//------------------------------// // Disharmony: Slay the Dragon // Story: Spiderman Equestria's Hero: Season 3 // by Adamverse //------------------------------// All was quiet in Canterlot city, right up until the alarm went off at the seventeenth Canterlot Fire Station; all six of the fire fighters, including the chief climbed into the truck and drove off to where they needed to be. On their way, the chief was looking at the paper; it told him the address of the building that was on fire. “Where we heading’, chief?” the driver asked. After taking a quick look at the paper, the chief gasped; but then replied, “It’s uh… down town; the old Hanks’ place.” The fire-truck sped down the road, going through red lights and moving past all other traffic. While they drove, one of the fighters asked another, “Hey, you think we’ll see ‘you know who’ there.” “I hope not, this is our job; not his. If he wants to stop a few purse snatches, then let him; but this is our job.” The other fire-fighter replied. The rest of the crew were quiet, no said another word for the rest of the journey. Finally, the fire-crew arrived at the old Hanks’ place; the chief was the first one out of the truck, the rest of the crew followed him as he began barking orders at his crew. “Hoss, ready the hose; Watterson, keep the people back and get the breathing masks.” However, it took one fighter to point out something; there was no fire. He pointed at the building and shouted, “Chief, there’s fire; no smoke, no nothing.” The chief looked at the building, he then remembered something; he muttered, “Oh no.” Suddenly, out of nowhere; the fire truck exploded. The crew were thrown across the area by the blast; one guy managed to recover quickly, he looked up and saw what had happened. Hovering above the burning fire truck, flapping his wings and holding a fire ball, was the creature responsible for this. The creature looked down at the crew, specifically the chief and said, “It’s time, to hold up my end of the bargain chief; shame I had my fingers crossed about your end.” The street was then attacked by a gang of criminals and thugs; they grabbed each fire-fighter and dragged them away. The flying villain turned away from them and flew higher into the sky; he then simple said, “Canterlot will burn!” he then cackled like a maniac. Swinging through the streets, was the known super-hero; Spider-Girl was patrolling the streets. Now that it’s been confirmed that there’s a new goblin out there, every super-hero was on standby; however, Twilight decided to patrol alone tonight. She landed on a roof top, just to have a look at the city; all this chaos. She couldn’t even remember what life was like before all this happened; before Spiderman arrived, before super-villains started appearing and before she lost her big brother. This is not really where she saw herself at this point in time; but life has a way of being thrown off its rails. Without warning, she received a sudden communication on her comm; Adam said to her, “Twilight, can you meet me down town; near old Hank’s place. Something’s happening.” “I’m on my way.” She replied. Spider-Girl jumped off the roof and started web-slinging towards the given location; she was ready for whatever this city was going to give her. Later that evening, Spiderman and Spider-Girl was standing on a roof looking down at the police cars and other fire engines that were surrounding the scorched fire truck. The vehicle looked like a meteor had hit it. “What happened here?” Twilight asked. Adam replied, “I don’t know; but I think this means we’re going to be busy tonight.” Spidey looked down at the police on the scene; he used his tech to listen in on what they were saying. “Yep, the whole squad; all six of them have gone missing. We need to put the word out, six missing fire-fighters; including the chief.” Spiderman suddenly said, “Oh no.” this caught Twilight’s attention. “Whatever did this, seems like it’s taken the whole fire crew hostage. We need to find them and make sure that they’re safe.” Twilight then turned on her com device, “HQ, can you hear me; who’s on comms?” she asked. From the HQ, two girls answered, “This is Sunset and Pinkie, we’ll be you girls in the chair tonight; and we’ll keep an eye out for any trouble on the streets.” Pinkie explained. Sunset could then be heard saying, “Pinkie, what have I told you about calling us ‘girls in the chair’?” Twilight just chuckled and hanged the call up, she turned her attention back to Adam; however, he was looking kind of