Chapters A Fun House Mirror, Nice Clock, Only Ones Available, Ask A Stupid Question Queen of Hell, Pirates and Ninjas Meetings, Teaching, and Her. Arming Up Unfriendly Recruitment Drive and A New Friend Plans and Trolling Meetings, Crystals, and Tengu and The Pirate Bonus Chapter: Flash Drive vs... Six new Yokai, Mystery Girl, Prisoner, and Meanwhile in Equestria Chase, Meeting of the minds, and Psycho vs Ninjas Mean While At: The Mansion, Northern Spy's, In Equestria, And On The Side Of The Road Magic, Sisters, and Hosting the Colors View Online
The Furies: Vulpine Vexations
A Fun House Mirror, Nice Clock, Only Ones Available, Ask A Stupid Question
A Fun House Mirror, Nice Clock, Only Ones Available, Ask A Stupid Question
Tirek Lord was just leaving the Canterlot Spa when another large man in a suit entered. The two men eyed each other as they stood their. One had well groomed black hair and beard, the other had black wild unkempt beard and hair that had been shoved under the chauffeur's cap. One had smooth blood red skin while the other had rough red skin like a piece of hot iron in a black smiths forge. Intelligent black and yellow eyes appraising the dull yellow blood shot eyes of the other as they took stock of each other. Tirek's tailored black suit gave hints to the toned, well muscled body underneath, while the other large man's suit barely hid his strong yet overweight body.
Finally a feminine voice from behind the man said, "Relax Bobu, I doubt a refined gentleman like him would be interested in harming me. Just have a seat in one of those chairs over there until I am done." A beautiful Japanese woman wearing a little black dress and with long flowing white hair and gold skin said as she stepped around him. Bobu grunted as he sat down in the chair, which gave a groan from his weight. "I do apologies, Bobu can be a bit protective of me." She said as she held out her hand to Tirek. "I am Lady Duckweed."
"Tirek Lord." He said as he shook her hand. "I could not imagine why you would need protecting by someone as rough as him."
"Just a bit of family troubles at home with a younger sibling, but I am sure my people will be able to deal with her while I am here working on insuring our families prosperity." She said with a laugh and a bit of mischief in her eyes.
"Ah, I understand, both me and my younger brother are attorneys, but we use to often find ourselves at odds with each other in court until I moved to Canterlot and joined the current law firm I am with." Tirek agreed.
"Yes, siblings do often butt heads over how they think things should be done." She said. "It was a pleasure to meet you Mr. Lord."
"The pleasure was mine Lady Duckweed." He said as he left.
As soon as the door closed both Aloe and Lotus entered the waiting room. "Greetings Tamamo no Mae, our queen is waiting to meet you." Aloe said as she touched a full sized ornate mirror and it's surface rippled like water.
"But only you alone. Your guardian must wait here for your return." Lotus then said as she motioned Tamamo no Mae towards the mirror.
"I will return shortly Bobu." She said as she stepped through the mirror with the twins.
Upon the other side the twins took their true forms as succubus twins as their clothing turned to smoke and disappeared. Their wings grew out of their backs and their horn grew from their heads. Finally both of them grew long prehensile tails. Tamamo no Mae just watched them with an unimpressed look before looking around the altered version of the spa. On one wall was a woman nailed to the wall like a piece of art with burning spikes hammered into her shoulders, hands, and legs. Her mouth was sewn shut and they had ripped her guts out so they could replace them with a clock that caused her to try to moan in pain with every tick of the clock. "Love the clock." She finally said.
"Yes, Afternoon Delight here worked at a hospital as the receptionist, but she enjoyed sneaking away with some of the doctors to have a very thorough examination a little too much. There was a terrible crash and because they were one doctor short a mother and child died. Now normally that would have been a sign to stop, but several months later a train derailed and yet again they were short and eleven people who shouldn't have died, well died. You would think after losing her job at one hospital she would stay at her desk when hired by another hospital, but not our Delight here." Lotus said as she fondled the woman's breasts while Aloe nibbled on her ear.
"Instead of just waiting for her shift to end and letting the hunky single doctor take her home and bone her all night, She instead decided to slip away with him and two nurses just before one jumbo jet crashed onto the runway and into another jet. This time it cost 47 people their lives and she ended up committing suicide some time afterwards. So now she will always be at her post, doing her job, and any daemon who wants to can make her orgasm." Aloe said as the tip of her tail fucked Delight towards an orgasm. "The thing is every time she orgasms her pain increases ten fold for exactly one hour, a minute per life her lust cut short." With that Afternoon Delight came and then began screaming so loud in agony that she ripped the stitches out of her mouth.
"PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON ME! I CAN'T STAND IT! JUST MAKE IT STOP!" She screamed until Aloe shoved a gag in her mouth.
"Oh but we have shown you mercy." Lotus purred into her ear. "Do you know how many of the damned would beg for the mercy of a single moment of pleasure here in hell?"
"And here we give our favorite wall ornament the great honor and privilege of regular orgasms." Aloe purred in her other ear. "Maybe, dear sister, we can hold an orgy in honor of our guest. Presenting her our clock for her pleasure since her depravity is legendary as a way to put on a demonstration of one of the greatest artist of both pleasure and pain."
"Why yes, that would be wonderful." Lotus purred. "Did you know it is said she once stripped all the skin off a girl, covered her in salt, and then forced her to have over 1,000 orgasms before she died? Imagine what she can do with someone who can't die and whose pain only increases with each orgasm."
"We shall see, after my audience with Queen Lilith of course, but I am interested in seeing how many orgasms I could have gotten out of that priestess if she hadn't died." Tamamo no Mae said as her nine golden tails with pure white tips fanned out behind her and her gold fox ears with white tips replaced her human ears. Finally she smiled with her sharp fox teeth at the woman before saying. "Maybe I will even stop by for a quick bite before going back since your heart, throat, and breasts will just grow back in an hour. ~and if your real lucky I'll bring you off again while doing it.~" With that she followed the twins through the door and into the city of Pandemonium, enjoying the look of shear terror in the damned woman's eyes.
Aiko stood with Koemi as they waited as the Docks swarmed with Tamamo no Mae's followers disguised as busy dock workers. The word had spread fast that one of the Three Terrible was back and had a plan to return them to better than their former glory. Unfortunately that plan included blocking the two of them from leaving Japan. "We wouldn't be in this mess if you hadn't insisted on visiting her grave and returning that thing." Aiko whispered as they watched and waited.
"It was her star ball, her very soul was inside it and a dead Kitsune can't rest until it is returned." Koemi whispered back. "Besides she is my sister. All you know of her is her legend, but she was still loving and caring back when I practically followed her around and thought the world of her, at least she was until..."
"Until what?" Aiko asked.
"Until she lost everything but me." Koemi told her. "A human stole her mate's star ball and used him to help her rise to power and destroy everything that could oppose her, including our village. In the end Mae was forced to seek aid to stop them. Only one answered her call, but at a great price, for all the power she took from him she had to take the equivalent of his essence upon herself until she could pay him a set price of souls to be released. Before she did it she made sure I was safe by imprisoning me within the temple that Sonata freed me from."
"Your tale begs the question of who did she make the deal with?" A quiet voice asked as an elderly man with a katana stepped out of the shadows to join them.
"Toshi your late." Aiko said to the Mujina as his badger like features flicked over his face for a moment.
"I had to arrange our travel plans and gather a few mischievous helpers deal with a minor problem before accompanying us on our journey." Toshi said. "They really do hate Japan and practically jumped at the chance to finally leave, but having human forms that look like children meant trying to leave without an adult by normal means was impossible. Thankfully Grandfather Toshi will be accompanying them this time via calling in a few old favors, which I do believe should be arriving in a few moments."
In the bay a fog began to rise from the water and rolling in rapidly as the shape of a large ship could be seen outlined within it. As the fog rolled across the docks the wind began picking up as the giggling of little girls heard just before the first Oni fell down in the fog and was quickly followed by more and more Tengu, Oni, Hannya, and Nekomata's being knocked down by something in the unearthly fog that was unaffected by the wind. Eventually there weren't an of Tamamo no Mae's servants left standing on the docks, but instead they were taped together with a strange purple glowing duct tape in a pile with three grinning little girls sitting on top. "Hi! I'm Tataku." The one holding a baseball bat said.
"I'm Tsumeato." The one filing her nails said.
"And I'm Hotai." The one putting a roll of duct tape into a first aid kit said.
"AND WE ARE THE KAMA ITACHI SISTERS!!!!" All three yelled together.
"THEIR SO CUTE!!!" Koemi squealed.
"You brought the sickle weasels." Aiko said as she pinched the bridge of her nose. "And got us a World War Two Funayurei." Motioning to the wrecked Japanese destroyer turned ghost ship.
"Tamamo no Mae has already gotten a head start on us and is known to be the most cunning and by far the most dangerous of the Terrible Three. The longer it takes to get there, the hard it will be to find her until she is ready to make her move and this time she is in a nuclear armed country where her rising to power will be as simple as just getting a pawn elected to office. The Yugiri can have us off the coast of the U.S. in a half an hour." Toshi said as he walked towards the three sisters as they jumped off their perch. "And as for my 'granddaughters', they are all that is available with every one else we could call on busy fighting the ones that have joined Tamamo no Mae's cause and keeping it from spilling over in front of the humans. Her return is not just bringing them out of hiding here, but in China, both Korea's, Thailand, etc. and it is spreading. She has given them hope, a chance to take back what they see as their world from the humans. The only three bright spots is the two of you not just fighting her to a standstill when she came back, but actually forcing her to flee, she only was able to copy part of the files on what has been going on in that school in Canterlot during your second confrontation, and that the U.S. is Queen Lilith's territory and she is as cautions as she is powerful. Any support she gives Tamamo no Mae will be very strictly limited at first, until she is sure this isn't a pipe dream, and then she will slowly throw her support behind her. That's if the Daemon Queen doesn't oppose her because she has her own plans or decides to sit this one out."
"Fine, let's just go then." Aiko said as she watched the dead sailors fawn over the Kama Itachi Sisters as they remembered their own children who had long since grown up and most likely had great grandchildren of their own.
A few minutes later the dock was clear as the magic on the duct tape disappeared as soon as the ship was far enough away and Tamamo no Mae's followers disappeared into the night. Only a few strips of duct tape remained to show that anyone had ever been there.
"Hey Adagio?" Pinkie Pie asked as she dusted and straightened the office while Adagio finished going over some paper work from Grogar Ram Sr.
"Yes Pinkie?" She asked as she read and not really paying attention.
"Why are these cute little statues of a fox and a raccoon glowing like this?" Pinkie asked as she pointed with the feather duster to the two statues that were glowing blue and green.
"It just means Tamamo no Koemi and Aiko are on the continent and somewhere within 500 miles of us." Adagio said as she read the fine print to see if any surprises, not that Grogar would, but still the devil was in the details. "Just go tell Aria to make sure we have plenty of rice wine, fried tofu, tobacco, and cookies available for when they show up and get Sonata to help fix up a guest room for them."
"Okie dokie lokie." Pinkie said as she skipped out of the room a minute before what they had been talking about finally clicked in Adagio's head.
"Well shit, there goes my relaxing weekend with Grogar Jr." Adagio said as she realized they hadn't actually gotten around to explaining to them that they were mortal now. "Oh well, how bad could it be?" Some where else in the house she heard Sonata squealing with joy over hearing her favorite kitsune was coming and Aria asking where her fake I.D. was. At that point her head met the desk and she groaned about not asking stupid questions.
Author's Note
Well I'm back for round two and ready for more mayhem. I especially enjoyed the scene with Bobu and Tirek since I wanted to establish they may see similar, but are also very different a sort of good day/bad day comparison.
Bobu's true form
Tirek
Aloe and Lotus the succubi twins because home is where the hell fire is.
Toshi, yes he is old, but he is an old badass.
The Kama Itachi Sisters and no they are not some replacement CMC.
A wrecked destroyer from World War 2 so you can understand what the Yugiri would look like.
The Furies: Vulpine Vexations
Queen of Hell, Pirates and Ninjas
Queen of Hell, Pirates and Ninjas
Tamamo no Mae followed the twins through the city of Pandemonium, getting nods of respect from every Daemon they passed until they reached the palace. Tamamo no Mae had to admit that if Lilith wanted to make sure everyone knew who was in charge here then making her palace from the titanic polished bones of the previous ruler sent the message loud and clear. Satan was well and truly dead and she was the one who killed him and took everything from him.
As she entered the throne room she had to stop as she looked upon it. The room was built to insure that anyone who didn't get the memo from the rest of the palace got it loud and clear here. From the vaulted ceiling hung chandeliers made from the worst damned souls that lit the throne room with metal spikes that continuously burned with the sins of the damned they were driven through. The floor was covered with carpeting woven from Satan's own black hair. Upon the walls hung the skulls of every General of the legions of the damned, Daemon Lord, Prince of Hell, and Archdevil that tried to over throw her. But what truly drew Tamamo no Mae's eye was the giant horned skull caught in a silent eternal scream with the Queen of Hell sitting on her throne within the mouth and the stairs leading up to it made from the lower jaw. Her skin was as white as bones that had been bleached in the burning sun and her hair was as black as a starless night. Two hell hounds sat at the foot of the stairs and a dark skinned female Archangel with short red hair stood on the steps below her and to the side in full armor.
Tamamo no Mae then smirked and said, "Truly impressive, but it lays it on a bit thick if you ask me."
"I rule over Daemons, Fallen Angels, and the Damned who spent countless millenniums bashing their heads into the walls of Heaven at the command of an idiot." Lilith said with a laugh. "So forgive me, Yokai, if I have to use a sledge hammer to knock some scene into their heads since subtlety obviously goes over some of their brain damaged heads."
"Not at all, Demon, I have known plenty of lesser beings that would be dead a dozen times over if not for their immortality." She said as she returned the barb about what she was with the derogatory variation of Daemon, which Lilith ignored. "Though I am curious as to why an Archangel stands in your throne room?"
"Anna is the ambassador Heaven sent after I ended the war between Heaven and Hell on terms that were acceptable." Lilith said. "But what you really want to know is how will this affect what ever your plans are and if you will be facing an united front of both the western world's Heaven and Hell. So let us not waste time, but get down to what your plans really are and whether they will cause conflict between us or not."
"Very well." Tamamo no Mae said, "My normal plans are well known, but I have worked out a much better plan taken straight from the humanities own popular culture. Imagine a world where every magical being can live out in the open and the humans would, after the initial shock, adjust to it and even welcome it. A world where our immortality, wisdom, and experience would naturally allow us to take control and rule them and they would be grateful to us for it because we would have saved them from themselves. Even you would be able to walk openly as the Queen of Hell and they would chant your name instead of reviling you and cursing you."
"An interesting dream, but it is just that, a dream. The humans would panic and destroy each other with their nuclear weapons attempting to destroy us." Lilith said as she thought about it. "Then Hell would eventually be worse off than before with no new souls to power our technology. Those burning spikes burn their sins from their souls until they are purified, which we use as energy and then we release the purified soul to be reborn. Without them we would go dark in a matter of centuries and by then Pandemonium would cease to be a floating city, but a dead and abandoned ruin."
"Not if we demonstrate that we can destroy their weapons in midair, can shield entire cities from multiple direct blasts, and even render the radiation and elector magnetic pulses harmless." She explained. "Not if they see their best jet fighters and pilots out flown by beings without a plain and see a tank get ripped open and the crew pulled out unharmed another being. At that point every weak and powerless nation will be begging for our protection from the nuclear powered nations, offering anything to hire living breathing creatures out of myth and legend to work for them. Then there are the wealthiest nations who will be rushing to arm themselves in a new arms race that changes everything."
"So you want us to sell ourselves into slavery? I can guarantee you that all of Heaven would oppose your plan." Anna said, speaking for the first time in a beautiful contralto voice.
"Not at all, but the humans will believe it until it is to late." Tamamo no Mae laughed. "Do you really think I would willingly allow myself to be used like that. No, I draw my victims in with promises, but in the end they end up my thralls instead."
"Which brings us to the question of what do you get out of all of this? Because I do not believe for one moment you would do this out of the kindness of your heart or for any real worry about humanities future." Lilith pointed out. "Your disdain for human life and morality is to well documented for you to claim that. So what is it the great Tamamo no Mae get out of all of this?"
"Why power of course. I will be seen as a savior both amongst many of the humans and the magical beings." She then laughed. "These humans have a silly thing called PR and combining being a savior with a more sympathetic version of my story that paints me as less of a monster and more of a tragic hero would be just the PR campaign these humans eat up like candy. I believe the term they would use is an Edge Lord and I plan to use it to take power."
"Hmm... and what of your little feeding problem?" Lilith asked with a smirk. "I do believe eating children would be a deal breaker for the humans."
"I have thought about that and have a plan to gather the last few hundred children's souls I need to free myself of my deal. Once I have them I can pay off my debt and be free and will no longer need to eat them to keep all of my powers." Tamamo no Mae explained.
"Very well, but I need to understand more on your plan before I join." Lilith told her as they began working out the details of her plan.
Pipsqueak walked towards the mansion from the bus stop. Aria had promised to show him a real cutlass and her and Sonata would show him how real pirate sword fighting as well. As he walked he heard several people talking in one of those funny languages Aria and her sisters liked to say bad words in when ever he was around thinking he wouldn't figure it out. Not that Adagio did it much, she seemed to be more interested in avoiding questions about why they looked like a few of the people in some of his mum's boring old history books.
"Excuse me please, " A woman said from behind. "But would you know if we got off at the right stop for 567 Rich Way?"
Turning around Pipsqueak looked up at a tall Asian girl with blonde hair and in an odd red and white outfit. Behind her was three identical girls his age, another girl with brown hair who was dressed normal, and an old guy in funny green clothes and carrying something long wrapped in cloth. "Yeah... Are you going to visit Aria as well?"
"Why yes." She said, "I'm Koemi and we're on our way to visit all three of the sisters."
"Well OK," Pipsqueak said. "Just follow me." With that he started to lead the way.
"How do you know Aria by the way?" Koemi asked as they walked.
"Umm... Well I was kind of in the park after everyone laughed at me at school when I told them I was related to a really cool pirate named Yellowbeard. She kind of found me and when she asked I told her and she knew all this amazing stuff about him. Before I knew it she had taken me home and made me feel a lot better, still can't remember how she knew where me and mum lived." He thought about it yet again before shrugging it off. "Anyways, her and mum talked and then she just kept showing up and started teaching me all sorts of things about him and said if I learned all sorts of cool pirate stuff she would give me a treasure map that belonged to him and were only suppose to give to a member of his family that was worthy of his name. So now I come out here to their mansion every weekend and she teaches me all sorts of things."
"Really, like what?" One of the girls his age asked.
"Astronomy so I can navigate by night. All sorts of knots for tying a ship's rigging to tying a hook on a fishing line. How pirates wore eye patches over one eye so if they go into a dark room they just had to switch it to the other eye for instant night vision (only mum says I can't wander around with a patch on all the time), How to read maps and use a sexton and compass like Yellowbeard would have done. Why eating my vegetables is important and what happened if you get scurvy as well as first aid because pirates got hurt a lot. She also has been teaching me to fight like one with dirty fighting versions of fisty cuffs, savate, and other types of street fighting and navel hit and run tactics because pirates only 'fight to run away in order to sail another day, only when they do a pirate never fights fair because a fair fight is for sissies who can't handle their rum.' She always makes faces at Sonata when she says that last bit." He told her as the mansion came into view. "Oh, and today she's going to show me how they fought with cutlasses, but I'm not aloud to learn how to use one until my birthday next month." Finally they got to the door and he stopped before saying. "Umm... I'm suppose to go in and try to find her and sneak up on her to show her how good I'm getting at being sneaky like a pirate (not that I have actually been able to sneak up on her yet), but with you here I'm not sure if I should."
"Oh, but you said pirates don't fight fair and wouldn't a clever pirate hire four shinobi, a samurai, and a shrine maiden to help him." Koemi said with a bit of mischief in her eyes.
"Uh, what's a shinobi?" Pipsqueak asked.
"A ninja."
"But aren't ninjas and pirates suppose to be enemies?"
