At first, it was a little quiet and still, but then, the Mane-iac used one of her tendrils to try and strike at her enemies like a whip or a sword. However, she missed, and the fighting between them began. Luke tried to think of something, and then an electric guitar just appeared out of nowhere. It was also green, and it was like a les Paul, except, it was left hand, like Luke himself is.
"Face my wrath!" Mane-iac shouted viciously.
Luke started playing a solo from his guitar, and musical waves appeared from out of it, knocking Mane-iac radically off-course.
"Well, we did it!" Luke cheered. "That was fast."
"Not quite you haven't!" Mane-iac said from bellow the building, using her mane and tail to climb back up to the fight. "It will take a lot more than a mere guitar blast to defeat me!"
The human made a scowl, and said "Fine, then try this!" then he played chords and a solo that made fire and lightning appear out of nowhere, trying to hit the Mane-iac. However, she dodged every blast from the musical waves. "Damn!" Luke muttered.
"Hahaha! You missed me!"
Then Rarity jumped into action by using the powers from her bracelet to create a hammer out of pink magic, and smashed her to the roof of the building "Like I said, I love a very functional accessory." then she blew at her bracelet as if it was her trusted handgun. Nonetheless, Mane-iac had quite a lot more fight left in her.
"Take this!" she shouted, then without warning, she knocked Rarity off of the building with a tendril from her tail. At first, everyone was so scared that she might fall to her doom, but then the heroes saw a pink light from below, and they saw Rarity used the bracelet again to conjure a flying carpet back to the roof.
"You'll pay for that!" said Rainbow Dash. With full zeal, she charged at her with a number of punches and kicks, and even used her lightning bolt necklace to electrocute her with by creating a thunderstorm out of nearby clouds passing through.
The Mane-iac did get electrocuted, but had little affect, for she was only stunned for a few seconds, and made a quick recovery. "Hahaha! I am soooo used to getting electrocuted. Poor Zap, so naive, and so stupid." She taunted.
"Then prepare to meet my hooves!" then she punched her so hard in the face, she fell off the building again.
The heroes went down with Fili-second just running down the building, Radiance by using her magic carpet trick, Mistress Marevelous went with Radiance, and then of course, Masked Matterhorn, Saddle Rager, and Zapp used their wings. For Luke, he was trying to figure out how to get down from this building
"Don't worry, Luke. You have super strength. And have animal like reflexes. You won't get squashed, I promise, just use your guitar to create an energy force out of music to hover you back down."
"Gotcha." after another amazing solo, Spike grabbed onto his neck, and a green force of energy was carrying Luke and lifted him to the ground, with the baby dragon more than happy to hop off of him now. "This is kind of fun." Luke said, starting to get the hang of this.
"You're doing good, Luke." Fluttershy complimented the human.
"Thanks."
"Don't get too comfortable, the fight is not over yet, hero!"
"Try to catch me!" Pinkie said playfully. She was running so fast like Sonic or the Flash would be like, even faster than the speed of sound. Luke wondered if Chuck Yeager would be surprised to see this, and imagined him crying.
Meanwhile, Mane-iac was turning around as fast as she could and tried to squish her with her tendrils like a whack-a-mole game, but she was clearly not fast enough. "Stop moving!!" she exclaimed in frustration.
"No, that's no fun!" Pinkie said innocently, then the shenanigans continued.
Growling, Mane-iac pulled out what it looks like to be a gigantic spray can, held by her tendrils of course, and she sprayed Pinkie Pie with some weird mist, and then she froze on the spot, as if she just turned into a statue
"Oh no, not the hairspray ray of doom again!" Spike exclaimed
"That's right, Humdrum! HAHAHAHA!!"
Twilight retaliated by freezing her with her horn, like a living Popsicle. At first, it did look like they have won this battle, but then, Mane-iac was shaking inside the ice, and then broke through, free.
Then Applejack tried used her magic rope to tie her up, like a calf about to be branded in a rodeo. The rope got to her mane, and tangle it, and she tried to use the hair from her tail to retaliate, however, Applejack used her golden horseshoe cuffs to stop the hair from doing anything. Then Fluttershy was about to charge at her, but then the unhinged mare broke free from the rope and slipped the cuffs off her tail with a few free tendrils, but then swatted her away.
