Deadlocked: Avenged
The next trial Twilight and her team faced was the Avenger Tournament, a sequence of battles and challenges that she had to face one after another without breaks to achieve the rank of Avenger, which would allow her to take on more challenges. While at first the depression of 'no escape' started to kick in again, Twilight was able to hold it at bay by convincing herself it was no different than when she had been clearing all the challenges at Annihilation Nation. She was just buying time until a solution presented itself.
The first challenge of the Avenger Tournament was a series of timed battles against waves of robotic and biological enemies. Even with her unable to use her telekinetic abilities directly against her opponents due to concern of triggering the collar, it still went quite rapidly and easily. Rather than take out the small enemies the dropships brought in, she focused on obliterating the dropships as they came in. Since she'd taken the time to tweak her weapons as well as those of Owloiscius and Barb, the firepower she brought to bear was quite heavy.
After that was a sequence of obstacle courses lined with enemies that leapt out to attack them. This proved relatively easy for Twilight, especially since Barb and Owloiscius would warp to her if she got too far ahead, and she was a very small, fast target. In this course, she also discovered that having her battle bots be specialized made for a rather large advantage, as long as they functioned well. Since each bot was given different ability sets, rather than each having all the same, they each had different sets of commands. As such, she'd dispensed with issuing commands entirely - save when she had to send a self repair signal, which was infrequent, or a recall signal to have them back her up - and let them decide their own battle strategy completely.
She had given Barb the bolt crank interface. While she turned a bolt crank with one arm, she kept the other flamethrower going to her outside. This made it so she couldn't be attacked while she was doing so. Owloiscius got the EMP launcher, which he was able to launch at a much greater range than normal bots by loading the ammo into his sniper rifle.
Climbing the Tower section also proved easy for Twilight. Even though she wasn't allowed to straight up fly, the heat from the disintegration fields that covered much of the lower levels was more than enough to create thermals that turned her extra flap of her wings into a huge boost in altitude. Reaching the top of the Tower, the group obliterated the enemies atop, clearing the challenge.
Twilight glanced at the new green tint to her armor. "I'm...not so sure green's my color," she commented dryly. "Well, I guess I'll just have to get used to it...or clear the next Tournament challenge to get the next armor color."
"Now that's the right way to look at it," Ace Hardlight said from the doorway, a covered dish in his hands.
"Ace!" she called happily, turning to him. "I didn't think I'd warrant this much of the champ's attention."
He shrugged his shoulders. "What can I say? Hanging with you makes me feel good about myself."
Twilight chuckled as he came in. "Now you're sounding like Captain Qwark," she joked.
"Oh please don't compare me to that moron!" Ace groaned as he took a seat.
"He's not that bad anymore!" Twilight pointed out.
"And you probably had a lot to do with that, am I right?" When she didn't respond, Ace set the covered dish down in front of her. "Decided to bring you something to celebrate your victory in the Avenger Tournament. Few competitors have ever managed that, so you deserve a special treat." With a grin, he lifted the cover of the dish.
Twilight gasped. "Is that...shrimp scampi?"
Ace chuckled. "Served over angel hair pasta with broccolini, asparagus, roasted red and yellow pepper strips, and a Caesar salad on the side. I looked up your bio, and knew it was your favorites. Told the chefs to make it for me - the champ gets hand prepared food of the best stuff - and snuck it over here for you."
Twilight smiled, tearing up a little. "Thank you," she whispered, hugging Ace around the leg before diving in.
Ace chuckled, watching her getting sauce all over her face. "Why don't we see what's on TV that's not Dreadzone, huh?" he offered, turning on the screen.
The camera zoomed in on a ground bound fortress made of stone, on what looked like a desert planet, or at least a continent. Vox's voice spoke up. "We here at Vox Network know how much our viewers love guns, violence, explosions and bloodshed. But we also know you have a softer side, and every so often, you want a story of the bond between parent and child. ...so we've found a way to put them together!"
The entire fortress erupted in explosions and gunfire.
"See the struggle for survival of hardened warriors who have known nothing but killing for their entire lives!"
Groups in red and blue - who beyond colors, seemed indistinguishable from each other - clashed in war.
"See the tiny infant that warms their hardened hearts!"
"Wuvoo, Dada!" a tiny yellow pegasus said to the camera.
"See her kick ass!"
The same pony could be seen slaughtering several enemies. "Nobody - and I mean nobody - Hurts! My! FAMILY! ...you got that?"
"While still staying just as cute and adorable!" Vox continued.
The camera showed the filly - now older - saluting. "Reporting for duty, General Daddy Sir!"
"And just for fun, some gender confusion drama, because who doesn't like awkward comedy!"
"He Mama!" the filly - now much younger again - said as she pointed to a red wearing, masked warrior wearing an apron.
"Don't miss a minute of this action packed adorableness in...Fortresshy: The Nine Fathers!" The logo for the show appeared. "Only...on Vox Network!"
Ace stared at the screen. "Did...did they just rip you off?" He glanced towards the horned, winged filly beside him, expecting her to be angry.
Instead, he found her staring at the screen in confusion. "That filly...she seemed...familiar..."
"She was CGI," Ace pointed out. "They don't actually have a Pegasus filly to film."
"Oh..." Twilight was silent for a time. "...still might watch it."
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I would love to see you do a fic that actually connects the different pwny-verse stories into one. That would be epic! And I mean the characters from each somehow meet, and they go against the greatest villains from their stories and Equestria. Excluding Chrysalis, unless she tries to take over Canterlot again in your story that has her in it.
