//------------------------------// // Chapter 25: Massive Epic Battle // Story: Blank // by GameMakingOtaku //------------------------------// Chapter 25 Massive Epic Battle Inn, the mayor, and Elegance all rush outside to see what was going on. They see many ponies running all around town and some trying to fight monsters that had invaded the town on all sides. Inn ran into the center of town, turned into a tall pony with a lion head and dragon wings. Before Inn could hit a cockatrice, she was tackled instead. The frightened stallion attacker watches Inn stand back up and then he runs away. Inn goes back to fighting off what little she could, but is again attacked. She gave the pony an irritated glare, and he too flees from her. As Inn lays there, she tries to think of what she can do. With her mind running rampid, she was quickly able to think of something. She turns into a very large pony with only two legs a lizards tail a dragon shaped head and four heads. A monster and a pony hit Inn at the same time, just as she turned into her new form. She was too big for them to topple her, but she still got them both to run with a simple glance from one of her heads. She’s back to the drawing board, still needing a good way to fight and not get hit by friendly fire. Inn then looks at a rampaging Ursa Minor. She had another idea. She now turns into a gassy body with stars the size of an Ursa Major, with dragon wings and tail. She was now being attacked by pegasus, who were using lightning bolts to try and take down this massive monster. Finally, Inn had enough. She turned into a massive dragon, one bigger than anypony has ever seen. Using it's size, she walls off the town from everywhere else. Her head and tail where almost like they were linked together, they were so close. This most definitely got the attention of every living thing in, and bordering, the town. The monsters outside of the town where fighting the dragon's long body to try and enter. The ones inside were either continuing what they were doing, or fighting the dragon. The towns pony were all thinking that this was the end. A third claw extended from the monstrous dragon's back, seeming to have no end as it picked up a Ursa Major and flung it out of town. The towns pony looked at this in confusion. There was another extension of the third claw. It grabbed a hydra flung it too. Another hydra, and another Ursa, and several manticores were flung... one by one. The town began cheering. There was hundreds of monsters in the town, and thousands trying to get in. Inn's sides were hurting from the many attacks that were being done on the outer portion of the barrier she made. A growing wall of monsters encircled the massive dragon made enclosure. She felt more irritated than pained from the attacks. She grew two new claws. That worked on sweeping at the monster horde, taking down the outer numbers by the hundreds. The attacks were relentless. Now even the monsters in town were attacking the overgrown dragon. A second arm was now working on picking off the monsters in town. There were ponies trying to help out, but only getting in the way. Some monsters started to hit Inn in her face, hoping she would lift her head and let them into town. Inn was too determined to let such weak attacks make her react in the way that they hoped. She was getting pummeled by attacks in every side but some of her tail, and around half of her upper body. She tries to think of a way to stop this, and is distracted by being hit an all sides, being transformed, and trying to clear the town of monsters. It was when the town was almost cleared of monsters that she had an idea. Inn fused the head and tail into a uniformed link. She could not see though so she made a head appear on the outside of the living wall, and help with clearing the monsters away. This led to another idea. MORE HEADS! Dragon head, lion head, chicken head, hydra heads, heads of all kinds were being formed with long necks so they could reach out far and grab the monsters. This looked so scary to some of the monsters, that they backed away or ran. Inn still had a growing mob of monsters to deal with, though. She added more claws to sweep at the monsters. She could not seem to get them to stop coming at her. More and more monsters. The attack had gone on for nearly three hours, and there was still thousands of monsters coming in for the attack. The only two things that Inn had accomplished was that she was hit less, and the town itself was free of monsters. She was starting to feel a little tired after all this. Inn heard some growls in the far of distance rapidly getting closer. She used three of her many hundreds of heads to look and see what it was. Dragons! Five dragons were on their way to town. Inn was now worried. They could fly and did not have to worry about Inn's attacks that much. Plus, they have fire! Inn doesn't have fire! Inn quickly got more aggressive with the monsters she had at the time. Her best hope is to