//------------------------------// // Chapter 8 Now or Never Part One // Story: Chaotic: Equestria Girls // by Roboman3000 //------------------------------// To stop Tank each of the Rainbooms and Tom decided to split up to look for him and to protect one and another. Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie were team one, they searched all around the school looking for him. Rarity checks all the classrooms. "Well, nothing so far," Rarity said walking out of a room. "And nothin' from outside." Applejack also said. Then Pinkie’s head pops out of a pot plant, "And nothing inside the pots." She then got out of it. "I think it is clear that Tank is not in school anymore, So maybe we should go back with the others." Rarity suggested. "Sorry Rare, we can't leave if there's any chance Tank is still at the school." Applejack told her, "And if we find him then we can call the others." She then looked at Rarity's injured stomach. "Are Y'all sure goin' to be alright?" "As I said Applejack I am fine and I can't leave you all with this." Rarity reassures her friend as she places a hand on her shoulder, "Plus I need to make that brute pay for what he did to my dress!" She finishes in outrage worrying over her scratch outfit than her own wound and Applejack just smirks at her reaction. "OK girls on to the next... " Pinkie started shaking like crazy. "Pinkie, What’s wrong?" Applejack asked her. "GET DOWN!" She pushed both girls down before a white energy leash almost hit them. The girls turn to see that the leash came from a creature wearing gray samurai armor. "Who That!" Applejack asked. "I don't know but I love the armor." Rarity comments at the creature's outfit. "It Raimusa!" Pinkie shouted out loud, "He is an overworld creature from chaotic, or is it really Perim since that is where he really is from?" Before Pinkie can get an answer Raimusa attacks again and the girls move out of the way. "Save that for later! Right now it's kickin' butt time!" Applejack said as she, Rarity, and Pinkie got ready to fight. Suddenly a knock on the door can be heard and open to reveal two of the rainbooms. Twilight and Rainbow Dash were standing in front of a elder lady with blonde hair at the door. "Hello madam, By any chance is Tank home?" Twilight asked, trying to be polite. "Oh, are you two girls friends of Tank?" The woman asked, the two looked at each other nervously but then nodded. "I'm sorry I haven't seen him since yesterday. Oh, I hope he's okay." She said in a worried tone. "As soon as we find him we let you know soon, okay?" Twilight said and the woman answered with a nod and closed the door after waving the girls goodbye. Twilight and Rainbow Dash met back with Fluttershy on the sidewalk right next to Tank's house. "Well, that was a dud." Rainbow Dash scowl. "So, I guess it didn't go so well?" Fluttershy asked. "No," Twilight answered as she pulled out some papers. "But there are still some of Tank's hangout places we can check." The girls walk towards their next destination. "You gotta hand it to Flash, if the whole solo guitarist thing doesn't work for him, he will make a great detective someday." Rainbow comment. "Yeah, I agree," Twilight stated. "Now the next stop should be the game store," she suggested until Fluttershy stopped and had her hand to her ear. "What wrong Fluttershy?" Twilight asked. "That's strange. I can hear a horse coming but there is not supposed to be anyone near here."Fluttershy said. Rainbow saw from a distance a shadowy figure of a horse racing toward them. "Fluttershy, I think I can see your horse but..." She stopped talking as she got a better look at the horse and realized that it was not a normal horse. The horse figure looks more like a brown coat centaur with a horse head, the centaur fires two green energy blasts at the girls. "MOVE!" Rainbow shouted as she pushed two of her friends out of the way of the attack."That is not a horse." She comment. "It Staluk!" Fluttershy shouted out loud. "Isn't he an overworld creature from chaotic?" Twilight asked. "Yeah," Rainbow stated as she got up. "And it looks like he’s ready for a fight." Rainbow Dash was correct as Staluk continued to charge toward the girls and power up his next attack. Meanwhile, Tom, Sunset Shimmer, Flash Sentry, and Wallflower Blush are headed to Sunset's apartment. "I can't believe Principal Celestia gave us permission to miss our classes," Tom commented. "Well, it helps that this isn't the first time equestria magic gone wild around here." Sunset reply. "Speaking of which, Sunset, are you sure it's ok for me and Flash to be here?" Wallflower asked. "Well yeah, since your guys are Tank’s prime targets, it's better for you guys to stay close to us." Sunset answer. The group finally makes it to the apartment building and arrives at Sunset's room. She opened the door and let the others in. "Ok, I think I left my scanner around here." Sunset pointed to her bed and started checking under it. "Hmm