Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 5
By TDR
Twilight Gets a Puppy.
The Movie,
Part Three
[ Canterlot, Early Spring]
The chaos of the attack had started a stampede with the crowd, as ponies and other races tried their best to get away from the explosions and balista raining down on them.
Despite the mass of them easily seen and slowed in their mad rush to get away from the main pavilion the crowds were not the targets.
The airship docks were obliterated with the first few volleys from the descending ships, the guard stations at numerous points in the city were blasted apart soon after. With the main targets gone the ships picked secondary ones, destroying Guard training grounds, various roads and and paths out of the city, perhaps a good mile of train track and several trains. Some of them targeted roads and random buildings in the city cutting off paths of fleeing civilians and keeping the panic high and as many clustered around the event area as they could.
It was a targeted strike to cause as much chaos as possible to keep the Guards and any other threat busy for as long as possible.
Several other ships landed while most of the others played over watch for them. The landing ships opened up and disgorged a veritable army of yeti to rush out into various areas of the city. Some were armed with melee weapons, but most had odd firearms.
These guns however didn't shoot shrapnel or bullets like standard minotaur weaponry most ponies had heard of. These weapons fired gray spheres that when they hit their targets turned them to stone like the Sparkles had been, it didn't matter if the target was flesh or landscape, even some walls had large patches of gray stone where wild shots had gone.
After all, if your enemy is too busy trying to help those that are injured, they cannot effectively counter attack. As such, numerous guests and random citizens were turned to stone as the yeti surged through the streets, sowing terror and looting anything that caught their eyes.
Cadence screamed out in rage as she whirled on the attackers, though Tempest had not sat idle, before the alicorn princess could do anything another ball arched through the air and struck her, thrown from the broken horned unicorn who was now moving forward with the yeti from her ship to secure the area.
The gray mass engulfed the pink alicorn as fast as it had the others.
The yeti with Tempest fired at random, some trying to hit the other two alicorns, who had wisely scattered, the rest just aiming for those in the crowd who didn't seem to be running away fast enough.
Numerous guards were caught as they rushed forward to counter attack as well as a large number of civilians. The initial attack was already shaping up to be devastating in the ten minutes since Tempest had first arrived.
The street was awash with fire, the screams of the yeti as they burned or were forced to flee was drown out by the crackle of flames, as even the bricks along the walls sagged and seemed to melt with the heat.
Sunset Shimmer stepped out into the inferno that resembled the inside of a forge staring after the fleeing yeti, at least the ones that were not blackened husks.
She wanted to go after them, to burn the ships and drive the damn creatures from Canterlot, they had struck first after all so it was only fair.
A glance back into the building she had stepped out of showed why that wasn't going to happen.
The yeti had burst in and managed to take down one of the other caretakers with their odd guns before Sunset had reacted.
There were still two left to watch close to three score of kids, but neither of them were the sort to be able to deal with something like this, if the yeti came back.
Sunset cursed, stepping back into the doorway, keeping an eye out for anything else dumb enough to come this way.
She had a lot more fire to share.
Rainbow Dash winced trying to pick herself up from under a collapsed stall that sold peanuts, her newly healed wing hurt and she had a lot of lumber, and peanut barrels piled on top of her. The stupid thing was, the stall hadn't collapsed cause it was attacked, it collapsed cause she was pushed into it and the Abyssinia who set up the shop clearly hadn't followed building code as she hit one beam and it brought the whole thing down.
Granted she blamed Prince for this whole thing as he was the one who shoved her into the stall.
The moment the yeti had rushed into the market area she Gilda, Prince, and Thunderbolt were in, they fired off their guns into the crowd. Prince's horn lit up and shoved her aside into the stall before the report of the guns was even heard.
She growled shifting herself and trying to wiggle free of the wreckage only for a claw to grab the board over her head and yank upward forcing more of it off of Dash and allowing her to crawl free.
Glancing up, the annoyed face of Gilda stared down at her.
“Thanks G, that's two now.” Dash grumbled. “Where's that idiot who shoved me?”
“Seems we both are interested in the noble idiot type.” Gilda growled gesturing behind her.
Standing in the middle of the road where she had last seen them stood Prince and Thunderbolt, both of them stone statues.
“Fuck......wait, ' interested in', huh?” Rainbow questioned.
“Not the time dweeb.”
Saturnia growled, holding up a yeti with one of her four arms, blocking the stone balls the others shot at her.
As the yeti she held turned to rock, she flung it at her attackers before rushing them as they tried to dodge the statue.
She smashed into the first one, crushing him against the wall before two of her girilon forms arms smashed the other one and sent him flying into the air to crash down atop one of the few undamaged stalls in the area.
