The Code of the Villains

by Kaliann25

Rule # 3

Under Luminositè’s toy house/ Mr. Z and Dolly’s headquarters:

Luminositè was working in her Nano-machines with her eyes on the microscope while manipulating miniature tools with her magic. No matter how hard she tried, the same thing always happened: she couldn’t repel pure magic without an extra power source; and if she added one, her Nano-machines would stop being ‘Nano’. What a problem.

“I need more power, but how do I get it?”

“If you ask me, you forced the limits of the impossible with half-millimeter batteries; but I already have the solution” said Bright Spark getting into the lab.

“Is that so? I knew I could count on you. Then what is it?”

Bright shrugged and deliberately slow he stroked Lumi’s fabric as it was one of his briefcases that contained the Z-Bots. Luminositè rolled her eyes, as always her friend was about to give a dramatic effect to his actions. It was kind of annoying.

And effectively, he turned off the lights and with a faint purple light over him, he made an ironic smile; and put a hoof on his mane to make a perfect pose. Lumi sighed and tired of his stupidity, threw him a screwdriver to his head. Bullseye!

“I get it, I get it” said Bright rubbing his head. “Your problem is the power source, well, you simply have to put it elsewhere, not directly on the Nano-machines”

“Oh, you mean the exoskeleton” said Lumi understanding.

“Bingo!”

“Okay, let’s go to work! Can you take care of the power source?” Said Lumi.

“Sure! And you know what the best part is? With an extra power source we can add more gadgets to the suits”

“That’s marveleux!”

Bright kicked one of his briefcases activating one of the Z-Bots that gave him his toolbox. Bright then put on a pair of welder-goggles. The two of them had a long work to do, easy but long. If they were actually planning to defy the Crown, they had to be prepared.

“That’s all for today!” Said Bright to her friend. “I must go before mom gets worried… and… what you’re doing?”

Lumi was busy sewing what it seemed like rag doll that looked exactly like Dolly.

“What it seems I’m doing? I have to prepare my dollies for the show, and I want them to look exactly like me”

“Good luck then. See you around!”

Canterlot Archives, two days after:

A gray-coated soldier was patrolling his assigned hallway, right the one in front of Clover the Clever’s wing (that was right under Star Swirl’s) when somepony called at him:

“Excuse me! Excuse me!”

The soldier turned, it was a pony dressed in a black spandex bodysuit with purple details and a black helmet with purple visor.

“This is a restricted area! Only with Royal Authorization from this point” Said the Guard half confused at the pony’s strange attire.

The strange pony took the soldier by the neck and through him destroying the door.

“Thank you for opening the door for me, I’ll recommend you with your superiors”

The guard got up and jumped towards the strange pony with a sword, but it bounced on strange suit. The stranger shrugged.

“If that’s all what you have…”

The soldier used his magic first to shot a direct attack, then to reinforce his sword and tried again, but nothing happened.

“Seriously, this is getting old” mocked Z.

Then the guard used a spell-alarm calling for help. Immediately more Guards trotted towards the room while Z covered his ears.

“Damn it, make it stop!” Complained the villains.

“Too late! You’ll never get away with this!”

“I’m pretty sure I will, but please can you shut up your alarm? I like mine better!” Said Z making a sign.

A Z-Bot came in breaking through a wall, but unlike the others, this one was equipped with two huge speakers that started to play electronic music as loud as in a disco.

“That’s how you call for attention stylishly! Now about your alarm please…”

The guard obeyed. Seriously, what was wrong with this dude? More soldiers arrived, but they froze at the sight of the enormous machine but Z tranquilized them.

“Easy my friends, this one is only my walking disco. Come on, let’s get this party started!”

A couple of lasers came from the robot’s eyes along with artificial fog turning the Archives into a Friday night disco.

“On the other hoof, you better take care of these ones!” Said Z throwing a couple of more briefcases that turned into Z-Bots.

The machines caught the guards into their metallic claws and threw them away. The pegasi tried to attack from the air eluding the robots’ while stabbing them with their spears, but obviously the weapons only scratched the metal surface. Some of the soldiers managed to avoid the machines and tried to fight Z directly, but one more times their weapons proved to be ineffective against the suit and Z answered with a powerful electrical current.
Seeing the battle was over, Z walked to the archives and at his sign, one robot followed him and opened its chest revealing a small compartment where Z could put every spell-scroll he wanted. But soon enough the shelves reacted to the intruder and turned into solid walls that began to close over master and machine. Z looked fascinated how he was going to get crushed into the security system and giggled, he was having a very good time.

