It was a cool sunny day in Ponyville…Uhh yeah that’s a boring opening, let’s leave Ponyville for a bit and meet up with our hybrid friends in the Everfree Forest.
Deep in the dark and dangerous confines of the Everfree Forest you can expect many things, Manticores devouring their prey, cockatrices and their petrifying gaze, hydras hiding in the muddy areas of the swamps and finally if you search hard enough an Ursa.
What you would never expect is a strange game of ping pong. Why it was strange was because well…first there was no ping pong table, the ball was a shadow ball and finally the paddles were Devil Arms that is what made it was strange.
The game was simple, despite how dangerous it was, the rules were:
The game had started with Cyxon complaining about there being nothing to do in Ponyville. Roxon suggested they all go and play a quick game of some sort, Rexon, having heard the conversation from atop a cloud that drifted into Ponyville from the Everfree forest, suggested they play one of his favourite games Ping Pong. As Roxon was about to say something, another Cyxon showed up dragging Raxon, Ryxon and Nyxon then promptly vanishing.
The brothers, Cyxon excluded as he was somehow oblivious to the second Cyxon, decided to ignore the randomness and just focus on planning their game, Roxon picking his team consisting of Raxon and Nyxon, and Cyxon taking the remaining two, the venue being the Everfree forest, and finally win parameters were the first team to have a member take a direct hit from the Shadow Ball would lose. Anyway enough explanation back to the match…
As the soccer ball sized ball of dark type Pokémon energy sailed through the air towards Rexon it seemed as though it was an unstoppable blur…until said hybrid knocked the ball of destruction, with his katana, towards his opponent Raxon.
Raxon, who seemed very bored and wanting to throw the match but also didn’t want to be nailed in the face, deflected the ball to his teammate Roxon. Roxon noticing what was going on deflected the ball to Nyxon, increasing its speed as well. Nyxon who was a little surprised at first regained his cool and shot the ball back to Raxon who repeated the first deflection to Roxon. This rebound kept on until it seemed as though there was just a triangle of purple energy, then Roxon launched the extremely fast ball of power to Ryxon, hoping it was too fast for him to react to.
But alas the ball was deflected straight up into the sky followed by Cyxon leaping after the ball while charging a bolt of lightning on his deadly guitar to launch the ball back to the other team. Cyxon was so deep in thought he never heard what his brothers yelled at the top of their lungs.
“CYXON DON’T DO IT YOU IDIOT THAT’S GOING TO DESTABILISE THE BALL!”
The message reached too late as the pink haired hybrid had already reached the peak of his jump with the Shadow Ball was directly in front of him and he had struck the chord that launched the lightning bolt launching the ball…and then heard the warning.
“What?”
The ball, now with red lightning coursing through and around it flew to the Roxon’s team who knew that if it impacted anything even a deflective strike it would explode and the power that was put into it would be enough to level at least a three kilometre radius, which left them one option…someone had to hit the ball and absorb the energy of the Shadow Ball only to unfortunately be electrocuted and possibly get blown up by the energy from the Shadow Ball that is sustaining the lightning it was also a very slight possibility to deflect it but that had never happened in the past.
Roxon, who chose to absorb the power, was well aware what he had to do and what would happen to him was surprised when he absorbed the excess power and as much power as possible before the ball flew straight up from bouncing on his chest.
“Well that was lucky,” Roxon said.
“Yeah but aren’t you going to stop it?” Despair asked having manifested.
“No need it flew into space the chances of it coming down are about the same as someone in this world being able to predict minor and large events,” Roxon said.
“Meaning it could still come down and hurt someone,” Despair deadpanned.
“Even if it does it will have the explosive power of a firework which I doubt could do that much damage anyways,” Roxon added.
“It could still cause damage right?” the entity asked tiredly.
“Sure but again what are the chances,” Roxon simply replied.
“You know what I give up you are just as stubborn as Applejack,” Despair said with annoyance clear in his tone.
“I’m not stubborn to stop the ball I’m just lazy to go get it,” Roxon corrected.
“Riiiiiight…” Despair said sarcastically and added in his own head (somehow), ‘Not stubborn my non-existent ass.’
“Why the sarcasm Despair?” Roxon asked with an eyebrow raised in curiosity at the words he heard.
“Oh no reason,” Despair claimed innocently then began a mental chat, ‘By the way have you noticed your brothers calling you?’
‘Yep and I don’t care,’ Roxon answered, ‘I’m actually thinking about ways to hurt Cyxon for blatantly ignoring the rules.’
Meanwhile Roxon’s brothers were astonished, angry and confused.
“WHAT THE HELL WE HAVE BEEN CALLING HIM FOR TWO MINUTES NOW HOW IS HE IGNORING US?!” Rexon shouted to the heavens needlessly.
“He could just be ignoring us because of Cyxon…” Raxon suggested.
“Wait why me?” the excitable hybrid pouted.
“You ignored one of the basic rules of our type of Ping Pong you dolt,” Raxon scolded.
“Well excuse me for being scatter-brained,” Cyxon huffed.
“Roxon is going to hurt you, you know that right?” Nyxon asked.
The pink haired hybrid just whimpered, then his head shot up as he turned to try and apologise to his brother…only to find he was gone.
“Wait, where did he go?” Cyxon asked confused.
“He went to Ponyville you moron, where else could he go!” the remaining hybrids and the darkness entities yelled.
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Roxon had gotten into town without much in his mind. Despair had talked to him for a while but he finished that conversation some time ago and was now wandering aimlessly in Ponyville…he also did not expect a mint green unicorn to canter up to him and shout…
“HI THERE!”
…right next to him.
“Could you please try again, miss my ear still has some of its hearing,” Roxon snarked.
“Sorry,” the mare apologised, “I just really wanted to talk to you.”
