The Princess and the Yo-kai

by Shadowmane PX-41

First published 15th of August, 2016

Twilight finds a weird machine in the Everfree Forest that might just change her life. Well, maybe not a lot by her standards...

Yo-kai are mysterious creatures that live in the world around us. Yet we mere mortals cannot see them. Despite this, Yo-kai can still make us think and feel different things than usual.

However, a select few people know of a device that can communicate with these creatures known as a Yo-Kai Watch. And as Princess Twilight Sparkle is about to find out, things are going to go from strange to so much stranger...

Prologue

"I'm just saying that they aren't real. That doesn't mean I can't still enjoy them, can I?" Twilight asked Pinkie as she and her friends sat around the Everfree Forest for a camping trip. The bonfire was lit, and the girls had been roasting marshmallows as they waited to head Pinkie Pie's famous ghost stories.

"Listen, Twilight. Ghost stories might not seem real to you, but some of us like to have an illusion to fall back on, just to spice up our lives a but more." Rarity tossed her hair before taking a bite out of her marshmallow.

"Yeah, Twi. Every camping pony likes a good old scary story to get their blood pumping." Rainbow Dash stood on her hind legs. "Tales of vampires, ghosts, dragons, or hungry, hungry timberwolves..." She then looked over to Fluttershy, watching her whimper. She walked over to her and let her hug her for protection. "Don't worry, Flutters. I'm not gonna let some monsters get in the way of you or my friends." Her gaze returned to Pinkie. "Now, come on, Pinks. What terrorific story have you got for us tonight?"

"Well, this one's quite a new one, but it's sure to knock the wind out of you..." Pinkie Pie pulled out a flashlight and flicked it on so that her face was clearly visible. "Once upon a time, in a forest just like this, there was a pony just like Twilight over there." Pinkie pointed over to her.

"Hey!" Twilight shot back.

"She was miserable; tired of the forest and its' sticky tree sap that made her hooves stick to her hair, and fed up with the many different bugs and insects that kept trying to munch on her skin." Pinkie wiggled the flashlight in an attempt to act scary. "She said, 'I wish I could just disappear off the face of this stupid planet!'

"Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a little capsule machine that looked hundreds of years old..." Pinkie Pie used her mane to make an accurate representation of the machine in question.

"A capsule machine? Really?" Rainbow deadpanned. "With that kinda build-up, I was expecting something like a bear or a snake, or a cockatrice or something."

"Oh, it's not so bad, Rainbow." Fluttershy seemed to have lightened up as she pulled her hair out of Rainbow's chest. "A capsule machine always has nice prizes inside." She smiled. "Go on, Pinkie. What happened next?"

"She looked at the capsule machine and scoffed. As a young filly, she never got the toys she really wanted from those machines, and she had a hunch she wouldn't get anything good anyway," Pinkie continued. "However, she still had a bit on her and decided to use it, saying, 'I just hope that I'm lucky this time.'

"She put the coin in, turned the handle, and got that little ball that always pops out of the bottom of the machine." Pinkie used a fake ball to recreate the events. "The mare tightened her grip on the ball and ripped it in half to reveal the prizes inside. But then..."

Everyone gasped.

"What happened?" Rainbow asked.

"Please, darling, let us know!" Rarity pleaded.

"Put us out of our misery!" Applejack added.

"I don't like this story anymore!" Fluttershy whimpered and buried her head back in Rainbow Dash's body.

"This is the weirdest ghost story ever." Twilight groaned, but still listened.

"The mare, instead of getting a toy, was met with a white blast of light!" Pinkie made explosion noises with her mouth as she waved the flashlight all around the campfire grounds. "It was so bright, that the filly got her wish. She vanished into the darkness, and nopony ever saw her again!"

Everyone let out a slight scream before they looked back at Pinkie and giggled.

"Wait! I'm not done yet." Pinkie's voice got deep and slithery. "Legend has it, that that machine is still there, waiting for its' next unfortunate victim. Dare you feed it a coin and disappear like the mare in the story? Or will you instead reap the rewards and get a great toy?" She let out a small giggle. "Well, don't ask me. It's up to the machine..."

"So, where did you hear this story?" Applejack asked once Pinkie turned the flashlight off.

"Oh. I heard it from Discord." Pinkie Pie chuckled. "That kooky draconequus and his stories. He always knows how to get me on the edge of my seat."

"Well, for a ghost story, this one seemed pretty tame." Twilight Sparkle stood up and walked around the fire to reach Pinkie. "I mean, a capsule machine? Seriously? I have to agree with Rainbow Dash on this one. You could have had something much scarier for a story. Not just a filly opening up a prize and then disappearing."

"But she got her wish, didn't she?" Pinkie Pie was still smiling. "She wanted to disappear forever, so that's exactly what that magical ball did to her. I'd say that's pretty scary."

"Yes. And it teaches an important moral, Twilight." Rarity got the whole group together.

"Be careful what you wish for." The five ponies all said together with deep voices as they draped their hooves over each other's shoulders.

"Well, I don't mean to bring logic to the story, but there are plenty of scenarios that could've made her disappear like that." Twilight pulled out a scroll and began to write on it. "She could've gotten blinded by somepony's foolish prank, or some unicorn could have flashed her with light, or maybe even..."

"Great. Now we got her thinking." Rainbow face-hoofed. "You don't think about what could have happened in a scary story. You get scared, and believe that the story is real."

"Well, it looks like she'll be busy for a while now." Rarity watched as Twilight continued to scribble on the scroll with her quill. "Do you think she'll mind if we sing campfire songs without her?"

"Maybe not." Pinkie Pie watched Twilight wandering deeper and deeper into the forest, her scroll and quill still being used as she kept on babbling. "I just hope she can find her way back to the camp, though. It's pretty dark out, and you know what the Everfree Forest is like at night."

"Don't remind me." Fluttershy sighed as she went off with the rest of the girls to prepare for their songs.

"But then if she could've been blinded by somepony using her magic, then wouldn't she at least be able to feel some hooves being wrapped around her?" Twilight questioned her own logic as she ventured deeper and deeper into the trees. "No. That's ridiculous. The pony could've also used some kind of magic to lift them up and carry them away into the dead of night. Uggh! This conundrum might be harder to solve than I thought!"

"But then at the same time, going back to my theory about the unicorn, there's no feasible way that it could've been actual ghosts." Twilight was now much deeper into the forest than she had ever gone before. She was well away from the campsite and the Castle of the Two Sisters, and was walking blindly into the more dense and unexplored region of the Everfree Forest. "Ghosts don't actually exist in Equestria, even if many other things do.

"So, could it have been zombies?" Twilight asked herself before she blew a raspberry. "Nah. That's completely ridiculous. Zombies don't exist in Equestria either. Or at least, not to my knowledge. Which reminds me, I need to make a mental note when I get back to start looking into some necromancy spells to try out. I bet the results would be amazing!"

"Pinkie? Do you think you could remind me to find some necromancy spells once we get back to the library?" Twilight called out to Pinkie, but heard nothing. Her friends were nowhere to be found, and she was now a long way away from the campfire. "Pinkie? Girls? Where are you? And for that matter, where am I?"

Twilight took one step forward, and she found herself falling down a cliff, letting out a high-pitched scream as she rolled down to the ground and tumbled through the forest at breakneck speed. She shot through multiple different bushes and past a nimiety of trees before she finally crashed into a capsule machine that looked identical to the one that Pinkie had described.

Twilight groaned as she clumsily stumbled to her feet, shaking the bugs and insects out of her mane and cleaning her sap-laden hooves with her own spit. "You know, sometimes, I worry that I'm too smart for my own good." She shook her head to re-orient herself once her hooves were clean.

When Twilight laid her eyes on the machine, they went wide as she fell back onto her flank again. "No way! It actually exists?!"

Twilight looked at the machine from all angles. She saw archaic markings on each side that she couldn't read, and capsules inside that were all black and white, with no mention of toys or prizes on the glass. The handle looked like it had gathered rust, but it was still functional once Twilight decided to test it out. It didn't move all the way, though, as machines like that usually operated on coins.

"How odd. What would something like this be doing in the Everfree Forest?" Twilight asked as she squinted her eyes to make sure she wasn't dreaming. "It just doesn't make any sense."

Suddenly, a light gust of wind whistled through the trees and the leaves began to shake and shudder in it. An ominous howl filled the silence and made Twilight shudder. As the wind gradually got stronger, a voice appeared out of nowhere, saying, "Feed me... Feed me..."

"Feed you?" Twilight addressed the voice? "Who's there? And what do you want?"

"Feed me... Feed me..." The voice repeated as the capsule machine began to glow a shade of dark purple.

"Feed you?" Twilight raised a brow at the capsule machine before it began to sing.

Feed me!
Feed me!
Give me a coin
I'm so famished!

"Alright! Alright! Geez! No need to break out into song over it!" Twilight pulled out a coin and slotted it into the machine, turning a handle, and watching a capsule pop out of the bottom. She put her magic around the ball and was about to open it up, when she remembered Pinkie's story. "Wait. This isn't going to make me disappear, is it?"

She looked at the machine, and then to the trees, but she heard no reply from either. Clacking her teeth, she trembled as she opened the prize up. "Please let me live, please let me live. I don't want to vanish like that mare from the story..." She pulled both halves apart.

Then, true to Pinkie's ghost story, the exact same flash of light happened. White rings of energy appeared around the epicentre of the flash, and Twilight let out another scream as she crawled as far away from the light as possible. The light grew bigger and bigger, and a white being poked two arms out of the light, then its' head, and finally what looked like a ghost's tail before the flash subsided.

The monster that had erupted from the light let out a long roar as it stretched its' arms out and flew around the trees as fast as it could. It stopped in the air inbetween Twilight and the capsule machine and yawned in satisfaction.

"One-hundred and ninety years in a capsule like that will give you such a creak in the neck." The ghost-like being turned its' head and heard a crunching noise. "Ohh, yeah. That's better..."

Twilight whimpered as she backed up against a tree. She weakly fired a bolt of magic at the ghost and watched it go right through him. When she saw it pass, she cowered and hid behind the tree she was backed up against.

"Huh?" The ghost saw the cowering Twilight and flew over to her. "Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't know I was in the presence of guests." He stopped when she saw Twilight's hooves were still quivering against the tree. "Please. Don't be shy. Come on out. I'm not going to hurt you. Well, I can't really hurt you anyway. I am a ghost, after all."

"P-p-please. Don't make me disappear like that girl from the story." Twilight's voice was lacking in any sort of strength as she spoke to the ghost.

"Wh-what? Just because you heard one story, you think that all Yo-kai are responsible for the disappearance of children?" The ghost seemed offended. "Hmph! Honestly. What is happening to the youth these days?"

"Yo-kai? I'm afraid I don't really follow." Twilight came out from hiding, but she still didn't try to seem strong in the face of potential danger.

"You've never heard? Yo-kai? The ghosts of the world? The things that are responsible for all of life's little ups and downs?" The ghost questioned.

"No. Yo-kai don't appear in any of Equestria's history books on myths and monsters." Twilight regained a little bit of confidence as she raised a brow.

"Equestria? You mean, I wound up on an entirely different planet?" The ghost took a good look at Twilight, examining every part of her body. "Well, I suppose that would explain why I'm talking to a technicolour horse with wings and a horn."

"Who are you?" Twilight asked.

"Oh! Forgive me. I got so caught up with adapting to this new world that I almost forgot to introduce myself." It flew in front of Twilight and bowed to her. "My name is Whisper. Yo-kai butler extroadinarre! I'm your guide to everything Yo-kai related, and your own personal conscience from here on out," he said. "I'm here to teach you everything about th—"

"Look, can you just get to the important bit already?" Twilight butted in.

Whisper scoffed. "Obviously, you and your kind don't know about a thing called patience!" He shot back. "Honestly, I would have expected more from a pony like you."

"I'll have you know that I am an alicorn princess and one of the four rulers of Equestria." Twilight retorted herself. "And if you think that you can take over our world, then I'm afraid I'm going to stop your invasion before you even start!"

"You mean that I've been talking to royalty?!" Whisper was stunned by Twilight's title and immediately flew down to kiss her hooves, "Forgive me, your highness! I was just so glad to get out, and I thought you were just a commoner!"

"Stop that." Twilight said sternly to Whisper. "Now, can you tell me what's going on here, and what Yo-kai actually are?"

"Sorry." Whisper flew back up and cleared his throat. "Yo-kai are invisible creatures that live all around the world. They come in all different shapes and sizes and can inspirit people and make them think and do things they wouldn't expect," he said. "Yo-kai exist all around you, and no mere mortal can see them. And yet, with every thing that the Yo-kai do to the natives of that world, they just keep on going like nothing's wrong.

"But I am no ordinary Yo-kai. As you probably know by looking at me, I am probably the only Yo-kai that resembles a ghost, and as such, I was locked away by some blind-sighted priest for one-hundred and ninety years." Whisper looked back at the capsule machine and shuddered. "But now that you've freed me, you've not only proved that mean old man wrong, but are also in valuable need of my help."

"Help? I'm pretty sure I can handle myself just fine, thank you very much." Twilight rolled her eyes as she flashed her wings and horn.

"By releasing me, you've opened yourself up to the Yo-kai species as a whole." Whisper patted Twilight on the shoulders. "Now you can communicate with us, and try to bring some normality in your soon-to-be plagued city."

"Soon-to-be-plagued? What do you mean?" Twilight raised her brow again. "What did you do?"

"Me? I didn't do anything. Honest." A halo appeared around Whisper's head. "But by freeing me, you've opened the gate for the Yo-kai to appear in your world, and there's no doubt that some have already begun inspiriting your fellow ponies."

"Well, then we've gotta go help them!" Twilight was about to run off, but Whisper grabbed on to her shoulders.

"Uh-uh-uh, your highness. You can't go without this." Whisper produced a white watch with a bubble dome, a small slot for inserting coin-shaped objects, and what looked like a design for a watch without any numbers inside.

"What is this?" Twilight turned around and felt the device drop into her hooves.

"This is a Yo-kai Watch." Whisper explained as he strapped it onto Twilight's front right hoof. "Simply flip the lens and look around to find a Yo-kai that might be inspiriting the ponies of... wherever it is you're from."

"Okay." Twilight tightened the watch and flipped the dome up with a push of a button to act as a makeshift lens. A noise she had never heard before in her life emanated from the watch, but when Twilight looked through it, everything was unchanged.

"Nothing here at the moment, but if you have any friends, I think it would be best to check on them to see if there's something wrong with them." Whisper put the lens back down onto the watch.

"They're back at the campfire, probably worried sick about me." Twilight hung her head for a few seconds before she looked at the watch and unfurled her wings. "I have to help them!"

"Then there's no time to waste, your highness!" Whisper threw his arms back, ready to fly with Twilight. "Are you ready for your first real experience with ghosts?"

"Yes. And I have a name you know, it's Twilight. Princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria." She bowed before Whisper.

"That's a lot to take in. I'll just call you Twilight, if that's alright with you," Whisper said.

"Why not? Thay's what everyone else calls me anyway..." Twilight blushed sheepishly.

"Very well then, Twilight! Let us be off, posthaste!" Whisper hurled himself into the air.

"Yes! Let's!" Twilight took off as well, soaring above the trees alongside Whisper. With all the stuff she had been informed about, she knew deep down inside, that her life was about to change forever.

Author's Notes:

And there we have it. My first Yo-kai Watch crossover.

Now, keep in mind that this is my first time writing Yo-kai Watch and MLP side-by-side, so don't expect it to be perfect. In fact, if you have any comments on how to make this better, I'd love to hear them.

And as always, be sure to rate, comment, favourite, follow me if you like my writing and want to see more, and be sure to stay tuned for the rest of the story.

Have a good night, everyone!

The Tears of Buhu/The Invisible Filly

"There they are!" Twilight pointed down to the camp where she and the girls were staying. The fire was still there, but it had withered down to a small ember. "Whisper, land here!"

Both Whisper and Twilight touched down at the campsite, but as they looked around for the rest of Twilight's friends, they found nothing. There were no visible or audible clues for where they went, and all that stood were the trees and the campfire.

"Twilight? Are you sure that the rest of your friends are here?" Whisper asked after a thorough examination. "I definitely can't see anyone else."

"They wouldn't just leave me. We're friends, after all." Twilight trotted around the campfire and looked at the marshmallows that were now dissolved and covered in dirt. "Okay, we sometimes get out of hoof and need to be shown the right way, but we're still friends. None of them would just abandon me in the Everfree Forest like this."

"Do you perhaps think they made their own little search party and went deep into the woods to find you?" Whisper asked, looking at Pinkie's flashlight from earlier. "It's usually the case whenever someone goes missing on a forest camping trip."

"No. My friends and I have braved the Everfree Forest countless times before. And as well as that, I have wings." Twilight flapped them once as she looked around once more. "If anything, they know that I can fly back to the camp at a moment's notice, so there really would be no need to have them waste time by looking for me when I can just come back easily."

"Well, either way, I'm sure that they're very worried and very sad..." Whisper crossed his arms and heard a noise. It sounded like crying, but it was very muffled and came from the direction of one of the tents. "Speaking of sad, do you hear that?"

"Yeah." Twilight walked closer and closer to Rarity's tent and put her hooves over the curtain doors. "It's definitely in here, and it definitely sounds like my friends."

When Twilight and Whisper pulled back the curtains and went inside, they were met with a peculiar sight. There was a fireplace with a few rugs scattered around the floor, and stairs that led up to another level of the tent. The walls were made of satin and there were lots of supplies of all kinds propped up by the walls.

They saw a couch in the middle of the tent and saw Twilight's friends sitting on it, sobbing and wailing uncontrollably with a ghostly flame consuming their bodies. The fire crackled and burned like an actual fire, but it did no real harm to them. Only Twilight and Whisper could see the flame, and all that they could hear from the five other ponies were cries.

"I can't believe we'll never see Twilight again!" Pinkie Pie blew her nose and wiped her tears with a tissue before they started up again. "And all because of some stupid ghost story!"

"Oh, why? Why did we have to come to the Everfree Forest for a camping trip?" Applejack buried her head into one of the nearby pillows, unaware that her tears were making the pillow soggy. "Now Twilight's gone, or maybe even worse!"

"How will we ever be able to live withourselves without her?" Rarity bawled, while also eating chocolate and ice cream to try and subdue her own wails.

"How weird..." Twilight looked at all of the crying ponies very closely. "Usually the girls get worried about me, but they don't cry. And even when they do, they don't all cry together."

"So you're saying your friends aren't usually ones to express sorrow over the loss of a comrade?" Whisper raised a brow.

"Oh, we are, Whisper. But we usually don't cry about it unless they're gone forever and there's no way to bring them back." Twilight turned back to Whisper and raised a hoof. "What do you think's going on here?"

"Hmm..." Whisper flew all around the ponies and watched them all cry for a few seconds more. It was only then that he noticed the purple ghost fires around them. "Aha! I've got it!"

"What? What is it?" Twilight ran up to Whisper.

"There's no doubt about it; there's a Yo-kai inspiriting your friends here somewhere." He took one last look at the blubbering mares before turning his gaze back to Twilight. "Quick! Flip the lens up and point it all around the tent until you see something out of the ordinary."

Heeding Whisper's words, Twilight flipped up the lens of the Yo-kai watch and examined the whole room. The noise from before reverbated from the watch as she looked around. Suddenly, her lens was fixated on something and twelve segments around the watch lit up before a blast of purple mist engulfed a small area above the girls.

When the gas died down a plump bird-like creature with blue feathers appeared in the tent. It had small stumpy feet and a crying face in its' chest. Its' neck and head were identical to that of a bird, but just like the ponies, it was crying its' eyes out.

"Wh-what is that?!" Twilight looked in awe of the bird.

"That is a Yo-kai; more specifically, that is Buhu." Whisper pointed Buhu out to Twilight. "Buhu is a Yo-kai that can dampen someone's mood in seconds. If it inspirits a person, then that person becomes so sad that they can't help but cry and wail like a baby," he said. "Buhu is most likely the one making your pony friends cry over your disappearance."

"So, how do we stop it from making my friends cry?" Twilight asked.

"There are two ways of dealing with Yo-kai: Peaceful negotiation, or exciting confrontation!" Whisper did a kneeling gesture before he punched the air with his fists. "But given that you don't really have any Yo-kai Medals yet, I think that Buhu should be dealt with by talking to him."

"But how can I possibly try to reason with someone who's making everyone sad?" Twilight looked at Buhu crying. His tears weren't as many as the ones from the girls, but they were still dropping nonetheless.

"You might be surprised. Despite his tearful nature, when he's not making people cry for the heck of it, Buhu is actually a great guidance counselor for someone who's had something on their mind for a while," said Whisper. "But that's not important now. What is important is that you stop him from making your friends cry before they cry so much that they expire completely."

"Okay. I guess it's worth a shot." Twilight walked up to Buhu with her breathing light and shallow and her knees slightly shivering.

"There, there. Just let it all out." Buhu whispered to each of the rest of the Main Six. "Just let your tears do the talking..."

"Umm... Hello?" Twilight spoke to Buhu. "I don't think we've met before. I'm Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship."

"Oh. Hi there..." Buhu turned his head away from Twilight and hung his neck. "I'm not really much for talking right now."

"Well, what are you doing here, anyway?" Twilight raised a brow at Buhu. "And why are you making my friends miserable? They didn't do anything to you."

"But you did something to them." Buhu looked back at Twilight. "You ran away from your friends because you were too smart and logical. You didn't want to be with them anymore, and they got really worried when you didn't come back." He flew down to Rarity and she cuddled him, thinking that he was a pillow. "I'm just here to help them cry the sadness away, so that they can move on and be happier."

"But you're making them cry too much!" Twilight blurted out. "Yes, it's okay to cry, but it's not okay to make others cry over things that aren't worth getting sad about!" She stomped up to the Yo-kai with fire burning in her eyes. "You should think twice before you make my friends upset!"

"Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't know... I guess I really am a bad Yo-kai after all..." Buhu started crying even more, almost to the point where his tears matched that of the ponies. "I should just go away and hide from everyone!"

"What?" Twilight's anger was quelled immediately upon seeing Buhu's crying eyes. "N-no! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to make you cry too! I was just trying to fix things. And now, I've just made them even worse."

"I'm nothing more than a burden. I shouldn't even have been born!" Buhu wailed as loud as he could. "All I do is bring misery to others!"

"No, no, no, Buhu. It's not like that." Twilight picked Buhu up with her magic. "You're not worthless. You're not insignificant. You're special in your own way."

"Why? All I do is cry and make others cry!" He swung his neck at her.

"Please, Buhu. All I want are my friends back." Twilight pulled Buhu into a hug and shed some tears of her own. "I love my friends, and I don't want to see them miserable. So please, just let them go back to normal, please..."

Buhu's eyes went wide and stopped shedding tears when he saw Twilight's own sorrow. He looked around at the rest of Twilight's friends and sighed before hanging his head. "Alright. But just for you, Twilight."

The purple flames vanished from the other ponies, and they too stopped crying. They dried their eyes and saw Twilight standing there in the middle of the tent. Their mouths showed big happy smiles as they jumped off of the couch and ran over to her.

"TWILIGHT!" They all shouted together before they pulled her into a big group hug, which Twilight was happy to return.

"Where were you?" Rainbow Dash nuzzled into Twilight's fur. "We were worried sick about you!"

"It's alright, girls. I'm here now." Twilight hugged her friends tighter. "There's no reason to be worried anymore."

"Twilight?" Buhu tugged at her mane. "Before I go, I want you to have this..."

A smaller white light appeared above Twilight, and the girls all stood back and watched as the light dropped into Twilight's hoof and transformed into a medallion. It was made of silver with a purple rim around what looked like a picture of Buhu on it.

"What is this?" Twilight asked Buhu.

"It's my Yo-kai Medal," he said. "If you ever need to call me, then just put my medal in the Yo-kai Watch, and I'll be there in a jiffy to make things better. Or worse."

"Aww, don't beat yourself up about it, Buhu." Twilight smiled and tousled his feathers. "You're a great friend to have, and I'm looking forward to seeing how you can help the ponies of Ponyville."

"Thanks, Twilight..." Buhu gave off a small smile before he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Uhh, Twilight? What in the heck was that?" Applejack raised her own eyebrow. She couldn't see any of what had transpired due to her lack of a Yo-kai Watch.

"Yeah, and what's that shiny thingy you've got on your hoof?" Pinkie lifted Twilight's hoof up and examined the watch. "Looks like it's from an entirely different world or something."

"Well, I'd be happy to explain to—"

"Twilight, my girl! That was amazing!" Whisper shook Twilight's hoof rapidly. "Buhu is a hard Yo-kai to reason with with all of his wailing, but you not only managed to fix your friends, but also get a Yo-kai Medal out of it! This is wonderful!"

"Whisper? What's a Yo-kai Medal?" Twilight looked at both sides of the coin. On the other side was a picture of an open eye on a purple background.

"Whisper? Yo-kai Medal? Sounds like you've had a long night, Twilight." Applejack put her hooves around Twilight's shoulders.

"A Yo-kai Medal is something that Yo-kai give to people ONLY when they've become true friends with them." Whisper held the medal up in front of Twilight's face. "Since you became friends with Buhu, he gave you his medal, so that you can call him at any time. For fun, for inspiriting ponies, or even for combat!"

"Combat? Why would I want to fight with these things?" Twilight took the medal back. "From the way Buhu acted, it stands to me that there's a great deal of Yo-kai stuff that I've yet to learn."

"Patience, Twilight. All in good time, my dear." Whisper helped Twilight put the medal away. "For now, your friend with the cowgirl hat is right. It's been a long day for you, and you probably want to get some sleep."

Twilight wanted to question Whisper about more Yo-kai related stuff, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she made a tremendous yawn. "Yeah, you're right, Whisper." She rubbed her eyes and smacked her lips as she went to her own tent. "It has been quite an eventful day, hasn't it?"

"I'll see you in the morning, Twilight." Whisper waved her off as she went out of Rarity's tent with her other pony friends towards their own separate tents.

Twilight unrolled her sleeping bag and slipped quietly into it, zipping herself up with her magic. As she snuggled into the fabric cocoon, she fell asleep almost instantly, yet the thought of all of the adventures she was about have still buzzed in her mind, and she couldn't wait to wake up tomorrow and explore with Whisper to see what new Yo-kai she would meet, and all of the new friends she would make.

The next day, Twilight and all of her friends had already packed up and were back in Ponyville. After what had happened with Buhu last night, they had all agreed to cut their camping trip short and save it for another time when there were less Yo-kai causing mischief.

Twilight travelled through the town streets with Whisper floating by her side. He was interested to see the town; mostly to see what Yo-kai were controlling who, but partially because he wanted to see what Ponyville looked like. As he saw all of the rustic straw-roofed houses, he smiled more and more.

"For a kingdom, this is quite quaint, Twilight," Whisper remarked.

"Thanks," Twilight blushed. "Even though I'm technically a princess, I wasn't really planning on making this place more futuristic or high-tech." She pointed up to the castle poking out of the mountain. "That place up there is Canterlot, and if you're looking for a real kingdom with royals and nobles, that's where you'll want to go."

"I see." Whisper looked at Canterlot and whistled. "And is this Canterlot place the capital of your world?"

"Yes. Two of the other princesses live there." Twilight used her magic to create a projection of the ponies she was explaining. "There's Princess Celestia, who raises the sun, and Princess Luna, who controls the moon." The picture then changed to show two other ponies. "There's also the Princess of Love, Cadence, but she lives in the Crystal Empire with her husband, Shining Armour, and their infant daughter, Flurry Heart."

"So, let me see if I'm getting all of this." Whisper held his hand out as he watched Twilight turn the projection off. "Celestia raises the sun, Luna raises the moon, and Cadence controls love?"

"Yes. And I am the Princess of Friendship," Twilight said. "I was given that title because me and my friends hold a special power. The Magic of Friendship?"

"The Magic of Friendship?" Whisper looked dumbstruck. "Would you care to fill me in on that?"

"Yes. Me and my friends have six special elements that can call upon a power unlike any other." Twilight pulled out a book showing six gemstones with different symbols. "Fluttershy represents kindness, as she's always willing to help someone in need; Rainbow Dash is the element of Loyalty, as she never runs away from her friends; Rarity represents Generousity, as she's always giving stuff instead of wanting or needing anything else in return; Pinkie Pie is the element of Laughter, as she keeps a smile on her face, regardless of the situation; Applejack's element is Honesty, as she never tells any lies about anything; and finally, my element is Magic. My magic far surpasses that of many other ponies, and I serve as the cornerstone of all six elements.

"When the six of us combine, we can utilize a powerful rainbow-magic that can put an end to even the strongest of enemies." Twilight looked up at the sky, seeing a rainbow streak between two clouds. "Together, we've saved Equestria more times than we can remember."

"Hmm. No wonder you weren't met with a terrible fate upon using the Crank-a-kai back at the Everfree Forest." Whisper looked up as well. "Most people who use the machine end up being transported to somewhere far away. I myself don't know where they end up, but I do often worry about where they are..."

"You're saying you don't know where they are?" Twilight looked back at Whisper.

"Nope. If they were in the Yo-kai World, then someone there would have reported it, since there's only been two humans in the Yo-kai World, and I doubt there'll ever be any more in the future." Whisper's eyes met Twilight's again. "But, you never know. Life is full of little twists and turns, after all."

"TWILIGHT!" Applejack came galloping down the road and skidded to a halt in front of Twilight. Her mane was frizzy, and she was panting heavily.

"Whoa, Applejack! Calm down!" Twilight gently brushed Applejack's hair back down. "Now, just slowly tell me exactly what happened, alright?"

"Have you seen Applebloom? She's been missing all day!" Applejack trotted on the spot. "Miss Cheerilee called me earlier and said she wasn't in class at all, and even when school broke up, I still can't find her! I'm in a right state, and I'm real worried that I'll never see her again!"

"Don't worry, Applejack. I'll find her for you." Twilight looked down at her Yo-kai Watch before looking back at her friend. "Where did you last see her?"

"I last saw her on Sweet Apple Acres, taking her saddlebags to school with her," Applejack explained. "But that's it. She just vanished off of the face of Equestria after that!"

"Hmm..." Whisper scratched his chin with his left hand.

"Do you have an idea, Whisper?" Twilight looked back at him.

"There's a Yo-kai definitely involved in this, but there's no way that they could've taken little Applebloom to the Yo-kai World." Whisper brought his hand back down to his side. "There's not even a portal or elevator of any kind that could possibly take a pony to the Yo-kai World anyways. So Applebloom is still on Equestria, but definitely not impossible to find."

"Oh, I don't wanna tell Big Mac or Granny Smith that Applebloom's missing." Applejack started to sweat. "They'd never forgive me for losing her!"

"If I recall, there's a Yo-kai that can make people invisible to the naked eye." Whisper pulled out what looked like a square slab of metal with a face on the back. He tapped on the screen, and a digital screen of a book opened up. "That very same Yo-kai might be responsible for Applebloom's disappearance."

"Whisper? What's that?" Twilight raised a brow at the computerized book.

"What? This?" Whisper fumbled around with the book and made it disappear. "N-nothing! Just a reference guide! It's not like it's an encyclopaedia or anything. That'd be ridiculous."

Twilight rolled her eyes. "Anyway. Let's check Sweet Apple Acres first, then we can find out where Applebloom could have gone off to." She started to make her way towards the farm with Applejack and Whisper close behind her.

Twilight, Whisper, and Applejack all arrived at Sweet Apple Acres. They walked up to the barn, past the apple trees, and up to the door. Twilight rapped on the door a few times, waiting for someone to answer it.

The door flung open, and Applebloom ran out. She had the same purple flame around her from when Buhu had been inspiriting Twilight's friends, but she wasn't crying. If anything, she looked perfectly normal underneath the fires.

"Twilight? Applejack? Someone?" Applebloom called out to everyone at the door. "Somepony answer me! I'm tired of being treated like I'm not there!"

"Applejack, can't you see? Applebloom's right here!" Twilight pointed Applebloom out to Applejack.

"Nope. Sorry, Twi. You're pointing towards the ground." Applejack shook her head. She couldn't see her sister at all.

"What?! But she's right here!" Twilight pointed even harder and grabbed Applejack's hoof. She pulled it towards Applebloom's. "Here! Feel it if you don't believe me!" She tried to make the hooves touch, but her jaw dropped when Applejack's hoof passed completely through Applebloom's.

"Twilight! Remember the Yo-kai Watch." Whisper pointed to it. "It can find the Yo-kai responsible for this little incident."

"Oh yeah. Almost forgot." Twilight flipped up the lens and pointed it around. Just like before, when she hit the sweet spot, twelve segments lit up, and the Yo-kai revealed itself.

A small creature that looked like it was a puddle of goop dressed up in a purple ninja outfit appeared behind Applebloom. There was also a sword sheathed into its' back, in case it was taken by surprise and needed to defend itself.

"Aha! Dimmy! Of course! He's the one behind this!" Whisper pointed at the Yo-kai responsible for Applebloom's disappearance. "Dimmy is a Yo-kai capable of making anyone seem invisible to the world. No matter how much they beg and plead and holler for someone to pay attention to them, Dimmy will make sure that there's nothing but thin air in their place when someone talks to them."

"I just wish this could end so my sister could see me again..." Applebloom sat down and curled up her tail as she hung her head.

"It's your choice, Twilight. Negotiation or confrontation." Whisper patted Twilight on the back. "You could try to reason with Dimmy and make a compromise, or you could summon Buhu and have the two fight."

"Well, Applebloom wants to be seen again, and this thing doesn't look as innocent as the last one, so let's try confrontation this time." Twilight stepped forward and pulled out the medal she had obtained last night.

"To summon a Yo-kai with the Yo-kai Watch, just slip the medal into the slot on the side, and the watch will do all the rest." Whisper pointed out the slot on the side. It looked large enough to hold the medal from before.

"Alright. Thanks, Whisper." Twilight nodded as she clutched the medal tighter. "Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Buhu!" Twilight flipped the medal into the air and used her magic to grab it. "Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!" She rammed the medal into the slot on the side.

"SUMMONING: EERIE!" The watch declared as a torrent of purple energy shot out of the exact same slot on the side. As the Yo-kai took shape, Twilight heard a weird song coming from the watch too.

Lookie-lee, lookie-lee
Flippidy-dee!
Lookie-lee, lookie-lee,
Bubba Eerie!

"Buhu!" He announced his name once the song had ended and he had taken his real form. "What's up, Twilight?"

"Buhu. I need you to deal with a Yo-kai that's been causing trouble." Twilight pointed it towards Dimmy. "Now, I know that you're not much of a fighting type, but I don't think that it wants to listen to reason either."

"It's no big deal, Twilight. At least it's better than the documentary I've been watching..." Buhu flapped its' wings over to the other Yo-kai and tried to put on an intimidating look with its' bird head. "Hey, you!"

"What?" Dimmy looked over and saw Buhu looking at it. "Hey! That pony has a Yo-kai Watch! That's not fair! Dimmies aren't meant to be seen by mortals!"

"Well, if you had any sense like a real Dimmy would, you wouldn't have inspirited this poor child in the first place!" Whisper cracked his knuckles as he locked gazes with Dimmy. "Why would you go out of your way for something as mean as this?"

"I dunno. I'm bored, and I saw so many other Yo-kai inspiriting ponies in this new world, so I decided, 'to heck with it! This Dimmy is going to be an inspiriting Yo-kai, instead of a cowardly hide-in-the-shadows one'." Dimmy looked over at Twilight and Buhu. "But, since you wanna put up a fight, I suppose I could also prove myself as a fighting Yo-kai as well..."

"You really wanna make me do this?" Buhu sighed as he looked back at Twilight.

"We have no choice, Buhu. He's not going to listen to reason, so it's only fair that we take manners into our own hooves." Twilight looked sternly on at Dimmy.

"Alright. I suppose it could be entertaining for someone." Buhu set its' sights on Dimmy and charged in on him, trying to ram into the Yo-kai.

"You can't hit what you can't see!" Dimmy vanished into the ground, causing Buhu to fly right past it and crash next to him.

"Think I'm done yet?" Buhu got back up and watched Dimmy pop back up. "Take this!" Buhu launched a salvo of tears from his chest face that hit Dimmy square in the face.

"Hey! Cut that out!" Dimmy protested as he tried to push the water away. "I already had my bath!"

"This is a weird fight." Twilight looked back at Whisper as the two Yo-kai continued to tussle. "Is this how all Yo-kai fights go down?"

"Well, not all the time." Whisper looked on and saw Buhu and Dimmy push against each other. "Dimmy and Buhu are only 'E' rank Yo-kai. It's the higher ranking ones that usually put on more of a show in combat."

"Ah. That would explain why they're just slamming into each other most of the time." Twilight gave him a patient smile before she looked back at the fighting Yo-kai.

"You haven't got the guts to beat me!" Dimmy struck Buhu hard, but not strong enough to knock him out of the sky. "This girl is going to remain invisible forever!"

"No, she's not!" Buhu started to gather purple energy as he stopped in mid-air. He hummed a single note that gradually got higher in pitch as his talons curled up tighter and his flapping got stronger.

"Huh? What's going on with Buhu?" Twilight noticed the energy charge from Buhu.

"Buhu is charging a Soultimate. It's their signature move for a fight." Whisper put both of his hands on Twilight's shoulders and peaked through her hair. "Soultimates are extremely powerful moves, and often after using them, that Yo-kai has to rest before using it again. But, on the plus side, they're usually what ends a confrontation altogether."

"Alright! Go, Buhu!" Twilight cheered her friend on as he gathered some last slivers of energy.

"Boohoo Blast!" Buhu declared as a gloomy indigo torrent of enery burst out of his body and swallowed Dimmy whole. The blast was so strong that he was thrown from the ground and into the nearby wall, making the purple fire on Applebloom dissipate.

"Huh? Applebloom?" Applejack noticed the filly was now sitting down on the ground.

"Applejack?" Applebloom's ears perked up when she noticed Applejack call her name.

"You're back!" Applejack sprinted over and pulled Applebloom into a tight hug. "Thank Celestia above. I was really worried that I'd lost you forever!"

"Aw, shucks, Applejack. I wouldn't leave the farm for anything." Applebloom returned the hug with a smile on her face. "I'm just glad that you can see me again."

"Well, I guess that settles that little mystery." Whisper looked at Applejack and Applebloom's hug. He, Twilight, and Buhu went over to Dimmy, who was still rubbing his head from the impact. "Now, as for you..."

"Alright, alright! I give! Just don't hurt me like that again, alright?" Dimmy stood back up shakily and backed up against the wall.

"Making ponies invisible is a very bad thing to do, Dimmy." Twilight looked down at him and glared. "You should be ashamed of yourself. You nearly separated Applebloom and Applejack forever!"

"I'm sorry, alright!" Dimmy waved his hands in front of his face. "I just thought I could be a big and strong Yo-kai like Roughraff, Blazion, or Mochismo." Sighing, he looked down at where his feet would've been. "But it turns out I'm nothing more than a snake in the grass, huh? What good is being invisible if it just casts you out from the ones you love?"

"Dimmy. I know what you did was wrong, but if you just wanted to prove that you were strong, you could've just gone out and done some training, not just inspirit someone for the sake of it." Twilight's face melted into a sweeter expression upon hearing Dimmy's story. "I'm willing to forgive you and let you travel with me, though, as long as you promise to me that you won't inspirit someone without my permission, OK?" She held out her hoof.

"Yeah." Dimmy looked up at Twilight and took her hoof, giving her his Yo-kai Medal in the process. "You'll need this. You know, to keep me in check."

"Thank you, Dimmy." Twilight took the new medal and put it in her mane.

"Twilight. What are you doing?" Whisper asked as Twilight tucked the medal away.

"Well, I've got no pockets, and there's no other way to put these medals away for safekeeping." Twilight showed Whisper the medal for Dimmy. Just like Buhu's medal, it showed his portrait on a silver coin, but this time with a dark blue frame.

"Well, there's no need to fear. Whisper is here!" He raised both of his arms, spawning a book from white light. "Here you are, Twilight. Put your medals in here."

"What is this?" Twilight opened the book up, revealing blank pages with different holes that were similar in size to the Yo-kai Medals. There were twelve slots on every page, and many more pages beyond the one she was on.

"This is the Yo-kai Medallium." Whisper took both of the medals that Twilight had collected, flipped a few pages, and gently placed the medals into two of the slots. "This handy-dandy book is the must-have for any friend of the Yo-kai species. It contains enough spots for every recorded Yo-kai in existence. Heck, maybe even more!" He smiled. "All alphabetized by both tribe and name, it's the perfect way of finding any Yo-kai you want, and fast."

"There's an awful lot of pages in here, Whisper." Twilight flipped through the pages once Buhu and Dimmy's medals were securely placed into their slots. "How long do you think it'll take to complete this book?"

"Well, let's run some statistics on this, shall we?" Whisper pounded away at a little calculator. "So, we divide the days of the year by the situations in which a problem might arise, carry the potential lack of problems, and multiply by your skills, and I would say that with over four-hundred Yo-kai, this might take well over a year."

"A YEAR?!" Twilight stumbled backwards and landed on her flank.

"But don't worry, Twilight. You have me, Buhu, and now Dimmy to help you out." Whisper massaged Twilight's shoulders in an attempt to make her stresses fade away. "And besides, you're the Princess of Friendship. What could possibly go wrong?"

"Something tells me an awful lot..." Twilight's head sunk into her chest as she tried to process the thought of making friends for over a year. With the many different species of Yo-kai that Whisper has calculated, and with everything she had done at the moment, she knew that it would be a long, long time before her journey would be done.

Author's Notes:

Before I leave you now, I have to ask you all a question regarding chapters in this story.

Do you want them to be two short adventures for one chapter, or do you want me to make them longer but just have one Yo-kai per chapter? Leave me your thoughts in the comments section below, and make sure to stay tuned for more chapters in the future.

Coughing Up A Storm/The Laughing Dressmaker

"So, Whisper, could you tell me more about these Yo-kai Medals?" Twilight sat in her room at her castle as she examined Buhu and Dimmy's medals. She turned them over to the side, looking at the symbols on the back. "Like, there's this picture of an eye on Buhu's medal, but on Dimmy's, I can see a laughing face. Care to fill me in on that?"

"Of course, Twilight." Whisper flew next to Twilight and looked at the medals. "Yo-kai are divided up into eight different tribes depending on their powers, what they can do, and sometimes what they look like." He pointed at the symbols on the back of the medals. "You can see which tribe your Yo-kai comes from purely from just a quick glance on the back.

"The first tribe is Brave, Yo-kai that are always willing to put their lives on the line and be heroes. They're represented by a red crescent moon symbol on their medals." Whisper showed Twilight his guidebook and let her see the Brave tribe's logo. "If you want to make the timid and the meek seem determined and ready for anything, a Brave Yo-kai might be just what you need."

"I suppose Fluttershy could really use one of those." Twilight smiled as she saw different pictures of Brave Yo-kai scroll past her on the screen. This went on for a few seconds before she saw the next symbol.

"Our second tribe is Tough. These Yo-kai are usually the hardest to reason with, the strongest defenders, and are very capable of dealing a good old thrashing to anyone they don't like." Whisper showed her the icon, which resembled a human fist. "Tough Yo-kai are masters of the art of assertiveness, though most of the time, they often tend to overdo it. Well... mostly Roughraff."

"Hmm..." Twilight looked at all of the Tough Yo-kai flash before her eyes. "I might have to stick with fighting when dealing with them, huh?"

"Despite their nature, Tough Yo-kai can be persuaded, but it's very difficult to talk them out of doing what they do best," said Whisper. "It's much better, quicker, and easier to fight Tough Yo-kai anyways, as they're often quite stubborn."

"Ah. I understand." Twilight nodded as a third symbol appeared. "What's this next one?"

"The third Yo-kai tribe is Mysterious." Whisper pointed towards what could only be described as a ball shooting out lightning. "Mysterious Yo-kai are the strangest of the bunch, as they usually have the most wacky and out-of-the-ordinary designs, and their inspiriting powers are much more different to that of a normal Yo-kai." Whisper scrolled through the images again. "Mysterious Yo-kai can make you tell secrets, make funny jokes fall flat, and sometimes, they can even give you total amnesia!"

"Guess that's why they're the Mysterious tribe, huh?" Twilight let a small chuckle slip.

"Anyway, moving on to tribe number four: Heartful." Whisper stopped flicking the screen when he saw the next tribe icon. It looked like a blooming flower without the bud in the center. "Heartful Yo-kai are the most caring and compassionate Yo-kai around. They're always willing to help someone in need, and in battle, Heartful Yo-kai can heal you and your friends when they need it the most."

"So, they're the most friendly Yo-kai too?" Twilight looked at the Heartful Yo-kai appearing on Whisper's tablet. "Guess they're gonna be the easiest to befriend, huh?"

"True, but they still have their own likes and dislikes." Whisper gave Twilight a nod. "Give a Heartful Yo-kai something it doesn't like, and you'll really be in a spot of bother." He looked back at the device and saw the next symbol. It looked like a squiggly tail. "Now, tribe five is Slippery. These Yo-kai are hard to find, and even harder to hit. They lurk in the shadows, and are masters of evasiveness in combat, so it's better to reason with them rather than fight."

"So, snake-like Yo-kai probably fit this category the best." Twilight let what Whisper had said sink in. All of this information on the tribes was a lot to take in, but she learned nonetheless. With all of the Yo-kai she'd seen so far, she wasn't going to go out unprepared.

"It's not just fish and snakes that make up the Slippery tribe, Twilight." Whisper continued to flick the pictures by. "Anything that can hide or dodge extremely well is a Slippery Yo-kai. Not just your run of the mill trout or constrictor. But anyways, we've come up to tribe six: Shady."

"Hey! I know that sign! It's the one on Dimmy's medal!" Twilight pointed at the logo for Shady.

"Shady Yo-kai, just like Dimmy, are the most suspicious-looking and devious Yo-kai out there." Whisper tutted at the Shady Yo-kai. "No-one can predict what they'll do, where they'll go, or who they'll inspirit. And even when people do know, it's hard to get a solid lead on them." He looked at the medal. "The only reason we found Dimmy was because he was inspiriting little Applebloom. A real Dimmy, and its' evolved counterparts are harder to find, and near impossible to befriend."

"Evolve? As in, they can get bigger and stronger?" Twilight's eyes lit up and she clapped her hooves together.

"Yes. But that's for another day, Twilight." Whisper returned to his tablet, "For now, we have tribe seven of eight: Eerie." Whisper showed the same eye that was on Buhu's medal. "I assume you're familiar with this picture as well?"

"Yeah. That's Buhu's tribe." Twilight looked at the back of Buhu's medal, showing the eye that never blinked, no matter how long she looked at it.

"Eerie Yo-kai are known primarily for how often they inspirit people." Whisper floated in front of Twilight. "An Eerie Yo-kai can still fight physically like the other tribes, but most of the time, it wins battles by inspiriting and using supernatural elements to defeat their opponents."

"I see." Twilight nodded, thinking back to when Buhu inspirited her friends. "So there's lots of different Yo-kai in each different tribe, right?"

"Of course. It just simply wouldn't be a tribe without a huge audience in each." Whisper smiled and went on to the final icon. "And finally, for the eight tribe, we have Charming." He showed Twilight a picture of a huge pink heart. "Charming Yo-kai are the cutest and most adorable Yo-kai of them all. More often than not, they capture the hearts of the many people who are lucky enough to lay eyes on them."

"But just because something's cute, that doesn't mean it can't be strong, right?" Twilight raised her right hoof.

"Indeed. You're quite a fast learner, aren't you, Twilight?" Whisper tousled Twilight's mane before he went back to his work. "Yes, while Charming Yo-kai might seem cute and cuddly on the outside, they still pack quite a punch in combat. Be on your guard!"

"Eight tribes, hundreds of different Yo-kai..." Twilight gathered together everything she had learned from Whisper's crash course and put it all into her head. "I can't put into words how long and arduous a task it's going to be to befriend them all—especially since some don't want to listen to reason more than others."

"I know it's going to eat away a lot of your time, and I understand if your friends think you're going to be be acting weird for a while, but I want you to know that I'll be with you every step of the way, to help you out with whatever problems may arise in Ponyville and the rest of Equestria." Whisper gave Twilight some gentle pats on the back.

"Thanks, Whisper. You're a real friend." Twilight gave Whisper a smile before she helped him put his guide away and walk out of the castle.

When Twilight walked outside to get some fresh air, she was met with a ghastly noise. Dozens of ponies were coughing one after another, some heavily, and some lightly. Every time they thought that it was dying down, it just started back up, and there seemed to be no end in sight for the ponies afflicted by it.

"What's going on here?" Twilight saw Rainbow Dash hacking and coughing crazily in the middle of the crowd and approached her.

"Hey, Twilight..." Rainbow said before she let out another few coughs. "Nice to—" she did another one "—see you out."

"Rainbow Dash? Why is everypony coughing like this?" Twilight asked.

"I dunno." Rainbow let out another barrage of coughs. "One second, everything was fine, but then the next, we all just—" another cough cut her out "—got sick with these coughs."

"Do you think it's some kind of outbreak?" Twilight looked back at Whisper, then back to Rainbow.

"Nah. I'd say we should just give it time and—" yet another cough escaped Rainbow's mouth "—things'll settle down quickly."

"Twilight. There's two potential ways this could have happened." Whisper looked out at the coughing crowds of ponies carefully. "Either one of your townsponies has a serious medical condition, or..."

"Or what? What is it, Whisper?" Twilight tugged on his tail lightly.

"There's a Yo-kai responsible for all of this." Whisper bluntly said, looking back at Twilight and the Yo-kai Watch. "You know what to do, Twilight."

"Yeah, yeah. I know." Twilight flipped up the lens and began searching. It took her a while to sift through the crowd until the watch lit up and revealed the Yo-kai, but she kept her eye on Rainbow Dash especially, and something did eventually pop up.

A brown creature looking identical to a sea urchin with a eye in its' mouth materialized out of thin air, coughing just as bad as the rest of the town. It flew all around the ponies of Ponyville, but stayed close to Rainbow Dash most of the time.

"There! Do you see that?" Whisper pointed at the new Yo-kai.

"What is that thing?" Twilight looked at the urchin-like creature.

"That is Coughkoff; an Eerie Yo-kai capable of making someone cough uncontrollably if it inspirits them," said Whisper, examining it fly all over the place. "No matter how much fluids you drink, or whatever medication you take, Coughkoff will make you keep coughing until it's dealt with as a proper Yo-kai should be."

"We've gotta stop it, then!" Twilight walked towards the Yo-kai. "Ponies aren't meant to cough this much. I shudder to think what would happen if this lasts for the whole night, or even weeks!"

"Negotiation or confrontation as usual, Twilight," Whisper said. "It's still your choice."

"We'll try negotiation first. If that fails, I'll call Buhu or Dimmy to fix this." Twilight looked back at Whisper briefly before she returned her gaze to Coughkoff.

"Good luck to you then, Twilight." Whisper waved her off as she went up to Coughkoff. "I'll just stay right here in the cough-free zone."

Twilight suppressed a small groan before she went off to try and reason with Coughkoff. She approached the urchin, took a deep breath and shouted, Hey, Coughkoff! Stop inspiriting my town!"

"What?" Coughkoff looked around until he saw Twilight glaring at him. "Who are you? And why do you have a Yo-kai Watch?"

"My name is Princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria." Twilight stood proud and puffed out her chest. "And as the Princess of Friendship, and ruler of Ponyville, I demand that you cease and desist all inspiriting activity immediately, and transport yourself to the nearest way back to your world as possible."

"Princess?!" Coughkoff's eye went wide and he dashed over to Twilight. "It's not every day that I get to meet royalty! Not to mention such a cute princess such as yourself." He bowed down and kissed Twilight's hoof. "I'm so sorry for inspiriting your friends. I was just coughing as usual, and I must've spread it to the other townsponies." Coughkoff looked away and let out some small coughs before he looked back at Twilight. "Sorry."

"If you're truly sorry, then prove it by purifying my friends. Now!" Twilight stomped the ground.

"Alright, alright! Just don't send me to the dungeon, okay?" He shot off to fix the town.

"Dungeon? What kind of princess does he take me for?" Twilight raised a brow at Whisper, who floated back up to her.

"Isn't it customary for every prince, princess, queen, and king to have a dungeon?" Whisper tipped his hand at Twilight. "Speaking of which, you never mentioned the king or queen of Equestria to me. Any reason why that is, Twilight?"

"Equestria doesn't have a king or queen. We decided against giving alicorns like myself queen statuses, as queens and kings in this world have been notorious for being evil." Twilight shook her head. "If ponies believe in princesses, though, it gives them hope that Equestria is ruled by a good leader."

"Ah. I understand. You don't want to be the dominant authority, so you and these other three winged unicorns subverted themselves and their true titles just to maintain their images." Whisper crossed his arms and watched Coughkoff lift his curse from the rest of the ponies. "A wise idea for a world ruled by good. I'd love to see how you handle it when a real crisis arises."

"That's not exactly how I'd put it, but yes." Twilight nodded again. "A princess is all about kindness and being fair to their subjects. A king and queen can just want anything, and they'll just get it. Sometimes it's good, and other times, it's just downright evil. You have to learn how to manage your subjects as a king or queen, but as a princess, you can just look someone in the eye with a calm smile, and they'll know everything'll be alright."

"If you say so..." Whisper felt unsure and watched as Coughkoff flew down in front of him and Twilight.

"There we go. Every last—" Coughkoff coughed a few more times "—pony in Ponyville is now cough-free. Though I can't say the same about myself." He wheezed and took a deep breath.

"Well, isn't there anything I can do to help you?" Twilight calmly stepped forward towards Coughkoff. "I am the Princess of Friendship, after all. If you need something, just tell me."

"Well, I suppose I could use a drink to help this cough settle down a bit." Coughkoff said before he once again hacked and coughed.

"Sure." Twilight lit up her horn and concentrated long and hard. After a while, she thought of a glass of water, and it magically appeared in front of her. "Here you go." She took the glass and offered it to Coughkoff, pouring it into his mouth. "Does that make you feel any better?"

Coughkoff let out a small cough, which paled in comparison to the ones before it. "Huh. Whoa... That's the smallest and least painful cough I've made in years!" He smiled. "Thank you, Princess Twilight."

"Sure. And just Twilight is fine, Coughkoff," she said.

Another bright light erupted beside Coughkoff, and a Yo-kai Medal with his portrait dropped into Twilight's hooves. She took the medal and looked at both sides before she took the Yo-kai Medallium out of her saddlebags, slipped the medal into the slot, and put the book away.

"If you ever need me, just holler!" Coughkoff vanished in a puff of smoke.

"Well, I guess you could say that Coughkoff really coughed up the answer!" Whisper couldn't help but laugh at his own joke before he noticed Twilight's wasn't laughing.

"One, the joke wasn't funny, Whisper. Two, that's another Yo-kai Medal in the bag." Twilight looked back at him and trotted off. "Now, let's see if there's any more Yo-kai we can befriend. The day's still young, and there's plenty of time left to get at least two or three more friendships in until the end of the day.

"Honestly, can't you take a joke, Twilight?" Whisper spluttered as he shook at Twilight's criticisms. "It's like I'm in a comedy club with no audience here."

"A joke isn't funny unless it's given time." Twilight rolled her eyes again.

As Twilight and Whisper walked through the town, arguing over their senses of humour, they didn't that a silhouette was leaping from rooftop to rooftop, and then away from Ponyville altogether. It made no sound, nor did it make any audible noises from its' mouth. What it did leave, though, was a small gust of wind trailing it as it disappeared completely.

Twilight and Whisper walked down the road, waving to the other ponies on their journey. Despite the fact that Whisper couldn't be seen by the naked eye, he still felt it was a kind thing to at least greet them, even if they couldn't greet him back.

"So, where are we going today, Twilight?" Whisper asked.

"We're going to see Rarity at Carousel Boutique," Twilight said. "She's got a new line of dresses and clothes to deal with different crises that could hit Equestria."

"Why on earth would she want to ever dress in times of peril?" Whisper shrugged as he approached Carousel Boutique. "It might be the apocalypse, but there's still no need to waste time dressing up in frilly things when there's work to be done."

"Yes, but Rarity admires feedback from her friends, and if we aren't all there for her, then she could lose her faith in dressmaking." Twilight looked Whisper in the eyes before she opened the door and walked inside. "Even if it's bad, we still have to be there to give her our honest opinions, before she makes a big mistake..."

"Hey, Twilight!" Pinkie Pie bounced up to her and pushed her towards where the other ponies were sitting. "Come on! Rarity's about to unveil her latest line of disaster dresses and chaos clothes! She calls it: Confused, But Creative! Or, at least that's what I call it, anyways."

"So, how long has she had this idea?" Twilight asked Rainbow Dash.

"Oh, ever since the whole Flurry Heart incident back at the Crystal Empire." Rainbow Dash flicked her mane back and put her hooves behind her head. "She told me that she wanted to 'bring out the true emotion of disaster distress in dress format' or some junk. I didn't really listen much. I mostly heard gobbledygook about fabric when I did listen, though."

"Well, I'm sure that whatever Rarity's got cooking up there, it ain't gonna be very pretty." Applejack tutted as she stared at the stairs. "You can't mix disaster with fabrics and dresses. It's like using dirt as a kind of jam. You just don't do it."

"Well, we should at least let Rarity down easily." Twilight patted Applejack on the shoulders. "Even if her clothes pale in comparison to all the other stuff she's made in the past, we should let her down easily at best. If we don't, she might not want to make any more dresses."

Pinkie gasped. "No more of Rarity's dresses?! That's a disaster all by itself!" She shot up and banged her head on the roof, landing hard on the ground like a rock. "We've gotta say yes to her clothes! We can't let her stop making dresses!"

"Pinkie! We can't just lie to Rarity! That'd make things even worse!" Twilight blurted out.

"Speaking of which, where is Rarity?" Fluttershy looked back at the stairs. She said she'd be down in a minute, but I don't see her anywhere."

"Technically speaking, Fluttershy. If someone says they'll be a minute, it doesn't necessarily mean that they'll take a full sixty seconds." Twilight looked over at Fluttershy. "It's just an excuse for when they want to take some time, but not too much time."

"Coming!" Rarity ran down the stairs and shut the door, looking over to her friends and finding the right rack of clothes. "Sorry that it took a while, but Sweetie Belle desperately wanted me to help with her Filly Guide outfit, and I just couldn't say no to the poor thing. You understand, right?"

"Yeah, we understand," said Twilight.

"Who's Sweetie Belle?" Whisper raised an eyebrow again.

"Sweetie Belle is Rarity's little sister, Whisper." Twilight didn't move, but still looked at him through the corner of her eye. "I would tell you everything, but Rarity's going to unveil her dresses now.

"Who are you talking too, Twilight?" Applejack gave Twilight a suspicious look.

"No-one, Applejack! No-one at all!" Twilight frantically waved her hooves in front of her face to try and deny Whisper's existence. "Now, about those dresses, Rarity."

"Oh yes!" Rarity pulled off the blankets covering the clothes hastily, revealing a bunch of bizarrely coloured, tattered, and downright outlandish dresses that any of the ponies had ever seen before. "I know, you're speechless. Well, it took a lot of hard work and a lot of... re-designing to get these perfect, so I would like to hear what you all have to say on them.

"This first one is for those who want to meet a ghost and look quite dazzling when doing so." Rarity pulled out a dress that was so transparent that everyone could see right through it. It also came with a facial veil. "I call it: Unveiled!" She let out a small chuckle afterwards.

"Where'd you get the name?" Fluttershy asked as she looked at the blank dress.

"Oh, Pinkie Pie was helping me with the whole naming department for these clothes and for the line itself." Rarity gave them all a gentle smile. "Has she told you the name of the line yet?"

"Yeah! Confused, But Creative!" Pinkie threw confetti into the air as she stood next to Rarity. "Though, now that I'm thinking about it, I should have called it Fiendish Fabrics instead. That would've been way funnier!"

"Well, we can simply re-name it if the girls like the clothes or not, Pinkie." Rarity wrapped her arm around Pinkie's body. "But we're in the presenation phase right now, and it's always the presentation that decides a clothing's fate."

"Anyway. What's that one?" Twilight pointed at a gray one covered with blood, with a few bandages wrapped around it.

"Oh, this is something a pony wants to wear if they want to be in a zombie apocalypse and look like they've taken a real beating, but will still fight until the bitter end!" Rarity pulled the dress out and put it on a nearby mannequin. "I like to call this little thing: Survival Instinct!"

As Rarity was showing off her dresses, a snake-like creature slithered around the room and hid itself behind the dress rack. There was an urn where the end of its' tail was, but it didn't seem to matter much to it. The snake looked around at Rarity's clothing line and started to giggle, before it erupted into a fit of laughter.

"Oh, that's funny!" It said, sticking out its' tongue as it looked at all of the dresses in the room. "Did that white horse make this? She's an absolute riot!" The snake cackled so much, that it expelled a purple inspiriting flame that very quickly embodied Rarity.

"And last, but certainly not least..." Rarity couldn't help but stifle her own laughter, failing to bring herself to name the clothes. "We have quite possible the funniest outfit of them all..." She guffawed at her own creation. "The Vampire Pony!"

"Huh?" The other ponies looked at Rarity odd as they saw her collapse onto the floor and roll on it, laughing like a maniac.

"I don't get it, Rarity. It's not that funny," Twilight said, but Rarity was still laughing. "Hey! Equestria to Rarity!" Twilight tried to shout to her, but she still would not stop. "It's not funny!"

"Yes it is, Twilight!" Rarity tried to stand up, but then lost her balance in how humorous she thought her words were. "In fact, you and all the other girls, you're all funny too!"

"Funny?" Applejack backed away slowly from Rarity. "What in the heck are you on about, girl?"

"All your faces, how you're all looking at me like you don't know what's going on. It's just simply hilarious!" Rarity squealed with laughter as she clutched her chest. "Oh, I'm gonna give myself a heart attack, I'm laughing so much!" She slapped her knees.

"This is bad, Whisper..." Twilight put her right hoof to her mouth and whispered to him. "What do you think got into Rarity?"

"I sense that there's a Yo-kai is inspiriting your friend, Twilight." Whisper looked at Rarity and cracked his knuckles.

"Really?" Twilight glanced over at him.

"Either that, or your Rarity must have a fashion taste so bizarre that it would make Dazzabel faint in shock." Whisper pointed down to Twilight's Yo-kai Watch. "Still, you know what must be done."

"Yeah. Find the Yo-kai, and fix this before Rarity laughs so much that she has an actual heart attack." Twilight flipped up the lens, revealing the snake Yo-kai that was inspiriting Rarity. It too was laughing and rolling around in its' urn. "Found it!"

"What?" Applejack, Pinkie, Rainbow, and Fluttershy turned their heads towards Twilight in perfect sync.

"That Yo-kai is called Heheheel." Whisper pointed towards the cackling snake. "When Heheheel inspirits a person, then that person will laugh and giggle at, well, pretty much everything. It has a really broken sense of humour." Whisper shook his head disapprovingly. "Still. You know the drill, Twilight. Negotiation or confrontation."

"We need to fix this, Whisper." Twilight took out a Yo-kai Medal and held her Yo-kai Watch up. "I'm not gonna stand by and let Rarity go to the hospital just from laughing.

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Dimmy!" Twilight threw the medal skyward and caught it in her magic. "Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!" She shoved the medal into the slot.

"SUMMONING: SHADY!" The watch shouted as multiple streams of dark blue energy danced and converged into one another, generating Dimmy on the ground. There was also singing involved, but the lyrics were much different.

Marvelous thee!
Gusty, free banshee!
Sing, song
Shady!

"Dimmy!" He shouted as the song ground to a halt.

"What was that, Twilight?" Pinkie Pie looked at Twilight and her watch. "Ooh! It's that shiny thing from before!"

"Not now, Pinkie. I have to save Rarity before she literally dies laughing!" Twilight looked back at Pinkie before she turned back to Dimmy. "Now, Dimmy, I want you to take this Yo-kai by surprise and bring him to me, OK?"

"Sure! Sneak attacks are my specialty!" Dimmy stuck his back to the wall and became the same colour of it. With his invisible form, Dimmy snuck up behind Heheheel and drew its' sword, ready for a fight.

"Ha! This is amazing! The girl has more laugh in her than I thought!" Heheheel laughed at Rarity's laughter. "I wonder if I can inspirit other ponies while she's still laughing? That'd be priceless!"

"Now I'll get to prove to those other Yo-kai that I'm stronger than they think I am..." Dimmy pointed the tip of the sword at Heheheel's neck and raised it high.

"Dimmy! No!" Twilight saw what Dimmy was about to do and rolled head-first into both him and Heheheel. She broke the two apart, but Dimmy was flailing his tiny sword at Heheheel erratically, trying to hit it. "What are you doing?!"

"I'm trying to kill Heheheel for you!" Dimmy reached over Twilight, but he was shoved back by the back of Twilight's hoof.

"I don't want him dead! I just want him to stop inspiriting Rarity!" Twilight pushed both Dimmy and Heheheel farther apart with her hooves. "What did you think I wanted with him?"

"Isn't that what Yo-kai usually do? Kill their enemies so that they just resurrect in the Yo-kai World?" Dimmy shrugged at Twilight's actions.

"Twilight. When a Yo-kai falls in battle, they simply just go back to the Yo-kai World." Whisper gave Twilight a stern look. "We can't die, since we're all technically dead to begin with. What did you think happened to a Yo-kai when it dies?"

"I just thought that it kinda moved on to live in peace, y'know?" Twilight looked at Whisper with a slightly disheveled look on her face. "Laying their souls to rest so that they can live their afterlives without being disturbed?"

"No! Obviously you have your beliefs on Yo-kai death completely wrong!" Whisper shouted in Twilight's face and scoffed. "When we get home, I'm going to have to give you a long and hard lecture on the principles of life and death in the Yo-kai kind!"

Suddenly, the purple flame around Rarity stopped, and she finally stopped laughing. As soon as it did, Heheheel had a quiet chuckle, which soon rose into a massive fit of giggling and cackling. He looked over at Twilight, Dimmy, and Whisper, and slammed his urn into the ground repeatedly. It didn't break, no matter how many times he did it.

"You guys are amazing!" Heheheel got back up and looked at Twilight and Whisper. "You, with the barrel roll and then him with the stupid rules? You two make a great comedy act!" Hanging its' head in its' own humour, Heheheel's tail poked out of the urn with a Yo-kai Medal balancing on top. "Quick! Take it, before I upset the balance with my laughter!"

"Uhh... Okay?" Twilight took the medal, and Heheheel disappeared into another puff of smoke, its' laughter still echoing on the cosmos.

"Oh, wait until the others hear about this..." Heheheel's voice echoed for a bit before it cut out completely.

"What just happened?" Whisper was at a loss for words with everything that he had just witnessed.

"I think we made friends with Heheheel?" Twilight looked at the new Yo-kai Medal. It showed Heheheel's portrain on one side, but on the back, it showed the snake tail logo that belonged to the Slippery tribe. "Or at least, I think. Everything happened so fast that I couldn't take it all in.

"What just happened?" Rarity looked up at all her friends. She was still on the floor from her little fit when she was inspirited. "Oh no! Did I mess up the presentation?"

"No, Rarity." Applejack helped Rarity stand back up. "As long as you had fun showing those outfits off, then I guess I can't stay mad at you."

"Yeah." Rainbow Dash slid up beside Rarity. "If your dresses are so cool that you have to laugh like Pinkie Pie, then it doesn't really matter if they're bad or not. If you're happy with them, then I'm happy with them too." She looked at the dresses. "Plus, that zombie apocalypse one looks awesome! I might just need one of those in case the town's hit by something like that someday..."

"Well, I can't say that my behaviour was very dignified." Rarity dusted herself off and walked over to her dresses. "What with all of that laughing, I must have looked like a total clown..."

"It's alright." Pinkie joined Rarity. "And besides, you're not the only thing that was weird today." She pointed at Twilight. "Twilight was saying stuff about Yo-kai and Dimmy, and something called Heheheel, then something about how Yo-kai died or something. She was kookier than usual, and Twilight does get pretty kooky at times..."

"What's up with that, Twilight?" Applejack trotted over to Twilight and raised her hoof to examine the Yo-kai Watch. "And what's that fancy-schmancy doodad on your leg?"

"It's a long story..." Twilight rubbed the back of her head and blushed as the five girls stared at her.

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Negative Pinkie/The Man-Faced Dog

"So let me see if I understand this." Rarity, Starlight, Spike, and the rest of the Main Six were sitting in the throne room together, examining Twilight's Yo-kai Watch together. "That little piece of plastic is actually something used for summoning things called..." She twisted her hoof, the name escaping her tongue.

"Yo-kai." Twilight nodded and brought the watch closer to the middle. "Yo-kai are invisible creatures responsible for the world's ups and downs. Whenever someone feels mysteriously hungry, can't remember anything, or just wants to be a slouch, that means that a Yo-kai's essence is controlling that pony, and they just pass it off as normal behaviour."

"But, if they're invisible, then how do you know they exist?" Rainbow Dash raised a brow and flapped over to the watch.

"Because this device is the only thing that allows me to see them." Twilight popped up the lens and pointed it at Whisper. She then showed it to the rest of her friends. "Look through here, and you'll see what I mean."

The rest of the room walked up to the watch and peeked through the lens. Once they did, they could clearly see Whisper giving them a warm smile. They looked without the lens and saw that he was indeed invisible.

"You mean..." Rainbow Dash let the thought fester in her head for a while.

"WHAT?!" Everyone else in the room chorused in perfect harmony.

"So, whenever you suddenly feel hungry, need to go to the bathroom, or tell a secret when you meant to say hello, that's a Yo-kai's work." Twilight brought the lens back to her friends. "And this little ghost next to me is Whisper. He's a butler, my guide to all things Yo-kai, and my supposed conscience for now."

"I'm also a grade-A chef, would you believe it?" Whisper gave a little chuckle. "But for some reason, Twilight doesn't seem interested in any of my meals..."

"That's because whenever I try to eat your meals, they always go right through me." Twilight turned towards him.

"Well, that's why the recipe is so secret!" Whisper flapped his arms at Twilight. "What did you expect from such things as ghost pie or spirit tea?"

"I'm guessing the secret is that it's only eatable by ghosts." Starlight deadpanned, causing everyone else but Whisper to laugh.

"Not funny." Whisper scoffed and turned his back to the ponies.

"So, how'd you find that cute little thingamajig, Twilight?" Pinkie Pie bounced up and over the watch before her eyes literally bulged out looking at it.

"You know that ghost story you said in the Everfree Forest the other night about the girl who disappeared after opening that capsule prize?" Twilight saw Pinkie nodding already. "Well, as it turns out, it was somewhat true. Whisper told me most of the specks on it, but he never told me about what happened to the mare in question."

"If she were in the Yo-kai World, someone would have told me by now. Nothing ever gets into the Yo-kai World except Yo-kai and a select few humans nowadays." Whisper tipped his hand.

"So wait, how is it that we can't see Whisper on the outside world, but we can hear him talking?" Fluttershy looked at Whisper, then the blank space where she couldn't see him without the watch. "It makes no sense."

"Oh. On the way back to the castle, I did some minor tinkering with the Yo-kai Watch." Twilight used her other hoof to show her friends the changes she had made. There was a speaker in the middle of the interior frame, as well as numbers and hands to tell the time. "Not only can it function like an ACTUAL watch now, but it also allows Yo-kai to talk to other ponies who don't have one of their own. Pretty sweet, huh?"

"How in the world did you make that while we were walking?" Whisper looked at the speaker and clock hands closely. "You seemed like you were having so much fun with your friends as you were talking to them about showing off the watch and what it could do, that I never would've guessed that you could alter the Yo-kai Watch at the same time."

"Whisper, I'm a multitasker. You should know that by now." Twilight smiled a little as she looked back at him.

"Well, you are pretty much the only pony I know who can stack books, write letters, and make food all at once, so there is that." Whisper looked at Twilight's horn. "Still, how? You looked like you were doing so much, that wouldn't you at least strain and struggle trying to pull it off?"

"Listen, buddy. Twilight here has done plenty of other things that'd blow your ghostly socks off." Rainbow tried to jab Whisper's stomach, but her elbow went right through his chest.

"Big deal, then. I don't wear socks." Whisper chuckled again at Dash's remark.

"Ugh! It was just a figure of speech, y'know!" Dash flew back to the rest of the group.

"Well, Twilight is the only pony who not only stood up and saved Princess Luna from Nightmare Moon; fixed our friendships so we could defeat Discord; used all of her power to stop Lord Tirek—" Pinkie was cut off by Starlight's hoof in her mouth.

"And stop me from re-writing the past to change the future." Starlight hung her head and curled her tail back.

"Whoa..." Whisper looked at Twilight, who had a smug and proud grin on her face. "You really did all that?"

"Yep. You're looking at Equestria's greatest hero right there, Whisper." Applejack tipped her hat back and gave Twilight a small hug. "We've been following in her footsteps ever since the Nightmare Moon incident a while back."

"In just one word, Twilight, you're incredible." He flew down and shook her hoof again. "I'm honoured to be your guide for the adventures you're going to have in Ponyville and beyond."

"Aww... Thanks, Whisper." Twilight gave him a small cuddle, which he was happy to return."

Meanwhile, as everyone was talking about Yo-kai, where Whisper came from, and other topics relating to the manner, a red mosquito creature cast a mean look at Pinkie Pie. Grunting, the insect flew over and dived its' nose right into Pinkie's brain, giving her a purple flame, just like before.

"So, Pinkie, aren't you excited to be a part of this adventure?" Twilight walked over to Pinkie and grinned at her.

"Not really." Pinkie pushed Twilight away, watching her happy expression evaporate instantly. "All of this just seems like a bunch of hooey. Why do little bugs have to control everything? Can't we decide for ourselves? It just ticks me off, quite frankly."

Everyone's mouths were agape with what Pinkie had said. Never in their lives had they seen her acting so negative, and Spike himself fainted over the sentence.

"Pinkie? What's gotten into you, girl?" Rarity slowly walked forward and reached her hoof out, only for Pinkie to slap it away, grumbling.

"Stay away from me. I'm not in the mood right now for any of my games." Pinkie crossed her hooves and sat down, glaring at her friends.

"Do you think there's a Yo-kai inspiriting her?" Fluttershy whispered to Twilight.

"Could be. I'll give her a quick scan." Twilight pointed the lens at Pinkie Pie and watched it light up to reveal the Yo-kai. As Pinkie muttered gibberish that could only be described as pessimistic hate comments, the mosquito was sucking something up through its' nose.

"Why does she have to be so positive all the time?" The Yo-kai sighed. "She needs to know the word 'negative' one way or another..."

"That is Negatibuzz." Whisper hovered over to Twilight. "If Negatibuzz inspirits you, your mood can become foul in a snap. Even the most joyful of ponies like Pinkie aren't safe from this grumpy, mean, and downright rude creature."

"Well? What's wrong with her?" Rarity asked Twilight.

"Something called Negatibuzz is inspiriting poor Pinkie, making her the grumpiest grump you'll ever see." Twilight pulled out a Yo-kai Medal and clutched it tight. "But don't worry, girls. I know just the Yo-kai that'll give Pinkie Pie her smile back.

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Heheheel!" Twilight threw the medal skyward, just like the others. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" And she similarly shoved it into her watch.

"SUMMONING: SLIPPERY!" The watch boomed, as light blue snakes danced in the air, causing Heheheel to appear and dance along with them as they flew through the air and crashed down on the ground.

Trippery!
Gippery!
Slimey-wimey do,
Slippery!

"Heheheel!" The snake bowed his head as his urn landed delicately.

"What in the heck was that, Twilight?" Applejack's eyes were wide in disbelief. "I mean, I understand the beams of light, but not that song that came out of nowhere!"

"Look, girls." Twilight showed them the lens again, revealing both Heheheel and Negatibuzz staring each other down. "The snake is my Yo-kai, Heheheel, while the other one is a wild Yo-kai called Negatibuzz."

"So that disgusting insect is what's making Pinkie Pie into Grumpy Pie?" Rarity spat to the side as she turned away from Negatibuzz. "Honestly, such a filthy creature shouldn't even be here."

"But then again, that snake is what turned you into a laughing hyena back at the boutique." Twilight rolled her eyes as she showed Rarity Heheheel."

"Touche..." Rarity eyed up both Yo-kai, using her hoof to say that she was watching them.

"Heheheel. Why did you come to this world too?" Negatibuzz groaned as he looked at the snake bemusedly. "You're just going to cut me out of the market again, aren't you?"

"Nope! I heed Twilight's call now!" He was still laughing and giggling crazily. "Wherever she goes, if she needs me, I'm there in two shakes of a snake's tail!"

"Sigh. Everything just seems pointless with you around to spoil the fun." Negatibuzz flew out of Pinkie's head and buzzed its' wings faster. "Well, if you are going to break my inspirit on this pink horse, then I'm not going out without a fight!"

"Bring it on!" Heheheel licked its' lips and hurled itself at Negatibuzz, who simply flew aside.

"Weak. Just what I expected from a snake stuck in its' pot." Negatibuzz drove its' nose into Heheheel, sucking up something and making the eel yelp in pain, but still giggle. "Don't you feel weak stuck in that thing? Do you want to break out?" He cast a purple flame on the Yo-kai, making it stop laughing.

"Actually, why am I in this pot?" Heheheel looked down at where his tail should be. "I could be out there, wriggling around the world, but I'm just stuck in something dumb for the rest of my life."

"Heheheel? What's wrong?" Twilight looked at what had become of her Yo-kai. "Why are you negative too?"

"Oh, did I forget to mention? Yo-kai can inspirit each other in combat as well." Whisper crossed his arms and peaked over Twilight's shoulder. "Heheheel might be a laughing sack, but even he isn't immune from Negatibuzz's inspiriting powers."

"Then there's only one other way to fix this." Twilight pulled out another Yo-kai Medal. "Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Buhu! Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" She repeated the process at a much more rapid pace and saw Buhu appear instantly, without the watch calling it out.

"Oh, hey, Twilight. What's up now?" Buhu looked up at Twilight.

"Wait. Buhu?!" Negatibuzz's eyes went wide as he looked at Twilight's new Yo-kai ally. "Why didn't you tell me you were friends with Buhu? That puts a whole new spin on things!"

"Negatibuzz?!" Buhu looked at him.

"You two know each other?" Twilight raised a brow as both Yo-kai flew up to each other and gave off small smiles.

"Yeah. Buhu was my partner back in the day." Negatibuzz still kept up his attitude, but his voice felt a little better in mood. "Together, we created the ultimate depression combo. Making people cry, making them doubt themselves, oh, those were the days."

"For you, maybe. I can't imagine how it must've been for the other people you inspirited." Twilight shivered and rubbed the ground with her back hoof. "Still, it's great that you two know each other."

"Oh yes. Yo-kai aren't like animals, Twilight." Whisper nodded and watched Buhu and Negatibuzz fly off and talk. "Most of the time, certain Yo-kai are friends with one another, have worked together in the past, or even got married."

"Yo-kai can marry?!" Twilight's mouth fell wide open again.

"Yes. It's a weird and wonderful thing, don't you agree?" Whisper said as he watched both Negatibuzz and Buhu return.

"Alright, Twilight. I'm not really one to trust humans much, but Buhu here says that you've really opened up to him." Negatibuzz looked back at both Heheheel and Pinkie and removed the purple fires. "Buhu is probably the only friend—or at least acquaintance—that I've had, so I want to make sure that he's safe and with me at all times. I don't usually hand this out, but he is my chum, and so I just want to make sure in case we get lost again." The white flash happened again, and a Yo-kai Medal dropped into Twilight's hoof. "My Yo-kai Medal. You probably won't need it, but you're going out befriending Yo-kai, so, whatever."

"Thanks, Negatibuzz." Twilight smiled.

"Don't mention it. Ever. To anyone." Negatibuzz looked away and disappeared with Buhu.

"Girls? What happened?" Pinkie Pie shook her head and looked at the rest of the Main Six. "Was I a bad pony?"

"No, Pinkie." Twilight walked over to Pinkie Pie and helped her stand back up on four hooves. "You just had some mosquito Yo-kai sucking on your brain and turning you into a meanie. It's gone now, though." Twilight looked back at Heheheel. "Actually, Heheheel? Do you mind giving Pinkie Pie her laughter back?"

"Sure thing, Twilight! I love to see people laughing! It makes them forget about their worries!" Heheheel laughed so much that he shot off his own inspiriting flame that took Pinkie in seconds.

Pinkie let a small chuckle slip, but it soon rose into a giggle, then into full-blown laughter. As she laughed, tears streamed from her eyes as she flopped onto her back, kicking her legs out all over the place as she let the feeling take her.

"Pinkie sure seems happier now." Whisper watched Pinkie continue to laugh under Heheheel's influence.

"Yes. Pinkie's usually the happy one, so to see her mean and grumpy, I just couldn't allow it." Twilight lightly tickled Pinkie's tummy, making her laugh even more. "I don't care if Heheheel's controlling her or not. A laughing Pinkie Pie is a normal Pinkie Pie in my books."

"You're all so funny! All of you! With your manes and your Cutie Marks, it's all hilarious!" Pinkie Pie said through her laughter as she looked at the rest of her friends.

"Maybe a bit too much?" Rarity watched Heheheel and Pinkie laughing together.

"Nope." Dash shook her head at the sight. "If Pinkie's laughing, she can keep going for a long, long, long time."

Eventually, everyone else in the throne room couldn't help but join in with the laughter. They weren't on their backs as Pinkie was, but they were still chuckling at what had happened.

"Hey, Whisper. I don't think I've seen this Yo-kai before." Twilight stopped in the middle of the road and pointed her watch at another Yo-kai. The creature looked perfectly like a dog with brown and green fur, but it had the face of a human male. "Care to fill me in?"

"Of course. That is Manjimutt." Whisper looked at the Yo-kai and stroked its' fur. "Unlike other Yo-kai, Manjimutt doesn't inspirit people, and instead just prowls the world looking for a job."

"Why's it got that weird face?" Twilight looked at Manjimutt's face as henstarted to chase his own tail.

"Have you ever seen a human before?" Whisper asked. "Skinny legs? Tiny nose? Sometimes even funny clothes?"

"Oh! You must mean those things on the other side of the portal!" Twilight realized exactly what Whisper was talking about. "Yes, I know what a human is now. They're those things that Sunset Shimmer's living with in the other world."

"Sunset Shimmer?" Whisper cocked a brow.

"It's a long story. I'll be happy to tell you once we get back to the castle." Twilight smiled again. "But right now, I think we should definitely make friends with Manjimutt. It'd be great to have a dog as one of our friends! Well, technically half-dog half-human, but it's still the same thing."

Twilight walked up to Manjimutt and slowly raised her hoof to greet him. "Hello there."

"Hi." Manjimutt waved at Twilight. "Who are you?"

"My name's Twilight Sparkle and this is—"

"Whisper?" Manjimutt recognized Whisper immediately and walked up to him. "Hey! Where've you been you sly devil, you?" He chuckled as he came over to Whisper and noogied his head. "It's been a long time, hasn't it?"

"Why yes, yes it has, Manjimutt." Whisper stopped the dog-man from noogieing him. "Are you still looking for a job?"

"Well yes, but most of these ponies don't really want a dog as their employee." Manjimutt looked at the different stalls and shops in Ponyville. "Figures. I'd probably get hair in most of their products anyway, knowing me."

"Aww, don't give up hope, Manjimutt." Twilight kneeled down and gave the dog a small back rub. "I'm sure that there's a place for you right here in Ponyville somewhere."

"Yeah, well it's not just a job I'm after." He used his back left paw to tap the ground. "I'm also looking for a place to stay outside of the Yo-kai World, and I was just counting my money for a house when all of a sudden, I was ambushed by a trio of Roughraff." He shook his head. "I could've taken them one on one, no problem, but they all attacked at once, and it just wasn't fair."

"Roughraff WOULD do that, wouldn't he?" Whisper shook his head and scoffed. "Honestly, it's bad enough that one was involved in this, but three at once just seems mean."

"Well, don't worry about a thing, Manjimutt. I'll find those Roughraff and give them a piece of my mind." Twilight slammed her hooves together and gritted her teeth. "Do you know where they are now?"

"Well, the last time I met them, I heard them saying that they were going to 'hang out' at the park." He flexed his paws to emphasise what the Roughraff meant. "We should go there now, to stop them from getting away."

"Good idea." Twilight began to walk away with Manjimutt and Whisper right behind her. "You stay with me, Manjimutt, and I promise I'll get your wallet back."

"Are you sure that you know what you're doing, Twilight?" Whisper lightly tapped her shoulders. "Roughraff is a cruel and nasty Yo-kai. Imagine the worst school bully you've ever had, multiply that by ten, and that's him in a nutshell."

"I could tell just from the name alone, Whisper." Twilight sighed as she looked at her Yo-kai Medallium again. "If anything goes wrong, I have five Yo-kai on standby to slap some sense into those Roughraff."

"Well, alright. But I'm not going to be responsible for what happens if Roughraff inspirits you or Manjimutt." Whisper crossed his arms as the group approached the park.

"We're here." Manjimutt began to look around at the different ponies, objects, and plants that were laid all across the green hills and dirt roads. He got up on his hind legs and used his front left paw to block out the sunlight streaking onto his face. "Be sure to watch out for a green Yo-kai with an orange pompadour haircut. That's what Roughraff looks like."

"Twilight. You might need the Yo-kai Watch for this." Whisper saw how much stuff was in the park and pointed to the watch. "I forgot to mention that Yo-kai can also transform into different objects and blend in with the real world."

"So they're like Changelings?" Twilight flipped the lens up and began searching. "Alright. Let's see what we have here..."

Twilight looked at each and every tree, blade of grass, pony, park bench, and flower that she could find in an attempt to find the Roughraff. Unfortunately, all of her searching turned out to be fruitless as the watch had not lit up once in her attempts.

"Darn! They must've got away." Twilight hung her head and stomped the ground as she closed the lens. "There's no Roughraff here, Manjimutt. Sorry about that."

"No. They're definitely here." Manjimutt stepped around Twilight and began sniffing the air. "I can smell the scent of delinquency somewhere in this park."

"Manjimutt has an enhanced perception of smell, Twilight," said Whisper. "He can detect a Yo-kai, person, or anything else from a mile away at least."

"There are three Roughraff here all gathered together." Manjimutt walked along the road, sniffing out the Yo-kai every step of the way. "The reason that you couldn't see them was because they decided to hide in the trees."

"You can tell that from smell alone?" Twilight's eyes went wide.

"Yep. I also smell that they're eating candy bars and using hairspray." He looked back and gave Twilight a thumbs up gesture. "No doubt that they're going to litter with the cans and wrappers once they're done..."

"Well, where are they now?" Twilight asked.

"I can smell that they're moving through the trees towards a trio of children." Manjimutt ran through the park to try and follow the scent of the Roughraff. "Probably going to use them to cause even more trouble." All of a sudden, he felt a new smell and shivered. "Twilight. Not to worry you or anything, but I can also smell an inspiriting flame."

"What?!" Twilight ran as fast as her hooves could carry her and opened her wings out wide. "We've gotta hurry! Get on my back!"

Manjimutt didn't even have time to respond as he was lifted onto Twilight's back by her magic. He simply held onto the flying pony and held his head out to the side, letting the air slam into his face and blow his lips back, just like an actual dog looking out of a car.

"There!" I can see them!" Manjimutt yelled and pointed out to the bridge where three fillies were standing there with purple flames around them.

"The Cutie Mark Crusaders?" Twilight grimaced at the thought of the three fillies being mean troublemakers. "Ooh, I'm gonna wrap my hooves around Roughraff's neck so hard..."

"Save the violent thoughts for later, Twilight." Whisper grabbed her shoulders, making her stop in mid-air. "For now, use the Yo-kai Watch to expose Roughraff. Then you have the usual negotiation or confrontation deal."

Wasting no time, Twilight flipped up the lens of the Yo-kai Watch and pointed it at the Cutie Mark Crusaders. In seconds, the three Roughraff appeared next to them. One sitting on Applebloom's back, another leaning on Sweetie Belle's mane, and the third one drinking soda and throwing it away as it stood next to Scootaloo.

"Roughraff! Stop this at once!" Whisper yelled at the top of his voice to the three Yo-kai.

"Hey guys. Look at that." One of the Roughraff pointed at Whisper and Twilight. "Some dorky poached egg is telling us what to do."

The three Roughraff merely shared laughter as they watched Twilight and Whisper both grit their teeth and crack their knuckles and hooves.

"Confrontation." Twilight and Whisper both said together as Twilight opened the Yo-kai Medallium.

But before Twilight could even pick a medal out of the book, Sweetie Belle leapt up and snatched it out of Twilight's hooves.

"Hey! That's mine!" Twilight was flabbergasted at Sweetie Belle's actions.

"Nope. It's ours now." Sweetie made a menacing look at Twilight and looked at her fellow crusaders. "And we're not giving it back, no way, no how!"

"Give. Me. That. Book. Now!" Twilight landed and marched up to the three fillies with fire in her eyes.

"Keepaway!" Scootaloo called, as Sweetie tossed her the Medallium.

Twilight ran over to Scootaloo, who threw the book to Applebloom, who then sent it to Sweetie as she got close, and then caught it again as she tried to grab it in mid-air. With every missed catch, Twilight's teeth gnashed together as she looked at the Roughraff riding on the backs of the fillies, using jockey whips to make them run faster.

"Giddyup, little ponies!" One Roughraff grabbed onto Scootaloo's muzzle and used it like reins.

"Yeehaw!" Another one cried out as it spun its' whip in the air.

"I'm the roughest, toughest, meanest cowboy in the whole wild west!" The third Roughraff drove Applebloom towards Applejack and swiftly stole her hat.

"Hey!" Applejack chased after the ponies.

"Stop those Roughraff!" Twilight called as she ran through the town with the CMCs having a commanding lead, with her, Applejack, Manjimutt, and Whisper just trailing behind.

"You know what's going on, Twilight?" Applejack turned towards her while still pursing the fillies. "Why are the Crusaders runnin' like this?"

"A trio of bad Yo-kai known as Roughraff have inspirited the fillies, turning them into mean and nasty troublemakers," Twilight explained. "They stole my Yo-kai Medallium."

"And my wallet!" Manjimutt yipped from Twilight's back.

"And my sanity!" Whisper wildly flailed his arms.

"I'm not gonna stop until I get back what I deserve!" All three of them said together.

"Well, I'd be glad to help out." Applejack lowered her brows and pulled out a lasso. "Any feller that thinks they can steal my hat and get away with it has got another thing coming!"

"She's got a rope!" The Roughraff with the hat warned his friends. "Split up!"

And with that, the three fillies jumped to each side to avoid Applejack's rope. They then dispersed into three different streets, each carrying a different item. Sweetie Belle had the Yo-kai Medallium, while Applejack's hat was travelling with Applebloom.

"Darnit!" Applejack growled as she chased after Applebloom.

"Give me back that book, Sweetie Belle!" Twilight galloped after the white filly so fast that she accidentally sent Manjimutt hurtling right onto Scootaloo.

The three chasers ran after their targets, with Whisper flying overhead to get a bird's eye view of the action. "This should be interesting..."

Author's Notes:

The whole thing involving Manjimutt and Roughraff will continue in the next chapter, just in case you're wondering, so be sure to stay tuned to that. I'm so glad to be getting out of Scotland and back home in a few days too, since I'll have access to my PC again once I'm back. And with that, I should be able to bust out chapters of this, and my other stories more often.

I also strongly recommend upvoting this story if you like it so far, as I feel that upvotes have much more of an impact and get my story out there easier, and attract a wider audience. And as always, make sure that you leave your comments down below and comment on what you liked so far, what you think could change, and some ideas for upcoming Yo-kai and who they inspirit.

See you soon.

Cleaning Up the Roughraff/Talking To a Brick Wall

Applejack chased after Applebloom and the Roughraff who had stolen her hat down the first road. It was a very tight chase, but Applebloom was still just a filly, and it soon became apparent when she looked back and saw her sister catching up to her at a steady pace. Both she and Roughraff knew that they would both get caught.

Roughraff leapt off of Applebloom and backflipped high into the air. He held on tight to the hat and grabbed onto the ledge of a nearby window. He hoisted himself up and got out of the way of Applejack's rope with very little time to spare as he managed to scale the building and get onto the roof.

"Ha! Try and catch me now, country hick!" Roughraff taunted as he ran across the rooftops of the adjacent houses. Whenever he came to a large gap in between two of the houses, he took a running jump and just managed to grab the edges of the next one, pulling himself up once he had a firm grip.

"So that's how he's gonna play it, is he?" Applejack snarled and readied her rope again while pursuing the Yo-kai. "I'm gonna catch that varmint if it's the last thing I do!"

The chase resumed, with Applejack throwing the rope countless times as she tried to grab onto Roughraff and pull him down to the ground. No matter how many times she threw it, though, the rope just fazed right through him. It seemed that trying to grab him with it was impossible, as Applejack began to pant heavily after a few more throws.

"Weak. I can do this all day." Roughraff smirked as he made another jump.

"Surprise!" Whisper suddenly dropped down from the sky and rammed himself into Roughraff mid-jump. The impact sent the bully plummeting like a stone dropped into water, and the hat that he was wearing tumbled off, right by Applejack's feet.

As Applejack took back her hat and put it on her head, she saw Applebloom approach her. Unbeknownst to her, the purple flame had vanished, and her sister was giving her a look of innocence. Applejack took the time to nuzzle Applebloom, and the two of them walked off to attend to other manners.

"No fair!" Roughraff pushed Whisper off of him. "I almost outran her!"

"Nothing's ever fair when you're involved, Roughraff," Whisper chided. "Now get out of Equestria, and don't come back until you learn some manners!"

"Tch... You may have beaten me this time, but there's two other Roughraff in this town," he said. "And they're gonna make sure that they never cough up that wallet or Yo-Kai Medallium!" And with that, he vanished.

"Not while I'm here." Whisper took off to go and see how Twilight and Manjimutt were faring with their own chases.

Twilight used her wings to catch up to Sweetie Belle, but as soon as she got close to her book, Roughraff balanced himself on Sweetie's bouncing back and gave Twilight a powerful kick to her face, knocking her back by a few feet. Despite all of that, though, she wouldn't give up until she had her Yo-Kai Medallium back.

"C'mon. You're a pony with wings and a horn!" Roughraff sat back down and held onto the Yo-Kai Medallium as tight as he could. "Why don't you try and use your freaky-deaky magic to try and stop me?"

"If that's a way of baiting me, it's not gonna work. But" —Twilight caught up with Roughraff and avoided his next kick before she swooped in front of him and used her magic to create a wall directly in front of both him and Sweetie Belle— "if you desperately want to see my magic, then there you are."

Roughraff and Sweetie Belle crashed head-on into the wall and dropped the Yo-Kai Medallium. Twilight took it before they got any clever ideas and looked for a Yo-kai that she thought would be capable of finishing the problem once and for all.

"You've been a naughty little thing, Roughraff." Twilight pulled out her medal of choice and threw it into the air. "Luckily, I've got just the Yo-kai to get you to stop this nonsense!" She rammed it into her Yo-Kai Watch and watched her friend materialize before her eyes.

"SUMMONING: EERIE!" the Yo-Kai Watch declared.

Lookie-lee, lookie-lee,
Flippidy-dee! Lookie-lee, lookie-lee,
Bubba Eerie!

"Coughkoff!" The Yo-kai shouted before it let out a hearty cough.

"Coughkoff, eh?" Roughraff recovered from the crash and got himself into a fighting stance. "You must really be that desperate if you're going to use him to stop me," he snickered. "I bet you probably don't even have a Tough or Brave Yo-kai yet, do you?"

"You don't need a specific Yo-kai for combat." Twilight stood behind Coughkoff and stared Roughraff down. "Just as long as that Yo-kai will be willing to fight for you, then it doesn't really matter about tribes."

"Yeah! I'm gonna—" he coughed again "—show you just how strong us Eerie types can be!"

"Bring it, sea urchin." Roughraff held out his hand and flexed his fingers, trying to provoke Coughkoff.

The battle began with Coughkoff charging in on Roughraff, spinning like a top to try and poke him with his sharp edges. Roughraff waited for an opening, as he knew that his opponent's weak point was the mouth and eye in the middle of his body.

"Wait for it..." Roughraff braced himself for the attack. "Wait for it..." He squinted his eyes and tightened his knuckles. "Now!" With a powerful punch, he hit Coughkoff right in the teeth, knocking him away and causing him to crash into Twilight. "Woo! Strike!"

"Keep on talking, Roughraff." Coughkoff recovered from the attack and got back up. "I've got plenty of—" he let out another chesty cough "—tricks that'll scare you right out of your pants."

Coughkoff shot off an inspiriting flame into the air and made it come crashing down on Roughraff. He sat back and watched as his target began coughing and hacking uncontrollably.

"Need some water?" Coughkoff offered, glowing a shade of blue. "Here you go!" Lurching forward, he conjured up a small torrent of water that came crashing down on top of Roughraff, knocking onto his butt.

"Yeah! Nice work, Coughkoff!" Twilight hoof-pumped at the blow that he had dealt Roughraff.

"Think you're hot stuff?" Roughraff flexed his muscles, causing the purple flame to vanish. "I've still got some fight left in me. Can't really say the same for you, though." He jumped into the air and tried to punch Coughkoff. His first strike missed, but he followed it up with another attack the second he landed, striking his target in the jaws.

The battle continued, with both Roughraff and Coughkoff trading blows back and forth. This went on for quite a while and both of them were getting worn down easily after each and every hit. Their energy was sapped away, until eventually, their punches and charges were so sluggish that it didn't really feel like they were really hurting each other at all.

"Think... I'm done with you yet?" Roughraff took very deep breaths as both he and Coughkoff came to a stand-still.

"You can't win this, Roughraff!" Coughkoff was inhaling and exhaling so much that he couldn't even muster up a single cough.

"Alright, this is too painful to watch." Twilight walked in front of both of the Yo-kai and used her hooves to separate the two of them. "Look at both of you! You're fighting so much that you're wearing yourselves down. You'll never be able to keep going like this!"

"Geez... What a buzzkill." Roughraff knelt down, feeling the pain from the battle flare up suddenly. After all of that fighting, he had failed to notice the places where he had been hit by Coughkoff's spikes, and they had been digging into his body ever since. "But I guess you do have a point there."

"He's right, you know, Twilight." Coughkoff floated up to her. "I can't take being punched in the jaw any more today."

"You two both need to get some rest." Twilight stepped out of the way of both Yo-kai. "Take a break, have some food and drink, and then come back tomorrow."

"Yeah." Roughraff shambled forward towards Coughkoff. "Whaddaya say? Rematch later?"

"Sounds good to me." Coughkoff smiled before letting loose a much smaller cough than before. "Any time, anywhere."

"I'd shake your hand, but I don't think you have any." Roughraff gave Coughkoff a thumbs up gesture before he came over to Twilight. "You might need this, just in case we get bored of waiting." He handed her his Yo-kai Medal. "Just make sure you bring Coughkoff along so we can settle the score, K?"

"How intriguing..." Whisper appeared beside Twilight and examined the Yo-kai Medal. "Roughraff usually doesn't hand these out. Whatever happened here?"

"Oh, Whisper." Twilight turned to face him. "You should've seen it. Roughraff and Coughkoff were sparring for at least ten minutes." She looked back at both of them, who were still recovering from the fight.

"Well, I suppose that explains it, then." Whisper crossed his arms and smiled. "Roughraff craves fights, delinquent behaviour, and anything that a normal bully would do. It's no surprise that after a fight with one of your Yo-kai, he would want to be your friend," he said. "When a Roughraff finds an equal, he wants to make sure that he can try and best them."

"So, I can expect to see Roughraff and Coughkoff fighting more in the future?" Twilight asked.

"It's quite possible," Whisper watched both of them disappear. "But right now, there's only one more Roughraff left in Ponyville. And that's the one who stole Manjimutt's wallet, no doubt."

"We should go after them, then." Twilight walked off with the Yo-Kai Medallium secured and her new medal inserted into it. "Coughkoff put up a great fight, but I'm not really so sure about Manjimutt."

"Well, there's only one way to find out, isn't there?" Whisper floated off with Twilight. "Come on, Twilight. If we hurry, we might still be able to see them throwing down."

"So, this is how it's gonna be, huh?" The third Roughraff circled around the open space with Manjimutt doing the same.

"Yes. One-on-one. Just the way I like it." Manjimutt glared at Roughraff as he continued to walk. "And one way or another, I'm getting my wallet back, and your cronies aren't gonna be able to stop me."

"You want this wallet back so badly?" Roughraff held it in his hand before he slipped it back into his pocket. "Then come and take it from me!"

"Gladly!" Manjimutt dashed at Roughraff with his teeth gritted.

Just like with the fight from before, Roughraff and Manjimutt were trading attacks with each other. There were punches, kicks, and headbutts as the two fighters collided with each other relentlessly. It was a long and arduous batle, and neither side was ready to give an inch.

"You must really want this old thing, don't you?" Roughraff gnashed his teeth together as he tried to get Manjimutt off of his body. He thrashed and flailed, but to absolutely no avail as the man-faced dog held his limbs down with his paws.

"It's my wallet, with my money, and my credit card too!" Manjimutt stomped down hard on Roughraff's chest multiple times. "Give. It. Back. To. Me!"

"Grr! Enough of this!" Roughraff summoned all of his strength and threw Manjimutt into the air. He waited for him to come back down and gave him a powerful kick that sent him hurtling into a nearby fruit stand, which was absolutely destroyed with the collision.

"Alright. Now you're asking for it!" Manjimutt began to gather energy for his Soultimate, while Roughraff tried to close the gap between the two of them so he could counter the energy flow.

"Oh no you don't!" Whisper arrived on the scene with Twilight in tow. He held Roughraff back, anchoring him in place as Manjimutt continued collecting energy.

"H-hey! Get offa me!" Roughraff shook frantically to try and get Whisper off of him, but just like earlier, that bore no fruit for him.

"Now you'll see how you like it when the odds are against you!" Whisper's grip on the Roughraff got stronger as Manjimutt's teeth started to glow. "Finish him, Manjimutt!"

"You got it, Whisper!" Manjimutt jumped at Roughraff as Whisper pushed him to the ground. "CREEPY SUPERBITE!" Manjimutt's teeth came down hard and fast on Roughraff's chest.

As soon as the teeth bit him, Roughraff's eyes went wide, and he fell down onto his chest before he simply vanished in a puff of smoke like all the rest, leaving behind the wallet that he had stolen before.

"Well, that was hectic." Whisper looked at the wallet and handed it back to Manjimutt. "But I believe that this is yours."

"Thanks, you two." Whisper took the wallet and put it away somewhere safe. "You know, that was a good workout, wasn't it?"

"Yeah." Twilight nodded. "All that running, flying, and fighting's good for the body."

"I'm just happy that everything's back to normal and that we fixed the Roughraff infestation," said Whisper. "But, if you ever run into another situation involving those little punks, you know who to call, Manjimutt."

"I do indeed." He materialized his Yo-kai Medal and gave it to Twilight, who took it and put it in the Yo-Kai Medallium. "If you need me in combat, I'll be there faster than you can say 'doggone it'!"

"Thank you, Manjimutt." Twilight gently stroked his back and petted him. "I hope that you find a good job and a great house here in Equestria. You deserve it after the stuff you've been through today."

"Yeah. See you around, Twilight." Manjimutt walked off into the distance with his money safe and sound.

"Two Yo-kai Medals in one day." Whisper looked at the medals for Roughraff and Manjimutt sitting prettily in the Medallium. "I'd say that's great progress."

"Yeah, but don't forget that there's still over four-hundred more to find." Twilight flipped through all of the blank pages that she could find. "With how big this book is, I can only imagine that we're only just getting started." She then noticed a section unlike the others, which had the eight different tribe logos surrounding an archaic symbol in the middle of the two pages. "Hey, Whisper? What's this weird page here for?"

"Oh, well that's for another day, Twilight." Whisper closed the book up and helped Twilight to put it away. "With all of the stuff that happened with Roughraff, you must be absolutely exhausted from that chase."

"What? No way. I've still got plenty of energy left in me." Twilight smirked.

"Oh, really?" Whisper raised a brow at Twilight.

"Yeah! Last one to the lake's a rotten egg!" Twilight took off and flew through over the town with Whisper following close behind her, laughing all the way.

As Twilight and Whisper flew away, a figure stood on the rooftops standing on one of its' two legs. The scarf it wore began to move and it talk into its' master's ear.

"No. Not yet. She's not ready." The figure whispered back to its' scarf and leapt away from Ponyville, fading away with the wind.

"So, Yo-kai can eat and drink just like regular ponies can?" Twilight looked around and saw some Yo-kai munching on apples down by the trees.

"Yes. And just like the many different ponies of Equestria, different Yo-kai have different diets." Whisper took an apple for himself and took a bite. "I myself can handle all kinds of food, but some other Yo-kai can get turned away by some foods. If you can understad their personal tastes and feed them accordingly, then you might have a slightly better chance at them becoming your friends."

"Well, can't you tell me a little bit about their diets?" Twilight asked.

"If I did, it would take the effort and struggle out of befriending them, now, wouldn't it?" Whisper wagged his finger in front of Twilight. "I might be your encyclopedia on everything Yo-kai, but I'm definitely not a strategy guide!" he said. "Besides. What's the point of having an adventure without a bit of a challenge?"

"I suppose you're right in that regard." Twilight was offered the apple, which she sank her teeth into and bit off a small chunk. "But I'm still having some trouble wrapping my head around this whole thing. Like, I never even knew that these creatures even existed before you came into my life," she said. "I've got a ton of research to do on them. I could even write a book about it! Yeah! I'd call it 'Twilight Sparkle's Supernatural and Freaky Friends: A Guide to the World of Yo-kai'!"

"That'd be a book I'd definitely want to read." Whisper nodded.

"No!" Rainbow Dash called out as she spoke to some of the townsponies.

"C'mon, Rainbow Dash!" one of them said. "Please?"

"Forget it!" Rainbow crossed her hooves and threw them out to her side. "I'm not your puppets. Do it yourselves!"

"Hey, what's going on here?" Twilight walked over to the crowd of townsponies with Whisper next to her.

"Twilight! Thank goodness you're here!" Mayor Mare walked up to Twilight and shook her hoof. "Rainbow Dash has been acting strange all morning."

"We just wanted her to clear out the clouds so that we don't get rained on during the flower show today, and she just keeps saying no to us." Another townspony stood next to Mayor Mare and nodded.

"We figured since you and Rainbow Dash are friends, maybe you could talk some sense into her." A third pony joined the other two.

"Don't worry about a thing, everyone." Twilight saw the ponies step aside, clearing the path between her and Rainbow Dash. "I'll get her busting those clouds before you even know it." She cleared her throat and looked up at Rainbow, who had lowered her eyebrows and was glaring at her. "Rainbow Da—"

"If you're with those other ponies, you can forget about it." Rainbow cut her off. "My answer is no, and it's always gonna be no! Sometimes, these ponies just have to get what they're given."

"Rainbow Dash, stop this." Twilight's pitch lowered as she stared at Rainbow.

"No way." Rainbow spat at her.

"Clear the clouds!"

"No way!"

"GET TO WORK!"

"NO WAY!"

"Of course!" Whisper raised his finger, causing Twilight to stop arguing with Rainbow Dash. "I know exactly what's going on here!"

"Really? What is it, Whisper?" Twilight looked back at him. "Is there another Yo-kai involved?" She flipped up the lens and started to look around.

"Yes. There is." Whisper saw that Twilight was already looking around for the Yo-kai inspiriting Rainbow Dash. "There's no other explanation that Rainbow Dash would be saying no to everything. There's definitely a Yo-kai causing trouble around here. Now, let's see if you can—"

"Found it!" Twilight rang out as the lens materialized a Yo-kai in front of her and Whisper.

The new Yo-kai looked similar to a brick wall with arms and legs. Its' top half was tiled, and the body looked like it was made out of pure cinderblock. It stood proudly in front of Rainbow Dash holding its' hands out to block anyone and anything from getting past it, and it distanced its' feet far apart in case something tried to fight it.

"What is that?" Twilight looked at the Yo-kai, pushing out with its' arms.

"That, Twilight, is Noway. Noway is a Tough tribe Yo-kai with the power to make its' target say no to absolutely everything." Whisper flew around Noway and avoided being swatted away by its' small arms. "No matter how much people beg, plead, and cry, Noway will make the person inspirited by it to say no, every single time." He flew back next to Twilight. "That being said, though, if you can fly, then it's not too hard to get around him physically. But in terms of trying to persuade Noway or getting his victim to do something, you have more chance of becoming a brain-surgeon-astronaut than talking them out of it. Still, though. Negotiation or confrontation as usual. But given what you're up against, it's better to just beat Noway senseless than try to negotiate with him."

"I'm already ahead of you on that, Whisper." Twilight pulled out a Yo-kai Medal from the Medallium. "I've got just the Yo-kai to tear down this wall and bring Rainbow Dash back to her senses.

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Roughraff!" Twilight tossed the medal up and repeated the same process as she usually did when summoning a Yo-kai. "Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!" She put it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: TOUGH!" The watch yelled as orange streams launched out, generating Roughraff as a new song echoed through the air.

Gruff stuff! Rough bluff!
Red ban, jacket stand, bling blang,
Tough!

"Roughraff!" He declared, punching the air as he readied himself for a fight.

"Roughraff, I need you to fight this Noway for me." Twilight pointed out the Noway to Roughraff. "Do you think you can give him a good thrashing for me?"

"Do you even need to ask at this point?" Roughraff slicked back his pompadour and cracked his knuckles. "When I'm done with him, he'll be nothing more than pebbles scattered on the ground!"

Noway said nothing and stepped forward, ready to fight with Roughraff.

"You're mine!" Roughraff dealt a punch to Noway, but he didn't budge an inch. As powerful as the attack was, Roughraff didn't feel like he did very much and sent more and more punches towards the wall. All of which did connect, but he was the one taking damage instead of Noway. "Ah, c'mon! Why ain't you going down?!"

"Do you know how tough cinderblock is?" Noway pushed Roughraff to the ground and sat down with his hands in front of his body. "You won't be able to hurt me with attacks like that!"

"Noway, and its' later forms, Impass and Walldin are incredibly strong Yo-kai," Whisper told Twilight. "There's even a rumour that they have the power to stop a stampede of rioting people with little to no effort."

"He's nothing more than a brick wall, though." Roughraff shook his knuckles and blew on them to cool them down. "He can't really fight back, and I've still got plenty of fight in me."

"Prove it, then!" Noway called out as he crossed his arms. "But there's no way you're going to get past me."

"You're just asking for it now..." Roughraff ran towards Noway again, and did a flying kick right into Noway's face. He went at the Yo-kai with so much momentum that the kick managed to knock Noway backwards and cause him to fall onto the floor. "Hah! Gotcha!"

"Hey! That's unfair!" Noway whined as he tried to get back up onto his feet. However much he tried, his body shape and weight had rooted him to the ground, and he couldn't get back up, especially when Roughraff landed right on top of him.

"Hey, Twilight. You got any cardboard?" Roughraff asked. "I'm going to breakdance all over this Noway."

"Don't worry. I've got this." Whisper reached into his body and pulled out a big piece of cardboard. He set it down on top of Noway's face.

"How did you even do that, Whisper?" Twilight was dumbstruck at how Whisper was able to pull cardboard out of him.

"Oh the things that you don't know about me could fill a hundred of your checklists, Twilight." Whisper sat down on Twilight's back and pulled out some popcorn. "As much as I don't condone you doing this to a real pony, it is still just Roughraff and Noway. Oh! Almost forgot!" Whisper then pulled out a beatbox and turned it on, filling the air with a street beat.

"Ponies and gentlemen. My name's Roughraff, and it's time for me to pop, lock, and tear this Noway right up!" Roughraff spoke to the crowd. He knew he couldn't see them, but he was still having fun with his audience.

Roughraff began to tap his feet in time to the beat. He shook his arms for a while before the music intensified. Once it did, he was running all over Noway performing backflips, handstands, and fast spins. All of his moves were touching Noway, but it was still withstanding his dance routine.

"I never knew Roughraff was into breakdancing." Twilight watched the Roughraff perform all of his moves.

"Like I said. There's so much about Yo-kai that you don't know." Whisper ate one of the popcorn pieces. "That, and it just fits the mood, as a Noway on its' back is more helpless than a turtle on its' shell, or a baby without its' toys."

"You think it'll still want to be friends after this?" Twilight asked.

"Probably not. But it's for the best." Whisper ate another piece of the popcorn. "There's only a few times where Noway would ever be useful, anyways. Most of the time, his inspirits cause more problems than you can solve with them."

"Get ready, folks. It's time for the grand finale!" Roughraff put one of his hands on the ground and running around it, spinning around until he became something similar to a drill. He went faster and faster until he bore right through the cardboard and right onto Noway's face.

"Ahh! STOP IT! STOP IT! I GIVE!" Noway cried out as Roughraff tore through his body. Luckily for Noway, Roughraff did listen and ended by laying on his side, propping up his head with his arm. "Someone please help me up!"

"Alright, alright. I've had my fun." Roughraff threw away the torn cardboard and flipped Noway back onto his feet. He came back around and saw that he had drilled so hard that he had pushed Noway's face deeper into him, and that there were now cracks branching out from where he had been danced on.

"I'll do whatever you want just as long as you don't do that ever again!" Noway shouted at Roughraff.

"Well, for starters, I want you to apologize to Twilight and her friends, stop inspiriting that poor pony, and while you're at it, make sure to give her your Yo-kai Medal. K?" Roughraff used his fingers to list off each of his demands.

"The first two I can do, but I'm not giving anything out to nobody!" Noway removed the inspiriting flame and walked over to Twilight. "I'm sorry for causing you so much grief, Twilight. Can you ever forgive me?"

"No way, Noway." Twilight shook her head and turned away from the Yo-kai before she immediately took it all back. "I'm just kidding. You know that, right?"

Noway took in what Twilight had said and done to him, and he let a tiny chuckle slip. "You pulled a me." He fumbled around in the cracks in his wall and pulled out a Yo-kai Medal. "You know, I might be as strong as a brick wall, but even I have my own little sense of humour." He handed the medal to Twilight. "If you ever want to make someone say no, but they can't bring themselves to do it. Just give me a call. Who knows? For once, I might just agree."

"You sure you're OK?" Twilight examined the cracks and hole on his face. "I can get you fixed up if you'd like."

"No way. I can fix myself back in the Yo-kai World," Noway said. "But thanks for offering."

Noway disappeared, and Twilight walked back over to Rainbow Dash. The fire around her was gone, and she looked flustered at why so many townsponies were looking at her unhappily.

"Huh? What am I doing here?" Rainbow Dash asked herself before she looked up at the clouds, which were starting to bunch up together. "Oh yeah! The clouds!" And she charged off to get rid of them and prevent a rainstorm.

"What just happened to her?" Mayor Mare asked, looking at how Rainbow Dash cut through the clouds with minimal effort. "Why'd she say yes after all the times she said no?"

"Everyone cracks in the end, Mayor Mare," Twilight said. "Even literally in some cases."

Whisper, Roughraff, and Twilight shared a laugh at the joke and watched Rainbow finish off the last clouds, letting the sunlight streak down on Ponyville once again.

Author's Notes:

In terms of how I have the Yo-kai relationships and their powers, I use a combination of the game's lore and the anime's lore. However, that doesn't mean that the personalities of the Yo-kai are similar in both versions.

For example, in the anime, Kyubi was narcissistic, and loved capturing the hearts of ladies. In the 3DS game, however, Kyubi was a serious Yo-kai who tested Nate and Komasan by having them fight a Boss Yo-kai called Massiface. Kyubi in that game is a serious Yo-kai, and both he and Venoct are akin to a Yin-Yang, with Kyubi representing light, and Venoct representing dark.

I also wanted to try my hand at making some new relationships in this fanfic between certain Yo-kai, and even with Twilight and Whisper in relation to them. If you're interesred in this idea, then be sure to tell me your thoughts about it.

And in case you're wondering, yes. Terror Time WILL be in this fanfic, and Twilight will encounter Gargaros, Ogralus, and Orcanos in it. When it will show up, though, I can't guarantee, as Terror Time occurs randomly in the 3DS game.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and be sure to stay tuned for more.

A Real CAT-astrophe (Part 1)

Author's Notes:

Welcome, one and all to my first ever Arc in the Princess and the Yo-kai! What these Arcs are is that I'll be making multiple-chapter mini series in the story, while not distracting from the actual story as a whole. There will still be new Yo-kai and new problems for Twilight to face later, but for now, these Arcs serve as a way for her to get stronger, meet rarer and more beloved Yo-kai, and face off against some of my own original creations.

Now, I'm sure that some of you who have played the Yo-kai Watch game on 3DS or have seen the anime remember a giant pig Yo-kai named Sproink. Well, he was a Boss Yo-kai, and could not be befriended in the original game. This story will have bosses, but almost none of the ones from the 3DS game, as that would just be plagiaristic. I might just add them if you want to see them so badly, but I don't know. It'll come down to your preferences and all that.

As a small disclaimer, these Arc parts will be shorter than what you've seen before, as I usually make a single problem with a new Yo-kai around three-thousand words long anyways. But nonetheless, here's the first Princess and the Yo-kai Arc: A Real CAT-astrophe.

(For those of you who wanted to see Jibanyan, here you go...)

The stars glittered and twinkled high in the sky above Ponyville as the ponies of the town climbed into their beds and fell asleep, letting themselves become blanketed by not only their bedsheets, but the serene darkness of the silenced town. It didn't take anyone very long to drift off deep into their dreams either, as they got into their comfortable sleeping positions and curled up sweetly.

In the castle, Twilight Sparkle was making up her bed for the night. She took off her Yo-Kai Watch and left it on the nightstand next to her, along with her Yo-Kai Medallium. She hummed a little tune to herself as she picked the sheets up, slithered underneath them, and picked out the latest Daring Do book from her miniature bookcase by the other side of her bed.

"It's been a long day, hasn't it, Whisper?" said Twilight.

"Indeed. I thought we'd never get that situation under control." Whisper nodded.

"Yeah. From the way Noway had a hold of Rainbow Dash, and was able to deflect Roughraff's attacks, I almost believed that there was no way to beat it." Twilight flipped past the author's notes of the book and began to read. "I'm just glad that we did. Now I can have a good night's sleep, relishing in the fact that Ponyville is safe for another day."

"Oh, by the way, what book is that?" Whisper came over to Twilight and glanced at the cover of the book. "Daring Do and the Timestream of Tenzranol?"

"Daring Do is this great adventurer who goes on all kinds of crazy adventures, fighting against evil forces who want to control powers that they don't understand." Twilight pointed Daring Do out to Whisper. "They might seem like fictional stories, but me and Rainbow Dash know for a fact that she's real."

"Real?" Whisper looked at the book. "But from the way this cover art looks, there's no feasible proof that Daring Do is real! She seems like nothing more than a figment of the writer's imagination."

"Believe what you want to believe, Whisper." Twilight smirked. "But when Daring Do does eventually come to Ponyville, I'll be right there to rub it in your face."

"IF she comes." Whisper crossed his arms and floated towards the door. "Either way, I hope you don't plan on reading that for too long, Twilight. There's an awful lot of work to be done tomorrow. Places to go, Yo-kai to meet, problems to solve, you know."

"Don't worry, Whisper. I won't be reading for too long." Twilight gave him a pleasant smile before she dove her head right back into her story. "You just rest up. Yo-kai need their sleep, right?"

"You shouldn't be concerning yourself over my wellbeing, Twilight." Whisper's tail drifted in front of him. "I just hope that you have a good night's sleep tonight. You never know what could happen tomorrow.

"Who knows? You might just have to fight your first Boss Yo-kai." He shrugged, thinking of what Twilight would have to fight against. "They're the biggest, meanest, and downright destructive Yo-kai ever. They can't be befriended, so your only goal is to knock. Them. Out."

"I'll keep that in mind." Twilight rolled her eyes.

"I mean it, Twilight! I'm just telling you that for your own personal protection." Whisper looked at the Yo-kai Medallium and examined the medals that Twilight had collected already. "With only six Yo-kai Medals, you should really brace yourself. Who knows what could be lurking out there?"

Whisper looked out into the town one last time before he drooped his head and went to sleep, snoring lightly.

The next morning, Twilight Sparkle woke up to a massive white ball of fluff in her face. She felt it tickle against her face, and as soon as she tasted that it was the hair of something, she screamed and used her magic to send the ball catapulting against the wall.

The ball made an audible yelp, and it was quickly revealed to be none other than Opalescence. Her hair looked frazzled from the throw, and she slowly stood up on her four paws and walked back up to Twilight.

"Oh. It's just you, Opal." Twilight sighed as she watched the cat climb up onto the bed. "What were you even doing on my face? Isn't Rarity supposed to be responsible for you?"

Opalescence meowed at Twilight and tried to use her paws to gesture something, but Twilight and Whisper both looked at her completely dumbstruck.

"Did you catch any of that, Whisper?" Twilight craned his neck towards him after Opal had finally stopped.

"Nope. Sorry, Twilight." Whisper flew over and examined Opal's body. "I might be a ghost with a plethora of supernatural talents, but unfortunately, cat is not one of my main languages." He shook his head. "But it did sound like she was trying to tell you that something was wrong..."

"Well, this gives me the perfect idea to try out a new experiment." Twilight lit up her horn and let a small wave of energy flow into the Yo-Kai Watch, making it glowed bright magenta as she strapped it on her hoof. "Since I've put on a speaker to make Yo-kai speak to mortals, why not make cats talk like ponies?"

"Is there any opportunity you won't seize?" Whisper chuckled as Twilight pointed the watch at Opal.

"Alright, Opal. Just repeat what you were trying to say into the lens." Twilight instructed the cat, moving the lens closer to its' mouth.

Opalescence repeated everything that it had said a moment ago into the lens. It was being translated in terms of both the pitch Opal was speaking in and how she was saying it. It manged to translate as, "Twilight. You have to help me. Something's really wrong with my master."

"Something's wrong with Rarity?" Twilight asked Opal, to which she simply nodded and meowed into the watch again.

"Yeah. She woke up in the middle of the night, and I saw her cou—"

"Twilight?! Have you seen my darling Opal anywhere?" Rarity burst into the bedroom and immediately found Opal just sitting on the bed next to her. "Oh. Never mind. There she is." She lifted Opal up into the air with her magic and levitated her close to her face. "Where were you, you cute little—"

Opalescence didn't even let Rarity finish, as she extended her claws and dealt a swift scratch to Rarity's face, leaving three red cut marks on her cheek. Everyone gasped at the sight as Rarity dropped her and watched her scurry off back to Twilight.

"Opal..." Rarity began to tear up as she felt the blood leak out of the scratches. "Why would you ever do that to me? I'm your master, remember?"

"Then why in the world were you licking your legs and coughing up a hairball last night?!" Opal yelled into the lens again in her cat voice, being translated into english instantly. "You're not a cat! You're a pony!"

"Opal. That was not called for." Twilight glared at the cat, who stepped backwards. "Rarity's been looking after you for as long as you can remember, and you just have the gall to scratch her across the face?"

"It wasn't Rarity last night! She became... something else." Opal shot back, but then hung her head.

"Opalescence is telling the truth, Twilight." Whisper stroked Opal's hair, getting her to calm down. "I don't speak much cat, granted, but I know what a voice of desperation sounds like from a mile away." Whisper pointed over to Rarity. "Someone, or rather something must've used some bizarre magic to turn Rarity into some kind of monster."

"Still, that doesn't forgive her for scratching Rarity in the face!" Twilight threw one of her hooves into the air as she looked at Rarity, who was now curled up into a ball, crying and bleeding at the same time at how Opal had hurt her.

"She was going to transform back, I could just feel it!" Opal stretched her arm out in Rarity's direction. "I don't really know what's going on myself, but I do know that Rarity's been acting more like a cat than usual and I'm just a bit concerned that she'll turn into one soon."

"Do you think that a Yo-kai might have caused this?" Twilight looked at Whisper.

"There are cat Yo-kai, but I highly doubt that any of the ones that I know would physically turn their user into one." Whisper pulled out his tablet and showed off a picture of a red cat with two tails, both of which had blue flames on each. "At the most, this cat Yo-kai, Jibanyan, often just takes control of the body, and doesn't turn the person into an actual feline. So that really does leave a massive gap on who could've done this..."

"Are there any other cat Yo-kai that you know of?" Twilight examined the picture of Jibanyan closely.

"Yes, but they're all just other different variants of Jibanyan with different powers, personalities, inspiriting powers, and even Soultimates." Whisper looked through all of the other different cats in his encyclopedia. "And even then, none of those other cats are able to transform ponies into cats."

"Well, then that means that there's only one explanation for this." Twilight walked over to Rarity and used her magic to slowly seal the cuts dealt by Opalescence. "We've got a mystery on our hooves." She then looked over at the nearby closet, pulled out a grey detective cap, and put it on her head.

"A mystery? What a jolly good idea, Twilight!" Whisper generated a black bowler hat and monocle. "How should we start?"

"Well, we already have two of the three fundamentals to finding our inspiriter." Twilight used her magic to disappear for a few seconds, then immediately return with a white hairball sealed up in a plastic bag. "While we may not have any leads, we do have evidence, and a witness at the scene of the crime."

"Leads? Witnesses? Evidence?" Rarity had only just calmed down and noticed Twilight's detective hat. "Whatever do you mean, Twilight?"

"Opal, your cat was with you on the night you supposedly turned into a cat." Twilight walked Rarity over to the bed and showed her the cat, who gave Rarity another hiss and turned her back on the two ponies. "I'm going to ask her about what she saw that night, add it with the evidence, and in the event that that doesn't immediately give me the answer, I'll have to go out and ask some of the Ponyville ponies about what happened at Carousel Boutique that night."

"This whole thing sounds ridiculous." Rarity let a meek chuckle slip as she watched Twilight go over to talk with Opal. "Me? A cat? Never! I am a lady. The epitemy of pristine and mature." She posed. "There is absolutely no way that I would turn into some insect-riddled, fish-loving, lazy house cat."

"We have to take Opal's words into account to, though, Rarity." Twilight knelt down and once more put the Yo-Kai Watch in front of Opal's mouth. "So, what exactly did you see on that night, hmm?"

"Well..." Opal scratched her chin. "I was just sleeping in Rarity's room all cozy and warm, thinking about cat dreams, when all of a sudden I heard a purring noise that sounded like no cat I'd ever heard in my life." She purred for effect and walked over to the pillow. "I woke up and tried to find where this new cat was. I thought I'd been replaced; that Rarity had found a new cat and was going to just throw me away like some piece of garbage!"

"Opal, I would never do something like that to—"

"Quiet, Rarity! I'm talking to Twilight!" Opal hissed again before she cleared her throat and looked back at Twilight. "Anyway, as I was saying, I couldn't find the other cat anywhere, so I just went back to sleep. But then, I saw the door open up just as I was getting comfortable.

"I didn't really see what came through it, as it was so dark, but I could make out the shadow of some really, really big cat with a bushy tail, gleaming golden eyes, and some massive claws." Opal's body parts twitched to emphasize each different part of the aggresor. "I saw the big cat tickle Rarity with its' tail. I heard her giggle, and the next thing I know, she was out of bed, and she was following the big cat thing into the streets."

"A cat that size and of that caliber can only mean one thing, Twilight." Whisper clicked his fingers as he took in Opalescence's story. "That was no ordinary Yo-kai that inspirited Rarity. I believe that we are dealing with..." He took a deep breath and lowered his brows. "A Boss Yo-kai."

"A Boss Yo-kai?" Twilight tilted her head sideways. "But why would it want to inspirit Rarity and her alone?" She looked up to the ceiling and began to pace around the room. "It just doesn't make any sense, really. Why would a Yo-kai that big go for one pony when it could potentially do some major damage to the town?"

"Boss Yo-kai are the most unpredictable Yo-kai of all." Whisper pulled out his tablet, showing Twilight a few pictures of the many other Boss Yo-kai that he had encountered in his past. "If you thought that the Shady tribe Yo-kai were hard to track, then trying to follow what these big things do is like trying to play a game of pachinko. You never know what to expect. Ever."

"We have a lead. That's the third piece of the puzzle." Twilight nodded as she began to write on a scroll with a quill. "We now know that some big Boss Yo-kai turned Rarity into a cat for the night, frightening Opalescence and making her partially break ties with her." She tried to think of something else related to the mystery, but she ended up sighing instead. "It's not enough, though. We need more to go on. We need more witnesses, more clues, more leads relating to this big cat that Opal described."

"Then let us be off, my dear Twilight." Whisper stretched over towards the door. "Time's a wasting, and the sooner we fix this problem, the better."

"Rarity. I'm sorry if Opal's lost faith in you for the moment." Twilight gave her a gentle rub on the body and picked the cat up. "She can't stay with you if she feels that way, so I'll hold onto her until this mess all blows over. I wouldn't want to see you get hurt again."

"Well, that's very kind of you, Twilight, but I don't think you've ever taken care of a cat before." Rarity looked at Opal, who was still glaring at her. "Ohh... She's got a very strict diet of—"

"Tuna and mackerel." Twilight cut Rarity off this time. "Pinkie Pie's shown me the cans one too many times."

Rarity simply stood there with her mouth agape. She closed it and said, "Uh... yes. Well, I suppose there is that. Just don't forget that Opal spends most of her time sleeping, so don't be surprised if she falls asleep on your little mystery."

"It's alright if she does." Twilight gently stroked Opal's back, listening to her purr softly. "She's already said what she has to say. All we need to do now is to find other ponies who saw you go out with this cat Yo-kai that can validate her claims." Twilight walked over to the door. "I'll see you soon, Rarity."

"Yeah. Bye, Twilight..." Rarity waved Twilight out before she walked over to the bed and fainted on it, groaning into the pillows over everything that had just happened. "Why do I get the feeling that this is going to end in disaster?"

A Real CAT-astrophe (Part 2)

Twilight and Whisper walked out of the castle and into the market to try and find any witnesses for their case. They had all of the fundamentals that they needed to get some leverage in their case, but without stronger proof, they were just clutching at straws with no clear indication of what was really going on.

"There are an awful lot of ponies in Ponyville." Twilight looked around and saw the crowds going about their daily routines. "One of them must've seen Rarity and the Boss Yo-kai who inspirited her last night."

"Yes. But the real question now, is who?" Whisper flew on ahead and looked at each and every pony as close as he could, mainly at their eyes and their faces. "I'm pretty sure that the whole town must've been fast asleep when Rarity was spirited away, so there's not really many shots we have at this."

"If Rarity went out with a Boss Yo-kai, then they can't have been completely quiet about it, right?" Twilight saw Whisper float right back to her. "Somepony, at some point in the evening, must've somehow heard the noise that those two were causing." Twilight nodded. "If we can find that pony and ask them about it, then we might get a vital piece of the puzzle."

"Again, though. Who in Ponyville could've possibly been up that late to hear Rarity and the inspiriter?" Whisper asked. "It seems like a tough case to crack, Twilight..."

