-TERRARIA, THE CRIMSON BIOME-
Zecora, Starlight, and Celebes were currently extremely grateful for the sudden turn of events, although that didn’t change the threat that they still faced. During their battle against the Perforators, the zebra and unicorn were struggling awfully against their mighty foe. That is, until Celebes shows up and manages to inflict a handsome amount of damage to the entity.
“Thanks for the assist Celebes. But, what about everyone else down there fighting those flesh worms?”, Starlight question’s.
“Worry not, your fellow members of Home Town showed up and are now supporting the other adventurers as we speak. Your pegasus friend, Fluttershy, is down there fighting with them.”
“Is she going to be ok?, Fluttershy doesn’t exactly perform well in places like this. I figured she’d be scared out of her mind.”
“Do not be worried, Starlight. Although the pegasus can often be shy, when it comes down to it she displays her might, a strength powerful enough to overcome her freight.”, Zecora interjects.
Suddenly, Celebes narrows her eyes in concentration as she says:
“Get ready you two, it’s recovering from my attack.”
A large growl echoes out of the now recovered entity as The Perforators says:
”We must admit... We were not expecting to fight you head on, dryad. You are a problem for us...”
“Flattery won’t save you, hivemind.”
These words shocks the entity as it didn’t reveal to anyone present that it was indeed the hivemind of The Perforators. In anger, the entity demands:
”How do you know about that?!”
“Before joining up with Twilight Sparkle and these adventurers, I found your creator’s Research Facility. You know the one, after all... You were made in it. It lies deep below this biome.”, The Dryad then braces her fiery greatsword as she says: “Starlight, Zecora, if we kill this thing then all of this will be over. Those flesh worms fighting everyone else are linked to this entity hivemind. In short, we kill this thing... We kill them.”
Starlight and Zecora nods understandably, however, the unicorn suddenly takes on a worried expression and says:
“We’re making progress but we still have a problem. Whenever we attack that thing, it just nullifies them. What’s strange is that we managed to harm it once before but now it’s completely immune.”
Celebes ponders on this for a moment, however, the hivemind roars out as it starts to rush forward in an attempt to ram into its enemies. Starlight, Zecora, and Celebes manages to dodge in time however one of the hivemind’s mouths’ shoots a beam of red energy that was headed straight for The Dryad.
[SKSH]
A type of beam struggle takes place as Celebes blocks the attack with her weapon and tries to push back against the beam of red energy. During this struggle, Zecora leans into Starlight and says with a whispered tone:
“I have a theory that I must test, please help Celebes to stall our foe, If I’m right I can deliver a devastating blow.”
“I don’t know what you have in mind, Zecora... But I trust you.”, The unicorn replies as she flies forward with her Rocket Boots and attempts to slice the hivemind while also raining down pink stars in the process. The attack was of course nullified, however, it did help Celebes to push away the energy beam as the dryad and the unicorn continues to wage war against The Perforator’s Hivemind.
As this is happening, Zecora uses her Sand Cloak and literally disappears in a whirlwind of sand. She observes the battle between her allies and foe as she says internally:
-I suspect subterfuge will be our friend, could it be that the enemy must see our attacks in order to nullify them?-
The zebra was now positioned behind the entity as she readies her spear, Dune Hopper, and prepares to throw it with all her might.
Meanwhile, Starlight and Celebes are having quite the hard time as the hivemind continues to nullify their attacks. Starlight pants in exhaustion as she says:
“It’s no good... Our attacks still can’t effect that thing.”
“You’re right, but then... How was it that I was able to strike it earlier?”, Celebes replies.
The perforator’s Hivemind simply chuckles as it says:
”Your struggle is pointless, fools. We will enjoy-”
[SPLAT]
”RAUGH!”
Suddenly, the entity cries out as three spears puncture’s its flesh. Afterwards, two of these spears fades away and the original returns to its owner: Zecora. The zebra smirks as she says:
“It seems I have found your weakness, your eyes can nullify our attacks but you can’t stop those that strikes at your back!”
”What?!, how did you-”
“I thought back to when we first initiated our attacks, they struck you by surprise and caused you to writhe. Celebes and Celestia were then able to strike a blow because you couldn’t see your foes!”
