Unicorns attack

“You ready, Spike?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“Yeah!”

“Good, because it so happens that they’re coming straight for us. Do as I told you and keep your power level low.”

The two stood their ground in preparation for unicorns. While Rainbow Dash stood fierce, Spike couldn’t help but jitter his legs.

Just as they were silent for a moment, Rainbow Dash gasped and turned their head behind them.

“What?” questioned Spike nervously. “What is it?”

“I don’t know, all of a sudden I can feel this strong power from behind us.”

Soon as Spike looked around to check, he found this pink face pounce right in front of him and yelled. “Hey Spike!” The dragon was startled, but before he could get away, Pinkie Pie had grabbed him and locked him in an embracive hug. “It’s so good to see you again, yes it is!”

“Wait! Pinkie Pie?”

“Oh hey, Rainbow Dash, great to see you again as well, even though we use to be enemies and-.”

“How’s your power level increased this much since we last met?”

“Oh that’s easy, Fluttershy, got me, Rarity, Snip, Applejack and Big Mac and we all trained at her place.”

“Wait! Fluttershy, that pacifist, got you this strong?”

“Ya-huh.”

“Well, I guess it’s a good thing if it means we have more of a chance against the unicorns.”

“How about you, you’ve both grown a lot strong as well.”

“Um, Pinkie- could you let go of me?” requested Spike. He choked in Pinkie Pie’s hug.

“Oh sorry,” said Pinkie Pie and place him down. “Wow, you’re a whole lot different Spike. How was the training with Rainbow Dash, was it fun?”

“Well, wouldn’t say fun. But it was okay. I learnt a lot however and Rainbow Dash was really nice to me.”

“She was!”

There was a bit of an awkward smile on Rainbow Dash’s face when she said. “Time to stop with the happy reunion and put your guard up, they’re almost-.”

Paused, Rainbow Dash and the others looked above them and saw up in the sky, two ponies with horns on their head, one tan and green haired, the other blue with fair white hair.

“Here.”

“Isn’t this interesting, a dragon, an Earth pony and oh- look Snail, a pegasus.”

“Yep.”

The two then descended towards the ground and landed in front of the trio.

“You must be the two unicorns come for the Orbs of harmony.”

“Correct, my associate is name is Snail and I am the great and magnificent, Trixie. We see you are the pegasus, the creator of the Orbs of harmony. We’d like it so much, if you’d tell us where to find these items.”

“Fat chance, you unicorns might as well pack your bags and get lost, cause we’re here to make sure you do.”

“Ha, did you hear that, Snail, the pegasus says they’re here to stop us from getting our wish!”

“Yeah, that’s a good one.”

Their scouters suddenly activated on their own and charted numbers and pointed a location.

Before anyone could say anything, burst over the unicorns and rolled through the air and then landed on all four hooves, appeared Applejack and Big Macintosh.

“Howdy you all, hope were not late to this ho-down?” asked Applejack.

“Actually your just in time,” answered Rainbow Dash.

“Wow, awesome, you and Big Mac are here!” yelled Pinkie Pie.

“Might shuck about the welcome.” She and Big Macintosh took a position next Pinkie Pie. Applejack then made eye contact with Rainbow Dash. Although she frowned, she gave a reluctant quick bow with her head, followed by Big Macintosh over to the Pegasus. They then looked to Spike. “Well, howdy little fellow. Sorry if our first greeting was a bit brief, thanks to Rainbow Dash here kidnapping you all, but the names Applejack and this here’s my brother, Big Macintosh.”

“Nice to meet you both as well.”

“Could we do this without the sentimental greetings, by all means, you’ll be able to do that once we send you all to the Next dimension.”

“We’ll see about that.”

The unicorns’ scouters then acted up again. “Oh what now,” grouched Trixie.

Someone else then flew over them, she left a sparkled trail of energy in her wake and gracefully spun down to the ground and swayed her arms and spun her legs like a ballerina as she landed to the ground.

“I have arrived,” said Rarity and nudged her head to let her hair flow back. “And sorry for the fanciful, I just had to look my best for a battle like this.”

“As you do with every battle,” muttered Applejack, to herself.

“Wow,” said Spike with his jaw hung. “Who’s that?”

“Oh that’s Rarity, isn’t she so amazing,” said Pinkie Pie.

“Rarity... amazing indeed,” said Spike, his head tilted on his shoulders and his eyes locked on her.

“Please tell me this is it?” questioned Trixie. “No more of you inferior ponies are on the way to oppose us, not that it will matter.”

“We have one more partner on the way to help kick your hinny, but afraid she might need a little more extra time,” responded Applejack.

“Well that is too bad, but not quite a shame. Now let’s get onto seeing your power levels.”

The two unicorn’s scouters activated and started to show trace of numbers, before they came to a stop.

“Um, five-hundred, three-hundred, three-hundred, four-.”

“Roughly around an average of five hundred, this here is a pitiful challenge for us. Snail, how many gifts do we still have, if you catch my drift?”

