Pandemonium Angels - 1st Saga

The Heroes have finally reached the top of Diamond Dog Cave.

"Is this it?" Leo asked.

"No doubt" Rarity responded.

"There's no front door or anything?"

"Think of this as a shortcut darling"

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Rainbow Dash says as she flies into one of the holes the Diamond Dogs left open.

CLANG!

They all cringe as it sounds painful. Fluttershy rushes over to Rainbow Dash. "Are you OK?"

The blue Pegasus pulls her face off from the object. "What the hay?!" She sees it's a metal cover. "Do you think they remember us?"

"Wait! There's more holes over there!" Pinkie Pointed.

They all uncover the other holes and they get the same result, metal coverings. "No doubt, they remember us" Rarity says.

Then suddenly, they feel the ground rumbling, they feel it's stronger where they are standing. They take 6 steps back, then a steampunkish lift arises from the ground in the middle of all the other holes. The doors open and dozens of diamond dog guards steps out and surrounds them, pointing spears at them. "The pretty ponies have come back to mine for gems!" one of the dogs says.

"There's too many of them!" Twilight says.

"What will we do now?" Fluttershy feared.

Leo lowers one of their spears casually. "Excuse me, we're looking for a shiny red gem and a young girl named Sweetie Belle. So if you just kindly-

He's interrupted by the dog pointing his spear at Leo's neck.

Leo sighs. "We don't need our weapons for this, right guys?"

"Nope"

"Nah"

"I don't know-

"Just as I thought" Leo says. He executes a somersault, kicking the spear out of his grasp. The dog looks up at the spear in the air, then he looks back at Leo, only to see a fist coming at him, smashing his face in with teeth flying, his helmet coming off, sending him flying into a wall. The Mane 6 were surprised how powerful that punch was. Sypher cracks his neck, Trent cracks his knuckles with a grin and Rush gulps.

One of the dogs tries to stab Sypher, though he dodges it, grabs the dog's head and slams his face into the ground. Trent headbutts one in the face, then one dog grabs him from behind, then back headbutts him and throws him over his shoulder. Rush is trying his best not to attack any of them, trying to dodge and avoid every attack they throw at him, 2 dogs coming from left and right and he ducks, causing them to crash into each other. Rush crawls away only to look up to see a dog ready to impale him.

"What in the hay am ah'm doin'? Let me join the fun!" Applejack exclaimed as she jumps in and bucks the dog away from Rush into the air.

"That does look like fun!" Rainbow Dash says as she flies towards the airborne dog and bucks him to the ground.

Then the whole battle turns into a fight cloud.

"WHEEEE! Pinkie says as she jumps into the cloud.

Rush crawls over to the others watching. He then lies on his back, catching his breath.

The cloud gets even more intense with helmets armor and spears flying all over the place. Then the cloud deceases with all the diamond dogs knocked out.

"You guys get paid for doing stuff like this?! That's so awesome!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"Meh it gets mediocre sometimes" Trent said, brushing off the dirt from his shoulders.

"Mediocre?" Applejack questioned. "If's that mediocre, then ah aint Applejack!"

"That was so much fun! I've never been in a fight before! Except when I was a filly, I kept arguing with my sisters, but never a fight that involves hitting! Pinkie says, bouncing up and down.

They all head into the elevator. But there seems to be a problem...they can't figure out how to operate it. "Now what?" Sypher says annoyed.

"I've got it!" Trent says.

The other 3 angels were shocked that Trent had came up with an idea.

"What is it then?" Leo asked.

The most brilliant thing Trent can come up was the most epic idea of all...he hits it a couple of times and kicks it a few. "Well that's all I got"

"...I knew it was too good to be true" Sypher says as he knocks him upside the head.

"Ow!"

"Maybe one of these mutts know" Sypher says as he picks up one of the somewhat conscious dogs by the ears. "How do we use the lift?"

"W-where am I?"

"I said, how do we use the lift?"

"Please don't hurt me!"

"I will if you don't-

"Excuse me, Mr.Heinlen? Can I talk to him? If that's OK with you" Fluttershy nicely asked.

"Knock yourself out" he says as he drops the dog.