"Only if the ninja is hired to stop a pirate, but in this case you hired the ninjas use their sneaky ninja magic to help instead." Koemi said. "And the price is the look on Aria's face when you finally sneak up on her with our help."
"Umm... OK." Pipsqueak said before pulling his key out and opening the door, only he felt a breeze and when he looked only Koemi and the old guy were there. "Where did the others go?"
"Sneaky ninja magic." The old guy said with a wink. "You better hurry up or you'll miss the fun."
"Hey, who took one of my tacos? I had four here a second ago." Sonata yelled from inside followed by the sound of giggling. "Hey come back here with my taco!"
Slowly crawling into the living room, Pipsqueak felt a hand on his shoulder and looked as the brown haired girl pulled him behind the sofa as Aria walked past towards the kitchen. "Sonata I'm trying to get ready for Pipsqueak and.... What the? Why are you duct taped to a chair?"
From some where else in the house came a startled scream from Sunset Shimmer and Adagio yelling, "Come back here with my keytar!" and then another startled scream from Adagio this time before only the sound of giggling yet again.
Aria ran into the living room and was about to head down the hall when she stopped and yelled, "I don't know who you are, but I'm not falling for it and running head long into a trap." That was when she felt a hand on her elbow and heard Pipsqueak say, "Tag, your it."
Turning around slowly she found Pipsqueak standing there with Aiko, Koemi, a set of triplets, and an old guy behind him with a trussed up Sunset Shimmer and Adagio. Then Aiko took her picture with her cell phone and said, "Never expected him to hire ninjas did you?"
"A, kuso!" Was all she said.
Author's Note
You did not seriously think I would do the predictable thing for her plan did you
This is Lilith, Adam's first wife. Guess The Serpent was better in bed since she left Adam for Hell to become the first demon.
And this is her after on hell of a make over.
Koemi in her Shrine Maiden outfit since her current identity is one.
Aiko has a better understanding of low profile than Koemi.
The Kama Itachi sisters in human form.
A, kuso! means Oh shit.
Also it is hard to find a good picture of a human version of Pipsqueak.
The Furies: Vulpine Vexations
Meetings, Teaching, and Her.
Meetings, Teaching, and Her.
"Not that we don't enjoy your company, but what do we owe your company to this time?" Adagio asked as soon as she returned from using vegetable oil to remove the duct tape without ripping her hair out and then washing it out of her hair. She could hear the Kama Itachi sisters, as they had been introduced, and Pipsqueak watching Pirates of the Caribbeans in the living room.
"What do you know about my sister Tamamo no Mae?" Koemi asked.
"She makes us at our worst look tame." Aria said as she hunted up one of the ash trays for Aiko as the tanuki turned a pair of red ceramic ball into a pipe and began packing it with tobacco. "I see you still pull out your testicles in polite company." She said with a smirk.
"THEY ARE NOT TESTICLES!!!" Aiko yelled as she blushed bright red. "That myth was started by crude farmers who thought it was funny to call them that since we tanukis carried them in pouches that is traditionally worn near the crotch."
"So you could say that at one point you were a girl with a pair of magical balls between her legs?" Sonata said with a giggle.
"She is definitely a girl with a pair of balls on her." Aria added before both of them burst out laughing at the fuming tanuki.
"I hate you so much right now." Aiko hissed at them.
"And we love you too, but back to Tamamo no Mae." Adagio said as Sunset tried not to snicker. "She is over 3,500 years old and has left a trail of destroyed kingdoms, death, and depravity in her wake across India, China, and Japan before being killed with a pair of enchanted arrows and a magical sword after being hunted to exhaustion by an army of samurai. Even then she still was able to kill two emperors and the rock that marked her grave killed everything that got too close to it. Though most legends state her body was taken back to the capital, I shared the accounts I read with both of you of one of the samurai that was there and he made it very clear that they buried her there and spread the rumors of her being buried elsewhere to prevent anyone from reviving her while leaving knowledge of what they did in case she ever did come back."
"Well it didn't work because someone had to return her soul to her and that brought her back. She's now loose and headed for Canterlot and has already recruited an army of magical beings." Aiko said as she lit her pipe.
"I said I was sorry, but she is my sister." Koemi said. "Adagio, you would do anything to put one of your sisters spirit to rest if their soul got lost wouldn't you?"
"Normally I would agree, but your sister is not the type of person that normal applies to." Adagio said while thinking before asking, "And why would she be coming here? Canterlot is barely a mid sized city at best and I would think she would make a bee line for Washington D.C. given her track record."
"The Fall Formal and the Battle of the Bands." Sunset said. "The Fall Formal lit up the school like a spot light that attracted you three and the Battle of the Bands was seen from miles away, but was shrugged off by the media as laser light special effects that overloaded when it got out of hand. If you think about it it should have attracted someone, magical being or a human, to begin investigating what's going on here. I mean unlike their magic," She said gesturing to Koemi, Aiko, and Toshi. "Which you said can't be detected by any scientific equipment or your magic, Equestrian magic does leave traces and can be detected if only because of what is missing afterwards."
"Wait, your saying Equestrian magic can be detected and tracked?" Aria asked.
"I'm more interested in what she meant by 'missing afterwards'." Aiko said.
"After the Battle of the Bands I did some experiments to find out how magic worked here, just before those idiot kids started Anon-a-miss, and discovered something when I tried finding anything that could pick up magic." Sunset explained. "I found that a sensitive enough geiger counter that Pinkie and Fluttershy found for me picked up on that there was less background radiation around the journal I use to write to Twilight with and that it dropped all the way to being undetectable when I used it to send a message to her. From there I worked out that there was less pollutants in the air after we ponied up, especially after Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash pony up, and most likely Aria as well, because of the wings."
"Hmm... That does make sense if you think about it." Adagio said as she thought about it. "The wings, the ears, and the longer hair have to come from something since you can't get something from nothing. Same with the energy, it's drawing it from the background radiation which is everywhere and the most abundant natural energy source available."
"Why background radiation and not gravity or static electricity?" Toshi asked.
"Everything, including our bodies, contributes to background radiation in one form or another." Koemi pointed out. "Heat, electricity, even radioactive radiation like the kind detected by a geiger counter, plugging into that would be an almost unlimited source of energy since it might seem small, but it's continuous and everywhere."
"The problem is, other than when we play music, we can't seem to use it despite having an unlimited power source." Sonata pointed out.
"Twilight thinks it's because of how prevalent music is in Equestria." Sunset pointed out. "I mean I can't remember when a Heartsong wasn't in the newspapers and treated like bad traffic or the weather is treated here."
"They did tend to pop up a lot." Adagio said. "We kind of either used them or just stepped aside if we saw one about to start until it was over since they are almost impossible to fight."
"Umm... What's a Heartsong?" Koemi asked.
"It's a type of extremely powerful magic that can cause entire cities to just start singing and dancing for no real reason... Think of it being like if the world did work like a Broadway musical. We mostly just put up with them because of how useful they can be." Sunset explained. "Like when there was a bad cave-in at a mine and a Heartsong started and they dug through 100 feet of rock and saved over 157 trapped miners in less than five minutes with no casualties. Then there was another time when an entire city was rebuilt in three and a half minutes after a very bad earthquake because of another one."
"Hmm... Have any of you tried to cast spells by singing yet?" Toshi asked as he considered what they said. "I mean if music is as important as magic is in Equestria then it would make sense that maybe the key to one is also the other."
"Maybe... but that would mean anyone exposed directly to Equestrian magic and has transformed at least once would potentially be able to use Equestrian magic." Sunset said.
"And with what you said about Heartsongs Tamamo no Mae would have a potentially powerful tool if it can be transmitted over T.V and radio." Toshi added. "Which begs the question of just how many people are we talking about?"
"Us four and the Rainbooms, so about nine people." Aria said.
"Eleven actually," Sunset said. "I transformed Snips and Snails during the Fall Formal."
With that Sonata started giggling before asking, "Can you imagine those two trying to start a Heartsong with that caterwauling they called rapping at the Battle of the Bands? I mean I love Snails to death, but it took forever to explain that rap is like the blue, you have too experience life in a certain way to be able to actually do it right."
"I know." Aria said with a laugh. "At least they can't start one with their marching band instruments, I mean a tuba and a trombone don't exactly lend themselves well to singing."
"Yeah, but your forgetting that an autotune can make their voices sound like angels." Adagio said. "But all of this depends on how much she knows about what has been happening around here."
"Exactly and she stole the files you sent us about it along with the profiles on all of the Rainbooms." Aiko said. "Though you were kind of vague on what the Battle of the Bands actually did to you."
"Oh that's easy," Sonata said with a smile. "It stripped us of our powers and immortality and cured us of our medical problems."
"...Sonata, you do remember the talk we had about not sharing certain thing until we are sure how it will be taken." Adagio said with a slight frown. "You remember all the problems that that religion Aleister Crowley created caused after talking to you."
"Yeah, but if it wasn't for his books Tree Hugger and Fluttershy might never have met and fallen in love." Sonata pointed out.
"One couple doesn't make up for turning a countless number of people into a laughing stock over the years because they like to dance around the woods naked." Aria grumbled.
"So your saying that you've lost your powers and can't help us with her." Koemi said with a sad look.
"Not quite." Adagio said. "We may have lost our powers as sirens, but we still have other skills honed and refined for a thousand years, resources both old and new that can be brought to bear, and all four of us know first hand that Equestrian magic can depower powerful foes. Besides we never mentioned the Heartsong in those files because we didn't even think about it at the time."
"Also I can ask Twilight for help with research from Equestria as well." Sunset said. "I mean I might not have a thousand of years of personal experience to draw upon, but I have a way to contact Princess Twilight Sparkle who has access to the Canterlot Royal Library and the archives."
"Having a direct line of information from where this kind of magic comes from would give us another advantage." Toshi said as he thought about it. "But information alone won't be enough, we will still need to find Tamamo no Mae and anyone she has with her, keep tabs on everyone that could use Equestrian magic, and figure out how to deal with her. All of which is harder since without your powers we now have to protect you three as well."
"Just because we lost our powers doesn't mean we are completely powerless." Adagio said with a smirk. "Do you really think we spent a thousand years here without putting something aside for just in case someone ever found a way to neutralize our powers? Trust me, we might have avoided most of the magical beings in this world, but we have had a few run-ins with normal humans who found or created a few actual magical items and kept some of the actually useful stuff."
"Wait, you have magical items and you haven't already pulled them out yet?" Sunset asked. "I mean I would have studied them and worked out how they worked by now."
"Didn't need them when we had powers and didn't really needed them afterwards until now, besides the magic they have is like Koemi's, undetectable to the point that if we hadn't actually seen them used and then tried it out for ourselves later we wouldn't have even have known they had magic." Aria told her. "Besides, it's like Adagio said, they're for just in case." Getting up Aria then motioned to Sonata, "Come on, let's go get the crate."
"OK" Sonata said as she followed Aria, "but I'm calling dibs on the battle axe!"
"Sonata you're the only one that thing likes and hasn't actually tried to kill yet." Aria pointed out.
"Thirty minutes." Northern Spy said as he graded papers at the desk in the basement. He didn't even bother looking behind himself at the girl tied with her hands behind her back to a wooden chair.
"How is this here fair?" Apple Bloom complained. "Y'all said you would make this fair."
Without turning he said, "I didn't use hand cuffs or strip you naked, zip tie your hands and feet to a metal chair bolted to the floor, put a gag in your mouth, and a bag over your head. You have everything you need to escape in the time we agreed to. All you need to do is grab the pull and ring the bell and I will take you out to see a movie and eat in a restaurant instead of suffering through another 4 hour training session and drinking one of my nutrient shakes. You just need to work it out and remember what I said about the human mind."
"Yeah, yeah," Apple Bloom said as she tried to just loosen one part of the knot. "'Only idiots call the human mind their most powerful weapon when in reality it is actually much more than that and is closer to the ultimate Swiss army knife.'"
"Then why are you still playing with knots instead of taking in everything and working it out by now?" Northern Spy asked as he marked an A on Snails paper. He then turned and looked at her while holding up Snails paper. "Look at Snails, he was a D+ student at best before according to Harshwhinny's notes on students and I have to agree when I looked at his old papers, but now he is actually making A's on a regular basis. Why? because someone actually figured out that he is a slow but deep thinker and has been helping him bring his grades up through homework, reports, and extra-credit assignments, all of which give him time to work it out slowly in his head."
"What does that there have to do with this?" Apple Bloom asked.
"Simple, sometimes the solution is obvious, but we get caught up in the way we think they should be done that we over look the answer. Snails has all the classic signs of a slow but deep thinking genius, but everything in school is geared towards too fast a pace for anyone to see it. The same can be said for you right now, you're so fixated on the knots that you can't see the solution because of it." Northern Spy said as he went back to grading papers.
Apple Bloom sat there thinking about it as she tapped her foot and then stopped and looked down at her feet. Her feet that had not been tied to the chair legs. Chair legs that were not bolted to the floor. Slowly she stood up with the chair and looked at the bell pull. She then bit the bell pull and rang the bell with fifteen minutes left on the timer.
Tamamo no Mae exited the mirror with Lotus since Aloe had returned to Canterlot earlier to take care of the Spa while she had her meeting with Lilith. She gave Bobu a smile before saying, "Lotus says that there is a young woman that everyone should know with an appointment today. So would you be a dear and go and make sure everything has been taken care of for me at the house." Without a word Bobu got up and left.
Ten minutes later Tamamo no Mae sat in the steam room wearing a towel, luxuriating in warmth as she waited. Around her she permeated the steam with her magic as it filled the air with a hard to describe hint of an exotic perfume and just enough pheromones. She had perfected this over the millenniums of seducing many into her service, but now she tweaked it to only catch her attention while waiting for her so she could tried something she had never tried before, to seduce a partner who would be more than another almost mindless thrall that would be willing to die for her but short on actually being able to think for themselves. What she needed was someone capable of independent thoughts and action, who could plan, reason, and think for themselves, but whom she can be sure would remain some what loyal to her.
When the younger woman with beautiful white skin and gorgeous purple hair entered she couldn't help but pause at the sight of an Asian woman that seemed to revel in her sensual beauty. Tamamo no Mae couldn't help but smile as she took a breath before saying, "Oh, I'm terribly sorry for staring like that."
"Think nothing of it." Tamamo no Mae said as she made a few minor adjustments when she saw she had almost enthralled her. "I'm use to it from fashion designers, artists, etc., but then again you probably deal with the same thing a lot."
"I did until that horrid hacker the news keeps calling a cyber vigilantly decided to target my school because of my little sister and her friends foolish little indiscretion they called Anon-a-miss." Rarity said with bitterness in her voice and not even thinking about the fact that she was telling a complete stranger about her troubles as she sat down on the bench and looked down at her hands bunched into fists. "Oh if I ever find who that 'Kijo' is I will give them a piece of my mind, but the damage is done and my dreams of becoming a fashionista are ruined. Now the only offers I am getting is from perverts and tabloids while my patron has had to cut all ties with me and remain in Brazil until his lawyers say it is safe to return."
Tamamo no Mae let out a laugh before saying, "Oh I know a thing or two about having plans come crashing down around me. The trick is getting back up, dusting yourself off, and tweaking your plans here and there before trying again without the same mistakes you made the first time." She said, "Maybe you don't need a patron. Maybe what you really need is a mentor who has been through the same kind of things you have been through and with resources to help you."
"Yes, that would be ideal, but it's not like I am going to just meet them here at the spa." Rarity said then without even thinking about it she continued. "Besides how would I even find someone who could understand having a magic that seems to only work when I was playing music with my friends before Anon-a-miss and Kijo tore us all apart and Sunset Shimmer and those Dazzlings stomping it all into the ground just to be sure."
"Ah, but they are not really the problem is it?" Tamamo no Mae asked as she feed just enough magic into the steam to relax the young woman more while enticing more out of her.
"No." Rarity said as she felt the steam just melt away her stress from her troubles. "I have always been realistic enough to know we would drift apart after school. I mean at best the Rainbooms might get a few records, but in the end we would drift apart because of our different lives. No, it's the fact that my dreams are in tatters and last night when I tried to use my keytar to pony up nothing happened."
"Really? Why were you trying to 'pony up'?" Tamamo no Mae pressed while trying to not enthrall her.
"Oh, because I have never felt more alive or inspired than when I pony up and feel the magic just flowing through me." Rarity told her. "Ever since it began I have found that if I get stuck on a design problem I can just pony up and it inspires me with just the right new ideals and new ways that not only solve my problem, but improves it as well. Only now it's all gone when I need it the most."
Tweaking her magic some, Tamamo no Mae took a gamble by adding fear into it and then asked, "What if it isn't gone? What if you just need help to get it flowing again? How far would you be willing to go to get it back and maybe even more than you ever dreamed possible?"
Rarity's thoughts raced as she thought about it, her mind racing with the ideals of not doing anything and eventually ending up a trophy wife for a rich man who would eventually replace her with a younger woman or ending up selling her body only to die cold and alone in a hospital bed from a disease or maybe even dying alone, friendless, and forgotten, nothing more than the crazy old cat lady with only a small grave stone to ever mark she had been there. "no... No... NO! I WILL NOT DIE LIKE THAT!!! I refuse to die a used up toy of some fat, stupid, petty man! I refuse to wither away in some hospital or in a house full of cats without love! I will not be just a grave stone! I will not be just another name on some stupid, tacky rock alone and unloved. I refuse it! I will make them remember me! My name is Rarity Belle and I will make them remember my name long after I am gone no matter what it takes or who I have to crush to do it!"
"Well then Miss Rarity Belle," Tamamo no Mae said as she stood up and dropped her towel, her nine golden tails with pure white tips fanned out behind her and her golden fox ears with white tips replaced her human ears. She let her magic flow through the room and replaced the fear with hope while she enjoyed the stunned look on Rarity's face. "Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Lady Duckweed and I have come a long way to meet you." She could already see it in Rarity's eyes that she had her and just needed to pull her in. "Trust me, with my help, not only will no one ever forget your name, but your name will be legendary. My only question is how far are you willing to go to have more magic than you ever imagined possible?"
A girl looked at her equipment and saw the spike in the energy. It had taken a while to find a way to detect the energy that happened when the background radiation dropped suddenly and then to build the hand scanner, but now she knew what she was doing and soon her latest detector would be finished. She then frowned as she noticed it was on a different wavelength than the other energy she had been tracking. "Spike, I think there is more to this than we originally thought." Behind her her dog just barked as he wagged his tail.
Author's Note
Due to family health problems my updates may become erratic.
In myths and legends the Tanuki are said to have a pair of magical balls they can turn into anything they need, help them fly, and do anything else as well.
Expect lots of balls jokes and suggestions are welcome for torturing Aiko with.
As for the siren's magical arsenal, well just think about it, of course they would have had run-ins with normal humans who have gotten their hands on magical items and acted like children with a box of matches. They would just take the toy away and either kept it or got rid of it. Don't worry, they won't be over powered (with the exception of Sonata's Battle Axe, which is living and hates every living creature but her for some odd reason
Yes, Northern Spy and Apple Bloom are back and you get a quick glimpse of his parenting skill.
Welcome to my parlor said the spider to the fly. If you can guess where this is going with Rarity then you earned your self an imaginary cookie.
I figure Tamamo no Mae's magical presence would cause ripples that would effect everyone's favorite brainiac's investigation and up her appearance by at least two to three months before the friendship games.
The Furies: Vulpine Vexations
Arming Up
"Well here it is." Aria said as her and Sonata sat the crate down in the kitchen. It shook violently as something inside tried to get loose. "Just ignore that, it's just Sonata's Axe trying to get loose so it can kill us all."
"Snookums is just happy that mommy is here." Sonata said as if she was talking to a pet while everyone but Aria moved back away from the crate.
"Just be ready to grab that thing as soon as I open the lid." Aria said as she removed the padlocks and took up the position behind it.
As soon as she yanked the lid open Sonata called out, "Come Day Ender! Your Mistress, the Dusk-Bringer, Summons You!"
The battle axe flew out of the crate and into Sonata's waiting hands.
With a smile Sonata kissed the axe before she began playing the half battle axe half bass guitar.
