//------------------------------// // Chapter 10: Welcome to Not-so-Safe Haven (Zoophobia) // Story: My Little Pony Dimensions // by PhantomSage21098 //------------------------------// World: Dark Dimension Enraged by the latest development, Kronus let out his anger onto the slaves. The slaves were ponies, stripped of their marks and looks. They were blank and powerless. Kronus gave them pain and suffering just to let out steam and it wasn't a show to behold. Starlight was seeing the entire thing and she wasn't enjoying the show. She was the one who took away these ponies, she thought she made equal and they were happy about that. They never told her that they were slaves. "You shouldn't feel sorry for them." Lust spoke up as he came up beside her. "Why?" she asked, "They're just ponies. They don't deserve this." "They were Mystics who stood up to us. we've overwhelmed them and took the population as we were swallowed into this prison." They noticed that their master has stopped and was talking to a tall, female creature with bat-like wings. The creature took flight into a rift. "Who was that?" "A vampire queen. I think we are on the verge of acquiring another element." In Vorton, Jacob looks over the scroll that shows the story of his world. Starring at a picture of him and his sister. "Carly," he said softly, "I love you." He rolled up the scroll, put it away, and strolled out of the chamber. Back in the main room, everyone was socializing. Well, if you could count fighting a way of being social. That's what Shining and Frost were doing. "You really think that Jacob would do such an act of villainy?" Frost said. "Yes, ever since Twilight introduced me to him, I never trusted him." Shining Replied, "I knew he would do something this cruel. Just not this massive." "Can't say I blame you," Jacob commented as he walked up to them. "You're very protective of your sister. I can relate to that." "How can you?" "Shining." Rainbow spoke up, "On the day we met him, he mentioned he has a sister." "Oh really? Then where is she?" "Gone." The sudden answer Jacob gave made him suddenly guilty about accusing him of his sister's pony-napping. He just messed up big time, again. He then left to talk to the Yokai watch characters when he noticed... "Where's Pinkie?" "She left with Spike to get some things back in Springdale." X-po said. "Probably sweets and things." At the very moment, the vortex opened and the duo came back from their little heist. Bring food and a medal. A world medal. "Jakie, Jakie! Look what we found!" Pinkie said giddily as she presented the coin to Jacob. He takes it. "Oh neat! Where did you find it?" "Spike and I found it in the gooey remains of the marshmallow man." "Oh, perfect. You did great." He looks at the logo of the medal and finds there was a stylized ZP on it. "Hmm" He goes up and inserts the token and the portal opens to a world with a different style. They saw what looked to be a school hosting to many different creatures. "Hold it!!" Whisper spoke up, "I need to tag along. I am Nate's butler after all." "Sorry, good sir. But we've got max players." They all dove through the portal and Whisper tried to fly after them. "But that's unacceptable!" He was about to enter but it closed before he could catch up. "Oh, poo." World: Zoophobia Within the underworld, A small demon with blue fur and red streaks were going over soul counts to two of his fellow demons. He gave a short grr and spoke. "Okay!" He spoke, "Let's try this again... Who is counting the souls arriving on the east side of hell today?" "I am!" Said a red one. "Alright. Bob is on the east side. How about the west?" No one volunteered. "Anyone?" "Well... Major Styx... sir... Carl was on the west side, but he was fed to hell hounds by a demon gang... Ya know how things happen over there." "DEMON GANG!? Well fine, so who wants to replace him then?" Both Bob and his compatriot didn't know what to say, then the other one spoke up. "Well sir..." he said, "The west side is where the worst demons are... They make our jobs with the souls kinda... hard... Shouldn't somebody more... I dunno... strong-" "How come I am just now learning of this unruly demon stuff?!" "Well, you never come to our faculty meetings..." Bob said but that resulted in Styx giving him a ticked look. "Do you know how much trouble I will be in if Lucifer finds out are being counted?!!" A tall figure then loomed over him. The demons were scared out of their wits about who this person, standing behind the blue imp. "Souls are not being... what!?" It said in a deep, commanding voice. Styx turned and went from anger to panic to see... "OH, MY FREAKING GOSH, SATAN!!!!" The devil wore a dark red cloak and had a