//------------------------------// // Warm Limbo Welcome and A Quick Duel With A Dragon // Story: Hybrids And Harmony // by RoxonTheDemon //------------------------------// Roxon was having a peaceful day, well morning at least, since he had found a perfect tree he could nap in in peace, in the nearby park close to the bridge, and even though ponies were going about their business chatting he could shut them out. He also hadn’t been attacked by demons or some dangerous creature, asked to accompany the other Element Bearers on some possibly dangerous errand, had been asked by Twilight or the others to help with some chore or whatever and the ponies in town weren’t around to bug him about his personal details such as, “Do you have a girlfriend?”, “Are you gay?”, “You seem lonely want some company tonight, if you catch my drift?” and others like that. It’s not that he had anything against talking to ponies, but the ponies he actually didn’t mind talking to were the following: Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Applejack and Rarity… and Spike even though he wasn’t a pony. These ponies he trusted because they trusted him readily even after revealing some secrets and foes/rivals from his dark past. ‘Akuzz,’ Roxon thought to himself. The name was etched into his mind each letter branded into his memory to never leave him be. Remembering the last time he had seen his friend/rival was in Hell. The two of them were facing off for the fourth time in their lives and their score was Roxon - 1, Akuzz - 2 needless to say the battle was fierce, Roxon launching Shadow Balls, Nevan lightning bolts, KI Blasts and even some Aquila energy blades, while Akuzz launched fire balls, lightning bolts, ice bombs and even some bodily projectiles which flew towards their target like missiles.   The battle raged for hours each fighter was on their back each suffering a multitude of injuries. Roxon had ended up with ten broken ribs, a fractured skull, half of the muscles, ligaments and tendons torn and five ruptured organs. Akuzz, on the other hand being the loser, suffered 70% of the bones in his body broken, severe haemorrhage and internal bleeding, all of his muscles, ligaments and tendons torn and seven ruptured organs.   “Hey *pant* Akuzz?” Roxon asked his breath ragged from the exhaustion and blood filling his lungs.   “*cough* What?*cough*” the demon asked his booming voice ragged and strained as well, also with blood filling his lungs.   “I *cough cough* win again heh heh *cough hack cough cough hack cough*” Roxon gloated before entering a series of blood filled hacking coughs.   “Guess we’re tied huh…” Akuzz grunted as he craned his head to look at the hybrid lying on his huge smooth chest, “we need tiebreaker now.”   “Yeah we do when our paths cross again right now I need to convince the others to let you live,” Roxon said referring to the energy signatures that were making their ways to their position.   “Thanks and good luck, I have a feeling we’ll meet again so don’t go soft on me or I’ll kill you,” Akuzz threatened with no real malevolence.   “You don’t need to worry this guy isn’t going soft anytime soon but remember same goes for you,” Roxon shot back in the same tone.   The two rivals then shared a friendly laugh together. He just lay there remembering his most friendly enemy until a familiar hushed voice pierced through his reminiscing mind. “Help…please? There’s a cloud of scary black smoke.” Roxon sighed, “So much for a peaceful day.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roxon had been about to get up to talk to Fluttershy before hearing her yelp. “Don’t be such a scaredy pony, it’s just me, future Equestria Ball Bouncing Record-holder…” the voice of Rainbow Dash graced his ears before going to counting. “This calls for a celebrati-” Pinkie said before being interrupted. “Hey Pinkie what’s the record?” Roxon asked. “I think it’s three hundred and fifty,” the aforementioned pony replied. ‘Let me see if I can screw Rainbow over,’ Roxon thought, “Wait three hundred and fifteen?” “No three hundred and fifty I think,” Pinkie said louder. “OH two hundred and fifty, I hear ya,” Roxon said. “Two hundred and fifty-two, two hundred and fifty-three…wait that’s not it,” Rainbow Dash said as she stopped, “URGH, come you guys you made me lose count.” Pinkie upon hearing this apologised Roxon gave a grin which said ‘Yeah genius that’s what I wanted’. Rainbow seeing the hybrid’s grin fumed, “Wait a minute, you wanted to trip me up didn’t you?” Not even trying to be apologetic Roxon bluntly replied, “Yes and it worked oh so brilliantly.” Gritting her teeth Rainbow prepared a retort but was stopped when Twilight showed up with some news. Also at the same time Roxon noticed the sky flash a different colour and the ponies’ bodies flicker into black oil/tar outlines for a split second. “Listen up!” Twilight called drawing everyone’s attention, “Smoke is spreading across all of Equestria.” The ponies all began to chatter amongst each other, with Fluttershy trying to say something in the background. ‘I think all of Equestria is a bit of a stretch,’ Roxon thought. “Don’t worry, I just received a letter from Princess Celestia notifying me that it isn’t coming from a fire…” Twilight said. “Oh thank goodness,” Fluttershy said relieved. “…It’s coming from a dragon!” the unicorn finished. Fluttershy stiffened at those words, “A d-d-dragon?” At the Golden Oaks Library “What in the name of all that is Cinnamon Swirls is a full grown dragon doin’ here in Equestria?” Applejack