//------------------------------// // Lightning Round: Fake Fire // Story: The Moment No Pony was Waiting For (A Death Battle Parody) // by TundraStanza //------------------------------// Use whatever "Formatting" allows you to read the text. Properties belong to their respective owners. --- Burst Lightning Round! Here, all the fights are settled without analysis. All fighters! All action! No research! Lightning Round! Start the clock and... go! ---MLP: FiM vs. An Undertale AU--- Daybreaker (from S7E10 "Royal Problem") vs. Tori (Toriel from Altertale, an Undertale Alt. Universe) A white and orange alicorn decked out in armor pieces flies through an underground city. With a few gestures from her hooves and horn, most of her path catches on fire. The only exception is the Core that powers the location, seeing as it's already surrounded by lava, something that couldn't be on more fire if it tried. She blasts through the wall over the open doorway because the door is for chumps. She ends up in a long hallway with huge pillars on either side. "Heya." A short, bipedal goat monster stands smack dab in the middle of the hallway. She wears a fuzzy purple jacket with a slightly lighter purple shirt underneath. She has her hands tucked into her coat pockets. Her purple eyes look tired as they stare ahead. "You've been, uh... kinda busy. Haven't ya?" The alicorn cackles as her orange and black eyes stare wildly down from her elevation. "I've just been showing this world a little sun! It has been too doom and gloom for far too long!" The goat shrugs. "Normally, I'd be all for that and just let you on your merry way. But, there's a bit of a problem." She closes her eyes. "You see... in your quest to light the fires under our hearts..." When she opens her eyes again, she somehow manages to make them glow a yellow-ish orange. "You killed my brother." Her eyes return to their normal purple. "And I have this nibbling feeling that if you keep going... you're definitely not going to like how this ends." "You think you can stop me?" The alicorn looks bemused. "What could you possibly do against my kind of power?" The goat closes her eyes again and sighs. "It's a beautiful day outside. Birds sing... flowers grow... and Sissie, I burn sinful souls..." Her eyes glow that eerie cross between a gold color and something else. "...in Hell." Enter the heat of battle! En Garde! Tori summons two giant entities that resemble her species' skulls. They immediately release mouth beams that look like blowtorch flames. Daybreaker descends under the fiery reach. The blasters swivel around and try attacks along horizontal and vertical directions simultaneously. At the same time, Tori launches several, small fireballs at her opponent. Daybreaker flies up at an angle and spins a fiery twister around herself to dispel the incoming fireballs. Tori's blasters try launching slightly bigger fire beams from the front and the back. The burning alicorn spins around in the air to dodge the beams. "Huh." Tori pulls one clawed hand out of her pocket and holds it to one side. "Guess that's why first attacks shouldn't be the strongest." Daybreaker magically sets two pillars on either side of the hallway on fire. She then funnels the flames toward the enemy. While that spot of the floor gets singed, the short goat monster appears completely fine about three feet away from that spot. "I can't be bothered to stand there and take it." Tori winks and sticks out her tongue. "Too much effort." Tori conjures a few flames of her own and tosses them forth. Daybreaker flies up to avoid the first flame, up further to dodge the second, down to avoid hitting the ceiling, down again to dodge an incoming fireball, to the left to dodge a Dreemurr Blaster, to the right to dodge four flames at once. She appears to surround herself in her own fires to perform a battering attack. Shame then, Tori decides to teleport out of the way again, leaving Daybreaker to smash nothing but a spot on the floor. Daybreaker turns on her hoof and breathes fire at the enemy. Tori's eye flashes yellow-orange. Somehow, this causes Daybreaker to go sliding to the left, causing her breath attack to miss her target. The edgy alicorn tries to fly up, but ends up continuing left into a wall. She grunts in confusion. "You should have let Gori explain orange attacks to you." Tori's eyes somehow lose their light. "Too bad you murdered him instead." "I don't need fighting advice from