Pony Power Battles

Trixie was shocked at the pit in her stomach as she saw the baby dragon fly. Maybe there was something there after all…Focus, stupid! The terentatek turned to her, smiling as it did so, laughing its gurgled laugh. “My sweet ponies, so delicious!” it said, lunging at her, mouth open. Tears streamed down her face as she realized that she loved them both, Moonlight and Archimedes. She couldn’t bear the thought of either of them dying.

She grew angry, very angry. Angry enough to tear the universe apart as she leaped into the terentatek’s mouth, lightsaber ahead. The mouth closed around her as the sticky, acidic mucous enveloped her. She used her lightsaber to rid the beast of its tongue as she slashed and cut and used every force technique she knew of to destroy the monster from inside out! Its thick blood started to fill the gaping chasm. Suddenly, lightning shot out of her horn, and she directed it down the hole at the back of its mouth. She then drove the lightsaber straight up through the roof of its mouth, electrifying it as it went. She felt it thud to the ground, her along with it, as she struggled to breathe in the mix of blood and saliva.

Moonlight Scroll’s face appeared at the entrance of the toothy maw overhead, lifting her out with a hoof and some magic. “Trixie, are you alright? I thought you were done for!” He asked, brushing her off with his hoof.

“I’m fine,” she said darkly, her heart still quivering with the rage that propelled her. She looked around the crater, and demanded, almost ignoring Moonlight, “Where is the dragon?”

“He’s this way,” Moonlight led her. She knew he was weak, they were all weak. She felt the love for them, though, and it swelled to fill her heart against the rage. Finding his ruined form, the rage completely subsided into love and sadness. Trixie started bawling at the sight of her beloved champion!

She knelt down and, using her magic, performed CPR while trying to reset the bones that were broken. Moonlight Scroll helped as well, setting more of the ribs and breathing into the small dragon’s airway. After a few compressions, the dragon started coughing.

“Stahp!” He said, coming to. His voice was shallow and raspy, “It hurts every time you do that!”

“Oh Archie!” Trixie said, pushing Moon out of the way to kiss him. She had almost never been this glad to see another alive in her life. This whole thing had been a nightmare! She then looked back up to Moon. He had a shocked expression on his face, like someone hit him with a truck. Oh no…Trixie had forgotten their encounters earlier.

“Moonlight…I can explain, please don’t be sad!” She said, running over to him and hugging him.

“W-what’s there to explain? Ha-ha…” Moonlight said, trying to cover. Suddenly, he relented and a torrent of anger gushed out of him, “You know what? Nevermind all that! I love you Trixie, and I came back to ask you to be with me, to run away with me or something!”

Trixie interrupted him with a kiss. “I love you, too!” Trixie said through tears. She’d never felt this way before, and for two significant others? She was overwhelmed with love for them.

Archimedes was struggling to sit up when Sweetie Bot came running out of the jungle. “Threat neutralized. Initializing first aid sequence,” as her missile launchers and other defenses retracted. In their place, a mechanical arm popped from her back and began to shoot green, bubbling liquid all over Archimedes. “Kolto applied,” it said as it wrapped a bandage over the green liquid, making sure it stayed in place long enough to do some good to the baby dragon. “First aid sequence complete, shutting down!” the small droid immediately shut down, a small whirring coming from inside the plasteel chassis as the mechanical arm was retracted and a small dish popped out of its head, rotating intermittently.

Archimedes was stunned. He turned to Trixie and Moonlight Scroll, holding the bandage with a  somber expression. “Trixie, if you love him I understand, I’m a dragon and…” Archimedes started, but Trixie interrupted him.

“I love you, too, Archimedes!” She said, passionately. She looked from Archimedes to Moonlight Scroll, then back again, examining their astonished faces. “What? Isn’t a mare allowed to love two gentlecolts?”

“But,” Archie began…followed quickly by Moon.

“That’s not how it works,” Moonlight interrupted.

“You have to pick one of us!” Archimedes said, suddenly defiant. Trixie just sat there, more ashamed than ever. Her fear had joined the love from before as she just shook her head, backing off from both of them. “You…you two decide, I can’t!” She finally said.

Archimedes and Moonlight scroll looked at each other, eyes a blaze. “You really can’t expect us to choose!” Archimedes retorted.

Trixie felt the rage from before returning at this apparent impass, and she understood what she had to do. She held a foot aloft and proclaimed, “The Great and Powerful Trixie demands a duel for her affection!”

Moonlight Scroll looked over to Archimedes, determination in his eyes. He then looked back to Trixie and nodded grimly.

Archimedes thought for a moment, apparently saddened by the prospect. He finally decided, “Yes, we duel over her.”