demonic, skull-like face with a fiery glow from the eyes and mouth. "Wha-what are you doing here, sire?" "I was looking for my son... What is it about souls...?" Styx was about to say something about that but quickly changed the subject. "You said you were looking for Damian?" "Yess.. He was absent for his weekend performance. My wife was rather irate." "The queen? Oh, how dreadful... I have not seen the prince all day, sire!" "You are sure you do not have any idea where Damian might be?" "N-no sire! Of course not!" "Fine." Then the unholy lord takes his leave. "Report to me if you find him..." "Of course, sire!" Styx wore a fake smile when Satan was leaving and when the devil left, he turned and went to angry again. He knew one person to know where Satan's kid is. "Tentadora!!!" He then stormed off to her room kindly ask her. He burst open the door. "Tentadora! Where-" She wasn't there and he was disgusted by how pink and lustful the room was. "Woman get back here and tell me where the dark prince is!!!" Meanwhile, in the city of Safe Haven. The team arrived at the Zoo-Phenix Academy, good thing no one saw them when they came out of the rift. Jacob's new form is a demon that had his colors when he was a pony. Rainbow Dash was a wolf, and Pinkie was a pink poodle. "Where are we?" Nate asked. "Safe Haven, the Zoophobia universe. It took me long enough to know." "Another comic and I look good as a wolf," Rainbow commented. "Let's get to work." Jacob pulls out his tablet with the radar on, the arrow pointed... nowhere. The tablet then showed a dead battery symbol and turned off. "Darn it. Guess we'll have to split up." "Split up?" Pinkie said. "Yea, we'll cover the school more. Start here then we can search the city and when I get back to Vorton, I'll be charging my tablet. Rainbow, you go with Pinks. Nate, you're with me. Let's get-" They were about split when a woman wearing pink and pink hair walked past them, carrying an unopened bag of snacks. "Scratch splitting up, we're going to follow her." "Why, love at first sight?" Pinkie asked but only got an irritated glare from Jacob before he flicked her nose. "F double minus." Then they left to follow. The group kept a good distance from the pink lady as she turned a corner. As they went around the said corner, they bumped into a character that looked like a kangaroo. "Oh. Really sorry about that." "That's alright." It said in a feminine voice, but when she saw him, she got a bit nervous. "Uh, who are you guys?" "I'm Jacob and this is the not-so-average Nate Addams, The incredible Rainbow Dash, and the loveable Pinkie Pie." "Aw, Jakey, that's the sweetest thing to say about me." Pinkie said. "Who are you miss?" "I'm Kayla." She answered. "Hold that thought." Jacob then tapped his head trying to remember. Kayla is a girl of many talents. As a star performer, the class president and an extremely social and responsible student at ZPA, her passions shine through her dedication to education. While Kayla is often soft-spoken and patient, push her too far and you will be in for a rather unpleasant surprise. Zill is often reminded of this the hard way. "Oh, I've heard of you. You're the class president. Right?" "Why yes. Also, a fencer, an actress, and other things I don't need to mention." "You wouldn't happen to see a woman in a pink dress walk past here, have you?" "Yeah, she is headed towards the film club. Why?" "Jacob." Rainbow spoke. "Not now Dash." Jacob said, "Just business. Nothing more." "Jacob." "What?" He turned to see what she wanted him to see. It was trouble. It was a Corrupted wearing a torn straitjacket and an iron cage on its head. It had claw-like nails that looked sharp enough to slice through flesh, like a hot knife through butter. "Looks like a crazy one." The thing then cackled like a mad man and it spoke. "JACKAL!!" It spoke. "These names. Where have I heard them before." The Jackal then jumped and started crawling on the ceiling. Behind him, more appeared out of the shadows of open lockers and the darkness of the Janitor's room. At least twenty of them swarmed the group, too many to fight. The things leaped at them... but didn't strike. In that very moment, an Anthro Fox with red and black fur sliced through them with a burning Guandao. It stood in front of the five remaining jackals in a Chinese battle stance and looks back at the group. "Are you alright?" It said in a male voice. "Yeah, who are you?" Nate asked. "How about the coolest thing I ever saw!" Rainbow said. "Santa?" Pinkie asked. "Thanks for your help. I'm..." Jacob began but the fox interrupted him. "Prince Nebula. I know. Shall we fight together?" "Name please." "After our battle." Then the fox charged headfirst