Chapter 13: Fighter Filly Girls Rule!
The guards were all set up for the oncoming death machine. They had the cannons, catapults, airships, and anything else in their inventory ready. Princess Celestia and Luna were also alerted of the danger and decided to personally aide in the defense of the castle with their magic. Shining Armor had prepared his magic shield spell and placed it around the castle perimeter using all the magic he had. The civilians had taken cover in the shelter to avoid the oncoming battle. Soon the gargantuan figure was in sight. The battle was about to begin.
“OPEN FIRE!” yelled the princesses. Anything that could be shot was shot, with magic bolts sailing through the air alongside cannon balls and other projectiles, bouncing off the impenetrable armor easily. Both princesses gathered their magical power and launched an attack that put the rest to shame, a stream of magic so powerful that it shook the castle. It proved futile though, as a thin shield seemed to encompass the beast that would reflect anything related to magic attacks. Torchel really wasn’t kidding when he had said that it didn’t matter how strong the magic was.
“MWUAHAHA!” The mad tortoise’s voice cackled over the speakers. The villains approached the shield that was set up and stopped moving for a moment. Just then, the right arm was raised and placed in a punching position, ready to take out the last barrier the ponies had. A rocket seemed to go off in the arm of the giant, sending it crashing straight through the barrier Shining Armor had set up, leaving the ponies without any defense.
“Now, I hope you all have learned your lesson, am I right?” She asked the ponies over the speaker. “Just surrender and you’ll be just fine, otherwise,” the chest opened up, revealing with arsenal that was ready to rip Canterlot Castle into dust. The guards had no idea what to do at this point, looking at the princesses for support. The two had convened just before fighting and realized that if what they had heard about the anti-magic shield was true, then maybe even the Elements of Harmony would be ineffective against such a challenger. Therefore, the goal of the Mane Six at that point was to investigate any possible weaknesses that such a large foe may have. At this point though, it seemed unlikely. The two princesses walked up to a point where they could be seen by their green enemy and began to speak.
“I am Princess Celestia, a ruler of Equestria. This is my sister, Princess Luna. We beseech that you do not go through with your plan to take over Equestria. After all, many lives will be lost, no matter what I do at this moment.”
“Heh, she thinks we care n’ such ‘bout that!” cackled Furry at the statement. “Lady, we’re nasties, so we really don’t care!” At that second the lasers on the beast started charging up, ready to turn the castle into a quarry right before something appeared on radar.
“Uh, boss man. We’ve got company,” reported Slender as he pointed to the large dot on his screen. With each blip the dot got closer and closer until rapid stomping could be heard outside. The MALLET was able to turn around to see what was causing the noise just in time to receive a flying kick straight to the face, sending the large enemy skidding back, taking out a little of the castle as it ran into it.
“WHAT IS THIS?!” demanded Torchel as he was shocked to find anything that could damage his precious creation. Through the cameras they were able to see that it was a large, chrome pony with red mane and a blue bow that had delivered the bow. The speakers crackled as the pilots of the opposing mech were about to speak.
“You guys are going down!” the three Fighter Filly Girls announced together, shocking the villains by the fact that they had their very own giant robot. “Citizens of Canterlot, are you ready to rock?!” They were met with a loud applause and cheer at the sight of their saviors. The Fighter Filly Girls then displayed some of their robotic fighting moves, hoping to convince their foe to simply surrender and end it all right there.
“You three are out of your league, by which I mean you are not prepared for the beating in which we are about to provide you with!” The belly was now aimed at the girls and started to fire. Luckily the girls were piloting a mech fast enough to avoid the incoming fire as it zoomed by them. The town wasn’t so lucky though.
“Is that all you got?” taunted Scootaloo.
“Not at all,” Torchel responded cool as he had his assistant press a button. Soon the MALLET dropped on all of its limbs and then slid it shell back, revealing a completely separate arsenal than the one in the belly. Out of the back flew smaller looking robots that flew around Dynamo, each of them firing individual lasers at their mech. At first it didn’t seem to be doing much damage, but then more and more of those flying attack stations came out, each of them releasing a helping of lasers. AT that point the girls were now constantly being hit with lasers from all sides, taking serious damage.
