My Little Deathbattle

Chapters

Tournament Battles: Nexus VS Aegis
Hestaria VS Wind Rider
Evening Armada VS Dawn Breakers VS Changeling Armada
Draco VS Jackson L. Anderson
Championship Challenge: Draco VS Nexus
Shadow Clone VS Seraph
Tournament Battle: Night Striker VS Lolk
Championchip Bout: Lolk VS Nexus: Battle of the Hosts!

Tournament Battles: Nexus VS Aegis

HOAH! My turn!

That's right we have two ponies fighting for their position of Luna's guard.

Lunar Aegis, Personal Guard to Princess Luna.

And Lunarus Nexus, Captain of the Evening Guard.

I'm Nex and he's Blaze and it's our job to analyze their weapons armor and skills to find out who would win a Deathbattle.

Hey that's my line!

Lunarus Solaris Nexus

Race: Unicorn/robo-pony.

Specialty: Gorilla Strategy and dark magic

Weakness: metaphorical Monophobia (aka. Sombra's remains)

The cyber unicorn known as Lunarus Solaris Nexus was born to a normal family, with normal legs in Canterlot with a long history in the military.

Yep. His family tree goes back almost a thousand years to his great ancestor-what the fuck is that?

That's General Lunarus Goldenchord, the first General of Luna's old army.

Why is he an alicorn?

We don't really know but moving on from that: At the age of eighteen, Nexus joined the Guard and was trained by former Equestrian Deathbattle competitor, Brand Fire.

While there he learned about basic combat but he forgot it all like I did back in middle school.

He'd learned basic combat from the Evening Armada books he found as a child along with his signature spell he calls Shadow Thoughts.

The spell penetrates the mind and allows him to make you see your greatest fear. And if anyone tries to do the same, they- well pass out but that's not going to happen here.

And that isn't his only magical weapon, he also is the bearer of the Element of Honor and a charm known as the Spark of Honor, passed down from Goldenchord.

The Spark of Honor is more or less a lightning spell that comes up when he's in danger. But he eventually learned how to summon it on command. He can also hear the night. That's described as former soldiers of Luna warning him of impending danger.

To sum up his extensive back story, he was captured by changelings after being reassigned, where they cut off all four of his legs.

Princess Luna saved his sorry ass and dropped him in the only machine shop for miles around.

There he built his legs with the help of Midnight Spangle and he built the Iron Icarus. But we'll get back to that.

After being disowned and becoming the most wanted pony in Equestria, he was possessed by Sombra.

Giving him a major weakness.

You make him mad enough, he'll turn into the darker Lunarus Umbra until he can break back out. While he's Umbra, his strength and magic are amped by 20% and no that's no joke. That's the stat.

Due to Deathbattle rules, this mean's the limit on this power, meaning he can stay that way for thirty seconds and then a ten second cool down before returning to normal strength, leaving him wide open to attack.

Now back to weapons! The Icarus comes in two main forms; back pack for military use and prosthetic, that attatch to the nerves where the wings would be via magic.

His personal set is a MK-IV. Stronger and can push him faster than he would if he were a natural pegasus.

In a downhill flight and pushing himself, he can crack the sound barrier. That's fast for a pegasus but faster for a unicorn.

But that's not all.

Not even close, he has extencive skills in CQC martial arts called the Art of Shadows. Think of the best kung fu master and multiply that by the square root of bad ass!

And we're still not done.

He has a set of electrified hidden blades that can be ballistic knifes and two lever action pistols spring loaded into his legs with two shots each. We done yet?

Almost, he wears regulation guard armor with the exemption of the helmet, and the metal on his legs can stop musket balls fired at point blank range. But the weight of that holds him back in flight.

He may be able to go fast over time, but he's slow in the short run. But that doesn't mean he can't do shit in the air.

The slower speed means he can turn much faster than a normal pegasus or even somepony with the lower version of his wings.

And then there's his personality.

He doesn't accept collateral damage and doesn't like hurting ponies. He's never even killed a pony. If he can help it he'll try and negotiate his way around conflict before it arises.

But push him far enough and he'll rip you to pieces.

"We are the New Evening Armada, and we were born to die! But not before you!"

Lunar Aegis

Race: Pegasus

Specialty: Hit and run tactics

Weakness: CQC

Lunar Aegis was born to a simple family in Ponyville.

Not as simple as you think. HE'S PART DEMON BABY!

Yes, though he didn't learn it for some time. Following the thought I was happening; Aegis, like everypony else that ever existed in fanfiction, was bullied harshly as a child just after his father died when he was ten. Who had also taught him everything he knew about fighting.

He wasn't just bullied by other ponies, they also sexually abused him!

Well… Not exactly. The one that played with his heart.

Same thing in my book.

Anyways. His mother was almost killed when the bullies came in to kill him. That's when he learned of his magical ability.

Including shadow teleportation, channeling electrical powers and even becoming shadow itself. In that state he's 100% invulnerable but cannot fight in that state.

After learning of his powers, and losing control for a moment, he was exiled from Ponyville where he found Zecora who taught him how to control his power.

He also learned how to channel electricity into himself and his weapons. But we'll get to that in a second.

After some years, he returned to Ponyville under the cover of night and became a vigilante while at the same time looking for those who tormented him as a child. This caught the attention of the princess' and eventually landed him in prison. He was forgiven, seeing as he hadn't hurt anypony and was given a position in the secret organization of LUNA.

From that point on he climbed their ranks until he was their leader.

He was eventually sent to the White Tail Wood to check on a disturbance.

But it wasn't any disturbance. It was a zombie pony invasion!

Which he nearly died killing. After recovering, and the nation split, he joined Luna's side and fought for her for a number of years. Once the war was over and nopony had won, he settle down in Ponyville with Fluttershy where he adopted a daughter.

GAH!

Are you okay?

Shipping… It burns me… Shippers destroy lives!

Okay then… His ability to shadow jump means he can go from one shadow to the next. But he has to be in the shadow to begin with. And his ability to become shadows only lasts a minute before needing a long time to recharge

He can also channel electricity through his body and use it to push himself to light speed for a total of five seconds and can only be used once. And we thought the sonic rainboom was fast. He damn near broke the scale for speed when we worked this one out. And he can discharge all of the electricity in his body but then can't use his other abilities for ten seconds.

He also carries retractable claws as his close up primary weapon and his wing blades as a secondary. Though both of them he uses best when not seen or heard prior.

He's loyal to the core and honest to a fault. You hurt one of his friends, he'll end you.

He is Lunar Aegis.

"Now you see me, now you're dead."

Okay the combatants are set, time to settle this once and for all.

It's time for a REPUBLIC DEATHBATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!!!!

A gentle moon light filtered through the thick Everfree trees as a royal blue unicorn with metal legs and wings walked down the only path that didn't lead to death. A serious look of determination was etched on his face as he approached his destination; a small clearing where the moon light was unobstructed. The unicorn could hear whispers coming from the area at the edge of the clearing where the shadows lay. From the ground about fifty meters away, a dark mass started to form before becoming a dark gray pegasus in navy blue leather armor.

"Aegis." the unicorn said blankly.

"Nexus" Aegis replied.

"You're people give you the kill order?"

"Yes. And you?"

"Luna doesn't want to do this. I don't want to kill you. Surrender and I can get you out of the death penalty."

"I don't take orders from you Captain."

Nexus sighs. "Alright, it's your choice."

FIGHT!

Nexus extended his wings and reared up. He pointed his left hoof in the direction of Aegis as a panel of his living metal legs opened up. A small pistol popped out and leveled itself at Aegis. Nexus fired a shot from his little lever action, but Aegis was anticipating this and morphed back into the shadows. Nexus was taken back at how fast he'd moved. The whispers started again with a sense of urgency. From behind him this time.

He spun around fast and caught a glimpse of Aegis lunging at him with his claws out front, ready to kill. Nexus fired another shot. This one passed close to Aegis' chest but flew through the trees harmlessly. This caused him to have to dodge right to avoid being in Nexus' line of fire, but also out of the shadows. The pistol, now spent for ammo, ejected from his leg and the panel closed back up before he extended his electrified hidden blades.

"Let's play!" Nexus shouted.

Nexus lunged forward, using his mechanized wings to push him faster than if he had jumped without using the pistons in his legs. Aegis saw the move coming and deflected Nexus' attack with his claws. As Nexus slid to a stop, Aegis channeled an electric charge through his blades and attacked Nexus while his back was turned. But Nexus wasn't about to go down so easily. He spun around, still on his hindlegs, and landed a roundhouse on Aegis' right shoulder. The force of the kick threw Aegis back into the shadows.

Nexus quickly saw his error and fired his lightning spell. The bolt traveled fast, but the demon blood in Aegis' veins made it easy for him to roll just out of the spells reach when he landed. Aegis was smart enough to not roll out of the shadows but when he looked up from his roll, Nexus was nowhere to be found in the clearing.

"What's the matter!?" Aegis shouted. "Is the great Commander of Canterlot afraid of a little demon!?"

"Nope." Nexus replied from right behind him.

Aegis evaporated into the shadows as Nexus slashed at him with his blades. Not wanting to sit where he was open to attack, he jumped out of the shadows and into the moon light of the clearing. Nexus retracted his right blade and let out his right pistol. He lifted himself off of the ground ground and hovered in the center by his Iron Icarus. The whispers filtered in through the silence of the night as Aegis reappeared in a tree behind him. Nexus wheeled around and shot one of his last two shots into the tree with no success.

Aegis shot out of the tree with his wing blades out. Nexus was fast and put up his left foreleg to block, but Aegis was counting on that as he electrified his wing blades. When his right blade hit the bare metal of his leg, it sent a shock through him and caused him to shout in pain. Nexus landed on all fours for a moment before taking flight over the trees to get some sanctuary. But Aegis was faster than him in the air. As he approached for another pass above the trees, Nexus wheeled around and shot his lightning spell at him

Aegis saw the move coming and blocked with his electrified claws. Nexus pulled back as hard as he could, causing Aegis to pass inches below his tail, chopping off the ends of the hairs. Nexus pushed back against the fall as hard as he could to minimize the fall damage in the trees next to the clearing. Aegis had just turned around when Nexus passed into the trees. Aegis dove in after him and was greeted by the loud bang of Nexus' last shot about ten feet above the trees. The bullet slammed into Aegis' right wing blade and threw him into a spin towards the clearing.

Though the bullet hit on the bottom of the blade, he'd only received a mild sprain. He stood there looking for Nexus. Under the cover of the underbrush, Nexus cast his most useful spell, Shadow Thoughts. Aegis listened carefully as a rustle came from his right. He turned and took a stance only to see Fluttershy walk out of the brush.

"Fluttershy? What are you doing here?" Aegis asked the illusion.

She didn't speak, she only fell to her knees with a knife sticking out of her back. Aegis ran to her and tried to stop the bleeding but the blank look on her face was enough to tell him she wasn't breathing anymore. He stood and felt the shadows. He could feel a powerful magic directly behind him. As soon as it pulsed, his body turned into a formless, black mass. He hovered in this state for a moment before shooting towards Nexus. Nexus aimed his left blade at the mass and shot the blade by a spring. The electrified blade passed through harmlessly as the smoke passed around him and rematerializing behind him with his claws ready to kill. Nexus wasn't fast enough to stop him from slashing his claws across his back. Nexus' armor stopped the slash but the force pushed him to the ground.

Nexus drew his second blade and prepared to fight for his life. Aegis slashed fast. Not leaving Nexus an opening. Nexus blocked as best he could but couldn't stop one stab from grazing his cheek. Aegis suddenly reared up to bring both two pronged blades down onto his head and Nexus pulled his hindlegs back and slammed his piston driven legs into Aegis' chest. The shock knocked him straight into the sky.

Nexus rolled back into the clearing and looked up to try and find Aegis against the starry sky. Aegis was far too high to be seen. He was getting as much altitude as he could as cast as he could. The air and tears pass by his cheeks. When he looked back, he could see Ponyville. The clearing wasn't even visible to him anymore but he knew exactly where it was. Aegis took a deep breath and channeled all of his energy to his wings. The air suddenly turned dry and as electricity arced to him faster and faster.

Nexus watched the small lightning storm starting to form high over him. Nexus looked around for somewhere to go he knew what was coming. As the storm grew so did the electricity within Aegis. When he felt the power reach its precipice, he flapped his wings once and shot straight down. He caused an instant sonic rainboom that was invisible at night and instantly hit the speed of light. He fell to earth as a bolt of solid lightning, right on top of Nexus. Nexus only had an instant to put up even part of his shield when the bolt that was Aegis hit. The whole forest bent back from the explosion that followed. The roar of the wind was deafening as the storm cloud over head started to disperse and the dust started to settle.

Nexus lay on one side of the clearing covered in blood and Aegis stood uneasily in the center taking deep breaths. That always took everything out of him when he did it, especially since he released all of his energy on impact to keep from killing himself. Nexus shifted a bit and rolled onto his stomach, his coat now a navy blue.

"You afraid now, Nex?" Aegis asked panting.

Nexus silently got to his hoofs and looked back at Aegis, his eyes serpent like and blood red. He's become Lunarus Umbra. Nexus dashed straight at him with his blades out with lightning speed. Aegis was unable to react, he was too weak. Nexus slashed him across the chest, kicked him straight up into the air and running him through with his blades before throwing him to the earth again. But he still wasn't done. Nexus used his magic to throw him up into Aegis into the air. As his limp body started to come back down, Nexus fired a bolt of pure black magic at him. The bolt slammed into Aegis with a mighty crack and his body fell like a stone. Nexus shot his other blade at him as he fell and skewered his left wing joint.

Aegis lay on the ground twitching in agony as Nexus approached him with a sick, sadistic smile on his face. Nexus picked Aegis up with his hoofs and put him into a lock, holding Aegis under his forelegs. Nexus' horn glowed black as he moved Aegis' now useless wing, along with its blade, towards his neck.

"Fear?" Nexus chuckled in his ear. "I am Fear."

Without further hesitation, Nexus dragged Aegis' own wing blade across his neck and watched his blood squirt from the wound as Aegis twitched in pain and fear; all amplified by Nexus' dark magic. When he finally stopped moving, Nexus released him and his coat returned to its usual shade of royal blue along with his eyes.

K.O.

HOLLY FUCKING SHIT! WHAT'S UP WITH THIS WRITER!?

Yeah. That was morbid.

He killed him with his own wing blade! That's over kill, even for me.

Yeah… Anyways, Aegis is a great fighter but unfortunately his arsenal relies on surprise; something you can't do with Nexus that easily.

The shadow teleportation was his strongest asset, but when you can hear shadows, it's really ineffective.

Now we know what you're thinking.

Nexus couldn't have survived that lighting blast.

Well, he could. His shield absorbed a lot of the impact but not enough to not nearly kill him. Which sent him into Lunarus Umbra.

Nexus can summon his shield spells fast enough to catch a bullet flying right at him from thirty feet away, that's near instantaneous.

And he can make them strong enough to survive an explosion from a pound of C4 at point blank range.

And he can survived without the shield with a blast that big. But barely. And even if Aegis didn't send him into Lunar Umbra, he was still wide open for attack after the lightning move.

The winner is Nexus.

Hestaria VS Wind Rider

Basic foot soldiers are essential to any war effort. They execute their operations with deadly precision and speed.