into the fight then the rest follows. Kayla and Nate teamed up to deal with one. Kayla had her weapon from fencing class, but the Jackal dodged her every strike. "Hold on. I got an idea." Nate said as he pulled out a D'wanna's Yokai medal. "Come on out my friend! Calling D'wanna! Yokai Medal, Do your thing!" "Summoning Mysterious! Boo-shiggy, boo-shiggy, Boogie -Woogie, Cling clang delirious, Mysterious!" "D'wanna." Nate summoned the Yokai. "D'wanna, make this thing stop fighting!" "I d'wanna, I d'wanna, I d'wanna do this!" He repeatedly bonked his head with his stick and unleashed a cloud from his mouth. The cloud went inside Jackle and now it stopped fighting, allowing Kayla to attack. She jumps over it and strikes from behind then it falls into a pile of dust. Pinkie Pie pulled out her party cannon and started shooting at one of them but it was too quick, even for her. When it was up to her face... she gave it a gift a zipped out of sight. The gift was TNT so BOOM!!! Rainbow Dash stuck one in a trash can and walked off. Jacob and the fox faced two. Fox shoved his weapon into one, lifted it and blasted it with a fireball. Jacob had a dead eye attack, he shot multiple shots at the freak till it was dead. "That was fun." Pinkie said. "Well," The fox began as his weapon vanished in a fire, "now that's done. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Blazleo, The Mystic of Fire. It is an honor to finally meet you, your Majesty." "Uh, I'm Jacob. I just look like Nebula. Anyway, have you seen any Equestrians here?" Blazleo thought for a second then recalled something. "Well, I did see a woman in the art room, commenting on how they looked. She had lovely, purple hair." "Rarity!" The MLP characters shouted. "Lead the way, friend." Jacob said, and they marched forth only to be stopped by the kangaroo girl. "Hold it." she said, "You are not going anywhere. until I get some answers." "We'll tell you as soon as we find our friend." Jacob said. "No, I need them RIGHT NOW!" The sudden rise in her voice meant that she was serious. "Alright, here's the quick one. There's a really bad dude, has an army of bad guys and has been opening rifts between dimensions." "And they took our friends." Rainbow said. "That's terrible. One of them is here?" "Yeah, wanna come?" "No, I need to tell Zechariah about this." "Alright, you do that and meet us at the entrance, ok?" "Sure." Then the team Kayla parted ways. The head peacekeepers need to know of this threat. But they didn't see a bat hiding in the lockers, listening in. Then it flew off and out of school. Meanwhile, in the art room. Rarity, a white fox, stopped and looked at a painting that looked like the one she had seen from her times in Canterlot. Then the doors burst open and the team saw their friend. "Rarity!" She turned to see them and ran over. "Darlings!" She said as her friends, minus Blazleo, Nate, and D'wanna. "How did you know I was here?" "I told them you were here." Blazleo said as he steps up. "This is Blazleo. He's a new friend." Jacob said, "Now that we know you're alright Rares, could you please tell us what these bad guys want?" "I don't know how they're important, the items they're collecting are called power elements. That's all I know, your majesty." "Please don't call me that. Let's guess what's so important in this world." "Well, you won't have long to guess." A male voice said out of nowhere but it was all too familiar. "Joker." They turned to him at the door, holding two, one-handed chainsaws. One in each hand. "Yes, it's me. The Joker. And I'm ready for round two." He started juggling his weapons. "Rares, go hide. Leave the clown to us." Then she went to go hide as the cackling crook charged forth at them. They quickly scattered as he slammed his weapons to the ground, giving Blazleo a chance to hit him. He quickly zipped up to him and he got shot by a sneak attack by Joker. Jacob grabbed a painting as the clown pulled his weapons off the floor. He ran over and slammed it on Joker. Leaving him open for attacks. "Let him have it!!" They let out a barrage of hits on the enemy until he broke free and slipped out. "My turn." Blaze said as he saw the clown slither away. He summoned a magic circle and aimed it right at Joker. "Flaming Arrows!" A barrage of fire arrows was shot out of the circle and one of them set the clown's shoulder on fire. "OWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!" Joker said as he put the fire out, "Let me put that out for you!" He aimed his flower and squirted acid at him, but he missed his face. Pinkie Pie charged at him with a war hammer and Joker grabbed one of her hands and placed it in one of his and he electrocuted her. "Put it there, pal." No