-TERRARIA-
“We’re almost there, everyone.” Tanner says as the group continues to draw near the meteorite.
“So I’m curious, Tanner… are there going to be any sort of monsters there?” Rarity questions nervously which also causes Starlight and Twilight’s ears to perk up.
“Well, I personally have never met any monsters from the meteorite. But, we should keep our guard up nonetheless.” Tanner replies.
“This is Terraria so odds are… there will be.” Gorglock comments.
“Yeah, I hate to say it but I doubt it’ll be that easy.” Starlight says.
“I still can’t believe what you told me about that Astral Infection, Gorglock. It simply sounds awful.” Twilight says sorrowfully.
“I know… let’s be grateful that this meteorite is-”
The goblin’s words were cut off and everyone stared towards a scorched portion of the forest. Flames had consumed the greenery of this once lush forestation and all that was left was their charred remains. There, sitting not too far ahead was what they came to find: The Meteorite.
“I can’t believe it... the meteor changed this place into its own biome?” Twilight questions.
“I’m afraid so, Twilight. This happens every time a meteor lands within an area. Not to worry though, at least there’s-”
[RUMMMM]
Suddenly, the earth around them starts to shake as they struggle to keep their balance. Twilight takes flight in an effort to avoid the quaking landscape. Then, the small earthquake suddenly stops which causes Rarity to question:
“Is everyone alright? Tanner, what was that?”
“I don’t know… that’s the first time that ever happened.”
“That can’t be good…” Starlight comments.
On cue and as if fate were listening to the unicorn’s words a large number of flying entities erupts out of the local landscape. These new entities seemed to be comprised of the same material that makes the meteorite. In addition, they were covered in flames which leaves a trail of fire behind as they move about.
“What are those things?!” Gorglock shouts.
“Get ready for combat!” Twilight exclaims as she and her fellow ponies materializes their newly acquired staves from the battle with Cthorator: Blood Bath. In addition, they also alight their horns and prepare for the oncoming conflict.
Gorglock and Tanner readied themselves via The Guide materializing a bow created from the Crimtane Ore called: Tendon Bow.
The Goblin Tinkerer on the other hand brought out a very particular device. Nearly a complete hexagon in shape but with four appendages protruding outwards.
“Everyone! I have a device that shall aid us but I need you to buy me some time!” Gorglock shouts.
“I’ll defend him, you ponies go on and kick their… rocks?”
“...” Gorglock simply stares at The Guide blankly all while the ponies meet their foes head on.
“That sucked…”
“Shut up…”
Twilight, Rarity, and Starlight run towards their foes as they nod to each other and raise their staves high into the air via their levitation magic.
“Have some blood!” The three mares shouts in unison upon which a large red cloud is formed just above the local area. In mere moments, what starts to pour down was something that would normally bother or at least make most people, and ponies, uncomfortable: Raindrops made entirely of blood.
Upon contact, the blood would cause noticeable damage to their meteor-like foes even destroying a few others. Starlight then conjures her newly acquired blade: Vein Burster, and floats it within her aura alongside her staff. The unicorn hops into the air and slices at her foes upon which two blood spheres are called forth as a result. These spheres fly right into a small gathering of their meteor-like foes and upon contact, the blood spheres blow up and scatters blood onto the surrounding entities which damages them too in the process.
-I was a little disturbed by these weapons we forged from The Crimson. But, if it helps us kick monster hide then so be it- Starlight says internally as she continues to go to war against the meteor born entities.
Twilight currently possesses both her Storm Spray and Blood Bath staves as she floats them within her lavender aura. She fires a beam of energy from her horn while also firing off a spray of water from Storm Spray which appropriately defeats her foes upon contact likely due to its water based nature.
Rarity became very clever with her use of The Ice Mirror as anytime a meteor entity would draw near her, she’d simply teleport away to a spot she previously stood and blasted the entity with her horn. She then summons a Snow Flinx to aide her via its appropriate staff. She points a forehoof towards her foes and shouts:
“Go my darling, freeze these brutes solid!”