"It's OK" she says as she hugs the dog. "All you have to do is tell us how to use the lift, OK?"

The dog hands her a remote with gems for buttons.

"Thank you doggy" Then she instantly headbutts him, knocking him out. "yay"

The other ponies stare at Fluttershy's sudden aggressive force.

"I'm sorry, they were all doing the same thing, and I didn't want to feel left out"

"D'awww!" Leo and Rush says to each other.

They step back into the lift and Fluttershy hands the remote to Sypher. He presses the down arrow button and the lift shakes a little, then it descends into the ground.

"This cave is very different from last time" Rarity said.

"How?" Applejack responded.

"The walls are all glowy-like and...blue" She looks over the railing. "And...steeper"

"Leo?" Twilight finally spoke up.

"What up?" he responded.

"That stuff you did back there, is that what you really get paid for? Killing things?

"Huh?!" Leo said dumbfounded. He thought about it for a second. "I'll be brutally honest, sometimes yes and sometimes no. I don't like killing. I'll beat the living snot out of them. Like I said before, we get paid for rescues, assisting others and destroying things. We do have a wanted board, sorted by who needs to taken in and what needs to be taken out. For someone that needs to be taken in, Killing is optional, but it's a HUGE pay deduction. The only time we'll silence someone or something is when the matter gets more worse and devastating. Besides, we didn't kill those dogs. I would  NEVER kill a dog, no matter how ugly it is"

"And that makes me respect you even more!" Rush exclaims as he hugs him. "Even though when I first met you I gave you my undying gratitude of respect!"

The others except Sypher, d'awww at Rush hugging Leo.

"Get off of me!" He growls at Rush.

The lift finally stops at the bottom of the cave and they all step out. Then suddenly, they hear a scream, it came from Rarity.

"What is it?!"

"All this dust and these pebbles are messing up my coat!"

"..."

"What?!"

They all resume walking towards the long narrow path that could be, where they hope, Sweetie Belle may be, as Sypher mumbles something that catches Rarity's attention.

"Excuse me, Mr.Heinlen?" she says suspiciously irritated.

"What?" he responds coldly.

"Is there anything you like to say to me?"

"Sure I'll say it again" He clears his throat. "You are such a drama queen"

She gasps. "Do you have anything against drama queens?"

"Well I hate drama, and I hate queens"

"Are you intending that you hate me?"

"No, I don't hate you. I haven't known you long enough to decide that"

"Well who are you to judge who to hate?"

"I don't need to answer that"

"Then if I'm such a drama queen, you're such a child"

"Child?" He pulls out a small canteen from his pocket and drinks it.

"What's in there?"

"Wine"

"Wine?! Aren't you a little young to be drinking?"

"I'm 21, I'm legal"

"If you're that age, then you shouldn't be this rude. Most ponies I've met at that age have positive manners!"

"Well I'm not a pony and if I was, I wouldn't have the manners you'll be looking for. What do you want from me?!"

"An apology, then I'll leave you alone"

He sighs "...sorry"

"You see? was that so hard? After all-

"You said you'll leave me alone"

'Why don't you like me?"

"I said I don't hate you" He walks on ahead from her.

"What does that mean?!"

Rush catches up to Rarity. "Um, that's how he is. That's as close as a compliment you'll get from him. Besides, when he says "I don't hate you", to him that usually means he likes you.

"Oh! Well I feel a little better. Thank you Mr. Skyheart"

"Why are you grumpy Mr. grumpy lumpy pants?" Pinkie says bouncing around him.

"Because I choose to be"

"Well I chose to be happy and full of sunshine!"

He stops her bouncing by grabbing her neck and placing her down gently. "Good for you"

"And you guys are friends with him?" Twilight questioned.

"Of course" Trent answered. "but he's not angry"

"How is he not angry? Just look at his face!"

"He's been angry for so long, he decided to keep that as his normal look. Also, there's 3 levels he has of his anger. Excluding him being calm of course, there's angry, mad and finally, pissed off. Pissed off is a level that you should really try not to push him towards"

"We'll keep that in mind" She says nervously.

They reach the end of the cave to discover a metal door.