“Activate the Dynamo’s Heat Vision!” ordered Apple Bloom. The generators for the weaponry started whirring, and within a few moments the eyes were producing light. Dynamo made a three-sixty degree spin, hitting all the targets and lighting up the sky with explosions.
“Hah! What next?” Sweetie Belle demanded to know. It seemed like their enemies could hear them, because at that very second a volley of missiles was launched out of the air, not headed for them, but for the entirety of Canterlot.
“Oh snap! We have to stop those missiles!” Scootaloo burst out. “Let’s use the Heat Vision again!” The eyes once again lit up the night sky, only to find that the missiles had some extra shielding to prevent just that.
“What can we do?” begged Sweetie Belle.
“We’ll redirect it!” announced Apple Bloom. Dynamo burst forward and up into the aid using its rockets and then grabbed the nearest missile, rotating it so it would then hit another. They did this with several of the missiles before realizing that there was an odd number of them that was were launched. At that second, the leader had a bright idea and rotated the last rocket so it was aimed straight at the MALLET.
“Oh no!” the villains yelled out as they saw their own weaponry redirected against them. It was too late to move out of the way, so the back of the MALLET was hit, making a large explosion that seemed to almost rival that of the sun. The crowds cheered as they saw this explosion, knowing that the fight was now over.
“Alright!” The three Fighter Filly Girls hoofbumped each other at the sight of the explosion, knowing that they had just won. After all, nothing could survive an explosion that big.
And then it got up.
“WHAT?!” was everypony’s reaction. The MALLET had ditched the large shell on its back and was now standing upright. Torchel laughed over the speakers, taunting the girls.
“Did you three think it would be so easy? I developed this machine so when it loses operation of its back arsenal, we go into SUPER FIGHTING MODE!” The MALLET suddenly rushed over, unleashing a flurry of punches to Dynamo’s head before piledriving the mech into the ground. The girls were dazed at this sudden burst of speed and had no time to react. MALLET opened up its gut and prepared to finish them off with a laser volley at near point-blank range. The lights glowed and then released, signifying the end to this fight. At least it would seem so, before a shield suddenly appeared over the girls.
“You didn’t really think that I’d just let you all have the fun now, did you?” Discord asked the girls. His had was extended, keeping the volley from hurting them as they got out of the awkward position that last attack had put them in. “It’s really my fault that we’re in this situation you know. See, I actually saw that you girls wouldn’t really have many uses for your powers without any real foes, so I ended up creating baddies for you to fight. I didn’t intend for any of this to happen however. So yeah, sorry for this mess.” Discord’s confession shocked the girls for a second, but then they realized that this was sort of on par for something he would do, even when he wasn’t evil anymore. They quickly shrugged it off, issuing a “Meh” over the speakers to let him know things were okay. Too bad neither of them were focusing on their foes who had just morphed the MALLET into a massive energy cannon about to blow through the four of them.
“Oh boy,” the four of them said before the beam of light broke through Discord’s shield and blew them a good half-mile away from their original location. The Draconequus now resembled a thing strip of burnt bacon while Dynamo was starting to resemble tin foil after it had been placed into a blender.
“Are you okay?” Apple Bloom asked her friends, hoping they would respond.
“Yeah, except for the fact that our giant robot is nearly busted and our super-magical ally is now charcoal,” Scootaloo and the rest were now worried about their situation. They had nothing left to fight with, and Discord was out of combat. Things were looking grim.
“Girls!” a familiar voice yelled out. The cockpit, now open revealed Twilight and her friends had come to their downed machine. “Are you three alright?”
“Yes, Miss Sparkle. I think you should get out of here right now, though. Things are getting tense,” Apple Bloom said in the manner of Miss Chill.
“Apple Bloom, ya don’t need to cover anymore. We all know it’s you three girls,” Applejack announced to the surprise of the three girls.