Heeding to the white unicorn’s request, the Snow Flinx walks forward and takes a deep breath before a beam of ice leaves its maw and freezes the meteor entities on contact as they drop to the ground and shatter on impact.
Tanner finished off any encroaching meteor entity that managed to slip pass the ponies and went after The Guide and Goblin Tinkerer. With excellent precision, he shot his foes out of the skies with his bow while also saying:
“How close are you to activating that device of yours, Gorglock?!”
“Almost there, keep those things at bay for just a few minutes longer. This is what I get for not completing it before bringing it out into the field!”
Unbeknownst to everyone present, there was another individual who watched the conflict take place from the shadows.
The battle continues to rage on as the ponies, terrarian, and goblin continues to struggle against their meteor born foes. Twilight in particular was beginning to take notice of something as she says:
“There’s no end to these things! No matter how many of them we destroy, they just keep coming!”
“Yeah! I noticed that!” Starlight exclaims in response as she continues to fight against the entities with her new blade and blasts a meteor entity with ehr horn as it tries to swoop down on her.
“We need to do something quick, darlings! My poor Snow Flinx can only freeze so much and the bees from my Bee Gun can’t fight these things effectively. My magic is also starting to run low, I’m on my last two Mana Potions!” Rarity exclaims.
“Gorglock is here to save the day!” The goblin shouts as he runs towards the ponies, with Tanner just behind him, and then shouts: “Everyone to me! I’m going to project a barrier around us!”
Heeding to his request, the ponies joined up with the goblin and the terrarian. Gorglock places the device onto the ground and presses a button that was present in the middle of the device.
“If my calculations are correct, this barrier will cover the entire meteor site and it will eject all those who are not our allies!”
“How did you create such a thing!?” Twilight questions in utter disbelief.
“I’m a genius, Twilight. I invent and tinker things as a goblin scientist! Behold!”
The barrier starts to project itself and activates without any issues… except, it’s not as big as the goblin had hoped. The barrier was meant to cover the entire area, however, it now only covered the group as they were all currently protected by a blue bubble shield.
“This is amazing, darling!” Rarity exclaims in awe.
“No… this is wrong…” Gorglock comments which causes the white unicorn mare to look at him with confusion.
“Wait, I thought you said that this thing would cover the entire area?” Twilight questions.
“It’s supposed to! I made the appropriate adjustments myself!” Gogglock exclaims in shock.
“Now we have a new problem…” Tanner says as during their conversation, all the meteor monsters were ramming themselves against the barrier which reminded Twilight a lot about what the changelings did once before.
The sounds of sizzling and bumping echoes throughout the barrier as a large hoard of the meteorite monstrosities continues to slam themselves against the bubble.
“How long can this thing hold up?” Starlight questions.
“It lasts for five minutes and it can sustain blunt damage for that whole duration. Unfortunately… it’s already been three minutes…” Gorglock replies.
Everyone grits their teeth in anticipation as they practically count down the last few minutes they still have in their heads all while the entities continue to slam against the barrier.
Suddenly, a strange weapon flies through the hoard and manages to destroy a fair number of them. Twilight thought she was seeing things for a moment, but, the weapon looked like some sort of… boomerang?
“They’ll keep on coming so long as the meteor is present! We need some of us to start harvesting it while the others fight these things off!” A new voice exclaims as the boomerang like weapon returns to its owner who was currently wearing a Sand Cloak. The voice was noticeably female but most interestingly, it sounded familiar to Twilight. The entity lifts their hood and what’s revealed causes both Twilight and Rarity’s jaws to drop in the process.
Starlight, Tanner, and Gorglock were confused by this as The Guide questions in exclamation:
“Thanks for the help but… who are you?!”
“I’m a rogue, The Bandit: Tempest Shadow!”