//------------------------------// // Chapter 99: Under The Sea // Story: Griffon of Canterlot // by Electuroo //------------------------------// Griffon of Canterlot Chapter 99: Under The Sea Grant the clockwork griffon lead Glacier, Silvite and Octicovix down the corridor towards General Grav's office, the silver dragon noticed as they walked a few griffon sailors resting against pipes, some on their beds through open doors breathing with difficulty. Her sapphire blue eyes showed concern for these griffons, the fact Shal-Quz could of easily conquered them was puzzling when it came to turning one of them into a mechanical griffon. She lean over to Glacier. “Something about her being captured doesn't add up, or the fact that she would waste her reality bending magic on a griffon.” The silver dragon brought forward her concern in a whisper. Glacier had a bad feeling as well. “She screwing up this big? I think we walking into a trap.” “And we going to spring it?” “Oh if it is a trap, definitely.” Glacier smirked, she speaks up to the clockwork griffon. “Sooo... What exactly happened when Shal-Quz arrived?” Grant metal wings open and close a little. “The black rabbit appeared before me and a few others, in a instant those able raise their weapons and open fired on her in a instant, a shield was created catching all the bullets, than with the wave of the brush held me in the air.” “She cast magic from it changing me from inside and out into this 'clockwork griffon' as you call me, I broke free as she was aiming to attack another of my fellow brothers and sisters, I strike her down and removed the brush, the brush was placed in the officer while she was held in the brig since yesterday.” Octicovix responded to what he just said. “Has she tried anything else since?” “No, only complaining about being hunger, we... every griffon part from me are hunger, we-they haven't eaten in three days since the remaining food became uneatable, rotten to the smell and touch.” Grant answered her question. “Now I have a question for you griffon.” Glacier brought the question forwards before he could. “Your going to ask about how I knew what you are, correct?” He gave a nod. “Long story short, in another lifetime I had a clockwork griffon as a pet for over sixty years till his parts finally gave out, I and my husband found out about clockwork robots being used for deadly means, we put a stop to it and one of those clockworks was a defence bot shaped as a griffon, badly damaged I refused to let it die.” “So I fixed it up and put it back together and fell in love with him, gave him the name of Tick-Tock for the cogs clicking and tocking like yours do.” Glacier told him how she knew about them. “Another life time? Clockwork griffon only a robot? I don't understand, how does that make any sense? Your a griffon.” “Indeed born and grown up in a family.” As she spoke and continue to respond, Glacier seem to shift from walking on fours to standing on two at times to type away on the wristpad. “That make no sense, you said the griffon Tick-Tock was your pet for sixty years.” “Yes.” She said in a slightly long mischievous tone. “How is that possible? Are you saying your something else before being a griffon?” “Spoilers sweety.” She winked. “I am confused...” “I know.” He saw no surprise from the dragon or changeling, they seem to know and look like none were going to say a word on what Glacier just said, Grant decided to put it to the side for the moment and stop at the open door. “General, I brought our visitors to you. I have also informed them of our food shortage and what happened to me on Shal-Quz arrival to the sub.” Grav spoke up. “Let them in Lt. Grant.” The metal griffon raise his wing to the door, they walk in and he stood just behind them at the hatch, they saw the griffon looking scared, sweat pouring down his feathers. “I-I'm sorry... She-” “Shh it okay, you done well.” Emerging from behind him standing up Shal-Quz smile at the four of them, they quickly shifted into a stance, the rabbit put her brush close to the general, he gulped seeing it magic shimmer close to him. “Uh uh uh.” She wave a finger back and forwards. “Unless you like to see the son to see his father be warped by reality.” “How did you escape!?” “Oh my little clockwork, I simply store a little of my reality magic in my own hand, one touch the door opened and with all the crew so weak and helpless. It was a simple easy task to wait for them to arrive, and right on time I might add.” She slyly looked over to them all. “Now drop the rifle and the sub-sonic on the ground.” Glacier pulled it out dropping the device on the floor, Silvite removed her rifle putting it down on the ground too. “I should of knew you would stoop this low!” “Oh really? You also