Justice League of Equestria: Gods and Monsters

In a the harsh desert known as the Badlands, a lone stallion wearing a cowboy hat with a brown cloak covering most of his body made his way towards the edge of a cliff overlooking a vast canyon.

"Now where in the hay is she?" He mumbled to himself.

Just as he said that however, the ground started rumbling, but it wasn't an earthquake...it was something far worse...

Suddenly a creature burst out of the ground behind him, it was a scaly, worm-like beast covered in violet scales, with a red fringe just behind it's pink head: a Tatzelwurm.

It narrowed it's black, red streaked eyes at the cowboy before letting out a bellowing letting out a bellowing scream as it's mouth opened in three directions, with three long black tentacles extending from its toothy maw.

But before the cowboy could draw his gun, the creatures screeched in pain as a black sword burst out of it's body, slicing it open from the inside.

"Took ya long enough, ya know that right?" The cowboy asked the sword as it finished tearing the Tatzelwurm apart. The body then fell over and chunks were everywhere from what little remained of it's insides.

“Well, not all of us can fight our way out of a giant worm’s insides…” The mare smirked as she exited the hole holding a black sword with golden symbols on the blade. She had orange fur and a long blonde mane, she wore white armor that had an opening over her cleavage, arms, and navel, black shoulder pads bearing golden symbols, a white helmet that cover most of her head excluding her face & hair with "horns" and a golden "W" over her forehead, white armored gloves and boot, and finally black belt and white skirt with similar golden symbols.

She was Applejack, or as many called her: Wonder Mare.

"And some of us have portals built into their swords." The cowboy said as he side-stepped to avoid the gunk got on him.

"Fair enough..." She smirked as she wiped the blood and guts off her sword. "So what are we looking for Braeburn? All yer message said was that yah needed help takin' out some crazy cult…”

"Yeah. Callin' themselves Kobra and they think they're Faust's gift to Equestria or somethin'." He said as he loaded his gun.

"So... what are these weirdos trying ta do?" She asked nonchalantly as she as she sat atop the dead Tatzelwurm. "Summon a demon and drink its blood to gain its power? Sacrifice a virgin to their possibly non-existent god?"

"Ah heard they had a big weapon that they may or may not have stolen and wanted to test it on the big mare herself." Braeburn explained, turning his attention to the canyon. "Ah can handle mahself but.... Ah figured that wouldn't be good fer you or yer friends..."

“Great, more delusional idiots thinking they're doin’ Fuast’s work…” Applejack scoffed before flying towards the canyon. “So they decided to make their base of operations in this area? How the hay did they avoid all those Tatzelwurms?!”

"We think they raised these." He said. "I mean they stay out to a certain areas and mostly try to eat anypony that strays too close in order to scare ponies into staying away."

"Right, that makes sense..." She said as she drew her sword. “So how exactly are we getting in? Yah got anything for me to lock onto?" She asked as she held up her sword.

The cowboy smirked and pull out a helmet shaped like a cobra head from under his cloak. "Managed to snatch it from one of their members before he made his escape." He explained as he handed it to her.

Applejack took the helmet and held it near the hilt of the sword, the symbol glowed for a few moments as it scanned the object before the rest of the symbols began to glow. Applejack aimed the sword towards the cliff and pressed a button, causing a boomtube to open up right in front of her.

Wasting no time, she immediately flew in and found herself in a metal hallway. "Let's get this party started..." She let loose a loud whistle and caught the attention of every Kobra member in the hallway. "Alright... who here can put up a fight?" She asked as she twirled her sword.

Their response was to aim their guns at them and open fire.

In another part of the base, a silhouetted figure stood before a large metal oval-shaped container with several wires attached to it as numerous Kobra soldiers rushed around.

“Soon… very soon our weapon will be completely operational…” She smiled as one of the soldiers approached her.

“Ma’am! There are intruders in the base!”

"What?! Keep them busy! They can't be allowed to stop our project!" She shouted at her soldier, who quickly saluted and ran off.

