It was now early evening, nearing twelve in the afternoon, and Adrian, Mander were following Twilight as the violet skin girl lead the two to Sunset’s apartment. But as they did so the trio kept their eyes peeled for that witch monster, who Twilight said was called Witch of Destruction, Hearty the Devastator, as they weren’t sure if the witch was watching them. in fact, Twilight most of all was nervous, always feeling like those cold piercing eyes were staring down at her. eventually the trio reached Sunset’s apartment, and the fiery haired girl answered the door and saw the worried looks on her guest, Sunset let them in and listened to what they had to say.
“—and because of our Equestrian magic running through us, this illegal monster has this bizarre interest in both you and me Twilight?”
Sunset asked after hearing everything that happened to her friend, mere minutes ago. And from what she was just told, it sounded like things were going to get a little strange. As she and twilight were talking, Sunset noticed that Adrian was talking on a phone while off in a corner, and she could almost make out what he was saying. Which sounded like he was talking to Liam.
“—Yeah, and it sounds like this monster has a real interest in the girls.” Adrian said as he leaned against the wall, listening to what Liam was saying on the other side. “Alright I’ll keep an eye on them, while you scour the city. Just be careful okay, this monster sounds like a tricky one.” The conversation trickled on for a bit longer, before hanging up the phone and turned to face Sunset and Twilight.
“So it sounds like Liam is on the case.” Sunset remarked as Adrian and Mander re-joined the two girls at Sunset’s dining room table.
“Yup.” Adrian said as he sat down. “And for the time being she wants me, and Mander to keep an eye on you two. While she and her buddy check out the city for this witch monster.”
“Do you think she’ll find her?” Twilight asked as she was still a little unnerved about the encounter.
“I’m certain she will. Liam is a pretty top-notch battler.” Mander said as he hopped onto the table. “But even with her searching for this monster, we should be cautious. We still don’t know what this witch’s motive is.”
“Other than that she’s attracted to you two because of this magic you two have.” Adrian said as he leaned against the table. “Still didn’t expect to hear that you were from another world Sunset, where everyone is a small colorful pony.”
“Yeah. But why would this witch be interested in Equestrian magic?” Sunset questioned.
“Not sure. It’s hard to tell why a monster does something.” Adrian said as he made a sideways glance at Mander, who looked back, and the two shared a knowing smirk. “But in any case, we’ll just have to be careful for a while until Liam finds the monster.” The girls nodded and began to talk about what they should do for the time being.
~~~~~
Riding around her buddy monsters bike, her own tracking device trying to pick up any form of monster signature, as she zips through the streets of the city. She was already a little frustrated about yesterday, where she was supposed to be the one searching for the monsters, while her friend gets some rest before heading back into the fray, but on both cases, things didn’t go well. Not only did Liam not manage to pick up a trace of a monster, but Adrian was already mixed in with one of the three remaining illegal monsters, when he’s supposed to be taking it easy.
“Liam.” The voice of the young woman’s buddy, Cyber Police, Lightning Chaser, spoke up from the backpack she was wearing. “Are you feeling alright? You seem anxious, more so than usual.”
“I’m fine Chaser.” Liam said as she blitz’s through the streets. But as she does so, a shadowy figure inside an empty room in one of the many building watched her. its red eyes narrowing in what looks like a gleeful manner.
The officer and her buddy continued to drive through the city, stopping at points that had slight spikes in activity, but ending up being false trails. And with each false lead she was getting, Liam was growing more frustrated, if there is one thing she doesn’t like, it’s being lead on like an idiot. But just as she parked her bike in a parking lot to take a small break, the device she had out and strapped to her vehicle started to go off, picking up an actual illegal monster signature! And it was close to! having the bike disappeared, and her buddy transforming back into his normal form, the two began following the device as it leads them to where the signature of the illegal monster was coming from.
Winding through a back alley, the officer pair came out into another parking lot, where they came upon a group of girls. Three of them looked like normal teenage girls, each one dressed up in a pretty gaudy yet flashy outfit, green mist swirling around their feet before creeping up their bodies, and seemingly being absorbed into a red gem on a choker around the girls necks. The fourth girl was different from the other three, dressed up like a Gothic punk rock musician, strumming away on the bass guitar she held, but the device that Liam was holding was directing her towards the bass guitarist. The four girls noticed Liam and Chaser after a minute of the pair entered the parking lot.
