//------------------------------// // Rule # 15 // Story: The Code of the Villains // by Kaliann25 //------------------------------// Rule # 15: A villain should never get into another villain’s territory Flurry and her friends were sighing considerably upset, she knew that if she were with her friends during the fight, they wouldn’t end up falling into the villains’ trap. “Not only we couldn’t clean the reputation of all geeks, but now we’re the laughing stock” complained Sparkler. “Yeah, but do you realize we took then off-guard for an instant?” Asked Light Spectra. Sparkler nodded dreamily. “Especially my speed and electric powers. I was able to punch Z a few times, but at the end he proved to be smarter than we thought but…” “No, what you proved is that you’re dumber than he thought” said Discord materializing before them. “For real? That was the dumbest performance I ever saw, is worse than the time I fooled Light Spectra’s mother to think Cloudsdale was just a tiny cloud. And when I convinced Rarity Belle that a rock was a diamond, and basically the first time I faced Princess Twilight and friends. Where was I?” Flurry crossed her hooves willing to defend her friend. “Hey you’re no one to call us dumb! Remember that time you get fooled by Tirek? Besides, Z and Dolly have been working together for a while and we just started. We still have to get used to be real life superheroes, doing things is way too different than reading it” Discord sighed, Flurry may had a point. “Okay, whatever. You're lucky I’m willing to give you a second chance, okay? But please do better next time, because this is the last one! Those two idiots may do something we all gonna regret!” Light Spectra shook his head. “Don't worry, we'll get better. Now that we have experience fighting the two of them we’ll get better, but the problem is that we don’t know how powerful they really are. Is there a way we can see their actual power?” “He haves a point” said Beat Box. “So what, we set a trap or something?” Discord seemed to consider it. The kid do had a point in there, nopony was sure how powerful Mister Z and Dolly really were. “Well, we can set a trap and see it for ourselves I guess but…” He suddenly quiet when he felt a very dark presence getting closer. Same Flurry who had better magic sensitivity than the others. “Discord, what is this?” Asked the preteen alicorn. Discord gulped. “An old acquaintance. Kids give me your necklaces, NOW!” “But Discord, you just said…” “Listen to me: I’ll give them back to you, but first I have to make sure you survive. Someone really big is about to come, and I can’t allow you to try something stupid; like try to face him with your new powers” The kids have never seen Discord that serious before, in fact they’ve never seen Discord serious. Period. But they gave him back the necklaces that contained their Power-suits. Discord nodded and locked them in a magical box he hyper-charged with his power to seal it definitely. “If something happens to me, the box will unlock automatically. But until then, I want you safe. Understood? Safe!” The kids nodded and then Discord tele-ported to his home lost in the middle of nowhere. Once he got there, he grabbed a strange crystal. He was about to hide it, but suddenly Discord felt that presence coming closer. With a sigh, Discord turned to face Tirek. “Discord, my old friend” greeted the centaur. Discord prepared to fight. “What do you want here, Tirek? Try to take over Equestria again?” The monster grinded his teeth. “Of course not! At least not for now. Grogar, you know what that monster did to me. HE CAN’T RETURN BECAUSE OF A COUPLE OF IDIOTS!!” Discord sighed as he threw the crystal he grabbed to Tirek. “It contains magic sealed inside. Enough to bring you back to your final form” “What is the trap?” Asked Tirek. “Is limited. For a normal it will last an entire lifespan, but at the rate you burn your magic it’ll last only a few hours. Besides it won’t activate until I’m safely away from you” Tirek grinned evilly and Discord shrugged. “You can try actually take over Equestria, but it won’t work” “Maybe, I'm perfectly aware that I'm wasting my last chance to get my revenge on the ponykind. But it’s a price I’m willing to pay if I can avoid the return of Grogar” “Sorry we left you on your own that time, but we were terrified” “I don’t blame you. No one can stand upon Grogar” Discord nodded and tele-ported as far as possible. And as he promised, as soon he was far enough, the crystal glowed allowing Tirek to take all its power. Soon enough he was big and powerful again. But Discord didn't wast time, he appeared on Canterlot Palace to warn the Princesses about Tirek’s upcoming rampage. That of course set general alarm all over Equestria, and something had to be done. It was decided that the four Princesses will wait in Canterlot Palace to attract Tirek so they give their