Death Battle: Equestria

by RLYoshi

Rating: teen
Tags: Random, Violence, Crossover, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Death, Alternate Universe, Other, Original Character, Comedy
Length: 96465

Death Battle with ponies. Characters are researched, then pitted against each other in fights to the death, with pacifistic tendencies removed. Who would win in an Equestrian Death Battle?

"I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle."

This story takes the concept of Death Battle and carries it over into Equestria, pitting different ponies and other Equestrian creatures against each other in one-on-one fights to the death to see which is superior. Extensive research is done on both combatants to figure out who would win, and is presented as a written battle to be more entertaining.

Readers are asked to suggest possibilities for battles in the comments, or by messaging me. You are allowed to suggest OC characters, as long as they are from a story that is at least somewhat well-known.

"But for now, it's time for an Equestrian Death Battle!"

Published 2012-05-18 20:04:02 UTC
Last updated 2018-06-10 22:47:57 UTC

Battle 2: Applejack VS Rainbow Dash

NOTE: I think I should mention something. When you suggest matchups, if I don't like the particular matchup but like the idea of using one of the characters in a fight, I may use that character in a different battle that wasn't directly suggested. This is unlikely to happen, however, as I will only do it if I consider the matchup a bad one, but have a great idea instantly for a fight for one of the fighters.

This probably won't happen; this is just a just-in-case warning in case it does, sort of like buying a fire ladder in case your house catches fire, even though it likely won't.

Now enjoy the fight.

There are a lot of pony rivalries around Equestria, some more focused on than others.

Such as the longtime bickering between Applejack, the earth pony farmer...

And Rainbow Dash, the pegasus Wonderbolts wannabe!

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.

Applejack

Type: Earth pony
Special talent: Apple farming
Occupation: Farmer at Sweet Apple Acres
Element of Honesty
Exceptionally powerful hind legs
Wears a Stetson
Has a stereotypical Southern accent

Born and raised right here in Ponyville, Applejack is a farmer at Sweet Apple Acres, a family business that supplies apples and apple products to various places.

She's physically the toughest of all the mane six, and definitely in the top 5 strongest characters on the entire show! Now that's one tough cookie!

Applejack has the natural raw power that comes with being an earth pony, but that was just a headstart for her. After years of applebucking, her bucking legs have become powerful enough to shatter solid wood with just one kick from one leg.

Too bad her front legs have to suffer. She doesn't use them for bucking, so they're a lot weaker.

Not only does AJ have skill in bucking, but also in rodeo events. One of her best weapons is a simple rope, tied into a lasso. She has absolute perfect aim and can produce the rope from out of nowhere.

What is it with ponies always having access to rope?!

Well, for Trixie she just used magic, but I'm not entirely sure where Applejack keeps her rope...maybe in her hat or something?

She's also apparently a heavy girl, as she once landed on what was basically a seesaw with Rainbow Dash on the other end, and sent her flying practically into orbit! ...or maybe Rainbow's just lightweight, I dunno.

Applejack is, more often than not, the straight mare of the group whenever Twilight doesn't fill the role, as she seems to have the least quirks of the mane six. However, she has her moments; when she focuses on doing something she becomes so stubborn and determined she will go several days without sleep to try and accomplish it.

She's stubborn as a mule!

That joke was already used in the show, Arrell.

I don't care, it's still true!

Moving on, while Applejack doesn't have the flight of a pegasus or the magic of a unicorn, she is still a challenging opponent to many. Her endurance and determination are unmatched, at one point even managing to place in every single event in a national rodeo.

And people say earth ponies are boring!

"That's how we do it down here on the farm!"

Rainbow Dash

Type: Pegasus
Special talent: Racing
Occupation: Weather control pony
Element of Loyalty
Tends to get egotistical
Likely the fastest flyer in Equestria
Can control weather
Temporarily replaced by Spike

Rainbow Dash is a pegasus pony who controls the weather around Ponyville. While she is often self-centered, she knows when to stop bragging and start working, especially when one of her friends is in danger.

...Sometimes.

She is almost certainly the fastest pony in all of Equestria, even at just her regular flying speed without any fancy tricks and maneuvers.

She can even go Mach 10 and break the visible light spectrum at the same time!

Yes, the Sonic Rainboom. We'll get into that a little later. Anyway, Rainbow loves flying, speed, racing, and most of all, winning. She hates losing more than just about anything.

And when she does lose, she takes it hard. I mean, really hard.

Thanks to being a pegasus pony, one of Rainbow's many skills is controlling the weather.

She can push around clouds, but that's not all! She can also create rain, lightning, and even tornadoes, all without breaking a bead of sweat! And that's just the stuff all pegasi can do; Rainbow has perfected a number of aerial tricks that give her a big advantage in anything that involves moving!

The most memorable of these tricks would be the famous Sonic Rainboom, in which she breaks the sound barrier and the visible light spectrum simultaneously, reaching Mach 10 speeds and creating a gigantic rainbow trail that gives off a brilliant light.

Rainbow Dash is the only pony in all of Equestria who can pull off this trick that we know of, and she's only gotten better over time. The first time she did it, it was a complete accident, but years later she could force it...though it took a lot of practice and failures.

Now, Rainbow can perform the Sonic Rainboom literally on command, even against gravity.

And when stuff needs to be destroyed, she can weaponize the Sonic Rainboom to create a giant explosion that destroys entire barns!

She also appears to have a bit of combat skill; she has a black belt in karate and fights off Changelings with little effort. Rainbow is usually arrogant, smug, and prideful. However, underneath her brash exterior, she truly cares for her friends and would go to any extent to help them.

Though she probably wouldn't admit it.

"What'd I say? Ten. Seconds. Flat."

Alright, the combatants are set! Let's end this debate once and for all!

IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLE!

Applejack trotted into the field, ready to fight. She didn't have to look far for her opponent, as the cyan pegasus swooped down from the sky and hovered a few inches off the ground, facing her. The farmer pawed the ground and snorted, eager to begin.

FIGHT!

Applejack charged, but Rainbow Dash didn't stick around. She flew up into the sky, using the power of flight to her advantage. Applejack skidded to a stop and watched her fly up, teeth gritted. After a moment of thought, she pulled out a rope.

Rainbow flew around the sky for a short bit, looking for the perfect angle. At last, she stopped, turned towards her ground-bound foe, and flew down at her. She didn't see the orange mare twirling a lasso, instead focusing on her dive-bomb. A few seconds before impact, she felt her body be suddenly pulled in another direction, throwing her off.

Applejack pulled on the lasso that she had thrown and caught Rainbow in, pulling the pegasus down to her level. Since the rainbow-maned mare was still confused and disoriented, the farmer began beating up on her with all of her force. She kept up the assault for a short while until Rainbow pulled away, snapping the rope off of her body.

The two began to exchange close-range attacks. Rainbow delivered an uppercut to Applejack's chin, knocking her up, but the farmer turned in midair and bucked Rainbow into the ground with all of her force. Rainbow stood up and tried the same thing, but Applejack caught her legs in her lasso and spun her around before slamming her into the ground. The cyan pegasus, dazed, stood up and flew off before the earth pony could start another assault.

Soaring through the sky, Rainbow grabbed a thunder cloud and flew back down with it. Applejack saw this and began running, avoiding the bolts of lightning Rainbow forced out of it. Aggravated, Rainbow threw the cloud away and began flying around Applejack in circles.

The farmer stopped running, looking at her opponent in confusion. Suddenly, she felt wind forming around her, and she was lifted slowly into the air. She tried to run, but with her hooves off the ground, she couldn't do anything other than flail helplessly. The tornado lifted her higher and higher into the air, until she couldn't even see the ground anymore.

Suddenly, Rainbow burst in, delivering kicks and punches to Applejack as she flew by several times. The farmer could only spin in the air and take the hits, not even able to fight back. Eventually, the tornado ceased, and Rainbow grabbed the weakened earth pony.

Rainbow flew up as high as she could before turning and flying down, a cone of air forming around her before suddenly exploding, causing her to zoom forward at top speed with a rainbow trail behind her. She aimed straight for the ground, crashing into it and creating a gigantic explosion, leaving a rainbow-coloured mushroom cloud.

As the smoke cleared, Rainbow stood proudly as she gazed upon the bits and pieces of Applejack spread around her, grinning smugly.

K.O.

BOOM! Haha!

Applejack may have strong hind legs and be the sanest of the mane six, but Rainbow has flight, speed, training, and a variety of tricks that gave her an advantage.

Plus, while Applejack can buck trees, trees don't usually lift you into the air where you can't do a thing but take the hits and hope for the best!

Rainbow's weather manipulating and achievement of impossible feats easily outclasses a simple farmer's life. Even if she hadn't used that Sonic Rainboom as a finishing blow, Applejack would have likely been killed anyway by falling from that great a height.

Now, all we have to do is sit back and watch the Applejack fans "explode" with anger!

The winner is Rainbow Dash.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

Two characters with similar backstories, powers, and weapons fight to determine which of them is the more powerful dimensional traveller. Come back then for the first - but definitely not last - battle to feature OC characters.

Got a suggestion for a Death Battle? Post a comment below suggesting matchups, or send me a PM with suggestions in it!

You may suggest OC characters, provided they are from a story on this site that is at least somewhat well-known.

Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

Battle 3: Omnius VS Mobius

NOTE: This chapter, and this entire story in general, does not reflect my personal opinions of the characters fighting. Some people may like the results, and others may not. I may be the writer, but I technically do not control who wins and who loses. My job is to research the combatants, find any advantages they could use in a battle to the death, counter them with any disadvantages that would hinder them, and weigh the pros and cons until one has more pros and less cons than the other, thus making them the winner. I then present the information in a somewhat entertaining way to keep viewers intrigued.

I am saying this so people know that the winners of these fights are not my decision. So if you're PO'd about who won and who lost, don't blame me. Blame the research.

Now, enjoy the fight.

There are plenty of quirky original characters, or OCs, in the land of pony fanon.

Like Omnius, the Eternal Traveler of Good...

...and Mobius, the Seer of the Moon.

He's Yah-Shee and I'm Arrell!

And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.

Omnius

Real Name: Sean Nathaniel Brandenburg
Preferred Name: Nathan Traveler / Omnius the Traveling Guardian
Species: Human
17 years old
Traveler for the side of the Gods of Good
Can transform into an earth pony, pegasus, or unicorn at will
Immortal
Obsessed with video games and Coca-Cola
Seems to attract lightning

Sean Brandenburg, better known to his friends as either Nathan Traveler or Omnius, is the Eternal Traveler of Good, created and chosen by the Gods themselves.

Man, he must be one lucky bastard!

Not exactly, but we'll get into that later. Omnius is one of three Travelers that are sent to different dimensions and realities to ensure their continued existence.

The other two Travelers are Torrentican, the Endless Traveler of Evil, and Neutra, the...Traveler of Neutrality. Apparently we don't know her actual title yet, but that's not really the point here.

Omnius has had a longtime rivalry with Torrentican, which is made even longer because of one thing both of them possess: immortality.

They can't permanently die, or even physically age. If one of them takes a fatal blow, they just respawn on a homeworld, kind of like one of those online multiplayer games.

Omnius often travels between different dimensions, and therefore has acquired various skills and abilities from other realities, which range from movies to video games to places we don't even know of. In his travels, he has met all sorts of characters, ranging from Sonic the Hedgehog to Doctor Who.

Who?

That's right.

But I-

While Omnius is a human originally, he tends to go around as a pony while in public. He can switch between earth pony, pegasus, and unicorn forms by using a simple transformation spell. This spell normally doesn't take longer than a few seconds, but in the middle of a fight, those few seconds can be very precious, so he usually stays in one form while battling unless he somehow has free time.

Though he usually uses his free time for stuff he considers more important...like taunting his foe.

He has access to a number of different auras, which affect his physical condition. Most of them are simply elemental, such as fire auras or water auras, but some are more specific.

His Wizard's Aura weakens him physically while strengthening him mentally, his Speed Aura allows him to run at impossible speeds, and his Strength Aura increases his physical power enough that he can kick down solid metal walls. And they can all be summoned at will!

He used to have a much more dangerous aura known as the Dark Aura, which was more of a curse than a power. While he managed to defeat and permanently remove this aura, he apparently has many others with similar characteristics. Thankfully, he has yet to actually discover most of them, and the ones he does know he keeps locked away and vows to never use them.

But that's not all! All of his auras pale in comparison to the greatest of them all: the horribly-named Super Aura!

His Super Aura is likely the most powerful of all his auras. It turns him into an alicorn, enhances every single one of his powers, and even gives him access to some powers he has yet to actually master.

Of course, the most overpowered of his auras is the one he can't actually use on his own. He can't use this aura without outside assistance in the form of either advanced technology, the Elements of Harmony, or just the situation being really bad and him being in a really tough spot.

His auras are energy-draining, depending on how powerful they are and how often he uses them. Auras he uses more often, like the Speed Aura, leave him mildly out of breath, while the Super Aura exhausts him as time goes on as he uses it and leaves him unconscious after too long.

But a fighter can't be a fighter with just auras; he's got normal weapons as well!

Omnius's signature weapon, the Traveler's Blade, is capable of transforming into three different weapons: the Keyblade, a sword that gains different characteristics depending on special keychains attached to it; the Vampire Killer whip, a legendary whip that can take down just about every supernatural evil in existence; and the Mega Buster, a cannon that shoots searing plasma bolts alongside other ranged weapons.

But if the Mega Buster is used too much without being given a cool-down, it takes a full twenty-four hours to reload. That's one annoying wait!

Omnius is smartmouthed and snarky to his opponents, but has a good heart underneath. He becomes a couple with Twilight Sparkle in the future, just after learning some rather disturbing and confusing secrets about his prior love, Jenna.

His life never really seems to go right. His luck is possibly the worst in history after the whole "chosen hero" thing.

The environment seems to be a prankster to Omnius, as it sees fit to strike him with lightning at every possible opportunity, as well as try and throw whatever other obstacles it can at him when he's just trying to relax. Of course, Omnius being Omnius, he just laughs it off with a witty remark and keeps on going.

"It's good to be the Traveler!"

Mobius

Name: Mobius, Traveling Seer of the Moon
Species: Aries Leo Sagittarius
Also Known As: A flying cat with magic powers
Over six thousand years old, but still mentally 17
Sides with the Lunar Gods
Only has half the typical Traveling Seer power
Immortal

Now there's something you don't see every day: an OC in Equestria who isn't a pony...or a human!

Well, he is human originally, but...forget it. Mobius is the Traveling Seer of the Moon, meaning he travels to different dimensions on command of the Gods and Goddesses to right wrongs and-

Whoah whoah whoah...isn't this exactly the same as Omnius's story?

Not even close. If I may continue, Mobius is part of the clan of Seers, a group of beings chosen by the Gods and Goddesses for each of the three sides: Solar, Lunar, and Dark. Mobius is the Traveling Seer for the Lunar side and has a longtime rivalry with Hunter, the Traveling Seer for the side of Dark.

...Still sounds a lot like Omnius.

...Does to me too, actually. But moving on, there are four different kinds of Seers: Truth, Scout, Tank, and Traveler. Truth Seers can sense disturbances in other forces and beings, Scout Seers have enhanced vision that can see through walls, Tank Seers are extraordinarily powerful physically, and Traveling Seers like Mobius have attributes from all three. In addition, they can travel between realities.

Mobius is completely immortal, as he can't really die. When he does, he just respawns on a homeworld a while later, depending on how painfully he died; the more pain he was in as he died, the longer it takes to come back.

Unlike Omnius, Mobius actually does age physically; at the moment, he is six thousand, one hundred and fifty-three years old. However, he still mentally has the mind of a seventeen-year-old.

I've seen old geezers try to act young, but this is ridiculous!

Mobius is an Aries Leo Sagittarius, which is a type of cat-like creature that has wings like a pegasus, as well as magical powers like a unicorn. He can fly at speeds much faster than the average pegasus can reach, thanks in part to his wings being rather large; roughly the length of two ponies each, in his own words. This has allowed him to keep up with Rainbow Dash on various occasions, which is useful since the two of them become a couple eventually.

He can cast spells like a unicorn, but rather than activating these spells with a horn, he uses them with his eyes. Because of this, he calls them Sights rather than spells. He can use levitation, teleportation, healing, sedating, and night vision, along with several other Sights. And they say looks can't really kill!

...Right. In addition to his wings and Sights, Mobius also has his own weapons.

His Seer's Word is a sword with various different forms, such as broadsword, scythe, and clawed diamond knuckles, while his Seer's Row is essentially a sawed-off shotgun that can turn into a regular pistol or M429 PARA, making it one of the most badass guns I've ever seen!

Seer's Row doesn't run on physical ammunition, but rather the energy of the user. This gives it virtually limitless ammo, though it naturally weakens the user if used too much.

Thankfully, Mobius is so energetic, he'll likely never need to worry about that!

That's right. Mobius is happy-go-lucky and carefree in his relaxing times, along with being a bit of a prankster. However, when the situation turns serious, so does he. He will not hesitate to take down any enemy that poses a threat to him, his friends, or whatever dimension he is in.

Definitely one black cat you do not want to have walk in front of your path.

One last thing about Mobius that many ponies consider strange: his eyes.

They're completely different colours! One is blue, and one is...silver? Gray?

Silver. For a potential Seer, silver eyes mean that they have no actual Seer power, preventing them from actually joining a clan. If their eyes are a different colour, such as blue, then they are a true Seer. In Mobius's case, he only has half the typical Traveling Seer power, so one eye is blue and the other is silver.

So he's only half as strong as normal Traveling Seers. Why? No bucking clue!

However, he has implied that this is a choice made by the Gods themselves and is likely only temporary. For now, however, he'll have to stick with half.

"Of all the stereotypical ways to arrive here, you chose a little flash of light!? How stupid is that? Come on, this place is apparently unexplored, you could at least add a few bangs, or maybe I could arrive just in the nick of time to save someone’s life!"

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

IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLE!

In a dark underground cavern, lit only by the careful placement of lanterns along the walls, a certain dark brown earth pony sits, awaiting the arrival of his opponent. Sure enough, just a few seconds later, there is a brief flash of light before an Aries Leo Sagittarius warps into the cavern, primed to fight. The two stare each other down.

FIGHT!

Omnius drew his Traveler's Blade while Mobius pulled out his Seer's Word. With the two weapons still in their basic sword form, the two charged, slashing and slicing away at each other. However, every blow was blocked by the other's sword; for a short while, the two continued this pattern, dealing no damage to each other.

Finally, Mobius jumped back and morphed his Seer's Word into its form of clawed diamong knuckles before charging again. Omnius rolled to the side to dodge the attack, turning his Traveler's Blade into the Vampire Killer whip and lashing it out at the cat. The whip wrapped around Mobius's left wing and pulled him to the floor, leaving him open.

However, when Omnius tried to jump in and attack, Mobius's eyes flashed and he teleported away from the whip. He turned his Seer's Word into a broadsword and flew at Omnius, only for the earth pony to switch his Traveler's Blade into the Mega Buster and begin firing at Mobius. The Aries Leo Sagittarius dodged the searing plasma bolts, but one eventually struck him in the tail, startling him enough to crash him into a wall. Smirking, Omnius transformed into a unicorn and trotted up.

Mobius stayed down, waiting for the perfect moment. As soon as Omnius was close enough, he pulled out Seer's Row and shot at the unicorn, only for Omnius to see the shot coming and duck it. Glaring, he used his magic on the lanterns spread around the cavern, causing them all to explode and shut off, casting the arena into total darkness.

Thinking he could use this as a chance to finish his opponent, Omnius summoned his Strength Aura and looked around. However, he had forgotten about Mobius's night vision Sight, which he used now to easily locate his foe. The flying cat tackled Omnius and began punching away at him, only to be kicked away thanks to the Strength Aura. Omnius glared and charged again, but Mobius used one of his Medic Sights to cast a light sedation spell, weakening Omnius back to his normal strength.

Thinking fast, the brown unicorn conjured up his Speed Aura and ran down a nearby corridor. He thought he could lose Mobius in the maze, then ambush him at the perfect moment. However, Mobius was following right behind, keeping up thanks to his large wingpower and staying hidden with his black coat.

Suddenly, Mobius shot himself forward, tackling Omnius to the floor and delivering a series of close-range attacks, using his paws as fists and slashing away with the Seer's Word. Omnius seemed to lay there, almost dead, when suddenly there was a giant flash of light. Mobius stumbled back and stared as Omnius transformed into an alicorn.

His Super Aura now summoned, Omnius was feeling at almost peak physical condition, and he was ready to fight more than ever. Mobius's eyes widened, seeing the danger, and he flew off, trying to escape. Omnius followed behind him, keeping up effortlessly. He tried using his powerful magic to catch Mobius, but the black cat avoided every spell.

Eventually, Mobius saw a wall coming up, and quickly dipped low and stopped flying. Omnius didn't stop in time, crashing into the wall and falling to the floor. He got up, wincing slightly but still moving. Mobius's sedation Sight had started to work, and he was losing his energy faster than normal. He charged at Mobius again, but the cat just pulled a paw back and timed a punch, knocking the alicorn Omnius to the floor.

The light began to wear off, and Omnius struggled to get up as his wings and horn vanished. He slowly turned back into a brown earth pony, lying on the floor unconscious. Seeing his chance, Mobius pulled out the Seer's Word as a scythe and Seer's Row, attacking wildly with them until all of Omnius's limbs were nigh-useless. For the final blow, he picked Omnius up and flew straight up, crashing through the ceiling and flying up into the sky. Once he got high enough, he dropped Omnius, who crashed into the ground and left a giant crater, the dirt covering his undoubtedly lifeless body.

K.O.

YEAAAAH! Now that's what we look for here on Death Battle: Equestria!

Though their main weapons and abilities were similar, when it came right down to it, Mobius had the advantage for almost the entire fight. While Omnius has to switch between forms to fly or use magic, Mobius could use them both from the get-go.

And when Omnius used his Super Aura, all Mobius had to do was use good maneuverability to keep away from the fatal attacks until the aura ran out and left Omnius vulnerable! That's one smart cat!

In addition, Mobius could match Omnius's auras easily with his Sights and expert flying speed. The sedation Sight in particular proved useful, as it sped up Omnius's exhaustion from the Super Aura and helped keep Mobius alive long enough to deliver that final assault to keep his foe down and drop him from the sky to ensure his death.

Plus, these guys weren't even at full power! Both of them had at least some abilities and powers that they hadn't yet discovered! Who knows how the fight would have gone if they had them!

I can't say for certain, Arrell. It could have made things go all sorts of different ways. Mobius could still win, or it could have turned the tide for Omnius, or even finished in a draw. But, for now, the decision has been reached.

I guess you could say Omnius really "fell" for Mobius's plan!

The winner is Mobius.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

It's going to be something a little different next time. Rather than the usual one-on-one fights to the death, we're going to give you a battle royale starring a certain trio of rambunctious fillies. Come back then for a free-for-all Death Battle!

Omnius is from the story Omnius' Travels: Equestria by Nathan Traveler.

Mobius is from the story Mobius: Equestrian Adventures by Mobius of the Moon.

I recommend checking out both stories. They're both really good.

Got a suggestion for a Death Battle? Post a comment below suggesting matchups, or send me a PM with suggestions in it!

You may suggest OC characters, provided they are from a story on this site that is at least somewhat well-known.

Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

Battle 4: Cutie Mark Crusaders Free-For-All

Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle. Together, they make up the Cutie Mark Crusaders, seen by many as the deuteragonists of the show.

They're hyperactive, rambunctious, and alternate between being adorable, annoying, adorably annoying, and annoyingly adorable!

Though they may be the best of friends, how would they fare against each other? Which Crusader stands the best chance at surviving a fight to death against her fellow filly friends?

He's Yah-Shee and I'm Arrell!

And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.

Apple Bloom

Type: Earth pony
Special talent: Unknown; likely involves construction
Presumably the leader of the CMC
Applejack's younger sister
Wears a pink bow that droops when she is sad
Talks incredibly fast and loud
Master of puppy-dog eyes

Apple Bloom is the first of the three Crusaders, and is widely assumed to be their leader.

She's Applejack's little sister, so she's got a few of her attributes. She's an earth pony, a farmer, and has a stereotypical Southern accent.

...Yes. In addition, she also shares her older sister's stubborn streak. When she decides she wants to do something, she won't rest until she does. However, this is also a weakness of hers, as she decides things that she wants to do without really thinking them through, acting on impulse and using the first idea to come into her head, even if it has obvious flaws.

Since she's an earth pony, Apple Bloom has above average strength...for a filly. Obviously Applejack's stronger due to being older and spending a lot of time bucking trees, but Apple Bloom makes up for what she lacks in power through sheer energy.

Apple Bloom is hyperactive, energetic, and so on, even more so than the other Crusaders. However, she is able to concentrate on one task when she needs to. She has also shown to have great skill in arts, crafts, design, et cetera, and is assumed by many to be her special talent.

Of course, like always, she is totally oblivious.

That's right, Arrell. Apple Bloom tends to miss the point and overlook certain details in her plans, which is usually what leads to her failure in her objectives. Speaking of failure, she seems doomed to never succeed, at least not in the way she plans to. More often than not, if she tries to do something, her attempts will all fail, but in the end the result will ironically end up the same.

I can't even tell if that's good luck or bad luck...

"Aren'tcha gonna stay for brunch?"

Scootaloo

Type: Pegasus
Special talent: Unknown; likely involves dancing or her scooter
Idolizes Rainbow Dash
Brash and sometimes arrogant
Master of scooter riding and stunts
Can't actually fly
Talks incredibly fast and loud
She is not a chicken or a dodo, people!

Hey, Yah-Shee! Look! It's a chicken!

That joke got old a long time ago, Arrell. Anyway, Scootaloo is the second of the three Crusaders. She is a lot like Rainbow Dash in many ways: brash, fast, sometimes rude, and gets into arguments quite often.

Of the three Cutie Mark Crusaders, she's probably the one that confuses fans the most. She's the only one whose family is never seen and hasn't had her own episode yet, so a lot of fans have come up with some theories on her. Some make a bit of sense, like her being an orphan, but others...well, let's just say one fic suggests she's the daughter of Princess Celestia herself and leave it at that.

Gladly. It's likely that Scootaloo has a regular family that has just not been shown yet, since there hasn't exactly been a pressing need for them to appear. Family issues aside, Scootaloo has other problems.

She's a pegasus, yet she can't fly since she doesn't bother training her wings! So instead, she just rides a scooter and uses her wings to make it go really fast!

Scootaloo, as her name implies, is a master at scooter riding and stunts. She can pull off all manner of tricks and jumps on her scooter without missing a beat, and she is usually the Crusaders' main method of transportation, riding a scooter while pulling Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle behind her in a wagon.

And despite the extra weight, she still rides like the wind! She must be really tough!

Actually, Arrell, she's much tougher than you'd think. She has been shown to have physical strength that even outmatches the average earth pony, being capable of bucking a bowling ball hard enough that it bounces around a room like a basketball, and not having broken legs to show for it.

What.

However, while she may be strong, she is also often rude. She gets into arguments with the other Crusaders very often, especially Apple Bloom, and is quick to show her distaste for anything she finds "mushy" or "namby-pamby".

Huh...reminds me of anti-bronies.

Despite this, she is a good kid at heart, putting aside her hatred of things such as love to help the other Crusaders try and get together Big Macintosh and Cheerilee on Hearts and Hooves Day. In addition, while Apple Bloom is the leader of the Crusaders, Scootaloo does take command at times whenever she doesn't. However, apparently most of her ideas end up with the trio covered in tree sap, though we don't yet know exactly why.

"These namby-pamby stories aren't getting us any closer to our cutie marks! They're all about 'finding who you really are' and boring stuff like that!"

Sweetie Belle

Type: Unicorn
Special talent: Unknown; likely involves singing
Rarity's younger sister
Does not like danger
Seemingly cannot do magic
Talks incredibly fast and loud
Expansive vocabulary, but not a literal dictionary
A robot...? Nah...

Sweetie Belle is the third and final member of the Crusaders. While she may be Rarity's younger sister, she doesn't act very much like the fashionista at all; despite believing she has talent as a designer, she really doesn't.

And she doesn't carry around the same snobbish attitude either! Instead, she's pretty shy and not that courageous; she balks at the idea of performing for an audience and doesn't like dangerous activities nearly as much as Scootaloo and Apple Bloom.

She tends to be the most down-to-earth of the Crusaders, but while this makes her more sane, it also makes her less brave. She normally doesn't do many physical activities, but she does compete in the Sisterhooves Social and places second, meaning she has at least average physical prowess.

You're probably wondering why her physical condition is important when she's a unicorn and can use magic. Well, here's why: from what we've seen so far, she can't actually use magic. At least, not yet. Don't know why; maybe she just doesn't try it, or maybe she's too young, but either way, we haven't seen her even light her horn up since season one.

Due to this, we will run on the assumption that she actually cannot use magic yet. However, one of her prime skills has nothing to do with magic at all: singing. She has been shown on various occasions to have an excellent singing voice, implying this to be her special talent, but she's too wrapped up trying to be a designer to realize this.

Well, at least she's talented and doesn't know it rather than being horrible at it and thinking she's good. Last thing we need is another Justin Bieber.

Moving on, Sweetie Belle can apparently defy the laws of physics and logic with her cooking, succeeding in liquifying toast and burning juice. As you can probably tell by now, Sweetie Belle is usually a little ditzy, completely missing the point of a lullaby at one point and singing very loudly rather than quietly. However, while she may be an odd sort, she does try her best to be nice and help others out, even if this means doing dangerous things with the other Crusaders.

But will that really help her in a fight to the death?

...Probably not.

"Why does everypony always think I'm gonna sing?"

Alright, the combatants are set! Let's end this debate once and for all!

IT'S TIME FOR A THREE-FIGHTER DEATH BATTLE ROYALE!

Somewhere in the Everfree Forest was a clearing. In this clearing stood three fillies, ready to battle, one of whom was perched on her scooter and ready to move. They waited tensely for the signal to begin.

FIGHT!

As soon as the battle started, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle both charged at Scootaloo, who quickly sped away on her scooter. The two crashed into each other and instantly went after each other. They traded blows, mainly involving punching and bucking each other. Eventually, Sweetie Belle rolled to dodge one of Apple Bloom's bucks and stabbed the earth pony in the front leg with her horn.

Apple Bloom yelped in pain as she fell to the ground, and Sweetie Belle stood over her triumphantly. This proved to be a bad idea, however, as Apple Bloom bit down on Sweetie Belle's front leg and pulled, knocking the unicorn filly to the ground as well and giving the young farmer time to stand up, albeit shakily due to her damaged leg. She turned and bucked Sweetie Belle in the face, sending her back into a tree.

Scootaloo suddenly rode back in, crashing into Apple Bloom and sending the latter flying into the same tree as Sweetie Belle. The collision knocked the young unicorn's head back into the tree, cracking her head and snapping her neck, causing her to fall to the ground dead. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo stared each other down, ready for the true battle.

Using her scooter as a weapon, Scootaloo tried to charge Apple Bloom, but the farmer dodged to the side and forced Scootaloo to make a sharp turn to avoid the tree. Since her foe was disoriented, Apple Bloom ran and bucked the orange pegasus, knocking her off her vehicle. The two began to tussle, punching each other and trying to deal the most damage. Eventually, Apple Bloom tried to buck Scootaloo into a tree like she did to Sweetie Belle, but Scootaloo ducked and gave her own buck, sending Apple Bloom flying backwards through two or three trees before finally skidding to a stop. Using this opportunity, Scootaloo hopped back on her scooter.

The flightless pegasus rode up to Apple Bloom and jumped, pulling her scooter into the air with her. Apple Bloom watched as Scootaloo flew through the air, then turned her scooter to face the opposite way and ride off a tree, skidding down back onto the ground and crashing into Apple Bloom. The attack took the earth pony by surprise, leaving her with no time to dodge or counter.

Apple Bloom flew through the air and landed next to a cliff. Peering over the edge, she saw it lead down into a nigh-endless drop, with vines drooping off the sides. Getting an idea, Apple Bloom grabbed one of the vines in her mouth and chucked it at Scootaloo's scotter, grabbing the vehicle's handlebars and pulling it out from under the filly.

Throwing the vine back over the edge, Apple Bloom watched as the scooter went crashing down to the ground below. Turning back to her opponent, the farmer grinned, knowing that Scootaloo now no longer had the item that gave her an advantage, and charged. She delivered a series of punches and bucks to Scootaloo, ending by grabbing the pegasus's tail in her mouth and whipping her head around, releasing the tail and sending Scootaloo flying over the cliff edge as well. Scootaloo tried to fly, but her wings were too weak, and she plummetted out of Apple Bloom's sight.

Apple Bloom smirked, believing she had won. She trotted over to the cliff edge and looked over, expecting to see Scootaloo's splattered body on the ground below.

Instead, she saw the flightless pegasus clinging to one of the vines with her teeth, swinging her body to gain momentum. She then swung her body hard, flinging herself into the air and letting go, landing back on solid ground and kicking Apple Bloom in the face on the way down.

Apple Bloom was too startled to fight back as Scootaloo assaulted her, breaking almost every bone in her body. To finish up, Scootaloo pulled Apple Bloom's hair ribbon off, untied it into a simple string, and wrapped it around Apple Bloom's neck, strangling her. She didn't let go until Apple Bloom stopped breathing entirely and let her slump to the ground.

K.O.

Wow, I've never seen fights between kids get so gruesome!

All three Crusaders had their own advantages and disadvantages, but when it comes to actual battle, some of these traits became either magnified or useless. Sweetie Belle may be a great singer who likes helping others, but that is never useful in battling, and she was easily taken down.

This left Apple Bloom and Scootaloo, the only two real fighters. Apple Bloom may have natural earth pony strength, but it couldn't match up to Scootaloo's unexplained power and fantastic scooter skills!

Even when it looked like Apple Bloom had the advantage since Scootaloo had lost her scooter and was dangling over the ledge, the pegasus still had her expert dancing skills and maneuvering that allowed her to swing back up without missing a beat and finish her foe off in a very ironic way: with Apple Bloom's own hair ribbon.

When it comes to fighting, the other crusaders better just "scoot" over!

The winner is Scootaloo.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

Two of the most dangerous ponies of the mane cast...for completely different reasons. One is intelligent, powerful, and magical. The other...

...is Pinkie Pie. No other words can truly describe her.

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Battle 5: Twilight Sparkle VS Pinkie Pie

Oh man, this is one fight I'm not looking forward to seeing the aftermath of!

We've got Twilight Sparkle, the prized pupil of the princess herself...

And Pinkie Pie...I think that's all we need to introduce her with.

Truer words have never been spoken. I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.

Twilight Sparkle

Type: Unicorn
Special talent: Magic
Element of Magic
Princess Celestia's personal student
Most powerful unicorn in Equestria
Can learn to do literally ANY magic spell
Runs the Golden Oaks Library
Severe case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Twilight Sparkle is a unicorn pony from Canterlot. She has incredible magic skill and is widely believed to be the most powerful unicorn in all of Equestria.

...In terms of magic, anyway. She's not that tough physically.

She studied magic since she was a young foal and made it into Canterlot's School for Gifted Unicorns as Princess Celestia's personal student.

Her special talent is magic itself, which enables her to learn any spell that she's powerful enough to do! And given her skill at magic, this means she can do virtually every spell that exists in Equestria!

Yes, but while she has the power to learn just about any spell, she has a habit of only practicing a spell until she can do it perfectly once, and then moving on to the next spell. She doesn't train her spells so she can pull them off easily, unless they're ones she uses commonly, such as levitation and teleportation.

Wow...I thought she was the smart one.

It is unknown how many spells Twilight has learned, but among them are teleportation, firing dangerous beams, levitating extremely heavy objects, transforming objects or ponies into other things, granting temporary wings, creating giant impenetrable barriers, and "instantly fixing everything".

So it's a Deus Ex Machina spell?

...I guess, but it doesn't seem to really work.

Good.

Twilight is the unofficial leader of the mane six, mainly due to her high intelligence and capabilities. However, ponies don't always believe her or listen to her. She has been shown to have an extreme case of OCD, unable to resist fixing even the smallest issues and overreacting to the slightest problems.

Plus, she's like a magnet for trouble! She's always getting targeted by bad luck, such as getting anvils dropped on her, failing horribly at Winter Wrap-Up, and the main problem of the episode usually happening to her!

Despite her bad luck, Twilight always pulls through, usually thanks to her intelligence and strategy.

And friendship.

Yeah, that too, I guess.

"This is my book! And I'm gonna READ IT!"

Pinkie Pie

Full name: Pinkamena Diane Pie
Type: Earth pony
Special talent: Parties
Element of Laughter
Grew up on a rock farm
Pinkie Sense warns her of danger
Capable of defying physics and logic
Has access to hammerspace

Pinkie Pie is...Pinkie Pie.

She's hyperactive, excitable, crazy, literal-minded, easily distracted, party-obsessed, science-defying, oftentimes annoying, and just one small step away from being thrown in an insane asylum. Despite this, she is considered one of the best characters on the show.

You know, it makes sense that something involving Pinkie Pie doesn't really make sense. ...Wait...

...Right. She loves making other ponies happy, no matter what it takes, and rarely gets mad or upset.

When she does, though, you better get away fast, or she'll be making cupcakes tonight!

We do NOT talk about that story, Arrell. Anyway, being an earth pony, Pinkie has above average physical strength, but that's completely overshadowed by her other personal powers. She has access to hammerspace, where she keeps random things such as her party cannon.

The party cannon is a cannon about the size of a pony with a fuse that just needs to be pushed to fire, rather than lit. When it explodes, it shoots out confetti, streamers, food, decorations, and pretty much everything else needed to make a party. So yeah, it's pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. It's cannon that shoots parties.

She can also defy all logic and reason, such as randomly having six hooves or shooting into the air like a rocket.

And keep in mind, this is Equestria, where logic, reason, and physics have already been screwed with to Tartarus and back!

In addition, Pinkie also has her Pinkie Sense, which is a type of sixth sense that warns her of danger. It is composed of several seemingly random twitches and movements that Pinkie cannot control. For example, when her tail twitches, it means that something is going to fall very soon.

Some of her more specific predictions are a bunch of twitches that play out in a set order. She calls these "combos", and they are generally more exact about what's going to happen. For example, one combo warns her that something unexpected is going to happen at Froggy Bottom Bog.

However, while Pinkie may have all of these advantages, she still has her problems. She often completely misses the point and is easily distracted, making it hard for her to focus on important things. She also usually fails to know when the situation is truly dangerous, as evidenced by her happily skipping towards a roaring and deadly manticore.

But then again, that's what makes her so lovable!

"Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!"

Alright, the combatants are set! Let's end this debate once and for all!

IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLE!

Far from Ponyville, there was a field surrounded by a few trees, peaceful as could be. However, the peace ended as soon as a flash of light appeared, and a purple unicorn teleported into the field. She looked around for her opponent, and as soon as she turned back around, a pink earth pony was standing right in front of her. Twilight jumped back, but then prepared for battle, while Pinkie just smiled obliviously.

FIGHT!

Twilight lit her horn as she fired a magical beam at Pinkie, who just skipped to the side to dodge it. Twilight tried firing several more beams, but Pinkie continued to skip away from them. Eventually, Twilight tried a different tactic, firing at a tree close to Pinkie. The tree fell, seemingly landing right on top of the pink earth pony.

The purple unicorn smirked smugly at her apparent victory, but as soon as she turned around she saw Pinkie grinning and waving at her before cheerfully skipping away again. Twilight gaped, but shook her head and regained her composure as she cast another spell. This time, she used her force field spell, covering Pinkie in a barrier that she couldn't get through. Pinkie, unaware of this, hopped a few more steps before slamming into the field.

Now with her opponent trapped, Twilight turned and cast another spell at the same time, ripping a whole tree out of the ground. She planned to drop the tree on the force field and deactivate it at the last second, leaving Pinkie no time to escape whatsoever. When she turned back to the force field, however, Pinkie had disappeared from it.

Twilight looked around worriedly, wondering where her foe was. Suddenly, Pinkie hopped up to her and tapped her on the shoulder. Twilight turned and stared in disbelief as Pinkie waved happily and bounced away again. Now sufficiently annoyed, the unicorn chucked the tree at Pinkie, but the party pony just hopped onto the tree as it flew, jumping from branch to branch until she jumped off, free of harm.

Groaning, Twilight thought up a new plan. She fired several magical beams into the air, catching each one with levitation before it got away. Eventually, she had several dozen lethal magic beams in her psychic grasp. Pointing each beam at her opponent, she released the levitation spell, firing them all.

Pinkie's tail twitched, and without missing a beat, she hopped a very small distance to the left. The beams shot past her, each one barely missing her and just grazing her mane and tail. Twilight stood, slack-jawed, at this.

Yelling in anger, she lowered her head and charged, running straight at Pinkie. She didn't know what was going to happen. All she wanted to do was hurt her now. Pinkie, however, reached behind a random tree and pulled out her famous party cannon and aimed it at Twilight. The unicorn kept running, and as soon as she was within range, Pinkie grabbed her horn with her front hooves, stopping her.

Twisting her body, Pinkie snapped the horn off of Twilight's head, forcing the latter to let out a scream of pain. Pinkie used this moment to grab Twilight by the neck and thrust her into the party cannon. Before the purple mare could react, Pinkie jumped to the other side and slammed a hoof on the fuse, firing the cannon with Twilight in it.

Out from the cannon came a burst of confetti, balloons, and other party decorations. Along with them came an explosion of blood and body parts, as the force from the party cannon literally tore her to pieces. Twilight instantly became decorations for a rather dark party in that field.

K.O.

Geez, am I the only one who didn't see this coming?!

Twilight can do magic, but Pinkie can do pretty much everything that requires a magic spell with just her usual craziness. Her Pinkie Sense helped to warn her of any danger, and while Twilight may have strategy, no strategy can fight against Pinkie and her reason-defying powers.

I think we all remember what happened last time Twilight tried to outdo Pinkie! It didn't exactly end well, did it?

No, it did not. In addition, throughout this battle, Pinkie may have been oblivious to the dangers to her life, but when she caught on, her earth pony strength and access to hammerspace became a deadly combination. She broke Twilight's horn to keep her from teleporting away, and instantly, Pinkie had the upper hand, if she didn't before.

I guess you could say these results are now "cannon"!

The winner is Pinkie Pie.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

The ultimate battle.

Loads of research, tons of comparisons, and several double- and triple-checks to make sure nothing is incorrect. This fight has been in the works since the first chapter, and it's almost ready to reveal. Soon, we will answer the question that has been on every brony's mind since the beginning of the show:

Who is the strongest of the mane six?

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Battle 6: Mane 6 Free-For-All

Alright, I've been waiting for this one forever!

Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Pinkie Pie...

...Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy! Known across the fandom as the mane six, these mares are the protagonists of the show, the Elements of Harmony, and total badasses!

We've seen some of them in fights before, but now that they're in a battle royale rather than a strict one-on-one, it's entirely possible for a previous loser to come out on top. We've redone plenty of our research just in case, got some new information to present, and are ready for the Equestrian Death Battle to end all Equestrian Death Battles.

He's Yah-Shee and I'm Arrell!

And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.

Twilight Sparkle

Type: Unicorn
Special talent: Magic
Occupation: Librarian
Element of Magic
Studied under Princess Celestia herself
Knows several spells, but few fighting ones
No combat experience whatsoever

Twilight Sparkle is arguably the main character of the entire show, but has been out of focus quite a bit as of the second season, with her friends getting the spotlight much more than they used to.

We already saw her death at Pinkie's hooves, but now she's once again alive and ready to get back in the fray!

Thanks to a combination of intense studying as a child, being Princess Celestia's personal student, having magic itself as a special talent, and even being the embodiment of the Element of Magic, Twilight's magical powers are unmatched by anypony.

Alicorns aside.

Of course. Twilight lives in a library, and thus always has access to tons of different books. Coupling this with her...nerdiness, she seems to prefer staying inside and studying over social activities, though she does engage in the latter from time to time with her friends.

All she does is stay inside and do a bunch of research? Man, what kind of a moron would do that for a living? Hah!

...Please tell me you saw the irony in that statement.

Huh?

...Forget it.

Already have! Anyway, as you may remember, Twilight has all sorts of spells, ranging from creating impenetrable barriers to firing magical beams that can knock back ponies or other creatures!

However, something that should be noted is that despite her vast knowledge of magic, Twilight has shown no implications of knowing any true battle spells. She does have her magic beams, but they appear to do little more than temporarily stun the opponent, and nothing else is specifically designed to harm or kill.

It'd be pretty one-sided if that were the case. Pop into the battlefield, magically snap a few necks and pop some arteries, and teleport away. Boom! Ultimate K.O.!

Twilight is usually strategic and intelligent, but when she finds herself under too much pressure and too little time, she will become nervous and just charge into battle blindly, hoping for the best. Only through strokes of luck and help from her friends has she survived to this point with this modus operandi.

"Now that we've completed the checklist of things we need to create a checklist, we can make my checklist of the things I have to get done by the end of the day. Ready?"

Applejack

Type: Earth pony
Special talent: Apple farming
Occupation: Farmer at Sweet Apple Acres
Element of Honesty
Arguably physically strongest of mane six
Cannot tell a lie
Talented in all rodeo fields

As you may remember from our second battle, Applejack is a powerful earth pony farmer with a stubborn streak wider than the apple orchard she works with.

Once she decides she's gonna do something, she'll either do it, or will try until she causes massive damage to Ponyville and ends up knocking herself unconscious from overworking!

That's...oddly specific.

AJ has probably the most limited ways of fighting of the mane six, thanks to being unable to fly, use magic, or operate under Pinkie Pie logic. However, in exchange for this, she's probably actually the strongest of the group in terms of physical capabilities, only really rivalled by Rainbow Dash.

She can shatter solid wood with her hind legs, proving just how powerful she is. She is also skilled in every single rodeo event currently known, placing in everything she competed in at a national rodeo. That is to say, every event there.

Though she's generally the sane one of the group, that doesn't exactly translate perfectly into intelligence. She has trouble with simple mathematical problems and doesn't know what French language is called. ...Though given how this is Equestria where everything has a pony name, we don't exactly know what it's called either.

However, what she lacks in mental capabilities, she makes up for in strength, as we have already stated. She admittedly doesn't have very many unique attributes - likely a result of being the straight mare of the mane six - so there isn't a whole lot we can report about her.

She's rough, tough, Southern, and not very good at strategy. Being limited to the ground and lacking magic is also a huge disadvantage for her in cases like this, and was one of the main reasons she lost to Rainbow Dash previously. But now she's back, and we'll just have to see if she can turn the tide now that there's six fighters rather than two!

"Can't hear ya! Ah'm asleep."

Pinkie Pie

Full name: Pinkamena Diane Pie
Type: Earth pony
Special talent: Cheering up others
Occupation: Baker
Element of Laughter
...okay, really, what else can we put here? SHE'S FREAKING PINKIE PIE.

Pinkamena Diane Pie! She don't give a buck about physics, gravity, logic, reason, or anything for that matter!

Pinkie Pie is a previous DEATH BATTLE: Equestria champion, thanks to her Pinkie Sense, ability to bend physics like a strip of rubber, earth pony strength, and other weird abilities.

I don't care who you are; unless you can somehow hold down this perplexing partying puzzle of a pony for a minimum of five seconds, you're never gonna take her down!

There is a common misconception that even we believed previously that Pinkie's talent is throwing parties. Actually, her talent is slightly more general, instead being cheering up other ponies. Partying is just one of her ways of doing so, and the one shown most often.

Other things we haven't explained very well are her ability to break the fourth wall and her...flat-maned side. Both of which may give you nightmares, depending on the implications of the former and how much you already know of the latter, so strap in tight, kiddies!

While she apparently is not actually aware of the fourth wall according to the show's creators, Pinkie has been known to break it on various occasions. She has spoken directly to the audience and broken through the closing circle that attempts to end an episode. However, when other ponies break the fourth wall in front of her, it seems to leave her confused, proving that she does not actually know what she is doing.

That's right, folks. She's coming inches away from landing in our rooms, and she doesn't even know that she's doing it! Wrap your minds around that one!

Pinkie also has a more...insane side of her, seen only briefly in the show's actual canon. However, for the sake of providing an entertaining battle-

And sucking up to the fans!

...we shall go with what appears to be the fanbase's most common interpretation of her flat-maned side, known as Pinkamena. Arrell, you do this one. I hate it and all references to it.

Gladly, Yah! When her mane goes flat, Pinkie becomes Pinkamena, a psychopathic, sadistic, absolutely evil murderer who likes to capture ponies, cut them up, keep them alive during the process, and bake them into cupcakes at the very end. This has become memetic throughout the fandom, to the point where just about every brony considers it "canon that can't be shown in a children's show". Even mentioning cupcakes near the wrong brony can lead to them getting sick, or even punching you out. That's the gist of it, anyway.

Of course, while we will...very reluctantly...accept this as canon just because everybody does, keep in mind Pinkie is not normally like this, and is usually cheerful, happy-go-lucky, and ditzy. So far, the only thing that has managed to get the best of her aside from herself, is the Cake twins.

"You see, I saw you when you first got here, remember? You were all, 'Hello,' and I was all, (GASP), remember? You see, I never saw you before, and if I never saw you before that means you're new, 'cause I know everypony, and I mean everypony in Ponyville, and if you're new, it means you haven't met anyone yet, and if you haven't met anyone yet, you must not have any friends, and if you don't have any friends you must be lonely, and that made me so sad, and I had an idea, and that's why I went (GASP); I'll just throw a great big, ginormous, super-duper spectacular welcome party and invite everyone in Ponyville. See? And now you have lots and lots of friends!"

CELESTIA DAMMIT, MAKE HER SHUT UP!

Rainbow Dash

Uh...well, we already had a lot of trouble trying to keep our last explanation of Rainbow Dash from sounding like hers from the original Death Battle, but...doing it again? Yeah...we're probably not gonna manage that. So we're just gonna copy-paste the explanation from Applejack VS Rainbow Dash. Enjoy...hopefully!

Type: Pegasus
Special talent: Racing
Occupation: Weather control pony
Element of Loyalty
Tends to get egotistical
Likely the fastest flyer in Equestria
Can control weather
Temporarily replaced by Spike

Rainbow Dash is a pegasus pony who controls the weather around Ponyville. While she is often self-centered, she knows when to stop bragging and start working, especially when one of her friends is in danger.

...Sometimes.

She is almost certainly the fastest pony in all of Equestria, even at just her regular flying speed without any fancy tricks and maneuvers.

She can even go Mach 10 and break the visible light spectrum at the same time!

Yes, the Sonic Rainboom. We'll get into that a little later. Anyway, Rainbow loves flying, speed, racing, and most of all, winning. She hates losing more than just about anything.

And when she does lose, she takes it hard. I mean, really hard.

Thanks to being a pegasus pony, one of Rainbow's many skills is controlling the weather.

She can push around clouds, but that's not all! She can also create rain, lightning, and even tornadoes, all without breaking a bead of sweat! And that's just the stuff all pegasi can do; Rainbow has perfected a number of aerial tricks that give her a big advantage in anything that involves moving!

The most memorable of these tricks would be the famous Sonic Rainboom, in which she breaks the sound barrier and the visible light spectrum simultaneously, reaching Mach 10 speeds and creating a gigantic rainbow trail that gives off a brilliant light.

Rainbow Dash is the only pony in all of Equestria who can pull off this trick that we know of, and she's only gotten better over time. The first time she did it, it was a complete accident, but years later she could force it...though it took a lot of practice and failures.

Now, Rainbow can perform the Sonic Rainboom literally on command, even against gravity.

And when stuff needs to be destroyed, she can weaponize the Sonic Rainboom to create a giant explosion that destroys entire barns!

She also appears to have a bit of combat skill; she has a black belt in karate and fights off Changelings with little effort. Rainbow is usually arrogant, smug, and prideful. However, underneath her brash exterior, she truly cares for her friends and would go to any extent to help them.

Though she probably wouldn't admit it.

"What'd I say? Ten. Seconds. Flat."

Rarity

Type: Unicorn
Special talent: Fashion
Occupation: Clothing designer
Element of Generosity
Overly dramatic
Knows little or no combat-related spells
Does not whine; she complains
Vain about her appearance

Finally, a pony we haven't seen yet!

Rarity is a unicorn pony with three hobbies: making clothes, finding gems, and being dramatic. She runs the Carousel Boutique and her main dream is to become a famous dressmaker. Despite being a unicorn, she is almost never shown using spells aside from levitation, locating gems, and creating illusions as special effects. She cares far too much about how she looks and seems to have a case of obsessive-compulsive disorder even worse than Twilight's.

...You don't like her, do you?

I'm not done yet. Despite being the Element of Generosity, she is frequently shown being greedy and arrogant, and treats her younger sister Sweetie Belle like the dirt she absolutely despises getting on her precious, oh-so-bucking-important coat.

Yah, you okay?

She's always overly dramatic about every single bucking thing that happens and seems to like putting herself ahead of her friends, picking going to a party with a bunch of Canterlot snobs over attending her best friend's birthday party and then outright lying about it when she gets found out so her friends don't get mad at her when she absolutely deserves it!

Uh, Yah...

All she knows about magic is some trivial, easy stuff like levitation, and this one spell that allows her to find gems, which Twilight can do even better despite not knowing as much about fashion and gems as Rarity thinks she does! I can do both of those and I don't even know where cotton comes from! What the buck makes this selfish, snobby, worthless piece of trash think she's so bucking important to the world?!

YAH, CALM DOWN!

(THUNK)

...Okay, he's asleep now. Eh...well, I guess all that is true, but...Rarity has some good points. She's usually willing to set aside her own needs and wants for her friends when she's not getting sidetracked. She also has a pretty amazing attention to detail. She can read other ponies like a book and figure out what's troubling them, or whether or not they're telling the truth about something. Sure, she usually gets caught up in the moment and stuff, but she's able to hold her own in battle, as shown when she kicked a manticore in the face! Hell yeah! Heh...uh...move on. I'll get Yah up.

"Afraid to get dirty?!"

Fluttershy

Type: Pegasus
Special talent: Taking care of animals
Occupation: Animal caretaker
Element of Kindness
Very shy and quiet
Unskilled flyer, except when needed
Her idea of loud is our idea of a whisper
Can use The Stare

...Huh? What'd I miss?

Nothing at all, Yah. Nothing. At. All.

...Okay. So this is Fluttershy, a pegasus pony ostensibly from Cloudsdale like Rainbow Dash. The two appear to have known each other since childhood, meaning they have canonically known each other the longest out of the group of friends.

Fluttershy is quiet, gentle, and - you guessed it - shy. She hates being the center of attention and embarrasses easily, not to mention having more fears than there are background ponies!

Despite her demeanor, Fluttershy has proven to have some forms of fighting. She is decently powerful, being able to take down a giant bear without being harmed. Even though she hates fighting and usually tries to stay away from the action, when the situation calls for it, she's always willing to step up and take down the problem with her number one weapon.

A cannon?!

...No, her eyes.

Aww...

Fluttershy is the only known pony capable of using The Stare, a mysterious power involving her eyes. By making eye contact with other creatures, she can force them to obey her.

She even out-stared a cockatrice! A cockatrice! And keep in mind that a cockatrice's main weapon is also their eyes! Lock eyes with one of those things, and you're dead!

However, even that's not the end of Fluttershy's abilities. She loves caring for animals, which has given her the power to calm down even the biggest, most dangerous creatures known to ponykind, from dragons to giant bears to Cerberus, the guardian of Tartarus. Because of her ability to communicate with these animals, she can essentially command total obedience from them and have them aid her in different situations.

All this coming from a mare who has trouble flying, never speaks louder than a whisper, panics at the slightest provocation, and gets abused by a rabbit.

...Right. When she hasn't been provoked into using The Stare or her other abilities, Fluttershy is likely the weakest of the group. Her gentle, kind nature gets the best of her, and she is unable to do any real harm. Only when the situation truly calls for it can she be a threat.