down. “What’s wrong, Adam; don’t worry, we’ll find the guy that did this.” Spider-Girl explained, putting her hand on her friend’s shoulder. Adam replied, “It’s not that; I know we always get the bad guy. But look at what happens when we do. I record the footage for my job, then Diamond Tiara uses it to make the city turn against people like us; and on top of all that, when we catch the villain and stop them for doing evil, they’ll just break out and do it all over again.” The wall-crawler walked over to the edge of the roof and sat on the ledge; “Maybe Gilda is right, maybe we should just stay out of the way.” Spider-Girl walked over to him and said, “Okay, I don’t where this has come from, because this has never stopped you before. You need to remember that this city would fall apart without you; and I can’t count the number of times you’ve saved me and my friends.” “And at least I know I have my team by side throughout it all.” Spiderman replied. Twilight just patted him on the back, nodding her head to what he was saying. Suddenly, Sunset called them on the comms, “Guys, situation; a fire just broke out near the town centre. And not only that, someone reported an assault not far from your location.” The two heroes knew what they had to do, Adam said, “You want the fire or the assault?” “I’ll take the second one.” Twilight replied. Spiderman and Spider-Girl jumped off the roof top and began swinging to where they needed to be; Spidey was right, they were going to be busy tonight. Within the town centre, a building had caught a blaze; the fire was contained within the structure, but if it isn’t stopped, the whole block could catch fire. Spiderman jumped down from his web and landed in front of the burning building; he contacted HQ to get some help on this. “Sunset, I’m at the fire; what do I do?” The hero asked. Using her computer, and Adam’s mask lenses; Sunset ran a scan of the building. She then explained, “Okay, doesn’t seem like there’s anyone inside; but this is weird.” Adam replied, “What is?” “The fire-suppression system has been disabled manually; like someone wanted this fire to start.” She explained to him. Sunset then said to Adam, “That control panel on the front of the building, if you charge it, the water sprinklers should come back online.” Spiderman did as instructed, he pried open the control panel and backed away; he then shot an electric-web at the controls, causing them to spark. But after a few seconds, the water began raining down inside the building, put out the fire. The fire was out pretty fast, Adam sighed in relief now that the block was safe; but his calm feeling didn’t last long. Suddenly, without warning; the side of the building exploded open, revealing the one behind all this. The villain flew into Spiderman’s view and said, “Well, look what we have here.” “Dragon-Man.” The flying crook then replied, “The Menace is promising me a lot of cash to make sure that this city is burned to the ground; so I gotta do what I gotta do.” Dragon-Man suddenly flew away from the scene. Adam muttered, “He’s not getting away from me that easily.” Spidey jumped into the air and started swinging after him. Once Spiderman had gotten close enough, the chase had begun; Dragon-Man fought back by throwing fire balls, generated from his gauntlets, at the hero. Adam was able to dodge them, so they hit the buildings; but they caused minor damaged, leaving just some scorch marks on the concrete. Spiderman did what he normally does during these chases, “Come on, Work Hard; just tell who this goblin-menace-guy is and I’ll go easy on you.” “Nice try, wall-crawler; but if I talk, I’m dead.” The villain explained, while throwing another fire ball. Adam dodged the blast and replied, “Wow, you actually sound scare, man.” Dragon-Man replied, “And why wouldn’t I be, something’s wrong with him; I think this goblin-thing has made him lose his mind.” “So you do know who this guy is; come on, tell me and I can help you.” Spidey said to him. However, the villain responded with, “I’d worry more about the chief; he should get have the blame for the things I’m doing.” Before Spiderman could ask what he meant, the hero saw an opening; he shot a web-line and web-zipped towards the dragon. They both crashed into each other and tumbled to the ground; Dragon-Man landed on his back, while Spiderman landed on top of him. Spidey then started rapidly punching him in the face; and with one final one, Adam broke one of the metal fangs out of the dragon mask’s mouth. Suddenly, Dragon-Man fought