Isle of She-Beasts

“I don’t know if this is a good idea,” Fluttershy whimpered. “Are you sure it’s a good idea for Leggy to be a distraction? I feel awful! This is almost like…sacrificing someone.”

“Trust me, Leggy’s got the speed and the agility to outrun that thing,” Sunset Shimmer replied. “I should know. I’ve…seen her in action.”

“But just in case, I’ll be flying in the air for aerial support,” Rainbow Dash added. “I can dive down and fly circles around that snake’s heads, they won’t even know I was there.”

“Just be careful, you two,” Applejack pleaded in concern for both falcon She-Beast and sheep Reverse-Hybrid.

Rainbow Dash and Leggy Lamb both looked to each other and nodded. They soon left the covers of their leaves, and started flapping their arms and wings, catching the hydra’s attention.

“Hey ya big ugly snake!” Rainbow called. “Come and get us! You hungry? Leggy! Show ‘em, your legs!”

The hydra immediately let out a hiss from all seven heads, each rearing their heads back for the lunge, snapping their jaws at the last second. But Rainbow Dash and Leggy evaded the attacks as they took off, leading the giant snake away.

“Now’s our chance to get in!”

With that, the remaining She-Beasts and Scorpan all made a beeline towards the opening of the cave.

The entrance to the Snake Pit, where Twilight was held captive by Sombra.

Inside, the Snake Pit was even more darker than the night outside. Hardly any creatures could see where they were going.

Sunset Shimmer sniffed the air, which was rather salty and strong. So strong that she fought the urge not to sneeze, with her eyes tearing up.

“Ugh! It stinks in here…” Sunset sniffled. “But I think I can smell Twilight. She’s this way.”

“I smell her too!” Applejack sniffed in confirmation, while recoiling in disgust. “Ick! And Sombra too! He stinks!”

“Sombra’s here,” Beatrice sniffed the air and hissed. “I can feel him…this way!”

Beatrice took the lead, with Scorpan and the other girls following.

“Remember to watch your steps, girls,” Scorpan advised. “This place is swarming with deadly snakes.”

“And…how exactly are we supposed to look where we’re stepping if we can’t see?” Applejack asked.

“Luckily for you girls, I remembered to bring along a flashlight,” Scorpan said, as he switches on the said tool, shining the dark cavern.

“And a ball of strings, which we can use to retrace our way, back to the way we came from.”

Scorpan quickly got to work, unrolling his spool of strings, tying one end of it around a nearby stalagmite.

“Now that’s more like it!” Applejack barked.

Without warning, Fluttershy quickly shouted, “Applejack! STOP!”

“Whoa! What the—“ Applejack exclaimed, feeling her tail being tugged, pulling her back.

“Shhhh!” The girls hushed the Wolf-Woman.

“Quiet, darling,” Rarity whispered harshly. “Sombra may not even know we are here yet. We don’t want to give away the elements of surprise!”

“Sorry,” Applejack apologized quietly. “I was just surprised is all. Why’d ya pull on my tail like that?”

“You almost stepped on a snake, Applejack!” Fluttershy answere. “I had to stop you to save you and the snake.”

And sure enough, Scorpan shines his light on the ground, revealing a pit viper that was slithering its way across the floor.

“Oh! That would’ve ruined my night,” Applejack sighed in relief, before she realized, “Hey, hang on. How’d ya know? I thought you are blind.”

“I am,” Fluttershy answered. “But then, I’m not…it’s odd. But when I hear, like when I’m talking to you now, it’s like I can see, when I’m listening. I don’t understand.”

There was a moment of silence between the girls, until Sunset Shimmer spoke up to break the silence.

“It’s called echolocation!” Sunset Shimmer explained. “Some animals, like bats, make sounds in order for them to navigate their way through the dark. The sounds can travel along the cavern walls, before bouncing back to determine the exact locations of the objects and animals!”

“Wow, so it’s like a game of Marco Polo, but for bats then?” Pinkie Pie asked.

“Yes…like Marco Polo, but for bats, Pinkie,” Sunset answered, rather hesitantly at how Pinkie summarized the information.

“Wow! This is amazing!” Fluttershy smiled. “So this is what echolocation is like!”

“Yes, Fluttershy, it is!” Sunset agreed. “And we can use it to find, Twilight! These caves all split off into several directions. Some probably even cover the entire island. But with Fluttershy’s echolocation in action, we can narrow our search even more! We just need to take the cave with Sombra.”

“Sounds like a plan to me,” Applejack nodded in approval.

“Indubitably!” Rarity added.

“Yup yup yup!” Pinkie Pie chirped.

“Ok. I can try,” Fluttershy nodded.

The Woman-Bat cleared her throat, before she let out a screech that echoed throughout the cave. The girls watched as Fluttershy’s ears turned in every directions the sounds echoed, until she pointed in a cavern.

“That way!”

With that, the girls resume exploring the cavern tunnels, searching for their kidnapped friend, with Fluttershy in the lead.

On the way, Applejack decided to strike up conversation with the crocodile Reverse-Hybrid.

"So Bea..." Applejack spoke up.

"Yes." The crocodile woman simply said.

"If you don't mind me asking... Why do you hate Sombra so damn much?" The wolf woman asked, "I mean, I get he tried to flush ya down the toilet from time to time but I have a strong feeling there's something more than that."

Bea just sighs, "Nothing escapes you huh wolf? Fine, you know about Radiant Hope right? Sombra's fiancé and my previous owner?"