Like Wind Rider, LUNA Sec ops soldier.

And Hestaria, Element of Hope.

I'm Nex and he's Aegis. And it's our job to analyze their weapons armor and skills to determine who would win a death battle!

Hestaria

Race: Bat Pony

Specialty: CQC

Weakness: Ranged combat.

Hestaria Blossom is a bat pony born and raised in Cloudsdale. Unlike most ponies, she was born with her cutie mark.

What!?

That's right. She was born with her cutie mark. But that doesn't mean she knew her talent since she was born.

In fact, she didn't know until she was almost twenty! In the mean time, she worked in the Cloudsdale Weather Factory in the Storm Wing.

Meaning she tested the storm clouds to make sure they wouldn't turn a tree to ash.

Shocking!

Anyways, Hestaria is one of the only natural born bat ponies left in Equestria not counting her mother. Who was also born with her cutie mark.

So it's genetic?

Apparently.

Wow. I guess that means the ability to kick ass is also hereditary!

Wrong.

Awe!

True, she's a natural born fighter.

Yay! Violence!

But unlike the normal soldier story, she didn't fight as a child.

Boo! No Violence!

She was however picked on for having bat wigs. The same reason she was rejected from Cloudsdale's Air Force, The Freedom Flyers.

Boo! Generic bully story!

Actually, no. We don't see a single instance of her being bullied other than being denied entry.

… No comment.

That's a first.

What?

Nothing. After the last rejection, her friend White Knight convinced her to follow him into the Royal Guard.

Only wanting acceptance, she follows him and starts training under Senior Master Sergeant Firebrand. Is he going to be a common trainer of fighters here?

No. She wasn't really trained under Firebrand. She was actually trained under Republic Deathbattle Champion Lunarus Nexus.

Oh yeah! Now I remember her! She was a bad ass!

After disobeying orders-

And beating up a few ponies with a wooden lance.

Hestaria ran after Nexus told her that she was being taken out of the guard. She was then tempted by Queen Chrysalis to join her instead and gain acceptance.

But being the protagonist, she denies her and she fights the black demon! Proving that she's-

No. She was saved by Nexus and learned that she was the Element of Hope. How do you forget that?

Hey! She's my character I can change her as much as I want.

Not in the death battle. That aside-

Buzz kill.

After Chrysalis flees, knowing Nexus could easily kill her, Nexus tells Hestaria that she can join the Evening Guard.

But only if she loses in a sparring match with lightning lances! Which is her main weapon. A four foot long staff tipped with a moon and spike spear head that arcs electricity.

The deal was that if she won, she could go and do what she wanted. But if she lost she had to come and give the Evening Guard a chance. It's here that she confirms that she can fight well. Well enough to go tow to two with Nexus- And win.

Well done young grass hopper. Well done. She also wears basic Guard armor.

But that's not the last thing. Her weakness is ranged combat. Due to the limited reach of the lance, even when she fights on two hoofs, makes anything outside of four feet impossible.

She's fast and agile to make up for that though. But the light guard armor slows her down tremendously.

But she's persistent. Her style of fighting is to overpower and out think the opponent.

She's strong, positive and always ready to kick ass. Here's to the bat pony that doesn't love Spitfire plot!

Yeah you're fired.

"Regardless of whether this world accepts me for what I am, I won’t turn my back on it. I may not have many, but I have friends, and they have my back no matter what happens. There’s always going to be a tomorrow and I can only hope it’s a bright one.”

Wind Rider

Race: Pegasus

Specialty: Agility

Weakness: Caution to the Wind

Wind Rider is a pegasus born in the Mild West to pacifist parents.

Ironic, considering how focused he is on combat.

Yes. In fact, he’s anything but your run-of-the-mill pegasus.

Of course not. Ever since a young age, he’s been studying martial arts in secret.

Didn’t he ever get caught?

Of course not! That would’ve been boring and stereotypical!

Wow, big words. Anyways, Wind Rider made his first kill saving a young filly from being murdered.

Who would do that?

Probably either Night, Lolk or Orion. Anyway, moving on!

His parents disowned him when they discovered that he’d killed a stallion, what with them being pacifists and all.

Having nopony else to turn to, he rounded up a bunch of colts and proceeded to lead them in raids against drug dealers that passed through the area.

Because of this, he ended up making a lot of enemies in drug cartels that might or might not have come back to haunt him.

Where’s the humor, Nex?

What?

You’ve been so serious.

That’s because Rider is somepony you don’t want to mess around with. He was trained by humans in combat and survival. They probably trained him in other things that went on the internet forever, but that's beside the point!

And there it is... From that point he moved on to join the Equestrian Army before being hoof picked for the Royal Special Forces.

He’s the sole survivor of Havoc Team and is the leader of Razor Team, neither of which you would ever want to mess with.

Exactly. He has fought many terrorist organizations around the world.

The best part is that he then became an undercover agent for LUNA, and now acts as a sleeper within the RSF.

He’s also a guy who pushes for racial equality. He pulled some strings in the RSF to allow all races in.

Because he's obviously part of the under privileged race. But on to the family.

Yup.... he’s the founder of the ‘Guardian’ Clan.

He’s headstrong, courageous, and well-equipped with the skills to survive just about any battle.

He carries a large supply of weapons to meet any challenge.

His advanced training makes him deadly with more weapons than a Boomstick Army Knife!

A what?

Unimportant. He carries a Katana, and a kamas, a cross bow for stealth and a carbine rifle.

He's fully skilled in using all of them and has no difficulty learning new skills and adapt to being in a fight with somepony he's never known.

He can also make a mean sushi roll and cook anything with C4!

He works for me, and even I bow to him. He is the Rider of the Wind.

Heh, I see what you did there.

Shut up, we need to move on!

"Slice ‘n’ Dice!”

Okay, the combatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all.

It's time for-!

A commercial break.

A what!?

Hey, Nex, you ever have trouble visualizing these death battles?

No, I'm the writer. But I know plenty that do!

Exactly, that's why we've agreed to allow YOU the fans send in animation applications. You will not be paid.

And if you stuck through our "catch-the-greedy-fuckers" test, then congratulations, you've advanced to the next stage.

The rules are simple. Take any bit of Republic Deathbattle you want and make a ten second animation so we can get a feel for you skills.

The styles can vary. From show quality to Deathbattle sprite animation, we'll take it all.

You can also take spots from the Podcast that you thought were funny and make them into animations as well.

But how are they to submit them to us?

That's easy. Nexus here will be making a video on his Youtube channel giving you the same low down when the dates for submissions are announced. Leave it as a video response there and be ready to be judged!

We'll be giving you ladies and gentle colts some time to create your masterpieces of art and DEATH. But now, for your procrastination; it's time for a RUPUBLIC DEATHBATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!!!!

Under the cover of darkness, a gray bat pony in dark purple armor walked the halls of Canterlot Castle with her lightning lance not active on her back. Her yellow eyes glow in the dark lightly as she scans the halls for any threats to the castle. In the back of her mind, she's only thinking of her boyfriend up in the tower with the commander but the other is listening to everything in the castle. High above Hestaria however, a threat remained undetected. Unknown to her, the secret organization, LUNA, has called for her assassination; and her assassin stood above in the rafters with a small arsenal with him. Wind Rider pulled his cross bow and locked in a bolt with a click.

Hestaria's ears perked up instantly at the sound and she wheeled around to see the threat. A crack came from the direction of the click as Wind Rider released a bolt from his crossbow. Hestaria reached back and the magical charm in the lance caused the electricity enchanted tip to start to arc instantly as she swung it around. Her eyes acquired the bolt and she adjusted the speed accordingly. The tip of the arrow passed the head of the lance but the shaft didn't. The lance sliced the shaft in two. Hestaria's natural night vision gazed straight at Wind Rider.

"Evening Guard! Come on out." Hestaria shouted.

Wind Rider grinned and jumped down from his perch. He used his wings to slow down and keep from breaking his legs.

FIGHT!

"Hoofs up!" Hestaria shouted again as she approached quickly.

Wind Rider raised his hoofs but behind his back and pulled his carbine rifle when Hestaria was a few yards away. Hestaria's eyes went wide not having seen the weapon before and used her bat wings to jump out of his line of fire for a second. It was long enough to let her get within a few feet of Wind Rider. The pegasus squeezed the trigger and let out a shot. Hestaria twisted in the air to just keeping out of the line of fire. The grazed her back plate as she swung In front of her and as she spun.

Rider didn't have time to pull the trigger again. He tucked and rolled out of the way and drew his katana. Hestaria landed, having missed her attack, turned to meet Rider's katana with the tip of her lance. When the two connected, the electrical arc from the lance shot down the blade of his katana and into him. He shouted in pain as the sword fell from his hoof. Not wanting to waste the opportunity, Hestaria makes another wide arch with the lance and swings it at his throat.

Wind Rider was no slouch however, he leaned back far enough for the lance to pass just inches from his throat. As Hestaria took the lance in both hoofs and charged. Rider saw this instantly and drew his short kamas. He sidestepped the charge and slashed down at Hestaria's lance. The blade of the short sword cut the head of the spear off a foot from the metal. Hestaria came to a screeching halt before taking another stance. She got up on two hoofs and held the shaft of the lance back and against the back of her foreleg. Rider stood back, waiting to see what she'd do next.

The two stood there for a moment before Hestaria made the first move. She ran on two legs with her bat wings spread to keep some balance. Rider took a defensive stance as Hestaria drew closer. This time, she was ready to fight. Hestaria flapped her wings and threw herself over Rider. He wasn't prepared for the sudden maneuver and dodged left, expecting an overhead strike. But that's what Hestaria wanted. She swung down with the staff and hit the side of his kamas as he dodged. The force of the hit quickly knocked it away, this time, out the window. Rider was fed up with this show; he charged forward as Hestaria landed and grabbed hold of the shaft. He threw her forward and forced her to fight unarmed. He was far from it. He tossed the shaft of the lance away and started to draw his carbine again.

Hestaria spread her wings and threw herself up into the rafters as Rider unleashed a full-auto burst from his carbine. The shots were deafening as the bullets ripped through the wooden supports in the ceiling, hoping to find flesh to dig into. He released the trigger, not wanting to use up all of his ammo and shouldered the carbine. Hestaria limped about the rafters with a bullet in her front left ankle. She held the wound trying to keep any blood from dripping down and gritted her teeth to keep from screaming in agony.

She looked down to the ground and noticed Rider looking around the rafters for her. It wasn't long before he spread his wings and flew up into the rafters to be one hundred present sure. He didn't bother pulling his rifle, knowing that he could miss and be defenseless. He found her instantly and bolted towards her. Hestaria spread her wings and jumped over him. Knowing she couldn't walk anymore, she kept to a hover and charged him as he slowed to a stop to try and reacquire his target. But it was already in his face. Hestaria slammed into him and threw the two of them to the ground. Hestaria stood uneasily but still managed a bounding charge at him.

He was able to stand and get into half of a stance before she could hit him. She swung wide with a high kick. He put up his hoofs and blocked the attack easily before returning the strike. Hestaria was able to block with her good hoof while using the other as a counter balance for her attacks. For a few moments, the two traded blows and parried strikes repeatedly until Rider threw Hestaria back. She slid to a stop next to the head of her lance still arching in electricity.

She quickly grabbed it in her right hoof and started a final charge of desperation. Rider saw this and drew his carbine out of reflex and took aim. He squeezed the trigger the second his sights lined up on her. Two shots rang out in rapid succession as Hestaria let out a shout and fell. She twitched in pain as her blood spilled onto the ground. The last two bullets in his rifle embedded themselves in her lightly armored stomach and right shoulder. Rider tossed his carbine to the side and made his way over to his katana. The handle was still warm from the massive amount of electricity that had been sent through it. He took it in his right hoof and hovered over to her twitching body.

She looked up to him with an angry look in her eye. She swung at him with the head of the lance as he got in range, but slashed her hoof after he back up enough for her to miss. She dropped the lance and attempted to stand. She couldn't muster the energy to fly, but was able to get onto her pain stricken hoofs to try and fight for another moment. But it was pointless. Rider roundhouse kicked her to the ground and put the tip of the sword to her neck.

"Any last words?" He asked.

"Fuck you."

He didn't need to hear any more. Rider thrust the tip of his sword through her throat and watcher her body jolt as he cut her spinal cord. He withdrew the sword and sheathed it on his side.

"Sorry, you're a bit too dead for my tastes."

K.O.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Yes.

But she's so cool!

Cool has nothing to do with it. Hestaria put up one hell of a fight, but was ultimately out classed in both weapons and skills.

She's a though one, but that's not enough to escape a sword to the neck.

She can hold her own in a close up fight, but get outside of her range and there's nothing she can do to stop you.

I love 'er but she lost fair and square.

The winner is Wind Rider.

Evening Armada VS Dawn Breakers VS Changeling Armada

Holy shit! It’s crowded in here.

I thought you were dead, Lolk.

I got better.

Copycat.

Whatever. Let’s get this overwith. New Lunar Republic’s Evening Armada. Gorilla force on a massive scale.

Changeling Empire’s Armada. Master killers of entire cities.

And the Solar Empire’s Dawn Breakers, the worlds most powerful organized military.

He’s Aegis and he’s Lolk

And he’s overpowered-I mean Nex. And it’s our jobs to analyze these troops’ weapons, armor and skills determine who would win a deathbattle.

Don’t make me kill you again.

Suuuure you will.

Dawn Breakers

Faction: Solar Empire

Leader: Princess Celestia

Locality: Canterlot

The Solar Empire’s Dawn Breakers were formed just before the rise of the NLR to defend against them and are lead by Celestia herself.

Celestia leads by example. Standing tall on the battlefield and commanding her troops as needed.

Celestia wields a golden halberd that she can channel her magic through. And since this is a five on five on five, there will be one unicorn, two earth ponies and one pegasus.

The unicorns most commonly use the basic magical bolt that can be charged to either kill or knock out.

Kind of like roofies in a titty bar.

…

What? I don’t do the drugging. I just hear about it. That aside, for close range fighting, the Dawn Breakers have Silver Bit, single shot, muzzle loaded rifles. Each one capable of heavily denting any modern armor.

Outside of firearms, the Dawn Breakers use lances and crossbows.

They rely heavily on their ability to work as a coherent unit under strict command. When together they are hard to break, but break them up and they’ll lose a one on one fight.

With Celestia in charge, the only way to break up unit cohesion is to kill her. And seeing as she’s the strongest, it’s unlikely that will happen until the other four die, leaving Ol’ Sun Butt out to dry.

They don’t stop for anything, and you do anything to cross them, they’ll unleash the power of the sun!

You’re a moron.

Metal head.

Watch the metal head thing.

Alright Lunarus.

THAT TEARS IT MY LITTLE CHANGELING! I’M GONNA KICK YOUR NADS SO HARD THEY’LL-

“Celestia guide us to greatness.”

Evening Armada

Faction: New Lunar Republic

Leader: Princess Luna

Locality: Everfree Castle

Yeah baby! These are my ponies!

Your ponies? *sigh* Anyway, the NLR’s Armada is the pinnacle of guerrilla fighters on a massive scale.

Their tactics are all hit and run with pieces of an organized military tied to it.

