//------------------------------// // Clubhouse brawl. // Story: Ponysona: Arcana Crusaders // by Phoenix Kitten //------------------------------// Sweetie trotted through Ponyville, looking around for Applebloom's friend, her head swiveling left and right as she studied the dark alleyways and corners of the town for any signs of movement. "Twist! Twiiiist! Where are you?" "Th-Thweetie Belle? Ith that you?" Sweetie's ears swiveled as she looked up at the radio tower sticking out of the old radio station. "Twist?" Sweetie asked as she spotted a small white and red shape halfway up the tower. "How did you get up there?" "Thweetie... thank Luna it'th you... can you help me down from here? I wath walking home after getting thome ingredientth to make more peppermint thtickth when the clocktower made a weird chime thound." The small white shape explained. "Everypony ditthapeared around me... I left my thingth jutht inthide the door to my houthe, then came back out to get thomething I forgot... I uh...blacked out and woke up here... My hindleg ith caught.. and all the blood ith ruthing to my head.." Sweetie just blinked and started towards the door of the building, intending to climb up to the roof and try to levitate the other filly down somehow, when a gurgling noise distracted her. "Oh... you have got to be kidding me.." Sweetie said as she ducked down, avoiding the razor sharp blade of the Shadow as it tried to skewer her. With a quick pulse of her magic she knocked the Shadow back and materialized her tonfa's. She parried the second blow as she quickly stood on her hindlegs and lashed out at the Shadow's floating head, cleaving it in two and letting it vanish in a plume of black smoke. She instinctively took up a defensive stance as she watched the eleven other Shadow's appear and take shape. "Well... I can certainly think of better ways to go out." "Teww us what's going on Diamond Tiara!" Dewey demanded as she shoved the earthpony away from the computer and tried to study the screen. "Hey! Get away from my computer muffin top!" Diamond shoved back, taking her spot back at her computer. As she closed the program and started the computer's shutdown sequence she felt a sharp pain in her cheek before she hit the ground, she looked up to see Dewey shaking her hoof as she hovered in place, flapping her wings. Diamond put her hoof to the corner of her mouth and felt a small trickle of liquid, when she looked at her hoof she saw streaks of her own blood marring her hooficure. "Ouch... I think I sprained my ho-oooof" Dewey grunted as she was tackled out of the air by a pink streak and took a blow to the stomach, winding the pegasus and making her curl up and dry heave. "No pony hits Diamond Tiara and gets away with it." Diamond growled as she stood up and swept her laptop back into her saddlebags which she locked in a cupboard on the far end of the clubhouse. Just as she turned around to glare at the others she was tackled off her hooves by a winged blur, accompanied by a sharp pain to her left eye. "That...." Dewey panted. "That... was for the cheap shot... you gave me.... bitch..." Diamond Tiara let out a roar and slugged the offending pegasus in the nose, causing her head to snap back as a trickle of blood began pouring out. Dewey looked back down at the light pink earthpony and backhoofed her, making Diamond spit blood onto the floor. The other two fillies cowered in the corner of the clubhouse as the brawl continued, having moved Sugar Cube to the bed in the other room after the two had shoved each other. "Holy hay...." Sunny exclaimed. "This is... horrifying." Icing pouted as she watched the fight continue. "I'm going to have to do so much to get those two back in shape." The two fighting fillies spilled out of the clubhouse and onto the porch that ran around the small building itself before plunging under the hoof rail, with Diamond Tiara landing on top of Dewey in the dirt below, punching her in the cheek repeatedly before Dewey scrunched up her hindlegs and kicked the earthpony backwards and into the tree. Sunny and Icing watched from the window as the two combatants shakily got to their hooves and charged each other with a scream, butting heads and knocking each other out. Sunny gasped and covered her mouth in shock while Icing rolled her eyes and trotted back into the clubhouse to retrieve her medical kit. "So yer sayin' those Shadow's were in Ponyville cause the gems they dropped in the comic absorbed the negative energy from the two colts who tried to mug you, and they were scattered into the Everfree forest and they just happened to make it back into town today?" Applebloom asked. "Well yeah... I guess.. do you have a better explana-" Sweetie stopped as she opened the door to the clubhouse. "What the hay happened in here?" she exclaimed as she trotted into the building with Applebloom, Scootaloo, Silver Spoon and Twist. "Looks like a fight broke out." Scootaloo said as she noted the blood stains on the floor and table. "Ah knew we shouldn't have left Diamond here with the others." Applebloom sighed. "Well we don't know that Diamond was involved in this." Silver Spoon told them before adding to herself. "at least I hope she wasn't." "I think we're about to find out." Twist said as she pointed towards the approaching Sunny. "Oh... thank goodness you're all back... Dewey and Diamond kind of... had a fight." Sunny sighed. Silver Spoon facehoofed as the other crusaders rolled their eyes. "But Dewey started it." Icing said as she trotted up beside Sunny. "I patched them both up. Dewey has a bruise on her forehead, some slight nausea, a sore jaw and I think her nose is broken. Diamond Tiara has a black eye and a bruise on her forehead. So Dewey came off second best." Applebloom and Silver Spoon smirked slightly at the obvious reason for Diamond's better state. Earthpony toughness. "So.. what exactly happened?" Sweetie asked. "Well..." Sunny spoke up as she started explaining.