//------------------------------// // Introduction // Story: Intergalactic Gladiator Games // by Ragnarok17 //------------------------------// Inside of Faust’s Castle, Spike and all Gladiators are sitting in their tables while watching Japanese-style drummer playing their music as they are eating their foods. Emperor Faust is enjoying the sound of drums while Spike look around and try his best to be quiet as he doesn’t want to be notices by them. ‘Okay Spike, whatever you do..... don’t try to talk to them’ he thought to himself until he notices a masked figure who is on the left side staring at him. Spike jumped in surprise and gasped, “I’m sorry! I didn’t meant to disturb you! Please, don’t hurt me!” Spike pleaded. To his surprise, A masked figure headpats Spike softly and when he stop headpats him, Spike look at him. “Why did you pat my head?” Spike asked the masked figure but he doesn’t respond to him as he look away from him. “Okay?” Emperor Faust get up from his throne and walk toward the center of the room as he stop the music. “Light! Camera! Action!” All drone appear out of nowhere as they use their camera to film it. Back at Ponyville, Twilight, Elements of Harmony, Princesses and civilians are watching the video as The Emperor preparing his speech to them. “To the good people from all planets, my name is Maverick Faust and you are asking about Intergalactic Gladiator Games, I will tell you about it. Intergalactic Gladiator Games is a tournament to determine of who is the best Gladiator of the entire universe! We have gathered all best warriors from different planets and they will complete in the tournament! Whoever win the tournament shall receive any wish they desires and I will grant them their wish! Faust makes a strong grip on his hand as he look at the camera. ”However, this is where I establishes the rules! If a Gladiator is defeat by their opponent, the opponent can decides on either spares them or kill them off! Twilight and Elements of Harmony gasped “No!” Twilight cried with her hoofs over her mouth. “Spikey-Wikey!” Rarity cried. “That’s messed up!” Rainbow Dash scowling at the Emperor. Hearing this, Spike become more terrified of potentially get killed by all gladiators. “I’m not so ready for this!” Spike pouts as Emperor continues on his speech. ”If they do spares them, well... Not only they will be eliminates from the games but they will become the property of Faust Empire & Faust Universe Company and spend the rest of their life serving me! All Gladiators except Spike are complaining about this. “That’s bullshit! You don’t own us!” One Gladiator spoke up “Let us out already!” Another Gladiator pleading at the Emperor. ”SILENCE!” Emperor push an “ON” button that cause all Gladiators including Spike to experience extreme electrical shock causing them a great pain and incapacitating them. “SPIKE!!!” Twilight and Elements of Harmony cried as they along with civilians are forced to watch Spike in pain. “This is awful!” Luna is horrified with Emperor Faust’s treatment of Spike & Gladiators while Celestia is disgusts with him. “This is not how the ruler treats their subject!” The Emperor push an “OFF” button to relieve the Gladiators from the pain. “OW! I rather be shocked by a robot guard than this!” Spike is still hurt from extreme electrical shock he receives from Emperor Faust. ”If any of Gladiators try to disobey me, I will paralyze them the more they trying to disobey me and this is just a warning. All of you are lucky that I didn’t put on a severe mode or else you will be dead! Got it?!” All Gladiators decides to not protest against the Emperor to avoid the electrical shock. “Good! Now, without further ado, let’s meet our gladiators!” Emperor smiles as he’s going to personally introduce the gladiators. The Emperor sat on his throne as he’s introducing the first Gladiator. “So, who is our first gladiator?” The first Gladiator is a crimson-colored metallic warrior as he walk toward Emperor Faust. “Emperor Faust, my name is Crimson Danger and I’m from Planet Crimson” “Crimson Danger? what make you so special, Danger?” Emperor Faust asked Crimson Danger “Well, I used to be just your average Crimson alien until I found a rare gemstone that transform me into a warrior that can control metals and make those insane sound wave. Yup, it’s hard to make noise without creating sound wave and trust me, you really don’t want me to use those sound wave!” “Not even your opponent, Danger?” “Like I say, my sound wave are dangerous to use!” Rainbow Dash is impressed by Crimson Danger “Sound wave? I really want to meet this ‘Danger’ person” “Alright, next!” Emperor excuses Crimson Danger. “Bye Emperor” Crimson Danger walk away as we introduce to second Gladiator is a white-colored armored