Sunset, Are you sure it is a good idea to get this thing right now?" Flash wondered. "Don't worry Flash. Once we find my scanner, we can regroup with the others to find Tank." Sunset said as she and now Wallflower search under the bed unaware that her scanner was atop of her bed. Tom and Flash noticed that the scanner was on the bed and try to tell Sunset. "Um... Sunset." "Not now Tom, I think I found it." She said but she pulled out an old sweaty sock and Wallflower pulled out a moldy sandwich which made her hurl a bit. "Seriously Sunset, you're lucky that you're hot." Wallflower told her as she threw away the moldy sandwich. "But Sunset..." Flash was cut off by Sunset when she threw a red t-shirt at him. "Sorry," She apologized but quickly returned to searching under the bed. "My scanner must have fallen here when I left, I need to..." Tom and Flash pull her up, "What are you two doing?" She shouted at them but both pointed on top of the bed where her scanner is. "Oh." She replied in embarrassment. "I still don't know why you guys need that but now you have it, let's meet up with the others," Flash said as he walked out the door and Sunset grabbed her scanner from her bed. She tried to type on her scanner but it wasn't working. "It's off." She said. "That's strange," Wallflower replied. "I just sent my code to chaotic a little while ago. She should have told her by now." "It's fine for now. Let just regroup with the girls and stop Tank." Tom suggested the two and both nodded as they followed Flash outside. When everyone was out Tom was thinking out loud, "Ok who should we go to first, Twilight's or Applejack's group?" Then he stops and holds one hand to his ear. "Hey, do you guys hear something?" Before anyone can answer him, Flash yells, "MOVE!" And push everyone off the staircase before a huge object can hit them. The object is revealed to be a motorcycle wheel with a seat inside and a creature riding it that looks like a short yellow skin man with grey goatee wearing a pointed green hat with hiking gear. "What is that?" Flash asked. "Blazier!" Tom shouted. "And is that his Mowercycle!" Wallflower reply. The Blazier creature starts laughing like crazy and revs up his Mowercycle to head toward the group. "Run!" Tom calls out as everyone starts running and Blazier gives chase. He blasted a hole on the side of the street making the group stop on their track and facing Blazier who had a sinister look on his face, Tom could only reply with. "We're done for!" Sunset steps forward and places a hand on her geode, She starts to glow and her form changes. She was in a red sparkle dress with yellow flame boots and a black long wristband and also pony ears appeared on her head. Sunset now stands face to face against Blazier. "No! We're not finished yet." She declared. Back at Perim outside of Gothos Tower the followers of Lord Van Bloot were ready for a battle. The yellow gargoyle soars up and announces. "Men it is time to free our master Lord Van Bloot and overthrow Perim!" The army roared in joy after the gargoyle speech and was ready for anything. Over by the cliff closer to Gothos Tower, the team stood on top of it listening to the speech. "Man, I never take Krekk as a man of few words or any." Faash mocked the yellow gargoyle called Krekk and the rest of the group laughed. Frafdo, Nebres, and Vinta were standing far away from the group and were having a discussion. "Are you guys sure about this?" Frafdo question. Nebres answered, "Yes if we are going to fight that army; we need backup and you can get there faster than any of us." "But- " Before Frafdo can protest, Vinta stops him. "Don't worry. We can take care of ourselves and the humans, now go." He said reassuringly. Frafdo nodded and flew away to get back up. "Alright everyone gather up." Nebres got everyone attention and they all gather around so he can explained the plan, "Here the plan, first we going to need a lot of tunnels as a surprise attack to weaker the armies until helps arrive and one to into Gothos Tower so Tom's friends can free him also recover the last piece of Shadow Device." He went toward everyone and they all nodded. "Faash, Bierk you two are in charge of making the tunnels." He told the two danians. "Fine, leave it to us," Bierk said as he and Faash started digging. "And Vinta, Ghatup do you guys have anything that can make us invisible?" He asked the mipedians. Vinta looked through his bag, "We have three mipedian mugic that can do the job." He said as he pulled out a mugic. "Good, that's enough for all of us," Nebres said. Viqtarr counted on his fingers and protested, "Wait, but there are only four of us that are fighting." "That's because you're going with the two humans to Gothos Tower," Nebres told him. Viqtarr had a shocked look on his face and spoke, "What! There's no way I'm getting into dose tunnels and why do I have to go with them?!" he asked in rage. Nebres calmly explains, "Because the humans are