The Armada is lead by Princess Luna wielding her signature cavalry sword. Like the other leaders, she leads by example. She prefers to be on the front lines and fight with her troops while Celestia and Chrysalis like keeping further back and commanding.

Thus leaving her open for attack.

But she’s not alone! Her five pony officer squad is made up of two earth ponies, one unicorn and two pegasi. The pegasi wield the Lightning Lance! A lance that arcs with magical electricity and also the Thunder Claws. Magically enhanced hidden blades developed by the Lunarus Corporation. Her unicorn uses a cavalry sword as well as their magical spells.

Such as Shadow Thoughts. A spell that brings the worst fear of the pony it is cast on to life. Effective on groups. They also use several fatal bolts taught originally by Commander Nexus.

And the earth pony is the marksman. Using the Thunderstorm MK. II repeating rifle.

Yes! This stylish modern lever action rifle has ten shots in the tube and can fire at 45rpm! It fires the equivalent of real .50 caliber slugs. That’s my kind of weapon! BFG’s baby!

The wide range of skills in the Armada allows them to be effective alone and in groups.

“Day or night, we fight! All hail the Night!”

Changeling Armada

Faction: Changeling Armada

Leader: Queen Chrysalis

The Changeling Armada is a large force whose sole purpose is to find a place to feed and survive.

But they're not as barbaric as you might think.

They use modern weaponry scavenged from the battlefield.

And that's the Armada's greatest strength, adaptability. They can pick up any weapon and use it to the best of their ability.

This is put into all of Chrysalis' troops telepathically. Giving her an advantaged in a massive battle. Or in this case, a five on five battle. Her four troops can use whatever is needed.

They come in with lances and swords, but when somepony with a gun goes down, the whole fight will take a turn.

Like Celestia, Chrysalis likes to stay back and command, giving her a higher chance to live to the final fight.

And when it comes, she rolls in with a dark red battle ax. Nothing special, just a battle ax that's red.

Her magical arsenal is all fatal. One hit from any spell will kill. There is a one shot grenade style spell that has a four foot kill range. A devistating spell that will can only be used by Chrysalis herself. Really? Why would you bother writing that Nex?

Balance. If they could all use it they'd win in seconds. And they also don't have a saying, so we'll have to roll with nothing for now!

Okay the combatants are set, let's end this debate, once and for all.

But first, a little announcement.

WE HAVE A TUMBLR!

That's right. The Officers of the NLR now have a Tumblr where you can ask us questions about anything. Our lives or battles we've faced. Anything is permitted.

But hold those Questions for now. Because, IT'S TIME FOR A THREE WAY REPUBLIC DEATHBATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!

The small town of Ponyville was vacant of all of her citizens, not even the construction workers taking away what was left of the old library were anywhere to be found. From the north, a small, three pony squad of Dawn Breakers marched down Main Street consisting of the lead unicorn and two earth ponies with their Silver Bit Rifles on their shoulders. The column of three stopped ever few feet to clear out the houses on either side of the street, one at a time. Once they had finished moving down the first block, one of the unicorns sent up a bolt of magic that burst like a flare. In the middle of the group, Princess Celestia appeared in a brilliant flash of light with her halberd.

"What's the status Colonel?" she asked the lead unicorn.

"We've cleared the first block and the backup team will be in in a few minutes to set up home base." the unicorn replied.

"Any site of them yet?" she asked.

"Not yet Princess. Our scout should be here any minute now."

On cue, their pegasus landed hard on next to the unicorn. "No sign of either one of 'em your highness." the pegasus mare said saluting.

"Start setting up base. We'll need t-"

"Get down!" one of the earth ponies shouted tackling Princess Celestia to the ground just as the sound of a rifle shot rang out.

"Sniper! Second floor balcony!" the unicorn shouted letting off a magical blast that blew the window that he thought he saw the sniper in.

Celestia flashed to her post at the edge of town and watched over the battle. The four ponies sprinted into the building that they had just checked. The Armada sniper coughed at the smoke around him and put a hoof to his ear.

"I've been made. Go loud." he said into a mouth piece at the collar of his armor.

And at the south side of Ponyville, Queen Chrysalis stood with her four changeling scouts. "You know what must be done. Eliminate them." she said coldly as her changelings buzzed off towards the smoke plume that was the NLR sniper position.

FIGHT!

Back inside the house the four guards went over their options, which were limited. "I say we go behind these buildings and flank that sniper position. Even if they're dead, we'll have a place where we have an advantage." The unicorn said looking to his comrades.

"I guess that's our best option." One of the earth ponies agreed. "But me and Quick Shot should be the ones to take it."

"Make it quick, we got four unknowns coming in from the south."

The NLR soldier still in his position saw the four dots coming his way and leveled his repeating rifle in their direction. He fired one shot but missed. He recocked his rifle and ran to the back door.

"Lieutenant Moon, we got incoming near your position, take 'em out!" the sniper said as he jumped from the second story window to the roof bellow him.

Lt. Moon didn't reply but spread her bat wings and grabbed her lightning lance. She launched up into the air with the speed of a Shadow Bolt directly below the changelings. She flew into the formation but was spotted by the trailing changeling just before she could give a proper surprise attack. The changeling spun around and dodged her lance. It took hold of the lance and threw Moon skywards without her weapon. It separated from the group and flew upwards as Lt. Moon recovered.

Back with the Dawn Breakers, they'd sent out their two earth ponies to the sniper's position as the unicorn took a position at the door. The pegasus held her lance tightly in her hoofs as she watched the back door. Without warning, the wall next to her collapsed as an NLR unicorn blew down the wall. She swung her lance but what she was swinging at wasn't a unicorn, it was a manticore. She stammered back as the unicorn finished casting Shadow Thoughts onto her and quickly put up a shield against the spell being cast by the Dawn Breaker. The bolt bounced off and shot back at him. He was able to dodge but the changeling coming into the window wasn't. It turned to dust on contact. The NLR soldier kicked the lance away from the pegasus and threw it like a javelin at the unicorn.

He side stepped it to allow it to dig into the wooden door frame. When he looked back, the unicorn was gone and the pegasus was just starting to recover from the illusion spell. Back in the sky, Moon was just tangling with a changeling holding her lance. She was able to grab the lance when the changeling came up at her but the changeling wouldn't let go. They twisted and turned as they fell towards the earth at full speed. The changeling kept trying to bite her as they fell but was stopped when they both slammed into the roof of the Caracole Boutique. The two fell down on either side of the building in full view of one another. The lance landed down in-between them both.

The two scrambled to their hoofs to get to the lance sticking out of the ground as the other two changelings chased down the Armada sniper stallion. He ran across the roofs of Ponyville shooting over his shoulder during each jump. One peeled off at full speed to the right where the street would be going. The Sniper leapt over another gap and noticed a skylight. He ripple fired two shots and dove rifle first into the weakened glass. The glass shattered as he fell into a ransacked dining room. He rolled when he landed on the table and rolled to the other end. He sprained his right rear ankle on the landing but was otherwise in one piece.

His light armor thankfully took most of the impact but he knew he didn't have time to rest. He had one changeling coming in from behind and another flanking him. It was probably already on its way to him. He hopped off the table and hobbled through the open door. He heard the changelings break down the skylight and found himself with new found vigor. He hobbled faster and ducked into a hall closet.

He quickly reached back into his saddle bags and started pulling out rounds for his rifle. One at a time he reloaded, repeating the saying he heard back in boot. We are the Evening Amada. We were born to die, but not before them. He repeated that saying about nine times as he finished reloading his rife. Just as he recocked it, the door flew open and a changeling buried its teeth into his neck. He shouted in pain as the second one tried to get in but was quickly shot from down the hall.

The second Armada earth pony recocked his rifle and shot at the door where the second changeling was finishing up with the first sniper. He came out and flew out the window with the first sniper's rifle. He ran over and checked on his comrade. An apple sized hole was left in his neck where the changeling bit him. A look of horror permanently etched on his face.

"May Luna guide you into eternity." he said shutting the dead soldier's dilated eyes and shutting his mouth.

He wasted no more time, he ran to the stairs he took up to get into the streets as the Dawn Breaker earth ponies still checking out building where the NLR sniper was. The carefully checked their corners as they went hoping to get a glimpse of the sniper that shot at their leader. As they walked into the room that their unicorn blasted, gentle whispers started flowing through the ears. They had to ask the other if they heard what they were hearing. They agreed it wasn't just in their heads and were on further guard as the sun fully set on the west horizon.

The back of the room they came it became black with shadow as they looked out from where they were. From the shadows behind them, two glowing white eyes appeared. The glow faded slightly revealing dark blue irises appeared in the white orbs. A flash of sliver and the dark blue glow of a long horn showed itself as well. A four foot long chrome blade slowly appeared from the shadows before digging itself into the back of the right earth pony. He shouted in pain momentarily before falling limp, right off the blade. The second earth pony turned to shoot but was met with an armor clad shoulder slam into her.

She was thrown out of the hole in the hole and two stories to the street. Her armor didn't help much with the fall but did keep her from dying. She rolled over and watched as a tall black armored figure jumped down on top of her with the still bloody cavalry sword to her neck.

"Any last requests soldier?" the tall figure asked spreading her wings.

"Please, let me go Princess." the earth pony plead trying to reach for her rifle.

Princess Luna sighed and shook her head. "If only little one." She said before slashing the earth pony's throat. "May Rosetta bring you peace." she teleporting to the roof tops.

Celestia, watching it all from afar, saw her sister on the battle field as she let out her Canterlot Voice to summon her remaining troops. Shining armor stood next to her looking through his own magnifying glass at the short battle.

"Reinforcements are ready Princess. When you're ready." he said putting it down.

"No. I'll handle this myself. If I fall, sound retreat and prepare for a full invasion come day light." she replied picking up her halberd.

She spread her wings and flew head long into Ponyville from the north. Chrysalis simultaneously started to fly in from the south. In the top of town hall, Luna, her unicorn, remaining earth pony and pegasus, started planning while keeping a shield up around them in case the other changeling tried taking a shot through one of the windows.

"I say we retreat and return to camp." the bat pony said a little nervous. "We're out matched at the moment."

"We won't back down." the unicorn said. "If our leaders won't back down then neither will we."

"He is right. We will stand and fight." Luna said. "Captain," she said to the unicorn. "You and the marksmen remain here and give us cover if a battle in the square breaks out. I shall contact you if it is elsewhere. Lieutenant Moon, you are to remain with me."

Lt. Moon sighed to relieve some of her stress as Luna left he shield and flew low out the window to the west. Moon followed closely as Celestia landed on 4th Street to stay out of sight. Her unicorn motioned her to his building and Celestia didn't hesitated to join her forces. She was depressed seeing only the unicorn and pegasus were left. They briefed her on the situation and the last location of Princess Luna.

"Have you seen Queen Chrysalis?" she asked.

"No your highness." the pegasus mare said.

"We've only seen her changelings." the unicorn added.

"Without our marksmen we're sitting ducks out there in the streets. We'll have to move by the building to the east to attempt to get the drop on them."

"We'll follow you Princess." the unicorn said.

Back on the west side of the square, Princess Luna and Lt. Moon walked amongst the shadows, out of sight completely. Luna kept her head on a swivel while Moon kept her eyes on Luna. As they came to an intersection Luna peeked back at Moon and knit her brow.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"Yeah… But not for long." Lt. Moon said looking to their right.

From the south west, Queen Chrysalis flew in with the remaining changeling carrying the rifle. They landed and Luna drew her sword as Lt. Moon leveled her lance at the changelings.

"Hello Luna." Chrysalis said. "Miss me?"

"I wouldn't miss you if we were blood."

"Well I hope you don't share the same connection to your soldiers." she said before launching one of her high explosive spells at the town hall attic.

The two soldiers left inside didn't have time to get out before the whole roof went up in a fiery explosion. Luna lunged at Chrysalis in anger. The changeling shot at her but was too slow. Luna slashed at Chrysalis but she parried with her ax, throwing Luna back. The changeling would have shot again as soon as it leveled the rifle at her. Lt. Moon was still holding her lance at Chrysalis who had her back turned.

"Lt. Moon, what are you waiting for? Kill them!" Luna demanded.

Lt. Moon gave a sick smile as she moved up to Chrysalis' side. She vanished for a second in green fire and reappeared as a changeling.

"It seems you're out numbered and out gunned." Chrysalis said with a chuckle.

Luna grabbed her sword with her hoofs instead of holding it by magic and reared up onto her hind legs. She lunged again at the three changelings at full speed. Chrysalis swung at her but she was able to block and simultaneously kick the lance wielding changeling away with her hind leg. The rifle changeling was slow on the response but was able to get the repeating rifle leveled at Luna as she passed. With her free hoof, she grabbed the barrel and twisted it around in the changeling's grip. It lost its hold on the rifle before it could fire and Luna was able to get it back into the hoofs of the Armada.

She spun it around slipped her hoof into the trigger guard. She hadn't done much with these things, but she was certain that she'd be able to adapt. Before she could shoot, a golden tipped lance passed by Luna's head and embedded itself in the now empty hoofed changeling's chest. He shouted in pain as he fell down. Luna spun around and was able to put up a shield as a golden bolt of magic was fired at her from Celestia's halberd.

The shockwave threw her back towards the changeling with the lance. Luna swung her sword at it and slashed through its head and lance staff as she slid to a stop. Luna leveled her rifle and squeezed the trigger. The kick threw her left foreleg up into the air as the rifle bullet slammed into the unicorn that stood next to Celestia. The Dawn Breaker pegasus appeared out of the trees with her lance out in front of her.

Luna saw this coming and deflected the lance and the pegasus off in the direction of Chrysalis. She swung her blood red ax in a wide arc from right to left and batted the pegasus away. She was dead before she even hit the ground. Luna, with one hoof, cocked the rifle and leveled it at her sister. Simultaneously, Celestia aimed her magical halberd at Luna. Chrysalis jumped at Luna while she had the chance and tried to bury her ax in Luna's unprotected neck. Luna put up her sword and blocked the weapon. She took her aim off of Celestia and started to tussle with Chrysalis.

Celestia took the chance and fired a bolt at the two of them. Luna was the only one of the two that saw it and swung Chrysalis around into the shot. Chrysalis screeched in pain as the shot connected with her back. The magical shot killed her instantly. Luna tossed the carcass aside and put the rifle on her back.

"So it has come to this has it?" Luna asked still on her hindlegs.

"I don't want to do this Luna."

"Neither do I Tia."

FINISH IT!

Celestia was the first to strike, she fired another bolt at Luna. At this range, she was able to dodge and start a counter attack. She sidestepped the bold and sprinted at her sister. Celestia put up her ax, ready to block the incoming attack. Luna swung from the right and had her strike glance off of the metal shaft off Celestia's halberd. She spun around and slashed again. Celestia blocked and hooked the bottom of her halberd on Luna's right rear hoof. She yanked her hoof out from under her. Luna fell flat on her back and hardly had enough time to put up her sword to block the ax blade coming down on her.

She kicked Celestia off and teleported up to the nearest roof top. She leveled her new rifle and fired another shot. Celestia was able to teleport out of the way and reappear behind her with her halberd raised high over her head. Luna reached behind her back with her sword and deflected the blade to the roof. Both sisters took flight in opposite directions before squaring off high over Ponyville. Channeling their magic into their wings, Celestia and Luna both shot forward with their weapons straight out in front of them.

