"You know, just one time I'd like to be in Canterlot and not have a disaster happen!" Spike shouted, shielding his head as bits of masonry flew about him. "Is that so much to ask? Some peace and quiet instead of pieces flying at me trying to silence me forever!"
"I'm just glad that for once the chaos isn't my fault!" Scootaloo exclaimed, hiding behind a trash can.
"Well, technically it is,. since you are the one that caused all these Twilights to appear," Spike pointed out.
"Yeah but... shut up," Scootaloo grumbled. "And-TWILEY!" Scootaloo tackled the purple filly, who had grabbed an abandoned sword in her teeth and was preparing to rush into the heat of battle. "What were you thinking?!?" Scootaloo screamed.
"Savior of Canterlot Cutie Mark!" Twiley said happily.
“Huh, so being a filly means you’re born with a death wish,” Wall Breaker said as he grabbed Twiley and Scootaloo and pulled them back behind the safety of the overturned fruit stand he’d positioned himself behind.
“Its not a death wish!” Twiely complained. She glanced over at a Morning Star, her eyes grow huge with delight. “Oooo….”
"No!" Scootaloo shrieked. "You are not going out there!"
"You know, you are no funny alternate dimensional Scootaloo!" Twiley complained. "My Scootaloo would have rushed out there and-"
BOOM!
Twiley, Scootaloo, Wall Breaker and Spike stared at the large slab of concrete that had smashed down only a foot away from them.
"Ended up a bloody smear the moment she went out into this?" Spike asked.
"... I could have totally dodged it!"
"How can you be so pigheaded and not even concerned about... I owe Miss Rarity and Miss Applejack a huge apology, don't I?"
"Pretty much," Spike stated.
"Give up now!" Coltson shouted from the dumpster he was hiding behind. "We have you surrounded!" He poked his head up, only to duck down when Twiock threw a gargoyle statue at him (and not the good kind that are voiced by Keith David… that man is a gift). The guards that hadn't run off looked at Coltson and silently wondered if they shouldn't ask 'Who is this 'we' you speak of, we are just a traveling group of circus performers'. The villainess they were facing grabbed a chariot and tossed it at the guard, the few remaining soldiers scurrying away with their tails tucked between their legs.
"Cowards!" Captain Sparkle shouted before rushing towards her enemy, her sword pulsing with magic. “FOR EQUESTRIA!”
Doc Twiock laughed, casually lowering herself to the ground even as she batted the leader of Luna's Rangers to the side. Three of her tentacles began lashing out at Cadence and Shining, who were attempting to get close enough to fire a blast of magic at her, while the fourth had reached into a bakery and grabbed a cup of coffee, bringing it over to the mad mare. "You honestly think you peons can do a thing to stop me?" Twiock took a sip of her coffee, frowning for a moment before her fourth tentacle brought over some cream, which she added to the coffee. Taking another sip and finding it now to her satisfaction, Twiock smiled slightly even as her tentacles grabbed Cadence and began to toss her about like we was a ragdoll. "Do not be absurd." She swung the pink alicorn at Captain Sparkle, once more forcing the warrior down. "Your feeble brains lack the ability to comprehend my genius, let alone find a way to stop it."
"You'd be surprised what I can comprehend," Captain Sparkle said, firing a bolt of magic at a manhole cover and lifting it up. The disc rocketed towards the back of Twiock's head, only for the evil Twilight to catch it with one of her clawed tentacles and crush it like it was a paper cup.
"You look like me but you are not me," Twiock said coolly. "A clone, perhaps, but an inferior one. You are all attack and battle and fail to use your frontal lobe as anything more than something to keep your thick skull from caving in." She turned and gave Captain Sparkle a dismissive snort, using one of her tentacles to flick her away like a discarded soda can. “You are nothing more than a paper tiger against a storm.”
"And I thought my sister was wordy," Shining muttered, firing a blast of magic at the villainess, only for her to easily defect it with her tentacles.
