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Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
The Warriors from Another World!! The Arrival of Tails & T.J.
Spike ran down the dirt street when heading toward Pinkie Pie’s new apartment, that’s just across from where she worked at Sugarcube Corner. While heading towards the building, Rainbow Dash swept down from behind, surprising Spike.
“Woah, what’s the idea?” shouted Spike.
“Come on, I’m just saying hello.” Rainbow Dash snorted.
“Yeah, well I’m on my way to visit Pinkie Pie.” Spike answered back.
“Why, what’s going on?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Rarity wants her to critique her new dress.” Spike replied.
“Oh, for Maud Pie?” Rainbow guesses.
Spike nods. They arrive in front of Pinkie’s apartment after a couple of minutes. The building looked very pink, due to the color of Pinkie herself. But something wasn’t right. Spike and Rainbow are also beginning to realize that themselves.
The door was pried open, and chunks of wood from Pinkie’s door have been damaged quite good, even the door coverings are torn off.
“Should we still go in?” Spike asked nervously.
“It has to be another ‘scare’ prank of hers” Rainbow Dash assured.
They go into the apartment building, to see the room all-dark. Furniture is broken, and scattered all over the place like broken puzzle pieces. The picture frames of Pinkie’s friends, also broken and shattered. There is also a small essence of smell, according to Spike, it’s Sulfur. The rotten smell can come from eggs, volcanic geysers, or…
Twilight has spoken to Spike about it before. If there was any unnatural being close to anypony, there can always be a scent of a noticeable chemical, along with a mixture of eavesdropping memories and fears from other ponies, that can reveal it’s presence.
“Something came after Pinkie…” Spike assumed.
“It could be just burglars.” Rainbow Dashed guessed, not wanting to think the worst.
“Burglars wouldn’t carry any dark magic like SOMETHING just did THERE.” Spike pointed out.
“Than what, or who did this?” Rainbow Dashed demanded in a curious tone.
Just then, there’s a sudden flash outside of the wrecked apartment. It’s bright color appears to be blue behind Rainbow and Spike. They turn to see the light grow bright, and then short again. Spike rushes out to see what it is.
It looked like a cyan portal, for what Spike assumes. Rainbow Dash also watched with him. Their curiosity rises when they see who’s coming out.
They were two orange furred foxes, with two tails on the middle of their butts and backs. One is only wearing shoes and goggles while carrying a wrench--he has brown eyes. The other is wearing a red captain's suit, and has brown hair. Try to imagine it.
“Where’s that damn clone!” one fox asked eagerly.
“More importantly, where’s Queen Volucris?” the other said.
“Who’s Queen Volucris?” Spike asked.
The two foxes turn to look at Spike.
“Pardon us, we’re Tails and TJ. We’ve came from…” Tails introduced.
Rainbow Dash cut him off before he can finish.
“Woah, did you guys just come out of a portal? THAT’S AWESOME!” she cried.
“PLEASE !” TJ shouted, “Do you know if you saw a changeling?”
“Not around here.” Spike said, “Why?”
“Let’s keep looking.” TJ declared to Tails, moving forward.
“We found out and have reason to believe that Queen Volucris, the queen changeling from our universe is meeting up with some other queen named ‘Chrysalis’, and another, an evil version of an alicorn.” explained Tails.
“But Queen Chrysalis isn’t really up to anything” Rainbow Dash scoffed, “We should know, she hasn’t invaded us.”
“But there was dark magic coming from around here!” Tails insisted, “Magic that has the shape of black weeds!”
“Wait, that’s exactly what we saw in Pinkie’s apartment.” Spike stammered.
Tails looked at Spike in horror.
“You haven’t seen your so called friend ‘Pinkie Pie’ today, have you? Oh, jeez...” Tails asked nervously.
“We were just on our way to see her.” Rainbow Dash said, “But she wasn’t there.”
“T.J.!” Tails called out to his cousin, “IT GOT ANOTHER!”
“What? What do you mean?” Rainbow Dash asked in a worried tone.
“Your friend is in big trouble.” Tails explained, “I don’t know what that weed wants, but we have to find it or else…”
Before Tails can finish, a dark cloud appears in the sky, growing bigger extremely fast. Its shadows covered the foxes, Rainbow Dash, and Spike in absolute surprise.
In a split minute, at least ten giant weeds appear from the cloud, and come charging towards Rainbow Dash.
“Your name is Rainbow Dash, right?” TJ called out to her, “RUN! GET AWAY!”
Rainbow Dash nods at the fox, realizing he’s right. She dodges the wretched vine, and swoops up into the air to make patterns that can avoid the black magic to grip her.
Meanwhile, Tails grabs out his giant laser gun that he’s carrying on his back, and begins shooting his red blasts at the vicious cloud. The hits the cloud feels makes it sound dreadful, and squeals from the inside of that cloud itself, is unbearable to hear. Spike than comes by Tails, with green flames coming out of his nose.
“Need any help?” Spike asked.
“You sure?” Tails wondered.
“Rainbow Dash is my friend, I’ll do whatever it takes to protect her.” Spike insisted.
“Okay. I think T.J. just found another black cloud that appeared near a tree library building.” Tails said, “You can use your flames to help him fight that beast.”
“TREE LIBRARY?” Spike shouted in shock, “THAT’S WHERE TWILIGHT IS!!”
“TWILIGHT?” Tails joined in, “Crap it all, and I was looking for her too. Because of what’s happening!”
Before they feel more fear, the black weeds suddenly come out through the buildings, striking towards Tails. Tails occupies himself back in the game, by blasting the snake like plants with his gun. Spike than rushes as fast as he could, until he catches up to TJ, who’s now in front of Twilight’s library, surrounded by even bigger, and slimy black weeds.
Rainbow Dash was now high in the sky, flying towards the Rainbow Factory. It was becoming bigger by distance as she increases her speed.
“Those things will never find me there.” Rainbow Dash scoffed.
Her speed got here there to blend in quickly with the other pegasi ponies. She lands like a plane, and scuttles forward and fast while accidentally bumping against the other ponies.
“Hey, watch it!” one shocked pony said, when unintentionally being pushed.
“Sorry, my bad.” Rainbow Dash said.
Now sure that she is safe, she lowers her speed into a walking position. She pants in relief, yet she’s worried for the foxes that tried to save her life. And Spike, he’s till back there. What if something were to happen to him?
“AAAAAHHHHH! HELP!” a squeal called out.
The other ponies look around, curious where the voice is coming from through the pegasi community. Rainbow Dash heard it too, and it sounds real familiar to her.
“DASHIE! HELLLLLPPPP MEEEEEEE!” the shriek continued.
Rainbow Dash recognized that hyperactive call. PINKIE PIE!
First she’s missing, now something got hold of her. Rainbow cannot allow anything bad to come to her friend. She looks around, having her eyes search wildly to find where the sound may be coming from.
“HOLY CELESTIA! What’s THAT?” a pegasi pony shouted, while pointing at something.
Rainbow Dash looks with the rest of them, to see a bigger black cloud, even huger than before, consuming and covering the Rainbow Factory. A chunk of Rainbow’s home is also carried in the cloud.
Rainbow Dash is now filled with uncontrolled anger. Without thinking, she rushes toward the black cloud, flying over the other pegasi ponies flying away or panicking at the situation.
“I’m coming Pinkie…” Rainbow promised.
“DASHIE! DOWN HERE!” a voice called out.
Rainbow looks down to see Pinkie Pie, sobbing, and crawling on the ground with the grey smoke trapping her in the middle of a royal pegasi rainbow garden. Rainbow Dash refuses to hesitate, and swings down to come in front of Pinkie, and just in time too. She trots over slowly to comfort her.
“RAINBOW!” Pinkie cried out.
“There, there…” Rainbow said soothingly, “It’s okay I’m here for you.”
Rainbow Dash then hugs Pinkie, and prepares to fly her out of this terrifying disarray, but then…
Pinkie’s hooves changed, and they clutch to Rainbow’s wings, forcing her to crash to ground and be pinned there.
“Pinkie, what?....” Rainbow Dash asked in confusion.
“It’s okay” Pinkie said, with her voice changing into a demonic tone, “I’m here for YOU!”
Rainbow Dash screams. It wasn’t Pinkie Pie at all. The face instantly changed into one that looks like Celestia’s, though her hair is shagged and full of holes. The body grows bigger, having spikes and thorns on her legs.
“What did you do to Pinkie?” Rainbow Dash demanded in a frightened tone.
“The same thing I’m going to do to YOU!” the very likely CHANGELING said.
Leo the gnome and Ian the diamond dog are coming out of the Everfree forest from a type of hike. Ian was helping Leo collect certain mushrooms, so he can create a certain exlir for Zecora.
“Man I feel itchy.” Ian moaned while scratching his ears, “I hat when mosquitoes are in these woods.”
“Well at least the trip wasn’t long.” the gnome reassured while holding up the bag, “And this experiment I’ll test out later will guarantee better eyesight. No more glasses troubles for anypony.”
“You know, you act exactly how Twilight used to act.” Ian points out, “Because her experiments always backfired on her.”
“Well, don’t forget, I know failure makes better.” Leo corrected.
Just then, a bright flash appears in front of the gnome, and hind legged diamond dog. In front of them, is a horrified Discord, and pumped up William.
“Discord?” Leo asked in surprise, “What brings you here?”
“Something kidnapped Fluttershy.” Discord said in a concerned voice.
“WHAT?” Ian asked in fright.
William jumps in front of Leo to grab him by his shirt collar.
“It’s gonna go into PONYVILLE!” William shouts, “THOSE WEEDS ARE GONNA TAKE MORE IT CAN GET!”
“What are you talking about?” Leo asked, while being annoyed by the anxious worm.
Just then, a striking boom is made in the sky. The gang looks up to the pegasi ponies flying down from the skies, and running to look for shelter in Ponyville. More panic ensues when the black clouds charge down toward the other ponies in the village.
“Twilight may be down there.” Discord whimpered, “We got to help her.”
“She’ll know what to do too!” Leo agreed.
As soon as the worm, dog, and gnome grab Discord by his tail, they zap themselves in front of Twilight’s Library.
“Guys!” Spike calls out to them in relief.
The purple dragon rushes to hug Discord and William, taking a break from his collaborating fight with TJ, against the weeds.
“UGH! Tale it easy, Barney the Dinosaur!” William choked.
“Hey, don’t call me that!” Spike shouted, insulted.
“SPIKE!” TJ called back, “I need more help!”
Spike nods, and goes back to breathe his green fire against the evil plants. He even protects Discord, William, Ian, and Leo from being struck by the weeds.
Discord also uses his awesome chaos to turn the weeds into insect bugs.
“How do you like THAT ladies?” Discord insulted.
But something abnormal happens, the bugs turn back to weeds refusing to cooperate with Discord’s spell.
“AHN! THIS IS POINTLESS!” Discord cries in fear.
William then focuses less on fighting, and snaps Discord’s fingers to make an axe magically appear. He than grabs it, and chops away at the vined seal, blocking the entranceway to the library. Ian joins in, using his hiking machete to cut the vines.
“TWILIGHT! Are you in there?” Ian called out.
“YES! THANK YOU FOR COMING” Twilight’s voice cries out in joy, right through the door.
Leo also fights along with Discord, TJ, and Spike, to protect William and Ian from the weeds trying to charge at them. Discord creates Mario like fireballs, as Spike continues breathing fire to burn the weeds. TJ uses his giant wrench to break the weeds in half, having yucky goo squirt out. Leo uses his staff, to use kung fu like moves, when dodging the weeds strikes, and stabbing them through their hearts with the staff.
After a couple minutes, the vines are all gotten rid of from blocking the library door. William then opens it, having the frightened Alicorn rush out. Spike than notices, and comes up to hug Twilight.
“What’s happening?” Twilight asked in a fast paced voice, “What are these things? What’s going on?”
"T.J.!!! GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!! ACCCCCKK......ACCCCKK...*GASP, GASP*"
A squeal is then made, having the weeds halt their attacks and stand still. They then move aside to create a pathway for dark figures coming towards them, straight through the fog. TJ looks in horror as he sees the dark figures grasp onto Tails by the neck with a vine like shadow hand, floating in the air.
“Ah, so you’re here Twilight…” the bigger figure spoke, “Good, I was hoping to meet you.”
“Did you kidnap Fluttershy?” Discord snarled.
“AND WHAT ABOUT APPLEJACK?” Willaim shrieked
“AND PINKIE PIE, WHERE ARE THEY?” Spike joined in.
“Ah, you’ll find this interesting…” the figure said.
The figure than steps out, to reveal herself. She’s like what Rainbow Dash has seen before, before she manipulated her. Because trotting with her, is Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rartiy, only they’re not themselves. The elements around their necks are completely rusty and black. They are wearing silver armored shoes on their hooves. Their eyes are glowing green. Twilight Sparkle even looks at horror at what the villainess has done to her friends.
“My name is QUEEN VOLUCRIS!” the big female changeling said, “And these are YOUR PREVIOUS friends, THE PLUNDERING SIX!”
Author's Note
At last, the source of the new evil has revealed itself!! Can our heroes defeat her, all while being forced to fight their friends?
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Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
The Search For Survivors!! Journey to the Crystal Empire
Spike and William cry in unwanted defeat when they’re stuck in the cage. Discord begins to cry faster and faster in despair, along with Ian, Tails, and TJ. Leo becomes distraught, showing no emotion and standing still.
“LET HER GO, DAMN YOU!!!” Tails screams in anger.
“Oh, but then I won’t complete my final steps of control.” Volucris cooed, “And I can’t just abandon my plans, not after I came so far.”
“Twilight…” Discord pleas, “I know you’re strong, you have to fight this…”
“SHUT UP, YOU PIECE OF CRAPPY GARBAGE SHIT!” The evil Twilight screams, keeping an sinister look on her face.
This frightens Discord, along with having Ian cower behind his goat leg, and hugging it tightly. Spike also tries to help regain Twilight’s memory, despite being locked up.
“Twilight… It’s me, Spike…” Spike whimpers, when clutching to the bars, “I’m you’re number one assistant, remember? I’m your friend…”
“A PUNY DRAGON WIMP FOR AN ASSISTANT!? DROP DEAD!” the evil Twilight snarls.
Spike falls back, in shock and sadness for those words he just heard. There’s no talking sense into her. She’s completely under control of Volucris. The red aura around the alicorn’s eyes grows brighter and brighter, like a hellish inferno.
“She only wishes to listen to me now, as you understand…” Volucris muses, “Now, I leave and trust the rest of the planning to her.”
Twilight first steps forward toward the caged Spike and William.
“First thing is first…” Twilight hisses to the dragon and worm, “When we get to my dark kingdom, you two will be sentenced to DEATH!”
Spike’s eyes widens as he whimpers and sobs, while William simply faints.
“AS FOR ALL OF YOU WEAKLINGS….” Twilight called out the hiding ponies in their homes, including Discord, the foxes, Ian, and Leo, “AT THE BRINK OF DAWN TOMORROW, YOU WILL BE ENSLAVED TO WORK EVERY DAY UNDER THE NAME OF QUEEN VOLUCRIS. YOUR HOMES WILL BE BURNT TO THE GROUND!”
The brainwashed Twilight rolls her eyes, expecting attention.
“COME OUT, AND PAY ATTENTION TO ME AND MY MINIONS!” she shrieked.
Twilight then casts her new dark spells to smash the walls of the ponies’ stores and homes. The either stay in place, hugging and hunching each other, or fall out from their buildings. They finally look up at the cursed Twilight and her friends, now no longer good.
“KNEEL!” the six brainwashed ponies all say at once.
The citizen ponies do so, and wobble their legs, and shake their bodies in fear while they have their knees touch the ground. Discord, Ian, and Leo just stand, refusing to knell to such cursed power, which the possessed six ponies accept them doing. Tails just looks blankly at Twilight while he stands by T.J. He didn't want this to happen to her, but it did.
“YOU WILL ALL SUFFER THE WRATH OF WHAT HAPPENED TO VOLUCRIS FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAYS!” the dark Twilight screams, “LET THIS BE KNOWN TO EVERY ONE OF YOU, THAT ALL WHO OPPOSE OUR NEW LAWS WILL BE SENTENCED TO DEATH!”
Twilight stops screaming to catch her breath for a minute, while Volucris smiles at her speech.
“And also…” the brainwashed Twilight continued, looking at Princess Celestia and Luna, tied and trapped in the hive, “Princess Celestia and Luna will be sentenced to death as of tomorrow.”
Celestia and Luna are awake in the hive, hearing every word of what the cursed Twilight just said. Celestia softly lets out tears. her own friend, and student, has been taken over by her newest enemy, Volucris. And now, there’s nothing she can do about it.
Discord was full of sympathy and rage, he refuses for any harm to come to Celestia, especially when someone manipulated is trying to kill her. Without thinking, he flies real fast toward Twilight.
“IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO SNAP OUT OF IT, I’LL HELP YOU DO IT!” he cries in hope.
While flying, he raises his arms to give a loving hug, and prepares to snap his fingers to make something break the curse. But before he does, Volucris grins, and helps the brainwashed Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie escape with their hived princess and caged friend prisoners. With one flash coming from Volucris’ horn, a lightning zap strikes down on the group Discord heads towards. The lord of chaos rushes through nothing but air, right after Volucris disappears. The mane six are also gone. Celestia and Luna are also officially n danger, let alone Spike and William too. There’s no doubt that they could be ANYWHERE in Equestria.
Discord drops flat to the ground, devastated while crying hard. Ian and Leo come to Discord’s side, and comfort him. The other ponies are also devastated as well, but mainly panicking. They began to rush around the village to find their loved ones, and gather their precious items. Some also find weapons, in case they want to defend themselves.
Coming through the crowd is Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo, who are looking for some pony to help them find their sisters. They then notice two foxes right by Discord, along with Ian, and Leo. They trot real fast in fear until they’re finally in front of them.
“Is anything okay? Did any of you of what happened to Applejack?” Apple Bloom asked.
“They were taken.” Discord whimpers, “QUEEN VOLUCRIS TOOK ALL SIX OF THEM!”
The cutie mark crusaders are confused at first, but Sweetie Belle eventually puts it together, having a terrified look cover her eyes and mouth.
“My sister… is she….” Sweetie Belle tries to ask.
Discord nods in sadness.
“Rainbow Dash, too…” Ian breathes out slowly.
“Than what can we do?” Scootaloo asks.
“Volucris has stronger chaos than I do…” Discord weeps, “We lost. Volucris has now got the best of us…”
“Now that she took control of Twilight and her friends, she’ll use their powers to become stronger…” Leo groaned.
Tails shook in anger. This mission isn't over yet, not until justice is done…
“You guys may be young…” Tails whispers to the cutie mark crusaders.
The three fillies look at Tails in curiosity.
“And Discord, you got these three fillies, Leo, and Ian. You still can combine your strengths and love.” Tails encourages, “We’re going after Twilight and the others…”
“Tails! That’s insane!” TJ says, “Sure we came a long way, but Volucris is really dangerous to confront now!”
“It’s like Discord said, we have no chance…” Apple Bloom tried to add.
“NO, GODDAMMIT!! I WON'T LOSE!! I'LL WIN THIS...FOR….TWILIGHT.” Tails says in defiance, “AND THEN, I'LL TELL YOU THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW I FEEL...”
“How you feel?” Ian asks in surprise.
Tails then calms down, letting out a big sigh.
“Look, you all care so much for Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow, and Pinkie.” Tails points out, “Right now, I’m curious of Twilight, and…. I want to become friends with her.”
The gang looks directly at Tails as he continues to speak.
“Right now those six innocent heroes are being tormented by a manipulating spell. Twilight always fights for her friends whenever they are in peril. I've studied this world for a while, and I know how important protecting someone you love is. And right now, if I were Twilight, or anyone else’s friend, I would go rescue them, because I care for them. If I were a friend, I would never give up easily and let someone else suffer. I would fight, and keep fighting, until they live, and free… ”
Discord spirits rise just a tad bit when hearing these words. And Apple Bloom feels some hope, knowing there’s still a way she can save her sister. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo start to stand up tall as well. Ian, Leo, and TJ just stand in place, yet they think…. and know Tails is right, after what he just said.
“But Volucris has Celestia And Luna captured.” Leo thinks out loud.
“There’s no doubt her weeds took control of the Crystal Empire too.” Discord says softly.
He snaps his fingers to make a magic mirror, seeing the travesty happening in that area, just like Discord predicted. Everypony in the empire is a hostage and prisoner of the black weeds. But Discord notices something different.
“I don’t see Shining Armor or Cadence.” Discord observes, “Maybe they’re safe.”
“Yeah, maybe since they have some strong magic, they can tell us how we can defeat Volucris.” Ian thinks out loud.
“I do recall that Cadence keeps secret memory scrolls that can’t be found in any library, not even in Twilight’s castle.” Leo informs, “They can help us find one of those documents.”
“But we don’t know where they’re hiding.” Sweetie Belle says.
“And if I use my magic to transport us there, there’s no doubt Volucris will have Twilight prepared to attack, I just know it…” Discord worries.
Leo notices dark aura covering the lining of the distant landscapes. He even looks up to see the grey and orange mixture forming in the sky.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that thousands of weeds will appear more and more.” Leo said, “They’ll guard every region from all around Equestria.”
“Um, I don’t know if this helps, but I did hang out with Cadence last time coincidentally at Pinkie Pie’s treasure hunt party.” Scootaloo says, “And she told me something very important, whenever there’s an emergency.”
The gang looks at Scootaloo.
“Why did she choose you?” Apple Bloom wonders.
“She knows I’m like my sister, and yours, Bloom and Belle.” she calmly says, “Since she’s close to my sister, she let me know that in case of any invasion, or if I’m separated from any of my family members, I let my friends know that she and Shining Armor will be hiding at the Hidden Cove, somewhere in a dessert that miles through the Everfree Forest.”
“All the way out there?” Ian asks in surprise.
“Do she show you where it is?” Discord asks.
“Yes.” Scootaloo responds, “Just when she had a lecture with me the other day.”
“Then here’s what I suggest we do.” Tails said, “Scootaloo can show us the way to the Hidden Cove. Then maybe once we meet Cadence and Shining Armor, we can plan a way to get into the empire to find these informative scrolls on how to stop Volucris. Then hopefully, we can find a spell that can break that brainwashing curse on Twilight and her friends.”
Discord looks at Tails, eye to eye.
“Why help us since we don’t know you too well?” he asked.
“It’s what me and my cousin TJ do.” Tails replies, “We want to make new friends in different universes. You’re our friends too. We have to help you now.”
Discord and the cutie mark crusaders come up to Tails, and hug him.
“Thanks for helping us.” Apple Bloom says quietly, “It’s great to have you on our new team.”
“Three fillies, two foxes, a draconequus, a gnome, and me. Who would have thunk?” Ian chuckles.
“It’s not going to be safe here too long.” Leo notices, “It’s best we get our things, and leave now.”
Everyone nods.
“Well, guys, let's go.” said Tails.
William and Spike were somehow knocked out unconscious after the big flash that they teleported through. Blinking their eyes slowly, they wake to see that they are locked in a dungeon cell that looks like it’s made completely of plants and wood. The dungeon room alone is colored dark green all around the stone walls and ceilings. The floor is made of bricks, the color of blood red. Spike then comes to the cell bars, clutching his hands against the prison rails.
“Well this is just GREAT!” William says in a sarcastic tone, “I normally go through the lame ‘royal’ treatment Rarity makes me practice, but this is SO BETTER!”
“Quit complaining!” Spike spat out, “I already know the situation we’re in. I just need to think.”
“YOU REALLY ASSUME NOW IS THE TIME TO THINK!?” William demands.
“If we want to figure a way out of here, yes.” Spike responds.
Spike continues to look around the room. There is little weak points that he notices so far, and all the sealings of the dungeon room are well covered with sticky looking goo that looks like tar. He looks real closely, thinking….
Then, he notices a tiny weed that is still squirming and alive. It appears to be guarding Spike and William, and has the ability to grow big in case they left their cell. Spike is starting to figure, and if he can get the weeds attention, he’ll use that damn vulgar thing to pick the lock. Spike starts out by making a sublime move with his tail.
“Hey weed, I got something for you to nibble on.” he insults in a childlike voice
“What?” William said, while overhearing.
Spike kept at his annoying, childlike moves. It wasn't after a couple minutes until the weed decided to sneak through the cracks, and go into the cell to teach Spike a lesson. But Spike was prepared. The moment the weed entered the cell, he used a real loose floor tile, one that he observed throughout his atmosphere. He then smashes the tile through the weed’s torso, cutting it in half, and ridding it from its evil life. He then adjusts the plant to grow thin and stiff, and has it reaching out, and going through the cell bars. He then attempts to pick the lock for a couple minutes, until CLICK
The cell door than opens for Spike and William, introducing them to a chance of escape.
“Let’s go! We got to find a way out!” Spike said, “Then we have to get back to our friends.”
“You mean the mane six?” William asked sheepishly.
Spike sighs.
“No, they’re dangerous. I mean our other friends. But we will find a way to snap Twilight out of it.”
After Spike says that, he and William rushed to find their way out of this hellish place.
Author's Note
And so, Spike and William make their getaway. But how far will they get? How will Tails and the others win the day? Find out...NEXT TIME!!
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Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
The Hidden Sanctuary!! Equestria's Last Hope
The Everfree Forest quite natural, and not invaded by the least by those black weeds. Leo leads the gang through the dark green trees, as he shines the way with his candle lantern. Discord stays behind the Cutie Mark Crusaders to make sure they don’t get lost, while Ian carries Tails and TJ’s gear.
“I can get used to a hike like this.” Tails admits
“It’s awfully gloomy in there though.” TJ says.
“Creatures with such ways of catching prey also lurk in these woods.” Leo cautioned, “So we must stay on each other’s backs at all times.”
The gang nods. Discord himself is starting to twirl his head, scanning for anything suspicious that might possibly watch them.
“Doesn’t the Crystal Empire have a heart emerald to protect the kingdom?” Ian wonders, “Or could the weeds acted fast to take it before it surrounded the castle themselves?”
“I think that’s something Cadence might explain to us.” Scootaloo said.
“I just want to learn how to kill these weeds to I can get my sister back!” Sweetie Belle huffs.
“Yeah, but those evil plants have quick reflexes.” Apple Bloom considers.
Just then, something rustles in the forest ground. Discord and Ian turn to see odd root patterns form through the soil, like veins forming in a bloodroot. Mysterious slime begins to drip from the leaves as well. Leo observes these small pieces of possible danger.
“Something seems wrong…” Leo mutters.
CRACK! SNAP!
The ground shakes as if there’s an earthquake, but it’s not. Something emerges from the ground right in front of Leo, Discord, Ian, the foxes, and fillies. Discord’s ears back down when he sees the beast’s appearance. It’s a sort of plant monsters with bloody eyes that has the head of a Venus Flytrap. It’s colored completely green, and looks really close to being already painted because of the curved patterns on the skin. Now, its hungry sharp teeth grow as it looks down at the gang, preparing to strike a group prey. Finally, it lets out a screaming roar as its roots rip out of the ground, ready to strike.
“EVERYONE RUN!” Discord yells, raising his talon when preparing to fight.
“We’re fighting with you too!” Apple Blooms yells out, with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo standing beside her.
“NO! You’re not!” Discord protests, “You’ll easily get killed…”
Discord knew really well to protect the fillies, which that decision was far too late to make. In a flash, the plant monster’s roots create a wall that traps him with the fillies, separating them from the foxes, Ian, and Leo. TJ and Tails also discover that little rose-headed monsters are also heading toward them with bladed pedals. Ian and Leo then set their poses, ready to fight.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the wall, Discord reluctantly allows the Cutie Mark Crusaders to fight alongside with him. The demons being created for attacking them are formed into shapes that look similar to a nutcracker. Their faces look quite evil too, because of the sharp fanged teeth.
The demons charge toward Discord, and the lord of chaos starts his move by using his spark balls to incinerate the evil creatures. More deformed nutcracker demons are being recreated, like being reanimated. The process was quite infinite. That didn’t make the fillies give up however. With their hyperactive movements, they distract the deformed demons by moving one place to another, by random. It was to confuse them while Discord turns each monster into a legume nut one by one, and then has them crushed.
“Snack time is over.” Discord muses.
However, his confidence doesn’t last very long. A sudden strike then throbs on the back of his neck. He turns to see a bigger deformed nutcracker with blood drooling out of its mouth. It’s also carrying a giant wooden spear, which it strikes down real fast towards Discord. He luckily jumped back, missing the attack. Sweetie Belle than comes in to help, by using the self-defense magic that Rarity taught her a while back. Back then, Rarity was very sure she needed in case of teaching Diamond Tiara a lesson. Whoever knew that this magic would come at an emergency at the right time.
Sweetie Belle then makes a blue sparkly circle around the monsters leg, and has it trip flat to the ground, attempting to break its stamina. Apple Bloom then does a buck kick by the monsters hand, having it let go of the spear. Scootaloo then stands by Discord and nods that she’s ready to do a collaborating move with him. He smiles, and snaps his fingers to turn her into a muscular filly. With that, Scootaloo rushes toward the monster, and punches it straight to the face. This sends the demon crashing into the wall, breaking the barrier down, along with breaking into wooden pieces itself. The giant Venus Flytrap boss snarls in displeasure when noticing this.
Discord and the fillies then reunite with the other members of their gang, ready to fight as a team. Tails has continued to repeat his ray gun movements, just from the moment Discord and the fillies have previously fought those nutcracker monsters. The two tailed fox went crazy with his gun styles ever since.
TJ used his other weapon, the wrench, to chop through the rose-headed demons. The pressure of the wrench also rips of the head of the demons, making white juice come of the stemmed necks. Ian growls, and uses his clawed paws to rip through the bodies of the evil minions of the Flytrap monster, also biting through their necks. He gets cut often, but only scraped, just by the attacking blades coming from the rose demons’ pedals. Leo uses his hiking staff to twirl it over his head, knocking the demons hard and sending them straight to the ground.
All of the little villains are almost defeated, but the Flytrap giant doesn’t give up. Having it’s own roots rip from the ground, it uses them to grab Discord, Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo by their necks. The roots wrap around them tightly, and even has them split in half, to go into binding their hands behind their backs.
Discord whimpers in fear, as do the fillies. This also catches Tails attention, having his sudden movement make Ian, TJ, and Leo stop.
“Surrender….” the giant plant monster silently croaks.
“You work for Volucris, DON’T YOU?” Tails asks.
“Anyone defies her, I defy them…” the plant monster growls.
“I take that as a yes…” Tails groans.
The roots from the plant monster than grabs Tail’s ray gun, TJ’s wrench, and Leo’s staff. The roots squeezes the weapons until the break, and magically turn into ash.
The monster then send his small Flytrap weed heads from the ground to surround the foxes, Ian, and Leo. Discord sobs in horror when he looks at them, and the fillies being close to defat, that all is lost, and that they failed their journey.
The monster grins in pleasure, ready to gang in a terrifying massacre. Then…
BLAST!
A big white blast smashes into the Flytrap monster’s head, having the heavy giant bastard fall back, also releasing Discord and the fillies when that happens. The small Flytrap demons turn, to see a brave Shining Armor stepping forward with his guards by his side.
Tails and TJ look in amazement, as they see Shining Armor and his seven guards jump into action. Shining Armor uses his sword to slash through the weeds, and vines of the small Flytrap monsters. The guards then stand by Ian and Leo to protect them, while firing arrows from their crossbows to take out the giant boss monster.
The Flytrap giant isn’t done yet however. It manages to fight back, and have its giant weed from its neck root strike and push the guards hard into a short distance. Shining Armor than has his blats from his horn rip off the root coming the base of the demon’s neck. The giant plant demon screams, and has another root grow from the ground to grab Shining Armor by the torso. It then raises him into the air to meet with it’s head, ready to eat him alive.
Discord than staggers weakly, and magically turns his tail into a swinging axe. Just as the giant Flytrap monster is focusing on finishing off Shining Armor, the lord of chaos gives his tail a swift chop through the main living root that gives the demon life. That root is mainly connected to the ground like a wicked tree.
The demon then stops its movements in an instant, letting go of Shining Armor and dropping him to the ground. The giant plant than shrinks, and falls real slowly and loudly to the ground. The colors on it begin to change into the most eerie and disgusting tone as possible, while it begins to shrivel up and rot through the leaves on the ground. The assisting demon plants of the monster poof into dust as well.
The gang pants loudly in exhaustion, just as they find the guards to help them out. Discord then approaches Shining Armor and helps him up.
“Thank you so much!” Discord says in pride.
“Um, you’re welcome.” giving a weirded out tone, despite Discord being happy to see him.
“How did you know…” Discord tried to ask.
“We didn’t. Though you were lucky we discovered you.” Shining Armor replies, looking at Discord and the fillies standing “I’m having myself and my guards search the forest to make sure nothing even thinks of coming close to invading our emergency base. We had several of demons working for Volucris who tried demolishing it, and we had to make sure ahead of time.”
“Sort of like a background check for safety?” Apple Bloom asks.
“Exactly.” Shining Armor responds.
He looks at Discord and the Cutie Mark Crusaders in curiosity. Then he turns to see Ian and Leo helping up the guards. He even looks at the two foxes, very interested in who they are and where they come from. Tails recognizes Shining Armor quickly too. Twilight’s brother.
“What were you guys doing in the Everfree Forest anyway?” Shining Armor asks.
“To look for you and Princess Cadence actually.” Scootaloo admits, “I remembered the details she told me about that are we’re supposed to hide in, and we were going through these woods to get there.”
Shining Armor nods.
“I’m glad you remembered to advise everyone, and do exactly what Cadence informed you to do.” He says to Scootaloo.
“So what now?” Ian asks.
“You better follow us to the Hidden Cove.” Shining Armor said, “My guards and I will guide you through the forest until we get there. It will take ten miles.”
Discord nods in agreement.
“Okay, we must go west.” Shining Armor instructed, “And we must be fast, whatever lies in these woods would attack again at any rate.”
The whole group begins their walk out of the forest, staying in a certain line. Tails then comes towards Shining Armor, trying to think of a way to inform hi about his sister. The fox opens his mouth, but Shinning Armor reasonably interrupts, looking at Tails sadly.
“I know.” he said, “I didn’t want this to happen to Twilight. Ever. But…”
Shining Armor lets out a tear from his left eye.
“We will snap Twilight and her friends out of it.” Tails reassures.
“I really hope so.” Shinning Armor sighs.
It was three hours of their journey, and half of that hour involved being out of the Everfree forest. There also have been a couple of break points in the event that they need to eat or rest for a tad bit. Now they have been hiking through the mountains that are completely made of random marble shapes, and still are resuming their walk. They are nearly there now, and the guards had informed the gang that they now have a half hour to make it to the Hidden Cove.
Shining Armor can see a grand view of Ponyville to Canterlot at the distance, when standing at the base of a cliff. It’s shocking to see these buildings almost go to ruins because of the weeds, and so likely hellish clouds. Pain strikes his heart for the fear he has about fate. It’s unknown when it’s destined, it can’t be changed. That’s what unfair to him, something unwanted to happen because it involves the ones he loves. This makes him clutch onto his sword real tightly for a minute too.
Discord also looks by Shining Armor, but also looks at the fillies. He wonders if maybe they can become fighters, even though they’re young. At this time, it may be appropriate if they want to protect their friends, and save their sisters. Apple Bloom then looks at the pathway that leaves the mountain, going through its base and straight to a meadow field. That’s when Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle come by her, noticing something out of the ordinary.
A circle wall and magic shield is surrounding the area, and it appears to be a military base for soldier ponies. The fillies worried that it may be the changelings, but Shining Armor comes by them and reassures them that it’s his crew from the Crystal Empire. Leo notices himself, because of he crystal emblems they have on their armor suits. The group then walks down out of the mountain, and pass slowly by the camp. That means they’re getting close to the Hidden Cove.
“We have army bases set up on each perimeter that’s close to our safety camp.” Shining Armor explained, “Our captains are preparing extra volunteers and drafted ponies to fight those changelings and demons at each extra base.”
They look at the open entrance with no gate that shows the training going around. Shining Armor then notices something in surprise along with Scootaloo.
Cadence is wearing her battle armor, and is training the other war ponies to fight with their gear and weapons, along with learning defense moves. Cadence then notices Shining Armor with his guards, guiding the rest of the gang. She also curious to see the two new foxes, wondering where they came from. Tails also knew Cadence through his previous research. Twilight’s closest friend.
Cadence than informs her men to keep training and that she’ll be right back. The magic shield is released for a minute to let her out, so see can reunite with Shining Armor, and see her friends. She comes to them face to face.
“Cadence, what are you doing here?” Shining Armor asks in curiosity.
“Everyone at the Hidden Cove is being protected by Zecora and her magic, including my guards.” Cadence said, “So I though I try to get the ponies some extra preparation here. I think I need to train myself, while I train them, in case of battle.”
“But Cadence…” Shining Armor said, being worried.
“Everypony needs to fight.” Cadence said reassuringly and reasonably to Shining Armor. She even put her hoof gently on his shoulder. “That’s why I have to be involved. We need to do anything possible to save everpony faster.”
Shining Armor sighs.
“You’re right. I’m glad you’re doing this too” He compliments.
“Princess Cadence!” Scootaloo shouts in relief, as she rushes up to hug her. Cadence also hugs her back.
“It’s good to see you too.” Cadence said softly.
“Is it fine if we introduce ourselves?” Tails asked Cadence.
Cadence looks up at the foxes and nods, smiling.
“I’m Tails.” the two tailed fox introduced, “And THIS is TJ.”
He points at his cousin when he introduces him. They also shake Cadences hoof, along with Shining Armor’s.
“Sorry we didn’t properly introduce ourselves to you before.” Tails said to Shining Armor.
“That’s no problem Tails, we’re in a tad bit of a hurry anyway.” Shining Armor said.
“We were just on our way to seek information and skills at the Hidden Cove.” Ian sums up to Cadence.
“Then I’ll guide the rest of the way.” Cadence offered.
She then calls out to the other guards on the circular wall to train the pother ponies until she comes back. After that, she signals the rest of the gang to follow her to the cave.
The Hidden Cove was well guarded by at least thirty guards on each sector. There is also a big moat surrounding the cave, and the only way to enter is with the mystical drawbridge that can only be accessed by Princess Cadence’s words, as Zecora had designed it. The gang is already inside the cave, after the thirty-minute hike across the plains.
The guards, having the domes curved and naturally carved, have redesigned the inside of the cave. Some rooms have been used for storing stocks of wheat, fruit, and water. The medics, and doctors are treating victimized ponies from the disasters going on.
Other fillies are playing with each other, some reunite with their families after they got separated from them. Discord, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle walk with Princess Cadence through their surroundings, getting to know more of this place.
“We are almost lucky enough to find the ponies that aren’t captured by Volucris’ army.” Cadence summarizes, “We’re trying to form rescue plans, especially in my kingdom. Yet, we’ve been noticing how observing those things are. Having the guards try to force themselves inside will only risk their lives. Death… might also be possible.”
Discord shudders. He can understand how complicated these plannings are.
“Not to sound impatient…” Discord thinks out loud, “But we also came because we hope there’s a spell than can break that brainwashing curse on Twilight, Pinkie, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Applejack. Do you think… we’ll still get those scrolls… from that kingdom to find them?”
Cadence shakes, but yet is thoughtful about that question.
“It’s possible.” she answers, “But we still need to think logically about that plan first.”
The five of them then go into a round room, where Shining Armor is hanging out with the foxes, diamond dog, and gnome.
“They’ve told me everything else they observed.” Shining Armor said to Cadence.
“Discord was also wondering when we’ll fight back.” Cadence informs.
“I wasn’t tattling, just so everyone knows. I...” Discord reassured nervously, “I was just making sure if we can find the scrolls…”
“But even if we did…” Shining Armor said in concern, “Volucris would take one step ahead already to destroy these papers.”
“But suppose she didn’t” Ian said, hoping someone can see the possibility.
“One can never know. She’s unpredictable. She can do anything!” Shining Armor said.
“How was she even released?” Leo asked in anxiety.
“I DON’T KNOW! SHE MIGHT HAVE FORCED HERSELF!” Discord shouts in frustration, “She always talked about ‘force’ so… It’s…”
“We got to leave to the Crystal Empire NOW!” Tails insisted.
“But we don’t know what to expect. We can’t take any risks!” Shining Armor insisted back.
“But WE ARE ready to FIGHT!” Scootaloo declares.
