Chapter 8: By Gods's Decree

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Summary: In the last chapter, the Spider Memory malfunctioned after Project D had used it to help defeat Bat Dopant. Afterwards, Celestia and Luna's mother, Queen Aurora arrived with the Royal Guards to bring them back to the castle in Evergreen while the queen remained behind to see through the execution of Project D with the help of the Inves she was given. Then, Project D was visited yet again by Crusader, who explains that the Spider Memory didn't malfunction but only disabled itself in wait of Project D to show his determination. Meanwhile, the Overlords are planning something big with Helheim. What will happen to the ponies and who are the five potential Overlords that Helheim has found?

Disclaimer: I do not own Kamen rider or My little Pony: Friendship is magic. But of course, I do own my OC for the story.

"Shadow Moon, I just lost Bat's signal..." Apollo Geist spoke with sorrow as he dropped his Geist Cutter.

The silver android, however, simply scoffed,"I knew we shouldn't have sent that assassin to do a Kaiju's job. It was a waste of our forces! I should have sent one of the Orphnochs but no, you decided that that Dopant could have been useful. Look where that has got us! Nowhere!" He pushed the general aside as he exited the room."This time, I'm sending a true soldier to get this job done."

As Shadow Moon disappeared from view, Apollo Geist cursed silently as he started going insane. He picked up his Geist Cutter and tossed it around the room, destroying most of the vulnerable items."One day...one day, I'll make you pay, Shadow Moon! Enjoy your share of leadership, Shadow Moon. I will be the one who you will beg for mercy when this is all over. Just you wait, you will never expect a backstabber to be someone close to you in this period of time. Once Project Bane is fully repaired, I shall bring back Project Destruction and we shall bring down your forces!"

The general gave a maniac laughter as he drew out his Apollo Magnum and started firing everything he saw that was valuable to Shadow Moon. He then reached for a button at the side of the door and pressed it, causing the wall in front of Apollo Geist to open and the corpse of Project B was brought out as it hung, with nearly a quarter of his body fully repaired while the rest were still blown up.

Apollo Geist approached the corpse and spoke,"Bane, you and Destruction shall be Dai Shocker's newest generals when I'm the leader of this place. Then, we shall bring the Kamen riders to their knees." As he laughed again, he turned away from the corpse. Unaware of the corpse's sudden action, Apollo Geist was inattentive enough to not see that Project B's eyes were glowing and his fingers that were not blown to pieces were still twitching as his belt buckle flashed rapidly.

Once the Royal Guards had brought the two princesses back to the castle, they were immediately brought up to their separate rooms so that they could not try and escape together again.

As Luna was shoved into her room, she glared at the guard that brought her up to her room,"Hey! You're doing a very bad deed! That creature was only trying to protect me and my sister! He means no harm!"

The guard scoffed,"A creature that fights is and will be forever violent no matter what. They are never, in any way, gentle creatures who protect the weak. They only kill them when they can. Your mother understands that and she wants it exterminated. So just stay here and don't bother trying to escape or teleport to your sister. The whole castle is now under magic lock down. Nothing magic can get in or out from any room of the castle."

He soon closed the door and Luna groaned as she fell face first onto her bed and turned to face the ceiling."Why does he have to suffer like this? He'd never do anything to hurt me or Celestia. Why would mother think he will?" She tossed and turned over and over again as she tried to think of reasons for her mother's hatred towards the creature that had saved her and her sister. But Luna couldn't think of any.

Luna groaned again as she pounded her mind for an explanation.

But then, she felt a hoof on her shoulder and she turned away,"Go away! I don't want a guard to be in here!"

"Who're you calling me a guard?"

Luna's eyes widen when she realized the owner of that voice. She squealed as she turned around to see Celestia with a gentle smile on her muzzle. Luna bounced out of her bed and wrapped herself around the white Alicorn's chest."Big sister! How did you get pass the..."

