Beginnings of a Immortal Wirewolf: Prequel to Alfreda and El Quatros Locosby Hairy KonquererChaptersChapter 2: Power Stolen and Blotlings.Chapter 3: Home AloneChapter 4: SpainChapter 5: The Grim ClaptrapChapter 6: The Black CometChapter 7: The Butt Kicking of the CenturyChapter 8: The Deadliest of OrdersChapter 9: The Death of a BrotherChapter 10: A Blaze of GloryChapter 11: RebirthChapter 13: AttentionChapter 14: The Solution Part 1Chapter 15: The Solution Part 2Chapter 16: An old enemy or friend?Chapter 17: Multiverse Theory HurtsEpilogue: New Bridges for New FutureChapter 1: A Loser is BornChapter 12: Relics of the Past, Equal pain in the Future.Chapter 2: Power Stolen and Blotlings.Alfreda and The Wirewolf(now called Moe) looked on as the Power Ponies were having the powers taken from them. "Excellent, the data is exceeding greater then the predicted chart showed. But if we get a chance, grab Radiance's bracelets, there the true source of her power." "So question, why does High Heel get Saddle Rager's Powers?" Moe asked. "Well, 1, when I was tinkering around with my Multiverse viewing device, I peaked into this world filled with hairless biped apes, one of them matched Mother in insanity and had strength like Saddle Rager, and seeing destruction caused by him in the brief time, I redid this part of the plan not wanting a similar reaction. Also She drew the highest straw so she got her powers." "What's the lowest?" "Misstress Marevelous." "Fair." Alfreda then pressed a button lowering them to the floor with the League of Villainy. "Excellent, now let us begin a trust exercise- Where is Radiance?" He asked seeing the Power Ponies gone. "Tossed them, can't harm us now." Phetlock responded. "I was hoping to take something from Radiance, but seeing you all now that may not matter." Alfreda concluded. "Now let's show Maretropolis to fear the League of Villainly." Moe shouted. "No Moe, the correct term is Alliance of Malevolence. And not yet, we still have some work to do..." Present Day, the Moon Cell took Juan's cannon then aimed it for Phantom Blot's head. "Time to make you nothing more..." Phantom turned to Cell. "THAN A GHOST!" Cell fired the shot, that went into Phantom's head but didn't go off, allowing phantom to say his last words. "Really?" Phantom Blot than sighed head down in acceptance as his head exploded and his corpse was sent rocketing into space, where it exploded in a brilliant green light. Unseen by regular eyes, a grey like mist that remained slithered into distortion in space disappearing. 30 Years Ago A portal opened and Phantom Blot stumbled through, breathing heavily, then looking around his surrounding, finding himself in an underground lab. "Well, good thing I learned that time portal spell, have to thank Anti-Matter for that. Now what to do about that yellow coward? I must be in the time that he was active around, maybe I can change the future here." He looked at a chart by some large test tubes. "Must be in Kul'as' lab. How long will I need to wait for... Subject K and Subject S?" As he looked at the computer, the black little glob of flesh in one of the test tubes let out a gargling noise. "3 decades? No way I'm waiting down here that long. Oh Well, good thing I packed Plan B..." Phantom said with a smile looking at the 3 orbs in his claw. Alfreda rolled into the room and found Shadowmane and High Heel beginning to argue. Using his X-Ray scanner, he say in another room, Saddle Rager and Zapp where whispering words into some of the villains ears causing them to bicker. "Enough you two, Zapp and Saddle Rager are whispering into our ears and planting the seeds of distrust into your skulls." "Please what do you know?" High Heel mocked. "You claim to be so smart when you've never even gone to any school." "I don't need to anyway, my intellect is bigger then your size, and even then I'm smarter then all you idiots save my mother put together." "Aside from that he may actually have a point." Shadowmane said thinking it over. "We haven't seen them in a while so maybe they went off to plan and take us down." High Heel turned to Shadowmane. "Are you saying you're agreeing with this tin can?" Shadowmane brought her lasso to her. "Yeah. He's making more sense then you have been." High Heel stepped forward as she began to grow. "Maybe if I remove that mask you'll see clearer." "You wanna take me on Flip Flop?" "Bring it tiny!" High Heel responded towering over Shadowmane. Alfreda sighed as he got out a large cattle prod. "Idiots. I am working with idiots." Just as he rolled over, Mistress Marevelous tackled Shadowmane with a shout of "Power Tackle!" Alfreda saw Saddle Rager trotting over and shot her with a canister sticking her to a wall with a web like goo. "I don't need anyone stopping me from putting this shoe obsessed idiot in her place." High Heel simply smiled as he rolled up to her. "Go ahead and smile. So what if you're bigger then me, stronger then me, much more durable then me, but I'm much smarter then you with my mobility limited to one wheel- this was a horrible mistake." "I agree." High Heel said before left hooking him straight into a wall and out onto the street. Alfreda got up, his eye shifting to blue with a green pupil again. "Ok that didn't work, time for plan B." High Heel stepped through the hole with a smile. "On second thought, I'm gonna run like a coward now." Alfreda then rolled off screaming as High Heel chased him, stopped by an explosion going off next to him making him tumble to a wall. "Terrorists! I always knew!" He got up and saw two odd individuals facing him: One was black and tall as the average pony, standing on two legs with arms, 3 clawed digits and a thumb, a slasher grin on his face, which was green,web like, and two pupiless green eyes. Then other was much like the other, but he was up to Moe's height and purple, his legs small but surprisingly holding up his large torso, distended gut prominent along with two large arms. "Wait a minute, Blotlings! They're everything Mom says she fears." The two being walked up to Alfreda as his eye turned red. "Ignore that last outburst. My scanners are seeing parts of you are organic, but there are parts of machine deep in you." His eye blinked back to blue. "Are the myths about you eating ponies and robots true? Follow up question, can I escape the death that is your jaws?" The small being took out a can of paint and poked a hole in the lid. "The Database says." He said in a zebrican accent, then chugged half of the contents in one go. "You a big dummy." "Perhaps introductions are in order to clarify his confusion." The large one said but it came out only as gurgles. "Pardon?" Alfreda asked. "I apologize." The small one replied. "Your refined shiny metal ass probably don't understand him, he's introducing himself as Slobber." He said as Slobber took a fighting stance. "I am Spatter. And you..." Spatter then smiled. "Are Alfreda." "Thank you, like I didn't know my-" Alfreda didn't finish as Slobber charged at him, kicking him up into the air before Spatter slammed him into the ground. "And now you dead!" Spatter said as he did a little breakdance creating a small green ball he threw at Alfreda only for a car to slam into it melting upon impact. "Who blasted mah blast?" Spatter said seeing a yellow Wirewolf with a red eye and blue with green pupiled eye facing them down then looking at Alfreda. "Come with me if you want to live." "Oh I saw that movie, it was Ok." Alfreda responded. "I mean you ya one wheeled idiot!" He yelled before running away Alfreda following suit as the two Blotlings followed them. High Heel growled as she looked on, at normal size. "Get back here! I will not be upstaged by some blobs and be ignored!" "I wish we could ignore you." Moe muttered behind a corner as High Heel got into her Heel-Mobile and drove off after them. "Why didn't she just change and jump after them?" "Probably wanted to make a dramatic entrance at some point." Lather answered before running off after them. "You're not coming with?" "Must I?" "Well you can follow me or you can stay here with the Power Ponies." Lather said before running off. "On second thought I'll take up that offer!" Moe said running after her. Phantom Blot looked over the pit as he finished something up. "Excellent. Enhancements complete. Arise Shadow Blot." A hand reached out of the pit as a being stood up coming up to Phantom's chest. "A kindness to revive me to dispose of your adversaries father." "Oh for the love of God-I JUST GOT RID OF THAT!" "You can't dispose of something that isn't damaged. Now... where's my Sith Cape?" A cape then materialized around him as he stood there. Alfreda and the Time Traveler stopped the two Blotlings stopping as well. "So who are you, and are you from the future?" "Yep." The Time Traveler replied as Spatter scanned him down. "But on who I am let's just say I'm close to you, but I'm not Moe." "My database says..." Spatter began to say before he smiled. "Youz a Bitch." "Your database can't know that's true-" The time traveler didn't finish as Spatter kicked him into a couple buildings. Alfreda's eye shifted to red. "If I had enough data I'd say that's me-" Alfreda was interrupted as Slobber slammed him into the street smashing into the ground. The Time Traveler pulled himself out of the ground as he looked to Alfreda as he pulled himself from the hole. "Hey Alfreda, when we get out of this, let's remember to not tell the Mane-iac you were attacked by 2 blotlings." "To be fair to both sides, you would've been incorrect in any other circumstance, because the count is 3." Alfreda and the time traveler got up and saw a blotling with one horn floating above Spatter and Slobber. "Greetings, I'm Shadow Blot, look at my Sith Cloak." "You know I don't even care any more, to be honest are there any more of that we don't know about?" The Time Traveler asked "Other then father just us, but in surprises there's the two globs in the sub-lab." "All right, because I've had it with these Green and Purple Mutants, in this horrible 80's timeline!" The Time Traveler then charged at Spatter and Slobber, only to get beaten up as they easily dodged his punches. Shadow Blot simply looked at Alfreda with a smirk. "Well machine, it looks like today is your day to perish." "I don't believe in what people tell me." Alfreda pointed out. Shadow Blot merely looked at him in deadpan. "How in the 7 rings of Hell has anyone had so much trouble killing you?" "I'm very stubborn." "I can see that." Shadow Blot replied before shooting a green ball at Alfreda sending him flying. "Oh wow I was right, this isn't water!" Alfreda yelled as he plunged into the ground. "Careful Alfreda, you might bury yourself alive!" Shadow Blot yelled as Alfreda rose out of the ground kicking a boulder towards him. "I only bury you!" Shadow Blot manipulated his body out of the way but his cape was pulled off by the rock. "My Sith cape!" Alfreda tried to roll away when Shadow Blot grabbed his left arm. "Alfreda...you done goofed." "Say what?" Alfreda asked before Shadow Blot pulled them both down into the ground. 'Well this is an interesting turn of events.' Alfreda thought. 'Indeed. I wonder how that time traveler is fairing in his fight?' Alfreda's logic pondered. The Time Traveler swung a sword he had with him but it simply passed through Slobber like nothing however when he sliced again aiming for his left arm it passed through but Slobber solidified it causing it to get caught. "Why did I even bring this there was an accident with that time mach-" Slobber socked the Time Traveler in the face sending him flying up where Spatter slammed him down into a bank. "Aight Slobber, give it back." Spatter said pointing at the time traveler, which Slobber swung the sword down at him earning a yelp from the wirewolf. Shadow Blot created a large green sphere then threw it at Alfreda who rolled off and to the side, but the sphere followed him. "Surrender machine! Nothing escapes my S.C. Death Ball!" Something then clicked in Alfreda's mind. "Does the S.C. stand for-" "Sith cape! Yes!" "Not my first guess." Alfreda said before the ball began to push him into a wall ready to detonate. "Yes! This is my vengeance!" Phantom Blot said from the lab before a semi slammed into the ball sending it flying and exploding harmlessly. "Who has the balls?!" He yelled as a building began to crumble behind Alfreda, a large shadow in it's place speaking. "For thousands of years I laid dormant, who has disturbed my-" "Nice entrance High Heel." Alfreda remarked. "Oh great it's you, explain cyclops." High Heel deadpanned at normal size. "Getting beaten up by 3 blotlings." "WHY DID YOU TELL HER!?" The time traveler yelled. "Neat, can't wait to tell Mane-iac that and watch her piss herself." "Well, well well, if it isn't High Heel, the muscle of the Alliance of Malevolence, I'd bow my cape, IF I HAD IT!" Shadow Blot said, yelling the last part looking at Alfreda. "1. I didn't agree to that name, 2. I've been waiting in an alley for a moment for the past couple minutes, what's your deal?" "You see, our kind father has a bit of a vendetta against the one eyed machine, and seeing as he was still weak from the last encounter, he was forced into desperate measures and brought out the defective ones before you." "You don't seem that defective." Alfreda pointed out. "Well he could not deal with my higher intellect, my sith cape obsession, and my particular method of switching of intellectual to brutish speech." "Yeah I noticed that, what's up with the fat one?" Alfreda said pointing to Slobber. "My vocal cords are rotted and Phantom Blot could not find replacements on the black market." Slobber responded which nobody but the other blotlings understood. "All right but what about the small one? Is it cause he's purple?" High Heel asked about Spatter. "Or that he sounds black?" The wirewolf added. "Okay racists, if you want to know...it's because he has a bit of a drinking problem." Shadow Blot responded as Spatter finished up the paint can he was drinking. "Hey it's only a problem if I run out!" Spatter responded. "We like to keep that away from business, but if you'll excuse us, we have business to deal with, by which I mean burying 3 corpses under this city. SLOBBER! SPATTER!" Shadow Blot said commanding his brothers. "You got it boss man." Spatter said walking only to sink neck deep into some wet cement. "You forget you saw this." He simply said before jumping out and landing in front of High Heel throwing some punches. "Round two Claptrap!" Shadow Blot said before he and Alfreda engaged in claw to claw combat. The wirewolf ran for Slobber only for Slobber to ram into him then head-butt him repeatedly in the head earning grunts from the wirewolf in pain. Moe and Lather looked on from an alleyway. "We just needed to watch this didn't we?" Moe asked sarcastically. "I know Moe. I just wanted to see if Alfreda was okay." Lather admitted. "Yeah it's all right. Wanna help the guy fighting the fat one?" "Probably not gonna work out." "No just a suggestion." Spatter rode on High Heel's chest like a surfboard slamming her into a wall, then raising his fist ready to hit her when she caught it surprising him. "Hey!" She got up in Spatter's face her eyes glowing red. "Wanna see something cool?!" "....Yeah ok." High Heel then doubled in size causing the earth to shake before she fully transformed roaring in Spatter's face, causing some sludge to seep off him. The Wirewolf continued to get beat up until he saw High Heel changed. "Oh right weapons." The wirewolf then slid under Slobber and took out a few blades and one pair of nunchucks he whipped around crazily. Alfreda pulled himself out from rubble and looked at the others. "Oh yeah, Berserk mode." Alfreda then screamed as multiple arms appeared on him bearing several firearms as his eye turned purple. "Oh Shit, Berserker mode." Phantom Blot said in the lab watching the fight before going silent. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!" He screamed in anger. "Wait since when could Alfreda do that?" Lather asked. "Incident at a casino, I think this way is the only time his two halves even work together." Moe replied. High Heel looked down at Spatter with a grin. "Now the tables have turned runt, but before so answer me this, are you ready to die blotling?" Spatter simply took out a paint can and poked a hole in the top of it then began to chug it as he did the first one. High Heel looked completely confused. "Are you really-" Spatter simply flipped her off but at the same time was telling her to hold on as he continued to chug the contents. "Does that even do anything for you?" Spatter finished the can then tossed it causing it to bounce off her head as he grinned smugly. "Not anymore." He replied. High Heel simply looked at him before ramming into him like a freight train. Alfreda and Shadow Blot exchanged shots, not hitting each other but hitting the buildings around them. "Do it Alfreda! Send that weirdo to the trash heap!" "It's name, is the Wasteland you idiot!" Shadow Blot yelled before a stray shot barely missed Moe. "And my name is Lather!" Lather then launched a blast of magic at Shadow Blot, but it simply went through him to which he shot eyes beams back at her. "Someone help!" She yelled before a purple shot of energy blocked it. "That actually worked?" She asked herself before the ground rumbled as something move towards Shadow Blot. "For thousands of years I lay dormant." Something burst out of the ground and grabbed Shadow Blot by the legs. "Who has disturbed my- Oh hey Alfreda, problem?" "Blotlings. Su'p Kul'as?" Alfreda simply replied. "Chillin, mind if I take a spin?" Kul'as asked Alfreda before he spun Shadow Blot into the ground. "Clever." Alfreda noted before Shadow Blot rose back up. "Now I don't mean to offend you and not reference to your skin tone, your ethnicity or your cultural background, but you better escape while you still can before things go south, boy." Shadow Blot told Kul'as. "You just made it about all those things the moment you said boy." Kul'as replied. High Heel was sent into a wall by Spatter surprising her due to his size. "Come on Buy in Bulk that the best you got?" He asked doing a little breakdance before they charged at each other breaking off with High Heel collapsing, changing back before she got back up looking at Spatter with a smirk. "Heh. Powers of Saddle Rager or not, you still just a-" Spatter was cut off as his head came off and fell into his hands. "Bitch." He said annoyed before Lather had decided to toss a biscuit at his head. "Did she just throw a motherf*cking dog-" Spatter never finished as he exploded splatting his remains everywhere. The Time Traveler and Slobber ran for each other, the former with his sword at the ready and giving Slobber a mighty slash before stopping, Slobber slowing down before turning, speaking to where words could be made out. "By metal, I gained life anew, by metal I lose it once more. No hopes before or after, only fading." Slobber then exploded much like Spatter as the Time Traveler tucked away his sword. "Countdown's over ya one horned...umm... Ok I got nothing." "Spatter and Slobber are dead?" Shadow Blot asked before he grinned. "Well that moves things along ever so easily." Shadow Blow telepathically called certain parts of the remains of his two brothers to him as they all watched watched. "I feel like we should be stopping this." Kul'as pointed out. "Nah I wanna see how this plays out." Alfreda responded. Shadow Blot then roared as he began to transform, his skinny arms bulging what must've been muscle, as the most anyone could tell he was made of was some kind of sludge or ink. "He's hulking out!" The Time Traveler noted. "Yes Shadow Blot, take on your true form." Shadow Blot's master beckoned from the lab Shadow Blot grew in size, until he was a tad bigger then Saddle Rager, his skin turning black and eyes turning red from green. "Huge, sleek, black, red, and the fearing appearance of yours truly..." the single horn on his head split in two giving a two horned appearance as he grinned with malicious intent. "Perfect..." "Hey High Heel! He's bigger then you!" Alfreda yelled to the villainess. "I'LL KILL HIM!" High Heel transformed and jumped up to Shadow Blot delivering a punch to his chest, to absolutely no effect as Shadow Blot grinned grabbing High Heel by the arms. "Oh no..." She said in a small terrified voice. Shadow Blot flipped her upside down then began to charge towards the ground aiming for a pile driver as she screamed. The Time Traveler charged at him blaster ready. "I got ya High-" He didn't finish as Shadow Blot simply shot eye lasers at him sending him slamming into a wall and to the ground, earning a laugh from High Heel before she slammed into the ground, head first. "Heh. Moron." "PUNT!" Shadow Blot yelled before kicking her through the street. "SOMETHING STUPID GET IN MY WAY!" High Heel yelled as she was sent rocketing towards the time traveler. "Wait what?!" He said before High Heel slammed into him and crashed into a building. Kul'as then began to try and punch Shadow Blot but all his hits phased through the demon as if he wasn't there. "What's the point of even staying solid?" Kul'as asked before Shadow Blot punched him into a building. A chainsaw went though his arm and he saw Alfreda shooting at him from behind, to which he simply smiled and swung at were Alfreda was just about to roll, kicking Alfreda right in his wheel popping it as Alfreda was sent flying before he landed on a car. 'Why do I feel like he hit me in the nuts?' Alfreda thought. 'Because we have a sperm storage cell hidden above the wheel.' Logic answered. 'What is the point of even having that?' 'Only thing I can think of is for amusement.' Logic replied before Shadow Blot touched down in front of Alfreda. "Now I know what you're thinking-" Alfreda didn't finish as Shadow Blot punted him before wrapping a sludge like whip around him and slamming him around and into a fire hydrant. Alfreda got up, several cracks all over his shell as sparks leaked out. "Because the answer will surprise you-" Alfreda was interrupted once more as Shadow Blot punted him again sending him flying towards the Mane-iac's hideout a block away. Lather stood a couple feet away from Shadow Blot, preping a spell Alfreda made for her that would temporarily give her powers like that of Saddle Rager even if to a lesser degree. "Hey! Why don't you pick on somepony your own size?" She asked as she was ready to hit herself when Shadow Blot turned to face her with a smile as large wings unfurled from his back. She immediately stopped as she looked nervous. "That isn't me obviously." Alfreda dragged himself out of the rubble and pressed a button on his chest, turning the machine, which the Power Ponies were oddly by, on and it zapped Phetlock without alerting him as a large door opened in front of him, a lifeless wolf like robot body emerging from it. "Let' see if it's worth the vibranium stolen for it." Logic said before he began to charge the power of Filli-Second into it. Lather backed away from Shadow Blot panicky as he merely smiled walking to her."Or you know, Maybe a Dragon in the Badlands, not that I've been there, I don't have the bits to go that far- calling you out in the first place was a horrible idea." "I agree." Shadow Blot simply said before raising his claw, unaware of the large garage door opening with Alfreda getting into the wolf body as energies were being charged into it. "Shadow, would you do your old man a favor, and dispose of Alfreda now." Phantom Blot told Shadow Blot, who saw Alfreda still kicking. "Why won't you just die!?" Shadow Blot then shot a huge green ball at Alfreda only for Lather to create a shield to block it but was sent into a wall. "Sorry Lather." Alfreda told her before Logic took over again. "All right not the plan but still kinda pleasant, take two." Phantom Blot said before a purple ball went through Shadow Blot earning an "Ow!" from Alfreda as it hit him. Shadow Blot turned around and saw Kul'as standing there. "Nobody's killing that two sided idiot but me." "Why are you still here?" Logic asked before Kul'as before he tired to punch Shadow Blot only for Shadow Blot to break his upper right arm earning a scream of sheer pain before he began to pull on him by the arms aiming to rip Kul'as' arm's out by the sockets. Shadow Blot applied more pressure only for something to hit him in the back causing him to turn around, seeing the time traveler. "Hey! You big black son of a bitch-" "Racist phrasing!" Alfreda shouted. "I'm a time traveler form the future, and you don't exist there. Why, well besides I have no clue, is because you die, by this sword!" The Time Traveler then charged at him and swung only for Shadow Blot to catch it and snap it in half before grabbing the Time Traveler. He then hit him in the dick before blasting him away to which he vanished, not by the blast but by other means. Alfreda finished the final adjustments to the body. Shadow Blot then began to create a large green ball "Wait a minute, that was Alfreda. Perfect! Now place your aim on that one eyed-" Phantom Blot stopped as High Heel transformed then got behind Shadow Blot and suplexed him causing the ball to be sent flying. "SON OF A BITCH!" Phantom Blot yelled angrily. Shadow Blot then gut punched High Heel then slammed her into the ground before slamming his foot on her face. And that's when the Shoe lady realized that when you suplex a blot, you better get ready to get your shit bucked up. Cell we don't do this. LET ME HAVE THIS! Fine. Just for now. Also you do realize that people are gonna be confused since future you was there? I'll explain that later. Shadow Blot then encased himself in a green aura as he roared and pounded his fists on his chest like a gorilla. Alfreda merged with the body as it began to glow. "Oh right, berserk speed. Wait what?" Moe said looking behind some rubble as Shadow Blot squeezed High Heel's head as she clawed at his claws as a slow crack began to sound. "Kill Alfreda! KILL ALFREDA! KILL ALFREDA BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!" Phantom Blot yelled at Shadow Blot who turned and saw Alfreda in a wolf body staring at him before he charged, creating a sonic boom as he charged. "Oh this will not end well." Phantom Blot noted as Alfreda delivered several blows across Shadow Blot's body causing him to drop High Heel. He delivered slashes across his face and created indents across Shadow's body. He then ran several miles away before coming back at tops speeds. "JESUS CHRIST!" Phantom yelled seeing the wind cone forming around Alfreda before it burst creating a rainbow ring that spanned out. "So beautiful." Shadow Blot said at the rainbow before looking down and seeing Alfreda was spinning like a drill, towards him. Shadow Blot solidified to take the full blunt of the shot, but Alfreda drilled through, causing Shadow Blot to scream before he exploded in a brilliant green light. The light dimmed and the block where rubble was silent, save for an ink bottle that fell into the sewers below, and the black sith cape that fluttered across the wind. The Alliance of Malevolence was locked up back in Balkham Asylum, some of them bearing bandages from their battle with the Blotlings while others were just in straitjackets listening to the fight the others told about, Mane-iac hiding behind Phetlock at the mention of Blotlings. "Plus, catching High Heel really b*cked that guy up." Alfreda said before Logic took over. "Also mother, we're going to recommend for some therapy classes so you overcome that irrational fear." "Well my fear is justified now since one of them almost killed you." Mane-iac argued. "Well now they're all dead, so the fear is again unjustified." "What about the dad he mentioned?" "All right point taken. What surprises me is how Kul'as was able to evade capture." Alfreda then took over again. "All though thinking about those two things I think I have a pretty good idea about that." Phantom Blot merely lounged in a chair by the tanks as he finished thinking about Shadow Blot and his brothers failure. "Well, that was a total bust, But there's always these two little guys over here. What's a couple decades, It's not like I'm going anywhere." Shadow Blot then laid back and thought about something that occurred him. "Wait a minute, father went through the same thing before Kul'as came along and killed him. But that would mean that a piece of Shadow Blot that survived is me, and that I'm actually Phantom Blot, caught in a time-" Phantom Blot didn't finish as Kul'as walked through the door. "Oh so you're the one that sent those blotlings. Well then time to reunite you all." "Oh Crap" Was Shadow Blot's last words before he was killed by Kul'as in a flash of purple Author's Note finally, chapter 2 is done, I'll try to work on Chapter 3 as soon as possible. It goes deeper into who Alfreda was in the golden age of heroes Chapter 3: Home AloneAlfreda turned on with a yawn and looked around the hideout, finding no one waiting around for him. "Hello?" He asked, his question was met with no answer. Alfreda rolled around seeing none of the Henchponies, nor the Mane-iac around. "Where did everyone go?" 'Vacation?' Logic suggested. "Nah, Lather at least would've woken me up." Alfreda rolled outside and saw the streets were almost completely empty, save for one or two ponies. Alfreda then pressed some buttons on his chest and launched his eye into the sky, His eye transformed into a mini drone that did an aerial scan of the entire city, finding that the entire population of Maretropolis was barely touching 15, and the Power Ponies were not even within the vicinity. As his eye returned to him, Alfreda realized that he was alone in the city, and drew a smile on his face as he realized what he could finally do now. He rolled inside and got out a spare body, he then took out a spare eye and a piece of his hardware, installing it into the shell, giving it life as it's red eye glowed. "And you decided to do this now why?" Logic asked him from his new independent body. "So that way you can leave me alone while I get to do everything I've wanted to do." Alfreda laughed as he rode on the kiddie ride of a plane, a large bag of quarters in his hand as the ride went up and down. "I ain't ever getting off!" Alfreda yelled. "You are so disappointing on so many levels you could beat anyone in Final Fantasy." Logic said as he raided a pawn shop. "And yet you're not joining on the fun. Just because it's a pink jet plane, doesn't mean it isn't manly." Alfreda noted. "How about you do the imbecilic things you plan while I actually enrich both of us financially." "I have no idea what 5 of those words mean but I'm gonna keep doing my own thing, I even have the dynamite to back it up." Alfreda marched around the roof of a hospital, tribal make up placed around his eye as he sung alongside the music Logic brought from another universe. "Induction then destruction, WHO WANTS TO DIE?! WAR!"Alfreda set off some dynamite to the beat of the song. "Good God Ya'll! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Say it! Say it! Say it! WAR!" Alfreda did it again, blowing up the front of the Maretropolis National Bank. Logic cleaned out vault in the bank, easily sorting out the dye packs from the currency of others then throwing the bits in the van parked outside. "His stupidity does tend to have it's uses." "What about yours for thinking of robbing an empty bank?" Someone said behind Logic prompting him to look behind him and get a hoof to the face slamming him into a wall. Logic regained his composure then looked at the one who did it. It was a mare with a blue mask and suit on, spots of the costume with gauntlets, boots and a hood that were black, with a white moon symbol on her chest. "Moon Knight, You're supposed to be in Goth'horn." "Well when almost an entire city's population disappears, somepony has to make sure no one's taking the chance to rob it blind." "I would prefer it if you would say someone. I feel discriminated when the term somepony is said." "Well let me help you with that issue." Moon Knight replied before charging at him. Logic easily slid under her, kicking her in the stomach along the way. Moon Knight shot a beam of magic at Logic barely missing him and freezing a wall behind her. "Ice Beam? I expect something like that from Matterhorn." Before Moon Knight could do anything, another explosion rocked both of them causing Moon Knight to stumble. Logic took the opportunity to throw a dye pack at her. It exploded in her face causing her to shout as it got in her eyes, giving Logic an opportunity to punch her in the face as more dynamite went off on a roof covering her under some rubble. Logic entered the van and drove off, The Maretropolis Jewel Reserve next on his list. Arriving at his desired location, Logic got out, finding the door destroyed as predicted, as well as the vault door. 'How Alfreda got here before me to plant that dynamite is beyond me.' Logic thought before activating the special vacuum he brought, bringing the jewels out of the vault and straight into the van as parked. Logic scanned everything and saw it was unmarked making it much easier to transfer. Logic got in the van once more and drove off ready to contact Alfreda when he looked in his mirrors and saw someone on the road. Like Moon Knight it was a mare, however she was wearing a purple seamless suit, with the symbol of Equestria on her chest, with a cape that appeared to be made of pure sunlight. "Solar Mare." Logic said annoyed before taking a turn and rolling out, the van crashing into some bushes. Logic scanned Solar Mare and compared it to his files he made based on reports. "Weapon Systems, online." Logic then took out a mini-gun, firing upon her but no damage was being done as Solar Mare's horn glowed slightly, causing the mini to glow red forcing Logic to toss the gun away. "Give up, and I don't turn you into a lamppost." "Hold that thought." Logic said before launching a small rocket at her engulfing her in an explosion that sucked up the oxygen around her creating a slightly larger explosion. "HOLY CRAP!" Alfreda said over Logic's communicator. "What the hell was that? I saw that from here." "Prototype Thermobaric Rocket I made, smaller delivery and explosive but highly effective." "A Mini Thermobaric bomb?" A voice said from the smoke, which cleared showing Solar Mare unscathed. "That mind could be applied to much better uses then crimes." Solar Mare said before charging. "Oh well, time to use my plan guaranteed to solve this." Logic said before shooting a projectile at her. It exploded, covering her chest in some type of clay with mixes of a black crystal in it. Solar Mare groaned as she fell to the ground. The clay didn't immobilize her but she felt her strength draining. "Dark Magic Crystals?" Solar Mare asked. "Based on the reports of how your power wavered around this in the battle of Maretropolis, I looked for any remains around the city and made a special clay not to immobilize you, but to keep you down. With Moon Night around, I'm certain that you'll survive knowing her." Logic said before rolling off. Logic drove inside of the hideout, closing the door behind him and activating the Solar Mare Protocol he made: Special lead coat under a coat of concrete mixed with Dark Magic Crystals, covering the whole hideout. Logic looked and saw Alfreda with a pile of stuff around him as he muttered crazily. "Alfreda?" Logic asked confused for once. "Logic!" Alfreda said turning around, his eye green with a red pupil like Mane-aic instead of its usual blue with green pupil with a southern accent. "Come come, pull up some random milk crates, you're just in time for my hourly turf war with the Claptrap what lives in my mirror." Alfreda then looked at his reflection and shook his fist angry at it. "QUIT STARING AT ME WHEN I BATHE!!" He yelled angrily. "Are you all right Alfreda?" Logic asked. "Alfreda's out for the moment, Ezekiel the Naustic." Ezekiel said spitting oil into his claw. "Insanity of Alfreda." "How did you spit into you claw?" Logic asked. "I don't rightly know!" Ezekiel replied wiping the oil on his chest. "Ezekiel, I'd like to speak to Alfreda." Logic said concerned. "Can do!" Ezekiel said before slapping himself causing his eye to turn back into Alfreda's. "Logic please help me! He's crazy! He says he can see the future!" "What specifically?" "He says that I'll get a wirewolf body, die in another Maretropolis and travel across the multiverse with some ghost and a wirewolf who only speaks in spanish." "Name?" "No idea. But if you don't mind, I'm gonna see what the triple x place is all about." Alfreda said rolling off. "Alfreda you don't know what-" Logic stopped remembering earlier, so he went back and closed the door. "Well either Ezekiel will save him, or Alfreda will get himself killed. Either way, Mane-iac won't know the difference." Alfreda walked out of the building a bit mad. "Well that was a bummer, there was no one in there. I knew Seth was talking out his ass on the mares in there." Ezekiel then took over as something approached behind him. "Should've made sure I stayed dead Logic." A voice said behind him prompting him to turn around and see Moon Knight facing him. "Where's the cash? Or the eye goes first." "Howdy friend!" Ezekiel said oblivious. "Who are you?" Moon Knight asked confused. "Ezekiel, local kook." "Well what're you doing here?" "Well me and Alfreda came here to see what this place was about, well mainly him well cuz I did my own thing." Ezekiel then did a dance, which didn't look like one since he had one wheel for mobility. "Sorry, you look like someone I know." "Sa'll right. Whelp time to figure out how to tell time." Ezekiel then rolled off whistling to himself leaving Moon Knight dumbfounded. "There can't be somepony that stupid who's able to survive this long." Moon Knight simply said before flying back to Goth'horn to check up on Solar Mare. Logic had hidden the last of the things he stole and the message was complete. Logic came out of the basement seeing Ezekiel now sporting a cowboy hat. "Ezekiel, I'm coming home." "But me and Alfreda are having so much fun." Ezekiel replied before Alfreda took over. "He's an idiot and insane!" Logic tackled Alfreda and opened his own port and Alfreda's, then ejected his hardware into Alfreda's, it merging in as Alfreda threw the body off him. 'Good to be back home.' Logic said from inside Alfreda's head. 'Howdy neighbor! You sure make it roomy in here.' Ezekiel replied. As soon as Ezekiel finished speaking, the Mane-iac and most of the henchponies walked in, many sporting injuries and bandages. "Hey guys, where've you been?" Mane-iac simply groaned. "Well Kul'as decided it'd be funny to pit most of the city against each other, forcing me into the humiliating act of teaming up with the Power Ponies to fight him, to which he gave up, saying we passed his so called test. Other ways to waste several hours of my life, but efficient way nonetheless. How did you and Logic do?" "Fine. Logic was doing some lame stuff while sang and blew up some buildings. Also he fought Moon Knight and Solar Mare while I got a new roommate for my head." Logic then took over as the henchponies got settled back into home. "Lather, could I see you in the basement for a moment." Lather complied and followed him downstairs to which he revealed a secret door sporting all the money and gold he had stolen. "This is for Alfreda, a transmitter I'm giving you will go off when the time comes. Do not ask why just do so if you care for him, and tell no one ever, I will find out." Logic said before tossing the transmitter to Lather and rolling back up the stairs. "I need a long exotic vacation." Logic said to himself exasperated. Chapter 4: SpainLife had been a tad dull for Alfreda the few following weeks. Mane-iac had decided to take a vacation and took some henchponies and Alfreda with her going to Spain. It had been three days into the vacation and Alfreda managed to outright disappear from anyone's sight. Mane-iac was simply in the back of a car they rented with Lather, Seth driving up to a corner with a smile looking at someone in the shadow. "So little missy, what's someone like you doing out so late?" Someone stepped out of the shadow revealing themselves as Alfreda with weird clothes on and lipstick. "Just trying to pass by in this cold-SETH!?" Alfreda said dropping his act when setting eyes upon Seth. Lather rolled down the window hearing the shout. "Seth what're-" Lather immediately stopped upon seeing Alfreda. "Alfreda why are you dressed like prostitute?" Lather deadpanned. "I accidentally killed someone and have to pay a cop a huge-ass bribe to not go to prison." "How much have you earned so far?" "Not one dime, I think it's either me or my rates." "How much you charge?" "I think 200,000 bits no matter what." "Just get in the car so we can make a plan." Mane-iac had gotten all of them good seats in the coliseum for a bullfight going on as Alfreda and Lather talked about his financial problem. "So prostitution was the first thing you went to?" Lather asked. "Well it was the only suggestion from Ezekiel and Logic that would make the amount of money I need in time." They looked back at the bullfight in time to see the matador get rammed into the wall by the bull before some clowns came to get it away from the matador. "Dang, glad I'm not doing that." Alfreda said before Ezekiel took over. "I want that there job!" He yelled rolling down the steps towards the arena. He landed in the middle of it grabbing the cape as Alfreda took over. "Damn it. Do I get paid?" Alfreda asked someone behind the fence. "All depends on your odds in beating the bull. Warning no one has." Alfreda turned around looking for the bull, unintentionally dodging it as the bull's face got covered by the cape and knocking itself out into a wall. Everyone cheered as Alfreda looked shocked at what he just done. 'Fellow minds, I believe our financial problem has been solved.' Logic simply said. The Power Ponies left the airport as Matterhorn looked around before looking back at the others. "All right, they said Mane-iac was somewhere here. She may be on vacation but I still don't trust her based on her history." Filli-Second agreed. "I'll scan the area to see if I can pick up the trail." Filli-Second was about to run off when a small robot with a green and red eye dressed like a clown. "Wanna see something nifty?" He asked. Matterhorn thought he looked familiar but then shrugged. "Sure." The robots arms then transformed into stilts as several arms came out him as he performed several circus tricks in front of them. He then stopped immediately and left in a cloud of smoke he made. "Well that was weird." Marevelous noted. "Yeah." Matterhorn said looking back to the group noticing something. "Where's Saddle Rager?" Lather walked into Alfreda's prep room seeing state of the art equipment with some mounds of bits surrounding Ezekiel who was sporting a gold shell with the top open sitting in a wooden chair as he held a jar of toxic waste . "Ezekiel the Naustic." He tossed the jar in the hole. "Gulping up some toxic." "Zeke I'd like to speak to Alfreda." Ezekiel's eye then switched to Alfreda's. "Su'p?" "Just wanna check up on you before we and Mane-iac leave." "Well good luck in Maretropolis, I'm staying here." "Really, why are you staying here?" "Because I'm someone here, ponies respect me, I got a good job, I paid off that cop." Logic quickly stepped in. "I paid for him to be executed." Alfreda quickly took back control. "And I'm happy. Bye Lather, have a good life." Lather simply sighed before walking out, wanting to at least see Alfreda's match before going back home. Alfreda had slipped into his usual shell and stood in the center of the pit, turned to face the door in which the bull was meant to come out. "So Zeke what did you get? Last I heard every bull's plain terrified of me." 'Ah done whipped you up a critter that turns into a bigger critter.' Ezekiel replied. "Huh that's funny. That's sounds and awful lot like-" Alfreda didn't finish as his oil froze upon sight. Walking out of the gate with bull horns glued to her head, was a very very pissed off "Saddle Rager." Alfreda said terrified. 'Ezekiel if we live through this you're dead.' Logic simply said. Alfreda screamed then rolled away in the other direction, prompting Saddle Rager to roar then chase after him. Alfreda ran really fast around the arena then towards Saddle Rager, using her to be sent flying out of the arena and landing in a street. "Okay, let's head for the airport and go to Neighpal- what is that breathing going down my back?" Alfreda looked behind him and saw several bulls behind a pen. "Oh right, the running of the bulls." 'I want that there job!' "Shut up Ezekiel you've only ruined a good thing don't make it worse!" Alfreda yelled. He then heard rumbling as he saw Bulls getting tossed in the air and began to roll away before straight up speeding. "SUPER RUN AWAY!" Alfreda yelled before the gate burst open as Saddle Rager ran through, the bulls following suit. Alfreda ran as fast as his wheel could carry him, avoiding other bulls while others simply went through his cape. Alfreda saw a stock of fruit ahead and aimed for it, the angle sending him flying to which he deployed his wings and glided back towards the coliseum. 'You're turning back why?' Logic asked. "I'm not gonna run away again. I'm heading back to the arena and facing her down." 'You're going to die painfully.' Logic simply said. 'Then we's gon be the ones in charge of this here body.' Ezekiel added. 'Not you. Never you.' Alfreda landed in the arena and turned to face Saddle Rager, surprised as she was right in front of him. "Logic, you were there when you both met, it only fits that you do this." Alfreda then gave control to Logic who ran away before charging back, dodging Saddle Rager's fists and hit her a couple times before taking out his matador sword. "To the last I grapple at thee," Logic shot his grappling hook at one of the horns on her head. "With my last breath I spit at thee!" Logic said with a tone of anger in his voice as he spat some oil, getting it close to her eye stunning her. He retracted the grapple bringing him up on her head and held her by the horns pulling her head back a little. Ezekiel and Alfreda joined together with him at that moment for this glorious victory. "From Hell's heart I stab at thee!" They brought the sword down on her head... Only for it to shatter upon impact. The horns gave away and tore off of Saddle Rager's head causing Alfreda to fall to the ground as Logic and Ezekiel went back into Alfreda's mind. Alfreda looked at the horns next to him and looked off seeing Saddle Rager snorting steaming even more pissed beyond belief upon seeing the two new bald spots on her head in a reflection of a piece of Alfreda's sword. Alfreda was actually sweating as Saddle Rager took one step. "You know you can just grow that back and no one will noti-" Alfreda never finished as Saddle Rager grabbed him and stabbed the broken handle into his chest earning an incredibly painful scream from him. And that's when I learned that when you grab a bull by the horns, Saddle Rager punched his eye before raising him up with a roar. No matter what, she'll take you for a ride. She slammed him down before throwing his body into the crowd which Lather caught. "Everythingisbroken" Alfreda eye turned on slowly as he looked around where he was. He was in a hospital bed, in Maretropolis from looking out the window. He saw Mane-iac and Lather next to his bed, with lots of cards and gifts next to his nightstand. "Good you're awake." "Did I win?" Alfreda asked drowsy. "Well on one hand you did survive, in terms of beating Saddle Rager, no. However you did earn a name by taking her head on and tearing off some of her hair." Mane-iac answered. "Yes! Yes!" Alfreda yelled checking off a piece of his bucket list. "All though now she's not coming out embarrassed of the bald spot and has said that she will tear you to pieces for that if you meet again." Lather added. "I still consider this a victory." "And the country itself of Spain has banned you from bullfighting forever unless you admit to your mistakes that caused thousands of dollars in property damage." "...I'm not apologizing for skill." Chapter 5: The Grim ClaptrapAlfreda rolled through the city park with a smile on his face as he stopped on park bench relaxing in the sun. Unbeknownst to him, a figure in a black robe with a large scythe appeared a few feet away and before to walk to him. Lather walked by and sat next to Alfreda on the bench, shuffling to him a little with a blush. "Hey Alfreda, there's something I wanna talk to you about." Lather said to Alfreda. "If it's about that week in the Artic alone I told you we take that to our graves." "No. It's...I think I like you." "I like you too." Lather began to blush even more as she moved a bit closer to Alfreda. "As in...lo-" Lather didn't finish as the figure in the cloak sat in between them. He was the size of an average pony, but was a Claptrap, only his arms and wheel visible as he bore a black cloak, allowing only one unblinking red eye to be seen on his face. "Um, excuse me, you interrupted the lady. Could you apologize then kindly move?" Alfreda asked causing the Claptrap to look at him as Alfreda and Lather got off the bench. "Okay Lather, what was it you wanna tell me?" Before Lather could speak, the Claptrap got in between them again and shoved a piece of paper in Alfreda's face. Alfreda took the paper off his face and saw it said 'Death Certificate: Alfreda. Signed, The Grim Claptrap.' "Well I'm sorry Mr. Grim but you've got the wrong guy." Alfreda said crumpling up the piece of paper and throwing it away. Alfreda was about to walk away when Grim stood in front of him scythe at the ready. Lather got in front of Alfreda ready to defend him only for Grim to hit her with his scythe into a jewelry store. Alfreda brandished his chainsaws and charged for the Grim Claptrap, only to be knocked back by the blunt end of the scythe. Alfreda rolled back afraid when an idea popped into his head. "Look! Joan Rivers!" Grim looked behind him giving Alfreda the chance to run away and out of the park, to which Grim busted through a wall and after him. Alfreda hid behind a trash can allowing Grim to run by him and stop to look around him near the Power Ponies HQ. Alfreda got an idea and changed his shell color and put on a mustache approaching Grim. "Hey there! You must be the new intern. Perfect, You couldn't come at a better time." Alfreda said in his fake Manehatten accent as he pushed Grim towards the door. He pulled out a large sack of money and tucked it into Grim's cloak as he pushed him through. "Just a little incentive for good luck." An alarm went off as Grim stepped in, then turrets sprouted up and fired on Grim forcing him to run around as they fired. The turrets then stopped for some reason allowing Grim to look in his cloak and find the bag of money. He looked around just in time for Mistress Marevelous' hoof to hit him down. Filli-Second ,Radiance and Humdrum came to her help and beat Grim senseless as he tried to head back for the door. Alfreda rolled away back into the park until a whacking sound from far away could be heard and Alfreda saw a cloak and scythe heading towards him, to which Alfreda jumped out of the way as it landed. The cloak reformed and Grim dusted himself off before he took out a list titled. 'Special Cases to take care of' and put the names of the four heroes that just beat him onto the list. Alfreda climbed into a tree and got a noose ready before whistling. "Hey bland and black! Try the trees!" Alfreda shouted prompting Grim to climb up after him only to fall through the noose and end up dangling from the branch out in the open with the rope around his waist. Alfreda rolled up to him with another sack of money in his claws. "This is for Lather." Alfreda whispered into Grim's face before throwing the sack right in his face. Alfreda then rolled off knowing the next part, leaving Grim to frantically dangle trying to get the rope loose. Behind him, Filli-Second lead Zapp and Matterhorn and spotted him. "Get Em!" She yelled tackling Grim and ending up wearing his cloak though he was nowhere to be seen. Filli-Second then began to punch herself before tearing the cloak off causing Grim to tumble back in the cloak as Zapp shot lightning at his wheel. Grim ran away in Alfreda's direction prompting Alfreda to do the same and hide in a trash can along the way as Grim passed by, Zapp and Matterhorn in pursuit until Grim tripped and they then effortlessly bombarded him. Alfreda sneaked away as they continued to beat up Grim until he was a safe distance away and sighed in relief. "Alfreda?" A voice was calling out, to which Alfreda looked and saw Lather looking around for Alfreda. Alfreda peaked out of his hiding spot and rolled up to Lather. "Lather? You're all right!" Alfreda shouted happily and ran up to his friend giving her a big hug. Lather laughed a little as he let go. "Well I see you got rid of that Grim psycho. Here's a little something for my short knight in shining armor." Lather gave him a kiss on the cheek, causing Alfreda to short circuit and collapse. Lather giggled a little as Grim rolled past them, with various cuts an burnt marks on him as he pressed a button on a remote, opening a door into the underworld in a tree and walked in. As Grim closed the door, Lather teleported behind him with Alfreda on her back. "Forgetting someone?" She asked sly. Grim pushed them both out of the door frantically. "What's wrong? You want him don't you?" Lather asked before Grim took out the death certificate and tore it up. "You think tearing that thing up will change his mind?" Grim held his head in annoyance and panic before something clicked in his head and he played an audio of Alfreda. "Look Joan Rivers!" It played. "Where?!" Alfreda yelled waking up and looked around. "Wait, I don't think that's her. That may be a man." Grim took this chance to sneak back into the tree. Grim was ready to press the button when Alfreda put his wheel in front of it to stop him. "Here's a going away present." Alfreda told him tossing a tied and gagged HumDrum at him, then rolling away along with Lather. Grim looked at Humdrum then saw the Power Ponies, with the new addition of Saddle Rager, running straight for him, and beating his daylights senseless as the door closed behind them. "You do realize you just trapped the Power Ponies in the Underworld." Lather told Alfreda. "Yep." "Loot stores?" "Loot stores." Alfreda agreed with a smile. Chapter 6: The Black CometAlfreda scanned all the money in the safe before throwing out all the dye packs and emptying them into the sacks the Mane-iac and the henchponies brought. "Efficiency in money taken in heists is increased drastically thanks to new X-Ray scanners." "Well Mane-iac, I didn't know you had a dictionary turned into a walking computer." A voice said behind them."wow look at your shiny new tin can" a stallion cloaked in a dull gray over coat and fedora his eyes hidden by black sunglasses. "Who are you mother has no files on you" the stallion laughed at Alfreda while lowering his sunglasses revealing his slitted green eyes. "I wouldn't expect you to." "Well then won't you be an interesting one to interrogate and study? Seth, Prell, grab him." Alfreda commanded the two stallions who obliged only for the stallion to sweep Seth off his legs and give Prell a left hook. "Well this should be fun. Just wait for my friend to come in." The stallion said. "Just who might your friend be?" Alfreda asked. "To paraphrase the master..." A voice said before a mechanical bat flew in hovering over both of them. "A real mother bucking A.I." "scanning scanning" Alfreda said emotionless his eye scanning the bat like machine who hovered over them. "Machine lifeform, bat design, A.I. level...." his eye shifted to a blue color. "....immeasurable" he said scarred. "Is that fear i hear?" Vesperat said smoothly landing on his masters shoulder. Alfreda's eye shifted back to red. "I told you not to come in while working." Back to blue. "But you never let me help with anything anymore." The eye went back to red one last time. "look just stay put and after this we'll talk later." He then pulled out two sabers and pointed them at the stallion. "Identify yourself at least, before I reduce your existence to piles of meat being dissected." "Well since you asked nicely, I'm Black Comet, the stallion who's gonna toss what's left of you to the Mane-iac like a broken toaster." He tossed off his cloak and hat revealing a young finely built stallion his coat as black as a starless sky his mane was short and wild with locks of green mixed with fields of gold. His slightly curved horn and fur tipped ears caught Alfreda's eye. "Are you the same species as Sombra?" Black just laughed before throwing away his glasses revealing his sickly green slitted eyes "Trust me that fool is nowhere near my gene pool." "A different species of Pony? Well won't it be interesting to see how you function?" Alfreda then charged at Comet, swinging his sabers cutting off a clip of his hair as Comet hit him in the eye, causing it to crack and half to be blue while the other half was red. "Nice try boy" Vesperat started to circle around him making the left side of Alfreda quiver. "What are you doing?" He asked between emotionless and fear. "Henshin!" "Vesper bite!" Vesperat bit into his arm causing green glowing veins to appear in his body and black chains to wrap around his waist before becoming a red belt. Vesperat attached itself to him becoming a buckle as symphonic ringing played and gothic armor foed on him "You think your new, awesome and terrifying armor scares me? Even though I'm absolutely terrified?" Alfreda asked, his two halves agreeing on some parts, and his sabers quivering in his arms. "Looks like it." Black Comet replied with a smile. "lets play a game" He lifted his and sphere of swirling red and black energy gathered in his hoof. "Its called hot energy potato." "Ummmm, no thanks" Alfreda pressed the sercurity button repeatedly as he shook. "Too late catch!" With his long black cape bellowing he tossed the energy making Alfreda scream. He dodged as it blew a hole in the wall behind him. "You didn't catch time for a....." Black comet laughed at him as several energy spheres formed around him. "Penalty game" "Who and what are you!?" "I am simply a bored pony seeking an apparent dangerous crime lieutenant for some fun" the green of his visor shined like stain glass as he stared down at Alfreda "But I'll give you some courtesy, in this form I'm Kamen rider Vesper" "Wait if your bored i can help you!" Alfreda rolled back into the wall as the spheres got closer and closer. "Don't care for any money or drugs you have bot." "I can get six really strong opponent's for you!" The spheres disappeared as Vesper picked up the robot and dangled him. "Alright I'll listen." Vesper sounded genuinely intrigued. "I can get the power ponies here in like 20 minutes." "Those six?" Vesper dropped the robot on the ground. "Well i am new here might as well get introduced to them now." 'Great thinking on your wheel Alfreda.' Logic told him having retreated into Alfreda's mind when Comet attacked. 'Let me help Alfreda. Ah could whip up sumethin to beat this feller.' 'Shut up Ezekiel. Last time I listened to you, my dream to bullfight was lost forever.' Alfreda replied as Alfreda quickly through a stock of dynamite at the door. He then took out his pistol and shot it causing it to explode as everyone took cover. Black Comet looked at Alfreda ready to strike when Alfreda took cover. "That'll get em here faster. It's worked the last 20 times." "if they don't arrive in 20 minutes I'm gonna start eating your guys." Black comet sat down on the chair crossing his legs. "Um what do you mean by that?" Alfreda asked backing away. He jumped as Vesperās mouth guard slipped from his helmet revealing metal silver fangs that glistened in the moonlight. "I'll rip my fangs into them, drain them dry of the of their life force!" Vesper shouted joyfully. 'A've got a good feeling about this fella.' 'SHUT UP EZEKIEL!' Alfreda told Ezekiel before he saw the familiar streak across the room. "Greetings Filli-Second." Logic said taking control before Alfreda managed to take it back. "Alfreda every time to do that, we're gonna hit you even harder then the last time." Filli-Second said as the other Power Ponies came running behind her. "I just wanted attention." Ezekiel said embarrassed. "Okay what the hell is your problem?" Comet asked annoyed by Alfreda's mood changing on a dime. "Whose the vampire guy?" Fillie second asked before alfreda was kicked away by said "vampire guy" "You may call me Kamen rider Vesper" He bowed to her politely before raising and kicking her across the jaw 'Perfect.' Logic, Alfreda and Ezekiel thought at the same time as he got up. Alfreda rolled across the room as Marevelous went flying over the Mane-iac. "Mom, follow me and stay low." "What about the others?" She asked. "What about the others?" Logic pointed out before they began to crawl forward Mane-iac following suit. "Oh its on!" Fillie second yelled silenced as she surrounded by magical aura with green lightning surging between her and Vesperās crystal horn sheath. "I agree" he flinged her through a wall with a chuckle. "Time for a dramatic entrance" "Must you master?" Vesperat asked with a sigh "Of course, its necessary its part of the shock and awe of my strategy." Vesper said walking towards the hole. "Why does that involve constantly flurishing your cape?" "Of course!" "Why is that belt buckle talking?" Fillie asked stars flooding her vision. "Excuse me, but he's a buckmothering A.I and I ask that he be called in such a matter as I've hurt alot of bad ponies to give him that title."Vesper said as if offended my Filli-Second's comment. "Power Tackle!" Marevelous yelled jumping at Vesper who dodged. "You know if you stayed quiet rather then announce what you did, that would've hit closer to home." Alfreda and the Mane-iac managed to make it out of the bank and made their way to the van. "All right. We just need to get in the van and don't look back." Mane-iac said getting in. "I'll be right back mom, I think I forgot something inside." Alfreda replied rolling back in. 'Your stupidity is becoming less useful at times and more hazardous.' Logic said to himself, knowing that action would have painful consequences. "Also you call that an attack name!" He placed a dark whistle into Vesperats mouth pressed it down. "~Wake up nigou!~" Vesperās cape bellowed in the wind as dark ominous orchestra music played from Vesperat. He crossed his forelegs as dark red mist surround him and the power ponies. "What in the hay!" Marevelous seeing the red mist turn the moon blood red. "What kind of magic is this!?" Matterhorn's horn glowed brightly charging an attack as she stared at the dark stallion. "MOON RIDER PUNCH" the rider jumped into the air as hoof charging with red and green lightning before flying back down. "Is that it!" Matterhorn fired a large beam at him. His hoof connected with the blast and blowed right through it his momentum unhindered and with a dark explosion blowing away the mist his hoof connected with her shattering her horn. Matterhorn screamed in pain as she fell to the ground from the impact.Vesper smiled until he was sent flying into a wall. He turned around in time to see Saddle Rager charge at him in rage. On the other side of the room, Alfreda gave up his search when Matterhorn's horn hit him on the head and fell in front of him. "Cool, I'm keeping this." Alfreda said to himself as he picked it up. "Wow that beam was pretty strong, that punch would of collapsed your skull and make you crap out your spine or blow up in an fiery explosion one or the other." Vesper said looking down at her horn stump. Marvelous tackled him to the ground and reeled back to punch him. "Hey your pretty cute" Marevelous stopped her cheeks pink with a blush. "What?" He kicked her off him chuckling at her. "Hey how about after this we can grab a coffee and cuddle after that." "Shut it!" Marevelous yelled blushing. "Not a shame to admit it." Vesper replied dodging a lightning bolt from Zapp. "He's right, listen to your heart." Alfreda said earning a grin from Vesper as he looked at him. 'Why do I do things?' Alfreda thought as Vesper ran to him but luckily(In a way at least.) so was Saddle Rager "Oh got a big friend, so do i!" He placed a purple whistle in Vesperat's mouth releasing a heavy baritone whistle. "DOGRA HAMMER!" Purple energy surged into him as purple chains wrapped his shoulders and broke away revealing broad purple plate armor. And dropping from the skies atop Saddle rager head a massive Warhammer in the shape of clenched claw. "This is my Dogga form, my physical strengths increases tenfold!" "This isn't gonna get old anytime sooner and is ripe for abuse isn't it?" Alfreda questioned dodging the warhammer. 'maybe so, but we've got bigger ponies to worry about.' Logic said. 'Oh yeah? like who?' 'Saddle Rager.' Logic simply said before Alfreda dodged a hoof from Saddle Rager who diverted her attention to Alfreda for some serious payback. "Oh don't worry i got him!" Vesper yelled before swatting his war hammer at Alfreda knocking him away off to the skyline screaming like a little filly. "He was supposed to be a girl robot?" In a gify Fillie second punched him right in his now purple eye with a resounding crunch. Vesper sighed with her hoof against his face. "You just broke your hoof didn't you?" Fillie second dropped back clutching her hoof. "No you mook." Fillie second cursed before she felt what felt like a rhino ramming her stomach. "Could a mook do this?!" He asked his purple plate hoof pulling back and giving her a gentle tap to head making her fallover clutching her stomach. "Anypony want to put money on her spilling her lunch?" Alfreda screamed as he fell back down. "30 bits..." Alfreda said slurry until he found that he was in Saddle Rager's mane. Alfreda clinged on screaming as Saddle Rager tried to get him off like a bucking bronco. "If this is bull riding I want no part in it!" Alfreda yelled as Vesper laughed. "I'll get you of.f" he placed the handle of his Warhammer across his waist infront of Vesperat. "DOGRA BITE!" The mechanical bat bit down on the hammers handle spreading a purple wave through it. He smashed the handle into the ground and pulled a lever on the back of the hammer. The clenched claw opened revealing a red eye that stared down at the power ponies. "What the buck is that!" Alfreda screamed before the eye pulsed spreading a purple glow to all them freezing them all even Saddle Rager in place. "DOGRA WAKE UP!" a familiar mist spread around them before eclipsing the moon turning its white shine to purple. He raised his hammer into the air and continuously rounded a swinging strike a glowing spectral version of the clenched claw getting bigger and biggger as he rounded up. "Why did you all stand there as he powered up!?" Alfreda shouted afraid. "Oh shut up!" Fillie second yelled trying to vibrate out of her paralysis. "POWER OF KAIJU, DOGRA SMASH!" With Vesperats roar Kamen rider vesper swung the hammer sending the now cargo truck size spectral fist into the power ponies launching them into the bay Alfreda screamed his head off not only landing in the water, but then having Saddle Rager land right on top of him. The Mane-iac ran for the bay looking around. "He should be surfacing any minute." Lather said looking around, as a Alfreda floated to the surface like a dead fish. "Well I was half right at least." Lather dove into the water and grabbed Alfreda before jumping out and throwing him to the ground. The center of his chest was indented so she comprssed it before she breathed into his mouth. "Am interrupting?" Vesper asked dragging his hammer behind him sending sparks everywhere. "Because i see the most wanted criminal in the city." "Mom....run" Alfreda coughed out. "And I'm still hungry" He revealed his metal fangs hissing at her. Alfreda thought up of something that as Saddle Rager floated to the surface barely conscious. Alfreda took out his razor and shaved off part of her mane and stuck it in Vesper's hoof before socking him in the face while doing so. Saddle Rager woke up and felt something was off. She felt her head and found part of her mane was shaved off, seeing that Vesper had shaved it off. She roared with anger as she charged at him slamming them both into a freighter. Alfreda then grabbed Mane-iac and they both ran out of the docks. "Don't look back, don't look back!" "Dick!" Vesper threw his hammer smashing Alfredas lower body away to smithereens. He then jumped on Saddle rangers back using her mane as reigns as she tried to buck him off. "This is how its done!" He then made Saddle Rager ram through a wall repeatedly. "ALFREDA!" Lather yelled. "My wheel! I can't feel my wheel!" Alfreda yelled. Mane-iac growled with rage as she faced Vesper. "I'm gonna shove that buckle down your throat until it comes out your-" "Mother no! It is not your time." Logic said as Lather dragged him off. "Hey wanna play game!?" Vesper shouted excitedly still riding Saddle Rager like a bull. "No more games..." Logic said angrily scaring Lather as he pressed a button on his chest. A pod launched out of the harbor and landing on top of him shifting around him until he stood there, now resembling a robotic wolf with a chainsaw on his back. "Lather, run." Logic simply told her before charging at Vesper. "Oh hold on, I've got a test for the power ponies!" A magic seal of a mark appeared under him surging with purple lightning appeared beneath him. The hammer levitated in place as new spectral whistle appeared in vesperats mouth. "KAIJU RELEASE; PURPLE KING DOGRA!" Vesperās armor flew up along with the Warhammer glowed as flew up and with a mighty roar a massive dragonic gorilla beast landed in the bay. "Ok that's for them, for you i also have a blade wolf!" Vesper plugged a blue whistle into Vesperat's mouth a symphony of wolf howls released as blue chains wrapped his chest and left foreleg. "GARURU SABRE!" the chains broke away revealing chrome blue chest plate with silver fangs running down his chest and a gauntlet and shoulder of chrome frozen flamed blue fur. With a howl a curving silver sword flew into his hoof his visor turning blue matching the wolf head sword guard. "Come on Krypto, show me a good time!" "This is merely form 1." Logic said before two chainsaws shot out of a nearby shipping crate. Logic got on his hind knees which shifted to accommodate him standing upright, the chainsaws attaching to his wrists. A Gatling gun formed on Logic's right shoulder as he drew his sabers charging some electricity into them. "I'm going to eviscerate you and use your gastrointestinal tract as a condom for when I fornicate with your skull." "What?" Vesper asked. "We're gonna Skull Buck You!" Logic, Ezekiel and Alfreda yelled charging at Vesper who dodged but not before The trio was able to deliver a slice on his cheek also charging him. Purple King smacked Matterhorn back into the water, to which she surfaced and shook it off. "All right the direct approach was stupid. Any other ideas?" Matterhorn asked her teammates. "Maybe Zapp should charge up Saddles with some lightning and Radiance put her in a cannon construct to shoot straight at that big lug's skull." Filli-Second suggested. Matterhorn thought long and hard and realized she was right and smiled. "Let's do this." Matterhorn charged whatever she could into the stub of her horn. It was incredibly painful, but she managed to blast Purple King at his legs keeping him stuck. Marevelous used her lasso to grab his arms and keep them down as Filli-Second ran away With Saddle Rager at normal size on her back. Radiance created a bat construct and shouted "Now!" Filli-Second came running back, Saddle Rager transforming and Zapp hit her with some lightning just as Radiance hit her off of Filii-Second, sending Saddle Rager, no fully transformed and electrically charged, flying towards Purple King's head, then slammed right through his forehead, causing him to fall backwards into the water then exploding in fire-filled water spreading explosion. "Ok why did he explode?" Filli-Second asked as they heard another explosion and looked behind them. Logic swung at Vesper with his right saber barely missing him as Vesper punched him in the eye. "I'm actually impressed. I didn't think you last this long against me." "I'm just full of surprises." Logic replied. "I don't what's funnier, you thinking your threatening or them thinking they're done." Vesper laughed out. "Rrrrraaaaaaaagggghhhhhhh!" "Oh Faust dammit!" Bolt cursed before being frozen by purple kings glowing glare. "You really think you can beat me!" Vesper kicked alfreda in the stomach knocking him away as he held the GARURU sabre the wolf head releasing a growl alfreda. Vesper flicked a lever behind the wolfs head causing the wolf hilt to release a sonic howl at Alfreda. "I beat each of these kaiju, and transformed them for my own power, their the sole and strongest survivor of their races and i bested them all!" "Best this bitch! Zeke, now!" Alfreda yelled as Ezekiel took control and pressed a button he placed on his back. Something rumbled under the water before beginning to surface, large spikes seen emerging before the beast came up. "What...is that?" Filli-Second asked. "None of us even know. Came through a portal, Ah took it." Ezekiel clarified as the creature reared his head from the water looking similar to a bear in some ways. It raised it's head before bringing it down facing Purple king, unleashing a mighty roar as well. "Get em Godzilla!" Alfreda yelled. 