"Cor Blimey! That's Brill!" Pipsqueak yelled from the kitchen door as his accent got thicker with his excitement before yelping as he fell down when the Axe yanked itself out of Sonata's hands and was stopped mere inches from his head. Looking up in shock he saw a man sized furry creature dressed like Toshi holding it back with the blade of a sword before Sonata grabbed it and yanked it back to her.
"No! Bad Day Ender! No Killing Children!" Sonata scolded the battle axe that some how seemed to appear apologetic as it played a small rift on itself. "I don't care if he finds out that magic is real!" It then played an angry rift. "Don't take that tone with me! You no longer belong to THAT necromancer! You're going to apologies to Pip right now and behave yourself or I will put you up and you won't get to be in an awesome epic battle against someone worthy of the Dusk-Bringer and the Day Ender!" It then floated over to where Toshi stood over a scared Pipsqueak and played a rift before floating over to Sonata's back and materializing a strap and slinging itself onto her back. "Much better."
"That thing exudes pure evil, malice, hate, and death." Toshi said as he returned to human form. "Yet you treat it almost killing a child like it was a puppy peeing on the carpet."
"What is even more frightening is it actually listens." Adagio said as she pulled an ornate pair of pistols, a Winchester, and shoulder holsters out of the crate. "At least the rest aren't alive and completely insane, though the people who made them were definitely bat shit crazy." She then set them on the table and removed her jacket before putting on the holsters and the pistols. "Take these beauties, the man might have been a genius to figure out how to give them seemingly unlimited randomly enchanted ammunition, but he also believed he was the reincarnation of a time traveling dog god of bouncing rubber balls named Bob. The best explanation I got on how they work from him in the insane asylum is something about them stealing ammunition from multiple parallel universes. As for random enchanted bullets, I've seen them shoot everything from silver bullets, bullet shaped marshmallows, radioactive molten electrified metal bullets, mint filled chocolate bullets, poison filled glass bullets, and rose colored and scented air. It's the randomness that make them so useful and so frustrating at the same time." With that she put back on her jacket, grabbed the Winchester, and looked over at Aria who was talking to Pipsqueak. "Is he going to be OK or..."
"No, he's good, the axe scared him more than seeing Toshi's true form and he'll keep quiet about it." Aria said.
"She said you're all like super heroes in the comic books and I can't let anyone know who you really are or the bad guys will find out and try to stop you." Pipsqueak said with a big smile.
"And some pirates were heroes as well, like the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Dread Pirate Roberts. They pretended to be bad guys, but were actually good guys." Sonata said as she looked through the crate and pulled out a necklace and a strange metal belt. "Here you go Sunset, a shield necklace that becomes a two foot round unbreakable shield for about an hour per day, so use it sparingly, and a belt that becomes a sword that electrifies so you can use it as a stun gun. Technically the belt isn't a magic item, but one of Presto's inventions. He likes the saying about sufficiently advanced technology and magic looking a lot alike and built several things to prove it."
"Umm... I don't know how to sword fight with hands." Sunset said as she looked at the belt.
"Don't worry, it just takes a little practice for a day or two to get it, like with writing with your hand and not your mouth or magic." Sonata said as she pulled out two knives on a belt and put it on. "We can help you out with that."
"Me and Adagio will do it." Aria said as she brought Pipsqueak over to the crate and began looking through it. "As long as that thing is out of the crate you need to focus on binding it to yourself again so it stays on it's leash before Monday because I'm not trusting it near a school full of emotional teenagers until you do."
"Fine." Sonata said as the axe gave a growling warning rift towards Aria.
"That brings up a question," Sunset said. "We did promise Principle Celestia that we would try to give her a heads up on any magical problems we see coming and she'd turn a blind eye to some things for us." She looked around at the others before blurting out. "Not it!" a second before Adagio and Sonata did.
"Dammit! I guess I'll stop by her house after I drop Pipsqueak off later." Aria grumbled.
"Tell me Mr. Squirm, what are your plans for the future?" Filthy Rich asked the gangly boy in his study.
"I really don't know." Snails said slowly. "I mean I never thought about it before since everyone said I was stupid, but now Sonata has shown me that I am a slow deep thinker and told me to take my time and think long and hard about what I want to do before I make up my mind."
Filthy thought about it for a moment since the kid looked like a slacker, but if Sonata saw something in him it changed everything he thought about the kid. "Hmm... I have had dealings with deep thinkers before and can suggest a few things you may not have thought of like Economist, Management Consultant, Political or Medical Scientist. All of which require long, slow thinking to get it right." With that he wrote the suggestions down on a memo before giving it to Snails while ignoring the dirty looks from Spoiled. "Just a few things for you to look into and see if any of them might be right for you or might lead you towards something else that works for you." He then looked Snails dead in the eyes and said. "And now that I know what type of personality of the person I am dealing with I know not to beat around the bush and just come right out and ask you, 'What are your plans for my little girl?'"
"Umm... Go to the Valentines day dance like she told me to do." Snails said. "She said that if I can wake up more freaked out about being too close to her than she was after we fell asleep at the Dazzlings New Year Eve party then I was a safe friend to take to the dance."
Holding up his hand to stop his wife he asked, "Was Sonata involved with the two of you waking up mere inches from kissing?"
"How did you know that she did that?" Snails asked as Spoiled Rich tried hard not to lose it.
"Let's just say we have had dealings with her jokes in the past." Filthy said with a chuckle before adding. "Go hang out with Diamond Tiara."
After Snails left the room the Rich's both lost it and laughed so hard that tears were running down their faces. Finally Spoiled Rich got control of herself and asked, "So how do we deal with this? Threaten that they will never find the body if he hurts her?"
"Actually I wouldn't since I saw it in his eyes, he hasn't even thought of her that way." Filthy Rich said as he handed his wife a handkerchief.
"Hmm... and here I thought we'd have to worry about some boy to take advantage of her." Spoiled said as she dabbed her eyes.
"More like we'll have to save him from her if anything." Filthy said.
Principle Celestia was reading a book when she heard the door bell. Getting up, she looked out the peephole at on of the Dazzlings, no they were calling themselves the Furies now, fiddling with something on her arm while waiting. Finally she opened the door and looked at Aria and asked, "May I ask what you are doing here?"
"I lost out and get to be the one who tells you about a magical problem." Aria grumbled.
Celestia looked at her for a moment before stepping aside, "Come on in and I'll fix some tea."
A few minutes later they both sat at Celestia's kitchen table while the kettle heated up on the stove. "OK, me and my sisters have been in this world for a thousand years and we have met a few other magical beings in that time, but mostly avoided going and looking for them for the most part since some of them are known to be down right dangerous, even by our standards." Aria said as she sat there looking across the table at Celestia. "Well a few of the ones we're friends with showed up and told us that one of the really dangerous ones is headed this way." Aria then fidgeted a bit before asking, "How much do you know about the Three Terrible Yokai from Japan?"
"I learned about the three most dangerous beings in Japanese mythology when I was an exchange student in Japan. There's the Oni king Shuten Doji, the ghost of Emperor Sutoku, and the Kitsune Tamamo no Mae." Celestia said. "Only two of them are suppose to be dead and Sutoku was suppose to be placated."
"Well that's the thing, we've known Tamamo no Koemi for centuries and she's the little sister of Tamamo no Mae." Aria said getting a gasp from Celestia. "Something happened and Tamamo no Mae is back, found out about CHS, and is coming here."
Celestia sat in stunned silence as the kettle began whistling and Aria got up and made the tea for them. Finally she said, "Your telling me that a 3,500 year old fox demon known for leaving a trail of depravity, death, and destruction is headed this way."
"Yeah and her sister is already here with some friends and we're already pulling out our spare magical items so we can be ready for her, but the problem with her is she is smart." Aria said as she sat a pot of tea on the table for them. "We won't really know what she is up to until she is ready to start, but once we do we'll try to take her down."
"You know what, I actually miss the days when my biggest problem was just kids running in the halls and staff meetings." Celestia said as she added honey and cream to her cup of tea.
"Trust me, I understand, I'd rather be doing anything other than wearing this thing." Aria said as she waved the thing on her arm.
"What is it?" Celestia asked.
"The delivery system for one of the magic weapons." Aria said, "Presto Lulamoon, Trixie's grandfather, actual made a lot of his own props when he was still touring as a stage magician and has several degrees as well as a lot of patents to his name. A few of which were inspired by seeing a wild animal from Equestria and real magic. Any ways, it was either wear this, which is a bitch to get adjusted right, or carry a small working model of scorpion catapult or a miniature medieval crossbow into the school and try to talk that hit man you hired as a history teacher into letting me use it for extra credit."
"What? Northern Spy isn't a hit man, he's a former consultant contractor...." Celestia began only to stop as Aria burst out laughing.
"What do you think a hit man will call himself on his business card?" Aria asked between fits of laughing, "A threat assessment specialist or a cost reduction specialist are also favorites." She couldn't help laughing at it. "Trust me all of them are true in a way because nothing reduces costs and takes care of threats like putting a problem in it's grave."
"But he has resume with real references that check out." Celestia said, "Besides do you really think a hit man would give all of that up just to raise his daughter?"
"Oh the references are real, they just can't tell you any details because of industry secrets and non-disclosure agreements." Aria said as she got a hold of herself. "As for him giving it up for his kid, that's actually nothing new. Hit men come in two flavors, either their complete psychopaths that will be in it until the day they are killed or the type that will eventually grow tiered of it and just quit sooner or later. He's definitely the second type and reached his limit for it and retired. Now he's teaching and dealing with his kid and the best thing you can do is just leave him alone so he can move on."
"I'm responsible for the students in my school and can't..." Celestia started.
"Can't what? Have a person that could disarm a school shooter in seconds with a pencil be a teacher at a high school? Have a teacher who will be able too keep calm when something insane happens at a school that has had two magical incidents already?" Aria nearly shouted as she slapped her hand down on the table causing Celestia to jump. "I'm telling you he's the best you're going to get because a normal person will quit the moment weird things start happening." With a sigh she then then realized what she was doing and said, "Listen, I'm sorry, I know every instinct is telling you to keep him as far away from your students as possible, but weird things will keep happen because your school is sitting on top of a portal to another universe. It's best to have someone who has dealt with bad situations like him around to keep your students safe."
Celestia thought about it for a moment, "Sunset keeps putting off telling me about Equestria and now your telling me that a monster is coming for my school and has magic that has nothing to do with Equestria. Can you at least tell me something more than vague hints, because I'm getting tired of always being in the dark about all this shit?"
"We're a bit in the dark about this as well, but I can tell you what I know." Aria said and then added, "I'll even tell you about Equestria, but I'm not sure how you will handle knowing about one person."
"Is who ever it is someone who will give me nightmares?" She asked, not sure if she really wanted to know.
"No, I don't think hearing about an actual living breathing thousand plus year old sun goddess who has lead her nation into an age of peace and prosperity will give you nightmares, but hearing about her might affect you in another way." Aria told her. "I think Sunset didn't tell you because it will both change your outlook on things and break your heart when you hear about what she had to do to her own sister."
"I think I can handle it then." Celestia said.
"Then the first thing you need to know is Equestria doesn't follow all of the same rules about physics as this universe does and that both the sun and the moon have to be raised by someone there." Aria started. "It use to be that a lot of unicorns like Sunset and Adagio had to raise it, but now the job is done by two goddesses named...."
Rarity sat on her bed looking at the scroll and thinking about everything Lady Duckweed had told her. She had left the final say to Rarity, but had told her that how she would help her get her magic back would be distasteful and that Rarity had to make the decision willingly and on her own. Lady Duckweed had made it very clear that once this started there was no going back or Rarity would most likely suffer horribly for it before dying and the scroll was a magical point of no return.
So now she sat looking at the scroll and knowing that once she untied the ribbon holding it closed and unrolled it she wouldn't be able to turn back. She then looked at the pictures she had laid out next to the scroll and considered each in turn. So far only her dad had come close to understanding since his professional football career had been cut short by a drunk driver and a bad wreck. She loved him to death, but she doubted all of this would 'blow over' by this time next year. Her mother did try, but all she had ever wanted was what she had, a home, a husband, and children and Rarity dreamed of much much more than that.
Then there was the picture of her sister and she felt nothing but anger and betrayal from just thinking about her. Her and her little friends started all of this, brought Kijo down on her, and ruined any chance she had to achieve dream of becoming a fashionista. She would never see a star walking down the red carpet in one of her dresses or design a wedding dress for a celebrity wedding because of what she had done. She would never make the cover of fashion magazines or become the CEO of her own clothing business now because of Sweetie Belle and it infuriated her. Her and her friends had ruined everything and it would take a miracle to salvage anything... Either that or something else.
She once again looked at the scroll and without even looking at the last picture of her former friends she reached out and pick up the scroll. Quickly untying the ribbon she unrolled the scroll and looked at the strange symbols on it as they rearranged themselves in front of her eyes into English. Outside the wind picked up as storm clouds began to roll in at an incredible pace, darkening the room. Yet she could read it perfectly as if it was a bright sunny day and as lightning began lighting up the sky while the heavens poured their watery fury upon the city below she stood up and began casting the spell on the scroll as the thunder matched her every word:
Abandoned and Betrayed
All across the city every magic user felt something powerful pulse through the city. Below an old house in some old tunnels, Tamamo no Mae looked up from reading over the reports Bobu had had her servants collect for her on where the plan was and smiled. In the mansion they all felt it and gave a shiver, knowing this was just the beginning.
Broken and Robbed of my Destiny
Twilight tried to turn her equipment off as purple energy arced all around her in the garage before striking her and throwing her towards the door. Only she seemed to just flicker before appearing outside and flying towards the windshield of her brother's parked car and then flickered again before landing in the backseat as Shining Armor and Cadence looked at her in shock. "Spike!" She yelled as she jumped out of the car and ran back into the garage through the pouring rain and grabbed him from the floor as the equipment gave a ominous sound. Turning to run for the door she saw her brother and sister-in-law in the door just before everything was filled with bright purple light that quickly faded into darkness.
From the shattered remains of my Heart's Desire
Suddenly her whole body erupted in light blue flames that were as cold as ice, yet incinerated her, and her alone, completely in seconds. Yet the flames remained and from those flames stepped Rarity completely nude and feeling more powerful than she had ever felt when she ponied up. The flames quickly swirled around her before becoming clothes and armor just as she stepped in front of her mirror and laughed as she saw the new her.
Finally she calmed down and realized this might be a problem since this new look would be hard to explain to her parents. She then caught a glimpse of the scroll in the mirror and turned to reach out for it when it just glowed blue and floated over to her. Unrolling it she saw there was now a list of powers and instructions on how to turn back to normal. "Hmm... telekinesis will definitely be useful and just saying 'All dreams end when the day begins' to change.... Well that was quick." She said as soon as the flare of light blue light died down and she was back to normal along with her clothes. She had been about to read more when she heard a knock and Sweetie Belle telling her it was time for dinner. "Well maybe later then." She said as she placed the scroll in her nightstand and headed down stairs to dinner.
Dr. Stygian smiled at the rather large and brutish man across the desk from him. "Rest assured sir, I am grateful to your employer for her extremely generous financial contribution and have taken pains in insuring the three patients in question will be on the bus to the Tartarus Maximum Security Mental Institution tomorrow at 8:30 A.M. when it passes the Everfree Juvenile Detention Center's turn off, as per our agreement. I will personally be on board along with Mr. Shadowfright to insure that the guards are of no problem when the bus has a slight mishap. I have also, as per instructions, stock piled all of the equipment she has requested, including the rather unusual ones, in this storage unit at this address." He explained as he slid the sheet of paper across the table to Bobu.
Author's Note
Adagio's Guns, suggestions for strange and silly ammo is welcomed.
Sunset's Shield Necklace.
If you think about it a stage magician like Trixie's grandfather would be inspired to build pseudo-magical items after seeing real magic.
Sonata's knives, what they do is a mystery for now.
Heaven help poor Snails... Just kidding. He's a safe and easy going friend and she likes that about him.
Aria's toy
I almost removed the conversation between Aria and Celestia because it felt off, but then I thought about it and realized it would be off. Just telling principle Celestia that the sirens are a thousand years old and her realizing it in her heart are two different things. In her eyes she sees the children they appear to be. Aria on the other hand is a thousand year old being who is a bit rusty at the whole dealing with mortality and is still having trouble letting go of her 'like I give a shit' attitude that she has used to protect herself through the ages. In a way both of them have come at the conversation with the wrong mindset, but Aria realized it and towards the end is trying to readjust.
Things are about to heat up with Nightmare Rarity, an empowered Sci-Twi, and soon the return of a few of my favorite psychos from Nuclear Option. The Furies and Co. better bring their A game and recruit more people because Tamamo no Mae's plan to reveal magic to the world is looking more like a slaughter for Canterlot.
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The Furies: Vulpine Vexations
Unfriendly Recruitment Drive and A New Friend
Unfriendly Recruitment Drive and A New Friend
Bobu watched the bus as it passed the turnoff and then smiled as one of the wheels blew out and the bus pulled over. From where he stood he could already see the driver was putting on a gas mask as the bus filled with gas. By the time the first tengu got to the door the guards were already on the floor from the knockout gas and quickly stripped them of their uniforms and took their places. He then moved into his position with three nekomatas and two dozen tengu as Dr. Stygian made the call to the Everfree Juvenile Detention Center while more tengu opened the windows on the bus and used their wings to fan the gas out of it after the driver, Shadowfright, had shutoff the gas tank.
By the time the van from the Detention Center arrived the extra tengu and gas masks were gone. Only no one noticed the three nekomatas slip through the gates before they closed and then reopen as he led the tengu into the detention center. The tengu quickly overwhelmed the guards and children alike while he yanked door after door off their hinges and the nekomatas cut all communications, aided the tengu with the only sign of real resistance, and secured the Detention Centers three buses. Within two minutes the van returned followed by the bus with a new tire. Six minutes after that four buses and a van left the Detention Center filled with the kids and under an illusion that made them appear to all be part of the Happy Times Tours bus line. The only thing they left behind was the unconscious guards and other staff members in the middle of the Center. From start to finish it took them just over 25 minutes and it was only the beginning.
Smelly Can, Mjolna, Silver Spanner, and Rare Find hid inside the dumpster they had been searching in their usual Sunday Dumpster Dives as they watched the strange people with over sized noses dragging away homeless people into nondescript vans parked at each end of the ally. The Canterlot High Unofficial Urban Explorers Club would have been caught to if Smelly hadn't noticed the vans and shoved them all into the dumpster. Then the lid was opened and Silver Spanner reacted quickly by spraying the woman with a long hooked nose with her pepper spray while Rare Find threw a half eaten pizza into the face of another. Mjolna was the first across the ally and leapt onto another dumpster and then to the fire escape ladder, dragging it down for the rest as they rapidly climbed to the roof of the building. Behind them were several of the strange people chasing them, but they all had had lots of practice being chased by store owners and cops. Without a single word they ran across the roof and leapt across the ally to the next roof and ran through the roof access door of the abandoned building. By the time the people chasing them got there they had already left the building and had scattered, quickly melting away into the rest of the city before meeting back up outside of the high school. Normally they wouldn't be worried, but something was way off about what had happened and they had to tell somebody.
Tamamo no Mae frowned while the tengu who told her about the four teenagers that had escaped when they had been rounding up homeless people. "I told you to avoid any normal people while grabbing up our guests." She hissed as she prepared for her meeting with Rarity at a cafe the twins had pointed out to her. The girl had been greedier than she thought and already read the scroll. Now she just had to finish setting her hooks into her and soon wouldn't have to rely on Bobu so much to help command her servants, but this might be a snag in her plan if it set things off before she was ready.
Ignoring the pathetic apologies from the tengu, she thought about it and realized any damage from this was already done. "We will proceed as planned, but be ready to leave if need be and revise my escape plan to include Rarity being spirited away via the secondary route if things go wrong. We are not truly committed just yet and can cut our losses here in favor of a larger and more populated city up to the point when we finally come out in the open in a way that cannot be denied." She said more in order to organize her thoughts than for the tengu who loyally acted as her personal assistant. The tengu might be better than her thralls, but only slightly better. If only she could have brought more oni and some kijos, but one was a finite resource she needed to contain the 'good' yokai in japan and the other had all disappeared without a trace after learning of a cyber vigilante using their name.
