Twilight had no more ideas, could she lose? Possibly, did she want to lose? Absolutely not, could she tolerate a loss? A big nope. Twilight was losing though, and she had to think of something fast. The, now winged, Bishop was flying around and chasing Applejack. Twilight looked around, saw Rainbow Dash, some trees, the bridge, and the hound.
"Wait a minute... the hound! That's it!" Twilight quickly began to trot over to the bridge, "Applejack, distract that thing!"
"That looks like what i'm already doin'!!!" Applejack shouted, rolling to dodge a volt. Twilight licked her lips and wiped a bead of sweat off of her face, she slowly crossed the bridge. Once she made her way across, she approached the, enlarged, hound, who was still sleeping soundly. She cleared her throat and nudged it's shoulder, it fidgeted and growled.
"You need to wake up, I need your help!!" Twilight said sternly, staring at the hound. It slowly opened one eye and stared back at her, it blew some fire out of it's nose and growled again. "Get up! I need your help! Please!!" Twilight yelled, desperately needing this thing to assist her friends. It opened it's second eye and got up, stretching out and lightly howling. It sniffed Twilight briefly, and looked at it's surroundings, it saw the flying Bishop. It stared to angrily bark at the Bishop, it's mortal enemy. The Bishop heard the barking and stopped to look at it, it began to fly over at it. Seeing the rivalry, Twilight stepped out of the way, not trying to get tangled into the fight.
"What'd ya do Twi?" Applejack said to herself, watching from a far. The Hound jumped across the bridge and took a fighting stance. The Bishop hovered in the air, a fair distance from it. The Hound charged first, fire streaming out of it's mouth, it curled up into a ball and rolled towards the Bishop. With the fire surrounding it, it looked like the hound turned into an angry ball of fire. Twilight didn't know how this happened, but the hound jumped up in it's flaming ball form,reaching the same height as the Bishop, and slammed into it. The two hit the ground in a flaming ball. The ground beneath them had become engulfed in fire, Twilight didn't know something could possess such fire power, literally. The bishop and the hound began rolling in the fire, the bishop being mostly affected by the fire. Bishops had a natural resistance to fire, but, ice though, they hated ice. The hound mercilessly bit down on the mechanical chess piece, swallowing each part that fell to the hounds powerful bites.
"Wow, I guess the hound could help, but I think it can stop now" Twilight said to herself, she didn't want to step in and stop it in fear of being inside it's stomach, just like the Bishop. Soon, the hound stopped eating the bishop and lay down in it's original spot.
"Thank ya' fer doin' that uh... hound buddy" Applejack said, lowering her hat. The hound just licked Applejack sloppily, leaving her covered in slime. Twilight took this chance to rush Rainbow to the hospital, Applejack stayed at the castle. Applejack didn't know what she just got herself into by staying, but if Wilson was in trouble in there, she'd have to help. Applejack opened the castle doors and peeked inside, her eyes darting back and forth. She called Wilson's name a few times, checking if he was close by or not. The earth pony walked inside and found a torch lying on the cold stone beneath her.
"Wilson must've dropped this or somethin', so he's definitely here" Applejack said, re lighting the torch. She walked towards the steps and found a large, mechanical rhino busted up and beaten on the floor. "What the hay is this?" Poking the Rook's cold, metal body, instantly bringing her hoof back. Applejack walked around it, watching it as she did. She slowly looked around, she swore something just pulled on her tail. Walking up the crumbled steps, she followed the huge footprints that lead down the hall.
"What the hay got itself in here" Applejack said, to no one. She continued a long and, pretty boring walked down a dark and boring castle. She heard the sound of an accordion playing, and it was getting closer. Applejack braced herself for being attacked, crouching down. One half broken knight came out of the dark, bouncing it's way down the hall.
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Wendy was shaking in place, she hadn't ever had to do something like this. The Potato thing was really important, and Wilson was too. But, the Potato thing could get her home, but...
"Gah! Wendy come on, you've got to save Wilson, he can help you" She said to herself, her grip on the dagger tightening. She slowly walked down the arena, taking her place on a pedestal. The Maxwells munching on popcorn and cheering, staring at Wendy.