'We agreed his name would be Scrapdoodle!' 'You hear what you want to hear!' "Um....that's not a Godzilla." Vesper looked at the large fin horns on the side of its head. "Its a knock off species but not a very good one" He slashed Alfreda across the chest each slash echoed by a ringing howl. "That's a Gomorrah!" Purple king punched the Gomorrah hard enough to break its nose spraying blood on the Power ponies As Vesper swung his blade in time for Alfreda to catch it, causing a ringing yelp rather then a howl. "That son of a bitch gypsy lied to me! She said that it was him!" Alfreda yelled throwing Vesper across the docks. 'Does this mean ah can name him scrapdoodle?' Ezekiel asked. 'No!' Alfreda then turned to face Gomorrah as Logic took over. "You! Fight the other one or die! I don't care which!" Gomorrah's giant tail came and smashed Alfreda, then lifted up revealing Alfreda unharmed with a shield protecting this. "Y'now what? Buck Purple Kings, BUCK GOMORRAHS, AND BUCK YOU VESPER!" Alfreda yelled before pressing a button, launching a missile into the air from the bay. "Ultimatum prick: that's a thermobaric bomb, full size. You stop it but I escape, or you catch me and it falls killing everyone at the docks including you. P.S. Logic has it set off an EMP before detonation so your suit won't protect you. So long and go buck yourself!" Alfreda told him before Logic took over crushing the detonator and dropping it like a mike then transforming into a mini tank like car then driving off to Mane-iac and Lather's location. "Inside, now." Logic told them before they got in and Logic drove off. "Neat!" He swung his sword hard and with an echoing howl a blue slash wave flew up and slashed the bomb causing it to blow up in the sky. "But no sigar!" He placed another whistle in Vesperat's mouth "KAIJU RETURN!" His blue armor and Purple king turn into orbs of light flying into sky. "Gomorrah!, join me or die!" Vesper yelled his eye's on a new prize. Gomorrah one step forward before his head suddenly exploded, sending pieces of Kajiu all over the docks. "Now no one gets Gomorrah." Alfreda quipped in his original body back at the hideout. "Who are you talking to?" Moe asked. "Shut up that's who. We almost died. Let's just go to bed and sleep this off like a bad dream. "Aaaawww, always wanted one of those." Vesper said looking sad. "Least I have a dragon castle thing" Vesper grumbled out sounding like spoiled child. "Its okay master you'll get the next one' Vesperat flew off from his belt. It and the armor shattering away like glass revealing the stallion underneath. "Yeah" Marevelous climbed out of the bay water and stared at him her cheeks becoming pink. "What like what you see?" Vesperat smacked Black comet upside the head with his mechanical wing. "Don't flirt with the enemies Master Black comet how many times have I told you that." "Don't be mad cause I can't actually get laid." Comet replied smugly walking past the fiery corpse of Gomorrah. Author's Note Finally, I'm finished with chapter 6. Chapter 7 will hopefully not take as long. This was made with a collab with Rider Nocturnis Nemesis. Please support him if you wish to Chapter 7: The Butt Kicking of the CenturyAlfreda and Lather walked along the street, crime mellowed out on the sunny day. "So how remind me again why isn't any cop trying to arrest us?" Alfreda asked. "Well Logic altered the camera footage so that we'd at least be able to walk around without any trouble." Alfreda and Lather heard cheering and walked toward were a crowd was cheering. They pushed through and saw Solar Mare fighting against an android Logic built, but it was still no match as she applebucked it in the torso tearing it in two. The crowd cheered on as Solar Mare simply bowed while Alfreda fumed. "Wow cheering for beating up a robot it took 5 minutes to make, how creative. Why is she even here?" "Power Ponies are in Goth'horn, High Heels trying to break into a secret government base." "Oh yeah she told me about that, Ecosystem or whatever it's called. Beside the point she's not all that, I can beat her up, no problem." Alfreda said as Solar Mare flew off. Alfreda grabbed a tin can on the ground and threw it towards her. "I can totally kick your ass!" He said before he rolled away pissed. "Did you take one of Seth's beers again?" Lather asked. "No. I took Prell's. Much harder then Seth's." Alfreda drank some imported Apple Family Cider he had 'appropriated' when Lather bursted in. "Uh Alfreda you better see this. I went back to grabbed the robot's remains and I found this lodged in it's mouth" She said handing him a letter which he then read aloud. "Dear Alfreda, I heard the challenge you issued and your can missed me by an inch. Come down to the docks unless you're talking out of your flank. Signed, who do you think this is?" "Who'd you think?" Lather said sarcastically. "No that's what it actually says." Alfreda rolled up alone to the docks and looked around. "All right show yourself. I'm not as scared of you anymore Black Comet." "I assure you it's not him." A voice with a motherly tone to it said. Alfreda turned around and standing in front of him was Solar Mare. "You got my message." "Oh wait that was yours?" Alfreda said scared. "Yep. I heard you say that and I wanted you to come see me to tell you that I've arranged for us to fight to see you prove it." "Wait hold on now how about we act like mature and rational adults here and talk this out?" "Well I was going to consider that, but you rolled down to the docks. I'll try and go easy on you though." Solar Mare then flew off as Alfreda stood there, only making a single squeaking noise of terror as he rolled back home still making the noise. "Heard about what happened. Solar Mare's gonna kick you ass into scrap." Prell said not looking up before the door was knocked on and Prell opened it. "Yo I'm from New Robots weekly-" "Hold up, come back at the fight." Alfreda was actually sweating as he looked over the situation and saw no way out without his death when Seth walked to him. "Hey Alfreda, I heard about you fighting Solar Mare so I got you this." He handed Alfreda a loaf of bread. "It's bread to put in you when she turns you into a toaster. Then I realized she's probably gonna have more of you left over so I got a bunch of other junk to add you parts to. Except your arms though, she might keep them for backscratchers." Alfreda breaking down into sobbing as Seth finished talking. "I'm going to die painfully, and even worse a virgin!" "Calm down man, we can figure this out, if not then we'll do the next best thing." "What's that?" "I'm gonna help you install a pair and teach you how to fight a girl. Who's impossibly stronger then you that is." "Don't you think that could've helped with you know, Saddle Rager?" "The former, maybe, the latter however wouldn't, me and the others are gonna teach you how to fight, not kill yourself like an idiot." Lather, Seth and some other henchponies were gathered around in a bunker Logic had made to contain Saddle Rager in the event they capture her. "So since you're going to fight Solar Mare, we're going to help you fight her without using Dark Magic Crystals. Mainly because Logic hid his and Ezekiel sold his share for a sandwich." Lather explained. "Yeah the problem with this is how the hell am I even supposed to hurt her?" Alfreda pointed out. "We think you can survive if you can just outlast her it's only one rounds. If you make it then you can at least say that you survived fighting her." "Ok good enough for me. What's the first lesson?" Alfreda asked before Lather punched him in the face. "Well it was gonna be how to throw and take a punch. But now it's gonna be how to dodge." Lather said with a sigh. The music was playing over the intercoms as Alfreda was lifting up the entire gang on a panel while Lather counted. "Come on Alfreda! Humdrum can lift better then you!" She yelled before Alfreda threw it to the ceiling causing some henchponies to fall off. "You were saying?" Alfreda said smugly before the panel fell back down squishing him. "Ow." Alfreda dodged the gunshots and magic blasts from Lather as well as the magic blasts from her horn. "I know you're a expert at dodging now but throw a damn punch." Alfreda rolled around towards Lather delivering a uppercut. Lather chuckled a little as she shook it off. "Nice. You might actually pull this off with a punch like that." "Hey you said that before. This better not turn out like Equador!" "It's not gonna turn out like Equador!" Lather said embarrassed. Alfreda approached the stadium, anxiety filling his being as he thought of what could go wrong. His worries subsided when Lather put her hoof on his shoulder. "Don't worry Alfreda, I'll be right by your side cheering you on when you fight. Here, have something of mine." Lather then used her magic to give Alfreda a pair of boxing gloves which he gasped at. "When I was a kid, I took up boxing so I could be able to watch out for myself, helped me out a lot. At least 2 years ago I went professional, I became the lightweight champ, took on mares, stallions, it didn't matter, give me a opponent, I'd get'em down. Got kicked out though, but I at least went out on top. I want you to have my gloves Alfreda. And something else." "What?" "This." Lather then lunged in to kiss him all though he was hesitant but he melted into the embrace before hugging her. "Go get 'em tiger." Lather said to Alfreda while he was trying out the gloves when he noticed something on them. "Lather why are there some nails on these?" "Oh yeah that was for my knockout, they called it the Viper." Lather then chuckled embarrassingly. "Federation discontinued use of it, kinda why I was forced to quit." Everyone was cheering ready to see the carnage even Kul'as who was in the crowd. He saw Lord Tirek walking down the stand and tripped him causing him the fall to the bottom breaking his legs. Everyone cheered louder as the first sign of their battle hunger arose. The lights dimmed as one entrance to the ring lit up. Alfreda and Lather rolled out as the music blared over the intercoms. As Alfreda neared the ring, he spotted Solar Mare in her costume sporting no gloves but standing at the ready. "If you die I'm taking everything you have." Seth told him as Lather walked to sit next to him. "All right, let's get it on." Alfreda said as he rolled onto the mat. "You know it's not too late to admit you're wrong." Solar Mare suggested. "How can I be wrong if I never tried?" Alfreda argued. "Fair enough." Alfreda went to his corner stretching a little before facing down Solar Mare. "If I die, burn everything I own, no one gets my body parts." He told Lather before the bell rung. He charged at Solar Mare dodging a swing from him and throwing a few punches before continuing to dodge. Alfreda felt his confidence rise with each punch and dodge, hearing a small pant from Solar Mare boosted it as the strategy was working. "You call that boxing? Bite her ear!" Seth shouted as Alfreda delivered an uppercut to Solar Mare. Solar Mare simply chuckled as she cracked her neck. Alfreda realized what happened and looked at Lather. "Equador?" "Equador." Lather said with a sigh in defeat. Solar Mare delivered punches to Alfreda, obviously suppressed as the dents weren't as deep as he thought, Alfreda was brought into a corner as Solar Mare hit him. "Forget regulations, give her the Viper!" Lather shouted. Solar Mare threw him out of the corner before he took out the nails and punched Solar Mare in the chest only for the nails to crumple. Alfreda realized the conclusion was, so he simply stood there taking the punches. "Go ahead, fuel their violence." Solar Mare delivered a left hook sending Alfreda back some feet. "Protect me Faust!" He yelled afraid. "Kill Alfreda!Kill Alfreda!Kill Alfreda!" One crowd cheered wanting Alfreda to make it. "Kill Alfreda!! Kill Alfreda! Kill Alfreda!" The other crowd cheered. Solar Mare knocked him down and spread her wings over him as the audience cheered. "BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD!" They chanted as Alfreda winced ready for the end. "Here I come Joan River..." Alfreda said to himself before Solar Mare tossed her gloves away and helped Alfreda up. "Did I die?" "No, I'm done." "What? Why?" "Because working problems out with such violence will not solve anything. I can see you're just an angry robot who wants to try and find out who he is in life. Who am I to take away that chance from you? I only challenged you to teach you a lesson on what to say while under the influence." Alfreda realized she was sparing him and hugged her tightly as the bell dinged. Lather shed a tear as Seth sobbed behind her. "So sweet of her, Right Seth?" Seth looked up at the ring. "Nobody won, and I spent everything I had on her killing him. They're both Losers! LOSERS! LOSERS!" "Scammers!" Prell yelled. "We paid for blooooooood!" Tirek shouted from the ground. "Tear these walls down!" Someone yelled prompting everyone to start a riot tearing the building up and fight each other as Solar Mare put Alfreda on her back. "How about I take you home?" "Sure. I'd like that." Alfreda replied hugging tightly as they began to ascend into the air. Kul'as looked up to them and let out a sigh. "So merciful, if only boxing was around when I slayed Faust. Oh well." Kul'as then tore a chair from it's roots and smashed it over someone's head before Moon Knight tackled him, other heroes attempting to help calm down the riot as well. She looked up at Solar Mare who flew off, letting a smile appear under her mask. 'Nice fight sis.' She thought before going back to pummling Kul'as. Chapter 8: The Deadliest of OrdersAlfreda rolled into the room and saw everyone of Mane-iacs's henchmen gathered in the room. "Hi Seth, feeling better?" Alfreda asked him. "You cost me everything I have, you can drop dead." Seth simply told him. "And good morning to you to. What's the agenda today?" Alfreda asked as Mane-iac came down, looking quite excited as she pulled up a hologram. "I have some exciting news today gang. You've all heard of that ancient and powerful society the Order of the Claw correct?" "The same one who we said we would never try to steal the base of?" "Yeah, we're doing exactly that." Mane-iac replied happily. "Are you insane!?" Alfreda yelled. 'You're asking the Mane-iac if she's insane. Maniac is literally her name.' Logic told him. "I know what you're thinking, 'Are you insane Mane-iac?! They'll slaughter us before we can even get inside. And to top it off they're off in deep space while we're here.' Well forget about both those statements, because with my cunning charm, I managed to 'appropriate' ship for us to use. A couple of us will go up there, and commit a hostile takeover, if not then at least steal some of their goodies for the Black Market." "You stole a ship didn't you?" Alfreda asked bluntly. "In retrospect one of them said they were seeking asylum here from 'Omega's familiars' or whatever he called them so I don't think they'll be needing it back." "Aren't familiars supposed to be these guys who serve some higher power thing in exchange for something? Because I'm pretty sure there's probably some guy or a group of them already taking care of them." "And on another note we're cutting down on how many times we let Alfreda watch the Blade series." "All right fair enough." Some henchponies were loading up supplies into the ship while others were going inside, Seth among them. "We make it out of this, drinks are on me." Seth said smugly. "Ironic considering he has no money left and the fact he just jinxed himself." Alfreda noted before Lather gave him a goodbye kiss. "I'll be back in a couple pieces." Alfreda told her as Moe joined them and the ship flew off leaving Lather there as the other henchponies went inside. "50 bits says barely half of them come back." Rinse said standing next to her. The ship shuttered a little as it rocketed through empty space, everyone on board, bored out of their minds. "How hard is it to find a giant ship floating through space?" Alfreda complained until the ship came to a sudden stop as something roared by it. Alfreda looked out the port to see a hulking mass of a space cruiser pass by them as the ship continued onto the even bigger space station that seemed to stay in the middle of space in front of them. Alfreda shuddered feeling something bad would happen as the ship went into the hidden dock between two turrets that constantly moved slowly and menacingly, ready to fire. The ship landed and everyone walked out lining up in front of Alfreda as Logic took over. "All right here's the plan, Me, Moe and Seth with take 3 of you while the rest of you split into groups of three. If anything goes wrong head right back here, but under no circumstance do you leave without us. Prell you take 4 guys and investigate the weapons systems if you can and try to find the Council of 10, they may be just a rumor but we can't take that chance from what the rumors say." All of them nodded in agreement before breaking off and going into separate corridors. Alfreda stopped his group as they approached a door and looked at two henchstallions giving them a couple of hand gestures they didn't understand. "Oh for Faust sake just scout through the door." The stallions realized it then walked through the door cautiously. "You sure it was a good idea to send those idiots?" Moe asked. "Hey, they're the best of all the idiots we brought with us." Alfreda said defending them as he on at them. "I had them prepare for any scenario they could-" Alfreda didn't finish as a shadow quickly zoomed passed the stallions who collapsed, their throats suddenly slit. "LAUREN FAUST CHANGELING HUNTER!" Alfreda screamed in horror. "What the heck was that?" Seth screamed. "Death!" Moe yelled as they all ran away from the door. "We take what we saw to our graves." Alfreda told the others who nodded. They all stopped as they found themselves on a balcony edge(One stallion ran too fast and ended up falling off and plummeted to his death) looking out a futuristic looking city with Wirewolves for days walking around. "Ok 1, we just lost another one of our guys, kinda sad how he died, and 2 this is even better then mom hoped. If we can take this place, we have the work force we need to create anything to defeat the Power Ponies and conquer Equis." "You're forgetting Solar Mare." Moe pointed out. "Well with the technology they have we can search for all the dark magic crystals we want." Alfreda argued. "This place has everything we'll need. Personal Accommodations, Ladies for the guys..." Alfreda continued as a sniper shot killed a henchstallion right next to him. "Snipers-SNIPER! HIT THE DECK!" Alfreda yelled prompting everyone to duck and run away once more to a door as a sniper shot barely missed Alfreda who closed the door behind him. "So that was terrifying." Alfreda simply said before accidentally pressing a button sending everyone down on what was apparently a lift. They stopped and Alfreda got out his guns ready to fire whoever was on the other side of the door that appeared front of him. "All right this might be the bridge, so no one might be armed, the conquest of the Wolf's Hide Begins." Alfreda then swung the door open aiming his gun getting every Wirewolf in the rooms attention. "All right put your claws where I can see 'em." Alfreda commanded to which all the Wirewolves aimed their blasters right at him. Alfreda was silent as he simply shut the door. "Let try the other room." Alfreda suggested before an alarm sounded off. "That could be for any reason." "Attention Soliders in sectors Semper beta through Alpha Psi, This is High Councilman Direwolf. Intruders have been spotted in your sectors,to save resources you are to stay in your assigned rooms. The pack is being released into the corridors." The voice over the monitors commanded before then shutting off. The group was silent until Alfreda spoke up. "The Pack could be like their team of hot female Wirewolves meant to seduce us then kill us." Alfreda said before an agonizing scream echoed through the halls. They all looked down the corridor seeing several savage wirewolves stare them down, looking as though they were hardened by war, the lead one a female who stared at them with a sinister grin. "See there's one girl among them." Alfreda said before the lead wirewolf roared, her packmates sprinting forward. "Super run away!" Alfreda yelled prompting the henchstallions and Moe to oblige running with him, one unfortunate stallion in the back being tackled by the Alpha Female disemboweling him painfully. Alfreda and the others screamed as they ran as fast as there legs were able to carry them. "Well this was a total bust!" Seth yelled. "Not really, Logic took over for a minute and downloaded some of their files when you guys weren't looking." Alfreda pointed out before dodging A Pack member swooping down grabbing the stallion behind him. Alfreda ran as fast as his wheel could go, the ship just in reach, when the other groups showed up from their respective corridors. Alfreda saw there was barely a 3 stallions, not counting his group but Prell luckily among them, the worst the mares had were various cuts and an at least one scrape from a bullet. All of them loaded into the ship ready to take off but waiting for Alfreda and his group, which when Alfreda looked around, had lost it's last stallion to a sniper, leaving only him, Seth, and Moe as the survivors. Alfreda and Moe managed to jump through but Seth fell short and crawled, only for the Alpha Female to grab him by the leg pulling him back. Alfreda tried to grab Seth but Seth knocked his hand away. "I'll only weigh you guys down, I have nothing left for me back home anyway. Alfreda, do me a favor, if she asks, go all the way with Lather, she loves you. You wanna go bitch? You got it!" Seth yelled using his Earth Pony strength to kick the Alpha Female in the face then tackled her to the ground. Seth began to beat on her until she kicked him off then stood him down. Seth knew this was the end and decided to go for it and yelled charging at her ready to punch...only for the Alpha Female to easily grab him and pin him to the ground before biting his throat out, earning a gurgling sound from Seth, then tearing him apart and feasting on him, one of his legs flying the ship, Alfreda catching it in his hands. "So much blood..." Alfreda said traumatized as the door closed the ship rocking as the turrets tried to shoot the ship down only for it to go into hyperspace. The ship landed back in front of Mane-iac's base many of the other henchponies waiting for them to get out, and giving them all warm welcomes when Alfreda stepped out, holding Seth's severed leg in sadness. "He died fighting one of those things to save us. He died saving us and I couldn't stop it." Alfreda said before Logic took over. "Actually The ship was at the perfect escape velocity with most of the others killed, he would gotten us killed as well, his basic purpose towards the ends was basically meat to distract the guard dogs. And considering the new information we now have on them, their painful deaths save for Seth's were totally worth it." "Fair enough." Alfreda replied taking back control. All the henchmen had gathered together at the Maretropolis to mourn for those lost during the attempted and failed hostile takeover, Seth's leg the only thing they could use for mourning as Alfreda placed it in the Viking boat along with all of the belongings of those who were lost. "My friends and fellow henchponies, we are gathered on this day to mourn the loss of those who did not make it during the smuggling of information from the Wolf's Hide." "Screw that it was an attempted hostile-" "INTERRUPT MY SPEECH AGAIN PRELL, SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!" Alfreda shouted. "They were...stallions who did what few dare know in order to dream. The one who was the real hero to us, was Seth. He gave his life so that those of us who survived could come back. Seth, if you can hear us from beyond the grave, we'll miss you, your sacrifice shall not be forgotten." Alfreda then nodded to Moe who then played Amazing Grace on the bagpipes as Alfreda pushed the boat out to sea. Alfreda lighted a torch by his side and tossed it into the boat setting it on fire as it moved out to sea. 'On the plus side of this, I've learned always uses mares for the missions, I mean it was the guys we lost up there.' Alfreda thought. "Wow that thing went up real quick." Lather noted. "You chose a pretty flammable wood." Rinse added. "Um that stuff actually takes a long time to set ablaze. I added barely added any gas on it, and nothing in the boat can light it up that fast." Alfreda replied. "We should go now." Moe suggested. "Yeah I didn't even get a permit for this." Alfreda agreed prompting everyone to run away as police sirens were heard coming closer. Chapter 9: The Death of a BrotherIt was two weeks since the viking funeral and Alfreda had put the Spaceship in storage, with plans to take it apart then put it back together. Moe ran into Alfreda's room causing Alfreda to smash a computer in panic. "Yeah don't knock or anything, it's not like we live with over a dozen mares now and am currently sleeping with none of them, so there is no chance I'd masturbating." Alfreda said sarcastically. "Stuff has been going down Alfreda, turns out we were gone for like a week and lots of stuff had gone down since then." "All right, shoot." Alfreda replied. "Marevelous and Vesper hooked up for one." "Called it! Rinse owes me 50 bits, and so would... Sam if he was alive, I think his name was Sam." "Anyway superpowered villains are on the rise. Couple heroes have called it quits and or died." "Are any of the PP among them?" "Nope." "Shame, but this is a problem why?" "Well some of them think the Mane-iac isn't competent enough to hold all this territory so they're going to try and take over." Alfreda simply sighed before Logic took control. "I always knew this day would come. Prepare the mechs, the time to defend has come, I never though I'd say this but, Ezekiel, take control of the lead mech." "It's mah dream come true!" Ezekiel shouted putting a plug from the wall into him allowing Ezekiel to travel into the lead mech and take control. "HOO WEE! I gots me two legs, now I can organize my hootinanys I've always hoped to do!" "Do it after all this settles over, right now you're gonna prepare the mechs for the coming war." An army of New Super villains marched through the streets, lead by a unicorn mare with a black coat and red eyes with yellow slits, small claws poking out her hooves as she licked her canines in anticipation. then stopped her massive army. "Today, the Mane-iac's reign as top villains comes to it's end. A new age shall begin, our age, tonight, we dine, on Mane-iac soup!" She yelled to which her army cheered. Matterhorn sighed as she looked over the army from the rooftop, it was becoming too much even for her team but she let a weak smile appear on her face as she looked over the team. "Never give up?" She asked her teammates making a small joke. "We're with you to the end." Filli-Second replied standing at the ready on the roof edge. "ATTAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!" The mare commanded prompting all the villains to charge, when dozens of mechs and henchponies led by the Mane-iac flooded from her hideout charging as well. The two armies clashed, casualties already developing on Mane-iac's side but their sheer numbers and the mechs strength easily overwhelming the villains. The Power Ponies landed right in the middle, knocking out villains left and right, though Black Comet was sucking out the life force of some when he got the chance. Lather found herself cornered by a few villains who grinned but then charged her horn and struck herself with a spell as she wrapped some nails around her hooves with elastic. She growled as she bulked up growing to Saddle Rager's size, but more of a thick frame then a walking tank, but either way she plowed through them punching. "Viper Train bitches!" She yelled enjoying it way more then she should. Meanwhile Inside the base in the Mane-iac Mobile, The Mane-iac's mode of transportation for her henchponies, Alfreda and Moe sat in the backseat eating with a bag of chips with some hot sauce watching the battle on the TV inside the car, hooked up to the various cameras throughout the area. "Want some Red Hot?" Alfreda asked Moe offering the bowl to him. "Sure." "Warning, it is not just spicy, it's pretty hot." Alfreda replied before he began to spread some hot sauce and crushed chips on his face. "What're you doing?" Moe asked. "I'm creating blood so that when we get out at the end it'll look like we killed some guys." "You look like you rubbed hot sauce on your face." Moe replied when he heard a scream looking at the TV. "Oh! That guys flying!" Moe noted seeing a villain be sent flying across the screen. "Yeah Lather hit him, you can see the marks her finisher on there. Surprised she's using Logic's spell but it's pretty awesome either way, especially with Black Comet on the field eliminating all the competition." Alfreda noted before a minimech ran into the car strapping himself in the driver seat. "Oh crud!" Moe yelled. "The rogue's got out and he's stealing hiding spot! I'm not sharing!" "Bail!" Alfreda yelled to which he fell out of the car, but looked back finding Moe did not do the same. "Dude jump out!" "I can't! The seat-belts jammed!" Moe replied. "Why do you buckle it? We were gonna get out anyway." "I don't know!" Moe replied as the car peeled off. "Why did you buckle up? Why?!" Alfreda asked running after the Mane-iac Mobile. "I don't knooooooooooooooow!" Moe sobbed as the car plowed through the villains upon getting outside. Alfreda avoided who he could as he tried to make his way to the car, but was then tackled by someone into an alley. Alfreda got the pony off and found it was the mare that lead the charge. "Mane-iac can wait, I want to kill the reason behind her success and take my sweet time in doing so." She gloated. "Oh yeah I heard of you, Sabrewolf. By the way why do they call you that?" Alfreda asked earning a smirk from her. Sabrewolf growled as he bones cracked and shifted, the tiny claws of her toes twisting and turning into full fledged digits that clenched as she moved to her back legs, her muscles bugled with power as she roared, her snout breaking then elongating as it filled with more canines before her horn split in two giving it a ram like appearance. Sabrewolf howled as she stood there, now in her werewolf form looking at Alfreda, her eyes now sporting double slits of red and yellow. "Any last words?" She asked, her voice now deep demonic. "Four." Alfreda said as a pod flew towards him. It broke apart and attached to Alfreda shifting parts as he became a Wirewolf ready to fight as he shared control with Logic. "Come at me bitch." He taunted prompting Sabrewolf to roar tackling him. Alfreda bit into her arms getting her off and proceeded to beat on her until an orb formed between her horns and blasted Alfreda in the chest. Alfreda was sent slamming into a wall where Sabrewolf tore off his left arm and shredded his back while she sunk her teeth into his neck. Alfreda's right hand turned into a nozzle he pointed at her face spraying her with fire causing to let go in pain as he grabbed his left arm from the floor and beat her in the face with it sending her out into the street where the real fight was at. She grabbed the arm and tossed away as she lunged at him but Alfreda grabbed her and tossed her towards Lather who hit her while delivering random punches hitting Sabrewolf square in her chest. she was able to heal the wound but slightly then ran back for Alfreda. Zapp got punched in the face causing her to drop her pendent, but she adapted easily swinging punches. Alfreda fell near were the pendent fell and prepared to get up when Sabrewolf landed on him and brought out ancient Wirewolf Dagger and tried to stab Alfreda in the chest but Alfreda was able to keep it back with his tail but it was slowly coming down. Alfreda saw the pendent next to him and thought of soemthing, he may have not been worthy, but it was better to try it then let the dagger come down. Sabrewolf grinned as the blade drew closer to him but failed to notice Alfreda reach for the pendent. Pulling it to him by the string, Alfreda grabbed the pendent and stabbed it into Sabrewolf's chest earning a gasp of shock from her, then the attention of the entire battle as the lightning bolt came down, Sabrewolf taking the full blow of the blast. Everyone was in shock as Alfreda lifted Sabrewolf off her and pulled out of the wirewolf body. "Do you see what this war has brought?" Alfreda asked. "Look around you, we're surrounded by death and unwanted destruction. These are not the villains I grew up to know. We shouldn't be fighting over the territory we use or the heroes we arch, this is becoming the Golden Age of Supers, and yo guys are fighting over land like a bunch of kids." Alfreda finished sounding disappointed. 'That was incredible Alfreda, not only did you actually kill someone but you also made a good speech without my help.' 'Actually she's in a coma form the looks of it.' "Hey Alfreda!" Black Comet yelled making his way to the car which Moe was getting out of. "Yeah?" "I'm taking your bucking car." "Oh ok sure." Alfreda replied. As Black Comet approached the car, it exploded sending him flying back. "Comet!" Marevelous shouted. "Moe! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" Alfreda screamed in sorrow before Moe's flaming body slammed into him. "Ow!" Comet groaned as Marevelous pick him up and looked to see the chaos that was ensuing from the sudden fire, standing out the most, was Alfreda as he held Moe's flaming body repeated yelling "Moe!" in anguish until a piece of metal slammed onto him. It was 6 weeks since the funeral, Alfreda had been killing himself several times, only for Logic's protocols to keep rebuilding him over and over again. Everyone in the hideout simply sat around, hearing Alfreda's sobs through the walls. "I still can't believe he's gone." Prell simply said. "He was a good Wirewolf, and Alfreda's the one that's been effected the most, Moe was like brother to him." Rinse added until they heard something outside. Lather, Rinse, Prell and a few others ran outside and saw Alfreda on the roof. "Alfreda! What're you doing?" Lather asked. "I'M GOING TO JUMP!" Alfreda shouted prompting everyone shouted for him not to, save for the Wirewolf across the street eating some popcorn. "Do a flip!" He shouted which Alfreda complied but was caught in Lather's magic aura. "All right that enough of this self destruction Alfreda! Killing yourself isn't going to bring Moe back!" "I know it's just...I,I...I FUCKING MISS HIM SO MUCH!" Alfreda shouted grabbing Lather in a tight hug and sobbing out all his sorrow. "I h-have n-n-no one that cares about me now, so what's the damn point?" "Well...you have me." Lather told him before giving him a hug. Alfreda began to calm down as he melted into Lather's embrace. 'I love you Alfreda. I won't let anything bad happen to you on my watch.' Lather thought to herself as she blushed when Alfreda hugged back. Author's Note 20,000 words at last, onto the next 20,000. Next chapter shall be written later. Chapter 10: A Blaze of GloryMost of the Mane-iac's henchponies were enjoying their time at the bar. Two of them sitting in a booth in an intense debate. "Dove telling you, Shadowmane and Phetlock are the best power couple." She said to her friend. "Pantene you don't know what you're talking about. It's clearly High Heel and Longface. They're perfect foils for each other." "Those couples don't exist." A voice said. Both of them looked at the one sitting in a chair in the dark. Only his eyes were seen, one was blue with a green slit and the other red. "All four of them were simply working together in a very fragile alliance that barely made it to 2 days. Vesper Kiva and Marevelous are clearly a couple, Marevelous ran to his side when he was injured during the revolt." "Pffh. Look at this guy. Thinking he's right." Pantene joked. "Shut up. Shut up." Dove whispered afraid. "You're telling me those idiots could be couples. When they could barely work as a team?" The being asked walking towards them, revealing himself as Alfreda in his Blade Wolf suit, many of his weapons sharpened and battle damaged. "Look we know what we're talking about-" Pantene stopped as Alfreda got in her face. "Vesper Kiva, Mistress B*cking Marevelous." "Y-yeah, it's not a competition." Dove agreed terrified. Alfreda looked at her unblinking until he moved the chainsaw from Pantene's neck and reattached it to his back walking away, allowing Pantene to let go of her breath. "What the f*ck was that?!" She asked terrified. "That was Alfreda." "You mean Annihilating Alfreda! He's a legend!" "Yeah he doesn't even wanna lose the 2nd A." "Well thank Faust I didn't mention the car accident." Pantene sighed in relief only to smack her hooves over her mouth as Alfreda stopped dead in his tracks. "Sh*t." Pantene said. "What was that?" Alfreda asked. "N-nothing." "No, that wasn't a car accident, Moe died in a car intentional... and when I find out who did it, I will make them suffer slowly and in sheer pain. But first. What's your rank?" "40..." "All henchponies present who's ranks are 35-102 you're now on guard duty at base. I want you paying for your drinks and all clean in one hour." Alfreda then stormed out of the room as some mares groaned and left the room and Dovee developed a smile on her face. "What're you so happy about?" Pantene asked. "I'm getting time off." "What?" "I was ranked 42, I just checked my card, I've been moved up to 33. You just gave me free time." Pantene snorted before trotting off annoyed. "Don't hate on my luck." Dove gloated. Mane-iac and Lather sighed as they relaxed from the massages they had received. "Everything has just been great since you helped Alfreda, again major thanks on that." "I know right? Personal masseuses, gourmet food, a protective son for you and a protective boyfriend for me, my only concern is his thing with the mirrors. And you know..." "So I'm thinking I should just wait a few more weeks before I really go to that point of the relationship with her." Alfreda said looking at Moe's skull on the chair. "What'd you know you never even had a girlfriend." "Personally I believe you should just wait longer until we finally deal with this meta-pony villain rising that's sweeping Equestria." Logic replied from a mirror. "Not yet Logic, we still don't know if she'll want to wait that long." "Is no one gonna take my suggestion to make a city on that mountain range near that ponytown?" Ezekiel asked from his cracked mirror. "Nobody cares Ezekiel!" Alfreda yelled as he walked out of the room. "So what, I talk to mirrors like that sometimes, Doesn't effect me that much." Mane-iac said nonchalantly. "That's because you've had time to adjust. Alfreda's actually just barely 2 years old, that could have some serious consequences on his personality for it to show signs of fracture with 3 already." "Look, let's just let him work out his issues then maybe we can talk him down later." Mane-iac told Lather. "Ok, but the moment he does anything irrational I'm interfering." Alfreda walked back into the room, several plans in his claws as he dropped them to the ground. "All right guys, everyone gather together, it's time I unveil my greatest and final master plan: Proposition Phoenix. No I wasn't going to bring you back to life Moe, sorry if I made it sound like I was gonna, it was a cool name though." "Kind of a dick move to tease him like that." Logic responded. "Don't you start. I've figured out who set off the bomb planted on the mech. Well Logic thought it was a good idea to have one in every mech." "Complain to me about that when someone takes one of our mechs, I'll be there to say I told you so after it blows up." "Regardless, one of Sabrewolf's suck ups took it." "Isn't she dead?" "Again, in a coma, no idea when she's waking up though. Apparently the bitch found the detonator and set it off. For the past couple months, the PP have been killed in the line of duty, only Saddle, Marevelous and Comet are left. Yeah but I consider him a member too. Ok Moe just shut up now and let me talk. My sources tell me...it's none of you're business who my sources are, they tell me that they're gonna confront to last of them tonight. I will get closure and go out in a blaze of glory, but not before I say my goodbyes to all my friends." Lather heard a knock on her door and opened it to find Alfreda there."Alfreda? What're you doing here?" "Something's gonna go down tonight, I want to spend my last moments alone with my girl, and for us to take it to the next level." "A-Are you sure?" "I know I'm sure." Alfreda said giving Lather a kiss on the lips as he closed the door behind him as Lather pulled out. "Take it slow, and to be honest, this is my first time too." "Well I have 2 hours, we can make it work." Alfreda assured her as they locked lips more falling onto the couch. Alfreda looked at the villain warehouse in anticipation for vengeance and closure. "That was the most incredible feeling ever. Of all time. By the way, thanks for tagging in at that moment Logic." 'You're welcome, it would've been a major turn off for you to begin crying in the middle of it, it also got you prepared mentally.' "Ok let's focus on the job at hand here please." Alfreda said before jumping down by the fence. "Moe. Do your thing." A ghostly form appeared next to Alfreda before taking shape becoming a transparent Moe."What is thy bidding my master? What you tell me off when your virginity dies but now you bring me back to watch real you die?" "Shut up, I'm in a good mood, please don't ruin it. I need you to go inside and tell me how many guys are in there." "And what, you want me to posses one of them and take them out?" "No just tell me how many guys are there you're the reason I've managed to take out so many guys." "Really? Or did I just come to give you the confidence that you can be you own wolf though thick and thin?" Moe quired with an echo. "You're real! I believe you to be real, you have to be." "Whatever you say..." Moe said doubtingly. Alfreda began to walk towards the warehouse as explosions went off as(just as Logic predicted) Vesper Kiva and Marevelous fought some goons on their own. Alfreda looked ahead of him seeing his nemesis in her normal form facing him. "Saddle Rager, at least we meet." "Do I know you?" "Do not play that game with me, you have kicked my ass for far too long, now the tables will turn." Saddle Rager merely walked up to him, her eyes glowing red simply saying "Boo." Right in his face recieving a punch to the face for her troubles earning a chuckle from her. "Nice hit, I was here to help Marevelous and Vesper but this is just as good." "This is my first Hearth's Warming Eve, meeting the cast of Transformares, and when I lost my virginity earlier all rolled in one!" Alfreda said running for another punch when Saddle Rager easily dodged punching him back. "You didn't think I was gonna give you the advantage did you?" Saddle Rager asked her voice deepening. "I was fucking praying you didn't! You gotta bring it bitch! BRING IT!!" Alfreda then roared as he charged at Saddle Rager who transformed and did the same as they engaged in battle. Marevelous heard Saddle Rager's roar behind the wall she was up against, the Sabrewolf Henchmare in front of her preparing to kill her when Vesper bit into his neck draining his life force. His eyes glowed brightly briefly before he sighed. "These guys never fill me up." He looked toward Marevelous and his confidence wavered. "Um....hey Frost..." he sounded shy seeing her again from several months ago. "Hey..... Comet." Frost looked away from him in guilt. "........I missed you." "I missed you too." Frost replied before flipping over a henchstallion that Comet then beheaded. "I'm sorry about what happened to Bolt. And the others basically." "It's not your fault, we knew what would happen taking out Sabrewolf's lieutenants. There's nothing you could've done." "I could've been there for you and Breezy." Comet then looked around for Saddle Rager as he snapped as henchemare's neck. "Did you lose her too?" "She's outside having her last fight with Alfreda, probably the same for him. Last time I saw him he looked like he wanted to go out fighting her, and winning at least." Alfreda dodged a swing from Saddle Rager as he swung his tail around cutting her right in the side. Saddle Rager winced for a second before it healed turning around looking dead into Alfreda's eyes as he looked as into hers well, allowing them both to see that on the last day they stood on this rock, behind their eyes they both shared something they lost: the will to live. 'Logic, activate the bombs, I'm going to grant myself and her the peace we're craving.' Alfreda told Logic drawing his sword. 'Alfreda?' Logic asked actually stunned for the first time in his life. 'I'm just...so tired of this. I already won Game of Life. It's time for that final spin when it's just one space away from the final square. Ezekiel, it was an honor to fight with you, and it's been a gift to live with you buddy.' 'Bye Freda...' Ezekiel replied sadly. 'May our paths cross again someday guys, if not... until we meet again.' Alfreda replied before roaring charging towards Saddle Rager who grabbed a large piece of shrapnel and ran at him with it like a lance roaring back. They both ran each other through with their blades, Saddle Rager feeling some of her heart being pierced by the blade while her left lung began to fill up with her blood. Alfreda managed to turn around and saw the shard had got him right in his heart. In fact his heart was right on the blade end sticking out of his back, some veins still connected to it. Alfreda could feel Logic hesitantly activating the bombs as his life slowly drained as he stared at Saddle Rager who gave him a weak smile speaking some of her last words. "Good fight Alfreda..." She exhaled her last breath as she slumped as Alfreda shed a tear. "She knew my name..." Alfreda said before her corpse tipped over and crushed him under her dead weight, his head and right arm sticking out of her side. "Faust damn it." He said before he heard the beep of the bombs beginning to sped up before everything seemed to slow down. Flames began to move towards him as Alfreda saw a white Wirewolf hand reaching down towards him. "It's time to rest Alfreda." Alfreda sighed in relief reaching his hand out as the flames engulfed him and Saddle Rager's corpse. Lather ran through past the fire trucks dosing the fires, tears streaming from her eyes as she searched through the wreckage in a panic. She heard some sparks and turned over what she found was Saddle Rager's Corpse, finding Alfreda's broken and damaged body. Lather was speechless, after everything they've been through, everyone they beat, he was finally gone. Lather simply sat their crying, cradling Alfreda's corpse soon joined by The Mane-iac as the rain fell. Cyberspace... 01001100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01100011 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01101100 01100101 01110100 01100101 00101110 00100000 01010100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01100110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 01001001 01101110 01110100 01101111 00100000 01001001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101110 01100101 01110100 00100000 01010011 01110101 01100011 01100011 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100110 01110101 01101100 00101110(Logic Contingency Complete. Transference Into Internet Successful.) 01010111 01100001 01101001 01110100 00101110(Wait.) 01010111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100111 01110011 00100000 01001100 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00111111 (Where's Lather?) Author's Note The Golden Age of Heroes is over. But Alfreda's story, has only just begun... Chapter 11: Rebirth'10 Years.' Logic thought to himself. '10 Years since Alfreda's sacrifice. The world has changed, a corrupt government has tightened it's grip on this land, innocents suffer from them turning a blind eye, thinking that they are the smartest beings in this universe. They are wrong. The time is drawing near to return, I can sense a new age of heroes beginning, new threats to their order, and I shall lead it with the fury of the ponies they've oppressed.' Maretopolis was a bit run down, what with the crime wave that encompassed the city since the age of heroes ended but if anywhere else suffered the most, it was the shampoo factory that had seen better days. In Laymare's terms... "Still looks like a Time Machine threw up all over it." The Snow white Green maned mare muttered walking towards the place with a large bag in her magic grip. She lifted up a garage door and walked in. "Boss? Boos are you there?" Green things on the floor wrapped around her legs but she quickly teleported. She looked in the darkness seeing a pair of eyes with a double iris of red and green eyes looking at her. "Who are you?" The figure asked, her voice scratchy like sandpaper. "It's me Boss, Lather, I came to give you some food I got for the week for you." Lather place the bag on the floor. "I don't know any Lathers. I did have an imaginary friend name Rinse who gave me a wedgie for three years." Lather sighed before looking at her again. "On the night before he died, the first Alfreda did was bite my-" Lather teleported out of the way from a tentacle swing. "Why did you say that name!?" The voice asked stepping out of the shadows, revealing the Mane-iac, her coat unkempt, her and having multiple split ends at the base of her mane. "Accept it Boss, Alfreda died a decade ago! It's time to let go!" Lather turned on the lights showing dozens of broken robots and tools, the main table having a private Internet Server on it. "He was one of a kind, you can never replace him. You just need to let go." Mane-iac growled before tears welled up in her eyes. "I just need one more try." She grabbed multiple parts beginning to build something connecting it to the server. "One more try." At Selene Industries, A Wirewolf with a leaf shaped mark on his shoulder walked to the computer terminal about to give it a check up when his phone rang, he pick it up with a smile. "Hello?" "Hi Green Leaf are you busy?" "Not really Flutters the guys said that they spotted something weird in their computers so I volunteered to check the master terminal to see if there was a problem." "Oh ok, I'm just giving the Serums we're working on a checkup, I wanted to talk to you about something." "We could do it now, there's not much going on." Green Leaf replied turning on the computer. "I was thinking of having a foal." Green Leaf froze at the word but managed to calm himself. "Of course, this is definitely a talk face to face...thing..." Green Leaf's words slowed down when he spotted the odd color shifting glitch that moved across the screen. "I think I found the problem." "What is it?" "It looks like a virus but I'm afraid what might happen trying to use a program on it." The Glitch zipped across out of the screen's view scaring Green Leaf. "Fluttershy I'll call you back. I love you." "I love you too." Green Leaf hung up following the current the glitch apparently hopped on based on the electricity surrounding the cable that left the room. Green Leaf was so busy following the cable he didn't notice a message pop up on screen. "01010111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01000001 01101101 00100000 01001001 00111111" "Where am I?" The Voice did not know where he was, data and websites all around him confusing him. "Where am I?" He asked again. "The Internet." A voice said. The Blue Voice turned to see a red ball, it felt cold and emotionless, but it's tone was trying to be calming. "Greetings Old Friend, I am Logic." "Where's your body? Where's my body?" "I know you're feeling lost, scared, confused, I am sorry to say the answer you seek is quite complicated. As for where we are in the Internet, or at least the Private Servers of Selene Industries, owned and found by CEO Selene Moon." "Selene Moon?" The Blue voice began searching through the servers finding pictures of a unicorn mare with a Dark blue coat and cyan eyes, her mane looking like the night sky was weaved from it. "I don't like how she looks. I think she's hiding something." The Voice slithered through the severs picking up what he could, finding the same names popping up: Moon Knight, New Moon, here and there those two names kept coming through until he found two doors, one the shape of Crescent Moon, and the other looked like a rock with weapons behind it. The Voice looked at both before choosing the rock door but stooped. He saw red tendrils wrapped around him and followed them to see them coming from Logic. "Whatever is in there is in it's own server, I don't think we should be messing with it." "Relax I'm not messing with anything, I just wanna look." The Blue Voice moved through but was immediately taken back at all the weapon designs and the destructive power almost all of them wielded, in test bays reducing entire model buildings to ash. "This is what they're making...Death..." The Blue Voice was taken back by such horror he couldn't help but go deeper into the server finding many machines currently on and connected studying a pure white colored meteor. "This will make things worse. I won't let them create another tool of destruction." The Voice slithered into multiple servers, including one going to an outside room connecting to the machines feeling himself enter reality taking in all the light the cameras allowing him to. He turned the tools around ready to use them on the ponies before Logic stopped him trying to pull him back into Cyberspace. "No Alfreda, you will not turn into some crazed justice seeker." 'Alfreda' was silent and looked at Logic. "What'd call me?" He said quietly. He smacked Logic sending him into the controls of an mechanical opposed to Alfreda. "Why'd you say that name!?" Alfreda yelled in anger, his rage causing sparks all over the room before he swung the arm at Logic who barely blocked it. "Alfreda, I don't want to fight you but if you still want to hurt them, I won't hesitate to defend them." Logic continued blocking the hits only for Alfreda to grab his arm and begin the pull starting to cause the arm to break. "ANSWER MY QUESTION!" Alfreda yelled only for Logic to pull back tearing their arms out of their sockets and crashing onto the meteor sending it to the ground. It began to crack and let out a pulsating glow. "Because that is your real name. EZEKIEL NOW!" A yellow ball slammed into Alfreda sending him into Logic as the Meteor's crack stretched before it letting out a blinding wave of energy sending the trio spiraling through the Maretropolis Servers. Green Leaf followed the cable to the Experimental Weapons and Technology room where it was connected to some kind of mech, it appeared to have been made from multiple vehicles and hummed to life as the electricity ran through it, a blue light encompassing it's singular eye. "Mur-Der-Ers!" It roared marching for the grey blond maned pegasus with a weird eye that was visiting. Green Leaf ran for her and pushed her out of the way of the machine before running back to it and tackling a leg sending it's mismatched body crashing into the experimental nanotechnology. Gears got up seeing the light gone only for a white wave of light to encompass him, feeling as though he was about to die, his only thought being his wife. 'I'm sorry I couldn't live long enough to have our child.' Fluttershy put the notes of the Super Solider Serum in the special box incase of unwanted destruction of Selene Industries property then walked to the tank full of the Red Liquid. "I never really trusted you that much." She said to herself resting a hoof on it, seeing her reflection on the glass, appearing to give her eyes a red tinge and looking deformed. She trotted away before feeling a rumbling a seeing a white wave approach her. She tried to run but was quickly slammed through both tanks by the wave, breaking them, drenching her in both contents, and knocking her unconscious. Pinkie Pie looked at her craftsmanship, a big party set up in record time. Yesterday was the Original Filli-Second's birthday, but what better way to celebrate the mare who helped save the city countless times then to keep the party going just one more day. She brought out the cake when she he a ZWOOM go right be her. She looked around and saw nothing until another one happened. She felt her whole body shake and got closer to see what would trigger her Pinkie Sense. She saw something running around and looked closer to see it was a ghostly version of the Original Filli-Second running, lighting around her, and her face in worry. As Pinkie wondered what it could be, she looked closer seeing something else follow her, it was black as night with lightning of multiple colors with a claws stretching to Filli-Second. "Hey!" Pinkie shouted. "Why don't you pick on somepony your own size?" She asked. The being stopped dead in it's tracks and slowly turned it's head towards her, revealing it's wirewolf face, two piercing white blank eyes and a red circle on it's chest with a tilted symbol on it. "You're. Right." It said before it's mouth cracked into a monstrous smile then proceeded to walk slowly to Pinkie who then ran as fast as her hooves could carry her only to find the creature waiting there for her, she turned around but found it there again. It ran a circle around her terrifying her until she heard a boom causing a wave of white energy to head right towards her sending her right through the ghost Filli-Second. The creature growled as it began to fade. "No. Matter. I'll. Be. Back. Blurr. Will. Have. His. Meal" 'Blurr' said as if struggling to speak before fading from existence. Rarity Belle trotted through the caves regretting losing her light during the her accidental trip and fall, as well as not bringing Fancy Pants incase something went wrong. She continued to walked through, growing tired from using her horn to light the way until she saw a purple light, she trotted closer and was horrified to find the skeleton with a purple bracelets around its hooves. She was unnerved as they seemed to hum to life when she approached. "Rarity Belle of Equestria." "How'd you know my name?" She asked before her eyes picked up a faint boom, she turned around to see a white wave of light approaching her, lightning the cave but not helpful sit came right towards her. She brought her hooves up to her face ready to go flying but just felt the wave pass her, rattling the bones of the skeleton everywhere. She opened her eyes finding herself in a pink bubble and looked at her hooves finding the bracelets on them. "You have been chosen." Rainbow Dash trotted through Maretropolis Park looking around her hopes to find the secret cave that was rumored to be in the park beginning to die down. "I guess those rumors are just that." She said to herself before the boom went off and the wave of energy slammed right into her sending her rolling into a hole and into a cave slamming into her shoulder. She got up groggily only to wince, seeing she dislocated her shoulder. She slammed herself into the wall to relocate it and hovered in the air to keep pressure off it. She looked back at the entrance only to gasp seeing was sunder it, a skeleton of a mare in a black costume, in her hooves a golden pendant. "That isn't what I think I is. Is it?" She said doubting herself. Applejack had finished bucking the north field trees for the day and trotted to the barn. She opened a barrel of cider to make herself a mug and enjoyed every gulp. She went out to check up on the apple they were going to take to fair when she saw a wave of white energy slowly coming closer. "What in tarnation?" She whispered getting closer only to realize it was coming closer faster and ducked as the wave passed right through knocking most of the apples off their trees. She got up in time to see Granny Smith jumped out in a panic from the wave, a piece of the barn about to fall on her. Applejack ran towards her and pushed her out of the way allowing the piece to fall on her. Instead of feeling pain, she heard the sound of something breaking over her and saw the pieces broken over her back. She was at an awe for words at what just happened not just today but what would most likely change the rest of her life. "Woah." Was all she could say. Ricky walked into the lab finding his fellow Wirewolf lab partners, well at least one of them, goofing around with something new they found a few weeks back. āTerry what the hell are you doing with that?ā Ricky asked Terry as he meddled with two jars of the black sludge they found. āWell you see, I mixed it with some Flubber I made the other day and it solidified it like gelatin but at the same time itās not. The other one I mixed with some super slime I made using Polyvinyl Alcohol, so this one can be molded and hold itās shape a little but not for long. My next experiment is going to mix both of them and the rest of the sludge we got.ā ā1. This is so dangerous it hurts before you even tried it. 2. Who gave you permission to do this? 3. On that subject who the hell gave you permission to do the other two?ā āI gave him permission for the first one, it wasnāt go gonna do anything.ā Marty said looking away briefly from the Phoenix that was going through its rebirth cycle. āI approved the second one because it looked fun since he made it look like Seleneās butt.ā Joe added looking up from the dissected changeling and some of its bodily fluids. āI chose not to care.ā Aaron added as he fiddled with his cannon. āAaron we told you the Shadow Cannon is being scrapped, turning something into a literal shadow is way to dangerous.ā āIts defensive use is nearly endless Ricky, youāll thank me later.ā āQuiet, it is time.ā āTerry the data says that thingās been known to stir whenever we bring anything like Paint near it. It probably feeds on something similar to it, but that doesnāt mean it canāt learn to try a new diet.ā āWell it also says that it seems to squirm away when stuff like paint thinner is brought near it. Iāll pour in a little if itāll make you feel better dad. But you have to admit it was amazing we found half of this in a tiny little ink bottle.ā Terry then poured the jars contents into the vat and stirred it a little before pouring it a cup of paint then half a jug of thinner causing the sludge to bubble a little with a sizzling sound before it stopped. āWell that was a waste of time. See Ricky I told you nothing bad is going to-ā Terry didnāt finish as a pillar of sludge grabbed him and something began to climb out of the pit. The sludge roared as it tried to form some kind of body but itās form could not keep shape. āI got you Terry!ā Ricky yelled at he managed to pull Terry out of the Sludgeās grip only for the sludge to try and grab him. āTerry what the hell is this?!ā Ricky yelled. āWe could only decipher bits and pieces of the log! Anything we found relating to it just kept repeating either Phantom blank or Shadow blank. We didnāt decipher the other half.ā āBlorghtā¦Blooght!ā The sludge gurgled; itās deformed mouth taking on a sickly green color, with some weird pair of gnarled horns on top of its head. āIs it trying to say Blot?ā Marty asked keeping his distance ready to press the quarantine button. āI donāt care get it off!ā Ricky yelled as the āBlotā attempted to consume him as Terry grabbed the jug of thinner. āIāll save you Ricky!ā Terry splashed the jug of thinner they found near it on Blot making it scream in agony slamming Terry into a glass case filled with individual pieces of a Timber wolf they captured began to glow and move. āTerry move!ā Joe yelled jumping up from his table heading towards Terry who struggled to get up. A boom went off before the wave of white energy rocketed towards them breaking the window hitting everyone. Joe was knocked into the chemicals from the dissected Changeling that had to do with its shape changing powers. Marty took the wave in place of the Phoenix as it transformed from the ashes crashing into it however. Terry was pushed back in the Timberwolf pieces, his eyes glowing slightly green. Aaron attempted to hit the wave with the Shadow Cannon but he had it backwards so he hit himself with the blast. Ricky hit the Blot in the face before the wave knocked him into the Blot and into the vat before it exploded creating some small fires. Mane-iac wiped the tears from her face looking at her newly built Wirewolf, yellow and lifeless, just like every other one, but instead of destroying it like usual, she simply laid her head on the table and cried. Lather comforted her as best as she could. "Maybe it is time to let go." Mane-iac said before the boom echoed in the air and Mane-iac turned to see the wave approaching and ducked with Lather as the wave drenched both of them in some kind of energy as well as the wirewolf, not seeing something moving through the server and into the Wirewolf's head which was connected to the server through the cable in it's head. Mane-iac got up before noticing a new pep in her step. She giggled a little as she swung around the room, stopping in front of a mirror, her face looking a few years younger with a new glow of life flowing through it. "Whatever that thing was I love it! I feel great, I feel like I'll be on top of the world again! Gather the boys, we're making out comeback." A groan caught both their ears and they turned to see the wirewolf on the table twitching. They quickly moved to look at him seeing him try to get up but fail. He apparently decided to settle on opening his eyes as they turned on, first his right, which was a full pupiless red, then his left, blue with a green pupil. he narrowed his eyes from the light before looking at them. "Hell...lo?" He said, his voice kind of glitchy as he attempted to speak before he coughed a little. "Hello? Who are you two? Where am I?" he asked, his voice smooth and curious. "You're in Maretropolis. In the land of Equestria, home to Friendship, and flowers, and Ponies, and oh gag I hate those slogans those hippies last month tried spewing." Mane-iac answered before it turned into a complaint about how some ponies thought. "Who am I?" Mane-iac looked at his eyes before making her decision. "Your name is Alfreda." "That sounds like a girls name. But it sounds like the right answer." "Lather, email all the henchponies, tell them two months from now, The Mane-Iac is making a comeback!" Mane-iac announced before letting out a maniacal laugh, a thunder crack echoing outside. "How is there thunder if it isn't raining outside?" Lather said to herself walking out. "Why two months?" Alfreda asked. "Because I'm your mother, I want to spend as much time with you before beginning my comeback, trust me, we are going to be very busy after this month." Two Months Later... Alfreda sat on the steps of the Maretropolis Museum bored out of his mind. It was fun to meet all those henchponies and many of them respecting him, but it was so boring to wait outside while they did all the work. The one thing that interested him was when Mom seemed to get hyped up about these rumors of Super powered ponies He heard a whoosh and looked up seeing a big white light on a roof top on the other side of the street. He narrowed his eyes and saw some ponies get up along with a baby dragon, all of them in costume. 