"You rock! Woo-hoo! ...Did my cheering do that?"

Alright! After all this time, at last, all six of our combatants are set! Let's finally end this debate once and for all!

IT'S TIME FOR THE ULTIMATE DEATH BATTLE ROYALE!

A breeze rolled through a field, rustling the grass and lightly shaking the branches of nearby trees. In this field, six mares were ready to battle.

Twilight had her horn sparkling, ready to cast spells. Applejack was pawing the ground. Pinkie was bouncing obliviously. Rainbow flew in the air, her wings flapping to keep her floating. Rarity simply glared at all of the others. Fluttershy looked ready to run at any moment.

FIGHT!

As soon as the battle started, the ponies were in motion. Rainbow was the first to attack, flying straight down at Twilight, the closest to her. However, Twilight noticed this and teleported away at the last second, causing Rainbow to fly into the ground, where Applejack ran up to her for some close combat.

Twilight reappeared behind Fluttershy, who was unsure of what to do. Smirking, Twilight prepared to zap the pegasus with one of her magic beams, but a flying branch hit her and broke her concentration. Turning, she glared at Rarity, who had thrown the branch and was now using her magic to levitate various other projectiles, such as rocks or sticks.

Seeing the two unicorns about to face off, Fluttershy flew away. She saw Rainbow being occupied by Applejack, so as long as she was in the air, she was safe for the time being. The only thing that troubled her was where Pinkie Pie was. Nopony had seen the pony due to being distracted, and now she had seemingly vanished.

Meanwhile, back on the ground, Rarity began her assault on the other unicorn, firing about a dozen things at her. Twilight put up a quick barrier, stopping all of the projectiles. As soon as Rarity ran out, the librarian dropped the barrier and charged at the white mare. Rarity turned to run, but she was too slow, and Twilight stabbed her in the side. With her horn stuck inside Rarity's skin, the purple mare fired one of her magic beams, stunning Rarity greatly and giving Twilight time to shake her off. As soon as the dressmaker was off, Twilight levitated a large rock and slammed it on Rarity's head over and over until she was dead. Twilight then tossed the body into a nearby bush to keep it from getting in the way and turned back to the battle.

She was met with the grinning face of Pinkie Pie.

Startled, the librarian jumped back and put up a quick barrier. However, Pinkie seemed to ignore Twilight, turning and dashing away. Perplexed, Twilight lowered her shield, shrugged, and began to observe Applejack and Rainbow. The two were still tussling on the ground, and one of them would go down soon. Twilight had to plan ways to take down both of them, so she was ready for whichever would win.

The fight between the blue pegasus and orange earth pony was rather even; Applejack was keeping Rainbow on the ground by holding down her wings and pulling her back whenever she managed to get up. However, being pulled so close to Applejack the whole time gave Rainbow plenty of opportunities to fight back, and she was dealing about as much damage as the farmer was dealing to her. The scrap continued until, out of nowhere, Pinkie bounced in and bucked the two mares in the face simultaneously, separating them.

Free of being held down, Rainbow quickly used the skies to her advantage and dive-bombed Applejack, who was still dazed. Pinkie hopped away, dodging the crash-landing that completely obliterated the orange earth pony, leaving her lifeless. Rainbow hopped up and turned to the party pony, choosing her as her next target.

However, before Rainbow could move, Twilight had toppled a tree, separating the pegasus from the earth pony for the time being. Rainbow and Twilight were now on the same side of the giant barrier, and so prepared to take each other down. Rainbow went on the offensive, as usual, while Twilight dodged and tried using her spells to stop the weather pony. Unfortunately, all she could really do was try firing beams or tossing objects, all of which Rainbow skillfully avoided as she flew by, striking Twilight repeatedly.

While this went on, Fluttershy came out from hiding, deciding it was time to get into the battle as well now that two foes were down and two others were distracted. Seeing Pinkie obliviously rolling in the grass, giggling, she decided to use the element of surprise on her partying friend. She attempted to fly down and begin attacking Pinkie before she could fight back, but the earth pony's Pinkie Sense warned her and she dodged the first blow.

Fluttershy, not wanting to be taken out by her friend's crazy antics, quickly decided to use her strongest weapon first: The Stare. Locking eyes with Pinkie, she forced the pony to stay still. For the first time so far, Pinkie began to grow nervous as she found herself unable to move as Fluttershy crept forward, about to attack any moment.

The tree suddenly cracked in half as Rainbow flew through it, barely avoiding a blast of magic from Twilight. The distraction caused Fluttershy to break eye contact, but the power of The Stare still lingered slightly in Pinkie's brain, and she had a hard time moving again. Twilight, coming through the crack in the tree, saw Pinkie having difficulty getting back to normal, and didn't hesitate in launching a volley of magic beams at her, sending her flying back and into a bush, out of sight.

Rainbow got up and Fluttershy focused back on the battle, and the three mares stared each other down, waiting to see which would make the first move. Twilight thought for a second before lightning her horn like she was about to do something, causing Rainbow to fly to the side when nothing was actually after her. Instead, Twilight called up another barrier, trapping the pegasus inside of it. The cyan pony began thrashing about, trying to get out, but the librarian didn't even falter. However, this took her attention off of Fluttershy, who crept behind Twilight, about to launch a sneak attack.

Suddenly, the three ponies felt something odd, and they stopped whatever they were doing. They began to feel cold and scared, despite nothing seeming to trigger this. Twilight subconsciously disabled the magic barrier around Rainbow, and Fluttershy backed away from the unicorn, hiding behind the remains of the giant tree.

Out from the bushes where Pinkie had been blasted came the earth pony herself, but seeming different. Her poofy mane and tail had gone flat. Her entire body had gone slightly gray. Her eyes were glaring and filled with rage. All three ponies shivered at the sight of Pinkamena. Rainbow quickly flew off, leaving Twilight as the only pony that Pinkamena could see.

Before the unicorn could even move to get away, Pinkamena was on her. She screamed in pain as she the pink mare began cutting her up with a sharp stick. Rainbow and Fluttershy turned away, not wanting to watch the horrifying spectacle. Pinkamena didn't notice either of them, as she was too focused on pulling out all of Twilight's various organs and tossing them to the side. Twilight's screams finally faded, and Pinkamena hopped off the body. She was covered in her victim's blood, but it didn't look even half as bad as Twilight herself did.

Turning away from the downed unicorn, Pinkamena looked for her next victim. However, she didn't see Rainbow flying straight down at her until it was too late. The pegasus grabbed the insane earth pony and carried her up into the sky. Pinkamena struggled, but it didn't help at all. As soon as she was high enough, Rainbow dropped Pinkamena, and she fell to the ground below.

Somehow, Pinkamena survived the fall, not even appearing injured. She grabbed her sharp stick and glared at Rainbow as she flew down to try again. At the last second, Pinkamena's Pinkie Sense told her something was behind her, and she dodged to the left. This caused Rainbow to miss and slam into Fluttershy, who was trying to sneak up. The two pegasi tumbled and came to a halt on the ground. Getting up, they glared at each other, but then turned to face Pinkamena, who was charging at them with her makeshift knife still in her mouth.

Rainbow quickly flew away, but Fluttershy stood her ground and used The Stare again, freezing Pinkamena in her tracks. Her stare intensified as she forced Pinkamena to back up, further and further, until the pegasus had her stuck against a tree. The insane earth pony actually began to look worried.

Now that she had her foe where she wanted her, Fluttershy whistled loudly, keeping her eyes on Pinkamena. The whistle didn't seem to do anything at first, but after a moment, a small rabbit hopped into view, glaring at Pinkamena.

The rabbit was followed by dozens of other woodland creatures, all siding with Fluttershy and awaiting her next order.

The meek pegasus stomped her hoof, and the animals shot forward at Pinkamena, who still couldn't move. She let loose a bloodcurdling shriek as the animals attacked, clawing and biting all over her. Blood trickled out from under the mass of animals as they slowly ripped Pinkamena to shreds. The scream suddenly stopped, but the animals kept at it for a few more minutes. Finally, they disbanded and ran off back to where they came from, leaving behind nothing but a bloodstained skeleton and a sharp stick.

Rainbow descended from her hiding place in the sky to face Fluttershy. The two pegasi stared each other down, waiting for one of them to move. Finally, Fluttershy took the initiative and charged forward, but Rainbow easily dodged. She then turned around and slammed a hoof into the back of Fluttershy's head, knocking her to the ground. Turning her head, Rainbow saw Pinkamena's sharp stick lying a short distance away and dashed for it.

When Rainbow picked the makeshift knife up in her muzzle and turned around, Fluttershy was gone. She quickly grew paranoid, gazing around for her shy opponent. Any second, Fluttershy could pop out with The Stare, or direct an animal assault...

CRASH

Or just fall and land on Rainbow's back from above.

The racing pegasus, startled, began to flail wildly, the sharp stick flying out of her mouth. Fluttershy quickly jumped off and dove for the stick, grabbing it with one wing. She bucked Rainbow in the face as hard as she could and ran a few feet away, where her pet rabbit Angel had come out of his home and was watching the battle. She quickly gave him the sharp stick just as Rainbow got back up and charged into her.

The two began to struggle on the ground, but Rainbow seemed to have the advantage. She started whaling on Fluttershy, with the yellow pegasus having trouble fighting back due to the surprise attack. Suddenly, Rainbow cried out in pain as Angel shoved the sharp stick into one of her back legs, and she fell to the side, allowing Fluttershy to stand up.

Using The Stare once more, the animal caretaker held Rainbow in place as she ripped the stick out of her leg. Wrapping her hoof around the bloodstained weapon, she grinned sadistically as she shoved the stick forward, impaling the other pegasus in the throat and letting her drop to the ground.

K.O.

...Damn.

This result was...surprising, to say the least. Let's go down the list from first death to winner and explain why they took the position they did.

Alright! Well, Rarity was down and out first, for some pretty obvious reasons. She can't fly, she doesn't have the extra strength of an earth pony, and the few spells she knows aren't very helpful in battle. Plus, most of her attributes and characteristics wouldn't help her in a fight at all, making her the worst fighter of the mane six.

A decision I approve of completely. Next up, Applejack. While she may be the strongest physically of the group, she doesn't have any other traits that make her a threat. She lacks the flight that Rainbow and Fluttershy have, the magic that Twilight and Rarity have, and the weird abilities that Pinkie Pie has. Sure, she's a better fighter than Rarity, but she's still too low on the meter to win.

This is where things get surprising. Twilight died next, which probably surprised a lot of people. Sure as hell surprised me!

Now, Rarity aside, Twilight has the worst physical strength of the mane six. She may be skilled with magic, but few to none of the spells she knows are actually good for battling. Aside from her magic beams, she'd have to use her spells for things they weren't intended for, and that would require a lot of improvising, which she wouldn't be very good at being a strategist.

And this is the point where we'd expect Fluttershy to die, but nope! Pinkie Pie went down next! She may be virtually unstoppable when in motion, but as soon as she can be pinned down, she's doomed! No chance to bend physics, no opportunity to access hammerspace, and no advantage to being Pinkamena.

She could easily be dispatched as soon as she was still for more than a few seconds. Thanks to Rainbow's speed and Fluttershy's Stare, they could stop her once there weren't any other real distractions, and from there she had no chance of survival.

And then, the epic final battle: Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy! One-sided for Dashie? DENIED!

Evidence shows that Fluttershy, when angered, possesses flight speed and skill equivalent to Rainbow. She also has unnatural strength, help from animal friends, and The Stare. What does Rainbow have? A lack of strategy, a tendency to let her guard down, and - let's be honest here - bad luck.

Both of them being pegasi, they couldn't use flight as an advantage or access magic, so it all came down to pure strength and abilities. Dashie may have her Sonic Rainboom, but Fluttershy can outstare a cockatrice!

The result was especially surprising, and I can already hear fans of the other ponies yelling at us, but it's pure facts, folks. Fluttershy's cons had the smallest impact on her performance, as half of them didn't apply to actual battle and the other half were completely reversed when she got angry.

...I don't even have a pun here. That was awesome!

The winner is Fluttershy.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

Two OCs, both once human, now find themselves in Equestria as a form they never would have expected. And neither of them are ponies. Both having their own combat experience and previous interactions, how would they fare in a simple battle to the death where the result isn't strictly plot-constructive?

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You may suggest OC characters, provided they are from a story on this site that is at least somewhat well-known.

Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

Battle 7: Echo the Diamond Dog VS Griffin the Griffon

ABOUT. BLOODY. TIME.

Human in Equestria stories tend to have the human either stay the way he is, or turn into a pony. But there are some cases where this doesn't apply, giving us humans as other types of creatures.

These two particular ones can be named as the ones who pretty much started the whole "humans as non-pony creatures" trend, and now we're gonna see who's best!

We have Echo, the mute but intelligent Diamond Dog...

...and Griffin, Captain of the Griffon Pirates!

Both Echo and Griffin have a crew of sorts, and Griffin himself has quite a large variety of items at his disposal. However, for the purpose of this battle, these two will be going against each other solo with no help from their teams, and Griffin will only be using the items that are useful in a battle and that we have seen him use previously.

And since no teammates are allowed, we're not letting Trixie ride him with that laser thing, or whatever the hell you call her new hoof!

In addition, while Echo lost his claws near the end of his story so far, we're going to treat him as though he still has them.

Why? Because really, those claws are his main weapon, and taking them away would be like taking away Rainbow's wings. In his own story, he'll probably get them back or get something new, but since we don't know for sure yet, we'll just give them back so he actually has a chance.

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.

Echo

Species: Diamond Dog
Previously human
Unable to speak
New Beta of Greenclaw clan; formerly Alpha
Writes with enchanted claws
Can set claws on fire
Eats gems and metal

Once a human brony whose name is currently unknown, Echo had a chance encounter with Discord back on Earth, and was literally kicked into Equestria, where he became a Diamond Dog. Once he got used to his new body, he ended up meeting Daring Do and protecting her from Ahuizotl and his minions. However, he got his vocal cords literally torn out of his throat in the process, rendering him incapable of speech.

Good luck, better luck, aaaaand then it goes straight to Tartarus.

Using his human intelligence and knowledge of how to read and write, Echo slowly began learning the Equestrian language and communicated with Daring through writing. He later met up with Disarray, the son of Discord and Princess Celestia, and-

Whoah whoah whoah, hold up! Discord and Celestia?!

I'm confused too. Don't think about it too much.

Too late...

Anyway, Disarray enchanted Echo's claws, allowing him to write on thin air as a form of communication without needing paper. This also accidentally gave Echo the ability to set his claws on fire, which he later used as a battle strategy.

And to tear through walls!

During a visit to the town of Wethoof, Echo became more skilled in fighting and helped to take down a large amount of hydras, as well as finally killing Ahuizotl. He acquired a spear in this time made of two different materials, which he has started to use as his primary weapon.

The spear consists of the head and the haft, which are made of two different things. The head is made of arcanite, a magic-resistant material that can't be broken or dulled whatsoever, and the haft is made from a magical zebra staff that doesn't fade or crack, and can't take a life unless combined with the head, allowing the wielder to choose whether or not to kill with it!

Echo is a skilled fighter with good reflexes and a fast train of thought. He can process extremely detailed thoughts in under a couple of seconds, allowing him to spot weaknesses and make quick decisions.

But despite being portrayed as a ruthless killer - including in his own story - he's usually polite and does whatever he thinks is right to help others. He never breaks a promise, even if it's not a Pinkie Promise, and only kills if he needs to.

When the situation gets tough, Echo can get an adrenaline rush that greatly increases his strength, speed, and reflexes. This rush often saves his life, but will tire him out.

"I already have a pack."

Griffin

Species: Griffon
Previously human
Leader of the Griffon Pirates
Experienced fighter
Has a sword named Hades gotten from killing a dragon
Can cast magic with special gems
Addicted to dragon blood

And in this corner, the literally bloodthirsty feathered fiend, Griffin the Griffon!

Like Echo, Griffin was once a human, but his life is explained a bit more. He spent his entire life being abused and bullied, eventually leading to him fighting back and gaining quite a bit of fighting experience and stamina.

This guy's luck is so bad, he donated a kidney to someone, only for that person to turn around and start beating him up! Not even joking here!

Griffin was sent to Equestria within a day of Echo, but who exactly sent him is unknown. When he arrived, he became a griffon for apparently no reason other than sheer irony, and met up with Gilda, who helped him recover and get used to his surroundings.

Then he killed a dragon. No, seriously.

Specifically, a black dragon, known as being the most dangerous dragon around. After killing it from the inside with one of its own scales, Griffin took a scale and some bones from its body to forge a sword, which he named Hades, after the God of Death.

Hades is completely indestructible and can't be bent, scratched, dented, or damaged in any way whatsoever. Being made from the sharp scale of a black dragon, it can often deliver a killing blow on the first swing if used properly, and can even reflect certain projectiles. Griffin can wield it like a pro, and never goes anywhere without it!

Now armed with Hades, Griffin decided to form a rebellion for the griffons and the poor way they were treated. While his goals were high and his resources were low, he slowly managed to go from just him and Gilda to having an entire army, becoming known across Equestria and places outside it as the leader of the mighty Griffon Pirates.

How does he do this? By killing anything that gets in his way and freeing slaves from the Diamond Dogs!

However, he doesn't do this with just Hades. Griffin has various other weapons he uses in battle. These include chemicals he has used to create smoke bombs, knockout gas, and small explosions, as well as very powerful thermite bombs.

These thermite bombs are made by just taking two containers of different chemicals, mixing them at the right time, and watching as you basically create portable exploding lava!

Griffin has also discovered how to use basic magic by using what were previously gemstone lamps. By saying a certain word while the gem is charged, he can cast spells such as fire, water, and wind, but only if the environment he is in has a certain amount of this element around.

But even without this equipment, Griffin isn't the kind of guy you mess with!

He is a skilled fighter and almost completely unstoppable. He has great abilities as a leader and strategist, but when he gets mad, he becomes blinded by rage and has trouble staying focused. Despite this, he also has a soft side, being able to joke around and care for others when not in battle.

Not the kind of thing you'd expect from someone who has an addiction to drinking dragon blood.

"I may be an idiot, but I'm not stupid."

Alright, finally, the combatants are set! Let's end this debate once and for all!

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But for now, IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLE!

Echo and Griffin stared each other down in the battlefield, which was little more than a large field far away from any civilization, so nopony would be hurt. Echo pulled out his spear, and Griffin wielded Hades, as they waited for the signal.

FIGHT!

The two combatants reacted instantly, charging at each other at top speed. They swung their weapons at the same time, causing them to clash and do nothing to each other. Griffin continued to swing Hades while Echo blocked with his spear, trying to stab the bird whenever possible. This continued for a short while until Griffin grew bored, jumping back and taking to the air. Echo, unable to follow, simply glared up and awaited his opponent's next move.

Now airborne, Griffin pulled out a smoke bomb and threw it down. The haze blocked Echo's view, leaving him vulnerable. Smirking, the griffon flew down into the smoke and swung Hades, expecting to decapitate Echo. However, his sword hit nothing but air, confusing him. Charging out of the smoke, he saw Echo standing a safe distance away, his increased hearing having warned him of Griffin's attack attempt.

Griffin pulled out a vial of knockout gas and hurled it, but Echo simply held his breath and sped out of range of the dangerous chemical. Now even more frustrated, Griffin tried pulling out his gemstone lamp and casting an ice spell on Echo to freeze him. However, since the environment was warm and no ice was to be found, all that happened was Echo felt a little chilly. Griffin faceclawed.

At this point, Echo went more on the offensive, holding up his spear and charging at his enemy. Griffin, seeing this coming, tried to fly away, but Echo thought quickly and stabbed his left wing. Griffin let out a cry of pain as he was wrenched back to the ground, unable to lift off. Echo grinned, but Griffin quickly took advantage of the situation, pulling on his wing hard. This caused the distracted Echo to lose his grip on the spear, sending it flying a distance away.

Grinning like a maniac, Griffin readied Hades and attempted to behead Echo, but the Diamond Dog rolled to the side and ignited his claws, rushing Griffin. The bird was unprepared and got slashed across the chest, but using the opportunity of Echo being so close, he swung Hades in a horizantal line. Echo received a large gash across his chest, causing him to stumble backwards.

Griffin jumped back to safety, then held Hades forward and charged, hoping to stab Echo and end the battle quickly. However, he didn't expect his foe to jump right over him, landing behind him and slashing once more, leaving a deep cut identical to the one on his chest marking his back. Griffin turned and glared at Echo, who was now pumping with adrenaline and beckoning him, as if to say "come at me bro".

The bird charged forward and swung, but Echo easily ducked it and kicked Griffin in the chest, launching him back several feet. Looking over, Echo saw his spear, and quickly retrieved it while Griffin was disoriented. Now full of energy and with his opponent in pain, the Diamond Dog took the advantage and rushed forward, beating and stabbing Griffin with his spear like crazy. Griffin couldn't fight back, only managing to block the more lethal hits with the blade of Hades. Eventually, he saw an opening, and kicked Echo away before jumping back.

Griffin took out a smoke bomb and threw it, covering his foe in blinding smoke. He then took out two vials, each containing different chemicals; the ingredients for a thermite bomb. Before he could throw them, however, Echo charged out of the haze and attacked again, swinging his spear in an arc to knock the two vials up into the air, somehow without shattering the glass. Before he can continue his assault, however, his adrenaline rush begins to die down, giving Griffin the chance to knock him away and steal his spear, throwing it away.

Hoping to try and win quickly before he passes out, Echo lit his claws and dashed forward, aiming for Griffin's throat. Seeing his lit claws, Griffin quickly thought up a plan and pulled out his gemstone lamp, aiming at Echo. Before the dog could get close enough to strike, Griffin managed to light him on fire, the gemstone lamp feeding off the fire that lit his claws. Looking up, Griffin saw two certain vials falling back down, and grinned. He turned and ran off, leaving Echo trying to put himself out.

Just as he managed to smother the flames, Echo looked up and saw the vials fall right in front of him, smashing to pieces and causing their contents to mix. His eyes widened just before a huge explosion erupted from the mixture, engulfing him and undoubtedly vaporizing him, as Griffin watched from a safe distance.

K.O.

Yeaaaaaaaaah! A real battle!

Despite the obvious flight advantage, Griffin also had combat training both before and after coming to Equestria, while Echo only had the limited practice he received in Wethoof, and Griffin's weapon was easily more deadly than Echo's.

Not to mention Griffin had all those cool chemical things to help and give him a huge arsenal advantage!

Plus, Griffin was used to fighting bipedal creatures back on Earth, as well as plenty of experience with fighting Diamond Dogs in general, helping him figure out their basic weaknesses and thought processes. Echo's opponents were too diverse to give him a true advantage, plus he only fought a griffon once before, which was Griffin himself and was only a sparring match.

Haters can complain, but we're not griffon a damn about your whining!

The winner is Griffin.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

We've seen fighters with advantages in terms of brainpower, strategy, and weaponry. But what happens when you pit two fighters against each other whose only obvious traits are their physical prowess? Come back soon to see a powerhouse pony go up against their only known rival in strength!

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Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

Battle 8: Big Macintosh VS Iron Will

I apologise in advance for the shortness of this chapter, for both the research and the battle itself. I wasn't able to find much information on these characters aside from "they're really strong" and a couple other subtle things, so this is all I could get. But people seem to want to see these two fight, so I gave it my best shot. Hopefully you don't hate me for this.

With great power, comes great responsibility...or just really great battles!

Today, we've got Big Macintosh, the soft-spoken farmer...

...and Iron Will, the minotaur with a method!

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.

Big Macintosh

Species: Earth pony
Special talent: Apple farming
Occupation: Farmer at Sweet Apple Acres
Applejack and Apple Bloom's older brother
Physically most powerful pony on the show
Can drag houses and buck crowds of ponies
Typically says very little

Big Macintosh, known to many simply as Big Mac, is an earth pony farmer and the older brother of both Applejack and Apple Bloom, both former DEATH BATTLE: Equestria challengers.

Like them, he's got the typical earth pony features: no wings or magic, but makes up for it with power!

So far, Big Mac is the most physically strong pony to appear on the show. He can drag an entire house and barely be slowed down, capable of pulling it halfway across Ponyville without being worn out.

Take that, Chuck Norris!

He is sturdy and enduring, not even flinching while accomplishing various difficult tasks, which many other ponies would consider impossible, including sending an entire crowd of ponies flying at least a mile away just by charging through them.

Big Mac doesn't use any weapons or armor; he just has his yoke, his strength, and his famous single-word phrases.

Yes, Big Mac may be strong, but he's very soft-spoken and shy. He doesn't speak much to anypony outside his family, and even then he keeps his sentences short. However, it is also implied that he is rather intelligent, handling most of the mental chores around Sweet Apple Acres since Granny Smith is too old, Apple Bloom is too young, and Applejack is...

"Don't use yer fancy mathematics ta muddle the issue!"

...like that.

Yes, like that.

"Eeeyup."

Iron Will

Species: Minotaur
Occupation: Self-help guru
Can bend fences and rip wooden boards
Often speaks in third-person
Threatening, intimidating, and rhyming
Surprisingly lightweight
Fourth wall awareness...?

Iron Will is a minotaur whose job is to travel across Equestria, giving assertiveness seminars that help ponies stand up for themselves.

In other words, he's a plot device for one episode.

...sure. While he seems to be successful, his lessons don't appear to have any major lasting effects, since the ponies that go to them always end up back to normal quickly, which makes one wonder just how good his seminars are.

Well, they made Fluttershy mean enough to terrorize half the citizens of Ponyville, so I'd say they work pretty well for however long they last!

Much like Big Macintosh, Iron Will's main attribute is his impossible strength. However, unlike the farm pony, the full extent of his power doesn't appear to ever be shown. He can easily toss regular ponies like dolls, bend stable fences, and completely rip apart wooden boards with one arm. However, whether or not this is the peak of his power is never explained, though we can likely assume it isn't.

While Big Mac is calm, cool, and controlled, Iron Will is big, bad, and bold! He's never afraid to get in your face, and he even goes so far as to hurt mares when they so much as stand in his way. He certainly obeys his own advice, that's for sure!

Despite his size and strength, Iron Will appears to be amazingly light, easily carried around by ordinary goats. He is also easily calmed down during his fits of rage and isn't that intelligent. However, he has made himself a popular part of the show, even though he appeared in only one episode.

"When somepony tries to block, show them that you rock!"

Alright, the combatants are set! Let's end this debate once and for all!

IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLE!

Standing in the hedge maze where Iron Will held his Ponyville seminar a long time ago, the minotaur awaited his opponent. Finally, Big Macintosh entered the arena, his face calm and stoic, a stark contrast to Iron Will's aggressive look.

FIGHT!

Iron Will roared, lowered his head, and charged at Big Mac. The earth pony simply stood and waited, watching the minotaur get closer by the second. At the last moment, he turned and bucked, knocking Iron Will back several feet and crashing through one of the walls of the hedge maze. Nodding to himself, Big Mac ran through the hole in the wall, looking for his opponent.

Dropping from above, Iron Will slammed his body onto Big Mac's back, but the farmer didn't even buckle under the weight. Instead, he just started bucking around, trying to throw the minotaur off, but his foe had a solid grip on his neck. Finally, Big Mac started running forward, charging into walls and trees in an attempt to get his opponent to let go. Eventually, he managed to knock Iron Will off, but not before taking a few hits from the blind dashing.

Before Iron Will could try anything else, Big Mac ran around the corner of the hedge maze, attempting to lose his foe in the corridors. The minotaur followed, only to eventually reach a split path with no clue as to which way Big Mac went. Confused for a moment, he finally chose the left path, only to find it led to a dead end.

Turning around, Iron Will was suddenly attacked by Big Mac, who had hid in the grass walls themselves rather than taking one of the paths. He started assaulting Iron Will quickly, but was finally thrown off. The minotaur roared in anger and ran at the farmer, who simply replied with a calm "Eeeyup" and charged as well. The two neared each other, about to collide...

...when suddenly Iron Will moved to the side and grabbed Big Mac's leg, twisted, and flipped the pony onto his back. Caught off guard, the red equine tried to get up, but Iron Will held him down and held up a fist. Before he could throw it, Big Mac pointed behind the minotaur. Perplexed, Iron Will turned to look, only to see nothing and receive a punch in the side of the head, knocking him off and away several feet.

When Iron Will stood up, he saw that his opponent had disappeared, but the nearby hedge wall had a large hole in it. Smirking, he walked over to it and charged through, swinging his fists wildly. After several seconds, he realized he wasn't hitting anything, and looked around. He was outside the hedge maze, and nopony was around. He began to realize he had been tricked and turned to go back inside, but before he could, Big Mac jumped from atop the maze and pinned him to the ground.

The two tussled for a while, never really gaining the upper hand, but remaining even for most of the battle. Several hours passed, and they eventually found themselves back in the middle of the hedge maze, covered in bruises and cuts. They were both tired, but neither would give up. They prepared for the final attack.

Charging each other for the umpteenth time in the match, they prepared to collide, running at top speed and hoping they would come out on top. Mere seconds felt like hours as they ran towards each other...

When they finally hit, a cloud of dust rose, hiding the scene. A resounding crack came from within, followed by the body of one of them flying out of the dust. They flew too fast to be identified, but with the distance they flew, it was impossible they'd survive when they landed.

The dust finally cleared, revealing a red earth pony, standing in the middle of the maze. He panted a bit, then finally managed a grin.

K.O.

"Eeeyup..."

...what?

Allow me to explain.

Please do. I had fifty bits on Iron Will!

Both characters had amazing strength, but it was almost undeniable with the proper research that Big Macintosh was tougher. In one episode, he was shown pulling a two-story house. This house was roughly 14 feet in length and width, 13 feet in height, with a base of about 196 feet squared. Since the average weight of a house of that material is 60 pounds per square foot and there are two floors, that means the house's floor, walls, and roof alone must have weighed well over sixty thousand pounds, not counting whatever may have been inside the house.

A pony that can drag sixty thousand pounds without any resistance?!

The two had their similarities, but also their differences. Iron Will was too aggressive and easily fooled, while Big Macintosh kept calm and was able to trick his foe on different occasions. Iron Will's strange lightweight body was also a contributing factor, as it allowed Big Macintosh to easily knock him away on different occasions, including in the final charge.

Well, that fight certainly didnt take longer than a minute...aur!

...what?

Minute aur? Minotaur?

Get out.

Aww...

The winner is Big Macintosh.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

The first battle to include characters from non-MLP works - as well as the first team battle. Two duos, both masters of machines in different ways. Which team will come out on top, and will they even both be alive at the end?

Got a suggestion for a Death Battle? Post a comment below suggesting matchups, or send me a PM with suggestions in it!

You may suggest OC characters, provided they are from a story on this site that is at least somewhat well-known. You may also suggest characters from other universes (i.e. anything non-pony related), as long as their opponent is from MLP:FiM, either the show or a known fic.

Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

Battle 9: The Flim-Flam Brothers VS ATLAS and P-Body

Machines are an uncommon sight in Equestria, with little to no examples of the amazingly advanced technology humans have.

But for this battle, not only do we have two of Equestria's best mechanics, we also have two machines themselves from another world!

The Flim-Flam Brothers, two unicorn sibling geniuses...

And ATLAS and P-Body, the Aperture Science Co-Operative Testing Initiative!

Since both duos are mainly known for certain technology that they use, we'll be giving them both the machines they use to aid them in combat.

The Flim Flam Brothers will be bringing along their Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, and ATLAS and P-Body will each have their respective portal guns! That should make the fight more interesting!

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.

The Flim-Flam Brothers

Species: Unicorns
Special talents: Making cider
Occupations: Travelling salesponies
Gifted mechanics
Perfect synchronization
Creators of the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000

Flim and Flam, also known as the Flim Flam Brothers, are two unicorn salesponies who travel around Equestria, attempting to sell their inventions to different towns.

While we've only seen them appear in canon one time, we can gather a bit of information from that one episode!

The two brothers are both gifted mechanics, as shown by their ability to create and run the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, easily the most complex piece of machinery seen so far in the show. It is powered by unicorn magic and also acts as a mode of transportation.

But, as its name suggests, the real purpose of it is to make cider! It has a long vacuum-like hose that sucks apples right from trees and turns it into fresh cider at an extremely fast pace! And, if powered enough, it has enough strength to rip up entire trees!

As a vehicle, it is quite fast and efficient, though due to its bulky size it would not be very good to help maneuverability during a battle such as this, and is better suited as a wall to hide behind.

But enough about their machine! Let's take a look at the brothers themselves. They're pretty much the same, except one has a mustache and one doesn't, and they share the same powers and abilities.

Flim and Flam's individual abilities don't actually extend much past typical unicorn magic, but together, they're always well synchronized, even when they haven't had time to plan. They are also both good at quick thinking, though their strategic skills leave much to be desired.

Yeah...these two don't exactly plan in advance that much.

Despite the fandom's common perspective of them, the two aren't actually as malicious as they are made out to be. They just simply have two problematic factors: a tendency to not know when to quit, and usually not thinking ahead. While they are smug and arrogant, they never truly become "evil" per se, instead just going too far in what started off as a perfectly ordinary business deal. Due to not quitting while they're ahead and focusing too much on making a profit, they failed in the end, showing that they aren't very good at strategy and have a knack for making things up as they go instead.

Fortunately, when it comes to a fight to the death, you don't usually worry that much about thinking ahead, since there's too much action going on anyway! Stop to think, and you're dead, as Twilight Sparkle showed us a few battles ago!

I heard that!

Well, it's true!

...how did she even get in here?

Front door.

...Arrell, get her out. *ahem* Anyway, ignoring that, Flim and Flam clearly have immense knowledge of machines, and wielding a powerful one from the get-go puts them at a huge advantage. However, they are still just ponies, and aren't invincible. We'll just have to see how well they fare against two robots from another world.

"Ready Flim?" "Ready Flam!" "Let's bing-bang-zam!"

ATLAS and P-Body

Home universe: Portal
Species: Robots
Occupations: Portal gun testing subjects
Both carry Portal guns
Can survive falls of any height
Vulnerable to water or almost anything that can kill a pony
Unknown genders

Created by GLaDOS and officially known as the "cooperative testing initiative", ATLAS and P-Body are a modified personality core and turret, respectively. Hailing from the white testing chambers of Aperture Science, they have been programmed to test the uses of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, known to many simply as a Portal gun, and so they each carry one of said gun.

The Portal gun is exactly what it says on the tin; point it at a wall and pull the trigger, and you can fire a portal at the wall! Put two down, and you can walk through one to come out the other! Problem is, you can't have any more than two down at once...which kinda sucks.

These guns are indestructible and the portals they shoot cannot be removed, unless the portal is relocated or the surface it is on is drastically changed. However, despite being classified as a "gun", these items cannot actually be used to harm others. In fact, the portals literally travel through humans, robots, and other sentient beings.

Despite travelling at the speed of light, which should technically at least rip a hole in them!

Arrell, it's only light that's being fired in the first place...

Don't care. Want to see blood.

...Oooookay. Anyway, aside from the Portal guns, ATLAS and P-Body never carry around any sort of weapons. However, they can acquire various items to use during their testing chambers.

They've got cubes to push buttons, balls to fit into ball-shaped slots, and laser-directing boxes! But out of all their items, the most useful is probably the gels they can direct with their portals!

Each gel has a unique attribute. The Repulsion Gel acts as a trampoline, the Propulsion Gel increases of the speed of whoever runs on it, and the Conversion Gel allows any surface splashed with it to have portals placed on it. However, each gel can easily be rinsed away with water or other liquids, and more than one gel cannot take up the same space.

As for our robots themselves, they're indestructible! ...well, not really.

ATLAS and P-Body can survive falls of any distance, but they are still weak to anything else a pony would be weak to, if not more. Bodies of water are a hazard to them, and falling into them means instant death. Plus, they will explode if they take too much damage all at once and aren't able to get away. Luckily, they can recover any damage they take within seconds when safe, meaning that as long as they don't sustain any long streams of attacks, they can do pretty well.

Which is good, because these two are always getting hurt! GLaDOS puts them through some tough tests, and she shows no mercy. That's likely built up their reflexes quite a bit, as well as made them a bit stronger.

However, unlike Flim and Flam, ATLAS and P-Body show no true synchronization. They work together about as well as good friends who like to prank each other, rather than mirror images. Sometimes they can work together, and sometimes they end up killing themselves.

They act a lot like humans, but whether or not that's a good thing is up for debate.

Normally their primary goal is to solve puzzles rather than fight, and they have not been seen doing any actual fighting so far. However, they have yet to fail GLaDOS, and their experience in testing chambers may prove to be vital in their possible victory here in the Equestrian Death Battle arena.

"Hello!" "...hi?"

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

IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLE!

NOTE: For simplicity's sake, I will be referring to both ATLAS and P-Body as being male.

In one of Aperture Science's many testing rooms, two unicorns sat upon their odd mode of transportation, the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, and awaited their opponents. Before long, some portals opened up on a nearby wall, and their robotic foes popped out, ready to battle. As the portals vanished, the four took up their battle stances, each team facing the other.

FIGHT!

ATLAS looked at P-Body and pointed forward, uttering a robotic grunt. P-Body nodded and charged forward at Flim and Flam while ATLAS placed a portal on the wall behind him. P-Body reached the two unicorns and tried to fire his portal gun at them, but all he did was create two portals on the far wall. Flim and Flam looked at each other, shrugged, and charged their horns.

Before they could use any spells, ATLAS fired his own portal gun, getting it right underneath P-Body and causing him to pop out back where ATLAS was. The modified personality core just shook his head, while the turret shrugged. Flim and Flam, meanwhile, dimmed their horns and charged forward, trying to go for close combat. P-Body quickly pointed at a far wall, and ATLAS nodded, running towards it. P-Body ran in the opposite direction, forcing Flim and Flam to split up. Flim ran after ATLAS, while Flam took off after P-Body.

When ATLAS saw Flim closing in, he popped one portal on the ceiling, ran until he was past the portal, and shot another one underneath Flim. Flim fell through the portal and came down from the ceiling, surprising him and causing him to drop his guard. ATLAS used this as a chance to begin whaling on him with physical attacks, since his portal gun wasn't useful for damaging opponents. Flim, however, wrestled out of the assault and turned it around, bucking ATLAS strongly enough to send him flying. When he landed, ATLAS took a second to recover from the damage, then charged back into the fray.

Meanwhile, P-Body was having similar luck. Flam had caught up to him quicker than expected and kept on attacking in every way he could. The only reason P-Body was still alive was from using his portals to get a few feet away and heal, but even that wasn't working anymore. After one more portal, P-Body saw something nearby and ran over to it, Flam giving chase.

Arriving at his goal, P-Body found one of Aperture's famous Weighted Storage Cubes. Picking it up, he turned around and smacked Flam to the side with it, then proceeding to smash the cube into Flam's prone body. Flam quickly teleported away, similar to what P-Body had done before. The robot struck a triumphant pose, but then realized that Flam was hopping into the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000. His robotic irises shrunk.

ATLAS had found a similar way of dealing with Flim, managing to find a Hard Light Bridge and manipulating his portals to keep the makeshift wall between him and Flim at all times, trying to think and strategize. At that moment, Flim noticed his brother getting into their machine, and ran off to join him. P-Body ran up to ATLAS, unsure of what to do. Neither of them knew what the cider-making vehicle was capable of, so they just braced themselves.

Flim and Flam started up the machine and pulled out its vacuum, steering it towards the two robots. Seeing it coming, ATLAS placed his light bridge right above them, acting as an umbrella of sorts. Unable to suck the two up through the makeshift shield, the vacuum retreated back to the machine...which then started just driving towards them.

The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 crashed into the white wall, and its drivers looked around for their opponents. Flam saw the two robots pop out of a blue portal across the room, waving in a taunting manner. Gritting their teeth, the two unicorns turned their vehicle around and drove it back at ATLAS and P-Body.

Dashing off, the two robots eventually found one of Aperture's many Discouragement Beams - or, as many people called them, lasers. P-Body placed one portal at the end of the laser and the other on one of the walls, directing the laser to cut right through the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000. The vehicle had several parts ripped off and slowed to a halt, unable to keep moving. The two robots cheered and high-fived.

They stopped cheering when Flim and Flam just hopped out and charged their horns again. P-Body replaced his portal, directing the laser at the two unicorns. It cut right between them, barely missing them as they ducked to the sides. During this, ATLAS noticed a nearby wind tunnel and took control of it with his own portal. He placed his other portal, picking up both unicorn brothers in the vortex that they couldn't escape.

ATLAS gave P-Body some directions, and the modified turret nodded. He placed his portal to direct the laser to the end of the wind tunnel, where it hit the wall. Once Flim and Flam hit that point, they'd both be sliced apart. Thinking fast, the two unicorns charged their horns and fired a blast of energy at the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, activating its vacuum again.

The vacuum hose travelled over to the two robots, who were too busy watching their foes to notice. The vacuum started up, sucking ATLAS and P-Body inside as they let out robotic screams. Flam used his horn to magically grab ATLAS's portal gun before it was sucked up and replace his portals, freeing the two brothers from the wind tunnel before they reached the laser.

They ran up to their vehicle and watched two mugs of rather...off-looking cider come out, filled with scrap parts and P-Body's portal gun. Flim and Flam began dancing and singing in victory and threw the mugs away.

K.O.

Death by cider! Hah! That's a new one!

While the battle was close, Flim and Flam just barely edged out ATLAS and P-Body. They had overall better synchronization, while ATLAS and P-Body had to give each other commands. Plus, while they may have had their portal guns, Flim and Flam had the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, which could actually be used as a weapon.

Plus, neither team had any combat training that we know of, and all they could use was what they knew. ATLAS and P-Body can solve tests, but they usually have time to think through those. The Flim-Flam Brothers, being salesponies, usually need to think quickly, and that's what these battles call for!

Admittedly, ATLAS and P-Body would have won if not for one problem: their weakness. They can't take much before they explode, so they had to keep staying a safe distance away, and that kept them from using close combat to their advantage like Flim and Flam did. Once they got sucked into the gears of the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, though, there was no escape. If being squeezed like an apple didn't kill them, the cider would have acted as water and done the job instead.

I guess it really "sucks" to be ATLAS and P-Body right now!

The winners are the Flim-Flam Brothers.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria!

Oh, we're not just going straight to a new battle, no. We've got something extra special planned that requires you readers more than ever! Sit tight for the announcement!

After that, we'll have a new battle, this one being a battle that many have asked for. When two of the show's most popular background characters go head-to-head with their most widely accepted fanon theories, which one will emerge from the inevitable disaster victorious?

Got a suggestion for a Death Battle? Post a comment below suggesting matchups, or send me a PM with suggestions in it!

You may suggest OC characters, provided they are from a story on this site that is at least somewhat well-known. You may also suggest characters from other universes (i.e. anything non-pony related), as long as their opponent is from MLP:FiM, either the show or a known fic.

Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

Battle 10: Ditzy Doo VS Vinyl Scratch

Background ponies: love 'em or hate 'em! And personally, I love 'em!

Ditzy Doo, the pegasus otherwise known as Derpy Hooves...

...and Vinyl Scratch, the unicorn also known as DJ P0N-3!

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.

Ditzy Doo

Nickname: Derpy Hooves
Species: Pegasus pony
Occupation: Mailmare
Suffers from strabismus
Clumsy, but strong
Can lift pianos and break wooden supports

Ditzy Doo is one of two names for one of the first, if not the first, background pony: Derpy Hooves.

With so many fan interpretations of her, it's hard to figure out which one's the most common...so we'll just go on it based on the few minutes the show's given us and throw in a few popular traits!

Ditzy is widely believed to be a mailmare and has a child named Dinky. As her name implies, she is clumsy and disoriented. However, this can likely be attributed to her eyes, which are almost certainly her most well-known feature.

One eye points up, the other points down!

It is a common error for people to refer to Ditzy as being cross-eyed, when in reality, the science goes much deeper than that. Ditzy suffers from a condition known as strabismus.

Stradivarius?

No, Arrell. Strabismus.

Science mumbo-jumbo bores me! Can't we just say she's cross-eyed?

While admittedly it is easier, for the purposes of this battle, we had to research it. Strabismus is a condition that affects the eyes and prevents them from focusing on the same point in space.

And time!

Stop cutting me off. Strabismus frequently causes a decrease in depth perception, which is most likely the cause of Ditzy's clumsiness. While there are many forms of strabismus, Ditzy's appears to be a type of vertical strabismus known as hypertrobia.

Hypothermia?

I said stop cutting me off! ...Anyway, hypertrobia is caused when one eye's visual axis is higher than the other, causing them to misalign and have one eye be higher up than the other.

I always thought it was just an animation error...

While she may be clumsy, Ditzy is much more powerful than expected.

She can lift pianos by herself and break solid wood just by accidentally ramming into it or sitting on it! Plus, she can take a direct hit from lightning and shake it off like nothing happened!

Speaking of lightning, Ditzy can control and manipulate the weather due to being a pegasus. However, we have yet to see her do this with anything other than storm clouds.

And if that wasn't enough, she's been taking lessons from Pinkie Pie, because this mare can warp physics like wood in the rain! She can appear pretty much anywhere, even inside of a snow globe!

It's impossible to deny that despite her clumsiness and the drama caused by her speaking, Ditzy is just as easily a contendor for an Equestrian Death Battle as anypony.

"I just don't know what went wrong!"

Vinyl Scratch

Nickname: DJ P0N-3
Species: Unicorn pony
Occupation: Nightclub DJ
Can use dubstep for various tasks
Defeated Discord with her bass cannon
Wears purple-tinted shades

Despite having less than fifteen total seconds of screentime, Vinyl Scratch is one of the most popular background ponies in the fandom. There are plenty of interpretations of her, but for this battle, we'll be taking the most commonly accepted fan theories and treating them as canon.

Vinyl is frequently referred to as being a dubstep-loving unicorn DJ - just like me!

...except you're not a DJ. Or a unicorn.

Eh, one out of three's better than I've ever done before.

...moving on, Vinyl doesn't seem to use her magic very much. The only spell we've seen her use is levitation, and she appears to use her hooves more than one would expect a unicorn to be comfortable with.

She doesn't even bother trying to use her magic on an iPhone! Hah!

However, while she may not appear bright, Vinyl appears to at least have some technological skills. She's learned how to use dubstep as an effective dishwasher, but if that wasn't enough, she's even weaponized it with her Bass Cannon.

YEAH! BASS CANNON!

The Bass Cannon is a modified sound system that fires a soundwave so intense and powerful that it completely incinerates anything in its near-endless path. This weapon was even used to defeat Discord when the Elements of Harmony could not. However, it has a downside.

Vinyl...is not Pinkie Pie.

Unlike the Party Cannon, Vinyl's Bass Cannon requires actually being pushed around, since she doesn't have hammerspace access. It also is apparently rather heavy, limiting its mobility, as well as taking a while to charge up.

Then again, considering you're killing your enemies with pure dubstep music, I think that the pros outweigh the cons! I wanna try that now...

Later, Arrell.

Fine.

While Vinyl has little to no actual combat training, she appears to have a very large resistance to pain. She can crush a wooden mug against her forehead without any visible consequences or flinching, showing both her ability to take plenty of damage and quite a bit of physical strength.

But one problem with Vinyl is that she's pretty oblivious. She focuses on one thing and doesn't notice - or at the very least, doesn't care about - anything else. And she misses the point a lot...hm, maybe she is Pinkie.

Pinkie with a Bass Cannon...oh dear Celestia, just kill me now.

"We crank that bass up to eleven, it cleans all the dishes on a microscopic level! YEAH!"

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

Hold up Yah-Shee!

Arrell, we're just a fanfic. We don't need sponsors.

Not a sponsor! An update on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament!

Ah yes, the tournament. There are twelve days left until OC submissions close, but beginning on Sunday, we will no longer be accepting submissions from anyone who has not contacted our author, RLYoshi, beforehand about entering.

So if you want to enter, then you better at least let RLYoshi know today or tomorrow, or you'll miss your chance!

Also, extra judges are no longer being accepted, as we have enough already.

But for now, IT'S TIME FOR A BACKGROUND PONY DEATH BATTLE!

In the middle of a forest far away from any civilization, a white unicorn with a spiky blue mane wheeled her Bass Cannon onto what would soon become a battlefield. As if on cue, a gray wall-eyed pegasus dropped from the sky, landing on the ground and stumbling a bit before standing up straight.

FIGHT!

As soon as the command was given, Vinyl Scratch hit the button on her Bass Cannon and aimed it at Ditzy Doo. Ditzy took to the air quickly, though, using the several seconds of charging the weapon took to get away. Not willing to be outdone that easily, Vinyl tilted the Bass Cannon up, trying to follow Ditzy with it.

Just as the cannon was about to fire, however, Ditzy suddenly tilted down and flew toward the ground. The dubstep soundwave that poured from the Bass Cannon barely missed, but the pegasus still took a small hit from being close by, turning her dive into an unwanted somersault into the ground.

Leaving her Bass Cannon behind for the moment, Vinyl bounded up to the fallen mare, hoping for the battle to be over. She was surprised to see Ditzy stand up, looking completely unharmed, and fly back into the sky. Silently cursing, Vinyl lit her horn in an attempt to pull the mailmare back down, but she couldn't get a proper magical hold.

Seeing an opportunity, Ditzy looped around in the air and flew right back down, surprising the DJ below. Before Vinyl could react, Ditzy plowed into her with unexpected power, sending them rolling across the field. It wasn't until Vinyl flung Ditzy away with levitation that she managed to stand back up. Knowing she'd need a weapon, she looked around for her Bass Cannon, but they had rolled so far away it was no longer in sight. She turned back to where Ditzy was, only to find her no longer present. In fact, she was nowhere to be seen.

Nervous, Vinyl began galloping back in the direction the battle started, only to be stopped when a piano suddenly fell right in front of her. Had she been any faster, she would've been crushed. Looking up, Vinyl saw Ditzy carrying a large amount of items with no hint as to where she got them from.

The DJ kept running, avoiding dropped items every few seconds. Every time she looked up, Ditzy had a completely new array of objects, freaking Vinyl out further. As soon as she saw her abandoned Bass Cannon again, she dove for it, hitting the button and turning to aim it up at Ditzy.

Only now Ditzy had vanished again.

Panicking, Vinyl looked around for her foe, pulling off her sunglasses to help her see better. Seeing a bit of gray behind a nearby tree, she grinned, aiming her weapon at the same tree. It fired, the ear-splitting dubstep soundwave incinerating every visible tree in that direction, and ostensibly Ditzy as well.

Vinyl smirked in victory, but that vanished when she felt a hoof tap her on the shoulder. Turning around slowly, she was met with Ditzy's cheerful smile and crossed eyes.

Thinking fast, Vinyl turned and bucked, sending the pegasus flying a fair distance away. Using her magic to snap off a branch from a nearby tree, she charged in desperation, hoping to stab Ditzy to death since her Bass Cannon wasn't working out. As soon as she got close, though, Ditzy flew up and away, causing Vinyl to completely miss. A split second later, the mailmare returned with a storm cloud and began jumping on it, showering the area around Vinyl with lightning. Every time the unicorn tried to move, she had to jump back to avoid being shocked.

Suddenly, the lightning bolts stopped, garnering suspicion from Vinyl. She glared up at the cloud, stick ready. A few seconds passed with no event. Quickly, Vinyl levitated her stick up to the cloud and stabbed right through it, destroying it and revealing nothing on top.

The sound of something charging up behind her caused Vinyl to turn around. The last thing she saw was her Bass Cannon aimed at her before it fired, obliterating her in its blast.

Ditzy stood proudly behind the Bass Cannon as she watched it finish the job for her, then turned and flew away, leaving the field void of all life. Just a modified speaker set and miles of burned trees in two directions.

K.O.

Man, dubstep really is dangerous!

While Vinyl Scratch may have had magic, she didn't know enough spells to make use of it, while Ditzy was at least a decent flier. Bass Cannon aside, Vinyl had no real advantages aside from pain resistance and extra strength, neither of which were very useful.

Pain resistance doesn't help much when your opponent has the same amount of it, and extra strength...well, that's only useful if you can actually land a hit, but thanks to Ditzy staying airborne, that didn't happen enough.

The Bass Cannon itself had too many disadvantages to be useful in Vinyl's favour. It took too long to charge and couldn't be moved around easily, which made landing a hit difficult. The only reason Ditzy was even able to use it to win was because Vinyl was too focused on the cloud to notice Ditzy aiming and starting it up. By the time she saw, it was too late.

Something tells me this is gonna start a few arguments in the fan-bass!

The winner is Ditzy Doo.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria!

It's time for another free-for-all, but this time, we've got three beings of unknown power and potential duking it out for survival! The show's three main - er, mane - antagonists are all being put in a cave for a battle. Who will win? Who will die?

Got a suggestion for a Death Battle? Post a comment below suggesting matchups, or send me a PM with suggestions in it!

You may suggest OC characters, provided they are from a story on this site that is at least somewhat well-known. You may also suggest characters from other universes (i.e. anything non-pony related), as long as their opponent is from MLP:FiM, either the show or a known fic.

Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

TOURNAMENT: Matchups Bracket

Alright, it's taken a while, but the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament fighters have been decided, the matchups made, and the bracket drawn up!

Thanks to all of you who submitted, even if you didn't get in. Here is the list of fighters, the authors who submitted them, and the stories they come from. Note that a couple of characters were submitted by authors who don't actually own the stories they come from; this is because that the characters were created by the authors who submitted them, but for the purposes of being used in other stories. They are still eligible.

At long last, the list of fighters:

KangTheSpartan submitted Lucario from Friendship is Aura
Loyal2Luna submitted Marr Bell from Doctor Whooves - The Series: Episode Two - Game of Stones
Jonny Derp submitted Rorry/Mirr from A Rising Light
the-master submitted Azzal Kan from Fall of Canterlot
Flying Wingnut submitted Jake Gray from Bloodflow
TundraStanza submitted Tundra Stanza from Nothing Probably Goes on Forever Too
KenSES64 submitted Seth Disarmonia from Spawn of Disharmony, Seth Disarmonia and the Universe Hopping Princess, and More Stories Featuring Seth
Vinetion~R submitted Vinetion Lutin from Three of Me: School Society (Guidelines), Three of Me, Living the Dream, Continuing the Dream, and Life Goes On
Scripture submitted Hunger Pains from The Autumn Tower
That 1 Guy submitted Warfather from Clockwork and Between Blood and Shadows
JJ Malcolm submitted Knightmare from From Nobody to Knightmare
7-4 submitted Ivan from A Broken Peace
Dark Lightning submitted Dark Lightning from Making the Best of It, Moving with the Wind, Continuing the Dream, Life Goes On, The Trotting Dead, Three of Me: School Society (Guidelines), and different sides of the same coin
Blaze Spectrum submitted Joey Subtle from Blazing Muzzles
Io submitted Aoi from The Blue Stranger, The Red Curtain
Blue Breeze submitted Blue Breeze from Continuing the Dream and Life Goes On
Fordregha submitted Jack Khajiit from Through Feline Eyes
Quick Fix submitted Quick Fix from Agents of Discord
Scarlet Key submitted Scarlet Lightning from Scarlet Lightning: Rainbows, Butterflies and Lightning Storms
Barrel-of-fun submitted Ace from Wild Card
totallynotabrony submitted Plymouth Valiant from A Dream and all other stories from the Dreams Series
Ice submitted Ice from Continuing the Dream, Life Goes On, and Three of Me
HoovesLikeJagger submitted Big Lugnut from Robotic Stallion Big Lugnut
RLYoshi submitted Arrell from To Err is Equine
epicdonus1123 submitted Bronze from Bronze, Thunder, and Rain and Snicker
Guardian submitted Jason Parker from The Conversion Bureau: Jaguars
The Psychopath submitted Abstract the Dark from Abstract the dark's revenge
ThePopeMobile100 submitted Sigma from My Little Hitcolt
BronyDJ submitted Shadow Blitz from Three Best Friends & Their Journey in Equestria!
Kapuchu submitted Winterjet, an OC not from a story
Tamara Bloodhoof submitted Ritz Korimere from Griffin the Griffin and Dancing Flames, Cooling Ember
The Fiery Joker submitted Brand Fire from Recasted

That's the list of fighters, authors, and origin stories. Thirty-two fighters, all raring to go!