asked. “Sleeping,” Twilight simply replied. “Seriously? All that smoke from someone who’s asleep? How the heck does that work?” Rexon asked. Twilight turned to the hybrid and explained simply, “Well when dragons sleep and snore they breathe smoke instead of fire.” “I’ve been living here for a while and not once has Spike breathed smoke the times he snores and he snores worse than Rexon,” Roxon spoke up. “What are you talk-” Twilight said before realising what Roxon had implied, “Oh sorry my mistake adult dragons are the only ones that snore smoke…or the Princess put a spell on him to prevent the smoke breathing I don’t really know.” “Well that doesn’t sound healthy, he should see a doctor,” Pinkie Pie said. Nyxon turned to her with a raised eyebrow and spoke in very sarcastic tone, “Sure Pinkie I’m sure every doctor in Equestria would really love it when a giant dragon appears at the receptionist’s desk and asks ‘Excuse but may I set an appointment to see Doctor R U Nuts or maybe Doctor Da Fuq?’ yeah real smart idea.” “At least he isn’t snoring fire,” Raxon said. “Really are we going to start an argument now,” Ryxon said. “What argument I simply expressed my opinion, is that so wrong?” Raxon asked a bit of annoyance seeping into his voice Before anymore smartass comments could be fired off Roxon cut in, “Going back to the original topic what the heck does Celestia want us to do about it? Kick him out-” “I vote Roxon’s idea,” the hovering rainbow maned pegasus quickly answered, “We’ll give him the boot, take tha-mphmphmph,” before she could continue her muzzle was sealed by the stretched hand of Roxon who was leaning against a bookshelf on the other side of the library. “Let. Me. Finish,” Roxon growled, “As I was saying do we kick him out or talk to him or move him while he’s sleeping or what?” “We need to encourage him to take his nap somewhere else,” Twilight said evenly, then her tone grew serious, “The Princess gave us this mission and we must not fail.” “And if you girls do fail we can just drag his scaly ass back to wherever he came from and clean up your mess,” Rexon said. “Thanks for the vote of confidence asshole,” Rainbow Dash said with a blank expression. “Actually about that…” Twilight said sheepishly. “Oh come on what is it now?” Rexon complained. “The letter was specifically addressed to us with a P.S. that said you guys need to make some friends,” Twilight answered but as she saw Rexon’s outraged look she elaborated, “it’s not that she doesn’t trust you but she kinda doesn’t want your abrasive attitudes to antagonise him into attacking.” “That’s fair enough I guess, after all I'm not the most welcoming or polite guy in existence,” Roxon said with a dry chuckle, ‘This feels suspicious,’, “By the way how long does a dragon sleep for anyway?” “One hundred years,” Twilight said. The Morph Six whistled. “Talk about getting your beauty sleep,” Rarity said. “More like beauty coma,” Rexon muttered. “Must you always turn my simple comments into some crude joke?” Rarity asked Rexon. “Yeah because it helps me forget that one of my friends is a fashion obsessed bi-” “ALRIGHT, everypony gather supplies, quickly we have a long journey ahead of us and need to meet up in less than an hour!” Twilight declared defusing the hostility between the fashionista and Rexon. “You heard her girls, LETS ROCK!” Rainbow Dash spoke in excitement. The ponies except Twilight left and went to do as Twilight had instructed, what none of them noticed except the Morph Six was that the sky had again flashed a different colour but the Mane Six’s bodies flashed a ghostly blue. One Montage Later “Are you sure you don’t want us to come with you?” Ryxon asked politely, “I’m sure we could help you in some way.” With all the members of the Mane Six gathered the Morph Six could see the preparations they had taken and were having second thoughts on leaving them to take care of the dragon situation. “Don’t worry we’ll be fine,” Twilight responded. Before Ryxon could say a word Rainbow Dash hovered over towards the two her wing flapping steadily and a hesitant look on her face. “Twilight I don’t think we should bring Fluttershy with us,” Rainbow Dash said calmly. “What, but we need to her way with animals could be a big help when we meet the dragon,” Twilight countered. “The smallest sound scares that pony and that’s in broad daylight,” Rainbow deadpanned. “Oh you’re just being sil-” Rainbow grabbed a hold of Twilight’s head and turned it in the direction of Fluttershy. At that exact moment Roxon who was behind Fluttershy shuffled his feet in the dirt causing his shoes to make a crunching sound. This in turn caused Fluttershy to rush into the bush behind her…which Roxon stood in front of knocking them over. “Ow, what did I run into?” Fluttershy asked herself quietly, rubbing her forehead with a hoof. “Me,” Roxon said bluntly. This caused her eyes to snap open as she lifted her head and met Roxon’s eyes before blushing. The blush came form the position they were in, Roxon on the ground using his elbows to prop up his upper torso from his chest upwards and Fluttershy straddling his abs her forehooves on either side of him with her muzzle nearly touching his. Seeing the situation Roxon decided to have a little fun with Fluttershy’s shy nature and said with a half-lidded gaze and seductive smile, “If ya wanna kiss do it and get of before somebody gets the wrong idea…unless that’s what you had in mind.” Fluttershy’s blush turned from pink to tomato red in ten seconds flat…and she also fell flat