Episode 84: The Four Fronts (Season Finale Part 5)
Intro:
The Changelings
ErisedtheInkMoth’s Comment
As you and the the Knights scatter off in every direction, the changeling commanders send their respective troops after the group.
“Capture them!” Vicky yells.
“Why would they run brother?” asks Biff.
“There’s nowhere to escape,” Tannen adds.
“Unless…” they say at the same time, before Biff calls out to Vicky.
“Vicky! The knights and the newcomers may be attempting to free the prisoners!”
“We need them if we are to succeed in saving our Hive!” Tannen adds.
Vicky’s eyes widen and Mongo snarls.
“Capture them immediately before Sin arrives, lest the Queen think us incompetent! Keep them away from the prisoners!”
“Can do! Don’t have too much fun while I’m rounding up lunch,” Vicky boasts and gives a smile to Mongo who just nods.
They then break off with their troops, with Mongo going after the Powerhouses, Vicky going after the runners, and Biff and Tannen going after the Elementals.
THE ELEMENTALS
As you run laughing madly with your little group, you briefly hear the exchange between the twins and Vicky.
Good, let them chase us and let Grandbuggy and Jack slip by.
Blasts of magic hit around you from the group of changelings chasing your little group. Solarkness dodges nimbly as he is much faster than you, but he seems to be the only one in your group.
“Where’s Aqua and the Dragon?” you shout.
“He’s got wings, so he’s using them! And he’s got your little water tart in tow!” the timberwolf growls as he hops over a fallen cart and dodges down an alleyway.
Chancing a look up you see the wyvern with the blue unicorn in his arms dodging and weaving in the air while blasts of water and ice leave the both of them.
“Oh sure, show off why don’t ya?!” you yell up at them.
PuzzlingFrost’s Comment
TheRutherford’s Comment
LordSegal’s Comment
With Aqua and Rutherford
“Hey! Watch the claw placement chump!” Aqua shouts as she blocks a changeling blast with a shield of water.
“I’ll have you know I already have a mate thank you very much,” Rutherford says mater of factly as he adjusts his grip on the unicorn and dodges another blast.
“Uh huh, like I haven’t heard that a million times before,” she snarks as she strikes a changeling with an ice blast.
“If you like, I could just drop you,” Rutherford rolls his eyes as he does an aerial maneuver and sends out a blast of water that strikes three of them, sending them plummeting to a roof top.
“You could, but you’d regret it punk. Why’d you pick me up to fly anyway?”
“I thought it would be advantageous being on air and ground, and with two water types together. I’m actually running a bit low,” he says with a cough as his water jet sputters.
“Oh sure, show off why don’t ya?” comes your voice causing them both to lose focus, and two changelings to blast Rutherford in his left wing.
“AAGH!” he cries out as Aqua blasts one away.
Glaring at your form on the ground below, Rutherford says to Aqua.
“And also I’m running low on energy as it is.”
“And you thought FLYING would help that out?” she shouts as a Changeling lands on top of Rutherford and attempts to bite him.
He does a roll and smacks him off.
“I thought it’d be easier with you here!” he responds grumpily.
"It would, except my water is falling to the earth below, and now I'm starting to run low!
"Blast! If we weren't in a damned desert, I could keep going a bit longer!” Rutherford growls as he weaves through four Changelings, trying to follow the course of Solarkness and The Offender.
Aqua then sends out a burst of fog, making a smoke screen, as Rutherford then flies into the City Hall bell and catches his breath.
As the flying changelings search for them, many of them break off to chase after You and Solarkness.
“Alright, let’s go before they overwhelm our buddies,” Aqua urges the panting wyvern.
“Just give me a second, I have to…Wait, is that what I think it is?" he asks as a glint metal catches his eye.
Aqua looks and she too becomes enlightened.
"Yup, that’s a water tower."
And as luck would have it, You and Solarkness are leading the group of changelings right towards it.
Rutherford flies over to the large water tower and lands as quietly as he can on top of it (which is actually not quiet at all, but due to the chaos all over the town, no one seems to hear it)
“Thank the gods! You can resupply and I can get most of my power back, and we’ll have enough for recharges.”
“Or one massive attack,” Aqua points out the group chasing You and the timberwolf.
“Right,” Rutherford nods in acknowledgement. “But let’s recharge first.”
Rutherford then rips open a hole in the top of the water tower (next to some graffiti saying "Bugze Was Here" which causes Aqua to smirk) and uses his water bending to bring the water to him like a large straw and drinks a few gallons. Aqua does much the same, bending the water into some containers she had. Rutherford then burps and turns to face the changelings below him.
"Ah. Much better. Now let's see what we can do about you. How good are you at manipulating large amounts of water?" he asks Aqua.
“I broke Arkhay Asylum buddy, I can dump this thing in my sleep.”
“Very well. Good thing this tower seems to be more of a reserve in case of emergencies rather than the main supply.”
“Run Run Run as fast as you can! You can’t catch me I’m the Hooded Offender!” comes your shout.
“That didn’t even rhyme!” Solarkness growls as he dodges a blast of magic.
“Well we ARE in an emergency, guess this town will be out of luck for awhile,” Aqua resigns.
“I’ll give a generous donation if I can ever get back to my gem holdings,” Rutherford adds.
He then tears the hole wider as he flies into the air with Aqua and they both bend the water with so much force, the tower cracks and loudly.
You and Solarkness notice this and gallop even faster just as the water strikes the ground behind you and the massive wave goes towards the changelings.
“Sweet Luna! Your buddy nearly drowned us!” you yell to Solarkness.
“Yours helped too!” he points out looking up at the pair of benders.
As many of the changelings try to get away from the wave, a majority of them are caught up in it. Aqua then turns the wave into a sort of wall, with the many changelings trapped inside.
"Alright everyone. Chill!" the Wyvern quips as he starts firing a beam of ice at the wall.
You, Aqua, and Solarkness all facehoof/claw at this as you yell,
“Your pun was bad and you should feel bad! Would You Kindly Chill Out?!” you yell giving your own ice beam, making the wall freeze faster.
“That’s not much better CV!” Aqua yells as she starts adding her own freezing.
“I’m the pun master around here, no one else ya hear?!”
With your combined efforts, the wall of changelings freezes.
“Well that takes care of that,” Rutherford says as he does a super hero landing next to you and Solarkness, letting Aqua off next to you.
“Seriously Ford, don’t try to make puns again,” Solarkness says with a disappointed look.
“Oh come off it, it still worked” he rolls his eyes.
“And hey look, we got the twin generals” Aqua says as she points out Biff and Tannen frozen in the ice.
“Uh Oh, that’s not good, they’ve got fire and ice,” you say in worry.
“So? He’s not a bender, so it’s not like using MORE ice is going to help him, and fire guy is frozen” Solarkness interjects.
As if to prove that wrong, cracking is suddenly heard as Biff’s visage becomes more clouded, and the ice starts to bubble outward. On top of that, Tannen’s body seems to wreathe and flame and steams starts escaping him.
“Aw crap,” Aqua responds just as the unfrozen changelings land on top of ice wall and hiss at you.
“Back to running!” you say as you lead the charge away. The rest then soon follow you, with Aqua deciding to stay earth bound this time.
Behind you hear both Biff and Tannen break out of the ice.
“Commanders! What do we do?” asks a grunt.
Tannen grunts and sends out a flame that melts the rest of the ice.
“Get the others back into condition,” Biff orders.
“Then meet us ahead,” Tannen adds.
“We will apprehend them,” they say together. They then both fly towards your retreating forms as the few unfrozen changelings help out their shivering, wet compatriots.
As you all run, Rutherford flies up next to you,
“Alright Offender, what do we do now?”
“Firstly, put up more distance between us.”
“Well of course, but how are we going to take those twins out? Didn’t you say we had to separate them? If that’s the case, which group of two fights who? Because I doubt Sol wants to fight a fire user.”
“Damn right I don’t,” the Timberwolf barks. “So the real question is, who is going to join me when I fight with the Ice user?”
“How about we split into teams we know work. You and your buddy, and me and Aqua,” you say as you run past the outskirts of town.
“That sounds like a plan. Good to have a water user on both sides,” Aqua agrees.
“Exactly, just so long as theirs no more puns from anyone but me!” you declare.
ErisedtheInkMoth’s Comment
Fireheart1945’s Comment
You, Aqua, Solar, and Rutherford slow your running/flying to a stop and turn to face your opponents, confident that you've put enough distance between yourselves and the rest of the fighting going on. You're on the outskirts of the town proper now, mostly surrounded by barns and an area used for rodeos and other town sporting events, so hopefully your fight with Biff and Tannen won't interrupt the rescue teams.
As if on cue, the twins round a barn, and noticing that you’ve stopped running, they start walking slowly and menacingly towards you.
“We offered you a way out peacefully,” Biff says as he cricks his neck.
“But you have all elected the way of pain,” Tannen says cracking his hooves. They both then start radiating Cold and Heat auras as they glare you down.
“OH Bullspit you guys did! As if you would keep that bargain” Aqua yells at them causing them to tilt their head in confusion.
“You, newcomer, are not one of the Knights,” they both say in unison, which creeps you out. “No, you are…you are the bounty hunter who…”
Deciding to try and end this quickly, since you are severely limited in power, you yell out,
“Would You Kindly Follow the Leader?!” and you use the Insect Swarm Plasmid.
Their eyes widen briefly for a moment, and they stiffen, before green flame flashes in their eyes and they scowl.
“You Fool!” they shout.
“You seek to use that cursed power against us?” Biff growls
“You seek to control us and make us out of control with anger as HE did?!” Tannen snarls.
“The Hooded Offender used that against us once, but we will not be slaves to it again!”
"Eh, can't blame me for trying." you shrug.
“Well hah! Jokes on you, this guy is the-“ Solarkness tries to taunt, but you interrupt with a yell of
SnapDrakeGames’ Comment
"Would you kindly eat lightning, you wet blanket!" as you fire off a scorching Electro Bolt in Biff's direction. The changeling uses his ice plasmid to conjure a pillar of ice, blocking the attack, and you give a cry of disappointment as he disappears into the resulting mist cloud as Aqua and Rutherford start shooting that spot with their own ice.
You then turn and glare at Solarkness while saying,
“Ixnay on that little secret. I may have to use it later as a distraction.”
"By the way!" Aqua calls from where she's fighting Tannen, "I find your use of offensive slurs like 'Wet Blanket,' to be incredibly tasteless, and I really think an apology is in order."
“Oh blow it out your flank with that PC garbage Aqua!” you chuckle as you rush forth to help her with Tannen.
"Less waving, more tsunamis, pony!" Rutherford cries as he bodyslams Biff. His brother then sends out a jet of fire towards Rutherford. The wyvern flies above the attack, while Aqua takes the opportunity to wrap the fire twin in a wave of water as you freeze it with your plasmid.