"I sure do" AJ replied glumly, "I heard he treated her no better than a sex toy." She growled.

"Well, it was more than that. That bastard used her as a baby factory. Whenever my owner gave birth to a child and they reach the age of four, Sombra comes and takes the child away while leaving my owner a sobbing wreck. You have no idea how much I wanted to bite that fucker's dick off." Beatrice snarled.

Applejack was taken aback by this. She knew Sombra was a nasty piece of work, but she didn't know he was that awful. She can only hope that they would rescue Twilight in time from a similar fate.

“So…this may not be the best time to bring this up,” Sunset began. “But has anyone here got a plan to rescue Twilight?”

“Yes. Simple,” Beatrice hissed. “Find Sombra and kill him. Then rescue Twilight.”

There was an awkward silence between the girls and Scorpan, before Rarity spoke up, “That seems too straightforward of a plan…to get us all killed, darling.”

“Anyone else have a plan?” Sunset asked.

“Well, I’ve got these here vines,” Applejack revealed, holding up a roll of vines draped around her shoulders. “We could use these to tie up Sombra, or we could even use it to rescue, Twilight. But I’m gonna need more muscles.”

“Which is going to be hard for you, without any free hands, if you keep covering your boobs like that, Sunset,” Pinkie Pie teased, much to the flustered Tiger-Woman’s annoyance.

Ever since she had lost her bikini tops, following their recent encounter with Chrysalis and her big creatures, Sunset had been crossing her arms across her chest to cover her breasts.

“Pinkie’s right, Sunset,” Rarity added. “If we’re gonna save Twilight, then we’ll need all hands we can get. And yours are the strongest and sharpest we’ve got.”

“And you have the muscles for it,” Applejack added. “Which says a lot coming from me.”

“Easy for you to say,” Sunset blushed. “You’re still wearing some clothes. I’m not going to storm a snake’s den, flashing my breasts, like a slut!”

“Eh, too late for that, Sunny,” Applejack snarked. “You’ve done a lot of flashing, back when we were humans.”

“I thought we agreed not to bring up my dark past,” Sunset frowned. “And besides, I’ve moved on from that. I’m not like that anymore! I’m not some…some…bitch! No offense, Applejack.”

“None taken,” The wolf-woman tipped her hat.

“Be that as it may, Twilight will need all the help she can get,” Scorpan spoke up. “And you can’t let a little thing, like modesty stop you.”

“Little thing?”

“Look. I get where you are coming from. Clothing is what divides the man from the beast. But we are a long way from civilization. And we can’t waste any time. Your friend is in danger, in the clutches of one of the most ruthless and savage creatures Grogar has ever created. And the only way you can stop him is for you to reach in and unleash your inner beast.”

“And what’s stopping me from going full beast mode to the point I become feral and I lose my identity?” Sunset asked. “We’ve already seen what happened to the others! And I—“

“Then I’m to assume you would rather preserve your humanity than saving your friend?” Scorpan asked.

“What?! No! I’m saying—“

“Listen to me, Sunset. I was afraid of losing myself, as much as you were. I was afraid of becoming a feral Man-Beast for you and the girls to put down, like the others.

“Enough!” Beatrice hissed. “I don’t care if anyone is human, or not! I want to find Sombra and finish him once and for all!”

Meanwhile, somewhere on the island, Rainbow Dash was flying over the trees, with the hydra’s heads setting their sights on Leggy Lamb.

The giant 7-headed snake was slithering aggressively in its pursuit for its prey.

Thankfully, for Leggy, her extra thick legs weren’t just for show. She was thankful to have been able to outrun the ravenous snake, or she would certainly be dead by now.

Leggy weaved through the narrow gaps between the trees, ducking her head to avoid the branches, and jumping over fallen trees and shrubs to put a good distance between herself and the hydra.

Unfortunately, she wasn’t engineered by Dr. Grogar keep running forever.

Leggy’s legs were starting to ache and burn from all the running. Her heart was pounding hard in her chest, with her lungs pumping overtime. She was having a hard time catching her breath, and was gasping for air.

But she kept on running, knowing that if she stopped, then the hydra will be upon her and eat her up.

“Ah!” Leggy screamed, tripping over a tree’s root, causing her to fell to the ground, with a sharp pain shooting up in her ankle. “My ankle! Help!”

Leggy looked in fright to see the hydra catching up to her. The large silhouette of the snake’s heads were all shown against the moonlit night sky. The snake roared and hissed, to which Leggy interpreted as the snake signaling its ready for an attack.

Leggy closed her eyes, expecting the killing blow, when the loud screech of a falcon pierced the air.

“I got a ya, Leggy!” Rainbow Dash screamed.

Next thing Leggy knew, a pair of sharp talons had clamped themselves around her arms and she was pulled up into the air, narrowly evading the hydra’s jaws.

Leggy looked up to see the familiar rainbow feathers of the falcon-woman, Rainbow Dash.

“Thank you!” Leggy thanked the She-Beast.

“Don’t thank me yet, Leggy,” Rainbow replied. “We gotta get back to our friends and—WHOA!”

Rainbow Dash barely had time to avoid the head of another dragon-like creature that burst up from the treetops.

Rainbow Dash banked hard right to avoid the creature, but her left wing had clipped across one of the creature’s horns, disrupting her flight and causing her and Leggy to crash into a tree.

“Ooh, that’s smart…” Rainbow groaned, before she and Leggy looked up, and their eyes widen in horror.