"Do you doubt me, Whisper?" Twilight picked her hat off of her head, dusted it off, and put it back on. "I happen to have an IQ of two-hundred and fifty. A number which I earned blasting through hundreds of tests at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. I'm somewhat of a child prodigy." She blushed.

Whisper's mouth dropped wide open as he floated in awe at Twilight's sentence. As she walked off without him, he closed it up and tried to keep up. In all of his years, he had never seen a pony that smart before.

"Two-hundred and fifty?" Whisper repeated.

"Yes," said Twilight. "And even with that high IQ, I still can't quite figure out what could be behind this, or who could've possibly seen it."

"Well, you also have a piece of evidence in your possession." Whisper reached into Twilight's mane and pulled out the plastic bag with the white hairball in it. "Opal mentioned that Rarity coughed this up when she supposedly turned into a cat, right?"

"Yes. What significance does it have on finding someone else who could've seen her leave, though?" Twilight eyed up the evidence from all corners. The hair was clear white with nothing else stuck to it."

"If there is a Boss Yo-kai on the scene, then it's likely that it could've gone for much more ponies than just a simple dressmaker." Whisper held up the hairball in front of his face and looked at the ponies again shortly after. "Maybe, we shouldn't ask about who saw Rarity, but rather who coughed up hairballs of their coat colours. That sounds slightly easier than trying to find the one pony who stayed up way past their bed time last night."

"But even if we did ask ponies about that, what's the betting that we'll actually get one that did cough up a hairball like Rarity did?" Twilight tilted her head to the side. "It just doesn't make any sense."

"The truth is stranger than fiction, Twilight." Whisper crossed his arms. "And considering that your world has only just become infested with Yo-kai, then those truths have most likely gone up two, or maybe three notches on the strange scale. With all the things that Yo-kai can do, I wouldn't be surprised if this supposed Boss Yo-kai who turns their victims into cats would also make them cough up hairballs like real ones would."

"You're saying it might not be just Rarity who turned into a cat that evening?" Twilight cocked a brow at Whisper. "But then, who else could we talk too about it?"

It was then that Twilight bumped into the Cutie Mark Crusasders. She and the three fillies all stumbled backwards, shaking their heads to recover from the impact.

"Oh, hi, girls." Twilight looked down at the fillies with a smile on her face. "Why aren't you in class?"

"Well, actually, Twilight, we were asked to go home for the day." Scootaloo walked up to her.

Twilight put a hoof on Scootaloo's forehead to check her temperature to see if she was faking it. She felt that it was at a normal temperature before she did the same with Applebloom and Sweetie Belle, turning up the exact same results. "But you look perfectly fine to me. Why would Miss Cheerilee send you three home?"

"Well, that's actually a funny story," Applebloom meekly chuckled before she felt something in the back of her throat. "Oh no! Here comes another one!"

"Another what?" Twilight raised a brow at Applebloom as she sprawled down onto her flank and began hacking and coughing. For a second, she thought that Coughkoff had inspirited the filly.

The coughing went on for a while until Applebloom threw up a ball of yellow hair. It splatted onto the floor and rolled for a few seconds right up to Twilight's feet, causing her to yelp and jump back into the air.

"A hairball! Just like the one Rarity coughed up!" Whisper picked up the clump of hair and stuffed it into another bag that he pulled out of his body. "Well, that just proves it, Twilight. This Boss Yo-kai not only went after Rarity, but it went after these poor, sweet, innocent fillies too." He pinched their cheeks. "What a monster. Why, if I were a fighting Yo-kai, I would go right up to that ruffian and give him a pounding the likes of which you've never seen before!"

"Darn it!" Applebloom cleaned up her mouth, wiping away the remaining residue. "Yeah. Sorry about that, Twilight. Ever since this morning, we've been coughing up those hairballs like crazy."

"Uhh... Twilight?" Sweetie Belle looked up at Twilight, seeing that her eyes were hidden behind her mane.

"Girls. I need to talk with you. Right now." Twilight knelt down to the fillies. "Rarity had hairballs just like yours this morning. Something called a Yo-kai has plagued this town, and I'm not sure who could be safe from it."

"Yo-kai?" Applebloom tilted her head.

"Yo-kai are invisible creatures that live in the world around us. They take control of our bodies and make us do things that we would never expect, or even consider." Twilight showed the fillies her Yo-Kai Watch. "This device I'm wearing is the only way that we can see them. It uses a highly concentrated ultraviolet ray to uncover the Yo-kai plaguing our town. It also allows me to summon any that I've befriended into battle, should the need be."

"Yo-kai? Invisible friendly creatures?" Scootaloo let a small chuckle slip. "I've seen some weird stuff in Equestria, but invisible creatures just sounds ridiculous."

Twilight used the Yo-Kai Watch to reveal Whisper to the three fillies. He waved at them while they just stared in awe. After which, she closed the lens, letting Whisper return to being unseen.

"Now do you believe me?" Twilight asked.

"Y-yeah. Of course we do." Sweetie Belle nodded frantically. "It's just that, I'm not so sure that one of those ghosts could've made us cough up hairballs. That's a cat thing, not a pony thing."

"The Yo-kai that inspirited Rarity and you last night turned you into cats and most likely blanked your memories when you woke up." Twilight drew closer and closer to the solution to the riddle. "That's why we need to find a way to draw this Yo-kai out and take them down, no matter the cost."

"But if it turns us into cats in the middle of the night, then how in the heck are we gonna be able to capture it if those cat-like instinct take over?" Applebloom asked.

"From what we've gathered so far, this Yo-kai only tends to strike when ponies are asleep." Twilight began pacing back and forward. "We'll need a flawless way of dragging it out, but how?"

"Boss Yo-kai don't just come out when you bait them, Twilight." Whisper wagged his finger. "They come out whenever they feel like it, to serve as an oversized roadblock for our progress. You can't just trick them into inspiriting something that's not a pony, or just fight them because you feel like it."

"That's not entirely true, Whisper." Twilight looked at the Cutie Mark Crusaders, then back at Whisper. "I have a plan that'll not only prove that this Yo-kai is after the townsponies, but also give me a solid lead on where and when they'll be at night."

"How?" Whisper asked.

"The simplest of traps is also the most effective for luring out someone inspiriting multiple ponies—especially my friends." Twilight stepped in between the whole group. "We're going to have a slumber party at my castle. Then, when this evil Yo-kai shows up, we all wake up, pounce on them, and save Ponyville once again!"

"That sounds like a great idea!" Scootaloo nodded before she coughed up an orange hairball and cleared her throat. "I could even bring Rainbow Dash. She loves fighting against monsters!"

"Sounds wonderful, girls. In fact, why not have all of my friends join us?" said Twilight. "Pinkie Pie could provide the snacks; Rarity could be the the one behind makeovers; Rainbow Dash'll be there to support you, Scootaloo; and the rest could be there just for the heck of it!"

"Well, what are we waiting for then?" Sweetie Belle charged off with the other Cutie Mark Crusaders. "We've gotta prepare for the evening! We'll see you around, Twilight!" She waved back at her before they went down another road.

"A slumber party used to trap the Boss Yo-kai..." Whisper put the whole scenarion into his head. He could already imagine everyone having fun, the Yo-kai attacking when they were all asleep, and then Twilight using her watch to vanquish it. "It's an ingenious idea you've got, Twilight. But executing it might be harder than you think..."

"How so, Whisper?" Twilight walked off with a spring in her step as she went to invite the rest of her friends to the party.

"Boss Yo-kai are so formidable that one Yo-kai alone won't be able to defeat them." Whisper squinted his eyes. "More often than not, people who only fight with one at a time often tend to get destroyed by them, which is why I advise that when you fight this Boss Yo-kai, that you bring out all eight of the Yo-kai you've befriended all at once, and co-ordinate them like you would the leader of a group. Only then might you find victory."

"I'll be sure to enhance the Yo-kai Watch for tonight, then." Twilight went off into another street with Whisper floating close behind her. "You just make sure that you're ready for the party tonight."

"I'm always prepared for a party of any description." Whisper changed his clothes repeatedly every quarter of a seconds. "I've got weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, raves, conventions, and even slumber parties. Speaking of which, I hope you won't mind being at yours, seeing as I am a male Yo-kai after all..."

"It's alright, Whisper. You're a ghost, so nopony else can see you having fun tonight." Twilight nodded and stroked his belly. "Besides, I don't think I'd be able to pull this trap off without your help, so you can totally come."

"Thank you, Twilight." Whisper bowed to her. "I assure you that tonight will be a night you won't forget for a long, long time..."

Unbeknownst to Twilight, a bipedal Yo-kai with a scarf made out of two curled up dragons had been watching her from the rooftops. The Yo-kai looked identical to that of a human, with long black hair, wide orange eyes, and his mouth obscured by the scarf. The dragons themselves were whispering into the Yo-kai's ears, to which he spoke back.

"Twilight Sparkle faces against her first challenge." The Yo-kai stroked his scarf as he watched her walk away. "This Boss Yo-kai will test all of her skills she has learned so far. Fate will decide whether or not she is victorious in her efforts."

"We need her to be ready to face the future." Another Yo-kai appeared next to the first one. It was a massive bipedal fox with a golden coat, with nine tails that were coloured purple on the tips. It had facial markings and spoke in a feminine voice. "If she falters, then this world could very well succumb to the darkness."

"She has only faced eight Yo-kai thus far. We should let her face this first Boss Yo-kai so that she can have her abilities strained." The dragon scarf Yo-kai stood upright. "Only through struggling and victory, will she be one step closer to becoming the chosen one."

"The queen is looking for only the best and brightest bearer of the Yo-Kai Watch to stand up to the darkness." The fox stepped towards the edge. "Twilight Sparkle is still a mortal being, and she can still be defeated by these tyrannical creatures."

"Do you doubt her strength, Kyubi?" said the other Yo-kai. "I will admit that Twilight doesn't seem to be living up to the queen's expectations, but she does have Whisper with her. We'll just simply have to wait and see."

"Without a chosen one to defeat the king, we are nothing but cattle, Venoct." Kyubi tightened her left claw into a fist. "I have fought against many a Yo-kai before this, but against him and his dark powers, we are lucky that he hasn't staged an attack on this world, or our own. She needs to be ready now!"

"Be patient, Kyubi." Venoct threw out his arm in front of her chest. "You cannot rush fate. It comes to you when it wants to. If it decides to wait until the king declares war on Equestria and the Yo-kai World before making Twilight the chosen one, then we must abide by it's decision."

"You've been talking to that scarf of yours too much, haven't you?" Kyubi pointed towards it. "Whatever. If that's what it decides, then I shouldn't be too hasty. After all, that human boy we met was nothing more than a wimp until he took down Mckraken and saved both his world and ours." She nodded. "Twilight Sparkle has gained my interest, but not my acceptance. She will have to earn that..." With that, Kyubi vanished into smoke.

When Kyubi vanished, Venoct's scarf began to whisper to him again. Both dragons snapped and let out miniature and muffled roars. They wanted a battle.

"Calm down, Orochi." Venoct stroked his scarf once again and leapt across the rooftops, pursuing Twilight Sparkle and Whisper. "You will have your chance in the future. For now, though, I must watch over Twilight to see if she is truly worthy of facing the darkness that approaches our world."

Twilight herself felt that something was off and looked at the precise rooftop where Venoct had perched himself on. The second her gaze aimed at him, he vanished into the shadows just as Kyubi had done.

"Hey, Whisper?" Twilight gently pulled on Whisper's tail. "Do you get the feeling that something was watching us?" She looked back at the roof.

"No. Not really." Whisper himself saw the roof and merely scoffed. "If something wanted to ambush us, it would've done so by now, not just waited until we looked at it. That's the whole point of an ambush. You strike from an unsuspecting location or stance and bait your opponent into a battle that they weren't expecting.

"Still, I really do think that someone, or something was watching us..." She scratched her chin as she took one last look at the roof before she walked away with Whisper to prepare for the slumber party trap.

Author's Notes:

By the way, in case you're wondering, I've been playing a LOT of Yo-Kai Watch on 3DS, so that's where the reference to Nate comes in.

If you've seen the anime but haven't played the game, Mckraken was a Yo-kai exclusive to the game alone. He was basically Squidward with a black man voice who wanted to rule both the Human and Yo-kai World with an iron fist. Nate and Whisper banded together with all of their Yo-kai to defeat Mckraken twice and save their worlds from utter annihilation.

As for Venoct, I prefer his voice to be dark and low, unlike how he sounds when you befriend him and he uses his name. And in a similar tone, I'm using Kyubi's attitude from the game, not the anime, because Kyubi's attitude is different in each version.

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A Real CAT-astrophe (Part 3)

The sun began to set on Ponyville as Twilight Sparkle's friends gathered with the Cutie Mark Crusaders in the castle. They would all spend the night together having a slumber party, fall asleep, and then ambush the Yo-kai that had been turning ponies into cats as soon as it arrived.

Even so, though, that didn't stop them from mixing business with pleasure as Pinkie Pie had collected snacks, while Rarity brought over a whole kit for makeovers. Rainbow facehoofed at the stuff Rarity bought, but she was still happy to be there to help Twilight catch the Yo-kai inspiriting the town.

"So, Twilight," Whisper began. "If you don't mind me asking, how exactly do you plan on catching a Yo-kai inspiriting your friends with a trap like this? Especially since it's a Boss Yo-kai..."

"I've been doing some modifications to the Yo-Kai Watch after what you said about the Boss Yo-kai. It took me five hours straight with no break, in addition to setting up this slumber party trap, but I think you might want to see this..." Twilight showed Whisper the Yo-Kai Watch and pressed down on the bubble dome.

The watch whirred to life as it extended out upwards, causing five extra Yo-kai Medal slots to appear on the side. The bubble dome then disappeared into the device as the clock face inside turned into a digital screen with six different boxes, most likely so that Twilight could keep track of her Yo-kai in battle. The last new feature was a small pen-shaped object extending out of the side of the transformed watch.

"Whoa..." Everyone looked in awe at Twilight's Yo-Kai Watch.

"Do you all like it?" Twilight asked as she showed off the fruits of her labour. "I call it: Yo-Kai Watch EX!"

"I've never seen the Yo-Kai Watch look like that in, well, EVER!" Whisper gently rubbed the side of the watch.

"By implementing a micro computer screen with a new release valve and extra Yo-kai Medal slots, this enhanced Yo-Kai Watch allows me to summon six Yo-kai at once, and then rotate them in and out of battle at a moment's notice." Twilight used her hoof to point out all of the important parts. "The screen, operated by this tiny little stylus allows me to have a front row and back row of fighters. The front row do all of the fighting, while the back row wait for their time to shine. It also allows me to prompt the Yo-kai to use their Soultimates whenever the need be, and if they get inspirited by the Boss Yo-kai, I've managed to put in a function to purify them." Twilight gushed over her masterpiece. "Science is so wonderful, isn't it?"

"You must be exhausted after working on upgrades like that, and set up this slumber party so we could help out..." Rarity looked at Twilight's eyes, seeing that her eyelids were starting to droop.

"Don't worry about a thing, Rarity." Twilight yawned and covered her mouth with her hoof. "By the time we beat this Boss Yo-kai, I can get a wonderful night's sleep and get ready for whatever monster comes my way, be it Yo-kai or otherwise."

"Does that Yo-Kai Watch allow you to see higher ranking Yo-kai too?" Whisper examined the screen, mainly looking at the six black boxes.

"At the moment, it's been calibrated to show just 'E' ranking Yo-kai in the world around us." Twilight rubbed the side of the watch. "I haven't exactly worked out all of the kinks yet, and 'E' rank is the only setting I can put this thing on without the Yo-Kai Watch exploding on my wrist."

"But it can detect Boss Yo-kai, right?" Whisper raised a brow at Twilight and the watch.

"Yes. Because Boss Yo-kai aren't in any real tribe, and have no official ranking on the 'E' to 'S' scale, the Yo-Kai Watch EX can uncover them with minimal effort." Twilight gave a smile to Whisper. "Not only did I remember everything you said, Whisper, but I also kinda looked at your little computer screen while you weren't looking..." Twilight blushed.

"I sure do hope that it won't stay that way forever, though." Pinkie Pie looked at the watch herself. "I kinda liked the old one better, if I'm being totally honest. It was so small and cute!"

"Don't worry, Pinkie." Twilight used her magic to revert the Yo-Kai Watch back to its' original form. "The Yo-Kai Watch EX is only for when we're entering hostile environments, or facing up against the Boss Yo-kai that Whisper warned me about."

"Uh, Twilight?" Rainbow Dash looked over at her. "I thought this was a slumber party, not a science convention."

"Oh, yes! The party! How could I forget?" Twilight went towards the stairs. "Why should I be boring you with trivial facts and pointless figures that only apply to me? C'mon, everypony! Let's party!"

"Woohoo!" Pinkie cheered as she pulled out her Party Cannon and fired a blast of confetti into the air. "Let's get this party started!"

"Whoa!" Whisper stumbled back as he saw Pinkie pulling out the cannon and firing it into the air. "I never knew that Pinkie Pie was in possession of an illegal weapon..."

"I know it seems weird, Whisper, but Pinkie Pie's Party Cannon is not for any destructive purposes." Twilight walked up the stairs towards her room with the rest of the ponies in tow, now talking about all of the fun they were going to have. "And in case you're wondering, she did have to work hard for a permit to use that cannon in public."

"And when Twilight means hard, she wasn't kidding, Whisper!" Pinkie spoke to the space where Whisper was meant to be, but was invisible because no-one was looking through the lens. "So many papers..."

Everyone laughed at Pinkie's comment as they all made their way towards Twilight's bedroom for the festivities.

"Something tells me that this is going to be a long night..." Whisper followed the group, groaning about what the girls would be doing to pass the time, and for when the Boss Yo-kai attacked.

Later that evening, once the sun had disappeared behind the mountains and the moon had risen, the ponies were all together in Twilight's room, eating, drinking, and being merry. They knew that it was all going to be a hassle dealing with the Boss Yo-kai that evening, but that wouldn't stop them from having fun before the fight began.

The girls had been doing all sorts of activites and games. They did charades, roasted smores, wore facial masks made of mud and cucumbers, and even dressed up in clothes—much to Rainbow's dismay—to name a few. On the outside, they looked like they were having fun, when in reality, they were bracing themselves to face the Boss Yo-kai.

When everyone started to get tired, they all climbed into their respective beds in the main room. The layout was similar to the way they had organized it when the Tantabus had broken free of Luna's dreams, but now they had the Cutie Mark Crusaders sleeping with them.

"Now remember, Whisper." Twilight pulled the covers over her body. "The second you see the Boss Yo-kai, yell and scream at the top of your voice and wake me up. I'll use the Yo-Kai Watch EX and take it from there."

"Can do, Twilight!" Whisper saluted. "I'll make sure that that ruffian doesn't escape my sight!" And he began looking around with his hand still on his forehead.

"You sure that this is going to work, Twilight?" Applebloom asked as she cuddled up with Applejack in their bed.

"It has to, Applebloom." Twilight nodded at the filly. "If this Yo-kai isn't stopped, then it could go on to cat-ify Canterlot, the Crystal Empire, and maybe even ALL of Equestria!"

"What's so bad about being a cat anyways?" Pinkie Pie asked as she curled up into her bed. "Cats are pretty harmless—and incredibly fluffy-wuffy—pets. They're also super-duper cute, unlike those loud and noisy dogs—no offence, Applejack."

"None taken, Pinkie Pie." Applejack waved at her. "Winona has been a little bit feisty since ever since this whole hairball nonsense with Applebloom started this morning."

"Yes. And Opal quite literally scratched me across the face when I came to pick her up from Twilight's." Rarity leaned back and picked up her sleeping mask. "Which is why Twilight needs to fix this posthaste, before it's too late."

"Don't sweat it, Rarity." Rainbow Dash put her hooves behind her head as she and Scootaloo got comfortable. "Twilight'll handle this easily. She's come through for us many times before, hasn't she?"

"Yes. But against a giant cat who turns other ponies into cats?" Fluttershy nodded. "Twilight wouldn't dare try to fight if that monster tried using us against her..."

"Whisper's on full alert tonight, Fluttershy." Twilight assured as she tucked her in. "As soon as the Boss Yo-kai starts to inspirit you, he'll scream at the top of his lungs and wake me up." She showed her the Yo-Kai Watch just to be sure. "You should all get some rest now. I'll settle this."

Everyone else was apprehensive about going to sleep, but they eventually closed their eyes and dropped back into their pillows and headboards, snoring peacefully. As they began to dream their favourite things, they were soon lost in their own little worlds.

Twilight herself was the last one to go to sleep. She looked up at Whisper and said, "I'm counting on you, buddy. Don't let me down, OK?" before she too closed her eyes and drifted off.

Whisper watched Twilight sleep and began to wait for the Yo-kai to appear in the room. While the time passed, Whisper wondered how it would enter. He had a number of possibilities, like it showing up out of nowhere, climbing out from under the beds, or just coming right through the window.

He was taken aback when the Yo-kai slowly but surely opened the door and slinked through the tiny gap. It was then that he saw just who the criminal really was.

A massive cat, similar to the one that Opalescence had described was now walking into the room. It had a bushy tail, golden eyes, long white whiskers, sharp claws, and was licking its' lips as it looked down at the sleeping ponies. There was a symbol on its' belly looking like a cat standing on its' hind legs and calling for the moon.

"Well, well, well. Aren't you the sly ones, running away from me like that?" The cat spoke in a southern accent as it approached the guests of the slumber party. "Don't you know that your pony selves have been running yourselves ragged? I think it's time that you ditch the horsey side of you, and let your inner cat take over!"

"TWILIGHT! GET UP! GET UP!" Whisper shouted as the cat whipped its' tail at the other ponies, casting purple inspiriting flames on all of them. "THE BOSS YO-KAI IS HERE!"

Twilight immediately shot to life and activated her Yo-Kai Watch, switching it to the EX version as she scanned around for the Yo-kai. As she got a lock on the cat's position, she glanced over at her friends, who were now starting to glow the same colour as their coats.

All of Twilight's friends were being physically transformed. Their pony legs were replaced with cat legs and paws, their tails became short and bushy, their wings and horns disappeared, and their muzzles turned into cat faces, complete with small noses and whiskers. They were all purring like cats as the transformation went underway, and as soon as it was finished, the light dissipated as they all got out of bed and jumped towards the Boss Yo-kai, who had just been revealed by the Yo-Kai Watch.

"You!" Twilight jabbed a hoof at the giant cat. "Give me back my friends!"

"Sorry to cat and run, little horse, but I've got bigger fish to fry than deal with you!" The cat turned towards the door and charged through it, with Twilight's friends close behind.

"Hey! Get back here!" Twilight threw off the covers, grabbed her Yo-kai Medallium, and ran after the litter of cats as fast as she could. "Don't run away from me, you big, hairy freak!"

"Quickly now, my cat bretheren!" The Boss Yo-kai spoke to the cat pones who were running by its' side. "Disperse and make a feline for the cat playground! Make sure that this winged rat doesn't get to follow you!"

The cats meowed and split up around the castle, but Twilight was more focused on the big cat than she was her friends. She knew that as soon as the Boss Yo-kai was defeated, everything would return to normal, including her friends. She wouldn't waste her time playing a game that would make her miss her target.

Twilight was about to catch the Bos Yo-kai, when all of a sudden, two cats, who looked identical to Starlight Glimmer and Spike pounced on her and stomped on her back, causing her to crash to the ground and sprawl across the floor as they and the other cat-ified ponies ran out of the castle effortlessly.

"No!" Twilight slammed her hoof onto the ground as she watched the cats all escape and vanish into the night. She got back up and dusted herself off before she looked out of the open doors.

"Well, I'd certainly count that as moggy mayhem, wouldn't you agree?" Whisper helped Twilight get back onto her hooves.

"Not a good time, Whisper!" Twilight ran out of the castle. "We can still get them if we keep running. Just stay close to me, alright?"

"You're really commited to this, aren't you?" Whisper saw the fire in Twilight's eyes as she ran after the cats.

"Once I have a target, it doesn't get away!" Twilight shouted as she went into the town.

The chase then turned into a big game of hide-and-seek as Twilight looked around for the Boss Yo-kai and her cat-ified friends. She searched every trash can, every bush, every riverside, and even every litter box for any trace of her friends or the being that transformed them. Unfortunately, though, she had no luck.

Twilight gasped and panted for breath as she landed in an open spot in the town. She had checked everywhere where the cat ponies could have possibly been, but she had been completely unsuccessful in finding them. She stomped at the ground as hard as she could and cursed into the sky.

"DAMN YOU, GIANT CAT YO-KAI!" Twilight yelled as loud as she could, hearing her own words echo in the silence of the night. She looked down at her hooves, which were now trembling and sweating up a storm from all of the frantic searching and running she had been doing.

"There's no use in crying over spilt milk, Twilight." Whisper gently rubbed Twilight's back as she calmed down and steadied her breathing. "We lost the Boss Yo-kai, but, there may still be hope for us yet."

"Hope? What do you mean?" Twilight unsurely looked up at Whisper. "All of my friends are gone, and that giant cat is probably going for the rest of the world as we speak!"

"It's not gone yet." Whisper felt the air around him. "It's still cold out, meaning that the Boss Yo-kai isn't going anywhere soon. I'm not sure how it's possible, but I'm able to pick up Yo-kai auras of all kinds as soon as they come up. That's how I've been able to identify that there were smaller Yo-kai inspiriting your friends back when we first met, and the days after that."

"Huh? You're claiming that it might still be in Ponyville?" Twilight tilted her head sideways.

"Yes. There's an extremely powerful surge of Yo-kai energy in the Town Hall." Whisper pointed towards it and nodded his head. "I'm hazarding a guess that the Boss Yo-kai is in there. That, or a whole army of Yo-kai that you haven't met or befriended yet. One or the other."

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Twilight tried to move forward, but was stunned to know that she couldn't. Try as she might, her legs would not move at all. "Uhh, Whisper? Why can't I move?"

"Oh dear..." Whisper grimaced at Twilight's current condition. "I was afraid of this..."

The Yo-Kai Watch then projected a countdown from the number three, down to one. Massive drumbeats played as the numbers appeared, and with one big, louder crash of the drums, in addition to a symbol clang, the icon on the Yo-Kai Watch suddenly changed to show an angry red face with horns on a black background.

"Whisper! The picture on the watch just changed!" Twilight looked down at her watch.

"I hoped that this would've come when you made stronger Yo-kai friends. But I guess fate doesn't seem to play fair these days, does it?" Whisper looked at the icon on the watch. "You're going from the hunter to the hunted, my dear Twilight."

"Why? What's happening?" Twilight looked at Whisper hang his head. "Whisper! What's going on?!"

"Brace yourself, Twilight..." Whisper's voice became deep as he looked up at her with a serious look in his eyes. "It's Terror Time!"

Terror Time

The air around Twilight grew cold and thick as a foreboding fog began to envelop the town. Grey clouds gathered in the night skies which had gone from a calm and tranquil purple to a sinister shade of blood red. The world was also losing all of its' colour. The grass, houses, and even the road beneath her hooves turned a pale white as she and whisper entered the Terror Time world.

Then, a red being descended into the mist, causing it to disperse at an erratic speed, engulfing Twilight and Whisper in a wave of cloudy fog. They threw their arms in front of each other to defend against the violent weather before they readjusted their eyes to what had landed before them.

A giant red monster wearing a brown loincloth around its' nether regions had appeared in Ponyville. It had giant yellow eyes, sharp curved teeth, and was carrying an equally big spiked club. Groaning and moaning, the titanic beast let out a furious roar as it slowly stomped around Ponyville, most likely seeking out Twilight and Whisper.

"What... is... THAT?!" Twilight stifled a whisper as she watched the monster stomp away into another area of the town.

"That, Twilight, is an Oni." Whisper pointed out the giant monster. "It is a physical manifestation of one's fears and worries come to life. Oh, and that weapon its' carrying? That's not for show. That thing has flattened countless Yo-kai, and only very few have ever managed to defeat it in battle.

"This lifeless world that we are in is known as Terror Time." Whisper stretched out his arms to the side slowly. "A nightmarish plane of existence where the weak are purged, but the victorious thrive. This whole world is one giant stealth game. Hide from the Oni, and make it to the exit, and we'll be back in Equestria, ready to fight that Boss Yo-kai."

"Well, this shouldn't be a problem with my—" Twilight was about to unfurl her wings and light up her horn, but she couldn't feel either of them on her body "—AGGGH! WHERE ARE THEY?!" A quick glance at herself confirmed it. Her wings and horn were gone.

"Terror Time doesn't want you cheating, either." Whisper crossed his arms and looked back at Twilight. "For the time being, it's made you an Earth Pony like Pinkie Pie and Applejack."

"This isn't fair at all!" Twilight cried, feeling where her wings and horn used to be. "How am I supposed to avoid that monster if I can't fly or use magic?!"

"You have legs, you know. Use them." Whisper pointed down to Twilight's four hooves. "I'm pretty sure that as soon as you escape, your body parts will be back where you left them. But for now, you're simply going to have to hide, evade, and—if that Oni or his cronies find you—run."

"When you mean cronies, what do you mean by that?" Twilight took a few steps forward and leapt back as a few creatures appeared. Some with one eye and oversized arms, while others were tall and had one eye above the other.

"Those things." Whisper pointed before he pulled Twilight behind a house. "Those are Yo-kai known as Leadoni and Suspicioni. You can befriend them once we get back to the real world, but in Terror Time, they are the Oni's additional eyes and ears. And if they find you, that thing is going to come running."

"Seriously?" Twilight asked.

"It only gets worse from there. If you spend too much time in Terror Time, then Leadoni and Suspicioni will swarm the place, making it absolutely impossible to escape without being noticed by the Oni." Whisper watched as more materialized. "Just find the exit door and fast. That's all I have to say for now."

"Hmm..." Twilight watched the Leadoni and Suspicioni patrol the area. "They seem to run on strict patterns. If we can find the gap in between their walks, we can get around town a little easier."

Twilight examined the patrol routes for a few seconds more before she found the opening. She charged forward and rolled into an alley when the Leadoni turned around to walk back. Heading down the path, Twilight and Whisper found themselves in another area of Ponyville. A more widespread one with some Suspicioni guarding a few roads, and Leadoni walking back and forth.

"So many minions, but where's the actual Oni himself?" Twilight looked around for the giant red monster that had initially landed in Ponyville. "And for that record, does he have an actual name, or are we just going to keep calling it the Oni?"

"Yes. His name is Gargaros." Whisper raised his finger. "He has a soft spot for people who lend out a helping hand in the world around them when he's not pursuing his target in Terror Time. One of the three gate guardians leading to the ruler of the Yo-kai World, Gargaros is a mighty beast that is hard to avoid in this world, and even harder to defeat, even with a team of Yo-kai at your beck and call."

"Not to mention all of the Leadoni and Suspicioni running around and serving as his patrollers..." Twilight looked at all of the Yo-kai and how they were devoted to the job, despite the mindless smiles on their faces. "It's not going to be easy getting out of here, I can bet."

"Terror Time is never easy to escape from, Twilight." Whisper said as Twilight stumbled through the Yo-kai towards a road that wasn't guarded. "With how Gargaros can often come out of nowhere, and his many Yo-kai servants aiding him in hunting us down, it's like we're playing some scary maze game where one wrong move means death."

"Where are you? I demand you show yourself!" Gargaros roared in the distance, his club smashing down on one of the houses. "Do not hide yourself from me, puny mortal!"

"Let me rephrase that. It means super-hyper-mega-ultra death at the hands of an Oni the size of a three-storey house if we mess up," said Whisper. "So... best not to get caught, right?"

"You're not really good at inspiring confidence, are you?" Twilight tilted her head sideways at Whisper's comment.

"What can I say? We're in dire straits here, Twilight. I tend to panic in these kind of scenarios," he said. "The very reason that I'm still remaining calm is that you haven't been caught so far. Normally, the people I've seen in Terror Time don't last two minutes without being seen by Leadoni, Suspicioni, or Gargaros himself! So the fact that you're outshining the average number of people who've been thrown into this place is keeping me from going absolutely nuts!"

"Well, it's been going good so far..." Twilight walked down the road and stopped in the middle of it. "Why do I get the feeling that I've just jinxed it by saying that?"

All of a sudden, the noise of rushing air could be heard as Gargaros came crashing down right behind Twilight and Whisper. Shuddering, the pony and the Yo-kai looked back at him and yelped, huddling up together.

"GRAAAGH!" Gargaros let out another thunderous roar as his gaze met Twilight's. "WHO DARES WANDER INTO MY DOMAIN?"

"Tw-tw-twi..." She couldn't even finish her sentence as Gargaros's malicious teeth were bared wide at her. Her legs had turned into figurative jelly as Gargaros brandished his spiked club.

"SPEAK UP!" Gargaros demanded, slamming his club on the ground, making a tiny crater.

"Twilight Sparkle! Princess of Friendship!" Twilight yelled with as little confidence as she could, and more so panicked as she spoke her name. "Please don't kill me!"

"I'm not going to kill you." Gargaros sharpened his claws on his weapon. "I'M GOING TO TURN YOU AND THAT LITTLE GHOST FRIEND OF YOURS INTO PANCAKES!" He let out another thunderous roar, causing all of the Leadoni and Suspicioni to vanish.

"RUN!" Whisper threw his arms into the air and bolted off down the road, with Twilight close behind him.

"HEY! DON'T RUN AWAY FROM ME!" Gargaros immediately gave chase, keeping up with both Twilight and Whisper, despite his immense size. "YOU'RE ONLY MAKING IT WORSE FOR YOURSELVES!"

Twilight and Whisper didn't even comment as they charged down the paths to avoid Gargaros. Their foreheads were sweating, their breathing got heavy, and they ran so fast that one minor trip-up would be the thing to ultimately doom themselves. No matter how fast they ran, Gargaros was still hot on their tails.

"How is he so fast?!" Twilight shouted as she turned a corner, causing Gargaros to ram into another building, knocking it over and causing many others to topple like dominoes.

"Search me! He's massive!" Whisper didn't look back as he and Twilight continued to run.

"DO NOT TRY TO RUN, LITTLE PESTS!" Gargaros shouted as he readied his club. He brought it up high and leapt into the air. "NIGHTMARE BEAT!" He came crashing down with the club, causing a miniature fissure to appear in the ground. The split got wider and wider until it eventually caught up to Twilight, making her running sloppy and un-coordinated.

Twilight stumbled and danced around the crack and all of the damage that it was causing. She knew that if she made one misstep, Gargaros would catch up to her and turn her into a purple puddle of goop with his club. She yelped with each and every time her hooves touched the shaky ground, but she eventually got out of it and ran towards another area of Ponyville.

"It's going to catch us!" Twilight screamed as the chase resumed, with Gargaros once more breathing down their necks. Of all of the things that Twilight had fought before, she had never felt so helpless and weak against such a mighty foe. "Where in Celestia's name is the door?!"

"THERE SHALL BE NO ESCAPE FOR YOU!" Gargaros snarled, his club poised on his shoulders. "I SHALL CRUSH YOU BEFORE YOU FIND SALVATION! SUCH IS THE WAY OF TERROR TIME!"

After a few more minutes of running, Twilight Sparkle felt out of breath, and ready to admit defeat. Her vision became blurry as she arrived at the centre of the town, looking for the door that would get her and Whisper back to Equestria. She saw Gargaros approaching, and with the door nowhere to be seen, she shed a single tear.

"Girls... I'm so sorry..." She cried as the massive Oni finally caught up to her and raised the club for a final strike.

"TWILIGHT! THERE IT IS!" Whisper pointed out to a pair of golden sliding doors behind Gargaros. "THE DOOR'S RIGHT BEHIND HIM!"

As soon as she saw the door, Gargaros's club came down again, and she had minimal time to get away from it. She felt it come right down behind her and just barely graze her flank as she charged at the Oni's legs and slid right underneath him, narrowly missing his free hand. She then charged for the door, not even thinking about what would happen if she were to get caught again.

Whisper and Twilight didn't even have time to open the doors, and just ended up crashing through them, destroying the fabric and wood that held it all together. They ran into a burst of white light that consumed both of them whole and made Gargaros disappear effortlessly.

When Twilight and Whisper came out the other end of the door, they were back in the Ponyville they knew. The colour had returned, the sky was back to normal, and the monster that had been chasing them relentlessly was now gone. They both fell onto their stomachs and took very deep breaths as they looked at each other meekly.

"I've been in some close shaves before, but that's really cutting it close there..." Twilight wiped the sweat off of her brow and stood back up.

"I'm quite stunned too, Twilight." Whisper floated back up by her side and laid his arm on her shoulder, hanging his head to catch his breath. "Gargaros was inches away from destroying you, but you still managed to avoid his club and get out of there alive!"

"I'm just glad that it's over and that I never have to go through it again..." Twilight sighed.

"Umm... yeah. About that..." Whisper nonchalantly scratched his chin.

"No, Whisper! I'm not doing that ever again!" Twilight threw her hooves out. "Did you see how big, strong, and fast Gargaros was? Trying to enter his world again is a deathwish!"

"Terror Time occurs randomly for whoever carries the Yo-Kai Watch." Whisper cleared his throat. "You and I have no influence on it whatsoever, but since you've just been through one, it will let you off for now to catch your breath, recuperate, and make some stronger Yo-kai friends."

"Really? But then how am I supposed to predict when it'll happen again?!" Twilight waved her hooves in the air.

"You can't. That's the very reason it's called Terror Time. It's designed to strike fear into the hearts of every man, woman, and child who acknowledges its' existence." Whisper shook his head. "But, those who defeat and or outrun the Oni are said to grow stronger as a person. You narrowly avoided getting defeated by it, so I think it's safe to say that your power and confidence has gotten a little better—perhaps even enough to defeat that giant Boss Yo-kai that cat-ified your friends."

"Can you at least tell me more about the Oni so that I can prepare for the next time I'm put into Terror Time?" Twilight sat down and looked up at Whisper, pulling out a quill and scroll so that she wouldn't forget. "I'm not about to fight an enemy I have no knowledge of."

"Oh, alright then. I suppose there's no harm in telling you, seeing as you are back in the real world." Whisper stroked Twilight's mane before he pulled out his tablet, showing off Gargaros, and two other giant Oni who looked similar to him, but were different colours. "There are three guardians protecting the king, queen, lord, lady, or leader of the Yo-kai world. The one you encountered was Gargaros.

"As I mentioned before, Gargaros has a soft spot for people who do good in the world around them, allowing mortals to pass through his gate if they have been a samaritan, helping hand, and overall friend to the people." Whisper showed Twilight a picture of Gargaros alone. "However, as you've just witnessed, he is an EXTREMELY dangerous foe, and is not to be underestimated by any means."

"Tell me about it..." Twilight rubbed the back of her head.

"The second one is Ogralus; an Oni who values honesty above all others." Whisper flicked the screen, showing a blue Oni with two horns, a long tuft of red hair, and a green skirt around his private area. "Ogralus hates people who lie with a burning passion, and will waste no time in obliterating anyone who dares to lie to him, or anyone in the world."

"He probably won't hurt Applejack, then, as she never lies." Twilight nodded as she eyed up the blue Oni.

"The third and final defender of the ruler of the Yo-kai World is the dreaded black Oni; Orcanos." Whisper showed a black Oni with even bigger horns than Ogralus's, with white war paint on his chest and face, giant red eyes, and a red loincloth around his waist. "If you thought that Gargaros and Ogralus were intimidating, then you do NOT want to be on the bad side of Orcanos. This final Oni is feared by every living thing in existence. If you run into it, I highly advise turning away and running as fast as you can. He has taken on over a million Yo-kai, and he has not lost a single battle in his life, and he doesn't plan to start now." Whisper shook his head. "If you have fought a lot of battles, he will recognize your strength and allow you to see the ruler of our world."

"So, how do these Oni works in terms of how they show up in Terror Time?" Twilight looked at the different pictures of Gargaros, Ogralus, and Orcanos, desperately trying not to recoil at their menacing visages as she wrote down the details on all three of them.

"Gargaros is the basic hunter in Terror Time, but he can be felled by a strong enough team." Whisper put away the tablet. "If you defeat him, then Ogralus will take his place the next time you're put into that world. Beat Ogralus, and Orcanos himself—the undefeated Oni, might I add?—will be there to finish the job the third time you go into Terror Time.

"Ahh, best not to let those thoughts fester in our minds, though. We've got work to do, haven't we?" Whisper pointed towards Town Hall, which was lit up from the inside and had a muffled chorus of purring and meowing coming from inside. "There's still a Boss Yo-kai that needs a good old thrashing waiting for us inside, so let's show them what for and get back to our lives, shall we?"

"Y-yeah..." Twilight put away her finished scroll and quill as she walked towards the Town Hall with her Yo-Kai Watch poised and ready for battle. But as prepared as she was to fight the Boss Yo-kai, she would never be able to shake of the thought that she was nearly killed by Gargaros, and he would be haunting her for a long time to come. "Let's just hope that we can win this..."

Author's Notes:

In case you're wondering about Ogralus and Orcanos, they are Oni that appear in Terror Time alongside Gargaros in the 3DS games of Yo-Kai Watch. They only appear once Gargaros is felled, just as Whisper says in this chapter, and each one is progressively tougher than the last.

And as for the whole gatekeeping thing that he mentions, I'm basing most of my Yo-Kai Watch lore off of the 3DS games, instead of the anime. Yes, the Yo-kai I'm bringing in have similiarities to the ones mentioned in the anime and their inspiriting powers are identical to the ones used in the show, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's blatant plagiarism.

Speaking of which, Yo-Kai Watch 2 is coming out to America in a few days, while we in England have to wait until the end of September to pick up Bony Spirits and Fleshy Souls on our 3DS systems. As for which game I'm getting, it's gonna be a toughie between the two. Why? Because if my intuition is right on this, Bony Spirits and Fleshy Souls will be similar to the Pokemon games, where you can only get a select few Yo-kai in one edition, in comparison to the other. This'll make it really hard for me to choose between the two, and I'll have to just guess which one has the Yo-kai that I like more.

That being said, Blizzaria was always my favourite Yo-kai in Yo-Kai Watch, and if she's in both versions of Yo-Kai Watch 2, then I'll be happy. And in case you're wondering, both she and Frostina will be making an appearance in this story. And all I can say is, prepare to have your heart melt in your hands...

A Real CAT-astrophe (Part 4)

Twilight and Whisper opened up the door to the Town Hall and walked inside, gulping as they heard the noises of cats reverbating through the walls.

The inside of Town Hall was now filled with cat-ified ponies of all different colours, no doubt all of the ponies in the town except for Twilight herself. They were leisurely playing with scratching posts, toy mice, laser pointers, cat nip, and dangling bells. The floors were covered in carpet, and the air stunk of cat urine. There were litter boxes at the end of each walls where the cats could do their business.

Sitting at the very end of the hall, on a throne made out of yarn, was the Boss Yo-kai that had inspirited Twilight's friends. It was much more visible in the light, with its' black fur, gleaming eyes, and sharp claws. It smiled as it watched the cats playing and climbing around the hall, nimbly jumping from one paw-made structure to the next.

"Yes! Yes! That's more like it!" It spoke, again in its' feminine southern accent. "You weren't born to be horsies working on the fields all day. You were truly bred to be feline; cats playing forever in a world where hard work is non-existent!" The giant cat rolled on its' back. "Ahh! I feel like I'm in heaven!"

"YOU!" both Twilight and Whisper shouted at the cat.

"Looks like we have some uninvited guests..." The Boss Yo-kai stood up and walked up to Twilight and Whisper. From a close up angle, the cat was now three times the size of Twilight, and was flashing her a malicious grin. "Why don't you all just shove off? This is our private fun time that you're butting into here."

"Giant cat Yo-kai. You are charged with the kidnapping and unenforced transformation of the ponies of Ponyville." Twilight Sparkle puffed out her chest and showed off her Yo-Kai Watch. "This is your first and only warning. Surrender and release the ponies you've turned into cats, or I'll have to use force."

"Kidnap? I have done nothing of the sort." The cat scoffed and sassily swished its' hips. "I'm simply borrowing these ponies because they spend all of their time working, sobbing, and living a life without rest." It slowly shook its' tail, showing off the cats that it had made. "Look at them all. Playing without a care in the world. And you accuse me of kidnapping? Uggh! Rude."

"You're one to talk, stealing our friends and then getting them to pounce on poor Twilight like that!" Whisper spluttered at the cat.

"Honey, you don't know what it's like to be trapped in a never-ending cycle of work without reward." The cat flicked Whisper away into the wall and watched him splat against it. "Trust me. When I'm done with the both of you, you'll love being cats so much, you'll NEVER want to be ponies or Yo-kai ever again!"

"Is that a threat?" Twilight raised a brow at the giant cat.

"Yes it is, little horsey!" The cat knocked Twilight back too with its' tail. "You're both no match for the master of moggies, the fiendish feline, the champion of cats! You cannot defeat me, Felycan!"

"Diplomacy has failed, Twilight." Whisper recovered from the impact as Twilight got onto her feet again. "You know what to do."

"Understood." Twilight tapped the dome of the Yo-Kai Watch, beginning the transformation. "Yo-Kai Watch EX, activate!"

The Yo-Kai Watch immediately popped out, replacing the bubble dome with the computer screen, and causing the five extra Yo-kai medal slots to appear. The stylus came out as well, which Twilight grabbed with her teeth.

"Battle perimiters met! Summoning Yo-kai!" Twilight pulled out the medals for Buhu, Dimmy, Coughkoff, Roughraff, Manjimutt, and Noway. "Yo-kai fighters! Roll call!" She slammed the medals into the six slots. There was no announcement or song, as the six waves of energy clashed with each other to instantly generate Twilight's team.

"Buhu!"

"Dimmy!"

"Coughkoff!"

"Roughraff!"

"Manjimutt!"

"Noway!"

The six Yo-kai banded together and stood beside Twilight, ready for combat. The portraits and vitals of all six Yo-kai appeared on the screen, which Twilight was able to move freely to set up her frontline and her backrow. She took the stylus out of her mouth and used her magic to hold it in the air.

"A new Yo-Kai Watch, eh?" Felycan glanced over at Twilight's team and her watch. "How impressive. But even that won't be enough to stop me. C'mon! Have a go! I dare you!"

"Roughraff! Noway! Coughkoff! You take front!" Twilight organized the icons, causing Buhu, Dimmy, and Manjimutt to turn translucent. "When you get hurt enough, I'll bring in the backrow."

"Got it!" The three Yo-kai nodded and got into fighting stances.

"Oh, it's on now!" Felycan raised its' claws and slashed horizontally with both. The Yo-kai barely had time to dodge, and the second strike ended up dealing them a hit, scratching their faces and leaving marks—except for Noway, who barely felt the attack.

"Now, let's try out a new feature this watch can do..." Twilight tapped on a blue button at the top right corner of the screen, causing a projection of a reticle to appear in front of her. She aimed it at Felycan's right claw and shot out a pin that rooted itself into the Boss Yo-kai, but didn't actually make it flinch in pain. "Team! Focus your attacks on the pinpointed area!"

Immediately after Twilight gave the order, Coughkoff and Roughraff attacked the right claw. Roughraff gave it a powerful punch, while Coughkoff dug its' spiky body into it. The cat might've been tall and fast, but it had no idea what Twilight was doing with her watch, and could not predict where the Yo-kai would attack.

"Not my claw!" Felycan slowly picked out the thorns with its' other paw, leaving an opening for Roughraff and Coughkoff to strike it right in the face. "Gah! Didn't it ever slip your mind to respect your elders?!

"Now you're gonna be in for a world of hurt!" Felycan drove both of its' claws into the three Yo-kai before pulling them out. They barely dodged it, but Noway took the brunt of the attack, once again feeling nothing.

"Noway's a defensive Yo-kai while Roughraff and Coughkoff are physical and spectral fighters." Twilight watched Roughraff deal another punch while Coughkoff shot a torrent of water at the other claw. "What do you think, Whisper? A well-rounded team gets the job done, right?"

"Don't underestimate a Boss Yo-kai, Twilight..." Whisper pointed at Felycan.

"Time for you to forget about yourselves and see what fun's like!" The cat whipped its' tail on the three Yo-kai, casting an inspiriting flame on them all. "Cat-alyst!"

Just like the ponies before it, the three Yo-kai were becoming more feline. Their bodies were transforming into cat bodies, their faces grew whiskers and noses, and they began to purr and meow just like all the other victims.

"Darn it!" Twilight re-organized the pictures, making the first time translucent as they went off to play with the other cats, allowing Buhu, Dimmy, and Manjimutt to become solid and enter the battle. "Buhu! Dimmy! Manjimutt! Your turn!"

"You can count on us, Twilight!" Dimmy slinked into the shadows on the walls and snuck up behind Felycan, as Buhu and Manjimutt approached it.

As Buhu, Dimmy, and Manjimutt attacked Felycan and tried to de-claw the cat, Twilight tapped on a purple button on the bottom left corner of the computer screen. It was a button that allowed her to manually purify the Yo-kai that had been inspirited, and by playing a digital game that differed for each Yo-kai, she was able to remove the inspirits and restore the faded Yo-kai back to normal.

"You know, I'm not really much of a dog person!" Felycan tussled with Manjimutt, throwing him onto his back as she tried to bite into him.

"Well, I'm not much of a cat person either!" Manjimutt scratched at Felycan's face, causing her to groan and stumble backwards against a wall, prompting Dimmy to attack from behind and drive his sword into her neck.

"That's it!" Felycan roared and knocked away the Yo-kai with another swing of the tail. "It's time to let myself out of the bag once and for all!" Stomping up to Twilight, it swished the tail over her body, casting an inspiriting flame on Twilight as she was about to bring the other team back into battle.

"TWILIGHT!" Whisper watched Twilight fall to her knees and feel the inspiriting process begin.

The other Yo-kai gasped as they watched Twilight succumb to the purple flames. It was much slower than usual, but Felycan's powers were having an effect on her.

"Ooh... Here we go! We're gonna have some fun now, kitties!" Felycan clapped her paws as it watched Twilight grit her teeth and stand back up. The power she had cast was working, but Twilight showed great resistance to it. "You're trying to resist the change! That's not fair!"

"Nothing's ever been fair with you involved!" Twilight shouted and took more beast-like breaths as she felt the process begin. "I'm not gonna stop fighting until you're gone for good!"

"Then do it! Change! Become a cat like the others!" Felycan slammed its' paws onto the ground impatiently. "It's the only way you'll be able to live with yourself!"

"Twilight! Please resist!" Whisper watched Twilight's hooves slowly turn into cat paws. "You can't just give up to such a powerful foe like Felycan!"

"I gave up with Gargaros. I'm not about to give up here!" Twilight growled, halting the transformation, but still being cast with the purple flames.

"You have to! You're a cat now, just like everyone else that I've taken!" Felycan came over and whispered into Twilight's ears. "Just think about it. A world where all you'll do is sleep, eat, play, and meow! Won't it be glorious?" she cooed. "And you'll have me to thank for it! The marvellous, magnanimous, miraculous, Felycan!"

"Nyot if I have anything to say about it!" Another voice rang out of nowhere.

A red flash ran through the door and charged up to Felycan, slamming into its' pudgy body and sending it flying against the throne of yarn that it had been sitting on, causing the yarn to scatter everywhere and into the paws of the cat-ified ponies.

When Twilight could make out what was going on, she saw yet another cat. However, it was much different to the ones that she had seen before it. It had a red coat with a small metal necklace, and two tails that were both lit on fire by blue flames. The new cat paled in comparison to Felycan, but it had a determined look on its' face.

"Of all the things I've seen tonight, I've never been more happy to see you..." Whisper looked at the new cat with a wide smile on his face.

"Whisper!" The cat turned around and smiled right back at him. "It's been so long!"

"It certainly has, my old friend." Whisper shook hands with the new Yo-kai and showed him to Twilight. "Twilight. This is Jibanyan. He's a Charming tribe Yo-kai unlike any other."

"I can see that..." Twilight's smile was smaller than Whisper's, as she was still fighting back the inspiriting power of Felycan. Her ears transformed into cat ears as she got a good look at Jibanyan.

"Anyway, what brings you here, Jibanyan?" Whisper asked. "Aren't you supposed to be fighting off trucks to try and prove that girl wrong?"

"The trucks aren't going anywhere, Whisper. I've still got plenty of time to beat them down." Jibanyan made a few air punches before he saw Felycan get back up. "I heard that Felycan was trying to steal my thunder with his cat powers. So I came in as fast as my paws could carry me."

"Uggh. Jibanyan..." Felycan shook its' head and groaned at him. "You always were the runt of the litter, weren't you?"

"Nyot cool, Felycan!" Jibanyan squinted its' eyes. "You've got nyo right to be here! I'm the only REAL cat Yo-kai around here!"

"You? The better cat? Puh-lease." Felycan tipped its' left paw. "Compared to me and that soon to be cat-ified pony over there, you're nothing more than a kitten."

Jibanyan grunted at Felycan's taunts and took up a battle stance.

"But, if you want to humour me with your feeble attempt to try and hurt me, then go right on ahead." Felycan's claws extended out even more. "But I must warn you, it's pretty moggy in here, and with Twilight Sparkle over there not feline so hot, I'd say that you're in a whole mess of trouble, Jibanyan."

"Honestly. And here I thought Mckraken's squid puns were bad..." Whisper facepalmed at Felycan's sentence. "Jibanyan. Go right on ahead and help Twilight's team defeat Felycan."

"Nyo problem, Whisper! You can count on me!" Jibanyan gave Whisper a nod before it charged off towards Felycan with the other Yo-kai that Twilight had befriended.

"Just hurry up, everyone!" Twilight let out a small gasp of air and felt a pain in her stomach as she grew a cat nose and whiskers. "I can feel Felycan's curse getting stronger..."

A Real CAT-astrophe (END)

Jibanyan and Twilight's team of Yo-kai all ran towards Felycan, weapons and fists drawn for a battle. They had seen that Twilight was more cat than pony now, and if they didn't act fast, they would be without someone to lead them, and Felycan would possibly even retreat with them all to take over more of Equestria.

Roughraff and Coughkoff teamed up when attacking the giant cat. Roughraff gave Felycan a number of punches in the belly before launching a powerful kick that sent her flying right onto Coughkoff's body. She yelped and hissed as loud as she could and leapt up into the wall, crashing into it and then plummeting to the ground.

"Hurry... up... everyone!" Twilight gritted her teeth and fought back the pain as her tail turned into a thin cat's tail. "I can't fight back this inspiriting curse for much longer!"

The team all nodded and gathered energy for their soultimates one at a time. The first was Noway, who made circular motions with his arms once he had enough power.

"NO WAY THROUGH!" Noway cried out, plopping himself on the ground while pushing both of his arms out and blinding Felycan with a powerful burst of light. The light hypnotized Felycan, and its' sights were only set on him instead of the rest of the team. "I'll draw its' attacks. You finish it off!"

Roughraff clapped both of its' hands together, did a somersault into the air, and slammed them both into Felycan's face, throwing her to a crowd of ponies. The Boss Yo-kai crashed into the wall, fazing through the crowd as she was sent flying.

"You'll stay down if you know what's good for you." Roughraff channeled his soultimate too, turned his back to Felycan, and cast an intimidating glare at her. "STARE DOWN!"

"Uggh..." Felycan looked at Roughraff's gaze and punched the ground with her claw. She was beginning to have seconds thoughts as she let the ability of the move weaken her power. Shaking her head, she growled and bared her fangs at the team. "Enough of this! It's time that I take you all down a peg!"

"Oh nyo you don't!" Jibanyan scurried in as Felycan began to collect her own energy for a soultimate. The small cat leapt onto Felycan's face and gave her two scratches, causing her to scream and throw Jibanyan against Twilight with a swipe of her paw.

Twilight felt Jibanyan crash into her, and she felt herself succumbing to the curse even more now. Her wings and horn had vanished, and she was left using her mouth to direct the team. Claws grew out from her paws, her dialogue had been reduced down to purrs and meows, and her eyes became more cat-like, with the pupils becoming thinner and thinner as the purple part of her eyes engorged to take up the whole socket.

"TWILIGHT! NO!" Whisper watched as the transformation stopped, and Twilight stopped resisting Felycan's power. He watched her stand up, drop the Yo-Kai Watch onto the floor, and walk away to be with the other cats.

"Twilight..." Jibanyan could only watch as Twilight began meowing. She had been lost like the rest of the town, and now the Yo-kai were without someone to guide them. He hung his head and gazed down at his paws, letting a small tear slip. "I couldn't do it..."

"Gyahahahahahahaha! The weak little horse is now gone forever!" Felycan laughed as she watched Twilight embrace her feline side and play with a ball of yarn. "And now that that's taken care off, let's finish off her little comrades!" Felycan finished gathering energy for her soultimate and leapt up high into the air, extending her claws even more as she looked to flatten the Yo-kai that Twilight had befriended. "CAT-ASTROPHIC CAT-APULT!"

Jibanyan could only watch as Felycan flattened all of the Yo-kai that were currently out, turning them all into hovering flames, dicatating that they had been defeated in battle. With its' confidence dampened, he could barely even find the courage to stand up as Buhu, Dimmy, and Manjimutt were dragged back into combat due to the Yo-Kai Watch still being active.

"I'm sorry, Whisper." Jibanyan slowly looked up at Whisper and let another tear slip. "I couldn't save Twilight in time, and nyow she's a cat like all the others." He hung his head once again and didn't even bother to look at the rest of the fight. "Guess I really am the runt of the litter..."

"Jibanyan." Whisper laid his arm on the cat's shoulder. "Sticks, stones, and trucks may break your bones, but names will never hurt you. Who cares what Felycan thinks about you?"

"What do you mean by that?" Jibanyan watched the three remaining Yo-kai get swatted away effortlessly by Felycan. "I wanted to save Twilight before she became a cat, but nyow look at her!" He thrusted both of his arms towards Twilight, who was licking her legs and coughing up hairballs. "What's the point of even fighting anymore?"

"Don't you see? You're letting yourself believe that all hope is lost." Whisper gave Jibanyan a gentle rub on the belly. "Just because Twilight is a cat now, that doesn't mean that Felycan is undefeatable, right?

"Look. The Yo-kai that she made friends with are still fighting hard, even when she's not there to lead them." Whisper showed Buhu, Dimmy, and Manjimutt escape the next wave of attacks and hit Felycan afterwards. "This is your chance to prove that you're the better cat. Sure, she may be bigger, but that doesn't mean she's technically stronger."

"She's a Boss Yo-kai, Whisper. Boss Yo-kai have been undefeated for as long as we've been dead," Jibanyan deadpanned.

"So what about that?! You have heart, Jibanyan." Whisper gave him a getle poke where the heart would be on a regular cat. "You might be small, but you know what they say; the big things always come in the smallest packages," he saw Jibanyan smiling. "Now go out there and de-claw that kitty!"

"Thanks, Whisper." Jibanyan gave a slow nod before he leapt back onto his feet and looked back at Felycan with more confidence. "I'll be sure nyot to fail this time!"

"You're all really starting to annoy me!" Felycan snarled as it felt Manjimutt bite and scratch its' back. It ripped off a piece of flesh, revealing a spot gushing with white slime. "GRRAGH! GET OFF OF ME!" Felycan hurled Manjimutt to the wall and pinned him down, ready to eat him whole. "ANY LAST WORDS, MANGY MUTT?!"

"First of all, it's Manjimutt. All one word and pronounced with a 'J' and an 'I' instead of 'G' and 'Y'." He raised his paw. "And second of all, you're just about done."

"PAWS OF FURY!" Jibanyan leapt up at the bleeding area where Manjimutt had bitten in and focused his attack. He jabbed both of his paws forward at breakneck speeds that were too fast to keep up with, bombarding the cut with lightning-fast scratches, making the giant cat screech out at the top of its' lungs, grab onto its' back, and topple over onto it, with Jibanyan barely dodging out of the way.

"NYOOOOO! HOW COULD I POSSIBLY BE DEFEATED BY SUCH RATS?!" Felycan roared as she started to expel a purple mist. "THIS IS A CATASTROPHE OF EPIC PROPORTIONS!" the mist got bigger and bigger, slowly but surely enveloping Felycan. "UGGH... I'M NOT FELINE TOO GOOD..."

"Enough with the cat puns, Felycan!" Whisper shouted, waving his hands crazily. "Honestly. After all the times I heard Mckraken saying 'squidding', 'calamarity', and such things about 'octopying' the human world, I at least expect you to die with some dignity!"

"THIS... AIN'T... OVER, WHISPER!" Felycan breathed heavily, gnashing out at the ghost. "I MAY HAVE FALLEN, BUT SO SOON SHALL YOUR BELOVED TWILIGHT SPARKLE AND HER KIND. THE KING WILL DESCEND UPON THIS WORLD, AND DRAG THAT LITTLE HORSE INTO ETERNAL SUFFERING, BEFORE DEMOLISHING HER PUNY WORLD! MEEEEEOOOOOOOOWWWWW!" The mist got bigger and bigger, taking Felycan entirely.

The purple clouds got bigger and bigger until finally, streams of light poured out from them. There were cracks revealing more light before a massive explosion engulfed Town Hall, doing no structural damage, but flooding the area in a wave of blue energy, causing Jibanyan, Whisper, and the other Yo-kai to shield their faces with their appendages until it died down.

"Is it over?" Jibanyan asked as the air around them grew calmer with the disappearance of Felycan.

"Looks like it." Whisper watched as the inspiring flames vanished off of Twilight Sparkle and the other cat-ified ponies. Slowly but surely, the same lights that changed them before were now turning them back into ponies. "Without Felycan to control the inspirits, all of the ponies in Ponyville are back to being equine instead of feline. No offense, right?"

"Nyone taken. They're their own species. That big bully had nyo right to make them her own kind." Jibanyan crossed her paws and watched everyone come back to their senses once they reverted back to their pony selves.

"Uggh... Where am I?" Rarity scratched her head as she walked away from the nearby scratching post and looked around at the other cats being turned back into ponies. "And why do I smell like tuna?"

"Ohh... I get it now! Felycan! Feline lycanthrope! That's brilliant!" Pinkie Pie bounced on her tail when she returned to normal. "I would've called it a were-kitty, but I'm not the one naming these things here."

"What are you talking about, Pinkie?" Rainbow Dash asked as her wings grew back and she flew over to her.

"Some really big cat Yo-kai turned us all into cute little kitties for the night!" Pinkie threw her arms out, tossing confetti as she did. "Twilight managed to come to the rescue and save us from that CATastrophe." She giggled.

"You know what? I'm done." Whisper flew off into the town. "I cannot deal with these cat jokes any longer! I'm done! I'm glad that Felycan is dead and that we can all move on with our lives!" He mumbled and complained as he went all the way back to Twilight's castle.

Twilight was the last to revert back to being a pony. Her paws turned back into hooves, her tail back to a wide and flowing horse tail, and her face lost the whiskers and replaced the black nose for a muzzle. Her eyes changed back to normal, and her wings and horns grew back after that. She flew down to collect her Yo-Kai Watch and slip it back onto her hoof.

"Everyone?" Twilight Sparkle gathered the attention of all of the townsponies who had changed back as well and were unsure as to what was going on. "In case you don't know what just happened, you were all sleepwalking and dreaming about cat stuff," she lied. "Just get back to your beds and try to get a good night's sleep, alright?"

As much as the other ponies wanted to try and argue with her, they couldn't help but yawn and droop their eyes. They had been awake as cats for a few hours, and all they wanted was to sleep tightly. They slowly walked out with their children behind them, leaving the rest of Twilight's friends and the Yo-kai.

"I had to lie to them. It was the only way they'd be able to understand." Twilight walked up to her friends. "With all of the Yo-kai happenings that have been plaguing Ponyville recently, I didn't want to overstimulate them and put them on edge." She looked down at her Yo-Kai Watch and saw it reflect in the moonlight. "If they knew that invisible creatures were invading our world and taking control of our bodies, they would panic and cause even more of a disaster than the Yo-kai would."

"I can't even remember what happened to us tonight..." Fluttershy rubbed the ground with one of her rear hooves as she looked at Twilight.

"Even so, I don't really agree with this whole lying thing of yours, Twilight." Applejack found her hat buried in a litter box, cleaned it up, and put it back on her head. "Sooner or later, they'll have to know the truth. And then what would you say?"

"Applejack, please. Twilight's been through an awful lot of stuff tonight trying to save us." Rarity walked next to Twilight and gave her a gentle hug. "I can't imagine that things have been easy for the poor dear, either. She looks absolutely dreadful..."

"If I didn't come to your rescue, Felycan would have kept you all as cats forever." Twilight coughed up one last hairball before she made it disappear with her magic. "But even then, not even I could save you from her dark powers. It was all Jibanyan and the Yo-kai who saved us." Twilight used her watch to show all seven of the Yo-kai that had battled against the Boss Yo-kai. "I think you should all give your gratitude towards them."

"Thanks, everyone." Applejack smiled at the Yo-kai.

"You really saved our skins." Rainbow Dash nodded.

"We would have been in a real mess if you hadn't saved us." Fluttershy herself stepped forward to congratulate the Yo-kai.

"Thank you ever so much, dears," said Rarity. "If you ever need a fitting, be sure to find me. It's the least that I can do."

"Yeah! Anyone who saves us from being cat-ponies deserves to have a party in their honour!" Pinkie pulled out her Party Cannon again and fired a barrage of party supplies into the air.

Twilight looked back at Pinkie and her merriment before she came up to Jibanyan. "You especially, Jibanyan," she said. "If you hadn't come in at the last moment and defeated Felycan, I would've been stuck like that for the rest of my life. If there's anything that I can ever do to repay you, just tell me."

"Well... You could give me the power to destroy a truck..." Jibanyan said, causing Twilight's grin to fall in seconds. "I'm just kidding! I'll do that myself. But anyway, I suppose I could give you this." Jibanyan stepped forward, reached into his fur and pulled out a Yo-kai Medal with his picture on it. "If you ever need me in battle, just put this in the Yo-Kai Watch, and I'll be there in nyo time at all!"

"I certainly will, Jibanyan." Twilight sat down and pulled him into a tight hug, with him returning the favour. "Anything for my new friend..."

"Yeah! Friends forever!" Jibanyan purred as Twilight's smile got wider and wider.

"Can we get out of this place now?" Rarity asked, looking around at all of the cat stuff that Felycan had stockpiled. "I want to get back to bed and sleep like a normal pony again. And besides, it is pretty moggy in here..."

"STILL NOT FUNNY!" Whisper cried out from a distance as loud as he could, the noise only being barely audible.

To that, everyone shared a laugh as they began to clean up Town Hall ready for use tomorrow morning. They all carried it out and continued smiling as Jibanyan and the Yo-kai team that Twilight had made were helping out too.

Twilight returned her Yo-Kai Watch to its' normal functionality and looked back at Jibanyan while cleaning away the supplies. As she looked at how he had been bruised, but was still able to carry more than his own weight and help out, she could tell that he was no ordinary Yo-kai. And as she looked at him, she knew, deep down in the corners of her mind, that things were only going to escalate even more from there.

As all of the stuff was cleaned up and Town Hall was locked for the evening, the lights went out, and an eerie black ripple appeared where Felycan had been felled. There was a deep and distorted laugh emanating from it before it faded away into darkness, with Venoct watching from the glass rooftop with his dragon scarf snapping wildly.

"He is coming..." Venoct whispered. "Kyubi was right about one thing. Twilight needs to be ready for this, or it could spell armageddon for our world, the human world, and Equestria..."

Author's Notes:

Just because it's the end of the first Arc of this Yo-Kai Watch crossover, that doesn't mean that it's the end of the story as a whole. Trust me, I have much, MUCH more ideas for future chapters and Yo-kai for Twilight to meet, battle, and befriend.

Oh, and as for Yo-Kai Watch related stuff, they just announced more stuff on Yo-Kai Watch 2 Bony Spirits/Fleshy Souls. Not only will we be seeing the origin of the Yo-Kai Watch, but there will be new story elements, new Yo-kai, and new battle mechanics involved. Further more, there is an ongoing feud between two factions in this new game, led by Arachnus and Toadal Dude.

Unlike the first game, Bony Spirits and Fleshy Souls gravitates around Pokemon law in the sense that there are some Yo-kai EXCLUSIVE to one game, while you cannot befriend or find others. For example, Venoct and Kyubi were both befriendable in the first game. In Yo-Kai Watch 2, Venoct is exclusive to Bony Spirits, while Kyubi only appears as a friend in Fleshy Souls. So it's your choice. Do you want Venoct with his endless Soultimates, or do you want Kyubi, who never misses? It's entirely up to you.

In a similar manner, Arachnus is only going to be befriendable in Bony Spirits, while Toadal Dude (I can't stop thinking about how ridiculous and cheesy that name is...) is only befriendable in Fleshy Souls. Just like Venoct and Kyubi, they have their own unique fighting styles and powers, so it might be worth it to see what each of them do and who is the more powerful.

Oh, and here's more for you. Because Felycan is an original Boss Yo-kai, I was debating on whether or not to have this, but I'm gonna put his stats in a later Blog Post, so make sure to check that out, and I hope you enjoy the rest of your day!

Dunce's Hat/What Wazzat?

"I just can't stop thinking about it..." Whisper paced back and forth through Twilight's room while she examined Jibanyan's medal. It had been a few days since they had battled Felycan, but he had a thought that ht couldn't shake off.

"What is it, Whisper?" Twilight stood up and looked over at him.

"Well, in her dying breath, Felycan mentioned something rather... questionable..." Whisper came over to Twilight and put his hand on her shoulder. "She mentioned something about a king coming to destroy your world and make you suffer. Now, I've gone through all of the records on Yo-kai throughout history, and only a few kings have come to mind. And even then, none of them were as malicious as the one that that oversized cat mentioned..."

"A king?" Twilight's ears twitched and she looked over at one of the walls of her room. "You don't think she meant King Sombra?"

"Highly doubtful, Twilight." Whisper pulled out his tablet and once more began to foray through the information. "If the cat mentioned a king, then there's no doubt that it could be another Boss Yo-kai. They wouldn't resort to using another species just to get the job done. Boss Yo-kai are hell-bent on doing all of the work themselves.

"What's even more worse is that I've seen other Boss Yo-kai take orders from some of the strongest, most malicious, and downright evil Yo-kai in history, so there's still the assumption that that's in place..." He scratched his chin. "Arrgh! I just can't understand it! Who is this king? And why does he want to see your world destroyed?!"

"Whisper. Don't strain yourself." Twilight pushed both of her hooves out. "It's like you said. It's best not to let those thoughts fester."

"You're right." Whisper rubbed the back of his head and gave Twilight a calm smile. "I'm sorry if I seemed a bit demanding, it's just that I can't shake the thought that catastrophe is going to befall your world."

"It wouldn't be the first time..." Twilight rolled her eyes. "Given the attacks from Queen Chrysalis, King Sombra, and Lord Tirek in the past year, I wouldn't be surprised if this king decided to try and destroy our world. In fact, me and the girls would be right there to put an end to his insidious plans and save the world, with a Yo-kai team to boot."

"We barely even managed to defeat Felycan, Twilight. How you can be so confident in all of this baffles me." Whisper looked out into the town from the window and watched the ponies doing their normal duties. "If you're ever going to be able to face tougher Yo-kai, you're going to need to upgrade the Yo-Kai Watch some more and make more friends."

"I've already been thinking about that myself." Twilight looked down at the Yo-Kai Watch. "The EX version was just the start. By doing some minor tweaks and adjustments to the system, I'll be able to enhance the combat capabilities, meet higher ranking Yo-kai, and maybe even make them visible for ponies without them having to look through the lens," as she processed all of those ideas into her mind, her train of thought stopped. "Though... Maybe not all at once, and besides, upgrading this watch in the first place was no easy feat. It'll take a lot of time to collect the resources and energy needed to push this thing up to the next rank."

"That's quite a lot of ideas you've got there, Twilight," said Whisper. "But, the more the merrier. Lord Enma always wanted mortals and Yo-kai to be friends, so anything that further enforces those words are fine by me, even if it means transforming the Yo-Kai Watch into something even greater..."

"Who's Lord Enma?"

"Lord Enma was—"

"TWILIGHT!" Applebloom barged through the door and into the room, cutting Whisper off completely. "IT'S AN EMERGENCY!"

"What is it, Applebloom?" Twilight closed the Yo-kai Medallium and walked over to her.

"Miss Cheerilee. She was just teaching class, when all of a sudden, she started acting really silly!" Applebloom cried out. "She started saying things that made no sense, playing with the class equipment, and even scribbling on the chalkboard like a moron!"

"I'll tell you about Enma later, Twilight. Right now, it sounds like there's a Yo-kai problem on our hands!" Whisper pointed towards the door. "Let's go!"

"Calm down, Whisper. That Yo-kai's not going anywhere." Twilight walked towards the door with Applebloom by her side. "Now, come on, Applebloom. Let's go talk some sense into Miss Cheerilee..."

"Thanks, Twilight." Applebloom's tail curled up as she walked with her.

At the schoolhouse, students were just standing there in bewilderment as they watched Miss Cheerilee. Their once beloved teacher was now making imbecilic noises, messing around with the rubbers and pencils, and doing all kinds of other stuff that they wouldn't expect from her.

"No need to be smarty pants!" Cheerille threw herself at the desk, sliding across it with her belly. "Silly time is fun time!" She fell off the edge, landing on her head, laughing.

"We're here!" Whisper shouted as Twilight pointed the watch at Cheerilee, revealing the Yo-kai that had been plaguing Miss Cheerilee and making her into an idiot. "Now let's see just what we're dealing with here..."

The Yo-kai that revealed itself was firmly planted on Cheerilee's head, nibbling and chewing on it as it made her play with the equipment. It was a yellow hat with a blue ribbon and white lips with teeth around the front. Its' eyes were poking out of the top of the hat. They were two smaller hat pieces hanging on more fabric. As it bit into the pony's head, it stoked the purple inspiriting flame around her.

"That is Dummkap." Whisper pointed at the yellow hat. "I hope you're ready to kiss your intelligence goodbye, Twilight, because once Dummkap inspirits you, you'll become the stupidest person on the planet. Why, the way Dummkap dumbs down people would make a baby seem smart!"

"Confrontation. Without a doubt." Twilight already pulled out the Yo-kai Medals that she had acquired. "Now, which one should it be?" She hummed as she glanced over the medals and noticed Jibanyan's medal. "You know what? Let's bring out Jibanyan. After the way he bested Felycan, I want to see more of him..."

"Sounds good to me," said Whisper. "I'll leave it all to you now."

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Jibanyan!" Twilight threw the medal up and caught it as usual. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" She shoved it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: CHARMING!" The watch delcared as pink streams burst out, revealing Jibanyan, who was busy shaking his arms to the music as he materialized in the school.

Alarming!
Boom, boom! Walla, walla, dance, dance,
Charming!

"Jibanyan!" he said, landing on the floor to face Dummkap.

"Jibanyan. It's good to see you." Twilight gave him a gentle stroke on the back. "Do you think you could deal with Dummkap for me?"

"Sure thing, Twilight!" Jibanyan got into his combat stance. "I'll claw that cap real good!"

"Just remember to avoid letting it get on top of you, Jibanyan," said Whisper. "If Dummkap inspirits you, then you'll become dumber than the stupidest pony in Equestria..."

"That's nyot gonna happen!" Jibanyan rushed in to attack Dummkap, knocking it off of Cheerilee's head. He rolled with the hat and crashed into the wall with it, seemingly flattening it.

"Did that do it?" Twilight looked over at Cheerilee to see if the inspiriting flame was still there. A quick glance through the lens showed that the fire was still there, and still burning strong. "What? The inspirit is still there?"

"You dunces ain't gonna beat me that easily!" Dummkap popped his top out as he flew back up into the air.

"Wanna bet?" Twilight brandished the watch and a few other Yo-kai Medals. "If you get Jibanyan, I've got a whole other team of Yo-kai on standby to take you down."

"That's right! Twilight will not stop until you're put back on your hanger, Dummkap!" Whisper pointed towards him and raised his thumb with his eyes closed. "Why, Twilight's got the biggest brain in all of Equestria, and she certainly won't let it be dirtied with your dumbing powers!"

"Big brain, eh? Let me at it!" Dummkap lifted the flame from Cheerilee, restoring her to normal before charging in to Twilight. He quickly caught her off-guard and landed on her head, putting the purple fire on Twilight.

"Twilight! Are you alright?" Whisper saw Twilight's eyes widen as Dummkap's inspiriting powers began to take control. Whisper raised two fingers and waved them in her face. "How many fingers am I holding up? What's one plus one?"

Twilight stuck out her tongue and cooed mindlessly as Dummkap's power overrode her mind. All of the things that she lad learned over the course of her life had now been replaced with a sense of incoherent innocence. All she wanted to do was play and have fun, and she could not control herself.

"Silly time is fun time!" Twilight declared, while running out of the schoolhouse laughing like a maniac.

"Oh dear..." Whisper facepalmed and flew out the door after Twilight. "This is not going to end well, I guarantee it..."

"Hold on, Twilight! I'm coming!" Jibanyan stood up and chased after Twilight and Dummkap, making sure to stay close to Whisper as he did so.

Cheerilee shook her head, trying to shake off the rest of the inspirit that had been removed after Dummkap went after Twilight. Looking at her class, she said, "What just happened?"

Twilight soared through Ponyville, laughing as Dummkap made her crash into everything that came in her path. It didn't take long for her mane to get covered in fruit juice, bird feathers, and even plant soil. With every single impact, though, Twilight was still laughing and giggling like she didn't even know what was going on. She was still under Dummkap's influence, and it was incredibly strong on her due to her large intelligence.

Whisper and Jibanyan were down on the ground, narrowly evading all of the things that flew towards them as Twilight crashed through them. They tried their hardest to keep up after Twilight and Dummkap, but because of all of the chaos, it was hard for them to close the gap and stop the Yo-kai.

"Oh, that Dummkap really makes my hair stand on end!" Whisper ducked and weaved around the debris before he got an idea. He flew higher and higher into the air, well out of the way of the damage down below. "Jibanyan. You keep running, I'll divebomb them!"

"Sure thing, Whisper!" Jibanyan gave him a small salute as he continued to dodge the junk, trash, and collateral damage that was being caused due to the dumbed down Twilight.

"Funny..." Twilight droned and drooled as she crashed straight through Sugarcube Corner. She came out of the other side with cake and pastries all over her face, with Dummkap just barely managing to eat some of the mess.

"Yeah. That's more like it!" Dummkap smiled as he guided Twilight through the town, making her impact with even more stuff. "Don't stress yourself with big words and stupid equations. Just be an idiot. After all, ignorance is bliss!"

"INCOMING!" Whisper bolted into Dummkap like a rocket and knocked him clean off Twilight's head, straight into Jibanyan's path. "Finish it!" he cried to him.

"On it!" Jibanyan leapt into the air and dealt a massive scratch to Dummkap as he came hurtling at Jibanyan. However, he came too fast, and Jibanyan was sent straight into a cart wheeled by Applejack, sending the apples everywhere.

Twilight stopped in her path as soon as Dummkap was off of her head. The flames around her instantly vanished, and she shook her head to try and come back to her senses. Looking around at the chaos, she gulped and tugged at her chin, looking around for Whisper and Jibanyan.

"Oh no... What did I do?" She flew down towards Jibanyan, who now had Dummkap on his head instead. Twilight knew that Dummkap was a mischief maker, but she didn't think that he'd be durable. "Jibanyan! Hang tight!"

"Uggh... My head's spinning..." Jibanyan's said as his head actually was rotating from the impact. Dummkap was on top of him, but he wasn't being inspirited by him.

"Are you alright?" Twilight asked, ripping Dummkap off of Jibanyan's hat. "You've been an evil, evil Yo-kai, Dummkap. What do you have to say for yourself?!" she screamed at the hat.

"That... Was... AWESOME!" Dummkap cheered, flying into the air. "You were all like, 'duh' and I was like, 'that's right,' and it was amazing!" Dummkap could not contain his excitement. "I've earned my kick for the day. Here. You can have this." And with that, he spat out a Yo-kai Medal into Twilight's hair.

"Eww!" Twilight recoiled and plucked the medal out of her hair, getting a good look at it. She examined both the picture on the front, and the tribe logo on the back. "Wait. I shout at you, and you respond with a Yo-kai Medal?"

"Well, duh. You are the smartest pony in Equestria, so I thought it would be super fun to make you feel stupid for the day." Dummkap came back down to Twilight's height and planted himself back on top of her.

"No, no, no, no, no! Not again!" Twilight immediately threw him back off. "What is your problem?!"

"Hey, I ain't got a problem. I'm just a dunce cap, after all," Dummkap said. "I land on people, and they act silly. I'm mainly to be used on little kids to help them play better, but for some reason, I crave intelligence. It's like a hunger that I can never get over. The smarter, the better.

"But your brain, hoo-wee! That's enough to last me a whole month without going cuckoo!" He spun round giddily. "You can keep the Yo-kai Medal by the way, just in case you want to make someone dumb, or just dumb yourself down a bit. I'll be there as fast as I can." And with that sentence, he vanished.

"Why?" Twilight looked down at Dummkap's medal again. "He takes over the minds of ponies, I threaten him as hard as I can, and he still thinks its' fun?" she said. "And he decides to give me his medal because of it? Why?"

"Yo-kai work in otherworldly ways, Twilight." Whisper raised his finger again. "When and how they'll befriend you is a completely unexpectable. It was handled with easily with the other Yo-kai before this, but with Mysterious tribe Yo-kai, not even I'm sure on how they'll make friends with you..."

"Mysterious, eh?" Twilight looked at the yellow icon on the back of the medal. "You can say that again."

"I guess it all worked out in the end, huh?" Jibanyan looked around at all of the damage that Twilight had done.

"Worked out? Ponyville's in shambles because of what I did under Dummkap's influence!" Twilight didn't even notice that the town was gathering around her as she spoke. "How am I supposed to tell everyone that there are invisible creatures running around causing all this chaos, and that there's nothing they can do to stop it?!"

A cavalcade of gasps caused Twilight's pupils to dilate. The ponies of Ponyville were all gathered around, looking at Twilight and her watch.

"Oh, me and my big mouth..." Twilight hung her head and buried it into the ground. "I wish I were an idiot right now..."

"You and me both, Twilight..." Whisper looked at all of the ponies, grimacing about what they had heard come out of Twilight's mouth. Some of them were even biting on their hooves with their eyes darting around.

"Twilight?" Whisper looked out of Twilight's bedroom door the next day, seeing a pony with white skin, blue hair, and red facial paint around his eyes. "There's someone here to see you."

"Send them in, Whisper." Twilight waved, as she was tinkering with the Yo-Kai Watch, examining all of the pieces and resources she had. After everything that had happened, she was trying her best to upgrade the device so that she would be better prepared for future battles with Boss Yo-kai.

The door opened, and the pony walked into the room. She was a unicorn mare dressed in a red floral kimono dress with a Cutie Mark in the shape of markings related to another country. Her eyes were blue, and her hooves were mostly concealed by their clothes.

"Twilight Sparkle," the pony said, the voice being female. "I am Red Snow, hailing from the country of Japony."

"Japony?" Twilight's head was immediately pulled from her work as she looked over at the pony. "I wasn't really expecting anypony from over there. I haven't even had time to prepare myself."

"Oh. Am I interrupting anything?" Red Snow looked over at Twilight's workbench and the device she was tinkering with. "I can always leave and come back later."

"No, no. I'm perfectly fine." Twilight sheepishly rubbed the back of her head. "Just messing around. You can stay, if you want."

"Ahh. Arigato." Red Snow placed her front hooves to her side and bowed before Twilight.

"So, what brings a pony all the way from Japony here?" Twilight walked over to Red Snow and bowed less than she did.

"I was sent a letter from my father, Emperor Naginata, to seek out the Princess of Friendship in this town." Red Snow picked up a cushion from Twilight's bed and sat down on it in a kneeling position so that it looked like she was sitting on her back hooves. "He told me that you were dabbling in the affairs of creatures known as Yo-kai."

"Yo-kai?!" Twilight stumbled backwards at Red Snow's words. "You mean, you know?!"

"Yo-kai are not hard to find in Japony. They are actually quite native to our world and have intermixed with our society and cultures." Red Snow lit up her horn and drew a few japonese symbols with her magic. "However, not many ponies in our home can see them without a device known as the—"

"Yo-Kai Watch." Twilight finished Red Snow's sentence, showing off the watch that she had been working on. She slipped it around her waist and pointed it in Whisper's direction, revealing him to them both. "I know. I found a capsule machine in the Everfree Forest and released this Yo-kai; Whisper."

"And me and Twilight have been besties ever since!" Whisper cuddled up next to her. "Well, technically, I'm her butler, but I still count it as a friendship nonetheless."

"Hmm. It seems that you know just as much about this as I do." Red Snow pulled up one of the sleeves of her kimono, revealing her own Yo-Kai Watch. It looked similar to Twilight's but there were Japanese markings and smiling cartoon animals all over it. "Do you like mine? I found the stickers in the cosplay district, while I drew the black marks myself."

"I have so many questions." Twilight came up to Red Snow and looked at her watch. "How did you find this? What Yo-kai have you met? Can I get some of those cute stickers for my own Yo-Kai Watch?"

Red Snow giggled. "All in good time, Twilight. We have much more important manners to discuss."

"Oh yeah. I was just caught up in the moment, that's all..." Twilight took the second pillow from her bed and sat down on it, crossing her legs. "Go on."

"When Emperor Naginata noticed that Yo-kai were becoming more widespread in Japony, he sent me off to Ponyville to find you in the hopes that you would be able to contain them," Red Snow started. "You defeated Lord Tirek in the past, so he guaranteed his people that you would be able to save us all from the encroaching Yo-kai that were causing mischief.

"However, as I left, I noticed that barely any Yo-kai were to be seen in my home." She flipped up the lens of her Yo-Kai Watch. "I did a quick scan, but I found barely anything back in Japony. 'Was there something wrong?' I asked myself. Why were there less Yo-kai there than my father expected? Why would he send me off to Ponyville to try and find you to fix this?

"I let those questions fester in my mind for a while until I felt a big surge on the zeppelin ride over. I felt the presence of a big Yo-kai taking over your town, and I was on edge for more than I had ever been, as I felt the Yo-kai's power getting stronger and stronger by the minute."

"Felycan." Twilight pulled out her Yo-kai Medallium and flipped over to the last page, where one of the slots was magically filled by a black picture of Felycan. "She was a Boss Yo-kai turning everypony into cats. She even managed to turn me into one, and without Jibanyan's help, I would've been stuck like that forever..."

"And let me just say from the heart, I CANNOT deal with ANY more cat puns for as long as I live and breathe!" Whisper spluttered, crossing his arms. "Hmmph! Honestly, Boss Yo-kai have no dignity these days..."

"Boss Yo-kai are taking your world?" Red Snow's eyes widened. "How worrying. I should have come much quicker. Me and my trusty Yo-kai will be able to flatten anything that comes our way!"

"It's alright. Felycan was defeated, and I doubt that she'll be coming back any time soon..." Twilight closed up the Yo-kai Medallium and put it by her side. "So, you're here to help, right?"

"Yes. I shall detain any threats that dare to disrupt the peace of the Ponyville ponies." Red Snow nodded. "Just like how you tend to do it, we in Japony handle Yo-kai in two different ways.

"Peaceful negotiation, or exciting confrontation." Twilight, Whisper, and Red Snow all said together, as if they all knew what they'd all say all at the same time.

"Indeed. Whisper has taught you everything, hasn't he?" Red Snow nodded and smiled once again.

"Everything except Yo-kai Evolution, Yo-kai Fusion, and even Yo-kai bathing habits," he said. "We'll get to the third one when you're a little older, though, Twilight. I don't want to disturb you when you've only just begun your adventure into the world of Yo-kai..."

"Yo-kai? What's a Yo-kai?" Twilight didn't even see an inspiriting flame on her.

"Oh boy..." Red Snow flipped up the Yo-kai Watch, revealing another hat on top of Twilight. Similar in design to Dummkap, this one was a green hat with a purple ribbon. Everything else was exactly the same, though.

"Wazzat! Why now of all times?!" Whisper shouted at the green hat. "Twilight and Red Snow here were just learning to have fun!"

"I shall handle this." Red Snow threw off her kimono and pulled out a Yo-kai Medal. "I'm not sure if you'll be able to understand this, but I'll try my best." She said something in Japanese before throwing a Yo-kai Medal into the air and shoving it into the slot. "Yo-kai Medal! Set! On!" She put it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: CHARMING!" The watch declared in the same language as Twilight's as a new Yo-kai materialized into battle.

Alarming!
Boom, boom, walla, walla, dance, dance!
Charming!"

"Sailornyan!" A pink cat, bearing resemblance to Jibanyan appeared in the room, wearing a white sailor's outfit with a red ribbon appeared in front of Red. "Whoa! What's with my voice? Why am I speaking in another language?"

"Hmm. I'm guessing it's all to do with the new region you're in..." Whisper looked at the customized Yo-Kai Watch on Red's arm. "You see, Twilight's Yo-Kai Watch speaks in perfect Equestrian, and yours usually speaks in Japonese. So call me crazy here, but I think that Twilight's watch is counteracting yours, making both it and the Yo-kai you summon speak in the language too."

"Did you catch any of that?" Red Snow asked Sailornyan.

"Nyope." Sailornyan shook her head quickly. "But anyway, what do you want me to do, Red?"

"I want you to battle Wazzat and free Twilight from its' vile clutches!" Red Snow jabbed a hoof at the green hat.

"Sure! Anything for my bestest friend!" Sailornyan gave Red Snow a cute smile before it looked over at Wazzat.

"Well, well, well, you think you're gonna try and beat me?" Wazzat bit down harder on Twilight's head, making the inspiriting flame even bigger. "Fuhgeddabaout it!"

"Sailornyan! Go!" Red Snow pushed her hoof out again, causing Sailornyan to deal two sharp claw attacks to the hat, cutting it up a bit.

"Ouch! Hey, that ain't nice!" Wazzat angrily popped off of Twilight's head and munched on Red's. "You just need to forget this fighting nonsense. In fact, forget EVERYTHING!"

Twilight's fire disappeared, and she shook her head again to re-orient herself. It was only then that she saw Red Snow being attacked by Wazzat, with Sailornyan trying to fight against it.

"Whisper? Could you fill me in on those two Yo-kai?" Twilight pointed over at both of them.

"Sure thing, Twilight. The one on Miss Snow's head is Wazzat." Whisper patted the top of Wazzat's head. "Just like Dummkap, Wazzat is a hat Yo-kai that can assume physical control of the wearer. However, unlike Dummkap, Wazzat's powers just make people forget things easily. Learned something valuable that you want to remember? Wazzat will just make that thought disappear along with your name, age, height, weight, and a few other important credentials..."

"Uh-huh. And the one that looks like Jibanyan?" Twilight nodded and glanced over at Sailornyan.

"That one is Sailornyan." Whisper pointed her out. "Jibanyan is actually a very, VERY special Yo-kai. He's got more evolutions, fusions, ancestors, and forms that it's downright ridiculous at times. There's Jibanyan, Thornyan, Baddinyan, Sailornyan, Robonyan, Goldenyan, Robonyan F, Jetnyan, Shogunyan—"

"I get it, Whisper." Twilight covered his mouth with her hoof, feeling him still talking about Jibanyan's other forms. "I really should be thinking about saving Red Snow, though." Twilight pulled the Yo-Kai Watch off of the workbench and put it around her other hoof. "You know what? Let's try fighting hat with hat.

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Dummkap!" Twilight took Dummkap's medal and launched it into the air, repeating Red Snow's movements. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" She put it into her own slot.

"SUMMONING: MYSTERIOUS!" The watch shot out some yellow beams this time as Dummkap appeared.

Boo-shiggy, boo-shiggy,
Boogie woogie!
Cling-clang delirious, Mysterious!

"Dummkap!" He shouted, landing next to Twilight. "Ooh! Is it feeding time for me already? I didn't think it'd be this soon, Twilight.

"But who am I to judge? A summon's a summon." He circled the scene. "So, who do you want dumbing down? Or do you want me to take the wheel and drive you around for a bit?"

"I need you to battle against—"

"Dummkap?" Wazzat noticed the new Yo-kai and took himself off of Red Snow, removing the inspiriting flame.

"Wazzat?" He watched Wazzat float over to him.

"It's you!" They both said, colliding into each other, trying to hug each other without any arms.

"Another Yo-kai relationship?" Twilight glanced over at Whisper.

"Why yes. Dummkap and Wazzat, despite their rather garish inspiriting powers, are actually quite a hilarious comedy duo." Whisper stretched both of his arms around Dummkap and Wazzat. "That is, if you like such things as amnesiacs and mindless buffons stumbling around everywhere causing generalized silliness."

"I'm pretty sure some Yo-kai do these days..." Twilight chuckled meekly.

"Huh? What happened?" Red Snow recovered from the inspirit and pointed the watch at Dummkap and Wazzat. "Twilight? You have Dummkap's medal?"

"Yes." Twilight nodded. "I just put it into the slot because I wanted to fight fire with fire—or hat with hat in this case—and Whisper told me that these two are friends."

"Ah. I see." Red Snow pulled out a diary and wrote in it about the relationship between the two hats. "I'm new to this kind of thing, so I don't know everything about Yo-kai."

"Yeah! In fact, she only knyows stuff because I'm here to help her out!" Sailornyan squeaked, jumping next to Red Snow. "Without her, she'd be more lost than a bird without its' family!"

"I told you to stop using that metaphor, Sailornyan..." Red Snow face-hooved as she continued to write.

"But it's true, you knyow!" Sailornyan crossed her arms and pouted, blushing as she did so. "What else am I supposed to say?"

Twilight couldn't help but chuckle at how cute Sailornyan looked. It was no reason why she saw the cat as a Charming tribe Yo-kai. She then saw both Dummkap and Wazzat approach Twilight.

"Hey, Twilight. I'm sorry about making you forget everything." Wazzat drooped down a little. "I was just trying to get a good laugh, y'know?"

"Yeah. You know how it is being a comedy duo." Dummkap floated forward. "You've gotta keep the crowd laughing, otherwise things don't look so bright for you."

"I was looking for Dummkap ever since Yo-kai came to Equestria, but I couldn't find him." Wazzat came up a few inches too. "But he's your friend now, and any friend of Dummkap is a friend of mine." He generated a Yo-kai Medal which he dropped into Twilight's hooves. "Take it. Bring us both out, and we'll make the crowd laugh so hard that their sides'll hurt." They both disappeared.

"If you're going to bring them both out in the future, I would suggest taking Heheheel as well." Whisper looked at the medal for Wazzat as Twilight retrieved Dummkap's medal. "Dummkap and Wazzat's humour is very weird, so if they expect laughter, then they might need some help with it..."

"I'll keep that in mind." Twilight took both medals and put them into the Yo-kai Medallium next to each other. "There. Now they're together forever, just as friends should be."

"Twilight." Red Snow walked up to her and bowed again. "Arigato for rescuing me from Wazzat. If you didn't have a Yo-Kai Watch, I would've been a goner."

"Hey! What about me?!" Sailornyan shouted. "I could've beaten that hat faster than you could say 'hats off'!"

There was a brief silence at Sailornyan's pun.

"What?" Sailornyan shrugged. "Aww, c'mon! I'm nyot Compunzer or Lamedian! Give me a hand here, you two..."

Twilight and Red Snow laughed at last, wiping some small tears away from their eyes as they looked at each other again.

"Anyway, if you need any help, I will set up a house here in Ponyville with Sailornyan." Red Snow bowed once more. "Should you face any strong Boss Yo-kai in the future, then do not hesitate to call on me."

"Me too!" Sailornyan waved as she vanished in a puff of smoke as Red took the medal out of the watch and put it back in her own medallium, which—like her watch—was also decorated in adorable stickers and japanese markings.

"I shall be off now. May our paths cross again in the future, Twilight Sparkle." Red Snow put the pillows back on Twilight's bed and began to walk out of the door. "You may call upon me whenever you wish."

"She seems a simpleand kind mare, Twilight." Whisper closed the door as soon as Red Snow walked out. "You should befriend her. You need the extra friends when facing against tougher Yo-kai. She might even save your skin as a Boss Yo-kai is about to clean your clock."

"I'll be sure to find her again, Whisper." Twilight gave him a simple nod before she walked over to the window. "With the thoughts of this evil Yo-kai king out there, we're gonna need all the help we can get..."

Hungry for More/Upgrading the Yo-Kai Watch

Twilight was walking down the street with Jibanyan and Whisper, looking to see if there were any new Yo-kai in town. After hearing what Red Snow had to say the other day, she was even more curious to know what else could be lurking about, inspiriting helpless ponies, and causing general mischief.

"Twilight, let me ask you something," said Whisper. "Is it a problem to be obsessed with an impending crisis, or is that just me?"

"Whisper. Calm down." Twilight gently stroked his back. "Remember that we not only have the Yo-kai at our side, but me and my friends can use the Magic of Friendship to defeat this king if he ever rears his ugly face in Equestria."

"The thing is, though, I've seen many great and evil Boss Yo-kai throught my existence, all of which with the power to cause the end of the world." Whisper shuddered as he flashed back to those days. "Between the chaos with Mckraken and Ubaune, I'm really, REALLY worried what this king could do to Equestria and the Yo-kai World..."

"We also have Red Snow on our side now." Twilight looked over and saw a house unlike the others. It had white walls made of concrete with Japonese windows and sliding doors leading into it. There were blue curtains at the door, with a waving cat figure standing outside. "She's taken up residence in Ponyville in case some bigger threats like Felycan show up. But in our spare time, we could try to make friends with her."

"Friends are helpful, resourceful, and in some cases quite powerful together, so I'm all for this idea." Whisper nodded as they walked over to the house. "Plus, she has a Yo-Kai Watch and her Sailornyan, so she could help out if you're stuck in a jam."

"But that's probably nyot gonna happen with me on your side, Twilight." Jibanyan pointed towards his puffed out chest. "If anything tries to lay a finger on you, I'll bring out the Paws of Fury on them!" Jibanyan practiced his move by jabbing into the air in different diretions, grunting with each strike.

"He's certainly determined, isn't he?" Twilight smiled at Jibanyan's antics.

"Jibanyan is one of the most loyal Yo-kai I know," Whisper said. "When he gets a master, he does everything that he can to keep them. Why, after those heartbreaking words that his first master left on him when he died, it would break his heart if he were abandoned again..."

"What do you mean, when he died?" Twilight asked as she opened the doors to Red Snow's house and walked inside.

"Jibanyan was once a normal house cat, living with a human girl named Amy. They had a good life together, full of games, exercise, and food," Whisper's tone started peaceful, but slowly dropped. "But then, the unthinkable happened.

"Jibanyan was run over by a truck one day. In short, he didn't survive." Whisper looked over at Jibanyan, who was still jabbing the air with his paws. "Instead of feeling sorry for him, Amy cruelly called him weak and left his rotting corpse behind."

"What?! That's horrible!" Twilight recoiled at the story's ending. "He got run over by a truck! That's the saddest and most sudden way anyone can die! And she just called him weak for it?!" Twilight gnashed her teeth together and went red in the face. "I'd like to see that Amy and give her a piece of my mind someday..."

"Ever since then, Jibanyan was resurrected as a Yo-kai, denying what Amy said, hoping that she still loved him deep down," Whisper continued. "He goes out onto the road and picks a fight with literally every truck that comes his way, no matter how big or small. He won't stop until he finally defeats one and gets revenge for what happened that day..."

"Well, I can't deny that he's got guts." Twilight saw him finally finish, sweating heavily as he walked into Red Snow's house and caught up to her and Whisper. "Not only does he want to fight against every truck that he sees, but he also took on Felycan—who was probably thirty-five times his size—and won. I've seen bravery and I've some some extraordinary things, but considering that Jibanyan's a regular cat taking on the world and refusing to give up, now that's something that I can admire..."

"Even more so when Kin and Gin threw him back in time and tried to separate him from Nate by changing the past," Whisper saw Twilight pick Jibanyan up and stroke him. "Jibanyan managed to fight back and save Amy from being killed, and that time, she was actually genuinely sorry for him."

"Kin and Gin?" Twilight raised a brow.

"They're evil twin Yo-kai, and underlings to the insidious Tokio Ubaune who tried to conquer the world many years ago." Whisper showed a picture of two old ladies. One with golden hair and a red coat, and the other one with silver hair and a blue coat. "Ubaune might be dead, but it's unclear on what happened to those two."

"I'd better be prepared for if they do show up, then." Twilight gently clutched her Yo-Kai Watch. "With everything that's happened to him, Jibanyan needs all of the help, support, and love that he can get, and I'm happy to give it to him." She gave him a hug.

"Aww... Thanks, Twilight." Jibanyan nuzzled into Twilight's neck as she cuddled him.

"By the way, I have to say that this is a rather nice house." Whisper looked around Red Snow's house. It was very well-kept with pictures hanging on the wall, the floor devoid of any kind of mess, and books neatly organized on the bookshelves. There were cushions on the floor with a table barely taller than it, with a Japonese tea set sitting on top of it. There were no stairs, but sliding doors were seen in front of, and to the sides of him and Twilight. "Do you think she'll mind us just dropping in?"

"I think she might." Twilight walked towards one of the sliding doors and opened it. "I am the Princess of Friendship, after all. Red Snow looked for me exclusively, so I'm sure that she'll be fine with me coming around to check on how she's doing."

She opened another door to see a room much different to the ones that she had seen before. It was filled with posters of Japonese bands and singers, along with a few other bright pink knick-knacks. There were ramen cups scattered all across the ground, and plastic drink bottles laid across the bed.

Red Snow herself was stuffing her face with food, unaware that there was a purple inspiriting flame around her. Sailornyan was also there, and she had been watching Red Snow eat ravenously for a while now, and it wasn't until Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan opened the door that she turned towards them.

"Twilight! Help!" Sailornyan jumped on the spot, flailing her hooves all around. "She just started eating like this out of nowhere! I don't know what to do!"

"Another Yo-kai, Whisper?" Twilight looked back at him.

"Yes. But I suppose I could be wrong and that Miss Snow here has a very, very savage appetite for being a Japonese pony..." Whisper watched her continue to rip and tear into the food and drink. "Ah well, worth a shot, isn't it?"

"Yeah. I guess." Twilight flipped up the lens and pointed it at a corner of the room, causing the twelve segments to light up and reveal the Yo-kai inspiriting Red Snow.

The new Yo-kai looked very much like a human elder, with a long pointy head and a grey robe. He had short thin arms and looked like an oversized seed, but he just involuntarily hanging his tongue out and stood there doing absolutely nothing.

"That is Hungramps." Whisper pointed over to the Yo-kai in the corner. "As the name implies, he's an old man who can make you quite hungry. Having him stand in a corner of one's house is actually quite low-key, as they're often seen standing outside of restaurants, enticing people to go in and get something to eat."

"But why would he ever want to come here and inspirit Red Snow?" Twilight raised a brow as Hungrams continued to stand completely still. "It makes no sense."

"As I said, Twilight. Yo-kai work in weird and sometimes wonderful ways." Whisper hovered over to Hungramps. "Actually, now that I think about it, you'd better deal with Hungrams before he makes me hungry too."

"He doesn't really seem like much of a fighter..." Twilight walked up to Hungramps and raised a hoof. "Uhh... Hello? Can you see me?"

"Yes. Yes, I can see you." Hungramps' voice had a lot of age behind it as he turned to face Twilight. "You haven't got any food for this old man, have you?" his stomach rumbled. "I've been dying to get my hands on something that isn't Japonese, but I must've come to the wrong house, as there's sushi, rice balls, and ramen everywhere. It's all so boring and bland, I hope you understand."

"Well, if you wanted to eat something that wasn't Japonese, then why did you come to Red Snow's house instead of going to the local Hayburger?" Twilight knelt down to Hungramps and looked him in the eyes.

"My eyesight's been failing me in recent years." He sighed and drooped his head. "Oh, how I pine for the days when I was a young and strapping Hungorge instead of a senile old Hungramps..."

"Trust me, Twilight. He was definitely not strapping in his youth, considering that Hungorges are even worse with their hunger powers..." Whisper whispered into Twilight's ears.

"He's just hungry for some food that isn't relative to Japony. I'm pretty sure that we can get him something Ponyville-themed." Twilight gave Whisper a gentle nod before she looked back at Hungramps. "Why don't I take you somewhere with some new and exciting food. Wouldn't that be exciting?"

"I suppose it's worth a shot." Hungramps slowly nodded, walking out of his corner like a penguin. "If it means I don't have to look at another rice ball, then it's fine by me. Lead the way, miss."

"See, Whisper? It wasn't that hard..." Twilight took Hungramps by the hand and gently flapped out of the house with Jibanyan following close behind. They closed the doors on their way out and didn't even look back to see the inspiriting flames vanish from Red Snow.

Red Snow looked around when she recovered from the curse and saw that she was still halfway through a sushi piece. She inwardly shrugged and finished it off before she went over to the nearby desk and wrote in her diary some more.

Twilight and Hungramps arrived at the Hayburger and walked inside, the smell of the company's commercial Hayburgers wafting through the air and hitting their noses. Both of them drooled slightly before Twilight went over to the line and waited patiently.

"Twilight! I didn't expect to see you back so soon!" Pinkie Pie came up to Twilight, wearing her Hayburger uniform and carrying a tray of food. "What's going down with you and your Yo-kai friends?"

"Oh, hey, Pinkie!" Twilight gave her a small wave. "I just came here to feed me, Whisper, Jibanyan, and a potential new friend. Nothing new, really."

"Well, my Pinkie Sense knew that you were coming around, so I already decided to whip up your favourites." Pinkie showed the tray off to Twilight and the group, and they all stared with their mouths wide open at the food. "Yep-aroonie! Just go up to the counter, tell the guys what you want, and I'll be there to serve you immediately."

"Sure!" Twilight eventually came to the end of the line and pulled out her money. "A Hayburger Smorgasboard, please."

"Certainly, Princess Twilight." The pony working at the counter nodded and had Pinkie Pie give her the tray. "It's on the house."

"Oh, there's no need for that, Deep Fry." Twilight put the bits on the counter regardless and walked off. "I don't really want to see this company struggle or for other ponies to get jealous just because I'm royalty." She left a small extra before turning back, saying, "And a tip for your services."

"Looks like my wife was wrong. I am in the right line of work!" Deep Fry smiled as he put the bits into the cash register and continued to serve the line.

Twilight, Whisper, Jibanyan, and Hungramps eventually finished their food and patted their bellies with big smiles—and a bit of ketchup—on their faces.

"Well, I really need to come here more often." Twilight looked at Whisper, Jibanyan, and Hungramps, who were quite satisfied with what they had been eating.

"Indeed! I never knew such a fast food joint could have such amazing food!" Whisper cleaned his lips with the back of his hand. "Usually, they're quite greasy and not very healthy for you, but this place is something special altogether."

"Yeah! I've nyever eaten here before, but I'm definitely coming back!" Jibanyan chirped, licking his lips to get the last of the ketchup off.

"Me too." Hungramps slowly nodded and got up from the table. "I might be an old man, but I know an act of kindness when I see one. You don't see much of that these days, considering other Yo-kai and humans, but you, Twilight, are a kind and gentle soul."

"Thank you, Hungramps." Twilight looked down at him and gently patted his head, not even noticing that he was holding a Yo-kai Medal.

"I'm just glad that I'm eating some new stuff, instead of all that bland Japonese nonsense." Hungramps let out a chuckle as he handed the Yo-kai Medal to Twilight. "Here, Twilight. You might need this. If you've ever got a food problem but can't seem to finish what's on your plate, just give me a call."

"Really?" Twilight's eyes lit up as she put the medal away in the Medallium. "Thank you again, Hungramps."

"It's no problem. If anything, I should be thanking you, for helping an old man in his time of need." He began to vanish. "I hope you'll give ol' Hungramps a call some day, Twilight."

"I will." Twilight gave him a gentle nod and watched him disappear. "See you soon."

"Your negotiation skills are improving, Twilight." Whisper gave Twilight another smile as they walked towardsd the exit. "You may even be able to talk down a Tough Yo-kai soon."

"I simply heeded Hungramps' words, and I delivered what he wanted." Twilight examined Hungramps' medal, looking at the green flower on the back of it. "It's one the easier way to resolve problems like that. You simply give to the person in need, and they not only show you mercy, but they may also want to be with you some more. I'm sure that even Tough Yo-kai have their wants and needs, and they might be hard to satisfy, but I'll do it nonetheless.

"That, and I'm not really one who wants to fight unless the opponent is just a jerk in general." Twilight shook her head. "Fighting's not really my style, but when the fate of the world comes down to it, if I need to take up arms, then I'll just have to fight."

"Wise words, Twilight. You'll want to hang onto that sentiment when that evil king comes to Equestria and tries to destroy it," Whisper said.

"Trust me, Whisper. We're all in this together." Twilight walked out of the building and pulled out her medallium. "Me, my friends, Red Snow, the Yo-kai, Jibanyan, and you. We'll face whatever comes our way and be victorious!"

"I just hope you're right, Twilight..." Whisper looked up at the clouds in the sky and gulped. For once in my life, I am scared stiff about what this king could do. Oh, why am I still obsessing over him? Who, or what is he?!

The next day, Red Snow and Twilight were sitting on top of a hill looking out at Ponyville from a distance. They saw the trees, the pegasi organizing the clouds, and the overall peace that the town was in. Both of them had been sharing conversations about what they did for fun, what their cultures were like, and how many Yo-kai that they had met overall.

"So, where does the name Red Snow come from?" Twilight asked.

"My father gave me the name to remember his days on the battle fields of Hoofujima back in 1987 AC." Red Snow looked down at her Cutie Mark. "The red part was the blood that was spilled in that great clash, and the snow part comes from how delicate the snow was beneath his hooves."

"What does AC mean?" Whisper asked Twilight.

"After Celestia," Twilight told him.

"Needless to say, he wanted to remember that battle for all of time, as it was his overall favourite. So, it was only fitting that he named me Red Snow, to remember that great battle between the Maneizo and Hoofinza clans that ultimately saved Japony from political turmoil." She showed her Cutie Mark once more. "The kanji you see represent honour, delicacy, and free. In Japony, Cutie Marks are not some silly little pictures that decide our fate. It is instead written down in small symbols, so that we have the right to choose our own paths; to carve our own destinies."

"You must be pretty glad to have a Cutie Mark that represents multiple different things, Red." Twilight nodded as she gazed at the characters. "Here in Equestria, Cutie Marks are unfortunately put in concrete, and cannot be changed once they're put there. It represents the key part of who we are, and once its' there, there's no going against it."

"How saddening." Red hung her head and let a small sigh slip. "To be chosen a destiny based on your characteristics is no real destiny at all. It is one that you make, not one that is decided."

"I completely agree, Red. I know that my Cutie Mark represents magic and a love of stargazing, but is that really all that I'm known for other than my role as the Princess of Friendship? There's gotta be something more that's out there, and I'm just not seeing it yet..."

"Well, you have the Yo-Kai Watch, so that's already a headstart on that new outlook on life." Red Snow pointed down to Twilight's Yo-Kai Watch. "Have you increased the rank yet?"

"Not really." Twilight shook her head. "With everything that's been happening to Ponyville recently, it's been hard for me to find the time to upgrade it, not to mention all of the resources that go in to improving this thing."

"Upgrading a Yo-Kai Watch is not that easy, Twilight." Red Snow looked down at her own Yo-Kai Watch. "Back in Japony, you had to see a very specific watch handiman to have the watch upgraded, and even then, you had to go through a proficiency test to improve your Yo-Kai Watch. Here in Ponyville, though, I'm not quite sure if anyone knows how to fix a watch, let alone one handed down by a species from another universe..."

"Well, Twilight, I'm no expert on the Yo-Kai Watch, but I do know that there are much more different, complex, and quite possibly even insane ways on upgrading the watch." Whisper pulled out his tablet again and showed the two ponies. "You see, a Yo-Kai Watch isn't just something that you can bang a few upgrades on in order to improve the output. The ability to see Yo-kai isn't really depicted by what you did to make the EX mode. Instead, it all comes down to how much power is put into the watch as a whole.

"But yes, as Red Snow mentioned, the first method on improving a Yo-Kai Watch is to go and see someone who knows what Yo-kai are, and how to make powerful adjustments to improve their capabilites." Whisper looked around at the buildings off in the distance. "I don't suppose that Ponyville has a Timers and More shop somewhere?"

"Nope. Sorry, Whisper," said Twilight.

"Then it looks like we're going to have to do this the old-fashioned way..." Whisper cracked his knuckles.

"Old-fashioned?" Twilight raised a brow and tilted her head to the side slightly. "Whisper, you're not making any sense here."

"As you're probably aware, there are eight tribes of Yo-kai that are known in existence." Whisper showed the tablet, revealing the eight tribes and their logos again. "Brave, Tough, Mysterious, Heartful, Slippery, Shady, Eerie, and Charming.

"Before watch repairmen existed, there was an old-fashioned way of fixing up the Yo-Kai Watch and making into a much more powerful version. And that involved collecting the medals of the eight tribes." Whisper pulled out Twilight's Yo-kai Medallium and opened it up, revealing all of the Yo-kai she had met so far. "You've befriended twelve Yo-kai as it stands, Twilight, but that's only halfway towards completing your test to getting the next Watch Rank, as we like to call it. Since you're only on 'E' rank, the Yo-kai Watch simply asks for three Yo-kai from each tribe.

"Once you have the Yo-kai you need, the watch will autmatically upgrade into 'D' rank, enabling you to see slightly stronger Yo-kai." Whisper looked at the medals for Heheheel and Jibanyan. "Now, the only reason you have Jibanyan and Heheheel's medals was because of two different reasons. A: Heheheel inspirited Rarity. B: Jibanyan rescued you from Felycan's powers. Those are the two exceptions the watch made."

"With stronger ranking Yo-kai, their powers are usually harder to break, and it may take some real talking to get through to them in the end," Red Snow carried on Whisper's explanation. "From 'D' rank all the way up to 'S' rank, the watch demands more and more Yo-kai for you to befriend, and it can get a little taxing at times. That's why we have watch repairmen all the way in Japony who kindly do it and only ask that you defeat those Yo-kai in battle."

"But since I'm not from Japony, and getting there would take a few days at least, I guess I'm stuck with the old-fashioned way." Twilight picked up her twelve medals and laid them out. She looked at the fronts, and then the backs, eyeing up all of the portraits and which tribe they came from. "Huh. I've got all these Yo-kai, but I've not made friends with any Brave Yo-kai yet."

"Brave Yo-kai are easy to befriend, Twilight." Red Snow gave her a gentle nod as she pulled out a Brave medal of her own. "Most Brave Yo-kai befriend you on the spot if they are defeated in battle. But even so, you will have to push them to a near-death state so they admit it. They don't give up for nothing, and would rather die in combat rather than of old age.

"In fact, let me test your skills out with a battle." Red Snow stood up and picked up the Brave medal. "One-on-one. Your Yo-kai versus mine." She spoke in Japonese and threw the medal into the air. "Yo-kai Medal! Set! On!" And she shoved it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: BRAVE!" Red's watch called out as red streams generated her fighter.

Sumo Shave!
Flamo engrave!
Flash team a Brave!

"Blazion! Rragh!" A lion with hair made of fire and a black jacket appeared on the battlefield, taking up a fighting stance as it landed in front of Red Snow.

"Blazion?" Twilight looked at the new Yo-kai.

"Blazion is a Yo-kai who can make people get fired up and invigorated to do even the most backbreaking and tedious labour of all." Whisper nodded. "Unlike most other Yo-kai who normally inspirit for the heck of it, Blazion is actually a kind-hearted Yo-kai who knows how to get people ready for stuff they'd otherwise shy away from doing. How fitting that he'd be used to get you to face Red Snow in combat."

"A battle, huh? Well, there's no point in fighting the opponent if they're not fired up for it!" He cast a golden inspiriting flame onto Twilight. "C'mon! Let's see some enthusiasm!"

"Alright, then, Red. You ready for this?" Twilight smiled as Blazion's powers took hold of her.

"Whenever you are." Red Snow bowed as Twilight plucked out her medal.

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Roughraff!" Twilight took the medal and tossed it into the air. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" Just like Red Snow, she slammed it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: TOUGH!" The watch cried out as orange beams caused Roughraff to appear.

Gruff stuff!
Rough bluff!
Red ban! Jacket stand! Bing Blang
Tough!

"Roughraff!" he slammed his fist onto the ground and eyed up his target.

"Let's do this, Red!" Twilight bowed back at her as Roughraff took his position.

"Yes. Let's do this." Red had a coy smile on her face as both she and Twilight jabbed their hooves towards each other.

"Fight!" they both said, sending their Yo-kai into battle.

"Sparring practice, eh? Sounds good to me!" Roughraff charged at Blazion.

Roughraff and Blazion both exchanged blows with each other. Powerful punches and kicks came from one another as both of them tried to beat the other in combat. They both took hard hits and recoiled at times, but the match was still fairly even.

"That all you got?!" Roughraff shouted after another power struggle between him and Blazion.

"Nope. I'm just starting to heat up!" Blazion's fiery mane got even hotter. "Yeah! I feel my spirit burning white hot! Let's get the real battle started!"

The battle resumed, with Roughraff and Blazion striking harder and faster. Both of them were even more determined than before. At first they thought they had both been inspirited, but they soon realized that they were having general fun in battling each other and being able to get stronger in the process.

"C'mon! Let's go!" Roughraff began to charge energy for his Soultimate, again weaving out of the way of Blazion's attacks by the skin of his teeth. He eventually gained enough energy and gave a malicious look to the lion. "STARE DOWN!" he said, his gaze striking Blazion with an unnatural power.

"A Soultimate, eh? That's more like it! Show off that true blazing spirit of yours!" Blazion encouraged as he too began to take in energy for his own Soultimate. "Let it burn hotter, and hotter, and hotter, until it becomes so hot that your opponent won't be able to take it!" The charge-up was complete, and his fist lit on fire as he sent it flying towards Roughraff. "BLAZING FIST!"

"Let's end this!" Roughraff roared and threw his most powerful kick at Blazion's stomach as he came in with his ignited fist. Both attacks collided, and both Blazion and Roughraff were sent flying into Twilight and Red Snow, knocking them onto their backs.

Twilight and Red Snow stayed silent for a bit, but then started to chuckle slightly as Blazion and Roughraff recovered from the impacts. The laughter gradually grew until they were guffawing at how great that the battle was.

"Oh, wow! I've never had such a fun battle in my life!" Red Snow smiled as Blazion climbed off of her.

"Me too!" Twilight slowly got onto her feet again after Roughraff climbed down from her belly. "Your Blazion's got a lot of power behind it, hasn't he?"

"As does your Roughraff." Red Snow stood up as well and gave a smile to Twilight's Yo-kai. "What a great match-up for Blazion. Undying spirit against raw power. That's what I wanted to see from you."

"Indeed." Whisper flew in front of the two Yo-kai. "That was an excellent battle between you two, Roughraff and Blazion. You should go over and give yourselves a pat on the back."

Both Roughraff and Blazion were breathing heavily, their bodies lightly bruised as they eyed up their opponent. As they looked into each others' eyes, they saw something special about them. They couldn't tell what it was, but deep down, they knew that they had become friends in their own way.

"That was a good fight, Blazion." Roughraff slicked back his hair and stood upright. "Really had me on the ropes there for a sec."

"You too, Roughraff." Blazion nodded. "I've seen some Yo-kai who don't really have much spirit when it comes to fighting, but you're something else. Once you start a fight, you're committed to it until you defeat your opponent. It's a spirit that burns on the same level as mine."

"Sparring partners?" Roughraff held out his hand.

"Sparring partners." Blazion walked over to Roughraff and shook hands with him.

"Well, that certainly blew away the cobwebs, wouldn't you agree?" Whisper came over to Twilight as she saw Roughraff and Blazion become friends. "Nothing like a good old duel between two strong Yo-kai to wake up and invigorate you, right?"

"Yeah. Red Snow's been training that Blazion pretty good." Twilight watched both Roughraff and Blazion walk over to her.

"Hey, Twilight. I have to thank you for that battle with Roughraff today." Blazion came over to her and bowed. "Not only did I get a good workout, but I saw someone who's spirits for battle burns quite hot, which is quite rare among Yo-kai these days."

"You're quite welcome, Blazion." Twilight sat down and got to Blazion's level. "Feel free to spar with my Roughraff any time you like."

"Sounds good to me." Blazion jumped up and slapped Twilight's hoof, leaving his Yo-kai Medal in it." If you need someone's spirits firing up, just let me know, K?"

"I sure will." Twilight gave Blazion a salute before he vanished along with Roughraff.

"Well now, this is certainly quite peculiar..." Red Snow looked at Blazion's medal sitting in Twilight's hooves. "I thought Yo-kai Medals were only one per Yo-kai."

"That's not entirely true, Red." Whisper came up to her. "Yo-kai can hand out their medals to everyone that they befriend, not just be resigned to one single entity. After all, do people exist just so they can have one friend, or many?"

"Many. But how would Blazion be able to be in both Twilight's place and mine at the same time?" Red Snow raised a brow once more.

"Well, Yo-kai can be pre-occupied with some things, and if Twilight does find the need to call Blazion, he has the choice to accept or decline." Whisper pointed at the watch. "Think of the Yo-Kai Watch as a phone. If they accept the call, they spring into action. They can just as easily choose not to come and leave a voicemail behind saying why they're unable to appear."

"What Yo-kai would ever want to avoid being with their mortal friends?" Twilight smiled as she put Blazion's medal into the Medallium. "It wouldn't really make any sense for a Yo-kai to say no."

"I'm sure that they would have their reasons. Be it a wedding anniversary, intense combat training, general laziness, or anything else that is more important, Yo-kai aren't just things that you can pull out of a hat. They actively choose to come to your aid and fight alongside you."

"How interesting..." Red Snow once more wrote in her diary about what Whisper was saying. "So, that makes thirteen Yo-kai you've befriended right now, Twilight. Eleven more and you'll have a 'D' rank Yo-Kai Watch."

"Well, then what are we waiting for?" Twilight slammed the book shut. "Let's go out there and make some new friends!" She ran off back into the town, cheering with Whisper by her side.

"H-Hey! Wait up! I've still got a lot to learn!" Red Snow hurriedly shut her own book and chased after Twilight and Whisper back into the town.

Break-in Bedlam/Applejack, Asleep on the Job

Twilight and Whisper walked down the street carrying bags of groceries, when something caught their eyes. One of the houses on the road had its' front door pried wide open, but no-one came out of the other side. The two of them exchanged glances before they walked over to the door and began to investigate.

"You think a Yo-kai could have done this?" Twilight rubbed the open door, accidentally pushing it open wider.

"Either that, or Ponyville's got someone trying to burgle the poor ponies out of everything they own..." Whisper scratched his chin as he looked inside. "I do wish it didn't have to be either of those things and that it was an accident, but who in their right mind would leave their front door unlocked and leave?"

"If it was another Yo-kai, then that takes me one step closer to upgrading the Yo-Kai Watch to 'D' Rank." Twilight nodded flipped up the lens and started searching around the house for the Yo-kai. The watch's noise echoed throughout the building as Twilight throughly searched every room, but she ultimately found nothing. "Well, if there was a Yo-kai here, they're gone now...

"Whisper? Is there anything in your little computer that shows a Yo-kai that picks locks?" Twilight closed the watch and turned towards him.

"Yes there is, Twilight." Whisper pulled out the tablet and showed a picture of a Yo-kai with orange skin, war paint on its' face, a frying pan on its' head, a white loincloth around its' waist, and a giant toothpick. "If I'm not mistaken, this was the work of a Brave tribe Yo-kai called Pandle."

"Pandle?" Twilight examined the Yo-kai throughly.

"Pandle is... a bit of an oddball really." Whisper flicked his finger across the picture, showing more images of Pandle breaking locks and fighting other Yo-kai. "Despite his tiny stature, Pandle still packs quite a punch. His only downside is his carelessness. He often leaves a massive trail behind after breaking into someone's house, and it's very easy to track him down."

"He's a Brave tribe Yo-kai, though. So what he lacks in covering his tracks, he probably makes up for in combat, right?" Twilight raised a brow.

"Yes, but not all Brave tribe Yo-kai are quite as strong-willed and determined fighters as Blazion," said Whisper. "In fact, there are some Yo-kai who are so lazy or so out of it that it's a wonder that they even made the Brave tribe in the first place..."

"Well we've got time to think about that later." Twilight walked out of the house. "Right now, there's a Yo-kai on the loose breaking into houses and leaving the doors wide open. We need to find some way to find it and stop it."

"And befriend it?" Whisper smiled.

"Yes. And befriend it." Twilight nodded as she walked down the road, looking at the rest of the houses.

With each and every house that Twilight walked past, it was the same deal. Houses had been broken into and their doors were left wide open. It would be child's play for anyone to walk inside and steal something unless she and Whisper caught Pandle. Locks were broken, chains that helped keep unlocked doors shut were snapped, and even some side windows had their locks picked and were opened wide.

"How many houses are there in Ponyville, Twilight?" Whisper asked, looking at the damage that Pandle had done to the locks. "Surely, he can't keep this up forever."

"Which is exactly how we're going to beat it." Twilight nodded. "We're going to go into one of the houses, lock it up again, and then when Pandle comes by and unlocks it, we pounce on him with the Yo-kai."

"Which one?"

"How about Jibanyan?" Twilight smiled and pulled out Jibanyan's medal. "He's been a great Yo-kai so far, and he's devoted to me in more ways than one. Might as well give him another time to shine."

"Well, we shan't waste any more time, Twilight!" Whisper spun round and pointed off down the street, leaning forward as he did. "Let's go lay our trap!"

Later, Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan were inside one of the houses that hadn't been broken into yet and were quietly perched up against the door. They placed their ears next to it and listened as closely as they could for footsteps of any description. All they heard were the hooves of the ponies from the outside, though, as Pandle was invisible.

"Are you sure that he'll come?" Jibanyan quietly whispered to Twilight.

"I'm sure that he will, Jibanyan." Twilight leaned down and stroked him. "Whisper can sense whenever a Yo-kai's aura is present, so when Pandle gets close, he'll alert us both."

"Remember to point the watch as he's breaking in, Twilight." Whisper raised his finger again. "Pandle won't be tackle-able until he's exposed. Once he is, feel free to double-team him with Jibanyan."

"Sure thing, Whisper." Twilight gave him a gentle nod and went back to watching and waiting by the door.

Eventually, a small shadow appeared by the crack that let in the light from the bottom of the door, and the sound of the lock being picked could be heard by all three of them.

Silently, Twilight opened up the Yo-Kai Watch and pointed it at Pandle as he cracked open the lock. All twelve segments of the watch lit up, and in seconds, he was revealed to all of them in a blast of purple smoke.

"BUSTED!" Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan threw the door open, causing Pandle to fall onto his butt and scamper backwards.

"Darn it!" Pandle got to his knees, took his toothpick, and ran away as fast as he could—which wasn't much considering that he was no bigger than Jibanyan, and his legs were very small. "I'm outta here!"

"After him!" Whisper yelled, causing both Twilight and Jibanyan to leisurelyjog after the Yo-kai.

The chase was over relatively quickly, due to Pandle's small size and stature. His small and stubby legs made it hard for him to get away, and it wasn't long before both Twilight and Jibanyan cornered him on all sides, with Whisper overhead.

"Honestly, you should learn to be more careful next time, Pandle." Twilight stepped forward. "I mean, breaking into people's houses is one thing, but then leaving those doors wide open afterwards? That's sloppy if ever I saw it."

Pandle grunted and poked Twilight in the eye with his toothpick. "Shut up! All my life I've been called careless and reckless! Well, now's the day that that changes!" He puffed out his chest as Twilight grabbed her poked eye. "I'm gonna beat you down, and prove that I'm not some weak Yo-kai like you think I am!"

"Urrgh..." Twilight pressed against her eye with her hoof and saw Pandle step towards her. "Jibanyan! Get him!"

"Take this!" Jibanyan gave Pandle a sharp scratch on the face with both of his claws.

"I'm brave! I'm strong! I'm not as weak as I look!" Pandle used his toothpick as a spear, poking and prodding at Jibanyan at every chance he was given. Every time he thrust his pick, it went straight into Jibanyan's body and pricked him hard. "Size doesn't matter if you're a Brave Yo-kai like me!"

"I've never seen a Pandle physically attack someone with a Yo-Kai Watch before..." Whisper watched as Jibanyan and Pandle hit each other with their claws and pick. Both fighters were beginning to show their wounds as the fight progressed, and it didn't seem to end. "I guess this one must be really riled up..."

"Enough of this!" Pandle gathered up energy for a Soultimate. "It's time to really pick away at your health, Jibanyan!"

"Fine with me!" Jibanyan also charged up energy for a Soultimate.

As soon as Twilight felt the pain from her initial stab disappear, she opened her eye—which was still blurry from when she had been hurt by Pandle—and saw that both Yo-kai were preparing to unleash their ultimate moves. With how she had been keeping an eye on Pandle's fighting style and his undying resolve, she simply stood there with a smile as she watched both of them unleash their attacks.

"PAWS OF FURY!" Jibanyan called out, jabbing at Pandle at light-speed.

"POINTY TOOTHPICK!" Pandle responded in kind, thrusting his pick at the same time as Jibanyan struck with his paws.

Both of the attacks were connecting with each other, and none of them were actually breaking through to the other Yo-kai. Jibanyan and Pandle both fought long and hard, keeping up with each others' attacks, until finally, Pandle's stance started to falter as he bent one of his legs. This allowed Jibanyan to strike as hard as he could, breaking the toothpick in half, and sending Pandle crashing into Twilight.

Twilight caught Pandle and stood him back on his feet, gently rubbing where he had been hit the most by Jibanyan. She looked down at his pan helmet and saw that it had been dented and battered out of shape by the assault.

"Are you alright?" Twilight asked once Pandle climbed out of her care and shakily stood on his own two feet again.

"No..." Pandle fell back down onto his knees, clutching what remained of his toothpick as he looked up at Jibanyan. "No matter how hard I try, I never defeat anyone!

"What use is there for me in the Brave tribe if I can't even defeat a small opponent like Jibanyan?" Pandle started to tear up. "Maybe I should just go away and throw myself into the river of fire at Hooligan's Road." He slowly limped away, sniffing and rubbing his eyes. "At least that's the one thing that I'm good at. Losing..."

"No, no, no, no, no. Pandle. You're getting it all wrong." Twilight came up to him and gave him a small hug. "You're not weak. You're not smart, and you're not a loser."

"Yes I am! I can't do anything right!" Pandle screamed. "I can't break into someone's house without being noticed, I can't defeat Yo-kai in battle, and worst of all, I can't even live with these facts! The world's better off without me. I'll just go and get out of your hair now..."

"No matter how much you want to deny it, deep down, I know that you're a strong Yo-kai, Pandle." Twilight kissed him on the forehead. "You just need more practice, more determination, and maybe some other armour." She looked at his body. "I mean, a pan on your head isn't really the best defence. You just protect your top and leave everything else open to attack from enemy forces.