"Did that do it?" In response, the iceberg shatters in an explosion of heat, and Aqua and You both take cover from Tannen's sizzling flames.
“Enough with the freezing already,” Tannen says grouchily.
A few yards away, Biff is able to blast Rutherford off of him and starts skidding along the ground on an icy trail towards the downed Wyvern, until, until Solarkness slams into him from the side, tackling him to the ground. As Solark tries to bite him, Biff brings and ice covered leg up and slams it between his wooden teeth. With his buddy blocked, Rutherford tries to send out his own blast of ice, but he is struck by a wall of flame courtesy of Tannen.
“Hey! You’re fighting us, not them! Would You Kindly Shock Off?!” you yell as you send a bolt of Electricity into the fire user’s stomach, causing him to lurch. This allows Aqua to trip him up with one of her whips, causing him to fall to the ground, but he vaporizes the water and flips to his feet.
Dang, Biff and Tannen are tougher now. It’s not just plasmids they have on their side.
One of the Changeling Knights said something about being Chosen, does that mean anything?
Yeah, they have the Queen’s blessing…which means she gave that to them when they found her.
Your internal thoughts are interrupted as you are blasted from the side and Biff collides into you with Solarkness and Rutherford now being attacked by Tannen.
Crud! So much for the separation plan!
"Would you kindly get set on fire!" you yell, letting loose a burst of glorious fire in Biff's direction. The changeling responds with ice- lots of ice, more than your fire can deal with. In a few seconds your attack has been overwhelmed and you're caught in the frigid path of Biff's Winter Blast, but thankfully you are pulled out of the way by Aqua, who starts melting the ice to add to her arsenal and throwing it back at Biff.
"New strategy, new strategy," you sputter through chattering teeth as you see Rutherford in a beam battle with Tannen, while Solarkness rolls on the ground putting out the flames on his back.
"Would you kindly buck off!?" You activate the Bucking Bronco Plasmid, and Tannen flies up, suspended in the air. Solarkness, his back a bit charred, jumps at the fire user, tearing at the changeling with his wooden teeth and claws.
“Agh!” the changeling cries out as some of the sharp wood pierces his chitin.
Suddenly, Aqua is thrown into the wooden wolf from a blast of Ice, knocking the wolf off of Tannen, who sends out an area of effect move and scorches Rutherford who starts blasting water over himself, but it is frozen by Tannen, making the Wyvern a sitting duck.
You attempt to help out, but Biff releases his own AOE and your hooves get caught in ice on the ground.
“Buck!” you yell as you then notice both Twins charging at you.
“Double Buck!”
You are then struck back by both of their blasts, freeing you from the ice, and slam into Rutherford, your momentum landing you both on Solarkness and Aqua.
The twins then smirk and start walking towards you as their troops finally catch up to them.
“Oh this doesn’t bode well,” you mutter as the four of you stand up and prepare to fight, when suddenly…
“GGGRRRAAAAGGGHHH!!!”
The loud, guttural noise fills the air, causing both your group and the changelings to mutter,
“What the Buck Was That?” you all then look towards the source of the noise as all of your jaws drop.
“Bucking Seriously?!” you groan at what you see.
REWIND
THE RUNNERS
Kichi’s Comment
SnapDrakeGames’ Comment
"Weakest of the group' my flank!" shouts one of Erised’s Thralls as the group sprints from alley to alley, avoiding a hail of telekinetically thrown debris from the enraged commander Vicky. They bob and weave past cover and enemy changelings.
“She IS the weakest dummy,” Candy chides as it dodges a thrown wheel. “Besides, you’re tucked up nicely in that Blue Box!”
“Telekinesis, they said! Simple, they said! Easy!" Snap Drake turns and fires a bolt of magic in Vicky's direction, which she easily blocks with the door to the post office. "They bucking lied!"
“Yeah, what the drunkard said,” Kichi responds as he flies above the group, disguised as the Element of Loyalty.
“And why in the buck are you disguised like that?! That isn’t going to fool anyling!” Candy shouts.
“For annoyance’s sake!” Kichi responds as he looks back at the commander. “OI Drama Queen, aren’t you afraid you’re going to break your hoof polish throwing that hissy fit! What would Number 7630 say if he could see you?” he snarks in Rainbow Dash’s annoying taunting voice.
“Drop that stupid look! And I haven’t been with him in years!” she yells hurling a whole carriage at the group.
“And why is that? Did you trade him in for 8325 or 3922?” he taunts dodging around the cart.
She just growls again and launches a lamp post which almost hits Snap.
“Dude, cut it out!”
“Yeah, just because she turned you down doesn’t mean we want to die faster!” Candy chides.
“Oh please, she’s not my type!” Kichi responds.
“Yeah we know, not nearly loli enough huh?” Snap snarks causing “Rainbow Dash” to snarl and yell back at the Telekentic general.
“And how’d you get into the army? Did you do some back room deals with the recruiters?!”
“Buck You!” she cries out and several windows in passing shops implode.
“Oh right, and I bet Mongo thinks he’s the only one huh?!”
She just screams and even the dirt begins levitating, the changelings follow her immediately hit the brakes as she starts tearing apart the road, and they are smart to do so.
“Seriously! Cut it out you moron!” both of Erised’s thralls shout.
It's like a hurricane, debris flying everywhere. Snap and Kichi run one direction, Candy and Erised in the other, both trying frantically to avoid the vortex of broken carts, tree limbs, and chunks of brick that Vicky is throwing everywhere. Kichi flies up to a roof, and Snap follows up the fire escape, dodging a mailbox and a few AC units.
"Get down, you idiot, we need to stay in cover," Kichi yells, pulling Snap down.
"How am I the idiot? You’re the one dressed as Rainbow Dash. And Cover? I thought we were supposed to run. We're runners."
"Well, trying to run away from Mob Psycho 100 down there, isn’t exactly working," Kichi shoots back. Snap opens his mouth to reply, but he's cut off as a washing machine slams into the roof like a wrecking ball and the building begins to collapse. "I take it back," Kichi screams as he leaps towards the nearest building. "Running's good, running's good!"
"That Hooded Offender is an idiot," Erised’s thrall growls from where Candy and him have stopped to catch their breath. "Putting all the least combat-capable fighters in one group? Sure, we can keep the little grub out there distracted, but not for much longer, and given how powerful the other opponents are, I doubt they'll be able to help us finish this one off."
"So are you saying you'd rather be fighting the Juggernaut or the Shining Twins across town?" Candy asks.
"No, but-"
"Well shut up already! All your complaining isn't being productive," Candy hisses. She glances towards the debris lying around. Vicky managed to rip open the Barber Shop and there's all sorts of stuff lying around. She grabs a case of hair dye and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide. She opens the bottle, then dumps the hair dye in, shakes it up, and flings it in Vicky's direction.
"What was that?" Erised asks.
"Hair dye like that contains metal salts," Candy answers. "When that stuff comes in contact with hydrogen peroxide, it causes a chemical reaction that releases a lot of heat and energy. If it's all trapped in that bottle, then it'll explode."
"How do you know that?"
"I impersonated a Chemistry Major once."
There's a burst of smoke as the makeshift bomb goes off, and Vicky gives out a cry of surprise. Snap, seeing an opportunity, grabs a frying pan and leaps towards the Changeling, who's frantically backing away from the fumes. "Time for breakfast you little-" A wagon wheel catches him in the stomach and sends him flying away.
"Hey," Vicky shouts, "maybe next time don't start taunting until you're absolutely positive that-" The molotov cocktail that Snap had dropped before he'd been hit explodes, and Vicky screams as she just barely avoids the burst of flame.
"You were saying something?" Snap asks, lobbing another molotov in her direction. She growls, snags the molotov in her telekinesis, and sends it hurtling back at him like a bullet.
"Oh buck!" Snap raises the pan, and the bottle shatters against it, the liquid inside bursting into flame. "Ow! Hot, hot hot!" Snap tosses the pan away, and turns towards Vicky, only to find himself floating into the air, then sailing through the window of a bakery.
ErisedtheInkMoth’s Comment
“Oh Enough of this!” Shouts Erised as his thrall steps forward and his eyes glare.
“Suffer Me Now!” Erised shouts.
Vicky chuckles to herself, relaxing her stance and casually twirling the end of her mane around her hoof. "Oh and what are you going to do? You’re the weakest member of your little fan-club Ink Moth, did you think I was the weakest of mine?"
While she monologues, Erised decided to capitalize. His other thralls springs forth at blinding speeds, behind her but just as it is about to sink its teeth into Vicky's juicy backside, some kind of force brings it to a screeching halt and keeps it immobilized mid air.
"What?!" Erised says aloud within the TARDIS, his eyes closed as several Pinkies and other ponies look to him in worry.
"Poor little Ink-moth." Vicky gives a mock pout as she turns to face Erised through his thrall. "I used to hear scary bedtime stories about you, you know? They said you were a revenant, an exile back from the dead seeking vengeance on every changeling alive. Imagine my surprise when I find out the truth: you're nothing but a lowly murderer with a chip on your flank. All you have going for you are fear tactics and cheap tricks."
Erised's thrall spits a gob of ink-blood right at her face, but that too is stopped and suspended in the air by her telekinesis.
"None of them will work on me, I'm afraid."
Hmm, she's skilled, Erised thinks to himself, I'll have to think of something special if I'm going to beat her.
"And another thing," Vicky said, her face suddenly twisting into a snarl as the pressure on Erised's thrall increases, "GIVE US BACK OUR CHANGELINGS!"
Erised begins to feel his grip on the midair changeling's mind begin to unravel, causing him to strain trying to maintain his hold on the one on the ground
“How? How are you doing this?” he groans as his physical body in the TARDIS seizes up.
It’s like she is somehow hacking her way inside the mind of her possessed comrade, diverting the flow of my ink-blood and pushing me out!
Eventually, Erised gives out as he backs the other thrall away from her as quickly as she can, and the former thrall groans holding his head in pain.
"And the others laughed at me when I chose those engineering tonics. Hah! Shows what they know!" Vicky exclaims happily, as she sets her freed soldier behind her, as more start to show up.
“Now then Ink Moth, go run on home to your body,” she says ensnaring the other Thrall.
While Erised fumbles in shock, a hoof collides with Vicky’s nose, causing her to drop the Thrall.
“Back off Beyatch!” Candy declares as she grabs the thrall and runs off.
“Oh why you stupid little- *SPLAT*”
Vicky is interrupted as a pie sails right into her face.
SnapDrakeGames’ Comment
"Hah! Tasty?" Snap jeers, emerging from the bakery with two more pies in hoof and four in his telekinesis.
“I usually say females look better without makeup, but oh man do you need more,” taunts “Rainbow Dash”
"Aaaaaaauuuuugggh!!!!" Vicky screams. Every porch step and lawn ornament in her telekinesis suddenly stops, before darting towards Snap and Kichi. For their part, the unicorn and changeling turn and run like a fleeing ostriches.
