//------------------------------// // The only good bug... // Story: My Little Pokémon // by Amarvax //------------------------------// Underneath the ground below a tree, Malamar's plans are a go. By using its dark psychic powers, it merged the unicorn mane, the dragon fang, piece of Darkrai and Element of Magic together. By mixing them all, birthed something new to both worlds and existence. It had the base of a crown, obviously from the element of magic, and a dark aura that surrounded it, being Darkrai's DNA. It was hard as the dragon fang that was apart of it and it had magic infused in it due to the mane. Malamar placed this new ominous crown on its head. Now that it had a unicorn apart of it, magic is now in its hands. And with the books that it stole from Twilight's library, who knows where it'll start. But the best place to start, to Malamar anyways, is minions. If he's going to take over the world, he can't do it alone despite his newfound power. Malamar flew upwards, now gaining the ability to go through walls, grounds etc thanks to the piece of Darkrai. It looked around as it spotted some bug type pokemon. Normally, bug types aren't the strongest breed of Pokemon, but with this crown, they could be. Malamar sunk back into his base, using psychic on the books to hide them deep behind a cluster of rocks. No evidence must be visible to others. He went back up to the surface, flying towards the bug types and using hypnosis on all of them. At Ponyville, things were quiet and going well. Pokemon, people and ponies are just genuinely having a good time. However, Twilight, Ash and the gang were still looking for Malamar. But no luck. "This is taking forever! How are we ever gonna find this Mallet Mall?" Pinkie said. "Malamar." Applejack corrected her. "Malamar's sometimes go for secret bases. They don't usually hang out wide in the open." Ash said. All of a sudden, constant buzzing noises could be heard. Not only that but large shadows were looming over Ponyville. Multiple of them. Everypony, human and pokemon turned to where this buzzing was all coming from.. and that's when they saw something overwhelming. A swarm of bugs upon bugs had emerged, countless of them. Each of different pokemon species. From Parasect, Kricketot, Burmy, Beedrill and Nincada. So many of them were here. And they were seemingly forming a dome shape. "What's up with all those bug types?!" A woman said, being shocked by the overwhelming amount of them. The bugs had covered all of Ponyville by forming a dome, sealing it. "They've domed us all in shut?" Rainbow Dash said. "What's going on? Why are the bugs doing this all of a sudden?" Twilight rejoined. As they were all panicking by being domed in, Malamar phased through the bugs, revealing himself. And not only that, speaking to them via telepathy. Much more heightened telepathy than it usually had. "Hello there, lesser beings." Malamar started. "Malamar! Of course, you'd be behind this..." "Correct you are. I the prominent Malamar had gained a power greater than your feeble little minds can comprehend. Which makes my plan for world domination much, much more undisturbed." "By using bugs? Pretty lame if you ask me!" Scootaloo yelled out. "Hush now, child. I don't expect a farm animal to know the true embryonic potential of bug types. "Farm animal?!" Scootaloo and everypony did not take kindly to what Malar just said. "Who do you think you are Scoundrel?!" Rarity yelled at him. "I am the soon to be overlord.. of not just this world.. but both worlds. Not even that harrowing rift can stop my predetermined rule." "GAH! You're just using big words!" Pinkie Pie said, not understanding some of the fancier words he was spouting out. "Worry not my little peasants. I will let you all live as servants to my quintessential empire. But if any of you cretins dare try and contravene.." Malamar had called upon the poison dark pokemon Drapion and a Scizor. Two of some of the most intimidating and powerful bug types out there. "Then these two will gladly take pleasure in either embitter your bodies or just macerate you with hard steel. Drapion pointed its deadly tail at a little filly as Scizor intimidated everypony else with its scissor-like hands. "Now then. You will all stay here whilst I conquer everything else. If they try anything foolish, then you can dispatch them of their existences." Malamar floated away as the bug types kept watch. "What do we do..?" Applejack said quietly, while still having Drapion and Scizor eye everyone of them down. "Well, first we have to get past those two." Twilight silently responded. Drapion and Scizor were not going to move a bit, so getting past them would be a struggle. A distraction was needed. Twilight looked at Pinkie, nodding at her. Pinkie Pie knew what she had to do. "Hey, you two!" She called out both of them. They both turned to her, ready to attack. "Are you sure you wanna just stand here, watching everypony awkwardly? Why not pass the time with some fun!" Pinkie Pie got out a cupcake, smoothing it onto Drapion's