Starlight and Celebes simply smirks as they say:
“Zebra, you’re growing on me.” - Celebes.
“Heh, looks like you’re not as untouchable as you might think, Perforators.” - Starlight.
“It matters not!, we will kill you all and your corpses shall join the legion!.”, The Perforator’s Hivemind roars out in protest as it prepares to fire a rainfall of energy blasts.
While Starlight, Zecora, and Celebes continues to fight the hivemind high above, those contending with the flesh worm entities on ground level continues their struggle. Fluttershy and her summoned allies which was comprised of a hornet, snow flinx, finch, Princess Pinkie, in addition to a large swarm of bees which were summoned by her ranged weapon: The Bees knees, all continues to fight against the smallest of the worm like entities.
However, no matter how much they’d damage their foe, the flesh worm would simply regenerate its wounds via absorbing the fleshy earth around them and burrows back into the fleshy landscape as it then shoots back out in an effort to devour its opponents.
Gex, Lucan The Merchant, and Gorglock The Goblin Tinkerer are currently contending with the second largest of the worm entities.
Gex would throw various spears and even performs various spells in a language that was most likely his native tongue, seeing as he is a lihzhard.
”YOL TOOR SHUL!”, Upon shouting this particular spell, the lihzhard unleashes a stream of fire from its staff upon the entity which causes it to scream out in pain as the flesh worm then burrows back into the earth, causing Gex to say: “Nii nivahriin filok! (It cowardly escapes!)”
Gorglock and Lucan hears this as they look at each other with questionable gazes that could be translated into: What did he just say?. Regardless, the terrarian and goblin continues their fight as they support Gex via ranged weaponry and a new type of throwable weapon that Gorglock fused together via the Tinkerer’s Workshop, using a Spiked Ball and a Bomb.
Tanner The Guide leads the rest of the adventurers into battle as he shouts various orders and stratagems against the largest of the flesh worm entities.
“Mages!, keep suppressive fire on the monster and buy time for our Rangers to reload their weaponry!.
Melee fighters!, prepare to strike once the entity resurfaces itself!.
Rogues!, I want you to keep to the shadows and strike at any vital points you deem necessary!”
Tanner momentarily looks off into the distance, specifically towards the direction of the large hole that Rarity and Sai had delved in, including the other members of Home Town, as The Guide says:
“I hope you’re all doing ok...”, He then turn his gaze back to the battle before him and says internally: -My master would be very displeased if you all died here.-
Suddenly, everyone is startled as the entire flesh covered landscape starts to shake violently. Most shockingly, it wasn’t being caused by the flesh worm entities. Then, a loud voice echoes throughout the landscape and everyone is stunned to see a new entity present itself as it erupts out of the ground and floats high into the air: A large brain who noticeably has many flesh wounds of various sizes throughout its body/form.
”PERFORATORS!, COME TO ME!.”
-TERRARIA, UNDERGROUND CRIMSON BIOME-
Some time before Brainiac goes to the surface:
Brainiac prepares itself for battle as three ponies, whos eyes are burning with rage, were currently rocketing towards the entity. The Brain was about to use its psychic like powers and starts to glow with a red aura until two blurs strikes at the entity.
[ZOOM]
[ZOOM]
[SHLINK SHLINK]
”RAURGH!”, Brainiac cries out in pain as two large wounds created by two separate blades were left behind as a result. These blurs came in two different colorations: One pink and another, orange. Suddenly, Pinkamena and Applejack reappears on two separate walls as the two blurs are revealed to be the two ponies who were using their Flurry Boots to increase their speed.
”Ah’ told ya’ I’d buckin’ kill ya’!”, Applejack roars out.
Pinkamena growls towards the entity as she starts to sing out loud:
”Slicing!,
Dicing!,
Gutting your insides!,
My smile widens as I watch you die!,
You’ve hurt me more than you know!, inside!,
Now it’s time for the monster to ariiiiise!,
Like Jekyll and Hyde!,
I’ll gut you alive!,
You’ve pissed me off and now it’s time to diiiiie!”
