//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 Misty Reception // Story: Power Heroes Crisis Core // by Firestarter Dazzle //------------------------------// The escape pod that Fluttershy was currently in, made a crash landing on to a city park not too from city hall or the Power Heroes HQ. The door popped open with a bit of steam coming out. She looked up at the tall sliver building looming above the city park in astonishment at the sight before them. I should probably get out of here before something else happens and I have to explain myself Shy said to herself. She rushed off to go find her friends quickly. Pinkie moved away from what was an attack from this former shadowbolt, she had brought out a staff from her growing mist that was surrounding her. Rarity, using the bracelets, wrapped her up like a Christmas gift but that didn't hold her for long, she faded into mist and reappeared behind Rarity, going for a surprise attack. Pinkie socked her with a punch straight in the face, sending her flying into the air. Rarity fired a purple arrow at the mist shadowbolt as she crashed to the ground with blood coming down her mouth. Pinkie raced over to where she was laying at, all she could do was look at the speedster. "Our king will destroy you all" Mist uttered before fading into dust. Rarity rushed over to be by Pinkie's side, "What happened? Did you hear her say something?" she said frantically. "Said something like 'They're dark king will destroy you all' or something like that" Pinkie recited. Rarity pondered at that line 'Our dark king will destroy you'. This was something that stuck itself inside her mind, Rarity knew that it meant danger was on the horizon so they had to see if Twilight knew anything about that phrase Mist was talking about. "I'll head back to base in lick banana split!" Pinkie said, giggling to herself before speeding off. Pinkie always makes a situation light even though things look bleak Rarity smiled. Meanwhile, Twilight was hard at work perfecting the crimson light sword and so far, things were looking pretty good. A few rewiring almost everywhere, tests(more than 15), and making the design cool looking. Twilight didn't care too much about how it looked, she wanted to see if any threat from the darkness would be damaged from an upgraded version of a famous Japanese kitana with purple lighting around it with a special little extra surprise hidden within that Twilight was proud of. "Hopefully I can be there for my friends like you were to me Spike" Twilight said to herself, looking at a picture of her and Spike hard at work but having fun at the same time. She put the picture down before hearing a sudden crash like someone broke in. Twilight instinctively put on a repulsor arm and walked over to her room to see a broken window with glass shatters everywhere, over to the left was schematics to the sword but one problem: They were stolen. Twilight's eyes widen with the sudden realization that one of her many blueprints were stolen by someone who broke through the window. A piece of what looked like purple(mainly light purple hair) could be found underneath one of the shattered glass pieces. "I have a sneaky suspicion as to who could be responsible for this theft" Twilight said. She tapped two buttons on her arm, set it to scan and a blue light scanned the bright purple then went into the database looking for an exact match of the hair DNA. A ding sound signaled Twilight that she found a match, it showed a picture of Kate Taiga matching the hair DNA. "Of course! I knew it, after she and her little science experiment helped us defeat Nightmare Rarity and that snake siren Genevieve" Twilight said feeling betrayed. At the same time she knew that she along with Kassidy. Twilight trusted them when it was nothing but a facade, not a friendship that she was supposed to be she was about, thanks to Princess Celestia. All that "friendship" mumbo jumbo disappeared when Spike passed away while deflecting a bullet that was aimed at Twilight by Discord. The thought of Spike smiling before dying made Twilight's anger toward Discord and she blasted a fire repulsor at his chest, killing him instantly. Twilight clutched her chest and quietly sobbed. Kate in a small kitten form she shifted into, watched as Twilight cried over Spike. "She's crying over something that happened a long time ago. I swear these heroes get more and more fragile by the day" Kate whispered to herself before fading back to Sombra. Fluttershy kept walking until she spotted her two best friends Applejack and a now fully recovered Rainbow Dash who had a bandage around her left hip where Kassidy stabbed her in the stomach next to her left hip. Shy ran up and gave Dash a tackle hug, that not only surprised Dash but also Applejack. "What the hay? Fluttershy where have yer been? Dash and the others have been worried sick" Applejack asked curiously. "Well first thing first she needs to get off me" Dash interrupted. Shy got off of Dash and helped her rainbow haired friend up to her feet. All three of them went over to a park bench and sat down so Fluttershy could explain her ordeal about her kidnapping by Kassidy. "Well after Kassidy captured me and drugged me inside this cold unforgiving room that I had no idea I was in. When I looked up, all I saw was King Sombra with that devil like grin spread across his face. He said something about turning me back into....Flutter...." Shy managed to say. "Flutterbat?" Dash asked. Fluttershy nodded, "So when I escaped, he had these canisters with versions of us from different dimensions I'm guessing I don't know" she continued. "What did it say?" Applejack asked. "Something about Planet Zero" Shy answered. Dash and Applejack exchanged confused looks but maybe the best way to go about this is to head back to base to research this Planet Zero. Before there was any chance to do so, a big ship loomed above the city of Metropolis. "Guess the party got started here" Dash said. "Time to suit up!" Applejack commanded. All three of them tapped their watches and changed into their hero personas: Zapp, Mistress Marevelous, and Saddle Rager. A three beam of light came down to reveal Kassidy Black, Kate Taiga, and finally King Sombra as he darted an eye at his escaped prisoner who got out before she could be "converted" as he said to her. "Three heroes yet so small compared to us" Kate said, having the sword blueprints in her back pocket. "We'll take you down just the same!" Applejack hissed. Without a second thought, Dash grabbed Kassidy and rammed her into so many walls before tossing her into what looked like a meat locker. It was cold inside that locker but Dash didn't care, all she wanted to do is zap Kassidy into non existence. "We love having fun with you hero. Reminds us of when Pinkie had all her siblings killed because of us" Scream cackled. A long slash almost sliced Dash in half if she didn't move out of the way and countered with an electrical pulse ball that shocked Scream long enough to give Dash an advantage, quick electric attacks before a full blown blast caused Scream to back into a street light back first, the symbiote side of her faded back into her skin that revealed Kassidy knocked out cold. "Good" Dash said proudly, wrapping her up in electric chains.