Under the vast grey sky, standing on the block white surface was two odd three-dimensional ponies. One was a blue haired white-furred pony that wore a black coat and a grey-striped shirt. The other was a white pony with orange fuzzy hair and wore a green top hat and jacket. He also had an evil clown mask that grinned with yellow sharp teeth. On his back, he carried a blue garbed doll on his back and two katana swords.
They just stood there until a black portal materialised and emerged from it was the great chaos dragon Discord.
“Discord! You made it!” shouted the blue-haired pony. “Walrus, someone else is finally here.”
“Hey Pencil Shade,” spoke Discord, unlike himself.
The three paused for a minute.
“Alright, I’m here. Sorry I was away from the computer,” spoke the clown facing about. “Finally here though Discord, what took you and where’s everyone else?”
“Nice to see you as well Walrus. But you shouldn’t be so surprised that no one else is here, considering you made a thirty-two character password and didn’t mind to inform anyone that it was case sensitive.”
“I left it to be copied and pasted it on the forums didn’t I?”
“You didn’t copy and paste which letters were in capitals?”
“I did, didn’t I, Pencil Shade?”
“Don’t bring me into this!”
“Well we could do with an explanation with how you entered here with Walrus’ vague password?”
“Um, well I asked him if he could private message me the password after I couldn’t find which topic he posted it on.”
“Okay, fine, I may have made another clumsy mistake, so how about someone goes and tells the real password?”
“I can’t, I don’t remember it, so I wouldn’t be able to close my browser, tell them and log back on,” said Discord.
“Um, I can’t either, because I deleted the message after I put in the password… I sort of like to keep my inbox clean.”
“Looks like you’re going to have to do it Walrus.”
“Uh, what if I told you I couldn’t?”
“What if I asked if it had something to do with you forgetting the ridicolous password?”
“It was written down, just that it was written somewhere a little too inconvenient like in my satchel I left at college.”
“Sigh.”
“Okay, I can’t let your effort be a waste at least for trying to get on. So welcome to the virtual world I have created.” Walrus led them on a walk across the blank virtual reality. “So yeah, what you have here is an entire realm that rivals the size of my home island, Shetland, nine-hundred-and-fifty kilometres to be precise.”
“So you built this all by yourself?” asked Pencil Shade.
“Not really. I bought most of it off a friend who didn’t have much imagination to do anything else with it. I’ve just encoded some things, made some graphic art like our avatars and invented the game Duel ponies.”
“Why didn’t you come up with a more original game, than one obviously ripped off of Yu-Gi-Oh?” questioned Discord.
“When learning how to use codes, make all the art and let alone dealing with personal life matters, tell me when you have time to come up with a new unique system. The Duel pony system is just around until I do just come up with a new system for the way of it. After all this was just for my amusement.”
“And just how much time did you spend on this personal amusement?”
“You don’t want to know. But these are the reasons why I’d prefer to be called thy Obsessive freak.”
“I do think we’re going to have a lot of fun in this virtual reality game you’ve created so far,” said Pencil Shade.
“All in the name of Magic and friendship,” replied Obsessive freak.
Just then the sky began to flick and the floors flared into different colours like a dancing floor.
“What’s going on?” asked Pencil Shade.
“Bug I’m guessing?” Discord shrugged.
“No… It’s an unauthorised download being added to the game. My computer’s coming up with other user accounts altering my system, which of course isn’t right as you require me to make you a user, which requires two-to-three days of visible progress.”
“Every program has its vulnerability for hackers I guess,” said Discord.
Black portals opened up before them and emerged out were a collective variety of villains from My little pony Friendship is magic marching out to greet them.
“…Well this isn’t right.”
Towering over the villains was a character that almost went unrecognised. It didn’t take too long however to figure out it was Discord, a much darker version of him. His eyes were red, body darker and just really less child friendly. “Greetings, Obsessive freak.”
“Okay, aren’t you the lead villain of my game, Destruction?”
“Indeed, we the villains of your game have been given a new A.I system by a particular group of Brony-haters.”
“…Um are you saying, haters just sent a load of time figuring out how to hack my system, just so they could modify my A.I and tell me this?”
“In a way. But it’s more that it’s a hacker group that all conveniently hates you pile of thrash that plagues the internet. The internet which is to soon become theirs.”
“Huh?”
“Your little pathetic game system was stumbled upon. The world you’ve have has infinite possibilities. It expands, adapts and is capable of consuming wide parts of the internet. We’re surprised that your friend just gave it away, but he’s given you the potentiality that you were squandering to further poison the internet culture.”
“Excuse me, not that I mean to barge in.” Discord intervended. “But what does this all have to do with this group getting you to barge in and bla-bla all about this like it was the morning news?”
“Because there’s nothing you can do.” Destruction and the rest of the villains snickered. “You see, Obsessive freak’s game system is quite flawed. His need to move onto the next stage has left the previous consequences go unscathed.”
“Like?”