Shining Armor takes a deep breath. He can understand their determination, but…
“No, you’re not.” Shining Armor calmly said, “Volucris has strong power than anypony knows it. Stronger than yours Discord, stronger than Tirek’s, stronger than Chrysalis’, stronger then… Celestia’s….”
The others remain silent as he speaks.
“Even if anypony chooses to fight, there’s the known fact that such an ill mind can’t be unbroken, and also not fragile enough to break such power once that being builds it up. If we were to fight back, we must be prepared. Right now, none of us are. That’s why we need to think. We must know the exact place to start before we go the Crystal Empire, and see if there’s a safe connection to get us there.”
“Then were else can we start?” TJ asks.
“There has been rumors…” Shining Armor continues, “That there is a catacomb tunnel, that leads straight to the dungeons of the empire. It’s locked however. Yet that locked entrance is one that can take us through the hallways of the castle. For all I know, Volucris might use her magic to turn it into a maze. But once one is in the hallway path, the room can still be found.”
“Maybe it’s not a story!” Apple Bloom said in hope, “Maybe there IS a passageway.”
“But no one knows for sure if it exists.” Shining Armor says.
“I THINK IT EXISTS!” Discord yells out, sounding stubborn.
“How DO you know?” Shining Armor asks in annoyance.
“I just do.” Discord sighs, “Look everypony’s life is at stake. I use my chaos for fun, but also to do great good! That great good now, is to save my friends, even Fluttershy…”
Shining Armor stands still, thinking.
“You own sister is at the brink of peril too.” Discord reminds him, “If we don’t do something, we may loose her.”
“We HAVE to save her.” Tails adds, “I care for her too.”
“We all care for her, and our sisters.” Apple Bloom says, while standing next to Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle.
“Can’t we just train to be ready, and then use our magic to find the passageway?” Ian suggests.
“It… It may be our only hope…” Cadence considers, now agreeing with the others.
Shining Armor knew they were right. He was reluctant, but…
“Get some rest for tonight.” Shining Armor said to the group, “Tomorrow Cadence and I will show you new moves that can help you fight those plant bastards, maybe even Volucris.”
The group feels relieved that the decision is made, and nods in excitement. Discord even hugs Shining Armor.
“I knew you won’t let us down!” Discord cheers.
“Ugh. You’re squeezing me.” Shining Armor giggle.
Cadence sighs in happiness that all of them are joining together to save Twilight and her friends. Tails and TJ are also impressed that they’re joining forces with Discord, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Ian, and Leo. They all together knew too, that they may be the only, yet unexpected hope to save Celestia, Luna, and all of Equestria...
Author's Note
Hey, it's me, TJ! The way things stand, we really just might be this planet's last hope for survival! GAH!! MY ARM!!
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Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
A Mighty Blast of Rage!! The Kamehameha Wave
William and Spike have been through a miracle crawling through the aqueduct sewers they just hoped into, right after seeing it connected to the dungeon floor. It took at least thirty minutes to crawl through the dinky, smelly tunnel. The moment they come out of the aqueduct tunnel, the slimy water exit enters them into their new bizarre challenge yet.
Stretching out ten miles is a stone labyrinth, a vast maze that is such a important place to stand guard. There are even dried red leaves, cracking through the ground and dripping red blood.
“AW, COME ON!” William roars in frustration.
“If we want to get out of this castle alive,” Spike says, looking at the maze walls connecting to the evil Volucris castle, “We have to go as far as possible through this, without getting separated.”
They feel nervous, but with such bravery, they take a risk and enter the maze.
William also notices two lines being parallel from one another on the rocky ground, as he and Spike keep moving. Slimy slugs also stick to the walls, leaving green marks that look like bloody mucus.
“UGH! I know Rarity would hate this place!” William whines.
They made the next two turns of the labyrinth or so. Some of the three attempts of turns they made were dead ends. Eventually, they found their way to the new level of the labyrinth, where the walls and floors are completely made of red bricks. Slides are also connected to the drop offs or cliffs of this part of the maze, having them either go to dead ends, or a new room.
“Well, at least they have slides.” William said.
“Hey, look up there.” Spike said to William, pointing up to the sky.
The labyrinth is mainly outside, considering being connected to the aqueduct that leads to the inside dungeon. In the dark, moonlit sky, are flying changelings. They carry glowing weapons on the backs, all sharpened and ready to make it’s kill. It’s becoming clear to the dragon and worm that they’re preparing for another invasion.
Spike also shudders as he sees the leader of that changeling line. Twilight, who’s still brainwashed, is having them follow her to a new destruction plan.
“Twilight…” Spike knows it getting old to think about her being brainwashed, but he can’t help it. It’s all so disturbing and horrifying for him.
William looks around the atmosphere of the maze in the meantime, and then notices something out of order.
“Spike, I have the upmost imagination that this labyrinth is being guarded, top to bottom…” he stutters.
The walls then shake, much to William’s shock. Spike even turns to look with him, as one section the wall breaks into a giant slab. It then mystically falls to the ground, and grows…LEGS!
Spike can’t believe it, but the wall then grows arms at the different parallel sides that face vertically up. A head then grows at the top of the giant square slab, having a roman helmet on its head. It’s eyes glow the color of gold, as if it’s the new color of envy. The rock monster then forms a big stone hammer with his rocky hand. It raises it’s weapon up in the air, preparing for it’s attack.
“You must not escape…” the rock giant whispers.
“RUN!!!” William screams.
The worm and dragon then rush away to escape the upcoming attacks of the hammer, that makes a turbulent movement on the ground the moment it strikes. The rock creature than pulls it’s hammer back up, and chases after Spike and William, right through the hall like pathways.
The twists and turns of the maze almost acts infinite for the dragon and worm, as if they chose the wrong setting to try and survive. William and Spike then enter a new-leveled part of the labyrinth, with its floors and walls made glass. The glass is thick, but the pathways have ceilings covering the sections of the maze his time. Unfortunately, the paths are big enough to fit the rock monster inside these paths, having it still come after it’s two targets.
Spike and William knew they can’t separate or split, or else they might get lost, which will mean none of them will work together to find the maze exit. They also can’t afford to lose another friend, after they wrongfully got separated from the others. So, what to do?
Just before they can even think of an idea, they come to a dead end of the glass section of the labyrinth. The ending wall blockage is made with red wood. The rock giant then comes in front of Spike and William, blocking their other paths. He then backs them up to the point ending of the failing path. The monster stomps his foot on the ground, having it rumble, and bring William and Spike’s faces fat down. They are helpless and scared, as the monster raises his sword to strike them.
William then notices something approaching behind the rock monster. A CHANGELING! Is that thing controlling the monster? Spike notices too, wondering if it’s ready to make its order for the giant. An order to kill him and William.
Wait though… the changeling isn’t bothering to stop when giving the order. It just keeps running, toward the monster. Then…
KRACK!
THE CHANGELING ATTACKS IT! Is it protecting Spike and William. Spike looks in surprise and confusion as he sees the changeling slam his crooked hooves at the side of the monster. The monster then topples back a bit, grunting in pain an irritation.
The giant rock monster then raises it sword, now focusing it’s attention on fighting back at the changeling. The changeling pony also looked different to Spike. Sure its skin is black, but it has loner mane hair, which is pretty much clean, and colored red. It’s even wearing light blue vest.
The changeling then flies up into the air, to go real fast, having itself confuse the monster with its movements, until it has the ability to kick the helmet of the rock creature’s head. A clang is heard, and with the changeling’s final move, it slams his hooved hand on the forehead of the rock villain, having the creature crack and collapse into tiny pebble pieces in a quick minute. The changing then stomps its hooves back on the ground, kicking the sand forming from the crumbling rocks. The changeling then brushes its shaggy red tail, looking around the sand mountain to find something.
Spike observes the changeling in suspicion as the being finds it’s own backpack. The changeling then throws it on top of it’s own back. It then looks at William and Spike.
“Pathetic…” he puffs, trotting off.
“HEY! What is THAT supposed mean?” William demands, “You could just challenge us if you had the chance?”
William didn’t want to suggest that, but he felt like saying something to make a comeback.
“I have no interest in helping imprison other ponies.” the changeling scoffs, “I just want to quit this army.”
“Wait, why?” Spike asks, “Weren’t you made to help the invasion?”
“As I said, I have no interest.” the changeling responds, “I’m just a simple changeling who wants to be alone, and explore the world. So feel lucky I only saved you this once.”
“You know, you really aren’t what I’m suspecting you to be now. You know, the evil type.” William says.
The changeling sighs.
“My name is Kaiba.” he explains, “And it wasn’t my choice to join Volucris or Chrysalis. They made me, FORCED me to. I was none other than a slave for them those past ten years.”
For the first time, Spike and William are starting to feel empathy for such a creature. Slavery is such an abominable abuse after all.
“Then how did you escape?” William asked.
“The distraction of the arrival of Twilight and her companions gave me the chance to sneak off.” Kaiba answers, “I had to fight of more of my kind through the castle hallways, so now I’m leaving, hopefully to be alone.”
Spike then wonders.
“Since we’re leaving too, do you think you can show us the way out?” Spike requests.
“We’re not asking you to join our team, we just wanna leave this god awful maze!” William huffs.
The changeling looks back at them in annoyance.
“I have no interest in helping fugitives. I won’t let you come with me. Yet, you can still follow me to the way out.” Kaiba said.
Spike nods in understanding. He likes the way Kaiba acts like he doesn’t want to be a hero, just lost soul who wants to be free, like any other pony.
“I suggest you should jog, since I’m leaving fast.” Kaiba informs.
A screech than rises somewhere in the labyrinth.
“The other traitors will be searching this maze for any of us.” he continues.
William and Spike nod, as they follow the changeling through the rest of the maze. The glass sector is quite long, but after ten more minutes of no distracts, yet twist and turns, they make it to an arch exit that leads to the mountains, having the Everfree Forest part of it.
“I’ll be heading somewhere in through these woods. Be seeing you.” Kaiba sighs, starting his journey.
“Well, I’m tagging along.” William whispers to Spike, now following Kaiba.
“William, we should probably just leave him alone.” Spike cautions.
“But if we do follow him, just with distance, we might see if he’ll use his own directions to.. you know, pass by where we might find our friends.” William points out, “It’s the best thing we can do right now.”
Spike nods reluctantly, seeing William’s point. They then give Kaiba a little more distance, before they decide to follow him through the forest. Kaiba than looks back at the worm and dragon following him, then focusing his eyes back at the forest’s direction.
“Curious creatures.” he shudders, “Never fails…”
Shining Armor took his time training Tails and TJ, and have them control the fire powers he have transferred to them. The foxes will need these fire spells in case they come into battle with the changelings. Meanwhile, Cadence is showing Discord, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo how to use the red fire swords used for special missions, and important battles. The fire energy weapons and shields the crystal empire has saved had been protected and stored away for quite some time, and now these supplies are in the demand of being used at such a event.
Shining Armor starts his example moves, by blasting blue flames from his horn. Tails then steps back, and blasts the flame back with the red fire coming from his hand. Another blue flame then comes toward TJ, having him create a magic shield with his red fire movements.
“All right, good. There’s something else you should know about Volucris’ changelings though.” Shining Armor informs, “They’ll use fake skins like they always do to disguise themselves as someponies friends, to deceive them and attack them at the perfect moment. They’ll also act innocent as the pony they manipulated, to make one think the spell is broken, and then lure them into their vicious trap.”
This fact freaks out Tails.
“That’s why you’ll also use the spirit bomb, a flameless explosive that will create a smog to reveal the changelings’ trickeries.” Shining Armor said, “The big bang attack is something else you’ll also use when fighting. It’s a certain movement when you’ll manipulate the ground movements to attack your enemy.”
Shining Armor makes his training pose to have Tails ready to practice.
“Give this a try.” Shining Armor instructed.
He then creates a spell that makes a fake changeling, right in front of the foxes. The changeling than splits itself into thin air, and comes back in an unknown second behind Tails. It changes into a very young filly, and cries out in horror like it lost is mother. Tails turns, to see the innocent look in the filly’s eyes. Tails then expands his spirit bomb, and makes a harmless puff that strikes the changeling’s face, revealing it’s true form.
The fake changeling then makes it training attack on Tails, having the fox fall back. He then makes his big bang attack, but keeps it under control so the whole cave won’t collapse. The cracks forming through the ground then rises, having the rock splitings hit the changeling, knocking it down to the ground. The changeling then disappears by Shining Armor’s command, after Tails gets the hang of it.
“You’re doing well, and quite fast.” Shining Armor congratulates to Tails.
Tails grins with self-esteem in his pride. One of the guards then enters the training room.
“Sir, somepony has arrived to this cove. He calls himself by the name Firebaze.” the guard informs.
Shining Armor looks at the guard, and then at the foxes.
“Fireblaze is our official messenger of the Crystal Empire.” he explains to them. He then looks back at the guard. “Let him in.”
In a minute, Fireblaze enters the room, with a cloak covering his face. Discord looks with the Cutie Mark Crusaders at his appearance. He looks like he’s 16, but he’s also a pegasi pony. His body is red, with orange and gold hair, including his tail. He wears a blue vest, and silver armor shoes on his hooves. His eyes are gold, and he has a fire cutie mark. Fireblaze then approaches Shining Armor, with a grim look on his face.
“I’ve scanned the landscapes that led to Ponyville and Canterlot. I then went back to one of our military base camps we set up.” Fireblaze said, “However…”
Fireblaze shudders in fear as he brings up the worst thing he’d seen.
“It was attacked. Volucris had her changelings take it down! The pack at that attack, it was led by Fluttershy….”
Discord goes ballistic, and kneels to the floor, shaking his head in shock.
“I saw the patterns the fiends made on each military base. They already took down three, and captured the pony guards and soldiers.” Fireblaze continues, “I had heard them kept silent about this place, no changeling found out yet. The cove won’t be safe to be hiding for too long, I should warn you. In any case, Volucris might possibly trap us here, and use us as her feast.”
“That may be impossible.” Shining Armor said sternly.
“There’s always another way we can hide the other ponies.” Fireblaze insists, “I must have you understand, we should relocate just in case.”
Discord finally snaps out of his depression, and starts to act brave. They’ve trained for hours this morning, but are they ready? Discord has to ask Shining Armor, but first…
“I have a portal to my chaos realm, our pony friends can hide there.” Discord offered to Shining Armor.
“Chaos realm?” Shining Armor sighs, “Discord…”
“It’s an unknown place!” Discord reassures, “It will be safe for everypony since Volucris won’t find it.”
“He makes a good point.” Fireblaze agrees.
Shining Armor than nods in approval. He then signals his soldiers to find everypony in the cove, and have them set to relocate.
“I also need to know, should we leave for the Crystal Empire right away?” Discord asks, “I know we had little time training, but three army bases are already destroyed.”
Leo nods, understanding Discord.
“There’s no foreshadowing when our training gets interrupted possibly. We must do more of it, but…” Leo breathes out.
“Yes, that’s true. Given the limited choices we have, we must find the catacombs tonight.” Shining Armor said, “We already taught you the best advice possible about you spell powers and weapons anyway.”
“Then we’ll find these scrolls too? This may be our chance.” Tails says in determination.
“Yes, we will find them.” Cadence agrees, “We must do it sooner before Volucris causes more harm.”
Shining Armor then looks at the gang. Discord, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo are holding their red swords, wrapped on their backs with a belt. Tails, TJ, Ian, and Leo are set with backpacks, and staffs on their hands.
“We’ll leave tonight.” Shining Armor declares.
As soon as Discord helps the guards gets situated to relocate the other ponies, Shining Armor approaches the barrier of the cove, looking around to make sure everything is safe to start the journey. He comes back to let Discord, the foxes, cutie mark crusaders, Ian, and Leo that it’s time.
“I’ll be with the other ponies to tend to their needs.” Cadence assures.
“A couple of my guards will also come to assist us.” Shining Armor says to the gang, as the guards come beside him, “Okay…”
There was a rush in their nervous systems when they leave their sanctuary. They go out in a row one by one, wearing cloaks over their heads, and carrying their weapons in case of defense. They then cross the moat that makes the split between bigger land and the cove itself. It’s real dark out right now, the sky also being pitch black as a nightmare color. Fog also hikes through the fields the gang hikes through, having the clouds walk like they’re ghosts.
In the distance from a bigger hill, one of the guards notices a black weed navigating it’s path, and searching for any remaining ponies. The other guard sighs in relief, knowing the weed won’t figure where they are from quite a ways. Still, it’s best to keep distance, be as far or somewhere in between.
“The catacomb entrance will be in an abandoned cemetery that wasn’t used for centuries.” Shining Armor informs, “Kingdoms moved from area to area over generations, and not everything was changed. The cemeteries were one of those areas we didn’t relocate; it will be about twenty minutes before we find it. Remember, stay guard of yourselves in case something lurks in the fog.”
Discord nods real fast, and keeps his eyes peeled. The young fillies even act out that they’re in real close watch, using their karate poses. Leo just clutches onto his staff real tightly, while Ian turns to face the two foxes.
“You sure you’re ready to use these powers.” he asked.
“Of course I am!” Tails said in confidence, “Though I wish I had more time to practice.”
“Better make due of what will still have.” TJ advised.
“The Kamehameha wave is just something I don’t understand yet though.” Tails says, “I just have to keep focus.”
The group then arrives at the area, that’s distant from the welcoming entryway of the cemetery, only to reveal something drastic. The black weeds, path by path, are monitoring the catacomb entrance and whole graveyard itself. The weeds even have eyes this time, the color of blood red.
“Volucris must have too precautions.” Shining Armor mutters, “We have to find a way to distract these and things, maybe destroy them.”
Discord snaps his fingers, to make a fake hologram of themselves, that’s just near the cemetery on the other side. The weed than notice the flukes, and thinking they’re real, chase after the mischievous clones, though one weed still eyes through the graveyard.
The gang sneaks in real slowly, hiding from hill to hill. Apple Bloom then nods to Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, saying that they will draw the creature’s attention. Leo can then come from behind the distracted weed, and destroy it with his stick with the help of a magical aura made by Discord. The plan now comes to play, as Shining Armor permits Apple Bloom to make her first flashing move. The weed was focused on Apple Bloom’s speed, but then gets torn apart from its decision when it sees Scootaloo jumping over the weed’s head. The weed attempts to strike the pegasi filly, but then gets preoccupied when Sweetie Belle sticks her tongue in front of it. The unicorn filly then moves rapidly in random circles around the creature, until the weed monster tangles itself up. The weed monster makes vile noises, just as Leo jumps into the air, and stabs the weed through the heart with his magical staff. Such teamwork makes the weed sigh, and shrivel up before it’s no more.
Shining Armor was impressed of the progress that’s coming along. While Apple Bloom congratulates Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, Leo heads toward the catacomb entrance, and looks at the other weed coming back from a mile away.
“It’s coming.” Leo warned.
Shining Armor nods, and signals the rest of the gang to follow him. The entrance has sculpted skulls on the frame of the doorway. The door that partly closed the entrance is a rusty bar gate, and it makes a creaky whine as it opens. The guards walk close by Shining Armor as they enter, followed by Leo, Ian, and Discord. The foxes also stay behind the fillies to make sure such other demons don’t catch those young rascals. When inside, Tails closes the rusty door.
The corridor of the catacombs was filled with archways leading to new halls. However, the entrance of the new halls looks dark and really sinister. The main walking corridor the group walks through has torches hanging on the walls to fill in the light. Discord shudders at the pony hair that was ripped off old ponies from long ago. Very little bones can also be seen through this twenty-mile corridor.
“The catacombs have rarely been used to store such dead bodies of anypony’s, or monsters, ever since they once accumulated near the empires.” Shining Armor explains, “We cleaned out these corridors and burned the corpses to ash. That’s why this hall is now an escape passageway from this moment on.”
Tails nods in understanding, while TJ clutches to his ray gun.
“I was told by him that I can create a Dodon Ray with my gun.” TJ told Tails.
“Really?” Tails asked in awe, “What’s that?”
“I don’t know what the Dodon does yet really.” TJ admits, “I just hope I’m careful, just because of this delicate atmosphere.”
Tails nods. Leo smiles as he looks at the foxes. He likes how they’re fascinated by the new magic they’re learning, along with the fillies. Then, Leo comes to a halt, bringing a really concerned look upon his face. Shining Armor turns back to see the gnome being suspicious.
“Is there anything wrong?” Shinning Armor asks him.
“Yes, there is.” Leo said, “Discord’s magic on my stick is already vibrating very rapidly on my hand. I assume it means an eviler magic is close to us.”
Ian looks at the staff, along with Discord. The lord of chaos grins at the method he used for the staff, but then becomes serious as he looks toward the continuous hall with Shining Armor.
“Then we’re not alone.” Shining Armor said in fear.
The guards by the pony prince stand in position, as they see brown lights flickering at the distance. It all seemed so silent to the gang, which is exactly why that’s creepy. The foxes even grimace at the drips of water becoming bigger, compared to when they last walked by other drips in this catacomb. Then, something mysteriously sneaks behind Tails. Brown slime.
SCREEEEEEEEEE!
The sound of the creature is terrifying as it strikes Discord on the face, having some blood spit out his mouth. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo rush to help the injured Discord who fell to the ground, but are immediately stopped by another violent swipe as the crusader fillies get knocked to the wall. The guards stand in position and begin to fire their crossbow arrows toward the violent beast. However, the best catches both arrows that came toward it, and throws it real fast to pierce the guards through the legs. Shining Armor looks in dismay at the appearance of the creature. It looks like they very combination and mix of a werewolf and yeti, except it’s eight feet tall. The face is very scary and gruesome, and almost has a resemblance of a devil’s assisting demon. The eyes are all black, and its teeth are real sharp, along with its pointy ears.
“By the power of Volucris….” the creature snarls, “DIE!!!!”
The monster than expands it’s clawed nails from its fingers, and begins to fight Shining Armor. The pony prince shields and defends himself with his silver sword, against the razor sharp nails. Sparks fly in the room as the collisions happen at least ten times before the creature finally knocks Shining Armor unconscious.
“SHINING ARMOR!” Scootaloo wails.
“Oh, NOW IT’S ON!” Discord yells in anger.
The lord of chaos rushes up to grab the brown furred monster from behind, and turns himself into a sumo wrestler with his magic. He has a brief moment of success when pinning the monster to the ground, but the creature manages to move it’s arm, and grab Discord by his neck, squeezing real tightly. Discord coughs and wheezes, as he turns back into his normal self. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo run toward the monster to kick its legs.
“LET GO OF OUR FRIEND!” Apple Bloom screams.
The monster treats Apple Bloom as a ragdoll, and picks her up to slam her hard to the ground. The creature then pins Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo with such haste, precisely with it’s big foot.
“No… don’t hurt them…” Discord begs.
Leo and Ian try to help the fillies and Discord, but the weeds suddenly appear, blocking their path. As for the foxes, they managed to sneak past the weeds with out being noticed. The tip toeing movements against the wall felt like climbing through a steep mine tunnel, except you feel more concerned about the death trap that’s right in front of you. Tails and TJ kept hold of their breath as they managed to get by.
TJ also forgets about hesitating, as soon as he sees the brown monster close to killing Discord with its death grip, along with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo nearly being crushed by the deadly weight of the foot. Kicking into action, TJ pulls up his ray gun, and while jumping in the air, shoots its Dodon Ray that’s bright yellow light. The electric sparks also surround the ray, as it strikes the monster. The demon yeti creature falls back quickly, releasing Discord, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo from the death grips.
The best gets back up, focusing its rage toward TJ. The fox holding the guns fires his Dodon ray again and again, twirling in the air to also avoid the sharp strikes coming from the beast’s paws. The fight is lasting a couple extra minutes, while Ian and Leo fight against the weeds assisting the furry yeti villain. Ian uses his claws to rip through the weeds one by one, while biting hem through their necks. Leo uses the magic staff to use it as a boomerang, having it hit the weeds from all around until it comes back to his hand.
TJ was on a roll, while he stands in front of Discord and the fillies to protect them, just as they are protecting Shining Armor and his guards. But then, the creature summons one of its weed to grab TJ’s hand, and twist it real hard. Pain enters TJ as the bone on his wrist snaps, sending an excruciating signal to his sensitive brain. Discord and the fillies look in horror, along with Ian and Leo. The monster is once again close to winning. Discord rises, ready to fight it to protect TJ.
“WAIT!” Tails yells to Discord in reassurance, staggering to his feet, “This one is mine.”
Discord nods. The creature then makes a nasty grin, and stomps forward towards Tails.
“Weakling fox…” the monster sneers, raising its sharp hand for the kill, “How can one like you stop me….”
Tails decided to try the Kamehameha Wave. He cupped his hands and put them to the side. He chanted: "SUPER...KAIO-KEN TIMES THREE KA....ME.....HA....ME....HA..........!!!!!!"
The beast’s eyes widen in shock, as it looks into the light. A blue and white energy blast fired from Tails’ palm in an instant, incinerating the monster and making a gargantuan hole in the wall. The monster instantly is gone, along with the terrible assisting weeds that now fall to the ground. Everyone in this catacomb is now safe.
Tails stared down at his hands in amazement.
"Wow....I actually did it!!! I AM INCREDIBLE!!!" He laughed, amazed at his awesome powers.
Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Ian give Tails a fist bump for a job well done. Shining Armor also comes back to being conscious, seeing the successful victory this group had, and noticing that Tails used his power quite well. A little blue aura floats on Tails hands before he brushes it off.
"Wow, Tails, you've improved since you got here." Shining Armor smiled.
"Say, thanks!" Tails grinned.
“TJ!” Discord cries in alarm.
TJ’s hand is very swollen from the wound of the monster. Discord tries to use his magic real slowly to heal it, but it’s only making it worse on TJ.
“I’m so sorry…” Discord stutters when he fails to help with TJ’s wound.
“It’s… it’s fine.” TJ whimpers.
“Here, I’ll handle this!” Tails said in a worried tone.
The two tailed fox took out his first aid kit from the knapsack he is carrying during his quest. He grabbed the bandages and some ointment, and tends to TJ’s hand as fast as he could. The wound is starting to feel less painful for Tails’ cousin, though the injury still stings.
“You can’t fight in this condition…” Tails finally said.
“I’ll manage…” TJ said.
“No, Tails is right.” Shining Armor tells TJ, “Until we find a harmless spell to help the wound, you better let your friends protect and defend you until your hand heals.”
TJ finally nods.
“We’re at least ten minutes away from the underground entrance to the Crystal Palace.” Shining Armor continues, “I recognize some of these cave crystals anywhere.”
The gang looks where Shining Armor is pointing, while the guards check on one another to see if they’re okay. Tiny crystals are sticking out of the dirt ground of the catacombs for the rest of the path. Leo then pulls out a map of the Crystal Empire from his bag, the exact planning copy they need to know the castle, and where to go next.
“We’ll be entering a wine cellar from the ground entrance.” Leo said while pointing at the diagram of the castle rooms, “Once we evade that room, Ian and I will go with Shining Armor and his guards to find any victims who are being held hostage by the weeds. Discord and the fillies will go find the library where the hidden scrolls are.”
Discord then looks at the two foxes.
“You want to come with us? Mission will work greater with foxes.” the lord of chaos asks with a grin.
Tails smiles at Discord and agrees.
“We better tend to TJ on the way too.” Apple Bloom points out.
“Well, let’s go inside the palace then.” Scootaloo said.
Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
Back at Discord’s realm, Cadence and her guards tend to the victimized ponies, those that arrive, and some that already came. Discord’s created parasprites also assist and make meals for the survivors. Cadence eyes them suspiciously, but one parasprite eyes her sternly.
“We’re only doing what Discord requested, which was a GOOD thing!” the parasprite squeaked, “Don’t go thinking we’ll cause trouble. We can’t worry about trust, or distrusting!”
Cadence sighs.
“Fine, I apologize.” she sighs.
Still, she is worried. A changeling couldn’t come in and spy among them, just when blending in with the other ponies. Discord’s place that he created is supposed to be safe from any villainous demons. However, it’s possible something can invade anytime.
“Still under some stress, Cadence?” the red pony messenger asked her when coming by her.
“Not so much, Fireblaze. I’m just worried for Shining Armor a tad bit.” she admits.
“Your husband will be fine. I fought with him in an unexpected battle once, so I know.” Fireblaze reassures.
Cadence smiles.
“Why have you joined with the pony military?” she asks him.
Fireblaze thinks about that question.
“Back when I was a filly, way before the Crystal Empire was free from being enslaved by Sombra, my mother died after coming face to face with a changeling.” Fireblaze shook, “And after that invasion on Canterlot by Chrysalis and her minions, I loathed what they attempted to do. Feeding, and attempting to kill anyone else I cared about after my mother died. When I died, I promised her soul one thing. That her death would be avenged, when a leader of a changeling is brought to justice! I also know damn well that Chrysalis is working alongside Volucris.”
He thought about Discord for a minute as well, thinking of the pain he felt when Fluttershy was manipulated. Then he thought about Twilight.
“My idols, Twilight and her friends, won’t be the last ones that will be brainwashed. I want to be like Discord, somepony who won’t stop using what they got until they succeed at protecting someone. Then the others, like the foxes, dog, and gnome. They got guts as well. Me, I haven’t fought for a couple years now. I just simply gave messages. What I really want now, is the energy to go fight a damn changeling!”
Cadence is awed by such an explanation of what’s in his mind. She even placed her hoof on his shoulder.
“Your mother will still be proud of you. However, I don’t think avenging something will revive her soul.” she says.
Fireblaze nods. It’s such a complicated matter right now.
Just then, a green mist suddenly appears. Fireblaze and Cadence eye up at the mysterious clouds that are suddenly appearing in the realm. Then, nasty coughing is heard. Cadence turns to the parasprites no longer having silly faces, or just doing the right thing:THEY’RE DYING! Each parasprite has fear in their eyes as they cough out blood, and drop dead to the ground. The fillies cry in horror and sadness for them, as the other ponies become shocked, wondering what’s going on. In an instant, Cadence figures it out.
“GET EVERYPONY OUT OF HERE! WE’RE BEING ATTACKED!” Cadence yells out to the guards and Fireblaze.
The guards nod, and find every pony that can find so they can escape to the nearest realm door exit. Fireblaze helps the guards by protecting the fillies, who just discover THE WEEDS, erupting and tearing through the realm ground. As they try to make their kill, Fireblaze defends and protects the fillies with his sword, cutting through the weeds, and having them spurt out slime.
“GO!” Fireblaze tells the young fillies.
The young fillies agree, and find their parents as fast as they could. While the guards and Fireblaze keep fighting off the weeds that instantly appear, Cadence helps Discord’s walking door stay calm, and guides the ponies out the door in an emergency file as soon as it opens.
“EVERYPONY STAY TOGETHER!” she advised.
It’s very good how the demonic weeds didn’t catch them so far. Very soon, Discord’s realm doesn’t looks chaotic in a playful way at all. The sky becomes red, and the realm barrier soon breaks, revealing the real world of Equestria that’s still dark and grim. The walking door even breaks, dying. Cadence carries her sword while running with the survivors.
“FALL BACK!” she calls to her guards.
The guards then follow her and the survivors, along with Fireblaze. Still, the red pony still feels like it’s all so simple. It has to be a plan to catch them. Sure enough…
THE WEEDS GROW BIGGER AS THEY TEAR FROM THE GROUND, IN FRONT OF CADENCE AND THE OTHER PONIES.
When the guards rush toward them, to pull out their swords and protect them ,the weeds increases in size so planning to attack them is impossible. The weeds then surround Cadence and her other pony acquaintances.
Fireblaze is now outside the surrounding, running around and thinking how to get in. The dark fog even smashes to the ground, making things hard for him to see his view.
“You can do 20% better than that!” a mysterious, taunting voice called out.
Fireblaze can recognize the pony that would talk like that. RAINBOW DASH!
“RAINBOW! This isn’t like you! SNAP OUT OF IT!” Fireblaze calls out in horror, “Can’t you see everpony is getting hurt?”
“Like I ever used to care.” her voice said menacingly.
Then Fireblaze wept in fear as he kept walking and looking for Rainbow Dash. Finally, a gust of wind swoops up into the air, as Rainbow Dash appears, but different now as she was worst. She wears steel hoof shoes with their cute mark on them, and she smiles to him. But she was brainwashed now, like the other main six.
“So who dare challenge me, the Queen of the air?” the corrupted Rainbow Dash yells out.
“Rainbow Dash, this is not you. You are not like this, and Scootaloo misses you too.” Fireblaze tries to talk sense into her.
“HA! That little Squirt? She will DIE with the others! “ Rainbow Dash retorts.
“I am going to snap you back to normal, Rainbow Dash, and then Volucris will be NEXT!” Fireblaze screams.
“HA! I AM STRONGER THAN YOU, BLAZE, AND I DARE YOU TRY TO BRING ME BACK TO NORMAL, BUT YOU CAN’T!” Rainbow Dash sneers.
“Oh, I WILL! NOW, TIME TO SEE A PONY CHANGE INTO A DRAGON!” he shrieks.
“HUH?”
No pony ever knew it, but a while back before Fireblaze was born, his mother had an unexpected relationship with a dragon. After the changelings ganged up to make her die, his father had to help his son fend for himself, and teach him the dragon powers transferred to him, in case of such emergency. The red dragon did everything he could to help his son Fireblaze become a brave fighter. And now, Fireblaze knew he had to use everything he learned at this moment!
“HENISH TRANSFORME!” Fireblaze screams.
Then Fireblaze wings became Dragon wings, as his tail went into Dragon tail, his eyes turn into Dragon slit like eyes like the evil Rainbow Dash, but yellow, as his teeth grow into fangs and then fire cover him then once he was finishes the fire vanish as he was a Red Dragon now.
“FIREBLAZE: DRAGON FORM! WITH THIS CLAW OF MIND I WILL DEFEAT YOU, CORRUPTED RAINBOW DASH! AND I WILL BRING BACK THE REAL RAINBOW DASH THAT WON’T HARM HER FRIENDS. ONE THAT WON’T HARM HER LOVED ONES AND ONE WHO ALWAYS HAD LOYALTY TO HER FRIENDS!” he shouts.
Rainbow Dash was laughing at this.
“LOYALTY, SCHMOYALTY! LET ME SHOW YOU!” the corrupted Rainbow Dash scoffs.
Then she went for her first attack as she flew into the air and coming down.
“DARK TORNADO SLASH!” Rainbow Dash shouts.
“SHINING CLAW SLASH!” Fireblaze shouts.
Then Fireblaze’s claw glows bright, as he blocks that attack. Then an explosion came out.
“WHAT?” Rainbow Dash screams.
“You think I Am weak? LET ME SHOW YOU!” Fireblaze screams.
Then Fireblaze began to glow red as he began to do his next attack.
“LIGHTING BLAST!” Rainbow Dash shrieks.
Then she sends her attack towards Fireblaze.
“FIRESTORM!” Fireblaze shouts.
Then the attacks cancel each other out, just as the corrupt Rainbow Dash sees this.
“OK! THAT’S IT! TIME FOR A DOUBLE SONIC RAINBOOM!” Rainbow Dash screams.
Then the corrupt Rainbow Dash flies into the air as Fireblaze began to glow bright red, and then blue. Then he began to fly into the air at super speed.
“DOUBLE SONIC RAINBOOM!”
“FIRE AND ICE FUSION RAINBOOM!”
Back at the Crystal Empire, Discord opens the bottom entrance to the wine cellar, and after he comes out, the foxes, fillies, Ian, Leo, Shining Armor, and guards come out with him.
“Well, we’re in.” Leo said.
“You ready, girls?” Discord asks the fillies.
“Sure.” Sweetie Belle responds.
“Let’s find these documents!” Scootaloo cheers.
Tails holds on to his cousin T.J. real tightly, ready to protect his injured cousin. The foxes both nod.
“We’re ready too.” Tails said.
The gang then rushes out the cellar door, and split in their planned directions.
“BE CAREFUL!” Apple Bloom calls to Ian as she runs with her friends.
“I’m a diamond dog, I’m always ready for danger.” he calls back, “And I survive it!”
Ian, Leo, Shining Armor, and the guards then rush through the steam rooms of the palace, until they found the stairs that take them to the main hallway. They then rush through the hallway to make it into the main corridor dome of the palace. Finally, they rush to the door, and open it quietly to make sure they make a safe entrance for their rescue mission. Shining Armor looks devastated as he sees his own civilian friends being tied down by the weeds, and having their love and energy sucked out of them. Not only by the weeds, but also…
“Twilight…” Shining Armor shook in horror.
The purple alicorn who’s now more worse from being brainwashed, tends to the work of torturing and draining these victims. Her horn glows green, with blood twirling around it. The cape she’s also wearing makes her similar to Shining Armor’s other enemy, Sombra. Then, Twilight stops for a minute.
“Why don’t you come out and play with your sister, Shining Armor?” she coos.
Shining Armor shook more. Does she know they’re there? Before thinking of what to do, black weeds suddenly grow from the corridor ground, and blocks his, Ian’s, Leo’s, and the two guards’ path. The demonic plants then push them outside the door, until they fall in front of the evil Twilight. Volucris also magically appears, along with the brainwashed Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity walking beside Twilight.
“We found more survivors near the cupcake shop.” the evil Rarity scowls.
“Awwww. Your brother is alive….” evil Pinkie giggles.
“What should we do, Volucris our master?” the manipulated Applejack asks.
Volucris observes the face on Shining Armor.
“I’ll be seeing my sister Chrysalis at the inside of the palace any time now.” she chuckles, “While she congratulates me, Twilight…. you do what you want with your brother…”
Twilight then approaches her brother. Ian and Leo feel scared for him, while the evil Pinkie Pie lifts up Shining Armor’s guards with her dark magic, and rips out their energy. Shining Armor is now horrified in such a high level.
“Twilight… please…” Shining Armor begged.
Volucris heads to the palace doors, while Twilight has her horn collide with his. She smirks at this demise, just when she’s going to start. Then, a huge colorful bang in the sky is made and heard.
The fight with Fireblaze and corrupted Rainbow Dash was just happening when the good guys entered into the kingdom. Now, the two Rainbooms hit each other as the big explosion happens. Then every army, even Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie see this too. Shining Armor, Leo and Ian also look at the sky in surprise.
“Man, I never thought I see this happen…” Shining Armor said in awe.
Volucris also sees this and wasn’t happy.
“DANG! I didn’t knew Fireblaze would be this powerful as my corrupted Main Six. I think I need to brainwash him too. This way, he can help us succeed!” Volucris decides, “CHANGELINGS! GET RAINBOW DASH AND FIREBLAZE BEFORE THEIR FRIENDS DO!”
“There’s no doubt in my heart that Discord, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Tails, and TJ are busy. But they will sacrifice anything to stop you!” Ian says in defiance, “I also know William and Spike will do anything to escape.”
Shining Armor knew Ian isn’t saying too much. He remains calm, but gives his defiant look at Volucris.
“You still don’t have a chance of winning…” Leo snarls.
Volucris smirks.
“If you talk about our other friends, than they must be in the castle.” she snickers, “But what to do with you three? I don’t know yet… Keep them alive and impression them Twilight. We’ll deal with them later.”
Twilight than has the weeds bind Shining Armor, Leo, and Ian. Volucris then rubs her hoof harshly on Shining Armor’s face, as he sneers at her.
“Face it, you failed your mission.” she laughs.
Then Volucris enters the palace, tending to the rest of her sinister goals.
Just when Volucris and the brainwashed Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie, and Rarity captured Shining Armor, Ian, and Leo, the rest of the gang rushes through the glass covered halls that lead to the Crystal Library. Discord looks up at the ceiling window, then at the books. The fillies also scatter through the room, searching for any documents, or scrolls. The information HAS to be there somewhere. Meanwhile, Tails keeps his close eye on TJ, and rubs his wound gently every two minutes.
Then, the double rainboom explosion in the sky appears. The gang in the library is, now watching the same explosion that Volucris, the corrupted Twilight and her friends, Shining Armor, Ian, and Leo noticed.
“WHAT THE.....?!?” Discord says in surprise.
“LOOK!” Tails shouts.
“FIREBLAZE AND RAINBOW DASH!” Scootaloo screams.
They shake in shock after they saw the explosion.
“Come on, we can’t be distracted! Everypony, KEEP LOOKING!” Discord shouts.
