped by Akumaro holding his claw out in front of him and then clawing him across the chest. "You should worry about yourself first, Timefire. Let me remind you why."

As the Timeranger got up, Akumaro got behind him and began hitting him with multiple jabs of his claws. "Ah!" He's sent flying with the last hit and landing a few feet in front of the princesses.

"Sad that this is all the strength you have left, Timefire." Akumaro said as he and Junior walked up to the Timeranger and the princesses but stop a couple feet away from them as they watch Timefire force himself to stand.

"I may not be one their guards anymore. Even so, I will still not let you or any creature hurt the princesses." He spoke while using his sword to help him stand.

"Then we'll help show that conviction by ending your life." Junior and Akumaro began building up energy into their hands. "Goodbye fool." Right as they were about to fire at Timefire, a blur came up and hits the two back as it went by. "What?"

The blur stops in front of Timefire to show it's AbareKiller. Before he could say anything Killer back kicks the Timeranger, making him fall on his back in front of the princesses. "Dusk!" Celestia and Luna quick move to his side to help him up.

"Brute, who do you think-" Timefire hold up his hand to Luna. "It's okay, Princess Luna."

Killer looks to him from the corner of his eye inside of the helmet. "I thought I told you not to push yourself." "Sorry. Can I count on you?" He looks back to the two kaiju. "Like you even need to ask."

"Seems you survived that burial, AbareKiller.." Akumaro mocked as the Abaranger took a few steps forward. "Do you really think you can defeat the two of us on your own?"

"I don't think. I know I can." Killer dashed at the two, with them doing the same as they began colliding as blurs moving around the area.

In the Sky

Emerald was in her original size flying below the clouds with the CMC riding on her back as they made their way towards Canterlot.

"Hurry, Emerald! I bet we're missing all the action!" Scootaloo impatiently whined. "I hope you realize, I don't plan to let you three go anywhere near danger. I am responsible for your well being after all."

"I just hope Spike was able to help Guardie." Sweetie Belle said with a worried look.

"I'm sure things will work out. After all, he and the others wouldn't let us down, ri-" Apple Bloom gets interrupted as a loud roar reached them.

They all looked down towards the ground for the source where they get surprised by the sight below Canterlot. Below they seeing a shiney looking Guardie battling against the two kaiju as he hit one holding a sword with his tail and then getting rammed by one with a shield that he just shoves back.

Grabbing Ootsumuji and tossing him into his fellow Ayakashi, Guardie leened forward to fire the cannons at the two making them fall back and lets out another roar.

"Is that-" "GUARDIE!! IT WORKED!!" The CMC shouted with joy, interrupting Emerald who just smiles at them.

"Damn over grown dog! You'll pay for turning on us." "And for making the main star like me look bad." Hitomidama angrily shouted after Ootsumuji.

"How about we show them who the real stars are?" Cross-Z spoke from within that Guardie answered with a roar.

Guardie charged at the same moment as the two and rammed into them. As they all stumbled back, Ootsumuji jumped back in time as Guardie swung his tail and hit Hitomidama to the side. The Ayakashi then started swirling his hair around to create the gust of wind attack. "Try this!"

As he launched the attack, the cannons on Guardie's back repositioned themselves over the shoulders and blue energy began charging in them. "Runboldt Turrent!" Cross-Z called out as the cannons rapid fired blue energy arrows that rip through the wind and hit Ootsumuji, knocking him to the ground.

"I'll bring you back under our control." Guardie turned to Hitomidama seeing him about to fire the black energy from his face. "Kyoryu Burst!" Right as the Ayakashi fired his attack, Guardie breathes out a huge blast of fire with orange electricity around it. It goes through the attack and hits Hitomidama on the face. "GAAAHHH!!" He screamed rubbing his burnt face.

"Now, Deracium Drill!" Guardie charged up to the Ayakashi with red energy spiraling around the tail as it spun. "That's nothing to my-" Hitomidama said holding up his shield which gets broken through easily allowing the drill to hit him. "Owowowowow!" Guardie then swings Hitomidama around and tossed him into Ootsumuji.

Slaming his tail onto the ground, Guardie lets out a powerful roar. "Let's end this, Guardie." The huge creature slams his hands together and as he spreaded them wide apart a line was created that begins gathering energy.

"Shit." The two Ayakashi said knowing what usually comes next. "Zeperion Pulsar!!" Guardie fires a beam of light from his Color Timer that hits the line and comes out the other side more bigger and powerful. "GAAAAAHHHHH!!" The two Ayakashi screamed as the beam hit and then exploded. The huge creature lets out a victorious roar. "Yeah!"

Emerald smiles down at them, glad he was able to stay safe and laughs looking at her back with the CMC repeatedly shouting "THEY DID IT!!".

Canterlot Castle

Twilight and her friends finally made it to the castle, seeing it ahead as they ran up to it. Twilight gasps seeing Timefire hurt by how the princesses are helping hold him up.

"Uncle Dusk!" Twilight shouted out speeding up her pace.

But they are force to stop when three blurs slammed into the ground ahead of them. AbareKiller jumped out of the dust cloud while still face towards it. Akumaro and Junior emerged as the cloud cleared. Twilight and her friends stood still and watched as the three circled each other.

"Who the hay is that?" Rainbow asked quietly watching in anticipatient for what would happen. "I think that's my uncle's ally. AbareKiller."

Killer makes his move the second the two charge at him. Reaching each other, Killer knees Junior in the chest, causing him to stumble back, then ducks under Akumaro's claw to which he follows with an elbow to the back of his head and spins counter clockwise to deliver a wheel kick across the Ayakashi's face.

"Damn bastard." Junior runs up to Killer throwing punches that the Abaranger blocks. Frustrated, the Yokai throws a kick that Killer catches and surprises Junior by yellow energy blades having formed on his wrists and ankles.

Junior too slow to react as Killer let go of the leg to thrust forward in a circular motion to slash Junior's waist three times and then high kicks his jaw whne he turned around.

"You're fast. But can you keep up with this?" Akumaro runs up and begins throwing his rapid speeding claw jabs at Killer, But not only does he keep up blocking but also lands punches on the Ayakashi making him take steps back until they're close to some trees. "Rah! How are you this- Gah!" The Abaranger had landed a punch to Akumaro's face.

"Your mine now!" Killer looks back to see Junior about to fire blasts at them. Right as he fired, Killer jumps flipping over Akumaro and uses the tree behind him to help thrust himself into the air. "Ah!" Akumaro gets hit by the blasts.

Junior makes a frustrated growl before looking up, only to see Killer bring down an axe kick on his head. The Abaranger then side kicks the Yokai's chest the moment he landed. sending Junior falling flat on his back across the field.

Killer unholsters his weapon while looking and forth between the two. "You two are going to pay for having buried me before. So, hurry up and come at me." He spoke setting his sights on Akumaro while holding the Pentact in tact mode over his shoulder.

"Is that so? Then let's put your skills to the test." Akumaro creates another kemari and kicks it at the Abaranger. Even with it's fast movement, Akumaru is surprised Killer is able to react to its direction change and kick it back. The two kicked the ball back and forth at each other for a moment until Killer draws energy arrows as the Ayakashi hit the ball back and launch them past the ball and to Akumaro as they exploded around him.

"Ugh! Why you- Uh?!" Abakiller was gone from sight. Akumaro looked around for him but notices a shadow. He looks up in time to see Killer do a midair flip kick on the ball, propeling it at great speed toward the Ayakashi. Akumaro uses his claws to catch the ball and is pushed back as he changed it back into a ball of energy. "That was clever. But not good enou-"

He stops finding Killer in front of him pointing the Pentect at the ball. Without another word, AbareKiller fires a laser through the ball and hitting Akumaro, sending him flying back and slamming onto the floor from the ball exploding on him.

"Next is" Killer pauses to duck under Juniors sword and changes the Pentact to blade mode as he used it to stop Junior's next swing. "you." The two then shove and kick each other back. The Yokai ran back up to Killer to clash blades with him but takes notice of the Abaranger mostly just defending against the attacks instead of fighting back.

"What's the matter, AbareKiller? Are you more confindent on fighting barehanded than with your weapon?" Junior questioned him in an insulting tone. "In that case fool, this battle will be my-" Killer steps to the side, avoiding Junior bringing the sword down on him and lands a slash on the Yokai's waist making sparks fly. "Ugh! You bastard!"

"You talk too much." AbareKiller lectured as he jumped over Junior swinging his next strike and turns to land another hit across Junior's back. Turning to face the Abaranger, Junior gets his sword knocked of his hands by a wheel kick and then gets slashed on his leg as he tried swinging a punch at killer, only for the him to duck under it.

AbareKiller gets multiple slashes on Junior before he upper cuts the Yokai in his gut, sending him into the air and falling onto Akumaro.

The princesses were amazed by AbareKiller from how they were having trouble with the kaiju because of not know about what they could do and yet he was handle the two at the same time with ease.

"Time to put an end to this. Ah." AbareKiller suddenly dropped his weapon and fell to his knees while clenching his chest. "Raaaahhhhhh!" "Killer!" Timefire called out to his ally who seems to be in pain as energy sparks around him. "Shit. He's almost at his limit."

"Limit? What are you talking about, Dusk?" " I'm sorry my princess but I'm not allowed to answer that." Timefire answered Celestia's question while seeing Akumaro and Junior begin to get back up. "I need to help him." The Timeranger painfully grunt while trying to stand. "You can't. You're too hurt." Celestia said while she and Luna kept him from moving.

Junior chuckles seeing the Abaranger in pain. "Seems like you're hurt in someway. What a fool." "Yes. Allow us to put an end to it." The two rush towords Killer with sword and claws at the ready. Twilight and her friend were about to help but (Kuwagata Lightning!) "What?!"

The two are hit with a green lightning slash. "Gaahhh!" (Kaen Giri!) Akumaro and Junior heard after having been electricuted and find Build appear in front of them, landing a burning slash that sent them falling on to their backs. "I'm guessing you forgot about us."

OOO lands next to Killer with his sword in his left hand and holds out his right. "Need a hand?"

"RAH!!" AbareKiller thrusted his arms apart, making the sparks disperse off him and stands back up on his own after picking up his weapon. "Thanks but I can handle the rest." OOO just nods taking a step back with Build jumping out of the way of the fight as the two kaiju stood up.

"I've had enough of you damn fools!" "I fully agree." Junior and Akumaro spoke with anger as they built energy into their hands.

Unphased by the scene, Killer holds out the Pentact in his right hand, began moving it in a circular motion stopping at his left shoulder with energy building up into the blade. At the same time, he got into a kneeling position while sliding his left leg in a cresent shape to the back making him look like he's about to thrust forward.

Everyone remained silent as the finishing blows were about decide the victor. After a few seconds the two unleashed two power blasts of energy towards Killer who stood still even as the blasts hit their mark and caused a huge explosion. "Fool." Junior said with a small laugh while Twilight and the others were shocked by what they just saw. "Hm? Wait." Akumaro said as the smoke cleared.

With the smoke having cleared their doesn't to be any signs of the Abaranger. "Delta End." Everyone head looking along with the two kaiju who looked behind themselves to find AbareKiller on one knee, holding his blade outward to the side.

The two then looked at themselves finding a slash across their chest with the damage having effect on them at that second with sparks and small explosions coming off their bodys. "GAH!! DAMN YOU, ABAREKILLER!!" Junior wanted to continue fighting but Akumaro stopped him. "It's best if we take our leave now. We've accomplished our mission. So, better to put this match on hold." Junior makes a frustrated growl before scoffing and disappearing with his ally.

Every guard and ponies watching cheered knowing the villains had been defeated and chased off. AbareKiller though was panting and feel to one knee.

"Hey are you okay?" OOO asked as he approuched the Abaranger with Build and the girls doing the same. But as soon as they got close, Killer fired his weapons laser in front of them, forcing the group to back away.

Killer stood up and looked to Timefire. "My job here is done, Dusk. Try not pushing yourself from here on out." With that said, the Abaranger took his leave running past everyone as a blur and was gone out of the city within seconds.

"What was his deal?" Rainbow questioned sounding a bit pissed off. "Don't mind him. That's just how he's always been." Timefire answered as the princesses help him walk over to the group. "His additude is questionable. But he's reliable to count on when in a fight."

"Are you okay, uncle Dusk?" Timefire nods to his niece. "Yes Twilight. But I just can't-" Right then, Dusk's transformation comes undone, giving the Riders a second to see how the human form looked before changing back into a pony. OOO wanted to point out how he's Chief Dusk but gets elbowed by Build to keep him quiet. "Guess I really will have to look for someone to take my place as Timefire." Dusk said looking at the V-Commander.

The group were about to question him on that but stopped when they heard a dog bark followed by four voices shouting "We're here!". They turn to look down the road and see Emerald walking towards them with a german shepard walking next to her carrying Spike and the CMC.

"Apple Bloom!/Sweetie Belle/Scootaloo!" The three rushed to their sisters and began hugging the life out of them. Happy to see their little sister again safe and sound. "You three are in so much trouble later." Applejack informed them while they squeezed the life out of them, with the CMC groaning at that.

Spike hops of the dog and runs over to give his sister a hug which she gladly returns. "I'm so glad you're okay, Spike. Though, where'd you find this dog?" She asked looking confused at the dog.

The little dragon holds his claw out to the dog. "Everypony, this is Guardie. Guardie, these are my friends and family." He introduced him to the group. The girls all circle the canine. "Nice to meet you, Guardie./Hi Guardie. My name is Fluttershy/Guardie, do you have a favorite kind of cake?/And thank you for saving us earlier. That was really sweet of you./This fella was that huge critter?/You were really awesome out there!"

Build and OOO were just enjoying watching the scene along with Dusk and the princesses. This lasted until the Riders marks began to appear on the back of their hands which caught everypony's attention along with the Riders and then get surprised when a portal opens up next to them.

"Seems like our job here is done." "Either that or the others need our help back at home.e others need our help back at home." Build turns looking to the girls. "Sorry we can't stick around to celebrate. But we need to go."

"So, you're just going to up and leave without saying goodbye?" Gale yelled out as she and Midnight landed next to the princesses. "And I was just starting to get used to you." Build doesn't say anything as he walked up to her and handed her a few bits. "Hm? These bits seem strange. Did you forge these?" She questioned giving him as suspecting stare. "Because I could have you arrest for this."

"Technicly yes. But i just wanted to return your helmet." "If that's the case, why would you- YOU!!" Midnight quickly holds Gale back as she tried lunging at the Rider with anger in her eyes. "I'm sorry. I had to test the Samethrottler and your helmet was the perfect target to use." Build apologized backing up back to OOO.

OOO looks to Emerald. "Are you ready to go, Emerald?" She remained quiet looking down at Spike. "Emerald? What's wrong?"

She sighs looking to OOO. "Actually, I was-" "You should go back?" Spike spoke up interrupting her, drawing everyone's attention onto him. "But, I'm supposed to-" "It's okay. I...I actually want to find my brother and sister in my own way."

"BROTHER AND SISTER!!?" The main 6 shouted shocked by the news.

Spike just nodded to them before looking back to his aunt to continue. "I...I can't really explain it. But I feel like they want me to search for them the hard way using the gem and I think they'd be right. I don't think I'd be able to face them if I didn't show I was just as eager to find them. I'm sorry if you don't agree but that's just how I feel. Is that okay with you?"

Emerald just stared at Spike for a few moments, making him think she's against the idea, but she ends up giving him a warm smile. Kneeling down, she reached out and cupped his cheek.

"You really are your father's son. If that is what you choose, then I'll fully support you. Just let me know if you ever need help." She said handing him the enchanted gem. She looks to Twilight and the whole group. "But I feel you won't need it considering the reliable number of friends you have."

Spike runs up and jumps to give his aunt a hug which she's more than happy to return. Twilight smiled watching along with her friends until Emerald's tail pulled her into the hug which she happily hugs back.

"You two stay safe and watch out for each other. Can you do that for me?" "We promise." The two answered before breaking the hug. "You stay safe too, aunt Emerald. And we hope you come visit us again soon. You're welcomed to stay over at the library any time you want." Twilight said happily.

"I'll stop by when I can." Emerald stands up and walks over to the Riders. OOO and her seemed ready to go but they noticed Build looking up at the clouds. "Build, is something the matter?"

Build walk over to Twilight. "Seems I was right." Twilight was confused by this for a second as he held his Primal Cell over the Coreseeker, but then remembers about what he said earlier. "Do you mean about your theory?" He nods with the two items making confirmation noises. "It didn't matter that they lost. They were able to achieve their goal at the end."

"What do you mean? What was their goal?" Luna questioned as the Rider walked back over to the portal. "They wanted to create a negative reaction to the area by putting fear, doubt and any other emotions considered opposite to harmony." Twilight and the other were beginning to get worried by how Build is making it sound. "For what purpose would they need to do all this for?" Celestia asked.

The Rider shakes his head. "I'm not sure. That'll have to be something you all will have to look into." He then looks to Twilight. "You should look into finding a spell to change you into humans so you all can get used to walking with two legs. That way you all can help if another spell circle appears. Or if anything, a way to counter the spell. You'll have to decide on that, Twilight." Build watched Twilight nod saying "You can count on me." before walking back to the portal. "Until next time then, everypony." Build said while walking into the portal.

"Goodbye everyone." "Good luck, guys. Do your best on defending your home. And if you ever need it, you can call on the Riders for help anytime." Emerald and OOO said as they went into the portal with the others shouting their goodbyes to them and for them to come again.

After the portal closes, Dusk turns to Celestia. "Princess Celestia, I have a favor I need to ask of you later."

She gives him a curious look. "And what might that favor be?"

"It's nothing right now." He answers before looking to Twilight and Spike. "For now, I think I should let the rest of my family know I'm alright and catch up with them a bit." "That sounds like a wonderful idea." Celestia agreed with a smile. "Besides, I don't think he's ready just yet." Dusk added looking to Spike.

Back at the Cave

AbareKiller stumbles walking into the cave but then collapses in front of the Tree of Hamony. His body glowed and in a flash of light his transformation had come undone and is revealed to be Zero the Fenrir. He tries standing but falls back to the floor and passes out.

To Be Continued

Chapter 3- Awaken! Tiga-oh!!

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Deep in the Everfree Forest

Dawn breaks shining light into the land. Tirek is walking through the woods of the Everfree. The shriveled old centaur walks by many trees for a while up until he comes to an opening where many of the trees had been cut down with the center having been dug up. In the dug-up ditch, a group of 30 people were there continuing to mindlessly dig the hole deeper and wider.

His eyes scanned around the area in search for something. Someone appears behind Tirek as the centaur lets out a frustrated growl.

"Already losing your patience, are we?" Tirek turns to face a green kaiju with a green cape that seems to be a foot taller than the Riders.

Aside from a black sphere on its chest and a single horn, the kaiju's face seemed to resemble a nose with its eye in where the nostrils would be and what looks like huge ears on its back with earrings on them.

"Ura. If I recall, you said this wouldn't take long." "Yes. I said it wouldn't take long. But I never said when it'd get done by. Even you must know how long things like this take." Ura defended himself walking back and forth behind the centaur. "You should just be grateful you were able to find the map thanks to our help."

"Yes, that may be true but by the time we find the temple, the Princesses will have found out that I have escaped."

Ura tsks waving a finger. "Better not let Branken hear that. You know how he hates weakness. And I'd rather not deal with his temper today. Hm?" An orb appeared in between them. "Seems we have an intruder."

The two look into the orb to see the Everfree Forest with a white blur moving through it. The blur stops for a moment revealing AbareKiller looking around before running in a different direction.

"AbareKiller? Never thought he'd leave his homeland to come after us." "Will he be trouble?" Tirek questioned the kaiju. "Possibly. Which is why we'll have to cause a distraction. And I know the perfect one for the job."

Ponyville

The town was full of life as ponies got to work getting their morning started and preparations done before other ponies filled the streets. Sugarcube Corner filled with the scent of baked goods, construction ponies were working on getting a building done, along with other ponies doing their own specific thing.

Everypony was active by this time. We'll all except for one pony, or dragon in this case.

Within the home of Twilight Sparkle, Spike was sleeping peacefully in his basket while tucked comfortably in his blanket. He seemed to be having a good dream from how he's mumbling, "I'll protect you, Rarity." with a smile.

Though a shadowy figure walked into the room and creeps up to the little dragon, lowering its head slowly with its mouth open full of sharp teeth.

The next thing everypony close by knew, a loud, ground shaking bark come from the library without warning. Causing the ponies to get startled and look to straight at the place wondering what creature could've made such a loud bark.

"Ow." Spike groaned with his eyes spinning in a daze. He was brought out of it by Guardie, the german shepherd, licking his face. "Guardie, did you really have to wake me up? It was just getting to the good part."

"Yes, he did." Twilight answered walking into the room. "Otherwise, it's difficult to wake you up. And I'm not going to let you be late for your first day of school." She looks to their canine with a smile and scratches the back of his ear. "Thank you for the help, Guardie."

Spike grumpily glared at the happy dog saying "Traitor." under his breath as he watches him love the scratches as he leans into them. "Do I really need to go to school? I'm pretty sure I'm over the grade level you put me in. Plus, I'm a Knight of Harmony."

"And what exactly is a Knight of Harmony supposed to do?" Twilight questioned him making the small dragon scratch his head in thought. "Well...I um..." "Exactly. Until we can decide or figure out what we or you need to do, you should focus on learning more and maybe train with uncle Dusk a little. You did have trouble against the last few kaiju you've faced."

Spike looks down to the ground knowing what she means. He remembers back to his with Cobolda who he barely managed to defeat. Then despite the second being a cheap shot, there was Junior who knocked him out of his Rider form with one blast.

He even thought about his fellow Riders. Not having stronger or useful forms like them, he wasn't sure if he'd be able to face more than one enemy like how they did.

"I guess so. Maybe I could get the CMC to help me come up with new moves or something." He said while walking to the door. But he stops for a moment to look back at Twilight with a teasing smirk. "Though I'm sure it's also so you can practice what you can say to Drago while trying to find him, like you did the last couple days." With a small blush she glares at her little assistant. "I-I'll go get started on breakfast."

Twilight watched as he ran out the room with Guardie following behind him. Staring towards the door, her face saddens.

Flashback

Twilight is walking down the hall of Ponyville's hospital. She had gone there after having been at the Summer Set Celebration's party for a while and decided to head back to the hospital to check on Emerald.

Reaching the room, Twilight uses her magic to slowly open the door to peek inside, but the door gets fully opened from the other side.

"Sorry. I was just- What- Emerald?" She had thought it was the doctor or a nurse checking in on them. But instead finds Emerald. "What are you doing? You should still be in bed resting."

"I'm sorry. I wasn't planning to leave. I just wanted to stretch outside for a bit before going back to sleep." She demonstrates by not being able to fully open her wings inside the room. "If you don't mind, would you like to join me outside? I would like to hear a bit about your family and Spike."

Twilight leaned to the side to check on Spike and CMC. She sees them still bunched up sound asleep on the couch that Emerald had moved next her bedside. Emerald had covered them with the bed's blanket to replace her wing for the mean time. "Of course."

Twilight backs up to allow Emerald to pass by her and begins following the dragon out the hospital. Once outside, Emerald walked to an open grass field before returning to her original size. She spread her wings out wide and cracks her neck a bit.

"So, what would you like to know?" Twilight asked while sitting on the grass next to her while she stretched. "Not really sure what I could say. We're just a normal family like anypony else."

"I'm sorry, Twilight. That was a lie." Emerald apologized with a sorry face. "I'd actually wanted to talk about something else. I would like to know about your family. But that can wait for another time."

Twilight felt a bit nervous at this. "What'd you really want to talk about then?" She asked as Emerald sat down beside her. "Is there something bothering you?"

"What are Spike's other connections to this land?" Twilight looked at the dragon confused. "What do you mean by connections?" "What other friends does he have other than with your friends here in Ponyville and your family? Does he have a rival? What teacher is the most important to him? These are the connections I'm talking about."

"Oh...Well," She paused trying to think back for the answers. "Aside from our family and friends here, he does know a pony back in Canterlot named Pony Joe and then there's the princesses. He doesn't have a rivalry with anypony as far as I can recall. And...he doesn't have any teachers because...he's never gone to school before."

The more she thought about the last one, the more Twilight felt bad and guilty. She had been so focused on her own lessons with Princess Celestia and relying on him as her number one assistant that it never came to mind on how Spike never tried making friends of his own and never thought of seeing to it that he got educated properly.

She wasn't sure on how to face Emerald anymore after having admitted to not being a good sister or guardian to Spike. Twilight just kept her sight set to the ground with saddened eyes. But then she felt something warm wrap around her. She looks up, she sees its Emerald's wing draped around her shoulder. She looks back to the dragon, seeing her with a warm understanding smile to her.

"It's alright, Twilight. It wasn't just your responsibility. Everyone involved in Spike's life is responsible for how things turned out. Especially for both me and Celestia. Me for having only watched Spike from the sidelines. And Celestia for having used the egg as part of her test for you."

"Then why ask about his relationships with others? Why are important for you to know about them?" Emerald just looks away from her seeming to be unsure of something. "Please, Emerald. I need to know what this is about if it involves my little brother. I promise to never tell anypony else about this. Cross my heart and hope to fly. Stick a cupcake in my eye."

With a giggle from seeing how Twilight made the promise, Emerald shrinks back down again to face her. "Within Spike is a magical power that you could say relates to the magic of friendship. But it's one that keeps growing the stronger the bonds he forms. It was one of many gifts granted to save certain species from going extinct."

"Extinct? What could make dragons come close to becoming extinct?"

"Dragons weren't always so powerful. Just like how ponies didn't have alicorns."

Twilight immediately surprised hearing the last part. "Wait! Is becoming an alicorn one of those gifts you just mentioned?"

Emerald nods before she begins to draw the shapes of a dragon and of an alicorn. "No creature remembers what was causing the extinction of creatures back millions of years ago. But as part of species that lives for long periods of time, we were able to remember about there being treasures and what they represent but not what they were. Alicorns is the only one we're sure of. Just like the dragon's gift, alicorns isn't a state that's easy for a pony to become."

"Then this gift that's in Spike will change him?"

"It is a possibility. The only one who will know before it's shown will be Spike himself. Unlike the alicorn gift, this gift will begin to awaken little by little as Spike grows with his bonds. Once its awoken enough, a test will be presented to Spike that'll test both him and the ones he shares a bond with. If they succeed, the gift will take the collections of all his bonds and will form itself along with them into something that'll suit him best. Whether it'd be changing him or becoming a tool for him to use. That is why it's important for Spike to become close to others and forge new bonds."

Twilight was a bit afraid to ask. "If it's a test, then what'll happen if he fails the test?" The dragon stayed silent for a moment. "Rebirth." "What?! It'll kill him!?"

"No. But it would be a bit the same as that. If he fails, the gift will move itself to someone new, taking everything along with it. Spike will be left empty. He'll just wake up not knowing who we are or who he was. He'll just act the same as an infant until he learns as he continues growing."

Twilight gasped jumping to her hooves. "H-How is that a gift? Why would such...such a curse be made?" "Twilight." The unicorn paces back in forth in panic. "We have to get rid of it." "Twilight." "Maybe Celestia will know of something that could help." "Twilight." Emerald voice raised a bit. "Oh, I know. Maybe like with me, Reiji or Connor could take it out by using one of his-"

"Twilight!!" Returning to her original size, Emerald lifted and slammed a claw onto the ground making it shake a bit to stop Twilight's pacing and turn back to her. "I can understand that you're worried but believe me, unlike an alicorn, this gift cannot be removed unless it wishes to."

