A pink girl with a slightly darker shade head of long puffy pink hair was standing in the middle of an eerie forest of gruesome trees possessing scowling faces on their bark. She wore long cotton candy blue bell pants with pink polka dots around the legs and teal sneakers with a long sleeved dark blue v-neck shirt with playful little designs decorating the waist line and sleeves, like bubbles, balloons and so on. She turned her head straight up as the leaves began to steer with the wind. "Did you find anything princess?" She asked to the descending figure.
"I can see the edge of this forest closest to the east." The woman replied, her golden armor's shine being dulled by the shade of the tree line. Celestia wore plate armor that some what resembled that of the equestrian royal guard though with a more regal appeal, it was gold with silver accents and a sun crest on the center of the chest just below a purple gem at the neck. This armor had no helmet though she still wore a version of her own crown and held to her free flowing celestial hair. "I'm still unsure of where we are but this land is certainly beyond the realm of Equestria's borders."
"You could say that again. This place is way scarier than the Everfree forest." Pinkie said pointing at a tree that then snapped its jaws at her as she recoiled her hand. "Bad tree! No biting!" She disciplined as a pair of lights began to form nearby drawing both her and Celestia's attention.
What was that? questioned Rainbow Dash's voice
Each light began to shape the figure of a man.
You were pulled here in a failed attempt by emperor Shao Kahn to fuse your home realm with Outworld in order to utilize its magic to his own ends. Odds are he has already moved to take the others form your realm. Raiden's replied.
Two men appeared from the lights. The first was a bald plane white man with red runic marking about his body with black pant and leather boots and gloves, a golden amulet on his belt. The other had long brown hair, a goatee and wore expensive looking crimson robes with gold accents.
"Who are you?" Celestia asked in a cautious and somewhat threatening tone.
"OoOoOo. Are you the welcoming comity?" Pinkie asked eagerly "You know, this place is pretty bleak but with the right decorations it'd be perfect for a Nightmare night party."
"No." The pale man deadpanned.
"I am Shang tsung. This is Quan chi. And you will becoming with us." The robed man said calmly.
"Okie doke. Where we going?" Pinkie said about to go over to the strangers before being halted by Celestia's out stretched arm.
"Wait Pinkie, I do not feel these men have our best interest in mind." She warded.
"We'll not ask you again. You will come with us... by force if necessary." As he spoke Quan chi formed a flaming green skull to his hand in warning of what's to come.
"Is that a ball of fire?" Pinkie asked dumbfounded "Isn't that a little cliche? I mean, it's a skull and that's neat but that's overdone too isn't it? It's like that old stereotype that the villien always wants to crash the hero's soul and steal there power and stuff like that. It's really predictable. I mean..."
Tired of the irreverent ramblings of the girl Shang tsung decides close her insensate babbling. With hast he dashes forward his straight sword drawn as he goes to strike the pink one with the handle. Almost instantly Pinkie ducked from the man's attack as if she were watching his through the whole of his motion despite staring into space, in addition his arm was cough by a strange golden light that to enveloped the armored woman's out stretched hand. The moment his hand went limp the power that held him was released and the pink girl, sensing his return attack as his grip once again tightened, belted him in the jaw turning him away from her then followed with a boot to his rear to push him away and over to the accompanying sorcerer. " That was just mean. Why did you interrupt me like that? I mean that's not even a good sword to decapitate with. those are made for stabbing not slashing if you..."Pinkie pie continued scoldings about 'the right tool for the right job' went unheard as Celestia took the fore with a dark look.
"I will say this only once; If you ever attack my subjects again I will personally drag you to the deepest pits of tartarus." Though the furry she had could have said this with less.
"OoOo. You did it now." Pinkie said brimming with excitement as if watching a movie as the men convened.
"Pull yourself together." Quan chi said with a scoff.
"The pink one predicted my attack to easily. And the other one I can control her magic as if it were her own hand. I'll be imposable to take them on together. We need to separate them." Shang tsung grunted as he rises from the ground.
