The Devil-Devil Club

The Mane 6, Princesses, Shining Armor and Royal Guards walked through the mining area, keeping an eye out for anything. Applejack’s leg was still burning and glowing brightly, leaving footprints burned into the ground. “...And that’s about everything that’s happened so far.” Twilight said after explaining the situation to the four nobles.

“So that Jake guy can just… disassemble ponies like a doll, and swap places with anypony? Creepy...” Shining said.

‘I still don’t get it, how could she break the barrier? Even when I weakened it, it still took constant strikes from an army to break open a hole in it! And yet, she broke the entire thing with one kick!’ Chrysalis thought to herself as she was being carried in Cadence’s magical grasp, trying to ignore how the Princess of Love was putting her hair in pigtails. Of course, eventually, she couldn’t take it anymore.

“WILL YOU STOP MESSING WITH MY HAIR!!”

Cadence hugged Chrysalis with a squee., “But you’re so tiny and cute!” Chrysalis made a futile attempt to escape the Princess’s grasp but to no avail.

Twilight walked up to AJ and said, “So, Applejack-”

“I’m not telling you anything, Twi,” Applejack interrupted.

“B-but but, why!?” Twilight whined.

“All I’m saying is that I made a promise to not say anything about the techniques,“ Applejack said, biting her lip as she thought back to the promise she made.

Flashback.

“Alright, so some human techniques to help with the pressure in my legs. So what’s the catch? There’s always a catch to something like this,” Applejack stated.

“You’re right there is a catch,” Jake said, planting the tip of his sheathed sword in the ground and leaning on it like it was a cane. “Before I teach you anything, you have to join The Devil-Devil Club.”

“Join your group huh? What are the rules?” Applejack asked, narrowing her eyes a bit.

Jake raised three fingers. “There are only three rules for everyone in The Devil-Devil Club. Rule 1, don’t give Devil Fruits, info, or items on or about anything important to anyone who isn’t a part of the group!”

“So everything you’ve told us isn’t super important?” Applejack asked.

“Not at all. Rule 2, help out fellow members of the team. If you can’t help, you’d better have a good excuse,” Jake said, lifting another finger for a total of two.

“Seems fair,” Applejack replied.

“Pretty much. Finally, Rule 3, do what you want within the rules.” Jake said, putting his hand back down as he leaned on his sword again.

Applejack raised an eyebrow and said, “So... what, I can just do what I feel like as long as I follow the first two rules?”

Jake said with a nod, “Yep, that’s all. Of course, even though I’m the captain, I still follow the rules too.”

“Well, guess I’ll join. I’ve got an apple orchard to keep running and I can’t be losing my legs,” Applejack responded with a sigh.

“Well, welcome aboard! Now then, let’s begin with the first technique,” Jake said as he began to explain the techniques.

Flashback End.

‘My friends might be super curious about the human techniques but I’d rather break my legs than break a promise… Come to think of it, I think Pinkie would break my legs herself if I broke another important promise…’ Applejack thought with a sweat drop rolling down her face.

Applejack then smelled something, when she looked to see that Pinkie was somehow cooking eggs sideways while using the heat of her leg, “Don’t worry, AJ, my eggs are almost done!” The party mare stated with a smile, flashing her a thumbs-up.

Applejack huffed before she kicked Pinkie away and yelled, “Don’t cook things on me!”

Pinkie did several flips through the air and opened her mouth when she landed perfectly and caught the fried eggs in her mouth. The Royal Guards clapped at Pinkie’s skills before Shining yelled at them to stop and focus.

Fluttershy looked at Rainbow Dash, who was looking at a group of armored pegasi flying above them. “What is it?” Fluttershy said.

“I feel like I’ve seen those pegasi before, but I can’t put my finger on it,” Rainbow Dash said, rubbing her chin as she continued staring upwards.

“Oh, those are the Wonderbolts, Ms. Dash. Auntie Celly wanted them to wear some armor in case something happens,” Cadence said without looking back.

“Those are the Wonderbolts?! Well, no wonder I couldn’t recognize them with that dumb Royal Guard armor on,” Rainbow said, crossing her arms as she looked back up at her idols.

“Hey! The Royal Guard armor isn’t dumb!” Shining yelled back at Dash, offended.

“Captain, mining platform, straight ahead!” One of the Royal Guards yelled, pointing at a series of platforms set along a cliff face. Sitting atop each platform was a bunch of cages, inside of which were ponies both young and old. On the top platform was a group of changelings, though from this angle it was difficult to see what they were doing.