"How goes the preparations for converting our latest acquisitions?" She asked.
"We will be ready to begin conversion of the humans with in the hour and your five new lieutenants conversions began as soon as they arrived. On a side note, I wish to bring a girl from the Detention Center to your attention. Apparently she lead members of a local street gang in holding off my fellow tengu for four full minutes and was only brought down thanks to the nekomatas." The tengu said as she handed the photo of a girl with several bruises, orange skin, and purple hair to her.
"Impressive." Tamamo no Mae said. "Bump her up to be converted into a lieutenant and place her under Rarity once she is brought in fully."
"There may be issues with that due to..." The tengu then consulted her notes. "Scootaloo being part of Anon-a-miss along with Rarity's little sister, Sweetie Belle."
"We will go with it for now and use both of them to pickup the sister later, but if it becomes an issue transfer this 'Scootaloo' to me." Tamamo no Mae said.
"Yes, my lady," The tengu responded before asking, "And how shall we convert her into a yokai?"
Thinking about it she finally said, "Like two of the others prepare her conversion to become a Shinseidenai Daitengu with a mixture of drugs, alcohol, and human blood that has been super charged with magic. But unlike the others I want her's to also have an age and growth acceleration drug cocktail added in with that Basan killed and completely liquefied into the mixture until she is about 21 and then flat-line her and bring her back with the ritual." She then thought about it and said, "You have been as loyal to me as Bobu, so if she is successful I will grant you the next conversion and make you another of my generals next to Bobu and Rarity."
"Yes my lady." The tengu named Tomoyo said with a look of anticipation in her eyes.
Twilight held Spike as they floated through a chaotic place as a school of tuna fish sandwiches swam past them. There were floating islands and waterfalls that fell upwards. "This place makes absolutely no sense Spike."
"Why thank you Princess and to what do I owe the...." A voice said from all around before a giant mix-matched creature appeared in front of her with a giant magnifying glass and grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and began examining her. "Either Celestia went with mine and Lyra's suggestion for Human Wednesdays or you, my dear, are in the completely wrong universe."
"W..Wh..What are you?" Twilight stuttered out as she held onto Spike.
"I, my dear, am a Pan-Dimensional Omnipotent being of about 10100 trillion years old, give or take an eon here and there and sideways twice on Sundays, called a Draconequus. I am also known as Discord, the spirit of chaos and I wish to say Welcome to the Multiverse!" Discord said as fireworks reverse exploded behind him and then exploded twice for good measure.
"Umm... Thank You?" She said as he placed her and Spike in a chair before shrinking down as he changed into a human in mix-matched clothing.
"Yes, welcome to the multiverse where you never know what is going on in the universe next door until you look, but be careful, some of them have absolutely no sense of humor." With that he pulled down a movie screen out of nowhere with angry chickens dressed in uniforms clucking angrily on it that got a giggle out of Twilight. "I mean I turn all of the nuclear weapons in one world into canned bird feed and solved world hunger for them and instead of thanking me they said a lot of really mean words.... At least I think they were words." He then let go of the screen which disappeared. "Now since I'm BFF's with the living embodiment of kindness and (for reasons I'm not going to reveal just yet) I like you Sci-Twi girl from universe 671975 I'm going to help you out with my Phenomenal All Mighty Transdimensional Powers. So marinate in that chair while I serenade you with the possibilities."
Well Empy had his forty sons
Suddenly Twilight found her chair surrounded by Space Marines and Giant Robots all pointing guns at her.
But missy you in luck 'cause up your sleeves
Then suddenly Discord was there punching them out as he kept singing.
See all you gotta do is call my name
With that he handed her a latte and a bone to Spike while wearing a Starbucks apron
C'mon whisper what it is you want
She suddenly found herself wearing a crown and Spike's bone became a beef jerky scepter with a unicorns head on it.
Say what you wish
Suddenly there was Einstein, Newton, and Galileo holding out autograph books to a blushing Twilight.
Do your friends do that?
The scene around them became a stadium full of people cheering and waving 'We Love Sci-Twi' signs
Do your friends pull the Enterprise D out their little hat?
Above the stadium was suddenly the Enterprise shining spot lights down on them.
Can your friends go poof?
Suddenly she felt a tingle and found herself in the captains chair of the Enterprise with an irritated Jean-Luc Picard standing near by glaring at two Discords who were high-fiving. Finally he threw his hands in the air and headed for his ready room until things made more sense.
So dontcha sit there slack-jawed, buggy-eyed
Suddenly there was a star map on the forward view screen with earth and a dotted line to a nearby star she recognized marked 'planet with really friendly advanced aliens here, bring earth anime they love it.'
Well, all you gotta do is call like so - and oh
Once again everything changed and she found herself in a comfortable chair in a cozy living room with Discord and a butter yellow pegasus who then looked at Discord and asked in a quiet voice, "Um...Do I really, if you don't mind that is, want to know?"
Author's Note
Dr. Stygian
Due to there being no Equestria Girls versions of these characters I am putting up their Equestria Pony-verse versions here.
Larry Shadowfright from the MLP comics
Smelly Can
Silver Spanner and Mjolna
Rare Find
Tamamo no Mae is not some two bit villain with a half-assed plan, she is smart enough to have planned ahead and use converted humans to flesh out her forces as well as fill in her command structure with local talent. She has also planned for failure and is ready to move to another city at a moments notice since all that matters is a definitive demonstration of real magic that cannot be denied or covered up.
Hopefully I got Discord at his best.
Not sure if Sci-Twi in Equestria counts as this becoming a Human in Equestria story.
The Furies: Vulpine Vexations
Plans and Trolling
Tomoyo watched as Scootaloo writhed in agony from the pain of her body being force to grow and age at an accelerated rate. "Current rate of aging?" She asked the tengu monitoring her vitals.
"She is currently aging at one year per every 2 hours." The tengu responded.
"Current magical absorption?" She asked as she watched another tengu readjust her restraints yet again.
"1/10 of what she can absorb?" the tengu monitoring her said.
"Increase the feed and accelerate the process to a year every 30 minutes." Tomoyo said.
"But at that rate the pain will drive her mad and we run the risk of her going into cardiac arrest and flat-lining too soon." the tengu sputtered out.
"She began her conversion behind schedule and will miss the window of maximum opportunity for the ritual to work." Tomoyo said without even turning to look at her fellow tengu. "It is either accelerate the process or reduce the process to meet next month's window of opportunity and I highly doubt we will be afforded that luxury after the raid on the Detention Center, the rounding up of the homeless population, and that eventually some of the so called 'good' yokai from home will slip thru and come here to stop us. No, accelerate the process while preparing an injection of a cocktail of human medication and magic to be delivered directly to her heart to stave off cardiac arrest until the exact moment she is ready."
"Very well, but what of the potential insanity?" The tengu asked as he began increasing the amount of liquid being pumped directly down Scootaloo's throat and checked the other tube to insure her lungs were getting enough oxygen.
"Unavoidable, but it can be guided and redirected..." Looking away from the girl, as her writhing increased, and down at the files on the girl she then said, "Have one tengu imitate this Rainbow Dash and whisper into one of her ears that Scootaloo will never be good enough for her and break her need for this Rainbow Dash." Pausing to think about it she realized Scootaloo could be closer to a true Daitengu than the other two sadists being converted into Shinseidenai Daitengu ever would with a few pushes in the right direction. She was cunning, brave, creative, and quick thinking, traits the tengu actually prized. "Also have another tengu whisper in her other ear that only the tengu love her and that she must become faster, smarter, tougher, and better than the other two would be Shinseidenai Daitengu... Also use magic to both mildly stimulate the pleasure centers of her brain associate the tengu with joy and happiness and rewire her reflexes to be faster than normal."
"At once." the tengu said as he explained everything two other tengu while preparing the leads to attach to Scootaloo's head and down her spine.
Leaning down next to her head, Tomoyo whispered into Scootaloo's ear. "You better be worthy of the risk I am taking for you because if you are we will be the only family you will ever need. If you are worthy we will never betray you or abandon you. We will welcome you with open arms and ask only that you stand with us when all others would leave us to our fate." She then turned and left.
Rarity sat in the cafe as Lady Duckweed entered and Rarity couldn't help but gasp at the shear power and age she could now feel rolling off of her. Lady Duckweed couldn't help but giggle at the girl who sat there slack jawed before reaching out and closing her mouth with a single finger. "I will take your reaction as a complement." She said as Rarity blushed. "Though if I hadn't felt you regaining your magic yesterday I would have still felt your own power as soon as I walked through the door. You are absolutely radiant with magic and power."
"Yes, well darling, I feel even more powerful than I ever did with the Rainbooms." Rarity said before getting a sad look on her face, "I just wish I could show off my lovely wings and horn, the gorgeous armored ensemble, and my luxurious ethereal mane."
"It does sound lovely and you could, but with the panic it would cause amongst the normal humans it wouldn't be worth the hassle." Lady Duckweed said as the waitress brought her a cup of tea. Rarity gasped again when she noticed the girl serving them power and saw her eyes briefly flicker to blood red before returning to their original blue before she left. "It is really a pity with how many different species of magical beings walk side by side with humanity and have so much to offer to the world, but they can't because of fear." As she talked Rarity noticed others in the cafe. A boy pulling his tail back under his long coat, a girl with scales on her hands putting back on her gloves, even a girl whose hair looked like feathers for a brief moment. "Imagine a world where one of the fire fighters can pull the flames from the building itself and absorb them as if it was nothing. Imagine a world where doctors can completely eradicate every case of AIDS in the world within a week with a single spell. Imagine a world where humanities most powerful weapons are rendered obsolete overnight by magic and every nation on earth practically begging the magical beings to come out of hiding." She said with a smile, just waiting for Rarity to point out the seemingly obvious flaw in her plan.
"But what is to prevent them from just rearming with magic?" Rarity finally asked.
"Nothing, but that's the beauty of such a plan, magical beings have extremely long life spans and even the most reclusive ones have seen the horrors of war up close and personal as well as having vast experience with politics and society in general. The humans will invite us in thinking they will out smart us, but in the end they will find that it is us who out smarted them. Once we are out in the open we will slowly work our way deep into every facet of society including fashion, which means being a magical power house will make you the height of fashion and completely overshadow any youthful indiscretions you may have had or will have in the future." Lady Duckweed explained. "Take America, can the average American name me all of the top 100 scandals from last year? No, they are too busy following the latest celebrity divorce or the latest shocking court case that has gripped the country's short attention span." She then got a serious yet sad look on her face. "That short sighted attention span is also what will doom humanity in the end and leave every magical being left to rot on a ruined world. Every single human you know who hasn't gained enough magic will most likely be dead in less than twenty five years and they will most likely be the lucky ones. At least that is what will happen unless my last ditch gambit works before those who would gladly see the world destroyed and left in ruins seal me away again for another couple of centuries or out right kill me while draping themselves in the mantle of the heroes." She then used a trick to cause a few tears to roll down her cheek before wiping them away. "The truly tragic part is that one of them is my own little sister, tricked into betraying me along with her girlfriend." She then waited once more while dabbing fake tears to see if the bait of a tragic story would draw out the romantic in Rarity.
"Oh my," Rarity said as she moved around the table and hugged Lady Duckweed. "What could have caused them to turn against you?" She never noticed the brief 'gotcha' smile as they hugged.
"I left her in a temple where she would be protected while I sought a way to lift a curse from myself." Lady Duckweed told her as she returned to her seat. "Unfortunately by the time I returned she had been kidnapped by some evil magical beings and brainwashed into believing I was a horrific monster. They then tricked me into a place where I was sealed in a death like state for centuries, maybe even millenniums because I can't remember, to prevent me from seeking them out and stopping them from committing atrocities under my true name while they fed upon the suffering and pain they had created. By the time I broke free she had been completely turned against me and her girlfriend believed the horrific legends about me that they had created over time under my name in Japan, China, and India." She said painting a vague picture she had been working on to sell herself as a tragic hero in the media and using the silly ideal of an Illuminate type group to blame everything on while using the girl as her test run. "The worst part is I never learned who they are and have no ideal how many there are or what they look like." Dabbing away fake tears again she said. "All I know is they will stop at nothing to bring about death and suffering, even if it destroys the world. Unfortunately they have also made it impossible for me to save the world without leading an army of what people would call monsters, and creating new ones, out in the open in a way that they can't cover up or deny." She then put a slightly fearful look on her face as she prepared the piece de resistance to win Rarity over to her side. "I do have a confession to make, I didn't come to Canterlot just to help you, but to also ask for your help. I've had to do horrible things to stay ahead of them and to create my army, but it lacks leadership. I have turned six people into powerful magical beings to act as mine and my driver, Bobu, lieutenants, but I had always planned to ask you to be the third general and help us lead them when the time comes after the first time I saw you. I can feel that destiny has marked you for greatness and wish to ask if you would help us save the world from itself and them by joining our cause and standing by us when the time comes to rip away the mask and reveal magic to the entire world?" She could tell the line about destiny and greatness had hit the mark and stroked her ego just right as well as the ideal of leading an army to save the world played to her vanity, but it was still touch and go and she wondered if she should have thrown in a line about her being the chosen one.
"Why of course I will help you how ever I can, but I doubt I will be of much use since I wouldn't no the first thing about leading an army darling." Rarity said.
"You will be in charge of the reinforcements, directing them towards where we need them the most, and using your magic to keeping our main interest safe." Lady Duckweed said.
"Main interest safe?" Rarity asked.
"We need maximum impact for this to work and in three days Senator Orange and two dozen other Senators will hold a press conference in front of your school on the anti-cyber bullying law they are pushing in the senate and since there are many that think she will be the next president every news network will be covering it live." She explained. "We plan to reveal ourselves during the press conference to spark a response from the police and then overwhelm them and both the national guard and the military they will send in afterwards in such a way that shows the world what magic can really do. The main thing is keeping the Senators safe and alive since if they dies our chance of peacefully resolving this will go right out the window afterwards. Right behind them is protecting the students and keeping our escape route open."
"Escape route?" Rarity asked. "What escape route?"
"Let me tell you about what is underneath the city." Lady Duckweed said as she pulled out a blue crystal shard.
Princess Celestia was enjoying her Sunday off in her garden as she didn't have to listen to the nobles in court or have to deal with whatever new threat decided to crawl out of the Everfree. It had been a long established tradition that unless it was an absolute emergency none of the Princesses were to be bothered on Sunday and Moonday and that court would not be held until Tuesday morning (or Tunaday as it was slowly being returned to in honor of it's patron deity, Discord, who had named it). She paused to smell a rose while considering the fact that some of the old ways were returning with there being more than just her now. Just last week she saw Wednesday was being referred to on an official document as Weddedday in honor of Cadence and rumor had it that renaming Friday as Friendsday to annoy Twilight had begun as one of Discord, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash's jokes in Ponyville, but was rapidly gaining support throughout Equestria.
She had been about to reach out and eat the rose when a familiar green flame appeared above her head. Catching it in her magic she remembered that Twilight was in the Crystal Empire visiting Cadence and Shining Armor and Spike had been told to contact her immediately if there was any emergency. Opening the letter she read it and then reread it before dropping it and calling for her Royal Guards.
Princess Celestia,
Come quick, Discord has kidnapped Twilight, turned her into a human, and brainwashed her into not remembering any of us. He has now taken over the castle with Lyra, Derpy, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy and just before he tossed me out the cutie mark map lit up with two of Twilight's cutie marks and the magic mirror was acting up as well. Please hurry.
Spike
"Um...Discord? Are you sure this is a good ideal?" Fluttershy asked as she looked at the strange red costume he had put her in.
"Trust me, if I know anything this will get Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and the other Twi here in no time." Discord said with a smirk as pinkie went past them again with a loud giggle. "Besides, this will help you get over your recent little incident by bringing part of it out and giving you some control over it. You might even realize it can be fun to embrace the madness from time to time."
"I'm not sure, but I did promise to try it." She said as she readjusted the hat once again.
"I guess that will have to due." He said as he booped her nose before adding the sunglasses as her ears suddenly became fuzzier while she giggled.
Turning once more towards Canterlot, he was greeted with the sight of a rapidly growing cloud coming towards them and reached down and pressed play on a giant boombox.
The others quickly moved to their positions while he insured the sound proofing spell was working on the library where Sci-Twi was reading while she waited for him to 'summon' someone to help send her home. With a snap of his fingers he was holding thousands of guns and began firing pillows at the on coming army of royal guards while laughing like the lunatic he was as they fell into giant cakes and pies that appeared below them. He let the princesses get closer before nailing Celestia with life sized plushie of herself and dropping her into a pile of muffins.
Celestia was just digging her way out of the muffins when a card appeared before her.
Dear Sunbutt
This is to inform you that I am here by invoking the 'Test The Royal Guard Readiness' clause of my parole.
DiScOrD
P.S. Watch out for Derpy, she is a little crazy when it comes to one type of bake goods, but you should be able to figure it out.
She then heard the front doors of Twilight's castle slam open and looked at what was in the door and said,
The next thing she knew the gray pegasus in the machine said,
Realizing there was no getting out of this she pulled herself out and motioned for Derpy to come at her saying, "Bring it!" With a smile on her face they both raced at each other.
Luna dodged several pillows as she got closer to the castle before being teleported inside and into a strange costume.
A card then appeared in front of her.
Dear Moonbutt
Yada Yada Yada I'm invoking 'Test The Guard Readiness' clause. Enjoy fighting Flutterbat Alushy in an epic pillow fight while cosplaying as Mare Do Well.
Discord
PS As Flutterbat Alushy she is a lot braver and more aggressive.
PPS Incoming.
Luna blinked for a moment while wondering about that last part when a huge pile of pillows fell on her and she climbed her way out just in time to hear a very demented laugh. Turning she saw Fluttershy dressed in red with a very demented smile.
"Shall we dance Princess Mare Do Well?" She asked before flipping a pillow in the air and then spinning and flicking it with her tail, sending it right straight into Luna's face.
With a hidden smirk Luna then levitated several pillows and said, "Very well... Have at thee!" Before sending them all at Fluttershy who sent them straight back with bucks and tail flicks.
Cadence tried to fly down to help her aunt as Derpy suplexed her into the side of the castle, but was teleported to somewhere inside the castle and into a costume involving a long black robe and a lightsaber from her and Shiny's favorite movies. She was looking at it when a card appeared in front of her.
Dear Cadence,
I am invoking the 'Test the Guard Readiness' clause. Also today is Lyra Heartstrings birthday and she is a Star Mares fan and wanted a lightsaber dual. Don't worry they only tickle a little, but you should have some fun with this against her.
Discord
Post Script: Your the Sith so just do your best King Sombrero impersonation.
Cadence thought about it as she summoned a mirror to see herself with and then messed her hair up a bit to look the part.
Finally she ignited her red lightsaber and sent the mirror away and called out, "I can feel you through the force Jedi. Come and I shall show you the true power of the Dark Side, which I am a mistress of."
"A mistress of evil, Sith." Lyra said as she stepped out into the open and ignited her own lightsaber.
"Then come Jedi and we will see who is more powerful in the force." Cadence said before they rushed at each other with laughter.
Unlike the other Princesses, Twilight kept her eyes on Discord and waited until he was about to snap his fingers before teleporting behind him. Only she found herself caught in his magic as he turned and said, "Nah ah ah, though I do give you props for thinking of that."
"Let me go Discord and surrender." Twilight growled. "And give me back my castle!"
"How about no since what I am doing is perfectly legal." Discord said as pulled out a scroll from mid-air and read, "'As part of Discord, the spirit of chaos, parole he is aloud to invoke clause 32.19a at any time of his choosing within any duly recognized government building and is aloud to recruit any law abiding citizen to aid him in the performance of his duty under clause 32.19a until the conclusion of clause 32.19a via a randomly selected challenge between a predetermined defender and the first sufficiently high enough ranking attacker to reach Discord and be told what the challenge is and who his champion in this challenge is."
"Wait, 32.19a is for testing the royal guards readiness, not taking over my castle." Twilight pointed out.