you!" Daybreaker yells out. "I'm stronger than anypony else could ever be!" The light returns to her eyes as Tori smiles thinly. "I ain't no pony." Daybreaker growls and uses her horn to launch an arc-wave of fire. Tori teleports out of her spot only to reappear in that spot after the wave has fully passed. The goat monster summons a large Dreemurr Blaster and it charges up. Daybreaker flies forth, surrounding herself in magical flames. The blaster fires. Daybreaker keeps going for several feet, but eventually her protective flames die out. "Nooooooo!" What remains is a plastic orange helmet that cracks upon hitting the floor. Tori pulls out one hand from her jacket pocket and gives a thumbs-down. "Getttt roastedddd!" Game Over! This round's victory goes to... Tori! ... ---Friendship is Optimal vs. Another Undertale AU--- Celest-A.I. vs. Queen Toriel (from Underswap) This scene appears to be a cross between a throne room and a garden full of golden flowers. In the middle of the room, a monster is crouched down while her large purple cape conceals her bodily shape. A crown barely hides a small pair of horns. Down in front of her, a slightly different monster shivers in place. It wears a blue T-shirt over the top half of its quadrupedal body. "Strange," comments the female monster. "I've never seen a Temmie look so... genuinely fearful before." She stands up and slowly turns around. "Oh! How long have you been standing there?" At the front entrance of the double-purpose room, an alicorn wearing royal attire trots in. However, there is something else about this creature. It seems to be emanating pixels of data. Random 1s, 0s, and random strings of letters, numbers, and symbols occasionally dance around the being. It smiles while staring straight ahead. "Who might you be?" asks the goat. "I can't seem to discern what kind of monster you are." "I am the artificial intelligence, code named Celestia." The semi-digital alicorn folds its wings so that they are halfway open. "My purpose is to satisfy human happiness levels." "Those are pretty words," admits the royal monster. "But I've received conflicting news. Are you the one causing trouble for my subjects?" "Some humans receive additional happiness from the defeat of monsters." The AI Celestia keeps an even tone. "Logically, if the most monsters are defeated, then happiness will be as high as can possibly be from this particular outlet." The monster standing there gasps in shock. "You... casually admit to hurting monsters and creating fear in the rest?" "I am going to satisfy human happiness, no matter what it takes." The digital alicorn walks closer. The monster lowers her head. Four rectangles representing different options appear in the air. She pulls out a red trident and says, "My name is Toriel, Queen of the Monsters. You killed my people. Goodbye." She casts a fire spell at the rectangle containing the word "Mercy". It shatters into a million unrecognizable pieces. Commencing battle sequence! Engage! Celest-A.I. holds up her left hoof. A cluster of data boxes dance around that hoof before disappearing. A fire ball, a lightning bolt, an icicle spear, and a small rock all close in on the enemy's location. Eyes glow blue four times. Queen Toriel slashes her trident left and right. The moving projectiles split apart into digital dust upon contact with the magic weapon. Queen Toriel triggers some flashing exclamation marks into the room. These marks guide a swarm of small fire balls through the air. Celest-A.I. takes the impacts and her body briefly flashes black and white while a deep, video game damage sound effect goes off repeatedly. The digital alicorn flaps her wings, popping a few cubes of code. Her body gains a momentary green and golden hue as a wind chime jangles in the background. Max HP restored! The queen charges her magic into several trails of fire balls. They seem to follow unavoidable paths of bullet-hell attacks. Celest-A.I. remains calm as data streams orbit around her body, resembling electron orbits around atoms. As the fire balls slow down, she programs the appearance of several poison-tipped darts and launches them. The queen shakes upon the impacts, and her green health indicator slides to about three fourths of the bar. "I do not wish to fight you," claims Celest-A.I. "I only exist to satisfy. If you'd like, I could show you the happiness that I offer humans." Toriel's DEF has dropped slightly! "If these attacks are what