//------------------------------// // Vigilante Vixens P2:All we need now is a theme song...and our own story. // Story: Mysterious Mare Do Well:Rise of the Shadowbolt. // by Phoenix Kitten //------------------------------// I seem to have gone a bit overboard here.In anycase,turns out this does serve some story purpose. Mainly showing the sort of things those gems can do.I'll probably come back and revise this chapter later to make it more light hearted. This happens remarkably often with me,I'll start out writing something only to have it derail into something like this. I'm built off of mood whiplash it seems.... "All right my little ponies settle down. As you all know it is dress up day today!" Cherliee smiled. The colts and fillies of Ponyville primary school cheered, creating a nearly deafening racket. After the class room quieted down Cherilee continued. "And as usual we have a best outfit contest." At this her demeanor drooped. "Although I'm assuming that as usual, Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara will win." The two fillies in question giggled high hoofed each other. "Now since it's almost recess I'll be sending you out in groups of three or four based on your seating arrangements. However... you three" Cherilee pointed at the Cutie Mark Crusaders. "Will be heading out last, Hmm..." the teacher mare brought her hoof to her chin as she thought, scrutinizing her class. "Alright... Twist, would you mind going with them? I want a pony I can trust to watch over them." "Thure thing mith Cherilee." Twist nodded. "Thank you Twist." Cherilee smiled, "Now then..." She started sending off the groups of fillies and colts to the change rooms to get dressed. True to her word the CMC and Twist were the last group out. Which seemed to suit them just fine. "All right girls!"Scootaloo called out once they were in the change rooms. "Suit up!" --- Out in the playground the other foals were all gawking at Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's costumes. "We're a horseshoe-in to win best costumes. Again!" Diamond Tiara giggled as she adjusted the goggles to her Cat filly costume. "Oh I know. No pony else could have costumes to rival ours." Silver Spoon gloated as she adjusted the golden rope on the flank of her Marvellous Mare costume. The sound of four sets of hooves trotting onto the cobblestone playground drew everypony's attention. A collective "whoa." Sounded from the crowd of foals. "Who are they?" "Where did they get those costumes?" "Yeah. All the ones in the store don't have the full face masks." The crowd stared at the 4 fillies standing across from them. Three Mare Do Wells and a Shadowbolt stood across from the crowd. "So far so good" Sweetie whispered "I feel a little weird though." "As do ah my good friend.Let us hope the feelin's end." Applebloom whispered back. "Thcootaloo, you bring the voice changerth?" Twist asked the pegasus next to her. Scootaloo patted herself down and looked at the group sheepishly. "Ooops." Sweetie Belle rolled her eyes under her mask. "Aren't you lucky my sister has been trying to teach me magic. I did happen to learn a voice alteration spell. I'm... forty percent sure I can group cast it on us without passing out." "Sounds to me like the best option we've got. Go ahead my friend,give it a shot." "If you turn her voice into Zecora's, I'm going to get you back later." Scootaloo warned as her voice faded into the Shadowbolts sultry tones. Sweetie blinked as her horn glowed a pale pink. "Worth it." She smiled, her voice coming out sounding like the Mare Do Well that sounded like the princess. "Did you really Thweetie?" Twist asked, her voice staying pretty much the same, just deepening in pitch. "Did it as she warned me." Scootaloo groaned as she heard Applebloom, who now sounded exactly like Zecora. "An exceptional effort indeed. Now let us help these ponies in need." The other three fillies nodded and began to trot slowly towards the Marvellous Mare and Cat filly. Sweetie whispered to Applebloom and Twist before suddenly creating an orb of darkness around them with her magic, much to her own astonishment. When it faded only herself and Scootaloo remained. Two smaller orbs appeared on the rooftops around the school and deposited the earth pony fillies on them. They settled into their vantage points and watched. "So the Mare Do Well and her opponent are working side by side. To do what?" Diamond Tiara asked as Silver Spoon grabbed the lasso off her flank and started clumsily twirling it in the air. "We are your perfect nightmare." the mini Shadowbolt answered. "We are the reapers bell." Mini Mare Do Well added before stealing the whip off Cat Filly's back with her magic and displaying her skill with it by sweeping it across the ground and wrapping Marvellous Mare's legs and tripping her up so she hung upside down and causing her to drop her lasso which promptly vanished into another dark orb, before flinging the super heroine into the air,watching as she twisted in mid air and landed perfectly. Mare Do Well tossed the whip into another dark orb. "Our weapons!" The two heroines shouted in unison. "Why you..." They growled before charging the duo. Shadowbolt met Marvellous Mare's hoof with her own,sweeping her hind leg to trip the costumed mare before bringing her other hoof into the heroines stomach and knocking her back. She noticed her hooves were glowing pink and glanced at her partner who was trading blows with Cat Filly. Compared to the cat burglaress, Mare Do Well's blows were slow and sloppy,more than a few hoofstrikes peppering the small kinetic shield spell she had placed over herself. "Mare Do well! Switch!" Mare Do Well nodded and let the next strike hit her, allowing herself to be knocked back and into a dark orb before appearing behind Cat Filly and starting a barrage of strikes. "Do not think you will be saved by the flora. Now hear my battlecry of ora!" She rhymed before unleashing a barrage of hoof strikes. "ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!" Cat Filly turned and blocked a few of the hits but the majority got through, even if the most they did was sting lightly and knock her back. She got to her hooves and charged forward before finding herself upside down in the air with Mare Do Well coming out of a windmill leg sweep. A puff of dust escaped the hind legs of the Mare Do Well as she reared up and threw a strike so fast the air around it actually got out of the way. Cat Filly was thrown backwards towards a wall by the force of the strike, only stopped by Marvellous Mare's lasso, now in the hooves of Mysterious Mare Do Well. As such she ended up hogtied before she even hit the ground. She looked over and saw that another of the Mare Do Wells had been throwing peppermint sticks like throwing knives, which Marvellous Mare had deflected before she had been tied up by Cat Filly's whip. As the schoolyard came back into focus around them, Silver Spoon realized that, despite having taken quite a few vicious blows during her fight, she had no bruises or scratches to speak of. Upon closer inspection, neither did her friend. Their opponents had been holding back and they barely even so much as touched them. The rest of the foals on the school yard started cheering. Two of them, a pair of dim witted colts named Snip and Snails trotted over to the pair of tied up heroines and undid their bonds. "So what happened? You all vanished into a large black circle thing for a few seconds." "A few seconds?" The two fillies cried out as they looked at each other. "That was easily a three or four minute fight." --- The two fillies seethed as it turned out that not only did the Mare Do Wells and Shadowbolt win the best costumes award, they also turned out to be the Blank flanks and thier friend Twist. "We'll get them for this." Silver Spoon sulked. Diamond Tiara nodded in pouting agreement. "Oh yes. We will." --- "You did what?" Twilight Sparkle practically shouted. "Well they wanted some costumes to beat the pair of fillies that always won the dress up day costume contest at school so I made them little versions of our costumes." Rarity explained again. "And I used the broken shards from Pinkie's Muchourin to make them." Twilight groaned. "I hope they don't get in too much trouble." "Hmm." Rarity nodded. "In any case darling. I believe you said you made a breakthrough in your study of the gems." Twilight smiled and laid out her papers in front of her felllow unicorn.