“Looks like the fuzz found us girls.” the guitarist said in a low voice as she continues to strum away on her instrument, causing the three teenagers to look towards the pair.
“And who are they supposed to be?” the boysenberry haired girl said as she crossed her arms and glared at the two.
“Those would be the people that would want to take me away, and send me back to my own world.” the gothic rocker said in tune with each note she played on her bass. The orange haired girl then took a step forward, a defiant look on her face.
“Well I’m afraid that won’t happen.”
“All we’re after is the monster.” Liam said as she pulls out a special taser gun from her belt, which strong enough to stun even some of the toughest monsters when on higher charges. “Step aside and we won’t hurt you.” the three girls chuckled at threat, which only made Liam a little more annoyed.
“How about this instead officer.” The monster said as she turned to face Liam as she stood side-by-side with the orange haired girl. “If you beat us in a Buddyfight, I’ll go peacefully, but if my new girlfriends win, I get to stay.”
“Fine monster, I’m game.” Liam said as she holstered her taser gun and pulled out her core gadget.
“Wait.” The blue haired girl said. “We don’t have one of those things, or a deck of cards.” The boysenberry girl shook her head as she rubbed the bridge of her nose.
“Sonata…Asagi can manifest a deck and deck case for us, REMEMBER!” the blue haired made on ‘O’ face, as Asagi summoned said core gadget in a plume of blue fire, and handed it over to the orange haired girl. Which turned into the upside-down pyramid core gadget.
“Up holding the law and taking down crime, we honor our duty as Buddy Police Officers! Lumanize!” Liam tossed the case up, where it turned into the form of black and white taser gun with blue markings. After the transformation, Liam caught it like a pro, and spun it around before aim it at the group. “Assault Squad!”
“Time to raise the Flag!”
“I fight for Hero World.” Liam said as Chaser’s bike materialized behind the pair before he jumped on it, while the Hero World flag appeared just above the pair.
“And we fight for Magic World.” the orange haired girl said as the other stood off to her right, while the monster Asagi stood beside her left as the Magic World flag appeared behind them.
“The first move is ours.” The orange haired girl said as she began her charge and draw stage, before starting her turn. “To the center I call Magic Drummer, Byakuren. And to my right I call Magic Guitarist, Hisui.”
As the cards were sent out, two bonfire fires appeared one yellow, and the other being green. The flames died down and revealed two human looking monsters, one being a rather bulky young man that was dressed like a punk rocker, drumming away on a set of drums. The other monster looked more like little boy dressed up as a rock and roller, holding a little bright green guitar which he was strumming away widely, as sparks of green fire flicked each time the pick struck the chord.
“Hisui be a dear attack the opponent please.” The orange skinned girl said sweetly.
“Sure thing.” the boy said as he really started to rev up his guitar playing, causing more green fire to be produced, before becoming a spiraling vortex that charged at Liam. “And don’t forget my ability now, when I attack you drop a card from the deck, and if it happened to be a Fire card it gets added to your hand, and I deal 1 extra point of damage!”
The orange skinned girl drew the next card from the deck, and placed it in her hand, which caused Liam to be engulfed in a quick burst of green fire, causing her 10 life to be dropped to 9. As those flames died down, the cyclone of green fire crashed into Liam, furthering reducing the officers life down to 7. The other two girls gleefully watched as Liam was drowned in the flames, as they watched the life point shatter to its new value. As for Liam, she actually felt like she was just assaulted by something hot, which surprised her. battles between battlers usually don’t have other damage effects, aside from the shock of being attacked.
‘So this is the effect that Adrian meant that the battle he had was, different.’ The officer thought as she began her own charge and draw phase. ‘Looks like I’ll have to tred lightly with this battle.’
“To my left I call Cyber Police, Hold Hunter, and to the center and right I cal Cyber Police, Stealth Hunter!”
Liam declared as she tossed out the three cards to her field. The first declared monster took the form of what looked like a cyberized police officer, holding a energy bladed knife. The other two monsters were the same, robotic looking guard dogs in the shape of dobermans, all though the one on the left had a different color scheme compared to the center dog. Liam then order the right robotic dog to attack the center monster, where it ran at full speed before tackling the drummer, where it’s red visor glowed with energy before unleashing a powerful blast. The drummer was reduced to a flurry of red cards, as the dog gave a victorious howl, before bounding back to its original position.
