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SZ: Aye, but we're back to this finally! Though given what's happening with the source material for the mlp part of this fic, specifically Mauroz' take on it? We might have to save something like that for the next book of this fic. So...we may only have a few more chapters to go for it...we'll see how things go.
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Ryotaro groaned as he woke up to his alarm. He moved his hand around weakly to find it. Momotaros hearing it as well due to their link took control of Ryotaro's arm and slammed it down on the alarm clock.
"Mou…" Ryotaro groaned as he sat up, "Time for another day…" he grabbed a towel as he got up to go take his morning shower. He opened the door only to stop as he saw Kotaro running past him.
"She's the one who jumps me!" Kotaro panicked.
"A likely story!" Hana shouted, chasing him with a baseball bat.
"Morning…" Ryotaro called out as he went into the bathroom. As he began, undressing he noticed a lack of soap, "Ah…" he turned around and opened the door only to stop as several of their new female tenants were conveniently outside the door at that moment, they stopped and stared at him, "Uhm…"
"...what are we looking at?" Sonata whispered to her sisters.
"I...wh...haba…" Adagio muttered, slightly drooling a bit.
"...Damn what a six pack…" Aria blurted out.
"...Ahem!" Adagio cleared her throat, shaking her head as she slowly closed the door, "M...morning...Ryotaro…"
"Morning...can...can I get some soap?" he asked slowly as Sonata opened the door again and handed it to him.
"Your welcome!"
"Thank you…"
"Alright you three get moving." Sunset spoke from the otherside of the door, "Also he's technically taken."
"Aww~" Adagio's voice pouted at that.
"Darn...it's always the hunks…" Aria added.
"I'm still not telling who!" Kotaro snapped.
"You better not dumbass!" Hana shouted.
"AH! My shins!"
"Don't worry, Kota! I'll get the ice!"
"Why is this becoming normal?" Ryotaro asked as he sighed and turned on the water.
"Well things aren't exactly normal after you've met Twilight and the others," Urataros chimed in.
"True…" Ryotaro muttered.
"Bah...I bet life would be easy if not for all these weirdos...we could focus on nothing but fighting!" Momotaros huffed.
"That's not what you said when you and Rainbow teamed up with AJ against those Diamond Dogs when they took Rarity and Fluttershy," Urataros countered, "A few days after we came home from Sakura New Town too."
"Bah…" Momotaros huffed.
"You'd think they'd learn after the first few times…" Ryotaro sighed.
"I hope they never do...so I can continue to torture them!" Momotaros laughed.
"Hmph! Barbarian…" Sieg huffed.
"Baka-Momo," Ryutaros deadpanned.
"Shut up snot nose!"
"Baka-baka!"
"I like the time we said we'd let them go...if they beat me in Sumo!"
"You stole their mawashi after each win!" Momotaros complained.
"Dems the rules!" Kintaros laughed.
"You didn't have to burn their clothes Senpai…"
"I didn't think the Kuma would strip them of the dang mawashi!"
"Wait...so...they didn't have anything at all?" Celeste laughed.
"I gotta find a way to turn off group chat in my head…" Ryotaro sighed.
"S-sorry we're late, minna," Fluttershy spoke as she and Rainbow walked into the cafe, "I had something important to do real quick."
"Fluttershy won't say what it is, so it's top secret," Rainbow added, "Probably another sick animal or something."
"Oohh~ Secret," Pinkie noted.
"Pinkie, no," Twilight sighed, pausing from reading her current book.
"Pinkie…" she began, only to yelp when M-Ryotaro picked her up over his shoulder and leaned back to slam her head first into the floor with a suplex.
"Pinkie no!"
"Good thing she went with shorts today." Rainbow blinked.
"My suggestion the day before today," Rarity spoke
"Now let some blood flow to your brain so you can think like a normal person!" M-Ryotaro snapped.
"I love you too, Momo…" Pinkie groaned.
"Least she's okay...maybe," Applejack muttered, carrying a tray of baked goods and some apple juice.
"Sweet! C-" Rainbow began.
"It's not cider, Rainbow."
"Shoot…" Rainbow pouted.
"...I think you might have a problem, Rainbow Dash," Sunset deadpanned as she walked in.
"I don't have a problem! You have a problem!" Rainbow argued.
"I don't think you should ever have anymore...lest we repeat the Christmas that shall not be named…" M-Ryotaro spoke, "I still have no idea how you locked yourself in a barrel Rainbow…"
"Says the oni who locked himself in the school kitchen the night before pudding day with Pinkie," Rainbow argued in a simple tone.
"That's different...Pudding doesn't make me blubber like an old man…" M-Ryotaro countered.
"Actually I recall that you…" Pinkie began only to be bonked on the head, sending her falling down again, "Pinkie down…"
"Moving on…" Twilight sighed as she closed her book, "Anyone else have something to speak?"
"Oh! The proceedings for the School dance are coming along well," Rarity answered, "After that whole fiasco with the Dazzlings, the school had more than enough money to not only continue the dance, but improve upon it."
"More like Harshewhinny wanting to keep things quiet because she was afraid of what happened during her 'episode'," Rainbow argued.
"For someone so strict, I'm surprised she has that...side to her," Fluttershy admitted.
"I already uploaded it to the internet." R-Ryotaro spoke in a serious tone, making them all jump.
"...um….M-Moving on again," Twilight muttered, "So uh...anyone have any plans for the summer once the school year is done?"
"Besides leading a revolution to turn this city into Ryutaros Town?" R-Ryotaro asked.
"Wait, what?" Twilight asked.
"What?" he asked back, as if pretending what he said wasn't said.
"...Well probably gonna head out of town or something," Rainbow shrugged as she sat down, resting her arms behind her head, "Heard about some super speedy hedgehog in a part of Japan calling himself the Fastest Thing Alive...like heck I say! If anyone's the fastest, it's me: future Wonderbolt Rainbow Dash!"
"Oh! I think I know who she's talking about!" Pinkie gasped as she shot up, "That blue hedgehog that was on one of that Roll girl's giant battle livestreams!"