As they closed in on one another, pure black clouds started to roll in from the east and white from the west along with the sun and moon. When their blades clashed, thunder rumbled across the forest and fields as they pass by one another without a single scratch. They back and started a long rolling scissor. With her horn already pointing in her direction, Celestia fired a long bolt of magic at Luna and she responded with the same. The beams both passed within inches of the other due to them having to tilt their heads slightly to see the other.

They made another pass at one another and their blades met once again. Now the clouds met and formed a perfect storm as another powerful clap of thunder rolled through the land followed by a massive bolt of lightning that shot up towards them. It passed by them as they rolled over and pulled into another steep climb. Four more times they repeated this until they were higher than even Cloudsdale. By then, Ponyville was a black and white hurricane. They sky above was a dark purple as the day and night battled for dominance. At the final apex, Luna spun around and fired a single shot from her rifle and folded her wings.

She had to aim slightly higher but the shot was dead on. The lead bullet sped towards Celestia and buried itself in her right wing root. She shouted in agony as her wing went limp and she began to drop out of the sky. Luna looked up to see her as she started to fall. She spread her wings again and caught the wind. Celestia sped towards her at break neck speeds as she put her sword to her side and began firing the last six rounds in the rifle. Most missed but what did hit knocked off the plates that were protecting her stomach and right shoulder.

The two were almost even now, Luna pushed hard, tossing the rifle aside and prepared to deliver all the damage she could. On her first pass, she slashed at Celestia's neck. She was able to put up a strong enough shield to deflect the strike but not enough to keep it up. Luna's next pass lobbed off Celestia's horn. Another powerful blast of lightning came from the hurricane but this time it rippled across the clouds like a tree's roots weaving through a mountain. Luna wasn't able to get in another strike on Celestia as they passed through the now dying storm. Bellow, the ground mush as rain and wind pelted the land.

Celestia hit outside of town square at full speed, having hardly enough time to put up another shield to soak up some of the impact. But it wasn’t a lot. Most of her bones broke on impact and the sheer force of it left a sizeable crater where she hit. The shock wave knocked the town hall off its foundation and knocked down a walls in nearby buildings. The storm was dying fast now. The torrential rain now a down pour as Luna floated down out of breath and her eyes glazed over.

She waded through the muddy streets and slid down into the crater her sister was now laying in hardly alive.

"Luna…" Celestia choked as her younger sister stood over her. "Please… It….It doesn't-have to be like this."

"I'm sorry Tia…" Luna said using her horn to raise her sword over her head, point down. "It does."

"Luna!"

Luna thrust her blade downward. The tip of the blade passing through Celestia's unprotected chest and out the other side. Celestia convulsed and arched her back in momentary pain as the shock of her heart being split in half hit her brain. She coughed her last, bloody breath as she settled back down into the dirt. Luna pulled her blade from her now dead sister and fell to her haunches sobbing. From behind, a dark blue unicorn with mechanical wings wearing black armor landed behind her.

"Luna?" He asked.

"It is done Lunarus." she said getting up with her tears mixing with the rain. "All that remains are her militant leaders."

Nexus walked close to her and put a hoof on her shoulder. "General Armor will be advancing soon. We should go."

"Yes. Rally our troops to take Ponyville." Luna said as she flew out of the crater.

Nexus looked to Celestia's body and knelt down next to her. He reached over and shut her eyes and used his horn to cross her forelegs over her chest. "May Rosetta guide you to everlasting peace." he said before following Luna into the Everfree Forest.

FATALITY

Whoa… Did I just get a gentle feel there?

I would have thought your heart was made of metal too?

Hey, back on topic here.

Oh right…. HOLY SHIT BUCKETS FULL OF BRIKS THAT WAS COOL!

Despite their ability to adapt, the Changelings are more effective in high numbers. The five man squad isn't part of their strong suit.

And the Dawn Breakers might have been able to work as a team, but when you put them on the spot in a spontaneous battle, they don't fair too well.

It was their ability to think on the fly and have it work that gave the Evening Armada their edge. The advanced weapons weren't too bad either.

And as for the immortals; Chrysalis may be deadly, but only in a complete surprise. If Celestia hadn't come in when she had, Luna would have been the first to go down.

And before you accuse us of stacking, we went through four others that weren't in the NLR and thought that anypony BUT Luna was the best Princess. And the average of all the scores still put the Evening Armada on top. Sorry Sun Butt.

The winner is Luna's Evening Armada.

Draco VS Jackson L. Anderson

Today we have an… interesting fight.

Understatement of the f:rainbowkiss:king year. *surprised* And I’m being censored for some reason.

Hush you!

He is right though. Today we have two incredibly powerful-

One might even say “bricks”

Facing off.

While us “puny mortals” watch and eat popcorn.

Draco, the half dragon half…. Somthing….

And Jackson Leonidas Anderson, Son of Mars and personal guard to Princess Sparkle.

He’s Lolk and he’s Aegis.

And he’s Nex. And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to determine who would win a deathbattle.

Pass the pain killers, this is gonna suck.

Draco

Race: Dragon/pony

Specialty: Durability

Weakness: Poor Planning.

((Note From Blaze: Sorry for the interruption, just a quick annoucment. During this Deathbattle, we’ll be testing the patent-pending Cliche Counter. It may still have some…. problems to iron out however, so comment below!))

Great, so he’s Spikes wet dream?

I guess. His mother was a pony and his father a dragon. What one, we don’t know.

At a young age, his brother died protecting his mother.

And it wouldn’t be a traumatic childhood if they didn’t try to rape her in front of him.

I’m just going to put this off to the side. Cliche Counter: 2

So he, of course snaps and kills them. *DING* Cliche Counter: 3

And then five years after that, she died anyways in the weather factory. *DING*

Cliche Counter: 4

He then went to work in the Rainbow Factory because… He’s a sadist I guess.

No s:rainbowkiss:. He went ahead and went bat s:rainbowkiss: insane and was punished by Celestia in the form of being frozen in stone for two hundred years. *DING*

Cliche Counter: 5

And not only that, but while encased in stone, Nightmare Moon crept into his head.

I think it was for the low rent of such an empty space. He was set free when Twilight moved to Ponyville because somepony’s hex wasn’t quite stereotypical enough. *DING*

Cliche Counter: 6

Once freed, he fought his way out of Canterlot and started his own little reign of terror more or less just killing anything that he didn’t like and even made a throne out of the severed heads of his “enemies”.

His weapons are strangely all natural. His tail is filled with sixty blade-like spikes he can throw and his long claws that can cut through steel.

His magical prowess are limited to only being able to turn his blood diamond hard and still move around as though it were still liquid.

Because physics! *DING* Cliche Counter: 7

Outside of that, he doesn’t really have much else.

He can punch rocks into rubble and all the other superman powers that aren’t coming out of his face. And since he works at the rainbow factory, we can assume he can fly.

*Pops pain killer* Basically, he’s bulletproof, can body check trains and punch hard.

But like Superman, he has a weakness.

Kryptonite!

No you idiot. He doesn’t think things through.

His strategy is mostly kill first, ask questions never. That kind of thought process doesn’t leave much for planning out of actual attacks. His overconfidence in his abilities is and has been his downfall before despite him having a throne made of heads. *DING*

Cliche Counter: 8

What was that one for?

Continuity!

So long as the one fighting him can stop and think, he’s got a high chance of failure.

But what about Nightmare Moon up in his skull? What does she do?

She doesn’t do anything. She’s just another Big Lipped Alligator.

Oh… Well let’s move on then.

“Deceive your enemy and you will win; for deception is your greatest ally.”

Why that’s his quote, I’ll never know. Add another Ding for more Continuity. *DING*

Cliche Counter: 9

Jackson Leonidas Anderson

Race: Human

Specialty: Greco/Roman Style Fighting

Weakness: Prone to his own anger.

Jack Anderson was born to a mortal mother in the hidden city of New Rome deep in the plains of North America.

So basically he’s from the Percy Jackson Universe. *DING*

Cliche Counter: 1

So if his mother was a mortal, who’s his dad? Mars, God of War and Strategy of course! *DING*

Cliche Counter: 2

That was fast.

The perks of such an obvious soldier are as follows:

Unrivaled: split second reflexes, the ability to slow down his mind’s eye to take in battle, swordsmanship and the ability to go ape shit on anything he doesn’t like. So add a few dings to that. *DING*

Cliche Counter: 5

At the age of seventeen, he was elected as one of two militant leaders called Pretorians after one of his half brothers was booted out.

You might think that seventeen is young but if you know anything about the new Precy Jackson books, only demigods are elected as the leaders. Should there be a ding for that?

Nah, that’s dingin’ the same thing twice.

Ah.

Anyways. Jack’s half brother, Cipherus, was pissed that he was booted out and that he was his replacement. So he left New Rome and gathered an army of rogue demigods and monsters to take New Rome for himself.

But when the attack came, Jack sacrificed himself with a weapon of the God’s that killed anything from Tartarus but send anything that looks at the blast to an unknown place. *DING*

Cliche Counter: 6

Which is obviously Equestria. *DING* Cliche Counter: 7

Wow, not even half way through and his counter almost as high as Malfoy's.

Yeah. Once there, he ran from a manticore and was kicked in the face by Rainbow Dash.

After talking his way out of jail time to the Princesses, he was told to prove his allegiance to Equestria by becoming the personal guard to Princess Twilight Sparkle. *DING*

Cliche Counter: 8

What was that for?

Princess Sparkle Band Waggon.

Oh.

But it all goes ari when it turns out Cipherus was transported to Equestria too and somehow got a few hundred ponies to agree to help him.

It was there that even though he killed many of his own kind, his loyalty was called into question. He once again talks his way around it and is stationed back in Ponyville to help defend it.

It’s also there that he makes his signature weapon, a Black Iron Gladiolus. Three feet of absolute death.

Being a son of Mars, he is well versed in sword fighting along with most any weapon he can pick up.

After Ponyville is taken, he’s forced to help Cipherus sneak into Canterlot to take it over. And instead of killing him when he did so, *DING* Cliche Counter; 9

he puts makes him a gladiator for three months before Canterlot is liberated.

It’s during this time that he get’s one of his magical weapons, a band brace that expands into a full sized Roman shield.

The shield can withstand any non-magical weapon.

And he does mean ANY. That thing can take arrows the size of people and not even dent or hurt his arm on the other side.

The shield is however powerless against anything that is magical.

But that’s why he has a ring given to him by Celestia that gives him the powers of a unicorn. *DING*

Cliche Counter: 10 WINNER

The ring is magically bound to him and binds him to Equestria. Even if he found a way home, he couldn’t take it.

He isn’t a master of magical weapons thankfully and can only use basic spells. Meaning basic attack bolts, shields and telekinesis. The most advanced magic he knows is minor elemental spells such as fire. But he's more well versed in the use of his telekinesis.

That, he is. He even used two massive stone columns to shut an opening to Tartarus that was allowing Tyrek to escape.

The ring also enchants his armor to withstand light magical attacks and the plates to be near unbreakable. But there are gaps that a well placed blade can exploit.

Good thing that’s the extent of his magic. Any more and he’d be you, Nex.

Kiss my shiny metal hoofs ass h:rainbowkiss:.

ANYWAYS! He has two other weapons, the Mouth of Tartarus and the Dagger of Nemesis.

The dagger is made of imperial gold, a metal used by the Fire God Vulcan. The dagger can only kill immortal creatures and passes through anything that is true to their word.

Those who are traitors will die by the blade but there is a catch. The dagger was made by the Goddess of Revenge, Nemesis; meaning it’s cursed.*DING*

Cliche Counter: 11

Once the dagger is used for revenge, the user will die along with the one they kill.

The other weapon is the Mouth of Tartarus, a black zippo lighter that when opened, shoots green fire to a range of twenty feet. Great for lighting campfires, roasting marshmallows, but not for lighting pipes.

The lighter is fueled by the essence of dead monsters. The residue left behind when they die. It takes a full grown manticore to fill it up and it’s deadly none the less.

So we’ve heard all the “good” things about Jack, what’s the bad?

He’s a hothead!

He isn’t wrong. Jack has a tendency to get angry easy. Despite preferring to remain out of conflict that also conflicts with the usual Son of Mars thing.*DING*

Cliche Counter: 12

He has a powerful tendency to get caught up in the battle and leave a large opening for the enemy to exploit. But all in all, he’s still a warrior and as deadly as any of the others we’ve had here. Doesn’t make him any less of a brick however.

But no matter how you spell it, I still want that lighter.

“I’m not a killer, I’m a sentinel.”*DING* Cliche Counter: 13

Alright, the combatants are set, it’s time to end this debate once and for all.

But first, we have to stall while Lolk finishes popping the popcorn.

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Butter. And now, it’s time for a Republic DEATHBATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!

On the Eastern side of Ponyville in Princess Twilight's library, a dark hair human sat in full black and gold armor reading a book. His feet were propped up on the center table as he scanned through his copy of Alicorns, Where Did They Come From?. Princess Sparkle trotted down the stairs with her saddle bags on. The human was about to get up but she waved him off.

"It's fine Jack. I'm just going to the Crystal Empire on Cadence's train." she said with a smile. "Take a week off."

"Sounds good to me." Jack said leaning back in his chair. "Tell Cadence I said hey."

"Sure. Keep the place from burning down now." Twilight replied before shutting the door behind him.

Jack kicked his feet back up and continued from where he thought he left off. About an hour after she left a stiff knock came at the door. Jack looked up from his book and raised his right hand to the door. His hand glowed dark purple along with the front door. The door opened to reveal a light gray dragon with emerald green eyes in a light brown trench coat. He looked around and walked past the threshold.

"Can I help you?" Jack asked sitting up.

"That depends, you Jack?"

"You see another humans around here?"

"Good."

The anthro-dragon whipped his tail around and fired two daggers-like spikes in his direction. Jack was quick and put up his left arm and tapped the golden eagle on the top of the band brace. His shield started to extend and came out enough to block the two spikes before they ripped through his neck. Jack stood up as the shield finished fully extending.

"What the hell are you doing!?" Jack asked.

"I suppose I shouldn't be rude. I'm Draco, I'll be delivering your death this evening."

FIGHT!

Jack drew his gladius and took his familiar stance. Draco whipped his tail around and launched four spikes this time. Jack leaned into his shield and started to push forward quickly. He moved his shield out of the way and started bobbing and weaving in-between strides; trying to make himself as hard a target as possible. Draco launched more spikes at him but all passed by him harmlessly.

Now he was in attack range. Jack brought his sword over his head and swung with all his might. Draco sidestepped Jack and pulled his dragged his claws across Jack's back. The knife like claws scratched the leather on the armor but otherwise had no impact. Draco took another stance as Jack stumbled to the other side of the door. The two squared off again and started to circle. Jack held his shield out in front of himself and Draco kept his tail up, ready to fire another volley of spikes.

Draco made the first move this time, he swung his tail and launched four more spikes at Jack. Two at his feet and two at the eye holes in his helmet. Jack took in a breath and felt the world slow to a snail's pace. He wasn't ready to stay in the line of fire any longer than he had to. He swept his right foot back and out of the way of the spikes as they got close. His left foot follow, spinning his body around along with his sword arm. He swung it down in a high arc and deflected one of the spikes to the ground.

