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// Chapter 7: Hell 
// Story: A Hero's Choice 
// by Gin_the_Fox 
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Chapter 7: Hell


Lum was hot on on Lan, but Lan knew that getting hit wasn't a option. Lan promptly took the fight outside, away from civilians.

"Get back here!" Lum was getting pissed. "Your pissing me off!" I just said that.

"Hmph." Lan jumped back, far away from the whip. Continuing this battle would have deadly consequences. "Lets finish this!"

Lan galloped towards Lum, dodging each whip attack. Lum braced back and gave a attack that couldn't be dodged from Lan point at time. He did the only thing he could do. He took the whip by the mouth and made a attempt to pull it away. The sharp whip cut his mouth as Lum smiled. "Bad idea."

Lum pressed a button, sending 10,000 watts of electricity into Lan's body. The cut on his tongue didn't help either, and with that cut sent more into his body than he could handle. Lan fell to the ground.

"I knew that would work! Might as well take you to the boss now." Lum pulled out a needle and before she could prick it into Lan, a sword flashed, cutting the needle and the contents on the ground. The crowd gasped.

"NO!!! What the shit!"

"No more of this shall go on. Your life ends now." A mysterious colt appeared, with a pissed off attitude.

"Ah Root! What are you doing here. You know I had this, but then you cut the needle." Lum smiled with her evil grin.

"Shut the fuck up, i'm here to help Lan, not to be your little pet." Root growled.

"What?! Why are you doing that?!"

Root threw his uniform, that for some reason he wore but not the others, and it swayed in the wind. His body was tore up with scars and bruises.

"Oh my god, who did that to you?" Lum said confused, but with her smile still on her face.

Lan, that wasn't unconscious thanks to Root, leaped up and tackle Lum, pushing the whip away.

"I don't know what the hell is happening, but I don't give a damn." Lan said "Root, if you are truly on my side, help me take down this bitch."

"My pleasure." Root said. He had no mercy left in his heart.

Root grabbed Lum, that was all ready on the ground, and slammed her into a wall. Blood came from both Root and Lum, as Root's wounds opened.

"Lan, what I want you to do is take that sword and kill this bitch." Root barked.

Lan looked at the sword. "Kill? Why don't we wait for the royal guards to get here?"

"She doesn't deserve it."

"..." Lan was silent. He didn't want to kill anyone. Maybe justice, but not to kill. He had never dreamed of killing someone. He swore to always protect and to not kill, even if they deserved it. "No."

"DO IT!!! DO IT NOW!!! BEFORE IT'S TOO LA..." Root feel down to the ground, in pain.

"Fucking piece of garbage, that's all you are." Lum spit on Root. "Thanks for not killing me." Lum was still smiling. "Now it's time to die!" Lum pushed another button on the whip, causing the whip to transform. Razors pushed out of the whip, pointed in a way if Lan got hit, they would tear off his skin. "Let's go, little boy!"

"Be. Fucking. ORIGINAL!!!" Lan grabbed the sword and charged Lum with everything he had. He blocked a attack, just centimeters away from his flesh, but sooner than never, made contact with his skin.

"Gotcha."

The crowd gasped as Lan froze. He had to think fast.

"Now I wont pull this here whip if you come with me! Sound like a plan." Lum said seductively.

Lan thought. He had one shot to do this. He took the sword wrapped it around the whip, and before Lum could pull, Lan pulled the sword away from him. The resulting action caused the whip the exit his body in the least painful way, while still giving Lan his sword.

"Lets go bitch." Lan charged Lum, he stuck out the sword and slid under her, pointing the sword up. As not fatal, Lum was majorly injured.

As Lum fell to the ground, Lan stood above her. He whispered into her ear, "Pony's for ever and friendship is magic." And slammed the back of the sword into Lum, causing her to fall unconscious.

Lan trotted to Root as the crowd of ponies looked around and cheered. "Hey man, you ok?"

Root smiled, "I should be asking you that, partners?" Lan thought to himself. What he knows now that a organization is after him for whatever reason. If he was going to take them down, he needed help.

"Partners." Lan smiled back at Root.

"That was amazing! You were all like WHOOSH and she was all like WWWWHHHHHAAAATTTTT, and you were all like, oh no you didn't, girl!" Pinkie yelled while jumped up and down.

"Hm, pretty impressive!" Rainbow Dash smiled.

"That was... um... good." Fluttershy looked sad, yet happy at the same time.

"You got 'yur self some skills there sugercube." Applejack nodded.

"Why on earth would she wear that! I'm going to have to call the fashion police on her!" Rarity looked disgusted. "Or I could just call the regular old guards. That would work better." As she trotted away, Rainbow Dash flew past her, obviously going to do it herself.

"Your a hero now Lan, you saved us all!" Twilight said. Lan didn't notice that Twilight had walked to his side. "It's amazing what a hero can do!"

Lan thought to himself, "Hero, that sounds all right." Lan smiled at that thought.

Soon the whole crowd was cheering for Lan.

Lan was the spotlight, even though he didn't want to be. It felt all right though, he can deal with this.

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"That was smart of him sister, how he pulled the razor whip from his body with out causing too much damage to himself. You are right! He his a hero!"

"Told you so, hehe, it's like... him... reborn."

"Sister..."

"I'm sorry Luna, I need some time to think. Would you please...?"

"Yes, just call me if you need anything."

"Thank you dear."

Celestia thought to herself as Luna left her room. "He is like 'Him'. Maybe... maybe... NO... remember what he did. Remember what he did to your world." Celestia started crying. "Why..."

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"I'm sorry sir, we lost both Root and Lum today. Root is a traitor, and Lum has fallen like Nightwing."

"Well tie my up with rope and butt fuck me dry."

"UM.... WHAT... UM SIR, I DON'T FEEL COM..."

"Not like that... did you get anything from the video feed?"

"I got everything sir, thanks to Lum, we now have some sort of intel on Lan."

"Good... where are my tacos?"

"There are no tacos on this planet sir..."

"WHAT THE F***ING PIECE OF S*** PLANET DOESN'T HAVE MOTHERF***ING TACOS??? FUCK THIS CHAIR!!!"

"Um sir, um..." CRASH. "Please don't throw furniture out the window, you could hit a old lady."

"Oh... i'm sorry..."

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