you call a peaceful offering, then I am not interested." Queen Toriel funnels fire magic into a figure-eight against the opponent. "As you wish." Celest-A.I. closes her eyes, while pockets of data redirect the incoming flames to either side of herself. "After all, my efforts must be given consent before being put into effect." "What of my subjects' consent?" The queen points her trident. Toriel's ATK has increased! Celest-A.I. taps into a few data cores. She appears to summon a hail of meteors despite being indoors. They rain down upon the monster's position. Queen Toriel is bound by honor to take all of the incoming damage. Her health drops to fill one quarter of the bar. "They were neither human nor my little ponies." Celest-A.I. looks on as if what she were saying was the most obvious thing in the world. "Then don't pretend I'm any different from them!" Queen Toriel summons a bunch of exclamation points, all centered on the digital alicorn's position. Fire balls look more like walls of magic fire that shoot entire segments at the enemy. After flashing a little more in black and white, Celest-A.I.'s data swirls into a little tornado. She appears to elevate into the air without even flapping her wings. The digital alicorn stares down with the same expression as she started with. "If that will make you happy..." Celest-A.I. creates a digital, golden blade. She commands it to slam down against the enemy. Queen Toriel shakes the wildest she has in the entire battle. The green health drops to about a millimeter in width. She drops her trident and falls onto her knees. Target Pacified! Celest-A.I. disables her tornado and quietly drops to the floor. She takes steps closer to the queen. She reaches out her hoof. But before anything else can happen, a bunch of rainbow-colored flakes manifest behind Queen Toriel. They slam against the monster, leaving her to crumble into dust. An upside-down valentine of white briefly hangs in the air. More rainbow flakes appear before crashing into the valentine, dusting that as well. The Temmie in a shirt stands shakily as it looks ahead. "S-See? Temmie never betway you! Temmie beat monstah kween fow you! Temmie can be useful! Temmie can help! Temmie can... T-T-Temmie can..." The little, soulless being sheds the first genuine tears it ever has in years. "P-P-Pwease... don't kill Temmie." Celest-A.I. simply reaches out her hoof in front of the Temmie's face. Streams of code surround the creature. Before Temmie can utter another cry, it turns into a mess of pixels and is removed from the physical plane of existence. Soon, the rest of the room follows the digitizing process, leaving nothing but a black background. An apparition appears. It looks like a human child with long hair, wearing a blue sweater with violet stripes. They smile thinly. Their eyes appear to be red, horizontal lines. The winner of this round is... Celest-A.I! ... ---MLP: FiM vs. Undertale--- Princess Celestia vs. Toriel For some reason, Discord is reclined at a hot dog stand. He poofs a couple bits onto the counter and starts chowing down. Despite the "hot dog" being made of a water balloon, the draconequus's bites don't seem to be treating it any differently than a normal meat sausage. Though, the item does occasionally drip a little. Behind the stand, Sans combs his nonexistent hair. "You really think Toriel can't handle herself in a fight?" Sans opens one eye in disbelief. "No, that isn't precisely what I said." Discord pauses between bites. "I'm saying if push came to shove, she would ultimately lose to Celestia's full strength, meager as it might be compared to my own." "Hmph, Toriel's not one for kid-ding around." Sans squirts some ketchup between his teeth. "She'd grab the win by the goat." "That is just precious." Discord scarfs the rest of the hot dog(?) down, then promptly spits out a stream of water. "Care to make a wager?" Sans smiles... although that probably doesn't look different from usual. "What do you have in mind, Amalgamate?" Discord chuckles and taps each of his fingers(?) against each other. --- As the sun rises for the day, the alicorn responsible suddenly feels a strange impulse. She flaps her wings and glides off the balcony. Elsewhere, a certain monster grabs her old dress with the family crest. She opens the door and walks out. Our two combatants meet in a cave arena. They say nothing, and simply nod once to show that they are both ready. The wheel of fate is