The fillies nod, and look inch to feet through the vast room of books. It almost took ten minutes, but there comes a point when Sweetie Belle notices a silver box decorated with diamonds that is covered with books accidentally toppled on the floor. She then walks slowly to it, and brushes off the mess on top of the box. She then opens it, seeing documents and scrolls. She reads them just to make sure these scrolls are the ones they’re looking for. Then, she finds the word that knows these papers are useful. VOLUCRIS!
“GUYS! I FOUND THE SCROLLS!” she screams in excitement.
Discord, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo perk up their ears when they hear this, and rush back to the middle of the library to meet up with Sweetie Belle carrying the scrolls. Tails also comes into the middle, carrying TJ by his side.
CRASH!
That sudden noise is suddenly made loudly as the glass ceiling breaks into a snowfall of destruction. The group cowers in fear, and then looks up to see the cause. Volucris floats in the air, with the most vicious look on her face as possible. Then, somepony else flies by Volucris. CHRYSALIS!
“Well my dear sister. It’s good to see you again…” she snickers while eyeing the group, “Thanks for giving the heads start for me.”
Volucris then sees Scootaloo, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle as she smiles.
“Seems that those three do miss their sisters. Time for a family reunion, but under my control.” she sneers.
Then she sent a message to Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Twilight and Rarity.
“Capture your sisters, your brother, and Spike, Twilight, and force them to join our side this way. I want to see the look on Tails' pathetic face! HAHAHAHAHA!!!”
Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Applejack reply in Mind link with Volucris. “Yes, Queen Volucris!”
Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Applejack than instantly appear in front of Discord, the fillies, and the foxes with their black magic. The smiles on their manipulated faces are quite bloodthirsty and vicious.
“I took care of Fireblaze just to let you know.” she announces to the good guys, “He’ll be under interrogation until he joins us.”
Discord shakes in disbelief.
“And Twilight is now looking for Spikey-Wikey…” Rarity laughs
“How can you do this to your friends?” Discord whimpers, “We’re your buddies. Please don’t do this…”
“UGH! Such a pathetic reformed ass.” Chrysalis snorts, “Get them…”
Then weeds with Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash cutie marks come underneath Apple Bloom, Sweetie Bell, and Scootaloo. Discord sees this, having his jaw drop.
“GIRLS, LOOK OUT!” Discord warned.
“HUH?” the fillies all say at once, as the weeds cover them, “WHAT THE…”
“I’LL SAVE YOU!” Discord says in his comedic yet heroic tone, ready to save his friends.
“OH NO YOU WON’T, BUSTER!” a voice shouts.
Then Fluttershy appears, and comes tackling Discord hard as she could while beating him up. Discord whimpers in agony and depression, as he slowly looks up at his friend. Tears fall from his face real fast, with the terrifying realization she’s not his friend any longer. She’s now under a changeling’s power.
“Fluttershy… please…” Discord cries softly.
“DON’T CALL ME THAT!” she screams as she slaps Discord, “MY NAME IS FLUTTERBRUTE FROM NOW ON!”
Discord weeps in sadness. Tails and TJ also try to interfere, but more weeds grab hold of them, restraining them in the process. The squeeze also worsens TJ’s wound.
“AAAAAARGGGGHHHHH!” TJ screams, as he winces in pain.
“STOP! YOU'RE HURTING MY COUSIN!!!” Tails yells.
“SHUT UP!” Flutterbrute screams, as her magic punches Tails in the face. He grimaces, swearing his vengeance under his breath.
Flutterbrute then looks at the terrified Discord.
“Please, let those fillies go…” Discord softly begs.
“Those three got a date with destiny, Discord, and this way, you’ll join too.” she replies.
“No…” Discord weeps in anxiety.
“I wonder if you attack them, every single pony. HAHHAHAAHAHHAHAAHHA!” she laughs
Her horn then touches his forehead, with a fast green aura covering his eyes and horns. Tears go down his eyes real fast, when the enslaving spell now casts upon him.
Tails looks in horror at what’s about to happen. He then looks at the evil changeling sisters.
“Weeds, take these foxes to the dungeon to join their friends.” Chrysalis orders.
Volucris than drags the scrolls off the ground with her magic and looks at them.
“Such a shame.” Volucris sighs.
As Tails and TJ are taken away, they look at fear when Discord becomes brainwashed, and to see the scrolls BURN! Volucris destroyed the very advice that would have helped them stop her.
“You...ruthless...bastard...” Tails finally said, before the door closes behind the captive foxes.
Now coming through the end base of the mountains, Spike and William continue to follow the changeling.
“Say, had anyone notice that huge explosion in the sky a couple minutes ago?” William asks.
“It was faint, but I’d recognize a double rainboom.” Spike sighs, “I wondered who she was ordered to fight.”
“Whatever your guesses are do not concerns me…” Kaiba pants, “I just want to know were are. I hat the idea of being lost anywhere.”
“Well calm down Mr. Grouch.” William taunts, “Don’t you have a map in your backpack.”
Kaiba then puts an embarrassed look on his face, much to William and Spike’s surprise once again.
“I… I forgot the map.” Kaiba sheepishly admits.
“Well, that IS a good reason to feel embarrassed.” William adds.
“Come on, let’s just judge the directions by ourselves.” Spike advised, “I’m sure we’ll recognize we’re we are is we just concen…”
Spike’s eyes than widen at something catastrophic now in front of them. A military base once safe and filled with training ponies and guards, now gone. Piles of wood and weapons are on fire, and smoke rises in the sky. Ash is sinking into the ground, and a baby’s cry of an abandoned infant pony can be heard in these ruins. Spike, William, and Kaiba then rush to find the infant, and see it by a burning cabin, crying for its mother. Spike then rushes to it, and picks it up, calming it down and speaking softly to it.
“What do you think could’ve happened here?” William asks.
“The changelings.” Kaiba hissed, “MY kind must have done this…”
“We might have been traveling to long.” William shivers.
Spike then approaches back to William and Kaiba with the baby in his arms.
“This place doesn’t seem safe.” Spike admits when looking around, “Maybe we should…”
“DUCK!” William suddenly said.
Spike wonders what that’s supposed to mean, but then sees a huge black, slimy weed towering over the three heroes. It then slams to the ground, having Spike dodge the attack while protecting the baby. The weed then comes toward William, but William’s flexibility makes it impossible for him to be hit. The changeling then attacks the weed, using it razor sharp wings to cut it down and destroy it.
Then another weed with Twilight's Cutie Mark came and covered Spike, just as he drops the infant away from it.
“WHAT THE…?!” Spike shouts.
The weed then clutches onto Spike real tight.
“ANOTHER BLACK WEED! CHANGELING, HELP US GET THIS OFF OF SPIKE!” William requests.
Kaiba nods, and rushes to the weed to kick it at its root base. The weed squeals, and then knocks Kaiba down with its hard pedal. The changeling than comes back up to punch the weed, and tries to rip it’s grip off Spike. Just then, a boom knocks Kaiba down to the ground, having him fall beside William.
“You really had betrayed us, Kaiba…” a familiar voice calls out the ruin fire.
Spike recognizes the voice.
“Please don’t be evil. Please…” Spike prays, hoping that Twilight isn’t here to hurt anyone.
“Oh Spike, you hope very much. Yet there’s no hope left for you.” The evil Twilight snickers, as she now appears, right in front of William and Kaiba’s eyes.
Will our heroes escape their dangerous situation? Can they save the planet? Find out NEXT TIME!!!
Author's Note
Tails: Hey-o, it's me, Tails!! We're really pulling through, and I've done my first Kamehameha Wave EVER!!!
Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
William has his eyes rolling with insanity when he doesn’t know what to do. Looking at Kaiba weakened and less strong compared to Twilight is the worst irony he’s witnessing right now. He also looks at Spike, his close friend, who’s now trying to be manipulated by his OTHER close friend. William knows the definition for ‘unfair’, and right now, this situation fits his definition.
“You realize you know what you’re doing…” Kaiba lets the evil Twilight know, “And sooner or later, you will regret hurting your only friend.”
“How do you know what friendship is like?” evil Twilight snaps, “AND BE SILENT! STUPID SLAVE!”
Her magic then strikes Kaiba on his cheek, making a purple bruise to mix with his black skin.
“Jeez, don’t you have any good on ya?” William asks her.
“I wish…” she giggled, “Sadly, I don’t. So that’s how it is.”
She then has the weeds grab William’s tippy bottom, and Kaiba’s ankles. The two heroes are held back, as Twilight nears closer to Spike.
“Well, what should I do with you?” she wonders, not caring for the fear in his eyes.
“Twilight!” a mind link message sounded in her head. It’s coming from Flutterbrute.
Twilight turns to excuse herself, taking this message.
“What?” she answers the voice in her head.
“Discord broke the spell! He’s not giving in!” Flutterbrute sent and said to evil Twilight’s mind, “I though it will be fun for you to know that our changelings are torturing that beast as punishment for him not cooperating.”
“So, Discord didn’t give in to our brainwashing spell. He’s so powerful.” Twilight responds out loud while answering Flutterbrute, “Such a shame. He could have been useful for us.”
William, Kaiba, and Spike knew she wasn’t talking to herself, but mind linking with on of the manipulated six. They also feel relieved Discord fought back, but also pain for the abuse he’s now receiving. They don’t even want to imagine what they’ll do to him.
“Well no matter.” Twilight answers out loud, “I know the perfect replacement for him. Spike….”
Spike shook in fear now. The fact that he’s involved in this makes him fear evil, and the hatred of becoming evil himself.
“No… please… Twilight… I’m…” Spike cries.
“My assistant. And so you’ll continue to be.” the evil Twilight says, when turning back to him, “I just need to make a little adjustment on you, that’s all.”
Her horn then glows, ready to cast the spell on the little dragon. Spike now struggles real fast, hoping to escape the weed’s grip. But the weed holds him well in place.
“Don’t worry, this won’t hurt.” Twilight cooed, “At least I HOPE it does…”
Kaiba feels sympathy for the dragon. It’s the first time he ever felt it. In all honesty for himself it’s painful. And now he feels guilt, guilt for feeling weak and not doing anything to break loose and help Spike.
Meanwhile, William acts crazy, moving his head in random directions. He has to stop Twilight, and get loose to save Kaiba and Spike. But how?
Then, William came up with a reckless idea. He just has to speak to Twilight.
“Oh Twilight.” William sang out for a minute, yet going back to talking like a salespony, “If you’re going to brainwash Spike, there’s one thing you’re forgetting…”
Twilight turns to the worm, with an irritated look in her eyes. Her teeth even gnaw in anger.
“I have not forgotten anything!” she hissed.
“But my reckless behavior is very important since I’m linked to Discord!” William spat out, “If you brainwash me, that will give you an easier time to get Discord’s mind enslaved.”
“What makes you think I want you to work for ME?” Twilight demands.
“Think of it. Discord always watched over me and wanted me to use chaos for good. Yet I’ve turned everything against him, and he never gave up on me just to help me change my ways.” William persuades, “Since he’s not there yet, seeing me all crazy will make him give in to you.”
“I doubt that will happen.” Twilight scoffs.
“What ARE you doing?” Kaiba asked in fear and curiosity, “Are you really going to sacrifice yourself?”
Spike knows William is an idiot, but knowing the worm, he has a trick up his invisible sleeve. The dragon just has to keep calm and roll with it, in order to make Twilight unsuspicious.
“Oh no, I’m not sacrificing myself.” William answers Kaiba, “I’m just tired of being the good guy. That’s all.”
Twilight’s eyes lower.
“Tired of being good you say?” she muses.
“Yes. Every day ponies push me to do the reluctantly horrible garbage that’s so girly.” William says, acting serious, “I want something new, I need to act more dark, be sickening.”
Twilight approaches William very slowly.
“You have some nerve trying to negotiate with me.” she snarls.
“And what will Spike offer anyway?” William continues, “Bookkeeping? I happen to have a criminal record at police stations for blowing stuff up. Isn’t that more detail you need for the realistic help you can get?”
Twilight just looks at him.
“If you take me now, you’ll have a better chance catching your prey with my mischievous skills. After wall, fireworks I create make the better trapping kill.” he smiles.
“I don’t trust your word.” Twilight shouts.
“Applejack now isn’t honest either.” William points out, “Isn’t that the trait you need to get anypony to help you?”
Twilight now follows his point.
“You’re halfway there for amusing me.” Twilight admits.
“Tell ya what, if you do your business now, I’ll exterminate the other two right there for ya.” he offers.
Kaiba shook.
“TRAITOR!” the changeling hissed.
Spike says nothing. He just watches closely as Twilight finally sighs, touching her horn in William’s forehead. He knows it has to be a con trick on Twilight. He wants to believe it. And sure enough…
CHOMP!
William bites his teeth on Twilight’s horn, and keeps hold of it!
“YOW!” the evil Twilight scream.
She yanks her head up, accidently freeing William from the weed in the process. The reckless move William makes has his mouth burn in pain from the flaming aura going out of control on Twilight’s horn. Yet he keeps hold, to have his rescues goal continue to plan. He sinks his teeth harder, until…
Twilight’s magic no longer can take this pressure. William’s crazy stunt is hard enough to make Twilight’s aura go out of place, and EXPLODE! The green flame knocks the evil Twilight unconscious, also sending William hard to the ground, with his teeth released from her horn. The weed then disappear into thin air, and Spike and Kaiba are released. They stagger to their feet, as William comes over to help them. Kaiba then punches William in the face.
“YOWZA!” William shouts.
“ARE YOU CRAZY?” Kaiba shouts in frustration.
“YES!” William screams back, “BUT I JUST SAVED YOUR BUTTS!”
“Yes, well…” Kaiba reconsiders, but then changes the subject, “Where do you think they’re holding your friends? Because there’s no doubt where Discord is, THEY are.”
Spike sees Kaiba’s point.
“For some reason, I remembered a lesson that Twilight used to teach me about seeing colors of brain wave auras.” Spike recalls, “That was WAY before Twilight was brainwashed, and see told me that I carry some certain talents. One was reading mind links floating around heads based on colors. The colors I see tell a certain location. For example, red is for the Lost Mountains.”
“And you saw a certain color on Twilight’s head when it was invisible?” Kaiba asks, “How fascinating.”
“Yes, the color around her head was in a circle. It’s blue, meaning…” Spike realizes, “The Crystal Empire!”
Kaiba shudders.
“Your friends must be there, I have no choice but to help you two rescue them. It’s like I have no alternative.” Kaiba decides.
Spike then shakes Kaiba’s hoof.
“Thanks. That’s… awesome of you to help….” Spike replies.
“It’s weird how long we’re standing here, because of a dangerous pony by us.” William observes, “But since she’s unconscious, we can simply walk without…”
AARRRRRRRRGGGGGGH!
The three turn, to see Twilight snapping out of he state of unconsciousness. She the roars, and summons her weed demons to charge after them.
“JUMP ON ME!” Kaiba tells William and Spike.
William and Spike scream, and jump onto Kaiba’s back, just as he starts to run with such incredible speed, spreading his fly-like wings. Spike and William clutch onto the changeling’s back real tight, as he rushes through and around trees and giant rocks. He even flies and kicks back the attacking weeds as they summon themselves through the rocky ground. His fisted hooves even punch and tear through the vines, sending gushy slime to slam towards the ground. From that moment on, Kaiba now flies through the air. He even allows to have Spike and William clutch onto his backpack for support.
“We must be losing her.” Kaiba thinks
Then, THE WEEDS RISE TO THE SKY. And they become BIG, BIG and GIANT, and they look quite horrifying judging their new size. The dessert atmosphere becomes satanic as they look behind them to see Twilight riding the killer weeds like their steeds. They also look below them to see the Hidden Cove, now infiltrated by the evil changelings, which are being led by… PINKIE PIE!
“She might notice us….” William peeps, “BOTH of them will. We’re screwed.”
“I don’t think so…” Kaiba predicts, “HOLD ON!”
Kaiba then swoops up into the air, and makes diagonal patterns. The weeds follow with twists and turns, following the cloud paths made by Kaiba. One weed still keeps still as it moves, to have the evil Twilight keep in base with her targets. Then, is got foggy all of a sudden. Real fog gets bigger in the sun-rising sky, and the weeds senses become tricky in this weather blockage. Twilight has trouble seeing through the clouds herself. Soon, the clouds evaporate, and all becomes clear again. Twilight and her weeds than looks around in the high altitude of the sky above the desert ground. Kaiba, Spike, and William are gone. The weeds searched twice to make sure, but they didn’t find them.
“IMBECILES!” the evil Twilight screamed, “HAVE YOU NO SHAME FOR FAILING THIS SIMPLE TASK!”
After a couple minutes of screaming, she collects herself, and breathes slowly.
“We’ll report to Volucris and Chrysalis real bluntly.” Twilight decides, “RETREAT!”
They then lower themselves back to the ground of the earth, and magically make themselves disappear back to the Crystal Empire. Not far from where the black magic enemies evaded, was Spike, William, and Kaiba. The three of them hidden into a carved tree bark cave, as soon as Kaiba rushed to land them down.
“I was lucky enough to teach myself about making my own fog in the sky when I was alone a while back.” Kaiba tells Spike and William, as he hides with them, “That way, I create to camouflage myself from enemies.”
“And us.” William adds.
“That was quick thinking!” Spike congratulates to Kaiba.
“You’re welcome.” Kaiba sighed, “I also know where the empire you’re looking for is. Do you wish to take me there?”
“Are you really offering…” William started to ask.
“YES, OR NO?” Kaiba demands.
“Well of course, YES!” Spike answers, “We need to rescue our friends.”
“Then I better help you think of a way to get to them without getting caught.” Kaiba replies, “Listen very closely…”
Discord is in HUGE pain right now. His hands are bound tightly in front of him with razor sharp rope, and his neck hurts and throbs from being tugged by the neck shackle. The changelings around him keep guard as they walk him to his cell.
“What did you do to my friends?” Discord wondered.
“You’ll be sharing the same cell with them, that’s all we’re going to say.” one changeling said.
They then arrive right in front of Discord’s cell, and open the door. Inside are all of is friends, now captured and bound up, just like he his. Shining Armor sits in the corner of the room, with his hand and feet hooves bound, while his neck is chained up to the wall, having is head hang in shame. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle also wear shackles on the hand and feet hooves, while neck shackles are connected to the wall. The two foxes also have their hands bound up in front of them, while their necks are also shackled to the wall. They sit real close to a chained up Leo, and tied up Ian, shaking their heads in despair.
“Sit anywhere you like!” the changelings orders to Discord, “And your magic is weak too! These restraints are chaos-proof!”
Discord chooses to sit close to Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle, nuzzling and snuggling close to them for comfort. It’s not only to cheer them up, he wants to feel loved by them as well. And after thinking of Fluttershy beating him, he doesn’t feel love exists from outside this cell right now.
Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle also hug Discord for comfort, with tears streaming down their faces.
“Where’s Scootaloo?” Discord asked with a whimper.
“Our Rainbow Dash wanted to see her personally.” the changeling replies, “That filly will work for us in no time at all.”
Discord is full of hate for the villains now. He tries to lunge at them, but the changelings are quick as they connect his choker shackle to the wall. Discord coughs out a little blood when he’s held back, and the fillies cry out for him, ashamed that he’s in so much pain like they are. As they hug the wheezing Discord, Apple Bloom looks angrily at the Changelings.
“You monsters…” she growls, “What purpose is there for trying to kill everypony?”
“Lots.” the changeling replies, as others leave the room to lock the door, “And it’s fun too…”
The door than slams, and a loud click was heard when the door is locked.
"What are we gonna do?" T.J. groaned. "My arm's broke, and we're gonna die soon."
"Oh, the hell we are. I’ll think of a genius plan!!" Tails smirked, whipping out a medium-sized sack.
"What are those?" Discord asked.
"They're called Senzi Beans. I got these when I trained with a guy named Master Korin… Man, he always knew when to think ahead...I should thank him."
Tails grinned.
"Here, eat one." Tails fished one out of his bag and handed T.J. one.
"Why?" The Kitsunian asked.
"You'll see." Tails smirked.
T.J. chewed it up and gulped it down. Suddenly, his arm wasn't broken anymore.
"HEY!! Those are some cool beans!!" T.J. grinned. "Thanks, Tails. I owe ya one."
"Fuggedaboudit. Let's just focus and think on how to get outta here." Tails smirked.
“How?” Discord asks, “They have us restrained and imprisoned well. Plus, every sector is extremely guarded, escape will be useless.”
“If I could have been stronger…” Shining Armor groans in guilt.
Then, his anxiety worsens. Ian puts his paw on his shoulder to try and calm him down.
“They must have Cadence.” Shining Armor fears, “I knew it when I saw Fireblaze taken down by Rainbow…”
Shining Armor’s tears go faster like the speed of a river.
“What will they do to her?” he cries.
Leo just shakes his head in deep concern.
“Let’s just be patient and think.” the gnome advises, “Like Tails said, we have to think of a plan to get out of here.”
“I hope it’s a good one.” TJ sighs.
Pain was a ticking clock inside Fireblaze’s head. The headache is bad enough that he groans and slowly opens his eyelids, to see a torture chamber made with cobblestones, the one HE’S in. Then Fireblaze woke up as he was in Rainbow Dash’s Weeds.
“What the?” Fireblaze said in confusion.
“Well, You finally wake up.” a voice said in the room. It was Rainbow Dash’s. “Nice battle you give me, and let me say you are the first one to give me a real fight there. But My Queen Volucris wants you, and don’t worry about Scootaloo, she will join us too. Because YOU will join us.”
“I WON’T JOIN YOU RAINBOW DASH!” Fireblaze protested while struggling.
A slap then strikes against his cheek.
“My name is RAINBOW BRIAR! Call me that from now on!” she demands.
She then steps out of the shadows, with the sinister look in her eyes.
“I thought you love me.” she cooed, “Don’t you want to be with me? Obey our Queen Volucris, and join my side so we can bring pain even misery to Equestria.”
“What?” Fireblaze gasps.
“Come on! Rainbow Dash inside of me still loves you, and you don’t want see her get hurt do you?” she whispers, as she has her hoof sink in the dark magic right into Fireblaze.
“UNH! NO, I WON’T… I mean… I don’t…” Fireblaze stammers as he now falls into the powers of darkness.
“Well, just join the darkness, and you will be reborn. And also, you’ll be with me.” she negotiates, just as her brainwashing spell finishes up.
Finally, Fireblaze’s eyes glow.
“Yes, you are right. I must join the darkness.” he says.
“That’s right. I told Twilight to trust me on this anyway.” Rainbow Briar snickers.
Then he falls into the Darkness as dark energy covers him. Once it was done, the dark weeds disappeared as he was reborn. His wings are dragon like, his eyes now slit like eyes of Rainbow Briar’s. His hoof shoes have his cute mark on them, and he was wearing armor too.
“Welcome to our team, Fireblaze!” Rainbow Briar chuckles, “Or I should say Fireburn.”
Fireburn is forced to agree because of the spell.
“Yes, that will be my new name, and now I am with you. I’ll also serve my queens. Volucris and Chrysalis are now in my control”
In Fireburn’s mind, Fireblaze was wrapped up in dark weeds, and sends this final message. It has gone to his dragon father, who is hiding somewhere in the Hopeful Mountains.
Fireblaze thought and said in Fireburn’s mind.
“Sorry dad, I failed you.”
Then Fireburn was released, and follows Rainbow Briar to Scootaloo’s area, as the dark weeds covered her too.
“Hello squirt!” Rainbow Briar mocked, “Happy to see me?”
“You’re not the Rainbow Dash I know!” Scootaloo sobs, “Why are you doing this?”
“One, I’m Liking it. OKAY? Two, I used to not want to care for you, but since Queen Volucris told us to capture you three, now we care. Also, say hello to Fireburn, who used to Be Fireblaze!” Rainbow Briar snickers, pointing her hoof to him.
“WHAT?” Scootaloo gasped.
Fireburn trots closer to Scootaloo, smiling evilly.
“Hello squirt.” Fireburn whispers, “Come join us, because it’s fun. Also, you will get your cutie mark.”
“Yes, you will get your cutie mark, and even get revenge on Diamond Tiara and Sliver Spoon for messing with you and your other two friends.” Rainbow Briar adds.
Scootaloo, then thinking about this, sees what she has to accept from this, since she does want to see Diamond Tiara and Sliver spoon go away forever. However…
“What if I don’t join?” Scootaloo asks.
Rainbow Briar gives an emotionless look.
“Fireburn.” she tells him, “Tell the changelings to arrange a special execution for Discord, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Shining Armor.”
“WAIT!” Scootaloo screams, now frightened.
The little filly pegasi hangs her head down in defeat.
“Okay, I will join you!”
Rainbow Briar and Fireburn smile evilly.
“Welcome to the club squirt!” Rainbow Briar snickers.
Then, darkness covers Scootaloo, as she laughing evilly now. Once it was done, the Dark Weed also disappeared. Then Scootaloo came out wearing black hoof shoes with her armor. Her eyes now slit like too, as she smiles.
“Your new name is Darkness Scootaloo now, my new pupil.” Rainbow Briar said.
“Yes my mentor…” Darkness Scootaloo giggles.
Then, Fireburn joins in with Rainbow Briar and Darkness Scootaloo with an evil laugh.
At length, two more allies have been turned to the dark side, and our heroes are still in the slammer. But, using the Kitsunian duo's new found strength, will Tails and the others bust out and strike back with a vengeance? Stay tuned for scenes from the next exciting episode of "MLP: The Volucris Saga"!!
Author's Note
And until the next chapter comes out, that's all I wrote!!! For now...
Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
Kaiba silently lands himself on the ground, slowing his feet as his controlled running soon comes to a halt. Spike and William still clutch onto him, as the three heroic intruders find an abandoned building near the middle of the Crystal Empire square. Kaiba trots quietly, and slows down in the alleyways. Spike and William then hop to the ground as they resume walking through the well-hidden paths. Kaiba then looks out through the square to make sure the coast is clear.
“Over there! RUN QUICKLY!” Kaiba said.
They dashed through the crystal square, now darkened like coal replaced the road. The building they’re entering is all crumbled up, like the apocalypse bullied it. They were lucky no other changelings noticed them, otherwise, Kaiba’s plan would completely backfire. Kaiba hopes his plan will work.
They then rush through the doorway and crouch behind the walls.
“All right, I’ll disguise myself as a darkened pony that’s been volunteered to join the dark side. Plenty more of them have gone through that.” Kaiba summarizes, “If I’m lucky, I’ll morph into a fake Twilight and have the other changelings unlock your friends by mistake.”
“And as soon as we free them, I’ll distract…” William offers.
“No, I’LL distract the other changelings.” Kaiba insists, “I want revenge on them personally after they enslaved me.”
“But they’ll kill you.” Spike stammers.
“Listen, I know the risks.” Kaiba says, “But rest assured, your friends are the only hope to make not only my life easier, but your other pony friends. Chances are, something like this has to be done, or else your friends will be the ones that are killed.”
Spike and William sigh, and nod in understanding.
“Thanks SO much for doing this again…” William said.
“It’s like… you’re now our friend too.” Spike says in relief.
“For the very first time, I know what that feels like… having a friend.” Kaiba sighed.
He looks out the window, and observes the design of the place. His green and blue eyes zoom in at every room in each floor.
“I’ll blend in with my kind as soon as I sneak you into a sewer line that leads to the dungeon.” he finally concludes, “When I knock those other ruffians out, I’ll help unlock the other prisoners. All right, RUN FOR IT!”
They dash out the building through the empty streets, feeling lucky they’re still safe. It wasn’t until Kaiba notice his race is near the next turn, and that Spike and William are now on top of the sewer entrance.
“As if Rarity would have a bad time with this” William shudders as he lifts the sewer entrance lid.
Finally, Kaiba prepares himself as he enters the group, just as Spike and William drop softly into the calm level of the sewer tunnel.
“How will we know where the dungeon is?” William asks.
“We were just heading toward the north, the direction where the palace is.” Spike assures, when pointing north, “It’s this way genius.”
“Oh, right, I knew that.” William said sarcastically, as they head down the tunnel to rescue their friends.
Back in the big, single cell, Discord struggles to free his hands while comforting Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. Tails thinks hard of an escape plan with TJ, while Ian comforts Shining Armor. Leo looks up at the ceiling, twirling his hands in his shackles.
“Have you come up with anything yet?” Leo asks Tails.
Tails eventually sulks his head down, sinking back against the wall.
“No…” he shamefully admits.
“This is not good…” Discord stutters, “At this point, all of Equestria’s love will be at collapse, and every pony might… I… I don’t even want to say it.”
“It’s very obvious to me that we’re weak.” Shining Armor moans, “Volucris planned this all out real well.”
“I don’t want to give in yet.” Tails whimpers in defiance, “Not without a fight…”
Everyone in the room is now silent. Fear surround them, and abuses them until they have less confidence.
Then, a voice gently calls to them in the room.
“Hello there.” the voice said.
Everyone looks up, curious where that voice is coming from.
“Who is that?” Tails asks.
When that question is asked, a aura filled the room. A magical being then appears in cloud form, meaning it could be a spirit. Maybe even a ghost. The being is not a pony, but a red dragon, wearing a white cloth shirt, and wearing a metal Viking helmet. He even has a brown beard dangling down from his chin. The being looked like a projection as it floated in the middle of the room. But it’s such a spirit, it’s one that came to help them.
“Hey, I recognize you, from books and legends.” Discord softly says, “And I heard every history about Fireblaze… You’re not Fireblaze’s father, are you?”
The red dragon spirit nods.
“I am Thanor, and Fireblaze is my son.” the dragon ghost replies.
“Wow! I didn’t know that!” Apple Bloom said in awe.
The spirit then makes a movement with his hands, and in an instant, the heroes’ bindings came off. Ropes and chains disappear, giving everyone in the room the freedom they need for now.
“Thank you.” Shining Armor said, “What else do you know about Fireblaze?”
Thanor sighs in sadness.
“I feel and fear that he has now fallen into darkness since Rainbow Dash forced him.” Thanor stutters.
Shining Armor’s jaw dropped when he heard that.
“What happened to Scootaloo?” Apple Bloom asks.
“Like my son, she also joined the darkness too. So you may be facing her also.” Thanor said with much more sadness.
“WHAT? NO!” Sweetie Belle cries.
“Well we got to break out now, and FAST!” TJ said in determination.
“I know, but also in little future, I see that only five of you will make it out, and Twivine, Queen Volucris, and Chrysalis’ Minions will stop the other three.” Thanor sadly announces.
“Who are the other three?” Tails asks.
“Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Shining Armor.”
Discord shakes his head in bewilderment.
“BUT WHY?” Shining Armor asks.
“Well Shining, I just found out that they plan to turn Cadence into Dark Vine Cadenza, and she will face you.” Thanor breathes out.
“WHAT? NO!” Shining Armor cries, “Can’t you stop it?”
“Alas, I am already dead and unable to.” Thanor said slowly, “But I can give you advice how to beat Volucris, because the rest of you five will have to find a legendary weapon that can beat Volucris and Chrysalis. It will also bring everyone back to normal, but I can’t tell you the weapon name right now, because they may hear it. Only you must come to the select location once you out of this prison. William and Spike are on their way right now to get you out. A good changeling named Kaiba is also helping them, distracting his race. You will then leave, then I will meet with you in Vanhover. Get to that city, and I will appear there.”
“But why should I, Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom get captured?” Shining Armor asks.
“Because you’ll be sacrificing yourselves to keep them busy. This way, they won’t know about the power or location too. It will give the other five big head starts get to the city.” Thanor explains.
“NO! That’s stupid! I don’t want them to give up their lives! They’re special!” Discord protests.
“Yes… but…” Apple Bloom considers, “You’re special too. And so is Spike, William, Ian, and Leo.”
“Tails, you and TJ also have a destiny to save us.” Sweetie Belle encourages, “You came THIS far with us.”
“Yeah, but… you’re still the good guys…” Tails said in depression.
Shining Armor breathes heavily, but strongly agrees with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle’s point. Plus, the dragon spirit sounds wise enough to guide them through this tough path to victory.
“It may be the only way.” Shining Armor finally said.
Tails and TJ nod slowly, along with Discord.
Just then, the cell door bursts open, and William topples in. Outside the dungeon corridor, Kaiba is knocking out the rest of the changeling enemies while holding the jail keys. Spike also fights the last of the changelings in the hall, while breathing his green fire. Eventually, their destination came to a success. The three rescuers are also surprised to see the dragon spirit, who is now disappearing.
“Who was THAT?” William asked.
“We’ll explain on the way.” Tails said, “We’d better move now.”
“Right” everyone agreed.
The ponies with Cadence have been captured and brought along with her as they come through the hellish entrance of the Crystal Empire. The changeling guards force the victimized ponies to line up to their prisons, while Volucris and Chrysalis trot to Cadence slowly. She’s tied down to the ground with the black weeds, holding her hooves still.
“I never thought I see YOU again…” Cadence sneers when she sees Chrysalis.
“Now don’t take this personally.” Chrysalis chuckles, “This is just a simple mind exercise.”
“Uhn… No…” Cadence winces as she struggles.
The brainwashing procedure was the usual. Horn touching horn, the green aura transferred, and the brain waves shaking with confusion and amnesia. A feeling of a transferred soul also is made, like the true soul of a good pony is being sealed away.
Then, once the spell is complete, Cadence became Dark Vine Cadenza as her eyes were slit. She then wears armor and steel hoof shoes, and has a Steel crown on her head too.
“I am in your power, Queen Volucris and Chrysalis.” Dark Vine Cadenza finally said.
“Good” Queen Volucris purred.
BANG!
An explosion suddenly sounds loud and clear, somewhere in the Crystal Palace.
“WHAT WAS THAT?” Queen Chrysalis asked.
Then, a changeling minion trotted to the entrance zone, to meet face to face with the changeling queens.
“Queen Volucris and Chrysalis, the prisoners are escaping.” the changeling told them, “That creature Discord has made that explosion to help them run off.”
“WHAT? YOU IDIOT!” Volucris snaps.
“Why don’t you send Flutterbrute, Darkness Scootaloo, Appleplant and Rarivine also Dark Vine Cadenza to stop the intruders?” Chrysalis suggests.
“You’re right.” Volucris nods.
She then makes a mind link signal to the two ponies, and filly. She even looks at Dark Vine Cadenza to share the order.
“GET THOSE FOOLS!” Volucris demands with her voice and mind.
“YES MASTER!” they all respond with their thoughts and voices.
With that, they rush to their evil work.
It’s in the entering chamber of the dungeon that William and Spike are helping Kaiba fight against his enemies. This also gives Tails, TJ, Discord, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom to go up the stairs step by step while they fight against the other changelings. Shining Armor also makes a break ahead to the top, when fighting the black weeds alongside Ian and Leo. Soon, all the other changelings are knocked down by Discord’s magic and Tails’ Kamehameha wave. The gang than comes together, and rushes down the royal kitchen. Kaiba who knows the palace well based on the sketched maps the changelings use, points to a secret entrance that leads the way out to Tails.
“Come on, the exit is over there!” Tails shouts.
The secret entrance was at the dining room. The table that’s bolted down to the floor, is really a rounded seal door, that leads to underground stairs that will take anypony near the town of Vanhover, from what Kaiba has heard.
“It seems I have no choice but to guide you simpletons there!” Kaiba tells Shining Armor, “My kind won’t trust me any longer.”
“Uh… thanks…” Shining Armor says in surprise.
However, before any of them can go further, dark weeds tear out of the floor, and block Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle’s path.
“WHAT THE…” Sweetie Belle gasps.
“GUYS!” TJ screams.
The gang tries to go back, but more weeds block their path too. Discord attempts to use his magic, but Apple Bloom yells at him to wait.
“GUYS! This is what Thanor was talking about!” Apple Bloom reminds them.
“YOU MUST GO!” Sweetie Belle shouts.
“NO! WE CAN’T!” Discord sobs.
“YOU MUST, BEFORE THEY CATCH YOU!” Apple Bloom warns.
Tails puts his hand on Discord.
“They’re right.” Tails advised, “We can only hope those fillies will catch up with us on the way.”
Discord nods slowly while crying, and agrees.
“Be safe girls!” TJ calls out.
Then, the gang opens up the seal, and heads down through the entrance that leads to the underground trail. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle now stand side-by-side, ready to fend for each other.
“Well, you tried escaping my masters. But it’s too late for that now.” a voice calls out to them.
The weeds open up to let an enemy into the room. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle hold back their tears when they see who it is. IT’S SCOOTALOO, except she’s now Darkness Scootaloo.
“Did you miss me?” Darkness Scootaloo snickers.
“Scootaloo? What happened to you?” Apple Bloom asks in horror.
“IT’S DARKNESS SCOOTALOO! Rainbow Briar and Fireburn are my mentors now. THEY made it happen!” the brainwashed filly scoffs.
“NO! It can’t be…” Sweetie Belle shakes.
“Oh, but IT IS true. And also, your sisters want to talk to you.” Darkness Scootaloo added.
The weeds stay open, as Applejack (APPLEPLANT) and Rarity (RARIVINE) came in.
“Well sis, we’re giving you two a choice.” Appleplant scowls.
“Yes, either join us, or we’ll order the changelings to KILL Big Mac, Granny Smith, and also, my parents Sweetie Belle, which is also yours…” Rarivine sneers.
“You WOULDN’T!” Apple Bloom squeals.
“NO! NOT THEM!” Sweetie Belle sniffs.
“EITHER JOIN US OR THEY DIE!” Appleplant said once again, “And you don’t want to see anything bad happen to them…”
Apple Bloom then starts to feel strange all of a sudden. Appleplant is transferring her dark energy into her own sister!
“Yes, you don’t want anything to happen to our parents, right Sweetie Belle?” Rarivine adds.
Then, Sweetie Belle staggers, as Rarivine transfers dark energy into her own sister as well. Then Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle’s eyes glow green.
“Yes. We can’t let anything bad happen to them!” the two fillies finally said.
“GOOD!” Appleplant and Rarivine coos.
The tunnel was about sixty feet wide in width and height. The dirt rumbles in a dancing beat as the gang rushes down the underground trail. Discord fights his tears while Shining Armor comforts him. Kaiba keeps at leading the way, as Leo and Ian run by him. Spike also clings onto Discord’s back, while William rushes by Tails and TJ. Tails can also see the pain in Discord’s eyes, and stops for second while slowing his pace.
“Tails?” TJ said.
“I know what Thanor told us, but…” Tails stammers.
“The changelings are coming for me too you know!” Shining Armor reminds the fox while slowing down as well, “I’ll be sacrificing my life too, so don’t think that they’re the only ones…”
“BUT THEY’RE JUST KIDS!” Tails points out, “Who knows what terrible things they’ll be forced to do!”
“Tails, we must do what Thanor told us.” Discord insists.
“I’M GOING BACK IN!” Tails decides.
“NOT SO FAST!” a voice yells out in the tunnel.
A punch suddenly erupts on Tails’ back, as Flutterbrute instantly appears, attacking him. Weeds then tear through the walls of the tunnel, coming in front of the rest of the heroes by alarm. Kaiba even growls at the evil Flutterthorn.
“YOU are TOO LATE, STUPID FOX!” Flutterbrute said in a condescending tone to Tails, “Those three fillies are joining their sisters right now! AND SHINING ARMOR…”
Flutterthorn then looks at him, with the unicorn prince looking back in terror.
“Your wife wants to see you NOW!” Flutterbrute finally snaps.
Then a Hole appears underneath Shining Armor as he falls in. The black magic consumes him, and transports him away from his friends, taking him away to meet his enemies.
“GUYS!” Shining Armor screamed. It was his last word before the hole disappears.
“SHINING ARMOR!” TJ screams.
“NO!” Discord cries.
The lord of chaos tries to dig, hoping that he will find the black hole. He even uses his magic to try and get his friend back, but that was no good either. He finally looks at Flutterthorn with his other friends in the tunnel.
“The eight of you will have to deal with ME AND THE CHANGELINGS!” Flutterbrute roared.
Then, a lot of changelings magically appeared in the tunnel.
“I’M GONNA BEAT YOU!” Tails yells.
“HA! I LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY!” Flutterbrute laughs.
Discord held himself, fighting his pain in the meantime. He doesn’t want to fight his best friend, and he knew that this manner is between her and Tails.
Tails then comes at Flutterbrute, with a punch being missed as she dodges. She then hits him with her front hoof, having one of Tails’ teeth knocked out. Tails than does an unknown back kick to her leg hooves, having her topple to the ground. She then jumps back up, but not before being sucker punched by her left side of the chest. She topples back a bit; curious to see were this is going.
"And now...THIS is for hurting my cousin on PURPOSE." Tails growled, "T.J., if you will?"