eyes. "This is cherry-flavoured! You'll love it!" "DRAAPION!" Drapion screamed due to all that cake in his eyes. Scizor reacted to this, going for a slam on Pinkie, however, the pink pony moved out of the way as Scizor slammed Drapion on the head instead. Drapion screamed in pain as it moved around in a frenzy, having frantic movements. Scizor flew back as he was wide open. "Pikachu! Thunderbolt!" Ash told Pikachu to let out a quick thunderbolt as it struck the Scizor. Scizor recovered from this, flying down and using fury cutter to take out the electric mouse. "Iron Tail!" Pikachu countered with its iron tail, clashing with the hard steel pincers that Scizor had. "Now you all can make a path!" "Just what we like to hear! Applejack and every other pony attempted to run through the bug types but were stopped suddenly as they felt like they hit a hard metal wall. "OW! What in tarnation..?!" "We can't get through! Why not?" A pony asked. A male human looked at the bug type closely, putting his hands on them as he felt that metal texture. "Its harden! All these Pokemon are using harden!" He said. "They'll barely budge if there's not enough force." "We'll make force then!" Applejack said, getting ready to kick all the bugs away with all her strength. "Wait! We don't wanna hurt the little guys do we?" Fluttershy asked, pleading they don't hurt the bug pokemon. "Yes!" Applejack replied instantly as she let out a strong buck to the bug wall. Her hooves hit the hardened bugs as a clanging sound was made. Applejack felt her body shake from this, but in return, she managed to slightly budge one of them. Even if it was just a group of Metapod. "Gah! It ain't enough!" "If all of them are as hard as metal, it'll take forever for us to even most past 10 of them," Twilight said. With these immovable bugs, it seemed like they would be trapped for ages. Pikachu and Scizor were still going at it as Scizor caught Pikachu's tail. "Pikachu!" Ash cried out. Scizor tossed Pikachu upwards! Flying up to deliver a finishing blow. "Pikachu! Block it with Iron Tail!" Pikachu put its tail up, as Scizor slammed both its hard pincers down on Pikachu's tail. Pikachu felt the impact of it as he was sent rocketing back down to the ground. Pikachu got back up as the Scizor was looking down on it. In the meanwhile, the others were still trying to find a way to break through the bug dome. "There has to be something!" Twilight said. Applejack kept kicking and kicking and kicking but was making extremely slow progress. All of a sudden some humans stepped up help. "We can help you. We can help break through this dome with our Pokemon." "Oh thank Celestia. Please!" Twilight was relieved. "Herdier! Giga Impact!" "Poliwhirl! Bubble Beam!" "Leafeon! Magic leaf." Each human commanded their own pokemon to help break through the bug wall. Everyone was putting in a team effort as some unicorns joined, assisting to help break out of this dome. Twilight saw all of this and could now see that humans, pokemon and people can work together in the tightest spots as well. "You all.." "No time to get all sappy and sentimental Twilight! Help!" Applejack said, snapping her out of it. "Oh right!" Twilight had pitched in, using as much as magic as she could to help everypony. Outside of the dome, the only thing that hasn't been caged in by bugs was Zecora's hut. And she and Team Rocket were overlooking this. "Is that a dome of bugs I see? They've caged in Ponyville, we must set them free." She said. "Look at those bug types! That's a buffet of em!" Meowth pointed at the immense number of them. "There have to be at least one billion bugs in one side of it," James replied. "Getting close.. to all those bugs... EEEK!" Jessie couldn't handle the fact of all those bugs in one spot. Who knows how many of them there are. "Team Rocket your help is required if you don't mind. To save Ponyville from this bug bind." "Don't you worry your striped sides. We've got the perfect way to break through that bunch of bounded bug beasties." Meowth said as he got out a controller, pressing the nice round red button on it. Out of the ground, near Zecora's hut emerged a giant mecha that was modelled after a Garbordor. "Introducing the Giga Garbordor! This baby can pull in anything in its line of sight. Acting as the perfect pokemon picker. All those bugs will be in there, no sweat." "Wow," Zecora said. Not even rhyming. The three of them jumped into the mecha, ready to set out." Meowth said to the two of them, making sure that Zecora wouldn't hear. "With a bonus, we'll have billions upon billions of bug types in our disposal. And by chance, we might snag some pokemon in there. They won't notice, since there are too many bugs. With an even bigger bonus of ponies! We'll be pocketing pokemon and ponies in no time." "I think the boss won't be a fan of bugs," James replied. "But any Pokemon is better than no Pokemon," Jessie said. "You're right!" The mecha walked onwards, heading towards the dome. Pikachu had luckily backed Scizor into a corner overwhelming