"You uneducated baboon," Twiock said dryly, "do you think I did not come prepared to fight magic users? My tentacles are made from the finest magic-resistant steel in all of Equestria! Even Princess Celestia could not affect them!"
"You know, normally I enjoy some tentacle action..." Cadence said, struggling to free herself. "I feel like I should be in a school girl uniform."
Shining rushed forward, his horn glowing as he fired off several bolts of magic. "Let go of my wife!" he snarled, attempting to buck Twiock in the face, only to be batted away for his trouble. "I don't want to hurt you, Twilight, but I will if you keep manhandling... or ponyhandling... or tentacle handling I guess... uh... if you keep doing what you are doing!" His magic flared and much like Twilight did when she was in a fury his mane began to sizzle.
"Your wife?" Twiock said with muted curiosity. Her fourth tentacle lowered her sunglasses and Twiock stared at Shining for a moment before smirking. "Of course... how utterly foolish of me! It is clear that this dimension is not my own!" She put her sunglasses back on, two of the tentacles raising her up. Her fourth tentacle grabbed onto a street lamp and used it like a club to send Shining flying across the road. His body crashed into a bridal shop, the mannequins falling on top of him. Twiock 'walked' towards Shining's fallen form, her third tentacle still clutching Cadence while the fourth reached through the window and forced Shining to look her in the eye. "That explains why you are attempting to fight me and not cowering behind that rag my Shining Armor publishes lambasting that fool Spider-Mare."
"Yeah, goodie for him," Shining grunted, firing off another blast right in Twiock's face. The villain stumbled back, dropping Cadence and snarling in pain. Shining raced past her, pausing only to buck her in the face, before hurrying over to the dazed Cadence and dragging her behind an overturned chariot.
Twiock looked at her broken sunglasses, a bit of blood oozing down her forehead. "That is going to cost you a rib, you odious malcontent!" Twiock shouted.
"Dang, girl!" Zapapple said, popping up in front Twiock and bucking her in the chest. "Listen, I get yar anger! All these horny ponies got my hat all twisted too, but ya don't see me runnin' around like a weasel in a hen house!"
"We get it, your rural!" Spike shouted.
"You insufferable odious daughter of a woman of ill-character!" Twiock bellowed.
"I think that Shinin' Armor was right: ya did swallow one of them word books!"
"A dictionary is what you speak," Twicora said, throwing a bottle at Twiock when she attempted to crush Zapapple. The glass shattered and a pale green mist swirled around the tentacled attacker. Twiock began to cough, her eyes watering as the foul fumes assaulted her senses. "Let us take her now, while she is weak!"
Two metal appendages burst out of the cloud, lashing out and striking the two other Twilights. "I am never weak, my primitive sisters," Twiock snorted, coughing slightly as she tried to clear her lungs of Twicora's gas cloud. "I am the great Doc Twiock and with Spider-Mare not here to stop me, I will finally achieve my goal!"
"And what's that?" Spike asked, only to gulp when Twiock turned to stare him down. "If, uh, you don't mind tell us?"
Twiock laughed. "It is rather simple: I am going to destroy all magic!"
“The metaphysical power of the unicorns or the card game?” Scootaloo asked.
“The first one.”
"Are you kidding me?" Shining asked after a beat. "You can't get rid of magic!"
"Of course I can! Magic is a horrible thing! It makes ponies lazy and weak. Why bother expanding your mind and learning new things when you can just use magic to get what you want? Magic is the root of all the world's problems and when I wipe it away I will bring about a new era of peace! Equestria will enter a new golden age... an age of the machine and of science!" Twiock reached up subconsciously, touching her broken horn.
Spike tilted your head. "Somepony needs to get laid."
"I... I have had relations many times!" Twiock stammered.
"Name one stallion you've been with," Scootaloo taunted, channeling Diamond Tiara.
"George," Twiock said. "George... uh..." she looked at the shattered window Shining had flown through. "George Glass!"
"...yeah, this one is crazy!" Coltson said, rushing over to an abandoned cannon and lighting its fuse. "Fire in the hole!"