"No!" Luke said with shock. "Fluttershy!" then he did a slide on the cement with his knees and tended to her aid. "Saddle Rager, speak to me!"
Then Fluttershy felt a touch of anger in her. "How dare you swat me away like that!" she said. "Don't you supervillains play by the rules!" then he noticed her voice was starting to get lower as she was raising her voice. "The whole world doesn't revolve around you, Mane-iac!! Let me teach you a lesson in RESPECT!!!" then she transformed into a gigantic monster, sort of like the Incredible hulk and then she made a roar
Luke was absolutely stunned and amazed to see this.
At this, the Mane-iac was becoming consumed with fear, and then she whistled, and all of a sudden, her hench-stallions came out, looking for a fight to defend her mistress. "DESTROY THEEEEEM!!!" she screamed to her minions. Just like that, the stallions all charged with a loud battlecry.
Then it was like a small battle in a war was happening. Saddle Rager was using all her strength to swipe away any enemies that would come at her. "Luke! Behind you!" she warned
Then the human made a supersonic shout that sounded like a lion roaring, and blew four charging enemies away from him. "Wow, I didn't know I can do that. Thanks, Fluttershy."
"You're Welcome, Luke." then they both continued fighting.
The human remembered playing video games and it was almost like a video game or a movie. He would bash enemies with his guitars, blow them away with his powerful chords with his guitar, and did the super lion roar too.
Meanwhile, Fili-second slowly recovered from her paralysis, and got back to the fighting herself. As the battle continued on and on, Mane-iac decided she has had enough of this conflict, and instantly uses the hairspray ray of doom on the others, except for Spike. She was about to do it on Luke, but he dodged and escaped.
"No! Please! Not again!" Spike begged for mercy.
"Oh, come now, Humdrum. I would never even bother using my weapon on you. You have no powers after all. And besides," then she unexpectedely gave him a small kiss on his lips. "You're just too cute to try and hurt, or kill. Hahaha. Come minions! To my secret lair we go!"
"What about the Lion?" asked one of the minions
"Don't bother with him! He's outnumbered a dozen of us to one now. We'll see to him later, for now, I have got to try and turn these ponies into my personal slaves! HAHAHAHAHA!"
Twilight, Fluttershy (Who changed back to her original form while still frozen) were scared hearing this, and imagined how horrible it would be to be into her slaves.
Then she, and her hench-stallions went back to their lair, leaving Spike. However, the Mane-iac suddenly turned around to look at him again, and said "If you ever want to come rescue your... friends here, I am always willing to accept an adorable little child to my home, I'll give you a warm blanket, and a LITTLE MAYHEM AS MY PET! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" then she and her minions were off.
"At first, Spike didn't know what to think, whether he should be touched the Mane-iac likes him in some way, or the fact that she was probably toying with him. Either way, he realized that he was missing the point where his friends have all been kidnapped.
"Spike!" Luke called out, running back to him. "Sorry, buddy. I wasn't running away, I was hiding."
"Oh, Luke. It's just you. It's okay, perfectly understandable. The Mane-iac took our friends hostages and is bringing them to her evil lair. She's trying to turn them into her personal slaves and servants!"
The human gasped "Oh mother of god. We gotta do something. You know these comics longer than I have, do you know where she is hiding?"
"Uh-huh, follow me." Then Luke did what the baby dragon instructed, and followed him to a building that looked like some kind of warehouse on the other side of town.
There was a flashing sign on there that showed a beautiful mare getting her mane sprayed with some shampoo or a perfume. "Is this like a... perfume factory?"
"A shampoo factory." Spike corrected.
"Before we try to save their butts, what else can I do with these powers?"
"Well, you can change back to your civilian self, like before you got sucked out of the comic." Spike said. "And like i said before, you have super strength, and lion-like reflexes."