“If defeated in a duel, your character is destroyed. Obsessive freak however had left an unfixed error where the destroyed character also causes your account to be deleted. Hence if you wanted back in, you’d have to wait two-to-three days for Obsessive freak to make you a new account.”
“So you’re here to challenge us to a duel and destroy us?” questioned Pencil Shade. “What if we don’t accept?”
“Another flaw Obsessive freak didn’t bother to work on. If you don’t accept a challenge, your character is automatically destroyed. In other words you lose anyways.”
“I’m starting to put this together. Right now this groups infiltrated Walrus’ system, needs time to set their plan into motion, so they’ve turned all his A.I against him in order to destroy his account and then get on with wrecking his system?” asked Discord.
“Correct.” Duel disks then flashed onto the villains’ wrists. “And now that we with this charade, it is time to commence our-.” Duel disks flicked in and out hazily, until there were completely gone.
“Behold, a flaw. This one I bothered to fix. Seems like these hackers didn’t notice the bug I had before where villains would just show up and attack. I fixed this by making it that villains could only duel at specific levels and under certain conditions, as well as having to play specific games. Therefore you villains have become nothing more than an obstacle as I’ve already traced where they are. They’re using moderator accounts to infiltrate my system and alter it from the inside. Therefore soon as I’ve confronted them, I can simply challenge them to a duel and be done with it.”
“Hm, seems like you’re not so flawed after all. But it doesn’t leave the problem that they’re on the final level, where you’ll not only have to still try to get pass us, one by one, but the difficulty you left was absurd to begin with. The group planned ahead to alter our decks, as well as a few rules as a precaution.”
“I can’t wait to see what challenges they’ve brought to my game then.”
“You’ll be surprised.”
The landscape began to cybernetically alter, forming into a black murky swamp. Behind the villains appeared a stone temple ruin.
“You’ll be very surprised.”
The villains were all sucked into black warp holes that opened up behind them and then completely disappeared.
“…Things just got interesting,” said Discord.
“Looks like it’s just us,” replied Pencil Shade.
“Hold on, I’m getting a user coming in.”
A black hole zips opened. The heroes prepared themselves, but popped out from it was a male version of Rainbow Dash.
“Rainbow Crash!” yelled everyone.
“Yeah, hey, only got on just now, didn’t miss too much did I?” The gang stared silently at him. “Um guys?”
“Anyone actually want to fill him in on what’s been happening?” asked Pencil Shade.
“Hold on, I’m looking to see if there’s a record version of message histories?” asked Obsessive freak.
“Now things just got ridiculous.”
“So to sum it up, a bunch of hackers have sneaked into Walrus’ game and are intent on ruling the internet, through this game. However if we beat them in a duel, then we can be rid ourselves of them,” explained Discord.
“Why does it have to be a game that we have to beat them? One I don’t really care for much anymore?”
“Oh come on, you like ponies don’t you?” asked Obsessive freak.
“I like ponies, but I don’t care for Yu-gi-oh as I once did.”
“Then why did you join my game then?”
“Because you said there would be ponies.”
The four walked into the temple, where they saw before them an altar with six stones on it.
“This place looks familiar, why?” asked Pencil Shade.
A sinister laugh echoed. Smoke tendrils emerged out before the altar and took shape, appeared Nightmare moon.
“Nightmare moon already?” asked Rainbow crash.
“Oh yeah,” said Obsessive freak. “Sort of forgot.”
“You forgot?”
“Well yeah. I built this whole realm by myself remember? It’s hard to remember every little detail, especially when you did it when light-headed.”
“And you were a fool as well. Not only did you make the first level difficulty unrealistic, but you had me as the first opponent.” Nightmare moon took a moment to cackle. Appearing on their arms were duel disks and each one had a slotted deck and a monitor showing a number with FP next to it.
“What does FP stand for?” asked Pencil shade.
“Friendship points, basically life points,” answered Obsessive freak.
“Alright take it one of us has to challenge her?” questined Discord.
“Actually we’ve already been challenged and accepted. Sort of a game fault as all players are meant to duel against Nightmare moon on the first level,” responded Obsessive freak. “So we best shuffle our decks.”
As they pulled out their cards and shuffled, Discord asked. “Wait, so what’s going on?”
“Allow Nightmare moon to explain.”
“Thank you Obsessive Freak, such a gentlemen. The rules are like any other duel game, except it’s all the players against me. The players all get one-thousand-five hundred friendship points, but I get three times that, with another five hundred!”
“Wait only one-thousand-five hundred, life- I mean friendship points!” snapped Discord.
“Uh yeah, I wasn’t truly thinking about the difficulty as I was setting this up. I only planned to revise it once we gave the game ago. But I did give us some handicaps. One of them is for this specific level. One I bet Nightmare moon hoped I wouldn’t mention.” Obsessive freak gazed at Nightmare moon. “An alternative way to win is if all the Orbs of harmony cards have been drawn and none of them get sent to the infirmary, otherwords the graveyard really. It doesn’t matter who has the Orbs of harmony and which hands they’re in. So long as they’ve all been pulled out and are safe, we win automatically.”