thought I did a half job on the giffon over there?” She grinned. “Codeword; Delta Sigma 2 2 5 Beta.” “Arggggh! My head! Wh-wha-” He clench the head screaming in pain. Shal-Quz watched as the others tried to aid him. “Please the implant I put in him is activating, simply put it the Grant side of him being put in storage and my servant has taken over.” She snap her finger and thumb. He pushed them all off him, the talon shift into a cannon that fires a pulse of wave magical energy knocking them all into the wall hard, they fall forwards out cold from the pulse wave. “Targets neutralized mistress.” “Hmmm so formal, nice to see.” She turn to the general. “Grav now sit here and be a nice weak griffon, you all get to live for whatever time left you got, as for me I got some magical nuclear particles to absorb, it time I breach our corner of the multiverse barrier into another, one I been sensing for quite some time.” She casually walked around the table turning to the clockwork griffon. “ “What do you wish for me to do?” “Stay here keep a eye on these three and the old wind bag of a griffon, make sure he don't play hero.” “Confirmed.” He raise the cannon up staring at Grav. “Son it me your father, I-” “I need you to snap out of it, blah blah blah. It won't work, the program that here.” Shal-Quz put her paw hand against the head. “Is in complete control, your son has been disconnected, think of it as a storage drive and that part being your son is taken out, unless I tell my little clockwork to reconnect, your son is out of commission.” She said coldly to him. “Now I got to run, see ya.” She waved and walked out the hatch closing the door behind her. Grav slopped back in his seat. “Son...” He could not see any sign of his son in those metal solid yellow eyes now, the blank robotic speech and voice no where show the emotion from his son before what Shal-Quz did to him. He watched the clockwork griffon move the three against the metal wall, he turn to Grav. “Away from the desk, do not reach for the weapon, radio phone or the computer. And sit beside these three, or I shot you.” The clockwork griffon raise his foreleg pulse wave cannon. Grav raise his forelegs up. “I have very little strength, it seem you don't have my son's memories.” The clockwork griffon walked up to the side, the cannon shift back into a talon and grab Grav by the foreleg, he pulled off the chair and shoved down to the others. “Stay.” Grav sat up leaning against the wall. “As if I got a choice...” Sometime later the lights flicking cause Glacier to come to with a groan, she slowly sat up holding her head with a talon. “That was rough...” Glacier could hear the tick, tock and clicking sounds, she noticed Silvite with her muzzle bound by a chunk of metal, and another around the mid section holding the arms down and the wings closed. Octicovix helped her sit up. “Easy there, that pulse wave really knocked us about.” She said to Glacier. “Silvite really fuming.” She glanced over to the silver dragon snort out some smoke as she glared at the clockwork griffon, he just standing by the closed hatch motionlessly staring at all of them. “Clockwork griffon...” Glacier said directly to him as she sat against the metal wall from support of the changeling. “How did Shal-Quz figure out what a clockwork android was?” He turned the head to Glacier, the beak open as he respond to her question. “Your book.” Glacier clenched her right talon into a fist. “She read my diary!?” “Correct, she did so while you slept, it was simple for Shal-Quz to do. It is how she knew how to get the 'drop' on Celestia, Pom-Pom, Arbiter and Gilda, failure came because of her creator tipped the Pure One.” He answered. “Well that was direct.” Glacier was surprised to get a answer from him. “Still rather insulted that she used my blue book to figure out how to get the perfect drop.” Glacier growled. “Now tell me this, what is Shal-Quz up to?” Grav looked at her. “You really think that rabbit would-” “Shal-Quz is taking all the nuclear fusion and radiation to convert into reality magic, the result would burn out of paintbrush. But she will leave this contained part of the multiverse to another.” “I stand corrected...” Glacier showed a smile on her beak. “Shal-Quz put that information in him to tell us, to gloat to say I won and you lost.” Glacier reach into her pocket to pull out a black griffon feather. “Now I know how to stop her and save everyone's lives in the process.” She slowly got up onto her paws. The clockwork griffon raise the foreleg up, it talon turn into the magic pulse wave cannon aiming at her. “Sit!” He commanded. Glacier smirked. “You managed to take my Sub-Sonic, but you didn't take this.” She showed the wristpad device, she press a claw tip on it and a steam pipe