little ponies enough time to find a safe place. But before they went into hiding, they still had to arrange some details with the Bearers of Harmony. “So why can’t we use the Rainbow Power like the last time?” Wanted to know Pinkie Pie. “We can’t. At least not yet” explained Princess Celestia. “Girls, you already have fulfilled your Destinies, so for the moment we must focus on keep the newest generations safe. Once we make sure they're out of Tirek's scope, we can use the Rainbow Power again.” “While we distract Tirek, the young royalty must be secured in our old Palace” explained Luna. “The Tree of Harmony will maintain Tirek far, at least for a little.” “Then it’s decided!” Said Cadence. “Flurry, darling, I’m so sorry for our fight, but I just wanted what’s best for you” “Oh mom!” Cried Flurry hugging Cadence. Shining and Spike joined the hug. “Oh dad, uncle Spike!” Then Spike separated from the hug and walked to hug Twilight tightly. “Oh Twi, you know I never blamed you for what happened between us, right? I always loved you.” Twilight just cleaned up her tears and smiled sadly. “Thank you Spike” Then the lavender alicorn turned to her former students and her husband. “Starlight, Sunburst, I trust you to take care of the kids. Please, I’m begging you” “Don’t worry Twilight, we’ll protect the children with our lives” assured Sunburst. “We won’t let that anything happens to your kid or Princess Flurry” added Starlight. Twilight nodded and hugged the both of them before going to hug her son. “Bright, whatever happens to us…” “We’ll be always with you in your heart” said Flash, who along with Shining, was in charge of the Princesses’ personal security. “Wait! Before we go, can Lumi join cuz Flurry and me? I can’t go without my best friend!” “No Bright, she must go hide with her older sister” said Twilight. “But there’s a chance I don’t see my best friend ever again!” Fake-cried Lumi. Twilight then looked at Rarity. “What do you think Rarity?” The white unicorn nodded, in fact, she was relieved that her daugther will be as safe as the young Royalty. “Well, I don’t see why not. Friendship is what makes Equestria strong!” “Okay then let’s go!” Flurry, Bright and Lumi were on their way to the Princesses’ old Palace along with their guardians. Sunburst and Sstarlight were all confident that Princess Twilight and her friends will solve the situation quickly as always, but Bright and Lumi knew that their mothers weren’t that young anymore. So the two kids were already thinking in how to sneak out the vigilance and go teach a lesson to Tirek. At least Bright’s tantrum gave them the advantage to stay together. “Hurry kids, stay as close as you can. Especially Flurry, remember that Tirek wants Alicorn magic more than anything” said Starlight worriedly. They all walked closer to each other looking around in case Tirek came closer. When they arrived to the old Palace. Once inside, Starling and Sunburst hurried to create several magical barriers not noticing a tiny doll walking toward them. Not a normal doll, one of Dolly’s dollies. The only ones who noticed it were of course Bright and Lumi, who held their breath as the tiny android released a sleeping gas that made everyopony indtantly go to sleep. Except for them. “Okay, now what?” Asked Lumi looking at the unconscious unicorns and alicorn. “First we leave a squad of robots to protect them from the perils of the forest. Then we go to the lab to get some weapons and kick Tirek’s huge ass” So the two of them ran into action. They had to stop Tirek before it was too late. At their backs they heard a satisfaction laugh, but they’ll fix things with the Hearts-Warming Tree later. That was it, Tirek had advance through Canterlot’s Castle multiple hallways, full of soldiers but all of them fell before the monstrous centaur. Only Shining Armor and Flash Sentry remained to protect the Princesses. But Tirek limited to threw them away so he could center his attention in the four terrified Princesses. “Now it’s time for the main dish” Tirek said preparing to absorb their magic. “You will never prevail” said Celestia looking him at the eyes. “Did you hear me? NEVER!” In other circumstances Tirek would laugh and told Celestia all resistance was futile; but now he only cared about Grogar’s possible return. In order to stop the two bastards he would need as much power as possible. “We’ll see that. Now let’s start!” Tirek trapped the four Princesses in powerful dark magic force-fields and opened his mouth to absorb their power. “You are mine” Tirek was about to start when a powerful electric current hit him right on his back. That made him scream more in surprise than in pain, (even if it actually hurt). He released the four alicorns and turned to the insolent soldier. But it wasn’t a soldier but two ponies in black spandex suits. Not exactly who he was expecting but who he was watching for. And