//------------------------------// // Episode 7: The Blizzard of Claws // Story: Equestria Ninja Girls: Crash of the Titans // by RainbowRaptorDash1 //------------------------------// The heroes met up with Stalag, who had a feeling they would need his help, and continued further, discovering the Koo-alas harvesting the lava in the volcano. "What the heck are they doing?" Mikey asked. "Collecting lava for some reason." Aku Aku supposed. “Starting to wish Donnie was here. He'd figure out what they're doing.” Mikey admitted. “Hey guys, take a look at the mutants up ahead. They look like Tokka.” Pinkie pointed out. “Who?” Crash and Aku Aku asked in unison. “A giant Alien Fire Turtle we met. Long story.” Mikey explained as he and the two kunoichis ran ahead of Crash. “And you guys were skeptical about the TNT?” Crash asked. “Honestly, yeah.” Sonata answered. "OOOH! Let's use Stalag and Grihoga’s masks." Pinkie said in excitement. “Might as well. I don't want my Bokken Sword to catch on fire.” Crash admitted as he putted on the Spike mask, turning into a human-sized and human-shaped Spike with orange fur, brown spikes and blue tribal tattoos, becoming Starash and Pinkie put on the Goar mask, becoming Pinkoga. “It's the intruders. Get em!” A Koo-ala ordered as they charged. "RRRRROOOOOOAAAAARRRRRR!!!" Pinkoga roared. "Yipe!!!" The Koo-alas yipped as Pinkoga’s roar made all of the minions scared stiff while Sonata and Mikey handled the them as Starash matched strength with the magma turtle. "I don’t wanna fight you, mate. But you’re leaving me no choice." Starash said as he made spikes erupt from the ground to to stun it. "Sonata jack the Magmadon. I'll handle the Koo-alas." Mikey said. "Got it! Wait, Magmadon?" Sonata asked. "I know, cool species name, right?" Mikey responded, feeling proud, making Sonata roll her eyes as she jacked the Magmadon. But then a bright light shined over it, and when it faded, its skin was brilliant amber, black underbelly, its shell, arms outside the elbow and legs outside the knees were vivid crimson with the cracks being brilliant yellow, and had ruby-red tribal tattoos on its body. "Wha...? What happened?" The Magmadon asked before letting out a gasp. "Less chatting, more helping. These guys are relentless and a lot tougher than the Ratnicians." Starash informed. "Let me help!" The Magmadon said as she stomped the ground, causing a fault line with magma leaking to rush forward, hitting and knocking the Koo-alas fighting Starash. Then everyone hurried through a tunnel and blocked the entrance. "That should buy us some time." Starash panted before taking off the mask, turning back to Crash. "Guys, you ain't going to believe what they're using to mine the lava." Mikey said in disbelief as looked to where Mikey was pointing, and they saw giant spider-shaped machines drilling into the ground. "Wow." Everyone uttered in awe. "We don't have enough dynamite to take that thing out." Mikey pointed out as Crash looked at the machine and saw the legs were on the rock formations, not in the lava. "Guys, I think I got an idea." Crash said, getting the others' attention. "Lay it on us, boss." Mikey responded. "Girls, you two set the TNT at two of the harvester's support and blow it up. It'll fall into the lava and burn to ash. Mikey, take the Titans and defend the girls from more Magmadon." Crash instructed. "What about you?" Sonata asked as everyone heard a drill digging through the rock blockage behind them. "Me and Crabusk will hold them off as long as we can." Crash answered. "This is going to be fun." Crabusk said as everyone else went on ahead, leaving Crash, Aku Aku and Crabusk alone to hold off the incoming Koo-alas. "You ready, mate?" Crash asked his friend. "You bet! 