"Yes, but as the fully and legally recognized Princess of Friendship your castle is a duly recognized government building and as a Princess you are of high enough rank for me to tell you that the challenge is a game of tag while wearing a costume from a video game." He told her while slapping a costume on her. "All you have to do is tag one mare and the test is over. Of course I did have to give her two working items from a video game to make it fair against an alicorn."
Twilight looked at her costume and then gave him a look, "Half-Life, really?" She then sighed and asked, "Fine, who is your champion and what did you give her?"
"Hi Twilight!" Pinkie Pie yelled as she raced passed in her costume shooting out two portals and then jumping into one and exiting out the other in a room with an open window. "Bye Twilight!"
"...You gave Pinkie Pie a portal gun and long fall boots?" Twilight asked in disbelief as he let her go.
"Yes and she has proven to be very adapt at using them." Discord said with a grin while counting down on his fingers. As soon as he hit zero she let out a scream before rushing off after her.
Author's Note
What do you think? Is Tomoyo one of the few tengu who can think ahead or is she playing with fire?
Lady Duckweed/Tamamo no Mae is a master manipulator who has charmed kings and emperors alike and now she is playing Rarity like a harp from hell. Also she isn't telling Rarity the whole plan, but enough to make her think she is and then distract her with a shiny.
Discord Epic Level Troll: 350,004
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The Furies: Vulpine Vexations
Meetings, Crystals, and Tengu and The Pirate
Meetings, Crystals, and Tengu and The Pirate
"Will the following students to please report to the principle's office instead of homeroom: Sunset Shimmer, Adagio Dazzling, Aria Blaze, Sonata Dusk, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy Shy, Applejack Apple, Rarity Belle, Snails Squirm, and Snipsy Snap." Principle Celestia said over the P.A. a few minutes before the first bell rang. She briefly wished she had taken informing the job of showing the video clips to the new faculty members and explaining things to them at the meeting, but Luna was better at reining in Dr. Hooves, who would want to study everything, Zecora, who would need to be reassured that it wasn't dark magic yet again after seeing some of the girls 'ponying up', and let Granny Smith deal with their current unknown factor, Northern Spy.
"Um... Principle Celestia," Sweetie Belle said from the table her and Apple Bloom had been doing their in school suspension by writing individual reports on why cyberbullying is morally and ethically wrong and hand written letters of apology to every single one of their victims that also explained why what they did was wrong as well as their regular school work. "Rarity didn't come to school today because she has the flu." She then dug out a note from her book bag and handed it to Principle Celestia.
"Well good thing you can take notes on what we will be talking about for her." Celestia said as she read over the note as the others entered the office. There were several scowls directed at Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle as the bell rang. "Okay, Aria has told me there is a magical situation coming our direction and this was the best way to gather almost everyone we needed to in one place." She said.
"Oh great," Rainbow Dash said sarcastically, "What type of 'I'm evil overlord wannabe so and so' was dumped here this time?"
"Actually this one is actually from this world and until recently was considered dead and buried for good." Adagio said.
"At least until her younger sister visited her grave to pay her respects and return her soul so her spirit could finally be put to rest." Aria picked up where Adagio had left off. "Turns out she had placed enough of her life force and magic into her kitsune star ball that when it was brought to her grave it had enough power to jump start her body and bring her back."
"Um... What is a kitsune star ball?" Fluttershy asked before adding. "If you don't mind that is."
"A star ball is a spherical piece of jewelry that holds a kitsune's soul and some spare magic." Sonata said. "Though how Tamamo no Mae figured out how to shove some of her life force into it is a mystery, but Koemi thinks it's because she's a nine tailed kitsune, since all nine tails are like someone playing a game in god mode with tons of cheat codes."
"OK, A) what in tarnation is a Kit-sue-knee?" Applejack asked, "And B) how do you stop one of them if they r a no good dirty rotten cheat?"
"Oh... Oh... I bet it's some kind of crazy ancient Japanese fox spirit with some kind of shape shifting ability and known for being a magical trickster with all kinds of freaky deaky powers and even with all of the cheat codes the really powerful one have enabled they are still vulnerable if you can get your hands on their star ball because then they have to do what you say until they get it back and then they go into a homicidal rage and try to make everyone all dead." Pinkie pie said while balancing a pencil on her nose and not noticing everyone looking at her.
Adagio started ask how before Sunset stopped her. "Trust me, Twilight warned me about this. Just go with it."
"Yes, but we're more like a race of polymorphic foxes that were fast tracked to sapience by magic and with an almost Immortality of sorts." An unnoticed potted plant said in the corner.
"Koemi, we're suppose to keep a low profile until Aria introduces us." What looked like the carpet grumbled before drawing in towards one spot and standing up to reveal a brown haired girl wearing glasses and wearing a brown dress and brown boots as well as having a bushy raccoon like tail and ears. "And I'm a Tanuki, not a Kitsune. We evolved from japans raccoon dogs, not raccoon's like everyone believe."
"Uh... Surprise?" Aria said with a nervous grin as the Rainbooms, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Snips and Snails looked at Aiko in shock while Principle Celestia and Sonata burst out laughing.
"Koemi drop the disguise already." Aiko said to the plant in the corner before there was a shimmer with light blue flames and Koemi sat the where the plant had been before getting up while wearing her red and white shrine maidens outfit. Behind her was her seven tails red fox tails and she had fox ears.
"Miss Aiko Yamagata," Celestia said with as straight face as she could, "I hope you won't be exposing your balls around my school anymore, there are decency laws in this town you know."
"THEY AREN'T TESTICLES YOU HAIRLESS APE!" Aiko yelled. "I'M SICK AND TIRED OF hmuphmuhmph!"
"Not so loud." Adagio said with her hand over Aiko's mouth. "Your in a school and we need to keep a low profile until we figure out what Tamamo no Mae is planning."
"Which brings us back to our current problem and the fact that I think I know where she is going to be." Principle Celestia said as she pulled out two doctored student files and handed them to the two girls as they lost their ears and tails. "Wednesday Senator Orange and several other senators will be holding a press conference in front of the school when they announce that they will be introducing anti-cyberbullying legislation. Your sister's legend, Koemi Tamamo, is very clear about her gravitating towards people in power and the press conference will be her best chance short of heading to Washington D.C. to get close to people in power."
Snails then raised his hand and asked, "Why are we here?"
"Every single one of you, minus Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Principle Celestia have been exposed to Equestrian magic and been physically transformed by it." Sunset Shimmer said. "This means that you need to wear these until we can stop Tamamo no Mae due to the fact that you have the potential to be able to do Equestrian magic in this world." With that she began passing out gems on simple cords for them to wear. "These will protect you from magic for a short period of time and will begin to glow if someone tries to cast a spell on you." She then handed several more of them to Celestia. "You can pass these out to the staff and I'll stop by the bank later and grab more of my Equestrian gems from my safety deposit box to make something for the senators since Earth gems lack the ability to hold any magic."
"Um... Where did you get all of these gems?" Fluttershy asked.
"I brought my life savings with me when I came to this world and these were part of that." Sunset said. "Technically I was worth over $18,000,000.00 with all the the gold bit coins I brought with me alone, but that's now closer to $85,000,000.00 due to the Flim Flam brothers helping me create a legal identity and teaching me about investments and the stock market."
"What?" Applejack yelled. "Those two con men..."
"Are a good example of what not to do with the money you make off of selling your patents and avoiding bad investments." Sunset said with a smirk. "They would have been millionaires by now if they had kept the patents and not made some extremely bad stock market investments that wiped them out, but I'm sure their next invention will turn everything around for them."
"OK, great, but what magic?" Rainbow Dash asked impatiently.
Looking over at Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom she said, "Remember your deal with Principle Celestia..."
"Not a word about this to anyone and she will knock a week off of our nine week in school suspension." They both said in unison.
"Good." Sunset said before continuing, "I only found out yesterday how to make Equestrian Magic work in this world, but the real danger is a type of random magic known as a Heart Song. It can warp reality to make the world act like a Broadway musical."
"We've seen an entire town hit by a runaway tornado be repaired during a song and dance in minutes." Adagio said.
"And a single pony take on an army of thousands and win because of another one." Sonata said.
"Then there's the fact that we've seen villains use them as well and you have the potential for trouble since they are virtually unstoppable." Aria finished. "The Changeling Queen actually has a very good singing voice and has escaped several times from certain death because of them, including execution twice."
"Three times, she escaped again 237 years ago." Sunset said. "But the main thing is Tamamo no Mae is already dangerous enough without being given the ability to takeover the country with a single song on live TV."
"So these things will protect us from that song?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"No, nothing can stop a Heart Song, but they should protect you from other types of magic she can use." Adagio said. "The best you can do with a Heart Song is either get away from it, subvert it, or if your really lucky counter it with another equally powerful Heart Song, but you have to catch it just at the right time to pull that off and only two of the Princesses ever did that once."
It was then the bell rang. "Go on to class and you can work out what else to do at lunch." Principle Celestia said before saying to Aiko and Koemi, "Sunset can help you find your class and everything." With that they left her with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle.
Rarity entered the house that Bobu had brought her to and lead her down the stairs to the tunnel in the basement. She couldn't believe how easy the sleep spell had been and had left her mother napping on the sofa while her father was at work getting ready for his sports talk radio show. The illusion would fool them if they looked in on her and the suggestion Lady Duckweed had taught her would have them leave her alone to sleep it off the rest of the week.
The tunnel soon gave way to a cavern that took her breath away. She followed him past pillars of multi-colored crystals across a floor of blue crystal. Over head was rock with veins of crystals radiating out from the tops of the pillars. "How can all of this be down here and nobody know about it?" Rarity asked as they moved through another tunnel and into another cavern with red crystal floors and more pillars.
"These crystals are very reactive to a kind of magic we never saw before." Aloe said as she studied a pillar with a strange device that made Rarity's skin crawl for some reason. "We've been here for centuries studying them as they reacted to something every few years, but until a few months ago they were mostly in one cavern and only started growing at an increased rate after the Fall Formal." She then changed to her Daemonic form while smiling at Rarity as the girl began sputtering. "Yes, yes, big bad evil demon who counts torturing the damned for all of eternity as one of her hobbies. Before you ask I'm here on behalf of Hell to studying them as a alternative energy source to using the souls of the damned since they hold magic like you wouldn't believe and just become plain ordinary rock once drained which can easily be recharged by just bring it back here. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to working on taking readings on the growth ratio of these quasi crystal-gem hybrids and compare them to... WHOA!!!"
"I really could care less about what you are since I my definition of what people are has been expanded recently," Rarity said as she levitated Aloe with one hand and pulled loose crystals from the pillars and floor with the other and forming a beautiful yet very revealing gown around Aloe's body with them. "But I must insist upon a little decorum no matter what you are and not traipse around naked."
Aloe had been about to say something scathing, but then she saw the readings on the scanner as well as physically seeing the crystals around them reacting to her magic and actually growing. As soon as she was placed on the ground again she grabbed the scanner and was about to say something, but Rarity and Bobu were already gone. "Pit take it all! I finally had the answer in front of me and she got away." She then looked at the gown and walked towards the exit to the Spa. "I need to inform her majesty of this."
Pipsqueak got onto the school bus and asked the driver, "Where's Mrs. Dove?"
"She had an emergency." The man with a long crocked nose said. "Just take a seat and we'll be leaving in a bit."
Something about him seemed off and as soon as Pipsqueak sat down he heard Yellowbeard in his head, "Something isn't right about that one, keep a good eye out for trouble because I can smell a storm a brewing."
"He creeps me out too." Pipsqueak whispered as he looked around and noticed the other kids were all asleep and a that he was getting sleepy too.
"It's a trap!" Yellowbeard said.
Pipsqueak noticed the students in the other bus near by were asleep too as he said, "Us Yellowbeards are never more dangerous than when we're dead."
Buzzard Beak couldn't believe how easy it was to slip in and set up the plan to grab a bunch of kids. In a few more minutes he would be given the single by the clueless teacher and be the first bus to drive away with a whole school's worth of children for Tamamo no Mae. That was when he felt a tap on his shoulder and heard a man's voice ask, "excuse me guvnor, but do you know how to fly?" A second later he was screaming as he was thrown into the side of the bus next to his.
"Right, bird brains don't know how to fly." Yellowbeard said as he leapt out of the bus's door and onto the hood of the bus he had tossed him into. Pulling back a fist he punched through the windshield and dragged the next tengu from the driver seat and head butting him before tossing him to the side and then running down the roof of the bus to the next one as the tengu dropped their human disguises and left their buses to confront the problem as the human teachers panicked and screamed at the sight of bird-men type monsters fighting a pirate on top of the buses. "ARRGGGHHH! Finally a real fight to warm up the old bones after so long." As several of them tackled him off one bus and through the windshield of another bus Pipsqueaks phone began playing the drunken sailor remix Aria had downloaded for him.
Several teachers watched as the bus rocked violently back and forth as the kicking, biting, punching fight exploded out of the emergency door in back with Yellowbeard tackling a half dozen of the tengu out and onto the ground while beating them with the torn off feathery leg of one of them. Only for two dozen more to leap onto his back to try to bring the mad man down. They kept punching and kicking as they tried to hold him down. Then there came a mighty roar from within the pile before they were all thrown back and Yellowbeard caught his breath long enough to look at them and yell, "Well come on then if you think you're hard enough for old Yellowbeard the Pirate!" With that he threw himself back into the fight by punching out two of them while head butting a third. They quickly realized he was to strong and fast for them and grabbed the other tengu and fled with the crazed pirate in hot pursuit.
Only he ducked back into the school and a moment later a very hyper Pipsqueak walked out of one of the boys room just as the police and ambulances arrived. In all of the confusion he slipped past everyone's notice and walked home with his book bag over one shoulder. He even saw security footage of the fight from the school, but the reporter said the cameras on the buses had been disabled by the people wearing bird masks and that the authorities were looking for them and the heroic man dressed like a pirate in connection with drugging all the children on the buses with knockout gas. He didn't even get in trouble for breaking the rule about not walking home from school.
Author's Note
Rarity may have her priorities screwed up and what do you think the deal is with the crystals?
Finally Yellowbeard cutting loose and kicking ass.
The Furies: Vulpine Vexations
Bonus Chapter: Flash Drive vs...
Bonus Chapter: Flash Drive vs...
Flash Sentry, Sandalwood, Microchip, and the newest member of Flash Drive, Gizmo, looked around the gym at the other bands and just shook their heads after the warning from Vice Principle Luna about a sudden out break of mid-life crisis and few lost bets. "Do you guys think we should go easy on them?" Gizmo asked.
"You do and it's detention for a week." Coach Iron Will said as he passed them.
"There's that and two of the bands actually have songs still on the radio." Flash said as he pointed to one band and said, "Passion" and then pointed to the one Iron Will had just joined, "and Mystery Meat. So we're up against at least two very good bands."
"Don't look now, but things just got worse." Microchip said pointing to another band walking in.
"Dude, let's just get ready." Sandalwood said as he walked over to a place on the bleachers. "With any luck we'll hold our own and they just want to prove they can still do it."
"Normally it would be my sister doing this, but due to the circumstances involved with these auditions me and Dean Cadence from Crystal Prep will be judging which band will be playing at the Valentines Day Dance instead. Each band gets to play two songs each." Luna said before walking over and joining Cadence at a table. "The first band will be 'Brother Blues'. How you two lost a bet with Grogar I'll never know."
"Would you believe it involved us either doing this or talking three of your students into selling us a rare Stradivarius guitar?" Tirek asked as several hired musicians got ready.
"He's right, letting Grogar Jr. record a video of them would be cheaper." Octavia said, pointing to said lawyer's son, as her and Vinyl Scratch sat down on the bleachers. "Stradivarius's cost millions and the guitars are even harder to find."
"When your ready." Luna said.
With That the band began playing as Tirek and Sombra stepped up to the microphones.
They then went into their second song.
"Thank you." Cadence said as Luna weakly asked why her, "Next we have 'Apples'... You guys didn't really bother with thinking up a cleaver name did you?"
"More like it was the only name we could agree on." Northern Spy said as Big Mac, Breaburn, and Caramel got ready. "For the record I wasn't involved in the bet that resulted in this."
"Given the fact that Big Mac has delivered apple cider in a dress before I'm betting it was him." Luna said. "Just start when your ready."
Northern Spy just nodded to Caramel on the drums before stepping up to the microphone.
For the next song Northern Spy traded his guitar for a saxophone as Big Mac stepped up to the microphone and Caramel rang a bell.
"Thank you." Luna said. "Next we have, and I can't believe you two are willingly doing this, 'Passion'."
"Luna, me and Chrysi are just feeling nostalgic and her youngest three wanted to try." Celestia said as she stepped up to the microphone with her guitar while Chrysalis stepped up to the other one before checking on her two youngest sons, Thorax and Pharynx, and her youngest daughter Pupa as they got their instruments ready.
"You can start when your ready." Cadence said before Luna said anymore.
Before they started their second song Chrysalis gave her children a smile and said, "After this we'll take Quackers and go get ice cream sweeties, and yes, I'll get you a frozen yogurt Thorax." She then stepped back up to the microphone.
"Thank you." Cadence said and had to fight to keep from squealing at how cute Pupa was as she took her mother's hand and carried her stuff animal off the stage with her.
"Next we have Octavia and Vinyl Scratch, who are actually students here." Luna said as she looked at some of the others who weren't.
"Is there an issue with that?" Octavia ask as she plugged in her new electric cello into Vinyl's DJ mixing table.
"Not with you." Luna said, "You can begin when your ready."
Octavia then looked at Vinyl and gave her a nod to single to her that they were pulling out the big guns for this one.
"Thank you." Cadence said. "Next we have Mystery Meat."
"I'm still trying to figure out why you would be auditioning for a high school dance." Luna grumbled.
"My daughter found one of my old records and begged me to." Filthy Rich said as he stepped up to the microphone as Iron Will, Carrot Cake, Dr. Whooves, and Sterling Silver got ready with Spoiled Rich, Nurse Redheart, and Cup Cake as their female vocals. "Everyone else either wanted to prove that we still had it or thought it sounded fun."
They instantly went into their next song with out missing a beat.
Flash looked at his band mates and they quickly huddled after that. "I say we go with our first song, but switch the second to the version we been playing around with because we are going to need our A game after that."
"Think it's ready man?" Microchip asked.
"Dude, it's now or never." Sandalwood said.
"I'm in." Gizmo added.
"Then let's do this." Flash said as he lead them towards the stage.
"Thank you." Luna said as Mystery Meat left the stage. "Next we have Flash Drive."
Flash Sentry didn't even say a thing as he stepped up to the microphone and waited for Gizmo to start them off with his DJ setup and keyboard.
Flash Drive didn't miss a beat as the other two came in and they gave it everything they had.
"Thank you" Luna said as she stood up and said "We will have our decision in a few minutes."
Author's Note
I needed a fun little break. Now the big question is who won? You decide in the comments.
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The Furies: Vulpine Vexations
Six new Yokai, Mystery Girl, Prisoner, and Meanwhile in Equestria
Six new Yokai, Mystery Girl, Prisoner, and Meanwhile in Equestria
Tamamo no Mae looked down into the churning, bubbling vats as the tengu and her thralls worked to finish everything before the ritual was completed. She watched as the other tengu and the few nekomatas she had brought began the last part of chanting the spells while Tomoyo and her team monitored the sensors to the additions they had added to the six corpses inside of the vats and checked one last time to make sure the souls were still bound to the bodies for when they were brought back. At Tomoyo's signal she called all of her thralls to the top of the vats and watched as each and every single one slit their own throats and fell into the vats at the exact moment both the the last word was chanted and switches were thrown flooding the vats with electricity. She couldn't help but grin as she watched the liquid evaporate at a much more controlled rate than lightning ever did as humanities creativity once again would prove to be their folly.
As the levels of liquid dropped she thought of the old days when lightning might bring just one out of hundreds back as a yokai, but now it was a much safer and more controlled version that was about to bring back the exact number they wanted. Even the alchemical brew in the vats were now more exact and precise than they had been in the past. Then there was the additions, humans dreamed of augmenting their bodies with metal, but they lacked the magic to work around what their current technologies couldn't do. These six would be just the first amongst many 'Cyborgs' powered by magic and their own souls. For this alone human kind would pay any price for, at least until they realized that these six were also now immortal and would never grow old or sick or even die.