it. Fluttershy who was helping to try and budge the bug dome saw this and knew that she couldn't resist helping the Scizor realise its mistakes. Fluttershy flew in, stopping the two of them from fighting. "Wait!" "Fluttershy?" Ash said. "Pika-chu?" "This is just like what happened with Darkrai and the Weaviles remember? These poor Pokemon are just being taken advantage of and being controlled by horrible folks." "Yeah, that's true. And Malamar's are masters of mind control. But we still have to find a way out of here. They're pretty aggressive ya know." Ash said. Scizor didn't look like it wanted to stop at all. The mind control that was put on it and the other bug types by Malamar was strong. It would take more than just reasoning to stop them. "Fine.. just.. please don't hurt them too much okay?" Fluttershy pleaded. "You got it. Alright, Pikachu! We're gonna have to go wild on this one!" "Pika!" As the two were ready to amp it up, the Drapion who still had cupcakes in its eyes was still moving about screaming. "Pikachu! 1000 Thunderbolts!" Pikachu charged up more electricity this time, letting out he force of 1000 volts, that not only struck Scizor but also Drapion. The two of them were knocked out by the thunderbolt, leaving the big threat out of the way. As everypony and pokemon were helping to break free, they could hear some sort of metallic sound closing in. Footsteps actually. "What is that?" Rarity said. Giga Garbodor had arrived. "Activating Super Swallow!" Meowth pushed a lever, making the mech open up a huge hole. A strong suction had begun pulling in the bug type pokemon. They were all separated as the dome they formed had fallen apart due to a huge amount of missing members. They were entering the mech, however, due to their now hardened bodies and the amount of them, it was getting tough for the mech to even sustain them. "Holy Moly! What's with all this weight! I thought bugs were supposed to be light and frail!" Meowth yelled. "No wonder they were able to keep up that dome!" Jessie replied. The mech was getting overflown as it couldn't stop pulling them in, along with ponies and pokemon. "Meowth turn it off!" James cried out. "Too much! Can't turn it off!" Meowth was pushing the lever as much as he could but it was too late. All of that weight inside had caused the mech to blow up. The bugs were fine due to their hard bodies and the ponies and pokemon as well because the bugs went first. So they were shielded. As the mech was destroyed, Team Rocket was sent flying upwards. "Talk about a bust. And it looked promising too." Jessie sulked. "Look on the bright side. This is the first in this new world of horses." Meowth responded. "Very true. This beats being launched in a new region. So you know what to say.." James said. "We're blasting off again!" "Wobbuffet!" They all said, flying off into the skies as all that was left was a twinkle. However, all that suction from Team Rocket had come in handy. Everypony was free from the dome. "I have no idea what just happened. But I'll take it." Rainbow Dash said. "No time for celebration. We have to find Malamar quick. Where could he be this time?" Twilight pondered. "He said he's gonna dominate the world.. then the first place he'd go to would be.." Rarity said, hoping Twilight would know the answer. "Canterlot!" And Malamar had arrived at Canterlot Arriving before the guards who had prepared themselves against Malamar. "Oh put your pathetic toys away." Malamar used psychically to lift their weapons off their hooves, sending them away. "I would make you my minions but you're too much of cannon fodder. I need a bigger force." Malamar had knocked out all the guards with a powerful Psywave that spread across the entire castle and even Cantertown, sending all the ponies there into a knocked out state. Malamar flew upwards, heading towards the big pony herself. He arrived, entering the throne room of Celestia. She already knew Malamar was coming, so she was prepared. "Hello, Princess." "You are the one they call Malamar." "Correct. But the soon to be term is Overlord Malamar. And that throne you're sitting on. That will be mine among many others." "You would dare come here and claim yourself to be the ruler." "Is it not discernible? A being of my calibre, stature and intellect is more fit to rule against a mere barn animal with wings and a silly horn." Celestia didn't take kindly to this. Malamar's attitude was getting to her. Not only that but Luna was here as well, ready to help her sister. "Oh, I see you have your sister with you. How pathetic that you would easily forgive her after what she did. I know of the story." "She was only taken over by a dark force. It was not her fault." "Oh, that's what siblings say to protect their other half's gruelling past. Who knows. I may be able to bring out that same destructive force that lies deep within her.. and make it much more potent." "How dare thou threaten us like this?" Luna retorted. The three stared down with each other as it was about to get a bit destructive. Chapter 13 END