The culdasac she was in was shattered, the street damaged and covered with debris as the end of this road had once had a guard gatehouse into the castle. Now that was a massive pile of burning rubble that blocked escape to the possible safety of the castle.
The street was dotted with stone statues with a large number of civilians and dignitaries huddled in what cover they could find.
Saturnia let out a sigh, where were the Guards, the air was clear save the ships, there had been quite a lot of pegasi in the air a moment ago? What in Tartarus was even going on?
A growl from her left drew her attention to the massive manticore that was spitting out yeti blood as it moved away from the pile of bodies it had made.
Saturnia shook her head. Pharynx was not taking any alive like she was. It was clear who was the warrior changeling and who took more after an infiltrator here.
Not that she blamed him for venting.
She spared a glance back again to the statues behind them before she and Pharynx shifted to a gray pony form resembling statues to free in place at the beginning of the street. To deal with the next batch of yeti.
Behind her were quite a few statues that used to be alive, including Kevin, and Thorax
Maohk frowned at the gun shots, this was unacceptable.
Blades flew through the air, each one a perfect throw that hit the stone balls destroying them in mid air, before a second set of blades followed the first cutting down the shooters before they realized that their shots had failed to connect.
Rhede Pelt snorted as he moved in front of the buffalo cow scanning the street for any more threats.
“ I am not an invalid Pelt, I am quite capable of defending myself.
“Fuck that right out of the hoof ball park.”Rhede smirked. “ After the yelling from Iinii I had to endure when we got back for getting you stuck with me in the Empire? Ain't no way in Tartarus I'm going to risk you AND his kid in this place. I'm getting you out of here if I have to carry you.”
Rhede considered snapping his rear leg out and burying a blade in the eye of a yeti peering around the corner. A second blade ended the creatures screaming. The Crystal pony barely seemed to notice.
“Please don't make me carry you, I don't think I could have done it before, and now you're even bigger.” Rhede offered.
Maohk growled.” Are you calling me fat Pelt?”
“Why is that the first thing mares, and cows in this case go to with those words. You nearly doubled in size when that Companion spell was cast on you and you've got a whole new body in your belly right now. You . Are. Bigger.”
“ And yet you are trying to herd me to safety rather than letting me fight like a warrior.” Maohk frowned.
“That's because you're unarmed and unarmored and all it seems it one of these things touches you and you're a statue.”Rhede offered , the shrug noticeable even in the bulky red and gold of the ambassadorial robes he wore. “ You didn't even think to bring a knife to a gun fight like me.”
Another set of blades was loosened in a movement by the pony and a group of yeti fell back screaming at the steel now buried in various parts of their anatomy.
“Fine. But we will have words about this Pelt.”
“We are having words about it now, that's what speaking is.” Rhede smirked as Maohk moved further down the road .
Witch-Jack sighed as she walked down the alley out of the park, something weird was going on here, a buncha big white burly fellas had shown up and shot her with these strange gray balls.
There was a poof of powder, some weird magic and then she was a witch wolf again.
She had just gotten back to normal too.
She vented her annoyance on the idjits who shot her. The flavor of the balls reminded her of the basilisk she and Rahs had taken down that one time when it got too close to the farm.
Witch-Jack glanced up at the ships in the air and frowned. Yup never a dull moment, unfortunately. And it wasn't even Tuesday.
No wait this was Canterlot. What was the day here, ah right that would have been yesterday.
“There you are!”
Witch-Jack turned to see Pinkie Pie running towards her with Fluttershy on her heels, the pink mare was covered in soot, gray ash, and what smelled like blood to Witch-Jack, but it didn't seem to be Pinkie's.
“Pinkie Pie?” Witch Jack questioned.” What tha hay is going on?”
“No time. We need to get to the Hospital, there's a bunch of yeti headed towards it.”Pinkie Pie snapped.
“Mac and Bloom are there.”Witch- Jack growled, sparing only a glance to the other mares before she took off down the road with Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie chasing after her.
Some body was about tah be in a world of hurt.
Rarity dove for cover with a yelp as a barrage of gray orbs struck the overturned tables and chairs around her. She cursed to herself and pushed Sweetiebelle down back behind her just in case.
Her sister was screaming about Scootaloo and Firefly and struggling to get loose from the shadow tendrils Rarity had wrapped around her to keep her in place out of harms way.
Rarity glanced over top of the table spotting the pair of Crusaders, Scootaloo reared up as if trying to take off and Firefly in the form of a massive tiger, both of them stone.
She needed to get her sister out of here, and herself of course.
A tendril of shadow wrapped around a table, yanking it up to block a ball that almost got them, the wood turning to stone and becoming more than her shadow tendrils could lift.