“Good luck finding them through two-hundred-and-forty-four cards.” Nightmare moon smirked. Everyone finished shuffling. “Now then, time to duel.”
“Let’s go,” said the players in sync. The field then formed rectangle tiles with golden glowing outlines. Flashes appeared on the player’s flanks that shot out like shoot stars and appeared in front of them to form four different objects.
“Mind telling us what these are?” asked Discord seeing a bouncy infinite sign in front of him.
“Another, more generic handicap,” said Obsessive freak with his doll now on the field. “Our cutie marks manifested to assist. They provide bonuses, additional effects and a way to make this game entirely easier. They’ll help us in all our duels.”
“So what do they do exactly?” questioned Pencil Shade.
“Um, well they all work differently, I remember that.”
“Great, so I won’t get an explanation why I have an Al Capone hat then?”
“Well I didn’t have much information on what sort of cutie mark you have Rainbow Crash. So I went with something that summed you up. You wanted to be a journalist so you can be heard and voice opinions, so I gave you a journalist had for your cutie mark.”
“You do realise Cutie marks are meant to be something you’re good at right?”
“We’ll discuss this some other time, Rainbow Crash.”
“I hope you’re done, because it’s time for you four to make your moves first.”
“Who goes first precisely?” asked Pencil Shade eagerly.
“It’s from our right to left,” replied Obsessive freak.
Discord looked down where he was. “Guess I’m first.” His cutie mark shifted into a glass of chocolate milk. “Huh?”
“Oh yeah, everytime it’s your turn, your cutie mark changes into something different. Depending on what it is it gives you a specific the bonuses it gives you.”
“So what has it given me?”
“…I can’t remember. There are so many bonuses that it’s there to justify the infinite number. You also have to know how to use some of the bonuses in order to use some of them.”
“Nice. In that case I’ll just play it safe and ignore it until I have some insurance I can use the cutie mark.” Discord placed down a card. “For my first card, I’ll play Screwball in attack mode.” A deranged pink filly with darkish purple hair and screw eyes appeared. “She may only have nine-hundred-points, but I’ll add one magic equip card, baseball bat and then I’ll place one card face down.” A baseball bat then appeared in Screwballs hooves and a giant card floated behind her. “I end my move there.”
“Uh so how do you play this game?” questioned Rainbow Crash.
“It’s just like playing Yu-gi-oh,” replied Obsessive freak.
“That’s silly, we should play some other game.”
“Not really an option right now.”
“Should be.”
“Just play a card Rainbow Crash!” ordered Pencil Shade.
“Shouldn’t snap at people Pencil Shade, just not cool.”
“Oh lord, do you happen to be drunk Rainbow Crash?” questioned Obsessive freak concerned.
“What if I am, you going do another intervention right here?”
“Um no, just that-.” A loud beep then honked on Rainbow Crash’s disk. “You’ve ended up skipping your turn.”
“What was that Walrus?” asked Discord.
“Uh, well because I couldn’t have Rainbow Crash coming online drunk and do what he normally does when he is. I sent up a monitor in the game to sense his speeches and a word choice to tell if he was drunk and if he wouldn’t cut it out or at least play normal the game would automatically skip his turn.”
“Just great, you’re forcing Rainbow Crash to stop drinking.”
“I’m not, I’m just influencing him not to come online drunk and use inappropriate behaviour.”
“All the same, forcing.”
“So does that mean it’s my move now?” asked Pencil Shade.
“Apparently,” replied Rainbow Crash.
“Alright, well I’ll start off with this.” He placed down his card and flashed onto one of the tiles was a white bunny. “What? I meant to put Angel facedown?”
“Oh yeah, now I remember. The whole idea with your cutie mark ability is like writing a book. When you start writing a book it revolves around a main character, that main character being Angel.”
“Meaning?”
“Uh… Do I really need to say it anymore?”
“I don’t know why we bother asking anymore,” said Discord.
“Nevermind, I use this equip card, carrot treat to boost Angel’s attack and defence by three-hundred, increasing him to have one-thousand-three-hundred attack points and one-thousand-five-hundred defence points.” Carrot then appeared in Angel’s paws. The bunny to hug the carrot affectionately. “I then place him into defence mode.” Angel sat down. “End my turn.”
“Guess that makes it my turn then. As my first move, I’m going to summon, Cherilee walrus!” A darkish red-and-pink walrus with pink hair appeared onto the field. “In defence mode.”
“Should’ve figured you’d have a deck like that,” chuckled Discord amusingly.
“Glad you’ve found something to be amused about.” Obsessive freak looked up at Nightmare moon. “Your move now anyway.”