the two ponies still had their hooves aiming to him with a smoke string coming from them. “Tirek, I presume” said Mister Z. The monster suddenly lost interested in the alicorns and smiled evilly to the two villains. “Oh it is you! You have no idea how much I’ve wanted for this!!” “Good, because we want to have a word with you as well. You see, something is definitely wrong here” said Dolly politely. Tirek grinned. “Precisely. You and your stupidities are…” Ignoring him, Mister Z took a book from his suit and began to look for something on it, to finally give it to a very irritated Tirek. “Here it is!” Said the villain jumping on Tirek’s shoulder to show him the book. “As you can see, the Code of the Villains clearly stablishes than a villain should never get into another villain’s territory. Don’t you see it’s rude?” Tirek looked at the wanna-be-villain with a blank expression. “There’s no such thing as a Code of the Villains” Tirek jumped back from the monster’s shoulder and made an understanding nod to his partner. “Oh! And I actually got upset for a little while! What happens is that this guy doesn’t know the Code yet!” “Oh! Is that true Lord Tirek? Then mes exuses. We were about to make you pay for your offense. Sorry for the misunderstanding” “But to make sure it won’t repeat keep with this copy of the Code” said Z giving a friendly slap on Tirek’s back. “All the details are there. But the short version is: when a villain is defeated by heroes, all the conquered territory is revoked, so any fother villain can come and take it. And right now Equestria is my friend Dolly’s territory” explained Z. “And mes ami Monseour Z” finished the girl. Then the two of them turned their backs on Tirek and walked away. The four alicorns didn’t know what to think of this. But Tirek was just pissed off. There was nothing more infuriating that the fact they were mocking him. “Are those two wanting to die?” Whispered Cadence. The two young villains continued calmly walking to the exit. Tirek grinded his teeth and after tearing apart his new copy of the Code, he jumped towards the villains and tried to smash them with his enormous fists. But they turned around, and simply stopped the punch with a single hoof each. “What?” Asked the centaur. “We’re stronger than we look” explained the two at the unison. Then the two villains jumped aside, and before Tirek could react, he received a punch to the jaw and another in the stomach. Both monstrously strong. To make things worse, Dolly’s scarf wrapped against his body completely immobilizing him. Tirek screamed in anger and tried to struggle, but the even if the damn attire was made of something that resembled to silk, it was practically unbreakable and Tirek was unable to get rid of it. Then Z advanced toward him and roundhous- kicked him on the face, sending him flying away so hard that he ended up crashing through six walls. Shining and Flash slowly got back on their feet and ran to their Princesses to protect them at the same time the two new villains were advancing menacingly towards them. They prepared to fight even they knew it was useless. What possibilities they had against those two? “Z-Bots!” “Dollies!” The mechanical soldiers and the strange rag dolls moved closer to them and everypony got more nervous, but then the Z-Bots opened their chests revealing they had tiny fridges inside. “Something to drink? We have milk, cola, orange and apple juice” offered Z. “What?” Asked the Princesses. “Yes, you seem to be having a bad day” said Dolly shrugging. Celestia groaned in disbelief, but at this point nothing about those two should surprise her anymore. So what she did was to take a can of cola. “Seriously, what is wrong with you?” “Well, we’re evil-doers. Professional villains, so everything about us is completely wrong” said Z. Twilight face-hoofed as she took a bottle of orange juice. “You know what we mean. Why are you saving us?” “We’re not saving you Princess, we’re defending our territory” explained Dolly. “Now we highly recommend for that you get out since there’s an élevée probabilité that we’ll destroy the entire place” Luna frowned and was about to ask them if they were followers of Grogar, when they heard Tirek galloping towards them, alerting the kids in disguise. They turned their backs on the Princesses and called their reinforcements: “Dollies!” “Z-Bots!” More machines and tiny dolls entered to the Palace making a protecting circle around the Princesses, when suddenly Tirek charged in, not noticing one of the Z-Bots had extended its metallic arm at the floor-level so the centaur ended up stumbling ovrt. His face ended up right before Z and Dolly. “Right where you belong” “To our hooves” Tirek got up and punched the two wanna-be-villains to the other side of the room. They both crashed on a wall making a huge crack, but still they got on their hooves without any apparent