TJ then walks in, flexing his healed arm in preparation for the fight.
"Impossible...HOW can that healing be so fast? Your arm was broken hours ago!" Flutterbrute gaped.
"Oh, it was no sweat, thanks to my Senzi Beans; they'll heal any injury, and fill a hungry man up for 10 days." Tails grinned, popping the green bean into his mouth. He crunched it between his teeth, and gulped it down.
"Ahh.... I feel like a new fox." T.J. stood in front of Tails, his hands placed above his head, aimed at the target, facing-front. Tails stood behind, doing the same thing. The energy flowed into their palms.
Flutterbrute snarls.
“ENOUGH OF THIS STALLING!” she rages, “CHANGELINGS, ATTACK!”
The evil changelings charge toward the heroes with the darkest, sharpest weapons possible. They were getting close to the group, ready to kill them. Discord cowers and hugs Ian and Leo. Spike and William have the most nervous look on their faces at this moment. Just then, Kaiba rushes in to protect his new friends.
The good changeling with his backpack dodges and kicks enemies as they come at the group. He even steals one of their weapons to cut back at them. The swordplay was clinging and clashing at every changeling he met. When other changelings snuck in from behind, they prepare to attack Discord and his friends. Ian and Leo then protect Discord punching and kicking at them. Discord even uses a “THE MASK” reference to scare the changelings off.
Tails and TJ still stand in their positions with the aura in their hands.
“Ready?” TJ asks.
“Not yet. Just give it time.” Tails instructs.
William and Spike look at curiosity at the foxes. Are they waiting for the right moment?
Flutterbrute snarls at their close win.
“THAT IS IT! WEEDS! GROW BIGGER!” Flutterbrute shrieks.
The weeds that surrounded the group before then come by Flutterbrute, and grow fat. They even expand their thorny spikes to make their kill. At that moment, the changelings make space for the weeds, as the evil vines charge the group. Discord whimpers in fear, along with Spike and William. Kaiba observes the foxes. Then…
"OKAY, HERE WE GO!! DEMON FLASH: MASENKO--HA!!!" The two foxes screamed.
Suddenly, a yellow-white energy blast fired, concentrating into T.J.'s palms, and fired out of his palms, even bigger.
Flutterbrute could only watch in horror as the energy blast engulfed her. The energy also incinerates the weeds, making them bleed out ooze, and having it evaporate into non-existence instantly. The aura then dies down; having Flutterbrute, scorched and agonized, fall back. She looks back up, and hisses at the group, enraged at their victory. She even looks at Discord.
“I’m sure we’ll meet again, BEAST!” Flutterbrute scowls.
Discord sniffs. This still isn’t the Fluttershy he knew. He can only allow his friends, the worm, dragon, gnome, dog, changeling, and foxes to protect him. Tails also eyes at Flutterbrute to go back and leave them alone.
“THIS ISN’T OVER!” She roars, “CHANGELINGS! RETREAT!”
With that, they rush down the opposite direction of the tunnel, leaving the group to now fend for themselves once again. All is silent. The wind in this hall is low and eerie. Discord wants to show comic relief after this fight, but how. After all…
“They took Shining Armor…” Discord moans.
Spike and William sigh in depression in understanding. Kaiba shudders, angry at himself for doing nothing about it. The foxes also feel shame for their mentor; afraid of the tortures he’ll go through. Ian and Leo than put their hands on Discord’s back to comfort him.
“We WILL get him back.” Ian promises.
“As soon as we find that weapon Thanor is talking about, our friends will come back to normal.” Leo adds.
“E…Even Fluttershy?” Discord asks.
“Yeah, even her.” Leo nods.
“And Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash…” Ian starts to sniff.
The diamond dog than falls to the ground quite traumatized, as he knows it. It’s all too much to take in. He fears this responsibility won’t be good enough to save the main six. Tails then helps the dog up, and hugs Discord while he’s at it.
“It’s okay.” Tails comforts, “Me and my cousin will do anything we can to help Twilight and the others.”
“You don’t have a crush on her, do you?” William asks in curiosity.
Tails breathes heavily at that question. He knows it’s true, he does. However…
“We’ll talk about it later.” Discord finally said with bravery on his face, “We have to get to Vanhover just like Thanor said.”
The gang nods in agreement.
“Well, as usual, we better get going.” Spike admits.
Since the darkness is now around Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle, their eyes have now gone slit like, while they wear armor and steel hoof shoes. They also wear black capes on their necks with the golden tag saying Dark Cutie Mark Crusaders. The three fillies now stand in the middle of the palace entrance with the manipulated ponies. The changelings also surround them as if a ceremony is there to congratulate them.
“Now Apple Bloom, you will now be called Apple Vine, my dearest sister.” Appleplant said, “And if you like, you can bring as much pain and misery to the other fillies as you wish.”
“And you.” Rarivine says to Sweetie Belle, “You are now Spice Belle, and you’ll be as evil like me as much as you want. Now if you two may, help Darkness Scootaloo kill Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. They’re still hiding somewhere in Vanhover.”
“Yes, our dear sisters.” Apple Vine soothes, “We will bring pain and misery.”
“Yes, sis.” Spice Belle chuckles, “It’s time we gave Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon what they deserve. HAHAHAHAHA!”
Applevine then sends a telepathic message to Queen Volucris.
“We turned our sisters, master.” Apple Vine announced to Volucris.
“Good.” Queen Volucris giggles, “Now let’s see if Dark Vine Cadenza will turn her husband dark, or not…”
After the message is sent, Chrysalis enters the room to stand by Appleplant, Rarivine, and Rainbow Briar as they introduce their manipulated sisters. More changelings then come in with Shining Armor pulled in chains. He grunts as they bolt his chains to the floor, having him struggle and trying to pull free.
Then, Shining Armor sweats faster as he looks at the pony trotting to him. His eyes fill up with fear. PRINCESS CADENCE, who’s now Dark Vine Cadenza, has her horn glowing green as she comes closer to him.
“I know you’re no longer my wife.” Shining Armor said in defiance, “And there’s no way you’ll come into match with Discord, Tails, TJ….”
“…And William, Spike, Kaiba, Leo, and Ian. I know, darling.” Dark Vine Cadenza chuckles, “But rest assured, I’m still your wife.”
Her horn then touches Shining Armor’s, as he shook like he’s having a seizure. Foam pours out his mouth as his mind becomes controlled. His eyes start to glow green.
“And you’re my husband.” Dark Vine Cadenza finally concluded.
Author's Note
Been a while--I know. I was on vacation in Canada, don't hate on me.
Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
The trip to Vanhover was just over the mountains for a new coming pony. This male young warrior is a pony prince from the northern section of the Western Alps, were the buffalo and other cowboy ponies joined forces. He’s a muscular alicorn who has a grey mane and tail, green antlers, and blur fur. He also wears a green cloak, and golden hoof shoes. He was just on his way to Vanhover after training with his father King Kai, and other teachers like his master Roshi.
He just escaped from the black weed invasion on his hometown three days ago, which his father became prisoner after that. Before he traveled to Vanhover, King Kai said these words to him.
“I know the Great Spirit Thanor has set up a plan with me long ago unless this travesty happens. Go on your journey through the deserts, do not get caught, supply yourself very well, and find your way to the abandoned city of Vanhover. Find whomever you must there, anypony that survives WILL help you. Be sure you trust them though, and use every strategy I taught you to fight those changelings.”
The young pony on this journey is named Mokuba. He knows his appearance of his father in his mind, and keeps him envisioned so he can encourage his own strength. King Kai in this universe is a blue adult pony, wearing a black crown, and a mixed red and black cape. Mokuba even looks at his sketchbook now and then of the drawings he made to reflect on the areas he traveled through when camping. He even looks the picture of his pen pal, and destined girlfriend. Diamond Tiara.
He looks inside the book once more, before he leaves the mountains to go into the city of skyscrapers.
“Why do you have to be so mean?” he sighs when looking at her picture, “That I’ll find out. But I promise, I’ll also rescue you. No matter what.”
He then puts away his sketchbook back into his backpack, and continues his hike to the city of Vanhover.
The tunnel for the gang eventually ends under the rocky cave of the mountains. Discord then sees a gravel trail that leads to a disastrous pile of torn buildings caused by the weeds. Vanhover.
“Well, we’re here.” Spike observes.
“Just in case…” Discord said, lighting his paw, “I’ll prepare my magic in case something comes at us.”
The gang then moves forward. They kept their eyes open, and look around the sandy setting that’s full of suspense. The trail lasted ten minutes when them keeping close watch. Tails and TJ prepared their own magic themselves. Ian and Leo look up at the sky, curious of the kind of day that is. The color of the clouds is a mix of grey and orange in this sunset contrast of the sky. William just looks at Spike, checking on how he’s doing. Kaiba stays close to William.
“Someone else will come.” Kaiba said to the worm, “I know of a young prince named Mokuba, he’ll be meeting us there.”
William smirks.
“You know everything, even for a changeling.” William replies.
“Envisioning the future is just a certain talent that I only have. It’s the only thing I’m good at actually.” the changeling sighs.
“Maybe you inherited it from Thanor?” William laughs.
“Don’t jump to conclusions.” Kaiba said, “It’s different from that.”
Finally, the gang finds themselves in the city, surrounded by the dead buildings. Then, to their good surprise, Thanor’s spirit appears.
“I see you all made it. Now get into the building, and meet the other six who will be helping you.” Thanor instructed.
“Well, okay.” Tails agrees.
They all enter a stone building made with orange marble. They topple over the dusty rubble, keeping their balance. Then, they enter a giant ballroom, no longer fancy like it used to be. Inside, they saw four ponies, and two griffons sitting on their chairs. Discord and Spike recognized some of them by memory. Gilda, Trixie, and Sunset Shimmer.
“Well, fancy seeing you three here.” Discord says when he sees them.
“You too.” Gilda said, “I’m just surprised you recognized us.”
“Why do you three want to help?” Spike asks.
“Well I don’t want see Rainbow Dash and Fireblaze act like way more Jerks like me, so I decided to help since my cousin asked me too.” Gilda explains.
“You have a cousin?” Discord asks.
“He’s what I mean.” Gilda said pointing at the male griffon next to her, “His name is Storm Griffon, the blind sword griffon.”
“Why do they call you that?” Tails asks Storm.
Then, Storm took off his dark sunglasses and shows his eyes. They’re extremely faded. He’s blind.
“This is why.” Storm sighs, “But just to let you know, I’m not deaf.”
“He lost his eyesight at the age of four.” Gilda breathes out slowly.
“Ouch!” TJ winced.
“Well, since Twilight showed me kindness in the human world, where the Equestria Girls live, I came to return to save her from being brainwashed.” Sunset Shimmer declared.
“Same here, since she also showed me kindness too.” Trixie added.
“We are also waiting for Doctor Hooves and Derpy, who are just coming to help us.” Thanor said.
“If I may also add…” Kaiba buts in, “A young pony named Mokuba will join us.”
“Yes, I know.” Thanor said, “We’ll be seeing him too. He’ll also have a great purpose for helping you.”
“When will the doctor and lazy eyed pony come?” William wonders.
“Soon. But let me tell you of the legendary weapons…” Thanor said, “They’re known as the Light Swords. The Light Swords can cure anyone form any evil, and it has always defeated any evil over the years. They’re sealed safely in a cave, ten miles from this city. There are twelve Light swords. All together, twelve chosen ponies or any other race must use them. All of you together must find these swords to use for battle.”
Another pony then suddenly appears in the room. Mokuba has arrived.
“Hello Thanor…” Mokuba introduces, “I’d thought I find you here.”
“Hello Mokuba.” Thanor said, “I’m just telling these folks about the weapons they must find.”
Just then, two ponies stepped in, and stand by Mokuba.
“Aren’t you forgetting someone?” the first newcomer said.
“This is an unusual place.” the second replied.
“Who are YOU guys?” William asked.
“These are your guides to the cave, Blade and Skull.” Thanor said.
Blade is a young pony who is the age of nineteen. His cutie mark shows a sword with sunglasses. He’s a black earth pony, and he has black hair, that’s also the same color as his tail. Skull is a purple earth pony who has yellow hair and a tail. His cutie mark is a skull.
“Skull, my ex-pupil.” Discord said.
“Hello, my ex-master Discord. I see that you are reformed.” Skull answers.
“Thank Fluttershy for that. But now she’s…” Discord wishes to summarize this mishap, but he’s too depressed to just envision her evil face.
“I know.” Skull understands, “I will help bring her back, you can bet on that.”
“We haven’t much time. We must get the swords soon to free the other ponies.” Blade cautions.
“But there are tests you must past once you’re in the cave.” Thanor explains, “Wisdom, courage, strength, fear, and one unknown lesson that must be faced with the twelve previous guardians of the light swords.”
“Okay.” TJ nods.
“Arrange your camp here for tonight.” Thanor advised, “Tomorrow at dawn, I will guide you to the cave.”
Everyone then gets situated and shakes each other’s hands. Discord then uses his magic to make tents, and dinner for his friends. As soon as he helps them, Discord notices Mokuba looking up at him. The lord of chaos the approaches him, and hugs him.
“Are you okay?” Discord asks the prince.
“Yeah…” Mokuba nods.
“What happened?” Discord wonders.
“Shining Armor is… my real father…” Mokuba explains
Discord then looks with confusion into Mokuba’s eyes. Spike and Leo even come beside Discord after hearing this.
“Wait, Shining Armor is… YOUR FATHER?” Spike gasps.
“Why have we never heard of you?” Leo stammers.
“I… I was taken away… by changelings.” Mokuba explains, “I have the ability to recall memories from my infancy up to this very point. My mother Cadence was pregnant with me, and she gave birth to me before Shining Armor can announce it. However, through the years Chrysalis awaited Volucris’ release, she had her minions take me away from my parents to kill me.”
Kaiba overheard Mokuba’s explanation to Discord, Spike, and Leo. The changeling shook, as if guilt stabbed him through his conscientious heart.
“The changeling didn’t kill me for some reason though, it let me go and abandoned me eventually. Chrysalis even put a amnesia spell on the palace so my parents can forget about me, having the same work on every other pony. My adoptive father, Kai told me about all his. He’s quite knowledgeable. He took me in and raised me to protect me, because he knew I’m sooner capable of fighting against the changeling queens with new friends I’ll make.”
“King Kai. Yes I met him before.” Discord nods, “How’s he doing?”
“THEY KILLED HIM!” Mokuba roared.
The other heroes in the room almost stare at Mokuba in shock. Discord, Spike, and
Leo shake in depression, understanding Mokuba’s whole situation.
“That’s why I came here.” Mokuba sums up, “I know that after I avenge my true mentor Kai, that I will rescue my mom and dad as well.”
Discord cries tears out for Mokuba. He can’t believe that Shining Armor and Cadence’s only son has been separated from each other without any of them knowing. The very idea that it happened is heartbreaking. Spike also hugs Mokuba with Discord.
“We’re gonna get your parents back. But the idea of killing just to think its justice…” Spike said.
Leo rubs his head with the palm of his hand. The decision between justice and peace is a real decision breaker.
“We’ll talk about it later.” Leo informs, “We have to get rest.”
Discord then takes Kaiba to be introduced to Gilda, Storm, Blade, and Skull. Spike notices Kaiba, standing in place and unpacking his backpack. The changeling cries for the first time, much to Spike’s shock.
“Is anything okay?” Spike asks him.
“I don’t want to talk about it.” Kaiba puffs, “Not now.”
He then walks to the corner of the room to sleep, wishing to be alone. Spike wants to understand his depression, but he holds himself back, allowing Kaiba to decompress himself for the night.
Back at the Crystal Empire, Shining Armor’s eyes glow green as he’s now brainwashed.
“You were right you know.” Shining Armor said as he walks with Cadence through the royal hall, “You are my wife, and I must do whatever I can to stay in the darkness.”
His appearance is now appalling, his eyes now slit like an evil dragon’s. He wears armor and a dark helmet on his head. His steel hoof shoes he’s wearing are colored blood red.
“And you know your name is now Shadow Armor, right?” Dark Vine Cadenza giggles.
“Yes my sweetheart.” Shadow Armor snickers.
“Your dear sister and our master are waiting for us.” his wife said, “They’re going to assign a very special mission!”
They head down the hall, ready to meet their leaders at the Crystal Square to hear of it.
Back at Vanhover, at the other side of the city, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are hiding in a business building their fathers owned. They clutch onto their swords for protection, thinking of how this all went down. They were with their parents, on a vacation in this city while the dads had their business meetings. It wasn’t long until the weeds kidnapped everyone in the area, and took away the fillies’ parents. Since the past three days, they looked around the city for food and drinks, and stayed out of sight from the weeds and changelings for survival. They are only praying that help can come to them.
“I heard rumors from escaping ponies that passed this city.” Silver Spoon said to Diamond Tiara, “They said those beasts now took control of Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo.”
“MAN! That’s not good of THEM to turn those blank flanks evil!” the bratty pony spat.
“I wonder what will happen if we get captured and brainwashed.” Silver Spoon shook in fear.
“Don’t think of THAT!” Diamond Tiara soothes while clutching to her sword, “And when we meet those three blankies, I won’t have any regrets fighting them.”
Diamond Tiara then takes out something from a purse beside her. Her journal of the pen pal letters sent from Mokuba was all in order. Memories, responses, and conversations with words to him, made her keep her spirits up. Reading these letters gives her hop that there are still good ponies out there and not corrupted.
“I hope YOU’RE safe, Mokuba.” Tiara sighed.
The two rich fillies didn’t know it, but across from the building they’re hiding in, Apple Vine, Spice Belle, and Darkness Scootaloo are looking through the walls of the building with their black magic vision. They then spot Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.
“You’re the one who won’t be safe...” Apple Vine snickers.
Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
Midnight fell upon Vanhoover now, and the gang rests inside the abandoned building. Discord sleeps by his companions Spike, William, Skull, Leo, Ian, and the Foxes. Blade keeps guard outside the building to make sure no dark magic invades their area. Mokuba rests near Gilda, Trixie, Sunset Shimmer, and Storm. Thanor is nowhere to be seen; yet Kaiba is also awake. The changeling assumes that the spirit rests in it’s own heaven. The changeling decides to take a walk around the abandoned building, going up the stairways and walking to the balcony. He can smell the damp air coming from the distant atmosphere of the mist of the desert. The moon shines bright as if it’s a curse breaker to destroy all the darkness. Kaiba liked that. He wanted some light over where he’s resting, just so he doesn’t feel fear. Leo eventually got up from his rest, and explored the building as well, along with the historical paintings made by other ponies. After a while, he saw Kaiba is still looking off the balcony when he enters.
“You can’t sleep either?” Leo asks.
“I wasn’t really in the mood.” Kaiba admits.
Leo then comes over to stand by Kaiba, having his arms lean on the rails. The gnome looks at the mountains they just entered through, and the distance that’s different from what they traveled.
“Something was troubling you when…” Leo started to say, but then catches himself when he sees Kaiba’s dreaded face. He didn’t want to force him to reflect on his past.
“Don’t be ashamed.” Kaiba soothes, “I just feel bad for Mokuba, that’s all.”
“I’m just happy someone like you is learning sympathy.” Leo said, “No other changeling can do that.”
Then, there was a three minute silence.
“Listen, I didn’t just run away because I was enslaved and abused by Chrysalis and Volucris.” Kaiba said to the gnome, “I also… I… ran away from my guilt.”
“Guilt?” Leo asked in confusion, “What of guilt?”
“When Mokuba said to you that a changeling separated him from his parents, Shinning Armor and Cadence, Yes. It was by order of Chrysalis, and….”
A first tear came into the changelings cyan eyes. It was clear of sadness mixed with telling the truth.
“It was I…” Kaiba faintly said.
Leo just looked at him. Not angry, just normal.
“I separated Mokuba from his only…” Kaiba shuddered.
Then the changeling growled and sobbed, having such hatred for Chrysalis, forcing him to do something so dreadful. Leo didn’t know if he was supposed to feel the same pain Kaiba has, but he calms him down anyway. The gnome rubs the changeling’s shoulders and holds them steady.
“Damn me…” Kaiba shook.
“Maybe should go back to sleep.” Leo suggested.
Kaiba nods. He still feels terrible, but he feels relief for telling his past to a new friend he can trust. He only fears what will happen if he admitted it to Mokuba.
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are in the middle of their rest as well. However, Tiara couldn’t sleep. The fact that she’s separated from her parents is very frightening to her. Such a relationship with a mother and father isn’t easy, but it doesn’t mean that a family’s love is so weak. Love in a family is pure happiness, and that’s also what Tiara enjoyed. It’s sometimes different from the possessions she owns at her mansion. It’s just not the same that loving something or somepony that is alive. Alive. That’s how she wants her mom and dad to be when she finds them.
Diamond Tiara tosses upward to face the ceiling. She closes her eyes once more, just to try and sleep for once. Then, heavy breathing is heard. The breathing becomes louder until it floats over Tiara. She opens her eyelids.
“Oh Diamond Tiara, WE FOUND YOU!” a sinister voice over her whispered.
Diamond Tiara is now awake and petrified. Silver Spoon wakes up, and gets held down by unknown intruders in the process. The DARK CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS HAVE THEM TRAPPED.
“HELP US!” Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon screamed.
The hapless screams were loud enough to go through the Vanhover buildings. When it reached the building that the gang was sleeping in, it woke them up. Discord rises up instantly, twirling his head to see where the sound is coming from. Kaiba and Leo also get up, despite their limited rest. William wakes up by Spike, Ian, Tails, and TJ. Mokuba then wakes up with the rest of the gang, wondering whose voice that plea belongs to. Then, he knows.
“DIAMOND TIARA! SHE’S IN TROUBLE!” Mokuba screams, “SHE’S SOMEWHERE IN THIS CITY!”
“How do YOU know?” William asks.
“I just know!” Mokuba shouts.
Thanor then appears in a sudden poof.
“I sense them too.” he said.
“Well, looks like that brat and her whiny friend Silver Spoon are getting what they deserve.” William snickers and yawns, “I’m going back to sleep…”
Discord then grabs William by his squirmy torso, and brings his face close to his.
“Listen here you WORM!” Discord scolds, “Tiara may be a bully, but she’s also A CHILD! A young filly that’s on a ordinary guide to LEARN to be nice and correct her mistakes. Allowing her to die is CERTAINLY NOT the answer to teach her a lesson! Now I’m going to rescue her, and YOU’RE GOING TO HELP!”
Spike then hugs Discord for his forgiving spirit and bravery.
“I’m with you 100% on that, buddy!” Spike agrees, “We better find Tiara and Silver Spoon, FAST!”
“Not without us!” Tails said, as TJ comes beside him, “You’ll never know how many changelings are surrounding the fillies.”
“No, wait, don’t go…” Thanor cautions, envisioning his future, “There’s tactics that the changelings are planning, and since you’re new to this world, there’s no chance you’re all the way prepared for their newest weapons and movements they created. You need more training for that.”
Tails and TJ shook in surprise. They had no idea.
“Well William, Discord, and Spike can’t be the only ones to go fight.” TJ points out.
“Then Storm, Mokuba, and I will go with them.” Blade volunteers.
“Will you be okay?” Tails asks.
“Every changeling should fear me!” Blade grins.
Then, the six heroes went out the building for their rescue mission.
At the crumbly building that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are caught in, she fights Apple Vine with her throwing punches for the first time. Yet, she is no match for Apple Vine’s buck kicks. Eventually, a mighty kick sends her to the ground next to Silver Spoon. Then, the dark crusaders have the vines from the walls tie them up. Tiara and Silver Spoon are now helpless.
“THAT’S FOR ALL THESE YEARS OF BEING MEAN TO US!” Spice Belle screams.
“NOW HOW DO YOU LIKE IT WHEN WE’RE MEAN TO YOU?” Apple Vine asks.
“LET’S SAY WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND!” Darkness Scootaloo laughs, “AND NOW, YOU TWO WILL DIE!”
Darkness Scootaloo then creates a sword with her darkened hoof. The hoofed sword then raises to strike Tiara and Silver Spoon. The two fillies whimper in horror.
“I DON’T THINK SO!” a voice erupts in the room.
A boomerang-like sword then flashes past Apple Vine and Darkness Scootaloo as it cuts and slashes Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon free from the vines. The dark crusaders then turn to see Discord, Spike, William, Storm, Blade, and Mokuba in the room. They’re standing on top of a crumbled pyramid of rocks that fits the room’s height.
“GRRRR! SINCE YOU WANT TO GET IN THE WAY, FINE!” Apple Vine snaps, “BUT REMEMEBER THIS, WE WILL FIGHT YOU LATER!”
“AND ALSO, we know…” Spice Belle coos.
Discord, Spike, William, Storm, Blade, and Mokuba look at them in terror.
“Volucris told us to sneak behind you guys unknowingly.” Spice Belle said casually, “She figured you’ll be finding these weapons that stupid ghost Thanor told you about.”
“NOW, we know where the Lights Swords are, and what cave they’re in.” Darkness Scootaloo huffs, “And since we don’t need more of your help, CHAGNELINGS! ATTACK THEM!”
Then the Dark Cutie Mark Crusaders disappeared with their magic, as ONE HUNDRED CHANGELINGS came out of their hiding places in the room.
“NOT GOOD!” William screams.
“You’re right about that!” Discord squeaks, “Now our brainwashed friends will make sure we’ll never get to…”
“Never mind that! Right now we have to fight!” Blade shouts, as the changelings pace closer to them, “Mokuba, take Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon out of here! WE’LL DEAL WITH THE CHANGELINGS!”
The filly prince nods, and grabs Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.
“What now?” Tiara asks Mokuba.
“Easy.” Mokuba replies, “My teleportation powers I learned in my training.”
With that, he teleports himself and the other fillies out of this building.
“HE HAD TELE-“ William stammers.
Discord prepared himself with Spike and Storm. He even notices Blade. That pony has been wearing sunglasses for quite some time now. It was then that Blade took his sunglasses off. Then, the changelings were shocked, as some begin to shout.
“IT’S THE DAY WALKER!” one changeling said.
“HELL! I DIDN’T KNOW WE WERE GOING TO FIGHT HIM!” another stammered.
“Day Walker?” Discord asks.
“Blade has been nicknamed that because of his mixed martial art moves he’s been trained. They have been absolutely forbidden to be used by every other pony.” Storm explains, “He’s been notable for using his moves ever since when fighting his enemies.”
“Well, there’s five of us, so….” William stammers.
“FINE! Get out or hide! Selfish moron…” Discord said in frustration.
“YAY!” William said as he hides behind the pyramid.
“So, want me and Discord to take fifty, then you and Blade take fifty?” Spike asks Storm.
“Fine by me.” Storm nods.
The fight then begins, as Blade uses his sword to slash through the first ten changelings. Storm defends himself with his shield from the next ten changelings coming at him. Discord then fights and knocks out ten more changelings with karate moves, while Spike burns ten changelings and severely injures them for the right purpose.
Storm then jumps through the air, and flies past ten more changelings as he slashes and kills the bloodthirsty beasts. The griffon also lets out a battle cry as he lands. Blade then has a tiny trick up his sleeve. With a gadget he made a while back in his personal time, he initiates hidden blades to come out while connected to his tail. Using that, she slashes through ten more changelings with his dangerous tail.
“Fifty more.” Spike pants.
“GET THEM!” one changeling said, “Don’t let them win!”
Storm then makes a yoga pose as he prepares for the next ten changelings to charge at him. The griffon than slings his blade, and slices through the enemies. He stood still, and can feel the circles of bloody ooze slowly splashing onto his face like rain water. The feeling of this disgusting pleasure to fight is so beautiful to the griffon.
The griffon then snaps out of it, and slashes three changeling’s heads, along with their arms, legs, and bodies. As for the other seven, his sword moves went so fast in random, diagonal moves. This sends the seven changelings to their ultimate death.
“Thirty more to go.” Storm whispers.
The thirty changelings then stand still. They stay in their places looing at Discord, Spike, Blade, and Storm. William stays hidden, seeing how this is going.
“GANG TOGETHER!” a changeling suddenly screams.
It was then that the thirty changelings pushed themselves tightly together in a pack, and morph. The shape shifting and melting combination is grotesque, as their faces and bodies become distorted with the mutation. The body they’re making with themselves altogether became bigger and bigger, until it’s ONE GIANT CHANGELING itself. The monster grins, as it leers over the four fighters while fitting the room.
The giant changeling then stomps his hoof down, having Discord dodge the attack with Spike. Blade then jumps into the air as the giant changeling has it’s wing turn into a rotating blade that expands by size, nearly making a cut near the rim of Blade’s mane and neck. Storm flies past the changeling’s teeth, as the monster tries to bite at the griffon to eat it alive. Discord looks up and down at the giant creature. He knows there must be a weak spot to destroy that monster. Spike looks with Discord too, and then notices something out of order with the changeling.
“The heart is distorted!” Spike said to Discord in observation, “The open hole is revealing it on it’s chest. If we go inside the changeling and straighten out it’s heart to be stiff, we may have a chance destroying it.”
“Sounds like a perfect strategy.” Discord agrees.
He then grabs on to Spike, ready to shrink himself and his friend.
“Keep him occupied, will you?” Discord asks Storm.
The griffon nods, and Spike and Discord become tiny enough with a magic poof. Discord then flies himself and the dragon through the giant’s mouth, dodging the slimy acid with an essence of smoky sulfur. The flight was almost smooth when they got close to the heart, until something knocked them down, sending them to land on the ground of the giant’s lung. The lord of chaos and dragon then see that miniature changelings close to their current size, are surrounding them.
The fight to get to the heart starts, with Discord using an “Evil Dead” reference by having his circular saw cut through the killer beasts as he flies. Spike stands on Discord’s head, and breathes huge balls of green fire from his mouth as much as possible. From the outside, the giant coughs out smoke. Smoke and Blade can see that Discord and Spike are making progress.
Inside the giant, the two companions are nearly there to the heart. Then, three bigger (but still miniature) changelings jump in front of Spike and Discord. They hiss, as they spit dangerous acid from their mouths, attempting to strike them with the painful liquids. Spike almost got hit, but Discord protects him as being a shield. He keeps going, though he cringes and cries as the acid sank through his fur a tad bit. The injury wasn’t serious, but if a huger pour of acid came at him, he wouldn’t be lucky.
The big mini changelings nearly corner Discord and Spike, until the draconequus throws the dragon in a straight line. When flying in the air, Spike extends his legs as he nears the heart.
“Love is magic, you beast!” Spike roars.
With that, the dragon’s mighty kick pushes the heart in perfect place. The body soon rumbles, having the inside changeling demons melt into black goo. Discord then grabs Spike, as they try to hurry out with his flying speed. The giant starts to squeal as Spike and Discord become big again after leaving the beast’s mouth. Blade and Storm look at interest as they see the beast dying. It doesn’t explode or melt, but it crumbles. The beast crumbles into tiny specks of ash real slowly as it makes it last breath. Then, all is calm, for the rest of the enemies are no more.
“You did good.” Storm congratulates Discord and Spike.
“You’re welcome.” Discord said proudly.
“It had it coming.” Spike said in defiance.
William than comes out of his hiding spot.
“It’s… it’s gone! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! You are like CLASHING, and then they were like LOSING, and then you were INSIDE GOOING, and they were MELTING! WOOO! I CAN DO THAT ANYDAY!” William cheers.
“You’re annoying.” Discord mumbles.
“And there’s nothing to celebrate either.” Spike said, “Our brainwashed friends told us they know. They might destroy our chance!”
“Volucris might get to the swords before we do.” Blade moans.
The five heroes think about this horrid scenario. What should they do?
“We better explain this to Thanor when we get back.” Storm said, “He’ll figure it out, I know. Now we have to go, NOW!”
Back at the Crystal Empire, Apple Vine, Spice Belle, and Darkness Scootaloo came back to Volucris as she sits at her skeleton throne, and bow to her.
“We did what you asked us to do Queen Volucris.” Darkness Scootaloo said.
“We found out that they are going for the twelve Light Swords that can destroy you.” Apple Bloom warned.
“But it’s in a cave that’s ten miles near Vanhover.” Spice Belle added, “We almost killed Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon too, but that pony that looked like Shining Armor or Cadence got in our way!”
Dark Vine Cadenza who was in the room, widens her eyes.
“WHAT? You say there’s a pony that looks like us?” she asks.
Shadow Armor was in the room as well, and becomes unpleased.
“Does this pony have a name of… say… MOKUBA?” Shadow Armor bursts.
“YES! He does.” Darkness Scootaloo answers.
“Guess your son is still alive.” Volucris sighs, “either way, we can always turn him into one of us. Or, if you like, you as his parents can kill your son if he doesn’t want to join.”
“Time to discipline or son with tough love.” Shadow Armor snickers.
“Yes, love. Because he needs it.” Volucris chuckles.
“There’s also a pony with sunglasses, and a sword cutie mark.” Spice Belle continues.
Queen Volucris heard this, afraid.
“A sword cutie mark?” she stammers, “NO! IT CAN’T BE! HOW?”
Queen Chrysalis then magically appears in the room after enslaving more ponies. She hears her sister a tad bit about a pony.
“WHO? My dear sister, who are we talking about?” she demands.
“BLADE! I SENT MY CHANGELINGS TO KILL HIM! HOW IS HE STILL ALIVE?”
“Who is Blade?” Chrysalis asks.
“HE IS A DAYWALKER, A VAMPIRE PONY THAT LIVE IN THE SUNLIGHT. THEY GET THEIR STRENGTH AND HAVE NO WEAKNESSES. VAMPIRES ARE ALSO THE TOP DOGS IN THIS WORLD. I REMEMBER WE CHANGELINGS WENT TO WAR WITH THE VAMPIRES AND KILLED THEM ALL! So I guess he survived that feud.”
“He’s still a weak pony.” Chrysalis huffs.
“DON’T UNDERESTIMATE HIM!” Volucris shouts, “HE IS CUNNING AND DEADLY! HE CAN TAKE OUT THRITY CHANGELINGS WITH ONE SLICE!”
“We ALSO saw Gilda, Storm, Trixie, and Sunset Shimmers” Apple Vine added.
Rainbow Briar, Fireburn, and the evil Twilight are also in the room, and scowl when they hear those names.
“GILDA AND STORM!” Rainbow Briar and Fireburn roared at once.
“TRIXIE AND SUNSET!” evil Twilight screams.
“Oh, such ponies like them deserve to be in hell.” Chrysalis coos.
“And I know Sunset Shimmers has some darkness inside of her.” Volucris said, “We can tempt her. LET’S GO TO VANHOOVER NOW!”
The dark ponies prepare themselves.
“You have bigger chances on revenge my dear Twilight.” Volucris laughs.
“Do me a favor.” Twilight said, “Please call me TWIVINE from now on...”
Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
Doctor Whooves is a brown pony, and an intelligent scientist as well. He has a dark brown mane and tail along with a sand clock cutie mark. Derpy walks by him. She is a grey pony with a yellow mane and tail and has a bubble cutie mark. She even has one lazy right eye. They have been traveling through the mountain woods that touch base from the Everfree Forest, after having an unexpected message from a spirit named Thanor. The dragon ghost told them that they are chosen to help a group of other friends to help free the main six and other ponies from Volucris’ spell. They were told to meet in Vanhover, which they are now getting close to already. They just have five more miles to go.
“We would’ve been there yesterday on time, if you haven’t been following the clouds.” Doctor Whooves muttered in annoyance towards Derpy.
“I can’t help it.” she sighs, “I just have the love for cute, inanimate objects.”
Derpy was Doctor Whooves’ only companion he can stand by during these hours. Their teamwork is the only way to keep them safe when they fought off other demons they came across through the woods. They’ve been inseparable for five years now, and if anything were to happen to Derpy, he wouldn’t bear being an independent pony anymore.
Then, Derpy looks up at the sky. The evening colors up there turns GREEN, as black specks grow bigger, and turn into CHANGELINGS as they come closer to the ground.
“Is that Volucris up there?” Derpy asks her friend.
Doctor Whooves looks up to see the queen and changelings coming toward them and the city.
“Run… let’s run… QUICKLY!” Doctor Whooves panics.
He and Derpy ran and trotted quickly as they can to survive. The brown pony than notices that seven of the changelings noticed them, and are targeting their prey. They dive down as many miles per hour possible, ready to make the doctor and grey pony wrongfully submit.
Yet, at the distance, Discord, Spike, William, Blade, and Storm get close to their safety building. Discord’s chaotic eyes then sense something in the distant road that connects the city to the dessert path. He zooms in to see Doctor Whooves and Derpy in peril. Discord is scared for them, and instantly reacts by snapping his fingers. Then, Whooves and Derpy poof in front of him and his friends in a great second, having the changelings miss their prey and crash to the gravel ground. Doctor Whooves looks up at the draconequus, along with Derpy. They feel surprised to see him.
“Thank me later.” Discord said, “I think Thanor wants to see you guys too.”
“VOLUCRIS IS COMING THIS WAY!” Spike said, pointing to the sky.
“We’ll warn Thanor all together then.” Doctor Whooves said.
They rush into the building in a spilt move, before the changelings even noticed them. They rush quickly into the room where the gang prepares themselves with weapons and shields. Tails and TJ even comfort Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon who just arrived. Mokuba turns to see the characters that just entered the room.
“Volucris is coming, isn’t she?” Mokuba asks.
“That isn’t the worst of it.” Storm sighs, “Volucris knows about the swords! The dark crusaders just told her!”
The dragon spirit is silent, thinking of what to do now.
“This is not good, we need move now. You also need to work together as much as possible, and find others to help while you get the light swords.” Thanor said in a fast pace.
“Like who?” Discord asks.
“We need three defenders against Queen Volucris’ army.” Thanor simply said.
“Thanor is right. We need to get the swords right away, no matter what!” Spike said, “Blade, Storm, Gilda, Sunset and Trixie can’t hold the changelings off.”
“The heavens also granted me my request to come back and fight Volucris.” Thanor told out loud, “I know somepony who can help…”
Thanor then takes a minute to himself, to telepathically send the message. After thinking the words perfectly through his head, the message is sent and revived to the unknown helper.
“They got it.” Thanor breathes out slowly, “I must go now, but I’ll be back for the fight.”
Then he disappears.
“You heard him, let’s go!” Tails said.
The group then leaves all together out of the building. Discord, Gilda, Spike, Ian, Leo, Tails, TJ, Doctor Whooves, Derpy, William, Kaiba, Mokuba, Blade, Storm, Trixie, Sunset Shimmer, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, and Skull. All nineteen of them split up, and make their hiding moves as they walk to avoid being noticed by the changelings. Volucris now has her minions searching the city street by building to make sure they’re found.
“DO NOT REST UNTIL ONE OF THEM IS BROUGHT TO ME!” she roars, “MAYBE ALL OF THEM! FIND EVERY ONE IF YOU CAN, EVERY NINETEEN OF THEM. I CAN SENSE IT!”
As the changelings keep searching, William stays by Spike, Discord, Kaiba, and Mokuba. The five of them hide by a wall of an alleyway.
“Holy crap, she’s scary.” William shakes.
“No kidding. No come on!” Discord whispers, as he leads the group toward an unnoticed trail. It’s close to a road that leads out of the city.
Meanwhile, Leo stays by Ian, Diamond Tiara, Trixie, and Silver Spoon. They sneak through the abandoned opera house, tiptoeing as quietly as they can. It was only a moment when Silver Spoon made a nervous whimper when hearing something entering the opera house. The five of them then hide in the closet next to them, an keep quiet in the dark room. Light fills the bottom of the door crack, having Trixie cry out tears a tad bit. They breathe quietly, and then hold in as they see shadow silhouettes reflecting through the crack. The changeling legs resemble the real life changeling outside their hiding spot. The movements were random as it searches the room. Last of all, it leans against the door to hear the closet sounds. The five heroes stiffen and sweat. Giving up, the changeling then thinks nothing is here, and leaves the hall. The group then leaves the closet, and rushes to near the exit of the building.
Tails is grouped with TJ, Storm, Gilda, Blade, and Sunset Shimmer. They go through the inside of an empty shopping mall. Everything was okay, as long as their running was like quiet jogging. Then, and evil changeling comes in front of them, giving them a terrible startling. Before it screams in alarm, Storm instantly grabs it’s neck and covers it mouth. He then strangles it’s throat with his arm pinning it’s neck. The griffon squeezes tighter over the changeling, until a snap of it’s neck is made. The changeling is good as dead, as Storm lays it peacefully onto the ground.
“We’re not safe here.” Storm sighs, “We must find the exit now. It’s near our only path to the cave.”
