Star Ocean: A New Frontier

Chapter Six

Running from the Fuzz

[Ponyville]

“She’s heading down the street! Don’t let her get away!” yelled a royal guard as he along with a squad of earth ponies and pegassi chase after the lesser fellpool down the streets of Ponyville.

“Leave alone! Stop following me!” Nelsha yelled as she quickly jumped onto a nearby wall and began to climb it until she was on the roof of the house she was climbing. Once on the roof, she quickly reached for her rifle and shot down three pegasi heading towards her as they crashed to the ground like a ton of bricks. “Should’ve stun those two instead of letting them go.”

“In fairness, it might help you out in showing that you’re not a killer or a monster in their eyes.” Vi said as Nelsha shot down two more pegasi trying to fly behind her in an attempt to grab her from behind. “Though this might be a problem in your case. Especially given how your hunger might get the better of you.”

“No kidding. This is going to be a war of attrition, and they’ll end up winning it due to their numbers.” She said before quickly running away by hopping from rooftop to rooftop. “Vi, I need a place to hide out until nightfall. Please tell me that you were able to scan the layout of this town?”

“I was able to. Seeing how the security system on this planet isn’t that great.” He said as he showed a digital screen appeared in front of Nelsha showing a three dimensional model of Ponyville. “There are some vacant houses off northwest of town. You’ll need to lose the cops chasing after you, otherwise they’ll end up looking in the area you’ll be hiding in.”

“Got it.” Nelsha made the screen disappear as she reached into her pocket to pull out a white ball. “Flash Grenade don't fail me now.” She soon looked back at the group following her as she jumped onto the ground and waited. “Are they still following me close to each other?”

“Yes.”

“Good.” The lesser fellpool squinted her eyes at the group of humanoid earth ponies and pegasi guards heading towards her. Once they were close, she quickly pressed on the white ball and tossed it in front of the group. Once they and the ball were inches away from each other, Nelsha turned around to continue to run down the street as the ball she threw exploded into a burst of light. Both earth pony and pegasi pony humanoids cried out in pain from going blind from the light for a moment as each of them toppled over each other, crashed into and through nearby shops, homes, and empty houses. “Please tell me they’re not dead?”

“No, but they’ll be sore later on due to crashing and being stunned. But now would be the time to run. Because that flash bomb’s effect isn’t going to last long.”

“Yeah, I know. Can’t stay in the same area or else I’ll get-” Just as she jumped in mid-air to hop onto the next house, the lesser fellpool felt herself being hit by hard with enough force to knock the wind out of her as she was sent flying into a nearby tree. “Caught….fucking hell.”

“Warning, unknown magic heading your way.”

“A bit late for the warning asshole!” Nelsha said while gasping for air and trying to pull herself up from the ground after crashing into said tree. “The hell just hit me?”

“Given the properties of magic I’m detecting. I’m going to assume it was a wind spell from a unicorn.” He said as Nelsha’s ears picked up the sound of someone walking towards her. “Seems like the person that hit you is near.” Nelsha looked up to see a dark skin humanoid unicorn, cladded in purple armor walking up towards her with his horn glowing.

“Sorry kid, but your little running spree is over.” he said as some of the guard slowly began to circle around the two. “Care to explain why you all were having a problem capturing this child? Not to mention why she has weapons on her?”

“We tried to capture Captain Shining Armor, but she kept hitting us with a paralysis spell from that weapon of hers.” One of the guards said as he turned his attention on Nelsha who was starting to pull herself up.

“Vi, suggestion please?” Nelsha whispered while keeping her eyes on the knight.

“Two suggestions. You can go beast mode, but that would cause your hunger to grow. Or you can use your Radiation bots to knock them out.”

“Does the barrierI have on protect me from being levitated?”

“Yeah, it’ll protect you from physical and magical attacks.”

“Alright, radiation bots it is then.” She said before jumping onto one of the tree’s branches and lunging herself into the air.

“Don’t let her escape!” Shining Armor yelled as three humanoid pegasi flew after her, only to fall to the ground in a matter of seconds. The lesser fellpool landed behind the group that circled her and Shining armor as they would see five floating orbs appearing behind her. Once she lands on a nearby house, she uses the orbs to fire a barrage of paralysis lasers at the group. Shining Armor quickly summoned up a barrier to protect himself and some of the soldiers he had with him, but some were taken down that weren’t close to him at the time he summoned the barrier as they fell to the ground.

“Not the result I was looking for, but it’ll have to do.” She said before jumping from the roof of the house she landed on and bolted it down the street. As she does this, she hears the sounds of footsteps from behind as she can see Shining Armor chasing after her at breakneck speed. “Vi, he’s chasing after me! How is that possible!?”

“I’ll have to look up on how later, but I can only assume that he’s the captain of the ponies that were trying to capture you. It also doesn’t help that he’s fellpool with horse DNA in him given the equine ears and tail.”

“Of course that would be the reason.” Nelsha said as she looked behind to see Shining Armor catching up to her as she noticed his horn starting to glow. “Dammit. If he is a captain, then trying to shake him off my tail is going to be a pain.” She said before using the bots to fire paralysis lasers at him. Shining Armor quickly summoned up a shield made out of magic in front of himself as some of the beams bounced off of it and nearly hit the lesser fellpool.

“Might not want to do that, seeing how certain magic and redirect light like that.” Vi said as Nelsha made the bots disappear. “You're a good distance away from the others that were chasing you and you’re halfway near the location you need to be in. I recommend taking him out. And by that I mean knocking him out.”

“You think I can take down a captain?”

“55% chance of being able to do so. Remember, you do have a barrier around yourself that nullifies symbology & physical attacks and ailments. But be warned, this will increase your hunger due to how much energy you’ll be putting in into fighting him.”

