The atmosphere within the cavern, though Rainbow Dash and Spitfire managing to slightly reduce and cooling it down by combined effort with the twister early, once again the local air regained on its intensity with a unbearable heat as well as with tension rising around as Peter along with Twilight, Luna, Logan, the Avengers, Elements of Harmony, Chrysalis and her Changelings cautiously and with rather breath taking like expressions watched a strange elemental like giant making its way right from the volcano, leaving his very own burning footprints in the rocky surface behind and being totally indifferent and oblivious to the burning heat and flames around him, which obviously though shouldn’t be such a surprise since his entire body was actually composed from nothing but a molten magma and fire itself, also evident of generating and being literally as hot as the local magma around him.
“Who is that guy?” Spitfire asked, yet her rough feminine voice sounding cautious.
“Could it be…?” However, an unfortunate realization suddenly run through Peters, Twilights and Lunas minds, as well as Elements of Harmony and Chrysalis also started having their suspicions by the sight on the burning elemental like creature, as they actually saw it before, in the Canterlot castle throne rooms summit several days ago. Their suspicions and fears eventually came true. That was indeed one of the mentioned Elemental Lords…..
The being calmly and like a boss made its way on the verge of the magma formed lake and rising his blazing head bearing an emotionless like scowl landed on the ponies standing on a near cliff. A devious like smirk formed on elementals skull like face, before rising both of his enormous lava like arms with his palms started glowing when they literally resembled two fireballs. The elemental then thrusted his arms down, creating something like an ignition by using his arms like two petrol engines and jetting himself right into the air like a rocket, leaving smoke trail behind.
“Something tells me we will find out soon enough.” Spike stated dully as the elemental landed right on the cliff, yet creating a small shockwave and rising dust by the impact, causing the ground quake and everypony around jumped back, keeping their distance, being all ready for a potential attack, yet Fluttershy meekly squeaked and better covering her frame behind both Rainbow Dash and Rarity.
“Now this is some entrance.” Felicia deadpanned, quite unable to resists the possible new villains style yet the cat burglar refused to give her guard down, eying the elemental like titan cautiously.
“Gee…Who would ever thought that there actually is an evil version of Heatblast in pony style.” Peter sarcastically whispered for himself and pulling his mask back over his face and also maintain his signature defensive like stance.
“Just like whut is this? A Halloween?” Wolverine growled menacingly while also hiding his face behind his mask and clenching his hooves, ready to jump in when thing went ugly.
“For you….It is a doomsday.” The elemental finally spoke off, his voice sounding firm and gruff yet bearing an odd mixture of both a narcissism and threatening in a dramatic like way before though chuckling smugly. “Chrm, but where are my manners? Perhaps I should introduce myself….”
“Lavan.” Spider-Mane though dully guessed the name before the elemental could have ever the chance to finish his nonchalant introduction, though his voice sounded both cautious and hesitant. “Lavan.”
“You!” Twilight though also intervened, jerking out with her deep violet eyes widening in a realization along with a slight hint of horror while Peter spoke off the name. “You are the one of the Elementals!”
“Have we…..Met?” Lavan, as it actually was indeed his name asked dumbfounded, yet his expression immediately darkened as well as anger associated with it. “How do you know my name? And how dare you to interrupt me in the middle of one of my glorious introductions?! Especially when being in the middle of the ongoing havoc.” The magma elemental burst out angrily with the flames from his head and shoulders burning more intensively, evident by his frustration, yet with a faint undercurrent of vain present in his voice.
“Wow. That is really some fiery temperament. Literally.” Spider-Mane murmured sarcastically under his mask while sharing a brief glance with Spitfire, Luna and Wolverine.
Despite everypony instinctively backed off by the sudden outburst, maintaining swift and defensive stances, ready for their new villains potential first strike, there was something strange on the Elemental Lord though, as Twilight along with Luna and Sunset could feel a very strange invisible aura surrounding Lavan, strangely and nearly making all three mares tremble. It felt so dark….ancient….and evil. It was something quite familiar what Princess Celestia sensed that night during the magical fallout explosion, yet the mares tried to shake those provoking thoughts off their minds, knowing that they had no time to worry about that right now.
“Oh swell. Just what we need. Yet another villainous dude with a sense for a twisted drama like Discord for instance.” Rainbow Dash mentally huffed for herself loaded with sarcasm.
Yet surprisingly, Lavan managed to settle his blazing emotions down a bit and glancing upon Twilight with a smug expression on his face. “Anyway…I am Lavan indeed. The Lord of Flame and as you have mentioned, girl, I am indeed one of the three Elemental Lords, who fought over power, domination and absolute rule over Ponyland. Yet my ultimate triumph was thwarted by some bunch of pesky heroes. Besting me. Humiliating me. But till now….I can continue in what I have started eons ago. And this cavern is just the beginning.”
“So you are responsible for all this mayhem?” Luna, by hearing Lavans words, indifferently confessing about his very own doing, exhaled shocked at first yet her royal ocean blue eyes formed into a glare and her shock steadily turned into an anger.
“Indeed.” Lavan simply and arrogantly confessed with a hint of self-satisfaction present in his voice and his devious smirk intact before glancing over the destruction behind. “Impressive, isn’t it? Volcanos. Molten lava, rocks and burning heat. One of the greatest and insurmountable forces of nature. The manifestation of a true power of destruction.”
“Oh dear…!” Fluttershy gasped in a strained apprehensive voice, placing her hooves over her mouth in horror.