Luke was thinking of something and finally hatched a thought. "I got an idea." he said. Then he willingly turned himself back to his normal clothing, before he got sucked into Maretropolis. His black t-shirt with Africa on it in the red, yellow, and green patter, and his jeans along with his belt. Before he could talk to him about the plan, he noticed Spike looking a little guilty. "What's wrong, Spike?"
"It's all my fault that I got my friends into this mess."
"Don't say that, Spike. I know you wanted a little taste of this world. And show the others a good time as best friends. These things happen, we can fix this."
"I hope the others are not mad at me for this."
"Oh that's nonsense. They need us more than anything. Besides, they wanted to come with you, and granted your wish to be a superhero again."
"Yeah, that's true. You're right Luke. I shouldn't be too hard on myself. I'll just apologize to them when I free them and get us back home
"There you go." Then Luke gently patted his back.
"So what's the plan?"
"I'll create a diversion, you know, a distraction for Mane-iac and her minions, and then you can try to help the others. But first, I'll need a guitar that is not super powerful."
"Ummm, there is one at the shop over there. Wait, you plan to do a show for her?"
"To buy us some time to safe the others while you help the others while nobody else is looking. That way, when you do that, our friends can help us finish the job."
"Hmm, that's actually not a bad idea." Spike remarked.
"Can you fit in an air vent to sneak inside?"
"Uh-huh."
"Perfect. Be careful on the way."
"Thanks, I will." Then the baby dragon waited on the part of the building he climbed on. Meanwhile, Luke went into the music store and looked at which guitars he could borrow. Turns out they were all top of the line for him. Just then he saw a customer with an old guitar, buying a new one to play.
"Well, I won't need this piece of junk anymore."
"Wait!" Luke said. "I'll take it. Please?"
"Really? You want this guitar?" It didn't really look like much, but it was a les Paul like Luke's super guitar, but it was just a plain cherry sunburst color one, it was a certified classic in that color. "Ah, knock yourself out. It's all yours."
The human smiled. "Thank you so much."
"Have fun with it!"
Luke happily went back to the shampoo factory and Spike said he was ready for the operation to commence. "Okay, buddy. Go!"
"You betcha!" Spike opened a circular air vent, and slowly made his way inside of it as a way to sneak inside the unhinged mare's territory. Meanwhile, Luke slowly opened the door, and peeped through. What he saw was a little unnerving.
Mane-iac was mysteriously creating a hair dryer to use on Fluttershy, Twilight, and the others. At first. He didn't know what the hairdryer was for, but after thinking, he knows what is going to happen.
"Well, Power Ponies. I am so glad you can try my newest creation, the Brain-dryer! Mwahahahahaha!" She cackled on and on again. "With this, it will create a line of flux waves directed at you, and you will all be brainwashed, thus turning into my own minions."
"I thought you hate us?" Said Twilight.
"Of course I hate you, Matterhorn. But, I could always use some extra help in my employ." Mane-iac made a wicked smile on her face. "With that, there would be nopony who could try to stop me when the Power Ponies become the mad ponies!! Mwahahahahaha!!!"
"Oh shit." Luke muttered. "I got to do something before it's too late." Then he slowly tip-toed his way inside, being as stealthy as possible. He looked around for an amplifier to plug the guitar into. And couldn't really find any.
Then he kept looking on and on, then he felt something grab the back of his shirt, dangling him from the air. "Whoa whoa whoa!"
"Well, what do we have hear?" It was Mane-iac, obviously busting him for snooping. "What kind of creature are you, exactly?"
"Why must everyone keep asking me that?"
"And what little bobble have you brought me? A guitar?"
"Yeah, yeah. I just feel like playing a rock song and I was wondering if any of you would like to hear it. By the looks of you, Mane-iac, you like hair metal, do you?"
She chuckled "yes, that is true. Aren't you a smart...."
"Human."
"Ah, a human. Well, human, what is your name?"
"Luke, ma'am. Luke Smith."
"Well Luke, it is quite an honor to meet you." Then she gently pressed her hoof against his cheek. "Do tell me, do you have the talents to be a rockstar?"
"Yeah if you all want, I can perform a song for all you guys. Heavy metal!" And he did the devil horns gesture. "The only problem is I need an amplifier for my axe."