on her face onto Roxon’s chest when she fainted from embarrassment. “May have gone a bit far with that,” Roxon said rubbing his head. The rest of the Morph and Mane Six either face faulted or sweatdropped. ‘She’s just like Hinata,’ the Morph Six all thought. “Ugh this is going to throw us off schedule,” Twilight complained. “Not really you can carry her with you,” Cyxon said as he placed the still unconscious pegasus on to Applejack’s back in such a manner that she wouldn’t fall off as Applejack ran. “No scary mountain…No mean dragon…Stay home…Take care of animals…Yes animals good…Must avoid scary dragon-” Fluttershy protested subconsciously. “Don’t worry Fluttershy, Spike will take care of your animals and the dragon won’t hurt you,” Raxon whispered assuring. The assurance seemed to carry over because Fluttershy’s lips curled into a small grateful smile, which in turn made the rest of the Mane Six and the Morph Six smile as well. “Now move it and get to that dragon before I decide to do it for you and you better come back alive,” Roxon ordered with a deadpan expression after a few seconds. “R-Right,” the remaining Mane Six said after snapping out of their trances and galloped off to the mountain. As the ponies’ silhouettes went into the distance Roxon smiled and said, “I feel like an overprotective brother right now.” At The Mountain Fluttershy who had been peacefully passed out on Applejack’s back was suddenly awoken by a loud sound. “AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!” Fluttershy screamed as she was awakened and jumped off Applejack’s back to hide behind her instead. “Nice to see you’re awake, Fluttershy.” Rainbow Dash said, “Oh also what was that?” “That’s what it sounds like when a dragon snores,” Twilight answered. “Uhm T-Twilight I would like to a-ask you a question,” Fluttershy spoke from behind Applejack. “Sure go ahead,” Twilight acknowledged. “How did I get here!? I remember bumping into Roxon,” Fluttershy said. “Well…” Twilight said as she began explaining. As Twilight was explaining Fluttershy’s mood seemed to change according to what she was told. When told about her fainting, her face showed embarrassment, when told of Roxon’s comment her face seemed blank but the others thought they saw a glint of anger in her eyes, Twilight’s complaint drew an “I thought so” eye roll, what Cyxon did drew a second blank faced angry glinted eye expression, her subconscious protests made her face shift to embarrassment again, the whispered reassurance made her smile happily and finally Roxon’s order made her tear up on top of her smile. “…and that’s how you ended up here,” Twilight finished when she saw her friend’s teary eyes she got a little worried, “Hey are you okay?” Fluttershy wiped away her tears and replied, “Yes I’m just happy Roxon worries about us.” This in turn made Twilight smile as well, “Well that’s great to hear now if you’re ready we-” The dragon let out another snore. Fluttershy stiffened and fell to her side like a statue. “OH COME ON!” the remaining members of the group shouted. With The Morph Six The Morph Six had been in Sugarcube Corner sitting at a table they had moved closer to the counter enjoying some treats and talking to the owners about how they live with their roomies when suddenly the room began shaking and the walls seemed to stretch to either side and upwards with the door moving upwards as well, while the ground seemed to be breaking apart into platforms hovering over a seemingly bottomless pit and certain spots on certain platforms glowed blue or red. During the entire transition the table the Morph Six were sitting at and the counter they were close to was unaffected. The Morph Six took the calm as a sign that the transition had ended and began to analyse the situation. “It looks like we’re trapped between Earth we were just in and somewhere like another dimension now…assuming this can also happen in another dimension,” Rexon started. “Yeah and since I can see those black ink like silhouettes panicking behind the counter I think we can assume that that is Mr and Mrs Cake. Also judging by how several of the cupcakes in the display suddenly blackened and charred we, or at least our demonic energy, have some influence on certain inanimate objects in Earth we were taken from,” Nyxon added in. “WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~!” Cyxon’s fading screaming as he fell into the bottomless pit caught their attention. They turned to see Roxon with an arm outstretched in the direction which Cyxon was falling, their looks of horror then turned to looks of confusion as they heard those same screams coming from above. “~HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” *THUD* Cyxon wasted no time in getting up from the spot he crashed on where the remains of the broken table were, casually dusting himself off like it was nothing and said, “It seems as though if you fall into the bottomless pit you get transported into mid-air a little ways off the edge of the platform or surface you fell from but there might be exceptions.” “You also took damage from the transportation as a type of fee for you guaranteed safety and no damage from the landing so you seem to have a small window of invincibility to regain your senses,” Ryxon noted having seen his brother’s vitality meter lost ten percent of one of the eleven bars they knew it had. Raxon chuckled slightly. “What’s so funny?” Roxon asked. “We are too used to these odd things happening to us,” Raxon answered having trouble hiding his mirth. “I mean