The dragon was none other than Ēferno — Predator 00 — the apex predator that haunts the island, second only to Shade Stalker.

Thankfully, for tonight, the fiendish dragon wasn’t interested in She-Beasts or Reverse-Hybrids for dinner.

The dragon was engaged in a personal battle with another fearsome beast. The Black Tiger-Man who once mated with Sunset Shimmer nearly succeeded in impregnating her.

Both beasts were roaring at one another, in their attempts to intimidate the other to stand down. But neither beasts would yield.

At that moment, the hydra found itself caught in between the two fearsome beasts.

“Oh yeah!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “Now things are getting interesting!”

Meanwhile, back in the Snakes Pit, Scorpan and the girls have navigated through the dark tunnels, with Fluttershy using her echolocation to search the area ahead, looking for the cave with Sombra at the end.

“How hard can it be to find a Berserker who is half-snake?” Applejack wondered, before she turned to Scorpan. “Can ya tell us more about him? What does he look like? Like what kind of snakes has Grogar merged him with?”

“The most vicious and dangerous of all snakes to ever slither on our world,” Scorpan muttered solemnly.

“Speaking of snakes,” Sunset Shimmer whimpered, as she noted the snakes surrounding them. “What’s keeping these other ones from attacking us?”

Everywhere in the cavern, the ambience sound of snakes hissing bounced off the cavern walls, echoing all around them. To the girls, including those with sensitive hearings, it sounded almost like the snakes were hissing in their ears.

Tensions and anxiety were rising high, as if everyone were expecting the snakes to attack at any moment, from the shadows.

“What’s stopping these snakes from attacking us?” Rarity asked in disgust.

“Don’t worry,” Scorpan reassured. “Though they’re venomous, they’re more afraid of you than you are of them.”

“Doesn’t make us less afraid of them,” Sunset grimaced.

Unfortunately, Sunset wasn’t looking where she was going, when she suddenly fell forward with a yelp.

“AAAAAHHH!!!” Sunset screamed, falling on top of Marina.

“Sunset!” The She-Beasts exclaimed as they all gathered around Sunset. “Sunset? Are you alright? Are you okay? Did you get bit? How many fingers am I holding up?”

“What happened?” Scorpan asked.

“I…I…I tripped and fell…” Sunset pointed, with her face burning a crimson shade of red, in embarrassment.

Scorpan shines his flashlight, following Sunset’s legs, to find that the tiger-woman had tripped over a rock.

“If ya just fell, then why’re ya redder than ma brother Big Mac with a fever?” Applejack asked.

“Spaghetti squash baby birds!” Marina screamed, muffled underneath Sunset Shimmer.

To that, everyone looked down to see that Sunset’s breasts were being groped by the octopus Reverse-Hybrid’s hair-tentacles. Needless to say, everyone could see that the sensation was turning Sunset on.

“Sometimes, you She-Beasts can be unbelievable…” Scorpan scowled, shaking his head in annoyance.

Before long, Sunset and Marina both collected themselves and regained their composure. But the tension in the air was a rather awkward, especially for both Sunset and Marina.

“Me envy Sunset’s breasts,” Marina whispered to a flustered Sunset Shimmer, who was having trouble deciding to feel flattered, or embarrassed.

“There!” Fluttershy exclaimed quietly. “We’ve found Twilight!”

“Where?!” The other girls cried out excitedly.

“Shhhh!” Scorpan quickly hushed, before he turned to Fluttershy. “Where is Twilight, Fluttershy?”

“She’s down there,” Fluttershy pointed her nose in the direction of a cave.

The others followed in the direction Fluttershy pointed. The cave opened up to a huge cavern chamber, with the ceiling in the shape of a rotunda. The floor was deepened into a large crater, which looked as if an asteroid had once struck the place. Furthermore, the most spectacular sights to behold in the cavern were an entire wall of large crystals.

“Oh my word!” Rarity exclaimed, bedazzled by the sight of the crystals. “Look at all these jewels!”

“SHHH!!!” Scorpan and the girls hushed Rarity, before the pointed, reminding the Snow Leopard-Woman why they came to the wretched cavern to begin with.

The entire crater was filled with a mass of sleeping snakes from top-to-bottom. It was so packed, that it looked almost like an huge Trick or Treat candy bowl, overflow with black licorice.

And there, sleeping in the center of the snake infested crater, was the former criminal-turned-chimeric Berserker, Sombra himself.

He was all wrapped up in a coil, which was estimated to be bigger and longer than two school buses. And lying motionless, in the grip of his coil, was Twilight herself.

“Great. We found them,” Sunset shivered. “Now how are we going to get Twilight out of that monster’s grip?”

Rarity turned to Scorpan, “Could you perhaps fly over there and pick up, Twilight?”

“Normally, it would be that simple,” Scorpan replied solemnly. “But even for a big snake, like Sombra, he’s not a deep sleeper. He can feel a wing flap a mile away. He’ll be upon Twilight before we are.”

“Hmmm,” Applejack scratched her chin, looking at the layout of the cavern, pondering and coming up with a rescue plan to save Twilight.

“I got it!” Applejack turned to Pinkie Pie and instructed, “Pinkie, you take this end of the rope, climb up the ceiling, and tie it to one of them stalactites. Make sure it’s hanging over Twilight.”