“About what?” Roxon asked.
“Well I just wanted to know are you slightly insane…from the entire demon fighting thing,” the mare said.
“Considering that I sometime hunt living creatures and could rip a demon’s spine out keeping it alive at the same time, then tear its entrails out of its gut and strangle them with those exact same entrails,” Roxon explained in his monotone, “Then yes I am.”
“Interes-Oh ponyfeathers sorry I forgot to introduce myself,” the pony berated herself, “My name I Lyra Heartstrings.”
“And you already know me,” Roxon said.
“Yeah but don’t you have a last name or do you not want to share it like most ponies,” Lyra asked cheekily.
“Moeru Satsuriku Ōkami (Google translate Japanese for Blazing Slayer Wolf),” Roxon said, “That’s my last name…at least as far as I know.”
“Wow that sounds exotic,” Lyra said in awe, “but not surprising considering that you are part demon and what does ‘as far as I know’ mean.”
“Me and my brothers have some gaps and blurs in our memories since we don’t remember much of our first year of life before we were sent to Hell,” Roxon said in his monotone then added, “Before you say anything demons mature quickly mentally, and sometimes physically, in three months a new born can have a six year Old’s mentality or older depending on what they learn.”
“That sounds both cool and kinda depressing,” Lyra said.
“Yeah it is because some demon spawn are usually born in Hell so they learn to fight and kill pretty quickly so half breeds born in Hell usually end up traumatised or crazy if they have no parents to shelter them,” Roxon explained with no emotion in his voice.
“Yikes,” Lyra sympathised, “Well it was nice talking to you, and I have to meet up with Bon Bon in a while. See ya.”
The mare waved before running a certain direction Roxon simply chuckled, ‘Would you look at that, it is good to talk to others…still don’t feel comfortable enough to start willingly showing emotion though…okay maybe I may one day start to show my emotions more often but considering how many times my ‘allies’ betrayed me …’
Roxon, trapped in his own mind and thoughts, did not notice the pony and dragon that were also walking towards him and were as distracted as he was and they bumped into each other the pony landing on her back, the dragon landing on his ass and Roxon not being moved in the slightest, but he was shaken out of his thoughts and looked down to see Twilight and Spike.
“Hey Spike. Hey Twilight sorry about bumping into you I had something on my mind,” Roxon apologized.
“No problem but what made you go so deep in thought?” Spike asked curiously.
“Spike hush it might be something private!” Twilight berated quickly.
“It’s no trouble Twilight,” Roxon dismissed, “it was just a pony talked to me and brought something to my attention I was just mulling it over and the next thing I know I’m bumping into you.”
“Oh okay…did she offer to you know…nudge nudge wink wink” Twilight ended.
Roxon let out an annoyed growl, “You know I’m not the kind of guy to just bed everyone I meet.”
Twilight cheekily smiled, “I know just wanted a reaction out of you.”
“What do you…” Roxon started before realising how he reacted, “Smart move Sparkle, maybe I should reward you with something tonight and I promise you’ll be walking funny for a week.”
“I-I don’t think that’s a good id-dea,” Twilight stuttered blushing at what Roxon implied.
The hybrid only leaned in closer his hot breath tickling the pony’s ear making her blush red, “Well you know what…I got ya Twi’.”
“Ha he got you back Twi’!” Spike said before laughing.
The blush quickly vanished off her face replaced by a glare but just as Twilight was about to say something a yelling voice cut in and also drew the attention of the ponies outside.
“ROOOOOOOOOOOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNN!”
Twilight and Spike turned to see the pink haired often hyper Cyxon barreling towards them. Roxon however did not turn and listened to which side Cyxon was approaching from.
‘Right side,’ Roxon thought as Cyxon was at the point he wanted him to be.
Roxon the simply extended his right arm horizontally to his side and felt the impact of Cyxon’s face on his upper arm as Cyxon ran right into a clothesline as he spun and landed face first into the ground. The ponies had gotten used to seeing things like this and just kept on minding their own business.
“Ow,” was Cyxon’s muffled groan of pain.
“Hey Cyxon,” Roxon said in his signature deadpan tone before he kept walking, ‘Moron.’
“Aren’t you going to help him?” Twilight asked as she followed.
“Nah, he’s been through worse,” Roxon replied, “So what were you doing in the library?”
“I was just practicing some magic.”
“Really now, well you must know a lot of magic by now right?”
“Oh it’s nothing to bra-”
“Are you kidding Twilight twenty five different tricks and counting is too something to brag about a little!” Spike cut in.
“You flatter me Spike but there has to be somepony in Ponyville that knows as much magic as me,” Twilight abashedly said.
“Are you kidding I don’t think there’s another unicorn in Equestria with you king of abilities Twilight,” Spike said gesturing to the unicorn.
“GANG WAY COMING THROUGH!” yelled a lanky unicorn colt with a snail cutie mark, known as Snails, as he ran next to his shorter chubbier friend with a scissor cutie mark, known as Snips.
Twilight teleported out of the way of the two colts, Spike having no clue what to do was rammed and carried off and Roxon made a portal in front of himself which both colts passed through having the exit and run over the still in pain Cyxon.
‘Baby,’ Roxon thought when he heard Cyxon groan.
‘What a weakling. He’s been stabbed, burned, shot, dismembered etc. and cries about that, pathetic,’ Despair said in Roxon’s head.
“S-S-Snips, S-S-Snails w-w-what’s going on?” Spike asked as he was jolting on Snip’s head.
Both colts skidded to a halt, resulting in Spike getting flung away, before answering his question.
“Haven’t you heard, there’s a new unicorn in town,” Snails answered.
“Yeah they say she’s got more magical powers than any other unicorn ever!” Snips said excitedly.
