“Who are you-” Natsumi began, ready to jump.

“-And what do you want?” Haruka finished.

The alicorn stepped forward and cleared her throat, announcing, “I am Princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria. Under my authority, I ask you this: Who are you, what are you, and are you connected to these two beings?” She held up two images depicting-rather crudely- Natsumi and Haruka’s Kivara and Larc forms, respectively.

Natsumi and Haruka looked at each other and backed up, Natsumi picking up her bag and slinging it on. The townspeople gave a unanimous murmur of suspicion, Twilight stepping forth and leveling her horn at them, “You are, aren’t you? If not, you should answer right now.”

Natsumi cleared her throat and raised her finger, suddenly pointing behind Twilight with a startled gasp of, “What the hell is that!?”

The the assembled ponies whirled around at once, Natsumi gathering Haruka into her arms and activating her belt with an announcement of,

“RIDER JUMP!”

The sisters sprung away, clearing an unimaginable distance with a single bound and leaving the confused ponies to sputter in anger.

Far, far from the town they had left behind, Natsumi and Haruka touched down at the mouth of the cave, undoing their transformations and collapsing against the walls with a sight.

“Damn that was great, but damn if jumping that much isn’t fucking tiring,” Natsumi groaned, rubbing her legs.

Haruka grumbled and held her stomach, not liking the feeling of moving through the air at someone else’s mercy. She shuffled against the sand, her hand hitting a keychain in the dirt. “Hey, what the-?” She held it up against the light, showing off to Natsumi, “Hey, Natsumelon, check this out.”

“What the hell is that?” Natsumi asked, moving to get a closer look.

Just as they looked closely at it, a strange noise rang out and dumped a girl into the sand at their feet, causing them to leap back, startled.

“Fucking piece of… just what the hell-” The newcomer turned to stare at the two, clearly just as confused as they were. It looked like a girl with really long white hair, a yellow jacket and jeans on. The half of her face that wasn’t covered by her hair showed she had red eyes and teeth like daggers. “What?”

Natsumi and Haruka backed up, not having expected a girl to just appear out of nowhere. “Who the heck are you?” Natsumi asked, hand hovering over her belt warily.

“Who am I? Who the hell are you?” Soul pointed at the two of them. “And where the hell am I?”

Natsumi coughed and elbowed Haruka in the side, the both of them standing and posing strangely while announcing, “Natsumi and Haruka Miwa! Twin Kamen Rider Sisters and Allies of Justice!” Haruka sat back down as Natsumi continued, shaking some of the dust from her hoodie, “I’m Natsumi, and that’s Haruka… and uh…. you’re in a cave somewhere. We were running from a bunch of hostile ponies earlier and then Haruka found your keychain somewhere in the back of the cave and… yeah.”

“Keychain? What keychain? Lemme see it.” Soul held out her hand.

Haruka tossed over the keychain, groaning and rubbing her back, “Man, I don’t know how we’re gonna get outta this one… the Princesses already hate us enough as it is…” Haruka didn’t however expect for Soul to completely miss the keychain, hitting her in the chest. Soul grumbled for a moment before leaning down and waving her hands along the floor before seeming to find the keychain right in front of her.

Haruka shrugged, “Found it in a pile of sand near the entrance. Why?”

Soul growled for a moment before sighing, relaxing for a moment before throwing the keychain against the wall. “MOTHER FUCKER!!! The piece of shit continues to mess with my fucking life even over a thousand years later!”

Natsumi and Haruka blinked and stared, “.... wut.” Natsumi shook her head, “Anyway, I really hate to ask, but do you have any abilities that might make some way for us to, well, not be attacked on sight?”

“And why should I help you?” Soul glared. “You two drag me out to the middle of god knows where to deal with a bunch of ponies, when I’m not a diplomat or someone who gives a shit about them. I’m more likely to go and scare the shit of them because it would be fun to than make them your friends.” Soul crossed her arms. “What’d you even do to piss them off?”

Haruka blinked, “Uh…. be horrible, hypnotized mass murdering monsters in Discord’s army about some two thousand years ago?”

Natsumi snapped, “Well, we could use that willingness to scare the crap out of them. Kamen Riders are supposed to fight monsters, after all.”

“You want me to go out and scare them so you can attack me and look like the heroes? Do I look like I’m made of metal?” Soul deadpanned before blinking. “Actually, nevermind that question. I just realized how stupid I sounded.” She thought for a moment, glancing around at the cave before grumbling. “Fine, but I better get sent back for my trouble. Now how the hell do we get out of here?”

Haruka sweatdropped at Soul, “.... The entrance is right there….” She pointed to Soul’s left, tilting her head, “What are you, blind?”

Natsumi smacked Haruka, “Don’t just ask people that!”

“Yep. I’m blind.” Soul said rather simply before slowly walking toward the exit, shoving her hands in her pockets.

“.....Oh.” Natsumi and Haruka followed Soul, transforming as they did so.

* * *

Twilight Sparkle, recently crowned Princess of Equestria, led a group of townsponies and her friends around the arid desert wastes, her horn glowing as she searched for the two strange beings that Princess Celestia had warned her about.