Grabbing a few chairs, Rarity pushed Sweetiebelle to run towards a building nearby, it wouldn't be as protected as her shop with all the enchantments she had Twilight layer it with, but it was better cover than patio furniture and for the moment that's all that was needed.
Her protection was shot away from her as she ran, for the first time in her life she would loved to have a more subtle or darker coat, as the white and purple of her form, even darkened with the shadows still drew the attention as a target.
Maybe she could bring back camo in her next line.
She cursed as the last chair was turned to stone leaving her without cover only half way to the door of the shop.
Something that got even further away in her mind as a pair of large brutes moved before her bringing their weapons to bear on her and Sweetiebelle.
Oddly they didn't fire and in fact, both of them fell over with wet thuds, one of their heads rolling free.
“Stop staring mare and get moving.” Sombra snapped flicking the blood from his sword. The dark unicorn moved between the pair and the largest portion of the attackers.
Rarity surged forward practically flinging Sweetiebelle before her towards the shop. Sombra cursed smacking a number of the gray balls out of the air with his sword before they got close to the pair.
He frowned his magic was starting to strain as his sword became heavier and heavier with the layers of stone gathering around it until he could barely lift it.
Rarity pushed Sweetiebelle inside of the shop as the sword fell crashing to the cobble stones looking little more than a massive hunk of rock.
“I lose more blades due to magic bullshit...” Sombra growled looking back to make sure Rarity and Sweetiebelle were safe.
Whirling back around he cursed as several yeti's had locked onto him with the guns. Sombra winced at the sound of them firing his eyes shutting as he expected to feel the hit.
No hit came.
His eyes snapped back open, seeing his vision filled with dark blue feathers that were quickly turning gray. He was just able to see the yeti's fall as they were cut down by shadows before looking up and meeting the gaze of Luna, who shielded him with her wing.
She met his look sadly as the stone overtook her.
Sombra blinked staring at the statue of his mother, unable to process the situation.
Before any of the remaining yeti could target him a tendril of shadow wrapped around his middle and yanked him back into the shop.
Comet Trail surged forward laying waste to the yeti. His nose was still running from the effects of the White Heart Cherry Trees, but he could be sick when the city wasn't under attack.
The hospital was under siege and the collected Nox-cal there were fighting back, though the yeti were simply saturating the area with those odd stone balls of theirs. A group of the Ponyville Guard had punched through the forces to push out into the city forcing the yeti to fall back or be surrounded, though most of his command was making their way towards the center of this mess.
Comet Trail had another goal.
Ditzy and Dinky had gone out to the food court at the event to get lunch and were planning to bring something back for him.
They hadn't returned yet.
Comet Trail tore through the city, leaving a trail of broken, injured, and dead Yeti in his wake as he came across them, his meteor hammer screamed as it whirled around him. He avoided some groups and only felled those who got in his way not bothering to check if his attacks crippled or killed them so long as they were down enough to not stop him. His progress was still slowed as he was forced to fly low over the streets, the ships took pot shots at him if he flew too high.
A howl reached his ears and he pushed on harder bursting out to where the food court had been. The place was now filled with wreckage with a few of the stalls on fire, and a mass of statues. In the center of the area was a massive dog, howling into the air, with a large number of badly mauled yeti scattered around him.
Before the large dog was a pegasus mare clutching her unicorn daughter, both of them turned to statues.
“MOVE FORWARD!” Tempest bellowed, “We have three, there's one left. If it moves and it's not one of ours shoot it, I don't care if it's a bird a mouse or a wind blown piece of paper!”
The yeti filling the square marched forward with even more of them rushing out of the ship to go into the city.
Until they weren't.
Tempest blinked at the bright light, not even feeling the heat until she was thrown forward bouncing across the pavilion square as the ship she came in on was suddenly not there. The flash of heat marked the reduction of the armored craft to little more than vapor and loose atoms.
Tempest picked herself up next to the statue of Twilight Sparkle, her ears flattening to her head as all she heard was the crackle of the melting stone where her ship, and the yeti that had come out of it had been.
Looking back towards where she had been all that was there was a perfectly circular gaping hole in the ground that looked melted rather than exploded, and there was no trace her ship had even been there.
There was a faint crackle that sounded like something cooking and Tempest looked up, and watched as a orange beam swept across a number of the ships still in the air.
There was a brief second of silence where nothing happened, then every ship touched by the beam burst into multiple explosions as all the ammo in the crafts were cooked off at the same time filling the city with massive echos of their destruction, the detonations looking like clusters of fiery grape bunches that arced across the sky.
Another beam swept over the same area as debris started to fall, the second beam removed any trace there even were ships there, and prevented any of the falling wrecks from touching the city as anything more than dust.
