It was twenty five years ago that Nightmare Moon returned from her thousand year long banishment to the very source of her huge power: the moon.
Celestia had sent her student; Twilight Sparkle to ponyville, in order to oversee the preparations for the summer sun celebration. However, Twilight had read about Nightmare Moon earlier that day and lead five other mares into the everfree forest, in order to obtain the elements of harmony. After passing through several obstacles that had been set up by the evil Alicorn, they reached the Castle Of The Two Sisters, in the main hall were the fossilised forms of the Elements, the other mares left the room while Twilight attempted to activate the magical artifacts. Only to fail as Nightmare Moon appear and dragged the young unicorn through a Forced Teleportation, over the next few minutes the two went through a game of cat and mouse as Twilight had managed to learn the Teleportation spell from the evil Alicorn. The other mares then managed to find them and Twilight realized that the Elements Of Harmony were not meant to be used by a single user, but one for each element.
Applejack became the Element Of Honesty, while Pinkie Pie was announced Laughter. Fluttershy got named Kindness and Rainbow Dash was pronounced Loyalty. Finally Rarity got chosen to become Generosity and the Element Of Magic since she was the one that brought them together. Nightmare Moon was defeated by the Harmony Rainbow turning her back into Princess Luna.
About a year later the Bearers Of Harmony faced off against Discord, Lord Of Chaos and Disorder. He stole the Elements Of Harmony and tricked the mane 6 into going into the castle maze, with a riddle. Or at least he tried to, Twilight had stopped the others explaining that the last line of a riddle often changed the meaning of the whole thing! After about ten minutes, she figured out that their adventures started with the book about the Elements in ponyville, after getting back to the library, the found out that the book had been hollowed out and the Elements were inside it. When Discord showed up looking for them, his look for shock was going to be stuck on his face for a long time!
Their next adventure was that they went into a town in the south of Equestria called 'Our Town'. It turned out that all of the ponies there were equal, thanks to the fact that the town's leader: Starlight Glimmer had the power to removed the Cutie Marks of ponies and replace them with equal signs. She managed to trick the mane 6 into the cave where she kept the marks and remove their, drastically weakening their ability. However the next day, Fluttershy noticed something off about Starlight, all of the ponies had dull coats, but her's was still bright. So after following the town leader, she found out that Starlight's equal was just make up and used a bucket of water to exposed the purple pony to the town. Leading to a rebellion, where Starlight was forced to flee with the mane 6's cutie marks, only to be chased and the jars that the marks were in to be smash, resulting in the final 6 marks returning.
Starlight then showed up at the end of the year, using an improved version of Star Swirl The Bearded's time travel spell she went back in time to stop the Sonic Rainboom that brought Twilight and her friends together. After Twilight managed to drag Starlight into a timeline that had been created, the second purple unicorn accepted her offer of friendship.
About a year later, the mane 6, or 7 now were invited to the wedding of Twilight's brother Shining Armour and Princess Cadance (I'm not writing her real name! It's to long!) However Twilight noticed that something was off about Cadance, who she had known for years. That Cadence was kind, caring and thoughtful.
This Cadance had insulted the food and gotten bucked out of the kitchen, been punched for insulting Rainbow Dash's flying skills, made Pinkie Pie cry by insulting her party planning, driving Rarity insane by constantly complaining about the dress and it took the rest of them mane 7 to stop Fluttershy from strangling her after she hit one of the birds in the choir. Shortly after which Twilight heard her singing, which convinced the purple unicorn that her babysitter was evil! She and the other took it to Princess Celestia. However, the white unicorn disowned Twilight as his sister and told them not to come to the wedding and Princess Celestia banished them! In the real wedding Princess Luna barged in with the real Cadance. The fake then revealed herself as Chrysalis, Queen of the changelings, both Luna and Celestia attacked the bug like pony. However, Chrysalis had been absorbing love from Shining Armour and converting it into magic for over a week, combined with the fact that Celestia was never very good at fighting, the Sun Princess was out in one attack, with Luna following shortly after as being on the moon for a thousand years had permanently damaged the magic circuits within her horn.
It would have been over for the ponies, if 'they' hadn't appeared, seven humans dressed in different kinds of clothes, with a belt of power around their waists. They beat Chrysalis in seconds before vanishing into thin air.
