Chapter 9
Rescue Raid
Dr. Drake and the four Elements of Harmony (despite their best attempts, they were unable to convince Fluttershy to join them) trekked across the Equestrian landscape. The two Princesses had been searching the nation for any abnormal amounts of chaos energy, and had spotted a mountain of it to the far east of Canterlot. The motley band had travelled for almost a week now, each member having plugged his or her ears with moss long ago in order to block out Rarity’s incessant complaining.
Suddenly, the nuclear physicist halted, checking his Elemental Sweeper. Sure enough, the ridiculous readings were scrolling across the screen. “Girls, we’re here.”
“Oh thank goodness, my mane has gotten so unkempt, and—”
“Shut it already, Rarity!” Rainbow Dash called from the sky.
Dr. Drake had been opening up what seemed to be a large briefcase. Inside laid seven curious devices. Each one consisted of a steel casing surrounding a copper coil that ended in a large copper ball. The casings were rotatable, and a trigger protruded from each base. The trigger was designed to be used by hoof, hand, or magic.
They were Tesla blasters.
As the doctor beheld the weapons, he shook his head sadly. “If Tesla could see this, he would be so disappointed,” he muttered under his breath. Speaking up, he said, “Girls, here’s how you work the blasters. Step one, twist barrel to desired setting. Step two, aim at target. Step three, fire!”
Twilight still looked rather skeptical. “These are the Sons of Discord we’re talking about here. Are you sure these have enough energy to hold them off?”
“Combined, these should have enough energy to power New York City for a month. I think there’s enough juice in them to keep a draconequus at bay,” was Dr. Drake’s calm reply. “Sorry, New York is an Earth city; the Equus equivalent, if memory serves, is Manehatten.”
Four pony jaws hit the ground. Applejack was the first to recover, saying, “Well, I’ll be.”
Dr. Drake had begun distributing the gleaming weapons. “Now, there are seven of these things. One for each Element, and one for me. Since we are short two Elements, I will take one extra, and the other will go to—”
“Me! I’ll take it!” Rainbow Dash said excitedly as she idly twirled her own blaster. As it spun, she accidently pulled the trigger, sending a surge of yellow-white plasma into a nearby pine. The pine held its shape for a few seconds, and then collapsed in a pile of black dust.
“Yeah, no,” the physicist replied, thoroughly unamused. He lobbed the remaining blaster in the direction of Twilight. “Twilight, catch.”
“Now, here’s what we’re gonna do….”
The five of them were arranged in position. The two draconequi in the pit below had yet to realize they were there. Everything was ready.
“CHAAAAAAAAAAARGE!” Dr. Drake shouted, leaping from his hiding spot. Three other figures followed suit. The Sons of Chaos, not as caught off guard as the motley band would have hoped, merely pulsed the four beings away with an air wave.
Dr. Drake stood back up, snarling, and aimed his two blasters at larger draconequus—Destruction. Destruction merely laughed. “Foolish human. I’ve killed scores of your kind! What makes you different from them?”
“They weren’t from Earth,” the doctor growled, and then squeezed both triggers.
The huge draconequus was caught off guard by the sheer amount of force behind the weapons. He staggered back, off-balance.
At that point, Twilight threw a magical flare high up in the air. Shortly thereafter, a rainbow-colored shockwave could be seen, followed by an explosion. In an iridescent flash, a prismatic blur flew by and four cyan hooves impacted directly into Destructions side, half burying the draconian elite in the edge of the pit.
Despair began whipping up another wind rip, but the five destroying angels were too fast for him. The great draconequus screamed in agony as his body endured the equivalent of seven lightning strikes per second. By the time the human and the four ponies finished, Despair’s body was glowing red-yellow.
A brief flare of her horn and Twilight had located Pinkie Pie, and the group of ponies plus human rushed over to her. Without delay, Twilight’s horn flared red-purple, and the six of them teleported as far away as she could take them.
As soon as they were no longer in immediate danger, Rainbow, Twilight, Rarity and Applejack positively gushed over Pinkie, going on and on about how worried they were while Pinkie tried (without success) to reassure them that she was fine.
Dr. Drake, on the other hand, was examining the pit whence they had just come through a pair of field glasses. He was curious as to what would happen to the old god. All his questions were answered and all the chatter behind him ceased when a deafening explosion reverberated throughout the vale.
“What in tarnation?” Applejack asked incredulously, summing up how everypony felt.
“I don’t know, AJ,” the nuclear physicist responded. “If I had to take a guess though….”
He turned to the group of ponies.
“We just killed a god.”