//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Magic Kombat! // Story: The misadventures of a half enderman, a cyborg technomage, and a dinosaur sniper // by Onidevil //------------------------------// *KA-THUUM* "AHHH!" Five of the mares screamed in unison. Pinkie Pie just stood stock-still. Her face going through four emotions: The first was fear, the second confusion, the third realization, and the fourth one pure rage. "They wouldn't..." She whispered. Believing 'they' were more professional than that. "...They would. Oh they're just asking for trouble down there." You could see veins pulsing on her fore-head. It was priceless. "Alright fillies, they're clearly hostle. So grab your elements!" Twilight instructed the five other mares. Who made for the box. Pinkie being the most reluctant, an odd lack of enthusiasm for the normally energetic pony, "Um, pardon me Twilight but my necklace isn't in here. Niether is Fluttershy's or Pinkie's "What?!" Twilight and Pinkie shouted in sync. Pinkie more hysterical. Twilight continued. "Why arn't they in there? I asked spike to pack them fo-oh Celestia he's trying to eat them." Twilight made a mental note: Scold Spike into next tuesday. ~#~#~ All three elements had a unique, angelic taste that Spike couldn't put his finger on. He had stopped attempting to chomp down on them because they kept blasting him into the opposite side of the room, but they all had a unique way of catapulting him. The kunzite Element of Kindness only sent him half way across the room, the Element of Laughter always made him happy and relaxed, and the Element of Generosity(unlike the other two) left a lasting taste. Quite a nice one too. "I hope Twilight didn't need these." spike said to himself, as he licked the Element of Laughter a tenth or thirteenth time. ~#~#~ "Whatever!" Twilight declared. "We still have the Element of Honesty," She gave the citrine embedded necklace to Apple Jack. "Loyalty," She flung the garnet jewled necklace to Rainbow Dash "And Magic." She then donned her own amethyst Tiara. "And he left the most aggressive Element Bearers to fight them! Celestia Damn them!" Pinkie has never been this...angry before. The mares were utterly confused and scared of the normally friendly pony. But after a few moments of fuming. She calmed down, but was still angered by something. "I need to make a call, excuse me." Was all the party mare said before trotting away. "Okay...anyways. AJ, you're the strongest so you're gonna have to take the green thing. RD, deal with the pegasus. I'll deal with the unicorn and we'll finally get answers!" The three jumped out of the bush, ready to fight. ~#~#~ "AHHH!" Five voices, all of them sounded female. Rythian hated being outnumbered. Bein a small group had it's ups and downs but one of the worst things is that in actual head on combat against larger forces was a pain. So Rythian always made sure, wether they were outnumbered or not, they always outgunned everything. But they needed answers if they wanted to survive and prosper here. And...whatever these things they were gonna give him an answer. Or Notch help him dammit they were getting their butts kicked all over the place! "Teep." Rythian said "Use a stun gun if they choose to fight, no fatalities. We want answers, not bodies." Teep nodded his head and did a mock salute. [Yes, sir.] Grinning like a goof. Rythian smiled under his mask and turned to Zoey. "I need you to fly up and give air support. You did plug in that net modification, right?" Zoey gave him a flat look. "You don't pay any real attention to what I tell you, don't you?" She asked sarcastically. "You don't pay any real attention to what I teach you, don't you?" Zoey winced at that. "let's forget the past and move to the future." She quickly replied. Rythian rolled his sky-blue, glowing eyes. "Riiiiiiight. Try not to injured them too drastically. They may-" "What counts as drastically." He sighed at that. "Anything higher but not disincluding dismembering body parts, but don't do anything worse than punching or tazing if you don't need to. Clear?" "Clear!" She nodded. Ok, this'll be easy. Easy as pie. Then Teep was tackled into the thick of the woods. "Teep!" Both ex-minecraftians shouted in unison. A moment later a cyan blur with a rainbow trail rushed at insane speeds towards Zoey. Not wanting to deal with that, Zoey flew upwards at speeds to match the blur. And they went into the right direction. "Notch dammit!" Rythian groaned to the Aether. this is not part of the plan. Now he was left alone. And probably... "Hey!" Called a voice. He turned to the newcomer. What he saw was a lavander unicorn with dark blue hair, with purple and pink highlights. It wore a tiara with a jewel he's never seen before. "Stop in the name of the princess!" Rythian contemplated what to do in this situation. He figured Zoey could take on...whatever that was, and Teep was Teep so he'll beat anything. So he concluded: "...You know what? Fuck it. I am gonna get answers from you and your friends either way. so let's do this!" He drew a quite blunt thaumian blade, levetating it by the handle. And a Cloak of Distortion, levetating that by the colar. "Get ready!" And then he charged at her. ~#~#~ Teep AKA the Greenman vs Applejack the Element of Honesty Round 1: Fight! AJ quickly spun around a bucked the dragon creature making its weapon go flying out of its claws and land in the bushes behind them. After getting staggered backwards he looked at her and growled [Do you really want to do this?]