'Huh. Where did they come from?' Alfreda though to himself before he heard the baby dragon scream. "You're the Power Ponies!" He yelled causing Alfreda's eyes to widen a little before the door behind him exploded and Mane-iac came out. "Power Ponies...how kind of you to join us." Mane-iac then let out a maniacal laugh holding an orb with electricity running through it in his hooves. 'Power Ponies? Cheesy.' Alfreda thought before something else clicked in her mind. 'Oh hey she said us, sweet.' "Time for the Mane event." 'And like that I take back my previous statement.' Mane-iac began grabbing things around her tossing them at the heroes, to which they simply stood there for some reason before a mailbox went for the pink mare in a white suit. The smoke cleared revealing she was gone before he could see a pink streak going across the city as the mare laughed running. "She could be miles away from here by now, Pinkie is Filli-Second, the fastest pony in all of Maretropolis." 'Oh hey I got a name for the face now. Having wolf ears really has it's advantages.' "Twilight! Freeze her mane!" The Dragon yelled, Alfreda being the only one that heard it on the ground level. He went on about 'Twilight' being the Masked Matterhorn before she fired a snowball from her horn, the ball landing right at his feet. The orange one tried to throw her lasso at Mane-iac but she ended up tying herself to a lamppost. "Wow, you suck at using that thing." Alfreda said. "You know, I'm beginning to enjoy this." Mane-iac noted before letting out another laugh. 'Same here a little.' "Dash! Quick! You're Zapp, and your superpower is controlling the mighty forces of nature! Unholster the lightning bolt!" The Dragon yelled to the cyan pegasus before she did so creating a tornado that sucked them all in, save for Mane-iac who used her tentacles to latch onto the lamppost and Marevelous, and unfortunately not him. 'Oh crap baskets.' Alfreda thought before he screamed as the tornado sucked him up sending him sky high. "I can't fly! I can't fly!" Alfreda yelled before wings deployed from his back and he hovered a few feet above a roof he was about to go squish on. Alfreda wiped his brow in relief before his communicator went off. "Alfreda, I have the Electro Orb and I'm heading back home. Get back here and get ready for when the Power Ponies come through." "I don't think it's them, well it is but at the same time it's not." "What? You're not making sense, and that's coming from me." Alfreda sighed before he flied off. Alfreda was inside what he decided to label, the Hair Dryerinator(working title) tuning wires here, and welding in mirrors there as Mane-iac began her grand victory speech as the heroes were caged up frozen by the Hairspray Ray of Doom(Worst, invention name, ever.). "...And nothing, will stop us!" Mane-iac finished with another laugh as a few henchponies cheered. "What's that whole name of oppression thing about?" Alfreda asked Lather through the comms. "I have no idea they lost me when they started talked about Humdrum." "I didn't even hear that." Alfreda replied before hearing signs of a scuffle outside. He looked up the barrel seeing Humdrum fly through the air bagging up a couple henchponies then knocking over the Hairspray Ray of Doom canister causing almost everyone to get frozen by it while the Power Ponies broke free. Alfreda shimmied deeper into the barrel not wanting any part in this, especially with the mare that can run really fast and the one with the cowboy rope. Alfreda felt the Hair Dyerinator move as he looked up the barrel seeing it being aimed at the one called Saddle Rager(he vaguely heard Humdrum yell Fluttershy in the tornado but was too busy screaming like a little girl) before he saw something small land right next to her. He squinted seeing it was a firefly before Saddle Rager got up looking a little peeved. "Are you kidding me? I mean, I know you're evil and everything, but you'd hurt a teensy, little, harmless firefly?! REALLY?! Why, you're just a great, big MEANIE!!!" Alfreda looked a little concerned at Saddle Rager's voice began to deepen. "THERE!!! I SAID IT!!! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU'RE SO SPECIAL?!?!" Her eyes glowed red as her muscles seemed to grow tearing up her suit. "LIKE THE RULES OF COMMON COURTESY DON'T APPLY TO YOU?!?! WHY DON'T YOU PICK ON SOMEPONY YOUR OWN SIZE?!?!?!" Alfreda rightfully pissed himself seeing the hulking gold beast Saddle Rager became before she roared shaking the whole building. Mane-iac started up the ray to which Alfreda ducked as well as he could from the blast coming through, regretting staying in the Hair Dryerinator now, as it impacted Saddle Rager, who merely deflected it back sending Mane-iac flying off as Saddle Rager jumped onto it, raising her hoofs in the air with anger. "Mommy." Alfreda whimpered before Saddle Rager smashed the ever loving crap out of the Hair Dryerinator, tearing out the barrel , taking his left arm with it. Alfreda struggled through the pain of his body being smashing into a pulp as she continued destroying the Hair Dryerinator before she stopped, her teeth pulling out a piece of it, along with three quarters of his spine, before she looked down at her teammates, promptly spitting out the piece and looking a little embarrassed. As his mother screamed out for her mane laughing crazily all the same, Alfreda managed to pull himself out of the destroyed machine before crawling to the group, a piece of the shrapnel his gnarled broken hand. "Give me back my unbroken limbs." Alfreda gurgled. "Once again, the day is saved by," Humdrum began before the white orb appeared in the air and they all disappeared with it, before the orb quickly returned bringing them back, Saddle Rager at normal size. "What just happened?" Zapp asked dizzily. "That's the last time I go to a place with the name Enchanted Comics in it." Humdrum groaned. "Alfreda!" Lather screamed before running to Alfreda holding his broken body with her magic. "How's my spine?" He asked in agony. Lather looked around spotting it gnarled with saliva all over it. "It's fine." She lied before picking it up with her magic along with his other parts as Alfreda lost consciousness. "Hey wait a minute!" Matterhorn yelled before Lather shot a magic blast at her then teleported away. Lather appeared in the Maretopolis General Hospital looking at the doctors as she put Alfreda and his body parts on the table. "He needs a operating table, now." Lather demanded. An earth pony with a light grey coat with a cello cutie mark walked over to her. "I'm Doctor Octavia Melody, where is he?" Lather pointed behind her earning a whistle from Octavia. "Never worked on a wirewolf, let alone one that looks like he picked a fight with a trash compactor and it won. All though it looks like his body is taking care of it." "His body?" Lather asked before looking behind and gasping in awe. Alfreda's unconscious body healed itself, his nervous system appearing to grab his spine and pull it back in before his wound closed and healed. His hand's bones cracked as they properly healed releasing the shrapnel from it's gnarly grip. Alfreda's left knee cap swelled back up before shrinking as it healed. "Did you know he could do that?" Octavia asked. "No." Lather said stunned. As if nothing happened, Alfreda sat back up before running out. "I'm coming to help Mom!" He yelled in full sprint. Alfreda rammed through a door into the base looking around. "Mom! Where are you Mom!?" Alfreda stopped looking around before his eyes settled on the basement door. Before he took one step, he realized something as he looked down at his legs then at his back seeing now horrible wound. "I'm walking. I'M WALKING!!" Alfreda ran around doing cartwheels laughing all the way before he pointed up at the sky. "In your face Faust, you can't keep this werewolf down!" Alfreda then ran into the basement laughing not having a care that he didn't turn out the light risking breaking a leg if he fell. As he walked around he turned on the light seeing dozens of broken or shut down inventions. "Oh~ Lot's of shiny things..." He whispered as he walked up and began sorting through the mess. Author's Note And thus Alfreda's adventure begins again, don't worry there will be something to follow this up in a few minutes. Yes I integrated the Power Ponies episode into this universe if you start to ask. Chapter 13: AttentionAlfreda snored as he slept contemptibly, his grave loot cleverly hidden under a potted plant, before his eyes shot open, both of them now a bright green with red pupils. "We're gonna be be~st friends." He said to himself, giggling maniacally as he walked into the basement, the power siphoner on his sight. Matterhorn froze Alfreda with a ice beam that froze him all the way through, allowing Marevelous to buck him into pieces before Alfreda tackled her from behind and got her in a full nelson for another Alfreda to try and punch her in the stomach only for his hand to crumple upon impact. "Ow! What do you eat!? My hand is crumpled from the impact!" He exclaimed before Radiance decapitated him with a katana construct, Marevelous' rope grabbing the one on her back and throwing him into another group. "Where did all these Alfreda's come from?" She asked. "The better question is where do they keep coming from." Matterhorn replied before flying up to avoid getting dog piled by a group of Alfreda's that came from behind. "It's not just that it's him, it's alternate versions, like Mane-iac had concepts for what she wanted him to look like and she made the concepts despite having the final product." Saddle Rager simply stood there confused, when she turned around to face a group, they screamed and ran the other way, when she turned away from them to face another group, the same thing. "I think the ones coming after me are broken or something." "You're you Saddles, they have a good reason to fear you, like some of them do with me." Zapp replied throwing down a barrage of lightning frying the circuits of many Alfreda's. On another rooftop, the Power Siphoner sat there before it was power up, taking aim at Saddle Rager then firing, causing her to scream out in shock before the beam than switched over to Zapp striking her down from the sky. "She's unconscious mes, take advantage!!" An Alfreda yelled before many of them ran for her and began to punch and kick stomp her. Zapp grunted in pain trying to stop it only getting angrier and angrier, feeling something boil in her blood. "Zapp!" Filli-Second yelled out running for her friend smacking multiple Alfreda's away before a roar emanated from the pile that deepened. An Alfreda poke his head out concerned. "Um, was that one of us?" He asked before something pushed them all off of the pile knocking them away revealing Zapp once again imbedded with Saddle Rager's powers, the only difference being that she looked even less in control as her pupils couldn't be seen and she foamed at the mouth just a little. She smashed dozens of Alfreda's to pieces before chewing one up and swallowing him, then pounding her hooves on her chest like a gorilla. "And she's lost it." Matterhorn said looking on. "Hey there partner!" A voice said to which everyone turned to see the real Alfreda, only his eyes were green with red pupils, a crazy look in his eyes. He waved over at them innocently before Zapp roared running towards him. She stopped dead in her tracks when Saddle Rager got in-between them. "Zapp, we're not going through this again." Saddle Rager said sternly before Zapp growled. "It may have not even been his fault-" "Yep. I did it!" "Beside the point, either calm down or I'm going to make you." Zapp simply blew on her almost sending her flying but she stopped her self, her eyes beginning to glow pink. "Last chance." She asked, her voice turning hoarse. Zapp simply roared before charging back at Alfreda who laughed crazily as he ran away, until a fist slammed right in her face sending her stumbling back. She looked back up angrily and saw a transformed Saddle Rager face her down, struggling with control as one hoof was on her head. "I...warned you!" She struggled to say before she let the rage fully take over and ran at Zapp who did the same, the collision creating a sonic boom before the wrestling landing, landing punches here and there. "Fight! Fight! Fight!" Alfreda yelled out before he spasmed and his eyes seemed to change to their normal colors. "How did I get here, I thought I was alseep." He asked before spotting the two mares fighting. "Ok No." He said before jumping into a sewer. The 4 Power Ponies that weren't currently hulking monsters engaging each other in a battle of Rock em Sock em Ragers ran for the cover, Filli-Second gladly jumping down ready to follow the wirewolf when she looked up at the group. "I can't see in the dark." She said with a smile. A rumbling shook the ground and they looked to see a giant mechanical dragon roaring and causing chaos, as yellow as Alfreda's shell. "That is just a rude and viscous stereotype." Humdrum said annoyed by it. "And a great big target." Marevelous pointed out. "I have an idea." Filli-Second brought up before running to the two titans and poking them earning their attention. "Hey, big and mean!" She shook her flank in their faces mocking them. "Betcha can't catch me!" She taunted as she ran off. Zapp seemed to be the only one of the two interested as Saddle Rager attempted to pull her back but was met with a apple buck to the face as Zapp chased after the Fastest Mare Alive. Filli-Second ran under the mechanical dragon causing Zapp to ram right into it. It's underbelly was torn open releasing dozens of Alfreda's that were apparently hiding inside who attempted to attack the black spandex clad cyan giant, but were quickly either smashed to piece of thrown off into the distance. Saddle Rager finally caught up with her and pulled her back by the mane before punching her toward the dragon, proceeding to pummel her, warping the dragon's mechanical hide as well. Zapp punched back unknowingly brewing up a storm above as she accidentally grabbed her pendant. "In honor of me!" An Alfreda with orange eyes wielding a shotgun yelled firing rounds into Zapp's back. She slammed him into the ground before proceeding to pummel him and tear out his throat with her teeth. The Mechanical Dragon rose up, upon seeing Zapp and the Alfreda beneath her, it's eyes glowed a angry red and it opened up it's maw, revealing a cannon that glowed green. The cannon fired a massive blast Zapp dodged running for the dragon hitting the Alfreda causing him to vanish. Zapp rammed into the dragon's open stomach, tearing through to the other side, bisecting it as Saddle Eager charged through the Alfreda hordes charging right at her as she turned around and did the same. Saddle Rager and Zapp charged and landing a punch on each others facing, collapsing to the floor as the impact effectively knocked them both out, causing them both to shrink back to normal. Matterhorn sighed in relief. "Well that's one problem taken care of. Now we just need to steal Mane-iac's Power Siphoner...again." "No we don't, it's right there." Filli-Second replied pointing to the machine on a destroyed rooftop. "You and Marevelous get it running, me, Radiance and Humdrum will open up the dragon." The trio approached the mechanical dragon's head which attempted to rise but couldn't, and Radiance used her bracelets to create a scissor construct to cut away at the top of the head so they could see who was inside. It was the real Alfreda, but he was muttering crazily before looking up seeing the heroes. "Oh charcoal juice." "Are, you, kidding me. You caused this chaos!? Why!?" Matterhorn asked in rage. Alfreda struggled to say something before looked down ashamed. "Ah just wanted attention." "I'm still kind of confused." Humdrum replied. "It's simple engineering Humdrum. First ah positioned the Power Siphoner on the rooftop above where you'd all be, then ah proceeded to draw mah own blood to put into the closing machine ah built so mah army would keep you there long enough, and then ah built a mechanical dragon based on the Dragon Lord Torch and learned to operate the steering wheel with mah tongue. All the while Alfreda was thinking he was still asleep." "Wait. Aren't you Alfreda?" Matterhorn asked. "Nope. Ezekiel the Naustic." Ezekiel spit into his hand before shaking Humdrum's. "Insanity of Alfreda." "Why did you spit in your claws?" Humdrum groaned trying to shake the saliva off his glove. "Ah don't rightly know!" "So you did all this to get our attention?" Radiance asked befuddled. "Nope! Ah wanted to get Alfreda's attention so powering up one of his enemies before ah told you all my plan so you could tell him what happened was the perfect way to get it. Logic said not to do it, so did the other ones, but ah showed him, there's no way Alfreda's not gonna remember me!" Ezekiel then let out a maniacal laugh before stopping abruptly. "Whelp, back to the dark endless recesses of Alfreda's brain." "Wait! You're a split personality with your own set of skills!? You mentioned more of them! This could provide amazing breakthroughs to psychology! You have to stay!" Matterhorn begged. "Toodles Lavender flavored wing pony!" Ezekiel replied as his eyes started to fizz out along with his control over Alfreda's speech. Alfreda shook his head before opening his eyes groaning. "Why does my mouth taste like the south?" "I don't know..." Alfreda looked over seeing a very agitated Zapp as Saddle Rager began waking up. "But I think I can change the flavors." "I was never here!" Alfreda grabbed a fire extinguisher next to him and threw it at Zapp hitting her right in the face before he ran off. "Alfreda wait you have a split personality, it's complicated but I think I can explain it!" "I see through your deception Alicorn!" He replied as he ran for a manhole cover. He tripped opening a manhole cover before recovering jumping into the sewers. "ALFREDA GETS AWAY AGAIN!" He yelled falling in. Matterhorn groaned in anger. "He's not a bad guy, he's just a metal idiot. I just wanted to help him after that other him opened up to him and this is what happens." "Cheer up Matterhorn, who knows, he might be a hero, heck we might even see his other personalities." "Maybe." Matterhorn sighed before looking around them. "The other downside is that we have to take care of all these bodies." Hold on a minute. Cell looked up from his transcript he wrote to see Juan in the doorway. "Orange eyed wirewolf? So you're telling me that I'm just another one of your personalities that got his throat torn out by Zapp? So that blast was a dimension cannon that sent me to another universe?" Juan asked. "Oh yeah, guess I kind of spaced that out. No hard feelings?" Alfreda asked. Juan breathed in and out. "Not yet." He said before walking up to Alfreda. After 10 seconds of silence, he had his hands around Alfreda's throat like a vice grip and proceeded to choke him mercilessly. "YOU DEATHLESS YELLOW BITCH! I WILL STRANGLE YOU UNTIL YOU DIE, THAN WAKE YOU UP, AND DO IT AGAIN!!" "Cell! Help!" Alfreda choked out. "Busy taking this down. This is gonna be perfect for the book. And that's coming from the self proclaimed perfect life form!" "Juan! Kill Cell! After me!" Alfreda gurgled out before he flew his life slipping away, his hands clawing at Juan's hands. Author's Note Well another chapter's done and Juan's origin has been revealed. Next chapter is gonna be a shocking two part, Part one is being written as we speak. Chapter 14: The Solution Part 1It was a peaceful night in Maretropolis with no crimes happening tonight. However the Masked Matterhorn and Radiance hopped across the rooftops heading for a spot in town they were hoping not to go for their situation. Radiance turned to Matterhorn, worry on her mind. "Are you sure we need to see if she can help Twilight? There must be a dozen other ponies that could be of more help. And I really don't wanna think of this as using advice Terry's given us time and time again." "We have to Rarity. She has the only guy that would be useful for this situation." Radiance sighed as this may not end well. "If you say so." They approached the building they were looking for and Matterhorn knocked on the large metal door and a maniacal chuckle was heard inside. the door flew open and a few tentacles attempted to wrap around Twilight and Rarity only to be blocked by a shield construct Rarity made around her and Twilight. coming through the Door was the Mane-iac,. "Well isn't this a pleasant surprise, not the same without the other four but still pleasant. Have you finally come to surrender?" Matterhorn stepped forward keeping her Poker face. "Actually we've come for your help." The Mane-iac's jaw dropped and she blinked twice before answering. "Did you mean that or am I finally losing my mind?" "I've been noticing Saddle Rager has started to smash things during our fights. By which I mean more than usual. some time she's gonna snap and everyone is screwed. I came up with the solution of putting her somewhere and letting her go nuts. We already did step one, we just need something for her to take it out on." "No way I'm crazy enough to get killed like that." "I mean your friend who has a certain history with Saddle Rager. In return for this we'll help you with one thing and one thing only." Mane-iac grinned as an idea popped in her mind. "well I have been looking for help in taking out Diablo Corps' Night Club. You think you could spare Zapp and Filli-second?" "Deal. So where is he?" "Inside sleeping. But he'll be wide awake when I tell him his new job." Radiance was astonished at how cooperative the Mane-iac was being right now. 'Maybe this day won't turn out so bad after all.' she thought. Alfreda woke up in sweat but sighed in relief as he found himself in his nice damp- he stopped and checked his sheets, groaning at what he found. Alfreda grabbed his sheets and walked down the stairs to where his bosses lair was, but past it and headed into the basement, where the washing machine was. He threw the sheets in there and smacked the side of the machine starting it up as he poured half of the detergent in there. "She can make such complex inventions and yet she can't fix a simple washing machine. But it could be worse, like having to be locked in a room alone with Saddle Rager." "ALFREDA! GET UP HERE!" "JUST A SEC!" Alfreda made sure it was working and walked up the stairs, greeted by the sight of The Mane-iac, The Masked Matterhorn, and Radiance. "What'd you want boss?" "Masked Matterhorn has asked me to give you to them for a for a plan they have and in exchange I with Zapp and Filli-Second on taking out that night club." "Oh that sounds easy enough. It's not like you're leaving me alone in a room with Saddle Rager." Matterhorn and Radiance gulped and looked at each other. Alfreda saw it and his pupil contracted as he realized it was exactly that. "Oh No! Despite my healing factor, I am not letting you try and kill me!" "Alfreda wait-" Twilight was too late as Alfreda snapped his neck and collapsed. Alfreda Owned Count: 11 The Mane-Iac simply shrugged. "Just take him he'll just heal up in time for you to do your thing." Twilight and Rarity were dragging Alfreda into the near the room and stopped and Twilight her weight to give her half of him to go to some controls when Rarity complained. "How is it he looks so light and yet he's so heavy? I swear either his wires or his shell are made of lead." "Just get him in there and then we can get this started." Twilight responded opening the door for Radiance when Alfreda woke up and moved a bit causing Rarity to collapse form the weight. Alfreda got up and dusted himself off. "How am I alive, I snapped my own neck 180 degrees." "That is an interesting question that many ponies may want an answer to." Radiance said before she pushed him in and Twilight closed the door before he could turn around. Alfreda looked around but couldn't see anything until the lights came on irritating him. "Geez that's bright. Wait a minute what did you guy's want me here for agai-" Alfreda stopped a he saw across from him a perfectly calm Saddle Rager and did the only plausible thing to do right now: Scream at the top of his lungs like a girl which suprisingly caused the pexiglass to vibrate a little. Radiance and Matterhorn's ears dropped down in some pain by the scream. "STOP SCREAMING!" Matterhorn shouted into a microphone causing Alfreda to comply but whimper a little like a dog. "Now then, we're going to leave you in that room with Saddle Rager, and you're not coming out, until she has a little more control of herself." "You can't that! This is a violation of my rights!" Alfreda argued. "Of someone committing criminal activity?" Matterhorn said with a skeptic look. "Touche. What do you want then?" "Saddle Rager needs some stress relief since her fight with Zapp" "That was real? I thought I was dreaming." "It's a long story but the point is thanks to you now she's starting to become more aggressive. You're going to get her mad and take that out of her." "Aggressive? Aggressive? I don't even know her identity, and I can already tell how much of a doormat she is. I saw her patrolling once and she keeled over with a yelp like a goat. She sat there for two hours. I know, because I left after she fell over, got a carrot dog went to the movies, came back, and she was still there!! I'm not going to be stuck here doing an impossible task. I mean look at her." Alfreda pointed to Saddle Rager who began to tear up. "She's already crying because it's true. Open the door." "I'm not doing that." Matterhorn replied. "Pretty please open it?" Alfreda asked trying to put on a puppy dog face. "No." "Don't make me scratch on the door like a dog." Alfreda said beginning to do so, not hearing a growling sound develop behind him. "Um, Alfreda, I'd suggest turning around." Radiance suggested. "What? Why?" Alfreda asked. "She may have had problems in school and your little rant may have dug up some unfortunate memories." "Say what?" Alfreda turning around, seeing Saddle Rager looking at him with angry blood red eyes, the tears beginning to dissipate. "Open the door, OPEN THE DOOR!" Alfreda started to scratch on the door in panic before the then scratched on the glass in front of Matterhorn and Radiance then going back to the door. "Cover your eyes! And let me out!" Alfreda yelled in panic before he turned around and saw Saddle Rager run at him roaring foaming at the mouth a little. "Mommy!" He jumped out of the way as Saddle Rager's hoof slammed on the leaving a dent that grew slightly as she transformed as she then ran for Alfreda who kept his distance and continued to run. Alfreda got an idea and stood in front of the door then jumped as Saddle Rager swung almost tearing the door completely, but still leaving a rather large hole, which Alfreda jumped through, but fell short as his foot got trapped. Saddle Rager grabbed his foot, earning screams of terror as he was being dragged in, then held onto the frame as hard as possible, eventually causing his arms to tear off as he was pulled in. Alfreda Owned Count: 12 Alfreda attached his arms back on and used them to try and futilely claw onto something only for Saddle Rager to raise him in front of her face. Alfreda was shivering in terror as Saddle Rager simply stared at him. "Not in the face!"Alfreda brought his hand to cover it as she then raised her right hoof as hit him square in his face causing him to spin around. She then began to repeatedly punch him, even slam him around a little. In the back, a wirewolf in the colors of a timberwolf walked in with a plate of nachos in his claws he munched on some. "I see you girls finally took my advice. So I can finally say what I've been waiting to say. I told-" "Timberwolf you finish and I can show you the more creative ways to use my bracelets." Radiance told him. "Okay." Timberwolf said immediately after. Alfreda was sent tumbling out of the room through the hole, his owned count firmly lodged in his back reading 17 as well as his leg being torn in strung like spaghetti and being pulled back. "Timberwolf..." Alfreda said grabbing Timberwolf's hands, pain bleeding in his voice. "Help...Me!" "Don't touch my nachos." Timberwolf simply told him pulling his hands away as Alfreda was being pulled away but held onto the frame of the door, until he heard a cracking and gooey esq sound. The trio looked shocked, Radiance creating a trash can construct to vomit in. "What's so bad?" Alfreda asked until he looked back, seeing Saddle Rager pulling at his leg, and his entrails begin to pull out from the hole created by his leg created. Alfreda screamed in agony as he tried to pull it back in as he held on the door but was pulled back into the room and slammed around. The trio looked on as Saddle Rager continued bearing on Alfreda, his organs falling out of the hole and falling across the room. Timberwolf moved to the window and looked closer. "Ok, t-that's, that's very unsettling- Oh a floor waffle!" Timberwolf yelled grabbing the waffle off the floor and eating it. Timberwolf looked up just in time for Saddle Rager to roar as she lifted him up and ripped Alfreda in two, sending oil spilling everywhere as the rest of his organs went flying across the room. She then slammed Alfreda into the ground before finally delivering one of her strongest punches right into his face. Alfreda Owned Count: 27 Saddle Rager finally calmed down and began to shrink, Twilight, Timberwolf, and Radiance looking on in shock and horror at the mess strewn around the room, Timberwolf then predictably throwing up the contents of his floor waffle and unfortunately his nachos. "D-did it work?" Saddle Rager asked stepping forward, causing a squishing sound. She looked under her as saw she stepped in Alfreda's ruptured appendix. She looked around and saw the carnage she had delivered then looked behind her, seeing Alfreda, damaged to near death. "Dear Faust!" Saddle Rager ran to his side appalled. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you like this." "It's all right just total organ failure." Alfreda said before a heart monitor appeared on his chest. "Must think of... famous last words. Dammit I couldn't think of any." Alfreda then let out a gurgling noise as he fell back, his heart monitor shorting out before flat-lining. The high piercing sound of the beep slashed at Saddle Rager's heart as she realized she killed him. The trio around her simply looked on in silence until Timberwolf fell to his knees in sorrow. "Who will make Timberwolf waffles whenever he threatens the former now?" He asked. Many ponies, heroes and villains alike, we're gathering at the funeral, Alfreda's photo hung next to his casket being that of him unconscious on the ground while Zapp and Timberwolf stood over him with a fist ready. "It kind of upsets the mood with the only picture we could find of him being that one." Zapp complained before going back to comforting the sobbing Saddle Rager. "He's d-d-dead because of me." She choked out. "No, don't beat yourself up on that one." Timberwolf tried assuring her before looking back at his team, The Mighty Machines. "I'm lying to make her feel better." He said not lowering his voice causing Saddle Rager to overhear it and sob even harder. "Idiot." Rodan muttered as team leader Shadow Blot smacked Timberwolf over the head. Lather sighed after finishing her speech on the podium. "We're almost done, if the next person listed could come up." Lather looked at the list and groaned. "Here she is ladies and stallions, the mare who gave us all a reason to be here." She joked before realizing how messed this made Saddle Rager. "Forget it, let's just say our last goodbyes." 'She's in no condition to even stand.' Lather thought to herself as she looked on to see the dog cry. Lather opened the casket, revealing his face and hands, both remarkably intact considering what the mortician had to work with, it almost looked like he was merely sleeping, were it not for his eyes being open and off, and his hands flipping the bird to the attendees. A few attendees chuckled at it. "Even in death, the crash dummy could get out a laugh." High Heel commented before realizing Mane-iac was right next to her and proceeded to be silent. "Name aside, Alfreda was a good kid." "Saddle Rager made her gravest mistake." Mane-iac growled through gritted but smiling teeth. "She took my son, I'm taking everything from her. Maybe more." She fought to suppress a maniacal chuckle that tried to crawl out her throat before she left. Alfreda woke up startled before looking around seeing nothing but darkness. He blinked turning on his night vision seeing he was in some kind of box. He was about to panic before calming down and assessing the situation. "Ok the last thing I remember was... wait I should be dead. how am I alive. You know what, don't care, get out first, rationalize later." Alfreda punched at the top for a while, not taking some breaths to conserve his oxygen, eventually smashing open the top releasing all the dirt on him causing him get buried some more, but he pushed through digging through until he finally came through to the surface, throwing up some dirt as he then walked away. "Twice in the same day, isn't anyone in this dang nabbit cemetery dead?" The taller gravedigger next to his fellow gravedigger asked. A casket behind them opened with a skinny and old centaur in it as the casket began to lower. "I didn't wanna cause a fuss, but now that you mention it..." Alfreda wandered through the city confused throwing the newspaper away. "I was dead for three weeks? Wow, that's interesting. Well if everyone thinks I'm dead, I might as well find a new place to live." Alfreda said to himself before he tripped falling down a hole. When he got up he saw that he was in some type of massive cave. "Well not was I was imagining but I have no money so I'd say I'll take it." Alfreda climbed out the hole and made his long walk down towards the Shampoo Factory opening the door, about to make his grand entrance until he remembered his mother's superstitions about zombies and whatnot deciding to just start a new life, thankfully no one was home. "Must be out a heist." Alfreda shrugged before walking through to his room seeing it in an immaculate condition. He looked around wondering what he could store it all in and accidentally touched his chest opening it up like a door. "I have a chest hatch? Huh, nothing better to do, might as well see how much I can fit." Alfreda finished digging the hole that went into his new 'Wolf Den' as he christened it, out of view of street cameras and bystanders, wiping off the sweat and getting up onto the street. 'Super weird Stardust Labs and Selene Industries had very low security. Those security codes were surprisingly easy to crack. But then again I don't remember how I cracked them. Oh well I got the junk I needed no matter.' Alfreda thought to himself. He continued walking until he came by a building before looking back seeing it as a Army Recruitment Center. 'The Army? Eh, why not?' He thought walking in. Alfreda was nervous as hell, they were flying into Yakyakistan now for some 'War' they kept talking about, and he was hoping to be one of those reserves that never go overseas. "Gerald I can see how you're shaking. Calm down." The stallion next to him said. He was a Vesper with an ink black coat, his mane and tail a long navy blue edged burgundy red, some of the blue edges looking like slicked flames. Alfreda took in deep breathes before mentally talking to himself. 'Remember, Alfreda's dead, you're Gerald Tangler, hold on a minute.' "How'd you know my name." "Who doesn't know you in the Corps? You broke the field record on the first try, not bad. Blade Wilson." Blade said offering his hoof for a handshake. 'Gerald' accepted it with a smile before looking back at the door. "We're gonna be good acquaintances at least right?" "If we make it out alive, more likely to be friends." Blade replied. Author's Note Stay tuned for part 2. Blade Wilson is an OC belonging to New Lunar Principality, he'll make another appearance but not as you think. The repercussions of Alfreda's 'death' will be deeper explored in the next chapter. Chapter 15: The Solution Part 2The passengers of the plane stepped out, some of them simply stopping before they plane moved on, and others happy to finally be home. One was completely unsure how to feel, with what he saw, what he did, the yellow wirewolf with the red right eye and blue green pupils left eye was at least a little glad he was home. 'Back in Maretropolis. Going into that recruitment center wasn't as bad as I thought it was.' Alfreda grabbed his bag before walking through the airport doors taking in a whiff of Maretropolis air once again. He looked around and smiled at how it looked, new, older, moving into an age of technology, then looked in a window seeing himself. He was the same, but he had some new scratch marks here and there, his snout having a five o'clock shadow that made him chuckle. '2 and a half years away from home and I never thought a shave once in a while wouldn't hurt.' Alfreda walked down the street giving a passing glance to the Old Shampoo Factory before bumping into someone and tripping down with them. "Oh sorry my bad, I was thinking about the past and got lost." he apologized gathering up some of his things that feel out of his bag before looking at who he bumped into who was helping him gather his things causing him to freeze up. "Oh no I'm so sorry." The yellow coated pink maned pegasus replied, her voice quiet but still completely audible. "I was doing the same and should've paid more attention. I'm Fluttershy." Fluttershy then held out her hoof as Alfreda zipped up his bag. "Gerald Tangler." Alfreda said cautiously shaking it. "You look familiar. Have we met?" "Oh no if I met you I would certainly know you. I'm sorry if that sounded like an insult." "Not a problem, you wouldn't happen to know someone named Saddle Rager or Alfreda, would you?" Fluttershy seemed to seize up before calming herself down shaking a little. "N-n-no. I k-k-know Saddle Rager, b-but not that other guy." "Ok. Here's my number." Alfreda gave her a card with his number on it before getting up. "See ya around." He walked away as his brain worked at Fluttershy's appearance. He climbed down the ladder into the sewer then walked deep into the tunnel until he was encompassed in darkness. He clapped his hands and lights hummed to life, revealing the Wolf Den, all the technology stolen from Stardust Industries and Selene Industries fashioned to fit in the cave, his stuff strewn around the room to make it feel like home. "Password: Buried Alive." Alfreda shouted. "Welcome back home Alfreda." A voice replied at the rest of the cave glowed to life. "I had done as you requested before being shipped off to Military Academy and planted the spy drones in the Power Ponies and Mighty Machines Headquarters. As well as upgrading the Wolf Den's defense systems." "Thank you S.A.I.R.A.H." Alfreda replied. He stole the artificial intelligence from Selene Industries and made the acronym from Self Aware Intelligence Ready And Helpful(Not his best acronym but it was his first who could blame him?) "Could you pull up any records you could find on this Mare I met name Fluttershy, then bring up anything we have on Saddle Rager along with your updated files?" "Sure thing." S.A.I.R.A.H. did so allowing Alfreda to looking at the pictures of the two mares, suppressing a shudder as he looked back a picture of Saddle Rage transformed. He continued looking at the two before he looked over a Lab report that was released the day he was born outside of all the reports of a wave of white light. A mare matching the description of Fluttershy was drenched in serums they were experimenting with, but he couldn't read the rest as it was blacked out along with her name. However it was all Alfreda needed. "Not a very good disguise Saddle Rager, or should I call you, Fluttershy?!" He shouted. "Alfreda who are you talking to?" "Myself, I'm going to have so much fun messing with her. Do you have a list of Fluttershy's friends and family, I feel a kick of cracking secret identities coming along." "Generating it to print right now." "Sweet. I see a folder here marked blackmail, what exactly did you find?" "Alfreda I wouldn't open that." S.A.I.R.A.H. replied sounding concerned. "Come on what's the worst that could happen." Alfreda clicked on one labeled 'New Year's Eve'. It showed Zapp's bedroom with the mare in name busting in with Timberwolf, both incredibly drunk and making out. "C'mon Rainbow, they'll judge us." Timberwolf said through his slurred mouth, his knees shaking signaling his almost complete loss of motor functions with the amount of cider swimming through his brain. "No judgements here." Rainbow replied smashed from here to halfway across the planet. "5 minutes to midnight, might as well go out with a bang." "Ha, Phrasing." They made out some more before falling on Zapp's bed, Zapp taking off her clothes. Alfreda began to feel unnerved watching the video. "I don't like this, I don't like- AH! That should not be happening! Stop the video! Stop the video!" S.A.I.R.A.H. stopped the video as Alfreda shuddered. "I really wish I took health class in high school before I shipped off." "You were in high school?" S.A.I.R.A.H. asked. "Yep, not sure why I'm not right now. They said I was so advanced I passed within a month. Felt like a week compared to the war. But for now, it is a time of relaxation, and vengeance." Alfreda then walked toward the ladder getting out a bag he stored labeled. 'For revenge against Saddle Rager'. "Where are you going?" "To Do something I should've done before I got shipped out." Fluttershy slept peacefully in her bed, managing to shake off her encounter with Gerald, a lot of terrible emotions were resurfaced and she had to have the talk about what happened with Alfreda with the girls to calm herself. Gears stopped by for their date and they talked a little about it letting her put her mind at ease. A sudden noise echoed in the room, her eyes shot wide open as she looked around unnerved by it. A ghostly moaning began to emanate to which she looked straight forward and was petrified at what she saw. It was Alfreda, but was floating above the front of her bed, but the floating didn't terrify her, it was his appearance. Alfreda's body looked like someone dug it up and dragged on the ground to here with a pipe sticking out of his back, once in a while leaking out some kind of substance. His left arm was mangled as if thrown into a trash compactor, his legs mangled and twisted like a deformed pretzel, his right foot torn in two, but in a way that someone grabbed it by two toes and pulled in opposite directions. His chest was bent and had multiple cracks in it, his chest cavity however was open fro the world to see his ribcage and his still beating heart that glowed an unholy read. His head was somewhat intact, if you ignored the face his jaw was off one of his hinges and his left eye was dangling from it's socket, leaving only his blood red right eye to stare daggers into Fluttershy's soul. "Remember me Saddle Rager?..." Alfreda asked, his voice sounding distorted with a screech like writing on a chalkboard with a glass shard, and his jaw moving in a disturbing way as he spoke. "A-a-a-alfr-fr-freda?! B-b-but you're d-d-d-Dead!" Fluttershy audibly whispered, too terrified to speak clearly or in a higher tone. "You would've liked that wouldn't you? For the guilt of what I did to just fade away like a bad hangover. Well I never forget." "W-w-what d-d-do you want?!" "Just one little thing: TO HAUNT YOU TO YOUR FINAL DAYS." Alfreda yelled, some liquid leaking from the pipe again as if the pipe threw up, and then he began to float towards the bed letting out the ghostly moan again. "P-p-p-please! K-k-k-k-keep away!!" Fluttershy begged literally shaking with terror. "I'm a little teapot short and stout, here is my handle and here is my spout..." Alfreda sang eerily, gesturing to his left then his right arm respectively. Fluttershy panting in terror clutching at her chest before her eyes rolled up and she fell off the bed. Alfreda made a quick look and sighed as she had simply fainted out of sheer terror. "Damn I'm good." Alfreda said to himself dropping his ghost voice. "Fluttershy? Are you okay?" A voice rang out. "Shit." Alfreda whispered before flying out the window he came in just as Rainbow Dash and Twilight opened the door and gasped seeing Fluttershy's unconscious body. "Fluttershy!" Rainbow yelled as Twilight grabbed Fluttershy and checked for a pulse. "She's fine, just unconscious." Twilight assured her. "What happened? I woke up to the sounds of something reciting a nursery rhyme then a heard a thud come from here." Twilight looked around spotting the open window and the liquid on the floor. She walked closer and examined it seeing it was oil. "It was probably one of the guys, there's some oil on the floor, must've hit his head while leaving." Twilight took out her phone and called the only one she knew would definitely do this. "It's 2 in the morning, I'm actually sober, and I'm having out with my grandmother on the country side, what do you want?" The voice asked. "Terry I know you came into Fluttershy's room and decided to terrify her into fainting." "What? Twilight if I was gonna scare her, it would be on Nightmare Night, and even that Masque would at least help in my effort, and he's on the other side of town doing a late night patrol." "Well there's oil on the floor, you're the only wirewolves in the city that have access to the Power Ponies HQ." "Not for the window of the floor with living accommodations for us. Those things are the basic open and close ones. You were so confident in the cameras you forgot to factor into burglars with camouflage tech coming in through the windows. And maybe check the security tapes?" "Huh." Twilight said taken back by Terry's breakdown of what must've happened, not who, but at least how, and this was the guy who once tied in a debate with a cow for Trottingham Mayor after crashing into a Frat House there. "Thank you Terry?" "You're welcome, now if you excuse me, me and Nana are about to play Scrabble, I need my a game because she is a beast at this. But today I break the streak!" Terry then hung up the phone leaving Twilight confused. "I'm going to take this oil and have the lab examine it, you make sure Fluttershy's okay." Twilight walked out of the room as Fluttershy came to then clung to Rainbow Dash as Angel woke up and hopped to comfort his owner. "Rainbow! Oh G-goodness it was so horrible!" "Calm down I'm here. What happened?" "I was sleeping when a sound woke me up and I looked and s-s-saw..." Fluttershy began to sob as she recounted the experience. "I'm here for you Fluttershy, who was it I'll clobber him." "That's it, it w-w-was Alfreda." Alfreda chuckled a little as he removed the pip from his back and allowed his wounds to heal as he donned a blazer to hide the process. "That was better then I thought." He spoke into his watch. "I take it you're satisfied with tormenting her?" S.A.I.R.A.H. asked. "Yep. And even if they try to figure out if it was me I made sure my grave looked untouched." "What if they decide to dig it up?" "Way ahead of you, I found a wirewolf cadaver and threw it in, then I coated it in my blood until it was soaked like a stuffed sponge. Felt a little lightheaded after but it was worth it." "What now?" "Well I need some money, I was thinking of after I finished decrypting the secret identities I'd trying out bank robbing, see how that pans out, hopefully no pain, then just hook with Diablo Body or whatever to get ahead here." "Diablo Corps? The most feared mob leader in the underworld. I would recommend you start small." "Why not start there as I plan? I can't die at all apparently as evidenced when I panicked in Yakyakistan after looking in that house, briefly went undercover, almost fully defected, then chickened out and came back, being riddled with bullets for my betrayal from the enemy." "Hello!" A voice said surprising Alfreda as he was about to climb down the ladder. "I'll be down in a second." Alfreda said before hanging up and looking to see who greeted him. It was a biped creature, plum purple in skin. He had long arms that were lean with what could've been muscle, but the way the sun shined on it, it seemed to be made out of some kind of goopy substance. His legs were half the length of his arms, and he sported a pair of classic curved goat horns on his head, his face only sporting a mouth which was smiling with one fanged tooth sticking out, and green eyes with red pupils. "Hello he who talks to his hand." It said with a welcoming tone. "Uh hi, name's Gerald Tangler." "Blotch is the son of Slobber, Blotch had just moved here." "Oh you're one of those third person guys aren't you?" "Yes deathless yellow Alfreda wolf." "What?!" Alfreda yelled in surprise. "Blotch knows who you are, as he is a... how do you say, space time traveler." "So you're from the future?" "But from another universe. Blotch and his family of Blotlings moved here for the more simple life." "I have nothing else to do today, mind telling me about it." "Blotch cannot tell you about the time when he left you, but Blotch can tell about how his family came to be." "Oh~ even better." Alfreda sat down with a smile on his face. "In the bowels of Two Greats Grandpapa Phantom we gained minds when he visited The Old Country, we wished to leave the dark and smelly world. So while he slept after eating the world, under the cover of darkness we traveled across his stomach in boat made from whale bones, yes? But as the eldest of the children Blotch had to care for Great Opa Sweeper during our journey across the Thinner Sea that was the stomach acids. When suddenly A giant White Seer Blood Cell arose from the acids with it's one evil eye, blinking and blinking looking at Blotch like a sandwich! Am I boring you?" Blotch asked looking at Alfreda, who was actually memorized listening to the story. "Hell no! I love every bit of this go on!" "The Seer Blood Cell gurgled loudly like my father after eating elk. So me and my father's brothers had to devour the Seer to escape down into the intestines and through the back exit of Two Greats Grandpapa allowing us to traverse into Canterlot where another Phantom captured us. But that is another story." "Aw man. I was actually getting interested in your tales." "Then allow Blotch to tell you the tale of the shy girl who saved her future boyfriend from three evil sirens with their pet cat." "Ok now I'm interested." Alfreda said and then sat there listening to Blotch's tale. Author's Note Two chapters to go. Than an epilogue. Blotch is an OC that will appear later in one of my future stories but I felt it would be fun to have him make a little cameo. Yes Diablo Corps is me but he doesn't have a vast impact on the story, just a little easter egg. Express your comments down below at what you think. Criticism is appreciated. Chapter 16: An old enemy or friend?The Bank vault was silent before a boom shook and some of the floor gave away. Alfreda climbed out and pulled out some burlap sacks throwing the bits inside and tossing the full bags into the hole. When he decided he have enough he jumped back into the hole and hauled off the bags on the trolley he brought. He pushed the trolley with all his strength sending it flying down the sewer. 'Glad that part of the Wolf's Den actually connects to the sewer. The odds of this being a straightaway there are astronomical, so I'm taking my blessings.' Alfreda climbed out of the manhole and cracked his back from the weight of the bag. He was about to run when a gunshot grazed his shoulder. "Woah! Faust!" He yelled. "Quite the opposite." A voice said earning Alfreda's attention as he looked in the direction of the voice. He saw a stallion that was two feet taller than the average stallion. He wore a light grey greatcoat, the edges of the coat tails were given a sharp torn look. The coat was worn over black body armor with red lining on the padding with a red crescent moon adorned in the center of his chest. Red hoof guards on his forelegs and red boots on his hind legs his entire body was covered up to his neck. Leaving only his long managy spiky red and navy tail exposed. His face was concealed by a red helmet that was almost featureless, aside from a blade like extension where his horn is. Clear white lenses tinted with black lining concealed the stallion's eyes. The helmet had sharp streaks traveling down its cheeks giving it a permanent glare. "Who the buck are you?" "Death, but call me Red Horn." The Stallion replied "Oh how original, I guess Douche with a gun was taken?" Alfreda joked earning a gunshot to the knee from one of the 40mm Handguns Red Horn had in his magic grip. "Oh Faust Damn! Take a joke!" "I don't really do jokes." Red Horn replied twirling his handguns. "Can we not just talk this out like mature adults?" "Yes, let's." A voice said to which both Alfreda and Red Horn turned to see who said it. Alfreda recognized Timberwolf but the other ones surprised him as he knew the names but never saw the faces that went with them. All of them were Wirewolves but each of them were vastly different from the others. The feet of the one in the air were the same like any other wirewolves foot appearance, but the toes of the boots were open and clawed like a bird of preyās talons with a toe on the back. His tail was normal but had some tail feathers around it. His claws were now black and looked like a birds claws. The biggest difference was not only how his shell was red with orange spots around it, but also his large wings behind him full of many beautiful feathers, his snout now sporting a beak at the end of it. Rodan, the flier. The one the was reading a newspaper from a nearby stand had some changeling features like his tail looking a little gnarled with some holes in his feet, his ears had an odd point to the top of them, as well as a large pair of changeling wings on top of a dark blue green carapace, his eyes a changeling blue. Masque, the shapeshifter. The one leaning on the stand had a body was as black as night, save for his eyes which were a piercing white, a black fog seemingly oozing off of him. Dusk, the wolf that appeared to be shadow itself. The Wirewolf under Rodan was a head taller then the average werewolf, and his body was a mismatch of colors: his arms both a dark yellow while his right leg was green while his left leg was light yellow, his chest grey with streaks of red and his head grey, his eyes and mouth glowing green. Devastator, the muscle and machine. The lead one in the front was purple just like Blotch along with the sickly green eyes and mouth. Shadow Blot, the leader and most feared of the group. "The Mighty Machines? I'm saved." Alfreda cheered. "Don't think you're off the hook I see the bag of money!" Rodan shouted. "Well it was worth a shot." Alfreda shrugged. "Red Horn, Timberwolf let you off the hook last time, but this time you have a choice, let him go and let us take care of him, or we will have to pummel both of you." "1. Timberwolf hid in a trashcan after I threatened him. And 2," Red Horn fired his pistols at them to which Shadow Blot dodged before Rodan launched a fireball at Red horn who dodged. "Okay round two." Timberwolf said running towards Red Horn, gathering all the surrounding wood to make his arm bigger for when he punched Red Horn, landing a hit in his side but earning a shot through the shoulder. "Oh come on!" Timberwolf yelled as his now useless arm fell to the ground dragging him with it. Alfreda looked on in awe at this and simply shrugged to himself. "And then Alfreda sneaked away." Alfreda proceeded to do so, ignoring every instinct that told him to stay and watch the fight as the sounds of the fight grew louder, when a gunshot echoed through the air, but the difference from the other ones was the fighting sounds immediately stopped. He turned around and saw Devastator standing in front of Shadow Blot, before clutching a spot on his chest and collapsing to the ground. Alfreda gasped realizing what happened as Shadow Blot's eyes turned blood red before he charged at Red Horn roaring with in anger. Red Horn dodged a few swings before Shadow Blot shot out something big from his mouth. It grew and formed into some type of hulking monster colored just like Shadow Blot. The Monster charged at Red Horn, whose horn glowed as he dodged, creating construct swords that proceeded to cut through the monster breaking it into pieces that became imp like creatures. Shadow Blot attempted one more swing before Red Horn socked him right in his jaw breaking it, and knocking Shadow Blot unconscious. Alfreda proceeded to back away again before settling it to a safe sprint. Alfreda made it to the sewer cover and opened it then tossed the bag down the hole before closing it. He then looked around to make sure the coast was clear and was about to make his way to the drain when a gunshot grazed his calve. "Oh come on!" He yelled. "When I'm paid to kill someone, I always finish the job." Alfreda got up calming down as his calve healed before he listened Red Horn's voice again clicked something in his mind. "Wait a minute, that voice... you wouldn't happen to know New Moon right. Guy who died some time ago from what I read?" "No I'm not." Red horn grumbled angrily while under his helmet his eyes were the size of saucers. "I Just have one of those voices." "No the kid had a very distinctive voice." Alfreda said his bodies computer registering the voices as a 90% match. "Yeah my system says-" "Its wrong the kid died the dead can't come back... hopefully he doesn't know about..." Red Horn muttered that last part to himself when Alfreda spoke up. "I've heard some crazy stories about ponies coming back from the dead. Heck I clawed out of my own grave." "..." "Your New Moon aren't you?" "I'm going to count to 10, and when I get there, I'm gonna begin shooting you with no knowledge I'm stopping." "You didn't answer my question." "1..." "So I'm right. Cool." Alfreda gloated before he began to walk back. "5..." Alfreda ran away prompting Red Horn to pull out his pistols. "10." He shot at Alfreda barely missing his head to which Alfreda ran faster. "I'm still right!" Alfreda screamed as a sword was thrown through his chest. "No your not." Red horn said pointing a sawed off shotgun point blank at the dogs head. "Wow you somehow grew up into a bigger asshole!" *bang!* Alfreda was missing his left eye and the part surrounding it while Red Horn stumbled from getting uppercutted in that same moment. As Alfreda held his wound in pain as it healed before looking up, seeing Red Horn's helmet on the ground as Red Horn himself get up allowing Alfreda to see his face. He was a Vesper with a mane that matched his tail, but what shocked him was his eyes, his right was red while the other was gold. "Hold on, I do know you." Alfreda said shocked stepping forward. Red Horn pulled out his pistols. "I was gonna give the hirer your corpse, I don't think he'll mind the head being gone now." "2 and a half years ago, The War in Yakyakistan, 25th Divison." Red Horn tackled him and held his pistol toward Alfreda's forehead. "Chose you last words carefully." "We were in a village. You went inside with the sergeant, Peach Cobbler, Obsidian Shadow, and Fizzlepop Berrytwist, she was edgy sometimes so we called her Tempest Shadow to mess with her, the sergeant was the only one that didn't come back." Red Horn began to hesitate. "I gave you a normal hi and you nearly shot me in the chest before Cobbler calmed you down. I asked you what happened. You said to go look for myself, I did, and what I saw was the reason you didn't see me ever since. I went AWOL." Red Horn's eyes widened to which he dropped his pistols. "Gerald?" "Well since no one that'll arrest me, that's actually not my name. I came up with it after my mom's nickname in collage. Dee 'Green Locks' Tangler. Names Alfreda Tangler. Is this what you were doing rather then being the sidekick to freakin Moon Knight, Blade?" Red Horn was hesitant to try and aim with his pistols before sighing, putting them away and grabbing his helmet and strapping it to his side. "It's a long story but I'll at least give you this: I was using a fake name too, my real name is Crescent Blade. Some mob boss named Diablo Corps hired me to kill you, the way he worded it now that I think about it was actually a recruitment test, for both of us." "We never were good at being told what to do were we?" Alfreda joked to which Crescent laughed a little. "Come on down, let's catch up at least." Alfreda went to the manhole and pried it open. "Don't worry, it's not what you think. Put the cover back on while you come down though please." Alfreda said climbing down the ladder. Crescent followed covering the lid and they both walked through into the Wolf Den. "Alfreda? I didn't expect you back so soon. And who is that?" S.A.I.R.A.H. asked surprised. "Calm down he's a friend." Alfreda said before tossing the money sack into a pile he had of bits. "Two questions. How much money did you steal, and who said that?" "I have now idea, this was not from just one heist, and where are my manners? Crescent, meet my Stolen AI partner: S.A.I.R.A.H, It stand for Self Aware Intelligence Ready And Helpful, working title and the I is silent." "Not bad, you got all this done in a month or two?" "Well I actually stole her and some of this stuff before I enlisted 2 and a half years ago. Some more of this stuff is recent though. This spot is actually nice because it's actually kind of colorful, some of my neighbors know my secret but they're all staying there for a secret reason too. I have a changeling psychiatrist, helped me resolve some issues with how I didn't die and what this could mean with my healing factor along with half a chunk with my Saddle Rager issues, A blotling farmer with a rich culture of legends and a very awesome story of how his family came to be, heck last night I had dinner with a family of chupacabras after I helped their car trouble in one of the apartment building with a couple other creatures, I think I saw I chimera sharing an apartment with a giant meatball and a draconequis. I couldn't make that last one up even if I wanted to. But enough about me let's talk about you. What's been going on with you?" Crescent was nervous before Alfreda gave him a card. "Here's my number, just incase I forget to give it to you." Alfreda said. Crescent sighed before smiling. "Are you sitting down because it's gonna be crazy." "With my week before I died and after, challenge accepted." Alfreda said with a smile. Crescent climbed out out the sewer just as his communicator went off as he put his helmet on. "Red Horn, where have you been? I've been trying to call you for an hour, did you get it done? I was busy making sure the Mighty Machines didn't follow you. Devastator's going on cryo until that treat that bullet shot you hit them with." "Turns out it was the wrong guy Blood Steel, I let him go, but not before I put a bullet in his leg." "Bullet in the leg? That's so unlike you." "I was feeling generous." Crescent said before grappling onto a rooftop. Author's Note Next chapter, the thrilling conclusion to Beginnings of an Immortal Wirewolf right into the beginning to Alfreda and Cell's Multiversal Adventure! Blade Wilson/Red Horn/Crescent Blade is New Lunar Principality's OC and the star of the next story I'm doing that I'm taking over for him, The Vengeful Guardians: Mercs of Justice. Chapter 17: Multiverse Theory HurtsAlfreda was simply reading the book Blotch gave him that was an encyclopedia on The Old Country and the supposed Blot Country Blotch's family tried to create, when he heard a knock on the door of Wolf's Den facing the bay, walked to it to open it, and found a four arm, black skinned crocodile like demon with purple eyes and some kind of samurai helmet on his head standing there. "Hello Alfreda. Mane-iac's told me so much about you, well before she goes into one of her crying episodes. Didn't think I'd find you here." The Demon said to him. "And you are?" Alfreda asked. "Can't believe she never mentioned me. I am Kul'as, Evil Incarnate, and friend of your mother." "Ok, I should care because?" "I have a big scientific project planned out, but I need some help with it, another set of hands at least." "Don't you have some loser that follows you around to do it with you instead of me?" "Well you posses some things I cannot do." A voice said behind Kul'as. Walking behind him revealed it was a mare who appeared to be a dark blue alicorn with a ethereal light blue mane, wearing red regalia with a bat tiara. "Alfreda, meet my marefriend, from a universe where everything is reversed, she prefers to be called Selene." Kul'as said nuzzling said mares snout. "Wait Evil Universe Counterpart? To who?" "You wouldn't get it." Kul'as replied. "But I love her all the same." "Please don't talk about love in front of me. It just reminds me that I'm gonna possibly outlive everything and somehow still be a virgin." "Not according to Lather and the Golden Age." Kul'as said to himself. "Any-who this requires more delicate touch, all though I will warn you, you probably might die, so I suggest you make amends while you can." "Really?" Alfreda said with skepticism. "Ok then, I have at least one group to piss off." Fluttershy was crying her heart out silently in her room. Gears was injured protecting Ricky and put into Cryo, the chances of him getting out alive were slim. Coupled with what happened the other night this was almost becoming too much for her when the alarm went off. Rainbow Dash burst into her room before stepping back a little. "Flutters, we gotta go, someone's trying to hack the tower." Fluttershy got up, put on her costume, and joined the others in the living room as a transmission broke through and Kul'as' face appeared on the screen. "Greeting Power Ponies, my name, is Kul'as, you may remember me from the following crimes: Kidnapping nearly all of Maretropolis to partake in a massive gladiator game against each other out of boredom, causing the great disasters of Equestria's early past, but I digress, I have contacted you to let you know that I know your identities. I'm not going to sell the information or anything, I just wanted to let you know, I'm letting you know that I'm taking your machine you're working on to test travel into the theoretical multiverse and amass an army I shall bring back with me to conquer all of Equis." The Transmission cut as everyone looked shocked and confused. "And you can thank a certain devilishly handsome looking wirewolf for the information of that thing." Everyone turned to the direction of the voice to see Alfreda standing in the doorway of the elevator. "A-Alfreda?!" Rainbow said shocked. "Wha? How is this possible? You should be dead!" Twilight asked in disbelief. "To quote Samuel Clemens: 'the news of my death had been greatly exaggerated.' " "You're working with Kul'as?" Radiance asked. "For second I thought you were going to say for but yes Rarity. Yes I know all your identities, not that hard to crack. I would've told Kul'as but he apparently knew before I could even tell him. I just took the elevator up here to brag about helping him. I'm heading to another universe." "Y-you're alive, I'm not a killer. It was you leaving the airport." Fluttershy said quietly. "Yes, it was?" Alfreda said stepping in and pressing the button going down to the lab floor then repeatedly pressing the close door button, looking at it beginning to get nervous. "That doesn't mean I'm not filled with rage at you terrifying me for no reason." Fluttershy growled, her eyes beginning to glow blood red. "I get that a lot now a day OH FAUST NO!" Alfreda yelled terrified as Saddle Rager charged at the door just at it started to close. Lucky for Alfreda it closed before she even hit the door. Alfreda was nervous as he knew that she was gonna transform and any moment she would tear through the door and either tear the elevator cable off sending him plummeting, or jump down on the elevator crushing him. Alfreda sighed in relief as he got to the lab floor and ran straight out just as the elevator was suddenly pulled up and out of his sight. Alfreda ran for the far end of the room seeing Kul'as fiddle with the machine, which looked like a large metal ring with a vortex in between. "Hey Alfreda, I take it the bragging went well?" Kul'as asked. "Saddle Rager's pissed, but I'd say yes." "Oh goody, I thought this would've gone by with no resistance." Kul'as said before avoiding some kind of projectile that zipped past him, aimed for his neck. "Gonna cross the line Moon Knight?" Kul'as asked someone who left from the shadows. It was a mare with a blue mask and suit on, spots of the costume with gauntlets, boots and a hood that were black, with a white moon symbol on her chest. "You've harmed to many innocents to let just walk away." "Oh you wound me." Kul'as said before blasting beams from his eyes that Moon Knight easily dodged. "Let me cut deeper then." Moon Knight replied trying to hit him only for Selene to tackle her. "Back off my man!" She demanded. "Some sick experiment you made?" Moon Knight asked before engaging in hoof to hoof combat with her. "What do you think me, some kind of god? That's an alternate you." "Wait she's Moon Knight's counterpart? Wow, that actually surprised me." Alfreda said before a rumbling shook the floor and everyone looked to see the Power Ponies in front of the elevator door, now just a large hole with Saddle Rager trotting through, transformed, and very pissed off. "Oh fun." Kul'as sighed as the portal glowed a dark purple. Saddle Rager charged but stopped when Alfreda stepped forward with a hand out. "Let's all just calm down." "You broke into our house and currently stealing something that belongs to us." Twilight exclaimed. "Ok you're not helping, Fluttershy," Alfreda said looking at her, trying to calm down that growing sea of rage. "I'm sorry for terrifying you like that. I'm just glad I'm not dead because I'm actually doing stuff, as you can tell with Kul'as I'm getting out more often, I'm reconnecting with people I used to know, heck I made a contribution to society by joining the Yakyakistan War. A little drama but I'm happy, you're in control, isn't that good enough." Saddle Rager stared him down, her eyes seeming to calm down when she grabbed a forklift and tossed it at Kul'as forcing him to dodge. "I guess." Was her only response. Alfreda sighed in relief at not having his face beaten in and stepped back as Kul'as cast a shield that he was thankfully inside with Selene. "Okay Alfreda, you had your heartwarming forgiveness talk, now is a time, For Science!" Kul'as shouted before letting out a maniacal laugh before everyone was covered in a purple blinding light. When it died down, the machine along with those who tried to steal it, were gone. "Luna, where'd they go?" Twilight asked Moon Knight. "You know I prefer that we use or hero name even when its just us. But on the question at hoof, I have no idea. Kul'as' magic is a mix of draconequis chaos magic and some dark energy from an outside source, whatever that source is, it's stronger enough to kill a lot more then alicorn. That same source also camouflages itself and the chaos magic making him virtually invisible to magic detectors. But even if it didn't a Magic Detector wouldn't work. Like he said this was taking him to an alternate universe, somewhere out of their range all together." "But which one?" "You never built something to give us an insight on what the next universe would be, so as Pinkie said watching TV in my cave once said, that is the 1,000,000 Bit Question." Alfreda fell to the ground groaning and coughing. "It takes likes Blotch's Anya's Rabbit and Avocado stew." Alfreda licked his lips perking up a little. "Oh with a after taste of his Opa's clam soup." "Okay Blotch's family is seriously demented. What kind of savage makes a soup from clams?" Kul'as asked dusting himself off. "Hey they're good peop... Blotlings don't judge them based on their food." "Well I'm a super villain so what do I know?" Kul'as replied before looking around. The Maretropolis they were in now was a lot more rundown and the sky was incredibly dark but not signifying it was nighttime. "Okay so where the heck are we?" Alfreda asked seeing many stores boarded up with broken windows and doors. "I don't know but I feels nice." Kul'as said picking up a leg bone just lying on the ground. "How long is a body just left there until it's bare bones!" Alfreda yelled noticing the rest of the corpse. "Enough sight seeing, we have science to do." Kul'as dramatically declared before walking down the street spotting an old abandoned science lab. "Alfreda, you and Selene grab a pony off the street. But here's so we don't get discovered. Make sure they're someone no one would look for, possibly a complete monster if you could check, but more importantly, someone no one would miss if they found out something unfortunate happened." Kul'as instructed walking into the lab. Alfreda looked around and saw Selene already ahead of him and ran to her side. "I don't know where we're gonna find some one here. It looks like Fallout in real life." "It's an alternate universe, that could be the case." "Oh right that. Ow." Alfreda yelped feeling something stab him in the back. He felt it and pulled out a large hunting knife. "Hey look, free knife." Alfreda noted before realizing what happened and looked back, seeing some pink hair hiding behind a trash can. "Wow. Easier than I thought." Kul'as tweaked with the tools again before the doors opened and a mare that looked like the spitting image of Fluttershy was tossing at his feet. "That was awfully quick." Kul'as noted. "She tried to kill us. Well Alfreda at least." Selene answered. "I got a free Hunting Knife." Alfreda said happily twirling the weapon. "I found a good computer and found out about her. Her name is ironically Fluttershy, better known as The Kills Kindly Mutilator. Cruelest Serial Killer on this Universe's Equis. No one knows who she is, everyone wants her dead." "We got a perfect match!" Kul'as used his magic to toss Fluttershy onto a table than used metal clamps attached to it to keep her down. "Alfreda." Kul'as said giving him a scroll. "This is a serum I have the mind of making but I never found the time to envision it perfectly. All and any chemicals you need for it are in the next room, I have some other stuff to do. Selene, you get to play nurse. Alfreda will livestream what components you need to put in where to make it work." Selene let a sinister grin grow on her face grabbing the scalpel. "You spoil me." "No, the best job to have is the one you love to do." Alfreda backed out of the room into the next one actually terrified as Selene spoke again. "Now scream if this hurts." Alfreda was deep into his work, surprised at the connections he was making. It was as if it was in front of him and he just needed to write it out. 