“Not like I have much of a choice in this matter.” She said before unsheathing her, quickly slides while turning around, and quickly lunges herself at him in an attempt to knock him out by using the flat part of her sword to his head. Shining Armor’s eyes widen upon seeing her coming at him as he quickly pulls out his sword and parries the attack off to the side, causing Nelsha to land behind him as she takes up a fighting stance. Shining Armor glared at the lesser fellpool as he took up the same stand as she was, only he would have a shield summed in one hand and a sword in the other hand.

“You really don’t want to do this kid. Surrender now so this doesn’t get out of hand.” Shining Armor ordered as Nelsha only replied by lunging at him in an attempt to knock him out again with the flat of her blade. The unicorn humaniod quickly brought his shield to parry her attack over to the side, and countered with hitting her in the stomach with the pummel of his sword. The pummel of his sword made contact with the barrier around her body as it caused his arm to recoil backwards, and for the lesser fellpool to retaliate with a roundhouse kick to his face causing him to stagger over to the side. “....was not expecting you to have a magical barrier around yourself.” He said before blading her with a magical beam, only for the barrier to nullify it.

“Magical & physical attacks not work.” Nelsha said while lifting a hand at Shining Armor causing a dark symbology symbol to appear as she fired a barrage of shadow needles at him. The unicorn humanoid’s eyes widened upon seeing this as he quickly brought his shield up to protect him from the spell only for him to counter with the same wind spell from before as she was sent flying backwards into the wall of a nearby house.

“Interesting, seems that the barrier can protect you from the physical aspect of certain magical spells, but not the force behind it...I’ll have to make a mental note on that and upgrade it when you can escape from this town.” Vi said as the lesser fellpool staggered to her feet. “You need to be careful of him using that spell or anything that has enough force to knock you off your feet. The barrier may protect you, but it can also cause you harm depending on what you crash into.”

“Y-Yeah, I kinda figured as much.” She said before noticing Shining Armor fired off the same wind spell as before as she quickly jumps to the side to avoid and counters by casting a spell upon him. “Mute the voice of the wicked caster, Silence!” A medium size circle appeared underneath Shining Armor’s feet as he didn’t notice it until he tried to cast another wind spell. Just as he was about to fire it, the spell and the magic gathered in his horn vanished within a second.

“What the-” Before he could finish, the lesser fellpool tapped the side of her boots and rocketed herself over to Shining Armor and delivered a knee kick to his head. The knee kick caused the humanoid unicorn to let out a yell of pain as he was sent tumbling backwards into a nearby bush. Once the lesser fellpool landed on the ground, she quickly sheathed her sword, pulled out her rifle, and fired upon him in an attempt to paralyse him. Just as Shining Armor was pulling himself up, he noticed the laser blast heading towards him as he brought up his shield and deflected it off to the side.

“Dammit, this guy is really pissing me off.” She said before quickly placing her rifle back onto the holster on her back. “No choice. Guess I’ll have to go beast mode on his ass. Or a least partial beast mode.” The pupils in Nelsha’s eyes became cat-like as her nails and teeth became sharp and pointy as she lunges herself at him again. Once she was close, she raised her right arm. As she did this it grew big and was quickly covered in fur as she brought it down towards his face to punch him.

Shining Armor’s eyes widened upon seeing this as he brought his shield up to protect himself from the punch, only for the shield to shatter into pieces as her punch collided with his face as the force behind it sent him flying through an apple cart being pulled by Big Mac and into Sugarcube Corner.

“....I think you overdid it with that punch.” Vi said as Nelsha rolled her eyes.

“Hey I’m trying to knock the guy out. This was the only option I can think of at the time...is he still alive?” She asked before noticing seeing a blood covered, armor dented, and pastry covered knight stagger out of the sugarcube corner with an enraged expression on his face. “He’s still standing!?”

“And pissed off from the look of it.” He said before noticing a blue aura appeared around Shining Armor’s body. “Warning, the enemy’s strength and magic has increased.”

“By how much?” She asked as she saw Shining Armor vanish in a blink of an eye before appearing behind her as sent her tumbling forwards from being with the sheath of his sword. He soon appeared in front of the lesser fellpool as he hit her again, causing her to tumble backwards from the force behind the strike. He soon appeared above as he landed on top of her, causing her to let out a yell of pain from being slammed into the ground and cough up from blood from the force behind the attack.

“Not to sound like a smartass, but by that much from what he did to you in both speed and strength.” Vi said as he watched Shining Armor step off of the knocked out lesser fellpool and pull her up by the hood part of her clothes.

“Just who or what are you?” Shining Armor asked as he examined Nelsha closely. “The reports said that you were a donkey, but what kind of donkey have claws and fangs-” Before he could finish, Nelsha’s eyes shot open as she brought up her beast-like claw and strikes at Shining Armor’s face. The pain from her attack caused him to release his hold onto her hood as she soon took this opportunity to deliver a powerful punch to his abdomen, causing him to let out a gasp of air from feeling the wind knocked out of him as he was sent flying back into Sugarcube Corner, only this time it was through the wall of the building.

“Take that you son of a bitch!” Nelsha yelled before falling to her knees and coughing up some blood. “Fucking hell that guy was a pain.”

“Nice work on playing dead to lower his guard. But now’s not the time to rest. You need to head off to where you need to go so you can heal yourself. Because right now I’m sensing internal damage from when he stomped on you. Nothing major, but I prefer not to have it get any worse later on.” He said as Nelsha slowly pulled herself up, tapped the side of her boots, and flew off towards the area with the empty houses that she can hide out in.
[Music Ends]