The Crimson Crusader

Chapter Eight

Robotic Assistance

“Fly faster dammit!” Amy yelled as she once again rode on Rainbow Dash’s back as the duo zoomed through town. Tailing behind them was an enraged Chrysalis, who was charging after them while shooting lasers from her horn.

“What happened to that great speech of kicking her flank or something?” Rainbow Dash asked as she quickly dodged an oncoming magic beam from Chrysalis.

“We are fighting her, we just need to keep her pissed off to the point where we can take care of that horn she has.”

“And how are we going to do that?” The mare asked before flying up into the air to avoid another beam from the enraged queen.

“Reach into your pockets. I believe you should have a gun or something to use as a weapon given the class you’re in.” Amy said as she noticed the mare reach into her lab coat’s pocket and pulled out a handgun.

“Seriously? A toy gun? What am I going to do with something like this-” Before she could finish her sentence, the mare accidentally fired off a shot as the sound of the gun going off startled Rainbow Dash, causing the mare to fumble with the gun for a moment before catching it. “Holy mother of Celestia! What was that!?”

“That my mare friend is what we call a gun. Or in this case, a revolver to be specific.” Amy answered. “The perks about being a metal heart is that you get a lot of cool weapons and other things along with it.”

“Seriously!? How do I do that?”

“...I…don’t know,” Amy said as she noticed a deadpan expression on the pegasus’s face. “What? I’m still new to the whole superpower stuff. I’m just going by what I learned from the internet.”

“Whoever this internet pony is. They pretty much suck at his/her job.” She said as Amy was about to reply, only to feel Rainbow Dash starting to move in a zigzag pattern due to trying to avoid getting hit by Chrysalis’s magic attack.

“Stop moving around so I can hit you!” Chrysalis yelled.

“Oh yeah, we’ll stay still so you can kill us!” Amy yelled as she ducked her head from an oncoming beam of magic zooming past her head. “Crap that was close.”

“So the only plan that you have is to make her mad to the point where we can get the drop on her?” The mare asked as the human nodded. “Okay, so who’s going to be the distraction?”

“....I was hoping you would do it and I would sneak up from behind and knock her out.” She answered as Rainbow Dash deadpans at her. “Alright, fine! I’ll do it. Just drop me off and you come in from behind and knock her out. Happy?”

“Yes, because it’s not my butt that she’s going to kill.” Rainbow Dash said as she dropped Amy off around the corner she turned as flies up into the sky. The moment the pegasus was out of sight, the human quickly bolted it down the street, just as Chrysalis fired off another magical beam from the side.

“You can’t run forever you hairless ape!” Chrysalis yelled as she flew after the human. “When I get my hands on you, your life will be a living Tartarus!”

“That would be if you can catch me, you old hag!” Amy yelled before jumping out of Chrysalis's attempt to tackle her to the ground. The moment Chrysalis was in front of her, the human was sent flying backward from a magical beam that the queen shot out from her horn and crashed into a nearby cart filled with flowers. “Pain…so much pain.” She said before feeling her throat being grabbed as the changeling queen levitates the human over to her.

“You are trying my patient's monkey! Now surrender or else I will make your punishment five times more painful than it’s going to be!” Chrysalis yelled as the human spat on her face. There was a moment of silence hanging in the air as Chrysalis focused her attention on Amy, who was grinning like an idiot thinking she won the fight…in honesty, she didn’t. If anything it just made Chrysalis even angrier as she slammed the human onto the ground and began punching her in the face. “How dare you spit on your queen like that you miserable monkey!?”

“N-Not that…h-hard seeing how you’re c-close to me.” She said in between punches as the changeling queen continued to punch her in the face for a while before tossing her off to the side as she slams into a tree.

“Will you stop doing that!?”

“W-What d-do you mean?”

“Having a stupid retort for almost everything I’ve been saying. Faust, it’s like something comes into your mind and you just speak them out. Do you have ADHD or something!?”

“Or, I could be rhetorical in the stuff I’m saying~,” Amy said, only for Chrysalis to charge at her with her foot and kick the human through the tree she was leaning on. The tumbles a bit before coming to a slow stop as she lets out a gasp of air. “O-Okay, not one of my best comments.” She said before feeling Chrysalis’s foot on her now bruised ribs.

“Any last words before I rip your tongue out from your mouth?”

“Yeah,” Amy said before slamming her hand onto the ground which caused a large pool of blood to appear below herself and Chrysalis. “Blood Swamp.” The moment Chrysalis saw this, her wings opened up as she floated above the human’s attack.

“Nice try creature. But I’ve seen that move done before-” Before she could finish, thorns erupted from the pool of blood and impaled Chrysalis’s arms, legs, and wings.

“....Okay that was new, but I’m not complaining about it,” Amy said as she staggered to her feet. “Bet you weren’t expecting that-” Before the human could finish her sentence, she felt her throat being grabbed once again as Chrysalis used her magic to levitate the human over to her.

“Did you forget that I can still use my magic?” Chrysalis asked as she increased the strength of her magical grip around the human’s throat. “I decided to change my mind about making you a slave. I’m just going to kill you and use your corpse to feed my rose garden!”