'And by adding these two compounds together it'll make the bones stronger than pure vibranium.' "Amazing voice in my head!" Alfreda said finishing it before realizing he just talked aloud. "I really need to stop doing that." "Alfreda!" Kul'as yelled. "We done yet?" "Yeah!" Alfreda yelled running out before seeing what they were doing to Fluttershy, parts of her insides exposed to the air while others were completely removed. Alfreda merely shuddered as they put her in the large tube before grabbing the liquid in the canister Alfreda made. "You sure that this'll work?" Kul'as asked filling a syringe with the liquid as Selene grabbed the canister and connected it to a tube into the chamber. "Yep, ran the numbers out, you never told me what the intention was, but I at least know these are the precise numbers you wanted, better if I don't mean to brag." Selene rolled her eyes as Kul'as injected Fluttershy than closed the chamber as the gassed filled it. "So where the heck are we?" Alfreda asked. "This universe appears to be an opposite of ours from the moment I killed Faust, well she got me too but semantics. This world's Celestia died killing Nightmare Moon, it was essentially a Regime world, but it was somehow worse. Ol Flutters here is an example of the worst." The gas dissipated revealing Fluttershy healed of her excessive wounds in one piece. "I'm going to murder you slowly with every tool in this lab!" she yelled, her eyes glowing red before she fell in the chamber in sheer agony. Her body seemed to change and bulge as her bones seem to start poking out, her back bones literally tearing out of her skin appearing like spikes. "Ok...WHY!?" Alfreda yelled. "Oh you see I grabbed some of that serum that created the oringal Saddle Rager that was intact here and injected it into her. However it needed a catalyst to fully take effect, with the serum I'll create a mutant of mass destruction made to kill Solarmare, and roll in the bits selling merchandise to take advantage of the grieving nation!" "Really, for all that?" "Don't get your undies in a bunch, you'll get a profit, I'm a little Doom shy at her surviving killing Solar Mare." "Doom shy?" "I know my word's beat my brain to my mouth sometimes." "No not that. Doomshy. I like that. I hereby christen this abomination of science Doomshy!" "Not yet my friend, we still need to leave the finishing touches in the hands of 'professionals.' " The scientists moved the resisting Doomshy into the new tube, around the height of a teenage dragon with the build of full grown stallion, her coat turning a slight grey hue. "So you're telling me that you found her locked up in a lab?" The scientist asked. "Oh of course. Why would I lie to you, when I heard of E.C.O.S. I thought you guys would be just as bad as your old ruler, but seeing how friendly at the entrance I knew I came to the right place." "LIES! HE...LIES!" Doomshy yelled out from her tube, struggling to speak as her teeth cracked and stretched, looking more like jagged daggers. "Oh she's incredibly aggressive. I found some notes on how to augment her mutation but I switched things around to change her back." Kul'as explained giving said notes to the scientist. "I was hoping these could work and make her normal again." "Oh rest assured we'll do everything in our power to make her better." "Hey Kul'as could you wait a minute I gotta take a dump." Alfreda asked walking to the bathroom. "Sure." Kul'as replied uninterested. Kul'as looked to see the calculations of the notes already done. "That fast?" "Yes, without interference from outside sources after the battle our machines are updated and can make calculations quickly." The scientist explained. "Interesting." Kul'as said before grabbing the newly created portal gun he worked on, firing it creating a purple portal. "I must thank you for your help on this. I'll be in touch." Kul'as said before Selene walked alongside him into the portal that quickly disappeared. Alfreda ran out just as it closed, some toilet paper stuck to his foot. "Have you seen a black demon with purple eyes?" "He just left sadly." "Crap! Now I'm stuck here with that thing!" Alfreda said pointing at Doomshy's tank before noticing the serum about to pump into it. "That should've taken weeks." "As I told your friend our machines are more advanced than you think, able to make calculations like this easily in minutes." "Uh oh." Alfreda whimpered as the serum was pumped into syringes and went inside the tank and injected her. Doomshy roared in agony as a change began to take place. Alfreda backed away as she began to transform faster, a twisted mirror of Saddler Rager's own transformation of growing muscle and bones, as it now included bone spikes poking out her body, her coat turning a fog hue grey. Alfreda ran to the elevator panicking as it was taking long to come down, looking back and seeing Doomshy quickly outgrow the size of her tank, the tank beginning to crack under pressure as guards circled around it. Alfreda sighed as the elevator opened allowing him to run in and press the button to take him to the lobby, but began to sweat as it took too long again, allowing him to see Doomshy burst out and start slaughtering the guards. Alfreda simply remained speechless as the door closed taking him to the lobby. Alfreda stepped out walking through the lobby out onto the street silent the whole way before walking into a alley to slump to the floor in shock at what he just saw. He heard a zoom and looked to where he just was seeing this world's Filli-Second, however her costume was more of a skimpy pitch black suit, her mane and tail flat, and her face covered with a mask that gave her face a sinister look which stretch with a smile of equal caliber looking at the building. 'Ok no.' Alfreda thought walking back into the alley before a lightning strike hit in front of him. He looked up to see this world's Zapp, major difference being her costume was red with black stripes, and half of her was made of actual lightning. "Ok. You're new, Alfreda, regular wirewolf caught at the wrong place and wrong time. You." "Crackle. The last name you'll hear." Crackle said with a smile generating some lightning in her regular hoof. "Oh great, you're one of those crazy ones aren't you?" "I'm not, Diana Quick and my boss? Definitely." "Boss?" Alfreda asked before turning around and seeing Diana facing her along with another mare. Apparently this world's Masked Matterhorn, but she was in a much more sinister costume, her eyes a blood red and her coat a piercing white, her cowl forming a sort of cone around the top of her head, giving her literal fiery mane a torch look. "Oh Hello, I already know Diana and Boom here who're you?" Alfreda asked then dodging a lightning bolt. "Crackle smartass." Said mare replied growling. "You're clever aren't you? Call me Anti-Matter, I knew I wasn't going to need all the girls to dispose of whatever anomaly came through, but if it's you, I wish I came alone." Anti-Matter gloated before a rumbling shook the ground. "Just for clarity that wasn't me." Diana added before a roar shook the air. "Well look at the time I have to be not here." Alfreda said before something bursted through the E.C.O.S. Undercover building sending rubble towards the group hitting Alfreda a few times, a particularly big piece clubbing him in the skull. "Sweet Caroline~ bah bah bah~!" Alfreda shouted before unconsciousness claimed him. "Well that's one problem solved." Crackle suggested before something stomped through the smoke. Doomshy was at the full size of Saddle Rager, her coat a dark grey, her mane bleached white, with large spikes protruding out across her body, her eyes and blood red as she held a scientist in one hoof. "You made it worse! Fix Me!" She demanded, her voice deep yet twisted. "I-I-I can't, he tricked us into using that serum worsening your condition, beyond repair almost, even if we could you destroyed any equipment left that could do it." Doomshy roared before slamming him into a ground, grinding him into a fine meaty paste. "Hey there!" Anti-Matter yelled earning Doomshy's attention. "You caught my attention, I am Anti-Matter of the Power Syndicate, and I have a proposition." Doomshy looked behind her at Alfreda who was managing to bring himself up. "YOU!" She roared then running towards him before Crackle shot lightning at her sending her back. Alfreda continued dragging himself to a manhole disappearing into the sewers as the Power Syndicate were caught up in their fight with Doomshy. An alarm sounded as the computer screened displayed 'Otherworldly Transmission Incoming.' Kul'as ran into the room sweating and pressed some buttons. "Go for Kul'as." "Kul'as~" Selene sang from the other room. "Tired already? I was gonna let you do that thing you wanted to." "Make it quick, now." "Hey douchebag! Remember me?! I'm Alfreda! The guy you left behind on another world!" The transmission cleared showing Alfreda bandaged and pissed. "Oh it's you. Wait I left you behind? I was wondering where you went, I've been calling you for six hours." "Yeah! Phone calls don't go across universes!" "Not unless it's my phone." "Point is it was after you left Doomshy with E.C.O.S. and I was in the bathroom!" "Oh yeah, I guess I did. Speaking of which how'd she turn out?" "Well just as bad as Saddle Rager, but you know evil." "Can you be more specific?" Alfreda pressed a button next to him causing a voice to be heard. "I WILL TURN YOU INTO B*CKING SCRAPMETAL!" A deep voice roared. "She's even better then I ever hoped to be." Kul'as said joyful. "Just please help me! I had to break into their HQ to get this done and she teamed up with the evil Power Ponies so you know this is fun." "Okay, get the list of parts I'm about to send you, then pray as hard as you can for Sa'luk. He'll help you from there." Suddenly, Kul'as' neck was surrounded by a blue magic aura. "Sorry buddy, you're on your on now." Kul'as gagged before he was dragged away as the transmission was cut. Alfreda began to cry as he realized what was most likely to happening, the list printing out next to him. "Why Faust? Why do you punish me? Is it because I asked you to turn the rainwater into wine that one time? Or was it because of that whole thing of me helping Kul'as perform unholy experiments turning a probably innocent mare into a monster? Or both even?" The door warped further to which Alfreda grabbed the list and jumped out a window flying off away from the tower, not stopping until he was outside the city limits. He looked at the list and began to go through the list, surprised at how much stuff in his chest hatch was on the list. He arranged the objects in a circle before taking the blue sapphire shard he found and placed it in the center. "Oh great noble demon Sa'luk, I summon you to aid me in my time of need, I do not wish to die and you are my only hope." Alfreda chanted before taking out the bottle of white ink and smashing it in the center of the circle. The ground glowed with a ominous yellow light before a light shone from the sky onto the circle. The ink and the ground under it cracked and floated into the air, the rocks and dirt coming together creating a four limbed skeleton. The ink swirled around it making a sort of skin before it glowed with a blinding light. Alfreda shielded his eyes from it and looked when it finally died down, revealing someone that looked just like Kul'as but had inverted colors, as in white skin with yellow eyes. "Greetings, my name is Sa'luk. I take it you know my brother, the last time I was resurrected was when he was blackout drunk." "Oh yeah I do, he stranded me here, after I helped him create a monster who just teamed up with the Power Ponies of this world, who are, you know...evil." "Oh I think I can help then." Sa'luk replied before a boom shook them. They both turned to see the Power Syndicate staring them down, Doomshy now sporting green boots on her back hooves and a sleeveless vest of the same color. "Hello Alfreda, we never go to properly talk last time." "I would've but you're evil, anything I say can and will be used against me." "Fair enough." Anti-Matter said then firing a heat beam at him, Alfreda narrowly dodging as Sa'luk barreled in engaging most of the group leaving Doomshy and Anti-Matter for Alfreda. Alfreda dodged many of Anti-Matter's heat blasts directing some of Doomshy's punches at Anti-Matter. Alfreda then took out the hunting knife that belonged to Doomshy and dodged a hit from the latter, bringing it down on her hoof cutting it clean off. "Wow, this is a surprisingly good knife." Alfreda noted before a fiery tail wrapped around his neck. He turned to see it belonged to Anti-Matter who pulled him in with a sadistic smile. "I know all about how you're from another universe, you're living proof. So you're going to tell me everything about it so I can enjoy conquering it even more, one piece of information at a time." "How about you blow me?" Alfreda asked before using the knife to cut the tail falling to the ground but avoiding Doomshy's slamming into the ground, her hoof having regenerated with spikes on it like a sort of brass knuckle. Anti-Matter looked at her tail and growled before looking at Alfreda. "Nevermind, I'll examine your corpse instead!" Anti-Matter fired a heat beam at Alfreda, sending it through his chest. Everyone stopped fighting to see Alfreda looking at his own gaping chest wound before it healed away as if nothing happened. "Oh yeah I could forgot I could do that." Anti-Matter's eye twitched before her horn glowed even brighter. "Regrow This." She fired another blast at him, but it wrapped around him and lifted him into the air. Alfreda struggled not to panic as he had no control on how to get out of this, and felt that this was the end. Alfreda here, just wanted to add in one little thing. You know looking back at it all, I realized something, I'm immortal, I can never die no matter what happens, so I'm just going to enjoy it, take it all in, life's short for everyone, but not me, so why not see what's out there. Back to story at hand. Alfreda decided if he was gonna die, he would leave one last impact. He threw the knife at Doomshy, causing it to bounce off her face leaving a deep scar under her right cheek, the knife rocketing towards Anti-Matter stabbing her right in the chest. "Suck my Dick~!!" Alfreda yelled in defiance before Anti-Matter's horn glowed brighter to which Alfreda exploded. Sa'luk stopped his fight looking up to see Alfreda's remains fall to the ground, Anti-Matter walking to his head piece that feel then smashed his head in with a simple hoof stomp. Sa'luk dodged a swipe from Diana Quick before he flew off for parts unknown. "Let me go after that four winged turd!" "Leave him. We have what we need now." Anti-Matter replied to Diana showing the remains of Alfreda. With these remains we can at least contact his universe, from there a whole multiverse to conquer. C'mon every pony, we have great work to do." Anti-Matter noted picking up the remains, the only thing falling out of her magic grip being a single claw from Alfreda. Alfreda opened his eyes and saw he was falling through the air, passing by clouds unsure of what happened. "What just happened, last thing I remember was fighting... someone." Alfreda said to himself before seeing the school he was falling towards. "MEGA CRA~~P!!" He screamed before bouncing off the pavement rocketing into the lockers inside, his memories sinking away with the massive concussion that came the moment he impacted the lockers. His eyes spun around as he began to drift into unconsciousness before seeing some weird hairless apes walked towards him. "Ow." Then everything went black. Author's Note And thus the saga is over, but there's an epilogue left though. Yes the end of the chapter leads directly into Alfreda and Cell's Mutliversal Adventure. Epilogue: New Bridges for New FutureKul'as looked at the portal machine than sighed. Alfreda hadn't come through like he thought, at least his brother was back, someone else to mess with sort of win win. Kul'as got up to do something Alfreda told him about incase he unexplainably died and walked out of his hideout, limping slightly repeatedly saying "Ow." 'If this was what would happen doing that thing I wanted to try out with Selene, it was totally worth it.' Kul'as looked at the apartment building uninterested, at least surprised seeing a chimera on the terrace of one of them. He looked down and ahead and was gasped at who he saw just as Fluttershy gasped seeing him. "What're you doing here?!" They asked simultaneously, Flutterhy's eyes glowing red as Kul'as hands glowed with purple flames. "I'm here to see what Alfreda did with that second chance I gave him, but I won't let you ruin what he must've made here." Fluttershy replied her voice starting to deepen. "Wait really?" Kul'as asked surprised, his hands flames going out. "Calm yourself Buttersky, we're acquaintances here now, Alfreda had... and unfortunate accident in that other universe, his last wish was that I come see what he did here as well." "Really?" Fluttershy asked stunned calming down before noticing something. "My names Fluttershy." "Potato Tomato it's all the same." Kul'as hand waved before walking alongside her, approached the house made of some kind of purple sludge that had been dried like clay. "Aha! So it is you!" A voice said prompting both of them to turn and see Blotch standing behind them with a scowling look. "Oh so you must Blotch, Alfreda has told me much about you." Kul'as said happily. "You have broken the trust of The Son of A Slobber!" Blotch replied angry. "Woah this is the first time I met you I would've remembered pissing you off." Kul'as retorted before Blotch grabbed him lifting him up in the air by the chest. "Confess to your crimes, skin like bad avocados reptilian, return my best friend now!" Blotch demanded shaking Kul'as. "Excuse me Mister Blotch, could you tell me what happened, I might be able to help." "It is simple she who is more shy than Blotch's Oma's pet groundhog, Alfreda came to Blotch to tell him that Alfreda was going to another universe, and wished for Blotch to punish Kul'as if he did not return the next day." "Oh I can explain, I accidentally left him behind but I gave him instructions to get back, he never came back so I understood he didn't make it, his last with for me was to come visit this place and see why he liked it so much." Blotch pondered on this a little before dropping Kul'as. "Blotch respects your vow to uphold Blotch's late Best Friend's last wish, and yet," Blotch grabbed a large metal gauntlet from out of nowhere, put it on his right hand, then grabbed Kul'as with his left. "You must be punished." "What is that Blotch?" Kul'as asked not liking where this is going. "The Gauntlet of Discipline. DO YOU LIVE IN A CAVE!?" Blotch yelled before bringing his gloved fist back and clocking Kul'as square in his face before putting the gauntlet away with a kind smile on his face. "All is forgiven." "Thank you Crotch." Kul'as slurred struggling to stand up from the hit as two teeth fell out of his mouth. Fluttershy was nervous but reached into her satchel pulling out some cupcakes. "I brought some cupcakes as a welcoming gift to Maretropolis. Courtesy of my friend Pinkie Pie." Blotch looked at the cupcakes and smiled. "Blotch was going to do the same to you, as he had listened to the countless tales of Alfreda's pain, but for bringing the Cupcakes of Sorriness. All is forgiven!" Blotch than grabbed Fluttershy giving her a bear hug in join. "Come inside, join Blotch as his family tells tales of blooming flowers following by the traditional dance of the Hairless Yachter." Blotch than dragged them both inside causing Fluttershy to gasp seeing the Blotling livestock moving around. "Oh my goodness. They're so cute!" Fluttershy jumped down to cuddle a snake like blotling with a single cute eye. "Yes Fluttershy, I admire your love for the troublemaker Horace, Blotch takes great pride in taking care of his live stock, less he be banished to the dryer." "Okay tell me everything about your weird culture so I can firmly grasp it." Kul'as said grabbed the ice pack provided by Blotch's Opa. "Very well he who has more limbs than Brother Gertrude's growth." "Sweet. Wait what?" "In the bowels of Two Greats Grandpapa Phantom Blot we gained minds when he visited The Old Country, we wished to leave the dark and smelly world..." Blotch began to speak as Fluttershy and Kul'as sat down to listen to the story. 'This is nice.' Fluttershy thought to herself as she petted Horace. 'Thank you for everything Alfreda, where ever you are, I hope you're happy and at peace.' She thought with a smile thinking the best for the immortal wirewolf. "The moment we catch you, WE'LL MAKE YOU REGRET THE DAY YOU STARTED TO WALK!!" Alfreda yelled shooting blasts at Cell along with Juan and Freckles, Ponyville long past the anger while El Quatros Locos wasn't even done, the only problem the town having being that the group was having their chase continuously in a circle around the town. So that's my story: Fun in the golden age, some depression, being reborn, dying again all that good stuff, if you wanna find out what happened in my multiversal adventure pick up Alfreda and Cell's Mutliversal Adventure, sold alongside this. This story is dedicated to my friends in the Mane-iac Henchmares and my mother Mane-iac and old girlfriend Lather. i hope you guys read this to know how much you mean to me. Now if you'll excuse me, Two hooves got his head stuck in the freezer again and Cell got his face stuck in the sink so I'm writing this last part. Busy day with two idiots working against me as I try to free them, but hey I'm Alfreda Tanger, this ain't nothing to me. Author's Note And thus the Alfreda trilogy is complete. Beginnings, the Wanderings, and the Adventure, Everything has come full circle. Alfreda: Nick Landis(Lanipator) Logic: Corey Burton Ezekiel The Naustic: Alex Hirsch Cell, Kul'as: Curtis Arnott(Takahata101) Juan: Burnie Burns Shadow Blot: Fred Tatasciore Blotch: Peter Kelamis Spatter: Anthony 'Antfish' Sardinha Slobber: Dee Bradley Baker Masked Matterhorn/Twilight Sparkle, Lather: Tara Strong Zapp/Rainbow Dash, Mistress Marevelous/Applejack, Rinse: Ashleigh Ball Radiance/Rarity, The Moon Knight/Luna, Selene: Tabitha St. German Filli-second/Pinkie Pie, Saddle Rager/Fluttershy: Andrea Libman Solarmare: Nicole Oliver Rodan/Marty: Gustavo Sorola Shadow Blot/ Ricky: Burnie Burns or Geoff Ramsey Dusk/Aaron: Jason SaladaƱa Timberwolf/Terry: John Dimaggio Masqe/Joe: Jeremy Shada Gears, Devastator: Dan Goodwin The Mane-iac: Ellen Kennnedy Seth: Seth Macfarlene Prell: Dan Castenella The Phantom Blot: Chris Guerrero Blade Wilson/Crescent Blade/Red Horn: Will Friedle Blood Steel, S.A.I.R.A.H. : Grey DeLise Red Horn will return in Vengeful Guardians: The Mercs of Justice As will Alfreda. Chapter 1: A Loser is BornA yellow wirewolf screamed like a coward as he was sent flying uncontrollably into the air, nothing slowing him down. Just as he was about to explode, everything seemed to stop. You ever be somewhere and wonder... how the f*ck did I get caught up in this? Well I have, many times throughout my entire life. My name is Alfreda, and this is my story- Hold it! Alfreda looked at Cell with annoyance. "What now?" "You said this was an autobiography, but now you want me to write this part like you're writing it?" "It's the foreward, now shut it and start writing, and before you ask, for parts I weren't there for I asked the people that weren't there about what happened." "Fine, I'm just saying is all-" "You want some of the money I might make from this or not?" Alfreda asked in a deadpan. Now where to begin, you may ask, for this tale of greatness. Yeah more like cowardice- CELL I SWEAR TO FAUST! As I was saying, I guess we start with, when I was born... A henchpony's hoof knocked on the steel door, some bagels in her purple magical aura. Her coat was a snow white with a flat like green mane, her cutie mark a heart on a hairdryer. "Boss. You ok? It's me Lather. You've been down there for a week we're starting to get worried. Heck a couple of them are even talking about mutiny." Suddenly the door opened and some tentacles grabbed Lather and pulled her in before slamming shut. They dropped her to the flow and Lather found her self in front of the Mane-iac, who had hairs sticking out of her mane near the roots and her eyes bloodshot, chuckling crazier then normal. "Hello Lather, how kind of you to come down here. Just in time to see my newest creation." "What?" Lather asked confused. "You see I finally figured out why my schemes are failing, not only do I have you incompetent fools working for me, no offense to you and your sister lather, but because the Power Ponies are just to much for us, so I created the perfect killing machine to whip those idiots into shape and get rid of those Cursed Costumed Crusaders once and for all. Lather, I give you..." Mane-iac then gestured to the table behind her, a spotlight on it revealing the robot in the middle. He had a shape like a long upside down trapezoid, with two skinny arms with 3 appendages, barely coming up to the top of Lather's head. An antenna stuck out of his head as he had a single eye no light coming out. "Alfreda." She finished. "Yes I now not a good name but I'm trying to come up with an acronym so it makes more sense. So far I have Annihilating Lubricated Free-willed Ripping Eviscerating and Destroying Android. Working on the L though. Let's give him a go now." Mane-iac pressed a button and electricity surged through Alfreda, causing him to wake up, his eye glowing red as he rolled off the table and to the Mane-iac. "Hello mother, how are you today?" Alfreda asked in an emotionless yet authoritative voice. "Pretty happy now that I got you little buddy." Mane-iac responded, her usual tone back before she landed to the floor and snoring. "My scanners say she has finally succumbed to sleep fatigue. It will be at least 48 hours till she awakens. Assemble the henchponies. Announcements must be made with my new arrival." Alfreda said as he rolled off. All of the henchponies were assembled by Lather and Rinse, confused at how the Mane-iac was nowhere to be seen. Alfreda rolled into their vew earning a chuckle or two from some of the stallions. "Greetings subordinates, I am Mane-iac's Annihilating Lethal Functioning Rending Eviscerating and Destroying Android. Or A.L.F.R.E.D.A for short." a couple of the stallions then laughed. "Now that I have you attention, I am the ultimate weapon created by the Mane-iac to dispose of the Power Ponies that have proved too much of a nuisance to our criminal operations. As planned by her, I now declare myself the new second in command of her, Lather shall be my second in command in turn. The Ex Second in Command Seth will now be lookout for Power Ponies if they come to our HeadQuarters." Seth, a stallion in black with an ankh for a cutie mark, stomped up to Alfreda with a look of anger on his face. "What makes you thinks you can just roll on in here on your tiny wheel and declare you're second in charge?! I'm second in command not you, you mare named one eyed walking toaster!" He yelled in his face. Alfreda merely blinked. "Such vocabulary for such a small brain. Tell me, have you heard of Russian Roulette? If so, how about my variation?" Alfreda then grabbed Seth by the neck and held him against a wall, taking a revolver out with one chamber empty. "It's simple, If I pull the trigger and it clicks, your life is spared, if not, then you can at least be an example." Alfreda then spun the case around then put the gun to Seth's head, who was shaking in terror as Alfreda's finger began to squeeze. Lather watched in horror then walked up. "Alfreda, as your second in command I'm asking you please spare Seth, he's just not happy about being demoted. Would Mane-iac approve of her only son killing so early?" Alfreda stopped for a second as he scanned Seth's body, emotions of rage and fear pouring out of him. "She wouldn't unless it was to preserve my own life. Your argument...is logical." Alfreda dropped Seth who backed away. "But just to see." Alfreda pulled the trigger, causing a shot to bang out, he did so until he heard click, all five shots went off. "Looks like Lather was more kind to you then chance this time Seth." Alfreda then dropped the gun like a mike then rolled off, leaving every cowering at how emotionless he just took control. Mane-iac woke up feeling refreshed and walked up out of the basement, shocked at how the henchponies were working overtime, save for Lather and Rinse who were managing them. She swung over to them a bit confused. "What happened while I was asleep?" She asked. "Good to see you awake boss." Lather responded. "Alfreda forcefully took control, by the way he replaced Lubricated and free-willed with Lethal and functioning, and now he's working on some inventions non-stop in your office." Mane-iac swung over to the door and walked in, finding blueprints scattered everywhere as Alfreda worked on one on the board. "Splendid to see you awakened and fully functioning mother. Please examine some of my blueprints while I finish this one up." Mane-iac looked at the one by her hooves and looked surprised at the schematics and the calculations made. "A power siphoning machine?" "Brilliant isn't it? I'm amazed that no other villains have thought up of such an ingenious device. We take the Power Ponies powers then we transfer them into the villains Smudge, Pharaoh Phetlock, Long Face, Shadowmane, High Heel, and yourself." "Excellent. But how do you know they won't turn on me or each other?" "The moment they do, with the press of a button I suck their powers out and transfer them into you." "Ooh I love it already. Anything else?" "Yes. A hairdryer cannon that amplifies the power of your mane at least one million times based on the numbers and effect of everyone else's mane growing uncontrollably. And finally, the Hairspray Ray of Doom. It's able to completely immobilize your target and render their powers useless. The effects are temporary, but long enough to imprison them. I have even formulated a plan using all three inventions. First we will use them in separate schemes and at some put when they least expect it. Then when we have them together, we will use the Hairspray Ray of Doom and then trap them. Once fully secured we take their powers then transfer them into you then fire the Hair Dryer cannon on them amplifying the power of your mane. Your strengthened mane combined with mainly Radiance's constructs, Zapp weather manipulation, Filli-Second's speed, and Saddle Rager's pure destructive strength and might, not only will we gain control of Maretropolis, but within a few days afterward, we'll take control of all of Equestria, then the entire planet with several weeks." Mane-iac's grin widened at the thought of controlling so much power when something occurred to her. "Wait what about Solar Mare and Moon Knight?" "Same thing as what we will do with the Power Ponies. Take their power as well." Alfreda replied. "But to before I can begin construction on the devices, I need to take measures of their power, especially their ace in the hole Saddle Rager. Speaking of which..." As if timed, an alarm went off and Rinse ran into the room. "Alfreda! We pulled off the heights across town like you said but the Power Ponies are hitting us at all the spots. Forgive me if I offend you but you didn't plan this out?" "Oh I did, the heists weren't meant to be successful, they were meant to draw out the Power Ponies." Alfreda then punched something into the computer before rolling out. "Have one of the bodies I made out and ready. Knowing Saddle Rager I know it won't end with me intact." Alfreda then rolled out, leaving the Mane-iac and Rinse surprised. Matterhorn froze another henchpony as Fillie-Second rounded all the frozen ones up putting them in awkward positions. Matterhorn found 2 more trying to escape but stopped them. "Tell us who had you doing this." "Don't look far." A voice said behind her promptly her to look behind her and get punched in the face by a skinny arm with a lot of force. Matterhorn found her footing and faced the small robot. "Greetings. My name is Alfreda. It stands for Annihilating Lethal Functioning Rending Eviscerating and Destroying Android." "You still have a girl's name." Filli-Second responded. "You know what, to hay with it, Eye Cannon." "Eye Cannon?" Filli-Second asked before dodging a laser beam from Alfreda's eye. She then charged at Alfreda who dodged surprisingly. "Ole." He said before elbowing her. Matterhorn shot another beam at Alfreda who took a trash can lid and shielded himself from the ice beam before throwing the lid at her. Matterhorn dodged only to get uppercutted by Alfreda. Filli-Second looked incredibly mad him. "Oh man you got me mad, I guess to the point you can call it a rage." "And based on your background I could call it a rage which can be mainly found in the western-most county of Long Island, Neigh York." Alfreda replied. "Yeah. ALSO KNOWN AS BROOKLYN!!" She yelled as she kicked him in the eye sending him into a mailbox. Alfreda pulled himself out then dashed for Filli-Second who swung at him only for him to hit her in a pressure point in the neck, knocking her unconscious. Alfreda looked over to Matterhorn who was also knocked out before taking out a log. "Field Report 1: Matterhorn's blasts are limited to a degree but are still hazardous to systems like mine requiring shields or other defenses to either block them or reflect them all together. Filli-Second reveals to not only have super speed, but a bit of a temper, most likely due to where her upbringing was from, and when I had delivered a cut to one of her legs, examination shows it has healed hinting at some form of healing factor thanks to her super speed, this will be taken into account during the operation with the Power Siphoner. Side note: come up with more interesting name for Power Siphoner." "Field report 2: Radiance's constructs seem to come from the pink bracelets on her front hooves amplified by a spell used by her horn, all though it appears more strain is visual when using the bracelets more then her horn, most likely not very strong willed in order to use bracelets more efficiently. Marevelous possesses no actual powers save for her psychic connection to her rope, which appears to be completely impervious to any weapons attempting to cut it, as my chainsaw and katana showed against it. Zapp's weather manipulation has untold possibilities of usefulness, but she limits herself to lightning and tornados, most likely due to either not much knowledge on weather for more potential attacks or restraint as attacks may damage city more then villains. Humdrum posses no interesting features save for possible underdog based on records and may be only connection the Power Ponies have to let the citizens know they won't turn on them, especially Saddle Rager based on her history. Speaking of the latter, I am off to take analysis of her, do not be surprised if this is my last long, but if not then she will be the new subject of one of my researches." Alfreda then rolled off, leaving the unconscious Power Ponies all in a pile and Humdrum tied and gagged as to not interfere with Alfreda's plan The Mane-iac's henchponies cowered as Saddle Rager took one step towards them, shaking the ground. One Henchstallion looked terrified. "I can't outrun her. Wait, but it won't matter as long as I can outrun you!" He said looking at the Henchmare next to him, which he then kicked out one of her legs earning a scream of pain from her. "SAVE YOURSELVES!" He yelled before running off like a coward. Every one of them screamed as Saddle Rager prepared to charge when a tiny wheel hit her on top of the head. "Excuse me, colossal equine in torn spandex." She turned around and Alfreda stood there, cattle prod and another wheel in his small claws. "Why don't you pick on somepony your own muscle mass?" 'Note to self, write list of better taunts in order to intimidate foes more, especially if they're Saddle Rager.' Alfreda thought before Saddle Rager roared at him and ran for him, to which he rolled off as the henchponies escaped, Lather looking back. "Alfreda are you insane?!" She yelled to him. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, unless of course it actually works once so that would be persistent. The term in this case would be suicidal. Which I am not by the way." Alfreda yelled as he rolled away from Lather as Saddle Rager chased him down the street. Rinse placed her hoof on her sisters shoulder. "He'll die as he lived." "Emotionless?" Lather asked. "And alone." Alfreda rolled as fast as his wheel could carry him, dodging a car flying past him. "Project Rage: Field Report 1: Saddle Rager shows great strength when angered as she's currently throwing several cars at me as if they weighed like styrofoam. Also reasoning with her is most likely out of the question as so far she has only replied in either growls or, yelling 'get back here!' The former of the two more common." Alfreda turned his body around while his wheel remained forward, and shot a rocket at her only for her to run through it angered even more. "And apparently shooting at her only pisses her off more, which adds fuel to the ass beating." Alfreda added his eye turning blue with a green pupil in a voice with a tad more emotion in it for a minute before changing back to red. "Odd, where did that come from? Cataloging outburst for later examination." Alfreda rolled into an alley and rolled out the other side pressing a detonator causing the alley to explode with smoke and napalm. "Saddle Rager subdued." Alfreda said before Saddle Rager rammed into him, her eyes redder then before. "Revelation: The angrier Saddle Rager is made, the stronger she gets. Side Note:" Saddle Rager began to slam him around. "AH! OW! PAIN! DAEGE! D'OH! OUF!" Mane-iac paced around nervously as Alfreda still hadn't come back yet. "Just calm down boss, I'm sure he's on his way." Lather assured the Mane-iac. "THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID 10 MINUTES AGO!" Mane-iac yelled before breathing in and out. "I'm sorry I'm just very stressed with what might've happened. But best case scenario is that he smashes through the roof." As if by pure chance Alfreda crashed through the roof, smashing into a couple of pieces. "Should've worded that differently." Rinse noted. Mane-iac quickly grabbed several tools and a spare body of Alfreda's and fixed him as quickly as she could. Alfreda stood there completely yellow now, and his eye turned on, fizzing red before turning blue with a green and yellow pupil. "Ok...ow." Mane-iac hugged Alfreda tightly as a tear left her eye, a henchstallion noticing. "Are you crying?" Mane-iac pimped slapped him with her mane into a wall earning a groan from him. "I deserved that." Alfreda chuckled at the henchstallion earning some surprising looks form some of the henchponies. "Did Alfreda just laugh?" "I did? Weird." "I guess getting his ass kicked gave him some emotions." Lather concluded. "Maybe." Alfreda agreed before his eye fizzled back to red. "Another one? I will look into these outbursts tonight.." Alfreda then rolled on when he found a lifeless wirewolf staring at him. "and this is?" He began to ask. "Someone Mane-iac built for you so you, you know, don't go over the edge and kill ponies." "It was illogical to do so as my protocols keep me from going too far, but companionship would ease my mind a bit before I begin working on the Power Siphoner." Alfreda replied as Mane-iac turned the wirewolf on who blinked as he looked around. "Wow...so what's for fun around here?" He asked. "Define Fun." Alfreda stated. "Those two should get along just fine." Lather whispered to the Mane-iac. "Well see how this goes." Mane-iac responded as Alfreda and the Wirewolf walked off. Author's Note And thus a friendship is created and a story begins. Alfreda's outbursts will become more frequent as time passes on. Next Chapter will take place during the Power Ponies annual comic, but my take on the events with Alfreda involved a bit Chapter 12: Relics of the Past, Equal pain in the Future.Alfreda somehow grew a beard as he continued to rummage through junk in the basement as another Wirewolf walked behind him. "Hey Alfreda what'cha looking for?" He asked. "Who the heck are you?" "Oh I'm Matt, Mom built me incase they ever sent her back to Balkham so that way I could break her out." "Well I didn't hear her laugh upstairs so you're doing a terrible job at it. I'm looking for something to make today interesting." Alfreda said before he found a plug but couldn't see what it was connected to. He pulled on it and it caused a huge pile of junk to collapse and a large machine rolled out. Alfreda looked it over it great curiosity before looking back to Matt. "The heck is this?" "The power siphoner, created by the Mane-iac's smartest henchman from the Golden Age of Heroes. Used it to take the powers of the Power Ponies of back then and transferred them into the Alliance of Malevolence." "What happened then?" "The Power Ponies turned them against each other. And the real reason it worked was because 3 blotlings attacked High Heel, who received Saddle Rager's powers, meaning their take was out of play for the fight. In my opinion she should've been at maximum angry to escape." Alfreda looked at the machine before an idea struggled to from in his technical two month and some change fresh head. "Hold on, can this thing be used to transfer abilities instead of just stealing them?" "I think so, why?" "Awesome! Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "I think so, but aren't you not allowed at the Zoo anymore?" "No not the thing with the tutu, and who told you about Bert? I mean I may have found the solution to my problem." Alfreda walked out of the basement with the confident smile as he looked up at the storm clouds. "I have learned I cannot be hurt from Lather when she brought me down some food after a week in that basement, I think I trade it with someone else's powers. If you can hear me now Faust, send me a sign if I should do it." It began to rain. "I'll take that as a yes! So if you could please, turn the rainwater into wine! For today belongs to Alfreda 'Quarter Spine'- " Alfreda didn't finish as he moved back as to not be hit by a passing car. "That was close." Alfreda held he mouth open expecting the rainwater to become wine, but was only rewarded with a lightning bolt to the mouth shocking his whole body. "Ouchie." Was all Alfreda said he he laid on the ground smoldering. Zapp patrolled across the city, bored as there was barely any crime that took long to take care of. She stopped near an alleyway when she heard something. "Hey, you cool?" "Heck yeah, I'm the coolest pony in all of Equestria." Zapp said walking in. She looked around not seeing anyone until someone came behind her and covered her mouth with a rag of chloroform knocking her out. "Weather Manipulation for Healing? That sounds better already." Alfreda said dragging her away. Alfreda made sure Zapp's bonds were tight even if she was unconscious, then looked over to Matt. "Is everything in place?" "All good to go." Matt replied. "All right. Hello to personal snow days in three... two-Gah! Scratch that, I need to launch an butt to toilet missile, wait until I get back on the platform." Alfreda then walked away to the bathroom while Matt grabbed a magazine featuring the Mane-iac not noticing Saddle Rager flying in on the platform. "Alfreda? Man you go mad quick." Matt noted before turning on the machine, switching Saddle Rager's powers with Zapp's and vice versa. Matt looked up from his magazine and panicking, his Saddle Rager with a concussion blast from a gun he was working on. Alfreda came into the room hearing something. "Matt what the heck I'm not even in the room yet." Alfreda stop noticed Matt standing with his rifle ready. "Matt, you didn't turn on the machine right?" "I thought you were on it." Matt replied. "Wait a minute, if Zapp's tied up, and we're the only ones here, then the hell's was on the platform?" Alfreda before looking over Matt seeing the unconscious Saddle Rager then grabbing the gun angry. "MATT! What the heck!? I can clearly see she wasn't provoked, and I could've gotten two powers for one." "You're not the kind of guy to get angry." Matt noted, neither Wirewolves noticing Zapp beginning to wake up groggily. "wha?" Zapp groaned out groggily before she saw a smoking Saddle Rager with alfreda standing over her. "Uh oh." "What did you DO?!" Alfreda threw the gun back to Matt as he began to back away. "It was in self defense and he did it!" "You coward!" Matt yelled. "Well it's true!" Zapp was ready to pounce when her head started to hurt extremely. She saw herself in a nearby mirror, her beginning to glow red with anger. "I'm going to be the first to crap myself while I die slowly." Matt said. "Too late, I beat you too it." Alfreda replied terrified. Zapp then began growl as she grew, her muscles thickening as parts of her costume ripping during the transformation. The sound of cracking bones filled the air as her coat color deepened slightly and her wings grew bigger, different from Saddle Rager's. Finally her necklace with the pendent on it snapped falling to the ground near Saddle Rager. She stood over Alfreda and Matt, now the size of Saddle Rager, if not much bigger, as she let out a roar of pure rage, roughly translating in any language to, "You're about to die." "Super run away!" Alfreda yelled before he ran for the window followed by Matt. Alfreda fell a few feet before he landed on his feet on the ground below. "Huh, so that's why I'm called Catman, I just thought they were being insensitive about my species." Alfreda noted before Matt landed in a dumpster behind him. He heard a rumble before Zapp bursted through the wall next to him and looked at him, a want for his death in her eyes. "Save us Catman!" Matt yelled before Alfreda slammed the lid on him. "Save yourselves!" He yelled before running away. Alfreda ran as fast as his legs would allow him to go, his motivation coming from the stomps of Zapp. As Alfreda turned a corner, something clicked in his head. Since Saddle Rager's wings stayed the same, it would most likely be impossible for her to fly. Alfreda deployed his wings and flew up out of Zapp's range to grab. "I won't be able to get you on the ground, but these are the skies, the domain of those who can do it." Alfreda gloated with a laugh before a huge flap caught his attention. He looked and saw Zapp with a smile on her face as her huge wings kept her up. "Correction, the skies, my domain." Zapp corrected, scaring Alfreda as her voice was deep. Alfreda made what was possibly the dumbest mistake in his life, and tried to punch Zapp only for her to grab his arm with her tail. "Please don't break my arm." "No." Zapp snapped her tail breaking his arm earning a scream of pain from him. Some henchponies were relaxing at a cafe as Mane-iac was locked up in Balkham Asylum so they technically had a week or so off, depending on how long it took her escape. Lather was simply enjoying her latte in peace while some henchstallions were enjoying some wine. "Come on Lather, lighten up and get with the times." Prell asked her. "No thanks, I got that out of my system back when the original Power Ponies were around." Lather noted before Alfreda ran by the cafe, his left arm broken in three places and one of his wings sticking out crooked as he screamed. The other henchponies minus Lather simply shrugged it off, until Zapp, bigger then the size of Saddle Rager ran by them chasing Alfreda. Prell looked at the other henchponies and they all thought the same thing then threw the wine bottles they had to the floor. Lather simply groaned before lighting her horn and vanishing in a teleport. Zapp scanned the docks around her, knowing Alfreda had ran into this area, then sniffed the air, grinning as she had caught his scent: fear drenched in lot and lots of urine. Zapp made a jump across them and looked at a nearby shipping container, she tore a piece of it off, finding a bunch of wirewolf shells covered in Alfreda's urine. 'Smartass.' Zapp thought to herself before she heard something crash. "Son of a bitch!" A familiar voice said, prompting her to(All though almost impossible to) sneak to behind a corner and peak seeing Alfreda covered in traffic cones from another shipping container before he ran off. With a plan forming in her head, she smiled and took a flap of her wings alerting Alfreda slightly. Alfreda looked behind him from hearing a flap but then turned back and began to speed walk afraid. He heard another whoosh and began to sprint until he heard a series of rapid whooshes and looked in front of him. "Protect me cone!" He yelled as Zapp rammed into him, slamming through several shipping containers until they both hit and tore into a freighter. Alfreda pulled himself out of some shrapnel and began to run to the hole. Zapp almost pulled him back with her tail but thinking on his feet he cut the hair and jumped out and rolled surprised to find Lather there. "Lather what're-" "Shut up and duck." Lather simply said before firing a rocket launcher at the freighter, hitting it's fuel lines and blowing the whole thing up, the shock wave caused a craned to swing around hitting him into the water. Alfreda rushed to the surface and kept himself afloat before turning to Lather. "How'd you find me?" "Not hard to follow a trail of holes left by her, as well as the long yellow puddle in the middle. Speaking of which what exactly happened to her?" "Matt was an idiot so naturally he accidentally switched her powers with Saddle Rager's. I wanted to switch my Healing factor with Zapp's powers, you see what happens when I have idiots help me in crucial stuff." "You do realize Zapp's powers come from her pendent, and only the worthy, which you are far from, can wield it?" "Oh come on! I wasted hours fixing that dumb machine just to find out my plan meant jack squat?!" Alfreda yelled, not noticing the large rainbow mane move through the water like a shark fin behind him before sinking. Lather began to stutter as she saw the mane and pointed at it, but no words came out of her mouth. "Knock it off, I've seen your Shemp, it was only funny the first time." The mane moved through the water again but closer to him. "Okay what feels like Jaws?" Alfreda looked behind him right in time before Zapp to rise up with a smirk. Alfreda made his best Curly impression as he tried to swim away only for Zapp to grab him then pull him under. Matterhorn looked around the flaming docks where she could as Filli-Second ran next to her. "Find her yet?" "No. I don't understand, how is it this hard to find a pony that size?" Matterhorn asked as Alfreda zoomed past them like a skipping stone and smashed into some shipping containers. "I can do this all day." Alfreda said slurry. "You can crush me but you can't crush my spirit." A shipping container fell then crushed Alfreda where he stood. "AHH MY SPIRIT!" Alfreda yelled before the shipping container was lifted by Lather with her magic and pulled Alfreda out then running away. Zapp rammed through some other containers running for them until Marevelous' lasso wrapped around her neck and pulled her back. "Easy Zapp, don't make us hurt you." She asked. "Get off!" Zapp yelled swinging her head around throwing Marevelous into a shipping container. Applejack got up shaking it off as Zapp charged at her only for some purple chain constructs from Radiance to wrap around her legs causing her to fall down. "Matterhorn has she said anything to you over the link?" "I tried talking to her but I couldn't hear myself over her." "What'd she say?" "Rage. Just rage, and lots of profanity,like an unnecessary amount, especially for Alfreda and Marevelous." "Zapp smash!" Zapp roared slamming herself into the ground cracking the chains causing Radiance to sweat as she put more energy into the construct before Zapp pulled with all her might shattering it with little to no effort. Angry with how they tried to chain her, Zapp charged at Radiance and Matterhorn before a lightning bolt hit her causing her to stumble and stop. She looked at her back seeing the scorch mark which began to heal as she grew angrier before looking up trying to see whoever struck her, surprised seeing Saddle Rager with Zapp's pendent around her neck. "Zapp! You stop this rampage right now! You should be ashamed of yourself causing all this destruction over a simple misunderstanding." Zapp began to cower slightly, beginning to shrink as Saddle Rager gave her an intense stare as she flew in front of her face. "Just because you have my powers doesn't mean you're special. That's good for me though because that means I can reprimand you without changing! You stay right there because you have a lot of time to think about what you've done." Zapp was back to normal, hiding her face with her wings as Saddle Rager huffed before calming herself down. "Saddles that was awesome!" Filli-Second yelled excitingly. "Good job, as soon as she's done cowering like that let's try to find Alfreda." "What'd you say?!" Zapp yelled before Radiance created a cage construct around her. Alfreda laid in the hospital bed, several Iron lungs attached together and onto his body, only his right arm, which was in a cast, and his head were visible. Matt and Lather stood by him as the doctor walked in. "Well guys I got good news and bad news and good news. Good news is he survived. Bad news is that that Iron Lung is the only thing that's keeping him alive. The good news after that is I still get paid from him being hooked up to those." The doctor told Alfreda with a chuckle at the end. "I'll leave you and your friends to figure out what's next." The doctor then left leaving the three of them in the room. "So what now?" Matt asked. "Well we ned to figure out how to solve this Zapp Rager problem. So time to wake up the only guy that knows how." Lather said before taking out a taser and zapping Alfreda in the nostrils with it. "PLEASE ZAPP NO I CAN'T AFFORD DRY CLEANING!!" Alfreda yelled waking up seeing the confused faces of both Matt and Lather about his choice of words. "You forget you heard that." "How do you fix this?" "Easy just switch her power back with Saddle Rager's. The key to it all is to attach the sparkplug it needs to work. Luckily I grabbed it from the machine before I ran. It's amazing how sturdy it is." Alfreda said earning a deadpan from both Lather and Matt. "What?" Saddle Rager escorted Zapp to her desk, both of them out of costume wanting to stay incognito, Saddle Rager making sure no one was going to anger her. "You don't need to be here Fluttershy, I can do this myself." "No Rainbow Dash, you be calm now, but getting my powers made you more volatile, and we can't risk you changing while you're in public out of costume." "Fine, anger management seems like too much but if it'll make you feel better sure. Also I'm sorry I lost control, I just felt so intoxicated from that strength all I thought about was getting Alfreda for what he did." "I know that feeling way too well to let it get you too Rainbow." "So you admit you like throttling him?" Rainbow said, her eyes sly. "What? N-no I was just trying to empathize with you on my powers-" "All right shut up, your teachers here!" A voice said interrupting Fluttershy as a Wirewolf walked in drinking a bottle of cider sitting at the desk up front facing the room. "Terry? You know the teacher sits there." "Duh. I am the teacher." "You? When you can't even control your cider problem?" Dash complained her eyes a tinge pink. "Hey I can quit anytime I want, I chose not to, now shut it, it's Anger Management not a CA meeting. Seems appropriate that you're here." Rainbow clenched her jaw as she growled. "I'll give you a reason I'm here..." "Okay let us begin, I am your teacher for Anger Management, Terry Tearing-Limbs R~odriguez. You're all here for several reasons, some of you came on your own accord which is pure bull. Others have done something which caused them to have to come here to find out why they're full of rage. To find out how to uncover that we must first ask what is rage? Rage is just like cider, when aged to a certain point, it can have a long lasting effect on you, and may bring out emotions that you've never known you had but kept suppressed." Terry then downed the rest of the bottle his body and shuddered as he put it in the trash. "Hey Cider Vacuum what the hell does that mean?" A mare in the back asked. "Huh?" Terry asked slurry. "Oh yeah it means the first step to solving anger is not drinking." "Yeah I don't buy it." "If I wanted to see an idiot drink cider, I'd have gone to the Cider Drinking class." "The drinking of Cider is much like your rage." Tirek said gesturing to the bottle he held. "Just drink the cider ya pansy!" Kul'as yelled agitated. Rainbow walked into the room with the others Fluttershy escorting her. "So how'd the class go?" Applejack asked. "What'd you think?" Dash asked annoyed. "It was pointless. Especially with Terry being the idiot to teach it." "Whoa calm down, he can be dumb but there's no need to go there." Spike replied. "Stay out of this!" Dash shouted at him. "Alright you two no need to all worked up." Applejack said as she gently nudged Dash away from Spike. "Stay out of this AJ before kick you flank all the way to Washingtrot!" "Them's fightin' words Dash. Ya'll hunker down before ya do something you'll regret." "Oh I'll regret?" Dash yelled as her eyes glowed red with rage. "You're the one who's gonna regret this!" Dash's body began to grow in size as her strength multiplied. When her transformation was complete she let a menacing snarl escape her lips which caused AJ to back up nervously. "Good going Applejack." Spike said sarcasticly. "Now we're both screwed." Fluttershy flew up to behind Dash's ear where she scratched at it while talking to her. "Calm down Rainbow Dash, we're all friends here, there's no need to get mad, we're all trying to find a way to fix this." Dash began to shrink as she calmed down until she was back at her normal height. "Really that's it?" Spike asked. "That's all it took to calm you down?" "Would you rather I get pissed off again?" Rainbow asked as her eyes flashed red once more causing Spike to turn tail and run away hinding behidn Twilight. "That's what I thought. Thanks for keeping me in check Fluttershy." "Oh of course Dashie. It would be just awful to see you hurt our friends. I know you don't mean the things you say." Fluttershy said smiling. "Actually I do mean most of the things I say." "Like the mean things even?" Rainbow nodded. "Oh well um you would still feel bad for hurting your friends when you get mad right?" "Not really. If I pound them they probably deserve it." A transmission broke through the mane computer as Lather appeared on it. "Hey, Zapp, you there, I have a deal for you. I know you guys took the power siphoner, but we have the key piece it needs to work. Come over to Mane cool as a cucumber and this won't end bad." "That's not how you make them come." Matt said as he bumped Lather"Hey, I'm betting you're too chicken to come over here and face Alfreda by yourself or you can keep your new powers for good." Matt then hung up the transmission. Alfreda's eye twitched uncontrollably as he spoke. "Matt come here." Matt obliged coming closer allowing Alfreda to use his free hand to strangle Matt. "YOU'RE DEAD! IF I'M GONNA DIE YOU'RE DEAD FIRST YOU EMPTY HEADED CAN OPENER!" Lather separated the two before Alfreda could finish the job and calmed him down. "Easy Alfreda, she's probably not gonna take it seriously." The Power Ponies simply stood there staring at the static before Pinkie came back to her senses first. "So are we gonna got in peacefully and just talk to them or is Dashie really gonna go hooves punching?" Everyone looked over at Dash before her eyes began to glow red as she began to smile evilly. "I'm going to enjoy pummeling him way more then I should." Dash said jumping through the nearby window as she began to transform running in towards Mane Street. Lather rolled Alfreda's bed, Iron Lung and everything down the street as Matt ate a fancy dinner that was on a food cart attached to it, sitting in a chair he attached to it as well. "So we just need to get you back to Mane-iac's place and we can put this behind us when we attract." Lather explained before a rumbling shook the ground. "ALFREDAAAAAAAAAA!!!" A familiar voice shouted deepening. "Welp that's our cue to leave you Alfreda." Lather said as Matt finished the drink. "But Matt ate my hospital food, which in this situation I consider my last meal." Alfreda pointed out. "Well look at it this way, if that's being the worst thing to happen to you today consider yourself lucky." Lather said seeing Zapp running at them. "Do they really allow to leave a guy in my condition to be executed like this?!" Alfreda yelled. "From this point on we're out of here." Matt said before running away along with Lather. Alfreda tried to stare Zapp down, until he saw the ocean of rage within her eyes and grabbed the remote his his intact hand turn around and drove away. Alfreda screamed as he drove away but then he saw he was still ahead of Zapp. "I'm gonna live. I'M GONNA LIVE!!" Alfreda yelled in happiness as he rolled away until he felt a shadow over him and saw behind him Zapp was using her wings to get right behind him. Alfreda saw a ramp ahead of him and moved for it Zapp following. Alfreda cheered as he flew over the ramp. Only for him to crash on the other side and was rammed into by Zapp, tearing off some of his Iron Lung before she punched him into the ground repeatedly. "I surrender! Mercy! Uncle! I call all the relatives!" Zapp grabbed his and lifted him up to her eyes. "You taunted me and you expect mercy?" "That was my idiot friend! I want nothing to do with him." Zapp dropped him to which he got up, realizing his legs were healed. "3 minute headstart." "Really? A sporting chance?" Alfreda asked touched. "Two minute." Alfreda ran as fast as he legs carried him, much faster this time what with them being newly healed, and quickly ran into the construction site. Zapp crashed through a wall looking at him. "Cramped space, bad idea." "That's the thing, it's scheduled to be blown up right about..." Alfreda said before the whole building was encompassed in a huge explosion. A few of the henchponies were gathered around drinking as they mourned in loss of Alfreda. "Won't be the same around here without Alfreda here." Matt said mournfully. "I feel like he'll always be here watching us." Lather agreed. "Hey guys what's going on?" Alfreda asked them causing them to panic as they saw him. "Alfreda?! We thought you were dead." Lather yelled. "You sound like the construction worker that spotted me, I heard something move through the rubble, figured that was Zapp, and so I decided to dig my way out in the opposite direction, I ended up landed next to a dump truck then took the bus down here. So what happened while I napped?" "They switched Zapp's powers back, so you know that's sort of good." "Well great, I think I'm like 3 months old from when I was built and I already have 3 enemies that left scars on me." "3? Who else's powers did you switch with Saddle Rager's?" "Oh no, no one like that, I'm not that stupid. It was a whole other Sea-World centered but unrelated incident. I'd like to not talk about what transpired. I've been so busy with the basement I haven't tried other crimes besides burglary and ponynapping. I'm going to give grave robbing a try. And also doing this." Alfreda grabbed a shovel off the floor, smacked Matt senseless upside his head with it, and walked away with a burlap sack in hand. "That was for wasting my day." "Sis get the first aid kit ready." Lather sighed. Alfreda crawled out of the grave dusting himself off looking at his loot. "Wow this night turned out better then I thought, all this loot and no guards." Alfreda went into the next grave, odd at how the dirt looked freshly dug and found a massively coffin. "Oh I hit the motherload." Alfreda gloated happily opening the coffin only to find a smug Zapp waiting for him. "Knew you'd survive. We still have unfinished business." Zapp said. "Up yours!" Alfreda yelled then threw dust in Zapp's eyes and slammed the coffin shut as he pushed the pile of dirt back onto the pile, running like the wind. 'Huh, this coward running stuff actually isn't half bad. It feels so right.' Author's Note Oh Alfreda is going to get more used to running then he knows. The idea of Rainbow Rage came to me while i watched the episode again and thought about Tanks for Nothing, I felt it went hand in hand and this chapter was born out of it. I'm letting you know now, there's about four chapters left after this one.