With his left foot back in front, he pushed off his right foot and lunged with all his strength behind his blade. Draco wasn't quite ready for it but was still able to side step his attack as well. The tip of jack's gladius ripped through the front of Draco's trench coat. Seeing his attack missed, Jack wheeled around and hammered the top of his shield into bridge of Draco's snout. He stammered back as Jack took his stance again.

Looking down at himself, he noticed the massive tear in his jacket. He looked up and sneered at his opponent.

"This was my favorite trench coat!" he shouted as his eyes glowed.

Jack took the opportunity and went for another stab. Draco didn't bother to block or dodge, he let Jack get as close as he wanted. The second his tip touched Draco's stomach, Jack's blade clanged off his scales and off to the side. Jack was stunned. Draco responded by attempting to drag his claws across Jack's face. His helmet took up most of the slash but Draco was able to put a gash in his chin.

Draco took full advantage of Jack's surprise. He planted a powerful kick in his stomach and threw him into the center table. Jack grunted in pain as he started to get up. Draco launched two barrages of four spikes at Jack as he sat up. Jack put up his shield quickly enough to stop them from tearing into his exposed neck. Before he could even get up off of the table, Draco was already on top of him slashing away at his shield with his claws. Jack reached over to his shield arm and undid the band brace.

With a magically assisted punch, he shot Draco up and out of the library with his shield. Jack levitated his sword back into his hand and he ran out into the streets were ponies were gazing up at the sky. Jack looked up just in time to see Draco brandishing his shield like a paddle as he flew down from straight over him. Jack crossed his arms over himself and summoned a force field around his body. Draco didn't care, he swung Jack's shield and launched jack like he was a golf ball, turning his shield into splinters on impact..

Jack held the shield as he flew out of Ponyville and into the fields near Rainbow Dash's house. He came crashing down into a hill and even left a trench in his wake. His shield faded as he stood back up relatively unharmed. Draco landed in front of Jack holding the wing of the eagle that was on his shield only moments ago. The shield had been damaged before but not to this extent. His mother built that for him and it was hard to see it go. He sneered at Draco and reached behind him with his left hand to his dagger.

"You wanna play it that way?" He said summoning fire into his left palm. "Then let's go griffon bait."

Draco smiled and charged Jack again. He knew he was angry, and he knew this was his time. Jack however wasn't quite as blind as Draco was. Jack summoned a column of fire and shot it towards him. Draco put up his arms to block the fire without stopping. When he passed through unharmed, he put out his claws and slashed at where he thought Jack would be standing. Instead, there was just scorched earth. He looked around him but saw nothing.

Above him, the fire under his feet faded as he drew his lighter. He flicked the head of the stagnant iron Zippo up and let the heat of the bright green fire launch down at Draco. Draco wasn't ready for the attack and was thrown to the ground by the powerful wave of magically fueled inferno. Jack started to fall towards the now burning Draco without letting up on the lighter. He cast a quick levitation spell on his boots and let them reduce the impact as he landed a few feet away.

From the fire, a burning hand emerged and grabbed Jack's exposed left arm. He let out a shout as the searing hot scales of Draco's hand gripped his arm. Jack dropped the lighter and Draco stamped it into pieces. Jack slashed at Draco's arm and again his gladius glanced off of his scales, but the force did get Draco to let go. Jack jumped back and watched as the fire faded around Draco's now bare body. Jack's left arm was heavily so heavily burned it hurt just to try and clench his fist.

Jack reached back and drew his dagger in his left hand and surrounded his right in a magical aura. Draco flared his wings in anger and lunged at Jack again, this time much faster. As fast as he could, Jack reached down with his right hand then aimed it skyward. Just before Draco go to Jack, a six foot wall of stone shot out of the ground at a forty-five degree angle. Draco glanced off of the stone and tumbled over Jack.

As he flew overhead, Jack slashed at him with his dagger and cut through the dragon/pony's right wing with zero resistance. Draco howled in pain as he skidded across the grass. When he stood he looked at his now severed wing with astonishment.

"How'd you do that?" He asked, magically stopping the bleeding.

"Imperial Gold. It doesn't care what spells you're protected by, it cuts you up all the same." Jack said twirling the blade in his hand.

"Doesn't matter, your head's mine!" Draco shouted launching ten spikes at Jack.

Jack mustered up a powerful blast of fire and launched it back at him. The rush of hot air through several of them off course but four were still on their way to killing him. Jack turned to his right to help present a smaller target as he put up his still armored right arm. Two spikes glanced off his right wrist and one off of his shin guard. The fourth one however found a small chink in his armor. The spike's tip pierced the leather under the metal plate and embedded itself in his right side.

Jack stammered and grabbed the spike in his right hand. Draco charged and tried to slash at him but Jack was able to use his magic to throw him off to the side using his free hand. Draco skidded across the ground on his claws as Jack started to pull the spike out of his ribs. He grit his teeth as he slowly pulled the bloodied spike from out of his side. His blood boiled as he looked down at the monstrosity in his hand. one third of the one foot long spike was covered in Jack's fresh blood. Draco dug the claws on his toes into the ground and used them as cleats.

As he charged, Jack dropped the spike and used that hand to fire bolts of magic at Draco as he ran. The bolts slammed into Draco and even knocked a few scales from his chest and face as they hit, but he still kept coming. Jack had to side step him before continuing his magical onslaught, he even was able to summon up a few shots of lightning but they still didn't stop him. He'd had enough of this, Jack reached down with both hands and telekinetically grabbed thick slabs of earth ten feet in front of him.

The second Draco was over the area Jack was holding, he lifted up and the two slabs shot up and encased him in the stone. Jack didn't have time to admire his handy work, he was finished with this thing.

"I'm fucking tired of this." He said as he approached Draco at a casual pace. "I'm sending you back to Tartarus!"

Draco struggled to free his arms but couldn't manage it at the moment. He looked Jack over as quickly as he could, hoping Nightmare Moon could lend some aid. His gaze then came across the small gap on the front of the breast plates to allow for forward movement of the arms. Draco had to get a hand free now. He pulled as hard as he could on the stone and felt it start to give way under his strength.

Jack was four feet away now holding his dagger over his head. Draco's left arm broke free of the stone when Jack was three feet away from him. He quickly thrust his hand forward at Jack's chest and instantly found his mark. Jack stopped abruptly and looked down to see Draco's hand sticking out of the center of his chest. Jack grabbed Draco's arm with his right hand and plunged his golden dagger into the arm.

Draco shouted in pain as Jack slowly cut through Draco's arm. The dagger cut through his skin was easily enough, but the bone was another story. Jack then raised his arm over his head and brought the bottom of his forearm down on the gash around the exposed bone. The snap of the bone echoed across the grasslands as Jack severed Draco's arm.

Jack stumbled back clutching Draco's arm still sticking firm in his chest. Jack cringed and hollered in agony as he dragged Draco's knife like claws out of his chest. As the middle finger slides out of his chest, he lets out groan and falls to his knees. Draco smiles and uses his other arm to cut the last of the stone off of him. He shook rubble from his shoulders and stepped over to his opponent.

"Pitiful." he said lifting Jack's head with his other right claw.

"Go ta hell." Jack choked.

"I don't think so."

Draco thrust his claws all the way through his neck. Jack gargled on his own blood for a moment before his eyes glazed over. Draco wasn't done yet however, he clenched his hand into a fist. His claws cut through his spine and most of his muscles. He turned his claws around so that he was palm up on his neck and then tore his head clean off his shoulders. He held Jack's head in his hands for a moment before summoning his embalming spell. He admired his handy work and walked off towards the the Everfree Forest.

K.O.

*In the Everfree Forest* Nexus!

What the hell?

How the hell does he know we're watching?

I know all of you hear me! I challenge you Nexus! Your head is next you bastard!

Um… Okay… That just happened.

Yeah… So Draco!

Jack was a formidable opponent for Draco but he couldn't get around his diamond hard skin.

Jack had the most varied weapons but couldn't match him in both range and endurance. He was bound to give up before him.

His greatest weapons were the Dagger of Nemesis and his attack magic. But he didn't know strong enough spells to make anything more than a dent in his scales.

The winner is Draco.

Championship Challenge: Draco VS Nexus

GAH! Too…. Much…. OP dipshits…… I think I’m gonna vomit!

Sh! You want him to hear us? Just take an antacid and we’ll get through this.

Okay…. I think I feel better… sort of. I should be good until they start fighting.

Good. Lunarus Nexus, the current Republic Deathbattle Champion.

And Draco, current contender for the belt.

He’s Lolk and I’m Aegis.

And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to determine who would win a death battle.

And before you ask. Nexus is busy with somepony, but we’ll get to that later. So he’s absent today.

Draco

Race: Dragon/Pony

Specialty: Durability

Weakness: Not thinking things through.

Not this guy again……

Focus for five minutes. We’re not going over him as thoroughly as we did before.

Good. Draco scored a strong 10 points on the Cliche Counter so we’ll be cutting a lot of meat off of this one.

Dracos was born to a pony mother thanks to a dragon father. What dragon, we don’t know.

Nor do we care. He’s OP all the same

He wears no armor but doesn’t have to because of his power to turn his scales diamond hard. Why?

Because Dragons can do that now apparently!

His mother was raped in front of him thus bringing out his inner madman.

And by that, we mean he went around collecting severed heads to make into a throne after he was imprisoned in stone for 200 years.

Am I the only one half missing Nex right now? The jokes don’t sound right without his snarky ass-hole tone.

It’s not just you. for some odd reason, I do find myself wishing he was here. How strange...

Anyways, he was imprisoned because of his brutal work at the Rainbow Factory.

The bad one. Not the spicy one.

Yeah we need Nex back….

On to actual abilities I guess. He can heal any wound unless it’s a severed limb and he can also shoot dagger like spikes out of his tail.

Of which, he has 60.

It buuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrns……

He also has ten claws that can cut through steel and super strength to boot. So like Nex said before, he’s like Superman but he just can’t do anything that involves shooting things out of his face.

Only his- No. This isn’t working.

Yeah… I’m not making that joke either. Why’d we even write that in!?

Because Nexus likes that sort of thing, and he pays us?

I thought Striker payed us?

Yes, but do you honestly think Striker is the one who does all the paperwork for our paychecks?

From what you give him, it wouldn't surprise me. Anyways!

He’s killed thousands just for the joy of it and so he could make his throne. That now has a Deathbattle competitor as it’s foot rest.

Despite having the ghost of Nightmare Moon in his empty skull, he makes awful battle choices.

Despite this, he tries to convince others he lives by a philosophy based on deceit and intellect.

And that’s why he’s the second most cliche challenger in Deathbattle history.

“I don’t think so.”

Lunarus Solaris Nexus

Race: Unicorn/Cyber Pony. Alicorn

Specialty:Gorilla Strategy and dark magic. Being OP

Weakness: Metaphorical Monophobia. Being a bitch

I take it back, I don’t miss Nexus anymore.

Yeah. This is going to be fun.

We did say there was a reason Nexus wasn't here. And we will.

While we were gone, Nexus went ahead and got married.

Being the Fool that he was, his social life is gone forevermore.

Only made worse by the fact that his wife had their first born son, Astral Wind Nexus.

His wife is at work so he had to watch the little brat.

What’d he do to you? He’s two.

He bit me. His teeth are surprisingly sharp.

I heard about that. You did take his plushie of his favorite Auntie.

:.... Fair enough.

But when he’s not giving his son raspberries,

Hmm?

What? You never give a baby changeling a raspberry to make them giggle?

... what about me makes you think I ever went near small children unless I was forced to?

You cold son of a bitch.

True enough.

Anyways… Again…. He was promoted to Colonel and given the position as Luna’s Senator in the Equestrian Royal Council.

He was also given a new set of armor by Luna that was forged a thousand years ago for his ancestor, General Goldenchord.

*DING* Cliche Counter: 1

What was that for?

The ‘thousand years’ bit, the ‘commissioned by Luna’ bit, or the combination of both of them being given to a newly promoted ali- *ahem* -unicorn.

Fair enough. The armor is made from a meteor. The metal is stronger than any ore from the earth for half the weight….. What no DING?

I’m guessing that’s coupled with the ‘thousand year’ thing.

Ah. Well, he was also given a sword made of carbonized steel.

Meaning it’s twice as strong as steel. He still knows how to bring out somepony’s fears.

*shivers* Fluttershy.....

Wuss. Anyways, the usual Spark of Honor spell is still there. More or less meaning he can summon a lightning bolt.

He also still has his old weapons.

His electrified hidden blades and two shot, lever action pistols stashed in his legs. I’d have more but weapons were more Nexus’ thing.

And then there’s also the most overpowered part of him.

The Remains of King Sombra!

Yeah it doesn’t work when you’re that over the top.

I know… The remains of Sombra can make him turn into Lunarus Umbra. Where all of his stats are amped by tw-twe-twen- *slaps Lolk on the back* Twenty Percent. Man that hurt.

The form manifests itself when he’s near death or gives into his rage and lasts thirty seconds. Then he needs a ten second cool down and leave him fully open for attack.

*grumbling* Bastard and his super powers….

That’s what killed me. You died because he-

He’s the most OP of us all and now has more to lose than ever. He is an ass-hole.

“Lights out.”

Alright the combatants are set, let’s end this debate once and for all.

And since I have too much pride. Here’s a recording of the last time this happened.

*on a tape recorder* It’s time for a championship Repubulic DEATHBATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!

High in the Canterlot castle, in the western tower of the night, Lunarus Nexus was being strapped into his ebony armor by his wife Dust Strom.

"Faust I hate these putting this thing on." Nexus said shifting the metal plates to try and make them more comfortable on his body.

"I think you look handsome." Dust said giving her husband a peck on the cheek.

"I still don't understand why I have to officiate the ceremony. Luna out ranks me so she should be the one to do it." Nexus wondered strapping his sword to his back.

"Senate has been adjourned until something needs to be done, and Luna knows you like to keep busy." Dust replied strapping his helmet on.

"Yeah I guess." Nexus said as a little navy blue colt peeked over his crib. Nexus saw this and lifted him out with his magic. The little foal clutched his Luna plushie trying to not drop it as Nexus levitated him over to him. "Besides, you're a full time job as it is." he told the colt as he giggled happily.

"Thanks for watching him today honey. They needed some help preparing the ball room for dinner tonight."

Nexus smiled and gave his little one a raspberry before handing him off to Dust. He gave her a quick kiss and started towards the door. "I'll be back in about an hour or so."

"Okay. I love you."

"I love you too Dusty. You be nice to mommy now."

Just as Nexus was about to shut the door, his son spoke up. "Bye bye Daddy." he said waving his little foreleg at his father.

"Bye bye Astral." Nexus said shutting the door with a smile on his face.

Nexus flared his wings to adjust his armor again before walking down the stairs to the main hall of the castle. As he went, he whistled (the following tune)

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At the end of the hall the ceremony was getting ready to take place. He just had to get past the throne room and Gala Hall. As he came upon the throne room, he stopped whistling when he caught something out the corner of his eye. At the foot of the Celestia's throne, more or less a display now, a rather odd looking figure stood wearing a light brown trench coat. Nexus raised an eye brow and entered the throne room.