“About time, because now I can unveil why you cannot win this duel. First off I’ll use this, the dark forest to alter the battlefield.” As she played it, the whole temple around them crumbled and grew in its place were trees that tore their way out from the ground and enveloped around the group. “Then I play this, Enraged manticore, in attack mode.” A flash of light shot out from behind her. Stomped its way out from the forest appeared a large manticore that roared at the players.
“Isn’t that thing not six stars, therefore requires you to sacrifice a card less than five levels to play?” mentioned Discord.
“Not with the dark dark forest activated. I only require one less sacrifice to summon any beast card and not only that but his attack and defence are increased by another three-hundred, making his attack total two-thousand-eight-hundred.”
“Just great!” snapped Obsessive freak.
“Now then, although Rainbow crash is defenceless, he serves nothing more than a hindrance to your group. Therefore I’ll aim for something more worth my time, like Discord’s Screwball.”
“Darn it, that’ll be enough to wipe out Discord!” yelped Pencil Shade.
“Exactly, Manticore rip asunder that worthless pony!”
The beast roared and flew forward.
“Not so fast, although I won’t be able to safe Screwball, I can use this trap card to save myself.” The floated card lifted up to unveil a flower shooting out water. “Sniff-water-gag.”
A floor appeared on Screwball’s chest and squired out a spray of water that into the Manticore, hindering him. Although the beast ripped across Screwball and shattered her, Discord’s friendship points only went down to two-hundred.
“Okay, now that was close,” sighed Obsessive freak.
“I should’ve been careful about that facedown card I guess. But no matter, I’ve left you on a thread and the rest of you will follow suit shortly enough. Your moves again.”
Discord drew a new card. “Well, good news I drew an element of harmony, bad news is that we probably won’t be able to hold out for a new turns.”
“What’s worse is that an element of harmony is in your hands,” said Obsessive freak.
“Hey!”
“Okay that wasn’t cool Obsessive freak,” snarled Rainbow crash tipsy.
“Sorry, what I meant to say is that if a player gets destroyed with an element of harmony in his or her hand that card goes as well.”
“I guess Nightmare moon here then wasn’t kidding when you made this unrealistically difficult,” muttered Discord.
“Look, either cut me some slack for making this game or keep winding me up because I had such a hard time remembering all this crud I placed in.”
The group then heard the beeping sound of Obsessive freak’s friendship points going down.
“What the!” spoke concerned Pencil Shade.
“Okay I remembered this, but didn’t think it be in effect so soon.”
“What?” asked Discord.
“You know how I let my temper get the best of me at times right? It wouldn’t be any better with me in power and stressed with how much effort I put into making this game. Yet taking your lots feedback afterwards that would be more or less like harsh criticism, even if it was understandable. So as a behavioural approach to avoid my temper getting the best of me and ruining a gaming experience I wanted everyone to enjoy, I made it depending on my language and tone, the game monitor will recognise me getting angry and reduce my friendship points by two-hundred.”
“With you trying to control Rainbow Crash’s drinking problem and your anger issues, I’m wondering if this was a rehab game.”
“Would you play your lord sam turn already!” Obsessive freak’s disk beeped again.
“Fine, we were getting nowhere anyways.” Discord saw his cutie mark shift and change into cotton candy. “Okay, hope this means we get cotton candy.” The candy started bouncing around. “Living breathing cotton candy at least.” Discord then sighed and saw he only had four cards he could play. “Alright, I’ll place this card face down in defence mode and two other cards face down and end my turn.”
“Okay, now please say you’re focused Rainbow Crash?” pleaded Pencil Shade.
“Actually I’m still a bit drunk, but I am shoving the booze to one side. Now what is it that I do? Been a while since I even saw Yu-gi-oh… or understood it.”
“Play a card with two sets of numbers on it,” informed Obsessive freak.
“Which one, there’s lots of cards with numbers.”
“One with the highest number maybe.”
“Maybe? I don’t know how to tell which one has the highest number- sorry bad maths joke there.” A beep signalled.
“Darn it,” snapped Obsessive freak.
“Okay, then it’s my turn again I guess.” Pencil Shade drew another card and quickly scanned at them. “Alright, no elements of harmony, but I’ll try to put two cards down in facedown mood and end my turn.”
“Alright, now that we can draw, I can use my cutie mark or otherwise dolly’s special ability.”
“Oh so you can remember your cutie mark,” chuckled Rainbow Crash.
“Be quiet, it’s only because I felt I wouldn’t need as big a handicap except for this teamwork game one where the easiest way to win was by getting out all the element of harmony cards. Therefore bonus is rather simple. By discarding one up to one card from my hand per turn, I can draw a new one.”
“In other words you draw two cards each turn,” said Discord.