"This has to be it" Rarity said.

One of them knocks on the door. Couple seconds later, a slider on the door opens, showing a small dog looking through. 'What is it?!"

'Hello" Leo says. "Do you have a young filly hostage?"

Long pause "No!"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. There is nopony here named Sweetie Belle"

"Funny...I didn't say Sweetie Belle"

"..." He closes the slide door.

They hear voices on the other side.

"Who was that?"

"It's those ponies! and four tall things!"

"What did you tell them?"

"I told them there's no one here named Sweetie Belle"

"You fool! Well are they still here?"

"Let me check" He opens the slider door and he sees they are angry. He closes it again. "Yes there are!"

5 seconds pass.

"Check again"

He opens the slider and their even more angrier, then he closes it again and nods to the diamond dog.

5 more seconds pass.

"Check again!"

He opens the slider and now their terrifyingly more angrier and closes the slider.

"Check again!"

He opens the slider and gets poked in the eyes by fingers.

"My eyes!!"

Now the diamond dog hears voices from the other side.

"God, this is taking forever!" Sypher yells.

"Don't worry, I've got this" Trent says as he raises his foot.

Then suddenly he kicks the door, not busting it down, instead it leaves a small dent on the door.

"That's really sad" Sypher says shaking his head.

Applejack bucks down the door off the hinges flattening the diamond dog, Spot. They see Sweetie Belle shackled to the throne.

"Aww great, it's the white one!" The Diamond Dog leader, Rover said.

"Rarity!" Sweetie Belle exclaims.

"Thank goodness you're alright! Rarity exclaims as well.

"What purpose could you possibly have with a filly?" Twilight asked.

"We overheard this little pony is Rarity's sister. And that must mean she posses the same gem finding ability as she does. So we took her to find these gems for us" He holds up a red glowing gem.

"Wait! That's a glaia! Rush points out.

"The berserk gem!"Sypher shouts.

"Alright, hand over the kid and the gem and we won't kick your ass twice as hard!" Leo demanded.

"That sounds painful, but instead...FIDO...SPOT!"

Spot crawls from under the metal door and un-flattens himself and runs to the left and stands next to Rover. The 3rd Diamond Dog, Fido, drops from the giant hole in the ceiling that's the size of a tank and lands to the right of Rover. "Is it ready Fido?" "Yes" "Behold!" A giant yellow and brown object falls in front of the heroes and on top of the 3 diamond dogs, covering the room with rock dust and smoke. When the dust and smoke fades away, the room reveals a a giant robotic dog with 3 of the dogs in 3 separate tubes. Fido on the left shoulder, Spot on the right shoulder and Rover on the head. "The Dog Walker!!! We were planning on testing this thing on everfree forest, but you ponies and you tall freaks will do!"

The 4 angels reach out their arms and channels their energy though their weapons. Leo's giga blade (Fremere's Guard), Rush's red feathered sword (Red Wing), Trent's dual monkey king staffs (Gift of the Gods) and Sypher's dual pistols (Stainless M1911 sidearms).

"Sypher? I thought you went for blades" Leo asked.

"I did, then I got bored and enjoyed shooting stuff so I switched to these things"

"Alright then...Let's go ange-"

"Whoa! Weapons?! That won't be necessary boys. Let me handle this." Rarity says as she walks up to the robotic dog. In a whiny voice, "GIVE ME BACK MY SISTER, THAT'S AN UGLY COLOR FOR A ROBOT!"

"These whine-proof tubes work! You can tell because the black haired one is losing his mind! Now let's test out the flame thrower!" The dog's face comes close to breathe the fire, Sypher immediately jumps and grabs Rarity before she was burnt to a crisp, rolling over to the side.

"You saved me Sypher... you do like me"

"Shut up" Sypher drops her.

The dog walker raises it's paw and tries to slam the other 3 angels and they jump out of the way. Sypher fires multiple bullets at it's tail to weaken it but only manages to get 2 successful shots and gets smacked by the tail, sending him into a wall.

"Sypher!" Leo shouts.