damage. “How rude” complained Dolly. “Yeah, that’s no way of treating your fellow villains.” The four alicorns had a sweat-drop on their temples. “Are this guys for real?” Asked Cadence. Z and Dolly ran towards Tirek, who also ran to their encounter. He tried to smash them under his enormous fists, but they gracefully eluded every single blow he did with elegant backflips, jumps and such. The problem was that each time Tirek hit the ground or the walls the entire Palace trembled because of the strength. Obviously he was more than furious. “And I think that’s our sign to go” said Twilight worriedly. “Twilight Sparkle…” mumbled Celestia. The lavender alicorn turned to her mentor with tears on her eyes. “Princess please, there’s a huge chance we get kill if we stay close to this fight. Besides all I want to do now is to be with my son! Please!” Cadence took Twilight’s hoof in understanding and support. Of course she understood, such as Shining as Flash. Even Luna thought it was better escape now that Tirek was busy fighting Z and Dolly. So at the end Celestia had no choice but agree. Tirek saw them escaping, but he didn’t care. Again, his real goal was to kill these two before they call the fearsome Overgoat with their stupidities. Tirek was starting to get tired, he had to defeat the two idiots, but how? Then he remembered: he had magic, and there was more than one way to use it. Instead of trying to shot a magic beam that wouldn’t do anything but make his magic reserve to run out faster, he could use it to enhance his own abilities. Surrounding himself with a powerful magic aura that made him ten times stronger and faster, he finally managed to smash the two insolent ponies. The two of them went through the floor entirely and ended on the lower level as Tirek prepared to finish them for once. “Who else?” The Z-Bots turned their metallic claws into powerful cannons that began to shot a strange substance. Tirek roared in pain, this thing was a thousand times hotter than fire; but he won’t get defeated by something like that. With a single punch he got rid of half of them. Strange, he felt a little shock in his hand when he ripped apart the cables of the Z-Bots, but didn’t care. Another bunch of the machines trapped him with their metallic arms as the others continued attacking with the plasma cannons. The burns only made Tirek angrier, and he finally sent a magic beam that destroyed the machines. Then he ripped apart the ones holding him to finally face the rest of the mechanical army. There were still lots of them. Tirek grinned. “Okay, let’s do this!” And he opened his mouth to absorb their power. Nothing happened. “What?” He tried again. Still nothing. “Oh. It seems that your abilities doesn’t work with artificial power sources” said Z right behind him. “What kind of Golems are these?” “Non-magical Golems” explained the junior villain. Tirek turned around. As he thought, the two of them were standing right behind him like nothing had happened. Maybe he couldn’t get magic from the Golems, but still he could get something from the two of them. He opened his mouth as they aimed their hooves to him. Tirek was ready, but instead of delicious magic, what he received were 900 volts on his face; that made him scream in pain. “Are you okay fellow evil-doer?” Mocked Dolly. Mister Z just studied Tirek’s humiliated expression. “Maybe he needs more energy. Sorry for being so disrespectful to you Mister Tirek. Let me make it up for you!” The two kids aimed their hooves to Tirek again this time sending 1800 volts. His screams of pain were heard all over Canterlot, making the Princesses to temporary stop their escape. “What?” Asked Luna in disbelief. “Do you think they be able to defat Tirek?” Asked Cadence. Celestia shook her head. “He’s too powerful” And right at that moment, an explosion of dark magic destroyed half of Canterlot Castle. “I told you”  The explosion sent Z and Dolly right to the gardens. “It seems like he got mad” said Z. “To be fair anyone would piss off after receiving more than enough voltage to kill several people” observed Dolly wisely. Tirek jumped in front of them with smoke trails coming from his body both from the burns and the anger. “How are you still alive?” “Well, you come from an era where the most powerful were those who had the strongest magic power” said Mister Z. “But in le monde moderne, power belongs who have the most advanced weapons” added Dolly. Then Z took from his suit a couple of bracelets. “What is that for?” So the two junior villains made a high-hoof and both of them ran to Tirek’s sides so fast that the centaur didn’t had enough time to react; and when he noticed, he was wearing the two bracelets. “What now?” The bracelets turned into full gauntlets covered in menacing spikes. “Is this gift supposed to make me change my mind about killing you?” Asked Tirek. “Not exactly. You see: