The Crimson Crusader

Chapter Nine

A Bloody Mess

There were a lot of things that Amy feared in her life. First would be capybaras, mainly because there can’t be an animal this chill to the point of letting other animals lay on it like a pillow. Second, children who smile too much…I believe that’s self-explanatory given horror movies involving evil demons taking over the body of a child. Third, the maid that her father hired when she was a kid. Seeing Chrysalis going through a small army of futuristic robots from another world and looking like a monster that just got out of a war with humans hellbent on killing her and Rainbow Dash…This will count as number four of things that will make Amy reevaluate her life choices.

“Okay, I was not expecting this,” Amy said as she and Rainbow Dash slowly backed away from the injured and enraged changeling queen who was limping her way over to them.

“How is she still able to move!? We threw everything at her. Even the kitchen sink. Literally!” Rainbow Dash yelled while pointing off to the side where the kitchen sink landed after being thrown at Chrysalis.

“My rage for me killing you both is what’s driving me at this point!” Chrysalis yelled before changing at the human and pegasus. Just as she was within striking range, Amy was about to strike her with her weapon. Only for the changeling queen to vanish and cause Amy to miss. The human and pegasus quickly look around to see where Chrysalis had vanished off to, only to feel a pair of hands grab their necks from behind and slam them on the ground. “You have made a mockery of me for far too long. Now it’s payback time!” She yelled before dragging them along the ground as she charged through town.

The moment she was coming up on a couple of buildings, she brought the pair up and used them as shields to protect herself as she ran through the houses. After the twelfth house she ran through, Chrysalis soon threw the pair through the last house before firing off a giant beam of magic at the house they were thrown into. An explosion erupted from the house as Amy and Rainbow Dash were sent flying and crashed on the roof of a nearby house.

“Yep, this is the worst day of my entire life,” Amy said as she forcefully pulled herself, only to fall backward onto the roof as she felt a foot push her down. Looking up, she could see the battered queen standing on top of her with a manic grin on her face. “I don’t suppose an apology would fix anything, would it?” She asked before feeling Chrysalis break her right arm with a bone-shattering stomp. The sound of the human screaming in pain brought joy to the queen as she quickly grabbed her by the throat and started to crush her windpipes.

“I’m going to enjoy seeing you beg for your life!” Chrysalis said as she was on the verge of breaking the human’s throat. It was only when she felt something land on her back was when she drew her attention off of the human.

“Surprise ugly!” Rainbow Dash said as the queen noticed a strange remote in the pegasus’s hands. The moment she pressed a button on it, an explosion set off on Chrysalis's back causing her to release her hold on Amy and fall off the roof due to the force behind it. Just as Chrysalis hit the ground, she was soon assaulted by a small cluster of air drones pelting her from above with bullets. With the queen busy dealing with the assault drones, Rainbow Dash quickly flew over to the human, picked her by bridal style, and soon flew off down the street. Once they had a good couple of yards away from Chrysalis, the cyan pegasus placed the human down and against the side of a house they were hiding behind.

“Glad you’re starting to get the hang of using those robots of yours,” Amy said while coughing and catching her breath. “God this is not going as well as I thought it would be.”

“Well, what did you expect? We’re winging it, remember?”

“I mean yeah…but you think this would go well seeing how we’re kind of…well the good guys…right?”

“Of course we are…I think?” Rainbow Dash said before pondering the question. “I mean she did attack and invade Canterlot during the wedding…though she never gave us an answer as to why she did it.”

“I mean we could ask…but I think that’s a bit risky given how she’s planning on killing us.”

“Right…Jeez, how long does it take to get Celestia and the others down here?” Rainbow Dash asked as she looked around the corner of the house they were hiding behind. “It can’t be that hard to teleport here given how it’s Celestia and Artemis.”

“If they’re rulers of this country, then they need to do a better job at getting their forces together.” She said before wincing from the pain she felt in her arm. “Crap, I almost forgot about my broken arm.”

“What do you mean by that?” Rainbow Dash asked before noticing Amy’s jagged arm as she gasped. “Oh buck, that’s not going to heal up anytime soon.”

“No shit Captain states the obvious.” The human said before bringing up a digital screen with items on it. “Hold up, I need to try something.”

“What do you mean by that?” The pegasus watched as the human pressed on an icon with an image of a blue bottle on it. Upon pressing it, said bottle would appear in front of them as the human carefully grabs it. The human examines the bottle for a few seconds before opening it and begins to drink the contents that were inside it. A blue aura outlined her body for a moment as she felt her broken arm patch itself up within seconds. “...Okay if we survive this, we have to look over that weird screen thing you have.”