“Yep. Excellent for this duel, and matches and represents my obsession to get what I want. Anyways, I’m now going to play, High style walrus in attack mode.” A walrus with reddish pink hair and pink hide then appeared. “Not only is my deck a walrus-themed one, it’s a fashioned-themed one just filled with equipment items. The first one I’m going to use is red-ruby sapphire ring, which increases my walruses by an effective five hundred attack points and eight-hundred defence points and I’m going to give it to Highstyle walrus.” A ruby then wrapped around the walrus’ flipper that got it all excited. “And because I’m able to switch her attack and defence at will, I’ll swap her one-thousand-five-hundred attack points for her now three-thousand defence points and next I’ll use her to attack your manticore.”
The pink walrus rushed at the manticore.
Nightmare moon just snickered. “If you remembered the living cotton candy effect, all trap and equip items become living things, hence your equip items become creatures and creatures can’t be equipped.”
The ring hoped right off Highstyle’ walruses flipper and before she could figure out what was going on, she smashed against the manticore and was blown apart.
Obsessive freak’s friendship points rapidly decreased. “For frick sake, I hate being outdone by my own incompetence!” His duel disk then beeped again. “Oh! For the love of angels, got my friendship points deducted even more and I’m on a lousy five hundred!” The disk then beeped again. “Make that three-hundred.”
“Just chill Walrus. Otherwise it’ll be one-hundred!” ordered Discord.
“Okay… yeah… I’m calm now…. I think. My turns over.”
“How great is this. The person who created this game is eliminating himself and I don’t even have to help him. Therefore I’ll go after the closes thing to even being called a threat again.” She placed down a card. “I summon sea serpent in attack mode.” A large serpent emerged from a flash of light with two-thousand attack points now increased to two-thousand five hundred. “Now sea serpent, attack first against Discord’s facedown card!”
“Underestimating me again Nightmare moon? I turn up my creature facedown card, Jack-in-the-box pony!” The card transformed into a box that popped open to unveil a mad pony with a mallet. “Although he has less points than your sea serpent, his flip effect destroys your sea serpent.” The pony used his mallet to destroy the creature.
“An effort indeed Discord, but your Jack-in-the-box pony has now switched to attack points, which means I can use my Manticore to finish you off! Go Manticore and do so!” The manticore lunged forward.
“Allow me to finally do something?” Pencil Shade flipped the cards over on his duel disk. “I show my two facedown cards, first one, parasprite call.” A set of musical equipment appeared and started making a bizarre sound. “This allows me to summon Parasprite to the field.” A ball-shaped thing with pixie wings appeared. “My other card is then Luxurious food. When used with Parasprite it causes him to vastly multiply.”
Hundreds of parasprite showed up.
“So what are you getting at?” asked Nightmare moon.
“How can you destroy Discord’s Jack in the box if they’re so many parasprites in the way.” Pencil Shade smirked.
The Manticore hit against, what was now, a wall of parasprites, unable to get through them.
“Looks like you underestimated all of us,” spoke Discord.
“It seems that I have and now I can’t do anything else this turn, therefore, I will place down this card and end my turn.”
“Looks like it’s my turn again then.” Discord saw his cutie mark transform into two jars that knocked over and allowed blue and red marbles to roll out. Their contents flowed into the other jar and before the jars rolled back up. “An odd symbol.”
Nightmare moon grinned. “Actually it’s the symbol where you randomly switch a number cards with your opponent’s hand.”
Cards flashed in both Nightmare moon’s and Discord’s grip and disappeared and were replaced. “What no! I’ve lost one of the elements of harmony!”
“What that can’t be!” panicked Pencil shade.
“It is now, because I possess one of the elements of harmony,” snickered Nightmare moon.
“I take it that means we have to defeat her some other way then,” guessed Pencil Shade worried.
“That’s fine as there’s a card here that I got from her to use to our advantage. I place down Nightmare night.” A moon appeared in the night sky. “This card may only effect night creatures, but it replaces the present field, meaning you can forget your Dark forest.” The forest retreated back and the temple rebuilt itself around them, but with an empty roof above them. “I then return my Jack-in-a-box pony into defence mode.” The pony attached to a giant spring retreated back into its box with the lid clapped shut behind him. “Your move Rainbow Crash, feel any better.”
“Ugh, I’ve just gotten to the hangover bit already, but yeah I think I’ve got my head into this. Uh um yeah, place this down into defence mode I think.” There was a honk from the duel disk. “Whoops too many stars, thought we were playing an earlier addition of Yu-gi-oh.” There was then another honk.
“I maybe should’ve left more time for Rainbow Crash to make these decisions.”
“Sigh, it’s too late now, my turn.” After Pencil Shade drew a card, he winced a little. “I got an element of harmony, but these are useless now aren’t they?”
“Just hold onto them, we might be able to get that one back,” replied Discord.
“In that case I’ll just go ahead and play this card, Owlowiscious.” An owl appeared next to Angel. They then heard the beeps of Angel’s points going up. “Why did Angel just grow by another three-hundred points?”
“I’m assuming it’s to do with your cutie mark effect. A story progresses when a main character has other characters in the book, hence the main character becomes more developed and so on,” explained Discord.
