(Credit for image goes to Rhino)
Well, I'm definitely psyched for this. Time for my first real one on one fight with another pony in a while, against another pony with wind powers no less.
For those of who don't remember for whatever reason, I challenged Atom to a fight to see who's best wind pony... Why did I say it like that?
Anywway, why am I reminding you of something so recent? Because I don't trust some of you to remember on your own. But that's besides the point.
After agreeing to the fight, we had taken a bit of time to rest up before gathering up the others. Not everypony was available, but we were able to get just about everypony besides Fern, Thunderlane, Rarity, Fleur, Twilight, and Fluttershy. Fluttershy said she didn't want to see us fighting and she had some animals to tend to, Fern had to work, Thunderlane wanted to hang with Fern, Twilight had some studies to catch up on with Spike, and both Rarity and Fleur said they didn't want to risk getting dirty and that fighting is barbaric or something dumb like that. So typical.
Right now we're all heading out to the open field where we agreed to have the fight at. Are you excited? Because I'm excited. I've never been so excited. And I'm really starting to sound like Pinkie right now, but I don't even care!
Hmm, speaking of Pinkie...
We reach the outskirts of the town, clear of anything we could possibly damage during the fight. I look everypony over and notice our pinky party planner missing.
"Hey, where did Pinkie disappear to?" I ask.
"I think she said something about grabbing something at Sugarcube Corner and then catching up with us." Sunny says.
"Grabbing something? Like what?"
"Who knows? With it being Pinkie Pie, it could be anything." Dash says.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, everypony!" Pinkie says as she walks up from the distance, pushing some kind of cart on wheels.
"Pinkie, what in the world is that?"
She stops the cart infront of everypony. "This? This is my specialized Pinkie Pie Concession Stand." she presses a red button on the top, making the whole cart pop open into a concession stand filled with the kind of food you'd see being sold at sporting events like popcorn and cotton candy. "You just CAN'T watch something this awesome without a snack. I've got popcorn, caotton candy, pretzels, those little bags filled with peanuts, ooh, and my favorite, CHURROES! There's nothing like a good churro. Anypony want one?"
"You got any coffee on that thing?" Vine asks.
"Sure, I installed just for you, Viney."
"Viney?"
"You got any chimicherrychongas?" I ask excitedly.
"Blue!" Atom shouts.
"Oh, right. We're about to fight. My bad."
Atom facehoofs. "Unbelieveable."
"Just go over there and get ready." I say impatiently, pointing my hoof off to a distant spot.
He nods as we each walk a few good yards away from everypony else, as well from as each other. Atom and I look at each intently, both of us eagerly ready to get started. Tensions run high as we both stare at each other in silence, having a bit of a battle of the minds, trying to psych each other out.
"Dark." I say.
"What?" he asks.
"You're acting as the referee, so get us started."
He smirks. "With pleasure." he walks over, getting an eaquel distance between Atom and I. "This match will be between Atomic Vortex and Blue Breeze. The rules are... THERE ARE NO RULES! You two crazy crazy and give us a darn good fight. Now FIGHT!" Dark uses his hooves to make the sound of thunder to act as the start signal.
Atom graps his sword hilt and takes it off as he starts focusing energy into it, once again creating the double-helix shaped wind blade. While he is doing that, I flare my wings and focus energy in them as well, making them glow with white aura.
Atom smirks at me. "Interesting. You think you're ready for this?"
I smirk back. "Nope, I know I'm ready. Royal Guard or not, you're going down."
"Then stop talking and come at me, bro."
"You got it!"
"Let's go!" we both shout before we lunge at each other.
Here we go.
(Blue Breeze vs. Atomic Vortex. BEGIN!)
(Credit for image goes to Rhino)
Atom and I charge at each other full speed, blades ready. Instead of waiting to get up close, I try to throw Atom off by firing some Wing Waves in his direction. Atom isn't thrown off at all as he shoots off a strong gust of wind that disrupts the waves into nothing but small, white particles.
With the distance between us now closed up, I charge my wings again as we get into a clash of blades. We continue to trade blades, Atom doing surprisingly well at keeping up with only one sword compared to my two.
Atom goes in for a horizontal swipe towards my head, but I duck under and come back up with a headbutt to his midsection, knocking him away and making him drop Breeze.
I smirk at him as he gets up. "Now let's see you try to fight me without your sword." I go charging at him again.
"Oh, you haven't seen anything yet." he warns as he gets ready for me.
