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// Wave 11 
// Story: Pony Floor, or "How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dosh" 
// by The card holder 
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Before either princess could wonder about what was potentially coming any longer, they suddenly found that, somehow, their view was changed to one that made it look like they were flying a bit off the ground, in the other end of town. From the ground, a large creature began standing up. From here, they could see that one of its arms was replaced by some kind of large device, it wore glasses (which one eye had seemingly grown through), and had a tentacle or something coming out of its chest.

"What have you done to my children?" it asked, before standing at its full height and letting out a loud roar.

Suddenly, the ponies both found that their view had been returned to their eyes, and found out that they were facing away from each other due to the confusion.

"Just- What was that?!" Twilight asked.

"The creature, or the thing with our vision?"

"Yes!"

Nearby, one of the humans commented, "Oooh, that's just nasty!"

While Twilight was nearly hyperventilating, Celestia watched carefully as the large creature they saw wandered into view from behind a building. The humans saw it, too, and began to open fire.

Unfazed, the creature began doing something to the device replacing its arm. "One in the pipe!" it announced, before a rocket flew from it and barely missed the humans, hitting a house behind them instead. Strangely, the building was unharmed.

The beast was now sprinting and almost completely invisible, but thanks to one of the humans spraying it with fire, it was still easy to find. Soon, the creature fell to its knees, but quickly got back up and ran off. 

"Help me, my children!" Celestia heard it say as it ran past, followed by the sounds of several of the gray creatures in the area. They were easily dispatched by the humans, and a pair of them started running after where the monster ran.

Leaving Twilight to her panic attack, Celestia took flight and spotted the creature just as it stabbed something into its chest, roaring. Now invisible again, he began running back, just as the two humans rounded the corner. They opened fire, but the creature kept running, only slowing down to punch one of them, sending them flying back. The beast then stood in place as something on his device began spinning.

"Stay there, I'll make this quick!" he said, before firing at the humans. One of them was killed, while the other managed to get behind cover. The creature stopped shooting, and ran forward while invisible again. This time, he got fairly close to the humans before they noticed him, but the beeping bombs went off before he could do any damage. Despite this, one of the humans was reduced to a set of severed limbs from the explosion, even though the others seemed just fine.

Once more, the monster ran off, several lesser monsters appearing to "protect" him. Like before, they were quickly taken out, and all four of the remaining humans began following the monster.

Back on the ground, Celestia walked up to her former student, who had managed to get herself under control. "Feel better?"

"Yeah, I forgot how completely illogical everything else was tonight." Twilight sighed. "What is it about Ponyville that attracts so many weird things?"

Celestia smirked. "We may never know. For now, let's see how this all turns out." 

The purple princess agreed, and they took flight just in time to see a rocket take out one more human, and severely injure the others. They seemed to quickly be brought to peak health, though, and they kept shooting at the oncoming monster. Once more it was brought to its knees by their firepower, and they didn't stop. One of them, who had dropped everything to pick up his fallen comrade's large green tube, aimed it and fired his own rocket, hitting the beast in the back and triggering one more occurrence of slow motion as its body flew about five feet, landing in a splash of blood.

Strangely, all the other creatures just stood still now, and the humans started jumping in place. Then, out of nowhere, they froze in place, some of them still in mid-air. 

That doesn't mean they were inactive, though.

"Money money money!"

"Dosh! Grab it while you can, lads!"

"It's raining money!"

"Cha-ching! Money-money-money!"

All of the humans began launching that bright green money at wherever they were facing, with it either landing on the ground or in another human, where it was similarly launched from them. On the ground, after a few seconds, the money began spinning in place, shrinking to nothing. 

Soon, the cash flow stopped, but the humans remained frozen in place.

Twilight's eye twitched. "...What the buck is going on!?"

After a few more seconds filled with Twilight's ranting, one of the humans remarked, "Knob off, you toss pot!"

And then, just as suddenly as they arrived, they were gone.

Twilight was broken out of her anger as she looked around in confusion. All of the creatures were gone, all the blood was gone, even the metal doors were gone. Sensing that it was all over now, the towns ponies began to head home to enjoy a good night's rest.

As Twilight looked around frantically, looking for some kind of evidence that what just happened had, indeed, happened, she suddenly looked straight up into the sky and let out a huge yell of frustration. Then, a small river of blood flowing from her nose, she collapsed. 

Celestia, who couldn't help but watch silently in amusement, finally let out a laugh. "Oh, Twilight, you haven't changed at all..."

From the center of town, Spike came walking. When he spotted Twilight on the ground, a nosebleed evident on her face, he groaned. "Another aneurism?"

"It seems that way, Spike. She hasn't changed much, has she?"

"Nope." Waving goodbye/goodnight to the princess, Spike began dragging the unconscious Twilight to the library, while Celestia began flying back to Canterlot.

As she was leaving, a single line of small text could just barely be seen out of the corner of her eye...

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