Humans had been around for as long as the rest of the species on Eques had been. However even the Diamond Dogs were smarter than these ape like creatures. Among ponies they were treated like pets in general, but others like Griffons hunted them for food, as did most of the other meat eaters. To see seven, let alone one talking and using magic that was on equal ground to Alicorn Magic was unheard of!
However, when Cadence found out what Shining Armour and Celestia did to Twilight and the rest of the mane 6, she sworn that she would never marry until Twilight returned. Luna had also been furious at her sister, as had the family and friends of the mane 7. Spike had left Equestria all together, as he wanted to be nowhere near the monster that had banished the mare he thought of as a mother.
It was about a year later that the Crystal Empire had returned, Cadance had left for the north of Equestria along, despite the fact that Celestia had wanted her to take Shining Armour with her. She had found the crystal heart with ease as her love magic guided her right to it, resulting in Sombra getting ripped apart.
Luna had then been sent to track down Triek who had escaped Tartarus and was draining magic from ponies, she had found him at night (when she was at her full power) at beat him to a pulp, since he was nowhere near strong enough to take on an Alicorn.
Then an evil greater than Nightmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis, Sombra and Tirek combined, the robo's. About a year and a half after Tirek had been sent back to prison, some explorer's Daring Doo among them had discovered a tomb, it contained all kinds of metal statues and some kind of computers! But these ones were over a century more advanced than the ones that Eques had started to develop. All of it was written in equestrian, so it was easy enough to translate. They then found out that these beings were called robots and could move, they had been used to make the lives of their creator's much easier, but when the species that had been responsible for building them was whipped out, they were vacuumed sealed away, so that they could be used again eventually.
Within the year they were up and running again, as a result the life of the ponies was much easier, however the robot's programming included a mind link that made sure all of the robots could speak to each other in their heads, better coordinating their tasks and movements. When they were brought back online there was several ponies who thought that this would be a bad idea, but in a world that was governed by harmony magic, who wouldn't want their servants to be more harmonious? With that thought in mind the concerns were completely ignored!
However after two years, it was clear that they should have been listened too. Five of the robots that worked on the police force saw a filly being bullied by several colts. They had the thought: "Why do ponies rule over robots when they hurt each other? Robots never do that? So wouldn't it be better if the world was ruled by robots?" Thanks to the network, every robot in equestria heard that, for a whole month they argued! Eventually, that actions of those give bullies condemned over a thousand! The machines turned on those who had reactivated! As a result the Princesses were forced to abandon over three quarters of Equestria.
The robots ripped apart whatever living thing that they could get their limbs on, as a result Pegasi and Earth Ponies were now endangered species! Unicorns weren't so bad since horned ponies with enough magic needed to blast through metal were a lot more common, than Pegasi that were able to get enough or Earth Ponies that had enough strength.
A month later the robots had made robotization rays. If a pony was hit by one, then they would be transformed into a robot that was loyal to the cause. By this time it had been discovered that they robots were what whipped out their original creators.
After about two years of war, things got either better or worse for the Unicorns. The robots had been… dissatisfied with their progress, as a result they had decided that they needed to fight fire with fire. Or in this case magic with magic. They had found a way to extract the magic out of a pony and store it within their own. However it took a lot of time and effort to get it out of a Pegasi or an Earth Pony, so now the robots only tried to capture the Unicorns, not kill them.
Today was the day of the final battle, it would be taking place between Ponyville and Canterlot, after which the resistance would be unable to fight anymore. It was well known that four of the five robots that had the 'rebellion thought' would be in this battle, so defeat was bound to happen.
The reason? The Rainbow Of Darkness. It was a magic artifact that had been left by Lord Tirek, Tirek's predecessor. The robot's leaders had found it and used it one their follower's, as a result the robots now had the ability to regenerate.
Which is why everypony in the resistance base was surprised when they saw the soldiers returning, alongside many other ponies most of whom they recognised as former resistance member that had been robotized or citizen that had been lost in the early days.