“Be careful, everyone,” she called out, “we don’t know what those two beings are capable of and I’d rather not have anyone get hurt.” The ponies continued to walk about the mountains before they heard a sound echoing, metal grinding against stone. It set them on edge, causing them to look around in subtle fright for the source of the noise.

Fluttershy flinched back, slowly backing up towards a rocky outcropping, “O-oh my… w-what was t-that…?” She tried to hide, not noticing the looming shadow behind her.

“Hello~” A growling voice spoke, the sound of metal stopping as the creature that stood over her ceased grinding one of the many blades protruding from its body into the stone wall next to it. Its mouth was open in a sinister grin that dripped with drool and filled with sharp teeth. Long, white hair blocked most of its face except for one red eye that seemed to glow slightly.

Fluttershy yelped in fear, the sound alerting the rest of the ponies, making them whirl around and spot the creature. Twilight reacted immediately, calling, “Watch out Fluttershy!” and firing a pink beam of concussive energy directly at the creature. In response, it rose an arm, a blade reflecting the blast and sending it off at a random angle.

“I’m… hungry… for… SOULS!” The creature growled before swiping at Fluttershy, the little pegasus just ducking before running.

“Oi!” a voice called out dramatically, its source being a familiar green armored figure standing atop a rocky spire. “If you want souls that much, then why don’t you feast on my fighting spirit!” The creature looked up with the ponies to see the two sisters standing there. The ponies were thankfully distracted enough to not notice the deadpanned look the creature gave these two, almost as if to say “you’ve got to be kidding me.”

The armored being was joined by another familiar being, this one in brown before both of them jumped impossibly high into the air, descending upon the blade covered creature with a dual cry of, “RIDER KICK!” Their legs burst into flame as they descended, the twin drop kicks slamming into the sword creature with enough force to send it smashing through another pillar of stone and out of sight.

The green being saluted at Twilight, calling out, “Sorry about running earlier, we weren’t exactly notified of anything being in the general area.” Both beings leapt off in the direction of the creature, the sounds of combat ringing out as a cloud of dust formed, obscuring the view.

In the fight, Soul gave a less monstrous growl at the sisters as she muttered. “For fuck’s sake, you didn’t have to kick me THAT hard. I only got knocked off a building a few days ago.”

Natsumi winced slightly, “Sorry about that- we were trying to hold back as much as we could so you wouldn’t just detonate into a small fireball.” She kept up her kicking, just barely missing Soul with each kick and slamming her feet into the blades jutting from her body rather than Soul herself.

“Right, ‘holding back’.” Soul rolled her eyes, giving another swipe of her arm before tackling Natsumi, only to be thrown off by her sister. “I can’t believe I agreed to this shit.” She grumbled before jumping back to avoid another punch.

Haruka shrugged before reaching down to her waist, “We’ll try to make it up to you later. By the way, you might want to duck these next attacks.” She flipped the legs of the device on her belt, her arm starting to crackle with energy as Natsumi did the same, her leg crackling like Haruka’s arm.

“RIDER PUNCH!” “RIDER KICK!” Soul leapt to the side, an explosion going off as their blows hit the stone where she had been standing two seconds ago. This sent her flying to the edge of a nearby cliff, stopping just short of falling off.

She got up, shaking her head and cursing under her breath. “Fuck… holding back my ass.”

Natsumi held her hand out to Soul, “Yeah, when a single kick is usually capable of destroying a small house, that really is holding back. Sorry about that. But, you might wanna run before the dust clears…. I wonder how we send you back…”

Soul seemed about to say something before making another monster growl and glaring at something behind the sisters. Haruka whirled around and spotted the ponies standing there and shouted, “Get back! It’s still dangerous!”

The ponies stepped back, but kept watching wanting to see how this turned out. Natsumi looked to Soul and muttered a quick, “I am so, so sorry about this,” and kicked Soul off the cliff with a fierce kiai and a dramatic flourish.

Natsumi turned back to Twilight and saluted, “Situation resolved. It’s safe now.”

Twilight nodded, a frown on her face, “That may be so, but you shouldn’t have ran off like that earlier.”

Haruka shook her head, “If we hadn’t run off, that sword monster we were tracking would have gotten away.”

Rainbow Dash zoomed over, getting up in Haruka’s face, “Oh yeah? How do we know you’re not lying about that?”

Applejack spoke up, grabbing Rainbow and pulling her away, “Easy there, pardner. Ain’t no reason to be all suspicious-like when those two clearly saved Fluttershy’s hide.”

Fluttershy nodded and shivered, “I-it was sc-scary, but you two saved me… thank you…”

Haruka and Natsumi nodded and reverted back to normal, both Hopper Zecters jumping into Natsumi’s bag along with Kivala. “No problem at all, miss,” Natsumi saluted.

Haruka walked forward, hands in her pockets, “So I guess you all have some questions, yeah?”

Natsumi stepped forward in front of Haruka, “Ask away.”

Author's Notes:

UUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHH

This would have been out a long time ago, but TrombonePlayingPony, bless his soul, still had to work on his fic before he could cross it with this one.

Ah well, c'est la vie.