clear out the big horde and then put full focus on the dragon invasion. Inn keeps the monsters at bay for a long time, showing no signs of ending. She is scaring many away, it has to be over a thousand that she has scared by now. With more monsters coming into the fight than she scares though, it is looking vary direr. Inn starts flinging the monsters far away instead if swing at them. This goes over better, but it is not enough. The dragons get into the skies of the town. Inn sees one beginning to blow flames. Inn grows a thick dragon skin membrane bubble around the town. The dragon lets loose it flames, and is shocked at the barrier that stopped it. The towns pony scream in terror as darkened town is lit red and orange with the fire hitting the membrane. The dragons began unleashing fire attack after fire attack. Inn was uncomfortable, in a little bit a pain, and a bit annoyed by the lesser monster’s attacks. But now, with these dragons, after all this time, she was feeling the pain. She had to not show it, but it was getting hard. Her heads would sometimes have pained looks on them after a blast of fire hit. The monsters where all seeing this, and began rushing at full force now. Inn turned one of her claws attention to try and grab a dragon, but the dragons would always dodge the claw. Inn tried and tried swiping vigorously to grab even one. But, when she finally got one, the other dragons would attack the claw until the dragon until it was freed. Inn felt rushed, and tired. There were things that she could do with magic, but it would only work if there was fewer monsters. Inn felt trapped... alone. She continued to try and stop the monsters invasion, but it was just so large. It seemed endless. She felt defeated. But then... cheers. “You can do it! Keep on fighting!” cheered a still hopeful town. “You are the best! You can win! Don't give up!” Where they doing this for a while? Inn could not tell. Her focus was on the one versus thousands battle. It sounded like they were doing it for a long time. If they hadn't given up, neither will Inn. Inn grew dozens of horns along her back. Inn felt as if she had more energy now. Each horn was working on making five lightning strikes to hit the dragons. Most would miss, but ever so often, there was a hit that slowed the dragons down. Inn hated how fast these dragons where. If she was only able to move from this spot, she would be able to take them down without any problems. She just continues to shoot lightning and slash. The dragons were still going strong after another hour of the lighting assault from Inn. There had to still be just under a thousand monsters trying to get past the armed wall. But Inn, she was getting tired from the massive drain of magic, the use of her transformation, fighting off many waves of thousands of monsters, and nearly five hours of being attack nonstop. Now, the only thing keeping her going, was the chants from those in town. Inn now had another idea, but it requires the dragons to be close to Inn to work. She had to work on a plan to get those dragons down to her rather than up in the air. She dwindle the numbers of the other monsters by around thirty or fifty. The main monsters she was dealing with was hydras, Ursas, manticores, and of course dragons. All small monsters were gone at this point. She thinks about the situation at hoof. The best fighters were the dragons with the aerial advantage. She should take them down as fast as possible, worry about the rest later. She took the claws away from the ground monsters focusing them all on the dragons... kind of. The arms went out and up, the talons had spread out and looked distorted in the positions that they were in. The dragons moved to the center, breathing fire at the claws, but stopped, and gaped. The talons grew in size, not a little, this was massive growth. When each claw's talon touched another, it fused into one long appendage. Then when all the claws were no more, and instead, a scaly meaty cage, a webbing made out of the same skin as the bubble below then closed in the gaps. What got the dragons scared though, was that each scaly link, had a series of horns. Once again, Inn got a rush of energy which she intends to use. All aimed for the center. Inn made adjustments so that the lasts would not hit herself, but instead go out small slivers on the opposite side or to the ground. Inn opened fire. The dragons were hit with an onslaught of lightning bolts. They weren’t fast enough for this. Several monsters on ground were getting hit by the bolts that weren't hitting the dragons. Inns many heads and the excess lightning was working on keeping the other monsters at bay. The dragons did what they could to move down and out an opening near the bottom of the enclosure. They were ambushed by the bubble protecting the town turning into five dragon wings, catching them all. Inn removes the other bubble, letting in the blinding moon light onto the town. The town's chants stopped, and were