Chapter 2: Power Stolen and Blotlings.Alfreda and The Wirewolf(now called Moe) looked on as the Power Ponies were having the powers taken from them. "Excellent, the data is exceeding greater then the predicted chart showed. But if we get a chance, grab Radiance's bracelets, there the true source of her power." "So question, why does High Heel get Saddle Rager's Powers?" Moe asked. "Well, 1, when I was tinkering around with my Multiverse viewing device, I peaked into this world filled with hairless biped apes, one of them matched Mother in insanity and had strength like Saddle Rager, and seeing destruction caused by him in the brief time, I redid this part of the plan not wanting a similar reaction. Also She drew the highest straw so she got her powers." "What's the lowest?" "Misstress Marevelous." "Fair." Alfreda then pressed a button lowering them to the floor with the League of Villainy. "Excellent, now let us begin a trust exercise- Where is Radiance?" He asked seeing the Power Ponies gone. "Tossed them, can't harm us now." Phetlock responded. "I was hoping to take something from Radiance, but seeing you all now that may not matter." Alfreda concluded. "Now let's show Maretropolis to fear the League of Villainly." Moe shouted. "No Moe, the correct term is Alliance of Malevolence. And not yet, we still have some work to do..." Present Day, the Moon Cell took Juan's cannon then aimed it for Phantom Blot's head. "Time to make you nothing more..." Phantom turned to Cell. "THAN A GHOST!" Cell fired the shot, that went into Phantom's head but didn't go off, allowing phantom to say his last words. "Really?" Phantom Blot than sighed head down in acceptance as his head exploded and his corpse was sent rocketing into space, where it exploded in a brilliant green light. Unseen by regular eyes, a grey like mist that remained slithered into distortion in space disappearing. 30 Years Ago A portal opened and Phantom Blot stumbled through, breathing heavily, then looking around his surrounding, finding himself in an underground lab. "Well, good thing I learned that time portal spell, have to thank Anti-Matter for that. Now what to do about that yellow coward? I must be in the time that he was active around, maybe I can change the future here." He looked at a chart by some large test tubes. "Must be in Kul'as' lab. How long will I need to wait for... Subject K and Subject S?" As he looked at the computer, the black little glob of flesh in one of the test tubes let out a gargling noise. "3 decades? No way I'm waiting down here that long. Oh Well, good thing I packed Plan B..." Phantom said with a smile looking at the 3 orbs in his claw. Alfreda rolled into the room and found Shadowmane and High Heel beginning to argue. Using his X-Ray scanner, he say in another room, Saddle Rager and Zapp where whispering words into some of the villains ears causing them to bicker. "Enough you two, Zapp and Saddle Rager are whispering into our ears and planting the seeds of distrust into your skulls." "Please what do you know?" High Heel mocked. "You claim to be so smart when you've never even gone to any school." "I don't need to anyway, my intellect is bigger then your size, and even then I'm smarter then all you idiots save my mother put together." "Aside from that he may actually have a point." Shadowmane said thinking it over. "We haven't seen them in a while so maybe they went off to plan and take us down." High Heel turned to Shadowmane. "Are you saying you're agreeing with this tin can?" Shadowmane brought her lasso to her. "Yeah. He's making more sense then you have been." High Heel stepped forward as she began to grow. "Maybe if I remove that mask you'll see clearer." "You wanna take me on Flip Flop?" "Bring it tiny!" High Heel responded towering over Shadowmane. Alfreda sighed as he got out a large cattle prod. "Idiots. I am working with idiots." Just as he rolled over, Mistress Marevelous tackled Shadowmane with a shout of "Power Tackle!" Alfreda saw Saddle Rager trotting over and shot her with a canister sticking her to a wall with a web like goo. "I don't need anyone stopping me from putting this shoe obsessed idiot in her place." High Heel simply smiled as he rolled up to her. "Go ahead and smile. So what if you're bigger then me, stronger then me, much more durable then me, but I'm much smarter then you with my mobility limited to one wheel- this was a horrible mistake." "I agree." High Heel said before left hooking him straight into a wall and out onto the street. Alfreda got up, his eye shifting to blue with a green pupil again. "Ok that didn't work, time for plan B." High Heel stepped through the hole with a smile. "On second thought, I'm gonna run like a coward now." Alfreda then rolled off screaming as High Heel chased him, stopped by an explosion going off next to him making him tumble to a wall. "Terrorists! I always knew!" He got up and saw two odd individuals facing him: One was black and tall as the average pony, standing on two legs with arms, 3 clawed digits and a thumb, a slasher grin on his face, which was green,web like, and two pupiless green eyes. Then other was much like the other, but he was up to Moe's height and purple, his legs small but surprisingly holding up his large torso, distended gut prominent along with two large arms. "Wait a minute, Blotlings! They're everything Mom says she fears." The two being walked up to Alfreda as his eye turned red. "Ignore that last outburst. My scanners are seeing parts of you are organic, but there are parts of machine deep in you." His eye blinked back to blue. "Are the myths about you eating ponies and robots true? Follow up question, can I escape the death that is your jaws?" The small being took out a can of paint and poked a hole in the lid. "The Database says." He said in a zebrican accent, then chugged half of the contents in one go. "You a big dummy." "Perhaps introductions are in order to clarify his confusion." The large one said but it came out only as gurgles. "Pardon?" Alfreda asked. "I apologize." The small one replied. "Your refined shiny metal ass probably don't understand him, he's introducing himself as Slobber." He said as Slobber took a fighting stance. "I am Spatter. And you..." Spatter then smiled. "Are Alfreda." "Thank you, like I didn't know my-" Alfreda didn't finish as Slobber charged at him, kicking him up into the air before Spatter slammed him into the ground. "And now you dead!" Spatter said as he did a little breakdance creating a small green ball he threw at Alfreda only for a car to slam into it melting upon impact. "Who blasted mah blast?" Spatter said seeing a yellow Wirewolf with a red eye and blue with green pupiled eye facing them down then looking at Alfreda. "Come with me if you want to live." "Oh I saw that movie, it was Ok." Alfreda responded. "I mean you ya one wheeled idiot!" He yelled before running away Alfreda following suit as the two Blotlings followed them. High Heel growled as she looked on, at normal size. "Get back here! I will not be upstaged by some blobs and be ignored!" "I wish we could ignore you." Moe muttered behind a corner as High Heel got into her Heel-Mobile and drove off after them. "Why didn't she just change and jump after them?" "Probably wanted to make a dramatic entrance at some point." Lather answered before running off after them. "You're not coming with?" "Must I?" "Well you can follow me or you can stay here with the Power Ponies." Lather said before running off. "On second thought I'll take up that offer!" Moe said running after her. Phantom Blot looked over the pit as he finished something up. "Excellent. Enhancements complete. Arise Shadow Blot." A hand reached out of the pit as a being stood up coming up to Phantom's chest. "A kindness to revive me to dispose of your adversaries father." "Oh for the love of God-I JUST GOT RID OF THAT!" "You can't dispose of something that isn't damaged. Now... where's my Sith Cape?" A cape then materialized around him as he stood there. Alfreda and the Time Traveler stopped the two Blotlings stopping as well. "So who are you, and are you from the future?" "Yep." The Time Traveler replied as Spatter scanned him down. "But on who I am let's just say I'm close to you, but I'm not Moe." "My database says..." Spatter began to say before he smiled. "Youz a Bitch." "Your database can't know that's true-" The time traveler didn't finish as Spatter kicked him into a couple buildings. Alfreda's eye shifted to red. "If I had enough data I'd say that's me-" Alfreda was interrupted as Slobber slammed him into the street smashing into the ground. The Time Traveler pulled himself out of the ground as he looked to Alfreda as he pulled himself from the hole. "Hey Alfreda, when we get out of this, let's remember to not tell the Mane-iac you were attacked by 2 blotlings." "To be fair to both sides, you would've been incorrect in any other circumstance, because the count is 3." Alfreda and the time traveler got up and saw a blotling with one horn floating above Spatter and Slobber. "Greetings, I'm Shadow Blot, look at my Sith Cloak." "You know I don't even care any more, to be honest are there any more of that we don't know about?" The Time Traveler asked "Other then father just us, but in surprises there's the two globs in the sub-lab." "All right, because I've had it with these Green and Purple Mutants, in this horrible 80's timeline!" The Time Traveler then charged at Spatter and Slobber, only to get beaten up as they easily dodged his punches. Shadow Blot simply looked at Alfreda with a smirk. "Well machine, it looks like today is your day to perish." "I don't believe in what people tell me." Alfreda pointed out. Shadow Blot merely looked at him in deadpan. "How in the 7 rings of Hell has anyone had so much trouble killing you?" "I'm very stubborn." "I can see that." Shadow Blot replied before shooting a green ball at Alfreda sending him flying. "Oh wow I was right, this isn't water!" Alfreda yelled as he plunged into the ground. "Careful Alfreda, you might bury yourself alive!" Shadow Blot yelled as Alfreda rose out of the ground kicking a boulder towards him. "I only bury you!" Shadow Blot manipulated his body out of the way but his cape was pulled off by the rock. "My Sith cape!" Alfreda tried to roll away when Shadow Blot grabbed his left arm. "Alfreda...you done goofed." "Say what?" Alfreda asked before Shadow Blot pulled them both down into the ground. 'Well this is an interesting turn of events.' Alfreda thought. 'Indeed. I wonder how that time traveler is fairing in his fight?' Alfreda's logic pondered. The Time Traveler swung a sword he had with him but it simply passed through Slobber like nothing however when he sliced again aiming for his left arm it passed through but Slobber solidified it causing it to get caught. "Why did I even bring this there was an accident with that time mach-" Slobber socked the Time Traveler in the face sending him flying up where Spatter slammed him down into a bank. "Aight Slobber, give it back." Spatter said pointing at the time traveler, which Slobber swung the sword down at him earning a yelp from the wirewolf. Shadow Blot created a large green sphere then threw it at Alfreda who rolled off and to the side, but the sphere followed him. "Surrender machine! Nothing escapes my S.C. Death Ball!" Something then clicked in Alfreda's mind. "Does the S.C. stand for-" "Sith cape! Yes!" "Not my first guess." Alfreda said before the ball began to push him into a wall ready to detonate. "Yes! This is my vengeance!" Phantom Blot said from the lab before a semi slammed into the ball sending it flying and exploding harmlessly. "Who has the balls?!" He yelled as a building began to crumble behind Alfreda, a large shadow in it's place speaking. "For thousands of years I laid dormant, who has disturbed my-" "Nice entrance High Heel." Alfreda remarked. "Oh great it's you, explain cyclops." High Heel deadpanned at normal size. "Getting beaten up by 3 blotlings." "WHY DID YOU TELL HER!?" The time traveler yelled. "Neat, can't wait to tell Mane-iac that and watch her piss herself." "Well, well well, if it isn't High Heel, the muscle of the Alliance of Malevolence, I'd bow my cape, IF I HAD IT!" Shadow Blot said, yelling the last part looking at Alfreda. "1. I didn't agree to that name, 2. I've been waiting in an alley for a moment for the past couple minutes, what's your deal?" "You see, our kind father has a bit of a vendetta against the one eyed machine, and seeing as he was still weak from the last encounter, he was forced into desperate measures and brought out the defective ones before you." "You don't seem that defective." Alfreda pointed out. "Well he could not deal with my higher intellect, my sith cape obsession, and my particular method of switching of intellectual to brutish speech." "Yeah I noticed that, what's up with the fat one?" Alfreda said pointing to Slobber. "My vocal cords are rotted and Phantom Blot could not find replacements on the black market." Slobber responded which nobody but the other blotlings understood. "All right but what about the small one? Is it cause he's purple?" High Heel asked about Spatter. "Or that he sounds black?" The wirewolf added. "Okay racists, if you want to know...it's because he has a bit of a drinking problem." Shadow Blot responded as Spatter finished up the paint can he was drinking. "Hey it's only a problem if I run out!" Spatter responded. "We like to keep that away from business, but if you'll excuse us, we have business to deal with, by which I mean burying 3 corpses under this city. SLOBBER! SPATTER!" Shadow Blot said commanding his brothers. "You got it boss man." Spatter said walking only to sink neck deep into some wet cement. "You forget you saw this." He simply said before jumping out and landing in front of High Heel throwing some punches. "Round two Claptrap!" Shadow Blot said before he and Alfreda engaged in claw to claw combat. The wirewolf ran for Slobber only for Slobber to ram into him then head-butt him repeatedly in the head earning grunts from the wirewolf in pain. Moe and Lather looked on from an alleyway. "We just needed to watch this didn't we?" Moe asked sarcastically. "I know Moe. I just wanted to see if Alfreda was okay." Lather admitted. "Yeah it's all right. Wanna help the guy fighting the fat one?" "Probably not gonna work out." "No just a suggestion." Spatter rode on High Heel's chest like a surfboard slamming her into a wall, then raising his fist ready to hit her when she caught it surprising him. "Hey!" She got up in Spatter's face her eyes glowing red. "Wanna see something cool?!" "....Yeah ok." High Heel then doubled in size causing the earth to shake before she fully transformed roaring in Spatter's face, causing some sludge to seep off him. The Wirewolf continued to get beat up until he saw High Heel changed. "Oh right weapons." The wirewolf then slid under Slobber and took out a few blades and one pair of nunchucks he whipped around crazily. Alfreda pulled himself out from rubble and looked at the others. "Oh yeah, Berserk mode." Alfreda then screamed as multiple arms appeared on him bearing several firearms as his eye turned purple. "Oh Shit, Berserker mode." Phantom Blot said in the lab watching the fight before going silent. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!" He screamed in anger. "Wait since when could Alfreda do that?" Lather asked. "Incident at a casino, I think this way is the only time his two halves even work together." Moe replied. High Heel looked down at Spatter with a grin. "Now the tables have turned runt, but before so answer me this, are you ready to die blotling?" Spatter simply took out a paint can and poked a hole in the top of it then began to chug it as he did the first one. High Heel looked completely confused. "Are you really-" Spatter simply flipped her off but at the same time was telling her to hold on as he continued to chug the contents. "Does that even do anything for you?" Spatter finished the can then tossed it causing it to bounce off her head as he grinned smugly. "Not anymore." He replied. High Heel simply looked at him before ramming into him like a freight train. Alfreda and Shadow Blot exchanged shots, not hitting each other but hitting the buildings around them. "Do it Alfreda! Send that weirdo to the trash heap!" "It's name, is the Wasteland you idiot!" Shadow Blot yelled before a stray shot barely missed Moe. "And my name is Lather!" Lather then launched a blast of magic at Shadow Blot, but it simply went through him to which he shot eyes beams back at her. "Someone help!" She yelled before a purple shot of energy blocked it. "That actually worked?" She asked herself before the ground rumbled as something move towards Shadow Blot. "For thousands of years I lay dormant." Something burst out of the ground and grabbed Shadow Blot by the legs. "Who has disturbed my- Oh hey Alfreda, problem?" "Blotlings. Su'p Kul'as?" Alfreda simply replied. "Chillin, mind if I take a spin?" Kul'as asked Alfreda before he spun Shadow Blot into the ground. "Clever." Alfreda noted before Shadow Blot rose back up. "Now I don't mean to offend you and not reference to your skin tone, your ethnicity or your cultural background, but you better escape while you still can before things go south, boy." Shadow Blot told Kul'as. "You just made it about all those things the moment you said boy." Kul'as replied. High Heel was sent into a wall by Spatter surprising her due to his size. "Come on Buy in Bulk that the best you got?" He asked doing a little breakdance before they charged at each other breaking off with High Heel collapsing, changing back before she got back up looking at Spatter with a smirk. "Heh. Powers of Saddle Rager or not, you still just a-" Spatter was cut off as his head came off and fell into his hands. "Bitch." He said annoyed before Lather had decided to toss a biscuit at his head. "Did she just throw a motherf*cking dog-" Spatter never finished as he exploded splatting his remains everywhere. The Time Traveler and Slobber ran for each other, the former with his sword at the ready and giving Slobber a mighty slash before stopping, Slobber slowing down before turning, speaking to where words could be made out. "By metal, I gained life anew, by metal I lose it once more. No hopes before or after, only fading." Slobber then exploded much like Spatter as the Time Traveler tucked away his sword. "Countdown's over ya one horned...umm... Ok I got nothing." "Spatter and Slobber are dead?" Shadow Blot asked before he grinned. "Well that moves things along ever so easily." Shadow Blow telepathically called certain parts of the remains of his two brothers to him as they all watched watched. "I feel like we should be stopping this." Kul'as pointed out. "Nah I wanna see how this plays out." Alfreda responded. Shadow Blot then roared as he began to transform, his skinny arms bulging what must've been muscle, as the most anyone could tell he was made of was some kind of sludge or ink. "He's hulking out!" The Time Traveler noted. "Yes Shadow Blot, take on your true form." Shadow Blot's master beckoned from the lab Shadow Blot grew in size, until he was a tad bigger then Saddle Rager, his skin turning black and eyes turning red from green. "Huge, sleek, black, red, and the fearing appearance of yours truly..." the single horn on his head split in two giving a two horned appearance as he grinned with malicious intent. "Perfect..." "Hey High Heel! He's bigger then you!" Alfreda yelled to the villainess. "I'LL KILL HIM!" High Heel transformed and jumped up to Shadow Blot delivering a punch to his chest, to absolutely no effect as Shadow Blot grinned grabbing High Heel by the arms. "Oh no..." She said in a small terrified voice. Shadow Blot flipped her upside down then began to charge towards the ground aiming for a pile driver as she screamed. The Time Traveler charged at him blaster ready. "I got ya High-" He didn't finish as Shadow Blot simply shot eye lasers at him sending him slamming into a wall and to the ground, earning a laugh from High Heel before she slammed into the ground, head first. "Heh. Moron." "PUNT!" Shadow Blot yelled before kicking her through the street. "SOMETHING STUPID GET IN MY WAY!" High Heel yelled as she was sent rocketing towards the time traveler. "Wait what?!" He said before High Heel slammed into him and crashed into a building. Kul'as then began to try and punch Shadow Blot but all his hits phased through the demon as if he wasn't there. "What's the point of even staying solid?" Kul'as asked before Shadow Blot punched him into a building. A chainsaw went though his arm and he saw Alfreda shooting at him from behind, to which he simply smiled and swung at were Alfreda was just about to roll, kicking Alfreda right in his wheel popping it as Alfreda was sent flying before he landed on a car. 'Why do I feel like he hit me in the nuts?' Alfreda thought. 'Because we have a sperm storage cell hidden above the wheel.' Logic answered. 'What is the point of even having that?' 'Only thing I can think of is for amusement.' Logic replied before Shadow Blot touched down in front of Alfreda. "Now I know what you're thinking-" Alfreda didn't finish as Shadow Blot punted him before wrapping a sludge like whip around him and slamming him around and into a fire hydrant. Alfreda got up, several cracks all over his shell as sparks leaked out. "Because the answer will surprise you-" Alfreda was interrupted once more as Shadow Blot punted him again sending him flying towards the Mane-iac's hideout a block away. Lather stood a couple feet away from Shadow Blot, preping a spell Alfreda made for her that would temporarily give her powers like that of Saddle Rager even if to a lesser degree. "Hey! Why don't you pick on somepony your own size?" She asked as she was ready to hit herself when Shadow Blot turned to face her with a smile as large wings unfurled from his back. She immediately stopped as she looked nervous. "That isn't me obviously." Alfreda dragged himself out of the rubble and pressed a button on his chest, turning the machine, which the Power Ponies were oddly by, on and it zapped Phetlock without alerting him as a large door opened in front of him, a lifeless wolf like robot body emerging from it. "Let' see if it's worth the vibranium stolen for it." Logic said before he began to charge the power of Filli-Second into it. Lather backed away from Shadow Blot panicky as he merely smiled walking to her."Or you know, Maybe a Dragon in the Badlands, not that I've been there, I don't have the bits to go that far- calling you out in the first place was a horrible idea." "I agree." Shadow Blot simply said before raising his claw, unaware of the large garage door opening with Alfreda getting into the wolf body as energies were being charged into it. "Shadow, would you do your old man a favor, and dispose of Alfreda now." Phantom Blot told Shadow Blot, who saw Alfreda still kicking. "Why won't you just die!?" Shadow Blot then shot a huge green ball at Alfreda only for Lather to create a shield to block it but was sent into a wall. "Sorry Lather." Alfreda told her before Logic took over again. "All right not the plan but still kinda pleasant, take two." Phantom Blot said before a purple ball went through Shadow Blot earning an "Ow!" from Alfreda as it hit him. Shadow Blot turned around and saw Kul'as standing there. "Nobody's killing that two sided idiot but me." "Why are you still here?" Logic asked before Kul'as before he tired to punch Shadow Blot only for Shadow Blot to break his upper right arm earning a scream of sheer pain before he began to pull on him by the arms aiming to rip Kul'as' arm's out by the sockets. Shadow Blot applied more pressure only for something to hit him in the back causing him to turn around, seeing the time traveler. "Hey! You big black son of a bitch-" "Racist phrasing!" Alfreda shouted. "I'm a time traveler form the future, and you don't exist there. Why, well besides I have no clue, is because you die, by this sword!" The Time Traveler then charged at him and swung only for Shadow Blot to catch it and snap it in half before grabbing the Time Traveler. He then hit him in the dick before blasting him away to which he vanished, not by the blast but by other means. Alfreda finished the final adjustments to the body. Shadow Blot then began to create a large green ball "Wait a minute, that was Alfreda. Perfect! Now place your aim on that one eyed-" Phantom Blot stopped as High Heel transformed then got behind Shadow Blot and suplexed him causing the ball to be sent flying. "SON OF A BITCH!" Phantom Blot yelled angrily. Shadow Blot then gut punched High Heel then slammed her into the ground before slamming his foot on her face. And that's when the Shoe lady realized that when you suplex a blot, you better get ready to get your shit bucked up. Cell we don't do this. LET ME HAVE THIS! Fine. Just for now. Also you do realize that people are gonna be confused since future you was there? I'll explain that later. Shadow Blot then encased himself in a green aura as he roared and pounded his fists on his chest like a gorilla. Alfreda merged with the body as it began to glow. "Oh right, berserk speed. Wait what?" Moe said looking behind some rubble as Shadow Blot squeezed High Heel's head as she clawed at his claws as a slow crack began to sound. "Kill Alfreda! KILL ALFREDA! KILL ALFREDA BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!" Phantom Blot yelled at Shadow Blot who turned and saw Alfreda in a wolf body staring at him before he charged, creating a sonic boom as he charged. "Oh this will not end well." Phantom Blot noted as Alfreda delivered several blows across Shadow Blot's body causing him to drop High Heel. He delivered slashes across his face and created indents across Shadow's body. He then ran several miles away before coming back at tops speeds. "JESUS CHRIST!" Phantom yelled seeing the wind cone forming around Alfreda before it burst creating a rainbow ring that spanned out. "So beautiful." Shadow Blot said at the rainbow before looking down and seeing Alfreda was spinning like a drill, towards him. Shadow Blot solidified to take the full blunt of the shot, but Alfreda drilled through, causing Shadow Blot to scream before he exploded in a brilliant green light. The light dimmed and the block where rubble was silent, save for an ink bottle that fell into the sewers below, and the black sith cape that fluttered across the wind. The Alliance of Malevolence was locked up back in Balkham Asylum, some of them bearing bandages from their battle with the Blotlings while others were just in straitjackets listening to the fight the others told about, Mane-iac hiding behind Phetlock at the mention of Blotlings. "Plus, catching High Heel really b*cked that guy up." Alfreda said before Logic took over. "Also mother, we're going to recommend for some therapy classes so you overcome that irrational fear." "Well my fear is justified now since one of them almost killed you." Mane-iac argued. "Well now they're all dead, so the fear is again unjustified." "What about the dad he mentioned?" "All right point taken. What surprises me is how Kul'as was able to evade capture." Alfreda then took over again. "All though thinking about those two things I think I have a pretty good idea about that." Phantom Blot merely lounged in a chair by the tanks as he finished thinking about Shadow Blot and his brothers failure. "Well, that was a total bust, But there's always these two little guys over here. What's a couple decades, It's not like I'm going anywhere." Shadow Blot then laid back and thought about something that occurred him. "Wait a minute, father went through the same thing before Kul'as came along and killed him. But that would mean that a piece of Shadow Blot that survived is me, and that I'm actually Phantom Blot, caught in a time-" Phantom Blot didn't finish as Kul'as walked through the door. "Oh so you're the one that sent those blotlings. Well then time to reunite you all." "Oh Crap" Was Shadow Blot's last words before he was killed by Kul'as in a flash of purple Author's Note finally, chapter 2 is done, I'll try to work on Chapter 3 as soon as possible. It goes deeper into who Alfreda was in the golden age of heroes
Chapter 3: Home AloneAlfreda turned on with a yawn and looked around the hideout, finding no one waiting around for him. "Hello?" He asked, his question was met with no answer. Alfreda rolled around seeing none of the Henchponies, nor the Mane-iac around. "Where did everyone go?" 'Vacation?' Logic suggested. "Nah, Lather at least would've woken me up." Alfreda rolled outside and saw the streets were almost completely empty, save for one or two ponies. Alfreda then pressed some buttons on his chest and launched his eye into the sky, His eye transformed into a mini drone that did an aerial scan of the entire city, finding that the entire population of Maretropolis was barely touching 15, and the Power Ponies were not even within the vicinity. As his eye returned to him, Alfreda realized that he was alone in the city, and drew a smile on his face as he realized what he could finally do now. He rolled inside and got out a spare body, he then took out a spare eye and a piece of his hardware, installing it into the shell, giving it life as it's red eye glowed. "And you decided to do this now why?" Logic asked him from his new independent body. "So that way you can leave me alone while I get to do everything I've wanted to do." Alfreda laughed as he rode on the kiddie ride of a plane, a large bag of quarters in his hand as the ride went up and down. "I ain't ever getting off!" Alfreda yelled. "You are so disappointing on so many levels you could beat anyone in Final Fantasy." Logic said as he raided a pawn shop. "And yet you're not joining on the fun. Just because it's a pink jet plane, doesn't mean it isn't manly." Alfreda noted. "How about you do the imbecilic things you plan while I actually enrich both of us financially." "I have no idea what 5 of those words mean but I'm gonna keep doing my own thing, I even have the dynamite to back it up." Alfreda marched around the roof of a hospital, tribal make up placed around his eye as he sung alongside the music Logic brought from another universe. "Induction then destruction, WHO WANTS TO DIE?! WAR!"Alfreda set off some dynamite to the beat of the song. "Good God Ya'll! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Say it! Say it! Say it! WAR!" Alfreda did it again, blowing up the front of the Maretropolis National Bank. Logic cleaned out vault in the bank, easily sorting out the dye packs from the currency of others then throwing the bits in the van parked outside. "His stupidity does tend to have it's uses." "What about yours for thinking of robbing an empty bank?" Someone said behind Logic prompting him to look behind him and get a hoof to the face slamming him into a wall. Logic regained his composure then looked at the one who did it. It was a mare with a blue mask and suit on, spots of the costume with gauntlets, boots and a hood that were black, with a white moon symbol on her chest. "Moon Knight, You're supposed to be in Goth'horn." "Well when almost an entire city's population disappears, somepony has to make sure no one's taking the chance to rob it blind." "I would prefer it if you would say someone. I feel discriminated when the term somepony is said." "Well let me help you with that issue." Moon Knight replied before charging at him. Logic easily slid under her, kicking her in the stomach along the way. Moon Knight shot a beam of magic at Logic barely missing him and freezing a wall behind her. "Ice Beam? I expect something like that from Matterhorn." Before Moon Knight could do anything, another explosion rocked both of them causing Moon Knight to stumble. Logic took the opportunity to throw a dye pack at her. It exploded in her face causing her to shout as it got in her eyes, giving Logic an opportunity to punch her in the face as more dynamite went off on a roof covering her under some rubble. Logic entered the van and drove off, The Maretropolis Jewel Reserve next on his list. Arriving at his desired location, Logic got out, finding the door destroyed as predicted, as well as the vault door. 'How Alfreda got here before me to plant that dynamite is beyond me.' Logic thought before activating the special vacuum he brought, bringing the jewels out of the vault and straight into the van as parked. Logic scanned everything and saw it was unmarked making it much easier to transfer. Logic got in the van once more and drove off ready to contact Alfreda when he looked in his mirrors and saw someone on the road. Like Moon Knight it was a mare, however she was wearing a purple seamless suit, with the symbol of Equestria on her chest, with a cape that appeared to be made of pure sunlight. "Solar Mare." Logic said annoyed before taking a turn and rolling out, the van crashing into some bushes. Logic scanned Solar Mare and compared it to his files he made based on reports. "Weapon Systems, online." Logic then took out a mini-gun, firing upon her but no damage was being done as Solar Mare's horn glowed slightly, causing the mini to glow red forcing Logic to toss the gun away. "Give up, and I don't turn you into a lamppost." "Hold that thought." Logic said before launching a small rocket at her engulfing her in an explosion that sucked up the oxygen around her creating a slightly larger explosion. "HOLY CRAP!" Alfreda said over Logic's communicator. "What the hell was that? I saw that from here." "Prototype Thermobaric Rocket I made, smaller delivery and explosive but highly effective." "A Mini Thermobaric bomb?" A voice said from the smoke, which cleared showing Solar Mare unscathed. "That mind could be applied to much better uses then crimes." Solar Mare said before charging. "Oh well, time to use my plan guaranteed to solve this." Logic said before shooting a projectile at her. It exploded, covering her chest in some type of clay with mixes of a black crystal in it. Solar Mare groaned as she fell to the ground. The clay didn't immobilize her but she felt her strength draining. "Dark Magic Crystals?" Solar Mare asked. "Based on the reports of how your power wavered around this in the battle of Maretropolis, I looked for any remains around the city and made a special clay not to immobilize you, but to keep you down. With Moon Night around, I'm certain that you'll survive knowing her." Logic said before rolling off. Logic drove inside of the hideout, closing the door behind him and activating the Solar Mare Protocol he made: Special lead coat under a coat of concrete mixed with Dark Magic Crystals, covering the whole hideout. Logic looked and saw Alfreda with a pile of stuff around him as he muttered crazily. "Alfreda?" Logic asked confused for once. "Logic!" Alfreda said turning around, his eye green with a red pupil like Mane-aic instead of its usual blue with green pupil with a southern accent. "Come come, pull up some random milk crates, you're just in time for my hourly turf war with the Claptrap what lives in my mirror." Alfreda then looked at his reflection and shook his fist angry at it. "QUIT STARING AT ME WHEN I BATHE!!" He yelled angrily. "Are you all right Alfreda?" Logic asked. "Alfreda's out for the moment, Ezekiel the Naustic." Ezekiel said spitting oil into his claw. "Insanity of Alfreda." "How did you spit into you claw?" Logic asked. "I don't rightly know!" Ezekiel replied wiping the oil on his chest. "Ezekiel, I'd like to speak to Alfreda." Logic said concerned. "Can do!" Ezekiel said before slapping himself causing his eye to turn back into Alfreda's. "Logic please help me! He's crazy! He says he can see the future!" "What specifically?" "He says that I'll get a wirewolf body, die in another Maretropolis and travel across the multiverse with some ghost and a wirewolf who only speaks in spanish." "Name?" "No idea. But if you don't mind, I'm gonna see what the triple x place is all about." Alfreda said rolling off. "Alfreda you don't know what-" Logic stopped remembering earlier, so he went back and closed the door. "Well either Ezekiel will save him, or Alfreda will get himself killed. Either way, Mane-iac won't know the difference." Alfreda walked out of the building a bit mad. "Well that was a bummer, there was no one in there. I knew Seth was talking out his ass on the mares in there." Ezekiel then took over as something approached behind him. "Should've made sure I stayed dead Logic." A voice said behind him prompting him to turn around and see Moon Knight facing him. "Where's the cash? Or the eye goes first." "Howdy friend!" Ezekiel said oblivious. "Who are you?" Moon Knight asked confused. "Ezekiel, local kook." "Well what're you doing here?" "Well me and Alfreda came here to see what this place was about, well mainly him well cuz I did my own thing." Ezekiel then did a dance, which didn't look like one since he had one wheel for mobility. "Sorry, you look like someone I know." "Sa'll right. Whelp time to figure out how to tell time." Ezekiel then rolled off whistling to himself leaving Moon Knight dumbfounded. "There can't be somepony that stupid who's able to survive this long." Moon Knight simply said before flying back to Goth'horn to check up on Solar Mare. Logic had hidden the last of the things he stole and the message was complete. Logic came out of the basement seeing Ezekiel now sporting a cowboy hat. "Ezekiel, I'm coming home." "But me and Alfreda are having so much fun." Ezekiel replied before Alfreda took over. "He's an idiot and insane!" Logic tackled Alfreda and opened his own port and Alfreda's, then ejected his hardware into Alfreda's, it merging in as Alfreda threw the body off him. 'Good to be back home.' Logic said from inside Alfreda's head. 'Howdy neighbor! You sure make it roomy in here.' Ezekiel replied. As soon as Ezekiel finished speaking, the Mane-iac and most of the henchponies walked in, many sporting injuries and bandages. "Hey guys, where've you been?" Mane-iac simply groaned. "Well Kul'as decided it'd be funny to pit most of the city against each other, forcing me into the humiliating act of teaming up with the Power Ponies to fight him, to which he gave up, saying we passed his so called test. Other ways to waste several hours of my life, but efficient way nonetheless. How did you and Logic do?" "Fine. Logic was doing some lame stuff while sang and blew up some buildings. Also he fought Moon Knight and Solar Mare while I got a new roommate for my head." Logic then took over as the henchponies got settled back into home. "Lather, could I see you in the basement for a moment." Lather complied and followed him downstairs to which he revealed a secret door sporting all the money and gold he had stolen. "This is for Alfreda, a transmitter I'm giving you will go off when the time comes. Do not ask why just do so if you care for him, and tell no one ever, I will find out." Logic said before tossing the transmitter to Lather and rolling back up the stairs. "I need a long exotic vacation." Logic said to himself exasperated.
Chapter 4: SpainLife had been a tad dull for Alfreda the few following weeks. Mane-iac had decided to take a vacation and took some henchponies and Alfreda with her going to Spain. It had been three days into the vacation and Alfreda managed to outright disappear from anyone's sight. Mane-iac was simply in the back of a car they rented with Lather, Seth driving up to a corner with a smile looking at someone in the shadow. "So little missy, what's someone like you doing out so late?" Someone stepped out of the shadow revealing themselves as Alfreda with weird clothes on and lipstick. "Just trying to pass by in this cold-SETH!?" Alfreda said dropping his act when setting eyes upon Seth. Lather rolled down the window hearing the shout. "Seth what're-" Lather immediately stopped upon seeing Alfreda. "Alfreda why are you dressed like prostitute?" Lather deadpanned. "I accidentally killed someone and have to pay a cop a huge-ass bribe to not go to prison." "How much have you earned so far?" "Not one dime, I think it's either me or my rates." "How much you charge?" "I think 200,000 bits no matter what." "Just get in the car so we can make a plan." Mane-iac had gotten all of them good seats in the coliseum for a bullfight going on as Alfreda and Lather talked about his financial problem. "So prostitution was the first thing you went to?" Lather asked. "Well it was the only suggestion from Ezekiel and Logic that would make the amount of money I need in time." They looked back at the bullfight in time to see the matador get rammed into the wall by the bull before some clowns came to get it away from the matador. "Dang, glad I'm not doing that." Alfreda said before Ezekiel took over. "I want that there job!" He yelled rolling down the steps towards the arena. He landed in the middle of it grabbing the cape as Alfreda took over. "Damn it. Do I get paid?" Alfreda asked someone behind the fence. "All depends on your odds in beating the bull. Warning no one has." Alfreda turned around looking for the bull, unintentionally dodging it as the bull's face got covered by the cape and knocking itself out into a wall. Everyone cheered as Alfreda looked shocked at what he just done. 'Fellow minds, I believe our financial problem has been solved.' Logic simply said. The Power Ponies left the airport as Matterhorn looked around before looking back at the others. "All right, they said Mane-iac was somewhere here. She may be on vacation but I still don't trust her based on her history." Filli-Second agreed. "I'll scan the area to see if I can pick up the trail." Filli-Second was about to run off when a small robot with a green and red eye dressed like a clown. "Wanna see something nifty?" He asked. Matterhorn thought he looked familiar but then shrugged. "Sure." The robots arms then transformed into stilts as several arms came out him as he performed several circus tricks in front of them. He then stopped immediately and left in a cloud of smoke he made. "Well that was weird." Marevelous noted. "Yeah." Matterhorn said looking back to the group noticing something. "Where's Saddle Rager?" Lather walked into Alfreda's prep room seeing state of the art equipment with some mounds of bits surrounding Ezekiel who was sporting a gold shell with the top open sitting in a wooden chair as he held a jar of toxic waste . "Ezekiel the Naustic." He tossed the jar in the hole. "Gulping up some toxic." "Zeke I'd like to speak to Alfreda." Ezekiel's eye then switched to Alfreda's. "Su'p?" "Just wanna check up on you before we and Mane-iac leave." "Well good luck in Maretropolis, I'm staying here." "Really, why are you staying here?" "Because I'm someone here, ponies respect me, I got a good job, I paid off that cop." Logic quickly stepped in. "I paid for him to be executed." Alfreda quickly took back control. "And I'm happy. Bye Lather, have a good life." Lather simply sighed before walking out, wanting to at least see Alfreda's match before going back home. Alfreda had slipped into his usual shell and stood in the center of the pit, turned to face the door in which the bull was meant to come out. "So Zeke what did you get? Last I heard every bull's plain terrified of me." 'Ah done whipped you up a critter that turns into a bigger critter.' Ezekiel replied. "Huh that's funny. That's sounds and awful lot like-" Alfreda didn't finish as his oil froze upon sight. Walking out of the gate with bull horns glued to her head, was a very very pissed off "Saddle Rager." Alfreda said terrified. 'Ezekiel if we live through this you're dead.' Logic simply said. Alfreda screamed then rolled away in the other direction, prompting Saddle Rager to roar then chase after him. Alfreda ran really fast around the arena then towards Saddle Rager, using her to be sent flying out of the arena and landing in a street. "Okay, let's head for the airport and go to Neighpal- what is that breathing going down my back?" Alfreda looked behind him and saw several bulls behind a pen. "Oh right, the running of the bulls." 'I want that there job!' "Shut up Ezekiel you've only ruined a good thing don't make it worse!" Alfreda yelled. He then heard rumbling as he saw Bulls getting tossed in the air and began to roll away before straight up speeding. "SUPER RUN AWAY!" Alfreda yelled before the gate burst open as Saddle Rager ran through, the bulls following suit. Alfreda ran as fast as his wheel could carry him, avoiding other bulls while others simply went through his cape. Alfreda saw a stock of fruit ahead and aimed for it, the angle sending him flying to which he deployed his wings and glided back towards the coliseum. 'You're turning back why?' Logic asked. "I'm not gonna run away again. I'm heading back to the arena and facing her down." 'You're going to die painfully.' Logic simply said. 'Then we's gon be the ones in charge of this here body.' Ezekiel added. 'Not you. Never you.' Alfreda landed in the arena and turned to face Saddle Rager, surprised as she was right in front of him. "Logic, you were there when you both met, it only fits that you do this." Alfreda then gave control to Logic who ran away before charging back, dodging Saddle Rager's fists and hit her a couple times before taking out his matador sword. "To the last I grapple at thee," Logic shot his grappling hook at one of the horns on her head. "With my last breath I spit at thee!" Logic said with a tone of anger in his voice as he spat some oil, getting it close to her eye stunning her. He retracted the grapple bringing him up on her head and held her by the horns pulling her head back a little. Ezekiel and Alfreda joined together with him at that moment for this glorious victory. "From Hell's heart I stab at thee!" They brought the sword down on her head... Only for it to shatter upon impact. The horns gave away and tore off of Saddle Rager's head causing Alfreda to fall to the ground as Logic and Ezekiel went back into Alfreda's mind. Alfreda looked at the horns next to him and looked off seeing Saddle Rager snorting steaming even more pissed beyond belief upon seeing the two new bald spots on her head in a reflection of a piece of Alfreda's sword. Alfreda was actually sweating as Saddle Rager took one step. "You know you can just grow that back and no one will noti-" Alfreda never finished as Saddle Rager grabbed him and stabbed the broken handle into his chest earning an incredibly painful scream from him. And that's when I learned that when you grab a bull by the horns, Saddle Rager punched his eye before raising him up with a roar. No matter what, she'll take you for a ride. She slammed him down before throwing his body into the crowd which Lather caught. "Everythingisbroken" Alfreda eye turned on slowly as he looked around where he was. He was in a hospital bed, in Maretropolis from looking out the window. He saw Mane-iac and Lather next to his bed, with lots of cards and gifts next to his nightstand. "Good you're awake." "Did I win?" Alfreda asked drowsy. "Well on one hand you did survive, in terms of beating Saddle Rager, no. However you did earn a name by taking her head on and tearing off some of her hair." Mane-iac answered. "Yes! Yes!" Alfreda yelled checking off a piece of his bucket list. "All though now she's not coming out embarrassed of the bald spot and has said that she will tear you to pieces for that if you meet again." Lather added. "I still consider this a victory." "And the country itself of Spain has banned you from bullfighting forever unless you admit to your mistakes that caused thousands of dollars in property damage." "...I'm not apologizing for skill."
Chapter 5: The Grim ClaptrapAlfreda rolled through the city park with a smile on his face as he stopped on park bench relaxing in the sun. Unbeknownst to him, a figure in a black robe with a large scythe appeared a few feet away and before to walk to him. Lather walked by and sat next to Alfreda on the bench, shuffling to him a little with a blush. "Hey Alfreda, there's something I wanna talk to you about." Lather said to Alfreda. "If it's about that week in the Artic alone I told you we take that to our graves." "No. It's...I think I like you." "I like you too." Lather began to blush even more as she moved a bit closer to Alfreda. "As in...lo-" Lather didn't finish as the figure in the cloak sat in between them. He was the size of an average pony, but was a Claptrap, only his arms and wheel visible as he bore a black cloak, allowing only one unblinking red eye to be seen on his face. "Um, excuse me, you interrupted the lady. Could you apologize then kindly move?" Alfreda asked causing the Claptrap to look at him as Alfreda and Lather got off the bench. "Okay Lather, what was it you wanna tell me?" Before Lather could speak, the Claptrap got in between them again and shoved a piece of paper in Alfreda's face. Alfreda took the paper off his face and saw it said 'Death Certificate: Alfreda. Signed, The Grim Claptrap.' "Well I'm sorry Mr. Grim but you've got the wrong guy." Alfreda said crumpling up the piece of paper and throwing it away. Alfreda was about to walk away when Grim stood in front of him scythe at the ready. Lather got in front of Alfreda ready to defend him only for Grim to hit her with his scythe into a jewelry store. Alfreda brandished his chainsaws and charged for the Grim Claptrap, only to be knocked back by the blunt end of the scythe. Alfreda rolled back afraid when an idea popped into his head. "Look! Joan Rivers!" Grim looked behind him giving Alfreda the chance to run away and out of the park, to which Grim busted through a wall and after him. Alfreda hid behind a trash can allowing Grim to run by him and stop to look around him near the Power Ponies HQ. Alfreda got an idea and changed his shell color and put on a mustache approaching Grim. "Hey there! You must be the new intern. Perfect, You couldn't come at a better time." Alfreda said in his fake Manehatten accent as he pushed Grim towards the door. He pulled out a large sack of money and tucked it into Grim's cloak as he pushed him through. "Just a little incentive for good luck." An alarm went off as Grim stepped in, then turrets sprouted up and fired on Grim forcing him to run around as they fired. The turrets then stopped for some reason allowing Grim to look in his cloak and find the bag of money. He looked around just in time for Mistress Marevelous' hoof to hit him down. Filli-Second ,Radiance and Humdrum came to her help and beat Grim senseless as he tried to head back for the door. Alfreda rolled away back into the park until a whacking sound from far away could be heard and Alfreda saw a cloak and scythe heading towards him, to which Alfreda jumped out of the way as it landed. The cloak reformed and Grim dusted himself off before he took out a list titled. 'Special Cases to take care of' and put the names of the four heroes that just beat him onto the list. Alfreda climbed into a tree and got a noose ready before whistling. "Hey bland and black! Try the trees!" Alfreda shouted prompting Grim to climb up after him only to fall through the noose and end up dangling from the branch out in the open with the rope around his waist. Alfreda rolled up to him with another sack of money in his claws. "This is for Lather." Alfreda whispered into Grim's face before throwing the sack right in his face. Alfreda then rolled off knowing the next part, leaving Grim to frantically dangle trying to get the rope loose. Behind him, Filli-Second lead Zapp and Matterhorn and spotted him. "Get Em!" She yelled tackling Grim and ending up wearing his cloak though he was nowhere to be seen. Filli-Second then began to punch herself before tearing the cloak off causing Grim to tumble back in the cloak as Zapp shot lightning at his wheel. Grim ran away in Alfreda's direction prompting Alfreda to do the same and hide in a trash can along the way as Grim passed by, Zapp and Matterhorn in pursuit until Grim tripped and they then effortlessly bombarded him. Alfreda sneaked away as they continued to beat up Grim until he was a safe distance away and sighed in relief. "Alfreda?" A voice was calling out, to which Alfreda looked and saw Lather looking around for Alfreda. Alfreda peaked out of his hiding spot and rolled up to Lather. "Lather? You're all right!" Alfreda shouted happily and ran up to his friend giving her a big hug. Lather laughed a little as he let go. "Well I see you got rid of that Grim psycho. Here's a little something for my short knight in shining armor." Lather gave him a kiss on the cheek, causing Alfreda to short circuit and collapse. Lather giggled a little as Grim rolled past them, with various cuts an burnt marks on him as he pressed a button on a remote, opening a door into the underworld in a tree and walked in. As Grim closed the door, Lather teleported behind him with Alfreda on her back. "Forgetting someone?" She asked sly. Grim pushed them both out of the door frantically. "What's wrong? You want him don't you?" Lather asked before Grim took out the death certificate and tore it up. "You think tearing that thing up will change his mind?" Grim held his head in annoyance and panic before something clicked in his head and he played an audio of Alfreda. "Look Joan Rivers!" It played. "Where?!" Alfreda yelled waking up and looked around. "Wait, I don't think that's her. That may be a man." Grim took this chance to sneak back into the tree. Grim was ready to press the button when Alfreda put his wheel in front of it to stop him. "Here's a going away present." Alfreda told him tossing a tied and gagged HumDrum at him, then rolling away along with Lather. Grim looked at Humdrum then saw the Power Ponies, with the new addition of Saddle Rager, running straight for him, and beating his daylights senseless as the door closed behind them. "You do realize you just trapped the Power Ponies in the Underworld." Lather told Alfreda. "Yep." "Loot stores?" "Loot stores." Alfreda agreed with a smile.