"Hey, this room is off limits right now. I'm going to have to ask you to leave." he said getting closer.

The figure raised its head and looked back. He caught the gaze of bright green eyes that looked a lot like his son's in terms of how bright they looked. "Commander Nexus I presume." the figure said.

"Yes I am. And I'm not going to tell you again. This room is off limits today."

The figure chuckled and started to rise up higher than any normal pony until it was standing on two legs. It turned around with a sneer on its face and flared its dragon wings. Nexus looked sideways at the dragon before coming to a realization, he knew him. The light gray scales of the teenage dragon standing in front of him

"Oh," Nexus groaned. "You're the one that Vince wrote about?" Draco nodded. "Look, you have your family to think about, and I have mine. Let's not risk either one with this."

"Sorry, but I challenged you. And now, you're in my way." Draco said with a sick smile on his face. He wanted this fight. Time to prove Nexus wasn't invincible.

Nexus let out a sigh. "Fine." He reached up and undid the straps to the helmet and levitated it off his head. "But when this hits the floor, there's no turning back." Draco didn't budge. "Your funeral."

Nexus let go of the helmet and everything went into slow motion. Draco was already lifting up his tail while Nexus kept his eyes on Draco to see what he'd do. The helmet was now two feet from the ground and Draco's spikes were just about to go flying. And the second the top of the helmet touched the floor-

FIGHT!

Draco launched a volley of eight spikes at Nexus. Nexus reacted smartly and reared up. With both forelegs, he deflected the first two spikes, deflected the next four with his wings and let the last two bounce off his wings. Once he finished spinning, he struck a disco pose with one hoof in the air, the other on his crotch and his head down. Draco cringed at him.

*BA-DING* +50 Style Points

"If it's worth doing, it's worth doing in style." Nexus said flapping his wings.

Draco groaned in anger and fired another volley. Nexus didn't bother blocking this one. He pushed off to the side and then shot straight up into the air. Draco didn't hesitate to spread his own wings and shot up towards Nexus with his claws ready. But Nexus was ready for anything. He dodged to the side and slashed the back of Draco's leg with his hidden blade. Draco shouted in pain and hovered above Nexus.

He quickly applied healing magic to his leg and hardened his blood. Draco then sped at Nexus from above with no intention of stopping. Nexus, unaware that Draco's blood had hardened, slashed with both blades at Draco's throat. The steel blades shattered as Draco slammed into Nexus before pile driveling him into the ground. Nexus wasn't quite ready for the hit but his armor absorbed most of the impact.

Draco slid out of the smoke cloud that covered the crater that Nexus currently occupied. He got to his hoofs as the smoke cleared and shook the ruble out of his shaggy black mane. He dug his hoofs in and prepared for the next charge. Draco didn't keep him waiting; he lunged at him with all his might. Nexus telekinetically drew his sword and made another slash as Draco pass over him. The blade bounced off of Draco's scales harmlessly but he wasn't totally safe.

As Draco pulled up to dive on Nexus again, he fired a lightning bolt at Draco as he started to go vertical. The bolt slammed into him and made him go limp for a moment after hitting his right shoulder. He regained his equilibrium before checking his shoulder. There was a hole in his coat and a bare spot in his scales where the bolt had hit. He growled as Nexus prepared to shoot another. Draco rolled out of the way of Nexus' next shot just as he let it loose. The heat and the shock wave from the thunderbolt distorted his vision as he rolled around it.

As his vision returned, he noticed Nexus wasn't in the crater. He landed in the crater and looked around. From behind him, a loud shot rang out and a sharp pain shot through his shoulder. Nexus had fired a shot from one of his pistols and it landed right on the bald spot Nexus had left with his lightning spell. Draco turned quickly and took a second shot to the center of his chest. The lead ball shattered on impact but left no mark on his scales.

Draco didn't give him a chance to reload his pistols. He shot up towards Nexus at full speed. Nexus braced himself, knowing he couldn't dodge him, and put up a shield around his body. Draco slammed into him and held him out in front of him like a shield.

In the cathedral, a crowd of ponies stood quietly in front of the Princesses who stood behind a bright yellow unicorn with a bright red mane in a dark blue dress uniform. Celestia looked to Luna and she shrugged. Celestia sighed and stepped forward.

"Good afternoon our most loyal subjects," Celestia started. "We have gathered today to commend this young soldier, Orion Cutler, for-"

She was suddenly interrupted as the top right corner of the ceiling caving in and a blur of black and red flying towards them. Luna dropped the box she was holding and put a shield over the three of them as the blur crashed down at the foot of the altar they were standing at. The red half of the blur shot up through ceiling with the sound of two hydraulic pistons. Nexus flapped his wings and cleared the dust around him before looking to the altar. Luna put down the shield and Nexus picked up the metal that had fallen out of the box.

He didn't waste any time putting on his jacket. "Congrats kid. Now everypony evacuate now!" he shouted tot eh crowd in front of them. "Make sure you get Dust and Astral into the bunker." Nexus told Luna before taking off through the hole in the ceiling Draco had left.

He burst into the summer air and cringed at the sudden change in light. While blinded, Draco swooped down from Nexus' right and attempted to slash through his armor. The edges of his dagger like claws glanced off the metal on his back and he kept flying. Nexus' eyes adjusted to the sun light just as Draco came back around. This time, Draco launched another large volley of spikes as he passed. Nexus drew his sword again and rolled out of the way of the volley with his head down. The spikes he didn't dodge, bounced off the plates. Nexus came to his hind legs holding the cavalry sword at his side.

Draco turned around came flying at him at full speed. Nexus quickly turned his sword over in his hoof as Draco got within a few feet. Draco went for a slash across Nexus' face. But that's what he was hoping for. Nexus grabbed Draco's right arm and used his momentum to drive him into the roof of the castle. Nexus put his sword against the back of his right foreleg and placed the other edge against the back of Draco's neck. The roof of the chapel buckled under the force of the body slam.

Nexus hopped the weight he was putting behind the blade would be enough to shove the blade through Draco's scales, but no such luck. But then he saw the bare spot in Draco's shoulder and Nexus had an idea. He jumped back a good ten yards and launched a bolt of lightning as Draco started to stand up. The bolt hammered the back of his head and knocked him back down. Nexus skeptically looked over the writhing body of Draco. The dragon pony got up to his knees and felt the back of his head.

The bald spot was obvious. He growled in anger as Nexus leveled his pistol to take another shot. Just as Nexus fired, Draco turned and caught the bullet to the bridge of his nose. Once again, the lead ball hit his scales and bounced off. He used the claws in his tows to launch himself faster than before. Nexus had to put away his pistols and grab his sword from his magical hold.

But he was a little slow due to the armor. Draco took a tight hold of Nexus and then launched them both up again. Nexus put another shield around himself as they fly through the air towards the western tower of the castle. It was a devastating impact as Draco broke him through his own two story apartment in the tower. Once again, Nexus kicked Draco off of him and stood up in a white room filled with toys that smelled of baby powder.

The idea made his heart stop and his blood boil. He couldn't see Astral, but he wasn't sure if wasn't in there when he crashed through. For all he knew, he'd just buried him under a pile of rubble. He growled in anger and launched out the hole in the wall with a thunderous sonic boom. He quickly acquired his target flying just bellow his level and had to make little effort to get to his level.

This time, Nexus was the one who slammed into Draco. His bones rattled as they tumbled through the air, towards the statue garden. The hurdled through the garden until they'd made a line of absolute devastation in the soil; even taking out Nexus' statue. Nexus and Draco rolled until Draco had him pinned under him. He used the length of his claws to dig into the dirt and keep Nexus from kicking him off again. He pinned down his left foreleg and kept trying to slash at Nexus' neck with his other arm. But Nexus didn't give him a chance, blocking every chance he had with his right foreleg.

"It was a nice little place you had up there." Draco said being blocked again. "The little one's room I'd guess." Nexus didn't answer but he continued to struggle. "Don't worry; I'll be sure to put their heads right next to yours." Draco brought his tail around quickly and brought a spike to its surface.

Just as he brought it down on Nexus' head, it suddenly stopped short. He looked to his tail and saw a pure black aura holding it back. He tried to pull free but it wouldn't budge. Looking back at Nexus, he only saw his eyes; his blood red, serpent eyes. What he didn't see, was that Nexus' fur had also turned navy blue. His foreleg started to come up off the ground and Draco did everything in his power to hold him down but it was to no avail.

Draco blinked once and was taken aback by the sudden change in scenery. He was back in Cloudsdale where his mother and sister lived. But something was off. He stood in the front door but was facing as though he were leaving. He was out of breath and his right arm was sore. He turned around and saw the front hall that lead to the kitchen in shambles. He blinked a few times and moved forward to try and follow the path of destruction. As he approached the kitchen and teh all too familiar smell of blood flooded his nostrils. Flashes of his mother and sister flashed by him as he ran into the kitchen. Inside, the two of them lay in massive pools of their own blood.

Draco stammered back into the hall seeing his whole family gone. He ran to the door and was about to burst out into the city to go after whoever did this when he saw his claws utterly coated in the crimson fluid. He backed away from the door staring at his hands until he stumbled into the table they kept assorted junk. He looked up to the mirror and felt his heart stop at what was looking back him. It wasn't him; the body and eyes were his by they just... didn't look right. Then it hit him, the smile. He could feel that he wasn't smiling but his reflection was.

"You're mind now." his reflection, known as Drac said with a sick sadistic smile spread across his face.

Back in reality, Nexus' face started to contort into a powerful expression of absolute rage and hatred. "Nopony… Threatens… My… FAMILY!" he shouted in his Canterlot impression.

The sudden volume of Nexus' shout caused Draco to jump. That gave Nexus the opening to slip his hindlegs out from under Draco's claws. He landed a solid punch in Draco's stomach and turned the tables on him. He pinned him down and brought down a powerful right jab to his nose. There was a shockwave from the impact and put his head into its own crater. He dropped down three more with even greater force, as though he was trying to drop all of Canterlot with Draco's face.

His diamond hard blood kept him safe but it didn't quite help with the concussion he was getting. Nexus didn't let up either. When he tried to get up even an inch, Nexus brought down an elbow on his throat. After a one more punch, Nexus picked him up himself and teleported to the other side of the garden. He launched himself at the dazed Draco and slammed into him again with his foreleg out.

The punch knocked him off his feet and let loose another shockwave as he was sent flying. He teleported again and stopped him just short of another statue. Nexus turned him over and grabbed him by his feet before thrashing him into the ground three times. Nexus then spun him around and grabbed him by the sides of the head. Then he backed up a step and performed a kick off on his face.

The kick sent him flying over the tip of Canterlot Mountain. Nexus teleported again just as he was about pass over the tip of the mountain. Once above him, Nexus rotated mid air and performed the most powerful flying drop kick he'd ever done. The thud of the impact shook the castle to its foundation and destroyed nearby clouds. Draco slammed into the tip of Canterlot mountain and kept going. The impact with the mountain ripped his wings and tail off. And Nexus still wasn't done. He used his wings to launch himself past the speed of sound again and straight down onto Draco. The top of the mountain opened up and Nexus started to drag him through the mountain vertically.

As they went, Nexus could feel himself slipping out of Umbra State. Draco couldn't feel anything. The two of them started to slow down before crashing through the top of a cavern far below the mountain. The heat of a lava pit rushed through the hole in the mountain and up to the top as Nexus bounced off of Draco's body when they bottomed out. He tumbled into the cavern wall as his fur and eyes turned blue again.

He groaned in pain as he sat up. Looking down at his legs, he noticed his left front leg wasn't responding was well as he'd like. He groaned in anger as he leaned back against the wall. Draco's body lay there unmoving for a moment. Nexus could see his legs along with right arm were gone now. Then he moved.

"You just don't die do you!?" Nexus groaned as Draco started to get up on his remaining good arm.

Draco's bright green eyes were full of anger trying to hide the absolute pain. Nexus did a quick magical scan to see if his scales were still covered but found that they weren't. The hits must have been enough to actually break the spell. Nexus got to his hoofs and limped towards Draco. The dragon got onto the stubs he had for legs now and started dragging himself towards Nexus. Due to Nexus still having all of his limbs, he kicked Draco in the head and knocked him back close enough to the pool of lava that his head nearly touched.

Nexus stood over him just as he started to sit up. He drew his remaining hidden blade and stabbed through his upper right left arm and into the stone underneath. Nexus was about to pull the blade out, but he couldn't. It wasn't he stone behind it back, it was Draco's blood. Draco had had re-hardened his blood and had stuck it to his blade.

"If I'm going to die here, so are you." Draco said holding Nexus firm.

Draco leaned up and tried to bite Nexus' neck. Nexus leaned back and put his left forelege against his neck and started to push him towards the lava pit.

"What are you doing? Dragons are fire proof!" Draco said laughing.

"When they have their scales. Last I checked, I blew a hole in your head." Nexus said still trying to shove him in.

Draco's eyes went wide suddenly realizing the bald spot in his scales that Nexus had left in the back of his head. Draco pushed back as hard as he could against Nexus' left leg. He shouted in defiance as he started to rise. Nexus had to do something before he'd have a hole in his neck.

Then he remembered, his blades could go ballistic. He summoned what little magic he could and pulled the trigger on the blade. With a click, the blade detached from the gauntlet it was held in and freed his right foreleg. He quickly put his right foreleg on Draco's head and pushed with all his might. The dragon pony started to roar in anger as the heat from the lava became stronger by the second.

"Like I said, nopony threatens my family." Nexus growled at him as the first little bit of Draco's skin touched the molten rock.

Draco let out a powerful screech as Nexus pushed more of his head into the lava until the whole bald spot was fully under the lava. He writhed in absolute pain for a moment before going limp and quite.

K.O.

Well then… Nexus is the winner.

Sadly ye-

*Nexus barges in like he just left the fight* WHAT THE EVER LIVING FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU TWO!?

Oh…. Hey pal… How’s it hangin?

Hangin? I go to watch my son before a ceremony and you get me in another fight!? I have a wife and kid to think about now you bastards!

.... and? I fail to see how this prevents us from entering you in fights, then betting on the results.

I crashed through the nursery! What if Astral was in there!?

This is one of those ‘moral’ things, right? Aegis, how about you handle this one.

He slit my throat; your death was painless. Like hell I’m dealing with this.

Well…. *teleports out*

*Teleports him back* If this happens again. I’ll kill you both again! Now end the fucking thing before I change my mind about it!

Um… Draco might be strong as diamond, but Nexus unrivaled, on the spot strategy was able to help him win the day.

And the OP what’s it called.

*Pulls sword*

Umbra! Faust…

He had the brains to overpower the brawn, and the… I’m not saying that.

Do it…

Metal balls to handle the diamond skin. Kill me now.

I’ll kill you if you kill yourself. Then I’d be alone with him.

The winner is Nexus….

Shadow Clone VS Seraph

The Changeling Armada have brought us many problems and competitors.

Lolk being the former.

OY!

Ugh… The jist of it is, Seraph, Changeling high Commander.

And Shadow Clone, defector of the changeling armada.

He’s Aegis and he’s Nex.

And he’s Lolk. And It’s our job to analyse their weapons, armor and skills to determine who would win a DEATHBATTALL!