“‘Any other unicorn ever’ huh,” Roxon skeptically asked, “Isn’t that a bit of a stretch?”
“Yeah ‘cause that honor goes to Twilight here,” Spike added.
Twilight looked briefly abashed at her assistant’s praise before regaining her composure, “Where is this unicorn?”
“She’s in the town square, come on!” Snails said with excitement in his voice.
“Yeah come on whoooo!” Snips proclaimed as excited as Snails.
Roxon, Twilight and Spike stared in the direction the two colts went before they followed as well.
No one around noticed that Cyxon had disappeared from his spot on the ground.
Town Square
At Town Square there were tons of ponies gathered in front of some type of cart, every single pony in Ponyville seemed to be there. Roxon, Twilight and Spike arrived and spotted their friends both pony and hybrid.
“Hey guys,” Roxon called to his brothers.
“Hi girls,” Twilight called to her friends.
Roxon was met with different kinds of replies from his brothers and a fearful squeal from Cyxon as he hid behind Raxon.
“What’s wrong with him?” Raxon asked.
”No clue,” Roxon replied genuinely confused in his monotone voice, ‘I already hurt him but he thinks I want to hurt him some more? I don’t hold a grudge for that long.’
‘You do!’
‘Fuck you despair.’
Twilight’s greeting was met with waves and hellos from her friends before the cart started unfolding into a stage and a female voice announced.
“COME ONE COME ALL, COME AND WITNESS THE AMAZING MAGIC OF THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE!”
As the announcing voice finished the stage had fully unfolded and a puff of smoke had appeared, as the smoke cleared a blue mare with a pale blue mane and tail and purple eyes with a wand and sparkles trailing from said wand as her cutie mark appeared. The pony wore a cape a certain shade of purple with what seemed to be a blue gem connecting it around her neck and a big wizard hat the same shade of purple and both cape and hat were covered in star prints.
“Watch in awe as The Great and Powerful Trixie performs the most spectacular feats of magic ever witnessed by pony eyes,” the mare declared as her cape flowed in some kind of invisible wind and fireworks went off from her stage when she finished her sentence awing the ponies watching, the ponies only though but not the Morph Six.
“Seriously I follow Twiddle Dee and his best friend Stretch for this,” Roxon said referring to Snails and Snips respectively, “and what’s with the third person referencing?”
“Come on bro give her a chance,” Cyxon said still making an effort to avoid Roxon, “Maybe she’ll surprise us.”
“Ego much,” Rarity said with a face that said ‘seriously’.
“Come on, nopony’s as magical as Twi…Twi…Twi,” Spike’s complaint cut itself short as he saw Rarity, “Uh hi Rarity I uh…EXCUSEMEFORASECOND,” he said before he dashed off.
‘Love struck idiot,’ was the thought of the ponies which saw him.
“There’s nothing wrong with being talented is there?” Twilight asked occupying the spot her assistant had been standing in.
“Nothing at all,” Pinkie Pie said, “You can be talented but there is a line between talent and rubbing it in.”
“Pinkie’s right,” Applejack added looking on the stage as Trixie summoned some flowers, “when you go showing off like a school filly with fancy new ribbons then well…”
“…That could give you a bad reputation in other ponies eyes oh sorry for interrupting” Fluttershy finished.
“To top it off she’s just a performer,” Rexon cut in, “Her whole ‘Feats of magic ever witnessed by pony eyes’ has me picking up this whole ‘I’m better than you’ vibe from her.”
“Especially when you’ve got me around being better than the rest of us…” Rainbow Dash said before glares from the Morph Six and her friends made her say, “…Uh, I mean…magic schmagic boo.”
This caught Trixie’s attention as she said, “Well, well, well it seems we have some neighhh Sayers in the audience,” the performer said with a small whinny, “Who is so impudent as to challenge the magical ability of The Great and Powerful Trixie? Do they know that they are in the presence of the most magical unicorn in all of Equestria?”
“Okay then,” Cyxon said simply as Twilight slipped out of the crowd unnoticed, “Roxon you were right there is nothing impressive about her except her ego which is basically bigger than Rainbow’s ego.”
“Uh thanks?” said pegasus said not knowing whether to be insulted or not.
Fireworks began to erupt from Trixie’s stage prompting Rainbow Dash to fly up to Trixie’s face and confront her.
“So Great and Powerful Trixie,” Rainbow Dash asked in an unimpressed tone as she hovered in front of the unicorn, “what makes you think you're so awesome anyway?”
The unicorn giggled and answered, “Why, only The Great and Powerful Trixie had magic strong enough to vanquish the dreaded URSA MAJOR!”
Trixie proceeded to tell the story of how she vanquished said creature with firework illustrations, which looked like children’s drawings but the audience, including the twelve Element Bearers, figured fireworks can only be used as pictures with limited quality. The story awed almost everyone there.
“Sweet!” Snips and Snails said.
“That settles it…” Snips added.
“…Trixie truly is the most talented, most magical, most awesome unicorn in Ponyville,” Snails continued.
“No, in all of Equestria,” Snips corrected his friends last statement.
I did say the story awed almost everyone there right?
“Sounds far-fetched to me but she is a performer so I won’t judge.” Cyxon said to which his brothers agreed.
Trixie continuing said, “It’s true my enthusiastic admirers, Trixie is most certainly the best in Ponyville.”
The audience was so silent crickets could be heard chirping.
“Don’t believe The Great and Powerful Trixie,” Trixie said before letting lose a small giggle, “Well then, I hereby challenge you Ponyvillians, anything you can do I can do better. Any takers or is Trixie destined to be the greatest equine who ever lived,” Trixie challenged as her stage shot fireworks into the air.
“Please she’s unbearable, you’ve gotta show her you’ve just gotta,” Spike begged Twilight.