“Impressive?!” Chrysalis blurted out in both a shock and anger. “You have just destroyed out hive, Lavan! Our home! You will pay for your sin!” Changeling queen hissed venomously, having her razor sharp fangs exposed, lizard like tongue stuck out and her lizard like emerald eyes literally gleaming furiously, flipping her wings and lifting her frame into the air.
And all of her Changelings, sharing their queens and mothers thoughts and fury via telepathic link all hissed menacingly, as the entire swarm rose into the air by joining her queens side, bearing a venomous glares, gritting their fangs and having their blue bug like eyes fixed right on Lavan, ready to battle in an intent to avenge their hive.
“Just the hive you say?” Lavan though arrogantly replied in awe as he turned around as his flaming gaze fixed itself on Changeling hive in the distance, as the molten lava, intense heat and flames kept consuming and burning the sculpture through and though. “Hmm. Guess I will have to do better than that. It is true though, after three thousand years of slumber I am a little bit out of shape. But just you wait when I warm up.”
“Why you….!” Rarity hissed in a very unlady like manner and gritting her teeth to the core, as the fashionista was evidently upset with Lavans own indifferent, arrogant and ruthless demeanour, showing no concern for anyone else around, not to mention ruthlessly destroying their fellow Changelings home just for a mere amusement to demonstrate his power and twisted intentions, as the rest of her friends couldn’t react any differently.
“You are so toasted!” Rainbow Dash snarled, gritting her teeth in anger and slamming her front hooves together.
“Oh yeah.” Wolverine growled menacingly, sensing the tension as well as heat rising in the air and knowing where this is going, defensively unleashed his adamantium claws with a its trademark SNIKT sound out from his hooves and taking a fighting stance, ready for action.
“Here we go again….” Sunset grumbled sarcastically, yet instinctively concentrating her magic through her horn, ready to stand by her friends side.
“Oh! A heat of the battle to come.” Lavan chuckled deviously as his flame like formed palms clenched into fists and once again started blazing intensively when they resembled rather two fireballs as well as the flames of his head and shoulders also burned more intensively and gaining on heat. “You have no idea how much I have missed this feeling.”
“No, Chris!” Spider-Mane suddenly blurted out, holding the astonished Changeling Queen in her tracks. “You and your Changelings are still weakened and worn out from holding that energy shield bubble around the hive for too long! You need to get out from here!”
“And leaving you to fight that monstrosity alone? Never!” Chrysalis blurted out in protest, refusing to take Spider-Manes opinion in the fullest.
“Peter is right, Chrysalis!” Now Luna though interjected, supporting her best friends sensible suggestion. “Everyones lives, yours included are at stakes here! You need to get your people out of here to the safety now!”
“Ain't worry about us, darlin'. We are gonna take care of this clown.” Wolverine snarled reassuringly while having his masked glance fixed on fire titan glaring at him intensively.
“Hmmm….Very well then.” Considering her friends suggestion and despite being still rather reluctant, Chrysalis eventually submit herself, knowing it was the only possible alternate to take. Besides, ensuring the safety of her children was her main priority. The Changeling queens demeanour softened and managing a small yet warm. “Just be careful my friends.”
“Girls!” Twilight though shifted her attention to and urgently addressing Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Fluttershy, her eyes gleaming with determination. “Take the eggs and help Chrysalis and the Changelings to get into the safety! No matter what it takes!” The young alicorns demeanour also softened and giving her best friends warm reassuring smile.
The Elements of Harmony other looked at each other baffled, like not knowing how to respond. And despite their combined hesitation and reluctance to leave her friends behind, the mares also knew what had to be done as they all nod their heads simultaneously in agreement.
“Alright, Twi. Just watch yourselves.” Applejack somewhat meekly trailed off yet blessing her friends a good luck to the fullest.
“Lets go!” Rainbow Dash then firmly encouraged and prompting everypony to grab each of webbing like created bags loaded with Chrysalis eggs, putting them on their backs and proceed galloping/flying the same way on the edge of the cliff like way they came, while Chrysalis flew ahead along with her Changelings following their queen in pursuit leading the way out of the caverns, leaving only Spider-Mane, Twilight, Luna, Wolverine, Spike, Sunset, Black Cat and Spitfire to face their new flaming enemy.
“So, now this is only you and us, Hothead.” Spider-Mane nonchalantly declared while the Avengers and Lavan were alone, yet though inwardly somewhat regretting his choice of words “Great. It is only over 900 pounds of melted magma and rock on legs and us now.”
“Since you are all so ardent to battle….Lets make it more intriguing, shall we?” Lavan nonchalantly stated before once again using his flaming arms like petrol engines and jetting himself from the cliff right back over the lava formed lake and landing back on the volcanos surface in the middle. The magma titan then rose his enormous arms and just like by a force of will, another of series of quakes once again send the tremors throughout the entire cavern complex, causing the volcano to erupt once more, sending more lava bursting its way on the surface and numerous large rocky platforms emerged from the molten lava, creating a miniature battlefield composed of rocky islands. However, by doing so, Lavan also released even more intense quantum of heat into the atmosphere.
“Well, this is something to be rarely seen. A bad guy with an architectural perception.” Black Cat humorously though reluctantly gave Lavan a credit for diversifying the already hot surroundings and brushing off the forming sweat from her face.
