LAST TIME, ON FIMFICTION BALL Z!

Ripto laughed, "Basically, if anyone is going to be read the miranda rights, it's the lot of you!"

The ponies glared back, unsure of what to do, when Spyro stepped forward, "Is this really your plan?"

Ripto and Gnasty were taken slightly aback, as Spyro continued, "You go through the work of stealing these ponies weapon-y things, teaming up and traveling to this world, building a bad arsenal mecha-dragon thing, all to just have a army of Gnorcs attack the city?" Spyro laughed a bit, "I could beat you both right now if I didn't want to make fun of your strategy."

Twilight spoke up, "Spyro, I really think we have a bigger situation then you think."

Spyro rolled his eyes, "Sure it will be a bit of work, But really, two of my old enemies unite, just to face me head on, while I have a bunch of allies here now? It's just so poorly planned... I've seriously dealt with much worse."

Ripto charged forward, but Gnasty picked him up by the head holding him back, "I'm gonna get him! I'm going to get him!"

Gnasty rolled his eyes, "Ripto, the plan."

Ripto stopped, "Oh yeah, the plan."

"What?" Asked Spyro, getting ready to jump.

Ripto smirked, "You're our secret weapon, Dragon!"

THIS TIME!

The group of Ponies and two dragons of the color purple stared unsurely at Ripto and Gnasty, as it apear both of them where waiting for something to happen. However, after numerous seconds of growing awkwardness, the Antagonist seemed slightly puzzled, and the protagonists even more so.

Gnasty Gnorc lowered his mace and sighed, before tunring around to face the large mechanical dragon Ripto was running priorly, "AHEM, 'You are our secret weapon dragon,'"

After a few more seconds Ripto groaned, and turned around to Gnasty to yell, "DANGIT GNASTY! I TOLD YOU NOT TO DOWNLOAD THE FLIPPERDOODLIN' UPDATE!"

Gnasty sighed, "The Rhinoc said the voice commands sometimes turn off, maybe if we kick it..."

"AHEM!"

The dou of antagonists turned around to see a really peeved Princess Cadence staring into their souls, "YOU TWO BETTER SURRENDER NOW, or go the HARD way!!"

Ripto laughed, "It thinks it has authorita! How cute!"

Cadence groaned, and yelled, "GUARDS!!", triggering the group of about nine guards into attacking postions, before they charged towards Gnasty and Ripto. Within seconds, they where nearly ontop of the two, when suddenly, A large burst of black flames sent the front four flying back.

Twilight and the others of the mane six exchanged shocked looks, as the large dragon stood back up on it's own. Spyro couldn't help but feel nervous about the uncanny look of the thing, while little did he know Spike was thinking the same thing. Ripto and Gnasty laughed in unison, as the metal beast stepped infront of them, and loudly projected "THREAT DETECTED, NEUTRALIZING."

The remaning five guards took to quick action, two of which used their magic to fire powerful stunning spells. The of three being pegasi took to the air, and with their spears, began to swoop down from different angles at the metal dragon.

The magic beams where immediatly dissolved as the dragon emitted a cloak of black fire around it's body. It then quickly jumped and kicked one of the pegasi away, and in mid-flip, grabbed another and threw it to the ground. The last pegasus narrowly spun and dodged the dragons tail, and launched the spear into the dragon, only to see it shatter like glass, before the last pegasus was backhanded away.

Twilight, Rainbow, and Applejack quickly sprinted forward to pull the other guards away from the metal dragon, narrowly avoiding another blast of flames. Fluttershy however was cowering behind Pinkie, who was doing her best to not be scared as well. Once the fire cleared from the last blast, Rarity and Cadence quickly pulled back the wounded guards with their magic, hoping the dragon wouldn't turn on them immediatly.

"What the heck is that thing?!" exclaimed Twilight as she had he magic ready.

Applejack quickly added "Whatever this demonic machine is, It must have a weakness!"