"I...I just don't want to lose him. He's my little brother." Emerald lifts Twilight's chin with her tail. "You won't." "How do you know? How can you be so sure?"

She smiles to the unicorn. "What better way is there in making and strengthening bonds than getting help from those who gain magic through friendship. I know you all will help him through this and lead him to creating something incredible." She shrinks down once again before turning back towards the hospital. "We should head back now. I'm sure Spike will get worried and mad at me for making him think I left if he wakes up."

Taking only a few steps, Emerald stops to look back to Twilight. "Can you promise me that you won't tell Spike about any of this just yet? There are a few others I want around along with your family before we tell him about any of this. Can you do that for me?"

Thinking for a moment, she smiles to Emerald. "I did already promise to not tell anypony about any of this. And nopony can break a pinkie promise." The dragon smiles back to her saying "Thank you." and then looks back forward to walk back into the hospital with Twilight following behind.

End of Flashback

"A gift. If I could pass my test, I know for sure you'll pass yours, Spike." Twilight quietly said to herself with a smile before walking out the room.

Ponyville's Schoolhouse

20 minutes later all the fillies and colts of the class were taking their seats at their desks as the bell rung. Miss. Cheerilee comes walking into the room and stands in front of her class.

"Good morning, Miss Cheerilee." The whole class greeted her out loud.

"Good morning, everypony. Now before we start class, there are two things that need to be done first. First we'll be introducing three new students to the class but also somepony who has been living here for a while now." She looks to the door. "Spike, please come in now.

Opening the door, Spike walks into the classroom feeling a bit nervous with all eyes being focused in on him. Though his mood does brighten when he sees his friends the CMC who wave at him. He had told them about him being put into school which excited them. He takes a deep breath to calm his nerves as he stopped next to Miss Cheerilee. Following behind him are the two fillies from Canterlot, Misty and Rose.

"I'm sure you all know our local...young dragon, Spike." Cheerilee hesitated for a moment not knowing how to say Spike age as a dragon since she didn't see him as a baby dragon from how he wasn't a baby in her eyes. "And this here is Misty Strum and Rosey Melody. They've transferred here from Canterlot. They'll be joining our class starting today. As for the second thing, due to our new addition, we'll be changing the seating arrangement" The class becomes a bit excited as they stood up to move to the front of the class to wait. "Now hold on while I decide the new seating arrangement."

"Spike!" His three friends run up to him while some of the other went to talk to Misty and Rose. "It's so cool to have you here." Sweetie Belle excitedly said.

Scratching the back of his head, Spike chuckles. "I don't really get what's so cool of having me here." Scootaloo playfully punches his shoulder. "Are you kidding? You're a Knight of Harmony that's help save the day three times already. Plus having you around will mean more opportunities to go on adventures of our own and maybe get our cutie marks along the way."

"But it's mostly just great havin' another friend around." "Should he consider that a good thing or a bad thing?" They all look to their left to see Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon stop next to them which makes the CMC let out an annoyed sigh. "What do yah want, Diamond Tiara? We're tryin' ta welcome Spike to school."

"Of course, you would. It makes sense for losers to stick together." She laughs with her friend Silver Spoon doing the same.

Upset, Scootaloo moves in front of Spike to look Diamond Tiara face to face. "There's nothing about Spike or us that's a loser. Especially Spike. He's helped save the town and other places lately. He's even one of the Knights of Harmony."

"Wait. Is he the one that everypony aren't sure actually exists?" Silver Spoon questioned after tapping her chin in thought for a second.

The four looked at her confused. "What do you mean everypony isn't sure I exist?" "Yeah! Rainbow Dash and the others all say he did. We've also seen Spike during all those fights." Scootaloo stated to defend her friend.

Diamond smirks. "Exactly. Only you have seen him. As far as anypony knows, only ponies have the magic to become one of the knights." "Why would they think that?" Sweetie asked. "Because only ponies have been seen turning into those knights. Or at least for the red knight and the two mixed colored ones. If you're really a knight, then I would avoid these three losers unless you want your image to go down along with them."

"Why you--" "Okay, everypony I'll be assigning your seats now." Scootaloo was cut off from Miss Cheerilee announcing out loud. Scootaloo wanted to continue but her 3 friends stopped her and pull her along as they moved away from the 2 fillies.

Cheerilee waited until all of her students were listening before continuing. "Starting from my right for the first row, will be Diamond Tiara, Rumble, Pip, and Kettle Corn." Said colts and filles began moving to their seats as she continues. "The second row will have Apple Bloom, Spike, Rose, and Misty. Third row will be Silver Spoon, Button Mash, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. Twist, Ditsy, Featherweight, and Aura are in the fourth. And lastly will be Peachy Pie, Sunny Daze, Snips, and Snails."

Once she finished, Cheerilee smiled watching her students finish taking their seats and looked forward to her ready.

"Okay Everypony. Now that that's finished, we can get started on today's lesson. Today we'll be learning about photosynthesis. Can anypony tell me what photosynthesis is?" The first to raise their claw and hoof are Spike and Apple Bloom. "Apple Bloom."

"Photosynthesis is when plants turn sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into oxygen for us to breath and energy to feed themselves with."

"Yes, Apple Bloom." Cheerilee looks to the whole class. "Just about every creature, including us ponies, need the oxygen that plants create to be able to survive. But plants aren't the only one that use photosynthesis. Spike, can you tell me what else uses photosynthesis?"

"Yes. If I remember correctly, the others that use photosynthesis are algae and a few bacteria."

Cheerilee nods with a smile. "Very good, Spike. Now pay close attention everypony. While explain how this process is done." As she continued explaining, Apple Bloom and Spike faced each other for a second to give rach other a low high hoof and claw.

Meanwhile at the Library

Guardie climbed down the stairs of the basement with the dragon Fullbottle in his mouth. Reaching the bottom with all the tools Connor had brought still there, Guardie walked up to the large machine that had been used to create the dragon gem Fullbottles and slots it into the machine.

He turns running up to the table with the tools and stops at the left corner where a couple empty Fullbottles were. Guardie takes a bottle, runs back to the machine to insert the empty bottle to the bottom slot and then closes his eyes. It took a moment before his body lit up in light that flowed into the gem container.

The machine is then activated by the dog to begin mixing the dragon essence with the light. "Guardie!" Hearing Twilight call him, he leaves the machine to do its work and runs back upstairs. He runs into the living room where he finds Twilight seated on the couch with Rarity and Fluttershy next to her, while Applejack is seated on the couch chair.

"Hello, Guardie." Fluttershy with a smile, being at the corner next to him, begins petting him. "How do you like your new home? Are you happy living in Ponyville?" She gets two happy barks from him. "That's good to hear."

Applejack giggled a bit. "After what he probably had ta put up with while under Junior and Akumaro's control, I'm sure havin' any normal home would make him run from here to Manehattan and back with joy."

Rarity looked to Twilight. Which reminds me, how is our little hero today? Was he excited for his first day of school?"

"Not one bit." She said along with Applejack and Rarity causing the three to laugh a bit. "Hopefully his day will go well and he makes some friends."

"Oh please darling, it's school. I'm sure he'll manage to make a friend or two." Rarity said reassuring her friend. "Thanks, Rar-" "Afterall he is the more sociable one between you two."

Twilight frowns at the remark. "That isn't true. We're both equally sociable with others." Pinkie suddenly pops up, in between her and Rarity while saying "Don't lie, Twilight. You're setting a bad example." and placing down a box of different colored frosted cupcakes. "Ah! Pinkie, when'd you get here? And what do-"

"Just now. And I can't tell you who it's a bad example for. The writer might get mad at me for pointing him out again." She had said normally but then whispered the last part. "I'm going to make some tea. Wanna help, Fluttershy?"

"Of course. Come on, Guardie. I'd love to hear more about your old world." With a bark, Guardie goes along with the two to the kitchen.

Her friends stared at her with their eyebrows raised. All their attentions are then drawn to Rainbow flying into the room. "Did I miss anything?"

"No, Rainbow." Applejack answered. "We've been waitin' on yah this whole time ta get here. What took yah so long in gettin' here?"

"Well, I was being lectured by a friend for almost running into them while practicing one of my stunts." "Yah mean Construct, right?" Applejack confidently guessed. "Yup. Never misses a moment to lecture me every time I almost or do crash into him. For such a smart guy, you'd think he'd learn to move out of the way."

Twilight expression becomes confused the moment she heard the name. "Construct? Do you mean Construct Match?" Her rainbow haired friend looks to her. "Yup. That's the one." "How do you know him? Is he staying anywhere in Ponyville?"

This time it was all her friends that look at her a bit confused. "Of course, we know him. And he lives here In Ponyville. Don't you remember?" The unicorn tried remembering as Rainbow continued. "I told you about how he was the first unicorn friend I made. That we both moved into Ponyville on the same day which was the reason I hung out with him and became friends."

While trying to recall the event, Twilight remembers something she was told before.

Flashback

During the time of the Fall Formal when she and the guys first met each other, they we in the library explaining what they each knew about what was happening.

"Though what about us?" Connor asks. "We're not from here. So, I'm pretty sure we don't have doubles in this world."

"You mean, this world didn't use to have a double for you." Drago states making the others focus on him. "The second you were sent here; you became permanently bound to this world. Meaning the world had to add you guys in, in some way. So, you can say you guys were snuck into history."

"Does that mean when Twilight goes back, she might run into a version of us in there and will either not know them or just think they've always been around?"

"Yeah. Pretty much."

End of Flashback

"Hello, Twilight?" Hearing Rainbow brings her out of her thoughts. "Did you remember now?"

"No. I think Construct is Connor's Equestrian self." "What the hay are you talking about? I mean I guess they do look similar, but aren't they supposed to completely look the same?" Rainbow questioned confused. "Normally, maybe. But their Drago did say that the guys would've been snuck into our history or time which seems to be another option. So, maybe it couldn't completely merge them into our world unless it made some changes to them. Which would explain why the first part of their names, along with their mane and coat colors are different."

"If they were added into our lives, then why can't you remember them like we do?" Rarity asked.

Twilight thought for a moment. "I think it's because Spike and me were in their world when the guys awakened as Riders. That could be the reason me and probably also Spike didn't remember Construct when he showed himself alongside my uncle in the cave."

"WHAT?! He was there that day?" Rainbow flew up in front of Twilight, shaking her until she says "Maybe if his name is Construct Match." "That jerk! How could he hide such an awesome secret from me, one of his best friends."

Rarity giggled at that. "Dear, I'm sure that would be Turner who's his best friend. Considering how well the two get along when compared to your friendship with him."

With a frown, Rainbow turns away while in the air with her hooves crossed. "I never hear him deny it." She mumbled to herself.

"So, what's the news, Twilight?" Applejack asked looking to her with Fluttershy and Pinkie pie coming back with tea and cups that they set down before taking their seats. "Did yah figure out what Connor had left you? Cause the messages yah had made Spike sent us late at night seemed really important."

Twilight helped pour tea into everyone's cups while they each picked a cupcake.

"Sort of." Twilight holds up her hoof with the Coreseeker. "From what I was able to understand, the kaiju seem to be charging areas with negative energy. I'm just not sure why."

Pinkie gasps loudly. "Maybe they need it as a way to regain all their powers and to become giant like the two Spike and Guardie rumbled with in Canterlot. That way they can send more meaner scary kaiju to make lots more negative energy by scaring ponies." Every one of her friends stare at her with blank expressions. "What?"

"I think you're right, Pinkie." "Yup. I'm great at guessing." The pink pony confidently said before letting Twilight continue. "That could explain their reason for causing terror and destruction. Their old world and ours must have some differences when compared to each other." She takes a sip from her tea.

"Though that's only a piece of the puzzle." Startled by the familiar voice, Twilight chokes on her tea for a second before looking towards the hallway and finds her uncle who is eyeing the room. "Not a bad place. A lot homier than the one you had in Canterlot."

"Uncle Dusk?" Twilight stands up to run over to give her uncle a hug. "What are you doing here?"

Breaking the hug, Dusk uses his magic to make a scroll appear. "Celestia has left me in charge of finding recruits for the Knights of Harmony. So, I've decided to make the base of operations here in Ponyville once we've found enough warriors to join."

"Are there any other heroes like yourself and AbareKiller?" Rarity asked while she and the others stood around Twilight.

"Yes. During my journey, I met a couple other heroes like myself. Some protect certain areas while a few others journey around to help or protect anyone in need."

Twilight took ahold of the scroll with her magic as Rainbow flew in front of Dusk. "What do these other heroes look like?"

The stallion motions towards his niece. "Twilight will be able to somewhat answer that question." They all look to their friend as she begins reading.

"Dear Twilight, I hope you and your friends are all doing well. Canterlot has almost made a full recovery from what the battle had done to it. Which brings me to the reason for writing this letter. While my sister, Luna and I were helping our guards give aid to the citizens, a couple told us of three different heroes who had saved them. One group had told us of a black horned warrior that fought the kaiju with a sword that seemed to be something different when sheathed and shot out what they thought was magic. A second group only saw a green blur that moved from building to building before coming down to strike down the kaiju. The last group said the warrior that saved them was white with black stripes and fought the kaiju with only their bare hooves, or hands in this case. We had the guards try looking around for them, but they seemed to have left the moment the battle ended. Twilight, I'd like to ask you and your friends to help Dusk in locating these warriors when he finds a lead on them and ask them to help in protecting our land from the kaiju. I'll understand if you'd want to refuse. You did say you were going to try and help Spike look for his siblings. Along with helping him be prepared for the next time he faces off against a kaiju. You have my full support in whatever you choose my dear student. From your friend Princess Celestia"

The news completely caught the girls by surprise with the expression clearly shown on their faces, except for Pinkie Pie who just seems excited by it. They were mostly just surprised others had shown up to help fight the kaiju without having been noticed by any of them or the Riders.

"Uncle Dusk, do you know who these three are?"

"Only the green one if it is her." He answered his niece. "Her name is Shurikenger, a ninja Ranger. I met her a week after I had inherited my powers."

"Why don't we take a seat? I'm sure you must be tired, Dusk." Rarity suggested. Agreeing they all sat back down at the couches, except for Dusk who uses his magic to bring over a chair from the kitchen.

Rainbow hovers over the others as she asks, "If you two know each other, then why didn't she stick around?"

"I told Twilight before that we mostly see ourselves as allies instead of friends. Which is why we mostly decide to move on once our job is done." Dusk looked over the selection of cupcakes. "She and the others probably sensed what was happening and decided to come help out."

"Yah've only said their hero names. Do yah not know their actual names?" Applejack asked before taking a bite of her cupcake.

Dusk shook his head. "Nope. The only reason they know me is because of my magic having been taken."

Twilight spit takes the second after she had taken a sip from her tea. "WHAT?! Your magic was taken!? How? By who?"

"By a kaiju that goes by the name of Branken." He picks up a red frosted cupcake. "But I'd rather talk about that right now. What I need to focus on now is finding someone to replace me as Timefire. I actually already have someone- Wait." Dusk stands to do a quick scan of the room. "Where's Spike?"

Ponyville Schoolhouse

Hours later, the class had been released to have lunch and recess. Most of the kids had finished their lunches and were now spread around playing different games and activities.

Spike and the CMC were sitting at a lunch table with Spike and Scootaloo on one side while Apple Bloom sat next to Sweetie Belle on the other side. The Primal Cell lied between them projecting an image of four different Cross-Z forms. From left to right are a silver Cross-Z with dragon jelly pack shoulder armor and transparent blue parts on the face and chest, a magma orange colored Cross-Z with black molten rock dragon heads around the body, a darker blue colored Cross-Z with red, and a light blue Cross-Z with black and white armor pieces all around the body.

"I think the orange one is the coolest looking one." Scootaloo said while looking at the description of the form. "Cross-Z magma huh. Hey Spike, this one uses a weapon like your Gaburyu Breaker."

"I like Great Cross-Z's colors." Sweetie points from the darker colored one to the black and white suit. "Rarity would probably like it too and Cross-Z Evol for their colors."

Apple Bloom and Spike are watching video clips of Cross-Z's first ever battle. "This Banjou fella sure is really strong and great at fightin' as Cross-Z. Don't yah agree, Spike? Spike?" She and her friends look to him when he doesn't respond and sees his attention having been to an image of the silver Cross-Z. "Cross-Z Charge, huh? Is their somethin' the matter with it?"

"No. I'm just thinking that this form reminds me of that one day." He looks to his claw. "The day I became a huge dragon because of how greedy I got getting gifts. I wonder if that part of me will be affected by the form."

With a smile, Scootaloo hits Spike's shoulder with a playful punch. "What are you worrying about? Connor even said the form will have to be changed. And with him working on it, I'm sure he'll keep anything bad from happening."

Sweetie nods. "Yeah. Connor is really smart after all. Hm... Speaking of Connor, do you think he'll actually finish making more of those small dragons for us?"

"I'm sure he will. He did say they were almost done." "Until what's done? That dumb club of yours?" Apple Bloom and the girl's groan as Diamond Tiarra and Silver Spoon come walking to them from the playground. "What do yah want, Diamond?"

"Nothing from you, blank flanks." She looks to Spike with a smirk. "We want to talk to him." "Me?" "Yes you. Why don't you play with us instead of being around these blank flanks."

Spike shakes his head. "No thanks. Me and the CMC are busy talking about my powers."

His answer seems upsets Diamond. "What? You can't be serious?" Silver Spoon nods agreeing with her friend. "Yeah. You better rethink that choice, Spike." "Exactly. Even if you're a Knight of Harmony, you can still wind-up a loser like them-"

Diamond and Silver Spoon are suddenly lifted and moved to the side with Rose and Misty sliding to a stop where the two had been moved from. Spike and the CMC were surprised by this as the two girls looked at him with huge smiles.

"Are you really a Knight of Harmony!?" "What's your hero team?" "Do you know Build?" "Were you at Vanhoover when it was attacked?" "When'd you become a Knight of Harmony?" "How'd you become one?" "Do you know Timefire and AbareKiller?" "Can you turn into a Knight right now?"

"Um...yes, I am. If I remember right, your names were-"

"I'm Rosey Melody." Rose quickly answered pointing to herself and then to her friend. "And she's Misty Strum, my best friend." "Hi." "What are your names?"

Standing up, the little dragon stood in front of the two fillies. "I'm Spike. And the three behind me are my friends Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle."

"Hi!" The three greeted. "Me and my friends are also part of a club we made called the CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!!" Apple Bloom added with her and her friends shouting at the end. "I'm guessin' yer a fan of the Knights. So are we."

The two fillies nodded. "Yup. We really like Build from how he protected and saved when those scary things appeared."

"Hey! Who do you-" "You both came from Canterlot, right? What made you move to Ponyville?" Sweetie asked interrupting Diamond.

"Besides wanting to see where the Knights of Harmony first appeared," Rose paused to point towards town. "My parents moved us here to open a shop here."

Misty looks to Rose. "I moved here to stay close to Rose because she was my only friend in Canterlot."

The group were stunned by Misty's reason for having moved. Not once had they ever heard of somepony moving just to stay by their friend's side.

"So, you didn't have any other friends? Why?" Scootaloo asked.

Spike taps his chin. "I guess I could see that." "What do you mean, Spike?" He turns to Sweetie Belle. "It's a bit hard for colts and fillies to make friends in Canterlot. Mostly because they act snobbish like their parents or their parents will only let them make certain friends."

"Really? That sounds like having to deal with many Diamond Tiaras." Scootaloo said becoming irritated by just the mere thought. "Now that'd be a nightmare. Glad I live in Ponyville with only one of her."

"Excuse me! How dare-" "Can you change into a knight, right now?" Misty asked, cutting off Diamond.

"Sorry, I can't. I promised my sister that I'd only transform when there are kaiju attacking or in emergencies." He walks back to the table to grab his phone. "But I could show you something else. Transport Lock Engine Cast and Sapphire Dragon Fullbottle."

Holding out his left claw, the two items materialized while he set his phone back down on the table. "Wow!/Amazing!/Cool!" The two friends and Silver Spoon loudly said with excitement. He presses the bottle against the bottom of the lock and jumps up opening into dragon mode after charging.

Ryuga roars before beginning to fly all around the school, making every filly and colt stop what they're doing to look up in amazement at the mechanical dragon. Pipsqueak and the others followed Ryuga as he flew back to the group and circled around them before landing on top Spike's head.

"That's really cool, Spike. Where did you get that?" Pipsqueak asked.

Spike points up at his little friend. "His name is Ryuga. Ryuga, say hi to everypony." The small mechanical dragon roars to all of them. "A friend of ours made him to help me out when I need help."

"What does he do to help?" Ditsy curiously asked Spike.

"A lot of things. So far, he's gone to get help and helped me out when I first fought against a kaiju as a knight. You could say he's a sidekick or assistant. Right, bud?" Ryuga roars, breathing out fire.

"We're going to be getting ones of our own soon." Scootaloo spoke out from her seat.

In excitement, all the fillies and colts circle around Spike as they bombard him with questions. Each asking if his friend could also make ones for them and if they could be different animals or creatures.

"Way da go, Scootaloo." Apple Bloom said as she and Sweetie with deadpan looks turn to Scootaloo, who chuckles nervously and says, "I forgot I wasn't supposed to let anypony know that."

The Library

Guardie runs back down into the basement with Pinkie and Fluttershy following behind him.

"What's down here, Guardie?" Fluttershy questioned as she watched him walk up to the machine.

He stops in front of it as the machine finishes creating the new Fullbottle. "OOOO! A new bottle. What's on it?" Pinkie said excitedly taking the new bottle off the machine.

Fluttershy leans in to also take a look at the bottle. The new bottle is a mix of red and purple with the bottom and top being silver. The image of what looks like Guardie's Color Timer molded into the front with an extra shape on both sides of the Timer that curve upwards.

"Is this a Guardie Fullbottle?"

With a few barks as a response, Fluttershy shakes her head. "No. He said it's the Tiga Fullbottle." She pauses for a moment as Guardie continues. "What? A voice told you to make it? Do you know the voice?" He shakes his head. "That's really strange."

"Yeah. Maybe he was hearing a ghost." Pinkie suggested energetically. "Or an echo. O-Or maybe something from the future. Or probably-" Guardie suddenly starts growls startling her and Fluttershy. "What's the matter boy? Is the voice saying something?"

Fluttershy recognizes his stance. "Is something coming?" Guardie jumps up changing into a ball of light that flies up out of the basement. "Guardie, wait!"

Outside the basement, Twilight was still talking to her uncle and friends in the living room. Rainbow was just hovering above her friends while Applejack was now seated with Twilight and Rarity. Dusk had sat himself in Applejack's first seat.

"Hm?" Rainbow is too late in noticing the ball of light and gets spun in place as it raced past her. "GAAAHHHH!! What was that?"

"That was Guardie." Fluttershy answered as she ran by with Pinkie following after the light. Twilight and the others stared at each other for a second before shooting to their hooves and chased after them.

The light flies up high above an open field outside of Ponyville before brightening up. In town, everypony's attention is drawn to the light or blinded by it.

The brightness of the light even manages to reach the school. Spike, along with the colts and fillies, covered their eyes for a moment before looking towards it. Fading out, Guardie back in his original giant form is revealed from where the light had been.

"Guardie?" "Wow. I almost forgot how big he was." Both Sweetie and Scootaloo said while Apple Bloom ran to Spike's side to ask, "What is Guardie doing?"

Spike's group, along with Twilight's group in front of the library, watched along with Ponyville's citizens as Guardie begins walking away from the town. On his fifth step, multiple purple energy blasts came shooting out of the ground at him with most of the shots hitting their mark. "GUARDIE!!" Both groups shouted in worry. The lion dog kaiju recovers from the shots in time to see eight giant worms looking kaiju burst out of the ground in front of him.

Having stumbled back a few steps, Guardie charges towards the worms swinging his claw at them but misses them all by the worms retracting themselves back into the ground. Guardie growls as he searches the ground for any signs of his opponent.

Four of them sprang out and wrapped themselves around Guardie's neck, tail, and arms. The lion dog roars, struggling trying to break free, only for the last four to shoot out of the ground to begin bashing him by using themselves.

"What the hay is that?" Hearing Rainbow, Twilight uses the Coreseeker to look up the kaiju once it captured a picture of it. "It's known as Hades Beast Worm. Wizard heroes known as Magiranger faced these kaiju." "So, this overgrown fish bait can be beaten using magic?"

"Not with any of the spells we know. But it also says that this creature follows the commands of a commander grunt called a High Zobils. If that kaiju is defeated, the Hades Beast should lose their coordination and run- Ah!"

Twilight and the others watched as Worm threw Guardie across the ground away from Ponyville. He quickly gets back onto his feet and breathes out three energy blasts at the Hades Beast. Worm avoids the attack by retracting back underground. Before the kind kaiju could search around, all eight pop back out all around him and begin firing blasts from all sides causing Guardie roar in pain.

"Guardie!" Fluttershy shouted in worry.

"He can't seem to keep up with those horrid things." "Maybe if the big fellah could change like he did last time, he'd have a better chance." Applejack brought up after Rarity.

Pinkie hops in place. "YEAH! Time for Kyoryu King!"

"He can't." Dusk spoke up saying. "From how Spike explained it before, he needs to activate it first using that new item of his."

Rainbow groans in frustration. "Then why hasn't he done it yet? I'm sure a huge rumble like that can easily be seen from the school."

"Maybe they know." They turn to Pinkie who's pointing behind them. Turning around, they find a purple spell circle with new grunts they haven't seen before appear rising from it. Humanoid shaped like the others, these brown and silver foot soldiers seemed to be wearing masks with each holding either a large butcher-like blades, axes, and spears.

"Ugh!" Rarity scrunches with disgust. "What are those horrible things?"

Twilight looks them up. "Those are Zobil." "Which one is that leader of theirs?" Twilight shakes her head at Rainbow. "None. It must be somewhere else."

The group suddenly start hearing screaming. They turn to find more spell circles appearing all around town with Zobil appearing from them all. Golem Soldiers and Imps appeared randomly around town while Orgettes formed and Nanashi came out of small gaps and begin attacking.

"Gosh darn. Don't these varmints ever learn their lesson?" Applejack cracks her neck. "Seein' as Connor and Reiji are gone, were gonna have ta handle this on our own."

"You're right." Twilight looks up to the sky for a second. "The spell circle isn't active this time. We need to distract or fight off any kaiju we see while also helping anypony that needs it." "On it!/Yah can count on us./Gladly./Okay./Okie dokie lokie!" "Uncle Dusk, you should help Rarity and-"

"Nope. I may not be able to transform or use magic, but I can still handle myself in a fight." Dusk charges on ahead.

"But Uncle Dusk- Oh boy. Let go girls." Twilight, Applejack and Rainbow run after Dusk to help in the fight while the rest ran in different directions to help other ponies. "I hope you're alright Spike."

Meanwhile

Spike and his classmates watched as Worm continues shooting blasts at Guardie. Mostly all the colts and fillies had a look of fear, along with Cheerilee, who had come out to see what was causing the loud commotion.

He watched for a second longer before patting himself down in search of the second phone but remembers it's still in his backpack. Apple Bloom takes notice of him the second he runs towards the school.

"Spike, where are yah goin'?" She questioned, making him stop in his tracks.

"I can't just standby and watch. I need to help." He turns to face back towards the school to continue. Though he only gets one step in before all three groups of grunts appear in between him and the school. "Wha- You guys again? Wait, aren't you guys new?" He questioned pointing to the Zobils.

"Rah!" Three Zobils shoot out balls of slime from their mouths at Spike.

