-TERRARIA, UNDERGROUND SNOW LABORATORY-
Maniacal laughter echoes throughout the entire room as Melony zooms around her foes, all of whom are currently standing back to back in a triangular formation. The trio are noticeably injured with various ‘Claw marks’, likely due to Melony’s elongated nails. Despite the ponies wearing silver armor, the Nymph’s strikes were still able to puncture through. Fortunately, they have their Health Potions. Unfortunately, they all ran out of it in the duration of the battle.
“She’s so darn fast!, If we could just get ‘er to stand still I can slice her!”, Applejack exclaims as she holds The Blade Of Grass at the ready.
”She’s an annoying pest, if I could just get a good grip on her she won’t be going anywhere.” - Ritsu (Werefox).
As this is gong on, Melony is still using her incredible speed to zoom around the room, taunting and laughing at the trio before her.
”Ugh!, I want to kill her!. I can’t stand her annoying laughter and that’s coming from The Element Of... Wait... You’re strong enough to get a hold on her, right?”, Pinkamena question’s as she turns to Ritsu.
”You bet your pink flank I am. Honestly, Applejack could beat this psycho in a contest of brute strength and I’m probably five times stronger in this form, no offence A.J.”, Applejack nods understandably in response as the farm mare keeps an eye out for Melony who continues to rapidly maneuver around the room, waiting for an opening.
”Why do you ask, Pinky?”
”You and Applejack are our team’s heavy hitters, be ready to snatch that Nymph. I, on the other hand...”, Pinkamena then lowers herself to the floor as if she were about to pounce onto her foe. ”I’m our team’s speedster!”
[ZOOM]
In a dark pink blur, Pinkamena chases after the Nymph speedster who hasn’t taken notice of the aforementioned pony.
“[LAUGHTER] What’s wrong?, am I too fast for you all-”, Suddenly, Melony’s eyes widen in realization. “Wait, where’s the pink one-”
“Right here, bitch... You’re not the only one who’s fast!”
[WHAM]
In one swift motion, Pinkamena strikes the Nymph with her left front hoof, causing Melony to fly right into a nearby wall. However, Melony manages to recover before impact and lands on the wall, on all four of her limbs. At this point, the Nymph was practically crawling on the wall. Using all of her strength, Melony launches herself off of her new ‘Foundation’, and rockets towards Pinkamena.
[WHAM]
[ZOOM]
[WHAM]
[ZOOM]
Two blurs collide into each other multiple times, one that’s light blue and another that’s dark pink in coloration. Back and forth, both speedsters would punch, kick, and slice away at each other all while ricocheting off of the walls, ceiling, and floor of the room. Blood would splatter and drip from their conflict as they continue to fight. Applejack and Ritsu can be heard cheering:
“There ya’ go Pinky!, show that Nymph what speed is all about!” - Applejack.
"Get her nice and close, Pinks. I’ll grab her by that neck of hers and never let go!” - Ritsu (Werefox)
[ZOOM]
[SLAM]
In retaliation, Melony flies right into Pinkamena and grabs the pony by her neck upon which the nymph drags the equine to the other side of the room, slamming her into another wall. Pinkamena lets out a painful:
”GRAUGH!”
“HAHAHA!, you’re fun to play with!. Come on pink pony, that all you got, bitch?”, The nymph then prepares to impale the pony with her claws as she raises her right hand above her head and says: “I’m going to dig your eyes right out of your skull you little-”
[BZZ]
[BZZ]
[BZZ]
“What the?!... Bees?!”
Pinkamena smirks as she knew exactly what was about to happen. Unlike Melony, the pony has a certain effect that activates when she takes damage. During their conflict, a certain equipped item was activated: The Honeycomb.
”Funny thing about my Honeycomb item... I sometimes like to get hit.”
“AWRAUGH!”, Melony screams out in pain as the new swarm of bees stings her without mercy to which she tries to swat away the swarm, swinging her hands violently. “You fucking pony!, I’m going to-”
[SHLINK]
“AAAWWWWWW!”, Once again, the Nymph cries out in pain as Pinkamena impales her with a certain blade: The Bee Keeper. As Melony tried to swat the bees away, Pinkamena materialized her blade and stabs the psychotic entity right through her stomach region.
“Oh, it gets better by the way. This sword has the same effect as The Honeycomb... But you won’t live long enough to get stung by them!, RAWR!”, Pinkamena roars out as she pulls her blade out of Melony’s stomach and slices upwards.
[SHLINK]
[SPLAT]
Blood begins to spray out of the wound and splatter on the floor as the pony manages to slice her foe from their mid section all the way up towards their neck. The bees summoned by Pinkamena’s items vanishes during these current events.
“GARG-GARG-GA...”, Melony could barely form words as her throat became flooded by her own blood. However, even in this state she seemed aware enough to warrant a counter strike as she glares at Pinkamena murderously. The nymph prepares to strike at her foe once more until a large claw and an orange hoof grabs both of her hands.
”Did you forget about us, Psycho?”
“Good job Pinky!. Hey Ritsu, wad’dya we get her nice and familiar with this here floor?.”
As this is going on, Melony struggles to get loose but fails to do so as she simply can not overpower the werefox and cow mares’ superior strength.
”That’s a beautiful idea Applejack. What about you, Pinkie?”