Twilight Velvet, alongside her two lost Daughter's Sunset Shimmer and Trixie, both of home had been kidnapped at birth, along with the third member of the triplets: Starlight Glimmer. Stepped forwards: "N - N - Night Light?" She gasped with tears in her eyes. "Is i - it really y - y - you!?"
The stallion nodded: "It's me alright"
Instantly the mare who had lost everything flung herself into husband's hooves. "H - H - How?!" She stammered after she stopped crying. "I thought that the robotization was irreversible!"
"It'll be explained in a few minutes"
Earth one: Several years ago:
Walking into a museum were seven people, two were clearly robots, while the the others were humans girls. Each girl were what looked like some kind of school uniform, with a white shirt, under a red jacket, white stocking and black mary jane shoes. Each one had a bright cheerful smile on their face, but on the inside they were trying to do blink, move, scream or do anything out of their own free will, just as they had been doing ever since this waking nightmare started.
Several years ago a family that consisted of a father, a mother and an eight year old daughter, had found a five year old girl on the street dying of cold, since it was the middle of winter. After weeks of searching, they had found no records of her existence and she had memory loss, all she remembered that her name was Twilight Sparkle, so they had adopted her.
But the father was in the special forces, while the mother was a member of the army, as a result they were often away for weeks at a time, so a sitter had to look after the kids until, Lucy was old enough to look after her sister.
However, one day Twilight had accidently destroyed one of her sister's dolls, while helping move a desk. About a month later on Lucy's birthday, Twilight had been dressed up as a Hyper-doll, which was a new type of remote controlled robot that had appeared on the market over twenty years ago. A control chip had been applied to the back of Twilight's neck which made her a prisoner inside her own body, unable to do anything but obey orders. Twilight had been taken to Hyper-doll world, a city the residence of which were all Hyper-Dolls, the purple haired girl had been put in a maids outfit and sent to work in the royal place. The next day she had been brought by her own family! Lucy had revealed that she had slipped control chips on their parents, after which they had walked home, before Lucy had their mother put a control chip on Lucy, one of her friend while she was helping set up Twilight's new room.
The next day they had gone to a fair and been part of a Hyper-doll race, before going to a fun house for Twilight's eleventh birthday, in which they were forced to go on a long rock climb. The next day, they had awoken in the park and been forced to ballet dance in a random direction and been found by a bride who was getting married in a week. Only for the situation to get even worse, when Twilight's family arrived and volunteered the purple haired girl and Amy to be bridesmaids. Over the next week the two had been soldiers at the Hyper-doll world army barracks, with Twilight's mother as their commanding officer. After the wedding Twilight and Amy had been dressed up as brides and been married to each other.
Then they'd been taken to the Hyper-doll factory, which had malfunctioned, dressing all of them as Hyper-dolls. They been taken back home, where a robo mummy and a robo daddy had been waiting. That was a week ago, now they were visiting the museum.
None of them were aware of what fate awaited them.
*BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!*
It happened so fast!
One moment Twilight's body was walking through the museum, when she felt an enormous pain in her chest, then nothing!
[Drive Type Speed!]
*Upbeat jazz music!*
A mechanical voice yelled those words and Twilight felt power shoot through her veins! All the weakness vanished as she jumped to her feet, in some kind of combat stance.
"Hum? So you still alive" Commented a voice.
Twilight spun around and saw a frightening sight the museum had become the location of a massacre! Blood was everywhere and bodies littered the floor! Some had been ripped in half and others had clearly died of what looked like bullet wounds.
Standing among the corpses were three humans but they were totally coated in what looked like rubber, their head's looked like they were made of white rubber, whereas their bodies were all grey and their heads also looked like different animals. The leader's looked like a cobra's head, while the other two had the heads of a bat and a spider's head.
"Why?" Demanded Twilight with head down so that her hair's shadow shielded her eyes.
The spider doll as it will now be called tilted its head to the side. "Why what?"
"Why did you kill them?!"
"Not one of them had looks good enough for us to even try and copy" Shrugged the Spider doll.
"That's it?" Demanded Twilight quietly. "Thats your justification for taking away human lives?!"
"What are you going to do about it" The Cobra walked up to Twilight and pulled its hand back for a punch.
Suddenly Twilight moves to the side slightly, dodging the punch and slamming her fist into the robot's face, sending it flying back.
