//------------------------------// // Chap 27 // Story: Magic Paint Brushes 2: A New Canvas To Paint On // by Ugly-Duckling123 //------------------------------// As Sarah and Eric were fighting the Changelings, Jack was going one on one with Sombra, throwing snowballs at the fake king whenever he could, staying in the trees and shadows so he wouldn't get hit with any of his beams of darkness. Just then... "Hey there, Jackie Boy," Discord's voice begin to sound in the boy in question's head as he jumped into the trees to keep as safe as he could while he was talking to his teacher. "Discord?" He asked hiding behind the trunk after firing more snowballs wondering when the paralysing spell would kick in. "Look, I know I've said all those nice things about you and junk, but you know..." "'That you hate it when I do this' I know I know," Discord said in a 'I couldn't care less' voice and speaking pattern "But how else was I going to tell you about this brilliant plan Little Amber came up with?" After jumping to a different tree to avoid Sombra's magic which sent the one he was just on on fire Jack sighed and replied "Fine... What is it?" "Ok, so it will be using your 'shifting powers' the filly called it and will get a few volunteers to look like you Oh wonderful student of mine," Discord said lovingly. "I'm guessing there's a 'but' or something coming right?" Jack asked firing a few exploding eggs at Sombra since the the snowballs weren't working. "You are correct my son," Discord said. "You see Jack, for this plan to work, we need you to stop using any Chaos Magic you might be using, if you're using any at all and all that and..." "Oh for the sake of Equestria Discord," Luna's voice butted in. "Just tell him the plan already." "Alright, alright," Discord said annoyed making Jack laugh a bit as he dodged another attack getting the 'King' who's firing these shots a little bit annoyed. "A small group of ponies are coming to help, and will be dressed as you," Discord said explaining. "There will also hopefully be something going on with Chrissy. "But since that these ponies are just ponies, they won't be able to do any Chaos Magic, so... so you're not the black sheep in the flock, you can't do any either." "Slight good thing I'm hardly using them now then right?" Jack asked groaning as he got up after a fall from the tree he was just in, looking over to Sarah and Eric seeing a pink bubble around the two of them, Cangelings bouncing on top, as if it were a bouncy castle, trying to crack it a worried, scared Sarah holding onto a hopefully just unconscious Eric. "What's the story with the Queen of no Hearts?" he asked. "No time to explain now Jack," Luna's voice answered "Now, a distraction of some kind needs to happen for your side of the plan to take place." "As you command, Your Highness," Jack said smirking a bit as he poofed up a few smoke bombs releasing them and causing Somba to lose his vision for a bit and hold his attack while he waited for it to clear. When he opened them again he saw seven 'Jacks' in front of him all with a snowball in their hands and before he could even start to try and find the right one, they all began firing at him. "You think cloning yourself so there is more attacking me will make me surrender boy?" Sombra asked shifting his eyes from one Jack to another trying to find the right one as he let his magic build up. "We're not trying to make you surrender..." one of them said jumping out of the way into the trees to be safe. "But it would be really nice if you did." another said shrugging back flipping over to the pond. "Do you think he even knows what 'nice' actually means Jack?" the third one asked the Jack next to him. "I don't know Jack," that one answered "I mean everyone should know what 'nice' is shouldn't they? Whether they are or not right?" "WILL YOU ALL BE QUIET AND LET ME SHOOT AT ONE OF YOU ALREADY?" "And why would we do that?" The fifth one asked smirking at how annoyed the Lord of Darkness was getting "I mean don't get me wrong and all, my lovely voice can get even on my nerves at times, and they can be a bit annoying" he whispered pointings to the others "But if going quiet means getting shot at... I think we should keep on talking. Right guys?" he asked looking around getting nods from the other five around Sombra while the sixth one, the real one was up in the tree getting the run down of Chrysalis' half of the plan. 'You sure we can trust her though Discord?' he asked after hearing the plan eyes on Sarah and Eric in that bubble. 'Well no, not really Jackie boy,' Discord replied, admittedly 'But Little Amber trusts her, and she likes you remember, and you know how these ponies are... Always protecting and standing up for the ones they love.' 'So Cadence and Shining will come here and get Chrissy to follow them, leaving the others to keep playing on Sarah's bounce-bubble... Then Suzy will come in and give them orders to back off.' 'Precisely.' 'Uh huh...' Jack said shifting eyes back to his brothers and Sombra 'Not sure that will work but I'll take help where I can get it when fighting bullies. How long till the Six are ponies again?' 'About... one and a half hours' Discord replied 'Don't know if they or Sombra will let that happen though.' Just then aloud 'CRASH' sounded as the Changelings finally made it though the bubble. Doing with out thinking, Jack jumped down and raced across the field creating two thin, long bladed flame swords and jumped in front of the two who were on the ground swiping at any Changeling who got to close to them. * Over with Sombra, everyone looked up to see what that noise was, and saw the Jack that jumped into the tree come back down, create swords out of no where, and raced to protect them. Sombra feeling the fear that the girl and knight would get hurt coming off him the most. "Finally," he said letting an evil smile come to his face giving the ones behind him worried looks. Before another word was even thought of Sombra discharged his magic, firing it at the six other Jacks around him not caring what it did to them since the one he really wanted, had just so foolishly reviled himself. All because his cousin and best friend were in trouble. The stupid boy. Then turning to shadow, Sombra sleeked over to the other battle field and began to lie in wait for the right time to finish off the boy.