Tails was in surprise of Storms move of a peaceful killing. Nevertheless, he follows his cousin, the two griffons, and two ponies as they find their exit.
The last group to come near the path to the cave is Skull, Whooves, and Derpy. They have been going through their own path of being unseen really well, without getting caught. It was then that they met up with all groups coming together into one, just at the beginning of the path, and ending border of the city. Fires and explosions then erupt behind them, as the changelings destroy to search. When some of the gang looks back, they then look forward and continue their team walk towards the cave.
The path lasted exactly ten miles. But they also needed to make a shortcut through a different path, just so the changelings won’t spot them. When they go through the high rocky hill, they weren’t surprised to see the changelings circle around a certain point of the main road at their high view. They also kept themselves hidden by the rock formations of the hill. They carry on as they pass by medium sized lava volcano, filled with heating lava and melting sand pebbles.
“We must be near the cave.” Spike guesses.
Just then, a huge stomp is made. The gang looks in shock as two big muscular dragons block their path. Discord then sees four hundred more dragons making weapons, and spears. They even have some made already, along with shields. The curved dome of their warrior base and home is also the entrance to the cave.
“The home of the dragons…” Discord puts together.
“STATE YOUR BUSINESS HERE!” one of the dragon guards said.
“Yes, state it.” a familiar voice to Spike said, “No pony comes here unless they have a reason.”
The guards then make way to let their leader come through. The dragon appears to be a general in armor. Spike is no forgetter though. He recognizes this red dragon. GARBLE.
Garble then notices Spike, and grins menacingly.
“Well look who it is. The little runt, SPIKE!” Garble scoffs.
“Fancy seeing you…” Spike growls.
“I’m not so surprised.” Garble casually said.
Fizzle and Spear, other soldier dragons that work by Garble step with him as well.
“We heard what happened to your SISTER Twilight!” Fizzle snickers.
“HAHAHA! They’re losers!” Spear laughs.
“ENOUGH!” Discord defends, “WE’RE HERE FROM THANOR, FIREBLAZE’S FATHER, TO SEE YOU!”
“Uncle Thanor and Cousin Fireblaze.” Garble breathes in.
Fizzle then figures out that something isn’t right.
“What happened to Fireblaze, our only closet pony friend?’ he asks.
“HE got turned into the bad guy, like Twilight.” Spike sighs, “And there’s no doubt that Volucris and Chrysalis are coming here.”
Spear now knows that Discord, Spike, along with the seventeen others, are here to help. He steps him, clutching his fists.
“NO ONE TURNS OUR FRIEND FIREBLAZE INTO OUR ENEMY, JUSYT TO GET AWAY WITH IT!” he shouts.
“Guess we got a bigger enemy.” Garble shrugs.
“You’re all here for the Light Swords, right?” Fizzle asks.
“Yes.” Tails answers.
“They’re in the cave, but you need to pass a certain test.” Garble advises.
“Come on, must we do this now?” William whines.
“You’ll go through them in the cave.” Garble assures, “But you’re still allowed to enter at this hour, you have my permission. I’m saying the demons in that tunnel way aren’t easy to go through.”
Suddenly, Thanor appears as he strikes to the ground like lightening. Another being strikes down too, but it’s a pony. Not just any pony however…
“Starswirl the Bearded?” Discord asked in awe.
The bearded pony with his magician outfit winks at Discord an the others. This new character also fascinates Tails.
“I see my nephew just met you guys.” Thanor said to the gang.
“UNCLE? You’re alive?” Garble said in amazement.
“Yes, but it will only be until we defeat Queen Volucris.” Thanor said.
“So, who’s that?” TJ asks, pointing at Starswirl.
“You don’t know STARSWIRL?” Spike gasps, “He’s the greatest sorcerer that ever lived to protect anypony in Equestria. His living soul must have come back to help us and Thanor.”
“And he’s very strong at his magic too.” Thanor adds.
Suddenly, horrible sounds echo through the dome. The gang figures it out, along with Thanor. The changelings and vines are coming this way. They can hear the tearing of the ground, and screeching of the villains coming from beyond the mountains.
“THEY’RE COMING! You must go now!” Thanor said, “Blade, you, Storm, Gilda, Sunset, and Trixie will act as defense to guard the caves, while the rest go inside. You must not let the plundering six and my dark son get in!”
“You can count on us sir!” Blade salutes.
“Then Tails, TJ, Ian, Leo, William, Discord, Spike, Kaiba, Mokuba, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Skull, Doctor Whooves, and Derpy will enter the cave. You all can head in and follow them if something goes wrong. Do ANYTHING to protect each other!”
Then Thanor turns to the four hundred dragons.
“WE WILL FIGHT LIKE SPARTANS DID! WE WILL LIVE OR DIE FOR EQUESTRIA! WE WILL GET OUR FRIENDS AND ALLIES BACK! WE WILL FIGHT LIKE DRAGONS, ALL OF US TOGETHER! WE WILL FIGHT!” Thanor roars.
The dragons cheer in defiance, as they are getting ready to stand their ground.
Then Thanor went into the air, holding his giant hammer as a weapon firmly. He flies around to be ready for battle, with lightening coming out around him.
Then, the changelings and vines appear as they come flying though the air, and ripping through the rocky ground. Then, Queen Volucris appears.
The villainess chuckles as she flies in front of Thanor, ready to meet him. The red dragon snarls as he comes in front of her.
“SO, we meet again Thanor.” Volucris cackles, “And I never seen you alive before.”
“You evil witch! You turned MY SON evil, and HIS FRIENDS EVIL! I WILL NOT STAND FOR IT! YOU CAN’T HOLD CELESTIA AND LUNA PRISONER FOREVER EITHER! YOU’RE GOING DOWN!” Thanor roars.
Then, the red dragon spirit cries harder as he sees somepony he caress about fly beside Volucris. His soon, FIREBLAZE, who’s now Fireburn.
“SON! YOU NEED TO FIGHT THIS!” Thanor encourages.
“NO! I SERVE MY QUEEN NOW!” Fireburn shouts, “And I’m doing this to stay with Rainbow Briar!”
“Oh don’t worry, you won’t fight him.” Volucris giggles, “Because he will be with the plundering six, to chase your friends down.”
Queen Chrysalis then flies up beside her sister, as Volucris turns to her.
“It appears you got the dragons to take care of.” Chrysalis cooed, “I’ll have myself and the evil ones get the heroes.”
Then, Volucris teleports the plundering six from below, the dark cutie mark crusaders, Fireburn, Shadow Armor, Dark Vine Cadenza, and Chrysalis towards the cave.
“DANG!” Thanor telepathically shouts in his head. He then sends his message to Blade, “Keep them safe!”
Blade nods when hearing the message. He then signals the others to go inside, as he, Storm, Gilda, Trixie, and Sunset Shimmer set themselves up to defend the cave entrance.
“CHANGELINGS! ATTACK THEM!” Chrysalis roars as she stomps to the ground.
Then the fight began. Starswirl the Bearded began to incinerate the upcoming changelings and vines with the blue rays of his wand. Every magic chant he makes helps his magic tricks become stronger every minute.
Thanor’s fight with Volucris was quite challenging. He expected his weapon to clash well with Volucris’ sword, but the blade is never THIS powerful. Because the moment she strikes it against his hammer’s defense move, he balance tumbles, and a mighty green spark whips his chest with a painful blow. He just discovered that after the first ten strikes he made, and blocked off against Volucris.
“It’s a special magic that Chrysalis helped me put on this sword.” Volucris explained, “No match for such a worthless tool like yours.”
As Thanor continues his fight with Volucris, Blade guides the rest of the gang into the cave while staying outside the entrance.
“KEEP GOING INSIDE! WE WILL HOLD THEM OFF AS LONG AS WE CAN!”
“Right.” Discord said.
“You’ll be okay?” Tails asks.
“Don’t worry about us. We can hold our own ground!” Storm reassured.
“You leave this to us!” Sunset Shimmer said.
“Okay, good luck!” TJ calls out.
Then Tails, TJ, Discord, William, Spike, Mokuba, Kaiba, Diamond Tiara and Sliver Spoon, Ian, Leo, Skull, Doctor Whooves, and Derpy went deeper into the cave.
“It’s time that I don’t hold back my true power that’s given by my dad” Blade said.
Then he took his sunglasses off as his eyes went into slit like, his teeth went into vampire fangs while he glowing with blue aura on him. Then he was in his vampire mode power, with three of his tail blades sticking out ten feet long.
His storm swords then became double edge swords, just as he takes them out of his weapon belt. They glow with yellow aura around them. Then he moves both weapons around as he gets ready to fight. His body begins to glow too, as he starts going into his super speed mode.
Sunset Shimmer forces her full power to come out too.
Trixie also forces her full power out as hard as she can.
Then, Queen Volucris, having pushed aside Thanor lands on the ground with the Plunder Six, Fireburn, Dark Cutie Mark Crusaders, Shadow Armor and Dark Vine Cadenza. Chrysalis is also distracting Thanor, fighting him with her own sword.
Queen Volucris then eyes Blade evilly.
“I see that the others in the cave. But I’m sorry to say Blade, that it’s time to settle this, once and for all.” she soothes.
“You’re right. But this cave repeals dark magic, meaning if you try go into that cave, it will kick you and the plundering six out.” Blade spat back.
“Yes, I know that.” Volucris muses, “That’s why we’re going to fight you instead.”
“Well Gilda, long time no see.” Rainbow Briar seethes, “Now it’s time to die!”
“Same on you, Storm!” Fireburn chuckles.
“Trixie and Sunset. I am going to show you two who the true magic user is around here.” Twivine scowls.
“Twilight, I was once like that. But you showed me kindness, and now I am going to do the same set you free.” Sunset said in a forgiving tone.
“Same here, because you not that evil! YOU’RE STILL GOOD!” Trixie said.
“SILENCE! I AM TWIVINE, NOT TWILIGHT! NOW, YOU’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!” Twivine screams.
“Okay then. LET’S FIGHT!” Blade shouts.
Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
The Mega Supa-Battle Begins!!
When Thanor and Chrysalis resume their fight, the dragon spirit throws his hammer back and forth again and again at Chrysalis, yet she dodges these moves really well. When the hammer comes back to his hand often, he strikes it against Chrysalis’ sword, then does another attack with attempting blow just as she tires to strike. He then lets Starswirl fly in to take her by surprise, and blast her to chest to send her backward. By then, she is not happy.
“GRRRRR! YOU….” she growls.
“You can’t win this fight.” Starswirl said firmly.
Meanwhile, below Starswirl and Chrysalis’ fighting round, Garble, Fizzle, and Spear fight against at least five hundred appearing changelings with their other dragon friends. Garble has his metal sword cut through the hearts of the villainous creature. Fizzle throws hardcore punches at the changelings’ jaws. Spear uses his mallet to crush the changelings and turn them into ash, while jumping away from their sword attacks.
Behind the dragons fighting these demons, Volucris resumes her confrontation while the five defenders fight more changelings to guard the cave entrance. Blade uses his swords to chop through the changelings like a hibachi chef. Gilda flies through the air to pick up the changelings, and drop their heavy gravity bodies with such force that it crushes other soldiers. Storm then uses his blade to swing in circular movements, cutting away against the vines that are appearing in front of him. Trixie then uses her powerful magic to turn the vines into flowers, killing them peacefully. Sunset Shimmer then uses her fire magic to push back the changelings with her flame aura. The manipulated six then use their powers to blow the fighters back. The defenders moan, as Volucris laughs at their losing streak so far.
“HAHAHAHAHA! This is hilarious.” Volucris laughs, “All of my servants, against you five…”
“Make that all of you against eight.” a heroic voice suddenly erupts.
Everypony turns to look at the newcomers. The defenders smile, while Volucris and her manipulated ponies scowl. The FLIM FLAM BROTHERS and BIG MAC step in front of them, with swords carried behind their backs.
“We may be con-ponies, but hurting another pony is not a good price!” Flim sneers.
“We’ll do anything to save Applejack as well.” Flam adds.
Big Mac nods at what they just said. He even looks helplessly at Applejack and Apple Bloom, at their new evil look. He shakes in fear, thinking of a way to help them snap out of it. How can a changeling do that to them? HIS OWN SISTERS!
“GUYS! Granny and I miss you so much!” Big Mac pleads, “Don’t you see what you’re doing? We love you! Please come home!”
“IN YOUR DREAMS!” Appleplant laughs, “Hey, why don’t you join us? After all, you don’t want to hurt your sisters. HAHAHAHA!”
The darkness spell of manipulation then strikes toward Big Mac. Big Mac cries in fear when he’s about to get struck. Then…
“MAC! WATCH OUT!” a voice yells.
Braeburn, and Little Strongheart has also came together with Flim, Flam, and Mac. And right now, to protect Big Mac, Braeburn pushes the muscular red pony aside, and gets hit by the spell in his place.
“BRAEBURN!” Little Strongheart yells in fear when she sees him being struck.
She runs to him, trying to help him up. The defenders and villains then notice more newcomers for the battle. Fighting against thousands of changelings and vines are the Buffalo Tribe, Cheese Sandwich, Coco, and the Wonderbolts. Rainbow Briar and Fireburn then strike down Splitfire as they hit her in the air. Smashing to the ground, the two manipulated ponies come on top of her to try and force her to meet her demise.
“Guys! This is not you! You must fight this! THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING!” Splitfire tries to talk sense.
“THAT’S RAINBOW BRIAR AND FIRBURN TO YOU!” Rainbow Briar shouts, “AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT OUR LEADR IS QUEEN VOLUCRIS FROM NOW ON!”
“HAHAHAHA!” Volucris chuckles, “You’re so stupid Splitfire, they’re deep under my control!”
Little Strongheart snarls at the queen, then she sees something wrong with Braeburn.
“B..Brae…” Little Strongheart stammers.
The darkness is now coming around him. The spell is manipulating him.
“Ah, how unexpected.” Appleplant said in a pleased tone, “Do you still want to fight me now, Braeburn?”
The Braeburn’s eyes glow.
“No.” the manipulated Braeburn simply said, “I would never fight you. I work for you.”
Braeburn smiles evilly as he’s now too, under Volucris’ spell.
“Great of you to join us.” Appleplant said.
“Yes…” Apple Vine agrees.
Then Braeburn’s eyes were dragon like, as his clothes transform into armor while his hat turns dark black. He then pushes Little Strongheart hard to ground, hurting her. The young buffalo looks up in fear at the changed pony.
“Let’s call you Fearburn.” Appleplant said to the new manipulated pony, “You will put fear into anypony who gets in our way.”
“Right cousin.” Fearburn nods.
He then turns to Big Mac, who looks horrified.
“See, that’s why you should join us!” Fearburn yells, “BECAUSE THEY’RE YOUR SISTERS! LOOK AT YOU NOW! YOU’RE SCARED, AREN’T YOU? STUPID WUSS!”
Having new dark magic, Fearburn makes a barrier between Big Mac and his trustworthy friends. He has the red pony sink into a grim prison where he completely hallucinates his worst fears. Big Mac’s scene is a torture chamber on what Fearburn is forcing him to witness. He sees his cousins and sisters, now evil and abusing him. He even sees Granny Smith having an eating disorder, with her suffering in pain and wheezing. He screams for help, as he’s trapped in the small nightmare orb being held by Fearburn.
“WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM?” Little Strongheart yells.
“We just want him to hang tight for a while.” Fearburn giggles.
Appleplant then steps in, getting close to Flim and Flam while holding a razor sharp whip on her left hoof.
“I’ll deal with you CON ARTISTS now! Time to pay back!” Appleplant snaps.
“Our machines can beat you!” the brothers said.
They then pull out apple guns, that shoot magical apples they found somewhere in the Everfree Forest.
“This gadget will fight off your black magic!” Flim said.
“HA! No machines can beat me!” Appleplant taunts, “I’m going to show you my real powers!”
The fight then initiates between the Flim Flam brothers, and Appleplant. The brothers keep shooting as many magical apples as they can, while Appleplant dodges side to side, trying to strike painful whips at the ponies.
Flutterbrute was then going to join Appleplant in the fight, but then a brown wing hits her from behind!
“WHO DID THAT?” the yellow pegasi shrieked.
Gilda was behind her.
“I did.” the griffon said while smiling, “I normally didn’t want to hit a pony despite them being dweebs, but YOU! You gonna have to fight me before you fight anypony else!”
“HA! Cry baby!” Flutterbrute grinds, “I’m going to tear you to pieces!”
The fight with Flutterbrute and Gilda then initiates. Gilda swipes her claws against Flutterbrute’s upcoming attacks, having her scratch the pegasi by her cheek. Flutterbrute then roars and charges at Gilda by giving deadly kicks toward her, which the griffon fortunately dodges.
Darkness Scootaloo then grows bigger with her magic, to take care of Blade, Trixie, Sunset Shimmer, and Storm. They look up at her, clutching onto their weapons. Then, a rock hits Darkness Scootaloo from behind as she was growing.
“WHAT THE HELL?” Darkness Scootaloo shouts, turning her head to see who did that.
Snips, Snails, and Pipsqueak appear from the battle crowd, holding their own swords.
“We threw that rock you know.” Snips confesses.
“You should be the good guys.” Snails said.
“Why would you do this to Celestia and Luna?” Pipsqueak trembles, “Please let them go.”
“Well, you three shouldn’t be alive at all.” Apple Vine sneers when eyeing them.
“Since we’ll kill everyone else, you’ll be the perfect warm up victims for us.” Spice Belle said casually.
“Along with those brats Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.” said Darkness Scootaloo.
The Dark Cutie Mark Crusaders then focus on attacking Snips, Snails, and Pipsqueak. The male fillies battle against the crusaders’ magic auras while dodging their deadly rays.
Rainbow Briar and Fireburn in the meantime battles against Splitfire and the Wonderbolts. The whooshing and swooshing through the air collides with banging and fist punches as Splitfire comes against Rainbow Briar. Fireburn than uses his deadly fire powers to try and knock back three of the Wonderbolt soldiers. At the surface, Shadow Armor and Dark Vine Cadenza plan their moves.
“My love, let’s help Rainbow and Fireburn beat those Wonderbolts and show them their true place.” Shadow Armor peeped.
“Right my husband.” Dark Vine Cadenza agrees, “And they will be the death of me.”
“I’ll be taking care of Blade and Storm.” Shadow Armor plans out, “You’ll deal with Trixie and Sunset.”
“I heard your request.” Blade said, as Storm steps along by him, “Let’s fight.”
“Good.” Shadow Armor yodels.
With that, Storm uses his circular sword to block Shadow Armor’s deadly spear attack that almost strikes him. Blade then pushes Shadow Armor back, and grabs out his custom made shield. Shadow Armor than comes forth to Blade, and keeps attempting to hit and hit him with his spear, only to be blocked several times by the hero’s defense strategies.
Dark Vine Cadenza than starts her fight with Trixie and Sunset Shimmer. Trixie pulls out an amulet wand, and zaps karate blankets to come at the villainess to surround and attack. However, they were no match, and die instantly when being struck and chopped by Vine Cadenza’s aura spirit blades. Sunset Shimmer then protects Trixie from one of the villainess’ attacks, just as Dark Vine Cadenza makes a fast rotating razor ball that’s colored blood red. Sunset Shimmer then pushes back one of her other attacks, as soon as the villainess came closer to try and punch her.
Queen Volucris then interferes with Blade working together with Storm. Pushing the griffon aside, she forces Storm to resume the fight along with Shadow Armor, while she lifts the sword up against Blade to decree a challenge. And so, Volucris and Blade slash and slash together with their swords.
Meanwhile in the caves Tails, TJ, Discord, William, Spike, Mokuba, Kaiba, Diamond Tiara, Sliver Spoon, Ian, Leo, Skull, Doctor Whooves and Derpy heading to the first part of the test.
“I’m thinking we partner up different guys for each test.” Discord arranges, “Okay, Tails and TJ will go through COURAGE, Doctor Whooves will do WISDOM, William and I will do FEAR, Derpy and Ian will do Bravery, Kaiba and Mokuba will do the test of strength, and then we’ll fight with the twelve guardians, simple as that.”
“Discord, I should let you know that I’m going to fight Flutterbrute.” Skull said, “Since twelve of you guys will get the swords, and there won’t be two extra. But the least thing you can do is let me try to face our brainwashed friends. If I fail too, well… you’ll face me for all I know…”
“You love Fluttershy, do you my ex-pupil?” Discord grins.
“Well, yes…” Skull admits blushing, “I want to face her because of that, not like how much you love Celestia.”
“WHAT? Discord loves Celestia?” Tails, TJ, and William said all at once.
“YES! I do!” Discord admits in frustration, “Now can we change the subject?”
“Oh! How about how Tails loves Twilight?” William suggests.
Tails eyes William as if he just embarrassed him. William feels ashamed a tad bit for bringing it up.
“We’ll talk about it later.” Tails said, “Once we free them, I still wonder how Twilight will react overall.”
“They all might take it pretty hard in disbelief.” Discord sighs, “And Fluttershy, I can forgive her actions like she forgave mine. She’s my friend after all, she reformed me. And, well Skull, she did actually admit she heard about you. She likes you.”
“Right….” TJ says in an awkward tone.
Spike then notices a deep gash on Skull. The cut is snug deep on the left of his cheek. It bleed out yellow blood.
“Skull? What happened to you?” Spike asks in shock.
“I’ll explain once we free your friends.” Skull answers, “But now is not the time to go into a flashback.”
“That’s right.” Discord agrees, “However I hope you participate in the tests when we really need you.”
“Thanks Discord.” Skull smiles, “But I can’t.”
Skull than stops in place.
“I have to go back.” Skull finally decides.
“WHAT? NO!” Discord protests.
“WHY?” William asks.
“Because that scar on my cheek show’s the black magic of manipulation isn’t working on me. However the strength of it’s power is coming to be dangerous.” Skull explains, “It will be an ironic benefit to hold the changelings off, in case they break the law of magic when entering this cave. One pony like me is nothing to worry about besides thousands of others. I can handle being defender.”
Spike shudders, but then nods.
“I also have to fight off the brainwash ponies in case they come after you.” Skull continues, “This could buy you more time.”
“You’re right again.” Spike understands.
“Just don’t die.” Leo begs.
“There’s a chance I might. But in case I do…” Skull said before heading out, “I’ll be dying to protect you.”
Then he flew outside.
“Okay, let’s hurry.” Tails said to the gang.
Then they rush to the test of COURAGE!
Outside the cave, Flutterbrute was kicking Gilda really hard, and rips of her feathers inch by inch, making Gilda roar in pain and anger.
“YOU’RE CRAZY!” Gilda screams.
“AM I?” Flutterbrute retorts, “Well then… IT’S TIME TO GIVE YOU A…”
“FLUTTERBRUTE!” a voice calls behind her.
Skull steps out of the cave, with the background music “From Heads Unworthy” by Rise Against playing in his head. He stands there, glowing with darkness around him. Glowing with black energy.
“Well hello Skull. Happy to see me?” Flutterbrute slurps, “I was planning to turn you into one of us, since Discord resisted my magic.”
“You can try, Flutterbrute. But deep down, Fluttershy will forgive me for what I’m about to do to you.” Skull gnaws out with his teeth.
“HA! Once I kick your butt, then we’ll see!” Flutterbrute laughs hysterically.
“Okay. Let me introduce you to my other side.” Skull coos.
“HUMPH! Fine by me.” Flutterbrute whines, “BUT THIS WILL BE THE END!”
Then she charges at him, and forces him to slam against and into the rock wall. She laughs manically, but then…
She felt a dark energy glowing around him, just before she let go.
“I WILL SAY IT AGAIN!” Skull shouts, “SAY HELLO TO DARKNESS!”
Then Skull was cover in the darkest energy possible, as it came out of him slowly and powerfully. Then he was a very dark pony with red eyes, but he was glowing with dark magic too.
“Flutterbrute!” Darkness roars, “LET ME SHOW YOU AND QUEEN VOLUCRIS THE TRUE MEANING OF DARKNESS!”
Queen Volucris kept fighting Blade, up to the point when she notices that Skull became Darkness. Blade notices that too as he keeps fighting. The fact he learned that about Skull is very new to him. As for Volucris, she smiles when thinking of her prediction.
“SO, that’s Skull’s true form since Discord did give some of his magic to him. Well, I will send a message to one of my Changelings to attack him from behind. When he is not looking and Flutterbrute, we will knock him out, and turn him one of us…” she thought.
Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
The trusty group of heroes go deeper down through the cave tunnel, seeing carved totems carved on the stone pillars holding the curved ceilings up. The symbols on the pillars show shapes of dragons’ bodies and their spears.
The ground rumbles under them, having half of them shudder in nervousness. The battle outside the cave seems to be getting nasty.
“Well, I better not lose courage because of this.” Tails sighs.
“You and Spike will guide us through, right Discord?” TJ asks.
“But of course.” Discord replies.
“You guys got the hang of this too after using your new powers.” Spike encourages, “I’m sure you’ll do just…”
The dragon then pauses and gasps in such surprise, just as the rest of the gang comes to a halt with him. In front of them is a big drop to a black pit below. High separated pillars also rise as jumping points through this huge gap between the start and finishing surfaces. By each pillar also stands high statues that rise up to touch the ceiling. Their faces look thin and cartoonish, like they’re silly looking bishops. The statues also hold giant axes that can cut an adult pony in half. On each pillar also rests ten buttons on the floors.
“Can anypony fly?” Discord asks.
“TJ and I can.” Tails said, “And by the looks of it, Derpy, Mokuba, and Kaiba can too.”
“Aren’t you forgetting me?” Discord points out.
“This is serious, BIG TIME!” Mokuba observes, “I guess the ones who fly will have to help Tails and TJ.”
“That’s a smart choice.” Spike agrees.
“Okay, so how does this work?” Derpy asks, “This doesn’t look like the type of riddle giving puzzle to me.”
Doctor Whooves observes the buttons on the pillar floors carefully. He then looks at the statues and the positions they hold their giant weapons. Their poses were all different.
“I met this Daring Do lady once.” Doctor Whooves said, “She told me about this sort of pattern decoder that’s similar to this sort of thing. The movements that go with the statue’s poses also sense the reflexes on a pony’s facial expressions. They allow them to crack their hints with following their poses, but from what I’m guessing… they won’t let you finish unless you get rid of your fear.”
Tails and TJ then look hard at their obstacle course, breathing heavily.
“Well, it can’t be that hard.” Tails thinks.
“I think the seals up their will release something to make a surface from the pit after we come through.” TJ said when pointing up to the ceiling doors, “We’ll all cross together then.”
“All right, who shall give the head…” Discord starts to ask.
Derpy then jumps in before he can finish the question. She playfully jumps through the pillars while flapping her wings. She doesn’t even notice the spiritual attacks from the statues, yet she dodges the attacks by great coincidence. This gives Tails and TJ a chance to jump from pillar to pillar while Derpy distracts the statues.
Tails makes it to the first standing pillar. He can try doing the movements that Derpy is making to preoccupy the statues. He moves his feet in twisty patterns, having one statue come to a halt. He sweats, having the pillar rumble because of his slight emotion. However the two tailed fox keeps it together when he jumps to the next pillar.
“I think the pillars should be cracked twice by both heroes who go through the same test.” Doctor Whooves prepares TJ.
“Right.” TJ said.
TJ then jumps to the next pillar, while Discord and Mokuba take their turn to occupy the next statues. Derpy also lands on Discord’s back, exhausted and planning to take a rest on him. TJ does newer patterns made by the filly prince and lord of chaos. With that, the first pillar was officially done, having the statue completely frozen. It even sighs one word.
“Teamwork.” it breathes out.
There are three pillars altogether from what the foxes are solving. They now have two left to go. When Tails completes the second pillar, the second statue nearly freezes though it still swings it’s axe. The third statue is completely moving, and near to attacking Discord, Derpy, and Mokuba. Kaiba then flies in to protect them from the third statue, flying around it again and again, attempting to make it dizzy. This gives TJ the chance to copy the movements Kaiba does, with the repetition of the same buttons he presses on. When he’s done, the second statue freezes completely and breathes out the word.
“Patience.” it breathes slowly.
Tails has been working on the third pillar now. He’s been making great effort. Then… HE SLIPS. With such shock that came to him, the statue notices the foxes fear of failing. It raises it axe to take him down, but then TJ grabs Tails to pull him back, and carry him into the air as he flies. The foxes then look at the two ponies and changeling, giving a grim look like they’re prepared to accept failure. Then, Discord notices that the statue abruptly freezes. It makes it last breath.
“Sacrifice.” it sighs.
The foxes don’t realize, but the act of sacrificing to save someone or give something up just to try again, are true acts of courage. Just then, the doors on the ceiling open up, and tons of sand slowly fall into the pillar. The foxes dash back to the other side, having Discord, Mokuba, Derpy, and Kaiba follow them for safety. In a split minute, the sand completely fills the dark hole of the pit, until it makes a square mound floor to have all the characters walk through safely together.
“What about that?” Tails giggles, “We showed our inner courage that we still have.”
He then give his cousin TJ a fist bump, along with Derpy and Mokuba.
“That was AWESOME!” Spike compliments to Tails and TJ.
“Yeah, but we’re not done yet.” Leo informs, “We must keep moving, time is not slowing down for us.”
The gang then runs through the sandy mound together, passing by the dusty statues. Doctor Whooves looks at Leo. Leo simply looks at him back, and nods as he agrees to be his partner on the next cavern test. The test that Whooves and Leo must face together, on WISDOM.
The usual battle outside the cave is still continuous. Darkness kept fighting Flutterbrute, and was very close to winning. After making stronger beatings on her, he prepares to make his final punch. But Flutterbrute smirks as the fight nearly comes to a close.
“Oh, you wouldn’t hurt dear old Fluttershy, would you?” she said in fake innocence.
Darkness stops his hitting then, thinking…
Queen Volucris notices this with delights. She raises her hoof into the air.
“NOW!” Volucris screams.
From behind, a changeling grabs Darkness from behind and tackles him to the ground.
“WHAT?” Darkness shouts.
The Flutterbrute smiles.
“Time to be one of us, Darkness!”
Then Flutterbrute uses her green magic, as it hits Darkness’ head. He tries to fight off the changeling, but it did no good.
“NO! NO! NO!” Darkness protests.
In his mind, he then knows his fate is sealed.
“Discord, when you and your friends come out…” Darkness (a.k.a Skull) thought, “You’re going to fight me. Good… luck…”
Then, Skull’s eyes become green.
“Let’s keep your name as Darkness.” Flutterbrute rattles, “Because you’ll join us now.”
“Yes, I will join you Flutterbrute, my sweetheart…” Darkness chuckles.
As Skull is now an evil Darkness, the dark magic covers him, and changes him into a new villainous appearance. He now wears black armor and steel hoof shoes. His eyes are now dragon slit, and his helmet is similar to Nightmare Moon’s. He looks back at Flutterbrute, and smiles wickedly.
“Let’s add ‘NIGHTMARE’ in front of your name, Darkness.” Flutterbrute smiles, “Now you’ll spread nightmares to create dark powers that will destroy anypony in your way.”
“Yes my love.” Nightmare Darkness agrees, “Let’s go help our team destroy these idiots.”
“Good one love! HAHAHAHA!” Flutterbrute laughs.
Blade looks at horror to the brainwashing control that takes over Skull. He then looks back at Volucris who’s still fighting him. As he dodges her sword strikes with his own weapon, she grins in such sadism. This enrages Blade.
“THAT’S IT! TIME TO FEEL PAIN, QUEEN VOLUCRIS!” Blade screams.
Then, Blade’s aura on his left front hoof glows red, as he prepares his attack. Volucris wasn’t scared, until…
“VAMPIRE BLAST!” Blade shrieks.
He then sends his attack with a fiery ball toward the changeling queen. Volucris is impressed, but nonchalant when she blocks the attack with her sword.
“Is that the best you can do?” she chuckles.
Meanwhile, Fearburn is resuming a fight he started with Little Strongheart. The angry buffalo girl dodges every punch he throws, refusing to fight back.
“I won’t hurt you…” she breathes weakly, “You’re my friend. I just can’t…”
Fearburn then smirks.
“Well love, let me show you what happens when wimps refuse to fight me.” he snaps.
Then Fearburn prepares to trap Little Strongheart with the same spell Big Mac is trapped inside. With a split second, a dark magic ball covers hear, sending her into a hellish fear of her being surrounded by her dead friends, including Braeburn.
“WHA… NO! NO!” Little Strongheart cries.
Little Strongheart then notices Big Mac is there with her too, still being abused by the demons disguised as his friends. Both of them are imprisoned in the damned orb of nightmares. Fearburn then looks deep inside the orb Big Mac and Little Strongheart are trapped in, holding it close to his snickering face.
“This can all go away unless you join us.” he whispers.
Meanwhile, Appleplant uses her plant like magic powers to grab the Flim Flam Brothers’ guns. They tried to hang onto their machines to keep fighting, but Appleplant has such strength to yank the inventions out of their hooves and throw it to the cave wall. The machines smash and break into pieces.
“Hey!” they protested.
But they couldn’t finish the moment Appleplant charges at them and punches them real hard while pinning them to the ground.
“HAHAHAHAHA! See, your machine is no match against me! Now it’s time to die!” Appleplant declares.
Queen Volucris then takes a break from her fight with Blade, and has her magic trap him in a freezing bondage pose. She then comes over to Appleplant, and places a hoof on her shoulder.
“Don’t kill them. Their minds are useful since they build gadgets. I need them.” Volucris ordered.
“Right your majesty.” Appleplant sighed reluctantly.
Flim and Flam try to struggle free from Appleplant’s grip, but they won’t get loose.
“Guess what? My queen needs your minds. So it’s time for you two to join us.” Appleplant said.
Them, she uses her magic to brainwash Flim and Flam. Their eyes start to glow green during the process.
“We’re in your power now, Appleplant.” they hum.
“Good. Now we need something to capture every last hero in the resistance so we can win.” Appleplant requests.
“Yes master.” the brothers groan.
“Changelings, guard the brothers so they can do their work in peace!” Appleplant ordered to the changeling soldiers.
The changelings nod, and with the most efforts as possible, they gather and hand the materials Flim and Flam need to start building their machine with their enslaved minds.
Up in the sky, Fireburn continues his fight with the Wonderbolts. While Rainbow Briar continues her fight with Splitfire, Fireburn pulls out a secret spear and stabs Soarin, sending his body hard into the ground as he flies down with him by such force.
“SOARIN!” Splitfire screams in alarm.
“Word of advice, look out for YOURSELF!” Rainbow Briar growls.
Then Rainbow Briar tackles Splitfire as she sends her to the ground too. The third Wonderbolt companion is nowhere to be seen, which scares Splitfire. Both her and Soarin are now pinned to the ground by both manipulated pegasi, having them being look up their sneering faces.
“Now, Splitfire and Soarin, what to do with you two?” Rainbow Briar hums.
“Why don’t we turn them into the SHADOWBOLTS?” Fireburn suggests, “Then they’ll be at your command, my love.”
“You know what my love? That is an excellent idea.” Rainbow Briar praises.
She then turns back to Splitfire.
“Time to join the Shadowbolts!” the cyan pegasi yells.
Then, with her magic, Rainbow Briar creates clones of her personal Shadowbolt soldiers. They then rush to the sky, attacking the other Wonderbolt recruits. Then, Rainbow Briar uses her dark magic again to manipulate Splitfire and Soarin. Their eyes then start to glow green.
“We will join you.” the two defeated Wonderbolts finally said.
Now, they are Shadowbolts, with dragon slits appearing in their eyes.
At the moment, Fearburn keeps looking at the dark ball, speaking to Big Mac and Little Strongheart that are still imprisoned inside it.
“So what do you guys say? Live with the nightmares, or join us?” Fearburn threatens.
Big Mac and Little Strongheart slowly appear magically back in the outside world, with their eyes being forced to glow green. The wrenching feeling of having the black magic smashed into their minds is completely excruciating. The fear powers inside this ball prison had done the trick. Now the pony and buffalo are close to being under such evil hypnotism.
“I will join you.” Big Mac sighs.
“So will I.” Little Strongheart breathes.
“Good.” Fearburn grins.
Then the darkness covers the two new victims once the spell is complete. Big Mac wears dark armor with a cape that has a pony skull on it. He even wears a dark hat, and his eyes become slit and dragon like. Little Strongheart than comes out of the darkness as she wears dark Indian armor, with a dark feather sticking through her hair. Her eyes are dragon slit, and she now carries a dark arrow and a set of dark bows on her back.
“These weapons you have will bring dark magic onto anypony that gets hit with these arrows.” Fearburn explains to Strongheart, “By the way, it’s time we gave you new names. How about, Hide Mac and Tough Brave?”
“Right” Big Mac agrees. He is now Hide Mac.
“Ditto.” Strongheart nods. She is now Tough Brave.
Appleplant and Apple Vine see the achievement that Fearburn has done.
“Welcome to our team, my dear brother and cousin-in-law.” Appleplant said to Hide Mac and Tough Brave.
“Yeah, welcome.” Apple Vine laughs.
Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
Enter the Guardians!! T.J.'s Rage Unleashed
The fight was getting worse, as Blade sees more ponies and dragons alike being turned into evil assistants to Queen Volucris. Storm, Gilda, Trixie, and Sunset are also tired out from all the fighting they done so far. Blade then turns to his friends.
“It looks like we’re losing more allies guys.” Blade sadly admits, “But others are still fighting Chrysalis. Thanor said that we mustn’t give up. It’s time we used the final form.”
“You’re right.” Storm agrees.
Then, they brought their toughest magic into play, as they come into their final forms.
“LET’S FIGHT TO THE END!” Blade yells.
Then they charge to the plundering six, their ex-allies, changelings, and Queen Volucris.
The gang in the cave had just passed the test of wisdom. As they kept walking down, they were surprised of how simple it was.
“All it was is a riddle of what to do when you have one weapon that’s not powerful to an enemy.” Doctor Whooves said.
“The answer was just crazy. Don’t fight, enact in peace and you will pass through this situation by understanding your enemy.” Leo remembers.
Discord sighs at that.
“Is that supposed to compare to Volucris?” he wonders.
“Don’t be stupid! Of course it doesn’t!” William argues, “She’s our enemy!”
“Sorry, I was just assuming…” Discord said, thinking of these actions of hers, yet just realizing…
Anypony or creature can make flaws in a life of humanistic nature.
Then, the ground rumbles underneath the gang once again. They look around in confusion, if this is supposed to be another test.
Tails, TJ, William, Discord, Doctor Whooves, Derpy, Mokuba, Diamond Tiara, Sliver Spoon, Leo, Ian, Spike, and Kaiba than see circling auras floating in front of them. There are twelve cloudy cylinders coming into place. Then, something comes out of these cylinders.
They appear to be soldiers, CARRYING THE TWELVE SWORDS! But they’re not like any race in Equestria. Six are HUMAN, and six are ZODIAC ANIMALS.
The warriors from the end of the cave somehow came loose, and choose to meet the gang face to face. Their heads rise up slowly as they look at them.
“Glad you made it.” the first human warrior said. He has a baldhead, but has a brown mustache on his upper lip. He wears the usual knight armor, “My name is Arthur.”
“We’ve been waiting for the twelve of you.” the second human soldier said. He has an afro hairstyle, and is black skinned. “I am Revan.”
“You all are doing great. But because your friends are close to a loss, we think your time must be now. Your teamwork so far is for the sake of other ponies’ lives.” the third human soldier explains. He has an army style haircut, but wears a samurai outfit, “Call me Logan by the way.”
A human sumo soldier named Martin then bows to the group, honoring their presence.
“I am Brendan.” the fifth human soldier said. He is covered with dragon tattoos.
“As you can we, we are the guardians of the twelve light swords.” Brendan explains.
“Our orders were to fight anyone who invades our presence.” Revan said, “However, we know that you’re finally here. And we’re proud of that.”
“We will be transferring our sword powers to all of you so you will fight.” the sixth human soldier said. He is an elderly monk who wears a red robe. “I’m Six by the way.”
“I’m Devon.” the first zodiac soldier said. He is a lion, and he sighs in disappointment, “And I have graving news to share with you. Right now, I sense in the outside of this cave that your allies are losing the fight. They are joining the darkness as we speak.”
“WHAT?” Tails screams.
Then, TJ notices his beeper on his belt ringing.
“What’s that?” William asks as he notices.
“It’s a scouter.” TJ said when holding it up. It’s yellow, and it has glass lights on each side of the cubed gadget.