Great swaths of the cloud cover were also boiled away by the beams showing the blue sky and a angry red sun that loomed in the sky as if staring at the world trying to decide what to burn.
Tempest blinked, pushing herself back to her hooves, only for a vice like grip to close around her neck, yanking her up from the ground into the air, her throat being crushed in the golden grip of magic.
The unicorn heard heavy hoof steps and was whirled around in the air.
Princess Celestia strode towards the kicking mare as she dangled from nothing but a vice like grip of magic around her throat, the alicorn's horn blazing with golden light.
Another beam came from the alicorn's horn, followed by a second a heart beat later and half of the Storm King's fleet was gone from the air, as if it never existed. Several of the ships sank lower hiding behind buildings.
This hardly seemed to matter to the Goddess of the Sun as the beams switched from coming from the alicorn's horn to raining from the sky itself, turning some of the hiding ships to ash.
There was a reason Canterlot never needed any real air defense.
The white alicorn herself was hard to see with the waves of heat radiating off of her, giving her a fuzzy look about her, though it was easy to see her mane and tail were not the calm cool colors of the dawn, but an angry red coloration of fire as it crackled and whipped over her form.
“Congratulations mare. You have made me angry.” Princess Celestia stated, bringing Tempest up to meet her nose to nose, the unicorn sweating heavily from the proximity, the fur closest to the alicorn curling as it smoldered.
Tempest made to grab for a ball from her armor only to wince as the pack and much of her armor was seared away from her with out the alicorn even looking. Her fur and skin sizzled as it burned with the melting metal plates of her armor, but surprisingly leaving her without too much pain.
“Don't get cute now. Given you seem to be the leader here you're only alive until I can find out how to reverse these effects. “Celestia snarled as another group of ships was turned to less than ashes they tried to slink off using the buildings as cover, the ground under the ships not so much as being warmed in case there were any civilians there. “But for the record, you would be very surprised what you can live through, and what body parts you do not need to survive.”
Tempest gasped trying to breath as the magic tightened around her throat.
“I have tried to be calm, tried to fix what I've seen as problems with my reactions and ruling alone for so long. In the span of minutes you have taken my niece, sister and a close friend and former student from me, as well as attacked my city for no reason.”Celestia snarled.”Suffice to say you have pissed me off to the point where I am quite willing to simply forget I was trying to hold back.”
Tempest gasped her hooves grabbing at the magic holding her.
“ Don't worry, there won't be much left of the Storm King when I'm finished with him either, I can't kill him, but I can certainly make sure that he will think Tartarus is a nice place before he's turned over to the council. So then, little pony, before I finish off your fleet and toss you to the Guard for questioning, do you have anything to say for yourself?”
Tempest gasped as the magic around her throat lessened allowing her to breath in finally. The unicorn panted a moment, during which even more of the airships were atomized, leaving the fleet a fraction of it's size.
Tempest Shadow narrowed her eyes, and met the gaze of the furious alicorn with an angry glare of her own.
“You talk too much.”Tempest growled.
Celestia frowned, though before she could say anything, she jerked in surprise and turned her head back to see gray stone start forming rapidly over her flank. She looked up, her eyes widened as she spotted a hedgehog crouched behind an overturned desert table with an open violin case at his feet, and a long rifle like what the yeti had been using.
Tempest dropped to the ground as the alicorn of the sun turned to stone, the temperature of the area dropping rapidly, though the angry red sun remained high in the air.
“Grubber what the stars kept you? Tempest snarled rubbing her throat.
“Sorry boss, you'd think with a flank that big she'd be an easy target, but that mare can move.” Grubber offered as he reloaded and trundled over to Tempest. “Did we get them all?”
“Yes that was the last one, though he's not going to be happy with these losses.” Tempest sighed lifting her head to fire another flare into the air, her horn sparking.
The scattered clouds far above the city that had managed to avoid the hot beams of death seemed to burst open and a massive battle ship larger than any of the other craft sank down towards the crater that was all that was left of Tempest's ship. Numerous other ships sank out of the cloud cover as well, less than what had been in the air, to start but far more than had first been seen.
The massive armor plated flagship of the Storm King's Armada landed hard, splintering the road and half hanging off the side of the mountain as the gangplank was lowered.
A loud klaxon sounded from the ship as the front split open releasing another wave of yeti.
“All four of them are here, hurry up and get them on the ship before anything else goes wrong.” Tempest snapped.
The yeti nodded and rushed out, picking up the stone forms of the alicorns and bringing them back to the ship.
Striding down the gangplank of the massive warship as the alicorns were carried aboard was another figure.
