Dead Rising: Pony Psychos

To say that this was the first time that Chuck Greene had found himself surrounded by zombies would be a lie. In fact it was the third time. The first time was in Las Vegas, where he lost his wife and where his daughter got infected. And the second was in Still Creek, nothing of any importance happened there. But this time around, he was going to spend a lot longer. He had to wait three days before help came, and as of right now, he was on day one.

During his stay here, he had managed to save a few survivor, fought a few looters, bought stuff from the friends of those same looters. And now he was standing in the Yucatan Casino with a new companion. Said companion was a tiger named Snowflake, and he had just killed her trainer a few minutes ago. Still he could use the help, though he wasn’t sure what he was going to do with her. He didn’t know if he could bring a tiger into the safe house, and if it was ok, what would he do with her.

“Maybe I could give it to Katey.” Chuck thought, “I’d score some dad points with her, but she’s seven…… Still, it would be a really awesome gift, but it could maul her to death.”

His thoughts were cut short as his phone started to ring, pulling it out, he figured that it would be safe to answer it here, as the tiger was doing a good job at killing off any nearby zombies.

Chuck answered the phone and said “Hello?”

“Um…. Yeah…….. Chuck I don’t know how to say this, so I’ll just say it.” Stacey started, “ There’s a pony, on a stage, shooting fireworks, while doing magic tricks in Fortune Park.”

“.......... What?” Was the only thing Chuck could really say to what he was just told.

“I don’t believe it either, just check it out.” Stacey said before hanging up.

Chuck scratched his head, he didn’t know what to think of what he was just told. He needed to see this for himself. But first, he had to figure out what to do with Snowflake.

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Mission Name: Show Stopper

Objective: Investigate Fortune Park

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Turns out, tigers were allowed in the safe house, and they make great gifts to seven year old girls. Sure many people would question his parenting choices, but he cared for Katey’s safety. However, he wanted to find out what was going on in Fortune Park.

As Chuck walked out of the Royal Flush Plaza, he could see that there was a makeshift stage near the Atlantica Casino, with what appeared to be a few firework shooters both on and around the stage. But there was no pony doing any kind of magic tricks.

Still, he wasn’t going to just leave the stage alone, there could be something of use in there, so he made his way over to the stage, dodging and killing zombies along the way.

Once he made his way over to the stage, he started to look around. However he didn’t get to see much, as when he had his head turned away from the stage, he heard a poofing noise. When Chuck turned his head to look at the stage, he locked eyes with a pony.

The pony, or Unicorn as the horn on the head gave away, was a aqua blue color, the tail was a lighter color of blue, and Chuck assumed the mane was the same color, but the pony was wearing a wizard's hat with a start pattern on it, she was also wearing a cape with the same pattern. The pony also had a start wand with a blue crescent moon on her flank.

“Well, Trixie takes it you’ve come to see The Great and Powerful Trixie’s show!” The pony, who Chuck assumed was Trixie, said, her magenta eye twinkling with every word.

“What?” Was all Chuck could manage to speak.

“You’ve come to see Trixie’s show, why else would you be here.” The mare announced.

“You’re seriously doing a show, do you have any idea what’s going on?”

“Yes, Trixie has eyes, but that’s not enough to stop a good show.”

“I think a zombie outbreak is enough to stop most things.”

“You’re clearly not a performer.”

Chuck was starting to get a little upset with this mare, however, he didn’t want to leave her here alone, and said. “Look, I’m not going to argue with you, but I think it would be in your best interest if you come with me, there’s a safe place not to far away.”

Trixie merely rolled her eyes and replied with, “Trixie is more than capable of looking after herself, now if you don’t want to watch this show, please move along.”

By now, Chuck was fed up with the mare, and he may have let it get the best of him when he said “You’re an idiot if you think that it’s better to stay here and perform some two bit show than to save your own life.”

It was clear that Trixie did not like this one bit, as she growled. “Oh, Trixie see who you think you are, you think magic is easy, and that anypony can do it. I bet you think that Twilight is better at magic than me!”