"This is too soon. I haven't updated her programing yet." She growled as she began inputting other commands and memories. She finished inputting the final command and smiled. "When I uncovered you, I knew you were meant to help me show the world that equality is the true source of happiness... under one ruler of course…”

A few minutes later, Braeburn exited the portal to see the hall covered in blood and corpses. And in the middle of it all was Applejack, standing over one of the last remaining soldiers by as he tried to crawl away. "This is just sad… Ah swear finding this place was more difficult." She grumbled as she stabbed him from behind... and then smirked as she lifted him up on her sword. "Hey look, Ah destroyed and replaced his third leg!" She chuckled.

“Oh ha ha.” Braeburn said as he shot the cultist in the head. “...we kinda need to interrogate the guards if we're gonna find the weapon…” Braeburn stated as he stepped over one of the corpses.

"Yeah but they fired first Brae." Applejack said casually as she stabbed another Kobra member and tossed them to the side. "Not mah fault Ah tried to defend mahself."

"Last I checked you're just as bulletproof as Supermare..." Braeburn retort before noticing one of the soldiers trying his best to crawl away. "Howdy there!" He smirked as he slammed his foot on his hand. "Mind tellin' us where that fancy weapons of yours is?"

"I would rather die than tell a sheep like you!" The soldier shouted before he tried to bite down on a cyanide capsule.... however each time he tried the capsule was just an inch away from him.

"Now that's not very nice..." Applejack smirked as she stepped in front of him and picked up his arm...revealing that she'd just cut it off. "Now ya can tell us before Ah start removing body parts... or Ah can move on to the legs next..."

"..... it's too rooms down and the third door on the left. The weapon is in a cocoon like structure." He said calmly before screaming into the sky. AJ smiled and slammed his head down, knocking him unconscious.

"Nice going, let's move!" The cowboy said as they ran (or in AJ's case, flew) towards the room where the weapon was being held.

Eventually they arrived in at a heavily armored door. "Ah got this..." Applejack said as she jammed her sword into the door. Braeburn however, noticed a small air-vent near the lower-left and got an idea.

"You go on ahead, I prefer the more...stealthy approach." He said as he whipped out his gun and shot the locks holding the vent closed off before crawling in.

Applejack shrugged and proceeded to fly in a circular motion, cutting a huge hole in the door before kicking it in, revealing several soldiers waiting for her, guns drawn.

"Yer door was locked, thankfully Ah had mah own key so Ah let myself in."

Up in the control room, overlooking the weapon, Braeburn shot the lone guard in the back of the head before casually pushing him out of the chair. "And now to work mah magic..." He smirked as he started typing...

Down below, the turrets stationed around the container suddenly started firing on the soldiers instead of Wonder Mare, who was easily cutting through the guards like they were nothing.

"Thank Faust for Brae." She said quietly as she stabbed another soldier before looking at the prize. The container was like nothing she'd seen. It was almost like a cocoon of some sort... ready to hatch whatever was inside it.

Not wasting any time, she swiftly flew towards the cocoon, ready to slice apart whatever was inside it...only for a giant hand to burst out of it and grab her.

"Behold you foolish weak minded sheep!" The leader shouted as another giant hand appeared. "The inheritor of the world! Giganta!"

What came out of the cocoon was a giant blue robot apparently based on a female with black plating on its stomach, shoulders, arms, and knees. She glared at her captured target with her glowing yellow eyes before slamming her into the ground.

"GAH! Okay...Ah'll admit... that hurt." Applejack said as she slowly got to her feet and looked at the robot...and saw that it's eyes were starting to REALLY glow now... which meant one thing. "And it shoots lasers...of-freaking-course, that's just perfect!"

Applejack quickly flew out the way as Giganta fired twin beams from her eyes, she quickly attempted to strike her from behind, only for her opponent to prove she was quicker than she expected as she turned around and slugged Applejack with her giant fist greeting and sent her flying through the wall.

"Well that's gotta hurt..." Braeburn deadpanned as Applejack returned to his side via boom-tube.

"Ya'll must be geekin' out right now." She smirked as the turrets began firing upon the giant. "Ain't this like yer favorite anime or game... what was it again? "God of Titans"?"

"Ah'd be geekin' out some more if it wasn't tryin' tah kill us… now how do yah plan on stopping that thing?" Braeburn asked as he reloaded his gun and set the turrets on auto target to distract the giant.

"Well Ah could try and cut it's head off and.... wait where's the damn leader!?" Applejack shouted. Braeburn looked around and realized the one heading the Kobra organization vanished.