“I…have….no regret!” Amy yelled as she felt her vision starting to fade in and out of consciousness due to lack of oxygen due to being strangled by Chrysalis. The moment she was about to lose consciousness, the sound of a gunshot echoed through the area they were in followed by the sound of bone breaking. She soon felt herself drop to the ground as she gasped for air. Just as she was slowly recovering, she soon looked down to see Chrysalis’s horn drops down next to her.

“Holy Celestia! That worked!?” Rainbow Dash yelled as Amy looked up to see Chrysalis looking down at her horn with a shocked expression on her face. The human looked at her for a moment before busting out laughing upon seeing the expression on the changeling’s face.

“Not a bad look queeny. Suits you more than having a jagged horn with holes in it!” She said before rolling on the floor a bit but soon stopped upon seeing a broken expression on her face. Not the kind where you think they’re defeated, but the kind where they have nothing else to lose and will do anything to kill you on the spot.

“....I am going to enjoy killing you both.”

“And how are you going to do that? You can’t use magic without your-” Before Rainbow Dash could finish her sentence, she noticed the changeling’s arms changing into muscular arms. The sound of the thorns restraining her slowly began to crack before breaking as the queen was free from her restraints. “...Oh buck me sideways.”

“Did you think that breaking my horn would prevent me from using my magic!? After my humiliating defeat, I decided to train myself in the arts of magic. Delay magic is very helpful for situations like this.” Chrysalis said as she cracked her knuckles. “Though it only lasts for an hour, that's plenty of time to make you both suffer my wrath.”

“....Rainbow Dash!” Amy yelled as Chrysalis was about to slam her fist into the human’s face, only for the cyan pegasus to quickly tackle the human to the side. The ground shook for a moment as the two saw a crater made from where Chrysalis’s attack struck. The queen slowly pulled her fist out of the ground as she looked over at the human and pegasus with a manic grin on her face.

“Okay…I was not expecting that.” Rainbow Dash said as they watched the changeling slowly making her way over to them. “Isn’t there anything you have to beat her?”

“Given how freakishly muscular she is…I got nothing that could defeat her on the spot…where are your friends?” Amy asked as she noticed a sheepish expression on the pegasus’s face.

“C-Canterlot Castle…currently waiting for Celestia and Luna to gather the royal guards to come to Ponyville…I kind of left on my own seeing how Twilight teleported us out of there.”

“Can’t she just do it again?”

“She said it takes a lot out of her to do that…plus it was on the spot so…yeah, she’s out of magic.”

“Fan fucking tastic,” Amy said before turning her attention onto Chrysalis as the pair pulled themselves up from the ground. “Okay, so new plan. We keep hitting her long enough so that the others can come here.”

“And you think we can do that? Keep in mind that we don’t have much on how our powers work.”

“True, but winging it seems to help us. So we might as well wing it until something happens.” Amy said before noticing something shiny in Rainbow Dash’s lab coat. “Hey, what’s that?” The pegasus blinked in confusion as to what Amy meant before noticing she was pointing at her coat pocket. She reaches into her pocket to pull out a strange device and begins to examine it.

“Huh, this is new.” The pegasus said as she accidentally pressed a button on it. In doing so, blue-colored cubes appeared in front of her and Amy for a couple of seconds before vanishing. In its place was a bulky-looking robot and a strange pad with light coming from it. “...Um…what just happened?”

“....Huh, so that’s the class summoning their robots…looks a lot different in the game than in real life.”

“What do you mean by that?” Rainbow Dash asked before noticing the light from the pad getting brighter as small drones in the shape of arrowheads appear from out of it and around Rainbow Dash and Amy.

“You can pretty much summon an army of robots to your…aid.” She said as the two looked at each other for a moment, then at the device, then at each other again before looking over at Chrysalis who was staring in surprise at the robots appearing out of nowhere. “Dude…how many of these can you summon?”

“I don’t know. I don’t even know if there’s a limit to how many I can summon….wanna find out?” Rainbow Dash asked as she noticed a grin appearing on the humans. The two turn their attention onto Chrysalis as she notices the grins on their faces along with more robots, drones, and thermal firearms surrounding herself and the human. The queen’s eyes widened upon seeing this as fear started to become more prevalent in her than anything else.

“Don’t know how long this will last, but all I can say is that this is gonna be a bloodbath of epic proportions,” Amy said as a devilish grin appeared on her face before calling out to Chrysalis. “Not too late to surrender bug butt. Give up now and my friend here won’t have to make more holes in your body.”

“If you think your little toys will stop me from unleashing my wrath upon you, you’re sadly mistaken!” She yelled before charging at the pair.

“Welp, there goes diplomacy. Dash, unleash the dogs of war!” She yelled which caused Rainbow Dash to stare at her in confusion.

“What is that supposed to mean?”

“...Have the robots attack her,” Amy said with a deadpan expression on her face as Rainbow Dash pressed another button on the device that she was holding, causing the drones and robots to charge at Chrysalis.

“You should’ve just said that, idiot.” Rainbow Dash said as Amy deadpans even hard at the pegasus before turning her attention on the queen fighting the somewhat small army of machines.