He quickly jumps flat onto the ground avoiding the slimes that hit, ripping into the ground behind him. Standing up, Spike looks at the damage done to the ground behind before facing back towards the grunts feeling a bit worried.

"I really need to get to my belt." Spike said to himself with his sights set to the school behind the grunts.

"Spike!" Hearing Cheerilee, Spike looks back towards the bench to see she has gathered the students behind it and a tree next to it while she stood in front of it out of cover. "Get back here. It's dangerous."

He tries to quickly go over his options seeing as how the grunts were standing in his way of getting to his belt. Though before Spike could think for too long, his Primal Cell is dropped on top of his head.

"What?" He looks up to find Ryuga hovering over him. "What was- Oh, that's right! Thanks, Ryuga. Now go stay and protect everypony." The small dragon roars understanding and then flies back to the class. Spike faces back towards the grunts after picking up the cell and then charges towards them.

Seeing this, the grunts run at Spike with their weapons ready. Spike waits for a second as they got closer to each other before holding up his phone. "Transport Gaburyu Breaker." Materializing in his right claw, he inserts the Sapphire bottle into it.

(Sapphire Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Sonic!) The weapon announced the last part after charging. Holding out the knuckle weapon, Spike rams his way through the grunts down the middle of the crowd at high speed. "Transport dragon Fullbottle!" He shouted as he keeps jumped, smashing through the window. "RAH!!" All the grunts that can shoot all fired into the school, which wreck and destroys everything they hit on the inside.

"SPIKE!!" The CMC shouted out worried. They were about to run towards the school to help but Cheerilee holds them back.

All the grunts stop shooting, staring into the smoke inside the school wondering if they killed their target. (Wake Up! Cross-Z Dragon! Are you ready?) "Henshin!" (Wake Up Burning! Get Cross-Z Dragon! Yeah!) The smoke gets blown away from the constructs closing and Cross-Z jumping out of the building with his transformation completed.

"Cross-Z!!" "You guys just had to go and ruin my first day of school." (Beat Closer!) Being summoned from the belt, Cross-Z takes ahold of the sword and makes a dash at the grunts with the wizard Fullbottle. "Time to see what you can do." (Special Tune! Hippare! Hippare!)

The grunts readied themselves as Cross-Z got closer. (Million Slash!) To everyone's surprise, including the grunts, Cross-Z's slash attack creates a hole that he disappears into. The Rider reappears behind the grunts while they're distracted.

"Whoa! That was cool." Amazed for a second, Cross-Z pulls the hilt again. (Hippare! Smash Slash!) Thinking it would launch another slash, he swung the sword with the blade hitting the ground. Though instead of a slash, a huge red spell circle appears around the grunts and shrunk pulling the whole bunch together into a pile. "Alright! Now for the finish." The Gaburyu Breaker is summoned out. (Gaburyu Breaker!)

(Tourmaline Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Burst!) Thrusting the knuckle weapon forward, orange stream of magma flames from it and hits, destroying the grunts in one go.

He heard his classmates cheering the behind him as he looked back to Guardie who is still being beaten around by Worm. "Hold on, Guardie. I'm coming to help now." Cross-Z said to himself while bringing out the new phone with the cards. (Guardie! Fusion Standby!) Fireballs and energy eyeball blasts came hitting Cross-Z from his left and the ground around him before he could use the cards. "AH!!" He's sent flying away from the school.

"CROSS-Z!!" Apple bloom and Sweetie worryingly shouted. "Come on. Let's go help him." Scootaloo jumped out of the group with a determined look but finds herself not having moved an inch.

She looks behind herself to see Cheerilee with her hoof on her tail. "Scootaloo, no. It's too dangerous."

While the two and the rest of the class were distracted, Rumble notices Rose and Misty sneak away. "No way, I'm missing out on this." He quietly spoke to himself before doing the same to follow after them.

"Ugh!" Having dropped his weapons, Cross-Z grunted landed rolling across the grassy field of the park. "Ow. What did that?" The Rider said to himself, rubbing the back of his head.

*Ghastly Laugh* "Wha- Ugh!" Turning around, he barely catches the glimpse of what looked like a skeleton jump past slashing him across the chest before he could do anything and then with a spear being jabbed against his waist, gets sent tossed against a tree a few feet away.

Getting back to his feet slowly, Cross-Z finds three kaiju standing across the field from him. One is a skeleton wearing a black cape, witch-looking hat, and sword in its right hand. The second is what looks like a Zobil, but is purple with the silver on the chest looking like a rib cage and holding a spear. The last has a red upper body resembling the shape of a samurai's armor, having shoulder pads with an eye shape, and a huge blue face coving around the legs and holds two short swords with a sorrow looking face on one's blade and the other having a rage face.

Looking down in front of, he finds the Beat Closer and quickly picks it up to hold it at the ready. "I really wished Build and OOO was still here."

Having his focus on the kaiju, he doesn't take notice of Rose and Misty peeking out from a bush across the field behind the kaiju. Rumble peeks out from a different bush a few feet away from the two.

Within the Everfree Forest

Abarekiller runs through the forest as a white blur that stops at an edge of a cliff, that's at the tops of a large mountain.

From there, he can see the battle going on between Guardie and Worm. While smoke coming from different parts of Ponyville.

"Spike." He runs back down the mountain as a white blur, but upon reaching the bottom, he stops to duck and roll to the left out of the way of a yellow energy crescent slash. The Abaranger looks back to see the damage the attack had done, seeing the attack had dug up the ground, along with some trees having been split down the middle. "Rouki." He said looking back forward.

Walking out from the darkness of the woods is a black humanoid kaiju having the shape of a wolf with a horn coming out of the forehead, holding a large double-sided crescent blade in its right hand.

"We meet again, AbareKiller. No..." Rouki points his blade's tip towards the Ranger. Like AbareKiller, Rouki dashes towards him as a purple blur. By an inch, the Ranger barely manages to duck under Rouki's blade and then quickly pulls out his Wing Pentact in blade mode to block the blade after Rouki stopped behind him to take another swing. "Zero! You'll pay for what you did to me 400 years ago."

"What?" The two pushed each other back and both used their free hands to punch each other's chest, causing them to stumble back a few steps. "How'd you-"

"You're scent was easy to follow the moment I found the area you were in. Now before killing you, I wonder if you've lost your edge." Rouki said crouching into a ready stance. "If you believe that, then you'll regret it."

AbareKiller and Rouki both instantly dash towards each other as blurs the second the Ranger finished speaking. Clashing as they passed each other, the white and purple blurs moved through the forest while continuing to clash back and forth.

While the two moved battling in the forest, Ura appears at the top of the mountain AbareKiller had just stood on a few minutes ago. He chuckles seeing the sparks that are created from the two battling.

"Perfect. Now we can continue working in peace." Ura happily said to himself before disappearing.

Ponyville

The roads of the town were filled with ponies being chased in different directions by Golem Soldiers and Imp. The Nanashi, Orgettes, and Zobils were mostly focused on breaking or tearing into some buildings.

Within one such group of ponies being chased, Filthy Rich and his wife, Spoiled Rich were running within the small group. Spoiled, with fear in her eyes, looks back while running to see the Golems and Imps chasing after them. Trying to quicken her pace, Spoiled trips over a rock as she looked back forward and falls flat on the ground.

"Dear!" Filthy immediately stopped and ran back to help his wife up. "Are you alright?" "I'm fine." "Come on. We need to hurry and run. Ah! Look out!" Filthy uses himself to cover his wife as the grunts jumped at them to strike with their weapons. But before the attack could reach them, a magenta wall formed between them, causing the grunt to slam into it and fall on top the other grunts behind them. The two were confused until they looked to their right where Twilight was standing having used her magic. "Thanks for saving us, Twilight."

"You're welcome. Now hurry and get to Town Hall." Twilight instructed as she started shooting magenta beams of magic at Golems and Imps charging towards them. The two just nodded before running off to catch up with the others. Twilight waited until the Riches were out of danger before running off to continue the fight and see if anyone else needs help.

Meanwhile, more grunts were destroying the buildings around Sugarcube Corner. Orgettes used their clubs as a flamethrower to shoot fire at the buildings or Nanashi and Zobils going inside to wreck everything inside. Turning their attention towards Sugarcube Corner, the Orgettes take aim at the building.

Applejack came up running from their left with a lasso at the ready. She hurls the lasso to the Orgette's club from the end of the row and tugs it a second before they fired causing the one to burn its allies. "That oughta teach them ta burn others towns." "Rah!" Nanashi come rushing out of the non-burnt buildings across the road from her.

"INCOMING!!" Not getting time to react, Rainbow comes ramming through the group of Nanashi from their right. "And that's a strike! Try beating that, AJ!" She shouted down to her friend with a huge smirk.

Applejack frowns annoyed before looking around to find Zobils coming out from the buildings down the way from her left. She then looks to the burning Orgettes with her sight focused on the clubs on the ground. Smirking back up to her friend, she undoes the lasso end of her rope to tie it through and around the handles of the clubs. "Rah!" The Zobils shouted as they charged up to her. Finishing tying the rope, she twirls it making the clubs spread into a 'Y' shape and then hurls it towards the grunts, knocking them all to the ground from hitting them across the face.

"Top that." "Easy. Bet I'll beat more than you." "Yur on." The two then race in separate directions in search for more grunts.

Not far, Imps walk around a corner with Nanashi and Zobils both coming out of buildings in front of them, each searching around for their own target to attack or destroy. Down the road they spot Rarity and Fluttershy leading Lyra, Bon Bon, Time Turner, and Derpy to safety. "Rah!" They all dash charging towards the group.

Pinkie jumps right out of a bush dressed as a cross walker in their path. She blows her whistle while holding up a stop sign, bringing the grunts to a stop. They stared back and forth between her and each other seeming to be confused. "Say hello to my little friend." Pinkie said loudly pointing over to their right. Curious, they all look to the right to find...Pinkie?! "LET THEM HAVE IT, GUMMY!!" Having been more confused than ever, they looked back forward only to be face to face with the ends of three large party cannons with their three pull-strings all being held in the mouth of Pinkie's small toothless pet alligator.

Not far ahead, Rarity and Fluttershy were hurrying along with their group while also doing their best to avoid the grunts. "Oh. Will Pinkie really be alright?" Fluttershy asked her friend while feeling worried for Pinkie Pie.

Her question is then answered when they hear the sound of the party cannons firing. The two look back for a second seeing the grunts flying away from them with confetti and party streamers. "I believe she has it handled."

Ponyville's Park

"grah!" Two Nanashi screamed as they flew dropping into the park's lake.

From the shore they came flying from, a small group of all five types of grunts are fighting Dusk, who they had surrounded. He slides under an Imp before rearing up his back legs and bucks sending it crashing into four grunts. Dusk then reacts quick enough to step back to avoid a Zobil swing its axe, that embeds itself into the ground in front of him, and then jumps forward, rolling over the grunt to avoid two Golem arm blades. A Nanashi gets it head hit with a downward kick as Dusk rolled down from the other side of the Zobil that he then headbutts.

Dusk bites onto the Nanashi he kicked and swung it into a couple of grunts that tried running up to him from his right. He stops for a moment when he hears the sounds of a battle coming from a different part of the park that's in the direction of the school.

"Spike..." He then focuses back on the grunts, picks up a Nanashi's sword by his mouth, and then charges towards more grunts. "Hold on until I get there, kiddo." He spoke in his head.

Close to the School

Cross-Z is being pushed around as he used the Beat Closer to fend off the skeleton's sword. Ugh! Ah! The Zobil looking kaiju had slashed him from behind with its spear, with the skeleton taking the opportunity to slash him across the chest with sparks flying off from both hits. It then grabs ahold of Cross-Z to deliver a headbutt and follows with hitting him to the left with the hilt of its sword across his face. "Ow. Two against one really isn't- Gah!" The second Cross-Z turned back to them, turning to face them, he gets hit square in the chest by the Zobil's spear and sent flying back a few feet.

"Damn thing, I'll turn you to scrap metal!!" The kaiju with the huge face yelled out while trying to hit Ryuga, who is flying circles around and shooting fire at him, with his two swords. "Ugh! Why you little- Duh!" Ryuga had spun while letting out flames that covered him and then rammed himself into the kaiju, knocking him to the floor. Ryuga then flies over to Cross-Z, who is getting beat around by the two kaiju and assists him by creating energy chains that wrap around them. "Why you little... Huh?"

"Thanks Ryuga." (Hippare! Smash Hit!) Cross-Z swings, hitting the two kaiju with a powerful slash covered in blue flames. "Better finish these two before they break free." He brings out the Ruby Dragon Fullbottle while saying this. (Special Tune!) "You should rethink that." "What?" Turning around, Cross-Z finds the third kaiju across the field holding both Rose and Misty in his hands. "Let them go."

"I don't think so. If you want them to survive this, then toss your weapon away and put away your pet." Ryuga growled at the last demand. "Shut it, tin can. So," Energy begins building up in his shoulders as he held up the two fillies in front of them. "What will it be?"

Cross-Z tries thinking of what options he could use to get out of this mess. But the more he thought, the more the grip on his weapon tightened from how he couldn't think of any way out of the situation.

Elsewhere

In four different areas, objects were beginning to light up. The first being the Tree of Harmony. The second is in town where Pinkie notices a glowing, blinking light coming from inside her mane.

"Hm. I wonder what is." She shoves a hoof into her mane and began searching for the light while naming the objects she drags out. "Balloons, flags, jump rode, paintball gun, birthday cake flavored ice cream, t-rex bone, Chronojet Dragon card, Geed Claw"

In the last two locations, a faint glowing light was coming from the inside of a small box that sits at the top of a shelf in Zecora's home and the other in a room, underground with Diamond Dogs, full of piles of gems with one pile having light faintly seep through.

Back at the Battle

Not wanting to risk their lives, Cross-Z tosses his sword to the side. Ryuga seemed ready to attack but gets stopped by his Rider grabbing ahold of him. "Sorry Ryuga. We just can't risk it. Please change back into standby mode." The small dragon seemed to be against the decision but complies with Cross-Z's command and folds back into a lock. "There. I did as you wanted. Now, let them go." He demanded as he set the Engine Lock to the side of his belt.

"Fool!" He lowers the girls a bit to fire two lasers from his shoulders. "AH!" Cross-Z is sent flying into the Zobil, who catches the Rider and holds him up in a hold. "Let him have it!" *Ghastly laugh* The skeleton laughed as it continuously assaults Cross-Z with its sword. "AH! GAH! AH!" The dragon Rider cried out in pain while being held in place by the Zobil.

"NO!!/STOP IT!!" Rose and Misty could only shout as the other two kaiju continued beating on Cross-Z.

"Spike!" Rumble quietly shouted. "There has to be something I can do." He looks at his surroundings, trying to see if he could spot of a way to help out. "Hm?" Rumble catches the glimmer of something hidden up on a tree a few feet away. Squinting, he spots the front of the Gaburyu Breaker sticking out from the tree's leaves. "That'll work."

Back in Town

Sitting next to a huge pile of different items, Pinkie is still pulling out different objects from her mane and tosses them into the pile to continue the search for the light.

"Poke'ball, Ryusoul Key, Dual Disk... Hm?" She stops when the light begins blinking faster. "Oh! Maybe it means I'm getting closer." She quickens her pace.

Zecora's House

The zebra was in the middle of her house stirring a potion she was cooking in her caldron. About to take a sip of it, she takes notice of a faint glow coming from behind her.

"Oh my." Zecora became shocked the moment her eyes landed on the box. "Seems the time has come, for the hands of time to proceed on their path."

Underground

Two Diamond Dogs, having the appearance of Rottweilers, were guarding the outside of a five circular keyhole locked door that's at the end of torched lit hallway with armor and shields made of diamond. They stayed keeping their eyes focused down the hall.

"Hm?! What!?" One of the guards shouted backing away from the door.

The second guard does the same after he takes notice of the same thing. Facing the door, they watched as a faint glow came shining out from under the door.

"What's happening?" The second guard questioned.

"Go get the boss. Let him know the treasure is reacting to something." The first guard ordered the second, who complies and rushes down the hall. "What could be drawing the treasure's attention."

Back at the Battle

Still holding the fillies, he big, faced kaiju laughs hysterically watching the two other kaiju continuing their attack on Cross-Z.

"Stop it already! This isn't a fair fight." "Yeah! You jerks are real scaredy cats for using us as shields." The two filles shouted as they struggled to get out of his hold.

"What do we care? If anyone has a problem with our methods, then they can come up and say it to my face." He told the two, having brought them up to eye level.

"THEN HEADS UP!!" "Wha- Ugh!" Before the kaiju could react, Rumble comes flying into him from behind with the Gaburyu Breaker being held in his front hooves. Causing him to release the fillies while Rumble crashed, rolling along the grass. "Ouch. Thought that'd go more better."

Rose and Misty run up to their classmate. "Rumble, are you okay?" Rose asked as they helped the colt back onto his hooves.

He stumbles from side to side. "Ask me again when I'm not seeing doubles." Right then, energy laser blast came hitting the space around them. They looked behind themselves see the skeleton kaiju coming towards them. "Run!" They run to their right but are stopped by fireballs passing by them from their right, hitting the ground a few feet ahead of them in a row that creates a wall of fire.

"You brats aren't going anywhere." The huge, faced kaiju said while sharpening his two swords against each other. "At least not until I hack off a piece from each of your bodies."

The three turn around to face the two kaiju who are advancing towards them in different directions. They slowly take steps back as they get closer but stop the moment they feel heat. Looking behind to see that they're getting closer to the fire, they face back forward with fear not having anywhere to run to.

"No." Cross-Z, still being held in a lock by the Zobil-like kaiju, tries prying himself free but has no success. The damage he had taken from the attacks earlier had left his body feeling weak. "Grah!" He had continued to struggle until the kaiju suddenly gets shot in the face. "Wha- Never mind. No time to think." Now freed, Cross-Z quickly runs to and picks up his sword. (Hippare! Hippare! Million Slash!) The Beat Closer announced as ruby flames covered its blade and Cross-Z then thrusts it forward, launching the flame as a wave towards the two other kaiju.

"DAH!" Both kaiju are hit by the attack, knocking them to the floor in front of Rumble and the girls. The three take the chance to dash over to Cross-Z, while the Rider does the same while attaching his sword to his back to pick up the Gaburyu Breaker. "I'm going to enjoy hearing you scream." The big, faced kaiju said out loud as the two stood and prepared to fire their attacks. (Ruby Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Breath!) The dragon Rider gets behind the three as the kaijus fire their attacks and then uses his own to intercept theirs. The fillies and colt watched helplessly from behind Cross-Z as the Dragonic Breath struggles along with the two's laser attacks trying to push each other back. "Enough with this joke!!" The big faced shoots fireballs along with his laser attack.

The added attack begins pushing back Cross-Z's all the way back to him, causing an explosion upon reaching them. "AH!/Cyah!/Ah!" Cross-Z, the fillies and Rumble screamed from being blown to the ground. "GRAH!!" Cross-Z looks to their left seeing the Zobil kaiju that's back on its feet roaring. [What should I do? I can't beat these three on my own. But] Cross-Z was doubting himself in his mind. But he then began thinking back to Build and OOO's battle in Canterlot. How even when they were outnumbered and even hurt, they still pushed themselves to continue fighting in order to protect everyone. With the feeling of not wanting to disappoint his fellow Riders, Cross-Z manages to stand on one knee while holding up the Gaburyu Breaker at the ready. "But I'm not going to let everyone down."

"This will end it!!" The two kaiju open fire at Cross-Z, who braces himself to try stopping the attacks.

Right then, back in town, the blinking light in Pinkie's mane stops blinking and shines brightly the moment she thinks she finds it. "Ohohoh! What could it be!?" The area around her becomes covered in a blinding light the moment she pulled out the object. Now miraculously wearing sunglasses, what she finds in her hoof is the Tiga Fullbottle. The light retracks back into the bottle before floating off Pinkie's hoof and flying off. "Guess it needed to go somewhere."

The bottle made its way all the way to Cross-Z's battle in a flash. It stopped in front of him with a barrier made of its light shielding them from the laser attacks. "What is that light?!" The kaijus covered their eyes from the blinding light.

The Tree of Harmony's light went into the Elements of honesty and laughter with beams of magic matching their colors shooting out the next second. The beams fly out of the cave, moving all the way through the Everfree Forest and into the park. The light kept the group from seeing the beams hit the Tiga Fullbottle, causing the light to die down as the bottle absorbed the magic.

Cross-Z and the kids unshielded their eyes in time to see two beams of light be shot out from the bottle with one heading back into the Everfree Forest while the second one went diagonally into the ground.

Zecora's Home

Zecora's attention is so fixated on the box's glow that she didn't notice the light from the beam until it came shooting into her home and into the box.

The zebra gasps as the glow from the box intensify along with it lifting off the self. Cracks appeared one after another on the box until it bursts apart to reveal an object that resembles an eye. "Makena." Zecora spoke out softly. She kept staring at the eye until needing to cover her eyes when the eye gets swallowed by light.

The second the light died down, Zercora looked around not finding the eye anywhere before setting her eyes on the remains of the box. "She's returned."

Underground

"OPEN THE DOOR!!"

The guard, that had remained in front of the door, turned to look down the hall to see the other guard rushing with a Saint Brenard Diamond Dog, wearing a black suit with gems around the ring of the collar and red tie, and more guards following behind them.

"Yes, boss." The guard turns back to the door with the others stopping behind him. He holds his paw up to the lock while his diamond armor extended to cover it and forms five key fingers. He inserts them into the lock and unlocks the door with a twist of the five fingers.

The all rushed into the room filled with many piles of gems. They all gain shocked expressions when they spot the beam of light hitting a pile in the middle of the room. The pile then gets burst away with bits of the remains of a metal box. They only see the shape of a lock before it got swallowed put into light. Next thing they knew, the loud sound of digging through stone was heard. They find a hole in a wall of the left side of the room.

"Boss, was that.." "Seems so. Lockjaw has revived." The Saint Brenard answered his guard while his eyes stayed glued to the hole.

Back at the Battle

The light from the Tiga bottle faded before dropping into Cross-Z's hands. "What happened?" "I'm not sure." Cross-Z said answering Rose's question.

"That won't matter soon for you all." Cross-Z was too late to react when the two kaiju fired their laser attacks towards him and his classmates again. Not having time to use an attack, he turns to cover his three classmates in order to shield them.

(Soiya! Kurumi Squash!) Right then, someone with huge knuckles bursts out of the ground in front of them and stops the attacks with their two huge knuckles covered in energy before brushing the lasers to the side.

"What?!" Hearing the kaiju's surprised voice, Cross-Z turns back along with his three classmates peeking out. The four became shocked to find what seems to be a samurai-looking Rider.

Their suit is mostly blue with a bit of gold on their arms, legs, and Gaim's symbol as part of the helmet's head. The helmet has a silver samurai mouth guard and a visor shaped like a sliced orange, having the same color as the armors. A light brownish orange armor that covers the upper body and shoulders, along with the back of the Rider's helmet resembled a walnut. Around their waist is a belt with a bright neon yellow strap and black buckle lined with silver. On the buckle is a knife piece on its right, an open Lockseed with the inside image of a walnut in the middle and of the huge knuckle weapon on the bottom piece, while he left had the front left side image of the Rider's helmet. A katana looking sword, known as the Musou Saber, with a gun like barrel above the handle and space in the middle for a Lockseed to be placed hung on the left side of his belt.

The Yobil kaiju seemed it was about dash towards the Riders but stops upon hearing the sound of a motorcycle coming from behind it. The kaiju, along with everyone else, turns towards the sound. It doesn't get the chance to see much as someone on a motorcycle rams past it. Causing the kaiju to tumble to the ground.

The group become even more shocked and surprised when the motorcycle stops next to them. The bike seems to be a dual sports type with a dark silver frame having the shape of what looks like a horse head with a will-o-wisp like horn in the front and an orange seat. But what surprises them more is the Rider that's driving it.

This Rider's armor is translucent black with orange lines making bone shapes and white lines making Ghost's symbol, a rune eye in the middle of the chest. The face of the helmet has an orange color with two black big round spots acting as eyes, two small silver bits sticking in from the sides and the same horn as the bike's on their forehead but a bit bigger. The Rider wears a black short-sleeved hooded jacket with orange outlining the edges. The orange strapped belt around the Rider has a single eyed looking buckle having the image of the Rider's face in the eye, a trans clear cover showing a smiling face under it, and an orange handle on the right.

"Seems like helped arrived just in time." The black Rider spoke in an excited female tone as she got off her bike and took off her hood. She holds out her hand to Cross-Z, helping him back onto his feet. "Never thought Secondary Riders would be here in Equestria. Oh wow! This is a cool weapon." Ghost said while reaching over to grab onto Cross-Z's right arm to look at the Gaburyu Breaker.

"Who are you two?" "My Rider name is Ghost. Kamen Rider Ghost." Ghost answered before pointing to the other Rider. "And that's Gaim."

"You did well facing these three on your own, kid." Gaim spoke to them, with an older sounding voice, while still facing towards the two kaiju. "Now it's our turn to help out. Leave Kagekamuro and Dora Skeleton to us, Cross-Z. If you can defeat that High Zobil, Worm loses its tamer and will give that big guy a chance to fight back from it going berserk."

Cross-Z looks over to the High Zobil. "If it helps Guardie, then there's no way I'm quitting now." Feeling fired again, he holds up his fists ready to fight.

Ghost claps her hands together before summoning out a sword from the belt. The sword is black and silver with a double-edged blade, having the same eye symbol above the handle. "Then let's show them what we're made of Riders." All three Riders charge towards each kaiju.

"Don't treat us so lightly. We won't be taken down so easily." Kagekamuro and Dora Skeleton begin firing lasers at the Riders. Gaim and Ghost just use their weapons to shield and push their way through the attacks. "What?!"

Gaim has the knife on his belt chop down twice. (Soiya! Kurumi Au Lait!) Energy walnuts formed around the knuckles so the moment he reached the kaiju, he ducks under the swing of their weapons and upper cuts them with the knuckles launching and dragging them into the air. (Daikaigan! Gan Gan Mina!) Ghost's sword announced and repeatedly says the end part after holding its eye symbol in front of the belt's eye as she came to a stop behind Gaim. (Omega Break!) She jumps up as the two came down and hits them with a powerful slash that sends them flying into two different parts of town.

"After them." "On it!" Ghost agreed running back to her bike.

Gaim brings out a lock with a cherry blossom on the front and 'LV-01' on it. Pushing the lock's side to unlock it, Gaim tosses the lock to his right. The lock unfolds and enlarges into a motorcycle that seems to be the same type as Ghost's but is mostly white with a bit of pink and black. The front has a white cherry blossom molded on it. He gets on the bike and drives towards town with Ghost following behind him.

The moment Cross-Z charged towards it, the High Zobil did the same dashing towards him. Cross-Z ducks rolling under the Zobil's spear. Before he could stand back up, the High Zobil had already turned around to jab its weapon at him. "Whoa!" The Rider rolls to his right in time to avoid being impaled but gets the Beat Closer knocked off his back. Staying on his tail, the High Zobil hits the Gaguryu Breaker out of Cross-Z's hand the moment he got on his feet and then follows up getting three hits on him with a fourth sending the Rider rolling back. "Ugh. Me and my big mouth. What am I supposed to do?" Cross-Z questioned as he stood back up.

As if to respond to him, the Tiga bottle glowed with the dragon Fullbottle shooting out the slot and then takes its place in the belt. "What? This bottle is really weird. Oh well, let's see what it'll do." (Wake Up!) Cross-Z turns his belts crank before rolling under the kaiju's spear again. (Ready? Go! Dragonic Finish! Yeah!)