Chapter 6: The Black CometAlfreda scanned all the money in the safe before throwing out all the dye packs and emptying them into the sacks the Mane-iac and the henchponies brought. "Efficiency in money taken in heists is increased drastically thanks to new X-Ray scanners." "Well Mane-iac, I didn't know you had a dictionary turned into a walking computer." A voice said behind them."wow look at your shiny new tin can" a stallion cloaked in a dull gray over coat and fedora his eyes hidden by black sunglasses. "Who are you mother has no files on you" the stallion laughed at Alfreda while lowering his sunglasses revealing his slitted green eyes. "I wouldn't expect you to." "Well then won't you be an interesting one to interrogate and study? Seth, Prell, grab him." Alfreda commanded the two stallions who obliged only for the stallion to sweep Seth off his legs and give Prell a left hook. "Well this should be fun. Just wait for my friend to come in." The stallion said. "Just who might your friend be?" Alfreda asked. "To paraphrase the master..." A voice said before a mechanical bat flew in hovering over both of them. "A real mother bucking A.I." "scanning scanning" Alfreda said emotionless his eye scanning the bat like machine who hovered over them. "Machine lifeform, bat design, A.I. level...." his eye shifted to a blue color. "....immeasurable" he said scarred. "Is that fear i hear?" Vesperat said smoothly landing on his masters shoulder. Alfreda's eye shifted back to red. "I told you not to come in while working." Back to blue. "But you never let me help with anything anymore." The eye went back to red one last time. "look just stay put and after this we'll talk later." He then pulled out two sabers and pointed them at the stallion. "Identify yourself at least, before I reduce your existence to piles of meat being dissected." "Well since you asked nicely, I'm Black Comet, the stallion who's gonna toss what's left of you to the Mane-iac like a broken toaster." He tossed off his cloak and hat revealing a young finely built stallion his coat as black as a starless sky his mane was short and wild with locks of green mixed with fields of gold. His slightly curved horn and fur tipped ears caught Alfreda's eye. "Are you the same species as Sombra?" Black just laughed before throwing away his glasses revealing his sickly green slitted eyes "Trust me that fool is nowhere near my gene pool." "A different species of Pony? Well won't it be interesting to see how you function?" Alfreda then charged at Comet, swinging his sabers cutting off a clip of his hair as Comet hit him in the eye, causing it to crack and half to be blue while the other half was red. "Nice try boy" Vesperat started to circle around him making the left side of Alfreda quiver. "What are you doing?" He asked between emotionless and fear. "Henshin!" "Vesper bite!" Vesperat bit into his arm causing green glowing veins to appear in his body and black chains to wrap around his waist before becoming a red belt. Vesperat attached itself to him becoming a buckle as symphonic ringing played and gothic armor foed on him "You think your new, awesome and terrifying armor scares me? Even though I'm absolutely terrified?" Alfreda asked, his two halves agreeing on some parts, and his sabers quivering in his arms. "Looks like it." Black Comet replied with a smile. "lets play a game" He lifted his and sphere of swirling red and black energy gathered in his hoof. "Its called hot energy potato." "Ummmm, no thanks" Alfreda pressed the sercurity button repeatedly as he shook. "Too late catch!" With his long black cape bellowing he tossed the energy making Alfreda scream. He dodged as it blew a hole in the wall behind him. "You didn't catch time for a....." Black comet laughed at him as several energy spheres formed around him. "Penalty game" "Who and what are you!?" "I am simply a bored pony seeking an apparent dangerous crime lieutenant for some fun" the green of his visor shined like stain glass as he stared down at Alfreda "But I'll give you some courtesy, in this form I'm Kamen rider Vesper" "Wait if your bored i can help you!" Alfreda rolled back into the wall as the spheres got closer and closer. "Don't care for any money or drugs you have bot." "I can get six really strong opponent's for you!" The spheres disappeared as Vesper picked up the robot and dangled him. "Alright I'll listen." Vesper sounded genuinely intrigued. "I can get the power ponies here in like 20 minutes." "Those six?" Vesper dropped the robot on the ground. "Well i am new here might as well get introduced to them now." 'Great thinking on your wheel Alfreda.' Logic told him having retreated into Alfreda's mind when Comet attacked. 'Let me help Alfreda. Ah could whip up sumethin to beat this feller.' 'Shut up Ezekiel. Last time I listened to you, my dream to bullfight was lost forever.' Alfreda replied as Alfreda quickly through a stock of dynamite at the door. He then took out his pistol and shot it causing it to explode as everyone took cover. Black Comet looked at Alfreda ready to strike when Alfreda took cover. "That'll get em here faster. It's worked the last 20 times." "if they don't arrive in 20 minutes I'm gonna start eating your guys." Black comet sat down on the chair crossing his legs. "Um what do you mean by that?" Alfreda asked backing away. He jumped as Vesperās mouth guard slipped from his helmet revealing metal silver fangs that glistened in the moonlight. "I'll rip my fangs into them, drain them dry of the of their life force!" Vesper shouted joyfully. 'A've got a good feeling about this fella.' 'SHUT UP EZEKIEL!' Alfreda told Ezekiel before he saw the familiar streak across the room. "Greetings Filli-Second." Logic said taking control before Alfreda managed to take it back. "Alfreda every time to do that, we're gonna hit you even harder then the last time." Filli-Second said as the other Power Ponies came running behind her. "I just wanted attention." Ezekiel said embarrassed. "Okay what the hell is your problem?" Comet asked annoyed by Alfreda's mood changing on a dime. "Whose the vampire guy?" Fillie second asked before alfreda was kicked away by said "vampire guy" "You may call me Kamen rider Vesper" He bowed to her politely before raising and kicking her across the jaw 'Perfect.' Logic, Alfreda and Ezekiel thought at the same time as he got up. Alfreda rolled across the room as Marevelous went flying over the Mane-iac. "Mom, follow me and stay low." "What about the others?" She asked. "What about the others?" Logic pointed out before they began to crawl forward Mane-iac following suit. "Oh its on!" Fillie second yelled silenced as she surrounded by magical aura with green lightning surging between her and Vesperās crystal horn sheath. "I agree" he flinged her through a wall with a chuckle. "Time for a dramatic entrance" "Must you master?" Vesperat asked with a sigh "Of course, its necessary its part of the shock and awe of my strategy." Vesper said walking towards the hole. "Why does that involve constantly flurishing your cape?" "Of course!" "Why is that belt buckle talking?" Fillie asked stars flooding her vision. "Excuse me, but he's a buckmothering A.I and I ask that he be called in such a matter as I've hurt alot of bad ponies to give him that title."Vesper said as if offended my Filli-Second's comment. "Power Tackle!" Marevelous yelled jumping at Vesper who dodged. "You know if you stayed quiet rather then announce what you did, that would've hit closer to home." Alfreda and the Mane-iac managed to make it out of the bank and made their way to the van. "All right. We just need to get in the van and don't look back." Mane-iac said getting in. "I'll be right back mom, I think I forgot something inside." Alfreda replied rolling back in. 'Your stupidity is becoming less useful at times and more hazardous.' Logic said to himself, knowing that action would have painful consequences. "Also you call that an attack name!" He placed a dark whistle into Vesperats mouth pressed it down. "~Wake up nigou!~" Vesperās cape bellowed in the wind as dark ominous orchestra music played from Vesperat. He crossed his forelegs as dark red mist surround him and the power ponies. "What in the hay!" Marevelous seeing the red mist turn the moon blood red. "What kind of magic is this!?" Matterhorn's horn glowed brightly charging an attack as she stared at the dark stallion. "MOON RIDER PUNCH" the rider jumped into the air as hoof charging with red and green lightning before flying back down. "Is that it!" Matterhorn fired a large beam at him. His hoof connected with the blast and blowed right through it his momentum unhindered and with a dark explosion blowing away the mist his hoof connected with her shattering her horn. Matterhorn screamed in pain as she fell to the ground from the impact.Vesper smiled until he was sent flying into a wall. He turned around in time to see Saddle Rager charge at him in rage. On the other side of the room, Alfreda gave up his search when Matterhorn's horn hit him on the head and fell in front of him. "Cool, I'm keeping this." Alfreda said to himself as he picked it up. "Wow that beam was pretty strong, that punch would of collapsed your skull and make you crap out your spine or blow up in an fiery explosion one or the other." Vesper said looking down at her horn stump. Marvelous tackled him to the ground and reeled back to punch him. "Hey your pretty cute" Marevelous stopped her cheeks pink with a blush. "What?" He kicked her off him chuckling at her. "Hey how about after this we can grab a coffee and cuddle after that." "Shut it!" Marevelous yelled blushing. "Not a shame to admit it." Vesper replied dodging a lightning bolt from Zapp. "He's right, listen to your heart." Alfreda said earning a grin from Vesper as he looked at him. 'Why do I do things?' Alfreda thought as Vesper ran to him but luckily(In a way at least.) so was Saddle Rager "Oh got a big friend, so do i!" He placed a purple whistle in Vesperat's mouth releasing a heavy baritone whistle. "DOGRA HAMMER!" Purple energy surged into him as purple chains wrapped his shoulders and broke away revealing broad purple plate armor. And dropping from the skies atop Saddle rager head a massive Warhammer in the shape of clenched claw. "This is my Dogga form, my physical strengths increases tenfold!" "This isn't gonna get old anytime sooner and is ripe for abuse isn't it?" Alfreda questioned dodging the warhammer. 'maybe so, but we've got bigger ponies to worry about.' Logic said. 'Oh yeah? like who?' 'Saddle Rager.' Logic simply said before Alfreda dodged a hoof from Saddle Rager who diverted her attention to Alfreda for some serious payback. "Oh don't worry i got him!" Vesper yelled before swatting his war hammer at Alfreda knocking him away off to the skyline screaming like a little filly. "He was supposed to be a girl robot?" In a gify Fillie second punched him right in his now purple eye with a resounding crunch. Vesper sighed with her hoof against his face. "You just broke your hoof didn't you?" Fillie second dropped back clutching her hoof. "No you mook." Fillie second cursed before she felt what felt like a rhino ramming her stomach. "Could a mook do this?!" He asked his purple plate hoof pulling back and giving her a gentle tap to head making her fallover clutching her stomach. "Anypony want to put money on her spilling her lunch?" Alfreda screamed as he fell back down. "30 bits..." Alfreda said slurry until he found that he was in Saddle Rager's mane. Alfreda clinged on screaming as Saddle Rager tried to get him off like a bucking bronco. "If this is bull riding I want no part in it!" Alfreda yelled as Vesper laughed. "I'll get you of.f" he placed the handle of his Warhammer across his waist infront of Vesperat. "DOGRA BITE!" The mechanical bat bit down on the hammers handle spreading a purple wave through it. He smashed the handle into the ground and pulled a lever on the back of the hammer. The clenched claw opened revealing a red eye that stared down at the power ponies. "What the buck is that!" Alfreda screamed before the eye pulsed spreading a purple glow to all them freezing them all even Saddle Rager in place. "DOGRA WAKE UP!" a familiar mist spread around them before eclipsing the moon turning its white shine to purple. He raised his hammer into the air and continuously rounded a swinging strike a glowing spectral version of the clenched claw getting bigger and biggger as he rounded up. "Why did you all stand there as he powered up!?" Alfreda shouted afraid. "Oh shut up!" Fillie second yelled trying to vibrate out of her paralysis. "POWER OF KAIJU, DOGRA SMASH!" With Vesperats roar Kamen rider vesper swung the hammer sending the now cargo truck size spectral fist into the power ponies launching them into the bay Alfreda screamed his head off not only landing in the water, but then having Saddle Rager land right on top of him. The Mane-iac ran for the bay looking around. "He should be surfacing any minute." Lather said looking around, as a Alfreda floated to the surface like a dead fish. "Well I was half right at least." Lather dove into the water and grabbed Alfreda before jumping out and throwing him to the ground. The center of his chest was indented so she comprssed it before she breathed into his mouth. "Am interrupting?" Vesper asked dragging his hammer behind him sending sparks everywhere. "Because i see the most wanted criminal in the city." "Mom....run" Alfreda coughed out. "And I'm still hungry" He revealed his metal fangs hissing at her. Alfreda thought up of something that as Saddle Rager floated to the surface barely conscious. Alfreda took out his razor and shaved off part of her mane and stuck it in Vesper's hoof before socking him in the face while doing so. Saddle Rager woke up and felt something was off. She felt her head and found part of her mane was shaved off, seeing that Vesper had shaved it off. She roared with anger as she charged at him slamming them both into a freighter. Alfreda then grabbed Mane-iac and they both ran out of the docks. "Don't look back, don't look back!" "Dick!" Vesper threw his hammer smashing Alfredas lower body away to smithereens. He then jumped on Saddle rangers back using her mane as reigns as she tried to buck him off. "This is how its done!" He then made Saddle Rager ram through a wall repeatedly. "ALFREDA!" Lather yelled. "My wheel! I can't feel my wheel!" Alfreda yelled. Mane-iac growled with rage as she faced Vesper. "I'm gonna shove that buckle down your throat until it comes out your-" "Mother no! It is not your time." Logic said as Lather dragged him off. "Hey wanna play game!?" Vesper shouted excitedly still riding Saddle Rager like a bull. "No more games..." Logic said angrily scaring Lather as he pressed a button on his chest. A pod launched out of the harbor and landing on top of him shifting around him until he stood there, now resembling a robotic wolf with a chainsaw on his back. "Lather, run." Logic simply told her before charging at Vesper. "Oh hold on, I've got a test for the power ponies!" A magic seal of a mark appeared under him surging with purple lightning appeared beneath him. The hammer levitated in place as new spectral whistle appeared in vesperats mouth. "KAIJU RELEASE; PURPLE KING DOGRA!" Vesperās armor flew up along with the Warhammer glowed as flew up and with a mighty roar a massive dragonic gorilla beast landed in the bay. "Ok that's for them, for you i also have a blade wolf!" Vesper plugged a blue whistle into Vesperat's mouth a symphony of wolf howls released as blue chains wrapped his chest and left foreleg. "GARURU SABRE!" the chains broke away revealing chrome blue chest plate with silver fangs running down his chest and a gauntlet and shoulder of chrome frozen flamed blue fur. With a howl a curving silver sword flew into his hoof his visor turning blue matching the wolf head sword guard. "Come on Krypto, show me a good time!" "This is merely form 1." Logic said before two chainsaws shot out of a nearby shipping crate. Logic got on his hind knees which shifted to accommodate him standing upright, the chainsaws attaching to his wrists. A Gatling gun formed on Logic's right shoulder as he drew his sabers charging some electricity into them. "I'm going to eviscerate you and use your gastrointestinal tract as a condom for when I fornicate with your skull." "What?" Vesper asked. "We're gonna Skull Buck You!" Logic, Ezekiel and Alfreda yelled charging at Vesper who dodged but not before The trio was able to deliver a slice on his cheek also charging him. Purple King smacked Matterhorn back into the water, to which she surfaced and shook it off. "All right the direct approach was stupid. Any other ideas?" Matterhorn asked her teammates. "Maybe Zapp should charge up Saddles with some lightning and Radiance put her in a cannon construct to shoot straight at that big lug's skull." Filli-Second suggested. Matterhorn thought long and hard and realized she was right and smiled. "Let's do this." Matterhorn charged whatever she could into the stub of her horn. It was incredibly painful, but she managed to blast Purple King at his legs keeping him stuck. Marevelous used her lasso to grab his arms and keep them down as Filli-Second ran away With Saddle Rager at normal size on her back. Radiance created a bat construct and shouted "Now!" Filli-Second came running back, Saddle Rager transforming and Zapp hit her with some lightning just as Radiance hit her off of Filii-Second, sending Saddle Rager, no fully transformed and electrically charged, flying towards Purple King's head, then slammed right through his forehead, causing him to fall backwards into the water then exploding in fire-filled water spreading explosion. "Ok why did he explode?" Filli-Second asked as they heard another explosion and looked behind them. Logic swung at Vesper with his right saber barely missing him as Vesper punched him in the eye. "I'm actually impressed. I didn't think you last this long against me." "I'm just full of surprises." Logic replied. "I don't what's funnier, you thinking your threatening or them thinking they're done." Vesper laughed out. "Rrrrraaaaaaaagggghhhhhhh!" "Oh Faust dammit!" Bolt cursed before being frozen by purple kings glowing glare. "You really think you can beat me!" Vesper kicked alfreda in the stomach knocking him away as he held the GARURU sabre the wolf head releasing a growl alfreda. Vesper flicked a lever behind the wolfs head causing the wolf hilt to release a sonic howl at Alfreda. "I beat each of these kaiju, and transformed them for my own power, their the sole and strongest survivor of their races and i bested them all!" "Best this bitch! Zeke, now!" Alfreda yelled as Ezekiel took control and pressed a button he placed on his back. Something rumbled under the water before beginning to surface, large spikes seen emerging before the beast came up. "What...is that?" Filli-Second asked. "None of us even know. Came through a portal, Ah took it." Ezekiel clarified as the creature reared his head from the water looking similar to a bear in some ways. It raised it's head before bringing it down facing Purple king, unleashing a mighty roar as well. "Get em Godzilla!" Alfreda yelled. 'We agreed his name would be Scrapdoodle!' 'You hear what you want to hear!' "Um....that's not a Godzilla." Vesper looked at the large fin horns on the side of its head. "Its a knock off species but not a very good one" He slashed Alfreda across the chest each slash echoed by a ringing howl. "That's a Gomorrah!" Purple king punched the Gomorrah hard enough to break its nose spraying blood on the Power ponies As Vesper swung his blade in time for Alfreda to catch it, causing a ringing yelp rather then a howl. "That son of a bitch gypsy lied to me! She said that it was him!" Alfreda yelled throwing Vesper across the docks. 'Does this mean ah can name him scrapdoodle?' Ezekiel asked. 'No!' Alfreda then turned to face Gomorrah as Logic took over. "You! Fight the other one or die! I don't care which!" Gomorrah's giant tail came and smashed Alfreda, then lifted up revealing Alfreda unharmed with a shield protecting this. "Y'now what? Buck Purple Kings, BUCK GOMORRAHS, AND BUCK YOU VESPER!" Alfreda yelled before pressing a button, launching a missile into the air from the bay. "Ultimatum prick: that's a thermobaric bomb, full size. You stop it but I escape, or you catch me and it falls killing everyone at the docks including you. P.S. Logic has it set off an EMP before detonation so your suit won't protect you. So long and go buck yourself!" Alfreda told him before Logic took over crushing the detonator and dropping it like a mike then transforming into a mini tank like car then driving off to Mane-iac and Lather's location. "Inside, now." Logic told them before they got in and Logic drove off. "Neat!" He swung his sword hard and with an echoing howl a blue slash wave flew up and slashed the bomb causing it to blow up in the sky. "But no sigar!" He placed another whistle in Vesperat's mouth "KAIJU RETURN!" His blue armor and Purple king turn into orbs of light flying into sky. "Gomorrah!, join me or die!" Vesper yelled his eye's on a new prize. Gomorrah one step forward before his head suddenly exploded, sending pieces of Kajiu all over the docks. "Now no one gets Gomorrah." Alfreda quipped in his original body back at the hideout. "Who are you talking to?" Moe asked. "Shut up that's who. We almost died. Let's just go to bed and sleep this off like a bad dream. "Aaaawww, always wanted one of those." Vesper said looking sad. "Least I have a dragon castle thing" Vesper grumbled out sounding like spoiled child. "Its okay master you'll get the next one' Vesperat flew off from his belt. It and the armor shattering away like glass revealing the stallion underneath. "Yeah" Marevelous climbed out of the bay water and stared at him her cheeks becoming pink. "What like what you see?" Vesperat smacked Black comet upside the head with his mechanical wing. "Don't flirt with the enemies Master Black comet how many times have I told you that." "Don't be mad cause I can't actually get laid." Comet replied smugly walking past the fiery corpse of Gomorrah. Author's Note Finally, I'm finished with chapter 6. Chapter 7 will hopefully not take as long. This was made with a collab with Rider Nocturnis Nemesis. Please support him if you wish to
Chapter 7: The Butt Kicking of the CenturyAlfreda and Lather walked along the street, crime mellowed out on the sunny day. "So how remind me again why isn't any cop trying to arrest us?" Alfreda asked. "Well Logic altered the camera footage so that we'd at least be able to walk around without any trouble." Alfreda and Lather heard cheering and walked toward were a crowd was cheering. They pushed through and saw Solar Mare fighting against an android Logic built, but it was still no match as she applebucked it in the torso tearing it in two. The crowd cheered on as Solar Mare simply bowed while Alfreda fumed. "Wow cheering for beating up a robot it took 5 minutes to make, how creative. Why is she even here?" "Power Ponies are in Goth'horn, High Heels trying to break into a secret government base." "Oh yeah she told me about that, Ecosystem or whatever it's called. Beside the point she's not all that, I can beat her up, no problem." Alfreda said as Solar Mare flew off. Alfreda grabbed a tin can on the ground and threw it towards her. "I can totally kick your ass!" He said before he rolled away pissed. "Did you take one of Seth's beers again?" Lather asked. "No. I took Prell's. Much harder then Seth's." Alfreda drank some imported Apple Family Cider he had 'appropriated' when Lather bursted in. "Uh Alfreda you better see this. I went back to grabbed the robot's remains and I found this lodged in it's mouth" She said handing him a letter which he then read aloud. "Dear Alfreda, I heard the challenge you issued and your can missed me by an inch. Come down to the docks unless you're talking out of your flank. Signed, who do you think this is?" "Who'd you think?" Lather said sarcastically. "No that's what it actually says." Alfreda rolled up alone to the docks and looked around. "All right show yourself. I'm not as scared of you anymore Black Comet." "I assure you it's not him." A voice with a motherly tone to it said. Alfreda turned around and standing in front of him was Solar Mare. "You got my message." "Oh wait that was yours?" Alfreda said scared. "Yep. I heard you say that and I wanted you to come see me to tell you that I've arranged for us to fight to see you prove it." "Wait hold on now how about we act like mature and rational adults here and talk this out?" "Well I was going to consider that, but you rolled down to the docks. I'll try and go easy on you though." Solar Mare then flew off as Alfreda stood there, only making a single squeaking noise of terror as he rolled back home still making the noise. "Heard about what happened. Solar Mare's gonna kick you ass into scrap." Prell said not looking up before the door was knocked on and Prell opened it. "Yo I'm from New Robots weekly-" "Hold up, come back at the fight." Alfreda was actually sweating as he looked over the situation and saw no way out without his death when Seth walked to him. "Hey Alfreda, I heard about you fighting Solar Mare so I got you this." He handed Alfreda a loaf of bread. "It's bread to put in you when she turns you into a toaster. Then I realized she's probably gonna have more of you left over so I got a bunch of other junk to add you parts to. Except your arms though, she might keep them for backscratchers." Alfreda breaking down into sobbing as Seth finished talking. "I'm going to die painfully, and even worse a virgin!" "Calm down man, we can figure this out, if not then we'll do the next best thing." "What's that?" "I'm gonna help you install a pair and teach you how to fight a girl. Who's impossibly stronger then you that is." "Don't you think that could've helped with you know, Saddle Rager?" "The former, maybe, the latter however wouldn't, me and the others are gonna teach you how to fight, not kill yourself like an idiot." Lather, Seth and some other henchponies were gathered around in a bunker Logic had made to contain Saddle Rager in the event they capture her. "So since you're going to fight Solar Mare, we're going to help you fight her without using Dark Magic Crystals. Mainly because Logic hid his and Ezekiel sold his share for a sandwich." Lather explained. "Yeah the problem with this is how the hell am I even supposed to hurt her?" Alfreda pointed out. "We think you can survive if you can just outlast her it's only one rounds. If you make it then you can at least say that you survived fighting her." "Ok good enough for me. What's the first lesson?" Alfreda asked before Lather punched him in the face. "Well it was gonna be how to throw and take a punch. But now it's gonna be how to dodge." Lather said with a sigh. The music was playing over the intercoms as Alfreda was lifting up the entire gang on a panel while Lather counted. "Come on Alfreda! Humdrum can lift better then you!" She yelled before Alfreda threw it to the ceiling causing some henchponies to fall off. "You were saying?" Alfreda said smugly before the panel fell back down squishing him. "Ow." Alfreda dodged the gunshots and magic blasts from Lather as well as the magic blasts from her horn. "I know you're a expert at dodging now but throw a damn punch." Alfreda rolled around towards Lather delivering a uppercut. Lather chuckled a little as she shook it off. "Nice. You might actually pull this off with a punch like that." "Hey you said that before. This better not turn out like Equador!" "It's not gonna turn out like Equador!" Lather said embarrassed. Alfreda approached the stadium, anxiety filling his being as he thought of what could go wrong. His worries subsided when Lather put her hoof on his shoulder. "Don't worry Alfreda, I'll be right by your side cheering you on when you fight. Here, have something of mine." Lather then used her magic to give Alfreda a pair of boxing gloves which he gasped at. "When I was a kid, I took up boxing so I could be able to watch out for myself, helped me out a lot. At least 2 years ago I went professional, I became the lightweight champ, took on mares, stallions, it didn't matter, give me a opponent, I'd get'em down. Got kicked out though, but I at least went out on top. I want you to have my gloves Alfreda. And something else." "What?" "This." Lather then lunged in to kiss him all though he was hesitant but he melted into the embrace before hugging her. "Go get 'em tiger." Lather said to Alfreda while he was trying out the gloves when he noticed something on them. "Lather why are there some nails on these?" "Oh yeah that was for my knockout, they called it the Viper." Lather then chuckled embarrassingly. "Federation discontinued use of it, kinda why I was forced to quit." Everyone was cheering ready to see the carnage even Kul'as who was in the crowd. He saw Lord Tirek walking down the stand and tripped him causing him the fall to the bottom breaking his legs. Everyone cheered louder as the first sign of their battle hunger arose. The lights dimmed as one entrance to the ring lit up. Alfreda and Lather rolled out as the music blared over the intercoms. As Alfreda neared the ring, he spotted Solar Mare in her costume sporting no gloves but standing at the ready. "If you die I'm taking everything you have." Seth told him as Lather walked to sit next to him. "All right, let's get it on." Alfreda said as he rolled onto the mat. "You know it's not too late to admit you're wrong." Solar Mare suggested. "How can I be wrong if I never tried?" Alfreda argued. "Fair enough." Alfreda went to his corner stretching a little before facing down Solar Mare. "If I die, burn everything I own, no one gets my body parts." He told Lather before the bell rung. He charged at Solar Mare dodging a swing from him and throwing a few punches before continuing to dodge. Alfreda felt his confidence rise with each punch and dodge, hearing a small pant from Solar Mare boosted it as the strategy was working. "You call that boxing? Bite her ear!" Seth shouted as Alfreda delivered an uppercut to Solar Mare. Solar Mare simply chuckled as she cracked her neck. Alfreda realized what happened and looked at Lather. "Equador?" "Equador." Lather said with a sigh in defeat. Solar Mare delivered punches to Alfreda, obviously suppressed as the dents weren't as deep as he thought, Alfreda was brought into a corner as Solar Mare hit him. "Forget regulations, give her the Viper!" Lather shouted. Solar Mare threw him out of the corner before he took out the nails and punched Solar Mare in the chest only for the nails to crumple. Alfreda realized the conclusion was, so he simply stood there taking the punches. "Go ahead, fuel their violence." Solar Mare delivered a left hook sending Alfreda back some feet. "Protect me Faust!" He yelled afraid. "Kill Alfreda!Kill Alfreda!Kill Alfreda!" One crowd cheered wanting Alfreda to make it. "Kill Alfreda!! Kill Alfreda! Kill Alfreda!" The other crowd cheered. Solar Mare knocked him down and spread her wings over him as the audience cheered. "BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD!" They chanted as Alfreda winced ready for the end. "Here I come Joan River..." Alfreda said to himself before Solar Mare tossed her gloves away and helped Alfreda up. "Did I die?" "No, I'm done." "What? Why?" "Because working problems out with such violence will not solve anything. I can see you're just an angry robot who wants to try and find out who he is in life. Who am I to take away that chance from you? I only challenged you to teach you a lesson on what to say while under the influence." Alfreda realized she was sparing him and hugged her tightly as the bell dinged. Lather shed a tear as Seth sobbed behind her. "So sweet of her, Right Seth?" Seth looked up at the ring. "Nobody won, and I spent everything I had on her killing him. They're both Losers! LOSERS! LOSERS!" "Scammers!" Prell yelled. "We paid for blooooooood!" Tirek shouted from the ground. "Tear these walls down!" Someone yelled prompting everyone to start a riot tearing the building up and fight each other as Solar Mare put Alfreda on her back. "How about I take you home?" "Sure. I'd like that." Alfreda replied hugging tightly as they began to ascend into the air. Kul'as looked up to them and let out a sigh. "So merciful, if only boxing was around when I slayed Faust. Oh well." Kul'as then tore a chair from it's roots and smashed it over someone's head before Moon Knight tackled him, other heroes attempting to help calm down the riot as well. She looked up at Solar Mare who flew off, letting a smile appear under her mask. 'Nice fight sis.' She thought before going back to pummling Kul'as.
Chapter 8: The Deadliest of OrdersAlfreda rolled into the room and saw everyone of Mane-iacs's henchmen gathered in the room. "Hi Seth, feeling better?" Alfreda asked him. "You cost me everything I have, you can drop dead." Seth simply told him. "And good morning to you to. What's the agenda today?" Alfreda asked as Mane-iac came down, looking quite excited as she pulled up a hologram. "I have some exciting news today gang. You've all heard of that ancient and powerful society the Order of the Claw correct?" "The same one who we said we would never try to steal the base of?" "Yeah, we're doing exactly that." Mane-iac replied happily. "Are you insane!?" Alfreda yelled. 'You're asking the Mane-iac if she's insane. Maniac is literally her name.' Logic told him. "I know what you're thinking, 'Are you insane Mane-iac?! They'll slaughter us before we can even get inside. And to top it off they're off in deep space while we're here.' Well forget about both those statements, because with my cunning charm, I managed to 'appropriate' ship for us to use. A couple of us will go up there, and commit a hostile takeover, if not then at least steal some of their goodies for the Black Market." "You stole a ship didn't you?" Alfreda asked bluntly. "In retrospect one of them said they were seeking asylum here from 'Omega's familiars' or whatever he called them so I don't think they'll be needing it back." "Aren't familiars supposed to be these guys who serve some higher power thing in exchange for something? Because I'm pretty sure there's probably some guy or a group of them already taking care of them." "And on another note we're cutting down on how many times we let Alfreda watch the Blade series." "All right fair enough." Some henchponies were loading up supplies into the ship while others were going inside, Seth among them. "We make it out of this, drinks are on me." Seth said smugly. "Ironic considering he has no money left and the fact he just jinxed himself." Alfreda noted before Lather gave him a goodbye kiss. "I'll be back in a couple pieces." Alfreda told her as Moe joined them and the ship flew off leaving Lather there as the other henchponies went inside. "50 bits says barely half of them come back." Rinse said standing next to her. The ship shuttered a little as it rocketed through empty space, everyone on board, bored out of their minds. "How hard is it to find a giant ship floating through space?" Alfreda complained until the ship came to a sudden stop as something roared by it. Alfreda looked out the port to see a hulking mass of a space cruiser pass by them as the ship continued onto the even bigger space station that seemed to stay in the middle of space in front of them. Alfreda shuddered feeling something bad would happen as the ship went into the hidden dock between two turrets that constantly moved slowly and menacingly, ready to fire. The ship landed and everyone walked out lining up in front of Alfreda as Logic took over. "All right here's the plan, Me, Moe and Seth with take 3 of you while the rest of you split into groups of three. If anything goes wrong head right back here, but under no circumstance do you leave without us. Prell you take 4 guys and investigate the weapons systems if you can and try to find the Council of 10, they may be just a rumor but we can't take that chance from what the rumors say." All of them nodded in agreement before breaking off and going into separate corridors. Alfreda stopped his group as they approached a door and looked at two henchstallions giving them a couple of hand gestures they didn't understand. "Oh for Faust sake just scout through the door." The stallions realized it then walked through the door cautiously. "You sure it was a good idea to send those idiots?" Moe asked. "Hey, they're the best of all the idiots we brought with us." Alfreda said defending them as he on at them. "I had them prepare for any scenario they could-" Alfreda didn't finish as a shadow quickly zoomed passed the stallions who collapsed, their throats suddenly slit. "LAUREN FAUST CHANGELING HUNTER!" Alfreda screamed in horror. "What the heck was that?" Seth screamed. "Death!" Moe yelled as they all ran away from the door. "We take what we saw to our graves." Alfreda told the others who nodded. They all stopped as they found themselves on a balcony edge(One stallion ran too fast and ended up falling off and plummeted to his death) looking out a futuristic looking city with Wirewolves for days walking around. "Ok 1, we just lost another one of our guys, kinda sad how he died, and 2 this is even better then mom hoped. If we can take this place, we have the work force we need to create anything to defeat the Power Ponies and conquer Equis." "You're forgetting Solar Mare." Moe pointed out. "Well with the technology they have we can search for all the dark magic crystals we want." Alfreda argued. "This place has everything we'll need. Personal Accommodations, Ladies for the guys..." Alfreda continued as a sniper shot killed a henchstallion right next to him. "Snipers-SNIPER! HIT THE DECK!" Alfreda yelled prompting everyone to duck and run away once more to a door as a sniper shot barely missed Alfreda who closed the door behind him. "So that was terrifying." Alfreda simply said before accidentally pressing a button sending everyone down on what was apparently a lift. They stopped and Alfreda got out his guns ready to fire whoever was on the other side of the door that appeared front of him. "All right this might be the bridge, so no one might be armed, the conquest of the Wolf's Hide Begins." Alfreda then swung the door open aiming his gun getting every Wirewolf in the rooms attention. "All right put your claws where I can see 'em." Alfreda commanded to which all the Wirewolves aimed their blasters right at him. Alfreda was silent as he simply shut the door. "Let try the other room." Alfreda suggested before an alarm sounded off. "That could be for any reason." "Attention Soliders in sectors Semper beta through Alpha Psi, This is High Councilman Direwolf. Intruders have been spotted in your sectors,to save resources you are to stay in your assigned rooms. The pack is being released into the corridors." The voice over the monitors commanded before then shutting off. The group was silent until Alfreda spoke up. "The Pack could be like their team of hot female Wirewolves meant to seduce us then kill us." Alfreda said before an agonizing scream echoed through the halls. They all looked down the corridor seeing several savage wirewolves stare them down, looking as though they were hardened by war, the lead one a female who stared at them with a sinister grin. "See there's one girl among them." Alfreda said before the lead wirewolf roared, her packmates sprinting forward. "Super run away!" Alfreda yelled prompting the henchstallions and Moe to oblige running with him, one unfortunate stallion in the back being tackled by the Alpha Female disemboweling him painfully. Alfreda and the others screamed as they ran as fast as there legs were able to carry them. "Well this was a total bust!" Seth yelled. "Not really, Logic took over for a minute and downloaded some of their files when you guys weren't looking." Alfreda pointed out before dodging A Pack member swooping down grabbing the stallion behind him. Alfreda ran as fast as his wheel could go, the ship just in reach, when the other groups showed up from their respective corridors. Alfreda saw there was barely a 3 stallions, not counting his group but Prell luckily among them, the worst the mares had were various cuts and an at least one scrape from a bullet. All of them loaded into the ship ready to take off but waiting for Alfreda and his group, which when Alfreda looked around, had lost it's last stallion to a sniper, leaving only him, Seth, and Moe as the survivors. Alfreda and Moe managed to jump through but Seth fell short and crawled, only for the Alpha Female to grab him by the leg pulling him back. Alfreda tried to grab Seth but Seth knocked his hand away. "I'll only weigh you guys down, I have nothing left for me back home anyway. Alfreda, do me a favor, if she asks, go all the way with Lather, she loves you. You wanna go bitch? You got it!" Seth yelled using his Earth Pony strength to kick the Alpha Female in the face then tackled her to the ground. Seth began to beat on her until she kicked him off then stood him down. Seth knew this was the end and decided to go for it and yelled charging at her ready to punch...only for the Alpha Female to easily grab him and pin him to the ground before biting his throat out, earning a gurgling sound from Seth, then tearing him apart and feasting on him, one of his legs flying the ship, Alfreda catching it in his hands. "So much blood..." Alfreda said traumatized as the door closed the ship rocking as the turrets tried to shoot the ship down only for it to go into hyperspace. The ship landed back in front of Mane-iac's base many of the other henchponies waiting for them to get out, and giving them all warm welcomes when Alfreda stepped out, holding Seth's severed leg in sadness. "He died fighting one of those things to save us. He died saving us and I couldn't stop it." Alfreda said before Logic took over. "Actually The ship was at the perfect escape velocity with most of the others killed, he would gotten us killed as well, his basic purpose towards the ends was basically meat to distract the guard dogs. And considering the new information we now have on them, their painful deaths save for Seth's were totally worth it." "Fair enough." Alfreda replied taking back control. All the henchmen had gathered together at the Maretropolis to mourn for those lost during the attempted and failed hostile takeover, Seth's leg the only thing they could use for mourning as Alfreda placed it in the Viking boat along with all of the belongings of those who were lost. "My friends and fellow henchponies, we are gathered on this day to mourn the loss of those who did not make it during the smuggling of information from the Wolf's Hide." "Screw that it was an attempted hostile-" "INTERRUPT MY SPEECH AGAIN PRELL, SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!" Alfreda shouted. "They were...stallions who did what few dare know in order to dream. The one who was the real hero to us, was Seth. He gave his life so that those of us who survived could come back. Seth, if you can hear us from beyond the grave, we'll miss you, your sacrifice shall not be forgotten." Alfreda then nodded to Moe who then played Amazing Grace on the bagpipes as Alfreda pushed the boat out to sea. Alfreda lighted a torch by his side and tossed it into the boat setting it on fire as it moved out to sea. 'On the plus side of this, I've learned always uses mares for the missions, I mean it was the guys we lost up there.' Alfreda thought. "Wow that thing went up real quick." Lather noted. "You chose a pretty flammable wood." Rinse added. "Um that stuff actually takes a long time to set ablaze. I added barely added any gas on it, and nothing in the boat can light it up that fast." Alfreda replied. "We should go now." Moe suggested. "Yeah I didn't even get a permit for this." Alfreda agreed prompting everyone to run away as police sirens were heard coming closer.
Chapter 9: The Death of a BrotherIt was two weeks since the viking funeral and Alfreda had put the Spaceship in storage, with plans to take it apart then put it back together. Moe ran into Alfreda's room causing Alfreda to smash a computer in panic. "Yeah don't knock or anything, it's not like we live with over a dozen mares now and am currently sleeping with none of them, so there is no chance I'd masturbating." Alfreda said sarcastically. "Stuff has been going down Alfreda, turns out we were gone for like a week and lots of stuff had gone down since then." "All right, shoot." Alfreda replied. "Marevelous and Vesper hooked up for one." "Called it! Rinse owes me 50 bits, and so would... Sam if he was alive, I think his name was Sam." "Anyway superpowered villains are on the rise. Couple heroes have called it quits and or died." "Are any of the PP among them?" "Nope." "Shame, but this is a problem why?" "Well some of them think the Mane-iac isn't competent enough to hold all this territory so they're going to try and take over." Alfreda simply sighed before Logic took control. "I always knew this day would come. Prepare the mechs, the time to defend has come, I never though I'd say this but, Ezekiel, take control of the lead mech." "It's mah dream come true!" Ezekiel shouted putting a plug from the wall into him allowing Ezekiel to travel into the lead mech and take control. "HOO WEE! I gots me two legs, now I can organize my hootinanys I've always hoped to do!" "Do it after all this settles over, right now you're gonna prepare the mechs for the coming war." An army of New Super villains marched through the streets, lead by a unicorn mare with a black coat and red eyes with yellow slits, small claws poking out her hooves as she licked her canines in anticipation. then stopped her massive army. "Today, the Mane-iac's reign as top villains comes to it's end. A new age shall begin, our age, tonight, we dine, on Mane-iac soup!" She yelled to which her army cheered. Matterhorn sighed as she looked over the army from the rooftop, it was becoming too much even for her team but she let a weak smile appear on her face as she looked over the team. "Never give up?" She asked her teammates making a small joke. "We're with you to the end." Filli-Second replied standing at the ready on the roof edge. "ATTAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!" The mare commanded prompting all the villains to charge, when dozens of mechs and henchponies led by the Mane-iac flooded from her hideout charging as well. The two armies clashed, casualties already developing on Mane-iac's side but their sheer numbers and the mechs strength easily overwhelming the villains. The Power Ponies landed right in the middle, knocking out villains left and right, though Black Comet was sucking out the life force of some when he got the chance. Lather found herself cornered by a few villains who grinned but then charged her horn and struck herself with a spell as she wrapped some nails around her hooves with elastic. She growled as she bulked up growing to Saddle Rager's size, but more of a thick frame then a walking tank, but either way she plowed through them punching. "Viper Train bitches!" She yelled enjoying it way more then she should. Meanwhile Inside the base in the Mane-iac Mobile, The Mane-iac's mode of transportation for her henchponies, Alfreda and Moe sat in the backseat eating with a bag of chips with some hot sauce watching the battle on the TV inside the car, hooked up to the various cameras throughout the area. "Want some Red Hot?" Alfreda asked Moe offering the bowl to him. "Sure." "Warning, it is not just spicy, it's pretty hot." Alfreda replied before he began to spread some hot sauce and crushed chips on his face. "What're you doing?" Moe asked. "I'm creating blood so that when we get out at the end it'll look like we killed some guys." "You look like you rubbed hot sauce on your face." Moe replied when he heard a scream looking at the TV. "Oh! That guys flying!" Moe noted seeing a villain be sent flying across the screen. "Yeah Lather hit him, you can see the marks her finisher on there. Surprised she's using Logic's spell but it's pretty awesome either way, especially with Black Comet on the field eliminating all the competition." Alfreda noted before a minimech ran into the car strapping himself in the driver seat. "Oh crud!" Moe yelled. "The rogue's got out and he's stealing hiding spot! I'm not sharing!" "Bail!" Alfreda yelled to which he fell out of the car, but looked back finding Moe did not do the same. "Dude jump out!" "I can't! The seat-belts jammed!" Moe replied. "Why do you buckle it? We were gonna get out anyway." "I don't know!" Moe replied as the car peeled off. "Why did you buckle up? Why?!" Alfreda asked running after the Mane-iac Mobile. "I don't knooooooooooooooow!" Moe sobbed as the car plowed through the villains upon getting outside. Alfreda avoided who he could as he tried to make his way to the car, but was then tackled by someone into an alley. Alfreda got the pony off and found it was the mare that lead the charge. "Mane-iac can wait, I want to kill the reason behind her success and take my sweet time in doing so." She gloated. "Oh yeah I heard of you, Sabrewolf. By the way why do they call you that?" Alfreda asked earning a smirk from her. Sabrewolf growled as he bones cracked and shifted, the tiny claws of her toes twisting and turning into full fledged digits that clenched as she moved to her back legs, her muscles bugled with power as she roared, her snout breaking then elongating as it filled with more canines before her horn split in two giving it a ram like appearance. Sabrewolf howled as she stood there, now in her werewolf form looking at Alfreda, her eyes now sporting double slits of red and yellow. "Any last words?" She asked, her voice now deep demonic. "Four." Alfreda said as a pod flew towards him. It broke apart and attached to Alfreda shifting parts as he became a Wirewolf ready to fight as he shared control with Logic. "Come at me bitch." He taunted prompting Sabrewolf to roar tackling him. Alfreda bit into her arms getting her off and proceeded to beat on her until an orb formed between her horns and blasted Alfreda in the chest. Alfreda was sent slamming into a wall where Sabrewolf tore off his left arm and shredded his back while she sunk her teeth into his neck. Alfreda's right hand turned into a nozzle he pointed at her face spraying her with fire causing to let go in pain as he grabbed his left arm from the floor and beat her in the face with it sending her out into the street where the real fight was at. She grabbed the arm and tossed away as she lunged at him but Alfreda grabbed her and tossed her towards Lather who hit her while delivering random punches hitting Sabrewolf square in her chest. she was able to heal the wound but slightly then ran back for Alfreda. Zapp got punched in the face causing her to drop her pendent, but she adapted easily swinging punches. Alfreda fell near were the pendent fell and prepared to get up when Sabrewolf landed on him and brought out ancient Wirewolf Dagger and tried to stab Alfreda in the chest but Alfreda was able to keep it back with his tail but it was slowly coming down. Alfreda saw the pendent next to him and thought of soemthing, he may have not been worthy, but it was better to try it then let the dagger come down. Sabrewolf grinned as the blade drew closer to him but failed to notice Alfreda reach for the pendent. Pulling it to him by the string, Alfreda grabbed the pendent and stabbed it into Sabrewolf's chest earning a gasp of shock from her, then the attention of the entire battle as the lightning bolt came down, Sabrewolf taking the full blow of the blast. Everyone was in shock as Alfreda lifted Sabrewolf off her and pulled out of the wirewolf body. "Do you see what this war has brought?" Alfreda asked. "Look around you, we're surrounded by death and unwanted destruction. These are not the villains I grew up to know. We shouldn't be fighting over the territory we use or the heroes we arch, this is becoming the Golden Age of Supers, and yo guys are fighting over land like a bunch of kids." Alfreda finished sounding disappointed. 'That was incredible Alfreda, not only did you actually kill someone but you also made a good speech without my help.' 'Actually she's in a coma form the looks of it.' "Hey Alfreda!" Black Comet yelled making his way to the car which Moe was getting out of. "Yeah?" "I'm taking your bucking car." "Oh ok sure." Alfreda replied. As Black Comet approached the car, it exploded sending him flying back. "Comet!" Marevelous shouted. "Moe! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" Alfreda screamed in sorrow before Moe's flaming body slammed into him. "Ow!" Comet groaned as Marevelous pick him up and looked to see the chaos that was ensuing from the sudden fire, standing out the most, was Alfreda as he held Moe's flaming body repeated yelling "Moe!" in anguish until a piece of metal slammed onto him. It was 6 weeks since the funeral, Alfreda had been killing himself several times, only for Logic's protocols to keep rebuilding him over and over again. Everyone in the hideout simply sat around, hearing Alfreda's sobs through the walls. "I still can't believe he's gone." Prell simply said. "He was a good Wirewolf, and Alfreda's the one that's been effected the most, Moe was like brother to him." Rinse added until they heard something outside. Lather, Rinse, Prell and a few others ran outside and saw Alfreda on the roof. "Alfreda! What're you doing?" Lather asked. "I'M GOING TO JUMP!" Alfreda shouted prompting everyone shouted for him not to, save for the Wirewolf across the street eating some popcorn. "Do a flip!" He shouted which Alfreda complied but was caught in Lather's magic aura. "All right that enough of this self destruction Alfreda! Killing yourself isn't going to bring Moe back!" "I know it's just...I,I...I FUCKING MISS HIM SO MUCH!" Alfreda shouted grabbing Lather in a tight hug and sobbing out all his sorrow. "I h-have n-n-no one that cares about me now, so what's the damn point?" "Well...you have me." Lather told him before giving him a hug. Alfreda began to calm down as he melted into Lather's embrace. 'I love you Alfreda. I won't let anything bad happen to you on my watch.' Lather thought to herself as she blushed when Alfreda hugged back. Author's Note 20,000 words at last, onto the next 20,000. Next chapter shall be written later.
Chapter 10: A Blaze of GloryMost of the Mane-iac's henchponies were enjoying their time at the bar. Two of them sitting in a booth in an intense debate. "Dove telling you, Shadowmane and Phetlock are the best power couple." She said to her friend. "Pantene you don't know what you're talking about. It's clearly High Heel and Longface. They're perfect foils for each other." "Those couples don't exist." A voice said. Both of them looked at the one sitting in a chair in the dark. Only his eyes were seen, one was blue with a green slit and the other red. "All four of them were simply working together in a very fragile alliance that barely made it to 2 days. Vesper Kiva and Marevelous are clearly a couple, Marevelous ran to his side when he was injured during the revolt." "Pffh. Look at this guy. Thinking he's right." Pantene joked. "Shut up. Shut up." Dove whispered afraid. "You're telling me those idiots could be couples. When they could barely work as a team?" The being asked walking towards them, revealing himself as Alfreda in his Blade Wolf suit, many of his weapons sharpened and battle damaged. "Look we know what we're talking about-" Pantene stopped as Alfreda got in her face. "Vesper Kiva, Mistress B*cking Marevelous." "Y-yeah, it's not a competition." Dove agreed terrified. Alfreda looked at her unblinking until he moved the chainsaw from Pantene's neck and reattached it to his back walking away, allowing Pantene to let go of her breath. "What the f*ck was that?!" She asked terrified. "That was Alfreda." "You mean Annihilating Alfreda! He's a legend!" "Yeah he doesn't even wanna lose the 2nd A." "Well thank Faust I didn't mention the car accident." Pantene sighed in relief only to smack her hooves over her mouth as Alfreda stopped dead in his tracks. "Sh*t." Pantene said. "What was that?" Alfreda asked. "N-nothing." "No, that wasn't a car accident, Moe died in a car intentional... and when I find out who did it, I will make them suffer slowly and in sheer pain. But first. What's your rank?" "40..." "All henchponies present who's ranks are 35-102 you're now on guard duty at base. I want you paying for your drinks and all clean in one hour." Alfreda then stormed out of the room as some mares groaned and left the room and Dovee developed a smile on her face. "What're you so happy about?" Pantene asked. "I'm getting time off." "What?" "I was ranked 42, I just checked my card, I've been moved up to 33. You just gave me free time." Pantene snorted before trotting off annoyed. "Don't hate on my luck." Dove gloated. Mane-iac and Lather sighed as they relaxed from the massages they had received. "Everything has just been great since you helped Alfreda, again major thanks on that." "I know right? Personal masseuses, gourmet food, a protective son for you and a protective boyfriend for me, my only concern is his thing with the mirrors. And you know..." "So I'm thinking I should just wait a few more weeks before I really go to that point of the relationship with her." Alfreda said looking at Moe's skull on the chair. "What'd you know you never even had a girlfriend." "Personally I believe you should just wait longer until we finally deal with this meta-pony villain rising that's sweeping Equestria." Logic replied from a mirror. "Not yet Logic, we still don't know if she'll want to wait that long." "Is no one gonna take my suggestion to make a city on that mountain range near that ponytown?" Ezekiel asked from his cracked mirror. "Nobody cares Ezekiel!" Alfreda yelled as he walked out of the room. "So what, I talk to mirrors like that sometimes, Doesn't effect me that much." Mane-iac said nonchalantly. "That's because you've had time to adjust. Alfreda's actually just barely 2 years old, that could have some serious consequences on his personality for it to show signs of fracture with 3 already." "Look, let's just let him work out his issues then maybe we can talk him down later." Mane-iac told Lather. "Ok, but the moment he does anything irrational I'm interfering." Alfreda walked back into the room, several plans in his claws as he dropped them to the ground. "All right guys, everyone gather together, it's time I unveil my greatest and final master plan: Proposition Phoenix. No I wasn't going to bring you back to life Moe, sorry if I made it sound like I was gonna, it was a cool name though." "Kind of a dick move to tease him like that." Logic responded. "Don't you start. I've figured out who set off the bomb planted on the mech. Well Logic thought it was a good idea to have one in every mech." "Complain to me about that when someone takes one of our mechs, I'll be there to say I told you so after it blows up." "Regardless, one of Sabrewolf's suck ups took it." "Isn't she dead?" "Again, in a coma, no idea when she's waking up though. Apparently the bitch found the detonator and set it off. For the past couple months, the PP have been killed in the line of duty, only Saddle, Marevelous and Comet are left. Yeah but I consider him a member too. Ok Moe just shut up now and let me talk. My sources tell me...it's none of you're business who my sources are, they tell me that they're gonna confront to last of them tonight. I will get closure and go out in a blaze of glory, but not before I say my goodbyes to all my friends." Lather heard a knock on her door and opened it to find Alfreda there."Alfreda? What're you doing here?" "Something's gonna go down tonight, I want to spend my last moments alone with my girl, and for us to take it to the next level." "A-Are you sure?" "I know I'm sure." Alfreda said giving Lather a kiss on the lips as he closed the door behind him as Lather pulled out. "Take it slow, and to be honest, this is my first time too." "Well I have 2 hours, we can make it work." Alfreda assured her as they locked lips more falling onto the couch. Alfreda looked at the villain warehouse in anticipation for vengeance and closure. "That was the most incredible feeling ever. Of all time. By the way, thanks for tagging in at that moment Logic." 'You're welcome, it would've been a major turn off for you to begin crying in the middle of it, it also got you prepared mentally.' "Ok let's focus on the job at hand here please." Alfreda said before jumping down by the fence. "Moe. Do your thing." A ghostly form appeared next to Alfreda before taking shape becoming a transparent Moe."What is thy bidding my master? What you tell me off when your virginity dies but now you bring me back to watch real you die?" "Shut up, I'm in a good mood, please don't ruin it. I need you to go inside and tell me how many guys are in there." "And what, you want me to posses one of them and take them out?" "No just tell me how many guys are there you're the reason I've managed to take out so many guys." "Really? Or did I just come to give you the confidence that you can be you own wolf though thick and thin?" Moe quired with an echo. "You're real! I believe you to be real, you have to be." "Whatever you say..." Moe said doubtingly. Alfreda began to walk towards the warehouse as explosions went off as(just as Logic predicted) Vesper Kiva and Marevelous fought some goons on their own. Alfreda looked ahead of him seeing his nemesis in her normal form facing him. "Saddle Rager, at least we meet." "Do I know you?" "Do not play that game with me, you have kicked my ass for far too long, now the tables will turn." Saddle Rager merely walked up to him, her eyes glowing red simply saying "Boo." Right in his face recieving a punch to the face for her troubles earning a chuckle from her. "Nice hit, I was here to help Marevelous and Vesper but this is just as good." "This is my first Hearth's Warming Eve, meeting the cast of Transformares, and when I lost my virginity earlier all rolled in one!" Alfreda said running for another punch when Saddle Rager easily dodged punching him back. "You didn't think I was gonna give you the advantage did you?" Saddle Rager asked her voice deepening. "I was fucking praying you didn't! You gotta bring it bitch! BRING IT!!" Alfreda then roared as he charged at Saddle Rager who transformed and did the same as they engaged in battle. Marevelous heard Saddle Rager's roar behind the wall she was up against, the Sabrewolf Henchmare in front of her preparing to kill her when Vesper bit into his neck draining his life force. His eyes glowed brightly briefly before he sighed. "These guys never fill me up." He looked toward Marevelous and his confidence wavered. "Um....hey Frost..." he sounded shy seeing her again from several months ago. "Hey..... Comet." Frost looked away from him in guilt. "........I missed you." "I missed you too." Frost replied before flipping over a henchstallion that Comet then beheaded. "I'm sorry about what happened to Bolt. And the others basically." "It's not your fault, we knew what would happen taking out Sabrewolf's lieutenants. There's nothing you could've done." "I could've been there for you and Breezy." Comet then looked around for Saddle Rager as he snapped as henchemare's neck. "Did you lose her too?" "She's outside having her last fight with Alfreda, probably the same for him. Last time I saw him he looked like he wanted to go out fighting her, and winning at least." Alfreda dodged a swing from Saddle Rager as he swung his tail around cutting her right in the side. Saddle Rager winced for a second before it healed turning around looking dead into Alfreda's eyes as he looked as into hers well, allowing them both to see that on the last day they stood on this rock, behind their eyes they both shared something they lost: the will to live. 'Logic, activate the bombs, I'm going to grant myself and her the peace we're craving.' Alfreda told Logic drawing his sword. 'Alfreda?' Logic asked actually stunned for the first time in his life. 'I'm just...so tired of this. I already won Game of Life. It's time for that final spin when it's just one space away from the final square. Ezekiel, it was an honor to fight with you, and it's been a gift to live with you buddy.' 'Bye Freda...' Ezekiel replied sadly. 'May our paths cross again someday guys, if not... until we meet again.' Alfreda replied before roaring charging towards Saddle Rager who grabbed a large piece of shrapnel and ran at him with it like a lance roaring back. They both ran each other through with their blades, Saddle Rager feeling some of her heart being pierced by the blade while her left lung began to fill up with her blood. Alfreda managed to turn around and saw the shard had got him right in his heart. In fact his heart was right on the blade end sticking out of his back, some veins still connected to it. Alfreda could feel Logic hesitantly activating the bombs as his life slowly drained as he stared at Saddle Rager who gave him a weak smile speaking some of her last words. "Good fight Alfreda..." She exhaled her last breath as she slumped as Alfreda shed a tear. "She knew my name..." Alfreda said before her corpse tipped over and crushed him under her dead weight, his head and right arm sticking out of her side. "Faust damn it." He said before he heard the beep of the bombs beginning to sped up before everything seemed to slow down. Flames began to move towards him as Alfreda saw a white Wirewolf hand reaching down towards him. "It's time to rest Alfreda." Alfreda sighed in relief reaching his hand out as the flames engulfed him and Saddle Rager's corpse. Lather ran through past the fire trucks dosing the fires, tears streaming from her eyes as she searched through the wreckage in a panic. She heard some sparks and turned over what she found was Saddle Rager's Corpse, finding Alfreda's broken and damaged body. Lather was speechless, after everything they've been through, everyone they beat, he was finally gone. Lather simply sat their crying, cradling Alfreda's corpse soon joined by The Mane-iac as the rain fell. 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Chapter 11: Rebirth'10 Years.' Logic thought to himself. '10 Years since Alfreda's sacrifice. The world has changed, a corrupt government has tightened it's grip on this land, innocents suffer from them turning a blind eye, thinking that they are the smartest beings in this universe. They are wrong. The time is drawing near to return, I can sense a new age of heroes beginning, new threats to their order, and I shall lead it with the fury of the ponies they've oppressed.' Maretopolis was a bit run down, what with the crime wave that encompassed the city since the age of heroes ended but if anywhere else suffered the most, it was the shampoo factory that had seen better days. In Laymare's terms... "Still looks like a Time Machine threw up all over it." The Snow white Green maned mare muttered walking towards the place with a large bag in her magic grip. She lifted up a garage door and walked in. "Boss? Boos are you there?" Green things on the floor wrapped around her legs but she quickly teleported. She looked in the darkness seeing a pair of eyes with a double iris of red and green eyes looking at her. "Who are you?" The figure asked, her voice scratchy like sandpaper. "It's me Boss, Lather, I came to give you some food I got for the week for you." Lather place the bag on the floor. "I don't know any Lathers. I did have an imaginary friend name Rinse who gave me a wedgie for three years." Lather sighed before looking at her again. "On the night before he died, the first Alfreda did was bite my-" Lather teleported out of the way from a tentacle swing. "Why did you say that name!?" The voice asked stepping out of the shadows, revealing the Mane-iac, her coat unkempt, her and having multiple split ends at the base of her mane. "Accept it Boss, Alfreda died a decade ago! It's time to let go!" Lather turned on the lights showing dozens of broken robots and tools, the main table having a private Internet Server on it. "He was one of a kind, you can never replace him. You just need to let go." Mane-iac growled before tears welled up in her eyes. "I just need one more try." She grabbed multiple parts beginning to build something connecting it to the server. "One more try." At Selene Industries, A Wirewolf with a leaf shaped mark on his shoulder walked to the computer terminal about to give it a check up when his phone rang, he pick it up with a smile. "Hello?" "Hi Green Leaf are you busy?" "Not really Flutters the guys said that they spotted something weird in their computers so I volunteered to check the master terminal to see if there was a problem." "Oh ok, I'm just giving the Serums we're working on a checkup, I wanted to talk to you about something." "We could do it now, there's not much going on." Green Leaf replied turning on the computer. "I was thinking of having a foal." Green Leaf froze at the word but managed to calm himself. "Of course, this is definitely a talk face to face...thing..." Green Leaf's words slowed down when he spotted the odd color shifting glitch that moved across the screen. "I think I found the problem." "What is it?" "It looks like a virus but I'm afraid what might happen trying to use a program on it." The Glitch zipped across out of the screen's view scaring Green Leaf. "Fluttershy I'll call you back. I love you." "I love you too." Green Leaf hung up following the current the glitch apparently hopped on based on the electricity surrounding the cable that left the room. Green Leaf was so busy following the cable he didn't notice a message pop up on screen. "01010111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01000001 01101101 00100000 01001001 00111111" "Where am I?" The Voice did not know where he was, data and websites all around him confusing him. "Where am I?" He asked again. "The Internet." A voice said. The Blue Voice turned to see a red ball, it felt cold and emotionless, but it's tone was trying to be calming. "Greetings Old Friend, I am Logic." "Where's your body? Where's my body?" "I know you're feeling lost, scared, confused, I am sorry to say the answer you seek is quite complicated. As for where we are in the Internet, or at least the Private Servers of Selene Industries, owned and found by CEO Selene Moon." "Selene Moon?" The Blue voice began searching through the servers finding pictures of a unicorn mare with a Dark blue coat and cyan eyes, her mane looking like the night sky was weaved from it. "I don't like how she looks. I think she's hiding something." The Voice slithered through the severs picking up what he could, finding the same names popping up: Moon Knight, New Moon, here and there those two names kept coming through until he found two doors, one the shape of Crescent Moon, and the other looked like a rock with weapons behind it. The Voice looked at both before choosing the rock door but stooped. He saw red tendrils wrapped around him and followed them to see them coming from Logic. "Whatever is in there is in it's own server, I don't think we should be messing with it." "Relax I'm not messing with anything, I just wanna look." The Blue Voice moved through but was immediately taken back at all the weapon designs and the destructive power almost all of them wielded, in test bays reducing entire model buildings to ash. "This is what they're making...Death..." The Blue Voice was taken back by such horror he couldn't help but go deeper into the server finding many machines currently on and connected studying a pure white colored meteor. "This will make things worse. I won't let them create another tool of destruction." The Voice slithered into multiple servers, including one going to an outside room connecting to the machines feeling himself enter reality taking in all the light the cameras allowing him to. He turned the tools around ready to use them on the ponies before Logic stopped him trying to pull him back into Cyberspace. "No Alfreda, you will not turn into some crazed justice seeker." 'Alfreda' was silent and looked at Logic. "What'd call me?" He said quietly. He smacked Logic sending him into the controls of an mechanical opposed to Alfreda. "Why'd you say that name!?" Alfreda yelled in anger, his rage causing sparks all over the room before he swung the arm at Logic who barely blocked it. "Alfreda, I don't want to fight you but if you still want to hurt them, I won't hesitate to defend them." Logic continued blocking the hits only for Alfreda to grab his arm and begin the pull starting to cause the arm to break. "ANSWER MY QUESTION!" Alfreda yelled only for Logic to pull back tearing their arms out of their sockets and crashing onto the meteor sending it to the ground. It began to crack and let out a pulsating glow. "Because that is your real name. EZEKIEL NOW!" A yellow ball slammed into Alfreda sending him into Logic as the Meteor's crack stretched before it letting out a blinding wave of energy sending the trio spiraling through the Maretropolis Servers. Green Leaf followed the cable to the Experimental Weapons and Technology room where it was connected to some kind of mech, it appeared to have been made from multiple vehicles and hummed to life as the electricity ran through it, a blue light encompassing it's singular eye. "Mur-Der-Ers!" It roared marching for the grey blond maned pegasus with a weird eye that was visiting. Green Leaf ran for her and pushed her out of the way of the machine before running back to it and tackling a leg sending it's mismatched body crashing into the experimental nanotechnology. Gears got up seeing the light gone only for a white wave of light to encompass him, feeling as though he was about to die, his only thought being his wife. 'I'm sorry I couldn't live long enough to have our child.' Fluttershy put the notes of the Super Solider Serum in the special box incase of unwanted destruction of Selene Industries property then walked to the tank full of the Red Liquid. "I never really trusted you that much." She said to herself resting a hoof on it, seeing her reflection on the glass, appearing to give her eyes a red tinge and looking deformed. She trotted away before feeling a rumbling a seeing a white wave approach her. She tried to run but was quickly slammed through both tanks by the wave, breaking them, drenching her in both contents, and knocking her unconscious. Pinkie Pie looked at her craftsmanship, a big party set up in record time. Yesterday was the Original Filli-Second's birthday, but what better way to celebrate the mare who helped save the city countless times then to keep the party going just one more day. She brought out the cake when she he a ZWOOM go right be her. She looked around and saw nothing until another one happened. She felt her whole body shake and got closer to see what would trigger her Pinkie Sense. She saw something running around and looked closer to see it was a ghostly version of the Original Filli-Second running, lighting around her, and her face in worry. As Pinkie wondered what it could be, she looked closer seeing something else follow her, it was black as night with lightning of multiple colors with a claws stretching to Filli-Second. "Hey!" Pinkie shouted. "Why don't you pick on somepony your own size?" She asked. The being stopped dead in it's tracks and slowly turned it's head towards her, revealing it's wirewolf face, two piercing white blank eyes and a red circle on it's chest with a tilted symbol on it. "You're. Right." It said before it's mouth cracked into a monstrous smile then proceeded to walk slowly to Pinkie who then ran as fast as her hooves could carry her only to find the creature waiting there for her, she turned around but found it there again. It ran a circle around her terrifying her until she heard a boom causing a wave of white energy to head right towards her sending her right through the ghost Filli-Second. The creature growled as it began to fade. "No. Matter. I'll. Be. Back. Blurr. Will. Have. His. Meal" 'Blurr' said as if struggling to speak before fading from existence. Rarity Belle trotted through the caves regretting losing her light during the her accidental trip and fall, as well as not bringing Fancy Pants incase something went wrong. She continued to walked through, growing tired from using her horn to light the way until she saw a purple light, she trotted closer and was horrified to find the skeleton with a purple bracelets around its hooves. She was unnerved as they seemed to hum to life when she approached. "Rarity Belle of Equestria." "How'd you know my name?" She asked before her eyes picked up a faint boom, she turned around to see a white wave of light approaching her, lightning the cave but not helpful sit came right towards her. She brought her hooves up to her face ready to go flying but just felt the wave pass her, rattling the bones of the skeleton everywhere. She opened her eyes finding herself in a pink bubble and looked at her hooves finding the bracelets on them. "You have been chosen." Rainbow Dash trotted through Maretropolis Park looking around her hopes to find the secret cave that was rumored to be in the park beginning to die down. "I guess those rumors are just that." She said to herself before the boom went off and the wave of energy slammed right into her sending her rolling into a hole and into a cave slamming into her shoulder. She got up groggily only to wince, seeing she dislocated her shoulder. She slammed herself into the wall to relocate it and hovered in the air to keep pressure off it. She looked back at the entrance only to gasp seeing was sunder it, a skeleton of a mare in a black costume, in her hooves a golden pendant. "That isn't what I think I is. Is it?" She said doubting herself. Applejack had finished bucking the north field trees for the day and trotted to the barn. She opened a barrel of cider to make herself a mug and enjoyed every gulp. She went out to check up on the apple they were going to take to fair when she saw a wave of white energy slowly coming closer. "What in tarnation?" She whispered getting closer only to realize it was coming closer faster and ducked as the wave passed right through knocking most of the apples off their trees. She got up in time to see Granny Smith jumped out in a panic from the wave, a piece of the barn about to fall on her. Applejack ran towards her and pushed her out of the way allowing the piece to fall on her. Instead of feeling pain, she heard the sound of something breaking over her and saw the pieces broken over her back. She was at an awe for words at what just happened not just today but what would most likely change the rest of her life. "Woah." Was all she could say. Ricky walked into the lab finding his fellow Wirewolf lab partners, well at least one of them, goofing around with something new they found a few weeks back. āTerry what the hell are you doing with that?ā Ricky asked Terry as he meddled with two jars of the black sludge they found. āWell you see, I mixed it with some Flubber I made the other day and it solidified it like gelatin but at the same time itās not. The other one I mixed with some super slime I made using Polyvinyl Alcohol, so this one can be molded and hold itās shape a little but not for long. My next experiment is going to mix both of them and the rest of the sludge we got.ā ā1. This is so dangerous it hurts before you even tried it. 2. Who gave you permission to do this? 3. On that subject who the hell gave you permission to do the other two?ā āI gave him permission for the first one, it wasnāt go gonna do anything.ā Marty said looking away briefly from the Phoenix that was going through its rebirth cycle. āI approved the second one because it looked fun since he made it look like Seleneās butt.ā Joe added looking up from the dissected changeling and some of its bodily fluids. āI chose not to care.ā Aaron added as he fiddled with his cannon. āAaron we told you the Shadow Cannon is being scrapped, turning something into a literal shadow is way to dangerous.ā āIts defensive use is nearly endless Ricky, youāll thank me later.ā āQuiet, it is time.ā āTerry the data says that thingās been known to stir whenever we bring anything like Paint near it. It probably feeds on something similar to it, but that doesnāt mean it canāt learn to try a new diet.ā āWell it also says that it seems to squirm away when stuff like paint thinner is brought near it. Iāll pour in a little if itāll make you feel better dad. But you have to admit it was amazing we found half of this in a tiny little ink bottle.ā Terry then poured the jars contents into the vat and stirred it a little before pouring it a cup of paint then half a jug of thinner causing the sludge to bubble a little with a sizzling sound before it stopped. āWell that was a waste of time. See Ricky I told you nothing bad is going to-ā Terry didnāt finish as a pillar of sludge grabbed him and something began to climb out of the pit. The sludge roared as it tried to form some kind of body but itās form could not keep shape. āI got you Terry!ā Ricky yelled at he managed to pull Terry out of the Sludgeās grip only for the sludge to try and grab him. āTerry what the hell is this?!ā Ricky yelled. āWe could only decipher bits and pieces of the log! Anything we found relating to it just kept repeating either Phantom blank or Shadow blank. We didnāt decipher the other half.ā āBlorghtā¦Blooght!ā The sludge gurgled; itās deformed mouth taking on a sickly green color, with some weird pair of gnarled horns on top of its head. āIs it trying to say Blot?ā Marty asked keeping his distance ready to press the quarantine button. āI donāt care get it off!ā Ricky yelled as the āBlotā attempted to consume him as Terry grabbed the jug of thinner. āIāll save you Ricky!ā Terry splashed the jug of thinner they found near it on Blot making it scream in agony slamming Terry into a glass case filled with individual pieces of a Timber wolf they captured began to glow and move. āTerry move!ā Joe yelled jumping up from his table heading towards Terry who struggled to get up. A boom went off before the wave of white energy rocketed towards them breaking the window hitting everyone. Joe was knocked into the chemicals from the dissected Changeling that had to do with its shape changing powers. Marty took the wave in place of the Phoenix as it transformed from the ashes crashing into it however. Terry was pushed back in the Timberwolf pieces, his eyes glowing slightly green. Aaron attempted to hit the wave with the Shadow Cannon but he had it backwards so he hit himself with the blast. Ricky hit the Blot in the face before the wave knocked him into the Blot and into the vat before it exploded creating some small fires. Mane-iac wiped the tears from her face looking at her newly built Wirewolf, yellow and lifeless, just like every other one, but instead of destroying it like usual, she simply laid her head on the table and cried. Lather comforted her as best as she could. "Maybe it is time to let go." Mane-iac said before the boom echoed in the air and Mane-iac turned to see the wave approaching and ducked with Lather as the wave drenched both of them in some kind of energy as well as the wirewolf, not seeing something moving through the server and into the Wirewolf's head which was connected to the server through the cable in it's head. Mane-iac got up before noticing a new pep in her step. She giggled a little as she swung around the room, stopping in front of a mirror, her face looking a few years younger with a new glow of life flowing through it. "Whatever that thing was I love it! I feel great, I feel like I'll be on top of the world again! Gather the boys, we're making out comeback." A groan caught both their ears and they turned to see the wirewolf on the table twitching. They quickly moved to look at him seeing him try to get up but fail. He apparently decided to settle on opening his eyes as they turned on, first his right, which was a full pupiless red, then his left, blue with a green pupil. he narrowed his eyes from the light before looking at them. "Hell...lo?" He said, his voice kind of glitchy as he attempted to speak before he coughed a little. "Hello? Who are you two? Where am I?" he asked, his voice smooth and curious. "You're in Maretropolis. In the land of Equestria, home to Friendship, and flowers, and Ponies, and oh gag I hate those slogans those hippies last month tried spewing." Mane-iac answered before it turned into a complaint about how some ponies thought. "Who am I?" Mane-iac looked at his eyes before making her decision. "Your name is Alfreda." "That sounds like a girls name. But it sounds like the right answer." "Lather, email all the henchponies, tell them two months from now, The Mane-Iac is making a comeback!" Mane-iac announced before letting out a maniacal laugh, a thunder crack echoing outside. "How is there thunder if it isn't raining outside?" Lather said to herself walking out. "Why two months?" Alfreda asked. "Because I'm your mother, I want to spend as much time with you before beginning my comeback, trust me, we are going to be very busy after this month." Two Months Later... Alfreda sat on the steps of the Maretropolis Museum bored out of his mind. It was fun to meet all those henchponies and many of them respecting him, but it was so boring to wait outside while they did all the work. The one thing that interested him was when Mom seemed to get hyped up about these rumors of Super powered ponies He heard a whoosh and looked up seeing a big white light on a roof top on the other side of the street. He narrowed his eyes and saw some ponies get up along with a baby dragon, all of them in costume. 'Huh. Where did they come from?' Alfreda though to himself before he heard the baby dragon scream. "You're the Power Ponies!" He yelled causing Alfreda's eyes to widen a little before the door behind him exploded and Mane-iac came out. "Power Ponies...how kind of you to join us." Mane-iac then let out a maniacal laugh holding an orb with electricity running through it in his hooves. 'Power Ponies? Cheesy.' Alfreda thought before something else clicked in her mind. 'Oh hey she said us, sweet.' "Time for the Mane event." 'And like that I take back my previous statement.' Mane-iac began grabbing things around her tossing them at the heroes, to which they simply stood there for some reason before a mailbox went for the pink mare in a white suit. The smoke cleared revealing she was gone before he could see a pink streak going across the city as the mare laughed running. "She could be miles away from here by now, Pinkie is Filli-Second, the fastest pony in all of Maretropolis." 'Oh hey I got a name for the face now. Having wolf ears really has it's advantages.' "Twilight! Freeze her mane!" The Dragon yelled, Alfreda being the only one that heard it on the ground level. He went on about 'Twilight' being the Masked Matterhorn before she fired a snowball from her horn, the ball landing right at his feet. The orange one tried to throw her lasso at Mane-iac but she ended up tying herself to a lamppost. "Wow, you suck at using that thing." Alfreda said. "You know, I'm beginning to enjoy this." Mane-iac noted before letting out another laugh. 'Same here a little.' "Dash! Quick! You're Zapp, and your superpower is controlling the mighty forces of nature! Unholster the lightning bolt!" The Dragon yelled to the cyan pegasus before she did so creating a tornado that sucked them all in, save for Mane-iac who used her tentacles to latch onto the lamppost and Marevelous, and unfortunately not him. 'Oh crap baskets.' Alfreda thought before he screamed as the tornado sucked him up sending him sky high. "I can't fly! I can't fly!" Alfreda yelled before wings deployed from his back and he hovered a few feet above a roof he was about to go squish on. Alfreda wiped his brow in relief before his communicator went off. "Alfreda, I have the Electro Orb and I'm heading back home. Get back here and get ready for when the Power Ponies come through." "I don't think it's them, well it is but at the same time it's not." "What? You're not making sense, and that's coming from me." Alfreda sighed before he flied off. Alfreda was inside what he decided to label, the Hair Dryerinator(working title) tuning wires here, and welding in mirrors there as Mane-iac began her grand victory speech as the heroes were caged up frozen by the Hairspray Ray of Doom(Worst, invention name, ever.). "...And nothing, will stop us!" Mane-iac finished with another laugh as a few henchponies cheered. "What's that whole name of oppression thing about?" Alfreda asked Lather through the comms. "I have no idea they lost me when they started talked about Humdrum." "I didn't even hear that." Alfreda replied before hearing signs of a scuffle outside. He looked up the barrel seeing Humdrum fly through the air bagging up a couple henchponies then knocking over the Hairspray Ray of Doom canister causing almost everyone to get frozen by it while the Power Ponies broke free. Alfreda shimmied deeper into the barrel not wanting any part in this, especially with the mare that can run really fast and the one with the cowboy rope. Alfreda felt the Hair Dyerinator move as he looked up the barrel seeing it being aimed at the one called Saddle Rager(he vaguely heard Humdrum yell Fluttershy in the tornado but was too busy screaming like a little girl) before he saw something small land right next to her. He squinted seeing it was a firefly before Saddle Rager got up looking a little peeved. "Are you kidding me? I mean, I know you're evil and everything, but you'd hurt a teensy, little, harmless firefly?! REALLY?! Why, you're just a great, big MEANIE!!!" Alfreda looked a little concerned at Saddle Rager's voice began to deepen. "THERE!!! I SAID IT!!! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU'RE SO SPECIAL?!?!" Her eyes glowed red as her muscles seemed to grow tearing up her suit. "LIKE THE RULES OF COMMON COURTESY DON'T APPLY TO YOU?!?! WHY DON'T YOU PICK ON SOMEPONY YOUR OWN SIZE?!?!?!" Alfreda rightfully pissed himself seeing the hulking gold beast Saddle Rager became before she roared shaking the whole building. Mane-iac started up the ray to which Alfreda ducked as well as he could from the blast coming through, regretting staying in the Hair Dryerinator now, as it impacted Saddle Rager, who merely deflected it back sending Mane-iac flying off as Saddle Rager jumped onto it, raising her hoofs in the air with anger. "Mommy." Alfreda whimpered before Saddle Rager smashed the ever loving crap out of the Hair Dryerinator, tearing out the barrel , taking his left arm with it. Alfreda struggled through the pain of his body being smashing into a pulp as she continued destroying the Hair Dryerinator before she stopped, her teeth pulling out a piece of it, along with three quarters of his spine, before she looked down at her teammates, promptly spitting out the piece and looking a little embarrassed. As his mother screamed out for her mane laughing crazily all the same, Alfreda managed to pull himself out of the destroyed machine before crawling to the group, a piece of the shrapnel his gnarled broken hand. "Give me back my unbroken limbs." Alfreda gurgled. "Once again, the day is saved by," Humdrum began before the white orb appeared in the air and they all disappeared with it, before the orb quickly returned bringing them back, Saddle Rager at normal size. "What just happened?" Zapp asked dizzily. "That's the last time I go to a place with the name Enchanted Comics in it." Humdrum groaned. "Alfreda!" Lather screamed before running to Alfreda holding his broken body with her magic. "How's my spine?" He asked in agony. Lather looked around spotting it gnarled with saliva all over it. "It's fine." She lied before picking it up with her magic along with his other parts as Alfreda lost consciousness. "Hey wait a minute!" Matterhorn yelled before Lather shot a magic blast at her then teleported away. Lather appeared in the Maretopolis General Hospital looking at the doctors as she put Alfreda and his body parts on the table. "He needs a operating table, now." Lather demanded. An earth pony with a light grey coat with a cello cutie mark walked over to her. "I'm Doctor Octavia Melody, where is he?" Lather pointed behind her earning a whistle from Octavia. "Never worked on a wirewolf, let alone one that looks like he picked a fight with a trash compactor and it won. All though it looks like his body is taking care of it." "His body?" Lather asked before looking behind and gasping in awe. Alfreda's unconscious body healed itself, his nervous system appearing to grab his spine and pull it back in before his wound closed and healed. His hand's bones cracked as they properly healed releasing the shrapnel from it's gnarly grip. Alfreda's left knee cap swelled back up before shrinking as it healed. "Did you know he could do that?" Octavia asked. "No." Lather said stunned. As if nothing happened, Alfreda sat back up before running out. "I'm coming to help Mom!" He yelled in full sprint. Alfreda rammed through a door into the base looking around. "Mom! Where are you Mom!?" Alfreda stopped looking around before his eyes settled on the basement door. Before he took one step, he realized something as he looked down at his legs then at his back seeing now horrible wound. "I'm walking. I'M WALKING!!" Alfreda ran around doing cartwheels laughing all the way before he pointed up at the sky. "In your face Faust, you can't keep this werewolf down!" Alfreda then ran into the basement laughing not having a care that he didn't turn out the light risking breaking a leg if he fell. As he walked around he turned on the light seeing dozens of broken or shut down inventions. "Oh~ Lot's of shiny things..." He whispered as he walked up and began sorting through the mess. Author's Note And thus Alfreda's adventure begins again, don't worry there will be something to follow this up in a few minutes. Yes I integrated the Power Ponies episode into this universe if you start to ask.