“No way Spike not after she-” Twilight said only to be interrupted by Trixie.
“Hey where are you six going?!” Trixie demanded.
“We’re leaving this is a total waste of our time so we decided-” Roxon said only to be interrupted
“You decided that you were too weak and pathetic to face the greatest equine who ever lived,” Trixie said cockily.
Roxon stopped, “Please spare me the boasting,” he turned to face Trixie and lifted up his pointer finger, “first you are not the greatest equine who ever lived Celestia and Luna are tied for that honour…at the moment beat then maybe I will call you the greatest equine who ever lived,” he then raised a second fingers to show the number two, “second I can do things you most certainly cannot,” he then lifted a third finger and said, “and third I’ve got better things to do than try to prove myself to some performer, now if you would kindly do us a favour and leave us alone, thank you for your shitty show and fuck you!”
With that the Morph Six leapt into six different directions to their own devices not paying attention to the laughter of the ponies and completely missing Trixie’s fish out of water impression.
Later with Trixie
After the Morph Six left Trixie the same thing as in canon happened since the ponies basically ignore the Morph Six, Applejack getting hogtied by her own rope, Rainbow Dash having her own mini rainbow used against her, Rarity’s green hair yes even Carrot Tops huff at said pony’s comment and Twilight running away from the staring eyes.
Now Trixie stood in front of her mirror brushing her mane the brush being caressed by her magic when the two ponies that were bound to bring trouble showed up, Snips carrying a smoothie and his friend behind him.
“Here’s the smoothie you asked for with extra hay just the way you like it,” Snips said.
“Mhhhhhhh, hay,” Snails dumbly said.
Trixie took the smoothie and started to drink it when she noticed that her two fans were still there, “Yes?”
“Tell us another story,” Snips said eyes twinkling with fascination.
“Yeah tell us how you vanquished the Ursa Major again,” Snails added.
“Trixie is far too beat to tell stories of her amazing feats,” she said tiredly realising the persistence of the ponies in front of her, “now be gone with you until morning,” the two colts backed away heads bowed and as they were out of earshot, “The Great and Powerful Trixie has a really bad feeling of what is going to happening to her right now,” the performer said nervously as she felt her stomach grow heavy.
With Snips and Snails
As the colts backed away with their heads bowed a voice called from behind them.
“What’re you two doing?” the voice of Spike asked.
“Just bringing the G and P T a-” Snips said.
“The what?” Spike interrupted.
“The Great and Powerful Trixie…” Snips elaborated.
“Sheesh,” Spike said rolling his eyes.
“Just bringing her a smoothie,” Snips said proudly.
“Are you really falling for her lameness?” Spike asked incredulously.
“What do you mean?” Snips asked confused.
“You’re listening to stories from a show-off who just showed up out of nowhere with no proof to back up her stories and toots her own horn too much,” Spike said with a quick groan at the colt’s density, “I hate to be a wet blanket but I won’t believe until I see proof or see her beat an Ursa Major right here.”
“You want proof we’ll get proof let’s go Snails!” Snips said determination in his eyes as he ran off.
“Wha-hey wait up!” Snails ran after his friend.
“Good luck dumbasses,” Spike said so lowly nopony heard him, “Man, am I glad Twilight wasn’t here to hear that.”
Sometime Later In the Library
“Twilight could you listen to me for five minutes,” Spike begged the pony in front of him.
“No it’s the same as when you were trying to talk to me at Trixie’s performance, if I go out there and use my magic I run the risk of losing my friends,” Twilight countered.
“You don’t know unless you take a chance Twi’,” the familiar voice of Nyxon spoke.
“This coming from the guy who had nothing to lose in the past,” Twilight said calmly.
“Quite the opposite actually, my brothers and I always had something to lose be it friends, freedom, trust or our lives we usually took a chance,” Nyxon said with a bitter smile which changed into a nostalgic smile, “and usually came out on top and when we didn’t we always took the consequences head on.”
“Really?” Spike asked with slight adoration, “You guys are pretty cool, unlike the stick in the mud.”
“Hey!” Twilight said indignantly at Spike’s comment.
“Spike’s kinda right Twilight,” Nyxon said matter-of-factly, “You usually stay in this stuffy place most of the time and when you do come out it’s usually for little get-togethers with us, you never really seem to want to come out to do something fun when we ask even Roxon doesn’t do that…anymore.”
“I may be like that by I stand by my decision I am not going out there to show up Trixie.”
Nyxon argued, “Judging by the way you ran in here she’ll only be truly showed up if another pony beats her, by the way how are your friends right now after Trixie showed ‘em up?”
Twilight had been listening to everything Nyxon said but when he asked about her friends she froze, “How did you-”
“I saw the entire thing from the top of the tree. You don’t have to show her up to brag but you can do it to stand up for your friends.”
Night-time Somewhere in the Everfree
Two very frightened colts trekked through the forest filled with dangerous monsters searching for the beast that they wanted to lure to Ponyville to have Trixie their idol vanquish.
They soon came across a big cave entrance with yellow, green, brown and some red liquid spattering the walls and a small bit on the rim of the cave entrance. As they entered the cave the scene turned worse, the stench of death, decay and excrement caused the two colts to shudder before they trembled as they saw the broken, bloody and torn corpses of Manticores with maggots feasting on the decaying flesh. Skulls cracked open with brain matter still leaking out, entrails dangling from stalagmite and stalactite impaled bodies as well as bodies with large gashes in their bellies, bodies torn at the waist near symmetrically bisected, severed limbs scattered all over the floor some even hanging from the wall their claws embedded in the rock, bodies with jagged broken bones jutting out from torn skin, most might say it came from a horror film.
“W-What h-happened h-here?” Snails asked fearfully.
“I-I d-don’t know,” Snips stuttered.
