Pierce the Netherscape: Enter Oblivion

    After what felt like hours, all of The Campaigner’s cyborgs had been turned to scrap metal thanks to Rei Sonkei, Blue Jay, Colorshy, Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna. Finally, realizing they were successful, they collapsed all at once and sighed in relief. “Finally,” said Rei, breathing heavily, “I thought we’d never finish that battle.”

    “Yeah,” added Colorshy. “There must have been almost a million of those robots.”

    Suddenly, the five heard a loud, thundering stomp headed in their direction. The five looked up to find a 20-foot tall cyborg tyrannosaur (Boss image: http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&safe=active&tbo=d&biw=1024&bih=600&tbm=isch&tbnid=J6kofcahpVxtKM:&imgrefurl=http://www.comics101.com/guestlecturer//%3Fmode%3Dproject%26action%3Dview%26project%3DGuest%2520Lecturer%26chapter%3D79&docid=EQfb6gzCxTgCFM&imgurl=http://www.comics101.com/guestlecturer//images/view.php%253Fsrc%253D../news/Guest%252520Lecturer/79/2videogame.jpg%2526w%253D&w=432&h=325&ei=sEwdUefyC8bf2QXTlYHAAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=718&vpy=126&dur=2562&hovh=195&hovw=259&tx=159&ty=106&sig=107419679053769126558&page=1&tbnh=143&tbnw=199&start=0&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0,i:93) The five quickly got up and flew in several different directions to avoid Thunder's charge. He just missed all five of them, but recovered from his momentum quickly. He let out a loud roar as the five ponies flew above him.

    “What the hell is that?” shouted Colorshy.

    “That must be Thunder, The Campaigner’s pet T-rex,” replied Rei. Before he could continue, Thunder let out another loud roar and fired several rockets in the direction of the ponies. The ponies evaded the rockets, but they knew that wasn’t all Thunder had. “As I was saying,” continued Rei, “avoid his laser sight and stay above him, if at all possible. And for the love of God, don’t get near his mouth. People have tried that tactic and it quickly backfires every time. That means you, ‘Mr. Hoof-blades,’” he added, indicating Blue Jay.

    “Hey,” said Blue Jay casually, holding his hooves in the air, “you’ll get no argument from me, there.”

    “Can we stop talking and fight the CYBORG T-REX THAT IS CHARGING STRAIGHT TOWARDS US?” shouted Luna as Thunder went in for another charge.

    “Okay, everypony,” said Rei. “On my mark, fly off and hit him with everything you’ve got all at once.”

    “Or, we could do so right now and not get eaten alive!” shouted Colorshy as Thunder came within 20 feet of the ponies and advancing fast.

    “Good idea. FLY!” The ponies then flew off just before Thunder had time to fire his flamethrower.

    “This guy has a flamethrower?” shouted Colorshy.

    “Um... maybe I could have told you that...” replied Rei. “But that doesn’t matter. FIRE EVERYTHING YOU’VE GOT!”

    The ponies then fired their weapons at Thunder. Rei his AK-47, Colorshy his rifle, and Celestia and Luna energy beams. Blue Jay simply charged straight at Thunder, blades first. The five-pronged attack seemed to catch Thunder off guard for a moment, but it was ultimately doing very little to damage him. He simply shook off all of the attacks and let out another roar (no, he doesn’t have that much more to contribute to the dialogue) that sent the ponies flying back, though they quickly recovered.

“This guy’s invincible!” shouted Blue Jay. “How the hell are we supposed to kill him?”

    Everypony was silent for a moment, then Colorshy quickly broke the silence. “I think I know how to destroy him!” He then flew quickly straight towards Thunder with Rei shouting something after him. Thunder let out a loud roar at Colorshy, but this gave Colorshy the opening he needed and he flew straight down Thunder’s throat.

    The four other ponies just watched in speechless, open-mouthed horror as Thunder swallowed Colorshy and burped up his brown feathers. (I know I said in the first chapter that Colorshy was grey, but that, apparently was false information. He’s all brown.) “Can anypony tell me what the hell just happened?” Rei asked, finally. This was met with silent shakes of the head, nopony breaking their view of Thunder. After a while, Rei realized that Thunder wasn’t really doing anything to try and attack them. He looked a little closer to find that Thunder was actually choking. “Everypony! Thunder’s choking! Now’s our chance to attack him!”

    The others quickly fell out of their collective daze and followed Rei’s instructions. However, before they could get close enough to attack, Thunder fell to the ground and exploded in a flurry of metal and blood. When the group looked again, Colorshy was standing in the middle of the mess that was once the deadly T-rex, Thunder, covered in yellow-ish blood. “Huh,” Colorshy said, finally. “I was almost sure that wouldn’t work.”

    “Are you insane, Colorshy?” shouted Rei. “You realize you were beyond lucky to avoid his teeth, right?”

    “Yeah, but I knew there was no way he could be destroyed from the outside. So I used a trick I learned watching the episode ‘Spike at Your Service’” and hoped for the best.”

    “If we’re done breaking the 4th wall as well as the timeline of this story,” interrupted Blue Jay, “we still have to kill The Campaigner and save Equestria.”

    “You’re right,” replied Rei. “Celestia, Luna, you two may want to sit this battle out. If he wants to destroy Equestria, he’ll want to start by making sure you two are dead.”

    “Very well,” replied Luna. “Just make sure you three don’t die, yourselves.”

    Rei and Blue Jay replied with a nod and were about to fly off when they heard Colorshy shout “Wait!”