"I'm going to kill you!" Whispered the newly born Kamen rider Tan. With that she ran towards the other two robo's, catching a glimpse of herself in a shard of glass as she ran:
She now had short hair that only reached to the top of her neck, it was bright red, with two black highlights cutting through the outside of it, two thick white highlights moving through the middle of it and between them was a barely visible bright blue highlight. Her skin had the same colour and complexion as before, but her eyes had turned bright silver and almost seemed to glow dully.
Her headgear consisted of a red forehead protector, with the same colour scheme and highlights as her hair. In the centre of it was a silver R within an equally silver circle. Her mouth and the bottom of her nose were covered by a silver mask that looked like two pieces of metal, that had been bolted together with six rivets (three on each side). The mask was decorated with what looked like silver pipes that would normally be seen within an engine block, on the back of the mask were what looked like a pair of black exhaust port openings. Finally, over each ear was a black circle, with red outlines and a silver R within them Coming out of them were a pair of red horns that were connected behind her head by what looked like a red rear wing, that would normally be seen on a sport or race car.
Her attire was comprised of a sleeveless vest that showed off her firm abs that had clearly come from hours of working out. The vest had a tire going around it from her right bottom rib to her left shoulder, like a sash. On the top of the vest's left breast was a small silver line, while on the other side of the tire / sash was a black triangle. Her waist was adorned by a red skirt that stopped about halfway down her upper legs that had black vertical lines running through it, under this was a pair of pitch black biker shorts that reached halfway down her upper legs. Her hands were adorned by black fingerless half - palm gloves, while her feet were covered by roller blades the middle of which were black. The buckles were silver, while the wheels were black with red centres.
Her armour consisted of pointed red shoulder guards, the front of which were black, on the ends of them were black vents and above those was a yellow / orange light, also these were shaped like the back corners of a car. On each arm she wore a red thin arm guard, that was pointed over her elbows. Just before said joins was what looked like a silver gas cap with a black triangle below it. A silver bracelet shielded her right wrist as her other was taken up by the Shift Brace. On her knees were silver grill shaped knee guards, with bright red shin armour, that was very thin, clearly built for speed. Her armour was completed by red armour on the back of her hands that had a spike over each of her outer knuckles.
The tire that went around her chest was pitch black, it had a red line emerging from the edges of it and the words 'TYPE SPEED' printed in pure white along the sides of the tire.
Around her waist was a red belt with the Drive Driver for a buckle. It looked like a silver car dashboard that, that had a speedometer shaped screen in the centre of it called the Dash Screen, it displayed a red R on a black background. On the right side of the Driver was a small red key called the Advanced Ignition.
Her gear was completed by the Shift Brace, it looked like a black shift gear with a Shift Car taking the place of the lever. It was outlined in silver, with a red button on the right side called the Finisher Igniter. The brace was held on by a red strap and on top of it was a red Shift car with black wheels, yellow headlights, a black roof, a black windshield and two white lines cutting through it. This is Shift Speed.
"How do I know all that?" Thought the red haired girl as she jumped and slammed her left knee into the bat doll's face. Before spinning round and landing a left hook into the side of the creature's head, knocking it down.
The cobra doll came up behind her and tried to punched the girl, only for Twilight to dodge and tried to perform a sweeping kick.
*Clang!*
"GAH!"
'Tried' being the keyword here. "Note to self, the cobra is the strong one!" thought the frustrated girl as she hopped up and down on one foot.
*BAM!*
Her distraction had cost the red haired girl a punch to the stomach, she was sent flying into a pillar. "That hurt!" She growled.
"Like we care!" Shouted the Bat doll as it shot energy bullets from its fingers at Twilight, who tried to dodge, but several of the shots hit her legs, slowing her down.
"Shit!" Before she could do anything the unnamed Kamen Rider Tan found herself locked in combat with the Spider type, and was getting her butt kick! Although she could keep up with it and it's hull was not as armoured as the Cobra's, with the bat still managing to hit her despite the fact that the spider was between them, she was taking a lot of his that caused the red haired girl to let several attacks get through her guard. Then the Cobra joined in, but not in the way that Twilight thought. It's chest opened up revealing a giant cannon! "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" The red haired girl tried to get out of the way but the bat managed to hit her leg, causing Twilight to fall. The beam then hit her, sending the red warrior flying, through a dinosaur skeleton!