The towering yeti was a blue gray coloration that matched the color of the dark clouds roiling above them, his bright green eyes seemed a counter to the darker coloration of his coat, seeming to glow as he approached Tempest and Grubber, the latter hiding behind the pony.
The figure was heavily armored, with a massive sword across his back that was longer than two ponies. His gaze swept the pavilion and a smirk crossed his lips.
“Well. Seems you made quite a mess Tempest.” Squall chuckled.
“No thanks to you.”Tempest snarled.”Where the buck were you?”
“Setting fire to some fields and forests around the base of the mountain, tearing apart a few more miles of train line as well. The ponies can't counter attack if they can't eat and need to deal with a forest fire or four.” Squall offered with a shrug. “Besides, I told you I wouldn't risk my ship until the alicorns were dealt with.”
Squall gestured to the airspace above the city, only a few of the first ships remained and they were ones that had landed to release troops. Several were lifting off now, signaled by the alarm from the flagship to retreat.
“Near forty percent of the fleet gone due to just one alicorn. My father is not going to be happy about that.” Squall chuckled. “But at least you accomplished the mission, so there is that at least.”
Tempest growled.
“Aww don't be that way, I do rather wish I had a chance to land earlier, there was likely quite a bit of delightful fighting to be had here, perhaps I would have found a worthy foe.” Squall shrugged.” Ahh well. Let us be off. We have three days before we are back home and I see no reason to hang around here letting the rabble take pot shots at us.”
The massive yeti turned, and strode back up the gangplank without ever setting foot on the ground. Tempest spat to the side before she followed him up, with Grubber moving behind her. She would have rather walked back than flown on this fools ship, but she had to make sure the alicorns were secure.
With all four alicorns secure, the massive battleship lifted off, the gangplank closing as it rose, and the fleet, then turned south leaving the savaged city behind them as they returned home.
it's always a good day when small purple horse acquires a juvenile canine is updated
So the team to save Equestria:
Sunset
Sombra
Rarity
Rainbow Dash
Gilda
Applejack
The Storm King is gonna die.
Either that or Rahs is finally going to reveal himself as a god when all hope seems lost by introducing himself as first and foremost the god of theater and how all the world’s a stage, and it’s people players.
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Maybe they should include Derpy into the team. She probably going to destroy their base by accident.
At least the princesses put up some fights, unlike in the movie. The guards are useless as usual.
Hmmm... if Spike was turned into stone... will Bleu take action too?
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Ditzy[ not Derpy in this Au] is turned to stone along with Dinky in the Comet Trail segment
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I love the idea that a gods power is only limited by there imagination. Like Teacup with race and drug wars, the more bullshit you can spin, the stronger you are
Which means that something else was likely used on Rahs
Which just begs the question, what kind of petrification isn't magical in nature to be able to work on Rahs?
Oh yeah, he's gonna be pissed after this
As will Comet
You know, you rarely just stop and think about just what kinda of destructive potential a Goddess of the Sun might have... but there you go
You should still get some as a precation
So the Storm King is a God, and he either doesn't realize or care that he's working with Solomon, implying that he might be a bit on the young and arrogant side
Honestly, it's impressive you didn't lose all of them
Too late, quite a few very pissed off individuals are not stone, extremely dangerous and highly likely to go after you
Oh don't worry, I think the "worthy foe" is gonna come to you
Now then, quite a few very dangerous individuals are still in Canterlot and very likely to be on the warpath after this, and while Rahs, Twilight and Shining has been turned to stone I can't help but notice that the youngest member of the Sparkle siblings hasn't been mentioned yet
Well… sh*t.
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Don’t forget Comet Trail and that big dog that was fighting near the statues of Ditzy and Dinky, Saturnia and Pharynx, Maohk and Rhede Pelt…. and we haven’t even included any of the other characters introduced in the movie!
So when will these fools realize that they missed the other major targets? I hope when they attack they kill Tempest and all of the Storm Kings forces.
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The stone magic only affected Rahs because letting it do so was DRAMATIC!
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Spike is connected to that link, so he’s a statue.
So once Bleu hears about this, the Storm King is going to have a horde of dragons raining fire down upon him.
BBQ yeti. Delicious.
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“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.”
There is no way in hell Rahs doesn’t know that line. Which will be epic when he speaks it aloud.
As for the war path… Sombra was the warrior tyrant King of the Crystal Empire and managed to hold off the armies of Equestria for who knows how long after his mother left him and his father abdicated.
Comet Trail is not only a captain of the Royal Guard, but he’s the leader of the detachment stationed in Ponyville. That division is a cut above the rest.
The wonderbolts are a part of the Royal Guard. I’m pretty sure Rainbow Dash is part of the wonderbolts now, so she should be trained in aerial combat.
Gilda is going to help out Dashie.