they’re called remote-control gauntlets” explained Z as he took the remote control from his suit. Z began to manipulate the tool and much to Tirek's surprise, he unwillingly turned his hands into fists and slowly moved them right in front of his face. He tried to struggle, but there was nothing he could do. Z laughed evilly and pressed a new button and Tirek punched himself on the face, breaking his nose. “Stop punching yourself” BLAM! “Stop punching yourself” BLAM! “Stop punching yourself” BLAM! “Stop punching yourself” BLAM! Etcetera. Dolly made a sigh and took the remote from Z. “Hey! I wanted to make him to break himself a tooth, or two!” Dolly bowed to Tirek. “Forgive him. He’s a sadistic jerk” Tirek gulped seeing the mask’s creepy yellow eyes. He shivered, somehow he could feel the girl smiling sadistically under the strange mask. “What are you going to do with me?” Dolly quietly manipulated the remote and Tirek grabbed his own horns. Tirek paled when he understood what she was about to do. “No, please don’t!” “So do you promise to respect the Code of the Villains from now on?” Asked Dolly. “Of course!” “Glad to hear it” CRACK! “AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!” Mister Z then took a couple of silver spheres from his pocket, and forced them into Tirek’s mouth. Tirek could only watch helpeslly how Z pressed a button on his suit and the two spheres exploded inside him, making Tirek vomit a stream of blood and teeth. Then the master villain took a new weapon from his pocket but Dolly stopped him. “Don’t show him all of our equipment yet” “But I want to see how far I can go without killing him” explained Z. Tirek shivered. These two were much dangerous that he thought. “I’m the first one to admit I would love to keep him as a guinea pig but we don’t have the time or the equipment to take care of him. Besides, remember what the Hearts Warming Tree told you?” Z shook his head. “Oh, so it was true. I am a sociopath!” Dolly smiled to him. “Bien sûr! That’s why I became your friend on your first place. You are as broken as I am” She pretended to be cool with that, but she was scared of herself. It had been a while since she felt the need. And she was more scared when she realized that it never left, not. All this time it was sleeping, waiting for the right moment to reemerge stronger than ever. Tirek trembled in fear as he looked at these two. He wanted to scream, he wanted revenge but he didn’t dare to make a move. Finally the two new villains put on him a collar and took the gantlets off. “What is this?” Asked Tirek weakly. “This is a reminder a little more permanent than your broken horns. It is called Control-Collar. If you dare to enter to our territory ever again…” This time was Dolly who took a remote control from her suit and pressed a button. A powerful electric current ran all over Tirek’s body. “If you send someone else to do your dirty job…” She pressed the button again electrocuting Tirek again. “Or if we just feel like it” Again she pressed a button continuing Tirek’s torture. “Understood?” Tirek nodded weakly. He haven’t felt that vulnerable since… but the two monsters haven’t finished his humiliation. They took a Polaroid camera and then took a selfie with the two of them posing in front of the centaur. Then they made two copies. “Here, keep it” said Z. And Dolly also gave him a new copy of the Code of the Villains. “And also, study this to avoid future misunderstandings” They activated their vehicles. “And one last thing, you have half an hour to leave Equestria” And they drove away. “Hey, shall we tell him the agony will be worse if he tries to take it off?” Asked Dolly. They heard a scream of pain and begging for mercy in the distance. “No, I think he already knows” So they continued their way back to Ponyville when they found the Princesses waiting for the result of the battle. “How are you still alive?” Shouted Twilight when she recognized the master villains. As an answer they showed them the pictures they took. None of the Princesses could believe this, not only they defeated Tirek without a scratch, but considering the monster’s expression, they managed to scare him for good. The Princesses gulped and slowly moved away for the two new villains. They proved to be much more dangerous than they though. “Oh come on! What about we leave it for today?” “Yes, we already made our daily act of evil by destroying your Palace, even if it happened while we were saving your behinds. Is like the vieux familier proverb says: who sins and prays draws!” “And where’s Tirek?” Asked Celestia fearing the worse. “Don’t know, surely he’s trying to escape. After all we gave him half an hour to leave our territory” And they left the Princesses alone as they wandered what the hell just happened. “So we owe Equestria to those two?” Asked Luna. “I don’t understand, what the hell is wrong with these two?!”