Chuck had no idea who this Twilight was, but he was more worried at the pony who was starting to show an evil grin.

“Well then.” Trixie started, “If you think it’s so easy, then why don’t you come help me, Trixie assures you, it will be easy, all you have to do is DIE!”

Trixie’s horn then lit up, and one of the firework stand lit up with the same color as her horn, it then turned to point at Chuck, and started to shoot fireworks at him. Chuck managed to roll out of the way in time. When he looked up at the pony, he could see she was ready for a fight, Chuck only had a spiked bat, and two cartons of OJ, but he wasn’t going to let that let him lose

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Objective Update: Defeat Trixie Lulamoon

Battle Theme

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Just as Chuck got back to his feet, he immediately ducked, as a rock was thrown at his head. He got back up, and ran for the stage. However, right before he got to it, it had disappeared. Chuck looked around, and then noticed a ball of light heading straight for him. He ducked again, and the ball exploded into fireworks behind him.

“This is going to suck.” Chuck thought. He quickly ran for the stage that was now to the left of where it previously was. He dodged a few rocks that were flung his way. He decided to follow Trixies idea, and picked up a rock on his way. Once he got close enough, he threw it at her. Trixie dodged the rock, however, she was distracted by how close it actually was to hitting her. Once she turned back around, she saw Chuck hopping onto the stage.

Chuck, still not entirely on his feet after landing on the wooden stage, slid his leg towards where Trixie was standing. Trixie easily hopped over, however, Chuck used his other leg to kick the unicorn in the chest, knocking her away, giving him time to get up. He spin-kicked his left leg at Trixie, who ducked, however, Chuck quickly switched legs, and kicked straight forward, towards Trixie, with his right leg. Trixie didn’t jump, or move to the side. She used some sort of magic to launch herself off the ground, just above his leg. She then flipped around in the air, and looked as though she was going to kick Chuck with her hind leg. However, before Chuck could block it, in a flash of light, she disappeared, and reappeared to his right, and was able to kick him off the stage, all before landing on the ground. Chuck didn’t have as elegant a landing as Trixie. He landed flat on his back, landing on the ground hard, Chuck was in pain. Mostly from the kick of a freaking pony. Once he opened his eyes, he saw the mare charging up her horn, and then blasting a firework at him. His eyes widened, as he rolled out of the way. However, the firework colliding with the ground ended up exploding, and launching Chuck off the ground, with his ears ringing.

Of course what comes up must come down, and Chuck really went down, it wasn’t a high fall, but it still hurt. Through the haze of the pain ringing through his body, Chuck managed to stand up and look at Trixie. She was saying something, but Chuck’s ears were still ringing so he couldn’t hear, but he was sure it was a taunt, or a bad pun, or both. Knowing full well that he was close to death, he grabbed one of his OJ and took a long drink, when he finished he was barely able to move out of the way of another firework.

Now more than a little mad at the mare, Chuck charged to the stage, moving out of the way of a few fireworks, once he got close enough, he jump on, grabbing the end of the stage and started to pull himself up. Until Trixie released a dove from out of nowhere at Chuck. The dove didn’t do any real damage to him, but it was enough to make Chuck let go of the stage, and it gave Trixie enough time to grab a rock and throw it at Chuck, hitting him in the face.

“Do we really need to keep this game up, just give up and Trixie will try to make your death painless.” Trixie said, the ringing in Chucks ears having gone down enough to hear this.

“How about you give up first!” Chuck yelled.

“That’s not going to happen.” Trixie said as she aimed another firework shooter at Chuck and shooting a few fireworks, all of which he managed to dodge.

Chuck quickly found a tree to duck behind, while fireworks were shooting at him.