Then the sound of a rockslide came from behind the group, causing them to whip around in time to see a huge rock slide blocking off the path for anyone that couldn’t fly. “What the hay was that?!” Shining yelled, grasping at his spear.

Suddenly one of the Royal Guards was hit by a wooden crossbow bolt that bounced off his armor, but when he was about to laugh at the ‘attack’, the wooden bolt exploded.

Cadence quickly pushed her way through the other Royal Guards. “Make room, he needs healing magic!”

As Cadence moved to heal the wounded soldier, Luna spotted a barrage of bolts flying toward both them and the Wonderbolts.

“Everypony, come close! Wonderbolts, you too! Even if the bolts don’t hit you, the blast will!”

“You heard the princess! Get a move on!” Spitfire yelled before the pegasi flew down, managing to dodge the blasts as the bolts exploded Unfortunately, not everyone could escape in time, and the concussive force was enough to knock some of the soldiers unconscious.

“Moon Dome!” Luna yelled, her horn let out a flash of light before everyone was covered by a dome of energy.

“I wonder what Jake is up to during all of this,” Applejack wondered, tapping her foot on the ground as she eyed the platforms.

“Taking care of Changelings that were on the sides and behind you,” The ponies turned to the center to see Jake standing there. “Which is why they’re firing so many explosive bolts at us, I killed all of their back-ups.”

“WHEN DID YOU GET HERE!?!?” All of the ponies yelled at the top of their lungs.

“About 13 seconds after the first guy was blown up,” Jake said flippantly, showing no concern at all.

Shining growled. “Don’t speak about this ambush like that! Tell us what are we up against - this has to be a Devil Fruit because I’m not sensing any magic from these crossbow bolts!”

“You’re a sharp one, alright - this is the work of the Blast-Blast Fruit, not to be confused with its cousin the Bomb-Bomb Fruit. It allows the user to turn any inanimate object they touch into a powerful explosive,” Jake said, tapping his sword on his shoulder.

“So how do we beat this fruit?!” Rainbow shouted.

Jake pulled a handgun out of his bag and shot the ground, to the confusion of the ponies. Their confusion only grew as the barrage of bolts stopped and blood-curdling screams could be heard from the top platform.

Jake smirked. “Unlike the Bomb-Bomb Fruit, the Blast-Blast Fruit doesn’t make the user immune to explosions, it makes them super sensitive to them. If you fire off a gun, he’ll collapse from the pain of his eardrums nearly bursting. Not to mention any bomb he makes is reverted to normal when his focus is broken. His power is effective on complete noobs and at a long-range, but useless at close range. So, yeah, we might want to get going now before he recovers from that.”

Luna lowered the barrier and the guards charged at the mining platform, Changelings began coming out of nearby mining tunnels and charging at the guards, as both the guards and changelings fought. The Wonderbolts got ready to take flight as other changelings also took flight, “Alright, Wonderbolts! Let’s give these guys some cover in the sky!” Spitfire yelled. But when the Wonderbolts took flight, magical circles appeared in the air and began charging electricity, “Anti-air magic! Get down, get back on the ground now!” Spitfire yelled as the magic circles then fired huge arcs of electricity, ‘We’re dead…’ Spitfire thought.

“ROOM, Shambles!”

The Wonderbolts abruptly found themselves on the ground behind Jake and changelings that were originally going to attack Jake took their place as the arcs of electricity cooked them to a crisp. “Next time pay attention to the changelings on the cliff,” Jake said with a shake of his head before completely sheathing his sword. A second later, two rocks on both sides of the cliffs above spewed blood before revealing themselves to be changelings in disguise.

“Uh… Thanks…” Spitfire mumbled. Jake thought for a second she was blushing, but he put that thought in the back of his mind.

The human looked up at the top platform and sneered. “No, you don’t.” Jake fired his gun again, this time aimed at the top platform, managing to hit a crossbow bolt before it could be fired and causing a small explosion.

“AAAAAAHHHHH!!! YOU FUCKER!!!” A changeling yelled as he covered his ears and dropped his crossbow. Much like Spinner, he was different from the other changelings, with red eyes and hair in addition to a set of blast-protective gear.

“Hello, Beetal.”

“Spinner!? What the hell happened to you!?” Beetal yelled to his ally, his hands still clamped over his ears as he stared down in terror. Spinner managed to prop his detached arm on his detached torso and pointed at Jake.

