//------------------------------// // Rule # 6 // Story: The Code of the Villains // by Kaliann25 //------------------------------// Rule # 6: If you don’t make yourself at least an enemy, you failed as a villain Canterlot Archives (or what was left of them) Princess Celestia’s cleaning team was collecting what they could from that disaster left by the two new villains. The building was completely trashed but the especial documents and the rest of the treasures were intact thanks to the protective spells. Still the cost to repair what Z and Puppè have done would be exorbitant. But another bright side was that none of the soldiers were actually harmed, and they would be back on duty pretty sun. “So they did quite a number here” mumbled Flash looking around. “Commander look at this” said one of his soldiers showing him what was left of one Dolly’s dollies. “Interesting” said Flash. “Is this one of the metallic golems they used against you, commander?” Asked the soldiers looking at the metallic structure underneath the fabric. “No, this is the first time I see the tiny ones” said Flash examining the doll. “And what should we do commander?” “Keep it, our specialists will analyze it later along with the big ones” ordered Flash. “Sir yes sir!” The members of the recently created task force against supervillains kept collecting samples of what was left of the villains’ equipment. Then in what was left of the Z-Bots, Flash noticed something familiar in the one who according with the witnesses, operated as Z’s entertainment system; it was the last CD DJP0N3 had released before her retirement. His son’s favorite. “Commander Sentry?” Asked one of his subordinates. “Oh, sorry is just this called my attention. Forget it” The soldiers nodded at their leader and continued looking for everything they could find. Luckily when they escaped, they left behind a lot of their strange soldiers, giving the Crown a solid base to start their investigation. “Have you had any progress, Commander Sentry?” Asked Princess Celestia entering the place. All the soldiers bowed to the Princess, but she made them a sign to indicate them to continue working; she was in a hurry to defeat Z and Dolly once and for all. By his way Flash showed the Princes a piece of the Z-Bots the task force just recovered. “As you can see, we’re trying to recover the pieces from the artificial creatures who serve Dolly and Mister Z. By the moment the unicorns in our team haven’t being able to detect what kind of magic makes them move so we’re going to send them to the specialists” Celestia nodded and with her magic tried to pull one of the dollies, but she couldn’t. Raising an eyebrow she took it with her own hooves. “Interesting” “Your Highness?” Asked Commander Sentry. “Have you noticed this things are able to repel magic?” “Yes Princess, and we just find that is the fabric what gives them that ability, but once you remove it the metallic structure presents no problems to magic” “Fascinating! The fabric, huh? So maybe that’s the key to their invulnerability: the fabric, their suits” Flash nodded thoughtful, unconsciously touching a small bracelet he had on his left hoof. “Bright made that for you?” Asked the Princess smiling. “Yeah, having something from Bright helps me to relax” Celestia nodded. “I understand the feeling, I also have a ceramic cup he made for me. He’s a very skillful colt, and as his mother, I have the feeling he’s linked to a magic destiny that would change the course of history; but I can’t really tell what it is, at least for now. Anyway, if we want that Bright Spark finds his destiny we must keep Equestria safe. I don’t want that Grogar returns and destroy everything and everyone before he could reach his destiny” “Don’t worry Princess Celestia, Canterlot is now the safest city of Equestria” Luminositè’s toy house, underground laboratory: “Oh, this could be troublesome: they’re planning to double the vigilance in Canterlot” said Bright deactivating the transmitter on his father’s bracelet. Lumi, who was working on her nano-machines, just dropped her tools. “So that means we can’t attack Goldand Diamond’s jewelry?” “Sorry but we lost too much equipment in our last attack” apologized Bright. Lumi kicked the wall. “WHAT? NO! I’ve been a good girl for too long, I need to do something evil now!” Bright