They stood, drawing their sabers, facing one another. Archimedes tore off his bandage, the wounds almost fully healed underneath. That kolto was amazing, Trixie thought. The yellow saber that flowed forth from Archimedes’ finely decorated hilt crackled with determination to be Trixie’s only special somepony. Moonlight’s blue saber roared to life with the passion for Trixie’s love that filled him. They locked eyes, staring at each other for a long while as a small breeze blew up dust. Trixie could just sit there silently, unable to find her voice to tell them no.

In the blink of an eye, they clashed. Archimedes used his two blades to his supreme advantage, coming at Moonlight Scroll from every angle, putting him on the defensive. Moon blocked every strike, moving with unnatural speed as he ducked, dodged, and struck back. The fact he didn’t have to hold his saber worked in his favor as his magic was able to position it to deflect blows that no physical body could deflect. It seemed to go on forever as they countered each other, in almost perfect tandem.

Trixie wanted to cry out, to scream as the momentary burst of rage began to fight inside of her with the love from before. The conflict was almost unbearable as her two most gallant knights, each with their flaws and virtues, succumbed to their emotions, throwing away their code, their creed, and their very lives for her. A feeling started in her, small at first, but growing with each strike. It was pleasant, and washed over the conflict and the pain she felt at the horror she was forced to endure. The pain became pleasure as she found the prospect of two warriors proving their strength to win her affection pleasant. She found her tears of agony dry into a smile. Her smile became a full-toothed grin as she anxiously waited for one of them, either of them to deliver the final blow.

“Trixie loves me more!” Archimedes would shout, causing Moon to erupt into a frenzy.

“She’s mine!” Moonlight Scroll retorted, striking as hard as he could against the baby dragon. The dragon swiftly moved to the side, ducking the strikes, and lashed out with his blade.

“I stayed with her while you left her!” Archimedes would scream; his blade coming within inches of Moonlight as Moon dodged out of the way.

“You would have died on her! How can you protect her when you’re that weak!?” Moonlight retorted, leaping into the air and firing bolts of energy at the dragon from his horn.

“You act like you don’t even care! I comforted her sorrow!” Archimedes came right back, blocking every bolt of energy with his saber, knocking the last one directly back at the Unicorn.

Moonlight Scroll caught the energy blast, reabsorbing it as he fell to the ground. “You don’t even know what love is, little dragon!” Moonlight scroll said, preparing for the next attack, visibly tired.

“I LOVE HEEEEERRRR!” Archimedes screamed, running to Moonlight Scroll, swinging his blade. They locked sabers, staring into each other’s eyes. They would grind back and forth, first Archie pushing with all his might, then Moonlight pushing back, equally hard. Trixie was ecstatic! It was coming to a close!

In a flash, Archimedes ducked underneath the saber lock, and slid underneath Moon, whipping out with the other blade. He caught the unicorn in the hoof, knocking him off balance and singeing fur and flesh. The unicorn recovered quickly, however, and slammed his lightsaber down into Archie, tearing right through his hilt as the little dragon blocked the blow awkwardly.

“I love Trixie…” Moonlight said forcefully, bringing his face close to Archimedes’, “and she’s coming with me!”

Just then, Archimedes breathed gouts of flame into his friend’s face, blinding him momentarily and probably scarring him for life as he clawed into the unicorn’s side, biting into him and clawing up to his neck. Moonlight Scroll screamed out as he dropped his lightsaber, unable to defend against the tiny onslaught. Trixie thought she would die from glee as another emotion forced its way back to the forefront of her emotional capacity.

“STOP!” She found herself crying out. “STOP! WAIT! YOU’RE KILLING HIM!”

She was visibly shaken and sobbing uncontrollably. What was this? She was fine a moment before…and now she was crying? She couldn’t help herself as she fell to her own knees.  Archimedes looked heartbroken, finally realizing fully what he was doing to his friend. He stopped and let the unicorn alone, though Moonlight simply fell to the ground, unconscious. Trixie ran over, tears in her eyes as she used her magic to try to mitigate some of the bleeding.

“Sweetie Bot!” She croaked through her tears. The tiny droid stirred to life and strolled over.

“Initializing first aid sequence,” it spoke mechanically, generating the robotic arm that spewed the green kolto all over Moon’s side, and onto his face. The bandages were also applied, and then the bot shut itself down again, next to Moonlight. Trixie just kept crying over him, hugging his ruined form. Archie stood silently, unable to move as waves of shame and sorrow hit him with each of Trixie’s sobs.

They stayed like that as the sun set over the jungle on Yavin IV. The sadness and doom of that world hung heavy over our heroes that night…