Jade and the fillies stared in shock as they tried to figure out what happened. Hsi Wu, however, responded immediately. "Monkey King!" he snarled out as he shifted to his demon form, bracing himself between the Monkey and Jade. "I thought that puppet looked familiar..."
The Monkey King turned to look at Hsi Wu, then did a double take. "Wuwu baby, is that you?" he teased as he leapt into the air, landing on Hsi's shoulder and looking him over. "Really been hitting the gym, haven't you? Look at these gains!" He pulled out a measuring tape and began measuring Hsi's muscle mass, and within moments had him completely tied up in the tape, landing away from him in a doctor's outfit. "Sadly your funny bone is still grossly underdeveloped." He let off a mad cackle as he flipped backwards, landing back in his normal attire, if it could be called that, only to spin into an outfit remarkably similar to what Wesley Rank had worn before he was revealed for the fraud he was. "Now who's this sheila who's tamed this whopper, eh?" he asked in the fakest Australian accent the girls had ever heard as he leaned forward to look Jade over.
Jade, for her part, promptly kicked him between the legs.
The Monkey King let out a pained squawk as he bent over clutching himself. "Ah...so you're a real spitfire, eh?" he asked as he took in a deep breath.
As Hsi burst free of the measuring tape, Jade smashed a bottle of wine over the Monkey King's head, soaking him in the flammable alcohol. "You know, with all the stories about the legendary trickster Monkey King I'd read...I expected more than discount Deadpool," she pointed out blandly as the beast let the breath out without spitting fire. "At least guard your magic satchel better, it's too easy to reach into."
The Monkey King wiped his face and glowered at her. "You're going to-" He stopped as a dry chuckle echoed from the fifth recumbent figure. When he turned towards it and got a look, he let out a sudden defiant hiss. "No! I just escaped one prison, I'm not going back into another!" With no further explanation than that, he leapt out the window and dashed off.
The figure slowly sat up. At first glance, it appeared to be an old Chinese man dressed in white silk, a close shaven white beard and hair the only sign of true age. As his eyes opened, they sparked with gentle mischief, but there was wisdom behind that gaze. As he came fully aware, the girls felt a sudden overpowering sense of presence...of legend. Reaching over, he picked up a crimson staff and pushed himself to his feet before smiling down at the girls. "Well now," he murmured, his voice ancient but brimming with vim and vigor, "this is a gathering I haven't seen in a long time. Humans, Demons, God blessed, and-" His eyes sparkled in mischievous delight as he glanced at the fillies. "Oh, I won't say. That's too much fun."
Jade was the first to find her voice. "S-Sun Wu Kong, I presume?" she managed to ask.
The figure raised an eyebrow. "Why the stutter, Miss Chosen One? You've met a Goddess and earned her favor, why are you-" He paused, glanced down at himself, and facepalmed. "Been so long since I've been in charge of myself I forgot about that." He closed his eyes and focused, and the overpowering sense of presence withdrew.
The fillies managed a gasp in response as they were able to find their breath. "So is that, like, the Class 1 or 2 equivalent of leaving your fly open?" Scootaloo managed to ask brusquely.
Sun Wu Kong laughed softly. "Very much so. And provisional Class 1. I'm not on the Jade Council, but I'm an advisory member...or at least, I was before..." A frown crossed his face as he glanced from Hsi Wu to the east.
"You tangled with Shendu and he used the power of the Tiger Talisman to invert your moral compass, putting your alter ego of the Monkey King in charge?" Sweetie Belle asked incisively. "The side of you that doesn't care about others in pursuit of fun?"
Sun Wu Kong blinked in surprise. "You put that together just from a glance to the east?" he asked, impressed.
"That and the tiger roar when the magic burst, and that Jackie's split inta Tiger and Kitten again," Apple Bloom pointed out as the named individuals sat up with a groan.
"What the hell just happened?" Tiger demanded with a growl as he rubbed his head.
"Brother!" Kitten complained. "Language! The children are present-"
"I don't think Hell counts as a swear word in this world if it's an actual place individuals can commute back and forth from," Tiger snapped derisively. "There are Devils that attend Jade's school, after all."