"Now! Our brave warrior shall fight the dangerous, the terrifying, the mighty! DUKE ROOKTRON!!!" Maxwell announced, causing the other ones to cheer wildly. Wilson groaned and slowly looked at Wendy, his head dropping back down in his weakened state. Wendy had no idea what a Rooktron was, it sounded ridiculous, and evil. The ground began rumbling, all of the Maxwells were forced silent. The large, bolted and chained doors opened slowly, revealing a walking giant. It had the head of a clockwork rook, and a human -like body, made of the same material. Wendy was on the verge of releasing two different liquids, and that would be embarrassing. The tears from her eyes began to pour out as she doubted herself. Maxwell, smiling all the way, grabbed a mega horn and said.
"Let's get ready to rumble!!" The statement caused more cheering, and for the rooktron to charge at Wendy. She screamed and ran the other direction. The rooktron stepped on the weapons, making them fly everywhere like a wave of pointy lethality. Wendy dove to the ground, avoiding the weapons, but an axe still cut her shoulder on it's way past her. She clutched her shoulder, and rolled out of the rooktron's stomping radius. Wendy forced her tears away, she couldn't cry, if she did that, she wouldn't be able to fight. She was determined to defeat this monster, even though it seemed impossible. The rooktron roared, almost pushing Wendy to the ground as she ran. It began to charge at her.
"This is getting pretty intense! Let's see what she does next!" Maxwell shouted. Wendy ignored the burning pain in her legs, and just kept going. She noticed levers on 6 pillars, and she ran towards those. The rooktron slammed into the wall, it's horn becoming stuck. Wendy took this opportunity to see what the levers were all about. She grabbed the handle, and pulled it down. The pot of boiling water opened up and let out some of the fiery liquid. Wendy's eyes lit up, and she tried to get the rook's attention.
"Hey! You big oaf! Over here!" She called, the rook stomping the ground in anger. It let out another ear crippling roar and ran at full speed towards the defenseless Wendy. She waited for the right moment to pull the lever, right when the rook was under the pot.
*Chink*
Boiling water spewed out and covered the rook, the steam coming off of it's body, which began to quickly rust. Wendy didn't think it would work like that, but it was good enough. After that, the rook shot out a thick stream of water through it's mouth. Quickly adapting to it's now wet parts. Wendy rolled out of the way, the stream hitting the wall. Some droplets landing on Wendy, causing her to wince slightly. The mechanical beast clutched the pillar in it's rather dull claws and threw it at Wendy. She barely got out of the way, the force of it knocking her to the ground. She banged her chin on the cold dirt, she hollered in pain.
"Ooh, that's gotta leave a mark!" Maxwell announced, the other ones cheering. Wendy spit some dirt out of her mouth and stood up. The rook was staring at her, waiting for her move. She was looking around for a new strategy, the bladed weapons were still jammed into the wall. There was one weapon that wasn't stuck in the wall though.
A bow.
Wendy ran for the bow, grabbing it quickly and rushing for the half empty quiver on the ground. The rook fired another stream of water at Wendy, it dried itself out of it quickly though. She put the quiver on her back, she used to do archery back home with her cousins. She grabbed an arrow out of the quiver and aimed for the rooks eye. It was just a light bulb, so it could easily be broken, but she had to be accurate. As it got closer, Wendy's shot got clearer, but it was risky to do it so close. Exactly when the rook reached for her, she let go of the string, releasing the arrow into the air. The arrow pierced the rook's eye instantly and it roared. The beast clutched it's eye, grabbing the arrow and throwing at on the ground. The other one was blinking, as if showing a sign of danger. Wendy, in a more confident state, ran over to the downed rooktron. She grabbed the dagger she chose, and climbed onto the rook. She stabbed the other eye, the rooktron flipped over, trying to smash Wendy beneath it. She dove off of the rooktron before it was laying on it's back.
"Yes! I did it!" She shouted, glee coursing though her veins. The rooktron began to violently shake, and light was pouring out of the cracks of its steel armor. Wendy stared for a moment before it clicked in her mind. It was going to explode, she dove behind a pillar and covered her ears. Many pieces of steel plates flew by her as the rooktron blew up. The pillar shattered into little stone pieces and a steel slab slammed into Wendy. It pinned her to the ground, she tried to lift it off of her, but to no avail.
"Uh oh, looks like little Wendy is stuck! How will she claim her prize?!" Maxwell said.
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