“Okie-dokie, lokey!” Pinkie Pie chirped, before she was hushed by Scorpan and the girls. “I mean…okie-dokie lokey…”

Pinkie Pie then proceeded to climb across the ceilings, using the stalactites as if they were monkey bars, carrying the rope up the ceilings.

Once she was directly above Twilight, Pinkie Pie tied the rope in place.

“Line is secured!” Pinkie Pie gave the thumbs up.

“Okay,” Applejack nodded, pulling on the rope to make sure it remain stiff and solid. “Now hang onto the rope from there!”

“Like this?” Pinkie Pie asked, hanging on the rope, by the end of her tail.

“Perfect!” Applejack then turned to the rest of the group. “Okay, Marina. You climb across the rope and meet up with Pinkie Pie. Gently climb onto her, and hold onto her hands.”

The octopus Reverse-Hybrid looked at what Applejack was planning, and then nodded in understanding. Without a word, Marina used her hair-tentacles to climb up the rope, until she reaches Pinkie Pie.

Marina carefully climbs down, onto Pinkie Pie, until she was hanging above Sombra, with Pinkie Pie holding her by the hands to keep her suspended.

“Oh! I see what you’re up to,” Sunset observed. “You’re using our friends to make some kind of…rescue rope for Twilight.”

“Eeyup!” Applejack confirmed. “Alright, Fluttershy. You’re next.”

“Me?” Fluttershy squeaked, with a hesitant tone that sounded rather unsure.

“Don’t worry,” Applejack gently reassured. “All ya gotta do is follow the rope, until you reach our friends. Then, just climb on down, hang yourself upside down, and reach out for Twilight.”

Fluttershy was still rather hesitant. However, knowing that Applejack isn’t the type to steer her wrong, she took her words for it.

“I hope you know what you are doing, Applejack,” Fluttershy squeaked as she gingerly climbs up the rope, until she reaches her friends, and starts climbing down on Pinkie Pie and Marina.

“Oh! I’m sorry! Was that your face?” Fluttershy apologizes, until she was hanging upside down, by Marina’s feet.

“Twilight? Twilight?” Fluttershy quietly called out to the horse-woman. “Twilight? Are you alright? Say something.”

Upon hearing her friend calling out to her, Twilight was startled awake, wearily blinking her eyes open to look up.

“Fluttershy?” Twilight gasped quietly in an exhausted voice.

“Twilight!” Pinkie Pie chattered quietly. “We’re here to rescue you!”

“Yes!” Marina added.

“Take my hands, Twilight!” Fluttershy strained to stretch her wings out, reaching for her friend.

Twilight had only been able to pull one arm free from Sombra’s coil. The kidnapped horse-woman tried to reach up and grab Fluttershy, but the bat-woman was still too out of reach.

Twilight’s struggle had also disturbed Sombra in his sleep, who reacted by wrapping his coils even tighter. Thankfully, he was still asleep.

“I can’t reach…” Twilight groaned.

“We need one more!” Pinkie Pie called to Applejack.

Applejack then turned to her remaining friends, “Rarity? Rarity?”

Unfortunately, the snow leopard-woman was too preoccupied with the oversized crystals in the cave.

“Where have you been all my life?” Rarity asked the crystals.

Applejack sighed, annoyed at her friend losing focus on the task at hand, “Really? We’re trying to rescue our friend and she’s only interested in some jewels?”

“Actually Applejack,” Scorpan began. “These crystals are actually tellurium crystals. They’re very rare and very precious, able to improve machinery, and conduct electricity.”

“Fascinating,” Applejack muttered. “But topics for another time. We need one more…”

Both eyes turned towards Sunset Shimmer, who shook her head in reluctance.

“I can’t…” Sunset flustered, with her hands squeezing her breasts in the process.

“C’mon, Sunset! This ain’t the time to be modest!” Applejack whispered harshly. “We need ya out there! Twilight’s in trouble!”

Sunset wanted to argue, but she knew that Applejack was right. Furthermore, she also knew that her friends were counting on her.

With a sigh of defeat, Sunset complied, “What happened in the Snakes Pit, stays in the pit.”

Sunset then uncovered her breasts to free up her hands, which she then used to climb up the rope, while Scorpan and Beatrice held onto Applejack to keep the rope steady.

Sunset soon got to her friends and carefully climbs down on their heads.

“Nice boobies, Sunset!” Pinkie Pie chirped teasingly.

Sunset simply shot Pinkie a death glare, as she climbs down on Marina, and then Fluttershy.

“Sunset? Is that you?” Fluttershy asked.

“Y-Yes, Fluttershy,” Sunset stammered. “It’s me…”

“I thought it was you! You have such hard abs!” Fluttershy squeaked, rather excitedly.

Sunset’s face burned an even brighter shade of pink, embarrassed from the comments everyone were making about her body.

Nevertheless, the flustered tiger-woman pushed all of her emotions away to rescue Twilight.

Once Fluttershy has a firm grip of Sunset’s feet, the tiger-woman drops down with her arms stretched out.

“Twilight? Twilight?” Sunset whispered. “Take my hands! Hurry!”

Twilight reaches up to grab Sunset’s hand, “Ok!”

“Pull us up!” Sunset instructed.

With that, the girls proceeded to pull themselves up to the rope, with Twilight free from Sombra’s grip.

“So far so good!” Applejack smiled towards Scorpan and Beatrice, watching as her friends were all climbing back towards her, on the rope.

“Oh darlings!” Rarity called out quietly, carrying a handful of tellurium crystals towards them. “Would you look at all these—“

“RARITY! Look out!” Applejack barked in alarm.