Spike was the first to turn to Spyro, who he noticed was staring at the Metal dragon with confusion, "Spyro, aren't you going to try to do something?!"

Spyro jumped slightly, and looked to Spike with a look of slight surprise, "Sorry I wasn't paying attention..."

Spike groaned quickly, and repeated, "You have to have some sort of an idea to beat this thing!"

"Well.... not yet." replied Spyro, and he examined the dragon, "I was just going to try and avoid it's attacks and spot a weakness..."

That irritated Spike, who yelled, "Seriously! You'll get killed!"

Spyro growled and replied back, "If I wasn't being distracted, maybe I'd of tried something by now!"

"Uh, guys..."

Spike rolled his eyes, "Yeah, because just jumping in willy nilly like you did earlier will fix anything! You're just a huge moron who just happens to be tougher than most of his enemies!"

Sparx buzzed nervously as he looked away, but Spyro didn't hear as he replied, "I am NOT a moron! I'm not incompetent, I'M NOT JUST SOME STUPID ADOLESCENT!"

"VOICE RECOGNIZED, PRIMARY TARGET DISCOVER, COMMAND, GO THROUGH WITH PLAN?"

Spyro and Spike looked up to see the large mechanical dragon staring down the two of them. Before they could say anything, Ripto replied, "YES! Get him! Get that short purple brat!"

The Dragon's head cocked, then turned back straight, "COMMAND ACCEPTED, RETRIEVING SUBJECT"

"DUCK!" Yelled Twilight, promting Spike, Spyro, and Sparx the dragonfly to immediately do so, right before a blast of wind sent the metal dragon yards away and into another crystal building.

"GET THE GREEN AND RED ONE!" Yelled Cadence to the remainder of her guards, who nodded, and charged for Gnasty Gnorc and Ripto.

"You can handle this, right big guy?" asked Ripto.

"Yes," replied Gnasty, as he lifted his magic mace, "Just get to the ruins and prepare everything!"

Ripto nodded, and cast a spell that somehow beamed him away into the sky, vanishing. Gnasty immediately swung his mace and sent one guard to the ground, before he began fighting three more.

On the other side of things, Spyro noticed the metal dragon standing back up, and staring him down. In response, Spyro quickly charged down a street to the left, leaving the dragon to chase him down that way, jumping right over Spike in the process, startling him. Quickly shaking this, Spike jumped to his feet a ran down the same street after the Dragon.

Thinking quickly, Tiwlight turned to her friends, "Rainbow, Applejack, you see if you can help Spyro, I'll deal with that.. Gnorc." She quickly turned to a worried looking Cadence, "Cadence, I thinking you should get back to the castle and start commanding the rest of the cities defense, the whole "army" thing may not have been a bluff."

"Alright Twilight, be careful though!" Replied Princess Cadence.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash looked at each other and nodded, before quickly heading down the way Spyro did. Rarity then asked "Twilight, what should Fluttershy and I do?"

"Get these guards back to the castle quick, then try to keep the citizens out of harms way the best you can." replied Twilight.

Rarity nodded and turned to Fluttershy, who took a deep breath and aid, "I think I can handle that."

Twilight nodded, "Alright!", and as the others headed off, Twilight turned her attention to Gnasty, who was locked in a duel with two Earthpony crystal guards. Taking a deep breath, she shouted, "Hey green jerk!", causing him to glare in her direction, "I bet you're not impervious to magic!"

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"run, zig, run, zag, don't die, run...."*CRASH*, "RUN ZIG ZAG RUN!"

Seeing a chance to trip up the metal dragon, Spyro charged into a large crystal park, and careened to the right, as the metal dragon tried to skid to a stop, only being sent by momentum into a park bench and onto it's side, a dilemma for a machine like it.

Noticing that it seemed to take a bit for the mechanical dragon to stand itself up, Spyro charged back towards it, and held his fire, before spitting a fireball into it's underside. However, the blast didn't seem to do much but stagger it further, So Spyro turned around and leaped behind another crystal bench.