“If you stop, I’ll give you a cookie, or something.” Chuck suggested. However, a rock hit against the side of the tree, almost hitting his face, “So no cookie, then?” Chuck called out, then he got an idea. He took out his spiked bat, and looked over at the mare, who was busy aiming her firework shooter. Chuck then ran out from behind the tree, dodging the incoming fireworks, he reared up the spiked bat, as a firework came right for him. He winced, ready to completely fail at what he was about to do, and he smashed right into the firework, launching it back at the magician mare.

“WHAT THE F-” Trixie shouted, as she ducked, before the explosion from behind blocked out what she was going to say.

Chuck was shocked at what he just did. He then got a giant smirk on his face, and laughed at the blue unicorn. Trixie looked at him, angry. She then turned around to notice the background of her stage was on fire. She looked back at Chuck, who still had the smug look on his face, but was running towards the stage.

Trixie then took some of the fire in her magic, and threw it at Chuck. Chuck was able to dodge easily enough, and jump back on the stage, and swung his bat at Trixie, who ducked, and teleported behind him, kicking him down onto the wooden stage.

“You’re going to pay for that stupid little stunt!” Trixie yelled, using her magic to get some more of the fire and throwing it at Chuck, who tried to get out of the way, but got a little singed as he moved.

Chuck then tried to jump kick the pony in the face, however Trixie charged her horn up, and teleported not only herself, but the whole stage away from Chuck. Unfortunately for Chuck, he didn’t realize this until it was too late to correct the landing. He ended up landing by doing a split, something he could not do before this, and never wanted to do again.

“Is that enough to make you give up?” Trixie asked.

Chuck would have made a witty remark to this statement. But he was in too much pain, and trying to stand back up. Once he did, a firework whizzed past his head.

Chuck quickly hobbled his way to the nearest tree, jumping over a rail to get to it. He needed to find someway to get back to the stage again, looking around, he found a rock next to his feet and quickly came up with a plan.

Grabbing the rock, he moves away from the tree, aimed the rock at the mare, and threw it at her. The rock managed to hit Trixie’s horn, this made her magic go away, and from the look on her face it was very painful.

Chuck took this opportunity and ran to the stage, or as close to running as a man can do after doing the splits. And jumped back on the stage, once he did he punched Trixie in the face, hard. Trixie, who was still dazed, tried a punch of her own, but missed and only succeeded in moving her closer to the end of the stage. Chuck capitalized on this by kicking her off of the stage, Trixie landed head first on the ground. When Trixie realizes that she was no longer on stage, she charged her horn up, and in a flash both her and the stage were gone, Chuck managed to catch himself before he fell completely to the ground. And only a few feet infront of him, Trixie appeared, back on the stage.

Chuck looked at Trixie, angrily, he had enough of her. Though, the same could clearly be said about Trixie. Trixie shot a firework at Chuck, but he rolled out of the way. He looked back towards the stage, but it was gone. He looked to the right, then to the left, he didn’t see it. From under his feet, however, something launched him upwards. Chuck wasn’t able to stay straight, and turned over in mid-air, with his back facing the ground. The stage reappeared beside him, and Trixie smashed her hoof down on his stomach, before he could go too far upward. He landed onto the stage floor, that appeared under him. Trixie took this opportunity to kick him while he’s down. She rammed her hoof into his shoulder, and arm, several times, and when he tried to get back up, she just punched his face back down.

Chuck was pretty sure he was bleeding from the mouth, and nose, and also had a few broken bones by now. He was hurting super bad, and tried to think of a way to get out of this. In hindsight, it was rather simple. All Chuck did was reach over, and grab her hoof. He pulled her off the stage, with himself following after.

Trixie landed on her back, and Chuck landed on her, though, rolling off quickly. Trixie struggled to get back up, as did Chuck. But once they did, they faced each other, and squinted. They both charged for the other, Trixie jumping up to his face, with a hoof raised, ready to slug him. However, Chuck knew what was about to happen, and instead of going to block the punch in front of him, he looked to the left, and caught a teleporting mare's hoof. He threw her towards the stage, where she smashed into the side.

