Pikatwig: Oi… we haven't updated this story for quite a while… and yet I already finished planning out quite a bit of the notes and important plot points for this thing. *reaches down below before pulling KKD up*
KKD: What the?! How the? What's going on? How'd I get here?
Pikatwig: Don't know… anyway… shall we try and get back to this?
KKD: Uh… s-sure.
Pikatwig: Okay. *walks over and gets the disclaimers out of a filing cabinet, handing them to KKD*
KKD: Why do I always have to set these up? Not complaining, just curious.
Pikatwig: I don't know. It just sort of happens that I always pass it onto you… I've never known why. Because, if you see some of my old work, my disclaimers were pretty dang simple, and if you looked at some of what I typed with my brother, they're pretty dang lengthy.
KKD: Okay… I guess… *sets up disclaimers*
DISCLAIMERS: Neither Pikatwig nor KKD own the franchises used within this fanfiction. MLP belongs to The Hub, Hasbro, Lauren Faust, etc, and Kamen Rider Gaim and Kamen Rider in general belongs to Toei, Bandai, Shotaro Ishinomori, and their respective owners. Same can be said for all other materials and references used, except for original content within, which are owned by KKD Silver & Pikatwig. Credit for the original merging of these two as well as the opening legend go to FlamedramonX20.
"We need to find a crack soon you know…" Zangetsu told Duke as they were looking to try and find a way to get the Lockseeds they had recently picked to Ponyville.
"I know, I know, but it's not always easy to find it," Duke pointed out.
"I'm just stating," Zangetsu stated in annoyance, reaching for his Musou Saber, before stopping and simply continuing to look.
Bravo continued to wail on Gaim, knocking her into Siren, before laughing at her.
"You're pathetic! You call yourself a Rider? You're not even worthy of calling yourself a Wonderbolt. Oh that's right… you're still a trainee!" Bravo scoffed.
Gaim growled in anger, struggling to keep herself in check until Baron charged in and began to smack Bravo from behind.
"Don't you DARE mock her like that!" Baron snapped, smacking Bravo with the Bananspear, "Rainbow is more worthy of calling herself a Wonderbolt than you ever were!"
"You all bore me…" Bravo scoffed, slicing her Lockseed.
=*Guitar Riff*=
=DUR~IAN SQUASH!=
And with that, Bravo charged up her swords, the Durinokos, before connecting them, spinning around and knocking all of the Riders back, forcing Rarity, Twilight, Pinkie and Applejack out of their Rider forms.
"If there are no more silly fools wanting to get in our way… let us continue this battle Rainbow," Bravo stated, with Gaim glaring at her in anger.
(Cue Opening: Just Live More by Gaim no Kaze)
*The current scene suddenly zips open to reveal the start of the opening where all six fruit riders pose in their own ways, focusing on Gaim, the orange rider.*
Got it, Move… WOW! *All of the Riders weapons hit the title forming it, and then a sky background appears behind it.*
My Little Pony: Gaim Sengoku
Don't say no! JUST LIVE MORE! Don't say no! JUST LIVE MORE! *Focus on Gaim, before shifting down, to show Rainbow Dash, glaring at something off camera.*
Sabaibaru you gotta move (It's survival, you gotta move!) *Dash charges forward to a ruins of sorts, before being blinded by a strange light*
Gendai wa sanagara sengoku (When life's a sengoku) *The scene then shifts Twilight, holding one of her books with her magic, and looking at a mysterious fruit.*
Dare ga kachinukeru (Who's got the strength to win?) *The Tree of Harmony is shown, but something begins to form in the back of it.*
Kagi wa hirake rarete shimatta (Now that all the locks are open?!) *Out of the backside of the tree, walks in Zangetsu-Shin. The scene changes to Twilight holding the Banana Lockseed, and Dash holding the Orange Lockseed*
[Don't say no! JUST LIVE MORE!] *Gaim and Baron can be seen, trying to fight something, before being joined by Rarity, who is holding a Strawberry Lockseed.*
Doko ni aru? Do tsukau? (Where will you find… And how will you use?) *Meanwhile, by two ponies who couldn't be seen, are two badly damaged items, but only the shadows can be seen, as they hold out Lockseeds as well*
