Year 11 of training

Betty was still working on the gun in between the usual training and just hanging out they did. Nothing much had happened besides them having honed their control enough to do jutsu instead of just spam giant waves of energy at their opponents.

Akumu and Betty were using shadow clones to help their control quicken, now that they could without making a dangerous amount. They remembered, one time, Betty had used it and had summoned more than she could handle, being knocked out for three days. It was too big to count.

Slowly, over the years, they managed to get to each able to bore a thousand clones at once, mostly due to two necklaces that gave them faster processing when worn. This made practicing their control a lot easier, but they still needed to do physical stuff themselves. Betty still was trying to work around that.

One time, Betty had tried to become a ‘gamer’. It didn’t really end good or bad.

Flashback…

“Hey Kumu, I think I got it!” Betty shouted to him. He walked over to her. As soon as he got there, a being appeared. Her form was… indescribable, mostly due to author laziness.

“So, you're the little fearling that’s been trying to copy everyone's work.” A stern grandmotherly voice said. Inside her mind, Betty was panicking.

On the outside was very different. “S-s-so, you’re not mad, are you?” She timidly asked. The indescribable person hummed.

“No, I suppose not. If I were to do something to you, I’d have to get angry with the Random Omnipotent Beings that do the same. And they’re just not worth the trouble.” Gaia said. “Though I must admit, you are adorable,” She said, pinching the fearlings cheek.

“S-s-so, you’re Gaia… t-that must be cool…” Betty said.

“Not really, considering most of the realities my mind actively sees are worlds with pollution I have to try and stop.” She said.

“Yeah, I-i’m, sorry about t-the p-past species of mine,” Betty said. Gaia giggled, patting her head before she had to go. “S-so, friends, or?”

“Sure.” Gaia said, vanishing. Akumu was trembling next to her. He had nightmares for a week.

Flashback End…

She occasionally came to visit, and even gave them some things. Mostly plants. One thing was a arc reactor, though she needed to figure out how to start it. She had shadow clones working on that. “I got the deagle working!” Betty screamed in, catching Akumus attention.

“Really?” He asked, coming over with a tilted head, a curious look on his face. Betty nodded, and pressed a button, making a gun range open up. Betty pointed the gun at the targets, firing… and missing, hitting the back wall and making a explosion happen. She needed to practice.

Akumu chuckled a little as Betty deadpanned at the missing chunk in the wall. She shrugged. “Welp, we know it works.” She said.

“So why’d it explode?” Akumu asked.

“I added some explosives rounds.” Betty said. “It can shoot normal bullets too… should have probably started with those…” Betty mumbled. “You want one?”

“You already made me one didn’t you?” Akumu asked in a deadpan.

“Noo… I made two for me.” Betty said with a giggle. Akumu rolled his eyes and held his hand out. She sheepishly rubbed the back of her head, handing him one.

The last year…

They had been training like crazy. Due to the sheer amount, they wouldn’t have near perfect control for decades, but they had decent enough control to pull off most attacks Betty could think of. They’d never be able to use the low-end powered moves though.

They were in 4,000 times gravity, and had weights, moving at normal speeds. The two trained for a few hours, before stopping each day to rest and just hang out. This was pretty much all that happened in the last year.

Right now, it was the last day. “So, last day huh?” Betty said, sitting on the chambers steps. I just fucking said that Betty.

“Yeah… I’ll miss momma-chamber,” Akumu said. He was a bit sad looking, having gotten closer to the hologram than Betty. It had also became self aware.

“Yeah, I’ll miss her too, but we can always come back.” Betty replied. She’d miss her too, and was nearly as close, but Akumu was always more emotional. Maybe the SOULs gave him more emotion now that he had a body.

The hologram and Gaia appeared then. “Goodbye, my children,” She said, hugging the two, them hugging back. She was a hard light hologram, but could only do that in short bursts.

“As long as you don’t intentionally harm any plants, I will protect you from the more damaging ones,” Gaia said. Her hand glowed, and the two did as well. Betty gave Gaia a hug, her closer due to interacting with Gaia more. She was the grandmother of the group.

“Let’s go, ‘bro’.” Betty said, giggling as Akumu nodded. They both left the chamber, not bothering to hide their power.

Canterlot…

Celestia, Luna, and the main Six were doing their training before the ritual, having wanted to master their current abilities before doing it. They all felt Betty and Akumus reappearance, and gasped, the mane six fainting and Luna and Celestia shivering in fear, barely staying up.

“H-how?!” Celestia said. “Luna, get the guard. We are doing the ritual NOW!”

Luna looked about to shit herself, but nodded shakily, running off to gather the guard even as Celestia set the mane six in their positions, writing an intricate network on the ground swiftly. Celestia connected the network to already drawn versions of it all across the city. Originally, it was going to be hundreds, but… this time she was sacrificing all of Canterlot. All ten thousand lives.

“Sister, the guards art in their positions,” Luna said, coming back in. Celestia nodded, and began the ritual.

Betty and Akumu POV…

“So, do you think we made Luna shit herself?” Betty asked. Akumu shrugged, before both gasped. They felt lives slowly going away, but then going faster and faster.

“She did it! She actually did it! That hypocrite!” Betty shouted. “Well, Akumu, I want to destroy a town.

Akumu shook his head. “No, Betty, they feel like they can… take us now. We should be discreet.” Akumu started massaging her shoulders, slowly calming her.

“Alright, I’ll send a shadow clone to somewhere to test how strong they’ve gotten.” Betty said. Akumu nodded, summoning his own, the two being exploding blood clones, more durable than Shadow clones, having the same properties of the exploding shadow clones, both the clones able to destroy a city block with their self detonation.

Author's Note

Black Night: It looks like the ponies and Betty's both got a power boost. Who will win? The fear couple, or the Pony Princesses and their lackeys. Find out sometime on Fear Takes Control!