The High Zobil turned doing a wide swing thinking Cross-Z would roll to the side again but to its surprise, the Rider quickly turned and used his left arm to stop it. "Grah?!" It get surprised again when it sees a Color Timer like Guardie's appear in the middle of his chest, along with the flame design on his protectors disappear and turns completely yellow.

"Ha!" Cross-Z wrapped his arm around the spear before delivering a powerful punch to its chest but he keeps the High Zobil from falling back by keeping ahold of the spear and follows by ducking under the spear and past the Zobil. "Dah!" With blue flames covering his left arm, Cross-Z switched hands on holding the spear to use the flame covered one to chop it in half and then chops the back of the High Zobil's neck. When it turns to face him, Cross-Z shouted "Hyah!" landing a back kick on its chest, sending it flying back a few feet.

"Yeah!/Get him, Cross-Z!/Send that creep packing!" His classmates shouted out to him. Cross-Z catches the Tiga bottle when it shots out of the slot. "That was awesome. Now to finish this like the original Cross-Z." (Wake Up!) The belt called out when he reinserts the dragon bottle. After turning the crank, Cross-Z crouches a bit while holding his arms out wide apart with a chinese dragon made of blue flames flying down behind him. (Ready? Go! Dragonic Finish! Yeah!) Having waited for the High Zobil to get back on its feet, Cross-Z jumps with the dragon breathing out fire that launches him towards the kaiju, swipes a kick across its chest leaving a burning blue streak across its chest and then explodes the next second after Cross-Z lands a few feet behind it. "With that done, then that means" He looks towards the Hell Beast.

Worm stops its attack on Guardie before going berserk and each head shooting blasts randomly around different directions. The area was beginning to become wrecked by the attacks. Luckly, most of its blasts only land near or over Ponyville.

"Let's try this again, Guardie." Cross-Z yelled out bringing out his new phone with the Guardie card still inside it and the two cards appear in his hand. (Bakuryuu Tyrannosaurus! Kishiryu Tyramigo!) "Bring forth the guardian with chivalrous dino guts!" He pushes enter while holding it up. (Cross-Z Fuse! Guardie! Kyoryu King!) Both rexes appear around Guardie as he stood and began swirling around him before going into the Color Timer. The kind Kaiju glows transforming into his mecha form.

"Hey, wait a minute." Cross-Z spoke to himself. He looks himself over a moment before looking back to Guardie. "Doesn't he need me to be inside him when transformed? What am I supposed to do then? Huh?" He had questioned while watching as Guardie began firing his cannons at Worm. His phone then rings showing the numbers '1-0-7' and '1-2-0-5' light up. "Two spells? Okay then. Let's try them out." Cross-Z dials the first set and then holds it up pressing enter. (Maagi Magi Magika!) "Wha?1 What's happening?"

The Rider gets surprised when a huge blue spell circle, with his symbol in the middle, lifts him off the ground to pull him up to it. Passing through the circle, Cross-Z grows giant while his body transforms into a four-leg winged dragon. He seemed to be a mecha like Guardie with his body having the same color as his Rider form. The body mostly being blue, the joints being black, white claws and spikes along the neck, blue wings and tail with golden flames design on them, and a gold head with blue gem on top of the head and eyes matching his visor's color. Gold covered the upper sides of the front legs. This is Cross-Z's Majin form known as Majin Dragonic.

Cross-Z flies around enjoying his new Majin form. "WAHOOOO!! THIS IS AWESOME!!" While diving down, he sees some of worm's blasts headed towards town. "Oh no you don't." He breathes out blue fire at all the blasts before they could hit the town and then turns to breath fire at Worm.

Meanwhile

Having ended up back around Sugarcube Corner, Applejack and Rainbow were side by side facing opposite directions as many grunts surrounded them. There were even some grunts on top of the building around them.

"Things don't seem ta be lookin' so good fer us." Applejack said eyeing the grunts as they got closer. "Got any ideas, Rainbow?"

The pegasus looks up at the grunts on the roof. "Simple. Move fast, hit them hard, and save the day in time to take my late afternoon nap."

"In that case, there's only one option, I reckon." "Right behind you. I'll take the half in front of me, you take on the other half." The grunts all held up their weapons when they see the two ponies ready themselves. "And how yah reckon we do that?" "AAAAHHHHHH!"

Applejack and Rainbow get startled along with the grunts when Gaim comes driving up from Applejack's side with Kagekamuro being dragged along from the front of the bike. "This is your stop." With the huge fist reappearing on his left hand, Gaim punches Kagekamuro off his bike, sending the Ayakashi crashing right through the grunts and skipping across the ground on the other side.

Standing back up after having jumped out of the way, Applejack and Rainbow run past the grunts, who stumbled falling into each other, and over to the Rider. "Another Rider?! Where the hay did you come from?"

"Kamen Rider Gaim." The Rider walks in between the two while answering Rainbow's question. "Anything else can wait until later. For now, it's time for a little extermination."

"Now that's an idea I can get behind." Rainbow enthusiastically said with a smirk. She and Applejack face towards the grunts ready to fight again. "Care ta do the honors then, Gaim."

Making the second huge fist appear and then slamming them into each other, Gaim holds up both fists as Kagekamuro and the grunts stood back up. "This is our stage now." Gaim and Applejack charge towards them while Rainbow takes off to attack the ones on the roof.

"DESTROY THEM!!!" The grunts followed the Ayakashi's order and charge to meet the two while the ones on the roof began shooting at Rainbow.

Gaim punches his way through grunts while Applejack bucked an Imp that ran up to her and sent it tumbling onto other grunts following behind. Nanashi and Golems come in from Gaim's sides, but he blocks their weapons with his fists and sends them flying after countering them. Taking notice of Zobils on a roof shoot towards, the Rider punches each of the shots into grunts running towards him. They were about to fire again but are hit off the roof by Rainbow flying by.

"The ones on the roof want to join in? Fine by me." (Pine!) A Lockseed with a Pineapple on it that Gaim brought out announced after pushing the side to make it unlock. (Lock Off! Lock On!) The belt announced after switching the locks and begins playing a Japanese horagai stand by music. With the walnut armor dissolving into liquid and visor's color becoming blank, a zipper appears above him and unzips to bring out a pineapple armor. he uses the knife to chop down on the lock, opening the front of it to show a slices pineapple and an image of a flail pineapple weapon. (Soiya! Pine Arms! Funsai destroy!) The armor dropped down onto his head and unfolds into a Japanese samurai style armor with the back of Gaim's helmet now resembling a pineapple and the visor now having a pineapple slice look. The weapon from the image, known as the Pine Iron, appears in his hands. Holding the handle in his left hand, he begins spinning the pineapple end with the other hand. "Who's first?"

Grunts charged at Gaim while Zobil and Nanashi fired slimeballs and arrows at him. Spinning the flail side to side, Gaim fends off each of the shots and arrows before looking to his left to slam his weapon into a group running up to him, sending them flying in different directions. He pulls on it to have it swing by him and ram into other grunts coming in from behind.

"No way I'm going to let you all shoot again." Spinning himself clockwise, he has the flail swing upward to hit all the Zobil and Nanashi about to fire at him all at once. He stops to look up at Rainbow. "Pegasus, help round them up so we can finish them."

"Hey! The names Rainbow Dash! But I'm on it!" She shouted back to him as she speeds up, ramming into grunt not on the road and knocking back in with the others in order to pile them all in one space.

(Soiya! Pine Squash!) The belt announces after Gaim presses down the knife once. While swinging the handle to wrap around the grunts and keep them together, he lets the pineapple end of his weapon to drop in front of Applejack before it enlarges. "Think you can get a strike?"

Applejack grins understanding what he means. "Easier than bakin' an apple pie." She turns facing away from the fruit, reels up her hind legs, and then with great strength bucks the huge pineapple, sending it rolling forward. All the grunts tried struggling to free themselves but by the time they did, the pineapple hits destroying most of them in an explosion while the rest were sent flying all around.

"Nice strike, AJ!!" Rainbow shouted while hoof bumping with Applejack.

"It's all in the-" Applejack had said with a smirk until they heard multiple slashes in front of them. Fireballs that we cut in half past by both their sides and exploded behind them. Facing forward, they find Gaim standing in front of them with the Musou Saber in hand. "Thanks fer the save there, Gaim."

Keeping his eyes set forward towards Kagekamuro, Gaim rests his sword on his right shoulder while holding a thumbs up for the girls. "He's mine." Is all he says before walking towards the Ayakashi.

Applejack and Rainbow did as he said and just watched as the two dashed towards each other and began clashing blades. Gaim mostly just parries each strike, even by taking steps back. Backing away from a strike, the Rider ducks under the next to deliver a slash across the side of the Ayakashi's waist. "Damn samurai. I'll-" Kagekamuro stops upon hearing a click. He turns to find Gaim pressing his sword's gun barrel against his chest with four glowing dots in the blade. Pulling the trigger, Gaim shoots four shots into the Ayakashi.

Elsewhere

"I'm sorry but the boutique is closed." Rarity yelled as she, Pinkie and Fluttershy had barricaded themselves inside Rarity's home. The three struggled shoving against the couch in order to keep the grunts out as they tried breaking in through the door. Along with them, Rarity's furniture was being used by other ponies who were doing the same to keep the grunts from entering through the back door and windows. "Where's Discord when you really need him?"

"I don't know. He usually appears when I call." Fluttershy squeaks out of fear when they're pushed back and inch, but they manage to push it back in place.

Not hearing anything from Pinkie, Rarity looks over Fluttershy to see her on her hind legs and her back against the couch while reading what looks like a script.

"Pinkie, what exactly are you doing?" "I'm trying to see what'll happen next. Because this is when the hero usually comes to save the day." Pinkie answered while turning to show her friend the script. "Pinkie, we aren't in a movie."

Outside, the grunts were trying their best to break their way in. Though their attempts are brought to a halt when Skeleton comes crashing against Rarity's house above them and falls into pieces on to them, from having broken apart.

"Do you fellas have room for one more?" They all turned to find Ghost standing across the road. With her sword in hand, she tilts the hilt and slides the top off the blade off to rotate it and slide it back in to reveal a barrel which completes the Gan Gun Saber's gun mode. "Since it's been a long time since I've been in one of these gathering, I want to make the most of it."

"Grah!!" The grunts all made a battle cry before charging towards the Rider.

Ghost let's out a sigh of relief. "I'll connect the hearts of others with my beliefs." She immediately shoots down a few grunts before charging towards them.

Ghost shoots a couple more of them before jumping over them to avoid the axe and knife of a Zobil and Imp. But she didn't come back touching the ground. Instead, she glowed hovering upside down above them while shooting them in the back as she went by them. Ghost flips back upright when she lands in the middle of the grunts. "Now you see me." She said in a taunting voice with a glowing make the same as the one on her chest appears on the back of her right hand. "Now you don't." The moment they all try swarming her at once, Ghost becomes intangible and phases into the ground causing them all to slam into each other. The Rider then comes spinning out of the ground with whirling orange energy that knocks the grunts in just about every direction.

Back at the boutique, Pinkie's head could be seen peeking out from the door. Having heard the commotion outside, she and her friends moved the couch a bit to be able to open the door enough to peek outside.

"See! I told you the hero appears around now!!" Pinkie shouted with excitement.

Rarity and Fluttershy peek their heads out in time to see Ghost use her gun to blocks three Imps swords while holding on to the arms of three Golem Soldiers in the other. She uses their own strength to flip them onto the ground.

"A Rider?!" Rarity spoke sounding shocked from the sudden appearance of a new Rider. "Are they a friend of Connor and Eiji?"

"Twilight did mention how the other Riders looked during one our tea parties. But she never mentioned a Rider like that one."

Back in the battle, Ghost has an Orgette hold onto her as they spun, shooting a couple of grunts while going around and then uses the momentum to flip the grunt down along with her. "Rah!!" She sees a couple grunts run up to attack, rolls out of the way to avoid them and then flies on top of a roof.

"Whoa! I don't like the tone of your voices. And I know the best way to fix that." Ghost brings out a silver eye and presses its side making '06' appear in the eye. Tossing her gun up into the air, she opens the front of the belt to remove a black eye which causes her jacket and visor's face to disappear. She then inserts the new eye and closes the belt. (Eye! Bacchiri Minaa!) The belt continued the last part along with a jingle. A white, black and gray colored coat piano keys in the front, shoulders and strips that seem to act as the arms comes flying out from the eye and flew around the Rider like a ghost. The jingle ends when Ghost pulls the belt's handle outward and back in, making the eye blink to now show the image of a grey musical score. (Kaigan! Bee~tho~ven! Kyokumei! Unmei! Ja-ja-ja-ja~n!) The belt announced along with an orchestrated tune choir as the coat flew placing itself onto Ghost with the stripes moving to the back of the shoulders and the same musical score sliding up, becoming the visor's new face along with the horn.

Catching the gun, Ghost begins pressing the piano keys on the coat to create energy constructs of musical notes. She waves her hand and gun around like a conductor of an orchestra to control the movements of the musical notes, sends them at the grunts to knock them around and continues this until they're all out in the open. Ghost quickly pulls and pushes the handle, making the eye blink to now show the inside of the eye being sonic rings with three musical notes. (Daikaigan! Bee~tho~ven Omega Drive!) Lines of musical notes appeared, flying down to the grunts to move around them and lifts them into the air before converging on them, destroying them all.

Ghost bows down a couple times while saying, "Thank you! Thank you! You've all were a wonderful audience. Now where'd that skeleton go? Ugh!" She looked around for a few seconds before something knocks her off the roof. "Ouch. That wasn't nice."

Looking back up, she sees Dora Skeleton before it jumps down to impale her with its sword. Ghost quickly rolls out of the way and back onto one knee while creating more musical notes to launch at the Dora Monster. Skeleton becomes invisible with none of the notes hitting their mark. Ghost tries to spot for any sign of the kaiju. After a moment, she gets slashed across the chest twice before getting what feels like a drop kick, knocking her onto her back.

"If that's the way you want to play, then fine." Standing back up, Ghost brings out a yellow eye and pushes the side for the inside of the eye to show '02' in it. She then proceeds to switch the eyes again. (Eye! Bacchiri Minaa!) With the Beethoven coat and face disappearing, An antennaed silver hooded coat, with light bulb arms and yellow lining the edges, flies out of the belt. (Kaigan! Edison! Elec! Hirameki! Hatsumei~oh~!) After blinking to show a yellow light bulb in the eye, the coat places itself onto Ghost with the arms turning onto the shoulders and the light bulb image becoming the new face.

"Now, what to do about this guy." Ghost spoke to herself as she stood lost in thought. Skeleton reappears slashing her twice from behind and then another across the chest when she turned to face him, sending her fly back a few feet. The Dora Monster then goes back to being invisible. "Ugh...hm!" A small cloud formed over her head as she stood up and shots lightning down onto the antenna. Ghost snaps her finger shouting "Eureka!"

Holding up her left hand in a prayer-like position, the glowing symbol reappears on her hand as the clouds around Ponyville began darkening and building up together with rain pouring out from them.

Rarity and the others looked bewildered at what they just saw. "They're able to control the weather!?" Still invisible, Skeleton looked around confused by the sudden change in weather.

With her hand holding her weapon, she pulls the handle outward while still holding the prayer stance that make a huge rune eye with Edison's light bulb image in the center of the eye. "My life is burning brightly!" Ghost activates the finisher, changing the image in the belt's eye to a lit-up bulb with bolts of electricity around it. Energy transfers from the rune eye to her left hand as she raises her a finger towards the sky as the belt announces, (Daikaigan! Edison Omega Drive!). Lightning shoots from the finger into the clouds before coming back at her with others following suit causing Skeleton to be electrocuted from the area having been soaked by the rain.

Looking to her right spotting her target, who's invisibility keeps going on and off because of the lightning shocks, Ghost aligns the eyes of her weapon and belt to activate its finisher. (Daikaigan! Gan Gan Mina! Gan Gan Mina!) Electricity began building up into the gun's muzzle as Ghost took aim and pulled the trigger. (Omega Shoot!) Ghost fires a powerful electrical shot that hits its mark and destroys the kaiju.

Back at Sugarcube Corner

From opposite ends, Gaim and Kagekamuro ran down the road while shooting at each other. The Ayakashi shoot fireballs that the Rider uses his sword cut through them before pulling on the sword's tab to fire four shots.

"Gah!" Kagekamuro gets hit with the next reload of shots. "Damn, bastard! Try this!" The Ayakashi charges energy into its shoulders.

Seeing this, Gaim takes the chance to bring out a different Lockseed and pushes the side to unlock it. (Orange!) The space above the Rider unzip in a circular motion with an orange shaped armor coming out from it. (Lock off! Lock on!) Switching locks, the pineapple armor disappears into liquid.

Gaim does a hand stand the moment Kagekamuro fires his lasers, allowing him to avoid the attack and kick the orange armor into the Ayakashi. "Dah!" With the kaiju being knock to the ground and the orange armor flying back to him, he chops open the front of the lock to show the image of a sliced orange while the bottom has a sword with orange slice-looking blade known as the Daidaimaru. (Soiya! Orange Arms! Hanamichi on stage!) Placing itself onto his head, the armor opens and folds in to become samurai themed armor onto Gaim's shoulders, back and chest. The visor now had an orange slice look and an orange samurai looking helmet back piece. With the Daidaimaru appearing in his left hand,

Gaim gets into a crouching position with both swords held out to the sides. "Dual!" Gaim charges forward which prompts Kagekamuro to shoot fireballs. At first the Rider only uses the Musou Saber to cut his way through the attacks while resting the Daidaimaru on his shoulder but then uses both as he got closer to the Ayakashi.

Kagekamuro brings out his two swords. "Why you- Gah!" Sparks flew off the Ayakashi as Gaim ducked sliding past him while having slashed the waist with saber and then quickly turned to land another slash across Kagekamuro's back with the other sword. Kagekamuro turns to bring down both his swords on the Rider but Gaim blocks them with both of his. He shoves the Ayakashi back before landing six strikes on him. "I'm growing tired of this game!" Kagekamuro shouts angrily before firing the lasers from his shoulders.

Seeing this, Gaim connects the hilts of both his weapons to make them into their Naganita Mode with both blades facing in opposite directions. (Soiya! Orange Squash!) Activating his belt's finisher, Gaim spins his weapon while orange energy covers the blades. He dashes forward despite the Ayakashi firing lasers. The Rider's weapon acts as a shield from how the orange energy blocking the laser. He then quickly knocks both swords out of the Ayakashi's hands and slashes upward, sending Kagekamuro flipping through the air and landing face flat onto the ground.

Gaim was about to walk up to the Ayakashi, but steps and jumps back when the last of the grunts first tired attacking him from up close while the Nanashi and Zobils shot at him after his first few steps back. The Rider stops to look back at the kaijus when he stopped to see that he's now at the other end of the road.

"Alright, time to bring this act to a close." (Lock off!) Unlocking and removing the Lockseed from the belt, Gaim attaches and locks it onto the Musou Saber. (Lock on! 1, 10, 100, 10,000:) Seeing what the Rider is doing, grunts fire at him again but are knocked to the sides by him spinning his weapon again. Gaim stops the spinning for energy to fill the saber's blade and swings only using the Musou Saber end to launch multiple orange energy slashes. Kagekamuro and the grunts all get hit by the slashes and trapped in an orange energy sphere. Turning to use the Daidaimaru end, Gaim dashes forward as the inner part of the blade lit up, slashing each sphered grunt in half. (Orange Charge!) Reaching Kagekamuro, the Rider stops to slice and dice the sphere to bit along with the Ayakashi and ends with him cutting the kaiju in half from the waist while he ran past him.

Gaim stops in his tracks in front of Sugarcube Corner with his weapon held out to his right side. Behind him, both the upper halves of the spheres and grunts float off the bottom before exploding, while Kagekamuro's sphere along with him fell into pieces before exploding. He turns back to face towards the Ayakashi. "First life down. Now for the second li- Oh shoot." Gaim takes a step back looking up at the skies.

Twilight comes running up to help her friends but stops with a shocked look when the unexpected hero came into her sights. "A Rider? Where'd they- huh?" She takes notice of Gaim's sight set to the sky. "What are they..." She takes notice of the area darkening and gasps when she looks up at the sky.

Outside Ponyville

The battle continued as four of Worm 's heads fired blasts of energy at Guardie while the rest were trying to shoot down Cross-Z as he does a fly by and claws off one of the heads, making it shriek out in pain. Guardie uses the cannons on his back to blast of two more heads.

"Hm." Cross-Z notices Worm about to retract its heads. "Guardie, we need to stop it from escaping."

"As you command." Guardie roars marching forward with his drill tail beginning to spin. "Deracium Drill!" Reaching where the heads retracted into, Guardie drills his tail into the ground with a shriek coming from the hole the moment the tail hit something. The kind kaiju uses great strength with his tal to yank out the core body of Worm from the ground and tosses it into the sky. "Finish it, master."

While Guardie charges its beam attack, Cross-Z inhales deeply with blue flames building up in his mouth. "Overburn!" "Zeperion Pulsar!" Guardie fires his beam while Cross-Z breathes out a more powerful version the blue fire breath that his finisher used. Both attacks hit Worm, causing it to explode a moment after.

"Alright! Now that was an awesome way to save the day." Cross-Z shouted full of excitement as pieces of the Hell Beast fell down on an area away from Ponyville. "Hm? Master, look." "Wha?"

They looked up to see the sky above them filled with a dark aura. Before Cross-Z could question what was happening, bolts of black lightning shot down onto the three areas where the kaijus had been destroyed. The bits and pieces of them flew up into the dark aura.

Gaim and Ghost, who is back in his base form, ran meeting up at the edge of town where they could see Cross-Z and Guardie. "Things are going to get bad if we don't do something." The samurai Rider spoke with concern.

"Then let's change the field." Ghost brings out a MagiPhone similar to Cross-Z's but resembles more of her suit's color scheme and opens it to show her symbol in it. She dials in '7-1-9' and then presses enter while holding it up. (Majika Maaji Majuna!) With the tip lighting up, the symbols of the three Riders each appeared in front of them before racing and converging into each other that engulfs the whole area in a bright flash of light.

Not far behind the two Riders, Twilight and her friends came running up to them. "Wait! Hold on!" Was all see got to say before the bright light blinded them.

The group rubbed their eyes, regaining their sight but gasp at the sight now surrounding them. Ponyville and land they knew was gone and replaced with an area that seemed to be a mix of a savanna and volcanic landscape with gems sticking out randomly all around.

"Sweet Celestia./Oh my." "Where the hay are we?" Rainbow had shouted over Rarity and Fluttershy.

"It's the Quantum Field" The group looked in front of them to find Ghost had turned to face them.

"Quantum Field?" Twilight questioned making Gaim turn to them. "Yes. A dimensional arena you could say that's created by using a portion our magic. It's a way to-" "To prevent damage and destruction done for battles involving giant kaiju, am I right?" Twight spoke up interrupting.

Ghost nods. "Yup! Bingo! Though there's more of a bigger reason." "What kinda reason?" Before answering Applejack's question, the two Riders looked back ahead towards the sky. "That hurricane of a reason." The Mane 6 move beside the Riders to focus back on the battle field.

"What is this place? Huh?" Cross-Z and Gaurdie were standing in the middle of the area confused before setting their sights back on the dark aura in the sky as it begins to disperse. But with its dispersal, it leaves behind a dark sphere that floats down not that far from the two giants. "This does not seem good."

Right then the sphere shatters to reveal a kaiju that seemed to be a combination of all three. The body mostly resembles Dora Skeleton but is red with its upper body having similar features as Kagekamuro, such as skeletal version of the huge face as the chest and the blades from his sword attached to both wrists. The eight heads of Worm replaced the cape as the heads moved around like tentacles. Standing before them now is Tartarus Fiend- Skeleton.

"Guardie!" Understanding Cross-Z, the two prepare their attacks. "Overburn!" "Zeperion Pulsar!" The two unleash their attacks at Skeleton. Though to their surprise, the kaiju disappears with attacks not hitting anything. "What? Where'd he- Ugh!"

Skeleton reappears in front of them with a ghastly laugh before using its bladed arms to slash at the two. Making Guardie stumble back to its left while Cross-Z crashed onto the ground on the right. Guardie charges forward, trying to swipe at Skeleton but being faster, the Tartarus Fiend uses one arm to block the hit while using the other to slash Guardie across the chest with sparks flying off.

"Ugh..." Cross-Z shakes off the hit he had taken. He looks back to the battle seeing Guardie try to fight back as Skeleton keeps landing hits on the kind kaiju. "Guardie, hold on. Over- Gah!" Cross-Z was preparing his attack but gets blasted by the worm heads turning to face him and shoot purple lasers similar to Kagekamuro's.

"Kyoryu-" Guardie gets cut off by Skeleton wrapping one arm around his jaw and the other to hold him in a head lock. The Tartarus Fiend then uses its strength to lift and toss Guardie over itself and having the kind kaiju land on top of Cross-Z.

With a ghastly chuckle, energy built up in the mouth of the huge head. Before the two could recover, it fires a powerful blast at them, that drags them across the ground and into a huge gem shard. "Cross-Z!!" Twilight and the others shouted worried.

While the two were trying to recover and stand, the worms disattach themselves from Skeleton, seven of the heads moved through the air like snakes as they made their way towards the two giants. They wrapped themselves around the two keeping their arms and legs tied to each other, shut their mouths, and the seventh tying Cross-Z's wings together. The eighth worm straightened itself into a pole with gems floating off the ground and towards the pole to morph itself into a two-handed great sword.

The Mane 6 gasp at the scene. Their two friends are tied down while Skeleton advances towards them slowly with the blade of its sword dragging along the ground.

Seeing this, Ghost brings out her phone again. "That's it! I'm going in." Before she could take a step forward, Gaim holds out his arm to stop her. "Gaim, why? He needs our help."

"No. He needs to handle this on his own." "What!? Are you joking? That whole thing is practically screaming trouble!" Rainbow shouted after flying in front of Gaim to be face to face. "Don't count out him out just yet. If he's gained that form, then there's still one last thing he can do."

Twilight and rest of her friend look to the Rider. "What do you mean?" Gaim says nothing but keeps his focus on the battle.

Back at the battle, Cross-Z and Guardie continued to struggle against their binds as Skeleton was only few steps away. "This is bad. This is bad. We have to do something. But what? There must be something else I while in this form. Uh!" Cross-Z recalls that he had gotten an addition spell aside to the one that transformed him. "That's right. The second spell. But how do I use it while in this form?"

"Speak the incantation." "What?" Cross-Z questioned as Skeleton stopped in front of them. "Speak the incantation to use the spell."

"Then what were the incantations for those numbers?" Cross-Z asked himself trying to quickly remember as Skeleton brought up its sword to finish them. "Ma...Maagi...Maagi Jiruma ah..." Right as it brought down the sword on them, it came to him and he shouts, "Maagi Jiruma Magi Jinga!"

Right at last second, the spell circle that had transformed Cross-Z into his Majin form burst out from him, forcing the worms to release both him and Guardie as well as stopping Skeleton's sword and sending the Tartarus Fiend flying back.

(Maagi Jiruma Magi Jinga! Dragonic Gattai!) The phone's voice announced out loud with blue flames circling around them. Cross-Z flew up towards the circle hover over them while also circling around Guardie. He flies through the circle which causes his front claws, wings and tail to disconnect from him while the arms and head fold forward to form a chest similar to that of Tiga's, with the legs folding upward from the sides. Guardie roars before straightening himself out with his tail, cannons and the front of his chest disconnecting from the body. His legs rotate around with the claws to fold up and have feet unfolding out. His head then folded back to allow the inner part of the body folded out and combine with the arms after the claws flipped to bring out humanoid hands.