look at what just happened we are between dimensions, you just threw Cyxon into what is essentially a bottomless pit and Cyxon shook it off like it was nothing. We are the most abnormal siblings in all existence.” The entire group faced each other a few times before shrugging and saying in unison, “I blame how we grew up.” “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” a bellowing laugh came from all around them, “You six seem a little too overconfident and careless I wonder how you always survive all of those demons you fight!” The Morph Six all snapped to attention and their faces turned serious, “Who are you, where are you and what are you doing here?” Roxon demanded. “Ah I see you can all shift your mentalities to suit the situation you’re in,” the mysterious voice said again. Rexon chuckled, “You’re observing us aren’t you?” “Well you aren’t as hot-headed as you act,” the voice replied. “Who said I was acting,” Rexon countered, “I am hot-headed and also somewhat egotistical but Roxon reigns me in when I start doing that by soundly kicking my ass.” “Whoop-dee- fucking-doo the demon saw our behaviour out of battle,” Cyxon said dryly, “and before you make you observation demon, know this, I don’t act like a scatterbrain I am a scatterbrain, not a total one though, but fighting is like a switch and puts my thoughts into focus I have to throw my focus off to make battle difficult for myself also I’m a bit of a sadist so please make your smart-ass observation, give me a reason to shove my guitar in scythe form blade first up your ass.” “I think my dual swords work best for that and they have white fire and black wind attributes to make it even more painful,” Ryxon added. “Sadistic for someone who claims to be kind-” “Unless you get on my bad side and you got on it the moment you started to analyse us proving you are our enemy,” Ryxon interrupted. “Ouch you hurt my feelings,” the voice said in a mocking tone. The Morph Six leapt into the air to dodge the giant fast horizontal spinning blade that appeared out of the black haze which had begun surrounding them when the mysterious voice started speaking. “Wow real subtle Hunter real subtle,” Roxon announced with a sarcastic slow clap. “When-” the now revealed demon, Hunter, tried to ask. “When the giant flying blade tried to cut us in two,” Roxon interrupted, “I heard stories about you beating a dozen enemies with one throw.” The next action threw the siblings for a loop because usually the demons they faced got pissed and charged at them, making the demons easy to defeat even on platforms similar to the one they stood on, but Hunter just laughed and said, “Well I should have expected such from the siblings that took down Mundus. Your skulls will make excellent trophies, now DIE!” “Well shit,” Roxon said as thousands of glass like shards appeared, six Lesser Stygians and six Ravagers came out of tar like portals and the blade flew from the darkness twice as fast as the first time. “WELCOME TO LIMBO!” the still hiding demon said as the Morph Six dodged the blade each charging at a demon. With the Mane Six Twilight was busy pacing back and forth with Rainbow Dash flying above her as though pacing as well and Rarity had just lost her thirty-fifth game of tick-tack-toe to Pinkie as the four ponies waited for Applejack who had taken the frozen Fluttershy around the mountain. “Are you kidding me?” Rarity grumbled, “Thirty-five games and I haven’t won a single one of them, how is that possible?!” “How about trying for best of seventy-one?” Pinkie asked cheerfully. Before Rarity could answer groaning caught their attention making them turn to see Applejack dragging Fluttershy behind her. “We…urg…made…urg…it,” Applejack breathed out relieved. “Told you it would take them forever,” Rainbow whispered to Twilight. ‘We could have dealt with the dragon by now if the Morph Six were here,’ Twilight thought, ‘Well too late to think about that now.’ The group moved on to their next challenge which was a gap in the mountain. Applejack, Rarity, Twilight and Pinkie Pie managed to cross, in that order, easily enough but when it came to Fluttershy though… “Come on just jump,” Rainbow Dash complained from behind Fluttershy. “But it’s so wide,” Fluttershy fearfully said. “Then fly over,” Rainbow pointed out. “But it’s so high, what if the dragon snores again and my wings lock up and I fall?” Fluttershy asked hugging the mountain face. “You know what I’ve got no time for this,” Rainbow growled under her breath. She proceeded to grab Fluttershy and carry her over…the one meter wide gap. “Thanks Rainbow you saved us some time,” Twilight commended. Rainbow simply walked by saying loud enough for Twilight to hear, “This isn’t a task we were asked to do, was it?” Twilight’s eyes widened as she froze in shock before Rainbow stopped and said something that made her eyes widen even more. “Twilight you alright sugarcube,” Applejack asked worried. Twilight snapped out of her daze and nervously replied, “Oh me I’m fine you don’t need to worry lets go.” As they continued their journey little did they know their next challenges could very well kill them as they entered the avalanche zone. In Limbo “Well at least we can tell them where we are,” Cyxon said cheerfully. “THAT WON’T HELP WHEN WE’RE DEAD YOU MORON!” Rexon shouted right in his brother’s ear. The Morph Six had also learnt a few interesting thing in their escape from Sugarcube Corner when their “welcome” had begun. First was that the rules of physics didn’t work the same in Limbo as they