"Humph... Very well. We'll have to settle for one for now." Quan chi said disappointed.
Pinkie and the princess stood at a distance watching the sorcerers conspired, concluding their discussions." Be cautious, stay close to me. There is no telling what these men may have in store." All the time Celestia spoke her eyes transfixed on threat just before the sorcerers made their move. Quan chi shot off a few short blasts at pinkie that she easily dodged with little problem. The instant she was away from Celestia Shang tsung disappeared in a green haze of magic reappearing behind the distracted princess ready to strike. Getting a signal from her sixth sense Pinkie dashed to action passing the fireballs without a scratch shoving the princess out of the way taking an elbow to her back not trying to give her a chance to recover Shang tsung cough her by the back of her neck and kneed her in the stomach to keep her still as Quan chi opened a portal below for him to shove her into. Celestia was just about to sweep her up with her magic having just recovered but was forced to retract her magic before hand due to a fireball directed right a her freely letting pinkie drop through the portal.
"What did you do?! Where did you send her?!" Celestia roared as her rage boiled with a lethal glare.
"I simply sent her somewhere she can't interfere with our battle. Weather or not she is safe is of her own making." Quan chi replied starkly.
"You wanted to face me alone? Cowardly!"
"It's foolish to think that insuring victory is cowardly." Quan chi dissented
"Thinking you will have changed anything with this act is foolish. you have no understanding of the power I weld." Celestia said as her magic's light enveloped her levitating body.
Quan chi went at her with his dual broad swards, a wide swing bringing both at once failing a hit as she vanished in a flash of light appearing behind him. Celestia sticks him iron-fisted in the ribs releasing a blast of magic pointblank blasting him away as a stream of fireballs from Shang tsung fly at her. She intercepts them with a blast of her own, the golden beam destroys each ball and smashed into the sorcerer cousing him to stumble back primed for the second shot so put him on his back. Quan chi returned from his short bout in the treeline, he came at her with his blades in hand, shooting blasts of green fire Celestia blocked with a golden shield of magic light. The shield came down and Quan chi struck at her with a heavy swing. Celestia blocks with her right arm using the other to disarm the blade he struck with taking it for her own kicking Quan chi away.
"Ugh... Impressive..." He complimented as Shang tsung came to his side "Certainly better than most." Quan chi said punching with a blast of green energy as Celestia raises to the air.
"Do not taunt me." Celestia said with a sneer. That instant a flurry of fireballs came from both sides forcing her further up.
As she fled the tide of flames Celestia failed to notice the green pulse of energy Quan chi realest in her path causing her to collide with the blast hitting her clean in the wing. Though she could still fly the stifling wound slowed her significantly.
Taking advantage of the handicapped princess's delay Quan chi and Shang tsung combined their strikes into one huge blast that Celestia had no chance to avoid, all the Celestia could do was try her best to withstand the hit. She brought up her arms to intercept the blast, her forearms taking the brunt she was thrown back before falling to the ground with a heavy thud."We may have over done it." Shang tsung stated as the limp princess slowly stammered to her feet a cold glare in her eyes.
"She shouldn't be able to move with the kind of power we put in that attack." Quan chi said in disbelief as The sun princess gave her wings a slow beat raising to the air.
Celestia lifted her hand with a golden shine as they were about to strike once more the ground beneath the two sorcerers began to shake and rumble and they could see that there were trees and chunks of land moving to the sky with her hand."What is this?" Quan chi said in awe as the princess's hand and the ground it took went straight up and formed a mass orb of tree and dirt blocking the sun from the rest of the wood.
"ENOUGH OF YOU!" Celestia shouted bringing the orb down on top of her foes. As the dust and rubble cleared she drifted down to inspect the destruction. the entire forest in her area was unrecognizable half buried and trampled by tree shrapnel. Taking a deep breath Celestia's hand began to glow as she placed it near the chest of her dirt caked armor.