"Okay. So before I talk about how I got here, I got zis really funny story. So a some time ago, I vas a doktor, vell... I guess I am still a doctor today but... zat's beyond the point. So I vorked at this hospital und zere vas this one patient that needed surgery because he had a terminal illness."
For some strange reason, he was chuckling really hard, border lining laughing. This was pretty terrifying to just about anyone considering the subject as terminal illness and surgery.
"Okay... okay... hehe... anyvays, so zere vas a patient who had a terminal illness... and you know vat? He told me zat I can use any means possible to cure him of zis disease! It vas magnificent! It vas brilliant! My plan! Ha!"
He laughed manically for a few moments, lost in the memories.
"You see... zis man... zis poor man had zis vile of disease! It was in his bones! AHAHAHAHAHA!"
And this was the part where Slade grabbed one of his swords while Raynor held onto his revolver and stared at the mad doctor was leering in Sanya's face. Sanya, who looked extra pale than usual gave a few nervous whimpers and slowly slid down the table, hiding behind her chair.
"Now... zen... vhere vas I? Oh ja. He said zat I can use anything! Just make ze pain! Ze pain stop! Ze disease! Just cut ze disease out! HAHAHAHAHA.... so zen... I got out my new... invention.... ze krankenknockenentferner!!"
"Eh... doc... for some reason...." Slade began.
"That sounds like some kind of medieval torture device..." Steve finished.
"Vell.... he vasn't in any pain.... but anyvays... hoho... I am getting to ze funny part. So... I put him through my new invention und it vorks! It actually vorks! But... he didn't wake up for a long... time... nein... not for a long time... but you know vat?"
He burst out into hysterical laughter at this as everyone turned their heads into his direction, clueless at what was so funny.
"Ven ze patient voke up, his skeleton vas missing und ze doctor vas never heard from again! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!... okay... okay..." He wiped tears from his eyes as he took a breather to calm himself down from his laughter. "Okay.... und zat's how I lost my medical license."
"Um... doctor...." Armin suddenly began.
"Ja?"
"What was it you used to um.... heal me back there?"
"Oh nothing. It's my medi-gun. You see... it vas a medical breakthrough I had made! It involved some medicine, a dying teammate and a severed head.... you still have your skeleton...."
"Okay.... Okay..." Armin said as he wiped sweat beads off his forehead. Wait a second... just because his skeleton wasn't missing doesn't mean....
"Now then... so I guess it's time I explain how I got here.... ja? Vell you see... mein friend Engineer and I were doing some.... experiments with ze teleporters. You see.... ve found out zat ven we teleported bread... um... ve kinda created a bread monster."
Wat.
It took some explaining to do. Something about the teleporters made it so that an organism would appear in an all wheat environment... zis type of organism... oh boy! It's a monster! AHAHAHAHAHAHA! You see... we couldn't even kill it with miniguns, rockets, grenades and fire! It was a monster! It was an abomination! It was.... BEAUTIFUL! And it hated me! AHAHAHAHAHA!"
"I am scared..." Sanya whimpered as she hid behind Slade and held his hand.
"Grow a backbone kid." Slade said as he shoved her firmly away. "Maybe Captain Stars and Stripes might be more interested in using himself as a shield."
"No... it's not him... I think I just heard something... some really loud roar... it was scary."
"Yeah...yeah... you want me to check underneath your bed for monster tonight?"
"You didn't happen to work for a guy called Schmidt have you?" Steve asked suspiciously.
"Vat? No. This vas like... yesterday. I do work for a guy called Mann though...."
Okay. Not a HYDRA agent. Good.
"Anyvays, so after that fiasco, we made a rule. NO MORE TELEPORTING BREAD. But... of course... we could always teleport ourselves. Which I did.... und ended up here un...."
There was a loud crash which was audible from the room they were situated in. From the sounds of everything, it had come from the lower levels of the castle.
Frankly. It wouldn't of mattered how close by they were when they heard the roar. Hell, the whole world may have heard that one at the massive roar. At that same moment, there was the sounds of glass shattering which came from the upper levels.
