The massive paw of the Bug Bear swung down at Rainbow Dash and she had to swiftly pull her head back to keep it from being clawed off. This left her open to the monster thrusting up its stinger at her in an attempt to skewer her but Dash managed to kick the deadly needle away and fly past the Bug Bear. It roared and gave chase, biting and clawing at her tail all in an attempt to reach and devour its prey.
Rainbow Dash had not expected to deal with a Bug Bear when she woke up this morning.
She hadn’t expected to deal with a Bug Bear at all in the True North. She knew they lived in the parts north of Griffonstone but that was still far below where she had entered into the True North. Obviously there must’ve been groups of Bug Bears living up here too, maybe this was even where they originally came from.
Of course though just because she didn’t expect this doesn’t mean she didn’t welcome it. Rainbow Dash remembered that Bug Bear that attacked Ponyville and how it took all six of them to take it down. Well this time she was gonna beat one all on her own.
Rainbow Dash smirked, this was one enemy that she definitely wasn’t running away from. It would be different from the Ice Sentinel and Blizzard.
She swiftly did a tight loop that the Bug Bear couldn’t react to in time, ending with Rainbow Dash right above his back, and she kicked him with all four of her legs as strong as she could with all the weight of her body put behind it. The Bug Bear snarled as he was knocked into the snowy ground of the mountain he had been chasing her around, hitting it with a thud. The beast used his multiple limbs to try and push himself back up but Rainbow Dash landed on him and repeatedly jumped up and down on his back, pounding him further into the ground. It was only when one of his middle limbs reached up and tried to smack her away that Rainbow Dash flew off of him, blowing a raspberry at the unfortunate Bug Bear that had tried to tangle with her.
“Hey come on, aren’t you guys supposed to be tough?” Rainbow Dash taunted him. For what reason she didn’t know, since he probably couldn’t understand her words.
But perhaps he could tell she was mocking him at least. The Bug Bear roared and shot towards her with its jaws aimed right at her head. Compared to some of her previous opponents on this adventure this kind of thing was easy to deal with. Rainbow Dash went to the side and kicked him in the head as he passed, the Bug Bear’s momentum launching him into the side of the mountain and causing a great pile of snow to drop on him.
“Heh,” Rainbow Dash smirked. The Bug Bear was tough and she knew that was hardly enough to take it out but she felt pretty good at how easy she was handling it. It definitely felt a lot better to really be able to fight and know she was doing damage unlike how most of her other battles up here went.
Now it’s not like she had gone out of the way to look for someone to fight or provoked him, the Bug Bear attacked her first, but she wasn’t complaining. Maybe she intruded on his territory or he was just hungry. Either way Rainbow Dash was using this opportunity to invigorate herself and build up her pride.
The Bug Bear exploded out of the snow, launching it in every direction and getting quite a bit on Rainbow Dash as she blocked her face with her wings. Its bug wings buzzed as it came flying after her again, swiping all four of its claws at the annoying blue pony in an attempt to get her. Rainbow Dash was way too fast for it though. Like pretty much everything she had fought in her life she could easily duck and dodge away from its dangerous claws while keeping a confident grin on her face.
With ducking under one swipe she went in to its stomach and quickly punched it a number of times before flying back out of reach of its smaller middle paws. The Bug Bear roared in anger at her and went down to the ground, picking up a rock lying on the mountain and throwing it at her.
“That’s not getting you anywhere,” Rainbow Dash lazily drifted out of the rock’s way.
The Bug Bear was hardly done though as it flew at her again, this time aiming its stinger for her and jabbing at her again and again with it. First going for her face, then her body, wings, and anything else it could try and hit. It hardly seemed to realize how pointlessly outmatched it was, far too blinded by anger, hunger, or both. Rainbow Dash effortlessly avoided the unwieldy and flailing stinger. The Bug Bear might as well have been trying to hit a fly with a piece of straw.
Except this fly was also quite fond of hitting back.
Rainbow Dash dove under his stinger and flew up behind the Bug Bear before it could turn around and elbow-checked it in the middle of its back, knocking it into the side of the mountain again and creating (in her opinion) a rather funny looking imprint of the Bug Bear in the snow. Rainbow Dash couldn’t help but laugh but the Bug Bear didn’t share her love of comedy. It pulled its head out from the snow and used its four paws to grab up four big snowballs.
Turning around it flew at Rainbow Dash and threw all of the snowballs at the same time when it got close enough, trying to reduce Rainbow Dash’s available movements. Well perhaps for the average pegasus he would’ve gotten them but she was just a bit above average. Rainbow Dash effortlessly twisted her body and zipped between the four snowballs while the Bug Bear charged her and then flew right under him, avoiding his attempt to grab her with his middle paws, and punched him in the gut. Then coming out right behind his tail and stinger and flying behind his back to kick him in the head.
The Bug Bear growled in pain and dropped to the snow, shaking its head to get the pain to go away. Rainbow Dash hovered above it. She was waiting to see what it would do now, still keeping herself ready for more fighting. If it wanted to give up she’d let him go but if he kept trying to eat her she wasn’t gonna go easy on him.
When the Bug Bear looked back up at her and growled with drool dripping from its fangs she knew he wasn’t giving up yet.
“Okay, if you want,” Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes.
She flew up to a higher ledge on the mountain and scooped up some snow, packing it into a hard snowball. When the Bug Bear came flying up looking for her she drew back her foreleg and threw it as hard as she could.
Bullseye.
The Bug Bear snarled in confusion as the snowball hit it right between the eyes. And groaned in pain when Rainbow Dash shot forward like a lightning bolt and punched it in the face. It fell back down to the snow and rocks below and landed with a thud. Rainbow coming right after it and landing on its stomach, knocking the wind out of the great beast.
It let out a large oof and its six limbs collapsed limply onto the snow. Rainbow Dash saw the anger in its eyes as it struggled to lift its head and stinger in one last attempt to stick her with it. Rainbow Dash just sighed and kicked out one of her back hooves, hitting the striped abdomen right above the stinger and making the Bug Bear yelp.
This time the monster looked finished, its head fell back with a crash onto the white snow and all it did was pitifully groan in anger after.
Rainbow Dash grinned in satisfaction and flew off of the Bug Bear, flying just outside of its reach now in case it attempted anything else. “Sorry dude but you picked the wrong pony to fight. Better go be territorial somewhere else.”
She mockingly saluted the Bug Bear and flew off, happy with her victory and looking forward to her next adventure.