“Alright, now Hold Hunter and center Stealth Hunter do a link attack!” Liam commanded her forces, sending the two roboitc figures on the war path.
Hold Hunter was skating across the asphalt of the parking lot, brandishing the knife in its hand as it gets ready to strike, same with the other robotic dog running at full speed, it’s own visor pulsating with energy. But the orange skin girl pulled out one of the the cards in her hand.
“Sorry but I don’t plan on being injured today, so I cast Deep Blaze Singularity.” The card in her hand glowed with light, before turning to sparkling dust.
“This spell allows me to nullify your attack, while also giving my Mystic Knights a 3000 boost to their power. now damage for you this turn.” The orange girl said with a confident, almost smug tone of voice. But Liam just smirked back, causing the three girls to look slightly confused.
“I’ll see your spell, and raise with my own. I cast—” Liam said as she pulled out the center most card of her hand which glowed brightly. “Or So the Dream I had Went! By paying two gauge I can nullify your spell!”
the girls looked shocked as the card she played disappeared, negating it and the light that was forming around Hisui disappeared. The girls turned back to Liam’s monsters, only to see them be an inch from the orange skinned girl, where they both struck out causing the three girls to cry out in surprise, followed by the shattering of their 10 life down to 7 life, evening up the score. After the cybernetic monsters have done their duty, they retreated back to their side of the field, where Liam smiled confidently at them.
“I believe it’s your move now.”
“Don’t get to cocky you hussy!” The orange skinned girl growled as she began her turn.
~~~~~
Adrian was sitting by the window of Sunset’s living room, looking out into the street to keep an eye out for any sign of Hearty, while also waiting to hear back from Liam. While she maybe a top-notch battler and officer, but she can be egged on if challenged, and because of that she often gets in more trouble. While the young man was sitting by the window, Mander was with Twilight and Sunset as they went through the cards that Adrian’s deck is comprised of. And both girls were pretty impressed by the artwork of the guards, as they held so much detail, not just with the characters but the background illustrations as well.
“So Mander, are all these monsters part of the same organization you’re part off, back in your home world?” Sunset asked as she holds two cards, one in each hand.
“Not exactly.” The monster said as he places a paw on one card on the coffee table.
“Black Edge is technically not part of the Systemic line, as he decided to deviate from the order.” Mander then held his other paw over the card in Sunset’s hand. “This monster is still technically part of the Systemic dragon order, but these members decided to also join forces with the dragons of the Blue Sky Knights order.”
As Mander continued to go over each of the cards specific origin, Twilight was going over the cards that weren’t part of the Systemic order, but as she went through the deck, she found two cards that caught her eyes. Both of which had a picture of Adrian, wearing a strange get up that looked part tight fitting combat suit, with armor that looked like the ones that the Systemic dragons wore. Twilight looked from the card currently in her hand, and over to the young man, then back to the card, wondering if Adrian made this specific card. Standing up from the couch Twilight made her way over to Adrian, both cards now in hand as she stood beside the young man, who turned to look at Twilight.
“Is something wrong Twilight?” Adrian asked the teenager.
“I was wondering about these two card.” Twilight held out the two cards, the pictures facing the young man.
“What about them?” he asked as he looked back up at the teenage girl, actually noticing how cute she. Which instantly made a shiver run down his spine, she was after all a high school girl, and he’s a college student.
“Did you make these cards? Because, they both have you in the picture on them.” Twilight asked. But instead of Adrian answering, Mander was the one who answered.
“Actually those cards were created when Adrian had to take on a difficult adversary.”
“Wait! You mean, those cards Twilight is holding were just…created?” both Mander and Adrian nodded. “How does that work?” both girls asked in unison, but both Adrian and Mander shrugged.
“We’re still not sure how this works, but it seems that when a fighter and his/her buddy go through trials, trials meant to test them, or challenge them like none before. Some form of cosmic force creates new cards to celebrate them for their hard work.” a cold and yet mirthful voice said.
