Episode 3: The Sound of Destruction, Decibelon!
Storm grappled with the lumbering pile of destroyed vehicles and plasma bolts. The being was a bit faster, now having limbs, and more dangerous, considering the "plasma" part of it. Storm attempted to punch the monster, but it retained some of its flexibility, as he discovered when he found himself caught by its slime tentacle. He struggled as it swung him around, slammed him on the ground and nearby mountains, but Storm managed to get loose before it flung him into the sky.
"Alright...no more joking around!" Rocket thought. Storm lunged at the enemy and threw it over his shoulder. Afterwards, he gave the beast a piledriver then lifted it by one of its leg, and swung it round and round, but it retaliated and slammed him down to the ground! Storm struggled to get up, but the monster stepped on him and readied a claw for the finishing strike. However, Cosmo Fang peppered it with laser blasts, distracting the behemoth. It launched a plasma blast at Cosmo Fang, but the machine dodged it and continued to fly around it. The monster tried to it out, eventually stepping off Storm. The Enigman finally stood up and it readied its own finisher.
"ENIGMAN!" Twilight shouted from Cosmo Roar, "Get out of there and cover your ears!". Storm immediately stopped the energy charge and cart-wheeled to the right of his position. The monster noticed that the alien hero was gone, but before it can react, a strong sonic blast resonated through the area, nearly deafening everyone and everything around Cosmo Roar. After a few seconds of the head-splitting sound, Cosmo Roar closed its mouth. But to everyone's surprise, the monster seemed to be taking baby steps towards Cosmo Roar!
"The sound blast didn't seem to have any effect!" Applejack said. Cosmo Fang and Cosmo Beak shot plasma bullets at the monster, but it just reflected them. Storm dashed towards Cosmo Roar, shielding the robot and grabbing the monster by the neck. He stood up, lifting the titan above his head, and charged energy to his hand. The creature tried to struggle, but it was too late...
"ENIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG..." Storm started, his hand glowing green, "....BUSTER!!!"
A ray of light streamed from the alien hero's hand, and the monster glowed green and blue. It attempted to absorb the energy of the Enigbuster, but it proved to be too hard for it to contain. The monster was being inflated with pure light energy until...
BOOM!
Ashes of the absorbed vehicles fell down to the ground. Storm lowered his hand, but knelt down. The crystal on his chest was blinking red.
"Wh-What is this?!" Rocket shouted, his voice only audible to Storm, "I...feel...so....weak..."
"My energies..." Storm said, "...they're lower than usual...as if they can get any lower..."
"What should we do?!" Rocket asked.
Storm leaped into the sky and vanished into the horizon. A small beam of light shot into Cosmo Beak's cockpit. Twilight seemed to be the only one who observe this, and she activated her communicator.
"Rocket Blaze, anything weird?" she asked.
Rocket panted, and nearly collapsed. "Nothin'." he managed to say into the microphone.
"Well then, let's go back to base. I've gathered a sample to analyze." Twilight replied, leading the group and the soldiers to Canterlot. Rocket pushed the controls and made the machine fly over the non-sentient alien slime that covered the battle field.
Rocket looked around the research lab. There were many apparatus and machinery that all looked high-tech, not to mention expensive. Everywhere he looked, scientists were burying their snouts into a screen or peering into a microscope or some eyepiece. He eventually reached Twilight Sparkle, who is analyzing a sample of the alien slime inside a room with more advanced-looking tools and equipment. Around her were her friends, Spike, the princesses, Discord, and other members of the ESP.
"What are you doing with that thing?" Rocket asked.
Twilight answered him a few minutes later, "Fascinating...you should take a look. This slime drop is more intricate than I initially thought..."
She lifted the sample with her magic and sealed it into a container and placed the container into a vault. "It is definitely alien, and it seems to be just a lump of cells unless there's this...central controller or a brain managing them. Everything about the being, its form, abilities, its function, all are just a brain wave away with the right amount of this substance."
A veil of silence dropped in the room. "So what you're saying is, that if there is no controller, that thing is just a lump of uselessness?" Luna said, finally breaking the silence.
