The Moment No Pony was Waiting For (A Death Battle Parody)

by TundraStanza


Are Yu Ready For This?

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A/N: This'll probably be the last chapter that I do based on past suggestions and/or ideas of my own. As always, feel free to leave suggestions in the comment section. Though, whether I use your suggestion or not is never certain.
Properties in this chapter belong to Hasbro, Screw Attack, and Atlus.
By the way, spoiler alert for those that have yet to play Persona 4 and/or Persona 4 Arena. (And I guess a spoiler to those that haven't watched the season 3 opener for MLP:FiM, but come on. You had to have seen that, right?)
Opinions expressed in this chapter do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the author or anyone else involved.
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The Moment No Pony was Waiting For
Season 2
(5)

Tales of new and old often use the standard formula of good versus evil.

And this match is no exception.

Yu Narukami, the high school heart breaker...

Will face King Sombra the unicorn of hatred and fear.

I'm W and he's B and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle!

---Death Battle---

Yu Narukami
-AKA Seta Souji
-Moved from the city to Inaba
-Courage: Heroic; Knowledge: Sage; Expression: Enthralling; Understanding: Saintly; Diligence: Rock Solid
-Ability to face his inner self and call upon the facade, the strength of the Persona
-Social links established: Fool, Magician, Priestess, Empress, Emperor, Hierophant, Lovers, Chariot, Justice, Hermit, Fortune, Strength, Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, Devil, Tower, Star, Moon, Sun, Judgement
-Can utilize The World Arcana
-Weapon: Two-handed sword

Forced to leave his home in the big city, Yu Narukami ended up staying with his uncle Ryotaro Dojima in Inaba. He started attending Yasogami High School and quickly found friends.

Though, it took some really weird circumstances to bring this bad*ss-to-be out of his shell.

Rumors of the Midnight Channel and a serial murder case eventually paved the way for Yu and his friends to actually enter another world inside the T.V. In this world, they discovered that facing their respective Shadows led to them obtaining the power of the Persona. The adventure of saving potential murder victims and solving the Inaba case had begun.

Because nothing says 'friendship' like saving the other person from a dark version of themselves that reveals their hidden feelings.

Narukami has earned much experience through the battles inside the T.V. Although, his versatility is arguably due to his social links developed in the real world with various other people. He can thank his best friends for being able to fuse some of his strongest Personas.

Each Persona belongs to one of the Major Arcana used in fortune-telling. His go-to Persona is Izanagi of the Fool Arcana. Just like his wielder, Izanagi wields a two-handed sword. Additionally, he has some of the best lightning attacks at his disposal.

And when he's finally ready to face the truth, he can use his ultimate Persona of the World Arcana: Izanagi-No-Okami. Its Myriad Truths attack is strong enough to shatter Izanami-no-Okami's fog illusion. Plus, its resistance to several elemental attacks doesn't hurt either.

Other Personas in Narukami's arsenal can shoot fire, ice, lightning, and strike attacks as well as absorb attacks of those natures.

While he does usually rely on his Personas inside the T.V. world, Narukami is far from helpless on his own. He is very skilled in swordplay and can easily throw a punch when properly motivated. Not to mention, his various school activities, jobs, extracurricular activities and his... *ahem* dates have raised his personal aspects to levels that others can only dream of.

And he wears a pair of glasses made by Teddie specifically designed to see through the murky fog of the other world. This has helped his accuracy plenty of times.

Yu Narukami and his friends have taken on several enemies including Shadows, berserk Shadows, two suspects of murder, and even entities that acted as physical embodiments of Japan's gods.

"~Yu... are the champion...~" (Sung to the tune of "We Are the Champions")

"I am far from empty!"

---Death Battle---

King Sombra
-Species: Unicorn
-Took over the Crystal Empire and enslaved it
-Was turned to shadow and banished to the Arctic North
-Powers derive from fear and hatred
-Can grow dark crystals out of pretty much anything
-Can create illusions so that victim experiences their worst fear
-Defeated by the high spirits of the crystal ponies being channeled into the Crystal Heart

A Mexican villain, huh? I guess we were due for one of those.

He's not from Mexico, B. Over a thousand years ago, King Sombra ruled over the Crystal Empire through fear and slavery.

But his name sounds like sombrero! You cannot tell me that there's no connection.

Harnessing ancient magic, the princesses Celestia and Luna turned him into a shadow and exiled him to the Arctic North.

Aw, isn't that nice of them? That's practically sending free tacos to Santa Claus.