“She's probably controlling that thing from a distance, if yah keep that this busy, Ah'll track her down!” He explained as the door to the control room opened as several more Kobra soldiers poured in.

“You sure about goin’ off on yer own?” She asked and she quickly beheaded one of them and sliced the other in half. “Ah can take these guys out first-”

"What? So you can hog all the fun?" Braeburn asked eagerly as he charged headlong into the battle. "Y'know Ah can handle this on mah own!" Braeburn said as he threw a knife into the neck of a soldier trying to bull rush him, then turned around and gunned down two more. “Just keep that thing busy!” He shouted before running out of the room.

However before she could retort, Giganta, having destroyed the turrets, slammed her fist into the control room, destroying half of it.

"Well... this is gonna be a doozy..." She groaned as she pushed the rubble off herself and flew towards the giant, ducking under its hand as it tried to grab her and landing on its arm.

AJ quickly dodged another strike as she made her way up to her shoulder... only for a gun turret to pop out off the shoulder and fire at her. She quickly pressed a button and activated a boom-tube to swallow them up. "Ah guess yer not as stupid as Ah thought..." She chuckled as she closed the portal and sliced off the turret. "Yer even stupider 'cause yer fightin' ME!" She shouted before slashing her across the face.

Giganta made a noise very close a growl before firing her twin lasers at Applejack, the mare narrowly dodged and flew towards one of it's ears and sliced it off with her sword, the blade going through the metal like a knife through butter.

The robot screeched in pain as it glared at Applejack, it's eyes now glowing blood red. "Ah think Ah pissed it off." She mumbled before quickly dodging the laser aimed at her.

Braeburn darted through the halls shooting down any Kobra soldiers that got in his way. "Come on... where are ya at?" Braeburn asked as he searched through the base until he finally found a door leading to the central control room.

“No, no, no, NO!” The mare snapped as she snapped as she observed the battle between Wonder Mare and Giganta. She stood before numerous monitors that displayed the battle from various angles around the room. “This can't be happening!! She was supposed to the ultimate android!!”

"Yeah life's got a weird way of screwin' ya over." Braeburn said as he aimed his gun at her. "It's over ya nutcase. Just surrender and Ah promise Ah won't shoot ya." He told her.

The leader just glared at him. "You don't get it. She was meant to be perfect. To be the next protector of this world! We would have made this world safe!" She yelled at him.

“Safe fer ponies like you maybe…” The cowboy retorted. “...besides, y'all really think that thing won't turn on ya the moment it gets the chance?”

"I have it under control here! It can't do anything without my say so!"

"Braeburn where the fuck are ya?!" Applejack shouted as she dodged a fist coming right for her.

She quickly pressed the button on her sword and once more opened up a boomtube beneath her and quickly dived into it and emerged behind Giganta. But the giant turned around and fired her twin beams, Applejack immediately opened up another boomtube that swallowed up the next onslaught of lasers… sending them right back at the giant.

The giant stumbled back reeling from the blasts and fell to it's knees. It's left eye was cracked and it's right hand was disabled. "S-st-stooop... please *KASSH* DOES NOT COMPUTE-INTRU-D-D-DER! Please help*KSSSSH*" The Giant started as it started to thrash around holding its head in pain and personally in gibberish, it's eye is shifting between static, glowing red, and… normal. "ERROR! I am-ERROR-not in contro-*KSSSSHH*-make it stop-*KSSSSHH*-help me!!"

"The hayseeds?" Applejack whispered as she dodged another fist that was aimed at her. This was starting to get confusing...this robot was trying to smash her a moment ago but now it's begging her for help?

“What the hayseeds?" Braeburn shouted as he saw what was going on. “What did you do?!”

“When those lasers hit her, they must have broken the restraining mechanism!” She screamed as she slammed her fist onto the one of the buttons. “Stupid piece of JUNK!”

"Well then that just ain't good news for ya now is it?" Brae smirked as he aimed his gun at her. "I'll repeat. You're under arrest-"

“Don't think so!” The leader smirked as she quickly turned around and fired a magic blast at his face.

“GAH!!” Braeburn screamed as he fell to the ground, clutching the right side of his face in pain.