Rarity was seconds away from stepping on a snake, when Applejack alerted her.

“AHHH!!!” Rarity shrieked, dropping one of the tellurium crystals into the sleeping mass of snakes.

This ended up waking up the entire crater of snakes, including Sombra himself. Upon seeing his captive little pony escaping, the Berserker let out a bloodcurdling roar, as he emerges from the snake horde to reveal his entirety.

In appearance, he has the upper half of his human body, but with the long sharp fangs of snakes and the hood of a cobra. His arms were all snakes, with his lower half being that of a giant serpent.

The girls all screamed in fright at the sight of the hideous Berserker in his entirety as he prepared to attack.

“SOMBRA!” Beatrice shouted. “Leave them alone!”

Primal Rage Arcade Soundtrack All the Rage:Jungle Song (Talon's Theme)

“YOU!!!” Sombra hissed, “Me... remember... you!”

“You remember me?” Bea snarled, “I don't know whether I should be flattered or not.”

“You... issss... Radiant'sssss misssserable pet reptile. Me sssstill remember the bitesssss you gave me!”

“And I still remember the way you treated my owner, and the many times you tried to flush me down the toilet you son of a bitch!” Bea growled.

With a loud hiss, Sombra raised his tail and attempted to whip the crocodile-woman with it. But Bea managed to dodge out of the way in time.

Sombra then attempted to repeat this a few more times but Bea managed to dodge every single tail whip. The last attempt was Bea managing to catch Sombra’s tail. With her mouth.

Sombra screamed in pain as the crocodile-woman sink her hard teeth into his snake tail and tried to shake her off.

Bea was flailing about like a rag doll but still managed to hang on until Sombra started slamming her to the ground, causing her to finally let go.

As Bea layed on the ground, groaning in pain, she looks up to see Sombra standing over her. The berserker opened his mouth, showing his snake-like fangs which oozed with venom, and prepared to strike her but luckily, she managed to grab his snout just in time.

The two struggled for a good minute before Bea used her jaws to bite Sombra’s snout.

Sombra screamed in pain once again. He then grabbed Bea’s snout and struggled to pry it open but the crocodile woman wouldn’t budge an inch. It was that he tail-whipped her in the stomach did she let go.

As Bea clutched her stomach, Sombra used his tail to wrap around her neck and began to choke the life out of her.

Beatrice tried to gasp for air and her vision began to fade. Just when things seemed to be all over for her, something stabs Sombra in the back.

The berserker yelped in pain and dropped Bea as a result. He turned to see that it was Marina who stabbed him with a small stalactite she pulled out from the ceiling.

The octo-woman tried to drive the stalactite deeper into Sombra’s back but the Berserker whipped her away before she could do so.

Marina was sent flying until she hit a wall. She groaned as she slowly got up but quickly noticed Sombra looming over with anger in his eyes.

Before Marina could do anything, Sombra’s eyes started to twirl and the octo-woman suddenly found herself in a trance.

Beatrice regained her breathing and quickly noticed Sombra hypnotizing Marina. Realizing what’s about to happen, the crocodile-woman instantly got up to rescue her friend.

Sombra opened his mouth and was about to prepare the killing blow, until Bea suddenly tackled him to the ground and began wailing on his face.

Marina slowly got out of her trance, she looked around and saw Bea beating Sombra senselessly. Cringing at the sight, Marina looked away but as she did she noticed a huge rock at the edge of a cliff and that gave her an idea.

Beatrice continued to savagely beat Sombra’s face in, years of build up hatred of this one particular man turned beast for the way he treated both her and her owner have finally let loose. After a few minutes of pummeling him, Bea suddenly heard a whistle and turned to see that it was Marina who had just tied Sombra’s tail to a rock.

Marina gestured Beatrice to come over and help her pull. Bea just nodded in response and went over to help her.

As both Reverse-Hybrids began to push the rock with all their might, Sombra slowly came to from the pummeling, his face badly swollen. He tried to move his tail but was unable to for whatever reason. He looks around and sees his tail tied to a rock and both Beatrice and Marina trying to push it off a cliff.

Sombra tried to get up to stop them but it was too late. Bea and Marina managed to push the boulder down, dragging Sombra with it. Sombra lets out a loud bellow as he falls further down the cavern.

Both beast women heard Sombra’s screams until they heard a large bang.

End of Fight

With Sombra no longer a threat, the girls and Scorpan followed the string of yarn that Scorpan had unraveled to retrace their way back to the cavern.

“Thank you girls for saving me!” Twilight panted gratefully. “I was so scared to think of what horrible things he would do to me!”

“Don’t thank us yet, Twilight,” Sunset replied. “We need to get out of here and get back to Spike!”

“Spike?” Twilight exclaimed excitedly, as if she has regained her colors. “You’ve found him?!”

“Look! Daylight!” Applejack cried out. “Sweet daylight!”

“Last one out there is a rotten egg!” Pinkie Pie chattered, as she and the group raced out towards the exit.

Unfortunately, they quickly wished they hadn’t gone out too soon. Waiting outside of the Snakes Pit was battle between Chrysalis and her whole swarm of bugs, zombie creatures, against the Grey Gorillas.

“Oh shit!” Applejack exclaimed. “How are we supposed to get pass all of that?!”

As if answering Applejack’s question, a familiar screech of a falcon pierced the air, to which everyone looked to see Rainbow Dash swooping in, with Leggy Lamb hanging onto her talon.