. She realised that he may be trying to communicate but after all the response she gave was a confused look she thought to try and talk this out be replying. “Umm…Yes?” She said. It just looked at her with a look of anger and determination before charging towards her. She quickly jumped to the side and made it go running past her and hit its head on a tree. She jumped towards it and grabbed round its neck with her forehoofs while it tried to shake her off by running about. “YEEHAWW! Giddy up there partner” She said, taunting it, and giving it the anger to use the force to throw her off. It then grabbed her by the neck and slammed her head first into a tree several times until she bucked him, making him stagger and drop her. She then bucked him several more times until she used her element to enhance her kick and she sent him flying into the same bush his weapon flew into, seemingly knocking him out. Applejack wins. ~#~#~ Zoey AKA Red vs Rainbow Dash the Element of Loyalty Round 1: Fight! "You're mine!" Rainbow Dash declared. Knowing she could take on this...weird...robot thing-whatever. It didn't matter what she was. She was gonna drop out of the sky! "But...I don't like you that way." The strange mare responded. Now Rainbow did expect a comeback, but one more the lines of 'you'll never defeat me!' This just took her back. She went Wide eyed, mouth opening and closing looking for something to say back but failing. It took several moments of blushing, sputtering and rapid blinking before Rainbow could retort. "Not that way!" She yelled. Having her sexuality questioned was not the best way to help her confusion about it. "Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure." 'Zoey' nodded slowly. Rainbow couldn't tell if she was truly accepting it or if she was still poking at her. It was hard to tell with the conflicting face and voice. However Rainbow finnaly decided to change the topic and get back on track: The beatdown. "That doesn't matter, you are going down!" Rainbow Came back from daze with her old boastfullness. Zoey then did something very unlike herself. She cracked a smirk and pulled a taunt that sent Rainbow Dash at full speed towards her in a fit of rage. "...Bring it horsey." Zoey wins ~#~#~ "This is outrageous!" Rarity wasn't all too pleased with these stranger's or her friend's behaivour. " You're first reaction to meeting someone new is to fight them!? What right do you have!" However the only person who could hear her right now was Fluttershy, who was bawling her eyes out. "Fluttershy dear, don't worry. Everything will be fine" Rarity assured the terrified pegasus."They can take care of themselves and they'll come back safe and sound." "They just wanted to be left alone! They just wanted us to go away!" Fluttershy, while all the pones around her was focusing on being spotted, focused on the words 'warning shot', which she was pretty sure meant go away. She was all for it but then suddenly everypony had decided what to do, and then they started fighting. That poor creature was now fighting Applejack. It was going to get hurt badly. "Why do they have to fight?" Fluttershy cried to the sky. Meanwhile, quite far away from this, Pinkie pulled out a strange device from her mane. It had a glass screen and a pink body. She pushed a button and screen came to life. The machine did a small chime and displayed the word Apple with the image of a grey, bitten apple next to it. She then did a random series of tapping on the screen and pressed the part of the screen that displayed 'Call'. A series of beeps came before a voice coming from the device spoke. "Pinkie? How did you get my number?" The voice asked, clearly confused. "Shadow, why is this a fighting chapter?" Pinkie hissed at this 'Shadow'. Quite angry over a fight happening between the new ponies and her friends. "Who did this?" "Hey i'm just the co-writer! Complain to Oni, not me!" The voice clearly didn't want to deal with this. Obviously having this happen to him alot. "Fine! Sorry, it isn't your fault. Sorry." Pinkie sighed, then pressed the part of the screen that said 'end-call'. and the voice disapeared. Now it was tme to