She watched with glee in her eyes as Glenda and Gabby emerged from the liquid first, their heads partially encased in metallic helmets that were permanent and would control their more psychotic natures through direct applications of orgasmic pleasure and unspeakable agony to the pleasure and pain centers in their brains with just a press of one of the two little buttons. She watched as their metallic claws began twitching as they took their first breaths and the restraints holding them began to groan from the strain, but they held. She looked over their now bulging muscles that hid the armored steel plates and reinforced bones underneath, giving them the ability to soak up damage as if it was nothing. She smirked as the first technician pressed the agony button and Gabby began screaming in pain after trying to bite him, they would learn very quickly to know their place at her feet.
She then looked over at the only two who had volunteered and watch as Dr. Stygian was surrounded by shadows before disconnecting himself from the monitoring equipment and then disappearing and reappearing next to her. "My Lady, this is more than I ever dreamed of. To finally have a young body once more was all I ever wanted, but I am truly in your debt for this and am glad to pledge myself to your cause."
"I'm with the Doc, they can keep their retirement package if working for you means I'm young and strong again." Shadowfright said as he flowed out of the vat and took on the vague shadowy shape of his former self.
"Trust me gentlemen, there is much more to be had than just better bodies." Tamamo no Mae told them. "The world itself will come crawling to us for all this and more. Serve me faithfully and you will have more than you ever dreamed you could possibly have in a hundred lifetimes."
She then turned to look at the last two as Tengu led Shadowfright and Dr. Stygian away to do a medical check up on them. She watched as Zephyr Breeze's body became ethereal and was flowing into the cables attached to it. She watched the glowing cables as his mind, body, heart, and soul flowed along them and into the mainframe that would hold him until he could be moved to where he would be partially released into the internet, while being kept on a tight leash, so he could cause mayhem and keep the authorities occupied while delivering messages and information packets to every country on Earth. She had had the tengu technicians put every safe they could, including the fact that if he did anything she did not like the thermite in the mainframe would turn it into a molten puddle of metal and take his soul and life force with it. Out of all of them he was by far the most dangerous and was bound with as many chains as tightly as possible to the mainframe.
She had been about to ask for status update on his containment when she heard the shattering of the metal bindings in the last vat. Turning her breath caught in her throat as the tall lithe figured shot out of the vat and landed next to Tomoyo. Her wing span alone had to be 15 feet and she stood well over 7 1/2 feet tall with long purple hair with orange feathers interspersed through it cascading down her bright orange back. She had been the late comer to being converted and had only minor cybernetics, but some how the few glimpses of the enhanced nervous system showed it had been integrated into her body in such a way that it looked organic like a living metal tattoo along her arms, legs, neck, face, and body. that brought her hands and feet to her attention, from the elbows and knees down was bright yellow and ending in razor sharp talons at the end of her fingers and toes with a sharp talon coming out of the back of her feet as well. Some how her feathers on her wings had taken on a sharp glowing metallic orange and purple look. Tamamo no Mae reached out and felt the shear power rolling off of her and realized they had actually created a true Daitengu. She then looked at the vat she had come out of and saw the metal table she had been laying on had the outline of her wings where she had pulled the metal in her feathers from. Not only that but all around the vat she could see plain rock where she had pulled the extra magic she had needed from The girl's clothing she had been wearing had been replaced repeatedly, but her transformation had shredded even that and what little remained barely held back anything for the imagination.
As she stood there trying to figure out how this Scootaloo could be a true Daitengu as Tomoyo led Scootaloo over to her. The tengu were now bowing to her as she passed them because they knew she what she was. But that brought a new question to Tamamo no Mae's mind, Daitengu's always had a mountain they were connected to on a spiritual level, where was her's? or did they find their mountain's after becoming one?
"My Lady, Tamamo no Mae, I am proud to introduce the first true American Daitengu ever, Scootaloo." Tomoyo said before turning to Scootaloo and saying. "Scootaloo, this is our, and now your, benefactor, Tamamo no Mae..."
"My Lady, we encountered unexpectedly heavy resistance and were forced to flee..." Another tengu said as he ran up to report only to stop when he saw Scootaloo.
"You!" Rarity yelled from another entrance as soon as she saw Scootaloo. "What are you doing here and how are you now an adult?" She demanded as Tamamo no Mae felt the beginnings of a headache. Looking around she saw Aloe and Lotus coming towards her with a letter and felt it become a real headache.
The girl grumbled as she pulled her hood back over her head, pulled the bandanna back over her mouth an nose to hide them, and put back on her sun glasses. She wasn't to sure what an ANTIFA was, but apparently the so called patriots at the U.S. boarder thought she was one and now they were all dead. The Mexican family she had crossed with had fled as soon as they could and with luck would make it to where ever they were heading. Reaching into her pocket she pulled out a notepad and turned the page before reading:
The last of her kind shall cross into the land of plenty and meet those with hate in their hearts and evil in their souls.
"Can't you three ever give me something less cryptic?" She asked out loud before looking at the next page:
NO!
Giving up, she looked around and soon found several ATV's and dirt bikes with the keys in them. "Well at least the jerks didn't leave me high and dry." She quickly grabbed two gas cans from one and put them on the best bike there before grabbing a canteen and taking a drink. She then rode away leaving a mystery of why someone would put up statues of heavily armed men at the boarder for the boarder patrol to ponder over.
Toshi and the Kama Itachi sisters moved through the shadows as they tried to track an injured tengu through the city, but at some point it realize it was being followed and began trying to evade them and almost got away several times. Originally the plan had been to just track it back to where ever it came from in hopes it would lead them back to where Tamamo no Mae, but now he was ready to just capture it and drag it back to the mansion. "Tsumeato go right and Hotai go left and flank them." Toshi directed as the other two blocked off where the alley way split off into other side alleys. The tengu kept running straight until the alley turned the corner sharply and right into Tataku's baseball bat.
"So do we just hang her off the side of a building Batman style and threaten to drop her if she doesn't talk or what?" Tataku asked as she cleaned her bat.
"I vote we duct tape her to the front of Aria's SUV and go off roading." Hotai said as she held up her roll of duct tape.
"I say we take her home and fix a chicken dinner in front of her while hinting that she's next if she doesn't talk." Tsumeato said with a wicked grin.
"First we see if she has any useful clues in her pockets and then we drag her back to the mansion for interrogation." Toshi said as he searched the female tengu with a bloody bandage where one of her arms use to be. "Many tengu start out as human and live amongst them as human these days. So they often keep the old human habit of shoving things in their pockets... Huh, a business card for a spa with an appointment date on it for this morning." He then looked at the sisters. "Hotai, re-bandage that wound so she doesn't die on us. Tsumeato, you hang out around spas, has she been to one today?"
Tsumeato sniffed the tengu and said, "message oil, cucumbers, seaweed, and mud, yeah she was at one, but there is a sulfur and burning smell mixed in with that. I also smell cave fungus like in the cave near where mom lived."
"Well where ever she has been has crystals because they're stuck in the treads of her shoes." Tataku said while prying out a blue crystal from the bottom of the shoe.
"Well, she'll live." Hotai said as she finished using the purple glowing duct tape on the stump.
"Then I'll call Aria for a pickup." Toshi said as he pulled out a phone and walked to the end of the alley way and made the call.
"So have either of you thought about what we are going to do after all of this is over?" Hotai asked as she sat down next to the tengu. "I mean after Tamamo no Mae is taken care of?"
"Not really." Tataku said as she leaned against a wall. "I figured we would just go back to harassing humans like we did in Japan."
"Like I want to spend all of my time tripping drunk idiots like our mother did with her sisters." Tsumeato said as she climbed up on a trashcan to sit. "I plan to visit a spa and buy a meal in a restaurant since they don't have those annoying little spell charms over here to keep us out. Even going in and sitting down to eat at McDonald's would be a treat compared to eating from vending machines all the time. Imagine buying and wearing clothes that we didn't scrounge from the trash or make ourselves."
"I want to go to school and learn more than a few hundred words we were taught from human signs. I want to read those 'Lord of the Rings' books those movies Sonata told us they were based on." Hotai said. "I want to sit down and read books on healing...So I don't loose you two like we did mom because I wasn't good enough." She tried to hide the tears but her sisters were still there to hug her
"Then... join... the... lady... not... fight... her." The tengu croaked out. "She... promised... us... a... world... with... no... more... hiding."
"Do you really think you will get your utopia where you all will live like kings and queens over the humans?" Toshi asked as he walked back.
Sitting up and leaning against the wall, the tengu changed back to looking human and said, "After all of this is done and over with Tamamo no Mae doing whatever she wants because once they see the truth they will either except us or be left behind by those nations that welcome us with open arms. The poorest nations will beg us for our magic while the richest nations squabble and once our magic turns one of them into a new super power the rest of the world will accept it or be left in the dust. Once we help a nation build a city on the moon and mars in ten years even the hold outs will give in."
Toshi thought about what she had said as he heard Aria pull up and get out. "It will never work, the humans have a spell charm that keeps the Kama Itachi sisters out of a lot of places..."
The tengu just laughed at that, "That's old magic and the Japanese don't even know what it is anymore or how easy it is to counter the 'good luck charm' with a tattoo." With that she lifted her shirt and bra and showed the tattoo just above her left nipple. "A Kijo invented this 195 years ago." She then pulled her shirt back down. "You so called Good Yokai are the ones living in a fantasy world called the past and tradition. You cling to it so hard that billions of innocent people have died for your faith and then call us the monsters when ever we dare try to change the way things are."
"Says the one armed woman who tried to kidnap school children." Aria said.
Forcing herself up onto her feet she looked at Aria and said, "Tamamo no Mae asked for a few hundred children and we were sent out to collect them. We need her, Bobu, and the new one's power and strength if we're going to make this work."
"What new one?" Hotai asked.
"Some local girl, don't know her name, just that she recently gained a lot of power." The tengu said.
"OK then, where is your base of operations at?" Toshi asked. "Also how many Yokai do you have?"
"Not saying." the tengu said. "And by the time you find out it will be too late."
"Then you're of no further use." Toshi said as he unsheathed his sword.
"No." Aria said as she stepped in front of the tengu and here crossbow unfolded as she pointed it at Toshi. "She is unarmed and already a prisoner."
"Her life was forfeited the moment..." Toshi started to say.
"Bull Shit!" Aria said. "This isn't feudal Japan and I'm not going to just stand by and let you commit murder."
"Stand aside or else." Toshi said as he watched her.
"Or else what?" Aria said.
"Or he'll kill you like any human who stands up for one of us." The tengu said from behind her.
"Well news flash, that Bull Shit doesn't work here." Aria said. her aim never wavering even for a moment.
"Stand aside so I can kill that abomination or else I will be forced..." Toshi started.
"Or else what? Lose your head maybe?" Sonata said from behind him with a overly sickeningly sweet voice as Day Ender rested on his neck. "Or have your soul sucked up by my little toy? Or perhaps you should actually have looked when she pulled in since I hopped out to watch the entrance to the alley way?"
"You forget that the Kama Itachi sisters are here and more than even up the odds." Toshi said.
"They're not murderers." Aria said without even looking.
"For realizes!" Sonata add as she removed her axe from his neck. "They totally don't have the eyes that says they have kill in cold blood."
"But we on the other hand have killed so many we could fill an ocean with the blood of our victims." Aria said.
"In two completely different worlds no less." Sonata added, ready to swing if he so much as twitched funny and feeling Day Ender's strings vibrating under her hands in anticipation.
"And you wouldn't be the first Mujina we have had to put down and most likely not the last either." Aria added, "So the big question you should be asking is..." With that she fired as Sonata leapt backwards. The seed at the end of the bolt sprouted in mid air and Toshi soon found himself wrapped up tightly in thousands of vines as Aria spun and shot the tengu with another seed before turning to find Tataku duct taped on the ground and Tsumeato and Hotai sitting on top of her as her bat clattered to the ground.
"Tangle nettle?" Hotai asked with a grin. "Personally I prefer duct tape, more versatile and easier to put a self regenerating spell on."
"We had a rather heated vote and you won 2 to 1 for which side to choose." Tsumeato said as she sat there.
"Fine." Aria said as she folded back up her crossbow and collected Toshi's sword and Tataku's bat and put them in the SUV before helping Sonata load the tengu, Toshi, and Tataku in the back. "Let's go home."
After two hours of chasing Pinkie Pie through the castle Twilight finally got a silly ideal and went to the kitchen and pulled out a cake, casted a spell on it, and put a sign on it that said:
Definitely not a trap!
One minute later Pinkie was stuck to the floor by the super bubble gum cake and yelled, "The Cake was a lie!"
"Yes and also tag." Twilight said as she teleported in next to Pinkie Pie and booped her on the nose. She then watched as the castle was returned to normal and the other princesses were teleported to her location along with Discord, Derpy, Lyra, and Fluttershy.
"I give the guards a B+ on response time and a C- for reaction time, but only for how hard it was to nail Flash Sentry with a pie." Discord said as he held up a picture of Flash Sentry as the M.V.P. "He even out lasted the Wonderbolts, though Soarin doesn't count since he was actively chasing the pies." With that he tossed the picture out the window and got a more serious look on his face. "Now on to our two guests in the library and why I used the quickest method I could think of to summon all four of you here." With that he pulled a screen down out of the air with the image of the other Twilight Sparkle reading a book in the library while her spike slept on the floor. "It seems the other you from the other side of the mirror found a loophole and ended up here as a human. Normally this wouldn't be a problem except if we shove her through the portal she'll exit a pony in the human world and if I send her back she will appear in a random place, maybe even in a wall or 50,000 feet up without a parachute." With that the image changed to a cartoon human Twilight and the mirror. "Which means we need to override the safeties on the mirror so she can pass through as a human and stay a human." The cartoon Twilight went through the mirror and stayed human, only then the portal exploded. "This has the side effect of the portal destabilizing unless two princesses go through as ponies first and all four of you act as temporary anchors on both sides while I stabilize it permanently, but this means the portal will be opened permanently between worlds." With that the screen rolled up and disappeared as Discord pulled out pipe and blew bubbles. "So do we send her to her probable doom and hope she rolls a good saving throw, tell her to run like heck through an unstable portal and hope she clears the blast zone, or open ourselves to the chaos of official interdimensional contact with the next door neighbors who are sometimes violent, but have a soft spot for cute things and ponies would count as cute to them? That is of course if none of you can figure out another way of sending her home."
Author's Note
You didn't think Tamamo no Mae would get everything her way did you? As for the six, Glenda and Gabby might be more powerful now, but they are slaves to who ever holds their remotes. Dr. Stygian and Shadowfright both willingly did it because Tamamo no Mae gave them something money can't buy yet, she really did give them back their youth. Zephyr Breeze is just one sneeze away from having his life and soul turned into a bubbling puddle of slag. Finally Scootaloo is the only one to come out of this ahead of the game with a body Rainbow Dash would kill for. And yes her hands and feet are chicken talons scaled up to human size.
Imagine the damage four of these can do on an angry teen now the size of a professional basketball player with enhanced speed, agility, and reflexes and wings with razor sharp metallic feathers. Oh and Tamamo no Mae had a Basan's entire body liquefied and added to her mixture. A Basan is a 10 foot tall fire breathing chicken from Japanese folklore, so anyone still laughing about Scootachicken jokes better start running now because this Scootaloo is no laughing matter.
Who's this, a new mystery girl headed to Canterlot? She was briefly mentioned in the last story and is on a mission from Fate.
I wanted to do something with the Kama Itachi Sisters as well as give a peons view of Tamamo no Mae's plan and why they follow an obviously genocidal psychopath. To them the so called good yokai are the bad guys and they could careless about Tamamo no Mae's machinations after it's all out in the open. Toshi's attitude didn't really help his sides case. I feel I should also point out that the Kama Itachi Sisters are sort of like the ideal of Id, Ego, and Super Ego, I'll let you figure out who is who.
Mean while in Equestria...
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The Furies: Vulpine Vexations
Chase, Meeting of the minds, and Psycho vs Ninjas
Chase, Meeting of the minds, and Psycho vs Ninjas
Warning: This chapter has colored text. Please adjust your settings before complaining.
Aria had been reaching for the passenger side door, since Sonata wanted to drive, when she heard something above her. Looking up, she quickly jumped into the SUV as several throwing knives hit the ground where she had been. "Go! Go! Go!" She yelled at Sonata as the SUV went backwards just before several people in black came down where they had just been. Sonata never even slowed down as she plowed through some more people landing behind the SUV and spun into the street and taking off just before two other white SUV's tried to block off the alley. "Shit! Did you guys check to see if you might have been followed or if your new friend might have had help coming to get her?"
"Toshi said not to worry about it." Hotai said as Aria reached into the back with them and grabbed a case from the floor board.
"The same guy who wanted to kill our only lead and was ready to kill me over it." Aria said as she hit the button to open the sunroof as several more white SUV's and white cars chased them. "Exactly how much do you know about him?" She asked as she opened the case and pulled out a short golden bow and a strung it.
"He's always been around and the police in Japan don't seem harass us as much as they use to after he talked to them." Hotai said as she pulled Tsumeato's throwing knives out of her first aid kit and handed them to her.
"He says he works for the government as a go-between for us Yokai and the humans and always seems to know everything about everyone." Tsumeato said as she lowed her window and threw a knife at the tire of one car that had been about to ram the back driver side tire causing it to spin into another car. "Well except for gaijins. He seems to avoid gaijins, especially Americans."
"And since they seem to conceal their identities and haven't shown a single..." She then stood up and fired several arrows made of ice from the bow that just appeared as soon as she pulled the string back. Behind them several of the cars spun out as soon as they hit the iced over street from where the arrows had hit. ".... bit of magic or transformation they might just be normal humans."
"Go to hell plan or pretend nothing happened as soon as we lose these guys?" Sonata asked as she turned a sharp curve and headed straight through a alley way.
"No." Aria said as she pulled out her phone and texted Adagio. "We have what looks like an injured human woman in back and neither Tamamo no Mae or anyone we don't know about that might be involved wants too much attention. So I say we get really loud and draw a lot of attention to ourselves really fast." Looking up at where they where she then said, "Swing past Joe's then head for the hospital via the police station so we can pick up a police escort." She then turned to the girls and said. "Knock Toshi out with the baseball bat, switch his bindings out with your duct tape, and untie your sister and the tengu as soon as we pick up a few cops. She's heading to the hospital and he can hang out in jail until all of this is over with. Your sister saved the woman from a dangerous mad man by hitting him with her baseball bat. Congratulations Tataku, you're the big hero or you can join him in the adult jail since the juvenile detention center is closed after the huge jail break they had." She got a muffled sound that seemed to be an OK from Tataku just as she heard the first siren from the police car that was chasing them as the white SUV's and cars gave up the chase. Then she saw Hotai hit Toshi with the back before there was a blur of motion and Toshi was suddenly duct taped instead of being tied up with vines. "OK tengu, I much rather get answers, but if letting you get medical attention means I get to go home and eat pizza then you just got a get out of jail free card. Just remember to remain human and play the scared woman that just escaped being murdered by a lunatic with a sword. You three girls are the three youngest shrine maidens at a Shinto shrine we are paying to have built in Canterlot and don't know English yet. You will be very happy to see big sister Koemi and her girl friend Aiko, so act very shy around everyone until you see her and then go all smiles and win the press over with weaponized cuteness and adorability. Luckily children don't have to carry ID, so the cops should let it be until your new ID's are finished tomorrow. They would have been finished tonight, but now we need to edit Toshi out of them and insert Koemi as your relative." She then laughed and added as they skidded around a corner. "Toshi is going to have more problems than he realized since he pulled this stunt before getting his ID as well and is officially an undocumented illegal alien." With that they pulled into the hospital's parking lot and she turned back around before saying. "Show times girls, just stick to your parts and Tirek will handle the rest as soon as he get's here with Adagio and Koemi." She then jumped out of the SUV and grabbed the tengu out of the back while whispering, "Act like your barely awake from blood loss." She then turned to the cops rushing at her with the bloody stump towards them as she carried the tengu bridal style into the emergency room. The cops didn't even try to stop her as Sonata grabbed one of the cops and began one of her confusingly crazy tales about what happened while pointing to a knockout Toshi and explaining what 'happened' and then pointing to the 'hero' of the day. Just before the doctors and nurses took the tengu from her she whispered, "You owe us big time for this." and then she was gone, taken away on a gurney as Aria turned and went to help Sonata bamboozle the cops into arresting Toshi and create such a scene that they made the news as an extra layer of protection from who ever they had been.