Before Brainiac could retaliate against the two mares, the entity forgot about the third pony who was literally charging up a very large energy blast via her horn along with two of her staves, Sapphire staff and Storm Spray: Twilight Sparkle. With absolute rage in her eyes, the alicorn exclaims:
“I don’t care about being the Princess Of Friendship right now!, you don’t deserve it!. Buck you!. SUCK MY ALICORN HORN AND TAKE THIS!”
[BOOM]
[BOOM]
[BOOM]
[SPLASH]
Blood starts to absolutely pour out of The Brain like a river as the entity is bombarded by Twilight’s endless assault. In addition, both Applejack and Pinkamena zooms by in a blur and slices away at the large brain. Suddenly, a certain rainbow maned pegasus starts to chuckle as she slowly flies up to Twilight and floats right next to her. She then materializes a rather large ranged weapon as she shouts:
“Say hello to my little friend!.”
“This is for Scootaloo!. Eat stars!, motherbucker!”
[TWINKLE-BOOM]
[TWINKLE-BOOM]
[TWINKLE-BOOM]
Rainbow Dash unleashes her fury as she relentlessly fires powerful stars out of her large cannon and grits her teeth in anger. Her fellow ponies continues their assault and their attacks are soo fast, soo precisive, that Brainiac barely had enough time to react and retaliate.
As this onslaught continues, Helena, Ritsu, Rarity, Vinny, Ceeman, and Sai Sahan simply watches on. The Demolitionist turns to everyone else and asks:
“Hey... So, should we help them?”
“It’s fine, darling. That brute has no doubt wronged my friends in a way that can never be forgiven. Let the poor darlings blow off some steam. By the way, Ceeman, what is that weapon you gave to Rainbow Dash?”, Rarity question’s.
As this goes on they could hear the four ponies shout in anger, along with Brainiac crying out in pain:
“Die die die die die die die die die!...” - Pinkamena.
“Send us to worlds filled with pain!, ya’ said!, it’d be fun!, ya’ said!. Well buck you!, ya’ varmint!” - Applejack.
“How’s it feel, ugly?!. Does it feel like someone who you forced to watch her sisterly figure die to some bucking machine is shooting you?!” - Rainbow Dash.
Twilight drinks one of her two last remaining Mana Potions as she then charges up her horn and exclaims in her Canterlot Voice:
”READY FOR ROUND: THREE?!”
”RAUUUUUUUUUUUGH!”, Brainiac roars out in pain as the entity continues to take damage from their brutal assault.
“Well Rarity, to answer your question: That there is called the Star Cannon. I’ve been working on it for a short while, with the help of your friends, and managed to collect two hundred fallen stars to which it uses as ammunition. Yup, judging by how pissed Rainbow is she’s probably going to unload all two hundred stars onto that thing.”, Ceeman The Arms Dealer says as he finally replies to Rarity’s question.
“Yikes... This is overkill. Cathartic, but overkill.”, Ritsu comments as she winces from watching the ponies unleash their fury against the entity who had wronged them.
“Someone’s gonna need a nurse, eh Helena?”, Sai question’s sarcastically.
“Oh yes indeed, if only there was a nurse present to help that... thing.”, Helena replies matching Sai’s sarcasm.
Suddenly, Brainiac roars out in a mixture of pain and anger as the entity suddenly flies up into the ceiling, blood dripping in the process as the entity was missing large portions of its brain, and literally forces its way towards the surface.
“You’re not getting away!”, The four ponies shouts in unison as they take off after their fleeing foe. Rainbow Dash and Twilight give chase via their wings while Pinkamena and Applejack uses their Rocket Boots to take flight.
Rarity suddenly gets an idea as she says:
“Gather around me, everyone!. I’m going to use The Ice Mirror to take us back to the surface!”, Heeding her words, everyone else who were still present moves near the unicorn as she raises the mirror up high which causes them all to disappear in a beam of light mixed with ice.
-TERRARIA, THE CRIMSON BIOME-
Brainiac was honestly fleeing for their life as the entity forces its way towards the surface. Behind it, Brainiac could hear the four ponies who managed to badly injure the entity as the ponies call out in unison:
”Get back here, coward!”
[CRASH]
Finally, Brainiac punctures the surface and erupts out of the fleshy landscape. The Brain rockets high into the air as it then shouts:
”PERFORATORS!, COME TO ME!.”