“It keeps me updated and connected with special guys I like to stay in touch with.” TJ explains, “Last time I visited Equestria, I befriended a nice buffalo names Little Strongheart. I added her as one my guys to watch…”
“I have news of her too.” Devon said when overhearing TJ. He even shakes his head in horror.
“Little Strongheart, was too covered in the darkness…” Devon moans.
TJ felt a surge of disbelief touching his body.
“This… this is unreal.” TJ gasps.
“I’m… I’m so sorry TJ.” Spike tried to comfort him.
“She’s not supposed to be corrupted. DAMN YOU VOLUCRIS!” TJ cries.
“We got to get out now. Blade, Gilda, Trixie, Storm, and Sunset are outside. Who knows what will happen to them!” Tails said.
“You still have enough power to save your friends.” the second zodiac soldier said. He is a crocodile wearing an army outfit, “I’m Eren. And before you leave this cave, I’ll be the one to transfer our powers of the swords to you fine young heroes.”
“You’ll all have a link of power when you work together with the power of the sword.” the third zodiac soldier explains. He’s a peacock wearing a Roman outfit, “My name is Treston. And once the powers are tightly linked, you will turn your transferred magic into the most powerful combo attack of all. THE EXCALIBAR MOVE. Only then when you are nearest to defeat, or extremely weak against Volucris, you will trigger this team attack to activate.”
“Ah, William, it’s good to see you to.” the fourth zodiac soldier said. He’s a panda wearing an Inuit suit, “My name is Elle. I have guessed you’ll have trouble with a weapon because…”
He didn’t want to embarrass William about saying he has no limbs.
“Anyways, I have the thing you need that will help you in battle.” Elle continues, pulling out a blue space suit. He then throws it to the comic relief worm.
“This suit will help control your body, and will scientifically, or magically create arms and legs for movement. That will give you a better time to hold the light sword then.” Elle explains.
“SWEET!” William cheers.
“Thank you for making William into a brave warrior rather than just a coward.” Discord murmurs.
“HEY! I HEARD THAT!” William shouts.
“Be sure to chant the ancient language so it will boost the swords’ power.” Six advised, “Also, Discord, Spike, Tails, TJ, Mokuba… the five of you will have your final forms as well. It will enhance you light sword powers with legendary martial art tactics. The levels of these tactics will double on the way.”
“Right.” Tails understands.
“Okay, move out and save your friends.” Arthur said.
Soon, all twelve heroes in the cave were given the swords, and the sacred powers from within. The aura sinks into them, as the guardians disappear. Kaiba wasn’t surprised that he wasn’t given anything, however he’s glad that he’s helping his new friends.
“I will make sure you win this.” Kaiba promises.
“Thanks Kaiba.” Tails smiles, “Okay, let’s go.”
However, before they can turn to make it outside, vines tear out of the walls of the cave. They block the gangs’ path completely, having Discord look in suspicion at the beings magically appearing as they control the vines.
“You’re probably wondering how we got in.” the first being said.
Spike knows that voice.
Smoke rises and lowers, as Shadow Armor and Dark Vine Cadenza step through the smoldering dust.
“We simply killed off the spell that protects this cave.” Dark Vine Cadenza said, “With the help of Volucris of course.”
“That’s… that’s CHEATING!” Discord gasps.
“You could have been vaporized when coming through because of your black magic!” Spike shook.
“Awww, but that’s what dark magic does. It breaks the rules.” Shadow Armor coos, “And look, you got your light powers and swords. Well clearly we can’t let you stop us so, VINES! KILL THEM!”
Just as the vines lash at Discord, Spike, and Tails first, Mokuba jumps in front of the vines and slashes them with such strength while blue lights go with his swords movements. He then lands facing his brainwashed mother and father.
“Ah, you must be the son we heard about.” Dark Vine Cadenza snickers.
“That’s right.” Mokuba snarls, “And I won’t let my own family be puppet controlled enough to hurt my friends. If you wanna stop them, you got to stop me first. Let them go, and you’ll deal with them later…”
“Are you saying you’re asking for a challenge?” Shadow Armor asks.
“And us!” Tails said as he and TJ stands by Mokuba, “You have to deal with us too.”
Dark Vine Cadenza grins.
“Very well. We shall begin.” she spat.
With that, she has her first magic laser come out of her horn. She keeps shooting directly at Mokuba, as he dodges and jumps up at the assistant weeds while hacking them with his sword. Meanwhile, Discord, Spike, William, Leo, Ian, Doctor Whooves, and Derpy evade to leave the cave so they can go rescue the others outside. Tails nods at them in approval, when they nod good luck to him when they leave. Kaiba then picks up Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon and flies them out as well to get them safe. He even kicks the weeds that are in the way, and bites through them with his fangs. Shadow Armor uses his black rays to attempt to stop Kaiba, but Mokuba interferes by shielding the ray, and having it bounce back to Shadow Armor, striking him good and hard.
Tails in the meantime, uses his sword moves and Kamehameha waves to kill off the wretched plants. He also dodges the earthquake smashes they make.
TJ then notices that Dark Vine Cadenza is coming at him, and jumps back from a pink ray with sizzling sparks around it. He throws a punch to send her back, and gives a sidekick to her left side of the chest. She then has a pink spark from her horn strike TJ on the head, kicking him flat to the ground.
Dark Vine Cadenza grinned as her horn glowed, and TJ clutched his head, feeling a bit dizzy. She'd nearly tried to poison his brain with her magic trick too, however the transferred aura in his body fights it off.
"Well...it seems as though you had feelings for Tough Brave. You'll be quite content with how she is when you become my general." she smirked.
"WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO TO HELL?! I'D DIE BEFORE I JOINED YOU!!!" TJ scowled, crushing his scouter.
He clutches onto his sword, and looks at Mokuba. The filly prince keeps fighting his brainwashed father, and jumps up to kick at him again. When he is so far winning, he looks at TJ.
"Mokuba, you keep fighting Shadow Armor as long as possible. Cadenza's MY opponent, and I wanna avenge Little Strongheart myself. HHHAAAAAAAAAHHHH....!!!" he screamed, powering up as electricity surged around him.
Tails look in awe at TJ while he fights the weeds. Cadenza didn’t seem amused.
“What are you doing now?” she sighed.
"I'll show you the Masenko! It's Japanese for 'The Demon Flash'." T.J. grinned.
Then he placed his hands above his head let the energy flow, and fired the blast.
"DEMON FLASH: MASENKO-HA!!!" he shouted, blasting at Dark Vine Cadenza, but she dodged the blast.
She lunged at the plucky Kitsunian, who was ready to fight more than ever.
She keeps throwing punches, the same as TJ does. Tails resumes his fight with the weeds with the striking and blowing with his sword. Mokuba feels the newest punches that he’s receiving from Shadow Armor.
“Had enough yet, SON?” Shadow Armor smirks.
“I regret thinking of you as a father right now…” Mokuba growls.
Outside the cave, their ex-friends are beating down Blade, Storm, Trixie, Gilda, and Sunset.
“AHAHAHAHAHA!” Volucris laughs when taking joy watching this overhead, “Last chance to join us, or die!”
“HELLO QUEEN VOLUCRIS! DO YOU MISS US?” a voice erupts.
“HUH?” Volucris utters.
Than a blast strikes her hard on the head, and sends her crashing to the ground. She immediately gets up, and looks at who did that.
“WHAT THE?” she gasps.
In front of her is Discord, Spike, Ian, Leo, William, Derpy, Doctor Whooves, Diamond Tiara, and Silver Spoon. They held the light swords real tight with their hands and hooves, ready for a real fight.
“All these years, you waited for evil to be created by you?” Discord asks mockingly.
“Or cause it anywhere else in the universe?” Leo adds.
“Turning our friends evil…” Ian growls.
“YOU THINK YOU’RE A GOD!” Diamond Tiara joins in, “BUT YOU’RE NOTHING BUT A MONSTER! A MEAN ONE!”
“Tails, TJ, and Mokuba a pretty busy. But for now…” William says when raising his sword with the help of his suit, “IT’S TIME TO KICK BUTT AND SEND YOU BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!”
“None of you can come against me!” Volucris laughs as she gets up, “You all are weak!”
“One of us should also find where she’s imprisoning Celestia and Luna.” Discord whispers to Spike.
“They might be anywhere.” Spike points out.
“Six of us will fight Volucris, three will find the princesses.” Discord whispers his plan. He also eyes Volucris eyeing evilly at them, ready to attack anytime.
“I’m staying to fight to fight with you.” Spike insists, “But William, you go with Tiara and Spoon to find the hive these princesses are in.”
William nods, and signals to the two fillies to sneak behind their friends so they can evade the beginning of the fight.
“AS QUEEN, I KNOW WHEN IDIOTS LOSE!” Volucris cackles, “YOUR LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP WON’T STOP ME!”
“WANNA BET?” Discord yells.
Blade, Gilda, Storm, Trixie, and Sunset look at awe as the REAL battle begins. Discord, Spike, and Ian use powers that are similar to air movements.
Leo, Whooves, and Derpy use powers that are similar to water movements.
Discord then makes a windy blow of a punch towards Volucris. The evil queen then dodges Spike’s fire aura from his sword, and punches him in the face with her front left hoof. Ian then comes to do a twirl kick to Volucris’ face, but she jumps back before he can strike her.
Leo then uses his powers to create a ball of boiling water in his hand. He then throws it at Volucris’ face, having her scream in pain once she’s hit. Whooves then does multiple kicks on her back, but she kicks him back by sending him high up into the air. Derpy then flies in go around and around Volucris again and again, until she is dizzy. She wobbles a little at Derpy’s trick, which makes the grey pony giggle.
All six fighters against Volucris than stand still, thinking of what to do next.
Leo than uses his upper strength to smack into the ground, having a good earthquake help him come toward Volucris to attack her. However, she flies up to miss the attack. Derpy then raises her sword, and flies up after Volucris to start a certain swordplay with her. Volucris block’s Derpy’s sword attack the moment she comes face to face with her in the sky.
“Fools. You still think you know how the light swords work?” Volucris snarls, “GET THEM! DESTROY THEM ALL!”
All at once, the Plundering Six, Shadowbolts, Fireburn, Dark Cutie Mark Crusaders, Nightmare Darkness, Fearburn, Tough Brave and Hide Mac follow her command and charge toward the heroes.
“YES! TIME TO KILL!” Twivine cheers.
The entire manipulated pony group charges at Discord, Ian, Leo, Spike, and Doctor Whooves. Then…
BOOOM!
An explosion appears out of nowhere.
Author's Note
Hey, it's me, Tails! We finally got out of the cave, but we have an even bigger problem on our hands-er, hooves!
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Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
The All-Out Brawl!! Last Hope For the Universe
Chrysalis went along with the explosion as she was knocked out unconscious by it. That broke her apart from her fight with Starswirl, having her land solid hard to the rocky surface. The sound around her was beginning to blur, as she goes into a sleepy dream. No, not a dream, a memory. Or was it a hallucination? She couldn’t tell.
But right now, she sees herself somewhere else besides the battle. At this moment, she can her the stomps of her changelings hooves, as they march and guard their queen as she’s being pulled in her black chariot. There are about twenty changeling soldiers, and herself in charge of the moving parade. They are going through an amazon jungle, searching for a new land that they obviously want to suck every drop of love out of. They look around all the vines and hanging branches of this forest, having Chrysalis getting impatient from all this boredom.
“Please tell me we have only ten more minutes left to go.” she whines.
“Nope.” a changeling guide said, “Unfortunately from my senses, another two hours.”
“ARRRGH!” Chrysalis shouts in displeasure.
She slouches down on her chariot seat, and glances at her changelings. She even notices her other dearest soldier, Kaiba. He was one of them and part of working, all before the epic battle and explosion. Chrysalis now knows she’s in one of her memories, but she plays along with it. She wants to relax after all the pressure of that battle anyway.
SCREEEEE!
The sound alarmed the changelings, and takes Queen Chrysalis by surprise. The leaves and branches rustle fast and loudly above them as they see the creature coming at them. A GIANT GREEN PTERODACTYL FLIES DOWN TO ATTACK THEM!
“PROTECT THE QUEEN!” the changeling captain orders.
In an instant, the changelings use their magic to create glowing bows and arrows. they fire away at the dinosaur monster, but the creature pushes the darting arrows aside, and immediately kills of the first five changelings with it’s poisonous claws the moment it swoops down.
Kaiba stands his guard, and holds his ninja stars he grabbed from his backpack. He aims and throws towards the pterodactyl’s head. However the bird monster head bumps Kaiba real hard, and sends him flying towards a tree. He crashes into the wooden trunk, breaking his back and going unconscious.
Four more changelings then get out rope to try and lasso the violence-seeking beast. However, one the ropes loop around the monster, it pulls them up while the changelings still clutch onto the ropes. The pterodactyl then has them hanging over it’s mouth, and shakes it’s wings rapidly until they let go. Chrysalis gasps in dismay when she sees the creature EAT HER SOLDIERS.
Ten more remain, and Chrysalis gets out of her chariot, and looks up at the monster with fiery eyes.
“HOW DARE YOU INTERFERE WITH MY QUEST!” she roars, “YOU WILL PAY!”
The then makes a green sword with her magic, just by using her mind. She places it in her front hoof.
“YOUR HIGHNESS! DON’T!” a changeling soldier warned.
But she ignores this warning. At once, all ten of the changelings watch in awe as she battles the beast with her sword, having it clash with it’s vicious claws.
The beast bites down at Chrysalis, but she twirls away and blocks it’s mouth with her sword as it nears her. The defense makes a good attacking cut on the pterodactyl’s lips, having it pull itself back and shriek in pain. Chrysalis then rushes forward to stab the living monster, but the beast flings it’s tail around to push Chrysalis down to the ground. Half of the changelings then rush in to save their queen, but the pterodactyl spits something out of it’s mouth toward them. Chrysalis sees her soldiers then get struck by the beast’s saliva. As it turns out, the spit is a killing acid, melting and vaporizing her heroic changelings who tried to save their life. Tears deep down from her soul drop out as she sees them go into their death.
The last five changelings then run off in fear, abandoning their queen. This shocks Chrysalis when she sees this.
“COWARDS!” she cries, “HOW DARE YOU!”
The beast then slaps it’s clawed wing on her cheek to get her attention. That hurt Chrysalis, really much! However the beast wouldn’t care less. All it sees in front of it, is food!
Chrysalis mutters silent profanities as the giant pterodactyl lowers it head and opens it mouth, ready to swallow her whole!
PFFFFFFTTTT!
The unknown sound got the dinosaur monster’s attention. Chrysalis heard it too. She looks up, assuming it came from the trees.
PFFFFTT!
That sound blew in the wind once again. The pterodactyl still kept hold of Chrysalis with his giant leg, and roars a demand for the intruder to come out. Chrysalis may understand that the beast wants a challenge. Then, she notices something odd strike the beast.
It was a pink flash, that just ran and grazed the dinosaur bird right by it’s cheek. It came back again, and again, AND AGAIN! It’s like it constantly keeps punching and slapping the creature, just to take it by surprise and confuse. Chrysalis knows only one thing about that moving pink flash. The strategy to fight the monster is working, and so far, the pterodactyl is losing.
Finally, the beast staggers back and let’s Chrysalis go without even knowing it. Chrysalis then topples backward, and sees what causes the pink flash the moment the creature land’s on the evil beast’s head.
It was a pony! Though it wasn’t like any other. It’s fur is so puffy and pink. The pink fluffy pony almost seemed like a pillow.
“PFFFFT!” it said to Chrysalis.
That made Chrysalis chuckle a little, right after the fluffy pony stomps the beast on the head with all four legs. The pterodactyl then falls to the ground, defeated and weak.
Chrysalis then raises herself up, and wobbles with her legs. She’s curious of the puffed and pillow-looking pony, as it comes up really close to her.
“Stay back, I don’t like to be touched.” Chrysalis said rudely.
The pink pony didn’t seem to understand what Chrysalis just said. All it does was say “PFFT!” again, and hops on the queen’s back.
“HEY!” Chrysalis said in an annoyed tone.
She then sees the innocent eyelashes on the pony’s eyes. It must be a female, that’s for sure. The fluffy girl pony then circles around the queen’s back.
Chrysalis still sighs.
“What are you exactly?” she asks her.
“PFFT!” the fluffy pony just said.
“Is that all you’re going to tell me?” the queen mumbles.
The fluffy pony nods, still having an innocent smile on it’s face.
Chrysalis mutters sounds of irritation. It’s quite frank to her that this pony hasn’t come from Ponyville, Manehatten, Vanhover, or anyplace else. The queen then looks back once again at the pony, thinking she has no choice but to make her regretting decision. It’s still a generous thing to either way.
“Can I call you Fluffle Puff?” she asks the pink pony.
The pink pony gasps in joy, and nods real fast at that name.
“Fine.” Chrysalis mumbles.
She then hears moaning from Kaiba, as he wakes up. Fluffle Puff then rushes to help him up. Kaiba looks at the pink pony by surprise.
“Uh, you highness…” Kaiba starts to ask.
“Save it.” Chrysalis spat, “We have a long journey back to my castle.”
Then she looks at Fluffle Puff, ready to make her generous decision.
“Do you… ugh…. want to come with me?” she asks.
Fluffle Puff gasps in joy even louder, and hops up and down really fast while nodding. The queen than has Kaiba march with her as Fluffle Puff hops onto the queen’s back, going on the journey with her.
Chrysalis is still looking back at her memory. It was five days after that pterodactyl incident, that she is finally safe in her personal castle. To makes thing more interesting, Chrysalis allowed Fluffle Puff to crash her place and stay for a while, just to keep her company. Chrysalis kind of liked Fluffle because she’s pretty cute, but the pink pony also saved her life from that wretched beast that day. If it weren’t for her, she would be dead.
Chrysalis feels warm, which feels strange to her at first. A though comes to het that this feeling will pass, just as see looks at her maps on her royal desk.
While she does that, she looks behind her to see Fluffle Puff playing with crayons and paper. She appears to be coloring, but would Chrysalis care? The queen insists to herself that she must plan out her diabolical schemes.
After five more minutes at looking at her maps, she feels Fluffle Puff tap on her shoulder. Chrysalis than looks around to see Fluffle holding her sheet of paper.
“What?” Chrysalis grumpily moans.
Fluffle then hands the paper to Queen Chrysalis. The changeling ruler than looks at what the pony made, and her eyes widen. They become less angry and happy, as Chrysalis looks in such surprise of the heartwarming drawing Fluffle has made.
On this piece of paper is a child-like crayon drawing of Queen Chrysalis playing and cuddling with Fluffle Puff. Red happy hearts also surround them in the picture. Chrysalis never felt like she’d been cared by any pony before. It was weird to her, but she almost didn’t take love for granted. In a way, she didn’t just earn it, she UNDERSTOOD it.
Tears fall slowly as she understood very calmly what it’s like to care for somepony. She then grabs Fluffle Puff, and hugs her real tightly, nuzzling with the pony’s pink fur.
“I vow I’ll never try and do anything evil to hurt you.” she weeps, “Because you are… my friend…”
Days passed by, as Chrysalis finally recalls these moments. Through the past two months, she forgot about invading another pony community to drain love. The other changelings watched in confusion, as they passed by Chrysalis playing with Fluffle Puff ever day. They’ve done tickle fights, games of tag, chess, checkers, even Chrysalis can’t keep record.
The last night she knew that she ever hanged out with this special pony was that Fluffle Puff cuddled at the top of a mountain with her. The mountains that connected to the queen’s castle was considered a home to her. Chrysalis keeps looking down at Fluffle Puff, who smiles at her while licking too. This made Chrysalis smile, having sympathy finally grow in her. As they hug, they watch the golden sunset in the horizon introduce the beautiful midnight aura in the sky. The northern lights then appear, having the galaxy stars combine and turn the space above into a gorgeous light show. Chrysalis even vowed to Fluffle Puff that she’ll remember this moment….
…Then the next day… Fluffle Puff disappeared.
Chrysalis than witnesses herself in her memory dream, searching for her friend, crying and wondering what could have caused Fluffle to vanish so fast. She even orders the other changelings to help her find the pink pony. They were reluctant, but since she was queen, they helped search for Chrysalis’ dearest friend.
…However she was nowhere to be found.
Chrysalis then knew how this all went after revisiting her past in this time-travel like dream. The snap inside her makes her turn back into her rotten, cruel self as soon as she gives up finding Fluffle. Assumptions grew as she thinks she was abandoned because it was some sort of game. Then…
Chrysalis then sees herself attacking another village to drain love. That was also weeks past Fluffle’s disappearance. Yet, on that day she was attacking the village, she notices black weeds arising from the ground, helping Chrysalis conquer the village. Than, Volucris appears, introducing her debut after being imprisoned for quite some time.
After that…
CHRYSALIS AWAKENS!
Her eyelids open fast as she sees the fight that’s still continuing. Other fighters, even Discord, Spike, Leo, Ian, Doctor Whooves, and Derpy and stagger to their feet.
Chrysalis then sees the cause of the explosion, as Mokuba, Tails, and TJ come out of the cave. Mokuba’s hooves glow in front of him as he walks.
“That explosion came from ME.” Mokuba sneers at Volucris, “That move is simply known as the Starlight Flash Attack.”
Nopony else knew it, but just before Chrysalis’ dreaming memory and Volucris’ fight interruption, the fight in the cave was a near loss for Tails, TJ, and Mokuba.
Dark Vine Cadenza had distracted TJ with one of her hidden disguised changelings that came with her. It had transformed into an evil clone of Little Strongheart to slow him down. That given Cadenza the chance to weaken him and corrupt him. But just as the vines came to grab him, TJ chopped away and killed the evil plants. His anger had risen as he looked at the evil princess.
His fur glowed yellow and had risen up, and his eyes were red with hate and vengeance.
"THAT DOES IT!!! I WON'T LET YOU HURT MY FRIENDS ANYMORE!!" TJ screamed, "SUPER....PURIFICATION...KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAAAAAAA.......!!!!!!!"
He fired the blue-white attack, as it struck Dark Vine Cadenza really well.
Also, as Mokuba was beaten up, he got trapped in the surrounding vines. As he was about to turn into Dark Mokuba, he burst free, and even became STRONGER THAN BEFORE!
"You are really strong, but I have three words for you.... GO TO HELL!" Mokuba shouted at Shadow Armor.
Shadow Armor was in shock of his new strength form he achieved.
"B-But How?!" Shadow Armor stuttered.
"Get ready for my greatest attack...." he said, just as he was charging his power to one great blast!, "STARLIGHT FLASH!!!!!"
Mokuba shot his power that knocking out Shadow Armor and REVERTED HIM BACK TO SHINING ARMOR! Dark Vine Cadenza surprisingly CAME BACK TO BEING CADENCE, just as the explosion occurred, having everypony stunned and knocked down during the battle, inside and outside the cave.
Now Discord, Spike, Leo, Ian, Doctor Whooves, Derpy, Storm, Blade, Gilda, Trixie, and Sunset look in delight to see that Shining Armor and Cadence are standing by Mokuba’s side, back to their true good forms. Mokuba even hugs his parents, very happy that he’s back together with them. Discord and Spike also cry in happiness for the unknown pony that’s now the most important of all.
“I’m so happy I found and saved you.” Mokuba said to his father, Shining Armor.
Shining Armor looks at Mokuba, very devastated of all these years wasted of not knowing that his son was gone all this time. Cadence was traumatized, by very happy that she and Shining Armor is fortunate enough to see that their son exists and is alive.
“I’m happy you’re finally with us as well.” Shining Armor wept to Mokuba.
Kaiba came out slowly by the cave to stand by Tails and TJ. Then, Cadence looks at Volucris with such an enraged face.
“YOU MONSTER!” she cries at the evil queen, “YOU TOOK OUR SOON!”
Chrysalis looks deep into Cadence’s eyes in the distance to understand her deep love.
“I wouldn’t care if you knew that he existed, or either or not he’s dead.” Volucris sighs in a careless voice, “Even so, since you’re back together with your stupid soon, it will men the world to me to finish you all here at once. I would have used you more, but you just snapped out of the spell. Such a pity.”
Discord and Spike frown in such strength when looking at Volucris. The main queen than looks back to the rest of the group in front of her.
“Right…” she purred, “Let’s get this over with…”
“YOUR MAJESTY!” a changeling roared, “WE HAVE AN INTRUDER!”
Volucris seethes at this new interruption.
“Who is it?” she demands.
The changelings drag the pony very harshly to have it meet her up front. Chrysalis looks at the prisoner in curiosity as it comes closer. The her eyes widen. Shock and recognition comes to her realization when she sees this female pink pony…
FLUFFLE PUFF!
“We found this pink brat hopping by these mountains!” the changeling soldier laughed, “We knocked it out at just the appropriate time!”
“Is that so?” Volucris asks.
The evil queen changeling than steps slowly to the limping pony, wheezing and coughing. The fluffy pony than looks up at Volucris, drooping her ears and crying out moans and whimpers, hoping for mercy.
“Aww, how cute!” Volucris coos, “CHANGELINGS! BLOCK OUR PRISONERS OFF FROM THIS BATTLE!”
The changelings than use their black magic to create a magic blue shield that pulls over Discord, Spike, Mokuba, Shining Armor, and the others. Volucris grins when planning grim pleasure. She then has the razor sharp vines tear out of the ground to grab the heroes. Vines grab, Discord, Spike, Tails, TJ, Mokuba, Shining Armor, Cadence, Leo, Ian, Doctor Whooves, Derpy, Storm, Blade, Gilda, Trixie, Kaiba, and Sunset.
The dragons, even Garble, can see the huge shield coming up in the middle of the mountain cove, right in the center of the battle against their enemies. When Thanor and Starswirl fight off more changelings with the other dragons, they notice what’s going on through the shield. Thanor and Starswirl gasps in horror as they Volucris now getting the best of the heroic friends.
Back inside the shield, the vines clutches harder to it’s prisoners by their hands. Discord looks down at Spike and Ian in sadness, as they’re the first three to feel something drain out their bodies.
“It’s a simple magic prevention spell that’s linked with my precious vines.” Volucris explains, just as Tails and TJ now feel drained too, “I saved that beautiful curse to work for this moment.”
“I’m sorry Twilight…” Discord whimpers to Twivine and the manipulated main five.
“We’re sorry.” Spike adds when looking at their brainwashed friends.
Chrysalis can feel their sadness for losing their friends, just like she did with Fluffle. But then she focuses on the pink pony again. Kaiba notices too, just as the energy pulls out of him really fast. Spike then looks at Queen Chrysalis eyeing Fluffle. He then becomes really surprised. As Chrysalis wobbles to her feet, she’s crying. Really hard does she cry when she sees Volucris pick up Fluffle with her painful magic. Cadence notices this too, and sees something different in Chrysalis that she never expected. She almost felt she has sympathy for the changeling sister of Volucris’ now. She understands that Chrysalis cares for Fluffle. Then…
“All this work for victory really made me hungry.” Volucris muses, “I think it’s time I had a snack.”
This made Chrysalis whimper and gasp in terror. VOLUCRIS IS GOING TO KILL FLUFFLE!
Fluffle shakes madly as Volucris opens up her mouth to prepare herself for devouring.
“You should thank me too sister.” Volucris said to Chrysalis, “IF IT WEREN’T FOR MY MAGIC HELPING ME SEND FLUFFLE AWAY, YOU WOULD’NT HAVE FOCUSED ON HELPING ME COME THIS FAR.”
Chrysalis then feels her changelings hold her back.
“Don’t try anything stupid your highness.” one changeling said, “Just let Volucris do as she pleases.”
Chrysalis is in disbelief. Fluffle disappeared because Volucris made her. Now she sees her only friend, struggling and crying in pain, getting slapped and beaten by Volucris.
“Say ‘AHHH’. It won’t hurt one bit.” Volucris giggles.
Discord and Spike cry out tears for Fluffle, just as the changelings chant for Volucris to kill her. Then, Chrysalis growls and seethes louder, louder, LOUDER…
“ENOUGH!” she shrieks.
She then has her green aura push the betraying changelings aside, as she rushes to Volucris to punch her in the face!
Discord, Spike, Tails, and TJ all gasp in surprise at once. Cadence and Shining Armor just observe, wondering what’s changing Chrysalis’ behavior. She then grabs Fluffle Puff and hugs her tightly in her arms, having her head look up in the sky and her horn glow with a mix of green and blue. The shield than shatters into tiny pieces with her force, having the dragon’s rush in to fight off more of Volucris’ changelings. Chrysalis then kills the weeds with her horn’s powers, and frees the prisoners from the vine bindings.
“Why…” Cadence tried to ask Chrysalis.
“Fluffle is my dearest friend!” Chrysalis spat at her, “She helped me understand how much happiness there is for protecting a friend!”
Fluffle smiles up at Chrysalis, licking her face. Chrysalis then looks at Volucris angrily. In addition, Thanor and Starswirl land by Chrysalis to stand by her. Kaiba then walks in while pointing his sword at Volucris. The dragons come closer to Volucris as they fight through more of the evil changelings and manipulated ponies.
“WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS SISTER?” Volucris roars.
“You know what sis, I had enough of you! I’m on the good guys’ side this time!” Chrysalis than turns to Thanor, “Do you want to help me defeat my sister?”
“WHAT?” Twivine shakes in shock.
“Um… sure.” Thanor nods, smiling.
“Looks like you’ve been hooked, lined, and stickered Volucris.” Starswirl grins.
“HAHAHA! Good one!” Discord laughs.
“YOU TRAITOR! GET THEM!” Volucris rages.
“RIGHT!” Twivine screams.
The heroes and villains then began to charge at one another, as the Dark Cutie Mark Crusaders starts to get up toward Storm. When they make their attack, he dodges and uses his special freezing attack to trap the evil crusaders in an ice formation. Their lower legs couldn’t move.
“HEY!” Apple Vine yells.
“I never knew I had ice powers.” Storm muses, “Guess I’m going to use them now.”
“I have ice powers too Storm!” Fireburn screams as he comes up to Storm, punching him in the face.
The strike throws Strom back, having the griffon shake his head in such energy. He dodges the fiery ice attacks made by Fireburn, as the brainwashed pony keeps firing and firing. Suddenly, a punch hits Fireburn on the face. The red pony turns to see Garble, willing to protect Storm and ready to start a fight.
“So, EX-COUSIN, you wanna fight?” Fireburn sneers.
“Yeah, to bring you back!” Garble shouts, “So get ready!”
“Well, let me go into my dark dragon form…” Fireburn snickers.
Garble looks in amazement as he sees Fireburn magically grow with his dark powers. In such short notice, the red pony shakes and transforms into a big dark dragon.
“NOW…” Fireburn said, in his dark dragon form, “You will die…”
The fight between them begins, while Rainbow Briar fights Gilda, and Storm and Blade fight against Flutterbrute and Darkness. Sunset Shimmer and Trixie fight against Twivine, while Chrysalis fights against Volucris. Kaiba also fights against the evil changelings, yelling angry words of disappointment at them when he throws punches.
TJ then comes face to face with Fearburn in the big battle crowd.
Fearburn looks at TJ as he smirks. “I knew you love Strongheart more than she loved me. But once she gets rid of you, then she will be mine, you worthless TJ.”
“I won’t let you take her.” TJ growls.
“Well then…” Fearburn soothes.
He then whistles out to Tough Love, who comes charging at TJ, pushing him to the ground.
“Tough Love, face your ex-lover.” Fearburn commands.
“Yes Fearburn, he will be dealt with.” Tough Love agrees.
She then takes out an arrow, and strikes it towards TJ. The fox then escapes the attack, and begins his ultimate fight with her.
In the crowd, Tails helps Sunset and Trixie fight Twivine, while Discord joins Storm and Blade to fight Flutterbrute and Nightmare Darkness.
Darkness Scootaloo, Apple Vine and Spice Bell also knock out Snips, Snails and Pipsqueak during their battle with them.
“NOW WHERE IS WILLIAM, DIAMOND TIARA, AND SILVER SPOON?” Darkness Scootaloo demanded, “THOSE THREE GOT A DATE WITH DEATH!”
“We’ll never tell you!” Pipsqueak protests.
“Very well…” Spice Belle sneers.
With that, they cast their brainwashing spell onto their new victims.
Then Snips, Snails and Pipsqueak gets up as their eyes start glowing green.
Meanwhile, Mokuba gets to his own fight with the other changelings personally. He has a red aura glow around him, as he uses his Kaioken Tech strategy to shoot the red lasers at his enemies. Flaming lasers burn and smolder the evil changelings that get struck. Mokuba then goes through at least one hundred changelings in a row, using a slow flowing motion to take them out one by one. His move is incredible, because to a pony’s eye he is going the fasted speed that’s compared to a hummingbird. At that speed, he snaps all his enemies’ necks to take them down in a split second.
Mokuba then catches up to stand by Discord, Spike, Tails, and TJ. TJ eventually knocked Tough Love out because he couldn’t bare fighting her any longer. The five friends look at each other, wondering what to do next.
Then, the five buddies look at Volucris slamming onto the ground and coming in front of them. She grins evilly as the manipulated six ponies, Dark Cutie Mark Crusaders, Tough Love, and Fearburn come to stand by Volucris.
“Looks like this is it.” Discord sighs.
“Yep.” Spike nods.
“NOW YOU’LL WITNESS THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS WORLD! IT’S NO MORE THAN HELL!” Volucris screams.
And now, Tails, TJ, Discord, William, and Mokuba come forth to their manipulated friends, and true enemy.
William is somewhere under the battle at the very to of the mountain. The cave he’s hiking in with Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon is really dark and mucky. There is some light coming from the magical quartz hanging on the black ceiling of the cave.
“EWWW!” This is gross!” Diamond Tiara whines.
“Maybe this is what we deserve for bullying Apple Bloom.” Silver Spoon thinks out loud.
“Maybe you’re right.” Diamond Tiara considers.
“Oh for the love of…. YOU’RE OVERREACTING!” William complains, “Just relax! Everything will be fine as long as we find Princess Celestia and…lu….oooooooo….”
Sure enough, the three characters did find Celestia and Luna trapped in their green hives. But they weren’t the only ones.
TWILIGHT, APPLEJACK, PINKIE PIE, RAINBIOW DASH, FLUTTERSHY, RARITY! They were trapped in hives too. The same as Braeburn, Little Strongheart, and everypony else that just got enslaved.
The slimy hives completely cover the rest of the cave corridor for the rest of the grim mile. All good versions or ponies are trapped inside and unconscious in these prisons.
“THIS WHOLE TIME…” William puts together, “WE’VE BEEN FIGHTING EVIL CLONES!?”
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Twilight slowly awakens to see William helping the two fillies then free Rarity and Rainbow Dash.
“Guys?” Twilight moans in confusion, “What’s happening?”
William then squirms over to Twilight to help her up.
“These evil versions of you and your friends our kicking the good guys’ asses!” William breathes out, “It’s too complicated to explain everything else unfortunately…”
Celestia then wobbles slowly to her feet, and looks at Luna. She then helps her sister up.
“P… Princess Celestia. Are you okay?” Twilight asks her.
“I think so.” Celestia hums.
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon work hard and fast on breaking the hives, until all the hives are finally torn apart. All the good ponies are free.
“How is this possible?” William wonders in shock, “We thought you were just brainwashed, not cloned!”
Celestia thinks of how to explain this to William while she tends to help Rarity to her knees.
“It’s a very strong body casting procedure. This brainwashing forces the good soul of the pony to leave until their real body wrongfully appears magically inside the hive.” Celestia explained slowly, “Once the replica of the pony is copied from his or her fullest pure heart, they have the black magic make the clones, and have them more dangerous and powerful compared to any other living being.”
“Then, the type of clones Volucris is using now…” Twilight puts together, “She’ll be using to ruin all heartwarming and beautiful life in Equestria.”
“That’s right.” Celestia moans, “And now since Volucris escaped and accomplished all that, we are now failing…”
“Actually, no…” William informs, “Discord and Spike are fighting along two foxes named Tails and TJ right now. They’re battling Volucris and coming close to winning as we speak.”
Twilight looks at William in surprise while she helps Applejack up.
“They… they are?” the purple alicorn asks.
“And we also helped them find the odd looking twelve swords.” Diamond Tiara added.
“APPLEJACK!” William suddenly said when he finally sees her, “I’m SO GLAD TO SEE YOU BABY!”
Breaking away from the subject for a minute, he rushes to hug Applejack, ecstatic that she’s safe. He also sees the real Cutie Mark Crusaders tend to one another.
“Umf! Care to tell me what’s going on?” Applejack asks, while seeing Fireblaze come out of his hive prison.
Rainbow Dash’s right ear perks up, as she hears the battle up in the mountain cove.
“There’s only one thing that’s going on…” the cyan pegasi said, “We’re joining a battle with our friends. We’re gonna see what our evil clones look like!”
Back at the mountain cove, the battle still ensues between the good and the bad. Tails, TJ, and Mokuba now take their turn to fight against Volucris. Mokuba shoots out firing auras with flames to hit Volucris, which she flies against and passes. Tails flies up to use his Kamehameha wave against Volucris’ poison acid attack. She then aims the attack towards TJ, which he uses his special wrench to throw back the attack so it can hit Volucris. She screeches in anger once she’s painfully hit.
“Nice fighting.” Tails smirked, being sarcastic to her, “Now let’s END this.”
Volucris then sees William coming back into the cove with Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon walking by him. Then…
ALL THE REAL PONIES COME OUT, including Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy. The Cutie Mark Crusaders are also riding on their backs. Fireblaze than walks by Braeburn, Big Mac, and Little Strongheart.
When everypony else notices one by one, they stop their fighting movements immediately. Chrysalis is confused too, while Discord and Spike cry out in joy. The changelings stay put, waiting for Volucris’ signal fro when they’re allowed to continue fighting. For now, Volucris snarls at their escape.
Discord then uses his magic to poof in front of the main six and Celestia while bringing Spike, Leo, and Ian along. They all hug them tightly, happy that they’re safe.
“Fluttershy!” Discord whimpers, “But there was another you, that’s so…”
Thanor who’s with the other dragons then notices Fireblaze. He then looks back at the evil Fireburn, who just smirks carelessly. He finally looks at Volucris, with such hatred in his voice.
“THAT MONSTER YOU MADE TO LOOK LIKE MY SON! IT’S NOT REALLY HIM THAT I SAW ALL ALONG?” Thanor screams, “VOLUCRIS, YOU EVIL FIEND!”
Shining Armor and Cadence then come over to hug Twilight.
Mokuba stands in position by his parents, prepared to continue his fight, while he stares fiercely at the evil queen.
“All these years…” Mokuba rages at Volucris, “I’ll never forget how you separated me from my family!”
“NOBODY DOES THAT TO MY FRIENDS!” Tails joins in.
“HOW HAVE WE BEEN FIGHTING CLONES OF OUR FRIENDS THIS WHOLE TIME!?” Discord wails while hugging Fluttershy.
“THAT WAS A LOW, DIRTY TRICK!” Spike sneers along.
“ARGH! ENOUGH SAPPY MOMENTS!” Volucris seethes, “KILL THEM ALL!”
She then uses her horrible magic to make an infinite number of cloning changelings charge at the friends. The evil clones of the good ponies also charge with the enemy.
“LISTEN! THERE ARE MORE OF OUR PONIES THAT ARE FREE FROM THE HIVES!” Celestia yells through the rumbling in the cove. She speaks to Discord, Spike, and the heroic six ponies.
“TAKE MANY OUT OF THE CAVE AS YOU CAN. THEN YOU CAN COME BACK TO FIGHT THESE BEASTS!” Celestia orders.
“Maybe I’ll use a magic ice freezing strategy to stop any vines or changelings that will try to stop us.” Discord plans out.
Tails comes by Celestia.
“What do you want me to do?” he asks.
“Keep fighting with your friends.” Celestia said.
“There’s a short cut we’ll take to hide the citizens.” Twilight said to Celestia, “I’ll use one of my camouflage spells that will defend them from the changelings.”
“That sounds like a great idea.” Spike nods.
“Good luck, guys.” Tails compliments.
“Thanks.” Twilight nods
Then Discord meets up with the surviving citizens, as Spike, Twilight, Rarity Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie join in to protect them.
Then, the fight starts again, and gets REALLY ugly. More ooze spills out of the charging Changelings, as William gives up his cowardly ways, and starts to go crazy as he swings his sword. Celestia then charges toward Volucris with enraged fighting movements. Both the royalty horses horns collide, and grind against one another as they sink in during their fight.