"Someone livestreams those?" Applejack raised a brow.
"Yup! The Giant Robots are so cool~! They all look like blocks combined with animals! ...Or is it animals combined with blocks?"
"I stole someone's credit card to support the channel," R-Ryotaro spoke, "It was Twilight's."
"You what?!" Twilight snapped before taking a deep breath, "Nevermind...moving on…Rarity?"
"Well...I was hoping to take Coco with me back to New York to further practice my designs and outfits," Rarity admitted.
"Least that Suri gal won't bother ya," Applejack muttered, "As fer me...not sure honestly. May visit mah cousin Braeburn back in th' States."
"Ah…" R-Ryotaro gasped excitedly.
"He ain't a cowboy…"
"Imma still think it…"
"...Ano, I might head with Rainbow to that city where the hedgehog is," Fluttershy spoke.
"You just wanna check to see if there are more like him and that Roll gal, don't you?" Rainbow asked, earning silence from the shy pinkette, "...Yeah, I thought so."
"Demo, Rainbow-san only wants to go 'cause her pride is bigger than her other notable features…" R-Ryotaro spoke.
"..."
"And you've been silenced as well," Sunset giggled a bit.
"Ryuta's gotten snippy," Pinkie noted.
"To anyone but you…" Twilight pointed out, "He still obeys you like a good boy."
"Because he's my precious little bro," Pinkie stated as she hugged R-Ryotaro.
"Okay, but still...why is he suddenly so good at vetoing us?" Rainbow growled.
"Like in Volleyball...the tallest prevail," at that, R-Ryotaro held up his hand and blocked a punch.
"You know...I don't know how he got so good at being snippy…" Pinkie admitted, "Might be the manga I let him read."
"Which makes me afraid what manga you're letting him read," Twilight sighed.
"...Well what about you two, Twilight? Sunset? What are your plans for the summer?" Fluttershy asked, earning the attention of the two magic users.
"Well, I'm still planning on heading out with Zecora so I can train more in magic," Twilight answered, "Sunset...I'm not sure honestly."
"I guess I'll stay here with Ryotaro and Yuuto to keep an eye on things," Sunset shrugged.
"So babysitter?" Rainbow smirked.
"I'd take Ryuta with me...but he and Ryo are a package," Pinkie admitted.
"I shall still take over the town!" R-Ryotaro smiled.
"Please don't…" Twilight sighed, "We already cause enough chaos in town as is."
"We rather do," Rarity admitted, "Especially when Imagin are involved."
"Well...at least none have popped up y-" Pinkie began before a lasso wrapped around her mouth, "Mmm?!"
"No...don't even finish that," Applejack frowned.
"Besides, Momotaros-no-baka would have smelled one by now. He's been bored and is taking it out on the city's criminals," R-Ryotaro spoke, "Last time he got all antsy, he lowered the crime rate to single digits…with that single digit being the crimes we commit!"
"And that makes me worried he'll become a bad influence on Spike," Twilight muttered, "Same for Applebloom and her friends."
"Oh come on. You act like Momotaros is the worst of the Imagin," Pinkie argued.
"Do you know how many times he's pulled Ryotaro into his shenanigans and gotten him injured?" Twilight asked.
"What? You got a file for that?" Rainbow joked before Twilight reached into her backpack and pulled out something small, "...What's with the magnet?"
"This isn't a magnet. This is a cabinete I shrunk with my magic," Twilight explained, "And in it? In it are all the police reports and news articles on Momotaros' rampages, one of which is from SPD even!"
"I didn't know they were aliens…" M-Ryotaro spoke, "To be fair, they should have had green skin...everyone knows aliens have green skin. What aliens look just like humans!? That's stupid!"
"It's always been a thing!" Twilight argued, "You never think! You just attack head first into everything!"
"Not true!"
"What if we ran into another dog-based Imagin?"
"Simple. I close my eyes."
"That's not a-" Twilight began before she tensed, seeing a ladybug landing right on the table, "?!"
"...Twilight?" Sunset blinked as the ladybug turned towards Twilight.
"...EEEEYAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Twilight screamed as she ran off in a violet blur.
"Oi Masaka...ano Mahou-onna…" M-Ryotaro spoke, a grin growing on his face, "Bwahahahahaha!" he laughed, falling over, "She's scared of ladybugs!"
"A-am not!" Twilight argued, poking her head out from the stairs, "I just...just...um…" she tensed when the ladybug took off into the air, "AAAH! DON'T LET THAT RED AND BLACK SPOTTED DEMON GET ME-!-!-!"
"GYAHAHAHAHAHAHA!-!-!-!" Ryotaro laughed in the voices of the main for Taros as he fell over, his hair spiking up with four colored streaks and his eyes shining like a rainbow light show.
"...Wow," Rainbow slowly blinked, "That's...surprising…"
"Says the girl who shares the same ideal of hell as Frieza…" M-Ryotaro taunted.
"Don't even joke about that," Rainbow instantly denied before tensing, "...I mean, what?"
"...Ah can relate kinda with Twilight," Applejack admitted before shuddering, "Worms…"
"You already know me and those vile disgusting crabs," Rarity added.
"Hmph. We all know that the shy one ain't 'fraid of any animal or bug," M-Ryotaro snorted.
"...d-dragons," Fluttershy spoke, "I'm afraid of dragons."
"...and yet you read Dragon Ball and stuff?" Rainbow raised a brow.
"Yes, but I'm talking about ferocious, monsteroust, terrible, fire breathing dragons...like Smaug from the Hobbit books," Fluttershy explained.
"Aw...You're just an adorable little geek ain'tcha?" Pinkie taunted, hugging Fluttershy.
"Mmm…" Fluttershy blushed a bit in embarrassment.
"How'd this turn into 'talking about what we were doing for the summer' to 'what we're afraid of'?" Sunset asked with a chuckle.
"How does half the things we do make sense? I'm still sure the pink one is actually a Fifth dimensional being who is trapped in this world," M-Ryotaro pointed to Pinkie.