"Buck buck buck buck buck!!!" Snap sprints frantically, trying to avoid Vicky's wrath. He leaps over a spinning road sign, ducks below a bowling ball, blocks a hissing cat with a pie, slides behind a trash can in time to avoid a picnic table, and finally lunges into an alley, evading the piano that crashes into the building next to him. He looks up. "Hey! I'm still alive!" A lawn chair smacks him upside the head and he goes down.
"Bucking Tartarus, there! Now are you finally going to shut up?" Vicky screeches. Kichi dropkicks her in the head, slamming her face into the pavement. "Hey, ow-" Candy swats her with a golf club, sending her sprawling away. "Hey, what the-" Erised drops a box of hoofball trophies on her head.
"Buck all of you!" Vicky roars, slamming them all back with a wave of telekinetic force.
“This was supposed to be quick and simple, but no, you guys had to go and throw a wrench into our plans. The longer we waste on you idiots, is time wasted we could be saving our Hive Mates!” she roars as the Runners are pressed up against the side of a building, not able to move their limbs.
LordSegal’s Comment
"Well the show's over, pests. Shut up and give up and I won't have to pancake you between these two buildi- huh?" She is interrupted as a watch lands in front of her on the ground. Before she can ask any questions, it explodes with a bright flash of light.
“AAAHHH!!!” Vicky screams as the light blinds her, dropping the telekinetic hold on the runners.
“Oh Mother Buck, Buck! BBUUUCCKK!!!” she screams as she flails wildly.
The knights look to where the watch came from and see a Changeling waving them over, they follow him as Vicky’s troops finally have the courage to come around.
GreyRebl’s Comment
“Commander!” one of the changelings, a bit out of breath huffs as he lands next to Vicky.
“Stupid, Mother!!! Go get them!!!” she strains as she rubs the tears out of her eyes, and several changelings follow her orders. “What is it?!” she snaps.
“Ma’am, we have a serious problem,” he says worriedly.
“I can see that! I can…” she blinks as her vision returns and she sees the panic on her subordinates face.
“What is it, soldier?”
“Our charge stations! They’ve been compromised!”
Her jaw drops in shock at this.
“Compromised? How?! Did Mongo or the Twins fail to keep their Knights away?!”
“N-No ma’am. Reports say they’re still engaged with their charges. It’s someling else ma’am.”
“Wh-Who? Just spit it out!”
The grunt gulps and forces himself to answer, and what he says strikes a chord of fear into her heart.
“Specialist 117. He’s back.”
LordSegal’s Comment
While Vicky has a small conniption fit, the Runners round a corner, as the changeling who threw the watch flashbang says,
“Come on Knights, you gotta put a little more heart into the battle if you want to escape.”
They all give him a confused look, while Candy asks,
“Um, who the heck are you, and why’d you throw that watch?”
“Oh, you all probably met me under a bunch of different names. We’ve all been spying on you for a year after all, and I got real close a lot of the times. Remember this weird face?” he says as he briefly morphs into an odd, wedge-faced creature.
Erised raises an eyebrow.
“I remember you, one of the mental patients at Arkhay! Broken Watch.”
“Eyup, just an alias. I’m sure your Wyvern and Timberwolf buddy would recognize me if they were here. Heck, I even “Operated” a trinket shop in Vanhoover watching over the fat flank.”
“Well if you were one of the ones spying on us, why did you just help us?” asks Snap Drake.
“Because I’m rooting for you guys, at least for you to escape. I’ll be honest, watching you guys for the past year has been really fun, and I kind of want you to triumph,” the changeling says enthusiastically as he takes you into a hardware store.
“So what, just like that you’re deciding to join our team?” asks a skeptical Kichi.
“Oh heck no. You guys have already lost, this town is ours and we’re going to free my family and friends from that prison. It’d be suicide to join you now,” he says matter of factly.
“Huh? Then what was that flash bang for then?”
“That’s not joining you, that’s just a “Slip of the hoof.” Besides, the fun of you guys running around would have been cut off if Vicky had kept going.”
The Runners all look at each other and back at the changeling.
“So wait, you just want to see us keep running, and hoping for us to escape, but you’re not actively going to help us?” Candy asks in bemusement.
“Sounds about right. I’m not going to betray my Hive Mates, but more “Hoof Slips” aren’t exactly betrayal,” he says with a smirk and a wink. He then grabs a screwdriver off of the wall and starts fiddling with another watch.
“Oookaaay,” Kichi says unsurely. “You’re clearly insane Mr…?”
“Not-Important,” he responds with a smile.
“The heck it isn’t,” Kichi growls back.
“No, seriously, that’s my alias name. Not Important. Ponies are so weird.”
“Yes we are, yes we are,” Snap Drake agrees.
“Anyway, good luck to you guys, just know that I’ll be rooting for you,” he then dives out the window and flies off.
“Hey Guys! They’re over here by the hardware store!”
The four knights just stare slack jawed in surprise before Erised cries out.
“Well that’s just asinine!”
The Runners then begin running once more, some of them taking some hardware equipment.
“I should have just Thralled that idiot!” Erised growls.
“Oh what, just to have Ms. Prissy hack it away?” Kichi taunts.
“I’m weak! I’m sure that if I were stronger…”
“Make excuses later Grandpa!” Candy chides as a Changeling tries to block their exit out of the store.
“Fine! Rend the weak!” his thrall says as it bites onto the blocking changeling who screams out before ink blood comes makes it’s way into the wound, and makes him another thrall.
“Uuuggghh,” Erised’s thrall groans.
“You alright there Bendy?” asks Snap.
“I’m fine cretin!” he growls.
ErisedtheInkMoth’s Comment
On The TARDIS
Despite his protest, Erised suddenly feels lightheaded and weak, as his vision returns to his own body face down on the floor of the time machine.
"Damn it... only two thralls and I'm already overexerting myself. That little witch got to me."
"Mister changeling?" comes a small, timid voice to his right. One of the foals rescued from the saloon stands next to him. "Please get up! We need y'all and the others to protect our town. My Ma and Pa are still out there…”
Erised’s first thought is to swat the kid away with a biting remark, but before he can, the other civilians gather around as well, lifting him too his hooves and keeping him steady. With his changeling senses, he can feel their emotions, their fear and worry for themselves and their loved ones, but also... for him.
“I…I just need some more love. Pink clones, I need more,” he says wheezing.
“We’re doing the best we can,” says Nines as she snuggles one of his arms more rapidly. “But most of the others are helping release the pod ponies.
Erised looks past the group into the other room where green pods are being levitated in, and the Charismatic Guard and several others are prying them open.
"If ya need love, feed on me," one mare in the crowed tells him firmly. "Just please, don’t give up now Mr. Those other three still need the time to save our family and friends."
As others in the group also offer to let him feed, Erised sees something in their eyes, and feels something he hasn't felt in a very long time: a want to protect them. Not for logical reasons like strategic value, but to simply to keep them from getting hurt.
For so long he'd been bitter, wanting so badly to smite his own kind and drive them to extinction for the pain they inflict just to feed themselves, wanting to bring judgment on criminals so much that he became one himself. But after all this time...
Damn you Offender. Damn you for making me want to protect again…
With several of the ponies latching on along with the Pinkies, Erised closes his eyes and slips back into his two thralls, still sluggishly, but the love helps.
"I will Save them."
Back with the Runners
“That’s good to hear ya weirdo,” Candy drawls, “Now let’s get going before Not Important “Helps Us” any mo-EEEP!” she stops as Vicky plops down right in front of them, with the grunts blocking off the back.
“Alright you morons, spill! Who brought the Specialist Here!” she shouts.
Before any of them can say a word though, a loud noise catches both the Runners and the changeling’s attention.
“GGGRRRAAAAGGGHHH!!!”
“What the buck was that?!” everyone present says at the same time and looks towards the source. Several looks of confusion and surprise come across the two groups’ faces.
“Oh you bucking idiots!” Erised growls.
REWIND
The Infiltrators.
GreyRebl’s Comment
In one of the buildings, filled to the brim with captured victims encased in green goo and pods, an artwork of unconscious changelings lay piled on the center of a room. Like a suave and mysterious stranger, an old changeling trots over them with the same regard as grass.
“Can buzz but can’t dance.” Tutting, Grand Buggy shakes his head in disappointment before he casually takes off his bowler hat, showing a bit of manners in the wild western ways. “You always, ALWAYS prepare for a sneak attack, no matter how improbable.” He then flips his hat back onto his head and smiles. “Now then let’s cut off this supply line and rescue the Body Snatched, I wanna see my grandson in action.”
Captain Jack steps in, a pair of changelings on his back before dumping them into the pile with a lackadaisical smile.
“Well we’ve already cleared five buildings, and this one has the most in it. It’s been smooth so far, but I doubt that’ll last.”
“Hmm,” Grandbuggy stares at the great number of cocoons around him. “We may have to set up an ambush here. I doubt they’ll risk their own love to get us.”
Captain Jack raises a brow at that, waving a hoof towards the unconscious pile of changelings.
“Is there time?”
Grandbuggy smiles cheekily.
“There’s always time Jacky Boy, and not just because we have a Time Machine. We got me!”
The audible flap of wings interrupts as Mia, a complicated expression on her face, interrupts the conversation.
“A squad is coming here. I’ll start evacuating as many as I can, but we can’t let the prisoners get caught in the crossfire.”
“Go ahead Mia,” Jack nods before placing a hoof under his chin in thought. “Well, well, They really want us. Must’ve shook them up quite a bit if they’re willing to send that many for one building.”
“Means someling on their side isn’t so blind, but that just means this is one of their primary buildings,” Grand Buggy says. “Easier to defend if their love is all in one place. In other words: Jackpot.”
“What’s the plan?” Mia asks as she starts levitating pods of ponies into the TARDIS door, where the others start freeing them.
“An ambush courteous of me,” Grandbuggy answers simply.
A deep frown crosses her muzzle, a major jump from her loving and cheerful self previously and a testament to how dedicated she is with her job.
“An ambush? We need to be fast, there’s still others to save."
“Exactly, which is why I’m gonna ambush them so loudly, they won’t know what hit em,” he chuckles.
“Well where are we supposed to hide? In these pods? That’s gross,” Mia points out. “I’d have to have Aqua help bathe me to get this slime out of my coat.
Grandbuggy’s eyebrows nearly fly off his head at that.
“Aqua Bathing You? With hot soapy water and caressing hooves?” he asks with twinkling eyes and a nosebleed.
Mia scoffs at this and almost drops a pod pony.
“You old pervert! That isn’t even remotely what I meant!” she blushes while Jack chuckles. “Now get your mind out of the gutter, a squad is still incoming.”