talk to this...Oni. ~#~#~ Teep AKA the Greenman vs Applejack the Element of Honesty Round 2: Fight! While The orang pony was celebrating her victory, Teep had been hiding in the bushes she knocked him into attempting to find his Barrett. He knew that Rythian had told him to not use his weapon against her, but he was just damn fed up by this point and was going to shoot her in the leg so she couldn't buck him any more. It took him quite a while to find his weapon, and he got quite scratched while doing so, but he eventually did. He crept out of the bushes slowly as to not alert the pony but noticed he couldn't see her anywhere. He looked down and saw the pony just before she bucked him again, making his weapon fly into the bushes. Again. [OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE!] He roared, overtaken by rage that he would have to find that damn thing again. He noticed she was going for another kick but grabbed her legs mid-buck and picked her up. He span around, hitting her into a tree several times, before throwing her onto the ground, climbing on top of her, and pushing her repeatedly for several minutes, long after she was knocked out. Then, after his fit of rage wore off, he went back into the shrubs to find his rifle. Again. He had a feeling this was going to be be a long day. Teep wins BRUTALITY ~#~#~ Zoey AKA Red vs Rainbow Dash the Element of Loyalty Round 2: Fight! Now that Zoey thought of it, it probably wasn't the best idea to taunt the rainbow horse. But she can have fun like everbody else can't she? Still, not the best idea she's ever had. However it did rank above powering her robot hand turned hoof with choclate milk. Yeah more on that later. For the last ten minutes she'd been dodging and weaving all over the place. Jeb, this girl was relentless. "Look, i'm really sorry about what I said!" Zoey yelled behind her. She really was aswell. "I was being childish and I would like to make it up to you. So please stop chasing me!" However her plea must have fallen on deaf ears, she thought so anyway, because all she got was fear inducing scream as responce. "I know! I'm sorry! Maybe we can fix this over coffe!" Zoey just then notice how fast they were going. Her adapted scanner said they were moving at MACH 5. That is impressive for an organic life form. More than impressive, it was amazing! Zoey risked a glance back at her persuer. And saw something unbelivable. She left a rainbow explosion behind her in a big boom. And was now moving at MACH 10. "Oh that's just cheat-". She never finished that sentence. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Zoey got punched by something moving at MACH 10. Rainbow Dash wins BRUTALITY ~#~#~ Pinkie put in a different pattern of numbers this time, seemingly to reach a different person. She pressed 'Call' again and waited a couple of seconds. "Yeah?" A new voice answered this time. But to Pinkie it was the familiar, arrogant, easy-going voice she had come to expect. The voice of the man known as Oni. "A fighting chapter! In the second chapter! Celestia damn it what are you thnking!?" Pinkie yelled into the device. Apparantly it was a lot more than her friends getting hurt that had angered her. "It's way too early in the story for this!" "Seriously Pinkie you need to chillax." The voice was obviously not too concerned with Pinkie Pie's rage. Yep. Same arrogant, easy-going voice. "And may I remind you madam that on this line we use a little word called god. Now repeat after me, god damn it." "I don't have time for this! You hurt my friends and you don't have the decency to do it chapter 5!" Pinkie protested. "Listen!" He hissed, silencing her. "This is my story so I shall do it my way! Now if you excuse me, you seem to have more important things to do." "Oh don't you-" She was suddenly interrupted when a 'boom' rocked the sky. "...I hate you." "Kaythanksbyeeeeee~" And then the voice stopped. Pinkie spent several moments venting her rage. By the end she was out of breath and feeling light headed. She came up with one word, one generalisation, to point her rage at "...Demons" She huffed, then bounced to her friends. ~#~#~ Final battle Rythian AKA Shadow vs Twilight the Element of Magic. 1 Round: Fight! Rythian swung the dull sword at Twilight, not aimng to hit more-so than intimidate. However before it was even a metre from her she teleported ten feet away. Rythian was surprised, apparantly they didn't need anything to channel magic into. No ring, no sword, nothing. 