“There’s the Devil Fruit user. Applejack, get ready to bring down that platform,” Jake ordered as he rummaged through his backpack once more.

“Got it…” AJ muttered as she got into a ready stance.

Twilight heard this as she blasted away a changeling, she then turned to her friend and yelled, “What?! Applejack, that platform isn’t just made of normal wood! It’s enchanted to be as tough as a mountain!”

“Then I guess I’m gonna have to destroy a mountain,” Applejack said as her legs tensed up. Jake, meanwhile, pulled out a bottle of caffeine pills and popped off the cap. AJ waited for when the cap hit the ground…

“Shave!”

...and then rocketed forward, creating a sonic boom that nearly bowled over several of the guards. “S-she… broke the sound barrier…” Twilight and Rainbow Dash said in unison, completely baffled.

‘My power drains my stamina as I use it, so if I take something like caffeine pills to greatly boost myself, then I should be able to do a lot more than I normally would,’ Jake thought as he downed some pills, his pupils widening as the caffeine hit him like a truck.

“Super… ROOM!” The ROOM widened vastly, now covering the entire mining area. A moment later, Jake called out “Multi-Shambles!”

The ponies that were in the cages suddenly switched places with changelings that were fighting the guards.

Beetal yelled down at them, “Don’t just stand there, shoot her! We have no hostages to keep them at bay!”

As Applejack got closer, she spun on her flaming leg, increasing the intensity to the point the ground melted with every step she took.

“Diablo Shot!” Applejack roared before kicking the primary support pillar of the mining platform, the pillar glowing as it began to heat up. The pillar did its best to keep itself together but soon cracked and the entire mining platform began crumbling down. Beetal fell to the ground and was immediately surrounded by Shining and the Royal Guards, tossing Spinner’s parts next to him.

While this happened, Jake was looking in a different direction, sensing something or someone in the Super ROOM, he thought, ‘Is that… A human… No, humans, there are two… Hold on, Scan!’ Jake's eyes glowed. He saw two humans that he recognized. A female ginger teen with pale skin and wearing a fur coat, sunglasses, trousers, and socks with sandals, and a bald shirtless male teen with fair skin and wearing sunglasses, cargo pants, and combat boots.

‘WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY HERE!?’ Jake thought with a face filled with nothing but rage as the two quickly disappeared.

Jake’s focus was broken when Beetal fired a flare gun into the air, screaming from the blast he made so close to himself, before a sudden sandstorm appeared, practically blinding them all. “Dammit! They’ve got a Logia!” Jake yelled, shielding his eyes with his arm.

The sandstorm ended quickly but when the sand cleared, all of the Changelings were gone. “Damnit, they got away!” Shining yelled, looking around to try and spot where they could have gone before sighing. “…Alright, let’s get everypony back to Ponyville, it’s been a long day for them and they’ll feel a lot better once they’re back in their homes.”

One of the ponies, who was a mare wearing a nurse's uniform stood and spoke. “I would recommend we take them all to the hospital, especially those two…”

The nurse then glanced at the CMC, Big Mac, and Spike.

Applebloom, the second tallest standing 4'8, had a growing muscular body but wasn't anywhere near her sister's level and a somewhat developed AA-cup bust. Her attire consisted of a bright golden blouse with blue overalls. a black barrette with a red ribbon, and a white and green shoes. She also had a black eye marring an otherwise pretty face.

Sweetie Belle, the second shortest standing 4'6, had a growing smooth curvy apple-shaped figure like her sister with a well developed B-cup bust. Her attire consisted of a lavender blouse with a matching skirt, knee socks, and shoes. She had a bruised cheek.

Scootaloo, the shortest standing 4'5, had a slim athlete's body like RD with an underdeveloped small A-Cup bust. Her attire consisted of blue jeans, blue running shoes, and a white sleeveless shirt with cloud patterns under a sleeveless jacket. She had several holes in her clothing.

Big Mac had a very muscular body and seemed as tall as Cadence, wearing a pair of tattered overalls, but he looked near the brink of death, covered in deep cuts and gashes.

Spike had a lean and athletic body, appearing about a foot shorter than Fluttershy. His clothes, besides his pants, were torn to ribbons. He wasn't as bad, but he wasn’t okay either, his nose was broken and patches of scales were cracked.

The CMC was crying over the two males as Cadence created two stretchers with her magic, lifting the two into the air. “Come on, everypony! I don’t think these two are going to be able to wait for you!” Luna yelled in a voice that shook the mountains.