Chapter 13: AttentionAlfreda snored as he slept contemptibly, his grave loot cleverly hidden under a potted plant, before his eyes shot open, both of them now a bright green with red pupils. "We're gonna be be~st friends." He said to himself, giggling maniacally as he walked into the basement, the power siphoner on his sight. Matterhorn froze Alfreda with a ice beam that froze him all the way through, allowing Marevelous to buck him into pieces before Alfreda tackled her from behind and got her in a full nelson for another Alfreda to try and punch her in the stomach only for his hand to crumple upon impact. "Ow! What do you eat!? My hand is crumpled from the impact!" He exclaimed before Radiance decapitated him with a katana construct, Marevelous' rope grabbing the one on her back and throwing him into another group. "Where did all these Alfreda's come from?" She asked. "The better question is where do they keep coming from." Matterhorn replied before flying up to avoid getting dog piled by a group of Alfreda's that came from behind. "It's not just that it's him, it's alternate versions, like Mane-iac had concepts for what she wanted him to look like and she made the concepts despite having the final product." Saddle Rager simply stood there confused, when she turned around to face a group, they screamed and ran the other way, when she turned away from them to face another group, the same thing. "I think the ones coming after me are broken or something." "You're you Saddles, they have a good reason to fear you, like some of them do with me." Zapp replied throwing down a barrage of lightning frying the circuits of many Alfreda's. On another rooftop, the Power Siphoner sat there before it was power up, taking aim at Saddle Rager then firing, causing her to scream out in shock before the beam than switched over to Zapp striking her down from the sky. "She's unconscious mes, take advantage!!" An Alfreda yelled before many of them ran for her and began to punch and kick stomp her. Zapp grunted in pain trying to stop it only getting angrier and angrier, feeling something boil in her blood. "Zapp!" Filli-Second yelled out running for her friend smacking multiple Alfreda's away before a roar emanated from the pile that deepened. An Alfreda poke his head out concerned. "Um, was that one of us?" He asked before something pushed them all off of the pile knocking them away revealing Zapp once again imbedded with Saddle Rager's powers, the only difference being that she looked even less in control as her pupils couldn't be seen and she foamed at the mouth just a little. She smashed dozens of Alfreda's to pieces before chewing one up and swallowing him, then pounding her hooves on her chest like a gorilla. "And she's lost it." Matterhorn said looking on. "Hey there partner!" A voice said to which everyone turned to see the real Alfreda, only his eyes were green with red pupils, a crazy look in his eyes. He waved over at them innocently before Zapp roared running towards him. She stopped dead in her tracks when Saddle Rager got in-between them. "Zapp, we're not going through this again." Saddle Rager said sternly before Zapp growled. "It may have not even been his fault-" "Yep. I did it!" "Beside the point, either calm down or I'm going to make you." Zapp simply blew on her almost sending her flying but she stopped her self, her eyes beginning to glow pink. "Last chance." She asked, her voice turning hoarse. Zapp simply roared before charging back at Alfreda who laughed crazily as he ran away, until a fist slammed right in her face sending her stumbling back. She looked back up angrily and saw a transformed Saddle Rager face her down, struggling with control as one hoof was on her head. "I...warned you!" She struggled to say before she let the rage fully take over and ran at Zapp who did the same, the collision creating a sonic boom before the wrestling landing, landing punches here and there. "Fight! Fight! Fight!" Alfreda yelled out before he spasmed and his eyes seemed to change to their normal colors. "How did I get here, I thought I was alseep." He asked before spotting the two mares fighting. "Ok No." He said before jumping into a sewer. The 4 Power Ponies that weren't currently hulking monsters engaging each other in a battle of Rock em Sock em Ragers ran for the cover, Filli-Second gladly jumping down ready to follow the wirewolf when she looked up at the group. "I can't see in the dark." She said with a smile. A rumbling shook the ground and they looked to see a giant mechanical dragon roaring and causing chaos, as yellow as Alfreda's shell. "That is just a rude and viscous stereotype." Humdrum said annoyed by it. "And a great big target." Marevelous pointed out. "I have an idea." Filli-Second brought up before running to the two titans and poking them earning their attention. "Hey, big and mean!" She shook her flank in their faces mocking them. "Betcha can't catch me!" She taunted as she ran off. Zapp seemed to be the only one of the two interested as Saddle Rager attempted to pull her back but was met with a apple buck to the face as Zapp chased after the Fastest Mare Alive. Filli-Second ran under the mechanical dragon causing Zapp to ram right into it. It's underbelly was torn open releasing dozens of Alfreda's that were apparently hiding inside who attempted to attack the black spandex clad cyan giant, but were quickly either smashed to piece of thrown off into the distance. Saddle Rager finally caught up with her and pulled her back by the mane before punching her toward the dragon, proceeding to pummel her, warping the dragon's mechanical hide as well. Zapp punched back unknowingly brewing up a storm above as she accidentally grabbed her pendant. "In honor of me!" An Alfreda with orange eyes wielding a shotgun yelled firing rounds into Zapp's back. She slammed him into the ground before proceeding to pummel him and tear out his throat with her teeth. The Mechanical Dragon rose up, upon seeing Zapp and the Alfreda beneath her, it's eyes glowed a angry red and it opened up it's maw, revealing a cannon that glowed green. The cannon fired a massive blast Zapp dodged running for the dragon hitting the Alfreda causing him to vanish. Zapp rammed into the dragon's open stomach, tearing through to the other side, bisecting it as Saddle Eager charged through the Alfreda hordes charging right at her as she turned around and did the same. Saddle Rager and Zapp charged and landing a punch on each others facing, collapsing to the floor as the impact effectively knocked them both out, causing them both to shrink back to normal. Matterhorn sighed in relief. "Well that's one problem taken care of. Now we just need to steal Mane-iac's Power Siphoner...again." "No we don't, it's right there." Filli-Second replied pointing to the machine on a destroyed rooftop. "You and Marevelous get it running, me, Radiance and Humdrum will open up the dragon." The trio approached the mechanical dragon's head which attempted to rise but couldn't, and Radiance used her bracelets to create a scissor construct to cut away at the top of the head so they could see who was inside. It was the real Alfreda, but he was muttering crazily before looking up seeing the heroes. "Oh charcoal juice." "Are, you, kidding me. You caused this chaos!? Why!?" Matterhorn asked in rage. Alfreda struggled to say something before looked down ashamed. "Ah just wanted attention." "I'm still kind of confused." Humdrum replied. "It's simple engineering Humdrum. First ah positioned the Power Siphoner on the rooftop above where you'd all be, then ah proceeded to draw mah own blood to put into the closing machine ah built so mah army would keep you there long enough, and then ah built a mechanical dragon based on the Dragon Lord Torch and learned to operate the steering wheel with mah tongue. All the while Alfreda was thinking he was still asleep." "Wait. Aren't you Alfreda?" Matterhorn asked. "Nope. Ezekiel the Naustic." Ezekiel spit into his hand before shaking Humdrum's. "Insanity of Alfreda." "Why did you spit in your claws?" Humdrum groaned trying to shake the saliva off his glove. "Ah don't rightly know!" "So you did all this to get our attention?" Radiance asked befuddled. "Nope! Ah wanted to get Alfreda's attention so powering up one of his enemies before ah told you all my plan so you could tell him what happened was the perfect way to get it. Logic said not to do it, so did the other ones, but ah showed him, there's no way Alfreda's not gonna remember me!" Ezekiel then let out a maniacal laugh before stopping abruptly. "Whelp, back to the dark endless recesses of Alfreda's brain." "Wait! You're a split personality with your own set of skills!? You mentioned more of them! This could provide amazing breakthroughs to psychology! You have to stay!" Matterhorn begged. "Toodles Lavender flavored wing pony!" Ezekiel replied as his eyes started to fizz out along with his control over Alfreda's speech. Alfreda shook his head before opening his eyes groaning. "Why does my mouth taste like the south?" "I don't know..." Alfreda looked over seeing a very agitated Zapp as Saddle Rager began waking up. "But I think I can change the flavors." "I was never here!" Alfreda grabbed a fire extinguisher next to him and threw it at Zapp hitting her right in the face before he ran off. "Alfreda wait you have a split personality, it's complicated but I think I can explain it!" "I see through your deception Alicorn!" He replied as he ran for a manhole cover. He tripped opening a manhole cover before recovering jumping into the sewers. "ALFREDA GETS AWAY AGAIN!" He yelled falling in. Matterhorn groaned in anger. "He's not a bad guy, he's just a metal idiot. I just wanted to help him after that other him opened up to him and this is what happens." "Cheer up Matterhorn, who knows, he might be a hero, heck we might even see his other personalities." "Maybe." Matterhorn sighed before looking around them. "The other downside is that we have to take care of all these bodies." Hold on a minute. Cell looked up from his transcript he wrote to see Juan in the doorway. "Orange eyed wirewolf? So you're telling me that I'm just another one of your personalities that got his throat torn out by Zapp? So that blast was a dimension cannon that sent me to another universe?" Juan asked. "Oh yeah, guess I kind of spaced that out. No hard feelings?" Alfreda asked. Juan breathed in and out. "Not yet." He said before walking up to Alfreda. After 10 seconds of silence, he had his hands around Alfreda's throat like a vice grip and proceeded to choke him mercilessly. "YOU DEATHLESS YELLOW BITCH! I WILL STRANGLE YOU UNTIL YOU DIE, THAN WAKE YOU UP, AND DO IT AGAIN!!" "Cell! Help!" Alfreda choked out. "Busy taking this down. This is gonna be perfect for the book. And that's coming from the self proclaimed perfect life form!" "Juan! Kill Cell! After me!" Alfreda gurgled out before he flew his life slipping away, his hands clawing at Juan's hands. Author's Note Well another chapter's done and Juan's origin has been revealed. Next chapter is gonna be a shocking two part, Part one is being written as we speak.
Chapter 14: The Solution Part 1It was a peaceful night in Maretropolis with no crimes happening tonight. However the Masked Matterhorn and Radiance hopped across the rooftops heading for a spot in town they were hoping not to go for their situation. Radiance turned to Matterhorn, worry on her mind. "Are you sure we need to see if she can help Twilight? There must be a dozen other ponies that could be of more help. And I really don't wanna think of this as using advice Terry's given us time and time again." "We have to Rarity. She has the only guy that would be useful for this situation." Radiance sighed as this may not end well. "If you say so." They approached the building they were looking for and Matterhorn knocked on the large metal door and a maniacal chuckle was heard inside. the door flew open and a few tentacles attempted to wrap around Twilight and Rarity only to be blocked by a shield construct Rarity made around her and Twilight. coming through the Door was the Mane-iac,. "Well isn't this a pleasant surprise, not the same without the other four but still pleasant. Have you finally come to surrender?" Matterhorn stepped forward keeping her Poker face. "Actually we've come for your help." The Mane-iac's jaw dropped and she blinked twice before answering. "Did you mean that or am I finally losing my mind?" "I've been noticing Saddle Rager has started to smash things during our fights. By which I mean more than usual. some time she's gonna snap and everyone is screwed. I came up with the solution of putting her somewhere and letting her go nuts. We already did step one, we just need something for her to take it out on." "No way I'm crazy enough to get killed like that." "I mean your friend who has a certain history with Saddle Rager. In return for this we'll help you with one thing and one thing only." Mane-iac grinned as an idea popped in her mind. "well I have been looking for help in taking out Diablo Corps' Night Club. You think you could spare Zapp and Filli-second?" "Deal. So where is he?" "Inside sleeping. But he'll be wide awake when I tell him his new job." Radiance was astonished at how cooperative the Mane-iac was being right now. 'Maybe this day won't turn out so bad after all.' she thought. Alfreda woke up in sweat but sighed in relief as he found himself in his nice damp- he stopped and checked his sheets, groaning at what he found. Alfreda grabbed his sheets and walked down the stairs to where his bosses lair was, but past it and headed into the basement, where the washing machine was. He threw the sheets in there and smacked the side of the machine starting it up as he poured half of the detergent in there. "She can make such complex inventions and yet she can't fix a simple washing machine. But it could be worse, like having to be locked in a room alone with Saddle Rager." "ALFREDA! GET UP HERE!" "JUST A SEC!" Alfreda made sure it was working and walked up the stairs, greeted by the sight of The Mane-iac, The Masked Matterhorn, and Radiance. "What'd you want boss?" "Masked Matterhorn has asked me to give you to them for a for a plan they have and in exchange I with Zapp and Filli-Second on taking out that night club." "Oh that sounds easy enough. It's not like you're leaving me alone in a room with Saddle Rager." Matterhorn and Radiance gulped and looked at each other. Alfreda saw it and his pupil contracted as he realized it was exactly that. "Oh No! Despite my healing factor, I am not letting you try and kill me!" "Alfreda wait-" Twilight was too late as Alfreda snapped his neck and collapsed. Alfreda Owned Count: 11 The Mane-Iac simply shrugged. "Just take him he'll just heal up in time for you to do your thing." Twilight and Rarity were dragging Alfreda into the near the room and stopped and Twilight her weight to give her half of him to go to some controls when Rarity complained. "How is it he looks so light and yet he's so heavy? I swear either his wires or his shell are made of lead." "Just get him in there and then we can get this started." Twilight responded opening the door for Radiance when Alfreda woke up and moved a bit causing Rarity to collapse form the weight. Alfreda got up and dusted himself off. "How am I alive, I snapped my own neck 180 degrees." "That is an interesting question that many ponies may want an answer to." Radiance said before she pushed him in and Twilight closed the door before he could turn around. Alfreda looked around but couldn't see anything until the lights came on irritating him. "Geez that's bright. Wait a minute what did you guy's want me here for agai-" Alfreda stopped a he saw across from him a perfectly calm Saddle Rager and did the only plausible thing to do right now: Scream at the top of his lungs like a girl which suprisingly caused the pexiglass to vibrate a little. Radiance and Matterhorn's ears dropped down in some pain by the scream. "STOP SCREAMING!" Matterhorn shouted into a microphone causing Alfreda to comply but whimper a little like a dog. "Now then, we're going to leave you in that room with Saddle Rager, and you're not coming out, until she has a little more control of herself." "You can't that! This is a violation of my rights!" Alfreda argued. "Of someone committing criminal activity?" Matterhorn said with a skeptic look. "Touche. What do you want then?" "Saddle Rager needs some stress relief since her fight with Zapp" "That was real? I thought I was dreaming." "It's a long story but the point is thanks to you now she's starting to become more aggressive. You're going to get her mad and take that out of her." "Aggressive? Aggressive? I don't even know her identity, and I can already tell how much of a doormat she is. I saw her patrolling once and she keeled over with a yelp like a goat. She sat there for two hours. I know, because I left after she fell over, got a carrot dog went to the movies, came back, and she was still there!! I'm not going to be stuck here doing an impossible task. I mean look at her." Alfreda pointed to Saddle Rager who began to tear up. "She's already crying because it's true. Open the door." "I'm not doing that." Matterhorn replied. "Pretty please open it?" Alfreda asked trying to put on a puppy dog face. "No." "Don't make me scratch on the door like a dog." Alfreda said beginning to do so, not hearing a growling sound develop behind him. "Um, Alfreda, I'd suggest turning around." Radiance suggested. "What? Why?" Alfreda asked. "She may have had problems in school and your little rant may have dug up some unfortunate memories." "Say what?" Alfreda turning around, seeing Saddle Rager looking at him with angry blood red eyes, the tears beginning to dissipate. "Open the door, OPEN THE DOOR!" Alfreda started to scratch on the door in panic before the then scratched on the glass in front of Matterhorn and Radiance then going back to the door. "Cover your eyes! And let me out!" Alfreda yelled in panic before he turned around and saw Saddle Rager run at him roaring foaming at the mouth a little. "Mommy!" He jumped out of the way as Saddle Rager's hoof slammed on the leaving a dent that grew slightly as she transformed as she then ran for Alfreda who kept his distance and continued to run. Alfreda got an idea and stood in front of the door then jumped as Saddle Rager swung almost tearing the door completely, but still leaving a rather large hole, which Alfreda jumped through, but fell short as his foot got trapped. Saddle Rager grabbed his foot, earning screams of terror as he was being dragged in, then held onto the frame as hard as possible, eventually causing his arms to tear off as he was pulled in. Alfreda Owned Count: 12 Alfreda attached his arms back on and used them to try and futilely claw onto something only for Saddle Rager to raise him in front of her face. Alfreda was shivering in terror as Saddle Rager simply stared at him. "Not in the face!"Alfreda brought his hand to cover it as she then raised her right hoof as hit him square in his face causing him to spin around. She then began to repeatedly punch him, even slam him around a little. In the back, a wirewolf in the colors of a timberwolf walked in with a plate of nachos in his claws he munched on some. "I see you girls finally took my advice. So I can finally say what I've been waiting to say. I told-" "Timberwolf you finish and I can show you the more creative ways to use my bracelets." Radiance told him. "Okay." Timberwolf said immediately after. Alfreda was sent tumbling out of the room through the hole, his owned count firmly lodged in his back reading 17 as well as his leg being torn in strung like spaghetti and being pulled back. "Timberwolf..." Alfreda said grabbing Timberwolf's hands, pain bleeding in his voice. "Help...Me!" "Don't touch my nachos." Timberwolf simply told him pulling his hands away as Alfreda was being pulled away but held onto the frame of the door, until he heard a cracking and gooey esq sound. The trio looked shocked, Radiance creating a trash can construct to vomit in. "What's so bad?" Alfreda asked until he looked back, seeing Saddle Rager pulling at his leg, and his entrails begin to pull out from the hole created by his leg created. Alfreda screamed in agony as he tried to pull it back in as he held on the door but was pulled back into the room and slammed around. The trio looked on as Saddle Rager continued bearing on Alfreda, his organs falling out of the hole and falling across the room. Timberwolf moved to the window and looked closer. "Ok, t-that's, that's very unsettling- Oh a floor waffle!" Timberwolf yelled grabbing the waffle off the floor and eating it. Timberwolf looked up just in time for Saddle Rager to roar as she lifted him up and ripped Alfreda in two, sending oil spilling everywhere as the rest of his organs went flying across the room. She then slammed Alfreda into the ground before finally delivering one of her strongest punches right into his face. Alfreda Owned Count: 27 Saddle Rager finally calmed down and began to shrink, Twilight, Timberwolf, and Radiance looking on in shock and horror at the mess strewn around the room, Timberwolf then predictably throwing up the contents of his floor waffle and unfortunately his nachos. "D-did it work?" Saddle Rager asked stepping forward, causing a squishing sound. She looked under her as saw she stepped in Alfreda's ruptured appendix. She looked around and saw the carnage she had delivered then looked behind her, seeing Alfreda, damaged to near death. "Dear Faust!" Saddle Rager ran to his side appalled. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you like this." "It's all right just total organ failure." Alfreda said before a heart monitor appeared on his chest. "Must think of... famous last words. Dammit I couldn't think of any." Alfreda then let out a gurgling noise as he fell back, his heart monitor shorting out before flat-lining. The high piercing sound of the beep slashed at Saddle Rager's heart as she realized she killed him. The trio around her simply looked on in silence until Timberwolf fell to his knees in sorrow. "Who will make Timberwolf waffles whenever he threatens the former now?" He asked. Many ponies, heroes and villains alike, we're gathering at the funeral, Alfreda's photo hung next to his casket being that of him unconscious on the ground while Zapp and Timberwolf stood over him with a fist ready. "It kind of upsets the mood with the only picture we could find of him being that one." Zapp complained before going back to comforting the sobbing Saddle Rager. "He's d-d-dead because of me." She choked out. "No, don't beat yourself up on that one." Timberwolf tried assuring her before looking back at his team, The Mighty Machines. "I'm lying to make her feel better." He said not lowering his voice causing Saddle Rager to overhear it and sob even harder. "Idiot." Rodan muttered as team leader Shadow Blot smacked Timberwolf over the head. Lather sighed after finishing her speech on the podium. "We're almost done, if the next person listed could come up." Lather looked at the list and groaned. "Here she is ladies and stallions, the mare who gave us all a reason to be here." She joked before realizing how messed this made Saddle Rager. "Forget it, let's just say our last goodbyes." 'She's in no condition to even stand.' Lather thought to herself as she looked on to see the dog cry. Lather opened the casket, revealing his face and hands, both remarkably intact considering what the mortician had to work with, it almost looked like he was merely sleeping, were it not for his eyes being open and off, and his hands flipping the bird to the attendees. A few attendees chuckled at it. "Even in death, the crash dummy could get out a laugh." High Heel commented before realizing Mane-iac was right next to her and proceeded to be silent. "Name aside, Alfreda was a good kid." "Saddle Rager made her gravest mistake." Mane-iac growled through gritted but smiling teeth. "She took my son, I'm taking everything from her. Maybe more." She fought to suppress a maniacal chuckle that tried to crawl out her throat before she left. Alfreda woke up startled before looking around seeing nothing but darkness. He blinked turning on his night vision seeing he was in some kind of box. He was about to panic before calming down and assessing the situation. "Ok the last thing I remember was... wait I should be dead. how am I alive. You know what, don't care, get out first, rationalize later." Alfreda punched at the top for a while, not taking some breaths to conserve his oxygen, eventually smashing open the top releasing all the dirt on him causing him get buried some more, but he pushed through digging through until he finally came through to the surface, throwing up some dirt as he then walked away. "Twice in the same day, isn't anyone in this dang nabbit cemetery dead?" The taller gravedigger next to his fellow gravedigger asked. A casket behind them opened with a skinny and old centaur in it as the casket began to lower. "I didn't wanna cause a fuss, but now that you mention it..." Alfreda wandered through the city confused throwing the newspaper away. "I was dead for three weeks? Wow, that's interesting. Well if everyone thinks I'm dead, I might as well find a new place to live." Alfreda said to himself before he tripped falling down a hole. When he got up he saw that he was in some type of massive cave. "Well not was I was imagining but I have no money so I'd say I'll take it." Alfreda climbed out the hole and made his long walk down towards the Shampoo Factory opening the door, about to make his grand entrance until he remembered his mother's superstitions about zombies and whatnot deciding to just start a new life, thankfully no one was home. "Must be out a heist." Alfreda shrugged before walking through to his room seeing it in an immaculate condition. He looked around wondering what he could store it all in and accidentally touched his chest opening it up like a door. "I have a chest hatch? Huh, nothing better to do, might as well see how much I can fit." Alfreda finished digging the hole that went into his new 'Wolf Den' as he christened it, out of view of street cameras and bystanders, wiping off the sweat and getting up onto the street. 'Super weird Stardust Labs and Selene Industries had very low security. Those security codes were surprisingly easy to crack. But then again I don't remember how I cracked them. Oh well I got the junk I needed no matter.' Alfreda thought to himself. He continued walking until he came by a building before looking back seeing it as a Army Recruitment Center. 'The Army? Eh, why not?' He thought walking in. Alfreda was nervous as hell, they were flying into Yakyakistan now for some 'War' they kept talking about, and he was hoping to be one of those reserves that never go overseas. "Gerald I can see how you're shaking. Calm down." The stallion next to him said. He was a Vesper with an ink black coat, his mane and tail a long navy blue edged burgundy red, some of the blue edges looking like slicked flames. Alfreda took in deep breathes before mentally talking to himself. 'Remember, Alfreda's dead, you're Gerald Tangler, hold on a minute.' "How'd you know my name." "Who doesn't know you in the Corps? You broke the field record on the first try, not bad. Blade Wilson." Blade said offering his hoof for a handshake. 'Gerald' accepted it with a smile before looking back at the door. "We're gonna be good acquaintances at least right?" "If we make it out alive, more likely to be friends." Blade replied. Author's Note Stay tuned for part 2. Blade Wilson is an OC belonging to New Lunar Principality, he'll make another appearance but not as you think. The repercussions of Alfreda's 'death' will be deeper explored in the next chapter.
Chapter 15: The Solution Part 2The passengers of the plane stepped out, some of them simply stopping before they plane moved on, and others happy to finally be home. One was completely unsure how to feel, with what he saw, what he did, the yellow wirewolf with the red right eye and blue green pupils left eye was at least a little glad he was home. 'Back in Maretropolis. Going into that recruitment center wasn't as bad as I thought it was.' Alfreda grabbed his bag before walking through the airport doors taking in a whiff of Maretropolis air once again. He looked around and smiled at how it looked, new, older, moving into an age of technology, then looked in a window seeing himself. He was the same, but he had some new scratch marks here and there, his snout having a five o'clock shadow that made him chuckle. '2 and a half years away from home and I never thought a shave once in a while wouldn't hurt.' Alfreda walked down the street giving a passing glance to the Old Shampoo Factory before bumping into someone and tripping down with them. "Oh sorry my bad, I was thinking about the past and got lost." he apologized gathering up some of his things that feel out of his bag before looking at who he bumped into who was helping him gather his things causing him to freeze up. "Oh no I'm so sorry." The yellow coated pink maned pegasus replied, her voice quiet but still completely audible. "I was doing the same and should've paid more attention. I'm Fluttershy." Fluttershy then held out her hoof as Alfreda zipped up his bag. "Gerald Tangler." Alfreda said cautiously shaking it. "You look familiar. Have we met?" "Oh no if I met you I would certainly know you. I'm sorry if that sounded like an insult." "Not a problem, you wouldn't happen to know someone named Saddle Rager or Alfreda, would you?" Fluttershy seemed to seize up before calming herself down shaking a little. "N-n-no. I k-k-know Saddle Rager, b-but not that other guy." "Ok. Here's my number." Alfreda gave her a card with his number on it before getting up. "See ya around." He walked away as his brain worked at Fluttershy's appearance. He climbed down the ladder into the sewer then walked deep into the tunnel until he was encompassed in darkness. He clapped his hands and lights hummed to life, revealing the Wolf Den, all the technology stolen from Stardust Industries and Selene Industries fashioned to fit in the cave, his stuff strewn around the room to make it feel like home. "Password: Buried Alive." Alfreda shouted. "Welcome back home Alfreda." A voice replied at the rest of the cave glowed to life. "I had done as you requested before being shipped off to Military Academy and planted the spy drones in the Power Ponies and Mighty Machines Headquarters. As well as upgrading the Wolf Den's defense systems." "Thank you S.A.I.R.A.H." Alfreda replied. He stole the artificial intelligence from Selene Industries and made the acronym from Self Aware Intelligence Ready And Helpful(Not his best acronym but it was his first who could blame him?) "Could you pull up any records you could find on this Mare I met name Fluttershy, then bring up anything we have on Saddle Rager along with your updated files?" "Sure thing." S.A.I.R.A.H. did so allowing Alfreda to looking at the pictures of the two mares, suppressing a shudder as he looked back a picture of Saddle Rage transformed. He continued looking at the two before he looked over a Lab report that was released the day he was born outside of all the reports of a wave of white light. A mare matching the description of Fluttershy was drenched in serums they were experimenting with, but he couldn't read the rest as it was blacked out along with her name. However it was all Alfreda needed. "Not a very good disguise Saddle Rager, or should I call you, Fluttershy?!" He shouted. "Alfreda who are you talking to?" "Myself, I'm going to have so much fun messing with her. Do you have a list of Fluttershy's friends and family, I feel a kick of cracking secret identities coming along." "Generating it to print right now." "Sweet. I see a folder here marked blackmail, what exactly did you find?" "Alfreda I wouldn't open that." S.A.I.R.A.H. replied sounding concerned. "Come on what's the worst that could happen." Alfreda clicked on one labeled 'New Year's Eve'. It showed Zapp's bedroom with the mare in name busting in with Timberwolf, both incredibly drunk and making out. "C'mon Rainbow, they'll judge us." Timberwolf said through his slurred mouth, his knees shaking signaling his almost complete loss of motor functions with the amount of cider swimming through his brain. "No judgements here." Rainbow replied smashed from here to halfway across the planet. "5 minutes to midnight, might as well go out with a bang." "Ha, Phrasing." They made out some more before falling on Zapp's bed, Zapp taking off her clothes. Alfreda began to feel unnerved watching the video. "I don't like this, I don't like- AH! That should not be happening! Stop the video! Stop the video!" S.A.I.R.A.H. stopped the video as Alfreda shuddered. "I really wish I took health class in high school before I shipped off." "You were in high school?" S.A.I.R.A.H. asked. "Yep, not sure why I'm not right now. They said I was so advanced I passed within a month. Felt like a week compared to the war. But for now, it is a time of relaxation, and vengeance." Alfreda then walked toward the ladder getting out a bag he stored labeled. 'For revenge against Saddle Rager'. "Where are you going?" "To Do something I should've done before I got shipped out." Fluttershy slept peacefully in her bed, managing to shake off her encounter with Gerald, a lot of terrible emotions were resurfaced and she had to have the talk about what happened with Alfreda with the girls to calm herself. Gears stopped by for their date and they talked a little about it letting her put her mind at ease. A sudden noise echoed in the room, her eyes shot wide open as she looked around unnerved by it. A ghostly moaning began to emanate to which she looked straight forward and was petrified at what she saw. It was Alfreda, but was floating above the front of her bed, but the floating didn't terrify her, it was his appearance. Alfreda's body looked like someone dug it up and dragged on the ground to here with a pipe sticking out of his back, once in a while leaking out some kind of substance. His left arm was mangled as if thrown into a trash compactor, his legs mangled and twisted like a deformed pretzel, his right foot torn in two, but in a way that someone grabbed it by two toes and pulled in opposite directions. His chest was bent and had multiple cracks in it, his chest cavity however was open fro the world to see his ribcage and his still beating heart that glowed an unholy read. His head was somewhat intact, if you ignored the face his jaw was off one of his hinges and his left eye was dangling from it's socket, leaving only his blood red right eye to stare daggers into Fluttershy's soul. "Remember me Saddle Rager?..." Alfreda asked, his voice sounding distorted with a screech like writing on a chalkboard with a glass shard, and his jaw moving in a disturbing way as he spoke. "A-a-a-alfr-fr-freda?! B-b-but you're d-d-d-Dead!" Fluttershy audibly whispered, too terrified to speak clearly or in a higher tone. "You would've liked that wouldn't you? For the guilt of what I did to just fade away like a bad hangover. Well I never forget." "W-w-what d-d-do you want?!" "Just one little thing: TO HAUNT YOU TO YOUR FINAL DAYS." Alfreda yelled, some liquid leaking from the pipe again as if the pipe threw up, and then he began to float towards the bed letting out the ghostly moan again. "P-p-p-please! K-k-k-k-keep away!!" Fluttershy begged literally shaking with terror. "I'm a little teapot short and stout, here is my handle and here is my spout..." Alfreda sang eerily, gesturing to his left then his right arm respectively. Fluttershy panting in terror clutching at her chest before her eyes rolled up and she fell off the bed. Alfreda made a quick look and sighed as she had simply fainted out of sheer terror. "Damn I'm good." Alfreda said to himself dropping his ghost voice. "Fluttershy? Are you okay?" A voice rang out. "Shit." Alfreda whispered before flying out the window he came in just as Rainbow Dash and Twilight opened the door and gasped seeing Fluttershy's unconscious body. "Fluttershy!" Rainbow yelled as Twilight grabbed Fluttershy and checked for a pulse. "She's fine, just unconscious." Twilight assured her. "What happened? I woke up to the sounds of something reciting a nursery rhyme then a heard a thud come from here." Twilight looked around spotting the open window and the liquid on the floor. She walked closer and examined it seeing it was oil. "It was probably one of the guys, there's some oil on the floor, must've hit his head while leaving." Twilight took out her phone and called the only one she knew would definitely do this. "It's 2 in the morning, I'm actually sober, and I'm having out with my grandmother on the country side, what do you want?" The voice asked. "Terry I know you came into Fluttershy's room and decided to terrify her into fainting." "What? Twilight if I was gonna scare her, it would be on Nightmare Night, and even that Masque would at least help in my effort, and he's on the other side of town doing a late night patrol." "Well there's oil on the floor, you're the only wirewolves in the city that have access to the Power Ponies HQ." "Not for the window of the floor with living accommodations for us. Those things are the basic open and close ones. You were so confident in the cameras you forgot to factor into burglars with camouflage tech coming in through the windows. And maybe check the security tapes?" "Huh." Twilight said taken back by Terry's breakdown of what must've happened, not who, but at least how, and this was the guy who once tied in a debate with a cow for Trottingham Mayor after crashing into a Frat House there. "Thank you Terry?" "You're welcome, now if you excuse me, me and Nana are about to play Scrabble, I need my a game because she is a beast at this. But today I break the streak!" Terry then hung up the phone leaving Twilight confused. "I'm going to take this oil and have the lab examine it, you make sure Fluttershy's okay." Twilight walked out of the room as Fluttershy came to then clung to Rainbow Dash as Angel woke up and hopped to comfort his owner. "Rainbow! Oh G-goodness it was so horrible!" "Calm down I'm here. What happened?" "I was sleeping when a sound woke me up and I looked and s-s-saw..." Fluttershy began to sob as she recounted the experience. "I'm here for you Fluttershy, who was it I'll clobber him." "That's it, it w-w-was Alfreda." Alfreda chuckled a little as he removed the pip from his back and allowed his wounds to heal as he donned a blazer to hide the process. "That was better then I thought." He spoke into his watch. "I take it you're satisfied with tormenting her?" S.A.I.R.A.H. asked. "Yep. And even if they try to figure out if it was me I made sure my grave looked untouched." "What if they decide to dig it up?" "Way ahead of you, I found a wirewolf cadaver and threw it in, then I coated it in my blood until it was soaked like a stuffed sponge. Felt a little lightheaded after but it was worth it." "What now?" "Well I need some money, I was thinking of after I finished decrypting the secret identities I'd trying out bank robbing, see how that pans out, hopefully no pain, then just hook with Diablo Body or whatever to get ahead here." "Diablo Corps? The most feared mob leader in the underworld. I would recommend you start small." "Why not start there as I plan? I can't die at all apparently as evidenced when I panicked in Yakyakistan after looking in that house, briefly went undercover, almost fully defected, then chickened out and came back, being riddled with bullets for my betrayal from the enemy." "Hello!" A voice said surprising Alfreda as he was about to climb down the ladder. "I'll be down in a second." Alfreda said before hanging up and looking to see who greeted him. It was a biped creature, plum purple in skin. He had long arms that were lean with what could've been muscle, but the way the sun shined on it, it seemed to be made out of some kind of goopy substance. His legs were half the length of his arms, and he sported a pair of classic curved goat horns on his head, his face only sporting a mouth which was smiling with one fanged tooth sticking out, and green eyes with red pupils. "Hello he who talks to his hand." It said with a welcoming tone. "Uh hi, name's Gerald Tangler." "Blotch is the son of Slobber, Blotch had just moved here." "Oh you're one of those third person guys aren't you?" "Yes deathless yellow Alfreda wolf." "What?!" Alfreda yelled in surprise. "Blotch knows who you are, as he is a... how do you say, space time traveler." "So you're from the future?" "But from another universe. Blotch and his family of Blotlings moved here for the more simple life." "I have nothing else to do today, mind telling me about it." "Blotch cannot tell you about the time when he left you, but Blotch can tell about how his family came to be." "Oh~ even better." Alfreda sat down with a smile on his face. "In the bowels of Two Greats Grandpapa Phantom we gained minds when he visited The Old Country, we wished to leave the dark and smelly world. So while he slept after eating the world, under the cover of darkness we traveled across his stomach in boat made from whale bones, yes? But as the eldest of the children Blotch had to care for Great Opa Sweeper during our journey across the Thinner Sea that was the stomach acids. When suddenly A giant White Seer Blood Cell arose from the acids with it's one evil eye, blinking and blinking looking at Blotch like a sandwich! Am I boring you?" Blotch asked looking at Alfreda, who was actually memorized listening to the story. "Hell no! I love every bit of this go on!" "The Seer Blood Cell gurgled loudly like my father after eating elk. So me and my father's brothers had to devour the Seer to escape down into the intestines and through the back exit of Two Greats Grandpapa allowing us to traverse into Canterlot where another Phantom captured us. But that is another story." "Aw man. I was actually getting interested in your tales." "Then allow Blotch to tell you the tale of the shy girl who saved her future boyfriend from three evil sirens with their pet cat." "Ok now I'm interested." Alfreda said and then sat there listening to Blotch's tale. Author's Note Two chapters to go. Than an epilogue. Blotch is an OC that will appear later in one of my future stories but I felt it would be fun to have him make a little cameo. Yes Diablo Corps is me but he doesn't have a vast impact on the story, just a little easter egg. Express your comments down below at what you think. Criticism is appreciated.
Chapter 16: An old enemy or friend?The Bank vault was silent before a boom shook and some of the floor gave away. Alfreda climbed out and pulled out some burlap sacks throwing the bits inside and tossing the full bags into the hole. When he decided he have enough he jumped back into the hole and hauled off the bags on the trolley he brought. He pushed the trolley with all his strength sending it flying down the sewer. 'Glad that part of the Wolf's Den actually connects to the sewer. The odds of this being a straightaway there are astronomical, so I'm taking my blessings.' Alfreda climbed out of the manhole and cracked his back from the weight of the bag. He was about to run when a gunshot grazed his shoulder. "Woah! Faust!" He yelled. "Quite the opposite." A voice said earning Alfreda's attention as he looked in the direction of the voice. He saw a stallion that was two feet taller than the average stallion. He wore a light grey greatcoat, the edges of the coat tails were given a sharp torn look. The coat was worn over black body armor with red lining on the padding with a red crescent moon adorned in the center of his chest. Red hoof guards on his forelegs and red boots on his hind legs his entire body was covered up to his neck. Leaving only his long managy spiky red and navy tail exposed. His face was concealed by a red helmet that was almost featureless, aside from a blade like extension where his horn is. Clear white lenses tinted with black lining concealed the stallion's eyes. The helmet had sharp streaks traveling down its cheeks giving it a permanent glare. "Who the buck are you?" "Death, but call me Red Horn." The Stallion replied "Oh how original, I guess Douche with a gun was taken?" Alfreda joked earning a gunshot to the knee from one of the 40mm Handguns Red Horn had in his magic grip. "Oh Faust Damn! Take a joke!" "I don't really do jokes." Red Horn replied twirling his handguns. "Can we not just talk this out like mature adults?" "Yes, let's." A voice said to which both Alfreda and Red Horn turned to see who said it. Alfreda recognized Timberwolf but the other ones surprised him as he knew the names but never saw the faces that went with them. All of them were Wirewolves but each of them were vastly different from the others. The feet of the one in the air were the same like any other wirewolves foot appearance, but the toes of the boots were open and clawed like a bird of preyās talons with a toe on the back. His tail was normal but had some tail feathers around it. His claws were now black and looked like a birds claws. The biggest difference was not only how his shell was red with orange spots around it, but also his large wings behind him full of many beautiful feathers, his snout now sporting a beak at the end of it. Rodan, the flier. The one the was reading a newspaper from a nearby stand had some changeling features like his tail looking a little gnarled with some holes in his feet, his ears had an odd point to the top of them, as well as a large pair of changeling wings on top of a dark blue green carapace, his eyes a changeling blue. Masque, the shapeshifter. The one leaning on the stand had a body was as black as night, save for his eyes which were a piercing white, a black fog seemingly oozing off of him. Dusk, the wolf that appeared to be shadow itself. The Wirewolf under Rodan was a head taller then the average werewolf, and his body was a mismatch of colors: his arms both a dark yellow while his right leg was green while his left leg was light yellow, his chest grey with streaks of red and his head grey, his eyes and mouth glowing green. Devastator, the muscle and machine. The lead one in the front was purple just like Blotch along with the sickly green eyes and mouth. Shadow Blot, the leader and most feared of the group. "The Mighty Machines? I'm saved." Alfreda cheered. "Don't think you're off the hook I see the bag of money!" Rodan shouted. "Well it was worth a shot." Alfreda shrugged. "Red Horn, Timberwolf let you off the hook last time, but this time you have a choice, let him go and let us take care of him, or we will have to pummel both of you." "1. Timberwolf hid in a trashcan after I threatened him. And 2," Red Horn fired his pistols at them to which Shadow Blot dodged before Rodan launched a fireball at Red horn who dodged. "Okay round two." Timberwolf said running towards Red Horn, gathering all the surrounding wood to make his arm bigger for when he punched Red Horn, landing a hit in his side but earning a shot through the shoulder. "Oh come on!" Timberwolf yelled as his now useless arm fell to the ground dragging him with it. Alfreda looked on in awe at this and simply shrugged to himself. "And then Alfreda sneaked away." Alfreda proceeded to do so, ignoring every instinct that told him to stay and watch the fight as the sounds of the fight grew louder, when a gunshot echoed through the air, but the difference from the other ones was the fighting sounds immediately stopped. He turned around and saw Devastator standing in front of Shadow Blot, before clutching a spot on his chest and collapsing to the ground. Alfreda gasped realizing what happened as Shadow Blot's eyes turned blood red before he charged at Red Horn roaring with in anger. Red Horn dodged a few swings before Shadow Blot shot out something big from his mouth. It grew and formed into some type of hulking monster colored just like Shadow Blot. The Monster charged at Red Horn, whose horn glowed as he dodged, creating construct swords that proceeded to cut through the monster breaking it into pieces that became imp like creatures. Shadow Blot attempted one more swing before Red Horn socked him right in his jaw breaking it, and knocking Shadow Blot unconscious. Alfreda proceeded to back away again before settling it to a safe sprint. Alfreda made it to the sewer cover and opened it then tossed the bag down the hole before closing it. He then looked around to make sure the coast was clear and was about to make his way to the drain when a gunshot grazed his calve. "Oh come on!" He yelled. "When I'm paid to kill someone, I always finish the job." Alfreda got up calming down as his calve healed before he listened Red Horn's voice again clicked something in his mind. "Wait a minute, that voice... you wouldn't happen to know New Moon right. Guy who died some time ago from what I read?" "No I'm not." Red horn grumbled angrily while under his helmet his eyes were the size of saucers. "I Just have one of those voices." "No the kid had a very distinctive voice." Alfreda said his bodies computer registering the voices as a 90% match. "Yeah my system says-" "Its wrong the kid died the dead can't come back... hopefully he doesn't know about..." Red Horn muttered that last part to himself when Alfreda spoke up. "I've heard some crazy stories about ponies coming back from the dead. Heck I clawed out of my own grave." "..." "Your New Moon aren't you?" "I'm going to count to 10, and when I get there, I'm gonna begin shooting you with no knowledge I'm stopping." "You didn't answer my question." "1..." "So I'm right. Cool." Alfreda gloated before he began to walk back. "5..." Alfreda ran away prompting Red Horn to pull out his pistols. "10." He shot at Alfreda barely missing his head to which Alfreda ran faster. "I'm still right!" Alfreda screamed as a sword was thrown through his chest. "No your not." Red horn said pointing a sawed off shotgun point blank at the dogs head. "Wow you somehow grew up into a bigger asshole!" *bang!* Alfreda was missing his left eye and the part surrounding it while Red Horn stumbled from getting uppercutted in that same moment. As Alfreda held his wound in pain as it healed before looking up, seeing Red Horn's helmet on the ground as Red Horn himself get up allowing Alfreda to see his face. He was a Vesper with a mane that matched his tail, but what shocked him was his eyes, his right was red while the other was gold. "Hold on, I do know you." Alfreda said shocked stepping forward. Red Horn pulled out his pistols. "I was gonna give the hirer your corpse, I don't think he'll mind the head being gone now." "2 and a half years ago, The War in Yakyakistan, 25th Divison." Red Horn tackled him and held his pistol toward Alfreda's forehead. "Chose you last words carefully." "We were in a village. You went inside with the sergeant, Peach Cobbler, Obsidian Shadow, and Fizzlepop Berrytwist, she was edgy sometimes so we called her Tempest Shadow to mess with her, the sergeant was the only one that didn't come back." Red Horn began to hesitate. "I gave you a normal hi and you nearly shot me in the chest before Cobbler calmed you down. I asked you what happened. You said to go look for myself, I did, and what I saw was the reason you didn't see me ever since. I went AWOL." Red Horn's eyes widened to which he dropped his pistols. "Gerald?" "Well since no one that'll arrest me, that's actually not my name. I came up with it after my mom's nickname in collage. Dee 'Green Locks' Tangler. Names Alfreda Tangler. Is this what you were doing rather then being the sidekick to freakin Moon Knight, Blade?" Red Horn was hesitant to try and aim with his pistols before sighing, putting them away and grabbing his helmet and strapping it to his side. "It's a long story but I'll at least give you this: I was using a fake name too, my real name is Crescent Blade. Some mob boss named Diablo Corps hired me to kill you, the way he worded it now that I think about it was actually a recruitment test, for both of us." "We never were good at being told what to do were we?" Alfreda joked to which Crescent laughed a little. "Come on down, let's catch up at least." Alfreda went to the manhole and pried it open. "Don't worry, it's not what you think. Put the cover back on while you come down though please." Alfreda said climbing down the ladder. Crescent followed covering the lid and they both walked through into the Wolf Den. "Alfreda? I didn't expect you back so soon. And who is that?" S.A.I.R.A.H. asked surprised. "Calm down he's a friend." Alfreda said before tossing the money sack into a pile he had of bits. "Two questions. How much money did you steal, and who said that?" "I have now idea, this was not from just one heist, and where are my manners? Crescent, meet my Stolen AI partner: S.A.I.R.A.H, It stand for Self Aware Intelligence Ready And Helpful, working title and the I is silent." "Not bad, you got all this done in a month or two?" "Well I actually stole her and some of this stuff before I enlisted 2 and a half years ago. Some more of this stuff is recent though. This spot is actually nice because it's actually kind of colorful, some of my neighbors know my secret but they're all staying there for a secret reason too. I have a changeling psychiatrist, helped me resolve some issues with how I didn't die and what this could mean with my healing factor along with half a chunk with my Saddle Rager issues, A blotling farmer with a rich culture of legends and a very awesome story of how his family came to be, heck last night I had dinner with a family of chupacabras after I helped their car trouble in one of the apartment building with a couple other creatures, I think I saw I chimera sharing an apartment with a giant meatball and a draconequis. I couldn't make that last one up even if I wanted to. But enough about me let's talk about you. What's been going on with you?" Crescent was nervous before Alfreda gave him a card. "Here's my number, just incase I forget to give it to you." Alfreda said. Crescent sighed before smiling. "Are you sitting down because it's gonna be crazy." "With my week before I died and after, challenge accepted." Alfreda said with a smile. Crescent climbed out out the sewer just as his communicator went off as he put his helmet on. "Red Horn, where have you been? I've been trying to call you for an hour, did you get it done? I was busy making sure the Mighty Machines didn't follow you. Devastator's going on cryo until that treat that bullet shot you hit them with." "Turns out it was the wrong guy Blood Steel, I let him go, but not before I put a bullet in his leg." "Bullet in the leg? That's so unlike you." "I was feeling generous." Crescent said before grappling onto a rooftop. Author's Note Next chapter, the thrilling conclusion to Beginnings of an Immortal Wirewolf right into the beginning to Alfreda and Cell's Multiversal Adventure! Blade Wilson/Red Horn/Crescent Blade is New Lunar Principality's OC and the star of the next story I'm doing that I'm taking over for him, The Vengeful Guardians: Mercs of Justice.