"Second, a toothpick is a sharp tool, yes, but it's pretty flimsy, as Jibanyan demonstrated earlier." Twilight picked up the second half of the toothpick and gave it back to Pandle. "Now, if you had an actual spear made out of steel, then that would be ten times as strong, and possibly twice as sharp."

"What good is all that now?!" Pandle cried into Twilight's fur. "I'm still going to be the weakest Yo-kai in the tribe, so what's the point?"

"Pandle," Twilight whispered into his ear. "If you promise not to break into someone's house and pull yourself out of this funk you're in, I can be your best friend and show you how to win. No matter the size of the enemy, the speed they can muster up, or the power that they have tucked away."

"You promise?" Pandle's tears had withered down, but they were still flowing.

"Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Twilight performed the Pinkie Promise, poking the eye that Pandle had jabbed her in. "Ow. Still gonna take some time to fully recover..."

"Thanks, Twilight..." Pandle looked up at Twilight, reached into his loincloth, and handed her his Yo-kai Medal. "I hope that you use me lots..."

"I will, Pandle." Twilight gave him a gentle smile as he disappeared back to his world.

"Twilight. That was a great fight between Jibanyan and Pandle." Whisper came over and looked at the Yo-kai Medal. "I do hope that you stay true to your promise in the future, though. Pandle sounded like he was desperate back there."

"He just wanted to prove that he was a strong fighter, and we cruelly denied him a victory..." Twilight clutched the medal as tightly as she could, and shed a single tear.

"I highly doubt that our actions were cruel, Twilight," said Whisper. "He tried breaking into people's houses and failed miserably, left a huge trail for us to easily follow him, and despite the fact that he did fight in the end, Jibanyan was just too strong of an opponent for him."

"Which is why I'm going to use him every time I go into battle." Twilight nodded. "Him, Roughraff, and Jibanyan together make an unstoppable team, I'm sure."

"Usually, I don't condone using many Yo-kai that break into places, steal stuff, or are just general criminals, but to each their own, I suppose." He crossed his arms. "It's not my decision on which Yo-kai you bust out. You freed me, and you possess the Yo-Kai Watch. It's all in your hooves on who you bring out, Twilight."

"You don't even have hooves, Whisper." Twilight looked at his hands.

"Hands, hooves, potato, tomato. You get the idea!" Whisper shook his arms around. "Whatever. You solved the problem and got a Yo-kai Medal from it. So, all in all, it's another brick in the wall."

"Yeah. A wall that's only just a bunch of bricks laid in a line at the moment." Twilight looked at all of the empty slots as she put Pandle's medal into the Yo-kai Medallium.

"But you're making smooth progress, Twilight." Whisper looked at the slots that she had filled with her medals. "I've never seen someone get that many Yo-kai Medals that fast. You have a real knack for this friendship thing, don't you?"

"Well yeah. That's why I'm the princess of it, after all." Twilight blushed and let a small chuckle slip, which was soon accompanied by the laughter of both Whisper and Jibanyan.

"I'm so glad ya'll decided to help out today." Applejack was bucking apples into carts which Twilight, Whisper, Jibanyan, and the rest of the girls were hauling off towards the barn. "The harvest season's almost over, and Applebloom twisted her ankles at tap dancing practice, so I really appreciate it."

"No problem, Applejack." Rainbow Dash gave Applejack a salute as she moved the cart towards the barn. "I'd never let you or the others down for anything."

"It still seems odd that you can remain so calm with all of the Yo-kai running rampant around Ponyville." Fluttershy walked forward and brushed some hair out of her face. "I thought you'd be worried stiff with everything that's happened recently."

"Yes. Pinkie Pie becoming negative in a heartbeat, Twilight becoming the dumbest pony on the planet, Applebloom turning invisible..." Rarity tapped on her hoof with her other hoof for each occurence.

"Don't forget the time that Buhu turned all of us into sad sacks because Twilight went missing!" Pinkie blurted out.

"Yes, and that, Pinkie." Rarity turned to face her as she delicately picked out some of the rotting apples and threw them away with her magic. "And judging from how many spaces are left on that medallium Twilight has, it's safe to say that there are many, many more Yo-kai out there, just itching to inspirit other ponies..."

"I'm not so worried 'cause of Twilight and her Yo-Kai Watch." Applejack pointed over to Twilight's watch as she used her magic to pick off some more apples from the trees. "Ever since these Yo-kai came into Equestria, Twilight's been busting 'em left, right, and centre."

"Yeah! We should totally make a theme song for her about it!" Pinkie bounced up. "I'm already working on the lyrics, but I'm having some trouble. What's a good rhyme for Yo-kai?"

"Pinkie. I'm glad that you're all pleased with my progress, but there's no reason to get so obsessed with this whole thing." Twilight had a cart strapped to her back that was filled with apples. "Just because some invisible creatures are moving into Equestria and are probably going to change our lives in a massive way, that doesn't mean that Yo-kai should become your life. And if they do, just come to me, and I'll be sure to exorcise whatever Yo-kai might be inspiriting you."

"What about that giant cat Yo-kai that inspirited the whole town a few weeks ago?" Rainbow Dash asked. "No-one could stop it; not even you! You got turned into a cat like the rest of us, and Whisper was worried sick."

"Hmph! I was not." Whisper turned his head and blushed. "I was... simply concerned. It's not like I'm falling in love with this Twilight pony or anything."

"You sure about that, Whisper?" Twilight took notice of her friend's changing expression, and the nervousness in his voice. "You're blushing so much, your whole body's turning pink."

"I-I-I..." Whisper was at a loss for words with Twilight's statement. He blushed some more before he violently shook his head and hands. "L-Let's not let those thoughts fester, Twilight. Best to get on with the job and help out Applejack in any way."

"You're doing a great job, by the way." Applejack smiled and tipped her hat over her head as she bucked another tree, causing the apples to fall. "We're just halfway done now. I'll take the ones by the east side. You just deliver those apples to the barn and come back to me A.S.A.P."

"Sure thing, Applejack." Twilight gave Applejack a nod before she went off with the other ponies and their carts.

"Yep. Ya'll just get along now, and I'll... take things easy." Applejack walked off, not noticing that the inspiriting flame had descended upon her, and that a Yo-kai had taken control.

Eventually, the girls finished their work on the western side of the orchard, making multiple stops back and forth with their applecarts and barrels, transferring the fruits of their labour from the trees to the barn. It had taken them quite some time, despite their large numbers and magical powers and Yo-kai aid, but even so, they powered through the work easily, and were moving on to help Applejack on the east side.

"Hey, Applejack? How's it going on the east side?" Twilight saw Applejack in the distance and walked up to her. "I couldn't help but notice that there were still so many apple trees still to be bucked on this side of the field. If you want us to take over for the day, that'd be great."

"Sure thing, Twi." Applejack reclined against one of the trees, chewing on a piece of grass. "In fact, you and the girls can take all of the jobs at Sweet Apple Acres. Not like I'm going anywhere, after all."

Twilight stood there, mouth agape at what Applejack had said. "What? That doesn't sound like you at all..."

"Well, let's just say that after so much time workin' on a farm, ya tend to wear yourself down pretty quickly." Applejack sunk down onto her back. "So, I decided that today's gonna be my day off. Just me, this tree, my hat, and this lovely feller here to keep me company."

"Feller?" Twilight raised one of her eyebrows at that word.

"There must be a Yo-kai at work here." Whisper pointed over to Applejack and saw the inspiriting flame. "I don't know much about Applejack, but she looked like she had tons of energy left. Heck, she could've even swept this whole orchard if needs be!"

"Well, let's see what we've got here..." Twilight flipped up the lens and pointed it over to Applejack's side. Seeing the segments light up, the new Yo-kai was revealed.

The Yo-kai could only be described as a katana that had somehow become floppy from unknown reasons with arms, legs, and a face. The sword was silver and magenta, with the handle of the katana being green with purple diamonds. The Yo-kai let out a hearty yawn and put its' hands behind its' head.

"That is Cutta-nah." Whisper pointed at the floppy sword. "If he inspirits you, you become the laziest person on the planet. Someone who wants to relax and not do anything." He flew up to Cutta-nah and pointed at the pattern on his front side. "Oh, and these diamonds on his body? Those actually determine how strong his laziness powers are, kind of like the numbered switches on a fan."

"Of course. It all makes sense now!" Twilight slapped her head and looked at Cutta-nah. "Applejack's a hard worker, so the best way to counter this is with a Yo-kai that can make her feel lazy and unwilling to do anything."

"It's still your choice, Twilight. Negotiation or confrontation as usual." Whisper flew right back to her.

"Let's try talking first." Twilight walked up to Cutta-nah. "Because with such a name like that, and the power to make anyone lazy, I imagine that Cutta-nah's gonna be easy to reason with."

Cutta-nah looked up at Twilight and yawned again.

"Excuse me? Cutta-nah?" Twilight kneeled down to his height and looked the Yo-kai in the eyes. "My name's Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship, and bearer of the Yo-Kai Watch."

"Sounds good," Cutta-nah responded deftly.

"Anyway, can I just ask you to stop inspiriting Applejack?" Twilight said. "See, she's got an awful lot of apples to buck from the trees around here, and I don't think she'd like to be lazy."

"Nah." Cutta-nah slid down onto his back side, making his floppy sword straight. "Just chillax, take it easy, and before you know it, the day'll be over."

"Well, I tried." Twilight pulled out a Yo-kai Medal from the medallium. "Guess there's really only one other way to fix this...

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Hungramps!" Twilight threw the medal into the air and caught it with her hoof. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" Just like before, she shoved it into the slot on the watch.

"SUMMONING: HEARTFUL!" The Yo-Kai Watch spat out green beams that danced together, generating Hungramps.

Speedy artful!
Sing la-la-la!
Everywhere Heartful!

"Hungramps!" He landed on his feet before Twilight and Whisper, sticking his tongue out.

"Hungramps, can you inspirit Applejack and Cutta-nah?" Twilight spoke into his ears.

"Why, of course, Twilight. But there's no need to yell." Hungramps stepped forward slowly and looked at both the Yo-kai and the pony. "I might be an old man, but I'm not deaf yet."

Hungramps' inspiriting flame went straight over both Applejack and Cutta-nah, and it looked like Applejack was consumed by the invisible flames, while Cutta-nah's stomach began to rumble.

"Aww man, dude. I'm pretty hungry right now..." Cutta-nah slowly stood up and looked towards the apples on the tree. "But I'm too small to get those apples."

"We're just gonna keep you like this until you stop inspiriting her, Cutta-nah." Twilight gave him a coy smile and crossed her hooves, while Hungramps just stood there and did nothing.

Cutta-nah bit his lower lip as he looked up at the apples hanging on the branches. He could already taste the succulent juices of the fruit landing in his mouth as he licked his lips. He gave one last look at Twilight, Whisper, and Hungramps before he closed his eyes, put his hands on his temples, and said, "Alright! Alright! Geez!" And with a click of his fingers, Applejack's first flame vanished, while the one from Hungramps still lingered.

"Huh?" Applejack stood up herself and bucked one of the trees, taking a bite into one of the apples that fell from it. "When did I get so hungry?"

"Gimme! Gimme!" Cutta-nah dived into one of the apples and cut it up with his sword's edge. He cut it into quarters and shoved them into his mouth one by one, ripping and tearing at the fleshy exterior and the juicy interior.

"I still don't know how he does that, comparing how floppy his sword edge looks..." Twilight watched Cutta-nah slice the apples and put them into his mouth.

"You might be suprised, Twilight." Whisper smiled as he took an apple for himself. "Cutta-nah, despite being a lazy little sword, is actually quite sharp. He never really uses his sword much, though. He just sits around on his butt all day, yawning and making others lazy."

"Why am I still hungry?!" Cutta-nah cried out after eating a third apple. "Make it stop, dude!"

"Alright, Hungramps. That's enough for now." Twilight gave Hungramps a gentle rub on the head, causing him to let out a lengthy sigh, making the inspiriting flames vanish.

"Okay, dude. I understand you've got some real power, y'know?" Cutta-nah stepped forward, his sword drooping down over his back. "And like, I'm not just gonna pass up an opportunity to be friends with you just because I'm lazy, yeah?

"So here's the deal, k?" Cutta-nah handed Twilight his Yo-kai Medal. "I'm gonna give you this Yo-kai Medal, alright? That way, you can, like, summon me at any time to fight your battles for you. Sound good, bro?"

"Yeah. That's totally fine with me." Twilight took the Yo-kai Medal and popped it into the medallium. "But I have to say that this is all too easy, don't you think?"

"Well that's how we Cutta-nah like to live, yo?" Cutta-nah slicked his sword back, managing not to cut himself despite driving his palm over the sharpened blade. "Take it easy, Twi. Besides. Easy solutions mean easy life." He walked away. "Alright, I'm out. Peace." He gave Twilight a peace sign with his fingers and vanished in a purple smoke burst.

"He seemed like a nice fellow once he opened up a little." Whisper put down the apple and looked at the Yo-kai Medal for Cutta-nah. "But I do have to agree that this is far too easy. But it is what it is, after all. Who am I to judge what Yo-kai think and how they befriend you?"

"Cutta-nah..." Twilight looked at the medal, and then at the Brave tribe emblem on the back. "Hard to believe that there exists something that can make you lazy as can be, but here he was, proving me wrong. I really need to take a lesson from some of these Yo-kai."

"Living life on the free and easy is a good thing, but only when the time and place is right." Whisper nodded his head. "Why, imagine what would've happened if Cutta-nah inspirited ponies in the middle of a hurricane, or if they were so close to finishing off something really important and needed all of the horsepower they could get! That would've been truly atrocious..."

"I swear, there's some kind of pattern going on with these Yo-kai..." Twilight looked down at the medal. "Buhu making everyone sad when I left; Heheheel making Rarity laugh at her own designs; Negatibuzz turning Pinkie Pie mean; Dummkap making me stupid; and now Cutta-nah making Applejack lazy? Something's not right here, and I need to find out what it is before it's too late..." She clutched the medal tighter before she put it into the Yo-kai Medallium, along with Hungramps' medal.

Mine, Mine, Mine!/But I D'wanna Do That!

Starlight Glimmer, Twilight, Spike, Whisper, and Red Snow were all walking together in the streets of Ponyville. Together, the five of them were going off to help out the ponies of the town in any way that they could think of. Even if it was just the smallest and most meaningless task, they would all take it on and make Ponyville a happier place.

"You know, I've never seen a pony from Japony before." Starlight looked over and smiled at Red Snow. "How much different is it over there? Do you have some unique spells? What's the cultures there?"

"Funny thing, actually. Twilight was just as excited to meet me as you are, Starlight." Red Snow chuckled, using her hoof to hide her mouth. "Japony is a rich and cultural land with many different beliefs to that of the ones in Equestria. It's always courteous to bow to others whenever you greet each other, are going to serve, or just for general thanks."

"But you should always bow a little less to the pony who did, though." Twilight nodded. "Red Snow told me that the person who bows the most is the servant to the person who wants to be served, and that to make sure that you're not serving the servant, you should bow a little less."

"Odd, I know. But Japony does have some incredible things that Equestria has most likely never seen before," Red said. "Such technology like robots, automated vehicles, and even things such as television exist in our home."

"Television?" Spike raised a brow. "What in the heck's that?"

"So many questions, so little time." Red Snow stepped forward and let another giggle fly. "But it is to be expected, after all. This is probably the first time Ponyville has had a Japonese pony come to visit them. The cultural exchanges can take a bit of getting used to, after all."

"Indeed." Whisper nodded and flew in front of the mares. "The Yo-kai World also has its' own fair share of cultures that not many mortals know of. The tribe bases, the world underneath the bridges, the Oni protecting the rulers! It's all so vast that if you tried to drink it all in, you'd probably need the restroom for a few weeks."

"I highly doubt that the Yo-kai World's made of water, Whisper," Starlight deadpanned at Whisper's joke, causing Twilight and Spike to laugh.

"What? Is my humour not rib-tickling enough for you?" Whisper flew up to Twilight with his left eye opened wide.

"Stick to your day job, Whisper, and leave the jokes to the real comedians." Twilight was still laughing as she spoke to him.

"Hmph! Everyone's a critic..." Whisper grumbled and folded his arms.

"Either that or your sense of humour needs adjusting." Starlight smirked, causing more laughter to erupt from Twilight and Spike. Not even Red Snow could hide it as she too began to laugh.

"Anyway. Going back to Japony. You should come there sometime, everyone." Red Snow gave them all another gentle bow. "We have quite a vast array of tourists stops, entertainment plazas, Japonese kabuki shows, and even a great deal of food."

"I really wanna try out ramen sometime." Twilight's smile widened.

"Ramen?" Spike once more opened his eye wider.

"Yeah, Spike. Ramen. It's like this soupy meal with noodles and cream and vegtables. It all sounds so delicious!" Twilight gushed at the thought of a ramen bowl. "The way the soup slithers down your throat and hits your chest, added to the way that the food just melts in your mouth. Ooh! It's all so good!"

"You know, a real ramen bowl also comes with meat, but since you ponies are all probably vegetarian, you would rather just stick to eating vegetables in place of meat." Whisper looked around at the other ponies in the town. "An interesting take, I must say. I've never seen a vegetable ramen dish before. It's always been pork, miso or even everything ramen where I've been."

Suddenly, a loud crash came from the nearby stall, and Applejack was seen stealing whatever she could lay her hands on. Food, vegetables, antiques, toys, everything that she saw, she wanted and put in her saddlebags.

"Stop! Thief!" One of the vendors chased after Applejack with a few other ponies behind her. "She's stealing my stock!"

"Applejack? Stealing?" Twilight watched the whole scenario unfold before her eyes.

"Peckpocket must be at work here." Red Snow's eyebrows lowered as she readied her Yo-Kai Watch and medal.

"Peckpocket?" Twilight, Starlight, and Spike all chorused together.

"Peckpocket is a Yo-kai that can turn whoever she inspirits into a kleptomaniac." Whisper showed Twilight a picture of a flabby purple penguin with a large belly and a yellow feather sticking out of its' head. "Whatever she can lay her mits on, she'll take, regardless of where she is. And whoever she has a hold on will do the same, acting like her partner in crime."

"Then let's get going!" Twilight watched Spike get onto her back. "C'mon, everyone! Let's stop that Yo-kai!"

"That's the spirit, Twilight!" Whisper pointed towards Applejack! "Catch that bird and free Applejack from its' power!"

Twilight took a running start and flew high into the air, with Spike on her back, and Starlight Glimmer and Red Snow running back down on the ground below.

Applejack ran up the hill towards Sweet Apple Acres with a mob of angry salesponies behind her. Her breath was heavy, her forehead was sweaty, and her saddlebag loot was weighing her down and hindering her progress up the incline. But even so, she pushed on and gritted her teeth, making it up the hill at a steady pace.

Twilight Sparkle soared overhead, getting a good view of the chase. She could clearly make out Applejack and the other ponies behind her as she calculated the trajectory at which she should descend to run right into Applejack and end the chase. With Starlight Glimmer and Red Snow behind the crowd, she looked back at Spike and nodded.

"Hold on, Spike. We're going down!" Twilight began to arch her body downwards and pick up speed, just as Spike had time to react. He heard the dragon yelp as he grabbed onto her neck, and she began to pick up speed.

"This stuff's all mine! Mine! Mine! Mi—" before Applejack could even finish, Twilight crashed into her and sprawled her body all across the ground, causing all of the stuff that she had stolen to spill out onto the ground, making it collect dirt and get battered by the crash.

The running ponies quickly took their stock and ran back to their stalls while Applejack was suffering from the impact. They soon dispersed, allowing Red Snow and Starlight to come closer and examine the situation.

"What the heck, Twilight?!" Applejack growled and got to her feet. "I was just gathering some stuff for little Applebloom!"

"No. You were stealing, and you're just trying to deny it." Twilight flipped up the Yo-Kai Watch and pointed it at Applejack's back, making the twelve segments light up in rhythm. "Come on, Peckpocket! I know you're there!"

Peckpocket was revealed and hopped off of Twilight's back. "Darn. Caught again. But I'm gonna tell you this up close and personal." Peckpocket got up in Twilight's face, causing her to stumble backwards. "If you think I'm going to the slammer, think again! Let's fight!"

"A fight?" Whisper looked at Peckpocket's face. The lines on her forehead were curved, her feathers were balled up, and her teeth were gritted. "Well, looks like we have no choice, Twilight. It's the only way that she'll stop causing other ponies to steal stuff."

"If it'll make you stop wanting to steal stuff, then that's fine by me!" Twilight pulled out her Yo-kai Medal. "Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Roughraff!" She threw the medal into the air. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" And with that, she shoved it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: TOUGH!" The watch said, making the orange beams form Roughraff.

Gruff stuff!
Rough bluff!
Red ban, jacket stand, bling blang, Tough!

"Roughraff!" he slammed the ground with his fist and looked at his opponent.

"Roughraff?" Peckpocket's eyes went wide at her opponent. Shortly afterwards, she contorted a smile. "Oh, why didn't you tell me you had him with you, puddin'?"

"Sup, Pecks? It's been a while." Roughraff gave her a smile of his own. "How are you? Still stealing whatever you can get? Nice."

"You two are friends?!" Twilight's jaw dropped at how Roughraff and Peckpocket were communicating.

"Funny story about that, really." Whisper tipped his hand. "You see, Nate's home town was hit by one of these things too, and when Roughraff was called out to fight it, they just ended up in some kind of pickpocketing contest instead of actual hand-to-hand combat. The two have been friends ever since."

"Nate?" Twilight tilted her head sideways.

"Just the name of a human boy I happened to know a while back." Whisper nodded. "I do wonder how he's doing these days..."

"These Yo-kai are simply fascinating." Red Snow once more pulled out her diary and began to write down the relationship between Peckpocket and Roughraff. "Yo-kai from different tribes becoming best friends with one another? How wonderful."

"Roughraff and Peckpocket as friends?" Spike looked through the lens of Twilight's Yo-Kai Watch and almost jumped off of her back at the sight. "Whoa! I've never seen anything like that in my life!"

"Meeting Yo-kai does seem to come as a shock to most people." Red Snow walked over to Spike and stroked his scales. "Especially for ponies who've never been to Japony in their lives."

"That's saying a lot, Red Snow." Spike still kept his eye on the Yo-kai as he spoke to Red. "Considering that I've seen many different monsters and creatures here in Equestria, that is."

"And had to see me try to alter time too," Starlight added.

"Now, Yo-kai I've seen altering time before, but never a pony." Whisper looked over at Starlight. "Tell me, Miss Glimmer. Was it all really worth it in the end?"

"Not really." Starlight sighed and hung her head. "I don't know what went through my mind back then. I was a fool. A stupid, ignorant, mindless, and arrogant fool of a pony. I let my emotions get the better of me, and I couldn't bear the thought of being defeated, so I tried to correct my defeat, with cataclysmic results on the future."

"Time travel is NEVER the answer, Starlight." Whisper shook his head. "Kin and Gin learned that the hard way when they were last defeated by the Yo-kai."

"They're a couple of old ladies who perform rituals with some kind of giant clock." Twilight looked over at Starlight. "Capable of commanding little creatures known as the Kaima and being subservient to an evil Yo-kai known as Dame Dedtime, they often manipulate the timestream for their own nefarious purposes."

"We still don't know what happened to them, though." Whisper scratched his chin. "Because Yo-kai don't completely die off unless they suffer extensive damage or die from old age. They simply return to the Yo-kai World to regenerate when they're felled. Which is the least I can say for Ubaune and Mckraken..."

"What could they be planning, then?" Red Snow glanced at Whisper with her head turned to the side. "Will they strike again? And if so, who or what could suffer from their meddling with the timeline?"

"Hard to say, really," said Whisper. "Right now, my thoughts are still stuck on that king that Felycan mentioned in her dying breath."

"Could you stop thinking about it for just one day, Whisper?" Twilight gave Whisper an apprehensive look. "I'm already as confused enough as it is. I don't really need more pressure for the time being."

Peckpocket and Roughraff came up to Twilight holding hands with each other. They both cleared their throats together and snapped the ponies out of their trains of thought.

"Twilight. I had no idea that you and Roughraff were such pals." Peckpocket gave Roughraff a pat on the back. "You must be a real bad pony for making friends with him. I like that."

"Uhh... thanks?" Twilight meekly smiled.

"Don't be modest, dear. I love it when there are ponies who love breaking the rules and taking what they like." Peckpocket reached into her feathers and pulled out a Yo-kai Medal. "Here, doll. You'll need this." She put it in Twilight's hoof. "That's the one thing I'll give out. If you need something real bad but can't afford it, just call me, and I'll be there in a jiffy. After all, what's mine is yours, and what's yours is mine. Mine, all mine!" She then vanished.

"Take care of her, K, Twilight?" Roughraff stepped forward. "Pecks is a great gal, really. It'd make me mad to see her hurt." He disappeared as well.

"Still not gonna get used to that." Twilight rolled her eyes and shrugged as she retrived Roughraff's medal from the watch and put both of them in the medallium.

"Trust me, Twilight Sparkle. You've only scratched the surface of the Yo-kai species." Whisper looked down at the empty slots in the medallium. "Just wait until you get up to the higher ranking Yo-kai. You're in for quite a few treats, tricks, scares, and even some weird and awkward moments..."

"Like they haven't been weird and awkward already..." Spike shrugged as Twilight closed the watch's lens.

"If you think that was weird, you haven't seen anything yet. Quite literally." Whisper let out a chuckle of his own and was met with silence from the others. "What?"

"Still gotta work on that humour, Whisper." Twilight gave him a coy smile.

"Harumph!" Whisper once again folded his arms and turned away, causing the others to laugh once again.

"Pinkie Pie, please." Rarity was in Pinkie Pie's room with the rest of the girls. Pinkie was slumped in the bed and she was tightly holding onto the sheets as Rarity tried to pry them away. "I know that you don't like doing chores, but could you just get out of bed for one second?"

"I don't wanna do that!" Pinkie Pie whined and continued to pull and tug on the bedsheets. "Chores are stupid and boring! I'm not doing them!"

"It'd be nice if you just contributed to Sugarcube Corner's chores, Pinkie." Fluttershy walked up to her and gently whispered in her ears. "The Cakes'd really appreciate it."

"I don't wanna, though! Is that too much?" Pinkie continued to thrash about in her bed, before the sheets were ripped away by Twilight and Rainbow Dash together.

"C'mon, Pinks. You've always loved doing chores for the Cakes." Rainbow Dash pulled Pinkie out of the bed and stood her up on her feet. She then blocked her from getting back into the bed. "Why in the heck would today be the day that you say no to chores?"

"I just don't wanna! I have a choice, you know!" Pinkie Pie flailed her arms as she was carried by Twilight's magic down the stairs. "I'm not doing this! Please! I'll do anything but this! No! I'll pay you all of the bits I have to get out of this!"

"Pinkie Pie! Stop trying to fight this!" Twilight strained and struggled as Pinkie shook about erratically in her magical aura. "It's good to do good things, and you've never been one to say no to work, even if it's something like chores!"

"I do hope that she's not going to be a sourpuss for the whole thing." Rarity looked at Pinkie Pie, who was still struggling to get out of Twilight's magic. "Still, though, whatever could be wrong with her?"

"Well, Pinkie Pie has been running herself ragged the past few days with all these Yo-kai incidents going around." Applejack adjusted her hat. "With everyone on edge with everything that's been going on, especially with her, she must be exhausted trying to lift their spirits."

"I don't think that's the case." Twilight shook her head. "Pinkie's always full of energy. She's never tired out for anything. And even when she is, she'd never want to let us down."

"So why would she suddenly not want to do some chores?" Fluttershy asked.

"There could be a Yo-kai at work here, but Whisper's not really here at the moment to clarify." Twilight looked down at the Yo-Kai Watch. "He's back at the castle with Spike, alphabetizing and re-organizing the books. He said he'd come right back to me once he's done, though."

The girls all arrived at the bottom of the stairs and shut the door behind them, using a key nearby to lock it up tight. Twilight then put Pinkie Pie down on the floor and allowed her to stand up, breaking the magical aura around her.

"Now, Pinkie Pie. Doing chores ain't half bad." Applejack walked over to the nearby closet and pulled out a broom. "We'll start with sweeping, as that's the easiest and least dirty one. We can move on to the tougher stuff later."

"I'm not gonna do it!" Pinkie Pie shook her head and pouted. "You can't make me!

"Pinkie Pie. It's sweeping. You love this..." Twilight took the broom herself and showed Pinkie Pie. "See? It's easy. Especially when you have a chant going." She rhythmically twirled the broom and pointed to Rainbow Dash, who began mouthing a beat. Twilight then began sweeping the floor in time to Dash's tune. "Sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep."

"Aww, come on, Pinkie Pie. You love this." Applejack rubbed Pinkie's back as Twilight kept on chanting. "Just follow Twilight and the beat. It's simple."

"FORGET IT!" Pinkie Pie shouted at the top of the lungs. "All I can hear is something ringing in my ears telling me not to do it, and I'm not ignoring it!"

Everyone gasped at Pinkie's outburst, and Twilight immediately flipped up the lens of the Yo-Kai Watch, revealing the Yo-kai at work.

A small yellow creature with a long mouth sat on Pinkie's back. It wore a black and green robe with a ring hanging down from the collar, with a yellow and blue triangle pattern at the base of it. In its' right hand was a padded drumstick, which it was bashing on its' head while spewing out gas to its' own rhythm.

"What is that?" Twilight looked at the creature as it spewed the gas around Pinkie, stoking the inspiriting flame around her.

"You D'wanna, you D'wanna, you D'wanna, you D'wanna..." The Yo-kai repeated over and over again while bashing itself with the drumstick.

"Well, whatever it is, it doesn't seem to be letting go." Twilight pulled out a Yo-kai Medal from the medallium and tossed it into the air. "Time for some Yo-kai intervention!"

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Cutta-nah!" Twilight threw the medal skyward and caught it with her magic. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" And she rammed it into the side of the watch.

"SUMMONING: BRAVE!" The watch cried out as the red beams caused Cutta-nah to form.

Sumo shave!
Flavo engrave!
Flash team'a Brave!

"Cutta-nah." He let out a yawn as he sat down in front of Twilight.

"What in tarnation's going on, Twilight?" Applejack peaked through the lens and saw the Yo-kai that had been inspiriting Pinkie Pie sitting on her back. "And what in Equestria's that thing?!"

"What thing?" Rarity looked through too at the creature and let out a yelp. "Uggh! It's absolutely hideous! That robe is far too out of season!"

"Rarity, there's a Yo-kai making Pinkie Pie not want to do things, and all you're worried about is its' clothes?" Twilight looked over at Rarity and raised her brow.

"Of course I am!" Rarity pointed at the Yo-kai. "That robe, despite its' amazingly knit fabrics and its patterns, should be worn in winter, not summer! Why, it's an absolute travesty that it's even wearing it at all this time of year!"

Twilight rolled her eyes and went back to the confrontation. "Cutta-nah. I want you to inspirit the Yo-kai on Pinkie's back."

"A D'wanna, eh? No prob, dudette." Cutta-nah stood up and cast an inspiriting flame of his own on D'wanna, making him stop chanting and hitting himself on the head. He then pushed down one of the buttons on his body and lied down with his hands behind his head. "Honestly, D'wannas are all just the same. They just don't know when to chillax."

"What the?" D'wanna's arms drooped down as his body felt sleepy. "Who's there?" He looked around and saw Twilight and Cutta-nah.

"Sup?" Cutta-nah waved, then went right back to relaxing.

"No fair! You have a Cutta-nah!" D'wanna slumped back up and looked over at Twilight. "Maybe you're the one I need to inspirit, not this little horse." He raised his drumstick again, but as he was about to hurt himself, he let out a yawn. "But first, I think I need a lie down."

"Set it up to max power." Cutta-nah cast a smile at Twilight. "That oughta hold him."

"Uhh, what the heck's going on, Twilight?" Rainbow Dash saw both Cutta-nah and D'wanna relaxing, with the inspiriting flame around Pinkie beginning to dwindle.

"D'wanna was inspirting Pinkie Pie, making her not want to do the chores. So, I bust out Cutta-nah to make him incredibly lazy." Twilight pointed first to D'wanna, and then to Cutta-nah. "It's a little something called fighting fire with fire, Rainbow Dash."

"Couldn't you have just used Jibanyan instead?" Rarity looked at the medal for Jibanyan in the medallium. "Given how well he fought for you when Felycan came to town, I would say that he was the perfect job for this sort of situation."

"If Jibanyan came out, D'wanna would've immediately set his sights on him instead of Pinkie, and then again on every other Yo-kai I had in the medallium." Twilight saw D'wanna slide off of Pinkie's back as the flames vanished completely and she took the broom. "Cutta-nah was the best choice, purely because he's another Yo-kai that can make you stop doing things. And besides, you can't just expect me to use Jibanyan for everything. There's no dominant strategy involved when dealing with Yo-kai, even when there are ones that I've yet to discover."

"I suppose you're right on that matter." Rarity put her hoof on her lips and watched both Cutta-nah and D'wanna lie down on their backs as Pinkie Pie started to do the chores.

Pinkie was all over the place. She swept the floor in record time with a combination of the broom and her tail. As soon as it was spotless, she moved on to the dishes and began to fill the sink up with water and soap, dunking the stain-ridden silverware into the water and scrubbing hard before she put it on the drying rack. Lastly, Pinkie Pie hummed a tune to herself as she began making a fresh batch of cupcakes from scratch, taking her time to get them right before she put them into the oven.

Cutta-nah and D'wanna were just sitting there, watching Pinkie Pie do all the work. They didn't care about inspiriting anyone anymore. All that they wanted was to sit down and let her zip all over the place like a pink flash as all of the chores were done one by one. They were almost mesmerized by her speed with the first ones before she got to work on the cupcakes.

"There we go." Pinkie Pie zipped right back to the rest of her friends. "Now that the chores are done, I'm no work and all play today!"

"There's the Pinkie Pie I know and love." Twilight pulled Pinkie into a light hug before she went over to D'wanna and Cutta-nah.

"See, Twilight? This relaxing stuff's wonderful." Cutta-nah walked over to D'wanna and helped him up. "Glad you busted me out, by the way. I was getting, like, tired of just being alone and stuff."

"It seems like you're just as lazy and tiresome as I am, Cutta-nah." D'wanna shook Cutta-nah's hand. "Who's your master, by the way?"

"Her. Twilight Sparkle." He pointed to her. "Best dudette I've seen in a long time, bro. She's trying to make as many Yo-kai friends as possible, and she'd really like to see you in her collection."

"Well, I suppose anyone who can match up to me and my stopping powers deserves some credit." D'wanna shuffled up to Twilight and looked up at her. "It probably won't last long anyways, but here's a medal for your troubles." He handed her his Yo-kai Medal. "If you want anyone to stop doing what they're doing, then just call on me. My power'll make them so they they don't want to do anything, so it's really handy on daredevils who are doing too much, or for people who are obsessed with silly things like pranks." He smiled before disappearing along with Cutta-nah.

"A Yo-kai capable of making ponies stop?" Twilight pulled out the medallium and retrieved Cutta-nah's medal before she stuffed D'wanna's into it as well. "Sounds handy. I'll have to save it for sometime in the future..."

"Another Yo-kai Medal?" Applejack examined D'wanna's medal before Twilight closed the book up. "Twilight, you're a natural at this!"

"Thanks, Applejack." Twilight gave Applejack a wide smile. "Considering that Whisper keeps reminding me that there's still over four-hundred of these things yet to find, that's really something coming from you."

"Well, if there's that many Yo-kai out there, we want you to feel positive about it, not concerned." Fluttershy nodded as she walked up to Twilight. "Some ponies like it when they've got a long journey ahead of them, but they don't like it when they keep being reminded that there's still a long way to go, even after they've faced something really tough or unbearable."

"If this Whisper guy keeps nagging on and on that you've only just begun, or that you've got a lot more to learn, then you just have to remember that we'll always be right by your side, Twilight." Rainbow Dash flew by and leaned against her. "And if any big Boss Yo-kai come looking for you, then we'll be right there to do whatever we can."

"Thanks, girls. You're the best." Twilight pulled all of them into a big group hug, smiling wide as she possibly could as she closed her eyes in her friends' embraces.

Suddenly, a bell dinged, and Pinkie squealed. "The cupcakes are ready!" She dashed over and pulled out the tray using her teeth, nearly burning her lips with how close they were to the tray.

"Those look amazing, Pinkie Pie!" Rarity looked at how well textured the cupcakes were.

"They're not even decorated yet, silly!" Pinkie Pie pulled out some cupcake decorating tools from the nearby cupboard and set them down around her and the girls. "So, who wants to go first?"

"I think it should be Twilight." Applejack pointed over to her. "She did just save you from a Yo-kai after all."

"Nah. I don't wanna decorate anything." Twilight let out a fake yawn, causing the girls to look at her wide-eyed. "Just kidding!" Twilight grabbed a frosting bag and began squirting it out onto the first cupcake.

As the rest of the group realized Twilight's joke, they all ended up laughing as she got to work on the cupcake. Pink frosting began to pour down onto the pastry, and with a circular motion, she made the nozzle create a spiral on top of it. She took a bite out of it and let the other girls get on with their decorating of their own cupcakes.

Dull-cet Tones/The Dancing Trio

"You know, it's been a long time since a Boss Yo-kai hit Ponyville." Twilight looked out from her castle's balcony at the town below. She watched all of the ponies going about their daily routines and being generally peaceful. "Whisper, what's your feelings on that?"

"Hard to say, really." Whisper too examined the ponies below. "I don't know whether I should be happy that the town's not been hit by one for a while now, or nervous that we're about to get blitzed by another one. Plus there's the whole thing about that king that Felycan mentioned, so that's another important factor."

"I'm still worried about that king too, Whisper. But I keep on telling you that there's absolutely no reason to be worried about him." Twilight shook her head at him. "You can't let a single worry take over your life. Pinkie Pie did once, and she nearly ended up saying something she shouldn't have."

"I'm sorry. I really shouldn't be as concerned about him as I should be, but I am." Whisper looked into the air. "After the battles with both Mckraken and Dame Dedtime, I'm starting to think that this king might be even stronger than both of them put together. And considering that Mckraken was a tyrant, and Dame Dedtime wanted to consume everyone and everything around her, that's saying a lot..."

"That's why we need to upgrade the Yo-Kai Watch as fast as we can." Twilight opened up the medallium and examined all of the medals that she had. "We've already got three Brave, Eerie, and Mysterious Yo-kai, so that's done. We just need to focus on the other five tribes, and we should be good to go up to D Rank."

"I think that we should get done with Tough next." Whisper looked at the empty spaces around Roughraff's medal. "Tough tribe Yo-kai are the hardest to reason with, so if we can get done with them quickly, then we should be able be able to put it out of our minds and get the job done easier."

"Yes. I agree." Twilight nodded. "The more Yo-kai that we can find, the better."

"Especially given what Felycan did to you back there. It might be wise to upgrade the capabilities of the EX version too, just in case." Whisper tapped the dome of the watch, switching it to the EX mode. "I mean, six Yo-kai in battle at once is great for a single Boss Yo-kai, but with the way that Felycan almost beat them, it might be wise to give it a few more tweaks."

"Maybe later, once I've seen some tougher Boss Yo-kai, I'll decide." Twilight walked back into the castle. "You coming, Whisper? Pinkie Pie's gonna feel bad if you miss her birthday."

"Just give me a minute, Twilight." Whisper gently pushed his arm while looking away from her. "I still need some more time to recollect my thoughts on everything that's happened recently..."

"OK, well don't be too long." Twilight gave him a smile as she went back inside and walked down the corridors.

Twilight arrived at the front door of the castle and was about to go out into the town when she heard a squeaking noise similar to a stuffed toy. She turned back and faintly saw a snakelike creature with yellow skin hide with a green flower on its head by one of the sides of the stairs. Raising a brow, she turned back and walked up to the Yo-kai, who slithered backwards towards the wall.

"Hey. Don't be shy." Twilight spoke softly when approaching the snake. She gave it a gentle smile as she tiptoed towards it, getting a better look at it the closer she got. "My name's Twilight. What are you? Friend? Or foe?"

"Noko," said the snake.

"Noko?" Twilight looked at his body. "That sounds like a nice name."

"Noko. Noko noko!" He nodded vigorously and slithered up to Twilight, giving her the widest smile that he could.

"Aww, you're adorable." Twilight kneeled down and patted Noko's belly. "Wanna be friends? I'm sure I can arrange some feeding time with Fluttershy if you want."

"Noko!" He nodded again, giving Twilight a Yo-kai Medal with his picture on.

"Wait... You're a Yo-kai?" Twilight's eyes lit up as she examined the medal.

"Noko!" He gave her a third nod. "Noko noko noko, noko noko, noko noko!"

"Is Noko the only thing you can say?" Twilight opened the medallium and put Noko's medal into it. "Because if it is, I might just have to add a translator to my Yo-Kai Watch next time I upgrade it."

"Noko." He nodded yet again.

"Well, Noko, it was nice to see you, but I've really gotta get going." Twilight walked towards the door once again, giving Noko a wave as she left. "I'll be sure to call you if I need you."

"Noko." He waved Twilight back with his tail as she left the building.

Down in Ponyville, the streets were covered in confetti, had balloons attached to each house and stall, and were painted to celebrate Pinkie Pie's birthday. Everything had been decorated, even the smallest blades of grass had been spruced up for such an occasion. There were party games, a buffet, a dancefloor, and many more things to do as the town was positively abuzz with energy.

Twilight and Whisper cantered into the town, looking at all of the different stalls, party equipment, and guests. Both of them were awestruck with just how different it looked when compared to a regular day. Whisper especially was taking in all of the sights and eyeing up all of the food on the buffet table.

"Oh my..." he said. "And here I thought that the Springdale Summer Festival was amazing, but this is simply exquisite!" Whisper arched his arms and shook them giddily at the sight of the food. "I know it's mainly all party food and would do a number on people trying to watch their diets, but you only live once, as they say."

"You sound excited, Whisper." Twilight gave him a smile. "I didn't know you were into this sort of thing."

"I'm always full of surprises, Twilight. Haven't I mentioned that before?" Whisper was already scoffing cupcakes, his mouth covered in the frosting. "You might not know it from my upper-crust voice and state of mind, but I'm actually quite a fan of parties and festivals."

"Well, this quite a treat for you." Twilight Sparkle looked around at everyone's positive spirits. "Pinkie's birthdays have always been getting bigger and bigger with each year. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that this year, she's gone above and beyond everypony's expectations for a Pinkie Party."

"Speak of the pony, there she is!" Whisper pointed to Pinkie Pie, who was sitting on the stepsof Sugarcube Corner while looking down at her feet. "Let's go wish her a happy birthday, shall we?"

"Sure!" Twilight galloped over towards Pinkie.

Pinkie Pie was just calmly gazing down at her feet, letting out a long and weary sigh as she put her hoof on her chin. Despite the party being in full swing, Pinkie felt something off about it all. Her joyful smile and bouncy spirit was almost non-existent as she looked around at the rest of the town having fun. As much as she wanted to join them, all she could do was exhale once again.

"Hi, Pinkie!" Twilight came over to her. "Happy birthday!"

"Hey, Twilight..." Pinkie forced a small smile as she looked up at Twilight. "How are you enjoying it?"

"Oh, it's great, Pinkie. You've really outdone yourself this year!" Twilight took a quick glance at the town once more. "I don't think I've seen a party this big since Cheest Sandwich came to town!"

"Yeah. Everything's going just swell..." Pinkie Pie turned away and let out a third sigh.

"Pinkie? What's wrong?" Twilight immediately noticed Pinkie's attitude and slowly approached her. "Is it something I said?"

"No. Not really," said Pinkie. "Everything's just so dull and boring."

"Wh-WHAT?!" both Twilight and Whisper exclaimed together.

"But... it's a party for you!" Twilight's jaw hung wide open at what Pinkie had said to her. "How could you think that a Pinkie Pie party, especially one for you and you alone, would be boring?!"

"I dunno. I guess I'm not really feeling it right now," Pinkie Pie didn't even notice the inspiriting flame around her getting hotter and hotter. "Not even this weird purple thingy around my body can make me happier..."

"She can see inspiriting flames?" Whisper's eyes widened at Pinkie as he too could see the ghostly fire around her body. "What an odd little pony this Pinkie Pie is."

"You mean there's another Yo-kai here?" Twilight asked.

"Yes. Whenever Yo-kai cast their powers on someone, they always leave behind a purple inspiriting flame that no mere mortal can see." Whisper nodded and pointed over to Pinkie, who was kicking a single pebble. "Purple flames are for more negative and ghastly inspirits, while golden ones are for good things like energy boosts and extra morale. But I definitely see a purple one, so let's find this Yo-kai inspiriting your friend and deal with it."

Twilight flipped up the Yo-Kai Watch's lens and examined the area. She detected a Yo-kai behind Pinkie Pie and focused on it, seeing the watch's twelve segments light up once more, revealing the culprit.

The Yo-kai behind Pinkie looked like an egg within another egg that had been popped open. The lower half of the Yo-kai had a pair of arms and legs. There were faces on both of the bodies. The one on the outside looked angry and intimidating, yet the one inside looked just as out of it as Pinkie. It too let out a weary sigh as it used its inner arms to prop its inner head up.

"That is Dulluma." Whisper pointed out the Yo-kai. "Whoever he inspirits becomes so unmotivated and bored that the world around them becomes dull and drab. Pinkie Pie's party might be the liveliest thing I've ever seen, but Dulluma's making her into a real party pooper."

"A Yo-kai that can make ponies bored?" Twilight took a few steps closer and watched how similarly Dulluma and Pinkie Pie were acting. "That doesn't sound good."

"Yes. Especially since it's her birthday, after all." Whisper shook his head. "No-one should be bored on a day like this. Not even Pinkie Pie. It's still the usual choice, Twilight. Negotiation or confrontation."

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Pandle!" Twilight tossed Pandle's medal high into the air and grabbed it with her magic. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" She pushed it into the slot, activating the watch.

"SUMMONING: BRAVE!" The watch yelled out as the red beams caused Pandle to materialize, twirling his toothpick to the beat.

Sumo shave!
Flavo engrave!
Flash team'a Brave!

"Pandle!" He triumphantly cried out, brandishing his toothpick at the Yo-kai.

"Pandle. Now's the time to prove that you can be a powerful Yo-kai." Twilight gave him a gentle pat on the back. "Try taking out that Dulluma. Should be a good warm-up for you."

"No problem, Twilight!" Pandle flashed her a confident smile before he set his sights on the Yo-kai. "Hey, you! Get your mitts off of my friend's friend!"

"Uggh. Pandle? Bo-ring..." Dulluma stood up and yawned. "But I guess if it's a fight you want, then it's a fight you'll get."

"Nyaaaarrrgggh!" Pandle dashed towards Dulluma and jabbed him with the toothpick as hard as he could. He pushed it so hard into the Yo-kai's body, as if it were trying to impale him.

"Yawn." Dulluma deadpanned as the toothpick was now deep within his body. "That hurts, but I don't even care."

"He got a toothpick rammed into his body, and he's just going to take it?" Twilight watched how deep Pandle has thrust it in, looking at how stoic Dulluma was when facing the attack.

"Dulluma is a Tough tribe Yo-kai, Twilight." Whisper watched Pandle repeatedly poke and prod him with the toothpick. "Much like Roughraff and Noway, Tough Yo-kai can take quite a pounding before they feel real pain. It should come as no surprise that Dulluma wouldn't be defeated as easily."

"Well, if he's going to fight, then he should at least fight like he means it." Twilight frowned as he watched Dulluma strike back as slowly as he could. She could see his uninterest in the whole battle. "This isn't a fight. This is Pandle beating up someone who doesn't care what happens."

"Try impressing me now." Dulluma scoffed and turned away. "All your attacks are SO BORING!"

"Alrighty then... No more Mr. Nice Pandle!" Pandle gathered energy for his Soultimate as fast as he could, and pulsated purple once he had collected enough. He dashed forward, thrusting his toothpick at breakneck speed onto Dulluma's faces. "POINTY TOOTHPICK!"

Dulluma took the beating as much as he could before he was knocked back into Pinkie's body, hurtling her inside the building where she crashed into the wall and spilled a whole chocolate cake right on top of her and the Yo-kai.

"Had enough?!" Pandle shouted at Dulluma.

"For the first time in my life, that was awesome." Dulluma slowly stumbled out of the building and fell down the steps right onto his faces. "Ow! Hey... I'm feeling real pain, and caring about it!" Dulluma cracked a small smile as he looked up at Twilight. "Are you the gal who summoned that Pandle?"

"Yes. My name's Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship." Twilight bowed before Dulluma and cleaned the cake off of his face while tending to his cuts. "Are you okay? Because you look like you've been roughed up pretty bad..."

"I'm fine, really." Dulluma smiled. "In fact, I'm even better now, thanks to you." He shook her hoof in gratitude. "All of my life, I've been seeing nothing but the same old boring things each and every day. Every Yo-kai, every place, and everyone. But today, you kicked the crud out of me, and for once in my life, I felt pain." He revealed the marks where he had been hit. "Dullumas don't usually feel anything; even when they're attacked!"

"Uhh... You're welcome?" Twilight struggled trying to find the right words.

"We should definitely be friends!" Dulluma jumped up and slapped his medal right into Twilight's hooves. "Sure, I might still think everything's boring once I go back home, but if you summon me, it'll feel like everything's a little brighter." His smile grew wider as he looked into Twilight's eyes. He held up his index and middle fingers. "Peace out, princess." And then he vanished.

"Another Yo-kai Medal?" Twilight looked at both sides of Dulluma's medal and put it into the Medallium. "I'm not complaining, but I think that this is getting a bit too easy for my liking..."

"Your watch is still only on the E Rank setting, Twilight." Whisper examined Twilight's watch. "We still need a few more Yo-kai if we're going to upgrade it. But with Dulluma's addition to the Medallium, it's safe to say that we're halfway there."

"Four tribes down, and four to go." Twilight looked at the rest of the medals that she had collected. "Heartful, Shady, Slippery, and Charming remain. Once I get more Yo-kai from those tribes, we'll be able to find even more Yo-kai around the world."

"Hey! Cake!" Pinkie Pie beamed as she licked the chocolate cake off of her face, causing the inspiriting flame around her to disappear. "Mmm! Chococate too! My favourite!"

"Sounds like Pinkie Pie's back to normal." Twilight smiled, closing up the Medallium as she went over to pick Pinkie Pie up and get her back to the party.

The party was still going on outside, with Applejack and Rainbow Dash having a race with each other around the town, Fluttershy and Rarity socializing, and Pinkie Pie travelling with Twilight Sparkle and Red Snow through the party-fied village.

"Everyone's having a great time, aren't they?" Twilight looked at everyone laughing and being merry with all of the stuff that Pinkie had laid out in the city.

"Yep!" Pinkie Pie bounced over to Town Hall's front door. "Whenever I make a party, I always make sure everyone's in high spirits, and ready to shake their tails until the sun goes down!"

"Tail-shaking?" Red Snow raised a brow as she walked back up to Pinkie Pie. "Forgive me if I sound a bit alien, but whatever is that?"

"Tail-shaking, duh!" Pinkie Pie wiggled her own poofy tail to show Red. "Y'know? Boogieing down? Spinning all over the place?" She watched Red Snow's brow get higher and higher with each word. "Dancing! It's not that hard to understand!"

"In Japony, dancing is not really permitted, not even on one's birthday." Red Snow flashed her kimono dress to Pinkie. "We do have ceremonial dances and spiritial medium dances, but they are far slower and much more graceful than the high-octane energy-filled dancing that you Ponyville ponies speak of."

"Yet there are some Yo-kai that I know who can make people dance their hearts out." Whisper nodded. "And if Miss Snow here is lucky to have their medals, then we're in for a real treat today, Twilight."

"What do you mean, Whisper?" Twilight raised a brow.

"Do you have the medals for the Dancing Trio, Red?" Whisper floated over to her.

"Indeed." Red Snow pulled out three Yo-kai Medals with the Heartful tribe logo on the backs of each. "They are quite a renowned dancing troupe in the Yo-kai World from what Sailornyan has told me. Never thought I'd be summoning them, though. We Japonese don't really do dancing ourselves."

"But when you think about it, this isn't really Japony, is it?" Whisper smirked.

"I suppose not." Red Snow nodded and spoke in her Japonese voice as she tossed the medals into the air and caught all three of them gracefully. "Yo-kai Medal! Set! On!" One after another, the medals went into the slot, and the watch burst with green light.

"SUMMONING: HEARTFUL!" The watch cried out as lots of green lasers shot out of Red's Yo-Kai Watch, generating three Yo-kai.

Speedy artful
Sing, la la la!
Everywhere Heartful!

Three strips of different coloured seaweed, each wearing a jacket around their arms and a bow on their head appeared before Twilight. A green one with a blue jacket and white bow, a darker green one with a cream bow and brown jacket, and a pale green one with a red bow and pink jacket were all showing up one after another.

"Wiglin!" the green seaweed said.

"Steppa!" the darker one called out.

"Rhyth!" cried the third and final one.

"The Dancing Trio! Ten out of ten!" The three Yo-kai posed all together with smiles on their faces as they appeared before Twilight, Red Snow, Pinkie Pie, and Whisper.

"Twilight. Say hello to Wiglin, Steppa, and Rhyth." Whisper pointed out all three of the Yo-kai to her as they stood upright. "Together, these three Yo-kai make up a group known as the Dancing Trio."

"So, as the name implies, I'm assuming that they make people dance when they inspirit them?" Twilight asked.

"Correct. And that dancing power is then amplified if all three of them are together." Whisper nodded. "Why, if Wiglin, Steppa, and Rhyth are all in play at once, then it could potentially get the whole town dancing!"

"Ooh! Yo-kai that can make the whole town dance?" Pinkie Pie squealed at the thought. "That'd be awesome! Perfect to make my birthday bash even longer and more fun!"

"Any particular type of dance you want, Twilight?" Red Snow asked. "Or should we give you the Yo-kai's native dance instead?"

"There's a Yo-kai dance?" Twilight's eyes lit up. "I'd love to see that!"

"Well, you're in luck then, little missy." Steppa nodded. "The Yo-kai Dance is so easy to learn that even a Confuze can do it."

"We'll take you through the steps. Then, you and Pinkie Pie can get the whole town together for a super-cool dance party!" Rhyth stepped forward.

"I like that idea!" Twilight gave smiles to the Dancing Trio as she stepped forward and let Wiglin, Steppa, and Rhyth get some room.

"As unorthodox as it is for someone of Japonese descent, I must say that this will be fun..." Red Snow leaned against the railing as she let the three Yo-kai prepare for their dance.

"Now, the Yo-kai Dance isn't something many mortals get to see, since you can't actually see anything about us to begin with." Wiglin nodded as a strange beat began to fill the air. "But since you've got the Yo-Kai Watch, that's a great start."

"All that's left to do is follow our dance steps, keep to the beat, and just try to repeat what we do, alright?" Steppa asked as he and the other Yo-kai began to wiggle their bodies to the music.

"Alright." Twilight too found herself tapping her beat and moving her neck to the rhythm. "I must say, I'm quite flattered to get a dance lesson from Yo-kai."

"Yeah! And considering that she's only had the watch for a few weeks now, that's saying something." Pinkie Pie was also moving, but she had way more energy in her.

The next few minutes involved Wiglin, Steppa, and Rhyth showing Twilight and Pinkie Pie all of the moves, and getting them to practice them until they got them right flawlessly. The beat had evolved into a full-blown song that the trio were singing along to perfectly when Twilight and Pinkie performed a segment of the dance, with some small intermissions between lyrics while they moved on to the next segment.

"Hey, girls? What's going on?" Rainbow Dash asked as she flew up to Pinkie Pie and Twilight with Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Starlight Glimmer next to her.

"Hi, Dashie!" Pinkie Pie waved back at her. "We're just doing the Yo-kai Dance with Wiglin, Steppa, and Rhyth!"

"You wanna join? There's always room for one more..." Twilight sing-songed and pointed to the empty space around her.

"A Yo-kai Dance on Pinkie Pie's birthday?" Rarity watched how Pinkie and Twilight were moving their bodies. "Sounds quite exquisite. Count me in!" Rarity got in between the two dancing ponies.

"Me too!" Applejack walked up to Twilight's side.

"Me three!" Rainbow Dash landed next to Pinkie and let the beat take over her.

"Well, guess there'd be no point in saying no." Starlight took up her own place on the dancefloor with the other girls. "It is Pinkie Pie's birthday, after all. And birthdays are meant to be fun."

"I agree." Fluttershy nodded and joined the rest of the group. "Pinkie's parties get better every year!"

"Great! Nice to see some new faces on the floor!" Steppa walked forward and watched the other ponies dance along to the tune. "Alright. We'll do one more rehearsal, then move onto the real thing, alright?"

"Yeah!" Pinkie Pie and Twilight nodded as Wiglin, Steppa, and Rhyth took their places. As they danced, they became real to not just them, but to the rest of the girls as the Yo-Kai Watch around Twilight began to glow a faint rainbow-colour.

Once again, Wiglin, Steppa, and Rhyth went through the whole dance to the girls, teaching them all of the dance moves and getting them to copy what they did. The music and beat still stayed the same, with the song lyrics being identical to when Pinkie and Twilight did it by themselves.

Red Snow and Whisper watched from afar for a bit before they both looked at each other and exchanged nods. They both went over to Twilight and her friends and began to dance, as the rest of the town heard the music and went over to investigate what was going on.

One by one, townsponies of all ages and sizes came to see the girls all dancing to the tune. With how they were moving, it was a true sight to behold, with the Main Six, Starlight, and Red Snow moving all in perfect harmony with one another.

"Everypony! Welcome to the Pinkie Pie Birthday Dance-a-long!" Pinkie Pie announced to the crowd once she had realized what they were doing there. "If you want, you can all join in too. Just follow the beat, and copy what we do!" The beat now transformed into the song once again. "Ready? Here we go!"

Yo-kai Yo-kai Yo-kai Yo-kai
Yo-kai, won't you be my friend?
Yo-kai Yo-kai Yo-kai Yo-kai
Yo-kai 'til the very end!

Let's go with the flow, you can shake it to and fro
Spending time with me
Yo=kai Yo-kai Yo-Kai Watch-chi-chi!

Kai Kai Ki Ki Koi Koi Kay Kay
C'mon Yo-Kai Watch with me!

The girls all performed the Yo-kai Dance while singing along to the music, with Wiglin, Steppa, Rhyth, and Whisper performing the moves as well in the background. The moves ranged from stretches, to arm spins, to even standing on their hind legs and shuffling on the spot. The moves were so well-timed that the crowd found themselves dancing along as each move came out.

"Good! Looks like you've gotten the hang of it!" Twilight cheered as the crowd started to get the whole moveset down. "But hang on, we're not done yet!"

I'm to sleepy to get out of bed today.
I guess that I was wide awake inside of my own dreams.

Fluttershy sang the first line, before Rarity added in the next one, both of them putting their hooves on their head as they danced to the song.

Why am I such a sleepyhead?
Why am I such a dreamy head?
Uuwoah! Woah! woah!

Rainbow Dash and Applejack did the next part of the song, flapping their arms backwards as they got to the end of their segment.

Let's blame the Yo-kai!
This is all their fault!
All their fault!

Pinkie and Twilight took over, with the rest of the girls adding their own voices to the song on that segment was over. They looked over at Whisper, Wiglin, Steppa, and Rhyth, who all posed for the crowd.

Watch! What time is it?
FUN TIME!

The girls all looked down at their arms, mainly to the part where Twilight and Red Snow's Yo-Kai Watches sat delicately on their arms. With another spin, the girls all shouted, "AGAIN" and the song beat resumed.

Yo-kai Yo-kai Yo-kai Yo-kai
Yo-kai, won't you be my friend?
Yo-kai Yo-kai Yo-kai Yo-kai
Yo-kai 'til the very end!

Let's go with the flow, you can shake it to and fro
Spending time with me
Yo=kai Yo-kai Yo-Kai Watch-chi-chi!

Kai Kai Ki Ki Koi Koi Kay Kay
C'mon Yo-Kai Watch with me!

This time, everyone performed the moves flawlessly and to the beat. They all moved in perfect harmony, and not one pony misstepped or bumped into anybody. With one final pose, everyone began to broke a sweat as they all took in deep breaths. They had danced to the song so much that the wind had been knocked right out of them.

"Wonderful! Truly marvellous!" Whisper flew around Twilight rapidly with a big smile plastered onto his face. "You and the girls practically nailed the Yo-kai Dance perfectly!"

"Thanks, Whisper." Twilight said between breaths. "That was really, really fun!"

"I agree with Twilight." Rarity nodded after another gasp for her own breath. "I don't think I've ever danced like that since I was a filly!"

"Yep! It sure was sweet!" Rainbow Dash started to flap her wings again. "That really livened up the party, didn't it?"

"Yeah! You all had fun, right?" Pinkie Pie asked the crowd, who responded with cheers from each and every pony.

"It was wonderful." Fluttershy gave Whisper the kindest smile that she could. "I'm not really a fan of dancing, but the way you all handled it, it was pretty fun."

"I ain't had a dancing workout like that since... well, forever!" Applejack took her hat off and used it to fan her sweating face. "This has to be the best Pinkie Party ever!"

"Glad you all enjoyed it!" Rhyth walked up to Twilight with Steppa and Wiglin. "We sure had fun, and it was a blast teaching you all the Yo-kai Dance."

"Thank you, Dancing Trio." Twilight gave the three of them a big hug, causing the three of them to pop right up out of it shortly after because of their slippery seaweed bodies.

"As a token of our gratitude, we want you to have these." Wiglin, Steppa, and Rhyth all produced Yo-kai Medals and gave them to Twilight, who gladly and quickly took them and put them into the Medallium. "If you ever need a dance party like that again, then be sure to give us a call!"

"I definitely will!" Twilight beamed as she closed the Medallium up and put it away. "Thank you again for such a wonderful time!"

"Thanks, Dancing Trio!" The other Main Six ponies spoke to the Yo-kai as well.

"See you soon!" Wiglin, Steppa, and Rhyth all waved goodbye before they disappeared in puffs of smoke, just like the many Yo-kai Twilight had seen before.

"What do you say, girls? One more time?" Twilight looked at the girls.

"Definitely!" Rainbow Dash nodded vigorously.

"Indeed!" Rarity added.

"Sure thing, Twilight!" Applejack's smile grew even wider.

"I'd love it!" Fluttershy exclaimed.

"Do you even need to ask, Twilight?" Pinkie Pie bounced on her tail. "Of course, we'll do the Yo-kai Dance again!"

"Then let's go!" Twilight ran back to Town Hall's steps with the rest of the girls and began to move their bodies to the beat again.

The Yo-kai Dance restarted, and everyone was dancing along perfectly this time. The smiles on their faces were clear. They were loving every second of dancing with Twilight and her friends, and they too were having just as much fun as dancing with the townsponies. Together, everyone would keep the party going until the break of dawn.

Author's Notes:

I was worrying for the second half on whether or not I shold include the Yo-Kai Watch Outtro song for the Yo-kai Dance when the girls began dancing. But then I remembered not just the show, but the Yo-Kai Watch attraction at Universal Osaka and decided, "Screw it. It's Yo-Kai Watch. What better way to please my fans than with a sing-a-long of the Yo-Kai Watch Outtro?"

And just for the heck of it, here it is again in Author's Notes form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-gpCkikNIw

Follow Me! Follow Me!/Fashion Faux

"So, Whisper. You're a Yo-kai, right?" Twilight looked at Whisper as they walked through the streets alongside Red Snow and Jibanyan.

"Of course, Twilight." Whisper nodded. "Though I don't know why you'd pose the question now instead of a month ago when we first met. Strikes me as odd, quite frankly."

"Well, if you're a Yo-kai, then what tribe are you from?" Twilight looked at his flickering tail, blue lips, and translucent body. She reached through him and retracted her hoof. "With your complexion and the way you can faze through mortal objects, I'd say that you were either in Eerie or Slippery. Though, there's still the chance you could be in the Shady tribe..."

"Actually, Twilight, I'm not from any Yo-kai tribe." Whisper rubbed his skin.

"What?" Twilight's eyes went wide at his response. "B-But, you're a Yo-kai! Yo-kai are divided into eight different tribes, aren't they? Shouldn't you be in one of them?"

"Unlike most of the other Yo-kai you've met, I'm a free-willed Yo-kai with powers beyond that of the others." Whisper floated down to Twilight's side. "I'm not part of any of the eight tribes, and I'm certainly not a Boss Yo-kai. I'm just a lone ghost, travelling the worlds only to serve the ones I deem fit to be my master.

"You freed me from the Crank-a-kai, so I think that I owe you a lifetime debt, Twilight, my dear." Whisper went down to Twilight's hooves and slowly began to kiss them one by one. "And besides, you should consider yourself incredibly lucky. No mere mortals get to see Yo-kai unless they have the watch, and the ponies around you are constantly getting inspirited by other Yo-kai without them knowing about it," he said. "You and Red Snow have the Yo-Kai Watch, so you have the power to not only see the spirits that now infest Equestria, but also restore stability to the townsponies by negotiating and confronting the Yo-kai that inspirit them."

"Yeah. And besides, you've been doing a great job, Twilight!" Jibanyan nodded and leapt up onto her back. "I've nyever seen someone communicate with Yo-kai like you before!"

"Agreed." Red Snow gave Twilight a smile. "I honestly thought that a Ponyville pony like you would have had difficulty handling Yo-kai, but you seem to have everything under control."

"What can I say?" Twilight blushed and rubbed the back of her neck at Red Snow's comment. "I am the Princess of Friendship, after all..."

"You've already managed to get three medals for five of the eight tribes." Whisper took a peak in Twilight's Yo-Kai Medallium. "Brave, Mysterious, Heartful, Eerie, and even Tough. Usually, Tough Yo-kai are hard to befriend, but you handled Noway, Roughraff, and Dulluma quite well if I do say so myself."

"Don't celebrate too soon, Whisper." Twilight looked at all of the other empty slots inside the book. "We still need to find more Shady, Slippery, and Charming Yo-kai in order to upgrade the watch to D Rank."

"Aside from Yo-kai inspiriting ponies, they can also be found out and about in the world around you." Whisper stretched his arm out towards the rest of the town. "In the trees, in the water, even in your neighbour's mail. Yo-kai are quite literally everywhere. It's up to you to find them and befriend them."

"I think I'll just stick to finding inspirited ponies and purifying them for now, Whisper." Twilight gave him a nod and closed up the Yo-Kai Medallium. "It's great that they're everywhere, but if I had to search everywhere to find them and not get any luck, not only would it be a waste of time and effort, but I'd also be looking awfully suspicious by doing it."

"Alright then. It was only a suggestion." Whisper nodded and put his hand over his eyes. "Let's go and find an inspirited pony, shall we?"

"I couldn't agree more." Twilight walked ahead with Jibanyan and Red Snow, seeing Whisper close behind them all.

"This way! This way! Follow me!" Pinkie Pie waved her hooves and got a large following of townsponies following her. From all ages and sizes, they kept up with Pinkie every step of the way with raised eyebrows and open mouths.

"Twilight, look over there!" Whisper pointed over to Pinkie Pie leading her crowd down the road. He gently grabbed the temples on her head and turned her in the direction of where they were walking. "Pinkie Pie's leading a crowd somewhere."

"What do you think she found?" Twilight asked, examining Pinkie Pie and the ponies that were following her.

"I'm not sure." Red Snow scratched her chin and looked closely at how Pinkie was acting. She saw a forced smile on Pinkie's face and took note of her rapidly blinking eyelids. Upon squinting her own eyes, Red Snow was also able to see how tense Pinkie's muscles were, and the way she was moving her legs with each step. "But I think it's safe to say that that's not how ponies here act."

"Pinkie Pie's a bit of a special pony, really." Twilight turned to face Red Snow. "She's weird for the sake of weird, has an odd foresight which she calls her Pinkie Sense, and she can sometimes show up right when you least expect her." Twilight took another look at the large crowd, which was only getting bigger and bigger as Pinkie walked. "Hmm... But there's something that's definitely worth checking out over there."

"Do you think it could be a Yo-kai?" Whisper asked.

"Whether it is or not, it couldn't help to check." Twilight began to slowly trot over towards Pinkie and the townsponies. "If it's not a Yo-kai, then Pinkie might've discovered something new that we've never even seen before. But if it's a Yo-kai inspiriting her and making her lead this crowd, then we could purify her and befriend it." Twilight smiled. "Win-win, right?"

"I suppose..." Whisper drifted over to the crowd with Twilight and Jibanyan.

When Twilight and Red Snow joined the crowd, they kept a very close eye on where Pinkie was leading the ponies. Together, they all went down a few streets in town, looking around at the houses to see if they could spot what it was before she could. However, with every place that they looked at, they saw that nothing had changed at all.

A few minutes later, Twilight and Red Snow walked down the exact same road with the crowd of ponies. Pinkie was still encouraging them to follow her by calling out to them and waving her hoof erratically in the air. To everyone, they had been walking in circles for the entire time, and Pinkie seemed to be the one who didn't take notice.

"Yep. Definitely Yo-kai activity." Twilight flapped her wings and soared above the crowd of ponies. She flew over to Pinkie and opened up the Yo-Kai Watch's lens, pointing the stream of ultraviolet light down on her.

A small blue Yo-kai with a single red eye was leisurely bouncing on Pinkie's back. It had a brown horn poking out of its head and had an abnormally huge right arm that was waving constantly in an attempt to get someone to notice. In the other hand, it was holding a tiny red flag that paled in comparison to the rest of the Yo-kai.

"That is Leadoni." Whisper pointed the Yo-kai out when he regrouped with Twilight. "You may remember this little thing from Terror Time, prowling the streets along with Suspicioni. But when he's not doing that and can be seen in normal time, Leadoni often inspirits people in an attempt to lead them somewhere entirely random.

"He doesn't even know where he's going, nor do the ponies who are inspirited by him. But as long as he gets someone following him wherever he goes, he doesn't really care." Whisper flew around Leadoni, examining all of his body parts before he returned to Twilight. "He's often the reason why many little kids end up getting lost or separated."

"We've gotta fix this." Twilight looked back at the crowd of ponies, who were beginning to get vacant and uninterested expressions. "Pinkie can't lead these ponies forever. A: She doesn't know where she's going. B: The crowd will get angry if all of this was pointless."

"Negotiation or confrontation as usual, Twilight." Whisper nodded and flew back to her.

"Jibanyan. You can handle this, right?" Twilight looked back at Jibanyan on her back.

"Uh huh! Let me at 'em!" Jibanyan leapt off of Twilight's back and onto Pinkie's back. He tapped the Leadoni to get its attention. "Hey, you! Stop inspiriting my friend."

"A battle is it?" Leadoni raised its singular eyebrow and stopped waving. "Alright. But be warned. I'm not your average Leadoni."

The two Yo-kai leapt off and the inspiriting flame around Pinkie vanished. When she realized that she was back to normal, her eyelids fluttered and she looked at the crowd that had been following her.

"See ya!" Leadoni darted off down the road, waving his hand wildly to grab Jibanyan's attention.

"Oh, he is not getting away!" Jibanyan immediately began to chase Leadoni down the road.

"Hey! Come back!" Twilight and Whisper both said together before they took off after Jibanyan and Leadoni, leaving Pinkie Pie and the ponies behind.

As soon as Twilight and Whisper left, the crowd blinked briefly before they got closer and closer to Pinkie, who backed up against a nearby building.

"What?" Pinkie shrugged.

Leadoni's breathing slowly got heavier and heavier as he ran down the many different streets with Twilight, Jibanyan, and Whisper close behind him. Wiping his forehead with his massive arm, he continued running, slingshotting himself off of the poles around town to try and get some ground between him and his pursuers.

Jibanyan used all four of his paws to keep up with Leadoni, leaping towards him when he was close enough to try and land on him. However, Leadoni's arm caught him and threw him back to the ground, causing him to growl, shake the dirt out of his face, and keep up the chase with the tiny Yo-kai.

"What is this Leadoni trying to accomplish?" Whisper raised an eyebrow at Leadoni's antics around Ponyville. "All that he's doing is running around in circles. Sooner or later, he's going to wear himself out entirely..."

"He just wants someone to follow him, doesn't he?" Twilight asked, looking back at Leadoni and where he was running to. "He doesn't care whether or not he wins or loses. Just as long as he has someone tailing him, he's happy."

"Ah! I think I understand!" Whisper lurched at the realization and opened his eyes wider. "You want Leadoni to be friends with you, and all he wants is someone to follow him. How clever of you, Twilight Sparkle..."

"Most of these Yo-kai that I've met seem to follow a certain basic principle. Roughraff likes being a troublemaker, Cutta-nah likes people to chillax, and Dummkap just wants people to be silly." Twilight nodded to Whisper. "And if Leadoni just wants someone following him, then follow him we shall!"

"I do just wish that he would lead us somewhere that made sense." Whisper sighed at where Leadoni was running to. "Honestly. I know that he's an attention seeker, but he doesn't need to just keep taking the same paths. It gets boring after a while."

"Wait!" Leadoni stopped where he was, causing Jibanyan to skid on the balls of his paws and crash right into him. Using his enlarged arm, however, Leadoni was able to avoid falling over and gently push Jibanyan back slightly. "We're here."

"Here? What on earth do you mean we're here?" Whisper flew over to Leadoni. "For the past hour, you just herded the ponies of Ponyville—and us—like sheep with no clear indication on where you were going!" He flailed his arms wildly. "What's so special about here?!"

"I have seen many a human follow me, but never a pony like you, my dear." Leadoni waddled up to Twilight and shook her hoof. "It's quite common for humans to believe in Yo-kai, but talking horses communicating with our kind? That's something that I just had to see for myself.

"Will you accept this, as a token of my friendship?" Leadoni reached behind his back and pulled out his Yo-kai Medal out of nowhere. "It would truly be an honour to walk alongside a pony like you, leading the way if you were ever lost."

"I suppose so..." Twilight took the medal and put it into the Medallium. "I was hoping to fill in more spaces in this Yo-kai Medallium anyway."

"Great! Just give me a call, and I'll be there in no time!" Leadoni bounced on the spot. "Oh, and if you see me in Terror Time, it's nothing personal. Only business. You know how it is with Gargaros, with the gnashing teeth, that giant club, and that ugly breath of his... Phwoar!" He waved his hand over his nose before vanishing."

"Honestly, I don't really blame him." Whisper looked down at the medal for Leadoni. "Gargaros's breath is more vile than he says it is."

"Just another thing to add to the list, Whisper." Twilight closed the book and put it away. "We got another Yo-kai Medal. The Shady tribe is done!"

"Yes. But now comes the hard part." Whisper's brows lowered as a wide smile drifted onto his face. "There aren't many E rank Charming or Slippery Yo-kai." He shook his head. "If anything, to get Charming done, you'd have to either be best friends with Miss Snow's Sailornyan, or just be incredibly lucky and find a higher ranking one inspiriting your friends."

"Why must we have to find these Yo-kai to upgrade the watch?" Twilight asked as she walked back to the castle with Jibanyan by her side. "Remind me that when we upgrade the Yo-Kai Watch next time, to remove the limiter and let me see all Yo-kai, instead of making me have to wait."

"All in good time, Twilight. All in good time." Whisper followed behind her.

"TWILIGHT!" Rarity screamed at the top of her lungs as she barged into the throne room of the castle. "IT'S AN EMERGENCY!"

"What is it, Rarity?" Twilight leapt off of her throne and flew over to Rarity. "Monster attack? Friendship dispute? That king that Felycan mentioned as she died?"

"Even worse! It's simply dreadful!" Rarity's hooves were hammering against the ground as she panicked. "Just follow me! You'll see first-hoof just how dire the situation is!"

"I must say, Rarity's definitely worked up over something." Whisper kept up with Twilight as she ran with Rarity out towards the main door of the castle. "Do you think that a Boss Yo-kai decided to avenge Felycan?"

"If that were the case, then there would've been a major panic coming from the rest of the town." Twilight turned her head towards Whisper as she galloped. "If Rarity came alone, then it's nothing more than a localized problem. Though, something in the back of my mind is telling me that it's a fashion emergency instead of a Yo-kai emergency..." She rolled her eyes.

"You never know, Twilight. Yo-kai are little deviants sometimes." Whisper sat on Twilight's back, hanging his tail over her left side. "It might even be both at once!"

"A Yo-kai fashion problem?" Twilight raised a brow at Whisper.

"Like I said. You never know, quite frankly." Whisper put his hands behind his head as he stayed on Twilight's back, not even fazed with how much it was shaking.

Rarity ran out of the castle and down the streets of Ponyville with Twilight right by her side. After a brief sprint, the two of them arrived at Carousel Boutique, where there were lots of ponies coming in and out of the shop.

"Here! Inside!" Rarity ran into the shop with Twilight close behind her.

"I don't get it, Rarity. What's so wrong about this?" Twilight looked at all of the customers looking at Rarity's dresses, examining each and every little detail. "I've never seen such a big sales rush like this before, especially not here at your Ponyville boutique. So what's the problem?"

"THAT, is the problem, Twilight." Rarity jabbed a hoof through the crowd towards someone.

"What do you—" Twilight gasped when she saw the sight before her.

Applejack was wearing a fancy dress, had gotten rid of her cowgirl hat, and was talking about all of the latest trendy dresses, and what they were made of. She herself was wearing a plain green dress and had re-styled her hair so that it was curly and bouncy, and didn't even show a bit of her accent while speaking.

"So as you can see, the soft and comfortable texture of this satin dress isn't just fashionable, but it's also very soft." Applejack was showing a lavender dress with little gems around the waistline. "You could even sleep in this thing. I'm not kidding. I know some ponies who have."

"Applejack's selling dresses?!" Twilight's jaw dropped at the sight before her.

"And not just selling them, but completely misleading those poor, innocent, and fashion-hungry ponies!" Rarity whined and threw a hoof over to the dress. "Satin's not in season right now! It's a spring thing to wear, not fall! And that colour! Lavender is the LAST thing you want to be seen in this time of year. If it were crimson, I might've let it slide, but this is still a disaster of epic proportions!"

"I already know who's at work here, Twilight." Whisper scratched his chin as he looked over at how focused and clean Applejack was. "You know what to do."

Twilight activated the Yo-Kai Watch and peered through the lens to an area behind Applejack.

What appeared behind her was a flying skeleton wearing a black and red bow on the back of her head, plain back gloves, and was carring a pink parasol. She was looking at Applejack's clothing and shook her head, whispering in the pony's ear. As soon as she was done, Applejack ran off to get changed.

"Of course! Dazzabel!" Whisper exclaimed, looking at the Yo-kai. "I'd know that make-up stained skull anywhere!"

"Dazzabel?" Both Twilight and Rarity parroted while looking at Whisper.

"Dazzabel is the ultimate fashionista in the Yo-kai World." Whisper floated down and wrapped his arms around Twilight and Rarity's necks. "Anyone she inspirits wants to were the flashiest, gaudiest, and downright unnecessary clothes at the drop of a hat. And if she thinks it's not fashionable enough, they she'll only get them to change into something even more ridiculously lucrative!"

"A fashionista Yo-kai?" Rarity looked at Dazzabel through the lens. "Well, she's obviously not very good at her job if she thinks she can make ponies wear that maladarous tripe at this time of year!"

"Either way, we've still gotta stop her." Twilight took a few steps forward. "Applejack's never been one to sell dresses, and even when she tried making ones of her own, it really didn't end well for anyone."

"Negotiation or confrontation as usual, Twilight." Whisper nodded.

"Alright, Whisper." Twilight was already reaching for her Yo-kai Medallium. "It's time to bring Manjimutt out. Hopefully he'll sort this—"

"If you're going to be dealing with a fashion emergency, then let ME handle this." Rarity puffed out her chest and walked towards Dazzabel. "If this Dazzabel thinks that she can poorly sell fashion in MY shop, then she's got another thing coming!"

"Rarity! You don't even have the Yo-Kai Watch!" Twilight called out from behind the crowd. "You won't be able to properly see Dazzabel, and she'll just inspirit you!"

"You'd better hold on to Manjimutt, Twilight." Whisper grimaced as he saw Rarity stomp up to Dazzabel. "This is only going to go horribly wrong..."

"Hey!" Rarity glared at Dazzabel. "Who do you think you are?"

"O. M. G! What in the heck are you wearing?!" Dazzabel examined Rarity's body from head to toe. "You're streaking on a day like this? Uggh! No wonder these dresses need selling. Just wait your turn and I'll—" she only just realized that she was communicating with Rarity "—wait... How can you see me?"

"I think the better question is why you're misleading these poor ponies into buying out-of-season dresses!" Rarity took one of the dresses and shoved it in Dazzabel's face. "Satin is meant to be sold in SPRING! NOT FALL! I simply cannot let such a travesty be overlooked, my dear. Either you step up your game, or I make you leave!"

"You don't have any Yo-kai, so I'm afraid you can't defeat me, ma'am." Dazzabel pointed at Rarity's bare hoof.

"Do I look like a ma'am to you?!" Rarity snarled. "The name is Rarity! Miss Rarity! I am Equestria's most avant-garde fashionista, and have saved Equestria multiple times over with the help of Twilight and the rest of her friends!" She decreed. "And you dare to call me a ma'am?!"

"What could you probably know about fashion?" Dazzabel scoffed and tipped her hand. "I've been the Yo-kai World's fashion superstar for thousands of years. I know ALL of fashion's biggest secrets. I know what's in season, and what's not. And right now, satin is in!"

Rarity slapped Dazzabel in the face with one of her own gloves. "Dazzabel! You have insulted my honour! Henceforth, I shall challenge you to a duel to see who is right!"

The rest of the crowd gasped at Rarity's actions as she let the glove drop to the floor.

"You don't have any Yo-kai. Didn't I mention that before?" Dazzabel flew over to Applejack, who was now wearing a pink dress with white frills poking out of the bottom. "Now if you'll excuse me, I really need to be getting back to selling these dresses."

"A Dress Duel." Rarity smirked and got in Dazzabel's face. "Whosoever sells the most dresses to these ponies by the end of the day wins. And I won't take no for an answer, my dear."

"Fine then. It's on." Dazzabel pressed her forehead against Rarity's, her gaze locked tightly with that of the pony's. "Only to prove that once and for all, I'm right and you're wrong!"

"A Dress Duel?" Twilight deadpanned as she looked at both Rarity and Dazzabel. "Really?"

"If it's a dispute that'll stop Applejack from selling those things then I think we should give it a chance, Twilight." Whisper nodded. "And besides. You've been making friends with all of the Yo-kai right now, so why don't you let your friends make some friends of their own?"

"Still, though, what could Rarity do with just a single Yo-kai Medal?" Twilight looked over at Whisper. "I mean, she doesn't even have a Yo-Kai Watch. Dazzabel's medal will be useless to her without one."

"She could use it as a nice paperweight, or maybe a decoration for a future dress." Whisper watched both Rarity and Dazzabel take up their positions by the dresses. "But other than that, you do have a point. Yo-kai Medals and the Yo-Kai Watch go together like bread and butter, and it'd just be weird to have one without the other."

"First one to twenty sales wins." Dazzabel grinned as she cocked her parasol like a handgun.

"Oh. It. Is. On. Dazzabel." Rarity pressed her hooves together, hearing the bones inside of them crack. "But I won't lose to some tacky skeleton in make-up and eye liner."

"Skeleton? I am a Yo-kai!" Dazzabel pouted and crossed her arms.

"Alright, ladies. Let's not let tempers flare." Whisper went in front of both Dazzabel and Rarity, pushing both of his arms out to break up the squabbling fashionistas. "You want to sell these things, don't you? And who'd want to buy from someone who's angry anyways?"

"I suppose you're right, Whisper." Rarity nodded and turned towards the crowd. "I shouldn't be stressing myself out when trying to sell these dresses, but that Dazzabel girl just really gets on my nerves sometimes..."

For the next hour, Rarity and Dazzabel were both working on their hard sell tactics in an attempt to win over the ponies in the boutique to buy from them and get them closer to victory. Dazzabel herself was channeling Applejack, who simply smiled and told them all about each individual piece, while Rarity let her customers get close up and see the designs for themselves.

Twilight, instead of watching the Dress Duel, was looking through her Yo-kai Medallium, polishing each and every one of the medals that she had gained while humming herself a catchy tune. She occasionally looked up at Rarity and Dazzabel trying to outdo each other, but it just seemed like an ordinary day of selling for her, and she went right back to her business.

When Dazzabel and Rarity only had five dresses left to sell, they both had trouble getting their words out as they looked at the fabrics of their items and what made them stand out from the rest. They had wittled themselves down from their most gaudiest and brightest clothes and were left with the most bare-bones, ordinary, and common dresses in the inventory.

"Oh my..." Rarity was out of breath and began to sweat as she looked down at the dress in her hooves. "Is this what I'm going to have to sell next?"

"Tell me about it." Dazzabel sighed, looking at her own next dress. "Pink doesn't really feel very special these days, and with all of the other variants of colour and times of year when you can wear it, it makes these dresses seem lackluster as a whole."

"We've both gone through our best, and that's left us with the second-hand stuff..." Rarity blinked as she looked at the rest of the dresses in her pile before staring at the remaining customers. "They're still dresses, but I don't feel like selling them."

"I've become something I've always hated. A tacky and speechless loser." Dazzabel hung her head into her fabric and turned towards Rarity. "I surrender. There's no way that I can possibly come back from this."

"Actually, you can't surrender, Dazzabel." Rarity walked over to the flying skeleton. "If anything, I've given up too, which is something that I've never done in my life."

"Huh?" Dazzabel looked over at Rarity.

"I've been making and selling dresses for so long, that my expectations for not only quality, but how it's sold, have been put up so high, that it's dampened my ability to work with classic designs and colours as a whole." Rarity slowly looked around at the other dresses in her boutique. "It's been nice to show off some big and flashy clothes, but now, looking at all of the rest of them, I'm feeling quite drained."

"Yeah, me too." Dazzabel sighed and pulled her head out of the clothes. "What's say you we call it a draw, then?"

"I suppose that would be reasonable." Rarity shook Dazzabel's hand with her hoof. "You were quite good at selling the other stuff, though. I'd never have believed that you were a master of nylon and taffeta."

"Nor you with your power to sell velour. That stuff is almost impossible to sell these days!" Dazzabel exclaimed.

"Tell me about it. It was a nightmare even trying to turn it into something as feasible as a good dress. All of the re-working and colour changing played absolute havoc with my schedules and almost made me miss out on Fluttershy's birthday!"

"So... friends?" Dazzabel asked.

"Friends." Rarity nodded, seeing a Yo-kai Medal appear in her hooves.

"Just be sure to get a Yo-Kai Watch first." Dazzabel pointed over to Twilight. "Then you can call me and we can work on dresses together! It'll be super!"

"I'd like that very much, Dazzabel." Rarity gave her a smile before she watched her go over to Twilight.

"Here you go. You might need one of these too." Dazzabel gave Twilight another copy of her medal. "Any friend of Rarity's is a friend of mine?"

"Friend?" Twilight pulled her head out of the book she had been reading and saw Dazzabel. "Oh, right! Sorry. I was just distracted by this book." She hastily put it away and took the meda. "I'd love to be friends with you, Dazzabel."

"Nice!" Dazzabel smiled. "Remember. You're one call away from a super-fashionable day!" She cheered before vanishing.

"I have never heard her say that." Whisper looked at the new medals in both Twilight and Rarity's hooves. "But I suppose a job well done nonetheless. Another medal for Twilight, and we've even got Rarity talking to Yo-kai too.

"How did you do that anyway, Rarity?" Twilight raised a brow at Rarity's Yo-kai Medal. "I thought that only ponies with the Yo-Kai Watch could see Yo-kai."

"I don't know myself, Twilight." Rarity examined the medal's front and back sides. "It wasn't just with the help of the watch either. I could see her and hear her perfectly."

"How curious..." Whisper felt Rarity's body. "Mortals can't see Yo-kai, but Rarity and Pinkie Pie can, even without a Yo-Kai Watch!

"Especially since Yo-kai have never existed in Equestria until now." Twilight came up to Whisper and looked into his eyes. "Do you think it could be because of the Magic of Friendship that we can see these Yo-kai without the watch?"

"It's quite possible, though I've yet to see it be confirmed." Whisper looked at Twilight's Yo-Kai Watch from all angles, and even took a gander at the EX mode that she had installed. "Yo-Kai Watches only allow the wearer to see Yo-kai. And even then, no-one else can see or hear them without looking through the lens with them."

"We'll have to do some studying on that." Twilight added Dazzabel's medal to the book and closed it up. "But right now, I think we all deserve a rest."

"Hear, hear, Twilight." Whisper flew with her out of the building. "If I have to hear one more lecture on the beauty of silk I'm going to lose my mind!"

They both shared a giggle as they walked out of the building, closing the door behind them.

Rarity, on the other hand, was still busy looking down at her Yo-kai Medal and all of the things that Twilight and Whisper had been saying. She might've been one of the six Spirits of Harmony, but she was still a normal unicorn with a heightened fashion sense. She had never seen, heard of, or even spoken to a Yo-kai until today, and her brain was racking with not only possiblities on how she could put her new power to good use, but also how she could see Yo-kai without the watch in the first place.

Once she was done thinking about it, Rarity simply took the medal and hummed to herself as she went back to her life, putting all of the unsold dresses away before going back up to her room for some well-earned rest and relaxation.

Yo-kai Fusion

"Whisper?" Twilight pulled her head frmo the Yo-kai Medallium and looked him in the eyes. "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure. Anything you want to know, Twilight." Whisper bowed before Twilight. "I am your butler, after all. It's my duty to serve."

"You mentioned something about Yo-kai Fusion a few days ago, right?" Twilight looked at the empty spots in the book again, rubbing her throat at what could fill them up. "What did you mean by that?"

"Well, when there are two Yo-kai who fill the criteria, then they can be fused together to make an even stronger Yo-kai." Whisper pointed at some of the empty pages of the book. "This transformation is known as Yo-kai Fusion, and can be triggered whenever you have two Yo-kai that go together.

"The Yo-kai that you create from fusion will immediately hand you their Yo-kai Medal and be at your beck and call whenever you feel the need to bring them out." Whisper nodded. "But if you want to use any of the two Yo-kai that made the fusion in the first place, then you still retain the old medals, so don't worry about this whole fusion thing being permanent."

"I see." Twilight nodded. "So by combining two regular Yo-kai, I can create a super-powerful one to fight in their place. Quite handy, especially considering how much hassle Felycan was back in Town Hall."

"But be careful, Twilight. It's not just any two Yo-kai that go together." Whisper wagged his finger. "They have to be very specific Yo-kai in order to fuse. You can't just throw together two rocks and see if you make something new out of it, after all."

"So... you and Jibanyan don't go together, I'm guessing?" Twilight raised a brow.

"U-uh... w-well..." Whisper began to sweat and rub the back of his forehead. "About that..."

"No way." A massive grin plastered itself onto Twilight's face. "You and Jibanyan can fuse?!"

"Yes, but I'd rather not talk about it." Whisper shuddered as he remembered the time when he fused together with Jibanyan. "I mean, it was interesting, yes, but both me and Jibanyan were quite taken aback when it first happened."

"Nyeah." Jibanyan jumped onto Twilight's back. "Being Buchinyan was a bit shocking for us, and I felt really uncomfortable. I nyormally wouldn't want to do it again, but if you want us to fuse, then I guess we should."

"Whisper and Jibanyan fused into one Yo-kai? That I've gotta see." Twilight stood up and walked out of the room. "Follow me. I know the perfect place where we can fuse you two."

"This isn't going to be very pleasant..." Whisper gulped as he and Jibanyan followed Twilight out of her room.

"Tell me about it, Whisper." Jibanyan nodded as he slowly crawled out of the room.

Twilight Sparkle, Whisper, and Jibanyan walked into a room full of test tubes, beakers, electrical equipment, and research notes sprawled out across the tables. The sound of machines filled the silence as Twilight used her horn and cast spells on them, activating them and making them conduct electricity as the pistons pumped and the liquids bubbled.

"What is this?" Whisper looked around at all of the machinery and scientific equipment in the room. "Centrifuges? Distillers? A semi-functioning super-computer?"

"Yeah. This is what I tend to do in my spare time." Twilight blushed as she looked around at all of her machinery. "Science is an interesting subject, isn't it? Who would've guessed that machines and liquids would've been able to make such sufficient changes to Equestria?"

"I didn't even let the thought cross, Twilight," Whisper said. "I thought that Equestria was a world made up of magic, where you could solve problems easily if you had the right spell in order to do it..."

"Not every spell can be solved with magic, Whisper." Twilight looked into some drawers to find something. "Magic is only meant to be used as a last resort, and even then, there's no guaranteeing that it'll be a good last resort. Especially not in the other world, at least."

"Other world?" Whisper raised a brow at Twilight's response. "What do you mean by other world?"

"I'll have to show you someday, just as you'll have to show me to the Yo-kai World." Twilight jumbled and pushed away certain bits and pieces in each of the drawers. "Now where in the heck did I leave it... Is it here? No. Not there either. I can't this unorganized, can I? Hmm... Aha!" Twilight pulled out something that looked like the letter Y with electrical pylons.

"A good old fashioned gene splicer!" Twilight smiled as she held the device in the air. "With this little beauty, fusing the two of you should be a cinch!"

"I appreciate the effort, Twilight, but there's really no need." Whisper took Twilight's gene splicer and put it back away, tousling her mane. "Yo-kai simply have to touch together and combine their powers. In a similar manner, you have to take both of their Yo-kai Medals and put them together, one on top of the other."

"Nyeah! Try bringing out one of your other Yo-kai first, Twilight." Jibanyan nodded as he flipped the medallium to another page. "Why don't you start by fusing me with Coughkoff?"

"Coughkoff?" Twilight's head gently moved back as she looked at the medal for Coughkoff. "I didn't think you two would go together. I mean you're quite squishy and adorable, while he's more of a coughing nightmare."

"Still, it works." Jibanyan plucked the medal out and handed it over to Twilight. "Go on. Give it a shot, Twilight."

"Alright. Guess there's no real harm in trying, is there?" Twilight took Coughkoff's medal and closed up the book. "Come on out, my Yo-kai Friend! Calling Coughkoff!" She threw it skyward. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" And she shoved it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: EERIE!" The watch cried out as Coughkoff appeared before Twilight.

Lookie-lee, lookie-lee,
flippidy-dee!
Lookie-lee, lookie-lee,
Bubba Eerie!

"Coughkoff!" He called out, before letting a chesty cough fly.

"So, shall we get fusing?" Jibanyan smiled as he bounced off of Twilight's shoulders and next to Coughkoff.

"I suppose so." Twilight took Jibanyan's medal and put it on top of Coughkoff's.

The second she did so, a powerful light emanated from the Yo-Kai Watch, and both Jibanyan and Coughkoff began to glow the colours of their respective tribes. Magical tornadoes burst out of their bodies, grabbing them both and spiralling them around each other before they landed directly into the Yo-Kai Watch, causing another bright light to form.

"SUMMONING: CHARMING!" The watch declared as the two medals transformed into one brand new one. It let loose another bright pink blast, sending out a new Yo-kai.

Alarming!
Boom-boom, walla walla, dance, dance,
Charming!

"Thornyan!" A Yo-kai resembling Jibanyan appeared before Twilight. Its skin, instead of being red, was now bright green, and had lots of little thorns poking out of it. Before he could say anything else, though, he let out a sneeze.

"Oh my." Whisper looked down at Thornyan's body. "I suppose a little bit more of Coughkoff when into him than I had expected, didn't it?"

"This is amazing..." Twilight's smile grew wider and wider the more she looked at Jibanyan. "The spikes of Coughkoff, plus the body of Jibanyan, combined into one super-powerful package! Whisper, can you believe this?!"

"Yes I can, Twilight." Whisper gently touched the points of the spikes on Thornyan's body, making sure not to prick himself. "Thornyan is quite an interesting fusion to begin with, acutally. When Jibanyan gets a cold, he would normally turn into this form regardless. But you've managed to force it by fusing him with Coughkoff. An interesting turn of events, I must admit."

"Nyeah. I might have a cold, but I'm still good to go in combat." Thornyan snuffled and blew his nose into his fur before wiping it off with a handkerchief that Whisper provided. "Just make sure to hold onto that medal, alright? I can't really become Thornyan without it." He let another sneeze fly, shooting out thorns in all directions that punctured some of Twilight's equipment.

"Aggh!" Twilight yelped when she saw the damage done to her machines and immediately took the medal out, causing Thornyan to disappear. "Alright. I think that's enough Thornyan for today, right, Whisper?"

"Indeed." He nodded. "I would have liked to see what he could do in combat, but those machines that you have are quite valuable, and it would simply be atrocious to just leave them damaged or destroyed like that."

"I'll have to get something to fix them later." Twilight put Thornyan's medal into the medallium, right next to Jibanyan's original medal. "Now, let's see who else we can fuse together..."

Twilight put Jibanyan's medal into the watch, and he simply reappeared in a puff of smoke, shaking his head as he reappeared.

"Man. I really nyeed to learn how to control the Coughkoff part of Thornyan..." He rubbed the back of his head as he looked back up at Twilight and Whisper. "At least you got a new Yo-kai Medal out of it, though, right, Twilight?"

"Yeah." Twilight showed Jibanyan the medal for Thornyan. "That Thornyan is going to be quite handy when I'm facing Boss Yo-kai. But it's still not going to be enough."

"Huh?" Both Whisper and Jibanyan looked at each other as they came up to Twilight again.

"Felycan managed to cat-ify me, even when I was fighting alongside my Yo-kai friends." Twilight raised her hoof. "If I'm going to ever take on something like that again, then I'm going to need to become even stronger and befriend more Yo-kai."

"But how, Twilight?" Whisper threw his arms out. "Yo-kai can't be found unless you get out of this castle and go and find them yourself, or if they inspirit someone!"

"I just managed to fuse Jibanyan and Coughkoff together into Thornyan. I'm sure that I can handle making another one." Twilight looked at all of the medals in her book. "Let's see here... Who would do well with Jibanyan?"

"Twilight, I think you're missing the point here." Whisper gently tapped her shoulders. "It's all well and good, but you'd need a Slippery Yo-kai to upgrade the Yo-Kai Watch. And forgive me for sounding a bit rude, but there's no way that Jibanyan could ever be fused with something else to make a Slippery Yo-kai."

"Either way, there's no sense in just leaving out some important factors here, Whisper. Fusion's pretty new to me, and I want to see just what else I can fuse with the Yo-kai that I have." Twilight's gaze was now fixated on Roughraff. "Actually... I want to try something.

"What, Twilight?" Jibanyan looked at the medal that Twilight put into the watch.

"Brace yourself, Jibanyan. You may feel a bit tingly..." Twilight watched her watch generate Roughraff, who flicked back his pompadour as both he and Jibanyan glowed their tribe colours.

"What?!" Whisper looked at Jibanyan and Roughraff get pulled in by the tornadoes and into the watch. The two medals collided and sank in together, creating a new Yo-kai Medal. "Twilight? Can I just say that you've gone cra—"

"SUMMONING: CHARMING!" The watch cut Whisper off as another bright pink vortex created another medal for Twilight.

Alarming!
Boom-boom, walla walla, dance, dance,
Charming!

Another Yo-kai that looked identical to Jibanyan appeared before Twilight. It had purple fur and a pink pompadour haircut sticking out above its' forehead. It wore black 'V' shaped sunglasses and a black leather jacket on its back. It gave both Twilight and Whisper a mean smirk as it stood up.

"Name's Baddinyan." He crossed his arms. "The roughest, toughest, and most cool cat you'll ever see."

"Uggh... I was hoping this day would never come." Whisper face-palmed as he looked at both Baddinyan and his medal.

"Baddinyan. Interesting..." Twilight got closer to Baddinyan before she was slapped away.

"Hey! Hands off the merchandise, bub." Baddinyan turned his back to Twilight. "I don't let lame-os like you touch me, K?"

"He certainly isn't as friendly as Jibanyan." Twilight rolled her eyes.

"WELL WHAT DID YOU EXPECT WITH A NAME LIKE BADDINYAN?!" Whisper yelled, shaking his arms frantically. "Just get that medal out of the watch and into the medallium, alright?!"

"Geez, Whisper. Don't throw your toys out of the pram." Twilight took the medal out, causing Baddinyan to disappear in purple smoke.

Whisper caught his breath and leaned against one of the machines as he watched Jibanyan re-appear before him and Twilight. "Thank Enma that that's over."

"Why? What's wrong, Whisper?" Twilight looked over at him. "I thought you wanted to show me how fusion works. I didn't think you'd get so worked up about it."

"I did want to show you how fusion works, but not see you go power-hungry with it!" Whisper shouted. "I might be a simple ghost Yo-kai, but I'm still your butler. And as your butler, I have the right to tell you what's right and what's wrong!"

"Whisper! What's gotten into you?!" Twilight flinched at Whisper's tantrum and watched him huff and puff as he tried to grab his breath.

There was a long silence while Whisper recovered from his fit. His body had turned red out of his fury, and only when his breathing got shallower and light did it revert back to pale white. He let out a weary sigh and hung his body over Twilight's back.

"Sorry, Twilight. I didn't mean to snap at you." He rubbed his heat, feeling the sweat coming off of it from his ranting. "I was just so worried that Baddinyan would've inspirited you. You would've become a true bully; a ruthless miscreant; a downright despicable hooligan. I just didn't want to see you go from good to bad like that."

"Whisper. I'm an alicorn princess. I don't succumb to being mean and unjust like Roughraff and Baddinyan." Twilight shook her head as she put both Roughraff and Baddinyan's medals back into the book. "I may have been inspirited by Dummkap, but we were just caught off-guard. That won't happen again."

"Uggh. I'm not feeling very well after all of that." Whisper slumped back on Twilight's back and pushed his belly out. "I think that I need some time off."

"Yeah." Twilight nodded. "How about one more fusion for the day, then we can call it a night?"

"Another fusion?" Whisper looked over Twilight's head and down at her Yo-kai Medals. "But who would go well with who? Yo-kai don't just simply go together because you want them to. There's certain criteria that they need to meet for a fusion."

"You and Jibanyan can fuse together, right?" Twilight gave him a small grin.

"Please, Twilight. I've had too much stress today. I don't need anymo—" Before Whisper could finish, Twilight put him down next to Jibanyan and picked up her gene splicer "—Twilight! What are you doing?!"

"Nyeah! What's going on?" Jibanyan added.

"Just hold still for one second." Twilight picked up the gene splicer and turned it on. The two pylons that poked out of the end glowed bright blue and channeled energy between each other before making an electrical orb appear inbetween them. "This won't hurt a bit."

"Twi—" both Whisper and Jibanyan called out before they were both hit by the energy from the gene splicer.

They both felt something weird inside of them as their bodies collided together and stuck. They tried to break apart, but the more that they fought against the device's effects, the stronger that it became. Eventually, both of them were broken down into little molecules which collided together and made a giant burst of light appear from where both Yo-kai were standing.

When the light died down, a third Yo-kai that looked similar to Jibanyan was standing where both he and Whisper once were. This time, the Yo-kai was white with red spots and red ears. The last detail was that Whisper's little white tuft of hair now poked out of the top of its head.

"I'm Buchinyan! Nyice to meet you! Charmed!" Buchinyan spoke in both Jibanyan and Whisper's voices and changed between the two of them inbetween gasps of breath.

"Whisper? Jibanyan?" Twilight slowly stepped forward to Buchinyan and petted it on the forehead. "Are you both in there?"

"Of course we are! Nyeah! What did you think was going to happen?!" Buchinyan bounced up and down on the spot as Twilight looked at the new Yo-kai Medal.

"And why do you sound like both Whisper and Jibanyan, Buchinyan?" Twilight asked.

"Well, first, because there's not enough leg room in this body for two Yo-kai," Buchinyan spoke in Whisper's voice. "And secondly, it's because you fused us together with that weird thingy!"

"I'm so sorry. I didn't expect it to turn out like this..." Twilight looked at what she had done and glanced down at the medal. "I thought that together you'd be able to have like a top-half and bottom-half situation, not just be a simply Jibanyan with white skin and red spots."

"Oh, never mind that. Just get us out of this predicament. It's beginning to smell like fish in here. It is nyot! Oh give it a rest, Jibanyan! Nyo! You give it a rest, Whisper!" Buchinyan spoke as both of its sides wrestled against each other, throwing itself around wildly like a frenzied animal.

"I'm not gonna hear the end of this." Twilight took Buchinyan's medal out of the watch and slipped it into the medallium along side Baddinyan and Thornyan's medals.

Both Whisper and Jibanyan were thrown to the floor once they appeared, their arms and legs sprawled out as Twilight picked them both up with her magic and gently set them down by an empty table.

"I don't think I can ever be forgiven for what I did to both of you." Twilight gently tapped her hooves together as she looked at both Whisper and Jibanyan. "I let myself get carried away, and I think I really hurt both of you in the process. If you want to hate me, then that's fine. I deserve it."

"Twilight." Whisper floated up. "What you just did was not only insane, but it also worked. You made a brand new Yo-kai without needing the other medal to fuse with." He looked down at Buchinyan's medal. "Usually a two Yo-kai fusion requires both medals, but you managed to fuse both me and Jibanyan together without that medal.

"While I should be mad at you, I'm actually quite proud." Whisper's smile came back. "You're only still on an E rank Yo-Kai Watch, and look at what you've done. You've made two Yo-kai combine into one without the medals. That's never happened before."

"I know. I was just—" Twilight realized what Whisper said and jumped "—what?! B-But I went against your pleas! I force-fused you without properly consulting you! I don't deserve your sympathy!"

"Hey. You got a Yo-kai Medal out of it, and you did turn us back to nyormal, right?" Jibanyan came back up to Twilight. "Nyo harm, nyo fowl, right?"

"B-b-but... but... but..." Twilight looked at both Whisper and Jibanyan, groaned a bit, and flopped to the ground, blacking out once she landed.

"Are you alright, Twilight?" Jibanyan pulled Twilight's head up and saw her sleeping.

"Best not to wake her, Jibanyan." Whisper whispered into Jibanyan's ears. "It's been a long day, and Twilight probably needs some rest and relaxation from all of this fusion business."

Before anyone else could say anything, another bright flash of light appeared before Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan, and a new medal appeared when the light died down. The medal graciously hovered about for a few minutes before it fell and rolled into Twilight's hooves.

"Another Yo-kai Medal?" Whisper flew down and examined the back of the medal. The logo belonged to the Slippery tribe. "But who could it bel—" Whisper let out a massive gasp when he saw who was on the front of the Yo-kai Medal "—It's me! I have a Yo-kai Medal!"

"You have a Yo-kai Medal, Whisper?!" Jibanyan almost fell over as he looked at Whisper's medal. "But how?! I thought you were a special Yo-kai that didn't belong to the tribes!"

"I suppose I thought wrong." Whisper looked at how his face on the medal glistened off of the light. "But either way, this is fantastic news." He then looked at the pages where the Slippery Yo-kai were hiding. "Oh! Twilight found a Noko? Well, that's even better! Now she's got three medals from each tribe! She can upgrade her watch to D rank!" He listened to her begin to snore and felt how humid she was. "But, we'd better let her sleep for now. We'll give her the big surprise tomorrow."

All of a sudden, the door opened, and Spike walked into the room with Starlight Glimmer.

"Hey, Twilight. What's going—" he just noticed Twilight sleeping peacefully "—on?"

Starlight ran towards Twilight and felt her pulse. "Phew. She's not dead. She's only asleep."

"Guess that all those experiments finally got to her." Spike went around Twilight's back and grabbed onto her, struggling to lift her up. "C'mon... Twilight. If you're gonna sleep, you've got a bed to do it on, not the lab!"

"I'll help her out." Starlight levitated Twilight with her magic and carried her out of the room. "Spike, you should probably get to bed too. It's been a long day."

"What're you talking about? You're not my mum." Spike followed Starlight out, with both Whisper and Jibanyan following close behind. Together, the five of them went off to Twilight's room to lay her down for the evening.

As Twilight slept, she dreamt of dreams where she was frolicking with her Yo-kai friends, solving problems and helping other ponies by doing good deeds for them, or inspiriting them with Yo-kai when they wanted to feel or do something specific. As she slumbered, she smiled in the real world and didn't even notice her friends lay her down into her bed and tuck her in.

The Three Puppeteers (Part 1)

One late night at Canterlot High, the statue that held the portal to Equestria was emanating an eerie glow. It had been a few weeks since the events at Camp Everfree, and there had been a crack in the portal spreading magic everywhere. It was only a tiny crack, but it was still leaking nonetheless.

In addition to the rainbow-coloured magic that was pouring out, there were dark purple Yo-kai flames pouring out of the crack as well that stayed invisible, but still trickled down the side of the statue and over the portal. The flames floated and wrapped around the statue, and the portal turned from a clear glass pane into a purple swirling vortex.

Hundreds of different Yo-kai stampeded out of the portal and ran off in all directions. Some charging through the town, and others flying high into the air. Yo-kai of all different shapes, sizes, colours, and even ages burst out of the vortex. The rush eventually stopped a few minutes later, with three simple teenage boys stepping out of the other side.

The three teenagers had white skin and black hair, and were all wearing t-shirts and jeans. The shirt designs ranged from red with yellow stripes, a black and white diamond checkerboard, and even a plain blue shirt. The three of them were wearing black trainers with velcro straps, and their eyes all glowed dark purple. They were also carrying something with them. One of them was carrying a marionette, the second had two sock puppets on his arms, and the third was carrying a purple crystal that glimmered in the moonlight.

"Yes. This world will do nicely." The boy with the string puppet smirked.

"But I don't really understand." The boy with the sock puppets turned to his ally. "Why would we be sent here of all places? Isn't Equestria a lot different than this?"

"Anything that we can do to make Twilight Sparkle suffer is worth it." The one with the crystal spoke. "And besides. This world would have been otherwise sealed off if not for the crack atop this statue."

"These humans are a rather... defensive bunch." The boy with the string puppet walked towards Canterlot High's doors and gently rubbed them. "Mckraken, Dedtime, and Gogogo Godfather were all slain by some simple ten-year old boy named Nate. We must make sure that we do not suffer the same fate as those three.

"And we shall start with the faculty of this... high school, I think?" The boy looked back and examined all of the windows, peeking into all of the classrooms. "It has the same look as a human world high school, but I can't tell for sure. It's the middle of the night here."

"Either way, we must set up our base of operations." The boy holding the crystal joined the one with the puppet. "We shall use this world as a beachhead for the king and his Yo-kai. Once we have enough resources, humans, and Yo-kai devoted to our cause, we shall invade Equestria, flatten it, and give Princess Twilight the pain that she so utterly deserves."

"And if that little horse decides to come to this world and protect it, then that's another win-win." The sock puppet boy also joined his comrades. "It's like getting room service."

"Enough talk. Let's set up shop here at this high school." The first boy walked through the door, fazing invisible and returning to normal once he made it through. He looked back at his friends, who did the exact same thing. "It's been a while since these humans have seen a puppet show quite like ours..."

Twilight was busy re-organizing the books in her library, putting them in alphabetical order of both author name and title. She hummed a little tune to herself as she flew and used her magic to gently place each book in the right place.

Spike, Whisper, and Jibanyan were helping out too, taking the books and putting them on the low shelves while Twilight handled the ones on top. They were working at a slower pace, though, as they had to carefully look at each name of the book and the pony who wrote it.

"Thank you for helping me out, everyone." Twilight put the last of her books on the top shelf and turned towards her friends. "Re-organizing books isn't really something I thought you would be interested in, but I'm still glad to see you working nonetheless."

"Why, of course, Twilight." Whisper nodded. "A butler has to undergo many different trials and tribulations to please their master. And if those include re-organizing books, then I have no objections to it."

"Nyeah. I'm glad that I'm getting to spend time with you, Twilight." Jibanyan put another one of the books away. "If I didn't I wouldn't have known you were into, uh..." He quickly glanced at the cover of one of the books. "Secret Shipping Patterns of the Ponyville Ponies? Huh?"

"Oh! That's from my personal stash!" Twilight quickly snatched the book away from Jibanyan. "How did it ever get into library like that? I have this book in my room privately!"

"Mayhaps a Yo-kai might've moved it." Whisper looked at the book himself, flipping through the pages. "Though, I don't know who'd want to read something like this. It's all just how certain ponies in the town might be romantically involved with one another."

"Whisper! Didn't your last master tell you it's rude to look at someone's private stuff?!" Twilight closed the book and moved it away from him.

"Not really." Whisper shrugged. "I can't even remember the last time that Nate called me out when I looked at his private stuff."

"Well, I don't know, he should've maybe told you that sooner or later." Twilight rolled her eyes and turned away from him. "Now, let's get back to re-organising these books."

"Uhh... Twilight? What's with this glowing book?" Jibanyan bounced over towards a book that was shaking and glowing pink, vibrating like a human world cellphone would.

"Oh, that's just the book that I use to connect with Sunset Shimmer." Twilight flew down to the book and opened it up to the latest unfilled page.

"Sunset Shimmer?" Whisper looked at the words that were written into the latest page. "Who is that?"

"She's one of my other friends I have in another world." Twilight looked at the message that had been written down.

Hey, Twilight.

I know that this sounds a bit weird that we're calling you when there's another of you here in this other world, but there's something going on that not even we can control.

See, these three boys came to Canterlot High the other day, and they won over the entire school in seconds, similar to how the Dazzlings did when they first showed up. Only instead of singing, they just shared their love for sock puppets, marionettes, and mind control, and the entire school just fell head over heels for them.

I don't know what's going on, and the rest of my friends couldn't resist them either, not even the other Twilight.

Can you help us?

—Sunset Shimmer

"Sounds like something's going on in the other world." Twilight closed the book and put it away. "But should I go back is the real question? There's another me there, and I get the feeling that if we stayed together for too long, it would cause a paradox that would spell trouble for both of our worlds."

"Whatever do you mean, Twilight?" Whisper looked at the message himself. "From the way she worded it, this Sunset Shimmer sounds desperate. Given how she mentioned how they made the whole school love them, I can only draw the conclusion that there were Yo-kai involved in this."

"But who?" Jibanyan asked, leaping up onto Twilight's back.

"I can only assume that it was Casanuva for the time being, but I can't be sure." Whisper floated back over to Twilight. "And besides, how could a paradox possibly make things worse? This king that Felycan mentioned is already trouble enough, so there's nothing else that could possibly be worse than him."

"We'd better get going. And fast." Twilight ran out of the room towards the portal. "If there are Yo-kai plaguing Canterlot High, then Sunset and the girls might need me now more than ever!"

"Can I come too?" Spike chased after Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan

"Sorry, Spike. But there's a version of you in this other world as well, and I don't want there to be even more paradoxes. One is enough." Twilight looked back at Spike and saw his ears droop. "Hey. Don't worry about it. You can be in charge of the castle until I get back."

"It still wouldn't feel the same now that Starlight's here." Spike slowly walked in the other direction, hanging his head.

Twilight burst into the portal room and activated the device that allowed her to freely access the portal to the human world. She saw the machine buzz to life and generate a pink gateway that lead to Canterlot High.

"What is this thing?" Whisper got closer to the portal and stuck his hand through it, seeing it vanish into the light.

"It's a portal. More specifically, one that leads to Canterlot High where Sunset and her friends are." Twilight nodded as she examined the portal for herself. "I went through this thing a few times before, and the last time I went, I saw that there was another version of me on the other side."

"Anyother Twilight?" Jibanyan's eyes were fixated on the portal. "But how is that possible? There's only one Twilight Sparkle."

"Technically, there's one Twilight Sparkle here in Equestria. What I meant to say is that this world is like another dimension where we all stand on two legs, use these weird things called fingers, and where magic wasn't commonplace." Twilight thought back to the times where she had to fight Sunset and the Dazzlings. "Until now."

"Two legs? Fingers? I can only assume you mean humans." Whisper floated down onto Twilight's back. "The human race is quite a marvellous species, actually. My last master, Nate, was a human himself."

"Nyeah! He was pretty awesome!" Jibanyan nodded vigorously. "He gave me chocobars, let me sleep with him, and he was probably the bestest friend I ever had!"

"So, whatever happened between you three?" Twilight asked.

"Hard to say, really. The events are so foggy now that I think about it." Whisper scratched his chin and looked up to the sky. "What I do remember is that Nate saved the human world three times before. First Mckraken, then Dame Dedtime, and then again with Gogogo Godfather. He really was a miraculous boy..."

"And now Yo-kai are running amok there again." Twilight stared at the portal some more. "If we're not quick, then the humans of the world could be in some really big trouble."

"Before you go, Twilight, have you remembered to upgrade the Yo-Kai Watch yet?" Whisper pointed at the medallium. "You do have twenty-four medals now, so you can bump it up to D rank right now and be prepared for some higher-level Yo-kai problems."

"Okay, well, how do we do that?" Twilight opened up the medallium and took out three medals from each of the tribes.

"Simple." Whisper took all of the medals and set them down around Twilight, separating them into eight different sections for each of the tribes.

The medals all glowed when they were placed around Twilight's hooves and hovered into the air. A magical rainbow-light chained all twenty-four medals together and generated the eight Yo-kai tribe symbols by Twilight's feet, with her standing in the middle of a brand new seal.

The eight logos then created large columns of light that danced around Twilight and crashed down on her, bathing her in the radiant energy. The light then drained into the Yo-Kai Watch, making it blast a powerful light to Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan's eyes, temporarily blinding them.

When the light died down, the Yo-Kai Watch looked relatively unchanged, until a little hatch on the clock opened up showing the letter E. That letter was quickly replaced with the letter D before the hatch closed up.

"Good. We're now up to Rank D, and many more Yo-kai can be found." Whisper smiled at Twilight's newly upgraded Yo-kai Watch. "That should help you to detain some tougher threats and make stronger Yo-kai friends."

"Let's get going, then." Twilight took the medals and slipped them back into the medallium. She closed the book back up and put it securely on her back. "Are you two ready for this?"

"Of course." Whisper nodded. "After many different jumps between the Yo-kai World and human world before, I think I'm quite well acquainted with interdimensional travel."

"What about you, Jibanyan?" Twilight looked back to him.

"Nyeah. I'm ready." Jibanyan tightly clutched onto Twilight's sides, bracing himself for the jump between worlds.

"Then hold on tight. Things are about to get rough..." Twilight charged through the portal and jumped through it, with Whisper and Jibanyan right by her side.

The three of them found themselves spiralling through a rainbow-coloured vortex, being thrown around in many different directions like clothes in a washing machine. Whisper himself was unfazed, but Twilight and Jibanyan felt themselves getting dizzy with how violently they were thrown around the light tunnel.

Twilight felt herself transform as she made it towards the light at the end of the tunnel. Her wings and horns vanished, and her hooves grew fingers and toes. Her muzzle shrunk and was replaced with a human nose, and she felt her clothes magicallt appear around her, smothering Jibanyan and making him lose his grip.

He was about to fly all the way back out of the portal until Whisper grabbed a hold of him and carried him through the light with Twilight.

"Thanks, Whisper," he said.

"Don't mention it, Jibanyan." Whisper put him back on Twilight. "Now brace for impact!"

The three of them all looked into the ever-shining light and disappeared into it entirely. They couldn't even see the rainbow anymore as they vanished into the other world.

The Three Puppeteers (Part 2)

Twilight Sparkle rolled out of the portal onto the hard dirt ground, with Whisper and Jibanyan close behind her. They both tumbled on top of her, using her body to soften the impact.

"Still not gonna get used to that..." Twilight rubbed her head and slowly stood up on her newly-acquired human legs.

"Twilight?" Whisper looked up at what Twilight had transformed into. "What in the world happened to you?"

"That's what this portal does to you." Twilight nodded as she looked at Whisper and Jibanyan. "If you're a pony like me, it transforms you into a human. But you and Jibanyan look relatively unchanged to me. I thought the portal would turn you into something different as well."

"Yo-kai aren't like the ponies of Equestria, Twilight," said Whisper. "No matter what world we're in, be it Equestria, the human world, or even the Yo-kai World, we always manage to keep our forms exactly the same."

"You sure you don't feel a little different?" Twilight raised a brow as she leaned in towards him. "Nothing's out of place? You're not missing anything?"

"Nope. Nada. Nil. Zilch. Everything about me is still one-hundred percent Whisper." He nodded and stroked his chest. "Well... maybe with a little less hair than usual..."

"Twilight?"

Sunset Shimmer ran down from the stairs of Canterlot High, wearing her traditional leather jacket and orange skirt. There was a red crystal around her neck with her Cutie Mark on it, and she was cradling the book that she used to contact Twilight in her arm as she ran up to it.

"Sunset! Nice to see you again!" Twilight turned towards her and gave her a tiny hug. It was then that she noticed the gem on Sunset's neck. "What's with that weird doohickey around your neck?"

"I think I could say the same about what's on your arm." Sunset pointed towards the Yo-Kai Watch.

"I think we'll both have time to explain later." Twilight nodded as she held on to the Yo-kai Medallium. "Where's the other girls? Are they still with those three boys? We'd better find them and see if everything's alright."

"They're with them alright, and I don't think they'll be going anywhere any time soon." Sunset turned back towards the school and held Twilight's hand. "C'mon. I'll lead the way."

"Jibanyan, Whisper. You stay close to me." Twilight spoke back to her Yo-kai friends. "I might need you in case these boys are inspirited by Yo-kai."

"Yo-kai? Jibanyan? What are you talking about, Twilight?" Sunset raised a brow at Twilight.

"Huh? Oh! Nothing, Sunset." Twilight gave her a gentle blush and walked inside the school with her old friend, her Yo-kai close behind her. If only Sunset could see Yo-kai too. It'd make this much easier to explain...

Twilight and Sunset Shimmer walked into the cafeteria and saw a rather peculiar sight. Everyone in the room was clamouring around three individual teenage boys. One with a marionette, another with two sock puppets, and a third with a crystal that he dangled on a string in a pendulum motion.

Each of the students all laughed and gushed over the tricks that the boys were doing with their items. And when they asked if they could have a turn, the boys immediately agreed and gave them smiles. Even when they had trouble doing the stuff or managed to do the easiest things that they could with them, they were still very happy that they were being able to play with and use the trio's stuff. Once they were done with their turns, they immediately handed them back to the boys.

"Man. Puppet shows are so awesome!" a male student called out.

"I never realized just how cool non-magical hypnosis could be!" a female one clapped her hands together.

"Those sock puppets are really funny!" another one laughed.

"They're all amazing!" a fourth student added.

"There they are." Sunset pointed over to the crowds of teenage boys and girls. "Those three boys in the middle of those crowds? They just walked right into Canterlot High, and everyone fell head over heels in love with them, their puppets, and their hypnosis skills."

"Could it be another Dazzlings situation?" Twilight asked as she saw the students laugh even more at the puppet shows.

"I'm not sure. They haven't driven everyone against each other yet, but I'm still worried that they're up to something no good." Sunset crossed her arms. "I mean, they do have some talent with puppets, but I still don't think that ten seconds is enough time to win over the entire school—even if they have magic."

"Whisper? What do you think?" Twilight looked over towards him.

"Hmm... I'm definitely detecting Yo-kai energy emanating off of those three teenage boys." Whisper flew over towards them and sniffed them all like a dog would. "But I can't tell if they're being inspirited by Yo-kai, or if they're the actual Yo-kai themselves. The signature's a bit wobbly.

"As for the other Canterlot High students, I'm not really seeing any inspiriting flames around them." He watched the students play with the boys for a little while longer. "Either these Yo-kai are really good at removing their evidence, or these teenagers REALLY love puppet shows and hypnosis."

"Well there's only one way to get to the bottom of this." Twilight marched forward towards the boys, gently shuffling through the crowd. "Excuse me. My name's Twilight Spa—" she gasped at what she saw.

The rest of the Rainbooms, including the human version of herself, were dancing with the boys, twirling underneath their arms and spinning along with their puppets. All of them were being cheered on by the rest of the students, and both them and the boys had wide smiles on their faces and chuckled at all of the dancing.

"Oh. Am I interrupting anything?" The boy with the marionette exchanged glances with Twilight, who dropped her jaw wide at the sight. The boy gently let go of Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy and strolled up to her. "Greetings. We are the Puppet Brothers. My name is String, and these two are Sock and Mind." He bowed and stretched his arms out to introduce his brothers.

"Masters of the art of sock, mind, and string puppetry, our only goal is to entertain an audience." Mind Puppet gently clutched his gem in the palm of his hand. "And I would go as far as to say that Canterlot High has been the best crowd we've ever had. Am I right?" He thrust his arm up, hearing the students all cheer.

"So, what's your name, and what brings you to Canterlot High?" The boy with the sock puppets stepped forward. "That didn't sound like you were interested in the question!" He used one of his sock puppets. "Oh, give it a rest, you!" Sock snapped back at his own puppet. "Total jerk right there." His other puppet barked. "And his feet smell!" He raised his left foot to speak with another sock puppet. "Shut up!" He snapped. "No, you shut up!" the sock said. "Oh, you little—"

Sock Puppet wrestled with his own socks, elicting more laugher from the students as he fumbled and shook all over the groudn, trying desperately to win against himself.

"Oh. Well, uh..." Twilight rubbed the back of her head and remembered that the other Twilight Sparkle was right there, listening along with the other students. "My name's Twinkle Star. It's nice to meet you boys."

"Huh? That's not her real na—" Pinkie Pie felt Twilight's hand go right over her mouth.

"Pinkie. Ix-nay on the ilight-tway for a bit, alright?" Twilight whispered into Pinkie's ears and turned to the other girls. "You too. If they knew that there were two Twilight Sparkles, then things would get very weird for all of us, and they might find me suspicious."

"Why'd you decide to come back anyway?" Rainbow Dash raised a brow. "There's a Twilight Sparkle right here, you know. Aren't you gonna cause one of those weird paradoxes from a sci-fi movie if you're both here?"

"Believe me, there's much weirder stuff going on here than just some simple paradox risk," said Twilight. "I'll be glad to tell you about it later when school's out for the day, but right now, just keep enjoying the boys' company, alright?"

"Anyway, Sock, Mind, and String. I'm Twinkle Star. And these are some of my friends." Twilight lied and wrapped her arms around the rest of the group. "Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Twilight Sparkle."

"Twilight?" String Puppet was taken aback at the name. That's the one that the king ordered us to suffer, and yet we treated her as a simple audience member. This won't be good for our reputation...

"It's very nice to meet you, Twilight." Sock Puppet shook hands with Twilight before his sock said, "That didn't sound charming enough!"

"Forgive them. They're all just naughty little sock puppets." Mind Puppet walked forward and shook hands with the rest of Twilight's friends. "It's a pleasure to meet you all. I do hope that our time at Canterlot High is simply unforgettable..." He gave her a subtle wink.

"Uhh... I'm not feeling too comfortable right now." Twilight gulped and tugged at her collar while backing up into the rest of the crowd. "Maybe I should go. You boys are actually really nice, though."

"C'mon, Twinkle. We only just met." String pulled her back and gently wrapped his arm around her back, leaning over her with a grin on his face. "Stay a while. I haven't even shown you my puppets yet..."

"That's quite alright, String. I'm not really much of a puppet fan myself." Twilight tried to get out of his grip but was bent over backwards too much. "I've got a lot of homework that I need to get doing. Y'know? To get my grades. To go to college. Yep, that's what I meant." She blushed and forced a smile as she stood back up and went back to her friends.

"Well, if you don't want a taste of our absolutely lucrative, divine, and downright puppetry, then who are we to force it on you?" String gave her another gentle smile and walked up to her. "But I know what all boys and girls like when they have time to themselves, and that's to be entertained."

"Back off, String. She said no. We must abide by her wishes." Mind Puppet shook his head and pushed String away. "Forgive my brother. He can get a little bit clingy at times when people say no to his shows. Why don't I show you to your next classroom and we can meet up later?"

"That's very kind of you, Mind, but you're new here." Twilight jittered as she moved through the crowds to get away from him. "I wouldn't want you getting me lost and making me miss it. I'll go by myself if that's alright with you." She meekly chuckled and darted off with Sunset walking out of the room shortly afterwards.

"Alright then. I shall see you soon, Twinkle Star." Mind Puppet nodded and returned to his audience, holding up the crystal once more to implement more mental commands and continue his show.

"What did you find out?" Sunset Shimmer asked Twilight as they now stood outside of the cafeteria, leaning against the walls and peaking back into the room. "Are they evil forces from Equestria? Is that why they've got the students adoring them?"

"Not quite, Sunset," Twilight sighed. "You're probably not going to understand this, but there are forces at work known as Yo-kai that are making the students like Mind, Sock, and String."

"Yo-kai?" Sunset pushed the air with her hands. "Wait, wait, wait. Is that why you said Whisper and Jibanyan earlier? Because these creatures called Yo-kai are now infecting Canterlot High?"

"They could be everywhere in this world if there are some here." Twilight looked up at Sunset and showed her the Yo-Kai Watch. "This device is the only thing that allows me to see Yo-kai, battle them, and even befriend them. Yo-kai can't be hurt by mortal beings, and I'm not sure that any form of Equestrian magic can harm them either."

"But how did these Yo-kai even come into being?" Sunset asked, examining the Yo-Kai Watch very closely. "I don't think there's ever been a thing like that in this world or Equestria."

"It's because they're not relative to either." Twilight shook her head. "Yo-kai come from this other world known as the Yo-kai World. In all different shapes and sizes, separated into eight different tribes, Yo-kai are responsible for everything weird and wonderful with the world."

"So, what can Yo-kai actually do?" Sunset raised a brow as she looked at the watch.

"Yo-kai take control of a pony or human through something known as inspiriting. Invisible purple flames are cast on that person, and they think and feel exactly how the Yo-kai feels." Twilight looked at the medals in her Yo-kai Medallium. "Whenever someone is cast with these flames, it always means that a Yo-kai's at work, altering their emotions or making them feel weird things that aren't normal for them."

"So these little purple flames are over the students right now?" Sunset Shimmer asked, looking back at the crowd once again.

"So far, not yet. But we definitely know that there's Yo-kai at work here." Twilight flipped up the lens and raised her arm so that Whisper was directly visible through the lens. "This little ghost here is known as Whisper. He's a Yo-kai that can detect other Yo-kai signatures."

"I'm also Twilight's faithful butler. I've been her companion ever since she freed me from the Crank-a-kai in the Everfree Forest." Whisper bowed. "Charmed, Miss Shimmer."

"And I'm Jibanyan!" He leapt up to the lens and waved at Sunset, making her stumble backwards and fall over. "Nyice to meet you, Sunset Shimmer!"

"Whoa!" Sunset got a closer look at Whisper and Jibanyan through the lens of the Yo-Kai Watch. "I never expected to see these things today. And considering the things that me and the girls have seen and battled since you left, that's saying a lot..."

"Now the real question remains: Who's inspiriting the students at Canterlot High?" Twilight asked, taking one more glance into the cafeteria. It was still the same, everyone was loving what the Puppet Brothers were doing. "I have a hunch that something's either helping the brothers get their audience. But it could still be disproven by other Yo-kai."

"Well we're not going to get anywhere just sitting here." Whisper took a look for himself. "Let's wait until you regroup with your human world friends, and then discuss the best course of action."