"What the hell is happening?!" Raynor cried out as glass broke all around him and a section of the wall and stained glass broke into several pieces sending shiny glass and hard rock flying all over the place. There at the mouth of a gaping hole in the mouth, was a massive brown horned lizard. Or a dragon to be exact.
In the next instant, an unforgiving heat blanketed the entire room as a massive flame flew towards the people at the table. Luckily for them and more on quick thinking to steve who kicked the table down, they would be mostly shield from the massive inferno that almost consumed them. Besides them, ponies ran and screamed in a panic as members of the royal guard poured in, only to be knocked aside as the massive dragon made it's way in.
Sayna listened for a moment. At every fire breath. She thought she could here something.
"Yol... Toor...Shul..."
What did it mean? Was it the dragon... no. It had to be the dragon. The dragon was speaking every time it sent forth a wave of fire! But... how did that even work?
It was approaching a massive door. What this door was for, she did not know but it seemed to hold particular interest to the dragon as it opened it's massive mouth once again.
"Fus... Ro... DAH!"
The doors straight off. They were magically sealed and therefore had no hinges, but just like that, they literally flew off whatever it was they were connected to and revealed the interior, six beautiful gems sat there.... The dragon... it wanted the gems! But why?!
Her thought was cut off as a red and blue blur flew by her and hit the dragon at one it's wings, sending no hidden waves of pain through the lizard as it turned it's head to see the star-spangled man with his shield. He held out his hand which contained a gun and fired two shots, none of which did any form of damage whatsoever.
"Hi yin wahl yen midrak zey? Midrak Dovah?! Hi fen biis fah hin duziirah!"
The dragon opened it's massive jaws and let out another stream of flame, surprisingly, all it took for Steve to not get burned alive was his shield. That must have been one good shield...
The dragon relented the moment the charges hit it on the head, creating fiery explosions that drew it's attention to the one who threw it. The one in a black and orange armor holding up an assault rifle, firing rounds at the dragon's head. All of which would be ineffective.
Slade grumbled to himself silently when the gun hardly even managed to poke the monster. No sense in wasting bullets at this point. He dodged aside as a large wave of fire almost hit him. He looked over at the flames that shot over him as he reached for one of his grenades and pulled the pin.
"Armin! Here!" Twilight called as she tossed him his swords. If Armin was to be honest to himself, he actually wanted to hide behind a table. But that wasn't an option given the fact Slade and Steve were giving the dragon all that they got... oh! If only he had his maneuver gear! He may have been able to assist somehow!
But thankfully, at the time being. He didn't need to the moment Jim came back. Fully clad in his armor and with a big gun and a beam that was washing over him. Behind him, Medic readied himself as his finger strayed towards the "on" button on the kritzkreig.
The red bullets that flew at the dragon split open sections of it's hide, sending force chunks of blood and gore causing the beast to roar in it's agony. Turning around, it just had something to say to Raynor and his gun.
"Zun...Haal.. Viik!"
Without warning, the C-14 rifle flew out of his hands and landed about a few dozen meters away. There would hardly be time as Raynor quickly backed up into Medic, making a shield out of his armor as the protective visor in his helmet came down the moment the huge of flame came flying over. Thankfully, his armor held.
"Sanya!" Jim called as he slid a massive metal box towards the small girl. The Fliegerhammer
Carefully, she aimed as the dragon grabbed the case containing the jewels. Right when it turned it's body and it's head was facing her, she fired. Time stood to a stand still but she could still hear the words as if they were speaking at an accelerated pace.
"Fo... Krah...Diin!"
The wave of ice froze the rockets in midair which dropped to the ground harmlessly along with any bullets which had been in the same area. All the while, Armin could only watch in shock as the dragon took off to the gap in the wall, stretched it's wings and flew into the air, trailed by the many bullets that Steve and Slade fired at it.
"Damn it!" Slade cursed as he saw the dragon fly away. "What the hell was that?!"
"A dragon? What for?" Steve asked.... "Where's Twilight?!"
She had left just moments ago. Where? To see the Princesses.
But... for what?