“We’re all right here, you dumbass! You don’t need to shout! Stupid noble!” Jake yelled back, swinging at two guards attempting to help him as he began to stagger. “And I don’t need your help! I’m fine! It's just having a caffeine crash!”

The two guards shrugged and went to help some other ponies instead as everyone began to leave.

At Ponyville Hospital, the ponies were lined up, awaiting their turn for a medical exam. Meanwhile, Applejack sat down with her head in her knees beside the surgery room door, where Jake was operating on Big Mac, evidenced by the ROOM slightly sticking out of the door.

Then a couple of doctors came out of the room, Applejack’s ears flicked toward the two doctors as they spoke, “...That Devil Fruit of his is a miracle worker!”

“Yeah, I’m glad he’s a part-time surgeon and not full-time, he’d put every surgeon in Equestria out of a job. Not to mention Big Mac wouldn’t survive the night if that lad wasn’t here, it's too bad about his muscular system being damaged beyond repair, he’ll be lucky to walk again-” The other doctor stopped mid-sentence when he noticed Applejack listening to them.

The cowgirl pony said nothing and got up to walk away, lowering her hat over her eyes so no one could see her crying. ‘I might be upset about this, but I doubt it's going to compare to how Big Mac is going to feel.’

As AJ walked off and the two doctors went about their business, two figures entered the surgery room, and Jake suddenly turned off his ROOM. Jake’s voice came from behind the closed doors, “So what do you two want?”

Applejack walked into the waiting room, where the other Mane 6 and the nobles were, Pinkie was standing by Jake’s bag. In front of her, or more specifically embedded in the ground, was Shining and Rainbow.

“Miss Pie, I think this is a bit much for a book,” Shining muttered before coughing up a mixture of blood and spit.

“Come on Pinkie, All I want is one stinkin’ Devil Fruit!” Rainbow yelled.

“I Pinkie Promised Jake that while he helps Big Mac get better I’d protect his bag! No pony touches the book or DFs, which is short for Devil Fruits!” Pinkie said raising her mallet above her head, then a plant left beside the bag was slightly moved to the left and Pinkie swung at the plant, hitting an invisible pony who turned out to be Twilight.

“Ow…” Twilight whimpered.

Before any more ponies could try and get into the bag, Jake came around the corner and picked it up. Pinkie gave a salute and announced, “I protected the bag as promised! No pony even got to touch it!”

Jake saluted back and said, “Good work! I’ll be taking my bag back now. As promised, here’s your payment.” Jake pulled out a bag of BBQ potato chips and handed them to Pinkie, who immediately began eating them.

“Hold on, you were bribed!?” Rainbow Dash yelled but got no answer to her question as Pinkie was busy eating.

As Jake left the room, Chrysalis spoke up. “So do any of you have a plan of attack? The bad me isn’t going to take this lying down, you're going to have to take the fight to her or she’ll burn down Ponyville for kicks.”

Twilight stood up and rubbed her back before speaking, “Yeah, but we’ll first have to know where the hive is because I have a gut feeling that it's not where it used to be.”

“You’re right, it’s been moved. Lucky I heard where before I was thrown out of the hive, the place...”

Chrysalis glanced around as everyone paid close attention, even spotting the tip of Jake’s sword around the corner.

“... Is Saddle Arabia, which is where the final and most dangerous Changeling Commander and the bad me operate. You’ve seen him too, he has a Logia Devil Fruit with the power to become and control sand.” Chrysalis explained.

‘Arlight, who the fuck named these places?’ Jake thought with a grumble, ‘And Celestia and Luna, if you think you're being sneaky by going into my mind, you most certainly are not.’

The two princesses flinched when they were caught by Jake before Celestia hurried to change the subject. “That explains why the rulers of Saddle Arabia haven’t been attending the meetings we’ve secluded. You’re going to have your hands full if you go because the Royal Guard can’t join you - Saddle Arabia is out of our jurisdiction.”

Twilight straightened her back and said, “Alright girls, let’s-”

Jake immediately interrupted her. “We’re going to Saddle Arabia, Applejack go home and bring water and Cider, the user of the Sand-Sand Fruit can dehydrate you by grabbing you. The rest of you, do what the fuck ever, I don’t care.”

“Why Cider?” Applejack asked while Twilight was crouched down and poking at the ground.