Nice to have you back Nex.

Shadow Clone.

Race: Changeling

Specialty: Will breaking

Weakness: Headbuts

Shadow Clone was once known as Number: 3314.

UGH!

What now?

We don’t give them numbers unless they’re hyper-low-class!

Isn’t that most of them?

No. It’s around half.

Then shut up and move on!

Fine. He didn’t like the way Chrysalis was running things, especially the invasions of Canterlot, so he left.

That’s it? I’d say that’s stupid but my own soldiers cut my cutie mark off for less. As for the invasions, I’m just that good at my job.

After leaving the changelings, he went to Celestia and she made him a guard. Now that’s horse shit. I guess this is why those bronies make her the villain. They always have her making bad choices.

Not important. Once there, he changes into a biped and was given the name Shadow Clone. Number: 246852465.056532465258645265623562622566352356-

Okay, they get it!

Touchy now aren’t we?

Back to the important stuff you two. He’s not much for combat. He can hold his own in a basic fight but against anypony with a history of combat, he’s out matched. But he has one advantage. He has the ability to copy fighting styles he sees.

Shadow's Clone's (not a type-o) weapons are at the same level. He uses the basic Guard lance and standard issue Changeling Daggers. Why that’s the standard issue, I’ll never know.

Reasons!

That’s my shtick you redheaded prick!

Why are you two like this?

Striker’s not here.

Yeah. With nopony else to annoy, we just go at each other.

Okay then. His armor is somehow a combination of both changeling armor and guard armor. The reason I say that is because I was under the impression that Changelings didn’t wear armor unless they were high class. Let's ask our resident changeling, Lolk?

You're right for once, THEY DO!

Shadow Clone Jutsu’s body armor and helmet is guard and the leg armor is changeling. The chest isn’t much considering it only covers well… the chest.

Regardless, he’s protected.

Now for the part I want to kill him over. He’s in a re-*choke*. In a rela- *hack*. RelationshipwithPrincessTwilgiht! *projectile vomits*

Yes, apparently Princess Sparkle found a bipedal black dude to be very attractive. Make’s me want to vomit too.

They live in her castle and… well I don’t want to know what else.

Neither do- *vomits again* I feel like I just ate an Avocado.

You’d be dead then.

Not that far off from what I want to happen to him. *gargles some mouthwash*

His primary talent is mind breaking that he only uses when he absolutely has to…. And he’s trying it against Seraph, of all lings. Foolish drone.

Shadow Clone Trooper does this by starring into their eyes. So that’s how he got Twilight.

It’d make more sense than her finding him attractive.

Maybe he turns himself into Fla-

Don’t say his name!

Okay fine… Flash Century.

*vomits again* Enough of the shipping! Anyways. If Shadows of the Damned Clone takes enough hits to the head, he’ll think the first mare he sees is Queen Chrysalis. Not sure why but that’s what happenes.

Most likely a faulty drone survival technique that’s he’s kept under wraps.

You don’t need to be hit on the head to see her. You just have to close your eyes you freak.

What?

I roam everypony’s dreams. I know what you dream about you sick…. THING!

*Turns to female form* You haven’t seen the half of it sweetie.

Call me that again… I fucking dare you.

Moving back on track...

........ Fine. So long as she turns back to a dude for the rest of this.

That won’t stop me.

ANYWAYS! He’s not particularly skilled in magic. He only knows the mind spell and he doesn’t even do that on purpose.

Besides basic levitation and shield spells, he relies mostly on his weaponry.

I’ve eaten harder changelings on a bad day. So I don’t see much of a battle ahead of us. He is Shadow Clone. I've puns for his name.

He's also Twilight’s bo.

*vomit* FUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!

“Not all changelings are evil.”

*vomits harder*

Seraph

Race: Changeling (Noble Caste)

Specialty: Black Magic

Weakness: Over confidence

Seraph was a Changeling commander that served under me in one of the many wars that shaped Equestria. And unlike myself, she didn't have to lose the lion's share of her power as part of the peace treaty.

She also has a name I can't make a pun for and the is only other one that didn’t sleep with you to get to where she is now.

Nexus stop it! Don’t make me get Dust.

You think I’m afraid of my wife?

Du-

Okay I’ll be good…ish

Alright.

I would like to point out that I didn’t sleep with my commanders, at least not in that fashion. If I honestly needed a roll in the hay, the opposing army had plenty of bored stallions and/or mares.

What about Queeny? How would Chrysalis feel about to leaving her out of your little black book?

Is it so hard to believe I maintained a professional relationship with my-

Yes. Yes.

Bastards. I’m not as bad as Striker.

We know. You go after whoever while he obsesses over Spitfire. Back on track.

*Grumbles*

Seraph served under Lolk for many years. But despite being his second in command, she prefered to be on the battlefield where her talents could be fully used.

She bolstered the second highest kill count of the whole Changeling Armada. Even after the wars, she still maintained a mass amount of her powers.

She also makes a mean cup of tea.

I prefer her coffee. Her one and only physical weapon is her Glaive of Blinding. A two foot long blade on a three foot pole. And apparently causes blindness.

It’s a weapon she wields with amazing skill, able to outfight even me.

She can also outdo you in magical combat. She is able to use powerful beams of magic to vaporize ponies and can even phase through walls.

And you two call me OP.

She’s not an alicorn.

I’M NOT EVEN WEARING MY WINGS!

The fact you have them is enough.

Anyways. She wears archangel armor. It’s nearly indestructible and deflects powerful magic.

Think my armor.

OP. She also knows powerful light manipulation. Meaning she can bend light around her to become invisible for a short time and create devastating light beams.

After the end of the first Changeling War, she went into hiding in Canterlot as a server in a cafe.

She makes a mean cup of coffee, has skills to out match Lolk and is an artist of killing. Man I love a woman with edge.

Ahem?

….. She’s Seraph. Dust! It’s not what it sounds like! I still love you Honey!

“Order up.”

Okay, the combatants are set, let's end this anarchy once and for all.

But first, we have one more thing to say about our Tumblr.

We need an artist who'll work for free. Cause Vince, despite his nice signature, isn't what we're looking for.

Screw you too ass-holes. Submissions of our characters are what will earn you the position. But for now; it's time for a REPUBLIC DEATHBATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!

Don't do that again.... Ever

In the brightly lit halls of Ponyville Castel, a black humanoid, Shadow Clone, guard in red and gold armor made his usual midday rounds. He kept his lance over his shoulders and his arms draped over the shaft as he walked. He was utterly board out of his mind as he walked. He knew the castle like the back of his hand, this was just a formality. Twilight was just so stiff about the rules. Everything was shaping up to be another boring patrol before lunch.

But in the rafters above him where the light failed to reach, a pure black mare, Seraph in full body armor stood watching her target stroll far below. Her magical grip on her Glaive got tighter as he passed. This was as good as it would get. She spread her insect wings and leapt from the rafter with her Glaive's tip out in front of her. The second her wings buzzed, to keep her on course, Shadow Clone spun around and deflected the blade of the Glaive to the left.

Seraph turned in the air and slid across the carpet. Shadow Clone looked her over and felt himself go a little numb seeing one of his commanding officers again. He knew exactly why she was here too.

FIGHT!

Seraph made the first move again. She focused the light around her and fired a powerful beam at him. His eyes went wide before rolling out of the way. The beam of light slammed into a pillar behind him. The resulting explosion felt like it knocked the whole castle off stone roots. Shadow gripped his lance hard and launched himself towards his challenger. Seraph's horn flashed and a stone wall shot up in front of him. He was able to pull up but not by enough. His left leg clipped the stone, causing him to tumble over Seraph's head.

He tumbled across the ground for a few feet before getting his footing; by that time Seraph was already on top of him with her Glaive over her head. Shadow Clone put up his lance and quickly found its wooden shaft to be ineffective against a razor sharp steel blade. The lance snapped in half like a twig as he was forced back by another swipe from Seraph. He reached back to grab his daggers but was met with the butt of Seraph's staff to his forehead.

He stumbled back but was able to draw his twin daggers. With the blades facing down, he was able to deflect four more strikes from Seraph. The impacts hurt his forearms more than anything but he wasn't about to become mincemeat without a fight. As Seraph started a wide swing, Shadow Clone ducked under the blade and got inside her attack range. He slashed at her throat but wasn't fast enough.

Seraph pulled back as the blade cut into her left cheek. She reeled back and focused the light around her. In an instant, she was gone. Shadow Clone tried to spot any minor changes in the light, but found nothing. He heard Seraph's wings buzz but it was gone in an instant right behind a pillar. He wheeled around to the pillar and found a small trickle of green blood leading to the other side.

He didn't waste any time rushing the pillar with his daggers held firmly in his hands. He leapt around the pillar and stabbed to where he thought Seraph would be standing. The dagger in his right hand glanced off the concrete and spun out of his hand, leaving a nick in the stone where Seraph should have been. He looked around him and even above him to try and find her but only found a small pool of green blood where he thought she was.

As he made his way back around the pillar, a ebony hoof reached out of the pillar and grabbed him by the neck. Caught off guard, he was unable to react in time to get the hoof off his neck and was slammed into the pillar the hoof was reaching from. From the pillar, Seraph spun out of with her Glaive following her towards Shadow Clone's neck. Shadow Clone though dazed was able to duck out of the way just as the blade of her Glaive buried itself in the stone work.

Shadow took advantage of the opportunity and kicked Seraph away from her weapon. She stumbled back for a moment as Shadow Clone slashed at her stomach only to find that his blade bounced off without leaving so much as a scratch. She started to recover when Shadow decided he had to try and end this now. He leaned forward and practically tackled Seraph.

The changelings fell to the ground in a heap and Shadow did everything he could to pin her down. She looked straight up into Shadow's eyes as he magically locked their gaze. Seraph could feel his spell trying to trickle into her mind but nothing short of her mentor's magic could even get past her eyes. She leaned forward fast and landed a powerful head butt to his frontal lobe.

Seraph threw Shadow off and got to her hoofs as he shook his head trying to figure out why his attack didn't work. When he looked up, he froze in place. The rays of light and the blur in his vision made it hard to see, but the outline of Queen Chrysalis was very apparent. Shadow's heart started racing as he started to back up. Chrysalis' horn glowed and her battle ax was at her side. He desperately threw his remaining dagger at her but it bounced off of one of the light rays.

He turned to run but was stopped in his tracks by a piercing pain going all the way through his body. He looked down and saw Seraph's Glaive blade sticking out of his chest he writhed as the magical hold on the weapon forced him to the ground before it was withdrawn from his body.

He was turned over by a stern kick and was face to face with Chrysalis. But her face and body were starting to blur and warp back into Seraph as the clarity of his own demise came.

"Humph, pathetic." Seraph said before bringing her hoof down on his throat.

A loud snap echoed down the halls of the castle as she bent the light around herself again.

K.O.

You go girl! Whoop whoop whoop!

Calm down Lolk.

Seriously.

Ah, how nice of you to come back. You got a little bruise on your cheek there buddy. Things not go well?

We'll be fine. Nothing a fancy dinner, walk in the Castle Gardens and a serenade won't fix. Speaking of, Aegis, could you watch Astral for me? Luna's busy and Ephi's visiting Hestaria's mom.

Sure.

Anyways, what'd I miss?

Seraph won.

I would have thought so. Seeing as she got the highest score in all of Republic Deathbattle. Getting a solid 62.88 on her overall.

Her mental fortitude and combat skills alone were more than enough to outdo Shadow Clone. But her magical skills were what put her over the top.

So by default she's now the most OP character that has ever been on Republic Deathbattle.

She'd want to be Champion if I wasn't such a good tipper.

Sure…. Shadow Clone would never have been able to stand up to her in any capacity. Precisely why she's my second in command.

The winner is Seraph.

Tournament Battle: Night Striker VS Lolk

That's right everypony! This is happening!

Oddly enough and to my own pleasure it is.

Lolk. Leader of a Changeling Armada

And Night Striker. Bat pony leader of the Shadow Bolts.

I'm Nex, and he's Blaze.

And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skill to find out who would win a death battle.

Lolk

Race: Changeling.

Specialty: Manipulation

Weakness: Over thinking

Why are you reviewing you?

Because this has to be settled and I'm your co-host.

Whatever. Lolk is a changeling born from… Okay nopony knows where.

All we know is that his skills with his silver tongue are legendary, even able to fool Gods.

If only I were that skilled with ladies.

Of cores you do… anyways, there really isn't much on Lolk other than he's a changeling.

And that means he's born knowing how to kill shit.

Yeah. A weapon he doesn't really use often is his stinger tail. The venom will kill in a few hours so it's not his most useful weapon in one on one combat.

He also carries a marksman rifle, wing blades and has thing for messing with pony's heads. Ah… A changeling after my own heart.

… Okay… His magical specialties include causing hallucinations of the mind, mental manipulation of the terrain within a short distance of himself, teleportation and talking his way through a lot of situations.

He's got all the marks of a good villain, annoys people into submission and likes to make people crazy. I'm likin' 'im more and more by the second.

*Doesn't really talk much. More of a stallion of action.*

Night Striker

Race: Bat pony

Specialty: Midrange combat and stunt flying.

Weakness: Consistent CQC

Okay is it me or does this guy have some issues.

Focus. Night Striker was born in Cloudsdale to a poor family. From a young age he would bother the night guards and eventually befriend them. From there, they taught him basic CQC and he continued to teach himself from there. Even Princess Luna aided in his self training.

After a visit to an air show, he ran into Spitfire and could help but stare at her flank.

You really have to go there?

Yeah I do. He even stalked her to the point of having a restraining order put on his ass!

Well, you're not wrong. After that he worked his heart out and tried out for the Wonderbolts.

Several times.

He just barely missed making it and in an attempt to make the Wonder Bolts fear losing somepony with his skill, he tried out for the Shadow Blots and got in.

Counterintuitive since they didn't offer him a position after that.

I'm amazed you knew that word.

I ain't just the funny guy made of metal.

After that he learned how to use the modern weapons in Equestria.

Like his .300 cal Jaguar Assault Rifle. And that's not all, he carries twin .45 caliber handguns for overkill, two knives and a short sword.

Even with those ranged weapons he's still a force to be reckoned with up close. Keeping mostly a defensive roll in combat and letting his enemy tier themselves out. That does however mean his combat up close is limited. Being passive in CQC might not be the best thing for somepony with a high durability or recognizes that he's waiting for him to weaken.

His philosophy is the harder you work, the bigger the rewards.

That does however mean he's sure that he'll win in any situation.

He's a strong and fearless bat pony with a passion for Spitfire plot.

We're so fired.

Spitfired?

Just stop.

"A pin of sweat will save you a gallon of blood. Quit whining."

Okay the combatants are set. Time to end this once and for all.

IT'S TIME FOR THE FIRST REPUBLIC DEATHBATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL

The forest ruins were silent as a Night Striker cautiously entered in his armored flight suit. He looked back down at the note he found and read over it again before somepony called out to him.

"I've been waiting for you…" a sensual female voice called to him.

From behind the thrones, Spitfire revealed herself in her tight fitting flight suit with the hood down.

"This is-" Striker stopped suddenly when he heard the sound of a weapon being primed. He quickly pulled his Jaguar Assault Rifle and peppered the area the sound came from.