Rarity has the nightmare within her.
Applejack just shrugs off the petrification Magic.
Pinkie Pie is…
*notices Pinkie Pie point party cannon at head*
…the party pony. The best party pony in Equestria. And nothing more.
Fluttershy is a vampire bat.
Sunset Shimmer is the daughter of Celestia and a pyromaniac. Fire is her speciality.
Saturnalia just watched her father and her potential boy friend get turned to stone and carted off to only Discord knows where. She’s going to be dragging along a surgical strike team of drones if her mother doesn’t get involved first.
Speaking of the Sparkles, Nightlight and Velvet just had all four of their kids turned into statues. There is literally no force on the planet that will stop them from joining the rescue effort and enacting their revenge.
Those two should scare everyone more than anyone else on this list thus far.
Let’s go to something scarier: the Great and Powerful Trixie and Jinx. One is the goddess of the Diamond dogs. The other is John Wick and she just saw her dog get killed.
The suggest the storm king’s army starts running… now.
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That’s my theory.
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When you put it that way, I have to admit it sounds delightful.
If Rahs is not only the god of moon dog but also the god of witch wolves then why is witch Jack more powerful than him why can she absorb the magic from the petrifying orbs when Rahs couldn’t I mean come on she didn’t even intentionally do it so why is she immune to it but not Rahs this is a plot hole that needs to be fixed because you have basically gone against your own canon
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You would think that. You really would. *Grins*
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Um, count in Bleu and Lockheed, and a number of other gods. Oh, and Saturnia, Trixie, Jynx, and maybe the Sirens (I'm still counting on Aria being Rahs' GF #6).
Yeah, the Storm King will be in a world of hurt.
This one thing the movie doesn't address if Luna and Celestia are stoned what happens to the sun and moon. Needless to say the council won't need someone telling them something happened and how many of them are going to be annoyed to be frozen or roasted. LETs not forget petrifying the goddesses of Love and magic will have some impact as well
10943505 It would be dramatic if RAHS suddenly escaped at just the right moment
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You’ve made your character to be able to absorb and negate the effects of any magic either he can do that or you’re retconning things with suddenly there being something Rahs can’t do that to either because of his god status or because of something else meaning you had to down grade him because he was too powerful for the storm king’s invasion to work
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He was momentarily overcome by Fluttershy's BATS mind-control thing.
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Or the GOLD ball , was different from the many gray balls.
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might be his connection to shining and the others that makes it weird. mabey the stone will begin to fail soon on him and the others due to that. would poison jokes effects be similer and fade after a time aswell due to ravs abilitys even if they dont try cure it?
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Or, you know, what was used on Rahs was different from what was used on AJ. Given Tempest was planning on Rahs to eat any petrification bombs used against him, they probably made up a batch specifically to be used against him.
It's not a plot hole for the enemy to have planned for his known abilities and how to exploit them.
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It’s still an open question of whetherthe device used on Rahs was a one-off designed for him and his siblings, (per TDR and his in-story description of the device)or if there’s something different about the way Witchjack absorbs and processes magic. I can’t help but think, however, that using magic to counter the literal goddess of magic and the god of theatre is going to eventually backfire spectacularly on Tempest Shadow and the Storm King — precisely when all the chips are down and the remaining heroes’ backs are collectively against the wall. Any other time simply wouldn’t be dramatic enough.I am now imagining invisible countdown clocks over the heads of all the Sparkle siblings with Rahs’ ahead of the other three by just a few seconds, possibly preceded by an anime powerfield buildup around Twilight’s horn just as his timer approaches zero…
you see here's what I think is going to happen the Storm King is going to get 60 feet from Canterlot before his fleet gets shot out of the air, no dramatic moive lines, no escape to Kuldge-town ~30 minutes of air time and them BOOM the other GOds Show up and it's Game Over for him
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ie the something else
Welp, I can't help but hear Vash the Stampede singing his total slaughter song right about now.
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Depending on when the information reaches them, you may want to add Sorin, a living overcharged thunderclound, and Spitfire, a pyromaniac Sunni wouldn't look down on. Both with years of combat training and considering how they reacted, when their dauthers life was endanged, you DON'T want to be in theie way once they hear Scoots was stoned.
I do wonder if the stoning effects are permanent for Rahs (and by extension, his siblings)?
Facehoofs they forgot to take rahas they forgot to take rahas witch jack is gonna eat the stone curse free him and twilight and then twilights gonna nuke the ship after teleporting the others to safety or give the penguin god a run for his money for imagined violence
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Plus where’s the drama of the easy route of not being stoned
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It depends on what is more dramatic: having the petrification fail just when all seems lost, or immediately after they’ve just been rescued by the Legion of Substitute Heroes.*
* Never underestimate the Legion of Substitute Heroes. They may be the “B” team, but that’s only in comparison to the “A” team. Just because they’re seldom called into action doesn’t mean they’re not competent in their own right.**
** Unless we’re talking about Justice League International or the Great Lakes Avengers. Then they’re just doomed.
Neat! I was right. They had a ludacris amount of those petrifying ammo.