Panting heavily, both from the fireball and constant running, Spyro considered his options. "This thing seems a bit off balance, Maybe if I let it run itself into these crystal building it will fall apart..."

He looked over the bench slightly to see the metal dragon turning it's head like and owl around the park, searching for him. Getting ready to jump out, he repositioned to the other side of the bench. It was then he heard a familiar voice yell: "HEY METAL JERKWAD!"

The Mechanical Dragon turned quickly and focused on Spike. It paused for a moment as Spike glared, visibly holding a large crystal shard. The dragon then said: "SUBJECT NOT SPYRO PETER ZEMBILLAS, HOWEVER, SUBJECT IS SIMILAR, PREPARING TO CAPTURE EXTRA SUBJECT."

"NO!" Yelled Spyro, causing the Metal dragon to turn and see him. Before it could readjust it's commands, Spike threw his crystal shard, nailing the metal dragon in one of it's eyes, causing a crack.

"BODY DAMAGE DETECTED, THREAT LEVER RAISED, USE OF TOXIN APPROVED."

"Toxin?" asked Spike.

The Mechanical Dragon began to emite a smoke like substance from it's mouth. It then turned to Spyro, and opened it's jaw, spewing out a grey foggy gas at him. Spyro narrowly dodged, but in the process he and Sparx got a whiff of the gas, causing them both to cough and tear up.

It turned to Spike, who immediately began running clockwise around the park, as the dragon began to spit more of the gas around after him.

Suddenly, the two dragons ran into each other, falling to the ground with the combined might of their thick skulls. Sparx began panicking as the dragon was about to spit the gas right onto them, so the small dragonfly flew up and blasted pure light into the dragon's eyes, causing it to spew gas in the air and spin it's head around like an owl again.

Spike and Spryo pulled themselves back up, and glared at each other, before Spyro noticed what Sparx was doing. Taking advantage of the distraction given by his dragonfly, Spyro charged forward, and propelled himself into the belly area of the metal dragon with his legs and wings. The impact hurt like purgatory, as he rolled back and fell to his back. Yet he managed to stagger the Mechanical Dragon.

Sparx flew away from the dragon, as he was getting to much of the gas and feeling weakened. So he returned to Spyro, while Spike noticed that the dragonfly's color changed to blue. The Mechanical Dragon managed to regain it's balance and vision in seconds, and lock back onto both dragons.

This time, however, Rainbow Dash kicked right into the Dragon's side from the air, and knocked it onto the ground. Applejack followed up by launching her rope around the machines muzzle and jaw, as she pulled back to hold it down. Spike was relieved yet tired, likely from the gas in the air, as he stood bad up and helped Sparx lift Spyro up, who was suffering from a headache.

"It's looks like I got here just in time!" said Rainbow Dash, "If it weren't for that smoke stuff, I wouldn't have been able to get such a skilled shot on this metal-dragon though."

Spyro and Spike smiled between their cough's, and Spyro replied, "Thanks, but if it weren't for this gas, I'd have already got that shot!"

Applejack was still being strained by trying to hold down the dragon, and glared up at Rainbow, who replied, "Oh yeah, oops!", before swopping down and grabbing the rope with AJ. The mechanical dragon was trying to lift it's head up to see what was happening, so Spyro and Spike ran towards it's front legs. Spyro tail wipped one of the metal beasts forelegs down, and Spike shoulder charged the other, causing it to hit the ground hard.

Next, the two real dragons quickly jumped onto the Metal Dragon's belly area to hold it down. This seemed to be wearing the machine out, until the entire front of the dragon opened up, and released a large cloud of the gas. Spike and Spyro immediatly felt a loss of energy, Spike rolling off, and Spyro struggling to stagger away. Everything was getting foggy, but he tried to remain conscious. It was in vain, as the Mechanical Dragon was now able to launch Rainbow and Applejack to the other side of the park and loose the rope.