cowboy. “I have no time for you, let’s get over with it! The name’s Flint Blaze and the planet that I came from is Planet Gunsmoke.” “So, Flint. My men told me that you are a really good sharpshooter and you never really miss your target, is that true?” “Miss? Ha! I got a perfect record to prove it to you and I would love to shoot you right now but I’m not gonna do that since I don’t wanna to deal with that buzzer you have” “Wise choice for you, Mr. Blaze” Pinkie Pie notices Flint Blaze reminds her of Applejack “Applejack, that Flint Blaze sure remind me of you” “What are you talking about?! Just because I wore this hat doesn’t means I am same as that fella!” Applejack point out the difference between her and Flint Blaze. Flint Blaze walk away as we meet a very odd-looking gladiator who resemble a 1930s-style cartoon character. Emperor Faust is faze by his appearance “Okay.... This is interesting for a gladiator... what’s your name?” “I am Happy Charlie and my hometown is Inktown! I can’t wait to play the game!” Charlie suddenly become angry and start acting like an old man who is out of touch with modern folks. “Man! Those darn kids! Back in my old days, the cartoon uses to be plain and simple and we tend to make the audience laugh because we love to make them laugh but nowadays, the cartoon become too complex for us to handle and those greedy company turn cartoon into a FUCKING CGI! They killed animation!!!!!!!” Angry Charlie get his knife out and ran to the camera while Faust guards try to stop him “Guards! Stop that man from destroying my camera!” The Emperor cries as he seeing one of his beloved camera being dismantled by Happy Charlie. “I’M GOING TO KILL YOU SON OF A-“ the video cut to a Faust Universe’s “Stand by” screen while playing the music. Twilight, Elements of Harmony, Princesses and civilians of Ponyville are flabbergasted and confused of what just happened. Applejack approach Pinkie Pie. “Well, I guess I wasn’t one who have their own counterpart” Applejack teases Pinkie Pie which she took offensive to her comment. “Applejack! I’m not like that crazy man! I don’t go around and go on a killing spree on ponies and turn them into cupcakes! I may be crazy but that way too far for me!” Pinkie Pie look at the readers (again). “I looking at you, Sergeant Sprinkles“ Pinkie Pie gives a death stare at you and Applejack is once again confuse by Pinkie Pie. “Who is this Sergeant Sprinkles fella, Pinkie?” The video message is back online and Emperor Faust is cradling one of his beloved camera drone. “My baby, I promise I wouldn’t let that man hurt you again” Emperor Faust embrace the camera while everyone including Spike, Gladiators and all of people who are watching him. Luna is disturb by him, “Sister, this man starting to scare me a bit” “I know, Luna..... I know” Celestia is creeped out by him too. Emperor Faust realizes they are watching him and he throw the camera away like it was nothing to him. “Sorry about that, I will make sure Charlie behave himself and doesn’t try to kill anyone before the games! Anyway, sorry to disappoint you but the next one will be the last Gladiator we meet until the big games!” Spike is sitting on his table when a group of Faust guards approached him and grab him. “Hey! Let me go! I didn’t do anything wrong!” The guards along with Spike walk to the Emperor and the guard let him go as Spike look at Emperor Faust. “Spike!” A concerned Twilight look at the video of her beloved dragon. “Spike! My boy! I finally get to talk with the Purple Dragon from Planet Equestria!” Emperor Faust chuckles as he walk toward the baby dragon and gives a big grin to him. “I guess you’re somehow know my name” Spike nervously chuckles as he doesn’t know how the hell Emperor know his name despite meeting him for the first time. “My men already told me about you and I heard you let yourself captured in order to save your friend, why did you do that?” Spike is unsure to answer this at first but decides to answer him “The reason why I let myself captured is they got hurt because of me and I’m a bad friend to them. To be honest, I think they are better off without me as I was nothing but a terrible and awful friend to them” Spike become sad as Twilight and Elements of Harmony feeling bad for him “Spike” Twilight feel sorry for him “You know Emperor, Intergalactic Gladiator Games is definitely a fitting punishment for a greedy dragon like me for being awful to Elements of Harmony especially Twilight & Rarity! I don’t deserve their love! I rather being killed by gladiators than spending the rest of my life for what I did to them!” Spike starting to cry and fall to his knee while Twilight & Elements of Harmony gasped at Spike’s comment “Did Spikey-Wikey says he want to be killed by