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The Moment No Pony was Waiting For
Season 2
(18)
Actually, you won’t get fat if you burn calories by using your brain.
Talking to yourself, narrator?
Oh, ha ha.
You know what they say: “Third time’s the charm.”
They also say, “Time is candy.” But actually, time isn’t that sweet.
Last time, Fili-Second stayed true to her name and made quick work of the Black Ranger.
The score is now tied at one win apiece. What will this episode’s clash of heroes bring?
Why it’s the nerdiest of the nerds, of course!
In this corner we have the original Blue Ranger, Billy Cranston!
And in the other is the Masked Matter-Horn.
He’s F and he’s B.
He’s W and she’s N.
And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills…
… to find out who would win a Death Battle!
---Death Battle---
Blue Ranger
-Billy Cranston
-Stereotypical "nerd"
-Has a red belt in karate
-Created many of the team's gadgets including the wrist communicators
-Wields the Power Lance/"Mighty Maces"
-Has icthyophobia
True genius is almost never appreciated during its time. This has never been more true than in the case of the most important member of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Billy Cranston. In Angel Grove High's science club alone, he was one of the top members who aided the younger members' experiments.
Laying it on a bit thick, aren't you, W?
I don't know what you're implying, B.
*cough* Nerd. *cough*
Cranston was often inventing the latest tech and gear to aid his fellow rangers. In fact, it was he who invented the wrist communicators that made long-distance teamwork possible.
With the power of the Blue Ranger comes access to the Power Lance: a double-bladed lance that can generate electricity and can split into a pair of trident-like sai daggers.
Although he started out as the team's intellectual member, he has slowly developed his physical abilities enough to graduate with a red belt in karate.
In his childhood, he developed a fear of fish and whirlpools, but a forced encounter with the Goo Fish Monster helped him overcome that fear... well, long enough to save his friends anyway.
He is a genius capable of preparing for problems that even Zordon hasn't anticipated.
It's too bad nobody can understand what the hell he's saying.
"Her mastery of complex illustrated characters is most impressive."
Ugh, it's Donatello all over again.
---Death Battle---
Masked Matter-Horn
-Secret ID: N/A
-Species: Alicorn(?)
-Place of residence and super-heroism: Mare-tropolis
-Attire: goggles and light blue garments
-Power: various elemental beams; prefers the ice beam
-Super-weakness: Hairspray
It's hard to fully wrap my head around exactly whom the Masked Matter-Horn is supposed to be a rip-off. I mean, is she Cyclops? Dr. Strange? Fro-zone? Who the hell is she?
The world may never know. Questionable inspirations aside, the Masked Matter-Horn is essentially the brains of the Power Ponies. While she doesn't necessarily hold the group's role of leadership, she usually has the basic plan ready for the rest of her friends to carry out.
The mare with the plan, huh? Was it her plan to run straight at Mane-iac when the Hairspray Ray of Doom was being fully pressed? Nice going, egghead. You've single-handedly doomed us all.
She's the smartest of the group. It doesn't mean she's immune to making mistakes.
So why is she prone to making mistakes? Shouldn't an all-powerful alicorn pony be capable of turning her bad situations into opportunities? Where is her Mary-Sue OPness?
Wow.
N starts snickering.
What?
You don't think that last word sounds a little... pfft.
N drops to the floor and rolls around while guffawing.
Oh... *ahem* Let me rephrase that. Where is the Masked Matter-Horn's perfect princess powers?
N gets back in her chair.
For starters, she wasn't born an alicorn.
Yeah, I know. She ascended to that form.
No, no, no. Listen. What I mean is that she isn't an alicorn at all.
Come again?
According to a particular source, the Masked Matter-Horn has always been a Pegasus pony.
... Daf*q are you talking about?
Didn't you notice the color of her costume? Did you also notice that her horn is the same color as the rest of her garments? How could she be casting spells through a headband without directly hitting the band itself?
Wait, that horn is an artificial attachment?
Precisely. That's why her magic and range of spells are so weak in comparison to the average alicorn or even a well-versed unicorn. She can only cast elemental beams from her horn because that was all it was designed to do. It was never meant for a unicorn's basic levitation and teleportation purposes. Trying to force said spells would probably burn it out.
Why didn't she just use something that could handle a unicorn's spell and attach it to her head?
And just how many spare unicorn horns do you know of that are freely lying around in the comic-book world?
You make a fair argument. Still, I have to wonder why she constantly sticks to the frost beam.
"Freeze ray!"
Whatever.