“Keep it to yourself, Felicia! This is serious!” Twilight sternly addressed the cat burglar for her antics. “We got to stop him before this goes too far.” Princess of Friendship declared determined yet with a slight hint of concern in her voice, better not even wanting to imagine how more terrible things the fire elemental could cause with power like those, with a sweat forming over her forehead.
“We better be careful, guys. With the power over fire, there is no telling what else he can do.” Sunset stated cautiously, considering and thinking about the situation carefully.
“I agree with Sunsets concern.” Luna suggested, appreciating fiery maned unicorns concern. “Fire is one of the most powerful of all other elements as well as the most destructive one. And while in a possession of someone that malevolent as Lavan, he could indeed use it in a favour of chaos.”
“Enough talkin'. Lets get him!” Wolverine stated challengingly, with his eyes under his mask literally gleaming battle ready and his adamantium claws exposed.
“You have called it bub. Lets turn up our own heat.” Spider-Mane nonchalantly yet battle ready like promoted with a determined look under his masked lenses. “AVENGERS! ASSEMBLE!”
The Avengers all together and assembled leaped from the cliff, with Spike riding himself of Spitfires back and landing on one of many of rocky island like platforms all over the magma lake, ready to take on Lavan.
“Chm…Only eight of you against me?” Lavan scoffed amusingly, yet both of his arms, head and shoulders were blazing intensively. “I have to say, I am so impressed.” Yet in the moment, a small circle of flames formed over fire elementals frame, throwing both of his hands forward and releasing a massive superhot stream of flames right towards the Avengers, threatening to fry them.
“Spread out!” Spider-Mane called out instructing his teammates and just in time, the heroes spread around into all directions, narrowly dodging the raging flames that hit nothing but a rocky surface, yet they all could feel the massive quantum of the intense heat generated by the flames outburst.
“How about I give ya some impression with these, bub?” Wolverine snarled menacingly while releasing his razor sharp adamantium claws from both of his hooves as the X-Men released a fierce battle cry and charging against fire elemental on his hinder hooves.
“Logan! Wait!” Both Spider-Mane and Twilight cautiously and simultaneously called up Logan, trying to hold him in his tracks, but it was already too late as the mutant savagely slashed with his deadly blades several times over Lavans magma formed torso, leaving multiple slash wounds on titans body with magma bursting from the wounds all over like a blood, causing the elemental to stagger back a bit, gritting his magma skull like teeth to the core to muffle and tune down his painful grunts and grabbing his flaming hand over his damaged torso.
However it didn’t come with consequences as Logan screamed painfully, finding his hooves severely damaged with a near third-degree burns, with his fur and flesh severely burned, having his adamantium claws heated up and red-hot which intensified his torture even further and his orange gloves burning. The strain of pain was so intense that it eventually forced the X-Men on his knee, while trying to get over the pain, though failing miserably.
As also much for everyponys surprise, the slashing wounds from Wolverines claws over elementals torso started instantaneously mending themselves and in a matter of seconds there were no tracks of damage at all, like they would never be there on the first place.
“He regenerated himself.” Twilight stated in a near whisper in a both awe and dismay alike, by witnessing Lavans instantaneous ability of regeneration, just like Wolverines own accelerated healing factor.
“Chachacha! You just cannot expect playing with fire without consequences of burning yourself.” Lavan laughed menacingly. “Now is my turn to turn up the heat.” Lavan devilishly chuckled and extending his enormous hand and clenching his glowing palm into a fist as the flames engulfed it and once again resembling more like a fireball.
“Oh crud….” Was all Wolverine could say before Lavan swung and slammed his blazing fist right into the X-Mens midsection, generating a small shockwave and strong enough to send Logan flying and with as speed of a missile across the battlefield colliding and crackling the near wall of the cliff and falling down in a half-dazzled state, yet Lavan blazing fist managed to scorch most of gruff stallions costumes with small flames trying to consume him, as Logan was shivering involuntarily and grunting painfully, yet started instinctively rolling on the ground in an attempt to put on the fire.
“LOGAN!” Sunset shrieked out frightened yet not wasting any time and rushing her way to her gruff friends side, taking her long cape off with her hooves and using it in an attempt to put on the flames that were burning mutants frame when eventually succeeding in her task. Unfortunately and much for yellow unicorns shock and horror, Logan had most of his brand new costume scorched as well as having a severe third degree burns all over his body, still hissing painfully though his gritted teeth, groaning and shivering involuntarily. Yet luckily, it could be visibly seen that the damaged tissue on Logans body had already started mending itself due to his healing factor.
Despite feeling a little reassured that her friend would be just fine soon enough, yet deep down the mare felt somehow uncertain if not rather even taken aback about how effectively and incredibly fast Wolverine could heal from virtually any form of injury. Yet nevertheless, a fiery maned unicorn stood by her gruff friends side, watching over him before healing completely and so did Spike.
“Wow! In the middle of summer someone is crank up the heat!” Spidey called out in a rather humorous like way, yet also with a slight hint of disdain present in his voice for what the elemental did to his gruff partner, while the knight was making his turn now against Lavan before Logan catch his second breath. A flaming fireball materialized within the Elemental Lords palm before hurling it right on the masked stallion, yet reacting to his trusty Spider Sense, Peter effortlessly leaped over the flaming orb with a somersault that though exploded by hitting a near wall of the cliff.
“I shall turn you into ash with my volcanic powers!” Lavan threatened menacingly, hurling yet a second fireball, only for Spider-Mane once again managing to dodge it with success by leaping forward.