On the upper floor, the guards who protected the wing of Star Swirl the Bearded heard the cries for help from their partners, but because of the nature of the spells stored in the area, they had strict orders to not to leave under any circumstance; especially when the Archives were under attack. That was their sacred duty.
But even with all the precautions they had to take, much to their surprise the crystal door that secured the area had a perfectly round hole. Somepony have broken in. After exchange a quick nod, the guards ran looking for the intruder.

They found her in a very interesting set-up: she was sitting in front of a little tea table surrounded with dollies that looked exactly like her, having what it seemed like a tea party. But confused and all, the guards professionally stood and shouted:

“Hold! Identify whoever you are!”

The stranger turned to them and made an exaggerated bow.

“Bonsoir, please don’t mind me. I’m just an older girl who still plays with dolls. I love them so much that I turned into one. Je suis Le Puppè but you can call me Dolly”

“Miss, you are under arrest for…”

“Why don’t you play dolls with me, si’l vous plait?”

The guards aimed their spears to her.

“You are under arrest”

Dolly made a small gesture to her ‘toys’ and the dollies turned to the confused guards and walked towards them emitting a strange sound:

“Gero, gero, gero, gero, gero”

The soldiers just stood there unsure of what to do, when the dolls hugged their hooves and looked at them with their creepy yellow eyes and exploded causing some serious burnings. Then  Dolly walked elegantly to the soldiers as her scarf wrapped around her hooves as it was some kind of snake and caught a warrior hidden in the shadows waiting for the right time to ambush the trespasser. The warrior struggled to get rid of the accessory but it electrocuted him making the soldier faint.

More elite warriors were watching from the shadows when they realized the little dolls were all over the room observing them with the creepy yellow eyes. The captain of the shadow-unit happened to have one of those right in front of him and before he realized, the doll opened its mouth exhaling some green gas on his face. The guard obviously fell asleep immediately.

“What?!”

“I know you’re supposed to be hidden, but my dollies are eyes and ears for me; and believe me, before I came I ordered them to give me a full picture of this place” explained the villainess.

“Shit…”

Then the little robots then jumped on the soldiers and attacked them with a variety of weapons: tazers, tiny flame-throwers, freezing rays or even miniature missiles that put the soldiers out of combat. But none of them exploded, Dolly still needed them to have a close watch over her surroundings, until she received a message from Z:

“You ran into trouble already? Very well, dollies!”

The dolls that were equipped with saws made a huge hole on the floor right aside the villainess.

Trapped, Z was patiently waiting while the walls closed more and more over him; and it was getting a little uncomfortable so Z finally ordered:

“Self-destruction!”

The robot exploded in a million pieces, destroying the death-trap where Z was and he calmly walked to the terrified guards.

“What? But how?”

“I don’t know, maybe because I’m smarter and better equipped than the average evil-doer” explained Z as he checked on his suit: even after the explosion it was in perfect condition, not even a particle of dust. “Whoa, guys I highly recommend my tailor, she’s a true genius!”

Then a piece of the roof with a perfect circle shape fell followed by the end of a scarf. Z took the end and after a farewell gesture to the soldiers, the garment pulled Z to the upper floor, Star Swirl’s wing. Some guards tried to go after him but he threw them a small metallic sphere that generated a powerful electrical charge that let them all out of combat.

“Why do you always use electrical weapons? You have more interesting things in storage”

“You know what my weapons do, what I want is to incapacitate them, not vaporize them or freeze them to death. Unfortunately ponies are too fragile for my inventions”

Dolly sighed but preferred not to argue with Z in the middle of a fight, so she commanded her dollies to start emptying the shelves of spell-scrolls. Once again a defensive spell activated making the shelves to crash to each other squishing the robbers in the process. At the end a lot of robotic dolls were destroyed.

“Okay, we can’t continue doing this, it will be a waste of equipment” said Z.

Dolly nodded.

“You’re right, I think we have no choice but take an entire shelf!”

“Great idea! Which one?”

“Who cares? Is the message what matters!”

Z nodded at his partner’s observation and took a remote from his suit and pressed a button calling more Z-Bots. The machines entered by breaking the beautiful crystal roof and took the nearest shelf. And at Z’s command, one of the machines even stole the gold chandelier with embed jewels that illuminated the place.
Then Dolly wrapped a captain with her scarf and pulled him to the villains.