---Death Battle---
All right, the combatants are set.
Let’s settle the third of six debates once and for all.
It’s time for a…
DEATH BATTLE!
---Death Battle---
A red Ferrari zips by on the freeway. Why the battlefield is a virtual freeway with cars passing by this particular patch of road, I have no idea. Thankfully, traffic isn't too busy. There aren't so many obnoxious horns blaring in the background.
I spoke too soon. At least five horns honk at once as two figures crash onto the scene. There are also some annoying brakes screeching. Why can't drivers be more considerate of super-powered pedestrians? It's impolite to explode by colliding into various locations around the arena. Rude.
“FIGHT!”
The explosions don't seem to bother the combatants. In fact, they each close their eyes in deep thought. At least, I think their eyes are closed. It's difficult to tell through the ranger's black visor and the pony's orange-tinted goggles. Though, I don't have to wonder much longer. They lift their heads to look straight ahead as the split-screen cameraman takes a front look at them.
Under his blue attire, Billy Cranston makes the first move with a running start. He prepares a strike similar to that of an eagle's with his foot. The Masked Matter-Horn flaps her large wings. The force sends her sky bound, leaving the Blue Ranger to hit nothing but thin air.
Another car ignores common combat etiquette and screeches its brakes while swerving to avoid the ranger. It even tries to steal the spotlight by crashing into the concrete road barrier on the side. Nobody's impressed by your metal bits flying in all directions!
Anyway, Matter-Horn circles around, using her wings to flutter in place. Her horn charges up with bluish-white energy. She releases her freeze ray into the ground. The Blue Ranger jumps out of the way, performing an excellent scissor-kick before coming down to land on his feet.
His expert landing, however, is abruptly ended as he slips and falls onto his behind.
"That flying equus ferus callabus somehow caused a hypothermic reaction in the very petroleum-rock mix!"
...
What? I don't speak Cranstonese.
He just expressed his shock regarding how a pony just froze the tar on the road.
Moving along, Matter-Horn flies around the scene again while firing three short freeze rays. Thinking quickly, Cranston pulls out his Blade Blaster and fires three laser shots. The precision of either combatant's attacks cancel each other in midair. The combatants exchange a few more volleys of these attacks.
However, the purple would-be alicorn breaks away from the exchange as quickly as she started. Another strong burst is storing up in her horn. The Blue Ranger's thoughts race just before the giant cold beam is fired. In a flash reflecting the sunlight, the Power Lance is unleashed. The ranger uses it as an impromptu paddle and slides across the ice. A large misconfiguration of ice grows in the position that he just left.
As he slides from the ice to a less slippery road surface, Cranston jumps to his feet. He holds his lance in a more battle-ready posture. It's a good thing too, because Matter-Horn is finished charging up another powerful freeze ray. She launches it straight at the Blue Ranger leaving no room for error.
Too bad for her, a twirling Power Lance creates that very error she didn't calculate. This spinning motion creates some sparks that dance along the ranger's weapon. She decides to fly in for a more point-blank shot. So you can imagine her surprise when the ranger points his lance and a shock akin to lightning shoots forth.
The electricity surges through Matter-Horn, causing her muscles to spasm mid-flight. She lands gracelessly onto her own icy road.
The Blue Ranger takes a moment to split his lance into two daggers. He makes a flying leap at his opponent. The daggers find their new sheathe in the form of Matter-Horn's hide. Cranston quickly jumps from his current position just as another car slides across the ice and plows through the pony. The ranger lands and slips onto his rear on the ice again.
I seriously need to have a talk with all these cars about manners.
“K.O.!”
---Death Battle---
Mom, no! ;_;
Her mother comes into the backstage area and wraps a wing around her.
"Shh," hushes Twilight before whispering, "It's okay. I'm right here."
Uh, maybe we should move our post-battle analysis to another room.
Two sets of footsteps and one set of hoof steps later...
I hate to admit it, but that clash of the nerds was pretty epic.
Yeah, I mean did you see all of those sparks flying? It was like fireworks on steroids!
While neither combatant is the strongest on their team by any means, Billy Cranston had to train regularly to keep up with his fellow rangers. As far as we're exposed to the lore of the Power Ponies, the Masked Matter-Horn never had to train her physical stamina because the rest of her allies covered her weaknesses when they fought together.
Brains may beat brawn...
... but together, they can really shock you.
The winner is the Blue Ranger.
---Death Battle---
Next time on Death Battle…
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What’s an attack construct?!
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Sabre-Tooth Tiger!
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