Before she could fall down, Chuck placed his palm to her chest, keeping her up, “Stay down!” Chuck said, gritting his teeth.

“Never!” Trixie exhaled, nearly out of breath.

Chuck grabbed Trixies side, and threw her to the ground, away from the stage.

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(Ending 1)

Trixie hit the ground hard, she looked up and glared at Chuck, she wanted this fight to end, and she wanted to be the winner. She quickly teleported back on to the stage behind Chuck, and said “Trixie has to admit that you put up a good fight, but there’s only one way this can end.”

Trixie’s horn lit up, and she used her magic to move one of the firework shooters behind Chuck, put into on the ground, firework shooting side facing up, and lit the fuse on the fireworks.

Chuck had no idea what this mare was doing. That is until he looked back at Trixie, seeing her charging at him was all he needed to see for him to roll out of the way. Trixie however was running to fast to stop, and she ran off of the stage, and right onto the firework shooter, falling right into her own trap.

She didn’t have any time to react before the fireworks started shooting. Some of the fireworks went right through her body, but most lodged themselves into her body. Knowing full well that this could only lead to one thing, Chuck turned around and ran off of the stage, jumping off right as the fireworks in the mare’s body exploded.

The result was just as bloody as you’d expect, with guts and flesh flying everywhere, the zombies were going to love it. Chuck even saw the pony’s wizard hat fly in front of his face as it made it’s way to the ground. Chuck looked back at the firework shooter the pony had landed on. Only to look away as soon as he saw what the pony’s body looked like.

“Well…… That’s one way to go out with a bang.” Chuck said, fully aware on how bad his joke was.

Chuck then started to walk away from the stage, only to have a sudden, painful headache. He grabbed his head and yelled in pain. He could see visions flash before his eyes, he could see others ponies, dead, cut up, missing eyes, legs, heads, and he could hear the sounds of someone laughing. It didn’t take long for him to realize that it was his laughter, and once he realized that, the visions and the headache went away.

When Chuck had regained enough of his senses, he looked back at the remains of Trixie. Part of him told him that her death and triggered that.

“Whatever that was, it can’t mean anything good.” Chuck thought as he started to walk away from the scene. And as he did, part of him wondered if there was another way.

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(Ending 2)

Trixie hit the ground hard, she looked up and glared at Chuck, she wanted this fight to end, and she wanted to be the winner. She quickly teleported back on to the stage behind Chuck, and said, “Trixie has to admit that you put up a good fight, but there’s only one way this can end.”

Trixie shot Chuck up in the air, like she did before, but this time she did the same thing on top of him, making him slam back down almost as quick she launched him up.

Chuck got up, slowly, but was then launched off the stage by the same magic. He got back up, and then noticed something. There were off shadows on the ground. He looked up, and saw that there were many, many fireworks hovering above him. And Trixie had a giant insane grin spread across her face.

Trixie lit the fireworks one by one, shooting them downward towards Chuck. Chuck’s eyes widened, as he ran from the fireworks. They landed on the ground behind him, exploding on impact. He ran for a good thirty seconds before the fireworks stopped landing.

Chuck looked back, and didn’t see the blue unicorn mare on the stage. Chuck looked forward, and saw Trixie traveling very quickly towards him, though not by running, but by the magic she used to launch both herself, and Chuck up into the air.

Trixies hoof was arched back, ready to smash Chuck’s head in. Chuck, however, decided enough was enough, and jumped out of the way. However, in doing so, he grabbed Trixies cape, and pulled forcefully, causing Trixie to flip in mid air. And as she was still being propelled, her backside continued to move forward, as her neck snagged on her cape, snapping her neck, killing her instantly. Her body landed on the ground, with a thud, and Chuck let go of her cape, realizing what he did.