back and punched Spiderman away; and then shot up into the air and flew away. When the villain was gone, Spidey contacted HQ for some answers. “What’s going on, this isn’t like Dragon-Man at all. I mean he’s a safe-cracker, not an arsonist.” Adam stated. On the comm, Sunset Shimmer replied, “I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s that our dragon friend is working for the Menace. Even if he is going off his M-O, you still need to stop him.” “Will do.” Spiderman replied, before crawling up the side of a building and swinging away. Spider-Girl let go of her web and landed in a dark alleyway; there she saw four thugs standing around a man. This man was wearing a fire-fighter outfit, it was one of the missing members of station seventeen; the rescue just got a lot more serious. “Maybe he knows what happened to the rest of the fire crew.” Twilight whispered to herself. With that said, she made herself noticed by the crooks by saying, “Hey, leave him alone.” The four thugs turned to her and were surprised to see her and not Spiderman; but that didn’t mean they weren’t going to take out that anger of him on her. The guy in charge said, “You should have stayed on your web, sweetheart. Now you’re going to be in for it.” The four them charged towards the hero, she fought back the best she could. One of them tried to punch her, but Twilight leaned back and dodged the strike; she then kicked that man in the side and pushed him into the wall. Her spider-sense then warned her that one of the guys was going to tackle her from behind; so Spider-Girl jumped into the air and dodged the attack, when she came back down, she pushed the guy into the floor. “Slippery little minx, isn’t she.” The head crook said. Twilight used her webs to rapidly subdue one of the criminals, she then pulled him forward with a web-line and punched him to the ground. With him knocked out, the three guys that were left were really mad now. But Twilight decided to wrap this up, she had things to do. She jumped into the air again and pulled one of the crooks up with her, she punched and kicked him until he was knocked out; she then used her webs to pull him over her head and throw him to the ground, he landed on top of one of the others, she then webbed them both up nice and tight. Finally, the head crook was just about fed up with this; he picked up the fire-fighter and held him by the neck. “Stay back, little minx!” He shouted. Spider-Girl remembered something that Adam had taught her, she had to time this just right. Twilight shot a web-line at the crook’s face, allowing the fire-fighter to elbow him in the stomach; the hero then grabbed the criminal by the face and slammed him into the wall, she then tied him up in webs. Once that was done, she went over to see if the fireman was alright; she helped him to his feet and wanted to ask him some questions. “Are you okay?” Twilight asked him as he stood up. The fireman replied, “Yeah, I’m fine; thank you. I don’t know what those guys would have done to me, if you didn’t show up.” Spider-Girl then asked, “Do you remember anything that happened, anything that could help us find the guy that did this.” “Yeah, yeah; I remember. Me and my crew were called to a fire, but there was no fire; we were ambushed by that dragon-guy. He blew up our truck and let his thugs drag me and my guys away; the last thing I remember was being here, and you arriving to save me.” The fire-fighter explained. “Dragon-guy?” Twilight questioned. “Dragon-Man, okay, I get it now.” Just before Twilight left, she turned back to the fireman and said, “Stay here, I’ll call an officer to take you back to CCPD.” Spider-Girl then started swinging away from the scene. When she landed on a rooftop, Twilight contacted the HQ. “Girls, I just got some info from one of the missing fire-fighters; Dragon-Man is behind this.” She explained. Sunset then replied, “We know, Adam just contacted us and told us. He was the one behind the sudden fire down town.” Sunset continued to look through police files on the villain, but she told Twilight, “Keep your eyes open, he got away, but we’ll find him.” “I’m on it, Sunset.” Spider-Girl replied. The hero then jumped from building to building before swinging away from the scene; she needed to search the city for both Dragon-Man and the rest of the missing fire crew. Meanwhile, on the other side of town; Spiderman was tracking the villain, keeping an eye out for anymore fires. But as he was swinging, Adam got a call on his phone; he answered the call and