The leader smirked as she threw down several smoke pellets, engulfing the entire room. “If I can't control it from a distance, then I'll have to do it dangerously close!” Her voice echoed throughout the room, by the time the smoke cleared she was gone, with a hole in the floor where she once stood.

"Son of a-” Braeburn groomed in pain as he slowly crawled to the control console and turned on the mike. "AJ.... yer gonna have some company come your way."

“Nothin’ Ah can't handle!” Applejack shouted as she dodged another laser and turned her attention back to the giant. "Now... Ah maybe a warrior but Ah am open to other options.... and it sounds like ya need help."

"P-please I just-EXTERMINATE!" The robot shouted as it tried smashing Applejack again. "Remote control in-ALL YOUR BASE-ck of my b-b-b-brain. D-d-destr-BELONG TO US-oy it please!"

“Alright… let's see if Ah can-” Sadly before she could finish, a large hatch opened up above Giganta, revealing the leader, wearing what looked like a cobra helmet with mouth open wide with a visor obscuring her face, a dark green suit with like green shoulder pads, and a flowing green cape.

She was riding on what appeared to be some sort of giant floating ring which instantly attached itself to the giant’s neck while she landed on her right shoulder. “Now she is under my total control!”

"Uh huh.... ya shouldn't have done this ya know that right?" Applejack said as she pulled her sword out and threw it at the leader of Kobra. The sword penetrated her heart and pinned her to the wall. "Seriously. Ya shoulda moved faster."

"...nice aim..." The leader scoffed before casually pulling the sword out of her chest, allowing the wound to heal. "...and thanks for the sword, I think I'll keep it." She smirked under her helmet before turning to Giganta and pressing a button. "KILL HER!"

"What the-" Applejack stated before Giganta slammed her into a wall. She pushed the fist off her body and stared in pure shock at the leader. "How in the hell are you alive?!"

“Oh, it's just thank to a little gift I received from the League of Assassins… a sample of the Lazarus Pit!” She explained as she casually twirled the sword. “Once I altered and enhanced to formula… well, the results speak for themselves.”

"Pl-Please... help-CRUSH!" The giant momentarily pleaded before her eye became red and she attempted to squash Applejack, her eyes turned back to normal a second before it could reach them and immediately changed its target to a nearby wall. "S-stop her-DESTROY ALL ENEMIES!!" She barely managed to get out before firing another laser from her single working eye.

"Well if ya can talk normal for two seconds and tell me that'd be helpful!" Applejack said. "Ah'm kinda at a loss here!" She dodged another laser beam.

“Good luck with that!” The leader before pressing the button on the sword, creating a boom-tube, having witnessed Wonder Mare do it several times during the battle. “I have to admit, some very impressive technology…” She mused to herself before pulling out a detonation switch. “As amusing it is to watch her pound you into the ground, I really must be going… farewell Wonder Mare” She smiled, giving her a mocking bow before stepping through the portal…

However at that moment, Braeburn dropped down from one of the vents, shooting the detonator out of her hand and pulling a rope out from under his cloak, he quickly threw his lasso into the portal and pulled as hard as he could, yanking the sword out of the leader's hand and through the portal just before as it started to close.

"What?!" The leader shouted. "NO!"

Braeburn then aimed his gun at her head and fired, the bullet piercing her skull right as the portal closed. He then tossed the sword back to Applejack. “Ah believe this belongs to you!”

"Thanks a bunch!" Applejack shouted as she grabbed it. She then flew towards Giganta, vainly tug at the ring still fastened around her neck with her only functioning arm.

As Giganta tried to blast her again, she pressed a button and vanished through the boom-tube as it closed. Another one opened behind her and Applejack sliced the ring to pieces before landing on her left shoulder. "Now then... mind tellin' me how ta stop ya now?"

“S-spine...Sh-Sh-shut-ERROR-down-KILL!”

"Alright. Thank ya kindly." Applejack said as she flew down and jammed her sword into the giant’s spine.

"ERROR, ERROR-th-thank... y-y-you-" was all she was able to say before finally shutting down. After which the giant was engulfed in a faint glow and slowly started to shrink down to the point where she was the size of an adult mare.

“Whew...finally it's over!” Applejack sighed before turning to Braeburn. “Thanks fer gettin’ mah swo-what happened to yer face?” She asked in mid-sentince, seeing the scar left behind by the Kobra leader.