“Cool down your hothead, element candle.” Spidey cautiously stated and firing a strand of his webbing from his right hoof in a western gunslinger like style and webbing Lavans blazing head like a small cocoon, temporarily stunning him.
Taking an advantage of his opponents disorientation, the knight rushed forward, yet nimbly stretching his upper body backwards a little bit, narrowly avoiding the confused Lavans enormous flaming left hook, followed by the back fist shortly, yet once again Spider-Mane dodged the second strike by swiftly squatting down, yet counterstriking with his left hoof and delivering a powerful straight punch right into fire elementals guts with enough force of his spider strength to make him stagger backwards a little bit, yet Spider-Mane unfortunately realized he would soon start regretting his actions.
As soon as and before Peter punched elementals midsection, his Spider Sense within his cranium blurred out on the fullest, but it was too late a strain of burning pain channelled throughout stallions left hoof and even scorching his glove due to Lavan own tremendous body temperature, that by the way literally burned like hell.
“OOOOUUCH! HOT! HOT!” Spider-Mane screamed in pain, grabbing and clutching at his severely burned hoof, struggling not to be forced down on his knee in an attempt to tune the pain a little bit yet a somewhat worried expression formed under knights mask. “Uh-oh!”
In the meantime, Lavan finally managed to literally burn Spider-Manes usually steel strong like sticky substance like a paper with his flames, ripping it from his head with his own burning hands. The magma and fire composed giant extended his right arm and offensively releasing yet another massive stream of flames right on masked stallion.
Despite being hurt, Peter was still able to react fast enough out of his Spider Sense ringing, swiftly evading the raging flames outburst by leaping backwards, performing a back flip and landing perfectly on another rocky island, yet his injured hoof still hurt intensively and required a treatment.
“Spider-Mane!” Twilight shrieked frightened as amethyst alicorn flew her way right to masked stallions side. “Are you alright?” Twilight asked, her concerned gaze softening while gently patting her hoof over Peters burned one.
“You only got tan that time, insect.” Lavan however declared in a more venomous and threatening like manner with his glowing palms blazing like two fireballs. “Here comes the real burn.”
“Arachnids! Spiders…Are…Arachnids! Not insects!” Peter jelled out quite vainly in an outrage by Lavan comparing him with insects. “Man! Can at least once someone get it right?!”
“I don’t think so!” Twilight snarled with her gritted teeth and a scowl forming on her face as her horn started glowing with her signature violet aura through her horn and swiftly creating a protective barrier before Lavan released yet another dangerous and intensively hot stream of flames from his hands that collided with the energy barrier, yet the magic energy generated by Celestia apprentice stood still, despite the immense heat.
When the flames faded away, Twilight shut her barrier, flapping her wings and swiftly rising her frame into the air. Concentrating a considerable quantum of her magic, Twilight shot three magic bolts from her horn, each hitting Lavan directly, generating miniature shockwaves by the impact, causing the molten lava that was forming his entire physique splash, forcing an enormous fire elemental to stagger backwards.
Twilight then concentrated her magic energy right into her hoof that started glowing with a purple light, with small sparks igniting around. Young alicorn then thrusted by soaring right to the Lavan, extending her glowing hoof, but before she could punch her opponent, Lavan suddenly disappeared in a flash of fire, yet rising a thick smokescreen in the process, making Twilight miss with her magically reinforced punch.
Twilight looked around all confused, having no idea where she or where Lavan was, trying to frantically find her way around yet having not much luck, with a deep smoke irritating her senses and making her slightly cough. Unfortunately and before she could react, a strange multiple yellow-orange glowing strands resembling a bullwhip sprung from the smoke, that ensnared all of Twilights hooves, as the mare screamed painfully as she felt a burning like pain channelled through her limbs, struggling to keep her frame in the mid-air.
Then it was revealed that Lavan was all the cause, the magma elemental formed a whip literally composed from fire in his hand and using it as an offensive weapon against young alicorn. Smirking diabolically, like he would be actually pleased with mares pain, the Elemental Lord swung his flaming bullwhip down, pulling Twilight literally down as she collided with a ground hard, having her hooves severely burned.
“Twi!” Peter jelled out frightened, yet being fast enough, masked stallion managed to grab his wife into his hooves and jumping aside on yet another platform just in time before Lavans deadly burning bullwhip could finish Princess of Friendship off, yet bursting with such a force to crackle the rocky platform and dividing it on two separated parts.
However, while Lavan had his attention centred on the pair, suddenly, Luna materialized in a flash of light right mere inches from quite a baffled Lavans frame, her royal blue eyes gleaming angrily, concentrating a large amount of her own magic energy in her horn, evident by her frustration. “Why don’t you pick up someone of your own size, you revolting brute!” Princess of the Moon howled, channelling her magic through her horn that was glowing like a small beacon of light and releasing a massive magic beam that hit Lavan in a very close range and jettisoning an evil Elemental Lord across several platforms and colliding right into the volcanos flank with enough force to shatter it.
Not giving a chance to her opponent to catch his breath, co-ruler of Equestria flipped her wings and rising herself into the air like an angel, her eyes disappearing behind a white glow, her scowl intact, rising her hooves over her head with her horn being loaded with more her magical energy and in the instance, dark stormy clouds materialized right above iron clad maiden.
“This should cool you off!” Luna trailed off with her voice distorted, throwing her hooves forward and like on her command, the hail started falling right from the cloud, as multiple sharpened chunks of ice bombarded Lavan profusely and with such force, that it forced an elemental on his knee, gritting his skeletal teeth and clutching to numerous scratches all over his body that sharp pieces of very cold ice caused him.