As they continued deeper into the cave it only got darker and darker until they couldn’t see their own hooves in front of their faces.
“How are we gonna find an Ursa Major if I can’t see my own hoof in front of my face?” Snips asked glad the darkness masked the corpses in the cave.
“Hold on it won’t be a problem,” Snails assured.
He started to try and light up his horn illuminating the cave with every short burst of light until his horn finally stayed alight and the scene in the cave was fully revealed the clean, non-bloody walls, lack of corpses and strangely close ceiling.
“Huh, that’s weird nothing scary in here wonder where that Ursa Major is?” Snips asked.
“And why is the ground soft and purple?” Snails asked.
When Snips heard his friend he went bug eyed, “Did you say soft and purple?”
“Yeah why?”
“Uh Snails the ground can’t be soft unless its sand and sand ain’t purple.”
It took a few seconds for Snails to process what his friend had said and when he had processed it he gulped and asked, “Then what are we standing on?”
A sudden growl from below them gave them a pretty good idea of what they were standing on.
In Another Part of the Everfree
An explosion sounded through the clearing as a figure in the smoke cloud in a small crater, five meters in diameter, created by said figure failed at their fifteenth try at creating a stable energy ball.
“I told you to focus,” Roxon said calmly, “if you lose focus you’re gonna blow up.”
“I’VE BEEN FOCUSING FOR THE PAST FIVE HOURS,” the figure in the crater yelled, “YOU TRY DOING THIS!”
“I did, energy control is supposed to be difficult,” Roxon countered, “as soon as you get this down the rest of what I want to teach you will be a piece of cake.”
The figure slowly turned and tried to stand only to collapse into the dirt again.
“I really regret choosing to be your student,” the figure complained, “my body hurt less back then.”
“Listen girly you chose this now suck it up and quit bitching or would you rather I-”
A roar sounded through the Everfree.
Roxon groaned, “That sounds bad,” he turned to his student, “Training is done for today see you the next class.”
“UGH!” the figure complained, “I wish you would take it easy on me.”
“Oh don’t get your feathers in a bunch I could have been throwing my Lucifer blades at you so I am taking it easy on you,” Roxon shot back causing said student to facefault.
And with that he left.
Canterlot
“The ponies here don’t seem to like me that much,” a figure with a familiar voice and a clear protrusion from its head that could be seen as a horn spoke.
“I know I could see by the way they avoid you like some kind of disease,” another figure spoke, “Ponyville was the same in the beginning there was even a time when they were so shallow as to be nice to my brother just to get a pair of tickets for the gala, Twilight thought Roxon was mad at her but he was only mad about the shallowness of the ponies. They all changed when we saved them from a demon attack though, I'm sure they’ll do the same for you to Nightmare…not the demon attack thing the whole change thing.”
Both figures, one now identified as Nightmare the other only possibly belonging to one of the Morph Six, were atop the tallest tower of Canterlot gazing at the stars as they conversed.
“Your brothers are…intimidating as well as you are but in a good way,” Nightmare said.
“Oh and how, pray tell are we not intimidating in a bad way?” the hybrid asked inquisitively.
“Well, when I’m around any of you I feel safe and calm but around you specifically I feel as though you would fight death itself to keep me safe,” the ex-villain said with a blush on her face.
“Love you too Nighty,” the hybrid said causing the dark mare’s face to redden to look like a tomato.
“Y-You idiot!” the alicorn said before trying to strike the hybrid.
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR
The hybrid let out a sigh of annoyance.
“Monster or demon attacks have the worst timing I swear, I like fighting but I also need personal time,” he sighed again, “No use complaining see you later and I love you…Nighty.”
The mare was about to yell but her knight had already started running vertically down the tower so she settled for a sigh, “See you later handsome, I wish I could hate that bastard for long but I just love him too much.”
In Ponyville
“YO BUDDY YOU BLIND I’M OVER HERE!” Roxon yelled as he dodged swipe from a giant paw, ‘Gotta keep this thing out of Ponyville.’
Roxon had arrived in Ponyville only to notice a giant beast towering over the trees in the Everfree forest and approaching Ponyville. He also noticed something amiss in the beast’s posture, apart from the fact that it stood upright, but had no idea why it was so.
“TRY AGAIN!” he yelled again as he landed on a tree top and shot a barrage of energy bullets…which did absolutely nothing but annoy the beast.
The beast in question was a giant transparent bear with a purple coat dotted with stars and a blue eight point star on its forehead. The bear had large fangs protruding from its mouth and large claw on all four paws all of which as long as Town Hall is tall.
“Hey bro what’s the pro…HOLY SHIT THAT THING’S HUGE!” Rexon said having arrived through a portal.
“Oh please its size nothing compared to Mundus…or even bigger than him that moon sized necromorph,” Roxon stated.
“What’s attacking this t…” Nyxon said before noticing the Ursa, “Oh great just what I needed...not!”
Cyxon followed and promptly started screaming as he saw the Ursa. Raxon gulped a little intimidated even though they fought worse. Raxon caught sight of the Ursa and noted that he felt sadness from it.
“Guys I noticed something on that thing’s while I was dodging it,” Roxon said before pointing the gun’s barrel to the Ursa’s face, “the eyes are solid yellow, no pupils or irises, and there’s a line running along the star on its forehead. Focus on that, ready?”
“Ready.”
“LET’S DO THIS!”
“No need to ask me twice.”
“Time to rock and roll.”
“I assure you I am prepared.”
“Go!”
With that declaration each of them drew their guns and charged at the giant cosmic bear.
Cyxon true to his mentioned in chapter 1 role caused his hair to glow. Running to the left side of the Ursa he fired a few bullets to have the Ursa focus on him. His brother went to the right which strangely is the direction the Ursa focused on as it raised its right paw and brought it down.
