My Little Bokurano

"I Pinkie Promised Mr. and Mrs. Cake that I would protect the Ponyville Centennial Celebration Cake from any harm. I can't let them down." - Pinkie Pie

Pinkie Pie appeared in the cockpit along with the other twelve ponies and one dragon. Dung Beetle was spinning around in the air.

"It's showtime, everyone!" Dung Beetle said jovially.

"We're starting the next battle already?" Twilight Sparkle asked in despair. "This is too cruel!"

"Dung Beetle, don't bring us here without warning us!" Rarity said, her mane in curlers. "There are some things ponies need to do without being interrupted!"

"My hat!" Applejack cried, the top of her Stetson Hat missing.

"It must have been cut off during the teleportation," Dung Beetle said, "When we get back, I'll reattach it for you."

The orange void disappeared to reveal the fully teleported opponent. This one was shaped like a snail with tentacles coming out of its shell. There was a panel on its head with fourteen lights.

"Now this guy doesn't look so tough!" Pinkie Pie said.

"Look out!" Twilight cried.

The snail extended its tentacles towards Equextria. Pinkie Pie moved out of the way, but the tentacles instead hit the cake. The frosting and batter went flying and splattered on nearby buildings. The remaining layers all toppled down and ended up in a massive heap of frosting and cake batter.

"Oh no..." Pinkie Pie whimpered. "The cake..."

"Looks like that's one 'messy' situation!" Dung Beetle chuckled at his lame pun. Some other ponies rolled their eyes.

"This isn't going to end well," Sweetie Belle said.

"Pinkie Pie!" Rainbow Dash said. "You need to focus on your opponent!"

"There's no way the cake was destroyed. There's no way the cake was destroyed," Pinkie Pie mumbled ad nauseam.

"Pinkie Pie, snap out of it!" Flash Sentry shouted.

"YOU BIG MEANIE!" Pinkie Pie screamed. "YOU DESTROYED THE CAKE!" She charged toward her opponent, shrieking all the way. Pinkie Pie tipped the opponent over, and Equextria used one of its legs to pierce a hole into the snail's stomach. Pinkie Pie continued screaming as she used Equextria's legs to dig into the robot's armor. Finally, she made a hole big enough for the vital point to be visible.

"You got him on the ropes!" Scootaloo cheered.

A claw extended from one of Equextria's legs. It picked up the vital point and crushed it, making smoke come out. The fourteen lights on the snail's panel disappeared.

"That was fast," Dung Beetle said as the orange void reappeared.

Everyone looked at Pinkie Pie, expecting her to have some sort of nervous breakdown. Instead, she reverted back to her cheerful self.

"That was a ton of fun!" Pinkie Pie cheered as her cutie mark changed back to normal. "Did everyone see me take that monster down?"

"But that cake..." Fluttershy said. "I know how important it was to you."

"Don't worry, I can just help Mr. and Mrs. Cake make another one!" Pinkie Pie said. "It'll just take... Man, I'm feeling sleepy..." Pinkie Pie collapsed to the ground.

"Pinkie Pie!" Twilight Sparkle cried.

"Pinkie, what's wrong?" Apple Bloom asked.

Pinkie Pie continued to lay motionless on the ground. Twilight Sparkle felt her neck.

"She's dead," Twilight said.

"No way!" Cadance cried.

"You're kidding," Fluttershy whimpered. "Hey, Pinkie Pie!"

"Didn't Kokopelli tell you?" Dung Beetle asked. "This robot runs on the pilot's life energy, which means you're absolutely gonna die after your battles."

"Are you joking?" Spike cried out.

"What makes you think I would do that?" Dung Beetle asked back.

"So that's what happened to Shining Armor," Cadance said. "Twilight didn't knock him off, but... I don't believe it. I mean, this is insane!"

"Does this mean I'm going to die too?" Scootaloo asked, shaking in her hooves.

"What are you talking about? You'll be fine!" Rainbow Dash replied with a nervous chuckle. "This will all work out fine!"

"Hey, you said this thing moves using our life forces, so we'll be fine if we don't pilot the robot, right?" Spike said to Dung Beetle. "We might as well not fight at all!"

"I'm pretty sure this is set up so that we can't get away," Twilight Sparkle said.

"Twilight hit it right on the nail!" Dung Beetle said. "You can run if you want, but if you haven't won the battle after 48 hours, Equestria will be destroyed anyway! This should be obvious, but if one of you punks loses your battle, you'll also blow up. So you can either win your battle and die saving Equestria, or lose your battle and take Equestria with you. Those are your two choices."

Fluttershy fainted, but Rainbow Dash catched her before she hit the ground.

"Your enemies are really crazy, so it's best to defeat them as soon as possible," Dung Beetle continued.

"You scumbag, you tricked us!" Spike hollered, charging toward Dung Beetle. However, the flying creature moved away.

"Woah there, not a good idea to attack your messenger," Dung Beetle said. "In exchange for your lives, you'll gain tremendous power that you can use to save your friends and the world."

"I've had enough of you, you piece of crap!" Spike said, charging at Dung Beetle again.

"Wow, you're the feisty one!" Dung Beetle chuckled. "Watch out, you could be next."

Spike gasped and shook in frozen horror. He slowly looked down at his stomach, and saw that there were two zigzags on it.

"No... no..." Spike whimpered. He then screamed into the open air, the echo reverberating around the cockpit.

Twilight Sparkle ran to his side. "You monster!" Twilight Sparkle shouted. "How could you choose him next?"

"Don't look at me, I don't choose these battles," Dung Beetle said. "Anyways, I'm bored of you all. See you later." He teleported everyone back home.

Twilight Sparkle and Spike arrived back at the library. Spike was still in a fetal position.

"I can't believe I heard the call." Spike said quietly.