“Hailstorm? How amusing.” Lavan though and quite for Lunas confusion scoffed in a rather quite amused and indifferent like mood, confidently making it back on his legs, ignoring the continuously falling hail, yet Elemental Lord clenched his palms into flaming fists, tightening his body that started pulsing with a fiery orange aura and releasing an incredible amount of heatwave so intense that it melt all the hail by reducing it on water drops yet also another massive eruption from the volcano occurred, bursting out a geyser of molten lava right into Lunas storm clouds, heating it up so much that that it triggered a chain reaction, causing the clouds to explode.
The explosion flashed the entire caverns, causing everpony around shield to their eyes, generating a shockwave over a high radius, sending tremors throughout the cavern and rising the waves of the magma lake as everypony struggled to keep themselves on the rocky platforms, but unfortunately the shockwave also swept Luna out of the air like a fly as Moon Goddess collided with a ground hard with a loud THUD, making several rolls before coming into a halt, grunting uneasily.
“Luna!” Spider-Mane while still holding Twilight in his hooves jelled out in fright by seeing his best friend lying down in a dazzled like state and Lavan slowly approaching the alicorn with a devilish smirk on his face, intenting to finish the princess off.
“Leave her alone!” Sunset growled, courageously leaping right into elementals way, as a light blue orb formed on mares horn and then releasing a multiple light blue or white beams that all hit Lavan all over his body, disappearing behind a white glow. Yet much for Elemental Lords dismay, he suddenly found his muscles locking on its place, with his movements getting restrained every second, as his body actually started freezing before being totally covered in ice, completely frozen solid like some kind of a giant ice cube.
“A freezing spell. That should put you on ice.” Sunset cautiously explained, yet not wasting any time, the unicorn rushed her way to Luna, yet the princess of the moon was still yet to fully recuperate her senses. “Are you okay, Princess Luna?” Sunset asked softly and helping the royal alicorn on her hooves.
“Nothing has happened to me. Thank you for your concern Sunset Shimmer.” Luna replied, reassuring her friend she was alright despite some remaining minor aches in her cranium and managing a warm smile nonetheless.
However, suddenly the mares ears perked on be hearing a crackling and vibrating like sounds yet much for her dismay watching as a orange glowing crackles spread all over Lavans frozen frame imprisoned in the ice, with vibrations rattling all over it and steam coming from it, before the Elemental Lord eventually managed to free himself from his icy prison, shattering it on pieces by generating more of his intense heat and flames from his head and shoulder hurling more violently then before.
“Chachacha! You will have to do better than that to put me on ice, pony.” Lavan laughed arrogantly yet with a twisted sense of amusement and slowly and with a devilish like expression making his way to the pair, his superhot palms burning.
“Wow….Now I know what does it mean to get really heat up.” Spider-Mane murmured, yet feeling a slight gulp within his throat, his voice sounding a little nervous by witnessing how hot Lavan can actually get.
Lavan then rose his massive arms over his head and creating one massive orb of violent flames within his palms, before hurling its enormous fire ball right into Luna and Sunset. Yet reacting quickly, the Guardian of the Night concentrated her magic aura through her horn, swiftly touching her hoof over Sunsets as two mares disappeared in a flash of light just before the fireball hit only the ground and detonated on impact
But suddenly a clawed like grappling hook fixed on a black rope wrapped around the Elemental Lords bulky upper body several times, constricting both of his arms, holding him on place and preventing him getting any further.
“That’s far enough toughguy!” A feminine voice firmly called from behind as Lavan turned around to see Black Cat holding the rope of her grappling hook that was constricting burning elemental and despite her relatively smaller frame in contrast to Lavan, Felicia showed herself pretty strong to hold the giant at bay, well at least for then.
However, chuckling devilishly, Lavan got a grip on Black Cats rope with both of his burning palms and with a one swift yank, a much stronger and powerful elemental swung Felicia that refused to let go on her rope around, only to send his flames steadily burning its way right through the rope, only to ignite and detonate just several inches away from Felicia, generating a shockwave with a spitting ember and sending snow white maned mare flying, with her white fur on her costume scorching a bit.
“Got ya!” Yet luckily, Spitfire zipped through the hot air with a speed of a missile and grapping Felicia over her armpits just in time before she could fall right into the molten hot lava lake, gaining an altitude and flying with her teammate into a safety of another rocky platform. “You okay, cat?” Captain of Wonderbolts asked with a concern while Felicia made it on her hooves and despite a slight dazzle, the mare appeared to be fine.
“I think so.” Felicia reassured, shaking her head to regain her senses. “Thanks for the save, hun. The taming doesn’t go well with my complexion away….HUH!?” The mare blurted out in shock with her blue eyes widened like two saucers with a stunned expression by find out the fur on her hooves and collar of her costume severely scorched. Yet, the cat burglars shock immediately turned into anger and her blue eyes formed into an intense glare, Felicia turned to Lavan, intenting to give a lava elemental a piece of her mind. “Hey you! I have personally designed this suit and it unique and one of its kind! I am going to send you a bill for this!”
“Guys!” Spitfire flipped her wings, soaring back into the air and calling upon her teammates, yet despite her tough and no-nonsense demeanour, a hint of growing uncertainty was present in her voice. “We have to keep our distance from the monster! But, how are we suppose to fight it when we even cant get much close or even touching it?”