As I come in, I start delivering punches to him which he dodges. After I go for another punch, he trips me up. With an open opportunity, Atom focuses energy in his throat.
"VORTEX BLAST!"
"WOAH!"
I huge wave of concentrated air shouts out from Atom's voice, sending me flying across the way before I catch myself with my wings.
I just got Fus Ro Dah'ed.
With me now a good distance away, Atom runs over and grabs Breeze as he charges it up once again. He goes into to the air to follow me as we take the fight into the air.
We go at our sword fight once again, this time doing several flybies as we meet each other. During one flyby, a stop as we clash rather than continue flying and I grab Atom in a bearhug.
I smirk. "You're not getting away from me."
I fly up a bit higher into the air before turning upside towards the ground.
"Atom!" Applejack shouts from the sidelines.
"Blue, what the hay are you doing?!" Dash shouts.
We start falling faster and faster with Atom still stuck in my hold. But instead of a big thud when we reach the ground, a tornado shouts up, throwing us back and making me release Atom.
I shake my head to get rid of the dizzy feeling. "What the buck was that?"
Atom smirks as he looks at me. "My Cyclone Trap."
"Your what?"
"Cyclone Trap. I placed a flat tornado and the ground that was set to go off whenever something touched it. Apparently I picked a good place to set it."
I growl in frustration. I shoot off more waves of wind that I quickly follow behind. Atom uses Breeze to block the attacks, but is unable to stop me as I come in and clench the blade. I bring up a hiindleg, which i use to bring the blade down and out of the way. With a wide open shot now, I charge up a hoof and deliver a hard blow directly to Atom's face, smashing his shades and sending him down to the ground where his body leaves cracks on impact.
Everypony on the sidelines gasps in shock. I fly back down to the ground, a satisfying look on my face.
Atom groggily gets back. As he gets up, he notices he's no longer wearing his shades. He looks around worriedly before looking over to see the broken remains of the frames lying on the ground. He slowly gets up and goes over to them before picking them up and looking at them.
"My shades..." he says, deadpanned.
"Serves you right." I say.
"My shades!" he says with more anger.
I raise an eyebrow at him. "Um, Atom, you okay?"
He glares at me angrily with his teeth gritted. "NOPONY BREAKS MY SHADES!"
Oh buck. I did something bad again.
Atom grabs Breeze again and reels back far. "VORTEX BLAST!" he swings it hard, combining with his voice to send out an incredibly strong wind that throws me back far.
With me out of the way, Atom starts charging miniature tornadoes around his hooves, similar to the kind I can make. Once they're fully charged, he puts them on the ground and uses them to launch himself in the air with incredible speed. The tornadoes put on the ground merge together as they start to form one big circle on the ground.
Once the circle on the ground is finished expanding, Atom flies towards the tround with Breeze ready. As he lands, he stabs Breeze into the ground, making a big tornado that shoots up into the air before being absorbed into the sword and changing it from a double-helix shape into a tornado.
With the move finished, Atom glares at me. "Tempest Blade."
I look on in fear at him. This is not good.
I get my wings ready in an attempt to defend myself as Atom comes flying at me. Despite the blade becoming a tornado, it's still fully capable of slicing and dicing as sparks fly as it connects with my wings.
I trip on a rock as I fall back on the ground and Atom pins me down. His anger fuels his strength as he forces my wings further and further down.
Is it really going to end like this?
The others have enough as Drax jumps in and restrains Atom by the forelegs just before he breaks through my defenses.
(End battle music)
"Hey, let me go!" Atom oreders as he struggles.
"No way!" Drax shouts. "Not until you calm down!"
I breathe hard as I get up. "Thanks, Drax. You make sure to keep him away from me. He's crazy."
"Buck you! You broke my shades!"
AJ walks up from behind them, a saddened and even scared expression on her face. "Atom, just calm down. There ain't no need to be actin' like this."
From looking at AJ, Atom's breathing starts to normalize as he calms down. "Drax, you can let me go. I promise not to lash out at Blue."
Drax raises an eyebrow as he slowly lets him go. "Okay, but don't try anything funny. I'm not afraid to put you down."
Atom and I glare at each other. AJ rests a hoof on Atom's sholder. "Let's just go home."
Atom says nothing as he looks at her and simply nods his head. The two then start walking together. Everypony remains speechless at what they had just witnessed, even Pinkie has nothing to say.
I slowly get up and dust myself off as I glare at Atom as he walks away. I then walk away from everypony else, not saying even one word.