The Lightning Seven: The Second Strike *Old story*

by Barracuda cyborg


The Dingodile swamps

Our heroes have finally reached the Dingodile swamplands, the entire area reeked of decaying carcasses and gasoline. The faint sound of a didgeridoo playing was heard over the calls of birds flying over the trees. "I have a bad feeling about this everyone, a really bad feeling." Fluttershy said as she started to shake in fear.

"If you want you can hide behind me." Charger said trying to act brave, but deep down inside his gut was saying 'RUN LIKE THE SCARED COWARD YOU TRULY ARE!'.

Tarlok soon just picked her up like a cat, he soon started to stroke her mane which she did not mind at all. "Thank you for picking me up mister Tarlok." Fluttershy said as Tarlok's cheeks blushed cherry red. With his pure white complexion it was obvious to see whenever he was blushing. The only thing that killed the sweet moment was when he smiled showing his razor sharp teeth, Fluttershy's eye pupils soon shrank seeing the freaky smile so much that Tarlok quickly closed his mouth.

"So what do you guys know of this place?" Twilight asked Buzzer thinking he would have an answer.

"Nope, nothing at all." Buzzer replied.

"Why not, I thought y'all knew yer own planet?" Applejack asked thinking that the gang would know their own home world like the back of their hands.

"We know nothing because anyone who isn't a dingodile that enters here becomes food to the beasts." Lighting Scale said as he treaded through the murky waters. Even though the smell made him absolutely sick to his stomach he enjoyed being within mud.

"They must be some dangerous beings then." Celestia said as she treaded the crumbling patches of dirt ever so lightly.

"You don't know the half of it." Thunder Buster said trying to prove a point. A few moments later they heard rustling grass. Everyone had chills running up their spine.

"What was that?" Rarity asked as she froze in place sensing the danger.

"Oi I found us something to snack on." A dingodile said as it rose out of the grass. It was a wolf like creature that stood on its hind legs with a green , it wielded a large silver flamethrower with various flashing lights surrounding it.

"Its not just that Snaggletooth, its an all you can eat buffet!" Another Dingodile said as he played a war horn signaling more and more of the strange creatures towards the group. "Mates get your furry hides here and look what I found." the other Dingodile said as he took the glory away from Snaggletooth.

"Oh crap." Scalor said knowing that the group was going to be in very big trouble.
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"Uncle we got food." Snaggletooth said as he brought the gang tied up in rope. He soon knelt in respect for the ruler.

"Well that's ripper good we got food for months!" King Crocos said a she leapt out of his skeletal throne. The king was had dark brown fur, various burn marks on his face, and an emerald green tail. He wore tan khakis and a gold crown made out of a deer's skull. "Lets see we have fish and lizard stew Monday, pony roast the rest of the week, and then we can have a Russian food roulette the rest of the month. And for the metal on we can just scrap him for forks." The king said as he though of the ways to eat the gang.

"Let us go you over grown geckos." Rarity said as she was disgusted at the creatures before her.

"well we got us some feisty ones fire up the pot boys." King Crocos said as he made his own mouth water. Pretty soon all the other dingodiles started to shout with joy at the meal they would eventually get.

"Is there nothing we could do to talk you out of this." Fluttershy asked in fear knowing she did not want to be someone's leftovers. Pretty soon the rest of the gang was trembling in fear thinking there was no way to escape the situation.

"Besides me shooting you in the face." Scalor said as his robot eye turned into bright red as he aimed for King Crocos head.

"Well I am a sadistic king, so what the hell, if three of your best fighters best me in the ring you get to go free." Crocos said as he cut the gang free of their ropes and gave the groups their options for survival.

"Well that sounds easy enough." Twilight said as she fixed her wings.

"There's one thing though...I haven't lost a battle yet." King Crocos said leaning in towards the ponies to show that he was an absolute cold blooded gladiator in spirit.

"Any other prizes besides freedom?" Thunder Buster asked thinking there would possibly be a catch to the fight.

"you can have my nephew Snaggletooth to join you on your journey." Crocos said pointing towards the dingodile next to him. Snaggletooth had a light brown top with a lime green tail and red spikes sticking out of it. He wore blue jean pants and had a medium sized flamethrower tank.

"Well alrighty then we got a fight to train for." Slash said as he cracked his knuckles.

"This will be quite an adversary worth great battling." Sir Slicer said as he adjusted his gauntlets.

"Yay!" Pinkie said in excitement "I have been saving this song for this type of situation. Get ready to train. she said as she pulled out a jukebox and placed a cassette tape in and played the song.

"I don't get." Scalor said in utter confusion.