My only issue is there is nothing to stop the Storm King from completing his plan right away.
In the movie he couldn't proceed because Twilight, the last alicorn of the four, was still on the lam. With all four he can do his ritual, steal all the power and it's game over while the survivors flounder and flail uselessly off in some far off land for the next week trying to come up with a counter-attack.
Personally, I wish the Storm King a very long and always conscious life.
After this is all over... t̶̮̙̩̖͙̀h̷̤̤͎̘̃̈́̊̓̊ȩ̸̗̻̞̄͜͝r̶̗̪͙̣͈͐ë̵̘́̃͝ ̴̧̧͐̄̔͆a̷̧͚̐r̴̲͔̲̝̃̔̈́̚ë̴̤̩̭̫́̌ ̵̩̗̄͒̎s̸͉͉̔́̔̿o̵̺̳̙̺̾̄̂̈́̚ ̴̺̖̫̈́̎̃͘͜m̴̭͇̙̼͉͊̑̀͗à̵̢̗̣͉͔͝n̵̙͍̓̓̽y̸͇͛̾ ̵̱̂̽̈́͆͘w̵̲̟̠̐͊͒̂o̸̡͍̹͍̭͌̀̋͌ǹ̴̞̱̺͉̏̅d̶̦̜̈́̎è̶̢̧̖̣͜͠r̶̪̺͐s̸͙̩̿̈́͗̌́͜ ̶̢̿̽̋t̸̙́͂̿͝ḧ̴̻͔́̓́ę̸̾̉̕̕ ̵͇͖̓̐̾̋̕͜͜a̷̭͐̃l̴̖͖͑͝i̸̱̠͈̩̾c̸̱͈̈́̓͑̽̀ó̸̖̝̭̰̗͌͗͆͝r̷̜̽͐̓n̸̫͎͖̾̚ș̷̼̉ ̷͚͍̺̀̊̆w̸̼̪̰̾̋̉͋͘i̷̻̬͐͋̀̅s̵̺͋̚h̸̝͔̲̳̞͛̓͝ ̷̛̙̻̠͍̻̊̑̃̓t̶̨̜̯̣̓̈́́͜o̶̡̠̳̩̅ ̸͔̠̯̩͗͑͛̏ͅs̵͍̊̒́̅h̵͔̻̬̲̩̃͑̉̕o̴͖͔͚̜̬͝w̷͔̗̮͌̈́̍ ̷̤̤͙̳̐h̴̼̩̝̽̅ͅí̴̲͔͒̕͠m̵͈̫̄́̿ͅ.̵͕̲͎͊͛̿̇
Have we forgotten about the most rare of underdogs. Glub glub just had its fish flake feeder stoned. Which means no more fish flakes, I don't think they are going to be very happy about that.
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No... really... you did. Bar some sort of ex-machina reason like because it was Dramatic or it's some sort of ... oooh.... Solomon. Nevermind. If that orb was special craft from Solomon himself that would make sense. He seems to be able to ignore the rules.
Upside though to the petrification, if they just cure one of the 4, they likely break the curse on the rest. I imagine unstoning Twilight at an appropriately dramatic point would cause all sorts of lovely chaos to the Storm King's plans. Discord will no doubt have front-row seats and a bucket of popcorn.
Damn, Celestia is a badass!
Also, I love everything that has anything to do with Sombra at this point. But that last interaction was beautiful!
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Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time.
Sparkles are out of this one, time to see how badly everyone else can fuck up some dumb asshole who tries to make trouble?
Guards yes, other threats..... are likely smart enough to know who the real main threat is.
Okay, that is more of a threat.
If I had a nickel for every time I've seen a pregnant Cadance get petrified... I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but still odd It's happened twice.
Hi Sunset!
And pinned down taking care of the kids. Still, safest kids in the city at the moment. I hope they have some marshmallows to roast.
Well damn..... time for a bit of revenge!
Pissed off shapeshifter beat down time!
Granted, while being some large and badass gives you lots of fun in smashing stuff, does also make you a much larger target.
Also, as a note.... all the turning to stone stuff is extra odd for me since I just recently started reading Dr. Stone.
Oh.... shit... yeah forgot he was around her.... ohhhh it's going to be a very, very bad day for the Yeti's
KEVIN!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's it, they've gone too far!
