Union
Rage
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The Red Lantern can vomit plasma, which has been described as napalm and acid mixed together, it burns away at anything. It can be surmised that is the internal rages effect on the blood. These flames burn even in space. The effect it has on living beings allows it to ignite the flames of rage in a victims' blood and has the effect of burning through an energy aura of an opponent as well as corrupting other power rings depleting them at an accelerated rate and greatly weakening the structures they create. A unique quality of the Power Ring is their capacity to open portals out of the red lantern's plasma blood. As the Black Lanterns favor attacking and killing their victims by ripping their hearts out, the Red Lanterns can survive the attack for as long as their wrath burns bright. The Blue Light of Hope can extinguish the red flame and weakens a Red Lantern. Love can be fatal to a Red Lantern. Being the opposite of anger, any Red Lantern who feels love for another being may immediately be rejected by their ring and die without its life support. As the Red Lantern Power Ring assumes the functions of the heart, a Red Lantern cannot remove his ring without risking death. All Red Power Rings bring about an odd transformation within the hosts being, most every change varies from wearer to wearer. Said transition can be as menial as a simple costume change to as dramatic as a full on biophysical metamorphosis, two such transformations occurred in Red Lanterns Rankorr and Judge Sheko. The alterations are more than skin deep, those with exceptionally strong fury can become physically and emotionally more powerful than the average feral lantern. Even retaining some small part of their mental stability while developing new powers unique to themselves.
Nekron landed in front of Rainbow Dash's Cloudominium. "Little pony... little pony...", Nekron taunted as he kicked the door down... only to find a Red Lantern Power Battery. Unbeknown to the Lord of the Unliving, a blood portal opened up behind him. Bloody tendrils began to wrap around the villain, and by the time he noticed, it was too late. The tendrils pulled him through the blood portal. The Red Lantern Power Battery faded as it was actually a construct.
In Rainbow Dash's bedroom, she was wearing a red bodysuit and her Red Lantern Power Bracelet was glowing red. The tendrils were not Red Lantern constructs, but Nekron, being a Black Lantern, is weak to a Red Lantern. These bloody tendrils were a unique power to Rainbow Dash. "You. You've been trying to murder my friends. And for what reason? Personal gain? Power? Conquest? Blood?", Rainbow Dash asked. Zombified ponies ran into the bedroom, but the Red Lantern used her bloody tendrils to kill them as rotten blood sprayed everywhere. Her bloody tendrils constricted her prey, but Nekron used his scythe to slice through the veiny tendrils, causing Rainbow Dash to scream in pain. Nekron noticed that the bloody tendrils were actually coming out of Rainbow Dash's body. Therefore, they were a part of her. Suddenly, a blast of green engulfed Nekron as Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie flew into the bedroom. However, Twilight was confused.
"The Rage wielded by the Red Lantern Corps is the Rage born from a great loss, but what has Rainbow Dash lost?", Twilight asked as the bloody tendrils regenerated themselves. Before anyone could answer, however, Nekron broke through the force field containing him.
"I didn't lose anything... I'm scared of losing Equestria", Rainbow Dash answered. "And seeing someone attempt to destroy Equestria... fills me with... RAGE!" Tendrils began engulfing the bedroom, and in no time, the inside of Rainbow Dash's bedroom looked like the inside of a body. "With blood and rage of crimson red ripped from a corpse so freshly dead. Together with our hellish hate, we'll burn you all. That is your fate!" A bloody tendril engulfed Rainbow Dash, and a monstrous screech was heard. A pair of bat wings shot out from the bloody cocoon as Rainbow Dash, now a rage-filled vampire, roared. "I'm a fuckmothering vampire!"
"No...", Nekron said as Rainbow Dash constructed a massive blade and decapitated the villain... which proved to be ineffective, despite Rainbow Dash being a Red Lantern. Nekron reassembled himself. "You're nothing but a racist, cisgendered, patriarch-propagating, misogynistic PIG!!!" He raised his scythe and was about to slice off Applejack's head, but Rainbow Dash grabbed the blade... WITH HER TEETH!
"The funny thing is in any other circumstance, you might have had a point there. Except my friends are all different species of pony, I am a lesbian, I love/hate everyone equally, and there's no one alive who could comprehend my sexual preference! So in other words, Lord of the Unliving... CH-CH-CH-CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!", Rainbow Dash replied as she bit through the blade. The scythe began to crumble.
"No... this cannot be!", Nekron said.
"Oh? Haven't you heard the new sensation sweeping the nation? Us bitches love cannons", Rainbow Dash quipped as she constructed a musket and gripped Nekron by the neck causing him to choke. She fired the bullet into the villain's chest, causing Nekron to emit a blood-curdling scream. "Hu-hu-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he! He-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!! AHH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAA!!!!!" The five Lanterns circled around the Lord of the Unliving.
"I... will never surrender to you puny Lanterns... and I'm going to kill you all!", Nekron growled.
"Oh? See, that would be intimidating if you were, well, intimidating", Rainbow Dash quipped.
"ARE YOU MOCKING ME?!", Nekron screamed.
"Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Pffft, yeah", Rainbow Dash chuckled before shooting Nekron in the heart with the musket, ultimately knocking out the Lord of the Unliving. "That won't keep out him out for long." She created a blood portal as the musket faded. "Everypony through the blood portal now!" The five Lanterns ran through the blood portal as it closed behind them.
Author's Note
Horror references in this chapter:
Bloody tendrils began to wrap around the villain, and by the time he noticed, it was too late.
Skarlet from Mortal Kombat. While this isn't exactly a horror reference, Mortal Kombat is definitely horror-adjacent.
A bloody tendril engulfed Rainbow Dash, and a monstrous screech was heard. A pair of bat wings shot out from the bloody cocoon as Rainbow Dash, now a rage-filled vampire, roared. "I'm a fuckmothering vampire!"
Once again, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged.
"You're nothing but a racist, cisgendered, patriarch-propagating, misogynistic PIG!!!" He raised his scythe and was about to slice off Applejack's head, but Rainbow Dash grabbed the blade... WITH HER TEETH!
"The funny thing is in any other circumstance, you might have had a point there. Except my friends are all different species of pony, I am a lesbian, I love/hate everyone equally, and there's no one alive who could comprehend my sexual preference! So in other words, Lord of the Unliving... CH-CH-CH-CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!", Rainbow Dash replied as she bit through the blade. The scythe began to crumble.
"No... this cannot be!", Nekron said.
"Oh? Haven't you heard the new sensation sweeping the nation? Us bitches love cannons", Rainbow Dash quipped as she constructed a musket and gripped Nekron by the neck causing him to choke. She fired the bullet into the villain's chest, causing Nekron to emit a blood-curdling scream. "Hu-hu-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he! He-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!! AHH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAA!!!!!
It took me a while to set up this joke. Hellsing Ultimate Abridged.
"I... will never surrender to you puny Lanterns... and I'm going to kill you all!", Nekron growled.
"Oh? See, that would be intimidating if you were, well, intimidating", Rainbow Dash quipped.
"ARE YOU MOCKING ME?!", Nekron screamed.
"Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Pffft, yeah", Rainbow Dash chuckled.
My eighth Hellsing Ultimate Abridged reference.
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