Volucris then eyes William and his crazy movements. She sneers at the sight of him.
“YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!” the queen screams at the worm.
She then pushes Celestia hard to the ground, and blasts a cocoon shaped ray at him. With that, WILLIAM IS HIT!
“NO!! WILLIAM!” Tails, TJ, and Mokuba all said at once when they see him get struck.
They then rush to him to make sure he’s okay.
"Goddammit....and to think I believed I wouldn't become collateral damage...” The worm smirked and coughed. Then, he slumped out, unconscious.
Tails and TJ looked over in horror.
"Pop goes the weasel-worm," Volucris smirked, laughing.
Tails and T.J. turned back, and stared in horror and rage. They clenched their fists in anger, as lightning filled the skies, and thunder rumbled.
Rocks began to rise from the ground, which started to crumble.
Suddenly, an aura grows around the two foxes. The fur sticks upwards on their bodies, while their eyes start to turn red with hate. Tails fights his fear more than ever, as he looks at Volucris, smirking at him.
“I see you’re ready to take your vengeance on me.” Volucris purred.
“I’m going to kill you...once and for all…” Tails snapped.
Celestia looks up at the foxes in curiosity, wondering what’s going on.
The matter was now between Tails and Volucris, because Tails met her a long time ago, just before she was even imprisoned in oblivion. Tails knew that Volucris was capable of traveling to every parallel universe to bring misery on innocent creatures. And Tails never forgave her for what she did to traumatize his life…
FLASHBACK TIME!!
A long while back, just before Tails and TJ came into the world of Equestria, the two cousins had been working with their parents as apprentices for their father’s mechanics shop. Tails and TJ were very intelligent at the age of three, and that was way before they met Sonic. The day that came for Tails to meet his new best friend Sonic, was also one that broke his heart.
It was that afternoon day, Tails had forgotten that date, when he was fishing for a special kind of bass to help his mother cook dinner for that evening. TJ was rushing to join Tails, to help him catch that fish. After they succeeded, they made off with their meal, and went back to their house through the hills. When they went over…
THEY SAW THEIR HOUSE SET ABLAZE!
Strange creatures that looked like horses also surround the house, and go inside to search it. Tails and TJ were extremely scared. And they were smart enough to stay in place, because that’s what their parents wanted them to do to be safe. However, just when they were thinking of their parents…
A STRONG MIGHTY HORSE DRAGS THEM OUT!
It was no doubt that was Volucris. It was also to the young foxes’ horror that their parents were held to the ground by the changelings, and then…
"Zero...TJ...run....save yourselves...." said Gourmeth to his 2 sons.
Tails couldn’t bear to look as he knew what’s happening. Volucris STOMPED, STOMPED, STOMPED on their parents’ faces mercilessly. She dug deep to crush their skulls and destroy their brains. SHE KILLED TAILS' PARENTS…
Tails wanted to rush at Volucris to kick her ass, but TJ held him back to protect him. He wouldn’t live with himself if Volucris killed Tails. He’s the best living being he really cares for.
When the demonic creatures disappeared, Tails and TJ rush to their dead parents, and cry out in sadness. They also saw all the energy and blood that was taken out of them by the changelings. THEIR LOVE.
After that tragedy, Tails and TJ became homeless, and tried to survive in the dark streets of their village. Different animal citizens like them also lived through a rough time, because of ongoing rumor of a guy named Robotnik threating terrorist attacks on their communities as an attempt to become emperor. The economy in this world was also at collapse because the cuts made on products, just to strengthen the law enforcement gadgets and qualities to protect the communities.
Tails and TJ were just lucky not to get caught by anyone at time, just when they stole food, drinks, and clothes to keep themselves alive.
Days past when Tails and TJ aged, and they were walking to another village.
It was then that a blue rush passed them.
SONIC.
The crossover seemed weird to Tails, but when he saw the hedgehog, he was very curious, along with TJ.
Tails then flies with his fluffy tails, with TJ joining him. They follow Sonic, wondering what he’s up to.
“HEY!” Tails called out, “WHY ARE YOU RUNNING?”
It was when Tails asks that question, Sonic stops.
He then turns around to see him as the fox lands on the ground.
“I don’t really know.” Sonic answered, “Just to run away from my problems I guess.”
“That’s nice…” Tails sighed.
Sonic then sees his cousin TJ in the distance, and sees the depressed look in Tails’ eyes.
“You running away too?” Sonic asks.
“Just because my parents got massacred…” Tails sobbed.
Sonic breathes out heavily. Hearing that made him feel sympathy for him. Both the hedgehog and fox feel like they’re running away for a reason. And because of what is happening to the foxes, Sonic felt like he had to do something about it.
“Wanna tag along?” the hedgehog asks, “I have a place you can crash into. We can be roommates if you like, just until we get you back up to your feet.”
Tails looks up in surprise. He hasn’t seen anyone treat him with dignity these past days in the streets, nor did TJ. To accept Sonic’s token of friendship, Tails extends his hand to Sonic.
“I’m Tails.” the fox said.
“Sonic.” the hedgehog introduced.
Then, their friendship has been set, ever since that very day.
FLASHBACK ENDS HERE. BACK TO THE PRESENT DAY.
It was up till now that Tails carried the past memory of his parents’ death, and harnessed his rage to be taken out on the enemy responsible for their deaths. Tails tears out a wild, angry scream when he looks at Volucris. Mokuba then comes by Tails to make sure he’s okay. Discord and Spike then magically appear to stand by Tails.
“We helped Twilight and Fluttershy find a place to protect our buddies.” Discord whispered to Celestia, “The rest of your crew are fighting off more clones in some field.”
Celestia nods at Discord, and grins at Spike. She’s pleased that they helped their friends, and to come back to help fight along the foxes, and filly prince.
Discord and Spike then stand in a defense position with Mokuba to guard Tails and TJ.
Tails was now so angry, he had blood dripping out of his hands.
“My, you still are weak like you were before your parents got squashed.” Volucris taunted at the fox, “Such a delight.”
“I JUST WASN’T PREPARED LIKE I AM NOW!” Tails screams, “I’M GONNA DEFEAT YOU!”
“US TOO!” Discord and Spike said.
Mokuba and TJ also raise their weapons.
“THEN COME AT ME!” Volucris cackles.
Then, the five friends run toward Volucris to start their fight!
Author's Note
At last, Tails has let his rage and anger explode! The pain of his past having been unearthed by a memory was too much for our heroes to take. Now, they have become the legendary Super Kitsunians!!
Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
The Scheme is Set!! Mokuba's Great Plan
After everypony gets out of the cove, the six pony friends guide them all farther away from the disaster to protect them. The field they’re going through is peaceful. But then…
“YOU THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY FROM US SO EASILY?” a voice erupts.
Twilight, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy look up to see their clones flying overhead to knock them to the ground. They then pin them, but the heroes kick them off and accept their challenge!
“EVERYPONY! Find shelter and protect each other as much as possible!” Twilight tells the pony victims, “We’ll distract them! GO!”
The ponies then run away in terror, hugging their loved ones on the way.
Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy then stand in place as their evil clones pace slowly like they’re going to kill their prey. Then they all yell at once, as they start their fight!
During the battle, Rainbow Dash fights against their evil clone.
“WE’RE GOING TO SHOW YOU A THING OR TWO, YOU FAKER!” Rainbow Dash yells.
“HA! YOU’RE THE FAKER!” Rainbow Briar snaps back.
The pegasi ponies then fly to the sky as the clone come after her. Rainbow Dash comes to her enemy with a sonic rainboom, giving Rainbow Briar the ultimate punch.
In the distance of the sky, Rainbow Dash can also see Fireblaze flying upwards to fight Fireburn. Fireblaze uses his dragon powers to create firing arrows with his mind control, aiming it towards his evil clone rival. Fireburn than darts towards Fireblaze and scorches the side of his chest, having him scream in pain. During Scootaloo’s fight in the cove, the young filly flies through the sky close to Rainbow Dash, just to dodge the deadly flying moves that her dark clone has created on her own. Scootaloo was lucky enough to learn the defense steps Cadence taught her a while back before this even happened.
Meanwhile on the ground, Skull magically appears by Fluttershy to help.
“Just escaped the hive.” he said, “You need any help.”
“Yes, please.” Fluttershy nods.
Nightmare Darkness then comes close to Skull, and Flutterbrute comes to his side.
Now, Skull and Fluttershy fight against Nightmare Darkness and Flutterbrute.
“YOU’RE SO MEAN TO EVERYONE!” Fluttershy berates at her enemies.
“OH, BOO HOO!” Flutterbrute taunts, “WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT, WHIMP?”
FACE IT, WE’RE MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU!” Nightmare Darkness laughs.
“We’ll see about that!” Skull seethes.
With that, he turns into Darkness. He then jumps toward the evil nightmare pony, and uses his slimly whip powers to attack the evil clone. Nightmare Darkness then defends the attack the good version of Darkness made, and jumps to his neck to try and suffocate him. Fluttershy uses her anger to throw every punch possible at Flutterbrute. Flutterbrute dodges the last throw, and knocks Fluttershy out with one of her wings. Such a blow nearly defeated the kind pegasi, but she refuses to back down. She keeps fighting by having her four hooves throw faster punches.
Close to Fluttershy and Skull’s fight, Twilight comes face to face with Twivine.
“I represent good magic!” Twilight said in defiance, “And I am going to beat you!”
“OH, YOU ARE SO DEAD!” Twivine sneers.
Twilight’s rays coming out of her horn blasts at Twivine, as the evil clone has her vines rip out to try and strike the purple alicorn. Twilight then flies up, to make a pattern that tricks one of the vines to strike Twivine. This enrages the evil clone, as she then flies to try and smash Twilight to the ground with both hooves. She fails as she comes closer, having Twilight shoot a beam from her hoof to pulverize Twivine by the chest.
Under Twilight’s fight, Applejack and starts to fight Appleplant.
“Now we’ll see who the better sister is are after I defat you, chump.” Appleplant said evilly.
“WELL I’M GOING TO TEACH YOU A LESSON ABOUT WHAT REAL SISTERHOOD IS LIKE WHEN WE FIGHT TO PROTECT!” Applejack retorts back.
The farm ponies start their fight with ropes. Appleplant uses it as a whip to try and strike Applejack with it’s deadly nips. Applejack then uses her own rope to make a mighty snap brake against Appleplant’s skin, making it more excruciating than the rope burn Appleplant grazes to Applejack next. More whip movements occur with Applejack dancing away at the evil rope movements.
Back at the mountain cove, when Apple Bloom fights Apple Vine, the evil clone tries to pull a noose over the filly’s head, after sneaking up from behind in such surprise. The clone tries to tighten the noose, making Apple Bloom wheeze in agony. The young filly then punches back with her inner strength, and sends Apple Vine back, followed by a lasso move to bind the clone’s feet together. Apple Bloom then pulls the bind, and jumps on Apple Vine to pin her to the ground.
“SUBMIT!” Apple Bloom said in a very strict tone.
While Applejack makes good progress, Rarity comes against Rarivine.
“YUCK! Your clothes look tacky!” Rarity said to the clones for a brief moment.
“OH YEAH! WELL YOU LOOK WORSE THAN UGLY!” Rarivine spat back.
Rarity then comes at Rarivine with repeating slap movements with her hooves. Rarivine then pushes Rarity down to the dirty ground, and misses her target when attempting to punch. Rarity keeps running past everyone to try and tire out Rarivine as she chases her.
At the mountain, Sweetie Belle uses one of her capes from her backpack as a weapon, to fill rocks inside and turn her bunched cape into a mallet like movement, just so she can try and knock out Spice Belle hard and good. The filly swings and swings, while Spice Belle dodges and dodges. However, Spice Belle isn’t only dodging for nothing. Because she too, uses her magic to create her own mallet to swing it back towards Sweetie Belle. The good filly yelps, as she speeds faster with her defense steps and weapon swinging.
Close to Sweetie Belle’s fight, Pinkie Pie fights against her evil clone.
“Come on smiley face, copy me…” Pinkie Pie said in a martial arts voice.
“How about no?” her evil clone answers, “However, I will give you a deadly surprise…”
They then grab out their own party canons, and fire away at one another. Pinkie flies up to the sky to make a huge blast towards her clone’s canon. She almost destroys it, until the clone throws her canon to the air to knock the jumping Pinkie hard to the ground. Pinkie can also feel her spine snap a little, but she can still move. She then looks real angrily at her clone, and this time rushes in without the canon, so she can fist fight it personally.
So far, the fight between Volucris was going really well for Spike, Discord, Tails, TJ, and Mokuba. Spike uses the green flames fro his mouth to strike and burn Volucris with the third degree temperature. Volucris ducks down to miss, but not before being exploded to the air by Discord’s surprise mine field attack he created with his chaos. The mischievous chaos lord then snickers as he uses his long tail to grab Volucris by her leg, and throw her to the side of the mountain wall. Volucris pulls out a blade to try and kill Discord, but Mokuba flies in front of her to protect him, using his magic to force Volucris back to the wall. Volucris sneers at Mokuba’s power, ad the filly prince fires a green rocket sized dart at her. Volucris teleports right in front of Mokuba to miss the attack, and slaps him hard on his face. The explosion made behind the two of them then sends them back, giving Tails the chance to pull Volucris by her hair as she lands beside him. The fox then swings her around like and Olympic pony would perform, and throws her toward TJ so he could kick her on the jaw the moment she arrives close to him. Volucris knew that would come though, and teleports herself behind TJ to give him a surprise kick on the back.
“Is that all you got?” she demands.
Spike and Discord then signal to Tails, TJ, and Mokuba that they aren’t done yet. They hop to their next attack plan, as they hug together tightly to dodge Volucris’ ray bomb that she throws towards them.
Behind the explosion, Big Mac comes up to fight against Hide Mac.
Then Big Mac tries to make his fist punch, but Hide Mac grabs his hoof when it comes in front of him.
“Nope.” Hide Mac grunts, and twirls Big Mac to the sky so he can crash him to the ground on his back.
Big Mac then pulls Hide Mac in an unexpected way. This gives the good pony a chance to pin the clone’s hoof in place, while he summersaults on top of him to land on his legs, breaking them successfully. Hide Mac then shrieks in a horrifying squeal of dismay.
“E-YUP!” Big Mac retorts.
As Big Mac wins, Braebrun charges at Fearburn to fight him. As they collide, both fighters shield themselves with their arms.
“You’re gonna stop eventually…” Braeburn insists.
“HA! I am going o give you nightmares!” Fearburn spat.
Braeburn then gives a strong head hit to send Fearburn back. Fearburn’s head aches from being struck on his fore side, having his yell louder as he pulls out his knife to try and stab Braeburn. It’s a ballet dance to the good pony, as he hops around and paces to get away from the clone’s knife swings.
Close to Braeburn, Little Strongheart is coming into competition with Tough Love. The buffalos both do a charge combat, having it exactly like jousting. Strongheart hold her spear in place, when she almost injures Tough Love with her split charge move. Tough Love then rotates when holding her spear to the ground to have her hoof kick Strongheart on the face. Blood drips out Strongheart’s mouth a little, giving her the chance to growl and come at Tough Love once again.
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon then come towards Apple Bloom during her fight.
“Need any help?” they ask.
“So after you’re so mean to me, you want to help?” Apple Bloom asks in shock. She even blocks Apple Vine’s whip attack with her own rope.
“Look, the important thing is that we’re…” Diamond Tiara tries to say.
She and Silver Spoon was then interrupted by a giant blast hitting the two fillies. Apple Bloom gasps when she sees this, and Diamond Tiara looks up to see who struck her.
Silver Spoon looks up with Diamond Tiara. It was THEMSELVES, ONLY EVIL CLONES!
Volucris too made them.
“I’m Nega Tiara, and you’re supposed to be like me!” the evil clone scowls, “First you be men to the Cutie Mark Crusaders and now you’re going to be nice to them? I WON’T STAND FOR IT!”
“And I’m Nega Spoon!” the other clone said with Nega Tiara, “I won’t stand for it either!”
“You know what? All these years since my mother went insane and got locked up in a mental Home, that’s why I was mean to them!” Diamond Tiara roared, “My father insisted I hide my same too.”
Tiara did something that shocked Apple Bloom then. When Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo fight their evil clones, they also look at the distance to see what Tiara is doing.
RRRRIIIIPPP!
Diamond Tiara took off HER FAKE CUTIE MARK, just near the rear end of her body on top of her legs. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo all gasp at once. Their evil clones also take a break from the fight, interested to see where this is going.
“I never even got one mark yet.” Diamond Tiara shamefully confesses, “When you’re rich, you get to try everything to go fast and show yourself off. That’s what I did. Daddy told me that if I didn’t act cool, he’d be disgusted with me for the rest if my life. I lied because… I didn’t want to anger him.”
Diamond Tiara then looks at Apple Bloom.
“I was a real ass. If I die here Apple Bloom, I’m sure you’ll be happy.” Tiara said to Applejack’s sister, “I really am sorry.”
“HA! SO YOU’RE THE BLANK FLANK!” Apple Vine laughs.
“WHAT A LOSER!” Spice Belle teases.
“BETTER KILL HER NOW WHIE SHE STILL STANDS!” Darkness Scootaloo calls to Nega Tiara.
“Why not?” Nega Tiara grins.
Just as she attempts to chop Diamond Tiara’s head of with her mighty hoof chop, Apple Bloom lassos her hand, and pulls her hoof to have her slap her own face!
“OW! WHAT…” Nega Tiara demands.
“Diamond Tiara is not a loser… she’s… my friend….” Apple Bloom said slowly.
Diamond Tiara drops tears out of her eyes when hearing that.
“I WON’T LET YOU HURT SOMEONE I FORGIVE!” Apple Bloom yells.
“BUT SHE’S MEAN!” Nega Spoon sneers.
“Not anymore.” Diamond Tiara starts to raise her voice, “MOKUBA SHOWED ME WHAT MERCY WAS LIKE A WHILE BACK! BUT NOW THAT APPLE BLOOM SHOWED ME KINDNES, I AM GOING TO GET RID OF MY NEGA SIDE ONCE AND FOR ALL! I WILL BEAT YOU!”
“SAME HERE!” Nega Spoon joins in.
Nega Tiara then roars when she comes to attack Apple Bloom, Diamond Tiara, and Silver Spoon. Apple Vine and Nega Spoon joins in to help Nega Tiara. Diamond Tiara has her sharp crown try to stab her evil clone, as Nega Tiara dodges and slaps the innocent pony clean across the face. Apple Bloom then fights back to Nega Tiara by having a lasso wrap around her legs, and pull her to the ground. Apple Vine then intervenes, and comes from behind to pull real hard and snug on Apple Bloom’s hair. Apple Bloom screams in pain, as Silver Spoon saves her by fiving an arm hit on Apple Vine’s jaw. Nega Spoon than knocks Silver Spoon to the ground from up front, and punches twice towards her forehead. Silver Spoon then kicks Nega Spoon to the chest, and smashes a fist to her throat. Nega Spoon nearly backs down, but stays up to keep fighting.
After that moment, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle go back to fighting their evil clones. Scootaloo grabs the evil clone’s wing, and twists it hard to break it. The clone squeals, and has an underarm hit strike Scootaloo in the eye. Scootaloo whimpers, but doesn’t let a violent blow stop her from fighting. Sweetie Belle keeps jumping back from Spice Belle’s earthquake smashes in the meantime. Spice Belle then uses her most strength to make a crack on the ground, as an attempt to have it arrive towards the filly to have her fall to her death. But Sweetie Belle jumps over it, and lands hard on Spice Belle’s head, knocking her unconscious.
Diamond Tiara jumps by Sweetie Belle to see how she’s doing for a minute. Sweetie Belle nods that she’s okay, and gives a hoof bump to Diamond Tiara.
Meanwhile, Mokuba escapes his presence from Volucris to see how Celestia is doing.
“Any idea of what we do now?” Mokuba asks her.
“If we keep fighting again and again, we will wear our energy out.” Celestia huffs, “Volucris might have planned this to weaken our stamina.”
Mokuba then thinks real hard while scratching his antlers.
“There’s a strategy I know of that will help defeat Volucris.” Mokuba tells Celestia, “How it works is that you and all the other guys transfer magic energy to me, Discord, Spike, Tails, and TJ. Then the five of us will unleash a trap on Volucris to stop her once and for all.”
“Would that work?” Celestia asks.
“Yes, but we have to wait for the right time.” Mokuba advises, “Just so Volucris doesn’t get suspicious and catches on.”
“Discord, Tails, TJ, and Spike also know about this?” Celestia wonders.
“We do now!” Discord said, having himself, Spike, and the foxes stand by Mokuba, “I have Volucris distracted by my fake good clones. We kind of overheard Mokuba’s idea.”
Celestia looks up to see Volucris fighting with such rage at the nice Discord clones.
“Right…” Celestia muses.
“Sounds like an interesting idea Mokuba.” Spike compliments.
“Yeah, but how do we do it?” Tails asks.
“Okay, listen real closely…” Mokuba starts to share his plan.
Author's Note
Will Mokuba's strategy work? And will our heroes end this fight PERMANENTLY?! Find out--Next 'MLP:Anime is Magic'!
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Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
The Power of an Indomitable Spirit!! The Greatest Kamehameha
Up in the sky, Fireblaze keeps fighting against his evil clone.
“I’LL BE THE ONE TO WIN” Fireburn screams.
“YOU WON’T WIN!” Fireblaze shouts, “I WILL DESTROY YOU!”
“LET’S SEE YOU TRY!” Fireburn snaps back.
Then they fight each other as they blast away with their fire powers coming from their hooves. They even try to get to the upper hand level of the mountain, so they can have that space of a fight for themselves. This also gives Fireblaze the chance to throw a bigger fireball to try and strike Fireburn. However Fireburn uses his magic to steal his attack once the fireball touches his hooves, and throws the betraying ball back to hit Fireblaze. The red pegasi instantly flies backward to dodge the ball, looking back at his enemy with vengeance in his soul.
To finish the fight, Fireblaze then cracks Fireburn’s skull with both his hooves the moment that enemy dashes at him, just to attempt a stabbing at Fireblaze’s heart. Fireburn than pants loudly as he sweats, removing his strong hooves from digging into his evil clone’s skull. Fireburn, now staggering in the sky, falls real fast to strike the ground. The clone body splats into ooze, then turns into ash. Fireburn nods at content at his victory.
“It is done.” he said.
Back on the ground, Mokuba visits his friends Luna, Leo, and Ian. The three heroes are injured from the ongoing explosions during the battle.
“Here, eat these.” Mokuba said, handing them Senzi Beans, “Tails and TJ told me this is good for healing and giving better strength.”
The three shrug, and take the beans to chew in their mouths.
“I heard you talking to my sister about the energy transfer strategy.” Luna said to Mokuba, “But how do we lure Volucris to our trick, to take the final challenge?”
“Leo and Ian…” Mokuba said to them, “Do you know what orders the other changelings are taking from Volucris?”
“I sense she’s going to go after the ponies that Twilight and her friends helped escape.” Leo remembers, “The victims are heading back to hide in Vanhover, and Volucris intends to trap them there and slaughter all the ONE MILLION pony victims in population.”
“Then we’ll meet her there.” Mokuba said.
“Wait, ‘MEET’? Are you crazy?” Ian gasps, “Sure we can protect the ponies, but… VOLUCRIS has TRILLIONS of ponies that will take us down!”
“Which is why I thought this through.” Mokuba explains, “I told Celestia that Volucris will be more interested in taking the lives back into misery. She’ll also be expecting to kill us with her greatest magic possible, making it easy for her to win this battle on the mountain. But if we do a mind trick of us dying, she will evade this place to also leave the dragons alone. The dragons will be safe when we make our big ray attack of all our elements.”
“Ray?” Leo asks.
“That’s why we’ll be meeting in the deserted opening field toward the city.” Mokuba said, “Once she wrongfully surprises our friends who hide in the buildings… we’ll surprise her.”
Ian nods, understanding.
“I’m in.” Ian agrees, “But do Discord, Spike…”
“They know.” Mokuba said, “And they’re prepared.”
They the her the screech coming from Volucris, as she has her changelings group up into a giant pyramid with their movements.
The clones that fight their enemies then disappear, confusing their fighters. The Cutie Mark Crusaders than come up by Mokuba, including Diamond Tiara, who hugs him.
“I’M PREPARED…” Mokuba finally said.
“I’ve waited long enough for this…” Volucris starts to shout, “CHNAGELINGS! FLY UP! KILL THEM ALL!”
The changelings that formed their pyramid then split upwards to cover over the heroes in the cove. The dragon soldiers even look up at their strategy in shock.
Then, the changelings throw strong killing acid liquids out of their hooves, having it hurl straight towards everypony in the cove. At the signal by Mokuba, Discord snaps his fingers while Celestia uses her magic to make a crystal shield with Shining Armor’s assistance. Discord then makes the false projection with his mind, covering the shield that Celestia made. As the acid hits, Discord uses his own special effects to make their false deaths realistic, as if Volucris is really seeing them die now. In the reenactment that’s being all dimensional and prepared, Discord hugs Celestia one last time while crying, just as the acids makes them die into bone. All the fillies even whimper and sob as the acid makes them bleed out all their blood. William even faints again to his tragic death, as the acid sinks down. The rest of the gang that involves Gilda, Trixie, Storm, Blade, Sunset, Mokuba, Kaiba, and the foxes also collapse into limp bodies. Spike even sighs one last breath as he dies.
Volucris looked hard to make sure they’re dead when floating in midair. She smirks.
“Foolish imps.” She laughs, “LET US NOW LEAVE CHANGELINGS! I HEARD TWILIGHT AND HER FRIENDS ARE PROTECTING THE PONIES IN VANHOVER!”
They then disappear magically out of the top of the mountain, bringing the evil clones with them.
Volucris bought the lie. This has Discord and Celestia break the shield and hologram barrier. Everypony sighs in relief that they are safe.
“Good teamwork.” Celestia compliments Discord.
“But, is it true that Twilight and her friends are going to…” Discord starts to ask in a worried tone.
“They might be killed!” Spike panics.
“We’ll get there before they even hurt them.” Luna reassures Spike, “Twilight is also quite the fighter, and it’s obvious that their enemies might meet Volucris at the far distance to put her and her friends aside.”
“If they don’t?” Leo considers.
“Skull is with them too.” Discord thinks, “I’ll go find them anyway.”
Discord disappears to do so.
“Back to Vanhover then…” Tails sighs.
Back in Vanhover, Twilight and her friends rush behind one of the buildings to hide from their evil clones. Twivine roams through the sky with a sadistic twist in her eye. When hiding, Fluttershy notices all the pony families that are hiding too. Mothers, fathers, and children whimper, and Applejack comes over to comfort them and calm them down.
A magic poof is then made in front of the main six. Discord appears in the hidden always, smiling in relief.
“I had to make sure you’re safe.” he breathes happily, “Where are your evil…”
“SHHHH!” Twilight warns him, “They’re searching for us!”
Discord uses his magic to see through the buildings, looking at the evil clones tearing the first building apart. A loud rumble shakes the ground, having everypony in their hiding place shake with the fierce movement. The building from their long mile finally collapses, and the evil clones laugh at their first demolition.
“SILENCE! THEY AREN’T DEAD BECAUSE THEY AREN’T IN THAT BUILDING!” Twivine roars to her assistants, “KEEP SEARCHING!”
The clones do so, smashing every window from ever new building they see.
Discord, Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack then hear a “PSST!” from a new pony citizen. The families and friends look at him waving a direction at them. He wants the group to follow him. They then go his direction without nodding or disagreeing. They just move because they have to, in order to survive.
It was then that the gang enters into a building with the pony guide, as they go into an abandoned opera house. Inside, all the other ponies, millions of them, fit well in the building, and hug each other to protect themselves and others from going outside to be discovered. All was silent in the room, except for the cries and whispers coming from the victims. Discord than follows Twilight and her best friends onto a stage, where they comfort the ponies that just hid with them in the alleyway.
Discord then whines and whimpers. He magically grabs Twilight, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack to hug them tightly. He nuzzles on their heads as her cries. All six ponies understand his pain and traumatization of seeing their fake clones as their evil selves.
“I didn’t want to believe I saw you as a horrible being Fluttershy…” he sobs, “Deep down…”
“I understand.” Fluttershy comforts.
Twilight looks around the room, making sure everypony is here. She even uses her magic to keep everypony warm in this cold weather entering through the building cracks.
“Mokuba is going to bring the others.” Discord softly informed.
“Then we’ll be ready.” Twilight answers when he tells them.
Rainbow Dash then perks up her ears. Something unusual is sounding in the room.
BANG!
All the ponies look up and scream as they see Volucris and the evil clones dashing down to target their victims. They’ve just broken the roof of the domed opera house, and send every bloodthirsty changeling to come after the citizens. Twilight, Discord, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rainbow, Rarity, and Applejack do not hesitate. Twilight guides everypony out of the building through another exit while she fires big purple rays towards the enemies that follow her. Discord uses his magic to go into dragon form, to breathe fire against the enemies, and swipe them away from his friends. He yelps as Flutterbrute comes at him, forcing him to change back when she beats him constantly. Fluttershy then dashes at Flutterbrute, and punches her to protect Discord from her. Fluttershy then grabs Flutterbrute by the tail, and swings her around real fast until the clone swings to hit the marble pillar. Under Flutterbrute, more changelings enter. Rainbow Dash and Applejack then use their tactics to punch through the monsters one by one. Applejack even uses her buck kicks to send other changelings to land on one another.
Rarity fights along with Pinkie Pie, as they use abandoned swords as weapons. They are outside now when helping Twilight protect the pony citizens, and they were lucky to find these blades on the side of the street. They swing the weapons against any killer changeling that tries to bite them harshly. Rarity even does kung-fu kicks to the changelings’ jaws when they came closer to her. Pinkie Pie then acts like a hibachi chef and chops away at the changelings, to make an escape for herself and Rarity.
Discord, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack then leave the opera house as soon as the changelings were eliminated from the inside. They then follow Twilight, Rarity, and Pinkie as they guide to lead the citizens out another secret exit way of the city without getting caught.
Then, a green flame blocks their path when they nearly come through the field border to the city. VOLUCRIS AND HER MINIONS ARE BLOCKING THEIR PATH.
“No…” Pinkie whimpers while hugging one of the citizens, “We can’t be trapped.”
“NOW YOU WILL WITNESS THE TRUE POWER OF HELL!” Volucris laughs loudly.
Discord tries to use his magic, but Volucris strikes him with a mighty aura blow. He falls back weakly from the powerful gust, as Fluttershy and Rainbow hug Discord so they can protect him.
The changelings then rush toward them to make their kill. Twilight just stands still, not knowing what else to do.
BOOM!
The blast separates the victims from the changelings. MOKUBA AND THE OTHERS ARE FINALLY HERE!
Twilight gasps and smiles, when she sees the group of friends that arrived to protect them. Tails, TJ, William, Celestia, Thanor, Gilda, Mokuba, Storm, Cadence, Shining Armor, Luna, Ian, Leo, Sunset Shimmer, Trixie, Skull, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Storm, Blade, Braeburn, Big Mac, Little Strongheart, The Wonderbolts, Starswirl, Fireblaze, Chrysalis, and Fluffle Puff.
“This has to end, VOLUCRIS!” Celestia roars angrily.
“UGH! YOU JUST NEVER GIVE UP, DO YOU?” Volucris yells.
“You can battle if you like…” Mokuba said, “But we’ll never stop fighting…”
“Why fight?” Volucris sneers, “This is our final stand anyway, now that everyone is here. I think it’s about time that you gave up.”
All the companions shake in frustration, and weakness. They’re nearly worn out by Volucris’ abuse and powerful fighting strategies.
“I rest my case…” Volucris sighs, “Changelings…”
Discord then rises to stand up to Volucris. Tails and TJ then joins along with him, as they step up for the final showdown. Mokuba and Spike then comes up front to block Volucris’ path with the lord of chaos, and foxes. All five friends make their final challenge to Volucris. Mokuba then looks at Twilight.
“Your call.” he said to her, “It’s time to start.”
Volucris than giggles, and has all her trillion changelings raise their weapons, aiming them at the hapless group.
“GUYS! POWER US UP!” Tails said eagerly.
“OH NO YOU DON’T! TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME.” Volucris rang out “MY PUNDERING SIX CAN POWER ME UP TOO!”
Then the main six stand next to Tails, TJ, Discord, Spike, and Mokuba, while the plundering six stand next to Volucris. Twilight and her friends don’t have the actual elements. However, the true magic of them, still rested inside their wonderful bodies.
“Royalty.” Rainbow Dash simply said
“Kindness.” Fluttershy adds.
“Laughter.” Pinkie said.
“Honesty.” Applejack chants.
“Generosity.” Rarity says.
“Magic…” Twilight whispers.
They then power up the soulful Elements of Harmony with their hearts, right into Tails, TJ, Mokuba, Discord, and Spike. They also see the evil clones preparing their own elements.
“DISLOYALTY!” Rainbow Briar yells.
“CRUELTY!” Flutterbrute rages.
“ANGER!” the evil Pinkie giggles,
“DISHIONESTY!” Appleplant roars.
“SELFISHNESS!” Rarivine spat.
“DARK MAGIC!” Twivine smiles.
They then power up Volucris, as she laughs.
“WAIT, CAN THOSE CLONES DO THAT?” William stutters.
“Oh yes they can, you idiot worm!” Volucris cackles.
Twilight snarls at the evil queen.
“Oh, YOU’RE SUCH A CHUMP, TWILIGHT SPARKLE!” Twivine snickers.
Mokuba then teams up with Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Discord, Tails, TJ, Spike, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity. Chrysalis, Celestia, an Fluffle Puff also stand by him, along with the Cutie Mark Crusaders
"EVERYONE, SHARE ME YOUR ENERGY!" Mokuba says.
He starts creating the spirit bomb he learned from King Kai. He finally has himself, Discord, Spike, Tails, and TJ start to use the family-mentor-elemental starlight flash, and it has the powers of the Excalibur move, ready to finish off Volucris!
"Its over!” Mokuba yells at Volucris
At last, Tails and T.J. knew that the time for 'playing around' (and by playing, I mean fighting at half their power levels) was over, and it was time to finish Volucris once and for all. They nod at Mokuba, agreeing it’s time. As soon as the ponies charge their energy to have them transferred to the five fighters, Discord, Spike, Tails, TJ, and Mokuba charged their respective attacks.
"KA.....ME.....HA.....ME..." Tails yelled
"DEMON FLASH: MASENKO...." Spike added
"......HAAAAAAA!!!!!" Discord screeches
They fired their mighty blasts of rage, but Volucris had one last plan. She launched an energy blast of her own, clashing with the twosome's blasts. They were pushing with all the energy they could muster, but it seemed as though they couldn't win. Suddenly...
“My son, are you there?" Tails poked up his ears.
"D....dad?" he asked.
Tails and TJ imagine they’re in a white background, ignoring all the violence when they hear their dad’s voice.
"He must be speaking to us from 'The Next Dimension', the afterlife, to use telekinesis!!" Tails smiled.
"Yes, I am using telekinesis. Look, I know it seems like you cannot win, but you mustn't give up. You must believe that you have enough power to defeat Volucris." His father whispered
Discord and Spike wonders what making the foxes still, along with Mokuba. Volucris just held her strength, and laughs at the foxes.
"How typical. They know they're going to die, so they've begun talking to themselves." Volucris smirked.
"My nephew, my son...please, defeat her....for ME. Goodbye, you two. Take care, and I love you both dearly. I only wish I could have spent more time with you..." Tails’ father explained to TJ.
And then, he was done talking.
Tails then opens his eyelids slowly, looking at his fighting friends and cousin. He smiles at his four companions. Discord, Spike, Mokuba, and TJ smile along with him.
Then, they cupped their hands, drew them back, and chanted:
“ELEMENT-AAAAAA!”
They screamed as the blue-and-white blast, along with the yellow-and-white blast combined into a green-and-white blast, as it engulfed Volucris entirely.
“WHAT?” Volucris shrieks in anger, “NOOOOOOOOOOO!”
Volucris screamed as the blast disintegrated her completely, along with the evil clones. She melts into ooze, as the clones shriek and turn into tiny specks of ash.
SHABANG!
The blue blast then fills they sky, and sends a blast of wind all around the world.
The dragons fell back from the blast back at the mountain, along with Twilight and her friends right in front of the fighters. Celestia falls on top of her sister to protect her, along with Chrysalis hugging Fluffle Puff. Kaiba just watches in shock at Volucris’ defeat. Thanor is stunned at the power coming from the five victors. Then, the blast dies down. There is absolute silence….
Silence…
The two foxes, lord of chaos, filly prince, and dragon then collapsed on the ground, exhausted yet happy.
“Well…” Spike huffs, “We did it…”
"You bet.” Tails said, “Heh.”
All again is silent. The field in front of the gang is peaceful. Chrysalis knew for sure now, that Volucris… is no more…
Author's Note
Equestria has been saved, thanks to the power of two cousins from another world...Simply amazing.
Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
Peace for The Future!! The Big Goodbye
Everypony mutters when they see the defeat of the evil queen. They then sigh in relief and cheer fro their safe freedom they finally found. Discord rushes to Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie to hug them tightly.
“My ponies!” Discord squeaks, “I’m glad you’re all safe.”
“It really meant a lot to us that you and the other guys risked your lives to save us…” Fluttershy smiled while crying.
William, Ian, Leo, Spike, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle then join in the victory cuddle, as the fillies reunite and nuzzle with their sisters. William also gives Applejack a smackaroo kiss on the cheek.
Tails and TJ then approach the gang to see how they’re doing. Discord magically pulls his arm to have the foxes be part of the hug.
“Thank you.” Twilight said to Tails when she looks at him happily.
Tails blushes.
“It’s nothing, really…” Tails grins.
Mokuba smiles at the gang that’s cuddling, and then eyes his parents across him. He cries, and runs over to reunite with them. They hug him tightly; happy they’re back together with their son.
“We’re so sorry we forgot about you.” Cadence sniffed.
“Volucris might have…” Shining Armor tried to explain.
“I know.” Mokuba understands, “I’m just I’m back together with you guys.”
Kaiba looks at Mokuba and grins at the distance. Shining Armor then notices and approaches to the nice changeling, extending out his hoof.
“Thank you.” Shining Armor said.
“I’m glad I wasn’t like the others, even though my heart was black.” Kaiba said.
“No, your heart is clear… and beautiful…” Shining Armor assures.
The two beings then shake hooves.
Braeburn then comes over to hug Little Strongheart through the crowd.
Meanwhile, Gilda and Storm tend to the other ponies to heal them from their injuries. Sunset Shimmer and Trixie then catch up with Twilight when they find her, and the three of them make amends.
Fireblaze, Skull, and Blade then meet up with Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Ian, and Leo to shake hooves with them, congratulating each other.
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon then meet up with Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo to hug them and apologize. Big Mac then comes up behind Apple Bloom to give a happy surprise hug for her, while Snips, Snails, and Pipsqueak reunite with Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle.
The Wonderbolts then rush down to meet Rainbow Dash, telling her that they’re very glad she’s safe. Chrysalis looks at the other ponies, feeling the happiness she now has for being reformed. All thanks with the help of Fluffle Puff, who hugs and cuddles with Chrysalis.
Celestia and Luna then approach the changeling queen and grin.
“I’ll have you know that I’ll be giving up being queen for a while, just to hang out with my dear friend.” Chrysalis announced to them, while hugging the fluffy pony.
“That’s a fine idea.” Celestia understands.
Luna then hugs Chrysalis.
“Thanks again for protecting us.” Luna thanks.
Chrysalis nods.
From the distance on the dragon’s mountain, Garble and his army can see the reuniting with the other ponies. They also look around to see if there’s any sign left of the deadly queen. They then roar out a victory cheer, relieved at the realization that they are now safe.
“We did it.” Garble sighs.
Thanor then magically appears in front of Garble to surprise him. Garble smiles when seeing him too.
“Good teamwork skills.” Thanor complimented, “You did well.”
Garble then notices that Thanor is slowly fading into a translucent essence. Thanor is going back into his ghost self again.
“So soon?” Garble asks him.
“I’m afraid so.” Thanor sighs, “I told them as well that I must move on as soon as the queen was defeated.”
Thanor turns to go back to Vanhover.
“I must say goodbye to Fireblaze as well.” Thanor said, “Farewell Garble.”
The dragon spirit than disappears.
“Later man.” Garble grins.