Here's the matchups bracket to dictate who'll be fighting who!

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The tournament won't commence quite yet, though; we still have the antagonist free-for-all to get through, as well as one more planned battle afterwards. After this, though, the tournament will begin as soon as possible!

Assistant judges, prepare to soon receive messages and get ready to read, make decisions, and possibly decide who wins and who dies. As for everyone else, get ready for a series of battles that will determine which of these thirty-two original is the strongest.

He's Yah-Shee and I'm Arrell!

And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Battle 11: Antagonist Free-For-All

When jerks and bullies don't cut it, sometimes the show has to resort to good ol' fashioned villains with plans of world domination!

Nightmare Moon, Discord, and Queen Chrysalis. Each have their own powers and weaknesses, but out of the three of them, only one can be the strongest.

He's Yah-Shee and I'm Arrell!

And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Nightmare Moon

Species: Alicorn
True Identity: Princess Luna
Special Talent: Raising/lowering the moon
Occupation: Raising/lowering the moon (though more raising than lowering...)
Can turn into smoke
Capable of defeating Princess Celestia

Nightmare Moon was the first villain to appear on the show, but the fandom still remembers her. Once the ruler of the night, Princess Luna, she was corrupted by jealousy and became the evil alicorn that we know.

Green with envy? More like black with envy!

Nightmare Moon's powers are vast. She has any and all powers that Luna has, including come-to-life spells and the Royal Canterlot Voice.

She also has her own powers! Nightmare Moon can turn into smoke and fly away, unable to be caught but still able to interact with the environment. This extends to even allowing her to collapse cliffs just by flying into the cracks! And to top it all off, judging by one Steven Magnet, the smoke is still capable of slicing objects clean off!

However, smoke isn't all that Nightmare Moon can turn into. She can also transform into thorns, ponies, and likely a variety of other things, but each one carries with it an obvious dark blue and black colouring, making this ability less practical for disguises.

Smoke aside, Nightmare Moon can also cast illusions and create fog, which can help throw off her enemies. She can also summon lightning and shatter solid stone just by stomping the ground near it! And just to add to it all, she managed to defeat Princess Celestia without any help!

There's more to that story than is let on, in fact. Nightmare Moon somehow managed to get rid of Celestia within thirteen seconds of escaping the moon, as that's how long it took after her escape for it to be revealed that Celestia was missing. While some may argue that she must have taken Celestia off guard, the point still stands, as she was able to take her off guard.

As for Nightmare Moon's personality...well, she's loud, evil, hammy, overconfident, and speaks in that 'you mere mortals' way. So...pretty much just like every stereotypical villain ever.

Overconfidence aside, however, Nightmare Moon has surprisingly few flaws. She was only defeated because, despite believing she had destroyed the Elements of Harmony, she didn't expect friendship to triumph and recreate them.

Like it always does.

She has trouble planning ahead, and her idea of obstacles for the mane six seem to have been almost designed exactly for them, which ended up leading to her defeat. She also doesn't seem too unwilling to let her foes take several minutes to talk or prepare to beat her, instead of just casting some spell on them while they're distracted or something.

But I guess when you're a night-controlling alicorn, you don't feel at too much of a disadvantage against six mares talking about friendship. I sure wouldn't.

"Remember this day, little ponies, for it was your last! From this moment forth, the night...will last...forever!"

Discord

Species: Draconequus
Former Occupation: King of Chaos
Current Occupation: Lawn ornament
Can warp reality at will
Floats, teleports, and transforms
Overly playful

Discord is widely considered by the fandom to be the greatest of the villains, wielding the powers of warping reality to cause unlimited chaos.

He can do literally anything by snapping his talons! Want roads to be made of soap? Easy! Bunnies with ten-foot-long legs? No problem! Chocolate rain coming down from clouds made of cotton candy? Child's play!

Discord's powers are almost impossible to go into detail about, as they are quite simply...anything. He can create, manipulate, and destroy things at will, usually doing so to amuse himself and cause chaos. He can transform himself or other things, corrupt ponies to act the opposite of how they normally would, teleport and float around...the list is endless.

This is probably gonna be a short analysis.

It doesn't stop at powers, though.

...maybe not that short.

While Discord has the power to easily do whatever he wants, his personality keeps him from doing so. He is extremely playful and only does what he does for entertainment, as opposed to actually wanting to conquer or destroy the world. Due to this, he tends to give his opponents too many fair chances and remains oblivious when they gain the upper hand, which was what led to his defeat shortly after escaping stone.

Overconfidence...every villain has it, and every villain suffers because of it. But overconfidence isn't all he has; Discord also likes to be cryptic and manipulative, fooling ponies into doing things so he himself can have an advantage! Rhyming riddles are a specialty of his, but since this is a fight to the death and all, those probably won't be very helpful...or helpful at all.

Discord, while capable of doing literally anything, doesn't appear to have complete control over his powers.

Wait, what?!

Example A: chocolate milk of glass. After drinking the glass, Discord appeared to be genuinely confused that he drank the glass instead of the milk, and just shrugged it off. While this doesn't appear to happen too much or too majorly, it could still pose a problem, as his spells and curses may backfire on him.

Plus, his corrupting curse can be broken by just a memory spell, and seems to require actually having the chance to really get into the minds of his opponents. And in the Equestrian Death Battle arena, chances to pull off stuff like that are virtually impossible to come by, so I don't think corrupting his opponents is gonna cut it this time around.

"Looks like we might be due for a big old storm of chaos!"

Queen Chrysalis

Species: Changeling
Occupation: Queen of the Changelings
Can transform into anypony
Feeds on love
Can fly
Only main villain to not defeat Celestia without help

The last of these three villains is Queen Chrysalis the Changeling, the love-feeding pony-like creature.

Like a hybrid between a pegasus, a unicorn, and really old swiss cheese!

...sure, we'll go with that. Changelings possess the ability to transform into anypony they wish, absolutely flawlessly. The only thing that stands out is their magic colour, which does not change if they turn into a unicorn or alicorn, and instead remains green.

Though being honest, the ability to change shape isn't particularly useful in this kind of situation.

Another attribute of the Changelings is their ability to feed on love and use it to power themselves up. Chrysalis managed to feed on enough love from Shining Armour to successfully overpower Princess Celestia, but this brings up an interesting point that shall be gotten into shortly.

Love-feeding isn't useful either in Equestrian Death Battles. Something tells me that Chryssie's screwed.

With the exception of those two attributes, Chrysalis and all other Changelings can also fly and use magic, similar to alicorns. Aside from that, however, they don't have very many special powers. Chrysalis herself commands all of the Changelings, being their queen, so for this battle we shall be allowing her to use a limited amount of her subjects.

Just to even the score a bit. Changelings have shown to be more deadly in groups, as they can outnumber and confuse their opponents more easily. However, they're also exceptionally weak, to the point where just tripping over a pony defeats them.

Now, onto Chrysalis herself. Being the queen, she tends to be rather overconfident, as all villains are. However, this also leads to her being outright oblivious to when she's about to fail. Not only does she doubt the power of love and friendship in the middle of Equestria, but unlike Discord, doesn't even try to stop it.

Yep, she's a moron.

However, one thing Chrysalis has shown that Nightmare Moon and Discord have not is the lengths she'd go to in order to succeed. While everything Nightmare Moon and Discord did was meant to just incapacitate their opponents, Chrysalis goes to the extent of trapping Princess Cadence and Twilight Sparkle in a cave under Canterlot, hoping to let them just starve to death over time. She shows a degree of viciousness that other villains have yet to.

If only she had the skill to back it up, though. So far, she's the only "big villain" who couldn't take down Princess Celestia without help - specifically, she had to feed off love from Shining Armour for who knows how long, and even then it was hard!

Yeah, I think it's safe to say she doesn't have much of a chance...but, well, gotta throw her in anyway.

"This day is going to be perfect..."

Alright, the combatants are set! ...except for Discord, who's turning everything into cotton candy again.

Uh...he'll focus once the fight starts, I think.

Hope so...anyway!

Right! *ahem* IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

A flash of lightning struck the empty, moonlit field that had been marked as that day's fighting arena. When the lightning cleared, a dark alicorn wearing ancient-looking armour stood where it had struck, looking around for her opponents.

Seconds later, in a small twinkle, a mix-and-match-looking creature blinked into existence on the battlefield. He paid no attention to the pony already there, instead choosing to toy around with a rose he plucked from the ground, turning it into a variety of things. He soon got bored, turned it into a blue striped rocket ship, and sent it flying off into the sky.

Lastly, in a surge of green fire, a large royal Changeling entered the fray, flanked by exactly ten of her ordinary Changeling subjects. All of them stood around her protectively, willing to do whatever was needed to help their queen win the battle.

FIGHT!

The battle began with a burst of lightning, summoned by Nightmare Moon in an attempt to strike Chrysalis where she stood and take her out fast. However, the queen and most of her subjects managed to dodge, leaving only two of them to get incinerated in the strike. Taking the challenge, Chrysalis and her remaining eight subjects charged at Nightmare Moon first, hoping to overpower her with numbers.

Not wasting time, Nightmare Moon simply turned to smoke and flew off, with a few of the Changelings trying and failing to catch her. With one of her foes currently on the defensive, Chrysalis decided to go after her other opponent: Discord. Turning towards him, she saw him casually lounging in a hammock, not even paying attention. Grinning, she gestured with one of her front hooves, sending three Changelings after the lazy draconequus.

Without even looking up, Discord snapped his talons, calling up a storm of chocolate rain to hold back the Changelings. Naturally, this did nothing but slightly impair their vision, and they soon reached him and tackled him to the ground. Together they tried to hold him down, but with a yawn, the draconequus just teleported away.

Growling, Chrysalis looked around for either of her foes. Seeing a cloud of smoke sneaking up behind her, she turned and fired off a beam of magic, missing but getting the message across to Nightmare Moon for her to stop hiding and start fighting. Taking her true form again, Nightmare Moon charged at the Changeling queen and her subjects, horn beginning to glow. Two of the Changelings darted forward to intercept her, but were trampled to death within seconds.

Nightmare Moon and Chrysalis locked horns, pushing against each other and waiting for one of them to give in. This continued for several seconds that felt like hours, Chrysalis ordering her subjects to keep out of this one-on-one. They did as told, using the time to look around for Discord.

He came back around that time, idly watching the showdown between the two royal villains. Smirking, he summoned a trail of soap beneath them both, causing them to slip up and fall over. He laughed jovially at the display before taking to floating in the air again, staring down at the two of them and waiting for them to continue.

Rather than continuing to fight each other, Nightmare Moon and Chrysalis silently nodded at each other, reaching an unspoken agreement to take down Discord before continuing with each other. The dark side of Luna flew right up after the draconequus, while Chrysalis called over her remaining six Changelings to formulate a plan.

Discord, seeing Nightmare Moon coming at him, decided to get serious and summoned two manticores...dyed pink and purple. Regardless of the colour choice, they seemed just as vicious as the real deal, and flew straight at Nightmare Moon. The alicorn found herself forced to stop and deal with these two Everfree Forest creatures before taking down the real threat.

Something caught Discord's attention out of the corner of his eye, and he turned to see what appeared to be another him, except wearing a gray wig. The poorly disguised clone waved him down with a stern look. Deciding to play along and act as though this thing was his mother, Discord floated down and began bickering with her.

Meanwhile, Chrysalis saw her opportunity to take both of her foes down in one fell swoop. They were both distracted, and she still had five Changelings at the ready. She made some gestures, sending three of her subjects after Nightmare Moon and the other two after Discord, whom she also went for. The draconequus, tired of the game, snapped his fingers and summoned a large rock to crush his fake mother. He turned around just in time to see a black hoof spotted with holes collide with his face.

Up in the sky, Nightmare Moon had taken care of one manticore with the help of some lightning, and was starting on the second when she was struck by three Changelings. Hissing, she turned around, and the pony-like creatures instantly knew they were dead. Three bucks later, they were nothing but bits and pieces on the ground. After sending the second manticore away, the ruler of the night flew down to the ground to join in the scuffle she could see.

Discord tried to fight back against Chrysalis's onslaught, but she and her two Changelings were doing a good job of keeping him occupied, unable to do much. Even he wouldn't last the assault for much longer. Thankfully for him, Nightmare Moon intervened at that moment, crashing into the ground and crushing the last two ordinary Changelings. Rearing back and stabbing her horn forward, she impaled Chrysalis, pulling her horn out after just a second to let the dead queen fall to the ground.

Now left with only one opponent, Nightmare Moon found it easier to focus. Discord constantly tried teleporting away, but in her smoke form, it wasn't difficult for the queen of the night to catch up. Growling, Discord decided to resort to his greatest trick: corruption.

Stopping his teleportation and feigning weariness, he waited for Nightmare Moon to reappear. She soon did, horn glowing and about to work - when he put his paw to her forehead, grinning maniacally as he started planting thoughts in her brain.

This proved to be useless, as Nightmare Moon just started her horn again and summoned a bolt of lightning right next to Discord, startling him enough to remove his paw. Turning back to the alicorn with a scowl, he found that she was no longer there. Looking around, he couldn't see her nor her smokey trail.

Shrugging, he laid upside-down and began sipping from a coffee cup that was on fire, waiting for his opponent to return. He grew bored quickly and slipped on a pair of sunglasses, beginning to fall asleep. A sudden light from behind him that even got through his shades made him look up...directly at Nightmare Moon, casting a spell.

The last thing Discord saw before being banished to the sun was the smug grin of his opponent, who regally trotted away from the battlefield after finishing.

K.O.

Aw..."to the sun" doesn't sound as good as "to the moon"!

Despite his ability to do...well, anything, Discord's downfall was his playful attitude. From the very beginning he could have summoned anything, from pits of fire to explosive chocolate milk, to take care of his foes in just a matter of seconds. However, his craving for amusement and lack of foresight prevented him from taking such an easy route.

It was obvious from the start that Chrysalis was out, but Nightmare Moon winning was probably a twist next to nopony saw coming!

Comparing the cons of the three villains, the only one Nightmare Moon showed any evidence of was overconfidence and a lack of planning ahead. Since each villain shared this trait, it essentially nullified all of her weaknesses - Elements of Harmony notwithstanding. Her ability to turn into smoke and temporarily flee also helped, while Discord and Chrysalis always stayed in or near the battle scene.

And in the end, I gotta say...Discord, sun, I am disappoint!

The winner is Nightmare Moon.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria!

The Equestrian Death Battle Tournament finally begins with a bang! Who will win? Who will die? Tune in for the first fight of the tournament!

Got a suggestion for a Death Battle? Post a comment below suggesting matchups, or send me a PM with suggestions in it!

You may suggest OC characters, provided they are from a story on this site that is at least somewhat well-known. You may also suggest characters from other universes (i.e. anything non-pony related), as long as their opponent is from MLP:FiM, either the show or a known fic.

Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

Tournament Battle 1: Tundra Stanza VS Knightmare Demonbane

It was the day.

Today was the day the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament began. The DBE stadium was slowly filling up as ponies from all over came to watch. The stands began to fill, as the minutes before the first battle decreased.

Yah-Shee, a light blue unicorn with a green mane and tail, watched this happen with a small smile. He and Arrell had started these battles as what was essentially a science project; Arrell came up with the idea to pit ponies and other creatures together in battles, and Yah-Shee had access to the technology to pull it off. Using advanced virtual reality mechanics, the two of them could create battles with anypony they wished, so long as they entered the correct information.

After just a couple of battles that they showed to some friends, the idea took off; now, the Equestrian Death Battles had become more of a sport that ponies could watch and enjoy all over. The tournament had been Arrell's idea, and it worked; ponies, humans, and all sorts of other creatures entered, and now the first battle would begin.

Arrell, a dark red pegasus with a brown mane and tail, sat nearby, ready to get the show on the road. Double-checking to make sure everything was in place, Yah-Shee put on his headset and moved up to his microphone. Arrell did the same.

Welcome, fillies and gentlecolts - and everyone else - to the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament! A chorus of cheering erupted as Arrell spoke. Our judges have been working nonstop on research, and we've been coding our machines for weeks, so we're ready to roll!

Yah-Shee took over. Our first match is between Tundra Stanza, the alicorn joined by the spirit of Shirayuki...

...and Knightmare Demonbane, the Breeder Changeling of the Chessverse!

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Tundra Stanza

Species: Alicorn (formerly human)
Not very skilled with magic or flying
Possessed by the spirit Shirayuki
Not very durable
Can summon a katana at any time
Mostly ice-based magic

Tundra Stanza, once a twenty-one-year-old male human, woke up the day after his birthday in Equestria, now an alicorn mare.

Hah! Gender swapped!

However, it wasn't ordinary Equestria that Tundra ended up in; rather, she found herself in the Equestria seen in the popular story "Through the Eyes of Another Pony".

So...basically, it's a fanfic of a fanfic...yo dawg, I heard you like-

*SMACK*

Moving on! While she was a blank flank when she arrived, an impromptu karaoke performance earned Tundra her cutie mark for singing. That night, when the Nightmare possessed Twilight Sparkle, she defeated it, only for it to turn and possess her instead.

After a few trials, Tundra met Shirayuki, who's basically the Nightmare turned good. Shirayuki has basically possessed Tundra, so now they can switch between each other on command! All Tundra has to do is say "Dance, some now..." Wait, that isn't it. Uh...

"Dance, Sode no Shirayuki".

Yeah, that!

Tundra herself is not a very good fighter. She has ice magic and can essentially turn anything she wants into ice, but due to not being very experienced with magic, she tends to use this accidentally more often than deliberately. However, Shirayuki is much better.

Shirayuki wields a katana named Ruri'iro Kujaku and wears plated green armor. She's an expert in swordsmanship, has enhanced speed, high spiritual power, and has a lot of magic abilities! For example, she can turn herself into ice and reform herself, make a circle of light that freezes and shatters anything within it, and basically just create ice and cold by waving her hand! ...am I the only one seeing a pattern here?

Her abilities tend to revolve around ice manipulation, which can prove to be a disadvantage as ice is, honestly, not that good in combat. It can't be used for fighting aside from being a blunt object to hit others with and is extremely fragile, making it a bad choice for both offense and defense.

Shirayuki does have some energy-based abilities, but they aren't very reliable and are better against large groups rather than single enemies.

In addition, all of these abilities require intense concentration and focus, which there tends to not be time for in the Equestrian Death Battle arena.

Getting back to Tundra herself, she can summon the same katana as Shirayuki, which either of them can also call to them magically if it gets separated from them. However, Tundra's fighting skills are less than average, and she can't take a lot of physical abuse before she crumbles.

She is also clumsy, and while one major flaw is that she doesn't like having to kill, a similarly major rule of an Equestrian Death Battle is that any reluctance to murder is removed for fairness' sake.

Meanwhile, Shirayuki has her own downsides: she has no real tactics and just relies on her various abilities, she's used to fighting enemies with similar fighting styles, and when she turns back into Tundra, none of her injuries get healed.

Tundra and Shirayuki are usually aided by others to fight, and have trouble with one-on-one combat. The battles moves too swiftly for them to keep up with, and it becomes easy to overwhelm them. Even as Shirayuki, a good couple of critical blows can take her down once she gets tired out.

That armor only covers so much.

While Shirayuki often acts as a voice of reason, Tundra is rather easy to anger, causing her to just lash out without a plan. She prefers to make things up on the spot, but considering how it takes time for her to focus her abilities, this may not be a good thing.

This really boils down to the question, "are two heads better than one?" Well, today we're going to find out!

"Dance, Sode no Shirayuki!"

Knightmare

Full Name: Sir Knightmare Demonbane
Species: Breeder Changeling (formerly human)
Occupation: Celestia's chess piece for the Chess Game of the Gods
Can transform into various forms
Wields a seven-string guitar shaped like a battleaxe
Worked at the SCP Foundation as a human

Sir Knightmare Demonbane, better known as simply Knightmare, is one of many participants in the famous Chess Game of the Gods. Formerly a human named Theodore Wilkins, he was chosen by Princess Celestia to come to Equestria.

But before he got there, Celestia decided to train him for a year. So she put him in a magical stasis, turned him into the Changeling he is today, and sent him to a world that was basically empty space littered with a bunch of floating islands.

Specifically, his Dream Zone. An extension of his mind that's a part of Tel’aran’rhiod.

...what?

...empty space littered with a bunch of floating islands.

Okay!

There, he was trained by The Doctor, Firefly, and Starswirl the Bearded for a year. Whether or not it truly improved his skills is up for debate, but nevertheless, he survived.

This is where the canon starts to get a bit confusing, but piecing it together the best we could, we determined that this was about where Knightmare was dropped into Equestria. And when I say dropped in, I literally mean dropped in.

After a misunderstanding with Rainbow Dash and a few other events, Knightmare was taken to Canterlot, where he was filled in on his role as a chess piece.

He also fought Queen Chrysalis. And won. Considering he's a Breeder Changeling, that's pretty impressive.

Breeder Changelings, like Knightmare, are supposed to only be used as...well, basically, Queen Chrysalis's personal sex toys. They're not built to fight, but thanks to Knightmare's abilities and training, he's much better at it than expected.

One of his abilities is extra maneuverability due to having four wings instead of two, which he can create music with! Doing this in the air just makes it really hard for him to fly, but on the ground, it makes him a lot more agile! And, of course, being a Changeling allows him to transform. His usual form seems to be a bipedal, human-like Changeling with fingers. Or claws.

However, Knightmare is not particularly strong, and due to his body being just an exoskeleton, he can be very vulnerable to attacks. Fortunately, he is usually very lucky, and death seems to almost deliberately avoid him; all attempts to kill him as a human failed, either through sheer coincidence or dumb luck. As a Changeling, this luck seems to continue following him, though it doesn't keep him from getting hurt.

His one weapon is a guitar-axe-thing called Nyx! He can play music with it, but he can also use it like a battleaxe to chop at his foes! His music can help pump up others for battle, but if he loses Nyx, he's got pretty much nothing to fight with!

Knightmare is often humorous and wisecracking, though also rather cynical. He also has a tendency to be rather vulgar and perverted, a trait that is only increased by his status as a Breeder Changeling, and tends to flirt with just about any female he meets that he finds attractive. He also never even tries to conceal his emotions and feelings, and is rather easy to anger.

Main problem with Knightmare, though: he seems strongest in teams, and he's going solo for this battle! Can he manage on his own, or will he be the first one eliminated from the tournament?

Let's find out!

"Stand back, gang. I'm about to do something STUPID!"

Alright, the combatants are set! Let's end this debate once and for all and finally get this tournament started!

IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

Two figures approached each other on the battlefield, eager to prove themselves in this tournament of might. One of them, a strange changeling that walked as if it were a bipedal creature, wore a cocky smile on his face, while the other, a mysterious alicorn, simply watched her opponent carefully.

“So, Tundra Stanza, huh?” the changeling asked. Eyeing her appealing figure, he added, “I don’t know, you look too hot to be called a tundra.” Running his hands over his head as if he had hair, he said to her, “I’m Knightmare...but I think I might be your best dream ins-”

Tundra interrupted him before he could go on, saying, “You do realize I used to be a man?”

“Oh re-he-heallly~?"

FIGHT!

Before Knightmare could even recover, Tundra focused her power into her horn, intending to end this battle before it could even begin. With a wordless cry, she summoned a small ring of icicles around Knightmare, trapping him within an icy jail. Confidently, Tundra charged forward, summoning her sword to her as she ran.

As she reached up to impale him, the changeling quickly pulled out his ax, and shattered the ice with a high-pitched powerchord. Forced to abandon her charge, Tundra brought her sword up to keep the shards from tearing into her eyes, barely able to deflect the worst of it. Knightmare, seeing his opponent preoccupied, took the opportunity to dash forward, and slam the flat of his weapon into her face.

“I can’t believe I just hit on a drag queen!” he moaned to himself, watching the alicorn get tossed by the weight of the ax.

Tundra shook her head, trying to clear her head from the impact. Sensing that Knightmare was slightly distracted, she attempted to charge him once more. Her sword thrust towards his neck, almost surely a killing blo-

“Whoa!” she cried, slipping on one of the shards of ice from earlier, completely missing her target. She crashed into the ground, and recovered almost instantly, only somewhat disoriented.

Finally getting over his near-brush with homosexual tendencies, Knightmare realized that he had escaped death by mere inches, and didn’t want to repeat the process. Playing an invigorating chord on his ax, he rushed to the alicorn, and once more slammed his ax into her. It was only the strength of her plate armor, and the weaker body behind the attack, that saved her life right then. She swung her sword at Knightmare, forcing him back, and realized she would have to get serious if she wanted to survive this.

Playtime was over.

“Dance, Sode no Shirayuki!” she shouted.

Newfound power surged into her body, as Shirayuki, the being within Tundra’s body, took over. Surprised, Knightmare could barely lift his ax up to block the first onslaught, unprepared for this sudden change in tactics. Desperately, he flared his insectoid wings out, and jumped away from her, trying to put some distance between them. With another charge, the alicorn rushed forward, rapidly slashing at her opponent.

Even with his wings giving him that extra speed, Knightmare found himself hard pressed to dodge the attacks. He had to duck, dive, lunge, and weave between every single blow, forced to focus only on his movements. Every time he thought he had an opportunity to attack, he was quickly deflected by another swing of her sword. Shirayuki, for her part, quickly started feeling more and more frustrated with each dodged blow.

"Oh, c'mon now! You make a lovely mare, Miss Stanza!" Knightmare shouted, looking directly at Tundra, but certainly not at her eyes. "But, ya see, it'd make things easier for us both if you did not have a sword...y'know what I mean?"

Utterly confused, angered, and otherwise infuriated, Shirayuki faltered in her attack, allowing Knightmare to flare out his wings once more, and buzz away with them. As he did, he stopped to pull at his cheeks, and stick out his tongue at her, laughing at the enraged expression on her face.

Finally, the alicorn started to charge her magic once more, freezing the ground right beneath Knightmare. The changeling, however, hovered lightly over the ice, his wings beating furiously as they tried to prevent him from losing control.

“What? Do you think I need to chill out?” he called over to her, smacking his behind a couple of times, egging her on. He then yelped, however, when a stray snowball hit him right on said behind, sending a shock of cold through his system.

As he frantically brushed the snow off of himself, Shirayuki focused her magic once more, calling upon every single ounce of power she had left. Pure, raw, power coursed throughout her entire body, as she brought everything into an enormous beam of cold energy. The beam freezed everything near it as it shot forward, bearing down upon its target. Knightmare watched as it came closer, and closer to him...

And then he buzzed to the side, as the beam missed him completely and froze half of the arena walls on contact. “Girl, I just gotta say,” he whistled. “You’re as cold as ice.”

Exhausted, the alicorn collapsed to the ground, struggling to even gather any amount of her magic now. She was completely drained of energy, but she still stubbornly attempted to try for one last attack.

Knightmare, seeing this, reached for his ax, and played yet another high pitched chord. Her focus shattered, Shirayuki staggered, completely dazed. Just as she shook herself back into order, she was met with the sight of the changeling’s axe hurtling towards her exposed neck.

With all of his strength behind the blow, Knightmare Demonbane completely decapitated his opponent. As her head rolled onto the ground, he placed his foot on her corpse, and played a quick riff on his guitar in victory.

K.O!

YEAH! That's the way to start a tournament!

While Knightmare had a slight disadvantage due to wielding such a cumbersome weapon, his evasiveness kept Tundra from landing a proper hit on him, even after letting Shirayuki take over. Tundra's lack of real training, combined with Knightmare's good luck, was also a rather large contributing factor.

Not to mention Tundra's not very good with one-on-one fights, especially against speedy opponents!

Indeed, Arrell. Plus, Tundra has no real fighting style, and just rushes in trying to kill her opponents quickly, while Knightmare's personality makes him unpredictable. Once he distracted Shirayuki from her attempted onslaught, it was all downhill for her.

This was definitely a cool way to start the tourney!

The winner is Knightmare.

Next time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:

Brand Fire VS Plymouth Valiant!

Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!

Author's Note

GAH! Sorry this took so long to do! The rest of the battles won't take nearly as long, and hopefully won't take long at all. This tournament won't take "several months" like some people have asked, but it won't exactly be over by next week either. But don't worry; the battles will keep coming, and they'll come quicker than this one!

Thanks to Nathan Traveler for writing the battle, and to all assistant judges for helping with the research and decisions!

Tournament Battle 2: Brand Fire VS Plymouth Valiant

As the illusions throughout the arena dissipate and the hosts prepare the next battle, a certain Changeling has begun making his way through the crowd to a familiar mare. As happy as he was that he won the previous battle - well, the illusion won, but still - he still felt he needed to say a few things.

Knightmare walks over to the dark-furred alicorn mare. "...Hey," he says, attempting to get her attention. "Do you mind if I take a seat, Miss Stanza?"

"I don't mind at all," Tundra replies with a small smile.

Knightmare takes a seat. "...So...Uh...yeah. s-sorry..." He's blushing like mad.

Tundra raises a hoof in a sort of manner that means 'stop'.

"There's nothing to be sorry for. You fought me. You beat me. That's how a tournament battle is supposed to go."

"Yhuh...I wasn't...actually talking about that...." Knightmare sighs. "I think they got some faulty infomation because there's no way I'd be that insulting to...anyone unless they'd done something to make me really angry.... I just...yeah. Sorry..." He breathes deeply and sighs, holding out his hand, "So...uh...friends?"

"Sure," Tundra nods as she reaches out her hoof to accept.

"Besides, they weren't exactly spot on with my information either. I mean, Ruri'iro Kujaku? That's Apple Bloom's sword." She chuckles at the thought.

"Definitely different universes, the Apple Bloom I know has a razor whip." Knightmare chuckles and shakes her hoof. "Well, maybe we can meet again after the tournament is over? I'd love to do a duet on the stage."

"Yeah," Tundra agrees, "I'd like that."

"Then it's a deal! Drop by New Canterlot sometime and we'll make some beautiful music together! ....and no, that wasn't an innuendo."

"I... didn't say it was," she blinks in confusion. That didn't sound remotely suggestive, she thought.

"...everyone likes to think I'm a shameless pervert. I, personally, don't like it when everyone I meet assumes that, since it's not true...and I swear I'm going to strangle Griffin for telling Arrell that...." He sighs and decided to just keep his mouth shut before he makes a bigger fool of himself.

An awkward silence passes with Tundra having no idea how to reply. Fortunately, Shirayuki decides to take dominance at that point.

"If everyone else chooses to make assumptions before they've properly met you, then that's their problem. I can tell that you're better than that."

Knightmare turns to face them, tears forming in his eyes and an honest smile on his face. "...Thank you." He breathes deeply and rests his head in his hands.

"Did you double-check this time?" Yah-Shee asked, sighing as he did so.

"Yes, I double-checked! Just because we got a couple bits of faulty information last battle doesn't mean you gotta nag me every five seconds!" Arrell groaned, leaning back in his chair. "Wasn't even my fault, for Celestia's sake!"

The more collected of the duo just rested his head on his hoof for a second. "Fine. Let's get the next battle started."

"Gladly!"

The two hosts turned on their microphones, ready to continue. One battle down, and a ton to go - hope you don't have other plans today, folks, because we'll be here a while! Arrell announced happily.

For our next matchup, we have Brand Fire, the musical Element of Generosity...

...and Plymouth Valiant, the near-psychopathic mechanic!

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Brand Fire

Species: Unicorn pony
Special talent: Music and sound (Gee, where have I seen that before?)
Element of Generosity
Uses surroundings to his advantage
Royal Guard training

Brand Fire, known to some as Firebrand, is a unicorn pony who replaces Rarity as the Element of Generosity in the Recasted world. Being large and stocky, as well as having eight years of Royal Guard training, his physical strength is greatly superior to that of a regular unicorn.

And just like pretty much every OC we've seen so far, he's a musician! I'm starting to get tired of this.

Firebrand is easily irritated by those he finds to be foolish or idiotic, leading to him lashing out. However, he never loses his cool entirely and manages to maintain control. He is controlling and stuck-up, much like the real Element of Generosity...

Cutting you off before you go into another rant. One of Firebrand's biggest advantages is his resourcefulness, gained thanks to his Royal Guard training! He knows how to use the surroundings to his advantage in a battle and can analyze situations, though this caters less to giving him advantages and more to just removing his disadvantages. He also has weapon training with both a sword and a spear, but for some reason, he doesn't carry either of them into battle!

Fortunately for Firebrand, his raw physical strength more than makes up for his lack of a weapon of choice. He has exceptionally high endurance and running speed, even able to keep up with a flying pegasus while on foot.

...wouldn't it be "on hoof"?

Dammit Arrell, we are not getting into that again!

Okay, okay...

Despite being a unicorn, Firebrand has shown little magical skill outside of basic levitation. One particular spell he does have, however, allows him to increase the volume of his voice loud enough to shake the ground, but without doing any specified damage to buildings and structures. This means he can amplify his voice to be at least as strong as approximately 3.8 kilotons of TNT.

Wait, what? You just pulled that out of your ass!

On the Richter magnitude scale, the strongest possible earthquake that can be felt but deal no to slight damage to buildings is a 5.0 to a 5.9, or a "moderate" earthquake. A 5.0 is equal to approximately 480 metric tons of TNT, or 0.48 kilotons, while the more averaged-out 5.6 is equal to 3.8 kilotons. A 5.6 is also equal to 16 terajoules of energy, which is about 25% as powerful as the Little Boy atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima in 1945.

So...in other words, Firebrand's voice is a quarter as strong as an atomic bomb?

Put simply, yes.

Damn. Suck on that one, Dovahkiin!

Firebrand's use of the environment and physical strength easily balance out his lack of true magical abilities, though he still has a few other odd quirks. For example, he hates water, isn't good against fast opponents, and prefers to run on sand than any other type of ground.

...why?

I dunno. That's just what the judges told me.

"You made three very fatal mistakes. Your first mistake: challenging a pony who's been trained as a Royal Guard. Second mistake: challenging a pony whose talent is sound. Third mistake...letting me know exactly where you are."

Plymouth Valiant

Species: Earth pony (formerly human)
Special talent: Mechanical work
Capable of advanced engineering
Builds robots and weapons
Introduced alcohol, guns, and robots to Equestria
Almost freakishly calm and collected

Plymouth Valiant was a human from Earth, but after what he simply describes as "a drunk night", he ended up in Equestria.

Man, I wish that happened when I get drunk!

Arrell, we're in Equestria already.

Oh yeah...

Valiant, despite having no real special abilities, is incredibly intelligent and handy with mechanical work. He has created various weapons and robots since arriving in Equestria, becoming easily recognized as both a talented inventor and a mad genius.

He also brought alcohol to Equestria, and thank all that is holy for that!

Much of Valiant's skill comes from his vast arsenal, but for the sake of fairness, we naturally can't give him any giant robots...no matter how much Arrell begs.

But at least he still gets some form of weaponry! He'll be taking in his .50 caliber Desert Eagle handgun, which he can somehow use with hooves! That should be enough to win right there!

Actually Arrell, that particular gun isn't as overpowered as some may think. It's normally used for medium or big game hunting, and is needlessly powerful for tactical or defensive use. It tends to be better suited against large mammals, and the heavy recoil from firing – as well as the excessive flash – makes it somewhat cumbersome to use. Plus, as we've seen, Valiant doesn't have extremely fast reflexes or much training with firearms, and therefore it takes time for him to actually line up for a proper shot.

But hey! A gun is still a gun, and if he gets one well-aimed hit, he's a winner! Plus, since the gun has seven rounds, he's got seven chances to score that hit!

The Desert Eagle isn't Valiant's only weapon. He frequently carries a switchblade in his mouth for surprise attacks, spitting it out to use when his foe least expects it.

Somehow, he can still talk with it in his mouth, and he doesn't accidentally set it off with his tongue and stab himself in the cheek! That's one magic mouth!

...ignoring that. Valiant tends to stay stoic and calm, no matter the situation, and when danger presents itself he either dives in to fight or leaves quickly. However, he doesn't have much to him in terms of combat ability; without his weapons, there's next to nothing he can do. In addition, he's not much of a strategist; he may often leave out important details that lead to serious consequences.

Assuming he'd fight anyway, that is! Valiant doesn't try to fight or kill until provoked, and since that technically doesn't count as not wanting to kill at all, we're not taking that trait out.

When battling, Valiant stays focused and is not easily distracted; however, he'll rarely treat his opponents as a threat, and will gladly begin talking to them even in the middle of trying to kill them. He enjoys mocking his opponent, racking them up to the point where they simply attack out of rage instead of reason.

Kinda like a typical villain...except he's not evil.

That last part is debatable.

"Death is called the great equalizer for a reason - the rules are the same for everyone."

Alright, the combatants are set! Let's end this debate once and for all!

IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

Forests typically represent a subtle serenity. This day however, it was the site of a clash of the chosen. The combatants entered a clearing from within the trees. One was a unicorn, armed only with his mind and natural abilities. The other was a simple earth pony, or perhaps from the Desert Eagle in his holster, not so simple.

The opponents watched each other as they waited for the signal, their silence finally broken by Brand. “Do you truly think you can beat a pony trained to be a Royal Guard?”

Valiant responded smoothly with a smirk, “If you are all it takes to get to be a Royal Guard, then it’s a wonder the Princesses survived even a day.”

FIGHT!

The unicorn immediately ran toward his opponent, hoping for a quick victory. Valiant, seeing the approaching danger, managed to whip out his pistol and level it to his opponent just before impact. Brand’s eyes widened as he threw himself out of the way. The firearm launched its payload where the unicorn had been, its recoil throwing off its shooter while the target escaped into the brush surrounding the clearing.

Brand crouched down behind a bush, shielding him from his enemy’s eyes as he rubs his ears from the loud retort of the weapon.

The armed earth pony searched around for his foe as he calls out mockingly, “Running already? But we’ve only just started!” He continued searching around the clearing, his eyes alert.

Brand stayed one step ahead; he moved silently just as he was taught. He remained low as he doubled back and closer to the searching pony. As Valiant kept his gun pointed at a bush while he moved it aside with a hoof, the unicorn rushed out of the undergrowth into a tackle that sent his opponent flying into one of the trees. The earth pony lay on the ground a moment as his opponent closes in. Valiant lightly coughed out a small amount of blood and, unbeknownst to Brand, his secret switchblade.

Just when Brand raised a hoof to finish him, Valiant quickly whipped the blade out and cut into the attacking pony’s other foreleg.

“Augh! What the-?” Brand shouted in surprise. The pain of the cut caused the unicorn to back off even as Valiant continued to swing his blade to keep his foe at bay. Soon, they were at a distance again, and the earth stallion retracted his blade and stored it back in his mouth as he recovered his breath both from the blow he suffered and those he tried to inflict. He drew his pistol again, causing Brand to go wide eyed and begin running back into the growth. Valiant growled as he tried to line up a shot, but the unicorn proved to be too fast as all three shots he fired failed to connect.

Brand called out to his enemy, “I wonder why you even bother carrying that boom stick of yours if you can’t manage to hit anything with it.”

Valiant simply smirked again as he replied, “All it takes is one.” He quickly fired another round into the bush where he saw Brand retreat. The shot missed, but was much closer than the unicorn was comfortable with. Daring not to move, Brand quickly looks around for something to use.

His eyes alighted at the sight of two things, one being a short heavy branch lying out of reach, and the other a vine within reach connected to a bush farther away. Brand reached out with a hoof and tugged repeatedly on the vine, causing its connected bush to rustle. The movement immediately caught Valiant’s attention causing him to fire a shot into the bush even as Brand used the cover of the sound and recoil of the gun to grab the branch with his magic.

The unicorn was contemplating his next move as Valiant uttered a short mocking laugh before speaking, his voice heavy in sarcasm, “Such honor you bring to those who trained you. Running, hiding, probably wetting yourself in fear! Truly the Guard is a force to be reckoned with! May those who stand against them be in awe as they simply cover their eyes with their hooves and wish it all away!”

A quiet growl came from Brand's throat as he muttered to himself, “I’ll make you wish something.” He took a deep breath as he summoned his magic. Using of one of the few spells he knew, Brand amplified his voice untold times over and blasted the ground beneath him. The pure intensity of his continuing attack caused the land itself to shake as though an earthquake was ravaging it. The sudden dancing of the land caused Valiant’s stoic disposition to crack as he struggled to keep his footing even. After a few moments of struggle, one large pulse of sound caused the land to jump and Valiant to land with all of his weight on the bad shoulder Brand had impacted on earlier.

With a hiss of pain, the earth pony’s knee buckled and he collapsed onto the ground. Brand, who had been watching from the sidelines, took the opportunity and dashed in with the large branch held in his magical grasp. Valiant managed to stand before the unicorn got to him, but as the earth pony attempted to spit out the knife in his cheek, Brand delivered a mighty sideswipe of the branch to Valiant’s head. The resulting whiplash caused the knife to fly out of Valiant’s mouth and his body to spin from the momentum. He came to rest on his back with Brand standing over him, branch ready.

Brand grinned down and chuckled at his opponent, “Any last wish?”

Valiant spit out a few teeth as he replied, “See ya.” A sudden *BANG* erupted from between the two stallions as Valiant unloaded his last bullet into Brand’s heart at point-blank range. The unicorn’s corpse stiffened before flopping onto the victor and was swept to the side. Valiant’s forelegs went limp as the adrenaline wore off and he chuckled to himself, “Woodn’t want to be ya.”

K.O.

He stole my pun! Dammit!

While he may not have any true special abilities, Valiant's weapons were more than enough to take down Firebrand. His Royal Guard training and use of the environment weren't enough to protect him from the foreign, human-made handgun that Valiant crafted.

He had a few tricks up his sleeve, but aside from high physical strength, he couldn't really turn a lot of his skills into forms of attack! The most he could do was distract Valiant and try to take him off guard, but Valiant's too genre savvy for that!

Genre what?

Read TV Tropes.

Valiant's personality also had a helping hand in his victory. Firebrand's short temper couldn't handle his foe's mocks and taunts, and pressured him to act quickly. His level head kept him from getting too angry and causing his death much earlier, but in the end, it didn't save him completely.

I guess Valiant branded his foe for life! ...as short a life as it was.

The winner is Valiant.

Next time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:

Arrell VS Dark Lightning!

Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!

Author's Note

I know Dark Lightning is from more stories than Continuing the Dream, but that's the thing - he's from SO MANY STORIES. I just picked CtD because it seems like a good one to use as his "default" story, if only because it was the first story I heard of that had him in it.

Thanks to Rhino for writing this battle, and to all assistant judges for helping with the research and decisions!

Tournament Battle 3: Arrell Ragnarok VS Dark Lightning

An orange Earth pony glanced two columns over. A red unicorn stallion stared at the center holograms, his face a blank mask. The earth pony took a large gulp from the bottle he carried and got up from his seat, moving towards the expressionless unicorn.

Valiant stopped behind Firebrand, raising an eyebrow at the fact that he wasn’t noticed approaching. He craned his neck near Brand’s ear and inhaled.

“HEY!” he shouted, causing the unicorn to snap back to reality. Firebrand whirled his head behind him.

“Valiant.”

The unicorn blinked twice before replying. “Firebrand.”

Valiant hopped over the the back of the seat, landing with his legs sprawled out all over the chair. He rolled his head over and flashed a quick smile.

“No hard feelings?”

“It's fine.” Firebrand waved a hoof. “I went into this knowing I wasn’t going to win. Even if I managed to defeat you, I'd have to go up against Knightmare.”

“That creep.” Valiant rolled his eyes. “At least you aren’t an oversexed breeder changeling.”

“I heard that!” called Knightmare.

Valiant glared at the changeling before turning back to Firebrand. “Anyway, you weren’t threatening to rip apart the fabric of spacetime or some other overly convoluted plot. Sometimes it’s nice to just have a man-to-man fight without any wide-reaching consequences for the universe.”

“What?” Firebrand tilted his head, utterly confused by terms such as 'man-to-man' and 'fabric of spacetime.'

“Sorry, I’m kind of drunk right now,” muttered the other stallion, taking another swig.

“Drunk?” Firebrand asked, before exhaling deeply. “Never mind, I don’t think I want to know.”

“Too bad, I’m talking about it anyway.” Valiant paused. “Or is this about something else?”

“What are you talking about?” Firebrand insisted. “It’s alright. I'm satisfied with the result. They placed multiple limitations on you just to make it fair for us. I'm fine. I’m completely fine.”

Valiant’s lip curled into a smirk. “I’m not that drunk,” he stated simply.

Firebrand let out a deep breath. “...I don't... I don't like the way I died.”

“There’s no shame in death from having a .50 caliber hole poked in you,” commented Valiant. “Now, a nine millimeter, that would be embarrassing.”

Firebrand glared at the stallion next to him, taking heavy breaths in order to console himself.

“It’s not that,” Firebrand explained. “You saw yourself. I have... anger management issues, I'll admit it. I get angry and ‘holier-than-thou’ and I'm not proud of it. I've been like this for a long time.”

Valiant rolled his eyes. Being a Royal Guard probably didn’t help much... he thought coyly to himself.

“And what hurts is that... that's what got me killed.” Firebrand looked down, the stoic serious face dropping. “I got killed, bucking killed, because I let my anger get the better of me... that's just... I feel so... ashamed...”

Firebrand lifted his head, eyes turning red. “I mean, what else would my anger issues cause? Would my friends get hurt because I was too controlling? Oh wait, silly me, THAT ALREADY BUCKING HAPPENED. One of my friends got seriously hurt because I was too arrogant and hasty to realize that he needed my help. And now, I got myself killed because of my..." Firebrand gritted his teeth. “...weakness.” Firebrand spat the word out like it was poison.

“What kind of friend am I?! I get angry and ponies around me suffer! And getting angry now gets me killed as well? This whole thing just makes me feel so worthless!” Firebrand buried his face in his hooves.

Valiant grimaced, not being comfortable at all with painful self-reflection.

“You uh... are the Element of Generosity, right?”

“What’s your point?” Firebrand mumbled, not looking up.

“I read your-uhhh... someone... told me... your story.” Valiant said. “You’re always the first to volunteer to help other ponies when they need it. And my memory’s a little fuzzy, but I’m pretty sure you’ve almost martyred yourself twice. I’m drunk and I think that’s pretty awesome.

“And come on, man, this is a Death Battle.” He threw a foreleg around Brand and pulled him into a half-hug. “How good you are in a fight don’t mean squat about how good of a friend you are.”

Firebrand sighed. “I guess you’re right...”

A sudden thought struck Valiant and he smiled. “I know what will help. Let me introduce you to something I like to call tequila.”

"For the last time, Arrell, he's not you!"

"Then why does he have the same name as me?!"

"I don't know, RLYoshi's not creative enough to think of a variety of names?" Yah-Shee instantly shut up, looking around as if expecting to be struck by lightning any second now. "...okay, that was close. Let's just start the battle, okay?"

Arrell grumbled something, but sat down by his microphone. Yah-Shee did the same, cleared his throat, and started. Next up in our bracket, we're going to be witnessing a duel of elements!

And no, not the Elements of Harmony. That already happened, Arrell added in.

We have Arrell Ragnarok, the Windigo with video game powers...

...and Dark Lightning, the ponification of a thunderstorm!

Here, we're starting to get into characters appearing in multiple stories, not all of which are by the original author, Yah-Shee warned. To make sure we get only correct information, we will be contacting the creators of each character like this and asking them which story is to be considered their "main canon". Anything from other stories that contrasts with the main canon story will not be taken into consideration, but everything else will.

He's Yah-Shee and I'm Arrell! ...the announcer guy, not the Windigo!

Yah-Shee glared briefly at Arrell before continuing. And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Arrell Ragnarok

Species: Lord Windigo (formerly human)
Occupation: Styx's chess piece for the Chess Game of the Gods
Capable of limited ice control
Has various abilities taken from video games
Strength increases when angry

Formerly a human brony named Max, Arrell was summoned to Equestria by Styx, the goddess of hatred. Upon arrival, he was transformed into a Windigo, but not quite the type from legends.

Arrell is much smaller, weaker, and more pony-like than the Windigoes we know of, thanks to being so young. And his power suffers for it!

Unlike full-grown Windigoes that can cause blizzards with little effort, Arrell only has limited control over cold and ice. He cannot create it, but if he has access to ice that already exists, he can manipulate it to an extent. He can also freeze water if he so desires. However, as stated in the first tournament battle, ice isn't exactly that good a weapon. Fortunately for Arrell, he isn't forced to rely on a single element. Styx granted him various video game-related powers and abilities that he becomes capable of using over time.

He has a voice attack that works like a "FUS RO DAH" from Skyrim, a bubble shield taken straight out of the Halo series, and Din's Fire from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time! ...oh, and he also has saddlebags with infinite holding space, but that's not important!

In addition to his abilities, Arrell wields an axe, which he obtained after killing Bloodbath, its former owner. However, ever since acquiring the weapon, he has yet to actually use it, so how much it helps him is currently unknown.

But still, it's an axe! Enough said.

Due to his short time in Equestria, Arrell has yet to fully master his powers as a Windigo. He can fly, manipulate ice as stated before, and is completely immune to any effects that cold, snow, or ice may have. Unfortunately, under normal circumstances, those are all of his abilities.

...you said, "under normal circumstances".

That's because Arrell is known for being cheerful, goofy, and...kind of annoying. Kind of like you.

Hey!

However, that appears to be little more than a mask to hide his depression and anger. And when Arrell gets angry, he gets strong. Once enraged, Arrell acquires several more abilities, such as being able to bring together all the cold air in an area to freeze the ground, or even turn an entire lake into ice and move it around effortlessly. His physical strength and endurance also skyrockets, allowing him to keep fighting despite taking hits. However, this does not mean he is invincible; he simply hides the pain and doesn't react.

And this isn't even his final form! Get really under his skin, and he goes even further! The "evil" inside of him, which is actually his own anger sealed away, gets released and takes over! His body grows in size and he can suddenly form ice out of nowhere! He's practically godlike!

Not quite, Arrell. While his strengths and skills increase to astounding levels, it comes at a cost: his sanity. Once he transforms, his only focus is to hurt and kill whatever made him angry, showing no mercy to those in his way. Even though it's an amazing feat to kill a few hundred Windigoes without breaking a sweat, it's also horrifying. Take into account how he had an emotional breakdown just from killing a handful of ponies and was reluctant to kill just one after calming down.

Oh yeah...man, he probably hated himself the morning after that...

Arrell's emotional state is rocky at best. His mood swings like a pendulum and never goes beyond simple happiness, depression, or anger. No middle roads, no combinations, nothing. And whatever he feels, he shows to the extreme, proving just how weak and vulnerable he is emotionally.

Speaking of vulnerabilities, let's get into his number-one weakness: fire!

Technically, it's heat of any kind, but yes, fire works as well. Being a Windigo, Arrell is immune to cold, but pays for it with a large weakness to heat. Just being too warm weakens him, and if he is caught in fire for too long, he will melt.

Yet he has a fire attack anyway.

Arrell is witty and unpredictable and prefers not to think up a strategy. Rather, he makes things up as he goes along, thinking fast and acting appropriately to his opponents' attacks. However, he can't always pull this off effectively, and will sometimes make a split-second decision that hinders him rather than helps him.

Still, he's taken down too many ponies and Windigoes to not be considered one dangerous guy!

"Better advice: don’t piss me off. Some ponies did, and I collapsed an entire castle just by waking up."

Dark Lightning

Species: Pegasus pony
Occupation: Ponyville Library "Book Return Enforcer"
Can manipulate lightning
Extremely fast flyer
Cocky and brash

And so it begins: black and red OC ponies!

...right. So...since Dark Lightning has appeared in various stories, we asked his creator which story to use as his main canon story. He chose Continuing the Dream and its sequel, Life Goes On by Blue Breeze.

We'll be taking information from all stories Dark appears in that his author deems canon, but in the event of any contradiction between stories, we'll be using the information from that story - well, those two stories, rather - as being official! Now, on with the talking!

Dark Lightning is a pegasus pony with a rather large violent streak. After accidentally killing his father at an early age, he lived in the Everfree Forest for several years before moving to Ponyville. While seeming almost like a villain at first, he became less violent and more tolerable around his friends.

Not much, though. Even now, Dark still likes trash talking others and is never not cocky and arrogant!

His short temper often leads to him rushing into battle without thinking, relying on overpowering the opponent as quickly as possible. It's rather easy to anger him, and he doesn't let go of a grudge.

He's got plenty of attacks that he uses in battle, a few of which revolve around - you guessed it - lightning and electricity! He can turn his hoof into a taser, form blades made of lightning, or channel electricity into the ground and shock anypony on the same surface! But his signature move has to be his Lightning Grenade!

The Lightning Grenade is, in basic terms, a large amount of electricity compressed into a ball that gets thrown at Dark's opponent, creating a miniature explosion of sorts. The extreme amount of voltage is usually enough to take down even a larger and stronger foe, but as always, there are limits to Dark's powers. Without a proper conductor, he is forced to aim his attacks rather than just shooting electricity everywhere.

Conductor? I thought we were done with musical OCs!

Not that kind of conductor, Arrell. An electricity conductor. If Dark is standing on a surface such as dirt, wood, or sand, he can't channel electricity into the ground; he has to aim it instead.

Aw...guess Equestria's whole "magic makes everything work" shebang only goes so far.

Indeed, Arrell. Dark tends to be a bit of a psycho, for lack of a better word. He often pranks or outright hurts other ponies for fun, uncaring for their feelings. Rarely does he show a caring personality, and it never lasts long. His smugness and arrogance also puts off ponies around him, leading to various arguments and scuffles. He is also not above playing dirty to win.

Of course, considering this is a Death Battle and all, you can't exactly cheat to win, so...good luck playing dirty, lightning boy!

Dark's personality has gotten him into trouble on numerous occasions. He often tackles challenges that are too big for him to handle, feeling he can take on anything. While this is sometimes true, more often than not he ends up being the one receiving the beating rather than delivering it.

But if he can avoid getting hit early on, chances are he'll pull through in the end! He's a fast flier, apparently even faster than Rainbow Dash, which makes him a tough target to hit! Anypony that takes this guy on had better be ready for a real fight, 'cause he's not going down easy!

"Well, when you're dead and burning in the pits of Tartarus, I'll be able to do whatever I darn well please!"

Alright, the combatants are set! Let's end this debate once and for all!

IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

The black and red pegasus soared over the canyon, finally coming to a stop on the edge of one side's cliff. On the other side, his opponent sat similarly close to the edge, playing Tetris on some kind of device he made from magic and ice.

"Hey! Frosty!" Dark Lightning called, catching the Windigo's attention. "We gonna battle or not?!"

Arrell looked back at his game, shrugged, and kicked it to the side before standing up and looking across the gorge at his foe. "About time you showed up. I was on my sixteenth game!"

"Shut up!"

FIGHT!

With the command given, Dark flew across the canyon, aiming right for his opponent. He hoped to get the advantage right away with a quick tackle, but he was taken off guard when he slammed into a translucent dome instead. Flying back a few feet, he saw that Arrell had activated his drop shield, and had yet to even move.

"All you're gonna do is tackle me?" the Windigo taunted from inside the shield. "What are you, a Rattata?"

Dark pauses. "A what?"

Rather than answering, Arrell just dropped his shield and jumped at the pegasus, pulling him down to the ground and slamming his head into the rocky earth. Dark finally pulled out of his grip, slightly disoriented, and began charging a Lightning Grenade in his hoof. Arrell's eyes widened and he turned to run away, but the pegasus threw his weapon before he could get too far away.

While the Lightning Grenade didn't hit him directly, Arrell was still flung a few feet by the explosion, and grunted as he got back on his hooves. Dark smirked and flew in, grabbing his opponent in a chokehold. Taken by surprise, Arrell was unable to dodge, and Dark began strangling him.

"This...is way too easy," Dark chuckled. "What's wrong, didn't spend enough time warming up?"