“What the-” Roxon got out before having to baseball slide to a stop a few meters from where the giant paw landed.
“Guys something’s wrong it’s completely ignoring Cyxon but why?”
Roxon didn’t really get a fix on the voice that asked but he knew the answer to the question.
‘Guess my taunt had some weight to it after all,’ Roxon thought before answering, “It could be one of two things blind or hiding it’s eyes.”
“Why would it need to-shit!” Rexon said as realisation struck and the Ursa dislodged its paw from the ground, “Are you telling me it’s-”
“Possibly, Cyxon new plan someone has to reach that line on the Ursa’s forehead,” Roxon commanded as Cyxon teleported to their position and the Ursa raised its left paw in an arc swiping from the left, “and for distractions use noise and each other just make sure someone scores a hit on that line and telepathic communication only. Go!”
As the Ursa swiped its paw claws parted the six hybrids each dodged at similar times in their own way.
Roxon jumped and tilted his body to a horizontal alignment while spinning like a drill bit and narrowly passed between its parted claws.
‘That was close,’ Roxon thought before seeing the hood of his hoody still flying upwards, ‘Damn I cut it too close.’
Rexon simply air tricked out of the way…at the very last second to show off.
‘I must’ve looked cool,’ he said but then felt a draft in his shirt and looked down to find, ‘Okay maybe I should be more careful next time,’ three horizontal lines on his shirt made by claws
Raxon had used his grieves to kick of the Ursa’s claws his face and hair centimetres from the claws of the beasts paw or not. He then summersaulted in the air and landed in an Ironman style only to notice some of his hair slowly drifting towards the ground.
‘NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!’ Raxon yelled in his mind.
Nyxon decided to cut the crap and opened a portal underneath Ryxon, Cyxon and himself, due to the fact that he felt an odd energy coming from the Ursa’s claws, which they fell through. Nyxon being the one to open the portal landed one knee and hand on the ground, Ryxon being slightly surprised and less prepared landed on his knees and hands in a crawling position and Cyxon being a bit of a scatterbrain and unprepared for the portal opening landed flat on his face…and the Mane Six had also arrived.
“AN URSA MAJOR! WHAT'S THAT THING DOING HERE?” Twilight yelled.
“Wait a minute that thing is an Ursa Major, its GIGANTIC! How in the name of Celestia did Trixie beat that thing?” Rainbow Dash asked looking at Twilight and pointing at the beast.
“I DON’T KNOW!” The unicorn yelled again then started mumbling something under her breath.
No one would get the chance to find out what she said as a shadow appeared above their heads when they looked up they saw, a sight that froze them on the spot, a giant paw no further than ten meters above them and closing. Twilight knew that she had no time to teleport herself and her friends out of harm’s way so she continued to stare transfixed at the appendage about to kill her and her friends until she was suddenly staring at the night sky…wait night sky?
The Mane Six blinked a few times before looking down and noticing that they were nowhere near the clearing but on the edge of Ponyville with their friends perfectly safe and ponies staring off at them.
“What-” the Mane Six asked simultaneously.
“SHHHH!” the possible entirety of Ponyville shushed, before Lyra who was at the front of the group said while pointing in a direction behind the Element Bearers, “We’re watching how they work.”
The Mane Six turned to see what the mint green unicorn was pointing to, only to witness Roxon at least that’s what she thought, running up the Ursa’s back and jumping into the giant’s mouth when it was in the middle of a roar.
“That’s…different,” Twilight commented on what she saw.
With the Morph Six More Specifically Roxon
Roxon wondered why he usually was the one who had to bail his siblings out of trouble as he travelled down the Ursa’s oesophagus to fetch none other than Cyxon who, somehow in the span of mere seconds, had ended up being swallowed by the beast when he was busy saving the Mane Six.
As he worked his way down he couldn’t help but remember the times he was swallowed by his gigantic enemies against his will and how he willingly jumped into his beast’s mouth.
“When I get Cyxon out of here and we stop the Ursa I am bashing his skull in,” Roxon growled.
A muffled but clearly understandable, “I should be happy but I’m beginning to think I’m safer in here!” called out to him.
Roxon ignoring the attempt at a joke knew he was close to his brother and began furiously sinking his claws into the slick flesh to pull himself closer to his sibling. Eventually he found his brother although they were in less than stellar conditions still midway down the giant creature’s oesophagus.
“Before you hurt me this is not my fault?” Cyxon said fearfully.
CRACK
Cyxon's muzzle suddenly started bleeding for some reason and Roxon’s fist also had blood that appeared seemingly out of nowhere.
“Well I don’t need to bash your skull in anymore.”
Meanwhile In the Same Cave the Ursa Major Came From
A blue furred starry eyelid suddenly snapped open, awoken from its peaceful slumber by the small tremors caused by the crashing paw. The creature was cranky at first but as it made its way out of the cave it saw the remains of the torn apart Manticores, the previous crankiness turned into fear. Fear that something dangerous had entered in the cave, fear that something might have harmed it and fear for its mother, who it had not found in the cave when it had woken up.
The fear quickly turned to panic as it heard a roar of pain as soon as it made it out of the cave and it turned and ran in the direction the roar came from ignoring all self-preservation instincts.
Back With The Morph Six
Roxon had opted for the simplest way to get out of the Ursa and simply burst through the giant’s chest leaving him and his sibling, whose muzzle had just finished healing, covered in blood.
“You know what fuck the telepathy,” Roxon said as he held his sword to the side before issuing an order, “Make sure that thing’s forehead is facing up when I say so,” he then made a portal opening in front of himself and another portal up in mid-air…very high in the air, he then placed his sword on his back and leapt into the portal with one final word, “GO!”