one noticed a woman with hair like blue parrot saw the whole fight got underway and left quickly to get help. Joker then opened a rift and a few of his goons flew out to help him fight. "Oh look, my friends came to see me! Little old me!" The group faced off with the goons and Joker joined in again. Putting aside his chainsaws and pulling out a giant hammer, he began whacking at his opponents. As for Rainbow, He was too quick for him. She kept Throwing punching at him and running off with her unmatchable wing speed. Jacob aimed his revolver at the bad guy and shot him to the ground. The group attacked him while he was down, but he crawled out and headed back to the door. "Well, it's been fun! Time to take my leave!" He was about to step through the door when suddenly two giant Parrots came in. One had red feathers while the other had blue feathers. They both guarded the way out, in an offensive pose. As Joker was surprised by their sudden entrance, Jacob came up and pinned him to the floor. "Alright, you have ten seconds to tell me why you and the bad guys are here." "Like you want to know." Jacob held his revolver to his head. "I actually do. Tell me." "Alright, The boy. Son of Satan. That's all. Leave a message after the beep." Jacob then stepped off him. A vortex opened and the clown made the Goofy scream and it closed behind him. "Damian?" The blue parrot said in a female voice, "Why was he after him?" "I don't know, but he's in trouble." The red one said in a male voice, "We need to tell Zechariah about this." Then both of them shrunk down into human forms and one of them was the woman from earlier. "WOW!" Pinkie exclaimed, "That was soooooo COOL!!" "Calm it, Pinks." Jacob said, "You just fought a crazy clown who just burnt a hole in my shirt with his squirt flower and I really liked that shirt." "When did he do that?" Nate asked. "Don't ask." "Where did he get one of those?" Rainbow asked. "Well, Joker has an array of deadly tools. Squirt flower included. You can come out, Rares." She then emerged from under a table. "I think I got a bit of paint on me." She spoke. "No, you look lovely as always." "Aw, you charmer." Jacob looks over to blank canvas with a symbol of three balloons, he hadn't seen those in a while. You're not melting. "Excuse me?" The woman spoke up, "Who are you?" They all introduce themselves to the woman. "Well, I'm Jackie, a drama instructor and this is my husband, Alanzo." "But you can call me Al. It's shorter." Al said. "Your accent." Nate said, "Is that from Brazil?" "Why, yes, it is. Now, could you explain what is going on?" "I think it would be wise to tell this to Zech and the other ZPA staff members." Jacob suggested, "I asked Kayla to tell them to meet us at the front entrance." The two teachers offered to escort them there and they accepted. In the Temple of the Banished, Joker was shoved into his cell by the guards. "I expected more from you, clown." Kronus said as he stared at him. "Well, I didn't know that those kids are as tough as Batsy." Joker said as the cell door closes. "If that's the case, then I'll get bigger help. Send in the monsters." The guard gave a salute and left. "I believe someone is ready for round two." The ZPA staff were gathered at the entrance, waiting for the group of characters and the news they brought. Speaking of which, the group arrived with the two feathery teachers. A giant cheetah approached Jacob and spoke. "So, you are the new students." He said and Jacob nodded, "My name is Zechariah, vice-principal of the school." A woman that wore an outfit that resembles an animal tamers suit, she came up and stood next to the big cat. Jacob caught a quick glimpse at a poster with a sword symbol on it. Damian, tell me where your father's halo is. "Name's Carrie." She said in a country accent, "I teach creature studies." A fox, almost as big as Zech, approached Rarity and wrapped his tail around her. "My name is Fabian." He said, "And may I just say that you look perfectly fine, madam." Rarity chuckled a bit about his comment. A red-haired woman wearing a black dress hovered next to Zech. "I am Salvia, Head Mistress." she said in a dull voice. Then finally, a regular human female walked up and extended her hand to Jacob. She looked a bit frightened. "H-hello." She said, "I'm Cameron. Guidance Counselor." Jacob noticed she was frightened and thought he could make her feel better if she wasn't the only human here. "I know how you feel, Cam." He said, "Don't worry. We don't bite." Jacob saw a winged shadow being cast from the sun outside onto the floor. Then the owner of the shadow burst through the window. "But, that would!" It was a woman with big, batwings, and fangs. "Vampire