An idea came to Arrell's mind. Warm up, you say?

The pegasus felt the area suddenly get a lot warmer, and with a yelp, he was sent flying a few feet away by a wave of flames. Arrell staggered to his hooves, coughing and trying to fill his lungs with the air they desired. While he tried to recover, Dark got back to his hooves as well and began channeling electricity into the ground. Arrell fell back to the ground as the electricity coursed through his body, grunting in pain.

Dark chuckled and pulled out two Lightning Grenades. "I repeat what I said earlier." He launched the two balls of electricity at Arrell, smiling as the smoke from their explosion obscured his view of the Windigo. "Way too easy."

After a moment, the smoke began to clear, and Dark's smile faded. The familiar drop shield was up again, once more protecting Arrell. It vanished, and the Windigo glared daggers at his opponent.

"You're right. That was too easy." Arrell stomped the ground. "How about I give you a better challenge?" He inhaled deeply. "FUS RO DAH!"

Dark was launched backwards over the edge of the cliff by the voice attack, barely catching himself with his wings before he hit the ground. He started flying back up, but upon looking upwards, he saw his opponent dashing down to him with a giant axe in his mouth. Barely dodging the blade, he stared incredulously at Arrell, who flew into the air at his level after missing, still wielding the axe.

"Where the hell did you get that?" Dark demanded.

"From my saddlebags," Arrell responded casually, gesturing to the blue and yellow saddlebags on his back.

"And where'd you get your saddlebags?"

"From my saddlebags. I swear, I have to go through this whole Abbott and Costello routine with everypony..." Arrell shook his head pitifully, then charged at Dark once more. He swung his axe, but was far too slow, and the pegasus easily avoided it and shoved his hoof in his foe's side, electrocuting the Windigo for the second time.

However, Arrell didn't react to the electrocution, and just turned to bash the handle of his axe in Dark's face. He succeeded, knocking the black and red pony backwards. Apparently deciding his weapon was more trouble than it was worth, Arrell stuck it in his saddlebags, somehow fitting it inside. He then unleashed another round of Din's Fire, but this time, Dark was ready for it, flying upwards. The flames still reached him, but he was far enough away that they did little more than warm his body.

"Alright, enough of this!" Dark declared, pulling out two more Lightning Grenades. "Double Lightning Frag Grenade!"

"I don't think so!" Arrell retorted, inhaling. "FUS RO DAH!"

The two balls of electricity were knocked off course by the shout, though Dark himself avoided being hit. The grenades flew off to the side, each one striking one side of the canyon walls with a large explosion. This broke off and loosened several giant rocks around the edge, causing them to fall down towards the fighters.

"...did you do that on purpose?" Arrell asked nervously.

"No. Did you?"

"No."

"Well...crap."

As the avalanche ensued, the Windigo and pegasus found themselves forced to dodge falling rocks as well as each other. Dark tried to use the situation to his advantage, bucking Arrell into the path of a falling rock, but he just turned his drop shield on again and the rock bounced off harmlessly.

Flying out of the shield's range, the Windigo tried to use another voice attack on the pegasus, but ended up missing completely when he was distracted by dodging another falling boulder. His voice attack ended up instead launching one of the rocks at the side of the canyon, knocking several more rocks loose and uncovering a hidden cave.

Seeing this shelter open, Dark flew towards the cave, reaching it before Arrell could. He pulled out another Lightning Grenade and, seeing the Windigo flying straight at him, threw it right at his face. He grinned, waiting for it to hit and explode.

Except Arrell just veered to the side, letting the grenade pass by him before going back to his original flight pattern. He tackled Dark, causing them both to roll farther into the cave. They struggled for a few minutes until Dark got the upper hand, standing over the Windigo with a blade of lightning at his throat.

"And so the spider catches the fly," the pegasus announced. "You honestly weren't that much of a challenge. All it took was a couple explosions and an avalanche. So much for the Master Chief of Equestria." A smug grin crossed his face.

Arrell, previously looking defeated, suddenly glared.

"I."

Dark yelped as a sudden kick to his stomach knocked him to the side, and his blade dissipated.

"Hate."

Arrell stood tall, his body growing in size slightly as he ignored his various wounds. He glared down at Dark, who looked genuinely scared for the first time in the whole battle.

"SMUGNESS."

Dark turned to run away, but he slipped on the ground and fell on his face. The rocky floor had become covered in a sheet of ice. Arrell galloped up to him and grabbed him, turning and slamming him against the wall. Dark tried to form another Lightning Grenade, but Arrell smashed his hoof against the wall, destroying the grenade before it could form and breaking Dark's front leg. He dropped his opponent to the floor, snapped his wings to prevent an escape, and pulled his axe out.

"Say hello to my little friend," he hissed before bringing the blade down, removing Dark's head from his body.

As the head rolled away, Arrell sat on the ground with a sigh, his body returning to normal. He stayed still, conscious but unmoving, as though in deep thought.

K.O.

Avalanches and lightning and axes, oh my! Hahahaha!

Despite a poor beginning thanks to his lack of normal fighting skills, Arrell managed to pull through in the end thanks to his power increase upon getting angry. Even without any ice around to manipulate, his video game abilities were enough to survive for a while, until Dark's usual arrogant personality pushed him over the edge.

Dark tried to take Arrell out right away like he normally does, which would've been a good strategy if not for that icy bastard's unpredictability! Shields, flame waves, and axes? Who the hell expects a Windigo to have any of those?!

Surprisingly, Dark would've won if Arrell hadn't gotten angry. Lightning generates heat, and thanks to heat being one of Arrell's prime weaknesses, he would've been taken out easily with only a few Lightning Grenades if any of them had made contact. But Arrell has shown fast reflexes with his drop shield in the past, and thus was able to block just about any grenade he couldn't simply dodge.

Looks like Dark wasn't able to secure the win...digo!

The winner is Arrell.

Next time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:

Vinetion Lutin VS Lucario!

Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!

Author's Note

When I was writing this battle, I realized the whole avalanche fight scene would look a lot better as an actual animation than in writing, so I ended up cutting about five paragraphs of it out. So if that bit seems a bit too short, that's why.

Thanks to Ice for essentially taking over for me for comparisons and decision-making this battle, and to all assistant judges for their help!

Tournament Battle 4: Vinetion Lutin VS Lucario

With the third tournament battle over, the first round seemed to be moving along at a steady pace, though it was picking up. The judges were preparing for the next battle, and the crowd was eagerly waiting.

In the crowd, a certain Windigo was sitting by himself, feeling much more relaxed after the battle had ended and he was no longer on the edge of his seat. He had started playing Tetris as he waited for the next battle to begin, unaware of the pegasus trotting over to him.

"Hey you!" Dark said with an angry tone. Arrell merely looked up from his Tetris game for a second, then simply went back to playing. He would have continued to play, but Dark yanked the game from his hooves and threw it behind him. "I don't like being ignored."

The Windigo sighed. “And I was close to a high score...” Finally, he turned and made eye contact with the black and red pony. “What is it?”

"Yeah, whatever about your stupid games. I want to get one thing clear about us. That win that you got over me was a fluke, and nothing more."

“...uh...okay?” Arrell didn’t understand why Dark felt the need to come to him about this. Why not complain to the judges? “Still...that was a pretty cool fight, don’t you think?”

Dark took a very deep breath and muttered, “Alright, you got me there, it was a very cool fight. I never really have the chance to fight anyone that strong. So that was...interesting.”

Arrell managed a smile. “Honestly, even if I lost, I’d have been fine with it. That was one of the best battles I’ve seen so far - and I’m not being biased here.” He paused for a moment. “And...even though you say it was a fluke, I think it was just more of a bad matchup. I hate arrogant people, and you’re...well...yeah.”

“Yeah, I get that from a lot of other people. Well, whatever now, what’s done is done, so I guess bye or something, I don’t know. And...good luck I guess...” He started walking away.

“Hey,” the Windigo called to stop his former foe. “...thanks.”

“Yeah yeah...just don’t go telling anyone I said it or anything, okay?”

Arrell chuckled. “You got it.”

"I think it's broken," Arrell the judge observed, giving his cracked microphone a few testing taps.

"No, really?" Yah-Shee sighed. "This is why, if you're going to flip the table, you don't have stuff on it!"

"But then it doesn't make as good a noise!" the pegasus protested.

Yah-Shee sighed again. "There's replacements in the closet. Just hurry up."

Arrell hurried, and within moments, he had set up his new microphone. Yah-Shee just watched and waited. Once his friend was settled in his seat, he sat as well.

"And remember, it's pronounced 'VIN-ett-ee-on', not 'VYE-net-ee-on'," the unicorn reminded.

"You said it was 'Vin-esh-ee-un' last time."

"I did? I thought I said...actually, I don't really know anymore." They were quiet for a moment. "Let's just wing it."

"Agreed."

Finally, they turned to their microphones, ready to continue. Next in our lineup, we have an interesting matchup of special powers!

We've got Vinetion Lutin, the plant-controlling pegasus mare...

...and Lucario, the Fighting- and Steel-type Aura Pokémon. Since this battle has a Pokémon in it, we'll be using stats and types just like those from the Pokémon games to help clarify matchups and attacks.

So we'll be treating Vinetion as a Pokémon, but at the same time, we won't be! ...yeah, it'll make more sense in the battle.

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Vinetion Lutin

Species: Pegasus pony
Occupation: Plant product shop owner
Will be considered a Grass/Flying type
Controls grass and nature
Can sense things through plant life

Since Vinetion has appeared in various stories, her main canon story will be the same as Dark Lightning's was: Continuing the Dream and its sequel, Life Goes On by Blue Breeze.

We'll be taking information from all stories Vinetion appears in that her author deems canon, but in the event of any contradiction between stories, we'll be using the information from that story - well, those two stories, rather - as being official! Now, on with the talking!

Vinetion Lutin, a resident of Ponyville, is one of a handful of ponies with strange elemental powers - Dark Lightning from the previous battle being included in this group. She controls grass and plants, and often fights by summoning and manipulating vines to take down her opponent.

She can also sense things through plant life because apparently she can talk to them! That's new!

Vinetion has no weapons, choosing to rely on her plant powers. She feels a strong connection with the flora, and apparently with the fauna as well, as she was implied to be capable of communicating with Everfree Forest creatures to an extent.

She does not like it when you hurt her plants, either. She'll kill you just for kicking a tree!

Yes, Vinetion does tend to rush into situations without thinking very much, choosing to fight now and ask questions later. This leads to a lack of strategy, as her battle style mainly revolves around trying to overwhelm her opponents as quickly as possible.

She doesn't show much of a variety in her attacks, usually just swinging her vines and hoping she hits something. And as we've seen, those vines aren't very hard to destroy! Fortunately, when she isn't using her vines, she has a few other tricks up her sleeve!

Vinetion can summon a large venus flytrap named Rosebud, which she can control and use to overpower and eat her foes. She can also have her vines form other animals that come to life and attack, but still, these animals are just made of vines. And lastly, she can create a cloud of Poison Joke to take her opponents by surprise and put them at a disadvantage.

Yeah...in case you can't tell, there's a reason we made her part Grass-type in terms of Pokémon stats...and the Flying-type is just because she's a pegasus.

When not in battle, Vinetion has been shown to be rather normal...at least, compared to the other elemental ponies. However, this is all battle and no social time, so that likely won't help her here.

Not to say her "full force" strategy hasn't ever worked! Never holding back has helped her out in a few situations, and even helped her nearly take down Blue Breeze, who's arguably the toughest of all the elemental ponies. We're in for a big fight tonight!

"You'll make excellent fertilizer for the plants. You're already full of dung."

Lucario

Species: Lucario
Occupation: Protector of Ponyville
Steel/Fighting type
Can sense Aura
Inner Focus ability

Our first participant not originally from the world of Equestria, Lucario is a fourth generation Pokémon who was sent by his friend and mentor, Sir Aaron, to Equestria to "start over".

After saving Ponyville from a dragon, he was named as the official Protector of Ponyville, and since then he's spent his time keeping ponies safe! ...and apparently catching the eye of Princess Luna. But that's irrelevant!

Most of Lucario's stats are above average, with his Attack and Special Attack being rather high. His ability, Inner Focus, prevents him from flinching and increases his resistance to attacks. Being a Fighting- and Steel-type makes him immune to any Poison-type attacks, as well as resistant to plenty of attack types, such as Normal-type, Grass-type, and Rock-type. However, he is weak to Fighting-, Ground-, or Fire-type attacks.

He's got tons of attacks that he can use for different things! Magnet Rise lets him fly, while trading his Inner Focus ability in for Levitate, which keeps him from taking damage from Ground-type attack; Force Palm is like a one-inch punch that creates a small shockwave has a thirty percent chance of paralyzing the muscles of the part of the body it hits; and Metal Claw turns his claws into solid steel that can cut through or at least damage just about any type of material!

Lucario has far too many attacks to list, and while all of them are used in ways that are believable, some are changed to be represented better. For example, Bone Rush is just a multi-hit move in the games, but the way Lucario uses it is by summoning a bone-like staff that he can use to hit enemies with a flurry of swings. One of his more common moves is ExtremeSpeed, which he uses more for moving around than for actually attacking. However, it tires him out if used for too long.

But Lucario's most famous attack is Aura Sphere! He creates an orb of power from his own aura and launches it at his foe, homing it in on them no matter where they go! ...unless they put up a barrier or hide behind something.

Lucario is always calm and collected, rarely - if ever - being surprised by anything. He can think up long-term strategies on the spot, using moves and techniques to set up for plans later on in the battle. However, this can also prove to be a disadvantage if his opponent is too unpredictable, as they may switch up their attacking pattern to take him off guard.

One neat little thing about this guy is that he gets stronger the more damage he takes! Unless you end a battle quickly, his attacks will keep getting stronger and stronger as the battle goes on! I think we can all agree that we're in for a wild ride with this matchup!

"Even if the world forgets about you, you yourself never will. The good times and the bad times. Your friends and your enemies. Your fulfilled dreams and your regrets. You will keep all those memories with you for the rest of your life...and thinking back on them will always make you smile. You’ll probably not understand what I mean now, but remember this...the aura will always be with you."

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

IT'S TIME FOR A POK - er, I mean...IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

The sun was shining brightly above a lush forest, the trees’ thick crowns only letting a few rays of light pierce through them to reach the ground. But while one would expect to hear or see signs of animal life in such a peaceful place, the whole area seemed to be mysteriously abandoned. The only sounds audible to one’s ears in the otherwise complete silence were the footsteps of today’s combatants, who had been walking towards each others’ location since quite a while ago. It was as if they both knew exactly where the other was, despite not having been able to see each other through the vegetation.

“You are Vinetion Lutin?” the blue Pokémon named Lucario asked as he and his opponent reached each other. His eyes, that had been closed until now, opened up to look at the green pegasus. For a brief moment, yellow light could be seen glowing from his normally red-colored lenses.

“And you’re the so-called ‘Guardian of Ponyville’ who destroyed part of the Everfree Forest during a pointless sparring match with Rainbow Dash?” the mare stated as she too came to a halt. “Do you have any idea how long it will take for that area to recover, or how much fauna you destroyed?”

“That fight got out of hand, I admit, and I apologize for the-.”

“’Sorry’ isn’t going to cut it, mister,” Vine interrupted him before he could finish. “Death Battle tournament or not, I’ll make you think twice before hurting plants like that ever again!”

Studying Vine’s furious expression for a moment, Lucario dropped his head in a sigh before looking back up with a determined expression. “So be it.”

FIGHT!

Vine’s hooves immediately started to glow as several vines grew out of the soil around the fighters. The one closest to Lucario lashed out at him, but the Pokémon dodged the swipe without much difficulty. He continued to jump, lean, and crouch to avoid the strikes for a while before another vine grew up behind him. Before it could reach him, however, it was promptly cut apart by three Metal Claws growing out of Lucario’s right paw.

“Tsk, let’s see you cut through this then!” Vine shouted as more vines grew out from the ground. Instead of lashing out at Lucario, though, they began to wrap around each other, slowly but surely taking on the form of a large bear. Once the vines had uprooted themselves entirely to complete the fusion, the bear charged at Lucario with baring fangs and claws made of wood. With the Pokémon still busy dodging the other vines, the bear got a clear shot and pounced on top of him.

But instead of reacting in terror to the approaching monster, Lucario almost lazily lifted his paw up to the falling bear’s belly. Much to Vine’s surprise and shock, the bear’s fall was completely cushioned by the Pokémon’s limp, whose elbow only bended slightly in response to the impact.

“Force Palm,” Lucario said out loud as a blue shockwave suddenly erupted from his palm, briefly piercing through the bear’s torso before the vines making up its body scattered in all directions. As a few pieces landed by Vine’s hooves, Lucario turned his head to look at her.

“My turn.”

Bringing his paws together, Lucario conjured up a blue orb of energy between his palms before throwing it towards Vine. Jumping back to create some extra space, Vine summoned a group of vines from the ground to use as a defensive wall against the attack. The Aura Sphere exploded as it hit the vine-made barrier, but the blast didn’t manage to reach her. Once the smoke had cleared up a bit, Vine removed the wall to see what her opponent was up to next. A feat that proved to be more difficult than she’d thought, as Lucario was suddenly gone without a trace.

Some distance away, Lucario stood with his back up against a tree. While Vine’s vine wall had defended against his Aura Sphere, it had also made her lose sight of him. Now with the element of surprise on his side, Lucario clearly had the advantage. All he had to do now was to distract Vine’s attention with another Aura Sphere while charging at her from a different direction for the finishing blow. Perhaps striking her from below with Dig would be a-

Something suddenly wrapped itself around Lucario’s wrist, interrupting his planning. Before he could even look down to see what it was, he found himself launched back to Vine’s location by a vine that had grown out of the tree he was hiding behind. After bouncing off the ground once from the throw, the Pokémon was caught in midair by another group of vines, constricting all four of his limbs as he was held up in front of Vine, seemingly defenseless.

“Really? You tried to hide from me?” Vine asked deadpanned with a raised eyebrow. “Wow, that doesn’t sound like a tactic you would use. Oh well, nothing a mare with the ability to sense anything through plant life can’t handle. You were as visible to me behind that tree as a diamond dog in a pony crowd.” Grinning devilishly at the Pokémon’s current position, she summoned another vine from the ground, this one a bit thinner than the rest. “Now, I’m sure that Ice is going to be happy to know that he soon won’t be the only one to suffer through one of my hayn-”

Whatever cruel plan Vine had in store for Lucario thankfully remained unrevealed, as the Pokémon opened his mouth in a seeming attempt to say something. Instead, a green orb formed itself out of nowhere in front of it, which Lucario fired off at the unsuspecting Vine. Taken off-guard by the sudden attack, Vine barely managed to jump backwards to avoid the Dragon Pulse, although the blast still knocked her off her hooves and sent her rolling over the grass. After coming to a halt, Vine shook her head and looked up, only to yet again find Lucario gone from sight. The vines that had previously held him in place were broken, but not from a slice of his Metal Claw. The two vines that had held his arms had their tips covered in small layers of ice, while the other two that had constrained his legs seemed to have been burnt off.

She half-expected her opponent to be hiding in behind a nearby tree again, but was proven wrong by something suddenly pulling her back by her tail. Swinging Vine over his head with Circle Throw, Lucario sent the pegasus flying with enough force to crash into the trunk of a distant tree before she could even hit the ground. Before she could fall back down from the impact, Lucario had already closed the distance, somehow having kept pace with Vine’s flight. He grabbed her by the throat and slammed her back up against the tree, causing her to start coughing in pain.

“Your ability to sense me behind cover caught me off-guard,” Lucario said as her. “I didn’t know pegasi could do something like that.”

*cough, cough!* “H-How did… you e-escape… my-?!”

“Your vines that were constraining me?” Lucario finished for her. “You’re not the only one here with a few tricks up their sleeve.”

Ignoring Lucario’s words, Vine made another vine grow out from the ground behind him. Aiming its tip at the Pokémon’s back, it thrust forward in an attempt to pierce through his torso while he was unaware of its presence. But as it came within arm’s length of him, Lucario lifted up his free paw behind him and effortlessly caught the vine in mid-attack. Vine’s eyes widened in surprise, not just from seeing her surprise attack so easily discovered, but also upon noticing that Lucario had blocked the thrust with his eyes closed.

“That includes the ability to sense things normal eyes cannot,” Lucario continued from his earlier statement. “Although I believe my Aura Sense can see much more than your plant senses are able to.”

Without looking back at it, Lucario suddenly covered the paw holding the vine in ice, freezing the vine solid in the process. Then, with a simple clench, he crushed it to pieces within his fist, just like he’d done to escape his constraints from before. Vine seemed briefly startled by this move, but her eyes soon flashed in fury as she regained herself.

“Oh yeah? Then see and block this if you can!” she yelled as a cloud of dust suddenly blew into Lucario’s face. The Pokémon immediately let go of Vine´s throat, stumbling backwards with his paws up in attempt to shield himself from whatever the dust was. After catching her breath a bit from the chokehold, she ran past her disoriented opponent and started to make her way through the forest.

“That Poison Joke dust should’ve sealed it. But I need to boost my powers a bit if I have to guarantee a finishing blow,” she said to herself as she ran. Seeing through the vegetation around her, she eventually noticed a big clearing some distance ahead of her. Grinning in triumph, she jumped through a bush standing in her way to at last reach her destination.

“I can see why you find this to be a more fitting battlefield.”

Vine’s rush came to an abrupt halt as she found Lucario waiting for her in the middle of the clearing.

“W-What?! But I hit you straight in the face with Poison Joke! You should be crawling on the ground while hallucinating by now! And how did you get here so fast?!”

“Poison Joke? If the name is any indication, then I’m immune to its effect due to being part Steel-type. After brushing it off, I used Aura Sense to see where you were going before moving ahead of you with ExtremeSpeed. Now, are you ready to continue?”

“Continue?” Vine responded, sounding oddly confident. “You mean ending this?” Her entire body suddenly started to grow, making Lucario’s eyes widen in surprise. “Come, Rosebud!”

The ground under Lucario’s feet cracked open, and he back flipped away from the site in order to avoid whatever attack Vine was using this time. What he saw upon looking up was a giant venus flytrap towering over him, its open mouth revealing several dozen teeth made out of vines as it roared at him.

“With all this sunlight, I’ve more than enough power to summon this baby. Now sic him, Rosebud!”

The giant plant responded to the command as it slammed a huge vine down at Lucario’s location. After rolling to the side to avoid the smash, Lucario found himself blindsided by another vine lashing at him horizontally from the right. He jumped up and managed to dodge the attack, but the vine began to curl itself around as it turned to whip the Pokémon in midair.

Yellow light surrounded Lucario’s body as he activated Magnet Rise, letting him fly further up into the air to avoid Rosebud’s reach. He continued to fly higher, avoiding more vine lashes as he tried to get above Rosebud’s head. Fighting him on even ground like this was too risky in a drawn-out fight.

“Oh no, you don’t!” Vine yelled as she fired off rock projectiles at the escaping Pokémon. Seeing the incoming attack, Lucario conjured his Bone Rush staff between his paws and began to swing it around to deflect the rocks. Despite his attempts, a few got past his defense, striking his shoulder and stomach with great effect. Wincing in pain, Lucario barely managed to keep himself airborne as he managed to get above Rosebud’s head level. Vine watched as he continued to rise to the sky, creating more and more distance between him and Rosebud. He eventually stopped, barely floating out of reach from Rosebud’s vines.

After clutching his wounds a bit to shrug off the pain, Lucario brought his paws together and formed a bright, shining orb between them. Instead of throwing it down at Rosebud or Vine, however, he instead launched it upward, sending it flying into the glowing sun.

“Sunny Day.”

The sun seemingly exploded as its light suddenly intensified several fold. As it did, Vine could feel its rays enhancing her magic even further, making her lift her hooves to her face in astonishment to this new power boost. A grin formed on her face as she was on the brink of laughing out loud. She had no idea why Lucario thought that this was a good move to use, but she could use this power to easily increase Rosebud’s size and finish the Pokémon off.

Lucario, on the other hand, remained unfazed as he suddenly dove down, charging towards Rosebud with ExtremeSpeed as his legs were suddenly engulfed in great flames. With the Sunny Day enhancing the power of his Blaze Kick, the Pokémon easily dug himself right through Rosebud’s head as he drilled his feet into the unprepared flytrap. Rosebud’s shriek of agony shook Vine from her thoughts, Lucario’s attack having happened so fast she hadn’t even reacted to it. A red, glowing dot could be seen travelling down Rosebud’s body, eventually exploding in a burst of fire as Lucario drilled through its side upon coming close to ground level. A cloud of thick smoke erupted from his landing, both due to the trail following him down from Rosebud’s wound, and from the grass beneath him that were burnt to a crisp by his still flaming legs.

After briefly turning her head away while shielding her eyes from the smoke, Vine looked back just in time to see Lucario dashing towards her with a fist glowing in preparation for an Ice Punch. Despite the incoming blow, Vine grinned victoriously as several vines immediately grew out of the ground in front of her, turning their tips towards Lucario in the blink of an eye. The Pokémon had no chance to stop his charge before running straight into the death trap, the vines piercing his body all over as they turned him into a cheese wedge.

Two things happened to Vine in the proceeding split second she had to revel in her victory. First, she watched as Lucario’s body faded away from existence, leaving no trail of blood whatsoever on the vines that had stabbed him. And then, before everything went black, she felt something smash into the back of her head.

Unbeknownst to Vine, while she had looked away from the cloud of smoke erupting from Lucario’s landing, Lucario had taken the opportunity to use the move called Double Team to switch places with an illusionary clone of himself. After dashing behind Vine with ExtremeSpeed, Lucario was given a clear shot to smash Vine head in with an Ice Punch as she was distracted by his clone. The Pokémon took full advantage of the strike, aiming his Ice Punch downward as he smashed Vine face-first into the ground. A loud crack could be heard from the impact, and the ice covering Lucario’s fist turned a shade of red as the pegasus’ bloody wound was frozen shut. Seeing Vine laying motionlessly in the newly made crater, Lucario lifted his paw back up and looked down at his defeated foe.

He then began to walk away, ignoring the agonizing shrieks of Rosebud as the giant plant’s innards were still burning from Lucario’s Blaze Kick. As he passed by the wailing plant, however, Lucario jumped up and delivered a spinning roundhouse kick to its side, hitting it with his Low Kick attack. The plant immediately lost all sense of balance as it fell over right on top of its summoner, crushing Vine’s body beneath its massive frame. As the thundering quake echoed over the forest, Lucario only stopped for a few seconds to look over his shoulder at the scene before flying away with Magnet Rise.

K.O.

Vinetion fainted! ...or maybe more than just fainted!

Really, Lucario had the advantage from the beginning. His Steel-type made him resistant to the majority of Vinetion's attacks, which were relegated to being Grass-type, and he had more than enough attacks to deal plenty of damage to Vinetion. His Aura Sense also outclasses Vinetion's ability to sense through plants.

Lucario's not only a good strategist, but he's shown to be capable of thinking up long-term plans even under pressure. With Vinetion just trying to lash out at full strength with whatever she could, she was too easy to take by surprise.

The fact that Vinetion has no knowledge of Lucario whatsoever was also a factor. Lucario, of course, knows about pegasus ponies and ponies in general, but to Vinetion, Lucario is just some weird bipedal Diamond Dog-like creature. She didn't know anything about him, and so couldn't formulate a strategy even if she tried.

Looks like Vine couldn't handle the pressure of a life aura death situation!

The winner is Lucario.

Next time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:

...it WAS going to be Warfather VS Jason Parker. However, Warfather was disqualified, as the story he comes from had all of its chapters removed. Therefore, Jason Parker gets a bye, and automatically advances to the second round.

Instead, the next battle will be:

Hunger Pains VS Marr Bell!

Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!

Author's Note

NOTE: Technically this chapter is unfinished, as I'm still waiting on a confirmation of a piece of info. However, the confirmation doesn't actually change the battle in any way, aside from a tweak to the text, so I'm going to publish now and just remove this message later when I get the confirmation and fix the text if needed.

Thanks to KangTheGuardian for writing the battle in this chapter and helping me out with some Pokémon comparisons, and to all assistant judges for their help!

Q&A

Why are there so many questions in the comments?

Because of the Q&A we announced, Arrell.

The cue what?

The question thing...never mind. Just go with it.

Okay!

So we got a LOT of questions from you guys, and it's time to answer them! Let's start off, shall we? It's a little early, but since the next battle is taking a while, we figured we might as well get this out. If you guys ask a lot more questions, we'll have a part two. For now, let's get going!

enigmaMystere asks:

"Who would win between you two in a Death Battle without weapons? And (assuming you've heard of them) which of the Dubstep Guns would you want to use in a Changeling invasion? These are important questions!~"

Dubstep Guns?

Well, in a battle between the two of us-

Dubstep Guns? What are those? I want one!

Arrell, they're-

Be right back! Getting a Dubstep Gun!

...ugh. Well, while he's gone...having the two of us in a battle would be rather difficult. This story hasn't really given us much characterization in terms of abilities - heck, it didn't even tell you readers our appearance until the tournament started, and even then it was kind of generic. Unless the two of us get some actual screentime, I doubt we'll be fighting each other...though I personally think with my completely unbiased opinion that I'd win.

Back.

Didn't get a Dubstep Gun, I take it?

A what?

...moving on from his bad memory...

the-master asks:

"Well I have three:

1) How does hay bacon stack up against regular bacon?

2) Ponies and horses tend to have a greater skin and tissue density when compared to humans. Will this factor be taken into account when working out what hits would be critical and what hits would be ineffective, eg: blunt damage.

3) How do you plan on testing what weapons can penatrate a certain type of amour, eg tempered steel schitmisher against steel studded leather armour?"

Well, being ponies, we can't exactly eat regular bacon. But from what we've gathered from the few humans we've talked to, the way regular bacon tastes to them is the same as how hay bacon tastes to us...though they think hay bacon tastes awful.

As for your second question, this kind of thing is one of many that are debatable whether they apply to us ponies. They may apply to horses from Earth, but in Equestria, possibly not. We'll do some research, and if the difference isn't particularly big, we'll be ignoring this fact. Otherwise, we'll see about applying it to any battles involving a human against a pony.

And for your third question, I dunno what those things are, but I want them!

We do research on the properties of the armor specified while doing all other research, along with the weapons. Basically, we just figure out how strong the armor is and see if the weapon can penetrate an object of that material, mass, density, et cetera. We then see if there would be any other effects - for example, would the weapon be damaged severely after having to pass through it, and would it take a few seconds? Things like that are all done in general research and writing.

Ghostdad7 asks:

"Have you two ever considered to be in a Death Battle against each other?"

As stated above, this would be difficult to do unless we get more screentime.

TundraStanza asks:

"How do you calculate speed of an OC when it's only vaguely mentioned in his/her respective fic?"

Well, if their speed is too vague - as in, not talked about at all - we just assume it's the average speed for their species. If it's given maybe one or two comparisons - for example, if they said the OC was half as fast as Rainbow Dash's top non-Sonic Rainboom flight speed - we'd use that comparison strictly when doing our research.

Or, if we're given a situation where the character's speed is never compared to anything, but we have scenarios where their speed is obviously different from average, we study those particular scenarios. If they can run fast enough to crash through a wall, we study how much force would be needed to break that wall based on its material, mass, thickness, and more. We then factor in the OC's approximate size and mass to figure out about how fast they were running at the time. We do this for any period in the story where their speed is shown to be different, and once we're done, we use the highest speed gotten.

metallusionismagic asks:

"Is going back in time and erasing your opponent from history a valid method of winning Death Battles?"

Uh...hm. That's a good question.

No, it is not a valid method.

Wait, why not?

It's true that we're supposed to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills, time travel being included in said skills. However, think about it. If two characters are fighting and one travels back in time to erase the other from existence, the fight never happened in the first place because one fighter did not exist. All they would do is cause the battle to never happen, in which case there would be nothing for them to win.

Ohhh! That actually makes sense!

KenSES64 asks:

"Are there any suggestions for battles that you deem "too stupid" or make you go "oh my Celestia what is this person thinking"? If so any examples?"

Oh, yes. We get our fair share of these.

A lot of them are just having a random OC going against one of the mane six, or two OCs that are both owned by the person commenting and come from horribly written stories. Not gonna call out names, but I think these people know who they are.

And just about any suggestion involving Nyx from Past Sins. There is no character we know of, canon or OC, that is well-known and powerful enough to beat her. I'm sorry. And then there's the ever-popular Celestia VS Luna...

Let's move on before Yah-Shee goes on another rant.

Cobra 1 asks:

"Who would win you two or Wiz and Boomstick?"

As stated earlier, we don't really have any specific abilities that have been revealed, and the same can be said for Wiz and Boomstick. Since ponies are naturally better fighters than humans, it can be assumed that we'd win since Arrell can fly and I can use magic. It'd be a bland fight, though.

The Brony Writer asks:

"Did your creator RLYoshi get the idea for Death Battle: Equestria from the actual Death Battle show? In particular, the Starscream vs. Rainbow Dash Death Battle?"

Well, yeah, he did! It was more from the series as a whole, though. Actually, I think it was in Leonardo VS Zitz where he started wanting to make this...

Correct. He still goes back and watches episodes of Death Battle to get inspiration for the fight scenes of Equestrian Death Battles.

Surprisingly, Starscreem VS Rainbow Dash didn't actually influence the making of this story that much! It was what led him to Death Battle, but after that he hasn't really rewatched it that much.

The Fiery Joker asks:

"What are your plans for after the tourney?"

After the tournament, we'll return to doing regular battles like before. However, we might have another tournament - likely of a smaller scale - in the future, given the response this one is getting.

ClopperPokephile asks:

"Is it easier to calculate the stats of fanfic characters or canon characters, and why?"

That one really depends on the character! Canon characters in general tend to be easier, since...well...they're on the show. We can actually see them doing stuff and get better examples of how strong they are or smart they are that might be tougher to get from just text, but the downside is we can only use what we see in the episodes.

Fanfic characters can sometimes be easier to calculate stats for. They might be given descriptions that are vague and hard to judge, but on the other hand, they might be given in-depth descriptions of their powers that actually leave room to factor in formulas. Plus, except in some cases of short or cancelled fanfics, there's usually more information overall to be gathered from a fanfic than from the show. It just depends on the character and either the screentime they get in the show, or the length and descriptiveness of their fanfic.

DashieShy3597 asks:

"When you have normal battles with canon characters like you use to?"

I assume this person's asking when we're gonna have normal battles with canon ponies again.

After this tournament, we'll be getting back to our regular battles. Even before then, we'll be having one or two battles between tournament rounds to tide you over.

Hyperbole asks:

"Would it be possible to get Littlepip and Blackjack into the fray? Shit would hit the fan."

...oh crap. Yah-Shee! They're onto us! THEY KNOW OUR PLANS!

fanon44 asks:

"what did you think of the goku vs superman fight "

Pure AWESOME!

...what he said. I'd rather not humiliate myself by making the face he's making, though.

Loyal2Luna asks:

"Question: Changelings can take on the appearance and voice of anypony, this we know: but can they take on the abilities and memories as well (like the Skrull). If so, then can we consider changelings capable of imitating many of our pony-based combatants here?"

There has yet to be any evidence stating that Changelings can copy the abilities and memories of who they look like; if anything, there's evidence against it, with how Chrysalis's green magic wasn't disguised when she was disguised as Cadence. So unless a future episode says otherwise, for now, we run on the assumption that Changelings can't copy a pony's abilities and memories.

Though now I'm curious as to just how many ponies around here are actually Changelings in disguise...

*CLANG*

OW! Arrell, what the buck was that for?!

I thought you were a Changeling!

...just...move on to the next question...

codejunkie asks:

"I know this is being VERY anxious, but when can we expect The Second DEATH BATTLE!: Equestria Tournament?

Tod and/or Silver Sea from this collab story I'm in, Rainbooms Over Miami, would do a decent job in the games."

Likely not for a while after this one ends. It will also probably be a much smaller scale, with an actual limit to the number of fighters that will be involved.

Probably sixteen. That makes for eight battles in round one, four in round two, two in round three, and then the finale - making for a total of fifteen battles. A lot less than what we're sifting through in this tournament!

JJ Malcolm asks:

"Kngihtmare Here!

Who'd win if you pit me and my band[Octavia, vinyl, chrysalis, Nyx, Cadance, shining armor, lyra, bonbon, and the CMC] Against the entire cast of Twilight?

I really wanna know.

And, whoever wins, how severe would it be? [I really wanna know how big their graveyard will have to be,]"

Hey, it's Knightmare! Heya buddy!

Anyway...neither of us have seen Twilight for obvious reasons, so we can't really say. Sorry.

everyday we shufflin asks:

"Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

...I feel like that's a reference to something...

I don't get it.

Gizmo Hibiki asks:

"have you ever thought of doing battles with other characters against MLP/OC Characters besides Pokemon? Like maybe comics or manga or even more mature video games, like maybe Brolly vs Princess Celestia or even John Constantine vs Nightmare Moon?"

Yes, we do that sometimes...why did you think we didn't?

Scripture asks:

"1. Who are you both predicting to win in this tournament? Any bets?

If you were stranded on an island and could only bring one item and one other pony, what and who would it and they be?

Will there be a mega totally awesome outrageously dangerous chocolate coated ultra spectacular stellar gigantic super extreme Death Battle with all the combatants either in a free for all, against the actual FiM cast, or one really crazy amped up boss?"

We try to avoid bets or predictions so as to avoid favouritism, so we can't really answer that first question. For the second question, I would bring a carriage and Rainbow Dash, because she could fly the carriage with me in it back home. Easy loophole.

Huh...I was just gonna bring a rocket launcher and Pinkie Pie. Favourite pony, and some cool explosions!

And as for that last question...no, there won't be something like that.

GimmyJibbsJr asks:

"If I find a charcter with power equal to one of my characters, can I make a request? Obviously you don't have to do it, I was just wondering."

You are allowed to suggest any battles you want as long as they make sense. If they include OCs and are not part of the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament, the OC must be from a story that is at least somewhat well-known. These are the only real rules; you can even submit OCs from your own stories if you think the matchup makes sense.

But please make sure your story's actually well-written! If it gets to the point where the title of the story isn't even capitalized properly, you've got a major problem.

Yes, we've seen stories like that.

Solar Eclipse asks:

"Are you guys planning on adding real aliens in?

IE an Elite from the halo universe vs some sort of other alien? Maybe a human or a large enemy? Something actually extraterrestrial like that?

Do you plan on 2v2 battles?"

We try to make sure at least 50% of the combatants in each battle are from the pony universe, so it's highly unlikely we'd have an alien versus another alien. We also try to avoid having OCs go against non-pony-universe characters.

Aw...but I wanted to see aliens!

As for 2v2 battles, we've actually already done one: The Flim-Flam Brothers VS ATLAS and P-Body. We plan on making more in the future as well.

creepers dawn asks:

"Do you have a plan to end and or take over the world, if so can I join you."

What? No! That's outrageous!

Psst...yes, we do! But no, you can't join.

Arrell, what are you whispering?

NEXT QUESTION!

Pinkamena777 asks:

"Am i better than all of you in this show?"

HAHAHAno.

Satyr403 asks:

"do you plan 2v2 battles?"

As stated above, yes, we plan on doing more 2v2 battles in the future.

Blaze Spectrum asks:

"I have a few questions. And I'm sure they're quite selfish.

What limitations must be put on ponies with firearms? IE: Only one clip.

Can there be team battles? (4v4 8v8 maybe even 16v16)

Can you do anything from Halo against something in Equestria?"

When it comes to firearms, we only give as many limitations as are stated in the story! If no limitations are stated and the gun is pretty much just an ordinary gun, we limit its ammo depending on how much of an advantage it gives. In Brand Fire VS Plymouth Valiant, since the Desert Eagle was Valiant's only weapon, we basically just decided to only give it one magazine.

As for team battles, things like a 2v2 or 3v3 are doable, but anything above would be rather difficult. There's a reason we haven't done Mane Six VS Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

As for Halo versus Equestria...we'll work on it!

Dark Lightning asks:

"What about team matches with more than 2 on 2?

What'll be the first Death Battle AFTER the tournament?"

As stated above, team matches with more than two or three combatants per side would be rather difficult, and likely wouldn't happen.

And the first battle after the tournament has been decided, but it isn't gonna be revealed just yet!

2dextreem asks:

"How do you determine the setting of each battle? (Forest, canyon, desert, etc)

I ask because, given Marr Bell's ability to "swim" through stone, the outcome of her matches could hinge on her ability to use the environment to hide from attacks and launch surprises on her opponent."

When doing the judging and comparisons, we completely disregard the setting at first. We ignore any strengths or weaknesses involving the surroundings.

Basically, we assume the combatants are fighting in a black empty void. But when we get to writing the actual battle, that's when settings come into play!

Let's look at some recent battles. In Arrell Ragnarok VS Dark Lightning, the two fought in a canyon. However, due to Arrell being a Windigo, a different setting could have had changed the way the battle went drastically. If they were in a cold, Arctic-type arena, he could've constantly healed any damage he took by absorbing the ice. But if they were in a desert, he would've lost in seconds due to the heat weakening him.

But in Vinetion Lutin VS Lucario, we chose a forest, which gave Vine a lot more power! Notice a weird switch there?

If a character would be given a major advantage or disadvantage depending on the area, we choose a more neutral setting. However, if pretty much all of a character's abilities hinge on a specific environment - or we feel the only way to even things out is to use that environment - then we use it. However, this never affects the result.

This is about which character's the strongest, not which one has the biggest advantage in specific arenas! We only take time to choose a setting for the battle, which is for entertainment purposes only!

And before you complain, let me point something out. If a character relies on being in a specific setting to survive...well, they're probably not that good of a fighter, are they? Combatants have to be able to adapt to their surroundings. Having a type of setting where you thrive or one where you grow weaker is fine, but if you can only truly battle in one or two specific environments, you shouldn't be in this story in the first place.

The Rubber Fury981 asks:

"What has been your favorite battle to work on so far?"

...huh. Good question. I'd have to say the Cutie Mark Crusaders Free-For-All, for me. Really got to get interesting with the fight scene in that one!

I personally liked The Flim-Flam Brothers VS ATLAS and P-Body, or the tournament battle Brand Fire VS Plymouth Valiant. Both of them were rather interesting to research. Our creator, RLYoshi, considers it a tie between those three, but apparently he thinks future battles may take the number-one spot as his favourite.

Oh yeah! Can't wait for those ones!

m3Atl0afman asks:

"What battle(s) would you personally like to do on here?
If ever possible, would you like to see any of your battles made into video form??
What has been your favorite battle(s) from here (and from ScrewAttack's Death Battle) so far?
Has there been an episode of DB: Equestria where your preferred characters lost?
With Twilight's ascension into royalty, would you think the Mane Six Battle Royale's outcome would change whenever Season 4 eventually ends, assuming she's still a Princess by then?
Any thoughts on Mane6's new fighting game?
Objective thoughts on Equestria Girls?
Have you and will you ever be needing any help from outside sources for future matches?
And lastly, Yah-Shee, Arrell, what are your thoughts on Wiz and Boomstick?

And that's all I have for now. Keep up the good work, and here's to more battles! *raises cider class*"

Damn, that's a lot of questions.

Let's go down them one by one. First off, there aren't really any battles we'd like to do that we've thought of and haven't done or planned for. While it's true that we normally go by suggestions, we occasionally think of our own battle ideas, and we always do them. So answering that question would either be spoiling future battles, or just telling you about ones that already exist.

Our battles made into video form?! That'd be about a million dreams come true!

We already answered our favourite battles from our own story, but as for the actual Death Battle series, that one's easy. My favourite of that series would be the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Royale, because it showed greatly that strength isn't always what gives you the win - if it was, Raphael would have won. But it showed that smarts are also important, which is why Leonardo took the victory.

Superman VS Goku is obviously my favourite, but since that one's easy to tell, I'll tell you second place as well. Link VS Cloud Strife, since it was so close the entire time and the ending honestly took me by surprise!

We don't really have preferred characters for these battles, but I can safely say that RLYoshi was disappointed when Apple Bloom lost the Cutie Mark Crusaders Free-For-All.

Twilight being an alicorn hasn't shown to change anything aside from her being able to fly, really! For all we know, her magic's still just as strong as before, and her only advantage is flight. So while she may get a better spot in the ranking, she'd still probably lose to Pinkie Pie or Fluttershy. Of course, season four might completely change that, but who knows?

While we were both disappointed that Fighting Is Magic was cancelled, we're still looking forward to whatever Mane6 produces in its place. I can safely say that both of us, along with RLYoshi, will definitely be checking it out as soon as it's available.

Equestria Girls...eh.

Yeah...neither of us hate the idea, but we aren't paying much attention to it at the moment. It's just another movie that we're sort of looking forward to. We'll check it out when it comes out, but...we're not exactly keeping constant tabs on it.

And outside sources? Depending on the type of sources, we use those all the time! Google and Wikipedia, in particular. Usually for looking up properties of certain things, though, or earthquake math.

If you mean outside sources as in other places to get information on the characters from, we only use the show if they're a canon character, and if they're an OC we only use fanfics they appear in that their creator deems canon. For characters not pony-related, we only use information from whatever franchise they come from.

We did bend this rule for Ditzy Doo VS Vinyl Scratch, since we needed something to make them actually interesting. So we just went by common fan interpretations, and in the case of Vinyl Scratch, also the "Epic Wub Time" animation. We're only doing that for background ponies, though!

As for that final question...well, naturally, we admire them for their work! They're what inspired this story, after all!

Thank you for all those questions, Meatloaf-guy! Cheers!

...where'd you get that cider from?

I dunno.

SwimmingDalek98 asks:

"Will there be a second season of Death Battle: Equestria? One in which, say, new combatants can be entered? Or old combatants can be given a new chance to claim the title of 'Strongest Equestrian Warrior'? Hey, that should be the trophy: Strongest Equestrian Warrior. Well, feel free to call it what you like, I just want my first question answered. By the way, technically ponies are herbivores, right? Then WHY THE-
-do people think they can cannibalize? I mean, SERIOUSLY! Equines cannot gain any nutrition from eating meat! While they could evolve into it over hundreds of years, they're still UNABLE TO DO ANYTHING with meat right now. WHY are people so misinformed? WHY do they always make me feel lik I'm the only competent person around? WHY, WHY, WHY!?!?!?!?!?"

...someone's freaking out a bit.

Uh...to answer the question of yours that we actually understand...at the moment, we aren't planning on having DEATH BATTLE: Equestria be split into seasons. It'll be one story that gets more chapters and battles added to it over time. We'd rather not mark this story as "Complete" and then make a whole new story that's exactly the same. Sure, some other stories do that, but only because they've finished the main first arc and want to start a new arc. And if it wasn't obvious, DEATH BATTLE: Equestria doesn't really have arcs. Tournament notwithstanding.

Though if you were asking if we'd be having a second tournament, yep! We're planning on it...on a smaller scale, of course! And "Strongest Equestrian Warrior" actually sounds like a pretty badass title! Get a trademark on that, Steven!

...who?

Never mind.

Vinetion asks:

"Runners up (losers bracket) tournament possible at all? See who's best of the worst?

if AJ and big mac applebucked each other at the same time and had their hooves collided what would happen?

In relation to (above) what would be the resulting action of a colliding Falcon Punch, Warlock Punch, and Mega Buck?"

We're planning...not really a loser bracket, but something similar to give the "best of the worst" characters a second chance. We're calling it the Wild Card, and we'll be going more into that later.

Just keep an eye on your inbox if your character lost a battle! You never know what may happen!

If Applejack and Big Macintosh applebucked each other in the way described, Applejack's legs would break, if not every other bone in her body. Big Macintosh is easily much stronger than her.

And for that last question...no idea!

Seraphic Borealis asks:

"Which have been your favorites battles so far?"

We answered this question above.

And that's how we're capping things off. A repeat question!

Thank you all for your questions. If you have any others, post them in the comments. We'll either answer in the comments like normal, or have another Q&A sometime in the future.

Hunger Pains VS Marr Bell comes out whenever we can get someone to research Marr Bell!

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Battle 12: Trixie VS Gilda - Second Look

We put a lot of work into researching for these battles, but even we have to admit we may have screwed up along the way!

Our very first battle, pitting the unicorn stage magician Trixie against Rainbow Dash's old griffon friend Gilda, was not nearly as looked into as we look into battles nowadays.

A lot of you have pointed out little bits of info, such as "Hey, Trixie can't summon more than one lightning cloud!", and while normally we ignore this sort of thing, we still want to make extra sure our battles are completely accurate!

Today, we'll be watching Trixie and Gilda fight once more, this time using the decision processes we use for battles nowadays to look back on flaws and information we missed.

He's Yah-Shee and I'm Arrell!

And it's our job to accurately analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Seeing as we already went over most of the information in a previous battle, we'll be skipping all of that and getting to looking over information in ways we missed last time.

One really popular complaint you guys had was that Trixie shouldn't be able to teleport!

For one thing, it was never stated in the show that Twilight is the only pony that can teleport. And since both she and Trixie have magic itself as their special talent, it's likely that if one can do something, so can the other. The difference between the two is, as we stated, that Twilight has more raw power while Trixie is more experienced with what she has.

For example, let's say they both made a fireworks display. Trixie's would be really flashy and colourful with all sorts of cool lights, while Twilight's would consist of one gigantic light explosion in the sky. Huge, but really not that much to look at!

Seeing as how Twilight teleports around with absolute ease, it's likely that the main reason she can do it is because of her large amount of magical power. Trixie would theoretically be able to teleport rather quickly and to the exact spot she wanted, but not nearly as often.

But we're not just running off of assumptions here!

In her debut episode, Trixie performed a magic trick where she summoned a bouquet of flowers. As the act of creating matter is scientifically impossible, and there was nothing for her to transform-

Not to mention transformation spells being impossible for even Twilight to do at the time and not really brought up until season three!

-that leaves only one possibility: she teleported the flowers to herself from somewhere else. So she can definitely teleport objects, and it would not be out of the question to teleport herself.

One other thing you guys brought up a lot was the lightning clouds, saying she can only summon one! Honestly, this one kind of intrigued us.

First off, we can assume that the average adult mare is about four feet tall from hoof to head, ignoring their manes. This would mean that they would also be about two to three feet long, ignoring their tails. In the scene where Trixie summons a lightning cloud to zap Rainbow Dash, we can use Applejack as a comparison against the cloud by removing her hat, tail, and a certain amount of her mane from the image.

Through this, we can figure out that the cloud Trixie summoned was just under two feet tall and five feet long! Since we can't measure thickness due to the show's style, we'll have to go with the idea of a symmetrical cloud, and assume it's five feet wide as well!

Now, a cloud is made of water vapor, and there is always certain amounts of water vapor in the atmosphere. While just creating a cloud out of nowhere would be impossible, it would be possible to use magic to collect water vapor into a cloud, and so the idea if Trixie gathering water molecules into a roughly five-by-two-by-five-foot cloud is not beyond possibility. Gathering it into a lightning cloud, however, would be much more difficult.

Lightning is created by separation of electrical charge and generation of an electric field within a thunderstorm, and believe it or not, cold weather effects such as ice, hail, and graupel are essential to lightning development! If a cloud can't produce a lot of ice, it probably can't produce a lot of lightning!

...Arrell, I didn't know you knew so much about lightning. That's kind of...

Shocking?

...I set myself up for that one.

Yep!

Anyway, we have determined that, actually, we were wrong in the end. While the creation of a single lightning cloud or a series of regular clouds would be easy for Trixie, creating a huge amount of lightning clouds would be much more difficult. This also explains why the best she could do against the Ursa Minor was a single lightning cloud, and didn't summon more or a bigger one.

We can't accurately go by the information from Magic Duel, since Trixie was powered by the Alicorn Amulet, so that episode is basically-

Ah ah ah! Hold on a moment, Arrell.

Huh?

Yes, the Alicorn Amulet powered up Trixie's magic greatly. But that's exactly it.

...huh?

"Even though it provides great power, it also corrupts the user!"

"Provides great power". That's all the Alicorn Amulet does; it greatly enhances the magical capabilities of the wearer. Everything Trixie did in that episode, she can still do. It'd just be harder, since she'd have to work her magic a lot more in order to pull it off.

Then why the hay doesn't she use that power more often?!

Well...she's lazy. Plain and simple.

"You and I have some unfinished business...my magic's gotten better since I was here last. And I'm going to prove it!"

"Got any new moves in your tricktionary, or are you one hundred percent old school?"

Alrght, the combatants are set! Let's properly end this debate once and for all!

IT'S TIME FOR A REPEATED EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

"Well, this looks familiar," the unicorn muttered as she entered a clearing she knew from long ago. The sound of wings flapping alerted her to a presence behind her, and quickly jumped to the side, barely avoiding the swipe of a talon.

"Alright, you little horse," a griffon long since thought dead growled. "We're getting a round two!"

FIGHT!

Quickly, Trixie flared her horn up and summoned a cloud over Gilda, intending to quickly end this battle the same as before. Gilda saw this coming, however, and flew out of the way just as the lightning came out, hitting the spot where she just was.

"That won't work on me twice," the griffon declared haughtily. With a charge, she slammed into her opponent, knocking her back several feet. Rolling to her hooves, Trixie thought quickly. Just as Gilda was charging at her again, she summoned a small fireworks display, creating a series of blinding lights in front of her foe. Disoriented, the griffon missed her completely.

The pony did not let this opportunity be wasted. She ran up and tackled, grabbing onto the back of the slightly larger creature. Wrapping her hooves around her neck, she tried to strangle the griffon, but other plans were in the mind of her potential victim.

Using the close range to her advantage, Gilda swung a talon behind herself, cutting Trixie across the cheek. The unicorn's grip loosened, and that was all Gilda needed. She grabbed onto her forelegs, pulling them down to her chest where no real damage could be done, and flapped her wings. Quickly, she took off into the sky, Trixie still on her back.

"Get ready for a ride!" Gilda chuckled. She flew around at top speed, making Trixie dizzy and slightly nauseated. Getting an idea, Gilda flew down towards a large tree. Turning around, she slammed into the bark, back-first, crushing the unicorn between herself and the wood. She stayed there for a second, then flapped her wings again and flew off. She found another tree and repeated the process.

Trixie grunted in pain. This was beginning to get to be too much for her. She started concentrating on her magic again, trying to keep one spell going despite all the hits she was getting. It was hard, considering this was a spell she had only done once before, and that was with help.

Gilda hadn't noticed her unwilling rider's glowing horn, and continued to fly around, smashing her into anything she could find.

POOF!

Suddenly, Gilda lost control of her flying. She yelped as she began spiraling out of control. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw her right wing. It had suddenly grown!

Unable to pull herself out of her descent, Gilda braced for impact. She slammed hard into a tree, crashing right through it. She hit the ground and completely released her hold on Trixie's legs. With a bit of a stumble, the unicorn jumped away from the griffon.

Growling, Gilda started to get up. "You little...fix my wing! Right now!"

Trixie was panting heavily. "Even if I had...the energy to do that...I wouldn't." She smirked.

With a roar, Gilda ran at her...only to fall over due to the excess weight on her right side. With a grunt, she hit the ground again and tried to get up.

"Say, have you ever heard the saying 'lightning never strikes the same place twice'?"

Gilda looked up. A black cloud loomed over her.

"They lied."

ZAP!

One powerful electrocution later, all that remained of Gilda was - once again - a pile of ashes.

K.O.

There we go, people! Happy?

See, I could go into a list of reasons as to why Trixie won a second time, but...really, it's the same reasons as last time. This battle's outcome wasn't affected because the lightning clouds - and even the teleportation - from the first battle weren't part of the research. They were only there for the battle's sake to make it interesting.

So now you can stop griffon us so much hate over this!

The winner was and still is Trixie.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria!

We took a break from the tournament to do this, but next time, we'll really be getting to Hunger Pains VS Marr Bell! Stay tuned!

Got a suggestion for a Death Battle? Post a comment below suggesting matchups, or send me a PM with suggestions in it!

