//------------------------------// // Panic in Hoovesdale // Story: Rage of Broly // by chaos2012 //------------------------------// Broly soared through the air high above the forest below him. He had no idea where he was going, but he didn't care; he was alive. He had stared death in the face and overcame it. "Heh heh, those ponies were quite useful. I can't wait to enjoy the pleasures of meeting more of those things." Though there were a few things he was curious about. First was how long had he been floating through the vacuum of space. He remembered that he was never able to input a destination into the computer system, which meant that the ship had no directional guidance to follow. If the Sayain ship does not have an input in the system, it will just coast through space, meaning that the time to reach a destination will be much slower than if he had put in a location to reach. Another thing was if these creatures even had the capability of creating ships to enter the depths of space. If they did not have a ship, he knew that he would be stuck on this miserable planet. Immediately, his blood began to boil as he thought back to the one who caused him the reason for nearly dying. "Kakarot, I will kill you!" Rushing through the sky, he passed over forests and mountains in rapid pace. The cool air helped to somewhat calm his heated nerves as he continued forward. Looking around, he could not see anything that seemed of any use for him. Then, in the distance, he saw what looked like a city. Wanting to let out his frustration, he turned and headed straight for the unsuspecting town. --- "Come on! I want to head back to Ponyville soon!" "Just a second, I'm just waiting for my book alright?" Bon Bon rolled her eyes as she sat outside of the book store for her friend Lyra to come out. Walking over to a bench, the cream colored pony laid down to relax while she waited. Turning her head, she saw her mint green unicorn friend at the counter putting up a few bits to buy the new story which was released. 'Why does she take this stuff so seriously? Humans aren't real.' she groaned to herself. When Lyra said she wanted to get out of town for a few days to relax, Bon Bon had agreed to come with her for the trip. While she really did enjoy the small vacation, Bon Bon was ready to head home to get back to work. When heading to the train station, however, Lyra noticed a sign that was advertising a new story by her favorite author. Filled with excitement, Lyra had to find the local bookstore to find the book she wanted. Trotting outside, the unicorn had an enormous grin spread across her face as she came down the steps and approached her sulking friend, "Can you believe it? A new story on humans!" Bon Bon rolled her eyes as she hopped off the bench to the ground. "Oh yeah, it is Sooooo amazing it is out." she said with complete sarcasm. Lyra glared at her friends attitude, "Why can't you ever try and read these books? These are all based off actual events that happened in the past." she used her magic to levitate the book out of the plastic bag it came in and brought it up to the frowning pony, "Just read the description. It is so interesting." Bon bon put her hoof out to grab the book to look at the back. Scanning the summary, she began to read aloud, "Dropping from the sky, four burning rocks crashed into the land surrounding the town of Canterlot. Coming out of the fire covered field, four beings came toward the peaceful castle, threatening to destroy the home of our righteous leader." she gave a blank stare up to her smiling friend, "Really? A story on humans wanting to attack Equestria?" "I know, isn't it crazy!? It is so much different than the other ones about how the group of humans come peacefully to our home after they came here." Lyra excitingly said. Bon Bon looked at the cover to see the picture drawn on front; it showed four round, burning objects falling down in a row towards the ground which was already on fire. Out of the fire, it had four bipedal figures coming through the flames. 'Sorry, but I'm judging this book by its cover' she thought to herself. "Lyra, you really shouldn't take these stories seriously. They are all made up." "They are not made up! These are all based off things that happened before!" Lyra exclaimed. "Come on. Like a human, IF they were real, would ever attack Equestria." A loud boom echoed through sky above the town that instant. Every pony walking outside stopped what they were doing to look up above them to try to see what was the cause of the disruption. Then, a figure suddenly dropped through the clouds and crashed down into the middle of the street, cracking the ground beneath its feet. All the ponies gasped at the sight of the strange creature that appeared. Standing up on its back two legs, it stood at least two feet taller than all the citizens in the town. Its purple hair slowly floated up and down in the current of seemingly yellow magic that radiated out from its body. It slowly turned its head back and forth, looking at the frightened faces all around him. All frightened except for one. Lyra could not believe what she was seeing; a real human in front of her! She was surprised about the fact it had some kind of magic ability, but she didn't worry about that. All that she cared about was the fact that it was a human. She had seen so many descriptions about them from all the stories she had read; wearing clothes, walking on their back two legs, arms with things called hands instead of claws like a dragon. 'I cannot believe I get to actually meet a human!' she screamed inside of her head. Shaking off her immediate shock, she slowly approached the figure Standing before her. Bon Bon eyes went wide when she saw her friend walking forward, "Lyra! What are you doing!?" Lyra ignored her friend as she came closer to the muscular being. She stopped only a few feet in front of it as it looked down at her. They stared at each other for what seemed like several minutes before Lyra chose to breaks the awkward moment for her, "H-Hi there. My names Lyra. Wh-What's yours?" Before she could react, one of the beings powerful hands shot out and grabbed her by the throat. She then felt her body be hoisted off the ground as the powerful arm lifted up. She tried to scream, but the pressure around her neck was restricting any movement for her. Bon Bon screamed out when she saw her friend in danger, "Lyra! You put her down!" Lyra continued to thrash in the grasp of the “human”, who was now grinning at her. It slowly brought her closer so it could stare directly into her terrified eyes. "I am Broly." Broly then flung his arm to the right, throwing the unicorn into the side of a nearby building. Lyra yelped out in pain from the impact with the wall, her body dropping to the flower bed beneath her. Bon Bon rushed over to her side and helped hoist her out of the dirt, "Lyra, are you alright?" Lyra didn't respond. Her eyes were locked on Broly as he slowly levitated into the air. Her