"Yes," Twilight replied, "and there's a safe bet that whoever sent that thing is gonna send in a new 'brain' for the slime left, or maybe even more slime..."
"So it is settled then," Celestia said, "We will send some sentries to watch over the slime and the crash site. If anything suspicious happens, we will know and be able to counteract. Twilight, your research has helped us, try helping in the repairs. Rocket Blaze, come with me..."
Celestia led Rocket out of the lab. "What happened out there? Is there something wrong with the Enigman?" she asked.
"Nothing," Rocket replied, "it takes him energy to do that Enigbuster. Apparently, it took a bit more today..."
"I see..." the Princess said, "Listen. I don't think you should tell anyone else about you being the Enigman...Even in the ESP."
"Why?" Rocket asked.
"Just trust me." Celestia replied. Rocket nodded and headed home. The pegasus laid his things on the nearest table and leaped on the bed and slept. "I should take a rest now..." he thought, "Nothing's gonna show, anyway..."
Back to the space ship at Equos' orbit...
"Impressive..."the multi-headed alien creature said,"They are more of a threat than I initially thought..."
"True, my lord..."the cloaked alien said, "These...Equestrians...they are one to be...noted of..."
"Well then...the prototype has served its purpose. Proceed to Phase 2..."
The cloaked alien nodded and summoned a communicator. The screen showed what was a green human-like alien with a navy uniform, a cape, and a hat. This was the ship's captain. "Gogoth!" the cloaked alien said into the microphone, "Release Decibelon!"
Gogoth bowed. He waved his left arm at the crew-members who inputted commands. A small spacecraft in the shape of an orb was sent to the planet. The two aliens laughed maniacally as a small flash of blue light surfaced from the crash site.
It was night.
A small orb-like object crashed into the site and brought life to the slime, reforming into a slime-like slug being. The guards at the site couldn't do anything but watch as the gigantic creature crawled out of the fenced area. Everything they used against it, every defense measure they used, was futile in hindering its pace.
"Nimbus....this...is Watchdog." a guard said, struggling to keep his head to the communicator, "...the...alien...jell-o....has...escaped....back-up...please..."
The monster lifted its head and looked at Canterlot. However, it was enchanted by a bunch of flashy lights and some loud music from someplace near the city. The beast grinned and crawled its way to the source of the sound.
The message reached the ESP headquarters, and all members were called to battle stations. This also meant Rocket Blaze had to wake up and go there. He eventually reached there, and saw that every pony he saw was rushing. He was given his uniform and helmet and he rushed to put it on and get on-board Cosmo Beak. All of the robots were launched, along with fleets of Equestrian war machines.
"What's going on?" Rocket asked Twilight through the communicator.
"It's happened..." she replied, "...the invaders have launched a new brain...and we found the alien."
"Where?!"
"You wouldn't believe me..."
Rocket looked at Cosmo Beak's HUD and his eyebrows rose. The Canterlot Arena, where Vinyl Scratch's concert was that night, had a gigantic blue pupa just sitting in the whole building. Ponies were flooding out of the place, and armed guards had to drag Vinyl away from it. She was trying to salvage some equipment, but the guards kept pulling her away.
"My wubz! Nooooooooooooo!" the DJ cried. The guards finally threw her into an evacuation vehicle along with other ponies. The vehicles moved away from the Arena, just as Cosmo Roar stepped into the parking area. Minutes passed, and eventually...
"It's...Its true form!" Storm shouted into Rocket's mind. From the building, a giant, blue alien with speakers on its body, a trumpet-like snout, and club-like arms emerged from the pupa. It loomed over the robots and the city, and it unleashed a loud series of DubStep noises. Everyone nearby covered their ears, and Cosmo Roar was no exception. The loud noise was enough for the robot's AI to override the pilots' control. Instinctively, it covered its ears. Cosmo Fang and Cosmo Beak were knocked off balance and nearly crashed, but eventually managed to get back into the air. The alien smashed the arena with its foot and roamed the city, blasting sound at the buildings and anything that was in its way. The Cosmo robots' attacks did nothing but just make it shake a little. Cosmo Roar launched another sound blast, and the alien turned around, it glared at Cosmo Roar. The two beings dueled a battle of sounds, but the blue alien was able to knock off Cosmo Roar to a nearby tower. Cosmo Beak and Cosmo Fang fired their own lasers, but the blue alien fired sound blasts at them until they were out of the sky.