But his thousand-year disappearance wasn't without consequence as the Crystal Empire disappeared as well.

No illegal immigrants means no fast food.

W seems a bit irritated but does his best to ignore B's running joke.

Fast forward to the present day and the Crystal Empire had returned. Sombra almost succeeded in taking over again before the combined efforts of Princess Cadance, Spike, and the crystal ponies helped restore love and joy to the empire.

Fiesta time!

*Ahem* Sombra is a unicorn whose magic is deeply rooted in fear and hatred. This is apparent in the darkness and shadowy nature that he takes.

Yep. Mexico is full of hell all right.

He can literally grow dark crystal pillars, spikes, and stalagmites from virtually nothing and he can conjure doors that lead his victims to experience their worst fear.

It shows them being raped and robbed?

No! It depends on who the victim is. Anyway, his dark crystals can also act as a barrier that prevents other unicorns from teleporting out of them.

No escapo!

And unlike the other powerful beings that have threatened Equestria in the past, he doesn't need to be up in the face of the empire's subjects. In fact, the mere thought of him provokes fear and submission in the crystal ponies.

Well, those Mexicans are scary.

Okay, B, that's not funny.

Funny? Who's trying to be funny?

Ugh.

It sounds like W performs a face palm.

"My crystal slaves..."

---Death Battle---

All right, the combatants are set. Let's settle this debate once and for all.

It's time for a Death Battle!

---Death Battle---

Black rectangles float out from a white screen before the entire visual is engulfed in white. It appears that the curtain pulls back from a stage area as a high school student walks on stage. He moves one finger to readjust his glasses. A cloud of black smoke appears on the opposite side of the stage and a fanged smile of a black unicorn head floats in the middle of it.

"A Shadow?" wonders Yu Narukami aloud, "Alright, let's go!"

Yu pulls out his sword and tosses the sheath off-stage.

"FIGHT!"

Charging forward to test the waters, Yu runs forward and swings his sword through the faced smoke cloud three times. When he pulls back, he's surprised to see that his blade is covered in black rocks. While he's distracted, a dark crystal pillar grows up from just underneath. This sends Yu's sword flying off screen.

"All right then," he says while holding his open palm up, "Let's try this!"

A card starts floating midair. On one side is a picture of a mask. On the other side, there is a "0" at the bottom while the picture appears to be some humanoid silhouette carrying a bindle. As the card spins, it floats just above Yu's hand.

"Persona!"

Yu practically crushes the card. It vanishes as what appears to be blue fire starts flowing through Yu's fingers. From just above him, another figure appears. It resembles a tall, masked man wearing a black jacket and carrying a giant sword. A spark of light seems to flash across Yu's eyes as he calls his other self.

"Izanagi!"

The summoned Persona spreads out his arms and unleashes lightning all over the battle field. The shadowy cloud that is Sombra appears to dissipate around the lightning strike, but not completely. Meanwhile, another lightning bolt hits the dark pillar of earlier practically shattering it. The stranded sword falls to the stage floor.

The smoke reforms slightly to show Sombra's evil chuckling. Then, it starts floating away via a doorway on the right side of the stage.

"Hey! Get back here!" shouts Yu. Izanagi disappears as Yu runs across the stage and picks up his sword. He continues running along and heads out the door.

He stops for a moment and notices the extremely tall staircase that leads down to who-knows-where. He lets out a small sigh before starting to run down the stairs. This could take him a while.

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Please contemplate the meaning of life while we play this song that represents the amount of time it takes to run down these stairs without tripping and falling.
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And we're back. A quick look via zoomed-out camera angle shows Yu pausing for breath about halfway down. He hears an animal's howl and looks up to see another one of his Persona cards. This one also has the mask designed back. Unlike Izanagi's card, the front has the Roman numeral "IX" and a picture of a hanging lantern with a half-open eye under it. Yu reaches up and clenches his fist.

"Arahabaki!"

The card shatters as blue flames erupt from it. The Persona that emerges from this card sort of resembles a giant stone idol that's levitating. It starts to slowly descend straight down the center of the staircase. Yu hops onto its shoulder before it gets too far.

Within a few seconds, Arahabaki is floating above the floor at the bottom. There's one door at this level. Yu hops down from his Persona to investigate. However, as soon his fingers touch the door's handle, the entire frame seems to shift the door to another section of the wall. Naturally, Yu lets out a mutter of confusion. He walks over to where the door is now and tries to open it again. For a second time, the entire door frame slides along the wall out of immediate reach.

