//------------------------------// // Chillin Like a Villain (Part One) // Story: Button Mash! Master of the Arcade Arts! // by Clockworklich //------------------------------// "Good night mom!" """"Goodnight miss Mash!"""" "Good night kids!" Mommy Mash called back as she closed the back door, leaving the kids to their little backyard camping trip. "Finally! I was starting to think she'd never leave!" Scootaloo complained. "Come on, let's get going." She said as she turned to go into the girl's tent. Only pausing for a moment to cringe at the pink, frilly design of the thing. "Just one tic, I gotta get Chompy." Apple Bloom said as she snuck off to get her chain chomp. Button looked at the girl's tent with dread. It was decided by vote that they would use the much bigger tent when entering the comic dungeon. Button just hoped that the disease resistance from his high Vitality would protect him from any cooties contaminating the thing. He procrastinated as long as he could, but when Apple Bloom came back with her new pet he had no more excuses. So, Button marched in like a stallion. That's what he would say if this ever came up again. No matter what any of the others say he did NOT hop about like he was walking on burning coals, NOR did he wine about all the frills and glitter that he would admit is a stupid thing to make into a tent floor. "Great we're all here is everycreature ready to go great let's go!" Button said in a rush as he shot out a hoof to the comic and exclaimed "YES!" before the popup could even finish forming. The comic book then flung open on its own and one by one they all disappeared into a swirling vortex of magic. You are now entering a comic dungeon! The comic dungeon is attempting to forcefully change your class. ...Class change has been blocked. With a grunt, Button fell to the ground and for some reason, he was inside a spandex costume sized for a full-grown pony. He tried finding the zipper at first but quickly gave up and stretched open the hole for the mouth to get out. Looking around he saw that he was in front of a 3-story building that had 'Phlebotinum Labs' written in giant letters on the upper half of the building, and the front doors had been torn off and cast to the side. "Hay! What gives?!" Spike complained, drawing Button's attention to his newly arrived friends. The fillies and chain chomp found themselves trapped in adult-sized costumes just like he had been. But Spike had the opposite problem and was hunched over, being crushed inside a costume made for a young pony. "A little help here?" The baby dragon called out before taking in a deep breath, causing the costume to rip open. "...Nevermind," Spike said before breathing fire onto himself to burn the clothes away. "Alright, before we go in, what moves did you all get?" Button asked the rest of the party. "Shield bash." Spike deadpanned. "And no, he didn't teach me that. I got it myself using a trashcan lid and swinging it while saying shield bash out loud over and over again. But with the drills he's running me through my strength and vitality stats are looking good." "Okay, you got a shield on you?" Button asked. "..." "...Here, it's not a shield but it's better than nothing." Button said with a sigh as he pulls the electric bat Spike used during the nightmare event. "telekinesis. Twilight said I won't learn any new spells until I show her I have a good enough grasp of the most basic spell. But I pulled a Button and have been grinding it non-stop for days now and I think it's powerful enough to count as a superpower now." Sweetie explained with her chest puffed out proudly. "I can talk to critters now, and my class has this thing called animal friend so they won't attack me for no reason." Apple Bloom spoke up. "And I used some tim thingies I won at your party to give Chompy some skills. Harden, Bite, and Bulldoze." "You have TMs?!" Button exclaimed excitedly. "They only work on pets." Apple Bloom sighed. "And even then not all of them will work for all pets. I have more but a pop-up said that Chompy can't learn them." "We can go over them later too-" Button began but was cut off by an explosion and insane laughter. "Hide!" The party jumped into some bushes and peeked out. Where there was once a door there were now two ponies. One was a tall mare with long, green hair that swayed around like octopus arms and a stallion dressed as a pharaoh. "That's the Mane-iac and Pharoah Phetlock!" Spike whispered excitedly. "What are their powers?" Sweetie asked. "I think the Mane-iac is pretty obvious." Apple Bloom said as she gestured to the way the super-villain was using her own mane to walk while her body hang just above the ground. "Pharoah Phetlock doesn't have any superpowers. But he's an expert with ancient artifacts and he has a team of immortal mummies bound to him as his loyal minions, which he got from using the book of the dead in his first crime. Though, those mummies aren't any stronger than a normal pony. They can just take more of a pounding." Spike explained, and as if on cue, a group of mummies appeared, following the two villains out with small crates on their backs. "What do we have here?" Mane-iac said as she moved over to where Button and his party landed. "Pharoah! The Power Ponies are here! And their naked!" She called out as she gestured to the costumes on the ground. Pharoah Phetlock actually tripped at that last part. "What? Why?!" Pharoah Phetlock asked as he looked over the costumes. His eyes widened however when he realized something. Jumping onto his hooves, he rushed over while laughing maniacally and quickly snatched up a necklace with a lightning-bolt shaped talisman and quickly put it on. Followed shortly by a bracelet made of crystals. "No no no no no no." Spike Suddenly looked extremely distressed. "What? What's going on?" Scootaloo asked. "Half of the Power Ponies use magic artifacts and we just left those sources of power on the ground!" Spike quietly explained. "And Pharoah Phetlock is an expert at using artifacts." Button groaned while covering his face with his hooves. "How bad is it?" "Weather control, battle constructs, and a rope that... actually the rope is bonded to Mistress Mare-velous so he can't use that one. But those other two are crazy powerful!" Spike was starting to panic now. Unfortunately, that also meant his voice was just a little too loud at the end. "What was that?" Mane-iac asked while looking in the party's general direction. Cringing at being discovered, Button reached into his inventory for the most damaging weapon he had as well as the closest thing he had to a mask. Stepping out from behind the bush with a suped-up water gun and wearing a fake mustache he bought because it's cool, Button made his best attempt at a menacing glare while he could feel Pinkamena beginning to stir under his hat. The two supervillains looked at Button with surprise but before the rest of the party could come out, Mane-iac said something that stunned them. "A mad toy maker! I finally have another crazy villain to talk to!" The villainess cried out happily. "You're sure he's a supervillain?" Pharoah Phetlock asked as he looked Button over skeptically. "Of course! Look at that mustache! The way it twists upward from constant twirling, no doubt during evil planning and monologuing! As an expert, I can safely say that that is the facial hair of EVIL! Besides, everypony knows when someone enters the cape game using deadly toys as a weapon they're always a bad guy." Mane-iac explained while Button just stood there rethinking his mustache choices. "Right... Anyways, we have an evil plan to get to so..." Pharoah Phetlock said while gesturing towards the crates his mummy minions were carrying. "Right! Anyways we already took care of the security so whatever you need for your evil plans you can just go in and take. But be careful of naked superheroes." Mane-iac warned as she and her partner in crime fled from the area. "So... we're not kicking their flanks?" Scootaloo asked as she and the others came out of hiding, including Pinkamena who decided to get out and walk. "One of the bosses just got two massive power-ups that he was never meant to have. If we're going to fight then I need to build us something to tip the scales back in our favor. Also, they showed up before we could even start on making a game plan." Button replied before turning to the building that was just robbed. "Hey Spike, you know what this place is?" "Phlebotinum Labs? Whenever a supervillain needs to steal something to make their machines or spells work it always comes from one of four places. A military base, a heavily guarded transport vehicle, a museum, and this place. Phlebotinum Labs only has science... well more science fiction materials." Spike explained. Slowly, Button was growing a grin and he started rubbing his hooves together while looking at the building. "Button, why are you making that face?" Sweetie Bell asked. "Oh, nothing. Just finding new exploits." Button said as he started moving towards the labs. "Come on, let's go shopping!" The others just looked at each other before shrugging and following the gamer.