Raxon and Cyxon air tricked behind the giant beast and attacked the beasts legs which it stood on, Raxon with a Hyperfist followed up by a Kick 13, and Cyxon using a move he called Jam Striker, where he rocked out as if doing a Jam Session attack but shooting, at the shortest session, twenty lightning bolts directly towards his target, knocking the beast off balance.
Nyxon and Ryxon wasted no time as they both charged at the beast and slammed into it with a demon energy charged Volt Tackle causing the Ursa to fall on its back. As the beast tried to get up it found its limbs trapped by something cold and hard, which if it could see it would have seen ice holding it down courtesy of Rexon who transformed his transforming Aquila into the Cerberus nunchucks and slammed all three rods into the ground focusing on the ice creating shackles for the creature.
The bear had no time to wonder what was holding it down because all of a sudden something smashed into its forehead, something being Roxon falling at terminal velocity with an Iron Tail attack aimed directly at the line on the beast’s forehead, the impact levelling a few dozen trees and also broke the ice shackles.
Everything grew quiet for several tense seconds, no one spoke, no one moved, not even a breeze blew or a single creature stirred, everything was quiet…until a saddened roar came from behind the even wider clearing.
The Morph Six and watching ponies of Ponyville turned and saw a smaller bear with a just as transparent blue coat as the larger one and a white eight point star on its forehead with yellow-orange eyes and red irises with a worried look on its face.
“Even an Ursa Minor is huge,” Twilight said out loud.
Unfortunately that was a big distraction which the purple bear needed as it suddenly, faster than anyone thought it could move, sat up, clapped its paws together and caught Roxon right in the middle of them then threw him to the ground, where he bounced up to chest level with the Ursa which finally swatted him, with the back of its paw, into Ponyville where he crashed into Town Hall, throwing deadly debris everywhere, unconscious. Unsatisfied the beast then charged a ball of demonic energy in its mouth and shot it towards Town Hall causing further damage.
“Serves the little punk right,” a voice declared.
“Who said that?” Rexon demanded, “Show yourself!”
“My, my, a little dense now are we?” the voice said again, “Did you not figure it out yet? If not here’s a hint look at the beast you are fighting see if anything is amiss.”
The remaining five still conscious siblings looked over to the Ursa and found the beast’s fur had gained orange-like patches in it and seemed even wilder than it did earlier, with the previous hole in its chest healed through regeneration and the line on the forehead was actually a disguised eyelid with what seemed to be thick veins bulging outwards from the edges and the eye was different from a regular infested eye with the iris seeming to be a hot pink colour.
“Pink,” Cyxon said absentmindedly.
Everyone, except Roxon, facepalmed/facehoofed/facepawed.
“Cyxon you’re an idiot sometimes,” Ryxon groaned out.
Before Cyxon could say anything the parasitic demon interrupted.
“Listen can we fight already,” the Infested Ursa said then gained a sinister smile and looked at the confused Ursa Minor, “But first to get rid of some distractions,” and then lunged claws pointed in such a ways as to impale…
…Only to stop a meter away from the target, with the Infested Ursa struggling and growling as if to say ‘I won’t let you harm my child’. The parasite tried to make the Ursa’s arm move for several seconds but ultimately gave up, “Fine you want your precious child to stay alive then I’ll just kill him later when I deal with you. Now where were we?” the demon added sinisterly.
Rexon took his pistols out of their holsters and started firing at the eye on the possessed creature’s forehead making the Major roar in pain as the bullets connected with the parasitic eye, the Ursa Minor which was rooted on the spot from his near death experience and tried nuzzling his mother only to be shoved away.
“Buzz off you little nuisance,” the demon bellowed…only to immediately clutch its head in pain as the Ursa Major fought for control.
Meanwhile with Roxon
The hybrid had begun to open his eyes as he regained consciousness at first he was confused as to what was going on but seconds later the pain in his chest, blood leaking from his mouth plus the memory of being crushed between to giant paws basically gave him all he needed to piece together what had happened, but had difficulty processing what happened around him.
As he got up he could feel he had little energy left but had nothing to replenish it with since he left his Vital Stars at the library. The ache in his body kept screaming at him to stop moving, he simply ignored it and kept going, but what was that noise he was hearing.
Turning to the sound, several thoughts flew through his head, ‘I knew that Ursa was possessed by an Infestant. Who lured it here in the first place? What the heck is that smaller Ursa doing here? Wait don’t I have something to stop the bigger one? The Infestant’s host is fighting I should do something while it’s distracted, but what?’
The last two thoughts clicked together as with a sudden burst of adrenaline at the prospect of stopping the Infested Ursa, he formed a compound bow and an arrow out of his remaining energy and as he drew the string with his weakening muscles the pulleys assisted in giving the arrow enough power to travel its designated distance, although that would all count for nothing if he missed the shot with his blurred double tunnel vision.
‘Come on! See straight dammit!’
From what he could see the Ursa was starting to lose the fight, he couldn’t see well enough to guarantee a hit with his arrow and he was about to pass out. With no other choice he took a gamble and let the arrow fly before the world went black…
Some time later voices began to register in his mind although he could only hear bits and pieces of what they said through the ringing in his ears his mind filling the blanks.
“Br…er, Ro…n…ou…ight?” (Brother, Roxon are you alright?)
“DU…KE…P…!” (DUDE WAKE UP!)
“For…th…ov…f…CY…ET…E…TAL…AR!” (For the love of…CYXON GET ME A VITAL STAR!)
“L…ge…or…mall?” (Large medium or small?)
“LARGE…IDIOT!” (LARGE YOU FUCKING IDIOT!)
From what he guessed he heard his brothers in order of who he heard first to last it was Raxon, Rexon, Ryxon, Cyxon and then Nyxon. As the arguments grew his hearing recovered enough for him to hear parts of sentences but they were not from his sibling, since he heard four sets of feet and figured the one remaining was just keeping quiet, but the ponies instead and each voice he heard he tried to remember the pony it was associated to.