“Rainbow Dash!” Twilight exclaimed.

“Take cover you guys!” Rainbow exclaimed. “We’re about to receive some unwelcome guests!”

As if on cue, the trees were knocked down, from the left, before two massive behemoths came bursting out from the trees.

One of them was the hydra that guarded the snake pit, and the other was none other than Ēferno himself. Both dragon-like beasts were snapping jaws at one another. The hydra tried to wrap its coil around Ēferno in an attempt to suffocate the dragon. But the dragon’s armored spiked scales were too sharp.

In retaliation, Ēferno had bitten one of the hydra’s head off. But without warning, two more had gradually started to regrow in place of the bloody stump.

Finally, as if arriving late to the party, the tiger-man had shown up, to continue his fight against Ēferno.

The tiger-man let out a loud roar, when he suddenly took notice of Sunset Shimmer. The tiger-woman quickly covered her breasts, as she braced herself for anymore of the Man-Beast’s advances.

Instead, the tiger-man simply cocked his head to the side, looking curiously at Sunset Shimmer. He simply walked over towards Sunset to nuzzle his cheek with hers, before he jumped back into the fray, fending off anyone that dares to threaten his supposed mate.

“Uh…what just happened?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“I think someone’s a smitten kitten,” Rarity sang.

“Never mind that,” Sunset stammered. “Let’s just get out while the getting is good.”

And so, everyone were on their way, completely unnoticed by the battling beasts.

On the way, Applejack happened to notice that Rarity was carrying some of the tellurium crystals in her arms, using the ragged remains of her dress.

“Ugh, really, Rarity?” Applejack frowned. “We’re running for our lives and all ya can think about is pick up a few souvenirs?”

“Well, at least they make this rescue mission a little bit more worthwhile,” Rarity huffed. “Besides, once we’re off this island, I intend to sell all these gems for a fortune to buy my own shop, and make new dresses!”

“Oh Rarity…” The gang groaned incredulously.

Loona had lost track of time for how long she cried. All she knew was that she cried until she couldn’t cry anymore.

By the time she was done, she was still in the same position she was in. With her arms over her head, and her nostril pressing into Spike’s chest. Her tears have all flooded from her eyes to the point that they were dried. So dried and burnt, it hurts her to even blink them open.

Unfortunately, little did she knew then, that both she and Spike were about to receive an unwelcome visitor.

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Shade was carefully sneaking through the village without making so much as a sound. When he was spying not too long ago, he noticed that Spike was bedridden and that most of the She-Beasts were absent for whatever reason. A perfect opportunity to finally snatch the photographer and take him to his father’s lab.

Shade spotted Spike’s hut and proceeded to enter it. He spots the photographer lying on the bed and still sleeping.

The only one keeping him company was, surprisingly, the xenophobic wolf-dog Reverse-Hybrid, Loona. She had her arms wrapped over her face, while she was resting her head across his chest.

This was the first time Shade has ever seen Loona in such an emotional position. Even more surprising than the white dress she was wearing.

Shade smirked, this had to be the easiest catch he ever had. He thought too soon however as something suddenly grabbed him from behind and threw him out of the hut.

Disturbed by the sounds, Loona shot up and turned her head to look, with her eyes and ears immediately widening in alarm.

Shade looked up to get a good look at his assailant, revealing herself to be one of his father’s latest creation. The marine biologist turned Shark-woman — Starlight Glimmer.

“Remember me?” Starlight Glimmer scowled. “Because I certainly will never forget what your father did to me! And if you want Spike, you’ll have to go through me!”

And with a kick of her legs, Starlight Glimmer lunged at Shade Stalker. But being a fish out of water, Starlight wasn’t getting enough speed and momentum to match that of a fired torpedo.

Therefore, Shade Stalker stood rather unfazed as he expertly grab Starlight Glimmer by the throat and flipped her over his shoulder and slammed her onto the ground, knocking the wind out of her.

Shade Stalker then slashed his blades at Starlight, who rolled to the side, before she stood back up on her legs.

Starlight Glimmer retaliated by slashing her webbed claws at Shade, blocking and parrying most of his punches and kicks, while snapping her jaws at him to keep up the pressure.

Shade Stalker then brought out his hunting spear, holding it like a fisherman holding a harpoon, on the hunt for a whale, or a shark.

Starlight was snapping her jaws at him, when Shade Stalker suddenly thrusted the bladed tip of his spear into her mouth.

Starlight had barely caught the blade in her teeth, before it could be driven deeper into her throat. She desperately held her teeth in place to keep the spear from being driven further.

Unfortunately, this was exactly what Shade was counting on. Shade pressed a switch on his spear, turning it into a whip. With a twist of his body, he spun around, with Starlight still hanging on, and hurled her into the trees.

Shade then pressed the switch, turning his whip back into its default form.

Before Shade Stalker could resume completing what he came for, Fleur-de-Lis pounced on him from behind, screeching and yowling, as she viciously bites and clawed into his shoulders.

Unfazed, and finding the feral woman’s attempt annoying, Shade simply picked her up, then slammed her on his knee, breaking her spine, then slammed her face into a nearby tree, knocking her out.

Meanwhile, watching the battle unfold, from the left of Spike’s bed, Loona watched anxiously, wanting for her remaining misfits, and castaways, to drive off Shade.

Though it was vacantly clear to Loona that Shade Stalker was not stopping. Though they had him outnumbered, he has clearly overpowered them all.