“Oh don’t get your tail in a knot,” Grandbuggy chides as he wipes his nose. “And no you won’t be having to get into the slime pods, you can still bathe later with that bender if you want…but no, you guys just keep loading, I’m gonna go ambush that squad.”
Jack just raises an eyebrow at that.
“Fix, you do know what Ambush really means right?”
“Don’t give me no guff boy, I all but invented the ambush,” he says as he trots over to the building door and kicks it open, causing Jack and Mia to drop their jaws.
On the other side of the door, the changeling squad stop in confusion as an aged Changeling with a bowler hat on walks towards them.
“Who are you? Where’s the rest of the guard for this building? And what were the sounds of screaming we heard earlier?” asks one of the squad.
Kersey’s Comment
Grandbuggy just quirks his eyebrow and says.
“I’m going to answer your questions out of order just because of your tone young lad. The screaming you heard earlier was the sound of the guard getting the crap kicked out of them in the dark. That last answer also answers where your buddies are.” The Changelings all seem shocked at this before they start snarling.
“You are not one of us! You will pay for your crimes against-“
“And to answer your first question, I’m Specialist MotherBucking 117!” he shouts causing many of the changelings to become fearful or shocked.
“Savvy?” Grandbuggy snarks as he takes his hat off.
With a flick of his hoof he causes the hat to fold out revealing a Gatling-style multi-barrel weapon.
"WARCRRRRRRRRRRRY!!!" as his gatling-bowler unleashes a barrage of stun-lasers, striking each and every one of the Squad in the chest.
"Wait, how does he have that technology!?" Mia exclaims from inside the building.
"Quick Fix made some modifications behind the Doc's back." Jack explains.
“Are they even friends?” asks Mia in confusion.
“The Best of the Best,” Jack smiles as he helps put more pod ponies inside.
As each of the changeling’s fall, Grandbuggy deactivates his gattling hat and smirks.
“See, what’d I tell ya? Ambush For the Win.”
While he gloats, a very, VERY terrified changeling under an apple cart, who just watched his squad get taken down almost instantaneously, decides maybe it’s a good idea to run and tell one of his commanders. He makes a bee line towards the angry female screaming and floating debris in the distance.
A Little While Later
“Alright Doc, we’ve gotten what we think is their main storage all piled in. We’re going to do a quick run through the town to save straggler pod folks, but we’ll give you the signal when we’re ready,” Grandbuggy says over a comlink to the Doctor.
“Do hurry Quick Fix! The Buffalo have captured the relay points, and are getting anxious to help their friends. We can see the chaos even from out here.”
“Hold your horses Doc. We’ll be ready in due time. And just so you know, you’re gonna have a heck of a clean up to do on your floors,” Grandbuggy chuckles looking at all the slime on the floor.
“You will be paying the bill Fix!” the Doc harrumphs and signs off while Grandbuggy laughs.
Mia looks to Jack again, who smiles and repeats,
“The Best of Friends.”
“Don’t worry about it Grandbuggy, the bill might just end up being nonexistent just so he can keep you in line,” Nightshade insinuates causing the Doctor to sigh.
“Nightshade dear, can we please not bring that up now of all times?”
“Okay, just so you know I’m going to be eating all of your jelly fillies. OI! Braeburn!” she suddenly shouts as she leaps off the counter and runs up to the recently freed stallion, hugging him around the waste.
“Umm...Hi little filly?” he says not quite recognizing the unicorn version of her.
“Oh right. Well...good to see you,” Nightshade chuckles nervously as she trots past him to go help open another pod.
“Well what in tarnation is going on sheriff?” the stallion asks to the equally confused sheriff.
“We’re being rescued by the Hooded Offender and his friends Braeburn, so I’m guessing we’re owing our lives to Nightmare Moon,” the Sheriff responds.
Before Grandbuggy can say anything to this, the building suddenly shakes from a loud, belching,
“GGGRRRAAAAGGGHHH!!!”
Grandbuggy, Mia, Jack and the rest of the ponies all raise an eyebrow at that.
“What the Buck was that?” they ask.
Grandbuggy pulls down a monitor from the center console and flips it on. What it shows makes many of them gasp, except for Grandbuggy who just starts laughing.
“Well now, things sure got interesting.”
REWIND
The Power-Houses
ThePonySpartan’s Comment
The Strongest of the Knights (Along with Quacksalver and the Unconscious Kersey) Run for their lives as a large group of Changelings chase them.
After running for some time, they come to one of the outskirts of the town, near the Super Market.
Changer blasts a trio of divebombing changelings away with fierce winds, sending them through a building, and as he turns to engage more he spots the Massive Mongo land on one of the nearby roof tops.
“Uh, guys!” he warns with a quick point behind him, causing the others to take a backward glance.
"There's the Meat Officer," Grey says with a glare towards the large changeling.
As if that’s the cue, all of the changeling’s stop chasing them and space out, creating a barrier around the Knights as th huge changeling jumps down to ground level, his body weight making a small crater and shaking the ground like an earthquake. He smiles viciously at the group who all go back to back.
“Huh, guess we’re getting to the boss fight sooner than expected,” Brown Dog guesses.
"Fine with me. Let's get this over with! The sooner the better in my book." Silver says in bravado.
"For sure. I like running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off about as much as anybody, but this is dragging on more than Southland Tales."
Mongo just smirks.
"Don't be hasty. Remember, he's an officer,” Changer warns. “And thanks to Grey and Erised, he's more powerful than us."
"Wasn't my fault! They deceived all of us," Grey defends.
"Speak for yourself," Changer counters. "If I was still a Knight Leader with how I am right now, I would have saved all of our behinds."
"Oh, shut it, you're full of yourself!"
“At least I didn’t give the enemy more firep-“
"Alright, enough arguing!" Brown Dog yells, cutting off Grey and Changer. "We need to take this guy down. Sure, he used god mode cheats, but... um... I’ll have to ask Kichi how the buck you beat god mode but whatever, you get the point. You two are some of the smartest ponies I know but anger makes you dumb, so please! Quit sucking your own d!$#%"
“That is medically impossible! I know, I’ve tried,” responds Quacksalver.
Changer and Grey sigh with frustration.
"Fine!" Changer gives in. "Our main target is Mongo, but those changelings will be a problem. Every unfair boss fight has assists."
"So then we'll have Brown Dog lock horns with him while we support. If anything gets bad we'll retreat and come up with something else,” adds Grey.
“Whoa, wait a minute, I know I’m strong but that dude looks like a dang tank,” Brown Dog points out.
"Agreed, we need to wait and see what we're up against. His body is so large I don't even know if we can damage him properly,” Silver points out.
"Then, sadly, we'll have to get a little dirty before our onslaught upon them to see what we’re dealing with,” Changer groans
"Remember what the Offender said, no big injuries or killing." Silver responds.
"Yeah, yeah..." Grey smirks and begins doing what you never do in a fight against someone stronger than you: taunt.
“So buddy, how’s the family jewels? Pathetically small or nonexistent thanks to your roid addiction?”
Mongo snorts as his face burns red he charges along with the changelings all around the powerhouses.
"Bring it!" Changer taunts.
“You’re all gonna have a Bad Time!” Silver jeers.
"WITNESS!!!" Brown Dog cheers with a raised arm.
BrownDog’s Comment
With that raised arm, he grabs a changeling out of the air.
“I’m gonna beat a motherbucker with another motherbucker!” he yells goofily as he starts whacking Mongo in the head with one of his troops. This causes the behemoth to slow down as he tries not to hit his own team member.
“I’m sorry sir! It’s not my fault!” the bludgeoning Changeling cries out as he struck against his commander’s nose.
“This isn’t assault! It’s insubordination!!!” Brown Dog laughs madly.
While he’s distracted, Changer uses Wind Magic on the general, who isn’t even fazed, but Brown Dog’s clubling is blown out of his paws. He looks from his empty paws to Mongo and chuckles.
“Um…It was just a prank?”
Mongo only responds by throwing a right hook at Brown Dog, who attempts to block, but the force still hits him like a train and sends him crashing into the SuperMarket.
“Ugh, like getting hit by a freaking mountain,” Brown Dog winces as he holds his side watching as the other Powerhouses fight and run into the sizable hole he made.
He sees Changer dodging and flinging magic at Mongo, as Grey, Silver and Quack all scatter into the store.
Looking around Brown Dog finds himself in the food aisle.
“Well, better arm myself then…”
He then starts pelting Changelings with boxes of cereal and other food items as he runs through the store, grabbing several items that he keeps.
“We Gotta Keep Moving Guys!!!” he yells as Changer and Grey are knocked into the store as well.
“Yeah no crap!” growls Grey.
“How you holding up Spartan?” he asks as he climbs up onto a food rack.
“How do you think?!” Changer growls further in the store.
“Like sunshine and rainbows no doubt!” Grey yells even further into the store as he and Quacksalver run into a group of 10 changelings.
Kersey’s Comment
"This pony has a seriously bad case of Fatitis," Quacksalver says referring to the still sleeping Kersey on his back, "I need to get the adipose tissue away from his awake-agens via manual circular centrifuge!"
"What are you even babling abou- WOAH!" Grey Rebl yelps and ducks Quacksalver grabs one of Kersey's limbs with both hooves and starts swinging him around in a circle, using Kersey's massive size to accidentally knock away changelings.
“How are you even doing that?” he asks.
“Silly Pony, when you’re drunk enough, you can do ANYTHING!!!”
He then lets go of Kersey’s body which lands on a shopping cart and rolls down an aisle right between Mongo and Changer, which allows the Unicorn to dodge an attack.
ThePonySpartan’s Comment
Changer dodges another punch from Mongo and sends another fire blast from his book. Not charged enough for a dragon, but enough for fireballs, it sends out a flame that strikes Mongo in his chest, which only serves to make a smoke screen.
Well he’s not a smart fighter with all that strength. He's punching where I am instead of where I'm going to be, but still, he’s fast! Changer analyzes as a lawn chair is thrown out of the smoke striking him in the horn.
“AGH!” he cries out from the sensation as Mongo rushes out, no worse for wear.
Brown’s right. He IS a tank! I can’t let him hit me.
As Changer dives under one of the punches, a changeling subordinate strikes him with a magic blast which hurts, but it has the added benefit of throwing Changer away from one of Mongo’s hits.
Grr, I’m going to have to get more violent if we stand a chance, he thinks as he sees Grey across the store dual wielding mops and striking Changeling’s in the throat.
He pulls out his ice book and sends out an ice beam, which Mongo blocks with one of his hooves encasing it…for about three seconds as he smashes it on the ground with ease.
“Well, I guess Rutherford wouldn’t have fared so well in this fight,” Changer mutters as he puts the book away and strikes a grunt in the face.
He then teleports further away from the charging officer.
“Distance, distance is key,” he mutters. To prove this point, Mongo picks up a barrel of peanuts and throws it at him like a missile.