did in or out of Hell. It in fact seemed like a collision between Hell and normal physics. This was proved when Roxon suddenly started running along a wall…without his powers. Second was that the glowing points on platforms and rocks meant that they had to use their stretching ability to stretch their arms and grab the glowing spot, the effect of the grab depended on the colour of the glow; red meant the object was pulled towards them or an obstruction was destroyed and blue was the same effect as the Hell-bound grab pulling them towards the object. Third they learnt that they sometimes had to grab those same spots twice once to remove an obstruction and the second time to actually pull themselves to the object and/or platform or pull the platform to them. They learnt this when Rexon saw a big platform with a red glow on the edge and pulled it only for smaller platforms to break out of it the closest one to them having a blue glow on the edge. Fourth they had learnt that Limbo could either help you or try to kill you depending on who pulled you there and why they pulled you there, this they learnt when Roxon jumped towards a close platform only for it to fly away and have him drop far onto a platform below he was able to catch up to his siblings though. Fifth, most important and recently discovered when Celestia, who was also ghostly blue, jumped at a bullet hole that appeared behind her head, where her forehead would be if the bullet could harm her, on her throne was that they had some influence on the outside world. Now they were in the throne room with Roxon shooting a message into the ground and walls around Celestia as he dodged Hunter’s attacks. Outside Limbo “Sorry…about the damage…fighting a demon in some…between dimensions place…called Limbo…explain more later…siblings need help…Roxon,” Celestia read as the message changed from spot to spot and wall to wall a small crater appearing just after the message moved. The alicorn simply groaned and said, “At least keep the damage to a minimum.” ‘Try telling that to this asshole we’re fighting,’ appeared in what appeared to be slashes seconds later. Back In Limbo “WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE?” Hunter roared. “You are very predictable when your options are limited,” Roxon droned. “RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” Hunter jumped onto one of the highly stretched upwards stained glass windows and took hold of his grappling hook which made the ground spawn a hand only for a barrage of bullets to force him down with a hard thud into the ground. “How…are you…so powerful?” the weak demon asked, “We entered…this room…less than…five minutes ago…and you beat me…in that time, how?” “We analysed you while you chased us,” Rexon said. “When you use your blade like a flying saw you need that smoke cloud,” Cyxon coldly said, “Which even at it’s fastest isn’t hard for us to dodge.” “When you use your grappling gun you climb something to try and avoid close range attacks but you leave your scar exposed to long range attacks, and your close range attacks are weak,” Raxon added in. “Also guessing by how you leapt off the buildings to try and land on us you didn’t want to attack us directly due to the fact that we’d overpower you correct?” Ryxon guessed. This was confirmed when the demon tried to slink away to whatever hole he had crawled out off. “You know you should stick to fighting what you can actually hunt,” Roxon said as he walked up to the demon which had it’s cheek on the ground and aimed his gun towards it’s forehead, “Go back to Hell where you belong…” and pulled the trigger unleashing a barrage of rapid fire bullets counting in the thousands, “…you piece of shit.” “Now how do we get out of here,” Nyxon asked as the demon’s body dissolved. Tar dripped from the ceiling in a ring and when the Morph Six looked up they found what seemed to be a portal awaiting them ten feet of the ground. Thinking that if it were a trap they could still fight their way through until Limbo didn’t want them there anymore they jumped facing straight upwards. Outside Limbo The Morph Six landed on the floor with all the grace of a greased pig ice skating on a frozen, oil slicked pond… …in other words they landed on their faces… …HARD. “Ow,” Cyxon complained. “That could have been worse,” Roxon droned. “Princess are you alright we heard crashing and breaking glass!” a white coated unicorn pony with a two toned blue mane and tail, another charcoal black unicorn with a fiery orange and yellow mane and tail, a white pegasus with golden primary feathers a strange down-pointing triangular purple patch on his chest and a brown mane and tail and a blue-grey earth pony with a neon blue mane burst in. “Ah Shining Armor…and…uhm…you three. How are you Shining Armor, are your parents well?” Celestia asked cheerfully on the outside while on the inside, ‘ARE YOU KIDDING ME FOUR GUARDS THAT IS THE ONLY RESPONSE FOUR GUARDS TO ALL THE NOISE IN HERE PLUS THE CASTLE SHAKING WHAT DO THESE IDIOTS THINK I’M DOING IN HERE?’ “Thank the stars you are alright! We must return to our posts now before the captain punishes us,” Shining Armor said and the other three left. “Those demons were tough,” Rexon said before rubbing his chin smiling and saying, “NAH!” “Sorry for the damages we’ll repair them f-” Roxon said. “Oh no need you rest you must be worn out,” Celestia offered, “I’ll have my guards repair this; after all they need the exercise.” ‘They also need a lesson in knowing when to react to suspicious noises!’ “Well if you say so we need to go now,” Roxon said accepting the offer, “But before I go, what made you decide to give Twilight the duty of persuading a dragon to leave the mountain just outside of Ponyville?” The creased brows and frown the Princess of the Sun’s face said it all and the words she said only solidified it, “I didn’t give her that job the letter said you six should do it.” The Morph Six teleported out of that room into Ponyville as soon as Celestia finished her sentence, they then turned to the mountain which the Mane Six had gone to and ran as fast as their power allowed. With The Mane Six “…but you do not I repeat do not HURT MY FRIENDS! You got that?” Fluttershy declared sternly as she stared the indigo dragon, with ice blue underbelly scales and spines, in his ruby red eye. The dragon seemed to back down for a moment. “Well?” Fluttershy asked wondering if the dragon understood her message. The dragon raised its head back up and replied in the most casual manner, “Yeah and here’s what I’m going to do kill your friends while you watch, take you prisoner then destroy that little town down there killing every stallion, mare, colt and filly. Then as you’re begging me to kill you I’ll swallow you whole and let you burn in my stomach.” The entire group froze in fear at what they heard. “Now who to start with lets see,” it looked to Twilight, “no way am I starting with Ms Diplomacy,” the gaze shifted to Applejack, “Nah the redneck didn’t do anything to me,” it looked at Pinkie, “you made me nearly laugh so I’ll slit you throat so that you don’t suffer but I’m not starting with you,” next was Rarity and Rainbow, “Ah yes you two are tied. Madam ‘treasure keeper’ and kick first ask questions later you two are both going into my mouth, NOW DIE!” the dragon roared as it lunged… …only to taste copper as its own blood soaked its tounge. “The passion of a demigod and a large appetite to boot,” a familiar voice caught the dragon’s attention. ‘Impossible,’ the dragon thought. “He has scales that glow with an eerie white light when he wishes,” the voice continued sounding more delighted. ‘It can’t be him,’ the dragon thought as the sword was pulled from the roof of his mouth. “He is a cold-blooded killer who delights in the game and is good at battle strategy,” the voice continued gaining a manic edge. ‘No it has to be no one can change at the drop of a hat like that like him, my old rival,’ the dragon thought nostalgically. “Nice to see you again Akuzz Baleful-Reptile The Holocaust,” the dragon looked down, “My old demon rival and friend.” “Roxon,” the dragon demon said happy to see the usually emotionless hybrid, “Your tail is wagging.” “Well of course it is I’ve been waiting to have our tie-breaker match ever since I kicked your scaly ass back in Hell,” Roxon announced with a pleased grin, leaning on his sword which he had stabbed into the ground while the black Kamina style shades glinting in the little sunlight penetrating the smoke. The five brothers knew what this meant and sighed. “We’ll keep as many stray attacks from doing damage as we can,” Rexon groaned. As they prepared for the upcoming battle Twilight decide to interrupt. “HOLD IT ARE YOU TELLING ME THE DRAGON THAT TRIED TO KILL US IS YOUR FRIEND AND RIVAL?!” she yelled. Roxon turned to her tipped his shades down to expose his glaring eyes and said in a voice that matched liquid nitrogen, “Yeah what of it you lying bookworm?” “WHAT OF IT IS that…you…you found out didn’t you?” Twilight said her anger gone replaced with fear and shame. “Yeah from Celestia,” Roxon said and added angrily, “You all have some explaining to do.” Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy looked confused, Rainbow and Pinkie glared at Twilight and Twilight looked ready to crawl under a rock and die. “Now without any further interruptions-” Roxon said grinning like a maniac. “-Let’s BEGIN!” Akuzz declared as their battle started. BOSS FIGHT 1: Akuzz (Full name: Akuzz Baleful-Reptile The Holocaust) Roxon jumped through a portal barely dodging a blur appearing from his right, creating a large dust cloud. ‘Just a tricky as I remember, now, where are you Roxon?’ Akuzz thought fondly as he searched for his rival. A faint hum was heard growing ever closer with each passing second Akuzz recognising the sound started frantically looking left, right, front and back for Roxon only to not find a single trace of the hybrid. As the humming grew close enough Akuzz composed himself and remembered he hadn’t looked up in his search for Roxon and reacted accordingly. BOOOOOOOOOOM *Crack* The nuke-sized resulting shockwave from the impact of Roxon’s blade on Akuzz’s hardened scales created a vacuum that covered the whole mountain before collapsing on itself and blasting out again three more times. Luckily Roxon’s brothers stayed true to their promise and protected the Mane Six from the vacuum. “Chainsaw Blade, heh been a while since I’ve seen that,” Akuzz said, after about ten seconds, wincing. “It looks like it’s stronger than what you can take now,” Roxon added referring to the blood rolling down his rival’s left arm from the wound past the glittering diamond-like scales. “Yeah,” Akuzz said disappointedly, he then clenched his arm and focused energy into the scales on his arm and shooting hundreds of them out like bullets forcing Roxon to backflip away simultaneously forming a Light Screen shield to block the scales…although some scales managed to get through, “But don’t count me out just yet. Meet my new power Scale Shower.” As the