Cross-Z's tail splits into four pieces while Guardie's cannons split into twos. The tip ends of the tail connect to the bottom of the feet with the back heel extending out to match the feet's height and the back ends of the cannons fold open to connect to the sides of the legs, giving them the appearance of exhaust ports. Cross-Z's claws connect with the last two pieces of the tail with the front end of the cannons attaching behind the piece before they combined to the back of the arms. The dragon wings combine to the front side of the shoulders. Guardie's lower jaw opens fully to reveal a set of green eyes with the six mane-like horns sliding together to make an upper head that resembles Tiga's. Before Guardie's head put itself back into place, the back part of Cross-Z's lifted forward with middle of it to split open to reveal a mouth guard piece resembling Cross-Z's having the white fin spikes on both sides of the face. The two connected with each other completing the face.

"Wha?!" Cross-Z finds himself in a room of light with a prism colored alter forming in front of him. Looking at the alter, he sees an empty space on it shaped like his phone. He decides to place the phone on it, causing it to light up with his mark appearing behind him. His visor lights up as information raced in his head and then holds his hand over the alter. "Awaken! Tiga-Oh Dragonic!" From the outside, Tiga-Oh slams his fists together with the transformation completed.

Back with the others, Twilight and her friends, except for Pinkie who is bouncing up and down with excitement, were all stunned by what they just seen the two become.

"What is that?" "That is called evening the plain field." Ghost answered Twilight with grin under her helmet.

Growling angrily, Skeleton has the seven worms reattach to itself and begins raining down shots of lasers at Tiga-Oh. Though unlike for when they were separate, Tiga-Oh easily marches through the lasers. Seeing this, the Tartarus Fiend launches the worms towards the mecha.

"Uh-oh. What do we do?" "Crush them."

From flames being shot out the cannon barrels, Tiga-Oh strikes throwing a lightning-fast punches at three worms that tried coming straight at him, which destroys them upon impact.

"Wow-wee! Did you see that, Rainbow? They took down that worm snake thingie so easily." "Yeah! That was so AWESOME! Uh... but they'll need to be 20% cooler if they want to match me." Rainbow answered Pinkie trying to only sound half impressed.

The other four worms try coming at him from different angles. Two from the sides, one from behind and the last from above. "Ryu Streak!" Fire shoots out from the exhaust ports on the right leg, which Tiga-Oh then does a round house kick that leaves a burning streak that knocks the three coming at him from the sides and back away and turns doing an upper cut destroying the one coming from above.

Before the worms recovered, Tiga-Oh creates energy copies of the shoulder wings that put themselves next to each other to make a shuriken. "Cross Wing!" Tiga-Oh launches the shuriken at the last three worms which splits them down the middle as it went in a circular motion.

"Now for the bonehead." The mecha turns, charging towards Skeleton.

The Tartarus Fiend lets out a ghastly laugh as it became invisible. Tiga-Oh stops from having lost the enemy and begins looking around to see any sign of Skeleton. After a moment, he gets struck from the side. He tries taking a swing in that direction but only manages to hit air. He continues trying to swing in directions he gets hit and slashed at from but can't land any of them.

"Oh no." Fluttershy quietly spoke worried. Applejack, Rainbow and Rarity began shouting "Come on, Cross-Z! Don't lose ta that darn snake!/Kick that bone freaks butt./You can do it, Cross-Z!"

"Ugh! Guardie, what can we do?" "Leave it to me, master. Burner Formation!"

All four cannon parts disconnect from Tiga-Oh. Guardie's chest piece that connects to the left hand to act as a shield. The front cannon pieces place themselves on the side of the legs with the pieces that had been on the legs attached themselves to the shoulders.

Then from both the cannons and exhaust ports, fire shoots out spreading through the area all around. Skeleton appears on the far right from the flames burning the Tartarus Fiend. Tiga-Oh turns to face it with the shield aim towards it. "Roaring Inferno!" The shield builds up the flames in front of it before shooting it forward like a flamethrower, which forces Skeleton to try stopping it with its sword and ends up getting knocked over.

"Alright! Now, Breaker Formation!" Cross-Z shouted with both the Beat Closer and Gaburyu Breaker being summoned to both hands.

All the parts disattach to reform with the chest piece connecting onto the left arm with the two tail pieces with the claws attached placing themselves together on the underside of it. The two open cannon pieces refold themselves to connect to each other while placing itself on the right arm. The cannons attached to the sides of the back one while the drill tail connect to the front one.

"Let's go!" Cross-Z has Tiga-Oh charge forward.

Skeleton does the same with sword at the ready. Following Cross-Z's movements, Tiga-Oh uses the drill as a lance to cross blades with Skeleton's great sword, shoves the Tartarus Fiend back and follows with a slash across its chest. Cross-Z pushes forward with the attacks by having Taig-Oh stay on Skeleton's tail as he slashed and thrusted the drill into it. "How about this!" Cross-Z charges the knuckle's attack. Seeing Tiga-Oh ready the claw arm, Skeleton brings its sword in front of itself to have it act as a shield. (Cross Knuckle!) Fire covers the claw shield as the mecha swung it hitting right through the sword and into Skeleton's chest. (Hippare!) The drill begins spinning after Cross-Z pulls on the Beat Closer's hilt. (Smash Hit!) He has Tiga-Oh swing the drill as Skeleton stumbled back, hitting and destroying the blades on its wrists, and then swings back the drill in an upper cut slash that has sparks fly off the Tartarus Fiend as it fell rolling back along the ground.

Skeleton makes an angry ghastly laugh as it stood up and began building up a huge amount of energy into its chest.

"Finish it now, master!" "Got it!" Shaking the Tiga bottle a bit, Cross-Z inserts it into his sword. (Special Tune! Hippare! Hippare! Hippare!) The drill began getting faster and faster as the sword called out. The mecha keeps himself in place as the cannons acted as thruster with flames made of light spiraling along the drill. (Mega Slash!) He pulls the trigger as Skeleton fires its blast. "Tiga-Oh! Zeperion Breaker!" Tiga-Oh releases his hold on the ground to allow the cannons to launch him forward as he drills right through the blast.

Before Skeleton knew, its attack had completely been dug through. It stood standing still for a moment before looking down a finding a huge hole through it. Tiga-Oh stood a few feet behind the Tartarus Fiend with his back facing to it. Skeleton falls to its knees before slamming flatly onto the ground, exploding the next second.

Twilight and her friends shouted happily in cheer for their dragon friend's win with Ghost and Pinkie giving each other a high five/hoof. Gaim just crossed his arms and nodded. Aside from the Riders, Twilight and the other get surprised as the world around them became bright again that they have to cover their eyes. When the light died down, they're welcomed back to Ponyville by the sounds of the surprised startled citizens who had been standing where the Mane 6 disappeared.

"Twilight." The girls turn around to face a shocked looking Mayor Mare. "Do you mind explaining the giant?" She asked pointing over them to Tiga-Oh.

"Well, you see" Twilight pauses as the ground shook from the giant mecha walking up to them. "That's a bit of a long story."

Hours Later

It was now sunset as the disaster all around Ponyville had been cleaned up. The Mane 6 and Riders were standing at the center of town. The two Riders had helped the group in restoring as much of the town as they could. Gaim and Ghost looked around admiring how the ponies had just resumed enjoying the last of the day they had left.

Ghost waved to ponies as they gave their thanks while walking by. "To think how much has changed since we've been gone. I wonder what else has changed."

"Wait," The two looked down to their left at Twilight. "If I heard right, do you mean to say you two have always been in Equestria."

"That's right." Gaim confirmed. "We along with five other Riders had helped protect this world during the time we were awake." "Awake? What do you-" Gaim holds up a hand stopping Twilight. "I think that can wait. We all could use a rest before having to tell a long story."

"Yeah, you're telling me." They all look to Cross-Z. "That was really tiring and also painful. Ouch." He had stretched a bit but stopped when he felt a small sting. "Do all Riders have to deal with these sores and bruises?" Cross-Z asked in a joking manure, making the other chuckle and laugh.

"CROSS-z!!" Hearing the CMC, the group look ahead to see the girls come running towards them with Rumble, Rose and Misty following along. "Cross-Z, did yah see that other giant?" Apple Bloom asked with Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle also asking, " Yeah! It was so cool. They were flying all over the place." "And who are they? Are they new Riders?"

Cross-Z lets out an exhausted sigh. "Yeah they are. But I agree with Gaim. Can we talk about this later? We did so much today that I'm starving." He ends with his stomach rumbling.

Ghost and Gaim see he's about to deactivate his transformation. "Wait, Cross-Z! What are you-" Undoing his transformation, they see Spike in his human form before being surprised to see the ponies act normal to his original dragon form. "Wait, do all of you already know he was a dragon?"

Twilight and the others all looked at the Riders with confusion. "I don't understand. Is there something wrong with Spike being a dragon?"

"Nononono! That's not it." Ghost quickly answered with her hands raised defensively. "It's just surprising. During the time we had protected Equestria a long time ago, the Ponies and other races never really interacted or care for one another. If one was in trouble, the others would just ignore."

Gaim nodes. "Yes. It was a time when many battles happened. That was part of the reason we've never showed our identities to many others, aside from those that gained our trust. But if times have changed, then I see no reason to stay transformed any longer."

Looking to Ghost, he gives her a nod before proceeding to undo his transformation along with her. Gaim closes the front of the orange Lockseed before unlocking and removing it with the belt saying (Lock Off!), while Ghost opens her belt to remove the eye and just closes it with the belt saying (Oyasumi!) Both Riders transformation come undone to reveal their human forms.

Ghost is a teenaged girl with white skin and black medium hair that was all combed over to the right side. She wore tan colored short sleeved, unbuttoned shirt and shorts, a green tang top, three gold bracelets on her left wrist and zebra striped shoes. While Gaim was a grown man with light yellow-ish skin and spiky short brown hair. He seemed to be a gym teacher from how he was dressed in a light blue tracksuit and green running shoes.

They were only in a human state for a second before they began to glow. "My name is Makena." Ghost said as she changed into a zebra with Ghost's symbol on her rear and three gold bracelets on front left leg.

"And I'm known as Lockjaw." Gaim changed into a yellow-ish furled husky Diamond Dog wearing the same blue tracksuit jacket and a green collar with the Gaim symbol on it.

Twilight seemed like she was about to ask a question but doesn't get the chance to. Right before she could ask, they hear the sound of a faint boom before becoming confused by the sunset's light getting overshadowed by a white light.

"Twilight, what's that?" They all look to Spike before looking towards the direction he's pointing towards.

Out of the town and towards the Ghastly Gorge, they see a huge tower of light shooting up into the sky and piercing through the cloud. What follows after is the town getting hit by a shock wave that knocks down everyone outside while having shaken up any pony inside their homes or the stores/shops.

This time Makena let's out an exhausted sigh. "I'm guessing that means dinner is postponed."

To Be Continued

Chapter 4- New History Revealed

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The Everfree Forest

Above a mountain, a portal opens high in the sky for a few moments and closes after Decade, Den-O and Wizard come falling out of it. The three scream as they fall down. Wizard quickly switches to his emerald, green ring.

(Hurricane, Please! Fu-Fu, Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu!) Now in Hurricane Style, Wizard creates a green cyclone that helps him fly to the ground instead. Though the other two weren't having as much of a fun ride as he was.

"Damn you, you damn wizard! Stop this damn thing!" Den-O shouted while being spun around along with Decade in the cyclone.

"Wizard!" "Consider this the pay back for what you did to me earlier, bro." From there, he ignored their shouts until reaching the mountain where he dispels the cyclone. "There! How'd you like my successful resc- Whoa! Hey!" He leaned back to avoid Den-O sword, following with jumping back to dodge Decade's swing at him, using his wind to get a good distance from them. "What was that for?"

"You know why, you damn little brat." Den-O angrily shouted with Decade then saying, "I think a little beating like in our training days is in order."

(Connect, Please!) Sticking his hand into the circle, Wizard pulls out his weapon, the Wizarswordgun in sword mode. "I'd like to see you try."

Wizard and the two Riders remained still for a few seconds but then let out battle cries and charging at each other. They dash towards each other about to strike one another until a loud noise catches their attention. Looking down towards the forest, birds could be seen flying up into the lit sky of the setting sun in fright.

"I guess we found the reason we're here. Probably."

Havoc spread within the forest as two blurs, a white and black, moved clashing throughout the forest. Many creatures ran to hide in an untempt to avoid the conflict. Cockatrices ran into bushes, the hydra dove back under the muddy swamp, even Timberwolves even fell apart into piles of wood.

The other reason for this being that each time the blurs clashed, a small shock wave would be created before a few trees would fall over having been cut through. The sounds of blades clashing echoed off the shock waves, as well as flashes of sparks from the blades.

"How long do you think you can keep this up, Zero?" Rouki spoke to AbareKiller as they moved through the forest. "You seem to be tiring out, old friend. I don't remember you having such a small amount of stamina."

"What about you? You think after years of imprisonment, you'd learn to repent for what you did and decide to turnover a new leaf." AbareKiller countered while the two clashed mid-air, struggling for a second until shoving each other back. Instead of continuing, the Ranger dashes off with Rouki pursuing him. "Why hold onto vengeance? It was your own actions that forced me to imprison you and the others." He spoke out to his once comrade.

"We were supposed to had fought side by side till the end. Kill off the creatures that invaded your homeland. But you let that righteous heart of yours turn against me and your Fenrir brethren." Rouki shouted out.

Shooting out from the trees, AbareKiller had led Rouki to Ghastly Gorge. They continued their battle as they went down the gorge. Jumping from wall to wall on their way down, sparks flew off from their blade colliding with each other. AbareKiller avoids Rouki's next swings by jumping over him with energy blades forming on the Ranger's wrist that lands a few hits on the villain's back.

"Moonlight Sonic!" Having only stumbled a bit forward, Rouki turns to launch a powerful yellow sonic wave.

AbareKiller rolls away from the attack before using the Wing Pentact in tact mode to draw multiple arrows and send them straight at Rouki. The villain easily defended against it with swings from his blade. Rouki fires out blue electricity from his left hand. AbareKiller counters with the laser from his weapon which creates an explosion when the two collided.

"I only wanted to fight to protect our home. But to attack those who weren't part of the fight, that was something I was never going to be a part of."

"And for that you turned your back on the Fenrir went against orders of the chief and stayed to fight for their home. That's why by their wish and my anger for sealing me, you must die. This gorge will be your grave, Zero." Spinning his blade a few times, Rouki holds his blade over his shoulders while crouching down.

"If that's what you've decided, then talking to you is pointless." Spinning his weapon to build up energy, Killer takes a crouching stance while holding the Wing Pentact to his side. "Just know I don't plan to hold anything back."

Seconds pasted with the two just standing perfectly still facing each other. They wait for the right moment to make their move. But this ends when a pebble from the top of the gorge broke off and fell to the ground. The moment it did, the two dashed towards each other at high speed. "Lunar Wave!/Sigma Edge!" They both disappear for a second and reappear a few feet away from one another with their backs turned to each other. A crescent slash appears on AbareKiller's chest, making him stumble a bit with sparks flying off him.

Rouki stands up right before looking at AbareKiller from the corner of his eye. He turns about to attack. "Haaa- Ugh!" Before anything could be done, multiple slashes appear all around Rouki's body causing him to fall to one knee with sparks to fly off all around him.

"Ah!" Energy beings to spark around AbareKiller causing him to drop his weapon to clench his chest. "No...Not now." Killer spoke with pain in his voice.

"Oh, what's this we have here." Rouki spoke with amusement. "Despite betraying your comrades and cause, you haven't returned to the pack. Why is that?" He questioned the Ranger as he got back on his feet.

"I have no reason to explain myself to you." Killer said as he picked up his weapon and turned to face the villain.

Rouki scoffed. "Whether you were exiled like the others or just refuse to return of your own free will, the effects you're experiencing speak for themselves." Aiming his blade at Killer, a dark aura builds up around Rouki. "But despite those effects, I still plan to end your life here, Zero."

"I may not be in great shape," With sparks of energy still around him, AbareKiller began having a red aura emit off him. "but it'll be another six thousand years before you ever take my life."

"ZERO!!" Rouki shouted as he and Killer are both engulfed in their auras.

The two auras flew towards and into one another. Both struggled to overpower one another which ends, resulting in the two causing an explosion that shoots upward through the clouds as a tower of light with a shockwave spreading throughout the area. After the light faded, a chunk of the gorge surrounding them had been widened from the explosion. AbareKiller and Rouki were both still barely managing to stand in what's now a crater.

The wolf kaiju prepares to attack again. (Attack Ride. Blast!) "What?" Coming towards him, Rouki uses his blade to shield himself against multiple shots. Though he fails to notice three silver bullets from both his sides curve into him, making sparks fly off him. "Ugh." (Bind, Please!) Red spell circles appear around the kaiju, with silver chains shooting out and wrapping around him.

Rouki struggled to break his arms free from his sides before rising his head to find a blade's tip pointed at him. Standing in front of him is Den-O in his sword form, with Wizard and Decade standing beside the Rider with their guns aimed at Rouki himself.

"Not sure what the hell is going on here, but it's easy to tell who needs to get his ass beaten back to the pound." 'Momo, he's wolf. I'm not sure if a dog pound can take them in.'

Rouki examines the situation he's in. Form what he could see, Den-O and Wizard didn't seem like they be much of a threat. But when his eyes settled on Decade, he could tell that he'd be more of a challenge, especially with the help of the other two and the Ranger who's regaining his stance.

"Haha. You should count yourself lucky, Zero. Seems like we'll have to leave this battle for another day." Decade notices energy had built up in the Rouki's free hand.

"Wizard!"

The three quickly jump back, away from the wolf kaiju as he fired blue lightning at the ground. (Defend, Please!) Wizard used his defense magic to protect them and Killer from the wave of blue electricity that spread around when the attack made contact with the ground.

"Rouki, we're not finished-" AbareKiller ran out from the cover and looks around as the dust settled but finds no signs of Rouki anywhere. "Damn it. If he's free, does that mean-" He lets out a sigh before looking back to the Riders. "Thanks for the assist. I take it your friends of Cross-Z."

"That's right. But who the hell are you supposed to be?" Den-O questioned walking up to the Ranger, in an attempt to intimidate him. 'Momo, please behave.' (Extend, Please!) "What the?"

Wizard had wrapped his stretched out arm around his friend and brought him back over to them. "Sorry about Den-O. He has a lot going on in his head to think well." "Hey!"

AbareKiller shakes his head. "It's fine. I'm AbareKiller. You could say I'm an ally to the Knights of Harmony." Decade snaps his fingers.

"So, you're one of the Sentai Rangers that helped out in Canterlot." Killer nods to him. "Yes. Though I'm not sure about the ranger part." "If that's the case, what are you doing out here?"

"Look, I would stick around to explain but I need to-" AbareKiller said as he turned to leave but only manages to take two steps before dropping to his hands and knees.

Three quickly rushed to his side. "Hey, are you alright?" Wizard question as Killer's transformation coming undone to reveal their friend, Negi's appearance before changing back into his wolf self, looking as though he had been beaten all around. He's only able to stay standing for a few seconds before needing to be caught by Wizard.

His body going limp, gives them a scare until they see he's still breathing. "Perfect. He's out cold. Now we have to figure out the next part on our own." Annoyed, Den-O takes in their surroundings. "WHERE THE HELL ARE WE!?" His voice echoed throughout the gorge.

"Den-O? Decade?" Hearing the familiar voice, the two, along with Wizard, looked above themselves to the top of the gorge. There they find Twilight with her friends, Spike, the CMC, and two others looking down at them. "Is that you two?"

"Do you know of any other bipedal heroes in armored suits?" Decade sarcastically questioned, which earned him a deadpan stare from her and Spike. "Seems you found your answer." He ends with undoing his transformation with the other two following suit.

Not seeing an easy way down, Lockjaw decides to use his magic as his eyes glow for a moment before large vines shoot out from the edge under them. They grow spiraling down the gorge along with smaller vines while bunching themselves together into the shape of a slide. Everyone is surprised to see a Diamond Dog with such an ability.

"Anypony going down?" Makena asked everyone for Lockjaw. "I'll race anypony who is." She glowed orange with her rear end changing into the lower half of a ghost tail. She flew around before settling next to the slid.

"Oh! Me! Mememe!!" Pinkie answered before even a second could pass. She zips over to the slide with the CMC and Spike excitedly rushing while shouting, "Us too!", leaving the others still surprised by their new Rider friends' abilities. Aside from Rainbow and Fluttershy, Twilight and the rest of her friends soon followed after their friends and Lockjaw slid down.

The moment they reached the bottom, Spike and the group locked eyes with the second Spike, being surprised of finding another him. Discord opened his mouth to say something but is suddenly tackled to the ground by a smiling pegusas who resembled a shy friend of his.

"Discord, I'm so happy to see you. I was starting to get wor- Oh...You're... you're not the Discord we know, are you?"

With Fluttershy backing off him, Discord stood back up dusting himself off. "True, we may both be the image of perfection, but there is a difference. I'm surprised you were able to tell."

"HI, again!" Pinkie pops up in front of Ressha, startling the life out of him.

"Um...Hi?"

'Damn that demonic cotton candy! Someone needs to put a damn bell tower on her./You're just a coward. She has to do better than that to scare me./I dare you to sat that again./Don't say that, Griz. Usually when someone says that they get proven wrong./Hi! I'm Equestria's Pinkie Pie! It's always nice to meet new friends./WHAT?!'

While his three other selves screamed, Ressha blinked both surprised and freaked out by just having heard Pinkie in his head. Mostly feeling the second more than the first. He had been watching her in front of him the whole time and Pinkie had done nothing different.

"How did you do that?" He asked taking a step back.

Pinkie tilts her head while still keeping her smile. "Do what?"

Ressha stopped himself from continuing and decides to just brush it aside. "Sorry to interrupt, but does anyone know what's going on here?" Ressha apologized walking between Discord and Fluttershy.

"I'm sure a lot of us want to know that." Human world Spike said before Equestria Spike and the CMC notice their savior on the floor. "ZERO!!" They were about to run to him but get stopped by Applejack and Twilight getting in front of them protectively.

"Apple Bloom, you and yer friends get back. He's dangerous." The four were taken aback by how serious Applejack sounded.

With Makena following, Lockjaw runs over to the wolf to check on his condition. "A Fenrir? What's one doing here in the forest?" The CMC and Spike heard the name of Zero's species, remembering back from when Emerald had mentioned it before.

"Not sure. But he seems to be fine. He is injured but nothing life threatening. Mostly just exhausted. We need to get him somewhere to be treated. Ah?" With magenta chains wrapping around the wolf, especially around the mouth, Makena and the others looked to Twilight. "What are you doing?"

"Twilight, isn't that a bit much, dear? " Rarity questioned with Rainbow landing next to her friend to add, "Yeah, I mean he's already out cold. How dangerous could he be?"

"Do they eat ponies?" Twilight looks down to find Pinkie staring back up at her from under her. "Can his howls make your head hurt until they explode? Are they like vamponies that suck up all your blood until you're nothing but a husk? Or, or-"

Having put her hoof over Pinkie's mouth, Twilight sighs to herself. "Pinkie, no. They don't do any of that. Fenrirs are more dangerous than any of those. That's why we need to quickly take him to Princess Celestia."

Feeling a tap on her shoulder, Twilight looks to a confused Spike. "Twilight, what's a Fenrir?" He asked with an equally confused CMC wanting to know as well.

"They were a species that originally owned the land of Equestria. At first, both our species were peaceful to one another, but then there came a conflict that caused both sides to go to war with each other."

"Granny Smith told me and Big Mac bout that battle as a bedtime story a few times." Applejack interrupted, taking over. "Many lives were lost in that battle. Especially since Fenrir's were able to devour anything magical. Many creatures feared them. Granny said even dragons were afraid of them because they were able ta tear through their scales easier than slicing into a fresh apple pie. Many thought they were gonna wipe all us ponies out."

"But then for unknown reasons, their leader surrendered even though they came close to defeating us. He asked for a truce to be made between us. One that involved them giving up and leaving their land. Even to this day, nopony knows why." Twilight ended.

Spike and the CMC looked to Zero with shocked looks. Never before had they heard of such a creature that could bring fear to so many different species. A mixture of fear and curiosity with worry filled their bodies. The fear was mostly just from knowing what he's capable of. The other being that they wondered what could've brought him back here in the Everfree Forest. But there was still one important question they needed to ask.

"Then why are you trying to capture him? Wouldn't that end the truce." Scootaloo questioned.

"It's because of the truce that we need to capture him before he wakes up." The group all turned to Twilight.

"One of the conditions of the truce was to imprison any Fenrir from the pack that stayed behind or crossed back into Equestria and they would do the same to any pony they came into contact with. It was a way to prevent both sides from interacting from one another. If not, then the truce between us would end." Twilight explained. "It's not our usual methods, but there's no telling what his leader will do if the truce is broken. Which is why we have to let the princesses know about this and have him imprisoned in Tartarus as quickly as possible."

"You can't!" Sweetie Belle suddenly shouted, surprising everyone. Scootaloo follow by saying, "Zero is our hero and friend. He doesn't deserve to be sent to Tartarus."

Rainbow quirked a brow. "Hero? Friend? How do you four even know him?"

Apple Bloom steps forward. "He saved us when the kaiju first attacked Ponyville. We got cornered by Imps and other grunts while in the Everfree Forest. We thought that was the end but then Zero took them all down movin' even faster than Rainbow Dash." "Hey!" Rainbow shouted with a frown. "He even brought us back to town. Or at least brought us close to it."

"Twilight, he's a friend of Aunt Emerald." Spike added looking to his sister. "Twilight please, we can't tell Celestia and let them throw him in Tartarus when he's done nothing wrong. Please." He and the CMC pleaded at the end to their sisters and friends.

The Mane 6 look to each other for a second before setting their sights on the unconscious Fenrir. They had heard they were saved by a wolf, but they just figured it was a normal wolf since they never mentioned how he spoke and took them back to town. After a moment, Pinkie, Rainbow, Rarity and Fluttershy seemed to have decided. Though Twilight and Applejack were still stuck in their thoughts. Unlike the rest of their friends, the two knew more about Fenrirs in their group.

Applejack gave Zero a judging look, not knowing if they should trust such a creature that caused so much death in the past. But then she also wondered 'Could such a deadly creature be so friendly? Or be willing to come to the aid of others?' in her mind. All she knew from them were from stories. She's never met one before or heard of them hurting others in this present time. Her expression softened on the most deciding factor. Which is if he hadn't saved the four, they would've lost Apple Bloom for good and never had known what happened to her.

"Well, if yah'll be willin', can yah help me bring him back to Sweet Apple Acres?" She had said as her decision.

While Spike and the CMC smiled at the idea, her friends were surprised by her request. Like Twilight, she knows what Zero and his kind is capable of. Normally she would want to do all she can to keep her family safe and not want him anywhere near her home. Yet here she is asking them for exactly that.

"Are you sure about this, Applejack?" Twilight questioned. "Unlike with Discord, there's no telling if the Elements will work against a Fenrir."

"We Apples repay any debts we owe." She looks back to Zero. "And we fer sure have a big debt we need ta pay back. Plus, if Apple Bloom and her friends believe in him that much, then I'm sure he's worth givin' a chance. Twilight, as yer friend, I'm also askin' yah, please don't tell Celestia about any of this." She ends looking eye to eye with Twilight.