Back in Vanhover, Doctor Whooves and Derpy hug their friends Twilight and Pinkie Pie.
“We appreciated you fighting alongside our friends.” Twilight giggles.
“It’s no problem for us.” Derpy squees.
“This calls for a BIG celebration!” Pinkie Pie yells, “Who’s up for dancing?”
“First we have to make sure everypony is safe Pinkie.” Twilight reminds her.
From the distance, Celestia and Luna notice Thanor and Starswirl appearing by them. The two princesses smile.
“So… you guided our friends to victory.” Celestia puts together.
“Helped them, to be precise.” Starswirl comments.
“We really appreciate it.” Luna smiles.
“We’re also glad you’re safe.” Thanor admits, patting them on the shoulders.
“Dad?” Fireblaze asks, coming up from behind.
Thanor then turns around to look at his soon. He then hugs him, and Fireblaze lets out tears of joy.
“We won. Can you believe it?” Fireblaze said.
“Yes. I’m… you’re a true fighter today.” Thanor smiles.
Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie then come by Fireblaze to comfort him. Fireblaze then looks up sadly at his dragon spirit father.
“Must you go?” the red pony asks.
“It’s part of nature’s ways.” Thanor says, “My time is now.”
Discord, Spike, Twilight, Rarity, and Applejack then approach the dragon spirit. The foxes stay by their side as well, as the spirit looks at the rest of the gang. He then looks at all the citizens. The spirit didn’t say anything. He just smiled. Finally, before departing with Starswirl, he looks at Tails.
“Be strong, never be ashamed of it…” Thanor smiled at the fox.
Tails nods in happiness.
The wizard pony and dragon ghosts then rise to the sky. The other ponies look up in amazement as they see the guardians vanish, continuing to now find peace.
The Flim Flam Brothers grin in awe at that sight. They then look at Applejack, and rub their hooves behind their heads.
“Um…” they uttered, trying to say sorry and say ‘no hard feelings.’
Applejack smiles.
“You did great too.” she compliments to them.
She then shakes hooves with them, along with Apple Bloom and Big Mac.
Celestia then walks with Luna to meet up with the main six ponies, Discord, Spike, Ian, Leo, Cutie Mark Crusaders, and the foxes.
“I’ve never been so proud of the friends left over to do anything they can to save everyponies lives. Discord, Spike, Ian, Leo, William, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo…” she said, “Everypony will celebrate your heroism.”
The princess then comes over to hug the eight friends she talks too. She then looks at Mokuba, who stands by his parents.
“You proved that you could stay strong no matter the obstacles too.” Celestia congratulates, “I’m glad that you reunited with your parents, Prince Mokuba.”
Celestia than comes over to Mokuba and hugs him too. Mokuba grins, and hugs back. The young filly even goes to his new friends and nuzzles with them, even Discord and William.
“Heh. Don’t want to make it too sappy!” William chuckles.
Finally, Celestia comes over to Tails and TJ.
“It’s interesting to see you two visit our world.” she states, “But you helped save our lives I’m never been so proud of your efforts to protect us. You really are… true warriors.”
Tails beams in pride when he hears that. Celestia then hugs the foxes, as they hug back.
“Thanks. That really means a lot to us.” TJ said.
Celestia then looks up at all the other pony citizens.
“Let us make this day a monumental dedication we’ll never forget!” she calls to everypony, “This day will be known as the real day… of friendship!”
Everypony cheers, and hugs in joy when the princess says that. They then look at the city of Vanhover, and decide to plan out a celebration after sharing plans with one another about cleaning and preparing their homes and streets. Princess Luna even visits all the citizens to help prepare the construction, and magically makes tools for them to use. Discord even joins in, and uses his magic to update the buildings and turn them back to normal. He even sets up a party tent, along with a medical tent for the ponies. Twilight and Fluttershy come up to Discord, and smile while nodding at the idea. Even Pinkie Pie hops in joy, as she brings together all the ponies she found.
“Nopony else is missing!” the pink party pony reports.
“Then let’s celebrate!” Discord cheers, hugging Twilight, Fluttershy, and Celestia.
“How will we get back to Ponyville?” Rainbow Dash wonders.
“Discord’s magic obviously.” William points out.
Ian and Leo guide more citizens to their homes, and then look at Tails and TJ.
“Say guys…” Ian asks the foxes, “You wanna join the party after fast construction?”
Tails and TJ look at the main six ponies and others. TJ then looks at Tails, and they both grin.
“Why not?” Tails cheers.
Construction went real fast with Twilight’s magic, along with the help of Celestia and Discord. Spike even is mindful when observing his friends, really heart warmed and relieved that they’re back. He’s just happy he isn’t face to face with the evil versions of themselves anymore. The time is now, when all the construction was finished, and Discord helped made the party zany when most of the pony guests in the tent were moving along it’s teleporting moves back into Ponyville.
Twilight and her friends liked that part, especially when it means going home. All the other ponies who live in Ponyville are also joyous to go home themselves. The rest of the ponies in other cities went home with the help of Sunset Shimmer and Trixie. Storm and Gilda went back to their home, as did Kaiba, who aids Chrysalis and Fluffle Puff on an all new adventure through the mountains.
The other characters at the party are as listed. Snips, Snails, Pipsqueak, Doctor Whooves, Derpy, Skull, Blade, Fireblaze, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, William, Ian, Leo, Braeburn, Little Strongheart and the other buffalos, Film, Flam, Big Mac, Shining Armor, Mokuba, Cadence, Tails, and TJ. The main six ponies also hug when dancing, along with Discord and Spike.
Time passed by, and everypony got tired, deciding they need to go home and get settled in after the rough days of battle. Twilight smiled when looking at her friends, just as they walk out the tent to go to Ponyville. They won. And they have each other. That’s the very special thing that everypony will always treasure.
Tails then walks up to Twilight and smiles.
“I… have something to confess.” Tails admits.
He then suddenly leans over and kisses Twilight on the cheek. Twilight blushes.
“Well… “ she grins, “I’m flattered.”
“There’s something else too.” TJ adds, sighing, “Our work here is done.”
Applejack and Pinkie Pie gasp.
“Don’t tell us you have to leave already!” Pinkie shouts in dismay.
“We have to.” Tails sadly insists, “We belong in our world after all. Besides, we have to do our job of exploring other universes and saving more lives.”
The only friends in front of the foxes now is the main six, Discord, Spike, Ian, Leo, William, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They cry as they see TJ prepare the portal for them to exit this universe through.
“Can’t you darlings stay though?” Rarity offers, “There’s always room for one more here in Ponyville.”
“I’m afraid that’s not how that works for them.” Leo said, rubbing Rarity’s shoulder, “It’s their choice.”
“Well, we’re going to miss you.” Spike says to Tails.
He then hugs the foxes with Discord by his side. William then joins in, and Leo and Ian hug the foxes after they’re done. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo then give the foxes a hoof bump.
“Stay cool.” Scootaloo smiles.
Tails nods.
Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie then come over to TJ to hug him. Finally, Twilight, Applejack, and Rarity come over to hug Tails.
“Thanks again.” Twilight cries happily.
“No sweat.” Tails chuckles.
The ponies then step back to allow the foxes to go. The two cousins then step through, and go back to their home. The portal then zips up, vanishing.
“I’m going to miss them.” Applejack admits.
“Yep. They really had proven themselves to be quite powerful.” Rainbow Dash adds.
“I hope they come visit us.” Fluttershy wishes.
Twilight then hugs the yellow pegasi.
“I’m sure they will.” Twilight promises her.
“HEY! Who wants to have a sleepover at my place tonight?” Pinkie Pie offers to the gang.
“We’re in!” Discord, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and William all say at once.
“I actually have to get back home.” Leo said, “Heaven knows if my place has been demolished while we were away.”
“Well, see you tomorrow then.” Ian and Spike wave at the gnome as he walks off.
“You all wanna do a group hug once more?” Applejack asks her friends.
“Yes, let’s.” Twilight agrees.
Discord has the main six ponies, fillies, Spike, Ian, and William come together with his hugging arms as they cuddle in joy. After that, all thirteen of them head down to Pinkie’s home to relax and enjoy their friendship. One they truly deserve to have.
Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
Peace Interrupted!! A New Foe Rises
The next week after the successful construction at all of Equestria’s cities, Discord came to visit Celestia in her throne room at Canterlot. He almost kept hugging her too often but Celestia understood, and appreciates that he’s happy for her to be safe. She smiles.
Princess Luna then enters the room, seeing how her sister is doing.
“A new good morning, isn’t it?” Luna asks Celestia.
“Yes, I agree.” Celestia nods at Luna.
“A new message came in too.” Luna informs, “Manehattan has a little crack problem. The orphanage for example.”
“Wha- I JUST BUILT THAT WITH FLUTTERSHY?” Discord stutters in alarm.
“Don’t worry Discord.” Celestia chuckles, “I’ll go clean it up for them. Just don’t wait too long.”
“Oh, thanks.” Discord said, relieved, “And believe me my love, I never wait very long either.”
Fluttershy then passes by Celestia, as she and Luna leave the room.
“Flutter Butter? What are you doing here?” Discord asks her.
“I thought I see how you’re doing.” Fluttershy smiles.
Discord then looks around the throne room.
“It’s funny. Seeing perfect chaos that’s nice now, after all the devastating things that happened.” he observes.
“Yeah, I know what you mean.” Fluttershy sighs.
“Awww… Little Dip Cord is having his reunion.” a sinister voice snicker in the throne room.
Fluttershy and Discord then perk their ears.
“Who’s there?” Discord demands.
A gust of fog then explodes harshly to the floor. In the rising cloud wall comes out a red skinned human being with red eyes. He has black hair, and wears white clothing, shirt to pants.
“Who are you?” Fluttershy asked nervously.
“V” the man said, “Do you remember my father…. Tirek?”
Discord and Fluttershy gasp.
“Hmm. I assumed he betrayed you once, didn’t he?” V asked with a grin.
“Yes…” Discord said in shame.
Then the lord of chaos became confused and angry instead.
“I didn’t even know Tirek had a son either!” Discord snapped.
“Yeah, he wanted to keep that hidden from you.” V cooed.
“So what do you want?” Fluttershy snarled, “Are you hoping to hurt somepony?”
“No, I just thought I send you a message that I’m planning to plot my revenge on you and your friends.” V explained, “YEAH, YOU GAVE THEM A KEY TO DEFEAT MY DAD AND SEND HIM BACK TO TARUTUES WITH THOSE RAINBOW POWERS. I was going to MAKE YOU AND YOUR PALS SUFFER. BUT NO, THAT UPSTART QUEEN VOLUCRIS BEAT ME TO THE PUNCH, AND SET MY PLANS FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. But it was a minor set back. Right now, I am putting something real depressing together than can bring Equestria to it’s collapse. See, since I heard about a fox’s visit in this universe, I got thinking of new materials from new worlds. Where those two tailed fox brats came form, they might come back. I’m just getting prepared.”
“SO?” Discord asked.
“SO? I Am heading back to find King Sombra, to make sure this plan of mine is a go with no hiccups, and I already got about forty bad guys, badnicks and villains with me. Since I saw you and your friends destroyed Volucris, that somewhat inspired me. Normally I wouldn’t do this, but I given you my debt. In four years, I will come back to attack this world and your friends too. So tell them and they have time to prepare of what is in store for them. Also, a big surprise will be waiting for you Discord, and you already know my dad means when he will be out of his banishment soon. But not yet. See, you don’t know who my helper is, and it a selection to mysterious too. I am not telling you who is going to bust out Tirek, so live with it. And Discord, there one thing I need to do before I go.”
“What’s that?” Fluttershy asked defiantly.
V then made a big blast with his hand. The ray hits both Fluttershy and Discord, hitting them real bad and severe.
“Little payback for what you did with my dad…” V snarls.
V then comes over to put his foot on Discord.
“That power you just felt, is an example of how much MORE powerful I am than you.” he spat at Discord, “Not even the Elements of Harmony, Chaos, or Rainbow Powers can come against me! See you in four years!”
Then, in an unknown flash, V disappears into darkness.
Fluttershy wobbles up to her feet to help Discord to his feet. Just then, Rainbow Dash and Twilight enter the throne room.
“Guys, we have great news!” Rainbow Dash said, “Mokuba is going to learn everything from his mom and dad, Shining Armor and Cadence. He’ll live with them so…”
Rainbow Dash and Twilight then stop in place to see the hurt marks made on Discord and Fluttershy as they limp on their feet.
“What happened?” Twilight asked in alarm, “Should I inform Princess Celestia?”
“There’s no need, we’re fine.” Discord said, “But…”
“But…” Rainbow Dash persuades to get an answer.
“Tirek’s son.” Fluttershy simply says in fear.
At the griffon kingdom, Gilda and Storm go through the streets, passing by their race to return home.
“That was quite a trip.” Storm sighed.
“I’ll definitely have a cold one when I lay in bed.” Gilda hums.
Then, Gilda gets a rude bump when she walks. She turns around, demanding who did it, but catches herself when she sees who it is.
“Is that Prince Everest?” Storm asked Gilda, when noticing with her.
The mean looking griffon prince just snarled at the two friends, and kept walking with his guards.
“There’s no way I’m going to make a trade with any pony county.” he said to is guards walking by him.
“We’re going to get together to make negotiations in the next four years.” his first guard by him said, “So you don’t need to worry about jumping to it.”
Only then, in the next four years, is when something more devastating will happen.
Meanwhile, in the other universe, Tails felt a dark energy.
"Another foe already?!" TJ grumbled.
Tails smirked to himself.
"Well, here we go again." he replied.
Author's Note
And so, it has been decided! Volucris may be gone, but now a new evil has risen!! Can our heroes stand up to this new threat? Find out, next time, after a 4-year time-skip!!
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Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
Unbelivable Terror!! The Plundervines' Power
All days start out smoothly through the grassy hills of Ponyville, going straight to the farm fields of Sweet Apple Acres. The morning is bright and colorful, and full of clouds swirling into vast patterns in the sky. There is a tired expression on Applejack’s face when she trots out of her house. She looks at the agenda she’d scheduled out today mentally in her head. There first comes the daily apple picking, plowing on the cornfields, and the renovating on the old red barn. Big Mac comes out beside her, along with Apple Bloom who just finished her waffles for breakfast.
“You guys ready for another work day at Sweet Apple Acres?” asked Applejack
“E-Yup.” Big Mac responded.
“I am.” Apple Bloom agreed, “You said William is coming too, right?”
“He’d better,” Applejack answered, “He committed to do it in order to pay that so called accident he created to my bake sale. Twilight also agreed to make sure he get there on time.”
Just as she said that, the worm instantly appears magically into the air, and falls flat on the dirt ground. William the worm is here, with an irritated look on his face.
“Ow! Ow! OW!” William shouted, “Do you know if worms can grow bones, because I feel as if I broke one!”
“Get used to it, William, we have a long work day ahead of us.” Applejack huffed.
Big Mac handed the gardening tools to William. They were going to be starting at the medium sized vegetable garden for weeding, and insect prevention.
The chores lasted around three hours with a couple break points. Big Mac’s strength also took care of the plowing job faster than Applejack expected. Apple Bloom took care of painting the barn with her decorating movements, as she always had practiced with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. William still made his efforts, but nearly complained about working for almost a quarter of the day.
“This stinks BIG!” William whined, “Why can’t you get Discord to do it? His chaos always fast forwards the chores easier.”
“Because Discord is helping Fluttershy open up an orphanage for the young fillies in Manehattan. He wants to use his mischievous chaos to attempt to make others happy.” Applejack answered, “And you need to learn that the job doesn't get done the easy way just for you!”
“Oh, you always have to think about yourself, don’t you?” William asked rudely.
Applejack ignores William’s behavior, and continues with her chores. Then, Applejack notices something odd in her vegetable garden that she hasn’t even seen before. The weed see now spotted, it’s black. It’s completely colored black, with a green and purple aura surrounding it. Could it be magical? Applejack doesn’t want to find out, but she can’t just let some unknown weed take a risk of staying here, let alone damage the good plants possibly. Determined to be safe, Applejack reaches down at the black weed. The feeling when touching it felt really rough and weird. It’s like touching the texture of rusty wires surrounding wood.
Then, the weed WRAPPED AROUND APPLEJACK’S HOOF!
It was a wrenching lock, and it’s starting to frighten Applejack to every nerve of her system. She kicked back, and struggled to pull against the possessed looking weed. She tries to reach toward one of the weed cutters near her, but another black weed appears, doing something very unusual and shocking. It turned into a big mouth, and devoured the weed cutters whole with just one gulp. Sharp green teeth introduce themselves to Applejack as the look of horror invades her face.
“NO! LET ME GO!” Applejack screams.
William was attempting to play hooky from the chores, but passes by to notice Applejack’s horrifying situation just in time. William than picks up a shovel that’s laid down, and springs into action.
“LET GO OF APPLEJACK YOU FIEND!” William shrieks in defiance.
The weed attempts to fight back at William, but the worm’s slithery moves dodge the weeds attacks. William than chops and digs out some of the weeds with his shovel, but before he continues, a bigger black weed picks up William, and throws him far out from the garden. Big Mac discovering William fallen to the ground, notices the weed continuing to trap Applejack. Apple Bloom than comes to Big Mac’s side, and they run towards the garden to battle against the black weeds, in order to save Applejack. They enter into the garden just in time, but then…
Applejack was completely covered in the black weeds completely, have the imprisoning ball sink into the ground instantly, and having it disappear not underground, but into the air. The dark magic, in the upmost formation of black weeds, has took Applejack. William comes back to the garden to discover that with Big Mac and Apple Bloom, with a terrified look on his face.
“IT TOOK APPLEJACK! IT TOOK APPLEJACK!” William shrieks, “WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?”
“Calm down!” Apple Bloom advised, “Maybe if we go to Twilight, she’ll know what to do.”
“Um, she’s a princess, and PRINCESSES ARE BUSY!!!!” William shouted, “I’m going to Manehattan to find Discord! He’ll use HIS MAGIC to save Applejack.”
“William, wait…” Apple Bloom tried to say.
But William was full of fear, he didn’t want to hear rationalization. He wants to jump into action in his own way. Apple Bloom than turns to Big Mac.
“Big Mac, you go inform everypony in the village about Applejack!” Apple Bloom suggested, “I’ll find Princess Twilight.”
“E-Yup!” Big Mac agreed.
Within seconds, Apple Bloom and Big Mac rushed to warn their friends.
Manehatten was a skyline of vast buildings lining up one by one in rows on such an island. All ponies are doing their commercial and trading businesses as it always happens in this city. A train bridge also runs alongside the walking bridge to connect this island to the other part of land. About three miles of the island kept going up to the point where a fancy new building decorated with pink walls, and chocolate colored window frames, is standing by the pier zone of the city. Fluttershy is at the front entrance, comforting the young fillies, and welcoming the religious female pony nuns. Discord is inside, spicing the place up with his magic, by adding some sort of playground in the middle of the room. He even creates vicious looking beavers that are actually harmless, just so the fillies can play with them.
Fluttershy checks in on Discord to see how he’s doing.
“Um, do you really think these beavers will be safe for them?” Fluttershy asked.
“Now Fluttershy, I need to make sure this place has a tad bit of chaos.” Discord informed, “That’s my job, and it’s for GOOD don’t forget.”
“Um, very well.” Fluttershy reluctantly agreed.
“Right. Do you want me to check on those fillie dillies?” Discord asked.
“That will be nice.” Fluttershy said, ”I’ll just do a little dusting, then everything is set.”
Discord poofs himself outside, while Fluttershy explores the orphanage hallways, sweeping a tiny bit each way, with the help of her rabbit Angel, who came on the trip with her.
Then, something caught Fluttershy’s eye. An odd object is sticking through one of the floorboards of the building. It’s strange to her, the fact it looks like a weed. It’s color too, is BLACK. Angel pulled out a pair of plier cutters for her, and then she trotted to the weed to cut it out.
The weed however, moved. Just before Fluttershy has the chance to cut it. After doing the same attempt over and over again, THE WEED GRABED FLUTTERSHY BY THE NECK!
She choked and gagged in fear, as Angel tried to fight off the hellish thing with his strong feet. But the weed picks Angel up, and throws him out the window. Then, more weeds appear, luring into their prey, as Fluttershy whimpers in aghast.
William is going through the streets of Manehattan in panic, leaving the train station as fast as he could, just by the moment he arrived. He kept bumping into other business ponies, not even bothering to excuse himself. He just kept squirming fast, fast as he could, hoping he’ll get to the pier on time. He just knows that weed might get someone else, because there was something he observed on that weed that took Applejack. It had an orange color, like it was reserved for her. And judging by his prediction, it might take Fluttershy while Discord was there. Finally, he arrived at the new orphanage building with Discord making a wacky introduction to welcome the fillies.
“Now the rules of living here are simple” Discord states, “THERE IS ONLY FUN! Have has much love and fun as you want until you decide to pick…”
“DISCORD!” William screamed when rushing toward him, “DISCORD!”
“William?” Discord asked, looking at a hyper William in surprise. William is then in front of Discord, panting like a dog.
“What are you doing here?” Discord asked in curiosity.
“SOME BIG BLACK WEED HAS KIDNAPPED APPLEJACK!” William screamed.
The nun ponies, and fillies stammer at William’s behavior, wondering what’s going on.
“What are you talking about?” Discord asked.
Before William continues to explain, a huge black aura crashes out through the building roof, revealing Fluttershy to be trapped inside. This takes Discord’s attention by horror, along with William, the fillies, and the nun ponies.
“FLUTTERSHY!” Discord wailed, “YOU STUPID AURA! GIVE HER BACK!”
Discord flew toward the aura to rescue the yellow pegasi pony, but before he could, the black aura instantly vanished, taking Fluttershy with it. Discord now looks around in confusion and fear.
“FLUTTERSHY!” he screamed in horror.
“ANY OTHER OF THE MANE SIX CAN BE NEXT!” William called up to warn Discord, “THERE WAS SOME YELLOW AURA TO SYMBOLIZE FLUTTERSHY JUST NOW, AND THERE WAS ORANGE FOR APPLEJACK!”
Williams’s information was quite helpful, because now, Discord knew something was wrong. He flew back down to grab William.
“We have to go back to Ponyville.” Discord said quickly.
“We’ll watch the children.” one of the nun ponies promised to Discord.
“Thanks.” Discord replied. He then snaps his fingers to take himself and William back to Ponyville as fast as they could.
Rarity’s shop was the usual as Spike was helping her organize her dresses to be put up on display. He designs were out of the ordinary this time. She has been using rocks to stick together at the rim of the dress. She was making it by order of Pinkie Pie, because she’s giving it as a birthday gift to her sister Maud Pie, not that Rarity already knows she’s… solemnly… obsessed with rocks.
“It looks gorgeous.” Spike complimented.
“Please Spike, you always say that to ALL my dresses.” Rarity said kindly, “Don’t forget, I’m designing a dress made for Princess Luna.”
She opens a curtain that’s at the corner of the room, and reveals her other work like it’s being presented on stage. The dress is al blue, with glitter sprinkles all around the middle of it. A giant moon shaped silhouette also reflects toward the bottom.
“Wow, you’re not lying.” Spike admitted.
“It comes with years of practice, my little friend.” Rarity said, “It’s not only based on little objects to decorate.”
Rarity than looks at her workshop desk, noticing that she’s missing something. She couldn’t put her hoof on it quite quickly, but it came to her. For a fashion designer, it’s all-serious to get all little things in order.
“Spike, do you think you can run to Pinkie Pie’s new house, and have her lend me some streamers?” Rarity asked.
“Sure thing.” Spike says, “I’ll be back”
Spike rushes out the door like any other lover fanatic would do. Rarity then organizes her cloths to prepare for making her next dress. Hopefully, for her, it won’t be bland like the one she unwittingly made for Twilight the last time. That rushed feeling she had when being around Fancy Pants was exhausting.
CRASH! That sound catches Rarity’s attention, as her ears do flinch a little. The last thing she wanted before opening her shop is having another mess to clean up.
“Ugh, could that be you Sweetie Belle?” Rarity called out, “I swear, you better not mistake one of my dresses as a Halloween costume again, or…”
But as Rarity went by the stairs to see what’s happening, a sudden gust of chilly wind crept by her face, like a ripped-out spine was rubbing against her. Rarity knew it wasn’t Sweetie Belle, or Spike, but an intruder.
She looked up to the ceiling to see if there’s anything crawling above her. Nothing, except the ceiling lights becoming broken, making the hallway become pitch black. And the hallway wasn’t the only section becoming dark. That’s when Rarity steps on something slimy and sticky, much to her discomfort. She looks down to see grey ooze dripping from some sort of big, black weed. The color surrounding it, has blue diamond aura circles spinning around it, the symbol of her Cutie Mark.
Rarity now knew the weed is trying to come after her, the moment the figured out that hint. The rooms lights up bit by bit, having her discover the danger in this room a little more. The object she stepped on wasn’t a weed, but a tentacle that belongs to some sort of monster. She looks up inch by inch. The creature looks like a flytrap, but it’s color is completely black. And when it opens it’s mouth, it’s tongue too…
Then it made something that scared Rarity even more, a voice.
“Rarity…” it whispered, “LET ME FEED ON YOU!”
Rarity screamed in terror, attempting to run away and find the door. But before she can even see the light, the creature’s speed caught up to be in front of her, forcing her to view darkness.
Author's Note
What is the source of these strange vines? Who will they capture next? The answers, to be revealed in the NEXT CHAPTER!!!
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Six Manipulations, Six Heroes
A Tough New Foe!! Volucris and Twivine, Terrors of the Universe
The gang was in real shock when they saw the ugly change taking hold of Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash. Twilight herself, was building up anger, second by second when she looks at Queen Volucris.
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THEM?” Twilight demanded.
“What short of harmful chaos are you plotting?” Discord sneered.
“Harm? None at all. I’m just maintaining the place from all it’s disgusting acts of friendship and love. All I’m simply doing is giving Equestria it’s true medicine, DEATH AND HATE!”
“D-D-DEATH!?” Discord whimpered.
“Oh, don’t be sad, Discord…” the brainwashed Fluttershy chuckled, “You always wanted to slit other ponies throats anyway. I’m now going to take part in experiencing the pleasure of sending them to hell.”
William and Spike gasp along with Discord. Twilight especially becomes distraught. The Fluttershy they knew is now gone. Volucris’ powers have made her mentally sick and dangerous.
"DAMN IT ALL!!! THEY'RE NOT EVEN THE SAME ANYMORE...THEY'RE JUST CRAZY, PSYCHOTIC BASTARDS NOW!!!" T.J. screamed.
“When… when Princess Celestia and Princess Luna hear of this…” Twilight began.
“Oh, them…” Volucris snickers.
A green hive then crawls out the ground by her powers. Inside that slimy egg is a bound and slime covered Celestia and Luna.
“Oh, my God…” Spike stammers.
“I’ve figured they would take action, so I thought I'd give them a nice nap.” Volucris says.
“Why would you do this?” Twilight asks angrily.
Queen Volucris was quiet for a couple of seconds, thinking of a way to sum things up.
“Thousands of years passed since I was sealed away and banished from this world, by the great Celestia herself.” Volucris began. “I’ve been awaiting the moments for my release, having opportunities when my gorgeous sister Chrysalis take control of Canterlot during some mushy wedding. That completely backfired however. Yet, Chrysalis never knew me as her own sister. You know why?”
“Um….” William uttered in confusion, prompting T.J. to look at him with a 'seriously, dude?' look on his face.
“Force.” Volucris sneers, “I have the upmost power to manipulate ANYTHING to get what I want. To rule with my sister changeling, and have my rules respected by FORCE, and not by earning. It’s been that way for a while since I practiced invasions. And when Celestia noticed, that fool…”
Discord and Twilight stand in position, in case Volucris attacks.
“She’d thought she give me a taste of my own medicine to see what force is like. Having Chrysalis’ memories FORCED out of her, having my manipulating powers FORCED out of me, just so I don’t come back to cause her so called word ‘trouble’ to everypony.”
Volucris then stands still, taking a break from all her pacing while talking. “She made me waste years to be apart from my sister, as if she ignored my comparison with her!” she growled.
"Oh....shut...up...already, will you...?" Tails said, choked.
"INSOLENT FOOL!!" Volucris yelled, sending an energy jolt through the shadow hand Tails was grasped in, knocking him out.
She eyed at Luna, cowered by Celestia in the slimy hive.
“So now I’m jamming in MY justice to clean up this filth in Equestria. To take this world, make it MINE!” she finished up, “Which is why… I’m here to see you last, Twilight.”
“M… ME!?” Twilight asks in shock.
"Stay away from her!” Spike yells.
“Oh, be quiet, you little pests!” Volucris snaps.
She then has the black weeds grab Discord, TJ, Spike, and Ian, to have their hands bound behind their backs with the twisted vines. The other weeds than pin William and Leo to the ground.
“UGH! So much for a massage!” William utters sarcastically.
"DUDE!! NOT THE TIME FOR JOKING!! " T.J. yelled.
Volucris strolled over to the frightened Princess Twilight, circling around her like a hypnotist clock.
“Like Queen Chrysalis noticed, you are too, born with power.” Volucris mused, “Power that comes to somepony unexpected, and willing to change their ranks.”
“I… I only use my magic because of friendship!” Twilight retorts.
“So I also reviewed…” Volucris said, “But I’m willing to offer you something that will help you see things besides that.”
“Don’t listen to that witch!” Discord tries to yell, “She’s like Tirek…”
The black weed than gags Discord’s muzzle.
“I really am not like him at all.” Volucris says back to Discord, smiling with her crooked teeth, “I’m just giving Twilight a simple bribe…”
Twilight stands still, prepared for the worst. Volucris than eyes Twilight strongly.
“I can let you be with your friends. Think of it, you won’t lose them. All you have to do is join them.” the villainess smiles.
“What if I don’t?” Twilight wonders.
“I’ll simply kill them.” Volucris says, “But most importantly, I’ll kill Celestia and Luna.”
Twilight’s eyes widen.
“Be sensible, my dear, I might let Celestia rule Equestia anytime. But what odds will there be that if you don’t hear me out, Equestria will no longer have a prime leader…”
Twilight is now shaking faster while standing.
“Think. You’ll be with your friends…” Volucris whispers, “Together, you and those five will travel all day, century, year, eon! You will show the whole world your own lessons of TRUE POWER! The truth of POWER everypony deserves to know! That FRIENDSHIP DOESN’T EXIST!”
Twilight seethes, but keeps a calm face.
“All in all, your pony girlfriends will live. And in return, I’ll let you take place of me. You can be QUEEN! That doesn’t sound lame now, does it?”
“LIAR!” William shrieks. The weed wraps around his mouth afterwards.
“Being queen is much higher in power than being a princess. So not only will you do it for your friends, you’ll do it… FOR YOU…” Volucris wraps up.
Discord and William are weak, but TJ, Ian, Spike, and Leo still are strong enough to try and think of a way to help Twilight while they’re held down. Twilight notices their slow movements, and decides to play along with Volucris for the time being.
“What sort of magic do you expect me to train in?” Twilight asks.
“Oh, just new spells that involve black magic. Those include death, confusion, hypnotism, hallucinating, and demon casting.”
“Those sound… extreme.” Twilight stammers.
TJ slowly reaches for his wrench with his bound hands. The useful tool is just lying on the dirt ground a couple inches away from him, while the weeds and Volucris aren’t noticing. .
Leo is also using his strongest hand under the black weed holding him, to dig inside it. He jams it through the weed by its heart slowly and silently, to reach for the hiking stick the plant coincidentally swallowed during the fight. The gnome pulled it out very quietly like a cotton ball dropping to the ground.
Leo than eyes his target at the weed imprisoning Discord. He’ll be the only way to initiate the rescue and protection of Twilight, and also release the others.
He stiffens his hand on the stick real tight, like it’s a spear. Pulling back at a good length, he gives one chance of a mighty throw. With that, the stick pierces the weed through its heart, letting go of Discord in a jiffy.
Volucris eyes up to see Discord, becoming enraged. Discord then uses his chaos to smash Volucris into the ground, and destroys the weeds to release his captive friends.
“Try and protect Twilight!” Discord says to Spike and William.
The dragon and worm nod, and with their cunning teamwork, William annoys Volucris after getting her attention, just as Spike helps Twilight sneak past Volucris and the guarding black weeds. They rush off, having Volucris breaking her attention from William.
“Wretched insect!” She shrieks, using her powers to raise William into the air, “Trying to distract me, are you?”
"DODONPA!! !!!"
A blast is then made on Volucris’ back, knocking her down. She turns to see that Discord, Ian, TJ, and Leo are ready to fight.
Volucris then stands up instantly, pushing William aside. She uses her black magic to turn the dark weeds into grotesque, zombie like changelings. At her signal of her stomping hoof, the changelings rush to attack the four fighters. William even escapes the fight, to try and join Spike into protecting Twilight, if he can find where they are that is.
Discord uses a pop culture reference to change into an Ash persona, based from “Evil Dead”. He hacks away through the changelings, using his chainsaw to cut them in half. Slime oozes out in the process, when Discord attacks back while protecting himself and his friends. Ian uses his dog-like moves to bite the changelings through the necks with his teeth. His uses his clawed paw to cut and gash the monsters while dodging their attempting attacks. Leo keeps fighting with his hiking stick, using it like a gymnastic pole once in a while when sticking it into the ground, and flying up into the air. He lands and jumps on each of the Changelings' heads, knocking them down unconscious, or ridding them. Meanwhile, T.J. rushes to Tails, and works on trying to free his cousin from the shadow shaped bindings. The shadow cloud holding Tails soon disappears, and Tails falls flat to the ground, waking up.
“TJ?” Tails utters when waking.
“Spike is protecting Twilight.” TJ sums up for Tails, “Ready to jump back into action?
Tails looks around to see the fight going on.
“Dammit. My… laser gun is destroyed.” Tails confesses.
“Here, borrow my wrench.” TJ says when handing on second one to him, “It’s the best you can do for now.”
Tails nods, and the two foxes get up again to join the fight against the changelings. Tails slams and bashes against the minions’ skulls with his wrench, having squeals come out from the monsters. TJ defends himself and his cousin from the changelings’ upcoming attacks, using his wrench as a shield.
Volucris than eyes Discord, Ian, and Leo.
“You’re doing well.” she admits, “But let’s see if you can fight against…”
The manipulated ponies step towards the three fighters, just as Volucris is about to say it. Discord’s jaw drops in horror, as he figures out what Volucris wants them to do. Ian and Leo are depressed and shocked to. They’re going to fight against…
“YOUR FRIENDS!” Volucris says, meaning Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy.
Discord fights back the tears, and steps forward with Ian and Leo. Knowing they have no choice, the prepare themselves as their brainwashed friends lunge toward them with bloodthirsty looks on their faces.
Twilight’s palace was the only hiding place Spike can come up with at the moment. They rush through the royal hall, looking around, thinking of the best place to hide, where it’s not too open. William pants loudly, as he finally catches up with Twilight and Spike.
“Is there some sort of basement we can hide in?” Spike wonders.
“There’s no dungeons or lower basement levels in this castle.” Twilight informs, “We have to try and hide in the library.”
The three friends ran as fast as they could down the corridor that goes in the direction of a spiral. They finally arrive into the library that’s bigger than the tree one. The possibility of finding some sort of bookcase passage is impossible, so they find the nearest study room door they can find in this vast book room. They come to a wooden door that opens to a room with a ink and quill on a desk. A lantern is also hanging on the stone wall. On top of the desk and hanging on the front wall of the room, is a portrait of an angel pony, rising to the clouds.
“Much as I hate the dark in this situation, we have to blow the lanterns out.” Twilight plans out, “Or else the weeds or somewhat changelings might find us easily.”
Spike nods, and rushes around the library room, putting out each lantern one by one. There is an innocent yellow light coming from the spiral corridor entrance, symbolizing little hope there is left so far…
William stands guard of Twilight standing in the empty study room, to make sure nothing suspicious is going to capture her.
"If I were a philosopher, I would compare irony to reality, like… we’re in a sort a sort of hell that’s already existing.” William says.
Twilight nods in understanding. She’s calming down, now that Spike and William are there with her. But then…
SOMETHING GRABS TWILIGHT BY THE NECK ! Twilight wasn’t alone in the room after all! She gawks and coughs in agony and horror, as the blackest hoof drags her up to the ceiling. Twilight turns to see that monster taking her.
IT WAS THE BRAINWASHED RAINBOW DASH!
“Rainbow…” Twilight whimpers.
William turns just in time to see this, screaming.
“TWILIGHT!” William shrieks.
Spike notices too, and rushes to help Twilight. Until a walking weed knocks Spike down, and has a black cloud cover and trap him. More weeds then appear, surrounding William. Twilight cries in sadness for the evil force controlling Rainbow Dash.
“Rainbow… please. I’m your friend…” Twilight begged.
“That’s what Pinkie said before I completely changed,” the evil Rainbow Dash mused, “But don’t worry, change will come to you…”
The cyan pegasus’ black hooves then have black veins coming out, sinking into Twilight’s body. The alicorn squirms and winches at the painful manipulation coming to her. To her MIND.
William tries to go around the weeds, but the plants trap him with their firm grips. William screams like a baby when he witnesses the terrible trap Twilight has fallen into.
Twilight’s eyes widen bigger every second. The veins are now in the middle of her body, until they finally make it up to her head, were they sink into her brain. She soon becomes still, silent, not saying anything…
Then her eyes glow green, with a red aura surrounding each one. William now becomes seriously distraught at Twilight’s change.
“Now I certainly will trust you…” the evil Rainbow Dash sneers.
Discord is full of pain when he continues his fight alongside Ian, Leo, TJ, and Tails. The lord of chaos is actually fighting against his best friend, who actually wants to kill him. In the background, these themes play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUBP-R4TzkU&list=PL4nZN4c5zJBXfRORazGfB01z1Ej4S_Zjr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T314McK8D7Y&list=PL4nZN4c5zJBXfRORazGfB01z1Ej4S_Zjr&index=9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFgo2moznQw&index=59&list=PL4nZN4c5zJBXfRORazGfB01z1Ej4S_Zjr0
“THAT'S WHAT MAKES YOU SO PATHETIC AND STUPID!” the brainwashed Fluttershy shouts at Discord.
She then slaps him real hard, knocking him to the ground. Discord still remains reluctant to fight her, and mainly dodges her deadly punches instead. Pinkie Pie then comes toward Ian, and gives her deadly kicks toward his stomach. The diamond dog gets knocked down now and then, but he still uses his strongest paw to fight back.
“We can’t fight them!” Discord cries.
“We have no choice.” Leo says, “The pony friends we know are no longer themselves. Right now, they’re our enemies.”
As Leo says that, he dodges the black magic ray with his hiking stick, the spell that came from Rarity. He continues to fight against her as she gives her glowing kicks. TJ and Tails then fight against Applejack, who is using her lasso that’s now flaming red. She’s not using it to tie anyone up, but as a blade like whip. She cracks it to the ground every time, trying to hit TJ and Tails. However, the foxes fly up into the air to miss the strikes, and kick back each time at the possessed Applejack. Discord still does nothing to Fluttershy, sobbing and bleeding at every slap and punch he receives from her.
"DON'T BE A FOOL, DISCORD!!! FIGHT BACK ALREADY, DAMMIT !!!" Tails yelled.
“GUYS! STOP!” a voice wails out. It was Twilight's.
Discord and Ian felt relieved to hear her. But Leo, TJ, and Tails felt suspicious. Sure, the possessed ponies are listening to her, but they aren’t attacking. Why?
Discord zaps himself to see if Twilight is hurt, but the moment he come by her, she has her hoof make a black aura, and strikes him with it. It doesn’t infect Discord, but it painfully strikes Discord far back to reach where Ian and Leo are standing. Discord looks up in disbelief, as do Ian, Leo, Tails, and TJ. Volucris than trots by Twilight, and brings a cage with Spike and William in it, setting them by her.
“YOU MONSTER! YOU CHANGED HER!” William wails.
“W-w-what?” Tails stammers in shock.
Twilight then looks at her original friends evilly, along with looking at her possessed friends, who smile at her. The alicorn’s new appearance involves a crown on her head, which looks exactly like what King Sombra used to wear. Her horn has some red glowing at the tip. She wears metal armor on her chest and hooves, including a cape.
“I knew my new student would come to her senses…” Volucris grins, as she now places her hoof on her new brainwashed victim.
"DAMMIT, NO!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! " Tails screams in anger and rage.