However, Lavan then shifted his attention right on Wonderbolt captain, channelling more fire within his palms and throwing yet another series of his deadly fireball orbs right on the pegasus, yet Spitfire swiftly sprung her wings and narrowly avoiding one fireball to the left, following with second one by dodging on the right for a change and finally third one the mare dodged the fireball by springing herself over it in the air yet even by that, Spitfire felt a tremendous heat, as three flaming orbs exploded right on a near rocky wall of the cavern.
“This guy….He is like a walking furnace.” Spider-Mane proclaimed with a more cautious and rather apprehensive like tone, considering quite an intensifying situation the Avengers were finding in while using his own webbing like an improvised bandage to treat his burned hoof as well as doing the same with Twilights own burned hooves, grunting while trying to ignore and getting over the burning pain.
“Thanks fer th' early warnin'.” Wolverine grumbled while fully recovering and regenerating himself from the third-degree burns Lavan gave him. Despite still having his trademark mask, the gruff stallions blue eyes under the blank lenses were angrily blazing, planning to give a magma elemental the piece of his mind with a taste for payback.
“Maybe if we keep moving, we could tire him out!” Black Cat called out crouching, yet swiftly jumping away against yet another of Lavans deadly fireball that though hit merely a ground and detonating on impact.
“You have no hope of defeating me! Here inside the volcano, I rain supreme!” Lavan called out with a dominant and superior like demeanour, clenching his fist and standing confidently like a true boss and releasing more heat from his own body, tempering the local atmosphere even further yet releasing another superhot massive stream of flames right on Spider-Mane, Twilight and Sunset, yet masked stallion leaped aside while both mare teleported out of the flames way.
“I am starting to think he has a point.” Twilight stated hesitantly while reappearing in a flash of light several yards away, cautiously considering Lavan own rather over-confident words.
“Maybe because he is actually an elemental and therefore being a living manifestation of lava and fire itself, Lavans own power must be doubled and being two times that powerful when standing on his natural turf. Like a volcanic area for instance.” Sunset Shimmer logically deducted the situation with her eyes furrowing.
“Oh, like that’s gonna help us ta take him down. Thanks a lot Red.” Wolverine who has already managed to recuperate and fully recover from third-degree burns that Lavan gave him earlier growled irritated, yet unfortunately having the entire upper body of his brand new costume literally scorched, leaving only his mask, pants and boots intact yet having numerous scratches all over. Rarity will definitely not be pleased with that.
“Mmm….” Peter thought deeply, massaging his chin with his hoof when an idea hit him like a brick. “Hey, Luna! What about Twilight Arms? Their ability to negate magic did a little trick before and proved themselves on more than one occasion. Maybe that could give us some edge to take this joker down.”
“That just might work.” Twilight stated in a more positive tone, considering her husbands suggestion.
“Although Lavans elemental powers are not truly of magic origins, my guess is that the Twilight Arms could provide you a protection over his flames and burning heat at least my friend.” Luna added, nodding in agreement, closing her eyes, concentrating her magic via her horn and in the instance Twilight Arms as usually materialized in a flash of light on both of the Spider-Manes hooves.
“So.” Lavan complacently scoffed. “I can see you have some new toys at your disposal. How pathetic. Do you honestly thing those trinkets can withstand my power?” Lavan huffed contemptuously yet out of the sudden, some strange rolling ball of a shades of violet and green collided with enough force to sweep Lavans left leg, making a large Elemental Lord to lose his balance and falling down on the ground with a loud THUD!
“What in the blue blaze….!?” Lavan grumbled, both totally confused and outraged, struggling to make it on his knees and forcing himself to stand up, wondering and, not quite understanding what hit him. Then though suddenly something scaly and hard of a violet and green slammed right into Lavans nasal bone with enough force to make him staggering, even yelping painfully by losing his balance and falling over again.
“Cha! Dragons are fireproof!” Spike playfully scoffed with a rather overconfident way, revealing himself to the source of the disturbance, as a baby dragon boldly curled himself into a ball, then rolling and sweeping Lavans legs and then using his his scaly yet hard head like a battering ram to headbutt the brute right into his face. However, young dragons confident demeanour was though and considerably shaken and feeling rather nervous as Lavan finally made it on his legs on stand up position and dwarfing Spike own tiny being considerably, glaring at baby dragon intensively with his glowing yellow eyes literally blazing with anger.
“No, Spike! Stay back!” Spider-Mane called upon Spike with a way more concerned if not rather worried like way, knowing that it wouldn’t possibly end up well for his scaly friend.
“Alright. I will fight fire with fire.” Spike however proclaimed in a more menacing tone, with his confidence returning and standing firmly and bravely against a much taller elemental, inhaling deeply by taking a deep breath and releasing a massive stream of his own green sparkling fire as hard as he could from his mouth, as his flames literally engulfed Lavans entire being.
However, suddenly all of Spikes flames just started losing on its intensity as Twilights assistant was slowly running out his breath with small beads of sweat forming over his foreheads and as Lavan much for baby dragons shock emerged from the wall of fire totally intact, grinning deviously and absorbing all of green flames via his arms right into his body. However and much for Spikes and everypony combined awe and horror in the same time, Lavan suddenly and somehow by absorbing Spikes own fire significantly gained weight, growing into a more gigantic like form, being over sixteen feet tall now. “MMHAHAHA!!! Thank you very much for a little power up. That’s what I have needed.” Lavan laughed maniacally, mocking Spike for his poor attempt to inflict a harm on him.