“Clean up on aisle 4!” Silver cackles as he slams a wall of bones into some changelings attempting to attack Changer from behind.
“Really?” Changer groans at the pun.
“You come up with better!” he says as he sends out a bone projectile at Mongo who just punches it out of the air.
“Blunt objects don’t seem to work…cover me!” he orders Changer who sends out a volley of bones, keeping Mongo’s attention.
Changer, keeping his body low to the ground, takes out his wind book and makes a wind sword with a yellow handle.
Then, with great precision, the unicorn slices the sword at Mongo's back leg, which draws blood, and causes the behemoth to wince in pain, long enough for a volley of bones to strike him in the face.
Without giving him time to steady himself, Changer takes out his other two books before aiming all three at Mongo and firing flames, ice, and sharp winds respectively.
"Elemental Force!"
Mongo is encased within the light of the three books and growls in annoyance. As Silver sends out another volley of bones, Mongo grabs one and side swings it, striking Changer in the chest and tossing him into the bakery shelves.
The books fall to the ground, as Mongo crushes the magic bone.
“That…that shouldn’t be possible!” Changer groans. “You can’t CATCH a magic construct!”
Mongo just smirks as he raises his hooves above Changer, but stops and yells as a bottle of hot sauce hits the cut on his leg.
“Spice to meetcha!” Brown Dog laughs as he rolls past Mongo on a shopping cart, picking up Changer along the way.
"You okay buddy?" Brown Dog asks with concern in his voice as he hands Changer back his books.
"Better now with some backup. Those plasmids are bullspit!" Changer growls.
"They sure are bud,” Brown Dog agrees as he crashes into three changelings with the cart. “But still, no one can handle hot sauce on a cut."
"Precisely. We won't be able to damage him without reaching his vital points and internal parts. But even still, his hide is thick. My wind sword should have been able to sever his leg, not just cut it!"
“So cutting big boy is tough but viable?” asks Brown as he grabs a punch of pies and shoves them into the cart.
“Yes. If worse comes to worse, I could use my specialty to cut him, but that would leave me drained,” he explains.
“You mean the bone arms?” asks Brown Dog.
“Yes.”
“I actually have an idea about that *CRASH* they are interrupted as a free sample table is thrown at them. “But I’ll tell you later,” he panics as he takes another aisle away from Mongo, which just so happens to have fireworks.
Smiling, Brown Dog grabs a fireworks launcher, just as Mongo bursts THROUGH one of the shelves.
“Get your sword now!” he orders Changer as they crash the cart into Mongo.
Kersey’s Comment
"Explosives are NOT a close-quarters weapon you idiot!" Changer yells as he gets up off the ground behind Mongo.
"And brownies are NOT meant to make you see rainbows, what’s your point?" Brown Dog asks getting back up, "Now hopefully that will give us some time to…"
The smoke clears, and aside from some comical soot on his face, and two tiny scratches on his cheeks, he isn’t even fazed.
“Or we’ll have less time to break the land speed record,” he then throws another pie in Mongo’s face. “Run!” the diamond dog yells, as he and the unicorn sprint for dear life.
They run into the home and kitchen section, and find Grey and Silver mopping up (pun intended) a majority of the Changeling grunts.
“Dang, they’ve been more productive than us,” Brown Dog comments, as Mongo’s roar sounds behind them.
GreyRebl’s Comment
“Hey, Grey.” Brown Dog asks, “Still have plenty of detergent?”
The janitor growls back, suplexing a changeling,
“Of course. Why?”
“We are gonna give this bozo a bath,” he responds pointing to the pool section.
“A Bath?” asks Changer and Silver.
“Yeah, if he’s covered in suds, his punches won’t hurt as bad, they’ll slide right off.”
“That’s…actually not bad reasoning,” Changer relents.
“...I’ll throw in bug repellent,” Grey says with a smile.
“Hah! Got some humor in you after all!” Silver jeers.
“But he’s right behind us,” points out Changer.
“Hmm…”
Kersey’s Comment
“Hey Doc, go make yourself useful and hurt the big guy trying to kill us,” orders Silver.
"But I'm a Doctor! I made an oath to do no harm!" Quacksalver says while bonking a changeling over the head with a mallet.
"He’s got face injuries, you should go treat them,” urges Changer.
"Oooooh. That works."
With a yell, the insane drunk doctor rushes around the corner just as Mongo rounds it and jumps on his face, causing the changeling to shake around like a cat with a paper bag on it’s head.
“Be still! Your injuries require lots of antiseptic!” he yells as he dumps alcohol into Mongo’s eyes, causing him to roar.
With this distraction, the others run to the Pool section.
“You are so angry and beefy! Perhaps you are suffering from-“
*WHAM*
Doctor Quacksalver is cocked in an uppercut that sends him sailing across the store and into one of the display Jacuzzis.
“Hiiii, everypony…” he mutters as he dazes out.
As Mongo leaps over the many aisles, landing in front of Quacksalver, he suddenly slips as his hooves hit the soapy floor and he goes face first into the hot tub.
Growling, he takes his head out and shakes it like a dog, just as yet another pie strikes the side of his face, causing him to growl again.
GreyRebl’s Comment
SnapDrakeGames’ Comment
BrownDog’s Comment
Kersey’s Comment
“A very good improvement to your mug I’d say,” Silver taunts as the giant changeling wipes the pie off his face. Mongo clenches his teeth and leaps at the much smaller changeling, but Silver is able to dodge by propelling himself backwards with his bones.
Growling, the he continues to chase the Sanssational Knight, deeper into the pool aisle.
“Say, did I ever mention that you stink?!” Silver taunts. Before Mongo can grunt any anger, Silver launches himself straight up onto the ceiling while yelling,
“Have fun showering DO IT NOW GUYS!!!”
Mongo looks up from the ceiling to the other three Knights to the sides of him who each tip over a pool of water onto him.
“Eat Tide, you filthy sack of insect flesh!” Grey Rebl shouts!
Mongo roars as the acidic waters of Tide detergent and bug repellent burns his eyes. All the while he stumbles and sputters, the Powerhouses finally engage.
“Get Him!” Brown Dog shouts, “To heck with this one-at-a-time nonsense!”
Changer launches overcharged spells, Silver grasps the pools in his magic and batters him with them, Brown Dog clobbers the underside of his jaw with a bottle of beer in one paw, and Grey in particular dances around the soapy water, at home with the cleanliness of motherbucking Tide like the slippery janitor he is.
The janitor laughs ecstatically. “NINES IS RIGHT! THIS IS TOTALLY A SWEET DEAL!”
He charges Mongo, his mop whirling like a staff. He hits fast and hard- a swipe to the changeling's head, a smack upside the chin, a jab in the stomach, another whack in the face, a jab at the- Mongo catches the broom, completely unfazed.
Spitting out soap bubbles, Mongo lifts the mop, with Grey in tow and slams him into Brown Dog, before tossing the him away.
“He just beat a motherbucker with another motherbu-*WHAM* ” Brown Dog is punted right in the face, cracking one of his lenses and cutting his eye, and sending him flying after his friend.
“Son of a Bitch! Those were my best pair you roided out bucker!” he yells in pain.
“You can get new ones,” Grey says while he hypocritically cradles his scuffed mop.
Silver Strange and Changer leap forwards, one on each side of Mongo, and they light him up, Changer with a sweltering vortex of flame from his red book and Silver with the blazing beam of a Gaster Blaster. Mongo completely disappears within the blinding light of the attacks.
“Don’t let up! Keep the magic fluid so he can’t grab any-AGH!” Changer yells as Mongo’s hoof comes out of the flames, grabs him by the horn.
“What did you just s-AGH!” Silver is cut off as well when Mongo’s other hoof grabs his horn. He then slams the two against each other with a loud smack several times, before then tossing both of them away.
With a war cry, Brown Dog leaps onto Mongo's back. He slaps his two fists together on Mongo's head, trying to disorient him. Mongo is undaunted. He jumps up and flips over, crushing Brown Dog under him. He jumps up again and lands on Brown a second time, this time hooves first. Crunch!
“HOOO…there goes a rib…” he writhers in pain.
Changer gets back up to help his friend a book in either hoof. With a green wind tome and a blue ice one, he performs a combination spell, creating a frigid wind that tears at Mongo, ice creeping up his sides.
“Try to cut him for the gods’ sakes!” he yells.
Silver appears behind Changer, and with a few hoof gestures sends a barrage of sharpened bones slamming into Mongo's sides, causing him to finally yell out in pain.
“And there go some of his ribs…hopefully,” Silver taunts.
As Mongo groans, Changer whips out his air sword, and rushes forth, piercing a bit into one of his already pierced sides.
Brown Dog from below takes the opportunity to latch his jaws around Mongo’s gut and start gnashing.
As the big changeling rears his head up to roar, Grey leaps forth and shoves the mop handle down Mongo’s throat, cutting him off as he starts gagging.
“Keep at it, we’ll have him clean in no time!” Grey chuckles.
Pierced all over, Mongo snaps his jaw shut, breaking off a bit of the mop.
“NOOO!!!” Grey screams in sorrow as the massive changeling grunts, then shoves his hoof into the ground, ripping out a huge chunk of the floor and arc swinging it into Grey and Silver, who get knocked for a loop and sprawl to the floor. Changer teleports out of the way of the swing right next to Mongo with a lightning spell ready to go, but Mongo gives him an almost casual looking backhand and sends him sprawling away again.
He then jumps and slams himself against the floor, crushing Brown Dog again who promptly stops his biting.
“Ooooowwww…” he groans as the changeling picks him up by the neck. Thankfully, Grey vaults over Mongo and jams a bucket onto his head. Mongo gives a start, his head darting back and forth, but he gives it a few whacks with his half eaten mop, disorientating him.
But instead of him dropping Brown Dog, he delivers a crushing headbutt to the diamond dog’s face, a hit so hard that it shatters the bucket and leaves Brown even more bloody and bruised.
“What a great bucking rescue!” he moans.
Mongo just grunts before looking at Grey who gives a nervous yelp.
"Hey, now come on, we can work this out peacefully-" Mongo golf swings him with the diamond dog, and he goes spinning. He then bowls the dog into Changer and Silver as they attempt to get up, right into a line of shopping carts.
“This is bucking impossible,” winces Silver as he holds a cut on his head.
"He's the juggernaut bitch..." comes the unconscious ramblings of Kersey who is in one of the carts.
“Oh great, he’s still alive. Just what I wanted in life,” Silver growls his face swelling.
“And we’re not even gonna die clean,” Grey bemoans, his coat covered in dirt, blood, and food, and several of his teeth broken.
“I AM going to die sober, just like the gyspy pony said,” Brown Dog cries.
“No you’re not!” Changer reassures holding his previously broken leg, which seems to be injured again . “We still have options. We can still-“
“Oh right, duh!” Brown Dog facepaws, and winces since he hits one of his cuts.