Twilight is caught a bit off guard by the surprised request. She was still unsure if they should take such a risk. This would not only be dangerous if the Fenrir decides to attack them once he's recovered, but they could also be punished severely by the princesses if they find out they kept this from her and endangered the truce. Unsure of what to do, she looks to her other friends.

Looking to them, she receives an immediate nod from Rainbow Dash while Fluttershy and Rarity's were a bit hesitant, but end up nodding as well, seeming to trust Applejack's judgement. She turns back to Celestia not having needed to check the energetic Pinkie Pie, who was begging her with a huge grin and was begging with her front hooves held together.

She signs in defeat and yet still smiles. "If he's a friend of my aunt Emerald and you're all sure of this, then I'll support the decision."

"YEAH!!" Spike and the CMC shouted cheerfully causing the others to laugh and giggle at the sight of their joy. "Hey, wait." Spike begins searching around. "What happened to uncle Dusk?"

Coming to the realization, Twilight and her friends looked around. "Now that I think about it, we haven't seen him since the attack. What could had happened to him?"

"Up here." Hearing the loud familiar voice, the group look to the top once again, finding Construct with Dusk next to him.

He teleports the two of them down to the group. Dusk rubbed the back of his head while saying, "Sorry for the scare there. I chased off some of the grunt out into the Everfree forest."

"Though after using up the little amount of strength he had, your uncle here took a nap and came close to being a snack for the Timberwolves. Lucky for him, I went and found him a second before they could." Dusk glared at him from the corner of his eye.

"There was no need to bring up that part."

Rainbow Dash zoomed up to Construct, startling him for a second. "What the hay, Construct? Why didn't you tell me about something as awesome as all this kaiju fighting action?"

A bit annoyed, he lets out a sigh before pushing Rainbow a bit back. "Aside from me not being obligated to tell you every secret of my life, I left that life and was never planning to ever go back. And I certainly had no intention of ever telling anypony or creature about it. Now, with Dusk safely with all of you, I'll take my leave."

Without another word, the unicorn teleports himself back to the top of the gorge and turns to begin his walk back to town.

"Hey, get back here!" Rainbow shouts flying after him. "I'm not letting you off that easy. You're going to tell me everything you've been hiding." That was the last the group could hear from them as they got farther away.

Still looking up, Dusk shook his head before turning back to the group. "We should head back if we want to hear what our new friends here have to say." He pointed out, directing everyone's gazes to both the new and recently arrived Riders.

Rarity walked up next to Ressha. "Though I feel our Rider friend here should change into a pony. I'm sure everypony is going to be a bit jumpy after today's disaster."

A Few Minutes Later

After having made it back from the forest, the group quickly made their way to Sweet Apple Acres to avoid anyone from seeing Zero. Once they did, Applejack led Lockjaw to a guestroom where they could rest the wounded Fenrir. Granny Smith had her help with treating him. She agreed to help once she heard a short explanation of what was going on. The CMC were the first to try to explain but she couldn't understand anything the three were saying, speaking all at once.

"Never in my life would I thought I'd meet a real Fenrir. Or even be fixin' them back ta their hooves." Granny said as she finished bandaging up Zero's front right leg. She then turned to the CMC. "Where'd yah say you three youngins' find this fellah?"

Apple Bloom was the first to answer. "He was at the bottom of Ghastly Gorge."

"Ressha said he was fighting a wolf kaiju." Sweetie Belle continued with Scootaloo then saying, "He must have been really tough. Because Zero is so fast and strong that grunts were a piece of cake for him to take down."

The elder Apple then turned to her other granddaughter. "And yah made this his temporary home ta make himself cozy at, I hear."

Applejack stared down unable to make eye contact. "I'm sorry, Granny. But after hearin' how he was the one who saved Apple Bloom and brought her close ta home, I couldn't just let him be sent ta Tarturas without repayin' him fer it. After all, it's always been our way ta repay those we owe to."

She shut her eyes expecting a lecture from her grandmother for making such a decision on her own. But it never came. Instead, she felt a hoof resting on her shoulder. Opening her eyes, she looks up to find Granny Smith giving her the same warm smile she always gives them.

"Yah did great holding true the good name of our family. I'm actually real happy ta hear all this." She looked back to Zero. "Truth be told, I never believed all that hogwash bout the Fenrirs." Applejack and her brother were surprised by what they just heard. "Fer such horribly feared creatures, yah would hardly find any stories of them attackin' any other creatures. Makes one wonder if there was any truth ta them stories."

"Then why would yah tell us all those stories about them if you never believed any of them?" Big Mac nodded agreeing with his sister.

Granny chuckled waving a hoof. "With how full of spunk yah two had as a colt and filly, I knew a story of the Fenrirs would do the trick in settling yah down. Though they did give yah two nightmares. Oh well, all's well that ends well." The two frowned at how their grandmother just swept it aside with no hesitation whatsoever.

"Is he goin' to be alright, Granny?" Apple Bloom questioned turning to face her along with her friends.

"Fer a Fenrir, I'd say death isn't one of his choices with just these scratches." She begins walking towards the door. "There's nothin' left fer us ta do but let the fellah rest fer the moment. I'm sure he'll spring back ta his hooves once he's rested enough."

Once Granny exited the room, the CMC turned back to Zero. They wanted their friend to recover well but also felt impatient at the same time. Aside from wanting to know who he fought, they were curious on what he did once he had left them and what had brought him back to the Everfree Forest.

Their thoughts are interrupted by Applejack having come up next to them. Placing a hoof on her sister's shoulder, she motions for them to head to the door while saying, "Come on, you three. Let's leave him alone to rest." They were a bit hesitant, but decided to listen to her as they followed her out the room with Big Mac following behind them.

"So, you two were around a long time ago?" They could hear Ressha's question a second before coming into the living room. They find him and the other Spike on the floor sitting with pillows. Applejack had explained to Big Mac and Granny Smith for him that he was a peaceful and friendly Changeling. Though he still had taken Rarity's advice and took on a pony form as to not scare them the moment they saw him. His pony disguise was adorned with a snow, white colored coat and a charcoal, black mane.

The group rested themselves in the living room to discuss things with the Riders. Though not all of them had stayed. Fluttershy needed to take care of her animals while Pinkie said she needed to get tomorrow's holiday party ready, as well as the party for the new Rider friends they just gained. While Rarity and Twilight sat on the couch, Dusk stood standing by the front door with Lockjaw leaning back against a wall by the window and Discord relaxing on a recliner he had poofed in himself.

"I thought we were the first Riders to awaken." Spike shrugs to the confused Ressha. 'Great. Just what we need. A Rider scavenger hunt./Do you mean back in our world or here in Equestria?/Does it matter? It's still annoying no matter how you see it.'

"You were. We just woke up a few hours ago." Lockjaw answered.

The moment Lockjaw spoke, Makena's head popped out of the ground in front of the Apple siblings, scaring the life out of them. "Technically, we were awakened first." She flew out of the ground and floated around the room as if she was drifting in space. "We were originally supposed to be with you all, but you could say our transport here was interrupted. Which caused us to be knocked into the past when we entered."

'How is she able to do that?' "What do you mean by 'reawakened'?"

"I assume Zi-O has awakened, am I right?" Spike looked questionably at him. "Yeah, 'they' did. How'd you know that?" Lockjaw shows them his orange Lockseed. "A spell was setup a long time ago by a Zi-O that visited us and five other Riders, that would store us in our main items when we died and would bring us back to life in the ages that we were when we first arrived."

Discord sat up with an intrigued expression. "Zi-O? Not Zi-Os?" Makena hovered upside down into his line of sight.

"Yeah, exactly. She did say that two others would succeed her." "How would she had known that?" She turned herself right side up while flying in front of Twilight. "Her magic ability was to look into the future. Though since it drained a lot out of her, she began to hardly use it after she gained her Zi-O 2 transformation."

While Discord was stuck in thought stroking his guotie, Apple Bloom walked up next to the couch. "Are you able to fly around because of your magic?" She asked, getting the zebra's attention.

"Mhm. Before our magic was different. But in order to gain our stronger forms, we had to evolve our magic by completely making it our own. To do that, we needed and had to use a certain amount of our Rider forms or items, along with putting our complete focus in what we wanted our magic to become." She then flew back in front of her three fellow Riders. "If any of you were from our original world, you'd had guessed I changed my magic to act similar to the powers of the ghosts from Danny Phantom. Like for instance..." She scans the room before locking eyes with Big Mac, who feels a chill go down his spin when he sees her gain a devilish grin. "Watch this."

"Nope!" Not liking where this was going, Big Mac tries to escape by running into the kitchen. Makena just flies in after him with the big stallion screaming a second after. The group just stared until Big Mac came walking out having orange glowing eyes and a smug smile plastered across his face. "See. I'm a big strong stallion now. Who is tough and has a big-" Stomping a hoof down, Makena accidently makes Big Mac's hoof break through the floor. "OOPS! I am so sorry." She apologizes before getting out of the oldest Apple sibling.

Human world Spike stands up, walks over to the hole while bringing out a ring. (Restore, Please!) The hole is fixed within an instant.

"Thanks for that, um..." Applejack paused unsure how to address human world Spike when there's two of them. "You can just call us by our Rider names. Not like we have to keep our identities a secret here." "Alrighty then. Thanks for that, Wizard."

Wizard does a quick bow to his audience. "That's defiantly some useful information to know." He makes a fireball in his claw. "My magic lets me switch between four elements to use."

Makena surprises him by phasing through his face. "Oh! That would work great with Dragon Slayer magic. Maybe become a bender. Or, or maybe..." She flew around while saying but then stops and chuckles nervously when she sees Wizard confused along with the others. "Right, you wouldn't know about any of those." Clearing her throat, she turns to Lockjaw with a frown. "Though someone wanted to be boring and just went with controlling plants."

"Hey, some of us just want to make our magic work alongside our Rider forms."

"Can you tell us about that giant kaiju Spike and Guardie had battled?" Twilight questioned with Rarity adding, "And can you explain about the spell you used to change the area around us?"

Makena moves in front of them with her flip phone. "We call these the MagiSpark. They may look like the phones used by the Magiranger, but they also work similar to the transformation items used by the Ultras. They allow us to change into titan forms and use powerful spells like the one you mentioned, the arena changer spell, without draining any of our magic. It creates a field made of the home areas of the species the Riders are. Though it doesn't mean these spells don't come at a cost."

"Though only for the Riders within the field." Lockjaw spoke up to add. "As for the fusion kaiju you saw, we call them Tartarus Fiends. They're come into existence when the negative energy within the area pours itself into the remains kaiju. They're creatures with no heart or sense of mercy. They'll destroy anything that crosses their path and won't stop until there's nothing living around them."

'A fusion of the three?' is what they all thought for second before it made sense them. The kaiju did have parts of the three recent kaiju the Riders defeated today around its body. Twilight and her friends could not believe such a horrifying creature can came to life by such a way.

"I see." Dusk spoke out loud. "That would explain why Junior and the other kaiju are so focused on creating negative energy recently. But how does he know about these Tartarus Fiends?" "He must've remembered." The group all turned to Makena. "What do you mean by 'He must've remembered'?"

Lockjaw moves off the wall. "This isn't the first time Junior and the kaiju have been around. Just like how we Riders were brought to keep the peace within this world, Junior and the kaiju were drawn here to be this world's darkness to balance out with the harmony. They're needed here. Meaning"

He stops seeing Twilight understand what he's saying. "Meaning they'll eventually come back after some time passes. Princess Celestia and Luna need to know about this right away." "Twilight, just hold on a sec-" With Rarity's words seeming not to reach her, she quickly dashes passed her to get to the door, but then stops. "Come on, Spike!"

The small dragon walks only a few steps before stopping to look back to the hall. He was reluctant to leave. He knows Zero would be in great care under Applejack and her family, and knew the Fenrir wasn't going to be waking up anytime soon. But he still couldn't help hesitating to leave. That is until Dusk pats his head. Not needing his uncle to say anything, Spike could understand he was trying to reassure him that it'd be fine to leave.

Nodding to Dusk, Spike runs over and hops on his sister's back, who then rushes out the door. The group moves to outside the house to watch Twilight dashing out the front gate of the orchard and go down the road back to town until she was out of sight.

"Years later and she's still the same niece I always knew." Stretches out first, Dusk sprints off to catch up to Twilight and Spike.

"And there they go. Twilight ought ta learn to slow her roll down." Applejack commented, tilting her hat a bit up.

Rarity looks to the CMC, noticing they're a bit exhausted. "Though I do suppose she has the right idea. We should call it a night."

"True. I'm sure we could all use some sleep after today." While Dusk spoke, Lockjaw and Makena nod to each other before turning to leave.

Applejack raises a brow. "Where do yah two think yer goin'?"

"Aren't you going to stay?" Rarity also asked.

The two look back. "I need to go make sure the other Diamond Dogs aren't planning on doing anything now that I've revived." He answered with Makena then following up with, "And I have a something number of 'great granddaughter I need to go greet back in the forest."

Before the others could question them, Makena flies into the sky and goes towards the Everfree Forest. Lockjaw dashes on all fours to the front gate of the orchard and digs underground once he reached the other side of the road.

'And they're gone. Great. Couldn't we at least figure out why we were sent here?' "From how it went for Connor and Reiji, I think we're going to be around for a while." 'They did say trouble happened a few days after they got here./But where and when is this trouble going to happen, is the damn question!/We'll just have to wait./As a damn bug that seems to be hated? God damn, this is going to be annoying./And off goes the short fused peach again./What was that? Sounds like someone could use a beating./You're welcome to try. Because all I'm hearing is barking./That's it!' "Guys, no fighting. Can't you please just get along for a while?"

The Apple siblings stared at Ressha with brows raised as the changeling was talking to himself, not knowing that he's working to try and break up a fight between two of his other selves.

Outside the Crystal Empire

In the night, a portal opens on top a snowy mountain with a raging blizzard going on around the whole area. Prince Blueblood, the unicorn known as Princess Celestia's nephew, comes stepping out of the portal. Bringing out binoculars, he sets his sights on the Crystal Empire despite the blizzard being in the way.

"So, this is the Crystal Empire." The white coated unicorn spoke to himself with a smirk. "Wonder how well their empire fare against this." He holds up a bronze Zetsumetsukey with his magic. On it is the image of some kind of robot on it with only 'IMPARAIZER' on it. "I say they'll be destroyed in a matter of minutes. What's your opinion on this, Brutus?"

A large full-grown muscular dragon is the next to come out of the portal on all fours. Multiple scars covered the dragon's darkened green scales. Spikes stuck out the knuckles of the dragon's claws, as well as the wings and going from the top of the spine leading all the way to the end of its yellow axe tail.

Aside from large yellow rhinoceros' horn, its red piercing eyes is what stood out the most and were directed towards the empire. The blizzard did little to block the sight of Crystal Empire in the distance. The dragon suddenly began to growl with teal flames sipping out from the edges of its jaw. Brutus suddenly catches a whiff of something as he begins sniffing the air. Following the scent, he turns and looks outs towards a certain direction with a growl.

"Something the matter? Hardly anything catches your attention like this." Blueblood looked out towards the same direction for a moment before turning to the dragon.

"The plan has changed. You'll have a second job aside from the first."

Ponyville

The moon had replaced the sun in the night sky hours ago. Ponies were now fast asleep in their own homes. With only nocturnal creatures or anypony pulling all nighters being the only ones awake.

Twilight and Spike were also asleep in their room. Spike was peacefully snoring asleep tucked into his basket. Twilight also deep asleep in her bed with Guardie curled up at the end of her bed. Though the dog's eyes suddenly opened. He slowly stood up and softly hopped off the bed to not awake Twilight from her sleep.

Once he did, he quietly walked to Spike's bag, stuck his head inside it, dug through until pulling out with the dragon Fullbottle. Guardie then made his way out the room, moved through the hall and down the stairs. He stopped for a moment from Dusk's sudden snore before continuing his way towards the basement.

Once inside, he proceeded to set the bottle the same as last time on the machine with then an empty Fullbottle after. Guardie then once again sent light into the gem container. The machine came to life as the process began. The dog nodded in satisfaction before turning to leave out the basement.

The Next Morning

"Ahhh!"

Cross-Z rolled along the grass with sparks flying off him. Across from him stood his opponent, Wizard, who took a few steps forward with his sword resting on his shoulder and his other hand against his side. They we in a middle of a practice match in front of the Cutie Mark Crusader's clubhouse, with the three members watching from the railings.

"Want to call it quits, Cross-Z? No offence but I'm sure your brother or uncle would be better for you to practice with?" The mage Rider suggested twirling his sword around before resting the blade on the palm of his other hand. "The rules of the match may be simple but for a newbie, it'll be tough."

"COME ON, CROSS-Z!!" Scootaloo shouted as their friend stood back up with the other two following with, "You can do it!" "Yah just need ta land one hit!"

(Beat Closer!) Taking ahold of his weapon, Cross-Z charges towards his opponent. "Haaa!!" Letting out a battle cry, he takes multiple swings at Wizard, but the mage Rider avoids and parry's each swing with ease. (Hippare! Smash Hit!) Cross-Z had pulled the hilt after having swung a while and launches the attack. He figured that Wizard would have no choice but to guard against this attack considering how up close he is. What he didn't expect was the mage Rider's reaction speed. "Wha- Ugh." Wizard had jumped, twirling over Cross-Z, which he then swung a kick into the Rider's back, knocking him to the floor as the mage landed.

Wizard chuckled. "That was a nice try. You're definitely quick on thinking on the spot. Then again, you are me after all. Now it's my turn." He announced to his other self the moment he got back on his feet.

"Uh-" Wizard comes at him swinging multiple times, only giving him time to guard against the attacks. When Wizard thrusts his sword at him, Cross-Z guards against it, which his opponent anticipated as he twirled his sword against the Beat Closer, causing him to loosen his grip on it and is disarmed as Wizard spun. The Rider lands a slash across Cross-Z's chest as his sword came back around, sending his opponent falling flat on his back with the Beat Closer stabbing into the ground in front of the steps of the clubhouse.

Cross-Z is kept from standing by Wizard holding the sword against his neck. "And that was the finale." He moves his sword away to hold out his hand, helping his other self back to his feet.

"Man, I really thought I had you there." He said, sounding a bit frustrated while slamming his fist into his palm.

"Hey, you were pretty good, even for a me with no training. With the right teacher, I'm pretty sure you'll only get better." He tried reassuring Cross-Z as the CMC ran up to them.

"Yeah, Cross-Z. You already been having a winning streak against all the kaiju you've fought up till now." "That's not true. That one made of bones made Cross-Z change back in one hit." Scootaloo frowned at Sweetie. "That didn't count. He attacked Cross-Z from behind."

Just being reminded of the encounter, in truth, made the Rider feel afraid. Cross-Z knew even if he had been facing Junior fairly, the outcome with the Yokai would've been the same no matter how it went. The difference in strength, power and experience was too great. At least, for the moment.

Apple Bloom takes notice of Cross=Z's fist tightening. "Wizard, face me again. I'm sure I'll do better this time."

The mage sighs, shaking his head. "Look, I get you want to get better but right now this is your limit. I haven't even used my other forms and rings. And yet you still couldn't land a hit. Maybe you shoud-"

"Please!" The sudden shout cut off Wizard. "I really need to get stronger. If I can't, then I don't know if I'll ever be able to meet my older siblings. Or, I at least don't want them to think that I can't take care of myself on my own." The mentioned of siblings seemed to affect Wizard in some way. "Please help me get stronger. Please."

The mage sighs looking away seeming to be in thought. He thought over his options while taking in the sight of the apple orchard. Though when he looks to the floor, he finds the three fillies looking up at him with pleading, puppy dog eyes. He sighs in defeat after a moment, turning back to Cross-Z.

"I don't know anything that would make you stronger without some training. There's also nothing wrong in relying on others to help. But I can teach you the only two aura techniques I was able to learn from watching some dragons." Wizard looks around. "Come on. Follow me."

Cross-Z and his friends follow Wizard as he leads them towards the orchard's fence. While walking, both Riders undid their transformations which earns a confused look from Scootaloo.

"Okay, this is going to be confusing. How are we going to be able to tell you two apart?" Wizard deadpans at her, holding up his claw.

"I have rings on. Plus, unlike the others, my belt always sticks around." He points to mini-sized version of his unactive Driver to make his point.

Sweetie speeds up her pace to walk alongside Wizard. "So, where are we going, Wizard?"

He says nothing until reaching the fence. "You four watch from here." After walking under the fence, the four watched as he went across the road to a bolder that was close by. He turns to back face them while knocking on the rock. "Normally some creatures our size wouldn't be able not even leave a dent on this, right?" Seeing the group nod, he turns back to the rock.

The small dragon began taking a few deep breaths. They watched as his right claw had a faint glow appear as his concertation grew. Once ready, he swung his claw at the bolder and claws a chunk of the rock of with ease. The four were shocked by what they just witnessed. Wizard steps aside allowing Spike and the girls, who he had heard run over, look over the rock that just lost a chunk of itself.

Spike looked back to his double. "How'd you do that?" He asked to his grinning double.

"It's called enhancement. Dragons us it to give themselves a boost such as becoming more stronger, which is how I broke through that rock." The whole group look to said rock for second. "It can also be used to become faster, scales tougher, fire breaths more powerful, and etc. It works by building your aura into what you're trying to boost."

Scootaloo raised a brow. "That's all?" Wizard shrugs. "Pretty much." "Then what was all that standing around for?"

"For one, you have to be careful on how much aura you're building up. Too much on the body will leave your too sore to move for days. As for the second, I'm still not sure about it."

"What do you mean?" Sweetie asked.

"Normally, it's easy for a dragon to build up aura." The double then looks down at his claws seeming unsure. "But it almost feels like something is keeping me from using my magic fully."

Spike looks at him questionably until Apple Bloom asks, "What can the second one do?"

"For that I'll need some assistants." He answered holding up four different colored rings with the shape of a creature on them.

Meanwhile

Applejack and Big Mac were hard at work just like any other day, picking apples from two on different sides of the farm. Though today they had the assistance of Ressha and Discord as thanks for letting them spend the night in their home.

Big Mac bucks into one of the trees, shaking it up, causing the apples to come falling down into baskets placed around the tree. He looks around with a smile at the other trees he's already picked from, satisfied at the work he's done.

"Hm!"

Hearing a load thud behind, he takes the moment to check on his helper. He turns to find Ressha with the front of his black mane have a yellow strip and his coat being puffed out like a bear's fur. From what he had been told, the yellow on him means that his personality known as Griz is in control at the moment. He could tell this personality liked to test his strength. This was mostly due to how the Changeling disguised pony was knocking the apples out of the tree by using his head to ram into the tree's trunk.

'Damn it, Griz! Enough already! I'm getting a headache from all this banging./I do have to admit, it's not really a nice feeling your leaving on our head.' "But this is a great way for one to improve their strength. Don't you agree, Big Mac?"

"... Yup." He answered with a raised brow.

While this happened, Wizard had led the group all the way out of the orchard and to the front of the house. Spike and the girls watched as Wizard put one of the four rings on. (Garuda, Please!) A red with silver model kit tray appears in front of him. Once the pieces fly off the tray to put themselves together into a bird-like creature, Wizard takes off the ring and sets it in Garuda's chest.

"Wow!/Cool!/Aww it's so cute." Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle shouted amazed.

"What is it?" Spike asked full of curiosity to Wizard, who shrugs before saying, "From what I read about them, they're basically familiars that helped Wizard out with many things"

(Unicorn. Please! Kraken, Please! Golem, Please!) Wizard repeated the process with the other familiar rings which create a blue unicorn, a yellow horned octopus-like creature, and a purple ape-built, golem-like creature. Once they built themselves, he places their rings into Unicorn's chest, Kraken's forehead, and the top of Golem's head.

Scootaloo pokes Kraken. "This guy looks funny. It even has horns." "This unicorn's horn looks like it was made to cut things." Sweetie Belle commented at Unicorn's blade-looking horn.

Apple Bloom laughs as Garuda lands on her head. "Nice ta meet you too." Seeing Golem fidget as it looked around, she lowers herself to its eye level. "Are you alright there, little guy?" The purple familiar flinches, jumping back away from her. It takes a few steps back before turning and running to hide behind a tree. "Did I do something that scared him?"

"From what I learned; Golem is just a really shy familiar. Okay then, fellahs," The familiars all turned to Wizard as he spoke. "I need your help demonstrating something to my friends. I need you all to go and hide randomly anywhere around here and in any way you can. Can you do that for me?" The three roared as a sign of understanding. "Okay, good. Now, you guys might want to cover your eyes." He said confusing the four as he switched a ring with the image of a dragon with a four-pointed like star from its eye.

"What for-" (Light, Please!) He, along with the others, are a little late on shielding their eyes from a blinding, shining light from the ring. "You know, that wasn't really much of a warning if you say it a second before you are about to do it."

"Sorry. I had to make sure no one could see where the familiars hid." He pointed out with no trace of the four familiars anywhere around. "Okay, Spike, do you know that eye thing that animals like alligators have?"

"Kind of. I overheard Fluttershy talk about them once before when she and Twilight were talking about a book on reptiles. It's supposed to help them see underwater, if I remember that right."

Wizard snaps his fingers. "Yeah, that! This second spell is kinda like that. The aura will act like a lens that allows its user to see things that one normally can't. Emerald did teach you how to transfer aura, right?" Spike nods. "Okay, good. Now focus on doing that but send the aura to your eyes instead."

Spike hesitates for a moment but looking to the side, he smiles seeing the CMC giving him gestures of encouragement. Now determined, he faces back forward, closing his eyes to try and focus in sending aura towards his eyes. Like the transfer he's done before, he could feel the movements of the aura inside himself, moving around freely before having the flow move up towards his eyes. Spike begins to panic when the auras movement starts to slow down. He tries hardening his focus but fails when the movement stops completely.

He sighs feeling both down and frustrated. "I almost had it. What did I do wrong? What?!" Having opened his eyes, he finds everything in his sight having a light blue color.

"Spike, are you okay?"

Not only jumping back from being caught by surprise, he was also startled to find Apple Bloom with a red aura surrounding her body. Spike looks to his other friends to find the same with them. Though theirs were different colors. Scootaloo's being sky blue color while Sweetie has green.

"What's going on? Wait..." He looks down at his hands to find them surrounded in a blue flame looking aura. "Is this" Looking up, Spike sees his double with Wizardragon's shape around him.

(Connect, Please!) "Hunter's Gaze." Wizard reaches into a spell circle and pulls out a handheld mirror to hold in front of Spike, showing him his eyes having a blue glow. "Think of it as wearing 3-D glasses. Now, try to see if you can find the familiars."

"Okay. I'll try." Looking at where they last were, Spike sees nothing at first. But looking at his surroundings, he finds colored trails matching the familiars that each lead in different directions. "This way." He instructs while following the red trail into the orchard.

Spike walked the group through the rows of apple trees following after the red trail. He was amazed by what he was experiencing. How even the trees and other plant life gave off a glow that he assumes was their own aura or energy. He could even see birds flying through the air or resting in trees and small insects moving around above and below the ground. The search continued until he stops seeing Garuda's red aura shape through a cloud.

He points up and shouts, "Up there!"

They look up in time to see Garuda poke his head out from on top the cloud. The red familiar flies down to the group and perches itself on top Apple Bloom's head. "That's one." She said giggling at the bird familiar.

"Hm?" Through the trees, Spike spots a yellow aura body. "Over there!"

Following him, the group rush through the trees until they wind-up at a pond. Spike searches around for the yellow aura. After a quick look at the sky, he looks around the pond and finds the yellow aura, in Kraken's shape, swimming around inside the water. Scootaloo squints catching a glimpse of the octopus looking familiar before it pops its head up.