"The bitch burned half of my face with her magic. Personally though, I think it's an improvement." Brae joked as he smiled at her. "What do you think of my battle scar, huh?"

“Well...back at mah home scars are kinda a badge of honor… so ah guess it works…” She said before turning her attention to the robot. "Mind if Ah take her with me?" Applejack asked as she walked towards her. “Pretty sure Supes would like tinkering with her… speaking of which…” She pulled out a communicator and pressed a few buttons, sending out a distress signal.

"Is that you given her a call?" Brae asked her. "Course it is. What am Ah sayin'?" He told himself. "Anyways not much Ah can do if ya did want to bring her back with ya...... but uh..... ya don't HAVE to leave right now..... do ya?"

Applejack turned around, giving him a casual glance. "And if ah don't?" She asked with a seductive tone.

"Well.... Ah don't have to leave soon either." He smirked as he got close.

Applejack threw off her helmet before grabbing his cloak and tearing it off. "Ah ain't gonna be gentle, and the safe word is 'banana'." She finished before kissing him full on the mouth.

"So this is the Kobra base…" Supermare exclaimed as she and Batmare flew through the halls.

"Hm. Doesn't seem that impressive to me." Batmare said calmly. "Seems a bit torn up if you ask me"

"Applejack's calling card." Twilight replied as she stepped over one of the dead guards. "She seems to love leaving a mess wherever she goes..."

She they continued towards the source of the signal the heard sounds coming from down the hall, thinking there were still some guards around they quickly flew through the hole in the door and into the main chamber... and immediately regretted their decision.

"Oh sweet Faust! Really?! You're doing that HERE?!" Twilight shouted.

"My eyes are now regretting ever coming here." Fluttershy said with a deadpanned expression. "This was a big mistake."

“Oh good, y'all made it.” Applejack said nonchalantly as she got off of Braeburn, who was unconscious but had a blissful smile on his face. “And stop complaining, it's not like we've done anything you haven't seen before…” She smirked as she put her armor back on.

"Whatever just...let’s take the robot back to the Watchtower." Twilight sighed.

“Alright fine…” Applejack mumbled before hoisting Giganta over her shoulder. “ but someone's going to have to take Brae back home…”

“Not it!” Supermare screamed as she took off.

"She's SUCH a child." Fluttershy said as she grabbed Braeburn and hoisted him over her shoulder. "Don't worry, I'll take care of your lover stallion Applejack."

"Feel free to sink yer fangs into him if ya want..." Applejack winked at her before flying off. "Just don't suck him dry!" She called back to her, laughing as she caught up to Twilight.

As the two flew across the night sky, Applejack glanced at robot she was carrying. "You know Twi.... Ah've been thinking.... Ah'm givin' this robot a name when she's rebuilt."

Twilight arched a brow. "Oh really? That's what you were thinking of while going at it with Braeburn?" She chuckled.

"Har, har. That's SO funny." Applejack retorted. "No Ah meant... well kinda yeah. Ah was thinkin' of it while me and Brae were makin' sweet love." Applejack boasted towards Twilight who blushed with envy."But yeah.... Ah'm thinkin'....Rarity."

"....Rarity? REALLY? And what makes you think that she's earned that name?" Twilight asked in curiosity.

"Well she is pretty unique..." She explained as she gestured to one of the mechanical parts exposed through her broken outer shell. More specifically; the "Omega" symbol imprinted on it.

"Back at home we were told of robots like these that were sent to other worlds to obliterate any resistance and prep it for takeover... they were cold, emotionless, and showed no mercy." She explained as she gave Giganta a sympathetic look. "...yet she's different, she held back when fighting me and tried to avoid hurting me despite her programming." She then turned her attention to Twilight. "In a way she's different from all the others that were created, a rarity among her own kind..."

"..... when did you get into philosophy Applejack?" Twilight snarked.

Applejack rolled her eyes but smiled. “Ah’ve been on this planet fer decades, Twi. Ah got bored.” She chuckled as they flew off into the night…

“Ow… ow… ow…”

Back in Appaloosa, Braeburn groaned in pain as he walked through the streets with Batmare by his side.

“Oh stop complaining, I didn't bite you that hard…” She smirked as she playfully licked her lips and gave him a fanged smile.