"No problem. If it is a concert you want, it is a concert you shall get." And she zoomed in close to his face and wickedly said "before I.... dispose of you, hehehe."
The human gulped, but nonetheless, he said. "Thanks."
The unhinged mare pulled out a large amplifier and Luke plugged the guitar into it. "That's more like it. Hello super Villains!" He said through the microphone.
"Do give me a little taste of rock. I always love a musical number." Mane-iac said.
"Yes, ma'am." Right before he could strum the first note, he was suddenly interrupted.
Mane-iac shouted "wait a minute!" Then she had a closer inspection on Luke's face and body. "Hmmm, yoy look rather... familiar to me. Have we met somewhere before?"
The human felt a little butterflies in his stomach, and worried she might be onto him and his plan. He knew very well that just because Mane-iac is criminally insane, it does not mean she is stupid either. "I promise you we have not met before, Mane-iac. Of course, everyone has heard of you and the way you cause destruction and mayhem around you."
"Guilty as charged." Mane-iac agreed. "And by the way, I would like to say what handsome hair you have." She gently began touching his hair a little past his neck. "It Makes you look like a..... what is the word I am looking for?"
"Handsome lion?" Luke then scolded himself in his head by thinking Luke, what a goddamn stupid move you made! She is bound to be onto you now!"
"Yes! That's it!" Turns out, she still didn't recognized who he really was. "My sincere apologies for keeping you waiting, you handsome human. Please entertain me." And she had a change of demeanor when she threatened "Or else!" And she used her tendrils to form weapons like swords, knives, clubs, and spears at him, obviously telling him she will kill him if he displeased her.
Well, it's time to give the performance of my live Luke thought to himself. He got a glimpse of Spike, successfully breaking inside the lair without anyone looking.
Now that Spike was inside, he could try and break his friends free from the metallic chairs they were restrained in. "Spike!" Fluttershy whispered. "You came!"
"Shh. quiet. I'll get you guys out of here. Luke's gonna create a distraction for Mane-iac and her hench-ponies."
"I hope that will be soon." said Applejack. "This will give us some time to break free from her, and not get brainwashed."
"Yeah, I would rather die than be a slave to Mane-iac." Twilight noted. The others agreed with her and Spike began working on trying to bust them out of the confined chairs.
Luke readied himself and began to play.
Rights for the song go to Guns N' Roses
Mane-iac was also impressed by how Luke could play that axe he was wielding. Along with her hench-stallions, they really liked the way it sounded, like a very angry type of tone. "I think I will truly enjoy this." then she used her tendrils as a bed, and laid on her belly while crossing her arms under her chin while watching him do his performance.
While Luke was playing his amazing guitar skills, Spike was trying to figure out how to get these cuffs tied to his friends wrists off by himself. "Twi, can you and Rarity use you're magic to get these cuffs off of you?"
"No." both of them replied. "Mane-iac put these blasted rings on our horns to prevent us from doing anything." Rarity noted. "And she took away my precious bracelet from getting us out as well."
"Drat!" Spike cursed under his breath. "Okay, okay. I'll see what I can do" at first, Spike tried to pull the cuffs out of the chairs, first Twilight, then Fluttershy, then Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, then Pinkie. "Boy, these are tough locks." and he began pacing to and fro for any solutions to this problem. "come on, Spike, gotta think think think. What would Humdrum do?" then he hatched what it appears to be a plan.
Spike pulled out a jackhammer, but worried that it might be too loud to use, even louder than how Luke was playing his guitar to the villains. He gave it a shot, but realized that it wasn't really loud enough, and he continued. After a little while, he pressed the jackhammer harder the cuffs of each chair, but oddly, to no avail."
"What? that usually works." then he threw the jackhammer away.
"Any other ideas?" asked Rainbow Dash a little impatiently.
"Working on it." the baby dragon paced to and fro again, and asked Saddle Rager "Fluttershy, can't you just transform yourself out of that chair and sat the others free?"
The yellow pegasus sighed sadly "No. I tried to a number of times, but it didn't work."