"Good idea, Whisper." Twilight gave him a nod and walked down the corridor. "Come on, Sunset. Let's go."

"Alright." She followed closely behind Twilight, still unable to shake the thoughts of meeting Yo-kai from her head.

The Three Puppeteers (Part 3)

"It still doesn't make any sense!" Twilight Sparkle stood at the portal with her friends and frantically scratched her temples, messing up her hair as she did so. "Those three boys won over the whole school in seconds, and I'm not seeing any Yo-kai energy around them or the students!"

"Indeed. I would've thought that there would've been Yo-kai all over the place, inspiriting the poor, helpless, and unprepared students of Canterlot High left, right, and centre." Whisper watched all of the students gush whenever the Puppet Brothers walked past. "Yet there were no Yo-kai that I could see in the vicinity, nor any inspiring flames around them or the students." He flew back over to Twilight. "Something is VERY wrong here in the human world. You might want to set your watch to EX mode right now just to be safe, Twilight."

"Whatever comes our way, we can probably flatten with our awesome new powers." Rainbow Dash leaned against the side of the portal and rubbed her own pendant. "Though, I don't know why you'd accuse the Puppet Brothers of this, Twilight. They're actually really nice guys."

"She's probably just jealous that we got to them first and that she didn't." Rarity flipped up a hand mirror and applied some blush to her face. "Happens to all of us, darling. Best to get over it and move on."

"Still, don't you find it a little bit odd that they just waltzed into Canterlot High and won everyone over immediately?" Sunset Shimmer turned to the girls and raised a brow. "I've been in this world long enough to know that even boys that look like that can't impress everyone. I originally had a hunch that it was another situation similar to that of the Dazzlings, but with these Yo-kai introduced to the mix, I'm starting to second-guess myself."

"Yo-kai?" Pinkie Pie blew a raspberry and tossed her hair back. "Sunset. Yo-kai are little creatures from that handheld game and TV cartoon. They don't actually exist."

"Yes they do, Pinkie Pie." Twilight flipped up the lens and showed her Jibanyan and Whisper together, who were both fighting over the spotlight, until they saw Pinkie looking at them. They both waved and blushed a little bit as they returned to Twilight's side. "They were introduced to Equestria recently, and I think that they're here in this world now too."

"Again, if I might add." Whisper raised his finger. "You know, after all of the chaos that they caused the last three times, I wouldn't be surprised if this world just accepted the existence of Yo-kai at this point. It would make things a lot easier to explain."

"But still, I'm just glad that Pony Twilight's got herself some new power too." Applejack showed off her jewel to Twilight. "Makes me feel less guilty about trying to tell her about these doodads."

"Huh?" Twilight leaned in and examined Applejack's geode, before going around to see the others. "I didn't notice those the last time I was here. Anything new happen while I was away?"

"Well, we went on a bus to a forest that shares the same name as the one you freed Whisper from the Crank-a-kai, met someone named Gloriosa, saw that she was using magic to save the camp but trap us all at the same time, defeated her with the very crystals that she was using, and then got to keep those little crystals as extra-powerful magical power boosters!" Pinkie Pie took a deep breath and gave Twilight a wide smile after her tirade. "Does that explain it?"

"So, these gems..." Twilight took an even closer look, noticing the Cutie Marks on each of them. "Are they like this world's version of the Elements of Harmony?"

"I guess so." Sunset brushed hers gently with the back of her hand.

"And while you got those little necklaces, you got that Yo-kai Watch." Fluttershy looked at Twilight's watch from all angles, noticing how she had fashioned the numbers on the inside of the dome so that it looked like a real watch. "I honestly can't tell which is better. A new form of magic to save our worlds, or a watch that allows you to talk with cute little creatures such as Jibanyan..." She took her own look through the lens and watched Jibanyan scratching his own back.

"Aww, stop it. You're making me blush." Jibanyan looked up at Fluttershy's wide smile. "No, seriously. You're gonna make me feel bad, nyan."

"Twilight? Can I speak with you for just a second?" Whisper gently tapped on Twilight's shoulders. "It's quite important."

"What is it, Whisper?" Twilight turned towards him.

"I'm detecting an incredibly powerful surge of energy from this portal." Whisper rubbed his hand gently on the sides of the giant stone block with glass on each side. "And not just from the portal itself, but rather somewhere else on it." He flew around it until he saw the crack on the top of the portal. "Ooh! Up here, Twilight! I'm definitely seeing something out of the ordinary."

Twilight jumped as high as she could to see what was going on, but she couldn't get a good view of the situation, regardless of how high she was jumping. She tried to grab onto the statue and pull herself up, but lost her grip, fell off, and landed on her butt.

"Do you need some help?" Fluttershy reached out towards Twilight.

"Please, girls." Twilight nodded and leapt again, but this time, she was being pushed up on top of the statue with the help of her friends. They all effortlessly carried her up to the top of the statue, where she was able to stand up. "Thank you."

Twilight immediately noticed the crack, and the rainbow-coloured lights emanating from it. She put her hand to her chin and slowly walked up to it, getting down on her knees as she looked into the crack.

"H-hey! Let me get a closer look too!" Whisper barged in and grinded his corporeal body against Twilight's head, looking into the crack along with her.

"What is this?" Twilight asked, seeing a kaleidoscope of lights of all different colours inside of the crack. They were all dancing around with each other, along with an excess of foreboding purple colour. "It looks like Equestrian magic, but there's something else there. Something... weird."

"Weird? Let me take a peek." Whisper gently pushed Twilight away and pushed himself deeper into the crack, to the point where his body was starting to slip through it entirely. His tail wiggled a bit before he popped out again, the area around his eye covered in rainbow-coloured paint. "Well, I did see something in there, but I'm not sure what."

"Whisper?" Twilight was barely able to contain herself as she puffed out her cheeks, suppressing her laughter as she looked at Whisper's eye. "You've got a little something on your face."

"Do I?" Whisper rubbed his eye with his hand, revealing the rainbow paint. "Huh. Guess I do. But more to the point, there's something in there intermixing with the Equestrian magic."

"Is there? Let me see." Sunset Shimmer climbed up the statue, with the rest of the Rainbooms following closely behind her. They all gathered around Sunset as she took her own little glance into the crack. "It is. That's Equestrian magic, alright, but there's something weird about it."

"Weird how?" Rainbow Dash asked, taking a look for herself. "Whoa! There's some sort of weird purple fire in there!"

"Fire and magic? Well that don't seem right in the slightest." Applejack crossed her arms as she looked at the crack for herself. "Something's wrong here, and considering the last few times magic got involved with this here world, that's saying somethin'."

"Let me examine this." Human Twilight re-adjusted her glasses and took a deeper look at the magic within the crack, as well as the other energy around it. The fires wobbled when Twilight got a look at it, and when she pressed her eye completely over the crack, the flames rose up at an incredible pace. "Get back!" She shouted, lurching her head back upright as a tiny pillar of purple flame rose up from the crack and died down shortly afterward.

"Now that's something you don't see every day." Whisper looked at the column of flame as it sunk back into the portal and continued to mix with the magic. "However, upon getting a clearer look at the fires, I can safely come to a conclusion on what's going on."

"What is it, Whisper?" Princess Twilight looked back at the crack one more time before looking at him. "What's going on?"

"It's quite simple, Twilight. The Equestrian magic is interlacing with that of Yo-kai energy." Whisper crossed his hands and hovered over the fires. "Not only has it opened the door for Yo-kai to run rampant in the human world once again, but it's also put this world in great risk."

"The king..." Twilight hung his head and looked back at the rest of the Rainbooms. "Do you think he could be coming here?"

"Huh? A king?" Everyone else simply looked at Twilight bug-eyed.

"Back in Equestria, there was this giant cat Yo-kai called Felycan." Twilight sighed and hung her head.

"As in a feline lycanthrope? That's really clever!" Pinkie chirped.

"Pinkie! Twilight doesn't feel very happy sharing this story with us." Rarity gently tapped Pinkie's chest and crawled over to Twilight. "Go on, dear. Explain the rest of this story."

"Felycan managed to turn everyone in Ponyville—even me and your pony counterparts—into cats. No minds, no traces of our old lives, just giant cat-ponies who only wanted to fondle yarn, chase laser pointers, scratch scratching posts, use litter boxes, the works." Twilight gently laid her hands out on the statue as she remembered the events in great detail. "When Jibanyan came to the rescue and saved us all, Felycan mentioned a name in her dying breath. Something about a king coming to destroy Equestria, and make me suffer."

"You don't think this Felycan mentioned an Equestrian king, do you?" Sunset asked.

"Impossible. Yo-kai don't rely on humans or ponies to do their bidding." Twilight looked up at Sunset. "Everything that Yo-kai do is entirely on them, and if this giant cat Yo-kai was taking orders from an even more powerful Yo-kai, it makes me wonder just how much at risk both of our worlds are."

"So what about this king? We'll just zap him with our magic like we do with every other bad guy who crosses us!" Rainbow Dash punched the air around her.

"Yo-kai are so far unaffected by any form of Equestrian magic, including that of the Magic of Friendship. There is no stopping them unless you have a Yo-kai Watch and some powerful Yo-kai friends." Twilight opened up her medallium and glanced at all of the friends she had made so far. "And right now, I only have twenty-seven Yo-kai Medals. That's not going to be enough to stand up to the king—especially when they're mostly E rank Yo-kai..."

"So what do we do now?" Human Twilight asked her pony self. "Just wait around for this king to come and conquer us?"

"No. Of course not!" Twilight shook her head. "We're going to fight back and save our worlds, of course, but right now, we're in dire straits, and these Puppet Brothers that just showed up aren't helping the situation at all."

"Do you think that they could be related to the king?" Fluttershy raised an eyebrow of her own.

"The Puppet Brothers? Ha! Impossible!" Rainbow Dash chuckled, laying her arm over Fluttershy's shoulders. "They're all great guys. If they were related to some evil king of darkness, then we would've known by now."

"Though, when you mentioned my name to them, they did seem a little less hospitable than they did at lunch today..." Human Twilight scratched her chin as she looked back at the Puppet Brothers, who were just now walking out of the school with an entourage of screaming fanboys and fangirls beside them. "Still, for someone of their caliber to be related to this king? I just don't see it yet."

"She does have a point, but I am detecting something incredibly powerful around them." Whisper pointed over to the brothers, seeing them enjoy their audience. "And it's much more visible than before, Twilight. You might want to take a look."

Twilight crawled quickly past her friends, taking a look at the Puppet Brothers with her eyes first. When it showed nothing, she took a look at them with the Yo-kai Watch's lens.

The Puppet Brothers all looked at each other with smiles on their faces, gave each other nods, and threw their arms skyward before crashing them back down around their bodies. As soon as they did, little inspiriting flames appeared around the Canterlot High students following them, and the pupils of their eyes were replaced with hypnotic swirls.

"Inspiriting flames?!" Twilight, gasped as she saw the Puppet Brothers inspiriting the students of Canterlot High.

"But there weren't any when we first took a glance!" Whisper looked at the crowd walking off with Sock, Mind, and String, completely unaware that they had been possessed by the three of them. "There weren'y any other Yo-kai around them making them popular, and there weren't any around the students either at lunch!

"Which can only mean..." Jibanyan scratched his chin.

"THE PUPPET BROTHERS ARE THE YO-KAI!" Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan all called out in perfect sync as they simply watched the Puppet Brothers leave their sight with their captive audience close behind them.

The Three Puppeteers (Part 4)

"The brothers are the Yo-kai?" Jibanyan paced back and forth in Pinkie Pie's bedroom, walking around the legs of each of the Rainbooms as he did so. "But then, why in the world would they disguise themselves as humans? Wouldn't it just make more sense to stay hidden and inspirit everyone anyway?"

"This goes far beyond the Dazzlings, girls." Pony Twilight looked down at her Yo-kai Watch. "As long as the Puppet Brothers have inspirited the girls, their spell can't be broken. The Magic of Friendship will do absolutely nothing against them!"

"Honestly, I still don't know what you think is wrong with the brothers." Fluttershy gave Twilight an innocent smile as she watched her sift through the medals in her Yo-kai Medallium. "Sure, they've managed to get the entire school on their side, but they haven't done anything evil, have they?"

"Fluttershy! What are you saying?!" Twilight jolted at Fluttershy's response. "They inspiritied the ENTIRE student body! There's no possible way that you can still think they're all good boys!"

"Like we said, darling. You're just jealous that we made it to them first and you didn't." Rarity's brows lowered and she stood upright, her friends close by her side. "Honestly. I wasn't expecting you to come back to this world in the first place, but to come back and be absolutely rude to the nicest and most harmless boys in school? How utterly revolting!"

"Rarity! What's gotten into you?!" Twilight asked as she watched the other Rainbooms stand up together and stand by her side. "Why can you still think that they're good, even when they've pretty much captured everyone else in the process?!"

"I agree with Twilight. You're all still yet to see that they're bad." Sunset Shimmer leapt up from the bed and stood by Twilight's side. "And if you want to disagree with her, then you'll have to disagree with me as well."

"What are we possibly going to gain out of this stand-off, Twilight?" Whisper looked at the furled brows and balled-up fists of the other girls. "They're obviously still smitten about the Puppet Brothers, even when they're not even following them."

"Nyeah! They're getting more defensive than I do whenever someone bad mouths Next HarMEOWny!" Jibanyan jumped up onto Twilight's shoulders. "What's wrong with them?"

"There's nothing wrong with us!" Applejack lashed out at Jibanyan, getting right up in his face. "If anything, there's somethin' wrong with you, Twilight, and Sunset!"

"The Puppet Brothers are innocent, and you're both trying to villify them!" Pinkie Pie stomped up to Twilight and Sunset. "I thought you knew better by now!"

Suddenly, a short purple flash engulfed the room, and the Rainbooms all fell to the ground and crumpled up, like puppets that had lost their strings. They didn't let any breaths escape their mouths, and didn't even groan or scream in pain as they all fell down onto the floor and furniture around them.

"What happened to them?" Sunset Shimmer asked as she reached down to Rarity and lifted her limp arms up.

"I'm nyot really sure." Jibanyan rubbed his head as he leapt off of Twilight and rubbed his paws against Human Twilight's face. "Humans don't nyormally do this, do they, Whisper?"

"Not from my knowledge..." Whisper floated down and pulled Rainbow Dash's head up. "What could be going on with them?"

All of a sudden, Rainbow Dash groaned and twitched in Whisper's grasp, and she rapidly opened her eyes up, revealing that they had turned pure purple. She let out a low-pitched snarl as a demonic smile appeared on her face and gnashed her teeth at Whisper, making him yelp and drop her.

The other Rainbooms slowly opened their eyes too and let out small groans of their own. Their eyes had also become pure purple, and once they were all standing upright, they hung their heads and shuddered, their fingers all curled up as low breaths escaped their mouths.

"What's going on?" Twilight backed up against the wall as she saw the girls get back on their feet."

"Twilight Sparkle." Pinkie Pie spoke in a voice devoid of happiness, and rather one filled with malice and cruelty. She let a wicked laugh fly as she threw her head skyward, causing her bubbly hair to deflate and hang right over her face. "How funny. You came to the human world just to die? And here I thought you would've met your end in Equestria, like the hero you really are."

"Your plan to save this world backfired big time, Twilight." Rainbow Dash droned as she slowly stumbled towards Twilight and Sunset like a zombie. "Now you're going to feel the full force of his wrath."

"His wrath?" Sunset Shimmer turned towards Twilight as she watched the other girls advance in on the two of them. "Twilight? What's wrong with the girls."

"Under the authority of the Puppet Brothers, and that of their king..." Fluttershy smiled and slowly raised her head to face her targets.

"YOU TWO ARE COMING WITH US!" The Rainbooms all chorused out with evil smiles on their faces and their eyes glowing bright purple as they charged in on Twilight and Sunset.

Sunset took up a defensive stance and Twilight readied the Yo-kai Watch, but the split second after they did that, they were all held down by the girls and slammed together. Rainbow Dash darted off with her super-speed power and ran around Sunset and Twilight, wrapping them both up in a strong rope that had been quadruple knotted and coiled them up neck to toe. They were completely incapable of escape.

"Girls?! What's gotten into you?!" Sunset asked as she looked deep into the girls eyes, seeing their malicious grins get wider and wider.

The Rainbooms all cackled evilly and hoisted Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer up onto their shoulders. They saw Whisper and Jibanyan try to cut the girls free, but Human Twilight used her telekinesis to throw them against the ground and crush them with the bed, turning them both into hovering blue flames, indicating that they had been defeated in battle.

"Your Yo-kai friends can't save you now!" Fluttershy grinned as she watched Twilight and Sunset struggle and shake in vain as they tried to get the ropes off. "You're going to meet face to face with the king, and he is personally going to make you want to kill yourself with all he's going to put you through."

"And as for you, Sunset Shimmer." Human Twilight looked her friend deep in the eyes and slid her finger across her chin. "You'll be joining the Puppet Brothers' entourage, just like we all have. What's your poison? Sock puppets, string puppets, or hypnosis?"

"Get your hands off of me!" Sunset gritted her teeth as she tried to break free of the ropes, but she was merely making the ropes tighter and tighter the more she struggled. "Girls! Wake up! This isn't you!"

"Oh, but it is us..." Rarity chuckled deviously as purple inspiriting flames appeared around her and the other Rainbooms. "We've been reborn by the darkness. And soon, you will be too!"

"No..." Twilight teared as she watched the girls carry her out of the bedroom, down the stairs, and out of the house. "No! Girls! Girls, wake up!"

"This isn't like you! Stop this! You're better than this!" Sunset thrashed about in the ropes as the girls continued to move, unfazed by her pleas and cries. "TWILIGHT! RARITY! PINKIE! FLUTTERSHY! APPLEJACK! RAINBOW DASH!"

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Sunset and Twilight screamed together into the night sky as the girls continued to move.

The Rainbooms and their captives eventually arrived at the place where they had originally battled the Dazzlings in the Battle of the Bands, only now, the stage had been covered up by a massive circus tent that reached high into the sky. There were posters draped all around the outer walls, showing pictures of Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, and the Puppet Brothers all together smiling and waving to their audience.

Around the big top's interior and exterior, there were all of the other students from Canterlot High; all with the exact same evil smiles and purple eyes that the Rainbooms had on them at that moment. They were busy playing with sock puppets, string puppets, and were using little pocket watches to try out their hypnosis skills on each other. As soon as they all saw the Rainbooms walking with Sunset and Twilight, they all ran inside of the tent and took their seats on the rows around them.

The Rainbooms carried Twilight and Sunset inside of the tent, where they all saw a massive set with giant red curtains lined with gold silk, with similarly coloured tassels at each side. The frame around the red drapes was dark purple, like the inspiriting flames that had consumed the students. There were also portraits of Sock, Mind, and String Puppet together on the curtains.

"You sit here." Rainbow Dash threw Twilight and Sunset onto the front row and sat down beside her, along with the rest of the Rainbooms. "You're very lucky, you know. The Puppet Brothers don't often regard one single person as special."

"However, he saw the seven of us as super-special, and very beneficial to the king's plans to overthrow all worlds and make the denizens of each world suffer." Rarity showed Twilight and Sunset their geodes once again. "And as soon as that weak little horsey is out of the way, he's going to show us how to use our new gems for evil instead of good!"

"Girls..." Twilight began to cry as she watched the Rainbooms focus their attention on the stage. "Why would you do this?!"

"Because good has won on this world for far too long!" Pinkie Pie pulled out a knife and brought it up to Twilight's neck. "It's time for the forces of darkness and evil to win for once, and the king will be just the one to start this glorious new age!"

"Forget it, Twilight. They're being brainwashed by the Puppet Brothers. There's no point in trying to reason with them." Sunset looked back at Twilight as they saw the house lights around the stage dim. "The only way we'll be getting them free is if we defeat the brothers and save our world."

"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, humans of all ages!" String Puppet declared as the curtains began to open on the stage. "Tonight, let us bedazzle and wow you, as we blow your mind with incredible acts that your world has never even seen before. A one-night-only performance that's guaranteed to wrap you up, put you under, and make you all dance in glee.

"And now. Without further ado, it's time to welcome tonight's stars of the show. The Yo-kai with the know, the brothers who will surely and truely go all the way to glory!" Spotlights crashed down on the Puppet Brothers, revealing them all to the crowd. "Sock! Mind! And me, String!"

"The Puppet Brothers!" They all declared, bowing as the mind-controlled crowd cheered for them and stomped their feet while clapping their hands.

Twilight and Sunset watched as their fellow students all cheered and applauded the brothers, their emotions unchanging as they watched the lights come back on, allowing the brothers to perform their first act.

"Now, we're going to need a couple of volunteers for this first little act of ours." String stepped forward and examined the crowd, humming to himself as he dragged his finger across the potential crowd to find his helping hands. He looked down at Twilight and Sunset, who were trying to make one more desperate attempt to get away. "I think we have a winner! Let's get some lights down on these wonderful ladies!"

The spotlights illuminated Sunset and Twilight, and they were once more carried up against their will by the Rainbooms. They were thrown onto the stage and untied, only to be held down at their ankles and wrists by the very girls that had tied them up in the first place.

"Twinkle Star! How lovely to see you again!" String Puppet slowly walked up to Twilight and gently played with her chin, wiping it with the nail of his right middle finger. "Though, I wish it were on more favourable terms."

"You know, Twilight Sparkle, it's very rude to keep secrets from people, especially from us." Sock Puppet whispered into Twilight's ears and used one of his sock puppets to bite Twilight on the nose, with actual teeth stretching out as he did so. "We Yo-kai don't take very kindly to tricking the tricksters."

"What do you want with us, Puppet Brothers?" Sunset Shimmer tried headbutting Mind Puppet away, but she was held back by Applejack and had her head bent backwards to the point where it would almost snap off of her neck. She let out a tiny yelp as she heard something inside of her crack.

"Oh, nothing. Just an audience." Mind Puppet clicked his fingers, causing the Rainbooms to throw Sunset to the ground, where she was immediately picked up by him and the other Puppet Brothers. "Now then. Let's play a little game. It's called 'What Puppet'! You simply have to choose which puppet fanatic you want to be."

"Be it string, sock, or mind puppet, there are no wrong answers to this quiz, Sunset Shimmer." Sock stepped forward with String, surrounding Sunset and ensuring that she couldn't escape. He made his sock puppet say, "Well, unless you say freedom or neither, because those are both wrong answers."

"Funny thing about Twilight Sparkle, you know. She lets the rest of the Spirits of Harmony fight her battles for her because she can't independently win against the darkness." String Puppet smirked as he looked down at Sunset and rubbed her chin. "Pretty pathetic for the Princess of Friendship, wouldn't you agree?"

"Brothers! Stop!" Twilight leaned towards them and Sunset. "You've got me now. You can release Sunset. This is between you and me! Leave my friends out of this!"

"But that's exactly the thing, Twilight Sparkle. The king wants you to SUFFER, not to hopelessly fight back." String Puppet gave her a wicked glance. "And what better way than to make you suffer, by having your own friends turn against you?"

"Well, Sunset? Time's almost up!" Mind Puppet sing-songed as he looked into Sunset's eyes. "Sock, string, or mind puppet? We need an answer from you now."

"None of them!" Sunset shouted, hearing the crowd gasp at her words.

"Fine then. We'll do this the hard way." String Puppet gave an evil grin and grabbed onto the shoulders of his fellow brothers. His eyes glowed a bright shade of black, making the crowd cheer as his gaze met Sunset's.

"SUNSET! NO!" Twilight cried as she watched Sunset jolt and jiggle around as the Puppet Brothers cast purple inspiriting flames on her too, making her fall to the ground and black out. When she saw what they had done to her friend, she struggled and strained against her friends one last time, gritting her teeth harder and harder as she watched the brothers walk up.

"I'll repeat the question." String Puppet's voice was much calmer once his eyes returned to normal and he walked back up to the now-inspirited Sunset. "Sock, string, or mind?"

"String puppets forever..." Sunset groaned in a low voice, reaching out for a marionette that String pulled out from thin air. She grabbed onto the frame and shook it around, making her new toy dance around on the strings. She was completely mesmerized by the puppet that she didn't even notice the brothers walk away.

Twilight began to glow a rainbow-colour as she fought against the grip of her friends. She groaned and shook her body erratically as she tried to break loose of her confinement. She eventually glowed brighter and brighter to the point where everyone in the tent had to shield their eyes.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Twilight screamed as loudly as she could, erupting with rainbow light, knocking the Rainbooms against the walls of the stage and audience bleachers. She was enveloped by all of the colours of the rainbow as she reached over to her Yo-kai Watch and pressed the bubble dome down.

"What the—" was all that String could say as Twilight transformed the Yo-kai Watch into its EX form.

"Battle perimiters met! Summoning Yo-kai!" Twilight raised her watch high into the air as the five extra Yo-kai Medal slots portruded from the watch and the clock faced turned into the tiny computer screen. The six medals that she wanted materialized in her hand by rainbow-coloured beams of light, and she spared no time in slamming them into her Yo-kai Watch. "Yo-kai fighters! Roll call!" She shouted as even more rays of light burst out of the watch, spawning the Yo-kai that she would battle alongside with.

"Blazion!"

"Noway!"

"Roughraff!

"Rhyth!"

"Pandle!"

"Buchinyan!"

"You may have taken Canterlot High, but I swear on my life, and the lives of these strong Yo-kai heroes before me, you will NOT take me or Equestria!" Twilight took up a battle posture and grew pony ears, a tail, hair extensions, and wings. She grabbed the stylus for her Yo-kai Watch EX and twirled it around in her fingers before tightly clutching it inbetween her thumb and index finger.

"A Yo-kai Watch?!" Mind Puppet's eyes went wide as he looked at the device on Twilight's wrist, and the Yo-kai that she had summoned. "But that's impossible!"

"Nyot impossible!" Buchinyan decreed as he jabbed one of his paws at the Puppet Brothers. "Indeed. Twilight is the chosen one, and I'm quite glad to be serving as her faithful butler for this battle!"

"Fine! We'll just have to resort to Plan B!" String Puppet clicked his fingers, causing all of the students that they had brainwashed to run onto the stage along side them.

A purple mist descended on the students, transforming them as soon as they were enshrouded by it. The ones that Mind Puppet had ensnared now held purple crystals on tiny strings. The humans that Sock Puppet controlled were now wearing sock puppets on both of their hands. As for the ones controlled by String Puppet, they had been turned into life-sized puppets, with wooden jaws, and strings poking out of every part of their body.

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were wearing sock puppets, while Pinkie Pie and Human Twilight were holding the crystals. Applejack, Rarity, and Sunset Shimmer had been turned into real puppets as well, and had blank expressions on their faces as they eyed up Twilight and her team of Yo-kai.

"I was hoping not to use our true forms on such a weak little world like this, but you have forced our hands." String Puppet looked at his brothers. "Mind! Sock! Battle forms! Now!"

String, Sock, and Mind Puppet all took in dark purple energy, causing their eyes to turn shades of blood red as they were blanketed in black cocoons of energy. They flew up into the air and grew bigger and bigger in size, to the point where they were all roughly ten times as tall as the average Canterlot High student.

The cocoons burst, and the Puppet Brothers revealed their true forms. They all had archaic markings on their bodies and had shed their clothes, revealing massive eight-packs underneath as they flexed their claws. Their feet had become massive and all of their finger and toenails had transformed into purple talons which glistened in the stage lights. They all grew silver tails which wagged as they eyed up Twilight Sparkle, and their eyes had transformed into red with black pupils. They were also all wearing scarves made out of blue hair, which all draped down over their bodies.

String Puppet had strings hanging out of every part of his body, with different weapons attached to each different string. Such things ranging from shurikens, naginatas, and katanas, to guns, lances, and many more. He had a massive pair of steel wings that looked very identical to a pair of giant scissors ready to cut whatever got close to them.

Sock Puppet's sock puppets had become manifest, and had grown their own eyes, mouths, and teeth as they looked down on Twilight Sparkle and her Yo-kai. They were both looking at each other and laughing sadistically as Sock cast a wicked grin down on her. There were more and more sock puppets that had taken this form and were flying around Sock, ready to assist him if he needed it.

Mind Puppet had grown a massive pair of symmetrical wings which glowed all different colours. The lights spun and danced in hypnotic patterns and didn't stop no matter what. He was now holding a massive shield with a hypnosis spiral design planted on it. He twirled the shield around a bit and drew a giant crystal sword from the centre of it, brandishing it in front of Twilight, and slamming it down before her and her Yo-kai friends.

"Now, Twilight Sparkle." String Puppet spoke, but his voice was distorted and double-toned as he swung his arms, commanding the students that he had transformed to take up battle postured. "It is time for the grand finale. The greatest puppet show that this world, and all worlds will ever see!"

Twilight gulped and looked up at the brothers' true forms. "At this point, I think I PREFER the Dazzlings over this!"

Author's Notes:

Fun Fact: This was originally going to be one Boss Yo-kai known as Puppetyrant. He was going to be based in Canterlot and be involved in a number of kidnapping acts where all of the Canterlot Ponies involved would be turned into giant marionettes. He was going to go after Princess Celestia and Luna, but Twilight would've battled and stopped him in the throne room. It was only when people suggested that I input the Equestria Girls universe that Puppetyrant became the Puppet Brothers.

Also, similarly to how Kin and Gin fight in Yo-kai Watch 2, the Puppet Brothers need to be defeated ALL AT ONCE, otherwise they will just get back up and heal themselves, meaning that the fight will never end.

Let me know what you thought of these authors notes as well as the chapter in the comments section below, and I hope you all look forward to the next part.

The Three Puppeteers (END)

Author's Notes:

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Other than that, enjoy the chapter!

"CHARGE!" Twilight thrust her finger forward, sending Buchinyan, Pandle, and Roughraff forward towards the Puppet Brothers. She watched her Yo-kai charge in and jump towards the brothers, ready to hit them as hard as they could.

The Puppet Brothers simply waved their hands, sending forth their inspirited audience to intercept the attacks. They saw the CHS students collide with the Yo-kai and knock them away.

"Not only was that pathetic, Twilight Sparkle, but it was entirely predictable." String Puppet smirked as he threw his arms out to his sides. "Let me show you what a REAL attack is!" He streched his hands forward and clapped them together, sending the weapons dangling on each string towards Twilight's team, striking all of them at once.

"Try this!" Sock Puppet jabbed his left hand forward, sending a squadron of his flying puppets towards Twilight's team. They all dive-bombed and swooped around her, breathing fire on her and her Yo-kai team.

Buchinyan and Rhyth managed to evade the fire-breathing puppets and were moving towards Sock Puppet, with Noway taking all of the attacks for himself as he threw his body in front of Twilight. The fires simply dissipated once they hit his rock-hard body, and he thrust both of his hands out to the flying socks.

Twilight leapt out of the fire-breathing socks and rolled towards the edge of the theatre, using her stylus to activate the aiming reticle once more. She carefully aimed it at Mind Puppet and fired a pin that stuck to his head and glowed brightly, directing her team towards it. "Strike him, everyone!" She declared.

Mind Puppet grunted and swung his sword horizontally once Buchinyan and Rhyth leapt towards it. It missed them by a fraction, but shot out a wave of purple energy that slammed into the two Yo-kai and knocked them to the floor. He swung it back and forth three more times, sending strikes at Buchinyan, Rhyth, and Noway in quick succession.

"Buchinyan! It's time for your Soultimate!" Twilight shouted as she tapped on the red icon on her computer screen. She saw little symbols that she began to trace, causing Buchinyan to take in purple energy in the real world. "Just give me some time, and let it fly, my friend!"

"Sure thing, Twilight!" Buchinyan nodded in Jibanyan's voice and stood on the tips of his paws. He watched String Puppet's inspirited allies charge in towads him, creaking their wooden necks as they raised their arms to strike him. The cat leapt up onto the backs of each of the puppets, nimbly hopping from one to another as he tried to get closer to the Puppet Brothers.

"Stop that cat!" String Puppet shouted, pointing towards Buchinyan as he continued to leap over his forces.

"Fully charged! Go for it, Buchinyan!" Twilight smiled.

"Ready for this, Jibanyan? You bet, Whisper!" Buchinyan leapt high into the air, performing a few frontal flips as he got within striking distance of the Puppet Brothers. "FLURRY OF FURRY!" He declared in both Whisper and Jibanyan's voices together as he jabbed at the brothers in the same way that Jibanyan used his Paws of Fury. Only now, the blows were much faster and were striking all of the brothers together.

The brothers all jolted around as Buchinyan hammered them with his Flurry of Furry and struggled to stand in an upright posture as they took the brunt of the attack. They were all knocked back against the wall and groaned before they all snarled and got right back up onto their feet.

"I applaud you, Twilight. It's not everyone that's been able to deal us an actual attack." String Puppet inwardly shrugged and flicked his hair back. "In fact, it's been no-one. This should be a good fight!"

"Let's see what your friends can really do against us!" Mind Puppet flew forward and flashed his wings towards the Yo-kai firing hypnotic streams of light directly into their eyes. "Look Deep..."

"Yes, master..." The Yo-kai droned as purple inspiriting flames appeared around them. They slowly hobbled towards Mind Puppet and became translucent the second they reached him.

"Blazion, Roughraff, Pandle, you're up!" Twilight turned the wheel on the computer screen, sending out her backrow. She watched Roughraff, Blazion, and Pandle walk forward and crack their knuckles as they eyed up the Puppet Brothers. "You focus your fire on Mind Puppet while I purify my friends!"

"Don't need to ask us twice. I love me a good rumble!" Roughraff slammed his fist into his hand and rushed towards the giant Yo-kai, without even noticing that his mind-controlled subjects were running towards him.

Pandle held his toothpick like a javelin and ran towards the crowds, poking them with it as hard as he could before he ducked underneath them and ran towards the Puppet Brothers. His tiny stature allowed him to move through the crowds with ease, and they often had to get down onto their knees and knock the others down as they tried to catch him.

"Can't you all just do one simple task?!" String Puppet shouted at his own crowd without even noticing that Pandle was right beneath him. He felt the toothpick jab into him and he looked down at Pandle, who was repeatedly poking and prodding him with the toothpick's edge. "GRRRAAGGH!" He kicked Pandle back into the humans, knocking them back down again.

Twilight was busy purifying her friends. She drew circles with her stylus to free Rhyth, popped little digital bubbles to save Buchinyan, and tapped a magical golden ball that immediately cured Noway. All of this was going on while her other Yo-kai were busy fighting through the crowds to get to the brothers.

"I always liked my Yo-kai crispy!" Sock Puppet breathed fire from both hit mouth and from the mouths of his puppets down onto Blazion. The flames did absolutely nothing as Blazion simply shrugged them off and continued to strike at him.

"BLAZING FIST!" Blazion leapt high into the air and performed a left hook on Sock Puppet. The attack was enveloped in a shroud of fire and knocked the giant Yo-kai into his brothers, knocking them over into a heap on the ground.

"Get off of me!" String Puppet threw his brothers off and flew up. "It's time that we stopped messing around and got to work. I will not fail his majesty!"

"Good work, team." Twilight turned the wheel, bringing back Buchinyan, Rhyth, and Noway. "You take a breather. It's time for the other side to shine."

"Let's do this!" Buchinyan nodded as he began to claw at Sock Puppet some more. He ripped through his socks and struck the sock puppeteer as hard as he could.

"Noway, you handle defense." Twilight tapped the Soultimate button on her Yo-kai Watch EX and caused Noway to begin taking in energy for his move. She found herself tapping little orange orbs that drifted across the screen one after the other until Noway was fully charged. "Let's go!"

"NO WAY THROUGH!" Noway sat down on the ground and thrust his arms out in front of the brothers. He took all of the attacks that the brothers and their crowd had to throw, not even budging after the massive assault.

"Rhyth, our team looks like it's taken quite a pounding." Twilight looked at Rhyth on the eyes while Buchinyan continued to attack the brothers. "Do you think you can help them out?"

"Of course!" Rhyth nodded and reached out to Buchinyan and Noway, covering them with a small green light that faded almost as quickly as it appeared. "A little bit of healing never hurt anyone, right?"

"Maybe a little bit more." Twilight tapped Soultimate and smiled down at Rhyth. "You sure you don't mind a Soultimate?"

"It's no problem, Twilight. You and your friends need it after what they did." Rhyth returned the smile and took in energy herself. It was a short charge up, and she burst the power back out shortly after. "SEAWEED SAMBA!" She performed a rhythmic samba and covered the stage in a radiant green glow that floated down onto her, Buchinyan, and Noway.

"GRRR! GRRRAGGH! I'VE HAD ENOUGH!" String Puppet screamed and fired strings down onto Rhyth, Buchinyan, and Noway, hooking onto all of them and casting purple inspiriting flames on all of them. He yanked them towards him and flipped onto his back, bearing his scissor-wings to them. "String Cut!" He cut all three Yo-kai in half with a single strike and turned them into blue fires, immediately bringing out Roughraff, Pandle, and Blazion.

"Roughraff, it's time we end this." Twilight hit the button once more, allowing Roughraff to take in energy for his Soultimate. "Use Stare Down and bring the brothers to their knees."

"You got it!" Roughraff leapt up and cast a glare at the brothers, not only damaging them, but casting inspiriting flames on them as well.

"Now it's my turn!" Pandle dashed forward towards the inspirited brothers and bore his toothpick at the three of them, jabbing them as fast as he could. "POINTY TOOTHPICK!" The blows came incredibly fast, and the brothers were brough down to their knees as they took every single jab.

"ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE! IT IS TIME FOR THE GRAND FINALE!" Mind Puppet began to take in energy, just like the other Yo-kai had done before.

"I couldn't have said it better myself! Let's show Twilight Sparkle what real power is!" Sock Puppet also gathered energy for his strongest attack.

"In the end, EVERYONE is a puppet, dancing on the strings of a stronger force." String Puppet joined his brothers in the energy feast. "We dance on the strings of the king, while you dance on the strings of the Magic of Friendship. Allow us to cut them, and let you be freed of your burdens!"

"ULTIMATE PUPPET SHOW!" The Puppet Brothers raised their hands up high, spawning hundreds of sock puppets and marionettes, as well as a giant swinging clock. They dashed forward, bringing their arms down, causing the puppets to bombard Twilight and her team of Yo-kai, while the watch fired down a purple tornado. Their crowd also helped, charging in with the swarm of string and sock puppets, striking the Yo-kai with lethal precision and accuracy.

Twilight and her team were able to dodge one half of the attack, but every other attack connected, leaving both her and her Yo-kai at the brink of death. The blows came one after the other, and there was no escape for them once they managed to hit. The watch also inspirited her team, leaving purple inspiriting flames dancing around them.

"This can't be the end." Twilight slowly wobbled onto her feet and faced the Puppet Brothers once more. She looked down at the watch and heard a bizarre noise hit her ears. "What the..." She looked up and saw a blue ball of fire dancing around the brothers. "Why do I get the feeling that I can pop that?"

Twilight brought the aiming reticle back, aimed it at the blue wisp and shot it with the pin. She watched the ball pop and cast down white lights on her Yo-kai team, immediately purifying them of the inspirits that the Puppet Brothers had left on them. They're purified? Interesting... So those blue balls can clean them? I'd better remember that for next time.

"One more push, everyone! Twilight shouted, running towards the Puppet Brothers with her Yo-kai close behind her. "We can do this! We just have to keep fighting!"

"Your arrogance is futile!" String Puppet raised his claws. "I shall see that you are personally—" before he could even finish his sentence, Twilight, Roughraff, Pandle, and Blazion struck him together before they cast their gazes at Sock Puppet.

"For the hope of the future, for our fallen Yo-kai comrades, and for the students of Canterlot High and ponies of Equestria, it's time that we finish this once and for all!" Twilight held her arms out and coated her Yo-kai in rainbow-light, immediately causing the Soultimate button on her Yo-kai Watch EX to glow brightly. "It's time that you pay for your actions, Puppet Brothers!"

"POINTY TOOTHPICK!" Pandle began jabbing the brothers once more with his toothpick.

"STARE DOWN!" Roughraff cast a glare on them all again.

"BLAZING FIST!" Blazion somersaulted towards Mind Puppet and punched him directly into Sock and String.

The Puppet Brothers were hit with the fist first, crashing down on top of each other together. They looked out and saw Roughraff using Stare Down on them all, causing the purple fires around them to get even hotter. Then, with a series of rapid jabs from Pandle, they all reached their arms up high and collapsed on the floor, sprawling their arms and legs down in defeat.

"Uggh..." String Puppet looked up at Twilight as he started to expel purple mist. "Looks like... we were the ones getting our strings cut today."

"Impossible. The Puppet Brothers... cannot be defeated!" Mind Puppet reached out for Twilight but instead grabbed the ground as his arm got heavy. "I will not sit idly by... and let the king's wishes go unfulfilled. I... will follow him until... the bitter end!"

"It's over, brothers." Twilight stepped towards them and looked them in the eyes with her eyebrows lowered and her arms crossed. "You invaded the human world, caused chaos on a massive scale, and stole away all of my friends. You have no right to exist given the atrocities you commited."

"Twilight. You... may have defeated us, but there are still... powerful Boss Yo-kai out there that will eat your flesh and drink your blood." Sock Puppet gave her a sadistic smile. "And let me assure you... they will end you and your miserable friends' lives once and for all. All... in the name... of our almighty leader."

"OCTO SNAKE!"

"INFERNO!"

A massive ball of flame enveloped the Puppet Brothers while a swarm of cyan dragons began biting down hard on their backs, causing the purple mist to spread out even further as cracks formed on their body. The three of them screamed as the attacks came down hard on them as they vanished.

"GLORY TO KING VOID! MAY HIS EVERLASTING DARKNESS EMBRACE AND INSPIRE US ALL!" The Puppet Brothers screamed as they vanished in a massive explosion of flames and purple smoke.

As soon as the Puppet Brothers disappeared, the Canterlot High students were covered in the purple smoke and turned back to normal, looking around and raising their eyebrows at where they were and what they had been doing. Some of them even laid on the stage, having blacked out due to everything that had happened.

"Who helped us?" Twilight looked through the crowd and aimed her Yo-kai Watch EX at the two Yo-kai standing behind the crowd. Despite being only a D rank watch, she could still perfectly see Venoct and Kyubi standing there looking at her.

"Twilight Sparkle." Venoct slowly hovered towards Twilight. "You had our curiosity before, but now you have our attention."

"We had been following rumours of this king for months on end after he attacked our home, but we thought that any non-Yo-kai would have been devoured by his wrath—even if they had powers beyond compare." Kyubi stepped forward and coiled her claws around Twilight's shoulders. "Thanks to you, we have some slight understanding on our enemy. The name. King Void."

"King Void?" Twilight raised a brow as she looked at Venoct and Kyubi.

"His actions are leaving the Yo-kai World in tatters, and our queen expressed great worry that that very same destruction and despair would lead to both the human world and Equestria." Venoct nodded. "As such, she sent us out to scout out the humans and ponies of each world, and find a chosen one that would defend all of the worlds form his malice."

"We watched many of the strongest and wisest ponies and humans the second the gateways were open to both of these worlds, and despite what we found, none of them were the chosen one," Kyubi said. "But then there's you, Twilight. You have the Yo-kai Watch, and you have just fended off three Boss Yo-kai at once. That in itself is an admirable feat for sure."

"However, despite this, you are not really the chosen one yet." Venoct shook his head.

"What? Why not?" Twilight asked.

"Our queen's chosen one is one that is pure of heart, cannot be swayed by darkness and its power, one who has faced some of the hardest challenges in their lives, and can truly reach out to the Yo-kai species," said Kyubi. "You may have defeated Felycan and the Puppet Brothers, but as it stands, the darkness within your heart is still quite strong, and you will need to be complete in order to face him."

"Well how do I become pure?" Twilight stepped forward. "And what's this about destruction in the Yo-kai World. And why is there a queen that's good and king that's evil. I need to know!"

"Patience, Twilight." Venoct covered Twilight's mouth with his own. "All in good time. Right now, you only just know about King Void. Only when you see his power for what it truly is, and when you see what forces he command, will you have to learn to adapt and prepare for the fight against him."

"We must return now, for our queen needs us." Kyubi turned away from Twilight, revealing her nine golden tails to her. "But we will be watching you closely, Twilight Sparkle. You have courage. Just like a certain boy we used to know."

"Wait! Who are you?" Twilight reached out for Venoct and Kyubi as they started to walk away from her. "Just let me know your names!"

"Our names are unimportant. You will remember us for how we look." Venoct bowed and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"We will meet again, Twilight Sparkle." Kyubi gave her a bow as well before vanishing as well.

"Twilight!" The Rainbooms all called out and ran over to her, giving her a group hug while she was still deep in thought.

"King Void. Who is he? And what does he have against Equestria, this world, and the Yo-kai World?" Twilight asked as she looked up to the roof of the tent as her friends hugged her even tighter. "Something tells me that things are only going to get worse from here on out..."

In a dark-purple throne room, a shadowy figure sat on a throne, looking down at two other subjects before them. They wielded a sword as they stood up and circled around the two other Yo-kai kneeling down before him.

"King Void. How can we help you?" The first one spoke in a female elderly voice as she looked up at him.

"Yes, my king. How might we be of assistance?" The second one, who also sounded like a female elder looked up at the king.

"You two were associated with one of the most evil Yo-kai ever created." King Void spoke in a deep and distorted voice, stretching his claws out to the two old ladies. "With not only the ability to command time itself, but to re-alter it for your own evil intentions."

"Yes?" They both chorused together.

"My Dark Yo-kai could really use the power to travel through time and cause chaos, distorting the timeline and bringing chaos to that pitiful little pony that dares to hamper my feast." King Void made a claw out of his free hand. "You associated yourself with the Wicked Yo-kai before, but they are nothing more than flimsy puppets compared to my loyal Dark Yo-kai."

"Dark Yo-kai?" The first old lady asked.

"Devoid of their past selves and with only the tendency to hurt, kill, and destroy, Dark Yo-kai will ensure that chaos will befall Equestria, the human world, and Yo-kai World." King Void clicked his fingers, creating a copy of Roughraff that was entirely purple and black, with glowing red eyes. "These Yo-kai will destroy everything that I command them to, and will ultimately bring me success. Do you wish to wield such power, or do you want to join your old leader in death?"

"Wield, definitely!" They both said together.

"Then rise to your feet." King Void walked forward towards the two Yo-kai, gently lowering his sword and tapping their shoulders with it. "Kin and Gin. From this point on, you will be subservient to me and me alone. You shall follow my orders without question, and erase any hinderances to my plans. Commanding the Dark Yo-kai, you shall go beyond your original power, and see a future ruled by me and me alone."

"Yes, my king." Kin and Gin both bowed before King Void.

"Good. Then I have your first assignment ready." King Void opened a black portal beside him. "Go. And remember: Darkness is your friend. Light is your enemy."

"Yes, my king." Kin and Gin floated upwards and flew through the portal together, cackling maniacally as it closed up behind them.

The Next Step

"So, what now?" Was all that Applejack could say as Twilight walked towards the portal. "After what happened with them there Puppet Brothers, don't you think that you should stay a while and help us clean up?"

"Yes. If what Whisper says is true and that the crack is causing Yo-kai to infest our world, shouldn't you at least help us out try to fix the chaos?" Rarity raised a brow and gently slid her hand over the top of Twilight's Yo-kai Watch. "You are the only one who can communicate with and stop them from causing mischief.

"As much as I would love to stay in this world, girls, Yo-kai are running rampant in Equestria as well." Twilight looked back and forth between the portal and Canterlot High. "I can only be in one place. The Yo-kai Watch is a powerful tool and all, but it's not like you can just give them away willy-nilly."

"But then again, they have seen Yo-kai before and they do acknowledge their existence..." Whisper scratched his chin and eyed up the Rainbooms. "Plus, there's a copy of you right here wearing glasses. And if I'm not mistaken, aren't parallel universe counterparts supposed to be exactly the same as the real ones?"

"Whisper, even if those girls have those crystals around their necks, it's still not going to stop those Yo-kai if they decide to invade like that again." Twilight tipped her hand towards him. "Plus, we only now just know that there's an evil Yo-kai known as King Void trying to cause destruction on a widespread scale. I need to make stronger Yo-kai friends if I'm ever going to be able to defeat him."

"True, true. And a D-rank watch is only one small step on stopping King Void." Whisper looked down at Twilight's watch and gently tapped on the bubble dome. "But still, I just wish that there was a Timers and More shop somewhere here in this town. We are in the human world, after all..."

"Timers and More? I might be able to help ya with that."

The girls all turned to see a middle-aged man with silver hair walking up to them. He was wearing traditional clothing and had a little magnifying glass on his left eye. His hair luxuriously draped down his shoulders and back and bounced with each step that he took. He looked down at Twilight's Yo-kai Watch and whistled.

"Well now, it's been a while since I've seen this thing in our world." He picked up Twilight's arm and brought himself closer to the watch. "Mighty fine piece of craftsmanship if I do say so myself. But then again, I know all about the Yo-kai Watch by now. Down to the medals it goes with, the little chants that play when you use them there medals, and even right down to hearing the ticking of each little hand on it."

"Mr. Goodsight!" Whisper gushed and flew over to the man.

"You were expecting anyone else, soft serve?" Goodsight chuckled and crossed his arms. "It's good to see ya again."

"Who is this guy?" Rainbow Dash pointed her thumb towards Goodsight as she whispered to the others.

"Name's Mr. Goodsight." He walked up to Rainbow Dash and nodded. "Proud owner of Timers and More, Yo-kai expert, and much, much more." Goodsight smiled and gently pulled Twilight's arm, showing them the Yo-kai Watch once again. "I've been working on Yo-kai Watches ever since they came to this world. Upgradin', synchronizin', calibratin', and many more." He chuckled. "All except accessorising, though. I ain't really cut out fer that line of work."

"So does that mean that you can see Yo-kai too?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yep. And I know full well how ta upgrade that rinky-dink watch of hers all the way up each and every rank without her havin' ta go get every medal known to the Yo-kai race." Goodsight smiled. "It'd be my pleasure, miss..."

"Twilight. Twilight Sparkle. Princess of Friendship." She bowed before him. "I came from Equestria to save the students of CHS from some evil Yo-kai known as the Puppet Brothers. It wasn't easy either. Only having E and D rank Yo-kai made the situation a lot harder than it needed to be."

"Well by the looks of things, I'd say you've done yourself a pretty good job of it." Goodsight whistled, looking around at the peace and harmony at Canterlot High. "Anyone who can hold their own against a Boss Yo-kai like them is quite strong in my eyes. But, how would yo like to make yerself stronger, missy?"

"Stronger?" Twilight parroted.

"Yep. I'll set up a Timers and More shop here in this town, and then you can pop round any time you like fer a watch upgrade." Goodsight nodded. "But, I will warn you, it won't be cheap getting this thing upgraded."

"And here we go..." Rarity deadpanned. "How much will it be, sir?"

"Nothing. Nada. Zip," he said.

"WHAT?!" Everyone except Whisper and Jibanyan lurched back at Goodsight's response and fell onto their butts.

"I'm not one for believing in money myself. You have too much eventually, you get greedy, and you eventually blow it on something vague and impractical." Goodsight watched a number of cars drive by on the road. "Twilight Sparkle's gonna get her watch upgraded for free, provided that she runs me a few errands first."

"Errands?" Sci-Twi walked up to Goodsight. "Like what? Getting groceries? Doing laundry?"

"Nope. Twilight's just gonna have to prove herself that she can hold her own against some tougher Yo-kai if she wants to get her next rank." Goodsight looked back at the other Twilight and raised a brow. "Hey. Come to think of her title, I guess that'd explain why there were two of you." He looked at both Twilights carefully, examining each and every little detail. "One's a human girl without a watch, but the one from another world has a Yo-kai Watch. Interesting. Wonder what it'll bring the worlds to...

"Oh, forgive me. I'm rambling on again, ain't I?" Goodsight tipped his hand and reached into his pocket. He pulled out a second Yo-kai Watch that looked identical to the one that Pony Twilight was wearing. "Since you're both the same person, it should make sense that you have a Yo-kai watch as well, Twilight."

"A second Yo-kai Watch?" Twilight Sparkle watched Goodsight personally slip the watch around Sci-Twi's arm and tighten it in place.

"Wait. How come she gets the watch?" Rainbow Dash raised a brow and looked at Sci-Twi's watch before walking up to Goodsight, holding her arm out. "If she's getting one, then I want one too!"

"Ah, the youth and their petty demands." Goodsight let a few more giggles slip as he gently pushed Rainbow Dash away. "Twilight's a special case, my dear. She's only getting a watch because of that there pony princess from another world." He tittered as he stepped forward. "I can't really give out Yo-kai Watches to strangers. In the wrong hands, the Yo-kai Watch can be caused for all kinds of chaos and calamity. That's why I can only offer it to the pure of heart."

"Goodsight does make a valid point." Whisper nodded and flew around the two Twilights. "That's the very reason that the Yo-kai Watch can only ever be found by a chosen few. If everyone had Yo-kai Watches, it would lead to not only Yo-kai causing mischief, but some very nasty humans and ponies to follow in their footsteps..."

"What are you talking about?! We're pure of heart!" Rainbow Dash banged her chest with her hands. "We're the Rainbooms! We've saved the world four times already!"

"And yet, the only other one that I see worthy of wearing the Yo-kai Watch is this nice little lady over here." Goodsight walked past Rainbow Dash and the other Rainbooms and arrived at Sunset Shimmer. "I'm not exactly sure what it is, but there's something deep down inside of you that makes you stand out. Something that not many other people have these days." He pulled out another Yo-kai Watch and put it on Sunset's arm.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Why am I getting a Yo-kai Watch?" Sunset backed up and gently pushed her hands out, causing the watch to fall to the ground. "That seems a little too sudden, don't you think?"

"Nonsense. With the way this world's been attacked by those Puppet Brothers, we need all of the pure hearts we can get." Goodsight picked the watch up and put it back on Sunset's arm, making sure to fasten it up tight so that it wouldn't slide off of her arm. "We don't want another Mckraken or Dame Dedtime situation like the ones back in Springdale..."

"And besides, don't you two want to make even more friends who'll stand by your side?" Twilight asked, letting Whisper and Jibanyan mount themselves on her shoulders. "Given the fact that Yo-kai can't be hurt by the Magic of Friendship, it might be worth it to take the watch and befriend some in case something comes to avenge the Puppet Brothers. You don't want to be beaten like that again, do you?"

"But still, you have Whisper and Jibanyan and a bunch of other friends already!" Sci-Twi pushed the button on the side, popping the Yo-kai Watch's lens up so she could get a better look at them. "We only just got the Yo-kai Watches, and we've got no idea on how to use them or what friends we could make!"

"Then just watch out fer inspirited students at yer high school." Goodsight looked over towards two more students. "Speak of the devil, I think I see some right now."

"Huh?" The others all looked and saw a male student arguing with a female student.

"C'mon, Trixie. You can't seriously believe that you got high marks after that disastrous score!" the male student said.

"Nuh-uh-uh! The Great and Powerful Trixie is never wrong! No sirree bob!" Trixie cried out as she showed the papers to him. "Those teachers just don't understand the answers that well."

"Trixie, you're looking at trouble if you keep this up!" The male student's eyes were fixated on Trixie and not the scores from her test.

"That's snot it! If anything, Trixie will be rewarded greatly for her testing prowess!" She shook her head.

"Hey? What's going on here?" Sci-Twi walked up to the male student. "Is there a problem?"

"Twilight. You're never going to believe this, but Trixie's test score was incredibly low for the last test she was on." The male student showed Sci-Twi the results of Trixie's text.

"Well, isn't that a surprise?" Rainbow Dash deadpanned.

"Trixie's never scored high marks on a test!" Pinkie Pie bounced. "Most of the time, she often scribbles about herself rather than the famous figures in history. She also claimed that numbers were irrelevant in math, science was nothing compared to magic, and even—"

"We get it, Pinkie Pie. Trixie's terrible at tests." Applejack covered Pinkie's mouth while she was still talking. "Anyway, go on."

"The weird part though, is that Trixie's denying the fact that she failed and is instead saying that she got really high marks this time around," the student said. "Every time anyone else tells her otherwise, she always says 'nuh-uh-uh', 'No sirree bob', or 'that's snot it'. She's gonna face detention if she keeps going like this."

"Well, I said there'd be inspirited students. And there it is straight from the horses' mouth." Goodsight eyed up Trixie, seeing the purple inspiriting flames around her. "Guess this is a good a time as ever to get either human Twilight or that bacon-haired girl a new Yo-kai friend."

"I have a name, you know. It's Sunset Shimmer." She turned to face Goodsight. "And what do you mean by that?"

"What I mean is that there's a Yo-kai inspriting poor Trixie here, and it's your job to get it out of her." Goodsight came up to Sunset's watch and gently tapped on the button on the side, popping up the lens. "Just look through this little thingamajig and you'll see for yourself."

"Alright..." Sunset pushed her eye against the lens to get a good look. Sure enough, a little burst of smoke appeared behind Trixie.

Flying behind Trixie was not one, but three Yo-kai. They all looked exactly identical in every way, apart from one in particular who had a long strand of snot poking out of his nose. They all wore glasses and had bowl-cut hairstyles, smiling at their handiwork.

"Those are the Nosirs." Whisper pointed out the three Yo-kai beside Trixie. "If you're inspirited by one, you won't admit to anything at all and deny what everyone else says. They might seem like three separate entities, but in truth, the Nosirs are just one Yo-kai. It's the whole triple act thing that throws many people off."

"The name certainly fits." Twilight looked at the Nosirs. "Now, how do we get them to stop inspiriting Trixie?"

"Might be a bit tough. They are incredibly stubborn. Even more so than Applejack at times." Whisper scratched his chin and eyed up the Yo-kai. "But the options are still the same. Negotiation or confrontation as usual."

"If it's a Tough tribe Yo-kai, then confrontation's the best way to go." Twilight pulled out her Yo-kai Medallium and looked through her medals. She mulled over the Yo-kai to be summoned to face the Nosirs.

"Well, technically, they're Eerie tribe Yo-kai. But given the way that they act, they should be Tough tribe Yo-kai instead." Whisper nodded as Twilight retrieved the medal that she wanted.

"Don't you think you're just jumping to conclusions, Twilight?" Sunset Shimmer asked as Twilight plucked the medal.

"They're probably going to say no to everything, including our attempts at trying to persuade them." Twilight clutched the medal tightly in her hand. "There's only one thing that we can do at times like this.

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Roughraff!" Twilight threw the medal up into the air, causing it to bounce off of the roof of the school and land back in the palm of her hand again. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" She put the medal into the watch, but didn't realise that it was put in upside down.

Instead of hearing a summoning chant, she heard a chime that indicated that something was wrong.

"Nuh-uh-uh! That's snot it!" The watch spoke in a nasally voice.

"What?!" Twilight glanced down at the watch. "B-but, the medal's IN the Yo-kai Watch! Why isn't it letting me summon Roughraff?!"

"That's snot it!" One of the Nosirs came up to Twilight.

"You've got the medal inserted the wrong way!" The second one pointed it out.

"No summons today! No sirree bob!" The third one added.

"Huh?" Twilight took another look at the medal in her Yo-kai Watch. Instead of seeing Roughraff's portrait, she saw the logo for the Tough tribe instead. She slowly pulled the medal out of the Yo-kai Watch and examined it carefully. "But I put it in, didn't I?"

"I probably should've explained this before you chose your medal, but they need to be put into the Yo-kai Watch in a specific way for them to be summoned." Whisper took the medal from Twilight and showed her both sides. "Do you see Roughraff's face on the top side?"

"Yeah." Twilight nodded as Whisper flew back down to the slot.

"When you put a Yo-kai Medal into the watch, you always put it so that you can see the medal right-side up in the watch, with the tribe logo facing the bottom half. Put it in upside down or the wrong way around, and the Yo-kai won't be summoned." Whisper slid Roughraff into Twilight's watch the correct way. "Like this."

"SUMMONING: TOUGH!" The watch burst to life and shot out orange beams right in Whisper's face. He was blasted against the ceiling and crashed into it violently as Roughraff was materialized.

Gruff stuff!
Rough bluff!
Red ban, jacket stand, bling, blang
Tough!

"Roughraff!" He slammed his fist into his other hand and eyed up the Nosirs.

"The Nosirs were helping us?" Twilight raised a brow at the three Yo-kai that had been inspiriting Trixie.

"Thank you, you three." Sci-Twi walked up to the Nosirs and gently held out her hand for a handshake. This caused the three triplets to back away slowly. "I thought that you were going to be mean and nasty, but it turns out that you were actually quite helpful."

"What?" The first Nosir recoiled. "We've never received praise like that before! No sirree bob..."

"Whoever you are, I just want to ask... can we be friends, maybe?" The second Nosir held out his hand and slowly came back to Twilight.

"Aww, how cute. You're all shy of being complimented." Sci-Twi chuckled and shook hands with the Nosirs. "That's fine. There's no reason to feel ashamed of being thanked. You can be with me for as long as you want."

"Th-thank you. Thank you very much." The third Nosir cracked a small smile and wiped the snot dangling from his nose as a Yo-kai Medal appeared between them and Sci-Twi. "Just put that little thing in the medal and we'll be there in a flash. Simple as that."

"Uh-huh. And we're not just handy-dandy in combat." The second Nosir nodded. "We can be helpful if you need someone to say no to something, or to help others call out the wrong answers to help their friends."

"Either way. we're here for you. And we'll always be here for you." The first one bowed along with his two brothers before the three of them vanished together.

"How curious. Never seen a Nosir admit to something in their entire life." Goodsight walked up and examined Sci-Twi's Yo-kai Medal. "You've got a real knack fer this sorta thing, human Twilight."

"We're really gonna have to sort out a way to tell the two apart..." Pinkie Pie looked at both Twilights together from every angle. "We'll need to think of a special nickname for the other one. Like Twilight Twinkle, or Twily-Wily. Oh! Oh! I think I've got it! How about Sci-Twi?"

"Sci-Twi?" Everyone else asked together.

"Actually... that sounds pretty nice." Sci-Twi nodded and patted Pinkie on the back. "Science-fiction Twilight Sparkle. It fits me pretty well, don't you think?"

"I quite like it. Though, I would have preferred calling them Twilight One and Twilight Two myself." Whisper folded his arms and gave both Twilights a smile. "But whatever floats your boat."

"Either way. Pony Twilight, human Twilight, Sci-Twi. Whatever you decide yer name to be, you, your pony counterpart, and Sunset Shimmer are always welcome in Timers and More." Goodsight shook hands with both Twilights and walked out of the school. "If'n ya need me, I'll be in the city. Just look out for the sign. Ya can't miss it."

"Thank you, Mr. Goodsight!" Sci-Twi waved him off as he walked out of the door and off towards the road. "I'll be sure to see you again!"

Goodsight turned back and gave Sci-Twi a return wave before he walked off of the campus and off to the left, where the city was nestled.

Sci-Twi looked down at the medal for the Nosirs and examined both sides carefully. She could see the Eerie tribe's eye poking out of the back side while all three of the Nosirs adorned the front side. She wondered about where she would put her medals as she got a better look at all of the different parts of her medal.

"Oh! I almost forgot. Since they're foraying into the world of Yo-kai like you have, it wouldn't be fair if they went unprepared." Whisper reached into his chest once more and pulled out two brand new Yo-kai Medalliums. He then dropped them and brushed his head, beginning to sweat. "Phew. I've never tried bringing out two medalliums at once. I didn't think that ghosts could get winded, but there you go. Shows what I know...

"Anyway. Just take your new medal and place into the book, Sci-Twi." Whisper floated down and retrieved one of the medalliums, laying it in Sci-Twi's hands and opening it up, revealing all of the blank spots where medals could be put in. "It's a must-have for any Yo-kai befriending extraordinaire! Why, I don't know a single Yo-kai loving person who doesn't have a book like this!"

"Whisper. You've probably only ever been stuck with one guy. I'm sure that you've never seen something like that before." Twilight Sparkle deadpanned.

"W-well, I... I-I-I, I've never really seen many Yo-kai hunters before." He began to blush again and waved his hands in front of his face. "Just you, Nate, Katie, Inaho, and now your two new friends. I would just imagine that it was tradition to have these Yo-kai Medalliums."

"You're saying you don't know?" Sunset Shimmer cocked her head to the side as she grabbed her new book.

"I-I-I..." Whisper was at a loss for words and was beginning to choke on his response. "What are you all looking at me for?! I don't know whether or not it's the law to hold a Yo-kai Medallium! I just simply assumed! That's all!"

Everyone else couldn't help but share a laugh at Whisper's little outburst while he simply hung his head and sighed, placing his hand on his left temple.

A throne room with bright and colourful markings was filled with four different figures. Two of which were Venoct and Kyubi. They were standing before a silhouette of what looked like a human and a centaur. The two Yo-kai were kneeling before the figures.

"So, the Puppet Brothers have fallen?" the centaur asked. The voice was revealed to be a female's.

"Yes, my queen." Venoct bowed and nodded. "Twilight Sparkle of Equestria weakened them long enough for us to deal the finishing blow."

"It still won't be enough." The other figure took a few steps forward. The voice was male. "Defeating one of King Void's lieutenants won't be enough to stop this monster. We should strike him at the heart and end him before he gets the chance to make another attack!"

"Patience, Nurarihyon." The centaur laid one of her hands on Nurarihyon's shoulders, revealing that it shone all the different colours of the rainbow. "Twilight Sparkle has already faced multiple different threats before, as her world's history dictates. We have learned about her tales fighting Nightmare Moon, Discord, Lord Tirek, and Starlight Glimmer. She truly is worth our time. And, if used correctly, she can help us end this war and slay King Void once and for all."

"Are you sure that Twilight is ready for this?" Kyubi slowly stood upright and approached her queen.

"There will be a chosen one that shall slay the darkness and blanket all our worlds with light and hope." The centaur slowly stepped forward into the light. "She will face the darkness head on and overcome all of her senses of fear, worry, and hesitation to defeat the demon king and save all of the worlds from destruction.

"If Twilight Sparkle is the one that the prophecy foretold, then we must make sure that she is ready for the future." The queen nodded. "That is why, we must watch her and make sure that she has the strength to overcome more of the king's dark forces." She looked down at the two Yo-kai. "Venoct. Kyubi. I'm tasking you two with a new mission. I want you to scout out Princess Twilight and watch her twenty-four seven. Every little thing she does, right down from brushing her teeth to sleeping at night, I want you to watch over her and make sure that she doesn't see you."

"Yes, your highness!" Venoct nodded and disappeared immediately in a puff of smoke.

"Before I leave, I just want to ask something." Kyubi took another step forward. "What if she's not ready? What if she falls to King Void's stronger minions?"

"She won't fall. Her friends will make sure of that," the centaur said. "Pony, human, and Yo-kai alike, all of her friends will stand with her and help her overcome the darkness that plagues our world." She sighed. "Now go. You and Venoct have a job to do."

"Understood." Kyubi sighed and vanished as well.

"With all due respect, your highness, we are running out of time here." Nurarihyon turned to face the queen. "The Yo-kai World is already in ruin after his last attack, and those Dark Yo-kai he keeps stationing here aren't helping us rebuild it!"

"Don't be hasty, Nurarihyon." The centaur nodded. "Fate is not something that can be left to timing. It comes whenever it feels like it. Lord Enma knew this all too well, and it took him some time before he was worthy enough to rule the Yo-kai World."

"I know that. It still pains me to know that he's gone." Nurarihyon sighed and looked down at his black robe. "He was my king, and I was loyal to him for eons. Way before you even came into this world."

"True. Lord Enma was an inspiration for us all." The queen looked over at a stained glass window, showing a male with red skin and blonde hair wearing a red robe. "His words are what united the Yo-kai and human worlds, enabling the Yo-kai Watch's creation. Without him, we would all have been doomed when such threats like Mckraken and Dedtime came and plagued the human world..."

"Doomed you say?" Kin whispered while watching from afar, hiding in the shadows with Gin beside her.

"I think we've found the best way to stop Twilight Sparkle before she even begins!" Gin nodded as she pulled out a grey stone with a red spiral design on top.

Kin and Gin shared a chuckle between each other before they both faded away into the darkness, vanishing from the throne room entirely.

A Real Tattletell/So Mochismo

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"Twilight, can I ask you a question?" Whisper said as Twilight was sitting down at a nearby table in the streets of Ponyville for some lunch.

"Sure. Go ahead, Whisper." Twilight nodded.

"Do you ever wonder about the future?" Whisper looked up to the sky and saw all of the clouds floating by before Rainbow Dash and a team of pegasi kicked them out of existence. "What with all of the things that have been going on recently, when it all comes to a stop, is there really anything else for you after that? Like a boyfriend or something?"

"Hmm..." Twilight scratched her chin with her hooves.

Little did the two of them know that there was a small creature with miniscule legs and long arms crawling up to them both. With a wrinkled face and hair that vaguely resembled an onion, it was slowly but surely making its way up to Twilight. "Tell tell." It said before leaping up o Twilight and grabbing a hold of her chin, casting a purple inspiriting flame on her.

"Now that you mention it, Whisper, I want to marry most of the stallions in Ponyville, but I'm just too shy and busy to admit it," Twilight said normally before immediately slapping her mouth with her hooves. "What?! Where did that come from?"

"Ooh! I think we've found a sweet spot." Whisper coyly floated up to Twilight and nudged her on the shoulder. "So tell me, who exactly do you have your eyes on?"

"Tell tell." The creature clasped onto Twilight's neck again, stoking the fires some more.

"As much as I didn't mean to say that earlier, I really, REALLY love Caramel, Doctor Whooves, Big Macintosh, and Flash Sentry to name a few." When she realised what she had said, her jaw hung wide open. "Whisper. You've gotta help me! I think I've got a problem!"

"Either that, or you want quite a large harem." Whisper gently poked her shoulders with his elbow once again and let out a small laugh. "But I suppose if you didn't mean to say that, then someone else made you say it."

"What?" Twilight asked.

"If you didn't mean to say the things that you said, then that can only mean that there's a Yo-kai involved in this." Whisper nodded and crossed his arms. "There are plenty of Yo-kai out in the world these days, and all of them have many different shapes, sizes, and powers. It's no surprise that there would be one to make you tell all of your secrets."

"Tell." The Yo-kai jumped off of Twilight's neck and landed on the table.

"In fact, I believe that our culprit is right over there." Whisper pointed at where the Yo-kai had landed.

Wasting no time, Twilight used the Yo-kai Watch to expose the Yo-kai that had been forcing her to tell secrets. The segments all lit up and with a blast of smoke, the Yo-kai was revealed.

"Tell! Tell!" The Yo-kai looked around at the other ponies, attaching itself onto one of their necks.

"I'm secretly into playing with foal toys!" The pony that the Yo-kai grabbed onto called out.

"That is Tattletell." Whisper pointed out the Yo-kai on the pony's neck as it jumped off and grabbed onto another pony.

"When no-one's looking I secretly write poetry!" The second pony blurted out when Tattletell inspirited them.

"As the name implies, Tattletell is a Yo-kai that forces everyone to tell all of their deepest, darkest, and ultimately friendship-killing secrets." Whisper showed Twilight an image on his tablet. "No matter what the secret is, no matter how dark, no matter how juicy, once Tattletell's on you, you can kiss that secret goodbye. A Tattletell at a birthday party is a real killjoy, but a Tattletell roaming free in the streets of Ponyville is even worse."

"Good thing Yo-kai didn't exist when Pinkie had to hold that secret in a while back." Twilight stood up and pulled out her Yo-kai Medallium. "We need to stop this Tattletell. Who knows how many ponies could have their lives ruined if it inspirits them?"

"Good idea. Secrets are meant to be secrets." Whisper nodded and flew up to Tattletell, who jumped off of the table and ran off using its arms to propel itself.

"Tell!" Tattletell cried out and darted off down the road with Twilight and Whisper close behind it.

"Hey! Get back here!" Twilight ran after Tattletell with Whisper floating behind her.

Tattletell ran past many different ponies, leaping over the carts and other ponies past the ponies. Instead of panting with every breath, she kept saying the word "tell" as she ran. Despite her tiny stature, she was keeping her distance from Twilight and Whisper, even though the both of them could fly.

"Tell tell!" Tattletell turned a corner and ran into a couple of ponies.

"So tell me, what's your favourite type of music?" The first pony asked as Tattletell leapt up and grabbed the other one.

"I'm into polka myself. But because I'm too embarrassed to say it, I stick mostly to classical." The other pony nodded as Tattletell jumped off and ran away once more.

"Stop that Yo-kai!" Twilight flew past the couple while the first pony remained thunderstruck with what had just happened.

"Polka?" The pony raised a brow at her friend.

"Oh, why did I say that?!" The other pony groaned and buried his head in his hooves.

"You know, I really like how our relationship's been so far, Skyline." A female pony was holding a male pegasus's hooves. "So, what do you say we take it to the next level?"

"Tell, tell!" Tattletell jumped onto Skyline's back and grabbed onto his neck, casting another inspiriting flame on him.

"As much as I love you, Lilac, I think we should just be friends. I'm not ready for a foal just yet." Skyline shook his head, throwing Tattletell off of him and onto a small filly's neck.

"I secretly have dreams that I'm a colt instead of a filly!" The new pony called out.

"Tell, tell!" Tattletell smiled and jumped onto Applejack's neck. "Tell!"

"When Granny Smith's out, I secretly enjoy roleplaying with Applebloom!" Applejack cried out as loud as she could.

Twilight and Whisper arrived on the scene, seeing a bunch of ponies who were sobbing and wailing as other ponies looked at them with cocked eyebrows.

"That Tattletell's much faster than I expected." Whisper examined all of the ponies that had been inspirited by Tattletell. "All the more reason why we should stop her from causing all of this. It's no fun when secrets are spoiled."

"Exactly." Twilight saw Tattletell moving through the crowd and followed after her. "Rarity once said, and I quote; the pony who ruins a surprise has to live with that guilt forever. Now that Tattletell's doing her dirty work here, that moral has much more meaning than before."

"If a secret is ruined, then not only does it take the fun or horror out of it, but it also becomes lame and lackluster." Whisper nodded.

"I'm pretty sure that those are both the same thing." Twilight rolled her eyes and continued to pursue the Tattletell. "But you're right. We need to stop her!"

Eventually, the chase went onto the park. Tattletell looked around for anyone to inspirit and spill their secrets, but as she looked around, she found absolutely no-one to lay her hands on. Her vision became blurry as she frantically looked around for a victim of her powers, but she could find absolutely no-one except for Twilight and Whisper behind her.

"Tell... tell..." Tattletell eventually fell to her knees and collapsed, feeling out of breath.

Twilight and Whisper skidded to a halt and looked at how Tattletell had worn herself down from all of the running. Both of them wanted to pounce on top of Tattletell and put an end to her mischief, but as they looked on at her winded state, they were beginning to have second thoughts.

"Well, what should we do, Twilight? Negotiation or confrontation?" Whisper looked down at Tattletell once more.

"Well, she ran around causing everyone to spill their secrets, but we don't exactly know why." Twilight paced around the sleeping Tattletell and closed her medallium. "I think we should at least try to communicate with her first. See if we can get a reason why she was doing it. And if not, we go for confrontation."

"Tell..." Tattletell snored and made bubbles in her sleep.

"Let's... wait until she wakes up." Twilight Sparkle sat down on the grass and watched Tattletell sleep peacefully.

Twilight and Whisper watched and waited as Tattletell slept. The Yo-kai didn't move one inch as they sat down around her. All they could do was watch her sleeping and snoring, uttering the word "tell" with every breath that she took. Despite the chase that she had been through, Tattletell was smiling in her sleep, dreaming of making everyone tell their deepest and darkest secrets.

The wait got so long that it was eventually sundown for Twilight and Whisper, who had eaten a picnic and were now roasting marshmallows on an open fire close to Tattletell. They spoke to each other before they finally noticed Tattletell stirring in her sleep from not just the nearby fire, but also from a tiny gust of wind blowing her hair in her face.

"Tell?" Tattletell woke up and got to her feet, looking at Twilight and Whisper looking down at her.

"Hello, Tattletell." Twilight knelt down to her and gave her a small smile. "My name's Twilight Sparkle, and this is Whisper."

"Tell. Tell, tell, tell." Tattletell pointed to herself, as if she was introducing herself to Twilight.

"Is tell the only word you can say?" Twilight asked.

"Tell." Tattletell nodded.

"Well, I guess it's the perfect time to try out the new translator I've added to my Yo-kai Watch." Twilight tapped the button that flipped her Yo-kai Lens up but held it down and pointed the watch at Tattletell. "Just speak into here, Tattletell. Tell me something. Anything."

"Tell?" Tattletell leaned towards the watch and spoke into it.

"Hello?" Tattletell's voice was translated into that of an elderly woman's voice from the other side of the watch.

"It works!" Twilight trotted on the spot rapidly over her accomplishment. She took a deep breath. "Alright. Calm yourself, Twilight. New Yo-kai that we just met and translated. Try not to look embarrassing..." she said to herself as she cleared her throat. "Anyway, I'm the Princess of Friendship, and I just want to ask you something."

"Ask me anything, dearie," the translated voice said.

"Why were you inspiriting all of those ponies?" Twilight asked.

"Tell tell tell, tell tell tell, tell." Tattletell landed on Twilight's hoof and spoke into the watch.

"Well, people have all of these spirits kept inside of them, and I thought that they wouldn't be able to hold them in any longer," the translation said. "I just wanted to let them let it out. I'm sorry if I hurt them."

"A secret is a great thing to have, Tattletell, but there are some things that just aren't meant to be brought up to the surface." Twilight looked Tattletell in the eyes. "Ponies are very secretive here in Equestria, and I don't think that they appreciate having their secrets blown like that—especially in earshot of dozens of other ponies.

"I'm sorry." Tattletell hung her head and looked down at the grass.

"It's alright, Tattletell. You were just doing what you do, and I'm not entirely against that." Twilight's smile returned and got slightly wider. "Heck, if anything, you could be a really, really great helper if ponies want to let something out but can't find the courage to do it."

"Really?" Tattletell's eyes widened.

"Sure." Twilight nodded and smiled even more. "You know what? I'm actually going to tell you a secret right now because I believe that you're not actually a bad Yo-kai." She leaned closer to Tattletell's ears and whispered, "I think Whisper underestimates me. He thinks I'm never going to befriend all the Yo-kai, but I'll show him..."

"Hey! I'm right here, you know!" Whisper flailed his arms erratically as Twilight's neck straightened up again.

"And you didn't even need me to inspirit you for that..." Tattletell brought her finger to her mouth and hung her jaw open. "Wow. I'm flattered, dearie. I should be with you more often."

And with that sentence, Tattletell's Yo-kai Medal appeared in the air before Twilight. The Yo-kai snatched the medal and handed it to her. "Here you go, sweetie. A reward befitting a sweet little angel like yourself. Give me a call if you want me to make someone tell their secrets." She jumped off of Twilight's hoof and disappeared before she hit the ground.

"I've never heard a Tattletell say something other than tell before..." Whisper looked at Tattletell's medal as Twilight took out the Yo-kai Medallium and put it in with the others. "I suppose I should be surprised, but then again, I've never seen a Yo-kai Watch with a translator for Tattletell and Noko either." He shrugged and chuckled. "You never do cease to surprise me, do you, Twilight?"

"I never surprise you, Whisper." Twilight gave him a light glare. "You always say that I've only scratched the surface and that I'm not going to do this. Show me some respect, won't you?"

"I do respect you, Twilight." Whisper nodded and looked at the medals that she had gathered. "I do think that you're capable, I do believe you can befriend all the Yo-kai, and I do know that you can stop King Void."

"Well you're not really one to show it, are you?" Twilight scoffed and closed up her book.

"Well, I... uh..." Whisper began to sweat. "Let's just say that there was a Yo-kai, you beat it, and you got a new Yo-kai Medal. All in all, just another brick in the wall."

"You're avoiding my question, aren't you?" Twilight cocked a brow at Whisper.

"Gah! Well, I-I-I-I'd love to stay and talk to you more about this, but I really should be getting back to the castle." Whisper hurriedly flew away. "Books to sort, ledges to clean, the usual. All with that little pet lizard of yours."

"He's a dragon!" Twilight shouted after Whisper before she looked back at the Yo-kai Medallium. "Ugh. Honestly, I don't get you sometimes, Whisper..."

"Thank you for helping me clean the animals today, Twilight." Fluttershy gave Twilight a smile as she hosed down a couple of filth-encrusted pigs and goats. Once she saw the animals coated in water, she wiped them with a long pink towel.

"No problem, Fluttershy." Twilight smiled as she herded the next animal over to the stool so that she could clean the grime off. "It's great to help out a good friend in time of need."

"I also have to thank Whisper and Jibanyan for helping us out too." Fluttershy walked over to see Jibanyan scrubbing down a large bear and Whisper carrying a bucket of water that had gotten dirty. "I have to admit, these Yo-kai are much nicer than I thought they'd be when I first saw them. And much cuter too." She let a tiny chuckle slip.

"H-hey. Stop it." Jibanyan lightly blushed and waved his paw at Fluttershy.

"Here I thought that all Yo-kai were going to be just another type of monster, but you two definitely proved me wrong." Fluttershy looked over at Whisper, who tossed the muddy water onto a large patch of grass.

"If there were any evil Yo-kai, then they're very hard to find, Fluttershy." Whisper nodded and looked over to Twilight. "Secondly, if there were, then Twilight would be able to sort them out, no sweat. She's already bested Felycan and the Puppet Brothers, so I have my hopes that she'll be able to defeat King Void as well."

"I'm still wondering about whether or not the Magic of Friendship can work on those Yo-kai..." Twilight scratched her chin as she she went back to caring for the animals. "I mean, these Boss Yo-kai haven't really been the hardest things I've had to face before, and they seemed quite and vulnerable to my Yo-kai friends. Maybe there's a way to combine both their power and that of the Elements of Harmony. I'll have to find out for myself next time there's a Boss Yo-kai causing havoc."

"Well, let me tell you something to boost your confidence, Twilight." Whisper floated over to her and coiled his tail around her neck. "Boss Yo-kai are nothing more than big blowhards these days. They try to act all big and tough, but none of them can really back it up without any proper hinting." He put his hands to his side. "Why, I've never seen a capable Boss Yo-kai other than Mckraken, Dame Dedtime, Kin, or Gin, so I'd say that you're in good hands."

"You've gotta be tough. You've gotta be strong. And most of all, you've gotta look those Yo-kai right in the eye and tell them to buzz off!" Fluttershy stomped forward and popped her eye wide open.

"Wow, Fluttershy. That's incredibly brave of you to say." Twilight stepped backward and scratched the back of her head. "But... I never expected it to come from you. You're usually a more kind and caring pacifist, not a tough-as-nails brave pony."

"Hmm." Whisper eyed up Fluttershy. "My Yo-kai butler's intuition is telling me that there's a Yo-kai at work here."

"Again?" Twilight asked.

"What? You freed me from the Crank-a-kai, and henceforth, that allowed every other Yo-kai to come here as well." Whisper shot back. "I thought that you'd have accepted that by now."

"I have. I just didn't think that there'd be one that would make Fluttershy seem so tough." Twilight flipped up the lens and pointed around Fluttershy. "Makes you wonder just what other kinds of Yo-kai exist, doesn't it?"

She pointed the watch so that it examined the space next to Fluttershy, revealing the Yo-kai in seconds It looked like a giant slab of pastry with a wide slab of seaweed at the bottom, with two square legs hanging out from beneath it. It had a pair of small and wimpy arms to each side of it and a face that had no discernible eyes, nose, or mouth.

"Hey!" A tense face burst out of the centre, engorging the arms and making them incredibly buff. The Yo-kai looked down on Twilight and Whisper. "Who's got the guts to butt into my inspirit?"

"What the heck?!" Twilight stumbled backwards as the new face appeared on the Yo-kai.

"That is Mochismo." Whisper pointed out and handed Twilight his Yo-kai Pad. "Normally a soft and squishy slab of pastry on the outside, the real Yo-kai is buried underneath. A buff and determined macho man who will make all of his inspirited victims feel just as strong."

"I ain't soft and squishy, flying marshmallow." Mochismo cracked his knuckles and stomped up to Twilight and Whisper. "Now, who the heck are you, and what business do you have with me?"

"I AM NOT A FLYING MARSHMALLOW!" Whisper yelled at the top of his voice, getting up in Mochismo's face. He was met with a powerful left hook, sending him flying into a chicken coop and covering him with feathers.

"Don't worry about him." Twilight pointed over to Whisper before bowing to Mochismo. "My name is Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship and holder of the Yo-kai Watch. I just wanted to ask if you could stop inspiriting Fluttershy. Please?"

"Hmmph. You don't look like a princess to me." Mochismo bent his body, hearing another cracking noise. "Tell ya what, though. I'll make you a deal. You defeat me, I let her go. Sound good?"

"Isn't there another way?" Twilight asked.

"Nope. We Mochismo don't let go of humans or ponies without a fight. So put 'em up right now, missy." Mochismo bent his stumpy legs and brought his arms before his face, ready for combat.

"Can't say I didn't try." Twilight dug into her Yo-kai Medallium and pulled out her medal. Let's use this one, seeing as I haven't had the chance to use him much.

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Dulluma!" Twilight tossed the medal skyward and flew up with it, catching it with her magic. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" And with that, she shoved it into the watch, making sure that it was the right way up this time.

"SUMMONING: TOUGH!" The watch called out, firing off orange beams of light.

Gruff stuff!
Rough buff!
Red ban, jacket stand, bling blang
TOUGH!

"Dulluma." He sighed, eyeing up his opponent. "Let's just get this over with."

"Oh, it's on now!" Mochismo cracked a smile and charged in at Dulluma, ready to give him a powerful strike. He let out a yell that got louder and louder as he approached the smaller Yo-kai.

Then, seconds before Mochismo could make his attack, one of the chickens that had yet to be cleaned ran in front of him and caused him to trip up. He wobbled on the tip of his left foot before he tumbled down directly on top of Dulluma. Neither Yo-kai had time to dodge as Mochismo completely flattened Dulluma.

"Dulluma!" Twilight called out, trying to lift Mochismo up with her magic. He didn't move an inch, even as she poured all of her strength into picking both Yo-kai up. "Nngh... Why is Mochismo so heavy?"

Then, a blinding flash of light emanated from Dulluma and Mochismo that only got brighter and brighter. Twilight backed away once more as the light pierced the sky and broke Fluttershy from the inspiriting flames.

"Eek!" She yelled and ducked behind the bear for cover, who threw out its claws to defend against a new threat.

A bigger Yo-kai descended before Twilight, replacing both Mochismo and Dulluma. It was the shape of a gorilla with red pants and armbands. It had orange fur that covered its entire backside, shoulders, and even its head. It had a bushy black beard and two oversized eyebrows. The final details were the extra bits of blue fur on its chest.

"What the heck are you?!" Twilight asked, jabbing a finger at the new Yo-kai.

"I am Darumacho!" He slammed his fists together and made them crack as he looked down at Twilight. "With Mochismo and Dulluma's powers combined, I am a far stronger Yo-kai than ever!" He punched the ground multiple times, making two deep holes with each strike. "Who shall I thank for allowing me to fuse?"

"Thank?" Twilight looked all around her before setting her sights on Darumacho once again. "Well, I guess if you have anyone to thank, it's me. I was the one who had Dulluma's medal."

"My greatest thanks to you, then." Darumacho walked up to Twilight and shook her hoof so much that he ended up lifting her off of the ground before letting go and setting her back down. "A Darumacho is not something you see every day, and not even the greatest of Mochismo have been able to find a Dulluma to fuse with to become this new form. You have my gratitude, and my Yo-kai Medal."

"Yo-kai Medal?" Twilight's jaw dropped wider than ever. "B-B-But, you were a stubborn Mochismo a few seconds ago!"

"Yes. And that is why I must thank you for freeing me from that old body and giving me a new one." Darumacho bowed down before Twilight, waving his arms down and up in a slow rhythmic fashion. "I can be a valuable asset to your team, given that my Yo-kai Rank is B."

"A B rank?" Whisper flew back up with a few teeth missing. "Why not? It would be great to have you on the team, Darumacho." He held out his hand.

"Not you, soft serve." Darumacho slapped Whisper back into the exact same chicken coop that Mochismo had knocked him into earlier. He then reached into the fur on his back and retrieved his Yo-kai Medal, presenting it before Twilight.

"Thanks, Darumacho." Twilight took the Yo-kai Medal and put into the Medallium with the other one that she had collected. "But don't you think I should have Mochismo as well, just in case I need to fuse?"

"Oh. Of course." Darumacho quickly transformed back into Mochismo and Dulluma.

"Here, Twilight. Take it." Mochismo waddled up to Twilight and handed her his Yo-kai Medal as well. "Never thought there'd be someone more macho than me out there, but you sure proved me wrong."

"Ugh. What just happened?" Dulluma rubbed his head and walked back up to Twilight's side. "Did we win or what?"

"If you ever need Mochismo to buff someone up, or Darumacho to give them some real gusto, just give me a call, and I'll be right over." Mochismo shook Twilight's hoof and vanished, causing Dulluma to disappear as well.

"First a flying marshmallow, then a soft serve ice cream..." Whisper grumbled to himself as he came back to Twilight with even less teeth. "Is there no love for Whisper? The most handsome and dashing Yo-kai of all?"

"Handsome? Dashing? You've cat to be kidding me." Jibanyan face-palmed as he jumped back over to Twilight.

"Break it up, you two." Twilight used both of her hooves to gently push Whisper and Jibanyan apart. "We got two Yo-kai Medals and fixed Fluttershy at the same time. That's definitely worth some merit, isn't it?"

"What just happened?" Fluttershy walked up to Twilight and looked down at the two new medals she had acquired. "There was a large pillar of light, but then it just stopped. Was there another Yo-kai?"

"Two, to be precise." Twilight showed Fluttershy her new medals. "Mochismo and Darumacho. Two Yo-kai capable of turning the meek and timid into super-brave macho ponies. Definitely not someone that would work well with you..."

"Now that you mention it, there was a giant orange gorilla looking down at you, Whisper, and Jibanyan." Fluttershy looked at Darumacho's medal. "Was that medal the same Yo-kai?"

"Yes... Yes it was." Twilight nodded. "But, how could you see it? Only people with the Yo-kai Watch can see Yo-kai."

"The same thing happened when Rarity met Dazzabel." Whisper went over to Fluttershy's side. "I don't think it's any coincidence. Something about you and your friends is allowing them to see Yo-kai, even when they don't have Yo-kai Watches of their own. How curious..."

"It's definitely something worth looking into." Twilight stood next to Fluttershy and wrapped her hoof around the pegasus's body. "How are my friends able to see Yo-kai?"

"Search me. I'm just a humble butler sealed away in a capsule prize for over a hundred and ninety years." Whisper shrugged. "But on the plus side, you do have two more Yo-kai Medals now, so that's a plus. More friends means a better chance of defeating King Void and saving the worlds."

"Nyeah. You should make lots more Yo-kai friends, Twilight!" Jibanyan leapt up high onto her back and stroked her mane. "I bet that by the time that mean old king comes around, you'll have more friends than the population of Equestria itself!"

"Yeah, I suppose you're right, Jibanyan." Twilight stroked him back, hearing him purr like an actual kitten.

"Now a pony stroking a cat, I'm used to. But a cat stroking a pony? Now that's something entirely different." Whisper whispered into Fluttershy's ears.

"Tell me about it." Fluttershy smiled before sharing a small giggle with him.

Yo-kai Training

"Pardon me, Twilight, but whatever is this?" Whisper looked at what Twilight had built. Various different punching bags, training equipment, and obstacles for a makeshift course covered the field. "It all looks like a mess."

"This, Whisper, is a Yo-kai training ground." Twilight approached Whisper. She wore a black and white striped shirt with a cap of the same colour, with a red whistle hanging around her neck. She had a clipboard held up in her magic with pictures of all of the Yo-kai she had befriended so far. "Ever since King Void decided to rear his ugly head in both Equestria and the human world, I decided that it's time that my Yo-kai got a bit of a workout."

"Doesn't this seem like too much?" Whisper looked at all of the equipment. "And on another unrelated topic, how in the world did you afford all of this? It's like you practically have your own fitness gym at this point!"

"Whisper. You can't skimp on training." Twilight raised a brow. "This course is designed to test the strength of my Yo-kai and make them stronger. Have them face tougher and tougher obstacles in preparation for when King Void decides to attack. "Didn't your last master ever try this with his own Yo-kai?"

"No. But at the same time, Nate was more into discovering and befriending Yo-kai, not training them rigorously to prepare for regicide." Whisper shrugged and watched Twilight retrieve the Yo-kai Medallium. "He also wasn't faced with something like a king before. Either an evil dame, a maniacal squid man, or a deluded godfather."

"Sounds like this Nate had some crazy adventures with the Yo-kai Watch." Twilight looked into the sky. "I really should meet him someday."

"I'm sure he's keeping well in the human world with his friends." Whisper nodded.

"Anyway, let's get onto training." Twilight put her each of her Yo-kai Medals into the watch one at a time, bringing out all of the Yo-kai friends that she had befriended on her travels. Everyone from each rank that she had met so far was now on the training ground, looking at her.

After she had everyone, she found Jibanyan's medal last in the book. "And last but not least, we have Jibanyan!" Twilight threw the medal skyward. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" She rammed the medal into the slot.

"SUMMONING: CHARMING!" The watch declared and fired off the pink beams of light.

Alarming!
Boom, boom! Walla walla, dance, dance
Charming!

"Jibanyan!" He somersaulted and landed before Twilight.

"Looks like everyone's here." Twilight smiled and ticked off the Yo-kai that she had befriended on a register. After she marked every box she turned the paper over to show the training regimen. "Now, let's get you all started."

"Started for what?" Roughraff raised a brow.

"We're running this course to make you Yo-kai stronger and stronger so that we can fight better enemies." Twilight showed them all the obstacles, training areas, and equipment that she had gathered. "This will test your speed, strength, endurance, and many other things. Best case scenario, you'll get so strong that it'll take mere seconds to beat Boss Yo-kai."

"Exercise?" Cutta-nah looked at all of the different parts of the track and let out a small yawn. "Not my type, bro."

"Yeah. I D'wanna do that." D'wanna stretched his arms high and bent his neck, hearing his bones crack. "I'd much rather sit here."

"And just what are you going to accomplish by sitting on your flank and doing nothing?!" Twilight immediately ran over to D'wanna and Cutta-nah and threw away her calm attitude. "Do you want Boss Yo-kai running all over you like you two are stairs?!"

"No! Of course not, dude!" Cutta-nah threw his arms out.

"Then get off of your lazy butts and run that course ten times without stopping. You don't get to rest until you do!" Twilight thrust her hoof and used her magic to place the two of them at the start of the course.

"Alright, alright, jeez!" D'wanna picked up his coat and started running with his stumpy feet. Cutta-nah stood up and started the course as well.

"And the rest of you! Run the course too. Ten laps, then you'll get to rest!" Twilight blew into her whistle as loud as she could, getting the other Yo-kai to stampede past her and begin the course. "I don't want to see any of you struggling because it's too hard! I wanna see you lift up your legs and run like your life depends on it!"

Whisper was about to fly off himself until Twilight raised a hoof to stop him.

"Not you, Whisper. I want you to help me out in keeping these Yo-kai in check." Twilight looked down at her papers. "I don't want any of them slouching until their training is done, got it?"

"Twilight, might I say that you're acting an awful lot like Sgt. Burly right now?" Whisper tapped on his shoulders. "I've never seen you go from zero to drill sergeant like that."

"King Void is approaching, and I don't want to be liable for any damage that my Yo-kai suffer because of his malice." Twilight looked at Whisper and banged her chest with her left hoof. "I do genuinely care about them, but in their current state, it's like a bunch of teenagers fighting against a five-hundred foot tall giant." She then looked back at the course. "Dimmy! Climb faster!"

"But still, don't you think that this is a bit too much for them?" Whisper dug into his body and gave Twilight a bunch of orange orbs with a red center. "You could always just use these Exporbs to make them stronger, you know. It's the alternative for Yo-kai that either aren't battling, don't like fighting, or are just plain lazy."

"Whisper, this isn't some cheesy arcade game where you can just level up your teammates by giving them consumable EXP items." Twilight put the Exporbs back in Whisper's body, unaware that he glowed once they had been put back. "This is the real world. And in this real world, we train vigorously to strengthen our muscles, move faster, do more impossible things, and save the world from destruction."

"I know, I know. It still doesn't help to try it out, though." Whisper looked at all of the Yo-kai and flew over to one who was falling behind the others. He pulled out a yellow megaphone and spoke into it. "Noway! Move! Do you want Twilight to be angry with you?!"

"No way!" He shot back.

"Then pick up your knees and go faster!" He pointed to the next part of the course. "This is the only way you'll become an Impass, you know!"

"Roughraff! Punch that training dummy!" Twilight barked.

"No need to tell me twice!" He shot back and dealt a combination of left and right hooks before giving the training dummy a powerful kick, shattering the wood into splinters.

"Fight! Push harder! Run the course again! Faster!" Twilight shouted various different orders, stomping hard on the ground as she watched her Yo-kai begin to sweat. She herself was getting red in the face and her mane and tail got moist. "Do you want King Void to defeat you in battle?!"

"NO!" The Yo-kai shouted as they continued their training.

"Then stop walking and get to running!"

Twilight had been cut off by a newcomer. He had orange skin, a single horn, and long curly eyebrows. He wore orange gloves without the finger holes and a green vest and loincloth combo. Both of his knees were bent and his muscles were incredibly huge.

"Uh, hello?" Twilight looked around for the person who said that, but didn't even realise that he was right behind her.

"You too, little missy. On that course!" The man kicked Twilight hard in the flank and she face-planted right at the start of the course that she had set up.

"Excuse me, but I'll have you know that I'm running this course, and you have no right to take over for—" she couldn't even see who had kicked her away when she pulled her head up from the dirt "—me..."

"Well, this is a surprise." Whisper looked over at the person. "I didn't expect to see you here. Especially not when she's still on her D rank."

"See who here?" Twilight looked around once again. "If it's another Yo-kai, my watch would've been able to pick it up by now."

"It is another Yo-kai, but it's far too high a rank for you to see right now." Whisper reached into his belly and retrieved a pair of glasses with a rainbow-coloured frame. "Here. Try these on." He slipped them down over Twilight's eyes, revealing the Yo-kai that had kicked her onto the course.

"What the heck is that thing?!" Twilight looked at the orange Yo-kai.

"That is Sgt. Burly." Whisper pointed him out. "In the Yo-kai World, he's the ultimate fitness instructor. He encourages others to get stronger and stronger through lots and lots of exercise, stretches, and other such things." He nodded, watching Sgt. Burly oversee the other Yo-kai. "He can sometimes appear in Terror Time, but unlike Gargaros, Ogralus, and Orcanos, he wants you to get stronger by standing up to your fears, instead of running away from them."

"A sergeant?!" Twilight gulped and tugged at her collar.

"Something the matter?" Whisper asked.

"No." Twilight took some deep breaths and flicked at the air with her hoof. "I just didn't think that there were sergeants in the Yo-kai World. I thought it was all crazy creatures who just like causing mischief."

"Well, then you thought wrong." Sgt. Burly approached Twilight. "Yo-kai aren't just known for causing chaos. Some of them are very strict on keeping everyone in order." He slammed his left fist into his right hand. "Just for that little remark, I want to see you do twenty-five laps of this course without using those wings of yours!"

"Seriously?!" Twilight lurched back.

"NOW!" Burly thrust his right arm out, and Twilight dashed off down the course.

For the next hour, Twilight Sparkle was training alongside the very Yo-kai that she wanted to make stronger herself. Sgt. Burly had hijacked her entire regime and made it his own and the more she tried to fight against it, the harder that her own workout got. She eventually gritted her teeth and brushed away the sweat as she did the course for the one-thousandth time that day, nearly collapsing when she made it to the end without her wings or horn.

"Keep moving, horsey!" Sgt. Burly called out as Twilight fell to her knees. "I don't want to see you rest until those flabby legs of yours are as ripped as my biceps!"

"This is too much!" Twilight whined as she slinked back to the start of the course.

"Aww. Does the widdle baby need me to change her diaper?" Burly taunted as Twilight brushed away the waters in her eyes and on her head. "MOVE IT!"

"I swear, I am so close to punching that Yo-kai right in the face..." Twilight gnashed her teeth and ran the course once more under Burly's private watch.

When Twilight continued the course, Burly went back to the rest of the Yo-kai and pulled out some exercise mats. He gave one to each of the Yo-kai with feet before he went back to his original position. Burly went on to perform a sequence of rhythmic exercises that were much easier than what Twilight had been doing.

"Hey!" Twilight groaned as she got to the end of the course once again. "How come they get the easier stuff and I don't?"

"Because you don't know jack about the Yo-kai traditions, horse." Burly crossed his arms. "That's why you're getting another hundred laps, and these Yo-kai are getting my personal workout. NOW LET'S KEEP GOING!"

"Alright, that's it!" Twilight teleported behind Sgt. Burly and shot a powerful blast of magic at his back, sending him flying straight into the course, causing it to collapse on him. "As the Princess of Friendship, I am issuing you with a warning, Sgt. Burly. Leave this world now, or I'll have to use force!"

"Alright then. Guess there's no other way to teach you..." Sgt. Burly climbed out of the wreckage and ran up to Twilight. "You want to get stronger, widdle baby? Then come at me! No Yo-kai allowed! Prove you're strong enough to defeat me!" He kicked Twilight, who put up a forcefield. His kick was so powerful that it broke through the shield and sent Twilight flying against a tree.

Twilight snarled and teleported behind Burly, firing off a powerful spell. She would've hit him if not for him bending down to avoid the spell. He gave Twilight a pony-like kick and shot her off towards the rubble of the now destroyed fitness course.

"Stubborn Yo-kai, isn't he?" Twilight brushed off some of the dirt that she had accrued and flapped her wings high into the air. She circled around Burly and fired spells down on him. This time, they hit him square on the chest, but he took each and every strike like it did nothing to him.

"C'mon! Is that really all you got?!" Burly demanded. "Flap those wings harder and harder like a soaring eagle, NOT A CHICKEN!"

"CHICKEN?!" Twilight fumed and deluged Burly with more and more spells. Her emotional state caused her spells to get even stronger and begin to push him back by a few paces. "YOU'RE THE JERK WHO STOLE MY TRAINING REGIMEN FROM ME!"

Whisper pulled out a tub of popcorn and covered it with salt and butter before allowing the other Yo-kai to gather around as they watched Burly and Twilight fight.

"Cast those spells harder! Like you're facing the final boss of an arcade game!" Burly picked up a piece of the earth and threw it at Twilight, who countered with another blast. He pulled out even more and watched her began to struggle trying to shoot them down. "I can do this all day, you know!"

"Is that all?! Give me a challenge!" Twilight warped underneath Burly and shot up at his butt, sending him high into the air. She flew out of the way and saw him land on his feet.

"Grraaggh!" Burly clapped his hands, causing bolts of lightning to strike Twilight's back as she took to the sky once again. In seconds, the alicorn was grounded just long enough for him to run over and deliver a strong punch to her face.

Twilight had trouble getting up after Burly's last attack. Her legs were as shaky as jelly and she felt like she was bruised all over. Even trying to concentrate to use a spell was a chore now due to the damage she had taken.

"You want some advice little baby horsey? Take that pain and turn it into fighting spirit!" Burly began to take in energy for his Soultimate. "Let the attacks from your enemies make you stronger! Let every bruise, cut, and scar educate you on your enemies battle tactics! Turn your injuries into energy and use it to fight back!" He threw his arms out and glowed an extremely bright shade of orange. "VICTORIAAAAN!"

"He's... right." Twilight was still shook up from the attacks, but she managed to get back onto her feet. She watched as Burly ripped a tree from the ground and swung it around like a baseball bat. "I can't just accept defeat. I need to keep fighting! How am I meant to stop King Void if I can't beat Sgt. Burly?"

Burly came in with the tree and was about to strike Twilight down when she teleported out of the way and kicked him in the eyes. This time, he reeled with her strike, and she hit the other one with her magic. Burly was blinded and could only recover as Twilight flew towards his face and kicked it as hard as she could, sending him flying back to the ruins of the course.

"Now's the time that I kick it up a notch!" Twilight rained down bolt after bolt on top of Burly, dealing him a great deal of damage. With every spell she cast, her breathing got heavier and heavier. She wanted Burly to be defeated, to prove that she could defeat King Void. "I won't stop fighting! Not now, not ever! And if you want to get in my way, then I'll just have to tear you down as well!"

Twilight gathered her energy and created a massive globe of alicorn magic. She threw her hooves down and screamed, "I WIN!" sending the ball crashing down on Sgt. Burly, enveloping him in light and leaving a massive crater where the fitness course used to be.

"Nnngh..." Burly climbed out of the rubble and flopped down onto his chest, stars in his eyes as he stuck his tongue out.

"Whoa." Whisper flew over to Sgt. Burly, checking his pulse after Twilight's barrage of attacks. "I say, Twilight. I've never seen anything like that before. You took on Sgt. Burly and actually won? He equates to the same level of power and strength as Gargaros!"

"Nyeah! He's really, really, REALLY strong and you managed to beat him?" Jibanyan ran over and helped Burly get back onto his feet with great difficulty. "That mean King Void doesn't stand a chance now!"

"Gotta hand it to you there, horse." Burly shook his head and got back onto his feet. "I've never met a human or pony with the guts to fight me, let alone win."

"I was just protecting my friends." Twilight lowered her brows and glared at him. "You stole my workout regime, treated me like I was in the army, and worst of all, you almost brought the fight to Ponyville, endangering lots and lots of citizens. I was so close to killing you, y'know."

"But you can't kill a Yo-kai." Whisper wagged his finger at Twilight. "They're already dead, you know."

"Well, I can't help it if the world is full of weaklings." Sgt. Burly crossed his arms and sat down. "If people don't work out, they get fat and lazy, unable to do their work and just end up hurting themselves. That's where I come in. To help get their lives back on track and to make the weak strong, so that they can face any adversity. I'm not like your Terror Time Oni, who only wants to be a bully for the sake of scaring the pants off of them."

"Well, I would punish you, but I am in dire need of some help." Twilight Sparkle nodded. "King Void has had two lieutenants of his attack both this world and the human world. Felycan and the Puppet Brothers. We need all of the help we can get if we're going to defeat him."

"Believe me, I know." Burly put his hand on Twilight's shoulders. "The queen, her right hand man, and even the two gatekeepers are having trouble fending off King Void's army. Forget about Dame Dedtime and her Wicked Yo-kai, King Void's Dark Yo-kai are putting them all to shame with their intent to hurt, kill, and destroy."

"Dark Yo-kai?" Everyone else parroted.

"I'll explain more later, but right now, I believe that Twilight needs this." Burly reached into his pants and pulled out a Yo-kai Medal. "A medal not just to show that we're allies, but also for standing up to and defeating me in battle."

"Uhh... Okay?" Twilight took the medal and slipped it into her Yo-kai Medallium.

"Now, shall we get back to our training?" Whisper asked. "There's still plenty of time to burn, and we need to get stronger before facing King Void."

"Whisper? I can't move again!" Twilight tried moving her hooves, but they wouldn't budge.

"Oh boy..." Burly looked at Twilight's watch.

The Yo-kai Watch counted down from three to one, projecting the big red numbers as a massive drumbeat played. Once it hit zero, the picture changed to show Garagos's face on the watch. It was Terror Time once again.

Author's Notes:

I pre-ordered Yo-kai Watch 2 from Amazon UK just yesterday. The scheduled release date is between the 29th of October and the 9th of November. I'll inform you all in a blog post when it comes and maybe even do a let's play of it. And truth be told, I can't wait for this. Dame Dedtime and the Wicked Yo-kai will fall before my hands, just as Mckraken and his albino Yo-kai did in the first game.

Also, I just want to ask you all this. Have I written Sgt. Burly properly? I've not seen the anime, and I've only gathered snippets of info from Yo-kai Watch 2 and Busters. And even then, that's not enough to get a full characterisation of him. If I haven't, then be sure to let me know.

Terror Time Again

The sky turned red as Gargaros once more entered the darkened and lifeless Ponyville. Craning his neck skyward, he let out a thunderous roar and began patrolling the area with little Leadoni and Suspicioni by his side.

All of the Yo-kai that Twilight had befriended instantly disappeared, as did her wings and horn. Whisper and Jibanyan were still by her side, as was Sgt. Burly. She was able to move her body once more and tested out all of her legs. Once she was comfortable with her limited movement, she walked down the street, making sure to avoid being detected.

"Funny how Terror Time happens to pop in nowadays, isn't it?" Whisper remarked as he looked at the colourless houses and roads. "The second that you defeat Sgt. Burly, the world pits you against none other than the ruthless Gargaros."

"Yeah, but this time I don't have my wings and horn." Twilight glanced over to Whisper. "I beat Sgt. Burly because of my raw power alone, but with Gargaros, I'm limited to just my Yo-kai friends. For now, I think it's best that I just find the exit as quickly as possible and get the heck out of here."

"And what'll you do if Terror Time comes back?" Burly asked as he looked at all of the Leadoni and Suspicioni patrolling the streets. "You can't just keep running away from Gargaros forever. Eventually, you're just gonna have to suck it up and take the big guy on yourself."

"He doesn't mean any harm on anyone, Twilight, but Terror Time is more of a way to exercise himself for when he actually has to fight." Whisper explained. "More commonly, it's used for when little kids disobey their parents or stay up late at night munching on candy and failing to stay hygenic. However, for those wearing the Yo-kai Watch, it's just that little thing that happens every now and again."

"Not to mention that his later brothers, Ogralus and Orcanos are even worse than he is in both power and smell." Burly waved his hand in front of his nose. "If you can't beat Gargaros, then how are you gonna stand up to Ogralus, Orcanos, or King Void?"

"I suppose you do have a point..." Twilight scratched her chin. "But he's still as scary as Terror Time makes him out to be. He nearly killed me the last time I was here!"

"In Terror Time, you don't actually die in real life if you get caught by the Oni." Burly rubbed Twilight's shoulders. "If you do lose to them, you just wake up in bed like it was all some bad dream and carry on with your life."

"You do however lose anything you might pick up in Terror Time, so that's another important thing worth noting." Whisper looked around and eventually found a red chest with little horns on the back and a single eye on the top. "Speaking of which, let's open that chest there, Twilight."

"What? What's a treasure chest doing in a place like this?" Twilight cracked it open and pulled out a little hairclip. "And why's a hairclip inside of it?"

"We'll have time for that later. Just take it and go." Jibanyan tugged on the back of Twilight's mane. "I don't wanna stay in this place any longer, nyan. That big bully, Gargaros'll just flatten us like pancakes!"

And with that, the four of them went down the street towards the town hall, not even noticing the increase in Leadoni and Suspicioni behind them as they walked away. There was also one standing right in front of the chest that they had just opened, looking left and right for Twilight and her friends.

"So, Whisper, I would imagine that with a name like Suspicioni, he's a Yo-kai that would make you suspicious of everything, right?" Twilight looked at a single Yo-kai standing guard of another treasure chest.

"Yes." Whisper nodded. "He spends most of the time with two Yo-kai identical in stature to him; Tantroni and Contrarioni."

"Tantroni would be one to make people have constant temper tantrums, and Contrarioni would make them disagree with everything, am I correct?" Twilight raised a brow.

"Yes. You're quite smart, aren't you, Twilight?" Whisper gave her a smile. "It's no wonder that I'm your butler. You're one of the brightest ponies I've ever met."

"Whisper. She's the ONLY smart pony you've met apart from her friends." Jibanyan deadpanned.

"Guys, guys. It's just that some of these Yo-kai names are dead on the nose sometimes." Twilight broke the two Yo-kai up from their fuss. "Suspicioni, Leadoni, Contrarioni, Tantroni, they all don't leave much to the imagination sometimes."

"And you're saying that there are other Yo-kai who aren't very creative?" Whisper raised a brow.

"No. No, of course not." Twilight shook her head rapidly. "I'm just saying that these four aren't very creative. There could be much better named Yo-kai with intricate designs out there. I've just yet to see them, that's all."

All of a sudden, a Leadoni appeared directly in front of Twilight and her friends, causing them to freeze on the spot. The Yo-kai frowned and simply waved his little flag, causing Gargaros to roar loudly once more.

"Sorry, Twilight." Leadoni hung his head and vanished, along with all of the other smaller Yo-kai.

"GARGAROS HAS OUR SCENT!" Whisper panicked and flailed his arms frantically. "RUN!"

"No!" Burly chased after Twilight himself. "Don't just keep running from him! He's just going to keep preying on you until you beat him! Are you really going to let him bully you for the rest of your life?"

"Burly, I appreciate the morale boost attempt, but right now, I'm practically too scared to even try!" Twilight looked back at him. "Gargaros nearly killed me the last time I was here. I'm not ready to face him again!"

"GRRRAAAAGGGGHHH!" Gargaros came charging down directly towards Twilight and her friends.

"WRONG WAY!" Whisper and Jibanyan chorused, causing Twilight to skid to a halt and rush off in the opposite direction.

Burly could only watch as Twilight and the others rushed past him. He saw Gargaros following close behind and gave him a swift strike to the chest, knocking him into the air and onto his back.

"Stand up and fight!" Burly called to both Twilight and Gargaros. "Let your spirits clash! Overcome your fears and beat this nightmare senseless! Prove that you're not some scared little five-year old kid!"

"Burly..." Gargaros brushed off some of the dirt. "YOU MAKE ME SO ANGRY!" He ran towards Sgt. Burly and shoulder charged into him. He came in with so much force that he effortlessly knocked the orange Yo-kai onto his knees before swatting him away with the spiked club. "TERROR TIME IS MY HUNTING GROUNDS AND TWILIGHT IS MY PREY! SHE WILL NOT ESCAPE ME THIS TIME!"

Twilight yelped as Gargaros was breathing down her neck. He was about to strike her with his club before he was tripped up by Burly, who had latched himself onto the Oni's legs. She stopped running and watched as Burly lifted Gargaros high over his head and slammed him down into the ground.

"Victoriaaaan! Fight and win! Don't let yourself be bullied by that brute, Gargaros!" Burly called as he dived into Gargaros's back and dealt a strong heel kick to the red Oni. "Use the Yo-kai Watch!"

"NO WAY THAT'S HAPPENING!" Gargaros picked himself up and grabbed Burly tight. He threw the Yo-kai onto the ground as hard as possible before jumping high into the air and raising his club high. "NIGHTMARE BEAT!"

With a single strike, Sgt. Burly was wiped from the face of existence by Gargaros, who was red in the face and sweating all over. Letting out the loudest roar he could muster, he resumed the chase, causing Twilight to dart away towards another street to avoid meeting the same fate as Burly.

"This is very, very, VERY BAD!" Twilight had tears streaming from her face as she ran from Gargaros once more. "Sgt. Burly was destroyed just like that! Gargaros is even more terrifying than I remembered!"

"WELL WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?!" Whisper shouted. "THIS IS TERROR TIME! IT'S MEANT TO BE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE TAKEN PHYSICAL FORM! THERE'S ZERO TO LITTLE CHANCE OF WINNING AGAINST THAT BRUTE HERE!"

"TALK LATER! RUN NYAOW!" Jibanyan screamed and used all four of his paws to gain some ground between himself and the others.

The Yo-kai and ponies ran as fast as their legs and bodies could carry them, but Gargaros was picking up the pace at a steadily increasing rate. He was now sprinting with his club being dragged across the earth, sparks flying as he pursued Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan.

"NO ESCAPE THIS TIME!" Gargaros leapt high into the air and landed right in front of the trio, striking them hard with his spiked club, knocking them against the wall. "YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY FROM ME, TWILIGHT SPARKLE!"

"Battle perimiters met. Yo-kai Watch EX ready for combat." The watch spoke calmly as it automatically transformed into the EX mode. "Terror Time detected. Activating Auto-Team feature." Six Yo-kai medals materialized out of thin and and slammed themselves into Twilight's Yo-kai Watch.

"Roughraff!"

"Buchinyan!"

"Blazion!"

"Sgt. Burly!"

"Rhyth!"

"Noway!"

The six Yo-kai landed before Twilight and threw their arms out to make a wall between them and Twilight. A bright flash of light occured, turning the town into a battleground. There was lots more space, and Twilight had her wings and horn back, but the door that led back to Equestria cracked and shattered like glass, spreading the pieces everywere before they all vanished.

"Wha?" Twilight slowly pulled herself from the impact and shakily got back onto her hooves. "What's going on?"

"Gargaros caught you, Twilight." Burly looked back. "This is a great opportunity to prove your strength."

"GREAT?!" Twilight lurched back at the arena. "The only thing great about this are my wings and horns! I'm stuck facing Gargaros and there's nothing I can do to stop him!"

"If you beat this monster, which I doubt is possible, then you'll get to keep that little hairclip you found." Whisper spoke from Buchinyan's body before Jibanyan took over. "But if you don't, then I don't nyeed to explain it to you, Twilight."

Gargaros simpy snarled like a demon, looking down at Twilight and her rag-tag team.

"I'm doing this for a hairclip?!" Twilight exclaimed at the top of her voice. "I get bullied, harassed, chased, and beaten up by this thing, all for a stupid hairclip?!"

"ENOUGH TALK!" Gargaros slammed Twilight into the dirt with his club. "FIGHT ME!"

"You heard the Oni! Fight!" Burly ran with the two other Yo-kai while the remaining three remained translucent.

"Now we settle this, Sgt. Burly..." Gargaros grunted and brandished his club, swinging it wildly at Twilight's team.

Twilight felt the world spinning around her. Any noise that she could hear had been muted out by the sheer power of the strike that Gargaros had landed on her. Her vision was blurry and she had trouble standing up. It was like she was in the middle of a warzone and she had been just hit by an excessive amount of force. She eventually readjusted and saw the Yo-kai fighting Gargaros. Taking the stylus out of her Yo-kai Watch EX, she began to watch over her defenders.

"Take this, you beast!" Buchinyan jumped up and scratched Gargaros across the face, causing him to reel lightly. It was only a light scratch, but it dug into his body.

"You wanna go, bro?!" Roughraff punched rapidly at Gargaros's leg before being kicked away into Twilight's body. He grunted and groaned before running right back to the fight. "I can do this all day, you know!"

"GRAAGH!" Gargaros slammed his club into Roughraff, turning him into a blue wisp.

"Beaten in one hit..." Twilight turned the wheel on the digital screen, brining Noway into the fight. "Noway! Prioritize defense!" And she tapped the button to activate his Soultimate. She played the game that appeared before her and won in seconds.

"NO WAY THROUGH!" Noway sat down and thrust his arms out, drawing Gargaros's attention to him and him only. He took up a defensive stance and took the next few attacks from the giant Oni.

"While Noway's working on defense, you fight harder, Buchinyan!" Burly gave Gargaros a swift punch to the eye, knocking him down onto his butt. "Make sure that Twilight's strong enough to win! Keep the pressure on!"

"You got it!" Buchinyan gathered energy all on his own and caused his paws to glow red. "FLURRY OF FURRY!" Jumping towards Gargaros, the red paws collided with the monster at breakneck speeds. Despite how little impact they had, it was fast and plentiful enough to knock him down once again.

"NO!" Gargaros leapt back onto his feet and flattened Buchinyan upon landing, causing him to disappear as well. "I won't lose to you again, Burly! Not on your life!"

Twilight turned the wheel one more time, bringing out Rhyth. Seconds later, she charged up energy for the new Yo-kai's Soultimate. She wanted to make sure that Burly and Noway had enough health to survive Gargaros's next few attacks. Once it was done, she saw Rhyth begin to dance harder and faster.

"Seaweed Samba!" Rhyth cried out, emanating a green light that bathed Burly and Noway, fixing any wounds that they might have had.

"Try protecting against this!" Gargaros swung his club behind him in a circular motion as he too took in energy for his Soultimate attack. "There is no way that I'm losing to some weak little baby pony like Twilight Sparkle!"

Sgt. Burly saw the opportunity and rammed right into Gargaros as hard as he could, knocking the Oni against the nearby wall and causing him to fall onto his chest. He looked back at Twilight and said. "Come on, Twilight! You too! We can't beat this thing unless you help us out!"

"I suppose it is for the best." Twilight stepped forward and unfurled her wings, taking her higher and higher into the air. She was about to be too high for Gargaros to hit her when she suddenly banged her head against an invisible ceiling. "Ow! What?"

"Terror Time still don't want you cheating," Burly said. "It's locked us all in this cage where the only way out is through Gargaros."

"NIGHTMARE BEAT!" Gargaros jumped back up higher than Twilight with his club and came crashing down on top of Noway, turning him into rubble and leaving a massive crater where the wall Yo-kai once stood.

"No..." Twilight watched as Noway fell before her eyes. Her gaze was heavily fixated on the wisps of him, Roughraff, and Buchinyan. A tiny tear escaped from her eyes and she gnashed her teeth before looking over at Gargaros. She gathered up energy for a spell which only grew larger and larger.

"Irksome pests!" Gargaros slammed his club into Rhyth, instantly knocking her out. "DIE! LET ME CRUSH THAT LITTLE HORSEY MYSELF!"

"VICTORIAAAN!" Burly did a flying kick to Gargaros's chest, knocking him back. This was immediately met with a punch and strike from the spiked club, leaving him at low health.

"Now, I crush you!" Gargaros raised his foot high and brought it straight down on Burly, turning him into a blue wisp like the others. Only Blazion remained to stand in his way

"I fight for all of Equestria and its inhabitants." Twilight started, gathering lots of magical energy as she hung her head. "I battle for all of my friends in the human world. But most of all, I battle for my Yo-kai friends, and my closest followers and disciples of friendship. And it's in all of their names that I will defeat you, Gargaros!" Twilight shot her head back up, giving him a death glare as her magic was instantly amplified. "I won't let you desecrate any more humans, ponies, or Yo-kai!"

"GRRRRRAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH!" Gargaros pushed right past Blazion and went straight for Twilight, reaching towards her as she took in all of the magic that she could muster.

With a yell of her own, Twilight deluged Gargaros with a beam ten times her own size, completely blanketing the giant red Oni with light. She put all of her deepest emotions into this spell and thought about all of those that had been defeated trying to save her. Gritting her teeth, she watched as Gargaros begin to guard with his club.

"YOU! SHALL! NOT! PASS!" Twilight bellowed, causing the spell to get even stronger and push Gargaros back into the air and hard against the walls, completely decimating the invisible barriers. She watched as he crashed through multiple houses and landed face-first at Town Hall.

"Nnnnggghhhh..." Gargaros dropped his club and reached out to pick it up once the spell had died down. He barely even touched it before he blacked out and fainted on the cold hard ground.

Twilight took some deep breaths and landed, looking over at the felled Gargaros. She took out the Yo-kai Medals from the Yo-kai Watch EX and switched it back to normal. "Thank you..." She whispered to the medals and let some small tears drop from her eyes. "Thank you all."

"Never... in a millenium... have I seen such... raw power." Gargaros slowly but surely got back to his feet.

"All of that, and you're STILL ALIVE?!" Twilight was aghast with Gargaros's resistance to dying.

"I am a Yo-kai. We are immortal." He grabbed his club and kneeled before her. "But we are not as strong as you. I have hunted down many a foe in Terror Time before, but never have I witnessed such trememdous power from such a victim like yourself, Twilight Sparkle."

"Is that a compliment?" Twilight asked.

"To be an Oni is not an easy life." Gargaros shook his head. "We simply stand guard before the queen's castle. Me, Ogralus, and Orcanos decide who is worthy of entering the castle, and two more gatekeepers beyond decide who gets to see the queen herself," he said. "We judge our guests on their goodwill, honesty, and the battles that they have fought. Those who earn all three of our blessings shall see the queen. The rest get flattened.

"I am not a bad guy, Twilight. In fact, when outside of Terror Time, I'm much more merciful than you could ever imagine." He nodded. "We just got off on the wrong foot before. It happens to everyone who wields the Yo-kai Watch." He cleared his throat and stood up. "With your blessing, I would like to request an alliance."

"What?" Twilight raised a brow at Gargaros's words. "You... want to help?"

"Only every eon I hand a medal like this out. One out of twenty-thousand-quintillion people ever get to hold such a powerful Yo-kai Medal such as this one." Gargaros reached into his loincloth and pulled out a tiny Yo-kai Medal with his face on it. "Today, you have earned it. For not only facing me in Terror Time, but for showing off your true potential."

"A Yo-kai Medal?" Twilight looked at the front cover before turning it over to show the Tough tribe symbol on the back. "Are you sure?"

"Have it. As long as you are a friend to your own people, you are a friend to me." Gargaros personally pulled out Twilight's Yo-kai Medallium and slipped his medal into it. Once that was done, he leaned in and whispered into Twilight's ears, "But be warned. Terror Time will still come back to haunt you, and the next time you enter, you'll be hunted down by Ogralus. He is far more relentless than I was."

Twilight nodded and watched as Gargaros disappeared in a massive blast of purple smoke. As soon as it disersed, the door back to Equestria rematerialized before her. She slowly walked up to it and opened it wide, walking into the light as she returned to her own world.

"I still can't believe it." Whisper looked down at Gargaros's medal once Twilight was back in her bed. "Sgt. Burly and Gargaros's Yo-kai Medals. Burly, I'm happy for, but I'm going absolutely ga-ga over Gargaros's medal! No-one's ever earned his medal before!"

"Nyeah!" Jibanyan looked at the medal himself. "Nyow you get to call on him as much as you like! I think it's much better than having him chase you down.

"Thanks, you two, but I'm still a bit shaken up from all of this." Twilight closed up the book and put it beside her as she wriggled into the bed. "Gargaros almost crushed me and right now I need some time to recover. If I'm going to stop King Void, I need to be of sound mind, physically fit, and well-rested." She yawned, covering her mouth with her hoof. She turned the lamp off and laid her head down on the pillow. "Have a good night, you two."

"Hmm... I suppose it's for the best." Whisper looked at the medal one more time. "Gargaros does make his foes fight until they're either dead or near-death. Twilight just beat him by the skin of her teeth."

"Nyeah. That big-bully had me worried for a sec as well, but I knew that Twilight would be able to beat him." He nodded.

"This coming from the Yo-kai who started crying and wailing as soon as he got crushed by that club of his." Whisper smirked.

"I wasn't crying!" Jibanyan shot back. "I was just... shedding liquid confidence for Twilight!"

"I know tears when I see them, Jibanyan."

"At least I DID something!"

"We both fought him together!"

"And you just hogged my body most of the time!"

"SHUT UP!" Twilight screamed to the quarelling Yo-kai, causing them to stop immediately. "Good-night, Whisper! Good-night, Jibanyan!"

"Yeesh. And I fought Gargaros was scary..." Whisper watched as Twilight slammed her head back into the pillow and snored loudly into it.

Just a Little Signibble/Ake-y Breaky Heart

Sunset Shimmer looked down at her new Yo-kai Watch as she walked into Canterlot High the next day. After everything that she had seen and done in the human world and after all of the battles she had fought, she had never expected her to be wearing the watch. At first, she had had her mind wracking around the magic that had been outflowing at Camp Everfree and what could happen to her friends in the future, but now that the watch was around her wrist, Yo-kai had taken up all of her thoughts instead.

"Hey, Sunset." Sci-Twi walked up to her once she entered the foyer of the high school. "Did you have trouble sleeping last night?"

"Not really." Sunset pulled her head up from the watch to talk with Twilight. "Why do you ask?"

"Well, given what happened with the Puppet Brothers a few weeks ago, I'm beginning to worry about the future of this world." Twilight looked at the Nosirs medal in her Medallium. "Now there's both Equestrian Magic and Yo-kai running loose and it's elevated the risk phenomenally. We could be facing something far beyond both of our comprehensions with little to no knowledge of how to beat it!"

"I'm not worried." Sunset Shimmer looked at the medal herself. "If these Yo-kai are willing to help us and be friends, then that's a step towards stopping this King Void guy. And besides, it's not this is the first time we've battled the forces of darkness."

"Yeah! If anything, this is the fifth time we've had to fight evil!" Pinkie Pie popped up behind the girls and wrapped her arms around their shoulders. "Well, maybe fourth for Sunset."

"Don't get too excited yet, Pinkie Pie." Applejack approached the group and gently pushed down on Pinkie's own shoulder. "We only barely got introduced to these newfangled Yo-kai a few days ago. And judging from how many holes there are in that there Yo-kai Medallium, I'd say that it's gonna take a while before we get used to it."

"Well, I'm not worried." Rarity came up as well. "If there are any Yo-kai that know a thing or two about fashion, then I'd say that we're in perfectly good hands."

"I'm just interested to see what different breeds of Yo-kai there are." Fluttershy picked up some animals and put them back in her backpack. "Given how adorable Jibanyan was, I'm actually quite excited to meet all these new Yo-kai friends."

"I still can't believe that we didn't get our own watches, though." Rainbow Dash walked up to the girls and messed around with her phone. "If we're going to face this King Void as friends, then we need to be prepared and make as many friends as possible. Us all having Yo-kai Watches would totally make this easier, y'know."

"You have to remember what Mr. Goodsight said, though, Rainbow Dash." Sci-Twi raised her finger. "Yo-kai Watches are only for the pure of heart. In order to minimalize any form of mischief and Yo-kai Watch overuse, only the pure of heart get to have them."

"And you girls have been known to kinda show your worst sides before..." Sunset Shimmer looked at all five of the Rainbooms, thinking back to the Battle of the Bands when the Dazzlings came to CHS. "I think it's better this way."

"Whatever." Rainbow Dash typed in a website name on her phone and entered the command to search for it. Her phone was stuck on the same page for a couple of minutes before it showed an error notification. "What?! CHS has five bars worth of internet access!"

"Just close and re-open the internet." Applejack mentioned.

Rainbow followed Applejack's advice and turned her Wi-fi settings off and on again. She went back to the internet and tried searching for the website again, only to have the exact same error message.

"What the heck?! What's wrong with the Wi-fi today?!" Rainbow demanded as she went back to the phone's settings and fiddled around with some more settings. "Guess I'll just have to stick with 4G. It's gonna eat away at my bill a bit, but I don't really care. I NEED to look this up before Harshwhinny's next history class!"

"Rainbow, don't you think that it's cheating to look up the answers before your next class?" Sunset asked.

"NOT EVEN 4G'S WORKING?!" Rainbow screamed and threw her arms down by her sides before slumping down onto her butt and kneeling down. "Aw, man... I am so finished..."

"I don't really see what the fuss is about, Rainbow Dash." Rarity picked Rainbow up and watched her slide the phone back into her pocket. "CHS has a library fully equipped with books on every subject imaginable. What's stopping you from picking up a book and doing some reading?"

"Reading?!" Rainbow spluttered and lurched backwards. "Rarity, Rainbow Dash does not do reading. She does awesomeness, sports, the internet, and many other cool things, but reading's not one of them!"

"No way!" Pinkie Pie cried out, looking over at her phone with the exact same message. "My internet's on the fritz as well!"

"Mine too!" a random female student called out.

"So's mine!" a boy added.

"And us!" Three girls with cameras called out.

"Wait. All of your Wi-fi's being jammed?" Sunset addressed the crowd of students.