"Keep your pants on Leo!" He falls off the wall and lands on his feet. "This thing needs to be put down"

Trent jumps into air with his pole to bash the tubes open but fails. The tubes are made of maxi-glass, causing Trent to shake from the impact. Rush dashes towards it, just to psyche it and run left to the back to cut off it's tail, but only chips it a little and jumps to dodges it's swing. Leo tries to cut it's legs off, but it jumps and tries to smash Leo into the ground with it's paw as Leo dodges it.

"HA! Is that all you-" He gets smacked by it's tail and goes flying into a wall. The machine picks him and brings him to the front of the face of the walker.

"Please! Just because you're some other species, doesn't make you any tougher than a diamond dog!" Rover taunted.

Twilight ponders for a moment. "Wait why are you guys trying so hard to cut off it's tail?"

"Do any of you have a dog?" Sypher asked.

"I do!" Applejack exclaimed "Her name's Winona. she'll lick the color off anypony new.

"Anyway what's what your point?"

"Have you ever noticed that a dog gets excited-"

"When they wag their tail! I see! I've got this!" Twilight says as her horn glows. She runs towards the tail and dodges it's swings, up and down. Just she was about to focus her energy on the tail, she gets smacked by a paw and recovers in the air and lands on her hooves. "Well that's not happening anytime soon"

"Wait! What's that blue thing on it's nose?" Fluttershy points out.

"I think that's what's keeping it together" Applejack said.

"I doubt that would be easy" Sypher says. "It's too damn quick"

"What we need is -

"A distraction!" Twilight realized. "You guys distract it while I charge up a spell to sustain it and give it all you guys got!"

And they did, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash did what they can to distract it. They said funny stuff, called it names and other tauntful stuff.

"I'VE GOT IT!" Twilight shouts as she uses her magic to sustain the giant robotic creature

"What's happening?!" Rover says. "Fido you said this thing was ready!"

"It was working fine this morning!" Fido says. "I can't control my side!"

"And I can't control mine's either! Spot says.

"That's our cue guys!" Leo exclaims.

Rush slices off the tail off, Sypher shoots the arm until it's weak and kicks the arm off from the body that held Leo and Trent sweeps it legs with his pole. Leo lands on the ground and stares at the dog walker's face.

"Go for the blue nose!" Pinkie shouted.

"Leo! Use your blade!"

"No...It's too easy" He drops his blade and clenches his right fist hard. "With the burning soul of my brother living inside my own, please give me strength!" He charges towards the blue nose with a shining fist and pounds the blue nose rapidly and finally ends it with a dramatic punch, that malfunctions the whole robot. The 3 diamond dogs opens the tubes and jumps out. The Dog Walker bursts in flames and explodes. Smoke filling the room and scrap metal flying everywhere.

"OUR MACHINE!!!!"

"Note to self: Never expose the core of a machine"

As the smoke fades away, Sypher spots the gem and picks it up. "Got it" he says as he grins.

"Sypher did you just smile?" Rush asked.

"No I grinned, big difference"

"Riiiiiiight" Leo says as he fixes his knuckle and picks up his blade and slashes off the chains Sweetie Belle had on her leg.

Rarity runs over to Sweetie Belle and hugs her. "Oh! Thank goodness nothing bad to you!"

The 4 angel's weapons fade away in their hands.

"These mean dogs made me dig for gems with no breaks" Sweetie Belle says still a little shaken.

"No breaks?!" Rarity shouts. " You run along with the others Sweetie, I have something that needs to be done" She turns to the diamond dogs.

"Sypher, are you coming or what" Trent questioned.

"No yet" He also turns to the 3 diamond dogs crawling away. "Where are you guys going?" He cracks his knuckles. "You guys smacked me with your robot's tail. So..."

"We're not done yet" Rarity says as her horn glows.

"We are sorry Rarity, I MEAN, miss Rarity! Uh...Tall guy! We are also sorry-

"Sorry or not, you're dead"

They corner them and as the others walk back to the lift and they hear punching, kicking and screaming.

(Author's Note) Chapter Epilogue coming. I know haven't put too much detail into some of the parts here. I'm going through some things right now. I welcome constructive criticism! Let me know any errors and I'll fix them!)