“It’s true. We’re very proud of you three girls. I’m especially proud of you Sweetie Belle, my dear sister. You save the world AND look fabulous while doing so,” Sweetie Belle blushed at her sister’s admiration.
“Yeah, and Scoots, I’ve NEVER seen anypony fly so fast that they travelled through time. You were awesome!” Rainbow Dash’s praise was the greatest thing Scootaloo could imagine.
“Thanks for saving me those two times, girls. It was very neat and brave of you to defend us,” Fluttershy thanked the three of them.
“Yeah! You girls rock!” Pinkie Pie’s enthusiasm was enough to help the girls feel hope again.
“Thanks guys. Wish we could’ve been better with defending you from the giant robot though. We don’t have enough power to fight it anymore.”
“Well, you don’t have enough power on your own, but I think we know a way to help you power up. Girls, you ready?” Twilight got her friends into position and opened of a box. Inside of the box were the Elements of Harmony. Each of them put on their respective elements and started powering up. “While we can’t fight that machine with magic, who’s to say we can’t use magic to power you up.” The magic-crowny-thing Twilight wore started to glow, causing the other elements to do the same as well. A rainbow light then shot of the group, the light circling the damaged Dynamo and repairing it. In just a flash, the broken fighter was now looking better than new, and now glowed with a new power in its possession.
“Let’s do this!” the three girls yelled as they charged straight at their foe. Each one of MALLET’s strikes was parried and even its speed wasn’t comparable to the new Dynamo. The girls kicked and punched with all they had and were certain they were winning. That is, until they looked at MALLET and saw no real signs of damage whatsoever. Even with this extra energy, they simply couldn’t break through the hull.
“How can we beat something that we can’t even punch?” Apple Bloom thought this over as she saw none of their attacks doing any real good. At that moment she had a very disturbing, but hopeful idea.
“Hey, Apple Bloom, you there?” Scoots asked as she saw her friend zone out.
“We need to use self-destruct,” the leader announced.
“WHAT?!”
“It’s the only thing we have that’s powerful enough to defeat it. With the extra magical energy we can use our rockets and get into the sky high enough that the explosion won’t hurt anypony. I just put the theory into this computer and it says that it’s possible that it’ll be enough to defeat them. All we need to do is get a hold of MALLET and lift off.”
“But will we survive?” Apple Bloom couldn’t answer that question, and Sweetie Belle knew it as well. They did have an emergency escape pod, but it would just be a lucky guess to whether they could outrun the explosion after ejecting.
The girls soon put Dynamo into galloping position, hoping that they’d be able to grab onto MALLET and then use the inertia to gain liftoff. Without the go sign, the girls enacted their plan as they saw MALLET was about to strike again. Their machine burst off throughout the Canterlot streets, destroying them as they ran. In a half-second, the girls managed to grab hold of the behemoth and put on the boosters. All energy they had was now redirected there as they both started to lift-off.
“Torchel, what’s going on, man?” Royal Flush asked as he was hanging onto his seat.
“Does not matter. ACTIVATE EVERYTHING NOW!” The belly once again revealed itself, the arsenal in point-blank range of Dynamo. It let loose with everything, causing the glow of energy that was previously on the rebuilt robot to darken as it started showing signs of breaking. The girls knew that they had to go through with this now if they wanted any chance of winning.
“She can’t take much more!” Scootaloo warned them, the mid-section of their robot starting to break apart from the fire. At that point they were now high enough that it seemed like they didn’t need the rockets anymore to stay afloat. At that point, Apple Bloom flipped open the switch containing a big red button, her friends following. Looking each other in the eye, the three clicked the button, starting the countdown.
“20 SECONDS TO DETONATION,” the robotic voice announced. The girls jumped in the pod and then boosted off, hoping that they’d get away just in time.
“What is happening? What did they just shoot out?” Torchel demanded to know. The rest of the villains were scrambling to find a way to get out of their predicament. They would soon destroy Dynamo and then use their own rockets to finish off Canterlot. At least they would have, if not for a certain voice telling them otherwise.