gladiators?!” “Spike! Don’t be hard on yourself! It’s not your fault!” Twilight yells at Spike. While Spike is crying on the carpet, Emperor Faust look at him and he grabs his staff and hit it on the floor which stop Spike from crying. “Spike, don’t blame everything on you. You have a lot of potential and yet your so-called “friend” hold you back on your potential and was just using you as you are useless to them but since they’re no longer here with you, you can finally unlock your true potential!” The Emperor give a big grin at Spike while Elements of Harmony are angry over Emperor spreading lies on them to Spike. “Don’t you dare lie about us, Varmint!” “That big meanie spreading lies about us!” Fluttershy scowling at Emperor. “Potential?” Spike asked Emperor Faust. “Yes! A big potential! Your body also have a potential and I can make you feel comfy on my planet!” Emperor Faust walk around Spike and touches Spike’s cheek and just rubbing it. “Your skin is so appealing! It make me want to touch it all days long” Emperor get closer to Spike as he become very uncomfortable while Emperor touching his stomach. Watching the Emperor keep touching her beloved dragon enrages both Twilight and Rarity even more. “Get your bloody hand off him!” Twilight scowling at the Emperor. “Leave him alone, you monster!” Rarity growls at the Emperor. As Emperor Faust touching Spike, he whispered in his ears “You are one divine purple creature I ever met and I going to make you..... MY CHAMPION.” Emperor Faust let him go as Spike is confused by his comment. “Me as your champion?” Spike asked Emperor Faust but Faust suddenly yells “Guards! Guards! Take him out of my throne room!” The guards appears and grabs Spike “Hey! let me go!” “SPIKE!” Elements of Harmony yells in unison. Emperor Faust walk to one of guards and whisper to him. “Take him to the laboratory” “You got it” One of guards hit Spike’s head which cause him to knocked unconscious. The guards left the room with unconscious Spike while Emperor Faust look at the camera. “Remember folks, we will starting Intergalactic Gladiator Games very soon! That will be all” the video ends. Twilight and Elements of Harmony are worried about Spike, “We need to rescue Spike at once!” “But how, Twilight? He’s far away from our planet and we don’t have a flying machine for us to get to Planet Faust” Applejack point this out to Twilight. “Not even our magic are strong enough to transport us to a planet that is far away from us” Celestia answered with regret. “But we can’t let Spikey-Wikey get killed by those savages! We must find a way to get on that planet!” Twilight, Elements of Harmony and Princesses are trying to figuring out of getting to Planet Faust while worrying about Spike. “Spike, whatever you are, I promise we will rescue you and take you back home”. Twilight making a promise to her number one assistant. Spike groaned as he opened his eyes, “Ow, my head is still hurting” as he tries to comfort his head, he can’t move his hand. “What the heck? I can’t move! Where am I?!” Spike look around and he find himself on a laboratory. “Oh my Celestia” Then Spike look at himself and he find himself being strapped to the bed. “Are you kidding me?!” Spike struggles to get out of the bed until he saw a robotic doctor looking at the skull “Is that a robot? Gosh! I am starting to get sick of meeting every robots!” Spike complains about it until the Doctor look at him and talk like a typical Mad Scientist. “Excuse me? I am not a robot! I am a cyborg! I am Doctor Dexter Blight and you going to be my subject!” Dr. Dexter Blight walk to Spike and look at his body. “This is very interesting species and yet this one is not fully-grown Dragon but rather a dragon who still at his baby age, but how he’s able to talk in his baby state lead me a lot of questions..... Hmmmmmmm?” Dr. Dexter Blight ponder about Spike as he continues to look at his body. “Oh my! I guess this is your lucky day!” “Lucky day? What are you talking about?!” “My dear boy... we are going to age you up..... FASTER!” He push a button to let Spike free from the bed and grab him to prevent him from escaping. “Let me go!” “Hold still!” Dr. Blight injects him with a syringe that knock Spike out. “Much better” Dr. Blight put Spike in his invention that age everyone faster. “Emperor Faust told me that in order to make you a champion, he want me to age you faster so you can take on any Gladiators with no problems. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Now, let’s begin the experiment!” He turn on the aging machine and we see bunch of light coming from the machine as the Doctor starting to laugh insane. “Oh yes! Oh yes! Soon, you will no longer a baby dragon anymore! You are going to be Faust’s ultimate champion!”