Mongo sneers at them and menacingly walks towards them.
“Buy me some time, and Guys, whatever happens next, you all were my best friends,” Brown Dogs says fearfully.
“What are you going to do?” Grey asks as Changer and Silver rush at Mongo who keeps walking despite their magic.
“Quite possibly the dumbest thing in my entire life.” The Diamond Dog then hauls himself into Kersey’s cart and sits on him as he whispers into the fat flank’s ear
"Kersey, you're a fat, pathetic, fat, paranoid, fat, control freak with stupid ideas and even stupider explanations that we all ignore. And did I mention that you were fat?”
“Aaaagghh, *Snort* BWAH!” the big pony sits up, finally waking up at the insult to his image.
“May the forgotten gods have mercy on us all,” Grey mutters as he rushes off to distract Mongo.
“What?! Who’s insulting me? What’s going on?! Where the buck am I? Where are my glasses? Wh…BROWN DOG?!!!” he yells as his eyes finally focus on the diamond dog sitting on his chest.
“Hey good buddy, long time no see,” Brown Dog jokes.
“Why the buck are you sitting on me?!” he roars.
“You took up the whole cart, where else was I supposed to sit?”
“Why am I in a shopping cart?!” he is interrupted as Grey is thrown over the top of them. “What the buck was that?! I can’t see a damned thing!”
“Hurry up Brown Dog!” Changer yells as he teleports out of the way of one of Mongo’s strikes.
“Was that that Spartan idiot?! I bucking hate that guy! Why is he here?!”
“That’s good, get mad buddy, get really mad!”
“You can’t tell me what to do you no good mangey mutt! Why I ought ta-“
Kersey then starts cursing and swearing and ranting, but nothing else happens.
“Just do it already!” Silver yells. Sighing, Brown Dog decides to bring out the big guns.
“And your kind should be rounded up and-“
“KERSEY! Guess what?! I’m the leader of the Crimson Knights now!”
Kersey stops his rant with a choke.
“WWWHHHAAATTT???!!!”
“Eyup. Who could’ve seen that coming huh? I mean, I’ve always been better than yo-*WHACK* Oh Come On!”
Brown Dog is knocked off of Kersey by Mongo, the others scattered and groaning, but Kersey doesn’t see the massive changeling. He’s blind not only from lack of glasses, but from anger. His inferiority complex has finally kicked into overdrive as he gives a blood curdling roar,
"BROWN DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG!!!"
Suddenly a giant green mass explodes outwards in size knocking Mongo back into the Diamond Dog.
"Holy Crap!" Grey Rebl exclaims
“GGGRRRAAAAGGGHHH!!!”
Kersey roars as he grows, catching every ear in the town, his head going through the supermarket ceiling…and he stops there, the size of a building.
Mongo’s changeling grunts that decided to wait out his rampage look at the giant pony aghast.
“I thought you said he was like five stories tall back in Vanhoover!” Brown Dog shouts.
“He was! But the Ink Moth said there was only so much left remember?!” calls back Changer.
Mongo gets up off of Brown Dog and looks at the giant with a quirked eyebrow.
Taking the opportunity, Brown Dog climbs onto his back and yells.
“Yoohoo! Hey Buck Face! Come and Get Me!”
Blind without his glasses, the giant pony looks down at the brown shape where the diamond dog’s voice came from.
“GGGRAAAAGGGHHH!!!” he yells as he kicks at the shape, at the last minute Brown Dog dives out of the way and Mongo is kicked out of the building and into the streets.
Looking from Changer to Silver and Grey, Brown Dog says.
“Welp, I’m gonna go run for my life and make a nuisance for Changelings. You’re all welcome to join me. If not, see ya back at the TARDIS...maybe... WOO HOO WOO HOO WOO HOO!!!”
He then begins wheeling a shopping cart out into the streets past Mongo who gets to his hooves.
"GET BACK HERE! I'M NOWHERE NEAR DONE WITH YOU!!!" Kersey roars as he charges after Brown Dog in a blind rage barreling into Mongo and the Changelings as he chases him.
With every head turned toward the building sized pony shambling through town, Mongo does the logical thing and chases after him with the rest of his troops.
The Powerhouses look from each other and back.
“Well…that’s a thing we did,” Silver mutters.
POV CHANGE: Bugze (You)
You stare at the Kaiju Kersey who has already been unleashed.
“I thought I told those idiots weapon of last resort! Last Resort!”
What Do You All Do?
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Xamot and Tamox from the original 1980s G.I. JOE might work for the twins;
As for Vicky... maybe the Vicky from Fairly Odd Parents?
If I ever appear as character again in the series, can I ask that I remain basically as a hooded Nobody, but otherwise have similar powers to Sora from Kingdom Hearts 2 (Such as the ability to change between normal, Wisdom, and Final Form, etc) and armed with the Keyblade?
Anyway, getting off of myself...
As the others lure Kersey into wreaking mass destruction on the changeling army, you continue your mission, grumbling a bit, but fixated on the immediate enemies. Since you can still use plasmids, continue to utilize fire attacks (you’re a pyromaniac anyway) and break their resistance. Find and get to Sin and take her alive; she is the only one present who can remove that evil trinket and free your powers.
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I was thinking the twins from Ouran High School Host Club. Definitely Vicky for Vicky, and Mongo would probably be Asteroth from Soul Caliber.
I feel like Zecora should have been brought on the Tardis too, because she’s one of our best friends and is arguably the most trust-worthy. Then again, she is apart of the canon story.
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Honestly Mongo is Mongo from Blazing Saddles, even if he can’t speak any more. I got nothing for the others.
In reaction to Kersey (After the rest of the Elemental Team say their bit.)
Rutherford: “And here I thought he couldn’t get any uglier...”
Rutherford’s words are cut short by Tannen’s flame barely missing him.
Tannen: “Don’t ignore us. We are your primary concern.”
Tannen launches another fireball towards the wyvern.
Later on in the elemental fight.
As your group keeps fighting the wonder twins, you see a brown blur race by.
Brown Dog: “Sorry gotta go bye!”
You can see Kersey still chasing the diamond dog when the four of you all say: “Lightbulb” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfqqpvPXGHo
Rutherford sprays a large amount of water a few paces in front of Kersey, making a large puddle.
Bugzy: “Would you kindly slip up” You and Aqua start causing the puddle to become frozen solid. As Kersey steps on it, he begins to slip. Solarkness, causes some vines to shoot out of the ground and helps trip the large pony, who falls agonizingly slow on top of the twins, who can only stare in shock and horror as the last thing they see is fat rolls rolling towards them.
(I need some help with a good one liner here)
Powerhouses
Kersey chases Brown dog through the town breaking through buildings to get Brown dog. But gets stuck on a wagon and trips.
“Get back here you dumb mut!” Kersey roars
“"I'm a pure breed you fat lard! Wait am I? Momma brown dog never told me who my daddy was.”
Before Brown dog could contemplate further he turned the corner to see a squad of 20 changelings stare him down.
“Stop right there scum! We've got you cornered!” Yelled the lead changeling. Brown dog ignored them as he jumped over them using their heads as a walkway.
“Scuse me (ow!), pardon me (hey!) , oopsie daisy (watch it!) ,hey don't I know you? (Doh!)”
As he jumps off the last changeling he runs off down another corner out of their sight.
“Get him you idiots!” Yelled the lead changeling.
But before they could give chase they hear a roar, “BROWN DOG!!!!!!” , and turn around to see kaiju kersey barreling toward them. One changeling gives a flat look and says
“I don't get enough love for this.”
Kersey then charges through them like bowling pins not even noticing them. The lead changeling now knocked through the air yells “I hate Monday's!”
Cut to Rutherford’s comment
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In Kersey’s blind rage, he suddenly mistakes Mongo for BrownDog when he is covered in Brown paint. Kersey reaches him and proceeds to repeatedly stomp on him while shouting out words of rage each stomp. However after around twenty stomps Mongo manages to throw Kersey away...and right on top of Vicky...
As the twins are distracted by the pony giant version of the Blob, you manage to sneak behind them and stick the Boom Stick in between to of the holes on their bodies. They look at you in shock before you say,
“You know I have no Idea what’ll happen if I activate this nifty staff while it’s like this. You’ll both probably blow up, so since you both don’t wanna end up as bug spatter how about you stand down and surrender?”
This goes about as well as you’d expect.
I have no clue what the Twins voices, but I’m with everybody else with giving Vicky Vicky’s from The Fairly Odd Parents. Maybe someone can sing that Chip Skylart song huh?
You're about to pounce on Biff, but you suddenly stop mid-air.
"What?!" You say in shock.
What's happening? Selena asks, equally curious.
"I see you're in need of help my good friend."
You'd recognize that voice anywhere. You turn and stare at the figure of Discord.
"What are you doing here?" You ask. "I thought you couldn't-"
"Oh, what can't I do HO? I'm Discord!" He cracks his knuckles. "I thought you would have learned that by now."
"But you said you wouldn't-"
"Interact with you? Oh, yes I have but I suddenly grew the urge to help an old friend." He gives you a look you thought you would never see from him. A warm friendly smile, one Fluttershy would give.
Then, he turns to a changeling. "I'll take care of Icky Vicky for you. You just focus on the rest of these bugs." Before you can say anything, he flashes away.
Selena sighs. We'll talk to him later, anyways we should-
"Hoody!"
You turn, wide-eyed at the voice. "Fluttershy?"
There you see her along with the Deadly Six right behind her.
"W-wha..."
"Bugze, we're here to help!" Twilight tells you.
You just stare at her in shock and confusion.
"And we also know that Nightmare Moon isn't evil anymore. Also that her name is Selena, please pardon me Selena." She says staring past your eyes.
...
"Who- what- why-"
"Discord told us! And he also said Trixie is suicidal, we know it wasn't your fault." Rainbow Dash said.
"And we're awfully sorry for how we treated you. Especially since you're our good friend, B.S. bucking T." Applejack said.
"Yeah, me and Flutters told them your alternate identities... Like El Hunko."
You hear a faint yelling coming from Flash Sentry."
"My brother and Cadence is destroying the dome this second, flash is with them." Twilight said with a smile.
"And we're here as well."
You feel two precences as you turn and see the two alicorn princesses.
"What the buck... What's going on!" You yell.
"Here!" Celestia says with determination while levitateing a box towards you. You open it to reveal the Elements of Harmony. "They have chosen you! As their new holder use it's power to defeat all the changelings!"
"Sister, we must hurry! Chrysalis approaches."
"Wait!"
They don't hear you and instead turn to fly away.
"Nightshade!"
You turn to your left to see the CMC and their other friends all here, hugging her tightly.
"We missed you!" They all said.
But you ignored all that, what you didn't ignore was the bunch of colts around her with blushes trying to get too close.