Queen." "You again!?" Carrie shouted, "You got a lot of guts to show your face here!" "Lovely to see you too." The vampire said, "Just thought I drop in for a bite." "Huh." Jacob said, "Vampire pun from a vampire. I like that" Pinkie giggled. "Hee-hee! Me too!" She spoke. The queen then looks to them. "What have we here?" She said, "The royal vermin? No matter, you're the reason I'm here and you aren't going anywhere." The group readied for a fight. "Oh yeah?" Jacob said, "We'll see about that. Fight on!" Jacob let loose a hailstorm of gunshots but she dodged every bullet. Once she was close, Jacob and Rainbow did a link attack. He grabbed onto her cyan back and made twenty dive-bombs at the vampire with light speed. For a final strike, he charged up his gun, jumped off, and unleashed a big bang shot. The queen took on so much damage she had to retreat in a swarm of bats. Ten jackals had spawned in her place. Carrie took out her lasso and tied up five of them and Fabian took out the others by wrestling them. The vampire queen spawned. "That was impressive, Prince Nebula. You fought like demons." "That's a good name. Speed Demon. Let's use that." "How did we just do that?" Rainbow asked. "I bet you expecting me to say 'We're awesome'. But the real answer is that we just combined our abilities to do that. Now, enough talk lets fight." The queen swooped down and nearly tried to bite Pinkie, but she was hiding behind the writer. "Hey! Did you miss me?" Get back in there, or else. "Or else what?" I won't write about you hosting another party in any other of my stories. She gasps heavily. "You wouldn't dare!" I would. "Alright fine." She then jumps on top of the queen's head, stunning her. Salvia used a spell to conjure lightning and hit the uninvited guest. Jacob struck her multiple times, but she caught it and kicked Jacob to the floor. She still held the sword and was about to plunge it into him until... "Hey, Meanie Queenie!" Pinkie threw a bucket of water in her face and she was just standing there... annoyed. "What was that?" She asked. "You're not melting. It happened in those Vampire movies I saw." "Pinkie, it works with Holy Water, not regular water." Jacob said. "You fool." Said the queen, "You're my dinner!" She drops the sword and tackles, biting her neck in the process. Big mistake. Carrie lassoed the Queen, then Jacob, out of sheer anger, got up and jabbed through her and into the wall with his sword. "That hurts, but it won't hold me." "I want some answers, now. Why do you guys need a Yokai Watch gear and Satan's Halo?" "Why don't you answer Kronus yourself, when the time is right?" A hundred Corrupted appeared. This looked bad. Meanwhile, putting away his school supplies in his locker. A young man, unknown species, started his way to the exit. A girl with big, red hair rushed past him in fear. "The school is under attack!" She screamed. The boy was confused as to what she was talking about, that is until it came flying past him. A Corrupted zipped past him and slid up against the lockers, with a lead pipe within its hand's tight grip. The boy walked up closer to it and Kayla stopped him. "Zill," she said, "stay away from that thing." The boy, or Zill, looks confused to her. "Why?" He asked, "Looks pretty dead to me." The Corrupted sprung to life at swung its weapon at him but missed. Zill didn't like that very much. He growled in anger then swung a fireball, disintegrating it. Jacob came surfing down the hall on a Corrupted while shooting it. He jumped off as it crashed into the locker and turned to dust. "That was fun." He said as he ran back to the entrance. Zill and Kayla then followed. When they get there, all the enemies are defeated and Queenie is restrained in Carrie's lasso. "Now that is what I call a boss fight." "You are getting stronger by the minute, Nebula." Said the Vampire Queen, "Mark my words, you will die before you save everyone." A vortex opens and reverts into a cloud of bats to enter it. "Dang it." Carrie said, "That's the second time she escaped." "But her master won't be happy about her failure." Blazleo commented. Carrie was quick to lasso all the outworlders. "Alright, spit it out. What in Sam Hill is going on here?" "Real bad dudes are opening rifts between worlds." Jacob said, "That's pretty much it." "That's bad, right?" Cameron said as she stepped out of the janitor's closet. "It's terrible." Zechariah said, "This will break the sacred laws that protect Safe Haven." "It might be a good idea to go find Damian before they do." Jacob said. "That could be a good plan. Carrie and Fabian go with them to find Damian. The rest of us will stay to protect our students. Cameron, inform the police of our situation." Cam