A hoof to her muzzle silenced her before she could complete her question as Celestia shushed her before whispering,"Stay quiet, Luna. the guards have no idea I'm out of my room. They should have known that their magic lock down spell was nothing compared to the amount of power I have from father's training. But we have to get back to the forest to stop mother from killing that creature."

The blue Alicorn nodded as they both trotted over to the mirror.

But then, a humming noise grew louder by the second and then, Project D appeared from below the window that the two Alicorns were reaching for. In his hands, their mother was lying, unconscious.

"Mother!" Both the young Alicorns cried as they quickly pushed the window aside so that Project D could enter.

He gently placed Aurora on Luna's bed and the two Alicorn jumped onto it as they sat next to their mother's motionless body. Tears started rolling down their eyes as Luna asked,"D-did you...k-k-k-kill our m-m-m-mother?"

Project D, for the first time, answered her question by shaking his head as his mouth plate slowly shifted apart, revealing his mouth. His mouth slowly opened up as he tried to speak in a language that he was unfamiliar with."Y-your mother i-i-is...just...sleeping. L-L-L-Luna."(A/N: Let me clear things out, in this story, all Kaijin speak in a common tongue while ponies speak another. Which is why Project D can't understand them. P.S. Project D sounds like a boy during this period of time.)

The girls gasped and Celestia asked,"You...you talk?"

Nodding his head, Project D gestured a finger at their mother,"Her...her memories...let me understand...language...still...not comfortable with...Celestia..."

Luna's tears started pouring out as she rammed her head into Project D's arms and she let out her tears onto him."Please! Forgive us! We're sorry that our mother had to act so violently towards you. She just wanted to protect us. We didn't want you to get hurt!"

Project D gave her a gentle smile as he lifted up her head and one of his tentacles emerged from his shoulder as it trailed across her cheek, wiping off her tears."Me...forgive...mother. Me...should be...apologizing. Me...almost...kill her. Very sorry..."

Celestia nuzzled him,"It's all right. We...we forgive you for that. You tried to protect yourself. We know you wouldn't hurt her too." Celestia then sat down as she lowered her head onto his lap while tears continued to trail down her muzzle.

Once his other tentacle emerged, it slithered towards Celestia and it wiped away her tears. She smiled at the Kaiju as she shifted closer to him with Luna doing the same as they tried to get enough warmth from his body. Project D smiled again as his tentacles disappeared from view and he wrapped his wings around them. Then, a glow engulfed Project D.

The two Alicorns backed away from the glowing Kaiju and they quickly shielded their eyes. When the glow vanished, they saw that Project D was no longer there.

Luna looked up at her sister and the white Alicorn looked down as well. Luna sniffled,"Sister, is he ever going to come back now that he feels guilty for trying to hurt mother?"

Celestia nodded with a saddened face,"I guess he may come back but I'm still unsure about it."

Meanwhile, in the forest of Helheim, King Solaris had been observing the battle of his Inves and a wild one for nearly half an hour since it started and now, he was just sitting there watching the two Inves trying to tip each other down.

Solaris gave a yawn,"I knew this would take a while but not this long. This has to end fast. I still have to get back to Aurora to see if she has brought back Celestia and Luna." He slowly got up from the ground and he approached his tent. As he did, he heard the sound of hooves galloping towards him. He turned to see the guards returning from their patrol and they must have seen the battle since they had worried looks on their faces.

"Your majesty, are you all right?" One of the guards asked.

The Alicorn nodded,"I am, soldier. But I don't think your friend is. Once those two creatures finished their battle, I want all of you to retrieve your fallen comrade's body. Nopony, dead or alive, will be left behind. Who knows what this forest can do. And has any of you figure out what exactly does this forest does or what it is?" The guards shook their heads and Solaris sighed,"Figures. We still need more help in identifying what this place is."

