//------------------------------// // Magic vs. Technology // Story: More Stories Featuring Seth // by KenSES64 //------------------------------// Magic vs. Technology I was at my job in the library, putting away some books that were returned today when something unexpected happened. “Sup bro?” somepony with a voice I knew all too well said to me. I turned my head to face her. Surely enough, it was exactly who I expected it to be, my sister, Screwball. “Oh hi sis, what’s up?” I responded “I just finished my battle suit.” “Oh, that’s cool.” “And I was wondering, if it wasn’t any trouble, if you could help me test it out.” “You want me to pilot it?” I asked, slightly confused as to what she meant. “Oh no,” She replied, waving her hoof around. “You’re too big to fit in it.” I raise an eyebrow at that. “Are you calling me fat?” I asked. “No,” She deadpanned. “I’m saying that you don’t really have the body of a mare.” “Oh, I see. So exactly what do you want me to do then?” “I want you to fight me.” I could swear I felt my jaw drop through the floor. It took me a moment before I could respond. “Umm... What?” “You heard me. You vs. Me. Brother vs. Sister. Stallion vs. Mare. Spawn vs. Spawn. Magic vs. technology!” “Ummm... okay,” I respond after a few moments. “But when? I mean it’s Wednesday so I really can’t right now because I have to work, and I’m busy Saturday ‘cause I promised to take Rainbow to see that new Johnneigh Cage movie. So... Sunday go for you?” She tapped her chin with her hoof. “That will give me some time to give it a paint job. Sure.” ______________________________________________________________________________ That Sunday, I walked out to an open field on the outskirts of the Everfree forest, where Screwball and I had told me to meet her. Rainbow and Twilight decided to come along and watch. “So, you’re really going to fight your own sister?” Twilight asked me. “Well, she said she wanted to test out her armor this way, and I know how much this armor means to her, so yeah I am. Besides, it’s just a sparring match. We won’t be trying to hurt each other too badly.” “You’re not worried are you?” Rainbow asked. “No, not at all. Though I did have a weird dream last night where I turned into an alicorn, dyed my mane red, and everypony hated me for some reason. Twilight you’re my therapist, does that mean anything?” “I don’t think so,” She responded, with a slightly confused look on her face. Eventually after some more talking we arrived. Screwball arrived just after we did. Her friends, Colgate and Berry Punch were also there. “Hey sis, Rainbow and Twi are here to watch,” I said. “That’s cool, I brought some of my friends too.” she said, pointing her hoof at Berry and Colgate. While Screwball began to put on her armor, I talked with her friends a little. I hadn’t really had the chance to talk them that much before, but they seemed nice. Eventually, somepony else I wasn’t expecting arrived. She was a white unicorn with an unkempt mane that was a mixture of both dark blue and a shade of lighter blue in color, a musical note for a cutie mark, and wore a pair of purple sunglasses that covered her eyes. She was of course, Vinyl Scratch. A.K.A DJ Pon-3. She walked right up to me stared at me for a bit. “You look familiar,” She said while still staring, “Oh, I got it now! You’re that guy who walked in on Tavi and I while we were having a little fun.” She made a half smile, “I never got to ask, did you like what you saw?” That was when I said the most witty response to anything ever. “Uhhhh...” The D.J just giggled. “I’ll take that as a yes. Maybe if you’re not too hurt after this you can join in this time.” That’s when Rainbow flew in her face. “You’re not getting any piece of my stallion!” she practically screamed at her. Vinyl just shrugged. “Fine, we can have a foursome.” Then Rainbow gave her best response to that. “Uhhhh...” I could swear her face was an exact copy of mine. I decided that it would be best to change the subject, lest this situation become any more awkward than it already was. “So what are you here for?” I asked her. “Well, your sis here asked me to play some epic battle music while you two duke it out, and in exchange I’m getting a 50% discount on a little order I made.” Vinyl replied. Screwball quickly turned around the second those words were said. “What in tartarus are you smoking?” she asked Vinyl. “What do you mean?” “I said 15%, not 50%.” “How about 30%?” “No.” “25%?” “No.” “20%?” Screwball tapped her chin. “Fine.” “Awwwww yeeeeeah! Bass Cannon you will soon be mine!”