Kitten raised a hand in objection, then sighed and lowered it. "Point made. But you still shouldn't swear in front of the children-"
"Oh give it a rest!" Tiger snarled. "If you want to keep them from bad influences, stop letting them hang out with Valmont's girls! Swearing's the least of your worries compared to Adagio."
"They need a good example by comparison!" Kitten snapped back.
Sun Wu Kong promptly fished out a few coins. "McKettle? A bucket if you please?"
"On th' house for the return o' me favorite customer!" the popcorn goblin said as it appeared and handed Sun some popcorn. "Dare ah hope th' Monkey's back in its cage?"
"Not yet, but I'm working on it," Sun promised as he munched.
"Planning on sharing?" one of the Vipers - this one wearing a sundress and apron - asked softly as she reached up to Sun's bucket.
"With such a fetching maid?" Sun replied warmly. "Of a certainty." He held the bucket down to let her take some.
Another Viper - in the feline form of the pitch black panther and wearing nothing - took a pawful as well. "If it comes to blows, I hope Tigerrrr goes forrr the shirrrt," she purred eagerly.
"Ahem!" the apron-clad Viper insisted darkly.
"I'm surrre Hsi will coverrr Jade's eyes orrr otherrrwise rrremove herr if it comes to that," the feline Viper pointed out dryly.
"Fair enough," the more domestic Viper allowed.
"This is going to be awkward..." Hsi Wu muttered grimly.
Oh yessssssss 0w0 all my yes TAKE IT!
Now we have two Monkey Kings running around! I wonder what the more wise one thinks of how he has been deprecated by actors like...
Unfortunately he has not in this universe. Then again I wonder how he feels about how Dragonball did him then?
Thanks for the chapter
This version of the monkey king, reminds me of the ji-lee & jackie chan moive, Forbidden kingdom. That was a fun movie.
I wonder what Mister Popo will think of this development.
Loving this take on the Monkey King sequence
with what I typed last chapter all I can say is take it away cooler
also
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Monkey King In Name Only is probably his thought on it...though he might be just a tiny bit flattered and embarrassed at Son Goku's popularity.
That was fun, may I have another? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the great work. Deus tecum.
At least the Monkey King didn't wine over Jade's bottled up anger lest he would've have gotten a kick out of it.
And now for a longer story of the Monkey King flies East.
I wonder how many dark and lights sides exist... We managed to see Viper, The Great Sage of Sky and Earth, and Jackie... I wonder how could the fillies and Jade could look.
Domestic and Panthress Viper are both awesome... but I think both versions of Jackie and Viper all need to be locked in a room for some naughty fun times. I also can't wait to see how things go with Sun Wukong there, but I can see him accusing Scootaloo of ripping off him with Culimno.
I first thought Santa was Sun Wu Kong since he gave Scootaloo a nimbus. Guess I was wrong.
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yeah, unlikely. even naughty Sun Wukong wouldn't want to mess with the big guy. he will probably channel his inner Monkey and be all like "Meh.".
Chapter One Hundred Ninety Six
"Aiyah!"
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"One More Thing!"
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Nope Santa was implied to be an incarnation of Old Man Henderson. There was a reason most of the Jade Council backed down when he made his choice.
Good way to show off the Monkey King's good side. The genuine article himself
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that and on Christmas eve old nick is a class 0
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We already have been shown jades, what do you think the shoulder people have been?
...this...this is going to be a glorious and epic showdown. SOMEONE GET THE POPCORN GUY INTO THIS REALITY, WE'RE GOING TO NEED HIM!
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I'm trying but I can't get the portal to open.
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Whoops sorry there's a massive timespace storm covering the My Little pony multiverse at the moment...
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That explains the conection problems.
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Funnier when you consider Jackie chan played The Monkey King in a certain film...
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Popo is real...did you forget already?
...Why did I never put together that Sun Wukong would be the 6th person? Oy vey...
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I missed that as well. For a brief moment though I thought this was the RWBY Sun Wukong, the monkey man bro with the gun-chuck-staff-thing.
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It just occurred to me that they maybe going east this time. It’s not a journey to the west.
It’s a bus ride to the east!
(I had a pun but lost it mid-way. East your eyes on my failure.)
(Apparently autocorrect made that pun. I doubt Siri... and I lost it again.)