nods and goes to her office to call the cops. Jacob's team, along with Fabian and Carrie left to find Satan's son. Unknown to them, Natasha and Slappy watched them leave from the rooftop. "You know what to do, Firewood." She spoke. Slappy chuckled maliciously before he vanished without a trace. Meanwhile, across the district. "I'm In the market place! AW YISSSS!!" a little demon exclaimed. The demon was young with a brown fur, Wearing a black shirt with red trim. His eyes were tar black with one red dot for a pupil. He wasn't alone, he had four friends with him. One was a boy with blonde hair and tail, wearing a green sweater. The second was a girl in a purple-hooded dress. The last two were twin, biped wolves. Both were wearing a white tux, except one wore a black bowtie and the other wore a fedora and red bowtie. The demon looks like the green boy. "Dude! I've never been outside of the school up here on the surface. This place is colorful as shizz!! It's-" Then something caught his eye. "-No way." Something that everyone likes. "COMIC BOOKS!!!!" He zoomed over to the stall like hell on wheels. When he got there, he picked up the first thing he saw. "Aww man, is this a new issue?" "Mhm." the owner said without looking up from his book. "Dude, Addi, check this one out you'd like it." The demon said, shouldering the boy in the green sweater, or Addison. "It's got snakes n' stuff! You like that stuff, right?" Then suddenly a voice called out. "Sinners!!" it said. Everyone turns to see who shouted. Turns out it was a white biped fox from the church. He was handing out copies of The Bible in a stall just across from them. "Excuse us?" Addison asked. "Good evening my young sinners! reading those blasphemous texts is a one-way ticket to eternal damnation, my friends! The only text you kids should be reading is the holy word of the lord!" The demon kid didn't put his comic down. "Yeeeeaaah.... heh. I doubt that." He said, "Entirely!" "Kinda rude to shout out accusations at random strangers doncha think?" Addison asked. "I have every right to judge you in the eye of the lord!" The priest said, "As a member of 'The Saved' I just want to help your children change your awful, sinful ways so yo-" his sentence was cut short when a loud crash came from beside them. A large shipping container was standing on the empty street. The title "Hasley's Toys" was painted on the side. The doors slowly swung open and curiosity got the best of the demon child. The sound he made when he peeked into the container was only a scream of terror. The group had been walking for hours and hadn't found Damian anywhere. That is until they heard the sound of a terrorized mob echoing down the street. "He must be there." Jacob said then they charged ahead. When they got there, it was madness. Toy robots are attacking citizens with laser eyes. "What in tarnation are those things?" Carrie asked. "Annihilator 3000." Jacob answered, "Those are from the Goosebumps books. They're toys designed to kill people." "HELP!! HELP ME!!!" Someone screamed from within the chaos, a boy's voice that the teachers knew. "That's Damian!" Fabian said the group charged forth through the chaos. They zoomed through the crowd, dodging the toys' deadly gaze. They manage to find the demon kid in the black shirt. Only to be held captive by two zombie-like creatures and a ventriloquist dummy. They quickly hid behind a pile of boxes before any of the enemies saw them. "Oh, crud." Jacob said, "Graveyard Ghouls and Slappy." "More monsters that're from those books?" "Yeah, pretty much." They then saw a driverless car roll in. "There's The Haunted Car. I bet they're taking him someplace." "Jacob, do you always pick a really bad time?" Slappy said as he turned his head in a one-eighty-degree turn. "Aw crud." "Next time, just find clues to where we went off to." The car shined its light on them for a brief moment. When the lights dimmed, Slappy was in the driver's seat and Damian was in the passenger seat. "Now, stand still so I can make you into roadkill!" He cackled madly as the car burned rubber, but it wasn't moving. Everyone looked up to see a giant, robotic, pink woman that has a giant buzz-saw for a right hand. She had one foot on the back of the car "Well, didn't see that coming." The robot ripped off the roof with her left hand and grabbed Damian. "Touch the prince again and I'll turn you into firewood!" Said the robot as she placed the little demon into Styx's arms. Then something whacked her from behind, making her drop the car and Slappy. Turns out it was a giant praying mantis. Rarity, Rainbow, and Pinkie screamed at the top of their lungs when they saw that monster. "I don't remember reading about