‘Why am I doing this?’ Loona thought to herself. ‘I don’t even like this human. So I don’t even have to defend him. But then, I just can’t leave him. Not like this! I don’t know why, but I just can’t!”

Loona wearily stood up, her shaking legs hidden beneath the skirt of her dress. And like how she’s been doing to get around, Loona had to lift up the bottom of her skirt to avoid tripping.

Loona tried to walk, to assist Starlight and Fleur in defending Spike. Unfortunately, a sharp pain in her foot shot up, and Loona collapsed onto the ground with a thud.

“Ow!” Loona cried, biting her lips to swallow the pain that traveled up her leg, up to her chest, then to her eyes, forcing her to cry.

“Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!”

Nearby, the young ram, Kirin, charged towards the Hunter.

“Kirin! No!” Loona barked after the little ram.

Kirin charged forward and rammed his head into Shade’s leg. But it wasn’t enough to even scratch the Hunter, who simply kicked Kirin away.

“KIRIN!” Loona howled in horror, watching as Kirin fell into some nearby bushes.

Loona turned her head away from Kirin, to look up at Shade Stalker, alarmed to see him advancing upon her. But his eyes were set on Spike.

Loona struggled to stand up on her legs and act strong, putting her arms out.

“You want the human? You’ll have to get past me first you fucking edgelord!” Loona barked, much to her surprise. ‘When have I started defending, Spike?’

However, Shade just snorts at her. He knows when he sees someone badly injured and trying to hide it.

Regardless, Shade brought out his hunting knife and jumped at the wolfdog but Loona managed to grab one of her crutches and held it up as a shield just in time as the hunter’s knife pierced through the crutch and pinning Loona to the ground.

Shade tried to dig the knife deeper while Loona struggled to push him off. The knife moved closer and closer to Loona’s face until it was close enough to stab her in the eye. But before that could happen, a shark tail whipped Shade off of Loona.

Shade Stalker looked up to see Starlight Glimmer was back on her feet and was back for another round.

“Okay. I made a mistake going for the direct approach with you pal,” Starlight panted heavily. “So I’m gonna try a different tactic!”

With that, Starlight whipped out a bucket of disgusting chums, which she hurled at Shade, covering him from head to toe in the decomposing meat.

Before Shade knew it, he was suddenly covered by a flock of Piranha-Gulls.

Loona laugh at Shade Stalker’s awkward predicament, until the sides of her ribs shot up in pain.

“Ow!” Loona groaned. “Maybe that pink monkey was right…it hurts when you laugh…”

As the piranha-gulls bit and clawed at Shade Stalker, the frustrated Hunter has finally had enough. He took out his shotgun and blasted the birds, out of the air, while scaring the others away.

He then turned his gun on Starlight, forcing her to hide behind a hut. Loona took cover behind a wall to avoid the bullets.

Shade then walks into Spike’s hut and was soon at his bedside.

Loona tried charging toward Shade, but she ended up tripping on her dress and fell.

“Ugh! I hate this stupid dress!” Loona barked to herself.

Her clumsy attempt didn’t go unheard, as Shade turned around, just as Loona stood up. He quickly whipped out his gun, only for Loona to knock it out of his hand, when she bit his hand.

Loona grappled with Shade Stalker, trying to keep him away from Spike. But in retaliation, Shade thrusted a knee up, slugging Loona in the stomach. Causing her to keel over and fall to the ground.

Shade Stalker was about to take Spike away, when he felt someone grabbing his ankle.

He looked down, annoyed to see that Loona had grabbed onto his foot, trying desperately to hold him back.

Shade Stalker rolled his eyes and decided to kill Loona, in order to finally capture Spike.

He was about to shoot Loona in the head, when his ears perked to the sound of an approaching party.

He looked out the window to see that the rest of the She-Beasts were returning. However, the most alarming sight for Shade Stalker was that they were in the company of Scorpan.

Normally, Shade Stalker can take on the She-Beasts, with his hands tied behind his back. But Scorpan was a different story.

He looked down at Loona, then back at Spike, until he finally turned back to kick Loona in the face.

After giving Loona a black eye to remember him, he took his leave, without Spike.

End of fight

“What happened, Starlight?” Twilight asked.

“Oh! Thank goodness you’re all here,” Starlight panted heavily. “Shade Stalker had infiltrated the village!”

“WHAT?!” The She-Beasts exclaimed in shock.

“Are you serious?!” Rainbow Dash asked.

“No! I wouldn’t be joking if it was this terrible!” Starlight continued. “Shade knows where we are! He’s gotten passed our traps, our defenses, and he almost took Spike away, if you guys hadn’t shown up!”

“Heh!” Rainbow Dash scoffed. “Guess he’s not as scary than he thought he is, when he realizes he’s got all of us to deal with. Huh?”

“I’m pretty sure that wasn’t it, Dash,” Applejack spoke up. “But we’ll worry about that later. We need to check on Spike and see how his spider bite is.”

“Spike? You awake yet?” Called the cawing of the falcon, Rainbow Dash.

Loona wearily lifted her head up to look behind her and see that the rest of the girls have returned from the rescue.

Though, Loona was rather surprised, and intimidated, to see that the tiger, the leopard, and the wolf have started baring their human bodies.

“Well, I’ll be!” Applejack barked in surprise. “Never thought I’d see you in here.”

“Aw, Loona,” Pinkie Pie chattered. “Have you been crying? Your eyes are all red!”