knew she was right, Luminositè was a especial case: she was kind of a sociopath, and she truly felt a compulsion to hurt others, and the only thing that kept her relatively under control was to perform one of their over theatrical acts of evil. “Calm down Lumi! We just have to think in something else, is not big deal!” Lumi then looked up and smiled devilishly. “What if we attack Ponyville? All I need is to do something evil, it doesn’t matter is if it’s something small, after all as villains we have enough to do a daily act of evil” Bright grinned to his friend and made a quick high-hoof. “In the highly unprovable scenario that they find us, we’ll be in tons of trouble, right? Besides now we’ll have two alicorns to fight instead of one” said Bright Spark with a calculating smile. “Come on! Your cousin is an idiot who believes superheroes are real, so yeah, she’ll give us a bunch of trouble. Let’s have fun!” Bright looked at his friend’s eyes and laughed hysterically. Luminositè smiled evilly, she knew that Bright was just like her: a sociopath, but unlike the girl, Bright haven’t noticed yet; and she knew that made him far more dangerous than her. Then they both activated their suits and jumped to their assault vehicle, and using the especial tunnels that lead them to one of the multiple exists from their lair: in the middle of the Everfree Forest, far enough from the town so nopony suspect a thing. They were ready. … Right at that moment, Flurry was happily at Derpy’s kiosk buying comics with her new friends. “At least I can still buy this” sighed the pink alicorn taking the last number of The Filly Second. “By the way, you know what’s the difference between the Reverse Filly Second and Doctor Whoosh?” Beat Box rolled her eyes. “Duh! Reverse Filly Second  is the mortal enemy of Mary Allen, the original Filly Second; and Whoosh is the sworn rival of Sally West, her niece and heir” Flurry nodded satisfied. “What, did you underestimated the knowledge of our selected group of otakus and geeks?” Mocked Light Spectra. “Of course no! I was just checking if you were true experts or if I needed to teach you as uncle Spike taught me” “Who knows! Maybe we would be the ones who teach you instead” said Sparkler. They laughed at this and began to talk about all kind of stuff, asking each other details that only a true fan would know, when suddenly Sparkler looked at the sky. “Hey, have you looked at those shadows?” Asked the unicorn. The group suddenly shut up and looked at the metallic structures that flew to the center of the park, playing electronic music really loud. “That sounds like Mama Vy’s last single” said Beat Box. “Nor mama Tavi neither I can stand it anymore” Then the machines landed, followed by Z and Dolly who jumped from their vehicle ready for action. “Hey!” Protested Beat Box. “I don’t know who you are, but shut the music already!” Z looked at him and aimed one of his suit’s especial cannons to the mare, shooting a powerful water stream that sent the girl against a wall. Then he just advanced towards her with arrogance. “Nopony tells me to shut my tunes, understood young lady?” Flurry came to face Z. “Listen to me you piece of…” Z simply pushed her away, but he was so strong that he actually made her to go through a wall. Light Spectra and Sparkler made a step backwards, too scared to move, but Z tried to calm them down. “Don’t look at me like that, she’s an alicorn; this is nothing for her. Now, do you know some place where I can commit a crime? It doesn’t have to be a big one” The kids only looked at Z really scared, so he turned to Dolly who simply aimed to the town hall. “What about we take the town’s taxes?” “Our daily act of evil, I love it!” Approved Mister Z. And the two villains walked to the town hall, when suddenly a lasso wrapped around Dolly’s hoof. She turned, it was a mature mare with orange fur, blond mane that was starting to turn silver. Yeah, time had left a mark on Applejack, but her will and determinedness was intact, and was willing to defeat the new villains. “Release me before you get hurt” warned Dolly calmly. “Ye’re the one who’ll get hurt” threatened Applejack pulling her lasso, but nothing happened. Then Dolly was the one who pulled, pulling the poor Applejack as well, who ended up right in front of the villainess. “Nice