Kindan no kajitsu (The forbidden fruit!) *All six Riders stand ready for action, when various ponies activate the powers of their belts.*
"Ima" to iu kaze wa nani o tsutaeru tame Dare mo (The wind of the moment has its own message to share) *All the Riders pose with their various weapons and armors, the scene swapping between that and the average day in Ponyville*
[Omae no moto ni fuku? Tsuyoku tsuyoku Blowin' up!] (It's blowin' stronger and stronger till it reaches you) *The Mane 6 hang out, Dash, Twilight and Rarity holding their Orange, Banana and Strawberry Lockseeds respectively while the others hold a Lockseed of their own, currently blackened out. This is swapped with images of the Earth Pony legends related to Gaim and the more current battle with Gaim and the other Riders and monsters they fought.*
Ashita ga yume ga mada mienakute mo (Your dreams and future may seem so far away...) *Gaim arrives at a mysterious forest, and sees all sorts of creatures roaming around.*
[Soko genkai? Seiippai ikite iru to ierunara] (When you've got all you can out of life, that's when you can stop) *Gaim looks at the other Riders, almost as if trying to choose who to trust and who not to trust.*
Utsumuku na yo [kao agero] doko madede mo [Mageru koto naku] (But don't let life get you down [Keep your head held high] Wherever you may go [Never compromise yourself]) *Rainbow Dash looks to see a mare who looked almost just like Twilight for some reason...*
Shinjita michi o ike JUST LIVE MORE! (Follow the path you believe in, and just live more!) *Near the ground are the core six Rider's main fruit armor damaged, with a closed Lockseed by each.*
Don't say no! JUST LIVE MORE! *Dash walks into the sunset, with Twilight following her.*
Lock 7: The Might of The Giant Suika
"Found one!" Zangetsu shouted, seeing a zipper that lead to Ponyville, but not where the battle was currently taking place, but rather closer to the town's entrance.
"Good, let's move!" Duke responded as they leapt through, Zangetsu becoming an Earth Pony while Duke became a Unicorn.
"Well… this is… uh… interesting," Duke admitted.
"Fitting you're the Unicorn… given… you know," Zangetsu stated.
Duke simply gave a nod, before the two ran through Ponyville, trying to find Rainbow as quick as they could.
"Let's hope we aren't too late," Duke muttered.
=PINE ARMS! FUNSAI, DESTROY!=
=SEIYA!=
=PINE SPARKING!=
Gaim quickly swapped into Pine Arms, before using the Armor Part to defend herself from Bravo's Durian Au Lait Rider Shooting attack, the blasts hitting various trees around her.
"Quit hiding behind a pineapple and try and hit me already!" Bravo shouted.
"...Well, okay. You asked for it," Gaim muttered before swinging her mace, the Pine Iron, at Bravo, who took to the sky and evaded.
"HA! You missed! I don't get why that pony saw you as such a giant threat! You're not fighting, you're playing. Just like when we were in the Wonderbolt Academy," Bravo scoffed.
"Who're you talking about? Who told you this?!" Gaim demanded to know, as Bravo landed.
"Fine… you should at least know who it is that told me to end your silly little playtime kid. Some unicorn who gave me this buckle, gave me a chance at revenge for you getting me kicked out of the Academy, and here I am," Bravo explained.
"Some unicorn… think she might be talking about Micchy?" Kouta asked Gaim.
"Likely," Gaim nodded before she charged at Bravo, managing to wrap Bravo up with the Pine Iron.
"No you don't," Bravo scoffed, slicing her Lockseed twice.
=DUR~IAN AU LAIT!=
After that, she managed to untangle herself, and using the Pine Iron as if it were a soccer ball, she kicked it forward.
=PEACH ENERGY SPA~RKING!=
=KURUMI SPARKING!=
Suddenly, both Marika and Knuckle got in front of the attack, deflecting it with their own Armor Parts, with Rarity, Twilight and Fluttershy being able to get back up and turn back into Rider form.
=BANANA/STRAWBERRY/BUDOU ARMS!=
"You alright? You don't have to help me you know," Gaim told them.
"But we want to help you. You are our friend, Rainbow," Baron informed, with both Fraise and Ryugen nodding in agreement.