“10 SECONDS TO DETONATION. ALSO, I ALWAYS LOVED YOU, DISCORD,” the voice confessed, confusing the tortoise. It was at that very second that the villains knew what had just happened.
“FIGHTER FILLY GIRLS!!!!!!!!!” they yelled out just as Dynamo blew up. The explosion was big enough that the night sky turned to day for a moment, shining on the destroyed Canterlot. Everypony was shocked and worried when they saw that bright light, hoping that the girls made it. Applejack and Rarity hugged each other, worried about each other’s sibling and praying that they would make it.
In the space pod the girls were scrambling to control the crazy device.
“We’re coming in too fast!” Apple Bloom yelled out.
“Hey, girls, why don’t we just fly out of here?”
“Sweetie Belle, if we do that then we’d probably lose consciousness at this height and then crash,” explained Scoots. The afterburner rockets were doing all they could, but the girls had sped up their escape pod to maximum velocity in order to escape the explosion. It was now almost impossible to slow down while entering the atmosphere. The three realized this and were silent. Silence was soon interrupted by the scanner beeping as it picked up something while they were falling.
“What could possibly be out here?” Apple Bloom thought. She then had the horrifying realization that they could be hit by the debris of the self-destruct and thought that it was all over. Instead of horrifically being destroyed by the debris however, the girls seemed to bump into it and get it stuck on the ship. Somehow, through the shape of the debris, the girls found that they were starting to slow down.
“Wow! Whatever we’re attached to is reducing our velocity. It’s like a mini-parachute for us,” Scootaloo told her friends. “Let’s save the afterburners until we get in closer, that way it’s more effective.”
Eight minutes of falling passed as the girls descended to the ground. Each second was filled with silence and nervousness of whether their plan would work. The alarms went off, and the afterburners were activated. They would be landing right outside of Canterlot it seemed. Hopefully the landing wouldn’t completely destroy them with the afterburners activated. Murphy’s Law was in full force today it seemed, as the rockets suddenly ran out of gas.
“Oh no!” they all exclaimed at the hopeless sight. It now seemed certain that they’d end up crashing with anything to reduce the force from falling.
“If only we had something that was as powerful as a rocket,” Sweetie Belle exclaimed, hoping that something convenient would happen as she said that, like her turning around and finding something labeled ‘ROCKET’. There wasn’t.
“Wait a second,” was all Apple Bloom said before punching a hole in the floor of the pod. Scootaloo looked as if she was trying to yell something, but the howling wind made it impossible to hear. Apple Bloom decided to simply show her friends what the plan was as she began to use her super breath down the opening. The two understood her plan and followed, blowing down the hole and slowing their descent. They could actually see their landing spot now as they came in to about a hundred feet or so. The super breath was strong enough that they were gently falling. They soon landed, not with a crash, but a gentle touch. They immediately jumped out of the pod as soon as it was safe.
“WE DID IT!” they yelled as the grabbed each other in one big hug. They had landed right in the middle of Canterlot Square and were now greeted with a roar of applause by ponies of all kinds. The Mane Six rushed over to see them as they got out.
“Great job girls!” Twilight told them. Rarity and Applejack were about to rush over and join them in their hug, but Pinkie Pie held them back as the girls still had their secret identities. They looked at their escape pod to see what exactly had helped them in their descent and were definitely surprised at what they saw.
“Is that,” Sweetie Belle paused, taking in the sight before realizing, “my old roof?”
“Huh. I guess it is. I wonder how it survived floating in space. And entering atmosphere,” Apple Bloom wondered aloud. Sweetie Belle answered it simply.
“That’s because it’s made of mahogany!” she exclaimed. There were murmurs of understanding at this statement.
“Thank you very much, Fighter Filly Girls,” a royal voice said. The girls turned around to see both princesses right there, thanking them. It was Celestia’s voice that was currently speaking to them. “Without your courage and bravery, we would have been conquered by that group of villains. All of Equestria thanks you.” She then bowed her head before the three of them, other ponies following her. She shortly raised it and began to speak again. “Now, the only thing I wish to do is figure out who could have possibly created such creatures in the first place.” At that second, Discord literally peeled himself from the ground and shook himself off, burnt flakes coming off him. The entire crowd silently looked at him with condemning eyes.