try” she said softly. And Dolly’s scarf wrapped against the older mare as it was a snake immobilizing her entirely. “Is an honor to be fought by the Elements of Harmony, but you see, this is time for a new generation to take over things” “Dolly, look out!” Suddenly warned Mister Z. Fast like only herself, Rainbow Dash charged against the two of them. “HEY, NOPONY HURTS MY FRIENDS!!” Dolly threw Applejack to Rainbow Dash, making them roll on the ground defeated already, sadly Rainbow wasn’t as fast as she used to be in her youthful days; so the villainess walked to the town hall. “You do the theatrical stuff, and I do the robbery, okay?” Asked Dolly. Z nodded happily and arrogantly walked to the defeated older mares to give them his business card. “It’s a pleasure to meet you! From now on, I’ll cause you lots of trouble; you see, as professional villains my friend Dolly and I plan to create a reign of terror in Equestria!” Mayor Caramel was relaxing in his office, when suddenly a strange mare dressed in a strange black outfit came in. “What?” Dolly’s scarf wrapped around Caramel and release a small electrical current to the poor pony. “Tell me, where can I find the town’s taxes” Caramel looked defiantly at Dolly. “I’ll never tell you” Dolly nodded. “Suit yourself, all I have to do is destroy this place until I find them” Then the office’s door opened again letting pass Z. “What’s new?” Asked Z. “He refuses to talk, so we have no choice but destroy this place” “Fair enough” said Z advancing towards Caramel’s desk and threw it to the wall with all his strength. The wall broke, revealing a small safe behind. The two villains shook hooves congratulating each other and with their tremendous strength, they ripped off the safe’s door and took all the bits with the help of a vacuum-cleaner-like device that they had. It wasn’t much, but it for the new villains the act itself was what counted. And when they walked out of the town hall, they found that Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy have joined their fallen friends. The purple alicorn stared to them. “So it was really you. We finally meet Z, Dolly” The two villains bowed respectfully to Twilight. “It’s a pleasure Princess, nous sommes Monseur Z and Le Puppè, soon to be known as the greatest villains of all times” said Dolly. Twilight just shot them a magic beam with all her strength, and this time, Dolly’s scarf wrapped around its owner’s hoof as a snake and blocked the attack. “What have you done? You just sacrificed a perfect scarf!” Moaned Rarity. “No, I didn’t” said Dolly directing her animated scarf to place right before Rarity, so the white unicorn could appreciate it was completely intact. “Touch it if you want, I promise you won’t regret” Rarity reluctantly obeyed and touched the material that proved to be ten times softer than silk. “Sweet Celestia! What is this?” “It’s a fabric of my own creation, powerful enough to repel the attack of an alicorn and as submissive to my will as any muscle of my body; oh, and it haves a hundred times my strength” Rarity was truly amazed by this, so she didn’t noticed when a bunch of little dolls came and tied her with a long steel cable. “Hey!” “Excuse moi, but I don’t want to hurt any of you” “Yeah, it’s an honor, truly, but we have our principles… and just can’t fight mature ladies. Sorry but it feels wrong” explained Mister Z. “But I want to fight!” Said Twilight charging against him. But before she could even touch Z, he aimed one of his hooves to her activating a cannon. “Fine, what do you prefer? Electricity or a high-frequency sound wave?” He shot, and a powerful sound wave sent the alicorn flying, impacting against a tree that broke. “That wasn’t nice!” Complained Pinkie Pie. “She’s an alicorn, this was nothing for her!” “You’re right, like this other alicorn!” Suddenly shouted Flurry Heart joining the fight shooting several magic beams against the new enemies. “You missed!” Mocked Z making a backflip to elude Flurry’s attack. Still Flurry didn’t gave up and continued attacking the two agile villains, and to make things worse, Pinkie joined aiming her party cannon and shot a cake-attack that almost hit them. “Whoa, you’re fast for an old lady!” Said Dolly. “Is being young at heart that matters” smiled Pinkie Pie. Dolly nodded and made an agile