Everyone in the room looked to where the voice came from, and directly in the center of the room was the illegal monster they were supposed to be watching out for. Hearty for her part was just floating in mid-air, readying something. Mander was about ready to assume his true form, but since he was in one of his newest friends houses, he might end up doing more damage. Adrian however quickly got up from his seat, and put himself between the witch and Twilight, while Mander did the same by hopping onto the table in front of Sunset, snarling all the while. Closing the book and placing it under her hat, Hearty floated to a more standing position, her staff once again being used as a seat as she sat down on it.
“Now, now my lovelies no need to get all defensive. I’m not here for a fight.” Hearty said as she looked to each member of the room, her eyes mostly focusing on Twilight and Sunset.
“If it’s not a fight you want Hearty, then why are you here? To turn yourself in?” Adrian joked, but deeply hopped that was the case.
“Hardly my boy, I’ve come to not only check up on these two—” Hearty said as she pointed at each girl. “I also came to tell you something.”
“And what is it that you want to tell us.” Mander said suspiciously.
“That friend of yours, the buddy officer…seems to be in a rather sticky situation.” Everyone jerked back a bit as they heard this. Adrian however took a step forward, a stern expression now plastered on his face.
“What do you mean by that Hearty, is Liam in some kind of danger?” the witch leaned back a little bit as she seemed to stare off into space.
“…she might be.”
~~~~~
Things don’t seem to be going to well for Liam, as she has only 2 lives left, and the only monster on her side was her buddy monster while she was dawned in her Explosive Takedown, Rampage Sonic card. But her field and current Lives isn’t what’s worrying, it’s the amount of burn marks covering her body, and the angered look on her face.
As for her opponents, who eventually gave their names, were just totally at ease, looking as if they didn’t have a care in the world. The Dazzeling’s were even harmonizing a little melody, which was accentuated by three monsters on their own side. Hisui’s guitar playing went well with the digitized rhythm being played by the Magic Manipulator, Night’s soundboard. And bringing it all together was the deep and powerful melody from the bass guitar, played by Asagi, but in her elevated form—Blue Rose of Fluttering Sorrow, Asagi. Adagio ceased her part of the song as she went about her charge and draw, bringing the Dazzeling’s total gauge up to five.
“I believe it’s time that we end this~” Adagio sang as she drew one card from her hand. “We cast the spell Wings of Revolt, and I choose to use its ability to give all Mystic Knights 6000 power.”
all of the Mystic Knights on the field were bathed in magical energy, taking the form of flames representing their own power. Hisui’s is green, Night’s was black in coloration, and Asagi’s flames which were encapsulating the entire parking lot, their shimmering blue color creating an ominous yet alluring blue aura. But the flames weren’t the only thing that was aiding in providing the locale an ominous aura, was the green mist seeping off Liam and Chaser, and was flowing over to the Dazzeling’s side of the lot.
“Now, time to end this battle.” Asagi said as she readied her guitar pick, followed by her fellow Mystic Knights.
“Night start things off for us please.” Aria said as she pointed at the officer, which the DJ only nodded before turning the records on his turn tables, sending out waves of black flames racing towards Liam, who braced herself before the flames rocked her body. As the flames washed over her as the 2 lives shattered down to a single 1.
“Oh Hisui, be a doll and end this for us please!” Sonata cheered as she hopped in place.
“Just leave it to me babe!” Hisui bellowed as he really revved up his guitar playing, causing torrents of green fire to erupt all around him. Adagio drew a card from the deck, but it was dropped to the discard pile, unable to use Hisui’s power. but that mattered little as the torrents of green fire made their way over to Liam!
“I cast; I Won’t Let that Happen!” Liam quickly lashed out as she held out a card. “I move Lightning Chaser to the center to block the attack!” the monster drove in front of his buddy, where the green flames incinerated the monster almost in an instant. But even with the monster being destroyed, the Dazzeling’s were still not done.
“Now Asagi show her the power that WE have together.” Adagio said in an alluring tone as Asagi paused her playing, causing the surrounding blue flames to die down a bit.
“Just leave it to me.” Asagi gently plucked her bass…before really strumming away on her instrument, sending out a tsunami wave of brilliant blue flames. But once again Liam pulls out another card from her hand, leaving her with two cards.
“I cast, I’ve Seen Through Your Moves!” Liam said as the card glowed in her hand. “With that I cancel out your attack, ending your turn!” Adagio smiled at Liam proclamation, causing that victorious smile to falter slightly, as the girl pulled out a card from her hand.
