Thread: Kamen Rider Harmony (*Me and GW*)

"The Harmony Driver was designed for human use, not ponies, as I said, I don't have time to explain everything right now," said Celestia.

"That would explain why Lyra is staring at you excitedly," said Rarity, looking at the green unicorn known to have an obsession with humans, who was now staring.

The wolf snarled and charged her, trying to pounce and attack Applejack.

OOC: Feel free to control the Wolf, since the first fight is normally a Curbstomp Battle on the part of the Rider.

"Ah! Where did she come from?" Dash asked, creeped out that she didn't see her.

"Lyra! Can I see you for a second?" Twilight asked, beckoning her to come on over.

Applejack fell over due to her not being used to this body, then noticed the wolf creature pounced on her. "Get away!" She yelled, and kicked at the monster.

A loud "THWACK!!!" echoed from the road, and the wolf monster was sent flying high into the sky.

"Whoa, look at that sucker go." Dash said, following the monster's launch path.

"Um, AJ, dear, I think you don't know your own strength in that armor," said Rarity, blinking as the monster started falling back to Earth. "Though you may want to take advantage of it's positioning.

"Oh, and by the way," said Cruelty. "I'm sentient, but it's not. It's pretty much like a robot or something, it's just doing what my brother programmed it to do. Long story. But killing the dang thing isn't going against pony morals cause it ain't alive in the first place, so feel free to put it down. I'd do it myself, but my dad didn't take too kindly to me switching to your side and cut off a good chunk of my power, so I'm pretty weak right now."

Lyra trotted over. "She turned into a human! I can't believe it! I told everypony humans existed!"

"Yes, and you are henceforth attached to us and our crazy lives." Twilight said, putting her hooves on Lyra's shoulders. "What?" Dash asked flatly.

"Roger." Applejack said, getting up and adjusted herself, then threw a powerful punch to the monster's sternum, sending him skidding away. "Get back here!" Applejack yelled, clumsily running to the wolf creature.

"If I may ask, just what the hay are you and that thing?" Twilight asked Cruelty, pointing to the wolf creature.

The Wolf yelped as it was sent flying back. It then snarled and charged, trying to slash Applejack, only to be deflected by the armor.

"I've been most everywhere you've been most of the time...somehow, we just end up running into each other," said Lyra.

Cruelty sighed. "Long story short, Purple?" she asked. "I'm a Dissonance, that's a Strife made by my brother, Deceit," she explained. "There are six of us, me, Deceit, Faithless, Sorrow, Desire, and Loneliness. We can each create Strifes, but I turned on the others because I don't like being our Father's puppet and trying to free him," she continued. "Our Father is Discord, by the way."

"What?" asked Rarity, eyes widening. "Discord?"

"Yeah, my siblings are trying to free him, I'll have to explain the hows later," said Cruelty. "Oh, and congratulations, you six are our mothers. Little Miss Shrinking Violet over there is mine."

Fluttershy blinked. "I...I am?"

"Huh. Nice to know this armor comes in handy for defense, too." Applejack said, then punched it in the face, sending it hard through one tree and into the second one.

"Eh, true, with Bon Bon too..." Twilight said with a nod. "Speaking of which, where is she?" Twilight asked. "Here." Twilight looked up to see Bon Bon up a tree, hugging a branch for dear life. "Oh, dear. That wolf... uh, Strife, was it?... spooked her up a tree. What happened to you two anyway?" The Element of Magic asked, looking at Lyra.

".... I feel so violated." Dash said with a horrified look as Cruelty's words sank in, she shaking like a leaf in a windstorm.

Cruelty actually gave a chuckle at Rainbow's reaction. "Hey, be glad the old man wasn't around to make you give birth to us. Apparently he did that at least once three thousand years ago," she explained, actually looking like she considered THAT too much. "Pretty much, we're his chaos magic mixed with bits of your Discorded personalities and the Elements of Harmony being corrupted like you were during that time."

"We were just walking along and saw this happening," Lyra explained, then tried to get Bon Bon out of the tree.

The Wolf Strife staggered to it's feet, stunned.

Dash violently shuddered at the thought of actually carrying Discord's child.

"Now, how do you hit this guy harder?" Applejack asked as she fumbled with her belt, pressing on the center gem on her belt. "Restore." It announced, getting Applejack's fists and feet to glow. Instructions poured into her head once more, and she took a wide-legged stance. She thrusted her hands back, getting her to blast off from her position, sliding on the ground like it was ice. She swung her arm in a windmill-like fashion, building up speed and power. "Apple Cobbler Surprise!" Applejack yelled as she threw her first Rider Punch, smashing the Wolf Strife into the ground with the heavy hitting attack.