"Uh-huh." They all nodded.

"Sounds weird. Definitely not Equestrian Magic weird, but weird nonetheless." Sunset pushed the button on the side of her Yo-kai Watch, flipping up the lens. She peaked through it and looked around. "And that can only mean that there's a Yo-kai behind all of this. But where is it?"

Sunset examined all of the students and waited until someone else pulled out their phone. Pointing her lens around the area, her watch lit up when she pointed at the exact location of the culprit. The twelve segments around her watch lit up and blinked before a blast of purple smoke revealed the Yo-kai behind the internet connectivity issues.

A small humanoid creature with black and yellow clothing with a simpe white ribbon appeared before her. He had two cylindrical points on top of his head. One yellow, and one black. He noticed the boy turn on his internet and leaped up to his phone, beginning to munch away at it. His biting didn't leave any bite marks, but he sucked up some electricity from the phone and swallowed it whole.

"Aww, c'mon!" The boy yelled as his phone showed the message again.

"What the heck is that?!" Sunset pointed towards the Yo-kai.

"What is what?" Sci-Twi looked through her own Yo-kai lens and saw the little yellow Yo-kai. When she saw it burp from its electricity meal and pat its belly, she let out a gasp of her own. "A Yo-kai!"

"And apparently, one who eats Wi-fi and electric signals." Sunset watched as the little Yo-kai munched away at the other students' phones, severing their internet connections as well. "This is bad. If we leave this Yo-kai running around, the CHS students aren't going to be happy about losing the internet."

"Let's give that little sucker what for!" Rainbow leapt onto her feet and tried to kick the Yo-kai away, only to have her kick go straight through him. "Wh-whoa!" She exclaimed as she kicked too high and fell over onto her haunches.

"Violence isn't always the answer, Rainbow Dash." Sunset Shimmer slowly approached the little yellow Yo-kai and watched it nibble on someone else's phone. She knelt down before the Yo-kai and gently tapped on its' shoulders. "Hello, little guy. What's your name?"

"Mmm... Yummy energy signals." The Yo-kai rubbed its stomach once again as it looked over at Sunset Shimmer. "Gah! I've been rumbled!" And it turned to run away.

"Hey! Wait!" Sunset chased after the little Yo-kai as it ran through the halls of CHS, past some more students and even straight through some of them as it avoided capture.

"Sunset! Where are you going?" Sci-Twi gave chase herself while Applejack and Rarity looked over at the other students.

"Honestly, there's such a thing as the library, you know." Rarity crossed her arms and looked away at the moaning and wailing students.

"Hear, hear." Applejack nodded, leaving Applejack, Pinkie, and the crowd to their internet-less devices. "Come on, Fluttershy. We'd better get to class.

"Alright." Fluttershy followed Applejack down the halls past some more students without internet.

The Yo-kai was doing a good job of running away from Sunset Shimmer. Despite its short and stumpy appearance, it was still able to run fast through the hallways. It swerved past the students who were coming down from the other side and made a quick dash through the door into the library.

Sunset Shimmer and Sci-Twi both barged into the room before being immediately shushed by multiple people. THey gave them odd looks before resorting to walking around. In such a large room, the Yo-kai wouldn't have the ability to go far without them seeing it and resuming the chase, but on the other hand, the room was so wide that it could've hidden in the bookcases.

"Let's split up. We'll cover more ground if we're looking in separate areas." Sunset said, looking around the lower sections of the library.

Twilight looked at the mezzanine part of the library, pulling out multiple books only to put them back in again. With how large the bookcases were, she had to borrow a ladder to make sure that she was checking every nook and cranny for the Yo-kai that had gobbled up the Wi-fi of the other students.

Sunset Shimmer covered the lower part of the library. While it wasn't as big and tall as the parts that Twilight was examining, it was still quite expansive. There were lots of little alcoves in the bookshelves that the Yo-kai could've squeezed through and hidden on so she made sure to push the books all the way back into the shelves once she picked them up.

All of a sudden, she heard the sound of eating and turned her head towards the middle of the room, where the Yo-kai was nibbling on the computers. His mouth was trying to eat them whole and having great difficulty as it dug its teeth into the monitors. Again, no real damage was caused, but the Wi-fi was instantly diminished, leaving another error message on the computers.

Sunset Shimmer slowly crept up to the Yo-kai and watched it eat the electricity. She barely even noticed the other students get up from the computers and groan as they went to find books on the subjects that had been studying before he ate away at the machines.

"I'm so full..." The Yo-kai flopped onto his back and looked down at his belly once more. It was now bulging out from all of the electricity that he had been eating. "I don't think I could take another bite." He only then noticed Sunset Shimmer approaching. His pupils dilated. "Oh crud..."

"Hey, little guy." Sunset Shimmer picked up Signibble, who could barely even shuffle to try and get out of her grasp. "Don't worry. I'm not going to hurt you. As you can see, I have the Yo-kai Watch." She showed it off to him. "I'm looking to make some new friends. Think you could help with that?"

"Well..." Suddenly, the Yo-kai's belly jiggled around rapidly. "Oh. Hang on." He took in some air.

"What? What's wrong?" Sunset asked.

The Yo-kai burped as loudly as he could, shooting a torrent of lightning out around him. The lightning coiled around Sunset and the other students, causing them to scream. It didn't actually hurt them, though, and more just made their hair incredibly frizzy, causing it to rapidly expand in all directions. Every piece of equipment that was hit by the electric blast short-circuited and spat sparks everywhere. Even the phones that were in the students' pockets had been completely disabled.

"Ooh! Pardon me." The Yo-kai rubbed his mouh and jumped down onto his feet. "Well, better out than in."

"What was that?" Sci-Twi came down from the top level with her hairstyle completely changed. Instead of being neatly combed down, it was now like a purple and pink bush had formed on her head.

"I... don't know." Sunset looked down at the Yo-kai.

"Well, that was awesome." The Yo-kai looked up at Sunset. "And yeah, of course I'd like to be your friend! This place has some great reception. A perfect place for me to crash." He bounced up and high-fived Sunset, giving her a Yo-kai Medal with a yellow back. "By the way, name's Signibble. It's nice to meet'cha. Take it from me, we've both got some great electricity." And with that, he disappeared.

"Signibble, eh?" Sunset took the medal and pulled out her Yo-kai Medallium from her own backpack. "That certainly was something different, wasn't it?"

"You can say that again." Sci-Twi looked around at the library. "The whole school's been EMP'd by him."

"Oh, Rainbow's not going to like this." Sunset put the medal into her book and closed it up. "But I think it's for the best. Who uses Wi-fi to look up the answers to school lessons?"

"C'mon... Yes! Finally!" Rainbow held her phone high into the air victoriously as she was on the website she needed at last. As if fate was playing a cruel trick on her, however, the blast of electricity that Signibble had belched up washed over her phone, causing it to deactivate and deconstruct in her hand.

"Ooh! Frizzy!" Pinkie Pie played with her hair as soon as the electricity caused it to burst out. She bounced down the corridor with her massive afro towards her next class.

"OH, FOR PETE'S SAKE!" Rainbow violently threw her ruined cellphone into the nearest trash can and kicked it as hard as she could, spilling the garbage everywhere. She craned her neck skyward and loudly bellowed, "I HATE TECHNOLOGY!"

Sunset Shimmer ate lunch with the rest of her friends. She picked up the spaghetti with her fork and twirled it around before raising it up to her mouth and swallowing it whole. Taking a drink, she looked around at the other students in the room who had been eating their food.

"Can you believe this epidemic?" Sci-Twi asked Sunset, looking at the tables herself. "Some students come in with aching shoulders, and others come in with stiff necks. It's weird."

"I don't think that it's weird." Pinkie Pie looked around, rubbing her neck gently as she took a bite of her apple. "But an achy-breaky body like this isn't fun at all. I just hope that we get some relief from this soon. I can't go the whole day in Pinkie-Pie-Pain. It'd make everything really icky and un-fun."

"Pinkie-Pie-Pain?" Rainbow Dash raised a brow as she took a bite out of her sandwich.

"Yeah. Pain that makes me super-grouchy and mean." Pinkie's hair deflated as she explained the situation. "These stiff shoulders of mine and stupid stiff neck are really making me mad."

"You have both ailments at once?" Sunset Shimmer came over to Pinkie Pie and massaged both her shoulders and neck. "Are you sure that you don't need to go to the doctor, Pinkie? You sound serious."

"I'm super-serious! I'm Pinkamena Diane Pie, for crying out loud!" She threw her arms and and waved them around. "If I didn't have these pains in my body, I'd be super-happy and fun again, but I do have them, so I'm not!" Crossing her arms, Pinkie took a bite out of her food.

"Sounds like there's a Yo-kai behind all of this." Sunset flipped her lens up and pointed it around Pinkie Pie. "Twilight. You might need to help me out with this."

"Okay." Twilight opened her Yo-kai Lens and examined Pinkie from every angle with it as well.

The two girls found two separate spots that caused their Yo-kai Watches to light up and reveal the Yo-kai with a blast of smoke. There were two Yo-kai around Pinkie Pie. One was a tiny little skeleton with a grape-shaped head and star shapes around its eyes, and the second was a frog wearing orange swimming trunks and carrying a pillow in its arms. The skeleton was kicking Pinkie's shoulders while the frog was rubbing its own neck on Pinkie's head.

"Wait. There's TWO Yo-kai?!" Sunset jumped at how both Yo-kai were inspiriting Pinkie Pie.

"If there's two Yo-kai, then we should try and befriend both of them." Sci-Twi pulled her her Yo-kai Medal for the Nosirs and readied it as she approached the skeleton and frog. "The more friends we have, the more we know about Yo-kai. In that sense, we'll be one step closer to figuring out how to stop King Void."

"If you're calling a Yo-kai, then be quick about it." Rarity pointed over at Pinkie. "Pinkie Pie as a grump is something the world's not prepared for, and I don't want her to lash out at the other CHS students because of it."

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling the Nosirs!" Sci-Twi threw the medal high into the air and caught it. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" She slammed the medal into the watch in the correct position.

"SUMMONING: EERIE!" The watch declared as it began to materialize the three Nosirs.

Lookie-lee, lookie-lee,
Flippidy-dee!
Lookie-lee, lookie-lee,
Bubba Eerie!

"Nosirs!" They all appeared together before Twilight and Sunset.

"Guess I'll join in too! Come on out, Signibble!" Sunset threw her medal up into the air as well. "Come on out, my friend! Let's give 'em a shock!" She smiled when she put her medal into her watch.

"SUMMONING: MYSTERIOUS!" Sunset's Yo-kai Watch called out as yellow beams crashed down before her.

Boo-shiggy, boo-shiggy,
Boogie woogie!
Cling-clang delirious, Mysterious!

"Signibble!" He somersaulted into the school and jabbed his fingers at the air twice, shooting out little lightning bolts. "Zap, zap!"

"Get offa' her, Cricky! This is my shtick!" The skeleton jumped on Pinkie's shoulders and tried to roundhouse kick the frog. His legs were too small, however, and he ended up falling onto his butt and bouncing off of Pinkie altogether.

"I don't think so, Ake. She's mine." Cricky rubbed his head and watched Ake climb back up. "There's only room for one kind of ache here, and it certainly isn't yours."

"Signibble? Why don't you give those two Yo-kai a bit of a lesson?" Sunset pointed over to Cricky and Ake, who were still quarrelling over who should be inspiriting Pinkie Pie.

"Nosirs. You should help out too. We need to fix this before Pinkie Pie has a meltdown." Sci-Twi pointed towards the two Yo-kai.

The Nosirs and Signibble approached both Ake and Cricky and dealt them both attacks. Signibble shot lightning out of his fingers at Cricky while the Nosirs triple-teamed Ake, giving him light punches and kicks that were all well-timed and non-stop.

"Hey! Who're these clowns?!" Ake spat as he knocked the Nosirs away with some kicks.

"Ake! Truce?" Cricky looked over to him.

"Until these guys are done." Ake nodded and took up a combat stance as he confronted Signibble and the Nosirs.

Cricky jumped towards the Nosirs and gave them all a frog-like kick, slamming them into Sci-Twi, knocking her back a few feet. He then slapped Ake's little hand, causing him to kick Signibble's shoulders, casting an inspiriting flame on him.

"Ohh... What's wrong with my shoulders?" Signibble asked, rubbing them as gently as he could. "They're suddenly all achy."

"No hurting our friends! No sirree bob!" One of the Nosirs wagged his finger and tutted at the Yo-kai.

"You think you're so tough, huh?" Ake jumped up high into the air and dive-bombed the three Nosirs. "SHOULDER CRUNCH!"

Ake dived into the Nosirs, striking all of them at once before landing on his back before Sunset Shimmer and Sci-Twi. He rubbed his head, as he had hurt himself as well from using his own attack. He jumped back up and shook it off before he went over to the Nosirs and kicked all of their shoulders before they could get up again, putting inspiriting flames on them too.

"No fair! They're both mine!" Cricky thrust his arms out, casting his own inspiriting flames on the two Yo-kai.

"Ooh... First achy shoulders and now an achy neck?" Signibble groaned and flopped down onto his back. "Who are these two?"

"From the sound of it, their names are Ake and Cricky." Sunset Shimmer looked at the two Yo-kai, seeing them glare at each other whenever the other landed an attack on Signibble or the Nosirs. "But it's not their powers that bother me."

"Yeah. From the looks of it, they seem to be fighting each other more rather than our Yo-kai." Sci-Twi watched as Cricky and Ake began to fight each other once again. They spat insults and threw fists and kicks, trying to prove that they were better than the other. "What could've happened that caused them to fight?"

"People should have creaking necks, not shoulder pains!" Cricky shouted.

"Shoulder pains are the best way to go! Neck pain can be fixed easier!" Ake retorted. "You should just get back to the Yo-kai World and stop embarrassing yourself!"

"Embarrassing myself? Says the Yo-kai who can't even use his Soultimate without getting hurt!"

"You're one to talk, you frog-legged freak!"

"I AM A FROG!"

The two of them began arguing verbally and shook their fists towards each other as they tried to outdo each other. They didn't even notice Sunset and Sci-Twi walking towards them.

"Stop it! Stop it!" Sci-Twi pushed both of the Yo-kai away as hard as she could, causing them both to roll onto the floor. "Break it up, you two. Now just calmly and quietly tell us what happened and we won't have to resort to confrontation."

"Fine then, you wanna know the truth?" Ake stood up slowly and walked up to Sci-Twi. "This stupid frog is trying to put me out of business! We Akes and Payns thrive off of causing upper-body pain, and this frog here's trying to undercut me!" He jabbed a finger at Cricky.

"Undercut? I'm trying to do my job as well!" Cricky yelled. "Crickies are only good for causing neck pain. Granted, it can be fixed by a simple pillow, but I won't have my work undermined by someone as puny as you, Ake!"

"Puny?!" Ake roared.

"Calm the heck down!" Sci-Twi tried pushing both Cricky and Ake away again, but they were pushing so hard that the backs of both of her hands were pressed against each other. "Sunset! Help me out here!"

"Guys, guys, guys!" Sunset grabbed both Ake and Cricky and picked them both up. "Calm down! You're both fighting over something so meaningless. Who can inspirit better? That's the silliest thing to pick an argument over I've ever seen in my entire life! And believe me, I've seen some pretty stupid arguments."

"What do you mean? This is a great thing to argue over." Ake raised a brow at Sunset. "Two Yo-kai causing bodily pain? Such a great thing to debate."

"Yeah. We're just trying to keep an age-old tradition alive here." Cricky tipped his hand to Sunset. "I'm sorry if it caused the others here some trouble. Let me fix that for you." He clicked his fingers, causing the inspiriting flames to vanish.

"I suppose I should apologise as well." Ake rubbed the ground with the heel of his left foot, making his set of flames to disappear. "Guess I was just a little too caught up in the moment, that's all. I don't mean real pain on other people, but being an Ake or Payn's a hard life, y'know? All that we have is the power to cause shoulder pain."

"Just as we Crickies can only give neck pain. We can't do anything special like say the alphabet backwards or make you play leap-frog at a whim." Cricky nodded. "Yo-kai work in mysterious ways. Sometimes, we're diverse, but other times, it's like we're robots with just one command most of the time.

"Heck, we Crickies often end up surrendering immediately, most of the time, but Ake just called me out and pushed me to the breaking point." He shook his head.

"Sounds like you need to apologise to each other, not me." Sunset Shimmer helped Sci-Twi back up and allowed the two Yo-kai to come together. "Go on, we'll give you some time."

"I'm sorry, bud." Ake shuffled forward and rubbed his bony hands. "I was just trying to do my job and I ended up hurting yours."

"Same here. We both tried so hard to give these students neck and shoulder pains that we started a fight between each other." Cricky nodded and held out his hand. "I don't really know what else to say other than I'm sorry too."

"And I forgive ya." Ake shook Cricky's hand.

Pinkie Pie felt the pains in her body vanish instantaneously. Her hair popped back to its original form and a smile returned to her face. She ate her food with much more vigour than before, driving her teeth into the spaghetti and slurping it up like a vacuum cleaner. "Ahh! Much better!" she exclaimed.

"Guess we should thank you." Ake came up to Sci-Twi and Sunset. "You two are real great at this whole friendship business, huh?"

"Well, I shouldn't boast really, but I did learn from a princess of the subject matter." Sunset blushed and tipped her hand to the two Yo-kai. "I just do what I do to help others get back on their feet."

"Yeah. Sunset's a really good friend to have, you two." Sci-Twi nodded. "She's reached out to the hearts of so many people and helped them resolve conflicts and change themselves for the better. And if she can do it on humans like me and my friends, then I'm sure she can be a great benefit to the Yo-kai race too."

"Well then what are we waiting for?" Ake created a Yo-kai Medal and gave it to Sunset Shimmer. "If she's a good friend, I wanna see if she lives up to that promise. Might just end up making me into a Payn if I'm lucky."

"I might as well join her as well." Cricky leaped onto Sunset's shoulders and gently gave her his own Yo-kai Medal. "I might be a pain in the neck, but I certainly won't be your pain in the neck."

"That's actually pretty funny, Cricky." Sunset chuckled as she helped the frog down onto the ground. "And I'm glad that I could help the two of you out."

"Two more Yo-kai Medals." Sci-Twi watched Sunset open up her Yo-kai Medallium and store the two new medals, while also retrieving her Signibble medal. "You're doing great, Sunset."

"Thanks, Twilight, but we're only just getting started." Sunset nodded and closed up the book. "With what's waiting out there, I get the feeling we'll need to make lots more friends before we're ready to help Twilight fight King Void and save the worlds once again."

"Yeah. And besides. What's possibly going to be able to stop us?" Pinkie Pie showed off her necklace. "We've got the Magic of Friendship, these super-cool necklaces, and the Yo-kai on our side now. I say bring it on, King Void!"

"Pinkie. Don't antagonize him." Sunset Shimmer came up to Pinkie and massaged her shoulders. "I think we've seen quite enough neck pain for one day."

Everyone else just laughed at the statement and went back to eating their lunches.

Meanwhile, in a ruined temple, Kin and Gin were being knocked against the walls and being bombarded with fireballs. They tried countering with their own attacks, but they were destroyed in seconds. The two of them felt absolutely helpless whenever they were countered and felt the full force of their attacker's strength.

"Nnnghh... How strong is he?!" Kin demanded as she struggled to get back up.

"Even after all of the Dark Yo-kai King Void entrusted us, he's still not even broken a sweat!" Gin added, wiping some sweat off of her brow. "And we're sweatier than a couple of Sweltons!"

"C'mon, ladies. I thought you said you were going to show me the wrath of your king." A man with red skin and blonde hair stepped up to Kin and Gin. He lit his hand on fire and conjured up a ball of fire, bouncing it inbetween his hands. "Honestly. You're more dull than Nurarihyon sometimes."

"Looks like we'll just have to go back to the original plan, Gin." Kin looked over to her felled sister.

"Yes. Spread the Dark Yo-kai in the present and give Princess Twilight hell!" Gin pulled out another stone with a red spiral.

"We'll meet again, Lord Enma." Kin said as a giant clock appeared behind the two of them and levitated them towards it. "And when we do, you will fall, the Yo-kai Watch will never be created, and darkness will befall both your world and the human realm!"

"We'll see about that." Enma watched as both Kin and Gin vanished from his sight along with the clock they had conjured.

Author's Notes:

Next up is the Halloween special for Princess and the Yo-kai. No spoilers so far, but expect a lot of Nyans in the human world, and cavity-diseased ponies on Nightmare Night.

As always, leave comments if you're enjoying this story, be sure to tell ALL of your friends and followers about this story and spread the word. And overall, just have a nice day.

Oh, and also, I have a question for you all: Which of the ten summoning chants is your favourite (I say ten because both Legendary and Wicked have summoning chants as well)?

Halloween Special: Day of the Dracunyans/Night of 1000 Cavities

There was a lot of buzz in Canterlot High's main hall as students were all partaking in the Halloween-themed activities. There was pumpkin carving, apple bobbing, pin the tail on the ghost, and many more. There was also a small table at the wall which was covered with cake, candy, drinks, and cookies. There was also music echoing through the hall, playing songs themed around Halloween, monsters, and other spooky creatures.

Everyone was having a good time in their costumes, often at times posing for Photo Finish and her friends, Pixel Pizazz and Violet Blur as they took photos of the event. Even if someone wasn't in a costume, they had their faces decorated for the season, with some designs more intricate than others.

Sunset Shimmer and her friends were also dressed up for the occasion. Sunset was a witch complete with a hat and broom; Sci-Twi was dressed up as a mad scientist with ash around her eyes; Rarity was dressed as a vampire; Pinkie Pie a clown with face-paint; Applejack a werewolf; Fluttershy as a cat-lady; and Rainbow Dash as a zombie with body paint and ripped clothes.

"Everything's going great, wouldn't you say, Sunset?" Sci-Twi asked as the two of them looked around the hall and watched the students going about their many different choices of activity.

"Yeah." Sunset chuckled and straightened up her broom. "Halloween's a great time of the year for a party. Everyone gets to dress up, tell scary stories, and just enjoy themselves."

"Let's be real here, though, girls." Rainbow Dash came up to Sci-Twi and Sunset. "None of the things here are as remotely scary as what we've all had to put up with."

"Yeah. We've fought three demon girls, three siren girls, and now three evil Yo-kai puppeteers!" Pinkie Pie popped out of nowhere with a fistful of candy. "I don't think that there's anything here that could faze us. Look! Even Fluttershy's having fun—and she usually hates Halloween!"

"You know, I wonder if Twilight and her friends back in Equestria have Halloween." Applejack looked towards the door of the hall.

"Actually, we do have a holiday back in Equestria called Nightmare Night." Sunset Shimmer raised a finger. "It's pretty much the same thing as this. Fillies and colts dressing up as monsters, going round houses for candy. Nightmare Night and Halloween are pretty much identical.

"And it's not just for children back home, either," she went on. "Even grown-up ponies still enjoy dressing up at that time of year, coming together to play spooky games, go through haunted mazes, and just get the socks scared off of them. Heck, Twilight and her pony friends have done Nightmare Night together before. She said so in the book."

"Hey, Sunset? Can I ask you something?" Rarity approached the girls right before she had her cape stepped on by a dancer. "Ooh! Be careful with the cape, Derpy! I had to tailor this from scratch!"

"Sorry, Rarity!" Derpy called out, picking up the box that had fallen from her head.

"Anyway, as I was about to ask, Sunset. Do you think that there are any Yo-kai that celebrate Halloween?" Rarity looked down at Sunset's Yo-kai Watch, which only barely popped out of the sleeves of her outfit. "Or if there are any candy or Halloween-themed Yo-kai? Like a living pumpkin or a vampire or something?"

"If there were a Yo-kai like that, then I would've been able to pick it up already." Sunset nodded. "Twilight told me that the Yo-kai Watch reacts to Yo-kai mischief on the fly, like a geiger counter does to radioactivity. If Yo-kai do show their faces at Halloween, then we'll be able to see them clear as day. And besides, they might not even scare anyone given that practically everyone's trying to be scary this time of year."

All of a sudden, the music was cut as Celestia and Luna took the stage. They both wore armour with horned helmets and spikes poking out of each different piece. They both carried a massive staff of a blazing sun and a shimmering moon. Casting wicked glares down on the students that gathered in the hall, they both let out evil cackles.

"Greetings, loyal minions of the day and night!" Celestia tried her best to put on an evil villain voice. "The time has come once more for us to dine on candy and frighten the faint of heart."

"Yes. The time has come for Halloween!" Luna called out, coiling her free hand into a claw as she let off another laugh. "Mwahahahahahahah!"

"I am your marvellous, bedazzling, and downright dastardly goddess of the sun, Queen Solar Flare!" Celestia called out.

"And for this one night, I don the monstrous visage of..." Luna paused for effect. "...Nightmare Moon!"

"Nightmare Moon? Solar Flare?" Rainbow asked under the breath of the chanting. "How the heck did they come up with that?"

"Beats me." Applejack shrugged.

All of a sudden, a loud scream came from one of the students before a gust of smoke transformed their head. Within seconds, that student now had a head identical to Jibanyan's head, but it was blue and had a pair of vampire fangs. Everyone turned to see the student that had screamed before they felt their own necks being bitten one by one.

"What in the world?!" Luna stumbled backwards when she saw how rapidly her students were transforming.

"Well, this is a rather odd predicament..." Celestia looked at all of the changing students. "But it's Halloween night, after all. And what's a Halloween without a few scares?" She applauded. "Good one, everyone!"

"What happened to them?!" Sci-Twi shouted as she too got a bite from the invisible perpetrator. "GAH!"

"Twilight! No!" Sunset reached out for her as she watched her friend have the same head as the rest of the students that had been bitten.

"Another Yo-kai related crisis I assume?" Rarity asked as the other students began to panic.

"Could be." Sunset activated her Yo-kai Lens and looked through it as she scanned the students, who were now running around and trying to get away from whatever had been biting them. Once she found the Yo-kai that she had been looking for, she saw another student get bit.

There, right in front of Sunset Shimmer, was a blue version of Jibanyan biting down on the necks of his victims. He laughed much like a vampire would and wore a black and red cape around his body. With his two massive vampire fangs, he took another bite of two more students, giving them his head as well.

"There's the bloodsucker behind this little mess!" Sunset pointed towards it, causing everyone else to stop what they were doing. The chaos had died down as the students were now looking around for the Yo-kai, only to find thin air.

"Gyahahahahaha! I am Dracunyan!" The Yo-kai decreed, slurring his voice as much as he could. "I vant to suck your blood!"

"Dracunyan? Really?" Sunset Shimmer cocked a brow and face-palmed at the name. "Twilight wasn't kidding when she said some of these Yo-kai names didn't leave much to the imagination."

"Aww, I think it's actually pretty cute." Fluttershy walked up to Dracunyan and held out a bar of chocolate. "Hello there, little guy. Don't worry. I won't bite." She handed him the bar. "If you're hungry, then perhaps you'd like to munch on this instead."

"Vell, vat's very kind of you, but ze bloodlust is upon me!" Dracunyan's eyes dilated and he flew up to Fluttershy's neck, giving her a hard bite.

"YAH!" Fluttershy screamed as she too became a Dracunyan. "Why in the world would you do that?! I only wanted to help!"

"Zere is no helping me, human." Dracunyan paced back and forth. "I am a spirit doomed to wander zis world forever. Whenever I see candy, I alvays vink of blood. And being a vampire, blood makes me very, very hungry!"

"Then lets give you something to munch on." Sunset pulled out her Yo-kai Medal. "Come on out, my friend! Calling Signibble!" She threw the medal high. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" She rammed it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: MYSTERIOUS!" The watch yelled.

boo-shiggy, boo -shiggy
Boogie-woogie!
Cling-clang, delirious, Mysterious!

"Signibble! Zap Zap!" He finger-banged the air two more times, landing between Sunset and Dracunyan.

"More morsels for ve to munch on? I like it!" Dracunyan snarled and bared his fangs towards Signibble. He looked at the other students and licked his lips. "But virst, I have some vork to do. See you around!" He flew off laughing like a maniac.

"Hey!" Sunset ran after Dracunyan with Signibble sitting on her shoulders. "Get back here you little vampire freak!"

The chase was on, with Dracunyan flying up to the stage first. He gnashed Celestia and Luna's necks, causing their heads to change as well. Sunset ducked and weaved past them, recoiling at what Dracunyan had turned them into. Groaning, she continued to chase after the Yo-kai behind it all.

"Signibble! Shoot lightning at him!" Sunset barked as she kept up with Dracunyan.

"You got it, Sunset!" Signibble threw his fist into the air and fired away at Dracunyan. Every time he jabbed his fingers, lightning shot out of it. Most of his shots missed their mark, however, as Dracunyan dived and swooped past them.

"Gyahahahahaha! You'll have to do better than vat to get me!" He blew a raspberry and bit into more students' necks, making them into Dracunyans as well. "Gah! Ze bloodlust is never satisfied!"

"Stop, fiend!" Sunset ran down the halls, pursuing the Dracunyan as much as she could. She slingshot herself around poles with Signibble having to hold onto her for deal life as she picked up the pace. Slowly but surely, she was catching up to the vampire Yo-kai.

"Blood! I must have blood!" Dracunyan roared as he approached the foyer of CHS. He looked around in all directions for someone else to bite, but he found absolutely no-one and went outside instead.

Instead of being the middle of the night, the sun was still just beginning to set over the town. The light was so intense that Dracunyan began to catch fire. He waved his arms frantically, shuffling about to find shade to hind behind. He eventually made it to the portal and rested his head lightly against the marble support.

"Don't run, Dracunyan. You'll just run out of breath." Sunset Shimmer approached Dracunyan and pushed him against the wall. "Turn my friends back to normal. I have a Signibble and a Yo-kai Watch here and I'm not afraid to use them."

"Even if I vanted to, I can't!" Dracunyan yelled. "A Dracunyan cannot fix this victims zat he bites. He can only crave more blood!" He hung his head. "It's only a matter of time before zey turn into full Dracunyans as well, and ze whole town shortly after!" He rubbed his temples violently, feeling something pounding and thrashing around in his mind. "Blood! Must have more blood!" He lunged towards Sunset and Signibble, who stepped backwards into the sunlight. "GYAAAAAAOOOOWWWWWW!" He screamed and thrashed about in the sun's rays.

"I'm giving you a chance to fix this, Dracunyan." Sunset Shimmer spoke as he flailed around in the rapidly diminishing sunlight "Fix me friends and I'll let you go back home."

"Gah! I can't!" Dracunyan cried out as the sun scorched his skin. "It's impossible! All I ever vant to eat is blood! Zere's nothing zat'll stop zis hunger!"

"Yes there is." Sunset pulled out another chocolate bar and handed it to Dracunyan. She put it in his mouth and helped him bite into it. "Eat up. You'll need something to at least wash the taste of blood out of your mouth."

Dracunyan slunk back into the shade and took another bite of the chocolate bar. He let the flavour swirl around in his mouth for a while before he swallowed. He felt the texture melt in his mouth and skin down his throat into his stomach. He let out a delicate purr and ravenously ate the rest of it.

"Mmm..." He smiled. "I've never had a Chocobar like zat before! It's so vresh! So clean! So... filling!" He leapt up high into the air just as the sun disappeared behind some houses. "My bloodlust is cured! And it's all vanks to you, my new vriend!"

And just like that, a Yo-kai Medal magically appeared before Sunset Shimmer. It gently floated down into her hands which she then took and put into her Yo-kai Medallium.

"Ze one and only Dracunyan is ready to help you any time." He nodded and stood up on his own two feet again. "Give me a call if you vant some blood sucked! Gyahahahahahahaha!" And with a swift burst of smoke, he vanished into the night.

"Well, now that we've dealt with Dracunyan, what are we going to do about the students that he inspirited?" Sunset looked back at the school, thinking about all of the students that Dracunyan had bitten into during his bloodthirsty spree.

"I dunno." Signibble watched the others come out with their Dracunyan heads on full display. The heads all groaned before the students fell onto them. "Anyone got any more Chocobars?"

"Looks like a job for me!" Pinkie Pie bounced over to the Dracunyan headed humans with lots of chocolate bars in her hands. "Punny Pie the clown is here to save the day! Chocobars for everyone!"

"Pinkie! They're all Dracunyans now!" Sunset reached out to try and stop Pinkie Pie from delivering the chocolate. "You might end up getting—" she watched Pinkie give everyone the chocolate, seeing them dig in. The food returned their heads to normal and they all rubbed their heads as they stood back on two feet, feeling woozy "—bit."

"Guess what they say is true." Pinkie Pie giggled. "Chocolate runs thicker than blood!"

"I think the saying is blood runs thicker than water." Sunset walked over to Pinkie and the crowd. "But I think we've had enough blood for one day, thank you very much."

Everyone else only laughed at that line. They all didn't know why their were laughing, though, and could only just keep doing it. Sunset Shimmer shared some chuckles of her own, but they were very light ones.

"Nightmare Night, what a fright! Give us something sweet to bite!" Whisper and Jibanyan shouted together as they travelled down the streets with Twilight Sparkle and the rest of her pony friends. The Yo-kai were completely naked while the ponies were all dressed up in different costumes, just like Sunset and her friends back in the human world were.

Twilight was now dressed up as Nightmare Moon; Pinkie Pie in a trenchcoat and glasses; Rarity as a demonic beast with claws extending from her shoes; Applejack as a zombie; Fluttershy as her Flutterbat apparel; Rainbow Dash in the zombie dress that Rarity showed off when Heheheel inspirited her; and Red Snow was wearing a red and black oni mask with long horns poking out of the top.

"I must say, Twilight Sparkle, this Nightmare Night of yours is quite enjoyable." Red Snow chuckled as she looked at how many fillies and colts were playing in the dark and decorated streets of Ponyville. "Never before have I seen something quite like this back in Japony. Children of all ages running around playing the roles of monsters and demons to wrest candy from the hooves of willing adults."

"I'm glad you're impressed, Red." Twilight gave her a smile. "Nightmare Night's quite a staple of Equestrian history, you know. As much of a monster Nightmare Moon was, fillies and colts still find it quite fun to try and be as scary as her. Most of them just end up looking cute in their costumes, though."

"I must say, I'm impressed as well." Whisper crossed his arms and nodded his head. "I thought that you ponies wouldn't celebrate Halloween and that you'd have different traditions to the humans, but it turns out I was wrong again. This Nightmare Night is quite identical, really."

"Nyeah! Nate would always take me out on Halloween back in the human world!" Jibanyan added. "He'd always bring home lots and lots of Chocobars too! It was the best time of the year for us!"

"Sounds like this Nate guy was real nice." Twilight gave Jibanyan a little pet on the head. "I still need to schedule a meeting with him at some point..."

"I'm sure that you'll meet him someday, Twilight." Whisper nodded. "Heck. You've managed to fend off three large Boss Yo-kai and a ferocious Gargaros. I'm sure that meeting Nate would be child's play compared to what you've been through."

"Yeah." Twilight thought about herself coming face to face with Whisper and Jibanyan's old master. Then, another thought slipped her mind. "Hey, Whisper? Are there any Nightmare Night-themed Yo-kai?"

"Not to my knowledge." Whisper pulled out his Yo-kai Pad and tapped something in on a search bar. "Yo-kai... Halloween... All I'm seeing are some junk adverts for some Yo-kai gummies and sour gummies."

"Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! We should totally order some of those right now!" Pinkie Pie snatched the Yo-kai Pad from Whisper.

"H-hey! Put that down, Pinkie Pie! I paid a hundred-thousand Y-money for that!" Whisper reached out for Pinkie. "If you leave a crack in it, you're paying for it!"

"Relax, Whisper. I'm not gonna go crazy." Pinkie Pie entered the shipping information and how quickly it should come. The faster option she chose for delivery, the higher the price went. "Just gotta hit the button aaaannnddd... Presto! Yo-kai gummies and sour gummies coming up!"

"I should be questioning this, but it's Pinkie Pie." Whisper asked as Pinkie played around with the Yo-kai Pad, waiting for the sweets to arrive. "Best not to think about it, right?"

"Yeah. You can say that again." Twilight rolled her eyes and watched the sweets materialize before Pinkie's eyes.

"Ooh! Sparkly!" Pinkie took one bag of gummies and ripped it open, tipping the contents into her mouth. She chewed them as much as she could before she swallowed them all. "Super-duper yummy! Much better than regular old pony candy!"

"Pinkie. Don't eat too much candy." Twilight tapped her on the shoulders as they all continued their walk down the street. "You're gonna give yourself cavities, you know."

"Aww, c'mon, Twilight. I eat candy all the time and it hasn't really done any harm to me yet." Pinkie smiled, not even noticing the inspiriting flame being cast around her. All of a sudden, four of her teeth turned jet black and began to hurt. "Yeouch! Until today, that is. Why did it have to be on Nightmare Night too?!"

"Twilight warned you, did she not?" Red Snow looked at Pinkie's black cavities, rubbing them gently. She heard Pinkie yelp a little as she touched the black parts. "Though I'm not sure how a single back of gummies caused you to get cavities like this. Usually over indulgence in sweets gives you one—not a single packet, even if they are Yo-kai World gummies."

"It's all very curious." Whisper looked at the cavities himself before the same flame dropped onto him. His own teeth began to rot. "GAH! NOT MY BEAUTIFUL BUTLER TEETH! OH, MY AFTERLIFE IS RUINED!" He exclaimed as he looked down at his cavities.

"But how?" Twilight's head shot round to examine Whisper. "You didn't even eat anything! How did you get a cavity?"

"Ouch! I've got one too!" Rarity rubbed her teeth.

"Me too!" Fluttershy added.

"Me three!" Applejack showed her teeth off to Twilight.

"Wait a second. Pinkie ate one packet, Whisper ate nothing, and you all haven't even begun to try out your candies." Twilight looked at everyone's cavities before flipping up the Yo-kai Watch. "I think I know what's behind all this. A Yo-kai capable of causing tooth decay!"

"Yeah, right. Like something like that even exists, Twilight." Rainbow Dash tipped her hoof.

"Found him!" Twilight called out, showing the Yo-kai off to everyone.

A black devil with a red cape and a golden tail appeared before the ponies. He wore blood-red shoes with dark bronze buckles, had black shirtless sleeves with gold rings around them, and was carrying a giant golden pitchfork in his right hand. He twirled it around and pointed it at a random filly, casting an inspiriting flame around them, causing them to cry at their cavities.

"Hahahahaha! I love Halloween!" The Yo-kai smirked and flew off towards more children.

"That was... actually a well-timed Yo-kai, given the time of year and all." Whisper looked at the new Yo-kai dart off towards another part of the town. "But anyway, more to the point, that was Count Cavity. He's actually quite famous, you know."

"Famous?" Twilight watched Count Cavity give more ponies cavities, listening to them cry or jump to the sudden surge of pain in their teeth. "How can someone who gives you cavities be famous?!"

"He's one of the eight Ultimate Yo-kai." Whisper opened the Yo-kai Medallium to a blank page with eight holes orbiting a massive symbol. "Along with Cruncha, Goldenyan, Frostail, Auntie Heart, Shadow Venoct, Eterna, and Damona, he's a Yo-kai who holds the key to unlocking an Oni with power beyond compare!"

"Another Oni?" Twilight raised a brow. "As in another relative of Gargaros, Ogralus, and Orcanos?"

"Yes." Whisper closed the book up. "Twilight, my dear. It is imperative that you don't let Count Cavity get away. If you can, befriend him at all costs. It's still negotiation or confrontation as always, but if you get yourself this Yo-kai for yourself then I will be incredibly chuffed."

"I think I've got just the Yo-kai to give this guy a taste of his own medicine." Twilight smirked and pulled out a new Yo-kai from the medallium. Flapping her wings, she dashed over to chase Count Cavity.

What was once a fun night of games and candy was now being ruined as cavities befell many ponies of all ages and races. Foals, fillies, colts, and even mares and stallions weren't safe from Cavity's inspiriting flames.

"Bacteria Barrage!" Count Cavity fired a number of dark blue ghosts down onto the town, covering them with inspiriting flames. He put his ears towards the chorus of cries, groans, and wails, sighing in content as it all died down. "This is why I love Halloween. I can inspirit as many people as I want and no-one would suspect a thing!"

"Hold it right there, Count Cavity!" Twilight called out, flying up to him.

"Hello there. Have we met before?" Count Cavity raised a brow. "I think I recall seeing you somewhere before."

"Princess Twilight, Princess of Friendship. Wearer of the Yo-kai Watch and slayer of Gargaros." She declared, holding up her Yo-kai Medal. "I demand that you free the ponies of this town from your inspiriting powers."

"Your concern for these ponies is touching but hardly necessary." Count Cavity cast his flames towards Twilight, giving her some cavities of her own. "Now then, let's hear you cry, shall we? The pain of cavity-ridden children is music to my ears!"

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Hungramps!" Twilight refused to cry, even with her cavities. She shot Hungramps' medal into the air and caught it with her magic. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" And rammed it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: HEARTFUL!" The watch shouted as green streams of light appeared before them both.

Speedy artful!
Sing, la-la-la!
Everywhere Heartful!

"Hungramps!" He landed on top of a roof with his finger hooked around his mouth. "Eh? What? So, you need me to give someone a bit of an empty stomach? Well, sure thing, Twilight." Thrusting his arms forward, he gave Count Cavity some inspiriting flames of his own.

"Mmm..." Count Cavity's stomach began to rumble as he looked down on the rest of the town. "Uh, could you excuse me for a sec? I gotta get a quick bite to eat." And with that, he dashed off towards the ponies of the town and began to eat into the many different candies that they had.

"I don't get it, Twilight." Applejack came up to Twilight with the rest of the girls. "Why'd you give Count Cavity hunger? He's already caused ponies to get cavities already and now you're just gonna let him eat all of their candy too?"

"Trust me, Applejack. This is the perfect plan." Twilight watched as Count Cavity began tearing into as much candy as he could lay his eyes on. He watched him take fistfuls from the bowls at each pony's doorstep as well as steal some from the fillies and colts of the town. "Trick the trickster. Cavity-fy Count Cavity."

"Oh! I get it!" Pinkie Pie called out before the pain from her cavities flared up. "Ouch!"

"Ugh. Where's a dentist when you need one?" Twilight groaned and watched Count Cavity eat on.

"So... hungry!" Count Cavity fell to his knees as he took in another bite of candy. His teeth came crashing down on the jawbreaker in his hand, splintering it and revealing the squishy core inside. In biting down on that candy, he didn't even realise that his own teeth now had black cavities of his own and he felt the pain shoot up into his skull immediately. "OOOOWWWWWWW!"

"Sounds like our little prankster's had his fill." Twilight flew down to the crippled Count Cavity. "Now then, are you going to stop this little inspiriting nonsense?"

"I don't believe it..." Count Cavity looked down at his hands. "All this time, I thought that I could give out as many cavities as I wanted, when all along, I too am susceptible." He dropped his pitchfork and looked over at Twilight. "How?"

"I simply read your little game from beginning to end and figured out the perfect way to beat you." Twilight nodded. "You see, Pinkie Pie and her friends got cavities because you inspirited them and they don't usually eat candy until we all get back together in the castle. When you gave Whisper and the others their cavities, I was convinced."

"Twilight simply played you like a shamisen, Count." Red Snow walked up to Count Cavity herself and wrapped her hoof around Twilight's shoulders. "Giving you a cavity of your own was the perfect way to get back at you."

"Exactly. Trick the trickster, after all. What goes around comes around," said Twilight.

"Maybe I still have a lot to learn about the world of cavities after all..." Count Cavity got up and picked up his pitchfork. "In the meantime, I'd like to stay with you a bit more, so that I can learn about them better. I still get a kick out of causing them, but I just want to see how they form without the use of my powers." He pulled out his own Yo-kai Medal from his pocket.

"OH MY ENMA!" Whisper squealed and shook his fists rapidly "AN ULTIMATE YO-KAI MEDAL! TAKE IT, TWILIGHT! DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE!"

"Have a happy Halloween, Twilight." Count Cavity put his medal in Twilight's hoof and shook it. "Don't go eating too much candy, ya hear? You might get a cavity for real." And with that, he disappeared.

"Count Cavity." Twilight looked at his Yo-kai Medal. Instead of having a silver and chrome frame like the others, the frame for this one was golden and glistened in the moonlight. There was still the Shady tribe logo on the back, but Twilight was more interested on the front of the medal. "Welcome to the team, my new friend."

"It still baffles me to know that there are such Yo-kai that cause cavities." Rarity approached Twilight and examined Count Cavity's medal. "It really does make you think, doesn't it? About what other Yo-kai are really out there?"

"Some monsters, some cute, but all worth our time." Applejack nodded.

"Are you excited, Whisper?" Twilight looked over at Whisper, who was holding in his emotions as much as he could. He forced a smile as he looked at Count Cavity's medal once more. "Uh, Whisper? Hello?" Twilight waved her hoof in front of him.

"THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE!" Whisper rapidly proclaimed, shooting off in all directions as fast as he could. "ONE OF THE EIGHT ULTIMATE YO-KAI CAPABLE OF FREEING GILGAROS IS NOW OURS! I'VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY IN MY WHOLE ENTIRE AFTERLIFE!" He took in a deep breath and shot into the air like a rocket. "WOOHOO!"

"Sounds like Whisper's having fun." Pinkie Pie watched Whisper explode like a firework, filling the night sky with light. She then felt the cavities in her mouth sting once more. "Owie! More than I can say for us, though..." She rubbed her cheeks.

"Like I said: where's a dentist when you need one?" Twilight rolled her eyes, hearing the other ponies laugh at her joke.

Author's Notes:

Happy Halloween, everyone!

Now, before I go, I want to pose you a very special Yo-kai Watch-themed question.:

Who is the SCARIEST Yo-kai of all time?

Maybe it's Gargaros with his curved teeth and intimidating appearance. Maybe it's Beelzebold and Count Cavity with how similar they look to the devil. Maybe it's Dame Dedtime for her aged appearance and elongated face. Or maybe it's even Gogogo Godfather's final form from Yo-kai Watch 3. I'd love to hear your opinions on this subject matter.

And before I go, I just want to say that I am the proud owner of TWO Count Cavities myself on Yo-kai Watch 1, and if there's any way to bring old Yo-kai from the first game into the second, then I'd gladly pull over the spare Count Cavity and give myself a head-start on crushing Dedtime and the Wicked Yo-kai.

Anyways. Like, comment, follow, upvote, favourite, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Once again, have a truly smashing Halloween night!

Weathering the Crystal Empire

Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan rode together on the train up north towards the Crystal Empire. The Yo-kai were looking out the window to look at all of the sights while Twilight flipped through the pages of her Yo-kai Medallium.

"Whisper, Jibanyan, calm down." Twilight waved her hoof towards the two of them. "It's just the Crystal Empire. Nothing really special about it nowadays. Well... at least for me, that is."

"I hardly doubt how such a place named after crystal could be boring to you, Twilight." Whisper pulled his head out of the window. "For me and Jibanyan, I have to say that this has been a rather riveting trip up to now."

"Nyeah! I'm super excited for this trip too!" Jibanyan leapt up to Twilight's shoulders as well. "But, I gotta ask, why are we going up here in the first place?"

"Well, I got this letter from Shining Armour and Cadence." Twilight pulled it out from her saddlebags and showed it off to Jibanyan. "You and Whisper should take a look at this."

Dear Twilight.

We'd like you to come up to the Crystal Empire with your friends. There's been an issue involving the weather in the Crystal Empire. And before you ask, it's not Flurry Heart's doing this time. Sunburst's been doing a great job controlling her powers. But more to the point, the weather in the Crystal Empire's extremely out of control. It's sunny, then rainy, then snowy, then back to sunny, then rainy and sunny, and then all three at once.

Do you think you could fix this?

—Cadence.

"Hmm. Perhaps there are Yo-kai behind these weather-related occurences." Whisper read through the letter one more time. "Me and Nate have had to deal with many weather-related Yo-kai back in the past..."

"Including one super-nasty Yo-kai capable of causing typhoons!" Jibanyan added.

"There are Yo-kai that cause typhoons?!" Twilight lurched backwards to the sound of the train's brakes. The second the train came to a halt, she was flung forward with the Yo-kai Medallium resting gently on her flanks when she landed, spilling most of her Yo-kai Medals over her hair and face.

"Crystal Empire, everyone!" The conductor called from the carriage door. "Gather all your belongings and watch your step when getting off of the train."

"Are you okay, Twilight?" Whisper asked as he picked the book off of Twilight's haunches. "That was a rather sudden stop, wasn't it?"

"I'm fine, Whisper." Twilight cleaned herself up and began putting her medals back into the book as she walked towards the exit. "It's just a train stop. Not like it's some big nasty weather Yo-kai or anything."

Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan walked off of the train and stepped down onto the platform. Before they could even take another step forward, however, something glimmer in the corner of their eyes. They turned their heads and let out massive gasps at what had happened.

The train had arrived at the station normally, but the conductor's cabin had crashed into a massive pile of snow. The miniature mountain of twinkling snow was half the size of the train but extremely thick. The nose had rammed right into it and it was only getting covered up by even more snow falling from the sky.

"A snowdrift on the tracks?" Twilight walked over towards the pile and rubbed her hoof across the snow. She shivered in doing so as she took a sample and licked it gently, smacking her lips. "It looks genuine enough, but do you really think that this much snow could've fallen that fast? And if that's the case, then why isn't the rest of the train line covered in it, or the station for that matter?" She scratched her chin with her hoof. "There's definitely something going on here. Yo-kai or not, it's up to us to set it right."

"Mayhaps an Alhail caused this." Whisper looked at the snow pile. "Alhails are known for causing freak blizzards whenever they're around. Even summer's not safe from these dastardly things."

"Alhail?" Twilight gave Whisper a smile. "Now that's a clever Yo-kai name. He sounds like a vicious ruler."

"Hey! Aren't we forgetting something? Like a visit to that girl Cadence you were talking about?" Jibanyan cut into Whisper and Twilight's conversation.

"Oh yeah! Sorry about that, Jibanyan." Twilight gently petted him on the head and let him climb up onto her back. "I got a little distracted. Let's move on, shall we?"

"Yes. Lets." Whisper nodded as he and Twilight turned towards the town. "We don't want to keep this Cadence waiting. If the whole town's like this then it's best we get to the source of the problem."

"I'm sure this is one storm we can weather." Twilight nodded. "I mean, we've dealt with much worse than some snow, rain, and sun. How bad could it be?"

"It's pretty bad!" Twilight exclaimed as she watched the state that the empire was in. Rain, sun, and snow domiated the area and sent ponies all around into a panic as they tried to take shelter from all of the elements.

"Oh my..." Whisper looked around at all of the different erratic changes to the weather. Every few seconds, the clouds in the sky rapidly changed or disappeared, allowing a different weather to replace the other. "I've never seen such sporadic weather change like this before. It's like the world can't decide what kind of day it's meant to be!"

"Twilight!" Cadence flew down from the balcony of the castle towards Twilight when she was suddenly struck by a bolt of lightning. "GAH!"

"Cadence!" Twilight ran over towards the thunderstruck alicorn and caught her before she could collide with the crystalline roads. "Are you alright?"

"Y-yeah. I'm fine." Cadence stood back up and brushed her feathers. "Did somepony catch the number of that wagon?"

"Is this Cadence, Twilight?" Whisper asked as he watched her help her sister-in-law back onto her hooves. "In all the years that I've been a Yo-kai butler, I've never seen someone quite as ravishing as she is." He waved his hand over his face, and all of a sudden, he became handsome. "May I ask our lovely princess out on a date later, Twilight?"

"Fat chance of that happening, Whisper." Twilight shook her head. "She's married and has a daughter. Sorry to say this, but she's taken."

Whisper's heart shattered like glass as his original face returned. "Oh... I see how it is." He hung his head. "Twas now meant to be, was it? Oh, no-one will ever want to marry such a gorgeous and dashing butler such as myself! Oh, the yo-manity!"

"C'mon, Whisper, I'm sure that there's a Yo-kai out there waiting for you." Twilight gave him a calming smile. "You've just gotta find her, as she has to find you too."

"Whisper?" Cadence asked, looking at Twilight. "Who are you talking to?" She then looked down at the Yo-kai Watch on Twilight's hoof. "And what's that little thing on your arm? I didn't know you were a fan of watches, Twilight."

"This isn't just any ordinary watch, Cadence," Twilight began. "This is a magical watch known as the Yo-kai Watch. It has a built-in ultraviolet light that detects invisible creatures known as Yo-kai, which we can then talk to, fight, and even befriend."

"Befriend?" Cadence raised a brow. "Are these Yo-kai things dangerous?"

"Not all of them." Twilight shook her head. "There are some big, nasty Yo-kai known as Boss Yo-kai. They can't be befriended and exist only to cause pain and suffering to others. You can't miss them. They're the only Yo-kai that are the size of a house or with greater power than usual."

"I get the feeling that you've got a lot to tell me, haven't you?" Cadence raised a brow as she walked with Twilight towards the castle, through the howling wind, rain, and snow. "But first, we should take shelter! The weather's getting worse!" She had to raised her voice as the weather slammed against her.

"Rain, snow, wind, sun, rain, sun, wind and rain, it's all too much to take in!" Whisper had difficulty flying against the heavy winds. He had to push his arms out to move against the weather. "Aren't there some ponies that should be dealing with this?!"

"We'll discuss that later, Whisper!" Twilight shouted, getting close to the castle's doors. "Right now, we've just gotta get inside!"

Cadence, Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan continued to battle against the hostile forces of nature. Groaning and grunting, the four of them soldiered on against the will of the wind and past the Crystal Heart to arrive at the castle door. Jibanyan got blown away by the weather, but Twilight was able to catch him with her magic before she opened the door and got everyone inside. Once they were out of the weather, she closed the door as quickly as she could.

"Phew..." Twilight brushed her forehead with her hoof. "I wasn't expecting it to pick up like that."

"What do you think could be causing this?" Cadence asked, trotting up the stairs towards the castle's corridors. "Could Sombra be trying to make a return?"

"I highly doubt it. The Crystal Heart is still active, remember?" She pointed back towards the door. "As long as it's there, King Sombra cannot resurrect, nor can the frozen winds of the north strike the empire. My best bet is that there are Yo-kai causing the weather to change."

"Right now, we could be experiencing a full-scale attack from Drizzles and Alhails, but given how there's also sun involved in this wacky weather changing crisis, there might be even more Yo-kai here than I thought." Whisper looked at his Yo-kai Pad and went through the images, swiping them away by gliding his finger over the screen. "No problem, though. I'm sure that the ever-capable Princess Twilight Sparkle will be able to handle this, right?"

"Of course, Whisper." Twilight looked at him as they made it to the top of the stairs. "I'd be glad to help the empire get over the weather issues."

"Pardon me, miss? Are you the one with the famed Yo-kai Watch?"

"Huh? Who's there?" Twilight's head jolted as she looked down the corridors and all around her. No matter where she looked, she couldn't see the person who spoke to her.

"I'm right here." He said. "Just point your Yo-kai Watch at me and this'll be much less awkward."

"Oookay?" Twilight flipped up the lens of her Yo-kai Watch and pointed it towards the direction of the voice. The twelve segments lit up and with another blast of smoke, a new Yo-kai appeared before Cadence and Twilight.

Before them stood a Yo-kai with a head that looked identical to that of a sun, with seven points sticking outward. He wore a white tuxedo with a yellow carnation in the collar, had brown shoes, and wore a cloudy veil around his wrists that slung down around his back.

"Who are you?" Cadence asked, approaching the Yo-kai.

"My name is Ray O' Light." He bowed before the two of them. "I am a Yo-kai capable of bringing a sunny day wherever and whenever possible. No matter how harsh the weather might be, just summon me, and the sun will clear it all away."

"A Yo-kai responsible for sunlight?" Twilight smiled and examined Ray O' Light. "Interesting. I thought that only pegasi were capable of making days clear and sunny, but here you are."

"Yes. Though, I am in a bit of a predicament here." He looked out towards the window down on the sunlight-covered Crystal Empire. "You see, my bride-to-be, Drizzelda was taken away from me by some horrible Yo-kai capable of controlling rain and snow. I've been scouring this place trying to find her, but I've had no such luck."

"Rain and snow... It's DEFINITELY Alhails and Drizzles." Whisper showed Twilight pictures of two similar Yo-kai. They both looked like massive piles of slush with red and yellow eyes, but one was blue and was accompanied by rainclouds, while the other was followed by snowfall. "Drizzle, much like Ray O'Light's bride, Drizzelda, can control rain. Maybe he stole her because he was feeling jealous?"

"I suppose that makes sense. Why have two rain-causing Yo-kai when you could have only one?" Twilight said. "Drizzle must be doing this out of jealousy. But, then why would he want to partner up with Alhail to snatch Drizzelda?"

"Perhaps he's simply trying to marry her himself. But I won't allow it!" Ray O' Light put his hand to his chest. "I swear that I will make it my duty to save my love from that dastardly pair, Drizzle and Alhail!" He looked down at Twilight and Cadence. "Can you two help me out with this, ladies? I promise that I'll make it worth your while."

"Yes. As a Princess of Friendship, it would be cruel of me to leave two lovebirds separated." Twilight readied her watch. "We'll take on Drizzle and Alhail together!"

"As someone who's had their wedding disrupted by an evil force before, I know what you're going through, Ray O' Light." Cadence nodded and walked up to him. She wrapped her hoof around his shoulders. "I'd like to offer my help as well. And when we're done, I could personally wed the two of you myself."

"Thank you ever so much, ladies." Ray O' Light smiled and took their hooves. "Come! We must hurry before Drizzelda's forced to marry that slushy brute, Drizzle!" He began to run towards the door with Twilight and Cadence close behind him.

The two ponies ran with the Yo-kai back out the way they came and through the weather. No matter how strong the rain, snow, and wind was, Ray O' Light's very presence caused a sunspot to appear around the three of them, protecting them from the harsh weather conditions.

"This must be the place." Ray O' Light stopped at a market that was now completely swamped with rain and snowfall. It was far heavier than the rest of the town and was even accompanied with a few thunderbolts streaking down from the sky. "The weather here is absolutely foul. Drizzelda's here somewhere, I can just feel it!"

"Time for the Yo-kai Watch." Twilight used the lens and looked through it. She pointed towards the clearest part of the market, causing the twelve segments of her watch to light up and cause three smoke explosions to appear before her eyes.

Drizzle and Alhail were tightly holding onto a female Yo-kai with a massive puddle by her feet. She wore an umbrella atop her head that was missing a few segments and had long black hair with a plain grey dress. She was thrashing about in the two other Yo-kai's grips as she tried to break free. However much she tried, though, the Yo-kai were holding onto her incredibly tight.

"Soon, my wife Drizzelda, you will marry me and not that stupid sunburn, Ray!" Drizzle tugged on Drizzelda's right arm. "Two rain Yo-kai are meant to be together! Not a rain and sun Yo-kai!"

"Ngggh! Somebody help me!" Drizzelda yelled, trying to get free of Drizzle and Alhail's grips.

"Drizzelda! My darling!" Ray O' Light ran forward and confronted the two slush Yo-kai. "Release her, you vile fiends!"

"Back off, sunstain!" Alhail breathed on Ray O' Light, causing a hailstorm to slam into his face and knock him backwards. "Drizzle and Drizzelda were meant to be together! I will ensure that my partner has his wedding!"

"Twilight. There's no reasoning with them." Whisper pulled out Twilight's Yo-kai Medallium. "You know what must be done."

"I understand." Twilight reached into her Yo-kai Medallium and pulled out a medal before giving the book back to Whisper. "Let's brighten up Ray's day."

"Ray! Get out of here!" Drizzelda called. "The weather's getting too strong!"

"No, Drizzelda! I'm not leaving you again!" Ray O' Light defiantly stood proud before Drizzle and Alhail. "These horrible Yo-kai that stole you away shall feel the full force of my sunshine powers!"

"You don't understand, Ray! Me being with Drizzle is causing the rainfall to get stronger by the second!" Drizzelda cried out. "What should be a simple rainstorm is turning into a monsoon! You have to run before you get completely overwhelmed!"

"Come on out, my Yo-kai friend! Calling Gargaros!" Twilight tossed the medal skyward and caught it with her magic. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" She rammed it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: TOUGH!" The Yo-kai Watch declared as Gargaros began to take shape before the Yo-kai.

Gruff stuff!
Rough bluff!
Red ban, jacket stand, bling-blang
TOUGH!

"Gargaros!" He roared skyward, brandishing his spiked club.

"An Oni, eh?" Drizzle smirked as he thrust his free hand towards Gargaros, swamping him with a rainy tornado. "Guess it's time to see just how strong the Drizzle-Drizzelda combo really is!"

"Ngggh! What power!" Gargaros used his spiked club to defend himself from the rain. "I've never had such a problem with weather before!"

"Ahah! Perhaps you need my help!" Ray O' Light raised his hands high, causing the storm around Gargaros to turn into a sunny day. "Now then, shall we deal with these monsters together?"

"Yes. Let's do this, guys!" Twilight thrust her hoof towards Drizzle and Alhail. "Attack!"

"Gladly." Gargaros smirked and ran towards Drizzle and Alhail with his club raised high. He slammed it right down onto Drizzle, turning him into a large puddle.

"Prepare yourself, Alhail." Ray O' Light clapped his hands together and shot fire out of both of them. "The forecast today calls for sun!"

"Graagh!" Alhail was struck by Ray O' Light's attack and began to melt. "Pesky fire attacks..."

"Drizzelda's MINE!" Drizzle roared and reformed himself. He clapped his hands, causing the rainfall to get even heavier. "Waterfall!" He raised his hands high, causing a massive torrent of water to soak Twilight, Cadence, Gargaros, and Ray O' Light. A bolt of lightning struck the water too, sending electricity through the bodies of all of them.

"Clever. But not good enough!" Gargaros shrugged off the attack and stomped on Drizzle, once more turning him into a puddle

"Just you wait, Drizzelda. I'll save you shortly." Ray O' Light ran towards Alhail and gave him a flip kick and another fire attack. "Take this, you cretin! Blaze!" He said as he shot fire once more from his hands.

"Enough of this! It's time for the finishing move!" Drizzle gathered energy for his Soultimate attack. "Alhail! You too! Let's really give them a storm to fight!"

Alhail nodded in compliance and took in energy as well. Together, the two of them charged their attacks, causing the weather behind them to get even more heavy, to the point where there was nothing but rain and snow instead of the market. The rain and snow was so strong that it completely concealed Drizzle and Alhail and made them invisible.

"HEAVY SQUALL!" Drizzle roared.

"HEAVENLY HAIL!" Alhail added.

The two Yo-kai punched forward with their fists, sending the entire storm in the direction of Cadence, Twilight, and the Yo-kai. It was so powerful that to them, it felt like they were getting hit by a tidal wave of ice-cold water and snow instead of simply being caught up in a rainstorm. The torrent was so powerful that it swept everyone off of their feet and even sent a few buildings flying into the distance. All of them crashed into the castle and fell to the ground when it eventually died down.

"Urrgghhh... Why doesn't the Crystal Empire have a weather team of their own?" Twilight asked with her eyes swirling from the impact. She stuck her tongue out and fainted.

"Now you've got my attention." Gargaros stood up and picked his club off of the ground. He swung it around and charged at Drizzle and Alhail roaring at the top of his voice, "NIGHTMARE BEAT!" Leaping high into the air, he brought his club down on Drizzle, erasing him from the face of the Crystal Empire permanently.

"Drizzelda. No amount of rain and snow will keep me from loving you!" Ray O' Light gathered his own Soultimate energy and ran towards Alhail as fast as he could, throwing his arms back him. "SUNNY SHINY FLARE!" He jumped as high as he could as well, raising his hands skyward.

The storm that Alhail and Drizzle commanded had been completely destroyed by a blast of golden energy from Ray O' Light. Intense heat from the sun pounded down on Alhail, causing him to melt and turn into water. With a final somersault, Ray O' Light landed on top of Alhail's watery remains and splashed some small drops of water onto Drizzelda.

The second that Alhail disappeared back to the Yo-kai World, the weather returned to normal. The rain and snow had been completely removed and the winds had died down to a simple summer's breeze.

"Ray... You did it!" Drizzelda gave him a smile as he helped her stand back up on her own two feet. "You've saved me!"

"Of course, my darling." Ray O' Light gave Drizzelda a small hug and looked her in the eyes. "I would never let anything bad happen to you. And no matter what the weather, the two of us were meant to be together."

"Oh, Ray!" Drizzelda threw herself into a hug and wept into Ray O' Light's shoulders. "I'd never let anything happen to you, either!"

Twilight's legs wobbled as she got back onto her feet. Her head was still spinning from Alhail and Drizzle's Soultimates. She shook her head to re-orient herself and found that everything had returned to normal.

"That was a good fight." Gargaros came back up to Twilight with a smile on his face. "For such tiny Yo-kai, Alhail and Drizzle had really good co-operation. Made me break a sweat."

"You did a good job in dealing with them, Gargaros." Twilight nodded and took his medal out of the Yo-kai Watch. "That'll be all for now. You can return home."

"Very well." He bowed before her. "It was an honour being able to fight such strong Yo-kai under your command." Then, he disappeared back to his home.

"I'm just glad that that's over." Cadence got back onto her feet as well, brushing off all of the rain and snow that had fallen onto her wings. "Now the Crystal Empire's weather should begin to stabilize." As soon as she finished speaking, rain began to fall behind Drizzelda. "Or not."

"No. It's perfectly fine, Cadence." Twilight looked at Ray O' Light and Drizzelda. "Drizzle was amplifying his own powers with Drizzelda's. Now that he and Alhail are gone, the rain's gone back to a more non-lethal state."

"Indeed." Whisper nodded. "Having two rain Yo-kai together would be chaos on a massive scale. Drizzle was going to risk everything just for love."

"He's not the only one. Ray O' Light was willing to throw himself right into the thick of it just to save Drizzelda." Twilight smiled at the two Yo-kai reuniting with one another. "Now that's some devotion."

"Twilight, I can't thank you enough for rescuing Drizzelda." Ray O' Light came up to her and Cadence. "As a reward for saving my beloved, I think it only fitting that you deserve some form of medal." He reached into his pockets and pulled out a Yo-kai Medal, giving it to Twilight immediately.

"Oh! I think I deserve to spread my thanks as well." Drizzelda gave Twilight her own Yo-kai Medal. "Any friend of Ray's is a friend of mine."

"Thank you. Both of you." Twilight took both medals and put them into her Yo-kai Medallium.

"I may not know about Yo-kai weddings, but I'd be glad to help you two get wed right now." Cadence approached Ray O' Light and Drizzelda. "As the Princess of Love, I'll take up the honour of marrying you two right on this spot." With a powerful flash of light from her horn, Cadence generated an altar with flowers hanging around it, and lots of chairs for an audience to occupy

"Whoa." Twilight looked at what Cadence had pulled off with a single spell. "You've been practising, haven't you?"

"You could say that." Cadence gave Twilight a smile. "Now then, I think we need some guests for this wedding of ours."

"I know just who to call..." Twilight opened up her medallium once again.

Eventually, Twilight and her friends had set up everything for the perfect wedding. She had filled up all of the seats with her Yo-kai friends, other townsponies, and even a few Yo-kai that she had never even seen before. All friends of everyone involved with her, Cadence, Ray O' Light, and Drizzelda.

Whisper was the ring-bearer for the occasion while Jibanyan threw flower petals down the aisle with Drizzelda following close behind him. Twilight had the position of best mare while Cadence was the one who would speak the vows for both of them.

Using her magic, Twilight had been able to briefly extend the Yo-kai Watch's power so that even the ponies could see what was going on. It took her a great deal of concentration to maintain, but once she got the spell just right, she was casting it with ease.

"Dearly beloved," Cadence began. "We are gathered here today in the Crystal Empire to join these two Yo-kai, Ray O' Light, and Drizzelda, together in holy matrimony." She motioned to Whisper to bring the rings over to her. "This is a special kind of union that's only seen once in a generation. When two common souls come together and share their love for one another, it is truly a wonderful sight to behold.

"Ray O' Light. Do you take Drizzelda to be your lawfully wedded wife?" Cadence asked.

"I do." Ray O' Light bowed before Drizzelda, producing a bouqet of flowers.

"And do you, Drizzelda, take Ray O' Light to be your lawfully wedded husband?" Cadence turned towards Drizzelda, who had a slight tear in her eyes.

"Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes!" She exclaimed and gave Ray O' Light a massive hug.

"then by the power vested in me as the Princess of Love, I hereby prononuce you two man and wife." Cadence slipped the rings on both Ray O' Light and Drizzelda's fingers. "You may kiss the bride."

Ray O' Light and Drizzelda immediately kissed one another, causing an uproar of cheering from the crowd.

"I'm so happy for them." Twilight shed a small tear herself at Ray O' Light and Drizzelda's marriage. "I promised myself that I wouldn't cry, so why am I?"

"Marriage is a complex thing, Twilight." Whisper floated over to her. "It's so moving and yet so saddening. As two noble souls become one, we can only imagine on where their adventures will take them in the future."

"Maybe you nyeed to get married too, Twilight!" Jibanyan walked up to her. "We knyow who you love nyow, thanks to Tattletell, so maybe we could set up a few dates with—"

"No, you two. I'm fine." Twilight brushed Whisper and Jibanyan's hair with her hoof. "Let's not ruin the moment right now. We're witnessing a real Yo-kai wedding." And with that, she watched on as Ray O' Light and Drizzelda walked down the aisle together with their arms linked together.

"Yeah. You're right. It's better to save those thoughts for another day." Whisper nodded. "After all, a true relationship takes time to blossom."

"Someday, you'll get married yourself, Twilight!" Jibanyan jumped up. "I'd love to throw flowers for you someday!"

"And I would be more than happy to be the ring-bearer once more." Whisper bowed.

"Guys! Stop!" Twilight tried to get Whisper and Jibanyan to think about something else, but it was all lost in a conversation about flowers, cake, and the perfect groom. Letting out a groan, Twilight hung her head.

Author's Notes:

So, I finally managed to get my hands on Yo-kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits! Yay!

I'm doing well so far. I've befriended a fairly decent amount of Yo-kai in the first parts of the game. I haven't even gotten the Model Zero yet, either. Also, you wouldn't believe that I own a Lie-in-Heart and a Siro before I've even met Hovernyan, but it's true.

Anyway, as always, leave comments, thumbs up, favourites, share it with your friends, anything to do with this story. I'd love to hear it.

Dark Yo-kai (Part 1)

Kin and Gin appeared high above the sky. They looked down on Ponyville and all of the houses blanketed by the moonlight's glow. A small grin crept onto their faces as they swooped down towards Twilight's castle.

"I still don't know why King Void trusted the Dark Yo-kai to us, Kin," said Gin as they flew.

"King Void's Dark Yo-kai are beyond anything we could've ever imagined." Kin made a claw out of her left hand, letting black lightning bolts streak between the prints of each of her fingers. "Not only are they much stronger than our old leader's Wicked Yo-kai, but they are far more erratic. In that sense, they can move in much different patterns than their regular counterparts."

"Was that why they were twitching back at the king's castle?" Gin raised a brow.

"That is simply their stable forms. Dark Yo-kai don't like staying in one place too long." Kin landed on the rooftop point of Twilight's castle. "When Dark Yo-kai are unleashed, they bounce and jump around like pinballs, driving their claws and dark energy into everyone and everything that they can find. They can't take control of mortals like the Wicked Yo-kai can, but they amplify their victim's powers by a much more considerable margin than the Wicked."

"Is that all?" Gin hovered beside her.

"There's much more than that." Kin nodded. "But we should really find out for ourselves. What's the point in ruining the surprise anyway?"

Kin and Gin gathered dark energy in their hands and channelled it to create a massive orb of black energy. Once it was big enough, they threw the orb down on the town, coating it with darkness. The blast was only momentary and nothing had been destroyed or damaged, but there were black puddles beginning to form all over the town.

"Rise, our pets..." Kin chuckled and thrust her claw skyward. "Bring this wretched village down! Eliminate Twilight Sparkle and her prissy pony friends!"

From the black puddles, Dark Yo-kai began to rise. Hands erupted first, before their bodies and heads, with their legs following after. They all got up and groaned in a similar matter to zombies as they took on their physical forms. Yo-kai that Twilight had met already and ones she had yet to meet were all gathering to obey Kin and Gin's orders.

"Let's see how Twilight deals with this..." both Kin and Gin said together, sharing chuckles between each other before they created a black portal. They flew through it and vanished without a trace, leaving the town covered with Dark Yo-kai.

The next day, Whisper and Twilight examined a destroyed applecart in the town. Apples had been spilled everywhere and the cart itself had been completely destroyed beyond all repair. There were traces of black and purple slime on the splintered pieces of wood. The sludge glowed and radiated a black spore that faded into the air.

"And you're saying that a Yo-kai might be the cause of it?" Twilight asked Applejack, who was busy picking up all of the apples.

"Ah don't see anything else that could've caused it." Applejack shook her head and scooped up another batch of apples. "Nopony could've just rammed into my applecart in the middle of the day and caused such a strike like that. Heck, not even Rainbow Dash could've destroyed this. It's the sturdiest wood the Apple Family has."

"Maybe we should check out the scene of the crime in more detail, Twilight." Whisper gently tapped Twilight's shoulders and retrieved a magnifying glass. "Who knows? If we look hard enough, we might just find something important."

"Good idea, Whisper." Twilight walked back over to the wrecked cart. "Best to know who we're dealing with, after all."

Twilight and Whisper examined as many pieces of the wood as possible, looking for the slightest bit of a clue as to how the cart could have been totalled. Unfortunately, their search proved fruitless as they could only find toothpick-shaped pieces of the cart and more apples.

"Whisper? I think I found something..." Twilight noticed a piece of shattered wood with the black goo on it. She slowly walked forward and picked it up. "What is this? I don't think I've ever seen something like this before..."

"Hmm. Maybe I should get a better look at it." Whisper took the wood and reached into his belly, retrieving a microscope.

"Can I just ask where in the world did you get a microscope?" Twilight watched Whisper set the apparatus down on the ground and place the wood beneath.

"What? A butler must be prepared for any and all circumstances!" Whisper retorted. "Also, you did kind of leave your lab open the last time I was in there, so I seized the opportunity."

"Whisper! That's mine!" Twilight shoved him aside and looked down the lens herself, modifying the scope to increase the zoom on the substance.

The black goo upon closer inspection was pulsating ever so slightly. Faint whispers of screams could be heard every time that it bubbled up. Aside from that, there was nothing else special about it other than the spore it was radiating.

"What is this thing...?" Twilight zoomed in even more, to the point where she couldn't see anything else anymore through the lens of her microscope.

"Twilight! Mind your manners when you push someone!" Whisper got back from the ground and floated back over to her. "There was absolutely no reason for you to push me like that! You could've just asked, you know."

"Whisper, I can't make anything out of this black slime." Twilight gave the microscope back to Whisper with her magic. "You might want to take a look at this yourself."

Whisper looked through the lens of the microscope at the dark substance for a while, watching the slime move around ever so slightly. After he observed it, he gave the microscope back to Twilight.

"Now this is odd," he said. "It has faint marking of Yo-kai energy, but it seems to have been all but blotted out by the goo."

"You're saying that it's some new Yo-kai thing that neither of us have ever seen before?" Twilight cocked a brow and looked at the black substance herself.

"Yes. Not only have I never seen this sort of stuff before, but it's never been recorded in history at all! This a brand-new discovery for both my world and yours!" Whisper pulled his eye from the microscope. "It's rather ominous and quite ghastly, but it's something new nonetheless."

"Do you think it could be linked with the destruction of Applejack's cart?" Twilight asked.

"It's very likely. It was on multiple pieces of wood, as I recall..." Whisper looked at the other wood pieces lying around on the dirt road.

"SKRRAAWWWW!"

"What was that?" Twilight looked around and readied her Yo-kai Watch.

She found absolutely nothing when she looked around. No matter where she pointed the Yo-kai Watch, she couldn't find any Yo-kai nearby that could be her culprit. Sweat began to run down from her brow as the noise was repeated, sounding similar to that of a bald eagle's cry.

"Twilight! Black Yo-kai alert!" Whisper pointed in the exact same direction Twilight was looking.

"But where?! I can't see anything!" Twilight responded. "My Yo-kai Watch isn't picking anything up!"

"Oh dear. Don't tell me that the Wicked Yo-kai have been re-introduced..." Whisper fished his belly one more time and pulled out the glasses that Twilight had worn when she found Sgt. Burly. "Here you go, Twilight."

Twilight put the glasses on and could immediately see the new Yo-kai flying before her. It was similar in appearance to Buhu, only its' entire body was black and glowed purple, similar to how the slime looked. Instead of a crying face, an evil face with a wide grin and piercing red eyes was on its' stomach, while its' floppy head grew some fangs.

"Gyahahahahahaha! Fear me, mortals!" said the Yo-kai. "I am the last thing your world will ever see! I am none other than the fiendish Miseraven!"

"Miseraven?" Twilight looked at the Buhu clone. "Whisper? Do you have any knowledge on this Yo-kai?"

"No!" Whisper tapped on his Yo-kai Pad as fast as he could. "He's not a normal Yo-kai, nor a Boss Yo-kai. Heck, he's not even a Wicked Yo-kai either!"

"Then what is he?" Twilight barked.

"Fight me, puny pony and flying egg!" Miseraven glared at Twilight and Whisper. "I shall destroy your pitiful village, just as I took down that flimsy applecart!"

"Twilight! What's going on?" Applejack asked as Twilight took a few steps backward.

"Applejack. There are some more Yo-kai around here. You'd better get out of here before you get hurt!" She called over to her.

"No way. We've faced danger like this before, haven't we?" Applejack stood right next to Twilight. "And I'm sure we can handle something like a single little—" before she could even finish, she was blasted into the distance by a black wingbeat formed from Miseraven's wings "—Yo-kaaaaiiiiiiiiiiggghhhhh!"

"Pathetic, really." Miseraven snarled and jolted around, his body shaking like a jelly in an earthquake. "Now then. Shall we battle?"

"Guess we don't have a choice." Whisper retrieved Twilight's Yo-kai Medallium. "I mean, he called me an EGG! I AM NOT AN EGG! Fried, scrambled, sunny side up, boiled, or even poached! I. Am. Whisper! W-H-I-S-P-E-R!"

Twilgiht rolled her eyes and retrieved her Yo-kai Medal. "Come on out, my friend! Calling Darumacho!" Twilight threw the medal high. "Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!" She shoved it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: TOUGH!" The watch summoned Darumacho in flashes of orange light.

Gruff stuff!
Rough bluff!
Red ban, jacket stand, bling-blang
TOUGH!

"Darumacho!" He banged his knuckles together and appeared before Miseraven.

"Weak." Miseraven fired off another black wingbeat towards Darumacho, who put his fists forward to repel the attack.

"Darumacho! Attack!" Twilight pointed at Miseraven.

Darumacho charged in and tried to punch Miseraven, but the small bird's form was so unstable that it warped right out of the way of the attack and clawed at Darumacho's back twice, leaving deep cuts in his back.

"Hurt..." Miseraven drove its' claws into Darumacho's back, causing the Yo-kai to scream as loud as he could. "Kill..." Miseraven then lifted him high into the air and threw him towards the fountain. "DESTROY!"

"Darumacho!" Twilight reached out and reclaimed his medal from the watch. "Guess we're gonna have to try something else."

"It would seem that way." Whisper looked at how Miseraven hovered in the air. "Though, I must say that I've never seen something quite as vicious as Miseraven before..."

"Guess it's time to see what you can do, eh, Whisper?" Twilight pulled out his Yo-kai Medal.

"What?! Me?!" Whisper stumbled backwards at the sight of his medal in Twilight's hooves. "Twilight. Let's think logically about this—"

"Come on out, my friend! Calling Whisper!" Twilight threw the next medal up.

"Twilight! Please be sure to rethi—"

"Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!"

"I HAVEN'T HAD A FIGHT IN MY ENTIRE LIIIIIIFFFFFEEEEE!" Whisper cried out as he disappeared into a black hole with a light-blue ring around it.

"Huh. Guess that's what happens when I summon a Yo-kai on their end of the spectrum." Twilight watched the ring disappear.

"SUMMONING: SLIPPERY!" Light-blue rays of light poured out of the Yo-kai Watch this time.

Glippery!
Trippery!
Slimey-wimey-do, SLIPPERY!

"Gah!" Whisper crashed into the ground and pulled his head out of the dirt.

"C'mon, buddy. I'm counting on you." Twilight gave Whisper a smile as he climbed out of the ground and brushed the remaining dirt off of his arms.

"Alright. It has been a while, hasn't it?" Whisper cracked the muscles in his neck and hands as he eyed up Miseraven. "I might be a rusty old ghost, but I still know a trick or two. Try this!" He took in some air, causing little pink balls of light to fly off of Miseraven.

"OUCH!" Miseraven said as the balls left his body.

"Nice hit, Whisper! Now hit him again!" Twilight smiled.

"Grr... Lucky hit." Miseraven swooped down on Whisper and jittered some more before fazing straight through him. He was about to launch a counterattack when Whisper somersaulted underneath him and dealt him a strong uppercut.

"Haha! I'm not just some flimsy little companion!" Whisper declared as he grabbed Miseraven's feet and threw him towards Twilight. "I'm Whisper! And you shall not forget my name, little Yo-kai."

"Enough of this! Dark Soultimate Charge!" Miseraven flapped his wings hard enough to avoid being impaled by Twilight's horn.

"Dark Soultimate?" Whisper froze up at the name. "What the heck's a Dark Soultimate?"

"THIS!" Miseraven gathered enough black energy and shot towards Whisper like a comet. Black slipstreams followed him as he flew towards the Yo-kai. "MISERY MAELSTROM!" With a stronger wingbeat than before, he launched a stronger gale that sent Whisper flying through the town, crashing into multiple houses before busting the doors of Town Hall open.

"Ngghh. What strength!" Twilight fought against the backblast from the heavy winds and watched Whisper struggle to get back up. "I've never seen a Yo-kai that strong be so powerful before."

"Time to finish you!" Miseraven flew towards Whisper, claws unfurled and ready to strike. "DIE!"

Whisper got back up and drew his fist back. He watched Miseraven get closer to him and waited for the perfect moment to strike. When he was close enough to him, Whisper thrust his fist straight at Miseraven so hard that it went straight through the bird's body, causing its' physical being to break up and disperse across the town before vanishing for good.

"That was a close one." Twilight ran over to Whisper and helped him get back up into the air. "Are you alright, Whisper?"

"Yes. Yes I am." Whisper coughed up some green slime and wiped his mouth. "Though I must say that that battle took a lot more out of me than I expected. I've never seen any Yo-kai like that before in my life, let alone that strong!"

"What do you think it was?" Twilight asked once she pulled the Yo-kai Medal out of the watch and put it back into her Medallium.

"Well, they definitely weren't related to the Wicked Yo-kai. I know that for sure." Whisper shook his head. "But where they did come from intrigue me..."

"So, what now?" Twilight asked.

"We should check on the rest of the town, make sure no-one else had to deal with Miseraven or any other Yo-kai related to him." Whisper looked at the destroyed fountain and how it was spewing water everywhere. "But most of all, we should check on the rest of your friends. If Miseraven could blow Applejack away with ease, then I worry what could happen to Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy."

"Then what in the hay are we standing here for?" Twilight unfurled her wings and took to the skies. "Come on! We've gotta get to Sugarcube Corner fast!"

Whisper followed closely behind Twilight, on the lookout for any other Yo-kai with similar colour schemes and menacing designs.

"And so it begins." Venoct watched from the rooftops. "Dark Yo-kai befall this world."

"King Void's infantry will soon reduce Ponyville to rubble if Princess Twilight doesn't fix this." Kyubi crossed her arms and shot a ball of fire at another Dark Yo-kai, causing it to disappear in a similar manner to Miseraven. "Venoct. We should provide support. Make sure that there's not too much damage."

"Good idea." Venoct nodded. "I shall take the market while you handle the suburbs." He felt his dragon scarf thrash about wildly, letting out muffled roars as both heads craned skyward. "Come, Orochi. Now we shall sate your hunger."

Venoct and Kyubi dashed in separate directions to aid with fighting the Dark Yo-kai. Neither of them looked back at each other as they jumped from rooftop to rooftop, looking for their targets.

Author's Notes:

As a disclaimer, most of the Dark Yo-kai will have their names changed so that they are all more negative forms of their original Yo-kai. For example, Miseraven is the Dark Yo-kai form of Buhu, and his powers are more geared towards making people suffer extremely painful misery.

If you like this idea, than be sure to help me out with naming other Dark Yo-kai. It can be as clever or as unclever as you want, just as long as it's not something like Dark Fidgephant or Dark Faysoff or even Dark Lady Longneck...

As always, like, comment, subscribe, all that usual jazz, and just talk to me. I like hearing you guys talk.

Dark Yo-kai (Part 2)

Pinkie Pie was being attacked by a perfectly identical copy of herself in Sugarcube Corner. The clone had malicious green eyes and a wide smirk as it threw tables and chairs at her, causing them to shatter when they hit the wall. When it picked up a cupcake, cookie, or any other baked goods, it simply crushed them underneath its hooves and approached her.

"Somepony help me!" Pinkie bawled loudly. "It doesn't like any of my sugary treats!"

"Pinkie Pie!" Twilight burst through the door and landed on her hooves, readying her Yo-kai Watch. She looked at the clone of Pinkie and fired a beam of magic at it, turning it into a black mannequin with red eyes and a devilish smile. "Get away from her, you evil Yo-kai!"

"I am anyone and everyone. I ruin names at a moment's notice." The Yo-kai spoke in a robotic tone of voice. "I am Impersult. I shall become you!" And with a blast of black energy, he transformed into Twilight.

"Whoa..." Twilight's eyes shot wide open at the sight of Impersult's mimicry. "A Yo-kai that can shapeshift?"

"That didn't sound like the reaction I was expecting," Whisper said. "I though you would be like 'AGGH! Shape-shifting Yo-kai!'"

"Whisper, we have shape-shifting creatures on this planet too." Twilight stepped forward. "They're called Changelings, and unlike Yo-kai, they can be seen, are usually very unfriendly, and are commanded by the ruthless Queen Chrysalis." She opened the Medallium and pulled out a Yo-kai Medal. "I would be happy about this, but it's another black Yo-kai. I'm guessing that Miseraven's not the only one of these things."

"Do you think a new Yo-kai tribe arose while I was locked away?" Whisper raised a brow.

"If so, then we need to identify it and prepare for more." Twilight nodded. "Come on out, my friend! Calling Count Cavity!" Twilight threw the medal against the ceiling, catching it quicker than usual. "Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!"

"SUMMONING: SHADY!" The watch declared as dark blue energy danced to create Count Cavity.

Marvellis, thee
Cosy, free banshee
Sing-song, Shady!

"Count Cavity!" He pointed his pitchfork towards the black Yo-kai.

"Impersonating." Impersult glared at Count Cavity, firing a red laser at his body. It didn't do any damage, but it began to scan him from head to toe like a machine would. "Data syphoned. Count Cavity guise complete." With the same blast, Impersult changed into the Yo-kai before him.

"Something tells me that this is gonna be a hard one..." Twilight rolled her eyes. "Count Cavity. Can you take this clone out?"

"Of course, Twilight." He banged the end of his pitchfork on the ground and twirled it around him. "Beware, foul Dark Yo-kai!"

"Dark Yo-kai?" Whisper and Twilight chorused.

"Yo-kai who have been lost to darkness, cannot be befriended, and only have the tendency to hurt, kill, destroy, and cause utter chaos." Count Cavity turned back and explained it to them. "A whole horde of them attacked the Yo-kai World recently. They were all following the orders of King Void.

"DID YOU JUST SAY KING VOID?!" Whisper jolted backwards.

"Destroy that Dark Yo-kai now!" Twilight yelled. "We can't let King Void threaten Equestria too!"

"Gladly!" Count Cavity charged in and jabbed at Impersult with his pitchfork. "Take this!"

"Block." Impersult's voice remained the same as he grabbed the pitchfork effortlessly. "I am everyone and everything. I become, I scan, I analyze, I DESTROY!" halfway through the sentence, his voice was modulated to sound identical to Count Cavity. "Now, DIE!"

Impersult used his own pitchfork to clash with Count Cavity's. The two of them were now locked in a battle, their weapons banging against each other and causing sparks to fly as they grinded against each other. They lunged at each other, trying to stab the other as best as they could, only to narrowly get out of the way in time.

"Dark Soultimate charging." Impersult took in black energy as Count Cavity got back on his feet. A few seconds later, he took in enough and leapt high into the air. "REPLACEMENT RAZE!" He declared, copying Count Cavity's Bacteria Barrage perfectly. He fired black ghosts with red eyes down on him, who dealt him great damage and cast an inspiriting flame.

"Gah." Count Cavity kneeled before Impersult after taking the blow. "There's no denying it. He's me in every way, shape, and form. Even gave me cavities too."

"These Dark Yo-kai are even stronger than I thought." Twilight waved her hoof over the bubble-dome of the Yo-kai Watch. "Maybe it's time we kick this up a notch."

"Yo-kai Watch EX, activate!" Twilight shouted and slammed her hoof down on the dome, causing the Yo-kai Watch to transform once again. Five more medal slots popped out before the watch face turned into the miniature computer screen once again. "Battle perimiters met! Summoning Yo-kai!" She took out five more medals and put them all into her watch.

"Darumacho!"

"Negatibuzz!"

"Dimmy!"

"Ray O' Light!"

"Drizzelda!"

Twilight retrieved the stylus from her watch and launched a pin on the screen at Impersult. "Team! Focus your attacks there!" She dragged Count Cavity into the backrow on the wheel and tapped the button to purify him. After wildly rubbing the screen with the inkless pen, she cured the Yo-kai and put him back into the fray.

"Ngghh... Too many Yo-kai to analyse! System failure imminent!" Impersult stumbled backwards and took on the guises of all six Yo-kai at once, turning him into a deformed monster made up of six individual parts.

"Eww... Guys, just drop him now." Twilight cringed and looked away at what Impersult had become.

The Yo-kai charged in and attacked the Dark Yo-kai all at once, causing its' guise to shatter instantly. The Yo-kai let out a distorted scream before disappearing the exact same way that Miseraven vanished.

"Thank you very much, Twilight and friends." Pinkie Pie pulled her head out of her hiding place and slowly walked out. "I thought that that meanie-bo-beanie Yo-kai Changeling would make me seem super-duper evil."

"It's not a Changeling, Pinkie Pie. It's a Dark Yo-kai." Twilight walked up to Pinkie and checked for scratches and cuts. "It's one of King Void's footsoldiers. He's already begun invading Equestria. We need to get the others together right now."

Pinkie Pie wiped her eyes clean and took a deep breath. Her breathing became shallow and her eyes were concealed by her hair, which now deflated. "Alright. I'll come." Her neck shot up with her eyes ablaze. "I need to kick that mean King Void's tushy straight back to whatever dark and gloomy hole he crawled out of after all of cakes that were LOST BECAUSE OF HIS STUPID YO-KAI!"

"Oh my. I've never seen Pinkie Pie that upset before." Whisper leaned in closer.

"Pinkie Pie gets awfully upset when cakes, pastries, and other such food get wasted." Twilight raised a hoof. "And whenever she gets upset, her mane gets straight and she becomes an entirely different pony. And I always get that slight nagging sensation that she's going to do something horrible to somepony when she's like that."

"WHERE IS HE?!" Pinkie roared and darted out of the building, leaving a stream of dust behind him.

"She's really fired up about this," Whisper whispered into Twilight's ears. "And Blazion's nowhere to be found."

"That's Pinkie Pie for you." Twilight looked over at him. "She's unpredictable, she's funny, and she's a great friend to be with. But even a happy-go-lucky pony like Pinkie Pie has her limits. And it's always the happy ones that usually have the biggest freakouts."

"Well, if that's true, then I certainly don't want to get on her bad side..." His eyes went wide as he and Twilight. "Let's hurry up and save our friends."

"GYAAA!" Rarity screamed as she dodged attacks from a Dark Yo-kai version of Dazzabel. The umbrella now had a spearhead poking out of the edge and shot out bolts of lightning every time the jab missed Rarity's flesh. "Get away from me, you... you brute!"

"All will bow down before King Void..." The Dark Yo-kai lunged in at Rarity once more, destroying a mannequin and the dress it was wearing. "The Yo-kai World has fallen, and soon, so will both of your worlds. They will all be his!"

"Rarity!" Twilight charged in with her Yo-kai Watch EX and entourage of Yo-kai behind her. "Team! Take her down!"

"Got it!" The six Yo-kai chorused and leapt into battle, knocking the Yo-kai into a pile of fabrics.

"Who dares to strike Dropdead?!" She flew out of the materials and flew towards Twilight and her friends. "Glamourous Gut Spill!" She rapidly struck forward with her umbrella, shooting lightning out in all directions.

"Twilight?! What's going on?" Rarity ran towards her, narrowly avoiding the battle between the Dark Yo-kai and Twilight's team. "What in the world happened to Dazzabel?"

"That's not the Dazzabel you became friends with." Twilight pointed out. "King Void has taken Yo-kai and made darker versions of them for his own personal army. This one is called Dropdead."

"Then whatever happened to Dazzabel?" Rarity pulled out the Yo-kai Medal she had received. "I do hope she's alright."

"You... You..." Dazzabel floated high above the battle, looking down at the copy of her, and all of the damage that it had done. "YOU CUR!" She dived in and impaled Dropdead clean through, causing her to disappear like the others.

"Oh my!" Rarity jumped at Dazzabel's courageous strike.

"There's no time to waste here, Twilight." Ray O' Light nodded. "Gather your friends and get them together. There's more on the way!"

"Rarity, Dazzabel. Follow us!" Twilight ran out of the door and into the town.

"Okay!" They both called out and panted as they ran after Twilight.

"Hey! Get outta here, you freak!" Rainbow Dash darted towards a Dark Yo-kai with a wide moustache, a cloud-like body, and an evil grin on his face. There was a wilted flower on the top of his head that had each of its' petals blown off by Rainbow Dash's attacks.

"King Void's darkness will envelop all of you. Rather lovely, isn't it?" The Yo-kai's smile grew longer. "And I, Cruéléon shall annihilate you in his name, ma cherie!"

"Stop with the Prench accent!" Rainbow Dash struck him square in the chest, but he simply bounced her back into more clouds.

"Rainbow Dash!" Twilight flew up with Count Cavity, who poked all three of his pitchfork's points into Cruéléon and spun it around. Sure enough, he compressed the Dark Yo-kai into a small ball of air, which he then incinerated by lighting his fork on fire.

"A Dark Yo-kai form of Happiérre." Whisper looked at Cruéléon's demise. "If King Void's taken every Yo-kai in existence, then he's either brave or stupid."

"Twilight? Whisper? What's with the creepy black cloud Yo-kai?" Rainbow Dash asked as she flew up to her, taking a moment to catch her breath from the battle she had just had.

"King Void's on the move. We need to get the girls together in Ponyville as soon as now," Twilight said. "It could be a Tirek-level crisis."

"Say no more!" Rainbow Dash flew down towards Ponyville to gather the rest of her friends. "We'll meet you at Town Hall, Twilight!"

"Tirek-level?" Whisper cocked a brow.

"It's just something I made up." Twilight, Whisper, and her Yo-kai team flew towards Town Hall themselves. "Tirek was the biggest threat Equestria ever had. I don't count Starlight Glimmer level because she's redeemed herself and has been performing much better now."

Twilight, Starlight Glimmer, Red Snow, and the other Main Six ponies were all gathered at Town Hall. Dark Yo-kai erupted from all directions and had all different shapes and sizes as they slowly staggered towards Twilight and her friends.

"Well, well, well. Isn't this a sight?"

"The Princess of Friendship destroyed by the very Yo-kai that she had thought to be her friends. How ironic."

"Who's there?! Show yourself!" Red Snow looked around for the sources of the voices.

"I demand you reveal yourselves right now! If you're behind this attack, then it's cowardly to hide away in the dark like this!" Twilight shouted all around her.

"Cowardly? You seem to have us entirely mistaken."

"We're not cowardly. We are simply following orders. Never let it be said that the two of us are unloyal to our leader."

All of a sudden, Kin and Gin appeared before Twilight Sparkle and her friends, casting them all wicked grins of their own as they threw their arms out, stopping the Dark Yo-kai's advance.

"Kin and Gin!" Whisper jabbed his finger at the two of them. "In Yo-kai history, these two are the nefarious Time Witches. They control the timeline and change things around effortlessly for their own selfish desires and purposes. They were once servants to the evil Dame Dedtime, you know."

"The nonsense with her is in the past, little marshmallow." Kin walked up to him. "Nowadays, we find comfort in the arms of our new leader, King Void."

"His will is unbreakable, his Yo-kai undefeatable, and his plan unstoppable," Gin added. "Plus, unlike her, King Void is a no-nonsense kind of guy."

"What?" Twilight whispered.

"Dedtime constantly said 'Dun, dun, DUUN!' when she was alive," Whisper told Twilight. "It got really annoying really fast."

"You two will answer for your crimes!" Red Snow readied her Yo-kai Watch and pulled out her Yo-kai Medal. "Yo-kai Medal! Set! On!" She put the medal into her watch.

"SUMMONING: CHARMING!"

Alarming!
Boom-boom! Walla-walla! Dance-dance
CHARMING!

"Sailornyan!" She landed before Red Snow.

"Miserable and pathetic, just like the rest of these foolish Yo-kai friends you have." Kin shook her head. "The Dark Yo-kai are beyond your comprehension, little mortals. They are far more destructive, far more diabolical, and are in all ways superior to the Wicked Yo-kai we used to control before."

"By capturing a Yo-kai's soul with our new powers, we can single handedly wipe out your entire miserable entourage!" Gin smiled. "Shall we, Kin?"

"I'm going to love seeing the misery that your Japonese friend is about to feel..." Kin flew up with Gin and used their own black lightning to generate a white and black vortex. With a claw thrust towards Sailornyan, black tethers shot out of the void and hooked onto all of her appendages.

"Gah! Hey! What's going on?!" Sailornyan was chained up and was being dragged towards the vortex.

"Sailornyan?!" Red Snow's eyes shot open.

"To destroy the light, you destroy the will. To destroy the will, you destroy the body." Kin and Gin chanted together in perfect harmony. "Such is the way of King Void. The light dies, and the darkness arises! Behold! A new Dark Yo-kai!"

With a bloodcurdling scream, Sailornyan was pulled into the vortex completely, vanishing without a trace.

"SAILORNYAN! NO!" Everyone cried out.

Immediately after the vortex disappeared, the Yo-kai Medal that Red Snow had for Sailornyan cracked and then shattered, with the pieces flying off in all different directions.

Red Snow herself could only let out a gasp and cover her mouth with her hooves as she watched the Yo-kai Medal of her best friend get destroyed and disappear right before her eyes. "No..."

All of a sudden, a black puddle formed, and a black paw climbed out. The very same Sailornyan that had just been stolen a moment ago was now entirely black and was glowing purple, along with the other Dark Yo-kai. She cast a sadistic grin on all of Twilight's friends.

"I... Am... Oblivinyan!" The Dark Yo-kai version of Sailornyan roared.

"Sailornyan! NO!" Red Snow exclaimed and buried her eyes into her hooves.

"This is not happening..." Twilight's legs began to tremble as she watched what had become of Sailornyan. "Kin and Gin just turned Sailornyan into a Dark Yo-kai..."

"THAT'S IT! THEY'RE GOING DOWN!" Rainbow Dash flew towards Kin and Gin at blinding speeds, but they simply stepped aside and caused her to fly into lots of Dark Yo-kai, who scratched at her and kicked her into the ground, proceeding to attack her.

"Such is the will of the darkness. It takes everyone in time." Kin grinned and landed back on the ground. "And soon, it will take the eight of you fools as well."

"There is nothing more to do except fight." Gin hovered down next to Kin and clicked her fingers, causing the Dark Yo-kai to twitch. "What little resistance you might have is brave. But against the King's army, it is useless."

"ATTACK!" Both Kin and Gin pointed at Twilight's friends, causing the Dark Yo-kai to charge in on them all, ready to fight.

Author's Notes:

On a slightly less horrifying note, I got Frostail today from the Crank-a-kai machine. It was going to be a plain white capsule, but Noko showed up and ate the capsule whole, saying his name before leaving behind a golden capsule.

By the way, the Ultimate Yo-kai of both Present and Past Springdale will be in this story, as you've probably guessed with Count Cavity's appearance. You'll see them all within due time.

Dark Yo-kai (Part 3)

The Dark Yo-kai attacked Twilight and her friends from every corner. Leaping and pouncing on her, darting in every direction imaginable, the Dark Yo-kai moved far faster than they had anticipated. They used elements like fire, water, ice, electricity, and more, shrouded with black energy, as if the very elements themselves had been consumed by darkness as well.

"Just how many of these things are there?!" Twilight asked as she used her magic to block more of the Dark Yo-kai's attacks.

"I don't know!" Whisper used martial arts moves to guard against the other Yo-kai's attacks. "I never expected this many Dark Yo-kai in one place!"

"Looks like our know-nothing friend really is thicker than a brick, Gin," Kin chuckled. "Shall we destroy these fools now while we have the chance?"

"I think not, actually." Gin shook her head. "I quite enjoy seeing Twilight Sparkle and her friends crying like babies. King Void's goal is clear: Make Princess Twilight cry and suffer by any means necessary." She interlocked her fingers and grew her grin wider. "And I'd say that we're doing his job quite well as we are, Kin."

As Twilight and her friends battled against the Dark Yo-kai, they all emanated a black mist. They didn't even see it as it floated higher and higher into the air and over towards Kin and Gin. The mist flew into their hands, which prompted them to put the tips of their fingers together, creating a small black hole. The mist flew into the hole and disappeared as their hands dropped back down to their sides.

"It's so fun to toy with their emotions and break their hearts, isn't it?" Kin said. "No matter how hard she fights, the Dark Yo-kai are infinite. They cannot be destroyed nor befriended. Even that weak little Sailornyan we nabbed can't be brought back to her senses. She will remain a Dark Yo-kai forever!"

"We'll blanket the world in darkness, and all that those prissy little mares can do is watch!" Gin exclaimed.

"Ngghh! Twilight! It's too much! Even for me!" Starlight Glimmer began to strain against the Dark Yo-kai. Despite her advance in spellcasting, Starlight was being heavily overpowered by the army of black creatures. "Just get out of here!"

"No way! We're not going out like this!" Twilight shot back, using her magic to teleport out of the way of another attack. "If we're going to die, then we'll die together! I don't want any of us to lose our friends!"

"Twilight! Darling! There are clearly far too many of these black monsters!" Rarity ducked and weaved under more Dark Yo-kai. "We need to get out of here! Ponyville is lost! The Magic of Friendship is doing nothing against these brutes!"

"Even I'm gonna admit it! We're doomed!" Pinkie Pie called out, firing her Party Cannon right in the Dark Yo-kai's face. It merely pushed them back a few inches. "Not even my Party Cannon's taking them out!"

"C'mon, guys..." Twilight looked at her Yo-kai team battling against the Dark Yo-kai. "You're all I've got left. You've gotta win!"

"PAWS OF FURY!" Jibanyan jabbed at as many Dark Yo-kai as he could lay his paws on. He did take many of them down this way, but they hastily regenerated when Kin and Gin launched black lightning down upon them. "It's nyot working! There's too many of them!"

"We can't let them pin us down! Fight harder! Faster! Stronger!" Twilight called out to her team. "Don't lose to a bunch of shadows!"

"Yeah! Feel the burn!" Sgt. Burly rammed through a number of Dark Yo-kai before he was pile-drived by more. "Don't... let yourselves... get beat up by these punks!"

"If Kin and Gin think we're weak, then they've got another thing coming!" Twilight teleported out of the battle and flew towards the two of them firing magical bolts at them.

"Hah!" Kin flew towards Twilight herself, gliding underneath the magical attacks. She somersaulted over her and kicked her in the back, sending the pony crashing down to the earth and through the dirt road. "Twilight Sparkle is weak. She always has been and always will be."

"Nice strike, Kin!" Gin charged towards the rest of Twilight's friends. "Now, let's give her something to really scream about..." She made a claw out of her left hand and conjured black lightning down on the group of ponies, blasting them into the air.

"Bacteria Barrage!" Count Cavity fired at the Dark Yo-kai and hastily flew to rescue the ponies. One by one, he caught the non-pegasus ponies and put them back down on the ground.

"Thank you, but we're not done yet." Applejack wiped the sweat off of her brow and pointed towards the Dark Yo-kai advancing. "We've still got plenty of those black monsters on their way."

"Oh, what's the point?! There's far too many!" Fluttershy whined as they were all surrounded by the Dark Yo-kai once again. "It's all over!"

All that they could do was watch as the Yo-kai once more resumed their battle with the Dark Yo-kai. Their weapons collided with the black claws and teeth once again, and they were being pushed back even harder this time.

"How sad." Kin fired black hooks into the ground, pulling Twilight out again. She threw her into her friends, knocking them all onto their backs and sides. "I was hoping that the so-called Princess of Friendship would've been able to defeat these Dark Yo-kai, but alas, I was wrong."

"No need to get yourself worried, Kin." Gin put her hand on her sister's shoulder. "The lives of a technicolour horse and her baby-appealing friends are of no concern to us. King Void will be able to effortlessly claim the other two worlds with Twilight Sparkle out of the picture."

"I suppose you're right." Kin sighed and weaved black energy between her fingers. "Shall we finish up here then, Gin?"

"I wouldn't have it any other way, Kin." Gin smirked and did the same.

"I can't look!" Whisper put his hands in front of his eyes as Kin and Gin took in dark energy. There was so much being absorbed in that short window of time that an earthquake began to rock Equestria, with pebbles being flung all over the place.

"Is this really the end?" Red Snow looked at Kin and Gin, charging up their final attack.

"It looks that way, Red Snow." Starlight coughed as she and the others were being smothered by the Dark Yo-kai. "But at least we got to know each other in the time that we had..."

The ponies all closed their eyes as the Dark Yo-kai wrapped themselves around the ponies, trapping them inside of a black dome with purple twinkles gleaming on the sides.

"OCTO SNAKE!"

"INFERNO!"

Venoct and Kyubi dived into Kin and Gin's heads, burying them into the ground and stopping them from charging energy. Venoct's dragon scarf stretched out and began biting into the Dark Yo-kai rapidly while Kyubi conjured a massive fireball in her hands and tossed it towards the dome.

"Huh?" Twilight was to cover her eyes as the sunlight pounded down onto her eyes. Her vision was blurred, but she could still make out the Yo-kai that had saved them. "H-Hey... It's you!"

"You were expecting someone else?" Venoct quietly huffed and crossed his arms.

"No way..." Red Snow slowly stood back on her four hooves and looked at the Yo-kai that had saved them. "Of all of the Yo-kai I've met, I never thought that I would run into the two of you."

"Greetings. I'm sure you're glad that we saved you, but don't be." Kyubi reached down and pulled Gin out of where she had been buried. "We've still got a bunch of old ladies to send back to their retirement home." She lit her hand on fire and slapped Gin across the face multiple times.

"I am not old!" Gin pouted as she took each and every one of Kyubi's slaps. "I'll have you know that I'm much younger than Kin is!"

"All of you King Void scum are just the same." Venoct unearthed Kin and had Orochi bared at her throat. "Shall we send you screaming back to Dame Dedtime? Or would you rather stand up and die fighting?"

"Can someone please explain to me what in the world's going on?!" Rainbow Dash threw her hooves out in front of her. "Who in the heck are you?"

"I can explain it for you." Red Snow stepped forward and brushed some hair out of her face. "Japonese folklore tells of some incredible feats. The fall of emperors; the slaying of demons; the rise of influential and pure-heart emperors and empresses that re-shaped the world as we know it," she waved her hooves in lyrical movements as she lit up her horn, causing lotus blossom petals to fall around her. "But most of all, the greatest Japonese stories are the ones of the Yo-kai—beasts of legend, invisible to the naked eye."

"Get to the point!" Rainbow Dash called out. "There's no time for some Japonese cultural show!"

"Patience, Rainbow Dash." Twilight put her hoof in front of Rainbow's mouth, silencing the pegasus instantly. "Red Snow wants to speak. It would be rude to interrupt."

"Among the Yo-kai, there is one such legend. That of the nine-tailed fox." Red Snow jabbed a hoof at Kyubi. "Wise, sly, and very, very rare, it is a Yo-kai beyond comprehension. The symbol of Amareterasu, the sun goddess of our home, this Yo-kai goes by one name and one name only." She stopped, causing the petals to vanish. "That name... is Kyubi!"

"Kyubi?" Everyone else chorused as they watched Kyubi stomp Gin back into the dirt.

"I was going to wait until later to tell you my name, but I suppose now is as good a time as any." She walked up to Twilight and her friends and kneeled before them. "I am Kyubi, a Yo-kai entrusted by the queen of the Yo-kai World to watch over you, Twilight Sparkle."

"Me?" Twilight put her other hoof to her chin. "But why?"

"The queen's world has been besieged by these Dark Yo-kai already. With the world in chaos, we need all of the allies that we can get." Venoct allowed Orochi to bite into Kin's body and shake her around like a dog's chew toy as he approached her. "She has already revealed her name. So shall I." He clicked his fingers, causing Orochi to drop Kin, enabling him to kick the elder's back and throw her towards Gin. "My name is Venoct. A noble Yo-kai of unparallelled speed, power, and precision. My dragon scarf, Orochi has slain countless enemies, and shall slay any more that dare to threaten the peace of our three worlds."

"Well then it had better be extra hungry!" Kin flew out of the hole and cracked her knuckles. "King Void's will is absolute, and no measly S Rank Yo-kai will stop him!"

"No matter how many allies you band together, it will all be in vain!" Gin hovered out of the ground as well with some of hair still on fire from Kyubi's attacks. "King Void cannot be stopped!"

All of a sudden, a black lightning bolt crashed down on Equestria, causing a giant storm cloud to appear and cover up the sun entirely. A roar could be heard over the sound of the thunder. It was so loud that every glass in Equestria was shattered intro quadrillions of tiny shards.

"Speak of the devil..." Kin smirked.

A massive Yo-kai appeared before Twilight Sparkle and her friends. He was wearing a black robe with an archaic logo on the back. It depicted two spiky swords cutting a figure's head clean off with blood spilling from the neck. He was also wearing black gloves and shoes, carried a sword that was slightly longer than himself, and had black rocks poking out of his chest and stomach. His head had horns on it and his teeth were curled, with his black eyes blazing like fire.

"Twilight Sparkle," he said, the distortion in his voice clear. He sounded like a demon from Tartarus.

"Who are you?" Twilight replied, frozen in place at the sight of the black Yo-kai.

"All hail King Void!" Kin and Gin floated down onto their knees and bowed before him. "The destroyer of light and devourer of hope!"

"That's King Void?!" The Main Six, Starlight, and Red Snow all chimed in sync as they looked at him.

King Void merely smiled and lowered his brows, flashing the girls his sharpened teeth. He pulled the sword out of the ground and brandished it before Twilight Sparkle and her friends.

Dark Yo-kai (Part 4)

"Twilight Sparkle." King Void licked his lips with his forked tongue. Each of the points were sharper than they looked, and had golden tips. "Such an extraordinary creature, yet one who fails to live up to her true potential."

"King Void...?" Twilight's breathing became incredibly heavy. Just looking at King Void was making her uneasy. She was shaking all over and slowly stepped back towards the doors of Town Hall.

"So this is our bad guy, is it?" Rainbow Dash cracked her hooves and flew towards him. "Well let's see how he gets a taste of this!"

King Void merely grabbed Rainbow Dash by the head seconds before she could ram him, and began to squeeze her tightly, causing something around her skull to begin to break. Once he heard the slightest bit of a rupture, he threw the pegasus back to her friends, watching as she rolled on the ground like a ragdoll.

"Kin. Gin." King Void turned towards the two of them. "Shall we begin our little experiment?"

"Experiment?" Both of them chimed and had their eyes fly wide open.

King Void smirked and flung his arm out towards the eight ponies, coating them in black energy. His attack struck all of them and blew them back into the wall of Town Hall, leaving a little black spot in all of their irises. The spots turned into fires that began to flicker and vanish as the girls all fell to the ground.

"Whatever you did to Twilight, I demand that you un-do it right now!" Whisper barked at King Void. "Don't you know how rude it is to strike someone with darkness? Why, the poor thing could be attending a prom or going to see a friend and you're just going to leave them with—"

"SILENCE!" King Void slashed Whisper in half with his sword, turning him into a blue wisp. He then blew him out, forcing him to return to the Yo-kai World. "Irritating little ghost. You shame the Yo-kai name."

"Pay no attention to Whisper, my king." Kin nodded. "He is nothing more than a cartoon ghost created by children. He poses zero threat to your kind."

"If anything, he just serves as comic relief for this would-be heroine over there." Gin crossed her arms.

"What... did you do?" Twilight slowly got back up to her feet, her vision blurred as she looked at King Void.

"In every living being, there exists two principal elements." King Void put his sword into the earth and stepped towards Twilight. "Light, which you feeble little horses seem to wretch with great power; and darkness, the polar opposite of your true self." He put one of his nails to her chin and gently forced it up. "Yo-kai are the same. There is good in every Yo-kai, but at the same time, there also exists evil. Such is their nature. No matter their tribe, no matter their purpose, their two sides are optional."

"So, what? You're saying that you're a Yo-kai that went evil?" Rainbow Dash struggled to get back up as she gnashed her teeth. "Then we should put you down right now!"

"I never said anything about being evil, rainbow-maned twerp." He put Twilight down and got in Rainbow Dash's face, causing her eyes to go wide. "I am darkness. Nothing else. Whether I am good or evil is entirely down to your personal opinion."

"You look like if Lord Tirek decided to become a human-like demon with a sword and even uglier breath!" Pinkie called out.

"ENOUGH!" King Void made a claw out of his hand, causing darkness to appear around Pinkie Pie's face. With a flick of his wrist, her mouth had been completely removed. "Arrogant babies like you should respect your elders. So, until you acknowledge the darkness within yourself, you. Do. Not. Get. To. TALK!" He roared.

"Calm down, King Void." Kin landed on his shoulders. "You only just introduced yourself to them. No need to fly off the handle now, is there?"

"Yeah. Like all great stories, the villain shows off his true rage and power in the final battle, not in their first encounter." Gin landed on the other shoulder. "Traumatize and demoralize Twilight and her friends. That will sustain your hunger for pain and suffering long enough. Then, when they thwart your plans, you completely destroy them once and for all."

"Thwart? I appreciate you giving them souls for me to crush, Kin and Gin, but I do not need your help to decide how I treat my victims." He brushed both of the witches off of his body and went back towards Twilight. "Let me make this perfectly clear, Twilight Sparkle. This is not your average children's show story. There will NOT be a happy ending for you or your kind. If you dare to stop my plans, I will drive that sword straight through your heart and leave your rotting entrails to the buzzards!"

As Twilight tried to get back up and strike King Void with a spell, she was suddenly stopped by an abnormal pain in her chest and a supersonic ringing in her ears. She yelped and clutched her stomach, falling down to the ground and writhing, as the sound of herself laughing like a monster filled her ears. "I'll ask again. What. Did. You. Do?!"

"There will be time for that later, Princess Twilight." He returned to his sword and unearthed it once more, pointing the tip at Twilight and her friends. "But for now, let's see if you can actually try to stand on your own two feet for once!"

"Battle Perimiters Met... Summoning Yo-kai!" Twilight pulled out more Yo-kai Medals and slammed them into her Yo-kai Watch EX, causing more Yo-kai fighters to appear before her.

"Darumacho!"

"Ray O' Light!"

"Drizzelda!"

"Rhyth!"

"Buchinyan!"

"Gargaros!"

"Face me, mortals!" King Void slammed his chest and swung his sword at all of the Yo-kai, sending a black wave of energy towards the building, demolishing it in one strike. He then yelled and dashed towards Twilight and her friends, only to be stopped by a swing from Gargaros's club.

"I've been long waiting for the day I get to put an end to you, and save the Yo-kai World, King Void!" Gargaros yelled and struck King Void across the face with the side of his club. Despite his swing speed and power, his attack was still stopped by King Void's sword.

"An Oni, eh?" King Void chuckled. "This just got interesting!" He unfurled his wings and swooped down on Gargaros, dealing a blindingly fast vertical strike to the Yo-kai. Not only did it go straight from his horn to his head, but black lightning also crashed down around Gargaros, giving him little room to run away.

"Such raw power..." Gargaros said as he was knocked back a few feet, into the rubble of Town Hall, sending the ponies flying in different directions.

"You cannot win this battle alone. I shall assist!" Venoct darted around King Void, leapt up to his face, and had Orochi bite into his eyes, causing him to recoil and put his hand over his face. "Orochi! Go!" He jabbed towards the staggering King Void and closed the gap immediately.

"Don't have all of the fun, Venoct." Kyubi flew into the air and launched fireballs down onto King Void's back. "I've been wanting to give this guy a piece of my mind for quite some time now." She flew down and struck King Void in the back as hard as she could with her ninetails and clawed feet.

"Begone!" King Void raised his sword high and drew a circle. Instantly, a black hole appeared above him, dragging both Venoct and Kyubi into it. "Worthless Yo-kai scum. Die!" He swung his sword at thin air and watched both Venoct and Kyubi fall back out before kicking them both towards Twilight and her friends.

"If those foolish Yo-kai are going to assist Twilight, then we're going to aid King Void!" Kin flew up with Gin by her side.

"You won't live to fight another day!" Gin added as the two of them swooped down on the ponies.

"Girls! Get out of here!" Twilight stood back up and galloped towards her Yo-kai team. "It's too dangerous!"

"No, Twilight! We're not going to leave you behind!" Rarity ran towards the Yo-kai as well. "If anything, this could very well be our last stand. And if it's so, then we shall go out with bravado and glam, instead of sobbing and wailing over the loss of our friend!"

"You speak such bravery, but do you have the power to back it up?" Kin threw her arms down, causing huge rocks to appear above the heads of Twilight's friends. With another swing, the stones fell towards the girls' heads, but Twilight used her magic to grab the rocks and throw them away.

"Try this!" Gin brushed the air with a swing of her arm, sending a small blizzard toward Twilight and her friends. The snow crashed against them and turned into small needles of ice that dug themselves into the ponies' flesh.

Twilight simply unfurled her wings, unfazed by the cold winds launched by Gin's hand. She flapped up to the two Time Witches and fired spells from her horn at them in desperation, only for them to duck and weave out of the way of them. Despite their agility, this gave Twilight's Yo-kai friends an opportunity to attack. She continued to shoot off more bolts, purposely missing at times to bait Kin and Gin into moving.

With less of Kin and Gin's elemental attacks to deal with, Buchinyan leapt up towards the two of them and lit both of his paws red. "FLURRY OF FURRY!" He declared, jabbing the two Yo-kai as fast as he could, causing them to stumble and jitter around in the air.

"Farewell!" King Void slashed at the air, striking Twilight across the stomach with the shockwave, knocking her to the ground. He watched the alicorn crash down into the ground before dashing off to where he thought she would land.

"Twilight!" Venoct and Kyubi flew after Twilight as fast as they could, trying to catch her as she fell. Little did they know that King Void was right behind them both.

All three Yo-kai made it to the nearby pond, where Twilight crashed face-first into the water. Just as Venoct and Kyubi were about to pull Twilight out of the lake, King Void pushed both of them aside effortlessly and swung his sword vertically, parting the lake and splitting it into two.

"A fool of a princess, not even worthy of slaying." King Void stood over Twilight's limp body, pointing the tip of his sword at her face. "You dishonour your title and the very subjects you wish to protect. You have a LONG way to go if you're ever going to be worthy to fight me, Twilight Sparkle."

"Who... or whatever you are, you had better leave Equestria or else!" Twilight shouted up at him.

"Twilight!" Ray O' Light came charging in with the other Yo-kai that she had summoned. However, King Void knocked them all away with a thrust of his hand. Strong black winds poured out of them, blowing them all through multiple houses.

"Your Yo-kai are pathetic and you lie in tatters. The fabled chosen one that Ephemer has her eyes on is nothing more than a toddler learning how to walk and talk." King Void opened a huge black portal with a swing of his sword. "But at the very least, you will provide me with some entertainment. All jesters do." King Void walked through the portal as Kin and Gin flew through it. "Lash. She's all yours. Have fun with her."

"Oh, I will." Another voice just as distorted as King Void's one spoke through the portal as he vanished.

As Twilight climbed out of the lake, it reformed into one giant body of water, soaking her with both sides as she looked at the portal, which still retained after King Void's departure.

"So, you're the lassie that the King wants crushing, eh?" A black Yo-kai with a massive black morningstar stepped through the portal. He was armoured on all of his limbs and had his tongue sticking out as he bared his fangs towards Twilight. He had a mohawk and a gold tooth, as well as a spiked tail poking out of his coccyx. "I'll eat you alive, I will. Some fish 'n' chips'll go nicely with your stinkin' corpse!"

"Who's this guy?!" Rainbow Dash flew over with the other girls. "And where's King Void, Kin, and Gin?"

"Those three are back home, watching from the sidelines. Said that Twilight was too weak of a pony for him to fight. Something about her being a fool or something." The Yo-kai slammed his morningstar into the ground, causing black spikes to erupt from the area around him. "He sent me, Lash, one of his twelve Dark Ones to deal with her instead. Prepare yourselves, you jammy foals! 'Cause Lash is here to stay!"

Dark Yo-kai (END)

"C'mon then! Let's see what you've got!" Lash swung his morningstar down onto Twilight and her friends, who leapt out of the way as the spiked ball formed a small crater upon impact with the ground. He yanked it back out, twirling it around to not only build up momentum, but also to shake off the pieces of dirt that he had collected with his attack. "The king was disappointed in you. So let's see if you're not so much as a wimp as he makes you out to be!"

Twilight flapped her wings and flew into the air, out of Lash's reach. She swooped down on him and fired spells at the ground. She knew that she wouldn't be able to make a direct attack to her enemy, but that she could still cast magic on the world around her. She cut a line with her magic and fired a bolt once more, causing a fissure to open up.

"Graaaggghhh!" Lash was taken off-guard as he stumbled into the fissure. As the ground ripped apart beneath him, he grabbed onto the edge and climbed out, seconds before the crack began to fix itself. "Clever little bugger, ain't 'cha?" He gnashed his teeth and charged towards Twilight, striking the ground with his morningstar once more.

Twilight groaned and flew back down to her Yo-kai team, who moved in to attack Lash.

"No-one threatens Twilight like that!" Gargaros leapt towards Lash and swung his club down hard on him. He struck him square on the head, causing the Dark Yo-kai to stumble backwards and drop his morningstar. "Dark Yo-kai like you should just go away!" He performed a horizontal strike, knocking Lash into a building.

"Nice one, Gargaros!" Twilight exclaimed and ran towards Lash. "Everyone! Follow me!"

Ray O' Light and Drizzelda followed closely behind Twilight, with Buchinyan and Darumacho by Twilight's side. Venoct and Kyubi led the charge, hovering just above Twilight and her team.

"We have no time to waste!" Venoct called to Twilight and dashed towards Lash, his dragon scarf bearing its' fangs for an attack. "Orochi! Slay this vile cur!" He jabbed his finger, causing Orochi to roar and stretch over to Lash, biting down on him as fast as it could.

"Burn, you worthless underling of King Void!" Kyubi conjured fire with her hands and fired a torrent of it when she thrust both of her claws towards Lash. "I swear under Queen Ephemer's name, you will not live to see another day!"

"Queen Ephemer?" Twilight took notice of the name and shook her head, trying her best to focus on her battle with Lash. "No. Save Equestria first, ask questions later."

"Have at you!" Lash raised his morningstar high into the air, causing lightning to fire out of each of the spikes. "Electric Lash!" He swung his weapon at the Yo-kai striking lightning down on all of them, knocking them away.

"Darling!" Ray O' Light watched Drizzelda get knocked away before he too was blasted by Lash's attack.

"Hey! No-one does that to my friend's friends!" Pinkie Pie ran towards Lash and leapt up high into the air. She bounced on his head and stomped on it rapidly. "You meanie-beanies should just go away if you're gonna be mean like that!"

"Looks like I got me a new toy." Lash grabbed onto Pinkie Pie and squeezed her tightly, watching her eyes bulge out. "Let's see just how far those eyes come out before they go pop!"

"Get off her!" Rainbow Dash flew towards Lash and kicked him square in the eye, knocking him back and dropping Pinkie Pie as he was sent hurtling through the streets, destroying market stalls as he landed.

"You're mine!" Gargaros ran up to Lash and was about to swing his club at him, when all of a sudden, it was ripped out of his hands when his opponent coiled his morningstar around it and yanked it away. "What?!"

"Try this on for size, ya big palooka!" Lash swung both his morningstar and Gargaros's club at the Oni as viciously as he could, striking his target with a combo comprising of enough hits to send Gargaros flying. "YOU'RE DONE!" With a final swing of both his weapons, Gargaros was swatted away into a mountain, far away from Twilight and her friends.

"No way..." Twilight grimaced at Gargaros's defeat. "An Oni slain effortlessly by Lash. If one of his minions is that strong, then I shudder to think what King Void can actually do when he's angry."

"Then what are we waiting for?!" Starlight cast some spells of her own, baiting Lash to attack her instead of the Yo-kai. She evaded all of his attacks without breaking a sweat and returned to Twilight once she had worn him down. "Take out that Lash guy and end this! We can't let him hurt anyone else!"

"But he's swatting away the Yo-kai we have effortlessly." Twilight pointed out as Darumacho and Buchinyan took another attack that knocked them into each other. "None of our spells can do anything against him, and even with Venoct and Kyubi's help, it's still an incredibly tough battle."

"Gyaaahhh!" Lash slammed the ground, causing spikes to erupt that nearly impaled Twilight and her friends, but did massive damage to the Yo-kai that she had befriended. "C'mon! Is that really all you got?! Fight me! Let me see the darkness within you!"

"Octo Snake!" Venoct rushed over and bit into Lash repeatedly with Orochi.

"Inferno!" Kyubi hurled a massive fireball at him, coating him in the orange and yellow flames.

Lash staggered at both attacks, but he was still going. He breathed heavily and gnashed his teeth, his eyes turning complete red as a dark aura enveloped him. The more that he stood firmly in place, the more that the world around him began to shake. He arched his neck skyward and roared, as a massive black lightning bolt crashed down on him and gave him a black aura that glowed vigorously.

"Now you're in for it, little foals!" He roared and gathered black energy. "Dark Soultimate Charge!"

"Team! Cancel that Soultimate now!" Twilight charged towards Lash and attempted to poke him with her horn and cast another magical bolt on him, only to discover that she went right through him. She grinded herself to a halt and looked at his back, seeing the same sigil that King Void had been wearing on his cloak, with a few spikes pointing out of his neck.

The Yo-kai that Twilight had instructed to fight managed to hit Lash, but it wasn't enough to break his concentration as he continued to take in dark energy for his Soultimate. They frantically unloaded everything that they could on him, but it was far too late as his eyes shone a brighter shade of red.

"FATAL THRASHING!" Lash roared and swung his morningstar so fast that it created a hurricane around him, pulling in everyone and everything in the town. Everything that was sucked into the vortex got struck with hundreds of strikes from invisible swords or shockwaves that were sent out from his morningstar.

"Starlight! Get everyone out of here!" Twilight was fighting against the wind as she used her magic to teleport beside her friend. "Yo-kai casualties are alright, but don't let anypony suffer because we tried to save them!"

"Hey!" Buchinyan called out as he was pulled into the hurricane a split second afterward.

Starlight nodded and used a spell in conjunction with Twilight. With it, they managed to quickly teleport each and every pony in Ponyville away to somewhere safe while the battle raged on. After a while of saving ponies from Lash's attack, they felt their wings finally give out from exhaustion, which yanked them into Lash's Soultimate.

"IT'S ALL OVER NOW!" Lash jumped up high with everything in his grasp and swung his morningstar down hard onto the town. All of the items, Yo-kai, housing, nature, and ponies that he had ensnared with his attack were sent towards the ground like bullets out of a gun.

Twilight and her friends simply blacked out as they collided with the ground. Lash's attack was so strong that they failed to find the strength to open her eyes, stand up, or fight back.

"Where am I?" Twilight asked, waking up in a plane of nothingness. She couldn't feel the ground beneath her, see anything for miles, and even her breath became cold and shallow as she tried to make out her surroundings. "Hello? Anyone? Whisper? Jibanyan? Girls?"

She flapped her wings forward to progress through the realm of darkness, hoping that she would be able to find someone or something within the lightless void. To her dismay, however, she found absolutely nothing. She tried to use her magic to illuminate the world around her, but that also uncovered nothing.

"Oh no..." Twilight flew faster through the darkness. "Someone? Anyone? HEY! WHERE ARE YOU?!"

"Poor little Twilight. She thinks she can win against the forces of darkness..."

"Who are you?" Twilight looked around, stopping in midair when she heard the voice. "And why in the world do you sound like me? What's going on?"

"Against the might of his majesty, King Void, little does she know that she too has a darkness that can be exploited," the soundalike of Twilight echoed through the void. "It consumed her human counterpart, and now it shall devour her pony self as well. Such a tragedy that the very Yo-kai that she looked up to will now have to look up to a demon as their best friend."

"No. I'm nothing like you! And I never will be!" Twilight fought back tears and shouted at the voice.

"Do you think so?" said the doppelganger. "We'll get to that in time. I'm sure you can reacquaint me with your little human world friends, right, Twilight Sparkle?"

All of a sudden, Twilight saw a cyan mask appear in front of her, with a horn of the same colour forming. Then came a pair of black raven-esque wings, and finally, a monstrous version of her human self appeared before her, letting out an ear-piercing laugh.

"You!" Twilight pointed at the monster. "Sunset told me all about you! You're... Midnight Sparkle, right?"

"A rather odd name for a monster, but one they chose for me anyway." Midnight licked her lips and flew over to Twilight. "I am living proff that even a horse like you is not safe from the darkness. Sooner or later, you'll have to give in to your tendencies to hurt, kill, and destroy, just like the Dark Yo-kai do!"

"Never! I'm not like you!" Twilight shouted back.

"Oh, but you are." Midnight sat on Twilight's back and rode her like a real horse. "And soon, you'll have to learn that all ponies need a rider." She slapped Twilight's flanks. "GIDDYUP, TWILIGHT SPARKLE!"

"NOOOOOOOO!" Twilight screamed and flew away into the darkness, with Midnight riding her all the way.

"Looks like our little blighters are out for the count." Lash chuckled and stood over Twilight's body. "Shame. The king would've loved to see you progress. Guess it's time I give him the bad news!" He raised his weapon high once again.

"Don't. You. Dare." Twilight hissed, her voice becoming venomous. She teleported away from the crater and appeared behind Lash, just as he was bringing his morningstar down. "Time to die!" She snarled, her eyes now entirely blue with purple irises.

Twilight's horn was now leaking dark magic, as Midnight's mask appeared around her eyes. With a roar, she fired a black bolt with a purple outline at Lash, striking him clean in the face and knocking him back, leaving him with a wide scar.

