//------------------------------// // Chapter 24 - What The Hell? // Story: The End of Time // by Leondude //------------------------------// Twilight stared at the possessed Luna, shocked that the foe within her, Lord Sanies, had suddenly returned after the last time she and her friends faced him. "How is this possible? My friends and I defeated you with the Elements of Harmony and freed Luna from your possession!" Twilight said. "You know, I had a similar conversation with Starlight and Luna within the dream realm," Sanies replied. "I suppose when one learns enough possession magic to hop from body to body at will, one does essentially become an undead cockroach. I'm honestly surprised Sombra and Sacanas didn't practise the technique back when they were still alive." The Sanies-possessed Luna lunged at Twilight with his laser sword, to which Twilight swiftly blocked. After a few more swings of the blade, which were parried by Twilight, Sanies noticed something. Twilight wasn't fighting back. "What's the matter, princess? Afraid to hurt one of your friends?" he asked mockingly. "Unfortunately for you, I have no quarrel hurting those close to me. Keep enemies closer, as they say." Before Sanies could attack Twilight once more, they both heard a strange sound. A police box materialized behind Twilight, and out from it came Doctor Whooves and Derpy, followed by a red unicorn who looked like he had never heard of personal hygiene. Twilight and Luna stared in confusion at the contraption Whooves, Derpy, and their new ally used to travel here. "Sorry we were gone for so long," Whooves said, "It's just that Muffin decided to acquaint herself with this rather strange contraption we found in the hangar." Whooves then looked at the possessed Luna. "Oh, and now would be a good time to mention that Luna has an evil dragon in her head." Twilight and Sanies looked at each other before looking back at Whooves. "Yeah, I did kinda figure that one out on my own," Twilight said bluntly. "Ah, yes. Sorry I didn't arrive sooner. But on the bright side, Muffin and I found somepony that is interested in helping us." Whooves pointed to the red unicorn. "Hello there," the unicorn spoke. "My name is Lion Dude. I am a felon who was convicted on charges of piracy, possession of Class-B drugs and using a mind-control spell on Fleur-Dis-Lee. You can trust me." Twilight glared at Lion Dude, not even bothering to believe that Lion Dude was trustworthy. "I find that difficult to-" "Okay, I believe you," the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Twilight's friends said in unison. Twilight looked at her friends in surprise before looking back at Lion. "Then again, we have teamed up with worse," Twilight deadpanned. "I know," Lion replied. "I have seen you and your friends having a good laugh with Discord despite him throwing Equestria into chaos once or twice. Plus, I do believe you had a tiff with Starlight Glimmer back when she was running that town and yet, next thing you know, she teams up with Discord to save you guys as well as Equestria from the changelings. I guess friendship really is magic." "Oh please," Sanies said with venom in his voice, "If that were the case, why would she and her friends use the Elements of Harmony or whatever magic they pull out of their rumps to turn people like me into stone at best or flat-out obliterate us at worst?" "Maybe it's because people like you, Chrysalis, and Tirek are bloody psychopaths?" Lion suggested. Sanies shrugged Luna's shoulders. "Fair enough. Now then, if you excuse me and the princess, we were in the middle of a fight." "Cool. You do that while me and Whooves buck off with everypony else," Lion said. "And what makes you think I would allow you and your princess' friends to escape?" "Because there would be a good chance that Kronos would be very unhappy if you spontaneously killed everypony," Lion said. "Not necessarily," Sanies said. "He only needs them alive because he believes that if these so-called 'heroes' find the Seals before him, he could easily sneak up on them and take the Seals for himself. Then I have his permission to kill them. But considering the amount of ponies brought on this venture, who's to say that I can't at least kill the little fillies before they find anything?" The Cutie Mark Crusaders hid behind Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Rarity in fear for their lives as Sanies gave them a sinister grin. "Congratulations, you officially gone into Disney villain territory," Lion deadpanned before trotting beside Twilight. "Uh...what are you doing?" Twilight asked Lion. "Trust me, princess. I know what I'm doing." "If so, then could you tell me what it is you’re doing?" "You'll find out when you see it," Lion said, "But as a forewarning, I am tone-deaf and I have the dancing skills of a paraplegic." Lion stood up on his hindlegs and clumsily tried to move his hip side-to-side while humming a tune. As everypony stared at Lion in confusion, he placed his forelegs forward, right foreleg first then the left one, while still moving his hip and humming the tune. Whooves snapped out his bewilderment when he realized what was happening. "My little ponies?" Whooves whispered to Twilight's friends and the Cutie Mark Crusaders. "Now would be a good time to get inside this contraption." Everypony, knowing Twilight has got this, reluctantly complied and tiptoed towards the police box. As they did so, Lion crossed his forelegs and placed his forehooves on his shoulders, still swinging his hip and humming the tune. Sanies was too distracted by what Lion was doing to notice the police box loudly disappearing out of existence. Laeyoon woke up from his defeat, his head hurting like hell after once again getting his arse kicked by Luna. As he struggled to open his eyes, he saw out of the corner of his eye what appeared to be a very hairy unicorn dancing in a way that, in any other circumstance, would be enticing. But since that the unicorn appeared to be a male, and s well as the fact that his dancing was very stilted, like a protocol droid at a rave, it created an image that Laeyoon really didn't need in his head right now. His mouth, agape with bewilderment, spoke the one question that had been on everyone's mind right now. "What the hell?"