“I guess that makes sense, not that I should complain as we have another advantage. But I summoned Owlowisicious because so long as he doesn’t attack this turn I can draw another card from my deck.” When he did, Pencil Shade winced again. “Not sure what to think of this, but all I got was another Element of harmony card again.”
“Try to treat it as a good thing,” moaned Obsessive freak.
“I’ll try. But not much use about clumping up my hand for no reason. I’ll just end my turn.”
“Right, my turn again, awesome.” Obsessive freak looked at his two drawn cards to see he had gotten another element of harmony as well. “Alright, here’s the card I need. I summon Big Mac walrus in attack mode, who needs no sacrifices when Cherilee walrus on the field.” A giant red walrus appeared. “I then equip him with jewel-encrusts that increase his attack points by another five-hundred and attack with him against your manticore.” The red walrus roared out and belly slid across the field, ramming straight into the manticore and shattering it. “Your manticore’s gone now Nightmare moon, your move.”
“Hope you’re not thinking you all have come so close to winning, because you shouldn’t be even able to think you can win. That moon Discord’s used was being saved until you all stopped being entertaining. Which by about now, you all have. Therefore I summon to the field Shadowbolt one to the field.” An evil black uniformed pony appeared. “Because he counts as a night creature, his attack is increased to one-thousand points and also because I am Nightmare moon, I can summon a second Shadow bolt straight onto the battlefield, Shadowbolt two.” Another Shadowbolt appeared. “Now to take care of your parasprites.”
“How can you, there’s so many of them that you can’t destroy them all with only two creatures,” said Pencil Shade.
“By going after those musical instruments, soon as they’re gone they’ll all leave.”
“That’s going to be sort of difficult considering you still need to get pass my Parasprite wall.”
“On the contrary, I give another additional effect if there is two Shadowbolts. Shadowbolt one flies off into a colourful Jetstream.” Shadowbolt one preceded to do so, jetting through the skies in a wild flare of zig-zag lines. “This creates a distraction for Shadowbolt two to fly right pass your creatures and directly into your musical instruments.” The other Shadowbolt did so. Directly shooting through the musical instruments and destroying them. The Parasprites looked around as if released from a trance. When they found nothing, they scattered and faded. “So much for your defence. My Shadowbolts are my elite.”
“I think we can see that,” said Discord.
“Well, before I end my move, I place two cards down and end my turn, your move Discord.”
Discord drew his card and then watched the infinite symbol change into camouflage gear. “Now that looks interesting for a change. I take it that some of my cutie mark can sometimes be equipped.”
“Uh yeah.” Obsessive freak nodded.
“In that case I’m going to see if I can equip it to my Jack-in-the-box pony.” The Jack-in-the-box pony popped out of its box and the camouflage jacket slipped on him. The jacket formed into a black hooded-cloak. “Looks like my Jack-in-the-box pony has become a night-type creature and in addition gains an additional three-hundred attack points, putting him up to two-thousand attack points. Now I’ll use him to attack Shadowbolt one.”
The spring pony went back into his box. The handle twirled until the spring pony cannonballed out of his box straight for the Shadowbolts.
“An excellent combination Discord, but allow me to show you one of my facedown cards, Nightmarish glare, reducing your Jack-in-the-box pony by five hundred points.” The card unfolded to unveil a pair of nightmare moon-like eyes that glared at Jack-in-the-box and caused him to hesitate.
“Hold on, now I play my magic card, Just kidding, which effectively cancels my attack and returns him to defence mode!” The spring snatched the spring pony back right before one of the Shadowbolts could swipe him. The Jack-in-the-box pony slammed back into its box, which then sat upright again with lid closed. “I end my move there.”
“You truly are an interesting opponent Discord. You present a feint attack to spring my trap. However I still have one card facedown and have no idea what it is.”
“I’ll find out!” shouted Rainbow Crash. “Um alright, I’ll play this, Dumbbell in attack mode and attack with him.” A brown Pegasus with blonde hair was summoned and went straight for the Shadowbolts.
“Rainbow Crash what are you doing!” yelled Pencil Shade. Dumbbell collided with one of the Shadowbolts, but was instantly destroyed. “He was only one-thousand-six-hundred points Rainbow Crash, he was outmatched!”
“Oh was the Shadowbolts stronger? Sorry I wasn’t paying attention with so much rambling going on. Gives a guy a real headache where if he thinks anymore then his heads going to explode, you know what I mean!”
“No I don’t Rainbow Crash! Would you get your head out of your ass and get in the game. Walrus worked hard on this game and right now he’s at risk at losing it all. To make matters worse our only means of communicating with each other as well of hundreds and thousands of other people is about to be destroyed and all you’re doing is making a right idiot of yourself.”
“Uh sorry, guy can’t have some fun while he’s saving the world?”
“How is being a complete idiot any fun?”
“Calm down Pencil Shade. Yelling at Rainbow Crash isn’t helping anything,” insisted Discord. “It’s your move now. So see if you can manage something.”