"It's super-power-proof." Pinkie said.
"Wow, the Mane-iac has gotten smarter since the last time we fought her together."
"Heh, you can say that again." Rainbow said.
"And I take it that she took your lightning bolt as well, Rainbow?"
"Yeah, she did." the cyan pegasus admitted in mild frustration. "There's got to be a way out of these stupid chairs, because this looks totally embarrassing for me. It's a good thing that the Wonderbolts aren't here to see me like this."
"Come on Rainbow, focus." Twilight said. "We are in a very serious situation here!"
"Right, sorry."
Applejack then noted "she also took away my rope and cuffs. We'll have to figure something out fast."
Meanwhile, Mane-iac was absolutely loving Luke's performance, and especially when he got to the slow middle part of the song. Even many of her minions, including the four leading ones, danced to it a little, like headbanging, and forming a mosh pit.
"Oh, such tremendous chaos this is turning out to be. I love it!" Mane-iac said, and she was cheering on for him so more. "This.... child has quite the guitar skills, playing a small hair metal concert just for us."
For Luke himself, he was happy to gain more fans, especially from the wrong side of the law. He only wished that this mare wasn't crazy enough to kill someone.
When he got to the solo, the crowd in front of him was in a frenzy of excitement. All of the evil ponies loved the way he was shredding on that Les Paul. Luke was starting to wish that Slash, Zakk Wylde, or Dimebag Darrell were here to watch him already. For that, he was playing it more proudly than before.
Spike tried many other things to free his friends, a really sharp rock with a happy, but to no avail, and then he tried a crowbar, and it also failed to be successful.
"Wow." Spike panted. "These cuffs are tough. I'll give Mane-iac credit." Nonetheless, he noticed a key next to the giant brain-washer. Apparently some minion was stupid enough to drop it so he can go see Luke do his song. "Oh man. Why am I so stupid to not notice that."
"It's okay, Spike." Twilight reassured him softly. "We make mistakes."
"Yeah, thanks guy. And, I am so sorry if I put you all in danger like this, it's all my fault I got you into this mess."
"It's nopony's fault, Spike." Fluttershy said. "We know how much you wanted some fun to be Humdrum again. Oh! Not that you actually are humdrum of course, but- you know what I mean."
"I know, i know."
"We're not mad at you, Spike. We promise." Rarity said. "Besides, you have saved us from that psychopathic mare once before, remember?"
The baby dragon thought about the first time he helped his friends escape from the Mane-iac the last time he and the others were in Maretropolis. It was not easy of course, but he pulled through and helped them escape from her grasp, and together, they all defeated Mane-iac as one.
Spike felt more proud of himself, and smiled boldly. "Alright."
"Uh, I hate to ruin such a sweet moment like this, but please get us out of here." Applejack said. Just then themachine was about to fire on all six of the heroes, but ultimately
"Oh right, sorry." The baby dragon quietly got th key, and unlocked the holes on the cuffs restraining all of his friends. Next, Twilight and Rarity took the horn rings off, gaining their magical abilities from them again. The heroes who had accessories got them back and were all ready to fight again.
Seeing how Luke was doing so well with the distraction, they all decided to let him finish what he was doing, and take Mane-iac by surprise.
The human himself got a glimpse of them all free and felt like stopping, but the others gestured to keep his song going till the end.
Mane-iac was so inspired and entertained by this little private concert, and so did her minions as well. "Smoke em of you got em!" Luke concluded
"Yes! Bravo, Luke! Bravo indeed!" Mane-iac applauded enthusiastically and wildly while clapping her hooves. "I must admit, you have quite the guitar skills."
"Thanks Mane-iac." Luke said flatly.
"And Thank you ever so much for giving us such a mane raising performance of hair metal. But right now, we got to-"
'Deal with us!" Rainbow Dash said confidently. The crazy villain turned arpund, and was shocked to see her captors free, and Humdrum with them. The hench-stallions were all just as surprised as she was, and didn't know what to think.
"What in the world?! How did you get out of your chairs?"
"You don't need to know that." Said Applejack.
'But, I do not understand." Then she looked at Luke. "What is going on here?"
