Natsumi sighed and ran her hand through her hair as she sat on one of the upper balconies of Princess Twilight’s castle. “Who would have thought that this would happen…?” she muttered, standing up and leaning on the railing. As she looked out over Ponyville, she contemplated recent events.

Just who exactly was that mysterious eldritch abomination/Kamen Rider? And why did he just so happen to take an interest in her and Haruka?

Behind Natsumi, Haruka huffed and leaned back in her chair, loudly groaning, “Mou, Natsumi! Lighten up already! We’re here, we’re not arrested, and we might even get a chance to go scott free!”

Natsumi blinked and turned to Haruka, sighing to herself and nodding faintly, “.... Yeah, I guess you’re right. No point dwelling on the past when we should be moving forward.” With that, she plopped back down in her own chair and leaned back, relaxing in the midsummer sun.

Doctor Shinigami sat back in a makeshift throne and stroked his impressive mane of hair. “Hmmm…. Colonel Zol!” he barked, turning to the well dressed military man. “How go the preparations for our new army?”

Colonel Zol saluted and began his report, “The preparations are nearly complete, Doctor! Within the next twenty four hours, our new army of evil will be unleashed upon the foolish denizens of this world!”

“Excellent…” Doctor Shinigami murmured, stroking his hair thoughtfully. Standing and turning dramatically, he pointed off towards the distance and shouted, “Tomorrow! This world will fall to Ultra Shocker!”

At his feet, the combined forces of Ultra Shocker’s army cheered as one, the swamps around Roanikstead echoing with the shrieking howls of hundreds of monsters.

Discord hummed to himself as he strolled through Ponyville’s marketplace, casually ignoring the looks some ponies still gave him as he shopped. “Let’s see here…. got that, got that, check, check check….” Discord tapped his chin and stroked his beard, going down his list and crossing off everything he had gotten so far.

“Oh hello, what’s this...?” he mused, taking a closer look at the bottom of the list, “Random exceedingly violent blast from the past…? I didn’t write that down, did I…?”

Looking up, Discord suddenly went pale as he spotted Natsumi and Haruka across the street from him. “.... Oh dear…”

Natsumi growled and stepped forward, pointing at Discord, “You! You got a lot of nerve showing your goddamn face again after what you did to me and my sister!”

Haruka nodded and cracked her knuckles, “Natsumi, I think we should teach this fucker a lesson, don’t you think?”

“Gladly.” Natsumi snarled, pulling an equally livid Kivaara out of her pocket and holding her out.

“Now now ladies!” Discord backpedaled, holding his hands up in surrender, “We can talk this out, can’t we? I’m changed now! Really!”

Haruka snorted, “Enough talk! Natsumi, let’s do this! Henshin!”

“Henshin!”

”Ka~puu!”

”OPEN UP!”

“Oh dear….” Discord muttered, bracing himself.

As the assorted townsfolk of Ponyville began running away from the strange creatures now facing off Discord, Natsumi and Haruka rushed forward, both weapons brought to bear and gleaming in the sun.

Discord flew off down a side street, groceries forgotten in his haste while he muttered curses to himself. “Oh dammit! This wasn’t supposed to happen!” he groaned, slipping into an alleyway and hiding under a dumpster while Natsumi and Haruka ran past, the both of them screaming for Discord’s blood.

“Whew… that could have been dangerous…” Discord muttered, crawling out from under the dumpster… only to immediately flinch back under it as a powerful bolt of energy slammed into the ground right where his head was before. “Yipe!”

“Die you snakey son of a bitch!” Haruka roared, ripping the brown Hopper Zecter from her Rider Hammerspace™ and activating it.

”CHANGE: PUNCH HOPPER!”

With a beastial warcry, Haruka leapt down from the roof she stood on and slammed her fist into the dumpster, flattening it downwards in a massive shockwave that blew through the walls of the alley and into the buildings around it. “DIE DIE DIE!”

Discord, thrown through several more walls from the impact, woozily looked around at his new position, noting that he was now at the center of town, with half his body embedded into the fountain taking up the very center of the town square.

“Yo,” Natsumi greeted, stepping down on next to Discord’s head in her new Kickhopper form. Flicking the legs of the green Hopper Zecter and snorting derisively, she muttered, “Rider Kick.”

”RIDER KICK”

Grinning ferally beneath her helmet, Natsumi struck forth at Discord’s head, only to hit nothing but air as the draconequus finally remembered he could teleport and thus disappeared from the area with a brief flash of light.

“.....” Natsumi stared at the spot where Discord had been not a second ago before quickly throwing her head back and releasing a scream of rage loud enough to rattle every window within a mile radius.

“Care to explain why you destroyed three buildings, a fountain, and several gardens while attacking Discord unprovoked?” Twilight raised an unamused eyebrow at the shackled forms of Natsumi and Haruka from where she stood outside their cage in Ponyville’s police station. Discord was, strangely, cowering behind Twilight, much to everyone’s general consternation.

Haruka scowled and glared daggers at Discord, pointing directly at his shivering form, “He’s the bastard that mind controlled us into destructive monsters two thousand years ago!” The sheer vitriol in her voice stunned Twilight, who had never heard such hatred in her life.

“W-what…?” she mumbled, turning and fixing Discord with a glare of her own, “Is this true!? Did you really do that to these poor girls!?”

Discord winced and nodded slowly, shuddering at the glares all three females were shooting at him. “Well to be fair, I was a total jerk back then…” he muttered, smiling sheepishly.

“That’s no excuse!” Natsumi shouted, slamming her fists against the bars of her cell and rattling them from the force, “Do you know how many ponies died because of me and my sister!? Do you know just how many lives you made me ruin with my Saber or her Larc Rouzer!?”

Discord flinched back, “W-well… er… Oh how in the name of Tartarus was I supposed to know what would happen?! I was a jerk two thousand years ago! At least I’ve changed, okay!” He threw his mismatched forelimbs in the air and ranted angrily for a few minutes, finally culminating in a very agitated, “So I’m sorry, okay!?”

“....” Natsumi, Twilight, and Haruka stared in shock, none having expected to hear such a long winded and heartfelt rant from Discord.

Natsumi was the first to recover, “... Apology accepted. Not forgiven, but apology accepted.”

“Now can we get out of these cells!?” Haruka interjected, “these things are cramped as hell!”

“You still caused massive property damage,” Twilight pointed out coolly, her expression flat once again.

“... Shit.” Haruka muttered.