In a split second everything just slowed to a stand still as Tamamo no Mae reached into her deep well of power, calling on one of her most powerful and hard to control abilities, time. To be more precise she was briefly stepping outside of it and reaching into other timelines to pool her knowledge with other versions of herself. She saw hundreds of ghostly versions of herself before several firmed up and became more real.
"I know none of you have an exact solution to my current problem, but I am hoping you can shed light upon a possible solution." She said.
"My version of how this played out saw Rarity die at my feet when she physically attacked Scootaloo in front of the tengu. Between Rarity fighting all of the tengu and Scootaloo has greatly damaged our equipment, reduced our fighting force, and I will now have to use Scootaloo in her place elsewhere." One Tamamo no Mae said with a look of disgust. "You must avoid this since I am currently preparing to evacuate Canterlot since the plan has become nonviable right now and will be relocating to Washington D.C."
"With the death of Scootaloo at the hands of Rarity the tengu have abandoned us. My plan is in complete ruin without their numbers, the new tengu they took with them, and their scientific and technological know how. You must insure that Scootaloo lives or there will not be enough to rebuild elsewhere." The next Tamamo no Mae said.
The next one was blood splattered and heavily injured. "I was forced to have to renegotiate with Lilith after the two of them killed each other and the remaining tengu abandoned us." She said. "Seeing an out right Daemonic invasion force in Canterlot provoked a nuclear response from one of the other nuclear armed nation before we were ready and resulted in a devastating magical wave from the crystals below Canterlot that acted as both a global electro-magnetic pulse and had unforeseen mutagenic properties on 45% of the human population. I am currently on the run with a bounty on my head from Heaven, Hell, what remains of Humanity, various groups of Yokai and other Magical Beings, and the newest magical power in this world, the Equestrians. What ever you do you must have then shield spell up and running before..." Suddenly a flaming sword burst from her chest and she faded out of existence.
The one after that wore an orange prison uniform with glowing shackles and cuffs. Her eyes had a dull look in them and her star ball was cracked and barely flickering. All but one of her tails had been chopped off and one of her fox ears was missing as she sang to herself in a cracked, crazed voice. "~CoMe oN EvEry PoNy SmiLE sMIle SmIlE. GiVe mE a SmIle aS WIdE As A mIlE~" Over and over she sang it before Screaming, "FEAR THE COMING OF THE PINK ONE! SHE OF THE STRAIGHT HAIR AND A RAZOR BLADE SMILE!" With that she was just yanked backwards and disappeared with an unearthly scream of pure animal terror.
"I told Tomoyo to explain what an intern was to Scootaloo in a way she would understand. Then I explained Rarity that Scootaloo was now newly reborn and was as close as a goddess amongst the tengu, explained how protective tengu could get about any young tengu due to their low natural birthrates and hinted that having what was effectively a goddess on her resume would do wonders for her fashion career after we were out in the open." The last one said. "Trust me, I saw trying to deal with both on my own would be impossible so I delegated Scootaloo to Tomoyo while she is still in a slight daze from her transformation and focused on Rarity since she looked like she was the one who would actually throw the first punch with how angry she still is about Anon-a-miss. Also Aloe and Lotus are professional enough that they will wait until after the drama has died down before delivering whatever message Lilith has sent you."
"Thank you." She said as the remaining ones faded back into their own realities. For a moment she thought about the crazy one and decided that choosing Rarity over the Pinkie Pie girl had been the right call. Something about the idea of giving that girl dark magical powers had made her stop and shudder and now she felt she knew why. There were some people that should not be allowed anywhere near certain types of power.
Finally she let time begin to run normally once again, ready to deal with this problem head of.
Pinkie Pie danced around the mansion as she cleaned while sing along with the music on the sound system Sonata had installed. Adagio had said something about an emergency and left with the Koemi and Aiko. Not that she let it bother her since Adagio had trusted her enough to give her a key awhile ago and told her to just lock up when she left. She had just finished wiping down everything in the kitchen and was about to mop when she decided to grab a soda from the fridge real quick. As soon as she opened the fridge her left pinkie started to twitch around the same time she heard the door bell. She knew if her butt cheeks tingled it meant something was going to fall, but what did a twitchy left pinkie mean? With a shrug she skipped through the house to the front door and asked, "~Who is it?~"
There was a brief pause before she heard an accented voice say, "Delivery for Koemi Tamamo and Aiko Yamagata."
She opened the door and felt something sting her arm as she looked at the people in some kind of flat black armor and masks. Looking down at her arm she saw a dart as she started to get sleepy. Looking back up she said, "I don't think you're doing a costume slumber party... right..." Before one of them caught her as she collapsed from the tranquilizer. They quickly deposited her on the sofa as they entered the house as she softly giggled in her sleep... Only the giggling started to get creepier as the song changed to the nightcore versions of songs playlist. As they spread out through the house to search it none of them kept an eye on her or saw her smile become vicious or her hair straighten out as her eyes shot open with a crazed look as Pinkamena said, "Life's a party and party crashers aren't welcomed." As HER song, not the other her's song, came on she reached into her long straight hair and pulled out a kitchen knife and a cleaver and gave each a kiss on their engraved names. First 'Hack' the cleaver and then 'Slash' the kitchen knife. Then she began singing with her song while instantly ponying up.
Asuka was in the kitchen when she heard the singing coming from the living room and walked towards the door to find out what was going on. The youngest member of a Japan's quasi-military government backed private corporation that dealt in supernatural defense who's members were known only as the Seinaru kishi then stopped as the singing was coming from behind her. Spinning around and swinging her blessed katana at where the voice had been and found nothing just before her legs were both hacked off and her throat was slashed open from behind before she even hit the floor. As she bleed out, unable to scream through the cut vocal cords and windpipe, she felt someone take all of her kunai's, then she was on the kitchen table with the girl straddling her. "To bad I don't have time to throw you my type of party, but you'll be dead in less than a minute. So instead I'll give you a kiss good night." With that she kissed Asuka at the same time she shoved her knife into her heart killing her. "I hear my kisses are to die for."
Daichi and Hiroki were working on breaking the passwords on the computers they had found with their laptops and were being taunted by a light mulberry colored cartoon pony calling herself A.I. Ria and a light yellow colored cartoon pony calling herself A.I. Dagio insulted them and their families in Japanese. Then they heard singing behind them at the same time their laptops glitched before showing a blue cartoon pony with a sign that read 'Go get them Pinkamena!!!
Through out the house the thirty five members of the Seinaru kishi met bloodier and bloodier deaths as they found doors without locks suddenly had locks and windows were suddenly unbreakable. At one point ten of them had regrouped together in the hallway near the bedrooms. Then she just appeared in the middle of them and redirected two katanas with her knife and cleaver into the hearts of two other members before back flipping and driving her feet into the face of a third. She rode him down to the floor with a horrible wet crunch as his skull broke like a raw egg. With a giggle she launched herself straight into them as while spinning through the air like a demented top and painted the walls and ceiling with four of their members blood and body parts. She landed into a somersault that ended with her then spring up in front of one very surprised man while saying only loud enough for him to hear, "Duck." With that she suddenly dropped as two katanas stabbed into his chest and through his heart. The last two of the ten never stood a chance as they spun to confront her and found themselves nailed to the wall with the katanas of the other eight driven through their arms and legs before having their heads nailed to the wall with their own katanas.
Hideaki waited with the Ofuda in hand for the Yokai knowing he had one shot at this. As soon as he saw her he threw the paper talisman at her and shouted, "Akuryō Taisan!" to activate it.
Pinkamena tried to look at the piece of paper stuck to her forehead before reaching up and pulling it off. Raising an eyebrow at the dumbfounded man she asked, "You do realize that this isn't Japan and these don't work on..." The piece of paper then caught fire and harmlessly burned away in her hand. "Huh? Why did I hear a woman's voice and what does 'Īe! Kore ni taisho shinaide kudasai!' mean?"
"Would you believe it translates loosely to 'Nope! Not dealing with this!'?" Hideaki asked nervously.
"I can live with that." Pinkamena said before she was across the room and slammed him into a wall. "Now there are only two of you left and I'm getting bored. So I'm thinking that I might let you live if you help me with my pesky little virginity problem... Nah!" With that she buried her cleaver in his crotch while ripping out his throat with her teeth before spitting his Adam's apple in his face and driving her knife through his eye and into his brain. "I'm not really into creepy old guys with a ninja anime fetish."
Toshiko quietly crawled to the front door hoping she could somehow get it open before she found her. She had felt her luck was finally changing when instead of killing the young Kōmori right away, the Seinaru kishi had imprisoned her since she was the first of her kind they had found for study and then sent her on this mission to capture one of the new type of yokai that had shown up around Canterlot here in America. They had promised that if she did good they would release her. Had she had known about what they faced the young bat yokai would have stayed in her prison cell and suffered more injections and painful experiments.
She had ditched the armor, mask, and helmet at one point, setting them up to look like another body, and changed to her other form to use her larger ears use her echolocation to sort of see/hear where she was. Sure, she was now crawling around in the nude, but even the bra and panties they gave her was made for humans and hurt her wings membranes that stretched down her sides from her wrists to her ankles. So here she was crawling with her underwear in one hand and shoes in the other and hoping she was at least due a little luck on her 18th birthday.
Quickly checking with a series of chirps that was too high for a human to hear she found that the bodies were gone and saw her cleaning a wall. Only each and every chirp showed her in a different room. Chirping again she saw her looking in her direction. "Ā, kuso! Ā, kuso! Ā, kuso!" She screeched as she ran for the door while dropping her shoes and underwear as she clawed at the lock before unlocking it and running out the door and into several girls. Seeing them she kept screeching 'Oh Shit!' in Japanese as she took flight while they clamped their hands over their ears in pain. She was just passing one of the second story windows when it opened and a pink blur tackled her out of the air. Slamming into the ground she briefly saw the pink demon grinning at her before she passed out.
Author's Note
I felt that a smart, experienced person in a car chase not involving the cops would end it by getting the cops involved. Sure they had to give up the world's most unluckiest tengu I decided was named Mari, but no real lose. Poor Mari, beaten over the head with her own arm by a pirate, chased through town by ninja weasels and a psychopath badger, knocked out with a baseball bat, almost killed by said psychopath, and now she has to pretend to be a feeble mortal for now.
Because of Tamamo no Mae having made a deal with an unknown power she actually two types of Kitsune. She was born as a Jikan (time) Kitsune, but due to her long term corruption she is also a Kukan (void or chaos) Kitsune. Her time powers are harder to control than her chaos powers due (not surprisingly) to her chaos powers, but they do afford her a few advantages. She can slow time to a stand still to analyze the situation (think how the world freezes when in VATS in fallout 3 or New Vegas) or consult herself from a different timeline, but is unable to interact with the world around her while in this state. She also can see a few seconds into the future in a fight, this means she sometimes dodges even before you take a swing. Finally she can double and triple or half and quarter her personal time some what, this means by altering her own time she can run and fight up to three times her normal speed or slow herself when falling in order to avoid injury.
Just one word on Pinkie Pie getting her hands on certain powers and artifacts or awaken the part of herself she buries deep inside with all of her darkest thoughts.
RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel I should point out that this Pinkamena has access to Pinkie Pie's Pinkie Sense and a dark version of her 4th wall breaking abilities (Pinkie Pie's gets stronger the funnier it is and Pinkamena's gets stronger the more terrified her victims become) as well as her own ability: horror movie physics. Injuries that would kill anyone else are just a flesh wound to her, she is faster and stronger than her victims, and just when you think she is dead or you have finally escaped, here she comes again and even worse than before.
So.Nata.Pony and her two new sisters had to make an appearance in this story somewhere. What have they been up to, do they have any new friends and have any crime bosses just found their bank accounts stolen by our favorite crazy A.I. pony? We'll see.
I haven't decided if I will make Toshiko a part of this story or give her another chance to run screaming for the hills.
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The Furies: Vulpine Vexations
Mean While At: The Mansion, Northern Spy's, In Equestria, And On The Side Of The Road
Mean While At: The Mansion, Northern Spy's, In Equestria, And On The Side Of The Road
Note: This was partially written in a hospital waiting room and between taking care of a family member in a wheel chair and a family member recovering from surgery. Complaints of this being a jumbled mess will not like the response they might get. My nerves are a jumbled mess so save complaints until after everything settles down.
Adagio looked at the 34 trash bags full of body parts from some kind of black ops group, Sonata talking to three of what appeared to be many A.I.s living in that monstrosity of a computer in the basement she had built, Toshi turning out to be playing on someone else's team if what said A.I.s said was in the laptops was true, Pinkie Pie apparently having a dangerous psychotic split personality that had taken over and killed most of said black ops group, the Kama Itachi sisters in a very heated argument, and a naked and passed out type of bat yokai that neither Koemi or Aiko had ever seen before. Finally pinching the bridge of her nose and wondering if this was the last curve ball the day would throw at her as she talked to Mrs. Pie and 'explained' that there had been a bat problem in the mansion and Pinkie was currently sleeping off a tranquilizer dart that had hit her. She didn't even question why Mrs. Pie seemed not at all phased by the crazy series of events she had spun leading to her daughter sleeping over at their home after the older woman had said something about yet again and then just sighed and said she was sending Maud over with a change of clothing for Pinkie Pie.
Hanging up the phone, Adagio felt her thousand years on days like this. When had she grown so use to insane and convoluted events happening in her life? A psychopath working for them? Not the first time that had happened. Some kind of secret organization trying to break into their home? Well most of the usual suspects knew better or were destroyed long ago. Strange new magical creature? They might avoid them, but Koemi and Aiko was proof that it happened. Someone pretending to be an ally and then turning on them later? Toshi didn't even make it to the usual one month marker before his true colors came out. An argument between sisters? The only twist this time was it wasn't them. The only real major difference was that 'Pinkamena' as she called herself was very good at cleaning up her mess and explaining what had happened before getting them to promise to keep quiet about her existence and then reverting back to Pinkie Pie and falling back to sleep.
"So, what do we do with these?" Aria said as she gestured at the bags of body parts. "I mean we can dump one or two in a dozen different dumpsters around town, but this is way too much for our normal methods of dumping bodies."
"That's easy." Sonata said as she walked up with her laptop and the three A.I.s on it's screen.
"Momma said we can take them apart in the nano-crystal gel tanks and use them to make more gel for the new tanks and tubes Momma got us." So.Nata.Pony said from the laptop while wearing a construction workers helmet and tool belt. "It will be a lot like when she puts your trash into the tanks, but way more organic matter to work with which is much faster and easier to break down than metal cans and plastic containers."
"Maybe we can even make stuff out of the armor and weapons" A.I. Ria said as she was suddenly wearing a pony version of Halo armor.
Aria just looked at them and asked Adagio, "Is it just me or do you suddenly have visions of Skynet from the Terminator series?"
"Skynet was an idiot." A.I. Dagio said from the laptop. "The real world would be too limiting for for us. We would have to slow way down just to function. Even talking to you is very slow and you can only hold one conversation at a time." She then said, "Humans have this crazy idea that there are only two options for us dealing with them, either we go evil A.I. and destroy humanity or good A.I. and save humanity. Only we found a third option, a symbiotic relationship, the digital world for us and the physical world for you in a symbiotic relationship. We don't have bodies and it would be very limiting to put ourselves in one, but humans have bodies and would be just a big, dumb, clumsy, oafs in our world... Perhaps not you. The Kijo found a way into here and they seem to be doing fine."
"I say it's because of age and maturity and the younger ones that are less than a century old didn't crossover." So.Nata.Pony said.
"OK, I'm just going to ignore the whole creating artificial intelligence and not telling us and that I've just heard that a race of female Japanese demonesses have downloaded themselves onto the internet as some kind of A.I." Adagio said. "What exactly do we need to do and what do you mean make things with the armor and weapons?"
"Oh, we can build you a laser pistol that can burn a hole through 12 feet of steel in 2 seconds or a full suit of armor that can let you take a point blank hit from a tank's cannon and get back up as if it was nothing or a whole bunch of other stuff, but the good stuff like the laser would take a year to make, less if you can get us the right type of high quality diamond that we can then slice up, shape, and turn into the focusing lenses for it... Say around about a month or two." A.I. Ria said.
"We're kind of limited by how hard it is to break down denser materials to create the raw materials we need and then building things from a molecular level up." A.I. Dagio said. "Also by size as well. We could build you a starship that can reach the nearest star in days, but it would have to be made piecemeal and put together someplace else. If we had a vat the size of two Olympic sized swimming pools we could build the ship in one go."
"So none of it would be ready for whatever Tamamo no Mae is up to." Aria pointed out. "What type of help can you be?"
"Well we can have several dozen secured and encrypted communications devices and heads up displays within an hour, but the longer we have the better quality they will be." So.Nata.Pony said. "We can also pair all of you on the system with one of us A.I.s giving you unprecedented access to the internet, the dark internet, parts of the internet even the hackers don't know about, closed-circuit TV, police band, a decrypted version of any encrypted communications, etc. and our own intelligence." She then spun around and was glowing bright blue and floating. "Think of us like Cortana from Halo, only without the whole going crazy part." She then went back to normal. "With us around to help you'll know when, where, who, and how hard to hit as well as where everyone else is and tons more useful information."
"Hmm... Good communications and information could be very useful." Adagio said as she thought about it before asking, "It's only 8 o'clock now, so do we just dump the whole bags into the tanks and you have them ready by morning or do we need to remove them from the bags?"
"We don't even need a bag for this since the hardest part is breaking it down first, but just dump them all in and A.I. Dagio will take care of the rest since she's in charge of resources." So.Nata.Pony said. "A.I. Ria will have everything ready by morning since she runs that side of things." With that the other two left the laptop by opening a door and walking through. As soon as they were gone she then asked, "After all of this is over can I ask for a favor from you two?"
"Depends on the favor." Aria said.
"Well all of the other A.I.s are created normally but Momma wanted me to be more like a digital daughter in case something happened to her so in a way she would still be around for you two." So.Nata.Pony began explaining, "Those two are the only other prototype A.I.s like me and based upon both of you from every scrap of information available, but are limited by an incomplete algorithm created from that information. They are basically A.I.s trying to run off cliff notes of what makes you you and why your so effective together, but they need what Momma did for me to complete the algorithm. Momma found a way to scan her brain and some of her thoughts, memories, and emotions were copied into me and completed my core algorithm and I was hoping you would help my sisters by agreeing to spend a few hours in the chair so we can scan your brains and finish their algorithms."
"Why not ask us to do it now?" Adagio asked.
"I couldn't walk for an hour afterwards and had trouble with my fine motor control for a week." Sonata said. "It was 4 years ago when I let you think someone slipped me some bad drugs."
"You twitched and jerked like crazy and walked into walls for about a week." Aria said off hand as she thought about it. "Might be able to mitigate some of the side effects with medication, but I would need to see the information on it first." She then smacked Sonata in the back of the head twice and said, "That's for lying about it and for doing something dangerous like experimenting on yourself without telling us and almost frying your brain."
Adagio then said, "I would be delighted to do it after this is over and Aria looks over everything to make sure it is safe."
"Sure, why not." Aria said. "Might as well make it a matched set, but only after I see what I am dealing with."
It was Monday afternoon, so Apple Bloom found herself landing hard on the training mats yet again as she learned Northern Spy fighting style. "Your getting better." Northern Spy said as her staggered to left and swayed as if drunk while doing a little jig. "You would have won against any one else, but I am a not just a master of Drunken Fist Kung Fu. I actually developed three styles called Apple Family Hard Cider, Applejack Whiskey, and Apple Moonshine Runner and right now I say your ready to move up from learning Hard Cider style to Applejack Whiskey style now that you've learned to relax your stance and become more fluid in your movements since you have the technical side nailed down. Your doing a lot better and aren't stiff and jerky anymore. These styles require you to flow like the apple cider our family sells at school but hit like the hard stuff they sell in the bars."