"I see him! Kraken deadhead! Wha?!" She quickly ducks when the yellow familiar shoots water at her. "Hey. Watch it." While she tries swatting at Kraken when it flew over to them, Spike and Wizard felt the ground shake a bit.

"What? Oh, Unicorn!" Spike announces seeing the blue aura move through the ground, on a course back towards the house. Looking back to his friends, he finds the CMC giving him judging looks. "Come on, you can't really blame me for saying that. It is its name." He said in his defense and then running after the underground familiar.

Kraken followed along with the group as the ridicules chase began. Unicorn went around the orchard, having the group chase him by looping around trees, zigzagging left to right, and going forward and back at times. After this continued for a while, Wizard begins to become irritated by the chase.

"That's it. Enough of this."

Wizard switches to a ring having the image of a dragon with an outline of a bigger one around it. (Big, Please!) Ending up back of the house, Wizard stops to put his claw through a spell circle which comes out huge on the other end. He holds it up before slamming it onto the ground, shaking the area around them, resulting in the blue familiar to come shooting of the ground. Wizard takes ahold of the unicorn even as his claw shrunk back to normal.

"You really know how to cause some trouble." He said to the blue familiar with a smile.

"Just one more to go." Scootaloo spoke with excitement.

"But where could he be?" Sweetie Belle questioned.

Right as Spike search around for any signs of Golem, a sudden loud slam sound from the house scared them all. They turned to the house to see the down had been swung open. A drenched Granny Smith comes walking out of the house with Golem in tow, who's holding an apple pie over his head. The elder Apple spewed out apple juice from her mouth like a fountain before she and the familiar walked over to Spike and the others.

"I was thinkin' yah all might want a treat from all the fun y'all been havin'. Though seems one of yah thought I was parched." Wizard chuckles nervously when she immediately set her sights on him.

"Sorry about that. I sometimes forget to be aware of my surroundings." Having apologized, he takes notice of a difference in Golem. "Wait. He was a nervous mess the last time we saw him. How did you get him to be normal."

Granny laughs at the question. "When yah been around as long as I have, yah pick up ways on winnin' different ponies over." The group waited a moment for her to explain how she did it but when she stayed silent, Apple Blooms decides to ask. "And how'd you do it, Granny?" "Reward 'em with an apple pie."

"Well, that would explain why he has a pie." Puzzled she looked to Wizard. "Do these guys even eat?"

He just shrugs as Spike spoke up. "Has Zero woken up yet?"

"Nope. Still out like a critter hibernatin' fer winter." Seeing the four's worried faces, she proceeds to pat her granddaughter's head and give them a reassuring smile. "No need ta fell so down. He'll wake up eventually. Just have ta wait it out."

"True. What we should be worrying about is the Crystal Empire."

Turning around, they find Discord wearing sunglasses as he relaxes and sunbaths on a lounge chair. They thought he'd still be out in the orchard. Wizard is the first to walk up to him.

"Discord, what are you doing? Weren't you supposed to be helping Applejack pick apples?" The draconequus lowers his glasses with a grin.

"I am." He snaps his fingers making a cool glass of lemonade appear. "Me staying out of her way, is me helping."

Wizard slaps his claw over his face. "Discord, we promised Applejack and her family that we'd help them out around the farm as thanks for letting us stay here until it's time to head back."

Gasps sarcastically offended. "I made no such promise. That was all yours and Ressha's choice. I was more on board with just taking their offer on staying without needing to be repaid." He holds up a finger to stop his little brother from lecturing. "Besides I say I deserve some rest after such tiring work."

"Work? I thought you just said-" A huge pile of scrolls had dropped from a silver veil and on top of the small dragon.

"Ding-ding! Correct. And there's where the real work began, my dear little bro-!" He quickly ducks as green fire shoots out from the scrolls, turning them to ash before flying off. "Thanks. Maybe a little less off the top next time, torchy." He glared down at his little brother while using his lion paw to put out the flame on the tip of his horn. "I went back to our world to see where exactly the problem is. Which is the Crystal Empire."

The moment he heard this, Spike rushed next to Wizard and Discord. "Then what are we waiting for? We should go see what's happening."

Aside from two being taken aback by this, the CMC and Granny Smith could understand Spike's sudden outburst. His unicorn brother and alicorn sister-in-law, Shining Armor and Cadance, both ruled the Crystal Empire. Just knowing something dangerous could be attacking them filled him with worry.

"Is that so?" Discord spoke in a gentle tone before going stern to say, "Well, not happening. From how it went for Connor and Reiji, nothing could be happening yet and those sparkly ponies could just be going about their happy lives."

"But something could be happening too." Wizard interjected. "We should at least look into it. Even if it's just to make sure everything is fine."

Discord groans with annoyance. "Fine. Let's put your familiars to good use." Snapping a silver veil into existence, he quickly snatches Garuda, Kraken, and Unicorn from the group, tells them, "Look around the area, even outside the field, for any danger and report back once you're done.", before tossing them into the veil and closes it. "Now with that done, on we go to the Tree of Harmony."

Wizard and Spike look to each other before they look back for the mage dragon to ask, "Us too? What for?"

"Lockjaw wanted all Riders present with Twilight and her friends to talk about kaiju. Or something along those lines." While his little brother signed, nodding in disapproval for his brother's lack of attention, Spike turned back to his friends.

"What do you think he's going to tell us? We should hurry on over."

Apple Bloom shakes her head. "Sorry, Spike. Yer gonna have ta tell us about it later."

"Why? Aren't you three coming with us?" He questioned sounding a bit disappointed.

Sweetie sits to hold both her front hooves together in an apologetic position. "We are really sorry, Spike. Rose invited us go see her parent's shop."

"We were going to invite you along." Scootaloo added. "But seeing as you have Knight business to get to, you will have to see it some other time. You better not leave out anything cool they tell you. And don't you guys go saving the day without us."

"Yeah, just leave the destructive kaiju to run wild while we wait up for you." Wizard playfully remarked. With a frown the pegasus filly, he turns back to his brother. "So, I'm guessing one of us gets Ressha and the other Applejack."

"Nah. Too much work. I'll just send everyone there along with us."

Wizard goes wide-eyed as he waves his hands in a panic. "Discord, no! We don't know what the others are-" With a snap of Discord's fingers, the three Riders were gone after a silver veil passed through them, leaving the three fillies alone with Granny Smith and Golem. Things remained quiet for a moment until Scootaloo gasps loudly.

"WAIT A MINUTE!! We should have told them to bring something back from the kaiju as a trophy."

The Tree of Harmony

The cave wall behind the tree crumbles away from Lockjaw tunneling in. He searches around to see if any of the others had already arrived. No finding any signs, he figure he was alone. But then his left ear twitches.

"Makena, if you're going to sneak up on someone with great hearing, then you should try holding in your giggles."

"Aw." The zebra's head phased out from the ceiling. "You could've at least played along until I popped out." She wined as she floated down to him. "I was waiting hours to scare someone out of their bodies. You think someone would've arrived early. I mean, what could they be doing?"

A silver veil catches them by surprise as it passed through them. What followed after, were the sounds of something breaking and someone tripping with glass shattering. Makena turns around with Lockjaw looking over her to find the rest of their fellow heroes.

Decade, Wizard and Spike had appeared next to the tree. Dusk, Construct and Den-O seemed to had been in the middle of something. To the three's left were Dusk and a frowning Construct laying on the floor. The older unicorn was lying on his back with a newspaper covering the top of his body. While the other layed flat on his belly with the remain of a glass cup and orange juice. Not far behind the two, they find a Changeling trying to pull their head out of the wall. Though Twilight and her friends seemed to be the only ones still missing.

"Decade, seems like you missed Twilight and her friends." She said to the two while flying over to Den-O.

"Strange. I thought for sure they would've been at Twilight's house." Decade searched around with binoculars before grinning at the struggling Changeling. "You three each look like you were in the middle of something. Especially you, Den-O."

"Geez, you don't say." The muffled, sarcastic Momo continued trying to get his head out. "Decade, you asshole, how about next time you give us a warning."

Makena helps her fellow Rider by grabbing ahold of his tail to make him intangible along with her. Not realizing this, Momo pushed himself with great force, causing himself to back into the Zebra and tumble over along with him. They rolled across the ground until crashing into the tree's trunk.

"Agreed. Some of us were working on important things." Construct stood up, patting himself off with Dusk crumbling up the paper and burning it up with his magic as he stood. "As for Twilight and her friends, they aren't home at the moment."

Lockjaw walked over to the three as Spike raised a brow at Construct. "What do you mean they're not the library? They were supposed to be there to celebrate a holiday party. Did you do something?"

"Kind of. But it was all Rainbow Dash's idea. You see, right from the beginning of the morning, she came barging into my lab to force me to explain my past. I refused of course. But as we all know her, she isn't one to give up anytime soon. She asked me question after question until I almost lost it. So, I decided to distract her." Makena flew and hovered over him. "With what?" "I tried pushing her onto Twilight by telling her about the delay to a book she's been going on nonstop about. Though that just backfire on me."

"How'd it backfire?" Wizard's question makes the unicorn remember back to the event.

Flashback

"Ow. Ow. Ow." "Come on, Construct. Hurry up already." Rainbow Dash complained down to her annoyed friend.

Being flat on his belly, Construct is dragged along by his tail. She had flown dragging him all the way from his lab through town as she sped towards the library. Inside the library, Twilight and the rest of the Mane 6 were dancing, enjoying their party until the door swings open with Rainbow rushing in with Construct in tow. The group froze, stunned by their friend's sudden arrival.

Rainbow releases his tail, letting Construct slide to a stop in front of Applejack while she went up to Twilight. "Are you okay there. Construct?" "Applejack, remind me to invent a way to keep rainbow maned pegusai out of my lab."

"Twilight! Twilight!" The magenta unicorn took a step back from Rainbow putting her face so close to hers. "Tell me it isn't true. Has the next Daring Do book really been delayed back another 2 months? Also, what are you all doing?" She looked around the decorated room with balloons all around, and the table in the center having cupcakes and two cakes.

"Yeah. The publisher announced that AK Yearling won't be able to finish the book for another two months. As for the party,"

"We're celebrating National Random Holiday Party Day!!" Pinkie ends blowing a party horn in Rainbow's face.

Construct moves away from the two before shaking the dust off himself. "Well. Rainbow Dash, now that you're here, I'll be heading back to my-" "NO!" She quickly tackles him down.

"You can't go yet, Construct." She turned him towards herself and begins shaking him while saying, "You know I won't survive another 2 months. 5 months and 26 days is too much torture for me."

"Yeah. I can vouch for that." Fluttershy agreed as her and the others crowded around them.

"Oh! I know!" Rainbow stops shaking Construct and jumps back to her feet. "You could tell us your secret past hero deeds and why you stopped being one."

The stallion curses himself under his breath. The whole point of having told her about the book to distract her had become pointless now that'd they were back to square one. He looks to Twilight and the girls hoping that they could help him out. But his hopes end up being futile. He frowns at the group who are looking to each other and smiling at the idea. Except for Fluttershy, who he was thankful for at least her respecting his secrecy.

Twilight levitates and holds up a paper, quill and ink to her side. "It would be nice to learn more about you, Construct. And all the things you've experienced and saw that no normal pony would."

"Yah also might as well stick around and enjoy the party with us." Pinkie fires confetti into the air after Applejacks suggestion. "The more friends the marrier!"

"The punch and deserts are quite good too." Construct ignored Rarity and the others while rubbing the temple of his head, stuck in thought.

His eyes suddenly shoot open with inspiration and his horn lighting up. "Actually, I have a better idea. Why not instead of waiting for the book, I could just send you to AK Yearling herself?" The sudden suggestion surprises the girls. "You know were AK Yearling lives?" "Kind of. I just tracked down the area based on all of her travels in the books and spots that'd have plenty of cover and not anypony other around."

"If she's living somewhere remote or secluded, wouldn't that mean she wants privacy and for nopony to bother her."

Construct is unaffected by Twilight's argument. "As I've learned, wants on privacy are meant to be ignored." He ignores the girls aside from the excited Rainbow Dash as they're enveloped in magic and are teleported away. Using his magic, Construct closes the library's door and cleans up the party. He sighs in satisfaction before teleporting himself in front of a one-story house. "Now for a cold glass of juice before resuming my work." He told himself as he entered the house.

End of Flashback

"Construct, you know opening up a bit of your past wouldn't hurt you know." Dusk steps away Construct when he shoots him a piercing glare. "Or not. I just thought that'd help your friend Rainbow get off your back for a while."

"If you knew anything about Rainbow Dash, you'd know that wouldn't work. Even giving in an inch will just encourage her to be even more persistent." He argued as they all moved to the front of the tree. "So, what was so important that even a quitter like me had to come?"

Makena moved next to the Tree of Harmony to give it a few pets. "What can you tell us about this tree?"

Dusk raises a brow. "You mean other than how it keeps control over the Everfree Forest and can help restore harmony in the land? No idea. Its magic is similar to the Origin Souls, but the tree and the Elements are still a mystery. Even to us guardians."

"Truthfully, neither do we." Lockjaw moves away from the group to stand next to the tree with his zebra friend. "We only know of its existence because Zi-O told us about it, the Elements, and where it'd be. It's the whole reason I, along with magic that the other Riders sent, set for this forest to grow."

This piece of information shocks Spike just as it would anyone else in Equestria. Even Dusk and Construct were shocked to hear this. The Riders were just seemed surprised. Though Spike was the one who felt this the most because of all the dangers he, Twilight and the others had to go through because of the Everfree Forest's existence.

The small dragon runs up to the Diamond Dog. "Your Rider magic created all of what's outside? The forest, creatures, the weather and so on?" Spike questioned, sounding more upset as he spoke. "Why? What would make you think of making this terrible place? Do you know all the dangerous things that live here? What they have done or almost could have do to somepony or any other innocent creature?"

"Why do dragons live in volcanic areas? Or Daimond Dogs underground? Or even Sirens in the ocean? It's because to them that's home. Some of these creatures don't even mean any harm. Grogar created them to be that way."

"Grogar?" Construct spoke up. "The Grogar? The first emperor of Equestria? The father of monsters? I thought he was only a legend. He really existed?"

"To be correct, he still exists." Makena flew down to the group. "He was the only enemy that all eight of us Riders had to come together, along with AbareKiller, to defeat. Though technically it wasn't until Gusty took his bell that we were able to defeat him."

Dusk made a curious look at the mention of his fellow guardian's name. He and Construct took notice of Lockjaw give them a quick wink without the others noticing. The two figured that the two Riders knew of AbareKiller's identity and nodded in understanding.

"We can talk about the more important stuff when Twilight and her friends get back. They should hear all about this too. As for now," Lockjaw expression changes to a serious one upon turning to Decade, Den-O and Wizard. "there's a message Zi-O left for all the Riders."

'I don't like how he became serious like that.' "Me either." Den-O whispered.

"She told us of three sets of seven stone or crystal-like objects that'd represent light, darkness, and balance. They're supposed to be the keys to defeating the darkness."

Discord summons Rarity's fainting couch. "Oh goodie, a scavenger hunt." He dropped himself onto the couch in sarcastic joy. "Where should we start? On Earth? Here in Equestria? I can't contain my excitement." The others gave him deadpan looks.

"We aren't sure of two of the sets, but one is here." Makena ends gesturing to the Tree of Harmony which confused Spike. "The Elements? But there's only six Elements. Not seven." "You would be right. Spike. But this will answer the seventh."

She flies up to the trunk of the tree and places her hooves on the sun and crescent moon marks. As she moves her hooves together, the sun and moon moved along as well until they overlapped, forming an opening in the trunk. Inside the trunk, was an empty shape that was similar to when the Elements had been removed from the tree before.

"I have to admit, very clever." Construct admitted while holding a hoof to his chin. "Though now the question is, where's the seventh Element?"

Makena shrugs. "Who knows. Zi-O only knew that it'd be missing by the time we reawakened. Me and Lockjaw were kinda hoping Twilight and her friends would know how to find it. Maybe like a tracking spell of sorts." Construct deadpans at her suggestion.

"Maybe Twilight or by some random wacky chance Pinkie Pie, but the rest won't be of any help on that." He tapped his chin again in thought. "Though they do have a tendency to surprise others. So, I won't count them out completely."

Decade notices his little brother's guilty expression from the corner of his eye. Wizard looks to him almost seeming wanting to say something. But he stops him, shaking his head a bit as a sign to not say anything. Den-O almost missed this action. He turned wanting to say something until he caught a glimpse of Wizard's expression before the dragon hid it behind a curious one.

'Now that's suspicious. Or am I the only one who caught that?/He and that bastard Discord are hiding something. Ressha, you need to call them out on that.' "But what if there's nothing going on and accuse them for no reason?" 'Though not saying anything will get us nowhere.' "I guess that's true." Ending his whispering discussion, Den-O moves around the fainting couch to get to the small dragon. "Um...Wiz-"

Decade had been cursing Ressha under his breath. He thought he was going to have to come up with a believable enough lie until some luck dropped onto their laps. The cave suddenly began to shake. The group struggle to stay on their feet from the rumbling while hearing muffled explosion sounds coming from the outside.

"Woah!" Wizard helps Spike back up before saying, "What's going on?"

Seeing bits of the ceiling coming down, Makena flies up to the tree and presses her hooves against it to make it intangible along with her. "We need to protect the tree." Dusk turns to Construct.

"Construct."

Understanding what he wanted him to do, Construct lit up his horn creating a barrier around them. He then expands the walls of the barriers to press against the cave to keep the whole place from collapsing on top of them.

"Ungh! If you all don't mind, how about doing something about whatever is happening outside?" Lockjaw takes his human form before holding up his Driver.

"Let's suit up everyone."

Makena first sets herself back on the ground before following the others lead on changing to human form and placing their Drivers on. They each took out their respective items. (Orange! Lock On!/Eye! Bacchiri Minaa!/Shabadoobi, Touch Henshin!/Wake Up! Cross-Z Dragon! Are you ready?) With the other's transformation's standby, Ghost's base form's jacket flies around Makena while Orange Arms hovers over Lockjaw from the unzipped space.

"Henshin!" (Soiya! Orange Arms! Hanamichi on stage!/Kaigan! Ore! Let's Go! Kakugo! Go Go Go! Ghost! Go! Go! Go!/Sword Form!/Kamen Ride. Decade!/Flame, Please! Hi-Hi, Hi-Hi-Hi!/Wake Up Burning! Get Cross-Z Dragon! Yeah!) Makena's suit formed on her before the jacket places itself on her and the orange ghost face slides up with the horn. Orange Arms lands on Lockjaw's head with his blue suit forming on him and then the armor opens up and folds in.

Having completed their transformations, the Riders all rushed to and out the cave's entrance. There they nearly get hit by what seemed to be a meteor. Looking ahead, they find a whole bunch more incoming. Ghost takes a deep breath before letting out a loud orange energy wail that destroys a huge number of them. Gaim uses his magic to sprout huge vines from the ground and the gorge's walls to shield them from the rest.

With the vines retracting back into the ground. the Riders spot a person covered in a cloak far across from them. "Uh." Decade remembers the person from the battle on the school's roof. He and had planned with Negi to attack the person from behind while Negi attacked from the front along with Connor and Reiji. "It's you. Didn't think I'd run into you here."

"It's a pleasure to see you again as well, Decade." "You two know each other?" Ghost asked with her and the others looking to him. "I believe these are yours." The person holds up Wizard's familiars struggling in a magical aura.

"Wizard's familiars? But they were sent to the Crystal Empire." "Hey, you let them go right now." The mage Rider demanded.

The cloaked person holds up their right hand. Magical aura covered the hand to drain the magic out of the familiars until the bodies disappeared, leaving behind only the rings. Having served their purpose, the rings are launched at Wizard, who easily catches them with one hand.

The Riders watched as the magic begins to be twisted around with the color changing into a dark purple. 'What are they doing?' "Most likely another pain in my ass."

"Wait. That's-" Gaim and Ghost recognized immediately that the magic had been molded into negative energy.

The person releases the energy straight into the sky. Everyone watched as the dark aura from yesterday became visible with energy merging into it. Black lightning then shoots out in three different directions. They could see one land above the gorge at the Castle of the Two Sisters. While the others went towards Ponyville and Ghastly Gorge.

In town, the lightning nearly hits Lyra and BonBon when it hits the ground behind him. They and other ponies scream moving away from the lightning. They all watched as remains appeared before flying up back to and into the dark aura. The same happened to the other two areas.

"I'll admit, that's a new one for us too." Ghost admitted sounding a bit impressed.

"Cross-Z" Said Rider looks to Gaim, with the others doing the same. "Let me barrow Guardie's cards. I'll handle the Tartarus Fiend while you all handle this and the Crystal Empire." "The Crystal Empire? What do you-" "The fact that they were there, and this person brought them here, means something must be happening over there."

"Or has happened." "What'd you do to Shining's and Cadence's kingdom?" Cross-Z questioned the person in a demanding voice. "That you'll have to find out for yourself."

A chill ran down Cross-Z's back. He's met a few villains that each had different reasons and personalities. But this is the first he's heard someone seem to be cold and emotionless just from how they spoke.

"Cross-Z." Looking back to Gaim, Cross-Z gives a nod before making the three cards appear and handing them over.

The moment he did, the person shoots red lightning out from their sleeve at Croos-Z. (Final Attack Ride. D-D-Decade!) Decade intercepts and cancels out the attack with his own blast. The dark aura disperses while this happened, leaving a dark sphere that shatters in the sky to reveal the fused kaiju.

The body mostly resembled that of Vampaira's but with a blue body instead of red. His arm had been moved to the back to full act as wings. Huge ice claw arms like Hyogakki's had taken their place. The shoulders had horn-like spikes coming out of them that resembled Tire Orge's horns. The head was of Vampaira but with Hyogakki's jaw and the blades of Tire Orge's tire axes as the horns. The kaiju lets out a roar that just about scares every creature within the forest to hide. This is Tartarus Fiend- Ice Devil.

Having watched the creature emerge, the Riders look back to the cloaked person, who launches purple lightning into the ground. Riotoozes begin emerging one after the other from the cracks in the ground and walls until they just about made an army. Decade lets out a small chuckle before taking a step forward along with Den-O and Ghost.

"Wizard, you and Cross-Z head to the Crystal Empire. We'll deal with these gonks of slime." "What? But-"

Cross-Z was about to argue until Wizard stops him by holding out his arm in front of him. "Alright then. Come on, Cross-Z." "But-" He has Cross-Z take a few steps back with him before sorting through his rings. "Here we go. Just focus on spot within the Crystal Empire." Wizard instructed while putting the teleport ring on his finger.

"Wait...what? Wizard, hold on-" (Lupachi- Teleport, Please!)

With the two teleporting away, Gaim sets Guardie's card into his MagiSpark. (Guardie! Fusion Standby! Bakuryuu Tyrannosaurus! Kishiryu Tyramigo! Cross Fuse! Guardie! Kyoryu King!)

Back at the library, Guardie was waiting down in the basement for the new bottle to finish. His body begins to glow. He could feel he was being called and knew something was wrong. He was hesitant to leave the bottle but knew his friends needed him. He changes into a ball of light before flying through and out the library to head towards the forest.

Ice Devil roars, descending down to attack the Riders. Though before he could even land next to the castle, Guardie appears ramming into the Tartarus Fiend in his fusion state. The kaiju is quick to recover, rolling back to its feet. Both giant creatures roar at one another waiting for the other to make a move. "Rah!" The Riotoozes take the roar as a signal to attack.

"Let's go! Let's go!" Den-O shouts out as he, Decade and Ghost charge at them.

"How about we change the battlefield." He dials in '1-0-7' before holding the MagiSpark up. (Maagi Magi Magika!) An orange spell circle with his symbol in the middle appears high overhead him.

Gaim jumps up to and through it. He comes out the other side as a giant Diamond Dog with the same color and design as his blue suit. The ring around the neck and the fur shaped back were silver. This is Gaim's Majin Dog form. As Ice Devil is about to take to the sky, Gaim uses Guardie to jump from and knock the Tartarus Fiend back to the ground by slashing at it with his claws. (Magika Maaji Majuna!) Only his symbol appears before creating the Quantum Field around the three of them while leaving the others outside it. A giant cave now surrounded them with gems and crystals sticking out randomly around the area.

"Now you'll see what a samurai can do. Maagi Jiruma Magi Jinga." He jumps up as his spell circle appears over them and goes through it. About nine pieces of armor that resembles Orange Arms come out along with him. (Maagi Jiruma Magi Jinga! Rider Gattai!) Guardie straightens himself out with the same pieces as before disattaching again.

Two of the pieces bottom ends bend outward before connecting to the legs to become armored feet and then two others attaching to the sides. Another connected to where the tail had been with the sides folding around the waist. Two long armor pieces attach to the front pieces of the cannons that placed themselves on the shoulders. The two unfolded pieces of the cannons connect onto the back before an armor with two flags places itself over them. While Guardie's chest piece placed itself onto the left arm, Gaim's attaches to the body with his back facing outward after the legs retrack and the arms curled over them. His silver back fur comes off, rotating to complete the armored waist skirt. The transformation is completed after Gaim's head flips into the body to bring out a mouthpiece resembling Gaim's that connects with Tiga-Oh's head piece and the last armor that's round with the inner being blue and having a golden symbol of his in the center attaching to the chest.

Being in the room of light like Cross-Z, Gaim places his MagiSpark on the alter. "Awaken! Tiga-Oh Arms!" Two Daidaimaru shaped swords appear in Tiga-Oh's hands. "Ready, Guardie? This is our stage now!" Tiga-Oh copies Gaim's crouching stance.

Ice Devil roars charging at them. Tiga-Oh waits a moment before dashing forward. The kaiju brings its two huge claws down on him, but Tiga-Oh stops them with his swords and then shoves Ice Devil back to land four slashes. He lands two strikes as he ran past the recovering kaiju. Both turn to face each other with freezing winds circling around Ice Devil's claws.

"Guardie." "Naginata Formation!" The shoulder armor, the flags with the back piece following after, and Guardie's chest piece rearrange by the chest piece connecting to the back, the shoulder armor combine to the sides of the back to form a shield, and the flags retract into the poles before connecting to each other. One sword disappears so Tiga-Oh could take ahold of the now staff to connect the sword to one of the staff's ends.

Tiga-Oh charges forward as Ice Devil swings its arms, launching pointed shards of ice. The mecha makes it through the shards undamaged thanks to the shield and follows with thrusting the naginata into the Fiend's chest causing it to shriek in pain with sparks flying off it. Not giving it a chance to recover, Tiga-Oh twirls around to bring the weapon's blade on the kaiju before thrusting it into the Fiend again and knocking it onto its back.

A Few Minutes Back

Ponies in the Crystal Empire were screaming, running for their lives as powerful fireballs destroyed everything they hit to bits. Crystal guards were spread throughout the area to help the citizens get to safety. Unicorn guards created magic shields to defend against the attacks while the pegasus and earthpony guards helped and directed others towards the castle.

"Hurry. Keep moving. Ugh!" A pegasus guard gets knocked out of the ground by a fireball hitting a building close to him. Another pegasus guard swoops down shouting. "Got'cha!", grabbing him a moment before another hit him and flies off with him. "Thanks for the save." "Anytime." Is all she says while flying them towards the castle.

Seeing a guard signal to her that all the citizens have been cleared, a unicorn guard yells out, "Fall back.". The other unicorn guards follow the order to retreat, walking backwards away.