"Oh that's s-" Pinkie began before she tensed, a shiver literally going up her spine, "...TWITCHA TWITCH!"
"FINALLY SOME ACTION!" M-Ryotaro beamed as he shot up, grabbing Pinkie and tossed her over his shoulder, "Lead me, crazy Mizu-onna!"
"ONWARD, MOMO!" Pinkie exclaimed as they ran out.
"...Okay...I think I've calmed down…" Twilight sighed as she walked back in...and noticed the M-Ryotaro and Pinkie-shaped dust cloud, "...Imagin?"
"Imagin," the girls sighed.
"Mmm...Where is it…?" A Ladybug-themed Imagin muttered as people fled from it, "Mmm...too loud."
"THERE IT IS!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"AHH! Too l-" the Imagin began before a pink 'ball' rammed right into it, causing it to gag and fly back as the 'ball' spun in the air for a moment before uncurling, revealing it to be Pinkie.
"Aaaaaaaand…." Pinkie began, looking on before wincing when the Imagin crashed into a car, "Strike!"
"Excellent!" M-Ryotaro pumped a fist in victory.
"OW~! THAT HURT!" the Ladybug Imagin complained as she shot up, "And you're too loud too!"
"What do you mean 'too loud!?' I haven't begun to get loud!" Pinkie argued.
"Ahh! Please, no! I just wanna find a quiet place for the first half of my wi-eep!" the Imagin meeped as she covered her mouth, "...Please forget that."
"No."
"...PLEASE FORGET THAT!" the Imagin snapped, pulling out a wand similar to a bell flower and aimed it at the two.
"Ha! What's that gonna d-" M-Ryotaro began before a bolt of electricity zapped him, "Brbrbrrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrb~!"
"Wow…" Pinkie blinked.
"It shocked Ryotaro so strongly, it made him swap...well...us…" U-Ryotaro noted.
"Well...change al-" Pinkie began before she was zapped, "Sputtering noises~!"
"Don't underestimate me because I'm a girl!" the Ladybug Imagin shouted as she fired off another bolt of electricity from her wand.
"No, wait! I'm not-AH!" U-Ryotaro fell over before getting up as K-Ryotaro changed into his kimono, "I was asleep...What did I miss? ...Oh look, a lady. AH! Nakerude!" he shouted as he was zapped again.
"Why don't you just stay down? How many quick changes can you do?!"
"Give us a second," R-Ryotaro flipped up before he began dancing around each bolt.
"Mmm~! Stop d-KYA!" the Ladybug Imagin screamed as she was hit by a fireball, "Itaiyo~!"
"Okay. We're here," Twilight spoke as she and the others -minus Sunset- ran in, already transformed and ready, "What did w-" she tensed the moment she saw the Imagin, "..."
"...Twilight?"
"L….L….L….L…." Twilight whispered as she began to hyperventilate...before she quickly ran off in a panic, "EEEEEYAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!-!-!-!-!-!"
"Oi! Come back! Wai-Sputtering noises!" R-Ryotaro cried as he was zapped and fell over.
"Ryuta, you…" Rainbow began before W-Ryotaro shot up.
"Hime!" he called out while running after Twilight, leaving several feathers from his boa.
"...Well that's j-" Applejack began before she narrowly dodged a bolt from the Imagin, "Woah nelly!"
"Wait...Can this Imagin...force Ryo to swap Imagin personas?" Rainbow asked, having just took notice of what just happened.
"Yep!" Pinkie replied, her hair now stuck in a staticy afro, "And it ruins hairdo, too!"
"I notice no difference…" Rainbow deadpanned.
"Rude!" Pinkie pouted.
"Girls, focus!" Rarity called out, summoning a wall of earth to block the next bolt.
"Right. Rarity, you and Fluttershy back up," Applejack spoke, "Me, Pinkie, and Rainbow will handle this thing 'till Ryotaro and Twilight come back."
"Understood/hai," Rarity and Fluttershy nodded.
"Triple team!" Pinkie declared, quickly transforming as she summoned her ice hammer.
"Heh...Leave it to me. Electricity is my thing," Rainbow smirked, cracking her knuckles.
"Good luck," Rarity spoke as she and Fluttershy went off in the direction Twilight and W-Ryotaro had gone.
"D'oh~! Why won't you leave me alone and let me fulfill my wish!?" the Imagin complained as she fired off another bolt.
"What I want to know is why a ladybug fires lightning!" Pinkie demanded, "Don't you empty your guts out to dissolve wood?"
"...The hell, Pinkie?!" Rainbow exclaimed after a moment as the other three there looked at the pink one.
"What?! It's true!"
"That's the Asian LadyBeetle, not a ladybug!" Rainbow argued.
"And y'all know that…?" Applejack began with a raised brow.
"Fluttershy gave me a pleading look to come to a butterfly garden where they were doing a presentation on ladybugs," Rainbow replied.
"Ahh…"
"Why lightning still?" Pinkie asked as she formed a wall of water to absorb the next bolt before sending the water at the Imagin.
"I think there's a myth revolving around electricity and ladybugs," Rainbow answered, "..May need Twilight to give us the full details, but…."
"It's okay, Smartypants….it won't hurt us…" Twilight whispered, her face greatly pale as she laid in a fetal position on her bed back home, holding onto a ragdoll pony, "The red and black spotted demons won't hurt us here…"
"...Wow," Spike slowly blinked, standing in her bedroom doorway, "Thought I'd never see this again.."
"I'm surprised she hasn't hit me yet…" W-Ryotaro spoke, appearing out of nowhere next to Spike, making him panic.
"GH! D-don't scare me like that!" Spike shouted before taking a deep breath, "Seriously, what's got her all panicky like this? ...It wasn't a Ladybug-themed Imagin, was it?"
"Actually yes it was." he nodded, "I thought it was funny...normally when I profess my undying love for my Hime...she reacts in a bashful tsundere manner…"
"...Hoo boy. I know I'm not supposed to tell anyone, but...this is kinda dire," Spike sighed, making him raise a brow, "Back when Shining was...still Shining, he told me in secret that he decided to pull a prank on her on April Fools Day when she was little. He did a slight jumpscare, and she ended up getting locked into a room full of Ladybugs...for the entire day. She got out but...well Shining got grounded for a week-even if it was accidental-, and Twilight..."