“Lavan has absorbed Spikes magic fire breath. And therefore making himself bigger and more powerful.” Twilight cautiously deducted with an odd mixture of both concern and astonishment as well.
“Echchm….” Spike chuckled nervously as Lavan now monstrous physique dwarfed and shadowed dragons own tiny being literally like a mountain, with Spike feeling like an ant, feeling beads of a cold sweat forming on his scaly forehead. “On second thought….The wiser retreats.” Spike muttered incoherently and in a rather humorous like way before making a “tactical retreat”.
“Where are you going, kid? The fun has just begun.” Lavan deviously grinned, generating more of his heat and fire energy into his right palm, before slamming it in a full force to the ground, yet unleashing his energy that travelled and ripping its way through the ground towards Spike as baby dragon desperately tried to run away from the unspontaneous force, but it was too late as the ground right under his legs blew up, releasing an intense heatwave with rocks and debris around.
“Spike! No!” Peter and Twilight both shrieked with their voices strained and watching horrified as little Spike was caught in the middle of explosion and being caught in the middle of flashing rocks hitting him hard. Yet the shockwave generated by the eruption launched Spike skywards in a spiralling motion in a dazzled like state.
But before young dragon could fall into a molten magma lake, Spider-Mane swiftly and with his nearly infallible accuracy yet with an aid of his Spider Sense fired a strand of webbing that latched on Spikes tail before masked stallion gently and with just a little amount of force sprung his webbing and pulling Spike across the rocky platform like field right into his hooves.
“Spike! Say something buddy.” Peter asked worrying, concern strongly present in both of his eyes and voice as her held Spike gently in his hooves. However, the answer were series of a painful incoherent grunts escaping from Spike, having a series of bruises and abrasions over his body, with some of his usually so durable and hard scales broken and being in a dazzled like state.
“Spike…” Twilight spoke off in a terrified like state with an unpleasant vortex of emotions whirlwinding within and penetrating young princess heart, with tears forming in her deep royal violet eyes and gently rubbing her number one assistant as well as the best friends green scales affectionately.
“Yer so dead freak!” Logan by witnessing Lavans ruthless and indifferent attack on his little scaly friend snarled menacingly though his gritted razor sharp teeth, unleashing his adamantium claws from his hooves, though his eyes under his masked lenses once again morphing into shades of jet black colour.
However, Peters concerned expression under his mask also immediately turned into a furious angry one, his usually so bright chocolate irises under his masked lenses flashing with anger as the knight centred his masked glance right towards Lavan, glaring at elemental intensively.
“You bastard! Don’t you ever mess with my friends again!” Spider-Mane howled and firing two strands of webbing from his hooves that latched right on Lavans chest, before masked stallion sprung himself forward like from a slingshot and slamming his right hoof, with a combination of his spider strength and aid of Twilight Arm generating a magic spark right into Lavans guts with such force that it triggered a miniature shockwave potent to send tremors across the battlefield. Nearly all breath left Lavans lungs as he also spat some lava through his mouth and staggering back by the impact.
Yet not letting the Elemental Lord catch his breath, Peter delivered left hook across Lavan face, followed with a fierce right uppercut into elementals lower jaws, every assault having a potential of a strike of the thunder due the added Twilight Arms enhancement, each generating another series of shockwaves and sending element flying several yards backwards before colliding with and shaking the ground, nearly crackling the entire platform.
“That’s gonna hurt!” Feilicia grimaced with a rather tensed voice yet clenching her hoof.
Lavan cringed over bolts of pain coursing throughout most part of his body, with electrical magic sparks channelling throughout his body, yet struggling himself to make it on a stand-up position, but before he could recuperate, Twilight appeared in a flash of light several meters away from the elemental, flipping her wings, having a scowl like a basilisk on her face and her horn being loaded with a considerable amount of kinetic energy, glowing like as mall beacon.
“Take this!” Twilight howled and releasing all her combined energy into a powerful telekinetic wave and hitting Lavan in a very close range, generating a shockwave potent to send the tremors across the entire battlefield and with such force that it not only forced Lavan stumble backwards but also mostly blowing out the flames coming from his head and shoulder and causing numerous crackles that spreaded on most parts of elemental molten rocks formed body with hot debris spreading around.
However, not having a chance to recuperate himself from the consistent assaults and damage the Elemental Lords was sustaining from his opponents with his breathing growing ragged, suddenly Wolverine charged against Lavan like an enraged bull with a fierce battle cry and his adamantium claws exposed, as the X-Men lunged himself right on his opponent, swinging his right hoof in a reversal like motion and with a swift slice of his claws leaving a nasty slashing wounds right on Lavan face, with molten magma bursting out, making the elemental stagger further.
Yet Wolverine drove both of his hooves forward and driving his deadly metal blades right into Lavans chest though this time with flames bursting out form the wounds and with enough force to make Elemental Lord stumble and fall right on his back, shaking the ground.
Despite and once again having his deadly indestructible blades heated up from the intense heat that was generated from beneath of Lavan body, Wolverine however and strangely seemed to be rather totally oblivious to injuries, even ignoring newly forming sets of burns over his hooves, not to mention his boots slowly igniting as well yet yanking his right hoof from Lavans chest before once again slamming his adamantium claws back into elementals chest hard, sharply twisting his hoof with more fire hurling from the wound as Elemental Lord roared and cringed in pain.