Okay, yes, makes sense but, but, badasses.... go smash! Or, at least pick a route out that goes through a large swath of these assholes. For Kevin!
PFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!
I like Rhede!
Ohhhhh boy.
Huh so, could she eat the petrification enchant off a statue?
Well obviously...you aren't in Ponyville....must be Friday!
Ohhhhhh, the day after everypony is ready for something.... yeah Tempest is smart.
It was whatever poor dumb brute looked at Fluttershy
Well given this attack, urban camo should be an easy sell in Canterlot at least.
Hi Sombra!
Try lacing one with some Aluminum to cancel out Investiture.
And no, no one is going to convince me that there is not an Equestria in the Cosmere! I mean come on it would be a perfect Shardplanet for Whimsy
Okay, down to just one Alicorn, and yeah this is going to cuase some issues for him to deal with.
Now, back to the question.... if you obliterate Luna of Twilight's Statue, how long till they reform?
Did they have the puppy with them?
First Kevin, now Ditzy and Dinky!
Death is too good for these monsters!
"Here comes the Sun, do-do-dodo"
EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE! "It was at that moment, Tempest realized, she bucked up."
And yeah...... saw some trick coming and Gruber was set up too well. Still....... ehhhh conflicted here. Mostly in the seemingly unlimited, OP, petrification ammo being added and it really being the only reason this is any sort of threat at all. The first one, using one on Rahs to take out the other Sparkles, that was clever and showed planning. Just having an army with unlimited bullets of the stuff feels...cheaper. More Diablos ex Machina then something earned to justify Tempest winning.
Still, handled better then the movie handled it, and the individual fights were great but overall, as I said, conflicted. Still, they are massivly underestimating just how pissed they are making a LOT of really powerful beings. Like say, all of them. The Gods need their people living to exist, and all life on the planet does kind of depend on the sun so ummm, yeah not a good move.
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Well, it does seem they didn't move, as the story tok place over three days, and at no point is it ever shown to be night time. The only time they aren't in the sun is when they are in that cloudbank on the pirate ship, but even then when the clouds break we see the sun still behind it.
The bigger question is why after three days of the sun not movie, none of the other very power beings around the world came by to check on what was wrong with the beings that all life on the planet depended on.
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Except no, he hasn't, we've seen magic work on him. Poison Joke, plus that "turn everyone into humans' spell Adagio cooked up. Rahs can eat magic, and does slowly, passively absorb magic over time that is near him, but a large enough hit can and does effect him, and then spread to the other three via their link.
As to why Wolfjack isn't affected by them, she's a Witch Wolf, not a Moon Dog. Witch Wolves are Moon Dogs cranked up to 11, so it's perfectly logical they'd have greater resistance to this sort of thing. It's already been established that Applejack drains magic passively around her faster then Rahs does and that is a common trait of ponies hit by that curse.
Oh some body dun F**KED UP now... hehehehehehehehehehehehehe....
Wait, so half of them got to sit around playing video games? Now that's just rude.
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I intentionally described the two balls differently. The one that hit Rahs was gold, had a grenade pin to prime, and tasted like black licorice.
The ones that hit AJ were gray fired from guns and tasted like basilisk
Rahs has tasted black licorice magic before.
Okay, calling it, AJ can free Rahs, and can call in the Moon Dogs to free everyone else, but can't get to the princesses, because they're on a moving ship. Nevertheless he frees Twilight through their link, and manages to escape.
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Squirrel Girl was on the great lakes avengers, Justice League International was Justice League Unlimited but funnier.
Fight me.
remind me again what and who this hound is? I can no longer keep track of every single character sadly
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Mr. Tiny Sniffles. Dinky Doo's Massive dog/pet/bodyguard
Someone got a cockatrice farm somewhere for all those powdered eyeballs? Plenty of snake meat to feed the Yeti army?
Celestia really loves her flowers.
Say it with Hellebores.
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I wonder if Twilight’s new home will sense the issue and summon Teacup? The portal to his home is in the castle and she could summon him.
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Meh, just drop a load of cockatrices in the Storm King's lair.
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Or the small dragon part of her means she lives a lot longer than usual?
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/166977/cutie-mark-crusader-necromancers-yay
As you wish
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That’s actually a brilliant point.
He IS the god of drama, after all, and it would have been very anti-climatic if Tempest and the yetis got decimated by the Sparkle family immediately after their introduction.
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To be fair, if they took him, and Shining and/or Spike got unpetrified, then Rahs would be on the ship, and thus able to unstone the other three alicorns. Instead, they should have thrown him off the cliff, so as to prevent Witchjack from freeing Rahs first, which would then free the other four. Only then would all four alicorns be safely petrified.
Though that does beg the question: Did they know about Witchjack?