    “You know we’re on a pretty strict schedule, right Colorshy?” asked Rei impatiently.

    “I know,” Colorshy replied. “But I want to get a few paint buckets full of this guy’s blood.”

    Rei and Blue Jay just looked on in a mix of disbelief and disgust. “What is wrong with you?” asked Blue Jay.

    “Hey. My kill. My tyrannosaur blood.” Colorshy then turned to show his cutie mark, which was a paintbrush with red paint on it. “My cutie mark.”

    “Huh,” said Rei. “I never knew you were a necro-painter.”

    “Yeah, there’s a lot about me you don’t know. Now let’s get moving.” The three pegasi then flew off, leaving Celestia and Luna standing in the rubble.

    “I’ll go get the broom,” said Luna, walking off.

    As this was happening, The Campaigner could only look on as the ponies fought their way through the castle towards the throne room, smashing every cyborg in their way to bits. “How is this possible?” he asked himself. ”My army... Thunder... all destroyed by... by PONIES! This has gone on long enough! I will grind your bones to dust with my bare hands!”

    At that moment, Rei, Colorshy, and Blue Jay bursted through the doors. “You called?” commented Rei sarcastically.

    “Why, yes I did,” replied The Campaigner. “Surely you are ready to die, then?”

    “Hardly,” replied Colorshy, “We’re here to stop you and save Equestria.”

    “Oh you poor deluded fools. Equestria is as good as gone, by now. Although, if you were to defeat The Primagen before he delivers the Elements of Harmony to Oblivion in the Lost Land, you may stand a chance.”

    “The Elements of Harmony?” asked Rei. “Is that why you took Canterlot?”

    “The power contained within the Elements is the very reason Oblivion wanted to deal with this pathetic dimension in the first place. But that’s enough talk.” The Campaigner then began to advance, raising his weapon. “It’s time for you ponies to DIE!”

    The Campaigner tried to strike the ponies, but the three flew off in different directions to avoid him. He then quickly turned around and tried firing his energy barrage attack at the pegasi. The three tried to dodge the countless attacks, but several blasts made contact, anyway. The pegasi fell to the ground as The Campaigner began to rush them. However, Blue Jay got up quickly and blocked his attack. The two were engaged in hand-to-hoof combat until Colorshy got up and put a single bullet right between The Campaigner’s eyes. This knocked him to the ground, but it didn’t kill him right away. Rather, he got back up quickly, only to get charged by Rei, who was firing right at him. Rei was right in front of The Campaigner when he quickly turned to the right, avoiding The Campaigner’s counter-attack. The Campaigner was about to turn around when he saw Colorshy advancing towards him in the same way that Rei came. Flying as fast as he could towards him, firing his weapon as many times as he could. The Campaigner was preparing a counter-attack when Colorshy swerved to the left. Before The Campaigner could react that time, Blue Jay started charging right at The Campaigner, blades extended. The Campaigner tried to react, but Blue Jay flew faster than either of the other ponies and was already weakened by their bullets. He did his best to defend, but in an instant, Blue Jay’s blades had made contact and sent The Campaigner flying backwards about 50 feet. Blue Jay then landed, retracted his hoof blades, raised his hoof in triumph, and said “Yippie kai yae, motherbucker.”

    While Blue Jay was busy celebrating, The Campaigner was slowly getting back up, though horribly damaged. He managed to fire one of his fireballs at Blue Jay without him noticing. Blue Jay tried to react, but it was too late and the fireball had made a direct hit. Blue Jay was on the ground, stunned when he found The Campaigner standing over him. “You ponies have caused me enough trouble,” he said, pointing his weapon at Blue Jay’s face. “but you won’t stop my master’s ultimate plan.”

    Just then, he was shot in the head by Colorshy. “No, I think we will stop him,” he said lowering his gun after a successful shot. The Campaigner began to stumble around and explode on several areas of his body. Blue Jay saw his opportunity and got away before The Campaigner completely exploded, leaving a crater where he once existed.

    “Holy crap!” shouted Rei, walking in from seemingly nowhere. “We just destroyed The Campaigner!”

    “Yeah, but didn’t you hear him?” asked Blue Jay. “What is his master’s “ultimate plan?”

    “I may be able to explain that,” said Celestia, flying in with Luna at her side.

    “Princess Celestia,” said Rei, “what do you mean?”

    “First off, I went to Canterlot Tower to retrieve the Elements of Harmony so I could place them in safer hooves. But when I opened the door, the Elements were gone. I think that other creature took them.”

    “The Primagen!” shouted Rei. “I should have known he was involved in all this. Princess, can you open a dimensional rift so we can get to The Primagen’s home dimension?”

    Celestia and Luna looked at each other for a moment and then looked back at Rei, looking confused. “Can you explain what you are talking about, perhaps?” asked Luna.

    Rei sighed and then turned to Blue Jay. “You wouldn’t happen to have another ‘object of power’ on you, would you?”

    “I might,” replied Blue Jay. “Let me see... ah! I think I can use this flash grenade.” Blue Jay then threw the flash grenade in the air and a large black hole appeared.

    “You two better leave this in our hooves from here,” Rei said to Celestia and Luna. “It’s much too dangerous in the Lost Land.”

    “Very well,” replied Celestia. “Good luck, ponies. The fate of existence is in your hooves.”

    Rei did a nod towards the two and then followed the others into the rift where they disappeared from view. As the rift closed, Celestia and Luna looked around at the ruined throne room. “I’ll go get a broom... again,” said Luna walking off.