"No no, Smartypants….there's no trace of them anywhere in here…" Twilight whispered to her doll, shooting up for a moment to look around before laying back down in the fetal position.
"Ara…" W-Ryotaro spoke in both voices at that, "So this...crazy behavior…"
"...Is because of a harmless April Fools joke gone horribly wrong," Spike surmised, "It's why Twilight despises April Fools Day...because it reminds her of the you-know-whats."
"No, I do not know. Ask him what he's talkin' 'bout, Tebi-yaro!" Momotaros snapped.
"I believe he's referring to Ladybugs…" Urataros pointed out.
"?! LADYBUGS?!" Twilight screamed as she shot up, clinging onto the ceiling as she rapidly looked around, "WHERE?! WHERE?! KEEP THEM AWAY FROM ME!"
"That was in our head. How did you hear that?" W-Ryotaro asked in concern, "Wait...do...do you spy on our thoughts? I'm all for the clingy lover, but...that is a red flag, my Hime..."
"No...thank Pinkie for letting us all communicate mentally after she unlocked her full powers, and I am not clingy!" Twilight argued, still clinging to the ceiling just as Rarity and Fluttershy ran in.
"Twilight dear, w-" Rarity began before noticing their booksmart friend on the ceiling, "...Oh dear. That bad?"
"That bad…" Spike answered.
"She spies on our mind," W-Ryotaro added.
"Oh we already knew that," Rarity replied.
"WHY DID NO ONE TELL US?!" Momotaros snapped.
"Pinkie did," Ryutaros replied, "Is everyone being a Momo-Baka today?"
"BRAT!"
"Oh dear…" Fluttershy spoke as she walked in, "Twilight...it's okay. We're all friends here...no one is going to scare you or anything."
"...No one has any ladybugs hidden on them, do they?" Twilight cautiously asked.
"..."
"She's become stupid...and I will hold this over her for years to come…" Momotaros spoke.
"Are you...No, wait. Forgot who I was speaking to,"Urataros sighed.
"...OH! I have an idea!" Ryutaros beamed, "Tori-chan, Tori-chan, let me take over! Please, please, please? I know how to cure her!"
W-Ryotaro nodded as a purple flash changed his hair, R-Ryotaro put his cap on as he smiled.
"Alright, I'm off!" R-Ryotaro beamed.
"Where are you going?" Spike asked.
"I'm getting a big bug net!" R-Ryotaro beamed as he left.
"...He's not doing what I think he's doing, is he?" Spike asked, sharing looks with Rarity and Fluttershy.
"It is Ryuta…" Fluttershy muttered.
"Get back here!" Rainbow shouted as she, Pinkie, and Applejack chased after the Ladybug Imagin...who was carrying off a doctor.
"No! I need to bring him back to my contractor!"
"I thought you were finding a quiet place!" Pinkie argued.
"This is part of it!"
"I am getting tired of this cryptic nonsense!" Rainbow snapped, about to fire some electricity at the Imagin.
"Rainbow, no!" Applejack shouted, lowering her hand, "You'll hit th' doctor!"
"Why'd she even kidnap a doctor!?" Rainbow complained.
"I know! Who wishes for a quiet place and a d-ooh~" Pinkie skidded to a halt upon realization, "GIRLS STOP!"
"Huh?" Rainbow and Applejack blinked as they stopped.
"CHANCE!" the Ladybug Imagin shouted as she ran over a corner.
"You pink maniac!" Rainbow shouted, jumping and shaking Pinkie by the collar of her outfit, "You let it get away!"
"Wait, wait! I think I know who her Contract Holder is!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"You better know!" Rainbow snapped before Applejack picked her up by the scruff of her shirt, making her let go of Pinkie, "D'oh...AJ, let me go!"
"Settle down there first. Pinkie, y'all know who the Contract Holder is?" Applejack asked.
"Yep, yep, yep! I think so!" Pinkie replied.
"Then tell us, you sugar-crazed idiot!" Rainbow snapped.
"Easy...Derpy!"
"Derpy?" the two blinked.
"Duh!" she smiled.
"How was any of that obvious!?" Rainbow snapped again, "Just...explain it...and no sound effects or ice sculpture visuals!"
"Poo...you're no fun, Dashie," Pinkie pouted, "But fine...basically Derpy likes a certain boy in our school. They call him Time Turner, or if you wanna go by one of his nicknames...the Doctor."
"So wait...the Imagin misunderstood the wish...and kidnapped Spike's doctor?" Rainbow asked.
"Eeeyup," Pinkie nodded, making a popping sound at the 'p'.
"...And y'all had us stop just to tell us this?" Applejack asked.
"Ugh...because~! If we know the Contractor, we can go talk to them! And get them to null the contract!" Pinkie argued.
"Uh huh...and said Contractor is about to be met by the Imagin right now," Rainbow pointed out.
"...Oh, right. ...Oopsie?"
"EH?! What do you mean this isn't him either?!" the Ladybug Imagin gawked, standing before Derpy with the doctor as the two stood within a small clearing in the park, "I had to go through needles just to find him!"
"Mmm mmm...not him," Derpy shook her head before looking at the doctor, "Sorry, sir."
"Days like this I regret many mistakes of my youth…" the young man with black hair sighed, "Also I really should have noticed I was kidnapped but I was just in the Animal Crossing zone…"
"Mou~! What does your Doctor look like?!" the Ladybug Imagin demanded….earning a blush from Derpy, "Ahh~! Again with the silence! Fine...I'll have to find him...AGAIN!" she complained as she rushed off.
"...Least she found a nice and quiet place this time…" Derpy noted with a small smile.
"Not that it's my business...but…" the man sighed, "What's going on here, kid?"
"...Mmm mm," Derpy shrugged.