However, being lost in some sort of battle like trance, Wolverine roared menacingly in a rather uncontrollable rage and fury like a beast and slicing Lavans upper body viciously several times with more magma splashing all over, his attacks getting stronger and intensive with each effort, added by his continuously heat-enhanced adamantium claws.
“That did it.” Spider-Mane declared cautiously, his voice though sounding rather unfavourable as an unreadable expression forming on his face under his mask by witnessing Wolverine actually managing to subdue Lavan.
Lavan was shivering involuntarily and cringing himself on the ground, gritting his teeth to the core in an unbearable pain before Lavan eventually managed to re-generated more of his heat and reigniting his flames coming from both of his head and shoulder, though blazing more intensively as the Elemental Lord offensively released a massive heatwave from his entire body yet also generating a massive shockwave outburst in the process that swept the X-Men along with Spider-Mane and Twilight away.
“And I have spoken too soon.” Spider-Mane grunted sarcastically, recovering himself and performing several back flips in the mid-air before effortlessly landing on his hinder hooves, staggering several feet backward before coming into a halt by breaking himself by using his ability to stick on every surface while Twilight spread and flipped her wings before regaining her balance and also managing to come into a halt in the air.
And Wolverine, though hitting the ground, yet the X-Men threw his hooves over his head, pushing himself from the ground, performing a swift back flip before also landing on his hinder hooves and using his claws like breaks to cease his momentum.
“Hurm….That felt…woozy.” Logan groaned, taking a couple of deep breaths to tune down his raging thoughts before finally waking up from his self-induced trance by shaking his head and his eyes morphing back into his blue ones.
Meanwhile, as Peter, Twilight....with Wolverines rather unexpected assistance were engaging right on Lavan, Sunset Shimmer and Princess Luna were watching over and treating injured Spike as Luna was using her magic channelled through her horn to heal their dragon teammate and friends injuries while both Black Cat and Spitfire stood vigilant.
“O-okay….” Spike who much for everyponys surprise finally regained his consciousness, despite his vision blurring a little bit yet eventually coming into halt, weakly yet coherently murmuring with a faint trace of humour present in his voice. “Maybe fighting fire with fire hasn’t been such a good idea after all.” Yet baby dragons checked his surrounding as his stunned gaze landed on Princess Luna and Sunset as two mares were sitting by Spikes side.
“Spike?” Sunset spoke off with a softened demeanour while supporting baby dragons head with her hoof, concern present in mares voice.
“How do you feel my friend?” Luna asked gently with a soft carrying tone while transferring more of her healing energy via her horn into Spikes being, with most bruises and traces of damage on dragons body that he sustained from Lavans slowly disappearing. Despite not interacting much often with Spike, Luna considered a young dragon another dear friend to her, not to mention being a part of the Avengers as well as her teammate.
“A little bit lousy. But still in one piece.” Spike clutched at his aching head and despite some hindering aches, yet managing a small chuckle and pointing his thumb up. Young dragon attempted to stand up but clutched a little bit by bolts of pain echoing from his left knee. “More or less at least.”
“Princess Luna.” Twilight spoke off with her demeanour softening and her concern for her little brother like figure resurfacing.
“Is Spike going to be okay?” Peter completed Twilights statement, emphatically sharing his princess mutual concern for his scaly friend.
“He will be just fine.” Luna reassured her friends with a hope present in her voice, smiling hopefully. “I have managed to heal most of his bruises, yet it would appear his left leg his bleak and needs to take a proper rest to regain his strength.”
Yet then, Twilight along with Peter could happily relieve themselves, knowing that Spike would be just and eventually fine, as Spitfire along with Felicia and even Logan who already and fully recuperated himself felt a great deal of relief.
“MUHAHAHA!” Suddenly the Avengers once again heard Lavan devilish and pompous like laughter as the Elemental Lord managed to recuperate himself from his struggle with Power Duo and the X-Men, having all traces of damage and wounds fully regenerated and healed, being all heated up with his flames blazing violently with an orange aura surrounding his entire body. “Has that been the best you could do?”
“He is truly powerful indeed.” Luna murmured yet her voice sounding slightly apprehensive as well as concerned by witnessing how great and destructive power Lavan as the Elemental Lord wielded, knowing that it would take something more and extra to defeat something like that.
“If we have to defeat Lavan, we have to work all together as a team.” Twilight stated decisively, thinking and considering steadily situation profoundly
“Sounds good to me, honey. But first…..” Peter playfully agreed with Twilights suggestion yet his demeanour though swiftly turned into a more assertive and serious one as the knight hastily yet gently grabbed Spike into his hoof much for baby dragons awe.
“Peter, what are you doing?” Spike blurted out in disbelief, not quite getting what was going on before though Peter fired a strand of webbing that latched right on the edge of the cliff before webslinger sprung himself carrying Spike along right on the platform of the cliff, yet a realization suddenly flashed dragons mind. “Oh come on! You just cant….” Spike started protesting in vain.
“Yes, I am.” Peter firmly stated, yet his expression under his mask softened. “I am sorry little buddy, but you will just have to sit this one out.” Young stallion then gently pat Spike over his scaly like hair before leaping from the cliff to aid his fellow Avengers the assistance in their renewed battle against Lavan.
“Perfect. Just perfect.” Spike cursed as he angrily kicked stone yet sighing solemnly, feeling a lump forming within his throat as he watched his fellow Avengers ready to fight with Elemental Lord from a safety of the cliff with though a somewhat saddened and disappointed expression and his deep lizard emerald eyes gleaming like being almost on the verge of cry.
To be continued…..