"That Mane-iac, is what I call, saving the day." The human said proudly. He snapped his fingers at the same time, and he instantly changed back to his superhero suit and helmet, and he discarded the old guitar before conjuring his super-powered one. "Ta-da!"
'Green Lion?!" Mane-iac exclaimed.
"You betcha."
"Power Ponies, go!" Twilight said. Another battle broke out between the heroes and villains, but this time, the heroes were having the upper hand, and it was all fighting sounds left and right.
Luke faced the Mane-iac alone and he punched her on her right side, knocking her down. He charged, but he felt something heavy knock him away, and his helmet flew off. "That was a very clever plan, Lion. Foolish, yet clever."
"I am a clever human."
Luke used his guitar to play energy blasts against her, knocking her radically off-course, into the wall with a loud thud. Mane-iac slowly fell to the floor, and looked really dizzy. Nonetheless, she recovered quickly and growled in frustration.
"Give up?"
"Never! I, the Mane-iac, never give up on anything!" She swore boldly.
"Fine!" Then the fighting became a little more fierce, with Luke dodging more and more tendrils from both heran and tail. Her attacks would only hit Luke a few rimes, but no serious injuries were inflicted upon him. She used another move by using her hair to jab him in a very rapid position, like a sword thrusting.
One by one, the hench-stallions were becoming more and more tired, but the heroes were still a little putbumbered.
"I got an idea." He muttered. Luke created a solo and all of a sudden, many types of animals crashed through the garage door, charging at Mane-iac. It ranged from lions, to tigers, to bears.
"Oh my. That is quite useful." Rarity said. There were also, rhinos, hippos, wolves, elephants elands, tapirs, emus, and other types of wild animals.
"Wow that was so amazing." Fluttershy said. "Now animal friends can help us."
"What trick was that?"
"The call of the wild solo." Spike pointed.
"Heh, that's original." And the fighting and beatings went on. With all the animals Luke had summoned the heroes were all bound to win against this battle.
Fluttershy was even more than happy to have extra help from wildlife. While in her monster form, she smashed many foes to and fro like golf balls in a golf tournament.
"Bah! Enough of this!" Mane-iac exclaimed. She pulled out the hairspray ray of doom like before and sprayed it on her enemies, but it turns out nothing came ot of it. "What?! No, no, no, no, no! It cannot be out of spray!"
"Ha! Looks like you underestimated me." Said Luke.
Furious, Mane-iac charged at him with full zeal, but was immediately thrown back with Luke's lion roar, and she crashed into a pile of boxes. The stallions were all beaten, and so was the Mane-iac.
The heroes cheered and praised each other for their efforts. "Thank you so much, you guys!" Said Applejack. "We don't know what we would be without you."
"Yeah, you saved us, and Maretropolis!" Twilight added
It wasn't long before the cops arrived and arrested all the villains.
While her mane and tail were tied together, she was being dragged away into the police truck. As she was thrown in, she said "this is not over yet! I will get pit of jail, and you will all fave my wrath! I will be back! Mwahahahaha!" She cackled on and on as the truck drove awsy, and her laughter became more and more faint, and then silent.
"Well done, Power Ponies, you did it again." Said the chief.
"No problem." Spike said.
Just then the portal from before sucked them back to the real world, and their superhero suits were gone. All of them were so glad to be back home where they belong."
"Is everyone alright?" Luke asked his friends.
They all said "yes" to him and the human was more than relieved to hear that. It was all he needed to hear.
"Guys, are you sure you're not mad at me?" Spike asked again.
They all smiled at him, and the six mares hugged him warmly. "Don't worry, Spike. We're friends." Fluttershy said.
"That was quite a battle, I feel like getting some ice cream. Anypony want some?" Pinkie asked
All of them agreed with her, and made their way to the ice cream shop. While walking woth his cronies, Luke wondered if the Mane-iac will come back like she said she would, but he decided not to let it go to his head so much.
Little did they know that the comic book just disappeared into thin air, or magical dust. Perhaps the Mane-iac will come back, but that will be for another day. For now, there was peace