“Ge…uo guys tou…just lucky (Gee are you guys tough or are you just lucky)?” Twilight Sparkle’s voice registered in his head.
“Sho…help u…ats okay (Should we help um if that’s okay)?” Fluttershy’s hushed voice asked.
“…ah he’s go…alright he’…ore awesome…I am (Nah he’s gonna be alright he’s more awesome than I am),” the unmistakeable voice of Rainbow Dash praised.
“…as nearly…he bones i…body broken…vere internal bleeding pl…uptured organs…ould very well be dead (He has nearly all the bones in his body broken severe internal bleeding plus several ruptured organs he should very well be dead)!” he heard from Nurse Redheart.
“Nurse Redheart *cough cough* shut up,” Roxon’s wheezing voice cut through the chatter like a hot knife through butter.
All of the ponies gathered gasped at the sound of his voice thinking he was unconscious and or dead.
“Thank you…now could someone tell me who brought that thing here in the first place…and stop poking me whoever you are before I take that stick a shove it right up your-”
“OH LOOK HERE COME CYXON AND THE OTHERS WITH THAT VITAL STAR!” Ryxon interrupted also startling the unicorn, with a clothes pin cutie mark, that was poking Roxon with a stick which was unfortunately very sharp, not that it hurt but it was very annoying.
The unicorn just almost went back to poking the annoyed hybrid but was stopped when Twilight yanked the stick out of his telekinetic grasp and snapped it in half…then for good measure burned it.
“Oops, sorry Pokey,” she said innocently.
As the group of four arrived Cyxon grabbed three Large Vital Stars from one of his pockets and gave them to his brother, who crushed them and felt all the damage in his body get fixed like new. When the healing was done he immediately moved to more pressing business.
“Where’s the Ursa?” Roxon asked.
“She, carrying her sleeping kid, left when she woke up after your arrow removed and killed that demon from her body,” Cyxon said calmly.
“That’s good. Collateral damage?”
“You only a destroyed the part of Town Hall you crashed through…before the Infestant shot a ball of demonic energy at you for good measure,” Raxon answered, “and before you ask no casualties either.”
“Serves me right, note to self don’t get distracted helping an Infested living creature in future,” Roxon joked before turning serious, “Anyway who or what brought that thing here?”
Before his brothers answered Snips and Snails stepped up and Snips declared, “We did!”
Roxon not turning to face them asked his expression hidden but his voice like liquid nitrogen, “What made you think that was a good idea?”
Snails answered saying, “We wanted to prove Trixie was the greatest unicorn ever since you didn’t believe her, we thought you would believe it when you saw her beat an Ursa Major.”
Roxon simply said, “Well enjoy repairing Town Hall because of your inability to handle simple criticism, hope it was worth it,” then added with a cold edge in his tone grabbing hold of one of his Aquila blades, “and trust me you will repair Town Hall unless you want me to punish you in a worse way.”
The colts only cowered in fear at the cold tone and whimpered out, “It wasn’t and we’re sorry!”
“Now about Trixie…” Roxon said as he turned to the shivering pony.
“Leave her, when that Ursa smacked you into Town Hall, I was catching those heavy and yes I do mean heavy support beams you blew everywhere with my magic. When you shot that arrow though the Minor got pretty upset and went on a rampage, before Trixie tried to stop it after she admitted to lying about vanquishing an Ursa Major…it didn’t go well because not much time later the Minor stomped towards her and tried to crush her with its-” Twilight explained before being interrupted.
“His, it smelled male to me,” Rexon corrected, “and the Major was its mother.”
“Okay his paw, I used a magic spell that made the plants play a lullaby to make the Minor sleepy, then while maintaining the lullaby spell, used my telekinesis to carry a water tower empty it fill it up with milk, from the cows in AJ’s barn, gave it to the Minor which I had also been carrying in my telekinesis then laid him next to his mother,” the purple unicorn finished, “On a related note I have a slowly forming migraine.”
“I knew Trixie’s act was full o’ hot air,” Applejack said, “Unlike mah dear friend Twilight here.”
“What? I thought-”
“We’d be mad…yeah we noticed you hesitate to catch the beams,” Rainbow Dash cut the unicorn off.
“Twilight your magic is who you are, and we’re proud of all of you,” Pinkie added.
“We didn’t like Trixie not because she had magic tricks, but because she was a braggart who tried making herself look better than what she is… a performer,” Rarity elaborated.
“So you girls don’t mind my magic?” Twilight asked some tears of happiness in her eyes.
“Not at all we love you for who you are and could not be more proud,” Fluttershy ended.
With that the six mares embraced each other happily until they were interrupted by gagging noises.
“Oh get a room and spare Trixie this nauseating display,” the showmare said.
Before one of the Mane Six told her of the Morph Six got in her face instead.
“If ya don’t like it leave,” Rexon blurted out angrily, “We were planning on doing nothing to you but your attitude is driving me to the edge.”
“Yeah no one is forcing you to stay here,” Cyxon continued sticking his tongue out at her.
“And none of us want you here anymore if you’re going to behave like that,” Raxon added on.
“So could you do us a favour and change your attitude or pack whatever sorry belongings you have and leave,” Ryxon growled out.
“Before we decide to show you how dangerous we really are,” Nyxon concluded drawing a few of his Lucifer blades.
The showmare opened her mouth as if to say something but shut it as soon as she saw there were no words to be said that did not make her situation worse, at least none she wanted to say, and went to her cart put on the harness and galloped out of town.
“I have a feeling we’ll see her again someday and it won’t be on good terms,” Roxon said as he watched the cart’s retreating silhouette, “But something feels familiar about her.”