Jesus there are so many people here that remember the series a million times better than I do. I vaguely recall the Monkey King, but what actually happened, meh. Obviously this is going to be COMPLETELY different, but I have a feeling I'm going to miss a few things not only because of references I don't know but also due to forgetting the original show's story. Grrr.
Still ABSOLUTELY looking forward to it, though!
Oh, also: "That's the staaaaate-mint of the greaaaat-mint with Doublemint gum!"
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"I'm not his/your Mistress!"
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This just keeps getting better and better and better!
Waiting for more as I cut the middle man and made my own popcorn
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True, but not separated fully, and only for a couple of scenes. I'm thinking more of giving them a body
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yeah, apologies, stuff in my end involving a vampire, time travel and a buckert full of "wibbly wobbly timey wimey yarn"
I... have so many questions right now....... but i'll leave them be.
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The Good and Bad sides of both Jackie and Viper are now in their place, meaning we are *literally* seeing double.
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that I know.
We really need the fillies to have shoulder ponies too!
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No, no no, I get that much. what's confusing me is this: someone actually managed to put up with the pre-reformation Discord long enough to breed with him?! Bai, I feel like you should be nominated for sainthood, for Frost's sake!
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wild magic. unrefined wild magic everywhere.
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Which one?
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Magical School Days
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Ah, I see.
Can't help but feel like a being with that capability would land in some kind of grey area between class 1 and class 0. After all, I would think that merely being able to proficiently influence not one, but two Shapers at a level where one could snap his/her/it's fingers and create/erase an entire galaxie's worth of sentient beings...
Such a being wouldn't even need to leverage their control over the Shapers... If they're that skilled or Talented with Mind Magic, they could just make their opponents subconsciously undermine themselves, or even actively use their powers against themselves!
...I do believe I may have created a monster...
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And you're looking at it in the wrong way. A being that's a Class Zero in this case by their very existence leverages all of existence just by existing. In truth, they would be so far beyond the comprehension of lesser beings in nature that the ability to mentally influence one would be simply impossible.
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so it would have to be a Class Zero, but with dominion over the mindscape...
or an offshoot of said entity, with no clue as to it's true nature!
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Nope. If it were a Class Zero, its powers would be so vast that influencing one of the others would be impossible, and vice versa.
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it's implied that Class Zero entities are sentient, if not mobile. Furthermore, it is also implied that Class Zero Entities are the best at whatever they hold dominion over. A Class Zero with dominion over the mind would be very capable of comprehending the mind of it's fellows, and be the 'Unstoppable Force/Immovable Object' in terms of their dominion. The only creature capable of fighting a Class Zero on equal footing is one with dominion over an equal or greater force.
If I'm interpreting this correctly, a Class Zero with dominion over the mind would have to actively suppress it's strength when interacting with minds belonging to anything that isn't a Class Zero, so as not to break said mind under the weight of the sum total of all knowledge and instinct. Thus the splinter-being.
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You misinterpret the nature of Class Zero. They don't 'hold dominion' over anything, they are dominion. The Creator isn't the God of Creation, it's the anthromorphic personification of the Force of Creation. Beast Ragnarok isn't the God of Destruction, it's the anthropomorphic personification of the Force of Destruction. If a being becomes a Class Zero aligned with a specific Force, they become so intertwined with that Force that there ceases to be a line between their being and that Force.
The Creator exists. Ergo, things are Created.
Beast Ragnarok exists. Ergo, things are Destroyed.
Because they're equal, opposite, and in balance, Creation and Destruction happen when they're supposed to only, maintaining a balance of Matter/Energy/Magic/Etc.
A Class Zero of Mind wouldn't be possible, because it would have to be a being so in tune with the concept of Thought and Mind that they were the Minds of every living creature simultaneously, including the Creator and Beast Ragnarok.
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oh. Not impossible then. Just... not likely to have any sort of 'central being'.
If anything, the central being a Class Zero of Mind would be some kind of bodiless spirit...
Tatsurou, you devilish fiend, you've done a very bad thing with debate.
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Uh, no, that wouldn't work.
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Yeah, you're right. the system you've got thus far is all wrong for what I'm imagining to work at all. Did give me more than a few ideas though.