above him burst. “Visual sensors comprised!” “Bet it is you tin can!” Glacier jumped on him, he react trying to throw her off and does so by rotating the other foreleg around to grab her by the talon, Glacier is pinned against the wall with the cannon right to her face. “Your life will now be expired.” Silvite growled trying to break free from her bindings, Octicovix tried to stop him to get hit by a wing knocking her over the desk, Grav unable to do anything to help with hardly any energy left in his system. “Can you fire that before the pure magic get into your joints?” The clockwork griffon shutter eyes close and open. “Wh-Wh-wh-w-w-w-” he felt the cogs tearing up the black feather Glacier managed to push into him. “Unable to process... Un-” He let go of her and the pure magic energy race around the cogs, the beak, eyes, wings and through out the body. “Ahhhhhhhh!” A huge burst of white blue energy erupt spending through and out of the sub in all directions. In the Nuclear Reactor Shal-Quz continue to absorb the particles and energy around her, and funnelling it into a rift she was creating from all that magical energy. “A little more and I got enough to punch through to that reality I sensed with the ability to travel to other realities.” Shal-Quz said to herself seeing the plan was working. The wave of pure magic washed through her. “Pure magic, right on time.” Shal-Quz raise her free paw hand up to a bunch of crystals on the floor, walls and ceiling before the walkway and stairs leading to the metal hatch leading into the reactor room. “Now the show begins.” The hatch wheel turns and the door opens, stepping through Glacier, Octicovix, Grav and many of his sailors all armed with rifles. “Take her out!” Grav point a shaking claw at Shal-Quz. They open fire for the bullets to smash into a invisible wall, they squished into it and falling to the ground, the clips emptied and no bullet got through. “Three hours was all I needed for a little boost in my magic, you won't be getting through my barrier before I escape to another multiverse.” Shal-Quz grinned. “Your silver dragon is all tied up, the clockwork now out of commission, you lost.” Grav growled and roared angerily at her, he glide down the stairs to slam his closed talon against the barrier over and over again. “You cold hearted rodent! When I get through this barrier I will make you pay!” He followed by a war cry squawk. Glacier used raise her sub-sonic aiming it at the crystals to see the barrier light up. “I can't shatter the crystals.” Shal-Quz holding the brush continue to aim it at the rift forming. “Oh I know, I took everything into account, that book of yours was a magnet for out of reality it was, my brush could detect it and while I wait for that brat to come, I discovered a lot from it. How you could restart a whole universe with a exploding TARDIS and a Pardorica, how a future version of that brat was able to reset my universe with a simple visit and stopping my victory.” “And your creator Grogar now want you gone, telling us through his creations that use to work for you, tell us what you did or will do if left unchecked?” Octicovix said looking down from the walkway at the black rabbit. Shal-Quz looked up at the changeling. “Like how you allowed your mum to lobotomise you from knowing the location of your home because of true love to a griffon?” Octicovix hissed loudly and fired a bolt of magic at the barrier. “You monster!” Shal-Quz laughed seeing how she was getting under their skins. “Hehehe, I see I struck a nerve on all of you, only in mere moments I will leave you all to your doom, with only emergency power now in-affect you have days.” She turn to Glacier. “How does it feel River Song? Your second life coming to a end? Isn't it so tragic?” Glacier anger faded and soon turn to a smile on her beak, she grabbed the railing. “It feels good.” The others also were bracing themselves, but Shal-Quz didn't notice what they were going when her attention was drawn completely on Glacier. “I have to say, it feels good that you beaten me.” Shal-Quz narrow her gaze on the griffon. “Your lying.” “Yes.” “Why?” “Spoilers.” Shal-Quz looked very puzzled by this reaction, she step back to the rift. “Well I wish to chit-chat, but I got to go.” Glacier lean forwards on the railing tapping the claw tip on the railing. “Answer this one question.” “Nah.” “Humour me.” “Okay I will, ask the question, make it your last words.” Glacier smirked. “What happen when you have a very pissed off Silvite and Grant?” Shal-Quz eyes widen. “Oh no.” Above to the left in a corridor Grant the clockwork griffon tap the spot with a gold claw, his beak shift into a smile, the movement of the beak fluid and the gold pupils pulse shine. “Now.” Silvite gave a dark