Unknown to them, the two Inves that were fighting with each other were being attacked by an Inves. But it wasn't any Inves. It was a Komori Inves. At least just one of them, of course. The Komori Inves grabbed each of the Elementary Inves and took to the skies, dropping them in midair as it stretched out its wrist blade, slashing both the Inves as they fell.

As it landed on the ground, it picked up a fallen fruit of the forest and devoured it within seconds upon seeing it. Then, it grabbed two more and tossed them over to the two Elementary Inves, who struggled to grab the fruits before taking a bite out of it. Then, vines sprouted from their backs as they were fully wrapped by the vines in a cocoon-like structure before a glow erupted from within the cocoon-like state they were in and they emerged from it as two goat-like Inves called the Yagi Inves.

Both the Yagi Inves were red from head to toe with a pair of twisted horns sprouting from their foreheads while more horn-like structures appeared all around their bodies. Their legs, in particular, were pitch black with hooves as their feet and at the top of their fists were hooves as sharp as a blade. They both approached the Komori Inves and the three started a conversation in their native language.

Not long after the conversation ended, the Yagi Inves that Solaris once controlled as an Elementary Inves made its way towards the fallen Royal Guard and dragged one of its wrist hooves across the guard's head, slicing it off from the rest of the pony's body. It gave a cry as it raised the head in the air and the Komori Inves nodded in satisfaction while the other Yagi Inves gave a cry as well.

Solaris turned away from the guards present with him. He had heard the two cries a moment ago and a shiver went down his wings as a guard asked,"Your majesty, what was that?"

"I don't know. But I do know that it doesn't sound good." Solaris informed as he gestured his head to the guards, who moved out of the tent with their spears raised, ready to attack any threat made to their king.

As the first guard came out, he was immediately attacked. He was pounced on by one of the Yagi Inves and he screamed as the Inves dragged him away from the group. The guards instantly piled out of the tent as they formed a circle around Solaris. But it was useless as the other Yagi Inves leaped down from above their tent and it grabbed Solaris before leaping away from the guards before they noticed anything.

The guards turned, only to see that their king was missing. They gasped as confusion clouded their minds on how their king could have vanish when he was right in the middle of the defense line. But before they could do anything, the Yagi Inves from before took out the guards one by one as they were stunned by the events unfolded in front of them.

Solaris was dropped onto his back. He groaned as he looked up. The Alicorn looked around and saw that he was surrounded by the weird looking trees that had sprouted ever since the forest appeared. Solaris then heard the screams of his guards and he quickly turned in their direction and he galloped as fast as he could. But then, something jumped in front of him

The Komori Inves observed as Solaris slowly backed away from it. With one last step, Solaris made a run for it as he turned around. However, the Inves was faster when it came to reflexes. It instantly grabbed Solaris's tail and swung the Alicorn around in circles before tossing him into a tree, knocking the entire trunk onto the ground to show how strong it was.

As Solaris crashed onto the ground, the fruits of the tree fell beside him, surrounding him. Then, a metal object landed in front of him. While the Inves was looking away, Solaris picked up the object and examined it. The object resembled what looks like a pitch black belt without its strap and a small sword with a yellow blade. As he continued to gaze at the device, it was suddenly removed from his hand by a mysterious force and it was placed onto his waist. Solaris quickly stood on his hind legs to see what it was doing and he saw a yellow strap wrapped around his waist and at the side of the belt was an image of a white mask with a yellow curved horn.

Footsteps were soon heard and Solaris turned to see another creature.

This creature, however, was cloaked with a white feather-like dress. But her hands were revealed to have nails as sharp as blades. Her feather dress slowly unfolded to reveal that they were in fact, wings. White feathers from her wings were blown everywhere, distracting the Inves as she walked towards Solaris. The black Alicorn dropped onto all four of his hooves as he slowly backed away from the newcomer.

"Be warned." She spoke as she lifted a hand and pointed at him."Your choice will now turn the course of fate."

"Who...who are you?" Solaris asked.