'Cause I have a secret weapon!" Crabusk mentioned as he blew fire from his trunk at the Koo-alas. "Okay, now Cortex is just going overkill." Crash deadpanned. "Don't worry, I can only do that flamethrowing trick once in a while, so I won't be able to do that again from a few minutes to an hour, depending how long I use my trunk for that." Crabusk reassured Crash as he kepted whacking Koo-alas. "Well, that's fortunate. But give me a hand here." Crash requested as Crabusk was being able to swat them away till they start roping him up. "Little help here?" Crabusk asked as shurikins cut the ropes as Mikey came with a lot of Magmadons. "Need some help, Crash?" Mikey asked with a smile. "What? Mikey? How did you…?" Aku Aku said, confused by what happpened. "You can thank me for that." A voice answered as Crash, Aku Aku and Crabusk looked over to that amber Magmadon titan they freed. "ATTACK!" The Magmadon ordered as she charged passed Crash to help, while the bandicoot hero shrugged his shoulders and charged alongside. Meanwhile, Pinkie and Sonata had finished setting up the dynamite. "Alright Pinkie, give me the lighter and let's light this rocket!" Sonata said in excitement, while Pinkie frowned in confusion. "I thought you had the lighter." Pinkie said. "What? But I thought you had the lighter." Sonata countered. "My dad took away my lighter after I accidentally blew up his car with fireworks." Pinkie explained. "Well, then how are we going to light the dynamite?!" Sonata yelled out in frustration as a magma bubble popped and a small ember lit the fuse. "That'll work." The kunoichis said in unison. "Uh… Girls?" Foxer said, getting their attention. "Huh?" They asked in unison. "We’ll need to get outta here, pronto!" Armalion said. "Yeah, like NOW!!!" Grihoga yelled, making the two remember the situation as everyone bolted for safety. When the dynamite off, the machine fell into the lava as everyone cheered. "Great job, everyone." The Magmadon said. "Hey! Can we call you Solava?" Pinkie asked. "Hmm… Somehow, that suits me perfectly. Thank you." Solava answered, liking her new name, when suddenly, Tiny and a visibly upset Dingodile appeared, as everyone except Dingodile cower at Tiny's angry expression. "Crash, I really am crossed with you! We're just trying to do our job, and you and your fwiends go and cause all this chaos! Sorry, but we're gonna have to eat your faces." Tiny said. "No! Not my face!" Crash panicked, while the sound of Tiny's voice made the ninja trio snicker. "Yeah, I'm really sorry about that. I wish some kind of reconsideration is possible here." Tiny apologized, but was interrupted as hearing that voice again made the three goofballs lose it, howling in laughter. "His voice!" Pinkie laughed. "Is so high!" Mikey added in laughter. "How does that work?!" Sonata asked, laughing at the shrill voice, while with an angry growl, Tiny ignored the laughter. "And frankly, I'm still mad about the time you and your siblings raced against Cortex's team and Possum at Von Clutch's derby race amusement park. You didn't even invite us! That really hurt!" Tiny said as he flicked his pointer finger on Crash's nose. "Gah!" Crash yelped, making the ninja trio stop laughing as Tiny turned to walk away, but stopped, seeing Dingodile not moving. "Dingo?" Tiny asked, before Dingodile roared into the sky. "I can't take it anymore!" Dingodile shouted. "Take what?" Tiny replied in confusion. "The abuse, the beatings, the evil! For what?!" Dingodile yelled in anger as he turned his Water pistol and Flamethrower pistol at Tiny. "Dingodile!" Sonata gasped "Forget about Cortex! I'm followin' me own orders now!" Dingodile declared. "WHAT?! But you know how mad Dr. Cortex and Uka Uka get about stuff like this!" Tiny panicked as he tried to warn the hybrid mutant. "I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT!!!" Dingodile shouted, having enough of his torture as he fired at Tiny. "These blokes treated me better than Cortex, Nina, or anyone else... Sorry Crash, that includes you a bit." "It's alright, was nothing personal." Crash said, accepting Dingodile's apology as Tiny grabbed an axe and charged at the group. "It won't be wike the wast time I used a