//------------------------------// // Tournament Battle 10: Ivan VS Scarlet Lightning // Story: Death Battle: Equestria // by RLYoshi //------------------------------// Over the course of this tournament, we have seen many strong competitors. But now, we have two OCs, whose strength is…debatable. Ivan, the zebra with a spider in his head... ...and Scarlet Lightning, an orphan filly. He’s Yah-Shee and I’m Arrell! And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armour, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle. Ivan Species: Zebra (Formerly Human) Owner of the island of Rej Hates dogs Wishes he had wings Apparently has a blood fetish Ivan was a normal human who, after being arrested, was sent to Equestria and landed in Rej, an island somewhere in the Zebra Isles. As a zebra, he was immediately made a slave by some diamond dogs. Okay, never mind what I said about Ace last time. At least he wasn’t taken prisoner the second he ended up in another universe. In the mines of Rej, he was given the name and title of Canary. However, Ivan eventually escaped and found The Flock, a group of other slaves that escaped. And after they made Ivan their leader...for some reason...he dethroned the diamond dog alpha, Grim, by outsmarting him, and took ownership of the island after killing one of his allies, another Zebra named Skinner, and saying that Grim did it. Why did Ivan do this, despite there being no reason to? Ivan, as a chess piece of the gods, was sent to Equis by a god, as with the other pieces. The god that sent Ivan, however, was Malice; the Zebrican god of revenge, who appears as a spider wearing a top hat. Yeah, this isn’t weird or anything. But, anyways Malice decided that he needed a place to crash, and decided that Ivan’s head seemed like a good place to live. Plus, it has no rent! Due to Malice’s influence, Ivan is… A few questions short of a sanity test? Sure, let’s go with that. So, god spider in his head equals killing for no reason. Got it. Anyways, Ivan - along with one of the former canaries, who just sticks with the name Canary; and Boss, one of the diamond dogs who captured Ivan in the first place - stole a airship for them to use. Then they ran into Catastrophe, a griffon that they let join them because she can fly the airship. Oh, and because Ivan thinks she’s hot. Again, not weird or anything... Together, the four of them fight to try and stop slavery around Equis. Not as much compared to someone like, say, Griffin the Griffin, but they’re trying. In battle, Ivan wields a dagger named Disconsolate, which is bound to his soul...whatever that means. He also has a severed unicorn horn which, by using his soul, he can channel magic through it and…wait, what?! Does that actually work? Huh...hey Yah… Don’t even think about it. Fine, killjoy. Anyways, he can use the horn to create fireballs, levitate objects, shield himself from harm, and explode heads…wait, what?! How has he not been disqualified because of that last one?! Wouldn’t that be unfair? I mean, every match involving him would just be, Fight, Boom, K.O.! Well, he would be if he were still able to do that. As Malice explained... "No exploding heads or the like. Or shooting fireballs." (...) "Since you decided to use your soul as a casting medium, you burnt through quite a bit of it. Burnt soul kinda tastes like avocado dipped in battery acid, if you must know." (...) “You'll be without a great deal of your magic for the next month or so. You won't be able to do what you just did for another two to three years." Well, okay then. Congratulations, Ivan, you’re not too OP. In fact, without this power, he admittedly might be one of the weaker chess pieces. Well, let's just see how he does in the end. "Can I go one day without something messing with my head? One day?" Scarlet Lightning Species: Pegasus Pony Friend of Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy Orphan Likes Social Studies and Geography Scarlet Lightning is a pegasus filly from Cloudsdale. She seemed to have lived a normal life, until one day when she saw Hoops picking on Rainbow Dash. Scarlet stepped in, but then Hoops decided to be a dick and made fun of her dead parents. When that happened, Scarlet blacked out and when she woke up, Hoops was being taken to a hospital. All that’s really explained of what happened was some sort of blue energy, but at the moment there is no explanation regarding how this works or even how it happened. After this little incident, everypony in Cloudsdale decided, ‘Hey, let’s be complete and utter dicks to this little filly!’ Even the orphanage she and Rainbow Dash were living at kicked her out. Is that even legal? So, Scarlet decided to leave Cloudsdale, with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy deciding to join her. Eventually, they then ended up in Dodge Junction, where they got jobs at Cherry Hill Ranch. About five months later, Scarlet got the idea the Princess Celestia might know what’s up with that blue energy thing at the beginning of the story, and thought about leaving for Canterlot. Though before she could, some douchebag showed up to kidnap her. And...the story ends right there there. So as of right now, Scarlet seems to be a mostly normal filly with some mysterious power that’s barely been explored, thanks to a lazy author. And trust me, we know all about lazy authors. Let's see if it helps her. “At least I crashed in here, and not out there.” Alright, the combatants are set! Let’s end this debate once and for all. IT’S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE! In a desert, a Zebra with blue eyes was walking along, looking for his opponent when he suddenly came across an orange, pegasus filly with blue and yellow mane. The zebra, Ivan, just stared at the little filly, Scarlet Lightning. FIGHT! Scarlet spread her wings, took to the air and flew right at Ivan. Ivan, however, just stood his ground as the filly got closer and closer to him. Right when she was about three feet away from him, he quickly pulled out his dagger, and with a quick flick of his hoof, sliced Scarlet’s throat open while she was still in mid flight. Scarlet fell to the ground with blood pouring from her neck into the sand. K.O. ...wait, what just happened? This might have been the quickest death in Equestrian Death Battle history. I thought that we didn’t want this kind of thing to happen with Ivan? Maybe we should have disqualified him... Actually, this is completely fair, because the reason why this battle was so short was not because Ivan is extremely overpowered or anything like that. Rather, it's because Scarlet might be the weakest competitor in the tournament...or in this story, period. Ever. Even Sweetie Belle could put up a better fight than her. Other than that blue energy thing, she’s pretty much a normal filly. And even with that, it was never explained how it works. The best assumption we have is that it is triggered via some kind of berserk button, yet due to battle rules, Ivan wouldn’t know about her dead parents and thus wouldn’t have thought make fun of it. So what we have here is somepony - excuse me, somezebra - who can actually fight, going up against somepony with about as much combat experience as Boneless the Rubber Chicken. The result shouldn’t have been surprising. So it seems that Scarlet Lightning should've been a little more cutthroat! The winner is Ivan. Next time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament: Jake Gray VS Ritz Korimere! Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time! Written by KenSES64 and RazortheAwesome Edited by RazortheAwesome and RLYoshi