Chuck breathed in deeply, as he looked at the dead unicorns body. Chuck then started to walk away, only to have a sudden, painful headache. He grabbed his head and yelled in pain. He could see visions flash before his eyes, he could see others ponies, dead, cut up, missing eyes, legs, heads, and he could hear the sounds of someone laughing. It didn’t take long for him to realize that it was his laughter, and once he realized that, the visions and the headache went away.

When Chuck had regained enough of his senses, he looked back at Trixie. Part of him told him that her death and triggered that.

“Whatever that was, it can’t mean anything good.” Chuck thought as he started to walk away from the scene. And as he did, part of him wondered if there was another way.

(Ending 3)

Trixie landed on the ground, and almost immediately looked up and glared at Chuck. By now, all that was on Trixie’s mind was beating Chuck. So she did the first thing she could think off. Grabbing the firework shooter with her magic, aiming it at Chuck, and firing.

Chuck was quick to jump off of the stage before the fireworks hit, the stage was not so lucky. When the fireworks hit it, the stage exploded, destroying not only the stage, but the firework shooters, save for the one Trixie was holding.

Before Chuck could do anything, he saw that Trixie was once again aiming the firework shooter at him, all she said was, “Trixie wins!” Before firing, or at least Chuck thought that’s what she tried to do, as nothing came out.

Trixie was confused as to why this was the case, she tried a few more times to get fireworks to come up, even shaking it up and down a few times. Until she realized she may have run out of fireworks. This put Trixie in an odd spot, she wasn’t the best hoof to hoof fighter, and Chuck had shown that he could easily beat her, so she went with plan B. Throwing the firework shooter at Chuck, and running away.

Trixie was able to do the first part successfully, even though Chuck easily dodged it. However when it came to the second part, there was a bit of a problem, as it turns out, zombies are attracted to noise, and with a whole battle involving fireworks and explosions, a lot of zombies had gathered around, no doubt wondering what pony brians tasted like.

Trixie briefly considered teleporting past them, but she couldn’t see the end of the hoard of zombies, and was afraid she would just teleport herself right in the middle of the zombies and get eaten. So she did the only thing that made sense to her, ran over to the nearest railing, jumped over in, and covered her eye with her hooves, screaming the whole time.

Chuck had done nothing but watched the whole thing play out. He saw that a few zombies had made their way to the railing Trixie was hiding behind, but none of them got over it. For a brief moment, Chuck considered leaving the mare to her fate. However, the better part of him told him that it was not right to leave her like this. As much trouble as she had put him through, she didn’t deserve to die like this. Running over to the mare, he pulled out his spiked bat, and made quick work of the few zombies around the railing.

Once this was done, he jumped over the railing, and gently poked the mare’s side.

“STAY BACK!” Was the response Trixie yelled at him, while springing to her hooves.

“It’s alright, I’m not going to hurt you.” Chuck replied.

“Yeah right, you attacked Trixie, and now you say you won’t hurt her!”

“You attacked me first.”

“Oh……. Right……… Trixie is sorry about that, she thought you were going to upstage her like Twilight and……. It’s not like Trixie has another job to fall back on, being a showmare is all she can really do.”

“I understand, but as you can see, it’s not safe out here. So unless you still want to keep doing your shows, you should come with me to the safe house.” Chuck offered.

“Trixie sees your point, and how she went overboard before when you tried to help her. Plus the crowd is a little dead.” Trixie then laughed at her own bad joke, “So yes, Trixie will follow you.” At this point, Trixie stomach growled, fighting can really make a mare hungry, so she asked, “Trixie is wondering if that cookie you offered is still available?”

Chuck merely rolled his eyes, and motioned for her to follow him. And as they walked away, Chuck felt as if he had done something good, not just because he was helping someone, or in this case pony, but something told him that he had made things better in someway.

“Not sure why I feel this way.” Chuck thought, “But I’m sure I’ll find out…… Anyway, I hope Trixie doesn’t mind spending sometime with Katey, I just know Katey would love to meet a talking Unicorn that does magic tricks.”

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Mission Name: Show Stopper

Complete

Trixie Lulamoon Has Joined.