going to need help if any of the enemies are there and for the attack we need stealth." Viqtarr scowled a bit but ultimately comply, "Fine, but there's no way I'm going into the hole." he declared. "What's wrong, still afraid of the dark fur face?" Faash jokes and almost everyone laughs. "Shut up antenna head." Viqtarr shot back. Kaz and Nebres walk to the edge of the cliff toward Gothos Tower. Kaz pulls off his scanner to point at the tower and Nebres uses a blue monocular to look inside the tower too. "Kaz, I think your friend over there." He pointed at the spot. Overhear the conversation Sunset walked over to the two and asked. "What are you guys doing?" Sunset looked in Kaz's scanner screen and saw a closed-up Gothos Tower window and inside the building was someone in a cage, a person that looked familiar. "Tom!?" The person was Tom whose clothes were shredded and he had a defeated look on his face. "I still can't believe it, I saw Tom yesterday and he was just fine." She said, still looking at the Tom in the cage. "Well, this Tom has been stuck in Perim for a very long time," Kaz stated and he put away his scanner, he then got a determined look. "But we are going to get him back." The hole for the invasion of Gothos Tower was clear and Bierk climbed out from it. "Alright human, time to move." He then looked toward Viqtarr, "And don't worry Viqtarr, I made sure it was big enough for you." "You're ready Sunset?" Kaz asks her as he holds out his hand. Sunset accepted his hand and said. "As ready as I'll ever be." The two then jump in and Viqtarr soon follows after with some reluctance. Nebres looked toward the rest of his team. "Alright men, Let's do this." Back with the Lord Van Bloot army, the five main creatures were having a discussion. "The troopers ready to march." The one in armor said, he then looked at the mummy one, "Zamool, get our two guests." "What?!" Zamool shouted, "Why me?" "Because he said so. Now hurry up and get them." the female blue demon stated. Zamool did what he was told and moved to the tower, "Hey Atrapol, you sure the human will give up the last piece?" She asked the armored man. "Don't worry Skithia, with our new friend will make him talk." Atrapol reassures her, "Krekk get ready to move to UnderWorld City. Klawam moves to Mount Pillar to free Lord Van Bloot and crush any danians that stand in your way." He orders the other two creatures but before any of them can do anything, part of the army got hit by an explosion. "What the...?!" Then the rest of the army get attacked by random energy attacks and being hit by something. "We’re under attack!" Krekk shouted. "By Who?!" Skithia asked. "It doesn't matter, Hold your ground and start to attack whatever is attacking us!" Atrapol orders his allies. They all move to strike back at their attackers. Inside Gothos Tower Kaz, Viqtarr and Sunset Shimmer make it in by blasting a hole in the floor, the three climb out of it. "Alright human where to?" Viqtarr asked Kaz. "Well, judging by where the window was, I say probably the fifth floor," Kaz suggested. "Then let's move!" Viqtarr tried to lead the way but since he didn't know where to go it was up to Kaz to lead the group instead. The group met small resistance as they moved to the staircase to the fifth floor. "Kaz, how is it that you know where we're going?" Sunset asked him. "Oh, That because I been here before and battle here a couple of times in the dromes." He answers her. They make it up to the staircase and find themselves in the fifth-floor hallway with a lot of rooms, Kaz pointed at one door. "This one, I think that the one they keeping Tom." "Alright, stand back humans," Viqtarr told the two, and both moved behind him. "Rock Wave!" He yells and smashes his fists on the ground. Massive boulders surged toward the door and destroyed it. When the dust cleared the room was revealed to be a dungeon that had many cages and one of the cages held Tom that he was sitting inside. "Tom!" Both Kaz and Sunset shouted, getting the cage Tom's attention. He looked to see the group and said. "Kaz. Viqtarr. What are you guys doing here and who that?" He pointed at Sunset. "We here to free you and get the pieces of the shadow device," Viqtarr told him as he moved to free Tom. "No! get away! hurry!" Tom shouted, having a panic look on his face. The group were all confused at Tom's outburst until Sunset started looking in the same direction Tom was looking at and started to shout. "Viqtarr Look Out!" But it was too late as an energy blast hit him and sent him flying toward a wall. The four look to see where the attack came from to see it was a creature with a pair of large purple bat wings, a purple snake-like body and wears golden armor. It was flying above the group with a menacing glare. "What is that?" Sunset asked in terror. "It's a M'arrillian!" Kaz answered in a panic. "I am Nunk'worn." The M'arrillian answer to them, "And you all came all this way to meet your doom."