replaced by screams and moans of pain from the sudden light change. Inn tried to ignore this as she started to speak. “You who remain! Know this: I grow weary of this pathetic charade! If you do not wish death upon yourself, then I say this once for you... leave here! I will no longer play this game! If you wish to continue, then I will not hesitate to kill you where you stand! I will give you five minutes to comply! If you stay, then I shall slay!” boomed over seven hundred voices, from over seven hundred heads. The ground shook at the voices giving demands, but not nearly as bad as over eight hundred monsters fleeing in fear. Inn still held the dragons tightly. In four minutes, the entire group of monsters had fled from the border of the town. All that was left was the captured dragons. “If I see you pests again, you will lose your lives!” threatened the massive ring of heads. The dragons were let go. They looked around dazed, and then flew off. The battle was over. Inn fought off over ten thousand monsters. Over the course of several hours. By herself. She was very tired. She turned into a white cloud of smoke, and regrouped into the center of town. She was rushed by hundreds of happy ponies. Her body ached, these ponies touching her made her feel worse. She felt herself losing consciousness. She tried to keep her eyes open, but it was all getting to her. She finally blacked out just as they set her back down on the ground. ============= Inn wakes up in the town hospital. She could hear someponies talking. Why do these things keep happening? She gets up and looks around. “Sorry dear, I just don't understand. What are you saying?” Inn followed the voices. “We know that she passed out from shock. We just can't find any injuries.” It was getting closer. Down the hall? “So... shock she had won then?” Yes, down the hall. There was several room in the hall, and one had the door open. “No, not likely. She’d have waken up much sooner if it were just that.” Inn sees four ponies. A doctor, who was telling about her. “So why don't you wake her? She might be able to say,” said the mayor. Elegance was sitting next to the mayor. “Sorry, we don't know for sure what that might do. We all saw her take some nasty hits. She has nothing to show for it on her body at all. She is remarkable, but working on her is dangerous to her.” Next to the doctor was Bubbles, who was off in her own little world. “I had such a remarkable pony as my guest. She gave me a gem.” Inn just went outside. She needed fresh air. She went to the center of town to think back, and was shocked by what she had seen. There was a large statue of herself, normal Inn, but with various heads coming out of her. There was a plaque that read: In Remembrance of the Mighty Inn Cog Neato Master of a Googolplex Disguises Slayer of All Monsters Hero of our Town Inn was touched. They really all loved her. This was possibly Inn's biggest day. As Inn roams the town, many ponies wave and cheer. Some ponies were clapping as Inn walk past. Inn walked around town for nearly an hour, when the mayor came running up to Inn. “Oh deary me! You had us worried! Are you feeling any better?” “Oh, ah, yes. Just a mild m-monster f-fight. No need t-to worry about it,” joked Inn. Her big goofy smile was what made her serious tone look like a joke. “I'm fine. I don't know w-why, but s-sometimes I can t-take some p-pretty bad h-hits, and still g-go strong... ish.” “Do you know why you fainted dear?” asked the mayor, still concerned. “Pain. Lots of pain.” “That doctor was right then. He tried to say that you passed out over pain for the last two days now. Now that you are up, I can see he was right on the nose with that one.” Inn was shocked. She did not know she was out that long. Still, it's not as bad as the last time she came home. “Wow. It's n-not really that l-long, but...” “I-Inn, mayor? I found you!” cried out a shaky voice. Inn looks to see Elegance coming her way. “Oh, so y-you did.” “Inn... I-I... I want to say t-thanks. You t-traumatized me and my b-best friend. Made us s-see d-dead ponies for y-years. Made us t-think that we were going c-crazy. T-then, when you where b-banished, we f-feared more would come. Y-you broke the l-law, and r-returned here a-again... and you now have my trust. I can see you have ch-changed. Me and E-exquisite had d-due p-punishment coming our way. I feel you where t-too harsh on d-dealing it too us th-though, but I c-can say that I understand. Thank you f-for saving the town the other d-day.” Inn felt touched that a pony she had done so much to was thanking her for something. “G-good to hear! There is a s-small problem. I can't t-think of where to eat.” “Oh my, what do you like little Inn?” asked the mayor. “I have no appetite for anything right now, but I'm hungry, and don't want to go to the royal castle hungry,” ranted Inn. She used another personality to help with the rant. “The royal c-castle? Why?” asked Elegance. “To make a report to Princess Celestia!”