"...Least we were able to get her down from the ceiling…" Spike muttered, Rarity and Fluttershy sitting next to Twilight on her bed, "...Seriously, what's keeping Ryuta?"
"Maybe it's best we settle this before he returns." Rarity offered.
"Hai," Futtershy agreed, calmly patting Twilight's shoulder.
"Listen girls...I'm really sorry about running off on you like that. Just…" Twilight paused before shuddering, "Those demonic bugs from the pits of Tartarus…and the imagin just had to be one too..."
"You're a lost cause…" Spike spoke.
"I'm back~!" R-Ryotaro cheered from outside the bedroom door.
"And wha-what have you brought?" Fluttershy asked.
"Oh don't worry...the Bazooka is not for Twi-chan! This was so I could steal the other supplies I needed!"
"...Ryuta, what are you planning?" Twilight nervously asked.
"I read in a book that to beat fear, you have to face the fear! ...Or become the fear, I forget," R-Ryotaro replied before opening the door and came in...dressed as a ladybug with a big net filled with them over his shoulder while holding a ladybug costume for a girl Twilight's size in hand, "So I'm going with both!"
"...No you're not…" Twilight paled in realization, losing all color to her face as her eyes shrunk down to the size of dots.
"Oh, this is cute. She thinks she cannot do what a book says," R-Ryoato noted.
"...Girls please help," Twilight begged, about to cling to Fluttershy and Rarity before the two got up, "Why~?!"
"Sorry, Twilight, demo...it has to be done," Fluttershy sighed.
"We have an emergency, and we need our leader," Rarity added as the two stepped out of the way.
"...Spike?"
"Sorry, sis. You're on your own," Spike stated as he walked off.
"Costume time~!" R-Ryotaro cheered.
"No…No stay away! Ryuta, don't!"
"I'm gonna tell mom what's happening so...she doesn't misunderstand," Spike spoke as he walked out.
"That...is for the best," Rarity nodded.
"Sorry, Twilight…"
"HELP~~~~!"
"...I feel like we're missing shenanigans," Pinkie noted, dressed as a nurse with Applejack and Rainbow as they stood inside the hospital.
"Why the cosplay?" Rainbow complained.
"To remain hidden so we can jump the Imagin, duh," Pinkie answered quietly, "Next time it grabs a doctor, we jump her and net her."
"That...makes sense but still...I hate this!" Rainbow complained, "And why was the only one in my size pink!?"
"Oh, that's because someone dropped a red sock in all that size," Pinkie replied.
"You…!"
"Don't start ya two," Applejack ordered, putting a hand on both their heads, "We need t' be focused and make sure we don't lose track of it."
"Who made you temporary leader anyway?" Rainbow asked.
"Even if we vote, I'd still vote for AJ." Pinkie spoke up, "Plus she and Rarity are technically the oldest of us with AJ being more mature a-"
"I get it…" Rainbow deadpanned.
"Plus it's just easier to listen to the level headed one," Pinkie smiled, "We are the fun ones after all!"
"And loud," Applejack pointed out, "Remember ya two...we're in a hospital."
"Right, right, right," Pinkie nodded quickly.
"...Would've liked it i-" rainbow began before she noticed the Ladybug Imagin..poorly disguised as a bum, "...psst! Imagin at 2 o'clock!"
"Actually it's closer to...AH!" Pinkie gawked.
"Okay….doctor...doctor...I need to find the right doctor…" the Ladybug Imagin muttered, looking around for a male doctor as she poked into different rooms.
"You look like you're here for an important visit!" Pinkie spoke, scooping the Imagin into a wheelchair, "Kay the doctor will see you now!" she laughed wheeling her into a random room, "Time for some X-Rays! Don't blink!"
"Eh? Blink?" the Ladybug Imagin blinked.
"Imagin don't have issues with radiation, right?" Pinkie asked, now donned in a lead lined suit, "Say cheese!"
"Gah!"
"Running~!" Pinkie cheered sliding down the hall as a livid Imagin ran after her.
"Jerk! That hurt!" The Imagin shouted before she was suddenly tripped.
"Hey…" the Imagin looked up to see Rainbow...an unsettling grin on her face as she held up multiple needles with electricity crackling off them "Ready for your shot~?"
"SCARY~!" the Ladybug Imagin screamed as she ran.
"Oh nurse AJ...we got a runner~" Rainbow called out.
"Don't be callin' me that," Applejack frowned as she ran after the Imagin.
"...Calm down, Twilight….calm….down…" Twilight whispered to herself, her eye twitching violently as she was dressed in the ladybug outfit the group of four walked down the street, "Just...pretend you're somewhere else entirely…"
"Nope! You're here, dressed up as a ladybug with me!" R-Ryotaro beamed.
"Not helping Ryuta!"
"It's not my fault you have a stupid fear…" R-Ryotaro spoke.
"It is not stupid! It is very rational!" Twilight snapped.
"If it's so rational, then why is the logical method of dealing with the fear making you look so stupid?" he countered, making her gawk.
"I...w-well...th-that's…"
"I mean when you explain why you hate them, it makes it feel like Indiana Jones and how his fear of snakes was 'cause he got dropped in a train car full of them as a kid in the third movie," R-Ryotaro explained, "Yet he wasn't afraid of Rhinos or lions...so...yeah. Still silly."
"That's different! At least he wasn't trapped with them for 24 hours!" Twilight snapped, "Feeling them crawl all over you and having to close your mouth so they don't crawl into it!"
"But not your nose…" he pointed out, "Ano-sa...maybe you're making the memory worse than it actually was?"
"...Huh?"
"You spent so long scared of these things maybe...your fear is distorting what happened in your memories…" R-Ryotaro explained, "Normal Ladybugs don't really like people or hate them enough to attack them."
"...you...may have a point…" Twilight whispered.
"Also you tend to overthink things and react to way out of proportions….and before you counter...tardy books, being late to school...a lot more." he listed, "I think the truth is you care too much about things Twi-chan. But you care about even unimportant things too much."
"...He does make a point, dear," Rarity pointed out.