“Pinkie…her eyes have always been red,” Sunset replied.

Growling irritably from the annoyance, Loona wiped her eyes and barked, “What do you want?”

“We’re just here to check up on Spike, darling,” Rarity explained.

“How’s he doing?” Twilight gasped, looking as if she had just escaped from the pound, or Dr. Grogar. “Is Spike awake yet?”

Loona immediately lets out a whimper as she stood up on her legs, which shook, and were hurting her like needles. Possibly from falling asleep on them.

Loona stood back as the girls immediately crowded around Spike.

“SPIKE!” Twilight pleaded desperately. “Please! Wake up!”

“Spike…Spike…”

Twilight’s voice sounded.

“Twilight?” Spike gasped, running towards the source of the voice.

The more he kept running, the louder Twilight sounded, until at last, he sees two doors.

Spike looked up at one door, which looked inviting, framed with golden frames. Then, he he looked towards the other door, which is just a normal door, designed as the usual front door of every typical houses.

“Spike,” Twilight’s voice sounded from behind the normal door.

Spike was about to reach out for the normal door, when suddenly, the golden door opened up, just a crack.

Behind the door was a bright light that seemed warm and welcoming, accompanied by the sound of a choir, and the ambience of birds chirping.

Spike went over to the golden door, taking a peek through the crack to see a wondrous sight.

It seemed like paradise. A welcoming place to go to leave his worries behind. A place to be free from Dr. Grogar’s Island, the madness that Spike has had the misfortune to endure since being shipwrecked. A place where a sane person would go to be free from everything else in the world.

It seemed the place Spike would want to be to escape everything that has happened to him.

He was just about to enter, but then he stopped, as he remembers his friends. The girls whom he once feared had now come to appreciate as his friends. Or perhaps more than just his friends. His family.

Spike stepped away from the golden door and walked his way back to the normal door, where he can clearly hear the girls calling out to him.

“I’m coming girls!” Spike called, as he reached for the doorknob on the normal door.

He turned it a clockwise turn, and swung the door open. Then he steps into the void, racing through a dark tunnel, heading towards their voices.

At first, all he could see was darkness. His eyelids were as heavy as a giant boulder and he was struggling to blink his eyes open.

But once his vision returned, the first thing he saw were a crowd of colorful eyes, all staring back at him.

“Spike!” The girls all exclaimed in a mix of joy and relief.

“Girls…?” Spike gasped, hoarsely. “Where…am I?”

“You’re back to the living,” Sunset Shimmer smiled.

“Thank goodness yer alright, Sugarcube,” Applejack added. “You’ve been out for more than a spell!”

“I…was?” Spike asked.

“Yeah!” Rainbow Dash squawked. “We thought you’d never wake up!”

“But we always knew you would pull through,” Twilight smiled. “Starlight made sure of that!”

“She…did?” Spike asked, turning to the Shark-Woman, who blushed.

“Well, it wasn’t easy,” Starlight chuckled. “But I had help. Loona, especially.”

Everyone all turned their heads to look at the wolf-dog, only for the Reverse-Hybrid to be nowhere in sight.

“Huh…where is Loona?” Starlight inquired.

“I’m sure she’s just shy and wanted to be left alone,” Applejack chuckled wholeheartedly. “What matters is that Spike is awake and well.”

“Indeed!” Rarity agreed. “I think this calls for a celebration!”

“IT’S PARTY TIME!!!” Pinkie Pie

“Ruff ruff!” Kirin barked.

“Huh?” Spike turned to look at the little ram. “Am I still dreaming, or did Kirin just barked?”

The young man turned his head to look at the rest of the girls, with a bright red-pinkish blush glow that burns his face.

“And…is it just me, or have Sunset, Rarity, and Applejack forgot to put some clothes on?” He asked.

“Oh no, Spike…” Applejack scratched the back of her head. “We’re actually…”

“Experienced wardrobe malfunctions,” Rarity finished.

“Oh! Whoa! Whoa, sorry!” Spike stammered, quickly turning away and hides his face. “I didn’t mean to look! But what happened to you girls?”

“It’s a long story,” Sunset Shimmer blushed, as she continued to unintentionally grope her own breasts for cover.

Meanwhile, hiding in the shadows, watching the festivity unfold before her, Loona broods silently with a newfound weight of loss and longing.

On one hand, she was glad that Spike was awake and is alright. But on the other hand, she had started thinking about her owner.

It made the pit in her stomach feel bottomless, inciting her the need to eat and drink more to fill in the void. Yet, no matter how much she eats, her troublesome feelings wouldn’t go away.

But on this particular day, she just couldn’t eat.

“Even when he was unconscious, that stupid human…” Loona sniffled as she leans on her crutches, with her head against the side of a tree. “Why does it hurt to care? Why am I feeling this way? Why couldn’t we just go back to a time when it was so easier…to hate?”

Once again, Loona thought back to the days and memories of when she was still a dog to her owner. The owner whom she was stolen away from, by Cozy Glow.

Except, this time, the hate she felt for him was gone. Instead, all she could feel was a sharp feeling of longing. And the more she thought about him, the more she realizes how much she misses him, and wanted to be with him.

Why did she want to be with him, she didn’t fully understand. But she doesn’t want to be alone. Nor does she want to be a prisoner of Cozy Glow again.

She’s lost and confused. Her emotions were all a blur. A wildfire that is tearing her apart, shattering her heart.

Why does being human have to be so hard for her?