“What do you want?!” Asked the soldier.

“Nothing, we’re just gonna ask you if you can give something to Princess Celestia for us” explained Z. “Please?”

The soldier gulped, this people seriously unnerved him, but then a tall majestic came into the Archives.

“Why don’t you give it to me yourself?” Asked Celestia looking sternly to Z.

Bright knew her all-too-well, so he was very familiar with the expression on her face: it meant trouble.
Luckily their masks hid every expression of the two villains and they were focusing on playing their characters and Z recovered himself from the shock and advanced towards Celestia with arrogance.

“It’s so nice to meet you Princess! I’m glad you could join us. Here, I proudly present to you my business card!”

Celestia received it raising an eyebrow.

“Is this some kind of joke?”

Dolly followed Z’s example and equally presented her card:

“Again, is this some kind of joke?”

“We came here and trashed all this place! That seems like an act of evil for me”

Celestia rolled her eyes.

“I guess you’re right. So what? You’re going to steal my powers and take over Equestria? Enslave my little ponies? Tell me what you’re planning to do, oh terrible professional villains”

“What? No! Don’t dare to compare us with the morons who do evil chasing a stupid goal. Being evil is its own reward; what a true villain must do is to do his/her best to make the world a little worse. One act of evil at the time!” Explained Dolly.

Celestia face-hoofed, this was ridiculous.

“If that’s true what’s the point to breaking in here to steal valuable spells?” Asked Celestia.

“Basically show the world we can do whatever we want and there’s nothing you can do about it!” Said Z with a shrug.

In the air the stolen shelf began to shake all over and a last trap activated: a magic explossion that ended up destroying the machine that carried the shelf; but the robot with the chandelier flew away in silence.

“Oh my!” Said Z sighing. “At least we have the chandelier”

And at that point Celestia finally had enough and shot Z and Dolly with a powerful magic beam, sending them to a wall and advanced threateningly to so-called villains.

“You had your fun, and I had some as well, but did you actually thought you can came here, annoy me and go away with it?”

Much for Celestia's surprise, the two of them stood like nothing.

“Did it hurt?” Asked Z.

“No, what about you?” Asked Dolly.

“Obviously not! Great job with the fabric!”

“And you with the power source!”

They shook hooves satisfied.

“Don’t you dare to ignore me!” Shouted Celestia angrily.

“Oh pardon me!” Said Dolly.

"And answering your question, I thought we already explained to you that was precisely the point" Said Z with a small shrug.

Celestia was about to answer when Z aimed a hoof to her and activated his plasma cannon that sent her flying right to the other wall.

“See? She’s an immortal goddess, so there’s no problem if I use more powerful weapons with her!”

A tower of flames was sent to them, but thanks to the suits they didn’t were affected at all.

“What? How’s this possible?”

“Dear Princess Celestia, who do you take us for? There’s a huge difference between professional villains and the average ones” said Z taking the Code of the Villains from a Z-Bot. “As true professionals we never attack unless we have an absolute advantage. So, sorry about this!”

And Z pressed a button from his suit, detonating several micro-bombs placed strategically on the roof of the lower level (that level's floor). As a result, the entire wing of Star Swirl the Bearded ended up falling over Clover the Clever’s one right at the time the Z-Bots took their masters in their claws and moved away.

“I never thought your Godmother could be that scary” said Dolly thoughtful as they flew away.

“You know what they say about the calmed ones, they can be really scary when you piss them off!”

Effectively, their suits’ sensors reacted to a huge amount of magic power and right behind them, Celestia in her Day Breaker form appeared ready to destroy them once and for all.

“YOU TWO ARE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE!”

And she sent another tower of flames that reduced the Z-Bots to a puddle of melted metal, but the villains were still intact. But their suits won’t last long so they had to think into something fast. Z then aimed his hoof to the angered Celestia and shot her a stream of liquid nitrogen; but it turned into steam at the contact of Day Breaker’s body. Luckily that was what the villains needed, since she was temporary blinded by the steam, so they had enough time to sneak to a hidden vehicle they had around.

“That was funny. We’re officially part of the evil hall of fame!” Cheered Z while driving.

“And the best part, she’s mad with Z and Puppè; not with us!”

“But now that we’re on the big leagues, we must be better equipped. We need more gadgets!”

“Indeed, and also have to build more robots, I don’t know how many we lost today!”