Scale Shower stopped a dust cloud obscuring Roxon from view had gathered. As the cloud was clearing slowly Akuzz almost assumed Roxon had suffered a fair amount of damage due to the silence but as the fully cleared met with the sight of a perfectly intact Light Screen and a mostly unharmed, save the few scaled which hit him, Roxon. “HehehehehehehehehahahhahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH~Ah,” Roxon laughed, “You know I was actually surprised by that and it also did a bit of damage too,” as he spoke his Light Screen vanished before he began to pull out each scale in his body, “This…MIGHT…just be…MORE interesting…than I FIRST thought IT…WOULD…BE!” Roxon spoke each scale pull punctuated by his groaning of a word. “You seem to be having trouble keeping up should I slow down for you,” Akuzz asked mockingly. “Aww it’s so nice to see that you actually care about me,” Roxon taunted then became serious again, “but in all seriousness don’t take it easy I want to see how much you’ve improved in ten years.” As his sentence ended Roxon vanished from view startling Akuzz with his speed and causing him to looked around again but more carefully and cautiously this time…after all he couldn’t take a hit like the Chainsaw Blade a second time and avoid getting a deep gash. Having searched above, below and all around he decided to try something he had been working on for a while now, sensing. As he closed his eyes he focused on finding Roxon’s energy signature which had a unique summer sun quality to it and to his surprise he easily found it. ‘What is this kid up to?’ Then another popped up… ‘Wait what?’ …and another… …and another… …and another… …pretty soon he found himself surrounded by energy signatures before a voice coming from all directions spoke. “Remember this classic, because if I remember correctly you never managed to dodged or block a single attack when I used this…” ‘Well wrap me in bacon and call me breakfast it’s…’ “…Clone Blitz!” As the clones charged the demon dragon remembered the last time he encountered this same attack it had been their third battle overall and Akuzz’s first loss, both of the fighters were near out of power before Roxon vanished. Akuzz had made the mistake of thinking Roxon had fled the battle but was surprised when Roxon revealed his trump card. Every time he tried to predict an attack he was only greeted by a new cut or bullet hole or bruise on his body before Roxon himself smashed him upside the head with an Iron Comet. “NOT THIS TIME!” Akuzz bellowed as he crossed his arms then threw them to his sides while simultaneously shouting, “FORCE BLAST!” The dozen or so clone that were mid charge were immediately stopped as they slammed into a wall of energy which kept going and destroying all of the clones in the surrounding area but leaving the natural features and wildlife untouched. ‘Now where are you really…’ Akuzz thought as he focused and this time he found the real energy signature approaching quickly from underground, ‘So that’s what you’re up to,’ Akuzz thought realising his rival’s plan, “Not happening.” As Roxon launched out of the ground with a Divine Impact (Divine Dragon + Real Impact) attack by his Gilgamesh at the ready, his fist met the electrified descending claw of Akuzz’s, Shockslam, midway knocking both fighters away from each other. “That one was new,” Akuzz commented, “you’ve gotten better. I’m impressed but you won’t win this.” “Well I have been training for the past ten years, dimension hopping helps too,” Roxon responded, “but you are the one not winning.” Both fighters charged giving war cries as the distance closed Roxon raised his right arm and Akuzz did the same. When both were mere paces from each other Roxon made a mighty leap into an uppercut and Akuzz brought his fist down. When both attacks met the resulting clash caused a blast of dirt and rock as well as a flash of light from the demonic energy. The victor was revealed to be Roxon as he charged at the dragon tumbling down the mountain, a blue glow encasing his body creating a transparent anthropomorphic wolf body of energy as big as the dragon itself with Roxon located behind what would be the sternum. As Akuzz tumbled he smashed into several hazards the first being a tree splintering it to pieces, followed by his spine impacting a protruding stalagmite-like rock, the repeated tremors causing a large boulder to loosen and start rolling down the hill after him. He continued to tumble before he finally stopped at the bottom only to be crushed by the boulder seconds later causing it to break into rubble. As they made it to the bottom of the mountain Roxon quickly landed behind Akuzz and wrapped his arms around the area below Akuzz’s ribcage as soon as he was in the correct position then arched his back backwards pulling Akuzz with him into five rolling suplexes, which caused tremors felt in Ponyville. As Roxon finished the fifth suplex he released the demon dragon and caught hold of his tail then began spinning on his heel before releasing the tail and leaving him to sail into the sky. The energy body the crouched into a pounce position and opened its maw as Roxon took his glasses which had, by some miracle, remained undamaged and held it as though he were about to throw a Frisbee. “HEY AKUZZ, SORRY TO CUT THIS SHORT BUT I KINDA HAVE AN APPOINTMENT IN A FEW MINUTES.” The glasses he was holding suddenly enlarged to be as long as five surfboards then he threw them. As they spun in the air they abruptly stopped spinning for a split-second to