Chapter 17: Multiverse Theory HurtsAlfreda was simply reading the book Blotch gave him that was an encyclopedia on The Old Country and the supposed Blot Country Blotch's family tried to create, when he heard a knock on the door of Wolf's Den facing the bay, walked to it to open it, and found a four arm, black skinned crocodile like demon with purple eyes and some kind of samurai helmet on his head standing there. "Hello Alfreda. Mane-iac's told me so much about you, well before she goes into one of her crying episodes. Didn't think I'd find you here." The Demon said to him. "And you are?" Alfreda asked. "Can't believe she never mentioned me. I am Kul'as, Evil Incarnate, and friend of your mother." "Ok, I should care because?" "I have a big scientific project planned out, but I need some help with it, another set of hands at least." "Don't you have some loser that follows you around to do it with you instead of me?" "Well you posses some things I cannot do." A voice said behind Kul'as. Walking behind him revealed it was a mare who appeared to be a dark blue alicorn with a ethereal light blue mane, wearing red regalia with a bat tiara. "Alfreda, meet my marefriend, from a universe where everything is reversed, she prefers to be called Selene." Kul'as said nuzzling said mares snout. "Wait Evil Universe Counterpart? To who?" "You wouldn't get it." Kul'as replied. "But I love her all the same." "Please don't talk about love in front of me. It just reminds me that I'm gonna possibly outlive everything and somehow still be a virgin." "Not according to Lather and the Golden Age." Kul'as said to himself. "Any-who this requires more delicate touch, all though I will warn you, you probably might die, so I suggest you make amends while you can." "Really?" Alfreda said with skepticism. "Ok then, I have at least one group to piss off." Fluttershy was crying her heart out silently in her room. Gears was injured protecting Ricky and put into Cryo, the chances of him getting out alive were slim. Coupled with what happened the other night this was almost becoming too much for her when the alarm went off. Rainbow Dash burst into her room before stepping back a little. "Flutters, we gotta go, someone's trying to hack the tower." Fluttershy got up, put on her costume, and joined the others in the living room as a transmission broke through and Kul'as' face appeared on the screen. "Greeting Power Ponies, my name, is Kul'as, you may remember me from the following crimes: Kidnapping nearly all of Maretropolis to partake in a massive gladiator game against each other out of boredom, causing the great disasters of Equestria's early past, but I digress, I have contacted you to let you know that I know your identities. I'm not going to sell the information or anything, I just wanted to let you know, I'm letting you know that I'm taking your machine you're working on to test travel into the theoretical multiverse and amass an army I shall bring back with me to conquer all of Equis." The Transmission cut as everyone looked shocked and confused. "And you can thank a certain devilishly handsome looking wirewolf for the information of that thing." Everyone turned to the direction of the voice to see Alfreda standing in the doorway of the elevator. "A-Alfreda?!" Rainbow said shocked. "Wha? How is this possible? You should be dead!" Twilight asked in disbelief. "To quote Samuel Clemens: 'the news of my death had been greatly exaggerated.' " "You're working with Kul'as?" Radiance asked. "For second I thought you were going to say for but yes Rarity. Yes I know all your identities, not that hard to crack. I would've told Kul'as but he apparently knew before I could even tell him. I just took the elevator up here to brag about helping him. I'm heading to another universe." "Y-you're alive, I'm not a killer. It was you leaving the airport." Fluttershy said quietly. "Yes, it was?" Alfreda said stepping in and pressing the button going down to the lab floor then repeatedly pressing the close door button, looking at it beginning to get nervous. "That doesn't mean I'm not filled with rage at you terrifying me for no reason." Fluttershy growled, her eyes beginning to glow blood red. "I get that a lot now a day OH FAUST NO!" Alfreda yelled terrified as Saddle Rager charged at the door just at it started to close. Lucky for Alfreda it closed before she even hit the door. Alfreda was nervous as he knew that she was gonna transform and any moment she would tear through the door and either tear the elevator cable off sending him plummeting, or jump down on the elevator crushing him. Alfreda sighed in relief as he got to the lab floor and ran straight out just as the elevator was suddenly pulled up and out of his sight. Alfreda ran for the far end of the room seeing Kul'as fiddle with the machine, which looked like a large metal ring with a vortex in between. "Hey Alfreda, I take it the bragging went well?" Kul'as asked. "Saddle Rager's pissed, but I'd say yes." "Oh goody, I thought this would've gone by with no resistance." Kul'as said before avoiding some kind of projectile that zipped past him, aimed for his neck. "Gonna cross the line Moon Knight?" Kul'as asked someone who left from the shadows. It was a mare with a blue mask and suit on, spots of the costume with gauntlets, boots and a hood that were black, with a white moon symbol on her chest. "You've harmed to many innocents to let just walk away." "Oh you wound me." Kul'as said before blasting beams from his eyes that Moon Knight easily dodged. "Let me cut deeper then." Moon Knight replied trying to hit him only for Selene to tackle her. "Back off my man!" She demanded. "Some sick experiment you made?" Moon Knight asked before engaging in hoof to hoof combat with her. "What do you think me, some kind of god? That's an alternate you." "Wait she's Moon Knight's counterpart? Wow, that actually surprised me." Alfreda said before a rumbling shook the floor and everyone looked to see the Power Ponies in front of the elevator door, now just a large hole with Saddle Rager trotting through, transformed, and very pissed off. "Oh fun." Kul'as sighed as the portal glowed a dark purple. Saddle Rager charged but stopped when Alfreda stepped forward with a hand out. "Let's all just calm down." "You broke into our house and currently stealing something that belongs to us." Twilight exclaimed. "Ok you're not helping, Fluttershy," Alfreda said looking at her, trying to calm down that growing sea of rage. "I'm sorry for terrifying you like that. I'm just glad I'm not dead because I'm actually doing stuff, as you can tell with Kul'as I'm getting out more often, I'm reconnecting with people I used to know, heck I made a contribution to society by joining the Yakyakistan War. A little drama but I'm happy, you're in control, isn't that good enough." Saddle Rager stared him down, her eyes seeming to calm down when she grabbed a forklift and tossed it at Kul'as forcing him to dodge. "I guess." Was her only response. Alfreda sighed in relief at not having his face beaten in and stepped back as Kul'as cast a shield that he was thankfully inside with Selene. "Okay Alfreda, you had your heartwarming forgiveness talk, now is a time, For Science!" Kul'as shouted before letting out a maniacal laugh before everyone was covered in a purple blinding light. When it died down, the machine along with those who tried to steal it, were gone. "Luna, where'd they go?" Twilight asked Moon Knight. "You know I prefer that we use or hero name even when its just us. But on the question at hoof, I have no idea. Kul'as' magic is a mix of draconequis chaos magic and some dark energy from an outside source, whatever that source is, it's stronger enough to kill a lot more then alicorn. That same source also camouflages itself and the chaos magic making him virtually invisible to magic detectors. But even if it didn't a Magic Detector wouldn't work. Like he said this was taking him to an alternate universe, somewhere out of their range all together." "But which one?" "You never built something to give us an insight on what the next universe would be, so as Pinkie said watching TV in my cave once said, that is the 1,000,000 Bit Question." Alfreda fell to the ground groaning and coughing. "It takes likes Blotch's Anya's Rabbit and Avocado stew." Alfreda licked his lips perking up a little. "Oh with a after taste of his Opa's clam soup." "Okay Blotch's family is seriously demented. What kind of savage makes a soup from clams?" Kul'as asked dusting himself off. "Hey they're good peop... Blotlings don't judge them based on their food." "Well I'm a super villain so what do I know?" Kul'as replied before looking around. The Maretropolis they were in now was a lot more rundown and the sky was incredibly dark but not signifying it was nighttime. "Okay so where the heck are we?" Alfreda asked seeing many stores boarded up with broken windows and doors. "I don't know but I feels nice." Kul'as said picking up a leg bone just lying on the ground. "How long is a body just left there until it's bare bones!" Alfreda yelled noticing the rest of the corpse. "Enough sight seeing, we have science to do." Kul'as dramatically declared before walking down the street spotting an old abandoned science lab. "Alfreda, you and Selene grab a pony off the street. But here's so we don't get discovered. Make sure they're someone no one would look for, possibly a complete monster if you could check, but more importantly, someone no one would miss if they found out something unfortunate happened." Kul'as instructed walking into the lab. Alfreda looked around and saw Selene already ahead of him and ran to her side. "I don't know where we're gonna find some one here. It looks like Fallout in real life." "It's an alternate universe, that could be the case." "Oh right that. Ow." Alfreda yelped feeling something stab him in the back. He felt it and pulled out a large hunting knife. "Hey look, free knife." Alfreda noted before realizing what happened and looked back, seeing some pink hair hiding behind a trash can. "Wow. Easier than I thought." Kul'as tweaked with the tools again before the doors opened and a mare that looked like the spitting image of Fluttershy was tossing at his feet. "That was awfully quick." Kul'as noted. "She tried to kill us. Well Alfreda at least." Selene answered. "I got a free Hunting Knife." Alfreda said happily twirling the weapon. "I found a good computer and found out about her. Her name is ironically Fluttershy, better known as The Kills Kindly Mutilator. Cruelest Serial Killer on this Universe's Equis. No one knows who she is, everyone wants her dead." "We got a perfect match!" Kul'as used his magic to toss Fluttershy onto a table than used metal clamps attached to it to keep her down. "Alfreda." Kul'as said giving him a scroll. "This is a serum I have the mind of making but I never found the time to envision it perfectly. All and any chemicals you need for it are in the next room, I have some other stuff to do. Selene, you get to play nurse. Alfreda will livestream what components you need to put in where to make it work." Selene let a sinister grin grow on her face grabbing the scalpel. "You spoil me." "No, the best job to have is the one you love to do." Alfreda backed out of the room into the next one actually terrified as Selene spoke again. "Now scream if this hurts." Alfreda was deep into his work, surprised at the connections he was making. It was as if it was in front of him and he just needed to write it out. 'And by adding these two compounds together it'll make the bones stronger than pure vibranium.' "Amazing voice in my head!" Alfreda said finishing it before realizing he just talked aloud. "I really need to stop doing that." "Alfreda!" Kul'as yelled. "We done yet?" "Yeah!" Alfreda yelled running out before seeing what they were doing to Fluttershy, parts of her insides exposed to the air while others were completely removed. Alfreda merely shuddered as they put her in the large tube before grabbing the liquid in the canister Alfreda made. "You sure that this'll work?" Kul'as asked filling a syringe with the liquid as Selene grabbed the canister and connected it to a tube into the chamber. "Yep, ran the numbers out, you never told me what the intention was, but I at least know these are the precise numbers you wanted, better if I don't mean to brag." Selene rolled her eyes as Kul'as injected Fluttershy than closed the chamber as the gassed filled it. "So where the heck are we?" Alfreda asked. "This universe appears to be an opposite of ours from the moment I killed Faust, well she got me too but semantics. This world's Celestia died killing Nightmare Moon, it was essentially a Regime world, but it was somehow worse. Ol Flutters here is an example of the worst." The gas dissipated revealing Fluttershy healed of her excessive wounds in one piece. "I'm going to murder you slowly with every tool in this lab!" she yelled, her eyes glowing red before she fell in the chamber in sheer agony. Her body seemed to change and bulge as her bones seem to start poking out, her back bones literally tearing out of her skin appearing like spikes. "Ok...WHY!?" Alfreda yelled. "Oh you see I grabbed some of that serum that created the oringal Saddle Rager that was intact here and injected it into her. However it needed a catalyst to fully take effect, with the serum I'll create a mutant of mass destruction made to kill Solarmare, and roll in the bits selling merchandise to take advantage of the grieving nation!" "Really, for all that?" "Don't get your undies in a bunch, you'll get a profit, I'm a little Doom shy at her surviving killing Solar Mare." "Doom shy?" "I know my word's beat my brain to my mouth sometimes." "No not that. Doomshy. I like that. I hereby christen this abomination of science Doomshy!" "Not yet my friend, we still need to leave the finishing touches in the hands of 'professionals.' " The scientists moved the resisting Doomshy into the new tube, around the height of a teenage dragon with the build of full grown stallion, her coat turning a slight grey hue. "So you're telling me that you found her locked up in a lab?" The scientist asked. "Oh of course. Why would I lie to you, when I heard of E.C.O.S. I thought you guys would be just as bad as your old ruler, but seeing how friendly at the entrance I knew I came to the right place." "LIES! HE...LIES!" Doomshy yelled out from her tube, struggling to speak as her teeth cracked and stretched, looking more like jagged daggers. "Oh she's incredibly aggressive. I found some notes on how to augment her mutation but I switched things around to change her back." Kul'as explained giving said notes to the scientist. "I was hoping these could work and make her normal again." "Oh rest assured we'll do everything in our power to make her better." "Hey Kul'as could you wait a minute I gotta take a dump." Alfreda asked walking to the bathroom. "Sure." Kul'as replied uninterested. Kul'as looked to see the calculations of the notes already done. "That fast?" "Yes, without interference from outside sources after the battle our machines are updated and can make calculations quickly." The scientist explained. "Interesting." Kul'as said before grabbing the newly created portal gun he worked on, firing it creating a purple portal. "I must thank you for your help on this. I'll be in touch." Kul'as said before Selene walked alongside him into the portal that quickly disappeared. Alfreda ran out just as it closed, some toilet paper stuck to his foot. "Have you seen a black demon with purple eyes?" "He just left sadly." "Crap! Now I'm stuck here with that thing!" Alfreda said pointing at Doomshy's tank before noticing the serum about to pump into it. "That should've taken weeks." "As I told your friend our machines are more advanced than you think, able to make calculations like this easily in minutes." "Uh oh." Alfreda whimpered as the serum was pumped into syringes and went inside the tank and injected her. Doomshy roared in agony as a change began to take place. Alfreda backed away as she began to transform faster, a twisted mirror of Saddler Rager's own transformation of growing muscle and bones, as it now included bone spikes poking out her body, her coat turning a fog hue grey. Alfreda ran to the elevator panicking as it was taking long to come down, looking back and seeing Doomshy quickly outgrow the size of her tank, the tank beginning to crack under pressure as guards circled around it. Alfreda sighed as the elevator opened allowing him to run in and press the button to take him to the lobby, but began to sweat as it took too long again, allowing him to see Doomshy burst out and start slaughtering the guards. Alfreda simply remained speechless as the door closed taking him to the lobby. Alfreda stepped out walking through the lobby out onto the street silent the whole way before walking into a alley to slump to the floor in shock at what he just saw. He heard a zoom and looked to where he just was seeing this world's Filli-Second, however her costume was more of a skimpy pitch black suit, her mane and tail flat, and her face covered with a mask that gave her face a sinister look which stretch with a smile of equal caliber looking at the building. 'Ok no.' Alfreda thought walking back into the alley before a lightning strike hit in front of him. He looked up to see this world's Zapp, major difference being her costume was red with black stripes, and half of her was made of actual lightning. "Ok. You're new, Alfreda, regular wirewolf caught at the wrong place and wrong time. You." "Crackle. The last name you'll hear." Crackle said with a smile generating some lightning in her regular hoof. "Oh great, you're one of those crazy ones aren't you?" "I'm not, Diana Quick and my boss? Definitely." "Boss?" Alfreda asked before turning around and seeing Diana facing her along with another mare. Apparently this world's Masked Matterhorn, but she was in a much more sinister costume, her eyes a blood red and her coat a piercing white, her cowl forming a sort of cone around the top of her head, giving her literal fiery mane a torch look. "Oh Hello, I already know Diana and Boom here who're you?" Alfreda asked then dodging a lightning bolt. "Crackle smartass." Said mare replied growling. "You're clever aren't you? Call me Anti-Matter, I knew I wasn't going to need all the girls to dispose of whatever anomaly came through, but if it's you, I wish I came alone." Anti-Matter gloated before a rumbling shook the ground. "Just for clarity that wasn't me." Diana added before a roar shook the air. "Well look at the time I have to be not here." Alfreda said before something bursted through the E.C.O.S. Undercover building sending rubble towards the group hitting Alfreda a few times, a particularly big piece clubbing him in the skull. "Sweet Caroline~ bah bah bah~!" Alfreda shouted before unconsciousness claimed him. "Well that's one problem solved." Crackle suggested before something stomped through the smoke. Doomshy was at the full size of Saddle Rager, her coat a dark grey, her mane bleached white, with large spikes protruding out across her body, her eyes and blood red as she held a scientist in one hoof. "You made it worse! Fix Me!" She demanded, her voice deep yet twisted. "I-I-I can't, he tricked us into using that serum worsening your condition, beyond repair almost, even if we could you destroyed any equipment left that could do it." Doomshy roared before slamming him into a ground, grinding him into a fine meaty paste. "Hey there!" Anti-Matter yelled earning Doomshy's attention. "You caught my attention, I am Anti-Matter of the Power Syndicate, and I have a proposition." Doomshy looked behind her at Alfreda who was managing to bring himself up. "YOU!" She roared then running towards him before Crackle shot lightning at her sending her back. Alfreda continued dragging himself to a manhole disappearing into the sewers as the Power Syndicate were caught up in their fight with Doomshy. An alarm sounded as the computer screened displayed 'Otherworldly Transmission Incoming.' Kul'as ran into the room sweating and pressed some buttons. "Go for Kul'as." "Kul'as~" Selene sang from the other room. "Tired already? I was gonna let you do that thing you wanted to." "Make it quick, now." "Hey douchebag! Remember me?! I'm Alfreda! The guy you left behind on another world!" The transmission cleared showing Alfreda bandaged and pissed. "Oh it's you. Wait I left you behind? I was wondering where you went, I've been calling you for six hours." "Yeah! Phone calls don't go across universes!" "Not unless it's my phone." "Point is it was after you left Doomshy with E.C.O.S. and I was in the bathroom!" "Oh yeah, I guess I did. Speaking of which how'd she turn out?" "Well just as bad as Saddle Rager, but you know evil." "Can you be more specific?" Alfreda pressed a button next to him causing a voice to be heard. "I WILL TURN YOU INTO B*CKING SCRAPMETAL!" A deep voice roared. "She's even better then I ever hoped to be." Kul'as said joyful. "Just please help me! I had to break into their HQ to get this done and she teamed up with the evil Power Ponies so you know this is fun." "Okay, get the list of parts I'm about to send you, then pray as hard as you can for Sa'luk. He'll help you from there." Suddenly, Kul'as' neck was surrounded by a blue magic aura. "Sorry buddy, you're on your on now." Kul'as gagged before he was dragged away as the transmission was cut. Alfreda began to cry as he realized what was most likely to happening, the list printing out next to him. "Why Faust? Why do you punish me? Is it because I asked you to turn the rainwater into wine that one time? Or was it because of that whole thing of me helping Kul'as perform unholy experiments turning a probably innocent mare into a monster? Or both even?" The door warped further to which Alfreda grabbed the list and jumped out a window flying off away from the tower, not stopping until he was outside the city limits. He looked at the list and began to go through the list, surprised at how much stuff in his chest hatch was on the list. He arranged the objects in a circle before taking the blue sapphire shard he found and placed it in the center. "Oh great noble demon Sa'luk, I summon you to aid me in my time of need, I do not wish to die and you are my only hope." Alfreda chanted before taking out the bottle of white ink and smashing it in the center of the circle. The ground glowed with a ominous yellow light before a light shone from the sky onto the circle. The ink and the ground under it cracked and floated into the air, the rocks and dirt coming together creating a four limbed skeleton. The ink swirled around it making a sort of skin before it glowed with a blinding light. Alfreda shielded his eyes from it and looked when it finally died down, revealing someone that looked just like Kul'as but had inverted colors, as in white skin with yellow eyes. "Greetings, my name is Sa'luk. I take it you know my brother, the last time I was resurrected was when he was blackout drunk." "Oh yeah I do, he stranded me here, after I helped him create a monster who just teamed up with the Power Ponies of this world, who are, you know...evil." "Oh I think I can help then." Sa'luk replied before a boom shook them. They both turned to see the Power Syndicate staring them down, Doomshy now sporting green boots on her back hooves and a sleeveless vest of the same color. "Hello Alfreda, we never go to properly talk last time." "I would've but you're evil, anything I say can and will be used against me." "Fair enough." Anti-Matter said then firing a heat beam at him, Alfreda narrowly dodging as Sa'luk barreled in engaging most of the group leaving Doomshy and Anti-Matter for Alfreda. Alfreda dodged many of Anti-Matter's heat blasts directing some of Doomshy's punches at Anti-Matter. Alfreda then took out the hunting knife that belonged to Doomshy and dodged a hit from the latter, bringing it down on her hoof cutting it clean off. "Wow, this is a surprisingly good knife." Alfreda noted before a fiery tail wrapped around his neck. He turned to see it belonged to Anti-Matter who pulled him in with a sadistic smile. "I know all about how you're from another universe, you're living proof. So you're going to tell me everything about it so I can enjoy conquering it even more, one piece of information at a time." "How about you blow me?" Alfreda asked before using the knife to cut the tail falling to the ground but avoiding Doomshy's slamming into the ground, her hoof having regenerated with spikes on it like a sort of brass knuckle. Anti-Matter looked at her tail and growled before looking at Alfreda. "Nevermind, I'll examine your corpse instead!" Anti-Matter fired a heat beam at Alfreda, sending it through his chest. Everyone stopped fighting to see Alfreda looking at his own gaping chest wound before it healed away as if nothing happened. "Oh yeah I could forgot I could do that." Anti-Matter's eye twitched before her horn glowed even brighter. "Regrow This." She fired another blast at him, but it wrapped around him and lifted him into the air. Alfreda struggled not to panic as he had no control on how to get out of this, and felt that this was the end. Alfreda here, just wanted to add in one little thing. You know looking back at it all, I realized something, I'm immortal, I can never die no matter what happens, so I'm just going to enjoy it, take it all in, life's short for everyone, but not me, so why not see what's out there. Back to story at hand. Alfreda decided if he was gonna die, he would leave one last impact. He threw the knife at Doomshy, causing it to bounce off her face leaving a deep scar under her right cheek, the knife rocketing towards Anti-Matter stabbing her right in the chest. "Suck my Dick~!!" Alfreda yelled in defiance before Anti-Matter's horn glowed brighter to which Alfreda exploded. Sa'luk stopped his fight looking up to see Alfreda's remains fall to the ground, Anti-Matter walking to his head piece that feel then smashed his head in with a simple hoof stomp. Sa'luk dodged a swipe from Diana Quick before he flew off for parts unknown. "Let me go after that four winged turd!" "Leave him. We have what we need now." Anti-Matter replied to Diana showing the remains of Alfreda. With these remains we can at least contact his universe, from there a whole multiverse to conquer. C'mon every pony, we have great work to do." Anti-Matter noted picking up the remains, the only thing falling out of her magic grip being a single claw from Alfreda. Alfreda opened his eyes and saw he was falling through the air, passing by clouds unsure of what happened. "What just happened, last thing I remember was fighting... someone." Alfreda said to himself before seeing the school he was falling towards. "MEGA CRA~~P!!" He screamed before bouncing off the pavement rocketing into the lockers inside, his memories sinking away with the massive concussion that came the moment he impacted the lockers. His eyes spun around as he began to drift into unconsciousness before seeing some weird hairless apes walked towards him. "Ow." Then everything went black. Author's Note And thus the saga is over, but there's an epilogue left though. Yes the end of the chapter leads directly into Alfreda and Cell's Mutliversal Adventure.
Epilogue: New Bridges for New FutureKul'as looked at the portal machine than sighed. Alfreda hadn't come through like he thought, at least his brother was back, someone else to mess with sort of win win. Kul'as got up to do something Alfreda told him about incase he unexplainably died and walked out of his hideout, limping slightly repeatedly saying "Ow." 'If this was what would happen doing that thing I wanted to try out with Selene, it was totally worth it.' Kul'as looked at the apartment building uninterested, at least surprised seeing a chimera on the terrace of one of them. He looked down and ahead and was gasped at who he saw just as Fluttershy gasped seeing him. "What're you doing here?!" They asked simultaneously, Flutterhy's eyes glowing red as Kul'as hands glowed with purple flames. "I'm here to see what Alfreda did with that second chance I gave him, but I won't let you ruin what he must've made here." Fluttershy replied her voice starting to deepen. "Wait really?" Kul'as asked surprised, his hands flames going out. "Calm yourself Buttersky, we're acquaintances here now, Alfreda had... and unfortunate accident in that other universe, his last wish was that I come see what he did here as well." "Really?" Fluttershy asked stunned calming down before noticing something. "My names Fluttershy." "Potato Tomato it's all the same." Kul'as hand waved before walking alongside her, approached the house made of some kind of purple sludge that had been dried like clay. "Aha! So it is you!" A voice said prompting both of them to turn and see Blotch standing behind them with a scowling look. "Oh so you must Blotch, Alfreda has told me much about you." Kul'as said happily. "You have broken the trust of The Son of A Slobber!" Blotch replied angry. "Woah this is the first time I met you I would've remembered pissing you off." Kul'as retorted before Blotch grabbed him lifting him up in the air by the chest. "Confess to your crimes, skin like bad avocados reptilian, return my best friend now!" Blotch demanded shaking Kul'as. "Excuse me Mister Blotch, could you tell me what happened, I might be able to help." "It is simple she who is more shy than Blotch's Oma's pet groundhog, Alfreda came to Blotch to tell him that Alfreda was going to another universe, and wished for Blotch to punish Kul'as if he did not return the next day." "Oh I can explain, I accidentally left him behind but I gave him instructions to get back, he never came back so I understood he didn't make it, his last with for me was to come visit this place and see why he liked it so much." Blotch pondered on this a little before dropping Kul'as. "Blotch respects your vow to uphold Blotch's late Best Friend's last wish, and yet," Blotch grabbed a large metal gauntlet from out of nowhere, put it on his right hand, then grabbed Kul'as with his left. "You must be punished." "What is that Blotch?" Kul'as asked not liking where this is going. "The Gauntlet of Discipline. DO YOU LIVE IN A CAVE!?" Blotch yelled before bringing his gloved fist back and clocking Kul'as square in his face before putting the gauntlet away with a kind smile on his face. "All is forgiven." "Thank you Crotch." Kul'as slurred struggling to stand up from the hit as two teeth fell out of his mouth. Fluttershy was nervous but reached into her satchel pulling out some cupcakes. "I brought some cupcakes as a welcoming gift to Maretropolis. Courtesy of my friend Pinkie Pie." Blotch looked at the cupcakes and smiled. "Blotch was going to do the same to you, as he had listened to the countless tales of Alfreda's pain, but for bringing the Cupcakes of Sorriness. All is forgiven!" Blotch than grabbed Fluttershy giving her a bear hug in join. "Come inside, join Blotch as his family tells tales of blooming flowers following by the traditional dance of the Hairless Yachter." Blotch than dragged them both inside causing Fluttershy to gasp seeing the Blotling livestock moving around. "Oh my goodness. They're so cute!" Fluttershy jumped down to cuddle a snake like blotling with a single cute eye. "Yes Fluttershy, I admire your love for the troublemaker Horace, Blotch takes great pride in taking care of his live stock, less he be banished to the dryer." "Okay tell me everything about your weird culture so I can firmly grasp it." Kul'as said grabbed the ice pack provided by Blotch's Opa. "Very well he who has more limbs than Brother Gertrude's growth." "Sweet. Wait what?" "In the bowels of Two Greats Grandpapa Phantom Blot we gained minds when he visited The Old Country, we wished to leave the dark and smelly world..." Blotch began to speak as Fluttershy and Kul'as sat down to listen to the story. 'This is nice.' Fluttershy thought to herself as she petted Horace. 'Thank you for everything Alfreda, where ever you are, I hope you're happy and at peace.' She thought with a smile thinking the best for the immortal wirewolf. "The moment we catch you, WE'LL MAKE YOU REGRET THE DAY YOU STARTED TO WALK!!" Alfreda yelled shooting blasts at Cell along with Juan and Freckles, Ponyville long past the anger while El Quatros Locos wasn't even done, the only problem the town having being that the group was having their chase continuously in a circle around the town. So that's my story: Fun in the golden age, some depression, being reborn, dying again all that good stuff, if you wanna find out what happened in my multiversal adventure pick up Alfreda and Cell's Mutliversal Adventure, sold alongside this. This story is dedicated to my friends in the Mane-iac Henchmares and my mother Mane-iac and old girlfriend Lather. i hope you guys read this to know how much you mean to me. Now if you'll excuse me, Two hooves got his head stuck in the freezer again and Cell got his face stuck in the sink so I'm writing this last part. Busy day with two idiots working against me as I try to free them, but hey I'm Alfreda Tanger, this ain't nothing to me. Author's Note And thus the Alfreda trilogy is complete. Beginnings, the Wanderings, and the Adventure, Everything has come full circle. Alfreda: Nick Landis(Lanipator) Logic: Corey Burton Ezekiel The Naustic: Alex Hirsch Cell, Kul'as: Curtis Arnott(Takahata101) Juan: Burnie Burns Shadow Blot: Fred Tatasciore Blotch: Peter Kelamis Spatter: Anthony 'Antfish' Sardinha Slobber: Dee Bradley Baker Masked Matterhorn/Twilight Sparkle, Lather: Tara Strong Zapp/Rainbow Dash, Mistress Marevelous/Applejack, Rinse: Ashleigh Ball Radiance/Rarity, The Moon Knight/Luna, Selene: Tabitha St. German Filli-second/Pinkie Pie, Saddle Rager/Fluttershy: Andrea Libman Solarmare: Nicole Oliver Rodan/Marty: Gustavo Sorola Shadow Blot/ Ricky: Burnie Burns or Geoff Ramsey Dusk/Aaron: Jason SaladaƱa Timberwolf/Terry: John Dimaggio Masqe/Joe: Jeremy Shada Gears, Devastator: Dan Goodwin The Mane-iac: Ellen Kennnedy Seth: Seth Macfarlene Prell: Dan Castenella The Phantom Blot: Chris Guerrero Blade Wilson/Crescent Blade/Red Horn: Will Friedle Blood Steel, S.A.I.R.A.H. : Grey DeLise Red Horn will return in Vengeful Guardians: The Mercs of Justice As will Alfreda.
Chapter 1: A Loser is BornA yellow wirewolf screamed like a coward as he was sent flying uncontrollably into the air, nothing slowing him down. Just as he was about to explode, everything seemed to stop. You ever be somewhere and wonder... how the f*ck did I get caught up in this? Well I have, many times throughout my entire life. My name is Alfreda, and this is my story- Hold it! Alfreda looked at Cell with annoyance. "What now?" "You said this was an autobiography, but now you want me to write this part like you're writing it?" "It's the foreward, now shut it and start writing, and before you ask, for parts I weren't there for I asked the people that weren't there about what happened." "Fine, I'm just saying is all-" "You want some of the money I might make from this or not?" Alfreda asked in a deadpan. Now where to begin, you may ask, for this tale of greatness. Yeah more like cowardice- CELL I SWEAR TO FAUST! As I was saying, I guess we start with, when I was born... A henchpony's hoof knocked on the steel door, some bagels in her purple magical aura. Her coat was a snow white with a flat like green mane, her cutie mark a heart on a hairdryer. "Boss. You ok? It's me Lather. You've been down there for a week we're starting to get worried. Heck a couple of them are even talking about mutiny." Suddenly the door opened and some tentacles grabbed Lather and pulled her in before slamming shut. They dropped her to the flow and Lather found her self in front of the Mane-iac, who had hairs sticking out of her mane near the roots and her eyes bloodshot, chuckling crazier then normal. "Hello Lather, how kind of you to come down here. Just in time to see my newest creation." "What?" Lather asked confused. "You see I finally figured out why my schemes are failing, not only do I have you incompetent fools working for me, no offense to you and your sister lather, but because the Power Ponies are just to much for us, so I created the perfect killing machine to whip those idiots into shape and get rid of those Cursed Costumed Crusaders once and for all. Lather, I give you..." Mane-iac then gestured to the table behind her, a spotlight on it revealing the robot in the middle. He had a shape like a long upside down trapezoid, with two skinny arms with 3 appendages, barely coming up to the top of Lather's head. An antenna stuck out of his head as he had a single eye no light coming out. "Alfreda." She finished. "Yes I now not a good name but I'm trying to come up with an acronym so it makes more sense. So far I have Annihilating Lubricated Free-willed Ripping Eviscerating and Destroying Android. Working on the L though. Let's give him a go now." Mane-iac pressed a button and electricity surged through Alfreda, causing him to wake up, his eye glowing red as he rolled off the table and to the Mane-iac. "Hello mother, how are you today?" Alfreda asked in an emotionless yet authoritative voice. "Pretty happy now that I got you little buddy." Mane-iac responded, her usual tone back before she landed to the floor and snoring. "My scanners say she has finally succumbed to sleep fatigue. It will be at least 48 hours till she awakens. Assemble the henchponies. Announcements must be made with my new arrival." Alfreda said as he rolled off. All of the henchponies were assembled by Lather and Rinse, confused at how the Mane-iac was nowhere to be seen. Alfreda rolled into their vew earning a chuckle or two from some of the stallions. "Greetings subordinates, I am Mane-iac's Annihilating Lethal Functioning Rending Eviscerating and Destroying Android. Or A.L.F.R.E.D.A for short." a couple of the stallions then laughed. "Now that I have you attention, I am the ultimate weapon created by the Mane-iac to dispose of the Power Ponies that have proved too much of a nuisance to our criminal operations. As planned by her, I now declare myself the new second in command of her, Lather shall be my second in command in turn. The Ex Second in Command Seth will now be lookout for Power Ponies if they come to our HeadQuarters." Seth, a stallion in black with an ankh for a cutie mark, stomped up to Alfreda with a look of anger on his face. "What makes you thinks you can just roll on in here on your tiny wheel and declare you're second in charge?! I'm second in command not you, you mare named one eyed walking toaster!" He yelled in his face. Alfreda merely blinked. "Such vocabulary for such a small brain. Tell me, have you heard of Russian Roulette? If so, how about my variation?" Alfreda then grabbed Seth by the neck and held him against a wall, taking a revolver out with one chamber empty. "It's simple, If I pull the trigger and it clicks, your life is spared, if not, then you can at least be an example." Alfreda then spun the case around then put the gun to Seth's head, who was shaking in terror as Alfreda's finger began to squeeze. Lather watched in horror then walked up. "Alfreda, as your second in command I'm asking you please spare Seth, he's just not happy about being demoted. Would Mane-iac approve of her only son killing so early?" Alfreda stopped for a second as he scanned Seth's body, emotions of rage and fear pouring out of him. "She wouldn't unless it was to preserve my own life. Your argument...is logical." Alfreda dropped Seth who backed away. "But just to see." Alfreda pulled the trigger, causing a shot to bang out, he did so until he heard click, all five shots went off. "Looks like Lather was more kind to you then chance this time Seth." Alfreda then dropped the gun like a mike then rolled off, leaving every cowering at how emotionless he just took control. Mane-iac woke up feeling refreshed and walked up out of the basement, shocked at how the henchponies were working overtime, save for Lather and Rinse who were managing them. She swung over to them a bit confused. "What happened while I was asleep?" She asked. "Good to see you awake boss." Lather responded. "Alfreda forcefully took control, by the way he replaced Lubricated and free-willed with Lethal and functioning, and now he's working on some inventions non-stop in your office." Mane-iac swung over to the door and walked in, finding blueprints scattered everywhere as Alfreda worked on one on the board. "Splendid to see you awakened and fully functioning mother. Please examine some of my blueprints while I finish this one up." Mane-iac looked at the one by her hooves and looked surprised at the schematics and the calculations made. "A power siphoning machine?" "Brilliant isn't it? I'm amazed that no other villains have thought up of such an ingenious device. We take the Power Ponies powers then we transfer them into the villains Smudge, Pharaoh Phetlock, Long Face, Shadowmane, High Heel, and yourself." "Excellent. But how do you know they won't turn on me or each other?" "The moment they do, with the press of a button I suck their powers out and transfer them into you." "Ooh I love it already. Anything else?" "Yes. A hairdryer cannon that amplifies the power of your mane at least one million times based on the numbers and effect of everyone else's mane growing uncontrollably. And finally, the Hairspray Ray of Doom. It's able to completely immobilize your target and render their powers useless. The effects are temporary, but long enough to imprison them. I have even formulated a plan using all three inventions. First we will use them in separate schemes and at some put when they least expect it. Then when we have them together, we will use the Hairspray Ray of Doom and then trap them. Once fully secured we take their powers then transfer them into you then fire the Hair Dryer cannon on them amplifying the power of your mane. Your strengthened mane combined with mainly Radiance's constructs, Zapp weather manipulation, Filli-Second's speed, and Saddle Rager's pure destructive strength and might, not only will we gain control of Maretropolis, but within a few days afterward, we'll take control of all of Equestria, then the entire planet with several weeks." Mane-iac's grin widened at the thought of controlling so much power when something occurred to her. "Wait what about Solar Mare and Moon Knight?" "Same thing as what we will do with the Power Ponies. Take their power as well." Alfreda replied. "But to before I can begin construction on the devices, I need to take measures of their power, especially their ace in the hole Saddle Rager. Speaking of which..." As if timed, an alarm went off and Rinse ran into the room. "Alfreda! We pulled off the heights across town like you said but the Power Ponies are hitting us at all the spots. Forgive me if I offend you but you didn't plan this out?" "Oh I did, the heists weren't meant to be successful, they were meant to draw out the Power Ponies." Alfreda then punched something into the computer before rolling out. "Have one of the bodies I made out and ready. Knowing Saddle Rager I know it won't end with me intact." Alfreda then rolled out, leaving the Mane-iac and Rinse surprised. Matterhorn froze another henchpony as Fillie-Second rounded all the frozen ones up putting them in awkward positions. Matterhorn found 2 more trying to escape but stopped them. "Tell us who had you doing this." "Don't look far." A voice said behind her promptly her to look behind her and get punched in the face by a skinny arm with a lot of force. Matterhorn found her footing and faced the small robot. "Greetings. My name is Alfreda. It stands for Annihilating Lethal Functioning Rending Eviscerating and Destroying Android." "You still have a girl's name." Filli-Second responded. "You know what, to hay with it, Eye Cannon." "Eye Cannon?" Filli-Second asked before dodging a laser beam from Alfreda's eye. She then charged at Alfreda who dodged surprisingly. "Ole." He said before elbowing her. Matterhorn shot another beam at Alfreda who took a trash can lid and shielded himself from the ice beam before throwing the lid at her. Matterhorn dodged only to get uppercutted by Alfreda. Filli-Second looked incredibly mad him. "Oh man you got me mad, I guess to the point you can call it a rage." "And based on your background I could call it a rage which can be mainly found in the western-most county of Long Island, Neigh York." Alfreda replied. "Yeah. ALSO KNOWN AS BROOKLYN!!" She yelled as she kicked him in the eye sending him into a mailbox. Alfreda pulled himself out then dashed for Filli-Second who swung at him only for him to hit her in a pressure point in the neck, knocking her unconscious. Alfreda looked over to Matterhorn who was also knocked out before taking out a log. "Field Report 1: Matterhorn's blasts are limited to a degree but are still hazardous to systems like mine requiring shields or other defenses to either block them or reflect them all together. Filli-Second reveals to not only have super speed, but a bit of a temper, most likely due to where her upbringing was from, and when I had delivered a cut to one of her legs, examination shows it has healed hinting at some form of healing factor thanks to her super speed, this will be taken into account during the operation with the Power Siphoner. Side note: come up with more interesting name for Power Siphoner." "Field report 2: Radiance's constructs seem to come from the pink bracelets on her front hooves amplified by a spell used by her horn, all though it appears more strain is visual when using the bracelets more then her horn, most likely not very strong willed in order to use bracelets more efficiently. Marevelous possesses no actual powers save for her psychic connection to her rope, which appears to be completely impervious to any weapons attempting to cut it, as my chainsaw and katana showed against it. Zapp's weather manipulation has untold possibilities of usefulness, but she limits herself to lightning and tornados, most likely due to either not much knowledge on weather for more potential attacks or restraint as attacks may damage city more then villains. Humdrum posses no interesting features save for possible underdog based on records and may be only connection the Power Ponies have to let the citizens know they won't turn on them, especially Saddle Rager based on her history. Speaking of the latter, I am off to take analysis of her, do not be surprised if this is my last long, but if not then she will be the new subject of one of my researches." Alfreda then rolled off, leaving the unconscious Power Ponies all in a pile and Humdrum tied and gagged as to not interfere with Alfreda's plan The Mane-iac's henchponies cowered as Saddle Rager took one step towards them, shaking the ground. One Henchstallion looked terrified. "I can't outrun her. Wait, but it won't matter as long as I can outrun you!" He said looking at the Henchmare next to him, which he then kicked out one of her legs earning a scream of pain from her. "SAVE YOURSELVES!" He yelled before running off like a coward. Every one of them screamed as Saddle Rager prepared to charge when a tiny wheel hit her on top of the head. "Excuse me, colossal equine in torn spandex." She turned around and Alfreda stood there, cattle prod and another wheel in his small claws. "Why don't you pick on somepony your own muscle mass?" 'Note to self, write list of better taunts in order to intimidate foes more, especially if they're Saddle Rager.' Alfreda thought before Saddle Rager roared at him and ran for him, to which he rolled off as the henchponies escaped, Lather looking back. "Alfreda are you insane?!" She yelled to him. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, unless of course it actually works once so that would be persistent. The term in this case would be suicidal. Which I am not by the way." Alfreda yelled as he rolled away from Lather as Saddle Rager chased him down the street. Rinse placed her hoof on her sisters shoulder. "He'll die as he lived." "Emotionless?" Lather asked. "And alone." Alfreda rolled as fast as his wheel could carry him, dodging a car flying past him. "Project Rage: Field Report 1: Saddle Rager shows great strength when angered as she's currently throwing several cars at me as if they weighed like styrofoam. Also reasoning with her is most likely out of the question as so far she has only replied in either growls or, yelling 'get back here!' The former of the two more common." Alfreda turned his body around while his wheel remained forward, and shot a rocket at her only for her to run through it angered even more. "And apparently shooting at her only pisses her off more, which adds fuel to the ass beating." Alfreda added his eye turning blue with a green pupil in a voice with a tad more emotion in it for a minute before changing back to red. "Odd, where did that come from? Cataloging outburst for later examination." Alfreda rolled into an alley and rolled out the other side pressing a detonator causing the alley to explode with smoke and napalm. "Saddle Rager subdued." Alfreda said before Saddle Rager rammed into him, her eyes redder then before. "Revelation: The angrier Saddle Rager is made, the stronger she gets. Side Note:" Saddle Rager began to slam him around. "AH! OW! PAIN! DAEGE! D'OH! OUF!" Mane-iac paced around nervously as Alfreda still hadn't come back yet. "Just calm down boss, I'm sure he's on his way." Lather assured the Mane-iac. "THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID 10 MINUTES AGO!" Mane-iac yelled before breathing in and out. "I'm sorry I'm just very stressed with what might've happened. But best case scenario is that he smashes through the roof." As if by pure chance Alfreda crashed through the roof, smashing into a couple of pieces. "Should've worded that differently." Rinse noted. Mane-iac quickly grabbed several tools and a spare body of Alfreda's and fixed him as quickly as she could. Alfreda stood there completely yellow now, and his eye turned on, fizzing red before turning blue with a green and yellow pupil. "Ok...ow." Mane-iac hugged Alfreda tightly as a tear left her eye, a henchstallion noticing. "Are you crying?" Mane-iac pimped slapped him with her mane into a wall earning a groan from him. "I deserved that." Alfreda chuckled at the henchstallion earning some surprising looks form some of the henchponies. "Did Alfreda just laugh?" "I did? Weird." "I guess getting his ass kicked gave him some emotions." Lather concluded. "Maybe." Alfreda agreed before his eye fizzled back to red. "Another one? I will look into these outbursts tonight.." Alfreda then rolled on when he found a lifeless wirewolf staring at him. "and this is?" He began to ask. "Someone Mane-iac built for you so you, you know, don't go over the edge and kill ponies." "It was illogical to do so as my protocols keep me from going too far, but companionship would ease my mind a bit before I begin working on the Power Siphoner." Alfreda replied as Mane-iac turned the wirewolf on who blinked as he looked around. "Wow...so what's for fun around here?" He asked. "Define Fun." Alfreda stated. "Those two should get along just fine." Lather whispered to the Mane-iac. "Well see how this goes." Mane-iac responded as Alfreda and the Wirewolf walked off. Author's Note And thus a friendship is created and a story begins. Alfreda's outbursts will become more frequent as time passes on. Next Chapter will take place during the Power Ponies annual comic, but my take on the events with Alfreda involved a bit
Chapter 12: Relics of the Past, Equal pain in the Future.Alfreda somehow grew a beard as he continued to rummage through junk in the basement as another Wirewolf walked behind him. "Hey Alfreda what'cha looking for?" He asked. "Who the heck are you?" "Oh I'm Matt, Mom built me incase they ever sent her back to Balkham so that way I could break her out." "Well I didn't hear her laugh upstairs so you're doing a terrible job at it. I'm looking for something to make today interesting." Alfreda said before he found a plug but couldn't see what it was connected to. He pulled on it and it caused a huge pile of junk to collapse and a large machine rolled out. Alfreda looked it over it great curiosity before looking back to Matt. "The heck is this?" "The power siphoner, created by the Mane-iac's smartest henchman from the Golden Age of Heroes. Used it to take the powers of the Power Ponies of back then and transferred them into the Alliance of Malevolence." "What happened then?" "The Power Ponies turned them against each other. And the real reason it worked was because 3 blotlings attacked High Heel, who received Saddle Rager's powers, meaning their take was out of play for the fight. In my opinion she should've been at maximum angry to escape." Alfreda looked at the machine before an idea struggled to from in his technical two month and some change fresh head. "Hold on, can this thing be used to transfer abilities instead of just stealing them?" "I think so, why?" "Awesome! Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "I think so, but aren't you not allowed at the Zoo anymore?" "No not the thing with the tutu, and who told you about Bert? I mean I may have found the solution to my problem." Alfreda walked out of the basement with the confident smile as he looked up at the storm clouds. "I have learned I cannot be hurt from Lather when she brought me down some food after a week in that basement, I think I trade it with someone else's powers. If you can hear me now Faust, send me a sign if I should do it." It began to rain. "I'll take that as a yes! So if you could please, turn the rainwater into wine! For today belongs to Alfreda 'Quarter Spine'- " Alfreda didn't finish as he moved back as to not be hit by a passing car. "That was close." Alfreda held he mouth open expecting the rainwater to become wine, but was only rewarded with a lightning bolt to the mouth shocking his whole body. "Ouchie." Was all Alfreda said he he laid on the ground smoldering. Zapp patrolled across the city, bored as there was barely any crime that took long to take care of. She stopped near an alleyway when she heard something. "Hey, you cool?" "Heck yeah, I'm the coolest pony in all of Equestria." Zapp said walking in. She looked around not seeing anyone until someone came behind her and covered her mouth with a rag of chloroform knocking her out. "Weather Manipulation for Healing? That sounds better already." Alfreda said dragging her away. Alfreda made sure Zapp's bonds were tight even if she was unconscious, then looked over to Matt. "Is everything in place?" "All good to go." Matt replied. "All right. Hello to personal snow days in three... two-Gah! Scratch that, I need to launch an butt to toilet missile, wait until I get back on the platform." Alfreda then walked away to the bathroom while Matt grabbed a magazine featuring the Mane-iac not noticing Saddle Rager flying in on the platform. "Alfreda? Man you go mad quick." Matt noted before turning on the machine, switching Saddle Rager's powers with Zapp's and vice versa. Matt looked up from his magazine and panicking, his Saddle Rager with a concussion blast from a gun he was working on. Alfreda came into the room hearing something. "Matt what the heck I'm not even in the room yet." Alfreda stop noticed Matt standing with his rifle ready. "Matt, you didn't turn on the machine right?" "I thought you were on it." Matt replied. "Wait a minute, if Zapp's tied up, and we're the only ones here, then the hell's was on the platform?" Alfreda before looking over Matt seeing the unconscious Saddle Rager then grabbing the gun angry. "MATT! What the heck!? I can clearly see she wasn't provoked, and I could've gotten two powers for one." "You're not the kind of guy to get angry." Matt noted, neither Wirewolves noticing Zapp beginning to wake up groggily. "wha?" Zapp groaned out groggily before she saw a smoking Saddle Rager with alfreda standing over her. "Uh oh." "What did you DO?!" Alfreda threw the gun back to Matt as he began to back away. "It was in self defense and he did it!" "You coward!" Matt yelled. "Well it's true!" Zapp was ready to pounce when her head started to hurt extremely. She saw herself in a nearby mirror, her beginning to glow red with anger. "I'm going to be the first to crap myself while I die slowly." Matt said. "Too late, I beat you too it." Alfreda replied terrified. Zapp then began growl as she grew, her muscles thickening as parts of her costume ripping during the transformation. The sound of cracking bones filled the air as her coat color deepened slightly and her wings grew bigger, different from Saddle Rager's. Finally her necklace with the pendent on it snapped falling to the ground near Saddle Rager. She stood over Alfreda and Matt, now the size of Saddle Rager, if not much bigger, as she let out a roar of pure rage, roughly translating in any language to, "You're about to die." "Super run away!" Alfreda yelled before he ran for the window followed by Matt. Alfreda fell a few feet before he landed on his feet on the ground below. "Huh, so that's why I'm called Catman, I just thought they were being insensitive about my species." Alfreda noted before Matt landed in a dumpster behind him. He heard a rumble before Zapp bursted through the wall next to him and looked at him, a want for his death in her eyes. "Save us Catman!" Matt yelled before Alfreda slammed the lid on him. "Save yourselves!" He yelled before running away. Alfreda ran as fast as his legs would allow him to go, his motivation coming from the stomps of Zapp. As Alfreda turned a corner, something clicked in his head. Since Saddle Rager's wings stayed the same, it would most likely be impossible for her to fly. Alfreda deployed his wings and flew up out of Zapp's range to grab. "I won't be able to get you on the ground, but these are the skies, the domain of those who can do it." Alfreda gloated with a laugh before a huge flap caught his attention. He looked and saw Zapp with a smile on her face as her huge wings kept her up. "Correction, the skies, my domain." Zapp corrected, scaring Alfreda as her voice was deep. Alfreda made what was possibly the dumbest mistake in his life, and tried to punch Zapp only for her to grab his arm with her tail. "Please don't break my arm." "No." Zapp snapped her tail breaking his arm earning a scream of pain from him. Some henchponies were relaxing at a cafe as Mane-iac was locked up in Balkham Asylum so they technically had a week or so off, depending on how long it took her escape. Lather was simply enjoying her latte in peace while some henchstallions were enjoying some wine. "Come on Lather, lighten up and get with the times." Prell asked her. "No thanks, I got that out of my system back when the original Power Ponies were around." Lather noted before Alfreda ran by the cafe, his left arm broken in three places and one of his wings sticking out crooked as he screamed. The other henchponies minus Lather simply shrugged it off, until Zapp, bigger then the size of Saddle Rager ran by them chasing Alfreda. Prell looked at the other henchponies and they all thought the same thing then threw the wine bottles they had to the floor. Lather simply groaned before lighting her horn and vanishing in a teleport. Zapp scanned the docks around her, knowing Alfreda had ran into this area, then sniffed the air, grinning as she had caught his scent: fear drenched in lot and lots of urine. Zapp made a jump across them and looked at a nearby shipping container, she tore a piece of it off, finding a bunch of wirewolf shells covered in Alfreda's urine. 'Smartass.' Zapp thought to herself before she heard something crash. "Son of a bitch!" A familiar voice said, prompting her to(All though almost impossible to) sneak to behind a corner and peak seeing Alfreda covered in traffic cones from another shipping container before he ran off. With a plan forming in her head, she smiled and took a flap of her wings alerting Alfreda slightly. Alfreda looked behind him from hearing a flap but then turned back and began to speed walk afraid. He heard another whoosh and began to sprint until he heard a series of rapid whooshes and looked in front of him. "Protect me cone!" He yelled as Zapp rammed into him, slamming through several shipping containers until they both hit and tore into a freighter. Alfreda pulled himself out of some shrapnel and began to run to the hole. Zapp almost pulled him back with her tail but thinking on his feet he cut the hair and jumped out and rolled surprised to find Lather there. "Lather what're-" "Shut up and duck." Lather simply said before firing a rocket launcher at the freighter, hitting it's fuel lines and blowing the whole thing up, the shock wave caused a craned to swing around hitting him into the water. Alfreda rushed to the surface and kept himself afloat before turning to Lather. "How'd you find me?" "Not hard to follow a trail of holes left by her, as well as the long yellow puddle in the middle. Speaking of which what exactly happened to her?" "Matt was an idiot so naturally he accidentally switched her powers with Saddle Rager's. I wanted to switch my Healing factor with Zapp's powers, you see what happens when I have idiots help me in crucial stuff." "You do realize Zapp's powers come from her pendent, and only the worthy, which you are far from, can wield it?" "Oh come on! I wasted hours fixing that dumb machine just to find out my plan meant jack squat?!" Alfreda yelled, not noticing the large rainbow mane move through the water like a shark fin behind him before sinking. Lather began to stutter as she saw the mane and pointed at it, but no words came out of her mouth. "Knock it off, I've seen your Shemp, it was only funny the first time." The mane moved through the water again but closer to him. "Okay what feels like Jaws?" Alfreda looked behind him right in time before Zapp to rise up with a smirk. Alfreda made his best Curly impression as he tried to swim away only for Zapp to grab him then pull him under. Matterhorn looked around the flaming docks where she could as Filli-Second ran next to her. "Find her yet?" "No. I don't understand, how is it this hard to find a pony that size?" Matterhorn asked as Alfreda zoomed past them like a skipping stone and smashed into some shipping containers. "I can do this all day." Alfreda said slurry. "You can crush me but you can't crush my spirit." A shipping container fell then crushed Alfreda where he stood. "AHH MY SPIRIT!" Alfreda yelled before the shipping container was lifted by Lather with her magic and pulled Alfreda out then running away. Zapp rammed through some other containers running for them until Marevelous' lasso wrapped around her neck and pulled her back. "Easy Zapp, don't make us hurt you." She asked. "Get off!" Zapp yelled swinging her head around throwing Marevelous into a shipping container. Applejack got up shaking it off as Zapp charged at her only for some purple chain constructs from Radiance to wrap around her legs causing her to fall down. "Matterhorn has she said anything to you over the link?" "I tried talking to her but I couldn't hear myself over her." "What'd she say?" "Rage. Just rage, and lots of profanity,like an unnecessary amount, especially for Alfreda and Marevelous." "Zapp smash!" Zapp roared slamming herself into the ground cracking the chains causing Radiance to sweat as she put more energy into the construct before Zapp pulled with all her might shattering it with little to no effort. Angry with how they tried to chain her, Zapp charged at Radiance and Matterhorn before a lightning bolt hit her causing her to stumble and stop. She looked at her back seeing the scorch mark which began to heal as she grew angrier before looking up trying to see whoever struck her, surprised seeing Saddle Rager with Zapp's pendent around her neck. "Zapp! You stop this rampage right now! You should be ashamed of yourself causing all this destruction over a simple misunderstanding." Zapp began to cower slightly, beginning to shrink as Saddle Rager gave her an intense stare as she flew in front of her face. "Just because you have my powers doesn't mean you're special. That's good for me though because that means I can reprimand you without changing! You stay right there because you have a lot of time to think about what you've done." Zapp was back to normal, hiding her face with her wings as Saddle Rager huffed before calming herself down. "Saddles that was awesome!" Filli-Second yelled excitingly. "Good job, as soon as she's done cowering like that let's try to find Alfreda." "What'd you say?!" Zapp yelled before Radiance created a cage construct around her. Alfreda laid in the hospital bed, several Iron lungs attached together and onto his body, only his right arm, which was in a cast, and his head were visible. Matt and Lather stood by him as the doctor walked in. "Well guys I got good news and bad news and good news. Good news is he survived. Bad news is that that Iron Lung is the only thing that's keeping him alive. The good news after that is I still get paid from him being hooked up to those." The doctor told Alfreda with a chuckle at the end. "I'll leave you and your friends to figure out what's next." The doctor then left leaving the three of them in the room. "So what now?" Matt asked. "Well we ned to figure out how to solve this Zapp Rager problem. So time to wake up the only guy that knows how." Lather said before taking out a taser and zapping Alfreda in the nostrils with it. "PLEASE ZAPP NO I CAN'T AFFORD DRY CLEANING!!" Alfreda yelled waking up seeing the confused faces of both Matt and Lather about his choice of words. "You forget you heard that." "How do you fix this?" "Easy just switch her power back with Saddle Rager's. The key to it all is to attach the sparkplug it needs to work. Luckily I grabbed it from the machine before I ran. It's amazing how sturdy it is." Alfreda said earning a deadpan from both Lather and Matt. "What?" Saddle Rager escorted Zapp to her desk, both of them out of costume wanting to stay incognito, Saddle Rager making sure no one was going to anger her. "You don't need to be here Fluttershy, I can do this myself." "No Rainbow Dash, you be calm now, but getting my powers made you more volatile, and we can't risk you changing while you're in public out of costume." "Fine, anger management seems like too much but if it'll make you feel better sure. Also I'm sorry I lost control, I just felt so intoxicated from that strength all I thought about was getting Alfreda for what he did." "I know that feeling way too well to let it get you too Rainbow." "So you admit you like throttling him?" Rainbow said, her eyes sly. "What? N-no I was just trying to empathize with you on my powers-" "All right shut up, your teachers here!" A voice said interrupting Fluttershy as a Wirewolf walked in drinking a bottle of cider sitting at the desk up front facing the room. "Terry? You know the teacher sits there." "Duh. I am the teacher." "You? When you can't even control your cider problem?" Dash complained her eyes a tinge pink. "Hey I can quit anytime I want, I chose not to, now shut it, it's Anger Management not a CA meeting. Seems appropriate that you're here." Rainbow clenched her jaw as she growled. "I'll give you a reason I'm here..." "Okay let us begin, I am your teacher for Anger Management, Terry Tearing-Limbs R~odriguez. You're all here for several reasons, some of you came on your own accord which is pure bull. Others have done something which caused them to have to come here to find out why they're full of rage. To find out how to uncover that we must first ask what is rage? Rage is just like cider, when aged to a certain point, it can have a long lasting effect on you, and may bring out emotions that you've never known you had but kept suppressed." Terry then downed the rest of the bottle his body and shuddered as he put it in the trash. "Hey Cider Vacuum what the hell does that mean?" A mare in the back asked. "Huh?" Terry asked slurry. "Oh yeah it means the first step to solving anger is not drinking." "Yeah I don't buy it." "If I wanted to see an idiot drink cider, I'd have gone to the Cider Drinking class." "The drinking of Cider is much like your rage." Tirek said gesturing to the bottle he held. "Just drink the cider ya pansy!" Kul'as yelled agitated. Rainbow walked into the room with the others Fluttershy escorting her. "So how'd the class go?" Applejack asked. "What'd you think?" Dash asked annoyed. "It was pointless. Especially with Terry being the idiot to teach it." "Whoa calm down, he can be dumb but there's no need to go there." Spike replied. "Stay out of this!" Dash shouted at him. "Alright you two no need to all worked up." Applejack said as she gently nudged Dash away from Spike. "Stay out of this AJ before kick you flank all the way to Washingtrot!" "Them's fightin' words Dash. Ya'll hunker down before ya do something you'll regret." "Oh I'll regret?" Dash yelled as her eyes glowed red with rage. "You're the one who's gonna regret this!" Dash's body began to grow in size as her strength multiplied. When her transformation was complete she let a menacing snarl escape her lips which caused AJ to back up nervously. "Good going Applejack." Spike said sarcasticly. "Now we're both screwed." Fluttershy flew up to behind Dash's ear where she scratched at it while talking to her. "Calm down Rainbow Dash, we're all friends here, there's no need to get mad, we're all trying to find a way to fix this." Dash began to shrink as she calmed down until she was back at her normal height. "Really that's it?" Spike asked. "That's all it took to calm you down?" "Would you rather I get pissed off again?" Rainbow asked as her eyes flashed red once more causing Spike to turn tail and run away hinding behidn Twilight. "That's what I thought. Thanks for keeping me in check Fluttershy." "Oh of course Dashie. It would be just awful to see you hurt our friends. I know you don't mean the things you say." Fluttershy said smiling. "Actually I do mean most of the things I say." "Like the mean things even?" Rainbow nodded. "Oh well um you would still feel bad for hurting your friends when you get mad right?" "Not really. If I pound them they probably deserve it." A transmission broke through the mane computer as Lather appeared on it. "Hey, Zapp, you there, I have a deal for you. I know you guys took the power siphoner, but we have the key piece it needs to work. Come over to Mane cool as a cucumber and this won't end bad." "That's not how you make them come." Matt said as he bumped Lather"Hey, I'm betting you're too chicken to come over here and face Alfreda by yourself or you can keep your new powers for good." Matt then hung up the transmission. Alfreda's eye twitched uncontrollably as he spoke. "Matt come here." Matt obliged coming closer allowing Alfreda to use his free hand to strangle Matt. "YOU'RE DEAD! IF I'M GONNA DIE YOU'RE DEAD FIRST YOU EMPTY HEADED CAN OPENER!" Lather separated the two before Alfreda could finish the job and calmed him down. "Easy Alfreda, she's probably not gonna take it seriously." The Power Ponies simply stood there staring at the static before Pinkie came back to her senses first. "So are we gonna got in peacefully and just talk to them or is Dashie really gonna go hooves punching?" Everyone looked over at Dash before her eyes began to glow red as she began to smile evilly. "I'm going to enjoy pummeling him way more then I should." Dash said jumping through the nearby window as she began to transform running in towards Mane Street. Lather rolled Alfreda's bed, Iron Lung and everything down the street as Matt ate a fancy dinner that was on a food cart attached to it, sitting in a chair he attached to it as well. "So we just need to get you back to Mane-iac's place and we can put this behind us when we attract." Lather explained before a rumbling shook the ground. "ALFREDAAAAAAAAAA!!!" A familiar voice shouted deepening. "Welp that's our cue to leave you Alfreda." Lather said as Matt finished the drink. "But Matt ate my hospital food, which in this situation I consider my last meal." Alfreda pointed out. "Well look at it this way, if that's being the worst thing to happen to you today consider yourself lucky." Lather said seeing Zapp running at them. "Do they really allow to leave a guy in my condition to be executed like this?!" Alfreda yelled. "From this point on we're out of here." Matt said before running away along with Lather. Alfreda tried to stare Zapp down, until he saw the ocean of rage within her eyes and grabbed the remote his his intact hand turn around and drove away. Alfreda screamed as he drove away but then he saw he was still ahead of Zapp. "I'm gonna live. I'M GONNA LIVE!!" Alfreda yelled in happiness as he rolled away until he felt a shadow over him and saw behind him Zapp was using her wings to get right behind him. Alfreda saw a ramp ahead of him and moved for it Zapp following. Alfreda cheered as he flew over the ramp. Only for him to crash on the other side and was rammed into by Zapp, tearing off some of his Iron Lung before she punched him into the ground repeatedly. "I surrender! Mercy! Uncle! I call all the relatives!" Zapp grabbed his and lifted him up to her eyes. "You taunted me and you expect mercy?" "That was my idiot friend! I want nothing to do with him." Zapp dropped him to which he got up, realizing his legs were healed. "3 minute headstart." "Really? A sporting chance?" Alfreda asked touched. "Two minute." Alfreda ran as fast as he legs carried him, much faster this time what with them being newly healed, and quickly ran into the construction site. Zapp crashed through a wall looking at him. "Cramped space, bad idea." "That's the thing, it's scheduled to be blown up right about..." Alfreda said before the whole building was encompassed in a huge explosion. A few of the henchponies were gathered around drinking as they mourned in loss of Alfreda. "Won't be the same around here without Alfreda here." Matt said mournfully. "I feel like he'll always be here watching us." Lather agreed. "Hey guys what's going on?" Alfreda asked them causing them to panic as they saw him. "Alfreda?! We thought you were dead." Lather yelled. "You sound like the construction worker that spotted me, I heard something move through the rubble, figured that was Zapp, and so I decided to dig my way out in the opposite direction, I ended up landed next to a dump truck then took the bus down here. So what happened while I napped?" "They switched Zapp's powers back, so you know that's sort of good." "Well great, I think I'm like 3 months old from when I was built and I already have 3 enemies that left scars on me." "3? Who else's powers did you switch with Saddle Rager's?" "Oh no, no one like that, I'm not that stupid. It was a whole other Sea-World centered but unrelated incident. I'd like to not talk about what transpired. I've been so busy with the basement I haven't tried other crimes besides burglary and ponynapping. I'm going to give grave robbing a try. And also doing this." Alfreda grabbed a shovel off the floor, smacked Matt senseless upside his head with it, and walked away with a burlap sack in hand. "That was for wasting my day." "Sis get the first aid kit ready." Lather sighed. Alfreda crawled out of the grave dusting himself off looking at his loot. "Wow this night turned out better then I thought, all this loot and no guards." Alfreda went into the next grave, odd at how the dirt looked freshly dug and found a massively coffin. "Oh I hit the motherload." Alfreda gloated happily opening the coffin only to find a smug Zapp waiting for him. "Knew you'd survive. We still have unfinished business." Zapp said. "Up yours!" Alfreda yelled then threw dust in Zapp's eyes and slammed the coffin shut as he pushed the pile of dirt back onto the pile, running like the wind. 'Huh, this coward running stuff actually isn't half bad. It feels so right.' Author's Note Oh Alfreda is going to get more used to running then he knows. The idea of Rainbow Rage came to me while i watched the episode again and thought about Tanks for Nothing, I felt it went hand in hand and this chapter was born out of it. I'm letting you know now, there's about four chapters left after this one.