You try to yell at them. "Hey!"
Then Button Mash and your daughter start kissing, lips to lips.
"Stop that this instant!"
WHAT THE BUCK IS GOING ON?!
"I DON'T KNOW!"
Then suddenly Sombra chuckles with delight. "Very cute indeed. I ship it! Maybe later I can help Cadence ship ponies, this is fun!"
You and Selena are about to scream.
But when you open your eyes with diziness you instead look around the town, still destroyed, with changelings all around. No sign of the Princesses, Discord, or Elements.
"What the-"
-buck...
You look up, and you see the bottom of Kersey's hoof. The pony was still chasing Brown Dog.
"That... explains it..."
Selena gives out an angry grunt. If only I had my magic, I would have known instantly it was a dream or a vision.
"At least we weren't out for too long."
Help me...
Sorry guys, been out for the last couple of days (and BrownDog77's PM system isn't working).
Will comment soon.
"Great, the return of Ponyzilla... Sometimes I wonder if it was a good decision to join the knights" Groaned Kichi as he tried to fly away.
"Too many jokes about me, and changelings to even add a joke about being stomped like a cockroach" Comment Kichi as he tried to find a good place, sincerely he was not even sure why even the queen tried to do something, yet he supposed it was something that the crazy queen of course decided to do, just like the wedding, and noling could say no to her.
"Stupid crazy queen..." Muttered Kichi in low voice, if any other changeling was around he did not want them to hear him.
"Cruel Chrysalis, he's like the behemoth from Call of Honor 1!" Kichi says
"Except there we could actually control the blimp!" Changer responds.
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Brown Dog briefly gets knocked unconscious, Unfortunately this means that without something to focus on and chase, the near-blind giant Kersey is able to have a few moments to himself. Realizing all the changelings, ponies, and even buffalo running around in a massive melee he says,
"Wait a minute, Where am I? Am I still exist? Am I still- There's a hundreds- There's hundreds of blobs, we've gone on too- Who am I controlli- THATS IT YOU MOTHERBUCKERS!" Kersey snaps as he starts wildly swinging his hooves in every direction at anybody nearby as he roars.
"NOW YOU GOTTA FIGHT ME!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"
In his rampage, Kersey knocks aside changelings, buffalos, and ponies alike. One Mongo-sized changeling tries to charge at him, but Kersey smashes him into the ground with a hoof before picking him up and putting him close to his near-sighted face for a better look.
"Oh, you're a big roach aren't ya." Kersey says sadistically before tearing off the changeling's wings making it howl in pain.
"OI! I thought I said no crippling!!!" you scream as Kersey throws the crippled changelings away.
"Lard-flank was out during that talk, remember?" one of the Crimson Knights points out.
"Buck! Someling wake up BrownDog! I'll knock some sense into him." you say as you charge at the giant rampaging earth pony and declare,
"Psycho Crush-" *flump* "Eww! NOT AGAIN!" you exclaim in disgust as your attack just causes you to get absorbed into Kersey's fat folds. You Falcon Punch your way out without getting noticed by Kersey and yell,
"Aqua, waterbend me! Quick!"
"I don't think a wash is a priorit-"
"JUST DO IT!" UNCLEAN! UNCLE-*splash*" you panic before Aqua knocks you into a changeling with a waterbending attack.
"Thanks!" you say causing Aqua to roll her eyes.
We're going to have to get his attention another way. Selena comments.
"Curse you lady luck!" you yell trying to think of a plan,
"Wait a minute, that yell..." Kersey says as he turns toward you, "The Hooded Offender?"
"No it's not- I mean yes it's me! The glorious inspiration for your gro-*Wham*" you manage to get out before Kersey smashes you into a building with a massive hoof.
"THAT WAS FOR FLAG BURNER!!!" he roars.
"What the buck- Wait, you knew him?" you say poking your head out of the rubble.
"I was one of his original Horde members!" he yells taking a swing at you.
"He was a psycho terrorist!" you yell as you dodge another hoof.
"Yeah he scared the buck out of me, but I respected his cunning, his leadership, and most of all his homicidal desires." he yells as he keeps attacking you, "I handled his finances and even helped him pick targets! I was hoping you'd lead us in an uprising against the crown."
"But a revolution would have killed hundreds, thousands!"
"EXACTLY!" he yells as he barely misses you with an overhead smash, "I didn't really care whether you were a true idealist or just a power-mad psycho with delusions of grandeur! Hay, I don't even give a buck whether the uprising would actually work! Revolutions mean death and more death means less bucking ponies! Smaller lines, less taunting, less insults!" his voice gets a bit hurt at that part you feel a brief twinge of sympathy before the next part sweeps that away, "Hay, he'd still be alive if he took my bucking advise to just kill you when we had you!"
"Wait, You were at Fillydelphia?"
"I was out making a pizza run for Flag during the interrogation, but yeah I was there!" Kersey yells swinging at you, "When you refused to join him, I practically begged Flag that we should just kill you then and there. But nooooo, he wanted to go the 'making you watch the city burn as a demonstration of my power' cliche. And leaving you alone with a mare who obviously has the hots for you?! That's an elementary Evil Overlord List mistake but he said he had faith in her and look how that bucking turned out!"
Luna, what a chatterbox. you think dodging more attacks as you steer him away from civilians.
It's keeping him focused on us. Keep going.
"Hey, don't ignore us!" Biff and Tannen call out preparing a fire and ice double attack, but you quickly duck under one of Kersey's legs so the attack bounces off him instead.
"Hey! I'm walkin here!" Kersey bellows more in annoyance at being interrupted than any actual pain as he blindly reaches out a massive hoof and hurls the first object he grabs... which happens to be an anvil that smashes into Biff and plows him through a building.
"Biff!" Tannen says as he flies off to tend to his twin.
"Sounded like an anvil. Gotta love the classics." Kersey reminisces, "Now where was I..."
"Saying something about how Flag should have killed me?" you respond, "But that doesn't matter since I ain't easy to kill!" you taunt.
"Pfft. What, you thought I'd just leave you in some convoluted deathtrap like some weekend serial supervillain? No, I said we should have shot you through the skull with a crossbow, cut off your head with an Orichalcum axe, slice your body into at least four pieces with said axe, tear out your heart, submerge your body pieces in separate blocks of concrete, sink the blocks on various locations in separate coasts and lakes of Equestria, jam a pair of sharpened dynamite sticks into your dead eyes, throw the head into an active volcano, encrust the before-mentioned heart in gems, and then keep it as a trophy!"
"WHAT THE BUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!" several ponies acclaim at that overkill idea.
That, might have actually succeeded... Selena comments.
Eventually BrownDog wakes back up and Kersey continues chasing him instead.
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"That giant pony is screwing things up!" Major Vicky (or Shell Marshall Sin when she arrives) exclaims, "Captain Mongo! Take him out!"
With a salute, Mongo braces himself then charges full-force at Kersey.
"Seriously, you're just gonna throw another giant mook at me?" he scoffs, "Typically villains, throw more henchponies at the problem instead of just shooting-*CRAAAACK* BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"
Unfortunately, Mongo's juggernaut-level strength causes him to effortlessly charge right through Kersey's limb shattering the bone and joint inside and knocking the giant pony into a building, collapsing the structure as Kersey clutches his broken front limb and howls in pain.
"OH BUCK! THEY TOOK OUT KERSEY IN ONE HIT!!!" Kichi yells.
"Kersey! You okay-" Brown Dog says coming up to Kersey before the earth pony bellows,
"OH TO TARTARUS WITH YOU!" as he spitefully smashes his broken arm onto BrownDog, pinning him, "If I'm gonna die, I'm taking you with me you bitch!"
"What the buck?!" Brown Dog yells struggling under Kersey's broken limb, "You can't serious hate me THAT bucking much!"
"Oh but I can!" Kersey snarls, "I was one of the original Crimson Knight members even in the before-days where we were just the Horde! But you had to come waltzing in and take over! Hay, I didn't care about that that much since you did have good points and your incompetent leadership would have led to more dead ponies anywa-"
"Then what the buck is your problem with m-"
"MY BUCKING PROBLEM IS THAT YOU NEVER BUCKING LISTEN TO ANYTHING I HAVE TO SAY!!! I've always came up with great ideas backed up by solid arguments, but nooooo you just kept ignoring and shoving me aside like everypony else!"
"That's a load of bullspit!" BrownDog protests, "I do listen to your ideas and they're often pretty good, but you're such a whiny control-frea"
"If we're gonna be bug food, I'm serving you up first!" Kersey snarls as he interrupts BrownDog.
"In that case, would you hold that mutt still so his Crimson Knight comrades can collapse without his leadership?" Vicky (again, or Sin)
"Sure thing." Kersey snarls.
During the chaos as Browndog leads Kersey on a rampage through the town, both sides try to keep a handle on the situation even as the town of Appleoosa is demolished (...at an even faster rate than before.)
Erised spots Vicky catching half a building's worth of debris in her mental sphere before slamming it all to the ground in a huff.
"What in the world are these idiot knights thinking?" She says while grinding her teeth together, "Are they just trying to stop us at any cost now?
They're going to ruin everything if this keeps up!"
She calls to Mongo and a few squads of changelings around her and begins barking orders at them to put a stop to Kersey's rampage, and meanwhile, Erised hides out of sight for the perfect opportunity. As the squads salute and disperse, he takes it, forcing his thrall to lunge at her from behind while her guard is down.
"You're mine."
Suddenly his sneak attack is cut off as Browndog runs past him screaming, "Move it or lose it! Fatty just learned Beigh and Shamalamadingdong are hosting a cooking show, and he's pissed!"
"IT'S RAAAAAAAWWW!"
Kersy's outraged roar is the only warning they get before the giant pony comes skidding 'round the corner and trampling his way through twenty changelings, including Erised's last remaining thrall.
"That was solar and Rutherford's fault wasn't it?! Cooking shows are ruined forever now! Which means the food industry has even lower standards! Which means I won't be able to get anything good to eat anymore! GRAAAAAHH!"
Kersey's ranting rings in Erised's ears as he's forced to relinquish his thrall, who's crippled beyond use. The pale changeling huffs in frustration from inside the TARDIS.
"Hey, time squad! Is the evacuation nearly complete?" he asks Mia as she and Nightshade load more pods of ponies inside. By the sheer number piling up, there can't be that many more to go.
"First of all, we're Torchwood." Mia corrects him, "And we're moving as fast as we can. ...There's just so many."
"Well figure something out." Erised spits, "The situation is going sideways out there; our teams are getting their flanks served to them, Kersey is on the rampage again, and my last thrall just got squashed."
"You know, this might go faster if you decided to help out a bit." Mia offers, motioning to the pods she's levitating in, obviously straining with the effort of that and maintaining her shield.
"Fine."