"There it is." Lash grinned when he recovered and banged his chest with his hands. "Come on, then! Have at me! Let the darkness consume you, and prove that King Void's way is superior!"

"You're going to choke on those words, Lash!" Twilight sniggered and conjured multiple orbs of black and blue energy, hurling them all at him. "Suffer! Bleed! Die!" She cackled as Lash took every attack she sent his way. "You're making this far too easy! Give me a challenge!"

"On the contrary, Midnight. Show me more!" Lash smiled wider still. "Destroy me! Ruin Twilight Sparkle's name forever!"

"I'll do far much more than that." She gathered up as much dark energy as she could, creating a massive black and purple globe above the entire town. She closed her eyes and bared her teeth at Lash until she had enough energy to suit her needs. "I'll make sure she'll never be able to show her face on this miserable planet ever again!"

The rest of Twilight's friends came to and looked up at the sky. The once clear skies had now been blotted out by darkness. The globe of energy that Twilight had created was spitting black lightning bolts in all directions, destroying whatever it touched.

"Twilight?" Buchinyan looked up and saw what Twilight had become.

"No. That's not her." Venoct landed by the other ponies. "Something inside of Twilight has consumed her, turning her into a monster. This is what King Void wanted to see out of her."

"King Void thrives off of toying with his opponents." Kyubi nodded. "He breaks them down and exposes the inner evil within them. Whatever monstrous demon might be in control of Twilight Sparkle, it's winning the internal conflict with her, and it won't stop until Lash is butchered like a fine ham."

"So what now?!" Rainbow Dash spluttered. "Are we just going to let Twilight fall to darkness?!"

"No." Venoct turned towards the girls. "But I will say that you should all duck for cover immediately."

"Follow us, ponies." Kyubi ran off with Venoct. "We've got a good place for you to withstand the blast."

The Main Six, Starlight, and Red Snow all followed Venoct and Kyubi as the globe now encompassed the entire sky, swallowing up what remained of the clouds and sun in seconds after they began to run.

"I'LL WIPE YOU FROM THE FACE OF EXISTENCE!" Twilight roared and threw down the globe onto Ponyville, devouring Lash whole. She heard nothing but the sound of destruction and explosions when the orb collided with the earth.

"To die to the forces of evil is truly a valiant sacrifice indeed." Lash stood tall and performed a salute. He slid his fingers across his neck, punched his hand, and stomped hard on the ground. "Glory to King Void! Glory to you, Midnight Sparkle! Glory TO DARKNESS!" He cheered as his body began to dissolve and dissipate.

"What the actual buck are you, Twilight Sparkle?" Starlight Glimmer saw the waves of darkness fly off from the shelter that she and the others were tucked under. "I mean, I know I messed with time before, but seeing this from someone like you is something I've never seen before..."

When the dust finally settled, Twilight landed on the ground breathing heavily. She snarled with each breath, as if she wanted more of a fight to test out her powers. The mask around her eyes vanished and her eyes themselves returned to normal. She looked around and saw ponies peak out of their ruined houses and from holes, looking at her with expressions that she had never seen before. For once in their life, the ponies of Ponyville were terrified of Twilight and her power.

"What?" Twilight looked down at her hooves, which were now trembling in the rays of the sunlight. She looked around at all of the destruction that she had caused under Midnight's control and gasped, putting a hoof to her mouth. "Oh no..."

Author's Notes:

If you haven't seen it yet, I have put a review of the first Yo-kai Watch Movie on my Blog Post. I will leave the link here, as I'm going to be posting stats for Lash in a few minutes. Honestly, I thought that the movie was pretty great, and that you should definitely check it out if you like this story, the games, and the anime.

Movie Review Here: In which Dame Dedtime makes her anime appearance!

The Aftermath

Twilight sat in the throne room of her castle and used a spell to blot out all of the windows, cloaking her and the entire room in darkness. She locked the door tight and threw the key away into the darkest corner that she could find. She let out a long and weary sigh as she looked down at the map, drawn to the faint glow that it was giving off.

"What's the point of fighting?" Twilight asked as she slumped her face onto the map. "King Void broke me. I've hurt the ponies of Ponyville. I shouldn't even be here if I'm going to screw everything up." She used her horn to create a seemingly perfect replica of Midnight's mask and horn. "As long as Midnight Sparkle lives inside of me, I'm a liability to the ponies of this town, and to the Yo-kai that I've befriended." She turned away, throwing the mask into the blackened room. "I'm just going to stay in this room forever, alone in the darkness. Where I belong..."

"Twilight?" Rarity's voice echoed from the other side of the door along with a few knocks. "Are you in there? Ever since Lash attacked, you haven't come out of the castle. Is something wrong?"

"Go away." Twilight turned towards the door. "There's nothing you can do to help me."

"Twilight. Now you know as well as I do that there's no point in moping around in this time of crisis!" Whisper's voice also rang out from the door. "So what if King Void dealt you a crippling blow? That's no reason for you to just give up!"

"Shut your face, Whisper!" Twilight lashed out at the door. "You don't know anything about darkness! You're just a floating soft serve ice cream!" As soon as she came to her senses, she hung her head and sighed. "Sorry. I'm just really torn up about Midnight Sparkle being a part of me. I never thought that I was capable of such dark magic like that..."

"C'mon, Twi. We've dealt with dark magic before, haven't we?" Rainbow Dash looked through the crack at the bottom of the door. "Between King Sombra, Lord Tirek, and Nightmare Moon, I'd say that you're more than prepared to fight this King Void weirdo."

"Sure, that meanie ruined a few cakes, destroyed all of Ponyville, and caused you to become this super-evil demon girl that your friends in another world thought was long dead, but really, what else can he do?" Pinkie Pie blurted out. "What? Too soon?"

"The point is, Twilight, King Void's already given you a good example of what's to come." Applejack tried to open the door, but no matter how hard she pushed against it, it merely rattled in place. "But you can't just lock yourself away because you let everyone down."

"You don't understand, Applejack." Twilight Sparkle shook her head, throwing around tears in the shadows. "King Void didn't destroy the town and hurt hundreds of innocent ponies. I did. It was all me. Midnight Sparkle and I are identical. She's like the darkness to my light." She stood up. "I'm not safe anymore. At any given point, King Void, Kin, Gin, or one of the other Dark Ones could provoke Midnight Sparkle and cause me to lose control again. I'm not prepared to take that risk for anyone—not even the eight of you."

"Compared to Mckraken who tried to conquer the human world, and Dame Dedtime who wanted to have everything in existence, this King Void doesn't really seem to have much of a motive," said Whisper. "But then again, he is the villain. They most of the time reveal their evil plots later on in the story."

"He's still a big bully, Whisper." Jibanyan's shadow left the ground to reappear shortly afterward. "I bet that my Paws of Fury would send him running real quick."

"I appreciate your votes of confidence, but it won't help me in the slightest." Twilight walked over to the door and opened it up momentarily, revealing her pony friends, as well as Whisper and Jibanyan. "Whatever what you want to say to me, it won't erase the damage and hurt I've done to the ponies of Ponyville. Midnight will always be waiting to break free, and King Void's going to keep on tempting her to come out no matter what we do." She shut the door again, locking it tightly with both the key and her spells. "Now if you would, I have to dwell on the consequences of my actions and wait for all of this to die down. Maybe the ponies will forgive me when they forget about what I've done..."

"Well, that didn't go so well." Whisper looked at the group of ponies.

"Just forget it, nyan. She's nyot coming out for anything." Jibanyan walked away. "We tried our best to persuade her, but she's not ready yet."

"Jibanyan, come back." Fluttershy flew after Jibanyan as he waddled down the corridors towards another room of the castle.

"Man. I've never seen Twilight give up like that." Rainbow Dash looked at the door once again. "I mean, yeah, she's faced some pretty bad guys and gals before, but I've never seen her just throw in the tower after just one fight." She tried to look under the crack again until Twilight used a spell to conjure a towel, filling the gap entirely. "Whisper? Is there a Yo-kai that can make you want to give up on something?"

"There is, but I'm not detecting any near Twilight or this castle." Whisper nodded. "All of Twilight's doubts are entirely her own. If she were inspirited, I would've known by now and would come charging in to save her from whatever ruffian inspirited her."

"So Twilight's really given up for real?" Pinkie Pie's mane deflated as she looked at the door one last time. "That really bums me out, Whisper."

"I know it has, Pinkie, but we must respect Twilight's decision." Whisper poked his head through the door, looking into the darkness. He flew back out as soon as he saw Twilight fire a magical bolt at his face. "Phew. That was a close one. Anyway, as I was saying." He looked back at the ponies. "Twilight will eventually get over this. She's gotten over tougher enemies before, right?"

"Yes, but none of them ever caused her to become some monster with a mask that destroyed the entire town, Whisper." Rainbow Dash pointed towards the nearby windows. "Just look outside and see all of the damage that Midnight Sparkle did to Ponyville, and you'll see just how bad Twilight feels."

"I already know how bad the damage is, Rainbow Dash." Whisper shuddered as he looked out of the window at all of the ruined houses and buildings. "Venoct and Kyubi are lending a helping hand in restoring the town, as are the rest of Twilight's Yo-kai friends, but even with all of their help, the town's not gonna be fixed for a few days at least, what with how most of the stuff was erased from existence by Midnight's assault."

"Well, without Twilight to lead us through this time, what will it matter when King Void returns to attack it all over again with his Dark Yo-kai?" Rarity raised a brow, her eyes darting between the door and windows. "We need her now, more than ever if we're going to defeat this monster."

Twilight listened to all of her friends talking from the other side of the door, but still she sat in the darkness, refusing to even acknowledge they were even there. Everything had already been laid out before her. The destruction of Ponyville was her fault, and Midnight Sparkle would always be a part of her. She was responsible for it all, despite King Void's interference.

"I just deserve to be forgotten." Twilight cried lightly as she thought about every pony that she had hurt with her battle against Lash. "I'm a liability to the ponies of this town, and I'm just a vessel for that demon, Midnight Sparkle."

"That's right. Just hide away in the darkness. It's much better that way."

Twilight jumped up from her seat when she heard the new voice. Despite all of her friends being outside of the room, she could still hear the newcomer's voice loud and clear. It was squeaky and emanated from the roof of the room.

"Who's there?" Twilight looked around, using her horn to illuminate the darkness. "I have a Yo-kai Watch here, you know!"

Twilight looked around as hard as she could, but didn't see anyone anywhere—even underneath the map and above the chandelier. As soon as she came to the realisation, she used her Yo-kai Watch and looked around until the watch glowed, revealing the Yo-kai that had been talking to her.

There, hanging from the lowest branch of her tree-shaped chandelier, was a little vampire bat with blue and yellow wings with hashtag patterns on them. It fluttered down onto the table and looked Twilight in the eyes.

"Who are you?" Twilight raised a brow at the Yo-kai.

"My name is Hidabat." The Yo-kai fluttered its' wings. "I'm a bat Yo-kai who makes people hide away in their houses."

"I'm Twilight Sparkle. Princess of Friendship, ruler of—and evidentally—destroyer of Ponyville." She looked out of one of the windows briefly. "It's nice to meet you, Hidabat. I'm sorry if I don't seem as enthusiastic or energetic as I usually do."

"No, no, it's alright." Hidabat flew over to Twilight. "I know what it's like. You just want to lock yourself away after doing something terrible."

"What did you do?" Twilight asked.

"Oh, nothing." Hidabat shivered. "I'm just terribly frightened of the outside world. So many people looking and staring at you. It just makes me terrified..." He flew back up to the chandelier and hung from it. "If you like, maybe we could hide in the darkness together?"

"Yeah... I'd like that." Twilight looked back at Hidabat after blotting out her windows even more. "Right now, I just need to not be seen by anyone." She flapped up high and coiled her tail around the trees like a bat, used her wings to cover her face, and made the room even darker.

"Y'know, you're much braver than I am, Twilight," said Hidabat. "You were willing to face that evil monster King Void and save Ponyville. Why would you ever wanna hide like this?"

"The thing is, Hidabat, King Void poisoned me with some kind of dark Yo-kai power and unleashed this monster called Midnight Sparkle." Twilight's face fell as she glanced over at him. "When he sent out one of his lieutenants; Lash, he taunted me into letting out my inner darkness. Midnight Sparkle seized control of me and although I beat Lash, I ended up destroying the entire town in the process."

"That's horrible." Hidabat wrapped one of his wings around her. "No wonder Queen Ephemer deemed him a threat to the Yo-kai species."

"Queen Ephemer?" Twilight's eyes widened.

"Yeah. She's some kind of weird horse-human hybrid who glows brighter than the rainbow." Hidabat nodded. "She's got all of the strongest Yo-kai as her gatekeepers. The Oni, Venoct and Kyubi, Prince Nurarihyon, and even the leaders of the old Bony Spirits and Fleshy Souls factions keep her safe. Yet, despite all this, she hides as much as you do."

"But why would a queen ever want to hide herself from saving the world?" Twilight asked. "Isn't she worried what King Void could do without her protection?"

"Queen Ephemer is quite powerful, yes. Almost to that of Lord Enma himself." Hidabat nodded. "But in the last attack on the Yo-kai World, King Void's Dark Yo-kai attacked everywhere and caused us all to scatter. There was nowhere left for me to hide back there, so I ran away here instead."

"All of that destruction and Ephemer did nothing?" Twilight gasped when she took in Hidabat's testimony. She put her hooves together and saw them tremble in front of her. "With Lash, King Void, and Kin and Gin, history just repeated itself." She brushed away the tears in her eyes and landed at the door. "I can't just sit here moping. It's time for action!"

"Wait, Twilight!" Hidabat reached out for her.

"What is it?" Twilight ran back over to him.

"Before you go, I want you to have this." Hidabat pulled out a Yo-kai Medal from inside his wings and gave it to Twilight. "For being such a good friend to me and sharing in my pain."

"Thank you, Hidabat." Twilight gave him a smile as she pocketed his Yo-kai Medal, opened the door, and walked outside again.

"My king, aren't you upset over the loss of Lash?" Kin looked at Twilight Sparkle through a black mirror with spikes on the rim. "One of the strongest of your soldiers, and you let him die to Twilight Sparkle?"

"No, Kin. I am not." King Void folded his arms and held his hands out in a claw fashion, causing a small chessboard to rise up by his side. "Thanks to Lash's taunting, we now have all of the pieces we need for the greatest game of chess ever devised."

"Chess?" Gin cocked a brow at him. "I thought you were a no nonsense guy.."

"Now now, little sister." Kin dismissed Gin with a wave of her hand. "He means it in the metaphorical way, of course."

"Precisely, gold-haired one." King Void clicked his fingers, causing Twilight Sparkle, her pony friends, her human copy, and Sunset Shimmer to appear on both sides of a chess board in front of him. With a wave of his other hand, the ones on his side became more demonic, with Twilight transforming into Midnight Sparkle, and Sunset Shimmer taking on a demonic form. "We have all of the pieces we need.

"The rooks are Applejack and Pinkie Pie. Strong-willed, yet weak-hearted." King Void pointed at the pieces one by one. "Following them with their speed but lack of restraint are Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. The bishops on this little table are Twilight Sparkle and Rarity."

"Twilight Sparkle?" Gin tilted her head. "I thought for sure that she would be queen—or at least king by your standards."

"There are two Twilight Sparkles in this universe, Gin." King Void showed both Sci-Twi and Twilight Sparkle side by side before Kin and Gin. "The one with the glasses exists in the human world; the very same one where Dame Dedtime was slain by Nathaniel and Nate Adams."

"A second Twilight Sparkle?" Kin looked at Sci-Twi as closely as she could. "So, essentially, we could have two Midnight Sparkles instead of one?"

"Midnight still resides within this other Twilight, but she has battled hard, and reaching the other Midnight is almost impossible now with her newfound friends." King Void tapped on the Sci-Twi on his end, giving her the wings and mask that Midnight had. "But, that doesn't mean she's entirely useless to us. She and Rarity are the most adept at magic, both being unicorns, of course. But what were to happen if their magic consumed them?"

"I think I can imagine, your highness." Gin smirked.

"And finally, the centerpieces of this grand chess game; Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer." King Void showed off both Sunset and Twilight before Kin and Gin. "The two who will both fight to save and destroy the worlds. The kings and queens of both sides of the board. The most valuable... and the most fragile.

"And now, all that remain in this little game are the pawns. The cannon fodder. The ones who will throw themselves into the line of fire to defend their rooks, knights, bishops, king, and queen pieces." With another wave of his hand, he created millions of regular and Dark Yo-kai on both sides of the table. The dark ones on his side, with the normal ones on Twilight's side. "Kin, Gin. Come." He flexed his middle finger, motioning for them both to approach.

"What is it, King Void?" Kin bowed.

"Yes. How can we be of assistance, my king?" Gin kneeled before King Void.

"I want you to hound both Twilight and her human counterpart." King Void cracked his knuckles. "Follow them. Keep close tabs on all of them but do not engage without authorisation." He picked up a pawn. "If we are to destroy Twilight Sparkle and her friends, it will take time, meticulous planning, the right words, and the perfect moment. But in the end, isn't that the rule of chess?" He put his pawn down two spaces in front of its' starting point. "Now. Let the games begin..."

Goodsight's Challenge

Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset Shimmer all walked down the road with their Yo-kai Watches tightly fastened around their wrists. They were all showing off all of the medals that they had acquired. Whenever Sunset and Sci-Twi got curious about certain Yo-kai that they had befriended, they talked to Whisper about it, who immediately gave them their answers.

"I heard about the Midnight Sparkle thing, Twilight." Sci-Twi put her hand on Twilight's shoulders and gently looked her in the eyes. "As someone who's had to deal with this kinda stuff before, I feel your pain. But you can win against her."

"King Void will just keep on tempting me, though." Twilight gently took Sci-Twi's hand off of her shoulders. "I need to get stronger so that I can prove to my friends that Midnight Sparkle can't serve King Void. That's why I proposed that we all go and see Mr. Goodsight at Timers and More today."

"You know, it's pretty bizarre how things work for you, Twilight Sparkle." Whisper floated alongside her as she walked down the streets. "A few days ago, King Void and his Dark Yo-kai attacked Ponyville. Then a few days later, it seems like everything's gone back to normal for you."

"It won't stay that way for long, nyan." Jibanyan walked on all fours on Twilight's other side. "King Void's probably planning something bad. Nyot only did he destroy Ponyville, but he also forced Twilight to do it. I know we've seen some pretty bad Yo-kai before, Whisper, but this King Void guy is on a whole 'nyother level..."

"Exactly, Jibanyan." Twilight picked him up and stroked him. "That's why we need to upgrade our Yo-kai Watches. The more powerful Yo-kai we befriend, the better chance we have of beating King Void and saving our worlds."

"I agree." Whisper nodded. "You even had Gargaros on your side, and yes Lash managed to not only disarm him, but send him flying and use his own club against us."

"Yeah. Considering that he's supposed to be this big, bad nightmare taken physical form, to see him get slapped around by this Lash guy like that makes me worry about King Void." Sunset Shimmer nodded. "I mean, we've dealt with evil things in Equestria before, but from the way you described him, it sounds like he makes everything else we've thought seem like child's play."

"If he can make my pony self become Midnight Sparkle, then we're really gonna have a hard time trying to beat him." Sci-Twi rubbed the pendant around her neck. "Even with these crystals around our necks, if this King Void can make other Yo-kai evil, invoke your darkness, and destroy Ponyville all at the same time, then he's even worse than anything you and I have ever fought before."

"No wonder that Queen Ephemer is so upset about all of this." Whisper shook his head slowly. "After all of the goings-on with Nate, I definitely have to say that this is quite possibly the most disastrous thing the worlds have ever had to face!"

"Queen Ephemer?" Sunset cocked a brow at Whisper's words. "Who the heck is she? Some Equestrian ruler I wasn't told about?"

"Queen Ephemer is actu—"

"We're here!" Whisper cut Twilight off and darted over towards the door of a new shop. "Timers and More!" He waved his arm, motioning the girls to follow him. "Come on, girls! Let's upgrade your Yo-kai Watches!"

"Wow. You're pretty enthusiastic, aren't you, Whisper?" Sunset gave him a coy smile and walked into the building with Twilight and Sci-Twi.

The inside of Timers and More much more stately than the girls had been expecting. With brown carpet floors, two couches and a coffee table, many different clocks hung up on the walls, and even a glass counter with many different watches underneath the glass. Despite how small the place was, there was a lot to take in.

"Ah! Twilight 'n' friends!" Goodsight pulled himself from the workbench behind the counter and walked up to the trio. "Good to see ya again."

"Hello, Mr. Goodsight." Sci-Twi shook his hand. "We're here to upgrade our Yo-kai Watches."

"Good news!" Goodsight chuckled and crossed his arms. "Knew you'd wanna upgrade 'em after that mess with them there Puppet Brothers. For being Boss Yo-kai, they really put ya'll through the wringer, huh?"

"I just have one question before we begin." Twilight put her Yo-kai Watch on the counter and pushed it towards him. "You mentioned that we needed to run some errands for you. What does that mean exactly?"

"Well, first of all, you're gonna need ta keep yer watch, missy." Goodsight put it back on Twilight's arm. "Upgrading a Yo-kai Watch isn't just something that comes by all willy-nilly 'n' stuff. You're gonna hafta work in order to give these puppies a boost."

"Just give us the word and we'll get right on it, Goodsight." Sunset readied her Yo-kai Watch and took up a combat stance.

"I need the three of you to take out a few Yo-kai that've been causing some pandemonium here in this town. And before any of ya'll get worked up about that King Void fellow, it's not any of his Dark Yo-kai." Goodsight shook his head. "No. Instead, I want you to take care of some regular run-of-the-mill Yo-kai that've been causing mischief to the poor people of this here town."

"Whoever are we going to hunt down this time, Mr. Goodsight?" Whisper puffed out his chest.

"This time? You've done this before, Whisper?" Twilight looked back at him.

"Why, of course! Every time Nate went on an adventure, Goodsight would always have him hunting down Yo-kai in order to upgrade his Yo-kai Watch." Whisper nodded. "Say, Goodsight? I don't suppose you've seen Nate around recently, have you?"

"Well not here exactly. But I heard he's doing fine all the way back in Springdale with his friends." Goodsight gave a warm smile as he remembered the time had spent with Nate. "Such a good kid. Mighty argumentative with you, most of the time, though."

"Well, I can't help it if I have to refer to the Yo-kai Pad half of the time!" Whisper flailed his arms.

"You refer to that thing all the time, Whisper." Jibanyan deadpanned.

"I DO NOT!" Whisper blurted out and looked back at the girls. He rubbed the back of his head and blushed. "Anyway, carry on."

"First Yo-kai I want you to take out is a guy named Swelton." Mr. Goodsight gave Twilight and her friends a picture of a humanoid Yo-kai with red horns and a towel. The Yo-kai was incredibly obese in stature and had sweat dripping all over him. "He's been reported to have caused kids at a local kindergarten to get too sweaty, even when they were swimming."

"Sweating while swimming?" Sci-Twi cocked a brow as she looked at Swelton's portrait. "Doesn't that seem impossible?"

"Not to him it don't." Goodsight fished out another picture. "Next Yo-kai's a guy named Tengloom." He showed them all a picture of a blue bird wearing Japanese geta sandals, a khaki shirt with a brown and orange vest over it, and a small hat with a strap. "He's been hanging out at the local park, causing people to get real gloomy."

"Well he has 'gloom' in his name." Sunset took the next picture.

"And yet, he's somehow got a fanbase back in the Yo-kai World..." Whisper whispered into Sunset's ears.

"And our last little perp is a Yo-kai named Chansin." Goodsight's last picture was that of another human-like Yo-kai. It was dressed up like a ninja with red armour, bandaged hands and a straw hat with a blue and a red strip of fabric coming out of the top of it. "Students at Crystal Prep got inspirited by this guy, and now they're taking chances too often. Caused their grades to slip way below their average."

"Wait, Crystal Prep?!" Sci-Twi lurched backwards at that remark.

"What's so important about that place?" Twilight asked as she took the last picture off of Goodsight's hands. "Isn't it just a prep school?"

"It's where your human copy attended before the Friendship Games happened." Sunset Shimmer looked over at Sci-Twi. "The students there got really jealous of her, and she didn't really have the best time at the Games because of it."

"Blackmail, intimidation, isolation, lack of friends, you name it." Sci-Twi twisted her wrist repeatedly. "Heck, I wouldn't have come to Canterlot High if your friends hadn't shown me a better way..."

"Think of it this way, Twilight. If she'd had stayed at Crystal Prep after the Games, then it would've been like you never leaving for the Summer Sun Celebration in Ponyville all those years back." Sunset put her hand on Twilight's shoulders. "Imagine that..."

"I wouldn't have met my friends, defeated all of those villains, or have become an alicorn if I didn't go to Ponyville and save the day from Nightmare Moon." Twilight let those images run through her mind; of an Equestria where she hadn't met her friends on the night of the Summer Sun Celebration. Once she'd seen enough, she shook her head and returned to reality. "Let's... not dwell on those thoughts for now."

"You three can take the Yo-kai out in any order you please, and heck, even befriend them if possible." Goodsight gave them all another smile. "Just come back here when you're done and tell me all about it. I'll be sure to give those Yo-kai Watches of yours a right proper tunin'."

"Y-Yeah..." Sci-Twi rubbed the ground with the tips of her shoes. "We'll be sure to get right on it, Mr. Goodsight." And with that, she slowly walked to the door and pushed it open.

"Yeesh. What pooped on her chocobars?" Jibanyan climbed down from Twilight's shoulders and followed her out.

"My other self sounded like she really didn't want to go back to Crystal Prep..." Twilight looked at her human double waiting outside of Timers and More. She was looking left and right and twiddling her fingers.

"You can blame Principal Cinch for that," Sunset said.

"Cinch? As in Abacus Cinch? The tyrant ruler of the Coltic Empire across the seas?" Twilight raised a brow at the name.

"Yep. That's the one." Sunset crossed her arms and walked out of the door.

"Didn't think she'd have a human copy in this world, I must admit." Twilight followed Sunset out with Whisper and Jibanyan following closely behind.

The trio walked towards the park to find the first Yo-kai on their list. The walk was relatively quiet, with Sci-Twi reflecting on all of the events of the Friendship Games and how her former students at Crystal Prep had treated her when she was a student there. Sunset and Twilight tried to talk to her, but every time they thought of a conversation topic, Sci-Twi waved a hand to stop them.

Seems like this Twilight Sparkle and I have a lot in common... Twilight thought to herself as they crossed the road. The mere mention of Crystal Prep shook her to the core, just like me when King Void forced Lash to make me become Midnight Sparkle. I just hope that I can help her overcome it.

All of this stuff. Yo-kai, King Void, Sci-Twi having to go back to Crystal Prep, it's a lot to take in. Sunset Shimmer was having an inner monologue of her own as she followed her friends to the park. I thought that the crystals from Camp Everfree would change our lives forever, but I guess we only really scratched the surface of weird stuff now that Yo-kai are running around. Whatever happens, we need to be ready to face it all—for the sake of everyone...

Doom and Tengloom/Sweaty Play

Author's Notes:

I have returned! After such a long while of waiting, a new chapter of my Yo-kai Watch Crossover is out! I wish I could've gotten back to this story more, but with college eating away at my time and many other things, I didn't have as much free time on my hands as I would've liked.

I've more been waiting to get my hands on Yo-kai Watch Wibble Wobble, but from the way the App Store works—and because Level 5 are lazy f**kers who won't localise the game here in the United Kingdom—the only way I can get Wibble Wobble is if I copy some random American person's house and area codes with an american account.

Oh, and as one last side note, now that we're a couple of weeks past the released date of Bony Spirits and Fleshy Souls, I have come to the decision that it's time to localise this story. All the times I've written Ubaune have been replaced with Dame Dedtime, so as not to confuse others into thinking she's someone else.

Have a nice day, and enjoy the chapter!

Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset Shimmer looked around for Tengloom in the park, shining their Yo-kai Lens all over the place. They scanned every man, woman, child, and tree for the Yo-kai that Goodsight had asked them to find. They referred to the picture that Sunset had taken as their search continued.

"Twilight, I have to ask you something." Sunset walked down the park path with Twilight by her side. "The Yo-kai Watch. Where did it come from? Who made it?"

"I don't really know myself..." Twilight looked at how her Yo-kai Watch glistened in the sunlight.

"I can answer that." Whisper floated in front of both Twilight and Sunset. "When Lord Enma united the Yo-kai and human worlds, a Yo-kai by the name of Steve Jaws invented the Yo-kai Watch so that it could further cement the relationship between the two species." He raised his finger. "But for the first Yo-kai Watch ever created—the Model Zero—it was actually Nate's grandfather, Nathaniel, who made the watch. With it, we were able to defeat the Wicked Yo-kai and send Ubaune packing!"

"But not Kin and Gin." Twilight shuddered, thinking back to when Ponyville was attacked by the Dark Yo-kai. "They were her second-in-command, right? What's stopping them from swooping down and causing havoc right now?"

"Maybe King Void is biding his time..." Whisper put his hand to his chin and scratched at it.

"He's probably waiting for the perfect time to strike; to provoke you and try to force Midnight Sparkle to take control." Sci-Twi looked back at Twilight. "I might not know about this whole Yo-kai thing right now, but I've read plenty of novels to know that King Void's probably going to try and hit you where it hurts, causing you to become Midnight Sparkle out of rage, panic, or persuasion."

"Just clear your mind the next time you fight him, Twilight." Sunset put her hand on Twilight's shoulders. "There is no darkness within you. There is no Midnight Sparkle. There is only you. Just keep telling yourself that and King Void shouldn't be able to break you."

"Think about your friends the next time he tries to play head games with you." Sci-Twi put her hand on Twilight's over shoulder and held onto her hand. "You don't have to listen to that big, pompous bully. Just be yourself; no-one else."

"Are you sure about that?" Twilight looked at both of her friends with wide eyes. She didn't even know that there was a purple inspiriting flame around her. "Because the way I see it, we're all doomed anyway. Why not just give up while we have the chance?"

"Twilight! What's gotten into you?" Sunset Shimmer's eyes shot open as she watched Twilight hang her head and let out a long sigh.

"There's no hope in stopping this. Maybe we should just lay down our Yo-kai Watches, walk right up to King Void, and ask that he at least be merciful with the others." She sat down and opened up her Yo-kai Medallium. "How much longer much we wait before he unleashes his wrath?"

"Twilight! Snap out of it!" Whisper gave Twilight a slap that snapped her head to the side. "You would never act this way! Unless—"

"Unless what, Whisper?" Sunset looked at Whisper.

"Unless you're being inspirited by Tengloom!" Whisper put his hand to his forehead and found Tengloom sitting down beside Twilight, reading his own book. "Sunset! Sci-Twi! Yo-kai Watches! Now!" He jabbed his finger at him.

Sunset and Sci-Twi pointed their watches at Tengloom, watching the twelve segments light up and reveal him with a blast of smoke. They brushed it away and coughed as the Yo-kai became visible.

"What's the point?" Both Twilight and Tengloom sighed and flipped a page of their books. "There's no way that we can win against King Void..."

"This isn't looking good, girls. He's got Twilight Sparkle completely under his control." Whisper floated beside Sci-Twi and Sunset. "You're going to need to pull out all of the stops if you're going to want to break her free of it."

"I'm already on it." Sunset pulled out her own Yo-kai Medallium and retrieved a Yo-kai Medal. "Come on out, my friend! Calling Signibble!" The medal was tossed high into the air. "Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!" And shoved into the slot as usual.

"SUMMONING: MYSTERIOUS!" The watch cried as yellow beams summoned forth Signibble.

Boo-shiggy, boo-shiggy
Boogie-woogie!
Cling clang, delirious
MYSTERIOUS!

"Signibble!" He somersaulted into battle.

"My turn!" Sci-Twi opened up her medallium as well, pulling out her own Yo-kai Medal. "Come on out, my friend! Calling Ake!" She mirrored all of Sunset's actions. "Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!" And just like before, she put it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: SHADY!" Sci-Twi's Yo-kai Watch declared and spat out dark blue beams.

Marvellous thee!
Gutsy, free banshee
Sing-song, SHADY!

"Ake!" He landed on his stubby legs and cracked his knuckles.

"Looks like you two have been busy since we last met." Whisper eyed up both Sci-Twi and Sunset's Yo-kai friends. "You even summon like Twilight does!"

"Well, I figured that if we're going to be calling these weird, wacky, and wonderful creatures, maybe we could jazz up the summons a bit." Sunset shot a grin at Whisper. "I mean, why just shove it into a slot when you can go all out with your big introductions?"

"True that." Whisper nodded, folded his hands, and looked over at Tengloom. "Now, girls. Charge!"

"Got it!" Both girls fist-pumped and jabbed their fingers at Tengloom.

"A fight? How pointless." He stood up and shook his head, letting out a long and weary sigh as he put his book away. "We all know what the outcome is. Even if I lose this, it was all for nothing in the end."

"Signibble! Go for him!" Sunset shouted.

"On it! Take this!" Signibble pointed at Tengloom and shot lightning at him. The bolts all struck their target one after another, sending electricity all over Tengloom's body.

"How predictable." Tengloom looked back at his book and thrust his hand at Signibble and Ake, sending green wind waves at the Yo-kai. "A losing fight all the same, like this whole situation with King Void."

"He's a strong one, I'll give him that." Whisper brushed his forehead with the back of his hand. "But don't get discouraged. He's just a Tengloom in the end. He's meant to be doom and gloom."

"Well, if gloom is in his name, then I've got nothing against it." Sci-Twi watched both her counterpart and Tengloom flip over another page of the book. "But that's still no reason to have him drag down my friends into despair. We've gotta take care of him right now!"

"Go, Signibble!" Sunset jabbed a finger at the Tengloom. "Save Twilight from that gloomy Yo-kai!"

"No prob, Sunset!" Signibble slid on his knees directly underneath Tengloom. He put his hands on the Yo-kai's stomach and channelled electricity through them.

Tengloom was fried by thousands of volts of electricity and jumped up high into the air, letting out a cry akin to that of a real bird, dropping his book as he shook and shuddered around in Signibble's attack. He landed on his butt and bounced off of his book, knocking Twilight over and cutting off the inspiriting flames.

"Huh? What the?" Twilight shook her head and looked at Sunset and Sci-Twi. She noticed that she was holding the Yo-kai Medallium and looked around for a medal. "Did we find one of Goodsight's Yo-kai?"

"Yep. And it inspirited you while you were talking about King Void." Sunset nodded and pointed to where Tengloom lay. "Pick your favourite Yo-kai and let's do this, Twilight. Triple team Tengloom."

"Doesn't that seem a bit unfair as it is?" Twilight watched Tengloom squirm to grab his book and stand back up. "I don't want to add insult to injury."

"No, no. It's fine, really." Tengloom groaned and hobbled over to where Twilight was standing. "I'm supposed to be a doom and gloom bringer. Nothing ever goes right for me. It's only fair that I lose this and go back to the Yo-kai World where I belong." He reached into his pocket and tossed Twilight a Yo-kai Medal, not even bothering to look back as he slunk away off to the deeper parts of the park. "All for the best, really. I mean, who in the world could even use a Yo-kai like me?" He faded away with a puff of smoke.

"Man. What a buzzkill." Twilight picked up the Yo-kai Medal and put it in her medallium. "Doesn't really feel like he wanted to be friends with us, yet he still gave us his medal and didn't even acknowledge us." She stood back up and closed the book. "Whisper? Do Yo-kai just drop their medals like that?"

"Well, sometimes. But most of the time I've known my masters, I've mostly seen Yo-kai Medals get acquired through some tough challenge, relationships with other Yo-kai that are friends of that peculiar Yo-kai at large, or even out of a sheer random speech or action. They don't just get dropped."

"Still, it seems like this was a little bit too easy." Sunset walked over to Whisper. "It's like he didn't even want to fight in the first place."

"Tengloom is a doom and gloom Yo-kai, as he so well put it." Whisper showed Sunset and Sci-Twi a picture of Tengloom on the Yo-kai Pad. "Often down in the dumps, nothing makes this particular Yo-kai feel happy. And whoever he inspirits will be just as miserable and moody. Despite this, he has gained somewhat of a cult following back home with certain other Yo-kai who connect to his struggles."

"I agree with Twilight. Didn't seem like much of a challenge to me." Jibanyan shrugged and climbed onto Twilight's shoulders. "But at least we got one of Goodsight's Yo-kai problems done. Everyone in the park's looking much better now."

"Yes. Everything does seem to have calmed down around here." Sci-Twi looked around and saw people running down the streets with their dogs, playing ball games on wide open grass fields, and chatting to each other while taking in the views. "All that leaves now is Swelton and Chansin."

"We should go off to the kindergarten now." Twilight pulled out Swelton's picture. "Do any of you know where that is?"

"Sure. Just follow me. I'll take you to it." Sci-Twi walked in front of Twilight and Sunset and travelled down the path towards the road.

"I think it's for the best that we head there first." Whisper nodded and floated off after Sci-Twi. "Chansin and Swelton are both 'C' Rank Yo-kai, but Swelton's powers are far more potent than that of Chansin."

"It's not the Yo-kai that I'm worried about." Sunset followed after the group. "It's about Sci-Twi going back to Crystal Prep; to face her old classmates and acquaintances after the whole Friendship Games fiasco."

"Abacus Cinch was a cruel and unjust pony back in Equestria, so I can only assume that her counterpart in this world was just as bad." Twilight shook her head and coiled her hand around the Yo-kai Watch. "If she left her mark on my other self, then I shudder to think of the damage that she's done to the other students at that school too..."

"No matter how evil and selfish a human might be, they all look like wailing toddlers when compared to that of a Yo-kai villain," said Whisper. "The acts of Mckraken, Dame Dedtime, and Gogogo Godfather are still ingrained into the deepest parts of my subconscious..." He shuddered, thinking back to the days when Nate had to save the world from the Yo-kai that he had mentioned.

"Not to mention the crimes King Void committed when he invaded Ponyville." Twilight winced at everything that had happened. "First, the Dark Yo-kai; then Kin and Gin turn Red Snow's Sailornyan into Oblivinyan; and finally, he had a massive monster named Lash unleash my true evil. It's safe to say that King Void doesn't deserve any form of redemption."

"But how are we possibly going to defeat him?" Whisper asked.

"We upgrade the Yo-kai Watch, make our supernatural entourage even bigger, and amass an army of friends to perform regicide on King Void." Twilight crossed the road, looking both ways for traffic before stepping onto the paved white lines. "But in order to do that, we'll need to beat Swelton and Chansin."

"I agree." Whisper nodded. "Power doesn't come without challenge, after all."

Later that day, Sunset, Twilight, and Sci-Twi all arrived at the local kindergarten and walked inside. They spoke with the woman at the front desk and went down the corridor towards the room where the children were playing. The three girls approached the door—which had been decorated with stickers and painted all of the colours of the rainbow—and walked inside.

Inside the room, different children of all shapes and sizes were running around, full of energy as they passed the time before their next lesson. Some students were sitting at a table drawing pictures, while others were playing with toys or running around the room to catch or find one another. No matter what they were doing, though, it was clear that they weren't going to stop any time soon.

"Well, we're here, that's for sure." Whisper crossed his arms and looked around at all of the children enjoying themselves. "Now, all we have to do is look around for the Swelton inspiriting these poor children, take it out, and then we can be on our way."

"Are you sure that Goodsight was telling the truth when he mentioned that the kids here were getting sweaty due to a Yo-kai?" Sunset walked up towards some of the kids and saw them laughing and having fun. She looked closer and saw some small drops of sweat trickling down their foreheads. "Because from the way I see it, they're making all of this sweat from just playing around."

"I'm one-hundred and fifty percent sure that there is a Swelton around here, Sunset." Whisper put his hands to his sides. "In all of the years that both I and he have lived, Mr. Goodsight has never told a single lie in his life, and he doesn't plan to start now."

"Whisper? Don't you think that you're just jumping to conclusions a bit here?" Twilight gently walked up behind him and tugged on his tail, causing him to jump and hit the ceiling.

"Twilight! Don't touch the tail!" Whisper stroked his tail and rubbed his head as he floated back down to her height. "I might be the closest thing to an actual ghost, but that's still no reason for you to just go grabbing onto my tail like that!"

"See, that's the thing with you, Whisper. You lack a sense of judgement." Twilight looked at the other children, playing around with toys and books. "Whenever a problem comes up, you always think that a Yo-kai's doing it, or that that particular Yo-kai's bad without giving it a chance to show itself off. Because of this, you end up making terrible choices of words and actions and pull your masters into more fights than they need.

"Likewise, whenever someone does something rash, you always tend to make them out as shifty, suspicious, or rude, even when they might be in a hurry to donate to charity, or are doing something for a loved one." Twilight tutted and wagged her finger. "You might be a Yo-kai and a good ally, Whisper, but you're a terrible butler."

"I..." The words hit Whisper so hard that he froze up on the spot and turned completely white. He slumped to the ground and dropped his arms across the floor before being run over by a couple more children.

"Gee, Twilight. You didn't have to say it like that." Jibanyan walked up to Whisper, who was writhing and crying on the floor with his arms suppressing his tears. "And here I thought I had it rough when I thought Amy called me lame..."

"A... terrible butler?" Whisper quivered as he floated back up to Twilight's face. "I feel so disgraced by those words. I don't even deserve to be yours!"

"Whisper. Get over it, you big crybaby." Twilight rubbed his tuft of hair.

"No! I shall not even dignify you with a response! I'm out of here!" Whisper vanished with a blast of smoke.

"I think it's for the best." Jibanyan nodded. "I mean, he put you down many times, had low expectations whenever you befriended a Yo-kai that you'd get them all, and he still has to resort to that stupid Yo-kai Pad half of the time. I don't knyow how Nate put up with him, but I do knyow that you don't even need him now that you've got all your other Yo-kai friends."

"JIbanyan. I'm not going to abandon Whisper." Twilight kneeled down to Jibanyan. "But at the same time, I'm also not going to let him get off with this so easily. You do have some valid points, but Whisper has proven to be an asset capable of fighting King Void's Yo-kai. And in these times of need, we need all of the Yo-kai that we can get.

"Whisper has been incredibly judgemental about everything that me and Nate have had to fight, he constantly takes wise-cracks at stuff that shouldn't even be wise-cracked about, and more often than not, it's becoming annoying how little of an actual butler he's being." Twilight used her fingers to list off all of Whisper's traits. "I expected him to wear a tuxedo, to hold a silver platter, to speak in a refined Canterlot accent, and just do everything that I say, instead of him bossing me around like some kind of Yo-kai whipping boy." During Twilight's tirade, she began perspiring all over. "Is it just me, or did it get really hot in here all of a sudden?"

"Nyeah. Me too!" Jibanyan began sweating as well. "Sunset! Sci-Twi! Do you feel hot and sticky?"

"Yeah. Yeah I am." Sunset flipped up her Yo-kai Lens and began looking around. "Looks like Whisper was right after all."

"I should apologise to him." Twilight looked through her lens and revealed the Swelton in the room. "But first, we need to clear Swelton out of here before he starts inspiriting the other kids."

"Uggh..." Swelton sat down, inspiriting multiple kindergarten kids at once as he dropped his arms down by his sides. "So much energy. Makes me sweat all over."

"He looks pretty bulky." Twilight watched the sweat roll down Swelton's flabby body and onto the floor around him. "Looks like we might need to combine our efforts on this one."

"Got it." Sunset pulled out a medal. "Come on out, my friend! Calling Cricky!" She tossed the medal high and watched it bounce off the ceiling. "Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!" She pushed it into the slot.

"SUMMONING: SLIPPERY!" The Yo-kai Watch declared and called forth the frog.

Glippery!
Trippery1
Slimey-wimey-do!
Slippery!

"Cricky!" He landed before Sunset and croaked.

"Looks like it's my turn now." Sci-Twi nodded and pulled out her Yo-kai Medal. "Come on out, my friends! Callinng the Nosirs!" She copied Sunset's moves, right down to her catching the medal and putting into her watch. "Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!"

"SUMMONING: EERIE!" Sci-Twi's watch called out.

Lookie-lee, lookie-lee
Flippidy-dee!
Lookie-lee, lookie-lee
Bubba Eerie!

"Nosirs!" The three of them called out together.

"Uggh. A fight is it?" Swelton slowly stood up and wiped his face down with the towel around his arm. "Guess it's time to sweat up the joint some more."

"Come on out, my friend! Calling Count Cavity!" Twilight threw her medal up as well. "Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!"

"SUMMONING: SHADY!" Twilight's watch cried out.

Marvellous thee!
Gutsy, free banshee
Sing-song, Shady!

"Count Cavity!" He twirled his pitchfork and brandished it before Swelton.

"Three-on-one, eh? Sounds fun." Swelton took up a sumo wrestling stance and thrust his hands out before the three Yo-kai. "Might even give me a reason to sweat!"

"En garde, vile fiend!" Count Cavity banged his pitchfork against the ground and ran towards Swelton, lunging forward with it.

The pitchfork went into Swelton's flab, but it didn't actually impale him. Count Cavity tried to pull it out, but when he did, he yanked it too hard and accidentally let it go, sending it flying into the ceiling. He pulled it out and flew back at Swelton and tried to strike him with the weapon, only for it to slip and slide all over the Yo-kai's body.

"Don't make Twilight's Yo-kai slip and slide! Nuh-uh-uh!" The first Nosir kicked Swelton in the face twice, with his feel slipping off of his face easily.

"Ugh. You guys really need to know when to break a sweat!" Swelton thrust his arms out, casting inspiriting flames on the three Yo-kai.

"So sweaty... That's snot it..." The third Nosir fell to his knees as he began sweating frantically.

"Why's it gotta be sweating?" Cricky moaned and sat down.

"Swelton's power is more scary than I thought!" Twilight's sweat attack got even stronger as Swelton inspirited the Yo-kai.

"Only makes sense that we stop him right here and now." Sunset nodded, wiping some of the sweat off of her brow as she looked down at the team. "Cricky! Go for him."

"Really?" Cricky tilted his head to the side. "I'm a pacifist, not a fighter."

"Hmm. Let's see you get through this!" Sweltone gathered up energy for a Soultimate.

"Team! Now's the time!" Sci-Twi pointed her finger at Swelton. "Nosirs! Move in and strike his down before he's done!"

"Count Cavity! You help out the Nosirs!" Twilight added, patting Count Cavity on the back. As she did, her hands began to sweat as well, and they slipped right off of his back and flopped down to her sides.

Both the Nosirs and Count Cavity ran forward, dealing precisely aimed punches and strikes to Swelton's face and body. Their attacks were all successful, and Swelton did stagger from them, but he still gathered up energy for the Soultimate move. They tried to deal him a strong attack to break his concentration, but their sweat was making it increasingly harder for them to focus themselves.

"Now's the time!" Swelton finished charging for his Soultimate, and thrust his arms out while sitting down. His own sweat trickled down like a stream of water as his entire body got moisturised. "SWEATY WALL!"

"He's bolstering his defences! Team! Move in!" Twilight thrust her arm out.

"Cricky! Please fight for me, or we're going to lose to Swelton!" Sunset got down onto her knees and pleaded,clasping her hands together.

As Cricky looked at Swelton, a fire appeared in his eyes. He stood up and cracked his knuckles, hopping towards the Yo-kai. "This sweat is unbearable! It's time to cool off!"

Cricky's feet repeatedly pounded Swelton's face, causing him to fall onto his back. He continued to bounce on the sweat-covered Yo-kai's face while Count Cavity and the Nosirs got to work on his chest. Together, the Yo-kai team hammered down on Swelton, dealing a seemingly endless combo of attacks all over him.

"No! Stop! Stop hurting me!" Swelton pushed the Nosirs and Count Cavity off of him before grabbing Cricky and throwing him towards a plastic box. "I'm not a bad Yo-kai! Honest!"

"Hold on, everyone. Looks like he's opening up." Sci-Twi threw her arms in front of all of her friends and walked towards Swelton. "Go on. Tell us. Why were you inspiriting these poor kindergarten kids?"

"People need to sweat. It helps them burn off calories and keep fit." Swelton wiped himself down with his towel. "And since these kids are full of energy, I thought that this'd help them out and keep them happy and healthy. But I didn't realise that they were getting too sweaty for their own good." He sighed and hung his head, lifting the inspiriting flames from the room, cooling down the humans and Yo-kai alike. "I'm sorry if I made a racket. I just wanted to keep people slim. Isn't that what sweat's supposed to do?"

"You couldn't control yourself?" Sci-Twi's eyes opened up slightly.

"Yeah. Sweating off fat's a good thing, but I'm making 'em oversweat." He reached out to the kids. "I just wish I could stop, but you know what they say. A Swelton's a Swelton and that's all he'll ever be." He hung his head.

"Aww..." Sci-Twi rubbed Swelton's head, grimacing as the sweat coated her hand. "Hey. Let me make it up to you, Swelton. Why don't we be friends?"

"Really? You really mean it?!" Swelton's eyes shot wide open. "Yes, yes, yes! I'd love to! No-one ever befriends a Swelton these days!" He pulled out a Yo-kai Medal from the folds of his body fat and gave it to Sci-Twi, shaking her hand vigorously. "I promise you that you won't regret this decision! I'll be your best friend ever!"

"Well, looks like that's two down and one to go." Sunset crossed her arms and watched Sci-Twi clean up the sweat-drenched Yo-kai Medal. "But the last one's at Crystal Prep..."

"Don't worry about it, Sunset." Twilight held onto Sunset's hand. "We're going to stop Chansin and keep Sci-Twi safe. Whatever Abacus Cinch might've done to that place, we're still going to get the job done and save those inspirited students." She took a quick glance at Swelton and Sci-Twi talking to each other. "And while we're there, I suppose I owe Whisper an apology."

"You most certainly do."

"Whisper?" Twilight watched as Whisper appeared right beside her.

"You know, I'm not really pleased with the way that you treated me back there." Whisper's hands were balled up into fists and placed against his hips. "I might be descended from the great philosopher Nonuttin', but I'm far smarter than that measly marshmallow."

"I know. And I'm sorry that I snapped at you for it." Twilight sighed and looked up at Whisper. "See, the thing is that you're not really much of a butler and rather more of a boss. When we hear the word 'butler', we often think of people dressed up in tuxedos with silver platters and a mature and wealthy voice. Not some hovering ghost barking orders and having to refer to a tablet to get their information."

"Well those are all of the stereotypes that you would see in a regular human waiter, but I, Whisper, am no ordinary butler." He pointed to his chest and pulled out a card with a blue border and an odd symbol on it. "As you can clearly see by this card, I am a certified Yo-kai butler, appointed from the Yo-kai World to serve any one being that frees me from the Crank-a-kai. This is a lifetime debt and cannot be exchanged, substituted, or broken."

"Geez. And here I thought Spike's dragon code stuff was corny..." Twilight deadpanned.

"WHAT'S SO WRONG WITH A LITTLE CERTIFICATION?!" Whisper yelled into Twilight's face.

"Calm down, you two." Sunset pushed into Twilight and Whisper. "Let's just get back to what really matters here. We beat Swelton, and that leaves us with only one Yo-kai left."

"That's the good news. The bad news is that it's inspiriting Crystal Prep students." Sci-Twi regrouped with Twilight and Sunset. "If Crystal Prep's grades start to fall even lower, then the students'll get mad, and that'll lead to an education crash." She sighed. "Moreso, I'm worried about what the other students will think about me once we get there..."

"Hey. Don't worry, Sci-Twi. We're here for you." Sunset wrapped her hand around Sci-Twi's chest. "And no matter what happens, we're going to stand right by your side, now and forever."

"Then I hope that you're prepared to go gambling, ladies." Whisper floated towards the door. "Because once you step into Crystal Prep's doors, it'll feel more like a casino than an academy."

"I don't really like the sound of that..." Twilight tugged at her collar as she and her friends followed Whisper out of the room.

Gambling Your Future

Twilight, Sunset, and Sci-Twi stood before Crystal Prep. The three of them looked up, seeing just how the academy towered above them. With sunlight glistening off of the spiked rooftop and down onto the car park, it seemed much more like a castle to the three girls.

Sunset and Twilight were in awe of the building while Sci-Twi slowly squatted down slightly and put her hands close to her face. It had been a long time since she had left this school behind in place for Canterlot High, and she was still thinking about how everyone would react to her coming back.

"So this is Crystal Prep?" Twilight walked towards the front door of the building, sliding her hand against the rails. "It looks so refined. Almost like the Crystal Empire back home..."

"It's still hard to believe that Principal Cinch ran this place." Sunset crossed her arms and followed after Twilight. "This place looks like it should be ruled by a king or queen—not a high school, middle-aged, selfish, and downright evil principal."

"Hear hear." Sci-Twi slowly walked up to the steps, her legs shivering and trembling with each step that she took. "I'm personally glad that she's serving a sentence in Tartarus Penitentiary for what she did to me."

"It doesn't just look good. It also produces the most intelligent, successful, and wealthy people this side of the planet." Sunset Shimmed walked up to the front doors and placed her hands on them. "Doctors, scientists, authors, politicians, and much more have been made here, all thanks to the twisted rule of Abacus Cinch."

"And now Chansin's throwing a spanner in the works by making them gamble." Whisper scratched his chin and floated alongside Twilight. "We can't let that happen. Evil principal or no evil principal, we're going to stop that Yo-kai and restore order to this school!"

"Nyeah. That Yo-kai's got nyo chance against us, right, Twilight?" Jibanyan looked up at her.

"I just hope you're right, Jibanyan." Twilight pushed the doors open and walked inside with Sunset. She was about to move through the foyer when she looked back and noticed that Sci-Twi hadn't budged an inch since they had arrived. "Hey, Sci-Twi? Are you coming or not?"

"Uhh... Yeah. I'm coming." Sci-Twi took small steps forward, her entire body quivering as she made it to the door. Slowly, she peaked her head inside, looking around for anyone who might have recognised her. When the coast was clear, she held onto Sunset's hand as tightly as she could and brushed her body against her friend. "I'm just a little nervous about coming back to Crystal Prep, that's all."

"Don't worry, Sci-Twi. You have us to protect you." Sunset stroked Sci-Twi's neck and cuddled her close. "No matter what anyone in this school says or does to you, we're going to stand by your side and defend you."

"Yes. No matter what heinous ruffian threatens you, be it Yo-kai or human, we're right behind you." Whisper nodded.

"Alright, but just be warned that Crystal Prep students are incredibly snooty and self-reserved. Don't be surprised if they call you out for being dressed commonly or if you're not as smart as they are." Sci-Twi raised her finger. "Even if there's a Yo-kai involved, I'm still half-expecting them to be a bit rude."

As Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset walked through the hallways of Crystal Prep, they spent most of their time gazing at how well-kept it had been and how barren the lockers were. The entire place was entirely spotless, and students were barely in the halls whenever there were lessons. For the most part, the school remained eerily quiet, much more than the three of them would've liked it to have been.

"Where is everyone?" Sunset asked, looking down the corridors in an attempt to find someone. However, it didn't matter where she looked; she found absolutely nothing. "You'd think that for a place like Crystal Prep, there'd be some students out in the hallways. I mean, geez, it's like the whole place is deserted."

"Well, if it's a prestigious academy, then I would imagine that the students would be busy in their classes, not lollygagging around in the hallways like your average high-school student." Whisper shrugged and poked his head through a nearby window. He saw a couple dozen students sitting down and looking through books, writing down answers on an adjacent piece of paper. "See? They're all right here, focused on their studies."

"I know that, Whisper. I'm just wondered why there aren't as many here today as I was expecting." Sci-Twi rolled her eyes. "It just strikes me as odd that—"

"HOLD ON!" Whisper yelled and slapped Sci-Twi's mouth, cutting her off. The little tuft on his hair wiggled slightly as he took another look through the classroom door. "My Yo-kai senses are going off the charts! Chansin's foul inspirits are at work here!"

"Really?" Sunset looked through the door at all of the students working on their papers. She flipped up the lens and saw that all of them were covered with purple inspiriting flames. "No way... They're just blindly guessing their answers instead of thinking them through! This is a nightmare!"

"Chansin's inspiriting powers make the victim gamble recklessly, often willing to put everything on the line just to obtain something as measly as a stack of cash." Whisper turned back to face the others. "In places like a casino or video game arcade, Chansin's a Yo-kai you'll see most commonly due to how much drive he gives his victims to play the games. But having a Chansin at Crystal Prep, inspiriting poor and helpless students and potentially ruining their futures is a travesty to end all travesties!"

"Well, that's why we're here, right?" Twilight pulled out her Yo-kai Medallium and pulled out a Yo-kai Medal. "We just have to beat Chansin and stop him inspiriting the students. Then, Mr. Goodsight's gonna upgrade our Yo-kai Watches."

"Hey, Twilight!"

The group jumped when they heard that voice. Slowly, they turned around to see a students walking up to them. She had cream-coloured skin and a blue buzzsaw haircut. She wore a simple pink shirt with a bolt of lightning streaking down it, as well as a pair of trainers and navy-blue jeans.

"Who in the heck is this?" Twilight asked, recoiling at the newcomer and her appearance.

"This is one of my old classmates. Her name is Indigo Zap." Sci-Twi stepped forward and got a good look at Indigo. "But, she's not in the Crystal Prep uniform. Why wouldn't she be?"

"Chill, Twi. Cinch is gone, and all of her stupid and bossy rules are gone too." Indigo put her hands behind her head. "Now, we're free to wear and say what we want without fear of being judged. All thanks to Principal Chrysalis."

"Principal Chrysalis?" Sunset cocked a brow.

"Yeah. She's pretty chill. Not nearly as frightening as Cinch was, but she's still a bit freaky nonetheless." Indigo's arms dropped down by their sides. "But let's not talk too much about her. Where've you been? We haven't seen each other since the Friendship Games." She came up to Twilight and playfully messed with her hair while holding her in an arm lock.

"Indigo, please. We're trying to keep restore order to Crystal Prep." Sci-Twi broke out of Indigo's hold and showed her the Yo-kai Watch. "In case you hadn't noticed, there's a Yo-kai running around making everyone gamble. I'm sure you've noticed."

"Yeah. Sunny and Sugarcoat mentioned that they'd been betting on stuff more often than usual." Indigo's eyes opened up slightly. "Those two always have the right answers, but for them to just start guessing all of a sudden is really creepy."

"Chansin's behind everything. He's a Yo-kai who makes you bet, gamble, and guess instead of thinking rationally and tactically." Sunset Shimmer nodded. "We're here to defeat him, possibly befriend him if possible, and put everything back to normal so that Mr. Goodsight can upgrade our Yo-kai Watches."

"Yo-kai? I'm afraid you've lost me there." Indigo tilted her head to the side.

"I don't really blame her. Only those with the Yo-kai Watch know of Yo-kai." Whisper tapped on Sunset's shoulders. "If you tried to explain all of this weird stuff to a friend, then it'd be harder to comprehend than most of their algebra lessons."

"Whisper, maybe you could actually help out most of the time instead of just stating the obvious." Twilight deadpanned and glared at him. "Hence the reason why I said you were a terrible butler."

"Well what do you want me to do?!" Whisper shook his arms wildly.

"Just tell her the truth, nyan!" Jibanyan pulled out a massive fan and slapped Whisper across the face with it, smashing him into a school locker, before bouncing off into many more like a pinball in a machine.

"Anyway, Indigo. We're here to save Crystal Prep from Chansin's wrath. You may not believe us, but if you just watch us carefully while we're confronting him, then I'm sure you'll get the general gist of things."

"Alright." Indigo shrugged. "But I still think all that magic stuff went to your brain after the Friendship Games."

Suddenly, the bell rang and students poured out of the different classrooms, wearing bright and heavily expressive clothing instead of the old uniforms. They were seen talking to each other and comparing their answers as they filled the silent hallways with chatter and energy.

As the students left the rooms, Chansin waltzed out as well, slowly tip-toeing and sneaking behind other students so that he wouldn't get caught. As he made it down the corridor towards the lockers at the far end, he didn't notice that Twilight, Sunset, and Sci-Twi were pointing their Yo-kai Lens right at him, and he was fully exposed to the three of them.

Whisper's voice echoed as he bounced around the halls, crashing into Chansin and knocking him back towards the teenagers. They both got back up after the impact and realised that Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset were both looking down on them.

"Chansin! Stop inspiriting these poor students!" Whisper demanded.

"Never!" Chansin dealt Whisper a blindingly fast backhand strike, sending him flying once again. "These students are too boring. They must all take a chance!" He stood on one leg, clapped his hands together, and dashed off, leaving a cloud of white smoke behind him. He leapt on top of a student and clapped his hands, leaving an inspiriting flame. "Gyanburu!"

"I'm going to take a chance and say... five?" The inspirited student spoke to his friend.

"Nope. Sorry. The number I was thinking of was eight." The other student shook her head.

"Chansin's getting to work. After him, now!" Jibanyan jabbed one of his paws towards Chansin, who dashed off down the hallways.

"Hey! Get back here!" Twilight ran after Chansin with her other friends close behind her.

"Wait up!" Indigo followed after Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset Shimmer, who were all in hot pursuit of the Yo-kai that had been inspiriting the CPA students.

Twilight, Sci-Twi, Sunset, and Indigo ran down the hall, chasing after Chansin. They watched him leap gracefully and run across the tops of the lockers like an ancient japanese ninja, firing down shurikens that stuck to the back of the heads of more students, leaving inspiriting flames on each and every one hit.

"He's fast!" Sci-Twi exclaimed, seeing that Chansin had inspirited an entire hallway of Crystal Prep students, who all began to pull out their phones and make wagers and bets.

"Well he is a ninja after all." Jibanyan scurried after the Yo-kai. "Just make sure he doesn't get away. Corner him, then let me handle this."

"He's so agile..." Twilight watched Chansin leap over multiple students, raining down steel stars on top of each of them. Ordinarily, they would've killed them if they were real, but Chansin's stars merely stuck into their heads, leaving no physical pain whatsoever. "And here I thought Venoct was fast."

"Ninjutsu Arts of Chance!" Chansin slowly moved his arms and ferociously slammed them against each other, making two clones appear right beside him, running side by side at the exact same speed as the real one.

"He can clone himself?!" Sunset, Sci-Twi, and Twilight all gasped as they watched Chansin duplicate and swap places with his clones in an attempt to throw them all off of which one was the real one.

"And I can do far more than that." Chansin cartwheeled and flipped right over the heads of all four of the pursuing teenagers, proceeding to run in the opposite direction. While he ran away, the two clones still ran the other direction. "Am I there, or am I here? Take. A. Chance!"

"Sci-Twi. You and Indigo follow the one behind you, me and Twilight will handle the two over here!" Sunset called out.

"Okay!" Sci-Twi skidded on her heels and ran back the other way, her body tipping over as she dashed off after the one remaining Chansin.

"Sci-Twi? Is there something you're not telling me?" Indigo ran after Sci-Twi, racing just in front of her.

"Not now, Indigo! We have to catch Chansin!" Sci-Twi pointed towards Chansin as he ran towards another fork in the path.

"What the heck is even going on here?!" Indigo exclaimed as she kept up with Sci-Twi.

After the group split up, Sunset and Twilight chased after the two Chansins that had continued to run forward. They got closer and closer to the Chansins and managed to run them both against a set of double doors. They chased the Yo-kai through the doors where they ran into a rather spacious cafeteria with a mezzanine floor and a wide variety of food on the counters.

"Take!" The first Chansin ran into the middle of the room and posed.

"A!" The second Chansin mirrored his movements.

"CHANCE!" Both of them called together, roping the entire room in inspiriting flames.

"This is bad." Twilight watched all of the students get inspirited at once. "Sunset. Are you ready to bring out your Yo-kai?"

"You know it. It's time to put an end to Chansin and his gambling ways." Sunset pulled out her medal.

"Come on out, my friend!" Both Twilight and Sunset readied their medals simultaneously.

"Calling Count Cavity!" Twilight flung her medal skyward.

"Calling Dracunyan!" Sunset shouted.

"Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!" Both of them called out as they took their respective medals and placed them in the slots.

"SUMMONING: SHADY!" Both watches announced as dark blue beams filled the air.

Marvellous thee!
Gutsy, free banshee
Sing-song, Shady!

"Count Cavity!" He brandished his pitchfork and pointed it at the Chansins

"Dracunyan! Mwahahahahaha!" He cackled as lightning crashed behind him.

"Yo-kai! Hajime!" The first Chansin flexed his fingers, taunting the two Yo-kai into attacking.

"Face us in battle, brave ones!" The second Chansin mirrored his colleagues' movements.

"Eat pitchfork, vile fiends!" Count Cavity swooped in and drove his trident into Chansin, thrusting his arm forward when he got close enough to him. Just as he landed his hit, however, both Chansins had completely vanished in a puff of smoke.

"Yo-kai Gamble Fight!" Both Chansins cried out as whole group of them descended from the ceiling.

"What the heck?!" Twilight jumped at how many Chansins there were in place of the first two. "How is that even possible?!"

"I am Chansin. Master Yo-kai gambler and a legend in casinos both in the Yo-kai and human realms." They all spoke exactly the same and bowed before Twilight and Sunset, putting their hands together and making symbols out of them. "My inspirits have brought people to wealth and ruin at the same time. And now, you will undergo the same ritual that they have!"

"Before you lie approximately twenty of us. Only one Chansin is the real one. Make your attack, and only attack that Chansin." They all stood back up. "Do not worry yourself. We will not move, and instead take the whole brunt of your wrath. Choose the right one, and I shall be defeated. Pick the wrong Chansin, however, and I shall show both of your Yo-kai no mercy!"

"TAKE. A. CHANCE!" All of the Chansins cried out as they cast both Twilight and Sunset with purple inspiriting flames.

"Sunset! Twilight! No!" Jibanyan cried out as both of his friends became inspirited. "Tch. Looks like it's my time to shine!" He cracked his paws and leapt at the crowd of Chansins. "I'll take all of you down with my Paws of Fury!"

Jibanyan struck at all of the Chansins at once, only to find himself hitting thin air. After a flurry of attacks, he eventually got winded and stopped attacking to catch his breath.

As soon as he did so, a powerful knifehand strike landed straight on his neck, sending him flying against the wall. The impact was so powerful that it left a small crater when he landed and flopped down onto his belly, turning him into a blue wisp.

"Incorrect!" Chansin yelled at the wisp. "Let us see if your masters are less willing to play it safe."

"Alright. We're taking a chance, but on which one?" Sunset looked at all of the Chansins, who all separately pulled something out and began to use it. She watched them take out cups and balls, ninja stars, books, katanas, and other varied items as they all waited for them to make their move. "They all look pretty much the same. It's just what they're using that's different."

"Maybe that's the pattern we've gotta follow." Twilight began to examine each of the items that the Chansin clones were carrying. "Let's see..."

"Hey, guys." Sci-Twi burst through the door with Indigo close behind her. "Turns out that Chansin we were following was a dud. You managed to beat—" She looked at all of the different Chansins, who were all using the stuff that they had pulled out of their pockets "—whoa. What happened here?"

"They are in deep concentration. Waiting for their perfect moment to strike."

"Huh? Who said that?" Sci-Twi looked around for the newcomer and flashed her Yo-kai Lens all over the room. Eventually, the watch lit up and she found a new Yo-kai standing before her.

There before her, was a bipedal lion with white skin, blue hair, five long tails, a yellow robe, and a katana of his own by his side. He took in deep breaths and sat down with his legs folded, putting his hands on Twilight and Sunset, revealing his own inspiriting flames.

"Gambling is a dangerous weapon. Chansin is the attacker and they are the victims. One way or another, he will win this, because Chansins always make their targets bet impulsively." The lion stayed perfectly still and spoke in a low and gruff voice. "By watching and waiting for that ideal moment, Twilight and Sunset will be able to find the right Yo-kai and strike him down."

"Who are you?" Sci-Twi walked up to the meditating lion.

"That time is for later. Now, we simply wait." He nodded. "Wait for one of the Chansins to foolishly reveal himself."

"Wait? Why would we—"

"Ssh!" The lion's gaze remained fixated on the Chansin army, watching ever so vigilantly as they continued to use what they were using. Despite how non-active the Yo-kai were, nothing changed for them. "That perfect moment only comes once in a lifetime. Miss it, and you may miss your chance of reaching true prosperity."

Eventually, he saw one of the Chansins yawn and drop the ball and cup, while the others still continued to do what they were doing with all of their other toys, games, and books.

"These two are really taking their time..." The real Chansin saw both Twilight and Sunset milling over which one to pick.

"NOW!" The lion stood up and dashed towards the real Chansin, slicing it in clean in half with a single swing of his sword.

"Huh?" Twilight and Sunset watched the crowd of Chansins disappear along with their inspiriting flames as the lion stood over his defeated target.

"You are defeated, reckless one." The lion stood on top of Chansin's body, making him squirm under his paw. "Leave this place now, or face the full force of my blade."

"Impossible! A Chansin never loses to a Yo-kai!" He groaned and looked over at Twilight and her friends. "They won by playing it safe. Unacceptable!" He disappeared, causing the lion to stand normally once again.

"The trick to winning a gambling game is to wait patiently." The lion walked over slowly to Sci-Twi, looking deep into her eyes. "Your friends almost made a costly mistake. Had they undergone Chansin's power any longer, they would've lost everything to that fool of a Yo-kai." He clicked his fingers, lifting his own inspiriting flames from the girls. "So, I simply made them wait and discuss it among themselves. My power of waiting does not negate that of a Chansin, but it does allow the inspirited to calmly and quietly assess the situation at hand."

"What... What are you?" Sci-Twi slowly reached out for the lion.

"What is what?" Sunset looked through her lens and revealed the lion as well. "Twilight. You might want to look at this."

"Huh?" Twilight herself peaked through her Yo-kai Lens and saw the newcomer on full display.

"My name is Lie-in Heart." He bowed before the three girls. "I am a Yo-kai that makes you sit and wait patiently for that perfect moment. My power is truly that of legend, but unlike most other Yo-kai, I do not run blindly into battle without a plan. I wait for the chance to strike, then take it, cleaving through many troublemaking Yo-kai with lethal precision and blinding speed."

"So, you're a peacekeeper?" Twilight asked.

"Yes. And just as you fight to defeat King Void, I fight to protect this world from the cruelty of unjust and twisted Yo-kai such as that Chansin you just fought." Lie-in Heart nodded. "My Lion Blade has slashed down many Yo-kai at once, and I will not stop now for anything, be it for infinite riches or for great desires. I simply fight because I want to keep the world safe.

"You, Twilight of this world." He pointed to Sci-Twi.

"Me?" Her eyes shot open as she raised her hand to her mouth.

"Yes. This world is overrun with heinous and foul Yo-kai mischief makers such as that Chansin." He walked over to Sci-Twi. "You wield a Yo-kai Watch, it seems. I seek a master. One who calculates, waits, and doesn't just recklessly attack like the inspirited victims that I have seen today. Will you be that one?"

"Are you asking—"

"Yes, I am." He pulled out a Yo-kai Medal from his pocket. "Will you be willing to fight with me, striking at the perfect moment as we keep this world protected?"

"Well, this isn't what I had expected at all, but I'd be glad to." Sci-Twi took the medal and shook Lie-in Heart's hand, bowing to him as she did so.

"Very well then. It is decided." Lie-in Heart stepped forward and drew his sword. "Whenever you find the perfect moment to battle, call on me, and I shall strike with the fury of a thousand bolts of lightning!" With a fast slash, he blew wind all throughout the cafeteria and disappeared, blowing the hairs of every boy and girl around him upward.

"What in the heck was that?!" Indigo fixed her hair and gazed down at Twilight's medal. "And what in the heck is that?"

"It's a Yo-kai Medal, Indigo." Sci-Twi held it in front of her friend's face. "It's the symbol of friendship between a Yo-kai and a human. Holding it means that Lie-in Heart is now a loyal friend of mine, who I can summon whenever I wish to help me out with a tough battle."

"Yo-kai Medal?" Indigo scratched her temple as she looked at the medal. "It's pretty cool, but I'm still not entirely sure what's going on."

To that response, Twilight and Sunset fell over, sticking their legs out high.

"I've got a lot to tell you, Indigo." Sci-Twi sighed and put her hand on Indigo's shoulders. "And let me just say that this is going to blow that whole magic thing at the Friendship Games out of the water."

Author's Notes:

I decided to make Lie-in Heart seem stronger than he is purely due to the fact that Lie-in Heart has carried me throughout the entire game. Ever since I pulled him from the Crank-a-kai on my first day along with Siro and Cruncha, they've been at my side ever since. So, when I put Lie-in Heart into this chapter, I thought back to all of the times he's helped me out in game, be it striking down both Kin and Gin at once, dealing with tough Yo-kai battles and bosses like Dame Dedtime and Dame Demona, and even now to when he's still a powerful Yo-kai to have in your team, despite his ability to wait a turn before acting.

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The Game Begins

Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset Shimmer all walked back into Timers and More with Whisper and Jibanyan close behind them. After having defeated Chansin, Tengloom, and Swelton, the three of them were already imagining of Mr. Goodsight upgrading their Yo-kai Watches and pushing them up to the next rank.

"Mr. Goodsight! We're back!" Sci-Twi called out and skipped inside the building.

"Well, howdy, girls!" Goodsight gave the trio a bright smile as he pulled his head from the workbench. "Didn't expect to see you all back so soon. I trust that you've taken care of the Yo-kai I asked you to get rid of?"

"Yep!" Sci-Twi nodded vigorously. "Swelton, Chansin, and Tengloom are gone. All thanks to us!"

"You're pretty peppy, aren't you?" Sunset smirked and looked over at Sci-Twi. "You sure you're not inspirited by a Yo-kai that makes you happy?"

"Highly impossible." Whisper crossed his arms and shook his head. "Being a Yo-kai myself, I'm able to see my fellow brethren a mile away. And I cannot see Happierre or Peppilion anywhere. Sci-Twi is clean and happy of her own volition."

"Well, whatever the case, I'm glad that ya'll handled those troublemakers that quickly." Goodsight smirked and placed his elbow against the glass counter. "Life's a lot simpler without them there troublemakers, ain't it? Makes the world flow smoother."

"You can say that again." Sci-Twi clutched Lie-in Heart's medal tightly behind her back.

"Well, I'll be upgradin' yer Yo-kai Watches now." Goodsight held out his hand. "Just hand those little puppies over and I'll crank those ranks up. Soon, a whole new rank of Yo-kai'll be waiting for ya'll."

Twilight, Sunset, and Sci-Twi took off their Yo-kai Watches and put them on the counter. They watched Goodsight take the three of them over to his workbench and pull out his toolbox.

"Hey, I'm gonna be a while, so why don't ya take a seat on the couch." Mr. Goodsight pointed over to a pair of purple sofas that circled a small coffee table. "While you're at it, I can have my lovely assistant get ya'll a coffee if'n ya want some."

"Assistant?" Twilight cocked a brow.

"Baku? You in there, doll?" Goodsight called to the curtains to the right of his counter. "We got three gals here who're in need of a perk-up!"

"Baku here. Baku deliver anti-sleepy drink!"

A small purple elephant with a pink rear ran into the room, balancing a silver tray with three mugs of coffee sitting delicately on top. Baku's voice was scratchy and female, and she had long, sharp teeth and yellow eyes.

"Baku?" Twilight looked as the Yo-kai entered the room and laid down the drinks on the table.

"Baku's a Yo-kai. More specifically, a Yo-kai that makes you fall asleep." Goodsight chuckled and smiled at Baku. "She sprays her sleep smoke on you, you sleep like a baby. Simple, really. On top of that, she eats your dreams while you sleep and can even help you stay up real-late at night if you so wanted to."

"Interesting." Sunset petted Baku as she took her mug of coffee. "So there are Yo-kai that can make you fall asleep?"

"And ones that keep you wide awake so much that you develop rather ugly bags underneath your eyes." Whisper nodded. "There's a Yo-kai for quite literally everything in this world!"

"Including sleep?" Twilight rolled her eyes.

"Yes. Including sleep," Whisper nodded.

"There's a whole lot more to these Yo-kai than I thought." Sunset scratched her chin with the back of her hand. "If they can will people to fall asleep as well as what I've seen already, then I might just have to be on guard for future encounters."

"You never really know what to expect when dealing with Yo-kai, Miss Shimmer." Goodsight smiled. "Nate himself learned that first-hand when he held the Yo-kai Watch."

"As do I." Twilight Sparkle took a sip of her coffee. "When I got the Yo-kai Watch, I ran into a Boss Yo-kai named Felycan. In her dying breath, she mentioned King Void. Then, the Puppet Brothers attacked, then Kin and Gin, the Dark Yo-kai, everything's been a bit of a roller-coaster ride for me recently."

"Yes. It certainly has been more eventful for you than it has for Nate." Whisper looked away. "He never had to deal with this much world-ending business every day. You've been harassed, hounded, and tortured by King Void; and he's far worse than anything Nate ever had to fight when I was his master!"

"Whisper. He fought a squid, an old hag, and a godfather. I'm pretty sure that he's had more hassle than Twilight's had in her life." Jibanyan shrugged and brushed against the carpet.

"I'll have you know that they were all incredibly tough and menacing Yo-kai!" Whisper yelled at Jibanyan. "If you haven't forgotten, Squiddilius Mckraken was a tyrant who wanted to conquer the human world with an iron fist; Dame Dedtime was a monster of a Yo-kai who tried to absorb every living and non-living thing in existence; and Gogogo Godfather used an otherworldly stone to nearly enslave the entire earth!"

"Let's not forget King Void." Twilight shuddered. "He rules the Dark Yo-kai and makes them out of regular Yo-kai, he has Kin and Gin by his side, and not to mention those eleven remaining Dark Ones of his. He's a king alright. An evil, cruel, malicious, and absolutely despicable king at that. He's even worse than the Yo-kai that you described, Whisper."

"Baku not worried." Baku shook her head, shaking her snout as she did so. "Baku spray sleepy gas, Baku beat King Void easily."

"How are you gonna spray gas on a Yo-kai that can fly and can turn you into a Dark Yo-kai in seconds, Baku?" Goodsight raised a brow.

"Baku try! No knock Baku up until Baku try!" Baku blew steam out of her nose and glared at Goodsight.

"Hey, hey, easy, doll!" Goodsight pushed his arms out. "I've got confidence in you, you know that."

"Baku not believe you." She shook her head and walked back to Twilight and her friends.

"Don't worry, Baku. I know how you feel." Twilight patted Baku's snout and closed her eyes. "Whisper's hard on me too."

"I AM NOT!" Whisper blurted out, pushing himself into Twilight's face.

"Sorry, but you kind of are." Twilight grabbed Whisper's face and threw him against the wall. "You understand me, right, Baku?"

"Yes. Baku do understand." She nodded and looked up at Twilight. "Baku may be weak, but Baku trying to get stronger. Baku make Yo-kai sleepy, then Baku eat sleepies. Baku do same with humans, keep them up at night."

"Why do you keep saying your name?" Sci-Twi tilted her head. "It seems a bit strange..."

"What wrong with Baku saying name? All Bakus say name, since beginning of Yo-kai World." She pranced over to Sci-Twi.

"I just assumed that it was a speech pattern error." Sci-Twi shrugged. "Forgive me for what I said."

"It alright." Baku inwardly shrugged. "All humans confused by Yo-kai. Baku know this as fact."

There was mostly silence in Timers and More after that. The girls simply drank away at their coffees, gulping them down once they had cooled off. They let the flavour of caffeine dance around in their mouths momentarily, swishing them around before they swallowed their drinks, letting the taste dive down into their stomachs. There was an odd conversation here and there, but nothing too major for the girls. Mostly talk about Yo-kai and friendship.

"Done! Upgraded Yo-kai Watches!" Goodsight laid all three of them down on the counter and put them on the girls' wrists one by one. "Twilight. Sunset. Sci-Twi. You're all good to go. Up into C Rank."

"Thank you, Mr. Goodsight." Twilight strapped her watch onto her wrist and pulled it to make sure that it was tightly secured around her arm. "This should help us a lot."

"Yeah, thanks." Sunset gave Goodsight a smile as she fitted her watch onto her arm.

"Now, ya'll take care with them there upgraded watches." Goodsight pointed to the watches. "Quality craftsmanship there. Nothing but the best for you gals." He crossed his arms. "And if you want to upgrade to B rank, then make sure you come round and see me again someday."

"I'm sure that we'll be ready." Sci-Twi smirked and glided her arm over her Yo-kai Watches. "We've made some strong friends already, and I can bet you that we'll only make more."

"There's nothing we can't do as long as we're all together." Sunset Shimmer bent her arms and smirked. "We'll fight King Void to the bitter end and befriend every Yo-kai we meet!"

"Whoa! You girls are full of energy!" Twilight stumbled backwards at Sunset and Sci-Twi's words.

"Confidence inspires victory." Whisper raised his finger. "If you believe that you can do it, then you can. If Sci-Twi and Sunset are this confident, then I'm sure that together, we can all defeat him."

"I'm pretty sure that it takes a palpable power different to win, Whisper." Twilight looked back at him.

"Not to us." Sunset nodded.

"It doesn't matter how big and strong those Yo-kai are." Sci-Twi cracked her knuckles. "With Lie-in Heart by my side, we'll be able to strike them down effortlessly!"

"We can do this!" They both cheered together, punching the air with their fists.

"Come on, Twilight, get invested." Whisper nudged her elbows. "Your friends count on you. You should do the same for them."

"Alright, Whisper." Twilight joined her friends in hand. "Together, standing side-by-side, we'll drive away the darkness and crush King Void's army! Nothing is impossible!"

"One... two... three! FRIENDSHIP!" The girls shouted and ran out of the door with Whisper and Jibanyan close by their sides.

"They seem pretty happy, don't they?" Goodsight chuckled. "Well, I reckon that their right in a way. If you just believe in yourself, then even a big, bad king like Void isn't really much of a problem at all for those three." He watched them run across the road and into the distance. "Let's just see how much their beliefs'll carry them..."

"King Void's Dark Yo-kai are pushing forward even now, yet we still sit on our haunches and wait." Nurarihyon tipped his hand before Queen Ephemer. "Why do you trust Princess Twilight that much, your highness?"

"It is not just Yo-kai power that Twilight and her friends now wield. But something far greater than anything I could expect from a mortal being." Queen Ephemer crossed her arms. "The Magic of Friendship."

"The Magic of Friendship? Just a silly little rumor." A yellow cat with a purple coat stepped in between both Nurarihyon and Queen Ephemer. "Nothing more than a fairy tale made up by the ponies of that world."

"We have no time for such silly little children's stories." A blue dog with a yellow coat joined the cat. "Lord Nurarihyon is right. If we hesitate, King Void will destroy us. We need to attack now!"

"Inumaro! Nekokiyo! Stand down!" Nurarihyon pushed both of the Yo-kai away. "This is a matter between me and Queen Ephemer. Do not interfere!"

"Y-yes, Lord Nurarihyon!" They both quivered and bowed before him before slinking away.

"With all due respect, your highness, this is a case of majority rule. Me, Inumaro, and Nekokiyo's standing point is very firm." Nurarihyon's brows lowered as he squinted at the queen. "You need to make some form of attack. Just how long are we going to let ourselves get subdued by that monster?"

"If I didn't value your efforts to create Dai-Yoma Nura-Neira, the three of you wouldn't even be alive at this point in time." Queen Ephemer glared at him, elicting gasps from him and his two servants. "That is your problem, Nurarihyon. You are strong, yes, but as Nate, Inaho, and the Yo-kai Watch Busters have proven, you are nothing more than a creature of the darkness, one who acts justly, but doesn't consider the grave consequences of your actions."

"Tch. You're just like him, aren't you?" Nurarihyon snarled. "Just like Lord Enma, you don't seem to want to act until the time's just right! We are losing Yo-kai day after day, and you wish to keep waiting in the wings?!" He got up in Queen Ephemer's face. "If you're not going to do something about this, then I will!"

Nurarihyon took in deep breaths and became consumed within a black globe. His eyes glowed bright red and he grew in size before her. Thorn-ridden tentacles replaced his body and legs, and purple crescent moon-shaped horns rested on his shoulders. A gleaming red gem appeared on where his chest used to be and he let off a snarl as he eyed up the queen.

"I have nothing more to say to you. I'll deal with this myself." He snarled and leapt away with his tentacles. "Inumaro, Nekokiyo. Come! We're repelling King Void's next attack!"

"Yes, my lord!" Both Inumaro and Nekokiyo ran after Nurarihyon. They threw the doors open and dashed through, closing them afterwards.

Queen Ephemer simply sighed. "Oh, Nurarihyon. You're walking right into a trap. If only you could just be rational about this..."

Kin and Gin looked down on the Yo-kai World, watching Nurarihyon, Inumaro, and Nekokiyo run out of the castle and disappear in puffs of purple smoke.

"So... The dark one wishes to fight, does he?" Kin smirked.

"So arrogant. No wonder Lord Enma crushed his futile attempts to stop Yo-kai and humans being friends." Gin shrugged. "He will fall, just like all of the others."

"True. The Dark Yo-kai have been gathering, and the army is mass multiplying as we speak." Kin pushed her fingers together. "It won't be long now before King Void declares his next attack and decimates these putrid worlds."

"Still, though, I'm curious to see how this Nurarihyon fellow handles the Dark Yo-kai..." Gin looked towards the sky of the Yo-kai World. "Shall we go and find out, Kin?"

"Indeed, Gin. Let us see how long he lasts before he dies by our hands..." She smirked and disappeared along with her sister.

Yo-kai Evolution

Twilight, Whisper, Jibanyan, and Sgt. Burly were all training Yo-kai at the repaired training grounds. The four of them were holding clipboards and pencils and charted down all of the facts and figures of the regime. The four of them, apart from Sgt. Burly, were wearing black caps and whistles, and used them to alert the trainees.

During their session on the hill, Rarity, Pinkie, and the rest of their friends walked up to meet Twilight and her entourage of Yo-kai. They were all accompanied by Dazzabel as they approached Twilight, Whisper, Jibanyan, and Sgt. Burly.

"C'mon, everyone! Feel the burn!" Burly shouetd at the Yo-kai running the obstacle course. "Bring those knees up and run that course, you chunky chicken nuggets!"

"Hello, Twilight." Rarity gently tapped Twilight's shoulders.

"Whoa!" Twilight almost leapt into the air when Rarity's hoof touched her shoulders. "Oh. Hi, girls. Didn't see you there. Did you come to train your Yo-kai too?"

"Training? Is that what this was all about?" Applejack looked at the course and saw all of Twilight's Yo-kai friends running across the course. "I thought this was some oddly-shaped barn you were building."

"You call that training?" Rainbow turned her head and blew a light raspberry. She shot her wings out to the side and flew up to the sky, striking multiple clouds with a single kick, knocking them against each other. "This is training!" She shot into the air and drove down through the clouds in a spiral formation, drilling straight through them, causing them to vanish instantly. "See? Gone in a snap. And there's more to come." And with that, she darted off through the air towards the remaining clouds in the sky.

"Ooh! A special training area for Yo-kai only?" Pinkie Pie watched one half of Twilight's Yo-kai beginning another lap of the course while the other half ran onto mats and began to stretch their limbs. "Cool!"

"I agree. I am quite intrigued by this outlandish dojo of yours." Red Snow smiled and examined Twilight's hoof-made obstacle course. "I can only assume that this is to prepare Yo-kai for the upcoming battle with King Void. In which case, it would be wise if we could all use our Yo-kai on it."

"Don't mind me then." Dazzabel flew towards the course.

"Dazzabel, darling, wait!" Rarity reached out for her Yo-kai friend.

"Don't worry, Rarity. I need this if I'm ever going to become a better fashion artist." Dazzabel cupped the tip of her umbrella with her hand and slid it through her, cocking it like a shotgun. "You'll see what I mean soon."

"Come on, everyone! Let's kick it up a notch!" Twilight called to the group of Yo-kai. "Harder! Faster! Stronger!"

"Pump it up!" Whisper added. "The best way to make yourselves stronger is through hard training and lots of sweat!"

"Everyone! All together now!" Sgt. Burly threw his arms up high. "Feel. The. BURN!"

Dooby-Dooby Don Don Dooby Zoo-Bah!
Magical secrets for powerful muscles
Dooby-Dooby Don Don Dooby Zoo-Bah!
It helps me out, even if I'm in trouble

Let's go see him
So we can learn what he knows.
He's got the moves from head to toe
He's our super-duper hero!

I'm too scared to speak to that boy in my class
If he doesn't like me, I'll be broken like glass
That's why I'm training to be sure and strong
So please train me, Burly, train me all day long, yeah!

Doony-Dooby Don Don Dooby Zoo-Bah!
Dooby Dooby Dooby Zoo-bah!

As the song filled the air, golden inspiriting flames were launched from Sgt. Burly's body straight onto all of the Yo-kai in the vicinity, including Whisper and Jibanyan. Slowly, but surely, they picked up the pace and found themselves training ever harder, and at a much more rapid pace. The sweat was practically flying off of their bodies as they became enveloped in their workout.

"Whoa. They're really going at it, aren't they?" Twilight watched the Yo-kai working harder and harder to improve. "Even Whisper and Jibanyan are training!"

"That's the power of Burly's Beat Camp, Twilight." Sgt. Burly put his hand on her shoulders. "Not only is it a workout, but it also helps a Yo-kai reach their true potential. Once they start, they don't want to stop until they become the best of the best." He looked back at the Yo-kai. "C'mon, Noway! Star jump higher! Be as strong as the Impass you want to become! DImmy! Negatibuzz! Strike that bag like it's your mortal enemy! Keep it up!"

"Well, it definitely beats the Ponyville Gym, that's for sure." Twilight nodded.

"Hold on. It's only getting started!" Burly grinned and stoked the flames that he had cast onto the Yo-kai.

Dooby-Dooby Don Don Dooby Zoo-Bah!
I'm always so lazy, so I lounge on the floor
Dooby-Dooby Don Don Dooby-Zoo-Bah!
Instead of standing up I'd rather lay here some more

I need to work harder
To say yes versus no
His voice inspires me to get up and go
He's our super-duper hero!

Every single time I try to get started
I quit after three days and feel broken-hearted
I am so weak but I just want to be strong
So be tough on me, Burly, all day long, yeah!

Dooby-Dooby Don Don Dooby Zoo-Bah!
Dooby-Dooby Dooby Zoo-Bah!

"Whoa. Get a load of that!" Spike pointed at the Yo-kai as some of them started to glow a bright shade of white. "Twilight's Yo-kai! They're changing!"

"Changing? Whatever do you mean, Spike?" Rarity asked, examining her Dazzabel most of the time. Sure enough, she watched her Yo-kai get wrapped in white light as well, to the point where she had to shield her eyes. "Ooh! It's even brighter than some of my dresses!"

"Hey, Burly? Do you know what's going on with these glowing Yo-kai?" Twilight asked.

"Certain Yo-kai evolve after rigorous training and combat. Something a stark gamer would refer to as a level-up." Burly turned to face her. "After enough level-ups, Yo-kai glow and transform into bigger and more powerful versions. These Yo-kai have stronger inspiriting powers, have more power overall, and generally look like they've matured once they shed off their old selves."

"I see." Twilight watched the light slowly begin to fade. "So there's Yo-kai fusion and Yo-kai evolution?"

"Yep. Course, there's some that don't evolve, but they're still just as strong." He nodded. "Speaking of evolving, hey, Roughraff! Pound that sack!"

"You got it, Burly!" Roughraff gave the punching back a powerful string of attacks, followed up with a thrust kick that threw it to the ground. As soon as that transpired, he too began to glow.

"See? Training really does pay off when you're a Yo-kai." Burly looked back at her. "Soon, all of your weak and wimpy baby Yo-kai'll grow up big and strong, ready to give King Void a real butt-kicking." He blew Twilight's whistle a took a few steps forward. "Alright, everyone! Your workout's almost done. Just follow my moves and that's all for the day!"

Dooby-Dooby Don Don Dooby Zoo-Bah!
The harder the training, the better I feel
Dooby-Dooby Don Don Dooby Zoo-Bah!
I want a rock-hard body like the man of steel

Let's push it to the limit
To make our muscles grow
Shoot for the stars and we'll reach our goals
With our super-duper hero!

I'm at a crossroads in front of my future
I can't be a slug if I want to be super
I'm gonna battle my weakness away
I want to be a hero, starting today!

Dooby-Dooby Don Don Dooby Zoo-Bah!
Dooby-Dooby Don Don Dooby Zoo-Bah!
Dooby-Dooby Dooby Zoo-Bah!

"Alright, everyone. That's all for today." Sgt. Burly nodded and patted the backs of all of the Yo-kai that had taken part in the exercise. "Look at all of you. Big and strong, just like I had planned. I know you'll all do Twilight Sparkle proud." He vanished in purple smoke, taking his flames with him.

"Get a load of all of these new Yo-kai." Jibanyan scurried around them all. "There's Impass, Moskevil, Badude, N'more, Rattelle, Kelpacabana, and many more!"

"Sup, Twilight?" Cutta-nah's blade had gotten longer, but it was now split into five blades with curls instead of points. "You really did me a solid with Burly there. Now, I'm a Cutta-nah-nah. Extra strong laziness inspirits and all."

"Cutta-nah-nah?" Twilight opened the book and looked at the medals that she had gathered. With a bright flash, some of the medals transformed into medals of the newly-evolved Yo-kai. "When did I get your medal?"

"It's simple, Twilight." Whisper hovered beside her. "When Yo-kai evolve or fuse, it's quite common that they give you their medals straight away. Or, if you were already friends with that Yo-kai when it evolved, then the medal changes as well."

Suddenly, Whisper's Yo-kai Pad was snatched away by a lasso, carried by a purple bird that bore a great resemblance to Peckpocket, but was bigger, had longer feathers on its' head, and had a sack underneath its' arm.

"Name's Robbinyu." He spoke in a gruff voice as he took the Yo-kai Pad. "Unlike Peckpocket, I can steal stuff without the help of a human. Just one swing of this lasso, and it's mine, all mine!"

"Robbinyu?" Pinkie tilted her head at the name. Then, she realised what it was about and smiled. "Oh! It's a portmanteau of robin and you! I've said it before and I'll say it again. That's clever!"

"Oh my..."Rarity looked at what Dazzabel had transformed into. "You look incredible!"

Dazzabel had grown much more, to the point where she now had a full skull with a bottom jaw, a poofy-blonde haircut, and glowing green eyes. Her umbrella was now opened, and was shading her from the heat of the afternoon sun.

"Hello, Rarity." She flew over to her. "As you can see, I've changed much for the better. I'm not ditzy little Dazzabel anymore." She gave a twirl. "From now on, my name is Ratelle. Far more sophisticated, more experienced in the world of style, and ready to serve however I can."

"At long last, I no longer have to be a Noway." He said, with an entire roof with two golden points on it. "I am Impass at long last!"

"How many Yo-kai evolved from that one workout?" Twilight looked at all of her new Yo-kai friends with big, bulging eyes.

"Like Burly said, exercise does pay off for Yo-kai." Whisper floated down to her side and nodded, glancing at all of the new Yo-kai Medals that replaced the old ones. "Now I think we're one step closer to putting down that heinous King Void once and for all."

"Totally. Badude's got your back, Twi." Roughraff was now a much taller and wore a black and yellow vest. He was carrying a nail-covered bat and gently smashed it against his hand menacingly.

"Whoa! Twilight! Are you okay?" Rainbow Dash landed back next to Twilight. "I saw some lights shining over where you were training your Yo-kai. Did I miss any—" she looked over at the Yo-kai "—thing?"

"You've only just missed out on the best training session ever!" Whisper threw his arms up and flexed his muscles, causing them to grow heavily. He also grew a massive eight-pack and bounced each separate muscle without any effort. "Thanks to Sgt. Burly, I'm ripped!"

"What's even better is that we've now gotten a major upgrade." Twilight nodded and walked around all of her Yo-kai. "With the fact that they've evolved into these secondary forms, their Yo-kai powers should have increased significantly as well, to the point where it puts the old versions to shame."

"Yeah!" Jibanyan jumped onto Twilight's back. "You've done great, Twilight. I couldn't be prouder to have you as my master!"

"Technically, Jibanyan, you and all of your friends did great. I just sat on the sidelines and watched you all working out like crazy." Twilight chuckled and levitated Jibanyan onto the ground. "But thank you for the praise anyway."

"Nyo problem." He nodded.

"Now all that's left to do is wait until King Void makes his next attack." Twilight looked up at the sky, feeling the wind blowing through her mane and tail as she took a deep breath. "Kin, Gin, another Dark One. He's going to unleash one of them soon. But I don't really know when..."

Nurarihyon, Inumaro, and Nekokiyo were fighting off hundreds of Dark Yo-kai on an open plain, with a purple and green sky hanging overhead. Inumaro and Nekokiyo themselves had also transformed, to the point where they had become buff monsters with sharp claws, ripping and tearing through their enemies.

"Begone!" Nurarihyon spread his tentacles out in all directions, impaling Dark Yo-kai with every strike, causing them to disappear from the face of the world. Smashing them down on the ground again, he sent shockwaves that destroyed even more of them, only for reinforcements to reappear instantaneously.

"Know your place, vile fiends!" Inumaro thrust his hand out and shot fire at his targets, turning them into ashes that soon dissipated afterwards.

"No-one lays a finger on the Yo-kai World except the denizens that live in it!" Nekokiyo stomped the ground, causing massive stone spikes to strike down more Dark Yo-kai. "Under Lord Nurarihyon's word, I will destroy all of you Dark Yo-kai!"

"Witness the end!" Nurarihyon took in Soultimate Energy and became fully charged within seconds. With his eyes glowing red, he leapt into the sky and pointed his tentacles at every Dark Yo-kai that he could find. Black orbs appeared on the tips that he then shot out towards the ground, directly into the path of the Dark Yo-kai. "ETERNAL HELL!"

With an endless chain of explosions, all of the Dark Yo-kai were decimated and reduced to pieces as Nurarihyon landed back alongside Inumaro and Nekokiyo. His breathing became exceptionally heavy as he scanned around for more Dark Yo-kai, only to find absolutely nothing else.

"Is it over?" Nekokiyo asked, slobbering drool as he turned towards Inumaro and Nurarihyon.

"As much as I'd like to believe that, it's not." Inumaro shook his head and cracked his knuckles. "I sense a darkness nearby. One much more powerful than the Dark Yo-kai that Lord Nurarihyon destroyed."

"Well, well, well. Aren't you a perceptive little cat?"

"And to think, you serve a creature who would fit better with King Void rather than Queen Ephemer. Where is your honour, Inumaro?"

"I demand that you show yourselves!" Nurarihyon roared to the air, trying to find who was talking to him.

"So strong, yet so misplaced at the same time. It sickens me." Kin appeared before the group with Gin by her side.

"It wonders me how Queen Ephemer spared your lives after the atrocities you committed to the Yo-kai World." Gin examined Nurarihyon and his cohorts. "Ever the fool, Nurarihyon. And forever a being of the darkness!"

"My lord! These are—"

"Yes." Nurarihyon put his hand over Inumaro's mouth. "The infamous Time Witches. The former servants of Dame Dedtime and the Wicked Yo-kai." He lowered his brows and glared at the two of them. "Kin and Gin..."

Author's Notes:

Now before I leave you, I want to ask you an important question.

Have I written Nurarihyon, Inumaro, and Nekokiyo's powers correctly? Seeing as how the second Yo-kai Watch Movie is still in Japanese, I'm not really sure how exactly their powers work. If you think I've done him wrong, then be sure to let me know and I'll amend that as soon as possible.

And as always, have a good day/night, and I'll talk to you all later.

Christmas Special: The Tale of Nyanta Paws

Author's Notes:

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope that you do enjoy this Christmas Special of Princess and the Yo-kai. Now, just so you were left with the cliffhanger at the end of the last update, that's still going on, but I just wanted to get Christmas out of the way before we move on to the next Arc.

Yes, there's going to be another multi-chapter arc for Princess and the Yo-kai, with a new Boss Yo-kai at the end of it. If you're excited for it, then be sure to leave your thoughts down below in the comments section and maybe give me some ideas of what I should do for it.

But until then, have a very merry Christmas, and I'll talk to you all soon!

Down in Ponyville, bright decorations littered the trees and buildings as snow glistened in the skies. Ponies all throughout the town were dressed up in coats and boots, getting everything ready for Hearth's Warming. There were carols that echoed through the town as everyone worked hard on making sure that the place was ready in time for the holidays.

Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan were all sharing specially-baked Hearth's Warming cookies shaped like presents and trees in the castle lounge. The room, much like the rest of the town, was decorated festively, with elongated mistletoe hanging down from the ceiling.

"Happy Hearth's Warming, Whisper." Twilight smiled as she bit into her cookie.

"Merry Christmas, Twilight." Whisper responded with a bite of his own cookie. "I must say, I'm surprised at how similar the two holidays are to one another. You've got presents, dinner, decorations, carols, the whole nine yards! It's like Christmas and Hearth's Warming are one in the same!"

"Nyeah!" Jibanyan devoured his food within seconds and wiped the crumbs from his face with a paw. "These cookies beat chocobars any day!"

"I'm glad that you two are enjoying them." Twilight stood up from the chair and walked over to Whisper and Jibanyan. "Since you two are new to Equestria's Hearth's Warming holidays, I want to make sure that you feel comfortable celebrating it. Feel free to do whatever you want to help. Whether it's helping somepony set up decorations, singing songs with ponies through the streets, or just general present wrapping, you're welcome to try it."

"Well, that all sounds rather marvellous, Twilight," said Whisper. "I might just have to take you up on that opportunity sometime."

The three of them took more bites out of the festive-themed cookies and sat around the fireplace, warming their hooves, paws, and hands against it. The feelings they felt were clear as day; it was going to be a great season for them all.

"Say, Whisper? Can I ask you something?" Twilight looked over at her ghostly companion. "Do Yo-kai have any special Christmas traditions?"

"Why yes, yes we do." Whisper unlocked his Yo-kai Pad and activated an application on it. "Every year, one particular Yo-kai is declared Santa Claus. They get a festive makeover and lead the way throughout the Yo-kai and human worlds, delivering presents to every boy, girl, and Yo-kai all in one night." Suddenly, he squealed as he saw a video appear before him. "It's starting! They're announcing this year's Santa!"

"Really?" Twilight slid over to the pad. "Let me see, Whisper."

"Me too!" Jibanyan leapt onto Twilight's shoulders and peered at the video screen. "I wanna see who gets to be Santa this year!"

"Greetings, Yo-kai of all ages, shapes, and genders!" A bearded man sitting on a cloud appeared on the screen. He wore a red hat with three bags floating behind him. "As you all may know, it's almost Christmas time for the Yo-kai and human worlds. Which means that it's now time to decide which lucky Yo-kai get to become the one and only Santa Claus!"

"Who's that?" Twilight looked at the man sitting on the clouds.

"That's Ol' Saint Trick." Whisper pointed out. "He's a Yo-kai who specialises in multiple choice scenarios, usually involving three different items or subject matters. He also hosts a great game show in his spare time. I should really show you it someday."

"He also gets to decide who gets to be Santa Claus, as well as his helpers!" Jibanyan's tails shook wildly as he got closer to the screen. "C'mon, man. Don't leave us in suspense! Just tell us!"

"And this year, Santa Claus will be..." Ol' Saint Trick shuffled his bags around so quickly that it was impossible for anyone to keep track of it. When the bags finally stopped, he reached into the nearest one and pulled out a thin strip of paper with the Yo-kai's name on it. "Jibanyan!"

"Wha?!" Jibanyan jumped when he saw the name and fell to the ground head first. "Me? But I can't be Santa! I'm just a cat!"

"Oh, come on, Jibanyan. Surely it can't be that bad." Twilight picked Jibanyan up and placed him on her head again. "You're getting possibly the best job in the whole entire world! You get to be Santa Claus for just one night!"

"Yeah, but I'm Santa to both humans and Yo-kai. That's gonna be twice as much hassle and presents as usual." Jibanyan rubbed the back of his head and looked down at the screen again. "I'm gonna get tired out incredibly fast, y'know."

"He does have a point." Whisper raised his finger. "Being Santa Claus might be an incredible job, but you have to consider the fact that it's the ultimate night shift. He has to deliver presents to everyone in the human and Yo-kai worlds all in one night, and within the span of only twelve hours. It'll be chaos for poor little Jibanyan."

"It's not all that bad, Whisper." Twilight nodded. "In all depictions of Santa Claus mythology, he's been seen to have little helpers with him, wrapping the presents and helping him keep track of who still needs to get their gifts."

"And now, for his helpers." Ol' Saint Trick clicked his fingers, sending hundreds more papers out of the bags, revealing the Yo-kai who would be aiding Jibanyan for the night. "All of these Yo-kai are to come with me immediately."

Ol' Saint Trick clapped his hands, causing a pillar of light to appear at Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan. It was so blinding that the three of them had to cover their eyes as they quickly vanished from the castle, leaving no trace of themselves whatsoever.

Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan re-materialised inside of a massive wooden building, with a tall ceiling and lots of different machines strewn around the place. There were toys, jewels, devices, consoles, and many more all set up on the conveyor belts. Many of the machines and other furnishings were all painted red, green, and white, and were accompanied with lots of different Christmas decorations.

"Whoa..." Twilight nearly drooled at the sight of the place. Her eyes were darting between everything that she could see, from the gifts, to the machines, to the decorations. "I'm actually standing in Santa's workshop. I've dreamed about seeing this place ever since I was a filly!"

"I'm sure that with Jibanyan as Santa Claus, that's not the only surprise you're going to be getting tonight." Whisper floated towards the conveyor belts.

"Indeed."

With a few more pillars of light, Ol' Saint Trick appeared in the room with lots of different Yo-kai accompanying him. He flew over to Jibanyan and shook his paw.

"Greetings, Jibanyan. My name is Ol' Saint Trick." He nodded and sat as if he was meditating. "I trust that you have a lot of questions, but first, I want to ask you about your two friends." He gazed over at Twilight and Whisper. "I'm sure that I don't recall choosing them to be your helpers."

"Oh, it's alright, Ol' Saint Trick." Jibanyan scurried over and pointed to Twilight's Yo-kai Watch and pulled out her Medallium. "Twilight's my master, and Whisper's a Yo-kai who gave her the Yo-kai Watch. Together, the three of us are assembling friends to battle against King Void and save the world."

"So you're the supposed chosen one that Queen Ephemer has her eyes on, is it?" Ol' Saint Trick came up to Twilight and opened his eyes. "Well, I must say, you do look more composed than I had expected."

"It's nice to meet you too, Ol' Saint Trick." Twilight shook his hand. "My name is Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship. I look forward to working with Jibanyan tonight."

"Please, princess. Jibanyan is such a rather ill-fitting name for this sort of occasion." Ol' Saint Trick shook his head. "For tonight, you may refer to him as Santa Claus."

"Alright. Whatever floats your boat." Twilight smiled and walked over to Jibanyan. "Well, if there's any way that we can help out, I'd be glad to do it."

"You all certainly weren't in my bags the last I checked but the more the merrier, I suppose." Ol' Saint Trick shrugged. "Anything that helps Santa get the job done quicker is welcome in this workshop." He turned towards all of the other Yo-kai in the room. "Now, as for the rest of you, you're all going to be assigned helper uniforms based on your tribe and powers. After that's done, I'll be assigning you different duties depending on talents."

Everyone was assessed by Ol' Saint Trick and assigned different uniforms. They all had white tufts of fur around the sleeve holes, shoulder areas, and down the front, but were all coloured differently to match that of the Yo-kai's tribe. Once they were appropriately dressed, they dispersed to different sections of the workshop, ready to follow instructions.

"I can't believe we're actually working in this workshop!" Whisper shook his hands wildlyl as he looked at the presents. "This is like something out of a fairy tale!"

"Maybe we'll get to ride in his sleigh as well, delivering all of the gifts to all of the boys and girls all in one night!" Twilight squealed. "I'm so excited, I'm turning into Pinkie Pie!"

"Princess, if you don't mind, I'm showing Santa around his base of operations for the night." Ol' Saint Trick approached Twilight and Whisper. "Would you and your ghostly companion care to join us?"

Twilight gasped and shook his hand once more. Only this time, she was much more vigorous in doing it. "Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes!"

"Alright then. Come with me, you two." Ol' Saint Trick hovered towards a door dressed with a white frame and festive wreath. "It's time to show you all around."

"C'mon, Jiba—uh, I mean Santa. Let's go and see the rest of this place." Twilight skipped through the door with Whisper close behind her.

"Sure thing..." Jibanyan looked away from the door but walked towards it nonetheless. He let out a sigh as he followed Ol' Saint Trick into the next room. Why did it have to be me this year?

"As you can see, being Santa Claus is no easy task." Ol' Saint Trick stretched his arm towards a colossal sack, loaded up with presents of all shapes and sizes. "Having to deliver to all seven billion humans and all of the Yo-kai in one night is tough—even for the last year's winners. But even so, we stuff the bag as high as we can, making sure not to leave someone behind."

"Wow..." Twilight stared at the size of the bag in awe. She thought that it was at least the size of her castle, if not larger.

"Nyeah right..." Jibanyan muttered under his breath and carried on with Ol' Saint Trick.

"As you can see below you, Yo-kai are working hard to get everything wrapped up nicely in time for the holidays." Ol' Saint Trick pointed down over the railings and motioned the other three to join them.

"Wait a minute..." Twilight looked closely at the Yo-kai at the benches. They were all the same, right down to their black hair, wide smiles, green pointy hats, and bulbous heads. "They all look the same!"

"When Christmas comes around, all anyone can think of who make the presents are elves." Ol' Saint Trick smiled. "So, to keep their spirits high and to stay true to the stories of old, we've dressed up these Gnomeys to resemble Santa's elves.

"Gnomey. Now that was a Yo-kai for the ages." Whisper looked at all of the Gnomeys wrapping the presents and sending them down pipes. "Sixty years ago, he joined up with Pallysol, Mermaiden, Faux Kappa, Predictabull, Hovernyan, and Nathaniel to battle Dame Dedtime and the Wicked Yo-kai." He sighed, letting off a smile. "I still remember the time when they all defeated Kin and Gin together."

"So, what can Gnomey actually do in terms of inspiriting people?" Twilight turned to Ol' Saint Trick.

"Gnomey is a Yo-kai of good fortune, much like my rival, Ol' Fortune." Ol' Saint Trick stroked his chin with his fingers. "If he inspirits you, your luck increases by a minor fraction. On top of that, your home feels much more homely if he's in it."

"Makes sense that he would be wrapping Hearth's Warming presents." Twilight flapped her wings and flew over the group, who were still engrossed in their work. "Happy Yo-kai should spread their joy to others; especially at this time of year."

"And now, if you'll kindly follow me, I want to show you all one more thing before we can get to work." Ol' Saint Trick flew towards the door at the end of the room.

"C'mon, Santa. You get to ride on me for the night." Twilight lifted Jibanyan onto her back and went towards the door.

"Yeah, you do that." Jibanyan jumped off of Twilight and scurried towards the door. "I might be Santa for the nyight, but I've still gotta keep my dignity, y'know."

"Oookay?" Twilight raised a brow as Jibanyan overtook her. "That was weird."

"And finally, we've come to the end of our rather short tour. But it's the best part." Ol' Saint Trick flew over towards a tarp and yanked it off, revealing a sight that brought life to Twilight and Whisper's faces. "Behold!"

There before them, was a red sleigh, much like the ones that Santa would ride in on Christmas. There was a large space on the back to store the sack, and two couch-like chairs for passengers to sit in. There were reins at the front that connected to nine identical Yo-kai. All nine of them were unicorns that rode on clouds, but the back eight were blue with orange chests, manes, and tails. The one at the front was black with a yellow stomach and blue hair.

"Santa's sleigh in all of its' glory." Ol' Saint Trick chuckled. "Isn't it marvellous?"

"Whisper, I've officially died and been reincarnated as a Yo-kai. This is incredible!" Twilight gushed at the sight of the sleigh and horse-like Yo-kai pulling it. "I didn't think that I'd actually get to see Santa Claus's real sleigh in the flesh!"

"And to keep true with the spirit of the holiday, we've named each of these Yo-kai accordingly." Ol' Saint Trick flew over to the Yo-kai. "Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen are represented by these eight Kyryn." He then came up to the one in the front. "And, being the most special in both Santa mythology and Yo-kai mythology, Unikirin here will be playing the role of Rudolph."

"Unikirin's incredibly special in the Yo-kai World." Whisper pointed to him. "Much like Count Cavity, which you met on Halloween, Unikirin is an Ultimate Yo-kai. His powers can heal any wounds, and are even reported to restore dead humans to life, with a few years shaved off on top of that. He's like a god of healing!"

"Kyryn and Unikirin, eh?" Twilight examined the nine Yo-kai closely, checking each and every individual part of them. "They all look impressive, but can they fly well?"

"We've made sure to breed them well for this day." Ol' Saint Trick petted all of the Yo-kai individually. "Out of all of the applicants, these were the Yo-kai that made it through to the real deal."

"It is both an honour and a privilege to pull this sleigh tonight for you, Santa." Unikirin turned to face Jibanyan. "I'm sure that with you behind the reins, everything will go down smoothly."

"Yeah, whatever. Just make sure nothing goes wrong, alright?" Jibanyan grumbled and crossed his paws.

"Jibanyan!" Twilight lurched back at Jibanyan's spiteful tone of voice. "Why would you say such a thing? You're supposed to be San—"

"Maybe I don't WANT TO BE SANTA! DID YOU THINK OF THAT?!" He roared and slapped Twilight across the face. "I'm not going to be held responsible if all of these kids wake up feeling disappointed because they chose the wrong Yo-kai!"

"Santa! What sort of blasphemy is this?" Ol' Saint Trick's eyebrows shot wide open.

"I'm saying that I'm nyot meant to be Santa Claus! I'm meant to be Jibanyan. Ji. Ban. Yan! Do you get it?" He snarled in Ol' Saint Trick's face. "I don't want to be a part of this, nor do I want anything to do with this stupid role. I'm out of here!" He ran out the next door, into the outside world.

"Jibanyan, wait!" Twilight flew after him with Whisper in tow.

"Oh dear. Why is it always Christmas time when something goes wrong?" He asked himself before chasing after Twilight and Jibanyan.

The world outside was coated in thick snow that went straight up to Twilight's kneecaps. The sky was beginning to darken with the setting of the sun, and stars were beginning to appear in the sky above, along with an aurora borealis. As the night sky filled with colour and light, all that the three of them could do was sit and watch.

"Pretty, isn't it?" Jibanyan sat on his haunches and tipped back into the snow, completely unfazed by how cold it was. "Shame that everyone else is gonna wake up tomorrow feeling sad and miserable that Santa didn't come."

"Jibanyan?" Twilight slowly crunched through the snow and came up to him. "What happened in there? Why in the world would you run away?"

"Twilight, you're probably the only one who understands this, but I think that it was a mistake to have me as Santa Claus." Jibanyan sighed and turned towards her. "Sure, it's a great job and all, but it's also one of the hardest to do. One mistake can ruin everything for everyone, and I don't want to feel bad for hurting millions of kids in both the human and Yo-kai worlds."

"Jibanyan, I know how hard it must be." Twilight sat down in the snow and shivered heavily as it connected with her flanks. "Believe me, I'm still facing hardships of my own. Midnight Sparkle's still a part of me, and King Void's trying to claw her out of me. I've ruined the lives of everyone in Ponyville, and I don't think that I can ever make up for what I did. I might have even killed a few ponies with that dark magic surge."

"That's why I wanted to share this with you and you alone." Jibanyan slowly stood up and waddled towards her. "You and I are both in the same sleigh. Whisper, Ol' Saint Trick, and everyone else thinks that I can do them proud, when we both knyow that it's only going to be a disaster for everyone if I'm Santa."

"See, the thing here is that you're admitting defeat even before you've given it a chance." Twilight reached out and massaged his belly with her hoof. "If you don't try, then you can't fail. And while that may seem good at the same time, when people count on you to do something, you'll end up letting them down by not doing it."

"But if I do it and I mess it up horribly for everyone, then they'll be even more mad at me than if I didn't do it." Jibanyan sighed and looked up at the stars. "It's better to not do it, than to try and let them all down."

"But you're not going to be alone, Jibanyan." Twilight looked him in the eyes. "Me and Whisper are helping you out personally, and Ol' Saint Trick has Yo-kai of his own working hard on the presents inside. Things might seem bleak, but if you just ask for help in your time of need, then people will definitely swoop in and do something to help—even if it's miniscule." She held out her hoof. "No matter how tough it might seem, no matter the burdens you have to carry, we'll be right here for you, Jibanyan. So will you do it?"

Jibanyan let all of Twilight's words swim around in his head as he continued to gaze up at the lights and stars twinkling and shimmering in the sky. He looked her in the eyes and slowly climbed onto his feet as he finally made up his mind. He took Twilight's hand and shook it gently. "Alright, Twilight. Just for you."

Then, with a bright blast of light, Jibanyan was lifted into the air, causing Twilight to jump once again.

"What in the world is all this?" Whisper asked, looking at the bright light with his hand over his forehead.

"I don't know!" Twilight squinted at the shimmering light.

Jibanyan landed before Twilight and Whisper dressed in black boots, a red coat and hat, and with a beard around his mouth. He carried a small sack on his back and slowly hobbled forward towards them.

"Greetings, Twilight and Whisper." Jibanyan's voice was much deeper and gruff. "Season's greetings to you both."

"What happened to you, Jibanyan?" Twilight's eyes almost bulged out of their sockets as she looked at Jibanyan's new form.

"Jibanyan? He's a nice little fellow, but he's not me." He lifted his bag over his shoulders and puffed out his chest. "My name is Nyanta Paws. And I decide which Yo-kai are naughty and nice."

"Nyanta Paws?" Twilight parroted.

"And so, it is done." Ol' Saint Trick floated across the snowy landscape. "The real Santa Claus has finally appeared. Jibanyan's true role in the holidays has been realised." He shook hands with Nyanta. "You are looking much better now, Santa."

"It's Nyanta, Ol' Saint Trick. Nyanta Paws." He crossed his arms. "Be careful of what you say or do, Ol' Saint Trick. You don't want to be put on the naughty list now, do you?"

"Uh..." Ol' Saint Trick's cheeks flushed bright red at that remark. "R-Right this way, Nyanta. Let me show you to your hard-working Yo-kai."

"He certainly changed quick." Whisper cocked his own brow. "What do you suppose could've happened to him?"

"Christmas magic happened, Whisper." Twilight smiled and followed Nyanta Paws back inside the workshop with Whisper close behind him. "Now, he's raring to go for the holidays."

Twilight, Whisper, and Nyanta Paws all came back to the room and saw the Yo-kai all working hard, sorting the presents between who would be getting them, as well as what each person would get. The work seemed to be going along smoothly, until they looked at the list of presents left to sort.

"Oh my." Nyanta Paws looked at the list. "So many names left, and we haven't even sorted everything out yet."

"I think I've got that sorted." Twilight pulled out her Yo-kai Medallium and slammed each and every Medal that she could find into her Yo-kai Watch. "Come on out, my friends! Let's give Nyanta a helping hand!"

With a series of pillars of light, all of the Yo-kai that Twilight had befriended appeared before her. All of them looked around the place before turning back to Twilight, Whisper, and Nyanta.

"Everyone. Christmas is right around the corner, but we need all of your help to get it done in time!" Twilight pointed towards the benches. "If you want to be on the nice list and receive more presents this year, it'd be great of you to help us sort out all of these presents!"

"Let's do this!" The group all cheered together and ran towards the benches, getting dressed by Ol' Saint Trick with the proper uniforms while they got to work.

As the time passed on, with Twilight's extra team of Yo-kai, the work was finished at a much faster pace. When the presents were sorted, they were sent down tube systems to where the Gnomeys were. They would wrap the presents, then put them into Nyanta's sack, which would then be hoisted onto his sleigh.

Every Yo-kai of all ages, shapes, and sizes took on the job of handling the presents. Even Gargaros and Sgt. Burly were getting into the spirit of the season as they labelled the presents correctly and sent them off to the Gnomeys below. Soon, everyone was all done with their gift sorting and walked back up to Twilight and Nyanta.

"Ho, ho, ho! You all did wonderfully." Nyanta nodded at the group. "I think it's safe to say that each and every one of you made it onto the nice list this year." Cheers erupted from the crowd of Yo-kai until Nyanta waved his paws and took in Soultimate energy Once he was done charging, he opened his presents and loudly proclaimed, "PAWS OF PRESENTS!" before handing out presents at lightning-fast speed to each of the Yo-kai.

"Thank you, Nyanta!" They all chorused as they took their presents and were about to rip them open.

"Uh, uh, uh! No opening them until tomorrow, everyone." He chuckled. "It's not Christmas if you open your presents the day before." Nyanta turned towards Twilight and opened his bag. "And now, I believe that both Twilight and Whisper are in need of some presents of their own.

"Wow! Getting presents from Nyanta Paws himself!" Whisper took his and cradled it in his arms. "This has truly been the best Christmas ever!"

"The best is yet to come, everyone." He chuckled and led Twilight and Whisper through the next doors. "Follow me. It's time to give you a true Christmas present."

"You don't mean..." asked Twilight.

"Oh, I do mean." He took Twilight's hoof and gave her a warm smile. "How would you like to fly in my sleigh tonight?"

"Nyanta, I, Twilight Sparkle, hand on hoof, would love to fly with you." She stepped forward and shook his paw. "And, may I just say that this truly has been the best Christmas ever."

"I'm glad that you think of that." Nyanta led her through the building towards the sleigh. "Now follow me, if you would."

"Nyanta! You're just in time." Ol' Saint Trick put a sack of presents into the back of the sleigh. "Everyone's presents have been accounted for, and they're ready to be delivered."

"Good. Good." Nyanta adjusted his coat and hat. "Anything else I should know?"

"We've just kitted up your Kyryn and Unikirin with sleigh bells. So now, when they fly through the sky, they'll be jingling jut like the kids imagined." He showed them off to both Twilight and Nyanta. Clicking his fingers, the Yo-kai all moved forward, causing the bells to ring. "Now, all that's left is for you to fly this sleigh across both worlds and deliver the gifts to everyone."

"Wonderful. Thank you, Ol' Saint Trick." He shook his hand and climbed into the sleigh. He got comfortable at the front and took a hold of the reins. "Climb on, Twilight. There's enough space in this sleigh for you and Whisper too."

"Come on, Whisper. We get to ride in Santa's sleigh!" Twilight climbed into the front of the sleigh and sat next to Nyanta.

Whisper, Twilight, and Nyanta Paws all sat down comfortably and strapped themselves into the sleigh. Once they were all comfortable with how they were sitting, they all nodded to Ol' Saint Trick, who floated over towards a giant wooden gate and opened it up, revealing the outside world once again.

"On, Kyryn! On Unikirin!" Nyanta took the reins and cracked them like whips at the nine unicorns. They all galloped, pulling the sleigh and all of the presents along with it out of the stable and through the night sky. "Ho, ho ho!"

Twilight and Whisper could only watch as they left the ground and took to the skies, getting higher and higher every second. They soon passed through the aurora borealis and bathed in the lights as they pushed through the clouds and into the world above.

"This is absolutely incredible!" Twilight squealed as she put her hoof through the clouds, cutting them into pieces. "I'm flying in Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve! My fillyhood dream has come to life!"

"You're in for quite a treat then, you two." Nyanta Paws chuckled. "Because tonight, you'll get to see me delivering gifts to every good little boy and girl on both the human and Yo-kai worlds non-stop." He still held onto the reins, but he pulled out a Yo-kai Medal. "Oh, but before we go on, I'd like you to have this. For your devotion to the holiday cheer, and for helping me realise my true potential."

"Wow... A Yo-kai Medal on Christmas." Twilight took the medal with her magic and placed it in the Yo-kai Medallium. "Thank you ever so much again, Nyanta Paws!"

"No problem, my dear Twilight Sparkle." He gave her a pat on the back. "If you ever need a bit of Christmas cheer in your life, just give me a call and I'll be right there for you."

Twilight and Whisper tried to stay awake for most of the night, but their eyelids began to droop after half of the journey had been done. Now, they were fighting to stay awake as the noise of jingling bells rung out in their ears. Both melodious and hypnotic at the same time, the two of them were mesmerised by the noise and eventually grew tired. They let out yawns and rubbed their eyes, keeping awake for as long as they can, but their tiredness got the better of them, and they fell asleep at long last.

Nyanta looked at the sleeping pony and Yo-kai, shrugging while also giving them a smile. He rubbed both of their heads and dashed off into the night, leaving a trail of Yo-kai energy behind him as he flew.

The next day, Twilight Sparkle woke up in the lounge of her castle with Whisper, Jibanyan, and Spike by her side. She was still a bit groggy from the events of last night, but she managed to summon the strength to stand up and open her eyes.

"Oh, thank Celestia you're awake! Now we can finally open our Hearth's Warming presents!" Spike ran over towards the tree and knelt down towards a big box-shaped present with a white bow on top of it.

"Huh?" Twilight shook her head and noticed the tree and presents beneath it. "How long was I out?" She let out a gasp as she remember what she had been doing last. "Nyanta! I totally fell asleep as we were flying!"

"Ugh. Keep it down, will you?" Jibanyan rubbed his eyes and stood up on his paws. "Us cats sleep nineteen hours a day, y'knyow..."

"I must say that I do feel pretty dizzy myself." Whisper got up and slumped over Twilight's back. "It's like I've drunk ten gallons of eggnog all at once, vomited a bit, partied hard like an animal, and then passed out." He rubbed his head. "If this is what those humans call a hangover, I don't think I'd like to try it again..."

"I don't know what happened, but you were so passed out that I had to do the doll trading without you." Spike handed Twilight a woven doll, which she then put on the fireplace. "At least I don't have to open your presents for you too, am I right?"

"Presents?" Twilight looked over at a small box near the tree with a letter on it. She pulled it out and opened the letter first, reading what had been written down.

Dear Twilight Sparkle,

Thank you for one of the greatest Yo-kai Christmases of all time. As well as your new Yo-kai Medal of me, I thought I'd give you a little something extra for when you wake up on Christmas Day.

Warm regards,
Nyanta Paws

"Extra?" Twilight tore through the wrapping and found a small box underneath it. She opened it up and let out a massive gasp at what was inside.

"Well, what is it?" Whisper peaked into the box once Twilight had removed the lid.

Inside the box were two brand new Yo-kai Watches. One was yellow with a blue strap and an adjustable dial pointing out of the sides. The numbers zero from two were on the watch, with instructions on how to use it. There were also two brand new Yo-kai Medals sitting besides it. One for Kyryn, and the other for Unikirin. The other Yo-kai Watch was a sky-blue chrome model with a dark blue strip underneath it. It was no different from the regular Yo-kai Watch, though, and just glistened more in the light.

"A Model Zero and a Yo-kai Watch U?" Whisper looked at both of Twilight's new watches. "That's the best Christmas gift you could've ever gotten! And Unikirin and Kyryn's medals are a great add-on!"

"Whoa, dude! Nice new watches!" Spike ran over and joined her, Whisper, and Jibanyan.

"Technically, they're Yo-kai Watches, but you're still right, Spike." Twilight tousled his scales and began opening more and more presents. Then, she stopped and opened her Medallium, revealing Nyanta Paws' Yo-kai Medal. Best. Christmas. Ever. Period.

A Sea of Troubles (Part 1)

Nurarihyon, Nekokiyo, and Inumaro all stared down at Kin and Gin with the intent to kill. They all cracked their knuckles and brandished their claws and tentacles at them, ready to make their attacks. After hearing the tales of how the two Time Witches had allied themselves with Dame Dedtime and caused many atrocities to all kinds of Yo-kai, they were ready to finally put an end to the both of them.

"There is nowhere to run, Kin and Gin." Nurarihyon licked his lips sadistically. "Tonight, you will both die just as your snivelling mistress did many years ago."

"You even sound like a Dark Yo-kai does as well." Kin smirked and floated over to Nurarihyon. "After nearly usurping the throne and attacking innocent Yo-kai, you still decide to fight for Queen Ephemer's side? Just how complex is that little pea-brain of yours, Nurarihyon?" She flicked his forehead and flew back to Gin's side.

"What good is the queen's right hand Yo-kai, when he is nothing more than a creature of the darkness, punished for his crimes?" Gin added. "I'm surprised that Lord Enma didn't have you executed for the pain and suffering you inflicted on others."

"That's enough!" Inumaro lunged at Kin and Gin and pinned them down in a cat-like fashion. "Lord Nurarihyon's crimes were horrible, we admit, but even so, he is not charged with mass manipulation of humanity, stripping them of their free wills, and almost destroying the earth as a whole! Dame Dedtime deserved to die for her perverted fantasies!"

"Ahh, Inumaro. Still playing with minds I see." Kin chuckled and slipped out of his grasp. "Funny, really. We used to look up to you and Nekokiyo long before Dame Dedtime even existed. We absolutely adored how you mentally broke down your opponents and physically shredded them after that."

"In fact, we would even be asking for an autograph if King Void wasn't around to cause mayhem, but that's the way that life goes, I'm afraid." Gin shook her head. "Shame. Your work in combat was nothing short of the best, being parnered with Nekokiyo and Nurarihyon like that. You three made the ultimate team. A team of monsters, to be respected and feared equally by the Yo-kai and human species."

"Just like the Time Witches to work their black tongues around us." Inumaro waltzed back to Nurarihyon's side. "From what I heard, you two had quite a large vocabulary, and showed much more sophistication and class than that of your feeble mistress. Why weren't you and your feeble brother ruling the Wicked instead of that child-minded monster?"

"Don't you dare bring Bronzlow into this!" Kin snarled.

"Such is the way of Yo-kai." Nekokiyo cracked his knuckles, slobbering everywhere like a mad dog. "The weak are purged and the strong survive. Your brother couldn't keep up, and was erased long before you pledged yourselves to the late Dame Dedtime." He bent his knees and gnashed his teeth. "But don't worry. The three of us will personally send you back to both of them, screaming out in anguish as you forever join the afterlife!"

Kin, eyebrows twitching from Nekokiyo's provocation, hissed and conjured a golden stream of magic with black lightning shooting out of her body. "That's it! Let's go, Gin!"

"Finally." Gin had her own stream of silver energy flowing between her hands as the same black lightning blasted out of her body. "I was worried that we would be talking these fools down."

"When I bring your heads back to Queen Ephemer, we'll have crushed a key piece of King Void's army." Nurarihyon's tentacles began waving around wildly as his brows lowered. He stretched his arm out and flexed his fingers towards his face, taunting Kin and Gin into attacking. "Now, fight us, Time Witches!"

Kin and Gin let out a roar as they both charged towards the three Yo-kai like meteors. Inumaro, Nekokiyo, and Nurarihyon responded in kind by running towards the two of them, ready to attack. As they did, they didn't even notice that the clouds began to gather above them and create a thunderstorm.

In Equestria, Twilight Sparkle and her friends were all boarding a boat destined for the seas. They were all hoisting luggage on their backs and talking to each other as they climbed up the plank and onto the deck. Whisper and Jibanyan followed closely behind them all, with some suitcases of their own.