You may suggest OC characters, provided they are from a story on this site that is at least somewhat well-known.

Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

Tournament Battle 6: Jack Khajiit VS Abstract the Dark

Deciding to get right back into it, the two hosts sat at their microphones and began to speak.

Next up in line, we've got a matchup that makes pretty much no sense...but that's what you get when you use a random number generator!

Jack Khajiit, Somnambula's chess piece...

...and Abstract the Dark, sole survivor of the Crystallions!

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Jack Khajiit

Species: Bast (formerly human)
Occupation: Waiter
Wooden right hand containing a hidden blade
Wields an unbreakable sword named Erebus
Trained in combat by Ren-Thel
Likes mangoes

Once a human living on Earth, "Mango" Jack Khajiit was sent to Equestria to take part in the Chessgame of the Gods, being turned into a catlike creature called a bast along the way.

Long story short, he had a lot of bad luck, and eventually started realizing that Equestria isn't all sunshine and puppies! ...you know, like every chess piece eventually learns!

After being captured and accidentally naming himself "Mango Jack", he escaped being sacrificed as a gift to the Gods with the help of an elderly bast named Ren-Thel. Ren took it upon himself to teach Jack how to survive and fight.

...mostly against Jack's will, of course.

After a final encounter with the tribe that imprisoned him, Jack lost his right arm. He was later given a wooden arm as a replacement, which contains a hidden half-foot ivory dagger that he can pull out to fight with, capable of splitting a hair just by weight. Also, having an arm made of solid wood can make for some rather damaging punches...if he can get around the awkwardness of it enough to swing accurately.

And since he's right-handed, he can't use his left arm very well. However, he makes up for this disadvantage with Atheris, a golden snake bracelet that can come to life!

Jack acquired Atheris during a "test" of Ren's to help him face his fear of snakes. After killing a giant snake, he found the bracelet and later learned that he could use Latin words to make it do things, such as come to life and talk. A brief stint where he was nicknamed Nag later, Atheris became rather helpful to Jack, even acting as a grappling hook to let him swing around and travel easier.

He also wields a scimitar, given to him by Ren, named Erebus! It comes with a pure obsidian blade, which is either enchanted or forged exceptionally well, as it never needs to be sharpened - and it's already sharp to begin with, capable of easily destroying almost all armor!

However, while he may be armed, Jack is not used to fighting. His acquaintances tend to have little to no hope in him winning any battles, and without his blades or Atheris, all he can do is dodge until he can get in blows bit by bit. However, he has shown that he possesses at least the ability to battle properly; he managed to fight off a mugger while seriously drunk, broke out of prison after being unfairly arrested, and took down a gigantic diamond dog despite lacking both Erebus and Atheris.

Even though he's still learning how to fight with his new body and lack of limb, Jack can still hold his own! The question, though, is if he can win today, or will he let himself get backed into a corner? Cause knowing him, it could go either way!

"I would go through losing my hand again if this day would just END!"

Abstract the Dark

Species: Alicorn Crystallion
Last remaining Crystallion
Controls darkness and crystals
Drains abilities and magical aura
Pure evil

Ten thousand years ago, the Crystallions lived in the underground caves that ponies mined in, feeding on the darkness within. After reaching the surface, they attempted to claim new lands, only to be fought off by an alliance between the ponies and the minotaurs. The sole survivor, Abstract the Dark, fled to the mines beneath Canterlot, where he waited to become strong enough to return.

So he's a lord of crystals and darkness, and is pure evil...it's like Sombra with actual dialogue!

After his return, he took on and defeated Princesses Celestia and Luna, hid the Elements of Harmony, and gave a few good monologues. He's proven himself to be an overwhelming force thanks to his power over crystals and darkness, capable of manipulating them effortlessly. He can also create storms and form shadows into pony forms to send into battle.

He can also drain his foes' abilities, rather than outright killing them, and can absorb their magical aura to kill them after a while! ...of course, that whole "aura-draining" thing only works on unicorns.

He can also corrupt ponies to turn them into his own minions. However, as no outside help is allowed and the idea is to kill your opponent rather than corrupt them, this ability won't be very useful.

One thing you can definitely say about this guy: he's damn patient!

That's right, Arrell. Abstract waited ten thousand years just to make a single attack, and spends a lot of time planning his actions in advance. However, he isn't very good at improvising or quick thinking...or even strategy for that matter, since he relies more on sheer power and overwhelming his foes to win the day. He once sent his entire army to deal with a different threat while he left himself stupidly undefended.

He prefers making his foes suffer rather than actually killing them, either through torturing them or sucking them dry of power! ...definitely a point onto the "pure evil" list, even if there isn't a lot of references to that in the actual story besides the Elements of Harmony being useless against him.

Furthermore, Abstract is very oblivious to details that usually come back to haunt him. Not to mention his main weakness is...light.

Light?

Well, it has to be strong and concentrated light, but...yeah...light.

...well, let's see if a shadow-controlling alicorn can lose to a cat with a wooden hand.

"Hmph. These 'gods' actually perform within mundane tasks, and find it amusing. If only my emperor were still alive...I shall uphold his will and conquer the world of light, and bring with me shadows and crystal. They shall fail when they try to counter me, and I will become the new emperor. It is time."

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

IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

In the forest, two strange creatures made their way to the designated battlefield. One was a crystal alicorn; the other was a bipedal cat. Both were ready for the fight that would ensue.

FIGHT!

Jack drew his sword, but didn't charge. He stayed where he was, keeping an eye on Abstract, waiting for him to make the first move. And he did; with a malicious grin, the Crystallion summoned a shadow pony, sending it off to attack.

The bast was slightly taken off guard by the new foe, but didn't show it. He jumped to the left to dodge the shadow's initial attack, then swung his scimitar and cleaved it neatly in two. He then looked back at Abstract, not letting his eyes stray.

...except now, it was too late, as Abstract had summoned about fifteen more shadow ponies, all of which were stampeding towards Jack.

His eyes widened and he jumped back several times, trying to put as much distance between himself and the swarm as possible so he could think of a way out. He ended up with his back against a tree, and silently cursed his luck. The stampede was right there now, so all he could do was swing his sword to take as many of them down as he could in the short time he had.

It didn't last long. He killed about three shadows before he was tackled by another from the side and sent sprawling across the ground. Quickly, he threw the creature off and jumped to his feet, swinging his blade wildly. He managed to decapitate his assailant, along with two other shadows that tried to join in the dogpile.

Abstract watched with mild amusement as his opponent was slowly appearing overwhelmed. He frowned when Jack managed to sidestep another attack and casually kill yet another shadow, wondering if this foe was as weak as he originally imagined.

The bast continued to dodge and swing, killing these shadow creatures one at a time. Soon, there were only two left, but his constant dodging soon landed him backed up against a tree. He gulped as the two shadows tackled him at once. He tried to swing his sword, but it got knocked out of his grip as he was taken to the ground.

Grunting, he pushed the shadows off and swung his wooden fist, crushing the head of one of them. He quickly repeated this with the other one and stood back up, breathing a little heavily.

Abstract growled and began to fly away. He needed to plan this out further. His shadows were useless.

The bast, however, noticed his intention to escape. "Excitaret." With that word, Jack lifted his left hand, and the seemingly ornamental snake around his wrist flickered to life. One mental command later, it shot out, aiming right for the fleeing alicorn.

The Crystallion grunted as he felt something grab onto his wing. He tried to keep flying away, but with only one wing to pull himself with, he didn't have much success. He started being reeled in. He turned back to see that Jack was on the other end of the line and smirked. Without his sword, the bast wouldn't be able to do much of anything, and it was only a matter of time before the viper let go. Then he'd just have to drain Jack of his abilities and watch him suffer.

Then Jack pulled the end off of his wooden arm. An ivory blade came into view.

Abstract's smirk vanished.

One final tug, and Atheris deposited Abstract at Jack's feet. Using his real arm, the former human grabbed the alicorn by the neck to keep him from escaping. Wasting no more time, he drove his knife into Abstract's chest.

The Crystallion howled in pain before going silent. Just to be sure, Jack pulled the blade out and stuck it back into several other points on his opponent's chest. He finished off with a stab in the throat.

Finally, he dropped the definitely dead alicorn to the ground and put his wooden arm back together. Before he walked away from the scene, he gave a final command to his snake.

"Somnum."

Atheris returned to being wrapped around his wrist and turned inanimate once more, and Jack walked away.

K.O.

...what?

While Abstract may be exceptionally powerful-

WHAT?

...he had his fair share of faults as well. His oblivious nature kept him from realizing the significance of the snake around Jack's wrist, as well as suspecting that his wooden arm may be hiding a weapon. Not to mention that while he can create his own shadow pony minions, they're rather weak and easy for a nimble cat like Jack to dodge.

Plus...it kind of makes sense that Jack's wooden arm wouldn't be much of an issue. Since Abstract prefers fighting by just overwhelming his opponents with his power, he wouldn't get into close combat range unless forced to, so it's not like Jack was missing a good opportunity to punch him!

Jack isn't much of a fighter, but then again, neither is Abstract. Both of them have various flaws, but really, Jack had an easier time thanks to his small arsenal of weapons, while Abstract only had magic that could easily be avoided. And before people start bugging us about why Abstract didn't use his other powers, it's simple: he didn't have time. He underestimated Jack and thought his shadow pony minions could do the job, and when they didn't, he tried to head somewhere safe to plan or feed on darkness to power up. Jack just caught him off guard, pulled him in, and killed him too quickly.

If only Abstract thought to dis-arm his opponent...

The winner is Jack Khajiit.

Next time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:

Seth Disarmonia VS Big Lugnut!

Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!

Tournament Battle 7: Seth Disarmonia VS Big Lugnut

Now we're getting to some of the more creative stuff! ...or less creative, depending on your opinion.

We've got Seth Disarmonia, the pony creation of Discord himself...

...and Big Lugnut, the robot pony!

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Seth Disarmonia

Full Name: Setali Depongono le Uova di Disarmonia
Species: Unicorn pony
Occupation: Library assistant
Created by Discord the draconequus
Trained by Captain Shining Armor
Possible narcoleptic?

Created by Discord for reasons unknown to him, Seth is a unicorn pony whose first sight of the world into which he was born was watching the Elements of Harmony take down his creator.

Damn, and I thought I had it rough waking up to my ex-wife!

However, Seth didn't feel the need to seek revenge on these ponies; a fact that has surprised even himself. In fact, he has even befriended them, as well as gotten together romantically with Rainbow Dash.

OF COURSE!

Curious as to why exactly he was created, Seth hitched a ride with everypony's favourite Doctor and went to the past, where he learned exactly what devious plan the draconequus had thought of that required his existence:

He was bored.

Yeah, basically.

And he doesn't hate the mane six because...?

Elements of Harmony made him good.

...huh. Interesting. Anticlimactic, but interesting.

Seth is often a friendly pony, but he can have moments of snarkiness, either out of irritation or simply for the sake of making a joke. He hates feeling useless, becoming restless from sitting on the sidelines, meaning he could be a bit of a "Leeroy Wingkins". However, he's also rather intelligent and quick-thinking, as seen when he near-instantaneously deduces that 2.3 is 460% of 0.5.

Not to mention, thanks to combat training, he can summon a blade with his magic and use it to battle rather effectively, even being able to take down Shining Armor in a spar!

But even that's not the culmination of his strength. When he was confronted with Inferno - a gargoyle who couldn't even be permanently defeated by the Elements of Harmony - during the Canterlot Wedding, he was able to resist a fair amount of pain and still keep going, albeit without doing much against Inferno himself.

And then Inferno pressed the berserk button...

"Oh yes, the mare you love. Your precious little Rainbow Dash. Trust me, you may be an oddity, but dating her is nothing special."

"What are you talking about?"

"I've seen many universes, and I've seen many different relationships between beings, but none more than that girlfriend of yours. I haven’t seen anyone else with more partners than her. Stallions, mares, other species, even inanimate objects. So if you think of all these as the same mare, then overall she’s the biggest slut in the universe!"

...ooh.

Yeah...the result of this was, basically, Seth giving Inferno the biggest beating of either of their lives - offscreen, of course - and both of them blacking out.

However, Seth doesn't seem to show this odd power anytime unless he gets suitably angry. On the other hand, this still proves he is capable of such strength, though the fact that it even knocks himself out afterwards may be an issue.

But being a unicorn, his strength doesn't lie in physical strength, but in magic! ...which he doesn't seem to have a lot of.

Beyond basic levitation, Seth doesn't seem to know many spells, but what he does know is very useful. He can teleport, even across major distances from Canterlot to Ponyville - a trip that takes several hours by train - but not without getting a major headache.

He can also summon a rapier to battle with, which he's not that bad with! He can also summon arrows, a giant elephant-sized fireball, and a force field that he can maintain pretty easily and keep moving around him. Talk about a diverse magical arsenal!

He also has a modified gem-finding spell, which he's been able to use to find just about any material, so long as he can analyze a sample of it beforehand. He even managed to track down cake in the digestive tracts of the mane six...yes, that makes sense in context.

All in all, Seth is honest and quick-thinking, and usually not the kind of guy you want to mess with...which is kind of weird, considering how he looks and acts like a really ordinary OC!

Unlike a variety of other characters who look and act overpowered from the start, or have that cliché of being really nice only to become a badass as soon as fists fly, Seth is just as good in a fight as you would expect a mostly ordinary unicorn with a bit of Royal Guard training to be.

Rage-induced whoopass can opener aside, Seth is just a trained unicorn with fast reflexes and a weird backstory. While this keeps him from having any extreme flaws, it also keeps him from having any extreme advantages as well, so...we'll see how this works out for him!

"Now I don’t know how you would act in this situation, but I was happy because it now all made sense to me. Why I became friends with the wielders of the elements. Why I fell in love with Rainbow Dash. Now despite that one difference between me and the rest of you, I'm just a normal pony, and I hope you can look past this whole Discord thing and see me as that. A normal pony."

Big Lugnut

Species: Iron Skeleton
Occupation: Sweet Apple Acres farmer
Capable of super speed and strength
Has a personality, unlike typical robots
Stubborn and competitive when annoyed
Believes things are so "because hexagons"

Robots in Equestria! ROBOTS IN EQUESTRIA!

Originally an ancient machine stolen by the Flim Flam Brothers for the purpose of acquiring Sweet Apple Acres, Big Lugnut was soon freed from being under their control by Twilight Sparkle. This had the side effect of leaving him knowing only his name, several things that were common knowledge, and the belief that he was an actual stallion rather than a robot - until he saw himself in a mirror, anyway.

ROBOTS IN EQUESTRIA!

...despite being a robot, Lugnut has a personality just like other ponies. He's usually calm and somewhat literal-minded, but he also has knowledge of what constitutes as rude, meaning he can get offended and even annoyed, arguing with ponies he thinks are-

ROBOTS IN I'm done now.

...thank you.

No problem! Anyway, Lugnut isn't so much a robot as he is an Iron Skeleton - a kind-of-robot that'll eventually shed his metal coat and become an ordinary earth pony! Which is pretty boring, if you ask me.

For the sake of keeping this battle interesting, we'll be analyzing Lugnut as he is before becoming an ordinary pony, since it's his robot form that drives the story in the first place.

And anyone who complains about us not using the "current version" can shut up and deal with it, because robots!

Lugnut lacks the need to eat, drink, sleep, rest, or anything of the sort. He also doesn't appear to be capable of feeling physical pain, though his actual body can still be damaged by it. He's also still susceptible to emotional pain.

Big Lug is super fast and super strong, able to outrun trains and smash rocks with little to no effort! Problem is, sometimes he has trouble figuring out just how strong he is, taking "does not know his own strength" to a literal level!

However, despite his brawn, he lacks proper brains. Common knowledge aside, he doesn't know much unless he's specifically told about it, such as when he didn't even know what bits were while trying to help Applejack run the Sweet Apple Acres stand. He sees fit to do things without fully thinking about them, sometimes not even noticing he's doing them due to more or less daydreaming.

Also, he's probably the first robot I've ever seen who's able to be snarky!

"I think she's made it painfully obvious she wouldn't even go out of her way to expectorate on my account!"

...why would they program the robot to be snarky?

Well, I don't think whoever made the Iron Skeletons programmed them. They kinda just created a sort-of-robotic male pony and female pony and used them to make other ponies, or something like that.

You didn't really get it either, huh?

Nope.

Huh...well, anyway. Aside from his high brawn, low brain, and realistically pony-like personality, there isn't much to talk about when it comes to Lugnut. He's stubborn at times, apologetic at others, has existential crises on a daily basis, and is pretty much immune to pain.

But still, he's a robot!

We noticed.

"I have arrived! Observe my superior power and admit your defeat!"

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

IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE WITH ROBOOOOTS!

In the orchard of Sweet Apple Acres, a robotic stallion was noisily walking around, knocking apples off of trees with one-legged bucks. He seemed at peace, but then again, he never showed much emotion anyway.

Out of nowhere, there was a loud clanging sound as some sort of weapon struck the robot in the side. The pony-shaped machinery turned nonchalantly to look, finding a black unicorn with red eyes and a blueish mane and tail. The pony jumped back upon realizing his rapier had no effect, assuming a battle stance.

"That was rude," the robot said simply, turning his body to face the assailant, the apple trees now forgotten.

FIGHT!

The two stared each other down for a bit; Seth trying to analyze his opponent, and Lugnut simply waiting for a response to his statement. When it became clear that no reply would be given, and that this pony was not planning to leave anytime soon, Lugnut decided he should repay him for his attempted attack.

Going from completely still to full speed in less than half a second, the robot shot forward, preparing to slam into Seth. Eyes widening at the sudden charge, the spawn of Discord just barely managed to dive to the side, causing Lugnut to run right past him. However, it didn't take long for him to turn around, preparing to try again.

This time, Seth lit his horn and teleported, disappearing from Lugnut's vision. The robotic stallion stopped as quickly as he started, looking around for any sign of his foe. He neglected to look up; if he had, he would've seen the unicorn perched on a tree branch. Seth was smart enough to know that if he was seen, though, it wouldn't be too hard for the robot to topple the tree with him on it. He flashed his horn two more times; once to cast a cloud-walking spell, and another to teleport onto a nearby cloud, still not too far from where Lugnut was still looking around in confusion.

Can't just stay here the whole time... the unicorn thought to himself. He took his rapier and jumped off the cloud, aiming himself down at the robot, hoping to score a surprise attack. Instead, he was the one surprised, as the rapier only made a metallic noise and bounced right off the iron body, while he slammed facefirst into the same body. He fell to the ground, clutching a bloody nose.

Lugnut turned to Seth and tilted his head. "If you are attempting to hurt me, I should let you know that you are not doing very well."

Seth punched Lugnut in the face. This only caused Lugnut's head to spin around and Seth to grab his hoof, teeth gritted as he held back a yell of pain.

"You still aren't succeeding." Bored of this, Lugnut turned and bucked the stallion as hard as he could.

At least, he thought he did. Instead, he bucked nothing but air, as Seth managed to teleport himself to the side just in time. He fought back the pain and stood up, no longer bothering with the obviously useless rapier. Tired of not doing anything, he ran forward and tackled Lugnut. While this didn't seem to hurt the robot, it did take him by surprise.

"Get off of me!" Lugnut demanded, trying to buck Seth off. Seth, for his part, held on tightly and refused to let go, despite his body rocking around so much he felt like he was going to throw up. Suddenly, Lugnut stopped. "Fine then."

As soon as those robotic words had droned out, the metallic farmer started running at top speed in a straight line. Seth cried out and continued holding on, bracing himself against the trees they constantly smashed through. He started losing his grip, and in a last-ditch attempt to keep his opponent from gaining the upper hoof, he teleported once more onto a cloud high up in the air.

This time, however, he took Lugnut with him. His worried face became a smile as he watched the robot drop right through the cloud to the ground below...

...only to go back to worrying when he landed on all fours without a scratch.

"Oh, come on!" Seth growled. He teleported back down to the ground, beginning to use his magic to fire red bolts of energy at the robot. Lugnut tried to avoid them, but he was too large and clumsy, and he was struck several times. This didn't affect him that much, but Seth had a feeling it was doing something.

Lugnut didn't like what was happening. He tried charging Seth again, but he ended up slamming into a forcefield. The unicorn inside grabbed his head from the force of the giant object slamming into the shield, but managed to keep it going. The robot turned around and bucked the shield a couple of times, but on the third buck he found that the shield was no longer there. Seth had dropped it and jumped to the side.

Deciding to try and trap Lugnut's hooves with magic, Seth grabbed his hind legs as they bucked out in a telekinetic grip. This didn't have the effect he desired, as despite his magical aura clearly being around the limbs, Lugnut seemed unaffected.

"What the hell?!" Now completely frustrated, Seth dropped all sense of caution and started charging something with his magic, either unaware of or ignoring the fact that Lugnut could clearly see him doing so. The robot, for his part, simply watched with partial curiosity and partial confusion, until he saw the fireball appearing above Seth's horn.

"Oh." Lugnut's response was casual, but he was actually feeling rather worried. Being metal, that fire could easily melt him; to make matters worse, they were in the middle of a grove of trees, and he refused to let Sweet Apple Acres be incinerated by this insane stallion. He ran forward and tackled Seth before he could unleash the fireball.

Nevertheless, even though it wasn't at full power, the fireball still was deployed. Several trees caught fire instantly, and the burning spread faster than either combatant could realize. They were both safe at first, but as trees started to topple, they knew things were about to get dangerous for them both, even without the other there.

Turning around, Lugnut started running off. He crashed through a burning fallen tree, the metal on his body cracking and melting a fair amount instantly. Seth saw this and teleported after his foe, needing a few castings to catch up and then get a fair distance ahead. He fought back the exhaustion from such a thing and turned.

As Lugnut charged by, Seth lit his horn and grabbed onto what seemed like an exposed piece of machinery, previously hidden by the metal coat. With a tug, he broke off and yanked out a small piece of a gear from the side of his foe's body. Lugnut continued running by without stopping, but as he lost a piece of his inner workings, he stumbled before righting himself. His running seemed slightly slower after that.

He kept running, determined to get away from the burning forest. It didn't take long, even at his hindered speed, to get out into the field just outside the farm. He turned back to look, ashamed that he let all of Sweet Apple Acres burn like that. He briefly wondered what Applejack would say.

Seth, however, didn't let him entertain that worry for very long before he teleported into existence right beside him. Lugnut turned, anger not evident in his face but definitely in his voice.

"You did this," he growled. "You caused this!"

The unicorn shrugged before casting another spell. As Lugnut prepared to charge at him, he analyzed the piece of gear he had taken, then began to search for anything similar within Lugnut's body. He wasn't disappointed, and he was able to find and grab onto several other gears with his magic.

The robot found himself unable to move. He tried to tug at whatever was holding him, but it didn't work; it was as though his body had shut down, yet he was still able to see and hear. What was going-

CRACK!

With a strong tug, Seth yanked on every single gear he could find. Lugnut's iron skin, weakened by the fire, was no match for the sudden magical pull. His body broke open in several places as gears were forced out and deposited unceremoniously onto the ground. While he was at it, Seth grabbed onto every wire or switch he could see with the new viewpoints, and pulled those out into the smoke-filled air as well.

His innards being ripped out of him like wrapping paper on a child's birthday gift, Lugnut began to shut down. The last thing he saw before going offline was that unicorn walking away.

K.O.

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This battle came down to, surprisingly enough, a battle of science against magic. While Lugnut was equipped with plenty of strength and resistance, he lacked the unique powers that Seth had. There wasn't much Lugnut could do to fight aside from simple physical attacks, and Seth could easily get away from those.

Of course, with Big Lug being pretty much impervious to damage, Seth couldn't do a whole lot either! It really came down to trying to shut ol' Luggy down, since killing him was obviously out of the question.

With his modified gem-finding spell and levitation, Seth showed that he could have won the battle as soon as it started if he knew how Lugnut worked. However, since the Equestrian Death Battle rules state that the combatants must have no prior knowledge of each other unless they've met in canon stories, he had to resort to fighting normally until he learned how to take down his opponent.

Looks like Big Lug just bot himself a ticket to the repair shop!

The winner is Seth Disarmonia.

Next time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:

Well, a couple battles are being skipped. The story Rorry/Mirr came from has been rebooted, and so no information is present to judge them with; therefore, Rorry/Mirr has been disqualified. In addition, the author who submitted Bronze has been banned from the site; therefore, Bronze has also been disqualified. Sigma and Ice get byes and are instantly put through to the next round.

So the next battle will be Blue Breeze VS Quick Fix!

Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!

Tournament Battle 8: Blue Breeze VS Quick Fix

Pegasus OCs are pretty damn common - take out alicorns, and they may be the most common species used for original characters! So it makes sense we'd eventually come to a battle between two of them.

We've got Blue Breeze, the weather pony with wind-based powers...

...and Quick Fix, the former human and Agent of Discord! ...wait a second, didn't we just have one of those?

That was the Spawn of Discord, Arrell. This is completely different.

But-

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle!

Blue Breeze

Species: Pegasus pony
Occupation: Weather pony
Has special wind-based powers
Son of a Royal Guard
Immense knowledge of weather
Extremely determined

Born in Cloudsdale with a strong curiosity of how the Everfree Forest works-

Weird combination.

...Blue Breeze is a pegasus weather pony with special elemental powers, just like former contestants Dark Lightning and Vinetion Lutin.

He's got a huge array of wind-based powers! Like the Wing Wave, which consists of sharp winds launched from his wings that can cut most objects! Or the Blue Typhoon, which can launch even pillars that weigh several thousand pounds!

Uh...Arrell, we're not supposed to get into the attacks quite yet.

Oh...whoops. Uh...early preview?

Ugh...anyway. Blue Breeze grew up in Cloudsdale, but moved to Ponyville to continue investigating the many mysteries of the Everfree Forest. Specifically, he wanted to try and learn how the weather in the forest takes care of itself. Over time, as he studied this and continued trying to live an ordinary life otherwise, he met up with other ponies who had elemental powers similar to himself.

That's right, this guy is the keystone for all those elemental ponies we've seen! ...or that have gotten byes, like Ice.

In addition to befriending these ponies, Blue also made friends with the rest of the mane six, getting involved romantically with Rainbow-

TWO IN A ROW! TWO IN A BUCKING ROW! WHAT THE HELL!

...let's move onto the attacks.

Two in a bucking row...gah...

In addition to what Arrell mentioned earlier, Blue also has the Hurricane Hoof and Blustering Buck; two mostly similar attacks that consist of building up wind energy in his hooves to increase the strength of his punches or bucks. Hurricane Hoof is for his front legs, and Blustering Buck is for his hind legs.

No clue why they need different names, but hey, fine by me! I used to call my Royal Guard armor "Ted", and the helmet "Sheldon"!

...I don't think that's really the same thing as this, Arrell.

Eh. Moving on! Blue's got a ton of other attacks, but his most devastating one by far is the Blender!

This attack consists of Blue creating a giant tornado, which he then fires Wing Waves into, letting the waves get caught up in the winds and bounce around, creating the effect of a gigantic blender - hence the name. He can then manipulate the tornado with flaps of his wings, moving it around to catch enemies.

Will it blend? Damn right it'll blend if you're using this thing, son!

Despite his impressive moveset, Blue Breeze does not consider himself a fighter. He's normally a friendly and jokey pony, only getting into fights when absolutely necessary. He can rush into danger a bit too much at these points, going off instinct rather than planning. If this fails, however, he'll take the time to search for a weak point.

It helps that he can fight in both close combat and at a distance! He's been trained in hoof-to-hoof combat, and his father was a Royal Guard, so that says a lot about what he can do when he tries. And with those wind attacks, it'd be tough for any ordinary pony to do much to him! Hell, even the other elemental ponies have had trouble taking him down!

However, Blue's greatest strength has got to be his determination. Far beyond being just stubborn or resistant to pain, Blue has literally never given up unless he was physically incapable of moving. If he can still stand, he'll fight. If he can still move a hoof, he'll punch. He won't give up until he's unconscious or dead.

He once lost his wings while fighting the ruler of Tartarus itself and still kept going!

And I'm very glad you brought that up, Arrell, because that brings us to another point: his wings. After losing his wings in that battle, the princess gave him new griffon wings, allowing him to fly even faster than before and increasing the strength of his Wing Waves.

See? One does simply walk into Tartarus!

Being a weather pony, Blue also has knowledge of the environment, which he can use to his advantage. He also has a natural resistance to electrical attacks, though too much will still affect him. In addition to all this, he has at least some martial arts knowledge and can fight on his hind legs. This, in addition to his wind attacks and determination, makes him one of the deadliest "normal" ponies around.

Not bad for a guy who studies a forest all day.

"Whether it be a mountain, a freezing tundra, godly foes, or the apocalypse itself, I'm ready for whatever life throws at me... except maybe chimicherrychangas no longer being made."

Quick Fix

Real Name: Quentin Clemens
Species: Pegasus pony (formerly human)
Has "shivers" that alert him to danger
Natural resistance to magic
Can't fly well without a training cloud

Quentin Clemens was a 25-year-old human who, along with three friends and a dog, got pulled into Equestria due to a combination of Discord and a teleportation machine.

...what?

The reason he was sent there was, as it turns out, was for he and his friends to be soldiers for Discord in an upcoming war and bring about the Aponylypse.

...what?!

Honestly, I don't know either.

Gah...

Anyway...now known as Quick Fix, he has acquired a few powers since his arrival. One power in particular that he had even as a human, however, are his shivers. When something is going or about to go wrong, he'll be alerted in the form of a sudden shiver.

Of course, this can't just be used as some perfect Spider Sense ripoff. He gets the same shiver every time, no matter how big the problem is! From an argument next door to being about to be kicked in the balls, anything nearby that can be considered a case of something going wrong makes him shiver, so it's not the most reliable source of information!

He also has a natural resistance to magic, since he used to be a human and apparently that's how things work in this universe. He has been noted as being able to break "unbreakable" magical cuffs, get teleported only a few miles away rather than across the multiverse, and actually bite Discord's finger when he was supposed to be intangible.

I dunno about him, but I'd have been scrubbing my tongue for hours after that! I don't know where that finger's been!

Quick Fix also has a wooden staff, which comes with an orb on the top that can absorb magic of any type and form. Once charged, the gem can either launch a lightning ball, or simply hit with greater force than before. Naturally, the staff can be used as a weapon with or without this magical power, but due to staffs being more of defensive weapons, it likely wouldn't be very useful in this type of situation.

He also has a set of armour, designed by Rarity to be "Pinkie-Proof"! It can serve as body armour against sharp weapons, and can dull the pain of any attacks like any set of clothes would. Combined with the plating and chain-mail he later added, this makes him pretty defensive!

However, this armour is not just for the sake of having it. While he does know Tae Kwon Do and has been trained for other fighting purposes during his time in Equestria, Quick Fix is pretty easy to land some hits on when you get past his layers of defense. Magical resistance aside, he can't do much of anything against ranged attacks, due to having almost none of his own to fight back with.

That's right; the same guy who's taken down Royal Guards and timberwolves could be weak to a common bow and arrow!

Well, maybe not that bad...

Look at this, Yah! He can't even fly that well to get out of the way of stuff like that! He had to use a training cloud for a while!

That is a good point, but it should also be noted that Quick Fix has been implied to have the potential to be a rather good flyer. Even while using a training cloud, which slows down flight speed, he was able to keep up with Rainbow Dash before she went into a Sonic Rainboom. Plus, he doesn't need the training cloud anymore. He just...sometimes forgets to use his wings.

Still, being an adult pegasus who needs a training cloud even temporarily is probably one of the biggest stigmas a pegasus can earn! Sure, he's got justification because he used to be human, but I can't look at him and think "tough guy" anymore! I literally can't!

...it doesn't seem that bad to me.

Well, you're not the pegasus here, are ya?

Right...moving on. Quick Fix normally tries to plan, but has a habit of rushing into things and getting caught up in the heat of the moment. While he has survived everything thrown at him so far with surprising displays of combat skill, that sort of attitude rarely yields positive results.

Sadly.

That aside, Quick Fix's personality is rather ordinary and doesn't really affect his fighting performance. Nice sometimes, snarky other times, flirty all the time. Just your average human-turned-pony.

Discounting the whole "Discord's agent" thing, of course.

"So that's it. I spend days with being toyed with by Discord and brought to my mental breaking point, and now I'm just thrown out of it."

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

IT'S TIME FOR A PEGASUS EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

Within the abandoned remains of an old town, an orange pegasus was trotting along, keeping an eye out around him for the opponent he knew he was going to face. Just when all seemed quiet, a bunch of dust was kicked up in front of him, and he jumped back.

Once the dust cleared, another pegasus stood, his large wings outstretched to increase his intimidation factor. The orange pony, unaffected by the tactic, just smirked and prepared his staff.

FIGHT!

Blue Breeze made the first move by flapping his wings, lifting himself up and causing another dust cloud. Quick Fix barely shut his eyes in time to avoid getting any dirt in them, while Blue hoisted himself several feet into the air.

After the dirt cleared away, Fix looked around for his opponent. He waited a bit too long to look up, and received a wind-charged Hurricane Hoof to the face. However, to Blue's surprise, Fix was only knocked over and not sent flying, with not even a bruise where the hoof connected with his cheek to show that the attack had ever happened.

Before the orange stallion could get up, the currently airborne pegasus flared his wings and shot out a Wing Wave. The sharp air scored a direct hit, but Fix merely flinched before finally standing up. Confused, Blue unleashed three more waves, all of which dissipated before they hit their mark as they were absorbed into the ball on top of his staff.

Grinning, Fix opened his wings and took to the air as well, swinging his staff as he neared the other pegasus. His attack was avoided, and so he continued swinging, sometimes trying to punch or kick instead. However, he had trouble focusing on attacking while keeping himself airborne, and so it was easy for Blue to dodge each attack as it came, though it kept him from having the time to fight back.

Finally, Blue ducked to the wrong direction, and the staff connected with his chest. He was shoved back and briefly lost control of his wings, causing him to fall. Fix chased after him, but before his blue foe hit the ground, he managed to start flapping his wings again and regain balance. Looking up, he barely had time to dart away before Fix's hoof connected with the spot he had just been in.

Recognizing a pattern in the attacks, Blue smirked a bit as he started flying back. Fix tried to give chase, but Blue had far more flight experience than he did, and he wasn't even half as fast. He eventually gave up and slowly descended to the ground, keeping an eye on his retreating opponent.

Blue, seeing this, realized that his assumption was true, and he started flying up. Once he was a fair distance in the air, he quickly turned and began to dive right at the ground-bound pegasus, spinning around as he did so until he was practically doing an imitation of a merry-go-round on crack.

Meanwhile, the author of this story wondered if he really just made that comparison.

Since the backspace key was not pressed, Blue continued his nosedive, while Fix watched from below. He obviously knew that Blue was trying to divebomb him, but he also knew that there was bound to be more to it. He had yet to see his opponent use an "ordinary" attack, so the chance of there being some magical element to this was high. He prepared his staff, aimed upward, and shot out a lightning ball directly at the incoming pegasus.

To Fix's surprise, the flying stallion didn't cut his attack short to avoid the incoming projectile, nor did he even try to maneuver around it. He just kept going, breaking right through the electricity without slowing down even a bit. Taken aback, Fix didn't even manage to move out of the way before Blue was right in his face, slamming two Hurricane Hooves into his chest. The staff went flying, while Fix was pinned to the ground.

Lifting his hoof, Blue tried to unleash yet another Hurricane Hoof, but Fix grabbed his appendage with visible strain. Twisting it, he forced Blue to weaken his grip, and shoved him off as he hopped up onto all fours. The yellow-haired pony didn't take much longer to recover, and when he did, he saw Fix scampering over to reclaim his staff.

Flying up into the air again, Blue started flying around in fast yet large circles. Down below, Fix had reclaimed his staff and was looking up, wondering what he was planning now. There wasn't any more magical energy in his staff, so he couldn't try another lightning ball - not like that worked very well before. Gritting his teeth, he flared his wings and lifted off of the ground.

Soon, however, he realized exactly what was going on, and his eyes widened. Blue had finished spinning and had now summoned a stationary tornado, which he was firing Wing Wave after Wing Wave into. Panicking, Fix flew over as fast as he could, hoping to catch him off guard before this got out of control.

He was too slow.

With a flap of his wings after finishing with the Wing Waves, Blue sent the tornado right at his incoming foe, who didn't have the time to stop and turn around. He got sucked in, losing his staff in the process, and began spinning around at extreme speeds. He tried to escape, but the tornado was too strong for his inexperienced wings.

Then, he saw the mass of Wing Waves converging in on him.

"...oh bu-"

The waves of sharp air sliced away at him before he could finish those two words. He screamed, his magical resistance not enough protection against the flurry of cuts that his body was subjected to. He felt his strength get sapped away with every opened wound, barely holding onto consciousness.

Finally, the tornado died down. The Wing Waves vanished, and Fix started falling to the ground...

...only to suddenly flare his wings out and catch himself, mere feet from hitting the hard dirt.

Blue, who had thought for sure he had won, looked startled as Fix suddenly began flying straight at him. He had one hoof cocked back and was moving at his rather surprising top speed, fire in his eyes. The stallion he was charging towards didn't have time to react before getting punched in the stomach, knocking the air out of him.

Having expended the energy from that attack, the orange pony grabbed onto Blue, dragging the latter down as he lost control of his wings. They plummeted towards the ground, Fix on top. If the fall didn't kill his foe, having another pony on top and crushing him in the landing definitely would.

Suddenly, Blue grinned, and flared his wings once more - but he didn't start flying. Instead, he quickly charged up some energy in them, pushed Fix off, and spun. His now-charged Wing Blades became like swords, and in one aileron roll, he cleaved Fix right in two.

As the two bloody halves of the orange stallion fell the rest of the way to the ground, Blue Breeze flapped his wings at last, kicking up the dirt on the ground for the third and final time before landing and trotting away.

K.O.

Thank you for flying with Kickass Airlines! Please gather your belongings and exit the arena!

While this battle was definitely tough to judge, it ultimately came down to offense against defense. Blue Breeze has a wide variety of attacks and ways to fight, while Quick Fix is more focused on staying alive and getting hits in when he can. In the end, offense triumphed.

Quick Fix may be resistant to magic, but he sure isn't immune! Whatever kind of magic powers Blue Breeze's attacks, it can't be completely nullified! Even if it could, there's still Blue's ability to use the weather to his advantage, not to mention his close combat training!

A magic-absorbing staff and a tough suit of armour don't make you a warrior, they make you a wall. Quick Fix may have had incredible strength, but all of his attacks were related to being in close quarters, and Blue Breeze was more than smart enough to not get in close unless he needed to. And with his speed and agility matched up against Quick Fix's only recently attained ability to fly - not to mention the somewhat bulky armour he wore - there was no way Quick Fix could close the gap between them himself.

Sure, Fix had that lightning ball attack, but Blue's been in the weather business and dealing with lightning clouds for so long, electricity doesn't do much of anything to him anymore! Even if he charged it with a few more magical Wing Waves, Bluey still probably would've done just as much damage to him with that Auger attack!

The battle could have easily gone a number of different ways if only some factors were different. If Quick Fix had ranged attacks besides the lightning ball from his staff's gem, he could have at least weakened Blue Breeze from afar. If he was a more experienced flyer, he could have kept up with Blue and caught him off guard at least once.

But in the end, Fix failed, and Blue was barely even winded!

The winner is Blue Breeze.

Next time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:

The author who submitted Joey Subtle removed all the chapters in the story he came from. Therefore, Joey Subtle has been disqualified, and Winterjet gets a bye.

So the next battle will be Ace VS Azzal Kan!

Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!

Author's Note

I was gonna finish and release this on Monday, but since Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare came out today, I decided to whip this up real quick using the inspiration I gained from that and put it out today instead.

This is going to be the last battle of November, since I'm spending the month on NaNoWriMo instead for the most part.

Battle 13: Nyx VS Fluffle Puff [Ending 1]

Since the creation of the brony fanbase, original characters of all sorts have dominated the web. From the generic ponysonas to the black-and-red Mary Sues, the variety has been huge.

And today, we've got two of the most well-known original characters in the arena, ready to duke it out!

Nyx, the filly reincarnation of Nightmare Moon...

...and Fluffle Puff, the mute but crazy living furball!

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Nyx

Species: Alicorn
Reincarnation of Nightmare Moon
Summoned by a cult using Twilight Sparkle's blood
Special talent is protecting others
Fought and defeated both Celestia and Luna
THE ORIGINAL MARY SUE OC!

Created in the Everfree Forest by a cult who worshiped Nightmare Moon, Nyx is essentially just that - Nightmare Moon. However, there are a few things that set her apart from the season one premiere's villain.

For one thing, Nyx is only a little filly, about the same age as the Cutie Mark Crusaders! Because of this, she focuses a lot less on conquering Equestria and a lot more on just having fun...which eventually turns into conquering Equestria.

Being an alicorn, Nyx is capable of both flight and magic. However, after the essence of Nightmare Moon was drained from her by Princess Luna, her magical capabilities were decreased down to that of an ordinary unicorn, taking away a large portion of her power.

Since this ended up making Nyx not nearly as powerful as people remember her, we're just gonna ignore that little detail so the fight can be more fair and awesome!

As such, Nyx's magical powers will be taken from early on in the story, before her transformation into Nightmare Moon rather than after. This means that Nyx has an extremely high amount of magic power, far beyond that of even the most gifted unicorns. However, since she's only existed for a short while, she hasn't learned many new spells to use.

It isn't until she becomes Nightmare Moon - or, as some call her, Nightmare Nyx - that she actually learns a ton more magic spells she can use, like being able to summon lightning bolts or split herself into copies!

Overall, while Nyx possess near-infinite magical capacity, she doesn't have many spells as a filly to use in battle...or many situations at all, really. Though she did turn Fluttershy into a tree temporarily, so...that has to count for something.

Magic powers aside, being a filly spells out a lot of trouble for Nyx! Makes her physically weak and fragile, not to mention pretty damn gullible! Seriously, when the two fillies who've been bullying you suddenly start acting nice for no reason whatsoever, you don't trust them!

This personality does not seem to completely disappear when she becomes Nightmare Moon, however. While she no longer seems as easy to manipulate or as quick to become upset, she also stays moderately pleasant to the point where it's hard to even call her a villain.

She walks Nightmare Moon's walk and talks Nightmare Moon's talk, but the amount of mercy she shows to her "enemies" is incredible! Twilight Sparkle infiltrates her hidden castle? Send her to the dungeon and give her first-class treatment! Cutie Mark Crusaders do the same thing and eat her food? Put them in the same dungeon and set them free a couple weeks later!

However, when her friends and subjects are at risk, Nightmare Moon does not show this same empathy, as shown when fighting off Everfree Forest creatures attacking Ponyville. In fact, she doesn't even hesitate to brutally slaughter each and every one of them that doesn't just run away.

So, yeah...she's got that Mary Sue personality, and those Mary Sue powers! What about the typical Mary Sue weakness of nothing?

Actually, I'm glad you brought that up. Nyx, whether as a filly or Nightmare Moon, actually does have quite a few weaknesses.

...really?

Aside from her tendency to angst, Nyx-as-Nightmare Moon's loyalty to her friends and subjects - at least, the ones she doesn't consider enemies - has led to her putting herself in constant danger without hesitation in order to protect them. This involved her utilizing her "self-duplication" spell, which has a weakness of its own: while it did allow for at least a couple dozen different Nightmare Moons to roam Ponyville, all connected by a hive mind of sorts, each Nightmare Moon was more susceptible to pain than if there was less of them.

And when she calls all the clones back to her to become one again, what happens? She has to deal with every injury all of them got at once!

This, capped off with having to fight one more creature, left Nightmare Moon unconscious from her injuries and in desperate need of medical help in the middle of a town full of ponies who had to live under her fearful rule...all of whom, somewhat understandingly, did nothing. It is quite likely she would have died then and there, if not for Twilight stepping in.

"You...YOU MONSTERS! SHE JUST SAVED YOU! SAVED YOUR CHILDREN! WHY WON’T YOU HELP?!"

Oof.

Whether a filly or Nightmare Moon, Nyx seems to function mostly the same. She has incredible magic capabilities, she can be childish, she's extremely protective, and she only really goes with the flow. The only reason she became the villainous Nightmare Moon everypony knew was because Spell Nexus and the other members of his weird cult forced her into it, and everypony already feared her. It's pretty obvious throughout her stint as Equestria's dark ruler that all she wants is to go back to normal.

Because that's what she is: a normal filly with a normal life.

...not even close.

Yeah, that was sarcasm.

"Bad decisions...now that’s the understatement of the millennium. Answer me this: How many bad decisions can a pony make before she is a bad pony?"

Fluffle Puff

Species: Earth pony
Romantic interest of Queen Chrysalis
Doesn't speak; communicates through noises
Warps reality
Omnivorous
Dances on rainbows

Fluffle Puff is a fanmade earth pony who's basically what Kirby would be if he didn't shave!

Surprisingly, that's very accurate. Fluffle Puff's origins are unknown, but it's likely that she's just an ordinary pony who has a few things wrong with her.

Like a Rogaine addiction?

For one thing, she refuses to speak, instead choosing to communicate through actions, noises, and writing. It's up for debate whether she can't actually speak or if she just doesn't want to, but since she has screamed in the past, it's likely not a problem with her vocal cords. Plus, she can write coherently and understand other ponies, so the possibility of her just not knowing the language is definitely out the window.

But getting past that, we should really talk about her most prominent feature and the positive effect it's having on the wallets of shampoo makers all over Equestria!

...do you have these written down or something?

All improv, buddy.

Of course. Obviously, Fluffle Puff is...well, fluffy. Her fur is big and thick enough that a pony can actually get stuck in it, and as Ditzy Doo demonstrated, a pegasus who gets stuck could pop their wings out and start flying with Fluffle Puff still attached for several seconds.

Yet despite having more hair on her body than an Internet forum has posts about Adolf Hitler, she's one of the quickest and most agile ponies out there! Several times over, she's shown off how fast she can move and how far she can jump, and let's just say she could almost outdo Sonic the Hedgehog - both in speed and crazy hairstyles!

This speed and agility comes in handy when she's...well...just being Fluffle Puff, I suppose. There's not really a way to describe everything she does in one sentence.

Makes Pinkie Pie look normal?

That works. Fluffle Puff is constantly cheerful, only sometimes getting annoyed when she feels that she or a friend has been wronged in some way. Her cheerfulness often leads to "playing" with ponies in ways that can irritate or even hurt them, from hugging ponies after eating messy food to pounding everypony in Ponyville with pillows.

FROM SPACE!

Yes, Fluffle Puff is apparently so intelligent, she can construct a working spaceship out of nothing but pillows, along with a weapon to fire...more pillows. It's unclear exactly how this works, but thankfully, the ability to build things with pillows won't be a deciding factor in this battle.

Aww...I wanted to see them making pillow forts! ...come on, that'd be adorable!

This intelligence also translates into another, lesser-seen ability; specifically, the ability to keep her mind protected from the influence of others. For example, when Discord attempted to...well..."Discord" her, she was unaffected the first time and needed several rapid-fire attempts for it to actually work. Even then, all that happened was she became a pink version of Nightmare Moon-

How ironic!

-and smashed Discord's face with a rock before returning to normal, meaning that even if she does get somewhat mind-controlled, she still remains somewhat in command and can go back to normal quickly.

Man, I wish I had that sort of power! Able to keep doing what you want even when someone's controlling you...could've saved my marriage!

Another trait of hers is her ability to eat just about anything. Aside from typical pony food, she has also eaten paper, crayons, and...wait for it...ham.

The cute fluffy pink pony is an omnivore?! Great! So she's fast, doesn't speak, can't be manipulated, has the potential to destroy an entire town with pillows, and she eats meat?! How do we even know she's a good guy?

...let's be honest. Do you look at her and think "evil"?

...eh, not really.

"Pbbbth."

Alright, the combatants are set! Let's end this debate-

And get people to stop asking us to have Nyx in a battle!

...once and for all.

IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

There was no delay. As soon as the scene opened, the two competitors were already waiting in the forest where their battle was set to take place. The young filly looked confidently ready to battle, while the pink ball of fluff seemed to just be staring off into space, her tongue hanging out of her mouth.

FIGHT!

As soon as the signal was given, Nyx charged forward...

...and proceeded to glomp Fluffle Puff with a gigantic grin on her face. "SO FLUFFYYYYYY!"

The earth pony who was the unmoving "victim" of the glomp gasped, suddenly smiling as she realized what was going on. She wrapped a front leg around Nyx, returning the hug as she licked the filly's face like a dog.

Giggling, Nyx shuffled out of the hug and climbed onto her new fluffy friend's back, facing forward. "Come on, let's go play!"

"Pbbbth," Fluffle Puff replied happily before darting off, the tiny alicorn riding along as they headed out of the arena to have fun.

...FRIENDSHIP?

...uh?

Well...didn't expect that.

I guess...realistically speaking, considering we just threw an energetic filly and a crazy ball of fluff into the same place, that's sort of what would happen.

Agreed. Fluffle Puff is extremely quick to make friends even with ponies she didn't know until two seconds prior, and combining that with the simple fact that Nyx is a filly with enough energy to keep up with the Cutie Mark Crusaders...well...yeah, this is kind of the real result.

So now off they go to make pillow forts and play freeze tag, rather than trying to tear each others' guts out...and I don't know if that's good or not!

There's a reason we try to overlook some aspects of character personality when we do these battles. In addition to removing any restraints against killing, we also try to remove any possible friendships or relationships the characters have or may form, just because of...well, this sort of thing happening.

Good thing we've got the real battle coming soon! Right, Yah?

Indeed. Even though what happened here is the true answer to what would happen if Nyx and Fluffle Puff tried to have a fight, we still need to apply typical Equestrian Death Battle rules in order to discover who's stronger.

So tune in soon when we make these two have an actual battle!

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

Yes, what you just saw was the real result of the researched information and is actually what would happen if Nyx met Fluffle Puff, regardless of whether or not both were told to attack one another.

But, yeah, we still need to figure out who's tougher.

So, next chapter, we'll be removing any possible friendship-forming and figuring out who's truly the more powerful OC pony: Nyx, or Fluffle Puff?

Got a suggestion for an Equestrian Death Battle? Post a comment below suggesting matchups, or send me a PM with suggestions in it!

You may suggest OC characters, provided they are from a story on this site that is at least somewhat well-known.

Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

Battle 13: Nyx VS Fluffle Puff [Ending 2]

Since the creation of the brony fanbase, original characters of all sorts have dominated the web. From the generic ponysonas to the black-and-red Mary Sues, the variety has been huge.

And today, we've got two of the most well-known original characters in the arena, ready to duke it out!

Nyx, the filly reincarnation of Nightmare Moon...

...and Fluffle Puff, the mute but crazy living furball!

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Nyx

Species: Alicorn
Reincarnation of Nightmare Moon
Summoned by a cult using Twilight Sparkle's blood
Special talent is protecting others
Fought and defeated both Celestia and Luna
The original Mary Sue OC?

Created in the Everfree Forest by a cult who worshiped Nightmare Moon, Nyx is essentially just that - Nightmare Moon. However, there are a few things that set her apart from the season one premiere's villain.

For one thing, Nyx is only a little filly, about the same age as the Cutie Mark Crusaders! Because of this, she focuses a lot less on conquering Equestria and a lot more on just having fun...which eventually turns into conquering Equestria.

Being an alicorn, Nyx is capable of both flight and magic. However, after the essence of Nightmare Moon was drained from her by Princess Luna, her magical capabilities were decreased down to that of an ordinary unicorn, taking away a large portion of her power.

Since this ended up making Nyx not nearly as powerful as people remember her, we're just gonna ignore that little detail so the fight can be more fair and awesome!

As such, Nyx's magical powers will be taken from early on in the story, before her transformation into Nightmare Moon rather than after. This means that Nyx has an extremely high amount of magic power, far beyond that of even the most gifted unicorns. However, since she's only existed for a short while, she hasn't learned many new spells to use.

It isn't until she becomes Nightmare Moon - or, as some call her, Nightmare Nyx - that she actually learns a ton more magic spells she can use, like being able to summon lightning bolts or split herself into copies!

Overall, while Nyx possess near-infinite magical capacity, she doesn't have many spells as a filly to use in battle...or many situations at all, really. Though she did turn Fluttershy into a tree temporarily, so...that has to count for something.

Magic powers aside, being a filly spells out a lot of trouble for Nyx! Makes her physically weak and fragile, not to mention pretty damn gullible! Seriously, when the two fillies who've been bullying you suddenly start acting nice for no reason whatsoever, you don't trust them!

This personality does not seem to completely disappear when she becomes Nightmare Moon, however. While she no longer seems as easy to manipulate or as quick to become upset, she also stays moderately pleasant to the point where it's hard to even call her a villain.

She walks Nightmare Moon's walk and talks Nightmare Moon's talk, but the amount of mercy she shows to her "enemies" is incredible! Twilight Sparkle infiltrates her hidden castle? Send her to the dungeon and give her first-class treatment! Cutie Mark Crusaders do the same thing and eat her food? Put them in the same dungeon and set them free a couple weeks later!

However, when her friends and subjects are at risk, Nightmare Moon does not show this same empathy, as shown when fighting off Everfree Forest creatures attacking Ponyville. In fact, she doesn't even hesitate to brutally slaughter each and every one of them that doesn't just run away.

So, yeah...she's got that Mary Sue personality, and those Mary Sue powers! What about the typical Mary Sue weakness of nothing?

Actually, I'm glad you brought that up. Nyx, whether as a filly or Nightmare Moon, actually does have quite a few weaknesses.

...really?

Aside from her tendency to angst, Nyx-as-Nightmare Moon's loyalty to her friends and subjects - at least, the ones she doesn't consider enemies - has led to her putting herself in constant danger without hesitation in order to protect them. This involved her utilizing her "self-duplication" spell, which has a weakness of its own: while it did allow for at least a couple dozen different Nightmare Moons to roam Ponyville, all connected by a hive mind of sorts, each Nightmare Moon was more susceptible to pain than if there was less of them.

And when she calls all the clones back to her to become one again, what happens? She has to deal with every injury all of them got at once!

This, capped off with having to fight one more creature, left Nightmare Moon unconscious from her injuries and in desperate need of medical help in the middle of a town full of ponies who had to live under her fearful rule...all of whom, somewhat understandingly, did nothing. It is quite likely she would have died then and there, if not for Twilight stepping in.

"You...YOU MONSTERS! SHE JUST SAVED YOU! SAVED YOUR CHILDREN! WHY WON’T YOU HELP?!"

Oof.

Whether a filly or Nightmare Moon, Nyx seems to function mostly the same. She has incredible magic capabilities, she can be childish, she's extremely protective, and she only really goes with the flow. The only reason she became the villainous Nightmare Moon everypony knew was because Spell Nexus and the other members of his weird cult forced her into it, and everypony already feared her. It's pretty obvious throughout her stint as Equestria's dark ruler that all she wants is to go back to normal.

Because that's what she is: a normal filly with a normal life.

...not even close.

Yeah, that was sarcasm.

"Bad decisions...now that’s the understatement of the millennium. Answer me this: How many bad decisions can a pony make before she is a bad pony?"

Fluffle Puff

Species: Earth pony
Romantic interest of Queen Chrysalis
Doesn't speak; communicates through noises
Warps reality
Omnivorous
Dances on rainbows

Fluffle Puff is a fanmade earth pony who's basically what Kirby would be if he didn't shave!

Surprisingly, that's very accurate. Fluffle Puff's origins are unknown, but it's likely that she's just an ordinary pony who has a few things wrong with her.

Like a Rogaine addiction?

For one thing, she refuses to speak, instead choosing to communicate through actions, noises, and writing. It's up for debate whether she can't actually speak or if she just doesn't want to, but since she has screamed in the past, it's likely not a problem with her vocal cords. Plus, she can write coherently and understand other ponies, so the possibility of her just not knowing the language is definitely out the window.

But getting past that, we should really talk about her most prominent feature and the positive effect it's having on the wallets of shampoo makers all over Equestria!