. I was ready enough when Screwball turned to me in her armor. She did a good job on the paint. She mostly painted it a metallic, dark purple, but the face area of the helmet and the areas up to the hooves remained an unpainted silver. Rainbow, Twilight, Colgate and Berry sat at a safe distance away with Vinyl and her equipment. Vinyl looked at us both as she levitated the needle on record “Let’s get this beatdown started!!!” She practically screamed as the music started playing. ______________________________________________________________________________ Right as the first beat of the music hit, I used my invisibility spell to make it seem like I vanished into thin air. Once I was gone I stored same energy into my horn. After a few seconds I shot it some distance away from Screwball and I. My shadow left my body and followed it. ‘Hopefully she’ll think I’m teleporting and fall for the distraction.’’ I thought to myself as I looked at the armored earth pony and who started charging what I can only assume was some kind of pulse blast for the magically sprite stones at the bottom of the hooves. So that’s what she needed them for. Then there was a flash of light where I shot the energy at, and she shot the pulse blast towards it. A light blue ball of energy flew from her hooves at the shadow puppet that and hit it. The resulting impact caused a large explosion that knocked some dust into the air. As she watched the cloud of dust, I spawned a hammer and ran at her. She turned her head in my direction only to come face to face with the hammer, and I struck her right in the head. She didn’t have any time at all to react to it, and got sent back a few feet back from the blow and fell to the ground. I turned off the invisibility spell as she looked at my direction. “Come on sis,” I said with a cocky grin on my face, “Even with that fancy armor, you’re no match for magic?” “Well technically my suit is powered by magic,” She respond. “Well I’m magicier!” I shouted as I channeled some lightning through my horn, which I then shot right at her. She rolled out of the way just before it hit her. Once she was clear of the blast, she quickly jumped back to her hooves, flew forward and punched me right in the face. I stumbled back a bit, but didn’t fall over. I had to admit though, her suit packed quite a punch, literally. I then use my magic to take some rocks up from the ground. She flew up several feet into the air to get away from me, so I threw one at her. It just barely missed her head. Not about to let that go, I picked up about half a dozen more rocks right as she looked down at me. I threw three at her, but she evaded them. That didn’t stop me though, as I just threw some more. After I missed four shots in a row, I teleported up to a cloud that was overhead. Thank Celestia I always had the cloudwalking spell on or this wouldn’t have worked. I saw her as she looked around and I chucked one of the rocks I had, actually hitting her this time. She spun out a little, but quickly managed to recover. I then saw that she took notice of the single grey cloud above her, the one I was on. She flew upwards and made her way towards it. I threw my two remaining rocks at her. The first one missed, while the second one just merely scraped one of the legs. I then began to store up the magical energy form my body and up to my horn for a blast of pure magic. The second she flew through the cloud I shot it at her just as she shot a double pulse blast at me. The moment to two blasts hit, they caused a large explosion. The resulting shockwave pushed me off the cloud and I lost consciousness during the freefall. ______________________________________________________________________________ I opened my eyes to see Rainbow hovering above me. “Are you okay?” she asked in a concerned tone. I got up and brushed some dirt off of my coat. “Yeah I’m fine.” I said to her, though I was a little sore from the fall, also my face did hurt a little when she punched me. “You know I love you to death, but sometimes you can be dumber than a bag of hammers.” Rainbow said, crossing her forelegs. “Oh come on beautiful, I’ve been through way worse and you know it.” It was then that I noticed Screwball walking up to us without her helmet. “Good match sis. So, I guess we’ll call it a draw.” “Yeah, a draw,” she said with a smile. ______________________________________________________________________________ Afterwords Twi, Rainbow and I began to walk back to Ponyville. “Well that was interesting to see.” Twilight said, “She was able to stand up to you with ease. I hope that she has good intentions with that suit.” “I’m sure she does,” I responded, “Even if she didn’t, since we were pretty much even I’m not sure that I could beat her, but I’m sure the elements of harmony can take care of her. Hell, I’m sure they’d also be able take me down too?” “Huh?” Rainbow asked. “Well, after that incident with The Voice, I’ve been wondering. What if I actually turned evil for some reason? If that ever did happen, I would trust that you gals would be able to stop me. Come to think of it, I’m sure Twilight could handle me by herself. I’m going to be honest Twi, you’re the last pony I’d ever want to fight by myself, because I know I’d lose.” “I’m not sure how I should feel about that,” Twilight stated, her face showed that she didn’t know how to react to that. “Take it as you may,” I said as we made our way back to town.