smile. “With pleasure.” She unleashed her white flame in a stream of fire burning instantly through the floor travelling through pipes, circuits, inner hall panels right towards the Nuclear Reactor room. Shal-Quz quickly turn around making a run for the rift, a huge burst of white flames shot through the ceiling right in front of her, it burns through the relays causing a massive explosion as the fire continue through to the outer hull blasting through into the water. The blast throws her backwards right into the reactor, a mighty snap followed. Shal-Quz land on her front groaning in pain as the submarine rock with more explosions echoed through the submarine, water exploding out of the hole. “Are you insane!? Yo-” She raise the brush to find holding over half of it. “No no no no no!” Shal-Quz find the other piece as water floods in knocking her back, she grab the other piece swimming in the rapid raising water. Glacier looked her in the eyes. “Completely.” Shal-Quz didn't get to say anything as a rift open up behind her dragging her and some water through it, the rift close up instantly. Grav held on tight seeing the reactor room behind the barrier filled up with water already. “What happened to her!?” He cried out as they feel the sub start to roll and sink, the left wall soon becoming the floor as the direction of gravity shift with the roll. “Destroying the brush set her back to the default point! She back in our home reality!” Glacier said loudly to him. “Everyone hang on tight! We and the sub about to shift to a reality outside our multiverse!” “The one Shal-Quz wanted to go to!?” Octicovix shouted out as she held on tight as the roll continue, now the ceiling below them, sparks fly and lights go out, emergency lighting coming on as water burst through more parts of the inner hull. “Yes! The rift is running wild! It taking all the energy in this submarine now!” Glacier explained. The submarine continue to rapidly sink and spin out of control deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, a large rift forms around it and vanishes in a instant. Shal-Quz falls out of a rift landing in a pile of trash with the two pieces of her brush, getting out of the pile she stared at the remains, the brush pieces turn to dust in her paws. Clenching her paws into fists Shal-Quz dropped to her knees deflated and defeated. “My brush... My magic... I lost everything...” A flyer hits her in the face, she pull it off to throw it. But Shal-Quz saw what was on it. “Manehatten Comic-Con...” Shal-Quz stared at the words and the pictures on it. “Hmm...” She turn the flyer into a hawk. “At least I got some reality magic left.” She smirked stroking the head of the hawk. “I want you to fly to the skies, check out this Manehatten Bay Convention Centre. Find out what going on there and if that brat is here.” The hawk squawked and flew away. “If by anychance he is here, than I am going to use what left of my magic to make him very sorry.” Shal-Quz grinned darkly standing up on her paw feet and walked down a alleyway. Inside they felt gravity was the right way up to a massive thud with all the water rushing out of the hole, the griffons and changeling groan as they slowly get up seeing light through the hole, Glacier got up seeing Silvite and Grant come down through the hole above landing in the surface water in front of them, standing on the other side of the barrier. Silvite walked up to a crystal, she lean down and take a bite out of it, the barrier collapses right away. “Hmm, not bad.” She picked up chunks of it and took a another bite out of it. Grav stood straight as he could on all fours before his son, he raise the right foreleg to salute Grant. “Well done son.” Grant noticed the others doing it too with smiles on their beaks. “Thank you father.” He smiled. “I really like this upgrade I got, how did you do it?” Grant asked Glacier as he shift the gold metal tongue against the rough of the beak and the teeth, he still feeling the cogs clicking, tocking and ticking. But felt alive. She pat him on the shoulder a few times. “Spoilers.” Glacier walked by him to the open hole with sunlight and fresh air coming through it, taking a deep breath she turn her head slightly to them all. “Now let's see where Shal-Quz was trying to escape to shall we?” Octicovix noticed something casting a shadow, her eyes narrowed to see a griffon walking in, water pushing back, it was wearing a cloak. “Glacier, something coming!” They all turn to it, guns raised, sub-sonic active, the griffon stood before them and push back the hood, all the griffons and Octicovix collectively gasped, Silvite frowned wondering why they all looked so shocked to see this griffon standing before them. “About time you've showed up, tell me. How is my daughter?”