“Yeah, that would be a huge “if” on the surviving part,” Amy said while looking around to see where Chrysalis was, only to pause upon feeling something wet drop on her head. “Great, now it’s going to rain. As if this couldn’t get any worse.”

“T-That’s not rain.” Rainbow Dash said as the human noticed a shocked expression on her face. A sense of dread washed over the dark knight as she slowly looked in the direction the pegasus was looking. Her eyes widened upon seeing a bullet-riddled, blood-covered, and manic-looking changeling look down upon them from the roof of the building they were hiding behind.

“Ah…Well shit.” Amy said as she and Rainbow Dash quickly moved out of the way of Chrysalis land where they were.

“I am done playing these stupid games. You two will die, by my hands, and I will mount your heads over the fireplace in my bed!” She yelled before charging an enlarged fist as she attempted to deliver an earth-shattering punch to the human’s face. The human’s eyes widened upon seeing this as she quickly coated her sword with evil energy and blocked the oncoming attack. Upon blocking it, the force behind it caused the ground to buckle a bit as the human was staggering backward due to her lack of strength to push Chrysalis back. A grin appeared on her face as Chrysalis was about to grab Amy by the throat, only to recoil back from the pain she felt in her right eye. Looking to her right, she saw Rainbow Dash with a gun in her hand, and smoke coming from it as a sign that it was she who attacked her.

While Chrysalis was distracted, the human quickly knocked the changeling’s fist to the side before impaling it into the joint that connects her arm to her shoulder. The changeling queen turns her attention back onto the human as she watches her bring her weapon up and cut her arm clean off thanks to the evil energy engulfing her sword. The changeling gritted her teeth from the pain she felt as she retaliated by applying muscles to her other arm and backhanded the dark knight away and into the wall of the house across from her.

The moment Chrysalis staggered from the blood loss she was feeling, she heard the sound of something loud coming from her right. Looking to her right, she was met with an iron fist as a bulky-looking mech delivered a powerful punch to her face, which in turn caused Chrysalis to slide to the side due to the force behind the punch. The changeling quickly stopped herself by slamming a foot into the ground and glared over at the direction where the air mecha was floating next to Rainbow Dash. A frantic expression was plastered on the pegasus’s face upon seeing the muscular changeling heading toward her. She looked down at the device she was holding and started pressing random buttons. In doing so, the small little door-like compartments open up on the robot as a barrage of missiles shoot out and lock onto Chrysalis.

The changeling’s eyes widened upon seeing this and quickly slammed her fist onto the ground as a wall of earth erupted in front of her to protect herself from the oncoming attack. Once the attack was over, she quickly sent the slab of earth flying at the robot and destroying it upon impact. As the robot shattered into pieces, Rainbow Dash quickly flew above Chrysalis in an attempt to escape. But her attempt was short-lived, as Chrysalis grabbed her by the tail and slammed her onto the ground. A grin appeared on the queen’s face as she watched the wind being knocked out of the Pegasus.

“Not so tough now are you, Rainbow Crash?” Chrysalis asked before lifting and slamming the pegasus again onto the ground. “What happened to all the tough talk you and that monkey was spewing out?” She asked as she slammed her onto the ground again. The moment she hit the ground a third time, the outfit that she had on vanished into ones and zeros which in turn caused the queen to be taken by surprise by this for a moment before a devilish smile appeared. “Ha! Guess there was a time limit to that weird magic of yours, little pony. Underneath that tough exterior, you’re nothing more than a weak little insect.”

“That’s fucking offensive to insects!” Amy yelled while trying to pull herself from out of the wall she was in. Chrysalis looked over at the slightly conscious pegasus for a moment before dropping her to the ground. The same manic expression was now turned onto the human as she noticed Chrysalis’s muscular form vanishing while making her way over to Amy. “L-Look like you’ve reached your limit.” She said while aiming her sword at Chrysalis.

“I don’t need my magic to kill you, monkey,” Chrysalis said after knocking the human’s weapon to the side. Once Chrysalis was in front of the human, she reached for her neck and began to choke her out. “All I need is just one hand to choke you out.” She said while Amy began feeling Chrysalis crushing her throat slowly. The human would deliver punches to the queen’s face but was ineffective to her as the queen continued to strangle the living daylights out of her.

“Dammit, even with me holding my breath, I can still feel my throat being crushed by her freakishly man-hand.” Amy thought while continuing to flail her fists and feet at the changeling’s face and other parts of her body to get her to release her hold on her. She could feel her vision fading in and out of consciousness. “Do something stupid, this is not how your life ends. Especially if Twilight is going to use my dead body for her experimentation or something!” She thought before closing her eyes to concentrate like before at Rarity’s home. She began to focus the energy on the tip of her as it formed into a needle. The human weakly raised her hand towards the queen’s chest and quickly thrust it into the area of her collarbone.

