"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
~ Walt Whitman
The six cube shaped heroes gathered at the gate to Canterlot. The gateway was a thick marble arch that hung over the road, marking the entrance to the city. They could see several flying squids that were at a dangerously close distance, but the squids hadn't noticed them yet.
"This is just perfect," Kuledud3 said, "The one time I ever hang out with any of you f**kers in over half a year, and then this happens!"
Deadlox then replied, "You know what, Garrick? We didn't ask you to leave your little 'forever alone' party with Br3ton and Hot Tub; so you can just keep all of that to yourself!"
"Oh, you did not just insult my bromance with Hot Tub!"
Deadlox spread his arms open and said, "You wanna fight me, bro? Let's go! Right now!"
"Guys, stop it," Jason ordered before they could make good on their banter. "We don't have time for you two to be arguing! We need to make a plan and prepare!"
Sky said, "Well, as far as preparing goes, there's not much more we can do; but I can think of... one... thing... we can do..." He slowly panned over to Ty.
"I'm not giving you my foot!" Deadlox said bluntly. For such an unusual statement, he said it quite casually.
"Don't be unreasonable, Ty!" Sky demanded. "You have two feet! I only want the left one!"
"I agree! Take the foot," Kuledude said. He held out his blocky arms toward Deadlox, but retracted them when Ty drew his sword.
"No, bad Garrick! Bad!" Deadlox scolded. Kuledud3 hung his head like an ashamed puppy.
Jason tried to restore order. "Okay guys, listen up. That castle in the city's center will, at the very least, privide some answers; but I'm also pretty sure that's where the king would be. First things first. We need to find a way to..."
"Bored," Bodil interrupted. He sprinted past the gate and into the city, laughing his iconic laugh as several flying squids decended upon him.
"Damn it, Bodil!" Jason said. "Get back here!"
Sky, Deadlox, and Kuledud3 then followed after Bodil. "You can't tame us, Jason!" Sky announced as the three of them passed the gate.
Jason said to Ant, "Sometimes I think you and I are the only two people here with any sense..." Antvenom didn't say anything in response and stared at the gate. "...You're about to follow them too, aren't you?"
Antvenom rushed past the gate yelling, "Untamable!"
Jason said, "Screw this, you guys win," and followed the group.
Jason and Ant were able to catch up with the others quickly. They were forced to continue running because any momentary stop would allow the flying squids that pursued them to catch up. They could see the castle. It was getting closer, but so were the squids.
"OH MY GOD! THIS IS SO STARTLING!" Sky screamed.
The squids behind them were slowly gaining on them. There were seven of them in total, all grouped only a few meters behind Jason. At that rate, the squids would catch up to all of them if nothing was done in time.
Jason made a heroic decision. With his diamond sword gripped tightly in hand, he yelled, "Keep going, guys! I've got this!" He stopped running, and pivoted on his right foot to face the pursuers. "COME AT ME, SQUIDS!" He dared.
Sky looked back as he ran and saw this and stopped. "Jason what are you doing!?" He shouted; but he was far too late. The other four stopped as well, but they were only able to watch the pack of squids crash into Jason in all directions, an attack that was impossible to defend.
"Jason, NO!" Sky cried. He tried to run into the fray, but Antvenom grabbed his arm to stop him.
"There's too many, Sky!" Ant warned.
Jason was still standing upright. He was covered with squid tentacles wrapping all around his body, but they weren't having any serious effect on him. "Um... Guys," he called out calmly, "What are they doing to me?"
Deadlox observed the squids for a moment and said, "They're just kind of... Squidding you, I guess."
"Does it hurt?" Sky asked.
"Uh... No. It's not really doing anything," True replied. His voice was slightly muffled because his helmet was completely covered.
"Yeah! Take that!" One of the squids said.
"This is just stupid," said Bodil.
"Can you guys get them off?" Jason requested.
Sky drew his butter sword and said, "Stand still. I got this."
The squids protested, "Wait, no! Don't do this! SQUID ABUSE! SQUID ABUSE!"
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The squids in the throne room were blissfully unaware of the attack on their city. Instead, they were becoming bored.
The king said, "I spy with my gigantic eye something yellow."
"Is it Squidcord's eyes?" Asked Steve.
"Nope. You lose," the king said bluntly.
"But you only gave me one guess!"
"Sorry, but those are the rules. You lose automatically if your name is Steve."
"But..."
"You're just going to have to accept that you're always wrong. Just like when you were wrong in that argument we had about baking hot bitches into a cake."
"But I wasn't wrong! You bake the cake first, and then the bitches go in!"
"Don't tell me how to LIVE MY LIFE!!!"
'Boom!' A loud explosion sounded from near the front of the castle flowed by the sound of crumbling rocks. Faint voices could be heard.
"Jesus Christ, Ty! There was a door!"
"I don't want to do dis any more."
"The door wasn't even locked! What the hell!?"
"Steve, go take care of our guests," the king ordered seriously.
"Why do I have to be the one to do it?" Asked Steve.
"Because, if you don't do it, I'll put dirt on you, and then you'll be really dirty."
"Aw man! I don't want to be dirty!" Steve said grumpily. "Fine. I'll go."
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The six minecrafters were walking through a marble hallway on the outer edge of the castles interior. Kuledud3 was saying, "This one time, at mine camp, I shoved my pick in my... Oh look. We're here."
They walked into an open lobby. It had two large double doors that lead into the throne room. The room was quite large, but sparingly furnished with a single couch and a few tables. However, there was also a ditch that seemed to have been forcefully dug into the castle floor and filled with water. The ditch stretched from the base of the door and into the opposite hallway on the other side of the room. Steve was floating in the water, blocking the path to the door. "You can all stop right there!" Steve said sternly.
"Hu-hu-hu-ha!" Bodil laughed. "Look guys, it's one squid! I'm so scared! Hu-ha!"
"I'm not just any normal squid," Steve said seriously. "There's a reason the king keeps me around even though he hates me! I am the squid army's most skilled fighter! A master of unarmed combat! I have been sent to stop you six at all costs!"
The minecrafters drew out their weapons. "Looks like we have to fight you first, huh?" Sky said.
Steve turned and started swimming down the ditch into the opposite hallway, leaving the path to the door completely clear. "Do whatever the hell you want," Steve said as he left. "He doesn't pay me for this shit!"
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King Squid had a large, silver mirror in one tentacle. He extended it far from himself so that he could see his entire body. "Would you squid me?" He asked to no one. "I'd squid me. I'd squid me so hard!"
'BOOM!!!' There was a loud explosion for the second time. This time it was much closer. The door to the throne room was incased in a fiery wave of destruction, causing pieces of it and the entire wall to break apart and scatter across the room. Amidst the debris of the broken door stood Sky, TrueMU, Deadlox, Bodil40, Antvenom, and Kuledud3.
The squid king dropped his mirror and it shattered on the ground. "THERE WAS A DOOR!!!" He yelled.
"Yeah, but that was cooler," said Ty.
"Sky!" Twilight shouted from the tank. "You need to leave! He's too strong!"
"You turned them into squids!?" Kuledud3 said in shock. "Oh, you are f**king dead!" He took a step forward, but felt Antvenom's extended arm block his path.
"We aren't rushing into this," said Antvenom. "There's a better solution." Antvenom extended his sword, turned it upside down, and stuck it into the ground. Unarmed, he stepped up to the colossal squid.
"What are you doing Ant?" Sky asked.
Antvenom looked over his shoulder at Sky and said, "I'm gonna let him choose how he wants us to win."