Drew another two cards, Pencil Shade smirked. “Alright think I’ve gotten something. I play weather cloud and equip it to Angel.” A cloud appeared underneath Angel and caused him to elevate upwards, much to Angel’s displeasure. “His attack is increased to another three hundred and defence another five-hundred. Then a play fierce gust, which flips over any card and if it’s a trap card its sent to the infirmary.” A gentle tornado appeared over Nightmare moon’s tiles and forced the facedown card to be forcibly lifted up, unveiling it to be another Nightmare moon gaze before it was destroyed. “That ends my move.”
“Okay, then it’s my turn then, Big mac walrus, attack!” The red walrus did so, but it caused Nightmare moon to chuckle.
“Because my friendship points are now at risk and I have two Shadowbolts up, I can summon straight onto the field; Shadowbolt three.”
“Not much use considering they all have the same attack power.”
“Maybe not, but I use Shadowbolt counter-formation from my hoof, allowing a third of two of the two Shadowbolt’s attack points to be handed one of them. With one-thousand-nine-hundred attack points each, one Shadowbolt gains a total of three-thousand-one-hundred attack points!”
“Darn that’s a hundred higher than Big mac walrus!" The Shadowbolts charged together and shattered through Big mac walrus, reducing Obsessive freak’s friendship points down to two-hundred. “Just great!”
“I’ll presume that’s your turn ended.” She only got a growl in return though. “In that case, I’ll get straight down to wrapping this all up. With three Shadowbolts now, I can use two of them to attack.” Two the preceded to do so, streaming in front of the group. “Where I can then now use Shadowbolt three to directly attack anyone’s friendship points and I think I’ll got for the same nuisance I was attacking a turn ago. Shadowbolt three go straight for Pencil Shade’s friendship points!” Shadowbolt three speared straight for Pencil Shade with a malicious grin.
“Hold on, now I can pull up my facedown card, giant baseball mitten. It is equipped to Angel to give an additional eight-hundred defence points and so long as he’s a flying creature, which Angel now counts as, he can counter any attacks while still in defence mode.” The mitten appeared on Angel’s paw and he caught the Shadowbolt, bouncing the evil pony back. Both Nightmare moon’s and Pencil Shade’s friendship points decreased.
“Too bad that you receive the same amount of friendship point damage as I do for such a card, but amusement aside, I place down one card and I guess it’s you four halfwits’ turns again I guess.”
“Darn, didn’t get a good enough card and why has my cutie mark turned into a bra?” The spring pony had sprung out of its box embarrassed about wearing a bra.
“Uh, yeah that might have been me while light-headed again. I doubt that it even has any bonuses besides embarrassing the creature who wears it.”
“Sigh, just great, lame humour before we all get beaten. Does have a light-hearted touch though about the fact that we all had fun I presume.”
“Don’t give up just yet Discord, we aren’t beaten just yet,” responded Pencil Shade.
“I guess a little futile defiance does go far, especially when it comes to Yu-gi-oh. So… very well, I place two creatures down in defence mode and end my turn.”
“Are you focused now Rainbow Crash?” Almost pleased Pencil Shade.
“Find out. I summon to the field, Tank in attack mode.”
“Did you just say attack mode!” yelped Obsessive freak.
“Yep.” A turtle then appeared in front of Rainbow crash with a fierce glare at the opposition. “Then I end my turn.”
“Okay. I am relieved thought you were actually going to attack there, Rainbow Crash,” replied Obsessive freak.
“Nope, learnt my lesson.”
“Okay, after using the mitten card, Angel increased again up to two-thousand-one-hundred attack points. So I’m going to change him to attack mode and attack one of your Shadowbolts, now Angel.”
The bunny swooped forward on his flying cloud with his carrot winded back to strike.
“Fool, you should’ve learnt that my facedown card was another Nightmare moon glare.” The facedown card unveiled to be so.
“Drats!” spilled Pencil Shade just as Angel was destroyed. Pages were then turn out from his cutie mark book, crumpled up and thrown aside.
“I thought you would’ve been destroyed Pencil Shade with your main character wiped out,” said Rainbow Crash.
“I might as well have been.”
“Now what happened to defiance?” asked Discord.
“Heh guess you’re right… Your turn then Obsessive freak. Let’s see what you can do.”
“Afraid I can’t do much. I could do another attack, but I’m going to have to be blunt out loud that I have no failsafe if Nightmare moon puts a wrench in my plan and causes me to lose Friendship points.”
“Pss, Walrus,” hissed Rainbow Crash. “Don’t worry I’ve got it, leave it to me and just end your turn.”
“Um, you’re not actually going to trust Rainbow Crash are you Walrus? He hasn’t exactly been reliable in this duel?” whispered Pencil Shade.
“You forget something Pencil Shade,” said Discord. “We’re all bronies here. A bond meaning that we all unconditionally trust one another if we wish to prove the magic of friendship, in all its glory and true power.”