heard the voice of his angel. “Hi honey.” Fluttershy greeted. Adam replied, “Hello, what’s up?” Fluttershy didn’t know what to say, she didn’t really have a reason for calling; she then said, “I just wanted to hear your voice; I was also wondering if you’ll be coming home soon.” “Sweetheart, I would give anything to be tucked up in bed with you right now; but I kind have a lot on my plate right now.” The statement made Fluttershy sigh a little, he didn’t want her to be upset. “Please, you go to bed and I’ll be home as soon as I can.” Spidey’s wife replied, “Okay, don’t be long, my hero; I love you.” “I love you too, my beloved angel.” With that said, Spiderman hanged up the line; he still felt bad about not being there with her. However, his mind was turned to other things, when he heard some yelling not far away; a man was being attacked. The hero jumped to a roof looking over the alley where the event was happening, he looked down at the commotion; it looked like two guys were attacking a fireman. “Please, don’t hurt me.” The fire-fighter pleaded. But the thug just said, “Shut up!” completely unaware that his partner was snatched up by Spiderman’s webs. He was suddenly surprised when the hero landed in front of him and punched him away; not enough to knock him out. “Wait, hang on; let me try that again.” Spiderman grabbed the crook by the collar and punched him again, this time, knocking him out. Once both crooks were out of the way, Spidey made sure the fireman was alright. The fire-fighter stood up and said, “Thank you, Spiderman; truly, I’m grateful.” Adam helped the man to his feet and let him continue, “The names Watterson, I’m with the seventeenth station.” “Your one of the missing fire-fighters.” Adam stated. “I guess so.” Watterson then realised something, “Have you found the rest of my crew?” Spiderman replied, “I’ve been told my friend has found one of them; but don’t worry, we’ll find your friends.” Spiderman was about to leave, but then said to the fireman, “Stay here, I’ll send someone to pick you up.” Adam then started swinging away from the scene; he decided to meet up with Twilight to see where they were at with this whole dragon and fire-fighter situation. Twilight was using the tech in her mask to listen to police radios, they had some news that she wanted to listen to. “All units, subject known has Dragon-Man has been spotted flying over fifty-third street; any officers, please respond.” Spider-Girl decided to get there first, she called Adam to meet her there to. However, when she got there; she got more than she bargained for. Dragon-Man had hostages, the four remaining firemen from the seventeenth station, including the chief; they were being held in place by the three thugs Dragon-Man had with him. “What do you expect to gain from this, Spiderman will stop you.” The chief said with confidence. But the villain just said, “Shut your mouth, Spiderman couldn’t catch a cold in the winter time.” Dragon-Man flicked his thumb up, like his was lighting a match; his palm caught fire, generating a fire ball. Spider-Girl was watching from above, she had to stop this before he started another fire or hurt the hostages. Suddenly, she felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned around quickly thinking it was danger; but sighed in relief when she saw it was Adam. “Looks like we could end this night right here, right now.” Spidey said to her. She replied, “Only if we play our cards right.” Just before Dragon-Man could set the fire; webs to his hands extinguished the flames. The villain turned to the roof top and saw the two spiders; Spiderman said down to him, “Dragons like you belong in towers, protecting princesses.” He & Twilight jumped down and began the fight with the villain and his men. Two of the thugs charged towards the spiders, Twilight jumped out of the way of hers; while Adam punched his one directly in the face, knocking him to the ground. Spider-Girl landed behind the crook that attack her and slid her leg under him to trip him up; when he fell, she sprayed him with webs to keep him down. When the last guy saw how easy it was for the heroes to take down his friends, he saw there was no way he could do himself; so the crook just ran for it. However, Spidey just shot him in the back with a Impact-Web; stopping him in his tracks. Dragon-Man knew he was out-numbered, so he began to spread his wings, so he could fly away; when he took off, Spiderman quickly grabbed hold on his ankle and was pulled away with him. Spider-Girl couldn’t go