"Ah, this feels nice." Rarity sighed as the ocean wind hit her neck and blew her mane out. "Nothing quite like a trip on the ocean to get away from all of the stresses and troubles of a Yo-kai overrun Ponyville, huh?"

"I agree, Rarity." Twilight nodded and rubbed her hoof over her Yo-kai Watch. "After everything that's happened to us recently, I feel like we all deserve some rest and relaxation."

"Nyeah! I even brought something to keep me entertained on this little trip of yours!" Jibanyan opened his suitcase, causing chocobars to spill out onto the deck. "Now, I'm ready for some fun in the sun, Twilight!"

"Of course you'd bring chocobars, Jibanyan." Twilight chuckled and petted his head, while helping him clean up the mess. "But it's nothing compared to a little bit of light reading on the side."

"Now, now, you two." Whisper put his hands on both of their shoulders. "We're not here to compare what we like. We're here to relax and take our mind off of this whole King Void nonsense."

"Say, Whisper." Applejack walked up to him. "If there are Yo-kai everywhere, then don't that mean that there's gonna be Yo-kai that live in the sea?"

"It's very true, Applejack. There are such Yo-kai that have lived in the oceans." He pulled out his Yo-kai Pad and scrolled through all of the different Yo-kai stored on it. "Such Yo-kai can resemble fish, sharks, mermaids, or all sorts of marine life. But they usually live under the ocean and don't inspirit anyone unless they get close to them."

"So, we shouldn't be bothered by them?" Applejack tilted her head.

"I absolutely, one-hundred percent, swear on my great mother's life that there will be no Yo-kai interrupting out pleasure cruise, Applejack." He puffed out his chest and put his fist onto it, trying to perform his version of a salute. "And if you're not satisfied with this promise, you may feel free to whack me across the face with whatever you please."

"Let's just be honest." Jibanyan pulled the giant fan out of his suitcase. "We all knyow where this is going to end, right, Whisper?"

"Uhh... I-I-I, l-let's not be too hasty, Jibanyan." Whisper began to sweat and tucked the fan back into the suitcase. "Let's just enjoy the sights and smells of the ocean for now. Fish drifting through the air, seagulls chirping as we glide across the rolling waves, and many different lands to explore. What's not to like?"

"What's the betting that there's gonna be a new Yo-kai causing chaos?" Twilight walked down the deck towards a bench.

Everyone else murmured in agreement but followed Twilight across the ship with Whisper and Jibanyan closely behind them all. Despite everything that had happened between them and the Yo-kai in Ponyville, they all wanted to just spend some time off and relax.

As the boat blasted its' horn and left the shore, a large Yo-kai appeared on the pier. It was wearing purple robes with blue wave patterns on it, had black shoes with tight buckles, wore a golden mask that covered most of its' face, and was carrying a conductor's stick. The Yo-kai watched the boat get farther and farther away before it put its' hands together and somersaulted into the ocean. As he leapt, his feet transformed into fins and gills appeared on his face. He made a colossal splash that the entire pier was drenched in water as he swam after the ship.

Twilight sighed and squirted some suncream on her body as she reclined on a deckchair, looking up at the sky above. She took some sunglasses on the table beside her and slipped them onto her face as she lowered her hooves down to her sides.

"Gotta say, you really know how to chillax, Twilight." Rainbow Dash—who was sitting on her own deckchair—turned to face Twilight and took a sip of a cocktail with an umbrella poking out of the top.

"Hey. As long as there aren't any Yo-kai interrupting our trip, then everything's going to be just fine." Twilight nodded and looked towards Rainbow Dash. "There last thing that we need after all of that crazy stuff in Ponyville and the other world is some more Yo-kai or Dark Yo-kai messing everything up."

"I completely agree." Rarity walked up to the girls. "Some rest and relaxation should do us wonders after how hectic everything else has been recently."

"Yeah, but what's the betting that there's gonna be another Yo-kai that's just gonna be a big meanie pants and ruin everything?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"Speaking of Yo-kai, did you girls know that there are some that can adapt to both water and land?" Whisper pulled out his Yo-kai Pad and leaned back onto Twilight's deckchair, scrolling through the information that it had accrued. "Things like Chummer and Shrook can go on land for elongated periods of time without needing to go back to the water, most likely due to their bipedal bodies."

"That's nice, Whisper." Twilight yawned and turned away as he continued to read.

"In fact, there are even some Yo-kai that can change form depending on whether or not they're in the water or on land. This not only helps them to adapt to the new landscapes, but also to widen their range of inspiriting powers." Whisper read so much that he could barely see anything else in his view other than the Yo-kai Pad.

"Interesting." Twilight yawned lightly and curled her legs up.

"ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME?!" Whisper snapped his head and saw that Twilight was pretending to be asleep. "I'M YOUR BUTLER FOR ENMA'S SAKE!"

"Please, Whisper. Just don't try to talk to me about Yo-kai at the moment." She gently turned to look back at him. "No more. We're just trying to take it easy. So if you could just reduce the Yo-kai talk to zero, then everything would be great."

"Harrumph! You're just like a child." Whisper turned away, lowered his brows, and crossed his arms. "Whenever they're on vacation, they don't even want to study for when they have to go back to school..."

"C'mon, Whisper. We're still just regular ponies." Rainbow Dash got up and wrapped her hoof around Whisper's shoulders. "You can't expect us to just be like those comic book heroes who just swoop to the rescue whenever somepony says—"

"HELP! HELP!"

The girls all shot to their feet when they heard the voice and ran over to the edge of the ship. They initially thought that someone had fallen off of the boat and was about to meet a grim and watery demise, and Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were already airborne and close to the water. But when they all got to the ship side, they found absolutely nothing.

"Oh no. Are we too late?" Twilight asked, frantically searching the ocean for the person who had called for help.

"Well, I'm not seeing any stranded ponies anywhere, but there's definitely someone in the water asking for help." Whisper looked down at the crashing water beneath him. "Mayhaps a quick glance with the Yo-kai Watch is in order, Twilight?"

"Ugh! And here I thought we were getting away from the Yo-kai-related nonsense..." Twilight grumbled under her breath and shone the light of the Yo-kai Lens down on the water.

When Twilight was pointing in the correct place, a blast of purple smoke revealed the Yo-kai that had signalled for help. There in the water was a humanoid Yo-kai with black hair tied up in a bun with sidelocks hanging down her ears. She had a red fin on the top of her head, a pair of arms, bright blue eyes, and a white veil that was wrapped around her wrists and her hair.

"Oh, thank Enma that someone answered my calls!" She looked up at Twilight and her friends. "I thought that no-one would come and save us..."

"Who are you?" Twilight asked from the top of the ship.

"My name is Mermaidyn." She leapt up towards the group of ponies, revealing that she was wearing a seashell on her chest and had a long red tail where her feet should have been. She landed back in the ocean with a splash and unintentionally covered Rainbow Dash in water. "I'm a mermaid Yo-kai that lives far beneath the sea."

"There are Yo-kai mermaids?!" Twilight sprung off of the deck and flew up to Mermaidyn's face with a wide smile on her own.

"Uhh... Yeah?" Mermaidyn slowly backed up from Twilight.

It was at that time that Twilight had realised how close she was to Mermaidyn. Slowly, she backed up and gave her some breathing room. "I'm sorry. You were asking for help, right? Well, what's wrong?"

"Well, I'd be glad to tell you, but it's a problem that exists deep below the water." Mermaidyn pointed down to the water. "Unless you can swim or use some water-breathing spell or something, I don't think that you can do much."

"Actually, I think I know exactly what we can do." Twilight looked back at her friends. "You girls ready for this?"

"Ready for what?" Pinkie tilted her head and raised a brow.

"For this." Twilight closed her eyes and levitated her friends above the water.

"Twilight! Whatever are you doing?!" Rarity gasped as her hooves left the ship as she and her friends got closer to the water.

Twilight then fired five separate beams at her friends before shooting one more at Mermaidyn. She opened her eyes and looked skyward as a massive blast of light engulfed them all.

Each of the Main Six began to slowly transform, with their front hooves transforming into arms with five fingers on each hand. Their tails disappeared and their back hooves changed into mermaid tails that matched the colours of their hair. Fins appeared on their heads along with gills on the side of their necks as the same veils that Mermaidyn wore now appeared on the girls. Finally, their faces contorted into that of human faces as they all broke through the water, with seashells materialising on their new chests as well.

"Whoa..." Rainbow Dash looked at her new body with awe. She flexed her fingers and gave her tail a flap as she looked at the rest of the Main Six. "We're all mermaids!"

"This is simply amazing!" Fluttershy swam down and watched as a school of fish swam around her and blew her hair up.

"How is that even possible?" Mermaidyn swam up to the girls and felt their newly acquired arms and legs. "You were all just talking horses a second ago!"

"That's all thanks to one of my many spells." Twilight brushed her chest with the back of her hand. "The first time I used it, we flew a flight of Breezies back home. I simply need a template and boom! We can all turn into whatever I please."

"So, now can you help me?" Mermaidyn's smile grew wider than before.

"Yes. Yes we can, Mermaidyn." Twilight nodded and swam up to her. "Anything to help out a Yo-kai in need."

"Wonderful!" Mermaidyn swam upwards and flew out of the water once more, landing with a somersault as she came back to the group. She swam down towards the floor, using her arm to motion the girls into following her.

Twilight and her friends all swam down away from the cruise ship and into the deeper parts of the water. Normally, they would've drowned, but with their newfound gills, they didn't feel like they needed to come up for air at all as they descended deeper and deeper into the water, leaving the surface world behind them as they got used to their new fins and arms.

Whisper and Jibanyan were back on the cruise ship, looking down at the water. They waited for Twilight and her friends to resurface but didn't see them anywhere.

"So..." Jibanyan pulled his head from the rails. "Do you think they're coming back, Whisper?"

"Beats me." Whisper shrugged and looked down at the water. "I'd love to check on them and all, but unfortunately, I'm more of an air-breather myself."

"You're just saying that because you're scared." Jibanyan shook his head.

"I am not scared!" Whisper lurched towards Jibanyan. "I just... happen to be rusty at swimming, that's all."

"Admit it, Whisper. You can't breathe under there." Jibanyan deadpanned. "You'll just drown and go back to the Yo-kai World, wringing yourself out as you try to keep up with the girls."

"Well, if you're so confident, then why don't you go down there and check on them?!" He barked.

"Cats don't like getting wet." Jibanyan shuffled back to the deckchair and scoffed down another chocobar. "If you wanna swim down there and prove that you're not a scaredy-ghost, then be my guest, Whisper." He pulled out a magazine from his belt showing girls dressed up with cat ears and paw-shaped gloves. He opened it up and perused the content inside. "I'll just be here, reading one of my Next HarMEOWny fanzines if you need me..."

Whisper let out an exasperated huff and floated away. "Honestly, Jibanyan, I don't know how these humans put up with you sometimes..."

A Sea of Troubles (Part 2)

Twilight and her friends swam down through the ocean, swimming past coral reefs and columns of bubbles as they followed Mermaidyn. They saw many different creatures that most of them had never seen before or heard of in their lives. And while they did stop and take in each different animal, it didn't last for very long each time.

"This is quite simply divine." Rarity took in each and every one of the sights. "Who knew that the ocean held so many wonderful secrets?"

"Not only is the underwater world quite lovely, but it also houses many different aquatic Yo-kai like myself." Mermaidyn raised her finger as she skidded to a halt. "Speaking of which, there's a school of fish Yo-kai incoming!"

A whole school of yellow fish swam past the Main Six. Some of which had plain blue stripes and a blue X shape on their forehead, and others with red manes and flippers. The plain yellow ones had tails made out of paper fans while the ones with red hair had sharp knives coiled up in their tails.

"Ooh! What are those?" Fluttershy jabbed a finger towards the fish.

"Those are Yo-kai. More specifically, they're Fishpicable and Rageon." Mermaidyn swam over to Fluttershy and pointed them out. "The simple ones are Fishpicables. If you get inspirited by them, then you hate everyone and everything with a burning passion."

"Hence the name, right?" Twilight asked.

"Exactly." Mermaidyn nodded. "As for the other fish, those are all Rageon. Much like Fishpicable, Rageon hates everything—including himself. He constantly flails his knife around and is very hard to befriend these days." She then swam away from Fluttershy and continued into a more open part of the ocean. "There's more sea Yo-kai that you'll meet as we swim down, but we'll only have time for brief explanations. We need to get to my kingdom as fast as possible!"

"Kingdom?" Rainbow Dash cocked a brow at that and followed after Mermaidyn once more.

"Ooh! Ooh! We're actually going to a super-secret mermaid kingdom thousands of leagues under the sea?!" Pinkie Pie beamed from ear to ear as she followed the rest of the group.

"Yes. One that's come under fire recently from forces beyond our comprehension." Mermaidyn looked back at the girls as she came past a large group of shark-like creatures with arms and legs. "Whoa! Swim back, girls!" She threw out her arms and came to a grinding halt once again.

"More Yo-kai?" Applejack took a look at the sharks' arms and legs, as well as the geta on their feet. "Ah'm guessing that they don't look like particularly friendly folk either."

"Well, they're not entirely hostile, but they're still brutes nonetheless." Mermaidyn cracked her knuckles in preparation for combat. "The blue ones are called Chummer. They're Yo-kai that make you loiter and loaf around after school. And then, they eat you alive."

"Seriously?!" The Main Six jumped at Mermaidyn's description.

"Yep." Mermaidyn lowered her brows and launched her finger towards the green sharks. "As for the other sharks, they're called Shrook. These ones don't eat people alive, much like their Chummer counterparts. Instead, if Shrook inspirits you, then you become really terrible at something you're good at." She looked back at the girls. "So any special skills or talents that you might have, Shrook will make you completely pathetic at them all."

"He's basically the ultimate counter to our Cutie Marks..." Twilight could only gaze in the shark Yo-kai in awe as they swam directly over her and towards another part of the ocean. Once they had left, her attention returned to Mermaidyn. "Anyway, let's move on. If your kingdom's in trouble, then we'd better save it."

"Speaking of which, what was the problem again?" Rainbow Dash tipped her hand.

"Fish Yo-kai and mermaid Yo-kai used to be at peace. We used to play with each other, help gather food for one another, and just generally be happy together." Mermaidyn gave a smile that quickly melted away as she swam on. "But then one day, this pack of horrible fish came and attacked our kingdom. They ravaged our kingdom, destroyed our homes, and left Mermadonna and Mermother near the brink of death with their horrible attacks."

"Oh my..." Fluttershy winced as some of her hair draped around her face. "I don't like this story much."

"Mermaidyn. Tell me." Twilight swam up to her. "Did these fish have anything special about them? Like a different colour or pattern?"

"Well, now that you mention it, they were all purple and black, with malicious red eyes." Mermaidyn gently raised one of her fingers. "They groaned and moaned about how everything would die and that we would 'bow before his wrath'..."

"Purple and black? Red eyes? Bow before his wrath?" Pinkie Pie used her fingers to list off each of Mermaidyn's points. Once she had put them all together, she let out a large gasp. "We're dealing with none other than the evil King Squidra! Sombra's evil squid brother that was banished to the arctic sea, never to be seen ever again!"

"Pinkie. No. Just... No." Twilight face-palmed and shook her head. "Black and purple skins, evil red eyes, and the will to hurt and destroy can only mean one thing." She tightened her hands into fists.

"Dark Yo-kai!" The other girls chorused and darted their eyes around, their arms lightly quivering as they imagined the thought of King Void's army destroying Mermaidyn's home.

"Yes. Dark Yo-kai." Twilight nodded. "King Void, Kin and Gin, or one of the Dark Ones was here, turning your fish into Dark Yo-kai in the hope that they would cause chaos and disrupt the peace of your world."

"I've heard tales of this King Void character, but I never thought that his tyranny would spread to the ocean floor as well." Mermaidyn glanced back at the others as they went farther and farther into the water. "But what about the Dark Yo-kai? Are they similar to Dame Dedtime's Wicked Yo-kai?"

"No. They're much, MUCH worse." Twilight sighed and put her hand on Mermaidyn's shoulder. "Unlike Wicked Yo-kai, who inspirit humans to cause unruly chaos, Dark Yo-kai care only about murder, pain, and destruction. No matter whether it's a human, Yo-kai, or pony, a Dark Yo-kai's only goal is to see them bleed and or die. They don't care about anything else other than serving King Void. It's like they're all mindless zombies..."

"They do sound pretty bad." Mermaidyn's brows elevated as a glimmering light shone in the distance. "Actually, hold that thought. We're here! The Mermaid Kingdom!"

The girls all looked forward and saw a rather well-kept kingdom, with large structures made out of dirt and earth, with seashells lining the walls and ceilings. There were long and winding roads with lots more Mermaidyns swimming through them, with smaller, non-Yo-kai fish swimming alongside them. The entire town as a whole was rather expansive, with a long and winding road leading up to a castle on the nearby cliffside.

The castle was made out of golden sand, with many more decorations embedded into the walls and towers. There were large spires pointing towards the shimmering roof of the ocean, with many different doors and windows to be seen on the sides. The castle door itself was made entirely out of wood, with golden knockers attached to each door.

"So, this is your kingdom?" Twilight swam with Mermaidyn towards the front door of the castle with the rest of her friends close behind her. "It looks a lot different than I was imagining, I have to say."

"It's your first time under the water, I take it?" Mermaidyn chuckled and covered her mouth with her hand. "It's alright. Not many land creatures get to see the world beneath the waves, so I think that you're all really lucky to see this place, let alone get a guided tour of the many different sea Yo-kai."

"Again, if only I had my sketchbook." Rarity's jaw hung wide open as she swam past all of the different underwater architecture and marine life. "I'm getting so inspired simply by looking at this stuff!"

"We were only able to completely rebuild this place yesterday." Mermaidyn stretched her arms out towards the buildings. "King Void's Dark Yo-kai did so much damage in such a short amount of time that it's a miracle that we were able to put it all back together. And that's not even counting the other dangers that come to this kingdom."

"Other dangers?" Pinkie Pie tilted her head. "What kind of meanie-pants would ever want to destroy such a pretty kingdom like this? It's just a crime against the fish/mermaid species!"

"I know. But then again, beauty is so fragile." Mermaidyn swam towards the castle doors and opened them wide. "All it takes is one person to turn something pretty into an absolute mess."

"Hear hear." Rarity nodded. "Those ruffians just wouldn't understand beauty if it slapped them across the face with a satin and sapphire-encrusted glove."

As the girls ventured into the castle, the same Yo-kai that had jumped into the ocean from before pulled its' head from the nearby rock formation. Instead of its' trousers and shoes, it now had a purple mermaid tail with black fins. It slowly took the mask off, revealing a face silver moustache and a monocle on the right eye.

"At long last. The Mermaid Kingdom is within my grasp." He coiled his fingers around the rocks and cracked a malicious grin. "After eons of waiting, these Yo-kai shall truly understand and appreciate my masterpiece." He raised his conductor's baton and flicked and swished it around, causing purple steam to appear behind him.

Inside the castle, the girls swam over a red-rug with golden edges and tassels as they passed by multiple pictures and vases. They saw more Mermaidyns patrolling the corridors, but they were carrying small spears in their arms and were coated in silver armour. The new Yo-kai simply passed by Twilight and her friends, paying them absolutely no mind whatsoever.

"We're almost at the grand chamber, girls." Mermaidyn picked up the pace and bolted towards a giant golden door with jewels of all different colours both on the frame and on the actual door itself. "Through these doors is the highest authority in this fair land: Queen Mermother and Princess Mermadonna."

"Mermother and Mermadonna?" Twilight parroted.

"They're both mermaids, much like myself if you couldn't guess. But they're much more beautiful and alluring than the rest of us down here." Mermaidyn smiled and opened the doors. "Now, I want you all to be on your absolute best behaviour. Princess Mermadonna gets really whiny when something goes wrong."

"Enter!" A voice boomed from the other side of the doors.

The girls all went through the doors and came up to a large hall with spiral pillars surrounding them all. The doors slammed shut behind them as they came towards a large throne that pointed out from the bottom of the floor. The open gaps in the pillars led out to the rest of the ocean, with nothing but blank water to be seen for miles and miles.

In the middle of the hall, there was a large throne shaped like a clam. Sitting on the throne was a mermaid with sky blue hair and black branch-like horns poking out of them, fins for hands, a blue tail with silver fins. She wore a red veil around her wrists that was much similar to that of the one Mermaidyn was wearing. Next to her was another mermaid who looked exactly the same as she did, only with black hair, a white veil, a golden tail and fins, blue eyes, and blue branch-like horns.

"Mermother! Who in the briny deep are these mermaids?" The golden-finned mermaid whined and pointed to Twilight and her friends.

"Oh, pipe down, Mermadonna." Mermother raised her hand towards the mermaid. "We're in a time of crisis as it is. Don't you go off on one of your teenage episodes now." She turned towards the group. "Now tell me. Who are you, and what can you possibly do for us?"

"Twilight Sparkle. Princess of Friendship." She swam forward slightly. "These are my friends. Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy. We came to this kingdom because Mermaidyn here asked for help."

"How interesting." Mermother swam up to Twilight and examined her body, looking especially at her hair, fins, and horn. "You do look much more exotic than a regular mermaid," she said. "Tell me. What ocean are you all from?"

"Oh, we're not from any ocean. We're from the surface world." Twilight pointed up to the ceiling.

"Surface dwellers?" Mermother's eyes shot open at that remark. She quickly cleared her throat and took a deep breath. "Ahem. Well, if any case, that would explain why you're wearing the Yo-kai Watch. But it doesn't really explain why you look all look like mermaids."

"They're probably more of those horrible black Yo-kai." Mermadonna reviled at the sight of the girls. "Get them out of here before they do us more damage!"

"Mermadonna! Hold your tongue!" Mermother glared at Mermadonna before turning back to Twilight and her friends. "Excuse her. She's not exactly out of what those humans call 'puberty' yet."

"It's perfectly fine." Twilight nodded. "Now, I believe that King Void and his Dark Yo-kai were what destroyed your kingdom. We've had a fight with them before back in Ponyville and we'd be glad to help you out in defending this place if they ever come back."

"Well, that's all well and good, but I don't think that there's really much you can do if all of your Yo-kai friends are land-based." Mermother shook her head. "But perhaps, I can persuade Mermadonna to lend you a hand if the Dark Yo-kai strike again."

"Mother, do you know how much those freakish Dark Yo-kai ruined my hair and make-up?" She pouted and scoffed like a teenage girl would. "I've had to cancel multiple concerts and do lots of charity work because of those stupid things and now you expect me to fight them?! No thank you!"

"Be grateful that you're even in this kingdom at all, Mermadonna!" Mermother swam up to her face and pressed it against her own. "You've been such a spoilt brat for the past few years, so do not try your patience with me or our fine guests! You're going to fight the Dark Yo-kai and you're going to like it one way or another, missy!"

"Ugh! You never pay attention to anything that I want!" Mermadonna screamed and swam out of the hall and up to the top of the castle.

"What a repulsive little toddler. Whining about some make-up rather than her destroyed kingdom." Rarity tossed back her hair. "Honestly, darlings, there's a time and a place for everything, and I would say that mermaid make-up isn't really that important."

"Spoken like a true lady." Mermother swam towards Rarity and smiled. "I might just have to give you a Yo-kai Medal of my own once this whole thing blows over. But for now, we have more pressing manners to attend to." As Mermother returned to her throne, she didn't even notice the giant shadow rising from the open waters behind her. "First of all, we shall have to rally the troops and train them hard should these Dark Yo-kai ever come back an—"

"Mermother, look out!" Twilight lit up her horn and fired a spell at the shadowy monster just as it lunged a claw towards the throne room. The bolt simply went through the monster and into the waters beyond. What?! It's a Yo-kai?!

There was a loud crash as the claw slammed against the hall, destroying the pillars and gold door. Rubble toppled all around Twilight and her friends as the hand retracted back towards the giant monster, with clouds of dust rising from all of the falling debris.

Everyone coughed and fanned the dust away as they recuperated from the attack, with no-one looking like they'd been majorly harmed by the monster out in the ocean.

"What in the heck is that?!" Rainbow Dash backed up against what remained of the wall as the giant shadow beast glared down at the group.

"Well, whatever it is, it's not friendly..." Twilight saw giant blue eyes shine down on the group like spotlights. It let out a massive roar that echoed across the ocean as the monster began to take on a visible appearance.

The beast was much like Mermaidyn in every aspect, only now, the hands were now like massive claws, there was a malicious and warped face with an evil grin and long, pointy teeth, and the veil around her wrists was so enormous that it looked like it could wrap up the castle and drag it off of the edge of the cliff.

"People of this kingdom! All shall bow down before me!" The beast thundered in a distorted feminine voice. "I am the tyrant queen of the ocean. The demonic deity of disaster down in the water! I am... MERMONSTER!"

Author's Notes:

If you guys and gals are wondering about Mermonster at the end of this chapter, then think of her like a Yo-kai Watch Busters version of Mermaidyn. Seeing as how Rubeus J and Hardy Hound are different versions of Jibanyan and Komasan, I figured that more Yo-kai could get the Busters treatment. If you like this idea, then be sure to let me know what other Yo-kai could get the busters treatment and join the ranks of Rubeus J, Hardy Hound, G Baban, Prison Breaker, and the Whismellow Man.

But for now, just have a good day and take it easy.

A Sea of Troubles (Part 3)

Mermonster let out an ear-piercing screech as she glared down at Mermother and her guests. Flexing her claws, she launched spikes out of her tail that barrelled through the water and detonated on contact with what remained of the walls, completely decimating the structure with little effort.

"Mermaidyns! To battle!" Mermother swam down to the back of her throne and pulled out a golden trident, twirling it around in her arms. She pointed it towards Mermonster and shot a bolt of yellow energy at the giant Yo-kai. "Don't let this fiendish Yo-kai destroy our world!"

"Why the heck is that thing so huge?!" Rainbow Dash pointed at Mermonster, who began to battle with the hundreds of Mermaidyn soldiers.

"There are some Yo-kai that are much more vicious versions of their regular-sized counterparts." Mermother looked back at Twilight and her friends. "We call these Yo-kai SS Rank Yo-kai. They're incredibly dangerous and destructive, often wreaking havoc on unsuspecting people to exercise their power."

"So, it's not a Boss Yo-kai?" Twilight lifted a brow as Mermonster began swatting at the Mermaidyns.

"Well, technically, yes and no. SS Rank Yo-kai are harder to befriend than a Terror Time Oni." Mermother shot a blast of blue energy at Mermonster's face, causing it to reel slightly. "They can be defeated, but it takes a massive group effort to do so. Think of them as a giant raid boss from a multiplayer game."

"DIE!" Mermonster screeched and swung her claws, sending the Mermaidyns all crashing into the castle. "Chaotic Waters!" She clapped her hands, sending a massive current towards the mermaids. She ripped the water apart with her bare hands and then smashed it back together, slamming the mermaids into one another.

"Whoa! This thing is crazy!" Twilight was jerked around throughout Mermonster's attacks.

"Usually, we leave these SS Rank Yo-kai to the Yo-kai Watch Busters team, but since it's deep under the sea, we're the ones who have to take her down."

"Yo-kai Watch Busters?" Applejack raised a brow as she recovered from the last attack.

"Best not to talk about that for now," said the Mermaidyn that had escorted them to the kingdom. "For now, we need to defeat Mermonster. Anything that you pony-mermaids can do, do it now. And Twilight, if you can summon any water-based Yo-kai, then that'd be great too."

"I don't have any fish or water-like Yo-kai unfortunately." Twilight shook her head. "And besides, my Yo-kai Medallium's back on the cruise ship with Whisper and Jibanyan."

"Then you'll just have to do what you can to distract it." Mermother brandished her trident and pointed it towards Mermonster. "Just do whatever you can to attract its' attention. Slap it in the eyes with your tail, insult it, anything you can do to make it focus on you and you alone will help."

"Distract? We don't do distractions, Mermother." Rainbow Dash swam up towards Mermonster and cracked her knuckles. "This big Yo-kai needs to learn some lessons and leave us all alone!" She sped right towards the giant Yo-kai and punched her in the eye.

Mermonster screamed and covered the eye that got punched, reeling backwards as she recovered from the pain. She clutched her eyes so much that she unintentionally scratched and cut the flesh around them. She pulled her claws out from her face and glared at Rainbow Dash, causing giant red lasers to shoot out of her eyes.

"Yikes!" Rainbow dodged the lasers and swam down through the drop-off, sliding through the red beams of light by the skin of her teeth. "Whatever this thing is, it's probably the most dangerous thing I've ever had to fight!"

"Not only does it look like a monster, it looks like one of the most beautiful monsters I think I've ever seen." Rarity looked at how Mermonster's scales glistened in the light and how luscious her hair flowed as she chased after Rainbow Dash. "Shame she's a hostile Yo-kai. If she weren't, I would be asking to be her friend in a heartbeat."

"Never thought you'd be complimenting a beast like that, Rarity." Applejack crossed her arms and swam after Rainbow Dash.

"What can I say? Even some creatures like Mermonster can look beautiful while acting brutish." Rarity glanced at Applejack as she and the rest of the Main Six swam into the battle.

"Mermaidyns! Press the attack while our guests distract Mermonster!" Mermother lunged her spear at the giant Yo-kai, sending her army charging towards it. "As long as her attention's on Mermonster, she won't be focusing on you. Unload everything that you have on her! Soultimates, inspirits, the works!" She swam out and looked at the tower that Mermadonna had hidden herself away in. "But we can't win without your help. We need everyone's help to defend the kingdom..."

Mermonster snarled and rushed after Twilight Sparkle, who was now using spells of all different varieties on Mermonster. She fired magical bolts and blasted the rocks around her to try and get them to fall on top of the massive Yo-kai pursuing her, but they either bounced straight off of her large body, or were smashed into pieces with a swing of her hands.

"Worthless little worms! Give up and die already!" Mermonster snarled and pointed the tips of her claws at the girls, sending streams of lightning through the water.

"Girls! Split up!" Twilight shouted as the lightning approached her and her friends.

The Main Six broke off into different directions as Mermonster's lightning scraped by their bodies. They all swam into holes in the wall as the giant Yo-kai stopped in front of it.

"Where are you hiding, little mouseys?" Mermonster's claws dug into the cliff wall as her eyes gazed into the holes. The light she emanated off of her glares lit up the caves, but she couldn't find Twilight or her friends anywhere inside. "Don't make me do this the hard way. I would REALLY hate to get nasty on you non-Yo-kai interlopers..."

As Mermonster looked at the caves, hundreds of Mermaidyns attacked the giant Yo-kai, striking them with their tails or punching her across the face. They cast inspiriting flames on the titanic Yo-kai, but none of them connected as they slid right off of her back and down her scale-covered tail.

"Alright, girls." Twilight lit up her horn and brought all of her friends into a group huddle as Mermonster's attention shifted to the Yo-kai. "As long as we stay in here, Mermonster can't possibly get us."

"So, what's the plan, Twilight?" Rainbow Dash asked as the girls all put their arms around each others' shoulders.

"Mermonster's an SS Rank, but she can be brought down by a massive co-ordinated attack." Twilight looked out at the battling Yo-kai. "While we distract her with our spells, taunts, and games of hide-and-seek, we can cause her to stop fighting the Mermaidyns, leaving them a clear shot to do some massive damage."

"Got it." Pinkie Pie nodded and darted off to one of the cave entrances, looking out at Mermaidyn. She reached into her hair and pulled out a flashlight, shining it into Mermonster's eyes. "Hey, ugly! Come and play!" Pinkie wildly shook the light around, agitating the Yo-kai's eyes and causing her to reel.

"You again?!" Mermonster charged at the hole like a colossal torpedo and rammed into it, trying to slam into Pinkie Pie. "Just give up!"

"Oopsy-daisy! Over here!" Pinkie Pie pulled the corners of her mouth and stuck her tongue out at Mermonster. "Gotta catch me first!"

"Terrorpedos!" Mermonster fired hundreds of spike-tipped missile-shaped bulbsthat travelled through the sea and left behind bubble streams in their wake. They were travelling directly towards Pinkie, who swam back in to avoid the series of explosions that followed. "Destroy these mortal fools!"

"Nope!" Pinkie Pie popped out of another hole and swam away from another of the spiked warheads and went through another hole. "You're really bad at this game, aren't you?" She narrowly avoided a slash from Mermonster's claws as she went into another part of the cliff altogether. "Missed me! Missed me! Now you've gotta kiss me!"

"ENOUGH!" Mermonster barrelled her claws into the hole and ripped a large chunk of the rocks out, leaving Pinkie Pie exposed. "JUST SHUT UP AND DIE, MORTAL!" She roared and was about to strike Pinkie with another attack, raising her hand high above her head.

"No, you don't!" Rainbow Dash swam in front of Mermonster's face and slapped both of the Yo-kai's eyes with her tail. "Rainbow Dash! Fastest flier in Equestria, now the fastest mermaid in the sea! Catch me if you can!" She put her hands against her head and blew a raspberry, swimming away from Mermonster.

"GRAAGH!" Mermonster slapped Pinkie Pie away with her tail and shot herself towards Rainbow Dash. "Do you think you're going to get away from me like that, you little twerp?!"

Twilight chased after Mermonster with Mermaidyns and her other friends close behind her. They watched as Rainbow Dash swooped, dived, and dashed all around Mermonster, making her spin around in a frenzy as she tried to keep up with her. Once the SS rank Yo-kai has swirls in its' eyes, Rainbow joined her friends as the Mermaidyns swam forward and dealt their attacks.

"She's reeling! Now we've just gotta bring this big feller down!" Applejack swam onto Mermonster's neck and grabbed on tight with her arms, causing the giant Yo-kai to thrash and flail around trying to throw her off, while also dealing with the other Yo-kai. "YEEEEEE-HAW! This is the biggest thing I ever done rodeo'd!"

"GET OFF! GET THE HELL OFF OF ME!" Mermonster cried out as she barrell-rolled and somersaulted in an attempt to shake Applejack off of her. She tried to grab the back of her neck to pull the country girl off of her, but every time she reached over to her, the Mermaidyns hammered down on her with physical and elemental attacks.

"She's still standing. We need more Yo-kai!" Twilight looked back at the castle which only barely stood after the initial attack. "Let's just hope Mermother can convince Mermadonna to come to her senses and help out." She looked back at Mermonster who swam towards the top of the ocean. "And fast! Who knows where we are in this ocean?"

"Fine then. We'll take this battle to the surface!" Mermonster flew towards the roof of the sea, managing to throw Applejack off of her neck at long last. "If we're going to end this, then it'll be in a place where you Mermaidyns can't do anything!"

"Looks like it's game point to Jibanyan's team. Service!" Whisper was up on the cruise ship, playing a game of volleyball with Jibanyan and a bunch of other Yo-kai. He threw the ball high and smashed it down on Jibanyan, who knocked the ball back into the air, flip kicked, and smashed it into Whisper's body.

"Nyeah! We win!" Jibanyan landed and hugged the rest of his team, running over to Whisper. "Your team wasn't so bad either, Whisper. Good game."

"Yes. Well, thank you for suggesting the idea, Jibanyan." Whisper got up and shook Jibanyan's paw. "Though I do still wonder where Twilight and her friends went..."

"Hey, what's that?!"

Whisper and Jibanyan followed a crowd of ponies that were all gathered on the front of the cruise ship as they saw bubbles gathering in the water ahead of them. They appeared and disappeared in rapid succession, popping one after another. It was only a small area of bubbles, but it soon got bigger and bigger as a dark shadow appeared around them.

Soon, Mermonster burst out of the bubbles, deluging the entire cruise ship and soaking every pony and Yo-kai on board. She roared as loudly as she could as she looked down on the ponies in front of her. She raised her arms, causing the water behind her to rise into two giant tsunamis. With a clap of her hands, she smashed the waves together, sending water everywhere around her.

"WHAT IN THE HECK IS THAT THING?!" Jibanyan jabbed a waterlogged paw at the monstrous Yo-kai.

"I don't know, Jibanyan." Whisper heard Mermonster scream out once again. "But judging from its' size and scale alone, it must be a Boss Yo-kai!" He pulled out the Yo-kai Medallium from his chest. "It's a good thing I secretly packed this thing in case something like this happened. Now all we need to do is find Twilight and her friends." And with that, he flew off towards the front of the ship.

Twilight and her friends resurfaced and took big gasps of air as they saw Mermonster towering over the six of them. They watched the rest of the Mermaidyn army appear as well, bobbing their heads out of the water as they gazed upon the giant Yo-kai's malicious visage.

"Twilight!" Whisper spotted Twilight immediately and flew down to her side. "Where in the world did you run off to? I was worried sick!"

"Whisper. Thank Celestia you're here." Twilight took the Yo-kai Medallium and opened it up, pulling out six Yo-kai Medals. "You're just in time, too. This SS Rank Yo-kai's been a real problem."

"Well, it's good to know that you're all—" he stopped and looked back at Mermonster "—wait. SS Rank? That's a phrase I haven't heard in a long time."

"Do you know anything more about these SS Rank Yo-kai?" Twilight asked Whisper as she activated the EX function on her Yo-kai Watch, giving it the five extra medal slots while re-altering the clock to show the computer screen.

"SS Rank Yo-kai are bigger, badder, and much more destructive versions of regular Yo-kai." Jibanyan hung himself over the rails and looked down at Twilight. "This massive one you're seeing is like another Mermaidyn, but just made extra-huge and deadly."

"Other SS Rank Yo-kai include—but are not limited to, Rubeus J, Hardy Hound, Prison Breaker, G Baban, Robonyan Mk. 28, and—"

"Alright, Whisper. I got this." Twilight took out her six medals and was about to slam her Yo-kai Medals into the watch.

"That won't be necessary, Twilight. In the language of humans, this Mermonster just played herself."

Mermother and Mermadonna burst out of the water and up into the air, twirling their golden and silver tridents at the giant SS Rank Yo-kai.

"Mermaidyns! Combine all of your Soultimates!" Mermother called out as she and Mermadonna took in purple energy. "Hit Mermonster with all of our waves and she'll be down for the count once and for all!"

The other Yo-kai took in energy for their own Soultimates, turning the sea around them into a dark shade of purple. The water ripped and shook around them as they closed their eyes and put their hands together. The activity around them shook and wobbled the cruise ship, throwing everyone on it around like peas in a frying pan.

"I will not allow that!" Mermonster slithered towards the army of Yo-kai, gnashing her teeth at them.

"NOW!" Mermother jabbed outward as the Yo-kai finished gathering energy.

"COLOSSAL TSUNAMI!" All of the mermaids called out together as an enormous wave rose up around them and consumed Mermonster whole. They flapped their tails and thrust their arms out, shooting the Yo-kai across the sea, far away from them and the ponies on the ship.

"No! NO! NOOOOOOO!" Mermonster screamed as she was catapulted across the water and shot halfway across the world, where she was impaled on a mountain and disappeared into an explosion of purple smoke.

Cheers rose up from the mermaids as Mermother and Mermadonna landed back into the water with a splash. They poked their heads up and looked out at all of their subjects. They waved out to all of them as they soon swam up to the two of them and hugged them gently.

"We did it!" Twilight swam up to the mermaid Yo-kai and threw her arms up. "We actually did it! We beat an SS Rank Yo-kai!"

"This calls for a celebration!" Pinkie Pie jumped out of the water and landed right beside Twilight and the Yo-kai. "We've saved the mermaid kingdom from Mermonster!"

"Congratulations, Twilight!" Whisper flew down to her and shook her hand vigorously. "I couldn't be any more proud of you for defeating such a tyrannical Yo-kai like that!"

"Nyeah! You're the best!" Jibanyan ran back up to the edge of the ship and waved to Twilight. "I thought that she had you for sure.

"Yes, everyone. Congratulations are in order. Unfortunately for you, they'll be for King Void, and not for your feeble kind."

The cheers were cut short as a massive maelstrom appeared in front of everyone, slowly pulling everything in the water towards it—including Twilight, her friends, the mermaids, and the cruise ship. The sky turned from a clear and sunny one into a sky filled with black clouds, lightning, and heavy rain.

At the center of the maelstrom, the Yo-kai that had been pursuing Twilight and her friends now stood proudly on a massive steel platform. The fins that it once had were now regular legs with trousers and shoes again, and the conductor's stick as the Yo-kai pulled off the golden face mask.

"How sweet. You make friends with such a lovely species, only for them to be lost forever to the very ocean that they tried to protect," the Yo-kai beneath the mask was revealed to have a female voice, with blue and black hair, purple eyes, and a devilish grin on her face. "Pretty ironic, don't you think? If our king had a sense of humour, he would be laughing and wheezing like a little kid at the irony of it all."

"Who are you?!" Twilight splashed water away from her as she looked out at the new Yo-kai.

"My name is Maelstro. Conqueror of the oceans and the Queen of Music." She swung her conductor's baton, causing a massive orchestra to join her on the platform, all of which fired musical notes that scratched Twilight and her friends' arms and made them bleed. "King Void has sent me to end your little charade and unearth Midnight Sparkle, so you won't ever be leaving this ocean alive. I'll make sure of it!"

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A Sea of Troubles (END)

"Battle perimeters met! Summoning Yo-kai!" Twilight took the six medals out of her Yo-kai Medallium and smashed them into the slots on her Yo-kai Watch EX. The lights danced in the sky as the Yo-kai landed on the cruise ship. "Yo-kai fighters, roll call!"

"Sgt. Burly!"

"Gargaros!"

"Moskevil!"

"Houzzat!"

"Impass!"

"Count Cavity!"

"No healers this time?" Whisper looked at Twilight's new Yo-kai team. "Don't you think that you're playing a dangerous game by doing that?"

"Whisper. We just beat an SS Rank Yo-kai with nothing more than Mermaidyns, and a Mermother and Mermadonna." Twilight saw the mermaids battle against the water. "If they can manage Maelstro's waters, then they can help us in fighting her."

"Aqua Grasp!" Maelstro swung her baton, causing water to spout up and smash against the ship, pulling Sgt. Burly, Gargaros, and Impass into the maelstrom. She tried to grab the other Yo-kai as well, but they simply flew out of her grasp and slashed the water away. "Ah. A captive audience for my marvellous music. That's how a musician should flourish, isn't it?"

"What the heck are you?" Applejack asked as she pulled her head from the raging waters. "And why do ya'll want Midnight Sparkle? Ain't it easier just to kill Twilight and be done with it?"

"If only it were that simple, little country girl." Maelstro leaned over to Applejack and manipulated the water to pull her close to her face. "But I'm afraid that you can't just kill off the heroes all willy-nilly. It'd ruin the atmosphere and the challenge of King Void's conquest." She flashed an innocent grin at the rest of the girls. "What's the point of conquering the world if you don't have someone trying to stop you? Isn't that how heroes and villains work these days?"

"She does have a point." Pinkie raised her finger. "The whole reason we have big meanie-pants villains like King Void, Lord Tirek, and Queen Chrysalis is because we're the good guys. We're never not going to see a villain because we're the heroines. And similarly for them, they won't ever be able to take over the world because we're saving it. It's kind of a weird cycle, really."

"Exactly, pink-haired mermaid." Maelstro smiled and threw Applejack back. "But at the same time, the heroes don't get to save the world without a challenge either." She chuckled and put her hand to her mouth, turning towards her podium. "And now, Maelstro, if you please? Oh, thank you, me. No, thank you. Aw, you're a real doll, aren't ya?"

Maelstro tapped her baton against a podium with musical score on top of it. She raised it high to her instruments, and with a powerful swing, loud notes blasted out of the instruments and flew directly towards Twilight and her team of Yo-kai. Brass, wind, drums, string, and a whole slew of other musical instruments all floated and danced in the air as Maelstro conducted each and every one of them.

"Team! Try to survive agai—" before Twilight could finish, the water sucked her under.

"Twili—" Rainbow Dash was smashed with water and pulled under as well.

"The power of the ocean compels you all!" Maelstro called out to everyone in the whirlpool. "Let it drag you under and consume your souls! Let the very water wrap itself around you and drag you all down to your swamped graves!"

As Twilight and her Yo-kai fell under the water, they saw that a large fan was on the undercarriage of Maelstro's platform. It was generating a massive tornado that bored into the ground and sucked in everything around it—including the Mermaidyn kingdom and any nearby life forms around it.

Twilight's ground-based Yo-kai were swimming up to the surface, only to be pulled back down again as the waters got even more violent. Whenever they were under the water, they had to hold their breath for elongated periods of time as they desperately thrashed and swam against the roaring torrents to get back to the surface.

"This is bad." Twilight swam backwards to avoid being sucked into the tornado. "If we don't beat Maelstro soon, she's going to take the lives of hundreds of innocent ponies!" She shot herself up out of the water and fired spells from her horn at Maelstro's instruments.

"You look like you could use some help." Count Cavity swooped down and jabbed at the incoming musical notes. Once he had skewered enough, he shot them back at Maelstro, throwing her against the podium.

"Hey! No interrupting the performance!" Maelstro swung her baton at Twilight and her Yo-kai. "Crescendo of Chaos!"

More and more musical notes were fired from the instruments. They danced around the ponies and Yo-kai before crashing directly into them, exploding on impact. It was enough to knock the flying Yo-kai out of the sky and into the waters.

Maelstro jabbed her stick out like a fencing sword, causing the wing instruments to point themselves directly at the girls. With a loud blast, ten massive black lasers shot and pierced the water momentarily, grazing against Twilight and her team of Yo-kai.

"C'mon, everyone!" Burly shook off the pain and swam against the raging waters. "A little bit of swimming never hurt anyone! Swing those arms, fingers pointed forward! Face that water like it's your worst enem—"

"SILENCE!" Maelstro leapt up and pointed her baton at Sgt. Burly, causing the instruments flying around her to point themselves at the swimming Yo-kai before opening fire. All of the notes hit Sgt. Burly on the head, disorienting him and pushing him under the water. "There is to be no talking during my performance!"

"Your performance?!" Twilight pulled Sgt. Burly out of the water and used her magic to lift Impass and Gargaros out as well. She levitated all three of them over to the platform and moved to help out her flying Yo-kai. "You're not even allowed to be here! Get out of here before you hurt someone!"

"That's the point!" Maelstro swung her baton in a circular motion, causing a spiral of water around Twilight to gush up and throw her into the air. "Aqua Grasp!" She grabbed Twilight with the water and pulled her towards the platform. Once the pony was in range, she dealt a strong and fast kick to her, sending her back into the vortex of ocean.

"Twilight!" Mermother called out and hurriedly swam over to her, propelled through the sea by the speeds of the maelstrom.

Twilight was back in the black space where she had first met Midnight Sparkle. Only this time, she could hear the sound that she was underwater. Bubbles flew up past her face in a thin tower-like pattern. She was still a mermaid, but she felt completely dry when she brought her hands to her chest.

"Oh no. Not again..." Twilight looked around to try and find her friends in the darkness. Just like before, she found absolutely nothing but darkness.

"Oh yes again." Midnight materialised behind her and sensually slid her claw down Twilight's cheek. "Hello, Twilight. Have you accepted the darkness within you yet?"

"Midnight!" Twilight jumped at the sight of Midnight and readied her horn for a spell. She fired it at the demonic creature but watched it faze straight through her. "Just leave me alone! You can't control me!"

"Oh, but I think you'll find that I can." Midnight chuckled and flew over to Twilight, grabbing her by the cheeks and pinching them gently. "Poor widdle Twilight Sparkle. She thinks that she can destroy me and save the world. Isn't that just precious?"

"Yes. Such a weak-minded child can't possibly hope to comprehend how easy it is to let the darkness slip out." Maelstro appeared in a dark purple blast before Twilight and Midnight. "It's no wonder that she struggles against the Dark Yo-kai."

"Ah! You must be my brand new friend." Midnight Sparkle gave a gentle grin to Maelstro. "See, Twilight? She embraces the darkness, so why can't you? Don't you want to stop King Void and save your world?"

"Stop it! Stop trying to fill my head with lies!" Twilight fired bolt after bolt of magic at both Maelstro and Midnight, who both dodged them with little effort. "You're just nightmares! Ones that I can easily get rid of!"

"But, see, there's the problem, Twilight." Midnight flew back over and glared into Twilight's eyes, casting a sadistic smile on her. "I. Am. You!" She licked her lips and whispered into her ears, "Anything you think you can accomplish, you can't. I am you. I will always be you. You simply have to hate your friends, take revenge on them, make them hate you in return! Only then will you liberate yourself from this weak little thing known as the Magic of Friendship."

"What you call darkness is merely your failure to see the possibilities of what lies beyond light." Maelstro swam up to Twilight and coiled her arm around the pony's body. "Give in to that darkness, destroy me, and prove that you are an evil little pony who doesn't deserve friendship."

"Give in, Twilight. Give in to us. Give into your hatred. Give in to the darkness!" Midnight jumped onto Twilight's back and strapped herself on tight.

"Give in! Give in! Give in!" Both Midnight and Maelstro began to chant, throwing down their arms as they did.

As Maelstro and Midnight chanted, darkness began to swirl up around the three of them. It slowly but surely enveloped all three of them from the feet upward. While the two of them smiled at the sight of being devoured by the darkness, Twilight simply gasped and tried desperately to fly away.

"No! NO!" Twilight cried as she darted towards the surface, tears streaming out of her eyes as she tried to get away from the darkness, which now had four purple eyes glaring at her as she fled from it. "I'm not a monster! I'm not evil! And I'm not darkness!" She didn't even see the darkness consume every part of her body. The cyan masked appeared around her face and she threw her limbs out to the side as raven-black wings appeared on her back. "I'M NOT A VILLAIN!"

"Twilight!" Mermother finally caught up with Twilight and wrapped her arms around her, barely staying away from the raging tornado underneath Maelstro's platform. "C'mon! Wake up! You're stronger than this."

"Yes." Twilight's eyes shot open, as Midnight's mask and horn appeared on her face, with the black wings sprouting on her back shortly after. "I'm so strong that I'll destroy everyone! I'll kill you, your pathetic friends, and everyone who gets in my way, starting with Maelstro up there!" She cackled and flew up out of the water, leaving Mermother to the fan at the bottom of the platform.

"Has anypony seen Twilight?" Applejack asked as she pulled her head from the water, seeing that the cruise ship was beginning to break apart. "These ponies are about to die!"

"I'm trying, Applejack! Don't make me even more pressured!" Rainbow Dash swam under the water and back up again repeatedly to try and find Twilight. "Y'know, I think we should actually try and attack Maelstro instead of worry about Twilight! She's a strong pony! She'll make it through this!"

"Uh, girls?" Pinkie Pie looked under the water again. "When did Twilight get those raven wings of hers?"

"Raven wings?!" Rarity gasped and watched Twilight shoot out of the water and fly over them all. "Oh no! It can't be!"

"But it is..." Fluttershy whimpered and swam over to Rainbow Dash. "Please look after me, Rainbow Dash. Midnight Sparkle's back..."

"I'm back!" Midnight cackled at the group of ponies. "Did you all miss me? I'm sure you did."

"Midnight Sparkle." Maelstro stopped the music and conjured water to make stairs. She then proceeded to walk up those stairs to meet the cyan-masked demon. "King Void requests an audience with you. Come with me and I'll bring you right to him."

"If I'm going to meet King Void, he's going to have to come and meet me himself—not send his flunkies to deal with the messages." Midnight scoffed and crossed her arms, looking down at the group of ponies on the cruise ship. She coiled her fingers and fired a massive laser, splitting the ship into pieces and sending all of the ponies into the water. "They were going to die anyway. Thought I'd speed up the process." She turned back to Maelstro. "But anyway, I'd rather that the king come down here and show his ugly mug to me personally."

"I wish I could bring him down, but he's busy trying to find Kin and Gin." Maelstro shook her head. "You know, ever since Dame Dedtime was defeated, those two always keep running away on their own devices. Wish they could just learn to sit still for once in their afterlives."

"I don't care about two elderly freaks who aren't using their two power." Midnight shook her head and fired more bolts down at the ponies in the water, turning them into dust that scattered and sank underneath it. "If King Void wanted me to join him, he would've come down to say so. He doesn't really sound like much of a ruler to me."

"Shut your face. King Void is the most powerful Yo-kai of all!" Maelstro jabbed a finger at Midnight. "He was born from all of the darkness of every Yo-kai in existence—even the evil of Lord Enma himself. So it's safe to say that he is a quadruple S-Rank Yo-kai. Untameable, unbeatable, and one who will conquer these miserable worlds."

"If anyone's going to rule this world, it's going to be me." Midnight conjured purple orbs around herself and barraged Maelstro with them, smashing her against the platform. "Midnight Sparkle doesn't need a king! She doesn't need anyone! All that she needs is destruction, death, and the joy of hearing those little ponies scream their last breaths as their bodies are reduced to ashes!"

"Arrogant little piece of..." Maelstro muttered and took in black energy. "Dark Soultimate Charge!"

Mermother, Mermadonna, and all of the Mermaidyns looked out at Maelstro and Midnight, swimming away from the platform as they saw the Dark Yo-kai gathering energy for a Soultimate. They all watched on with frowns and gasps as the sky turned purple, with thunderbolts crashing down on the seas beyond.

"Time to die!" Maelstro stomped on her platform and coated her baton in black energy. She swung it as if she was painting a japanese symbol, causing the music from the instruments to intensift. "ENDGAME ENSEMB—"

"OCTO SNAKE!"

"INFERNO!"

A massive fireball engulfed Maelstro as she was about to thrust her stick forward, while hundreds of teal dragons began biting into Midnight Sparkle. Both targets jittered and jolted around in the attacks as Venoct and Kyubi both kicked them square in their eyes, knocking them both out and into the water's depths.

The water instantly returned to normal once Maelstro was smashed against the platform, and the sky cleared up and turned back to blue once again. Midnight Sparkle let out a small breath before she turned back into Twilight Sparkle. Before she could hit the water, Venoct swooped down and picked her up, cradling her as she struggled to breathe.

"Im...possible." Maelstro tried to stand up, but Kyubi stomped on her chest, causing dark purple matter to spill out of her mouth, similar in colour to how the Dark Yo-kai looked. "How cou—"

"Save your breath, Dark Yo-kai." Kyubi got into Maelstro's face and grabbed her by the neck. "You're going to need it when Queen Ephemer interrogates you later." She took the baton and snapped it clean in half, throwing it far away from her pinned-down victim. "There. No more mayhem."

"You... vile... Kyubi!" Maelstro began to wrap her hands around the nine-tailed fox, trying to get her off of her body.

"Ugh. What a crybaby." Kyubi scoffed and pulled both of Maelstro's arms off her neck without any effort. "Honestly, even Dame Dedtime and the Wicked knew when they were beaten." She disappeared in smoke, taking Maelstro with her.

Venoct put Twilight down on the deactivated platform, using Orochi to destroy what remained of Maelstro's instruments. With fierce snaps and lunges from his dragon scarf, the entire set was destroyed, leaving the platform entirely barren.

"Is she going to be alright?" Fluttershy gently paddled up to the slumbering Twilight, with the rest of her friends close behind her.

"She will be." Venoct put his hand on Twilight's chest, feeling it move as she breathed very lightly. "Just give her some time to recover. Seems being Midnight really took its' toll on her this time..."

The other Main Six swam up and saw the state that Twilight was in. Her hair was frazzled and she couldn't even open her eyes. The mask and horn had vanished and she was still in her transmogrified state from when they had first met Mermaidyn, but she was still unable to open her eyes or even speak with how lifeless she seemed.

Author's Notes:

Just so you know, I have seen more of the anime and heard Venoct's dubbed voice. And let me say, that in comparison to his medallium entry from the games and from his real-life Yo-kai Medal, he sounds absolutely perfect in the anime. His deep and brooding voice matches perfectly with his personality, and I really did enjoy seeing him throw down with Rubeus J.

Also, there will be a stats page on Mermonster and Maelstro to come shortly, so be sure to check that out when it comes. And if you did enjoy this arc, then be sure to leave your comments down below on your thoughts about it.

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The Calm After the Storm

Twilight eventually came to on sandy-covered shores, groaning as she rubbed her head and fluttered her eyes open. She looked out at the ocean for the cruise ship, but saw nothing but rolling waves and other islands in the distance. She turned her head back to see where exactly she wound up, but could only see a mountain with some trees around it.

"W-wha?" She flapped her tail, splashing it against the waters as she flopped around. Once she was deep enough, she swam out to the rest of her friends, who were all waving over to her. "Girls? Where are we? What happened to Maelstro?"

"Calm yourself." Venoct landed on the water, balancing himself on the tips of his toes. "You are alright. Maelstro is defeated and all is well again. King Void has lost another one of his aces."

"But, much like everything in these worlds, it came with a heavy cost." Kyubi looked out at the waters. "That ship you were all on? Some evil thing with black raven feather wings destroyed it and slaughtered all of the ponies on board."

Twilight's entire body went cold at the sound of Kyubi's grim description. Her hands began to quiver as she thought about what had happened. "Midnight—no. I murdered all of those poor ponies. I'm to blame for all of them getting destroyed..."

"Midnight? Can you explain this to me?" Venoct went over to Twilight, kneeling down before her. "If I can grasp the situation at hand, I might be able to come up with a solution that might be able to alleviate your worries."

"Well, basically, when King Void first attacked me in Ponyville, he launched this black energy at me." Twilight recalled the day when she first encountered the Dark Yo-kai. "After that, he left us all to fight Lash. You remember him, right?"

"How could we not?" Kyubi tipped her claw. "That British accent of his got really old really fast."

"Well, just like what happened then, this new Yo-kai, Maelstro..." Twilight began to choke on her own words as tears began to form in her eyes. "She allured me with darkness, awakening Midnight Sparkle from within me. With both of their voices ringing, they took over my body and caused me to unleash dark magic beyond compare. With them in control, they made me kill those ponies cause unspeakable harm..." The tears eventually flooded out as she bawled like an infant as she swam over to her friends, who all gave her hugs and patted her on the back. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean for this to happen!"

"Interesting." Venoct watched Twilight crying and wailing as her friends comforted her. "So King Void's trying to make Twilight evil by pressuring her into using this Midnight Sparkle. Of all of the cold-hearted, selfish, vile, and cruel acts that I've seen, that has to be the worst of them all."

"You tell us about it." Mermother swam up to the surface with Mermadonna and a lone Mermaidyn in tow. "King Void's Dark Yo-kai nearly destroyed our entire kingdom!"

"Those freaks ruined my make-up. When I see another of those stupid Dark Yo-kai, I'm gonna Soultimate them so hard that they'll be wishing they were never born!" Mermadonna pouted and crossed her arms.

"We need to stop them, but how are we possibly going to do it when those Dark Yo-kai keep on tempting Twilight to become Midnight Sparkle?" Rarity asked, looking at the group of Yo-kai. "Those heinous fiends show no respect for her, or for any of my stuff that was lost on that ship!"

"If Midnight Sparkle is being tempted out by the Dark Yo-kai, then we need to go to a place where King Void can't possibly touch her." Kyubi laid the unconscious Maelstro on the sands. "I was just about to head over there myself to drop this Dark One off, but I suppose I could make some more space for the rest of you."

"Kyubi? Are you implying that we take Twilight to the queen herself?" Venoct's eyes widened. "But the time isn't right yet! There are still plenty of things she needs to know before we—"

"Venoct, I appreciate the whole tough-ninja discipline and all, but it's seriously not helping!" Kyubi slapped Venoct's mouth shut with her claw. "Ponies in this world are dying each and every day and Twilight Sparkle keeps being influenced by Midnight Sparkle. We NEED to show her to Queen Ephemer in the Yo-kai World and I won't take no for an answer on this one!"

"Kyubi, sometimes I worry for your sanity." Venoct face-palmed and hovered towards the group of ponies. "Well, it looks like we're at an impasse, girls. Twilight Sparkle is coming with us to the Yo-kai World to meet Queen Ephemer." He reached out for them all. "I don't suppose that you'd like to come with us?"

"Well, it's a mighty fine gesture and all, but I don't really feel like this is the proper time for that." Applejack patted the back of Twilight's head. "Can't ya'll see that Twilight thinks she murdered a group of ponies? She needs us now more than ever, and I don't think she'd ever want to come with you in the state she's in."

"No, Applejack. It's fine." Twilight took a deep breath and wiped her eyes dry. "I've made a massive screw-up. I think I deserve some time in the Yo-kai World to clear my head and regather my thoughts..."

"Are you sure that you'll be OK there, Twilight?" Whisper flew up to her and held her hoof. "You've never been to the Yo-kai World before. It's unlike anywhere you've ever been before. I just don't think that you'll be quite relaxed over there."

"Whisper. Please." Twilight pushed him away. "I can't look at the ponies again until I feel confident enough to take on King Void. Until then, I'm going to spend my time in the Yo-kai World with Venoct, Kyubi, and the queen. It's the only place I feel is safe from King Void and the Dark Yo-kai anymore."

"But what about us? We can't get home if you just leave us stuck like this." Rainbow Dash looked down at her fins.

"And even if you do turn us back into ponies, you'd be stranding us on an island far away from Equestria with no possible way to get us all home." Fluttershy shook her head. "We have to come with you. There's just no other way."

"Before anyone else says anything, I want to give this to Twilight as a token of my appreciation." Mermother gently paddled towards Twilight and held out her hand. She dropped a Yo-kai Medal into Twilight's hands. However, it had a red rim instead of a silver rim like all of the others. "Now, why don't you two do the same?" She turned to Mermadonna and Mermaidyn.

"Yo-kai Medals?" Twilight took Mermother's medals before Mermadonna and Mermaidyn slipped theirs into Twilight's hand. "Why are they red around the edges?"

"They're Classic Yo-kai Medals." Whisper raised his finger. "In order to summon Mermaidyn, Mermadonna, and Mermother, you'll need to use your Yo-kai Watch Model Zero. No other Yo-kai Watch will cut it, I'm afraid."

"The Model Zero?" Twilight raised her brows. "How am I—" before she could finish, Whisper drove himself into Twilight's arm, eating the Yo-kai Watch whole "—WHISPER?! WHAT IN CELESTIA'S NAME ARE YOU DOING?!"

"Just switching your watch." Whisper took himself off of Twilight, revealing that the blue and yellow Model Zero was now firmly secured around Twilight's arm. "A handy tool for all wielder of the Yo-kai Watch. I, Whisper, can switch your watch at any time, so you don't have to take yours off and take a painfully long time getting the other one on."

"You can do that?" Rainbow Dash cocked a brow as she gazed at Twilight's new watch.

"It works for all Yo-kai Watches." Whisper nodded. "Including the Yo-kai Watch U that you received back when you met Nyanta Paws."

"Alright?" Twilight looked at her new watch. "So, how do I operate this one?" She took Mermaidyn's medal and slipped it into the watch. She was expecting the summon to be automatic, but nothing happened whatsoever.

"With the Model Zero, you simply need to turn the knob like this to the number one setting first." Whisper pushed it himself, hearing it click as he dragged it across the edge.

"Oh! Summoning Time!" The Model Zero spoke as the dial hit the one setting.

Twilight looked down at the watch's arms and saw a rainbow coil around it. Mermaidyn swam and danced to an acapella version of the Slippery Tribe's summoning chant with arabic instruments playing in the background. She watched as the mermaid Yo-kai swooped, dived, and gave an innocent smile to her.

"And once all that's said and done, you simply change the knob to the number two. Like so." Whisper moved the dial to the other side of the watch.

"Summoning: Slippery?" A small fanfare accompanied the watch as the light blue streams shot out of the watch. There was no tribe song, however, and Mermaidyn simply went through the hole above her head and burst out of the watch.

"Ta-da!" She threw her arms out and landed back into the water.

"And voila! You've just summoned your first Classic Yo-kai!" Whisper bowed before Twilight. "Glad to be of assistance, Princess Twilight."

"Well, if you're all done with your celebrations, we should get going." Venoct looked out at the waters beyond. "Who knows when the Dark Yo-kai could attack?"

"They'll probably be after me for capturing Maelstro." Kyubi hoisted the Dark One over her shoulders again. "Turn yourselves back into ponies and let's get going already!"

"Alright, alright. Sheesh. Such a buzzkill." Twilight lit up her horn and caused a pink burst of energy to flow from her. With a blast of light, the Main Six were all back to being the ponies that they once were, with all of their limbs and Cutie Marks intact. "See you all soon, Mermaidyn, Mermadonna, Mermother." She bowed to all of the mermaids, who waved them all off as they walked up to Venoct and Kyubi.

Once Twilight and the Main Six gathered with Venoct and Kyubi, the two Yo-kai put their hands on the ground, causing a massive rainbow-coloured portal to appear by their feet. The girls all dived in and flew through the vortex of light, following the Yo-kai to their world. Some of them screamed, while others whooped and cheered as they hurled themselves into it.

Kin, Gin, Inumaro, Nekokiyo, and Nurarihyon were all down on their knees, panting heavily as they wiped the blood off of their faces. Their bodies were heavily scratched and bruised and none of them had the energy to take another step forward or use an attack on their opponent.

"I... won't let you leave this place alive." Nurarihyon slithered forward, his slimy barbed tentacles gave him some mobility, but it was very limited as his vision became blurred. "Die! Time Witches!"

"For a Dark Yo-kai... you seem... to have a lot of fight in you, Nura—" Kin winced and gritted her teeth as the pain caught up with her "—rihyon."

"I've seen enough." King Void's voice boomed out as the sky turned black. "This pointless fighting will end nothing. Those that cannot fight, will not."

With a crash of lightning, the winged demon appeared before all five of the winded Yo-kai. He simply grabbed Kin and Gin by the faces and tightened his grip, causing them to disappear in a black burst of darkness. "Return to the castle, you two. You've made baboons of yourselves long enough."

"King Void!" Inumaro slowly got up to his feet and coiled his claws into a fist as he pulled his head from the dirt. "Stand... down! Don't make me hurt you!"

"What a waste of a Yo-kai you are, Inumaro." King Void simply kicked Inumaro in the back of the head, throwing him to the ground once more. "If only you and your accomplices had the conviction to destroy that foolish boy and his friends, you would've conquered the Yo-kai World and we might've become friends. How disappointing."

"Die!" Nekokiyo pounced from his spot and tackled King Void, gnashing his teeth at the Dark Yo-kai's face. "For the honour of Lord Nurarihyon and Queen Ephe—" he stopped, feeling that he had been impaled by the king's sword.

"Out of my face." King Void threw Nekokiyo against Nurarihyon, pulling the sword out of his chest. "Even if you were to become your fused form and attack me, you three would still not be enough to stop me or my plans. Darkness cannot be destroyed. It lives on in every living thing's heart."

"What... do you plan—" Nurarihyon coughed up some purple blood "—to do?"

"This whole universe is a giant chess board, with Twilight Sparkle and her friends as the major pieces." King Void crossed his arms. "Everything else is nothing more than a pawn, standing in my way of my ultimate victory. I will cut all of those fools myself and claim these worlds all for myself." He drew a circle around Inumaro, Nekokiyo, and Nurarihyon. "Run home to your queen. Tell her these precise words." He leaned in close to their faces as they sank through the portal that appeared around them. "Long. Live. The. King!"

Nurarihyon and his allies could only just black out as they fell through the portal, hearing screams of torment and anguish as they descended through the spiral of purple and black magic. King Void's words were echoing in their mind, chasing them down through the darkness as they tumbled towards a single sliver of light at the bottom of the darkness.

The Gatekeepers

Venoct, Kyubi, and the Main Six shot out of the other end of the portal towards the skies. All of them rolled forward and hurtled towards the ground, where the vortex vanished, leaving behind solid earth for them to stand on.

"Behold. The Yo-kai World." Venoct stretched out his arms, revealing a wide spread of nature, land, and clear teal skies, with purple clouds and a large village off in the distance over the nearby bridge. The air was very well-filtrated and smelled much like that of an air freshener to him and his entourage. "Take in the sights for as long as you want, but just remember that you get inside before King Void and the Dark Yo-kai make another attack."

"Wow..." Twilight's attention was focused more on the village than it was that of the rest of the world. She leaned in closer and saw Yo-kai of all different shapes and sizes, walking, talking, and flying around. "It's like Whisper's Yo-kai Pad sucked us all in. I've never seen so many in one place before..."

"The Yo-kai World is a safe haven for any and all Yo-kai. Be they unruly, annoying, helpful, or even just weird." Venoct crossed his arms. "Whether or not you wear the Yo-kai Watch, any human that comes into the Yo-kai World can see all of us perfectly. The watch is not required here."

"Behind you is the castle." Kyubi turned around and raised her claws to show the girls the structure. It was perfectly round with a plethora of different colours covering the walls in a ring-like fashion. "Inside lives the queen of the Yo-kai World, Queen Ephemer. Through these doors and down the hallway lie two gatekeepers. The strongest Yo-kai you'll ever see have devoted their lives to protecting the queen with their lives."

"The strongest Yo-kai?" Rarity parroted. "Who could ever warrant such a title, if I might ask?"

"Guess we'll find out once we're inside." Rainbow Dash flew over to the doors and pushed them open, straining and struggling as she barely managed to pry them apart. "C'mon, girls! Let's go introduce us to this queen Yo-kai."

The doors grazed against the ground as they slid open for the girls. The loud rumbling sound echoed throughout the dimly-lit hallway as Rainbow Dash stopped pushing them open. As the group all walked inside, the doors closed behind them automatically, making a loud bang as they closed shut.

"Ooh... Spooky!" Pinkie Pie's voice echoed through the darkness as she and her friends travelled down the cyan-tile road towards the end of the corridor.

As the girls walked through the corridor, a number of different murals and paintings on the walls caught their eyes. They depicted events that ranged from great battles against big and powerful Yo-kai, the creation of the Yo-kai Watch and the Model Zero, and even to the modern day times, where it showed Queen Ephemer ascending to her queen-like status and battling against Nurarihyon, Inumaro, and Nekokiyo.

"What you see here on the walls are some of the biggest moments for Yo-kai. Be they the actions of Yo-kai themselves, or that of the human friends that we've made over the years." Venoct continued, floating over to each different picture. "The defeats of such evil monsters like Mckraken and Dame Dedtime have been immortalised here on these walls, and many more different victories and steps forward accompany these pictures."

"So, I assume that when King Void falls, you're gonna make a mosaic of that, right?" Twilight asked.

"Yes. That, and we'll be celebrating at the Ghost's Eye Tavern afterwards." Kyubi smirked and nodded. "The place does some great grub. Whenever I go, I just can't get enough of their Seafood Smorgasbord. The stuff is to die for!"

"Pretty ironic, considering that all Yo-kai are ghosts." Whisper whispered into Twilight's ears.

"We're here." Venoct arrived at a massive door and threw out his arms. "The gatekeepers will arrive shortly. Act polite and don't try anything weird. I'm looking at you, candy-floss-haired horse." He glared at Pinkie Pie.

The door standing before Twilight and her friends was something that they had never seen before. The entire left side was all purple with depictions of a massive spider crawling down a web, while the right side showed a close-up shot of a lake with a toad standing on a lily pad, snatching a fly with its' tongue. There was a symbol on each of the doors that looked similar to each other, but was inverted on the other side.

Then, with two bursts of purple smoke, two humanoid Yo-kai appeared. The first one had brown and yellow hair that had been styled up to look like that of a live spider, while the other one had long brown hair that looked like a toad's tongue. The spider-haired Yo-kai was wearing red and purple robes while the toad-tongue-haired one had a bright green outfit with purple tufts of fur on his shoulders. They both had warpaint on their faces, with the one on the left having red around his eyes, while the one on the right had blue around his.

"Venoct? You've returned so soon?" The spider-haired Yo-kai asked, looking at Twilight's friends. "And you bring technicolour horses with you?"

"Master Arachnus." Venoct bowed and put his fist to his chest. "This is Twilight Sparkle and her friends. The very same that Queen Ephemer believes can save our world."

"Hold on. Did you just say master?" Twilight approached Venoct.

"Yes." The Yo-kai standing by the door stepped forward. "My name is Arachnus. I am the leader of the Bony Spirits faction of Yo-kai." He slammed his hands together and slid them apart, ready for combat. "In the days of old, I fought against the Yo-kai you see beside me. But now, in the time of Queen Ephemer, I stand as one of her loyal gatekeepers, striking down all those who are unworthy to—"

"Geez, chillax, Arachnus." The other Yo-kai tipped his hand and stepped forward. "Y'know, you get really into these things, don't ya?" He looked down at the others. "Sup. Name's Toadal Dude. I'm the leader of the Fleshy Souls factions of Yo-kai." He put his hands behind his head. "Sure, me and Arachnus had some beef back in Old Springdale, but we've moved on from that. We're both pretty chill now." He lowered his brows. "But he is right. Anyone who isn't worthy to see the queen should leave now. Trust me. It's better for your health if you do."

"So, you're the gatekeepers?" Fluttershy asked.

"Indeed. We are to ensure that the unworthy all get struck down and ejected from this place." Arachnus nodded and threw some punches at the air. "If you fall into that category, then my fighting prowess shall floor you in seconds!"

"Well, are we worthy?" Applejack asked, cocking a brow at the two Yo-kai.

"If you are this Twilight Sparkle that I've heard so much about, then you shall just have to let our lieutenants judge you." Arachnus pointed to Venoct.

"Alright, Kyubi. Be honest with me on this." Toadal Dude walked up to her. "Are these ponies really that strong? Do they have what it takes to beat King Void?"

"Venoct. Kyubi. The time for judgement is now." Arachnus walked towards Toadal Dude.

"And please, you two. Don't skimp on any of the details." Toadal Dude approached Arachnus.

"Evaluate! Who are Twilight Sparkle and her friends?" They both thrust their arms out, pointing their palms towards the group.

Venoct took a step forward and breathed deeply. "Twilight Sparkle is a mortal being, much like the rest of her pony friends." He looked back at them. "Despite this, they wield powers that I've never seen before. A combination of magic both from experience and that of another plane of strength. While strong on the creatures of their world, it doesn't do anything against Yo-kai or Dark Yo-kai."

"Their bond's pretty strong too." Kyubi crossed her arms and turned her head back at the ponies. "I've never seen a group of talking horses be friends before. And it's not just some cartoony friendship where they say that they'll be there for each other and do everything together, no, no." She wagged her finger. "These six have found some odd way to use their friendship and turn it into a super-weapon that they've used to save the world over and over again."

"Weaponising friendship?" Arachnus tilted his head and cracked his knuckles. "While I would consider them a jeopardy to the Yo-kai, you seem to claim that they used it to save their world." He looked down at Twilight Sparkle. "Do you think you could elaborate for me what you mean by that?"

"Well, the biggest threat we've ever had in Equestria was a centaur named Lord Tirek." Twilight stepped forward and looked Arachnus and Toadal Dude in the eyes. "He drained the very life essence from ponies, removing their abilities to fly, use magic, or even work the fields. If we didn't use the Magic of Friendship to defeat him, he would've left our world in ruins in days. What's worse is that the more he absorbed, the more powerful he became, to the point where he could destroy the very ground around himself with every strike." She looked back down the corridor. "I'm not sure whether or not it stacks up with the battles against Mckraken and Dame Dedtime, but he was the most powerful thing that we've ever had to fight."

"What is friendship to you?" Toadal Dude leaned in close and put his ear close to Twilight's mouth. "Is it really just you and your friends hanging out and talking to each other, because from the way you described that Tirek guy, I think that a little more than just regular friendship would stop a thing like him."

"Friendship to us isn't just ponies having fun, making memories, and just sharing things with each other." Twilight shook her head. "Friendship is the defining principle of the the things that make us so peaceful." She pointed to each of her friends. "Honestly, Loyalty, Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, and Magic all join in perfect harmony to create the Magic of Friendship: A force beyond anything we've ever seen." Twilight thought back to the times when she had saved the world with her friends by her side. "With its' power, even the biggest of villains like Nightmare Moon, Discord, Queen Chrysalis, and Lord Tirek have fallen. It's more than just a simple relationship. To us, friendship is magic."

"Friendship is magic?" Arachnus repeated, looking down at the group of friends, who all gave him smiles. "Well, you certainly don't seem like the average human like Nate and Inaho, and you certainly look like you have a strong bond, that's for sure..."

"But what is your experience with the Dark Yo-kai?" Toadal Dude asked, watching Twilight's eyes twitch at that. "King Void's troops really did a number on us when they first attacked. Nearly beat me and Arachnus into Yo-kai paste."

"The Dark Yo-kai have been..." Twilight gulped, shuddering and shaking as the memories of Lash and Maelstro flashed back into her mind. "A bit hard to deal with, but I've managed to beat two of King Void's Dark Ones."

"One of which is right here." Kyubi laid out the unconscious Maelstro before Arachnus and Toadal Dude. "I was just coming to lock her up in the dungeon. Maybe get some important answers out of her about King Void and his army."

"A prisoner?" Arachnus looked over at the slumbering Dark Yo-kai and cracked his knuckles above her. "Well, it's a bit unorthodox, but anything we can get that cripples King Void and his army is valuable." He clicked his fingers, wrapping the Dark Yo-kai in a spider's cocoon. He clenched his fist tightly, causing it to vanish in a column of purple light, sinking into the ground and out of everyone's sight.

"By the way, I noticed that Twilight's got a Yo-kai Watch." Toadal Dude jumped over and held Twilight's hoof out, looking at the Model Zero around it. "So, is it just the Model Zero, or does she have the other makes too?"

"We've got all of the versions of the Yo-kai Watch." Whisper pointed out, pulling the original Yo-kai Watch and Yo-kai Watch U out of his belly. "We should be well-equipped to handle King Void's Dark Yo-kai."

"It's not enough to just have the Yo-kai Watches." Arachnus crossed his arms and shook his head. "Without the proper experience in dealing with Yo-kai and the right team for the job, you may just find that the Dark Yo-kai are more hassle than they're worth. Even more so than the Wicked Yo-kai."

"Believe me, I know." Twilight rubbed the back of her head, envisioning Midnight Sparkle bursting out of her body and taking control of her once again. "King Void hit me with some kind of black fire when we first met, and ever since, I've been haunted by some demon named Midnight Sparkle. The Dark Yo-kai have been trying to make me lose control and pry her out of me ever since."

"Midnight Sparkle is a monstrous version of Twilight Sparkle, who only cares about death and destruction." Venoct stroked Orochi, who growled and roared at the name. "If King Void unleashes and takes control of her, it'll be one more being of the darkness to add to his army. And one less chance of us winning against him."

"I've heard enough." Arachnus walked towards the door. "Toadal Dude. It's time."

"Alright then." Toadal Dude walked over to the door, but still had his eyes on Twilight and her friends. "Guess they had this coming..."

The two Yo-kai posed and extended their arms out, punching and performing knife-hand strikes while grunting as if they were performing martial arts. Together, they leapt towards the door and pulsated with purple energy.

"SPIDER SMASH!" Arachnus grew a large pair of spider legs and slammed them against his side of the door.

"WARTS AND ALL!" Toadal Dude swung his hair around and whipped it against the wall, striking it with immense force in perfect timing with Arachnus's attack.

Both attacks were executed with perfect synchronicity and hit just as well-timed. The door flung open, slamming against the walls on the inside. Beyond it, lay a massive circular hall with large pillars and another corridor on the other side. Carpets led the way to the ring and to the area beyond, and light streaked down on it all.

"Looks like we're worthy." Rarity looked forward at the next part of the castle. "Guess we'd better get moving."

"But why?" Twilight asked Toadal Dude and Arachnus as they stepped away from the open doors. "What was it that convinced you?"

"The darkness must be tamed. If this Midnight Sparkle belongs to you, then you must make sure that King Void cannot reach it." Arachnus bowed. "Go. Through here is Queen Ephemer. I'm sure she will be looking forward to seeing you all."

"Listen. Don't let the Dark Yo-kai control you next time." Toadal Dude put his hand on Twilight's shoulders. "If someone tries to break you, just remember that Midnight Sparkle is yours alone. She's not going to destroy anything. She's not going to defect to King Void. Just keep her deep within you and be strong. Just be chill, y'know?"

"Chill?" Twilight's eyes opened slightly, but she nodded and smiled before leading the rest of her friends. "I'll keep that in mind."

"I hope that you do." Toadal Dude watched Twilight and her friends go through the hall and down the carpet towards the next set of doors. "Good luck, Twilight Sparkle. May Lord Enma watch over and protect you..."

Queen Ephemer

Twilight and her friends walked through the doors and saw a giant throne at the end of the room. Gold lined the floors as white shimmering lights danced in the air. Unfurled banners decorated the walls as the group of ponies all stepped across the carpet towards the few steps leading up to the throne.

"Princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria." Queen Ephemer stood up from the throne and walked up to the group of ponies, who all bowed as her majestic body glowed and shimmered, displaying many different colours. "What a pleasure to finally meet you at long last."

"Queen Ephemer..." Twilight examined the queen in awe, taking a long look at all of her different body parts. She could make out four pony legs with a Cutie Mark depicting a Yo-kai wisp, an elongated horn on the tip of her forehead, a wide pair of white wings that glistened and twinkled with each flap, and a pair of human hands stretching out from her sides. "She's a centaur?"

"I am far more than that." Ephemer approached the bowing ponies and waved her arms. "You may all stand up now." She watched the girls all follow her orders. "I have transcended my old body with the help of the Yo-kai. I am now at one with their universe, and their energy has evolved me far from just a regular unicorn."

"So, you're a Yo-kai and a centaur?" Rainbow Dash cocked a brow at the spacial-bodied queen. "Seems kinda weird to me."

"I have had my eyes on you for quite some time now, Twilight Sparkle." Ephemer didn't even respond to Rainbow Dash as her eyes met with that of Twilight's. "Ever since I discovered that capsule machine in the forest, my entire life has changed drastically. The Yo-kai took me in and decided that I was to be their new ruler. Of course, I declined at first, but over time, I took in the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the Yo-kai World and I opened my heart to them as they did to me."

"Can you remember what you were like back as a regular pony?" Twilight asked.

"Well, I was often engrossed in my studies, not caring much about the ponies around me." Ephemer walked back up to the throne with Twilight following close behind. "One day, I just snapped and ran off deep into the Everfree Forest, in the hopes that none of them would ever be able to disrupt my work anymore."

Hang on a sec... Twilight began to think as Ephemer recapped her lengthy tale. This sounds a lot like Pinkie Pie's ghost story. It can't be a coincidence, can it?

"I came across the Crank-a-kai, and upon opening one of its' capsules, I was ripped from my world and taken into that of the Yo-kai." Ephemer looked up at the green sky, watching the clouds lazily drift by through it. "Time passed after my ascension and with the Yo-kai aiding me with every step, I soon left my feeble body behind and became Queen Ephemer."

"A very sparkly Queen Ephemer, if I might add." Pinkie Pie's eyes nearly popped out as they rubbed themselves over the queen's body. "How do I get a glowy space body like that?"

"Yo-kai energy, unicorn magic, and a lot of hard work and determination." She pushed Pinkie's eyes back into their sockets and illuminated her horn. A rainbow-coloured aura enveloped Pinkie Pie and put her back down by her friends. "But there is no time to recap the story of how I came to be. I'm sure you're all aware of King Void by now?"

"How could we not know who he is?" Rarity tipped her hoof. "That brute had his Dark Yo-kai destroy my entire cruise liner set of fashion! That horrific brute doesn't care a thing about us!"

"Rarity!" Twilight snarled at the unicorn, watching her eyes shoot wide open. "King Void destroyed Ponyville, turned Sailornyan into Oblivinyan, and forced me to become Midnight Sparkle TWICE, and all you're obsessed about is clothes?! What kind of idiotic kid are you?!"

The rest of the Main Six gasped at Twilight's outburst and insults and watched her friend turn to face Ephemer.

"I'm sorry that the rest of you had to hear it, but it's one-hundred percent completely true. Lives are more important than clothing, and she should know this by now." Twilight took a quick look back at her friends and softened her tone of voice. "If I wanted to stop being Rarity's friend, I would've been more aggressive about it. She's still vital to Equestria's safety, but she needs to grow up and learn when the fate of the world is on the line—not get distracted by sequins and silk."

"I agree." Ephemer smiled and tousled Twilight's hair, bringing the unicorn close to the throne. "Y'know, you remind me a lot of Nurarihyon. Without the constant nagging and prattling on about how to rush into battle, that is."

"Nurarihyon?" Twilight raised a brow at the mention of the name. "Who the heck is that?"

"He went out to deal with the Dark Yo-kai, but he hasn't come back with Inumaro or Nekokiyo. I'm really starting to get concerned about his safety..." Ephemer sighed and put her hand to her face, brushing away some hair that was dangling down over her eyes. "I just hope he hasn't gotten himself into trouble. You know what King Void can do with Yo-kai, right?"

"From what we've gathered, King Void and his subjects have the ability to take Yo-kai, remove them from existence, and replace them with Dark Yo-kai." Twilight envisioned the time when Kin and Gin attacked Ponyville, using their newfound powers to take Red Snow's Sailornyan away and create Oblivinyan. "Is there any way that we can change them back to normal?"

"Sadly, no there isn't." Queen Ephemer shook her head.

"WHAT?!" The entire Main Six chorused and stumbled backwards once Ephemer's answer stuck into their heads.

"So we're never gonna see Sailornyan ever again?!" Rainbow Dash threw down her arms. "That's just plain evil! This King Void guy's gonna get a kick to the face, courtesy of me when we see him again!"

"King Void's taken away so many Yo-kai from us that he's practically created his own species." Ephemer sat down on the throne and put her hand on her chin. "It's gotten to the point where it's become ridiculous."

"Hear hear." Twilight nodded and crossed her hooves. "I'm just glad that he hasn't targeted Earth yet."

"Though, to be fair, I think it's nice that the human world's being given a break from all of this fate of the world nonsense." Whisper put his arms behind his head. "After everything that Nate had to go through when I was his master, there's nothing more that Earth could use than some peace and quiet."

"I couldn't agree more, Whisper." Ephemer gave Whisper a tiny little grin. "But still, we can't neglect the matter at hand. Yo-kai are being taken from us each and every day, and I can feel that the darkness he commands will some crashing down on this world like a thunderstorm. We must prepare for when he makes his final assault."

"But how can we possibly defeat something that can't be hurt by the Magic of Friendship?" Fluttershy tiptoed forward and slunk her head back. "Plus, he's arguably the most scary thing I've ever seen. I don't think we stand a chance with what we have right now..."

"Hmm. May I see your Yo-kai Watch and Medallium, Twilight?" Ephemer picked Twilight's hoof up with one hand and retrieved the Yo-kai Medallium from Whisper's chest with the other. She brought both of them close to her face and began inspecting them. She mainly flipped through the pages of the medallium, getting a brief glimpse of who Twilight had befriended. "Interesting. You've made friends with Count Cavity, Unikirin, and Mermother? Those Yo-kai are usually never found by wearers of the Yo-kai Watch. You should feel privileged."

"Really?" Twilight thought about the friendships she had made with the Yo-kai that Ephemer described. She had known that they were powerful Yo-kai from the days that she had met them, but she would never have guessed that they were near impossible to find. "I might just have to call them more often."

"And now, your Yo-kai Watch." Ephemer twisted Twilight's hoof, rubbing the silver device tenderly as she felt the strap. She flipped up the lens and pointed it around the room. "It all seems to be in good shape. Good wor—" She pressed a button and activated the Yo-kai Watch EX, making the extra slots and computer screen appear before her "—Whoa! What the heck is that?!"

"That is the Yo-kai Watch EX version." Twilight showed the transformed watch off to the Queen. "I made it when Felycan attacked Ponyville and turned everyone into cats. It allows me to summon six Yo-kai at once so they can battle a giant Boss Yo-kai or any other villain that tries to attack. Case in point, I have a strong defence against King Void's army now."

"A Yo-kai Watch EX? And made by a mortal being?" Ephemer slid her finger across the screen, causing the stylus to pop out of the side. She heard the stick fall out of the side of the watch and drop onto the floor. Kneeling down, she picked it up and brought it up to her face. "And I assume that this is what you use to control it, given those rather large hooves of yours?"

"Exactly." Twilight used her magic to pick the stylus up. She then used it to perform long swishes and circles on the screen of the Yo-kai Watch EX. "It also allows me to instantly use Soultimates, purify inspirited Yo-kai, and target enemies for the whole team to focus on." She blushed as she slid the stylus back into the slot. "I've never used a Yo-kai Watch before I found Whisper, so I decided to give it some tweaks."

"Well I must say that it's a rather... intriguing watch you've got." Ephemer couldn't pry her eyes away from how futuristic the watch seemed. She couldn't stop thinking about how Twilight could possibly have managed to make such a device. "It's not like any watch I've ever seen."

All of a sudden, a purple portal appeared over everyone's heads, spitting out Nurarihyon, Inumaro, and Nekokiyo out of it before fading out of existence. Ephemer and the Main Six could only stumble backwards at the sight of the three giant Yo-kai now strewn across the floor.

"Nurarihyon! Inumaro! Nekokiyo!" Ephemer threw her arms over the three Yo-kai and lit up her horn once again. With a bright glow and twinkling lights around her, she healed all of the felled Yo-kai and turned them onto their backs. "What happened to you?"

"You... You were right, your Majesty." Nurarihyon coughed up purple blood and wiped his face clean with the back of his hand. "It was dangerous of me to think we could win alone."

"Who are you?" Twilight slowly stepped forward and looked down at the squid, cat, and dog. "You don't look so good."

"Twilight? Twilight Sparkle?" Inumaro slowly stood up and licked some of his wounds clean. "I wasn't expecting you to be here so soon. I thought that Ephemer would've put you through much more before inviting you here."

"Venoct and Kyubi called us here." Twilight stepped aside, allowing both of them to hover forward. "After the battle against Maelstro and Mermonster, they decided to take me here to keep me safe. Though, I'm not sure how long that'll last, though."

"Well, whatever the case, I do wonder whether or not you can defeat this King Void fellow. The name's Inumaro by the way. Pleasure to make your acquaintance." He stopped licking his arms and legs and held out his paw to Twilight. "Forgive the rather bulky stature of mine. Me, Nekokiyo, and Lord Nurarihyon were in a bit of a scrap with some of King Void's lackeys."

"I was just about to comment on that." Twilight shook Inumaro's paw and looked at his body. "You're ripped!"

"One second." With a puff of smoke, Inumaro shrunk down to his original size and stature. "Does this suit you better, Princess?"

"Wait, what?!" Twilight's eyelids flung straight open as she gazed down at Inumaro's new form. "B-b-but, you were so buff a few moments ago! How are you small now?"

"It's a simple trait, really." Nekokiyo put his hands together and coated himself in the same purple smoke. "True Yo-kai like us can change our size and statures at will. A sort of combat form, if you want. It helps us be both brains and brawn at the same time."

"Lord Nurarihyon can shape-shift as well, but not in ways that you can imagine." Inumaro pointed over to Nurarihyon, who shakily stood back up.

Nurarihyon breathed heavily, wincing at some of the lingering pain. His entire tentacled body turned into black ash and disappeared, revealing his own original form. He was now kneeling down with Queen Ephemer wrapping one of her arms around his shoulders to comfort and stabilise him.

"Nurarihyon. What happened?" Ephemer asked, pressing his chest as hard as she could and applying another spell to it. "Just breathe normally. All this battling has worn you out."

Nurarihyon could already feel the new spell eating away at whatever pain he had on the inside. To him, it felt like the flames inside of his body were being dowsed with magical water, rejuvenating and revitalising him. His breathing became much lighter with every second, and he eventually stood up and looked over at his queen. "Dark Yo-kai attacked. We managed to hold them off, but we came across something else."

"Really? Who, or what did you find?" Ephemer tenderly massaged his chest, continuing to apply the spell.

"Kin and Gin. The Time Witches attacked us all and left us near death." Nurarihyon gritted his teeth and coiled his hands into fists.

"Kin and Gin?!" Ephemer almost jumped at the names.

"Those two?!" The Main Six chimed in perfect sync with one another.

"King Void's either making a move, or those two are just jumpy." Twilight stepped forward to Nurarihyon and Queen Ephemer. "When I first met Kin and Gin in Ponyville, they didn't really seem to have much of a purpose other than spread the Dark Yo-kai. What were they trying to accomplish by attacking you and your allies, Nurarihyon?"

"Perhaps they want to awaken the darkness within me." Nurarihyon looked down at Twilight and put his hand on her back. "I can't help being who I am. I tried to usurp the throne, kill innocent Yo-kai, and cause unthinkable chaos in the past. Kin and Gin think that by making me use darkness like that again, I'll defect to King Void's side. But I will tell you right now, hand-on-still-beating-heart, that I will NEVER join that monster of a Yo-kai!"

"So, what do we do now?" Fluttershy asked, walking up to the group of Yo-kai.

"I don't know. I really don't know..." Twilight looked up at the sky as she began to think about her next move against King Void and the Dark Yo-kai.

"King Void, just hear us out for one second!" Kin was down on her knees, pleading to King Void in his throne room. She looked up at his eyes, seeing the malicious glare burn into her soul. "We had a perfectly good reason to attack Nurarihyon, honest!"

"I don't want to hear it, you two." King Void unfurled his wings and stepped closer to Kin and Gin. "I signed you up to my army to prove that you were worthy of the darkness, and to advance my cause against the forces of the light." He grabbed them both by the necks, hearing them begin to choke. "But, if you cannot sit still and obey orders like a bunch of rambunctious newborns, then you have absolutely no place serving me as you currently are!"

"King Void! Please!" Gin thrashed about in his hold for air.

"Enough!" He threw both of them down and stomped on them. "I want no more of this, Kin and Gin. You are ONLY to go out and attack whenever I say you can attack! Your unguided efforts lead to nothing, and buy Princess Twilight and Queen Ephemer valuable time to fight back against us!"

"But Your Highness! How can we possibl—"

"SILENCE!" King Void roared in Kin's ear, deafening her without any resistance. He ripped open a tear in reality with his claws, spilling black and purple energy out of it. "If you cannot obey orders, maybe I should just turn you two into Dark Yo-kai right now and be done with you!"

"No! Please! We can't become those mindless zombies!" Kin threw herself at King Void's knees. "We'll do anything, your highness!"

"Then obey my orders! You are to sit down, ponder your existence, and manage the training of the Dark Yo-kai." King Void sealed the rift up with another swing of his claws. "You two are on your LAST CHANCE. Disappoint or fail me again, and you will be worth nothing more to me than the armies I send out to combat. Now GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!" With a click of his fingers, he opened up another portal and kicked both Kin and Gin threw it ferociously, closing it up once they both flew through it.

I'm so Cornfused!/Living in Perfect Harmory

Back on Earth, Sunset Shimmer was sitting in class with her Yo-kai Watch tied tightly around her wrist. She opened up a large notebook and pulled out a pen from her pencil case. All that she had to do now was wait for the teacher to arrive and deliver her and the class their lessons.

"Y'know, there hasn't been any Yo-kai activity lately." Pinkie Pie leaned over from her desk while her eyes remained fixated on the blackboard. "What do you think they're up to, Sunset?"

"Huh, what?" Sunset's mind was pried from the board and she turned to face Pinkie. "Oh. I don't really know. Maybe they're just waiting for the perfect moment to strike. And because this is a high school, I can just bet that Yo-kai would be teeming here..."

"Well, whatever happens, I'm sure that you and Twilight got this." Pinkie Pie shot a grin at Sunset and sat with her back straight against her chair again. "Besides, you've dealt with this freaky-deaky stuff all the time. Shouldn't be a problem to stop a troublemaking Yo-kai."

"Yeah. I hope so." Sunset squinted her eyes again and looked dead centre at the blackboard as the bell rang, signalling the beginning of class.

All of a sudden, a woman with purple skin and pink hair walked into the classroom. She was carrying a clipboard underneath her arm and wore a yellow dress with a checkerboard pattern and black business shoes. She opened a drawer and slid the clipboard into it before she stood before the students firmly.

"Good morning, students," she said, keeping a grin plastered onto her face. "Now, I hope that you've all been crunching numbers in your free periods because today we're looking at the principles of ratio." She took a piece of white chalk and wrote the lesson down in large print.

While some small groans resounded from the back of the room, everyone else pulled out their writing utensils and laid them out, watching the woman proceed to jot down some numbers on the board.

"Now then. Ratio is one of the hardest subjects in math so I hope that you're all listening very carefully," she began. "There are two different types of ratio to be taken into account. The first one, which we'll be looking at today is single unit ratio."

Everyone watched the woman write down all of the proper methods of calculating ratio while looking down at their notepads whenever a question came up. Some of them simply wrote down their answers while others lightly fidgeted and began to sweat.

As Cheerilee continued to teach her class, a bipedal cob of corn with a face walked into the room and turned its' head towards the students. It didn't have many expressions and simply gawked at them as it waddled towards the teacher's chair. Reaching out for the seat, it jumped up and climbed onto it, before working its' way up towards the desk.

"Wh-where am I?" The corn asked, looking around the room. "What's going on? Who are these people? What are they even doing here?" As it pondered those questions, it let off a small cloud of purple smoke that drifted around Miss Cheerilee and cast a purple inspiriting flame on her.

"Wait, what?" Cheerilee dropped her arm and cocked a brow at her class. It was as if everything that she had been so attentive of had been lost entirely. She blinked rapidly a few times as if she was trying to recall what she was doing, but nothing came to her mind. "Who are you?"

"Huh?" Sunset's eyes moved from her book to face Cheerilee. She saw her simply stare around the room and look thunderstruck as her amnesia continued to flaunt itself on full display. "Miss Cheerilee? Are you alright? Do you need a drink or something?"

"A... drink?" Cheerilee looked around and placed her fingers on the desk, scanning the room as attentively as she could. "What's a drink, miss, uh... who are you again?"

Something's wrong. Sunset stroked her Yo-kai Watch as she continued to watch Miss Cheerilee question everything around her. There must be a Yo-kai inspiriting her. Of all the times one had to show up, it had to be in class... She reached into the bag and pulled out a medal, placing it in front of her. First things first, we'd better see what we're dealing with.

As Sunset scanned around the room for the Yo-kai inspiriting Miss Cheerilee, her eyes shot wide open when she realised that the culprit couldn't be seen—even though the light was pointed directly at it. It failed to show up, and Sunset bit her lip as some blobs of sweat began to appear on her forehead. With another quick shake of the watch's light, her efforts to find the Yo-kai were entirely futile.

"Who's there?" Sunset asked, standing up from her table and walking over towards Miss Cheerilee. "I know you're in here, causing Miss Cheerilee this amnesia. Show yourself, Yo-kai." She had the light pointed directly at it once again. "Don't worry. I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to talk if that's alright."

As Sunset laid her hand on the Yo-kai, she suddenly began to glow a bright shade of golden. The light danced around her body and caused the pupils of her eyes to shine a feint shade of purple for a few seconds as she saw something begin to materialise before her. She didn't speak, as her jaw was held wide open from what she was witnessing.

"H-how?" The corn asked as it appeared before Sunset. It gave a few shakes of the head and looked around the room once again. "Who are you? How can you see me? I'm a Yo-kai."

"I know that." Sunset held up her Yo-kai Watch and pointed the multi-coloured sigil inside the dome towards the corn cob. "Listen. My name is Sunset Shimmer. I'm a bearer of the Yo-kai Watch. Now, do you think you could tell me who you are and what you do?"

"W-well, I guess I could..." It said, brushing the tip of its' feet on the desk. "My name is Cornfused. That much I do know. And everywhere I go, I always seem to confuse others just as much as I do myself."

"Cornfused, eh?" Sunset raised her brow at the Yo-kai and cocked her head. "Well, you certainly live up to your name, little guy. I still don't know how you managed to avoid the light my Yo-kai Watch projected, but I'd still like to be friends if that's alright with you."

"Oh, you can't see American Yo-kai with a standard issue Yo-kai Watch." Cornfused waddled over to Sunset's Yo-kai Watch and gave it a small tap with the back of its' hand. "Japanese Yo-kai and American Yo-kai are two entirely different things altogether. You need a Yo-kai Watch U to see us."

"Yo-kai Watch U? American Yo-kai? I'm afraid that I don't really follow." Sunset blinked twice.

"It's like the Yo-kai Watch, but the 'U' part stands for universal." Cornfused shied away from Sunset. "That way, you can see Yo-kai from all across the planet, and not just the standard ones you're used to."

"Oh. Here." Cornfused reached into its' head and pulled out a golden Yo-kai Watch with a brighter tint around the dome that draped down the sides. "This is the Yo-kai Watch U. If you have this, it allows you to see us American Yo-kai. I tried to use it myself, but I don't know how to. I'm just as confused as you are right now."

"It looks just like the original Yo-kai Watch, doesn't it?" Sunset inspected the watch, looking at each different part. As she compared it to the one she was already wearing, she saw a number of glaring similarities to the original model. "Are you sure that you're not lying to me, Cornfused?"

"I don't even know how to lie!" Cornfused waved its' hands frantically in front of itself. "L-look, why don't I just give you this and get out of your hair, alright?" It pulled out a Yo-kai Medal and tossed it to Sunset before jumping down off of the desk. "Sorry for being a bother." And with that, it stumbled off out of the room.

Sunset grabbed the Yo-kai Medal and examined it from all sides. It had the same distinguishable features as an ordinary Yo-kai Medal, but the ring around it was a bright shade of ruby instead of silver. As she tilted it around, she unintentionally reflected the light off of Cheerilee's eyes, causing the inspiriting flames around her to disappear.

"A Yo-kai Watch U..." Sunset could only stare at the new device as she took her seat once again. As she double-checked each angle for something different, she saw some words that only lightly popped out of the plastic casing. "What's this? Created by Mark Shachiberg, President of Yopple Inc.? Who's that?"

"Oh... my head." Cheerilee rubbed her forehead as she re-oriented herself. When she finally came to, she saw that the entire class had been looking at her as if they had all seen something out of the ordinary. "Oh my. How long was I out? Does anyone remember what we were learning about? Because I can't seem to recall a thing..."

"We were talking about ratios in math before you blacked out, Miss Cheerilee." Sunset slipped the new Yo-kai Watch U into her bag and put it down by her side before returning her gaze to Cheerilee. "You must've been fatigued by how hot it is in here. Might wanna try drinking some more water, just to be safe."

"Was I?" Cheerilee turned around to the board and saw all of the equations that she had wrote down before Cornfused had inspirited her. "Oh. I guess I was. Well then, it's no harm done then. Thank you, Sunset."

"You're welcome." She said, readying her pen and pencil for the next set of questions. But as she bolstered herself, all that her mind could think about now was the American Yo-kai, Mark Shachiberg, and whether or not Cornfused was telling the truth.

"Well, class, if there's nothing else to discuss, then let's get back to the lesson." Cheerilee turned back to the board and brushed the equations off with her chalk before proceeding to put down some new ones. "Now then, the second kind of ratio is comparing how much of one item you have in comparison to the other."

"I'm telling ya, it was the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life!" Rainbow Dash was sitting on the bleachers with the rest of the Rainbooms as they waited for their turn to run a makeshift obstacle course composed of different hurdles, pits, and rope swings. "I'm not sure whether or not it's new for them, but those two girls have been doing everything at the exact same time all day and it's kinda been bugging me out."

"Which two girls, Rainbow Dash?" Sunset asked, prying her attention away from the course. "It's no good to just give us names without any proper explanation."

"Y'mean you haven't seen it yet, Sunset?" Applejack pointed her fingers over to two girls over on the other side of the bleachers. They were both wearing expensive clothing while browsing through the messages on their phones. "Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Two girls who are rich beyond their wildest dreams. They usually hang out every day o' the week, but just recently, they started to do everything in perfect sync with each other. It's like they're trying to mirror each other's movements or something..."

"Well, I'm sure that it's nothing, Applejack. Best friends do tend to do things together." Sunset shrugged as she turned her gaze towards Diamond and Silver. "If those two are friends to each other, then it's only natural that they'd do this kinda stuff."

"No, Sunset, it's not just that." Rainbow Dash put her elbow on her knees and toppled her hand. "When I said that they did everything together, I LITERALLY MEANT IT. Today, they've been breathing together, talking at the same time as each other, ordering the same food, and even posted the same blog about the same thing with the EXACT. SAME. WORDS."

"Oookay?" Sunset couldn't pinpoint exactly what Rainbow meant.

"They're basically turning into those two freaky siamese twins from that horror movie we watched recently." Pinkie Pie took over, bouncing in front of Rainbow Dash. "Soon, they're going to be saying stuff like 'Ooooohhh... Come play with us... We want to be your friends... Give us cookies and cake...'" She wiggled her fingers as she attempted to imitate a ghost.

"Pinkie, Pinkie, Pinkie, I'm sure that it's not that bad." Sunset stood up from the bleachers and turned to face Diamond and Silver. "I'm going to talk to them and see if I can find out why they're doing this. Nothing to worry about."

Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon both propped up their legs and crossed them, pressing the outsoles against each other as they flipped through the same websites on their phones. They both inhaled and exhaled the same amount of air and pressed their thumbs against the centre of their eyes as they continued to browse the internet.

"Uh, excuse me? Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon was it?" Sunset Shimmer walked up to the girls, causing them to turn their heads towards her. "Hi. My friends were getting a little concerned about how you two were acting today. Do you think you could explain to me what's going on?"

"What is there to explain?" They both said at the same time, putting their phones away. "We're just doing what we always do. We were born together, live together, we even eat together. It's been going on since the day we were born."

"Alright, I can buy everything you've said, but you both being born on the same day just doesn't feel right." Sunset looked at both of the girls as closely as she could. "Silver Spoon looks a few days younger than you, Diamond Tiara, so I don't think you were exactly born together."

"No. We were. We do everything together." They both droned on, turning towards their friends. "And soon, your friends will do the same. Everyone at this school will, until we are all one hivemind, living in perfect harmony."

"Alright, that seems a little weird..." Sunset muttered under her breath.

"It's not weird. In fact, it's wonderful." As both of the girls spoke, purple inspiriting flames began to dance around them as they both stood up and held each other's hands, while extending their free ones out towards Sunset. "Join us. Become part of the harmony, and live together with us. You soon won't have to worry about a thing..."

"Uh, girls? What's going on?" Sunset cocked a brow at Diamond and Silver as they slowly took a step towards Sunset. "Are you sure that you're alright? You seem a bit out of it."

"SUNSET! THE YO-KAI WATCH!" Pinkie cried out from the bleachers as she saw Diamond and Silver advancing on her friend.

"Well, I guess that there's no harm in checking..." Sunset tried to scan around the the Yo-kai inspiriting Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, but like with Cornfused, she couldn't find anyone casting the flames on the two girls. "Wait, what?! Not again..."

"Join us. All of us... We are one." They groaned, as a feint shadow appeared above their heads.

"Maybe Cornfused was right." Sunset ran over towards her bag and fetched out her new Yo-kai Watch U. She hastily wrapped it around her arm and tightened it up, bearing the watch on her right arm. "Guess it's time to see who's really behind this!"

"A New Yo-kai Watch, Sunset?" Applejack looked at the new watch as she watched her point the lens towards Diamond and Silver. "Don't ya only need one to deal with Yo-kai?"

"Not all Yo-kai can be seen by the regular Yo-kai Watch, Applejack. I tried to save Miss Cheerilee from one earlier and it couldn't find him." She turned on the light and saw the Yo-kai begin to appear before them. "Gotcha! Now let's see who we're dealing with this time!"

What appeared about Diamond and Silver's head was a Yo-kai shaped like a beamed musical note with two dots. One of them was orange while the other was green. Both wore white bean hats and robes as they waved their arms with just as much sync as their inspirited victims were displaying.

"Who's that?" Rainbow Dash pointed towards the music note Yo-kai as it hobbled towards the group. "And why did it have to inspirit those two?"

"Well, whatever it is, it's already put Diamond and Silver into a deep inspirit." Sunset fished two Yo-kai Medals out of her bag. "Since I've got two Yo-kai Watches now, and that Yo-kai seems to be two stuck together, I think that two-on-one seems fair, don't you think?"

"Come on out, my friend! Calling Cornfused!" She pulled out his medal and launched it airborne before aiming the Yo-kai Watch U's slot to catch it. She leapt up into the air and pushed the new medal into the slot. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!"

"Ladies and gentlemen! Mysterious!" The Yo-kai Watch U cut out a brief fanfare of horns as a group of samba dancers appeared around Cornfused and began shaking their bodies left and right while holding pom-poms.

Delirious!
Hilarious!
Mysterious!

"Cornfused!" He cried, appearing before Sunset Shimmer and her friends.

"Now for some back up! Come on out, Signibble!" Sunset took out another medal and threw it up high as well, catching it as it fell back into her hand. "Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!" She put Signibble's medal into the regular Yo-kai Watch.

"SUMMONING: MYSTERIOUS!" The original watch declared, firing out yellow beams of light.

Boo-shiggy, boo-shiggy
Boogie-woogie!
Cling-clang, delirious
MYSTERIOUS!

"Signibble!" He somersaulted forward and threw his arms out to his sides.

"Yo-kai! Stop inspiriting our friends!" Sunset called towards the music note, throwing her knuckles down by her sides.

"Who are you?" The Yo-kai asked, looking at Sunset Shimmer with a raised eyebrow. "We don't think we've ever seen the likes of you before. We would like to know your name before we battle."

"Sunset Shimmer. Bearer of the Yo-kai Watch. I'm here to save our friends from your inspiriting powers," she said. "Now free them at once, or else Signibble and Cornfused'll have to fight you."

"A fight? Well, there is no better way to find out who works better in tandem, so you're on!" The new Yo-kai clapped its' hands together, causing a small shockwave of purple energy to strike three more students and leave inspiriting flames. "Come, bearer! Your harmony versus ours!"

"Signibble! Cornfused! Attack!" Sunset jabbed her finger at the music note Yo-kai, prompting both of hers to charge in.

"Try this on for size!" Signibble fired lightning out of its' head and tried to strike the Yo-kai, but both head simply swung out of the way and daintly slid over the edge of the beam before dropping down hard on his head.

"We are Harmory. We are a Yo-kai that will unify everyone in perfect synchronicity." It said, jumping off of Signibble's head. "Join us and let go of the hard lives you lead. Learn that togetherness is utopia."

"Harmory? The name certainly fits!" Sunset squatted down and picked Cornfused up. "You're harming everyone you bring together in harmony! That's not right at all!" She hurled Cornfused towards the Yo-kai and watched him grab onto the beam that joined them together.

"Oh! Harmory! I get it!" Pinkie Pie chuckled as she watched the fight continue. "Now go for it, Sunset! Break that Yo-kai's trance and save Di and Silvy!"

"Di and Silvy?" Sunset briefly turned her head towards Pinkie Pie and her friends.

"Just clever little nicknames I came up for them when we played in the park the other day. Now go get 'em, Sunset!" Pinkie Pie fist-pumped and punched the air, cheering energetically as she watched Sunset continue to battle Harmory.

"Togetherness is betterness." Harmory joined hands and glowed a shade of green, causing little orbs of blue magic to twinkle around them as their wounds were restored. "Fighting alone only leads to anguish. Join with us."

"It healed itself?" Sunset raised a brow as she got both Cornfused and Signibble together. "Looks like I'm gonna need to focus on taking it down faster. Cornfused. Signibble. Come close."

"What is it, Sunset?" Cornfused asked, cocking a brow at her.

"Harmory's a tough opponent, so we're gonna have to think of an effective way to take her down." Sunset looked over and saw the Yo-kai begin to assimilate more students sitting on the bleachers before moving on to the people on the course and even the member of staff overseeing it. "Both of her heads make her a pretty tactical opponent, so we just need to break her concentration."

"But how are we gonna do that?" Signibble turned towards Harmory and watched her using her powers to take yet another group of students. "She's getting stronger the more people she assimilates! Soon, she's gonna have the whole world doing the same thing at the same time!"

"I know! That's why we've gotta stop her!" Sunset's eyes grew desperate as she began to stamp on the ground. What do I do? What do I do? C'mon brain, don't fail me now! Give me an idea!

All of a sudden, a spark ran through Sunset's mind as she took in everything that was going on around her. She had access to a Yo-kai that could leave others confused, while the other one could manipulate electricity and cause powerful static shocks. As she watched Harmory gather up more humans for her entourage, Sunset's eyes lit up as Pinkie held a lightbulb above her head and turned it on.

"I've got it!" Sunset smiled as she faced down Harmory. "Cornfused! Give her an inspirit!"

"Well, alright then, but I don't see what it'll do..." Cornfused launched off his own inspiriting flames that struck Harmory head-on and coated her in the ethereal will-o-wisps. "Now what?"

"Wait and see..." Sunset gave a smirk to Harmory as the inspirit Cornfused lay onto her was beginning to take effect.

"Huh? What's going on?" Harmory looked around and put one of her hands to one of her heads. "Who am I? What am I doing here?"

"She's confused! Signibble! Take her down! Cornfused, keep the inspirits up! We've got this!" Sunset rallied her Yo-kai to act, and watched as Signibble fired bolt after bolt of electricity at Harmory, while Cornfused kept on pumping out the purple fires. "Yeah! That's right! Keep going!"

"Take this! And this! And some of these!" Signibble lunged his fingers towards Harmory, piercing through the fires and striking her directly on the face. He used his fingers as if they were guns and started performing some free-style shots, where he performed backflips, looked away while shooting, and even put them right onto her faces, booping her noses as he shocked her once again. "And now for the haymaker!" He began to gather soultimate energy briefly before he took in enough and fired a massive wave of lightning at her. "SIGNAL SHOCK!"

"Got her!" Sunset fist-pumped herself as she watched Harmory get fried to a crisp before slamming down hard onto the hard stone steps. As she watched the Yo-kai cough and catch her breath, the inspiriting flames that had appeared around the students she had captured were beginning to disappear.

"Ouchie..." Harmory slowly got onto her feet and rubbed her heads with her hands as she began to re-orient herself. "What happened? And why do I suddenly smell like ash?"

"Harmory. Get up." Sunset pulled the Yo-kai into the air and held her in both of her hands. "What were you thinking, trying to turn everyone in the school into mindless zombies? That seems more like something King Void and his Dark Yo-kai would do—not someone as innocent and sweet-looking as you!"

"We are having trouble to find humans to inspirit that have as much compatibility as we do." Harmory jumped off of Sunset's hands and drifted off back to Diamond and Silver. "These two girls practically do everything together, so naturally, as a Harmory, it is our life purpose to inspirit them so that they may embrace this perfect synchronicity."

"Yeah, but that's still no reason for you to go out of your way to steal their freedom. That doesn't seem like something you two would be able to do." Sunset threw her arms out towards Harmory. "Can you explain that?"

"Humans affected by Harmories can often end up with some side effects. Be it dehydration, munchies, or even slight loss of consciousness, our only goal is to make it so that we unify them and any other group in perfect harmony." Both of Harmory's heads nodded before Sunset and knelt before her. "We apologise for our powers spinning out of control like that. If there is anything that we may do to repay the favour, then we would gladly take you up on it."

"Well..." Sunset watched the other students rub their heads as they got back onto their feet and regained control of their minds. They had no idea of what had transpired or that they had been inspirited by a Yo-kai and could only gather their breaths as they stood upright again. "I guess I can't blame you if you can't control your powers. I've met a few Yo-kai before who have no control over what they're doing, so no harm no fowl as they say."

"Mayhaps a Yo-kai Medal will ease your suffering." Harmory reached into her robes and pulled out a single Yo-kai Medal, tossing it over to her. "With it, not only will you be able to control us, but you can spread the joy of togetherness and unity to all of your friends. Regardless, we wish you a pleasant life and all of the fruits that it may bear." Harmory vanished from sight, leaving nothing but purple smoke behind her.

"Harmory..." Sunset looked at the medal and shone it in the light of the sun, waving the light around as she looked at the back before clutching it tightly in the palm of her hands. She pulled out Signibbble and Cornfused's medals before putting all three away in her bag. "What are these American Yo-kai? And how different are they to regular Yo-kai? What's their game?"

"Good work, Sunset." Pinkie Pie gave Sunset a gentle pat on the back as she put the new medals away. "You took down that creepy music note Yo-kai and saved Di, Silvy, and almost everyone else here! You're amazing!"

"Thank you, Pinkie, but I still don't get it." Sunset looked at her brand new Yo-kai Watch U, unstrapping it from herself as she slid it in with the new medals that she had accrued. "What are these American Yo-kai? What can they do? What makes them so different from the normal ones? I still need to find the answers..." She looked up into the sky and watched a few birds fly overhead as she lost herself in her thoughts.

Author's Notes:

Now, I know that the Yo-kai Watch U is japanese only, so the U Mysterious tribe might not be accurate to how it is when the game finally gets localized, but I do hope that you liked it for what it's worth. Also, in terms of the American Yo-kai, I only know of a few who got their names translated, with many others still remaining Japanese.

Now, the bosses of Yo-kai Watch 3 don't count, seeing as how they're bosses and all and that I can let them off. But there will be other Yo-kai Watch 3 Yo-kai introduced, as well as Japan-favourite USAPyon (Who I always thought was another form of Jibanyan for the longest time). So look forward to that in the future.

Have a great day, everyone!

King Void and the Dark Yo-kai

Twilight and her friends, along with Queen Ephemer, Nurarihyon, Inumaro, and Nekokiyo all stood silently in the throne room, ruminating on all of the events that had happened. After all the battles that they had fought, the aftermath gave them some time to think; to strategise on how to defeat the tyrant king and save the worlds.

"Queen Ephemer, if I may." Twilight broke out of her train of thought and approached the Yo-kai queen. "Who is this King Void? I mean, I know that we've seen his face and all, but other than that, we hardly know anything about him. Do you think you could explain?"

"Well, there's no harm in telling you now, especially after his ruthless attacks on your world with his Dark Yo-kai." Queen Ephemer nodded her head and enticed Twilight to come closer by coiling her fingers. "It all started just recently. Like, around five months after Dame Dedtime was killed off."

"Following the fall of the tyrant dame, there were reports of black Yo-kai prowling on the plains. Being Yo-kai ourselves, we decided to investigate; to see whether or not we could welcome them into our world with open and loving arms." Nurarihyon approached Twilight and Ephemer, holding his staff by his waist. "When we got close to them, they seemed quite normal. A little twitchy, yes, but not entirely harmless at first glance."

"However, when the Yo-kai began attacking our peaceful delegates, we were immediately taken aback with their violent and aggressive natures." Queen Ephemer shuddered as she told the group the tale. "Soulless creatures, devoid of any real emotions, bent on attacking, destruction, and death. They were far worse than the Wicked Yo-kai could ever have hoped to be. Many others called them monsters, but soon, we declared them as the Dark Yo-kai." She looked out towards the front door, hearing the screams of many Yo-kai ringing in her ears as her mind flashed back to the events she was describing. "Like wild animals, these beasts were spurred on by their master; ordered to pillage, terrorise, and attack anything in their path."

"Listen, Twilight, knowing that you're a pacifistic race, I am going to lay this harsh truth onto you right now." Nurarihyon walked up to Twilight and knelt before her. "Dark Yo-kai cannot be befriended. You cannot get their Yo-kai Medals, try to reform them, or even make them doubt you for a second. They are mindless puppets, dancing on King Void's strings. Whatever you might try to say or do to redeem them is entirely futile, no matter how much you think you can succeed."

"Not like we'd even try to make friends with them anyway." Whisper blew the small tuft of fuzz on the top of his head. "They've turned Red Snow's Sailornyan into Oblivinyan, so it's safe to say that they're an affront to any and all Yo-kai."

"Nyeah! Those bullies shouldn't even be around here at all!" Jibanyan nodded and scurried up to Twilight and Whisper. "Together, we're gonna pound them into the dirt for making them hurt our friends!"

"Wait, what did you say, little marshmallow?" Inumaro waddled up to Whisper and pricked up his ears. "What was that about a Sailornyan becoming something known as Oblivinyan?"

"First of all, the name is Whisper, Inumaro. W-H-I-S-P-E-R, in case you don't know how to spell." Whisper's neck snapped towards Inumaro as his eyebrows twitched momentarily. "And secondly, yes, it's true. The Time Witches, Kin and Gin, they said some weird hocus-pocus chant and latched these weird black spikes onto Sailornyan's body. Next thing we knew, she was ripped from our world and spat back into it as a Dark Yo-kai."

"Of all the heinous crimes those two have committed, this just seems like another one to add to their list." Nurarihyon snarled as his grip on the skull staff tightened. "Inumaro, Nekokiyo. Inform the inhabitants of the Yo-kai World that the bounty on Kin and Gin's heads now stands at twenty-five million Y-Money for whoever can kill them off for good."

"Yes, Lord Nurarihyon!" Both of the Yo-kai ran out of the throne room, pushing through the massive double doors as they left his sight.

"I take it that you really don't like Kin and Gin, Nurarihyon." Rarity waltzed up to the grey Yo-kai and looked him in the eyes. "Do you think that you can inform us about the Time Witches, so that we're better equipped to deal with them?"

"Kin and Gin have the power to freely manipulate the time stream for their own heinous purposes, making minor or major changes as they please." Nurarihyon looked over to Rarity and stared back at her. "Imagine a world where the dinosaurs didn't die after the meteor hit, or a world where the most evil of tyrannical dictators won, even when the heroes used all of their power to fight back. Those are the worlds that Kin and Gin create; worlds of darkness and despair where the only law is theirs."

"Their power also allows them to freely control the time stream of any battle. They can revive each other, reverse any and all wounds inflicted on them, and even trap you in an infinite time loop if they're not dealt with." Queen Ephemer's own hand clenched into a fist as she gnashed her teeth together. "Not only is their power ludicrous, but it quite frankly sickens me. I might be a merciful and peaceful queen, but that won't stop me from erasing those two outlaws from the face of existence!"

"And now we know that they have the ability to turn any Yo-kai into Dark Yo-kai..." Whisper scratched his chin and inhaled air through two small holes that appeared on his face before exhaling through his mouth. "But why would they run to King Void? It's not like them to just blindly obey him, right? Kin and Gin wouldn't throw themselves to a Yo-kai beyond redemption and beg to join him, right?"

"You forget who you are talking about, Whisper." Queen Ephemer shook her head and approached Whisper. "Kin and Gin were responsible for altering the timeline on your last master heavily, erasing his memories of the Yo-kai completely and almost throwing the entire world into chaos. If you see them. Kill them and make sure that they don't come back to the Yo-kai World. That's an order."

"One that I'll be happy to fulfil." Whisper cracked his knuckles and began to punch the air. "Those old hags are nothing more than a blight on this world."

"But then what, Whisper?" Fluttershy flapped her wings and hovered lightly off the ground. "After we beat Kin and Gin, we've gotta focus on King Void, and he seems like the nastiest thing I've ever seen. Why, he makes everything else—even Nightmare Night—not scary at all!"

"Speaking of which, you were meant to tell us about him, weren't you?" Pinkie Pie cartwheeled up to Queen Ephemer and made her recoil with how close she got to her. "Or were you going to save it to the end and give us a spooky warning message before we go back to Ponyville?"

"King Void is unlike anything you girls have ever seen before." Queen Ephemer picked Pinkie Pie up and sat her down on the carpet leading towards the throne. "A being of pure darkness, untouchable by anything mortal. Your power; this Magic of Friendship you have, it will not hurt him at all. Only Yo-kai can kill the king, let alone wound him."

"But I believe that you are due for an explanation," said Nurarihyon. rubbing his staff with his other hand. "About the enemy that you and your friends will have to fight, and all that he is sending your way." He twirled it around in his hand and banged the ground with it, causing a dark purple circle to appear in front of him. A column of Yo-kai energy burst out of the circle, revealing a holographic projection of King Void. "King Void preys on the darkness within one's heart and tries to extract it at every given turn. You mentioned before that he has been trying to steal a being called Midnight Sparkle from you, am I correct?"

"Yes, and while Lash and Maelstro did make me lose my mind, King Void could never fully take her for his own on both accounts." Twilight's body grew cold as she envisioned the damage that she had done to the world and ponies around her when Midnight took control of her. "But, why, though? Why is it that he failed to take her from me?"

"King Void's darkness-stealing powers are quite strong, yes, but they can be stalled by strong-willed beings such as yourself." Nurarihyon caused more images to appear, showing King Void hold his claw up to his face, ripping out purple mist from a regular Yo-kai, while leaving the holographic Twilight wincing and reeling. "He can make Dark Yo-kai form from the hearts of the Yo-kai that he battles without a fight, but he has never had to face a mortal being yet. It might be the fact that you bear the Yo-kai Watch, but the point is still there nonetheless: You are stronger than him. But do not let down your guard." With another wave of his hands, it showed Midnight bursting out of Twilight's chest and combining her dark power with King Void's to vaporise the holograms. "If you give him a small window of opportunity, he WILL take it and form Midnight Sparkle to serve by his side."

"So, what do we do about it?" Twilight asked, pushing by the remaining specks of light as the circle and pillar of energy disappeared. "How do we stop King Void when he has those kind of powers? How do we fight a demon king with strength beyond compare?"

"You need some time to gather your strength." Queen Ephemer gave Twilight a gentle tap on her heart, causing a small ripple of rainbow light to appear and swoop all around her body. "The Yo-kai you've befriended are amplifying your powers by a small margin, but once you collect more, your Magic of Friendship might have a chance of piercing through the king's darkness. Might."

"So, I guess we just keep making friends with more Yo-kai?" Applejack stepped forward and looked at Twilight's Yo-kai Watch.

"Shouldn't be a problem." Rainbow Dash flicked the hair on her forehead upwards and swam through the air. "Twilight's the Princess of Friendship. I'm sure that she can make Yo-kai friends in no time at all."

"And no matter which new Yo-kai that you meet, always remember that I'm right here by your side, ready to help you out if things get hectic." Whisper swooped down to Twilight's shoulders and rested himself on her back. "Consider it my butler's code of conduct, if you will. I am never to leave your side, even if you find me annoying, a bother, a hinderance, thorn in the back, stone in the shoe, or—"

"We get it, Whisper." JIbanyan stuffed his paw into Whisper's mouth, silencing him instantly. "Don't worry about him, Twilight. He can be talkative as a Babblong sometimes..."

"Your bonds with the Yo-kai might not seem like much at first, Twilight, but as long as you keep on gathering allies and obtaining their Yo-kai Medals, I have the utmost confidence that you will be able to stand up to King Void and knock him off of his throne once and for all." Queen Ephemer cracked a smile as she looked at Twilight and her friends standing by her side. "The only thing that I can do now is send you all home, so that you can prepare yourselves for the oncoming war." She waved her hands in a circular motion, causing a portal to appear by her feet. "Take this portal back to Equestria. Find any Yo-kai that cause mischief and recruit them to your side as soon as you can. Your strong heart and tight bonds will guide you, just as Whisper and Jibanyan have already."

"I wish you all luck. You're going to need it." Nurarihyon turned and walked away from the group of ponies. "We shall meet again, Princess Twilight Sparkle and friends. Maybe once you prove yourselves to me against King Void, I may just hand over my own Yo-kai Medal."

"I just have one last question before we go, Queen Ephemer." Twilight walked up to the swirling portal and glanced at the queen once more. "How will we know when we're ready to face King Void?"

"I cannot tell you exactly when you are ready, Princess Twilight." Ephemer shook her head as she walked back towards the throne and sat down upon the seat. "Your heart will tell you in due time. Once you have gathered enough Yo-kai, you will feel strong enough to where you will be able to confidently go into battle against him. Good luck."

Twilight nodded at Queen Ephemer and looked down at the portal, trying not to damage her eyes with how bright and vibrant the vortex of light was. She took a quick look at all of her friends and smiled, giving them a nod as she took in a deep breath. Closing her eyes, she turned her back to the portal and fell backwards through it with the rest of her friends, tumbling through the massive amount of bright lights and besieging colours that assaulted the eyes of her and her disciples.

"My heart will tell me when I'm ready?" Twilight asked herself as she continued to plunge through the lights. "What does that mean? When will I have enough Yo-kai friends to face him? Am I really the one to put an end to this menace?" As she fell into a massive burst of white light, she closed her eyes as she re-entered Equestria, falling towards Ponyville. "I guess only time will tell..."

The Koma Brothers

"Whisper. Can I ask you something?" said Twilight as she, Whisper, and Jibanyan walked down the streets of Ponyville.

"Anything, Twilight." Whisper nodded and held up his pad. "Whatever question you might have, I'm certain that I have the answer for it. Why, I'm a veritable ocean of knowledge and intelligence! No Yo-kai fact is safe from—"

"Give it a rest, Whisper." Jibanyan leisurely waved a paw at him. "Twilight's already read your entire Yo-kai Pad from top to bottom. I'm sure that it's going to be a question about you or me."

"Hey! You never know, Jibanyan! The Yo-kai species is full of secrets and surprises!" Whisper flapped his arms. "For all we know, Twilight might have skimmed over something!"

"No, Whisper. I read EVERY PAGE." Twilight shook her head at Whisper and took the pad out of his hands. "FIVE TIMES as a matter of fact."

"WHAAAAAT?!" Whisper's entire face went pale and he hung his head as Twilight handed the pad back to him. He let out a dreary sigh as he took the Yo-kai Pad and slipped it back into his chest. "Fine then. What is it that you want to learn about me and Jibanyan, Twilight?"

"Not just about you and Jibanyan, Whipser. I want to know something about ALL the Yo-kai as a whole." Twilight stopped in her tracks and let Jibanyan hustle off of her back. Then she took a deep breath and looked both of them in their eyes. "When were Yo-kai first created? How long have you existed for? Do either of you know the answer?"

"Well, I know how the Yo-kai Watch came into fruition and what happened to me that got me stuck in that Crank-a-kai. But on the topic of how Yo-kai actually started existing... I'm afraid that's a question that I don't have the answer for."

"I don't knyow either." Jibanyan put one of his paws to his chin and began to scratch it. "I remember getting run over by that truck and becoming a Yo-kai, but I'm with Whisper on this one. We're both completely clueless."

"There's gotta be something in the Yo-kai World that shows this kinda stuff. An ancient manuscript, something made out of stained glass, anything that could give me an insight on how you all came into the universe." Twilight began to pace back and forth, diving into a deep state of thought. "Maybe Nurarihyon and Queen Ephemer have some history vault that goes beyond what we already know. Or an artefact that can grant us a wish or something. Oh! Or maybe even some special one-of-a-kind Yo-kai that shows you all of your oldest memories; even being able to remember being a baby..."

"Uh... Twilight?" JIbanyan was about to scamper off to Twilight, but Whisper gently grabbed onto his shoulder and turned the cat back towards him.

"Best not to interrupt her, Jibanyan." Whisper hovered down to Jibanyan's side and leaned over his body, pointing towards Twilight as she began to walk around in circles. "She has these every so often when something interests her. We should wait until she calms down a bit.

"Or maybe the Yo-kai World is the history of the world. And with that in mind, we could go back to the castle or the oldest part of the world and see just how it all came into being." Twilight muttered softly under her breath to the point where she was barely making any audible noise. "Although, even if my hunch is right on there being a Yo-kai that can fish out your deepest and earliest memories, I could probably befriend it and use it to see just how the species was created. But there could still be a number of differing possibilities in the process. Best not to rule anything out in the case that I might be missing anything..."

"Um... excuse me, miss?"

"Not now. I'm busy trying to think here." Twilight brushed her hoof away at the newcomer. "Now then, as I was sa—" she turned around and looked down at her feet "—hello? Is someone there?"