"You do tend to overthink things a lot," Fluttershy added.
"Ah...I guess I do...sometimes…" Twilight admitted.
"Sometimes?"
"Often...overreact to things," Twilight sighed, "And..I apologize for stressing about my fear and making things complicated, especially with the Imagin…"
"Eh, I'm sure things have devolved into fun nonsense with Nee-chan there. If I was there, it would be SO MUCH crazier...like...illegal crazy...I mean I would have stolen a Zebra from the zoo just to make it random!" R-Ryotaro laughed, "And his name...would have been Maxwell."
"Oh! I think I know which Zebra he's talking about," Fluttershy realized before noticing the look Rarity gave her, "...s-sorry."
"Fluttershy dear, please don't add on to Ryuta's nonsense...it just makes us confused on if half of what he says is true or not." Rarity sighed, "Also why Maxwell?"
"He looks like a Maxwell…." R-Ryotaro shrugged.
"...Moving on," Twilight deadpanned before sighing, "But...I get what you're trying to say. Maybe..the role of leader is getting to me..."
"We don't make it easy…" Fluttershy admitted sheepishly, "We're all prone to getting sucked into our own issues and dragging the others along…"
"And most of the time, the only other person you can rely on...is trapped within his own mind as Imagin run about making a mess of his life." Rarity looked at R-Ryotaro as he put his headphones on to listen to music.
"True…" Twilight nodded.
"We really should thank you for being such a great friend, Twilight." Fluttershy smiled before she elbowed R-Ryotaro.
"Ah...right right…" R-Ryotaro muttered, putting his music away, "And they have a point too. Ryotaro always thinks of what you would do whenever we have to go on a Rider adventure without you."
"Speaking of, how often does that happen?" Rarity asked.
"One or two….dozen times…"
"Really?"
"Maybe more…" he chuckled sheepishly, "Like...you might no remember several since...time got messed with, we had to fix time...one time we needed to literally restart it...then another time remake the world...then there was the time with aliens...and the time with demons...the Kamen Rider Civil war…"
"What?!" all three gawked.
"...The important thing is we did not die...more than once…" he chuckled, "Ah crap I said the last part out loud…"
"...What if…" Twilight whispered before shaking it off, "Save it for later. For now...let's focus on the task at hand finally, and go help the others with the Imagin."
"And out," a doctor with white spots in his hair spoke as he lifted the Imagin and punted her out, followed by the girls, "I see you here again, and I'll shoot you myself."
"Yes sir," Rainbow, Applejack, and Pinkie meeped.
"Damn kids these days…" he grumbled, "Worse then Nico…"
The four breathed a sigh of relief before looking at one another. The three magically gifted girls began staring at the Imagin.
"...CHANCE!" the Imagin screamed as she ran off.
"Hey!" the three shouted, transforming as they gave chase once more.
"This place is crazy!" The Imagin shouted.
"We are colorful! Thank you very much!" Pinkie shouted, forming an ice hammer.
"No you are not! You are ins-" The Ladybug Imagin began, about to fire a bolt before yelping when a blast of magic nearly hit her, "AH!"
"...heh. Well about time y-" Rainbow began as she looked over to see Twilight and the others arrive...and noticed what Twilight was wearing, "...uh…"
"Long story…" Twilight sighed before summoning a barrier to block an incoming bolt from the Imagin.
"Okay...so explain why a Ladybug can fire lightning!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"Well before I developed my...ahem...phobia, I read different books and theories on Ladybugs, one being a Norse legend that Ladybugs came to Earth on a bolt of lightning," Twilight explained.
"That's...okay, that's kinda cool…" Rainbow sighed.
"Yeah...Imma kill it!" Den-O Gun Form laughed as he began shooting.
"AHH!" the Ladybug Imagin freaked as she tried dodging the shots.
"What did you learn about its Contract holder?" Twilight asked Pinkie, Rainbow, and Applejack as Den-O continued to fire on the Imagin.
"Yup...It's Derpy."
"Wh-?! Derpy?!"
"I know...I guess she wanted to spend time with her crush but when she used his nickname, the Imagin got it all wrong," Pinkie went on, "So it's been kidnapping doctors, not knowing Doc is a nickname."
"...So that leads to another myth then," Twilight noted, "In Norway, if a man and woman spot a Ladybug at the same time, there will be romance between them."
"...If it weren't an evil Imagin, I'd say that is romantic," Rarity admitted.
"...You know...now that Ah think about it...Ah don't think she's evil at all," Applejack noted, seeing the female Imagin run for her life from the gun-happy Den-O.
"Really?" Fluttershy asked.
"I mean...it's not like it did anything violent…" Rainbow admitted with a grumble.
"Hehehe...If anything...we were the ones kinda...picking on her." Pinkie chuckled.
"Yes you were!" the Ladybug Imagin shouted, "I just wanted to help someone find love!"
"You don't kidnap people!" Den-O Sword Form snapped, chasing her, "Get back here so I can knock some sense into you stupid woman!"
"EEE~!"
"...So that means she's a somewhat good Imagin like Pantera was?" Pinkie asked.
"If you leave out the stealing stuff, yes," Twilight answered, recalling what she told her and the others of the Panther Imagin from a few months back.
"Matte! I haven't reeled you in yet!" Den-O Rod Form cheered, running after her, "Wait, Onee-san! Matte de ba!"
"SO CREEPY~!" the Ladybug Imagin cried.
"I guess we can forgive her…" Twilight spoke, "As long as we get the contract canceled, she'll just move on."
"'Sides, it seems like rare nice Imagin are hard to come by..." Rainbow muttered.
"I don't know why I'm running...but...uh...get back here?" Axe Form spoke, "Oof...I hate running after them…"
"Mmm~! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" the Ladybug Imagin screamed, using her wand to fire a bolt of electricity at Den-O and the girls, shocking them before they could get a chance to attack, "...OH! CHANCE!" she gasped as she ran off.
"...grr…" Rarity's eye twitched a bit, her and the other girls'-minus Rainbow- hair poofed up into afros with Fluttershy's wings frizzled.