The cannon bucked and Twiock blinked... as her tentacles were covered in balloons, streamers and glitter.
"... who the hay sold the royal guard party cannons?" Scootaloo complained.
"Better than pies," Shining grumbled.
Twiock picked up one of the cannons and threw it Spike, Scootaloo and Twiley; the three just managed to dive away, though Scootaloo did notice the party cannon had a Pinkie Corp logo on it. Wall Breaker found himself separated from the kids and despite his efforts to get back to them, found his way blocked by the villainess. "I would be enraged right now," Twiock said sternly, her tentacles slamming down on the pavement as she stalked towards the drake and two fillies, "but that cannon only proves my point! Science and technology will always be the better path than magic! Magic makes one weak and complacent... better to be strong and powerful! I dream of a world of gears and assembly lines, creating a better Equestria, a stronger Equestria!"
"Well, ya had me till the machine part," Zapapple said with a snort, leaping into the air and slamming her hooves into a heavy column. The white marble rocked back and forth before toppling down, nearly crushing the villainess. Her tentacles managed to catch the column, only for Cadence to zoom in and hug the mare tightly.
"I don't know what happened to make you so angry, but you need to let love into your heart!" Cadence said sweetly, her pink magical aura surrounding Twiock.
"I... I do love..." Twiock murmured before her head shook and her eyes regained focus. "I love my tentacles!" She grabbed Cadence's legs and began to pull, the pink mare crying out in pain. Shining let out a bellow of rage and raced towards her, only to be pinned by Twiock's third tentacle. The fourth darted about, forcing Coltson, the kids, and Wall Breaker to back away. "And I so do love the sound of pathetic pink princesses being plucked like petunia pet-"
KRABOOM!
Cadence fell to the ground, groaning in pain. Shining rose, his knees trembling, and made his way over to his wife, wanting to ensure that she was ok. He knew in his heart that Cadence was an alicorn and thus basically indestructible, but Twiock's attack had left the stallion shaking with fright.
As for the tentacle villainess, she was moaning herself, her metal arms waved about as she tried to right herself. The blast had sent her crashing into a Pottery Barn and she was now half buried in crappy clay sculptures.
"I don't know who you are..." a voice called out, "and I don't know why you are wearing my face... but I won't let you hurt another pony!"
"Twilight?" Scootaloo said in shock. Cadence and Shining's savior resembled their Twilight more than any of the other Twilights she and the rest of the group had encountered. She wasn't an alicorn... but from the looks of it, this Twilight was the spitting image of the purple mare who had first come to Ponyville and discovered the Elements of Harmony and the power of Friendship. She stood tall and proud, eyes narrowed and a slight smile on her face as she stared down the villainess that was attacking Canterlot.
"Another weak peon?" Twiock said, her tentacles finally lifting herself from the rubble. "What do you do?" she asked, rolling her eyes as she moved towards this new Twilight, gesturing lazily at the others. "We have a mystic, the soldier, a country bumpkin and a baby-"
"Hey!" Twiley shouted in annoyance. "I am so not a baby! I use the big filly potty and everything!"
"What do I do?" the newest Twilight asked, a slight smile forming on her lips. "I take down villains like you."
Twiock laughed. "You got in a cheap shot with your magic... it will not happen again." Twiock's tentacles moved in to shield her. "I will remove that bony appendage from your cranium and insert it into your rectum!"
"It wasn't magic," the new Twilight said. For the first time they all noticed that there was one difference between this Twilight and the original one: a simple green babble on the base of her horn. The ring began to glow and the new Twilight rose in the air, her eyes shining with emerald energy. "In brightest day... in blackest night..." the ring flashed and green energy raced along the newcomer's body, "no evil... shall escape my sight." The energy began to fade, revealed a solid black and green body suit with white boots. Upon her chest a white circle appeared with a green ring framed by two solid green lines laid within. "Let those who worship evil's might..." an emerald aura surrounded the newest Twilight, "beware my power... “ several green constructs, resembling this Twilight’s friends, all dressed in different superhero costumes, surrounded her. “GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT!"