Deciding he's had enough nonsense, Yu points a fist toward the door's current position. Arahabaki's yellow eyes release some sort of attack that somehow hits the crystal door piece just on top. Yu forcibly opens the door and heads through as Arahabaki vanishes.

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"Narukami!"

The familiar shout surprises him. He looks around the fog-covered floor. Shadowy arms are grabbing what appear to be his friends and dragging them into the floor.

"No, this can't be happening again!"

Chie Satonaka falls through, followed by Yukiko Amagi, Rise Kujikawa, Kanji Tatsumi, and Naoto Shirogane.

"Sensei!" cries Teddie as he's dragged to his doom.

"You didn't think you had actually won, did you?"

Yu is startled before turning around to see the tall, white, and mummified goddess known as Izanami.

"What are you doing?" Yu shouts, "We already beat you!"

"Mere illusions of satisfaction that you created for yourself," Izanami replies, "Just like I thought you would."

Several shadowy hands fly out of the ground and grab Yu. He can only stare in horror.

"Look out!"

With impeccable timing, Yosuka Hanamura shoves Yu Narukami away from the dark hands. Unfortunately, these same hands grab Yosuke instead. He looks to Yu and wears a sad smile.

"Sorry I couldn't do more, partner," he apologizes as he gets dragged under.

"Yosuke!" shouts Yu, "Yosuke!"

He kneels down and pounds the floor in frustration.

"No!"

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"No..." whispers Yu as a tear drips down from his currently green eyes with red irises.

He's been staring at that blank wall for a while now. I'm beginning to worry about him.

Another card floats down near Yu. This one is marked by the Roman numeral "V" and has a picture an upward pointed spear piercing three clubbed sticks. Slowly and completely unaware, Yu's arm reaches up and shatters this card into blue fires. A golden, Eastern Asian dragon appears that holds red and blue orbs in its claws. Said orbs glow brightly before the crystal above the door shatters.

Yu blinks and his eyes recover their original colors. He looks around, just now realizing where he still is. He then looks around to see his Persona, Kohryu. He turns back to the doorway. Its illusion has been shattered, leaving a clear path to the actual room. More cautiously this time, Yu walks down the hall as Kohryu fades.

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Upon entering this new white room, Yu easily catches sight of the cloud of darkness floating at the other end.

"You're going to pay for that," declares Yu flatly as he starts charging forward.

Sombra chuckles as he calls forth a dome of black crystal, trapping Yu inside.

"Rakshasa!"

Several slash lines appear before the dome shatters into several pieces. Yu and his Strength Persona are revealed. Rakshasa looks like a dual-wielding swordsman completely wrapped in red rags.

Though, the audience doesn't get any more time to look at it, since Sombra is now summoning a giant wall of dark crystal formation. As if this can somehow stop his opponent.

Rakshasa vanishes as Yu halts his forward walk. He reaches up and grabs his glasses and then proceeds to toss them off to the side. He then reaches up his open palm. The card that falls into his grasp is marked with the Roman numeral "XXI". Its image has red, yellow, green, and blue corners. The center image kind of resembles the Hippocrates symbol.

The Persona that appears behind Yu takes the form of a white-coated swordsman. It carries a blade with a golden ring around its hilt. The Persona lifts its weapon to point upward and then proceeds to spin the ring once around.

"Thousands may die, but even more are reborn," proclaims Yu, "Izanagi-no-Okami!"

The tall swordsman then swings his blade a couple times. In flashes of white light, the dark crystal wall crumbles revealing Sombra in his true unicorn form. No longer does he laugh. Now he growls in anger and hatred. He rides a giant rock crystal wave toward Yu Narukami.

But the last ditch effort is fruitless as Izanagi-no-Okami releases a final strike of lightning. This one is more widespread than Izanagi's at the start of the battle. Sombra lets out a roar as his body crumbles away.

"K.O.!"

---Death Battle---

That seemed a little overkill. I liked it.

Narukami has faced hundreds upon hundreds of shadow-based creatures in the past. Plus, he's faced several that had godlike strength and endurance. There's no reason he couldn't here.

It almost looked like Sombra had him when Yu got trapped in the illusion of his worst fear, but his strong bond with Ryotaro Dojima gave him the strength and the dragon to destroy that illusion.

In the end, Sombra couldn't stand against Narukami's true strength.

In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape his sight. Let those who worship evil's might beware his power: Izangi-no-Okami's light!

The winner is Yu Narukami.

---Death Battle---

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A/N: Are you anticipating the real Death Battle scheduled for December 21, 2012? I know I am.
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