The two weakened ponies tried to stand up and do something, but within seconds the dragons was flying into the air, clearing most of the gas, and carrying both dragons away. Rainbow tried to fly after it, but fell to the ground after three flaps. It was not use waiting for the effects of the gas to wear off, as by now Mechanical Dragon was gone.

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With a blast of magic, Gnasty Gnorc was sent into the wall of yet another crystal house, cracking it slightly, and giving the three guards trying to take him on time to recover. Twilight Sparkle ran up horn ready, and and fire a knock-out spell at Gnasty's head. The Gnorc quickly lifted his magic mace, and stopped the blast right infront of his face, absorbing the spell.

"What... LOOK OUT!" yelled Twilight, as Gnasty sent her own spell flying back in a much more powerful and unstable form. She managed to teleport out of the way, but the blast of magic knocked out of one the guards, as the other two began to flank around Gnasty's side.

"Get his mace!" Yelled one of the two guards, the they charged forward. Gnasty swung a blast of magic at them, but the two jumped over, narrowly avoiding a small blast and growth of a crystal spike right behind them. Twilight charged forward as well with her game face on and a teleport spell ready. Gnasty swung the same spell at here seconds after the last, however, she dissapeared in a blast of purple, followed by the green of Gnasty's blast. Suddenly, she reappeared right infront of him, as the two guards where about to pounce.

In response, Gnasty suddenly jumped somewhere around 18 feet into the air, causing the ponies to fall to the ground. He then pounded his mace to the ground when he landed, sending a ground level wave of energy at Twilight and the guards, sending them into the crystal building.

Twilight staggered and pulled herself back up, "Why don't you learn something other than blunt magic for a change?" she asked with a smirk. Before Gnasty could respond with a angry remark, Twilight used her magic to grow numerous purple energy emitting vines through the crystal ground. Right when the Gnorc noticed, the vines all wrapped around his arms, body, and mace, pulling towards the ground.

"Come on..." Grunted Twilight, holding the vined with her magic against Gnasty's strength. Yet despite her efforts, Gnasty ripped his mace arm free, and swung his mace into the rest of the plants, casting a spell that set them ablaze.

"For a second, I thought that you ponies might have actually had me there..." said Gnasty are he turned to the worn out Twilight, "But now I see that was far too ignorant to think, you have such a horrible grasp of how to use magic effectively."

"Yeah? Like pure destruction and wild swinging is the only use for magic." rebutted Twilight, "Why are you doing this anyway?!"

Gnasty smiled "For a power you wouldn't try to understand, out of ignorant morals!"

It was then the two of the heard a metallic screech, and turned to see the metal dragon speeding off, holding something purple in both front claws. Gnasty smiled widely as he turned to Twilight, "Well, it appears we've crippled your city enough and got what we wanted, so goodbye purple pony thing and weird crystal/pony lovebabies."

Twilight tried to cast a shield around Gnasty to keep him from running, bu he smashed through it with his mace, and jumped away with enormous strides, disappearing between the buildings.

Twilight knew that they likely captured Spyro, so after quickly making sure the guards could get their wounded, she ran down the general direction Rainbow and Applejack did. After a few minutes of searching through groups of parnoid guards and ponies running for their homes, she saw the two of the trotting urgently towards her.

"Twilight! Ah'm so sorry, that thing got em!" Said Applejack, fighting through the rings in her eyes and the effects of the gas, "Jeez, that thing had some sort ah sleeping gas..."

Twilight noticed Rainbow Dash nearly collapsing, so she quickly held the pegasus back up and asked, "The Dragon got Spyro then? Did you see where?"

Applejack Shook her head, "It took off northeast ah guess, but It could be anywhere..." she shook her head to wake up more, "And that thing got Spike too."

Twilight's eyes widened, as she realized she forgot to make sure Spike was safe, a wave of guilt and anger suddenly washed over, as she only yelled: "What?!"

Author's Note

Sorry I couldn't think of a more interesting title for this part.

But yeah, the moral of this chapter, is that S*** hits the fan sometimes, but usually for the sake of a plot.