Gaim smiled at this, before they all stood their ground, when suddenly…
=LEMON ENERGY SQUASH/MELON SQUASH!=
Both Duke and Zangetsu charged forward, striking Bravo from aura energies of the fruits their armor was of, but Gaim could've sworn she saw an energy dragon and train from Duke and Zangetsu respectively.
"What the…?" Gaim gawked before Duke landed first.
"Yo," he smiled, as he took out the Lockseeds that he and Zangetsu got while in the forest, "Uh… Rarity, right? These are for you,"
He proceeded to hand Fraise the blackberry and blueberry themed Lockseeds he got, before handing the mango themed Lockseed to Baron and the kiwi themed Lockseed to Ryugen. The Riders in question just looked confused at this before Zangetsu tossed a watermelon themed Lockseed over to Gaim.
"Another new one… wonder what this one does…" Gaim stated, as she unlocked it.
"You may wanna back up…" Duke warned.
"Why?" Fraise, Ryugen and Baron asked.
=S~UI~KA!=
With that, Gaim looked up to see a crack that was much larger than normal before it opened to reveal a GIANT WATERMELON!
"WHOA! It's huge! Lemon-boy, it's too big! Too big!" Gaim gawked.
'I never understood why Ryoma made the final version so big when the prototype was like most of the others...' Duke thought.
"Don't worry about the size Rainbow, just use it!" Kouta shouted.
"Ugh… Fine, HERE GOES NOTHING!" she shouted, setting up the Lockseed.
=LOCK ON!=
=SEIYA!=
"Come on!" Gaim shouted, in her Ride Wear form, when the Armor Part dropped down onto her, she caught it for a moment before it seemingly squashed her under its weight, making the ponies around her unfamiliar with what this Armor Part could do gasp and scream in fear and concern.
"Rainbow!/Dashie!"
Baron took this in, before clenching her Bananspear and started to bang Duke on the head with it, making Duke wince in pain.
"WHY DID YOU KILL AN INNOCENT PONY?!" Baron snapped, while Zangetsu simply blinked at this, before laughing.
"...I don't get it," Bravo shrugged, trotting over and poking the Suika Armor Part, "What the heck was this thing supposed to do? And if it was meant to be a trick, why would there be a Lockseed designed to let the user commit suicide?"
Suddenly, the armor rolled right into Bravo, sending her flying into the air.
=SUIKA ARMS! ODAMA BIG BANG!=
=SUIKA SQUASH!=
With that, the melon somehow leapt into the air before repeatedly attacking Bravo, before the armor changed shape, shifting into a mode where others could see Gaim was clearly in control and there were some watermelon slices acting as wings.
=GYRO MODE!=
"Sorry for the scare there," Gaim apologized.
"Rainbow! I… she's still alive… and… uh… sorry for hitting you uh…" Baron stated.
"Duke, Kamen Rider Duke," Duke introduced himself, "And melonhead there is Zangetsu, by the way."
"Oi, who are you calling Melonhead you… lemon-headed-ryu-yaro!"
Meanwhile, Gaim just flew around trying to take care of Bravo, with the battle being watched by Micchy, who was on the ground.
"Must I support that fool? Ugh… I guess I have to take the more serious route," Micchy groaned, calling forth a horde of Inves and sending them to attack the other Riders.
"That's not good," Baron stated, readying the Bananspear to fight the horde.
"Um… m-maybe… this'll work?" Ryugen stated, unlocking the Lockseed.
=KI~WI~!=
"EEP!" Ryugen gasped before a Kiwi formed above her, and then she stirred up her own courage before setting the lock in place.
=LOCK ON!=
=HAI~!=
=KIWI ARMS! GEKI, RIN, SEIYA HA!=
With that, the Kiwi fell on Ryugen's head, forming a whole new armor for the shy pegasus, the main color being a light brown, but it also had lime green accents, eyes, head-fins, and held in her tail were two wheels of sorts, which kinda surprised her.
"Um… how do I work these?" she asked, as she held them up like a sort of paper fan in self defense.
"You throw them…" Duke informed, "Like a boomerang."
"Oh…" she responded before swishing her tail and sending the two Kiwi Geki Rins flying forward.
Baron blinked at her new Lockseed, before unlocking it.
=MANGO!=
=LOCK ON!=
=COME ON!=
=MANGO ARMS! FIGHT OF HAM~MER!=
A new armor part dropped down onto Baron, the mango falling on top to form a cape, her helmet having ram horns and was mainly red and orange, and a weapon landed by her front left hoof which looked like a peeled and diced mango with spikes on it.