He saw the figure that shot at him quickly ducked down and dropped from the perch he had been sitting at and into the moon light. A dark red changeling in basic changeling armor.

"Lolk. Why'd it have to be you?" Striker said to the changeling.

Lolk said nothing and only stared down his opponent.

FIGHT!

Striker was the first to attack. He shot half of his thirty round magazine in Lolk's direction. Lolk put up a shield and took up the impacts. Lolk pushed his shield towards Striker and flew over to the thrones where his illusion of Spitfire vanished. He drew his DMR and leveled his cross hairs on where Striker was suppose to be. He looked away from his sights and looked skyward where Striker was starting a flying kick.

Lolk was suddenly engulfed in green fire. Striker threw his kick and passed straight through the flames to find that Lolk had vanished. Just behind him, a great heat made him draw his short sword and swing. There was a clang of metal as blade of Striker's sword met Lolk's right wing blade.

"You're not the only one with tricks up their sleeves." Lolk said with a grin.

Lolk pulls back and starts rotating so that he can use his wing blades as swords. Striker was quick, he blocked ever swipe of Lolk's wings. Striker could hardly keep up with the onslaught. He noticed he was starting to get a little too close to the wall behind him. As fast as he could, Striker spread his wings and threw himself into the air. He put the hilt of his sword in his teeth and drew his pistols.

With rapid succession, Striker shot a half of both pistols towards the changeling. Lolk anticipated this and dove behind Luna's old throne. The slugs ricocheted off of the stone and embedded themselves into the walls nearby. Just as Striker hit the stone at the base of the throne, he drew his rifle and unloaded into the rest of the rifle into the throne. Dust flew up from the sheer amount of bullets covering up the area in a thick haze for several seconds.

Striker lowered his Jaguar and watched the dust settle. From behind the throne, Lolk slowly stumbled out dripping green blood. When he looked up and looked Striker in the eyes, he drew his twin daggers and threw them at the immobile changeling. The two blades dug themselves into his neck and chest. Lolk let out a shout of pain before falling to his side dead. Striker was about to celebrate, when the form vanished in a plume of fire, leaving the daggers on the floor.

Before he could react, a bullet ripped through his left hind leg and another through his right foreleg; coming from two opposing directions. Striker dropped his sword and drew one pistol with his teeth and the other in his only good forehoof. He aimed where the thought the shots came from and fired the last five shots in both pistols inaccurately. Before he could do anything else, he realized he was out of amo.

Just as that realization came over him, he felt a tug on his tail. He turned fast with his sword in his left forehoof. He slashed at Lolk's throat. The blade nicked his armor and his exoskeleton. He jumped back holding his neck as Striker took a stance.

"Looks like you're not as quick as you thought." he said with his right forehoof dangling uselessly from his side as he hovered in place.

"That's what you think." Lolk says with a cunning grin as he slipped the pin of a grenade out out of his mouth and into his teeth.

Striker's yellow eyes went wide when he saw the ceramic grenade woven into his tail. He pushed his wing as hard as he could in panic and took to the skies. Before he could even get to the sealing, the grenade went off in a small fire ball. His back half turned to a red mist and his right wing had come clean off. Lolk stood and watched as the remainder of Night Striker's body hit the stone floor.

"Ka-boom."

K.O.

HOLLY CELESTIA SHIT! That was awesome.

That's an understatement. Striker's strategy is set for everything he does and it has clear flaws; flaws that Lolk could exploit using his Hellenistic spells and cunning.

And exploit he did. He blew him up with a grenade! Tied to his tail! He's got my respect for originality.

The winner is Lolk.

Championchip Bout: Lolk VS Nexus: Battle of the Hosts!

Lllllllllllet's get ready to-

Fine. It's time for the championship match of the NLR!

Lunarus Solaris Nexus, the Element of Honor.

And Lolk, Changeling General.

He's Nex and I'm Blaze and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to determine who would win a death battle.

Lolk

Race: Changeling

Specialty: Manipulation

Weakness: Over thinking

Alright, we're not going to sit here and boor you with the stuff you already know so we'll just skip right to it.

No one knows where he's from. All we know is that he's a changeling.

His main weapon is his DMR. Up close, he uses wing blades to rip his foe to ribbons.

He's cunning and manipulative but not over confident in his skills. He knows that over confidence can be the down fall of fighter

He also has a stinger tail that is rarely used but if stabbed in the right place, can kill instantly.

He can manipulate the terrain around him and cause hallucinations. He's also fast and agile enough to evade most heavy attacks.

And to put a grenade in somepony's tail.

"Ka-boom."

Lunarus Solaris Nexus

Race: Unicorn/robo-pony.

Specialty: Gorilla Strategy and dark magic

Weakness: metaphorical Monophobia (aka. Sombra's remains)

Nexus is the unicorn leader of the Evening Guard.

He's also the Element of Honor and a master of CQC. His weapons include two two shot pistols hidden in his legs and a set

of electrified hidden blades that can be used as ballistic knifes.

His magical skills include strong shield spells, a lightning spell known as the Spark of Honor and a manipulation spell that makes the one its cast on see their greatest fear that he calls Shadow Thoughts.

He also has a set of mechanical wings that he can use to fly as a bellow average pegasus in the short run but they are strong enough to make him agile in a dogfight.

He is also cursed by a remain of Sombra that, when near death, comes out for thirty seconds and increases all of his stats by 20% before needing a twenty second cool down. This can only be used once and leaves him almost completely open for attack. He can also hear the shadows as a form of early warning.

And being a master of entering the mind, he's built up metal barriers to keep others out.

His main armor is the usual guard armor but the metal plating of his robotic legs can take a musket at point blank range but anything stronger will go through.

Nexus also has a nasty trick up his sleeve. When one of his legs is damaged beyond use, he can disconnect it and it will detonate in ten seconds with a pound of C4.

Why you ask?

Because he doesn't want anypony else using his designs for anything other than their intended purpose. But that's only in his particular set.

Nexus is loyal and honest to a fault. He's laid back but knows his limits. He shows no fear and doesn't back down from a fight.

"Fear? I am Fear."

Okay, the combatants are set, let's end this tournoment once and for all.

It's time for THE CHAMPIONSHIP REPUBLIC DEATHBATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!

At the southernmost tip of Equestria, at the outskirts of the Badlands, A dark red Changeling with a DMR on his back lay prone behind a few rocks, searching down the barrel for any threats; especially those of a royal blue variety. A half mile to the north, on the other side of the rock that Lolk was looking, that threat was on his way. Nexus had been tracking him for days now since the death of Night Striker and Nexus was looking for pay back. As quickly and quietly as he could, Nexus moved through the open desert towards the rock where he saw Lolk duck and hide.

Lolk, unfortunately not as gullible as Aegis, heard him as soon as he got within a hundred yards. He rolled a few feet away from the rock and peaked over with his sites leveled on Nexus. Nexus vanished in a flash of light and reappeared three feet ahead of where he was. Lolk leveled his sites again and fired. Nexus flashed three feet to his front left before jumping at him. Lolk was able to dodge out of the way of Nexus as he landed five yards away from him with his duel pistols drawn.

FIGHT!

Nexus was the first to fire this time. At this range, Nexus's shot was spot on, but Lolk was ready and fired one of his own shots at Nexus. Nexus was hardly able to put his shield up over his head as the bullet sped towards him. Lolk's bullet hit Nexus' lead ball and split it down the middle before continuing towards him. The bullet ricocheted off of the shield and Nexus rolled to the other side of the rock and hopped jumped over as Lolk stood over it to shoot. Nexus landed behind Lolk and leveled his right pistol to the Changelings head before firing.

The second the shot left the barrel, Lolk turned to smoke and dissipated. It was an illusion! Nexus wheeled around and was able to duck just before Lolk to fire his DMR into Nexus cranium. Lolk fired several more shots rapidly as Nexus continued to bobbed and weaved closer. Nexus flashed away as Lolk fired his eighth shot and reappeared with a metal hoof on his right shoulder. Nexus' horn glowed bright blue as he flashed both of them away. The two of them reappeared hundreds of yards away in the center of a massive creator.

As the two came back from their teleportation, they flew back from one another and slid to a stop about twenty yards apart. Nexus drew his pistols and fired his two remaining shots. Lolk fired his and intercepted Nexus' bullets. With both of their amo reserves gone, they discarded their weapons, still standing on their hind legs.

"This is getting old." Lolk said extending his wings.

"I couldn't agree more." Nexus said spreading his and drawing his blades.

"Let's end this."

The two pushed their wings and flew full speed ahead at each other. Nexus barreled rolled over Lolk and slashed with his electrified blades. Lolk ducked an inch and lifted up his wings. Nexus couldn't avoid his attack fully. Nexus was fast enough to slide past the blades of death but his wings weren't. Lolk's blades slashed Nexus' mechanized variants and caused him to spin out of control. Nexus slammed right shoulder first into a boulder and nearly disconnected his foreleg from his contact plate.

Nexus landed on his unsteady on his now three useful legs and looked up to see that Lolk had vanished. Nexus let the sounds of the night flow into him and tried to hear where Lolk was hiding. But nothing came everything was silent. Nexus quickly closed off his mind and used Shadow Thoughts to hunt for Lolk. Nexus could feel a massive amount of dark magic coming up behind him and shot a mental bolt into Lolk's mind.

Lolk shouted in pain and reeled back just before he reached Nexus. Nexus spun on his left hindleg and planted a roundhouse kick into Lolk's jaw. Lolk spun back disoriented as Nexus flipped a small panel on his right foreleg. A pin popped up and he used his magic to pull it. The wires disconnected and let the leg drop from his body. Nexus wrapped it in a magical field and threw it straight towards Lolk just as he recovered.

Nexus put up his shield and held his breath as the leg detonated with the pound of C4 hidden inside. Nexus let down his shield as the sounds of the night filtered back into his ears. They were foreboding, warning him. Nexus jumped from the dust cloud as Lolk tried landing a flying kick. Nexus could see his wings were gone, the only delicate part of his body. That was all Nexus had time to register as Lolk teleported in front of him and unleashed a volley of punches and kicks. Nexus was only able to block some due to his missing leg.

Each punch was like a sledge hammer hitting him. Even under his Evening Guard armor and the living metal plate on his chest, the blows shook his bones. He could feel his ribs bruise and crack as each blow he couldn’t block hit home. Lolk was smart, he wasn't going for the face, he wanted Nexus to feel pain. Lolk was slowly pushing Nexus back to the other side of the crater as his ribs started giving way.

With one final punch, Lolk dented his metal plate under his armor and broke one of Nexus' ribs and punctured his left lung. Nexus gasped and hunched over before putting up a shield. Lolk tried as hard as he could to break the shield before Nexus could apply any healing magic to himself. Using his magic, Lolk lifted one of the boulders over Nexus with great strain. Nexus saw this and knew he was a sitting duck with nowhere to go. He stopped his healing spell and braced himself for the massive impact.

Lolk released the boulder and let it slam Nexus like a pile driver. The boulder cracked and crumbled as it crushed the shield Nexus was under. Lolk let out a cocky chuckle and started to walk away. That is until the ground started to shake. Lolk looked back to the pile of rocks that was supposed to be Nexus with a knit brow. The shattered boulder suddenly exploded with absolutely no dust cloud. In a small crater of his own, Nexus stood, his coat navy blue and his eyes red and serpent like. He had reached Lunar Umbra.

Lolk twitched as Nexus shot a bolt of black magic towards Lolk. Lolk couldn't dodge it, the bolt slammed into him like a solid mass and threw him into the wall of the crater. He looked up in time to see Nexus with his hindleg flying in his direction in a flying kick of his own. Lolk rolled out of the dent he made and prepared himself. Nexus shattered more stone with his flying kick but didn't stop for a moment. He pushed off of the wall and threw himself at Lolk with full force and a shout of anger.

Lolk deflected Nexus' second kick and started parrying as many punches and kicks as he could. Each one that hit was like another one of Nexus' bolts hitting him. Strom clouds started to form overhead as Nexus continued his onslaught. Lolk tired to counter a punch, but left himself wide open. Nexus hopped up and used his piston powered hindlegs and pushed Lolk along the ground. Nexus would have attacked again, but his coat turned dark blue and his eyes returned to their normal color. He let out a sigh and started breathing heavy in exhaustion.

Lolk saw this and ran at Nexus. He grabbed Nexus by the throat and slammed him into the ground. He stood over the cyber-pony with reeled around his stinger tail. With a quick motion, he thrust his tail towards Nexus' head. Nexus wouldn't go down that easily however; he pulled his hindlegs back and caught the stinger a foot before it reached his head. Nexus' upper thighs weren't robotic so the strain was being put on his muscles instead of the legs themselves. The stinger started inching towards him as he shouted in protest, trying to hold back the inevitable.

Lolk strained himself trying to kill Nexus as well. He almost never used his tail and it wasn't his strongest feature. The stinger was now inches from Nexus' eyes and he was running out of options. Then Nexus remembered; he still had his left blade. He drew it and slashed at the tail. He lobbed the head of the stinger off and put his hoofs under Lolk's stomach. With the assistance of the pistons, Nexus launched Lolk skyward. Nexus pointed his left blade up and used his telekinesis to pull the trigger on his hidden blade at Lolk just as he started to slow down.

The blade flew straight and true landing in between his eyes. Nexus got to his three legs and mustered all of his magical strength. The clouds rumbled for a millisecond before unleashing a bolt of lightning directly above the red changeling. The bolt instantly hit the electrified piece of steel in the changeling's head, through his body and to Nexus' horn. As the thunder rolled across the sky, Nexus' blade fell to the ground with no changeling attached. Nexus fell onto his side panting in exhaustion.

"Lights out."

M-M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!

Holly fuck! Call Chrysalis! We're down a changeling and a host!

*Aegis runs in with stitches on his neck* Hey! Am I too late for the job?

Aren't you dead?

I got better. I saw the whole thing. Anyways, this was probably the closest battle that will ever occur in Republic Deathbattle history.

Don't believe him? Check this!

Lunarus Solaris Nexus

Speed

Air: 36

Ground: 65

CQC: 82

Range: 20

Armor: 78

Durability: 76

Defense: 64

Magic: 87

Strength: 78

X-Factor: Lunarus Umbra

Overall: 58.55

Lolk

Speed

Air: 32

Ground: 65

CQC: 85

Range: 82

Armor: 20

Durability: 53

Defense: 31

Strength: 75

Magic: 82

X-Factor: Illusion Spells

Overall: 58.33

That's right everypony, less than a point decided this fight!

Lolk is a capable fighter and tactician but has never faced somepony with the same capacity for combat as him. His speed and close range combat were his greatest allies, but his most effective spells weren't enough to distract Nexus.

Kind of hard to trick the one that teaches ponies how to trick ponies.

And even though Lolk could hold his own against Lunar Umbra, he couldn't help but overlook Nexus' last blade.

Not only that, Nexus has held his own against the General of the Changings and King Sombra.

What really did Lolk in was his misunderstanding of Nexus' strength. Even after being crushed under a rock, Nexus could still fight and stay alive.

His ability to take a beating helped him stay alive long enough to take advantage of Lolk's misjudgment of Nexus' abilities and weaponry.

The winner and Champion is Lunarus Solaris Nexus.