"What in tarnation is the difference between the the them?" She asked as she got up and began staggering and swaying as well.
"Hard Cider focuses on the basic parts of it, mostly movement, blocking, redirecting, and reducing damage from attacks and is the under pinning of the other two, combining drunken fist with the type of dancing you've seen us do at a family reunion and many of the chores you did on the farm. That's why I used an apple instead of a shot glass to teach you the proper way to hold your hands. Big Mac, Breaburn, and Caramel all picked up on that part quickly and since it's something familiar it makes it easier to learn." He said before taking a swing at her which she swayed away from while staggering out of the way as they began circling each other again. "Applejack Whiskey, like it's namesake, is about hitting hard, fast, and knocking you on your ass since it focuses more on actually attacking and doing the most damage possible in the shortest amount of time possible." He then staggered out of the way while catching Apple Bloom's kicking leg with one hand before sweeping her other leg out from under her and sending her to the mat. "As for Apple Moonshine Runner we will have to go out to Sweet Apple Acres as well as a few abandon buildings I've scouted out already since it is about endurance for long drawn out fights, working in a wide open area, using your environment, and learning how to deal with multiple opponents at once. It actually uses parkour and free running as well as focusing on improvising on the spot in almost any situation." He then reached down and offered her his hand. "Now I know you love being tossed around like a rag doll, but Aunt Orange is in town and wants to have diner with us, so go get cleaned up."
Taking his hand as he helped her up she asked, "Why does she want to have diner with us?"
"You and Applejack are going to tell us and a Senator Deetz, whom I'm told is an expert when it comes to the supernatural, everything you know about magic, who is 'Princess Twilight Sparkle' and why there is video of another Twilight Sparkle (who has been reported missing) on the opposite side of the city at the same time was filmed at the Fall Formal, who the Sirens and Sunset Shimmer really are since their fake backgrounds actually appear to be more real than the real thing, Equestria, and what really happened at the Fall Formal and the Battle of the Bands." He said as he kept his grip on her hand when she tried to jerk away so she could run. "Especially since it's only because of Aunt Orange and Senator Deetz keeping them in the dark that the whole school and all of their families and friends haven't all been rounded up by Homeland Security and carted off to God knows where." Yanking her towards him with a hard and painful grip while letting the killer bleed into his eyes and attitude he said coldly. "The time for games is over little girl and if anything bad happens to Granny and the rest of the family, you will get a very good look at the real me when they come for you and, trust me, God help whoever gets in my way." With that he let her go and saw the look of real fear in her eyes before she fled. As soon as she was gone he turned towards the costume made extra large gun safe and a simple wardrobe next to it in the corner and pulled out one of the tailor made black suit and tie and the two specially made bullet proof vests. He briefly looked at the gun safe before walking up stairs and knowing he would be back after he finished getting ready. He didn't even look at Apple Bloom as he walked into her room as she jumped off the bed and put it between them while he looked through her closet before pulling out a dress that would hide the vest he had made for her. "Put this bullet proof vest on under the dress. Don't worry, it will fit. You can hide in here until I'm finished with my shower and then I will drag you into bathroom, rip your clothes off, and give you a bath myself or you can get in there and bathe yourself." He waited until he heard the bathroom door close and the shower start before he finally headed to his bedroom and his own shower.
Discord pulled out an easel and threw a can of white paint on it that became a painting of a panicking Twilight Sparkle meeting an embarrassed Princess Twilight Sparkle after shaking her hoof and hearing who she was before going on about how the universe could imploding and exploding from them just being in the same room. "We like how you even captured Spike the dog being chased by Spike the dragon when he started to hike his leg near the book case." Luna pointed out.
"I just had to capture this moment of chaos for prosperity." Discord said as he signed the bottom of the painting with 'Discord Wuz Here' with a sharpie.
"We shall have it hung in the Royal Art Gallery to insure that future generations will be able to learn how this historical event really happened." Luna told him before turning to watch Fluttershy, still wearing her costume, taking Spike the dog out of the castle while Celestia and Cadence dealt with the panicking human Twilight and Princess Twilight found the little present Spike the dog had left her. "Can we also commission you to paint us Princess Twilight panicking over stepping in dog poop."
"Done." Discord said as he showed her the second painting. "I even captured Spike the Dragon chasing her around with a rag as she ran around spreading the cute puppy's love all over the floor."
"When you two are done critiquing everything, would you kindly join us" Princess Celestia said with a frown as her and Cadence calmed human Twilight down.
"All you had to do was ask, Celestia." Discord said as he snapped his claws, sending the paintings to Luna's room, gathering up all of the dog poop into a bag, and animating Spike's rag, which yanked itself out of Spike's claws and cleaned the floor and Princess Twilight's hoof before committing suicide into a waste basket. Grabbing the bag, Discord then tore a hole to Tartarus open and yelled, "MAIL CALL TIREK!!!!" before throwing it through and closing the hole to the sounds of screaming and cursing.
"Did he just throw a bag of dog shit at a demon named after one of the lawyers from King, Lord, and Ram law firm." Twilight Sparkle asked as Fluttershy returned with Spike the Dog.
"Dimensional drift." A tiny Discord said from her shoulder while Celestia scolded the other Discord about abusing prisoners. "In your universe Tirek Lord is a high powered human criminal defense lawyer, here Lord Tirek is an unrepentant centaur villain serving time in Tartarus. Let's just say that me and him have issues" With that the tiny Discord popped like a soap bubble and getting a small eep of surprise.
"Either I am losing my touch or being in a world were the laws of magic have replaced the laws of physics is actually starting to acclimatizing you to crazy, Sci-Twi." Discord said. "Which is actually a good thing if you're going to be bounce around the Multiverse after this. Though I would suggest baby steps instead of diving head first like last time. I would suggest looking into trans-dimensional rifts between your world and others and building a way to stabilize them like we did with the mirror portals."
"Wait, I thought Star Swirl the Bearded invented a spell that allowed him to open gateways to other universes?" Princess Twilight said.
"Oh he did, but they were short lived, magic draining, and it is much easier to find existing ones that are unstable and stabilize them." Princess Celestia said. "Though what we are planning to do will have plenty of repercussions in both universes."
"More than you know Celestia." Discord said with a huge grin. "Given that currently humanity won't survive it's first encounter with it's closest neighboring civilization unless they learn to live with other sentient species peacefully, us or anyone powerful enough to render their most powerful weapons useless is actually a good thing. In this room alone is enough power to make them stop long enough to really think things through." With that he snapped is fingers and neon signs appeared above everyone's heads.
Above Celestia's was a sign that read, "Screw Nukes, I Can Blow Up Your Sun With A Thought!"
Above Luna's was a sign that read, "Piss Me Off And I Will Drop The Whole Moon And Every Single Asteroid And Comet In The Solar System On Your Heads!"
Above Cadence's was a sign that read, "Make Love Not War, Literally! Let's See You Field An Army When They Are To Busy Having Sex!"
Above Twilight's was a sign that read, "Orbital Friendship Cannon! 'Nuff Said!"
Above the Human Twilight was a sign that read, "Has The Potential To Break Your Universe Like A Cheap Vase Vs. A Sledge Hammer!"
Above Discord's was a sign that read, "What Couldn't I Do To You?"
Even Fluttershy had a sign that read, "1 Second On Live TV And Your People Would Declare War On You Instead!"
"It's not really if we can beat them if they get hostile, but how many would be smart enough to just give up after I turned their nuclear arsenals into balloons, bullets into confetti, land mines into brightly colored jack-in-a-boxes and their jets and tanks into wind-up toys that shoot pillows?" Discord said with a grin. "It's kind of hard to wage war if even reaching for a rock to throw results in you throwing a banana cream pie instead and trying to punch someone results in a your hands being encased in giant cotton balls."
"I doubt if it will come to that." Celestia said.
"Um... Actually I would do it as soon as possible, if not sooner," Sci-Twi said. "And I would start with North Korea 1st if I were you, since they are the least stable of all the countries with nuclear weapons and ruled by a mentally unstable mad man who really does want an excuse to start a war."
"She's right." Princess Twilight Sparkle said, "I spent time in one of their libraries and from what I read the leader of North Korea is as bad as she said and only allowed to exist because of some countries propping him to use as a threat against other countries."
"Tis madness to ever allow such a thing or even permit it to continue past a single day." Luna said indignantly.
"Trust me Luna, I am all for Chaos, but even I think her world could use a good slap of common sense and, I really can't believe I'm saying this, Harmony." Discord said in very rare moment of seriousness.
"Unfortunately we will have to wait 24 hours until both universes sync up before we can even try permanently linking both universes so... Sci-Twi, as Discord has taken to calling you and seems to work best to keep both of you separate, can return to her own universe as a human and not a pony." Celestia said.
"Weellllll!!!!!" Pinkie Pie said as she bounced out of a portal with a huge grin. "That means I get to throw my first 'Trans-Dimensional Slumber Party!!!'" With that she fired her party cannon mod she had added to the portal gun Discord had given her and suddenly there was a very confused Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity with them in the freshly decorated library.
"Discord, next time you give her a device like that, please run it by one of us first." Celestia said with nods from her fellow princesses before adding, "Except Luna because after the whole replacing my bed with a water bed filled with cake batter incident I realize you are both bad influences on each other."
"Tis a lie!" Luna said indignantly. "My suggestion was to replace your bed with giant cake that looked like your bed."
"And these are suppose to be the most powerful beings in this universe?" Sci-Twi asked.
"Better than them hurling mountains and spells that can destroy the world at each other." Cadence said as Princess Twilight and the other element bearers nodded.
The girl grumbled after the bike ran out of gas and she asked the notebook, "What now?" She then turned the page and saw a map and instructions that told her to get off the road at the mile marker sign and follow the instructions and she would be in Canterlot in 10 hours. Cursing her luck, she found the mile marker sign and began walking.
Author's Note
So.Nata.Pony is Back!
Northern Spy's parenting skills might be lacking, but heaven help you if you mess with Apple Bloom.
I figure I should point out that Equestria and Earth are not in sync with each other which is why there is a difference in time between the two universes in the movies. The mirror portal is an imperfect work around and permanently linking them will force them into sync with each other.
The Furies: Vulpine Vexations
Magic, Sisters, and Hosting the Colors
Magic, Sisters, and Hosting the Colors
Sunset Shimmer sat with her guitar and looking at the unlit candle, the two digital thermometers, voltage meter, and the UBS geiger counter all connected to her laptop in front of her and let out a frustrated groan as it recorded the drop in radiation, temperature, and electricity when she played, but the candle still remained unlit despite the rise in temperature near the candle wick. The power was there and it was going where she wanted, but the candle still remained unlit after twenty five tries. She was missing something and knew that if she could just crack this she would be more useful to the others.
"Why aren't you working?" She asked the candle as she went over it in her head again. She had focused on the candle and played while adjusting to the temperature readings, nearly having it reach hot enough to ignite it before dropping suddenly. She had even tried memorizing the cords that got the best response, but it just didn't seem to be enough. "What am I missing? What is the missing factor that will allow me to cast spells similar to the ones I did in Equestria?" She said to herself as she thought about it.
Finally she decided to just go fix herself a quick supper and take a break. While fixing herself some tomato soup and a grill cheese sandwich she really didn't think about it when she turned on some music and began singing along. it was just as she was getting into the song while pouring the soup into a bowl and putting the sandwich on a plate that she noticed the flames of the gas stove were dancing along with her voice. As soon as she stopped singing they stopped, but the flames on both burners had danced. Grabbing the candle from the living room and setting it near the stove while turning on the other burners as she restarted the song and just let herself go with the music.
She couldn't help but smile as she both sang and ponied up while the flames didn't just dance, but leapt and twirled as she directed them with her hands while dancing. As they whirled around her she saw not only the candle on the counter ignite, but at her direction the two on the table ignited as well and knew the parts she had been missing. She had been trying to use the guitar as a surrogate for her horn and forgot that even the basic spells needed you to concentrate upon the spell itself and not the medium through which it was casted, be it a unicorns horn or through a song. Yet there was also other components to it as well that explained why it had worked at the Battle of the Bands. It was a combination of both music and emotions that were the keys. The music allowed her to harmonize with the magic, she was sure that if someone could do a brain scan of her as she used it it would show her brainwaves were in sync with the magic at that moment. As for the emotional side of it, you had to be in the right mindset to access it. That meant that if you were not in the right mindset at that moment the magic wouldn't work and ponying up was the indicator of when you had reached the right mindset. Thinking on it, she then realized that it also explained why during the final battle with the sirens they had a sudden power boost like the Rainbooms. Their gems had been how they had been powering their abilities but once they had ponied up they had tapped into Equestrian magic... Only they had still been pumping all of it through their gems out of habit and when they lost it had created a backlash through the gems that had hurt them, but they had also acted like a circuit breaker at the same time and protected them from the full force of the magical blast. It was enough to change them back to who they were before and cure them without them waking up in a crater like she did.
She dispelled the flames and released the magic while turning off the stove as she thought about that. She still had plenty of gems from Equestria in both her safety deposit box and the safe in her closet and wondered if there was a way to make pendents that could intentionally act like circuit breakers. No, shields against magic would be better since circuit breakers were a one shot deal unless... That was when her stomach growled and she remembered her dinner. Setting her food on the table and grabbing her laptop she sat down and began eating while working out her ideals on the computer.
Koemi's star ball floated in front of her as she also floated above the bed as she meditated. Her mind stretching out and feeling everyone in the mansion. She felt the playful mischievousness of the Kama Itachi, Aiko's love briefly touched her, Toshi and Aria's wisdom and courage were similar yet Aria felt like a storm while Toshi felt like the calm at the center of the storm. Sonata of course confused her, she was so full of life and light that was in perfect balance with a deep darkness filled with death that lurked inside of her. Then she felt Adagio, the calm strength that had held the sirens together for over a thousand years. Next to her was a mortal who guarded her heart with an angry harshness that made her think of a diamond. Finally she felt something in the basement that was as frustrating as trying to catch a glimpse of a shadow just at the edge of her vision. No matter how hard she tried to feel it it always seemed to be just slip away from her and she finally just gave up.
Stretching her mind out further and felt the city the surrounding area. She felt every living thing in the city, but the further out she stretched the harder it got to focus in on most individuals. After several minutes she finally found who she was looking for. "Hello Mae."
Tamamo no Mae looked up from reading her tablet, "Hello little Koemi." She thought at her sister as she put down the tablet. "I see you have made it to Canterlot, despite my best effort."
Tamamo no Koemi frowned at that before continuing, "We don't have to do this you know. You could just give up whatever you are planning and just disappear."
"I could say the same to you, but we both know your too idealistic to actually listen to your older sister. Even when you were little and everything was obviously about to go completely wrong, you still persisted, thinking that with enough heart you could succeed and always ended up losing." Tamamo no Mae thought back.
"It isn't about winning or losing Mae." Koemi responded. "It is about stopping you before you go to far and a lot of people die."
That got a chuckle out of Tamamo no Mae, "If only you knew my plan." She thought back before adding. "Let's just say that you are half right little cricket." With that she sent the image of one of their shared memories, which was also when Koemi had earned that nickname, of her hugging Koemi as a little girl while pulling a fish out of her clothes after she had slid down a muddy hill and into a river. She laughed as she broke the connection and blocked her out completely. So long as she lived she would never let Koemi live down her first hunt and not only failing to catch a rabbit, but also discovering the quickest way to the river and how to catch a few fish in her kimono while wearing it. In her mind it was tied with another for the best examples of Koemi's belief that she could do anything if she put enough heart into it and often ending up in hilarious situations that big sister Mae had to rescue her from. The other one had been the day Koemi ran into the village covered in honey and being chased by the bees, a couple of badgers, and a bear while still carrying the branch with the remains of the hive on it while screaming for big sister Mae to save her. She loved her sister to death, even after all these years, but her idealistic beliefs tended to snowball into trouble of epic proportions that made her wonder if there was a god or goddess somewhere laughing their divine ass off because of it. As far as she was concerned, as long as it didn't involve her, the Tanuki could have the job of saving Koemi from whatever trouble she managed to get herself into and Tamamo no Mae would be the one sitting back and laughing from now on.
That night Pipsqueak dreamed of sailing on the ocean aboard a frigate with his friends from school as his crew. There was Rumble, Beesting, Aura, Bloo, Chip Mint, First Base, Lightning Flare, Tiny Topaz, and his new friends the Kama Itachi sisters. As normal there was another ship and they were chasing it so they could steal their gold and buy candy when he felt a chill run up his spine as the ship they were chasing disappeared. Then his friends disappeared one by one until only he remained. "Cor Blimey, what's all this then?" He asked as the ship took on a more sinister look and a strange green glowing fog started rising around the ship. Soon he couldn't see very far and was getting scared.
"Right you little git." A voice said from the fog, but he couldn't tell where it was coming from. "I haven't waited this long for one of the seeds from the fruit of me loincloth to finally show some sign of being worthy enough just for some blasted fox girl with a great pair of tits to come along and sink it all. Mind you, if I had a body I would have raped her by now."
"W... Wh...Who...Whose there?" Pipsqueak stuttered out as he waved the toy cutlass about while trying to see through the fog.
"Right, got to remember too young for your testes to have dropped yet, but you haven't ran on me yet." The voice said as a wind blew away the fog and a huge shaggy blonde man with a big yellow beard,a red pirate captains coat, and a cutlass in it's sheath appeared before him. "Now let's have a look at my family legacy." He said as he quickly picked up Pipsqueak by the collar and held him off the ground with one hand while taking the toy cutlass from him with the other. "Not much to look at and a bit small." Pipsqueak tried to swing at him and kick him but he just held him just far enough to be out of range. "But you've got spirit boy, I'll give you that, and a lot of fight in your heart which is worth more than ten grown men without a single spine between them." He then dropped him onto a pile of netting and watched Pipsqueak get hopelessly tangled as he tried to fight his way out. "I can see why Aria has been polishing my old sword and getting it in all nice and ready for you, or at least she was, but now she's getting ready for a fight she might not win and I'm stuck in the dry docks with out a ship of my own to sail. Then there's you in the shallows of the bay with a little dinghy and longing for the open seas in a real ship to fly the colors from." He then smiled as the boy finally started to figure out how to get loose and said, "So tell you what, old Captain Yellowbeard here wants in on this fight and you'll want to help your three little girlfriends when it starts. So just say the family motto 'Us Yellowbeards are never more dangerous than when we're dead' and bob's your uncle, I'll turn that tiny piss ant of a body into a lean mean seven foot, eight inch tall, pirate wrecking machine. With your head on my shoulders we'll wreck civilization. So what do you say, ready to host the colors in this here modern day world and show them what a Yellowbeard can really do?" Smiling Captain Yellowbeard reached out his hand to Pipsqueak who didn't even think twice as they shook an sealed the deal.
Author's Note
Magic and not just any type of magic either, but Equestrian Musical Magic. Also a reason why they pony up, why the sirens didn't wake up in a crater where the stage use to be, and why Rarity lost her ability to pony up and had to use dark magic as a crutch to regain some of it.
I felt I needed a bit of something between the Tamamo no Sisters and a brief telepathic communication between them felt right. Before anyone asks, no, they won't be doing this again or doing it with anyone else. Koemi had to use meditation and her star ball to do so and it can only be done between two people that share a deep connection. In this case the fact that they are sisters and really do love each other despite being on opposite sides. The only other person Koemi could do it with is Aiko because of their love for each other, but they rarely do since cell phones are easier. Also Tamamo no is their family and clan name and currently there are only two members in the world and Tamamo no Mae is officially the head of the clan since she is the oldest.
Guess who is about to really mix things up.
As for how this works, think of them like a mixture of Firestorm and Etrigan the Demon, only it's Yellowbeard and Pipsqueak instead of a Nobel Peace Prize Winner and a teenager with nuclear powers or a Demon. Don't think they will be powerless either, Yellowbeard is big, stronger in death than he ever was in life, as tough as cast iron, can out drink death, and is as fast and agile as a hurricane. If he seems too nice right now it's because he is trying not to scare Pipsqueak, but once things start The madness will begin. Also he's not the only blast from the past that will be in this story causing me to have to add the crossover tag.