Mia smiles as Erised makes his way to the entrance of the TARDIS, but then frowns again as he walks right past her and outside, completely ignoring the captured ponies. "I'm going out for a bit." he tells her, "Don't wait up for me."
Outside, Erised climbs up to a vantage point. It takes a frustratingly long time due to his weakened body. But from the schoolhouse's belltower he's able to see the battle taking place in town. Dozens of black specs dart still dart around like flies, the changelings his fellow knights refused to put down for good. Blasts of fire and torrents of water can be seen, indicating the elementalists dueling it out. But the most striking feature is Kersey, stomping through the town like a runaway lard train, kicking up dust behind him and forcing any fights to pause as they try to not get crushed underhoof.
Suddenly the dome encasing the town flickers and turns from toxic green to TARDIS blue, indicating Doc and the buffalo have succeeded in their mission. Masses of brown furry clumps charge towards the town, and right towards the area Kersey is tearing up.
Erised grits his teeth. "I guess it's my job to reign him in then. Oh joy."
Concentrating, Erised activates the blood he injected into Kersey while he was still under, and attempts to assert his control. "Kersey, check yourself before you wreck yourself, fool."
Kersey slows his run as he hears Erised's voice in his head, looking around to try and see where the annoyance is coming from. "Erised? Is that you?"
"That's right. We're fighting for our lives out here, ponies are in danger, and it's all going to be for nothing if you destroy everything with your fat flank. So forget about BrownDog for one bucking second and-"
"Screw you!" Kersey roars, to the confusion of everyone around him, "I don't have to take orders from some anorexic emo roach who doesn't even participate half the time! That brown mutt has had this coming for too long."
"Not around- I have my own stuff to do, you know!"
"Whatever! I'm gonna roast Browndog and eat him with a side of chips now, and after that, I'm gonna squash you like the bug you are."
From his vantage point, Erised can see the buffalo charge in only for one of their herds to get bowled over by Kersey as he continues to chase after Browndog. They seem to recover fine, but having to fight around a huge moving obstacle like Kersey just isn't in their tactics or their nature.
"Kersey? Kersey!" Erised tried to get in his head again, but it's no use. He wasn't listening at all. "Damn it. That self-righteous-! *sigh* Alright then... need to try something else."
"Hey idiots, are you listening?" and this time, each of the other knights hear him in their heads.
I don't have much time for this so-"
"Erised? How are you talking to us?" Kichi asks.
"I added my blood to the food you guys ate back at the saloon. It's not important. Now-"
"Not important?!" Snap yells, "I beg to differ! You don't drug a bro's food, bro. Not cool."
"Will you all shut up?! This current plan isn't working, and Kersey isn't going to stop any time soon. Much as I hate to say, these commanders outclass most of us in a straight-up fight. So i suggest we switch dance partners while they're distracted."
"What do you mean?" Rutherford asks.
"I mean no one wins rock-paper-scissors by choosing the same thing as their opponents. So fight the commander that will be weak against you. Our elementalists are evenly matched against Biff and Tannen, but overpowering Vicky should be an easy feat for them. Similarly, our heavies are getting stomped by Mongo, but I doubt the fire and ice twins would be a problem if you can find some way to get in close and keep the pressure on."
"So where does that leave you runners?" Browndog asks, "With Mongo?"
"No. It leaves Mongo with Kersey. We runners have done all we can against the commanders, so we should search for anypony that the search parties missed. None of you have to listen if you don't want to; I don't have the strength to force any of you to obey. But consider our situation. If we don't do something, it's going to get a lot worse."
With that, Erised cut the communications, finding himself sweating and nursing a migraine as he came out of it. "Alright... one last trick. One last trick."
Once again he entered Kersey's mind, but instead of talking, he simply decided to show him something instead. Kersey's eyes began to focus in on something, and a black blob in his peripherals slowly took shape and turned brown.
"Hey fatty!" Browndog said, waving up at Kersey with a silly grin. Then he bent over and started wiggling his behind yelling, "Look at my butt! WOOOOOO-OO-OOO!"
Meanwhile, the real Browndog stood flabbergasted as Kersey suddenly turned on Mongo with a cry of, "Get your stupid butt out of my face!"
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Horrendously late I know, but I thought I'd try to contribute anyway. Good luck!
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Kersey mistaking Mongo for Brown Dog starts trying to stomp the steriod-plasmided bug Mongo is able to dodge and weave between his legs and grabs Keresy's tail and with some struggle judo throws the kaiju pone onto a nearby building. Brown dog along with many changelings look in shock at what just transpired. Mongo turns around and looks to Brown dog with a smirk and says,
"I know impressive right? Once when I was under cover I learned jujutsu from the legendary John Greesey (couldn't up with better replacement for Kreese). I was so close to winning the championship and becoming master of the cobra kai, but if weren't for that colt crane kicking me in the jaw I would have won!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt6VzQ_0k_I But before he could continue his story Kersey gets up and grabs him with his hoof and yells,
"I'M GONNA HEADBUTT YA!!" , before slaming his mongo into his head.
Sometime later
After Kersey smashes Mongo into the ground making a crater, Erised's illusion begins to fade and Kersey realizes he has been pumling the wrong idiot (Albeit failing thanks to Mongo's super strength). Before he walks away to find Brown Dog, Mongo gets up and yells
"That all you got you fat moron! Where did you get all that fat from anyway, from you're mother?! HA!" All the Crimson Knights gasp in shock for an untold rule has been broken. NEVER insult Kersey's mother. The air suddenly gets cold as storm clouds come out of nowhere storming over head.
"What did you say?" Kersey barely whispered.
"I called you're mom fat you idiot or are you deaf too?" Mongo laughed. Keresy turned towards mongo and began walking towards him making cracks in the earth with each step. His fur turning bright red with rage. Kersey turned his head to sky and roared. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihd_uzrX2Bw Needless to say everyone stopped and stared. Mongo definitely didn't feel intimidated. Nope not one bit. Kersey charged towards Mongo. He lept into the air raising his hoof for a punch but began to shrink as he did so. Mongo had begun smirk in victory till he noticed the hoof was still giant and began to grow in size. Before he could process it the gigantic hoof launched him clear across town. As kersey's hoof returns to normal, Kersey shouts out, "PARTIAL EXPANSION JUTSU B#%!@!!!!" (Kersey later begins to exploit this new 'ability' on other changelings *cough* and brown dogs *cough* but by using it he can't go all kaiju mode)
Thought this could be used near the end of chapter if you want.
"Similarly, our heavies are getting stomped by Mongo,"
"Thanks for giving them god hacks!" Changer yells.
"I keep telling you it wasn't our fault!" Grey yells back at him.
Erised ignores them and goes on.
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Nice, but Kersey's dialogue should include more movie references (he's a literally massive movie nerd).
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Mongo can't talk due to his vocal cords being broken.
If you really want to insult Kersey, claim that critically-praised minority-bait films are superior to fun blockbuster movies.
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Thanks for the tip.
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Kichi could not help but notice the big fight and how the giant was defeated, returning to his changeling form he got near and watched, in his mind, the tought that this was not going how it was expected. It was too chaotic, the plans changed, or destroyed and one of the big bonus was defeated in one hit, and there was even a fight with the offender, all in all, Kichi just facehoofed, groaned and asked to both of them.
"So... Does that mean the alliance with the offender is broken?" Asked Kichi a little confused
"What?" Asked someone
"Well, if it's true that The Hooded Offender killed Flag Burner, and some want to take revenge, then I don't think we could do too much... All in all, it's not like anything is going to happen... Most of the ponies had been rescued and send to the TARDIS, so Chrysalis just lost great part of what she wanted... The problem is... What now? If we fight the Offender, the crazy queen servants will defeat us" Begin to say Kichi when he was interrupted.
"Hey! No one call our queen crazy!" Say one changeling
"I call her whatever I want after she just decided to use me and the others just for laughs!" Shouted Kichi as answer a little angry
"Now... Let's continue... Is there a reason to continue? The TARDIS can get out of this barrier with everyone they rescued, even if there are some that we didn't find, it will not be enough to feed every changeling, and is not like we need to continue the fight. And there is also the mayor problem..." Kichi this time looked to the offender and pointed to him
"Fate is in on his side!" Shout Kichi
"Wait, What?" Ask the offender confused
"Come on, let's think about it, what chance is that not only he survive everything we know from the comics, and the strange dreams from another dimension, but also somehow after defeating Flag Burner, he manage to find information about all of us and defeat us in order, having help just when he was in the worse. It's obvious that fate is on his side... I for one can only see that continue the fight will only give problems, no matter the side we fight. Continue the fight will only tire us, and because the 'alliance' with the offender is over, there is no chance that we got a ticket to get free from jail again. No side have anything to win, so if any of you have a better idea, just tell me. And if any of you call me coward or throw another pedo joke, then do it, but I will not answer for my actions" After he throwed that, Kichi just decided to sit in the roof of one of the houses and wait
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Meanwhile in another dimension a mysterious figure watches as the events unfold, " 'Fate is on his side!' shouted Kichi. " 'click' A pause symbol appears on a screen showing the chaos unfold...... "heh..hehheh.. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHH!!! *gasp* BWAHAHHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!! Oh my me that's too good! HAHAHAHhahah heh ha hoo. Wow. Perhaps I should up the antics on his bad luck. To show how dumb that fool is to think *#!(!@ is my good graces. Now lets see.." Another 'click' is heard and suddenly the screen shows a meter with the words Bad-Luck-o-Bugze-Meter-9000. "Hmm what did I set it too again? No not on 'running into rakes mode', uh no 'wiping on a ponymon nuzlocke before first gym' already happened to him, hmm "my little human mode'? Ugh Faust no even I'm not that cruel. Ooh what about 'random nutshot mode'? Yes this will do just nicely." 'click' The screen switches back to the paused screen. "ON WITH THE SHOW!" ,said mistress luck with a cackle. 'click' The screen unpauses.
As Kichi sits down on the roof Bugze yells out in anger, "YOU MORON! I HAVE TERRIBLE LUCK !" , only for a changeling to run up and hit him in the nuts with a bag of nickels, "OW DAMMIT!!! YOU SEE!! ugh anyling have some Ice?"
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"That don't demostrate anything, what if you had hardships or some bad luck? At the end of the day you will somehow find victorious after defeating a enemy. Lady Luck and Fate are not the same. When did you see a videogame hero that can go to the castle of the king of demons without hardship?" Say Kichi looking at Bugzee
"Oh, come on, my life is not a crappy videogame or a story" Shout Bugzee
"Are you sure? There is comedic relief, mainly because you insult lady luck everytime, and there are spoilers, you have the normal calm times, you have the fight with many villains and power-ups, not to say the tragic past. Maybe others like Brown Dog or Kersey could know better, but that seems to be the figure of a hero... Did you even see your own comics? It's obvious you are the hero" Comment Kichi looking to Bugzee waiting for a answer.