The creature ignored his question as she continued,"If you continue down this path, there will be no turning back from it once you transform." She picked up one of the fruits on the ground and tossed it over to Solaris, who caught it using his magic. Then, the fruits slowly glowed as it morphed into a different Lockseed from the one he had used. This Lockseed had a Muskmelon instead of a Pineapple or a Sunflower.

"You will have to fight to the bitter end of your time, until this world is dyed in your image" The creature finished as she vanished in a trail of feathers, leaving Solaris and the Komori Inves dumbfounded by what they had witness.

"To the end of my time?" Solaris muttered to himself as he gazed at the Lockseed. Then, he heard the Inves growl. Solaris looked up, only to be hit by the Inves's blade, scarring his right cheek as he fell."I will protect this land with all of my strength! If this is the path she meant, so be it! I will sacrifice my life to keep this place free of violent monsters! I accept my fate!"

The Lockseed glowed as it was removed from the Alicorn's magical grip and it was opened by the force that carried it.

"MELON!"

As the force carried the Lockseed, it made its way towards the belt on Solaris's waist and the lock on the device was closed.

"LOCK ON!"

The Komori Inves roared as it raised its blade and charged at the Alicorn. Solaris quickly stood on his hind legs and he placed a hoof below the hilt of the small sword on his belt before pushing it, causing the blade to split the Lockseed open.

"SOIYA! MELON ARMS! TENKA GOMEN!"

Five bright spheres appeared from out of nowhere and they merged to form a giant mechanical Muskmelon. Then, it collided onto his head, causing a white suit with golden wrists and ankle armor parts attached to him to materialized before the mechanical fruit split open to form the armor's chest plate and shoulder pads. A visor appeared in front of his eyes in a color of golden-brown. A helmet resembling a melon with a golden crescent was the last to appear and to complete the transformation.

Solaris stared at himself, he looked down and saw that he no longer had hooves. But instead, he had hands, just like the female creature and the Komori Inves in front of him. He examined his new body features for a moment before a rectangular shield materialized in his left hand. Then, he instinctively raised his shield up, blocking the attack from the Inves before throwing a punch at the Inves's face.

"I...I will make this World safe from the likes of you!" Solaris threw the shield at the Inves before he started running towards the Helheim monster with his hand resting on the hilt of his sword that rested at the side of his belt's strap.

As the Inves knocked the shield aside, Solaris removed the sword from his strap and swung it, dealing a blow on the Inves's right arm. The Komori Inves cried in pain as it fell onto its knees while clutching its arm with his uninjured hand. It glared at Solaris as it got up again. However, Solaris suddenly appeared in front of it before it could have reacted.

Solaris swung his sword left and right, dealing more blows to the Inves's body as sparks flew off of it. He picked up the shield from the ground and raised it in front of him. Next, he advanced towards the Inves with his shield up and his sword pointed at it. The Inves, ignoring all these facts, charged blindly at the Alicorn in armor. Consequently, it was given another round of attacks from the Alicorn, leading it to a near exhaustion after falling onto its knees again.

"This is where it all ends, creature." Solaris spoke as he rested the blade of his sword on the Inves's shoulder. It looked up at the Alicorn and growled, resulting in its death as Solaris kicked it onto the ground before stabbing his blade into the Komori Inves's chest. It gave a loud wail of pain as Solaris slid the blade in deeper into its chest as its arms flailed in the air. Moments later, it became motionless as the wails stopped as well as its struggle.

That's when Solaris decided that it was over. He slowly removed the sword from the Inves and he sheathed the sword back into his belt strap."This is the beginning of Equestria's rebellion against this forest." Solaris muttered as the Lockseed closed and his armor vanished, changing him back into an Alicorn. He gave a quick glance at the dead Inves before turning away and heading back to his camp to see if the guards were all right.

Unknown to him, Helheim was watching everything."It looks like this one has passed the first test. How will the others do? It's time to find out the next candidate."

A/N: That's all for now! Please review!