...do you have these written down or something?

All improv, buddy.

Of course. Obviously, Fluffle Puff is...well, fluffy. Her fur is big and thick enough that a pony can actually get stuck in it, and as Ditzy Doo demonstrated, a pegasus who gets stuck could pop their wings out and start flying with Fluffle Puff still attached for several seconds.

Yet despite having more hair on her body than an Internet forum has posts about Adolf Hitler, she's one of the quickest and most agile ponies out there! Several times over, she's shown off how fast she can move and how far she can jump, and let's just say she could almost outdo Sonic the Hedgehog - both in speed and crazy hairstyles!

This speed and agility comes in handy when she's...well...just being Fluffle Puff, I suppose. There's not really a way to describe everything she does in one sentence.

Makes Pinkie Pie look normal?

That works. Fluffle Puff is constantly cheerful, only sometimes getting annoyed when she feels that she or a friend has been wronged in some way. Her cheerfulness often leads to "playing" with ponies in ways that can irritate or even hurt them, from hugging ponies after eating messy food to pounding everypony in Ponyville with pillows.

FROM SPACE!

Yes, Fluffle Puff is apparently so intelligent, she can construct a working spaceship out of nothing but pillows, along with a weapon to fire...more pillows. It's unclear exactly how this works, but thankfully, the ability to build things with pillows won't be a deciding factor in this battle.

Aww...I wanted to see them making pillow forts! ...come on, that'd be adorable!

This intelligence also translates into another, lesser-seen ability; specifically, the ability to keep her mind protected from the influence of others. For example, when Discord attempted to...well..."Discord" her, she was unaffected the first time and needed several rapid-fire attempts for it to actually work. Even then, all that happened was she became a pink version of Nightmare Moon-

How ironic!

-and smashed Discord's face with a rock before returning to normal, meaning that even if she does get somewhat mind-controlled, she still remains somewhat in command and can go back to normal quickly.

Man, I wish I had that sort of power! Able to keep doing what you want even when someone's controlling you...could've saved my marriage!

Another trait of hers is her ability to eat just about anything. Aside from typical pony food, she has also eaten paper, crayons, and...wait for it...ham.

The cute fluffy pink pony is an omnivore?! Great! So she's fast, doesn't speak, can't be manipulated, has the potential to destroy an entire town with pillows, and she eats meat?! How do we even know she's a good guy?

...let's be honest. Do you look at her and think "evil"?

...eh, not really.

"Pbbbth."

Alright, the combatants are set! Let's end this debate-

And get people to stop asking us to have Nyx in a battle!

...once and for all.

IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

There was no delay. As soon as the scene opened, the two competitors were already waiting in the forest where their battle was set to take place. The young filly looked confidently ready to battle, while the pink ball of fluff seemed to just be staring off into space, her tongue hanging out of her mouth.

FIGHT!

As soon as the signal was given, Nyx charged forward. Fluffle Puff just stared obliviously in her opponent's general direction, making it hard to tell if she was actually watching her run or if she was just lost in thought. Either way, she didn't react to the filly's galloping, nor did she react to Nyx's first attack.

...which was nothing more than a slap in the face.

Fluffle Puff blinked, pulling her tongue into her mouth and looking down at the filly, who slapped her again. And again. And Nyx could swear she heard crickets chirping, even though it was the middle of the day. If you actually played that YouTube link with the music, if it started buffering at this point, consider that part of the battle.

Getting increasingly frustrated, Nyx turned around and bucked her apparently immobile opponent in the face. This actually had an effect, as the pink ball of fluff was knocked over with a quiet eep-ing sound. Nyx smirked and turned to face her, preparing to continue her slap assault (if nothing more effective came to mind), but blinked when she saw that her adversary had vanished.

Out of nowhere, the alicorn filly was suddenly glomped by a warm ball of fluff. Yelping, she struggled to break free, but was only rewarded with more hugs for several seconds. Finally, she lit her horn and used magic to forcibly pull her foe's forelegs away from herself, sighing in relief as her hooves touched the ground again before jumping away. Fluffle Puff tilted her head, looking down at Nyx for a moment before gasping and smiling. Nyx gulped, starting to back away slowly, only to be stopped by a sudden surge of magic being forced into her body...

Fluffle Puff stood and watched with an oblivious smile as Nyx was suddenly engulfed by magical energy. With a crack of thunder, the magic dispersed, and Nyx stood...much taller than before.

She had become Nightmare Moon.

She laughed, but it wasn't the giggle of a filly. It began as a dry chuckle, but grew in volume, becoming loud and haughty. She raised her head, looking at the night sky as her laughter became crazed and maniacal.

It was the laughter of somepony who had just realized a cruel and terrible truth.

Nyx finally understood everything. She understood why she woke up in the Everfree Forest when she did. She understood why she had-

...her train of thought that was copy-and-pasted by the author was cut off when she looked down at Fluffle Puff, still staring at her, but now looking up rather than down.

She grinned wickedly and lit her horn, firing off a magical beam at the ball of fluff, who literally rolled out of the way. She tried again several times, but was dodged every time. With each beam fired, Fluffle Puff's smile began to disappear, until eventually she was outright frowning. She jumped out of the way of one beam and began to run at Nyx-turned-Nightmare Moon, who simply scoffed and shot a much larger beam where she anticipated Fluffle would be running into.

Sure enough, Fluffle Puff didn't dodge, taking the hit head-on and seeming to disappear. However, before she could celebrate, Nyx felt a hoof on her shoulder and turned to find that pink face staring right at her. Her vision was suddenly obscured by a field of white as a pillow was impaled on her horn, and by the time she got it off, Fluffle was standing on top of her.

"Get off of me right now!" she ordered, trying to buck the offender off of her back. At first, Fluffle seemed to hold on tight, but one strong buck finally knocked her onto the ground, where she landed flat on her face and didn't move. Nyx had no idea if she was actually out cold or just comfortable lying like that (not that the latter made much sense), but seizing the opportunity, she charged forward, head down and horn pointed outward.

Fluffle didn't move as Nyx ran right into her, appearing to stab her horn right into her torso. However, just as Nyx felt she had achieved victory, she noticed that all she had hit was hair. She tried to back up and see what happened, but she couldn't move, her entire upper body being stuck in the massive piles of tangled hair.

Meanwhile, the pink pony had stood back up and noticed her foe getting caught in her fur. With a smile, she began half-trotting, half-dragging her fluff prisoner over to a nearby lake. Opening her mouth and taking in a deep breath, she hopped in.

Nyx felt her body being submerged, and the water began to seep through Fluffle's fur. Panicking, she flailed about, muffled cries coming from within the mass of pink fluff that were muffled even further by the liquid that began blocking out any little bits of oxygen that might have been available. Fluffle, for her part, just sat at the bottom of the lake, her cheeks comically large as she effortlessly held her breath.

After several minutes, Nyx's flailing died down, and her body went limp. Fluffle rose to the surface of the lake despite making no physical motions, popping onto shore and dropping the drowned corpse onto the grass.

She then proceeded to go chase a butterfly.

K.O.

Uh...what just happened?

Nyx may be considered the "ultimate Mary Sue" by some - despite that not even being anything close to the proper terminology for what she really is - but she isn't invincible. She's just a kid, even as full-on Nightmare Moon, and as such has the mentality as one, instantly putting her at one of the biggest possible disadvantages for a pony-versus-pony battle.

Granted, Fluffle Puff isn't much better, but there's a difference between acting like a child and thinking like one! Fluffle Puff may act like an oblivious and energetic little filly, but she's really just having fun, whereas Nyx literally doesn't know any better than to think like an immature foal.

Mentality aside, however, the combatants were surprisingly close-matched...which isn't saying much. With Nyx as a filly, she couldn't actually do much of anything due to a lack of knowing any good magic off the top of her head, and not really having much physical strength. However, in terms of defense, she actually had an advantage. Since she was just a filly, Fluffle Puff would see no reason to attack her with anything majorly painful, let alone lethal...but as we've seen in some of her Tumblr comics, Fluffle Puff has a knack for giving ponies "exactly what they need". In this case...she gave Nyx a transformation.

How did she even do that?!

It's simple. In Past Sins, Nyx was turned into Nightmare Moon via a ritual process by the Children of Nightmare. It consisted mostly of just casting a spell, then letting Nyx absorb some magic power. Fluffle Puff being Fluffle Puff, though, she could easy give this magic power if she realized doing so would help Nyx. Keep in mind that, at this point, Fluffle Puff doesn't see Nyx as a threat; actually, she sees her as a friend.

You're probably thinking that goes against usual battle rules, and we're supposed to make them want to fight! Actually, nope! The rule is just that we remove any refusal to fight or kill in general, not with that specific opponent! But Fluffle Puff's dealt with Dan of all people, so a little filly slapping her a bit is nothing she can't handle.

Upon transforming, however, Nyx gained new magical capabilities...which ended up being her downfall. By becoming more of a threat, Fluffle Puff actually considered her an opponent who should be properly fought and defended against. So she was able to avoid Nyx's attacks, while doing some damage of her own.

And then all that hair won her the battle! We've seen that it's hard enough for gravity to pull her and somepony stuck in her fur apart, so once Nyx got stuck, there was no way she was getting out with that panicked mind she had going!

One well-placed lake and use of Fluffle Puff's oddly large lungs later, and there's one less OC in the world.

She really got out of a hairy situation this time!

The winner is Fluffle Puff.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

The tournament is in the hands of KenSES64 and RazortheAwesome now, so I no longer have any control over when exactly those battles come out. So, from now on, I'll be using these "Next time" segments to tell you the next regular battle!

And, next regular battle, we'll be having a bit of an odd two-on-two battle that was accidentally leaked a few weeks or months ago. Let's see who takes to the air better: the flyers or the jumpers!

Got a suggestion for an Equestrian Death Battle? Post a comment below suggesting matchups, or send me a PM with suggestions in it!

You may suggest OC characters, provided they are from a story or other fan creation that is at least somewhat well-known.

Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

Tournament Battle 9: Ace VS Azzal Khan

In this tournament we have seen many different OCs, and these two couldn't be more different.

Ace, Lady Luck’s Wild Card...

...and Azzal Khan, the Lord of the East.

He’s Yah-Shee and I’m Arrell!

And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills, to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Ace

Species: Satyr (formerly human)
Occupation: Magician/Adventurer/Theft
Wields a magic absorbing dagger known as the Turncoat
Bad track record when it comes to robbing villains
More clever than he acts
Fan of puns

Ace was a magic performer on the streets of London, England. However, after one last trick, he was brought before Lady Luck; the goddess of luck, as her name would suggest.

Lady Luck revealed to Ace that she wanted him to be her piece, or "wild card" as she put it, in the Chess Game of the Gods; to spread good luck to others; and that she knew his deepest, darkest secret.

Which is that he’s a brony.

Those are some mixed up morals. He’s perfectly fine with people knowing that he’s a thief, but if they ever found out he likes a show meant for little girls, then his life'd be over.

Anyways. Lady Luck sent Ace to Equestria as a Satyr.

For those who don’t know what that is, it’s basically those flute playing pansies with the goat legs.

Riiiigggghhht. Soon after arriving in Equestria, he, umm…bumped into a unicorn mare named Summer Storm, and they were then captured by Diamond Dogs.

Five minutes in Equestria and already made a prisoner. Good job.

While captured, he also met former Equestrian Death Battle competitor, Iron Will.

After being forced to fight him and doing a little tapdance on his head, of course.

Afterwards, the three of them broke free from their cells and, with help from the other slaves and prisoners, they overran their captors.

Though first they had to defeat Redtooth, the alpha of that group of diamond dogs, who after drinking this black liquid, turned into a creature that was only about half as ugly as my ex-wife.

After that situation, Ace, Summer, and Iron Will began traveling with each other, and together they met many foes that pushed them to their limits.

But enough backstory! What's this scrawny goat-man have up his sleeve?

I'm glad you asked. Ace wears a belt that holds many pouches, filled with many items ranging from dynamite, smoke bombs, diamond cheese wire, a deck of cards, and plenty of other items.

Batman would be proud.

He also wields the Turncoat; a dagger made from anti-magic rings and one of his own horns.

Due to the metal coming from rings meant to prevent unicorns from using magic, it too has similar properties. It’s able to block and even absorb magic in some way, as seen when he used it to pick a magic lock so that he could sneak into Princess Luna’s hotel room, and yes that’s less creepy in context.

He keeps the Turncoat in the back of his enchanted coat that, when turned inside out, makes Ace less noticeable, but is clearly stated to not be invisibility. It just makes it harder for people to notice him.

Ace is also quick on his hooves, being able to run faster than he could as a human and jump up several feet. He also knows ventriloquism, not because he’s a satyr now, but just because it’s a fun skill. Oh the fun I would have with that.

Like what?

None of your beeswax. So is that everything about this guy?

Not just yet. Remember that deck of cards I mentioned earlier?

Yeah?

Those cards have magical properties of their own. Any card Ace draws has a certain ability depending on the suit it belongs to, and how powerful it is is determined by its number. The higher the card number, the stronger the attack.

No shit, Sherclop.

Diamonds cause a flash of light; hearts heal; spades can cause fear inducing hallucinations; clubs are a used as throwing weapons; and jokers create a fake copy of himself.

So he’s a thief that can make people see their worst fears and also has some jokers? Maybe Batman wouldn’t be proud after all.

"Behold! I am the Amazing Ace, Magician Extraordinaire! And I am here to rock your world!"

Azzal Khan

Species: Pegasus Pony
The Lord of the East
Former adviser to Sil Ran
Wields the Talon of Pain
Cunning and ruthless
Bane cosplayer?

Azzal Khan…

KHHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!

...never do that again.

No promises.

Anyways, Azzal Khan was second in command to a pony named Sil Ran, the leader of an army from a country without a name that was bent on taking over Equestria. But Sil Ran became paranoid of a rebellion among his soldiers, especially when it came to Azzal...which raises the question: if you think someone is going to betray you, then why keep them around?

And once he questioned Azzal Khan’s loyalty, Azzal showed him just how loyal he was by taking out his poison-tipped dagger made from bone known as the Basilisk Dagger and killing him.

Yet, before Sil Ran uttered his last breath, he was able to knock the dagger back at Azzal, scraping his neck and almost killing him.

Key word being "almost". If he died then and there, we wouldn't really have a lot to go on for this battle, now would we?

Right. It turned out that the east army had these scientist called Tech Priests, who made Azzal a mask that prevented his throat from collapsing, and of course keeping him alive.

Afterwards, Azzal was put on trial for the murder of Sil Ran, and after convincing everyone there that Sil Ran attacked first, Azzal was made the new leader of the eastern army. Because that's how the law system works!

Azzal is armed with the Basilisk Dagger that we mentioned before, and the Talon of Pain; a mystical item given to him by a necromancer.

The Talon of Pain can create heat and fire, deflect magical attacks, and perform necromancy. Fire from the Talon is strong enough to rip through armor and chainmail with ease, as seen when Azzal was facing Princess Luna on the battlefield...or above it, actually.

He also wears lightweight armor, though his deadliest weapon isn't either of those. It’s his silver tongue. Azzal is more than able to talk his way to anything he wants, and is able to convince anyone of almost anything, which is how he moved up the ranks of his society when he first entered their tribe as an outsider, knowing only his name and his hatred of Equestria.

Why does he hate Equestria? Well to warn you all before you complain, major spoilers are up ahead here.

You see, Azzal was created by Discord.

...wait, what? Are you kidding me?! Another one?!

I am not. Discord made him out of Twilight Sparkle's fears, making him the opposite of her in many ways. As a result he is cunning and bloodthirsty, ready to take down anyone who stands in the way of what he wants.

Well, that came out out of nowhere.

Still, you have to admit Azzal Khan is an intelligent fighter and a force to be reckoned with.

KHHAAAAAAAAAAANNN!!!!!!

“Your mind is clouded and blind, always missing the obvious! You were weak, you let your anger and hate lead you and now you have abandoned your subjects, your friends! Surely you now see how pathetic it truly is?!”

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

IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

On a dirt road in the middle of a forest, the armored white pegasus known as Azzal Khan was trotting along when he suddenly heard a crack from behind him. He quickly turned to see a red haired satyr with a broken twig under his cloven hoof. His arm reached out like he was planning on pickpocketing Azzal.

“Oh, umm…hi, I’m Ace,” the satyr said awkwardly while drawing back his hand and taking a few steps backward.

Azzal Khan just stared at him in annoyance.

FIGHT!

Azzal didn’t bother to give Ace a chance to say anything else as he quickly pulled out the Talon of Pain and swung it in Ace’s direction, sending a fireball at him. Seeing this, Ace quickly jumped to the side, the fireball hitting the ground and burning out.

“Whoa, a bit of an overreaction, don’t ya think? Actually, people have tried to kill me over less, so never mind,” Ace said to him.

Azzal, no less annoyed, swung the Talon again and sent another fireball at Ace, who jumped backwards to avoid it. Seeing that this pony was serious, Ace pulled the Turncoat from the back of his coat.

From behind his mask Azzal just grinned, thinking that this might just be interesting. He then stretched out his wings and took to the skies.

Azzal then swung the talon again and sent yet another fireball at Ace. This time though, Ace didn’t jump out of the way. Instead he hit the fireball with the Turncoat, sending it back at Azzal.

Azzal, slightly shocked by this, blocked the fireball with the Talon of Pain before it hit him and sent it back to Ace. Ace just hit it back at Azzal when it reached him again, only for Azzal to hit it back again.

Their tennis match with the fireball continued for several moments before Azzal decided to change to his tactics up a bit. After Ace sent the fireball back up to him yet again, Azzal ducked under it and dove down at Ace, the Talon of Pain burning with it’s evil flames.

Ace saw the armored pegasus coming. Before Azzal could reach him, he quickly reached into one of his many pouches and pulled out a card from his deck. The 4 of diamonds.

From the card came a sudden quick flash of light that was equivalent to a flash from a camera. However, it was enough to stop Azzal for a few seconds, who couldn't rub his eyes due to the metal mask on his face keeping him alive. After a few seconds, Azzal’s vision cleared, and he saw Ace running away from him.

Azzal grimaced as he saw this. “You cowardly, annoying pest! Before I kill you I’m going to make you cry for your mommy!” he shouted as he took off after his fleeing opponent.

Ace simply glanced at the flying pegasus behind him and replied, “Well to be honest, it wouldn’t be the first time.” Unfortunately, when he looked forward again, his eyes went as wide as Luna’s moon as he had to skid to a halt. Not because anything deadly was there...well, except for the seemingly bottomless pit in front of him.

Ace quickly turned around and pulled out another card, this one the two of clubs. The card flew at Azzal, but only bounced off of him, not doing any sort of damage whatsoever.

Oh crap, Ace thought to himself as Azzal flew forward and slashed him across the chest with the Talon of Pain.

The satyr stumbled backward in pain, making his hoof step off of the edge of the cliff. CRAP! Ace screamed at himself as he fell backwards into the pit.

Azzal just grinned at this, thinking that the annoying satyr had just fallen to his death. However, upon closer inspection he saw that the cliff Ace had fallen into wasn't so much of a huge drop, but more like a tumble of about 8 feet.

Down in the pit, Ace got up on his hands and knees, coughing a bit as Azzal flew down into the pit with him and landed about ten feet away from Ace and slowly started walking over to him.

“You know, with such a strange creature such as yourself, I hoped this wouldn’t be a waste of my time. Sadly, you've just disappointed me,” Azzal said to Ace as the Talon of Pain lit itself aflame again. “Maybe once I kill you, you’ll do better as one of my undead soldiers.”

Ace scowled at the pegasus warlord and pulled out another card. This one was the 8 of clubs. He threw it right at Azzal.

“What, this ag-” Azzal began to say before the card suddenly hit him in the face, knocking him on his flank and causing the Talon of Pain to fly out of his hoof. The card then ricocheted off his mask and hit the side of the cliff, knocking a single large boulder out of it, which then landed onto the Talon of Pain, shattering it to pieces.

Azzal wasn't bothered by this. The talon could easily be reforged as it has been before, but what did bother him was that because of the impact of the card, there was now a rather large crack running down the middle of his mask, making his breathing irregular.

“You…bucking…son…of…a…bitch…” he barely managed to say.

“Don’t you talk about my mother that way!” Ace said to him, sounding offended as he stood back up. “I won’t have her be insulted by Mr. I-Want-To-Be-Darth-Vader over here.”

“I…am…Azzal…Khan…Lord…of…the…East…” Azzal barely managed to reply as he pulled out his poison-tipped bone dagger. “You…will…show…me…respect…”

Azzal then charged at Ace with his dagger out, but Ace quickly pulled out a smoke bomb and threw it to the ground, creating a smokescreen around both of them.

Azzal looked around through the smoke, trying to find the damned satyr when he saw his silhouette through the smoke. Azzal grinned like a madpony and jumped at the silhouette, driving his dagger into its chest.

As the smoke cleared, Azzal saw Ace standing there with his knife in his chest. Azzal grinned wider and said, “Goodbye…you…runt…”

However, rather than bleeding out, Ace simply smiled and stared laughing manically, much to Azzal’s confusion. Ace then looked at Azzal right in the eye and said, “Fooled ya.”

With a puff of smoke that wasn't from the smoke bomb, Ace suddenly disappeared, leaving another card with the image of a jester on it impaled on Azzal’s dagger.

“What!” Azzal shouted in anger. Suddenly, as if out of nowhere, he heard some sort of hissing sound behind him. Azzal quickly turned around to see Ace sitting on a half-buried boulder nearby with the burn across his chest gone.

In Ace’s hand was another card; the 10 of hearts. With his other hand, Ace then pointed down at Azzal’s hooves. As all the smoke finally cleared, Azzal’s eyes went wider than Celesia’s sun in horror as he saw three sticks of lit dynamite tied together.

Azzal instinctively spread out his wings to fly away, but it was too late. The dynamite exploded into a decent sized ball of fire, armor and body parts.

When the smoke caused by the explosion cleared, there was nothing. Then, a few seconds later, the charred remains Azzal’s body fell back down into the small crater that was left by the dynamite. His torso fell first, his head and one wing still attached; they were shortly followed by his four legs, then finally his other wing. If that wasn't bad enough, his mask had been completely shattered. If the explosion or bleeding out from the loss of body parts didn’t killed him, then his throat collapsing and his lungs filling up with blood did.

Back on the boulder, Ace took out his pipe and a match, which he struck on the boulder he was sitting on to light, and then used said match to light his pipe. With the pipe in his mouth, Ace took a breath, then removed the pipe and blew a smoke ring.

K.O.

Damn. That match sure ended with a bang, didn’t it?

Azzal Khan may be a cunning strategist, but any examples of which we've seen have seemed to be after much prep-time and planning, which by the Equestrian Death Battle rules, are not allowed. Ace is much quicker on his feet when it comes to coming up with a plan, and half the time it usually works out for him.

Even so, Azzal Khan had only two weapons at his disposal. So he didn’t have much variety.

Sure, the Talon of Pain is a powerful weapon, but it did break at least twice in Azzal Khan’s own story, so there is no reason why it couldn't break here. Even if it didn’t, Azzal more than likely still would not have be able to match up to Ace’s more unpredictable arsenal.

Looks like Azzal Khan got smoked out!

The winner is Ace.

Next time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:

Ivan vs. Scarlet Lightning!

Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!

Written by KenSES64 and RazortheAwesome
Edited by RazortheAwesome and RLYoshi

Author's Note

For anyone who didn't get the memo: this tournament is continuing, but I am no longer in control of anything other than final edits and publishing. As the credits above stated, KenSES64 and RazortheAwesome are in charge of the tournament, AND YOU WILL RESPECT THEM!

...seriously though, thanks to those two for taking over this thing that I was about to drop completely. They'll be handling tournament battles from now on, and I'll just be handling the regular battles.

Tournament Battle 10: Ivan VS Scarlet Lightning

Over the course of this tournament, we have seen many strong competitors. But now, we have two OCs, whose strength is…debatable.

Ivan, the zebra with a spider in his head...

...and Scarlet Lightning, an orphan filly.

He’s Yah-Shee and I’m Arrell!

And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Ivan

Species: Zebra (Formerly Human)
Owner of the island of Rej
Hates dogs
Wishes he had wings
Apparently has a blood fetish

Ivan was a normal human who, after being arrested, was sent to Equestria and landed in Rej, an island somewhere in the Zebra Isles. As a zebra, he was immediately made a slave by some diamond dogs.

Okay, never mind what I said about Ace last time. At least he wasn’t taken prisoner the second he ended up in another universe.

In the mines of Rej, he was given the name and title of Canary. However, Ivan eventually escaped and found The Flock, a group of other slaves that escaped.

And after they made Ivan their leader...for some reason...he dethroned the diamond dog alpha, Grim, by outsmarting him, and took ownership of the island after killing one of his allies, another Zebra named Skinner, and saying that Grim did it. Why did Ivan do this, despite there being no reason to?

Ivan, as a chess piece of the gods, was sent to Equis by a god, as with the other pieces. The god that sent Ivan, however, was Malice; the Zebrican god of revenge, who appears as a spider wearing a top hat.

Yeah, this isn’t weird or anything. But, anyways Malice decided that he needed a place to crash, and decided that Ivan’s head seemed like a good place to live. Plus, it has no rent!

Due to Malice’s influence, Ivan is…

A few questions short of a sanity test?

Sure, let’s go with that.

So, god spider in his head equals killing for no reason. Got it.

Anyways, Ivan - along with one of the former canaries, who just sticks with the name Canary; and Boss, one of the diamond dogs who captured Ivan in the first place - stole a airship for them to use.

Then they ran into Catastrophe, a griffon that they let join them because she can fly the airship. Oh, and because Ivan thinks she’s hot. Again, not weird or anything...

Together, the four of them fight to try and stop slavery around Equis.

Not as much compared to someone like, say, Griffin the Griffin, but they’re trying.

In battle, Ivan wields a dagger named Disconsolate, which is bound to his soul...whatever that means.

He also has a severed unicorn horn which, by using his soul, he can channel magic through it and…wait, what?! Does that actually work? Huh...hey Yah…

Don’t even think about it.

Fine, killjoy. Anyways, he can use the horn to create fireballs, levitate objects, shield himself from harm, and explode heads…wait, what?! How has he not been disqualified because of that last one?! Wouldn’t that be unfair? I mean, every match involving him would just be, Fight, Boom, K.O.!

Well, he would be if he were still able to do that. As Malice explained...

"No exploding heads or the like. Or shooting fireballs." (...) "Since you decided to use your soul as a casting medium, you burnt through quite a bit of it. Burnt soul kinda tastes like avocado dipped in battery acid, if you must know." (...) “You'll be without a great deal of your magic for the next month or so. You won't be able to do what you just did for another two to three years."

Well, okay then. Congratulations, Ivan, you’re not too OP.

In fact, without this power, he admittedly might be one of the weaker chess pieces.

Well, let's just see how he does in the end.

"Can I go one day without something messing with my head? One day?"

Scarlet Lightning

Species: Pegasus Pony
Friend of Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy
Orphan
Likes Social Studies and Geography

Scarlet Lightning is a pegasus filly from Cloudsdale. She seemed to have lived a normal life, until one day when she saw Hoops picking on Rainbow Dash.

Scarlet stepped in, but then Hoops decided to be a dick and made fun of her dead parents. When that happened, Scarlet blacked out and when she woke up, Hoops was being taken to a hospital.

All that’s really explained of what happened was some sort of blue energy, but at the moment there is no explanation regarding how this works or even how it happened.

After this little incident, everypony in Cloudsdale decided, ‘Hey, let’s be complete and utter dicks to this little filly!’

Even the orphanage she and Rainbow Dash were living at kicked her out.

Is that even legal?

So, Scarlet decided to leave Cloudsdale, with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy deciding to join her. Eventually, they then ended up in Dodge Junction, where they got jobs at Cherry Hill Ranch.

About five months later, Scarlet got the idea the Princess Celestia might know what’s up with that blue energy thing at the beginning of the story, and thought about leaving for Canterlot. Though before she could, some douchebag showed up to kidnap her.

And...the story ends right there there. So as of right now, Scarlet seems to be a mostly normal filly with some mysterious power that’s barely been explored, thanks to a lazy author.

And trust me, we know all about lazy authors.

Let's see if it helps her.

“At least I crashed in here, and not out there.”

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

IT’S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

In a desert, a Zebra with blue eyes was walking along, looking for his opponent when he suddenly came across an orange, pegasus filly with blue and yellow mane. The zebra, Ivan, just stared at the little filly, Scarlet Lightning.

FIGHT!

Scarlet spread her wings, took to the air and flew right at Ivan.

Ivan, however, just stood his ground as the filly got closer and closer to him. Right when she was about three feet away from him, he quickly pulled out his dagger, and with a quick flick of his hoof, sliced Scarlet’s throat open while she was still in mid flight.

Scarlet fell to the ground with blood pouring from her neck into the sand.

K.O.

...wait, what just happened?

This might have been the quickest death in Equestrian Death Battle history.

I thought that we didn’t want this kind of thing to happen with Ivan? Maybe we should have disqualified him...

Actually, this is completely fair, because the reason why this battle was so short was not because Ivan is extremely overpowered or anything like that. Rather, it's because Scarlet might be the weakest competitor in the tournament...or in this story, period. Ever. Even Sweetie Belle could put up a better fight than her.

Other than that blue energy thing, she’s pretty much a normal filly.

And even with that, it was never explained how it works. The best assumption we have is that it is triggered via some kind of berserk button, yet due to battle rules, Ivan wouldn’t know about her dead parents and thus wouldn’t have thought make fun of it. So what we have here is somepony - excuse me, somezebra - who can actually fight, going up against somepony with about as much combat experience as Boneless the Rubber Chicken. The result shouldn’t have been surprising.

So it seems that Scarlet Lightning should've been a little more cutthroat!

The winner is Ivan.

Next time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:

Jake Gray VS Ritz Korimere!

Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!

Written by KenSES64 and RazortheAwesome
Edited by RazortheAwesome and RLYoshi

Author's Note

As an author's note on the shortness of this chapter: I see no problem with it. Sorry, but you can't stretch something this one-sided out. That's all there is to it.

If it helps, there'll be another (regular) battle up within a couple of days. Likely shortly followed with another. So you got cheated here, but it'll be made up for.

Battle 14: The Wonderbolts VS The Mario Bros.

Once again, we have another battle of pairs; both renowned for their teamwork and airborne skills, albeit in different ways.

Spitfire and Soarin of the Wonderbolts, Equestria's greatest flying team...

...and Mario and Luigi of the Mario Bros., heroes of the Mushroom Kingdom.

He's Yah-Shee and I'm Arrell!

And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

The Wonderbolts

Spitfire and Soarin
Equestria's top flight team
Capable of amazing flight stunts
Spitfire: Brash; bossy; oblivious
Soarin: ...he likes pie, I guess?

While the Wonderbolts are a whole team of stunt fliers, the only way it could be fair for this battle would be to have only two of them face the Mario Bros., so we picked the main two "canon" Wonderbolts that had been given actual personalities and appearances. So for this battle, the only Wonderbolts will be Spitfire and Soarin.

So don't even try giving us that "BUT WHERE'S FLEETFOOT?" crap!

The Wonderbolts are Equestria's greatest flying team, straight out of Cloudsdale. From performing stunt flying shows to acting as some extension of the military, they've done all sorts of things that are really just them flying around.

Don't mind Yah. He's just jealous he's not a pegasus.

I'm not jealous!

Sure, sure. Anyway, despite their flying skill, the Wonderbolts' wings are just as easy to break as they would be on any other pegasus. One wrong landing and they're in the hospital for days!

And yet they can fly fast enough to make their wings cut dragon scales. Which is actually a rather interesting ability, considering Spike even as a baby had rather tough scales that prevented him from even feeling anything when he had nails and tacks literally stuck in him. As a full-grown dragon, the ability to destroy one of those scales so effortlessly speaks wonders about how strong the Wonderbolts are...despite being just as fragile as the next pegasus.

Hell, they got knocked out by one hit from Rarity! Sure, she might be strong, but damn do those guys have a bad damage threshold!

Indeed, the Wonderbolts may be fast and strong, but we've seen they can't take what they dish out too well. Then again, being stunt fliers, they're likely used to avoiding such situations, so that balances it out in a way.

Aside from their high strength and low endurance, their teamwork is also a major part of the Wonderbolts! ...so isn't it great when they can't work as a team unless they've had hours of rehearsal?

As we learned in Rainbow Falls, Spitfire is perfectly willing to ditch Soarin if a better flier catches her eye, not even visiting him in the hospital after a wing injury. Soarin, for his part, doesn't seem to like this, and it's obvious after those events that he probably doesn't trust Spitfire as much as he used to. They can move in synchronized flying teams, but other than that, they don't seem particularly competent.

Then again, we haven't seen much of them. And since they have some equivalent to military training to join their team, obviously they've got some high standards to fill!

Let's see if those standards are high enough.

"As good as any Wonderbolt."

Mario Bros.

Mario and Luigi
Saved the Mushroom Kingdom countless times
Able to use all sorts of tricks and items
Mario: Heroic; spontaneous; powerful
Luigi: Cowardly; dependable; overshadowed

Itsa-them, the Mario Brothers!

For the sake of this battle, we will be analyzing the brothers as they are in the Mario & Luigi series, as it is in those games where they are best seen working together. General information will also be used, but anything that is specific to other games - such as Mario's Flip ability in Super Paper Mario - will not be considered.

So starting off, I don't think these two need much introduction at all! Heroic plumbers of the Mushroom Kingdom who've saved the princess more times than I've had hangovers!

Doubt that. Anyway, Mario and Luigi are both renowned around the Kingdom for their jumping prowess. Without a running start, they can jump their own height, and they will often jump on top of enemies to harm them. In cases like these, they can jump even higher than before to get at enemies floating or flying in the air.

And their jumps are strong enough that they can kill creatures by only hopping on them a couple times! ...assuming they get the Action Commands right.

In addition to jumping, they are also proficient with hammers. However, these hammers are significantly larger than the ones you'd see being used for construction; instead, the heads of these hammers are larger than Mario or Luigi's own head, enabling them to deal even more damage. However, they are also heavy and fragile; the Action Command for using a hammer involves trying to give the brother enough strength to actually swing it, and if they fail, the head completely falls off the hammer. While this is instantly fixed, it can still be a short-term problem if they were attempting to deal some damage with that hit.

Luckily, jumping and hammering aren't all they can do! They've also got items - or Special Attacks - such as Shells they can kick at enemies that rebound to the other brother automatically, so they can keep kicking it back and forth! Or the Fire Flower, which gives them both temporary fire-throwing abilities! And my personal favourite, the Snack Basket, which Mario uses to force feed Luigi tons of junk food so he gets fat and can shoot a shockwave at their foes by hitting the ground! If only I had one of those...

Along with items and Special Attacks, they also have teamwork attacks known as Bros. Attacks. These include Bounce Bros., where they bounce off of each other to deal extra damage by landing on an enemy; Fire Bros., where Mario creates fireballs for Luigi to hammer at their foes; or Knockback Bros., which...basically consists of Luigi playing "catch with a wall". Except Mario's the ball, the enemies are the wall, and he uses his hammer.

The only thing better than hitting your older brother with a hammer is hitting your older brother with a hammer so you can hit someone you don't like with your older brother!

While the brothers are not always coordinated, they are often almost perfectly synchronized, walking directly behind one another and switching positions without needing to say anything. They even have abilities outside of battle, such as the High Jump, where Luigi bounces off of Mario to reach high places and bring Mario along for the ride.

They can even use their fire and electricity powers on each other! Mario can light Luigi's ass on fire so they both go really fast, and Luigi can electrocute Mario so they can...strafe?

I never understood why they had to go to all that trouble just to walk sideways...

Well, whatever! Point is, they've got tons of abilities they can use thanks to each other, and they're coordinated enough to make them work!

Most of the time. While their teamwork is to be admired, their personalities clash at times. Mario is always brave and heroic, but Luigi tends to be reluctant to get into dangerous situations. Plus, while they have a lot of items and unique attacks, they're all limited, requiring either having the item or a certain amount of Special Points or Bros. Points. If they run out, all they can do is jump and hammer.

Of course, it'd take a tough enemy to make them actually run out...let's see if the Wonderbolts are up to the task!

"Let's go!" "Okie-dokie!"

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

IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

The duos stood in the middle of the plain, facing each other...or rather, three of the four beings present did. One particular green-clothed human was instead facing away from them, hugging his knees as he huddled down on the ground. If one looked carefully at his brother, they could see the urge to facepalm in his eyes.

FIGHT!

With the signal, the Wonderbolts charged, side-by-side. Mario lightly kicked Luigi to get him to focus, which he did, albeit obviously shaking. They both pulled out their hammers, waiting for the pegasi to get close enough.

However, the fliers were smart enough not to charge headfirst into those metal weapons. Instead, they split off, flying in opposite directions and avoiding the brothers entirely. Reacting quickly, both humans pocketed their weapons and turned to give chase...only to be tackled as soon as they turned around.

Flying several dozen feet from the impact, they finally hit the ground and skidded to a stop, getting up as quickly as they had been hit. Looking at each other for a brief moment, they nodded and began to run after the suited pegasi, who had begun to fly away again after their attack. Noticing they were being followed, they decided to turn around and try to catch the brothers off guard again.

This tactic did not work twice. As they closed in, the pegasi were suddenly met with a barrage of fireballs that seemed to come out of nowhere. Strangely enough, the fireballs didn't leave any actual burns on them, and they were able to fly out of the way after only a few hits. Now, however, they had been separated and caught off guard.

Spitfire looked around quickly for her partner, only to instead see a green-clothed human running up to her. Smirking, she flew up into the air, at least a dozen feet above the ground, as if taunting him to come get her from down on the ground.

He seemed to accept the unspoken challenge and jumped. To her great surprise, he easily cleared the distance from the ground to her, and stomped hard enough on her head to send her spiraling into the ground, disoriented.

Meanwhile, Soarin was flying in circles to avoid a direct confrontation with Mario, hoping to get behind him and tackle him. However, while his erratic flying kept Mario from getting close enough to attack, it was also easy enough for him to follow, never leaving his back exposed. Finally, annoyed, Soarin flew straight up into the sky, disappearing into a cloud.

Mario scratched his chin in thought, then noticed Luigi and Spitfire a short distance away. The pegasus noticed Soarin flying up, and after knocking Luigi off of her, she quickly did the same. The two Italians met up and discussed a quick plan, while within the clouds, the Wonderbolts watched them with curiosity and worry.

Finally, the plumbers turned up to the clouds their foes had disappeared into. Luigi jumped onto Mario's head, who squished like a piece of rubber before popping back up and grabbing his younger brother's leg. The two of them bounced high up into the sky, reaching the cloud level and landing on top of it. As soon as they hit the cloudy floor, they pulled out their hammers and went for the swing on the pegasus ponies.

Spitfire promptly reached forward, grabbed the cloud, and yanked it out from underneath them.

For a second, the brothers hung comically in the air, frozen in place. Then, gravity caught up to them, and they plummeted to the ground below...where they landed without a scratch.

Surprised, the Wonderbolts exchanged a look while the Italian plumbers made another quick plan. Reaching into his pocket, Mario pulled out what looked like a lunchbox, which opened up on its own and released loads of donuts, ice cream, cookies, and other dessert-type treats into the air. The pegasi watched in confusion, though Soarin seemed to be drooling a bit.

The food suddenly began raining down, and Luigi ran back and forth, catching it all in his mouth and swallowing in one bite. Once it was all gone, he suddenly began to grow bloated, becoming an enormous size and flopping up into the air, crushing Mario. However, upon closer inspection, Mario seemed to be doing his best to lift his little-big brother up from beneath, before suddenly getting the strength to hurl him up into the sky.

As he soared up, Luigi turned his sitting position into a belly flop, aiming down towards the cloud Spitfire and Soarin were on. Panicking, they tried to move, but the fat Italian was quicker, and obliterated their cloud as he landed on it as well as them. He, along with the pegasi, fell down to the ground, where they were crushed beneath him with a sickening sound.

Suddenly going back to normal size, Luigi stood up and instantly fell over onto his back. Mario walked over and examined the scene. His younger brother, along with the entire ground beneath where he landed, were smeared with blood. The only sign the Wonderbolts had ever been there were two flattened flying suits on the ground.

Helping his brother up, Mario then held his gloved hand up, which Luigi didn't hesitate to high-five.

K.O.

Well, that's probably more blood than I've ever seen the Mario Bros. involved with! Stupid E-Rated games...

While they may be a military division and specially trained, the Wonderbolts couldn't match up to the Mario Bros. in any real way. They could fly, but flying away from the brothers would just prolong the battle, and the brothers could jump high enough to reach them if they didn't go enormous distances.

And they might be fast, but the Bros. have faster reflexes than you'd think a human should be capable of having, so they could react to pretty much everything they tried. And while Mario and Luigi don't have much variety if they run out of Special Points, the Wonderbolts don't have any variety at all!

Attempting to lead the two to falling to their deaths was a clever trick, but in the games, Mario and Luigi can survive falls from literally any enormous distance, landing on their feet without so much of a pained grunt before continuing on. And even though pegasi can control the weather, even if we did show the Wonderbolts attempting this-

Which, for the record, we tried, but it didn't fit anywhere properly.

-the brothers would be completely unaffected. Rain just wouldn't do anything, lightning would be next to worthless since Luigi controls electricity and all it does to Mario is make him be able to strafe, and things such as tornadoes or high winds would just prolong the battle further. All they'd do is knock the brothers away, but then they'd get right back up, and no progress would be gained. And that's assuming they'd even be able to pull off such a feat without Mario or Luigi stopping their attempts with a well-timed jump.

Sure, the Wonderbolts can cut a dragon's scales. But Mario and Luigi have taken on all sorts of monsters, from Bowser to Cackletta to just about anything else to the sun and back! Things that make Giant Spike look like a wimp!

Even if we brought in more Wonderbolts against just the two Mario Bros., it's likely the result would be the same. They've taken on squads of enemies all at one time before, prevailing every time, whether or not they're even working together.

And so the Wonderbolts suffered a very crushing defeat!

The winners are the Mario Bros..

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

Written by KenSES64 outside of his work on the tournament, we've got a battle of two characters with similar names and similar high levels of power! One returning competitor, squaring off against a human boxer.

How will the battle between Big and Little turn out? Find out next time!

Got a suggestion for an Equestrian Death Battle? Post a comment below suggesting matchups, or send me a PM with suggestions in it!

You may suggest OC characters, provided they are from a story or other fan creation that is at least somewhat well-known.

Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

Battle 15: Big Mac VS Little Mac

There are many characters out there with similar names.

And with these two, it ends up being a battle of punching versus kicking!

Big Macintosh, the soft-spoken farmer…

...and Little Mac, the WVBA Champion.

I’m Yah-Shee and he’s Arrell, and it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Big Macintosh

Species: Earth pony
Special talent: Apple farming
Occupation: Farmer at Sweet Apple Acres
Applejack and Applebloom's older brother
Physically most powerful pony on the show
Can drag houses and buck crowds of ponies
Typically says very little

Big Macintosh, known to many simply as Big Mac, is an earth pony farmer and the older brother of both Applejack and Apple Bloom; both of whom are former DEATH BATTLE: Equestria competitors, with he himself also being one, having faced Iron Will before.

And he kicked his scrawny flank!

Yeah, that happened. Since Big Mac has already appeared, we'll just give a quick review on his abilities.

Like his sisters, he's got typical earth pony features. No wings or magic, but makes up for it with power!

So far, Big Mac has been shown to be the most physically strong pony to appear on the show. He can drag an entire house and barely be slowed down, capable of pulling it halfway across Ponyville without being worn out.

Take that, Chuck Norris!

He is sturdy and enduring, not even flinching while accomplishing various difficult tasks which many other ponies would consider impossible, including sending an entire crowd of ponies flying at least a mile away just by charging through them.

Big Mac doesn't have any weapons or armour. He just has his yoke, his strength, and his famous single-word phrases.

Yes. Big Mac may be strong, but he's very soft-spoken and shy. He doesn't speak much to anypony outside his family, and even then he keeps his sentences short. However, it is also implied that he is rather intelligent, handling most of the mental chores around Sweet Apple Acres since Granny Smith is too old, Applebloom is too young, and Applejack is...

"Don't use yer fancy mathematics ta muddle the issue!"

...like that.

Yeah, like that.

"Eeeyup."

Little Mac

Species: Human
Occupation: Professional boxer
Trained by Doc Louis
Has won multiple boxing championships
Can become Giga Mac
Typically says very little

And in this corner, standing in at 5 foot 7 inches, weighing in at 107 pounds, from Bronx, New York, USA. Little Mac!

Little Mac is a young boxer who wanted to join the World Video Boxing Association, or WVBA. So he traveled to New York City to train under former Heavyweight champion, Jerome “Doc” Louis.

Heavyweight is right! He’s a grade-A chocoholic. If he’s not eating it, he’s talking about it. Sounds like my kind of guy! Though we’re not here to talk about Doc, we’re here to talk about Mac.

Little Mac is quick on his feet, able to dodge many fast and strong attacks from many much larger opponents...with most of those larger opponents usually being racial stereotypes. Seriously, tell me I'm wrong.

Though he can get tired if he gets hit enough, or enough of his attacks get blocked. But Little Mac isn’t just able to dodge these much larger guys; he’s able to knock them around as well.

Of course, Little Mac wouldn’t be able to do most of this if he didn’t have any special abilities.

Little Mac has mastered the Star Punch; a powerful uppercut that, when hit at the right moment, can knock down or even knock out an opponent, and can for some reason send some sort of stereotypical food flying out of his opponent.

But this isn’t all he can do. Little Mac can also transform into the powerful goliath known as Giga Mac.

Unlike “Little” Mac, Giga Mac is a hulking powerhouse that’s able to deal extraordinarily strong strikes on opponents. Unfortunately, he also becomes slower in this form, making him a little easier to hit. Plus this form doesn’t last extremely long, and if he becomes Little Mac again, it might be a while before he can turn into Giga Mac again. But look at him! He only needs a few seconds in that form to break just about any bone in anybody's body!

In the end, Little Mac is a great boxer. Whether it be Glass Joe, King Hippo, Bald Bull, or even Donkey Kong or Mike Tyson, Little Mac is able to come out on top no matter how great the odds are against him.

“Haha! Whoo hoo! Yeah!”

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

IT’S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

In his training room, Little Mac was shadow boxing inside the ring when he heard someone step inside the ring. He turned to see a large red earth pony with a blond mane, wearing a yoke around his neck. Big Macintosh.

“Nope,” Big Mac said as he stepped forward. Both Macs took up a battle stance.

FIGHT!

Big Macintosh didn’t waste any time and charged at Little Mac. Right as Big Mac reached him, he skidded to a halt, turned himself around, and attempted to buck Little Mac in the face. Little Mac, however, ducked under the kick before it could even hit him.

When Big Mac turned back around, a green boxing glove hit him right in the face as Little Mac’s punch connected right to his face, making Big Mac reel back quite a bit. Little Mac then pushed forward and punched again with his other hand, then again with his first hand, then again with his other one. Between them Little Mac landed six hits, each one sending Big Macintosh reeling back even more.

Right as Little Mac threw a seventh punch, however, Big Mac ducked under it and headbutted Little Mac right in his stomach. Little Mac stepped back a bit while holding his gut, not seeing the twin hooves of Big Macintosh flying out at him. Both connected right into his face.

The impact of Big Mac’s buck sent Little Mac flying back into the ropes, upon which he bounced off the ropes and right into another buck to the face. With the second buck, Little Mac fell back, landing on the mat. Despite being dazed, the young boxer reached over and grabbed bottom rope, then the second rope, then finally the third as he slowly pull himself back onto his feet.

Seeing this, Big Mac went it for another buck, but Little Mac managed to evade it by moving to the left and quickly jabbed Big Mac in his side. Big Mac let out a small wheeze in pain as he turned around and stepped back. After a quick recovery, he blew some air out of his nostrils in anger.

Big Mac then suddenly charged forward at full speed. Little Mac didn’t have any time to react at all as Big Mac quickly turned and bucked him with enough force to send him flying straight out of the ring.

Little Mac landed on the hard floor of the gym, coughing in severe pain. At this point, he knew for certain that this was serious and that he couldn’t hold anything back. With a grunt, he prepared himself...

Back inside the boxing ring, Big Mac just stood there watching Little Mac, wondering to himself if he would even get up. Right then without warning, Little Mac suddenly hopped back to his feet and jumped back in the ring. However, he was taller than he had been previously and was much more muscular than before. He was also clearly much angrier, if the look on his face indicated anything. And on top of it all, his black tank top was gone.

Little Mac had become Giga Mac.

If Big Macintosh had been surprised by this in any way, he certainly didn’t show it. Giga Mac, for his part, didn’t waste any time as he threw his gloved fish down at Big Mac, but he dodged to the side just in time. Giga Mac then quickly threw another punch with his other fist and hit Big Mac right in his abdomen.

Big Mac felt an immense wave of pain of flow through him as he was sent flying back into the ropes just like he had done with Little Mac before. Unlike Little Mac, though, he didn’t bounce off them. Bic Mac just landed on his hooves holding his stomach. If the pain in his abdomen told him anything, it was that Little Mac’s new form wasn’t just for show.

Giga Mac then brought both fist up into the air. Big Mac, seeing this, got back up and rushed him. Again as he reached him, he skidded to a halt, turned himself around once again, and bucked Giga Mac right in the chest.

The moment Big Mac’s buck connected to Giga Mac’s chest, Big Mac noticed him reel back in pain. Clearly he could still hurt him. Big Mac took advantage of this and bucked him in the chest again, and again, and again. After the fourth buck however, Giga Mac jumped back and threw another punch, hitting Big Macintosh square in the back of his head. The resulting impact knocked him down onto the mat right on his face.

It took a moment for Big Mac to get back up onto his feet. When he did, he saw that Giga Mac was suddenly Little Mac again. Even his tank top was back somehow. Little Mac’s face was all bruised, with one eye being so swollen it was partially shut. Despite this, he still held a look of determination. Gritting his teeth, Little Mac punched Big Mac in the side of the head before he even had a chance to react.

Big Macintosh tried to turn around and buck him in the face again, but Little Mac hit him with another strong jab to the face before he could. At that, Big Macintosh backed up to one of the corners of the ring before he suddenly charged forward.

Little Mac just stood his ground and waited for Big Mac to get closer. Right as Big Mac was about to reach him, Little Mac took a step back, drew him fist down, then suddenly brought it back up for a powerful uppercut.

The star punch connected with Big Mac’s jaw as the impact twisted his head sideways and made a loud cracking sound. Big Macintosh was sent backwards through the air, with apples flying everywhere for some reason. After a few moments of slow motion, Big Mac and said apples all landed on the ring mat.

Little Mac just stood where he was, out of breath, before wiping sweat from his forehead and turning to go rest.

K.O.

Well, that was certainly a hard-fought battle, but now Little Mac faces an even tougher challenge: explaining to Doc Louis why there's a giant dead pony in the ring!

Big Macintosh is certainly a powerful competitor, and this battle was extremely close. However, enough factors pushed the battle into the littler Mac's favour.

While Big Mac had more power, Little Mac had more speed, but that alone wasn't enough for either of ‘em, even when Little Mac became Giga Mac. Sure, he was more powerful, but he was also slower, so if anything, Giga Mac made the battle more even.

In the end, Little Mac had to rely on his signature move, the star punch, which has both strength and speed behind it; more than enough to completely break the neck of a pony even as sturdy as Big Macintosh. So it was enough to get the job done.

Now we know what some of you might be thinking: how can this guy possibly be able to withstand Big Mac’s kicks when Big Mac can crack trees in half with just his right leg?

Little Mac has fought, and could survive a hit from, Donkey Kong. As seen in Donkey Kong Country Returns, Donkey Kong can punch a moon out of orbit. Now, assuming that the Mushroom World’s moon is the same size as Earth’s moon, and that Donkey Kong was hitting Little Mac at full force, that means that Little Mac can survive a hit of 3.8 x 10^28 joules. Which is, obviously, way more than it would take to knock away a crowd of ponies or move a house.

Big Mac may be strong, but in the end, he just got punched-out!

The winner is Little Mac.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

Before the tournament began, we had a battle between the three main antagonists of the series: Nightmare Moon, Discord, and Queen Chrysalis. The winner was Nightmare Moon, and the plan for her to battle another character was scrapped.

But now, over a year later, perhaps it's time for her to return to the battlefield...now that another demonic creature of the night has been declared "canon" in Equestria. A background event many missed, now taking on the Queen of the Night...

Don't look, or it takes you.

Got a suggestion for an Equestrian Death Battle? Post a comment below suggesting matchups, or send me a PM with suggestions in it!

You may suggest OC characters, provided they are from a story or other fan creation that is at least somewhat well-known.

Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).

Author's Note

This battle was not written by me. It was done by KenSES64, whom you may know as the guy behind the OC tournament now along with RazortheAwesome. I merely edited this chapter in a spellcheck way and added one or two jokes, as well as the "next battle" preview. So give those two some love!

Tournament Battle 11: Jake Gray VS Ritz Korimere

Yes! Guns versus swords! Let’s do this!

You seem excited.

Are you kidding? All we need now are lasers!

Jake Gray, the cybernetically enhanced former cop...

And Ritz Korimere, the guard from Stalliongrad!

I’m Yah-Shee and he’s Arrell, and it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out would would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Jake Gray

Species: Human
Occupation: Vigilante
Former Police Officer
Also known as “Bloodflow”

Jake Gray was a police officer in New York, who along with other New York officers, were outfitted with cybernetic gauntlets and boots to increase their strength, speed, reaction time, and other senses. However, something went wrong with Jake’s set, which resulted in his cybernetic enhancements being permanently stuck to him.

In other words, he became a discount Robocop.

Over time, Jake learned to adjust to this. However, other cops with these enhancements began abusing their power and started killing people over minor crimes. So the cybernetics were banned, but since Jake’s was fused to him, his superiors were forced to fire him.

Some time later, Jake returned home to find that his wife and child were killed by a man with the same enhancements. Why exactly? Turns out that the cybernetics had tiny needles in them that injected some sort chemical that makes the user go crazy. Yet, due to the short circuit with Jake’s, his didn’t do that.

After spending 6 years hunting the man who killed his family, and after learning the information about the enhancements we just mentioned, Jake vowed to get revenge on the company who made them: Dynamicorp.

Which he did by entering their headquarters with two M9 pistols, some remote detonated explosives, and enough ammo to take over a small country. With all of these he then laid down the law on them!

Eventually, after killing many, many armed security guards, he made his way to Dynamicorp’s CEO, who ended up throwing him into some kind of experimental portal...which, of course, ended up sending him to Equestria.

And what does he do in Equestria? Runs away from Princess Celestia, gets caught by her, and after they introduce themselves to each other, he meets Luna and learns that the crime rate been going up in Equestria. And...that’s it.

Unfortunately, this is another story with very little in it...so like before, let’s see how that works out.

"I might not be in the greatest state of mind, all things considered. I was thrown from my world, landed on some planet that’s god-knows-how far away from mine, and I woke up on a hospital bed, being cared for by a bunch of talking horses! Oh, and these guys over here tried to kill me. Doesn’t exactly make for the most calming of situations, does it?"

Ritz Korimere

Species: Pegasus (formerly Human)
Occupation: Guard
Not Fluttershy
… Um… That’s about it.

Is that Fluttershy wearing armor?

No, but you’re not the only one who thought that at first. Ritz Korimere is a guard who met the human-turned-dragon, Ember, in Stalliongrad. She and another guard named Silverwing helped Ember and her friend, a Diamond Dog named Grim-

Not the same Grim from Ivan’s story.

Right, and as I was saying: they nursed them back to health…after Silverwing attacked them in the first place.

Then Ritz gave Ember her rapier, which we’ll be giving her to use in this Death Battle for the sake of fairness, to use to hunt down Griffin "The Griffin" North, who killed her adoptive father and used one of his scales to make his sword, Hades.