“Um, one... three... oh! Um six! Yeah, we got six.”

“Excellent, present them then, it’ll be a good time to give these.” Trixie then snickered.

With the use of his magic, Snail pulled out a small sack and yanked out from them diamonds.

“Diamonds,” said both Rarity and Spike with their eyes enlarge. Rarity then presumed to say. “Oh yes, thank you quite marvellous gifts indeed.”

“We’re not referring to the diamonds, just so you know,” replied Trixie.

Snail had placed the diamonds spread out onto the grass and stepped back. For a moment it was calm, but the heroes gasped when they saw burst out of the ground and grabbed onto one of the diamonds, this large thick arm. More arms then sprouted from the ground and grabbed onto the diamonds. Soon the rest of the figures emerged from the ground with snarls and showed to be dog like beasts, with a long thick arms, short stubby legs and stubby spiked tails. They wore jackets and diamond-studded collars that went with them.

They all aligned in front of the unicorns on all fours and started to bark and growl at the heroes. Nearly everyone showed discomfort to how hideous and menace they looked, with Spike showing the most discomfort, but Rainbow Dash wasn’t impressed by their display.

“May I present to you, diamond dogs. These creatures are obsessed with diamonds so much that when they can sense an offering, they’ll burrow across the ground and pop right out, as you just witnessed. After that, they are willing to work in exchange for the presented diamonds.”

“In other words, these dogs are mercenaries,” said Rainbow Dash.

“I guess that’s the correct term of putting it. These diamond dogs have a power level of one-thousand, roughly the same as Dawnshade, what a shame that unicorn was nothing special.” It shocked the heroes as they heard such a claim. “But anyways, they should be enough of an entertainment.”

The Earth ponies started to put their game faces on, in return to the diamond dogs. “How we make things little more interesting then?” asked Applejack.

“Interesting you say? Go on? The great Trixie would like to hear?”

“Each one of our fighters, fight one of your fighters, one at a time.”

“Haha! The great Trixie likes, watching to see whose fighters our better! Our diamond dogs or you lot, yes.”

“Good,” whispered Applejack as she made sure only her comrades her. “This here should buy us some more time for Twilight to get here. We don’t know how strong these two are after all, but we should play it safe and focus on doing as Fluttershy told us.” Everyone around her nodded in agreement.

“Finish what you’re doing, I do not wish to spend time just sitting here. Pick out your first fighter and get on with this.”

“What do you think we’re talking about back here!” shouted Applejack. She then back down to the other fighters. “Right, I’ll go first, I want to compare myself to this Dawnshade if that’s alright.”

“Fine, get to it,” said Rainbow Dash. It caused Applejack to give her dirty look before she stepped forwards.

“Alright, here comes your first competitor, now throw up yours so we can begin this thing.”

“You, one on the far right, take care of her.”

The indicated diamond dog stepped forward obediently. When it then got in between enough distance, the dog howled out and rushed forward in slavered charge for Applejack.

The pony got out of the way of her attacker. The diamond dog had gone pass Applejack, which allowed the pony to buck him. The savage creature tumbled against ground, but eventually caught itself with its feet and fired out from his front paw, an energy blast at Applejack.

The pony wheeled around the blast and made a head on rush at the diamond dog. The creature could do nothing but lift up its front paws and then practically allowed itself to get trampled. Each four of Applejack’s hooves crushed right down on the diamond dog back into the dirt before she stormed pass it.

“Wow,” said Spike, next to Rainbow Dash. “She’s amazing.”

Soon as the dust settled, it revealed the diamond dog crooked and battered against the ground and didn’t appear to move.

“Looks like I went a little overboard on the fella, my bad,” said Applejack with a proud smirk on her face and trotted over back to the others.

“Um, that can’t be right,” said Snail surprised. The other diamond dogs were amazed as well by what they saw. “These diamond dogs have twice the power level than those guys, I know, I like checked.”

“Obviously they know how to hide their power level. I have to admit, that’s cute-.”

Everyone’s attention had been snatched by the small whimper of the diamond dog. It started to get back up one leg at a time. With a glow of her horn though, Trixie had caused the diamond dog to howl once more and then explode into pieces. Everyone, even Snail and the other diamond dogs were shocked by this action.

“Trixie, what did you do that for? He was still up?”

“Up, but ready to get put back down again and I, Trixie, dislike having someone representing our side that’s just going to get beaten.”

“That was mean, what they did back there to their friend,” said Pinkie Pie.

“I doubt any of them hooligans are friends with each other. They’re just vicious beasts out for the Orbs of harmony,” replied Rarity.

“Eeyup.”

“Someone ready to go out there next?” asked Applejack walked back amongst them.

“I’ll go next and give these ruffians a lesson in grace,” answered Rarity and stepped forward.

“Um, good luck Rarity!” shouted Spike.

“Thank you.”

“Looks like they’ve already chosen the next entertainment,” said Trixie. “You choose one this time Snail.”

“Yeah okay, uh, you, yeah you, you go and get him.”