backflip to increase the distance between Pinkie Pie and herself, landing right before Rarity and Fluttershy. But this time Pinkie’s Pinkie-Sense warned her where the villainess was going to land and shot her with a new cake-attack that actually hit Dolly. Still the villainess simply cleaned it with a small handkerchief and much to Rarity’s surprise, none of the whipped cream or frosting actually stained the suit. “Oh dear! How you did that?” “Mon fabric, I’ve seen your work and it’s great, it has inspire me to think outside the box and create new and powerful fabrics that not only is stain and dust-proof but also protects me from almost everything. As you Madame Belle, I’m a very gifted mare!” “But you use your talents for evil!” Complained Fluttershy. “Je sais, is my hobby!” Answered Dolly. Pinkie Pie smiled to herself and attacked Dolly with a new charge of cake. “Hey meanie, you’re not concentrated!” Mocked the pink pony. Dolly’s scarf blocked the attack and the villainess took one of her dolls and offered it to Pinkie. “Tell me, if you’re really that young at heart, care to play dolls with me?” Pinkie scratched her head. “Do you like play with dolls?” “I love them! I love them so much that I turned into one, that’s why I became Le Puppè” Pinkie seemed to want to ask more, but then the small doll walked towards her and released some kind of gas on her head, and soon enough the pink mare fainted. “Pinkie!” Shrieked Rarity and Fluttershy. Then the small doll turned to the two friends and also put them to sleep with the gas. In the meantime Flurry and Twilight were trying to fight Z, but he was simply eluding their attacks tiredly. “Seriously, do we actually have to do this? I have my personal reasons not to fight you, so can you just stop? I seriously don’t want to use my Z-Bots on you!” “You’re right, we don’t have to. So turn yourself in and stop this nonsense!” Ordered Twilight. Z sighed. “Fine, you asked for it!” And at his command, two of the Z-Bots grabbed Flurry and a third one aimed a cannon to her, using a high-frequency sound wave, not enough to harm her but just the right amount to make her dizzy. Then the machines held her firmly as Twilight looked at Z in horror. “Release her!” “Sure, just stop bothering me and let me give you something” “What?” Asked Twilight doubtful. And he simply walked to his mother and gave her a business card. And as Celestia, Twilight limited to look angrily at Z. “Is this some kind of joke?” “No, I didn’t really wanted to fight you, but since you’re here I guess I can take the chance to introduce myself as the newest villain who’ll terrify Equestria. Nice to meet you” Twilight couldn’t believe this. “You’ll never prevail” “Well, as the Code of the Villains say, the bad guys win and the good guys lose. You’ll see soon enough, now if you excuse me… Z-Bots!” Another of the machines aimed its cannon to Twilight and shot a new sonic wave that made the alicorn faint. … Even after being held hostage by Z, Flurry was smiling, damn, she got beat badly but she was really happy this time. This was the answer to her problem; before she left the Empire Spike told her that she couldn’t live in a comic that she most live in reality, so all she had to do was to model reality to what she wanted. Yeah, she’ll transform her reality into a comic as Mister Z and Dolly have done. Yeah, those two transformed into real super villains, so what was left? “Superheroes!” “Did you said something?” Asked Twilight worried. “Don’t worry auntie, I was just remembering what those two did” Twilight nodded, at least they had to admit they did their best to avoid fighting and all they did was a small robbery and destruction of public property. Then Flurry Heart excused herself and went to her room; once there, she just opened the sketch book where she draw her cosplay concepts before actually mad them. Then she draw, not a copy of another character, but her own character, the one she’ll become. Happily she looked to a corner, right to one of her favorite comics, it was a girl who disguised herself as a stallion to hide her true identity: the masked vigilante Heart of Darkness. “Is not a bad idea, I have to become a captain. And I know the perfect name for my heroic self, and it’ll be a stupid name so I make sure nopony forgets me. I’ll be Captain Awesome!”