Something to note here is that Ember didn’t even know her adoptive father for long, so at best her right to seek revenge is questionable.

Well, he did seem better than her human father. I don't know if dragons are good parents, but trust me when I say they do not make good wives.

...wait, what?

Nothing!

...okay. Anyway, Emb-

Wait, why are we talking about Ember? Ritz is the one fighting.

Maybe it’s because we have so little information on Ritz that we’d rather see Ember fighting?

Why didn’t this guy just nominate Ember then? It’s not like this is a strictly pony OC tournament. I mean, Jake’s a robo-human, Lucario is a Pokemon, Marr Bell is a gorgon, and several of the other competitors are chess pieces of the gods who aren’t ponies or humans, so why didn’t he just nominate Ember? I mean, not only does she have Ritz’s rapier, but she’s a friggin dragon. Why wouldn’t you want a dragon in this tournament!?

Because she has impenetrable scales and overpowered attacks that would make her unstoppable by literally every other combatant.

Who said that?!

It's me. Your lord and saviour and author. Trust me, Ember was overpowered even for the Chessverse. Not letting her face off against OCs who are mostly, at best, above average in terms of power.

...fair enough. So what else do we have on Ritz?

Well, in Griffin’s fight with Ember; or Gemina, Ember’s twin sister/alternate personality - don't ask, it’s kinda weird - when Griffin used Forma Versus to turn Ember and himself back into humans, Ritz was there and she also turned into a human, so there’s that.

Wait, Ritz is human? So does that mean she’s a chess piece too?

Not that it’s been confirmed, but it does seem likely.

"I'm Ritz, and you’re going to help me because Ember is close to starting the Apocalypse, and has barely managed to retain a modicum of sanity over the past two weeks."

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

IT’S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

In an abandoned, graffiti-covered building, Ritz Korimere was busy investigating the area due to rumors of illegal activities going on. She looked around, but didn’t see anything except for the many support beams that held up the building.

Suddenly a nearby door got kicked open, and Jake Gray, a human wearing a red hooded coat and had metal gloves and boots on his arms and legs stepped through.

Seeing this, Ritz got ready to grab her rapier, just in case.

FIGHT!

Right away Jake pulled out his twin M9 pistols and points them at Ritz. Ritz went wide-eyed and ducked behind a nearby counter just as Jake started to open fire at her.

Behind the counter, Ritz pulled out her rapier and waited patiently for Jake’s gunfire to stop.

Bullets were whizzing through the air all around her making holes in the wall. One of them even passed through the counter, missing Ritz’s head by mere centimeters. It did pass through her mane though.

After a while, the gunfire stopped, but Ritz still waited. Eventually she heard Jake’s footsteps as he started walking closer to her. Ritz waited for a few moments until she heard them stop.

Jake was right there when suddenly, the counter that Ritz had been hiding behind was kicked towards him. Jake kicked the counter right as it reached him, shattering it into splinters. Ritz, seizing the opportunity, flew up from behind the counter and slashed Jake across the chest.

Jake grabbed his chest in pain and stepped back. Blood was dripping through his fingers, but that didn’t stop him as he held out one of his guns fired shot after shot at Ritz, who bobbed and weaved to avoid them, but one bullet was lucky and managed to hit her back, left leg.

Ritz grunted in pain, but still was able to fly through an open doorway into another room.

Jake, seeing that his opponent had escaped him, got back up and followed her into the room that she went in with both guns ready.

Jake walked into the room where the armored pegasus entered to find that it was a bathroom with three closed stalls.

Jake cautiously walked over to the first stall and kicked it open to reveal nothing but a smashed toilet.

Then he walked over to the next one and kicked it’s door in too to see another toilet, this one intact, yet looked as if it hadn’t been cleaned in several years.

Jake then walked to the final stall. He was ready to kick it open, but as he did he stopped and noticed something shiny in the corner of his eye. Quickly, he turned to face Ritz and held up his metal covered arm to stop Ritz’s rapier from coming down on his head.

Ritz just glared at him in anger at this.

Jake then quickly pointed his other gun at Ritz, but Ritz, seeing this coming, flew right out of the bathroom and out into the building again.

Ritz flew as fast as she could and went up a flight of stairs to the next floor where she found a desk to hide under. She ducked under the desk and stayed there with her weapon ready. She knew that Jake would be coming for her, it was only a matter of time.

Eventually a whole minute past without her hearing Jake’s footsteps come up the stairs. Then another minute past, and then another. Before long, a good seven minutes passed with no sign of Jake Gray.

Realizing this, Ritz slowly stepped out from under the desk, not putting her guard down even for a moment.

She winced in pain a bit as she tried to stand, her leg being shot and all. With that in mind she flew up off the ground a bit and slowly made her way down the stairs.

When she reached the previous floor, she looked around. Jake wasn’t anywhere to be seen.

Then she noticed something by one of the support beams, a block of C4.

Her eyes widened to the size of the sun as she turned around and noticed that most of the other support beams had at least one block of C4 on them.

Ritz quickly eyeballed the nearest exit she could find, a broken window. Right as she was about to fly up to it to escape, the C4 was suddenly set off, blowing up the beams.

Debris came falling down as the building began to fall apart. Ritz dodged and weaved around several chunks of plaster and concrete, but right when she thought she was home free, with the window a mere five feet away from her, a large amount of debris fell on top of her, pinning her to the ground below.

From the outside of the building, a good distance away, Jake Gray, detonator in hand, watched as the entire building came down, creating a large cloud of dust into the air.

In the aftermath of the unexpected demolition, Ritz lay down under a pile of debris, crushed to death at the weight of a building on top of her.

K.O.

See! I knew this would be awesome.

Even though admittedly both competitors didn’t give us too much to work with, through comparing them, Jake had more obvious skills then Ritz.

Sure, Ritz could be a powerful warrior, but if that’s the case there really isn't that much proof of that. Especially since there’s a good chunk of time between the last chapters of Dancing Flame, Cooling Ember and her appearance in Griffin the Griffin, and we don’t really know what happened to her in that time.

Sure, we see that she has a rapier, but we don’t really know how exactly how good she is with it. We don’t even know how good she is at flying.

So, overall, we had to mostly make assumptions when it came to her.

Jake, on the other hoof...we’ve seen how good of a shot he is, and how he can figure out good areas to place his explosives. So, in the end he has more judgeable skills than Ritz.

Ritz could have done well, but then everything came crashing down on her.

The winner is Jake Gray.

Next time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:

After over a year, Round One comes to a close, with Aoi VS Shadow Blitz!

Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!

Author's Note

Written by KenSES64 and RazortheAwesome (and an interjection from RLYoshi)
Research portions edited by RazortheAwesome and RLYoshi
Battle edited by RazortheAwesome

Tournament Battle 12: Aoi Myoujin VS Shadow Blitz

And we’re here, the last battle of the first round.

After well... over a year, 11 other battles, 4 disqualifications, and a change of authors we’re finally here.

In this battle we have Aoi Myoujin, the Lunar Legend...

...and Shadow Blitz, the self-proclaimed Alicorn of Awesome.

He’s Yah-Shee and I’m Arrell!

And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Aoi Myoujin

Species: Bipedal wolf (Formerly Human)
Occupation: Alpha of the Nanashi Clan
Name is Japanese for Blue Stranger
Also known as the Lunar Legend
Has a fear of rats and mice
Has studied kendo and various styles of wushu
Is Female at the moment, but won’t be here

Aoi Myoujin was a simple japanese boy, living a happy life with his parents, until they were murdered right in front of him.

So like most children unfortunate enough to have that happen to them, Aoi swore vengeance, and after 20 years of training, working as a US government spy sometimes, and a hitman at other times, he eventually found his family’s killer got his revenge. Just like Inigo Montoya.

The next day however, word of Aoi’s story got out to the news. Some saw it as justice while others saw it as murder. Either way, SWAT units were surrounding his apartment by the next night.

As the SWAT team was ready to burst in and storm his apartment, Aoi was confronted by Nora, a dog spirit that gained the power of a god, who confronted Aoi in the form of well... he made himself look exactly like Aoi.

Nora offered Aoi a chance at a new life in a new world. After accepting her offer, he then arrived in Equestria as a bipedal wolf, which apparently were a species in Equestria, but they went extinct. This also probably makes him one of the few chess pieces that isn’t a brony.

Wait, another one! Seriously! How many does that make now!? I mean first we had Knightmare and Arrell, then we had Jack and Ace, then there was that psychopath Ivan, possibly Ritz, and now Aoi! Seriously! How many-

Aoi is the last one.

Oh…… All right then.

ANYWAY… Aoi then traveled around Equestria, running into many who would join him on his journey. Keith, his friend from earth, whom he thought was dead, but was actually living in Equestria in pony form, Eol, a diamond dog who lost his father at a young age, and Ubi, a diamond dog/dragon hybrid looking for his missing mother. Together they try to liberate the country of Gem Fido from their dragon and alpha diamond dog overlords.

But enough backstory lets talk about his weaponry. Aoi wields a katana named Kokuryū no saishū-bin, which means “The Last Flight of the Black Dragon” in Japanese, thats made from the scale of a black dragon that he defeated himself, much like another certain chessverse character. Because his katana is made from said black dragon scale, it’s sharp enough to the point that it pretty much makes a vacuum, removing all air resistance. Because a regular katana wasn’t awesome enough.

Along with this, he has a virus that basically increases his reaction time to the point that he basically has bullet time powers.

I’m guessing he took the red pill.

Though he needs to eat at least 10,000 calories a day in order to have enough energy to do this. Once he burned 500,000 calories at once and it put him into a coma for several months.

So he’s like an anti-Snorlax. Oh, and did we forget to mention that he’s friggin eight feet tall!

He also carries a CZ75 pistol, made by his friend Keith, which holds fifteen 50. caliber rounds and uses two types of bullets, regular and explosive.

Because being a master assassin and a samurai with bullet time isn’t enough, he also has to have a gun.

With these skills Aoi has fought against dragons, alphas, the canterlot zoo during the gala, a crazy anti-diamond dog cult, and Griffin the Griffin impersonators among other things. Though despite his obvious skill, he takes failure very hard, especially if one of his allies dies because of him making a mistake.

Good thing the only life he has to worry about here is his own.

Also, he’s in also in a relationship with…

Don’t say it! Don’t you bucking say it!

Rainbow Dash.

Celestia bucking damn it! Why do fanfic writers keep shipping their OC’s with her? I mean seriously! At this point she’s been shipped with everything but the kitchen sink!

Actually…..

I hate you… so much right now…

I know.

ANYWAY!!!!....... Celestia I’m going to need so much brain bleach for that… Aoi does all of this when he’s not being rule 63’d by a possibly insane alternate universe version of himself.

What?

Yeah, this story, and by that I mean Aoi’s story, can get kind of weird at points.

"All it takes is for the world to not care anymore for evil to spread, Heroes are born when everyone else is too afraid to care anymore. Heroes are there to do what others don't even try. Heroes are there to SAVE EVERYONE'S ASSES When NO ONE ELSE WILL! When no one else will lift a finger to help because it doesn't help them. So yeah, I guess that does make me a hero... but what happens when the hero becomes forgotten, when no one cares about the hero anymore… That moment is when the hero sees himself turns into the very person he tries so damn hard, each and everyday to stop. That's why I don't want to be the hero. I don't ask for people to remember what I do, I don't want to be famous, or rich, or marked in history books for people to remember another fact put on a quiz. If I wanted to do all that stuff, I'd have stayed in my other world. I just wanted to finally find others that... that I could call my family again. I'm doing this to prevent others from going through what Eol, Ubi, and I have been through. I'm sure you understand..."

Shadow Blitz

Species: Alicorn (Formerly Human)
Real Name: Luke Pearson
A Prince of Equestria
Has Asthma
Hates Fire
Sometimes calls himself as “The Alicorn of Awesome”

Luke Pearson was out one night with two of his friends, Zack and Lara, to celebrate the three of them finally graduating college.

By doing one of my favorite activities, getting drunk!

After many rounds, they went back to their apartment to relax…

And that’s when Princess Luna teleported into their living room and asked for their help in dealing with a coming force of evil. They decided to do the most rational thing and say yes…. Without really questioning it that much.

They then woke up the next morning in equestria as ponies. Zack as a unicorn, Lara as a pegasus, and Luke finding that he had become an alicorn.

Of course!

So the three of them came up with more pony sounding names, Zack going with Dusk Star, Lara choosing the name Fire Storm, and Luke went with the name Shadow Blitz. They then soon after went into Ponyville where the met the Mane 6 and quickly became friends with them.

Of course!

Also Shadow Blitz was challenged to a race by Rainbow Dash.

Of cour-

Stop that!

Fine.

Anyway… Shadow Blitz was challenged to a race by Rainbow Dash, which was fairly close until Rainbow used her signature Sonic Rainboom.

But then Shadow pulled off the Shadow Blast, a move that’s basically a carbon copy of the Sonic Rainboom. Which made him win by a nose.

Not long afterwards, the three of them were found out to be human thanks to Fluttershy finding Shadow’s Iphone…

And being scared by it because Fluttershy.

The mane 6 of course questioned what it was, but then Celestia and Luna came out of nowhere and explained to them just what was going on.

So then they all went to Canterlot and Shadow was made a Prince because the ponies of Equestria would question it if he wasn’t. Friggin lucky bastard.

About a day or so later, after Shadow spent some time hanging out with Luna, the three of them fought an Ursa Major that was being controlled by the villain they were sent to stop, and who’s this villain?

Spoi- Eh, not really. If you look at the chapter titles of the chapters currently out, it kinda gives it away, plus it was kinda foreshadowed earlier in the story. It’s basically Nightmare Trixie.

Though the heroes don’t know that at this point.

And after they defeat the Ursa Major the three humans fell unconscious, and then some mind stuff that involved an evil clone of Shadow happened. Once they woke up Shadow thought to himself ‘Oh Shit I need to train!’ and so he did.

Other than the Shadow Blast, he can also shoot a concentrated beam of lightning, teleport, make a bubble shield, create a ball of dark magic, and…. that’s basically it.

Other than that he wears the armor of a Lunar Guard, but he doesn’t wear a helmet because it rattles around.

Oh boo fucking hoo! Do you think the drill sergeants gave a crap if my helmet was too big during training?! No! No they didn’t! Not at all! And another thing-

Wait WHAT!?

I’m sorry but… who are you?

Razor…. Mehrunes Dagon Razor.

How did you get in here?

The author of my story is one of the writers for this series.

…

…

…

Uh….

I’m sorry but would you plea-

GET THE BUCK OUT OF HERE! THIS IS OUR STORY!

Why? Just cau-

THWACK

I’m terribly sorry. Please, continue.

...

Okay…..

So….

Back to Shadow Blitz

YES!

Shadow also has asthma and low stamina, so that plus the lack a helmet could hurt him in this match.

Well, I guess that’s a good thing since overall he does seem like a very typical OC.

“So you’re just going to teleport into our universe and randomly ask a bunch of humans whom you’ve just met 5 seconds ago to help you in Equestria for something? ...Seems Legit"

Alright, the combatants are set. Lets end this debate, and the first round, once and for all.

IT’S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

A grey alicorn wearing night guard armor was flying through the skies when he spotted a lone, strange figure down in an open field of grass below.

The Alicorn called Shadow Blitz flew down and landed in front of the strange figure to see that it was a white, bipedal wolf wearing a blue kimono, and it was much taller than he was.

The wolf, Aoi stopped as Shadow landed in front of him and pulled out his katana, the Kokuryū no saishū-bin, spun it around, and took a battle stance.

FIGHT!

Shadow Blitz immediately took back to the air and charged his horn with electricity. Aoi just stood his ground and studied his opponent, waiting to see what he would do.

Shadow then shot lightning down at Aoi, who quickly sidestepped to his right to avoid the electrical blast.

Shadow’s eyes went wide in a mixture of surprise and confusion as he saw that. It looked as if Aoi didn’t move at all. One moment he was there, and the next he was just standing a few feet to the left of where he was. As confused as he was, he shook it off and charged up his horn again for a moment before he shot out another blast of lightning, and then another one, and another, and another.

Aoi however, just kept avoiding every single one of Shadow’s blasts no matter how many he shot. It was like he was teleporting, only there wasn’t any magic. While he may have been moving fast to his opponent though, to Aoi, it felt more like time had slowed down for him, and the bolts of lightning were coming at him very slowly.

After one last blast, which Aoi effortlessly avoided, Shadow gave a small grunt of frustration and teleported out of sight.

At that, Aoi quickly looked around and scanned the area, but even with his height, he couldn’t see Shadow anywhere.

After a second, Aoi heard something behind him. He turned around to see Shadow Blitz back in the air and with a large ball of dark energy floating above his horn. Shadow Blitz didn’t even waste a second before he threw it down at Aoi.

The dark energy ball hit the ground and exploded into a large cloud of dust.

Shadow just smirked to himself at that, thinking that his opponent was as good as dead, though his smile quickly dropped right as a bullet whizzed past his head.

Shadow quickly turned to his left in the direction the bullet and saw Aoi, unharmed, with his CZ75 pistol in hand.

Seeing that, Shadow’s eyes widened to the size of dinnerplates. He quickly put up a magic shield on himself right as Aoi fired three shots at him, the bullets bouncing off of his shield.

Seeing this, Aoi unloaded his gun and replaced his regular rounds with his explosive rounds.

Aoi then fired at Shadow’s again, the bullets from his gun exploding on impact as they hit Shadow’s shield. Unfortunately, since it was still a magical shield he was shooting, his explosive rounds left no damage on it whatsoever.

After firing a few more rounds, Aoi stopped firing, but he held his gun on Shadow just in case. Still, Shadow didn’t drop his shield, leaving the two of them at a stalemate. Despite his shield protecting him, Shadow knew that he couldn’t keep this up forever.

Shadow then suddenly teleported high above the clouds and looked down at the ground where Aoi was. Once he had his target in sight, he flew straight down at him, picking up speed as he got closer and closer. A mach cone formed around him as he flew. and soon after the visual light spectrum exploded behind him into what looked like a distorted rainbow.

The moment that sound hit his ears, Aoi looked up and saw the distorted rainbow above him. His eyes went as wide as Shadow’s had earlier. Again, time slowed down for him and he quickly rolled the the side, Shadow Blitz barely missing him.

Shadow then landed on the ground and kicked up another cloud of dust.

When it cleared, Shadow stood on the ground breathing heavily, and even wheezing a bit.

Seeing this, Aoi gripped his katana tightly, and quickly rushed Shadow. Shadow tried to get off the ground and fly away, but he was too tired.

Within less than a second, Aoi reached Shadow Blitz. With a flick of his wrist at Shadow’s neck, he cleanly severed his body from his head.

Aoi stood still for a few moments as Shadow Blitz’s head landed on the ground and rolled a few inches. His body fell over shortly afterwards. With that done, Aoi stood back up, swung his katana to get the blood off, then spun it around one last time and slid it back into it’s sheath before slowly walking away.

K.O.

Okay, how many decapitations have we had in this tournament? I want to say at least three and this probably won’t be the last one. Not that I’m complaining of course.

This one was very close. Both fighters were extremely fast and were easily able to avoid each other’s attacks, whether it was Aoi dodging Shadow’s attacks or Shadow putting up a shield, neither of them seemed to be able to hit each other.

Though with the shadow blast you could argue that Shadow’s a lot faster than Aoi given that the speed of a sonic rainboom is mach 10, but even still Aoi would have the common sense to get out of the bucking way if he saw that thing coming at him, though even with his super bullet time he was barely able to do that. That combined with Shadow’s asthma and low stamina gave Aoi the opening he needed.

Though it wasn’t speed or reflexes that decided the winner. Even if Shadow is faster than Aoi, and even if his asthma didn’t act up on him, the deciding factor of this fight was experience.

Shadow’s training lasted for like, an afternoon, and Aoi’s been training for pretty much all his life. Also while Shadow was able to take on an Ursa Major, he did that with the help of his two friends and the mane 6. Aoi took on and killed a black dragon by himself.

Which, in the chessverse it’s been well addressed that black dragons are the most powerful kind of dragon.

So even with his speed, Shadow Blitz couldn’t make the cut.

The winner is Aoi Myoujin.

Well here we are, the end of the first round.

We would like to take this moment to say congratulations to all of the OCs who’ve made it to the second round.

Those OCs being Ace, Aoi Myoujin, Arrel Ragnarok, Blue Breeze, Ice, Ivan, Jack Khajiit, Jake Gray…

Jason Parker, Knightmare Demonbane, Lucario, Marr Bell, Plymouth Valiant, Seth Disarmonia, Sigma, and Winterjet.

So get ready cause these are sixteen of the best of the best, and of those sixteen, only eight of them will get the chance to move up to round three.

Who will win? Who will die? Stay tuned to find out.

Next Time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:

Round Two begins with, Knightmare Demonbane vs. Plymouth Valiant!

Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!

Written by KenSES64 and RazortheAwesome
Edited by RazortheAwesome
(RLYoshi ducked out of this one because he was tired when he published it and just wanted to go to bed)

Battle 16: Nightmare Moon VS Slender Man

Demons of the night! Beings of pure darkness and evil! Still less scary than my ex-wife!

Still holding victory from the antagonist free-for-all, Nightmare Moon...

...going up against the biggest Internet phenomenon since somebody came up with the acronym 'lol', Slender Man!

Because the lore and fan theories surrounding Slender Man is vast, we're narrowing down what information we use and what we don't. Marble Hornets will be considered our primary canon source, but information that doesn't conflict with it that we get from Everyman HYBRID and Tribe Twelve will be used as well. In addition, Slender: The Arrival will be counted as another primary source, since it was written by the Marble Hornets crew.

As for everywhere else? Screw it! We ain't gonna scour the whole web to dig up every bit of info about him, especially since most of the info out there is either the same as the sources we talked about, or just contrasts with it anyway.

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Nightmare Moon

True Identity: Princess Luna
Species: Alicorn pony
Corrupted by jealousy
Intense magic and strength
Capable of transformation
Victor of the Antagonist Free-for-All against Discord and Queen Chrysalis

We already went over Nightmare Moon's powers in a previous battle, but for the sake of memory, let's give a recap of everything.

Nightmare Moon is the dark - well, darker - version of the beloved Princess Luna, corrupted by her jealousy of her sister Celestia's daytime and popularity! Because, you know, envy literally turns you into a brainwashed monster. Sure explains the hell out of half the kids in high school.

It is safe to believe that Nightmare Moon has all the capabilities that Princess Luna normally has, including entering ponies' dreams and the Royal Canterlot Voice. However, we also see Nightmare Moon use some particular abilities in her limited appearances. For one thing, the season one premiere shows us that she possesses the power to turn herself into smoke.

And...pretty much anything else, really. Thorns, Shadowbolts, scary tree faces...

In addition, despite being smoke, she can still apparently cause avalanches by going inside cracks in the mountain, and has the power to cut right through things by just flying past them. Normally, we would find this to be scientifically impossible, since gasses cannot interact with solids in such a way unless they were under an insane amount of pressure, but...well, it's Equestria.

Yeah, when you're talking about a land of magical talking horses, you kind of lose the ability to say something isn't possible.

Even when not smoke, however, Nightmare Moon possesses uncanny strength. She can shatter solid stone by just stomping the ground near it, and she can fire magic beams that are strong enough to completely blow up parts of buildings at a rapid pace, with no sign of exhaustion. Compare this to Twilight Sparkle, resident overpowered magic-user, whose similar magic beams during the changeling attack were only enough to hurt others, likely not even knocking out or killing them.

One direct hit from one of these beams actually knocked out Princess Celestia for a short time! Queen Chrysalis had to be powered up by love to do that!

In terms of weaknesses, however, Nightmare Moon has been shown to frequently underestimate her opponents. She falls for Twilight's teleport trick to get close to the Elements of Harmony, and didn't realize the danger of the Elements when Celestia used them until it was too late.

And...it's pretty clear she doesn't learn from her mistakes, since when she came back and other ponies tried using the Elements on her, was she scared? Nahhh. Once again, it wasn't until the last minute when she realized their danger. Then again, a thousand years on the moon would make it hard to remember everything.

Nightmare Moon is powerful both in physical and magical strength, and she can come up with a variety of ways to take down her foes thanks to transformation. She is difficult to fight and difficult to catch, with her only cause of defeat being the Elements of Harmony and her own arrogance.

You know, like most villains on the show. Substitute "Elements of Harmony" with "deus ex machina" where appropriate.

"I have but one royal duty now...to destroy you!"

Slender Man

Species: ??? (humanoid abomination?)
Height: 7'
Has eight tendrils he can manipulate
Teleports when not being looked at
Causes cameras to static
Can hypnotize and brainwash people

Slender Man is a tall, faceless, humanlike abomination in a suit and tie. Very little is known about him, but what we do know makes him a scary and fierce competitor as is.

What Slendy does is up for debate. Some say he kidnaps and hypnotizes children to be his slaves; some say he hunts people down and mutilates them; and some say he just hides in his forest and doesn't like trespassers. Whatever the case, he's good at what he does.

Very few have seen Slender Man, and contrary to popular belief, this isn't because he makes you see static when you look in his direction. On the contrary, he can only induce static in cameras and monitors. Instead, if you were to look directly at Slender Man, he would begin to induce madness in you through sickness and hearing voices, eventually brainwashing you completely. However, this is apparently affected by your proximity to him, as well as how clearly visible he is; if you can barely see him through the darkness, the effects are much easier to escape from by turning away and running. And while he may be an abomination, he can't hurt you until he gets close.

Which isn't too hard for him, since he can teleport if you're not looking right at him, Weeping Angel-style! So either you're looking at him and being driven insane by his brainwashing, or not looking at him and being driven insane by having no clue when he's gonna show up!

His primary method of proper attack is his eight tendrils growing from his back. He can retract these at will if he wishes to hide them, but most interpretations have them out and at the ready. While they look like just dark tentacles, they can slice and pierce through human flesh, and can be manipulated with absolute precision despite their size. They're even durable enough for him to walk with.

He also has pyrokinesis. Or, for those of you either not smart or not familiar with BioShock, fire powers. He can start flames with his mind, capable of burning down libraries and even forests, and fire doesn't affect him in any way...then again, not much does. This guy's been shot, stabbed, and practically incinerated...yet he still walks to this day, no worse for the wear.

Indeed; Slender Man has only one actual weakness, and that is the Operator symbol. As specific as it sounds, in truth, the Operator symbol is no more than a circle with a large X over it. Being in the presence of this symbol weakens Slender Man, making him a prime target despite his durability.

And aside from that durability, his tentacles, and the ability to start fires...he really doesn't have much going for him, when you think about it. He may be tough and scary, but he lacks variety and his weakness is pretty wimpy for a humanoid abomination. Who the hell gets weakened by a game of tic-tac-toe?!

Despite all this, Slender Man has been undefeated and almost undamaged for this long. We'll see if it holds out.

ALWAYS WATCHES NO EYES

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

IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

The Everfree Forest is as it always has been at night: dark and quiet. Crickets chirping and bushes rustling are the only sounds one would hear if they were around; but, of course, nopony is stupid enough to go out into the Everfree Forest at this time of night...

...but the two beings, lurking in the shadows yet keeping an eye on one another, are no normal ponies.

From the darkness, a pair of glowing glaring eyes focuses on a barely-visible figure across the way. All that can be spotted from this distance is a blank white head and a stark black suit, blending in almost perfectly with the surroundings.

And then, the silence is broken.

FIGHT!

Nightmare Moon immediately flaps her wings, flying up into the air as her opponent just stands there, watching without so much as tilting his head. However, from his back, several black tentacles sprout and stretch after the alicorn, only to connect with air as she turns to smoke and evades the attack.

The smoke reforms into the princess just feet away, but in the split second she took her eyes off Slender Man, he had vanished. Looking around, her ears flick at some sort of sound, quickly turning towards it. Sure enough, Slender Man has reappeared, right in front of a large tree. Glaring, she lowers her head and flies down directly at him.

Slender Man doesn't even move, merely grabbing the tree behind himself with his tentacles, ripping it from the ground effortlessly and hurling it. The alicorn's eyes widen and she darts to the side, avoiding taking the large plant head-on, but still getting knocked off course as the branches connect with her wing. Struggling to right herself in the air, she glances back at her foe's position, only to find that he has once again disappeared.

Hissing, she turns into smoke once again, for both the improved mobility and transformation if need be. Floating around the forest, she searches for Slender Man, finding nothing even pointing towards him; unbeknownst to her, Slender Man is similarly looking for her as well. However, he has more success, and spots her smoke form floating around.

Realizing he cannot hurt her in this form, he instead warps directly into her line of sight. The smoke almost seems to jump back before reforming into the princess, who tries to spear the humanlike creature on her long horn. Surprisingly enough, she succeeds, but he doesn't even react.

As she's about to pull her horn out and try again, possibly a little higher up (or lower down, banking on the chance he was more man than abomination), she winces as a headache begins to assault her. Pulling out, she waits for it to stop, only for it to get larger and more painful. Grunting, she grabs at her head with a hoof, opening an eye to see Slender Man far closer than before, his tentacles poised to strike.

Gathering up all the strength she can, Nightmare Moon flaps her wings and jumps into the air, barely dodging the sharp tentacles as they pierce the ground she had just been standing on. Immediately, they retract and go to strike again at the airborne target, but the alicorn merely flies away, relieved as her headache clears up the farther away she gets.

Flying around a bit, she soon lands in a small clearing, looking around for any sight of Slender Man. Deciding to wait for him to come to her, she flares her wings and keeps on lookout, waiting for any sign of his white face or black tentacles.

The latter comes much quicker than the former, thrusting out from the bushes at her. She swiftly jumps out of the way and grabs the tentacles with her magic, pulling hard, only to be met with far more resistance than expected. It's as though the creature on the other end is completely immobile; though this is quickly proven false as he appears right behind her, grabbing her around the torso with the rest of his tentacles.

Startled, the alicorn drops the tentacle in her magic, struggling against her binds. After a second, she recalls her powers, and begins to call upon them to get out of this. Rather than turn into smoke, however, Nightmare Moon has another idea. She shuts her eyes, and...

...something happens. All that can be seen is her form changing back to the lighter-skinned Princess Luna, looking as though she had just woken up from being unconscious. She blinks, seeing the tentacles around her, and looks up... right at the blank white face of her alter ego's enemy.

Only now, a wisp of purple smoke can be seen entering into his head. Despite lacking a face, his "expression" seems to darken, and his tentacles tighten around her.

She screams for help, but soon that is silenced, as her lungs are crushed by the incredible strength and her eyes bug out. Then, just to be sure, Slender Man squeezes one final time, completely breaking the princess into two bloody halves that fall to the ground.

His tentacles retract, and with a sound not unlike static, he vanishes.

K.O.

Wait, what? What the hell just happened?!

It has been confirmed that the "Nightmare" is not just Princess Luna's jealousy, but rather its own entity that enters the minds of those it seeks to corrupt. Since Nightmare Moon could not defeat Slender Man, but could still survive his attempts to kill her, the Nightmare decided it was time to flee her mind and enter Slender Man's.

So now we've got... Nightmare Slender Man?!

While it's true that no living creature can ever sleep safely again, this does give us an interesting result. On one hand, this technically means Slender Man wins, as he manages to absolutely destroy Princess Luna when she's still exhausted from the Nightmare leaving her mind. However, the Nightmare - which is, technically, Nightmare Moon herself - is now in his mind, and as such, can determine for itself when he will no longer be of use to it. And now that it's in his mind, it likely knows of his weakness to the Overseer's symbol.

So...

So, the winner is nobody. Because honestly, with that thing roaming around, everyone might as well kill themselves now.

...probably right.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

Unicorn VS unicorn.

Post-apocalyptic hero VS post-apocalyptic hero.

Slayer of slavers VS hater of raiders.

Stable Dweller VS Security Mare.

Littlepip VS Blackjack.

Got a suggestion for an Equestrian Death Battle? Post a comment below suggesting matchups, or send me a PM with suggestions in it! If I get enough good ones, I might continue these battles after all.

Battle 17: Blackjack VS Littlepip

In the Equestrian Wasteland, there are few to no ways to ensure survival against the elements of the post-apocalyptic world. Staying hidden in a Stable is one way, but even that has its flaws, as not even the most heavily fortified and well-programmed of bunkers can prevent somepony from eventually getting in... or getting out.

And with raider ponies going around shooting up any place or pony they find, no matter where you hunker down, you’re gonna be in danger sooner or later. Unless you’ve got tons of crazy weapons at your disposal! ...which isn’t always the case, unfortunately. So really, the only way to ensure you survive is to be one of these two badass mares!

From Stable 2, originally a PipBuck-fixing unicorn who became widely known and feared as The Stable Dweller, we have Littlepip.

And from Stable 99, once a security mare who is now revered throughout the Wasteland as... uh… The Security Mare, we’ve got Blackjack!

To analyze these characters, we are first and foremost using information from their respective stories, both of which have been carefully combed through-

To my utter hatred of everything! Screw you, Project Horizons!

...however, seeing as the universe of Fallout: Equestria in both cases is taken from the Fallout series - primarily Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas - we will also be taking notes from those games. Anything in the stories that is not outright stated will be determined through Fallout mechanics using hints from the stories, but only if such things do not seem unrealistic when compared to the world of Equestria.

So in other words: if it’s not said in the story, we figure it out through geeky game knowledge instead! And if it doesn’t work with Equestria, we scrap it!

In addition, because of the rapidly-changing arsenals of these two competitors, we will assume they have access to every weapon and type of aid they’ve used in their stories, but they will only start off with the weapons they are most known to use without exceeding their carrying limit, along with the set of armour they are wearing at the end or current point of their story. No aid will be provided immediately, and will have to be found around the battlefield as they go, in true Fallout style.

He’s Yah-Shee and I’m Arrell!

And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Blackjack

Real Name: Go Fish
Species: Cyber-alicorn (formerly unicorn pony)
Born: Stable 99, approximately 200 years after the Great War
Special talent: Winning
Former security mare
Varied equipment user
Suicidal tendencies
Poor weapon care

Once a security mare in Stable 99 near Hoofington, Go Fish - better known as Blackjack - wasn’t as good at her job as she should’ve been. She followed security detail, of course, but lacked the will to be as strict as she was supposed to be with rule violations. So instead, she spent most of her time hitting on a mare named Midnight... who probably wouldn’t even give her the time of day if it was her name.

Life was boring and lonely for BJ, until one day when a ton of raiders led by a Reaper named Deus invaded the Stable! Coming up with one of many horrible plans, Jackie downloaded the program they came for onto her PipBuck and ran away from the Stable to lure Deus away. And then she began spreading destruction through the Equestrian Wasteland almost as much as she spreads her legs!

However, we see rather quickly that Blackjack is...not a fan of what the Wasteland forces her to do, and her personality doesn’t mix well with it. She is mildly arrogant at first, thinking she knows all she needs to know about how to survive within a couple days. This leads to her ignoring the warnings of a young filly - who spent her entire life surviving out in the barren desert - and unintentionally summoning a swarm of ghouls that proceeded to tear said filly apart. ...literally.

...wow. That... I... I can’t even joke about that.

And that’s just in the third chapter.

...dammit.

Losing any sense of belief that she knew what to expect - not to mention most of her will to live - Blackjack forced herself to carry on, trying to “do better” and make up for her mistake. Instead, things only continue to get worse. She’s forced to mercy kill forty trapped colts and fillies, go back to Stable 99 and kill all its residents who have turned or are turning into mindless raiders, deal with her closest friend P-21 attempting to hang himself...

And she’s still going?! If all that crazy stuff didn’t kill her, I would’ve expected her to put a gun in her mouth!

Yeah... she tried. Blackjack does not, however, successfully take her own life. But eventually, after getting horrifically raped... while blinded, and missing all four of her legs and her horn... her heart and respiratory systems fail, and she dies.

...only to be later revived as a cyborg! Honestly, I don’t think our recap is giving anywhere close to the required amount of context to understand a damn thing about this story.

Agreed. The point here is that Blackjack has gone through all sorts of trials that make even the original Fallout games seem tame and family-friendly, and every time, she comes out on top.

And often with a hangover.

Blackjack is very impulsive, coming up with her plans on the fly and usually only taking time to think through them if somepony else is there to bounce ideas off of. Nevertheless, even her improvised methods of fighting and escape tend to work out in the end, though often with more casualties than she’d have liked - on her side or the enemy’s.

Her trademark weapon is her security baton, back from the days in Stable 99! Made from a hard enough metal to completely cave in an average pony’s skull with three or less direct hits, it’s the perfect item for close-quarters combat! And thanks to her magic, she can even use it at moderately far distances!

However, as time goes on, she seems to either lose or just forget about the baton, switching to using her firearms or other melee weapons instead. These replacement weapons include a claw made of bones which, despite not being very durable, has proven to be more deadly than her baton due to the sharpness.

But if you want sharpness, you want the Star Metal Sword! A blade literally forged from the metal of a star that landed on the planet, this is one of the deadliest close combat weapons you'll ever come across, and damn does BJ know how to use it! ...shame she lost it, though. So we'll just give her the security baton.

Aside from her melee weapons, she does specialize in a few guns, and seems to prefer combat shotguns over any other general firearm. Ironically, a combat shotgun is not part of her usual equipment; instead, she has Vigilance, a pistol; and Duty and Sacrifice, a pair of revolvers.

Vigilance is a 12.7mm pistol brought into Stable 99 by Blackjack’s ancestor, Card Trick, and handed down from daughter to daughter since! Despite its age, the weapon is in fantastic condition, and was recovered by Blackjack during her aforementioned revisit to - and slaughter of - her home Stable, purloined from her old bully Daisy, becoming her primary sidearm.

Duty and Sacrifice, meanwhile, appear to have become her main choice of firearm. They are five-shot .45 caliber revolvers with long barrels, once belonging to Vanity Blueblood before Blackjack took them from his locker in Miramare. They are larger, heavier, and more powerful than Vigilance, capable of punching through armour and exploding heads with ease; however, their low ammo capacity and slow reloading makes them tough to use nonetheless.

Blackjack has found and used other weapons in her time, such as Trottenheimer’s Folly and the Taurus Rifle; a powerful gun that infects ponies with Taint and a unique scoped hunting rifle, respectively! But for various reasons, she’s either lost or given away all of these weapons, so we’re not gonna be counting them among her main inventory since she’s already got other weapons that she still has in the story.

She uses a variety of different rounds in her weapons, from toxic to shock rounds, which all have varying effects. However, she can sometimes forget which rounds she currently has loaded, as well as their exact effects. Still, this variety can give her an advantage when she remembers to profit off of it.

Confusing ammo varieties aside, her weapons can also backfire by taking too much damage and breaking on her!

Yes; one major flaw of Blackjack’s is her apparent inability to take proper care of her arsenal. As a weapon begins to break, it deals less damage and occasionally jams, which can be a major problem in the middle of a battle. Due to not keeping track of her weapons’ condition, Blackjack often has to deal with this problem.

Even worse, those ammo varieties? They damage the gun even more than just shooting the bullets they come with!

But even without a weapon, Blackjack is nigh-unstoppable. When the chips are down, she can come up with the absolute worst and stupidest plans in pony history... and they’ll work.

Chased by giant robots piloted by crazy foals in an abandoned hospital? Play hide and seek to distract them! Surrounded by landmines and spider-bots along with a neurotoxin generator? Throw the generator on the mines to blow up the bots! Fighting a radscorpion bigger then Hasbro’s bank account? Make it kill itself with its own stinger!

And that’s when she’s armed. At one point relatively early in her journey, as in within a week and a half of leaving Stable 99 by her own recollections, she was caught by the Pegasus Enclave. After being stripped of everything she had on her, she was tossed into a locked cell in a locked room with two Enclave stallion guards ordered to beat her into paste with the use of Buck, Hydra, and Stampede; drugs that individually cause amazing increases in strength and endurance beyond normal pony capabilities.

Three minutes later, she walked out of the room unharmed and started killing everypony.

One useful aid to Blackjack is her ‘telekinetic bullets’, where she uses the force of her levitation magic to push against a target in such a way that it has the same impact as a physical bullet. How much she can do this, and how strong the ‘bullets’ are, depends on her current endurance and focus. She can even use these telekinetic bullets in S.A.T.S., despite them not really counting as a physical weapon.

But her greatest ally in the whole wide Wasteland? Alcohol! Send that mare the whiskey and she’ll be an unstoppable force and immovable object rolled into one crazy mare. Drunk Blackjack is the most competent direct killer around, and don’t you forget it!

Blackjack was at first a normal unicorn pony, but on two separate occasions, she underwent processes that turned her into a cyborg. The first one was a necessary amputation; due to too much exposure to enervation, her legs had devolved to the consistency of rubber, and so they were replaced with more powerful robotic ones. Parts of her head, including her eyes, were also replaced with cyborg substitutes because she almost died... well, technically, she did die, but then some weird spiritual stuff happened and she went back to regular life anyway, it's kind of hard to understand.

The second process basically involved either covering or stripping off almost all the skin on her body to coat her in hard metal plating, as well as implant wings on her back! This makes her much more defensive and sturdy, even able to take bullets to previously vulnerable parts of the body and shake them off. She's kinda like RoboCop, but she can actually move at an average pace.

Yet despite all the good things we have to say about her, she is not without her weaknesses - not by a long shot. For one thing, her magical strength is average at best, and the only spells she can pull off are levitation and the aforementioned telekinetic bullets; which, even then, are really just another use of her levitation.

And now that she’s a full-on cyborg, she may seem tougher, but it didn’t come without its own problems! The extra weight has made her heavy enough to, combined with her lack of swimming ability due to being raised in a Stable, almost drown in a puddle of blood.

It was kind of a large puddle…

Whatever!

In addition to that, while her harebrained schemes are often useful in getting out of trouble, it should be mentioned that the only reason she gets into trouble in the first place is because of her same mind that comes up with those schemes. She admits it herself: she is not a smart pony, and that affects her greatly. She’s fallen into traps and ended up putting herself and her friends in mortal danger, and almost every time, it’s her own fault.

As cool as it might be to play her up as a badass for getting out of all those situations, it’s a sad truth that everything would’ve been better if they never happened in the first place. And that’s not considering the times she would’ve just outright killed herself due to sheer stupidity if somepony like P-21 hadn’t been there to stop her in the nick of time! Like when she almost set off a grenade trap from Deus by not checking a suspicious wooden box specifically addressed to her for any wires!

Indeed. Blackjack may be one of the most dangerous, if not the most dangerous, pony in the entire Equestrian Wasteland... but at the same time, the pony she is the biggest danger to is herself.

"Yeah, I help ponies. Yeah, DJ Pon3 thinks I’m a hero. Me? I’m just Blackjack. And I’ll do whatever I have to against any enemy to survive and save my friends."

Littlepip

Species: Unicorn pony
Born: Stable 2, approximately 200 years after the Great War
Special talent: ??? (No, seriously, even Kkat says it's a mystery)
Extremely powerful telekinesis; little to no other magic
No particular faction
Skilled in lockpicking, sneaking, and hacking
~~Toaster Repairpony~~
Makes frequent use of S.A.T.S.

Born in Stable 2 and raised by a neglectful alcoholic mother, Littlepip was late in earning her cutie mark, being assigned various jobs in the meantime. She finally earned it when a child was lost in the Stable, and she stole a PipBuck to track him down.

The beginning of her kleptomaniac scavenging career!

Over the course of her dull life, Littlepip developed a fascination with a singer from the Stable named Velvet Remedy. When Velvet went missing, Littlepip went out into the Equestrian Wasteland after her to try and find her, being told by those in the Stable that if she ever came back, they wouldn’t let her in.

Dick move, but it started one of the greatest adventures ever told! Now with no place to call home even after she found Velvet Remedy, Littlepip decided to wander the Equestrian Wasteland, killing raiders and saving ponies. Even DJ Pon3 - no, not Vinyl Scratch, she’s dead - began broadcasting her achievements over the radio, and soon almost everypony saw her as a hero!

Of course, being the stereotypical humble hero she is, Littlepip refuses to believe any of this is true. In her mind, she’s either an ordinary pony who happens to have guns and sharpshooting companions, or a complete monster ponies fear more than they do Red Eye.

Which is definitely saying something. That guy’s a dick.

While we could analyze Littlepip to figure out her perks and skills ourselves, that’s actually been done already for us. Kkat, the author of Fallout: Equestria, released a character sheet containing all of Littlepip’s information in the style of a Fallout: New Vegas character.

First, her S.P.E.C.I.A.L. skills! She has a Strength and Endurance of 5, Perception and Charisma of 7, and Intelligence, Agility, and Luck of 8. This basically means that she’s more brains than brawn, but not lacking in the muscle compartment too much. Still, her Strength and Endurance are at an exact average, which means she can’t take as much punishment as would be useful in the situations she gets herself into.

She also has the traits Good Natured and Small Frame. In Fallout: New Vegas, Good Natured gives a +5 bonus to the skills Barter, Medicine, Repair, Science, and Speech, as well as a -5 to Energy Weapons, Explosives, Guns, Melee Weapons, and Unarmed. Essentially, this trait causes Littlepip to be better at social or technical skills, but weakens her in terms of combat. Meanwhile, Small Frame increases her Agility by 1, but also increases the damage her limbs take by 25%. This basically means, in the context of the story, that Littlepip is more agile than the average pony, but is significantly less resistant to physical damage.

She has 490 HP, 119 points to use in S.A.T.S., and a damage threshold of 25! ...which means basically nothing in terms of this battle, because she doesn’t fight like a Fallout character who’ll be standing upright looking all fine and dandy at 1 HP, only to instantly keel over dead if you smack their arm with a frying pan. She fights like a real pony, so the stats don’t tell us anything except that she can take a lot of hits, but the damage from each one isn’t much less than they would be for an average pony.

Listing her skills would take a long time, so to sum it all up: she has maxed out Firearms, Lockpick, Science, and Sneak. Most of her other skills are above average, but she has moderately low Survival, Repair, Unarmed, and Magic Energy. Plus, her Melee and Battle Saddles skills are downright atrocious, considering she’s level 30 - the maximum level. Fortunately, she doesn’t use melee weapons or battle saddles much, if at all, so she doesn’t suffer too badly from those losses.

Listing off her perks would take just as long, if not longer! So just trust us when we say that, for the most part, she’s basically got every perk she’d need to fit her own skills. And lastly, her listed armour is Canterlot Police Barding, which has no special effect but still works as very durable basic defensive armour.

Character sheet aside, there’s still plenty to talk about involving Littlepip. First and foremost, her personality. Aside from being humble, she is also brave, willing to risk her life for pretty much anything. However, this has also shown to be a flaw, as she ends up causing problems while trying to stop others, and often pushes herself way past her limit.

Besides being stubborn and self-deprecating, there’s more to her personality. She’s snarky and cynical, but at the same time, pretty optimistic about the future of the Wasteland - when things aren’t going to hell. Which they usually are.

Indeed; while Littlepip has hope for the future, her hope doesn’t seem to transition to present events very well, leaving her doubting the success of whatever mission she’s on no matter how much she’s assured it’ll be fine. Then again, the Equestrian Wasteland is very good at breaking ponies like her. She did come out of a sheltered Stable with no fighting experience whatsoever.

And it didn’t even take her a month to make a name for herself. Didn’t even take her twenty-four hours to kill a pony!

Littlepip is adaptable to change, but only when not bombarded by it all at once. She can learn to use new guns quickly, she figures out the general layout of new places within a short time, and she’s shown enough intelligence to analyze her opponents and figure out the best course of action even with other things going on. That said, if too many sudden changes happen that make her feel like the whole world has turned upside-down, she tends to break and become very confused and weak until she can adjust.

Luckily, life-shattering events aren’t too common in these battles. Except death.

On the topic of flaws, perhaps Littlepip’s greatest weakness is her addiction to Party Time Mint-als. After discovering the clarity they gave her mind, she began to feel as though she couldn’t properly function without them, worrying her companions and eventually forcing Velvet Remedy to knock her out and take her to a doctor. Since then, she’s done her best to avoid the stuff, but when they appear during her scavenging, she obviously feels tempted.

And we all know how hard it is to break a bad habit or addiction. Especially to something that can pop up literally when you least expect it.

Plus, this is one flaw that Blackjack is aware of. While temporarily traveling with Littlepip-

What?!

It happened. While temporarily traveling with Littlepip, Blackjack was asked to help her get rid of her supply of Party Time Mint-als, and was clued in on her major addiction. At the end of their adventures, Littlepip had her memories of the past few days removed as part of a plan to stop the Goddess, so she forgot all about Blackjack. Blackjack, however, has not forgotten about her.

Way to go, Pipsqueak. Letting your future foe know your greatest weakness.

Her moral outraging is also a major flaw. If she finds something that she deems immoral, such as cannibalism, she goes on a rampage until she thinks the problem is solved - in other words, everypony who looks at her funny has no less than eight bullet holes in them.

Sounds like a good solution in my book! But enough of her flaws. We get it, she ain’t perfect, what’s she good at?

Littlepip’s magical skill lies almost entirely in levitation and telekinesis. The only other spell she knows is a bit of hemokinesis - blood magic - from the dark zebra artifact known as the Black Book, which she has been seen using for two purposes: forming a blade out of blood, or manipulating the blood from open wounds to form a cast. However, she refuses to use this spell for the first purpose, due to it reminding her of the temptation caused by the Black Book, and so she only uses hemokinesis to patch up bleeding wounds.

Getting back to her levitation, it’s so precise and powerful she can make an entire carriage fly! ...for a brief time. Still, it works! And she can use it so precisely, she can pick a lock without tools by just magically moving the tumblers. Why she still prefers a bobby pin and a screwdriver when she can do that, I have no idea!

The only other unique ability she has is a regenerative property from exposure to the Goddess’ alicorn-making mutagen. This allows her to heal wounds automatically, but only over time. However, it’s also enough to let her regrow completely severed limbs... but again, over time. Time usually not available in these battles, unfortunately.

She doesn’t really have any outstanding special abilities aside from those. Everything else about her really boils down to her equipment! And I’m not talking about her-

Stop.

...

Littlepip’s weapon of choice is Little Macintosh, a double-action revolver originally commissioned by Applejack and named after her older brother. It comes with a scope on the top to help with aiming, and its ammunition is the rare .44 Magnum, which comes with armour-piercing variations.

.44 Magnum ammo is tough to find in the Wasteland, even in the games. It’s hard to even find being sold by shopkeepers, and if it is, there’s barely enough to fill your gun twice! That little ammunition for a gun like this makes it damn dangerous, but if you run out in the middle of a fight, there’s no way in hell you’ll be able to find more ammo for it until the battle’s over!

Aside from Little Macintosh, she also is known to use an enchanted zebra rifle that shoots in three-shot bursts and lights foes on fire, burning them alive. It can even incinerate Steel Rangers through their Power Armour.

Her only other signature weapon is a sniper rifle. Everything else, she just grabs and uses wherever she finds it! Pistols, shotguns, assault rifles; she’s used pretty much every type of gun to ever exist, but Little Macintosh and the zebra rifle are the only ones she’s particularly known for. Which makes sense, given how much she uses them!

Aside from her weapons, her previously-discussed armour, and the general aid that is available in the Equestrian Wasteland, Littlepip’s only other piece of equipment is her PipBuck 3000. While this has the same function as any other PipBuck, what makes it unique - in a way - is that, after exposure to the Pink Cloud, it has become fused with Littlepip’s leg. This makes it impossible to remove, and Littlepip often complains about it itching.

In terms of its actual functions, Littlepip tends to use S.A.T.S. to take perfect aim at her foes and dispatch them with deadly accuracy, even more than you’d expect somepony to. I mean, it’s cool and all, but... come on, aim with your own eyes sometime!

Her reliance on S.A.T.S., and her equipment in general, may explain why Littlepip hasn’t grown much in terms of physical strength despite her trek throughout the Wasteland. She lets her guns do the work for her, never getting in too close to her enemies, meaning she could easily be caught off guard by a foe within foreleg’s length.

Of course, that’s assuming they’d even get that close in the first place…

While Littlepip relies on her equipment a fair amount, it hasn’t failed her yet, as she’s survived every battle she’s gotten herself into. She’s a competent fighter and a master strategist, whether on the spot or with time to plan. And while she does travel with and often rely on her companions for help, she’s more than capable of holding her own as a lone wanderer. If anything, her friends are there more for moral support and after-battle healing than actually assisting her in battle.

Of course, she’d be dead a hundred times over without them, but probably not from being shot. With her own stubborn “I don’t need to rest” attitude, the only thing that could kill her is herself! ...and maybe radiation poisoning. But mainly herself!

However, that in itself is a downfall for her. After spending so much time in the Equestrian Wasteland, witnessing death after death, she’s become... broken. She doesn’t seem to value her own life at all, being perfectly willing to die just to protect somepony for a little while longer. Then again, with Sacrifice as her virtue, that’s pretty much expected.

She walks into places thinking she’s gonna die, and she doesn’t care as long as it helps somepony else! I don’t know if that’s really freaking brave, or really freaking stupid!

Well, that’s all a matter of perspective. All I’ll say is that, with all her skills and experience, despite her claims to the contrary... she is a very clever pony.

“I am Littlepip. Damaged, but not defeated... you don’t win.”

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

IT’S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

The Equestrian Wasteland is as it has always been: dry, deserted, and dangerous. One of many abandoned towns, Ponyville, had been the spot of many a raider camp for who knows how long, until they had been mostly wiped out by a certain stable dweller.

Now, the town is ripe for scavenging; having briefly left her crew to gather supplies, a cyber-alicorn finds herself wandering through the town, focusing more on looting the mostly untouched bodies of raiders - and killing any remaining stragglers - than searching the buildings themselves.

Not too far away, however, she is being watched through a scope.

What is that? a gray unicorn mare thinks to herself, lowering the sniper rifle and sighing. Better go check... could be dangerous.

The pony down below, meanwhile, simply sighs as she leans back against a wall, two dead bodies to her left. Opening her pack, she takes out a bottle of Wild Pegasus Whiskey, about to take a drink...

BANG! CRASH!

And just like that, the bottle is gone, shattered to pieces and the liquid dropping onto the ground. Raising an eyebrow, the mostly metal pony turns her gaze, seeing a slightly familiar face approaching.

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" the unicorn demands, sniper rifle hovering in her telekinetic grip.

Grinning, the cyber-alicorn steps onto all fours, lighting her horn. "Just a mare who loves her alcohol, trying to indulge in a drink." Out from her back comes an engraved pistol. "And you took it from me."

"Just answer the question, will you?" the unicorn snaps. "You only get one warning shot!"

"Oh?" The pistol spins around before suddenly firing, causing the gray mare to jump to the side, barely avoiding a bullet to the leg. "Well, there it is. Now I'm aiming for the head."

The unicorn's eyes narrow. "Are we really going to do it like-" Another shot barely grazes her ear, and she ducks instinctively. "Okay, yep, we are."

FIGHT!

With a chuckle, Blackjack starts firing Vigilance at her less-protected foe, who is forced to just run away into a building to get away. Smirking, she quickly switches her weapon out for two sidearms, stomping towards the building with both guns twirling in her magical hold.

As soon as she gets close, however, Littlepip jumps right back around the corner, going into S.A.T.S., aiming three shots at Blackjack's head from Little Macintosh. As soon as she comes out of the slow-motion program, she fires three times at her target. Sure enough, all three bullets hit, but barely slow her down as they bounce off the metal plating around her head. Blackjack simply raises her guns and starts firing as Littlepip darts back into the building, rummaging around in a box for something more to fight with.

Trotting in, Blackjack pulls out Vigilance again, taking aim as the other unicorn is looking through. Glancing at her PipBuck, however, Littlepip is able to notice and quickly toss one of the box's contents behind her: a hoof grenade. Eyes widening, Blackjack has to quickly jump back to avoid the blast, giving her foe enough time to get out of the way and start running up a set of mostly crumbled stairs. The cyber-alicorn tries running up after her, but isn't quite as fast, and reaches the top of the stairs just as Littlepip turns around and unloads some more .44 bullets into her.