"Ah, shucks, did ah frighten ya'll?" said a western voice. "Ah'm awfully sorry."

"Whisper. Do you think that's..." Jibanyan stared at a dog like creature with blue flames where his eyebrows would be. He wore a bright green backpack and had red swirls dotted around his body.

"It can be no other," said Whisper. "Twilight. I believe you know the proceedure." He pointed down at her Yo-kai Watch.

"I know. I know." Twilight flipped her Yo-kai Watch open and pointed the lens down towards where the white dog was standing. It didn't take long before the segments lit up and the new Yo-kai revealed itself to her.

"Howdy, ya'll!" It waved. "My name's Komasan. It's nice to meet ya."

"Komasan?" Twilight looked down at Komasan, then turned towards Whisper and Jibanyan. "When you two said that it could be no other, are you saying that you know Komasan?"

"We have... some history together." Whisper rubbed the tuft on his head.

"I still can't forget the day he thought that Whisper's head was ice cream." Jibanyan snickered and cracked a devilish grin.

"I thought we both agreed to never bring that up again, Jibanyan!" snapped Whisper, waving his arms around.

"What? I can't help it when it's too funny to remember." Jibanyan gave them all a coy little smile, prowling up onto Twilight's back "But other than that, yeah, Komasan and I have had some good times together."

"Ahem. Anyway, Komasan is a very unique Yo-kai that is unlike any other." Whisper floated down to Komasan, who began looking around with one of his paws planted against his forehead. "He and his brother Komajiro are actually a very good Yo-kai duo."

"I was just about to ask about that!" Komasan piped up. "See, mah brother Komajiro wanted to see what kinda big and fancy cities that this newfangled world has ta offer, so he just ran off towards that there big mountain castle." He pointed towards Canterlot. "Ah don't suppose any of you have seen him anywhere, have ya?"

"No. I don't think so." Twilight gave Komasan a gentle pat on the head, only for her hoof to receive a burn. "YEOWWCH! What the heck was that?!" Twilight jumped into the air and shook her burning hoof.

"Those eyebrows aren't for show, Twilight." Whisper held out a marshmallow on a stick and toasted it over Komasan's flame-brows. Once it was finely cooked, he ate it whole. "Those are real flames on Komasan's head."

"Whisper! Help me! I've got a burn!" Twilight began to blow on her hoof, putting out the flames but leaving the rest of it damaged and cracked.

"Not to worry, Twilight. I've got just the thing for your little predicament right here." Whisper reached into the folds of his ghostly body and retrieved a large white bottle with a soap dispenser cap. "One Yo-kai Burn Ointment should do the trick."

"Whisper, how do you know that this isn't one of those junk products you bought off of the Yo-kai Pad?" Jibanyan lowered his brows and glared at him.

"Hey! I'll have you know that this came from a reputable retailer, Jibanyan!" said Whisper, hovering over to Twilight. "And besides, I've learned my lesson on buying spam after that Yo-kai Repellent issue we had a while back."

"Oh, really?" Jibanyan squinted at him. "Then why did you order that Yo-kai Wisp and think it was a reading light for Twilight?"

"JIBANYAN!" Whisper roared.

"So that's why my curtains were charred back then." Twilight leaned in close to Whisper's face and illuminated her horn. She brought a vacuum cleaner close to her and turned it on, pointing the nozzle at Whisper. "I think someone's in need of a time-out, Whisper."

"Wait, what?" Whisper could already feel himself getting sucked into the vacuum cleaner. "H-hey! Hands off the merchandise, Twilight! I'll have you know that this body is the ownership of one handsome ghost butler named WhispeEEEEEERRRR!" He slammed against the barrel of the cleaning device, crammed against the walls.

"Now, then." Twilight kicked the vacuum cleaner away and squatted down towards Komasan. "Would you like us to find your brother, Komasan?"

"Oh yes, miss! I'd me mighty appreciative of ya'll if ya did." Komasan nodded and pointed towards Canterlot. "Mah brother Komajiro can put me on edge sometimes. Ah'd like nothin' more than ta be reunited with him as fast as ah can, to make sure he doesn't get in trouble."

"We'll find him, Komasan," said Jibanyan. "Twilight's like, an expert at tracking down Yo-kai nyaow that she's got the Yo-kai Watch."

"Thank you, Jibanyan, but I still think I've got a lot to learn about Yo-kai." Twilight peered down at her Yo-kai Watch, watching light glisten off of the bubble dome straight into her eyes. "If King Void wasn't plaguing our worlds, then I'm sure that we'd have all the time in the world to learn every little detail about each and every individual Yo-kai. But for now, duty calls, and we must answer it."

"He won't be hard ta track down." Komasan sat on Twilight's back and held on to her neck with his tiny paws. "Komajiro loves everything big, shiny, and modern. All we need ta do is ta find somewhere in that there mountain city that's like somethin' in a human world city. Like a underground train or an ice-cream makin' thingamajig."

"Oh, I'm sure that we can find something like that in Canterlot." Twilight smirked and walked towards the train station. "The ponies there love to show off their fancy things. Something's got your brother's attention."

Canterlot was crammed with ponies, hustling down the busy streets. Some wearing top hats and monocles, while others were garbed in dresses of all sorts of fabrics and silks. The combination of clothing and building colours played havoc on the eyes of Twilight, Komasan, and Jibanyan. They had to squint their eyes just to make the simplest of details out.

"Oh mah swirls! This place is crazy!" exclaimed Komasan. "Do the people here always dress in these fancy-schmancy clothes?"

"Only in Canterlot." Twilight turned her head back to Komasan and almost bumped into another pony in doing so. "Because there's a castle here in this city, you would expect that there are many posh ponies and royals would be all over the place. There's almost no poor ponies here in Canterlot."

"And we'd very much like to keep it that way, thank you very much," said a random passerby.

"But... as it would turn out, all of that influence and power went straight to the ponies' heads here. They're a little bit... stuck up at times." Twilight rolled her eyes as she watched the eavesdropped stick up his nose and trot off. "I don't suppose there's a Yo-kai that's causing that."

"Well, there is one pretty mean Yo-kai like that." Jibanyan clambered up onto Twilight's head. "Her name's Snobetty, and if you happen to find her, just fight her. She won't listen to reason because of her snootiness. Just send me or one of your other Yo-kai friends out, and we'll claw some sense into her pretty quickly."

"I'll be sure to keep that in mind." Twilight gave Jibanyan a sweet look and turned back to her search for Komajiro, flipping up the dome of her Yo-kai Watch. "Now then. If I were a country pony looking for something hi-tech, where would I be?" She flashed the ultraviolet beam all around the city, mainly at the most shiny and modern things there were. "Nothing here. Maybe we'll have some more luck in Restaurant Row. Komajiro might want to try some of the fancy cuisine Canterlot has to offer."

Twilight, Komasan, and Jibanyan trotted up to Restaurant Row and were assaulted by a torrent of scents. Each and every restaurant in the street had its' doors wide open, and the smells wafting away from the different food danced around their noses. Sweet, savoury, and even spicy were all culminating together to create a smorgasbord of aromas, and Twilight, JIbanyan, and Komasan were captivated by each and every one of them.

"Mmm." Twilight patted her belly. "Just being here's making me feel hungry. Komajiro's gotta be at one of the restaurants." And she began looking around.

"Ah'll admit, it sure does smell mighty fine." Komasan smiled at all of the choices of restaurant. "All these strange and wonderful foods aren't like anything ah've ate back home. And that's saying somethin', considerin' they're all fer greenhorns."

"The ponies in Equestria have always been finding ways to spice up their food." Twilight salivated as she walked down the road. "Hay sandwiches with sprinkles of garnish, curries from the far corners of the world, and even some pastries baked to so much perfection that even Pinkie Pie would have a hard time competing against."

"Komajiro? You there?" Komasan called out, stretching his body over Twilight's head. "It's me! Yer brother! Komasan! C'mon, brother. Just come out! Ya'll don't have ta be a shy ladybug around me!"

"A shy ladybug?" Twilight parroted. "You're starting to remind me of Applejack. I don't think I've ever heard a Yo-kai make so many country-isms like that before."

"Well, that's 'cause ah hail from the countryside." Komasan nodded. "Ah might be a Yo-kai, but I'm also a proud Komainu. If'n there's any japanese statues that kinda look like me, it's prob'ly 'cause ah'm famous there."

"I see..." Twilight scratched her chin and pulled out a notebook. I'd better start writing this all down. The next time I make a trip to Japony, I can ask Red Snow more about Komasan being a Komainu. Eee! There's so much to learn that I could be occupied for weeks upon weeks!

Jibanyan was just about to hop off of Twilight's back and get a closer look at the food, when he saw a pair of brown flames sticking out from behind one of the tables.

"Uh, Twilight?" Jibanyan tugged at Twilight's ears, pulling her from the notepad immediately. "Do you see tables with weird flames coming out of it like that everyday? Or is it just my imagination, nyan?"

"What are you talking about, Jibanyan?" Twilight looked towards the table and saw two ponies eating their meals. "Seems like a regular old table to me. You sure you're not hallucinating a little?"

"I knyow I saw something there, Twilight!" Jibanyan started waving his arms crazily.

"Alright, alright. I get it. You don't need to fly off the handle like that." Twilight flipped up the Yo-kai Watch and gave the table a quick examination. Much to her surprise, however, the twelve pieces around her watch began to light up. "What the heck?!" Once the last segment illuminated, a blast of purple smog revealed the flames to Twilight, Jibanyan, and Komasan.

There before them was a Yo-kai climbing onto the table, who was identical to Komasan in terms of body and stature, but it had a pale topaz skin tone with brown flame eyebrows instead of blue. His swirls were the colour of chocolate, and his blue bag jostled and banged itself around as it hoisted itself onto the table.

"Komajiro! It's him! It's him!" Komasan beamed from ear to ear and bounced on the spot. He sprung around so much that he ended up losing his footing and slid off Twilight towards the earth. "OH MAH SWIRLS!" He smashed into the ground and felt pain shoot up his body, but he still got back onto his feet and dashed into the restaurant. "Brother! Ah'm here!"

"Hmm. For being brothers, Komasan and Komajiro don't really seem to fall far from the tree." Twilight closed her notebook and zapped it away before following the tiny white komainu into the restaurant. "I'm guessing that—not that they would, but you never really know—when they fight, they even fight like brothers do too. All this stuff about who did what and who's in the right, and what they want to watch. Just the kind of stuff that boys would fight over."

"Well, Komasan and Komajiro are both country bumpkins, so they'd be making a lot of countryisms when they do it too." Jibanyan fanned his face.

"Isn't that a bit rude calling them bumpkins?" Twilight lifted a brow.

"Aw, c'mon, Twilight. It's a compliment, nyan," said Jibanyan. "Look, either way, they don't really seem to mind. Just as long as they're back together again."

As Twilight and Jibanyan came into the restaurant, they heard the tinkling of a bell above their heads. They walked over towards the table where Komasan and Komajiro were reuniting with each other, and listened in to their little conversation.

"Oh, ah'm so glad to see ya again, Komasan!" Komajiro smiled. "Ah've never been happier since ya won that rodeo back in the countryside!"

"Aw, shucks, brother. Yer makin' me blush." Komasan did indeed blush, and even his swirls were turning a shade of pink "Ah would've found ya'll sooner, but with these here Dark Yo-kai scarin' all the Yo-kai off, it was like tryin' ta find a needle in a haystack."

"If that haystack were on fire, I bet ya'll would've found me pretty easy," said Komajiro. "Ah'm just so glad ta see ya again, big brother!" And he pulled him into a tight hug. "Ah'm more happier than a dog chasin' after a frisbee on a hot summer day!"

"Yep! And ah have mah new friend ta thank few that! Twilight Sparkle; the nicest talkin' pony ah ever did meet..." As Komasan hugged his brother, a Yo-kai Medal popped out of his backpack and landed in Twilight's hooves, with Komajiro's Yo-kai Medal tucked underneath it.

"A new friend, huh? Aw, shucks, brother. Ah wanna be friends with yer new friend too," said Komajiro. "Hopefully, them there Yo-kai Medals will help her on her little adventure. And ah'm sure that we'll be able to help her out too someday."

"It's so nice when brothers come together again, isn't it?" Twilight couldn't help but swoon at Komasan and Komajiro as they both walked out of the restaurant, hand in hand. "And these Yo-kai Medals are gonna get us one step closer to stopping King Void. I'm sure of it."

"Nyeah. And for once, we didn't have Whisper barking at us the whole way there." Jibanyan smirked. "Speaking of which, where is he?"

Meanwhile, back in Ponyville, a lone vacuum cleaner rattled and shook in the middle of the street. Whisper's cries and groans were eminent as he tried to squeeze out of the metallic prison, but to no avail.

"Oh, come on! This is just a regular vacuum cleaner!" He spluttered. "How is so hard to get out of this silly thing! I was in a capsule for over 190 years for Enma's sake!" He shook the machine up so much that the elongated nozzle popped off, leaving an open tube. He squeezed and pushed his squishy body out of the vacuum cleaner, only to find that it was now sunset.

"How could Twilight and Jibanyan just leave me out here like that?!" He went red in the face. "I am a very capable and talented Yo-kai butler extraordinaire! I shouldn't just be swept to the wayside like thi—"

"Hi, Whisper!" Pinkie Pie sprung over to the vacuum cleaner. "Ooh! Is that the vacuum cleaner I ordered? What are you doing with it all the way out here, silly billy?" And she reattached the nozzle and walked back home with it. "Well, anyway, it's great that you're here. Mr. and Mrs. Cake want me to be a little bit more responsible back home, so, naturally, I did what any pony would do and got myself a vacuum cleaner. Now, I can clean the dusty old floors, keep Pound and Pumpkin all nice and clean, and even make cleaning up after a party a real cinch. Not that my parties can get that messy, mind you, but I'm still doing the responsible thing as Pinkie Responsibility Pie and cleaning up after myself..."

"Oh, the indignity..." Whisper put a hand to his face and let out a large moan as he was wheeled off back to Sugarcube Corner, with Pinkie yapping in his ears the whole time.

Shopping Sprawl/The Yo-kai with 1000 Swords

"Ah. Nothing like a little shopping trip to take your minds off of all this nonsense." Rarity put her hands behind her head and strolled through the city mall with Sunset Shimmer, Sci-Twi, and the rest of the Rainbooms close behind her.

"You said it, Rarity!" Pinkie jumped and fluttered her arms. "After all of this wacky-dacky Yo-kai and magic stuff, I think it's time that we kick back, relax, and start to have some fun! And what better fun than the joys of spending out money at the Canterlot Mall? Well... maybe some cotton candy at the food court would help too."

The Canterlot Mall was full of people shopping, talking to each other, and munching food in the nearby food court. Everywhere in the complex, there was light streaming down from the glass ceiling, with lots of life in each different passageway and shop. Truly, it was the ideal place for the girls, given their recent dealings with Yo-kai and Equestrian magic.

Soon, the girls were all darting into shops, picking up what they had been saving their money for. Rainbow Dash got some sports equipment; Rarity, some fabric; Fluttershy, some pet essentials; Pinkie, some candy; and Applejack purchased some new jeans and belts. Sunset and Sci-Twi hadn't spend any money yet, and saw the rest of the girls hauling their bags all around the mall, filled to the top and bulging at the seems.

"Gee. That's an awful lot of stuff you've got there, girls." Sunset put her hands to her hips and looked in each of the bags. "You must've really saved up a lot."

"Yeah. We saw a lot of cool stuff and we just couldn't say no." Rainbow Dash smiled as she looked down at the haul she had amassed. "Check it out! All as awesome as I am!"

"Um, I don't think it has to be awesome to be good, Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy looked down at her own bag and dipped her arm down deep into the sea of products. "It doesn't matter what kind of items that you got, just as long as you're happy with your purchase. Now... oh my. Where did it get to?" She squatted down and put the bag onto the ground as she tried to find one specific item. "Where did it get to? I know I remember getting it from the Pet Palooza. It can't have gone missing already..."

"Don't worry, Fluttershy. I'll give you a hand." Sunset came over to the bag and put her own arm in it. "What exactly are we looking for, anyway?"

"It's a special kind of pet food. The doctors said that it would be ideal for Angel Bunny's growth and development after that little accident he had a while back," said Fluttershy. "Oh, I hope we find it soon. I don't want Angel to feel like I'm neglecting him."

"Fluttershy, not to sound rude, but how much stuff did you buy anyway?" Sci-Twi looked at the second of Fluttershy's bags and placed her own arm into it. "It seems an awful lot for someone like you, savings or otherwise..."

"Darling, there's nothing wrong with buying in bulk." Rarity crossed her arms and took out some of the goods from her own bags. "In fact, such a tactic is quite a saving grace for dressmakers like moi."

"Plus, ah do go through a heck of a lotta clothes back on the farm, what with the animals and all." Applejack tapped the ground with the tips of her feet and leaned against the bench. "Ya'll can never have too much spare clothes on ya, after all."

"Fluttershy... I'm curious." Sunset finally pulled out the pet food and handed it back to her. "How much did all of this stuff cost? You did keep the receipts, right?"

"Of course I did, Sunset." She reached into her pockets and pulled out a multitude of white receipts, handing them all over to Sunset in exchange for the pet food. "The price isn't that much of an issue, though. I'm happy with all of the stuff I got."

"Yeah..." Sunset took the receipts and eyed each of them up. "You're happy with anime comics from the nearby comic book shop."

"What?!" Fluttershy scrambled to take the slip out of Sunset's hand. "I don't remember getting that!"

"Everyone? Are you sure that you like everything that you bought?" Sci-Twi looked at the other Rainbooms. "Quick. Check your own receipts. There might be some inconsistencies with what you like and what you actually got."

Each of the Rainbooms plucked out fistfuls of white paper receipts and examined them all as much as they could. For most of the time, they nodded and murmured in approval over most of their purchases, but eventually, they all came across some that caused them to gaps.

"Wh-what?! I don't remember getting that!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "When am I ever going to need a Co-Z Thermal Blanket?!"

"A chocolate-making set?! Ah... Ah can't believe it!" Applejack stumbled backwards. "Ah must've been off mah rocker to have bought that!"

"Hold on. You ALL bought things you didn't even need?" Sunset turned to the rest of the girls, who nodded and showed her the receipts. "Something's not right here. You can't have just decided to buy them like that." And without another word, she flipped up the Yo-kai Watch's dome and scanned each and every one of the Rainbooms. "I know you're here, Yo-kai! Show yourself!"

Once Sunset's watch reacted, a large green floating mollusk with an eyeball and tongue sticking out of it appeared above the Rainbooms' heads. A small silver zipper hung from the right-hand corner of its' mouth. It was surrounded by a number of silver and gold coins—one of which rested leisurely on the mollusk's tongue.

"There! A Yo-kai!" Sunset readied her watch and pulled out a medal from her pocket. "Don't worry about this, girls. I'll take it."

"Oh, will you now?" The Yo-kai licked its' shell and tossed a coin onto Sunset's face, inflicting her with a purple flame and causing coins to tumble around her.

"Hey, girls? I've got some money to blow. So, I'll see you around, alright?" She ran off towards one of the shops with her Yo-kai Medals in hand. "You mind if I pawn off some of these medals first?"

"SUNSET! NO!" Sci-Twi chased after the inspirited Sunset and took out her own Yo-kai Medal while running. "Come on out, my friend! Calling Lie-In Heart!" She threw the medal in front of her and rolled down to catch it in her medal's slot. "Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!" The medal elegantly slipped through the slot as she started to run again.

"SUMMONING: BRAVE!" The watch declared as Twilight ran with the red streams of light.

Sumo shave!
Flavo engrave!
Flash team-a Brave!

"Lie-in Heart!" He ran alongside Twilight, sword by his side. "You summoned me, master? What Yo-kai do you need to bring justice to?"

"That one there!" Twilight pointed back towards the mollusk, tossing more coins onto the other Rainbooms, coating them in inspiriting flames. "Take it out as fast as you can! It's going to make my friends spend money until they're broke!"

"It is known as Spenp," said Lie-in Heart. "A rather heinous Yo-kai most of the time, I will have no problems cleaving this one into brisket. I would not want you or any of your friend to end up in poverty." And he turned back and drew his sword, leaping at Spenp. "Prepare yourself, heathen!"

"Sunset! You have to stop this!" Sci-Twi dashed towards Sunset and held her tightly, as if she was performing the Heimlich maneuver. But for curing a sudden shopping spree sensation rather than choking. "Spenp's inspirited you! You have to snap out of it!"

"So much stuff here... It's all too good to be true!" Sunset's flame-ridden eyes lit up at all of the merchandise in the shop. Struggling, she burst out of Twilight's hold and started grabbing what she could off the shelves. "I've just gotta spend it all! Shop 'til you drop, after all!"

"Are you prepared for judgement, Spenp?" Lie-in Heart demanded as he tipped the tip of his sword at the mollusk.

"If by judgement, you mean a massive amount of retail therapy, then yeah, I'm totally ready for it!" Spenp flipped the coin on his tongue and caught it as it fell, lathering it in his slimy saliva.

"Greed-ridden. The worst kind of offense there is..." Lie-in Heart slowly drew his blade, then dashed forward at blinding speeds, slashing horizontally at Spenp. "Begone!"

However, just as his sword was about to slice the Yo-kai's eye, the zipper hastily forced Spenp's mouth shut, causing Lie-in Heart's sword to bounce off the hardened shell. The recoil on the sword's strike was so much that it caused Lie-in Heart to unintentionally throw his sword out of his hands on the rebound.

"No!" The lion gasped as his sword twirled through the air and landed in the fountain. "Vile cur! You just wait there!" He ran over towards the fountain and dived straight in, looking for his sword in the rippling and gushing water feature.

"Enjoy your dip, friend. I'm just gonna go round, spreading the gift of spending to everyone else in this mall." Spenp turned around and floated off, chucking coins down onto the faces of the other patrons in the mall.

"Sunset..." Twilight gritted her teeth and dug her heels into the ground, anchoring Sunset down as much as she could. But no matter how much pressure she put on her hold, the fiery-haired teen finally snapped out of her grasp and took all of the items she could grab off of the shelves and head towards the counter. "No! Don't go for broke, Sunset! This isn't like you!"

"Gotta spend! Gotta spend!" Sunset's pupils turned into dollar signs as she hauled her load towards the counter, only to be stopped by a queue of people. "Oh, darn it! There's a line!" Pouting, she crossed her arms and rapidly tapped the ground with her feet.

"Thank goddess, there's a line." Sci-Twi sighed and wiped some sweat off of her brow. As she waited with Sunset in the line, she turned towards the exit of the shop and saw lots of other people falling under Spenp's inspirits, scurrying into the shops as fast as their legs could carry them. "C'mon, Lie-in Heart..." she whispered, "Hurry up..."

Lie-in Heart burst out of the fountain, coughing up and sloshing water all over the place as he tried to dry himself off. He shivered and shuddered as he took his sword and slid his fingers across the blade, sweeping the water off of it. With a clean and ready blade, Lie-in Heart pointed it to thin air, seeing that Spenp had already ran off.

"Heathen..." Lie-in Heart brought his blade close to his face and squinted his eyes. "Where are you?" He started to look around the frenzied mall, his eyes cutting through all of the pandemonium, squabbles, and chaos. "I'm a very patient Yo-kai, Spenp. I can wait until the end of time if needs be..."

Eventually, Lie-in Heart saw coins tumbling down onto a little girl's face. She broke off from her mother and ran away, revealing Spenp behind her. "There you are." He tightened his grip on the sword and dashed forward hastily. As he leapt up into the air, he did several forward somersaults before driving his blade—which was now glowing bright blue—down on Spenp.

"LION BLADE!" With a series of lightspeed swings, Lie-in Heart struck Spenp a number of times before landing behind him. He stood up and sheathed his sword, causing a series of slash marks to appear on Spenp, making his shell break up into a million pieces before turning into a blue wisp—the mark of a defeated Yo-kai. "Black Friday is not today, reckless one. Now, your curse is lifted from these poor inspirited patrons."

And sure enough, the flames were lifted from everyone in the shop. The scramble and thunder of running shoes came to a stop as everyone snapped out of the inspirits and came back to reality, shaking their heads as they tried to get rid of the pounding sensations. Once they were all well and good, they came back out of the shops and went back to chatting with each other.

Sunset Shimmer and her friends were the last ones to lose the purple flames. And just in time, as Sunset was just about to reach the end of the line and pay for her goods. Having seen what she had in her arms, she jumped backwards and dropped everything around her. "What the heck? Was I about to pay for all of this stuff?" she asked herself as she put everything away. "Geez. What was I thinking?"

"You were under Spenp's inspiriting powers." Sci-Twi helped Sunset put everything away, carrying half of the products back to the shelves. "If Lie-in Heart hadn't stopped him, you would've blown all of your money on all this junk."

"Spenp, eh?" Sunset tilted her head. "A Yo-kai that makes people want to spend all of their money on anything... It'd be great for struggling businesses, I bet."

"Maybe Mr. Goodsight could use him if he needs to make some dough," said Sci-Twi. "Though, it might also want to make him spend his own money and that really wouldn't take him anywhere. Maybe with some taming, we could be able to give him a better purpose."

"Speaking of taming, where is he?" Sunset walked out of the shop with Sci-Twi next to her. Flipping up her watch's dome, she tried to locate Spenp, but couldn't find him anywhere. "Did he decide to run off back to the Yo-kai World?"

"Maybe." Twilight couldn't find Spenp either, but instead found Lie-in Heart walk towards her. The lion bowed before them both. "Oh. Lie-in Heart. Do you know where Spenp went?"

"He has fled back home," he said. "My Lion Blade cleaved him into pieces." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a simple silver coin. "I found this after he vanished. Mayhaps you can use it to purchase a reward for yourselves."

"It seems a bit too big to be a coin. Maybe a quarter, but I can't really be too sure about it..." She turned the coin over and saw a portrait of Spenp on the other side. "Hang on. This is no coin. It's a Yo-kai Medal!"

"We didn't even impress him and he dropped his medal?" Sunset tilted her head and glanced at the new Yo-kai Medal. "That's a bit weird..."

"Yeah." Sci-Twi nodded. "Usually, we have to impress a Yo-kai if they want to be friends with us, but Lie-in Heart beat his butt back to the Yo-kai World and he drops his medal on the way home? I would call that breaking the rules a little, but I don't think that Yo-kai always follow their own rules sometimes."

"Still, I've gotta write this down." Sci-Twi pulled out a large notebook from her backpack and turned to a page she had already used. "It might just be a footnote, but it's still pretty important. If Yo-kai are gonna be just as talked-about as magic is, then I've gotta make sure that I document everything I can. We don't wanna miss out on any little detail. It might just save our lives.

"Speaking of saving, how much money did you save from Spenp's powers?" Sci-Twi asked, looking down at Sunset's pockets.

"I think it was a hundred and something. I dunno." Sunset pulled her wallet out of her pocket and opened it up, peaking in every little compartment. "Credit card's still there. Change is good. And notes are looking good. Thank goddess for that."

"Yeah. I'm glad that we managed to save you from poverty Sunset." Sci-Twi turned towards the mall and watched everyone gape in disbelief at their own wallets. "But I can't say the same for everyone else Spenp inspirited."

"On the bright side, at least they've got some things that might help 'em out soon." Sunset saw the rest of the Rainbooms come out with even more items in their bags. "Better to have and not need than to need and not have, after all."

"Are you KIDDING ME?!" Rainbow screamed. "Why would I ever need some Lux-You-Rious Body Butter?!"

"Well... almost," said Sunset before she and Sci-Twi shared a giggle.

Twilight, Whisper, and Jibanyan were walking down the streets of Ponyville. The cool breeze swirled through their hair, fur, and ethereal mass and flew across the town. Birds twittered and chirped high above their heads, and the ponies around them were going through their daily routines, purchasing items, talking to each other, and handling their children.

"Twilight? Might I ask you something?" Whisper said.

"Sure. Ask away, Whisper." Twilight smiled and nodded.

"How long has it been since you became a princess?" asked the ghost, looking down at Twilight's wings specifically.

"Well, it's been..." Twilight struggled to think of an answer. She had been caught up in so much stuff since she had become an alicorn that the time had just seemed to whiz by. "Actually, I can't give an answer for that, Whisper."

"The days have gone faster than Venoct's scarf, I presume." Whisper crossed his arms. "I understand how it feels. Nate and I could barely keep track of time once he got a Yo-kai Watch."

"Nyeah," said Jibanyan. "Half of the time, he didn't even realize what day it was."

"How many of those days do you think were..." Twilight took a deep breath and gulped. "Wasted?"

"Wasted? Why would you ever say that?" Whisper tilted his bulbous head. "I don't think any of your days were wasted, Twilight. Not since you got your Yo-kai Watch at least."

"Well, maybe not to you, but I just get the weirdest feeling that ever since I got my wings, I feel like some days have just been full of nothing." Twilight stared at the townsponies. "When I went to the Rainbow Falls Trade, I felt like I did practically nothing there. Same thing for when those bats infested Applejack's orchard, and for when we opened Rarity's shop in Canterlot. It feels like I'm just being tossed to the background nowadays."

"Oh, nonsense, Twilight! You can't be considered a background character when such a heavy burden is on your shoulders." Whisper tutted, wagging his finger. "Why, King Void is after you exclusively! He's seen something in you that poses a threat to his empire, so naturally, you have to be the protagonist."

"I know, I know! But on the days when I'm not strategizing on how to fell a king who turns Yo-kai into Dark Yo-kai, and who's supposedly worse than every other Yo-kai villain your world's ever faced, I feel like I'm not needed half of the time," Twilight moaned. "And when I am needed, it's only for a minor role, and then, I'm just forgotten about. I mean, do my friends really need me for half of the squabbles that they can sort out themselves?"

"Well, Twilight, that's the job of the Princess of Friendship, after all. You're a mediator!" Whisper exclaimed.

"Uh huh. Thanks a lot, Whisper." Twilight deadpanned.

"I MEANT IT AS A COMPLIMENT, FOR ENMA'S SAKE!" Whisper erupted and threw his arms in front of himself. "YOU KNOW I NEVER MEAN TO BRING YOU DOWN, TWILIGHT! I'M JUST TRYING TO—" But before he could finish, he was slashed in half by a massive steel polearm.

"Silence!" Boomed a voice. "You interrupted my battle with Red Snow!"

"Battle?" Twilight flipped up her watch and pointed it to the air in front of Red Snow. "Who is she fighting against?"

"Twilight-san. I appreciate you coming by to support me, but this is something I must do on my own," said Red Snow as she leapt backwards and avoided another slash from the massive polearm. "Come, Blazion! Let us prove ourselves!"

When Twilight saw Red Snow and Blazion evade another strike from the massive weapon, she quickly found the Yo-kai that was assaulting them both. It had a large white chest like a pair of wardrobe doors, with a spiky blue frame. It was dressed in a white hood and wore a red bead necklace around its' neck. In one of its' two massive hands was the polearm, slashing and slicing the air clumsily, but still leaving Red with little room to escape.

"Whoa! Who is that?!" Twilight jumped backwards at the size of the Yo-kai and his weapon. "He looks like a strong one!"

"That, Twilight, is Benkei. A Yo-kai descended from traditional mythology about a japanese warrior of the same name." Whisper was just reciting the trivia on his Yo-kai Pad. "Benkei is a Brave tribe Yo-kai which is rumored to wield a thousand swords. But so far, all that we've seen is just the one in his hands."

"A thousand swords?" Twilight's eyes lit up and her smile quickly resurfaced. "That could be a great Yo-kai to use against King Void! We've gotta try and befriend him!"

"In a moment, Twilight. It seems like he's a bit busy with Red Snow." Whisper tugged on Twilight's shoulders. "We should just sit back and watch for now."

Benkei's strikes were strong, but Red Snow was able to evade most of them. The Japonese mare had barely any openings, given how much ground Benkei was covering with his long polearm slashes. And in the times she did have an opening, it wasn't long before Benkei moved out of the way and changed his stance, flipping the weapon into his other hand.

"Why do you fight?" Benkei asked, thrusting the polearm down at Blazion, missing him by split seconds. "Even against a Yo-kai as clumsy as I, why?"

"King Void turned Sailornyan; one of my closest Yo-kai friends into a Dark Yo-kai." Red Snow had flames burning in her eyes. "He has hurt enough Yo-kai as it is. I. Must. Get. Stronger! Or we are all doomed!"

"But why me? Of all of the Yo-kai you could've chosen to fight, why do you choose one like me to train yourself?" Benkei still struck, despite his chattering. "You could work with Sgt. Burly, or Venoct, or even Arachnus or Toadal Dude! They're miles stronger than I am!"

"I choose you because you are descended from Japonese mythology." Red Snow ordered Blazion to shoot some fireballs down on Benkei's face, striking right between the eyes. "The legendary samurai with one-thousand swords. Let me see his full power!"

"Well, I'm not sure about being legendary, but I'll give it all that I've got now!" Benkei opened up his chest and stuffed the tip of his blade into it. After letting it cook for a few moments, his sword came out, blazing a radiant shade of purple. He waved his blade in the air and swung it horizontally as fast as he could, proclaiming, "999 BLADES!" The slash was so powerful that it sent out a single slash that was so large, it was made up of hundreds of smaller slice lines.

"Oh my..." Twilight just watched in awe as Red Snow tried to evade the attack. But the slashes followed her and Blazion and they quickly deluged her, sending her flying against the wall of Town Hall. "Now there's a Yo-kai that we need..."

Red Snow cursed in her native tongue before she fell onto her face. Her tail stuck high in the air as she felt the impact shaking her body from horn to hoof. Blazion rolled and tumbled before her, before transforming into a singular flame. "I'm losing my edge." She trembled and stood up, looking down at her shaky legs. "Back in Japony, I was such a good Yo-kai hunter... Where did I go wrong? And how have I fallen so far from grace?"

"Red Snow." Benkei floated up to her and turned his weapon to the ground. "I know how hard it is to lose your edge." He helped her stand upright by slowly using his polearm to lift her legs up. "You are right about one thing. I am descended from a great warrior from your country's history. The fabled pony known as Surudoi Ha. In Princess Twilight's language, that equates to Sharp Edge."

"Surudoi Ha? But he's as old as time itself..." Red Snow's eyes lit up. "He was an old man when my grandparents were just babies..."

"Surudoi was one of the greatest warriors that Japony had ever known. He would slay armies at the drop of his straw hat with a combination of magic and swordplay." Benkei held his sword close to his face, watching the sunlight reflect off of the edges. "Some even went around calling him the One Slice Pony, because that was his method. He channeled magical spells into his sword strikes, effortlessly slaying his foes with a beautiful combination of swordplay and magical arts.

"But then... one day, he just seemed to vanish. Dissappear. Poof! Gone! Without a trace." Benkei hung his head and put his polearm into his chest compartment. "And the second he disappeared, I was created. Maybe, his disappearance and how I became a Yo-kai are related somehow, but I felt compelled to try and match what Surudoi had done, but as a Yo-kai."

"You seemed to set yourself a pretty high standard, Benkei." Twilight clopped forward with Jibanyan riding on her back. "I can only imagine that trying to emulate the standards would leave you with a lot of mistakes."

"Right on the money. Someone should give you a prize for that guess." Benkei turned to face her and smiled. "It's true. Benkei is not as good as Surudoi, or Venoct, or Burly, or any of the other higher-up Yo-kai. No matter how much I fight, I always end up clumsy, sloppy, and unfocused. Even when it looks like I'm fighting well, I just fight on defense, as I know being an aggressive Yo-kai is only gonna end in tears."

"Aw, don't be too hard on yourself, Benkei." Twilight reached her hoof to his face and rubbed it down his cheeks. "If you try and be like Sharp Edge, then it's gonna be a long and arduous road. Just try and start small and learn new things as you go. That's what I did, and now I'm an alicorn for it." She unfurled her wings.

"Ali...corn?" Benkei tilted his head.

"An alicorn is the combination of all three of the pony species." Twilight puffed out her chest. "I have unicorn magic, pegasus flight, and earth pony strength. All rolled into one nifty, purple-furred, brainiac, savior of the worlds-style package."

"So... the only logical thing for me to do to get better... would be to follow you!" Benkei's eyes lit up.

"Well, that's good. Because the only thing be—" Twilight stopped speaking once the words had sunk into her head "—Wait, WHAT?!"

"It all makes perfect sense now! I can't ever be as good as Surudoi, because he's nothing but a hackjob compared to you!" Benkei beamed eagerly. "You can fly, use magic, and push heavy things! That's at least one talent more than him! Oh, my mistress! I am forever your warrior!"

"Warrior?!" Twilight jumped. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! I think we've got this all backwards! Aren't Yo-kai supposed to be befriended through battling or solving their problems?"

"Well, technically, you did give him some inspiration for improvement, Twilight, my dear." Whisper raised his finger. "You've become his new role model. Congratulations!"

"You're NOT HELPING, WHISPER!" Twilight snarled at him.

"Mistress. I shall do all that I can to please you." He pulled his chest open again and fished out his Yo-kai Medal, handing it over to her. "Please. Call me often, and let me prove myself as an honorable soldier to you!"

"Benkei, if you'd just li—"

"Oh! And to prove that I'm in your good graces, I shall provide a medal for Red Snow as well!" He pulled a second Yo-kai Medal out of the same chest compartment. "So, for the times that you don't need my services, I shall work with your companion and make myself stronger for my next mission with you. Win-win scenario!"

"Benkei! I'm trying to spe—"

"I shall await the day that you summon me, mistress." Benkei bowed before her. "But first, I must train. The legendary Benkei, disciple of Princess Twilight Sparkle, shall make himself the best Brave tribe Yo-kai ever!" And before anyone else could say anything else, Benkei vanished into thin air.

"I..." Twilight was so slack-jawed that the Yo-kai Medal toppled out of her hoof. "Whisper? Do you have anything to say about this?"

"What can I say, Twilight?" Whisper shrugged. "No really, I'm asking. Do you want me to be proud, angry, or just as confused as you are? At this point, I'm a little flabbergasted myself."

"Eh, chill out, you two. We got a Yo-kai Medal from it." Jibanyan scurried down, picked up the medal, and rummaged through Twilight's Yo-kai Medallium. "And besides, it's like you keep saying, Whisper: We've gotta get EVERY Yo-kai in the book if we're ever going to take down King Void." Jibanyan put on a thick Whisper impersonation as he slid the medal into the first open slot in the book.

"Jibanyan, you KNOW that I don't take kindly to rude impersonations of myself!" Whisper blew steam out of the side of his head. "And, to top it all off, I never once in my life said those lines. At any point. Ever!"

"Oh yeah? Then why do you whisper them at night, Whisper?" Jibanyan smirked.

"YOU KNOW THAT BABBLING IN ONE'S SLEEP DOES WELL TO REMEMBER THINGS!" Whisper threw himself into Jibanyan. "I WAS JUST MENTALLY REMINDING MYSELF THAT TWILIGHT NEEDS A GOOD ENTOURAGE OF YO-KAI IF SHE'S GOING TO SAVE THE WORLDS! IS IT WRONG NOW TO CARE ABOUT HER WELLBEING?!"

"You can barely care for yourself, Whisper!" Jibanyan snapped back. "You don't fight because you're scared that you'll get your hair mushed up!"

"I DO NOT!" Whisper roared.

"YOU DO TOO!" screeched Jibanyan

While Jibanyan and Whisper argued in the background, Twilight took the time to pull out the Yo-kai Medallium and take a look at Benkei's medal. She held it up in the light and watched Red Snow do the same with hers.

"Speaking of losing things, I think I need to re-write the book on Yo-kai a little..." Twilight sighed and drooped her neck.

Someone Wicked This Way Comes (Part 1)

Sunset and Sci-Twi sat by the base of the CHS statue. Both of them were scrawling notes in their own separate notebooks, mostly to do with a combination of Yo-kai knowledge, magical research, and school work. The hours seemed to melt as they documented everything that they could.

With Yo-kai Watches secured tightly on their wrists, Sunset and Sci-Twi eventually finished with their notebooks and pulled out their Yo-kai Medalliums, flipping through the pages to see many empty spaces still to fill. The absence of Yo-kai friends in their compendiums made them question just how many other species were out there, lurking in the shadows of the world. Sunset scratched her chin while Sci-Twi simply let out a long and dreary sigh about how the emptiness of the rest of the book completely overshadowed the friendly Yo-kai.

"Hey, Sunset?" Sci-Twi broke the silence.

"Yeah, Sci-Twi?" Sunset responded, looking over at her.

"How many Yo-kai do you think are out there?" Sci-Twi looked up to the azure skies above, with fluffy white clouds obscuring the sunlight. "And just how hard are they to find?"

"Hard to say." Sunset shrugged and plucked out her Dracunyan medal, examining every little detail of both sides. "I mean, Twilight just discovered them back in Equestria. Maybe she's asking herself the same question."

"Yeah, but don't forget that Twilight also has Whisper and Jibanyan with her." Sci-Twi stretched her legs, kicking them against the hard stone path. "And Whisper has some kind of little tablet that has everything Yo-kai related in it. She's probably learned about every little Yo-kai and secret they have, and we're just starting to learn." She looked down to the ground and started sliding her fingertips against it. "When you know that your counterpart is excelling more than you are, it kinda makes you feel sad, doesn't it?"

"Hey, Sci-Twi. You know that you're a fast learner like she is." Sunset got off of her haunches and stepped over to her. "Don't see this as a bad thing. Just be proud that somewhere in another world, a pony who looks like you has accomplished so much. I'm sure that you'll be able to catch up with her eventually."

"Yeah. If you consider eventually to be when she defeats King Void all by herself with all of that Yo-kai knowledge she's gotten from Whisper." Sci-Twi folded her arms and turned towards the houses across the road. "I thought I was the smartest person around before the Friendship Games. But now, after seeing all of this Yo-kai stuff, I feel like I'm losing my touch. Am I losing my touch, Sunset?"

"No. You're never gonna lose your touch, Sci-Twi." Sunset got down onto her hands and knees and gave Sci-Twi a gentle pat on the shoulders. "Look. We're all a bit shaken up by the Yo-kai. Just learn to roll with the punches and go with the flow. I'm pretty sure that Twilight did, and look where she is. She's a princess, she's got a lot more Yo-kai, and she's gonna save our worlds."

"And still, here we are, just watching the days pass by as we wait for Yo-kai to pop up and cause mischief." Sci-Twi stood up and leaned against the side of the portal. "Or we could just go out and find them ourselves, though I imagine that it'd be a little bit hard. I mean, they do jump between two different dimensions at the drop of the hat. We could find one, but then it'd just run all the way back to the Yo-kai World and tell its' friends to come and help it out."

"Sci-Twi. C'mon. You know that's never gonna happen." Sunset couldn't help but chuckle, putting her hand to her stomach. "Yo-kai aren't cowardly like that. Once they get into a battle, they stay there until they win or lose. I mean, when have we ever see a Yo-kai turn tail and run away once we give them a fight?"

"You don't know, Sunset. There might be a pretty wimpy Yo-kai that doesn't wanna fight..." Sci-Twi adjusted the Yo-kai Watch on her arm. "It might be called Yellowbell or Chickliver or something like that."

"Maybe." Sunset smirked.

Both of the girls ended up sharing a small laugh with each other, not noticing that there was a Crystal Prep student running up towards them with sweat dripping down from her face.

"Allo? Somebody help!" The girl called in a thick french accent.

"Huh?" Twilight snapped out of her fit and turned to face the CPA student. "Fleur De Lys? What are you doing here?"

"You know this girl, Sci-Twi?" Sunset tilted her head and looked at Fleur, looking at her white skin, pink hair, and fleur de lys hairclip.

"Yeah. I do." Sci-Twi nodded and walked up to the girl. "Her name's Fleur De Lys. She's a student who was born and raised in France, but who moved here with her family for a better life. And... let's just say that we were... acquaintances at best."

"Now is not the time for reminiscing, Twilight!" Fleur shook her head. "I know that you and Sunset Shimmer dealt with magical stuff at the Friendship Games, so I figured that you'd be the ones to come to in a case as bad as this..."

"Huh? Magic?" Sunset's ears pricked up and she took a few steps forward and tipped her hand. "What do you mean, Fleur? Is magic running loose at Crystal Prep now?"

"It happened at around lunch." Fleur took a deep breath, putting her hands to her tummy as she inhaled, pulling them away as she exhaled. "Out of nowhere, the students of Crystal Prep felt a little dizzy. The next thing we knew, they all got these weird purple smoke masks with glaring red eyes on them."

"Smoke masks?" Sci-Twi tilted her head. "You're not really making a whole lot of sense, Fleur."

"That's because there's more." Fleur held her finger up. "When they got the masks, they all went out of control. Smashing plates on the floor, having fights for no rhyme or reason, and laughing at all of the mischief and chaos they were pulling! It's never happened at CPA before!"

"Oookay... Now that sounds like trouble." Sci-Twi nodded and put her Yo-kai Medallium into her backpack, sliding her arms through the straps. "I think we know what it's about, but we're gonna need to make sure we're ready for this. Sunset. Can you give Twilight a call with your little book?"

"Yes." Sunset had already picked out the book and readied her pen, scribbling down a message. "If it's the Dark Yo-kai starting to possess humans, then we need to have Twilight ready to stop them. King Void might be trying to make a move." And in record time, Sunset dotted the end of the message and slammed the book shut. It wasn't long before she got a return message magically scribbled on the next page. "Wow. That was fast."

Dear Sunset.

I got your message. Whisper and Jibanyan are coming with me through the portal as you read this. At first, I thought that it was the Dark Yo-kai, but when I checked with Whisper about the smoke masks, he was quick to point out something entirely different. Get your best Yo-kai and let's go together to fight this evil.

—Twilight

The second Sunset stopped reading, Twilight shot out of the other end of the portal, back onto two legs again. She wore a backpack that was identical to Sci-Twi's, with the Yo-kai Watch Model Zero around her arm. Whisper and Jibanyan catapulted out shortly after, with their faces planted into the dirt with spirals in their eyes.

"That transition still hurts." Whisper floated up and pushed his back in, hearing a slight crunching noise. "I think I broke something there."

"Whisper, you're a Yo-kai. We don't have bones." Jibanyan jumped onto his paws and scampered up onto Twilight's shoulders. "I mean, I get hit by a truck on a daily basis, but you don't see me with casts and bandages, do ya?"

"You never know, Jibanyan. You might have a really, really, REALLY good metabolism." Whisper flew over and pulled Jibanyan's paws. "Which is pretty weird, considering how scrawny you are..."

"Hey! Hands off the merchandise, Whisper!" Jibanyan swatted him straight into Fleur with a giant folding fan, knocking them both to their butts.

"I keep forgetting that you have that giant fan, Jibanyan..." Whisper rubbed his head as he picked himself off of Fleur's face and brushed himself clean of dirt and dust. "I really must remember to confiscate that from you the next time you fall asleep. That way, we can avoid anymore unnecessary Whisper abuse."

"What in the heck was that?" Fleur picked herself off from the ground as well and rubbed her butt cheeks, which were red and sore from the impact. "I didn't see anything thrown at me, yet I still felt like I'd been hit in the face by a rock..."

"It's a long story." Twilight walked up to Fleur De Lys and the others. "And I mean, like, a REALLY long story. So long that it'd take us until nightfall for me to finish. And I know that this isn't something that can wait until night."

"Exactly. We need to hurry." Fleur De Lys nodded and took both Twilights by the hand. "I'm not going to question why there's two of you now, Twilight, but I suppose that two heads are better than one..."

Sunset, Whisper, and Jibanyan ran after Fleur De Lys and the two Twilights. As the wind raced past their faces with every second, they knew that they would have a tough battle on their hands.

At Crystal Prep Academy's lunch hall, chaos was ensuing. Food stains were splattered on the walls, noise was erupting from every human with a smoke mask, and there were shattered plates, glasses, and phones on the ground. The ones that weren't possessed were either huddled away in the corners, not wanting any part of the madness ensuing from the others, or were sneaking out through the doors, running off as fast as they could to tell the principal.

Little purple creatures clung onto or floated above the shoulders of the possessed students; all with malicious grins on their faces as they held on tight, pointing at whatever they wanted their captives to destroy next. Some were snake-like, others were humanoid, and there were even some that looked like flames. There were many more monsters of varying shapes and sizes, including a few that looked like they wore coats or brass knuckles.

Twilight, Fleur De Lys, Sci-Twi, Sunset, Whisper, and Jibanyan all dashed into the lunch room and watched everything going down. Sci-Twi narrowly avoided a plate being thrown at her and yelped, jumping forward as the shards tinkled down behind her.

"How is it possible?" Whisper put his hand against his forehead, surveying the environment. "I thought we'd seen the last of them..."

"The last of what? What Yo-kai is it?" Sci-Twi flipped up her Yo-kai Watch and tried to find out what was causing all of the trouble, but despite pointing her Yo-kai Watch directly at one of the masked students, she could find nothing. "Where is it, Whisper? I can't see anything!"

"Me too!" Sunset looked through her Yo-kai Watch to find the Yo-kai behind the unruly behavior in the lunchroom, but nothing came up on her lens either. "Is the Yo-kai Watch broken or something?"

"It's not broken for me." Twilight had her lens up, and she could see all of the Yo-kai causing the fights and property damage. "I can see them just fine."

"Let me explain this to you, Sci-Twi and Sunset." Whisper hovered over them as they all peeked through Twilight's Yo-kai Watch at the purple creatures. "These are what's known as Wicked Yo-kai. They're nasty little creatures mainly used by Dame Dedtime, Kin, and Gin to inspirit humans and wreak unimaginable havoc."

"But isn't Dame Dedtime, y'know, dead?" Twilight tilted her head towards Whisper. "How are the Wicked Yo-kai back?"

"Well... Kin and Gin are still around, aren't they?" said Whisper. "You saw the way they attacked Ponyville like that with the Dark Yo-kai. I'm pretty sure that they could've whipped this batch of Wicked up."

"But if they now control the Dark Yo-kai, then why would they nyeed to go back to using Wicked Yo-kai, Whisper?" Jibanyan asked. "The Dark Yo-kai are way stronger than the Wicked? Why use a weaker army if you're working for the king of the Dark Yo-kai?"

"You never know, Jibanyan! Kin and Gin might've gotten a bit bored and decided to bring the Wicked back for some of their sadistic fun!" Whisper wiggled his arms. "Those Time Witches are very unpredictable, you know!"

"Hold on..." Sci-Twi held up a hand, stopping both Whisper and Jibanyan immediately. "How come Twilight can see them and we can't? Does her Yo-kai Watch have a certain functionality with these new Wicked Yo-kai?"

"It's because, back in the past, when the Model Zero had been invented, that was when the Wicked Yo-kai were running around, causing chaos and disarray." Twilight began explaining. "But Whisper told me that when Nate and Nathaniel stopped Dame Dedtime, the Wicked Yo-kai were never seen again; like they'd been wiped off of the face of the earth. So, when the new Yo-kai Watches were made, they took away the ability to see Wicked Yo-kai."

"But there's Wicked Yo-kai right now." Sunset Shimmer looked out at the students making a mess again. "The Wicked Yo-kai are still here, even without Dame Dedtime leading them. Something's not right here..."

"Don't tell me King Void managed to bring Dame Dedtime back from the grave!" Whisper slapped both Twilight and Sunset's mouths shut. "The LAST thing this world needs is for that mad Yo-kai to come back! I'd rather fade away for good than have to listen to one of her shock stinger impressions again!"

"That's what you're worried about, Whisper?" Jibanyan raised one of his browns. "I don't want her to take my Paws of Fury and use it against me like that again..."

"Well, whatever you're worried about, we really need to stop this." Twilight took her Yo-kai Medallium out and readied her Yo-kai Watch. "If the Wicked are that dangerous, I might need to switch it to EX mode just to be safe." And with the push of a button, her watch transformed quickly, ready to summon six Yo-kai at once.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you..." A seductive feminine voice rose up from the cafeteria.

Indigo Zap, Sour Sweet, Sunny Flare, Sugarcoat, and Lemon Zest stepped up to Twilight and the others. They all had purple masks as well, but the Wicked Yo-kai controlling them looked much more sophisticated. They all wore black coats with little red flames and had little red dots for eyes. The Yo-kai slunk off of the Shadowbolts and stepped towards Twilight.

"Don't try and take this from us." A Wicked Yo-kai with a scarf around his mouth and two giant horns crossed his arms. "We have nothing left to do without Kin, Gin, or Dame Dedtime."

"Yeah! You'd better back off, or I'll mess you all up so good, you won't ever be able to get clean again!" A buff Yo-kai with no clothes punched into his other hand.

"Oh, don't worry about it, Untidy." A smaller Yo-kai with a black cane and luscious white beard eyed up the humans. "These humans are weak. Let's just inspirit them and continue. No need wasting our time with innocents, after all."

"It's gonna be fun when we get a hold of you and start to mess around with these other five." The smallest Wicked Yo-kai of all with a long-flowing hairstyle squeaked and cracked its' knuckles. "I'll enjoy laughing at their misery!"

"Enough talk, Wicked. Let's do this." A slender female Wicked Yo-kai slinked forward and held up one of her legs. She hissed, sticking her tongue out like a snake.

"I hope you're prepared for this, Twilight." Whisper watched the five Wicked Yo-kai advance on them. "These Wicked Yo-kai aren't gonna stop for anyone. So neither should you."

"I've already got the Yo-kai for the job." Twilight picked out her Yo-kai Medals and clutched them tightly in her hand. "Let's just hope this doesn't take long..."

"Hold on, Twilight. You're never gonna be able to take on these five alone." Sunset picked out her own medals and readied her watch.

"Five on one isn't fair, so let's make it five on three instead." Sci-Twi activated her own Yo-kai Watch and pulled out her Lie-in Heart medal. "It's not exactly even, but we've still got a better chance that way."

"You're right." Twilight smiled and nodded at her friends, as they all rammed their medals into their Yo-kai Watches. "Let's do this, everyone!"

Someone Wicked This Way Comes (Part 2)

Twilight stood ready with her Model Zero and her Yo-kai medallium in hand. The five Wicked Yo-kai glared menacingly at her and cracked their knuckles as she widened the stance of her legs.

"Twilight, I think I should warn you that these Wicked Yo-kai are particularly powerful." Whisper tapped on Twilight's shoulders just as she was about to flip through the pages. "And, I'm not sure if you've made an EX version of the Model Zero or Yo-kai Watch U yet, so you're really limited here..."

"I know. And I also know Sunset and Sci-Twi don't have their own Model Zeroes, so they can't really help me out much either." Twilight nodded back. "For now, I just have to hope that one of my Yo-kai can stop them from fighting. But which one should it be?"

"What's taking so long?" Unkeen tapped his foot against the ground. "I wanna see this human suffer already!"

"Oh, don't rush it, Unkeen." Unpleasant crossed his arms. "She's practically defenseless at the moment. It wouldn't be a fun battle without a little resistance now, would it?"

"Y'know, we don't have to follow the rules, y'know." Unfairy squeaked. "I mean, Dame Dedtime's gone, Kin and Gin are nowhere to be found, and we're all unemployed. I'm sure we could be a little bit mean to her."

"So... Trying to steal our underlings, are we?"

A black orb appeared above everyone, spitting lightning out in all directions. Kin and Gin shot out of it and landed in between both the Wicked Yo-kai and Twilight, fists first.

"You know, Twilight. It's not that we have any personal grudges against you, it's just business." Gin folded her arms. "And so far, you and your friends have really been stalling our workload."

"Don't you two ever give up?" Twilight tilted a brow. "I mean, you clearly can't beat Yo-kai, so why are you even trying with us? Isn't the whole thing kinda... pointless?"

"You don't understand, Twilight." Kin cracked the bones in her neck. "We have our own agendas against Yo-kai. Such wretched creatures can't be allowed to roam freely, lest they meddle in our affairs. Because of Enma's foolish interactions with the human species, the Yo-kai Watch was created, and all of our mistress's plans went up in flames because of it!"

"Humans and Yo-kai are meant to be separate entities. Enma's father was against it just as us, but that little whelp son of his made him change his tune!" Gin tightened her hand into a fist. "Because that fool made Yo-kai and humans friends, we've had to obey his laws and work overtime with that feeble human world. But no more..." Black lightning chained from her fingertips. "When King Void strikes down Queen Ephemer and the rest of those who dare to fight us, we'll make both the Yo-kai world and the human world suffer for it!"

"Then you leave me no choice but to destroy you, Kin and Gin." Twilight flipped to the higher-ranking Yo-kai in her book. "If this kind of dictatorship regime is all you care about, I'm going to have to make sure you never harm anyone ever again. And if eliminating your souls is the only way to do it, then I'll do what I have to do!"

"Hold on... are you saying that we shouldn't cause chaos for humans anymore?" Unpleasant's ears pricked up. "That doesn't sound like the real Kin and Gin we used to work for."

"You stay out of this, worms!" Kin snapped back.

"Hey! That's no way to treat your former employees!" Unkaind stomped up to Kin and grabbed her by the neck. "Need I remind you that we are the most powerful Wicked Yo-kai there was? Dame Dedtime entrusted us personally to carry out her schemes, while she just left you two to lollygag and do whatever the heck you wanted!"

"Stand. Down." Gin fired a blast of dark energy at Unkaind, knocking her into the rest of the Wicked Executives. "You are nothing to us now. King Void is our new master now and unless you can prove that you want to be on the right side, then you should all run away and never return."

"Yet another example of why the Time Witches are failing at their job." Unpleasant used his cane to stand back up. He then swung it, pointing the tip at Kin and Gin, which fired some dark purple beams out at them both. The shots staggered Kin and Gin and caused them to slide across the ground. "You claim to be powerful and all, but in the end, you once more play the underlings in some villain's grand plan. Just like with mistress Dedtime, you throw yourselves to King Void's beck and call without doing anything evil yourselves." He slowly walked up to them and crossed his arms. "You bring shame to your titles, ladies."

"Why, you..." Kin's forehead tightened as she snarled in his face. She was about to strike Unpleasant down, but a sword swiftly cut the two sides apart.

"That is enough." Lie-in Heart stood before both the Time Witches and Wicked Yo-kai. "Both of you are on the wrong path here. But the Wicked Yo-kai are just causing misdemeanors while these two cretins are rotten to the core." He held his sword out, pointing the tips at both of them. "Now, all of you leave this place and never return, or my Lion Blade will slice you within an inch of your lives."

"I might not be able to see these Wicked Yo-kai, but I know that separating the realms is wrong on every account." Sci-Twi adjusted her glasses. and stood with Twilight. "If these Kin and Gin Yo-kai are as bad as you say they are, then we can't just let them run around like this. We'll do everything we can to help you out, Twilight."

"Yeah. We've got your back, girl." Sunset activated her Yo-kai Watch U and pulled out Harmory's medal. "And if we're gonna fight these two, it's only fair that we fight in total sync with each other." And like that, she tossed the medal skyward and slammed it into the slot. "Harmory! Give us a helping hand here!"

"Ladies and Gentlemen, HEARTFUL!" said the Yo-kai Watch U as spotlights blasted out of the floor. A snowy backdrop with a bunch of robed figures appeared as Harmory took the centre stage and bathed under the lights.

Hugs and kisses
Greatest wishes
Heartful Family!

"Harmory!" Both heads chimed together.

"Harmory, we're about to take on Kin and Gin and we could use your help." Sunset leaned in close and whispered into their ears. "Can you inspirit us all so that we fight as one? I don't want Kin and Gin to think we're just gonna divide and conquer."

"Sure thing, Sunset! You can count on us!" Both Harmory's heads floated up and bashed themselves together, causing glitter to sprinkle down and engulf the girls in a bright golden aura. "Now, you three can do anything, as long as you do it together!"

"Alright, then. Let's go!" The girls pulled out more and more medals, slamming them into their respective watches. "Summoning Yo-kai!"

"Gargaros!" He brandished his mighty club.

"Dracunyan!" The tiny cat bore his fangs out at Kin and Gin.

"Count Cavity!" He pointed his pitchfork at the two witches.

"Signibble!" He rolled forward and fingerbanged the air, shooting lightning from his fingertips. "Zap, zap!"

"Spenp!" As he was summoned, his coins floated alongside him.

"Let's go!" Everyone cried and rushed towards Kin and Gin like an army moving towards their foes.

Kin and Gin were about to float off, but Count Cavity struck first, driving the points of his pitchfork into Kin's chest. He flew up and drove her into Gin, before slinging both of them away.

"You think we're going to play around this time?!" Gin held out her arms and conjured a stream of black water. She swirled it in her hands before thrusting them both out at Count Cavity. "Take that!"

The torrent was so powerful that Count Cavity had to hold his pitchfork out, but even that wasn't enough as he felt himself be pushed back more and more.

"I'm on it!" Spenp flew up and opened his mouth wide, taking in all of the water. He gargled it around in his mouth and spat it back out at Kin, who spluttered and flailed as she tried to avoid letting any shoot down her windpipe. "Take that, Time Witches!"

"Let me take a bite of these two!" Dracunyan floated towards Kin just as she was drying herself off and bit her neck hard.

"GYAAHHH!" Kin jumped at Dracunyan's bite and tried to shake him off, only for his teeth to sink lower. "Gin! Help me!"

"Irksome little pests!" Gin took Dracunyan by the eyes and threw him to the ceiling, shooting a stream of rocks up at him. "Die!"

"We say the same to you!" Gargaros came charging in and swatted Gin into the wall with his club. "You make my mistress angry! Now you pay the price!"

"Do you think I'm going to let this stand?!" Kin snarled and slammed her fists together. She raised her arms up, causing a massive wall of flame to engulf Gargaros, Spenp, and Count Cavity all at once. "I will not fail King Void again! I won't become one of his Dark Yo-kai!"

"You ready for this?" Signibble ran towards Kin and shot lightning up, striking her square on the butt. "Super-shocking just for you!"

"Nnnngh..." Kin snarled and turned her glare to Signibble. She swooped down and grabbed him by his antennae before hurling him over to the stairs. "Begone!" She launched a black stream of energy towards Signibble and launched him up every one, watching his head bang against the edge of each step.

"Kin! We need to focus!" Gin flew back over to her sister's side. "Whatever Twilight and her cohorts are doing, it's making us look like fools!"

"Well, we'd have the upper hand if SOMEBODY wasn't so stupid that they'd actually try and help us!" Kin turned her gaze to the Wicked Yo-kai.

"Without Dame Dedtime, you're just a bunch of old hags." Untidy just sat back lazily on one of the chairs and ate a student's sandwich. "Plus, your breath stinks pretty bad, Kin."

"I'll have you know that I use mouthwash daily! And I shave at least three times a day!" Kin retorted.

"Now's not the time to discuss mating habits, sister! We NEED TO STOP TWILIGHT!" Gin launched another torrent of magic down at the Yo-kai. "We'll deal with those traitorous Wicked Yo-kai later!"

"Teamwork!" Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset jabbed their fingers towards Kin and Gin, causing their Yo-kai to all move on them together. Even Lie-in Heart, Whisper, and Jibanyan charged into battle.

"You little brats..." Kin shot black lightning into the air, forcing a black portal to appear above her. "Learn to respect your elders!"

"Let's see what your so-called friendship can do against some of the King's finest forces!" Gin created a fist and slammed it into Kin's fist.

"Calling the Dark Yo-kai!" Both sisters chimed as they sent more black magic into the air and up through the portal.

The portal rippled and fluctuated wildly once Kin and Gin's magic pierced the veil. Dozens upon dozens of Dark Yo-kai leapt out and landed violently on the ground. Their eyes glinted brightly in their ethereal bodies as their razor-sharp claws, talons, and teeth were bared. There were even a few Dark Yo-kai versions of Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset's Yo-kai, staring down their counterparts.

"I warned you, Princess Twilight." Kin hovered high above her army. "Don't mess in ours or King Void's affairs! Now, you'll know his true wrath!"

"DESTROY THEM!" Both Kin and Gin threw their arms forward, sending the Dark Yo-kai scurrying towards Twilight and her friends.

"Hey, uh, girls? That's a lot of Dark Yo-kai..." Jibanyan slowly backed up once the black creatures started moving in towards them. "I mean, we can take 'em on one at a time, but against an army, I don't think my Paws of Fury are gonna be able to do this, nyan..."

"You're right, Jibanyan. In fact, I would even say that there's too many of them." Whisper tugged at his neck. "There's no way that Twilight can possibly fight this many at once!"

"So, what are we supposed to do then? Just sit back and let them overrun us?" Sunset stood her ground as the monsters all lunged and jumped out at her, scratching at her face and legs. "Get offa me, you creeps!" She tried kicking them off and shaking them off, but they were beginning to skewer her balance.

"Have you considered the thought of, oh, I don't know, RUNNING?!" Whisper pointed to the doors behind them.

"Good idea, Whisper." Without any other words, Twilight charged through the doors. "C'mon, everyone! We're getting out of here!"

As all of the other Yo-kai ran out with Twilight, Sunset, and Sci-Twi, the Dark Yo-kai began to give chase, shooting out of the hall and down the corridors like a swarm of insects hunting down their prey. Students could only jump backwards in shock as the three girls were pursued by a relentless cloud of darkness that tore up everything it came into contact with.

Kin and Gin just watched as the Dark Yo-kai ran out of the hall and slashed up the lockers on the corridors, trying to keep up with Twilight and the others. A demonic smirk crossed both of their faces as they turned back towards the Wicked Yo-kai.

"Now, I'm not going to be the one to say that you're all incompetents, because truth be told, the King could use some Yo-kai like you in his army." Kin walked up to her five former employees. "It's a much better job than your last one and we guarantee free dental, good pay, and a VIP suite all to yourselves."

"Y'know, you're coming off a little too good here, Kin." Unfairy just turned his back to them. "I mean, it sounds good and all, but these Dark Yo-kai just aren't like us Wicked."

"Yeah. I mean, what else can they do other than attack things?" Unkeen pulled his scarf up higher. "Us Wicked Yo-kai might be the same thing, but we have some restraint. We don't attack unless it's absolutely important. Dame Dedtime never wanted us to just inspirit some random nobodies unless it was important to her job."

"And yet these Dark Yo-kai are causing widespread chaos without any real rhyme or reason." Unpleasant just sat back and kicked his legs up. "Honestly, Kin and Gin, it sounds a bit too much like dirty work if you ask me."

"But really, what are we gonna benefit from not taking this job, guys?" Unkaind tilted her head. "We don't have much Y-money, we don't have a leader, and the Wicked Yo-kai need someone powerful to look up to. Plus, having Kin and Gin call the shots for us is just like the old days, back when we had our mistress."

"We'll leave you to yourselves to consider the job." Gin walked away from the group. "First, we have to finish off Twilight Sparkle and her weak little friends. When we return, we expect that you five will have come up with an answer. It's your choice."

"Just think about all of the good stuff. All those benefits, a higher pay grade than last time, and that little VIP suite has everything a Wicked Yo-kai could ever want..." Kin left them all with the inspirited students and the rest of their servants.

"Everyone. It's time for a quick meeting." Unkaind whistled into her hand, causing all of the Wicked Yo-kai to stand up and stomp over towards her. Purple creatures of all shapes and sizes gathered around her and her fellow executives. "Now, listen up and listen good. We won't ever get a chance like this ever again, so we need to act now or everything is just gonna get worse."

"Which path do we take, Unkaind?" Unpleasant tilted his head. "Do we really go back to Kin and Gin after all that's happened? Can we really trust them?"

"Look, I know that what we're doing benefits us all. And besides, what choice do we have in the matter?" Unkaind asked. "We've got none. So that's why I need all of you to listen carefully and pass it on..."

She slithered over to a dark purple snake-like creature and whispered something into its' ears. The snake then nodded and flew off to another Wicked Yo-kai that looked like a humanoid creature. Once it spread the word, the new Yo-kai nodded and passed it on to more and more Wicked, who in turn, passed that message on themselves, until almost the entire lunch hall was full of Wicked Yo-kai receiving a shared order.

Someone Wicked This Way Comes (Part 3)

Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset Shimmer all dashed down the corridors of Crystal Prep. Their breathing became heavy and their faces dripped with sweat as the flood of Dark Yo-kai pursued them. Roars, howls, and shrieks pierced their ears and sent shivers down each and every one of their bones as the monstrous servants of King Void began to close the gap on them.

"Out of the way!" said a Dark Yo-kai as the horde began throwing the humans out of their path and into the walls and lockers. "The princess must suffer before our leader breaks her!"

"Hold on, everyone!" Harmory clacked it's two heads together, causing golden sprinkles to rain down on Twilight and the others. "We'll keep you going! Don't worry about it!"

"Thanks, Harmory!" the three teens chimed in unison before turning sharply down another path.

"Run all you want, you fools! You'll just die tired!" Kin snickered as she shot a bolt of black lightning out at Twilight's feet, causing her to jump and stumble to the side. "And we haven't even begun to mess with you yet!"

"Under King Void's orders, we'll crush you, take the Wicked Yo-kai to our master, and give us an even bigger army!" Gin raised her left hand, causing a small geyser of black liquid to gush out at Sunset's undercarriage. She felt the water strike her square in the groin, but she still ran, even though she let out a little wince of pain. "For the fallen Dame Dedtime, for all of those you humans took away from us... This is our vengeance!"

Lie-in Heart leapt from locker to locker, striking down Dark Yo-kai with every jump. But for each one that he sliced in half with his sword, more came out of the pack and almost sunk their teeth or claws into him. Despite this, he continued to evade and strike the army.

"Get out of here, you monsters!" Count Cavity flew backwards and jabbed his pitchfork rapidly at the horde of Dark Yo-kai. Every time he impaled one, it disappeared in a small surge of white light, only for more to take its' place. "Bacteria Barrage!"

"It's no use, girls! We can't outrun them!" Sci-Twi spoke through thin breaths. She was running so fast that she nearly tripped over herself. "At this rate, we'll run out of breath in a few seconds!"

"Then we just have to go outside and fight them!" Sunset Shimmer turned towards a fire escape door.

"What? Are you crazy, Sunset?" asked Twilight as she and the group of Yo-kai followed after her. "The Dark Yo-kai were a handful as it was back in Equestria. I don't want you to get caught in their crosshairs too. Who knows what they could do to you or your friends?"

"These Dark Yo-kai don't scare me." Sunset tightened the grip around her Yo-kai Watch and heard Dracunyan's laugh and the screams of a defeated Dark Yo-kai behind her. "Plus, we seem to be dealing with 'em pretty well so far. For a horde, I mean."

"True, true. But Kin and Gin are leading the pack, and those two are pretty devilish Yo-kai." Twilight barrelled through the door and lead her friends onto the grassy soccer field. "I mean, they were the right-hand ladies to Dame Dedtime; a Yo-kai who nearly conquered the human race with her dastardly plan..."

"Plus, both Kin and Gin have the ability to control and manipulate time." Whisper shuddered as he reflected on the past. "I still have goosebumps after the trip she sent me and Jibanyan on."

"Well, you can reminisce later, Whisper." Jibanyan scurried by Twilight's feet. "For nyaow, we've gotta fight the Dark Yo-kai, nyan!"

Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset turned on the heels of their feet back around to face the Dark Yo-kai head on. As the swarm was about to crash into them, they split into two separate packs inches in front of the three of them and caused the teenagers to tumble onto their bottoms as the Dark Yo-kai formed a giant ring around them.

"What're they doing?" Twilight looked around and watched the Dark Yo-kai expand their formation from a simple ring on the ground to a massive dome that began blotting out the world around them. As the black creatures leapt on top of their peers' shoulders or flew overhead, they began to form a black web around each other; one that replaced the fading colours of the outside world with a purple energy field with bright streaks of lightning flowing between each filled crevice.

"It must be some kind of arena..." Whisper watched the dome form around him and just barely clip the swirl on top of his head. "And I assume that Kin and Gin are going to be our opponents if none of the Dark Yo-kai are going to challenge us..."

"That doesn't seem right," said Jibanyan. "Why don't the Dark Yo-kai try attacking us now that we've got nowhere to run? Isn't that fair?"

"Oh, we know what's going to happen already, Jibanyan of the light..." A Dark Yo-kai resembling Sailornyan gave Jibanyan a little wink and an evil grin.

"Wait... Sailornyan?!" Jibanyan stumbled backwards.

"It's not Sailornyan anymore, fool! I am Oblivinyan! A mighty cat Yo-kai under His Majesty's rule!" She snarled, only for her anger to dissipate shortly afterwards. "But anyways, we Dark Yo-kai would attack you under any circumstances, but we're merely preparing."

"Preparing for what, may I ask?" Twilight tilted her head.

"For Kin and Gin's ascension to the dark side..." said an Impersult. "We know that you'll win and that Kin and Gin will fail again. And when they do..." he simply began laughing.

"Those two hags are writing their own epitaph by fighting you here." A female Dark Yo-kai with a fog-like body chuckled. "We're just making things seem much more epic. After all, Kin and Gin are going to die, so why not die fighting?"

"You mean to say that it really doesn't matter whether or not your allies win or lose here?! What kind of army is that?!" Whisper's mouth hung open.

"If you win against Kin and Gin, King Void will come down from his throne and into the human world. Upon doing so, he will grab Kin and Gin and forcibly turn them into Dark Yo-kai like us," said a Dark Yo-kai that looked like a shark.

"But if you lose, then Kin and Gin continue working for King Void as they are and your worlds march one step closer to oblivion," added a Yo-kai that looked strikingly similar to Mermaidyn. "It's a win-win for us either way!"

"Besides, Kin and Gin are, what, ten-thousand years old?" A Dazzabel Dark Yo-kai cracked her knuckles. "I think it's time those old hags had a bit of a makeover, if you ask me..."

"But enough talk. Let's get this show on the road!" said one more Dark Yo-kai before Kin and Gin entered the arena as it closed itself off to the world outside.

"What do we do, Whisper?" Twilight backed up towards the end of the dome, holding the Yo-kai Watch EX in the palm of her right hand. "No matter what, we'll be playing right into the Dark Yo-kai army's hands..."

"Well, you have to think about this in the long-term, Twilight, my dear." Whisper put on some glasses and pulled out a calculator with a roll of paper on it. He began pounding in some characters which quickly appeared on the paper. "If you choose not to fight here and let Kin and Gin win, then you not only lose your life, but the Wicked Yo-kai ally themselves with King Void and all three worlds are practically doomed. But at the same time, if you choose to keep fighting, then Kin and Gin become Dark Yo-kai themselves and we might even get some new Yo-kai allies to join our cause..." He muttered to himself as he violently pounded down the numbers, causing his calculator to break into pieces and spill the paper all over the ground. "Basically, Twilight, you can't just give up in a win-win scenario like this. Just go with your gut on this."

"You're not alone in this, Twilight. We're all here for you to the very end." Sunset Shimmer nodded and bent her knees, getting into a combat-ready stance. "Even if it doesn't matter what we do, we've still gotta stand strong against the forces of evil. And if that means we have to turn Kin and Gin into Dark Yo-kai, then we'll do what we have to do to save the day."

"I mean, we're outnumbered, but you know what they say, right?" Sci-Twi gripped her watch as well. "Quality vs quantity. They might have numbers, but we have the Magic of Friendship on our side. And I'm sure that'll help us beat these creeps!"

"Oh, blah blah blah. Your mushy friendship with Yo-kai sickens me!" Kin punched into her left hand. "Let us get this over with as soon as possible, so that we may turn the Wicked back to our side!"

"But first, this ring seems a little bit too small. Might I suggest a change in size, sister?" Gin's eyes shifted all around the dome they were all encapsulated in.

"Kin, why would you want to make such a decision at a time like this?" Kin turned to Gin. "We can just crush Twilight and her friends in seconds like this. Why give them a fighting chance?"

"It wouldn't be fun to crush our opponents if we can't break their spirits at the same time. Plus, you must remember that the Dark Yo-kai are on our side now," said Gin.

"But only because King Void gave us a last chance! If we don't get more aggressive, then he'll turn us into Dark Yo-kai!" Kin stomped the ground.

"You're afraid, aren't you, sister?" Gin tilted her head. "Just grow up. You work for the king now. You have nothing to fear as long as you pull out all your tricks."

"How dare you, Gin." Kin lowered her brows. "I am two-hundred and thirty-eight years older than you are and I say that we should fight them as we are, and not make the arena any bigger, smaller, or rounder!"

"Well, maybe it's time for a change in leadership!" Gin pushed her forehead against Kin's.

"I couldn't agree more!" Lie-in Heart leapt up at the bickering Time Witches and slashed horizontally, knocking both Kin and Gin backwards into the Dark Yo-kai, who kicked them away and into more Dark Yo-kai, who continued the cycle until the two of them crashed into the ground.

"Nnngh..." Kin growled as she pulled her head out of the ground and glared at Twilight and her friends. "DIE!" She thrust her arm out, shooting a torrent of dark energy towards them all.

Twilight leapt out of the way of the blast, which struck the wall behind her. The Dark Yo-kai didn't move an inch and instead just groaned in delight, as if they were in a shower. "Count Cavity! Take her down! Harmory! Keep us healed!"

"Got it!" They both spoke in unison before charging into battle.

"Dracunyan! Go!" Sunset jabbed a finger out at Gin. "Get her good!"

"Oh, I vill, my mistress!" Dracunyan smirked and opened his cloak up. "For I thrive in ze dark. Kin and Gin have dug zemselves zeir own graves by doing this!" And he dashed towards them, bearing his fangs wide at the two Time Witches. "Let my Dracunyan bite change you for good, Time Vitches!"

Twilight and her friends were well co-ordinated with each of their attacks. With Harmory's power running through all of them, they were able to see attacks coming from a mile away and easily evade and counter. Kin and Gin were able to land some magical attacks on them in their sprawl in the cage, but it was heavily weighing towards Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset's favour.

"No! I choose to fight!" Kin slammed a fist into the ground, causing a thin black tornado to form around her. "I lost everything precious to me. My humanity, my past, my mistress, EVERYTHING! And I swear on her name that Twilight Sparkle of Equestria shall be gutted into a million pieces!"

"Kin and I lost everything ourselves twice now. Our humanities are a thing of ancient times and our loyalty to Dame Dedtime has been burned to ash thanks to you wretched humans!" Gin mimicked Kin's actions and formed a second tornado. "You will not live to see the sun again, princess."

"THE HUMAN RACE MUST BE DESTROYED!" Both Kin and Gin began taking in black energy from all corners. Some offered up by the Dark Yo-kai, while other strands burst out from the ground beneath their feet.

"Get ready, girls..." Twilight took a step back. "I think they might be about to perform a Soultimate..."

"Then we'd better stop them!" Sunset ran towards Kin and Gin and attempted to pull them away, but the second she came into contact with one of the witches, a thin black veil shot up from their body and pushed her back to the girls. "Gah!" She exclaimed as she was launched away.

"Yo-kai! Stop this quickly!" Sci-Twi thrust her finger forward. "Try staggering them out of it! Kick them! Knock them back! Anything to stop them from channeling that darkness!"

All of the Yo-kai in the girls' entourage dashed towards Kin and Gin and tried to strike them down. But the power that the Time Witches was amassing was so powerful that each of their attacks was reflected back at them and sent them hurtling towards the Dark Yo-kai, who repelled them as easily as they did Kin and Gin.

"You. Are. Finished. Twilight!" Kin's eyes shot open.

"Accept. Defeat. NOW!" Gin's eyes did the same.

"TIME CRUSH!" Both Kin and Gin thrust their arms behind them, generating a massive clock with bent arms. Both arms rapidly revolved clockwise as blue and purple magic began to emanate from it. But before the clock could finish spinning, Kin and Gin slammed their fists into it, breaking the clock into pieces. Despite punching it inward, the pieces instead flew backwards, straight towards Twilight and her friends.

"What the..." Twilight just stared at the clock as all of the pieces darted towards her. She had no time to jump out of the way or evade in any way as the remnants of the clock dug themselves into her arms and legs, and the limbs of all of her Yo-kai friends. "YYAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" She screamed as the sharpened pieces of the clock sunk deeper and deeper into her arms and began to drill down her bones.

Sunset Shimmer and Sci-Twi tried to duck out of the way of the clock parts, but the pieces homed in on their bodies with no way of evading them. Shortly after trying to run out of the way, the clock parts struck Sunset in her back and Sci-Twi in her chest. Both of them screamed and writhed as the pieces delved through their skin and approached their organs.

"There's a reason why we're called the Time Witches you know..." Kin slowly walked forward as she watched Twilight holler and cry in pain as the clock continued to hurt her. "But never before have we had to resort to extreme methods."

"Destroying the Clock of Destiny is akin to signing your own death warrant, but we have nothing more to lose at this point." Gin nodded. "King Void is already furious with us for disobeying his rules multiple times, so I figured that, if we're going to die, then we'll die taking you three down with us!"

"Whis...per..." Twilight groaned, falling to her knees as she looked up into Whisper's eyes. "The pain... It hurts... so badly..."

"What's gonna... happen to us?" Sunset tried to crawl forward, but the clock pieces continued to bury themselves in her body.

"Hard to say, really." Kin stood on top of Sunset. "You could jump forward or backwards in time, age or youthen rapidly until you disappear, or even get frozen in time forever. Naturally, our clock can do all three of those, but now that it's in splinters, there's no telling what will happen to you all..."

"Savour your last breaths while you still can, girls." Gin flew up and watched as Sci-Twi, Twilight, and Sunset all began to move less and less with the intensifying pain. "At least your deaths will be influential. They will inspire the Yo-kai World to abandon hope, and realize that King Void is the one and only ruler!"

"I... can't... move... any... more!" Sci-Twi flopped onto her back and tried to pull the shards out of her chest. But the second she laid her fingers on the pieces, her stamina had all but left her. "Is this... the end?"

"I'd say that your time's up, girls..." said Kin before she and Gin shared a maniacal laugh with each other.

Someone Wicked This Way Comes (Part 4)

"Time to say goodnight, Princess Twilight!" Kin coiled black energy between her fingertips as she watched Twilight and her friends try to move even an inch. "It's ALL OVER!"

"N... no..." Twilight slowly twitched and hobbled forward, even with the pieces of Kin and Gin's clock digging into her flesh and bones. "No! I won't... let... you win, Kin and Gin!"

"Still you struggle? What a shame." Kin just smirked as she too prepared some dark magic. "At least you'll still perish."

"Twilight! Count Cavity rushed to her side and pointed his pitchfork towards Kin and Gin. All three tips lit up red and caused small jets of fire to rise up and hit Kin and Gin in their posteriors. "Back away from her, you monsters!"

"Ngah!" Kin barely flinched from the flames and hurled black lightning down on Twilight and her friends. "Say goodbye, brats!"

"Now where's the pleasantries in this, Kin?"

The dome of Dark Yo-kai shattered, causing a swarm of Wicked Yo-kai to descend and land in front of Twilight and her friends. Flickers, Schemers, Loiters, and more Wicked of all shapes and sizes started fending off the Dark Yo-kai, while the five Wicked Executives started to pick the clock pieces out of Twilight and her friends' bodies.

"What?!" Kin snarled as she glared down at the Wicked Yo-kai. "You choose to side with these heathens?! After everything they did to Mistress Dedtime?! To US?!

"We had a little bit of a boardroom meeting after you hurried off to deal with Twilight and her friends, and all of us did raise some very valid points." Unkaind stepped forward. "King Void is a tyrant who cares nothing for his subjects, or lack thereof, considering that they're all just illusions under his control; You two have become unreliable after countless losses against Nate, Nathaniel, and now this Twilight girl; and if we decide to turn to King Void's side, then he'll just turn us into Dark Yo-kai and we'll be demoted to pawns in his little scheme."

"If there's one thing we Wicked aren't, it's mindless grunts." Untidy bashed his knuckles together. "We prefer to be executives or higher. You turn us into zombies, we won't be happy about it."

"Honestly, Kin and Gin, this is a new low for you." Unkeen folded his arms. "You'd have us turn to someone we can't trust in the hopes of a better future, only for you to backstab us and make us soulless abominations?" He cocked a brow. "You're weak. Weak and pathetic. I can see why those humans defeated you back in Springdale."

"Those humans..." Gin tightened her hand and punched the ground violently, causing black rocks to burst out of the ground and impale the Wicked Yo-kai. "We hate them. Hate them. HATE THEM!"

"LOATHE! DESPISE! VILLIFY! ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS THEMSELVES!" Kin thrust her hand out at the executives, launching a wind which knocked them all back into the three teenagers. "And if you're going to join their fight, then we'll just have to destroy you all as well!"

"Harmory! Give us a helping hand!" Sunset called out.

"On it, Sunset!" Both heads chimed together, twinkling down sparkles onto her and the rest of the girls.

"Thanks, Sunset!" Sci-Twi leapt back onto her feet and took up a battle stance. "That was just what I needed."

"Yeah. That was a good save, girl," Twilight added. "But now we need to take out Kin and Gin."

"There's no way that we can take them out with simple attacks." Whisper scratched his chin and stared down the Time Witches. "But maybe..."

"What? What is it, Whisper?" Twilight tilted her head.

"You got a plan, nyan?" Jibanyan asked. "We're gonna nyeed one pretty fast!"

"We can't just keep peppering Kin and Gin with individual attacks and Soultimates like this. King Void's darkness might be overclocking their pain threshold." Sci-Twi pushed her glasses closer to her face. "If we're going to take the two of them down, then we need to make one big attack together."

"The question is, though, will it be enough to defeat them?" Sunset examined the black aura that emanated from Kin and Gin as they started to decimate the Wicked Yo-kai. "I'm sure this King Void is no slouch, and if he's given Kin and Gin some of his powers, then we're gonna need to hit them with a LOT of our own."

"Well, that's what we're here for!" Harmory cheered. "We can make you fight in sync, so, naturally, we can have you all use your Soultimates together."

"It's a bit of a gamble, but at this point, what other choice do we have?" Whisper threw his arms down. "We need to stop Kin and Gin A.S.A.Now!"

"You're right. We have to win this, and the longer we let Kin and Gin roam free, the more they could cause chaos for us, Equestria, and the Yo-kai World!" Twilight held her watch high into the air. "Everyone! Let's work together!"

"Got it!" They all chorused out simultaneously.

"Harmory! Give us your powers of synchronicity!" Sunset called and thrust her hand into the sky.

"On it!" Both of the heads smiled and clapped their hands together. "Perfect Sync!"

A green aura fell down upon the entire group. Twilight, Sunset, Sci-Twi, their Yo-kai, and all of the Wicked glowed bright white as they all became part of Harmory's one collective mindset. They all cracked their knuckles together, turned away from their fights, and gazed towards Kin and Gin.

"For everything you've done to us... For every Yo-kai you've butchered... And for everything you'll ever do, Kin and Gin... THIS IS YOUR PUNISHMENT!" Everyone spoke all at the same time and dashed towards the witches, combining all of their Soultimates together and unleashing them all at once upon the elder Yo-kai.

"How absurd..." Kin brought up a forcefield and pushed hard against the tide of Soultimates and other attacks. "You think that something silly and cheesy like that can take us down? We can re-shape the timeline as you all know it!"

"Surely, you must understand that our title isn't all just for show." Gin smirked and pushed the army back as well. "What can you hope to achieve from an all-out attack when we have the power of a literal GOD flowing through our veins?"

Everyone just made a battle cry and pushed even harder, beginning to splinter Kin and Gin's shield. Little chips flew off to the side as cracks began to form around the forcefield.

"Nngh! No!" Kin pushed with her shoulders. "I will not fail again!"

"King Void will have our heads if we let him down!" Gin added to her sister's brutal push. "You can't be allowed to win!"

"You have it wrong!" Twilight cried out. "YOU can't be allowed to win! You'll only keep hurting everyone around you with your evil intentions. As the Princess of Friendship and savior of multiple worlds, I will not let you win, Kin and Gin!"

"You... little... WRETCHES!" Kin pushed so hard that her entire face turned dark blue and her muscles began to ache. "GIN! HOLD... OUT!"

"I'm trying, sister!" Gin was looking like a mirror image of Kin as she too struggled against the tide of heroes. "But they're fighting too hard!"

With one final push, Kin and Gin's shield shattered into pieces, and all of the Yo-kai and their Soultimates came crashing down on the elderly witches. They were swept away, stomped into the ground, jabbed in all of their sweet spots, and ended up as splattered messes on the lawn of CPA.

"It's over." Twilight walked over to the mangled and torn bodies of Kin and Gin. "Stop serving King Void and get rid of his powers, or else bad things will happen to you."

"What... what kind of fiend are you to order us, the Time Witches around?" Kin tried pushing herself up, but the pain in her body hit every one of her limbs and she remained planted head-first against the grass.

"I'm the Princess of Friendship, and right now, I'm trying to save you from whatever kind of spell King Void has you under." Twilight knelt down before the two of them.

"That won't be necessary, Princess Twilight..."

A volley of black lightning bolts struck the area around Kin and Gin. One of them hit Twilight head on and blasted her back into Sunset and Sci-Twi, who caught her quickly. The sky above everyone hastily turned from a clear and sunny day into a blackened sky with clouds shooting out more of the black bolts.

"No..." Kin looked up to the sky and tried to hobble away from everyone. "No no no no no no no no no no!"

"He's coming! And there's nothing we can do to stop him!" Gin chattered her teeth and huddled close to Kin.

"He's coming?!" Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset all chimed and stared up at the thunder.

A Dark Yo-kai which looked like a humanoid knight with stitches all over his face stepped forward and banged his spear on the ground. "Ladies and gentlemen of this world. Bow down before His Eminence! The Killer of Light, The Destroyer of Yo-kai, the Conquerer of All, the almightyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy KING VOID!"

A massive pillar of dark energy slammed down between Twilight, Kin, and Gin. From that black energy, a large pair of ripped and demonic wings burst out of it, with a sword following shortly afterwards. The pillar disappeared to reveal King Void, staring down at Twilight and the others.

"Princess," he said.

"King Void," Twilight replied.

"Do not get this little meeting confused. I am not here for you." He turned his back to her and looked down at the writhing little worms that were once Kin and Gin. "I am here for these two. My untrustworthy, lying, insignificant Time Witches."

"Y-y-y-y-your Majesty! Please try to—"

"NO!" King Void grabbed Kin's head and began to crush it like a grape in his hand. "I WILL HEAR NO MORE FROM YOU, WRETCH! NOR WILL I HEAR ANY HALF-BAKED EXCUSES FROM YOUR SISTER EITHER!" His other hand snatched Gin as she tried to escape.

"What are you doing?!" Sunset cried, watching as Kin and Gin tried using their magics to break free of the king's hold, only for him to channel black electricity across their bodies from head to toe.

"Kin and Gin have disobeyed me on multiple occasions, picked unauthorized fights, and are a little bit too erratic for my little warpath." King Void held his arms out to the side, displaying Kin and Gin's bodies hanging beneath his closing palms. "Through this act of will-stripping, these two shall pay the ultimate price. Everything you know about Kin and Gin is about to disappear. And in their place, only my darkness, magnifying the remnants of their powers shall remain."

"He's going to turn Kin and Gin into Dark Yo-kai!" Whisper yelled and jabbed a finger at him. "STOP HIM!"

"Already on it!" Unkeen ran forward and leapt towards King Void. He was about to punch him in the back, but a purple tendril shot out of the king and launched him high into the air, only for him to crash back down and form a little crater beside the other Wicked Executives.

"Darkness smothers your will. Give in to my power..." King Void chanted, causing Kin and Gin's bodies to melt and burn away in his hands. "I will make you stronger, in return for everything you are. Consciousness for power." Two little fissures in the air ripped open, firing little chains out onto Kin and Gin's bodies through King Void's hands. "YOU. ARE. DARK. YO-KAI!" With one final roar, Kin and Gin were sucked through his hands and through the fissures, causing them to disappear, leaving no trace of them behind.

"Did... Did he just—"

"Yes, Unkaind. He did." Twilight hung her head. "King Void just destroyed whatever remains of Kin and Gin. And now, there's most likely a Dark Kin and a Dark Gin serving his legion."

"I picked one nit off of the Yo-kai World's back. Consider it the only pleasant act I will ever do." King Void turned back to Twilight and the others, watching as his faithful servants scuttled back to his side. "Now Queen Ephemer and whatever subordinates she has can breathe easy, knowing that their number one public enemy has been eliminated."

"I... don't knyow how to feel about that." Jibanyan scratched his chin.

"This does not mean that I am finished with you or your measly friends, Princess Twilight." King Void rasped and cracked his knuckles together. "Sooner or later, you shall fall to me. Lash and Maelstro were only the tip of the iceberg. One of my other Dark Ones will surely tap into the darkness within you, and turn you against your friends once and for all."

"Then why don't you just fight her here and now?" Unfairy tilted his body. "If you've got a beef to settle with Twilight, then just do it already. It's no fun just letting your foe get away like that."

"Like I said, little Yo-kai, I did this only because Kin and Gin had annoyed me for the last time." King Void stepped up to Unfairy, picked him up, and squished him in his thumb and index finger, hearing a squeaking noise every time he did. "On different terms, I would waste no time in driving my sword through her head and ending it here and there." He tossed him into Untidy and Unpleasant.

"Whatever you're planning, King Void, I won't allow you to go through with it!" Twilight put her fist to her chest. "Me and my friends will save the day, like we always do!"

"If you are that determined to stop me, then prove it." King Void lunged his finger out at her. "Continue fighting me and show how much you care about these worlds. But I will warn you, your majesty, that I will not make any of your efforts against my army easy." A black portal appeared before King Void. He flapped his wings and flew backwards, closer and closer towards the gateway. "See you soon, princess." He lurched back through the portal, causing both it and all of his Dark Yo-kai to disappear out of existence.

Once everything returned to normal and the skies cleared up again, Twilight and her friends turned towards the Wicked Executives and their workers.

"So. That's King Void?" Sunset asked.

"Yeah. He's so evil that even I won't be able to make him see things another way." Twilight held her Yo-kai Watch and turned it back to the regular mode, retrieving all of her medals. "If we see him, we're gonna have to fight him. We've got no other choice."

"Forgive me for asking this, me," said Sci-Twi, "but what exactly did this King Void guy do?"

"Well, according to everything we've learned so far..." Whisper reached into his gelatinous body and pulled out a little parchment. "He's turned Red Snow's Sailornyan into Oblivinyan, taken control of Kin and Gin, terrorized the Yo-kai World and Equestria, stranded a ton of ponies at sea by having one his Dark Ones destroy a cruise ship, caused massive property damage, attempted to conquer the aforementioned worlds, and he's violated a NUMBER of fashion laws with that horrific body of his."

Sci-Twi and Sunset just stared slack-jawed, with their eyes shrunken down into tiny little dots. Their arms fell and hung by the sides of their body as they tried to regain themselves.

"Geez. And I thought Mistress Dedtime was bad." Unkaind just blinked repeatedly.

"So... What now?" Untidy asked.

"A good question, Untidy..." Unpleasant turned his head to the sky. "What do we do now?"

Someone Wicked This Way Comes (END)

"You know, I still don't get it." Unkeen folded his arms and glared down at the ground with an ethereal fire in his eyes. "Not just that Kin and Gin sold out for that King Void jerk, but that those new Dark Yo-kai are totally stealing our thunder. It just makes me so mad!" He punched the ground, leaving a crack in its' wake.

"Well, hate it or not, it is the truth of the matter." Unpleasant waddled over, staff in his hand. "Though, I must admit that the whole thing is quite an unsettling concept. Kin and Gin might have been evil, but now they're steeped in pure darkness. If it is true that this King Void fellow has control of the Time Witches in the form of two new Dark Yo-kai, then these worlds could soon meet their end rather quickly."

"As much as it might be painful to say this, we're pretty much obsolete now that these Dark Yo-kai are out. There's just no way that the Wicked Yo-kai can compete in this state. Unless..." Unkaind looked back at Twilight, Sci-Twi, and Sunset Shimmer, namely looking closer at their Yo-kai Watches. She scoffed, sticking out her tongue as she thought back to the first time she saw one of those wretched devices and how it thwarted their last plan. "This is such a new personal low for us, having to depend on humans of all things..."

"What other choice do we have, though? The Wicked Yo-kai sure can't handle the Dark Yo-kai, even with our tremendous numbers. And in the case of serving those Yo-kai Watch holders, you can just forget it." Unfairy squeaked, grumbling as the muscles on his forehead convulsed. "Plus, I seem to recall that the last time I got mixed up with humans and those watches, I. Was. FIRED! F! I! R! E! D! Terminated! Out of a job! Cast aside like dirt!"

"And this is different how, Unfairy? If I didn't know better, we're ALL fired after what's been going on." Untidy was the last to add his voice to the conversation. "First, Dame Dedtime gets beaten up by Yo-kai Watch holders. Then, Kin and Gin decide to work for this King Void jerk instead of try and give us a hand. And what about us? We were all just left behind. So what else have we got to lose other than our minds?"

Twilight, Sunset, and Sci-Twi all watched as the Wicked Executives continued their talk; their minds still buzzing after what had happened with King Void descending on Crystal Prep and converting Kin and Gin into Dark Yo-kai. With the stakes stacked higher and higher for them, they needed more Yo-kai allies more than ever, and if battling alongside the Wicked Yo-kai of all things was the way to go about it, then so be it.

Eventually, after all of the talks were said and done, the Wicked Executives broke out of their huddle, turned towards the three teenage girls and took some steps forward. From their hobbled movements and coiled up bodies, it was a sign of their hesitance. And who could blame them? After Yo-kai Watches had evidently destroyed everything that made them who they were, the thought of joining forces with them seemed about as alien as could be. In the end, though, the five of them made the effort and stood before Twilight and her friends.

"Well. We've had a little bit of a... debate. And as it stands, we've decided to draft up this little plan." Unpleasant was the first one to muster up the courage to talk. And as he did, his staff glowed with ethereal energy, causing a whiteboard to appear out of a puff of purple smoke, with detailed sketches akin to those in a business presentation. "You see, we Wicked have been fighting you humans for many years. Ever since the creation of the Yo-kai Watch Model Zero, in fact. We did this to not only cause pandemonium for our own benefits, but also serve a malevolent Yo-kai dealt a rather... unpleasant hand in life. In the end, we never really got anywhere and were overrun by the very Yo-kai and humans that we were so desperate to defeat." He flipped the board over to show another sketch, revealing a cartoonish scribble of the Wicked Yo-kai laid barren at the foot of a human with the Yo-kai Watch.

"And your point is?" Whisper lifted a brow at the Wicked Yo-kai.

"Long story short, cream puff, we've decided to do something we never thought we'd ever do. A merger with Wicked Yo-kai and Yo-kai Watch wielders." Unkaind rolled her eyes. "Though, it's surely going to tarnish our CVs for the next time we want to have a job working for another super-evil Yo-kai who wants to take over the world or cause untold havoc for all..."

"Cream puff? I'll have you know that I'm nothing like those unsightly balls of fluff!" Whisper threw his arms backwards, glaring at Unkaind. "In fact, I have far more class, sophistication, and elegance than any Cream Puff or that overgrown mess of a Yo-kai they all came from!"

"Whisper. Please. Just stop." Jibanyan jumped up, pulled Whisper to the ground and sat on his face. "You're embarrassing yourself here, ya nyaow that?"

"Anyways. What do you mean by a merger?" Sunset Shimmer lifted one of her brows. "Are you talking about doing some fusion or something?"

"What? No! It's business talk. If you ever wanted to get into the world of jobs, then you'd have known that a merger is when two companies decide to agree on something and merge into one. In this case, we want to join forces with you and fight against King Void. Sheesh!" Unkeen boomed loudly. "You'd think that people like you would understand job lingo..."

"Wait. Hold on a second. You want to become friends?" Sci-Twi's eyes widened. "But you and your Wicked Yo-kai were just attacking everyone at CPA! I mean, I know the whole King Void thing happened, but... really? I thought you'd be at least bitter, or have us want to fight you at least."

"Personally, I'd do the same given the long standing history that humans and Wicked Yo-kai have with each other, but as it stands, we're both up a creek without a paddle. And not the good kind of creek where there's something at the end of it." Untidy cracked his knuckles. "But if we do this together, we might be able to salvage something from this mess. Not that I don't like a good mess, but it's still just really sickening that King Void's getting all the fun these days."

"That and you really have to consider this. We are WICKED Yo-kai." Unfairy bounded on the spot. "Under no other circumstances would we ever want to hand over our Yo-kai Medals to someone like you. This is about as lucky as you're gonna get without one of those Noko thingamajigs popping up."

"So the choice is yours, princess. Do you want to add Wicked Yo-kai to your roster of Yo-kai? Same goes for all of your friends as well." Unpleasant reached into her clothes and pulled out a Yo-kai Medal with her body on it. She slid her fingers in a clicking motion, spawning two similar medals next to it. "This is a limited-time offer, after all. And we, much like every business that you might've seen before are making you an offer you can't refuse. No charge as well, because we're not entirely heartless."

"I don't really know about this. It all seems a little bit shady to me." Sci-Twi looked at the black lightning artwork on the medals. Almost none of it seemed optimistic outside of the rim around the edge of the medal.

"Trust me, if we were Shady Yo-kai, you'd be able to tell by the logo at the bottom. There's a fine line between Shady and Wicked, after all." Unpleasant pulled out three of his own medals, laying them out on his free hand. "But, since Unkaind's decided to lay out her end of the bargain, I suppose I should to. As will all of my fellow associates, I'm sure."

"Of course. It's unscrupulous for an honest trade to have some kind of dark undertones." Unfairy rubbed his hands together, producing three more medals of himself. "Now, again. Think about this. You ain't getting this chance again, kiddies."

"The five most powerful Yo-kai in the Wicked repertoire here. Course, I'd settle for nothing but the most powerful Yo-kai ever, but that's just me." Untidy was the next to procure his Yo-kai Medals. He reached into his pants and pulled them out, holding them up to Twilight and the others. "Go on. Have 'em. And don't worry about the smell. Sure it'll come off in a few days. Give or take a week."

Twilight, naturally, did what anyone would do after being given medals from a Yo-kai's pants. She held her nosed and made a gagging gesture with other hand over her mouth.

Unkeen said nothing and just went for his medals. As he held them out, he groaned internally. Now he was going to sell himself out to the very human race that had so desecrated him and his allies. His hand even shook, resisting his own urges to give the medals over to Twilight, Sunset, and Sci-Twi. At last, he caved into himself and held them out, turning away from the others.

"You know, call me crazy, but I think that we should try and take their medals." Whisper finally pulled himself out from Jibanyan's posterior and took a look at each of the medals. "I mean, the more Yo-kai friends that you have, the better. Even if they are... Wicked Yo-kai." He sighed a little bit. "Oh my. That is going to take some time to get used to."

"You can say that again. And again. Wicked and humans working together? Now there's something ya never see." Jibanyan deadpanned. "Still, turning down a Yo-kai Medal's also something I never see so... I dunno. You can take 'em if ya want, Twilight."

"We might as well. Better to have medals on hand than to have none at all." Sunset Shimmer walked up to the Wicked Executives and plucked out one medal from each. "And sure. Just because they're called the Wicked Yo-kai and that they've had a bad rep doesn't mean they're rotten to the core. At least, not anymore, I hope." As Sunset took a closer look at each of the medals, she noticed the foreboding nature of each medal's depiction of each Wicked Executive. The dark colours coupling with their bodies, a true insignia of evil.

"I see this as a tactical advantage as well. To have the underlings of a former villain on our side to battle someone as ruthless as King Void could be a great benefit." Sci-Twi was the next to walk up and take a medal from each executive. She too had the time to take a look at each medal as closely as possible, where she also noticed the malevolent pictures on each. "That being said, I highly doubt that we'll ever need to summon them unless it's a major battle we've got on our hands, but I'm sure that they have their own benefits outside of combat."

"Well, princess? You're next..." The Wicked Executives looked at Twilight with savage grins on their faces, causing her to shiver from head to toe as she gazed at the last medals in their hands.

Twilight was still at a crossroads with the idea of befriending the Wicked Yo-kai. What would the others think of her for having such Yo-kai in her possession after all of the mayhem that they had unleashed on the Yo-kai in the past? How would they be able to help her out in any way? And was there even a reason for them to want to be her friend apart from battling the Dark Yo-kai? As everything began stirring in her mind, she noticed Jibanyan dart towards the Executives and snatch the medals, dropping them into her hands, immediately snapping her out of her train of thought.

"W-w-wait! Jibanyan! I didn't even come up with my own conclusion yet!" Twilight jumped so much that she nearly ended up dropping the new medals onto the ground. Her body rapidly flailed and wiggled as she plucked each medal out of the air, looking like a hunched-over mess when she caught the last one.

"Well, I'd say that our work here is done. Let's bounce." Unkaind watched as all of the other Wicked Yo-kai vanished before her eyes. "Oh, and Twilight? Don't hesitate to give us a call. This little snake here needs her exercise every now and again." Unkaind gave a flirty laugh before she too disappeared before their eyes.

"So... The Wicked Yo-kai. The workers for Dame Dedtime..." Whisper took a turn at examining the medals. "I must say, after everything that I've gone through and all of the masters that I've served as a Yo-kai, I never once expected to see anything as bizarre as this. Well, except maybe a few other things, but that's beside the point."

"I've gotta admit, it's gonna be a bit strange, summoning evil Yo-kai like that. But I suppose that they can't really be as bad as Dark Yo-kai. Right?" Sci-Twi pushed her glasses closer to her face. "After all. It never hurts to have more than one iron in the fire, just like how they said it in my old classes here."

"Yeah. And I guess that you could say that things are about to get a little... wicked." Sunset's eye glinted as she cracked a grin of her own, sliding the medals into her pocket.

Twilight, coiling at the sight of Sunset's snark, leaned closer to Whisper, put a hand by her mouth and whispered, "Whisper? Remind me to order some anti-inspirit charms in case Sunset gets possessed by a Wicked Yo-kai someday, alright?"

A Bath Too Much/Illoo-sionary

Twilight Sparkle sat in one of the rooms of her castle. She laid the Yo-kai Watch down on a nearby table and wheeled over one of the many gadgets inside towards it. She brought what looked like a giant lens over the watch, before inputting commands into the console using her giant hooves on the keyboard. The giant device began taking in data on the Yo-kai Watch, but it was all in a code that only Twilight could understand.

As her little data expedition came along, Whisper wandered into the room along with Jibanyan. "Uh... Twilight? Not that I'm not enthusiastic about your little exploits but... what in the world are you doing with the Yo-kai Watch?"

"I'm trying to figure out exactly what this thing is made out of. Try to refine the tech a little bit." Twilight turned her head to Whisper briefly before she went back to the machine. "The more that I know about the Yo-kai Watch, the more that I can experiment with it. And if my experiments with the watch work, then we could make some more breakthroughs with it."

"And what kind of experiments did you have in mind, exactly, Twilight?" Whisper cocked a brow.

"Well, I want to find a way to improve the latency of the Watch as well as its' efficiency. Make it more than just a simple thing that I can use to summon my Yo-kai friends and find others." Twilight typed away at the machine, inputting character after character into it while keeping up the conversation with Whisper. "Think about this, Whisper. As it stands, the Yo-kai Watch can only summon one Yo-kai at a time, not counting the EX model that I made to battle the big, bad Yo-kai. But I want to make sure that the watch has more uses than just that. See if it can actually tell the time, improve my Yo-kai's combat efficiency, even try and integrate some tech from your Yo-kai Pad into it if possible."

"I see... And what of the consequences of failure?" Whisper drifted over to the Watch. "You know, these things aren't exactly cheap. And since Pinkie Pie cleaned out my account at Halloween, I think it's highly unlikely that there'll be replacements in order."

"Well, that's why I've got the Model Zero and Yo-kai Watch U, right? Don't get your swirl in a knot, Whisper." Twilight flashed him a grin."

"Nyeah, Whisper. Don't be such a soggy sport." Jibanyan clambered up Twilight's body. "Twilight's got a back up plan for everything, right?"

"Of course, Jibanyan. I've got a plan for every scenario." Except fighting King Void and the Dark Yo-kai, that is... Twilight, while she smiled on the outside, was dreading massively on the inside. For everything that had happened, she needed to make sure that her work was not only fast, but also beneficial to her and everyone else. If she couldn't come up with something to fend off the darkness, then everyone that she knew and love would likely meet a grizzled end.

"Well, don't let me try and stop you, Twilight. But this will be on your head if the Yo-kai Watch ends up being destroyed beyond repair..." Whisper folded his arms and turned his back.

"Which it won't, Whisper. Have some faith in me." Twilight rolled her eyes and was about to go back to her work on the console, when the door slammed open and she was interrupted rather abruptly.

"Twilight! Oh, thank Celestia I found you!" Mrs. Cake scurried into the room, barely even noticing the machinery as her eyes locked with Twilight's. "You've gotta come to Sugarcube Corner right away! It's an emergency!"

"What kind of emergency, Mrs. Cake?" Twilight asked, pulling herself away from the work as she strapped the Yo-kai Watch back on her hand.

"Well, I think it's just better if I show you! Come on!" She scurried back out of the room with Twilight in hot pursuit. Whisper and Jibanyan were soon to follow afterwards.

"I'm really not so sure what the situation could be that it requires my help, Mrs. Cake. If it's a busy day at Sugarcube Corner, then Pinkie Pie's gotta have you covered, right?"

"Well, see, that's the thing. Pinkie Pie's not working at all. Sure, she's in the building, but something's just stopping her from doing it. And instead, she's just... well, it's hard to explain it here, really," said Mrs. Cake as she turned her neck back to Twilight. "Like I said, it's best if you see it with your own eyes."

Twilight began to think about just what kind of situation could need her help if it wasn't even explained to her. As she eventually unfurled her wings to fly, she tightened the strap on the Yo-kai Watch. For all that she knew, it could have been a crisis involving a Yo-kai that needed to be battled down or talked into stopping.

Twilight eventually arrived at Sugarcube Corner with Mrs. Cake, then watched as she shot up the stairs. It wasn't long before she went after her. The both of them saw Mr. Cake out of the corner of their eyes, working hard to satisfy the customers in the place with their orders, but neither one of them stopped for a chat with him.

Mrs. Cake and Twilight made it to the bathroom of the house, where they saw the peculiarity at play. Pinkie, Poud Cake, and Pumpkin Cake were all sitting in the bathtub. All of them were just sitting inside, splashing each other with the water and soaking themselves in the soapy suds.

"Uh... Is this what you wanted me to fix, Mrs. Cake?" Twilight asked, tilting her head to the side as she watched the Cake Twins and Pinkie enjoying their time in the tub. "I... don't really see why this is an emergency."

"Well, normally, I'm totally for the Cake Twins having a bath. You know, they always say that cleanliness is close to godliness. But the thing is... The Cake Twins have been having a bath for nearly THREE HOURS!" Mrs. Cake threw her hooves towards the bath. "Not to mention, when I sent Pinkie Pie in to diffuse the situation, she ended up joining them and now she refuses to get out as well!"

"Three hours?!" Twilight lurched backwards as her eyes shrunk to pinpricks. "That's... a bit excessive for a bath, don't you think?"

"Well, as commendable as their efforts to enjoy the luxury of a warm, bubble bath may be, I can't help but feel that's a little bit too excessive; even if there's a couple of babies involved..." Whisper stared into the bath, watching the three ponies inside continue to soak and bathe.

"You think there might be a Yo-kai involved with this whole thing?" Twilight asked, lifting the Yo-kai Watch in preparation, flipping the lens outward.

"Twilight. How many times must we go through this? Yo-kai might be everywhere, but they are most certainly not responsible for every little thing that happens in this world, the Yo-kai World, or any other world beyond—" Before Whisper could finish, Twilight reached into his ethereal mass and pulled out the Yo-kai Pad "—H-Hey! Twilight? Since when is my Yo-kai Pad a free-to-use-tool that everyone can use? I mean, come on, now. That device cost me over 100,000 Yo-Dollars! Yopple gear isn't cheap, you know!"

"Oh, calm down, Whisper. I've got this sussed out." Twilight fiddled with the pad while pointing the watch at the bathtub. Once it did, the light revealed a small head with blonde hair and a blue bathing cap on top of it. Once she found the Yo-kai involved, she scrolled through the pad until she found an image that matched the head in the bath. "Anyways. It looks like we're dealing with a Yo-kai called Little Blue Bathing Hood. Anyone that she inspirits ends up becoming obsessed with baths. Either constantly taking them every few minutes or so, or in this case, never ever wanting to leave the bathtub ever. A good Yo-kai to have if you want to feel clean and refreshed, but in Sugarcube Corner's case... not so much."

"I must admit, the whole idea of a Yo-kai that makes people wanna bathe sounds pretty... confusining, nyan." Jibanyan rubbed the back of his head. "I mean, I'm a cat, and I don't need to get myself all wet to clean myself. All I need is to just lick myself all over and it does wonders." Jibanyan looked up at Little Blue Bathing Hood, then watched as she splashed him with water, giving a little giggle as she did so. "Then again... licking only does so much for you. Let me in there!" Jibanyan hurled himself into the bath and landed with a big splash.

"Jibanyan! Have you no shame?!" said Whisper as he and Twilight narrowly avoided getting wet themselves. "It's bad enough that the bath is already full to the brim as it is, but you in there? Now I really have seen everything..."

"So... anyone who gets wet by Little Blue Bathing Hood becomes inspirited?" Twilight pulled out her medallium and flipped through the medals. "Then I'm gonna need a Yo-kai that knows how to handle and avoid water... Or maybe someone that could handle the sitation from a distance." Twilight took another look at Little Blue Bathing Hood and watched as she just swam around the bath, bobbing under the splashes from the ponies and rubbing Jibanyan's belly as he laid with his back in the water. "That being said... she doesn't really look all that threatening or territorial. Can I really just strike her down with a Yo-kai friend? Or should I try to reason the situation out?"

"In any case, Twilight, she's a Yo-kai that's preventing Pinkie Pie from working, making these two baby ponies want to have an eternal bath, and has now assimilated Jibanyan into their little bathtime cult. Clearly SOMETHING needs to be done here," said Whisper as he looked at the bath once again.

Twilight took a step forward, reaching out towards Little Blue Bathing Hood as she made it back to the rim of the tub. "Hey. Hi. My name's Twilight Sparkle. You're Little Blue Bathing Hood, right?"

"Y-yes?" Little Blue Bathing Hood spoke with a high-pitched, squeaky voice. "Why do you ask?"

"Well, see, the ponies... and well, Yo-kai that you've inspirited have to get back to their lives." Twilight pointed each of the bathers out. "Pinkie Pie needs to go downstairs to help the family sell their cakes and pastries. The Cake Twins, Pound and Pumpkin are babies, so they've gotta go back to their room and play. And Jibanyan? Well, he's mine so... I kinda need him back if that's alright."

"Aww... but what's so wrong with having a bath?" Little Blue Bathing Hood asked. "They're super-soapy, loads of fun, and everybody loves to get clean every once in a while. You get so dirty from doing everything you do in the world around you, that it's good to just sit down in a nice, warm, bubbly bath and just let everything melt away." She giggled. "That's what I want everyone to see; that a fun bath every now and again helps melt all the messiness like butter."

"Well, a bath is good and all, but—"

"Here!" Little Blue Bathing Hood doused Twilight with a spritzing of water. "Why don't you come on in and join us? For a super-soapy, extra bubbly, clean bathtime like never before?"

"Well, if you want me too." Twilight, immediately befalling the inspirit of Little Blue Bathing Hood climbed into the bath, making the others give way as she dipped herself in the water.

"Twilight! No!" Both Mrs. Cake and Whisper collectively cried out as Twilight felt the water seep into her skin.

"There we go... isn't it nice to feel all squeaky clean and bubbly?" Little Blue Bathing Hood asked as she swam up to Twilight. "Just let everything go and just bathe your problems away. Trust me, it works."

"Mmm..." Twilight sighed in relief as she let the water dance on her body. "I gotta say, Little Blue, I kinda needed this after all the stuff that I've been going through."

"Oh? Like what?" Little Blue Bathing Hood pricked up her ears.

"Ever since this whole mess with King Void started, I've been worrying day in, day out about how I'm not gonna be able to fight back, that everything in Equestria, the Yo-kai World, Human World, everything, won't be enough to defeat this guy." Twilight lifted one hoof out of the water. "But... I just have to keep reminding myself that there are always Yo-kai out there, all wanting to be my friend given a little push or invitation. That's what you wanna be, right? My friend?"

"Well... I would. But... I've gotta wait for my big sister to come and get me first." Little Blue Bathing Hood blushed at each cheek. "See, my sister, Bubble Beth, she's a Yo-kai that loves bathtime as well. But she's extra clean because of all the super-soapy stuff that she uses. We travel between baths together, you see but... I kinda lost her in this world's baths. I thought that, if someone with a Yo-kai Watch would come and find me, then maybe they could point me in the direction of my big sis, but... no. No luck yet. Do you have my big sis's medal yet?"

"No, Little Blue, I'm afraid I don't." Twilight shook her head. "Truth be told, this is the first I've ever heard of you and your big sister."

"That's a shame." Little Blue hung her head, nose gently touching the water. "But hey, on the bright side, at least I was able to meet someone nice like you, Twilight. Most people who see me giving everyone the bathtime of their lives end up chasing me away. They think that my bathtimes are mean and that they suck everyone in like a black hole."

"Well, bathtimes can be good for you, so long as you do them in moderation, Little Blue Bathing Hood. Though, for you, I assume that moderation means as much as possible... But ponies aren't like Yo-kai in any sense of the word." Twilight unfurled her wings, yet didn't lift herself out. "Still, if you want to find your big sister, why don't we stay right here? Have such a long bath that, by the end of it all, Bubble Beth is sure to come running. Or... swimming. Or however you two travel these days."

"Thank you so so much, Twilight!" Little Blue Bathing Hood nuzzled her head against Twilight's fuzzy, yet drenched wings. "I promise that I'll be sure to let everyone get out of the bath as soon as my big sis comes and picks me up!"

Time went on and on for Twilight, Little Blue, and everyone else in the bathroom. While Pinkie and the Cake Twins still soaked and played their little games, Jibanyan and Twilight just sat there, letting the water wash them clean from the neck down. The creatures all festered in the bathtub for what seemed like minutes upon minutes on end, until finally, a small burst of purple smoke entered the water, filling it with bubbles.

At the heart of the bubbles, another tiny human laid. With long, luxurious golden hair held up by a lilac headband with a flower at the top of it, arms stretching out of the water poking out of a shirt similar in colour to the headband, and small pinpricks for eyes, she swam over to Twilight and Little Blue Bathing Hood.

"Sis!" Little Blue Bathing Hood giddily splashed over towards the newcomer.

"Little Blue, why'd you run off here? Do you know how many different bathtubs I had to search on this planet in order to find you?" Bubble Beth asked, wrapping her arms around Little Blue Bathing Hood underneath the water. "Did you find her for me?" She asked Twilight.

"Yes. Yes I did. I assume that you're Bubble Beth, right?" Twilight sauntered across the water. "It's nice to meet you. My name's Twilight Sparkle. Princess of Friendship."

"Princess of Friendship, eh? And I see that you have a Yo-kai Watch on you." Bubble Beth lifted Twilight's hoof out of the water, revealing the water-soaked watch. "Well, in that case, I should repay you for finding my little sister, Little Blue Bathing Hood." She drove her other hand into the water and pulled out a Yo-kai Medal of herself. "Here you go. I'm sure that you'll be able to find a use for this somewhere down the line."

"A Yo-kai Medal? Thanks!" Twilight took the medal out of Bubble Beth's hands with her horn's aura.

"Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Can I give her my medal as well, big sis?" Little Blue Bathing Hood asked with a jubilant smile on her face.

"Well, I don't see why not." Bubble Beth gave a smile as she shrugged.

"Yay! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Little Blue Bathing Hood tossed her medal out of the bath, with it landing on Twilight's head shortly after. Another aura from Twilight's horn scooped up the falling medal before it tumbled back into the water.

"Two Yo-kai Medals and all I did was have a bath. The wonders of having a Yo-kai Watch, huh?" Twilight looked down at the two medals of Bubble Beth and Little Blue Bathing Hood. "Take care now, you two. I'll be sure to call you if I need you, alright?"

Both of the Yo-kai nodded their heads before they vanished in another cloud of purple smoke. As soon as they did, the bubbles went away, leaving nothing but an empty bath and the ponies still inside of it. Twilight was the first to clamber out of the bath once the Yo-kai vanished.

As soon as Jibanyan snapped back to his senses and realised where he was, he let out a hearty scream, flailing his arms around as he careeened out of the bathtub, curling up in a ball by Mrs. Cake's feet. "I was given a bath! That's one of the worst crimes nyown to cat kind!"

"Well, technically, you decided to jump in as soon as Little Blue Bathing Hood worked her inspiriting magic on you, Jibanyan, so I hardly consider it a crime..." Whisper rolled his eyes. Mere seconds later, he was swatted into the wall by a cartoonishly large folding fan in Jibanyan's hands.

"Don't push your luck with me, Whisper..." Jibanyan's eyes flared as he looked at the battered pulp of white fluff that was once Whisper.

"Huh? What am I doing? And why was I doing it with the Cake Twins?" Pinkie Pie snapped back to reality next, climbing out of the bath with the babies in hoof. She gave them both back to Mrs. Cake before pulling the plug, letting the water drain out. "Well, whatever it was, I'm sure it was a blast. But, I think I'd better get back to baking those treats downstairs." She bounced off on her merry way. "Oh, hi, Twilight," she said as she went by.

"Ooo...kay?" Mrs. Cake looked on with confusion as Twilight gave her a pat on the back.

"Another problem solved, courtesy of the Yo-kai Watch." Twilight left the room behind. "Whisper, Jibanyan, come along now. We need to get back to the laboratory and see if we can upgrade this thing."

Mrs. Cake could still only watch as Twilight left, but the ghost-like Yo-kai that she had been friends with were invisible to her naked eye, save for a few wet footprints across the floor. Still looking on with a cocked brow, she could only stand there with her children and the bath. Still in a state of shock, wordless, she waddled out of the bathroom.

Back at the lab, Twilight set the Yo-kai Watch back down on the table. Once she did and the machine re-acquired the data for it, she took the two medals for Little Blue Bathing Hood and Bubble Beth, levitated them into her Yo-kai Medallium, then closed it up.

"Now that that's out of the way, let's get back to business. Step one. Figure out what the Yo-kai Watch really is made out of, so that we can identify what we can do to make it better." Twilight watched as the machine once again collected data on her Yo-kai Watch. Lines upon lines of computerised code came into view as she typed up a storm on the console's keyboard. "Scanning the ethereal energies in the Yo-kai Watch and cross-referencing it with the world's energy should be enough for me to discover a finite point of energy wherein the Yo-kai Watch gets its' power."

"Are you sure that your machines are up to the task? After all, Yo-kai technology's a cross-breed of Yo-kai energy and physical objects. At least, I'm pretty sure that's how I remember it when I read through Yopple Inc.'s overview of the Yo-kai Watch..." Whisper scratched his chin as Twilight remained focused on her work. "For all we know, nothing on this world could even register Yo-kai energy as a real thing..."

"Well, that's even more of a reason why this needs to be done. The more that we know about Yo-kai as a whole, the better understanding I'll have when trying to befriend them, band them all together to fight King Void, and just in general have a good roster of friends at my disposal to beat back the forces of evil when they do come knocking." Twilight heard a beeping noise coming from the machine. "Aha! Here we go. I've got something." Another quick series of types, and the machine finally showed a page consisting of Yo-kai matter in Equestrian language. "According to my analysis, the Yo-kai Watch's energy is a physio-metaphysical fusion."

"In english?" Jibanyan deadpanned, folding his stubby little paws over each other.

"Basically, the essence of all Yo-kai is physical, yet ethereal and otherworldly at the same time, psuedo-weaved together so that anyone can touch and feel a Yo-kai, but nobody can see them unless they have a Yo-kai watch. Invisible, but still there for the taking." Twilight put more and more commands into her machine. "So now, let's see just how much of that power it takes for the Yo-kai Watch to summon a friend of mine." Twilight flipped the medallium opened and went through all of her medals. "Let's see... How about you, Whisper?"

"Twilight, in what world do you think that I would make a suitable candidate for Yo-kai Watch testing? I mean, there are a plethora of others that you could use for this..." Whisper put his hands by his hips. Or what he thought were his hips. "If anything, I volunteer Jibanyan for this little experiment of yours."

"Nyeah, right! You're just trying to get out of this aren't you, Whisper?" Jibanyan leapt on top of Whisper, dragging him down to the ground. "Don't listen to that nyumbskull, Twilight. He's a perfect candidate for you testing out the Yo-kai Watch."

"Hmm... Now that I think about it, better to go with a simple Yo-kai first. Maybe Buhu. Haven't really used her in a while." As Twilight looked over at her medallium, she plucked out Buhu's medal, only to find that it had turned into a small graham cracker before her very eyes. "Wh-what?!" Twilight jumped into the air at the sight of the cracker, dropping it to the ground. "Did either of you see that just now?"

"See what, Twilight?" Jibanyan's voice came out, but Sunset and Sci-Twi stood in place of both him and Whisper.

"Wh-what the heck? Sunset? Sci-Twi? When did you get here?" Twilight scurried back another couple of steps, trying to make sense of what was going on. She looked down and saw the floor turn to ice, so her body kicked in and transmitted to her brain that the floor was slippery, prompting her to fall on her face. Small birds flew around her head as she tried to come back to reality.

"Twilight? Twilight, are you alright? Speak to us!" Whisper hurried over to her side to try and pick her up.

From Twilight's side of view, she saw a giant quesadilla looking at her in the face with a large cheesy jaw grinning down at her. She screamed as loud as she could, equipped the Yo-kai Watch, and loudly proclaimed "Come on out, Impass! Yo-kai Medal! Do your thing!"

Summoning Tough!

Gruff stuff!
Rough Bluff!
Red band, Jacket stand! Bling-blang, Tough!

Impass stood before Twilight and what she thought was the quesadilla, cowering behind the wall-like Yo-kai, she whimpered for her life.

"What's the matter, Twilight?" Impass asked. "All I see out there is Jibanyan and Whisper. Nothing really scary to worry about."

"They're a big quesadilla monster! So... gooey and cheesy... it's scary!" Twilight moaned, refusing to move from behind Impass's wall. "I'm counting on you to fight it until it goes away, Impass!"

"Well... okay then." Impass rolled his eyes, then trudged forward towards Whisper and Jibanyan before delivering a powerful swat to both of them, beating them to the ground. "Alright, Twilight. You can come out now. That quesadilla monster as you put it is long gone.

Twilight took a big sigh of relief and walked out from behind Impass. "Thanks, Impass. You're a real friend. I knew I could count on—" Twilight took another look and saw that Whisper and Jibanyan laid on the ground, with their faces buried into the floor "—gah! What happened?!"

"Well, it's plain and simple. You're being inspirited by some guy named Illoo." Impass pointed over his shoulder. "Take a look. Guy's right there and he's just as mischievious as ever..."

Twilight pointed her Yo-kai Watch in the direction of where Impass was pointing. Sure enough, a bird-like Yo-kai with a green outfit, clouds floating around him, and a small cane appeared when she directed the lens and light at him.

"Illoo?" Twilight cocked a brow as she looked into the eyes of the bird-like Yo-kai.

"Illoo's a master of illusion. And a rather devious one at that..." Whisper pulled himself out of the ground, pulled out his Yo-kai Pad and looked up Illoo on it. "According to my Yo-kai Pad, those that get inspirited by Illoo end up seeing illusions; things that they think are there, when in reality, they're not. They made you believe a lot of crazy things just happened when nothing changed at all in this room, Twilight."

"Well, except for the fact that you freaked out, summoned Impass and totally clobbered the two of us..." Jibanyan moaned, pushing out his back. A small cracking noise came out of him as he pushed his back into its' proper alignment. "I hope there's a good chiropracter in the Yo-kai World, because it's gonna take a while to fix this up..."

"Oh... Oh dear. I'm so sorry about that, guys. I... I don't know what came over me." Twilight rubbed her head. She shook it, then focused her attention onto Illoo. "Well, in any case, I know what's about to come over me. Impass? You mind if you take this for me?"

"Got it. A little rockslide should send him scurrying..." He rubbed his hands together, then threw them out, causing a cascade of rocks to fall upon Illoo, who simply disappeared in another puff of smoke. When Impass turned around, he saw Illoo standing right behind him, so delivered a powerful punch to him, knocking Illoo into the wall.

"Nngh... You're strong, princess." Illoo used the cane to stand himself back up. "But still... not strong enough."

"Says the bird who's trying to get up." Twilight grinned.

"Who says that I was a bird?" Illoo cackled, before the illusion fell, revealing Cutta-Nah for a second before he and his floppy sword-like body collapsed and faded in a puff of Yo-kai smoke.

"You're quite entertaining, young one. I must say, I've never had my illusions be so flexible before." Illoo's voice drifted throughout the room. "Usually, the people I inspirit see one thing, then decide that it's the truth. But here you are, really stretching my limits. How clever."

"Illoo... why are you doing this to me?" Twilight asked, looking around the room for the Yo-kai in question.

"Simple. I just want a good laugh. And quite frankly, my dear, you are providing." He popped up in front of Twilight's face, making her launch herself to the ceiling. She flew so fast that she banged her head and floated down to the floor. "For real. I can't remember the last time I've had such fun at watching my illusions work their magic."

"Wait... So you're telling me that all of this. This whole stuff. Making me see things that I didn't want to see for as long as I lived, didn't want to think about at all, and would cause me nothing but suffering and grief, is FUNNY?!" Twilight snarled as her horn billowed steam.

"Oh, absolutely. And it's still going on, my dear!" Illoo turned to dust as Twilight fired a beam of magic at him. "Oh ho ho ho... You're a riot, you know that?" His laughter echoed as Twilight fired beam after beam around the room, leaving nothing but small ash marks in her wake as she tried to find Illoo's hiding spot. In the end, she coated her entire laboratory in destructive trails, blackening the place from top to bottom.

"And with that, I believe I shall take my leave." He clapped his hands, causing a Yo-kai Medal to drop from the sky and land before her. "Here. Take it. Proof that you've made an old bird smile today with your little freak-outs. If you ever need my help to put someone in an illusory state, you know who to call."

Twilight took some time to breathe as she picked up Illoo's Yo-kai Medal. As she looked at it, she examined the room. Or rather, what had become of it after her little warpath. Impass had fled the scene, and Whisper and Jibanyan were still shaking behind the device that she had been using to examine the watch. Another reminder that there was a great evil stirring inside of her, and one that made her hang her head low as she looked at herself.

"I... I can't keep this up if I'm just gonna hurt everyone." Twilight said to herself as her hooves began to tremble. "One after another, I feel like things are just getting worse for me. "I'm gonna turn into Midnight again sooner or later."

"Oh... Twilight. You mustn't keep putting yourself down like this. You're only going to become Midnight by thinking that you'll become her. Just... try to think about something else."

"Like what? The fact that my lab's in tatters, the fact that I was just tormented by a Yo-kai for his own benefit, and I now feel like I've just wasted valuable time?" Twilight tried to think of words, but nothing came to mind. "Sorry. I'm just too angry to think about anything right about now. Let's just leave this until tomorrow, alright?" Twilight blew some steam out of her nose and took the Yo-kai Watch with her as she left the room. "I need something to calm my nerves..."