that thing!" Jacob screamed before it barfed on a nearby exterminator truck. "Oh, now I remember." "Styx, take Damian and get out of here. I'll deal with the bug." "Tenta, no!" Damian said. "Hey, this way!" Jacob shouted and they left the scene. "Hey, Natty, go get them!" Slappy called to the she-devil peering from the roof. The group found themselves in an empty parking lot. Well, almost empty. "Over there!" Rainbow pointed to a truck, big enough for everyone. "Good eye, Dash!" Jacob said. Then from the sky, Natasha landed between them and the vehicle. "Oh, you ready for another round?" To answer that, she drew her swords and readied herself for a fight. "Alright, come on!" Then she charged to... the truck? She ripped off the door and entered it and used a dagger to start the vehicle. "You should start running." She said as she drove the car into a position that was aiming at them. "Aw crud." Natasha drove at them and they dodged that one. Blazeleo jumped on and ripped the roof off and tried to stab her with his weapon. She grabbed it and threw him off. Jacob brought out his gun and tried to aim at the gas canister, but she was driving too fast. He kept missing. Nate acted fast and summoned a tough friend. "Come on out, my friend!" he shouted, "Calling Robonyan! Yokai medal, do your thing!" "Summoning: Tough! Rough Stuff! Rough Bluff! Red Ban! Jacket Stand! Bling Blang Tough!" "Robonyan!" said the robot-feline, "State your request clearly." "Robonyan, think you can stop that truck?" "I will do just that." Robonyan opens a time vortex and leaves through it. "I'll be back." He leaves through it and comes back with a car boot. Natasha tried to ram Jacob into a wall but she missed. This gave Robonyan an opportunity to boot the truck. Once the job was done, Robonyan vanished just like D'wanna some time ago. Jacob was at a good distance to shoot the gas tank. He aimed and... BOOM!!! The truck exploded in a blazing inferno. "Well, that deals with her." Jacob said, "Let's get the heck outta here." They all left the lot. But they didn't see Natasha stepping out of the truck, still alive without a single burn upon her skin. World: Dark Dimension Starlight decided to explore the ruins of the village surrounding the temple. She found a rather interesting treasure trove of mystic artifacts amongst the derelict buildings. Such as history books, old paintings, and ancient relics that Equestria has never seen before. She then entered the next structure, which, in appearance, used to be a clinic. The Main Hall was littered with broken furniture and empty, glass medicine bottles. She found her way upstairs and saw that it was somepony's home. She found a wall covered with kid drawings, some of them were of sunny days and flower covered meadows and others were of friends. Among them was one with an older stallion, a mare, and a filly. The stallion was a unicorn with a multi-colored mane and brown coat. His cutie mark was a DNA strand. She recognized the stallion. That was Dr. RNA. The mare next to him was a Pegasus had an orange coat with a lovely, yellow mane. Her cutie mark was that of a phoenix. The little filly was a unicorn that had a white coat and purple mane with a yellow streak. She then put together the pieces. This was his clinic. RNA's clinic. He used to own this place and had a family. She heard faint, hoof steps in a nearby room. It might be one of the slaves, but she wanted to be sure. "Hello?" She called out and that made the sound silent. She entered the nearest room, the filly's room. The entire place was just as bad as the rest of the home. Broken toys and torn books were scattered across the floor. Shifting her eyes, she swore that she heard the sound of hooves in here. Then she heard shuffling coming from the wardrobe. She slowly crept towards it, being as careful and quiet as she can be. She used her magic to open the doors to the wardrobe and... nothing. Empty. All except for a strange, little purple and white mouse. The little thing was staring back at her with cute, beady eyes. As if they were saying 'Help me'. "Starlight!" The sound of Wrath's voice brought her back to reality. She began to back out to the exit. When she emerged from the building, she saw the sin standing there with a stern look. "What do you think you're doing?" "I-I was-" she tried to say something but his temper interrupted her. "Don't you know better than waltz among these pathetic lowlifes!?" "I was wanting to see what was out here." "DON'T GIVE ME EXCUSES!!!! Now get back to the temple and never come out here again. CLEAR!?" She quickly nodded and they both left for the temple. But neither of them noticed a mouse tail, slithering into Starlight's cloak pocket.