"Oh dear…" Fluttershy muttered.
"I don't feel any different…" Pinkie responded, despite her already curly hair poofed into an afro.
"Same. I didn't feel a thing," Rainbow shrugged.
"Wasn't my fault…" Den-O spoke.
"YES IT WAS!" Rarity snapped, the volume of her voice knocking him over, "After that Imagin!"
"Down girl," Applejack sighed, grabbing and lifting her up before she could run off, "Here, Kin…" she handed her over to Den-O.
"While annoying…" Twilight sighed using magic to fix their hair back to normal, "It doesn't change our actual plan. We need to find Derpy...I'm sorry. I know she's okay with it, but I feel bad using that nickname…"
"Oh she don't mind." Pinkie waved it off.
"...Didn't find him?" Derpy asked the Ladybug Imagin once she came back.
"No. In fact...I think I'm scared for life!" the Ladybug Imagin sobbed, "And I didn't find the Doctor you wanted...just please tell me what he looks like!"
"...w-well…" Derpy paused, blushing once more as her lazy eye looked away for a moment.
"That really doesn't help…" the Imagin slumped.
"I'm sorry…"
"You're a complicated girl, you know that…"
"I tend to get that," Derpy admitted before noticing something, "Oh! Hello!"
"Yo, Odd Eyes," M-Ryotaro spoke, making the Imagin panic, "Your friend might be more than a little messed up thanks to those crazy girls I hang around with."
"Hmm?" Derpy tilts her head before she noticed Twilight and the others.
"Listen...Derpy, I need you to listen. I know she's been trying to help, but that thing...there's a chance she might accidently create a portal to the past," Twilight explained.
"Really? But...she seems so nice," Derpy stated, "She keeps bringing me doctors, but it's not the one I'm looking for and want to talk with."
"Would it help if you tell us what he looks like at least?" Pinkie asked, earning another blush from Derpy as she stayed silent, "..."
"Now you see what i have to deal with?" the Ladybug Imagin asked.
"We do...um...what do we call you?" Rainbow asked.
"Eh?"
"Y-your name," Fluttershy explained.
"Oh...I don't have one."
"What...Then what has Derpy been calling you?" Pinkie gawked, "Derpy! You gotta know your friend's name."
"Sorry...she just began dragging me around so fast we never got to it," Derpy explained.
"Ah it's fine, we'll just name her. Uh...Shy, you think of one here...I got nothin'," Pinkie sighed.
"Eh?" Fluttershy blinked twice in surprise.
"You do know a lot about ladybugs," Rainbow pointed out.
"Oh...hmm...c-considering Ladybugs are connected to love in some way for one legend, and she was just trying to help Derpy find love…" Fluttershy pondered for a moment, "...Ai?"
"Ai?"
"Why are you two saying you're for something when no one suggested a name yet?" Rainbow asked, earning a shrug from Derpy and the newly named Ai.
"...I'm thinking they might need a lesson on love from that Roll girl from the livestreams," Pinkie sweatdropped.
"Agreed," Rarity muttered before clearing her throat, "Derpy dear...I believe a step in this is if you tell us what the Doctor looks like…" she noticed Pinkie about to speak, "Minus Pinkie telling us."
"Phooey…"
"Doc...Oi, I'll be right back. I realized something I gotta do." M-Ryotaro spoke, leaving.
"...Why does that worry me?" Twilight asked before sighing, "Nevermind...stupid question. Pinkie..what is the real name of this 'Doctor' again?"
"Well…" Pinkie began, tilting her head for a moment, "He has two names I've heard aside form his nickname...Time Turner, and Doctor Whooves."
"...D….D….Doctor…?" Ai repeated, sweating nervously as she began to lose color.
"It's just a nickname, he's not a real doctor...I mean he's still in school with us. He's just a giant nerd...kinda like the male version of Twilight," Pinkie smiled.
"I don't know whether that was a compliment or an insult," Twilight uttered with an eye twitch.
"Knowing Pinkie? Probably both," Rainbow added.
"But I mean you and Doc are friends right Derpy? Why not confess the old fashion way?" Pinkie asked.
"...Well…" Derpy whispered, her blush returning in spades as she looked around, finding looking at the grass interesting at the moment.
"Pinkie, not everyone is as honest and blunt with their feelings as you," Rarity spoke up, "Not even AJ...and her whole bit is honesty."
"Hey…"
"Making a dramatic point." Rarity smiled.
"Hmm...maybe you're right…" Pinkie muttered, "If it was me, I'd chase him down 'till he gave up."
"You have done that...it's why boys leave our school and you now have several restraining orders…" Twilight countered.
"Two times…" Pinkie huffed turning away.
"Still…" Rarity began.
"I'm back!" M-Ryotaro shouted, hefting a person sized sack over his shoulder.
"Ryotaro, this is not funny...why did you kidnap me and shove me into a sack!? I know you do odd things due to your multiple personas, but you've never kidnapped men unless...oh no you're going to whack me, aren't you? Just like you did those bullies!" the person inside panicked.
"Relax...they ain't dead...sadly...I just traumatized them so much they refuse to leave the hospital," he snorted.
"That's not better…"
"?" Derpy blinked before the sack opened up, revealing a young man with dark-brown slicked-back short hair, and an aquamarine tie, "?! D...d-d-d…Doctor..."
"Oh Derpy...wait...what is going on here?" he blinked as the other girls all glared at M-Ryotaro, "Oh this is gonna get complicated, isn't it?"
"Depends...how much you believe in time travel?" M-Ryotaro muttered, cleaning out his ears before flinching as the young man moved up in front of him.
"I am listening!" he smiled happily.
"Uh…"
"Oh th-!" Pinkie began before Twilight and co quickly covered her mouth.
"Ugh...okay. Look, I'm giving you the simple version! So listen once!" M-Ryotaro groaned whispering into his ear for a good while.
"...I see...uh huh...oh great whickering stallions…"
"Okay now here's where shit gets complicated...but I'll leave it to just the parts you'll want to know," he began whispering again.