"Huh." Twilight said, then everyone was sent a inch up the ground when Applejack's punch forced the Wolf Strife into the ground. "Holy road apples, that was a hard hit." Twilight mused as Bon Bon wrapped herself around Lyra. "What's going on?!" She demanded.

The Wolf Strife subsequently exploded, but Cruelty used a shot of web to pull AJ out of the blast zone. "Good job," she said, watching it. "Yeah, the Old Man told us they'd do that, said it would be a 'fun surprise', in his opinion," she said, standing up.

Lyra blinked. "I don't know, but humans are real! I told you they were didn't I!"

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to switch into a form I can keep up," said Cruelty, transforming into her pony form, essentially a blank flank version of Fluttershy's Discorded self. "That's better."

Fluttershy gasped. "You're...me?"

"No, I'm the you my Old Man turned you into on the day he ruled the world," said Cruelty. "Here, I'll prove it."

Cruelty took off...then a few moments later, a bucket of water was dumped on Twilight's head, followed by the bucket itself. "See?" Cruelty laughed, hovering above.

"Okay okay, I was wrong. Forgive me for being a bad friend?" Bon Bon asked, looking at Lyra. Her friend's sudden obsession with humanity did strain their relationship, though Bon Bon had some fault in it by being awfully mean to Lyra.

"Yup, that's her." Twilight said flatly, shaking her head drying, causing her hair to poof out. "Uh, Rarity?" She asked, hoping the fashionista has something.

Rarity cast a spell, restoring her hair to normal. "Ok, Cruelty is it?"

"Call me Cruel. Or Fluttercruel, it sounds less...evil."

"But why are you helping?" asked Rarity. "You're Discord's daughter, why are you turning against him?"

Fluttercruel scoffed. "By blood, or whatever the buck I have! But he's doesn't see me as his daughter! As far as that psychopath is concerned, I'm just his puppet! I'll say it, I'm a jerk, I LIKE being a jerk. But what I don't like being is that sick buck's puppet!"

Rarity covered Spike's ears as Cruel then proceeded to direct every cuss word in the pony language at Discord in some way shape or form, until she finally stopped. "Oh dear...what a colorful vocabulary."

Lyra hugged Bon Bon. "It's alright, but now I think we've gotten tangled up in something."

"That's putting it mildly." Applejack said, walking to the group and yanked off what webbing was left. "Alright, how to be pony again." Applejack then became silent, and a blush creeped on her face. "Shut up." She said with a mild bite, then as she touched her belt, the belt to shock her. "Aie! What?! Oh." Applejack looked at the road, which was still a mess. "Fix the lie, so the truth may surface...." The belt itself announced, getting Dash and Twilight to look at Applejack

Bon Bon gave her a flat look. "What gave it away, the monster or a pony turning into a human?" She asked with an equally flat voice.

Fluttercruel looked to her. "Deceit's Strifes make lies true, so I'm assuming it wants you to fix the road so the lie isn't truth...ugh, I can't believe that came out of my mouth," she said, sighing. "My brother tried to make a lie true, which involved this road being destroyed. So I guess it wants you to fix the road. Don't ask me though, I was born from Disharmony, what do I know about harmony?"

"How?" asked Rarity.

"The belt told you to do it, it must have some feature to do it or something," said Cruel.

"Hmm..." Applejack pondered on the subject, then remembered when she pressed the center gem. She hit the Harmony Gem, getting energy to flow out across her body. "Restore." It announced, then Applejack raised her right leg, the energy cultivating into the raised foot. "Truth Cultivation!" She yelled and stomped hard into the ground, sending a shockwave to travel across the inflicted site. The ground and road was soon fixed and the trees that that were damaged in the fight were restored. When everything was done, the scene was completely fixed, as if it didn't looked like anything out of the ordinary happened.

Cruel leapt out of the shockwave's path. "Hey! Watch it! I'm born from Disharmony over here!"

"Well, that was interesting..." said Rarity, watching.

"Yeah-" Spike started, then spat up a letter from Princess Celestia. "Oh, here you go Twilight," he said, handing it to her.

" Dear my Faithful Student Twilight Sparkle;

A new threat now faces Equestria, a threat only you six can stop. What you know of the events of three thousand years ago is only a small fragment of a much larger story. Come to Canterlot immediately.

Princess Celestia.