“Cause I’d like something to drink other than plain water,” Jake said before walking back to the surgery room, Applejack shrugged and walked out of the hospital.

“Well… We’ll speak after you get back from Saddle Arabia then, we need to return to Canterlot,” Luna said.

Chrysalis attempted to hide in a trash bin but was immediately pulled out by Cadence, who proceeded to carry her to the chariot. ‘I hate this mare so much,’ Chrysalis thought with a sigh as Cadence put her hair back in pigtails, also carrying Shining with her magic.

The others left the hospital as well… Except for one.

“Hey hold on! Somepony pull me out!” Rainbow yelled, struggling to get free before the lights went out. “H-hello?” Rainbow’s eyes widened when she heard scurrying across the floor.

At noon the next day, Applejack was carrying a barrel of water and five cases of bottled cider. The cowgirl pony walked by Rarity’s boutique, and almost hit the door, when the fashion mare kicked it open, she was struggling to make some form of clothing. “Having trouble there, Rarity?” AJ asked.

“I can make dresses and tuxedos that rival noble clothing. I can make hats that rival crowns! And yet, I can’t make one simple desert hat or coat!” Rarity yelled before making an incorrect stitch and tossing the cloth in a nearby trash bin.

Then Rainbow and Fluttershy flew down to their friends; the former was carrying a fridge filled with booze, while the latter was carrying another barrel of water with a bag of clothing. For some reason, Fluttershy seemed to be rubbing her arm in pain. “Hey, girls, thanks for pulling me out of the ground yesterday! I was sure glad to not spend a night in a creepy empty hospital all by myself!” Rainbow said with the utmost sarcasm and giving both of them a harsh punch to the arm.

“You know, I was going to give you a case of Cider as an apology, but now I think I’ll just give it all to Jake,” Applejack said.

“I would care if I wasn’t angry!” Rainbow yelled.

“Um, everypony, I’ve been to the desert of Saddle Arabia before to meet some of the desert animals, so I have some spare clothes from that venture beforehand,” Fluttershy muttered just loud enough to be heard.

“Oh that is wonderful, because

The four continued through Ponyville until they came across Twilight and Pinkie nearing the train station, the former was holding different maps that had a rough idea of Saddle Arabia and the latter was carrying a whole assortment of different party drinks and rolled up tents. “Morning girls-”

Rainbow punched the two in the arm, interrupting Twilight. “Will you dumbasses cut it the fuck out, we have better things to worry about,” Jake was sitting on the steps to the train station, behind him were two cloaked figures, one female and one.

“Woah, who are they?” Rainbow questioned.

“They’re some people I recruited for this trip since we won’t have an army to fight an army and we’ll be up against a Logia, we’ll need more fighters, so I brought all three new members of the Devil-Devil Club,” Jake answered. ‘Since The Celestial Dragons are here I definitely can’t go alone.’

Pinkie giggled before saying, “Silly Jakey, there’s only two. Oh, and can I join your club?!”

Jake tapped his sword on his shoulder and answered, “I’ll think about it and also, the third guy is- Now!”

“Strong Hammer!”

“What the fuck-”

Suddenly an explosion came from a nearby building and the two humans Jake saw yesterday were blasted through a wall. They were followed by a much larger clocked male, his right hand made completely out of metal, holding fake skin covered by a glove in his other hand.

The two attempted to get up before Jake diced them into pieces; as the two cloaked figures pulled out two barrels of water from around the corner before dumping the two human’s parts besides the head into the barrels and the third put his skin back over his metal hand, Jake spoke. “Say hello to my third crew member and the two spies he just beat the crap out of. To make this quick, these two are from the Celestial Dragons, another group like mine made of orphans. The big difference is that they help start wars so they can profit off them. If I had to guess, they also gave the Devil Fruits to the Changelings.”

“That’s horrible!” Rarity exclaimed.

“Wait are you putting them in- Oh, right. The whole weak in water thing,” Rainbow said to herself.

“I’ll have Spike send a letter for Celestia to send some-”

Twilight was interrupted again by a guard putting a hand on her shoulder and saying, “We’re already here, Miss Sparkle.”

Twilight stuttered as several guards walked by her to grab the two humans, “How!?”

“Jake, over there, had Spike inform us about these two ahead of time,” the guard explained.

“If you're done being behind, Twilight, the train is here and we’re leaving,” Jake said before walking onto the train with the others.

“H-hey! Wait for me!” Twilight yelled after boarding the train and it took off.

To Be Continued...