after them, they were going to fast; so she stayed where she was in order to help the fire-fighters. “Are you guys okay?” she asked as she helped them to their feet. The chief didn’t look that thrilled to be saved, considering it was his fault that his men were in this situation. “Thank you for saving my men, but you should have just left me to the mercy of that creep.” Twilight asked, “How could you think that?” “I’m not proud of it, but I had no choice; the city was going to close our station down and have us separated, me and the boys are like family. The only way the city was going to let the station stay open was if fires started; so I gave that villain the locations of the most flammable buildings.” The chief explained. The hero finished his statement with, “So Dragon-Man would start the fires so your crew would be called to help.” “I know what I did was wrong, but these men are my brothers; they’re all I have in this world.” The chief then held his wrists out to Twilight, indicating he was ready to be cuffed for his crimes. Spider-Girl granted his wish and tied a web-line around his hands, she then explained to him, “You’re going to have to explain everything to the police when they arrive; they’ll take your men back to CCPD to be kept safe.” After that, Twilight had to follow the trail and find Spiderman and Dragon-Man. Adam and the villain were flying all over the city; Spidey was trying to crawl his way up Dragon-Man’s leg to turn off his jet-pack, the but the force was too strong. “You’re going back to jail, Word Hard!” Spiderman shouted over the noise of the thruster. Suddenly, Spiderman had an idea; it came to him when he saw the cooling system for the jet-pack’s engines. He let go of his leg and shot a web-line onto it; he then said, “This looks important.” Before firing an Impact-Web onto the back of the jet-pack, jamming the cooling system. The wings began to malfunction, Dragon-Man was spiralling out of control; he screamed when he saw he was on a direct course for a billboard. Spiderman jumped out of the way when he saw this; letting the villain crash. Dragon-Man went right through it, tumbled onto the rooftop and halted when he hit the ledge. Adam landed by his side and stood him up; he pulled the web off the jet-pack took control of it, “Let’s go.” The hero muttered. “No!” the villain cried, before they shot off into the sky. Adam piloted the villain the best he could, until they both crashed landed on the roof of the CCPD; once they were on solid ground, Spiderman reached into the jet-pack and put out some wires, shutting it down. Two officers, one of them was Spear Head, walked out onto the roof to greet the hero and his catch of the day. “Take him down to the cells.” Spidey said to them. One of the officers looked at Adam and greeted, “Spiderman.” He then looked down at Dragon-Man, who’s mask had fallen off upon impact. “On your feet, Word Hard.” The officer picked him up by the arm and dragged him over to the stairs. Spear Head picked up the dragon mask and said, “I’ve been wanting to put this one back in the collection for a while, keep kicking butt out there Spiderman.” Once the police had Dragon-Man, Adam’s work for tonight was done; he got a surprise when Spider-Girl jumped down next to him. “Hey, Spidey.” She greeted. Spiderman replied with, “Fine, how are the firemen.” “All fine, safe and sound in the building; but the chief has been taken to the cells. I’ll fill you in later.” Twilight explained. Suddenly, Adam and Twilight could hear Sunset and Pinkie on the comm; they sounded scared, so they listen to what they said, “Adam, we were looking over something when the alarm from your apartment went off; Fluttershy’s in trouble.” Spiderman didn’t even reply, he jumped off the building like a mad man and just started web-swinging towards his home; no one was hurting his wife. A few moments early Fluttershy was kneeling down beside her bed, her hands were together, like she was praying; on the bed in front of her, was a picture of her and Adam. “I pray to whoever may be listening; all I wish is for someone to watch over my beloved husband. May he find peace one day, and I ask deli…” Before she could finish, without warning, the wall of her bedroom was blasted away; she turned around and saw the villain responsible, she screamed at the sight of the Menace hovering over her on his glider. “Deliver us…” she screamed. Menace looked down at her and cried, “Finish it! Finish it!” “From evil.” She said, starting to cry from the fear she was feeling.