Heh, nice. I love me some meta humor. XD
Threw me for a loop when I read that "Vox stared at the screen."... I think you have a typo in there. should be Ace.
Welp, I got a new fic to read, thanks a bunch everyone!! NOW I"M OFF!!!
hmmn, i wasnt going to read Fortresshy...now i might have to...
6284173 SO agreed! Imagine all of the PWNYverse Mane 6 teaming up. That would be kickass!
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If it were to happen, I pity the poor fools who have to battle them.
6284266 But they are going to. Tatsurou is going to do that once all of these stories are completed.
and a Cesar salad on the side
1. Umm... Isn't it Caesar?
Nice chapter, I can't wait to see what Twilight faces next and more of her slowly turning Ace into a better person.
6284318 And it's going to be awesome!!!!
XD clever idea of cameo! Like always good sir!
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
Actually thinking on it, Pyro is so much of an unknown, it could very well be a heavily burn-scarred woman with vocal-chord damage, so broken that she is no longer capable of normal thought.
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It would also explain a LOT about the Meet the Pyro clip.
For a second there, I seriously thought Fluttershy was going to be lumped into this story as an opponent
6284933 twilight would get rekt.
On one hand, that ad seems awfully familiar, on the other, I got nothing important going on today. I am off to reread it!
*Snerk*
BAH-HA-HA!!
6285290 uh... lets think for a minute here....
twilight: alicorn short sweet to the point
fluttershy: pegasus again short sweet to the point
twilight wins
6285290 cept that *This* Twilight has had Ratchet for a father and designes ordinance capable of Leveling Ft. Bumfuk with one shot/salvo on a regular bases, on top of her own combat experience. Not to mention what she did to an entire planet with one burst of magic when she had her breakdown a couple chapters ago, nor that she could always just "Nuke it from Orbit".
Twi in the Fortress-shy story is more or less canon until Flutters gets sent to Australia by accident.
All in all, I'd say they are more or less equally matched, with Flutter's "Perfect Run" K:D Ratio making up the difference between the disparity in firepower that Twi can bring to bare...
Also, I just realized... If this is Re-running Fortress-Shy then this may well actually be the Same universe, and Ace's statement about Flutters being CG may actually be an "ass-umption"... Fuel for the conspiracy theorists out there.
Edit: Spelling corrections, because my Tablet's auto-correct hates me.
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Hey, Tat-tat? Explanation of how, why or WHEN Fluttershy somehow appeared in this story? I thought you said you'd be crossovering ALL of them after you had finished the stories?
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It's the same way Trixie watched "Technological Technicolor Technomare" in "On the Corner of Straight and Narrow".
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... And that reason is?
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Because I found it funny.
It has no plot significance whatsoever.
Consider it a Big Lipped Alligator Moment.
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... Oh, I think I remember that said before...
Okay, looking past it.
Hello fellow Nostalgia Critic fan.
... Or meme lover, whicher.
A Spy on observation? I've heard of him, he's kinda an ass, can't even backstab right...
Shameless plug is Shameless.
I approve.
Your going to use the news about Ratchet being a "Bad Guy" in this story? Like a way of making Twi feel in doubt if this news was true or not?
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Nope.
You forget, Twilight's been there for most of Ratchet's life. She knows how he made his fortune and the like. Working as her weapons tester.
So Twilight wasn't the only one who was sent to a different dimension.
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See the stories in this group.
Just forget that commit.
The yellow Pegasus is real. It's fluttershy. I knew Twilight wasn't the only one who went to Ratchet and Clank's dimension.
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Actually, that's a Big Lipped Alligator cameo. Fluttershy of Fortresshy is not in this dimension.
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Ooh..
Self-commercialism.
This is the second time you've done this. WHY!
LOL, that's one way to market your stories!
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Cause he got no shame?
6290347 No shame, no dignity, and no honor.
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So he is Captain Quark before he reformed?
6290373 ........shoot, I didn't even think about that. But yes. Exactly, but with better literary skills.
Tatsurou, you should go into advertising. You have a knack for shameless plugs that people actually want to go check out.
6287724 Oh, okay, sorry
Keep the good work, pal.
You clever bastard. That FortressShy cameo was GENIUS!
I'm really starting to get a My Little Dashie vibe from this. If there is some similarities to that do us all a favor and don't wipe Twilight's memory at the end... please.
A funny scenario popped into my head as i read this chapter and have such decided to share it.
Discords eye twitched as he stared at the heavily armed Twilight Sparkle. He then slowed turned his head towards Celestia. "JUST WHAT IN CHAOS NAME WERE YOU THINKING BRINGING HER HERE!" he shouted at the Sun Princess.
Celestia for her part could only stare watching as Twilight Sparkle virtually ripped Tirek apart with a large assortment of weapons, all the while Luna sat back in a chair munching on popcorn and enjoying the show.
Didn't she say she was a vegetarian?
6413317 Who participated in a weenie roast at Al's.
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She may not be a pure vegetarian. I know that there are some out there that will eat fish or animal products.
Which makes sense; we humans feed eggs to horses to help with their coats.
After seeing that... PWNY. We need PWNY! Twilight and Fluttershy would be great together with their fascination with weapons! Australium RYNO? I can see it.
Le Gasp* Reference!!! i have read Fortresshy i love the series!!!!!
*Slow but respectful clap* Perfect commercial.
nine fathers reference. don't know how to feel about that