Hissing, Blackjack goes into her own S.A.T.S., targeting Littlepip's head with two shots each from Duty and Sacrifice. Seeing this coming just in time, she quickly ducks, three bullets passing right over her while the last embeds itself in her shoulder. She winces, giving just enough of an opening for Blackjack to pull out her security baton and pounce, swinging down at her head.

Lifting her leg instinctively, Littlepip blocks the baton with her PipBuck, a loud metallic clang ringing out. Frowning, Blackjack tries swinging again, but her foe has picked up a pattern; she keeps moving her leg, using the PipBuck glued to it as a makeshift shield. Deciding to try firearms again, the cyber-alicorn backs up and pulls her sidearms out, but Littlepip is quicker; yanking out her zebra rifle, she fires three bursts, setting fire to the metal-coated mare.

Screaming, Blackjack quickly goes into S.A.T.S. again, less to aim and more to think. Hatching a makeshift plan, she shoots two telekinetic bullets at her foe's head, not bothering to put much strength into them. The headache that ensues gives her enough time to run past her quickly, the flames flickering out, and jump out the window.

Once she recovers, Littlepip runs over to the window as well; however, rather than jumping out, she pulls her sniper rifle out and starts looking down the scope, scouring the barren streets. "Where did you go..."

For several tense moments, she sits there, looking around for any signs of movement. Finally, a flicker from a distant building tells her where she needs to go. Packing the rifle away, she runs to go down the stairs.

Several houses had been untouched, leaving plenty of supplies for Blackjack to pick up. Mostly caps and ammo, but a couple weapons and some aid here and there as well, even a StealthBuck. She knows she doesn't have much time, and just stocks up on anything important-looking. A riot shotgun sticks out, and she smirks as she grabs it, checking the remaining bullets. Only four shots left, but there'd be more ammo around for sure.

BANG! Just in time, too; a shot from Littlepip's sniper rifle just went right into the wall beside her. Turning around, another shot rings out from the distanced mare, this one actually hitting the cyber-alicorn in the chest. Growling, Blackjack whips her new shotgun out and gallops out the door after her assailant, receiving several more shots to the legs and chest along the way.

Panicking, Littlepip puts the now-empty sniper rifle away and pulls out Little Macintosh, opening up S.A.T.S. when Blackjack is less than six feet away. Thinking fast despite the slowed-down time, she aims one bullet at the mare's horn, the others at random parts of her body to try and spread the damage out. The first shot is a success, disrupting her magic and causing her to drop the shotgun, while the other bullets cause her to back up just a bit.

"Are you a raider?" Littlepip yells as she pulls out her zebra rifle again. "A slaver? You have wings, too; are you one of the Goddess's alicorns?"

Blackjack just grins, cracking her neck. "You only wish I was that easy to kill."

The cyber-alicorn grabs Vigilance, and the two begin shooting at each other, dodging or tanking one another's hits and occasionally making use of S.A.T.S. for more specific targets. Running low on ammo, Blackjack doesn't have time to reload, and instead simply switches to Duty and Sacrifice, making better use of the dual wielding than she had with the single pistol moments ago. However, even those start to run low on ammo, while Littlepip is still going strong. With some quick thinking, Blackjack hatches a plan, and her horn glows slightly brighter as she activates S.A.T.S. once more.

A telekinetic bullet fires off, hitting Littlepip right in the skull; wincing, she falls back, grabbing her head. Running forward, Blackjack swings a hoof, landing a hard uppercut on the chin and knocking the unicorn into the air. Flapping her robotic wings, she takes off after her, grabbing her dropped shotgun along the way. Turning it around, before gravity can take control and start dragging Littlepip down, she fires off two shots.

To her surprise, the bullets stop midair, a faint magical glow around them. Littlepip grins... and then starts falling.

Swooping down, Blackjack grabs the unicorn before she can hit the ground and starts flying up as fast as she can. "You really wanna know who I am, pipsqueak?"

Struggling to get free, Littlepip latches onto what could be the only distraction. "...who are you?"

Blackjack smirks down at her. "I'm Security." And then she lets go.

Once again separated, the two mares hike through the town, looking for each other. While Littlepip is still breathing sighs of relief, Blackjack is cursing herself. Celestia dammit... who would've thought a unicorn could be strong enough to levitate herself?!

Along the way, they've been picking up old weapons and extra ammo, as well as some aid here and there. Despite being very close to one another, they have yet to actually lock eyes once again.

Keeping an eye on the radar part of her PipBuck display, Littlepip continues to search any body or container she comes across. At first, she takes empty ones as a sign of Blackjack's presence; however, realizing the town may have been scavenged before, she discards all thoughts on the subject and begins growing frustrated. With a loud groan, she opens another first-aid box on the wall, finding...

A container of Party Time Mint-als.

She stops short, staring at the container with her breath practically still. Her mind is at war, half telling her to grab it and the other half telling her to walk away. Neither seem to be winning out, and she has to try and refocus, forcing herself to take slow steps backwards.

BANG! And then a shot nails her in the leg.

Spinning around with a wince, she sees Blackjack, having tracked her down with her own PipBuck radar. Aiming Vigilance for another shot, this one likely to be fatal, she goes to pull the trigger, only to have the gun grabbed in her foe's own magic. Eyes widening, she tightens her own levitation grip, and the two begin tugging it back and forth.

For several long seconds, their eyes stay locked, horns lit as the gun continues to spin and move between the two, the trigger yet to be pulled. Trying to fake her out, Blackjack loosens her grip just a bit, but Littlepip is too quick; she takes the minor opening to spin the gun and fire as many shots as she can. Most of them miss, but a few slam into the metal, one going right onto one of her wings.

Throughout all this, the cyber-alicorn fails to realize the whole thing is a distraction. By the time she glances down and sees the grenade, it's too late; it explodes, kicking up plenty of dust to obscure her as Littlepip finally wrenches Vigilance to herself, backing up and watching to see what happens.

A security baton and very pissed off cyber-alicorn is what happens, flying out and both aiming for her head.

She lifts her foreleg to block it, but Blackjack simply changes her aim and slams the metal baton down on Littlepip's leg, right below her PipBuck. She screams, the rest of her legs buckling, and Blackjack brings it down again. A satisfying crunch is heard, and she grins.

"You know, we could have just walked by each other," she points out. "You shot me first. Consider this karma."

Littlepip growls. "May the princesses fuck you with-" She cuts herself off with a scream as the baton is brought down one more time, and she collapses to the ground.

"What was that?" Blackjack taunts, turning to grab Vigilance from where it had been left on the floor. "Couldn't hear you over your-" When she turns back, another grenade has set itself right at her hooves.

Panicking, this time she grabs it in her magic, planning to throw it away; or better yet, right at her opponent. But as soon as her magic goes around it, it changes form... no, it reverts to its true appearance. Littlepip had cast an illusion spell on what it truly was to make it look like a grenade.

And what it truly was, was a memory orb.

Finally, the memory went away, and Blackjack was brought back to reality. Groaning, she opens her eyes to look around, finding herself in yet another building. This one looks to be the remains of Carousel Boutique. Various heavy pieces of furniture have been dropped on her to keep her pinned to the ground, and her weapons have all been moved far away. Littlepip sits nearby, watching and waiting with zebra rifle in magical grip.

"Good. You're awake." She glares. "I'm really getting sick of you."

"The feeling is mutual," Blackjack grumbles as she tries to squirm her way out. Even for her increased strength, the furniture is too heavy to let her up. "So... I guess you kill me now?"

"Hopefully that's how this goes." She aims the gun. "If not, we'll just keep trying. Any last requests?"

Blackjack pauses. "...any chance I could have that drink you robbed me of? I think there's some more whiskey in my bad."

Littlepip blinks, then sighs. From the bag in the corner floats out a half-empty bottle that deposits itself in front of the cyber-alicorn. "Hurry up."

"Thank you, you're too kind." Picking the bottle up in her fading magic, Blackjack takes a long swig before tossing it aside. "Ahh... much better."

"Good, because things are about to get much worse." Littlepip aims once again.

Without hesitating any longer, she pulls the trigger. Multiple times. The bullets hit their mark, setting the mare on fire beneath her metal coating, screaming all the while. Littlepip doesn't stop firing until the clip is empty, and even then she just loads a new one in and waits to see if it would be necessary.

After a few minutes, the screams die down to silence. While this would normally seem good, it actually worries Littlepip. She gets up and walks closer to get a better look.

Blackjack was gone.

Eyes widening, she begins pulling the pieces of furniture aside, as if she had just wormed her way deeper. She doesn't even get halfway through when the rest suddenly all burst off as Blackjack stands up, StealthBuck deactivating and wings flared. "Thanks."

Despite the pain from the fire, it's no trouble for Blackjack to leap forward and clobber her right on the head, knocking her down so her chin collides with the floor rather roughly. Once there, the cyber-alicorn brings her hoof up to knock Littlepip straight up and into the ceiling, where she almost sticks for a few seconds before falling back down to the ground.

Lying prone, she can't stop Blackjack's next attack: grabbing her security baton, with one well-aimed smack, she finally solves Littlepip's problem of her PipBuck being attached to her leg... by removing her hoof and half of her foreleg entirely.

A loud scream pierces the moderately quiet wasteland town. All at once, Littlepip feels all sorts of feelings; pain, exhaustion, anger, sadness, and regret. But the last one is one that has helped her through plenty of similar situations: determination.

As Blackjack lifts the baton for one final smack to the head, Littlepip does the one thing she can think of: grabs Blackjack's horn in her magic and twists it, interrupting her magic and causing the baton to fall to the floor. Grabbing it with her own flickering magic, Littlepip turns the tables, smacking her several times with the baton as she gets back up onto three legs, the cyber-alicorn finding her trusty security baton to be good even against her own sturdy metal plating.

"I." Littlepip smashes the baton against her head again. "Am." Another smash, this one against her opponent's foreleg, letting her feel a fraction of the pain the gray unicorn is currently dealing with. "Tired."

With that, she lifts it and brings it down once more for a final attack.

...only for Blackjack to slip into S.A.T.S. as a last ditch effort. She grabs her shotgun from a short distance away and unloads a round into Littlepip's chest, knocking her over. Another shot, this one to Littlepip's other foreleg, immediately severing it. Now out of ammo, she shrugs and tosses the gun away as she steps over the nearly lifeless unicorn mare.

"Then rest."

Three full power telekinetic bullets straight to Littlepip's skull, and her head explodes like a grenade.

The action calms down, and Blackjack sighs as she nearly collapses as well. But before she can allow herself to rest, there's still one thing she has to do.

Carefully, she picks the corpse up and drapes it across her back before walking away, a noticeable limp to her step, to find a place to bury this worthy foe.

K.O.

...and there we go. It's over.

Before anyone guesses it; no, the result was not reached due to Blackjack's special talent being "winning". For the sake of the battle being fair, we ignored that and focused only on other attributes. Both fighters have their pros and cons to outweigh one another, but in the end, this was the result. While both combatants are skilled in various fields, Blackjack simply had more experience than Littlepip in a few too many.

Littlepip may have been out of the Stable first, but she didn't kill quite as many things in her first few excursions as Blackjack! Time doesn't always translate directly to experience. And even if it did, what good is experience if you don't have a good weapon by your side?!

In order to determine a winner, we considered every possible matchup these two could've had involving their equipment. Blackjack would crush Littlepip in hoof-to-hoof or melee combat, and between their weapons, Littlepip would have only won two out of the possible matches. Her sniper rifle against Blackjack's baton, due to her just being too far away to be hit while having a weapon meant for ranged fire; and her zebra rifle against Duty and Sacrifice, as the latter would take too long to reload when up against three-shot bursts.

Every other matchup, Blackjack won due to a combination of experience with her weapon, Littlepip's lack of knowledge of her foe's arsenal, and just the pure power differences. And when we compared the two with their full arsenals, allowing them to change weapons on the fly, we decided it would've come out to a tie with both of them out of ammo. Except Blackjack, of course, who would've still had her baton.

We also took into account them finding other weapons, ammo, or aid around the battlefield, running on the assumption that they could find literally anything that wasn't one-of-a-kind or specific to a particular area. Littlepip had a slight advantage here due to her variety of weapon usage, but Blackjack wasn't too far behind, and just the fact that she was skilled with melee weapons in addition to ranged ones gave her an immediate advantage. For aid, healing items could be discovered, but Littlepip tends to wait until a battle is over or she has a break before healing, making them pretty much useless. Plus, if Littlepip ever found any Mint-als, she would at the very least hesitate, leaving her vulnerable.

And if Blackjack found an alcoholic beverage? Littlepip would be screwed.

Other comparisons we did included their personalities, damage resistance, experience, and more; however, Blackjack came out on top almost all the time. Her aggressive nature would make her less predictable than Littlepip, her cyborg body makes her much less vulnerable to attacks, and she's killed far more exceptionally dangerous things than Littlepip has.

Littlepip's greatest accomplishment in the field of "giant creature slaying" was just barely managing to kill a dragon. Blackjack killed one of her own no problem; along with a gun-riddled tank pony, a giant-ass radscorpion, a boat full of well-armed Steel Rangers, a whole Stable full of raiders, and Rampage! ...only temporarily for that last one, obviously, but... Rampage!

When you count it all up, Littlepip may be more heroic, but the side you fight for doesn't matter on the battlefield. All that matters is who survives at the end of the day, and today, it was not her.

Seems like Blackjack finally fulfilled her Duty, and Sacrificed Littlepip!

The winner is Blackjack.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria...?

Author's Note

...originally, this was going to be the final battle of the story. But writing it and the previous one made me remember how much fun it is to do these (when no crappy tournaments are involved, anyway). So, if I can get good ideas, expect more battles to come!

(And no, the tournament won't continue, because Ken stopped writing pony stories and I'm not gonna continue that thing on my own. Just consider it dead. Lucario would have been the overall winner, though; trust me.)

EDIT: Consider this the final battle of the story. It is unlikely I will write more, and if I do, they wouldn't be consistent enough to be worth changing the story status to "Incomplete" or even "On Hiatus". It's been a good run, but I think I've hit the end when it comes to this story. Thank you all for reading, and I hope you continue to check out some of my other stories!

Starlight Glimmer vs Tempest Shadow

Villains in Equestria almost always seem to end up reformed, one way or another. That's something a surprising number of them share in common.

But it took until the fifth season for us to get an ordinary pony as a series premiere-and/or-finale antagonist... and man, did it deliver!

Starlight Glimmer, Twilight's student who was previously the mayor of the nameless town of Equal Ponies...

...and Tempest Shadow, formerly the commander of the Storm King's invasion fleet.

You know, it's been a while since we did one of these. Feels a bit weird to get back into it so abruptly.

Heh, you said it. He's Yah-Shee and I'm Arrell!

And it's our job to analyze their magic, powers, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Starlight Glimmer

Species: Unicorn pony
Special talent: Magic
Magic power is enhanced by her emotions
Spells include mind control, super speed, cutie mark removal, and emotion suppression
Possibly as skilled with magic as Twilight Sparkle
Guidance counselor for the School of Friendship

Born in the town of Sire's Hollow, Starlight Glimmer was an ordinary filly... for a while. When she had yet to earn her cutie mark, but her friend Sunburst got his and moved out of town, she formed a grudge against cutie marks.

...wait, that's why she did the whole 'equal town' thing? Cause a friend moved away?

Yeah, it's not the best excuse. Anyway, over time, Starlight became very skilled with her own magic, and soon set out to eliminate the cutie marks she saw as evil by using a special staff to take away cutie marks. But when the mane six got involved, it was revealed that she still had her own cutie mark and it was her own magic, not the staff, that allowed her to do what she did. Ousted as a hypocrite, she fled from the town.

Sometime later, she returned to get revenge on Twilight, and boooy was she mad! She used time travel to prevent the original Sonic Rainboom from happening in hopes of preventing all the girls from getting their cutie marks, but after she realized just how she was dooming the world by doing this, she redeemed herself through a musical number.

Wait, that's all it took? "Hey, you're ruining the world, stop it" and suddenly she's a good guy?

I don't know if you've noticed, Yah-Shee, but Glim Glam's villainy days didn't really coincide with the days of good pacing.

Ugh... anyway. Since then, Starlight has been on the side of good, helping the bearers of the Elements of Harmony with their various adventures and tasks as Twilight's student. Most of the time, her lessons revolve around learning to not rely so much on her magical capabilities.

But with skills like she has, can you blame her? Besides stealing cutie marks and traveling through time, she can use mind control, fire laser beams, transform things into other things, literally bottle up her emotions, trap ponies in crystals, and put up barriers that counter attacks with explosions! And she can make Big Macintosh almost as talkative as Pinkie Pie!

It's evident that Starlight's magical prowess is not to be underestimated; however, it does have its limits. Her magic power is enhanced by her emotions, especially negative ones such as rage and lusting for revenge, which is all well and good. But it also means that most of her better feats are impossible to do on command.

She's done a lot without her emotions to power her up, though. She can effortlessly teleport herself or other ponies, levitate herself, and disappear from episodes you'd expect her to be in.

What?

And remember that whole mind control thing? That was done without any emotional buildup!

Aside from her magic, Starlight's not exactly a pushover. She has a surprising amount of guile and strategic planning, allowing her to lead a team to defeating Queen Chrysalis even with her magic powers nullified. And she at least has enough physical stamina to keep up in a fight with an alicorn.

Sure, something like that relies heavily on her use of magic, but you can't deny that most would get pretty exhausted during a tussle like that!

Overall, while her reliance on magic can slow her down, it certainly doesn't stop Starlight Glimmer from remaining a threat. There's a reason the mane six wanted to keep an eye on her even after her redemption.

"I know what it's like to lead by fear and intimidation, and I know what it's like to want everypony to do what you say, but I was wrong! A real leader doesn't force her subjects to deny who they are. She celebrates what makes them unique and listens when one of them finds a better way!"

Tempest Shadow

Real Name: Fizzlepop Berrytwist
Species: Unicorn pony
Commander for the Storm King
Broken horn limits her magical capabilities
Can turn ponies to stone with Obsidian Orbs
Increased physical prowess

Fizzlepop Berrytwist - shut up.

I didn't even say anything!

You were about to. Anyway, she was an ordinary unicorn filly with aspirations of enrolling in Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. But that all changed when a simple game with friends went horribly astray.

She had gone into a cave to get back their ball, only to run into an Ursa Minor. She somehow managed to get out alive, but got her horn broken off at the base for her troubles.

This resulted in her magic becoming uncontrollable and unstable, and while her friends tried to be patient with her, they were still unnerved by it and would sometimes distance themselves from Fizzlepop. Feeling betrayed, she left Equestria, soon taking on the identity of Tempest Shadow and joining the Storm King; not only in the hopes he would repair her horn, but also for revenge against the ponies she believed turned their backs on her.

You might think a unicorn without magic isn't much of a threat... you'd be sorely mistaken! Since she now had to rely just on her physical capabilities, Tempest trained them hard, so much so that she became commander of the Storm King's army. Yeah - a unicorn, who didn't even have proper magic, became leader of an army!

Of course, it helps that she isn't fully lacking in magic. It's just... hard to control. When she utilizes her magic to blow up Captain Celaeno's ship, all it takes is one zap, and the whole ship goes up in fireworks. And later on, we see that her magic blasts are as strong as the blasts put out by the Staff of Sacanas, which at the time is powered by all four alicorn princesses.

But Tempest doesn't rely on her magic, especially when blasting things to oblivion is only part of her job description! No, her primary weapon is her Obsidian Orbs; balls of energy that turn to stone whoever they hit!

Since these Obsidian Orbs are separate from Tempest's magic, their use relies solely on her aim - which, as shown when she's able to hit Princess Luna midflight, she's particularly good with. The orbs can also pass through magical barriers, or at least can't be held off by them permanently, and their effect seems dependent on the green smoke that comes from them, meaning a direct hit isn't required.

She's also pretty smart, constantly staying on the mane six's tail while they're searching for the hippogriffs despite all the attempts to throw her off, and pretty much singlehandedly leading the Storm King's army to almost successfully conquer Equestria! Though... apparently not smart enough to not reveal her real name in front of Pinkie Pie.

She also wears armor on her torso; while the exact material is difficult to pin down, it's almost certainly a type of metal overlaying cloth. Human armor of this style is usually made of iron or steel plates, making for sturdy protection against blunt objects, but can be easily penetrated by strong sharp objects such as swords.

This armor in particular has something special! Like just about all the Storm King's minions, it's almost completely magic-proof, keeping any offensive spells from doing much of anything to the wearer! But... well, it's not exactly covering her whole body.

Overall, Tempest's abilities rely heavily on brute force, focusing solely on her target while letting her minions clean up the loose ends. Regardless of how things turned out for her, there's a lot to be said about somepony who took out Celestia, Luna, and Cadence in a two-minute timespan.

I mean, given what we've seen from them, is it really that impressive?

...go home, Arrell.

Tempest Shadow: Here's the deal, ladies. I need your magic. Give it up nicely, please, or we make it difficult... for everyone!
Princess Luna: And why should we cower before you? There's one of you and hundreds of us!
Tempest Shadow: (chuckles) I was hoping you'd choose "difficult".

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

It's time for the return of the Equestrian Death Battle!

Dark clouds rolled through the bright blue sky, obscuring what would’ve been a perfect day. The ship, black and dark magenta, lowered itself to the plaza, knocking over several pillars and crushing booths from the falling debris. When it landed and the door opened, out stepped an intimidating-looking unicorn mare, her torso clad in armor and her horn broken off at the base.

Looking out at the crowd, she smirked, especially when she spotted the four ponies at the front. "Oh, goodie... all four princesses." She grinned wickedly, descending down to the ground.

"Excuse me!" Another unicorn stepped up around the princess of love, waving to get her attention. "Hi! I don’t know if you forgot your invitation, but crashing a party like this isn’t very nice."

The larger unicorn glared down at her. "Excuse me?"

"What, did I say something wrong?" She rubbed her cheek. "Oh boy. Let’s start over. I’m Starlight Glimmer."

"...I'm Tempest Shadow." Tempest took a step forward. "And you are in my way. Stand aside, and let me... negotiate, with your rulers."

"...if this is the type of negotiation that ends with us under your hoof, I’m gonna say no." She widened her stance, staring down the other unicorn.

"That is not your decision," growled the larger mare, pawing the ground. "But if you insist on throwing your life away... that, I suppose I can allow."

FIGHT!

Moving fast, Tempest jumped up into the air, a glowing ball being produced from her armor. With a well-aimed kick, she sent the sphere flying straight at Starlight. The pink unicorn dodged to the side, watching the sphere collide with Cadance's chest. The princess of love looked shocked and tried to step back, only for her body to slowly be encased in hard stone. Upon seeing this, all the other ponies quickly began running away. "...okay, avoid at all costs," Starlight muttered, before rounding on the mare and letting loose a blast of magic.

Quickly, Tempest managed to avoid the blast, darting to the side, before turning and charging at Starlight. Not quite expecting it, she barely got off the ground before she was set upon, body glowing with the blue of her magic. Either not noticing or not caring about the magic aura, the tall unicorn tackled her, one hoof going forward at her muzzle.

Starlight flinched, a shield forming between the two of them to try and force her off. Tempest's hoof collided with the shield, bouncing off as expected, only for the mare to continue pounding away at the shield. Starlight just lays there in midair with the mare on top of her, feeling quite awkward about all this.

After a moment, she lifted the shield up further and started spinning it. This took Tempest by surprise, and she instinctively tried to cling on. Suddenly, Starlight flung her and the shield to the side, colliding with a pillar. The smoke that rose from the explosive collision obscured Tempest's form for a bit... but suddenly, out from the smoke came another Obsidian Orb.

Not given much time to think, Starlight did the first thing she could think of and zapped the projectile with her magic. It doesn’t stop it, but she got hit in the face with a teacup, instead.

After a moment to stare at the object, she groaned and faced the sky. "Darn it, Trixie!" Of course, this distraction gave Tempest an opening, and suddenly Starlight was kicked hard in the chest. She flew backwards, colliding hard with the ship.

The envelope of the airship got punctured, causing it to sink slowly. The rush of air blew the poor mare, surrounded in her magic, back out and along the ground, dizzy but relatively unharmed.

She groaned, shaking her head as she stood back up. "...okay, this is getting pretty destructive. Something quick to end this, maybe?" She tapped her chin as her horn lit up. "What was it, again? Cogeria… Fiducia Compelus… dash of Persuadere…"

Seeing what the mare was doing, Tempest narrowed her eyes. Her broken horn started sparking, bolts of magical electricity arcing outward, striking the ground near Starlight... and slowly getting closer.

Startled out of her casting, she dropped the spell and instead charged a different one, increasing her speed. She zipped past the blast and set fire to the mare's tail, hoping to distract her long enough to charge her spell. This distracted Tempest, her lightning now arcing all over the area as she struggles to regain full control, flicking her tail to try and put out the flames. Starlight was forced to dodge both lightning and a flailing, fiery limb, cursing her own lack of foresight.

Finally, the fire was put out and Tempest regained control of her magic. Turning on Starlight, she growled, horn sparking as she started charging up another blast. The pink unicorn huffed and fired a blast of her own straight at her face. At first, the larger mare didn't look worried... then it struck her, knocking her several feet backwards, head over hooves.

Growling, she stood back up, shaking her singed mane. "Alright... I've had enough of you." Pulling out another Obsidian Orb, it looked like Tempest was going to launch it, but instead she jumped towards Starlight, the orb still in her hoof. She yelped and teleported away, landing on the stage and looking out at the mare in the middle of the abandoned plaza.

"Will you just hold still?!" Tempest growled, rearing up to launch the orb... only to realize it was missing. For the first time, she looked genuinely shocked, turning her attention to the mare and spotting the orb laying at her hooves, having been teleported with her. "How did you...?"

"You got a little close, there." She looked down at it, lifting the sphere with her magic. "Does it only work when thrown?" She hurled it at Tempest to demonstrate, her horn staying lit once it exited her grip. Narrowing her eyes, Tempest jumped up, kicking the orb right back at Starlight. She grit her teeth and teleported it behind the mare in response, only for Tempest to jump out of the way and keep it flying at the other unicorn.

This back-and-forth continued on, the match more akin to a magic-enhanced game of tennis. Eventually, fed up with the lack of progress, Starlight blasted her opponent with a new spell as she hits the sphere in mid-air, trapping her in a purple translucent crystal. She caught the Obsidian Orb with a conjured baseball glove, tinted red from the dark cloud literally hovering over her head.

"What?!" Charging up her broken horn, Tempest tried blasting the crystal from the inside, only to cry out as the lightning coursed over her body instead, the crystal leaving no room for it to travel.

"Hey Tempest!" Starlight tossed the ball slightly up into the air, turning the glove into a bat and smacking it, aiming right for her face. "Catch!"

Her eyes widened, the orb impacting with the crystal. It pushed against it for a moment, before powering through... and hitting Tempest directly. She cried out, a stone casing starting to form around her body, her scream being cut off as her head was covered as well, her whole figure now petrified.

Too mad at this mare to feel satisfied by this, Starlight lifted the crystal up with her magic and smashed the whole thing against the pavement, panting heavily as shards of crystal and stone scattered from the point of impact.

She immediately froze up and looked around, the cloud dissipating right away. "No one saw that, right?" Silence answered her, as the empty plaza remained as such. Sighing in relief, she moved to examine the petrified Cadance. "How do we fix this…"

KO!

Who woulda thought a battle between two purple unicorns would be so cool?!

While Tempest's physical prowess and experience made her a threatening foe, and Starlight's reliance on her magic could be a problem, there just wasn't much that could be done about it. Starlight has shown numerous times that her knowledge of magic can counter or dodge almost any physical attack, and the only way to prevent that would be to utilize some form of anti-magic power. And while Tempest's armor is magic-resistant, it doesn't cover her whole body, limiting its effectiveness against somepony with more skill and experience with combat magic like Starlight. Aside from that, she doesn't have any way to actually cancel out magic capabilities.

Sure, Starlight's magic is only at peak performance when her emotions are powering her up, so she can't just call on her time travel or cutie mark removal spells at a moment's notice. And since a lot of her spells require time to cast, Tempest just had to keep her on her metaphorical toes, and she wouldn't be able to do much of anything.

Unfortunately for Tempest, she doesn't have a whole lot in the way of lethally ending a fight without any backup. Her Obsidian Orbs can turn ponies to stone, but as they're physical objects rather than being created from her magic, she'd only have a limited amount of them. And frankly, Starlight would have no trouble dodging projectiles like that.

Even their stamina would be hard to figure out; Starlight can keep up with Twilight in battle, and seeing as magic is shown to take physical exertion as well, that's no easy feat. Tempest is the captain of an army, but she lets the army do most of her work and usually staying out of combat, which is already docking points from her capabilities, but since we don't see much of her physical limit we'll be nice and say they're roughly even. And since Tempest could keep Starlight from using offensive magic, but Starlight's other spells kept Tempest at bay, it came down to who was smarter and quicker to think and react!

Starlight surpassed Tempest in strategy and intelligence. Throughout the film, Tempest is frequently tricked by other characters; the Storm King, Capper, and even being temporarily tricked into believing a cosplaying Derpy Hooves turned to stone was Princess Twilight. Starlight, meanwhile, had the cunning to keep an entire town under her hoof for who knows how long, and was able to save Equestria from Queen Chrysalis without access to her magic. Not to mention that as the fight dragged on, Starlight's magic would become powered by her emotions, giving her more of an advantage the longer it went on, meaning if it came down to a war of attrition she'd eventually pull ahead.

While it may have been close, it was only a matter of time before Tempest faced her smashing defeat!

The winner is Starlight Glimmer.

Author's Note

Hey, look at that, I'm back. :pinkiegasp:

I don't know how consistent updates will be now; I'm just doing this for fun. Might have random hiatuses, might be every week or so, you never know.

Thanks to enigmaMystere for their help writing the fight scene!

Battle 1: Trixie VS Gilda

While it may be a peaceful place, there is no doubt that Ponyville has certainly seen its fair share of antagonists.

Like Trixie, the unicorn showmare...

...and Gilda, the awesomeness-obsessed griffon. I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.

Trixie

Name: "The Great and Powerful" Trixie Lulamoon
Type: Unicorn
Special talent: Magic
Occupation: Showmare
Very boastful
Skilled with magic
Wears a purple cape and hat
Has a favourite star

"The Great and Powerful" Trixie is a unicorn with one passion and one passion only: showing off.

Unless you count referring to herself in third-person as a passion! Boy oh boy, does that ever get annoying.

Trixie's special talent is magic itself, as evidenced by her magic wand cutie mark. However, unlike a certain Twilight Sparkle, this does not mean she necessarily possesses extremely powerful magic.

Instead, she's able to use her magic to perform illusions and entertain crowds. Having magic as her special talent allows her to use her magic more efficiently and for a big presentation. Plus, since it's her job to perform, she's got all of her known spells practiced and perfected to a tee. Spells she has performed include creating fireworks, forming objects out of pure air, manipulating rope to quickly hogtie other ponies, summoning clouds that shoot lightning, changing hair colour, and making clouds of smoke...though she might need to practice that last one a bit more.

While unicorns aren't exactly known for their strength - that's left to earth ponies - Trixie appears to be of above average physical power. She lives in a wagon that appears small, but actually contains a rather large stage for her to perform on, as well as presumably whatever possessions she has.

And she pulls this wagon, by herself, from town to town! Let's see an earth pony manage that and not give up after ten minutes!

In addition, Trixie has been shown to be a capable runner. She moves especially fast when scared, but even normally she can gallop at a decent speed.

Probably helps for getting outta town when the townsfolk turn on her!

Yes, while she may be talented, Trixie also thinks rather highly of herself, believing that she is the most powerful unicorn in all of Equestria, also demanding that ponies always refer to her as "The Great and Powerful Trixie".

And if that wasn't bad enough, her pride becomes especially obvious through her habit of referring to herself in third-person, her elaborate descriptions of her usually fake accomplishments, and her constantly challenging any pony to do one thing that she can't do better. ...Which they, more often than not, do, but she just interferes with their performance and humiliates them.

From what we've seen of her performances, it seems as though the bulk of each act consists of her challenging ponies to try and outdo her, only for her to mess them up by using some of her spells. And if they do manage to outdo her in a way that leaves her unable to fight back, she just runs away.

Good riddance!

She may be boastful, narcissistic, and even downright cruel at times, but there's no denying she has real skill as a magician. Whether or not she has skill as a fighter, though, is what we're going to find out.

"Anything you can do...I can do better!"

Gilda

Name: Gilda Griffon
Species: Griffon
Considers herself to be "awesome"
Used to be friends with Rainbow Dash
Large, powerful wings
Can roar loud enough to blow back objects
Metal-esque guitar chords play around her often

Griffons are part-lion, part-eagle, and as Gilda herself puts it, all awesome!

Gilda is a griffon-

No, really?

Shut up. She is a griffon, likely from Cloudsdale. Like Trixie, she thinks highly of herself, but not to the same degree.

Instead of thinking she specifically is the best, she just thinks ponies are the worst. Buuut...given the fact that just about every character in the show is a pony, that still ends up leaving pretty much the same impact.

Gilda is a strong flyer with wings much larger than those of a typical pegasus. These allow her to fly quite a bit faster than average pegasi, as well as perch on clouds just like them. In addition to her wings, she has extra sharp clawed talons, which are powerful enough to bend and break solid metal.

Griffons. Are. Awesome.

Pretty much, Arrell. In actual mythology, the griffon was considered to be the king of creatures, due to being part lion and part eagle, which are considered the kings of the beasts and birds respectively. This makes Gilda especially ferocious and powerful.

And she doesn't just have strong arms! The rest of her body's got power where'd you least expect it. Her lungs can hold enough air to blow back a pony's mane and tail with a roar like they're standing in a windstorm, and her tail can actually squish tomatoes.

However, Gilda doesn't usually use these skills in fighting. As stated before, she considers herself to be above all ponies, and so uses her raw power to scare and intimidate them.

Just like my ex-girlfriend.

Exac - wait, what?

MOVING ON! Gilda is prone to angry fits, and when she gets mad, she'll just lash out at whatever pony she thinks deserves it. Even if they're an innocent bystander.

Hot-blooded and with a short fuse, Gilda usually just does whatever she feels like, such as stealing food, frightening the elderly, and roaring in the faces of ponies who do something as little as accidentally bumping into her.

That is one freaky falcon.

Griffon.

Whatever.

"This is your idea of a good time?! I've never met a lamer bunch of dweebs in all my life!"

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

IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLE!

In an empty field, a certain blue unicorn trotted along, her purple hat and cape resting on her body. She searched for her opponent, only to find her flying in the air above. Spotting the unicorn, the brown and white griffon descended to the ground and faced her opponent with a glare.

FIGHT!

Gilda, not even giving Trixie a chance to breathe, flew forward and charged into her. Trixie was flung backwards, but managed to regain her balance and skid to a stop. As Gilda tried to ram her again, Trixie's horn lit up, and she teleported away.

Gilda stopped and looked around for her foe, not noticing the unicorn teleport right behind her. Acting quickly, Trixie turned and bucked Gilda in the back of the head, knocking the griffon forward and giving Trixie time to magically summon a long rope and begin twirling it. Gilda, seeing this, spread her wings and took to the air, avoiding the lasso as Trixie attempted to catch her with it.

Perching on a cloud above, Gilda looked down and saw Trixie looking around for her. Smirking, Gilda silently began lowering the cloud to the ground, staying out of Trixie's sight. As soon as she was within range, Gilda jumped and tackled Trixie to the ground, causing the mare to lose her magical grip on the rope. The griffon punched and clawed at Trixie, giving the latter quite a few cuts and bruises. However, the unicorn managed to regain concentration enough to teleport a few feet away and start running off. Not willing to let her prey escape, Gilda took to the skies to give chase.

Trixie knew that her opponent was closing in and started to run faster, her hat and cape falling off as she galloped. It proved futile, however, as she turned her head and saw Gilda picking up even more speed than her. She knew it wouldn't be long before she was caught, so she decided to try a different tactic. Her horn glowed and she formed another rope, turning and managing to catch Gilda's wing with it.

Working her magic, Trixie used the rope to slam Gilda into the ground over and over again. Gilda, however, eventually used her talons to cut the rope, leaving Trixie holding only half and freeing her. Thinking fast, Trixie pulled her end of the rope taut and thrust it at Gilda's feet, tripping her up and buying her a few precious seconds.

While Gilda stood up, Trixie started her horn up again, this time summoning a huge display of fireworks and lights that she was known for starting her shows for. Gilda was blinded by the lights, but charged forward anyway, unaware that Trixie had teleported several feet away and was now casting several other spells in continuation.

The griffon continued to stumble around in the brightness, swinging her wings and talons at thin air. Whenever she got too close to Trixie for comfort, the unicorn just teleported away and continued casting her spells. Finally, she finished, panting for breath but ready. She finished the fireworks display, granting Gilda back her vision.

...only for her to see about a hundred black lightning clouds, directly above her and crackling. Her eyes widened and she tried to fly away, but the clouds all unleashed their lightning at once, striking the griffon with loads of electricity. By the time the electricity died down, Gilda was left as nothing but a pile of smoldering ashes.

K.O.

Daaaamn, I never expected Trixie to fight like that!

While Gilda may have the advantages of flight, size, and raw power, Trixie had this in the bag from the very beginning thanks to her capabailities of magic and planning.

She may be an egotistical, loudmouthed showmare, but she's still a showmare! She knows how to plan an act, she knows how to plan a murder.

Even with limited spells at her disposal that were useful in a battle situation, Trixie's practiced efficiency kept her magic flawless and perfectly timed. And when something did fail, it only took her a few seconds to think of a Plan B and keep her assault going. Gilda's habit of charging right on in and trying to overpower her opponent did frighten Trixie temporarily, but after that, it ended up becoming her downfall.

I guess Trixie's skills were too "shocking" for Gilda to handle!

The winner is Trixie.

Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria:

These two mares have been friends, rivals, and in several fans' minds, romantically attracted to each other. However, when it comes down to a fight to the death, which is truly more powerful?

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Tournament Battle 5: Hunger Pains VS Marr Bell

Arrell charged into the room, startling Yah-Shee. "We better get the next battle going! We've been out of commission for too long!"

"Audience getting unruly?" Yah asked, closing his book on earthquakes and putting it aside.

"Yep." The pegasus sat at his microphone. The other host did the same, and within seconds, they were going again.

Apologies for the delay. We hope to have the tournament moving along at a proper pace from now on, Yah-Shee apologized.

For our next battle, we've got a battle of the monsters; things with stories that'd keep fillies awake at night and make colts wet the bed!

We have Hunger Pains, the cannibalistic earth pony...

...and Marr Bell, the thirty-foot gorgon!

I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.

Hunger Pains

Real name unknown
Species: Earth pony
Occupation: Custodian for the Autumn Tower
Capable of eating anything
Can heal from eating
Extremely durable, though still reacts to pain

Born long ago under a name other than what he goes by now, Hunger Pains is an earth pony stallion who has been cursed to roam the floors of the Autumn Tower as a Custodian, devouring the dead bodies of those who enter and are killed by the traps and monsters within.

What the hell? If that's what a custodian does, I'd hate to see what the rest of the faculty have to do!

Back before he was cursed, Hunger Pains lived an ordinary life in a village with his friend Laughing Fit. He met and married a pegasus mare named Radiance, until one day when she died. In an act that Hunger himself calls foalish, he began looking for a way to revive her, and stumbled across the Autumn Tower.

But, of course, he failed and died, along with Laughing Fit. So now he eats things and is trying to help a mare named Loosewing get through the tower, but that's a different story!

Hunger is capable of eating, quite literally, anything he wishes to. Eating at least a certain amount causes him to take on the properties of what he has eaten, and it can also heal him, though living beings and meat heal him more than inanimate objects.

Note that this "eat to heal" ability includes healing lethal injuries such as having his neck snapped!

However, his iron stomach and odd taste buds aside, Hunger doesn't have much in the way of special abilities. He has more than average speed and strength compared to other earth ponies, but not to major extents. And while he also can take unfathomable amounts of pain and come out fine, he'll still react to it and likely scream his head off.

But even if he can't fight, he can at least think! He's rather knowledgeable in setting up traps and fighting via guerilla warfare, which basically amounts to hit-and-run tactics and being sneaky. ...not that this helped him against Bardra.

Hunger is rather grumpy and sadistic, though he does have a soft spot. It's just...really covered up.

This guy's got a lot of attitude problems. He seems to hate anypony who's trying to help him and will usually make a lot of remarks at their expense, but at the very least, he'll still try to protect them.

However, there isn't a lot in the way of protection that he can do aside from eating things. He has generally slow reflexes, no weaponry, and next to no abilities that can actually help him in a battle.

But hey, he's part of one of the most dangerous structures in Equestria, so that's gotta count for something!

"We both found out bitterly that we were the very first ponies to try and scale the Tower. And while the Tower itself is a merciless entity, we found out how sadistic it can be as well. That is to say, we didn’t die that day. Instead, we were cursed for the rest of time."

Marr Bell

Species: Gorgon
Several centuries old
Over thirty feet in length
Can petrify opponents
Extreme magical resistance

With the head of a pony and the body of a really giant-ass snake, meet Marr Bell!

Over thirty feet long with the upper tenth of her body being that of a pony, Marr Bell is a gorgon who was manipulated by the rich artist Graphis Denarius to turn people into statues so he could sell them.

He apparently did this by making her think he loved her, using a special amulet to increase his self-control and avoid tipping her off as to the truth...so, you know, it's like high school all over again!

After she discovered the truth, she went on a rampage, nearly killing Graphis before the mane six and the Doctor stopped her. She was then exiled and taken away by the Doctor to a valley of other gorgons, where she could live.

...okay, not so much like high school anymore.

Marr Bell has the ability to petrify others, obviously. She does this using her retractable "cobra hood", which shoots out beams of rainbow light for a few meters that turn anyone caught by them into a stone statue. This petrification ability is extremely accurate, as only her target gets turned to stone.

It can affect all sorts of materials! Grass, metal, plastic, gemstones, the kitchen sink! ...but it doesn't work on wood. Gotta say, considering she comes from a Doctor Whooves story, that seems a little expected!

She is also extremely resistant to magic, as Twilight Sparkle was only able to keep her pinned for about fifteen seconds while using enough magic to keep a half-grown dragon pinned indefinitely, and was incapacitated due to a headache for several minutes afterwards.

She's also exceptionally strong and durable! You know the TARDIS? That blue box that can pretty much never be moved at all when it's parked? She slammed into it, rocked the inside, and made it tilt! She tilted the goddamn TARDIS!

...anyone who's never watched Doctor Who probably thinks that isn't much of a feat. However, to compare, three dozen ponies with strength comparable to Big Macintosh hitched an iron rod to the door handle and pulled on it with chains to pry the door open, and all they managed to do was break the chains. And when they tried a battering ram on it, they merely caused a tiny blip on the TARDIS's radar for a fraction of a second. So that should give you an idea of how durable the TARDIS is. And despite her size and strength, Marr Bell has surprising agility and precise movements.

Getting away from TARDIS stuff, Marr is also sensitive to vibrations and can sense a pony's presence through the ground! She can also use this to tell if they're lying based on their heart rate! Only problem is...particularly loud sounds actually hurt her because of this ability, mostly based on the shock value of the noise.

Marr Bell's emotional state is likened to that of a 17-18 year old human in her bestiary entry, and that does seem to describe her well. She is highly emotional and somewhat mercurial in her moods, and just the word 'monster' is a sensitive subject for her.

Basically, she gets mad at everything that hits a sensitive area, then feels sorrow and guilt-trips over it afterwards. Sounds like a teenager to me!

She also seems to panic a bit when an object gets wrapped around the pony part of her body, either trying to buck it off, wriggle out of it, or otherwise escape rather than trying to continue after high priority targets in spite of her handicap.

So we've got a giant-ass snake-thing that you can freak out with a piece of rope, and a cannibalistic pony that spends more time being a douchebag than eating? ...this should be fun.

"You came down here expecting a monssster, little pony! ...Far be it from me to disssappoint you…"

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

IT'S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!

A dreary, gray haze seemed to permeate the field as a thick fog gradually thinned, revealing decrepit buildings in disrepair standing like husks. It was a ghost-town, once thriving homes and businesses now standing hollow in mute acceptance of the fact that those who had once called this place their own had long since gone.

Then, movement as an aghast looking gray mare stepped out of the fog and into the town square, green eyes wide in shock as she took in her surroundings before taking note of the only other sign of movement in the entire village. Sitting back upon a half-broken sundial was a stallion with a coat that could only be described as grimy, gnawing loudly on a thick femur bone.
His eyes lit up with delight as they fell upon the mare, who seemed quite confused.

“Well… hello there, cupcake.” He grinned, pulling the bone away from his lips and grinning, showing off a row of razor sharp teeth. “Now what have we here?”

“I…I’m Marr Bell…” The mare answered in a hesitant, fearful voice before inquiring. “Wh-who are you?”

“Ohhh how boring. It’s always the same old questions, isn’t it, Morsel?” Hunger Pains pulled himself off of his seat, tossing the heavily gnawed bone aside. “Who are you? What do you want? Why are you doing this?”

He chuckled throatily as he took a step forward, delighted to see the mare take a step back from him, keeping herself half hidden in the fog.

“Nah-uh-uh, Pudding pop. Don’t think of running off now, you simply MUST stay for dinner.” Hunger swayed as he moved towards her, again flashing his pointed teeth, which seemed to have the desired effect of paralyzing his newly acquired prey in her hooves.

“B-but… I-I’m not hungry.” The mare stammered

“No, but I am.” Hunger guffawed as he quickly closed on the mare, who shrank back fearfully, but still hadn’t gained the intelligence to turn and run away. “Come come, Gum drop, didn’t anypony warn you? You’re off the edge of the map now… and here there be Monsters.”

Hunger Pain’s grin started to fade as the mare’s trembling expression hardened into an angry glare. he watched those brilliant green eyes lose their fear and narrow into angry reptilian slits.

Then she suddenly rose up off of her hooves as if pushing herself to her hind legs, folding them up against her chest in a manner not unlike a preying mantis. But then she didn’t stop rising, her head and chest continuing to elevate until she towered over the cannibalistic pony. It was then that Hunger saw how the mare’s backside didn’t end in a succulent, juicy flank garnished with a tail. Instead it continued on, and on… into an enormous serpentine form that had until now been shrouded in the fog.

“You know what, Painssss. You’re right.” The gorgon nodded, her forked tongue flickering out between her lips, which were now turned up in an angry snarl.

“Awwwww manure…”

FIGHT!

Hunger Pains threw himself to the side as the Gorgon hissed threateningly, practically telegraphing her attack as her stony tail came sweeping around overhead in an attempt to smash him on the spot. And he was grateful he did as he took note of the deep, broken rut she had made in the road.

Not giving her the time to recover, Hunger quickly dove on top of the gorgon’s snake like tail, wrapping his legs around it as she lifted it up again and prepared to slam him into a nearby wall.

*CHOMP*

The Gorgon never had a chance to do so as razor-sharp teeth bit into her stony hide, chipping and splitting stone as well as enamel, but managing to dig deep enough to reach the thick, corded muscle underneath. Managing to get a mouthful of thick, magic-thick blood, Hunger nearly went lax from the exotic flavor before Marr flicked her tail roughly and reality came crashing in.

Well, less reality and more the second story wall of the building next door as he went flying though it, unable to keep his grasp of the gorgon’s rough scales.

“Ohhhh You rock-humping piece of-” Hunger gritted as he came to a stop, rolling along the dilapidated floor boards of the of the building, having to reach around to pull an enormous shard of broken wood out of his flank. Swallowing the magic-rich gorgon blood still in his mouth and staining his lips, he felt the wound close over as his teeth grow back in.

If nothing else though, he had to admit, this creature was a whole new realm of tasty.

And once he got a taste, he wanted the whole meal.

He just needed to be smart about it.

—

Marr Bell slithered easily down across the street and rose up to peer into the hole made by the monster she had sent flying.
“Hello? Ssstill alive, Hunger?” The Gorgon snickered, leaning down so that her hooves stood in a pony fashion while the rest of her body remained outside. “If sssssso, come on out and we can fix that.”

Silence met her as those slitted eyes looked around the room, making out a small pool of blackened blood from the flesh-eating monster.

“Where did you go?”

CLANK-KKrrrkkk-KRRRRkkkk

“EEP!” Marr’s eyes widened as she pulled back, feeling something harsh scrape up against her under-belly. Looking down, she took a moment to react as she saw the creature she faced drop a rake and break into a run.

While the metal rake had done no real damage, the grating feeling of metal on her craggy scales was beyond annoying.
“Really?” Marr shook her head, her expression distasteful as the cannibal pony dove into a large building that must have been a warehouse for shelter. “Issss that the best you can do?”

The gorgon dove forward, slithering like a serpent towards the doorway that the creature had retreated to.

“What’s the matter, little monster?” Marr cracked a smile as she moved to her hooves and opened the door, amazed that the dolt-colt had been in too much a panic to even bother locking it.

Inside, boxes and crates were piled high, the smell of rotted food clearly left behind in the rush of the citizens that had left this place behind.

“Sssspent too much time terrorizing little fillies and old maressss sleeping in their beds that you can’t just step up and face me? Are you afraid? Have to run and hide from a genuine creature of myth?” Marr asked, her eyes scanning the dim room, looking and feeling for any sign of movement as she trotted forward, her snake like body winding in from the door as she took care to tread lightly.

“Ehh, you’re all just meat to me. ” Came the response, echoing loudly off the boxes, causing Marr to turn as she tried to pin down the source. “And ‘Creature of Myth’? You say that as if it is something to be proud of. Come come now, Maredusa. You hardly have any right to lecture me.”

“My name is MARR!” The gorgon’s eyes reverted to their slitted appearance in spite of herself, making it more difficult to see in the dimly lit area, her tongue flickering angrily as she twisted around, rising a bit from the floor. “And I am NOT the Maredusa!”

“I’m ‘sorrrryyy’, did I strike a nerve?” Hunger’s condescending voice echoed off the boxes with a wicked chuckle. “Ohhh, OOOhhhHHHhh I get it. How adorable… the little filly trying to play heroic champion for all of the victimized little ponies.”

One of Marr’s ears twitched as her jaws locked , her words quiet as they escaped her lips with a defined hiss.

“Ssssshut it.”

“You came all this way just to put down the scary flesh-eating monster that they have been going on about didn’t you? Trying to win their affection? What a sickeningly sweet… utterly empty dream.”

“I Sssssaaidd SSSHUT IT!”

“You know that lisp of yours is adorable, right?” Hunger smirked, looking down at her from his hiding spot with his mouth watering. “That they might be able to overlook… but let’s face it sweetie, that backside of yours… well, it’s a deal breaker. I mean, I just can’t imagine you giving one of those squishy ponies a nice warm hug. If you didn’t just crush them to jelly, then they would be all cut up on that rocky hide of yours.”

Marr dove forward, her movements no longer imitating a pony’s steps as she slithered deeper into the warehouse, darting around crates and looking around for the stallion as he kept talking.

“It’s actually rather sad, now isn’t it? I mean, at least I can accept what I am. Hell, I enjoy it even. But you? Trying so hard to be a pony when you’re anything but?”

Finally, her snake-like body leaning up against a set of crates, Marr felt movement, coming to recognize the location coming from above her, along the tops of the stacks.

*WHUMPH*

“HIISSS!” Marr winced, hissing in pain as she felt a heavy crate crash into her her tail near the door, the impact rattling her bones.

*CRASH-THUMPH-THUD*

Followed by three more, clearly shoved off the top of the stacks and smashing down on her body, which had been winding around the corridors created by the crates, with a healthy helping of gravity-aided momentum.

Finally, pinned up by the impact, trying to pull her long body out from under the weight of the mostly intact crates, Marr caught sight of the monster she sought up along the top of the warehouse catwalks.

“Silly little snake.” He grinned, showing off a row of shining white, razor sharp teeth. “To them, you’re just as much a monster as I am.”

As he watched, the cannibal pony took note of those green eyes, the slitted pupil now so thin that it could barely be seen. And perhaps it was his imagination… but he could have sworn he heard a faint, sudden ‘snap’ before watching the Stone-Serpent’s entire body flex.

“HIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!”

——

The doorway and walls of the warehouse all but exploded outward as thick, gray coils of muscle and stone tore though them like a colt though a sheet of parchment, sending crates (both in pieces and whole) flying though the air.

Charging away from the scene, Hunger didn’t take the chance of looking back as the gorgon managed to play the part of a single-mare demolition crew and tore the entire building apart in a blind, bestial rage.

‘That was easier than I thought’ he considered with a dark grin before whistling, drawing the gorgon’s attention to him as he dove though the door of another building.

Within moments, the gorgon had crashed though the door and proceeded to tear the empty homestead down, lashing out with all of the fury of a volcano while Hunger quickly, but calmly, proceeded out the back door and to the next building, waiting for her to finish wrecking ball impression before drawing her to the next point.

—

Some time later, the ghost-village was little more than a pile of rubble, devastated by the wrath of the panting, trembling gorgon coiled up in the center of the town, her back to the brick-stone Town Hall, which was the only standing structure remaining. Her muscles burned from the prolonged rage as she surveyed the destruction, sweat matting her coarse upper body fur as she clenched her teeth.

“I… think… I… got him.” Marr smirked proudly to herself looking over the ruin, running a fore-hoof over her head as she panted. “Well, at some point.”

Slumping wearily as she felt the adrenalin rush wear off, Marr laid back, her coil unraveling as she stretched out and laid on her back, leaning against the threshold of the town hall as she tried to catch her breath.

Clearly not taking notice of the predatory pony perched above her on the edge of the roof, holding himself stock still as the stone-covered creature left herself wide open to him.

No matter how mighty this beast was, no matter how tough the hide, she was hardly invincible. She could bleed, and that meant she was a mortal, living creature.

All it would take was one well placed bite on the neck, and she would go down.

Lining himself up perfectly over the exhausted gorgon, Hunger pounced, his mouth already watering as he prepared to land his finishing blow...

...only for Marr to sense his location through the ground just before he pounced. Turning towards her foe, she decided it was finally time to end this.

She activated her hood, emitting a dazzling display of rainbow light. Hunger's eyes widened as he was caught in the beams just before he could land on her neck, and screamed as his body was petrified to stone.

With a tired smirk, the gorgon lifted up the pony-turned-statue. Without a word, she popped it into her mouth, chomping down on the rock with ease before she began to relax so her wounds could heal.

K.O.

Holy crap! That's one of the best David-VS-Goliath fights I've ever seen!

Marr Bell quickly showed that she was too tough and way too strong for Hunger to even think about fighting head on, so he resorted to psychological warfare, which Marr was immensely susceptible to, leading to her rage. He had assumed she would be tired out by her demolition of the surrounding area, allowing him to land a single well placed ‘kill-bite’ on her neck, but he underestimated her endurance, her strength, and the fact that once she calmed down, she was intelligent enough to recognize his planned tactic.

Add to this the fact that Hunger was unaware of her ‘ace in the hole’ petrification ability, which is why most creature that know of gorgons stay well clear of their seemingly more vulnerable upper-body. Still, it was definitely a closer battle than you'd think!

Hunger Pains' idea of just biting down on Marr Bell's neck would have likely done her in, so really, she managed to win in what could have been her last chance. Plus, she's eaten gemstones before; a regular stone shouldn't be a problem for her.

I guess Hunger just-

-bit off more than he could chew. We all saw that one coming, Arrell.

...aw.

The winner is Marr Bell.

Next time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:

Jack Khajiit VS Abstract the Dark!

Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!

Author's Note

EXTRA APOLOGIES! This took WAY too long to finish...but here it is!

I just want to give out a super-special thanks to Loyal2Luna and Marr Bell (yes, there's a user with that name); they were both extremely helpful with research on Marr Bell, not to mention the fight scene in this chapter was written by Loyal2Luna herself. Without them, this battle would have taken even longer to finish and wouldn't have been nearly as amazing.