“I cast....Nightmare Cage.” Adagio said as the card glowed with intense light.
“By paying 1 gauge and 1 life—” the Dazzeling’s lives were reduced from 4 down to 3. “I can up-keep all of my Mystic Knights…and declare another attack.”
Liam’s eyes went wide as she looked at her hand, seeing that none of her cards could help her in this critical situation. The three Mystic Knights began to turn up the music they’ve been playing earlier, followed by the Dazzeling’s ramping up their own singing, as Asagi created another tidal wave of blue fire, which was accented by her fellow knights own flames. Liam could only look on with defeat in her eyes, as the wave of fire crashed down on top of her, leaving the excess flames to geyser into air. Where Adrian, Twilight and Sunset riding on Mander’s true form saw, and were making their way towards the parking lot. Then the moment they landed on a overpass that looked over the parking lot, the group heard the familiar announcer voice.
“Game Over. Winner…Adagio of the Dazzeling’s.
“Liam!” Mander and Adrian shouted as they saw their nearly burnt friend, before bounding down into the lot and rushed over to her to check up on her. As Adrian and his buddy checked over Liam, Sunset and Twilight looked over to the Dazzeling’s, who all had gleeful smiles on their faces.
“Well, well, well. The very people we’ve been looking decided to show up themselves.” Adagio and her sisters giggled.
“What did you do to her!” Sunset asked angrily.
“We just had a little game of Buddyfight, is all. But that’s neither here nor there right now.” Adagio said as she pointed at the two girls. “Now that you’re here, we can have our revenge on you two for not just ruining our plans, but for nearly ruining US!”
“Wait! I don’t even know who you three are.” Twilight said, confused as to why this trio of girls seemed so angry. And apparently, her words only made them even more angry.
“…so you’re playing the naive card huh, well then…let us clear things up for you then!” Adagio growled as he held the deck case in her hand more tightly, while her sisters looked just as angry. That’s when Adrian and Mander stood beside the two high school girls.
“The only one whose going to be taking you on is—”
“Her.” every turned to see Hearty leaning over Twilight with a hand on her shoulder. Adrian was about to say something, but the witch stopped him. “You should take care of your friend, instead of trying to get back at these three.”
Adrian gritted his teeth but acknowledged that what Hearty said was correct, right now they don’t know how severe the damage that Liam actually took. Picking Liam up bridal style, Adrian then used the re-call function on his dimension cross badge to teleport back to Earth, leaving Mander with the girls in case they needed added protection.
“So, where’s you’re buddy?” Hearty asked which was answered as Asagi stepped out from behind the Dazzeling’s, who didn’t seem to be pleased at seeing the witch. “Hello Asagi, haven’t seen you since we came to this world.”
“And I thought that we agreed to not middle in each other’s affairs, Hearty.”
“Well when your buddy there—” Hearty pointed at Adagio. “Threaten this girl that I’m interested in, I think that agreement is null and void.” Hearty then produced a deck case of her own, and placed it in Twilight’s hands.
“Wait, you want me to Buddyfight?” Twilight questioned as she gripped the deck case, to which Hearty just nodded. But that’s when Sunset intervened.
“Twilight has nothing to do with this witch! The Dazzeling’s are after those who—”
“Oh don’t worry Sunset!” Aria snapped. “You’ll be getting your beat down after her, and once we’re done with you two…we’ll go looking for the others that had a hand in our lot in life.”
“It doesn’t look like you have a choice Twilight.” Mander said as he shrunk down to his mini form. “These girls seem intent on taking you and your friends out.”
It would seem that Twilight did indeed not have a choice. Calming herself down, Twilight took a step forward and declared that she was ready for the fight. Adagio activated their core gadget, followed by Twilight as they took their positions. Like before Aria and Sonata stood off just to the side of Adagio, with Sunset reluctantly doing the same with Mander joining her. As Asagi stood beside her buddy, Hearty gave a smile before snapping her fingers, instantly transporting everyone to the same arena that Adrian battle Fluttershy when she was possessed. Both girls called out to raise their worlds flags, both ending up with the Magic World flag rising up from behind both of them, as they drew their hand of cards and stored their two gauge cards.
“TIME TO BUDDY FIGHT!”