“…I guess that’s true… Finne, go ahead and trust him if you think so, Walrus.”
“To be honest I was hoping you were all against the idea as much as I am. But Discord does bring a good point, so I’ll put my trust in Rainbow Crash and end my turn.”
“What sentimental idiots to put your trust into such a complete buffoon. In this case I’ll finish you Obsessive freak. It’s a shame that you must be destroyed first, but it’s the price you put in the heart of friendship. Shadowbolts launch and destroy him.”
“You really shouldn’t have done that so blindly Nightmare moon, because here I go for real this time. First off I’ll add flying gadget to Tank.” A helicopter-like propeller and airplane goggle were then attached to Tank and lifted him off his feet. “I then attach my cutie mark journalist hat.” The journalist hat hopped onto Tank’s head.
“So your Tank is now stronger than all my Shadowbolts, big deal, I wasn’t aiming for you.”
“I know. But because Walrus gave me the journalist hat because I like to draw attention, so that should mean I’m able to use it to draw all three of your Shadowbolts to attack him.”
All three shadowbolts suddenly did, finding themselves confused and panicking as they all went crashing into Tanks shell and were shattered one by one.
“How!” snarled Nightmare moon. “You were nothing but an imbecile before!”
“Heck this whole thing about the internet in pearl and Walrus’ game being hacked, I thought it was just one heck of a roleplay and just thought it be alright to have some booze in between and try and create a laugh. But thanks to Pencil Shade pulling my head of my ass and making me realise this is for real, I’m now going to seriously hammer you in now!”
“Plus you’ve lost your Shadowbolts, so what now,” said Pencil Shade.
“Heh, what now, well I guess I do what one of the key rules we bosses can do and place myself onto the field.” Nightmare moon then pondered forward onto the field.
“She can do that?” blurted Discord.
“Not before. I guess it’s a feature the hackers added.”
“Don’t worry guys she’s only two-thousand-four-hundred points, Tank can hold her off!” laughed Rainbow Crash.
“Blind as ever I see. You forget I’m a night creature that hasn’t added her bonus attack value.” Nightmare moon then radiated with power and unleashed it all at Tank from her horn. The great beam of energy pierced through tank and obliterated him.
“Oh come on!” moaned Rainbow Crash.
“All our friendship points are being deducted!” panicked Discord.
“That’s right. Whenever I destroy a creature, all my opponent’s friendship points are deducted in half. All four you are welcome to make your final turns now.”
Discord pulled out another card and gritted. “No use, this cards of no help or any of my cards. Can I count on you guys to try and do something?”
“You just went on about the power of bronies and friendship didn’t you?” asked Rainbow Crash.
“In that case I’ll end my turn and pass it to you Rainbow Crash.”
“Right, this is where it ends Nightmare moon. I’m assuming if we destroy you, we in the game.”
“Indeed.”
“In that case I’ll use this card, first aid, to bring back Dumbbell, then I’ll sacrifice him to summon Snowflake.” Just as Dumbbell came back, he was replaced by an awesomely huge muscled pony with buzzcut hair that flexed when he shouted out. “Yeah!”
“A mere two-thousand-three-hundred attack value.”
“Actually I still have my cutie-mark which I can now give to Snowflake, boasting his attack value to two-thousand-eight-hundred and attack you with him! Finishing this!”
“Yeah!” yelled Snowflake and hurled forward.
Nightmare moon just cackled. “You should know that as a special bonus to this duel, I come with Nightmare moon glare, reducing any creature that attacks me, by five-hundred attack value.” She fired a beam of energy that annihilated Snowflake.
“No!” yelled Rainbow Crash.
“What fools you all are! You thought you could actually beat me. I congrat you all by forcing me out like this, but it’s all been for nothing. Accept you demise.”
Rainbow Crash glared at Nightmare moon. He only remembered to draw a card, soon as he pulled it, he saw it was one of the elements of harmony, but he only frowned. “Your go Pencil Shade.”
Drawing his cards, the first one Pencil Shade took was Flitter, a mere one-thousand-two hundred attack points. But as he drew his second card thanks to Owlowsicious, he found another element of harmony. As Pencil Shade just frowned it, it flashed in his grip. “Huh?”
“What’s this?” asked Nightmare moon actually concerned now as she witnessed the cards glow and shine out the elements of harmony.
“Fun’s over Nightmare moon,” said Obsessive freak.
“But how, I have one of the elements of harmony preventing you from using them!” The element of harmony card she had then glowed in her grip.
“Yeah, sort of another bug I forgot to fix. Like you remember when you said all six orbs of harmony needed to be all out and not destroyed, didn’t exactly say who’s hand and the system could never pick up on that, so yeah, you lose.”
The orbs of harmony gathered around the players and all together fired out a rainbow blast of energy that roared out at Nightmare moon. The alicorn reared back screaming as she was struck, eventually she formed to stone and shattered completely.