"Damn it! This is getting me nowhere!" She glanced up at her head's up display, seen that another hit like that and she'd be dead!
"What am I supposed to do now?!" She screamed in her head.
[Pump me once to use your power!] shouted an known voice surprising the red haired girl.
"Who said that?!"
[I'm on your wrist!]
Twilight looked at the Shift Brace and saw Shift Speed light up: [Hi!]
"Y - Y - You can talk!" She squeaked.
[Yup!]
"Why? Why am not surprised anymore?!" Demanded Twilight after a few moments of silence.
[Don't know. Now do what I said!]
The Kamen Rider Tan nodded as she rolled out of the way of the Cobra, right into the stream of bullets that the bat had sent at her! Just before they could hit Twilight pumped Shift Speed once:
[Speed!] roared the Drive Driver.
Suddenly, everything slowed down for Twilight, even the shots were moving really slow!
"H - How?!" She gasped as she took several steps backwards, to get some breathing room.
[Currently, your in your Type Speed armour using the move called 'Speed Run' It basically allows you to move so fast that it looks like time is slowing down, but-]
Suddenly the Speed Run ended and the bullets hit Twilight. "WHAT THE HELL!" She screamed.
[-It only lasts for ten seconds]
"TELL ME THAT SOONER NEXT TIME" Suddenly Twilight noticed that the Cobra doll was charging its cannon again, she was about to roll out of the way, when the spider spat out a web that stuck her foot to the floor!
[Quick! Pump me twice! Then block it with your forearm armour!]
"I hope that I'm not making a mistake!"
[SP-SPEED!]
Twilight threw up her arms and block the beam! To her amazement it started to swirl inwards, getting absorbed into the Absorption Caps near the end of the forearm armour.
"Whoa!" Gapped Twilight as her forearms buzzed with power!
[Now punch forwards!]
Twilight obeyed and a fist of energy shot out of each of her hands, hitting the Cobra robo and exploding violently.
"What. Was. That!" Demanded Twilight as she jumped behind a suit of armour for cover.
[Each Shift Car give you three moves and a Finishing Attack. In my case it's a movement technique, a defence technique and an attacking ability.]
"Wait, all the Shift Cars?!" Demanded Twilight. "As in there are more of you?"
[Yep! Come on Flare, come on Spike and Shadow!]
*Electric guitar squeal*
*Dubstep music warble*
*Shamen strum, slicing sounds*
Three Shift Cars appeared, each one looked like some kind of hot rod. The first was bright orange, with a dark orange windshield and dark orange tires, it's also covered in flame like patterns. The second is neon green with a purple windshield and lime green tires, also it was covered in bumps. The final Shift Car was dark purple, with black tires and a yellow windshield, on its hood was a light purple ninja star. These are known as Shift, Max Flare, Funky Spike and Midnight Shadow.
They all drove on a mini road that had appeared out of thin air and leapt onto a Shift Car holder that had appeared on their owner's waist.
"...So how do I use these?" Questioned Twilight as she took Shift Max Flare out of the holder.
[First, turn the Advanced Ignition to unlock me from the Shift Landing Panel!]
Twilight did so, avoiding several blows from the Cobra and ducking behind it, so that the bat's shot impacted on its fellow doll instead of her.
[Second; Flip the back of Max Flare around so that it looks like a lever!]
Twilight ducked another swing from the Cobra and weaved around several from the Spider, the second she did so, Shift Speed's back flipped around, so that it now looked like a car.
[Now put it onto the Shift Landing Panel and flick it!]
With that the red Shift Car launched itself off the Shift Brace, ramming into the bat, that had been about to shoot at the red haired girl. "Fast!" She shouted since it had cleared a 10 metre gap in about two seconds! Shaking off her shock Twilight placed Shift Max Flare into the Shift Brace and pumped it:
[TIRE KOUKAN!]