Following after the ponies slowly step by step is a bulky Magia. Its body mostly had rusted gray looking armor on the arms, legs, chest and head. The head and shoulders armor were round with two gunport turrets on both shoulders. Over the head is a three-barreled cannon. The Zetsumeriser around the waist has wires jammed into the Zetsumetsukey that Brutus had. This is the Iron God Magia, Imperializer.

Imperializer continuously launched fireballs around randomly from its turrets. One hit from the attacks would leave cracks on the guards' shields. Before they shattered, the guards would make another behind the shield. Though the number of times they did this trick was beginning to take its toll on them. Just as the castle came into Imperializer's view, a magic barrier came up as the last of the guards got close to the castle.

The Magia searched around through the barrier for the source, spotting Shining Armor and Princess Cadence in front of the guards that are protecting the citizens. It could see that the two were combining their magic to make the barrier stronger. Imperializer begins attacking the barrier with an assault of fireballs. Shining smirks seeing the shield hold up well against the kaiju's attacks.

Shining looked his wife who nodded before looking back to Imperializer. "I don't know who you are or why you're doing this, but I will not stand for any creature doing harm to either my kingdom or citizens. Leave now or face the consequences." She warned with Shining following with, "I'd listen to her if I were you. There's no way you're breaking through our barrier anytime soon."

They wait to see what the Magia's response will be. The citizens waited quietly with only a few whispers within the crowd. Cadence's demand is answered when Imperializer's three barrels begin turning with energy building up.

"Shining!" "I know!" The two brace themselves for the attack about to come. Imperializer fires a powerful spiraling orange and yellow beam. The second the barrier is hit, the two could feel the strain the beam is leaving. Not even a moment passes as they struggle to hold the barrier. Imperializer adds to their struggle by firing its turrets as well. The strain of both attacks begins to crack the barrier. Fear fills the citizens from the sight of the slowly growing number of cracks. The guards ready to jump to their princess and captain's aid the moment the barrier breaks, even if it leads to their deaths.

Up above, the teleport spell made Cross-Z and Wizard appeared high up where Spike had fallen with the Crystal Heart. They stayed floating, looking around until the two noticed where they had appeared and begin falling.

"WHAT THE HELL, CROSS-Z!!" "I'M SORRY!! THIS IS THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MIND!!" The two luckily, yet unintentionally, come crashing into Imperializer, causing the Magia to cease its attack as it stumbles back a few steps before toppling over. "Ow...what did we crash into?" "Maybe a train." He groaned along with Wizard, trying to shake off the fall.

"Spike?" Cross-Z hears two familiar voices. "Yes./Yeah." They turn to face Cadance and Shining Armor who are both surprised by both responding. "Wait you're both Spike?" The question goes unanswered at the sound of Imperializer standing back up. Both face back, taking a fighting stance at the Magia.

"Showtime, Cross-Z!." "Right behind yah." (Connect, Please!/Gaburyu Breaker!) Summoning his knuckle weapon, Cross-Z charges along with Wizard at Imperializer after the mage pulls his sword out from the spell circle.

Wizard slides under Imperializer swiping its arm at him while also delivering a slash to the waist. Seeing the opening, Cross-Z thrusts his weapon into the Magia's chest causing it to stumble back. He tries to go for another hit, but Imperializer's left hand morphs into a spike mace to guard with and then shoves Cross-Z back to follow his example to thrust its mace into his chest. Wizard goes for another swing to back up Cross-Z. Imperializer's upper half of his body twists around to stop the sword with the mace and then before Wizard could pull back, it twists around again to cause him to stumble forward into Cross-Z. Morphing its right arm into a large blade, Imperializer swats the two Riders to the side and towards a building. It adds damage to the Riders by shooting fireballs at them before they hit the building. "Agh!/Ahh!" Smoke and bits of flame could be seen filling the building through the huge hole.

"Spike!!" Cadence and Shining shouted in worry. Hearing out loud the name of the dragon seems to spur the citizens in some way.

(Water, Please! Sui-Sui, Sui-Sui!/Sapphire Dragon! Devour!) Imperializer heard as it approached the smoke-filled building. (Lupa- Liquid, Please!) A trail of water comes shooting out from the smoke, wrapping around the Magia before changing back into Wizard in his Water Style form. (Dragonic Sonic!) Speeding out in sapphire flames, Cross-Z rapidly hitting the kaiju with the Gaburyu Breaker while the Magia was held in place. The speed also helped in him jumping away in time when Imperializer breaks free from the hold.

Wizard goes back and forth from being water as Imperial swings its blade at him. Each time it did, he would reform to to slash at the openings the Magia left. (Emerald Dragon! Devour! Dragonic Driver!) With Wizard giving him an opening by kicking Imperializer forward from behind, Cross-Z swings the spiraling emerald flame covered weapon into its should, destroying a chunk of it. Flinching for only a second, the Magia shoots a fireball at Cross-Z with its undamaged turret. He manages to guard against it in time, though it does manage to drag him away a few feet before knocking his weapon out of his hand.

"Shoot. Huh?" He watched as Imperializer's shoulder restored itself. "It can heal its self?" "Ugh!" Imperializer breaks free again from Wizard's hold, slamming its shoulder into him and then fires each turret twice towards Cross-Z. "Whoa!" He manages to narrowly avoid each shot.

The four fireballs all curved around back towards Cross-Z. "Spike!!/Great and Honorable Spike the Great and Glorious!!" Hearing his family and the crystal ponies, he sees the attacks heading back towards him from four different angles. He was thinking of avoiding them but looks back in time to see Imperializer fire another four shots.

(Teleport, Please!) Imperializer looks to Wizard only to find him gone. He reappears next to his fellow Rider while switching to his green ring. (Hurricane, Please! Fu-Fu, Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu!) Now in Hurricane Style, he switches out the teleport ring. (Defend, Please!) He holds his hand downward to create a wide green cyclone around, redirecting all the fireballs upwards and explode from colliding into each other above them.

"This guy is definitely different from the rest me and the others have faced. We can't afford to go easy. So, don't hold anything back." "Alright." (Beat Closer!) Taking ahold of his sword, Cross-Z rushes at Imperializer along with Wizard.

Outside the Cave

"HAAAAAA!!" Den-O forces his way through Riotoozes, striking them down as he went by. "Out of my way." He drop kicks a one before getting hit in the back of the head by another. "Why you little shit." Turning to grab the Riotooze, Den-O slams his head into the grunt's and then tosses it over himself and into a group charging at him.

"Uh!" Holding up his arms to guard, Den-O braced himself as blasts came down on him from Riotoozes stuck high to both sides of the walls. "Those little shits." (Full Charge!) With his sword's blade flying off, the finisher to slam and drag against the walls as the blade follows Den-O's wild swings.

'Momo, please control yourself./True. You might cause the gorge's walls to come down on us./That's a good idea. Time to switch.' "What? Wait, Griz, hold on." He spoke while struggling and failing to keep his hand from pressing the yellow button and then runs the pass by the belt. (Axe Form!)

With his form changing, Den-O walks up to one side of the wall while changing his weapon into an axe. "This is the results of my training." Slamming his palm onto the gorge's wall causes a few small and large bits of rock to break off as the wall rumbled. "Te wo tsuite!" Facing back in time, Den-O swats the large rocks into the Riotoozes. 'You lying bastard. You used your head in your training.' He chops through three grunts running at him before slamming his palm into another Riotooze, sending it crashing into others.

"Come on, fellahs. Try to keep up." The joyful Ghost moved and easily avoided the grunts. She
drops herself, along with levitating off the ground, to avoid a Riotooze's swiping at her from above and another below. She kicks one grunt across the face while twisting around and landing on top the second grunt's head. "Oops. My bad. Hm?"

Riotoozes rush at her which only brings a smile to her face under the helmet. The moment the first few got to her, she became intangible causing one grunt's fist to punch four others when it went through Ghost. Ghost continued to go in and out of being intangible causing some Riotoozes to tackle, punch, kick, or even blast each other. She stops after a moment to look back at the damage to find a good number of grunts lying on the ground with some having puddled remains next to them.

"Follow me guys." Ghost taunts the Riotoozes into chasing after her as she back flips away from them. The chase comes to a stop upon reaching the wall. Though instead of stopping, she flips into the wall and thrusts herself forward, sliding under and in between the grunts. "BANG! BANG! BANG!" Ghost continuously shouts shooting orange energy beams from her fingertips.

She comes to a stop in the middle of the group of grunts with her sword, the GanGunSaber, being summoned out. "Hold this for a second please." Making sure the Riotooze holds onto the blade of the sword that slides off, Ghost dis-attaches the blade as she spun around to fire beams at the grunts around to make room with her re-attaching the sword's blade to the hilt as it came back around to become its naginata mode. "Thanks. Here's my payment." (Daikaigan! Gan Gan Mina! Gan Gan- Omega Stream!) Having activated the finisher, Ghost spun around again with the blades charged with blue energy that hits all the grunts around her, destroying them with rapid slashes.

(Attack Ride. Slash!) Decade uses his attack to knock the Riotoozes blasts to the side and then uses another card. (Attack Ride. Blast!) He destroys all the grunts that fired at in with multiple shots. "Small fry are so boring. What do you say we-" Turning to face the cloaked person, Decade gets hit by an explosive attack that engulfs him in flames. The person looks into the flames in search of the Rider. (Kamen Ride. Hibiki!) A fiery purple aura appeared in the flames as the echoed sound of a tuning fork could be heard. The flames dispel to reveal Decade having transformed into a purple Rider with two silver horns pointing forward and a gold oni face crest in between. This Rider with red hands, silver rings around the arms and ankles, and two silver straps along the chest is Kamen Rider Hibiki.

(Attack Ride. Onibi!) A mouth forms to allow Decade to breath out purple fire. A barrier formed around the person to defend themselves. "I'll admit, I might sound normal but you've really pissed me off." (Attack Ride. Ongekibou Rekka!) Decade reaches behind himself with both hands to bring out Hibiki's two red taiko drumstick weapons with oni heads at the end, the Ongekibou.

"You might had sent your attack towards this world's Spike but none the less, you still tried to bring harm to my little brother." With a venomous tone at the end, he charges towards the person. He launches balls of fire from the Ongekibou that the person just keeps swatting to the side until the Rider reached them. Decade swings at the person numerous times with the person avoiding and shrugging away the hits while taking steps back. The person tries to strike back, but Decade stops it with the Ongekibou. They struggled for a second before shoving each other back. (Rod Form!) Den-O and Ghost ran up to stand side by side with Decade. "You'll regret having dared shown yourself here." The three then all charged at the person, resuming the battle.

The Quantum Field

Ice Devil flew through the cave. It looked back a moment to see Tiga-Oh chasing along. Facing back, the Tartarus Fiend shot out sharp icicles while flying backwards.

"Guardie." Tiga-Oh holds up its shield in defense, his pace not slowing down as he moved through the attack. "Don't get too full of yourself, Fiend." Gaim proceeds to push his belt's knife down once. (Soiya! Orange Squash!)

Using his weapon, Tiga-oh pole-vaults towards Ice Devil with orange energy around his right leg that he sticks out into a kick. The Tartarus Fiend turns to fly faster but was to slow that ends with Tiga-Oh bringing Ice Devil smashing down onto the ground. The floor collapses, dropping them down a largely, wide bottomless pit.

Gaim uses his magic to have a giant root sprout from the wall closest to him. Tiga-Oh changes back into its original formation before landing. He watched the Tartarus Fiend continue falling into the depths before recovering and heads back up.

"Formation change." "Archer Formation!" With the two armor and front cannon pieces on the shoulders flying off, Guardie's chest piece to dis-engages itself along with both swords. Both swords pressed back-to-back against each other before connecting to the inner side of the chest piece. The cannons side by side connected to the other end, making them seem like thrusters. The weapon attaches to the right arm as the two armor pieces connected to the sides of the cannons to give the weapon a bow and arrow look.

Pulling the Musou Saber's tab, Tiga-Oh copies Gaim in pulling back an energy bowstring and holds their position until Ice Devil stopped midair across from him. They release the string to fire four arrows that hit their mark and pin the Tartarus Fiend to the wall on the other side.

"This will end it." (Soiya! Orange Sparking!) Having pressed the belt's knife down twice, both Gaim's and Tiga-Oh's swords are coated in orange energy as they're moved in a circular motion to create a sliced orange. They then swing the swords in a cross motion to launch the attack. Ice Devil struggles wildly to break free until the orange slice hits it, cutting the Fiend into pieces from the white lines having acted as slashes and explodes the second after. "And that brings this act to an end."

Crystal Empire

Wizard flew around avoiding fireballs on a green cyclone while shooting others with his weapon in gun mode. After Cross-Z jumps to the side to avoid set of fireballs, Imperializer turns back to Wizard with its beam charging. He dives towards the Magia a second before firing its beam.

(Come on a Shoot- Hurricane Shooting Strike! Fu-Fu, Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu!) Wizard activates the finisher after narrowly avoiding the beam. Circling around the kaiju, he fires multiple powerful shots of wind, dealing a good amount of damage. The attack continued until he had to break off from Imperializer to avoid its mace. (Special Tune! Hippare! Hippare! Million Slash!) The Magia finds a volcanic equalizing bar slash going straight into it the moment Wizard moved from its sight.

The mage Rider lands next to Cross-Z as the attack causes an explosion. "Did that do the trick?" He question is answered by a damaged and dented Imperializer teleporting behind them. They only turn around in time for Wizard to get punched by the mace. "Arh!" "Wiza- Ugh!" Cross-Z gets sent flying to the side by the huge blade.

"SPIKE!!" While Shining, Cadance and the Crystal ponies worries were focused on the Riders, no one takes notice of Prince Blueblood walk up to the Crystal Heart to stick a blank Core Medal onto it. The unicorn then uses a spell on the Heart causing it to begin to spin.

Wizard gets back on his feet in time to witness Imperializer restore itself again. "Okay, now I'm mad. Time for Land Style." He proceeds to switch hurricane with the yellow ring.

(Sha- Land, Please! Dododo Dododon, Don Dododon!) He has a yellow spell circle appear beneath him with bits of rock came out of the ground as the circle passed through him. The green on his suit had changed to yellow along with the shape having gone from triangles to squares.

"Strength for strength." He changes his weapon to sword mode while running up to Imperializer. The Magia tries striking with its huge blade, but using both hands, Wizard stops it with his sword. He then used his right arm to guard after noticing Imperializer about to strike with its mace next. "Back off." Shoving the Magia off, Wizard hits Imperializer with a few slashes before ducking under the huge blade being swung at him again and follows with elbowing the kaiju's chest.

"Ow." Cross-Z slowly stood up from rubble, shaking the dizziness off. He had been sent crashing into another building that also collapsed on top him. "He can make weapons, heal himself, and now even teleport? What exactly is that thing?" Looking back to the fight, he sees Imperializer had restored itself once again and that Wizard was in a different form. "How are we supposed to beat this thing? It just keeps healing itself. What can we do?"

As if to answer his call, the Fullbottle that had been in the middle of being created lights up the moment the machine finished. It flies off the slot before disappearing. "Huh?" Cross-Z is surprised when the bottle appears from a shining light in his left hand. He notices how this new bottle resembled the Tiga Fullbottle, though the image of the chest was different, having blue as an additional third color, and the Color Timer was in a diamond shape.

Cross-Z suddenly sees a vision of the Ultraman. "Ultraman Trigger?" The bottle glows for a moment with the Beat Closer raising from the rubble and flies to float in front of him. "You want to help?"

(Defend, Please!) Wizard creates a thick stone wall to defend himself from Imperializer's turrets. "Damn this thing." Switching to gun mode, he rolls away the moment the wall broke apart and aims to shoot. "Wha?" The Magia was nowhere to be seen. He quickly searches around for it but the moment he looked away, Imperializer appeared from his left. Wizard first gets punched by the mace with then three swings of the large blade following after, each hit making sparks fly off him and ends blasting him with fireballs. "Ugh...Uh!" Wizard quickly guards against a stomp by using his weapon but Imperializer now had him pinned against the ground.

"Wizard!" Croos-Z takes ahold of his sword. (Special Tune! Hippare!) Aiming the sword forward, he draws back an energy bowstring as Imperializer charged its beam. (Smash Slash!) A blue flame arrow is shot out from the sword. Hitting Imperializer before the charge could be finished. Seeing the Magia off balance, he uses this chance to change his weapon to sword mode to thrust the blade into the kaiju's chest and rolls away as Imperializer stumbled back.

"Thanks for the save, Cross-Z." He receives a thumbs up from his fellow Rider. "Of course."

Imperializer changes its attention to the dragon Rider with the beam resuming to charge. Seeing this, Cross-Z readies himself. (Hippare! Hippare! Million Slash!) He stabbed the sword into the ground sending a red equalizing bar shockwave the moment the beam is fired. The two attacks collide, battling to overpower one another for a moment before the shockwave pushed through the beam and hits Imperializer, destroying its cannon.

"Alright! Let's keep this momentum going." He switches rings. (Lu- Extend, Please!) Swinging a kick with the spell circle, his leg stretches out to Imperializer, knocking it off its feet. Wizard twist around from the kick and follows with a flip that has his leg kick the Magia upward. (Lu- Big, Please!) Enlargening his arm, Wizard reached all the way up to Imperializer to slam it down into a two-story building.

(Flame, Please! Hi-Hi, Hi-Hi-Hi!) Wizard changed back to Flame Style as he and Cross-Z ran back to each other's sides with their sights focused on remains of the building.

"Did that do it?" "With our luck, I doubt it." As if on cue, the rubble begins to rumble. "Are you kidding me? What's it going to take to finish this thing off." "Well, this calls for what me and my brothers know best." Wizard changes his weapon to sword mode. "Which is?" He then switches to a ring with a falling dragon. "Improvise and hit them hard."

(Hippare! Hippare! Hippare!/Flame Slash Strike! Hi-Hi, Hi-Hi-Hi!) Imperializer burst out from the rubble the second they activated their finishers. Its upper body begins spinning with the beam charging while fireballs are continuously shot out in all directions. The whole area became like a war zone as explosions rained down, buildings caught on fire, and rubble came falling. Cross-Z and Wizard held up their arms to shield themselves from the fireballs causing explosions all around them.

The two heroes we concealed within smoke. Imperializer stops spinning, firing its beam into the smoke as (Fall, Please!) could be heard within it. Cadance and the Crystal ponies gasped while Shining screamed out "SPIKE!!". The Magia stood in wait to find out what happened to the Riders. The smoke cleared in time for the kaiju and ponies to see a large hole that closes up after a moment.

Changing its sight into an x-ray function, Imperializer kept its sights on the underground Riders for a moment before the two disappeared. The confused kaiju searches around for its targets. (Mega Slash!) Turning towards the castle, it looks above in time to see a fire slash and purple energy slash come at it forming an 'X'. Imperializer tries countering with fireballs and its beam, only for the slashes to go straight through them, only having been slowed down for a moment, and hit the Magia, leaving an 'X' shaped damaged across its chest.

Shining and the others look up upon hearing, (Lup- Choine! Kick Strike! Saiko!/Ready? Go!), to find the two Riders high up where they first appeared. Wizard switches to a ring with a dragon head and wings coming out a drill while using Coss-Z's shoulders to push himself higher up. "Now for the finale!" (Drill, Please!/Dragonic Finish! Yeah!) Both belts called out as Cross-Z's dragon appeared in front of the barrier to launch him forward with fire and Wizard thrusts down towards Imperializer before spinning to form a fire drill.

Imperializer had yet the chance to repair itself. Cross-Z's finisher is the first to hit with his kick breaking the Magia in half, shattering the belt and key to pieces. With its upper half still in the air, Wizard pierces through Imperializer, leaving a gaping hole in the middle. Both Riders come to a stop a few feet from Imerializer with the kaiju exploding with their backs still turned to it.

"Yes!!" "Alight!!" The two high-five with the ponies cheering in the background. The two turn to see the barrier come down which prompts Wizard into taking a hold of Cross-Z's arm. "Hey!" "No time to stick around, bud." (Teleport, Please!)

They two teleport away as Shining, Cadance and the Crystal ponies had ran over to congratulate them. This had also kept the ponies distracted enough not to notice red shards gather towards the Crystal Heart and into the blank Core Medal. With a dark glow, Blueblood grins to levitate a now black unicorn Medal with the image crimson red and the unicorn's horn curved.

Back to the Others

"Ha!" Den-O thrusts his rod at the cloaked person who twirls past it and hand still in the cloak, palm strikes him. "Urgh!"

Ghost jump flips over him to thrust a kick into the person. They stumble back a bit before ducking past her next kick and elbows her from behind. "Ugh!" The person turned about to thrust their arms into Ghost but gets blocked by Decade getting in between the two. He shoves their arms apart to hit their chest with the Ongekibou in a drumming motion. The person catches the next hit and follows with blasting Decade back with lightning.

They fire lightning at Decade again but is blocked by large vines. The vines then move apart to allow Gaim to come in to strike at the person, to which they jump back to avoid the attack. (Million Slash!) The person reacts quickly in deflecting away silver bullets and equalizer bar slash that went past Gaim from both sides. Wizard and Cross-Z come running up next to Gaim.

"Well friend, you better choose your next move wisely." The person looks behind to find Ghost phasing out of the ground with Decade and set themselves next to Den-O. "Because that choice may either end well or badly for you."

The choice the person chooses is to shoot lightning from one sleeve towards Decade's side and an explosive orb towards Gaim's. (Soiya! Orange Squash!) With orange energy covering his swords, Gaim sliced the orb apart while Ghost created a barrier wall to defend against the lightning. (Full Charge!) Blue energy build into Den-O's rod before he throws it at the person who turns to hit it aside.

"Think again." (Connect, Please!) Wizard has spell circles next to him and in front of the rod. The cloaked person had no chance to counter in time from the weapon going through the circle and out the other to hit them from behind, changing into a blue hexagonal symbol.

"Now!" Following Decade's lead, all Riders jumped up and thrust Rider kicks down at the person.

The person breaks free, shattering the symbol. They then used their magic to make the shards of the symbol create a ring around them. The kicks collide with the ring and struggle for a moment before the person puts more magic into the ring to knock the Riders away. While the Riders groaned, still trying to pick themselves up, the cloaked person combines the last two attacks they used, making the orb larger, and sends it towards Cross-Z.

"Uh!" Cross-Z could only brace himself for the incoming attack.

At that moment, a green glow shined from within his backpack that was still inside the cave. Suddenly a green energy beam comes in from above over Cross-Z before the attacks reached him. All the Riders were surprised by this as they watched the attacks struggle. This only lasts for a moment before the two begin pushing the large orb back towards the person. They open up a portal to escape into. The attacks reach the spot and create an explosion a second after the portal closed.

Cross-Z turned around, looking up to see who or what had saved him from the attack but could not find any signs of any other. "What just happened?" Gaim and the others came to stand beside him.

"Seems to me, we had a helping hand. Probably best to just leave it at that for the moment."

"Looks like our job is done here too." Decade's words prompts everyone in turning around to find a portal open.

"Strange it would open automatically when Connor and Reiji were here for a while." 'Maybe it just means there's nothing left for us to be around for.'

Wizard looks to Gaim and Ghost. "Are you ready to meet the others?"

"No. Not yet." He said shaking his head along with Ghost and then the two moved over next to Cross-Z. "I'm sure we're needed more here right now."

"Plus, Cross-Z is going to need help in finding the other Riders and fighting the kaiju that are appearing here."

Den-O and Wizard wanted to argue against the decision but knew that what they were saying is true. After the battle they just had, they knew fighting enemies like these would be difficult for Cross-Z to handle on his own. Then the same could be said for the other sealed away Riders. There was no telling if or how difficult it'd be in finding them and if there would be enemies or obstacles that'll interfere along the way.

Gaim walks up to his fellow Riders and brings out three items that he holds out to Decade. The destroyer Rider was confused by this for a moment but then holds out his hands excepting them. Gaim places three Ridewatches in his hand. Two were blank watches that had neither a year nor a Rider symbol. The thrid was a stone watch with the kanji for 'key' on it.

"Zi-O said that she would be hiding more than just the Zi-O's power at the palace. Not sure what she saw, but she said that the key would be safe with us until it was time to be awakened. As for the blank watches, I'm guessing she left them as a gift to your two Zi-Os."

Decade chuckles at the memory of his adventure there with Ressha, Derpy and Turner. "Now that was definitely a smart choice."

(Connect, Please!) Taking this moment, Wizard brings out the magic stone he had gotten and walked over to Cross-Z. "Think you can do me a favor? Please give this to Rarity."

"What is it?" He took ahold of the stone while speaking. "And why do you want to give it to Rarity? Because if you're after her, then go for your own Rarity back in the human world."

Wizard sighs shaking his head. "It's probably because of how we grew up different, but I don't know what you see in older girls. Because I don't see her as anything but a friend back in my world." "Then what is with the stone?" He holds up the Flame ring. "It's what my rings come from. I was hoping Rarity or Twilight could find someone to change it into rings for me."

"Alright, you can leave it to me, Twilight's number one assistant and a member of the Knights of Harmony." Satisfied with his Equestian self's reassurance, Wizard gives a nod before walking back over to Decade and Den-O, who had moved closer to the portal. Cross-Z remembers about something they forgot about. "Wait, Wizard. What about Golem? Isn't he still with Granny Smith."

"I'll leave him here for now. His ring will probably help with making rings from the magic stone. Plus, I'm sure Twilight would love to study him." He answered back, only looking back to him from the corner of his eye.

Ghost suddenly shouts out, "Bye guys. Come back and visit real soon. And Den-O, I'd be happy to help coming up with an idea for your magic if you ever need it.", while waving them off. The Riders had already taken a few steps inside the portal when Den-O turned to her to say, "That'd be really helpful. I'll remember to do that if I need help.", in Ressha's voice. He then turns back to follow the others into the portal, that closes a second after.

"Come on. We should go back and see if the tree is alright." The two nod agreeing with Gaim. They undo their transformations as they enter cave.

Inside they find the cave walls with a bit of cracks. Lockjaw inspects the damage as they walked further in and reach back to the tree in no time. There they only find Dusk looking into Spike's backpack and no Construct nowhere to be seen anywhere.

"~We're back!~" Makena sang in a cheerful tone. "Looks like you were able to keep the tree alive. But where'd the other guy go?"

"You just missed him. After he made sure the cave wouldn't cave in, he teleported back to his lab to continue his work. So, what happened out there? And where's the others?" He asked looking around for them.

"Same as any other battle. We fought, took names, and saved the day." She answered why swinging punches and kicks in the air. Lockjaw then says, "The portal opened to take them back home."

He stroked his chin while continuing to inspect around the cave. "I should be able to fix the damage. Though I better reenforce while I'm at it."

With a confused look, Spike walked over to his uncle. "Uncle Dusk, what are you doing with my backpack?"

"Oh, well a stone on the inside seemed to be glowing." At the mention of the glow, Spike shoots past Dusk, almost knocking him over, to search into his backpack. "Whoa there, Spike. What's the rush?"

Bringing out the stone his aunt had given him, he finds it giving off a green glow. He knew what the glow would be glowing for. It's supposed to light up the moment one of his siblings was close by. Spike remembers back to the green beam that had saved him from the attack not that long ago.

He stands to leave the cave. "Spike. Spike, where are you going?" Dusk's voice fell on death ears as the small dragon runs out the cave.

From outside, blue sapphire eyes could see Spike rushing out the cave to search around the outside. The eyes belonged to someone hiding within the clouds which gave off a faint silhouette of a dragon. The being stood only a second later before flying off while still remaining hidden.

To Be Continued