"Whoa… this looks heavy," Baron admitted, while Fraise took a moment to look at the two Lockseeds she was handed.
"Oh… which do I choose?" she muttered, before she picked the blackberry Lockseed with "LS-15" on it.
=BLACKBERRY!=
=LOCK ON!=
=HERE WE GO!=
=BLACKBERRY ARMS! FOUET MISTRESS!=
The blackberry Armor Part landed on Fraise, forming a new darker armor that had shoulders both of vine and berry, the front had a split heart, the eyes were black with a violet spiral, and in her tail was a blackberry-themed whip. She clenched it hard and struck a few oncoming Inves, before the Kiwi Geki Rins struck them, knocking them down before Ryugen caught the weapons with her tail.
"Thank you, Fluttershy," Fraise smiled.
"No problem," Ryugen giggled.
"Stupid ponies…" Micchy growled in anger, as he took out an A Rank Lockseed, unlocked it, and three Advanced Inves emerged from the portal, these being themed after a deer, an eagle and a boar, "Go. And destroy those Kamen Riders,"
The three Inves nodded before charging forward, with Fraise quickly seeing them and starting to attack them. She managed to wrap the boar up with her whip, but was overpowered by the eagle and the deer.
"Tch… a Shika Inves and an Eagle Inves… Zangetsu, we need to move quickly," Duke informed as he fired his Sonic Arrow at the Inves.
"You don't have to tell me twice!" Zangetsu nodded before taking out a papaya themed Lockseed with the code "LS-20".
=PAPAYA!=
=LOCK ON!=
The Melon Armor Part disappeared and the Inves attempted to attack the Ride Wear suit, but Zangetsu managed to move around in a rather hip-hop styled way, jump up and evade them.
'Guess Hanatare-Kuso rubbed off on me...' Zangetsu thought, before slicing open the Lockseed.
=SEIYA!=
As the melon armor dispersed into splashes, the papaya's lower half and upper sides opened up, forming wing-like armor parts before falling over Zangetsu. The papaya's upper half then opened up, with the top split into half and folded to shoulders, and the front folded to chest to reveal chest armor. Upon folding, Zangetsu gained a staff-like weapon with papaya slices on the both sides of its end, looking like M letter, similar to a certain group of family magic users. He glanced at his weapon and smirked.
=PAPAYA ARMS! TENKAI MAHOU!=
"Heh… ikuze, ikuze, ikuze!" Zangetsu shouted, charging forward with his staff, blasting foes away with magical energy blasts.
Meanwhile, up in the air, Gaim was attempting to hit Bravo with watermelon seed blasts, but she missed each time thanks to Bravo managing to evade, however, the weight of the suit was taking it's toll on Bravo, with the pegasi landing and panting.
"Time out… time out… let me catch my breath…" Bravo stated before she realized the suit was weighing her down so much that she was starting to lower to the ground without even slowing her wings down, "Uh… help!"
Gaim let out an annoyed sigh, watching as Bravo's wings finally gave out, falling towards the ground due to exhaustion and the weight of the suit.
"...Let her fall… she got herself involved with the bad guy," Gaim muttered.
"But Dash. She is another pony like you! You have to help her…"
"Do I gotta?" Dash whined like a little kid who didn't want to go to school.
"YES!"
"*groans* Fine…" Dash groaned before using the Suika Arms to fly down after Lightning before…
=YOROI MODE!=
The Suika Armor transformed into a pony-mecha with pegasus wings again, quickly catching Bravo in midfall before landing safely, the two dropping their henshin.
"...I'm so tired…" Lightning panted, staring up at Dash.
"...Let call this a draw," Dash offered.
"Deal. But this isn't the end! I will be back soon! Well… not like within an hour or so… I need to work… but someday… not like tomorrow er… you get the point, right?" Lightning checked, with Dash simply nodding, "Good. I will be back, Rainbow Dash… COUNT ON IT!"
With that, Lightning tried to fly, but her wings failed her, forcing her to plop to the ground.
"Grrr… guess I'll walk for now…" she figured, walking off, while Dash simply took the Lockseed, noticing the image of the watermelon was… gray.