'Next their gonna cast spells.' Rythian thought. He chuckled at the idea of a horse casting magic from children's stories. Instead of pulling the sword out of the ground, he had a...fairer idea. "Pick it up." "Wai-what?" Twilight wasn't expecting the masked unicorn to just gve her the sword he was just swinging at her. She didn't see any reasoning for it. Maybe it's soul bound and would kill her if she tried to use it. Or maybe it was about to break. She didn't know, but it was probably gonna be a cheap tactic to secure an easy victory. Rythian on the other hand. "I have another dull one, i'm just giving it to you to make this a fair fight." Rythian really didn't want to hurt her. Or was it a him? Different dimensions mean differnt rules. "And what's stopping me from just shooting you with my magic?" Twilight also didn't want to hurt him, maybe just use a sleep spell on him to knock him out. Killing is wrong no matter what. "Well, your welcome to try." Rythian grinned. She wouldn't just pick it up wthout trying something else first. A rational thinker. Not someone hot headed and willing to prove themselves strong. He pulled the Cloak of distortion closer to him. But only so that it covered his left half . "but you'll miss. Without a doubt." Twilight was mesmerised by the cloak. The way it phazed into different colours. Blue, pink, red, green.Even if she wasn't Rarity, she saw something quite beautiful. 'Being used by a fighter.' Twilight thought. Such a waste of an interesting material. She aimed her horn at him, and sent a burst of magic flying towards him. He swished the cloak infornt of him and...disappeared? Rythian teleported behind Twilight silently, pulling another dull sword from his bag. He went to butt her/him with his sword hilt.For a quick knock-out, and easy victory. Unfortunately this tactic had to be disregarded due to the fact that he hit an invisible shield. "Dammit!" Rythian cursed, bouncing back and teleporting into the air in order to avoid the purple horse. Twilight however had been expecting this, and slashed at him wth the dulled weapon. Only to be parried by his own. He swished his cape again only inches from twilight's muzzle. Now several hooves infront of her. He appeared to not only untired but energetic. 'A pony of fighting.' Twilight reminded herself. Not a normal pony. Rythian, for his part, was impressed. The only other thing who's ever fought him this well was Teep, and he was a trigger happy dinosaur! But this unicorn proved itself able to keep on level ground. Almost unbelivable. Then again, maybe she's just giving it her all. She is sweating profusely...How is she doing that? The sweat particles are acting like they were moving across skin. But they clearly had fur on their bodies. He wandered if- "What are you doing?" Twilight asked. The unicorn in front of her was just getting ready to charge again, but then he stopped and started looking nto the sky as if distracted by something. He was really wierd. Then again, she had seen wierder. A certain draconequus crossed her mind. Twilight just then remembered...why arn't her friends here yet? Shouldn't they be helping her deal with this guy by now? "I'm sorry to disturb your train of thought but I gotta rap this up." Rythian wasn't threatening the violet equine, just stating what was gonna happen. He removed his Wand of Lightning, not to kill her, just a quick shock to finish this. He aimed and began concentrating his magic. Twilight was havng similar thoughts. She needed to finsh this for the sake of her friends. A simple paralysis spell would do the trick. She aimed her horn and concentrated the spell through her horn. Full intent on finishing this. They fired at the same time. Twilight's power amplified through her tiara, Rythian...well he's Rythian. The beam and lightning ark collided, conflicting magics touching. This doesn't happen often, or ever for that matter. What did happen was thaumancy was released into the world in a flux explosion. Every unicorn, changeling and alicorn felt it. ~#~#~ In the royal courtroom. Celestia and Luna had succeeded in negotiations in the dragons, and were celebrating along with Ultheyr the chairman of the dragon council. "A toast to wonderful relatio-woooooooooooooooooooow." The feeling Celestia was feeling right now was best described as pure, unbrideled ecstacy. But stronger. From the looks of her sister's and all present unicorn's faces, they could feel it too. "Princess? What are you doing?" Chairman Ultheyr questioned. Looking nervously at the now grinning, drooling mess. Unfortunately the only reply the sun mover could make was a gurgle. Unknown to her, the closer one got to the source of the flux at that time, the stronger the effect it would have on it's victim. Needless to say, Rarity and Twilight passed out in spasms. Rythian meanwhile, was forced to feel the magic native to the world. But, being the half enderman he is he simply blacked out silently. This world was royally screwed. ~#~#~ Hi! I'm Oni! And i'd like you to meet my co- writer shadow. Sup. The proofreader Serefin. Hello. And Pink-OW WHAT THE FUCK! YOU'RE AN IDIOT! Yeah she's not happy with me right now. Oh well! See ya!