“Hang on for one second, let me juuuuust...”, Pinkamena then materializes both of her Silver Shortswords and plunges them right into Melony’s shoulders which causes the Nymph to cry out in pain again. “Mwah, she is, finito!”, Pinkamena exclaims as she kisses her right hoof. She then leans into Melony and stares right into the nymph’s eyes. ”What was that you said?... Oh!, right: ‘That all you got, bitch?’. You can keep those blades by the way, they’re disgusting now.”
“Ya’ know what?, ah’ don’t need to use The Blade Of Grass fer’ this.”, Applejack says as she dematerializes the blade and, using her free hoof, punches Melony repeatedly. “Don’t. You. Ever. Threaten. Ma’. Friends. You. Bucking. Psycho!.”, Applejack then stops her flurry of attacks which causes Ritsu to smirk. The werefox grabs Melony by her right leg, lifts the nymph high into the air, backs away from the two ponies, and says:
”Hey girls, did you know I used to farm a lot?. Here, let me show you how a werefox plants something... That pisses her off.”, The werefox then smiles menacingly as she shouts: “Imma plant me a psychotic bitch tree!”
[SLAM] [SPLAT]
[SLAM] [SPLAT]
[SLAM] [SPLAT]
[SLAM] [SPLAT]
[SLAM] [SPLAT]
Ritsu continues to slam the Nymph into the hard floor of the Laboratory, causing more blood to splatter out in the process. The werefox would simply raise her new found toy high up into the air and over her head before promptly slamming the toy back into the floor. Very, very hard. Finally, feeling satisfied with her work, Ritsu spins around in place, releases Melony, and sends the nymph flying with rapid speed, right into another wall.
[SPLAT]
Upon contact, Melony’s body explodes and ruptures as her body’s gore flies around the general area and splatters against the wall. Suddenly, three items begins to materialize where Melony’s body was currently, “Positioned”. Normally, someone would be excited to see what kinds of loot they’d get from defeating a powerful foe. However, this was personal for the trio. No excitement or cheers of victory would escape from the victorious ponies and kitsune, just absolute anger and hatred burning in their eyes, a righteous flame. They all gaze upon Melony’s mangled remains as they say in unison:
“Death was too good for you.”, They then walk towards their loot and claim their prize, most notably, The Ice Mirror. Alongside this mirror, there was also what appeared to be a Metal Detector and a particular pair of boots. The aforementioned items begins to clone themselves upon which they then float towards the trio, The Ice Mirror doesn’t duplicate itself but also follows suit and floats towards Applejack. (See Author’s Note)
“Finally... We’re coming to save you, Rarity.” - Applejack.
”These Flurry Boots... No wonder that crazy chick was soo fast.” - Ritsu (Werefox).
”Huh... My sister Maud would actually love this Metal Detector.” - Pinkamena
”I want to get out of this horrible place, but first... There’s two things we need to take care of.”, Ritsu says as she then turns towards Pinkamena and asks: ”You got anything flammable in that mane of yours or your inventory?”
”I’ve got some torches, why?”
”Burn this bitch, I don’t want any chances of her returning. We’ve got our loot and that mirror, now, burn her.”
Heeding Ritsu’s request, Pinkamena smirks as she then materializes three torches and hands two of them to her fellow allies. They all nod understandably as they gaze towards Melony’s corpse, holds their torches over it, and says in unison:
“Go to Hell.”
[WOOSH]
The flames instantly consumes the entire body as the trio stands there and watches, being absolutely sure that the Nymph was truly gone. Upon looking around, it only now occurred to them... They weren’t her only victims as chained, skeletal remains, littered the room.
A whole hour passes by and Melony’s body was nothing more than ash. During this time both Pinkamena and Ritsu returned to their normal selves, the mare becoming her party loving self once again and the werefox losing some of its size and stature, returning to her suppressed form. Applejack glances one last time towards the ashes and spits on it in disgust.
“[SIGH] Ah’right everyone, we’ve got a job to do and a certain friend of ours to save. Let’s get on out’ta here-”
“One moment, Applejack. This chest is the second thing we should take care of.”
“Oh right!, I noticed it earlier but we were dealing with that... Meanie.”, Pinkie Pie replies as she grits her teeth in anger.
“Ah’ noticed it too... It certainly don’t look like a normal chest. Ya’ know anything about it, Ritsu?”
Ritsu puts a hand to her chin in thought. After a few moments, she comes to an answer and replies:
“Legends tell of a powerful chest which appears in every biome, one that can only be opened with a certain key. The appearance of each chest matches that of the biome they are associated with, therefore, this one must be: The Ice Chest. I’ve never actually seen them in person but I can just... Sense it. Whatever is stored within that chest is pretty powerful. Unfortunately, without the key that goes with this chest... We can’t access it.”
“Oh, so, do we take it with us?. I don’t think we should leave it, someone else who isn’t friendly could come along and open it.”
“Ah’ agree with Pinkie, we should take it with us. As fer’ this lab... We should come back with Twilight and the others, maybe they’d be more knowledgeable about this kind of stuff. Besides, now that we got this here Ice Mirror we can come back anytime.”
Everyone nods in agreement as Ritsu takes it upon herself to carry the chest for the ponies. Applejack materializes the Ice Mirror from her inventory, holds it high into the air, and exclaims:
“Rarity, here we come!”
“...”
“...”
“...”
“Sooooo... Anypony know how to activate this thing?.”