heart was pounding inside of her chest, making her fur stand on edge. From all the stories she had read on humans, she felt like he was something more like a monster. Just the look in his eyes alone sent chills down her trembling body. Broly looked around to all of the frightful faces of the ponies throughout the street. He smirked at how some of them tried to hide behind anything that was there, thinking that it Would somehow protect them from him. "Look at all of you pathetic creatures..." he chuckled, "None of you even look like you would ever put up a challenge to me." Many ponies shuttered at the cold tone in his voice. They tried to hunker down even lower to try to avoid his gaze as he continued speaking, "Now, perhaps I won't kill all of you if you tell me what I want." "What do you want?" A brown unicorn shakingly asked. "Where does your kind keep all of your space pods?" The stallions face shifted from fear to confusion at the question, "W-what are you talking about?" Broly's furrowed his brow at the pony, "I want to know where do you keep your space ships for travel!" "But... What is a space ship?" Broly's jaw hung open for a moment after hearing that. "You... Don't even have space transport?" he could not believe that the one planet in which he crashes on doesn't have a form of space travel. He was stuck here. Broly felt his nerves about to snap at that instant. 'No. I am not going to be stuck on this wretched planet!' his ki began to grow out away from him, causing nearby windows to start cracking from the force growing out from him. Ponies watched in terror as his muscles seemed to actually grow more defined than they previously were, giving him an even larger stature than he had before. Then, his hair changed from its purple tone to a golden color. Broly glared back down at the stallion as he lifted an open palm towards it, "Then die along with this miserable planet." he said as he created a bright Ki blast in his hand and let it loose. The unicorn screamed out in terror as the ball came at him, enveloping him in an enormous explosion. Bon Bon and lyra felt their blood run cold as they watched Broly shoot the blast of energy from his hand and kill the helpless unicorn. Picking Lyra off the ground, Bon Bon began to pull her away down the road, "Come on, let's get out of here!" Both of them pumped their legs as fast as they could move to escape the city. Broly watched as the smoke disappeared from the small crater he made from his attack. To his amusement, he saw nothing left of the pony that was there before. Seeing this caused him to chuckle, "Heh heh, if I am going to be stuck here, I might as well enjoy killing every single one of these pathetic ponies."opening both palms, he began shooting Ki blasts at everything around him. The spinning green blasts rushed through the air, obliterating large portions of any structure that got in their way. The screams of ponies echoed in the air as they tried to evade the mix of blasts and falling debris from above. Cries of agony and pain came from any that had been caught inside the mix of destruction. Yet despite all of the horror that was happening, the sinister laugh of Broly was heard continuously as he destroyed more and more. "Muhahaha! I haven't been able to do this since my father put that device on my head to control me. But no more... I am in control now!" he looked around and saw the one pony he threw earlier running far down the road with her friend. "Where do you two think you are going?" he created another Ki blast and pulled his arm back, "I didn't say you could live!" he yelled as he threw it after them. Bon bon heard the whistling noise behind them as she and Lyra sprinted as fast as they could away from the city. Flipping her head around, she panicked as the green ball came closer and closer. 'No, I can't die like this.' she cried inside of her head. A single tear of fear dripped down her cheek as the glow from the orb seem to envelop them. Suddenly, a bright magenta blast out of nowhere collided with the side of the ball, sending it off course and into the side of a building. Lyra tried to look from where the beam came from, but didn't dare stop running. 'Thank you.' she whispered as she continued to run. "What?" Broly stated. He was upset that someone had ruined his fun that he was having. Looking forward, he watched as group of at least a dozen ponies came around the other side of the building towards him. All of them were wearing bright golden armor that covered most of their bodies. Seeing this made him snicker, "So, some warriors from this planet have come to try and stop me. Which one of you decided to block my blast." "That would be me." From the center of the soldiers, another pony came forward, his white coat mostly hidden by his purple armor. Walking forward, he stopped in front of his battalion. "By order of captain of the royal guard, you are under arrest for the assault on Hoovesdale and for the murder of innocent ponies." Broly burst out laughing at the order, "Hahaha! I don't think so. I don't take orders from pests." --- Celestia snapped her eyes open, releasing her from the sight in Hoovesdale. Her heart raced as she quickly got up and ran towards the main doors. Bursting them open, she nearly knocked over the guard standing there. The startled soldier recomposed himself as quickly as possible for the princess, "Ehh, your highness. Is something the-" "Go to Ponyville immediately and find Twilight. Bring her and the other elements of harmony to Canterlot at once!" Celestia yelled out. The sheer panic in her voice was causing the guard to forget the code of conduct and gave up standing in position. "What's the matter? What has happened?" "Go now! I must travel to Hoovesdale at once." The guard was hesitant, but nodded and ran out of the castle. Celestia followed quickly after and came out onto the steps outside the main doors. Opening her massive wings, she took to the skies at breathtaking speed. Flying high and hard, she banked and headed towards the city in the distance. She knew Luna had also sensed the destruction that was happening, and that she would be heading there as well. 'Luna, why did you separate from Shining Armor?' she thought to herself, 'He won't stand a chance against Broly.' Flying high in the clouds, Celestia came over a small collection of four small lakes in the fields outside of the Everfree forest. While many would think they were just lakes, Celestia knew that they were in fact craters from four separate impacts over thirty years ago. Her mind suddenly pictured the four different beings coming towards her city, all covered in sets of matching armor. She shook her head clear of the images, trying to focus on the task now. Her mind now thought of Broly, causing her skin to crawl. "Your kind has come before you and I stopped them. I will not let you take my home." Now it was a race against time to reach the city for her guards sake. And it was a race she felt she was going to lose.