“A last-ditch effort in trying to wound me? As annoying as it feels, that’s not going to work on me, monkey.” Chrysalis said before noticing a smirk on the human’s face.

“Figure you need something sticking in you. You know what with you being old and haven’t been banged in-” Before Amy could finish her snide remark, the changeling continued to apply more pressure to the human’s throat.

“I’ll kill you before you even utter another word!” Chrysalis yelled as she lifted the human and slammed her onto the ground. The human grunted from the pain she felt but continued to concentrate more of her energy on her finger. The moment she could feel enough pressure drawn to her finger, she soon released it and fired off a medium-sized beam of evil energy through the area where Amy’s finger was. The queen’s eyes widened upon the incredible pain she felt from having her other arm and parts of her upper body as the human let out a gasp of air once the changeling’s hold on her was released.

“Ha! Bet you didn’t see that one coming!” Amy yelled in between her coughing fit as she watched Chrysalis fall to her knees while green-colored blood could be seen leaking out from the areas where her arms and shoulder used to be. The moment the human pulled herself up a bit, she noticed a sign appearing in front of her just like before at Applejack’s Apple Orchard.

Skill Unlocked: Ejection Buster:
Launch forward a beam of evil energy.

“Huh…guess that’ll be a thing every time I learn something new,” Amy said before looking over at Chrysalis who was staring at Amy with bloodlust in her eyes. “Seriously!? You’re still alive…let alone conscious!?” She said before noticing staring at her in wrath and rage in her eyes. She stared at the human for a couple of seconds before staggering to her feet and lunging herself toward the human in an attempt to sink her fangs into her neck. The human’s eyes widened upon seeing this as she quickly jumped out of the way, causing Chrysalis to crash face-first into the wall of a house that they were next to. The changeling slides down to the ground before pulling herself up again, and staggers over at the human.

“I am going to kill you, even if I have to use my teeth to rip and tear out your vocal cords,” Chrysalis said as the human backed away from the changeling in fear. Just as the human was moving backward, she soon noticed a familiar cyan pegasus sneaking up behind her with a piece of two-by-four in her hands. A smirk appeared on Amy’s face as she turned her focus on Chrysalis while trying to push her fears to the side. “W-Well look how the mighty have fallen. Guess this is the outcome of what happens when a fat-ass queen has been out of shape for who knows how long. I guess it’s true about what they say, old tree trunks like yourself should be nourishment for the next generation~”

The changeling queen’s eyes turned black as she was about to charge at Amy, only for Rainbow Dash to strike her in the back of her head and send her flying forward. The dark knight’s eyes widen upon seeing Chrysalis heading towards her as she quickly ducks out of the way of the oncoming queen. The moment she ducked out of the way, the sound of flesh being sliced into followed by a gargling gagging noise from behind.

“Oh buck…” Rainbow Dash said as Amy noticed the pegasus covering her mouth in shock. The dark knight slowly turned her head to the side as she saw Chrysalis deep-throating her sword. The human quickly moved away from the bloody sight and made her way over to Rainbow Dash to hide behind her.

“I-Is she dead?” Amy asked while looking over the shoulder of Rainbow Dash, only to notice her deadpan expression.

“Naw, she’s just resting with a sword deep down her throat. What do you think!?”
“Dude, I don’t know. I don’t know the anatomy of a bug…horse…thing!? For all we know she could just be faking it, come back to life, and rip my throat out!” Amy said before noticing Rainbow Dash in her normal clothing. “Hey, what happened to the outfit I gave you?”

“You can thank Chrysalis for that. She slammed onto the ground so hard that it knocked that thing you gave me off.” She said before looking over herself. “I’m a bit surprised I don’t have any broken bones or something.”

“I’m going to assume the outfits have some kind of protection or something.” The human said before carefully making her way over to Chrysalis’s dead body. Once she was close, she looked around the ground for a moment before picking up a piece of wood and pokes Chrysalis’s body. “Well…she looks to be dead…and she’s not moving even after poking her with a stick.”

“Okay…so now what?” Rainbow Dash asked as she made her way over to the human.

“Welp, your friends and the rulers of this country will be coming soon…so I’m going to pass out for the next couple of hours.”

“....You’re joking, right?”

“I’ve been chased by a mad unicorn, kicked around town like a ragdoll from Applejack and Pinkie Pie’s Party Cannon, and almost killed by a bug queen. And this has been for the past couple of hours!” Amy said before falling back first onto the ground. “I think I deserve some time to sleep…I would be grateful if you hid me at your place seeing how Twilight can’t fly and it would be the last place she’ll look.”

“Oh horse feathers, you’re not joking.” Rainbow Dash said as the human went limp and passed out. “This is not how I wanted to spend my day today.”