"Tire Change?" Questioned the girl was the Dash screen displayed the word 'GO' in red before it turned into a spinning wheel. Suddenly, an orange tire appeared, it was spinning like some kind of UFO. The tire was made of metal and had six flaps emerging from its outside, also the thing was on fire! Out of instinct Twilight ducked, causing the tire to slam into the Cobra doll, as it was charging her, knocking it down! The tire then hooked onto the speed tire, causing it to phase through Twilight and slam into the bat doll that had been getting ready to shoot again. The fire tire then phased through Twilight's body and locked into place around her chest, with a loud click.
[MAX FLARE!]
*Electric guitar squeal*
Twilight's eyes, absorption caps and knee armour turned bright orange and the Dash Screen displayed a red flame on a black background.
"Flare? Then that means!" She pumped Shift Max Flare once and ran at the Cobra.
[MAX]
Her hands burst into orange flames as she punched the robo, burning right through it's thick armour! The scream of "ARGH!" was music to her ears.
Suddenly, the spider shot a web at her again! "Nice try!"
[FLARE!]
The Max Flare Tire burst into flame that rapidly burned away her bonds. Seeing the cobra running at her again, Twilight ducked and kicked it back, before pumping the Shift Car thrice.
[MAX FLARE!]
A fiery copy of the max flare tire appeared in front of Twilight. "Flare Tornado Striker!" With that she kicked the tire at the doll, which caused it to expand into a tornado of orange fire, lifting the doll into the air, scorching it!
The Spider ran at Twilight, who ducked and threw a punch, sending it staggering, allowing her to change Shift Max Flare for Shift Funky Spike.
[Tire Koukan! Funky Spike!]
*Dubstep music warble*
This tire was neon green with spikes all around the outside of it. It also caused her eyes to change to the same colour, as did the Absorption caps and the knee armour.
The bat fired several shots at Twilight, who rolled out of the way and flicked Shift Funky Spike.
[Funky!]
The spikes on the tire shot off and regenerated instantly, hitting the bat's wings and making them unusable, it hit the ground with a loud crash.
The spider and cobra engaged Twilight in close combat, only to receive several lightning fast spiked punches. When she pumped Shift Funky Spike twice:
[Spike!]
Twilight then leapt over the spider robo and grabbed it in a headlock so that the Funky Spike tire was pressing into its back. "Spike tire shredder!"
[Funky Spike!]
The tire started to spin and ripped through the doll's back like a chainsaw, throwing it into the air, where it blew up!
"One down, two to go!" Muttered Twilight, even as she switch Funky Spike for Midnight Shadow.
[Tire Koukan! Midnight Shadow!]
*Shamen Strum, Slicing Sounds*
The Midnight Shadow Tire was purple and looked like some kind of ninja star.
Without wasting time, Twilight pumped Shift Midnight Shadow twice.
[Shadow!]
With that she generated several purple energy ninja stars and hurled them at the doll's, the spider was able to knock the ones aimed at it away, but they tore right through the bat!
"Time… to… end… this!" panted Twilight now heavily exhausted, as she changed back to Type Speed.
[Drive Type Speed!]
*Upbeat Jazz Music*
Twilight then hit the finisher ignition and pumped Shift Speed.
[THE FINISHER! FULL THROTTLE! SPEED!]
The red haired girl crouched down and allowed her last of her energy to gather in her right foot.
"I WILL KILL YOU!" Screamed the last doll as its hands started to heat up with black energy.
Twilight finished building up energy within her foot, causing her whole leg from her knee downwards to start glowing a brilliant red.
"Speed" she muttered as the crouched.
"Ten finger Shadow" Growled the doll as it brought its hands back.
"Drop!" roared Twilight as she leapt into the air.
"Pistol!" Finished the doll as it brought its hands forwards.
The two collide. "Why? Why do you fight against the inevitable and the greater good? Humans have caused nothing but pain! Wouldn't it be better to just give into order?! To become a doll and sever our goddess!?"
Twilight could feel that she was now winning. "Because that's what humans are! Our whole history has been based around chaos! Why would we want to change who we are?! And why the heck would I want to give up my free will when I just GOT IT BACK!?"
At that very moment the doll ran out of energy and Twilight's Speed Drop smashed it to scrap!
As Twilight staggered out of the museum she thought: "This is just the start of my journey! Who knows? Maybe someone will join me along the way, hopefully a hot girl!"