Another diamond Dog stepped forward to fight. It then rushed at the pony with glee as it pulled its heavy arm back and slid saliva around its mouth. Soon as it got near Rarity, the two vanished.

“Huh? Where’d they go? They were just there?” Spike then turned to see the others’ eyes move in similar directions all over the battlefield.

“It’s because they’ve gone really fast. Want to see them, you’re going to have to sense their energy and follow it, got it,” replied Rainbow Dash.

Remembered how he was taught to seek out energy, Spike concentrated. He could then feel Rarity’s and the diamond dog’s energy and soon saw two figures clash against one another and jump back from one another. Concentrated more, he made out the two figures that hit back and forth against one another were Rarity and the diamond dog.

Reached out its arm, the diamond dog intended to grab Rarity, but the pony pulled her head down out of reach and flipped her body over and directly hammered her onto the top its skull rocketed it back down towards the Earth.

Conjured purple energy that gathered in front of Rarity, she yelled it. “Radiant grace!” The energy then formed into a beam of energy that struck down on the Diamond dog and completely evaporated him into pieces.

“Sigh, this is getting quite boring and Trixie, does not like to be bored. I say we make things more challenging, at least not to make things look so sad.”

“Sad!” yelled Rarity still in the sky. “Well what do you have in mind then!”

“Sugarcube! Remember the game plan here!” shouted Applejack.

“How about this, if you are such good fighters, take on the rest of the four Diamond dogs, go ahead. One of you silly lot on your own.”

“Silly! Fine! Allow me to obligate!”

“Rarity!” yelled Applejack and Pinkie Pie.

“Don’t worry, I’ve got this and I’ll do it in a single dazzling attack!” A large aura of energy built up over Rarity that started to gather around her two raised upper hooves and merged into a single ball of energy that crackled with raw power. It made the diamond dogs look concerned by this. Aimed the ball at her opponents and fired it at them.

The ball sped towards them, but just as it was about to strike right into the diamond dogs, it rolled up into the air instead. Just as everyone then looked up to see the ball now hung above the unicorns, Rarity yelled. “Now, behold your eyes for, Dazzling splendour!” The ball then rained a stream of multiple barrage blasts that streamed downwards in smooth curved movement before they hammered down on those before them. Both the diamond dogs and unicorns were struck and the blasts ignited out into a chorus of explosions.

Spike was indeed dazzled by the fireworks of Rarity’s attack that he almost failed to noticed the diamond dog that had slipped out from the blast and made a desperate attempt to race out and attack the baby dragon. But before he could grab him, he stopped and went. “Arp?”

Stamped by one of Rainbow Dash’s back hooves, the dog moved his eyes to her unimpressed glare and heard her say. “Get lost.” Rainbow Dash then bucked him up into the air with her other leg and spun around to roar from her mouth an energy beam that streamed up into the air and struck the diamond dog and finished him.

Amazed at how Rainbow Dash easily took care of that, it took Spike a while to say. “Thanks for the save there Rainbow Dash.”

“Yeah, that was truly amazing,” said Pinkie Pie.

“It was nothing, just didn’t want our side to be down a number for the bigger fight to come.”

“Rarity! Are you alright up there!” yelled Applejack.

“Yeah, that blast took a bit out of me, but I’m quite alright,” replied Rarity as she sweated and gasped.

“We’ll see about that once the bigger fight begins,” said Trixie with a snicker.

The two unicorns emerged from the smoke and everyone was amazed to see that both of them were completely unphased by the attack and had stupid grins across their faces.

“I-I gave all I could into that attack.”

“It was a pretty attack,” said Snail.

“Yes, but a sloppy one at best, but at least it got rid of the problem of the diamond dogs. Now we can get onto some real entertainment.”

“What’s with you and entertainment?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“Well just conquering continents just gets old, so I need some entertainment to keep things a bit fresh. Anyways, we’re now down to just us two unicorns, outnumbered by you six, what shall we do. How about you play with them Snail while I figure this one out.”

“Uh, okay, what should I play with them?”

“Snail, I was being sarcastic, I want you to do, what you do best, get the hint?”

“Oh oh, now I get it!”

“Alright, we got the dumb one, that’s good,” said Rainbow Dash.

“Yeah, it looks like we can take him, he’s not that big either and his power level doesn’t seem all that big,” said Applejack.

“We heard that! And it so happens that you’re not the only one that can hide your power level! Snail, show them what we mean!”

“Okay.” The male unicorn braced himself and began to concentrate. Within seconds, the ground began to tremble, loose rocks began to float and crackles of energy began to ignite around Snail, who grinned at the heroes.

“Rainbow Dash! What’s going on?” asked Spike.

“He’s powering up,” replied Rainbow Dash. She looked concerned on her face. “And by what I can tell, it’s huge, unbelievable!”

Snail began to chuckle at the fear he ignited on them. His muscles began to bulge, his height started to grow and he started to look more menacing. Overall, it didn’t look good for what was about to come.

“We really need, Twilight’s help now,” whispered Applejack.