“What?” he asked them just before realizing what was going on. “Oh. Wait. I can totally explain everything,” He then went over to Princess Celestia and whispered in her ears. The expressions on her face changed so much and so quickly that it was hard to see if she was joking or not. He finished up with saying, “And that’s how it all happened. So, yeah, please no stone prison?”
“You single handedly endangered the entire world with the stunt you pulled.” Well, it looks like it would be another couple hundred years. “Thing is, you did it for the sweetest possible reason I could think of. Not only that, but you really did help boost the lagging construction industry. Also, Canterlot had been WAY behind in building safety codes, so this really did help in clearing the way for safer construction. In the end, just don’t do it again. WHAT’S THAT!” Celestia then yelled out, causing everypony to look away. She quickly gave Discord a peck on the check, seeing that he really was trying to be nicer and just needed some guidance. The both blushed before telling the crowds, “Never mind, was just a fly.”
“Thank you, Princesses, but right now we need to do one more thing,” Apple Bloom and the rest flew up into the sky, the crowds roaring as they did so.
The girls ended up following the footsteps of MALLET to a large cavern disguised to look like part of a mountainside. Inside the cavern were the escaped convicts from Baltimare, each of them looking confused as they were in chains. Apparently after their escape, She used her powers to make the convicts their slaves and use them for the construction of MALLET. They were actually grateful to be found and were soon escorted to prison trains to be taken back to their hold. The girls let Celestia know about this and decided to help clean up the city. Discord also helped in cleaning the city up with his magic, knowing that it was the least he could do with the trouble he had caused. He’d now have to report in with Big Mac about magic usage as a sort of parole officer as he seemed to be the closest friend he had at Ponyville. The city would soon be ready for reconstruction, but until then the citizens of Canterlot, most being elite, decided to spend time at their summer houses. The rest migrated over to Ponyville for the time, the construction crews ecstatic to have all this business. Twilight was actually happy about his, since now she could spend some time with her parents as they moved into her place. It seemed like things ended pretty well for everypony, even the Fighter Filly Girls.
“Well, no more giant monsters an’ such,” Apple Bloom said as they lay down on their back in a field, relaxing after all they had been through.
“Yeah. In some ways, I’ll miss it. Then again, it did get scary at times, you know?” Sweetie Belle thought back to all the fights where they barely made it out. “Besides, we can now have some relaxing time.”
“True. To think that this all started because we were trying to get bored. Feels kinda silly, doesn’t it?” Scootaloo pondered, her friends feeling the same way. “Anyway, I better get to soccer practice. There’s gonna be a scout today, and I’ve got a good feeling about this!”
“Same here. Winona has another session with me today. Apple Bloom, you really need to get it straight that your dog is a boy. Also, PLEASE get him a girlfriend. It’s starting to get sad.” The two friends headed off, leaving Apple Bloom to relax in the field alone.
“Ya know what?” she said to herself. “I don’t need to worry about any Cutie Marks right now. This is all ah’ need.”
So once again, the day has been saved, thanks to the Fighter Filly Girls!
CMC!
CMC!
Apple Bloom! She is the brain and the leader!
Sweetie Belle! She is the bestest singer!
Scootaloo! She is the fastest flier!
CMC save the day.
Fighting crime
Trying to save the world
Here they come just in time
The CMC Girls!
Oh no!
It’s the mad Furry Bumpkin
Watch out!
It’s the repulsive Produsa
Get him!
It’s evil Torchel Chelchel
Chasing evil out Ponyville
Fighting crime
Trying to save the world
Here they come just in time
The CMC Girls!
Fighting crime
Trying to save the world
Here they come just in time
The CMC Girls!
And they’ll be
Fighting crime
Trying to save the world
Here they come just in time
The CMC Girls!
Fighting crime
Trying to save the world
Here they come just in time
The CMC Girls!
Fighting crime
Trying to save the world
Here they come just in time
The CMC Girls!
CMC!