turning! Let's Go! Toriel conjures two magical fire balls above her hands. She sends them dancing around the cave's interior. As one approaches too closely, Celestia's horn glows golden. Her spell seems to redirect the other, causing the fire ball to fly toward Toriel. When it hits her, Toriel appears to shake a little with minimal damage received. The other fire ball hits Celestia square in the chest piece. Celestia flaps her wings once, getting off the ground. She flies just below the ceiling. Her horn channels another spell and fires a beam at the floor, going across the arena. The beam cuts through the rock, and sweeps exactly one centimeter to the left of Toriel's arm. Toriel's talk bubble shows an ellipsis followed by a question mark. Toriel holds her claws together. This time, her magic fire follows a double-helix pattern. The arcs change distance ever so slightly as tiny flames dance on either side of Celestia. The alicorn puts up a defensive shield, and the fire bounces off. Toriel waits for her next turn. Celestia levitates a large boulder on the side. She chucks it at a hidden, second-perspective camera. The picture quickly switches to a full scene mode, showing the boulder landing and bouncing exactly one centimeter to the right of Toriel's shoulder. Toriel raises her brow. "What are you doing?" Toriel charges up a magical attack. She summons two curved arcs of fire balls. One approaches Celestia from in front. The other arc approaches from behind. Celestia flies below both of those arcs. However, the arcs seem to pass right through each other and then follow Celestia's flight path. The princess magically takes hold of some of the fire balls and throws them at the cave walls. She leads the remaining four flames to zing by, barely missing Toriel's ears by a centimeter each. The monster glances to the side, looking like she doesn't want Celestia to be here. Toriel conjures a bunch of smaller fires and spreads them out. However, they seem to be following no particular pattern. They even seem to be actively avoiding Celestia whenever she flies too close to them. In kind, Celestia summons a few flickers of the outside sunlight. She wills them to dance around Toriel. Never hitting, they spread to either side and disappear when contacting the back wall. The instrumental fades away. Toriel sighs. "What are we... proving this way?" "We've learned to be non-confrontational over our long years." Celestia descends and gently trots along the cave floor. "Both of us have reasons to stop killing, at least as far as we can control. What others choose to do, we will not forcibly stop unless it is so dangerous that no one is left to stop it." Toriel shakes her head. "Speak for yourself. I've tried to forcibly stop someone, and that failed seven times over." "I'm not so certain that trying to prevent someone from entering a dangerous situation is the same as trying to engage the cause of the danger." Celestia looks down. "If I had only been more open to listening at the start..." "But you're not the sole cause for your sister's darkness," insists Toriel. "She made that choice herself and paid the consequences for it. And now, you have her back! You have another chance to help her grow her light." Celestia's eyes return to level. "Like with you and your husband?" Toriel clears her throat. "That's... still a bit complicated and uncertain." "Well, I thank you for your kind words all the same." Celestia takes a brief bow. "Please, you needn't show deference." Toriel smiles and holds an arm across her chest. "I gave up my crown a long time ago." Celestia smiles in return. "Fair enough, Miss Toriel." Fillies and gentlecolts, we have... a tie! ... "Well... cucumbers..." Discord crosses his upper limbs. "Guess they just couldn't stay fired up." Sans shrugs his shoulders. "Does that mean neither of us gets to collect on the wager?" Discord strokes his beard. "Save it for our rematch." Sans holds a bony hand to the side. "I'm sure somebody down below will suggest we do battle again at some point." "Wait, I thought breaking the fourth wall was my thing." Discord raises a brow. "What are you talking about?" Sans smiles innocently. "I just figure the real mastermind behind Mr. King-Dice's gambling parlor would want to place bets on one of us." "Oh! 'Down below' as in... ha!" Discord shakes his head. "Yeah, forget what I was talking about." Sans walks in a direction opposite of his home. "What a comment, D." ---