"You have to stop it!" Twilight shouted at Rocket, "We'll try to take the citizens to safety!"
Rocket shut off the communicator and raised the Enigbrace.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENIGGGGGGMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!" After a glow of green light, Enigman Storm stood tall at the road near the blue monster. The two charged at each other and...
"BMGBSDJGBHFGFONKDSGPGEHJFGWTYEGOLEBNTGYIQH;MSDNLJITUUY-]K342K6534670WRTYDJ[ SQ!@!!!!" The blue monster roared at Storm, who nearly knocked out from the sound. The alien went closer, the sound becoming louder with each step, until it was looking down at Storm. The Enigman kept his hands on his ears, but when the monster was close enough, he launched a kick to the creature's groin.The sounds ceased and the alien dropped on its stubby knees. Storm upper-cut the enemy and sent it flat on its back.
The monster went on its feet and tried to launch another attack, but Storm launched miniature waves of light the slice the creature's snout. The creature tried to slam the hero with its claws, but Storm dodged them and taunted it. After a few misses, the alien got so angry, it blasted sound in a 3 mile radius. Storm was disoriented, and he fell onto a street. Stunned ponies were still being bombarded with the monster's sound attack, and it just got louder and louder.
Rocket kept thinking. How do I fight sound? he asked himself. He then remembered Cosmo Beak, and smiled inside. "Storm, I have an idea..."
Storm raised one of his hands, but placed it back on his ear. He tried to do it again, and eventually launched a small beam of light at Cosmo Beak's eye. This light ray contained some sort of light code that triggered Cosmo Beak's laser function. The robotic bird aimed its plasma cannons at the creature's back, and fired at a small box that was near the creature's neck. The box exploded, and the speakers became silent. The monster turned in confusion, and tried to reach its back. The monster's speakers were disabled, and it couldn't repair it.
This was Storm's chance.
Storm gave it a sound beating. He punched it in the guts, twisted its arm, and slammed it to the ground. The alien hero waited for the monster to stand, then kicked its head. The monster grabbed onto two buildings to keep itself up, but it knew that it was all over.
Storm extended his arms and channeled energy in his hands. "ENIG..."
He positioned his arms in a plus sign and triggered his attack."BUSTER!!!"
A stream of golden light beamed from the center of Storm's arm formation. The alien burst into blue dust, and speakers dropped from where it once stood. Seeing that the battle was over, Storm leaped into the horizon, releasing sparkles of energy that restored Canterlot.
Celestia, Luna, and Discord watched the events unfold, their eyes focused on Storm. The silver alien's movements, his tactics, all have been observed by the three rulers.
"He is the one..." Luna said.
"But he is different." Celestia said, "He bonded with one of our people...I think this...Storm...and Rocket Blaze...Those two are the ones he foretold would rise..."
"Let's just see what fate has in store for them." Discord said.
Back at the spaceship
"Another failure..." the giant multi-headed alien snarled at its cloaked ally, "I have a feeling that this the beginning of a series of them..."
"Don't expect too much, my lord..."the cloaked alien replied, "Decibelon...wasn't the strongest black hole in the cluster...but he did prove that this...Enigman...has limits."
"Indeed..." the larger alien replied, "...but what do you suggest we do...
...Doctor Kaizon?"
The smaller alien removed the cloak's hood, revealing a purple reptilian head with a long, thin snout an a large mouth at the end. The alien's pair of large, round eyes blinked with its black eyelids. The rest of the head was in the shape of a banana with black armor-like scales shielding the top.
"It's simple, really..." Kaizon said, "we should give these...Equestrians some...presents..."