"What the heck? I don't remember this being gray," Dash noticed.
"It's out of juice for now. You have to let it recharge first, and save it for when you really need it," Kouta informed.
"I get ya."
=BLUEBERRY ARMS! SIGNORA OF NUNCHAKU!=
With that, Fraise's armor changed again as the new Armor Part dropped down showing she now had the vines being on her hind legs, blueberries on her shoulders, an upside-down heart on her chest, a vine connecting to a blueberry set of bug-eyes, and now being by her right front hoof, before being levitated by her magic.
"Finale…" Duke muttered, reading to push the lever on his Genesis Driver.
"Did you say something?" Baron asked.
"No… nothing," Duke responded.
=LEMON ENERGY SQUASH!=
=PEACH ENERGY SQUASH!=
=KURUMI AU LAIT!=
=BLUEBERRY SQUASH!=
=KIWI SQUASH!=
=MANGO SQUASH!=
With that, Duke and Marika fired their Sonic Arrows at the Inves as Knuckle bashed the Inves into the air, Fraise and Baron struck the Inves that was knocked into the air, while Ryugen threw the Geki Rins right into the last Inves, which destroyed them all.
"There… that's the last of them," Ryugen sighed, as they turned to see Duke and Zangetsu were gone all of a sudden, "We… didn't get a chance to thank them…"
The group later met up at Twilight's castle in order to try and discuss recent events and try to get a bit of a breather after the series of events that had occurred.
"So… what was with Lightning?" Twilight asked.
"Just wanted some silly revenge," Dash shrugged, "Where'd the Lemon-head and the Melon-head go?"
"We don't know," Twilight shrugged, "They just disappeared after we finished off the Inves."
Dash looked up for a moment, as if in thought.
"Rainbow, you okay?" Twilight asked.
"I'm fine…" Dash assured.
"Well… I guess we can take it a little bit easy for now…" Twilight figured.
Later, in Helheim, Micchy walked up to a particular tower, or more accurately, the ruins of a tower, and saw, within a desk drawer, was another Genesis Driver, and an Energy Lockseed with the code "ELS-07" and it had a persimmon theme to it.
(As the scene ended, Gaim's current Lockseeds, Orange, Pine, Ichigo, Donguri and Suika came across the screen and closed, with the Gaim Symbol behind the zipper.)
Pikatwig: And there's that. And there's another Genesis Driver and Energy Lockseed… hmm… interesting. And before you ask, no, it won't be another remold of the Peach Energy Lockseed, like the other two Energy Lockseeds after Melon Energy have been.
KKD: What he said. Anyway, glad this is overwith, though after our discussions of some ponies recently, I'm kinda regretting us having Lightning be Bravo.
Pikatwig: Don't worry… later on, there will be a remedy for that. Just trust me. Anyway, thoughts on this chapter?
KKD: Overall very nice, and I admit I'm kinda glad we got back to this.
Pikatwig: And there seems to be some hinting as to who is underneath the suits of Duke and Zangetsu… hmm… interesting, don't ya think?
KKD: Yea… I wonder… anyway, fav parts?
Pikatwig: The humorous ending to Gaim and Bravo's big battle, just how Kouta kinda had to make Dash go and help Lightning got a good laugh out of me.
KKD: Yea, that was pretty cool. And it's nice to see the Suika Arms here. But honestly, with news of the prototype Suika Lockseed appearing in the Gaim Gaiden focusing on Zangetsu, I really would've liked to test that here.
Pikatwig: It may appear, it may not. But really, we need to wait until we know the sounds that come from the thing. Give it time, okay?
KKD: Okay, I guess… still, while the mecha was cool, I totally would've taken the prototype Suika Lockseed over the official one. For all we know, there's gonna be a significant lack of wait time.
Pikatwig: You do know that it's technically called the Watermelon Lockseed, right?
KKD: What's the difference? Suika is Japanese for Watermelon, so it's the same thing.
Pikatwig: What we do know about the "Arms Call" is that it does indeed say "Watermelon Arms" and not "Suika Arms". And also, with that Lockseed, the next Apple Lockseed, along with the Gold and Silver Lockseeds, Gaim Kiwami Arms has again been shown to not be able to summon every Arms Weapon… just saying. And thus, we end this off. Just Live More.
KKD: Jaa ne.