weapon, Crash!" Tiny warned the bandicoot hero as everyone attacked Tiny only to be swatted away like they were nothing. "Guess he wasn't kidding!" Crash admitted. "Hey! I see another one of those red gizmos! But it's across the hot red liquid!" Pinkie said. "I can help you get across the lava. Pinkie, get on my shell!" Solava told the pink party girl. "Okay!" Pinkie said as she climbed aboard, but not without Tiny noticing. "You're mine!" Tiny shouted as he was about to charge, but was blocked by Crabusk. "I don’t think so, sucker!" Crabusk said as he punched Tiny away into a wall. "Hey, come on! Quit it!" Tiny whined. "Pinkie, whatever your planning, hurry. We'll cover you." Sonata said. Meanwhile, Pinkie rode in Solava’s shell as she walked through the lava without so much as a single burn, as she pressed it making a Shellephant appear. "Guys, Bash Slide!" Pinkie called out. "Hear that, mates? It’s go time!" Crash said. "Get ready, Mikey!" Sonata told Mikey. "Ya know it!" Mikey responded as Sonata climbed onto his shell and Crash launched them. "Booyakasha!" Sonata shouted as the Shellephant was stunned and she jacked it, but Mikey launched himself towards Tiny. "Gotcha!!!" Mikey taunted. "Stop outsmartin’ me! It’s bad for me!" Tiny complained when Foxer noticed targets on a double-door gate. "I’ll help open the gate!" Foxer said as she threw four feather darts at once, destroying the targets on the gate, opening it, forcing Tiny to run for it only for Crash and the others to chase after him into cornering him. "Stop! No more please! You’re all just too stupendous and fantabulous! Honestly, you guys are just this awesome." Tiny admitted as he lifted Crash’s left arm, lifting him. "Uh-huh." Crash agreed. "I'll tell all of you where to go. Nina took Coco to the factory on the beach." Tiny told them. "Who?" The ninja trio wondered in confusion. "Nina? What are you talking about?" Crash asked. "Nina? You do mean Dr. Cortex, don’t you?" Aku Aku said to Tiny, wanting answers. "No, Nina. Uka Uka and her got rid of Cortex. They were tired of Cortex failing all the time." Tiny explained. "This isn’t good, guys. Nina’s a lot smarter than Cortex ever could be." Aku Aku noted. "Who's Nina?" Pinkie asked. "Cortex's niece. She's more clever and evil than her uncle." Aku Aku answered. "We better get back to the carriage and head out." Crash suggested. "I'm coming with you guys." Dingodile said. "Wait-What?!" Aku Aku stuttered. "Of course you can come!" Pinkie said with a smile. "Besides, we already have a former baddie on our side." Mikey added as he pointed to Sonata, who bashfully waved and nodded in agreement. "Yeah… Welcome to the club." Sonata said with a nervous laugh. "Thanks. And to show I'm serious, I'll direct us to a nearby dynamite shed." Dingodile replied. "WHOO-HOO!" The girls cheered. "One last thing, you guys have four days to stop the Doominator." Tiny told them. "Four days? A lot can happen during that time." Sonata responded. "After we go to the shed, I'll take us back to the carriage, then take us and the Roadroller to N. Sanity Beach." Aku Aku said. And an hour later, everyone was loading up the TNT onto the newly painted Roadroller. "Hey guys, I found a flag to put on the carriage for decoration." Crash said as he showed a Jolly Roger pirates flag. "Nah! I got a real flag with me!" Pinkie responded as she pulled out a flag from her hair, the symbol being the combination of a heart-shaped hoof, a turtle shell, and a paw print that looked like a "C." "Alright. That works better." Crash admitted. "Wha?! Where-How?!" Dingodile stuttered. "Don't question it!" All of the mutant titans told Dingodile, who just shrugged his shoulders and strapped his Blow Blaster to the carriage. "That should be everything." Pinkie said. "That's good everyone. I'll take us all there now. Get ready, guys." Aku Aku said as he teleported himself, all of his friends, including Dingodile and the Roadroller to N. Sanity Beach. To be continued...