split into four identical copies then continued their flight each pair aiming for a limb. As that happened Roxon held his right hand up in the air as he made a ball of spinning red demonic energy above him which then gained shuriken like blades, “SO I’M GONNA FINISH THIS WITH SOMETHING I LEARNED FROM A FRIEND AND ADAPTED A BIT TO ME,” three spheres started to charge from the energy body’s mouth, one purple (a Shadow Ball), one blue(an Aura Sphere) and one green (a Hidden Power), and the glasses pierced Akuzz’s arms and legs restraining him mid-air, “ROXON STYLE DEMONIC PLANETARY RASENSHURIKEN!” The Rasenshuriken was launched at sub-sonic speeds to its target before nine spheres followed in the order of one purple, one blue and one green, repeating that pattern for the remaining six and spun in orbit of the Rasenshuriken. The impact launched Akuzz further into the planet’s atmosphere and dealing serious damage by shattering bones, rupturing organ and tearing every muscle in him before exploding with Roxon turning his back on the explosion. The explosion at around the stratosphere looked like a second sun with green, purple, blue and red energy swirling inside it and Roxon, back still turned and energy body having long since vanished, had his glasses boomerang to his face back to normal size and automatically settled on his muzzle. Battle End “Night-Night Akuzz,” Roxon said as Akuzz fell out of the sky to the ground unconscious, “Now that that’s out of the way.” He turned to the ponies that had been taken to the base of the mountain by his siblings, “Which of you knew what I was talking about earlier?” Twilight, Rainbow and Pinkie raised their hooves. “Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy you can leave,” the mentioned ponies left, “Now Rainbow when did you find out?” “A third of the way through our journey up here, when Pinkie was beating Rarity for the twentieth time in tick-tack-toe,” she answered honestly. Pinkie added in her own statement, “Base of the mountain, Twilight had a nervous look on her face that said ‘I regret lying’.” “Why-” “We hoped she would come to her senses,” Pinkie and Rainbow said simultaneously, “she didn’t.” “You two are safe…for now,” Roxon finished with them and turned to Twilight, “You on the other hand I would beat to near death for doing something this stupid but I’m sure Celestia would like to know why I asked about her sending you after the dragon…but before that I have somebody I need to wake up…” Roxon finished turning to Akuzz. In Canterlot “Twilight Sparkle you disappoint me with your deception and recklessness,” Celestia said in a tone that matched Roxon in liquid nitrogen coldness but with warm concern at the core, “Why did you feel you had to risk your friends’ lives like this?” “I was worried you didn’t feel I could handle a drag-” “You can’t handle a dragon Twilight,” Celestia interrupted, “Other than Spike, whom you raised, there are some stubborn and ill-tempered creatures which think lowly of ponies what’s more I also said in my letter that it was suspected to be a demon as well and you know how most demons are through personal experience.” Twilight could only look down in shame as she remembered what Rainbow said. “Roxon will find out and you will hear from Princess Celestia be ready for that.” “I would not be as angry as I am right now if you had gone off on your own, but taking your friends with you was one step too far. You are to come here once a week to clean the Royal Guard Barracks alone, for the remainder of the year, unless I say otherwise, the day of the week is up to you,” Celestia said sternly leaving no room for argument. “Bu-” “Would you like to do so next year as well?” the Princess dared her to speak. Silence. “Thought so,” she said then turned to Roxon and gained a little tick mark on her forehead plus the ‘I want to kill you’ face, “Now Roxon can you tell me… why you are late and why there is the same dragon I asked YOU TO GET RID OF OUTSIDE OF MY CASTLE?!” Sure enough hovering outside on his giant wings, the painful marks of his previous battle evident, was Akuzz with a toothy smile. “This will take forever to explain,” Rexon said with an anime look of defeat on his face. “Shut the fuck up Rexon!” Roxon growled through clenched teeth. What took five hours for Celestia to accept took Ponyville five minutes. Omake: Akuzz’s Welcome to Ponyville “Roxon?” a certain individual asked eyes closed. “Yeah?” Roxon replied. “Why did you think this was a good idea?” the individual said its face growing annoyed. “I don’t know they got used to seeing me rip demons apart-” Roxon calmly answered. “But that’s different from having a demon my size live in the same town dumbass!” the individual gained a tick mark on his head. “I know Akuzz but they didn’t panic as badly as I thought-” Roxon replied to the now new resident of Ponyville…well almost resident. “YOU CALL THIS NOT BAD!?” Akuzz roared pointing to the completely on fire Ponyville where not a single building was not on fire. “At least they haven’t formed a…Nope there it is an angry mob complete with pitchforks and torches,” Roxon said. “Did you at least tell them that I was going to be a new resident before we came here?” Akuzz asked rubbing his temples. “Uh…” “You fucking moron!” the demon yelled. “At least it can’t get worse…” At that moment the burning Ponyville started to glow red revealing a portal from which millions of demons poured out all aiming to attack Roxon and Akuzz. “This-” “Say another word Roxon and you won’t live to regret it.”