"Amazing...so then all those personas...amazing...and explains why Ryotaro can have so many and not be locked up...well...not that they can. For pete's sake, you lifted a car like it was made of paper mache."
"No that was one of the other ones," He shook his head.
"Ahh...that makes sense...thank you for informing me this," he nodded before looking over at Derpy, "Come along, Derpy! We have some things to look into! Allonsy!"
"Eh?" Derpy blinked before he took her hand, making her blush as he dragged her off...but she didn't seem to mind as hearts appeared in her eyes, "Ahh~"
"Wait!" Twilight stopped them, "Derpy, cancel the contract please."
"Huh? Oh! Um...contract cancelled?"
"Hah?! Aww~" Ai whined as she collapsed into sand, becoming a ball of light, "No fair...I really liked my body, too…"
"It's safer this way," Twilight pointed out, "You won't zap people when you freak out."
"Mainly me," M-Ryotaro huffed
"Yeah, 'cause with you it's funny." Rainbow smirked.
"Mmm...But I just wanted to help find love for people...Is it that hard to ask?" Ai pouted
"There's nothing wrong with that…" Twilight spoke, "But maybe less drastically."
"And make sure to listen and ask before going in on a wish without full detail," Rarity added, "...Provided you don't travel to the past of course, darling."
"Eh? Why would I go to the past?"
"Hmph. Honestly, I'm tempted to stuff her in a jar and send her to your Sister-in-law," M-Ryotaro snorted.
"That's...actually not a bad idea," Twilight admitted.
"Did...Twilight just agree with Momotaros?" Ryotaro asked.
"..." M-Ryotaro socked himself in the face, "Nope. Not a dream. She did."
"I'm scared," Ryutaros noted.
"Agreed," Kintaros and Urataros agreed.
"The hime is ill!" Seig exclaimed, "I shall nurse her to full health!"
"Why is that so shocking?!" Twilight complained.
"Twilight...you know we care about you…"
"Debatable/Of course/Sure/Meh/Love is more accurate," The Taros all spoke in unison.
"But combining your name, with the words 'Agree' and 'Momotaros' in one sentence...doesn't feel right unless the words 'Not' or 'Never will' are somewhere in there too." Ryotaro spoke on, "You are my best friend...and as such I know you would never say this...unless you're having a fever or some kind of brain condition….oh dear maybe that's it. Fluttershy, medical attention please…"
"Oh come on...I'm just seeing it as logical," Twilight huffed before Fluttershy began to use her healing magic on her, "...I'm serious guys. I'm okay."
"...I think she needs sedatives, too," Rainbow spoke.
"Beg pardon?" Twilight blinked before tensing when Pinkie-back in her nurse disguise-pulled out a large syringe, "?!"
"...Isn't that a bit overk-" Rarity began.
"Get her away from me!" Twilight shouted as she ran, Pinkie giving chase.
"Mou...Pinkie don't make this weird...most of us like to live here normally…"
"I couldn't agree more!" Rarity agreed/shouted at Pinkie.
"Twilight's being the weird one here!" Pinkie argued, "She never agrees with Momo, so she needs medical treatment!"
"Pinkie no!"
"PINKIE YES~!"
"Pinkie, you're taking things too far again...de...but that's normal actually…" Ryotaro muttered as he regained control, "Pinkie, that's enough…" he complained as Twilight ran around and hid behind him.
"Mm...fine," Pinkie pouted before looking up, "...huh. Didn't notice 'till now, but it's night out...guess we've been dealing with this for the entire day."
"...Well...least we have…" Applejack began, looking up at the moon...before something hit it, causing the side to explode, "WOAH NELLY!"
"That's…" Ryotaro began, "...Probably not my fault…"
"What the hell?!" Rainbow gawked.
"NO~! How will wolves follow tradition and howl at the full moon?!" Pinkie exclaimed in shock.
"...Oh, this bodes poorly…" Twilight whispered.
"...Who….did….that?" Luna asked, her eye twitching violently as she looked up at the moon, which was now missing a huge chunk of it.
'...Nah. Best to take advantage of this...Chris and Kai certainly would,' Negataros thought, throwing away a phone that was showing some sort of announcment as he began to approach Luna, "It was those who would dare go against you."
"Hmm?"
"Considering who you were in your past life, this is a sign of defiance...no. Of disrespect to you..to the very thing you rule over," Negataros continued, "Don't let this be a sign to lose sight of your goal...let it fuel you ever forward to taking what you want."
"...Yes...This...This is the current Celestia...no...this is their doing...the Elements and the Kamen Rider…" Luna whispered, a dark aura surrounding her as she slowly began to change, "They dare defy me….defy us...defy the one who was spurred so long ago...not just them...everyone on this planet...they despise us…" she looked up at the moon, "Despise the moon...despise the night itself, and stay under their precious sunlight…Negataros, how many days until the eclipse?"
"Three weeks," Negataros replied, 'Thought considering that it's half a moon, it won't be much of an eclipse unless the moon rotates just right to make it look like it hasn't been blown up…then again, someone seems to be messing with the flow of time around that particular little town...'
"...More than enough time…" Luna stated as she walked past him, "Prepare our army...we are off to war."
"Understood."
SZ: Well….shit. We finally get back to this with some comedy, and it ends with some bad omens.
Z0: SZ did it…
SZ: ….ahem! Also..some connections to our Sonic/Zyuohger fic with the Eclipse Cannon hitting the moon. Also before you ask 'but...the Dazzligns are still there, but were at Prison Island before the moon exploded'...think back to what Negataros thought and what happened in the last chapter with Sunset. Someone..or something is messing with the flow of time around Ponyville. Question is...what?
Z0: Things be funny like that. But we don't do spoilers folks. So I'll let the mystery keep you up at night.
SZ: Aye. Anyway, p...hmm...should we do a preview this time or not considering we're closing in ever closer to the finale for this season/book?
Z0: Lets let them guess and take the night off.
GT: Secrets are a good surprise at times.
SZ: Aye...till then guys, read and review
